MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mediaman | 2025-06-24 00:52:36+00:00
AI is less useful when I'm picking through specific, careful business logic.

But we still have lots of boilerplate code that's required, and it's really good at that. If I need a reasonably good-looking front-end UI, Claude will put that together quickly for me. Or if I need it to use a common algorithm against some data, it's good at applying that.

What I like about AI is that it lets me slide along the automation-specificity spectrum as I go through my work. Sometimes it feels like I've opened up a big stretch of open highway (some standard issue UI work with structures already well-defined) and I can "goose" it. Sometimes there's some tricky logic, and I just know the AI won't do well; it takes just as long to explain the logic as to write it in code. So I hit the brakes, slow down, navigate those tricky parts.

Previously, in the prior attempt to remove the need for engineers, no-code solutions instead trapped people. They pretended like everything is open highway. It's not, which is why they fail. But here we can apply our own judgment and skill in deciding when a lot of "common-pattern" code is required versus the times where specificity and business context is required.

That's also why these LLMs get over-hyped: people over-hype them for the same reason they over-hyped no-code; they don't understand the job to be done, and because of that, they actually don't understand why this is much better than the fanciful capabilities they pretend it has ("it's like an employee and automates everything!"). The tools are much more powerful when an engineer is in the driver's seat, exercising technical judgment on where and how much to use it for every given problem to be solved.
by nly | 2025-06-24 00:52:53+00:00
People who give a shit always get burned. Being too emotionally invested with your employer, as an ordinary salaried employee with a bounded upside, is basically a modern day mental illness.

I once worked for a guy who who literally destroyed his company because his wife wanted a bigger house. He put the companies finances in a precarious position by sucking out capital at the wrong time and 8 people (the entire company) lost their jobs.

I've worked at a company where the team wasn't hiring (no budget), but suddenly one of the department heads old mates gets hired. A month later someone else on the team gets laid off for no apparent reason. Dead mans boots.

I've worked at companies where non-compete clause's were weaponised. They'd be enforced for long enough to torpedo any competing offers (which you're required to disclose on resigning) and then released, leaving you unemployed without support.
by ksenzee | 2025-06-24 00:52:53+00:00
Right, so I looked at that paper and its citations, and I am still not seeing any studies showing that folic acid supplementation causes problems beyond "can mask signs of B12 deficiency," which is not very compelling. I did see one paper saying "we thought excess maternal folic acid consumption might lead to asthma in children, but nope, it doesn't." To be clear, my bias is actually against folic acid supplementation: we should be using bioavailable folate, at the very least in prenatal vitamins. But I just don't see any data showing actual harm from folic acid.
by NoPicklez | 2025-06-24 00:53:48+00:00
I complain about ads on YouTube because it interrupts my attention from what I am watching, which is nothing new.

Whilst you're correct about Costco, advertisers don't care where you are to show you an ad. The data shows that if you are laying on the couch watching YouTube and an ad appears relevant to you, that it sells. I don't think advertisers are sitting there scratching their heads as to why people don't like them. No advertiser looks at a billboard in the countryside and thinks people enjoy looking at them, its a profit making opportunity, even if that means hijacking your YouTube video on tech reviews for an Audi commercial.

The difference with Costco in your example is that the ads don't impeded on your ability to continue shopping around Costco. If you were walking around Costco and had to stop to listen to someone market to you about clothing when you were simply there to buy some bread and milk you'd get annoyed.
by emmanol | 2025-06-24 00:54:18+00:00
Recognition and relevance in 2025

Upadhyay’s invention arrives as energy consumption and compute infrastructure become major obstacles to scalable AI deployment. Large language models and generative systems require substantial processing power, but many organizations face budget, space, and energy limits.

The invention received international recognition through the Global Recognition Awards and the UILA AI Innovation Awards in London. Both awards acknowledged its potential to make AI more deployable, power-efficient, and accessible at scale. Its design aligns with ongoing efforts to reduce dependence on large GPU clusters while maintaining real-time performance.

Current development and next steps

Prototypes of the patented system are underway, focused on validating the architecture and how components interact under pressure. Simulations are being built to test performance across real-world conditions: spiky data loads, mixed input types, and time-sensitive tasks.

Mr Upadhyay is in talks with research labs, AI teams, and industry partners interested in early deployment. These include groups working on diagnostics, edge AI, and low-power inference where standard hardware falls short. The goal now is to prove what the system can do, how it improves processing speed, efficiency, and adaptability in live-data environments.

Beyond engineering, Upadhyay continues to contribute to broader AI infrastructure strategy. He serves on advisory panels for AI sustainability and infrastructure development, helping shape how intelligent systems can grow responsibly and at scale.

Looking ahead, he’s investing in the people and ideas that will carry this vision forward, mentoring emerging developers and supporting cross-functional teams working on the next generation of adaptive AI systems.
by api | 2025-06-24 00:54:22+00:00
Lack of radiators is endemic in sci-fi. All those cool starships and torch rockets would bake their crews and then melt.

I didn't like the Avatar films except for the starships, which are among the more physically realistic in construction including massive radiators. They'd probably need to be even bigger though IRL if you're talking about something loony like an antimatter rocket.
by goless | 2025-06-24 00:54:43+00:00
I once wrote a library typed-fsm https://github.com/sdzx-1/typed-fsm

It has a completely type-safe finite state machine, and it does not require additional programming conventions.

It relies on a special monad: Mcbride Indexed Monad, which can model uncertainty in terms of type.

Are you using this monad here?

Here is a concrete ATM demo https://github.com/sdzx-1/typed-fsm/tree/main/examples/ATM
by hinkley | 2025-06-24 00:55:17+00:00
Alec Steele (youtube blacksmith) installed a particulate filter into his grinding room before he branched off into exotic metals. He also started keeping his shop floor a lot cleaner.

Both because you probably shouldn't breathe that shit in, and also magnesium and titanium dust are very enthusiastic about combusting. Everyone knows about magnesium but nobody knows titanium is almost as surly.
by gbacon | 2025-06-24 00:55:51+00:00
Part of Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation is having an Industrial Advisory Board (IAB). Whether it is a box to be checked or a source of input for thoughtful consideration is another question.

Asking career academics to adapt to industrial environments with which many (clinical professors or professors of practice excepted) have limited experience seems like a bridge too far.

What is the source of the assumption that all PhD students want academic posts? The article cited a survey that concluded PhD holders were largely satisfied with their careers, so that population don’t appear to be the squeaky wheels. Other motivations for pursuing a PhD include climbing the mountain because it’s there, moving up the labor schedule, going for a senior position later in one’s career, good relationship with a particular advisor, or delaying entry into the real world.
by throw234234234 | 2025-06-24 00:56:49+00:00
That is the ideal for the management types and the AI labs themselves yes. Copilots are just a way to test the market, and gain data and adoption early. I don't think it is much of a secret anymore. We even see benchmarks created (e.g. OpenAI recently did one) that are solely about taking paid work away from programmers and how many "paid tasks" it can actually do. They have a benchmark - that's their target.

As a standard pleb though I can understand why this world; where the people with connections, social standing and capital have an advantage isn't appealing to many on this forum. If anyone can do something - other advantages that aren't as easy to acquire matter more relatively.
by nickjj | 2025-06-24 00:56:56+00:00
If anyone is looking for examples on using uv with Docker, I have Flask and Django example apps at https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example and https://github.com/nickjj/docker-django-example.

It prevents uv from making a virtual environment and does some optimizations like compiling byte code once when your dependencies get installed.

It was well worth the switch. I noticed a ~10x improvement for speed compared to pip (30s to 3s to install all dependencies). Proper lock file support is nice too. Funny enough I wrote about and made a video about switching to uv about a week ago here https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/switching-pip-to-uv-in-a-dock....
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-06-24 00:57:18+00:00
Yep, this is the issue. That and land cost. Also pumped hydro is most useful when you need very large capacity storage, whereas for preventing blackouts you need very high capacity fast generating to fix oscillations or to allow more generating capacity to come on line. They are basically acting as decoupling capacitors (except for AC) in this application.
by nayuki | 2025-06-24 00:57:47+00:00
Correct. The parent of your post should have written "10 trillion kelvins", "10 terakelvins", or "10 TK". The article wrote "Temperatures there reach an astonishing 30,000-50,000 kelvin" instead of "kelvins" (or better yet, 30–50 kK).

Very few people use the unit kelvin correctly. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Metric/comments/126sniq/everyone_mi... )

The only exception regarding capitalization is that the person Celsius is capitalized in the multi-word unit "degree(s) Celsius", and the pluralization is on "degree".
by mediaman | 2025-06-24 00:58:13+00:00
It's a tool. It's not a human. A line number works great for humans. Today, they're terrible for LLMs.

I can choose to use a screwdriver to hammer in a nail and complain about how useless screwdrivers are. Or I can realize when and how to use it.

We (including marketing & execs) have made a huge mistake in anthropomorphizing these things, because then we stop treating them like tools that have specific use cases to be used in certain ways, and more like smart humans that don't need that.

Maybe one day they'll be there, but today they are screwdrivers. That doesn't make them useless.
by transpute | 2025-06-24 00:58:56+00:00
After years of reverse engineering, work ongoing, https://github.com/openxc7

Open source FPGA toolchain for AMD/Xilinx Series 7 chips, including Kintex-7. Supports Kintex7 (including 325/420/480t), Artix7, Spartan7 and Zynq7

https://f4pga.org & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32861075 (umbrella project)

Open source toolchain for the development of FPGAs of multiple vendors. Currently, it targets the Xilinx 7-Series, Lattice iCE40, Lattice ECP5 FPGAs, QuickLogic EOS S3 and is gradually being expanded to provide a comprehensive end-to-end FPGA synthesis flow.

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2017/litex-vs-vivado-firs...

> There’s already IP cores for DRAM, PCI express, ethernet, video, a softcore CPU (your choice of or1k or lm32) and more.. LiteX produces a design that uses about 20% of an XC7A50 FPGA with a runtime of about 10 minutes, whereas Vivado produces a design that consumes 85% of the same FPGA with a runtime of about 30-45 minutes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836745#39922534

> you can.. get [FPGA] parts for significant discounts in 1-off quantities through legit Chinese distributors like LCSC. For example, a XC7A35T-2FGG484I is 90$ on Digikey and 20$ at LCSC. I think a personalized deal for that part would be cheaper than 20$ though...
by lenocinor | 2025-06-24 00:59:10+00:00
I am male, and I agree that it's definitely to important to keep that in mind. I definitely believe that it's not the same for me as it is for women. But I will also say that I've been living in my current location with my female partner for over 7 years, and we often walk together, though sometimes she walks on her own too of course. I just asked her if she ever felt unsafe either, and she said "no".
by steveBK123 | 2025-06-24 00:59:10+00:00
Because "most people pay back fully on time" is not the metric.

The real question is what are the delinquency and default rates for BNPL as compared to other forms of consumer credit.

Given the previous understanding that it didn't hit your FICO, the retailer subsidy as a sales lead, and the types of products people were financing.. one might assume worse..
by nerdsniper | 2025-06-24 00:59:12+00:00
Definitely worth watching! No matter if you’re technical or not. Top notch productions, beautiful even.

I think a huge, huge amount of the government is wasteful but the CSB is doing incredible work. Some of the smartest chemical engineers go on to work there later in their career. Due to the average age of the knowledge-holders, this isn’t an agency that you can shut down and easily restart. Young engineers don’t make good investigators - you need a super keen sense of industry to walk into a place where you don’t know anyone and put all the clues together correctly.

The CSB produces very neutral but incredibly detailed reports. Please note that the CSB is not an enforcement agency - they don’t assign fault or levee fines or bring any charges or write any regulation.

All they do is figure out why every major industrial disaster occurred and communicate that to other companies so that they have the know-how to prevent if from happening again if they so choose. The CSB’s reports are invaluable to the operations of so many companies and plants.

Some of the top comments on a 1-year old video with 3.5 million views:

> I can't believe that a government agency makes some of my favorite YouTube videos. I've been watching these for years now

> Finally, a good use of my taxes

> I work in the petrochemical industry, with polymerizable substances that are quite similar to butadiene. The findings hit home. I will share this video tomorrow with all my colleagues in the plant management, who I am sure will appreciate it.

> An amazing service, thank you. When I worked at a copper mine in Yukon I would always replay your videos when it was my turn to give the safety brief and they were ALWAYS well received. Your videos save lives

> USCSB is the only US government agency I have subscription notifications on for. You all have done fantastic work for these 25 years.

> CONGRATULATIONS on 25 years to the CSB! A quarter century of excellence in safety education and investigations. I have learned so much about industrial processes and the safety measures utilized (sometimes not successfully) by industry thanks to the brilliant videos produced by the CSB. Thank you for your hard work, CSB!

> This is hands down the most positive comment section on YouTube. I, and everyone else it seems, love this channel. I’ve learned so much

> Thank you CSB for all that you do. As an engineer and new supervisor at a production facility, I utilize your videos all the time to help teach the operators the dangers that we have lurking. You improve and save lives all over due to your work. Please, keep it up.

> Love the analysis and insights to these industrial disasters that the USCSB provides. Hope you stay well funded to continue commissioning these mini documentaries.
by ranger_danger | 2025-06-24 00:59:28+00:00
The open source version of bind does not support it according to their docs I read, but for privacy reasons I would not be using it anyways.

I still don't see how DNS would affect this though, because the domain still resolves, and it loads the CF turnstile page, it just never grants access no matter how many times I click "not a robot."

Unless maybe they had some kind of unique setup where non-ECS requests were resolved to IPs that just always gave you looping captchas intentionally... but somehow I doubt that is happening.
by actsasbuffoon | 2025-06-24 00:59:35+00:00
I try to just give honest feedback, and I don’t feel badly about it or worry about blowback.

For example, I applied at a company for a fairly high ranking position and did really well. The technical co-founder said I gave the best performance he’d ever seen on their code exercise. The internal recruiter said I was the first candidate he’d ever given the maximum score to.

Then I had one round where the interviewer showed up very late and was instantly rude. Would barely even talk to me. He had this disdainful look on his face for the whole interview.

The internal recruiter called me after and was basically like, “What the hell happened in that interview? Everyone loved you and said you were amazing. Now Chuck (not his real name) said you’d be a bad hire. What is going on?”

They still made me an offer, but the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth, so I went elsewhere. But apparently a couple of pretty high ranking people were pissed that I walked away, and there were some consequences.

Should I feel bad about that? Honestly, I’m glad. Their interview process was broken, and I hope I improved it so this shit doesn’t happen to anyone else.
by leesec | 2025-06-24 00:59:39+00:00
So much hate in this thread lol. Headline could have easily been "Tesla launches Robotaxi, gives hundreds of rides without incident".

They're closer than ever to solving driving at scale. In fact they're the only company close to doing it. Waymo still has less than 3 thousand cars. Keep shorting if you want. The pace of improvement in the last year and a half makes success obvious. I haven't had a safety intervention in many months on just random roads. Cheers haters
by pavel_lishin | 2025-06-24 00:59:59+00:00
Once I suggested that we need to have a meeting, a sort of post-mortem, about why two teams were working on nearly-identical projects.

My manager told me that our PM got yelled at because of that, and told me that negative comments should be restricted to private channels, without other managers present.

So, uh, why would I give any feedback that could be even remotely construed as negative again? Especially when the fallout could land on my coworkers as well?
by buildbot | 2025-06-24 01:00:24+00:00
I think in theory, given terabytes of bitstreams, you might be able to get an LLM to output valid designs. Excepting hardened IP blocks, a bitstream is literally a sequence of sram configuration bits to set the routing tables and LUTs. Given the right type of positional encoding I think you could maybe get simple designs working at a small scale.
by api | 2025-06-24 01:00:53+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't actually save any money or make anyone much more money. It's just a result of mindlessly fetishizing the past and misattributing past periods of rapid industrial growth to lack of regulation. The real cause was rapid population growth at the time, war, and extremely rapid adoption of bedrock industrial age technologies like electricity.

Today we have a fully deployed modern infrastructure and slow to negative population growth. Cutting regulation won't change that.
by BrawnyBadger53 | 2025-06-24 01:01:23+00:00
Discriminating wealthy customers increases the risk profile of the loans which is already questionably high. Retailers are used to paying extra for credit card transactions anyways. BNPL really is just meant to compete with credit cards by splitting the runway across more months for the loan. Equally predatory business model but credit cards are able to offer the same interest amortization that you can do with bnpl through the rewards programs. They're effectively the same.
by throwaway493943 | 2025-06-24 01:01:47+00:00
I'm going to be brave (but still use a throwaway) and ask the dumb question - what is wrong with putting things in queues to help with performance problems?

If some endpoint is too slow to return a response to the frontend within a reasonable time, enqueueing it via a worker makes sense to me.

That doesn't cover all performance issues but it handles a lot of them. You should also do things like optimize SQL queries, cache in redis or the db, perhaps run multiple threads within an endpoint, etc. but I don't see anything wrong with specifically having dozens of workers/queues. We have that in my work's Rails app.

Happy to hear how I can do things better if I'm missing something.
by georgeburdell | 2025-06-24 01:02:41+00:00
I have a PhD and I felt that I had to deprogram myself to fit in with BigTech. With a PhD, I would uncompromisingly pursue a single goal. Ideas were worth something. In Big Tech, ideas are in abundance but time is short, and I must compromise to follow through on my commitments. The only thing I really have an advantage over non-PhDs is that I get suspicious of good results

Edit: totally unrelated, but PhDs in the West basically seem to be immigration schemes, and universities are happy to play along.
by msy | 2025-06-24 01:02:57+00:00
You could apply precisely the same cynical calculus to engineering but I suspect a lot of the people nodding along with this could suddenly find it offensive when applied to their mission-critical DevSecOps roadmap.

The reality is there's always work to done responding to changing user needs, market forces and organisational objectives and it's not uncommon that UI design overhauls are driven by an abstract desire to make things seem 'fresh' but that doesn't come (solely) from designers, it's often a top-down strategic directive.
by candiddevmike | 2025-06-24 01:03:42+00:00
For a lot of folks, credit is the only way they're surviving on something close to minimum wage. Or credit was the only "safety net" they had during a rough time. Almost none of these people have the kind of collateral needed to use credit to truly transform their lives, and the government assistance for that is seriously lacking in the US (SBA loans are terrible, and you need enough money to cover your own salary until your business gets up and running).
by benmanns | 2025-06-24 01:04:04+00:00
I’m not sure. I’m sophisticated enough to use BNPL and set aside the funds in a HYSA, but I never have as you miss out on: credit card rewards, credit card purchase protection, credit card extended warranties, credit card chargeback infrastructure. Additionally, I’ve seen BNPL offers where the first payment is in 2 weeks compared to 30-50 days for credit cards depending on when your statement closes and how soon you have to pay, so the extra interest is less than you might think. It could make sense for very large purchases, but then, that’s also where credit card features can really come in handy.