MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-07-11 22:24:55+00:00
> I really wonder whether we've lost something by not making more of an effort to use resources more frugally

I'll bite. What do you think we've lost? What would the benefit be of using resources more frugally?

Disclosure: I'm an embedded systems programmer. I frequently find myself in the position where I have to be very careful with my usage of CPU cycles and memory resources. I still think we'd all be better off with infinitely fast, infinitely resourced computers. IMO, austerity offers no benefit.
by klabb3 | 2025-07-11 22:25:03+00:00
Yes but it’s a very complicated service to deliver. Even if they train great models, they likely will not operationalize them for inference. Those will still be private actors, and the incentives to enshittify will be the same. Also, for AI generally the incentives is much higher than last tech generation, due to cost of running these things. Basically, the free services where you’re the product must aggressively extract value out of you in order to make a profit.
by EasyMark | 2025-07-11 22:26:03+00:00
Seems like a golden opportunity to be smart about it and use advertising to make less visited parts of cities tourist attractions. People want to experience Japan, but naturally focii will appear over time via positive feedback, you have to overcome that with advertising and promotions on the web via influencers and advertising. That seems like a government focus if they are really interested in doing something about it.
by Marsymars | 2025-07-11 22:27:00+00:00
It’s okay, but the cash is pretty tricky to get full value from if you’re not on your toes. It goes through the “Payoneer” service. The Payoneer terms aren’t entirely clear, but seem to imply that you’ll get charged an annual fee after a year if you keep the account open but inactive.

If you want the payment in non-USD, Payoneer takes a 2% cut on conversion fees - I figured I’d take the payment in USD, but neglected to do a full read-through of how the payment would happen - it comes as a wire transfer, and the bank I used has a 15 USD incoming wire transfer, so I got hit with that instead of the 2% conversion fee. (And the payment got blocked until the bank called me to inquire about whether I was expecting a wire transfer.)

I really would have just preferred a physical cheque in USD. (The mechanism with which I’ve received refunds for recalls from other companies that didn’t want to do internationalized payments.)
by scrubs | 2025-07-11 22:27:32+00:00
Take the stupid of the far right and idiots like Trump, then multiply through by -1. It presents differently but it'll still screw stuff up keeping the idiocy in cycle. There's morons on left too!

The middle ground is far, far preferred. Instiutional competency is much preferred. Course correction is preferred. Equal justice under law is preferred.

But as I say under the political noise is a larger problem: failure to balance control with accountability. Congress isn't checking Trump in any substantive way. The DOJ probably took too long to prosecute Trump. And on the right the housing crisis booked no jail time after a run of deregulation. Failure to respect due process or judges orders is another problem on the right. Forget outrage: where are the real world consequences?

Congress time and time again is directly implicated in many of these issues. If Congress was doing its job instead of pretty boys shadow boxing twaddle wedge issues for complex problems on TV, there'd be less of a power vacuum that Trump ultimately filled.

I think one would have to be nieve in thinking the left did not play a major part in its own demise 2016 and 2024.
by sunaookami | 2025-07-11 22:27:53+00:00
Next.js has many weird bugs and things that just... don't work and when you hit these edge cases and a >5 year old open GitHub issue you know you will spend the next two weeks searching for another way or just abandoning it because it doesn't work. Got burned out hard by Next.js while rewriting a very old project - it worked in the end and I was proud of it but just using something... simpler would've been better. Deploying Next.js outside Vercel is hell, too...

Also tried SvelteKit (with Svelte 4) which was quiet nice but it completely misbehave in production with a lot of corner-case bugs that were not reproducable in development and I abandoned it for good. Didn't the creator of Svelte even joined Vercel? They seem to want to "unite" all the JS frameworks "under one roof" which I find a bit... disturbing?
by rcxdude | 2025-07-11 22:28:09+00:00
Most of that is adjacent to regulation, and it's more or less asking for exemption from regulation for smaller companies. Which the EU already does a lot of: generally smaller companies have much lower regulatory regulatory requirements. But the threshold proposed is silly: you do not need to be anywhere near a $10 million company for complying with the listed regulations to be a pretty trivial amount of work. I do suggest reading these things, for the most part they can usually be sorted with a bit of paperwork, the kind of thing someone who's reasonably on it can bang out in a day or so. (Especially software: hardware can be a bit more of a pain, but that's because of important shit like not starting fires or electrocuting someone)
by homebrewer | 2025-07-11 22:29:08+00:00
raid 5/6 is completely broken and there's not much interest in fixing it — nobody who's willing to pay for its development (which includes Facebook, SUSE, Oracle, and WD) uses raid 5/6; you shouldn't have been running it in the first place. I understand it's basically blaming the victim, but doing at least some research on the filesystem before starting to use it is a good idea in any case.

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Status.html

edit: just checked, it says the same thing in man pages — not for production use, testing/development only.
by throw0101c | 2025-07-11 22:29:40+00:00
> […] handle issues in hardware as much as possible.

1. There is hardware support for (e.g.) SHA in ARM:

* https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0514/g/introducti...

But given Apple designs their own CPUs they could add extensions for anything they need. Or use a simpler algorithm, like Fletcher (which ZFS uses):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%27s_checksum

2. It does not have to be enabled by default for every device. The main problem is the lack of it even as an option.

I wouldn't necessarily use ZFS checksums on a laptop, but ZFS has them for when I use it on a not-laptop.
by menthe | 2025-07-11 22:30:28+00:00
False.

As of PG16, HOT updates are tolerated against summarizing indexes, such as BRIN.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/storage-hot.html

Besides, you probably don't want "done" jobs in the same table as pending or retriable jobs - as you scale up, you likely want to archive them as it provides various operational advantages, at no cost.
by diggan | 2025-07-11 22:30:42+00:00
> And this is exactly why open source models can't surpass open weight models.

It is a fair point, but how strong of a point it is remains to be seen, some architectures are better than others, even with the same training data, so not impossible we could at one point see some innovative architectures beating current proprietary ones. It would probably be short-lived though, as the proprietary ones would obviously improve in their next release after that.
by zarzavat | 2025-07-11 22:30:51+00:00
The problem is that AI leads to extremely bimodal distribution of improvement.

Sometimes it doesn't help at all. Other times it spits out several hours of work in seconds.

It's like asking what is the weighted average of 1 and infinity? Even if you can quantify how many 1s and how many infinities there are, the answer is always going to be nonsensical.
by mellosouls | 2025-07-11 22:31:28+00:00
Yes (a change in acceleration was reported), but even in the link you yourself provide the hypotheses are framed within standard physics, not alien technology.

The latter got more than its fair share of press because Harvard's Avi Loeb proposed it as potential evidence of ET.

He later claimed more evidence from potential spaceship bits he reckons he found from an ancient meteor, and seems to specialize in these sorts of claims. [1]

Like you say, not irrational but perhaps over-hyped by people who ought to know better...

[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/avi-loeb-i...
by libraryofbabel | 2025-07-11 22:31:40+00:00
Some excellent points. On “add selection to chat”, I just want to add that the Claude Code VS code extension automatically passes the current selection to the model. :)

I am genuinely curious if any Cursor or Windsurf users who have also tried Claude Code could speak to why they prefer the IDE-fork tools? I’ve only ever used Claude Code myself - what am I missing?
by redavni | 2025-07-11 22:31:48+00:00
Conspiratorial networks? I'm not wasting my time reading research which is probably entirely intentionally incorrect conspiracy theories that people believe. Might was well have done research into whether people believe Gone With The Wind was actual history. Reading the research is not necessary because of the framing. The framing makes the research useless for truth seeking.

The idea here is exactly what you say, belief in authority because science people spend time on it. Essentially this is science as religion. Which was exactly my point.
by bonsai_bar | 2025-07-11 22:31:54+00:00
Yeah, that was a pretty lazy response on my part. Let me try again.

In my opinion, it takes several weeks of active use to nail down your preferred workflow with these tools and to get a meaningful understanding of their abilities and limitations.

I.e., yes they hallucinate and don't have great understanding of truth/fact (however you choose to define those terms), but you need to develop an intuition for how to work around those issues and how to recognize the problems in your setup that increase the likelihood of the LLM heading down false paths. This intuition cannot come until you fight through the initial struggle period.

In some ways, it's similar to picking up emacs/vim and learning the shortcuts. It's a negative to your velocity until it's not, and once you overcome that initial hurdle, your productivity takes off. Admittedly, it's not for everyone (I never bothered to learn the ins and outs of vim bindings because my bottleneck isn't my speed of writing code), but it provides a huge productivity boost for those types of engineers.

Coming back to my main point: your LLM needs quite a bit of guidance in the early stages, especially as you're feeling out what types of tasks it's able to knock out the park and what types of tasks it'll struggle with. For instance, in the example you gave here, I wonder what would happen if you asked it to present you a detailed plan before it gets to writing any code and to provide a list of assumptions it is making? You will need to do a bit of review with it before you let it go execute the plan (siilar to how a junior engineer would come to you with questions before being able to handle certain tasks).

I also recommend writing up a thorough self-review checklist that it stored in your repo (e.g. in an AGENTS.md file) that provides the customized instructions you want your LLM to follow (it won't always do so but it helps a ton). Otherwise, each new session is essentially starting over without it learning, which is pretty frustrating.

I'm happy to talk more because I'm pretty optimistic about LLMs and enjoy using them in my day-to-day where appropriate.

And finally, I'm not sure how much you've thought about giving them more autonomy, but I do recommend doing so if you have a safe, sandboxed environment. The real magic and productivity boost of LLMs come when you give them some more autonomy and provide them with tools to figure out the problems they encounter, unlocking your time to be spent on higher-leverage tasks such as designing systems and processes. If it can run linters, unit tests, and grep your codebase during its development process and use this to iterate, you'll have a much more fun time.

Does this help?
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-11 22:31:57+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/live/SE0BetkXsLg?si=LPss_su3PVTAqGCO An informative live stream. They’re going through the report now.

One detail: The younger pilot was flying, and the older pilot monitoring. The report doesn’t say who flipped the switch, but the host went out on a limb and said that the pilot flying is usually completely focused on takeoff. That would be the time to betray your colleague if you were so inclined.

So, who was the older pilot? I searched yesterday expecting some press article about them, but it was all memorials.
by dingnuts | 2025-07-11 22:32:02+00:00
I wonder how many lies you've internalized. "The models keep getting better" but whenever I ask them questions I know the answers to I get back answers that make me suspicious of the answers I get to questions I don't know the answer to.

I still spend a lot of time reading primary sources, and AI is still frequently wrong, which makes it useless for learning unless you confirm everything with a primary source because you can't know if it's confabulating when you are learning. If you have to double check everything, it's useless, EXCEPT for vague questions, to help you generate keywords for use in traditional search.
by IgorPartola | 2025-07-11 22:33:11+00:00
What I would prefer is integration at the model definition level. For example let’s say that I have a Customer model and an Order model. I don’t always want to pull in the customer fields when listing orders. Most ORMs would allow me to create a join and specify the field from Customer I want when fetching Orders but those joins add up quickly. I could denormalize the data and put things like the customer name and email onto each order but if the customer changes either value now the application code has to remember to update it. And yes I could put that in the model’s save() method but that is fragile too because what if someone else does run code that updates stuff at the raw SQL level and doesn’t include these updates.

Now if I could specify that I want Order.customer_name to come from a specific other model and be updated automatically the ORM could automatically create a trigger to update that field when the customer table is updated.

Obviously this is a very simplistic example but there are many more, including versioning and soft deletes that could be incredibly useful. But the key is that the ORM has to generate the code for the triggers and stored procedures. Doing that manually is possible now but (a) uses a different language even than regular SQL which not everyone is familiar with, and (b) there is no type checking for what you are doing. The ORM model definitions are the main source of truth about the shape of your database, so I want to use them as such.
by watwut | 2025-07-11 22:33:12+00:00
> Realistically, to be an asshole is, at least in part, to show lack of worry for others. So, no, worry is a necessary precondition here.

Are you sure you are not a sociopath? Your reasoning here id quote off and if trulu fear and worry is the only reason for you to not be an asshole or jerk ... I dont wsmt to be around.

And yes superior impulse control can make teenagers behave better amd not do fires where they should not.
by bawolff | 2025-07-11 22:34:00+00:00
Some of that is because people are so skeptical of it, it never got to economies of scale. You could say the same thing about pretty much any energy source prior to it being scaled up.

Tbf, perhaps that is still an instrinsic problem with nuclear, that it isn't easily ammenable to economies of scale the way solar pannels or fossil fuels are.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-11 22:34:12+00:00
I don't think it helps anyone to dismiss the difficulty involved in doing that in 2025 vs 2004.

I'm not saying it's not possible, of course it is, but there is some friction and difficulty especially if you seriously want to compete with Apple, Samsung, Oppo, Xiaomi, etc.

Fairphone exists[0]. Nobody is in the market for either a Fairphone vs Galaxy vs Pixel.
by adamoshadjivas | 2025-07-11 22:34:22+00:00
Agreed on everything. Just to add, not only anthropic is offering CC at like a 500% loss, they restricted sonnet/opus 4 access to windsurf, and jacked up their enterprise deal to Cursor. The increase in price was so big that it forced cursor to make that disastrous downgrade to their plans.

I think only way Cursor and other UX wrappers still win is if on device models or at least open source models catch up in the next 2 years. Then i can see a big push for UX if models are truly a commodity. But as long as claude is much better then yes they hold all the cards. (And don't have a bigger company to have a civil war with like openai)
by majormajor | 2025-07-11 22:34:30+00:00
How would LVT be easier or quicker? In what states are you going to be able to campaign on this?

"Change commercial and industrial under-utilized areas to allow residential, then aggressively subsidize developers or build directly there" sounds much easier to me than "pass a property tax increase that people will fight tooth and nail." Your LVT is gonna need to come with zoning changes too, after all.

California has Prop 13. Texas lowered property taxes recently. Florida is considering property tax rebates. You're gonna have a hard time convincing people to increase property taxes when housing is expensive already. Big overlap between "property owners" and "highly motivated voters" already.

Incentivizing density in single-family areas is quite hard, I'm not convinced it would do much even if it passed! Even in CA where neighborhoods can now have ADUs, sales prices for 5bd big-as-box-as-possible single family units are generally higher than prices for 3bd or 4bd + an ADU properties with separate units. Because the people who can afford those would rather have a giant-ass house than be a small-time landlord on the side. So maybe you just displace the old retirees and a bunch of high-income DINKS move from their condos to those SFHs. Sales price goes down a bit to compensate for the now-higher tax burden; remains unreachable for many but reachable enough for enough that it doesn't spur massive change.
by atombender | 2025-07-11 22:34:30+00:00
Not false. Nobody would ever use BRIN for this. I'm talking about regular indexes, which do prevent HOT.

If you read my earlier comment properly, you'll notice a "done" column is to avoid deleting columns on the hot path and avoid dead tuples messing up the planner. I agree that a table should not contain done jobs, but then you risk running into the dead tuple problem. Both approaches are a compromise.
by hollandheese | 2025-07-11 22:35:07+00:00
>I kind of wish I didn't try the same upgrade on a iBook G3, though...

Oh god. Those were the worst things ever to upgrade the hard drive. Just reading this gave me a nightmare flashback to having to keep track of all the different screws. This is why my vintage G3 machine is a Pismo instead of an iBook.
by nikcub | 2025-07-11 22:35:15+00:00
Cursor see it coming - it's why they're moving to the web and mobile[0]

The bigger issue is the advantage Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have in developing and deploying their own models. It wasn't that long ago that Cursor was reading 50 lines of code at a time to save on token costs. Anthropic just came out and yolo'd the context window because they could afford to, and it blew everything else away.

Cursor could release a cli tomorrow but it wouldn't help them compete when Anthropic and Google can always be multiples cheaper

[0] https://cursor.com/blog/agent-web
by josefx | 2025-07-11 22:35:39+00:00
> The fact that the standard doesn't specify a name mangling scheme leads to the completely predictable result that different implementations use different name mangling schemes.

The ABI mess predates the standard by years and if we look that far back the Annotated C++ Reference Manual included a scheme in its description of the language. Many compiler writers back then made the intentional choice to ignore it. The modern day ISO standard would not fare any better at pushing that onto unwilling compiler writers than it fared with the c++03 export feature.
by IgorPartola | 2025-07-11 22:35:48+00:00
I used to think like this, but over the past decade and a half they have gotten a lot more performant and usable and the speed with which you can develop using them is just unmatched by writing raw SQL. Again, I say this as someone who used to be very much team just write SQL and even created a quasi-ORM that allowed me to write all the queries by hand but returned model instances that could have methods as a sort of in-between solution. I still routinely use raw SQL but only when it is actually necessary.
by extr | 2025-07-11 22:36:51+00:00
Not sure what you mean. "Hosted agents in sandboxed/imaged environments"? The entire selling point of CC is that you can do

- > curl -fsSL http://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

- > claude

- > OAuth to your Anthropic account

Done. Now you have a SOTA agentic AI with pretty forgiving usage limits up and running immediately. This is why it's capturing developer mindshare. The simplicity of getting up and going with it is a selling point.
by al_borland | 2025-07-11 22:37:15+00:00
Not everyone is already under the care and watch of a professional, as I’m sure you’re aware. This can be for many reasons.

Many people are now turning to AI to vent and for advice that may be better suited for a professional. The AI is always available and it’s free. Two things the professionals are not.

From this point of view, you need to meet people where they are. When someone searches in Google for suicide related stuff, the number for the suicide hotline comes up. Doing something similar in AI would make sense. Maybe not have AI try and walk someone through a crisis, but at the very least, direct them to people who can help. AI assisting in the planning of a suicide is probably never a good path to go down.

If you can at least agree with this, then maybe you can partner with people in tech to produce guardrails that can help people, instead of berating someone for sharing an idea in good faith to try and help avoid AI leading to more suicides.
by ParityMind | 2025-07-11 22:37:48+00:00
That’s not anything I’m saying should happen. This is for people who don’t have therapists.

I’m not saying you should replace a therapist with AI — that’s a stupid assumption. If someone needs help, they should 100% be seeing a human. A machine can’t replace a person in crisis, and I never said it could.

But in the times we’re in — with mental health services underfunded and people increasingly turning to AI — someone has to raise this question.

I’m not attacking therapists — I’m defending people who are suffering and turning to the tools in front of them. People think AI is smarter than doctors. That’s not true. A human can diagnose. A machine cannot.

This is a temporary deflection, not treatment. The man in New York who asked for bridge heights after losing his job — this is for people like him. If a simple, harmless change could have delayed that moment — long enough to get help — why wouldn’t we try?

You should be angry, but aim it at the government, not at people trying to prevent avoidable harm.

This isn’t about replacing you. It’s about trying to hold the line until someone like you can step in.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-07-11 22:38:09+00:00
Heard it from my MIL, who is from rapa nui and likes to fill me in on all the local happenings. I tried searching and I can't find much online (but I don't speak Spanish), but I do see on the resort site, the about page has an "our family" section about the Hitos: https://nayarahangaroa.com/about/

Not proof positive but indicative of there not being bad blood anymore there