MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ericmay | 2025-07-11 19:15:14+00:00
Sorry, my fault I genuinely must have confused you with someone else.

Though my general statement I think still stands regarding Blue Sky. That’s another damn cesspool.

> I can see that you imagine I'm in some kind of torment nexus, but again, you're bringing your biases and preconceptions into this discussion and not listening to what people are saying, so you end up boxing shadows

Hmm I must be imaging the comments you wrote calling me these things then.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-07-11 19:15:15+00:00
I put our "Ginger and Tumeric"[1] Tea from Trader Joe's into a glass as in Test 15 at: https://eatrightindia.gov.in/dart/#spices-condiments15

Unfortunately it looks halfway between the two pictures, although that might be from the Ginger, Orange, and other ingredients. :-/

[1] https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/organic-ginger-...
by selfhoster11 | 2025-07-11 19:15:28+00:00
DDR3 workstation here - R1 generates at 1 token per second. In practice, this means that for complex queries, the speed of replying is closer to an email response than a chat message, but this is acceptable to me for confidential queries or queries where I need the model to be steerable. I can always hit the R1 API from a provider instead, if I want to.

Given that R1 uses 37B active parameters (compared to 32B for K2), K2 should be slightly faster than that - around 1.15 tokens/second.
by rpaddock | 2025-07-11 19:15:35+00:00
I've seen AI recommended things like Fluoroquinolones (Avalox, Cipro, Levaquin etc), for UTIs.

The FDA itself says this class of drugs work no better than a placebo for UTIs, Sinusitis and Bronchitis. While they cause life altering side effects. They 'Flox' people.

My late wife's Journal was part of the evidence during a 2015 FDA hearing to get this crap off the market.

The bottom line is that AI can not be trusted for Medical Advice. Be highly suspicious of a Human doctor recommending a drug in this class, that has so many Black Box Warnings.
by mrtksn | 2025-07-11 19:15:47+00:00
We will take the day off I guess as we run the critical stuff on nuclear. I don't fancy nuclear because it's too involved, takes forever to build, its a big deal, needs long term planning. I also don't believe that there are enough smart and trustworthy people to take care of a nuclear infrastructure that powers the world for generations, disasters will happen. Let's use the quick, simple, safe and unlimited potential. Nuclear has its place for sure though.
by quantified | 2025-07-11 19:15:50+00:00
I lose confidence in the writing early on when it says this: > Instead, the government essentially "seizes" the added value by taxing its rental value away, eliminating the incentive to discover the oil in the first place.

If the tax is 100% of the value, sure. But left unstated is whether taxes are 100% of value. If taxes are 100% of value, there is no incentive to own the land in the first place, my $400,000 house costs me $400,000 in land tax to own... yearly?
by dylan604 | 2025-07-11 19:16:07+00:00
That time period of the trash can mac saw a lot of people looking to have a useful computer and Hackintosh was the only way. We had systems with multiple GPUs that blew the doors off the trash can's AMD multiple year old GPUs. Then, when the new GPUs came out, Hackintoshes just upgraded while the trash can just sat their all sad in how useless it was.

The people involved in making the Hackintosh possible should be immortalized in stone carvings to be remembered for all of time.
by Jeaye | 2025-07-11 19:16:47+00:00
My reasoning is this:

jank is written in C++. Its compiler and runtime are both in C++. jank can compile to C++ directly (or LLVM IR). jank can reach into C++ seamlessly, which includes reaching into its own compiler/runtime. Thus, the boundary between what is C++ and what is Clojure is gone, which leaves jank as being both Clojure and C++.

Achieving this singularity is a milestone for jank and, I think, is worthy of the title.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-11 19:16:59+00:00
I don't have any farmers within a fifty miles of me, I don't think. I live in a major city surrounded by suburbs.

And how exactly am I going to know the farmer's published tests are correct?

And there aren't cheap tests for everyone to test all their food for thousands of different possible contaminants. That's wishful thinking.

And why do you think testing would need to become less frequent when relationships are established? It's a tried-and-true business technique to gain a reputation of high quality, then rake in the big bucks by switching selling low-quality stuff that people are fooled by.

You can understand why it's about 100,000x more efficient for everyone to say, hey, why don't we hire actual experts and give them the expensive equipment people can't afford on their own to do all these tests for us, and levy huge fines when farmers and corporations adulterate their food or otherwise make it unsafe? And we can call the rules farmers and corporations have to follow "regulations".

I genuinely don't understand why you think it should be legal for farmers to add lead to turmeric and try to sell it, and then put the responsibility on the consumer to test. I mean, do you think it should be legal for people to murder each other, and put the responsibility on others to avoid getting murdered? And if not, then why do you think poisoning people with lead is any different?
by radley | 2025-07-11 19:17:33+00:00
I bought one during their preorder period. The first SSD started to fail due to overheating. I just received and installed the replacement this week. Fingers crossed that it will be okay.

Important note: the seller provides no warranty for the SSDs. I was fortunate that they offered a 1-year warranty when I bought mine, but that is no longer the case now. $700 is a pretty big risk when there's no warranty.

FWIW, the non-Pro-compatible SSDs were overpriced initially as well, but they came down in price as they became more prevalent. Wait a few months, and we'll probably see the same with Pro-compatible SSDs.
by chasd00 | 2025-07-11 19:18:38+00:00
Those places are all over the US but just not very interesting. Ft. Davis (or maybe Alpine) Texas is what you're describing but no one really goes there because it's just a small town with people working and living their lives as best they can. There's nothing to attract any outside attention really. I only know that area because of my wife introducing me to Marfa TX which does a little bit of tourism because of the Judd foundation.

I fell in love with that part of Texas and the people. My wife and I were married in Marathon which is in a ~75 mile radius of the towns i listed above
by vannevar | 2025-07-11 19:18:53+00:00
Indeed. When I see these discussions, I am always struck by two things:

1) that many people don't seem to realize that a tax on land value is not novel, but is one of the oldest ways to fund government, with tons of experience behind it (past and present); and

2) that whatever the problems associated with figuring out land value, they pale in comparison to figuring out an individual's real income, which obviously didn't stop us from taxing that.
by neocortex666 | 2025-07-11 19:18:53+00:00
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by selfhoster11 | 2025-07-11 19:19:08+00:00
> I'm sorry if my questions sound silly. Following AI world is like following JavaScript world.

You are more right than you could possibly imagine.

TL;DR: "agentic" just means "can call tools it's been given access to, autonomously, and then access the output" combined with an infinite loop in which the model runs over and over (compared to a one-off interaction like you'd see in ChatGPT). MCP is essentially one of the methods to expose the tools to the model.

Is this something the models could do for a long while with a wrapper? Yup. "Agentic" is the current term for it, that's all. There's some hype around "agentic AI" that's unwarranted, but part of the reason for the hype is that models have become better at tool calling and using data in their context since the early days.
by theragra | 2025-07-11 19:19:08+00:00
All antidepressants cause same, and evidence that they work is not awesome (they work barely better then placebo) The question is should the whole industry be destroyed, or what?

Very hard things to solve. Opioids help with pain, but destroy lives in the long term. Should they be almost never prescribed, except in severe pain and never longer then a week (except in hospice?)

More questions then answers
by rtkwe | 2025-07-11 19:19:12+00:00
Even with a NERVA engine it's a LOT of work to get to the 26 kmps of an object like ʻOumuamua so you're still at the mercy of planets being in roughly the right locations to provide some gravity assists. I think it would widen the workable solutions but something like the 10 SR assist could work with things we've actually built already.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-11 19:19:27+00:00
Because it's a fact. When your interlocutor doesn't care about facts there's no particular reason they should care it's cheaper, that's just another fact.

You say "OK, Joe thinks the Earth is flat but he should still use Solar" and Joe doesn't follow. Joe's number one news source is "Jenny Truth Sayer" on TikTok and Jenny just told him that the solar panels attract Venusian Space Clowns, and he has to smash them with a hammer or else his genitals will explode

There are greedy assholes for whom it doesn't matter why the line is going up. But it turns out they don't like wind or solar because they're too democratic. Those assholes are - like most capitalist asshole, used to a system where you own stuff (a mine, a well, a pipeline, a ship) and you get infinite money, but newer systems aren't about owning stuff. You can't own the sunlight, or the wind, well then it's no good is it? The big oil companies stepped back from "We're part of the transition" and doubled down on fossil fuels, because that means more money for them, and if we all die well, too bad.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-07-11 19:19:49+00:00
What boggles my mind is that so many of us still thing more government is the way to address problems. The fact is, humans are human, and work in both government and in business. But a business cannot put you in jail or unilaterally freeze all your money.

A business can accuse you of a crime, but they will be very careful before they do as the consequences of bring wrong are very severe - for a business. Corporations can fire you or sell your data or send you targeted adds. But the risks associated with government are far worse.
by hoegarden | 2025-07-11 19:19:59+00:00
Right.. He's just a giant, not a midget with a step ladder.

But I do question why anyone who played a significant role in the foundation of the current AI generation would teach an obvious new Zuckerberg generation who will apparently think they are the start of everything if they get a style working in the prompt.

If not for 3 people in 2012, I find it highly unlikely a venture like OpenAI could have occurred and without Ng in particular I wouldn't be surprised if the field would have been missing a few technical pieces as well as the hire-able engineers.
by layer8 | 2025-07-11 19:20:10+00:00
The Wikipedia article [0] has a nice animation [1] of the trajectory through the inner solar system, sourced from this [2] 3D interactive viewer (press “Plot Object” and then drag the slider below “Change Time Speed”).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS#/media/File%3A3I_ATLA...

[2] https://neofixer.arizona.edu/css-orbit-view
by ath3nd | 2025-07-11 19:20:13+00:00
This is such a bad, uninformed and genuinely pitiful take that it's my duty to address it.

I live in Poland. There are currently a huge amount of hydrological problems all across the country and parts of it are desertifying. There are numerous articles and scientific journals about it:

https://www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/0...

So why is my country becoming a desert? And what if I don't want the scarce amount of water that's remaining in our rivers to be used by a water hungry datacenter? Is that unhinged?
by renewiltord | 2025-07-11 19:20:47+00:00
I wasn't suggesting a solution. I was just describing it as it is today. Presumably if you don't show 501c3 activities, you'd lose the status.

Any LVT would just involve scaling up land portion and setting building portion to zero in our current regimen. It wouldn't require anything novel. The 501c3 exemption is not something new I'm suggesting.
by ddahlen | 2025-07-11 19:21:08+00:00
I'm one of those astronomers! I'm working on my PhD in orbital dynamics.

A lot of people are requesting discretionary time on telescopes trying to get observations in. The orbit will put us on the other side of the sun when 3I is nearest the sun in october, we can see it now and after it comes back out from behind the sun.

Unfortunately, right now the it is in a very crowded star field (IE, its close to the galactic plane, lots of stars in the background).

If you are interested in orbital dynamics, I have an open source rust/python package for accurate orbital calculations of asteroids/comets:

https://github.com/dahlend/kete
by KronisLV | 2025-07-11 19:21:50+00:00
> My understanding was it was optimized by reducing precision or something to a visibly apparent degree.

If only we had that sort of a control over rendering for every game ourselves - since projects like OptiScaler at least let us claw back control over sometimes proprietary upscaling and even framegen, but it's not quite enough: https://github.com/optiscaler/OptiScaler

I'd also mention Lossless Scaling here, though it still only works on upscaling and framegen and with worse methods, but at least works for most games out there: https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

I want to be able to freely toggle between different types of AA and SSAO and reflections and lighting and LOD systems and various shader effects (especially things like chromatic aberration or motion blur) and ray tracing and all that, instead of having to hope that the console port that's offered to me has those abilities in the graphics menu and that whoever is making the decisions hasn't decided that actually "low" graphics (that would at least run smoothly) would look too bad for the game's brand image or something.
by monksy | 2025-07-11 19:22:15+00:00
Don't forget her name: Paula Vennells (Royal Mail CEO). She went on record to state there was no issue despite reports.

I'm sure we're see justice for her actions. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells

Remember her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPYo_gq329w
by danmarket | 2025-07-11 19:22:40+00:00
If they remain as ambitious as they are/were in interviews, they are going to build larger multi-modal models. If they are loyal to their initial philosophy "Achieve safe AGI by using lead time" then they will try to outspend everybody else. Content of their spending cannot be known without insider information (which I don't have), but this business model is ripe for inefficiency for the sake of obtaining first mover's advantage.

It is "unpopular" to say this, especially this bluntly, but low-skill labor can be made as cheap as you want it to be. If my numbers aren't wrong, average Uber/Lyft worker works for less than hourly local minimum wage (don't say tips, ~80% of Uber customers don't tip). But they accept it because of lack of opportunity, flexibility of gig jobs, and potential for working many jobs.
by Jeaye | 2025-07-11 19:23:02+00:00
I hear you when it comes to C++ portability, ABI, and standards. I'm not sure what you would imagine jank using if not for LLVM, though.

Clojure uses the JVM, jank uses LLVM. I imagine we'd need _something_ to handle the JIT runtime, as well as jank's compiler back-end (for IR optimization and target codegen). If it's not LLVM, jank would embed something else.

Having to build both of these things myself would make an already gargantuan project insurmountable.
by amiga386 | 2025-07-11 19:23:10+00:00
I'm going to have to pull you up on this detail, as you seem to care about the details.

Fujitsu/ICL won the contract to develop and run Horizon. They got a commission on every EFTPOS sale. They paid for all the computers, all the network setup, all the staff training. They literally ran the helpline. If you were a sub-postmaster and had a problem with Horizon, you called Fujitsu.

It was Fujitsu that then told you that the bug you found in Horizon wasn't a bug and nobody else was experiencing it, at exactly the same time their internal IT tickets had fully documented the bug and their staff were trying to patch up that bug before it happened to anyone else.

Fujitsu also claimed, in many court cases, that they had no remote access to Horizon. But they did. They also let engineers use it, and push one-off code fixes, to "fix-up" known errors that had been made in ledgers on the computer in your Post Office, so there was no source of truth anywhere in the system. If courts had known this, almost every Post Office private prosecution would have been thrown in the bin for unreliable evidence. Instead, courts ran on the belief that computers were like calculators, and can be assumed to be reliable unless proven faulty.

It was Fujitsu not volunteering this fact, and indeed barristers coaching Fujitsu expert witnesses on what to say and what not to reveal, ignoring procedural rules that the barristers knew had to be followed that say you have to reveal pertinent facts to the defence.

Fujitsu were in it up to their necks along with the Post Office. They made material gains by denying bugs existed, denying they had remote access, falsely claiming their system was reliable, and having their staff perjure themselves in prosecutions brought by the Post Office.

Without Fujitsu's complicity and mendacity, the Post Office might not have succeeded in prosecuting anyone - and of course, without the phantom losses caused by their broken software, they'd have no cases to prosecute.
by ericmay | 2025-07-11 19:23:11+00:00
You’re misusing the word chauvinist here or rather if you think you’re not can you please explain what the word means? I don’t understand your usage of it in this context.

> If someone was being a chauvinist to me I would want someone to say something.

On the flip side you’re being condescending toward others, “giving feedback”? C’mon. You know it’s good practice to not give advice to those who don’t ask for it, right?
by ath3nd | 2025-07-11 19:23:33+00:00
It's nice that you can be so confidently wrong, just like an LLM. In reality, the climate changes we observe since the the 1800s is largely human caused.

It's not an opinion, it's a fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climat...

Read it out:

'This human role in climate change is considered "unequivocal" and "incontrovertible". Nearly all actively publishing climate scientists say humans are causing climate change.'

So stop trying to push misinformation and educate yourself.
by oasisbob | 2025-07-11 19:23:47+00:00
I find it interesting that the changelog for the doc refers to removing guidance for the use of em dashes in 2024.

I tried tracing the history back in Github, and it seems that the intent was to prohibit the use of em dashes in normal prose:

> In technical content, use a dash to show a range. Otherwise, use a colon or other suitable punctuation. Do not use em dashes.

https://github.com/StyleGuides/WritingStyleGuide/pull/618

Anyone know why this was removed? It matches my training as a public-school student in the US, including in college while working on my Bsc in the natural sciences.
by zephyrthenoble | 2025-07-11 19:23:56+00:00
I feel like this one is a mixed bag. I would be very annoyed if my every day life was disrupted by tourists, especially like in the train stop example, and losing local businesses and attractions to outsiders is terrible. I don't want to minimize these issues at all, so to be clear, the rest of this post is just me wondering about the right thing to do while also still getting to visit interesting locations.

I feel like this article really lays it on thick to make tourists seem like vapid TikTokers. I think the reality is more nuanced. We can't pretend that every person in the world has the same upbringing, morals, and values. There are people in the US who park their grocery cart in the middle of the aisle, and I have had plenty of tourists from other countries who just stop as soon as they enter a room and gum up the whole business. But plenty of tourists DON'T do this, and plenty of locals ALSO DO THIS. 85% of tourists are not stopping the middle of roads for selfies constantly.

And the other parts feel like gatekeeping. Oh, you only get a few days off a year and can only afford cheap accommodations? You are contributing to the death of small business and the enshittification of our shining cities. If you can't afford to spend more time in fewer places, further off the beaten path (sometimes costing more/having fewer affordable options) then you are a bad traveler. Why do I have to visit locations I have never heard about in order to be considered good? How do I even find them if I can only be in a location for a short time?

It just feels like a lose lose situation as a traveler. I read about the Roman Empire, I've seen pictures of the Italian cathedrals, I've watched documentaries about Pompeii, and I've drank Tuscan wine, so I should... go visit some small town for 2 weeks with very little tourist presence, and no one speaks my language? I'm not allowed to enjoy the cultural monuments of these countries?

Feels like the only winning move is not to play.
by ruralfam | 2025-07-11 19:23:56+00:00
I have a good many subs or monthly plans. Only one sends me an email notifying me that I will be soon be billed and the amount billed. All the others never provide any notification whatsoever. Can PA also consider a bill that requires notification of billing via email?? I'd bet this rule combined with easy-to-cancel would be of great, great, benefit to the good citizens of PA.
by mlyle | 2025-07-11 19:24:53+00:00
We need a lot more. Right now only about 25 to 33 pc of our energy consumption is electric. Some of the rest will get significant efficiency benefit like you mention — cars, building heating, etc. Others, much less so— high temperature industrial heat, long distance transport, etc.

Reaching current nighttime use with storage and wind and existing hydro looks infeasible, and we need a minimum of twice as much.

Power to gas (and back to power or to mix with natural gas for existing uses) is probably a part of this, but nuclear improves this (allowing there to be less of it and allowing the electrolysis cells to be used for a greater fraction of the day.