MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nostrademons | 2025-07-28 20:15:04+00:00
Interesting way of viewing this!

Business also has a “blue team” (those industries that the rest of the economy is built upon - electricity, oil, telecommunications, software, banking; possibly not coincidentally, “blue chips”) and a “red team” (industries that are additive to consumer welfare, but not crucial if any one of them goes down. Restaurants, specialty retail, luxuries, tourism, etc.)

It is almost always better, economically, to be on the blue team.” That’s because the blue team needs to ensure they do everything right (low supply) but has a lot of red-team customers they support (high demand). The red team, however, is additive: each additional red team firm improves the quality of the overall ecosystem, but they aren’t strictly necessary* for the success of the ecosystem as a whole. You can kinda see this even in the examples of Tao’s post: software engineers get paid more than QA, proof-creation is widely seen as harder and more economically valuable than proof-checking, etc.

If you’re Sam Altman and have to raise capital to train these LLMs, you have to hype them as blue team, because investors won’t fund them as red team. That filters down into the whole media narrative around the technology. So even though the technology itself may be most useful on the red team, the companies building it will never push that use, because if they admit that, they’re admitting that investors will never make back their money. (Which is obvious to a lot of people without a dog in the fight, but these people stay on the sidelines and don’t make multi-billion dollar investments into AI.)

The same dynamic seems to have happened to Google Glasses, VR, and wearables. These are useful red-team technologies in niche markets, but they aren’t huge new platforms and they will never make trillions like the web or mobile dev did. As a result, they’ve been left to languish because capital owners can’t justify spending huge sums on them.
by arclight_ | 2025-07-28 20:15:04+00:00
I've clicked into my non-indexed pages, and everywhere that people say it should say the reason why the page is not indexed, there simply isn't a reason mentioned. It just says the generic crawled but not indexed even when clicked into specific pages.

I've even watched YouTube videos of people going into their Search Console dashboard to make sure I'm not missing anything (and indeed I've seen where those people for some pages do see a reason, but for mine I do not).
by marginalia_nu | 2025-07-28 20:15:30+00:00
I'm primarily looking at document lists and possibly the keyword-documents mapping.

Caching will likely be fairly tuned toward the operation itself, since it's not a general-purpose DBMS and I can fairly accurately predict which pages will likely be useful to cache or when read-ahead is likely to be fruitful based on the operation being performed.

For keyword-document mappings some LRU cache scheme is likely a good fit, when reading a list of documents readahead is good (and I can inform the pool of how far to read ahead), when intersecting document lists I can also generally predict when pages are likely to be re-read or needed in the future based on the position in the tree.

Will definitely need a fair bit of tuning but overall the problem is greatly simplified by revolving around very specific types of access patterns.
by CSMastermind | 2025-07-28 20:15:36+00:00
That's definitely not correct because I'm on the pro plan and make extensive use of o3-pro for coding. I've sent 100 messages in a single day with no limitation.

Per their website: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-what-is-chatgpt-...

There are no usage caps on pro users (subject to some common sense terms of use).
by kragen | 2025-07-28 20:15:36+00:00
I didn't know that, but that makes sense. And magnesium is resolutely divalent, while iron, manganese, and cobalt are happy enough to be divalent, and nickel, while not as stuck-up as magnesium, strongly prefers it.

BTW, if you haven't seen it, you'll probably be interested in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44698409.
by flysand7 | 2025-07-28 20:15:36+00:00
Watched this video yesterday, and damn, it's really delightful watching experts make content about things they are passionate about. This love and passion is contageous, and even me, who up to this point knew almost nothing about birds has gained a new appreciation and love for these creatures. The fact that they can copy sounds is kinda incredible, and makes me want to listen more to them singing.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-28 20:16:04+00:00
> Any given argument makes sense if your priors start in the right place for them.

I disagree, at least sometimes.

From some priors, you can logically and correctly reason to conclusions that are obviously wrong. (The most blatant way is when the conclusion contradicts the priors.)

Realizing that is a very valuable skill, and the more intelligent and logical you are, the more valuable it is. It saves you from the "my logic is right, so I have to believe the conclusion" trap. No, you don't have to believe the conclusion; keep some common sense in your toolkit.
by fluidcruft | 2025-07-28 20:16:07+00:00
I think it's more that people are designing things with the intention of never creating documentation. The analogy with books doesn't really work for me because of that. Books aren't user interfaces that are learned.

The main UI parts of books to learn are page numbers, tables of contents, indexes and glossaries. They're not necessarily intuitive but they are pretty universal and standardized.

The reality is that people will use the things they use the fastest. And not having to learn how to use things means people will use them more.
by jahewson | 2025-07-28 20:16:08+00:00
> minor breaking of the law being dealt with severe justice

This is the case if you do anything that opposes the governments desired narrative. For example, by saying something “far right”. Multiple years in jail for a tweet.

But I agree, what you’re describing is I think best called anarcho-tyranny: not some (disturbed) utopian inspired police state, but a police state of gritty hypocrisy.
by eigenvalue | 2025-07-28 20:17:05+00:00
They need to come up with a better way of detecting people who are actively breaking the ToS by using the Max plans as a kind of backdoor API key, because those users are obviously not using it in the way it was intended and abusing the system. Not sure how they would do that, but I'm guessing you could fingerprint the pattern of requests and see that some of the requests don't fit the expected pattern of genuine requests made by the Claude Code client.

Anyway, I've been resigned to this for a while now (see https://x.com/doodlestein/status/1949519979629469930 ) and ready to pay more to support my usage. It was really nice while it lasted. Hopefully, it's not 5x or 10x more.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-28 20:17:30+00:00
So you think that if you are a pilot that left after 19 years you can go and train Chinese pilots without permission?

Veterans is just another word for retired military personnel. If you were in the military and are not dishonorably discharged you are a veteran. Whether you do 2,3 or 20 years.

I am pretty sure the rule though applies to all regardless of discharge status.
by paxys | 2025-07-28 20:17:57+00:00
You can run a decent model on it, say highly quantized Qwen or Deepseek R1 getting 5-10 tokens/sec output, but it will be nothing in comparison to a commercial offering like Claude, o3 or Gemini. For that you need a datacenter-class GPU going for $50K-100K a pop.
by esskay | 2025-07-28 20:18:04+00:00
I do wonder what the ongoing cost there would be. The ~$9k hardware cost is an easy thing to quantify, but going with a bank of very hot, power hungry GPU's is going to rack up a hefty monthly bill in many parts of the world.

I imagine theres also going to be some problems hooking something like that up to a normal wall socket in North America? (I like the reddit poster am in Europe so on 220v)
by parliament32 | 2025-07-28 20:18:12+00:00
> Credit card companies have no business in knowing what their customers are buying.

The US Treasury says otherwise: this seems to all have started from them trying to blame Visa/MC for "directly handling the proceeds of these illicit transactions", despite the payment processors not having any idea what was actually being purchased.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-whistleblower-says-maste...
by jrm4 | 2025-07-28 20:18:19+00:00
To me, further highlights the extent to which all touchscreens are essentially "child-level" interfaces.

This isn't inherently bad, but does likely put a hard limit on the complexity (and dare I say, usefulness) of the tasks you can do with them.

If they get you to the complexity, fine (e.g. dialing a number to speak with a human) but also, if they're that repetitive, maybe you don't need a screen (less of this in cars, please)
by vineyardmike | 2025-07-28 20:18:20+00:00
> My opinion is all of these tools should completely get rid of the "pay 20/month, 200/month", etc just to get access.

I think that you should just subscribe to a preset allotment of tokens at a certain price, or a base tier with incremental usage costs for models that aren’t tiny (like paid per minute “long distance calling”).

I use an LLM tool that shows the cost associated with each message/request and most are pennies each. There’s a point where the friction of paying is a disincentive to using it. Imagine you had to pay $0.01 every time you Google searched something? Most people would never use the product because trying to pay $0.30/mo for one day a month of usage is annoying. And no one would want to prepay and fund an account if you weren’t familiar with the product. No consumer likes micro transactions

No one wants to hear this, but the answer is advertising and it will change the game of LLMs. Once you can subsidize the lowest end usage, the incentive for businesses to offer these $20 subscriptions will change, and they’d charge per-usage rates for commercial users.
by lukev | 2025-07-28 20:18:24+00:00
Should produce... given what definition? I thought gamete size was definitive?

Look, I get what you're saying. Such cases aren't "normal". The claim that "humans have two biological sexes" is true in same way as the claim "humans have five fingers." And yet, people with six fingers exist, as do uncommon sex variations. It's fine. It happens.

The only reason to insist so stridently that there's an absolute and inevitable binary is if you're trying to enforce a social or religious norm, and are insisting that it's an immutable fact about the world instead of something culturally mediated.
by mistercheph | 2025-07-28 20:18:40+00:00
This is also a property of cash transactions.

You could reimplement the traditional censorable banking system on top of bitcoin, where users never touch the asset, and instead interact with tokens/promises of money and transactions were reversible. Reversibility is not an inherent property of the medium of value it’s the property of the trustful model we’ve layered on top.

The difference is that normal people have access to uncensorable digital payment rails if they are motivated and accept the associated risks (the same they accept when performing cash transactions)
by bsder | 2025-07-28 20:19:22+00:00
> I am sure they will dare not.

I think Visa/MC very much would dare.

Valve isn't ready for this battle ... yet.

I imagine they are girding for it, though. It simply wasn't a feasible battle until probably this year. FedNow and other things are just coming online. I suspect that Valve will begin incentivizing using that system rather than Visa/MC extremely strongly.
by EA-3167 | 2025-07-28 20:19:23+00:00
So do what 99.9999% of us already do: don't play these games. You deciding to make it a moral issue that you get to determine for everyone else is where you turn a personal opinion (really just an understandable sense of disgust) into a policy.

If we still decided what was allowed based on the sense of disgust it engenders in some people, we'd still be living like Medieval peasants. Adults should be free to make informed choices, that includes purchasing and consuming things that you and I find repellent.
by jm4 | 2025-07-28 20:19:48+00:00
Blame the idiots who abused it. Like that guy who posted a video a couple weeks ago where he had like 6 instances going nonstop and he was controlling it with his voice. There was some other project posted recently that was queuing up requests so that you could hit the limits in every time block. I've seen reddit posts where people were looking for others to share team accounts. It's always the morons who ruin a good thing.

Unless/until I start having problems with limits, I'm willing to reserve judgment. On a max plan, I expect to be able to use it throughout my workday without hitting limits. Occasionally, I run a couple instances because I'm multitasking and those were the only times I would hit limits on the 5x plan. I can live with that. I don't hit limits on the 20x plan.
by cycomanic | 2025-07-28 20:19:49+00:00
> Meanwhile, US companies remain the global leaders in the development of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. That development is often subsidized by US taxpayers and the remainder is largely recovered from US patients because the single-payer systems in other countries often impose price controls that largely don't exist in the US.

Citation needed. The US is neither dominating the list of big pharma (see e.g. Novartis, Roche, Astrazenica...), nor are the US exceptional in R&D spending per GDP (South Korea and Israel are the outliers). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/research-spending-gdp?tab...
by codingdave | 2025-07-28 20:20:12+00:00
How can you promise fixed resources and billing while also listing autoscaling as a feature? Likewise, in your intro above you both disparaged usage-based billing, and also said you were offering it soon.

Overall, the concept looks fine, but you probably need to refine your communications to be clear on what you are offering. Because if you are adding in usage-based billing and autoscaling... I have no idea what is differentiating you from the others.
by iryndin | 2025-07-28 20:20:23+00:00
Thank you! Glad you find it interesting - it’s definitely fun (and sometimes surprising) to explore how the domain landscape evolves. I don’t publicly share specific data sources, but creating and maintaining a comprehensive list across 1570+ zones involves a mix of aggregation, normalization, and ongoing reconciliation work. Domain data is updated daily. AllZoneFiles.io is here to save you a ton of time and effort on that, so that you be able to easily get the latest, fullest and most up-to-date domain data anytime you need it.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-28 20:20:33+00:00
Looks like the lightweight subset service for Microsoft SQL Server is getting discontinued. Apparently the ARM support was already discontinued. It was for a while a go-to option for local development (via Docker) for M1 based Macs and other ARM computers needing to target Microsoft SQL Server.

That said, I've been pushing towards PostgreSQL which is better in many ways and more broadly supported at much lower price points across most cloud providers. With the total lack of ARM support, it's a no brainer at this point.
by freehorse | 2025-07-28 20:20:52+00:00
I think that you need to set it to be able to launch online, but maybe I am wrong.

I have no issue with steam per se. It has actually kept on its path threw the years and it actually invests back into gaming with games and steam deck/proton. However, I find it hard to trust good intentions after many platforms with good intentions were at some point sold and enshittified. I would rather have DRM-free games that do not depend on a launcher that maybe after 10 or 20 years will not work the same.

Otherwise, steam is a great platform and a rare example of a platform that not only has not enshitified but invested back to the product they sell in ways that benefit users.
by montebicyclelo | 2025-07-28 20:21:34+00:00
So, they are included in the normal backpropagation of the model. But there is no one-hot encoding, because, although you are correct that it is equivalent, it would be very inefficient to do it that way. You can make indexing differentiable, i.e. gradient descent flows back to the vectors that were selected, which is more efficient than a one-hot matmul.

(If you're curious about the details, there's an example of making indexing differentiable in my minimal deep learning library here: https://github.com/sradc/SmallPebble/blob/2cd915c4ba72bf2d92...)
by Buttons840 | 2025-07-28 20:22:11+00:00
DDoS is not valid security research, it's just destruction.

Also, we need to clarify the scenario because you said:

> the likelihood of exploit is low

but you also mention the need to stop people "accidentally" exploiting the system, so which is it?

A system that can be accidentally broken by bumbling idiots does not deserve protection IMO.
by codedokode | 2025-07-28 20:22:31+00:00
It is getting incredibly difficult to obtain a non-backdoored smartphone nowadays.

I tried to find which phones support alternative OSes, without Google control and telemetry, but it turned out that alternative OSes (LineageOS, PostmarketOS, Graphenos) support mostly support outdated models and it makes no sense to buy them. There is also "Google Pixel", but the prices start at around $600 which is 3 times more than a reasonable price for a phone.

So now I am wondering if it is possible to extract the ROM from a reasonably priced Samsung phone, remove the components I don't like and write it back.
by jacquesm | 2025-07-28 20:22:35+00:00
I'm not sure what you are getting at but this is a definition issue more than anything else. You either do or you don't include real estate in inflation and if you don't then you can't suddenly add them in later on, then you'd have to re-compute that number all the way back and then you can't really call it inflation any more without all kinds of footnotes about whether you mean inflation v1.0 or v2.0. I agree with you that it would have been better if it was part of it from day #1, if only because the cost of housing is a massive factor in the cost of living.
by exiguus | 2025-07-28 20:23:42+00:00
I guess mostly picture. If you have 500 posts, one picture for each, and then optimize image for responsive and browser compatibility, there should be 3 to 12 images per image source set:

Mobile, Tablet, Desktop as breakpoints / AVIF with webp or jpeg fallback, Retina/Normal.

And this will increase the overall-size to 12 x 500 x 50kB = 300MB
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-28 20:23:43+00:00
That really depends. Like, if Opus can't make it through a full work week then at least for Opus the unlimited is pretty darn fake even if 95% of people are under that.

I'm reminded of online storage plans with various levels of "unlimited" messaging around them that can't even hold a single medium to large hard drive of data. Very few users hit that, most of whom don't even have a hard drive they regularly use, but it means they shouldn't be going anywhere near the word "unlimited".
by giantg2 | 2025-07-28 20:24:22+00:00
"If Visa was aware that there was a substantial amount of child porn on MindGeek’s sites,"

It would be reasonable for anyone to believe that a registered business that is a major operator is following the law. If they are not, then why hadn't the government intervened? As a user when you go to pornhub or any other site with the legal footnote about age, you have the reasonable expectation that you aren't going to get child porn.
by churchill | 2025-07-28 20:24:24+00:00
Does anyone still need testimonies like these to be convinced that Israel is systematically exterminating the Palestinians using kinetic force and starvation? We're past that point now. Making Gaza unlivable by carpet-bombing the strip, telegraphing mass murder in unambiguous statements at the highest levels of government, dehumanizing the Palestinians and silencing anyone who dares to speak up?

I, for one, am thankful this hasn't been taken down like any article remotely critical of Israel.

And this has eliminated the whole Western bullshit about human rights maximalism - it's just the same damn thing every time. Like the atrocities in the Congo free State, the Scramble for Africa, etc. the West will sponsor unspeakable atrocities overseas and then act shocked when they actually happen.

Many people in the West don't realize it, but Palestine will wreck severe damage on the West. Just like Gorbachev visiting a random store in the US and seeing insane abundance in a shop in the middle of nowhere while Soviet citizens starved, what killed the Soviet Union was disillusion; people at all levels realized that a system that couldn't provide its people the basics didn't deserve to exist.

That's what happening in the West: American GWOT veterans are still feeling disillusioned about what they went to do in Iraq & Afg. (and Vietnam, before it), and now their kids are seriously asking, "Are we the baddies?"

What's the point of this industrial capacity and wealth if all we do with it is bomb kids? No political system can survive disillusion, that is, the point where people across the spectrum start seeing their nation as hypocritical.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-07-28 20:24:32+00:00
Did we just give up on evaluations these days?

Over, and over again my experience building production AI tools/systems has been that evaluations are vital for improving performance.

I've also see a lot of people proposing some variation of "LLM as critic" as a solution to this, but I've never seen empirical evidence that this works. Further more, I've worked with a pretty well respected researcher in this space and in our internal experiment we found that LLMs where not good critics.

Results are always changing, so I'm very open to the possibility that someone has successfully figured out how to use "LLM as critic" but without the foundations of some basic evals to compare by, I remain skeptical.
by o11c | 2025-07-28 20:24:41+00:00
Dangling "else" isn't actually a problem for parser generators. All you have to do is either:

* use proper rules rather than cramming everything into "statement", or

* specify explicit precedence rules, which is just a shortcut for the above (also skipping useless reductions)

Doing this is ubiquitous with parser generators when dealing with vaguely Algol-like languages, and is no different than the fact that you have to do the same thing for expressions.
by lossolo | 2025-07-28 20:24:55+00:00
US carries a big share of the biomedical load, NIH runs ~$48–50B/yr and the US is the launch market for 2/3 of new‑drug sales, which makes it the main revenue engine, but calling Europe a freeloader skips a lot of facts.

The EU’s Horizon Europe is €95.5B (2021–27) with €16B for ERC alone, national funders like the UK’s NIHR spend ~£1.4B/yr, and Europe’s pharma industry invests ~€50B/yr domestically.

Europe is home to Roche, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, GSK, Novo Nordisk, each spending billions annually on R&D (Roche CHF 13.2B, AZ $13.6B, Sanofi €7.4B etc.). Also a big chunk of US list‑price "overpayment" never reaches manufacturers—rebates/discounts were an estimated $335B in 2023—so it’s not all subsidizing innovation.

Innovation is now multipolar: in 2024 more NAS originated from China (28) than from the U.S. (25) or Europe (18). So strong US funding matters, but Europe clearly pays and builds a lot too.
by bjoli | 2025-07-28 20:24:57+00:00
The solenoids in IBMs keyboard did not click. It was more of a bang. I have had 2 (one F and one of those beamspring ones. Can't remember exactly which B it was).

The F was loud, the model B was just spectacular. Amazing to type one after I fixed it, but with the solenoid plugged in it was unbearable.