MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dspillett | 2025-07-02 11:17:19+00:00
This is _very_ common, so I'm not surprised an LLM would use the method.

Integers are much faster to process than floating point, so if you have a fixed acceptable lower level of precision it is usually a good optimisation to scale your values so they exist in integer space, so 12345678 instead of 1.2345678, perform the mass calculations on those integers, and scale back down for subsequent display.

As well as speed, this also (assuming your scaling to ints gives enough precision for your use) removes the rounding issues inherent with floating point (see https://floating-point-gui.de/), which can balloon over many iterations. This is less important to fractal calculations then the speed issue, though can be visible at very high magnifications, and a bigger issue for things like monetary work. Monetary values are often stored as pennies (or other local minimum subdivision) rather than the nominal currency, so £123.45 is stored and processed as 12345, or for thing like calcs where factions of pennies may be significant, thousandths of pennies (£122.45 -> 12345000).
by saubeidl | 2025-07-02 11:17:59+00:00
I don't think the intent really matters once the thing is out in the open.

I want open source AI i can run myself without any creepy surveillance capitalist or state agency using it to slurp up my data.

Chinese companies are giving me that - I don't really care about what their grand plan is. Grand plans have a habit of not working out, but open source software is open source software nonetheless.
by mjburgess | 2025-07-02 11:18:33+00:00
Deepseek v1 is ~670Bn which is ~1.4TB physical.

All digitized books ever written/encoded compress to a few TB. The public web is ~50TB. I think a usable zip of all english electronic text publicly available would be on O(100TB). So we're at about 1% of that in model size, and we're in a diminishing-returns area of training -- ie., going to >1% has not yielded improvements (cf. gpt4.5 vs 4o).

This is why compute spend is moving to inference time with "reasoning" models. It's likely we're close to diminshing returns on inference-time compute now too, hence agents whereby (mostly,) deterministic tools are supplementing information /capability into the system.

I think to get any more value out of this model class, we'll be looking at domain-specific specialisation beyond instruction fine-tuning.

I'd guess targeting 1TB inference-time VRAM would be a reasonable medium-term target for high quality open source models -- that's within the reach of most SMEs today. That's about 250bn params.
by diggan | 2025-07-02 11:19:12+00:00
> 60k/year doesn't feel above-average considering the rent in Barcelona for example.

Barcelona (and Madrid) are extreme examples though, not "average" by most measures. Take a look at houses/apartments just 30 minutes outside of Barcelona (not too familiar with Madrid) and it's way easier to find affordable places, and it's easy enough to get into the city with trains and buses.
by red_admiral | 2025-07-02 11:19:43+00:00
Money is, depending on the country, slowly evolving from physical coins/notes to plastic cards to pretend plastic cards on smartphones, to the same but you need an app to manage the account, to let's stop pretending and just use an app in the first place.

The last one is difficult because you need a common standard, either someone becomes a monopoly (or two or three quasi-monopolies such as google/apple) or better still this is one of few cases where government regulation could do more good than harm.

I think China is already close to the last phase at least in cities, going down the government regulated route?

This is highly country dependent of course - in some places shops must accept coins by law, even if it's so unusual that you have to roll a critical success to get the right amount of change back.

I would like a world where we can give children physical pocket money rather than some abstraction, and they don't need a smartphone of their own to check their balance. But we'll probably have to fight for that at some point.
by cluckindan | 2025-07-02 11:20:14+00:00
Not really, I’m not thinking to replace CMS builders like Wix or Squarespace either.

More like ”no-code design directly in HTML and CSS”, but with familiar Figma/Sketch-line controls for sizing, alignment, etc. Responsive by default, boxes full-width and vertically sized by content by default, manual pixel sizing of elements heavily discouraged in favor of block/inline-block/inline. Sane defaults for theme tokens, but easily customizable.

In other words, a hands-on design tool for web layouts, working directly on the DOM and stylesheet, preferring the flow for positioning and leveraging (normalized) HTML/CSS defaults.

My thinking is mostly born out of frustration with the performance of flexbox-inside-flexbox layouts and the total disparity of text layout between web and existing design tools.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-07-02 11:21:06+00:00
This is the wrong way to look at the issue.

The super-rich don't stay rich by just sitting on their money, they invest it.

These countries should focus on encouraging investment there - by getting rid of bureaucracy and red tape, make it possible to hire across the whole EU a lot easier, without needing separate tax registration in every country, etc.

Lower the barriers to entry wherever possible - no long application processes for developments with endless consultations, no arbitrary minority language or qualification requirements, etc.

Income inequality is a good thing, but there needs to be equal access to education and opportunities and the lowest barriers to entry possible.
by mjburgess | 2025-07-02 11:21:10+00:00
At 1byte/param that's 1.6GB (f8), at 2 bytes (f16) that's 2.3GB -- but there's other space costs beyond loading the parameters for the GPU. So a rule of thumb is ~4x parameter count. So round up, 2B -> 2*4 = 8GB VRAM
by GTP | 2025-07-02 11:21:43+00:00
> That loop is the factory: the code itself is disposable; the instructions and agents are the real asset.

Why do I hear the words "technical debt"? More to the point, the risk I see with this approach is that the author would end hp throwing away working and well tested code to implement some minor change. This has an high risk of introducing many easily avoidable bugs.
by diggan | 2025-07-02 11:21:56+00:00
> You aren't going to tax the people giving you money

Lol, why are we still being taxed then?

We do have endless corruption scandals though, that part is pretty accurate, but they still tax us like there is no tomorrow. At least we have pretty good healthcare, so it isn't all doom and gloom like the "news" want us to believe.
by lynx97 | 2025-07-02 11:21:57+00:00
See, nobody really wants to pay taxes, neither the rich nor the poor. Which makes them equal at least in this regard.

Frankly, I don't even know what my gross earnings would be, simply because the number is irrelevant and only makes a bad mood. All I consider is net income. This way, I dont have to be sour about taxes....
by graemep | 2025-07-02 11:22:32+00:00
A lot of EU countries have enormous tax breaks for the rich.

There is a consensus that non-dom status (basically rich foreigners, very broadly defined, pay hardly any tax) in the UK needs to go. The main point made by people opposing this is that they can easily move to a number European (mostly EU) countries that have similar schemes and still only be a short flight away from the UK.
by kjksf | 2025-07-02 11:22:41+00:00
You're asking us to judge how pretty a girl is based on textual description.

I understand (and in certain context appreciate) hesitancy to blatant self-promotion but this is not the time.

Not seeing your website, websites of who you think your competitors are, links to your promotional efforts etc. makes it impossible to give good advice. The best you can hope for is generic, vague advice.

The devil is in details.

Maybe your website is bad. Maybe your product isn't as great as you think. Maybe your pitch is not good.

Generically I would say most people don't do enough promotion and could improve their "first time use" (onboarding) experience.

For example I make a note-taking application for developers and power users: https://edna.arslexis.io/

Almost all of my users came from Show HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846242

So it's a sobering realization that I got lucky enough that the post was interesting and generated discussion and made people try the app.

At the same time, I know I could be doing more marketing.

I know I could improve onboarding, I could record videos showing how to use more advanced features etc.

Chances are you could do more marketing and you could improve onboarding in your app but to give you specific, actionable advice we would have to know much more about your app, your competitors, your marketing efforts.

Not your description of those things, the actual website, the actual marketing post etc.
by zdragnar | 2025-07-02 11:22:42+00:00
It's a remarkably high rate for people accustomed to progressive tax systems with a sharper curve.

It's not hard for tech workers to start hitting top rates similar or higher than that in the US if you're in a high tax state, but at 60k you're more likely to top out at 39%, but because the curve is so steep the average (actual percentage of income) tax is only something like 22%. That includes extras like social security and Medicare.

Living in a state without any income tax will further lower those numbers.
by gchamonlive | 2025-07-02 11:22:53+00:00
It's an actual organization actually, founded in 2009. They hold meetings globally, the next one set to be held here in Brazil in 4 days. Since it's an organizational to align economic goals among other topics, it's not unthinkable to have these kinds of discussions about progressive taxing. We can question the real effectiveness of BRICS for actually taxing the rich more extensively, but it is surely much more than an acronym.
by myrmidon | 2025-07-02 11:23:01+00:00
I think increased automation and now AI are making wealth inequality problems inherently worse.

The existence (and prevalence) of food delivery work alone is a depressing portent in my view: If delivering food for objectively shitty pay is still a viable option for a lot of people, that signals to me that human labor has become borderline worthless (even in a wealthy/developed environment).

That makes the "american dream" (=> start from nothing, do a good job, become wealthy) increasingly less realistic.

I'm also afraid that this (preventing wealth inequality from getting out-of-control) might be a "practically unsolvable" problem for democracies in general (just like managing housing and public pensions): It is too easy to "sabotage" democratic progress for the negatively affected minority (and that minority is exceedingly powerful/well-positioned, too).
by yorwba | 2025-07-02 11:24:04+00:00
I see now, the problem is that you're confusing expenses and profit. If Huawei had spent a quadrillion dollars to make the same number of GPUs, that wouldn't be an incredible sanctions backfire (look at how much money they got!) it would be an incredible sanctions success (look at how much money they spent to get what would've been much cheaper otherwise!)
by dillona | 2025-07-02 11:24:08+00:00
Originally we used PCoIP server software and various Zero Clients (they all run the same software). Their video performance is really great, but we found it very difficult to get support for basically anything else (USB, licensing, host OS, etc).

One thing lead to another and now we're building our own server software, thin client OS (no hardware yet, we load our image on COTS x86 devices), and public VDI cloud.
by RajT88 | 2025-07-02 11:24:42+00:00
My wife and I have a disagreement about "the other day".

I use it to mean, a time up to two years ago. She uses it to mean up to no more than a month.

I think the disagreement is because I have a better memory - two years ago does not feel so distant to me. It is a silly and fun thing to argue about, leading to some agreements on terminology:

A while ago - 2- 10 years

Back in the day - 10+ years ago

And just to troll her, I boldly make the claim, "just now" means any time between now and a week ago.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-07-02 11:25:24+00:00
No, it isn't a crime.

Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. was a civil case, not a criminal case. And it was in the Michigan Supreme Court so has no standing in the other 49 states.

And in practice the "business judgement rule" makes it very easy for businesses to do whatever they want as long as they have a vaguely plausible explanation for how it helps the business as a whole. ("We need to buy a private jet for our CEO because he is integral to our growth and success.")
by rglullis | 2025-07-02 11:25:33+00:00
ActivityPub just needs a few tweaks, none of them difficult to implement:

1. Adopt some DID method for actor resolution (to make it easy to port identities around)

2. Add a "strict mode" where documents are only accepted if properly signed (so that servers no longer are the authoritative source)

3. Leverage content-addressable systems (IPFS, torrents + magnet links) to serve media and documents (so that even if one server goes down, the data can be fetched in the Fediverse itself)

That's it, really. The main problem is social: item (2) would bring non-repudiation (anything you write would be undeniably yours) and most people would be concerned about participating in a social network where anything you publish is recorded forever.
by luigi_bro | 2025-07-02 11:26:19+00:00
Location: Italy

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Willing to relocate: Open to relocation

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Resumé/CV : https://github.com/BelliLuigi/CV/blob/main/BelliLuigiCV.pdf or https://it.linkedin.com/in/belliluigi

Email: luigi.belli [at] studenti.unipd.it

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by thisIsAtest25 | 2025-07-02 11:26:40+00:00
How are they going to do this? If they increase the tax burden on people's salaries, they'll start working informally (I live in Brazil and currently see that people look for various ways to escape income tax, whether by opening a company or choosing not to register formally (and they're not rich, but the state considers them rich, even earning ~$32k per year)). If they force companies to pay, the tax burden will be diluted into products/services, falling on the poorest. The right path is to reduce the size of the state - these policies will only make life worse for the poor. In a world with scarce resources, this problem has no solution.
by basfo | 2025-07-02 11:27:53+00:00
It always makes me laugh this millionaire rhetoric about “THE MISSION.” I once had a CEO who suddenly wanted us to be on call 24/7, every other week. His argument? Commitment. The importance of "the mission". Becoming a market leader, and so on.

As AlbertaTech says, “we make sparkling water.” I mean, what’s the mission? A can of sparkling water on every table? Spreading the joy of carbonated water to the world? No. You sell sparkling water because you want to make a profit. That kind of speech is just a way to hide the fact that you're trying to cut three full-time positions and make your employees work off-hours to increase margins. Or, like in this case, pay them less than the competition with the same objective.

Sam Altman might actually have a mission, turning us all into robot slaves, but that’s a whole different conversation.
by diggan | 2025-07-02 11:27:58+00:00
> Living in a state without any income tax will further lower those numbers.

Sure, but how well are those without income supported in those states? Can they live a comfortable life even if they're unable to work? Can they go to the hospital and do life-saving surgeries without being in debt for the rest of their lives? Are there enough libraries and beyond-school activities everyone could use for free, regardless of income?

Once you hit those rates, I feel like you should stop thinking about how you can pay less in taxes, and figure out how you can support everyone else around you, otherwise what's the point of earning all that money in the first place?
by newsclues | 2025-07-02 11:28:20+00:00
A billionaire is 1000x wealth of a millionaire.

A millionaire is 1000x the wealth as someone with a thousand bucks.

As someone closer to a net worth closer to $1000, it sure is funny watching the rich millionaires complain about the rich billionaires.

I bet the millionaires don't think the wealth transfers and confiscation they support for the billionaires, will ever be applied to them.
by account-5 | 2025-07-02 11:28:21+00:00
> All digitized books ever written/encoded compress to a few TB. The public web is ~50TB. I think a usable zip of all english electronic text publicly available would be on O(100TB).

Where you getting these numbers from? Interested to see how that's calculated.

I read somewhere, but cannot find the source anymore, that all written text prior to this century was approx 50MB. (Might be misquoted as don't have source anymore).
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-02 11:29:25+00:00
> The super-rich don't stay rich by just sitting on their money, they invest it.

Yes, mostly in the pockets of politicians who make sure to keep them super-rich.

This is why wealth inequality is a disaster: it allows the super-rich to control entire countries and keep themselves and their families rich and powerful.

Any kind of economic measure that still permits billionaires to exist is not going to address this simple fundamental problem. It's at best lipstick on the pig, not a long term solution to anything.
by imiric | 2025-07-02 11:29:44+00:00
This is not so much about income inequality, but about making sure that the rich actually pay their taxes, or even more proportionally to their wealth when compared to lower income individuals.

Rich people will and should continue to exist. What they shouldn't be allowed to do is take advantage of loopholes and tax breaks just because they're wealthy. That alone should indirectly lead to lowering inequality, and, assuming we can trust that governments work efficiently and in equal interest of all their citizens (which is hardly a given), it should lead to a fair(er) distribution of wealth, instead of a growth of inequality.

In any case, it's easy to be cynical about this news, but it's a step in the right direction on paper. In stark contrast to what is happening in the US, for example.
by aredox | 2025-07-02 11:29:56+00:00
They invest and then they extract ridiculous rents from their investments - leading to widespread burnout, perfectly fine businesses being closed and employees being laid off because they don't give double-digit returns, empty shop spaces because it would diminish their value to lower the rent, excessive appartement rents, etc.

And an economy oriented only along the wishes of the super-rich.

Money is the way you "vote" into the economy, and the more money is in the hands of a few, the less the economy actually adresses the needs of the many.
by lordleft | 2025-07-02 11:30:00+00:00
Is this not the same trickle down mantra that has been pushed across developed countries for decades and has only widened the gap between rich and poor? In the US, where this line was pursued since the 80s, real wages for most Americans have stagnated while the top 20% have seen their wealth increase astronomically. Merely improving the regulatory and investment climate for a country does not magically benefit most citizens in a society -- thoughtful taxation is one to correct that.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-07-02 11:30:42+00:00
I’m guessing most people these days don’t remember when everything moved to China to begin with. People blamed it on globalization but the trend existed long before that because Americans didn’t produce a quality product. “Made in the USA” became synonymous with poor quality and high prices after the corporate mavens of the 1980’s hollowed out manufacturing for quality along with the factory workers pension plans. It’s not like America didn’t do it to itself - globalization just allowed specialization to set in and efficiency to dominate. Chinese manufacturing struck a middle ground between very high quality in Germany and Japan and very low quality in America then scaled it up and out to ensure a total vertical integration. For segments of the supply chain that were inefficient the state assumed the losses to ensure an ever increasing capture of the end to end ability to produce in an entirely integrated regional manufacturing center. I think instead of getting our panties in a wad and wishing for the 1950’s to return - which weren’t that great to begin with despite our rose colored glasses - we need to lean into our strengths and specialized role. The question though of what are people to do who are “displaced” by globalization, automation, and now AI has never been answered and leaves us where we are today. I don’t have the answer either. But it’s become more destabilizing than I imagined as I saw things unfolding.
by postexitus | 2025-07-02 11:30:45+00:00
I remember using Amiga E, from a cover disk of CU Amiga.

Do I remember correctly that Amiga E had a "but" operator, which executes one statement but returns the value of the other? Never understood its point.

I thought it was one of those things that put Amiga ahead of competitors (because other systems had C/D). Oh my teenager brain.

Edit: looks like I remember correctly!: https://cshandley.co.uk/JasonHulance/beginner_93.html
by siroj | 2025-07-02 11:31:21+00:00
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by zdragnar | 2025-07-02 11:31:38+00:00
Volume of the material and volume of the demand for the material, probably.

The foam for the beds is extremely compact when vacuum sealed, and is used in tons of other products.

The standard fabric cover is also probably produced in massive quantities for other products, and also folds down to be quite compact.

Faux fur is basically only used in blankets, pillow and toy linings, and depending on how dense the "fur" is, may add quite a bit more volume (a bigger problem if shipped to the US from a separate supplier than the foam).

With that said, $100 does seem rather steep for the cover. I'm assuming they had to use a specialty version to make it more rugged than the cheaper stuff used for other products to be pet friendly.
by its-summertime | 2025-07-02 11:32:58+00:00
We aren't part way down the slope either. There is no slippery slope, they will press on citizens through every opportunity they can get, regardless of the progress they have or have not made in the past.

Its more of a constantly lowering bar, not a slippery slope that just needs to be stopped once.

Or in words you might find more appealing: Its worse than a slippery slope.
by Propelloni | 2025-07-02 11:34:16+00:00
Like I said elsewhere, virtue signaling is moving the Overton window. It works pretty well for the alt-right, so we know it is working.

Reading the press release shows me that Spain and Brazil are aware that this is a hard problem. They are especially aware that a nation, or two nations, alone cannot solve it, thus they suggest a "global registry", which is basically a "abolish tax havens" again. Let's see how far we get this time, I wish them all the best.