MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benreesman | 2025-07-24 16:15:48+00:00
Seniconductor manufacturing was effectively centrally planned via SEMATEC and before that via de facto stewardship by things like the the Labs and later Intel as a vehicle for national policy.

This neat little dichotomy between "free market capitalism" and "centrally planned socialism" is a cute story but also complete fiction. In "capitalist" countries the government basically always runs R&D during any period of time when the stakes are high, and in "communist" countries there are always markets, and they are always sanctioned to some degree.

All of the foundational progress for American leadership in high technology was centrally planned and administered, all of it one way or another: through ATT, through NASA, through the DoD, through the universities. Value creation occurs under the watchful eye of the DoD.

Once in a while we go on an orgy of extractive wealth transfer like now, instead of creative innovation like usually, and the top industry guys always fuck it up. And on cue, yeah this is going great.
by ofjcihen | 2025-07-24 16:15:58+00:00
In this case it’s relevant to the discussion as the user was questioning why you were making the points you were.

It’s not an accusation of shilling, it’s context where context was requested.

As a test imagine if you changed the context to something good such as “AI achieves the unthinkable” and the responding user asked why someone was so optimistic about the achievement.

It’s relevant context to the conversation, nothing else.
by em-bee | 2025-07-24 16:15:58+00:00
i didn't say that you should. please reread what i said: i would not go out of my way to find these people, but if one of my friends turned out to be one of them, then i would try to slowly change their mind. using daryl davis as inspiration means that if he can befriend complete strangers to change their mind, then i can make an effort with the friends that i already have. that's all i am suggesting here. and in particular this call goes out to people who are not a minority themselves.
by dathinab | 2025-07-24 16:16:00+00:00
it's not that simple

I mean for the refuges coming to the EU it often is that simple. But most of the refuges of countries systematic destabilized by the US for greed (often with the help of EU-countries, not always knowingly tho) end up in the EU not the US.

And the relationship between the US and many of the countries where most illegal immigrants in the US come from are a bit more complex.

That doesn't change that they (the politicians, not necessary the voter) have for years no only been quite fine with it (and publicly, too) but in some cases (e.g. stereotype Indian IT workers) outright goaded people to come to the US temporary and now are surprised that some staid longer then allowed and brought friends (which is pretty much the expected outcome when you consult history).

So IMHO they should take responsibility for it, and kicking everyone out by force at the cost of even hurting your own citizens isn't really a good way to solve that.
by ajross | 2025-07-24 16:16:29+00:00
But not because of its ISA. I mean, to first approximation everything is a "flop" in semiconductor architectures (or really in tech in general). The population of genuinely successful products is a tiny fraction of the stuff people tried to sell.

In this particular case: ia64 leaned hard into wide VLIW in an era where growing transistor budgets made it possible to decode and issue traditional instructions in parallel[1]. The Itaniums really were fine CPUs, they just weren't particularly advantageous relative to the P6 cores against which they were competing, so no one bought them.

[1] In some sense, VLIW won as a matter of pipeline architecture, it only lost as a design point in ISA specs. Your Macbook is issuing 10 arm64 instructions every cycle, and it doesn't need to futz with the instruction format to do it.
by eptcyka | 2025-07-24 16:16:29+00:00
My anecdotal experience visiting LA and SF in 2022 was wild - homeless and mentally ill people yelling, being a public nuissance, defecating on the streets, multi-story tents on the same block as the Hollywood stars. It bewildered me that the same state that houses Apple and Google can’t afford to help these people. Whilst I am empathetic and understand that these people need help, I wouldn’t let an 8 year old roam these streets, whereas I was allowed to roam my town when I was 8. Maybe it has been even worse before, and I don’t agree that making the cities walkable before these people are no longer on the streets is somehow usess, I do think that it is a more pressing issue.
by thadt | 2025-07-24 16:16:32+00:00
Aight, I'll bite: continue or stop... and do what? As others have pointed out, the only safe option to get back to a consistent state is to roll back to a safe point.

If what we're really interested in is the log part of a write ahead log - where we could safely recover data after a corruption, then a better tool might be just a log file, instead of SQLite.
by default-kramer | 2025-07-24 16:16:34+00:00
I think checked exceptions were maligned because they were overused. I like that Java supports both checked and unchecked exceptions. But IMO checked exceptions should only be used for what Eric Lippert calls "exogenous" exceptions [1]; and even then most of them should probably be converted to an unchecked exception once they leave the library code that throws them. For example, it's always possible that your DB could go offline at any time, but you probably don't want "throws SQLException" polluting the type signature all the way up the call stack. You'd rather have code assuming all SQL statements are going to succeed, and if they don't your top-level catch-all can log it and return HTTP 500.

[1] https://ericlippert.com/2008/09/10/vexing-exceptions/
by SirMaster | 2025-07-24 16:16:44+00:00
You can, it just takes work and discipline.

For example jogging at about 7mph for 2 hours a day for a 180lb man would burn about 13,200 calories a week. I know people who jog like this.

Or I know people who cycle 250-400 miles a week which burns about 17,000-27,000 calories a week!
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by kazinator | 2025-07-24 16:17:35+00:00
This is false as a generality.

A memory safe, managed language doesn't become unsafe just because you have a race condition in a program.

Like, say, reading and writing several related shared variables without a mutex.

Say that the language ensures that the reads and writes themselves of these word-sized variables are safe without any lock, and that memory operations and reclamation of memory are thread safe: there are no low-level pointers (or else only as an escape hatch that the program isn't using).

The rest is your bug; the variable values coming out of sync with each other, not maintaining the invariant among their values.

It could be the case that a thread-unsafe program breaks a managed run-time, but not an unvarnished truth.

A managed run-time could be built on the assumption that the program will not create two or more threads such that those threads will invoke concurrent operations on the same objects. E.g. a managed run time that needs a global interpreter lock, but which is missing.
by bdangubic | 2025-07-24 16:17:38+00:00
The violence capitalist states use does not compare to the violence collectivist states use (let's not pretend this has ended).

Be kind of cool to back this type of BS with like a like to some cool propaganda place where you might have got this idea from…

Capitalist states have always respected the right of anyone to just walk away.

This made me “spit my coffee” laughing
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-24 16:17:44+00:00
> This seems like a huge miss to me, as it is absolutely possible to have a sky-high TEE while being insanely fat (American football linebackers)

Linemen would be a better example than linebackers here. Linebackers tend (like most positions other than line, and especially offensive line, positions) to have body fat percentages at the high end of the normal range, rather than being “insanely fat”.
by pyman | 2025-07-24 16:18:11+00:00
You can't really compare the two. Yes, machines can (and do) fail, whether it's Therac-25, Tesla Autopilot, or Boeing's MCAS. Any software controlling a physical system carries risk. But unlike surgery, code is testable. You can run it in a sandbox, simulate edge cases, fix bugs, and repeat the process for days, months, or even years until it's stable enough for production. Surgeons don't get that luxury. They can't test a procedure on the same body before performing it. There's one shot, and the consequences are irreversible.

That said, I get your point, LLMs can be unpredictable because of the huge amount of data they're trained on and the quality of that data. You never really know what patterns they'll pick up or how they'll behave in edge cases, especially when the outputs aren't deterministic.
by bombela | 2025-07-24 16:19:04+00:00
Not OP. I did pay, for 10y. But the video quality kept slowly degrading (lower bitrate). And ads in the video content kept increasing.

YouTube also increased advertising some paying shows, YouTube shorts, and more. No way to say no, only "yes forever" or "no thanks not right now". And it comes back in a few weeks.

It also constantly sneakily lowers the video quality.

So I stopped paying. I combine ad block and sponsor block and I forget another one to cleanup the UI.

Often I download the video so that I can actually seek around without buffering (because YouTube buffers as little as possible to save cost, which I can understand).

Content nowadays is 30min instead of 5min. So you better be ready to skip and seek.
by chasd00 | 2025-07-24 16:19:07+00:00
> I predict we will soon see a phase where this switches by 180° and everyone will see a fight to be the first one to be accessed to get an opportunity to gaslight the agent into their view of the world. A new three letter acronym will be coined, like AIO or something and we will see a shift from textual content to assets the AI tools can only link to.

i can definitely see LLMs companies offering content creators a bump in training priority for a fee. It will be like ad-sales but you're paying for the LLM to consider your content at a higher priority than your competition.
by tremon | 2025-07-24 16:19:17+00:00
$ grep tmpfs /proc/mounts udev /dev devtmpfs [..] tmpfs /run tmpfs [..] tmpfs /run/lock tmpfs [..] tmpfs /run/shm tmpfs [..] tmpfs /tmp tmpfs [..] cgroup_root /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs [..]

If each of those can take up 50% of ram, this is still a big problem. I don't know what defaults Debian uses nowadays, because I have TMPFS_SIZE=1% in /etc/default/tmpfs so my system is explicitly non-default.
by 71153750 | 2025-07-24 16:19:23+00:00
Somewhat orthogonally related, I saw post on X by Nassim Taleb [1] concerning the idea that if you are very active then your heightened consumption of food may cover your nutrient bases better. So perhaps, loosely paraphrased, you could outrun and thus out-eat your nutrient imblance?

1: https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1684885140093206528
by toast0 | 2025-07-24 16:19:34+00:00
I don't do much of the shopping, but we get costco frozen burger patties for most of our home burgers. I don't think it costs more than the same weight of 'whole' ground beef, and it's convenient.

Those are thin enough I wouldn't think to stick a thermometer in them... it would be too hard to get it in the center and not out the other side, and it's pretty easy to get a sense of doneness from the outside (or cut into one and see). Steaks, depending on who's eating and doneness preferences, thermometer is nice. Roasts, almost certainly.
by ben_w | 2025-07-24 16:19:55+00:00
I agree with you that quality is the most important question, for similar reasons.

I don't think that current models are at expert level, but they do seem to be reliably good enough to be useful and pass standardised tests and be generally quite solidly in the "good enough you have to pay close attention for a while before you notice the stupid mistake" area that makes them very irritating for anyone running job interviews or publishing books etc.

And worse, I also think the numbers you're replying to are, at best, off by a few decimal places.

If I take the 0.36 bananas (which was already suspicious) and USD 0.1 / kWh, I get 0.004 USD. If I scale that up to by 1/0.72 to get a megatoken, that's still only 5/9ths of a cent.

If I make the plausible but not necessarily correct assumption that OpenAI's API prices reflect the cost of electricity, none of their models are even remotely that cheap. It's close enough to the cost of their text-embedding-3-small (per megatoken) to be within the fudge-factor of my assumption about how much of their prices are electricity costs, but text-embedding are much much weaker than transformer models, to the point they're not worth considering in the same discussion unless you're making an academic point.

> It's wrong or at best, does not make sense. The brain barely spends any more energy above its baseline when thinking hard (often not much more than 5%).

Indeed.

Now I'm wondering: how much power does the human brain use during an epileptic fit? That seems like it could plausibly be 70% of calories for a the few seconds of the seizure? But I've only got GCSE grade C in biology, so even with what I picked up the subsequent 25 years of general geeking, my idea of "plausible" is very weak.
by bevr1337 | 2025-07-24 16:20:05+00:00
Mine engine brakes, but it's true that it wouldn't be smart enough to engine brake going downhill. This is my first automatic after a couple decades of manual. It would be really nice improvement for automatics.

There are _moments_ where I would like to exercise more control, like the long downhill example or maybe staying in a low gear in bad weather.

But, I'm still unconvinced that engine braking on a manual transmission in a consumer sedan for every stoplight is helpful. Cars weigh a lot, simply let off the gas a few seconds earlier.
by fer | 2025-07-24 16:20:12+00:00
Exactly. I'd read it as

> I want to correct errors that the DB wizard who implemented SQLite chose not to

When there's a design decision in such a high profile project that you disagree with, it's either

1. You don't understand why it was done like this.

2. You can (and probably will) submit a change that would solve it.

If you find yourself in the situation of understanding, yet not doing anything about it, you're the Schrodinger's developer: you're right and wrong until you collapse the mouth function by putting money on it.

It's very rarely an easy to fix mistake.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-07-24 16:20:20+00:00
Word-of-mouth. Say to your users: "if you want this to be useful, ask your friends to use it, talk about it online…". (You'll get low conversion rates from this, but it's free, and it doesn't promulgate an attention economy the way that billboards and banner ads do.) Advertising is effort, but it's not that hard, really: most advertising firms are extremely inefficient at their jobs, but they get paid because the alternative is nobody advertises the thing.

It also helps if your service is still somewhat useful to individuals, in the absence of network effects. So, once the core service (organise meetups between users) is implemented, get to work on aggregating and categorising social events that already exist. (Use standard protocols, to leave the ladder around for others to climb, but keep track of your API consumers: some of them might be hostile anti-social entities like Facebook, whose existences need to be nipped in the bud.) Once you have something genuinely useful, pick a small-ish city, and guerilla advertise in it. If you've done things right, that should be enough.

Now, leave a skeleton crew on it, and move on to the Next Big Thing. You should be able to maintain three or four pieces of infrastructure in this way, some of which you might even be able to charge money for! (But resist the temptation to monetise and enshittify, or even just excessively-tweak, what you've built.)
by DrScientist | 2025-07-24 16:20:25+00:00
Most countries ( ie people in those countries ) have decided that it's generally better for everyone that protecting people and property( enforcing the law ) is left to a well regulated professional police force rather than individuals of varying moral quality, mental stability or narcotic status.

One of the ironic aspects of the situation in the US is that the fear that is used to justify the need for guns is by and large there because everyone has guns......

Very few people in the UK are troubled by the thought that they might need a gun to defend their home or person, as there is no expectation that you will be attacked by somebody with a gun.

There is also no expectation to be threaten or shot by police with guns either.
by dguest | 2025-07-24 16:20:30+00:00
The French version of the Wikipedia article [1] actually lists calvados [2] instead of applejack. So who knows what the Lost Generation was drinking, maybe the french version is just as good.

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Rose_(cocktail)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvados
by chaps | 2025-07-24 16:20:34+00:00
Chicago, friend. :)

I'm reminded of being on an airplane sitting next to a cop who told me, "Did you know that Chicago is the murder capitol of the world?". It was fun to show her that Chicago isn't actually even in the top 10 of the US in terms of homicide.

Where do you get your news from that makes you think crime is going up?
by MostlyStable | 2025-07-24 16:20:47+00:00
My numbers are probably better than average since, living in a rural area, a lot of my driving is either freeway or long stretches of rural road without many stops, so I do less accelerating/decelerating/turning corners than someone driving in a city, which, as many people point out in this thread, is where most of the wear happens. Your experience is probably more typical than mine is, but even yours is a heck of a lot different than every 10k miles.
by or_am_i | 2025-07-24 16:20:53+00:00
> If you try to humanise the place you will lose your mind. If you ask yourself what the woman at the hair-braiding stand left behind to be here, and why, you will lose your mind. If you accept the kindness of the staff with whom you make a paltry effort to speak each morning as they clear your dirty breakfast plate, you will lose your mind, because your tip is the only kindness you can meaningfully offer in return. Trying to attend to your own towel by the pool might cause the man who stands for hours in the ferocious sun to do so for you to lose his job. Being served makes us cruel infants. It demeans us all.

I understand this passage and can relate, "self-evidently awful to them only" seems a bit of a stretch. There are places on Earth where "being employed for tourism" means job security, worker rights and social protections, where staff is treated with respect and are allowed dignity.
by subhobroto | 2025-07-24 16:20:54+00:00
> wonder in 20 years what happened as other countries lead in energy

Can you clarify what leading in energy means? And what concerns do you have?

Do you mean we, in the U.S. are in a tarpit of regulations and red tape that makes setting up a nuclear power plant up impossible? Or something else?

IMHO, leading in energy also needs to take into account where that energy takes us and what it unlocks. I immigrated to the U.S. so I am extremely bullish so do consider that below.

My California perspective is that energy is going to be even more decentralized. I have not paid an electric bill in years and get a check from my utility once a year where they pay me wholesale rates for my net export. I net export because I rarely use any meaningful energy at night that my 5kwH battery pack cannot provide. Once battery prices fall even further, I will dump everything into my local storage and draw no gross power from my utility at all. For all practical purposes, I will be off grid.

Anyone in California has the technological ability to get there as well. The utilities dump GWh of solar energy because we produce so much!

The issue we have in the U.S. is one of horrible policies and regulation.

Your typical townhouse in the city block isn't going to be able to put 20 panels on their roof because their HOA is going to throw a fit. The owner won't be allowed to install it themselves and would have to pay an electrician tens of thousands of dollars because the city isn't going to permit it otherwise. The obstacle of installing $5k worth of parts is incredibly disappointing.

From my perspective, technologically, solar energy is going to become cheaper as storage continues to fall in price.

This will empower increasing productivity. In my case, once the GPU market becomes consumer friendly and less constrained, or fundamentally different LLMs are released that are CPU friendly but I can't imagine that possibility yet, I will buy more GPUs and increase my self host LLM capacity. Today, as of right now I an getting "Insufficient capacity" errors from AWS attempting to launch a g6.2xlarge cluster and puny 24GB GPUs cost a lot making renting from AWS a better choice. The responses from the coding models blow my mind. They often meet or beat the kind of code I would expect from a junior engineer I would have to pay $120k/yr for and that would be a cheap engineer in SoCal. A GPU cluster including running costs would be fraction of that so I would be able to expand quicker with less.

Whole offices are going to become more compact and continue to become decentralized or even remote. Their carbon footprint is then going to go practically zero (no office security patrol, no HVAC, no heating, etc). More people will be able to start businesses (higher GDP) with less, increasing the GDP per Co2 emissions.

My childhood friends in the E.U who are in the same space that I am in are less enthusiastic. My friends in Germany who bought a hundred PV panels is not happy at all.

So which country will lead in energy and what would they be doing?
by ragnese | 2025-07-24 16:21:09+00:00
That's a fair point. You don't have to write Java with giant graphs of objects-in-objects-in-objects and heavy mixing of (often mutable) data and logic in the same classes, but it's hard to deny that the culture, conventions, and idioms in the Java ecosystem can be quite different from the culture, conventions, and idioms in Kotlin.

On the other hand, when I see Kotlin code that's not written by JetBrains (especially on the backend), it often does just look like Java code with cleaner syntax...
by spwa4 | 2025-07-24 16:21:31+00:00
And yet somehow you totally ignore that every large communist state, Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, ... implemented genocide as a policy to enforce communism.

Can we discuss the reasons for that? Because this thread was about violence inherent in communism. And your counterargument is essentially "look these other guys did something bad too!".

You could at the very least make the oldest claim in the book "but that wasn't REAL communism".