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by smt88 | 2025-07-05 01:57:13+00:00
> exactly how the Democratic party has moved away from him

For a Very Online person like Altman (or me, for that matter), it's easy to assume everyone knows.

He's referring to the (very modest) Democratic turn against Silicon Valley. It started with the demonization of Meta and Twitter during Covid, and it's what caused Zuckerberg, A16z, and a lot of other newly-right tech people to become Republicans too.

For the record, I think Altman is deeply out of touch with normal people and it's always frustrating to hear billionaires cry about being bullied, but he does have a point that Democrats are no longer tech optimists in general.
by theshackleford | 2025-07-05 01:58:05+00:00
> Probably simply because you'll tend to isolate things and focus on them very strongly when under the influence, it makes you notice pain more.

This is a very strong contender for why it increases my pain I think, and possibly why it induces some other side effects. I'm ok with my injury and how its changed my life for the most part, but when using THC i'd laser focus in on the pain, then from the pain to the cause and from there to "how unfair it is etc."

Its hard to explain, but the work i've done to be ok with this disability is undone when I go near THC for some reason, and is when I tend to break down and lose my ability to be "stoic" about it for lack of a better word I suppose.
by alganet | 2025-07-05 01:58:43+00:00
> satellite imagery for trenches, fortifications and vehicles

Dude, you're describing the 80s. We're in 2025.

GPUs will be used for automated surveillance, espionage, brainwashing and market manipulation. At least that's what the current batch of technologies implies.

The only thing stopping this from becoming a full dystopia is that delicate balance with food and fuel I mentioned earlier.

It has become pretty obvious that entire wealthy nations can starve if they make the wrong move. Turns out GPUs cannot produce calories, and there's a limit to how much of a market you can manipulate to produce calories for you.
by ahaucnx | 2025-07-05 02:02:50+00:00
Achim, founder of AirGradient here.

This article is super interesting as it shows that one of the key features (showing air pollution as cigarettes equivalent) on the new AirGradient Open Source Map [1] is actually scientifically backed.

This new map app is as a central component of our Clean Air Advocates Program, building on the foundation of data generated by thousands of our open-source air quality monitors [2].

To effectively visualise the impacts of air pollution, one of the first features we aim to implement is the "cigarettes smoked equivalent" [3]. This feature will help users understand the health implications of local air quality in a tangible way, reinforcing the program's goal of empowering individuals to understand and improve their local air quality.

We already have quite a big community behind this project [4], and I would love to see more people involved. So if you are interested, please get in touch with me or just start contributing!

[1] https://github.com/airgradienthq/airgradient-map

[2] https://www.airgradient.com/

[3] https://github.com/airgradienthq/airgradient-map/issues/100

[4] https://www.airgradient.com/open-source-initiative/
by earth2mars | 2025-07-05 02:02:57+00:00
Yes, but why the domestic r&d must be amortized only within 5 years? One way it is harder for finance to deduct all the expense within 1 year or they have to amortize only within 5 years. In case of foreign r&d expenses though they cannot detect in the year they incur but they have 15 years amortize. So I don't get the benefit of. In fact if they haven't touched this it could have been much better. In tcja they made it worse. And they fix it partially by making it deductible within the year they incur for domestic r&d. But the amortization still kills it.
by dhosek | 2025-07-05 02:05:21+00:00
See, here’s the thing: I’ve been coding probably longer than you’ve been alive. I don’t need help with this kind of stuff. I can read docs and use Google (although the amount of incorrect stuff I see in the Google AI summaries makes me annoyed that it takes up real estate in the search results, not to mention all the AI-slop webpages).
by chatmasta | 2025-07-05 02:05:27+00:00
This is exactly why I’m wary of ever attempting a developer-focused startup ever again.

What’s not mentioned is the utter frustration when you can see your own output is not up to your own expectations, but you can’t execute on any plan to resolve that discrepancy.

“I know what developers want, so I can build it for them” is a death knell proportionate to your own standards…

The most profitable business I built was something I hacked together in two weeks during college holiday break, when I barely knew how to code. There was no source control (I was googling “what is GitHub” at the time), it was my first time writing Python, I stored passwords in plaintext… but within a year it was generating $20k a month in revenue. It did eventually collapse under its own weight from technical debt, bugs and support cost… and I wasn’t equipped to solve those problems.

But meanwhile, as the years went on and I actually learned about quality, I lost the ability to ship because I gained the ability to recognize when it wasn’t ready… it’s not quite “perfectionism,” but it’s borne of the same pathology, of letting perfect be the enemy of good.
by bcrl | 2025-07-05 02:05:28+00:00
I've had some fun learning how to implement various bits and pieces of networking on FPGAs as a hobby for a while, and while boards like this that focus on gigabit network are fine, the fact is that there are a lot of FPGA boards with gigabit and 100Mbps interfaces. What there are not enough of are low cost boards that can do 2.5Gbps, 5Gbps and 10Gbps. Lattice has some very affordable FPGAs with 5Gbps SERDES, and their newer 10Gbps capable chips remain extremely affordable.

One of the things I would absolutely love to have are a couple of FPGAs boards in SFP and QSFP form factors. Why might you ask? Because it would be seriously useful to have a PPPoE / L2TP data plane to plug into the port of a 100Gbps capable switch for use in the network edge. Modern ethernet switches have plenty of Layer 3 networking capabilities, but most switch vendors fail to expose any functionality for these protocols even though the underlying ASICs often enough have the capability to handle them. Sure, you'll never see these protocols in a cloud data center, but plenty of incumbent telecoms make use of them in their FTTP networks due to the legacy of xDSL deployments and the need to support wholesale access to those networks. Sadly, developing such a board is beyond my hobbyist electronics capabilities, but I'd have no problem bashing a bunch of Verilog / VHDL into shape to make it work in fairly short order... I just hope it uses an FPGA like the Polarfire for which the SERDES are about 100x easier to use than the gawd awful Xilinx 7 series (KC705, I'm glaring at you for eating weeks of my hobbyist life to that bring up).
by novaleaf | 2025-07-05 02:05:30+00:00
I'm in cottage lake woodinville, same.

Even more bizarre I fenced in my yard hoping to keep out the rabbits, but they always find a way in. Last winter I went out there and found a dismembered rabbit in the middle of the yard. I went to get a bag to pick it up, and when I got back, all that was left were a couple feet. An eagle maybe? I left the feet, but nothing came to get them :D
by geerlingguy | 2025-07-05 02:06:04+00:00
That's what I'm running as my main desktop at home, and I have an external 2TB TB5 SSD, which gives me 3 GB/sec.

If I could get the same unit for like $299 I'd run it like that for my NAS too, as long as I could run a full backup to another device (and a 3rd on the cloud with Glacier of course).
by alshival | 2025-07-05 02:06:23+00:00
I feel you. Used to work 16 hours a day. I quit my job and started freelancing. These days, I only commit 20 hours a week to work. Still make enough to pay my bills and live a little, but I won't be getting a boat anytime soon. But with that extra time, I go to the gym, play video games, or blast the neighborhood using my brand spanking new Eric Clapton Pewder Strat.

I have 15 years in data, and 10 years in machine-learning. Back in 2016, I couldn't find a job doing machine-learning. These days, I don't worry anymore about finding work. Things have improved.
by dmbche | 2025-07-05 02:06:55+00:00
I dont know it's the last thing he wants.

I feel like the same "most" of the content which lives on the wiki is very secondary to the gameloop and that the designers did a wonderful job at not letting the player optimize the fun out of the game.

The game teaches you nothing and is very cryptic, but the gameloop is simple (go down, don't die). You naturally learn how the sandbox interact (i'm on fire but I have a water flask, water clear up sludge) and the randomized (and shuffle) wands expose you to spell interactions.

You can easily spend multi hundred hours just learning through the sandbox and trying to break the game.

The cryptic stuff (34 orbs, impressing the gods, the messages) is also very cool and I think motivating to keep playing with the sandbox even after having "mastered" the mechanics of the game. (As in you never know what you could manage to find if you try to break the game)

I don't think people play noita with a guide on a second monitor.

Sorry if poorly worded, tired
by sircastor | 2025-07-05 02:07:04+00:00
I do a lot of non-work AI stuff on my own, from pair programming with AI, asking it to generate whole things, to just asking it to clarify a general approach to a problem.

FWIW, in a work environment (and I have not been given the go-ahead to start this at my work) I would start by supplementing my codebase. Add a new feature via AI coding, or maybe reworking some existing function. Start small.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-07-05 02:07:17+00:00
At a previous employer, they used to have this process where they would classify each project as being in active development or being in maintenance, and even the tiniest bit of development work required the "initiation" of a "project" with budget planning and approvals.

At the time I dismissed it as a bureaucratic process invented by the company; after all, they had no dearth of leaders adding bureaucracy to systems for the purpose of empire-building and, to a lesser extent, asserting self-importance. However, upon reading about Section 174, it made some sense, and I wonder whether they might just get around to removing these processes.
by alterom | 2025-07-05 02:07:21+00:00
>again, this is not a problem but a basic expectation when you do media arts residencies

If it isn't a problem, then the AI isn't a solution. You can't have a solution without a problem.

Saying that "this is just a basic expectation" is rather bizarre.

Who's setting that expectation?

And more importantly, why is it there? Who's benefiting from it? Why do you keep it?

FFS, you can proactively reach out to the artists and ask about what equipment they will use.

One doesn't just suddenly get an arts residency. There's an application process, I presume, and plenty of communication between the artist and the venue happening before any work begins.

There's no reason for discussion of the equipment not taking place early on where the entire point is using technology to create art.

And yes, "is just the way things are done in this industry" can be remarkably stupid. Doctors didn't wash hands until mid 19th century, that was just the basic expectation.

More soldiers were dying of disease in military hospitals than from battlefield casualties as a result.

The solution to the high death rate wasn't automating weapons (which did come with the Maxim gun). It was Florence Nightingale challenging the basic expectations.

Or, in modern parlance — calling BS on it.

You're not making a convincing case for that "basic expectation" existing.

>Just like it's an expectation when you work in the event industry that you're going to get gigs for making something in the morning for an event happening in the evening.

I've read this sentence three times, and it still didn't make any sense. Could you perhaps rephrase?

Again, when I gig with bands, I don't bring random gear for someone to set up.

It's my job. And we have a sound check. And if my gear doesn't work, the sound guy isn't fixing it.

Not sure what sort of analogy you meant to make, but it's not coming through.
by sltkr | 2025-07-05 02:08:36+00:00
That demonstrates how useless this is. It only shaves off kilobytes on extremely bloated sites that waste megabytes of data.

For example, take the CNN example:

> The JavaScript was 98% smaller using the previous version as a dictionary for the new version than if the new version was downloaded with brotli alone. Specifically, the 278kb JavaScript was 90kb with brotli alone and 2kb when using brotli and the previous version as a dictionary.

Oh wow! 98% savings! That's amazing! Except in absolute terms the difference between 90 KB and 2 KB is only 88 KB. Meanwhile, cnn.com pulls in 63.7 MB of data just on the first page load. So in reality, that 88 KB saved was less than 0.14% of the total data, which is negligible.
by afcool83 | 2025-07-05 02:08:41+00:00
…I read the whole article at OP’s link, many comments off this thread…I even clicked into the college course material in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468452 …and not once did it occur to me why it was called “wet mode”…not once…

…until your comment. Here! Take my “lived through the 80’s and 90’s” card.
by thunky | 2025-07-05 02:09:03+00:00
you're not countering what i'm saying, so i think we agree.

i'm just adding that (as an "engineer") i don't care what you call me, or what i call myself, because nobody cares and it doesn't matter. i'm commodified labor. replacable. with no claim on anything. and nobody will ever agree on the correct title anyway.

what actually matters imo is who the owner is.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-05 02:10:06+00:00
Prove your statements. Otherwise it's equivalent to AI slop. You're written response is no different and no better, therefore what's the point of you even responding? I'd prefer an AI bot to write a retort because it'd be more intelligent then just "wrong".

Not trying to be insulting here. But genuinely if you think humanity is better then AI, why is your response to me objectively WORSE then AI slop?? Prove your own statements by being better yourself, otherwise your own statement is in itself proof against your point.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-05 02:10:13+00:00
> Remember, what makes someone fiscally wealthy is still defined by culture and society.

Sure, in the sense that the state is defined by culture and society. Until your skull is beaten in by police, anyway. Then the concepts tend to clarify.

Trying to hedge your way out of accountability for how you accumulated your wealth is pretty funny. Also, doctors shouldn’t be wealthy either: that is likely the LEAST ethical way to make money.

> Most of our needs aren't necessities.

Please look up both terms in a dictionary
by anonnon | 2025-07-05 02:11:38+00:00
The "other person" (only mention of NTFS) is me, here:

> while MSFT still treats ReFS as unstable, and Windows servers still rely heavily on NTFS.

By this I implied it's an embarrassment to MSFT that iOS devices have a better, more reliable file system (AppFS) than even Windows servers now (having to rely on NTFS until ReFS is ready for prime time). If HN users and mods didn't tone-police so heavily, I could state things more frankly.
by wysewun | 2025-07-05 02:12:03+00:00
Have had long term chronic pain. Think possibly due to a combination of tendinitis and lack of movemen as a dev

Our bodies aren’t meant to be in one position for that long no matter the ergonomics unless you know what you’re doing.

Lots of people mock tiktok for the dancing but in observing the dances, I’ve grown an appreciation for full range of movement and trying to increase range of motion in the joints

I was able to find some exercises that helped in this to decompress but I can go into more detail if people want
by shash | 2025-07-05 02:13:01+00:00
I say this as an LLM skeptic.

All code, including stuff that we experienced coders write is inherently probabilistic. That’s why we have code reviews, unit tests, pair programming, guidelines and guardrails in any critical project. If you’re using LLM output uncritically, you’re doing it wrong, but if you’re using _human_ output uncritically you’re doing it wrong too.

That said, they are not magic, and my fear is that people use copilots and agentic models and all the rest to hide poor engineering practice, building more and more boilerplate instead of refactoring or redesigning for efficiency or safety or any of the things that matter in the long run.
by ryao | 2025-07-05 02:13:54+00:00
It is a connector. None of the connectors inside a PC have those. They could add them to the circuitry on the PCB side of the connector, but that is entirely separate from the connector.

That said, the industry seems to be moving to adding detection into the PSU, given seasonic’s announcement:

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies/se...

Finally, I think there is a simpler solution, which is to change the cable to use two large gauge wires instead of 12 individual ones to carry current. That would eliminate the need for balancing the wires in the first place.
by roenxi | 2025-07-05 02:13:56+00:00
It is a pretty good article, but it slightly misunderstands status. Being the first person on the dance floor is closer to a high status move, because it is taking a leardership position and suggesting what the group should do next. People avoid doing that because they want to copy someone of a higher status than themselves, not because they fear low status. The mechanism nature uses to implement that low status behaviour is nervousness which is often described as a fear of "standing out", "looking silly" or similar terms, but those are low status concerns. High status people don't really suffer from looking silly, they define what looking silly is by being what they don't do.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-05 02:14:42+00:00
Most human endeavor is drowned in the noise of other human endeavors. It was like this before AI. And with AI the noise becomes even larger. Noise is what I mean by "curve".

Basically most of it is all noise but eventually something blows ahead of the curve and shines for a couple of seconds before the curve/wave catches up and engulfs it again.

Most of what "goes" ahead of the "curve" is achievements of other people. You, I, and most other people are just watching other exceptional or lucky individuals shine for a couple of seconds. We are all watchers. There's no difference from our perspective if the people we are watching are humans or AI. It's not us anyway.

If you are an exceptional genius who regularly achieves things that go past the "curve" then you will be affected. You will watch AI achieve things faster than you, do better than you, etc. In this case you are affected.

Keep in mind that this "curve" I talk about is both global and has many many localized instances. Like a superstar at a start up is a localized example of an individual blowing past a localized curve, and Einstein is a global example of an individual excelling past a global curve.
by ryao | 2025-07-05 02:15:22+00:00
It seems incredibly wrong to assume that there was only 1 issue with 12WHPWR. 12V-2x6 was an improvement that eliminated some potential issues, not all of them. If you want to eliminate all of them, replace the 12 current carrying wires with 2 large gauge wires. Then the wires cannot become unbalanced. Of course, the connector would need to split the two into 12 very short wires to be compatible, but those would be recombined on the GPU’s PCB into a single wire.
by alganet | 2025-07-05 02:15:39+00:00
Gaming needs no additional VRAM.

From a market perspective, LLMs sell GPUs. Doesn't even matter if they work or not.

From the geopolitical tensions perspective, they're the perfect excuse to create infrastructure for a global analogue of the Great Firewall (something that the Chinese are pioneers of, and catching up to the plan).

From the software engineering perspective, LLMs are a nuissance, a distraction. They harm everyone.
by fcatalan | 2025-07-05 02:15:44+00:00
This resonates a lot with me. In fact it's a trait that has made me unhappy for as long as I can remember.

I'm seeing a therapist later this month because in a talk with my GP she saw strong enough hints of ADHD to send me there, and the kind of situations and some feelings talked about in the article came up a lot in the conversation.

I size up my oil paints against the old masters, not the old ladies in the atelier. I paint miniatures way better than average but hang around with Golden Demon winners so I always find myself wanting. Can play beautiful Renaissance pieces on my uke, but infuriatingly not at a professional performance level. Can win many sim races, but not against the top 0.1%, yet I size myself against their telemetry and laptimes. I dabble in Chess but being forever stuck around lowly 1300 ELO makes me feel dumb. My dead side projects cemetery has subdirectories approaching 3 figures. I go out and cycle with my brother but I huff and puff while he tops the Strava segments and wins the regional amateur championship again.

So too many days I just sit and do nothing, or just look for something else to enjoy for a few months until I become an unhappy promising beginner at yet another thing, adding to the overall problem.
by apsec112 | 2025-07-05 02:15:59+00:00
"Despite Democrats holding thin majorities in both chambers during a period of intense political polarization, the 117th Congress (2021-2023) oversaw the passage of numerous significant bills, including the Inflation Reduction Act, American Rescue Plan Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Postal Service Reform Act, Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, CHIPS and Science Act, Honoring Our PACT Act, Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, and Respect for Marriage Act."

All of these except the first two were bipartisan and got 60 Senate votes (or more)
by imiric | 2025-07-05 02:17:31+00:00
It's one thing to rely on a technique like AA to improve visual quality with negligible drawbacks. DLSS is entirely different though, since upscaling introduces all kinds of graphical issues, and frame generation[1] even more so, while adding considerable input latency. NVIDIA will claim that this is offset by its Reflex feature, but that has its own set of issues.

So, sure, we can say that all of this is ultimately software trickery, but when the trickery is dialed up to 11 and the marketing revolves entirely on it, while the raw performance is only slightly improved over previous generations, it's a clear sign that consumers are being duped.

[1]: I'm also opposed to frame generation from a philosophical standpoint. I want my experience to be as close as possible to what the game creator intended. That is, I want every frame to be generated by the game engine; every object to look as it should within the world, and so on. I don't want my graphics card to create an experience that approximates what the creator intended.

This is akin to reading a book on an e-reader that replaces every other word with one chosen by an algorithm. I want none of that.