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by jzb | 2025-07-01 19:36:29+00:00
Some of that has a lot to do with COVID and streaming. Obviously people aren't staying away from theatres now because of COVID, but I think it had a big impact on habits. Once the habit of going to the movies was broken, enticing people back got harder.

Making the experience worse, though, is an awfully novel way to encourage people to return.

My wife and I tried to see a movie a few weeks ago. I say "tried" because we went to an AMC theatre that had, oddly, a nearly sold-out showing of a movie that had been out for weeks. We could only get seats in the front row, all the way to the right.

I've never loved front row seats, but this was ridiculous - I sit farther back from my television in my own living room. I don't think there was 10 feet distance from the screen to our seats, and we were at an angle to boot. It was unwatchable - we got a refund and left, after we'd already blown money on snacks, of course...
by rglover | 2025-07-01 19:36:35+00:00
I think I've cracked this [1]. A lot of the popular frameworks just copy each other by using funky attributes, templating hacks, and compilers. You don't need that (yes, they have certain positives and negatives but you don't need them).

Instead, what's hinted at in this article (using a plain HTML string) works great. Add in a little abstraction for the sake of structure and simplicity and you've got a surprisingly robust UI framework without a ton of complexity.

[1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick (a full-stack JS framework that has its own components API)
by Davidzheng | 2025-07-01 19:37:44+00:00
Thanks for the links! Hopefully this doesn't come across as confrontational (this is really something I would like to try myself) but I don't think a gpt2 arch will get to close to gpt3.5 level intelligence? I feel like there was some boundary around gpt3.5 where the stuff started to feel slightly magical for me [maybe it was only the RLHF effect]. Do you think models in gpt2 size now are getting to that capability? I know sub 10B models have been getting really smart recently.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-01 19:37:54+00:00
This company is burning its reputation to the ground with this drive. Man, I struggle to remember a hardware company wreck it's name this fast.

It isn't a totally normal drive at least. It at least has somewhat good endurance,

> Synology also claims a tested endurance of up to 2900TB TBW, important to consider for its advertised NAS use case.

1800TBW:1TB ratio 3x the normal consumer drive 600TBW:TB ratio.

However, the $200 for $2TB WD Red NAS SSD is even better:

> Western Digital's WD Red SN700 SSD, another PCIe 3.0 NAS drive, advertises a TBW of 5100TB, nearly double what Synology offers.

2550TBW:TB ratio.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-07-01 19:37:55+00:00
Heh, I was just reading about increasing complaints about Cursor basically not being able to provide the compute that its users have theoretically paid for - see, e.g., [1], [2]. And AIUI, Cursor isn't even providing much of this compute - they're re-selling it from Anthropic et al. at a loss. Will be interesting to see what the path to sustainability actually looks like here.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1loykun/i_contacted...

[2] https://forum.cursor.com/t/violation-of-eu-consumer-rights-n...
by tabbott | 2025-07-01 19:39:01+00:00
Apple's app store practices are an abusive monopoly, and I wish the Proton folks luck.

We once had a Zulip update rejected by Apple because we had a link to our GitHub project with the source code for the app in the app itself. And it turns out, if you then click around GitHub, you can find a "Pricing" page that doesn't pay Apple's tax.

Details are here for anyone curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28175759
by righthand | 2025-07-01 19:39:59+00:00
I got into XSLT after the HN grug brain article last week. It is wonderful and I have my whole site (100 pages/files) migrated in less than an hour (w/o using LLM) and have it served off a 4 line caddy file.

Seriously browsers just need to adopt XSLT 3.0 and stop all this wheel reinvention already.
by rishikeshs | 2025-07-01 19:40:05+00:00
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by sabey | 2025-07-01 19:41:09+00:00
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by ekholm_e | 2025-07-01 19:42:00+00:00
My wife works at the Fed, and I can confirm that 1) the Fed does decommission/retire bills and 2) that whole process is very tightly controlled. The retired bills are typically shredded, and if you go on a tour of a Fed bank, you can get little baggies of "Fed Shreds."

So it seems very likely to me that whatever money is in the cube is decommissioned.
by janmo | 2025-07-01 19:42:30+00:00
Where/what object would you like to use the company name field in?

> For the Invoice, but also to clearly identify the customer, for a B2B customer you have the company name and the name of the person in charge for the subscription. Both are essential. Currently Stripe only has a "name" field.

Can you describe a situation where you need to do an invoice correction on subscriptions (ie how do you handle this now)?

> The customer put a wrong address, a wrong or missing VAT number. Then a few months later the accountant notices the mistake and you have to issue a correction.

Currently Stripe is clearly focused B2C, but I am doing B2B.
by mrhillsman | 2025-07-01 19:42:34+00:00
Hi everyone,

After working on something for some months now I would like to put it out there based on the considerable attention being put towards "context engineering". I am proposing the Context Window Architecture (CWA) – a conceptual reference architecture to bring engineering discipline to LLM prompt construction. Would love for others to participate and provide feedback. A reference implementation where CWA is used in a real-world/pragmatic scenario could be great to tease out more regarding context engineering and if CWA is useful. Additionally I am no expert by far so feedback and collaboration would be awesome.

Proposal via Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qR9qa00eW8ud0x7yoP2XicH3...

WIP Reference Implementation: https://github.com/mrhillsman/context-window-architecture
by david-gpu | 2025-07-01 19:43:13+00:00
> Could you please specify what have you meant by Fixed Function blocks on Adreno300+? Did you mean regular Rasterizer, DS and vertex assembler by this, or even portions of old FFP functionality just like lighting and etc from ES 1.x?

This happened almost 20 years ago and I can't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Re. The switch from Adreno 200 to 300. Both had a unified (vertex+pixel) programmable shader unit. They were completely different, with the 200 sporting a VLIW 4+1 vector unit that AMD used at the time, while the 300 was scalar and based on Qualcomm's unreleased QShader core. This made things a lot easier for the poor compiler team.

Sorry, I don't want to go into details about what features were implemented in hardware vs shaders. Every GPU does things a little differently in that regard and there's always some secret sauce. Sometimes features are fully implemented in hardware, sometimes they are fully based on shaders, and often there's a bit of both.

As for Imagination Technologies' SGX 530, which was the successor to PVR MBX, it also had a scalar unified shader unit. I never worked on the MBX, but I was involved in the development of the SGX family back in 2006-2007. Once again, the details of what features were implemented in hardware vs shaders was complicated and I won't get into the secret sauce.

> Why so many of early qcom android smartphones lacked GPU drivers at all? For example HTC Dream wasn't shipped with gpu drivers, as well as Magic and many Huawei models

The question is puzzling to me. The drivers may not be easy to find, but OpenGL would not work without drivers. The HTC Dream shipped with Adreno 130, which I had the unfortunate experience of having to support circa 2008 even though I had not been involved in its development. It felt ancient even at the time, with a super basic vertex shader that we had to manually program in the most rudimentary assembly. Did it even have a pixel shader? God, I can't remember a thing. It did support user clipping planes and stencils. Oh, the nightmares, they haunt me.

Sorry, going back on topic. Yeah, there were drivers for that clunker. They must be hidden somewhere. Please spare a prayer for the souls of the poor bastards who had to work on that abomination. I can't understand how they were able to hold on to their sanity after going through that experience.

Thanks for refreshing my memory. It was Type II fun, for sure.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-07-01 19:43:37+00:00
Why would anyone not be happy? There's jolly great fun to be had all around.

- The Ph.Ds and other experts building LLMs are ecstatic because they're suddenly getting paid a fortune and having an entire industry paying attention to their every little utterance.

- The venture capitalists suddenly have a whole new technology to make their investment bets on and there are hordes of founders eager to vie for funding.

- The grifters and hustlers have new sexy buzzwords to attach to their dubious products to try to rip off the credulous.

- The fad chasers and résumé driven developers have a whole new silver bullet to pursue.

- The influencers, know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, and net kooks have something new to pontificate on and debate each other about.

- The sort of programmer getting benefit from LLMs and arguing that education is no longer necessary get to fantasize about finally being free of gatekeeping and more skilled software engineers looking down on them.

I'm probably right on the edge of violating some kind of guideline so I shall stop there and say only that the chattering on HN should not be mistaken for what's going on in the real world.
by madmonk | 2025-07-01 19:43:51+00:00
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by jmccarthy | 2025-07-01 19:43:59+00:00
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by davey48016 | 2025-07-01 19:44:12+00:00
It says "ships themselves". I interpreted that as meaning through their own delivery service versus UPS/USPS, and I thought those third party shipments were still picked up at Amazon warehouses. Meaning this could have much more to do with Amazon building out their delivery service than with warehouse efficiency.

I'm also under the impression that most of the Amazon delivery drivers are contractors, and wouldn't count in "per employee" metrics.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-07-01 19:44:19+00:00
At school my German teacher loved to teach us the longest swear word in German (or so he claimed). He would illustrate it by pretending he hit his thumb with a hammer, and then he would let out this wonderful long stream of invective, but which is one word in German. He would then translate it all for us.

No idea if it helps with hitting your thumb with a hammer, but memorable teaching!
by mlnomadpy | 2025-07-01 19:44:40+00:00
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It's a PWA that runs entirely on your local machine. No vendor lock-in, no data sent to the cloud overlords. WebLLM is supported out of the box.

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by cosbgn | 2025-07-01 19:44:42+00:00
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I'm an entrepreneur and since I'm not breakeven yet I'm looking for part-time work. Rather than coding I would like to help with marketing. I'm fairly good with Google ads, landing pages, seo etc.

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by lxgr | 2025-07-01 19:44:59+00:00
Demand deposits in bank accounts are also money.

As a side note: In some countries, central bank employees are the only individuals that can actually hold non-paper M0 (or MB?) money, since they get paid their salaries into a central bank account, which are otherwise only available to commercial banks. This used to be the case in Germany and Austria, but has been phased out at some point, as far as I remember.

But even if Fed employees just get paid in regular old M1 demand deposits, that's money nonetheless.
by mindslight | 2025-07-01 19:45:04+00:00
It's rationalization because you've taken the analysis just far enough to feel edgily insightful, and then framed the hanging thoughts in feel-good terms (eg "physical reality").

I don't actually disagree about the factual things you've said! Traditional religions, cultlike religions, progressivism, and Trumpism are all "forebrain" attempts steering the behavior of the "lizard brain".

These goals often help the individual self interest of the forebrains espousing them. But modulo this, they can still be societally constructive (for instance it's hard to deny the progress that Christianity historically brought to western society), and sometimes they can be societally destructive. Trumpism, with its rejection of most of what makes our society successful (eg its rejection of being bound by intellectual reason, and your welcoming embrace of returning to the "lizard brain" behavior based on "physical reality"), is quite destructive.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-01 19:45:14+00:00
The order of completion doesn't necessarily influence the overall result of a parallelized computation. This depends on how the results are aggregated. For example for reducing floating point error in calculating a sum of floating point numbers, you could have a sorting step before calculating the sum and then start summing up from the lowest values to the higher ones. Then it doesn't matter at all which of the values is calculated first, because you need them all anyway, to sort them and once they are sorted, the result will always be the same, given same input values.

So you can see, completion time is a completely orthogonal issue, or can be made one.

And even libraries like tensorflow can be made to give reproducible results, when setting the corresponding seeds for the underlying libraries. Have done that myself, speaking from experience in a machine learning setting.
by voxleone | 2025-07-01 19:46:10+00:00
Project Orion was the promise of my youth [70/80s]. It speaks to both the technological courage and the philosophical optimism that once characterized space exploration — and how that momentum seems to have faded. By all accounts, it was technically feasible. And yet...

Of course there was 'the shadow of the Bomb'. From bold, almost reckless experimentation (Mercury, Gemini, early Apollo, things shifted to safety-optimized, cost-constrained engineering. And there was Cost and Politics; the post-Apollo world didn’t want to colonize the solar system. It wanted low Earth orbit, and safe returns. Budgets followed.

Kinda sad.
by sblom | 2025-07-01 19:46:24+00:00
I really love Rob Mensching's framing in Open Source Maintenance Fee[1]. "The _software_ is free. The _project_ (issue tracker, forums, release management, package repository, etc.) is not."

It doesn't solve the supplier problem, but it is a very clever way to square the "free software, but I'd like to cover my expenses" circle.

[1]: https://opensourcemaintenancefee.org/
by jadbox | 2025-07-01 19:46:25+00:00
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by znpy | 2025-07-01 19:47:27+00:00
> Apple's internal ML team has amazing output for the small amount of money they're given.

You're probably missing the point. The output is certainly good when compared to the number of people involved. But if you need "more output" at some point you'll need more people.

Also, new people usually bring new know-how. No company ever died from having too much know-how.
by unit_circle | 2025-07-01 19:48:04+00:00
Side note: I'm noticing more and more of these simple, hyperbolic headlines specifically of statements that public figures make. A hallmark of the event being reported is a public figure making a statement that will surely have little to no effect whatsoever.

Calling these statements "slamming" (a specific word I see with curious frequency) is so riling to me because they are so impotent but are described with such violent and decisive language.

Often it's a politician, usually liberal, and their statement is such an ineffectual waste of time, and outwardly it appears wasting time is most of what they do. I consider myself slightly left of center, so seeing "my group" dither and waste time rather than organize and do real work frustrates me greatly. Especially so since we are provided with such contrast from right of center where there is so much decisive action happening at every moment.

I know it's to feed ranking algorithms, which causes me even more irritation. Watching the brain rot get worse in real time...
by rao-v | 2025-07-01 19:48:17+00:00
Isn’t the python based build123d the current best CAD in code solution? The problem with OpenSCAD is that it cannot export solid geometry, just a final mesh.

More broadly, I was genuinely shocked to realize, when I was playing with it, that there is no cross CAD file format that captures even simple design concepts like “this hole is aligned to the center of this plate” or even “this is a 2mm fillet”. STEP (the file format) mostly just captures final geometry.

I think CAD people just … redesign the part again if they need to move from say Fusion 360 to FreeCAD or whatever. How do they live like that?!
by moralestapia | 2025-07-01 19:48:39+00:00
Hey, this is great.

>It’s stupidly simple: upload an image, click to drop a dot, and it tells you how many you’ve placed. That’s it. But somehow, nothing like it existed.

A small related story.

I once was an intern on a bioscience laboratory that was working with maize. My very intern-y job was to count the number of white spots on the leaves of like ... thousands of plants.

Improvement # 1 (not by me but a colleage), we scanned the plants, on a regular flatbed scanner, they were small enough to fit in.

Improvement # 2 (this one was me), the plan was to automatically count all the spots with CV but it wasn't really working that well; it was back in 2012 and the algos were not that good, they still missed some and we needed to be as accurate as possible. I ended up doing a web app very similar to the one in the article, you just loaded an image and start tagging stuff and at the end it gave you a count for each type of spot you tagged ...

... then we spent weeks scanning and tagging plants full-time :'(.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-07-01 19:48:44+00:00
> Missing stalks so car is unusable on roundabouts

No one really complains about it. If anything people would never go back to stalks.

> Using screen to get wipers working

IIRC buttons on steering wheel.

> I think that your opinion might be skewed by social bubble you live in

I think that's you tho.

> sales numbers are telling a different story

RAV4 toppled Tesla by like 9000 cars, mostly due MY being refreshed. Toyota will be continue to be destroyed by Tesla and Chinese EVs, IMO too slowly tho.
by trod1234 | 2025-07-01 19:48:54+00:00
There are already severe criminal penalties, the issue is its impossible to enforce except in retrospect in most cases. The attack surface is extremely porous because of money-printing with the government as a customer and every major company lining up to the trough.

For an example, its quite well known you can do a lot with an off the shelf SDR.

Technically those receivers can capture cell phone signals and other data passively. It would be almost trivial to set up an overlay network in target regions, its not much harder than putting together a local LAN/point to point connection.

There is no indicator its happening because its not active. This also applies to collectors that operate on TEMPEST principles (i.e. the emissions from your device displays).

Active MITM poses worse outcomes, but not strictly needed for these things. Encryption prevents most of this, if its secure but security comes from the visible industry, and visible industry lags behind where the landscape actually is.

There are companies and nations who put satellites in orbit that collect this data who may offer it as a service. Technically you can passively collect any raw signals with an appropriate length of wire for an antenna so there isn't much of a manufacturing bottleneck authorities could exploit.

Without immediate and existential level of consequence, no criminal penalty will ever be enough. Incarceration isn't an existential consequence.

The laws in effect only keep the honest people honest, and equally punish honest people for pointing out the emperor has no clothes.
by lxgr | 2025-07-01 19:49:27+00:00
Not sure when exactly the Fed accounts for USD printed – i.e. only once distributed to somebody else, or as soon as they're printed and still owned by the Fed – but even in the latter case, asset and liability work out to exactly zero.

So this million USD might or might not have been accounted for, but it definitely does not need to be budgeted for.