MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hosh | 2025-07-15 20:03:46+00:00
I have been keenly watching for locally-run AIs. This includes the price point for running 70b models, such as the one recently announced by Switzerland. I've also been looking at what it would take to run these in much smaller compute, such as microcontrollers.

However, fine-tuning may be run locally -- what are you thinking about in terms of training?

"At some point your OS will ship with a local model, your system will have access to some Intelligence APIs, and that's that."

There's a secondary effect that I had not even discussed in detail here. I don't know how to explain it concisely because it requires reframing a lot of things just to be able to see it, let alone to understand it as a problem.

Let me see how concise I can be:

1. There are non-financial capital such as social capital, knowledge capital, political capital, natural capital, etc.

2. The propensity is to convert non-financial capital into financial capital at the expense of the other forms of capital. I think this is the core dynamic driving enshittification (beyond how Cory Doctrow described it when he coined it).

3. While LLMs and AIs can be designed to enhance the human experience, right now, the propensity is to deploy them in a way that does not develop social and knowledge capital for the next generation.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-15 20:03:49+00:00
> You can read about every round of negotiation, going back to Madrid in 1990.

And then we had Oslo Accords.

How can you make such a claim, when a bit later there was a deal???

> and flew in hundreds of M60 tanks within literally days

The whole airlift took about a month! No denying, ofc US helped Israel caught with their pants down, but making it like US just brought 200 tanks overnight, is laughable. Regardless: Israel turned the war around. Israeli forces were forced to stop on their march to Cairo. What kind of victory is that for Egypt?

Making a land deal for peace to make future wars impossible is a good deal. There was no war with Egypt ever since, so it clearly worked. I don’t understand why you denying this simple fact?

> That Israel will not trade land for peace with the Palestinians, because unlike the Egyptians, the Palestinians don't have anything like a serious army that could threaten Israel.

Israel literally left Gaza. Why would they leave Gaza if they want more land?

> Israel just dropped a bomb on a café in Gaza used by Palestinian journalists a few days ago. Is that more moral?

It’s different. I don’t understand how can’t see a difference between military action that has no incentive whatsoever for those who carried it out vs. paying your civilians to carry out attacks against civilians and making the payment directly proportional to the severity and number of casualties.

> Israel has been doing things like this many times a day, every day, for nearly two years, killing tens of thousands of civilians and wiping Gaza off the face of the earth.

It’s called war. People die in wars. UK was in war with Germany (including bombing civilians). Was it immoral war?

> Now, the Israeli Defense Minister has proposed building a giant concentration camp for 600,000 Palestinians in southern Gaza. Is that moral?

If such concentration camp would be built it would be immoral.

I am not surprised that someone who values people lives with two different sets of rules to not see that one (state’s military) is more moral than state sponsoring its own citizens (not even its own armed forces, which still would be less moral) to kill civilians (not even armed personnel) of the other side.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-07-15 20:04:52+00:00
Dude, local offline LLM's is what will be transformative. I absolutely hate that these LLM's are designed, built, governed and ran by massive tech oligarchs. There is absolutely no level playing field. It's the same "rich dudes" just getting richer.

Wake me up when you can get offline, open sourced, "peer to peer trained" LLM's that had nothing to do with the "big boys". Wake me up when those things manage to piss off "the establishment".

The current crop are all establishment. They've been neutered and approved by expensive laywers.
by immibis | 2025-07-15 20:05:06+00:00
At least in the current system, there are some websites where you don't have to prove your real identity. Hacker News, for example.

In an internet driver's license system, remember that your computer would have to be locked down, and only able to access government-approved websites using government-approved clients - something like they have in China, or like using an iPhone but worse.

Once the ability for any site to verify your identity was set up, all sites would have to verify your identity, or lose their own verification, under one of many standard excuses like protecting the children.
by serpopardfossil | 2025-07-15 20:05:09+00:00
my two favorite langs are idris and crystal. i haven't ever yet used either. i do everything mainly in python, javascript, or c but i like the idea of idris as this mathy pure world and the crystal language has this nice logo. i plan to get around to using both eventually as soon as i hit a dead end with doing everything in python, javascript, or c.
by phtrivier | 2025-07-15 20:05:21+00:00
Well, maybe it's because in the last two to three decades, for the layman, technology has been mostly delivering funny gadgets, small incremental improvements, and massive problems.

We still need fusion reactors, flying cars, telepathy and a cure for cancer yesteryear.

Instead we had 140 characters, PFAS in everything (which make the cure for cancer even more overdue) ; cars that got very much not flying but very bigger (and made the world hotter, and the fusion even more overdue) ; smartphone that makes spreading lies faster than even telepathy could ever do, etc...

But, now, sure, our flying drones are guided with "A", so the authoritarian régimes only have to point in a vague direction to get innocent people bombed.

No wonder "Yay, science" is getting a hard rep.

Thank the FSM you Americans decided to stop doing science altogether. Maybe the world needs to see that "bad research" is worse than "no research at all".

Last time we did that in Europe, it only lasted for 1000 years, and got us cool looking castles and dramatic paintings. So, art, I guess ?
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-15 20:05:42+00:00
In that case, Kakoune[1] (Helix’s main inspiration) is probably more your jam. You get an RPC interface and are free to script it from anything you want (shell to Rust is about the range I’ve encountered). It does mean that you don’t get the batteries you get with Helix (e.g. LSP support) and need to bring your own (e.g. kakoune-lsp[2]).

[1] https://kakoune.org/

[2] https://github.com/kakoune-lsp/kakoune-lsp
by Earw0rm | 2025-07-15 20:05:43+00:00
There are sound math reasons for skyscrapers topping out, mostly due to elevator capacity and the inability to effectively get people in and out of the floorspace as you go past a few hundred ft. There's no construction engineering reason you can't go taller - the Burj Khalifa, for example, is three times taller than a typical Western major city skyscraper - it just doesn't make economic sense unless you're a newly rich nation looking to prove a point.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-15 20:05:54+00:00
Gary Marcus has a dichotomy between extinction versus bad actors. I feel a third possibiltiy is much more likely: a world of extreme specialization where AI reigns supreme, and where humans are mainly button-pushers. Those at the top and who still enjoy life will be the techies who are good at and enjoy making things with AI, which will be approximately 1% of the population. The other 99% will be administrators, button-pushers, and those on UBI who have a fairly meaningless existence without much dignity.

Because once 99% of the population lose the opportunity to at least learn a skill that they are good at, and (Importantly!!) for which they have some aptitude over others, and apply it, then they will face an existence of very little meaning. Like it or not, people want to be distinguishable from others, and if everyone can do everything with AI, then that disappears.

Techies don't like to admit it because they are at the top, but through AI, they are creating their own bubble world with their little toys that will act through the immense power of AI as an oligarchy that rules the listless and depressed masses.

A rather contemptible existence, in my opinion.
by immibis | 2025-07-15 20:06:16+00:00
Well, studies keep showing that using LLMs like that switches your brain off in an alarmingly short amount of time, possibly permanently, turning you into a mindless automaton intermediating between other people and your computer, and also makes you take longer to do things while thinking you're taking less time.

LLMs completely change the way people do things, in the same way that methamphetamine addictions completely change the way people do things.
by mey | 2025-07-15 20:06:23+00:00
Apple should commit to a support life cycle on the front end then. You are being sold this product with support for a minimum of 'x' time frame. You are not 'buying' this.

Ideally what Stop Killing Games would like is game preservation, but at minimum we need honesty/transparency about product market places. I finally know what my minimum OS lifecycle is for my Pixel phone, and I can make a comfortable purchase decision based on that.

Even Steam isn't immune to this, it simply has an good track record relative compared to most other platforms.

Apple took a ~30% cut of the sale of the product. That should calculate into it's servicing of the product. To Ross Scott's points (and many others), if you have a perpetual service but a onetime/lifetime payment, the business model will eventually not net out.
by 1659447091 | 2025-07-15 20:07:11+00:00
The other post[0] has a link with a more balanced take which provides what some of these app store rules are. It's curious that they don't simply add the necessary (by store policy): '"Compatibility updates" include device resolution adds, of which there have been three since the last time the game was updated.'

That is not a change to the game (or their art), simply an update that keeps the game in compliance. However, that would also mean that they now have to comply with the newer privacy policies that have been put in place since their last update, and declare what data it and any 3rd party dependancies siphons from Appstore users. IMO, it's worth considering that that would be worth causing a fuss about if one did not want to expose this information.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44574059
by immibis | 2025-07-15 20:08:47+00:00
Well, we have at least one bit of data now: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

Take a quick look at that summary graph. Then read the X axis labels, and laugh, and weep.

LLMs are literally basically cocaine addiction: delivering the feeling of competence and success directly to your brain, while all actual real-world evidence points to the opposite. They also actually work for some purposes, of course.
by rob50 | 2025-07-15 20:08:55+00:00
Mezzie routes every chat to an optimal AI model, dissociating your identity so your chats remain private. Persistent memory, an advanced reasoning agent, and vision capabilities travel with you, giving you an ideal and optimal chat experience. While our smart router will try to give you the best model for each question, we give you the freedom to choose your own model and edit the settings as you see fit.

You no longer need multiple subscriptions to access the top LLMs — it's now all in once place, and you can swap models in the middle of a conversation.
by frozenseven | 2025-07-15 20:09:00+00:00
>This is a baffling response.

Likewise.

95+% of the time I see a response like this, it's from one particular side of the political aisle. You know the one. Politics has everything to do with this.

>what the current administration has conceded to AI companies

lol, I unironically think that they're not lax enough when it comes to AI.
by masklinn | 2025-07-15 20:09:21+00:00
> That said, having regex around in different standard vs. crate options is not necessarily the ideal

What 1: both regex and fancy-regex are crates. Regex is under the rust-lang umbrella but it’s not part of the stdlib.

What 2: having different options is the point of third partly libraries, why would you have a third party library which is the exact same thing as the standard library?
by hosh | 2025-07-15 20:10:17+00:00
"So are computers themselves. However free and open the web once was, or could've been, hardware was always capital-heavy, and it only got heavier with time. Cheap, ubiquitous computers and TSMC are two sides of the same coin."

Ok, I can see that is true.

"Exception that proves some markets are still inefficient enough to allow people of good conscience to thrive. Doesn't change the overall trajectory."

That depends on what you are measuring to determine market efficiency. Social, political, knowledge, and natural capital are excluded from consideration, so of course we optimize towards financial efficiency at the expense of everything else.

Which comes back to: business does not have beget enshittification, and it isn't because of market inefficiencies.

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on some of these points.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-07-15 20:10:48+00:00
Ah sorry. The previous versions of Lazard didn't include that. Final waste storage nor accident insurance are included though.

> (4) Unless otherwise indicated, the analysis herein does not reflect decommissioning costs, ongoing maintenance-related capital expenditures or the potential economic impacts of federal loan guarantees or other subsidies.

Even when including the entire fleet the pool is nothing compared to the $200B cleanup bill for Fukushima, last updated in 2016, with recent estimates going up to trillions.

Lets just phase out the Price-Anderson act and force the nuclear companies to buy insurance for a Fukushima scale accident from commercial insurers?

But the nuclear industry is just handout after handout and it still costs a horrifying $190/MWh to build and doesn't deliver until the mid 2040s.

> No US accident has ever tapped the secondary liability pool.

No Japanese accident ever tapped the "secondary liability pool" until Fukushima. No Soviet accident ever tapped the "secondary liability pool" until Chernobyl.

Sounds like you just want to bury your head in the sand and pretend that nuclear accidents can't happen.

Just slice every industry into a tiny enough sliver and pretend it is not affected. Just like people complaining that we can't do anything about our emissions "because China".
by aydyn | 2025-07-15 20:11:35+00:00
The ratio of diamond to coal is the point. Of course you may always find an exception, but like you say there's tons of trash today.

People consider the 80s to early 90s the golden age, not 90s/00s it isn't something I just made up. On average there is an undeniable drop in animation quality and story quality compared to past eras.
by troupo | 2025-07-15 20:11:58+00:00
> As often as OpenAI is maligned in the press, everyone I met there is actually trying to do the right thing.

To quote Jonathan Nightingale from his famous thread on how Google sabotaged Mozilla [1]:

--- start quote ---

The question is not whether individual sidewalk labs people have pure motives. I know some of them, just like I know plenty on the Chrome team. They’re great people. But focus on the behaviour of the organism as a whole. At the macro level, google/alphabet is very intentional.

--- end quote ---

Replace that with OpenAI

[1] https://archive.is/2019.04.15-165942/https://twitter.com/joh...
Show HN: The Card Caddie, free tool to optimize credit card points
by hg30 | 2025-07-15 20:12:09+00:00
I’m relatively new to the whole “credit card game” but over the past year I’ve been optimizing my daily spending for points. In August I’m heading to Southeast Asia for a year, and I have all my flights covered using points earned just from everyday spending.

Keeping track of all the different rewards categories was confusing, so I built The Card Caddie, a free tool that helps you figure out which credit card to use for each purchase to maximize points and perks.

It’s pretty simple right now, but I’d love feedback, ideas, or any suggestions for features that would actually help you.

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Thanks for checking it out!
by dejobaan | 2025-07-15 20:12:30+00:00
I like things where you can just jump into the guts and play around. If you spend enough time plinking, you can end up getting an intuitive feel for a system. Also surprised at how many iterations you can crank out these days; I once implemented a Mandel-generator on my TI-81 calculator, and that took forever. Thank you for creating and sharing this!
by wahern | 2025-07-15 20:13:49+00:00
Theo was recently proposing a new flag to open, O_BELOW: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250529080623

It's like Linux's RESOLVE_BENEATH flag to openat, except it's a constraint placed on the directory descriptor itself so that subsequent opens using openat(2) cannot reach anything outside the subtree. Which seems like exactly the semantics you'd want for a capability system. In FreeBSD Capsicum mode, this behavior is enforced implicitly[1], but it'd be a nice thing to have explicitly to help incrementally improve code safety.

[1] See https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?open(2)#:~:text=capsicum...
by pbalau | 2025-07-15 20:13:54+00:00
Dissatisfaction to what?

The reply I answered mentioned the fiduciary duty to all shareholders, but, in my limited understanding of the term, based on how I see the term used, this means the company has an obligation to make moneis for the shareholders. Which Meta does, quite well.

Obviously, people can be dissatisfied about anything, but I'm not sure Meta is failing the "fiduciary duty" aspect.
by jmye | 2025-07-15 20:13:57+00:00
Do you want me to link Conner Mantz’s Strava? Like, what is the point of dropping a single, random example here?

“Rest doesn’t preclude running” is a very simple, clear thought (followed by “recovery pace”, another very simple concept, well known in running). If you don’t want to respond to it because you don’t know anything about running, that’s fine, but maybe, you know, don’t jump into a conversation you’re not capable of participating in?
by Earw0rm | 2025-07-15 20:14:23+00:00
From a system optimisation perspective, SSTs solved the wrong problem.

Want to save people time flying? Solve the grotesque inefficiency pit that is airport transit and check-in.

Like, I'm sorry, STILL no high speed, direct to terminal rail at JFK, LAX and a dozen other major international airports? And that's before we get to the absolute joke of "border security" and luggage check-in.

Sure, supersonic afterburning engines are dope. But it's like some 10GHz single-core CPU that pulls 1.2kW out of the wall. Like it or not, an iPhone 16 delivers far more compute utility in far more scenarios.
by latexr | 2025-07-15 20:15:07+00:00
Multi-caret support in Helix is awesome. It’s even the first feature they mention on the homepage.

https://helix-editor.com

You can `C` to extend the caret down, or `s` to enter a multiple regex selection. It even keeps your copied/deleted text per caret.

I do wild things with it all the time, like changing a structured document into a completely different structure.
by ICBTheory | 2025-07-15 20:15:08+00:00
Hey all, apologies for the delayed response. I was on a flight, then had guests, then had to make some rapid decisions involving actual real-world complexity (the kind that is not easily tokenized).

I’ve now had time to read through the thread properly, and I appreciate the range of engagement—even the sharp-edged stuff. Below, I’ve gathered a set of structured responses to the main critique clusters that came up.
by 0xEF | 2025-07-15 20:15:23+00:00
I think so? I'd have to look it up, but I believe you're right.

They _definitely_ employ a lot of dark patterns, though. Glad you brought that up, because not enough people are taking the "dark patterns" thing seriously enough, in my opinion. It is absolutely wild what you can get people to do without even realizing it with some good front-end development, and none of us are immune to those tricks.
by hosh | 2025-07-15 20:16:13+00:00
Ok, given that then I think the next thing that is tripping me up is that the author of the New Yorker article is writing in a way that is itself being very literalist.

I read through the whole article looking for something that is insightful, but it feels as if the author is beating a dead horse the way the examples does the same. Maybe experiencing that is the point, but I can't help but thinking it was all a waste of time.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-15 20:16:23+00:00
For what it's worth, the nature of the stare seems to be in dispute:

> With this, a lot of Gen Z “clapped back,” if you will (this essentially means they rebutted), saying that this stare comes from listening to Boomers or Millennials ask them obvious questions or start demanding things from them that warrant a look that says, “Are you actually serious right now?” or “I don’t get paid enough for this.”

https://www.insidehook.com/internet/gen-z-stare (first result after searching "gen z stare" on DDG)

Not saying some people don't get bored and start looking at their phones way too fast (uh, like drivers at a stop light? that's not limited to gen z), just that there might be another reason for any given blank stare.
by dmbche | 2025-07-15 20:16:43+00:00
Some people come to HN for interesting articles, many lists exists if you want to know what I mean.

If, say, a third to two third of articles in any given frontpage, for multiple months to years, do not fit this description - can you see how one's ability to find what they are looking for gets hampered?

Like yes, you can grow nice flowers on the beautiful fertile soil there, it just sucks we need to get rid of these protected grasslands harboring endangered species on top of it.
by chrisfosterelli | 2025-07-15 20:16:53+00:00
I would indeed agree with things as you've stated. I interpreted "the work they do" to mean "their craft" but if it was intended as "their specific working conditions" I can see how it'd read differently.

I think there are a lot of people that love their craft but are in specific working conditions that lead to burnout, and all I was saying is that I don't think it means they love their craft any less.
by cycomanic | 2025-07-15 20:17:43+00:00
It's important to note that wavelength channels are not coupled, so modems with different wavelengths don't need to be terribly close together (in fact one could theoretically do wavelength switching so they could be 100s of km apart). So the scaling we need to consider is the scaling of the MIMO which in current modems is 2x2. The difficulty is not necessarily just power consumption (also the power envelope of long haul modems is higher than the DCI modem you link, up to 70W IIRC), but also resourcing on the ASIC, your MIMO part (which needs to be highly parallel) will take up significant floorspace and you need to balance the delays.

The 38kW is not a very high number btw, the switches at the end points of submarine links are quite a bit more power hungry already.
by quickthrowman | 2025-07-15 20:17:58+00:00
Instantaneous trip will kick in with 3-5x over current which happens in nanoseconds. Thermal overloads take longer so they don’t nuisance trip on inrush motor current (not applicable to single-phase motors due to start/run capacitors) Also, what chip is taking in line voltage single-phase AC at 120V or 208V or 277V or 480V?

All of the semiconductors I am familiar with run on low voltage DC with an inverter between AC and DC.