MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mlyle | 2025-07-12 02:44:30+00:00
You’re again not considering electrification of current loads that burn fossil fuels. Unfortunately, a lot of these loads are closer to 24/7 and will require more storage. The IEA net zero scenario assumes 100TWh of storage and may not be enough.

Total installed system costs— not batteries alone— are estimated at $300B/TWh. So that is on the order of $30T at current prices (some estimates reach to $100T). And of course, these investments don’t last forever— we can’t be kicking 3pc of GDP to storage.

I expect this to improve, but having some clean, always-on generation greatly reduces the amount of storage and overprovisioned production of other types needed.
by somat | 2025-07-12 02:44:31+00:00
Within a second apart. If I read the report right. The time resolution of the recorder?

And yes, it does sound like it was probably intentional. I would still like to see an engineering review of the switch system. Are they normally open or normally closed, In the end the switch instructs the FADEC to cut the fuel, but where does the wiring go in the meantime? what software is in the path? would the repair done before the flight be in that area?(pilot defect report for message STABS POS XCDR), and perhaps compromised the wires?
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-07-12 02:45:16+00:00
I agree with your take, but I still don't excuse anti consumer practices like that. It annoys me because this is a repeat problem in this space, where these companies don't take into account the market dynamics, or costs of their service. From the start I've been looking at these $20.00 subscriptions, and then my own personal api per token costs and been wondering how they aren't all bankrupt.

Look no further than founders in the sports betting space, like the fanduel founders. Borrow a bunch of money at huge valuations because of hype and ignore the fact, that despite it being exciting and popular, the margins are like <5%. Fanduel founders sold for 400 something million, walked away with nothing. Its now a multibillion dollar company when the new owners realized the product was marketing, not the vig. These AI companies are shifting towards their "marketing" eras.
by refulgentis | 2025-07-12 02:49:09+00:00
Free memento mori: you're both free-associating.

There's 0 reason to conclude murder-suicide, there's an infinitude of things that could have the same result, and both pilots denied it to eachother: how is that presented as proof?

I hope I don't need to explain why the fact no one knew in advance the Las Vegas shooter was going to shoot has ~0 similarities with the situation as we know it, and banal similarities with every murder.
by karlgkk | 2025-07-12 02:51:34+00:00
There are reasons they don’t. This is a deceptively difficult problem

Cost is a big one (satellite data is still quite a bit more expensive than you think, especially with many stations)

And by stations, I mean aircraft. There are a TON. Current constellations probably wouldn’t even be able to handle half the current aircraft transmitting all at once. Bandwidth, in the physical sense, becomes a limiting factor

Coverage (different constellations have different coverage, which means planes would not have transmit guarantees depending on flight path). So you’d have huge gaps anyways

There have been alternative solutions posed, some of which are advancing forward. For example, GPS aware ELTs that only transmit below certain altitudes. But even that has flaws

Anyways I think we’ll see it in the next decade or two, but don’t hold your breath
by recursivecaveat | 2025-07-12 02:52:41+00:00
I don't even think it's necessarily intentional. The idea of a 'yes man' being successful is very common for humans, and the supply is artificially constrained by the fact that it feels bad to be a sycophant. When you have a bunch of people tuning a model, its no surprise to me that the variants who frequently compliment and agree with the tester float to the top.
by numpy-thagoras | 2025-07-12 02:52:42+00:00
I have a feeling (and it's just a feeling) that many SoC-style chips of the future will abandon Von Neumann Architecture entirely.

It's not that much of a stretch to imagine ultra dense wafers that can have compute, storage, and memory all in one SoC.

First, unify compute and memory. Then, later, unify those two with persistent storage so that we have something like RAM = VRAM = Storage.

I don't think this is around the corner, but certainly possible in about 12 years.
by jonstewart | 2025-07-12 02:52:59+00:00
I am curious what kind of development you’re doing and where your projects fall on the fast iteration<->correctness curve (no judgment). I’ve used CC Pro for a few weeks now and I will keep it, it’s fantastically useful for some things, but it has wasted more of my time than it saved when I’ve experimented with giving it harder tasks.
by macintux | 2025-07-12 02:53:15+00:00
For me it's mainly about intent/unearned confidence.

If someone is speculating about how such a problem might be solved while not trying to conceal their lack of direct experience, I'm fine with it, but not everyone is.

If someone is accusing the designers of being idiots, with the fix "obvious" because reasons, well, yeah, that's unhelpful.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-12 02:54:41+00:00
Right? I’m comparing my direct experience of enduring the pain of slower than Christmas HDDs to the incredible speeds of SSDs, and get a well actually it’s not SSDs that are fast blah blah. Look dude, I don’t care about your magic smoke that you’re so smart you know how the smoke is made. I just care that I can transfer data at blisteringly fast speeds. I couldn’t care less about QLC, SLC, or TLC because reading/writing at >2GB/s is all the tender loving care I need. Don’t rain on my parade because you’re jaded.
by fcpguru | 2025-07-12 02:55:23+00:00
if masimo wins they are a kingmaker in health-tech IP. +$100M–$1B in potential royalties. Masimo will get a licensing deal with Apple.

They’d argue: “Pay us to re-enable the blood oxygen sensor in U.S. Apple Watches.” And apple probably would pay $3–$10 per device!
by jrflowers | 2025-07-12 02:58:43+00:00
> Am I the only one who thinks mention of “safety tests” for LLMs is a marketing scheme?

It is. It is also part of Sam Altman’s whole thing about being the guy capable of harnessing the theurgical magicks of his chat bot without shattering the earth. He periodically goes on Twitter or a podcast or whatever and reminds everybody that he will yet again single-handedly save mankind. Dude acts like he’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by duxup | 2025-07-12 02:59:39+00:00
>Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100,000, did not renew the contracts until Thursday, five days after the contracts expired.

Your classic manager who feels they are so important that hey HAVE TO be involved in X,Y,Z but they are not a responsible enough person to actually do the job.
by BobbyJo | 2025-07-12 02:59:58+00:00
> I read his point as, "if we have an obligation to fix other people's problems, we shouldn't be subject to complaints when our foreign adventures go wrong".

That's a bad faith reading imo. They said "action we deem just" not "things we mess up".

> Getting involved and helping to solve a problem doesn't need to mean being the police.

It generally does when the source of the problem is people. When you're actively preventing people from doing something, that is "policing". Policing isn't just arresting/shooting/bombing, it's the general enforcement of rules.

> And I'm not an expert, but I think almost none of the stuff that flowed through USAID was about being "police".

That's somewhat beside the point, as the source in both USAID and the "policing" is the US government. You dont name your hand and consider it a different person.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-07-12 03:03:33+00:00
good callout wrt being slower than JIT. ofc for certain applications it's not a showstopper, ie, if you're not using javascript for your MVC but doing more of a progressive enhancement thing.

CSS2 is closer to trivial, but CSS3 is practically a 3D game engine with all of its matrix transforms, transitions, animations, variables - not to mention all the different layout schemes (Sciter blogged about introducing display:flex and display:grid two months ago)

The most interesting part of Sciter to me is that data persistence goes way beyond localStorage (string key: string value) or filesystem API, instead it's DyBase [0][1] behind the scenes, which looks to be a very intriguing style of storing trees of data in the host language's datatype (including whatever classes you define) without mucking about with the leaky abstractions of an ORM.

[0] https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/blob/main/docs/md/s...

[1] http://www.garret.ru/dybase.html
by forrestthewoods | 2025-07-12 03:04:01+00:00
I haven’t had a spinning platter in my dev machine since I think 2008 or 2009. Even back then an SSD was the single biggest upgrade I’d seen the first 3D accelerator cards in the late 90s. (Oh god I’m old).

More recently we saw SSDs get added to video game consoles and load times are about 4x faster. And that’s with code/data optimized for a spinning plate not an SSD.

I know they aren’t actually magic. But they might as well be! I’d love to hear details on what weird conditions reduce their performance by 10x. That’d be cool and fun to know. Alas.
by scythe | 2025-07-12 03:04:03+00:00
The root of the issue here is underinvestment in storage. The weather is unpredictable, but the Sun is not. It doesn't suddenly get vastly brighter. Oscillation occurs within a predictable range. But partially because storage keeps getting cheaper, countries are investing at the bare minimum right now. Why buy $100 worth of batteries today when you can get it for $80 in three years?
by anon7000 | 2025-07-12 03:05:30+00:00
I have the opposite experience, it’s at least 90% correct. For example, if I start writing the name of a function that I just added in a different file, tab will suggest the function, then jump to the top of the file to import it. If I’m changing the way something is called in 5 places, if I change it in the first place, tab will jump to make the same change in the other places. It’s honestly pretty spot on.

Zed tab is a lot worse in comparison (partly because it’s slow)
by aerospace83 | 2025-07-12 03:05:51+00:00
> That said Boeing could take a page out of the Garmin GI275

This is not "reasoning from first principles". In fact, I don't think there is any reasoning in the comment.

There is an implication that an obvious solution exists, and then a brief description of said solution.

I am all for speculation and reasoning outside of one's domain, but not low quality commentary like "ugh can't you just do what garmin did".

This is not a throwaway, I'm a lurker, but was compelled to comment. IMHO HN is not the place for "throwaway" ad hominems.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-07-12 03:06:40+00:00
> The lawsuit — led by plaintiffs allegedly deplatformed for sharing independent news and opinion related to the COVID-19 pandemic — alleges that the Washington Post, BBC, AP, and Reuters colluded with one another and with the large digital platforms to suppress competition from independent perspectives that rival mainstream media.

It's so sad to see the Justice Department turn into Infowars.
by msla | 2025-07-12 03:07:05+00:00
https://archive.ph/J35lH

Yeah, there's reasons for that:

> On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

> That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

> The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.
by cgriswald | 2025-07-12 03:09:44+00:00
Devil's advocate:

(1) Execute yes (with or without arguments, whatever you desire).

(2) Let the program run as long as you desire.

(3) When you stop desiring the program to spit out your argument,

(4) Stop the program.

Between (3) and (4) some time must pass. During this time the program is behaving in an undesired way. Ergo, yes is not a counter example of the GP's claim.
Show HN: EndBOX DIY Kit – A Basic Microcomputer
by jmmv | 2025-07-12 03:12:39+00:00
Hello all!

A month ago, I announced of a "little box" I've been working on to run EndBASIC, similar to the machines we played with in the 1980s. The box was briefly discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253065 and I wasn't quite ready to properly launch it.

Today, I'm still not ready to actually build and ship this box myself as I was previously thinking (and I'm not sure I'll even try to embark on that journey!), but I have finished preparing DIY instructions to build your own little machine.

AND, as part of this, I've released the disk image with the tailored OS for the Raspberry Pi to run a BASIC system right at boot. In case you are curious, the OS is, essentially, a minimal NetBSD system customized with a build of the EndBASIC interpreter that leverages NetBSD APIs directly, bypassing the need for X11 to offer you a console very early in the boot.

Links for the downloads in the instructions page!

Hope you enjoy it.
by adidoit | 2025-07-12 03:16:17+00:00
Not sure if it's coincidental that OpenAI's open weights release got delayed right after an ostensibly excellent open weights model (Kimi K2) got released today.

https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/

OpenAI know they need to raise the bar with their release. It can't be a middle-of-the-pack open weights model.
by ryao | 2025-07-12 03:18:12+00:00
I upvoted your reply for its clever (ab)use of ambiguity to say otherwise to a fairly open and shut case.

That said, I suspect the other person was actually agreeing with me, and tried to state that software incorporating LLMs would eventually malfunction by stating that this is true for all software. The yes program was an obvious counter example. It is almost certain that all LLMs will eventually generate some output that is undesired given that it is determining the next token to output based on probabilities. I say almost only because I do not know how to prove the conjecture. There is also some ambiguity in what is a LLM, as the first L means large and nobody has made a precise definition of what is large. If you look at literature from several years ago, you will find people saying 100 million parameters is large, while some people these days will refuse to use the term LLM to describe a model of that size.
by mortsmel | 2025-07-12 03:19:51+00:00
I don't know if you noticed but cursors language server aspect that runs the coding edits and stuff like that from a server to the workstation is a lot better than windsurf.

Windsurf phone's home on every code edit that you have and takes on 30% load on your servers or on your workstation depending on what you're running.

I would strongly discourage the use of windsurf on your systems.

Case in point their AI model that they just built.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-12 03:20:05+00:00
Here's a video of what all that looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm87u9ebUxg

The end game is pretty unpolished, like how you stack buildings in a repetitive way, or spam buildings using a UI quirk instead of a simple quantity system, or invade a single pixel and then build buildings on that pixel.

So I'm curious how they'll decide to clean it up.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-12 03:20:59+00:00
I'm not sure where you got "malicious cabal" from. Cultural values are the water in which fish swim. They look normal, obvious, trivially true, or just the way things "are". No one is secretly directing cultural truths while believing they are lies. Cultural truths are self-perpetuating ie: socially reproduced.

It's actually quite the opposite. True-believers overwhelmingly disseminate cultural myths. It's the police officer who believes they can positively affect the enforcement of order, educators who base values in the rational order of the mind. It's journalists and pundits who frame news as a tension between order (good, stable) and chaos (bad, dangerous). Where deviance is newsworthy primarily as a threat to order. See news cycles on crime, protests, economic instability, all in terms of order must be "restored."

Look at the modern workplace, for instance, obsessed with order, predictability, and process (think: KPIs, best practices, Six Sigma). And corporate culture manuals and onboarding training reinforcing norms of punctuality, control, and rational planning.

It's present in engineers, scientists, architects, IT managers - professions often celebrated as the apex of rational, orderly progress and as solutions to messy[chaotic] problems. Even here, it's easy to gain karma dunking on the liberal arts, all because science is assumed more value because it more closely aligns with necessary order.

None of these roles form a secret cabal. Still, they enforce and perpetuate the cultural value system whose results are judged on the basis of order.

No one is saying that chaos is good or order is bad. It’s that the binary itself is a function of our cultural mythmaking. When psychedelics make that myth visible, the reaction isn't to consider the critique, but to defend the myth as "reality."
by bb88 | 2025-07-12 03:21:17+00:00
Here's some local and national reporting I found interesting.

1. Kerr county balked at the cost of flood sirens. [0]

2. Kerr county didn't alert all cell phones of the emergency. [1]

3. Kerr county repeatedly asked the State of Texas for flood help and the state said no. [2]

4. Kerr county was in the bottom half of property taxes in the state of Texas in 2017. [3]

[0] https://www.wowt.com/2025/07/11/small-texas-community-where-...

[1] https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/fema-records-kerr-coun...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/texas-flood-a...

[3] https://www.uttyler.edu/academics/colleges-schools/business/...
by no_wizard | 2025-07-12 03:21:47+00:00
It isn’t. This is dismissive without first thinking through the difference of application.

AI safety is about proactive safety. Such an example: if an AI model could be used to screen hiring applications, making sure it doesn’t have any weighted racial biases.

The difference here is that it’s not reactive. Reading a book with a racial bias would be the inverse; where you would be reacting to that information.

That’s the basis of proper AI safety in a nutshell
by kamranjon | 2025-07-12 03:22:50+00:00
You’re ignoring the T5 series of models that were incredibly influential, the T5 models and their derivatives (FLAN-T5, Long-T5, ByT5, etc) have been downloaded millions of times on huggingface and are real workhorses. There are even variants still being produced within the last year or so.

A yea the Gemma series is incredible and while maybe not meeting the standards of OSI - I consider them to be pretty open as far as local models go. And it’s not just the standard Gemma variants, Google is releasing other incredible Gemma models that I don’t think people have really even caught wind of yet like MedGemma, of which the 4b variant has vision capability.

I really enjoy their contributions to the open source AI community and think it’s pretty substantial.
by defrost | 2025-07-12 03:23:04+00:00
I'm not pro nuclear, but FWiW:

There are bioremedition techniques used to treat contaminated sites, just as there are similar techniques for toxic metals contamination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioremediation_of_radioactive_...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266676572...
by krackers | 2025-07-12 03:23:42+00:00
In current chromium source, it seems still possible to force manifest v2 extensions with `kAllowLegacyMV2Extensions` feature flag?

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...

This however is a good time to export any extension preferences, because once it's removed you won't be able to access them.
by nrmitchi | 2025-07-12 03:24:46+00:00
This whole situation feels shockingly close to the Meta/Scale situation, where founders and specific employees were plucked out, and effectively gutted any future prospects for the company.

At least in the Scale case there seemed to be some form of payout to employees and equity holders, but this takes it a whole lot further by just throwing out all other employees.

There is supposed to be the concept that “all common stock is the same”. These fake-acquisitions completely undermine that.
by panabee | 2025-07-12 03:26:36+00:00
More like alarming anecdote. :) Google did a wonderful job relabeling MedQA, a core benchmark, but even they missed some (e.g., question 448 in the test set remains wrong according to Stanford doctors).

For ML, start with MedGemma. It's a great family. 4B is tiny and easy to experiment with. Pick an area and try finetuning.

Note the new image encoder, MedSigLIP, which leverages another cool Google model, SigLIP. It's unclear if MedSigLIP is the right approach (open question!), but it's innovative and worth studying for newcomers. Follow Lucas Beyer, SigLIP's senior author and now at Meta. He'll drop tons of computer vision knowledge (and entertaining takes).

For bio, read 10 papers in a domain of passion (e.g., lung cancer). If you (or AI) can't find one biased/outdated assumption or method, I'll gift a $20 Starbucks gift card. (Ping on Twitter.) This matters because data is downstream of study design, and of course models are downstream of data.

Starbucks offer open to up to three people.
by Abishek_Muthian | 2025-07-12 03:26:43+00:00
> - Tab completion model (Cursor's remaining moat)

My local ollama + continue + Qwen 2.5 coder gives good tab completion with minimal latency; how much better is Cursor’s tab completion model?

I’m still weary of letting LLM edit my code so my local setup gives me sufficient assistance with tab completion and occasional chat.
by divinelackey | 2025-07-12 03:26:56+00:00
Sounds to me like you're not describing its limited usefulness in general, you're describing its limited usefulness when as considered a tool.

That might seem like a distinction without a point but people are not tools and people are useful. If someone argues people are tools then they don't fit your definition any more than an LLM does.

LLMs are as useful as people I would say, and as unpredictable. I run a small consulting company and we develop custom software for businesses, government, whomever. I often have to interface with other teams and other people. To get the most out of working with people you have to know how to talk with them.

Also, I noticed you didn't say anything negative about LLMs :) You just compared it w/ tooling. So I'm curious, do you think outside of the unsuitability of consideration as a tool, do you find LLMs useful?
by Paracompact | 2025-07-12 03:26:58+00:00
Nature abhors a vacuum, and humans abhor problems without definitive solutions. I don't think there has ever been a moment in human history where a civilization, when confronted with a great societal ill, has sincerely admitted that they have no idea how to solve it. Before science, natural disasters were the punishment inflicted by displeased gods on humanity, and through piousness or sacrifice they could be averted, or through divination predicted. Incurable diseases, especially psychiatric, were explained karmically or by folk wisdom.

But while we might have science today, we still have disasters and diseases. Instead of shamans and religious leaders, now politicians and activists promise easy solutions that are within arm's grasp, "if only the people currently in charge weren't so corrupt and incompetent." But change is incremental at best, and where it concerns depression specifically, it appears only to be getting worse.