MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hamandcheese | 2025-07-16 01:10:54+00:00
This mainly shows that you need to watch out when it comes to unified architectures. The sticker bandwidth might not be what you can get for GPU-only workloads. Fair point. Duly noted.

But my overarching point still stands: LLM inference needs memory bandwidth, and 200GB/s is not very much (especially for the higher ram variants).

If the M1 Max is actually 90GBs that just means it's a poor choice for LLM inference.
by acdha | 2025-07-16 01:11:06+00:00
> Media says that it's the economy, but I've never once believed that to be the leading factor. People had babies when they didn't have fresh food, running water, or even homes. Certainly far worse lives than we have today.

One thing to consider is choice. Historically women didn’t have the ability to avoid having children short of abstinence, and even that wasn’t a given in a culture where marriage isn’t voluntary, marital rape is legal, education limited, and you’ve had religious indoctrination saying it’s a sin your entire life. Men didn’t have the risk of dying in childbirth, but had the rest to varying degrees (e.g. stories about wives pleading for children with men who in the modern world would be recognized as queer).

Now that people have choice, the technology to implement their decision, and a huge financial swing (children are expenses rather than cheap labor and your retirement plan) that historical baseline is increasingly irrelevant.
by Qem | 2025-07-16 01:11:11+00:00
US feared people from ravaged countries would embrace communism, and showered them with cheap cash for jobs and reconstruction. Unfortunately capitalism today faces no competition, and it's devolving into techno-feudalism. The super-rich have a hard time sharing wealth with the rest of us, in absence of credible threat of some revolution putting their heads to the guillotine or something like that.
by osn9363739 | 2025-07-16 01:11:26+00:00
The scope of financial services is pretty broad right. And it's not always about the raw data. So much of it seems to be 'how do we tell the story we want to tell with the numbers we have'. I say this as someone who hangs out with people that work with the big 4 but honestly I have little clue about the day to day. They seem to do analysis, the client will say that doesn't vibe with what they want to tell shareholders, and they will go back and forth to come up with something in the middle.
by ryao | 2025-07-16 01:11:50+00:00
I doubt anyone had a mental block against anything that was not Ethernet given that Infiniband had been taking market share from Ethernet since Nvidia acquired Mellanox in HPC if we go by the top 500 list:

https://www.top500.org/statistics/overtime/

Nvidia announced the acquisition of Mellanox on March 11, 2019. In June 2019, Ethernet had 54.4% market share to infiniband’s 24.6%. NVIDIA completed their acquisition of Mellanox on April 27, 2020. In June 2025, Ethernet had 33.4% marketshare to infiniband’s 54.2%. Note that I combined the Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet fields when getting the data. It would be interesting if I could find broader market data comparing Ethernet and Infiniband, but that is hard to find since people stopped comparing them long ago when Infiniband famously retreated into HPC and Ethernet took over everywhere else. The only thing I could find was an advertisement of a paywalled analyst report, which says:

> When we first initiated our coverage of AI Back-end Networks in late 2023, the market was dominated by InfiniBand, holding over 80 percent share

https://www.delloro.com/news/ai-back-end-networks-to-drive-8...

They express optimism that Ethernet will overtake Infiniband, but the full rationale for that is not publicly accessible. It also does not say outside of the paywall to what extent that market share taken by Ethernet would be maintained by Nvidia. Another article I found gives a hint. It shows Nvidia is gaining market share rapidly in Ethernet switches:

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/06/23/nvidia-passes-cisco-...

The numbers on Ethernet switches are not showing “people now want anything but Nvidia to create competition”. Instead, they show that there is a competitive market, Nvidia is the current driver of competition in the market, and there is amazing demand for Ethernet switches from Nvidia over switches from the incumbents, who were behind UEC. Broadcom appears to be included under others there.

The public data that I can find largely does not support what you said.
by shmerl | 2025-07-16 01:12:27+00:00
For barebones window forwarding (no input) I use something like gpu-screen-recorder with SRT streaming output and play the result on the other end with mpv / ffplay.

Haven't looked into it, but FreeRDP might support specific window forwarding too rather than the whole desktop.

If you need something fancier there is Sunshine / Moonlight, but they still have an issue with not using Pipewire for window / screen capturing (and kmsgrab is not really the proper way to do it).

Anyway, X11 is a complete dead end in general so it's not really a viable option for anything serious.
by teitoklien | 2025-07-16 01:12:51+00:00
Who said I'm for or promoting teenage pregnancies ????? No woman should be allowed to be married off to someone until they are 18 especially with that kind of age gap.

Marrying under 18s with 30-40 yr olds is not a solution and diabolical, no major religion even recommends that.

We need to restructure our society so that men and women aged 20-25 yrs old, can have a easy access to owning their own homes, with sustainable careers and occupation.

We need to make children before college postgraduation studies or even higher studies like phd not only more acceptable but the norm.

Pedophilia should not be encouraged and most sane societies have been vehemently against what you're saying (including me).

This cycle of people having kids after 35 yrs old, needs to be fixed that is the disaster.

> I mean is the moronity this common? For fuck's sake, freedom to abort is not what is killing the birthrate - it's the way our economy and other aspects of society is going haywire - and the way wealth and benefits are tricking up, not down, the work culture for example the way that is forcing people to work day and night and yet they can't own a house - among other things. Goodness!

I agree with what you said, but abortion is also causing the issues, its been normalized that its ok if majority of men and women attempt to have their first kid after 30 (it should not be this way). Premarital sex, casual sex and one night stands has destroyed the whole notion of commitment between man and a woman. Our Instagram feeds that constantly glorify unattainable photoshopped beauty from select actresses and actors influencing the masses all the time, has made expectations of men and women delusional.

There are many issues, and some of the main ones are what you described correctly , with it being overworking people, not giving 20 yr old stable careers instead keeping them stuck in gigwork, internships, and no career growth or help. They must be rectified, our society has enough wealth to fix this.
by ivape | 2025-07-16 01:14:08+00:00
Maybe it has something to do with the “you are not good enough” treadmill the modern world has everyone on. I don’t think people of yesteryear contemplated if they were ready to start a family. I don’t think they contemplated if a job was the “right fit”, and I doubt they scoured the world looking for their soulmate. So, if you live in our current time period where you are never “complete”, then you may have a hard time feeling confident about any next step.

Obviously the downside to this was that just about any idiot from yesteryear saw themselves perfectly qualified to start a family.

The solution is somewhere in the middle.
by postalcoder | 2025-07-16 01:14:12+00:00
so I started off by doing this - having a single claude.md file but in it putting references to paths to other instruction files.

I found this approach to be quite poor from the standpoint of cloud seems to treat user instructions very differently than other agentic code assistants and I think it’s because their system prompt is so long. As a result, I’m getting some pretty poor adherence to my claude.md file and I’ve noticed that very rarely if ever have I seen it reverse the file to any of the nested paths.

So.. im going to try to refactor my files to keep it all in the same file, with some heavy “LOOK AT ME” prompt engineering.

How about you?
by const_cast | 2025-07-16 01:15:57+00:00
It's not meant to be scary - the telephony network has always had it built-in, and cellular networks for SMS are clear text.

However, you should be aware that telecommunication companies are required, by law, to divulge information. If the government wants to know your call history or every text you've ever sent or received, they're required to give up that information. Similar story to ISPs.

Yes, it's how these networks were built - but that doesn't mean there's nothing you can do. E2EE services exist, and frankly SMS is shit technology by modern standards anyway. For ISPs, we have secure DNS and tools like VPNs and Tor.

When it comes to if this information can be used for nefarious ways, the answer is overwhelmingly yes. If we ask if it is being used for nefarious ways, the answer is we don't know. These networks are naturally built on pure trust. Do you trust your government, your ISP, your telecom, etc.
by nodefortytwo | 2025-07-16 01:16:07+00:00
Love the idea, I immediately went to grok (testing for work) and asked it to give me a few placeholder paragraphs in WG's style:

"The street pulsed with a neon hum, data streams threading through the air like ghost veins in a concrete jungle. Holographic hawkers flickered at the edges of vision, their pitches fragmented by the static of black-market neural rigs. She moved through the crowd, her optic implants slicing through the visual noise, parsing faces for tells of corporate loyalty or freelance desperation. Every step was a negotiation with the city's rhythm, a dance of survival where the wrong move could flatline you in a datastream dead-end.

In the shadow of a megacorp tower, its glass skin reflecting a fractured sky, the air smelled of ozone and recycled dreams. He jacked into a public terminal, his fingers dancing over a haptic deck scarred with use, pulling fragments of encrypted chatter from the dark pools of the net. The data was alive, slippery, coded in dialects of machine and man, whispering secrets of a deal gone sour in some offshore server farm. Trust was a currency nobody carried anymore, not when every connection could be a trojan horse.

She crouched in the alley, her smartcoat shimmering to match the graffiti-smeared wall behind her. The drone overhead was a cheap model, its sensors blind to her cloaking, but she didn’t trust it to stay that way. Tech evolved fast here, and yesterday’s edge was tomorrow’s obsolescence. Her neural feed buzzed with alerts—proximity warnings, encrypted pings from a contact she hadn’t seen since the Osaka run. The city didn’t sleep, and neither did its ghosts, their voices woven into the code that kept this sprawl alive."
by II2II | 2025-07-16 01:16:23+00:00
Mel was discussed in episode 114 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lgp-30-a-forgotten...), and there was a special episode which included a reading of the story (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reading-the-story-of-m...). The machine also pops up from time to time when the host discusses "personal computers", which he has a very interesting definition of!
by yipbub | 2025-07-16 01:16:33+00:00
The examples you use are disingenuous and irrelebant. They were judge decisions, not jury ones, one was a minor with mental issues.

Over-prosecution of minorities is a documented bias.

No, if the biases were flipped, this kind of study would still not be evidence of racism. In the context of all the other studies and the history of slavery and racism, it is reasonable to _guess_ that white jurors are not discriminating against white defendants, and that sampling bias is to blame.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-16 01:16:48+00:00
When people feel the game is unfair, they quit. When the game is society, the society ceases to exist.

It's wild that we find it harder to change the system than to walk away from it entirely. People opt out in a thousand small ways - refusing to have kids, refusing to participate, numbing themselves with distractions, or just mentally checking out. If the core pitch of society is "keep grinding or suffer," it’s not surprising so many people choose not to bring new life into it. Liberty and freedom aren't abstract ideals. Their real absence makes people find coping mechanisms in a world that often feels rigged.

If a society truly wants to persist, it has to give people a reason to stay - something more than survival, more than struggle, more than empty promises about meritocracy or bootstrap fantasies. Otherwise, the logic of self-preservation kicks in, and people will exercise whatever autonomy they can muster, including the right to say, "No, not this."

So, yeah, access to abortion isn't simply about individual rights in the abstract; it's a symptom and a signal. When people would rather not create new life than subject it to the current system, that's not a moral failure on their part. It's an indictment of the system itself.

TLDR; make a better society bruh.
by alganet | 2025-07-16 01:17:53+00:00
You're right, there is no novelty (despite the attempt) in social commentary there.

But they give you a spoon (for you to make one yourself). I think the one that took off as the main interpretation is definitely not what the Watchowski brothers intended (but they had to go with it).

It's definitely no more messianic than other countless movies, it just wears a more messianic cloth.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-16 01:18:24+00:00
How is that relevant to my point?

Despite its failures (however many you want to point out), our regulatory regime converts a pipeline of almost universally ineffective and/or dangerous compounds into a marketplace of almost universally safe and/or effective compounds. This is a fact.

Unless you think no one is trying to, would try to, or would deceive themselves into accidentally releasing a dangerous or ineffective compound to consumers?
by pesus | 2025-07-16 01:19:13+00:00
Agreed, the consequences of a car-dependent society are far reaching, and this is a very insidious one.

I'd also add that it may even be illegal in some places to let your kids outside by themselves at all. Even when it's not illegal, it just takes one busybody to call the police and you've got a potential charge waiting for you, all because you let your kid walk a couple blocks to school. And of course, this just exacerbates the problem further.
by arp242 | 2025-07-16 01:19:52+00:00
It should also be pointed out that the Firefox devs spent years and countless dev hours trying to keep the old extension system and solve the problems wrt. multi-process, security, performance, and compatibility. They removed the extension system only after they tried everything else, and mostly failed.

They also spent tons of effort explaining the background of these choices and why they felt they had no choice and this was the only path forward. It's disappointing people are still coming up with this "oh, why don't they just [..]?!" type stuff.
by maxnevermind | 2025-07-16 01:23:06+00:00
What I really wanted to know if OpenAI(and other labs for that matter) actually use their own products and not just casually but make LLM a core of how they operate. For example: using LLM for coding in prod, training/fine-tuning internal models for aligning on the latest updates, finding answer etc. Do they put their money where their mouth is, do LLMs help with productivity? There is no mention of it in the article, so I guess they don't?
Ask HN: A project isn't dead just because it's quiet – how to tell people that?
by fernvenue | 2025-07-16 01:23:52+00:00
Recently, I noticed that one of my personal projects was mentioned in a blog post—but only mentioned. The author skipped actually trying it, simply because it "hasn’t been updated in a while." The thing is, I’m quite confident my project would’ve worked just fine for their use case.

This made me wonder: I haven't updated it not because it's abandoned, but because there's nothing that really needs changing. It's stable and does what it's supposed to do.

I’ve had similar experiences before—when recommending a GitHub repo to someone, if they see it hasn’t been updated in months, their first question is usually: “Is this still working?” I then have to explain that yes, it still works.

Even large projects face this problem. If a popular repo goes a few months without commits, someone will inevitably open an issue asking: “Is this project still maintained?”

So I’m curious—how do you deal with this perception? Should we add notes in every README saying “This project is stable and doesn’t need updates”? Or is this just something that changes slowly over time as people better understand open source dynamics? Or, worst of all, should we start pushing out unnecessary updates just to show activity?
by userbinator | 2025-07-16 01:24:56+00:00
No one really cared about the occasional bitflips in VRAM when GPUs were only used for rendering graphics. It's odd that enabling ECC can reduce performance, unless they mean that's only in the presence of ECC errors being corrected, since AFAIK for CPUs there isn't any difference in speed even when correcting errors.

In a proof-of-concept, we use these bit flips to tamper with a victim’s DNN models and degrade model accuracy from 80% to 0.1%, using a single bit flip

There is a certain irony in doing this to probabilistic models, designed to mimic an inherently error-prone and imprecise reality.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-07-16 01:25:48+00:00
Putting aside the lightning rod topic for a moment. Strictly as an exercise in data.

Note the careful crafting of the scope: - Born in Denmark - between 1997 and 2018 - who were alive and residing in the country at age 2 years - Incident events of 50 chronic disorders - Individual medical records were not reviewed.

Many (obvious) questions: - Why Denmark? - Why that particular time frame? - Why (only) those 50 disorders? - What of those who left the country? - What of those without access to healthcare? - What of those outside any of the scope? - No mention of any differences of any kind due to gender?

The study is for a particular country at a particular time, along with some other particulars. Is such a narrow width considered definitive, to the point of considered “squashing”?

Get enough data and slice it and dice it enough you can often find what you were looking to find. And apparently ARS Technica was happy to abandon objectivity and push the accepted narrative.

I don’t care about the topic one way or another. It’s not the ends, it’s the dark side of the means.
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-07-16 01:26:16+00:00
I’m sharing a contrasting view in a conversation. And it is a perfectly valid one to take into account by OP - not everyone thinks particularly highly of folks who overdo their appearances on LI.

Seeking work puts people in a vulnerable spot and it can be intimidating when someone says “change this” and “change that”. “When I hire people blah blah blah”.

And I’ll take the downvotes over that - I’m not shaming or judging anyone for “bothering to type” something they think brings value into a conversation.
by geerlingguy | 2025-07-16 01:26:17+00:00
Busy week after our AC died, but I'm taking some notes.

I'm up to three running GPS clocks, one with OXCO, one with TXCO, and one with Rubidium holdover... going to finally be able to say what time it might be more intelligently :)

Also, I hope to meet CuriousMarc this weekend! He's done some fascinating things with Cesium clocks.
by janalsncm | 2025-07-16 01:26:27+00:00
> The only reference for this, given much later, is to https://ai-2027.com/ which is no more than fan fiction.

There are certainly pretty gaping holes in its logic but it’s more than a fanfic. I’m a bit confused about the incentive of its authors to add their names to it, since it seems if they’re wrong they lose credibility and if they’re right I’m not sure they’ll be able to cash in on the upside.
by teitoklien | 2025-07-16 01:26:28+00:00
Things should be made better I agree, But at the same time.

Every single generation before ours had worse life outcomes in everyway than us. They had lower lifespans, struggled with food insecurity, Lack of travel accomodations, no access to education for the majority, nothing.

Yet if you speak to anyone from those generation or even from our generation who have lives similar to them, they have far more positivity and energy. (and higher fertility and birth rates)

More things, "non meritocracy", "bootstrap fantasies", those things arent the problem.

People of our generation and the one before, are just always whining complaining, too lazy. I dont want to believe that either, but it is the truth.

Our freedom to do anything and everything, abort children easily, control birth planning easily, making casual sex the norm, etc, making housing unaffordable to keep this stupid real estate based bubble alive for banks, and politicians alive under garb of "Regulation" and "NIMBYism".

Are 100% much more contributing to all of this. Than nihilism, doomism, etc.

Give people better things, more money, better lifestyle, and more freedoms and no societal pressure to have kids, people are just opting for the "DINK" philosophy, Double Income No Kids.... , spend on expensive cars, better homes, more travel, but no... no kids.

Go observe every major society, the top 10% of each society in almost all of them have a pretty decent life with good savings and sense of security, freedom to not overwork too much. This is the top 10% populist politicians villify as having everything.

Now go look at the birth rates of that top 10% in EVERY major society its lower than the rest of the 90%.

More money, more affordability are not linked to birth rates at all, except for a teensy minority who overthinks things and calculates 1000 different decisions from climate change to their wealth to their partner's loyalty, to decide if they want kids. They are not the majority

No amount of motivation, higher incomes, etc will reverse this trend of birth declines, (however governments and society should strongly work towards giving people higher income, less overworking, more motivation to be optimistic not for boosting birth rates, because it wont, but simply because its the duty of public servants, politicians, policymakers and the state that serves the society in return for the society serving the state with loyalty)

TLDR; make better society yes, but even that will just lead to even fewer kids, make a more responsible society while improving people's lives.
by labcomputer | 2025-07-16 01:28:10+00:00
The data doesn't exactly support your argument though:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/births-by-age-of-mother

Just looking at raw number of births by age of mother:

* 15-19 peaked in 1989 and has decreased 35% since then

* 25-29 is higher than at any point in the 20th century

* 30-34 is higher than at any point in the 20th century

* 35-39 is higher than at any point in the 20th century

* 40-44 is higher than the 20th century except the 1960's