MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-28 15:02:59+00:00
> The chip is not designed for this rate of power dissipation

Says who? AMD advertises the chip as having a base clock of 4.3 GHz over all cores. The 9950X pulls somewhere around 220W at 5ghz all cores and with how power scales, 170W at the advertised 4.3 GHz seems more than plausible. Seems perfectly within reason that the advertised frequency and the advertised TDP are aligned.

I wish Anandtech was still around as iirc they did have charts for all this, which nobody else seems to do :/

> and it is not the rate of power dissipation that you can expect to get from the chip.

Again, says who? Who's expectations? This is a consumer chip, and the expectations of a consumer chip is not that it spends 100% of its time running prime95 or a similar "power virus" workload. I expect that if I buy this chip while I would have intervals of >170W, I'd also have long periods of much less than 170W. If I have a cooler designed to sustain 170W of cooling, that's going to work out on average just fine as there's thermal mass in the system.
by Garvi | 2025-08-28 15:03:04+00:00
This will break and fracture the web. Unfortunately many here have much to lose by criticizing google. I have just spent 8 hours today updating my apps on the google play store, answering business emails on my google email account and updating customer tracking data on google analytics and updating their google ads.

If they decide to make an example out of me, to teach the rest of you how to behave, I am screwed. I guess that's the "freedom" you US based folks are talking about. This has already been affecting the discourse on sites like HN for a while.
by jijijijij | 2025-08-28 15:03:11+00:00
> Anyone can start a blog, write articles, take photos, make videos, and share them publicly.

Taking a photo, or making a video doesn't make me a journalist. Adhering to "journalistische Sorgfaltspflicht" is a legal requirement.

> Eine zentrale Anforderung an die Presse ist die Einhaltung der publizistischen oder journalistischen Sorgfaltspflicht bei der Berichterstattung. Es handelt sich um einen allgemeinen medienrechtlichen Grundsatz, der für verkörperte Presseerzeugnisse in den Pressegesetzen der Länder gesetzlich verankert ist.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presserecht

> Persönlichkeitsrechte > Die Presse achtet das Privatleben des Menschen und seine informationelle Selbstbestimmung. Ist aber sein Verhalten von öffentlichem Interesse, so kann es in der Presse erörtert werden. Bei einer identifizierenden Berichterstattung muss das Informationsinteresse der Öffentlichkeit die schutzwürdigen Interessen von Betroffenen überwiegen; bloße Sensationsinteressen rechtfertigen keine identifizierende Berichterstattung. Soweit eine Anonymisierung geboten ist, muss sie wirksam sein.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressekodex

> There is no expectation of privacy in public.

The expectation of privacy and being in "public" are somewhat independent things, as explained earlier. The threshold isn't just "in your face", but if someone is identifiable or not.
by brandon272 | 2025-08-28 15:04:21+00:00
> Some examples of these highly exposed jobs include customer service representatives, accountants and software developers.

We seem to be in this illogical (delusional?) era where we are being told that AI is 'replacing' people in certain sectors or types of work (under the guise that AI is better or will soon be better than humans in these roles) yet those same areas seem to be getting worse?

- Customer service seems worse than ever as humans are replaced with "AI" that doesn't actually help customers more than 'website chatbots' did 20 years ago.

- Accounting was a field that was desperate for qualified humans before AI. My attempts to use AI for pretty much anything accounting related has had abysmal results.

- The general consensus around software development seems to be that while AI is lowering the barrier of entry to "producing code", the rate of production of tech debt and code that no one "owns" (understands) has exploded with yet-to-be-seen consequences.
by tombert | 2025-08-28 15:05:13+00:00
I haven't used TrueNAS since it was still called FreeNAS.

I liked FreeNAS for awhile, but after a certain point I kind of just learned how to properly use Samba and NFS and ZFS, and after that I kind of felt like it was just getting in the way.

Nowadays, my "NAS" is one of those little "mini gaming PCs" you an buy on Amazon for around ~$400, and I have three 8-bay USB hard drive enclosures, each filled with 16TB drives all with ZFS. I lose six drives to the RAID, so total storage is about ~288TB, but even though it's USB it's actually pretty fast; fast enough for what I need to for anyway, which is to watch videos off Jellyfin or host a Minecraft server.

I am not 100% sure who TrueNAS is really for, at least in the "install it yourself" sense; if you know enough about how to install something like TrueNAS, you probably don't really need it...
by nradov | 2025-08-28 15:05:33+00:00
You're not making any sense. Even with roads, the terrain above and below the roads is largely inaccessible. If you haven't personally traveled through those areas then you might not be able to visualize the difficulty.

As for fences, what a stupid and pointless idea. The wildfires spread largely by embers blown up in the air, not by flaming debris being pushed across the ground. And what exactly are you going to build the fences out of?
by ivewonyoung | 2025-08-28 15:05:37+00:00
The point is that you don't need 60 votes to break a filibuster to increase or decrease taxes or make any other budget related changes in a once-a-year budget bill called the reconciliation bill. You just need a simple majority of 51 votes(or 50 plus VP to break the tie like the dems had).

This process was used several times to pass key and major bills like the Inflation Reduction Act, Trump's tax bill in 2017, the big beautiful bill last month etc.

Dems did not need 60 votes to restore the R&D exemption changes. They could've just included it in the reconciliation bills they passed with just 50 votes because it qualifies as a budgetary change. That's exactly how the Republicans got it done recently after getting back in power, with zero Dem votes for this change.

You completely missed that in your comment so I was trying to add some information.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-28 15:05:39+00:00
> Now you are moving the goalpost

I would beg to disagree: "The DSM is a bunch of nonsense. As long as [...], it’s worthless."

> DSM when not providing the underlying physical processes is worthless.

And when does the DSM ever provide the "underlying physical process"? It certainly doesn't for ADHD or any other chapters I happen to have read, which would make them worthless according to your criteria despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

And while I haven't read all 1000 pages of the DSM because it's not exactly my idea of a good time, I don't think it provides that kind of information in any chapter because we simply don't understand these disorders to that extent, as your original comment correctly observed.
by tsunamifury | 2025-08-28 15:06:03+00:00
As someone who has been taking the largest part of Google and facebooks ad wallet share away, Let me tell you something.

Advertising is now a very very locked in market and will take over a decade to shift even a significant minority it into OpenAIs hands. This is not likely the first or even second monetization strategy imo.

But I’m happy to be wrong.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-08-28 15:06:42+00:00
Every day when I am out in the city, I am amazed by how many jobs we have NOT managed to replace with AI yet.

For example, cashiers. There are still many people spending their lives dragging items over a scanner, reading a number from a screen, holding out their hand for the customer to put money in, and then sorting the coins into boxes.

How hard can it be to automate that?
by tux3 | 2025-08-28 15:06:47+00:00
>That's not mental illness, that's behavior that we should not be welcoming in any community.

No, acceptance of mental illness doesn't work if you define away anything serious as not mental illness. That's precisely the trouble the author is having, when they have a mental illness that's not just the cute idealized Tiktok version.

People with well-managed schizophrenia can lead relatively normal lives. Or they can wake up from a three day psychosis, not remembering why they've been arrested. It's a spectrum, and it does sometimes get ugly.
by tommyderami | 2025-08-28 15:07:12+00:00
Under the hood, is this simply checkpointing the files in the claude target folder or are you also checkpointing the claude context? One of my biggest pain points is after a few compactions/edits to claude.md and all of a sudden Claude has made a few mistakes and all the context window cruft of fixes it attempted and reverted actually seem to confuse it further and it would be nice to reset to a known happy place code & contextually and retry from there.
by rayiner | 2025-08-28 15:07:13+00:00
> It's become clear that the "shadow law" of simply passing unconstitutional statutes

What makes you think the statute is "unconstitutional?" The Supreme Court hasn't tackled the issue directly, but it upheld a law requiring libraries to install blocking software to restrict access to websites for children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._American_Libr.... Remember that, prior to the reinterpretation of the First Amendment in the mid-20th century, the "obscenity" carve-out was broad enough to outright ban things like pornography, much less allowing access to children.

That said, I suspect that the law is probably unconstitutional, insofar as it's targets at a type of speech (social media) that doesn't fall within any of the traditional exceptions. I don't think the "under 18" rationale holds when you're talking about content that traditionally hasn't been prohibited to children.

Regardless, this isn't an instance of the state blatantly violating some clear Supreme Court precedent. (And even that's okay if you have a good-faith basis for challenging the precedent! That's how impact litigation often works.)
by Spivak | 2025-08-28 15:07:24+00:00
You mean ordering kiosks and self-checkout machines? We have automated it, it's just not everywhere has implemented it.

The one I'm desperately waiting for is serverless restaurants—food halls already do it but I want it everywhere. Just let me sit down, put an order into the kitchen, pick it up myself. I promise I can walk 20 feet and fill my own drink cup.
by Barbing | 2025-08-28 15:07:24+00:00
From a journalist at the dinner:

“I think that tends to end poorly because as demand for your service grows, you lose more and more money. Sam Altman actually addressed this at dinner. He was asked basically, are you guys losing money every time someone uses ChatGPT?

And it was funny. At first, he answered, no, we would be profitable if not for training new models. Essentially, if you take away all the stuff, all the money we're spending on building new models and just look at the cost of serving the existing models, we are sort of profitable on that basis.

And then he looked at Brad Lightcap, who is the COO, and he sort of said, right? And Brad kind of like squirmed in his seat a little bit and was like, well, we're pretty close.

We're pretty close. We're pretty close.

So to me, that suggests that there is still some, maybe small negative unit economics on the usage of ChatGPT. Now, I don't know whether that's true for other AI companies, but I think at some point, you do have to fix that because as we've seen for companies like Uber, like MoviePass, like all these other sort of classic examples of companies that were artificially subsidizing the cost of the thing that they were providing to consumers, that is not a recipe for long-term success.”

From Hard Fork: Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop, Aug 22, 2025
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-28 15:07:26+00:00
>> As for the rest--your other posts implicitly assume that everyone else shares your choices and priorities--and if not then they aren't relevant.

>Wow, where do you get that from?

I mean, right off the bat, you started with "If you are blind it cannot be worse" which is a pretty big assumption that being blind is so horrible and makes your life so worthless, that risking your life to reverse it seems like the obvious choice.
by menaerus | 2025-08-28 15:07:37+00:00
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/cooldc16/cool... uses 84W TDP-rated Haswell-architecture Intel i7-4770, and authors constructed the synthetic microbenchmark with 1.67 IPC FPU and 3.86 IPC integer workloads. Then they use RAPL (Running Average Power Limit), something I learned that exists as of today, to measure the power usage on the level of the whole chip package. Reported numbers are ~22W.

Considering that the microbenchmark is utilizing only one core, and considering that this chip has 4 cores in total, could it really be that they would measure ~84-88W if they had designed the microbenchmark so that it utilizes all of the cores? This would then match the declared TDP.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-28 15:07:46+00:00
> outcome is the same though

Not really. If it’s overproduction, the solution is tighter standards at universities (and students exercising more discretion around which programmes they enroll in). If it’s overproduction and/or outsourcing, the solutions include labour organisation and, under this administration, immigration curbs and possibly services tariffs.

Either way, if it’s not AI the trend isn’t secular—it should eventually revert. This isn’t a story of junior coding roles being fucked, but one of an unlucky (and possibly poorly planning and misinformed) cohort.
by T-A | 2025-08-28 15:08:18+00:00
> Noctua does not use TDP for their heatsinks and instead have CPU compatibility charts.

Reviewers and sellers do, though. Here are a few more: [1][2][3][4]

The highest rating is from [1], which says

You cannot access the TDP guide from here, but we will tell you that it displays 140W TDP; however, it also says you can overclock that to closer to 160W or 180W TDP overall.

AVADirect advertises it as good for 115W [4].

It also beggars belief that a single 92mm fan would suffice to cool a 9950X, when the best 120 and 140 mm air coolers just barely reach 240W [5]. The only Noctua in that review, the 140mm NH-D15S, gets to 233W.

> They say it's fine, with "medium turbo/overclocking headroom"

Hopefully just an innocent mistake...

[1] https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7038/noctua-nh-u9s-cpu-coo...

[2] https://www.hardwareslave.com/reviews/cooling/noctua-nh-u9s-...

[3] https://www.frostytech.com/articles/2781/index.html

[4] https://www.avadirect.com/NH-U9S-chromax-black-125mm-Height-...

[5] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/air-cooling/therm...
by TheRealPomax | 2025-08-28 15:08:25+00:00
That's still exactly what they they were invented, though. The very first example in RFC2109 is literally for tying a session to a login.

The "abstract idea" of a cookie is an identifier that it lets a server consider requests within a larger series of requests by the same person, but the fact that it can do that at all also meant that it solved the whole "how do we know whether this user is logged in without every page request after login needing to be a POST that includes the user's name and password again".
by wslh | 2025-08-28 15:08:27+00:00
Short-term, discrete numbers like these are interesting to look at, but they don't really tell us much about the long-term trajectory. In parallel: [1].

[1] "Nvidia Forecasts Decelerating Growth After Two-Year AI Boom" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053175>
by e-topy | 2025-08-28 15:08:45+00:00
> Setting the value of href navigates to the provided URL [0]

It would have been caught because this API (setters) is impossible with Rust. At best, you'd have a .set_href(String).await, which would stop the thread until the location has been updated and therefore the value stabilized. At worst, you'd have a public .href variable, but because the setter pattern is impossible, you know there must be some process checking and scheduling updates.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/hr...
by corysama | 2025-08-28 15:09:22+00:00
Having spent 20 years making game engines and the past 4 years playing with AI image gen, I believe you are right.

There have been musings for a while now that 3D rendering is going to switch from “lay down the scene’s albedo & specular parameters then do the lighting pass” to “lay down the scene’s latent parameters and then do the diffusion pass”.

Recently, the advances in “real time AI world models” have been coming ridiculously fast.

Put these together and it’s no stretch at all imagining a game built by having artists go nuts doing whatever they want with whatever Maya can handle as long as they also make proxy geometry of trivial complexity that can be conceptually associated with the final renders. Train the AI on the association. Render the proxy geometry the old fashioned way. AI that up in real time to the associated Maya-final-render approximation.

It’s not going to happen this week. But, in 5 years? Somebody’s gonna pull it off.
by squigz | 2025-08-28 15:09:47+00:00
> Non-negotiable tenet(s): all human lives are valuable, all humans deserve dignity, and when we as a society can't find a place for a valuable and talented individuals like the author then we have failed in some sense.

This sort of framing assumes the author bears no responsibility at all, and it's just society that has failed. The thing is though, even in an ideal society, it would be not reasonable to expect people to deal with someone's issues indefinitely, particularly when they chalk up all criticism as "discrimination"; I'm quite certain there are legitimate reasons, completely unrelated to his mental health, that he was fired or passed over for promotions.
by inanutshellus | 2025-08-28 15:10:25+00:00
Ok so I was writing python professionally in this time period and ... if I were making a python documentary I'd expect it to honor folks that were active back this far much to the exclusion of late comers. I presume you were one of those?

Back then the language felt like a quiet little also-ran behind Perl and we looked with jealous eyes as Ruby On Rails took over the mindshare. If you were a python advocate then, you were really singing into the void.

My personal low-effort view has been that Python is only on the map today because MIT switched to teaching it as the language of choice in their CS classes. A quick internet search says that happened in 2009 though so ... maybe that's not fair. I thought it happened around 2005 causing the popularity to surge around 2010 but... them starting in 2009 seems like it wouldn't've been that quick to spur change. Sounds like I should go watch the documentary. ;)
by like_any_other | 2025-08-28 15:10:35+00:00
There's merit to your suspicions. For example, the 1996 movie A Time to Kill depicts a black father avenging the rape and attempted murder of his ten-year-old daughter by two white men, using it to depict the evils of white racism, and justifying vigilantism. The rape (but not the vigilantism) is based on a true event, when the author witnessed the "harrowing" court testimony of a 12 year old rape and assault victim, with two simplifications: there were two victims and one assailant, instead of two assailants and one victim, and the races were reversed: the perpetrator was black, and the victims were white: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(Grisham_novel)...

Similarly, the film Bad Ass features an older Latino that beats up white skinheads that were harassing and threatening him. Based on a real event, where an older white man was being harassed and threatened by a black man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Ass_(film)

The film River's Edge is about a boyfriend that kills his girlfriend, both white teens. Based on a real murder, but the perpetrator there was black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%27s_Edge

The Netflix series Painkiller features a capable black woman lawyer that takes on the Purdue pharma in the opioid epidemic. The real lawyer was white: https://www.thepublica.com/netflix-accused-of-race-swapping-...

In Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Nazis have free reign in Egypt, and the locals support and cheer for the British and Allies, to the point of breaking into song lauding British sailors. In reality, Egypt at that time was effectively under British occupation, which the Egyptians fiercely disliked, and hated the British (they would have a revolution against them in 1952).
by in_cahoots | 2025-08-28 15:10:47+00:00
But it's a valid point, the question is not well-posed. If you said, "I looked at both children and saw that at least one was a girl" more people would get the right answer. Many people will assume that the author looked at only one child, not both. And there's nothing in the wording to indicate either way.

As others are pointing out, this is just the Monty Hall problem. But the way the question is posed there is much clearer.
by trebligdivad | 2025-08-28 15:10:58+00:00
I kind of agree with you and Symmetry; but having had a fried CPU I'm more careful. No electronics like running very hot - so even if you're just inside spec on something for the heat it's likely to live a shorter life than if you kept it more comfortable - and it'll let it clock faster if you keep it cool! And really my points are: * the standard spec coolers just don't manage that on these hot CPUs, even if they claim to. * If you're building a machine and you know you're pushing it hard, just check the temperatures to check that cooling you bought is working.
by muldvarp | 2025-08-28 15:11:08+00:00
> These models are extremely unreliable when unsupervised.

> It doesn't feel like that will change fundamentally with just incrementally better training.

I could list several things that I thought wouldn't get better with more training and then got better with more training. I don't have any hope left that LLMs will hit a wall soon.

Also, LLMs don't need to be better programmers than you are, they only need to be good enough.
by rayiner | 2025-08-28 15:11:38+00:00
Just last week a New York intermediate appellate court overturned the $500 million fraud judgment against Trump: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/21/new-york-civil-frau.... Yes, it wasn't brought by Biden--but it was brought by an elected Democrat Attorney General who campaigned on "going after Trump." Note that, out of the five judge panel, three would have overturned the underlying conviction, while two would have granted a new trial, and one would have thrown the case out entirely:

> Two other judges, John Higgitt and Llinét Rosado, said James had the authority to bring the case but argued for giving Trump a new trial. And the fifth judge, Justice David Friedman, argued to throw out the case, saying James lacked the authority to bring it.
by zdragnar | 2025-08-28 15:11:39+00:00
Thank you for sharing. I am sympathetic to the struggle, being an occasionally unreliable narrator myself.

It can be incredibly surprising and disappointing how people can react to mental health issues, even just hearing that you have them despite not presenting symptoms at the time.

A prior acquaintance of mine was a social worker who helped people with such conditions live (semi)independently. One in particular hated his medication, but when he wasn't on it, he'd become increasingly paranoid that vampires were out to get him. To the best of my knowledge he was never violent, but you're right- when imagining defensive paranoia, popular media always brings to mind a loose cannon who might be a danger to themselves and others.

In time, this may change, but I can't say that I'm too hopeful. We no longer associate menstruation with hysteria, but it's easy to change when we're talking about half the population. So long as fictional media outnumbers real lives, it'll be harder to change.

With that said, change comes from learning, and I hope your sharing will help others understand.