MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phkahler | 2025-08-14 16:57:28+00:00
>> Have you ever tried to run a model from huggingface on an AMD GPU?

Yes. I'd never touched any of that stuff and then one day decided to give it a shot. Some how-to told me how to run something on Linux which had a choice of a few different LLMs. I picked one of the small ones (under 10B) and had it running on my AMD APU inside of 15 minutes. The weights were IIRC downloaded from huggingface. The wrapper was not. Anyway, what's the problem?

BTW that convinced me that small LLMs are basically worthless. IMA need to go bigger next time. BTW my "old" 5700G has 64GB of RAM, next build I'll go at least double that.
by throw0101a | 2025-08-14 16:57:47+00:00
> ShadowStats

Just no:

> Responding to prior criticisms made by economist James Hamilton, John Williams explained in a private phone call that Shadowstats does not actually recalculate BLS data, rather, the Shadowstats CPI merely adds a constant to the officially reported numbers.[28]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com#Negative

SHADOWSTATS(t) = 1.9 + 0.0055*t + CPIAUCNS(t)

* https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3zik5t/shadow...

* https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/no-the-real-inflation-r...

> Truflation

* https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/1beg6db/how_r...

> Billion Prices

They actually published code so other folks could recreate:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project
by nnitiwe | 2025-08-14 16:57:57+00:00
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by danans | 2025-08-14 16:58:05+00:00
> Argue for higher tax rates and more enforcement all you want, but the fact is that the current setup results in a situation where the bulk of actual taxes collected come from the rich.

As they should, because the rich are paid multiples or orders of magnitude more than the middle/working class and poor. That's possible because they make money by:

- Owning capital and taking a share of the resulting productivity passively (the wealthiest of the wealthy)

- Working at a level of abstraction in the hierarchy where their skills allow them to scale their income via technology or by directing the labor of lower skilled workers.

- Working in elite supply-limited professions (i.e highly specialized doctors and lawyers, r&d in high speculation industries like AI).

It takes significant financial, social, or education capital to be able to participate in the economy in either of those modes.

As the income and wealth inequality trends have become more extreme, it makes sense that the wealthy should be paying an ever increasing portion of the tax burden, not a lower portion. Otherwise you end up with feudalism.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-14 16:58:18+00:00
> There is no conspiracy against rationalists, they’re being reported on with the same methods as everything else

No conspiracy, I agree. Only clickbait, and one obsessed Wikipedia admin.

However, different newspapers have different quality; sometimes dramatically different. Ironically, Zizians are usually reported on by the ones that keep professional standards. So it's quite funny to see how psychopathic murderers are treated with respect and reported on factually, while nerds who study artificial intelligence and send money to anti-malaria charities are accused of... well, whatever the journalists' imagination can accuse them of.

(Have you heard of the "TESCREAL" theory? Apparently, effective altruists are secretly Nazis, because... you know, the idea of improving the world is related to the genre of science fiction, and some science fiction fans in previous century also happened to be fans of eugenics, therefore... you know, wink wink. Seriously, this is documented in Wikipedia, because it comes from a "reliable source".)
by jarjoura | 2025-08-14 16:58:38+00:00
My experience so far is that, if you're limiting the "capacity" to junior engineer, yes, especially when it's seen a problem before. It's able to quickly realize a solution and confirm the solution works.

It does not works so well for any problems it has not seen before. At that point you need to explain the problem, and instruct the solution. So a that point, you're just acting as a mentor instead of using your capacity to just implement the solution yourself.

My whole team has really bought into the "claude-code" way of doing side tasks that have been on the backlog for years, think like simple refactors, or secondary analytic systems. Basically any well-trodden path that is mostly constrained by time that none of us are given, are perfect for these agents right now.

Personally I'm enjoying the ability to highlight a section of code and ask the LLM to explain this to me like I'm 5, or look for any potential race conditions. For those archiac, fragile monolithic blocks of code that stick around long after the original engineers have left, it's magical to use the LLM to wrap my head around that.

I haven't found it can write these things any better though, and that is the key here. It's not very good at creating new things that aren't commonly seen. It also has a code style that is quite different than what already exists. So when it does inject code, often times it has to be rewritten to fit the style around it. Already, I'm hearing whispers of people say things like "code written for the AI to read." That's where my eyes roll because the payoff for the extra mental bandwidth doesn't seem worth it right now.
by jfengel | 2025-08-14 16:58:45+00:00
I think you're being downvoted because you're not sincere in the question. As you say, you already hold the position; you could make the argument yourself.

The problem with devil's advocacy is that it can be a time-waster. One can play devil's advocate forever on any nontrivial issue. There is no point at which you have to concede the argument. If you suspect that the advocate isn't being sincere, many people will object to the potential time sink.

Effectively, you've proposed a game, and nobody wants to play. The downvotes indicate that others wish to avoid the potential threadjack. To put it another way: they don't believe that it can be substantive discussion, at least not in this forum.

There are reddit forums where you'll find people better qualified to present the position opposite yours.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-14 16:58:56+00:00
Are you okay putting Penthouse magazine (or similar) in elementary schools?

I'm guessing you aren't... people have to draw lines somewhere on this. There's a difference between restricting by age, making available to all and actually assigning material to children. Not all materials are appropriate for elementary school libraries. And I'm not even talking about The Color Purple specifically.

Also, none of this stops a parent from buying a book for their children they feel is appropriate for their child.
by mint5 | 2025-08-14 16:59:08+00:00
It may depend on skin type, body composition and wrist hair - perhaps the validation work used a skewed sample?

I’ve found the sensor to give stable results, with repeated measurements always within 2 percentage points.

And the results give qualitatively very reasonable data when I sleep at high altitude. The readings have a clear dependence on the elevation.

I haven’t cross checked against other meters, but my Apple Watch 9 sensor gives stable and reasonable results that match expected altitude trends. So yeah it may not be tuned to a wide enough variety of wrist types.
by losteric | 2025-08-14 16:59:11+00:00
I shoot on digital and film. Film photography has been "niche" for nearly 2 decades at this point. Comparing it to digital photography is like pointing out "smart watches can do so much more than mechanical watches" - that's not the point.

There's an overlap between the mystique of analog technologies, the ritual and limitations of physical processes, and status. Status in affording the time to learn about this niche, the money for hardware and film, the space for development (sometimes), signalling a different mentality towards content (in theory). Plus, for me, the end-to-end analogue feels like a retort to this phase of digital disinformation/AI-everything.

Any Joe can buy an expensive mirrorless with a good travel lens, shoot 3000 photos at a game, and come away with some good ones. Monkey on a typewriter and all that.
by einrealist | 2025-08-14 16:59:20+00:00
> Twitter sucked [...] Electric cars sucked [...] Phones sucked

All these things are not black boxes and they are mostly deterministic. Based on the inputs, you EXACTLY know what to expect as output.

That's not the case with LLMs, how they are trained and how they work internally.

We certainly get a better understanding on how to adjust the inputs so we get a desired output. But that's far from guaranteed at the same level as the examples you mentioned.

That's a fundamental problem with LLMs. And you can see that in how industry actors are building solutions around that problem. Reasoning (chain-of-thought) is basically a band-aid to narrow a decision tree, because the LLM does not really "reason" about anything. And the results only get better with more training data. We literally have to brute-force useful results by throwing more compute and memory at the problem (and destroying the environment and climate by doing so).

The stagnation of recent model releases does not look good for this technology.
by tguvot | 2025-08-14 16:59:20+00:00
in bayarea subreddits there are multiple posts talking about EV charger vs welder outlet and how it drops price from 2000 to 500 or so (depends on complexity).

another thing, which is good long term is to a find a local electrician (plumber, etc) who doesn't charge service calls and have reasonable pricing.

no idea about handyman pricing. never used any. for electrical/water/roofing i prefer somebody who is licensed/insured/bonded/etc
by fragmede | 2025-08-14 16:59:31+00:00
The technology to look at is shopping carts. They're obvious to us now, but when they were first introduced, stores hired actors to use them so that real customers would adopt the habit. There are various "killer" apps that are already currently very useful for their users, but they'll take a while to percolate out as people discover them. That you don't agree with what the corpos are pushing is their bad.
by mandeepj | 2025-08-14 17:00:14+00:00
It’s been going on for a while - Non-invasive monitoring. Here’s a general link https://www.google.com/search?q=blood+glucose+patent+startup

I believe a firm in Uk holds a patent for it and Apple has partnered with them a while ago.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-takes-key-step-towards-b...
by bunderbunder | 2025-08-14 17:00:49+00:00
From what I've experienced, this depends very much on the programming language, platform, and business domain.

I haven't tried it with Rails myself (haven't touched Ruby in years, to be honest), but it doesn't surprise me that it would work well there. Ruby on Rails programming culture is remarkably consistent about how to do things. I would guess that means that the LLM is able to derive a somewhat (for lack of a better word) saner model from its training data.

By contrast, what it does with Python can get pretty messy pretty quickly. One of the biggest problems I've had with it is that it tends to use a random hodgepodge of different Python coding idioms. That makes TDD particularly challenging because you'll get tests that are well designed for code that's engineered to follow one pattern of changes, written against a SUT that follows conventions that lead to a completely different pattern of changes. The result is horribly brittle tests that repeatedly break for spurious reasons.

And then iterating on it gets pretty wild, too. My favorite behavior is when the real defect is "oops I forgot to sort the results of the query" and the suggested solution is "rip out SqlAlchemy and replace it with Django."

R code is even worse; even getting it to produce code that follows a spec in the first place can be a challenge.
by sReinwald | 2025-08-14 17:00:55+00:00
I doubt you would be happy to hear it, actually. And I doubt it would change your opinion one bit.

You've kicked this entire thread off with an incredibly telling non sequitur: teenager won't use headphones -> multiculturalism bad. When called out on that leap, you pivoted to abstract questions about norm enforcement while ignoring that the norms actually worked fine in this situation.

You're not interested in debate. You're interested in getting someone to validate your predetermined conclusion about the necessity of a cultural hegemony. Having to acknowledge that norm enforcement wasn't actually broken here is pretty inconvenient for that narrative, isn't it?

Still waiting for you to explain that original leap, but we both know you won't. Because you can't without exposing yourself further. Good day. Thanks for playing.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-08-14 17:01:04+00:00
I still shoot primarily on DSLR. I don't know how a modern mirrorless compares, but for me shutter lag is the big killer when it comes to action shots.

I grew up shooting 35mm film and my first digital cameras were a shock with their significant shutter lag. To some extent I can "learn" the lag for a given camera and compensate somewhat for things that move regularly. For irregular motion (like sports) shutter lag is maddening.

Re: hopeless - I supposed you could use multi-shot burst on laggy cameras and pull the trigger early.
by rwmj | 2025-08-14 17:01:13+00:00
Is renting stable in the United States? In the UK it's very precarious. The landlord can throw you out after a year with a couple of months' notice[1], so you might have to move every year. You don't want to be kicked out of your house and have to move when you're in your 70s or 80s. Plus the usual stuff like you cannot make any modifications, even paint a wall.

[1] This might change to 4 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renters'_Rights_Bill
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-14 17:01:26+00:00
For me one realization was that a good portrait is a good sports photo. It is better still to show some action or make a photo that tells a story but you can sell pictures to the parents of a student athlete if you make their child look like a superstar.

The best purchase I made for indoor sports photography was DxO photolab which has a denoiser that means photos shot at ISO 6400 look perfect and can even make decent shots at 50000+ ISO

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114961647210448472

With basketball and a lot of sports there is the problem that if you follow the ball you get a lot of shots of people’s rear ends because that is how the geometry works so you have to fight that and look for the opportunities where things open up and you get a good ‘portrait’ and if you do that the action and story shots will happen. Headers in soccer are a special case, you realize people in sports are trained to do things a certain way so you know if the ball gets kicked high towards certain players they will try a header so you shoot a burst. For baseball you camp at a spot where you can see home plate and third base so you can show what is at stake, get the runner making a score, etc.

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114849463914827733

I started out with a Sony alpha 7ii which was deeply discounted, when it broke and I wanted to stay in the game I got a 7iv and sent out the 7ii out for repair, now I have a monster backpack and often go out with two cameras

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114866409940645564

But since the lid blew off in Gaza we have a clear bag policy at my Uni so I take just one camera to games. For indoor sports my weapon of choice is this lens

https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/lenses/all-e-mount/p/se...

but my favorite lens for walking about and outdoor events where I can get close is

https://tamron-americas.com/product/28-200mm-f-2-8-5-6-di-ii...

which I use for things like

https://www.yogile.com/trackapalooza-2025#12s

because the optical quality is great for a lens so versatile.
by philipkglass | 2025-08-14 17:02:02+00:00
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence projects so far have been very open. They are open about the trained models, the inference code, the training data sets, and the training code. A research group from any country can pick up where AI2 left off if they want to try a different approach or extension. I want to live in a world where there are many models near the top of leader boards, from many different research groups and countries, and I think that AI2 helps enable that.

The stated "US dominance" goal just pays lip service to what appeals to the funders, kind of like how supercomputing projects traditionally claim that they contribute to curing disease or producing clean energy. (Even if it's something far removed from concrete applications, like high fidelity numerical simulations of aqueous solutions.)
by saghm | 2025-08-14 17:02:24+00:00
I understand. I just didn't really have any other expenditures anywhere close to that high at the time; I've never purchased a car, and like most college students, I certainly never purchased a house back then. I hadn't paid much attention to tuition prices since graduating, so seeing the number now made the inflation feel much more visceral to me than comparing the prices I can recall of much less expensive things I purchasing to what they are now.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-14 17:02:28+00:00
>a declared goal of superiority of others would rub those others the wrong way

So what? Does that change anything in how things work in reality? Everyone knows it, so why pussyfoot around it?.

Why are people nowadays so sensitive about saying the truth of how things work? Have people been coddled that much that they've can't handle reality? A good life lesson is that the world does not revolve around your feelings.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-14 17:02:34+00:00
>... there's certainly a chunk of Trump supporters who would like to go back to the 40s and 50s version of US "not talking about race" (or the 1910s for not talking about women).

Actually, it's back to 1868[0] at least that they'd like[1] (rolling back birthright citizenship) to go.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14160
by TimorousBestie | 2025-08-14 17:02:42+00:00
> My daughter was invited to the weekly “black girl magic” lunch once a month (because I guess that’s the math for a half white half south asian kid).

> This is because academics and authors who write this stuff really do believe in racial identity and solidarity.

Beverly Bond, who holds the trademark, was an influencer avant la lettre. She wanted to make a brand—looks line like a clothing line, followed by a TV show, then a podcast.

I get that it’s tempting to blame everything on radical leftist academics or whatever but that’s not what happened here. This is simply capitalism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Girl_Magic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Bond
by stouset | 2025-08-14 17:02:45+00:00
Github and GitLab both allow you to specify a merge target other than main and only show you the differences from the target. If that target is merged into main, they're retargeted to main.

There is definitely room for an improved forge experience that takes advantage of the additional powers of jj, but it's no worse an experience using them today than it is with git.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-14 17:02:57+00:00
> My point is just that, insofar as this is true, it means what the article is saying is more about cults in general and less about anything specific to rationalism.

The lesson I took from it was how tiny cults can appear inside of a larger group which itself is not a cult. Not specific to rationalism, I agree.

There are a few thousand rationalists, and the sizes of the cults mentioned in the article were about 20, 5, 5, I think.
by harimau777 | 2025-08-14 17:03:08+00:00
I feel like this article hits on a good observation but draws the wrong conclusion. Education may have very well come to underemphasize practice. However, I think that a pure learning by doing approach throws the baby out with the bathwater. It's also not what I've observed in my (admittedly limited) experience with apprenticship:

I worked as a field service engineer setting up servers and similar systems for a while. The place I was sent wasn't a union job but many of the workers were from the local union. I was very impressed with the apprentices. They would work half their week at our site and the other half attended training at the union hall. It seemed to work well for everyone: they seemed to learn a lot, the union developed it's next generation, and we effectively got an extra worker for half of every week.

It would be interesting to see a model like (half on the job and half in the classroom) that applied to more professions. E.g. in programming, universities seem to neglect the practice while bootcamps seem to neglect the theory.
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by scarface_74 | 2025-08-14 17:04:08+00:00
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But the idea of having “passion” for my job - even though I currently work at my favorite job I’ve had in 30 years across 10 jobs - just isn’t me. I would never give up a remote only job because I thought I would be “passionate” about another job and definitely not for less money.

Because of combination of remote work, low fixed expenses and a couple of other hacks, I don’t dread work or even really care about retirement. My wife and I travel frequently now, did the digital nomad thing for a year two years ago and starting next year we plan to spend a few months of the winter internationally and the summer away from home either domestically or internationally.

There was one job that I have had that was meaningful to me. I was an architect for a company that managed sending nurses to the homes and schools of special needs kids. I wrote back end and mobile apps for the nurses and actually had a chance to work with some in the field to understand how the nurses used the devices.

It wasn’t a highly profitable company since most of the revenue came from Medicaid reimbursements. I only left when private equity took the company over and it became a PE rollup play.
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