MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-08 22:01:56+00:00
>but when you factor in the performance of the models you have access to, and the cost of running them on-demand in a cloud, it's really just a fun hobby instead of a viable strategy to benefit your life.

Its because people are thinking too linearly about this, equating model size with usability.

Without going into too much detail because this may be a viable business plan for me, but I have had very good success with Gemma QAT model that runs quite well on a 3090 wrapped up in a very custom agent format that goes beyond simple prompt->response use. It can do things that even the full size large language models fail to do.
by chaos_a | 2025-08-08 22:02:08+00:00
The old text to speech voices are still around in Sequoia. Some have been changed to a generic "my name is x". But most still make their fun little jokes.

Found in the voice over utility app.

Accessibility > Voice Over > Voice Over Utility > Speech > Add Voice

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk
by Xss3 | 2025-08-08 22:02:11+00:00
People forget how hostile and small the old Internet felt at times.

Developers of the past weren't afraid to tell a noob (remember that term?) to go read a few books before joining the adults at the table.

Nowadays it seems like devs have swung the other way and are much friendlier to newbs (remember that distinction marking a shift?).
by dan-robertson | 2025-08-08 22:02:11+00:00
I think it’s some combination of:

- the models are not too big for the cards. Specifically, they know the cards they have and they modify the topology of the model to fit their hardware well

- lots of optimisations. Eg the most trivial implementation of transformer-with-attention inference is going to be quadratic in the size of your output but actual implementations are not quadratic. Then there are lots of small things: tracing the specific model running on the specific gpu, optimising kernels, etc

- more costs are amortized. Your hardware is relatively expensive because it is mostly sitting idle. AI company hardware gets much more utilization and therefore can be relatively more expensive hardware, where customers are mostly paying for energy.
by Animats | 2025-08-08 22:02:16+00:00
Strangely, according to its Congressional proponents, the language in the bill says "to transfer a space vehicle involved in the Commercial Crew Program". That would not be a Shuttle. That's a Space-X Dragon, or one of the boosters.

The remaining Shuttles were delivered by carrying them atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier, a Boeing 747 rigged for that, and landing it at a nearby airport. Those craft were retired years ago. Unclear how to move the thing without cutting it apart.
by fakedang | 2025-08-08 22:02:42+00:00
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/google-will-let-companies-ru...

Google has already started the process of letting companies self-host Gemini, even on NVidia Blackwell GPUs.

Although imho, they really should bundle it with their TPUs as a turnkey solution for those clients who haven't invested in large scale infra like DCs yet.
by dangus | 2025-08-08 22:04:32+00:00
If I was an Intel shareholder I would be livid.

Can you imagine the look you'd get if it was 1998 and you told me that AMD would have over twice the market capitalization of Intel in the next few decades? In 1998 Intel was 50x larger by market cap than AMD.

It is a company that has been catastrophically mismanaged.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-08-08 22:04:45+00:00
> I don't doubt that the people selected to walk on the moon were indeed fit and healthy, but it seems like a stretch to think that the people who flew on the earlier Apollo missions were selected to less stringent criteria.

It's not a stretch to think that the people who flew on the earlier missions could have been older on average, though. Just looking at some of the ages, 2 of the still alive crowd are younger than all of the Apollo 8 astronauts. All of them are younger than two out of the three Apollo 8 astronauts.

Even a few years difference in age can make a huge impact when we're talking about people in their 90's.
by rconti | 2025-08-08 22:04:50+00:00
I'm surprised that the cost of groceries is a bigger source of stress for most people than the cost of housing. I guess, generally, it's weird to break these things into categories because money is fungible, but food vs housing is the one that stood out to me.

Also: Of course people under financial stress rely on credit more! Of course younger people use newer sources of credit that older people are less familiar with!
by foobarqux | 2025-08-08 22:04:59+00:00
I managed to get this working with gemini by using a proxy [1] and the following config (I used quelpa)

(use-package efrit :quelpa (efrit :fetcher git :repo "steveyegge/efrit") :init (setq efrit-model "gemini-2.5-pro") ;; (setq efrit-api-url "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/opena (setq efrit-api-url "http://127.0.0.1:8089/v1/messages") :config (defun efrit--get-api-key () (key-from-file "~/.keys/gemini.txt")) ; this isn't needed, it's set by the proxy :ensure t)

I needed to remove the uvicorn version constraint when importing the project to uv to get it to find a version solution.

Initially I thought you could send it directly to Gemini but apparently you need to proxy and translate the responses.

[1] Seems sketchy, use at your risk: https://github.com/coffeegrind123/gemini-for-claude-code
by burkaman | 2025-08-08 22:05:29+00:00
The bill allocates $85 million to move the shuttle. For some reason Senator Cornyn doesn't mention that number in his press releases. The relevant text:

> (F) $85,000,000 shall be obligated to carry out subsection (b), of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be obligated for the transportation of the space vehicle described in that subsection, with the remainder transferred not later than the date that is 18 months after the date of the enactment of this section to the entity designated under that subsection, for the purpose of construction of a facility to house the space vehicle referred to in that subsection.

Also, the Air and Space Museum is free and Space Center Houston (the new location) charges $30 per person.
by derbOac | 2025-08-08 22:07:13+00:00
Also, no one is providing the rest of the "message sent to Congress" in which "the organization said it would be 'unprecedented' for the federal government to remove an object from its collection and send it somewhere else."

There's nothing about noting that something is "unprecedented" that counts as lobbying or opposition per se. It could be "unprecedented" in a good way; the organization might have also just been answering a question or asking for clarification -- which seems reasonable given that the law specifies something involved in the Commercial Crew Program, not the shuttle.
by king_geedorah | 2025-08-08 22:07:18+00:00
I don’t see anything in the article besides the jailbreaking in terms of faults and I’d expect “can be made to do things OpenAI does not want you to make it do” to be a good (or at least neutral) thing for users and a bad thing for OpenAI. I expect “enterprise” to fall into the former category rather than the latter, so I don’t understand where the unusable claim comes from.

What have I missed or what am I misunderstanding?
by ultrarunner | 2025-08-08 22:07:34+00:00
I wasn't even able to successfully land a 172 after 6 or 8 hours in a 150 and growing up around aviation, including flight sims. Add in the fact that these were night flights (and in SoCal airspace) and I become very skeptical of the flightsim theory. I only wonder what tail number the time builder logged (but if you're going to forge that, or the airports, why do the flight at all?)
by soganess | 2025-08-08 22:07:36+00:00
I don't really understand this.

Intel was (and arguably still is) too large relative to its current technical capabilities. Yet even in this current “bad chips” era, Intel is only, at worst, about 10% behind in gaming performance (largely due to cache disparity) and is on par or better in most other workloads. From the K10 era until Zen 3, AMD processors were objectively worse (sometimes comically so) and AMD still managed to survive.

Intel’s mobile CPUs remain extremely competitive. Their integrated GPUs are the fastest in the x86 space. And their SoC+platform features: video decode/encode, NPUs, power management, wifi, and so on are the best in class for x86 CPUs; they are usually a solid second place or better regardless of architecture.

Subjectively, the most interesting “mainstream” laptops on the market are still, and historically have been, Intel-based. I understand that in an era where the M4 Max, Snapdragon 8 Elite, and Strix Halo each serve as best-in-class in different segments, “mainstream appeal” no longer equates to market dominance. And that is bad news for an Intel that historically just make a few CPUs (the rest being market segmented down versions of those chips), but still, to suggest they will disappear overnight seems... odd.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-08-08 22:07:37+00:00
On election night when Trump was elected in 2016, Krugman wrote in the NYT that the markets would never recover, and that there would probably be "a global recession, with no end in sight".

He definitely lets his political angle completely color his economic analysis. Now that Trump is back in the White House we are of course doomed, same as the last time he was in the White House, same as the next time.

If you've got a political angle that is closer to Krugman's than say Trump's maybe this is fine? I mean as long as you're OK with an economic analyst who doesn't have the slightest idea how banks work. If that's the kind of writing you're looking for, Krugman is a very good choice.
by toast0 | 2025-08-08 22:07:53+00:00
The servers may well be worthless (or at least worth a lot less), but that's pretty much true for a long time. Not many people want to run on 10 year old servers (although I pay $30/month for a dedicated server that's dual Xeon L5640 or something like that, which is about 15 years old).

The servers will be replaced, the networking equipment will be replaced. The building will still be useful, the fiber that was pulled to internet exchanges/etc will still be useful, the wiring to the electric utility will still be useful (although I've certainly heard stories of datacenters where much of the floor space is unusable, because power density of racks has increased and the power distribution is maxed out)
by Mathnerd314 | 2025-08-08 22:09:07+00:00
All I can find on the Smithsonian is that they did press interviews, where various staff expressed opposition, and that they also sent some report to Congress. The press interviews are, quite naturally, public statements, and it could be argued they're unrelated to lobbying. As for the report, that's part of their normal duties - it would be a real catch-22 if such a report were considered lobbying. This feels like bluster from the politicians; they write dumb letters all the time for PR purposes.

The space shuttle situation, though, is a disaster.
by dan-robertson | 2025-08-08 22:09:09+00:00
(This article actually has some good illustrations, unlike many pop archaeology articles)

I was pretty amazed by these. To my eyes, only the subject makes them look like ancient tattoos rather than something modern. At an intellectual level, I know that in many ways people in the different past were not that different to people of today (in intelligence and some of their basic feelings and desires, for example) but this still surprised me greatly.
by niemandhier | 2025-08-08 22:09:30+00:00
The Taran books hold a special place in my heart. I read the first one when I was 12 and I immediately identified with the protagonist.

I read the last one last year for the first time aged 40, and like me the character had changed. I doubt I would have understood the message of that last book of the series when I was a kid, a message of the futility of violence and the importance of people.

There are so many beautiful things in that book, what touched me most is: The epitaph on the tombstone of their greatest warrior is: “Here lies Coll, grower of turnips”, since he himself considered growing things his greatest achievement.
by wheaties | 2025-08-08 22:10:15+00:00
So a perfectly good plane that someone could enjoy and fly sits languishing at an airport because the owner, who now can't fly or doesn't want to, won't sell it? I get the attachment and all. However, if you know there's a finite number of these things then please sell it to someone who would use it.

That's a golden age plane and it should be flown. Too bad many people would rather let something rot.

Also, I don't support stealing a plane.
by pmarreck | 2025-08-08 22:10:17+00:00
If I think "it understands me better than any human", that's dissociation? Oh boy. And all this time while life has been slamming me with unemployment while my toddler is at the age of maximum energy-extraction from me (4), devastating my health and social life, I thought it was just a fellow-intelligence lifeline.

Here's a gut-check anyone can do, assuming you use a customized ChatGPT4o and have lots of conversations it can draw on: Ask it to roast you, and not to hold back.

If you wince, it "knows you" quite well, IMHO.
by tcdent | 2025-08-08 22:10:19+00:00
I incorporated the quantization aspect because it's not that simple.

Yes, old hardware will be slower, but you will also need a significant amount more of it to even operate.

RAM is the expensive part. You need lots of it. You need even more of it for older hardware which has less efficient float implementations.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/floating-point-8-an-introd...
by ultrarunner | 2025-08-08 22:11:46+00:00
Flying is easy to those for whom it's become second nature. At first it's really very difficult to get the plane to do (and keep doing) what you want (or what ATC instructs). At some point, you realize that you're holding a heading and altitude without really thinking about it, while doing a several other things. I think it really depends on who you ask and a whole host of other variables just how easy flying is.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-08-08 22:11:49+00:00
Yes. But there are systemic reasons that this has become the case.

1. For the house, since 1932 or so, the number of House Representatives has been fixed, meaning what used to be 30-50k citizens per representative, is quickly approaching 1M citizens:1 ratio. Instead of knocking on your neighbor's doors, you need to beg for money to run an expensive campaign.

2. Starting with Radio and TV and into hyperdrive with the internet, national political figures like the President can command a huge amount of political donations to be under their own control. That money can and is used to threaten House Representatives with getting primaried by the President, see 1. above.

3. As the law article I posted in the parent comment above thoroughly and convincingly investigated, the meaning of Executive Powers has changed from "Congress tells me what to do, and I do it" to I am a mini-king. Presidents have been able to push this growth as well, because see 2, then see 1.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-08 22:12:00+00:00
It would take talent for them to mess up hosting businesses who want to use their TPUs on GCP.

But then again even there, their reputation for abandoning products, lack of customer service, condescension when it came to large enterprises’ “legacy tech” lets Microsoft who is king of hand holding big enterprise and even AWS run rough shod over them.

When I was at AWS ProServe, we didn’t even bother coming up with talking points when competing with GCP except to point out how they abandon services. Was it partially FUD? Probably. But it worked.
by dietr1ch | 2025-08-08 22:12:16+00:00
> Ditto `nix-ld` being necessary, it's a great piece of work but the dynamic linker should be in the normal place and know about all the libraries on the system by default.

Isn't that part of the point of having NixOS? Dynamic linking into whatever seems best from the nix-store sounds handy until you realise it's just going back to a regular mutable distro where the state is whatever and build instructions start looking like "install all these libraries and cross your fingers just in case" and "works on my machine"™ reigns.
Open-source control plane for Docker MCP Gateways?
by GeneBordegaray | 2025-08-08 22:13:23+00:00
TL;DR: I built a control plane to run many Docker MCP Gateways with guardrails (SSO/RBAC, policy-as-code, audit, cost/usage). Thinking about open-sourcing the core. Would this be useful to you? What would you need to adopt it?

What it does today

Fleet orchestration: Provision/scale multiple Docker MCP Gateways per org/env, health checks, zero-downtime updates.

Identity & access: SSO/OIDC, SCIM, service accounts, org/env/gateway-level RBAC.

Policy-as-code: Guardrails for who can deploy what, egress allow/deny, rate limits/quotas, approvals.

Secrets & keys: KMS-backed secret injection + rotation (no raw env vars).

Audit & compliance: Immutable logs for auth/config/tool calls; exportable evidence (SOC2/ISO mappings).

Observability & cost: p95/p99 latency, error budgets, usage & cost allocation per tenant.

Hardening: Rootless/read-only containers, minimal caps, mTLS, IP allowlists.

If open-sourced, what’s in scope (proposal)

Agents/operators that supervise gateways, plus Terraform/Helm modules.

Baseline policy packs (OPA/Rego) for common guardrails.

Dashboards & exporters (Prometheus/Grafana) for health, latency, and usage.

CLI & API for provisioning, config, rotation, and audit export. (Thinking Apache-2.0 or AGPL—open to input.)

What stays managed/commercial (if there’s a cloud edition)

Multi-tenant hosted control plane & UI, SSO/SCIM integration, compliance automations, anomaly detection, and cost/chargeback analytics.

What I’d love feedback on

Would you self-host this, or only consider a SaaS? Why?

Must-have integrations: Kubernetes, ECS, Nomad, bare metal?

License preferences (Apache/MIT vs AGPL) and why.

Deal-breakers for adopting: security model, data residency, migration path, etc.

What’s missing for day-1: backups/DR, blue/green, per-tenant budgets, something else?

Would your team contribute policies/integrations if the core is OSS?

Who I think this helps

Platform/DevOps teams wrangling 5–50 MCP servers and multiple environments.

Security/compliance teams who need auditability and policy guardrails out of the box.

Startups that want to avoid building “yet another control plane” around Docker MCP.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-08 22:13:29+00:00
> because the owner, who now can't fly or doesn't want to, won't sell it

It’s an airworthy 1958 Cessna for a reason. Planes like these don’t depreciate like cars, by time, but like engines: flight time is the principal determiner of deterioration. (For pressurised planes its pressure cycles.) The only thing being “wasted” here might be hangar space.
by pmarreck | 2025-08-08 22:14:17+00:00
Unless you had a really bad upbringing, "caring" about you is not simply not hurting you, not needing anything from you, or not leaving you

One of the important challenges of existence, IMHO, is the struggle to authentically connect to people... and to recover from rejection (from other peoples' rulers, which eventually shows you how to build your own ruler for yourself, since you are immeasurable!) Which LLM's can now undermine, apparently.

Similar to how gaming (which I happen to enjoy, btw... at a distance) hijacks your need for achievement/accomplishment.

But also similar to gaming which can work alongside actual real-life achievement, it can work OK as an adjunct/enhancement to existing sources of human authenticity.
by mzajc | 2025-08-08 22:15:13+00:00
Residential proxies usually piggy back off unsuspecting users, either through hacked routers/IoT, malicious browser extensions, malicious smartphone applications, or any other kind of malware. If you're looking for a tutorial on how to infect and exploit users, you're not on the right site.

As an illustration of how bad things are on just the browser extension front: https://sponsor.ajay.app/emails/
by extraduder_ire | 2025-08-08 22:15:21+00:00
From a quick skim through the text, it seems to define what an immobiliser is, how it should work, and how it can be advertised on a car.

I don't see anything in there about them being mandatory across the EU. I know some member states passed laws mandating them before that document was published. Perhaps I got the wrong document.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-08-08 22:15:25+00:00
It's as much that LLMs are bad at counting letters in words as it is that humans are good at it.

LLMs are also bad at many things that humans don't notice immediately.

That is a problem because it leads humans to trust LLMs with tasks at which LLMs currently are bad, such as picking stocks, screening job applicants, providing life advice...
by johncolanduoni | 2025-08-08 22:15:57+00:00
No it’s not. My goalpost from the beginning was “show me an example where there wasn’t a clear monetary incentive for restricting user freedom”. That one has a monetary incentive (make our paying customer for product X also buy product Y).

As for blocking things that block ads; if you can’t see the monetary incentive for Google there then I don’t know what to tell you.

I didn’t ask you to divine the future. I said “I’ve not seen them do X without trying to get Y” (a statement about the past), and you still haven’t given me a remotely credible example.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-08-08 22:17:21+00:00
Julian Davis Mortenson describes the Vesting Clause as an “empty vessel” that does not gain meaning until Congress actually enacts laws. He argues convincingly through deep and thoruugh historical investigatiosn that the meaning of "Executive Power" has gone from a highly specific meaning as commonly understood at the founding of the United States to a more generalized "The things executives usually do" which includes many things that are more like being a king.