MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by filleduchaos | 2025-08-08 21:44:13+00:00
Consider that you did so with an actual pilot beside you in what I presume were CAVOK conditions.

Plenty of children (once they get big enough to reach the pedals) can take a car for a spin. That doesn't mean that driving safely in all conditions you may find yourself thrown in is easy, even with e.g. lots of racing game experience.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-08-08 21:44:42+00:00
True, but I chose the words 'ChatGPT' and 'optimization' for brevity. There are many more eyes on machine learning since ChatGPT came along. There could be simpler techniques yet to discover. What boggles the mind is the $4 trillion parked in Nvidia stock, and wasted if more efficient code lessens the need for expensive GPUs.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-08-08 21:45:07+00:00
You are right about that, I was also wondering whether the numbers and categories I pulled.. chose make sense.

I was mainly thinking about keyboards where you have at least some close exposure to a/the sound source.

For example, organ players sure need to incorporate some intuition about the pipe sound latency into their skills (on top of the sound space and reverb!)
by afro88 | 2025-08-08 21:46:16+00:00
I tried it again today out of curiosity. OpenAI said there was some routing bug on launch and requests were going to the cheaper model.

Today it seems pretty good. Not perfect, but not a spectacular failure.

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68966fcf457c8191811968b9a6a2e81e
by bell-cot | 2025-08-08 21:48:22+00:00
Human nature is a huge part of the problem here:

> research on the higher-end version of the two kinds of Securam lock used on Liberty Safe products revealed something more intriguing. The locks have a reset method documented in their manual, intended in theory for use by locksmiths helping safe owners who have forgotten their unlock code.

Most people want an "absolutely uncrackable" lock, safe, coin wallet, encryption algo, or whatever - until they manage to lose their combination/key/password. Then, they suddenly want an E-Z-Open back door.

Companies that want to stay in business all understand the "please tell me a bunch of lies about it being unbreakable" customer psychology of this market.
by brendoncarroll | 2025-08-08 21:49:08+00:00
All of those issues can be solved by doing an import of the changed file into the build system's content addressed store, and creating a new version of the entire input tree. You also don't need to choose between cancelling, waiting, or dropping. You can do 2 builds simultaneously, and anything consuming results can show the user the first one until a more recent one is available. If the builds are at all similar, then the similar components can be deduplicated at runtime.

These techniques are used in a build system that I work on[0]. Although it does not do automatic rebuilds like Poltergeist.

[0] https://github.com/wantbuild/want
by andsoitis | 2025-08-08 21:49:24+00:00
> If the majority of wealth is centralized to a small group of people, why would you bother trying to extract smaller amounts of money from the other group?

That's a fantastic question that I don't think I've heard before, but I have a practical answer to.

Most of the wealth of the top 1% (to pick an arbitrary "small group of people") is not sitting as cash in the bank; it is concentrated in financial and business assets: equities & mutual funds, private businesses, real estate, bonds and other fixed-income investments, alternative assets.

In the US, over half of all publicly traded stocks and mutual fund shared are held by the top 1%, meaning their wealth is overwhelmingly tied to ownership of productive assets rather than wages or savings accounts.

So as a tax authority you have to balance getting cash (to run the government) against reducing the productive capacity of the economy (by asking businesses to reduce their capital).
by mattnewton | 2025-08-08 21:49:52+00:00
Lots of good answers that mention the big things (money, scale, and expertise). But one thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that the transformer math is probably against your use case. Batch compute on beefy hardware is currently more efficient than computing small sequences for a single user at a time, since these models tend to be memory bound and not compute bound. They have the users that makes the beefy hardware make sense, enough people are querying around the same time to make some batching possible.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-08 21:50:05+00:00
> Because they were already burned by them in the past.

What's your point? Genocide now is genocide now, you are either on the right side of history or not. You can what-about all day, Palestine did this, Palestine did that, the fact is that right NOW Israel is doing a genocide to the Palestinian population.

Are you trying to make some apologies for this specific genocide based on past events? Cause that's a slippery slope, my friendo. T

> have raised - why no local power is trying to help Palestinians much

Nah, your whataboutism can't change the subject I raised: many local powers can't help Palestine for fear for their own safety. After all, Israel started a war with two other nations in the region: Iran and Lebanon, in the last couple of months.
by KaiserPro | 2025-08-08 21:50:29+00:00
Same explanation but with less mysticism:

Inference is (mostly) stateless. So unlike training where you need to have memory coherence over something like 100k machines and somehow avoid the certainty of machine failure, you just need to route mostly small amounts of data to a bunch of big machines.

I don't know what the specs of their inference machines are, but where I worked the machines research used were all 8gpu monsters. so long as your model fitted in (combined) vram, you could job was a goodun.

To scale the secret ingredient was industrial amounts of cash. Sure we had DGXs (fun fact, nvidia sent literal gold plated DGX machines) but they wernt dense, and were very expensive.

Most large companies have robust RPC, and orchestration, which means the hard part isn't routing the message, its making the model fit in the boxes you have. (thats not my area of expertise though)
by andsoitis | 2025-08-08 21:50:38+00:00
> what do they do with it, and how does effect the economy compared to the way lower wealth people behave when they receive money?

Most of the wealth of the top 1% (to pick an arbitrary "small group of people") is not sitting as cash in the bank; it is concentrated in financial and business assets: equities & mutual funds, private businesses, real estate, bonds and other fixed-income investments, alternative assets.

In the US, over half of all publicly traded stocks and mutual fund shared are held by the top 1%, meaning their wealth is overwhelmingly tied to ownership of productive assets rather than wages or savings accounts (and is therefore illiquid).
by seba_dos1 | 2025-08-08 21:50:47+00:00
No, it is supposed to find an answer that matches your persistence. That's what it does, and understanding that is the key to understanding its strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise you may just keep drinking the investors' kool-aid and pretend that it's a tool that's supposed to tell the truth. That's not what it does, that's not how it works and it's a safe bet that's not how it's gonna work in foreseeable future.
by csours | 2025-08-08 21:51:02+00:00
https://www.ecfr.gov/search?search%5Bdate%5D=current&search%...

Or browse by Title 14, Chapter 1, Subchapters F & G (Aka Title 14, Parts 89 - 139)

I'm not vouching for this link in particular, but you can also search for things like Part 91 operator, Part 135 operator, etc

https://l33jets.com/resources/blog/the-difference-between-pa...
by cyanydeez | 2025-08-08 21:51:04+00:00
Anything you build in the LLM cloud will be. Must be. Rug pulled either via locking success or utter bankruptcy or just a model context prompt change.

Unless you're a billionaire with pull, you're building tools you cant control, cant own and are ephermap wisps.

That's even if you can even trust these large models in consistency.
by boneitis | 2025-08-08 21:51:12+00:00
So to follow up on my misconceptions, the RollBack attack it is based on is now implemented on underground firmwares and is what is novel. The research itself too is fairly novel and was published in 2022, capable (at least, on paper) of rolling back the cipher state on the receiver, preventing de-sync (and is the crux of why this submission is amazing).

The prior RollJam that I thought this was dates back to Samy's 2015 findings. It turns out 2015's RollJam (unlike RollBack) requires active interference and seems to necessitate the attacker being in the vicinity of both the remote and the receiver.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-08-08 21:51:31+00:00
> "Bad" numbers are what companies are paying for.

You've never heard of the stock market, have you? Nobody cares about the "weather", they all want low interest rates and reports that justify the Fed taking interest rates to zero and below. That's it, nothing else matters.

> If I'm a sailor...

You aren't. Wake up.
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-08 21:53:16+00:00
Googles bread and butter is advertising, so they have a huge interest in keeping things in house. Data is more valuable to them than money from hardware sales.

Even then, I think that their primary use case is going to be consumer grade good AI on phones. I dunno why Gemma QAT model fly so low on the radar, but you can basically get full scale Llamma 3 like performance from a single 3090 now, at home.
by braooo | 2025-08-08 21:53:28+00:00
Yeh. We're still barely beyond the first few pixels that make up the bottom tail of the S-curve for autonomous type AI everyone imagines

Energy models and other substrates are going to be key, and it has nothing to do with text at all as human intelligence existed before language. It's Newspeak to run a chat bot on what is obviously a computer and call it an intelligence like a human. 1984 like dystopia crap.
by exabrial | 2025-08-08 21:53:40+00:00
I hate to tell you, the single cause of inflation is not "wealth inequality", it's extra dollars spent by the Federal Government that literally don't exist.

The US Government writes checks that always cash, and unlike you and me, they don't have to have anything in the bank account behind it. This is the _sole and only_ cause of inflation. _Its the literal definition_ and is well documented.
by kelipso | 2025-08-08 21:53:52+00:00
For $10k, you too can get the power of a $2k desktop, and enjoy burning your lap everyday, or something like that. If I were to do local compute and wanted to use my laptop, I would only consider a setup where I ssh in to my desktop. So I guess only difference from saas llm would be privacy and the cool factor. And rate limits, and paying more if you go over, etc.
by ShakataGaNai | 2025-08-08 21:54:08+00:00
There is a big difference between a Cessna 172 with a gross weight of 2,450 including the 56 gallons of fuel and an A380 with a maximum takeoff weight of 1,268,000 pounds and 65,000 gallons of fuel.

Did you know the Twin Towers were actually designed to withstand a jet? https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19930227/1687698/tw...

Except they assumed that it'd be a 707 and also that'd be at landing speed of about 180mph ... not a 767 (which could be as much as 2x a 707 in take off weight) doing almost 600 mph.

A plane larger than a Cessna, but still no jumbo jet, crashed into a mall https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/12/21/the-sunvalley-mall-p... - 7 people died. Tragic, but it goes to show that SIZE DOES MATTER.

Also also. "no alarm bells" is highly dependent on location. If this "stolen" plane were to have flown into highly controlled airspace without approvals, you can bet your ass that alarm bells would have gone off. But the person flying the plane knew what they were doing and where they were going. They went away from busy areas and didn't anything out of the ordinary.

Is there still many reasons this could be a problem? Sure. But invoking the terrorism word is full FUD, the likes of which the media loves to use. And ends us with security theater like shampoo size limits.
by motorest | 2025-08-08 21:54:11+00:00
> Fast-forward some number of years (...)

I repeat: OP's home server costs as much as a few months of a cloud provider's infrastructure.

To put it another way, OP can buy brand new hardware a few times per year and still save money compared with paying a cloud provider for equivalent hardware.

> Regarding the equivalent EC2 instance, I'm not comparing it to the cost of a homelab, I'm comparing it to the cost of an Anthropic Pro or Max subscription.

OP stated quite clearly their goal was to run models locally.
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-08 21:54:38+00:00
Besides missing the point, this is a bad argument.

ASML manufactures the machines that TSMC uses to produce chips - they have an even more critical and irreplaceable role in chip production than Taiwan does. ASML is headquartered in Veldhoven, NL. That would absolutely affect chip production - no new nodes, no replacement parts. There are other critical technologies for semiconductor manufacturing made in USA as well.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-08 21:55:01+00:00
It’s one thing to be hard in practice like IMAP where you get basically need to test again real world servers to see what they do and then build against that.

But tfa makes a good point about http having some odd complexities even on paper that we kinda take for granted.

I feel like I just wrote an LLM-level comment but I definitely clicked the article thinking it was just going to be about the first case.
by esseph | 2025-08-08 21:56:08+00:00
https://pcisig.com/pci-sig-announces-pcie-80-specification-t...

From 2003-2016, 13 years, we had PCIE 1,2,3.

2017 - PCIE 4.0

2019 - PCIE 5.0

2022 - PCIE 6.0

2025 - PCIE 7.0

2028 - PCIE 8.0

Manufacturing and vendors are having a hard time keeping up. And the PCIE 5.0 memory is.. not always the most stable.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-08-08 21:56:10+00:00
If they decide to settle, even if for a much smaller amount, its a big L for the UC system and the nation. The past Universities were much smaller, but the UC system is a beast. They must fight this or we are really going down the road of a politicized and neutered academia (like in Russia). This along with the recent Executive Order claiming to be able to require a political appointee to approve every research grant, we are going down the wrong road.

I am constantly thinking about this modern misunderstanding of what the framers of the Constitution meant by "Executive Power" is simple "to execute the law".

"Article II Vests Executive Power, Not the Royal Prerogative" [1][2] is critical and needs to be set front stage.

[1] https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles/2062/ [2]https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-meaning-of-article-...
by lysace | 2025-08-08 21:56:56+00:00
Repost from a previous comment of mine, that sort of applies here:

> I get nervous when I see videos of people buying random Li-Ion/Po-battery powered crap from Teemu etc.

> My personal policy for buying anything with such a battery: the seller must have a meaningful presence in my country, selling at least like $10M/year.

I.e. they need to have a large enough exposure to handle a catastrophic house fire if something happens due to e.g. a bad design. I figure that at around $10M/year they start caring, even if they are psychopaths or incompetent.
by dfee | 2025-08-08 21:57:02+00:00
Beyond the headline - the context seems to be this:

> A draft of a proposed agreement sent to the school Friday and obtained by CNN requires UCLA to pay the federal government $1 billion over multiple installments, along with a $172 million claims fund for people impacted by violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

> The agreement the administration is proposing – which, if agreed to, would mark the biggest settlement it’s received from a higher education institution — requires a resolution monitor to oversee the school, as well as a new senior administrator who will be focused on compliance with anti-discrimination laws.

> The proposed agreement prohibits overnight demonstrations and calls on the school to revise its policies and procedures on protests. It also requires UCLA to discontinue race and ethnicity-based scholarships and provide the resolution monitor with admissions data.

> The proposal would ensure single-sex housing for women on campus and ensure athletic recognition for female athletes in women’s sports. The UCLA hospital and medical school will also be expected to stop providing gender-affirming care.

> In return, UCLA’s funding would be restored and the school would be eligible for future federal grants and contracts.
by josteink | 2025-08-08 21:57:51+00:00
> In essence, an application cannot take focus, it can only receive focus. In the example above, your chat app would request an XDG Activation token from the compositor

To be fair, the same is mostly true on Windows, but through some different APIs.

Applications being able to put themselves in front unconditionally was for a long time a huge source of pain for the user, due to abusive/malicious software, and probably a reason Windows was malware platform #1.

This is honestly a reasonable design.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-08 21:58:55+00:00
> In some ways, the Framework Desktop is a curious machine. Desktop PCs are already very user-repairable! So why is Framework even bringing their talents to this domain? In the laptop realm, they're basically alone with that concept, but in the desktop space, it's rather crowded already. Yet it somehow still makes sense.

And even more curious, Framework Desktop is deliberately less repairable than their laptops. They soldered on the RAM. Which makes it a very strange entry for a brand marketing itself as the DIY dream manufacturer. They threw away their user-repairable mantra when they made the Desktop, it's less user repairable than most other desktops you could go out and buy today.
by abandonliberty | 2025-08-08 21:59:07+00:00
The speed of light is rather unaccommodating.

We run into human-perceptible relativistic limits in latency. Light takes 56ms to travel half the earth's circumference, and our signals are often worse off. They don't travel in an idealized straight path, get converted to electrons and radio waves, and have to hop through more and more hoops like load balancers and DDOS protections.

In many cases latency is worse than it used to be.
by goosedragons | 2025-08-08 21:59:08+00:00
MST makes getting a dock cheaper. It's very cheap to get a hub or dock that can do two or even three monitors over MST, with power pass through and a few extra USB ports for a mouse and keyboard or printer. Like $30-$50. Maybe you spend another $50 for a decent extra charger to go with it.

On Mac you basically HAVE to get an expensive $200+ TB dock to get a one cable multi-mon setup.

The new M4 MBAs can still only do two external screens at a time. It's better but the competition can do more.
by costco | 2025-08-08 21:59:10+00:00
This page on the mailing list has links to cases of people who were caught because of an unknown flaw in Tor: https://archive.torproject.org/websites/lists.torproject.org...

I can't find a link, but I think people have done simulations and the privacy benefits of more hops are not as great as one might think. If you control the guard and exit, then traffic confirmation is relatively easy by just looking at timing and volume of traffic no matter how many hops are in between.
by tlogan | 2025-08-08 21:59:36+00:00
> If true …

I don’t know about his investments, but one fact is clear: he was CEO of Cadence Design Systems, which has just pleaded guilty to federal charges for exporting technology to China. That alone should make him ineligible to lead a company with major government contracts.

If he resigns (and he will), the board should go with him.
by yogurtboy | 2025-08-08 22:00:09+00:00
I don't disagree with your first point, that it's not still extremely useful despite its flaws. I absolutely use it to build project outlines, write code snippets, etc.

Your overall conclusion though seems a little free of context. Average people (i.e. my mom googling something) absolutely do not have the wherewithal to keep track of the various pros and cons of the underlying system that generates the magical giant blue box at the top of their search that has all the answers. They are being deliberately duped by the salesmen-in-chief of these giant companies, as are all of their investors.
by ShakataGaNai | 2025-08-08 22:00:58+00:00
I love these concept of badges, but almost never are they well executed. Defcon has had TONS of problems with their badges of all types. OpenSauce has tried for the last two years with only middling results.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say "don't do it" or "These people are stupid". It's just that people underestimate the time and effort required. It's basically bringing a product to market, for 20 to 50k people (depending on the event), in a few months time. But it also needs to be "cool" and "unique" and often "beginner friendly" and extremely cheap. Crazy crazy hard.
by torginus | 2025-08-08 22:01:08+00:00
No it's not slow - a single NAND chip in SSDs offers >1GB of bandwidth - inside the chip there are 100+ wafers actually holding the data, but in SSDs only one of them is active when reading/writing.

You could probably make special NAND chips where all of them can be active at the same time, which means you could get 100GB+ bandwidth out of a single chip.

This would be useless for data storage scenarios, but very useful when you have huge amounts of static data you need to read quickly.
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by ultrarunner | 2025-08-08 22:01:19+00:00
I, too, landed whatever tailwheel my grandpa had back when I was eight years old, without even an hour of training. Now, my kids can land my plane too. It helps that I'm on the controls, but they don't seem to notice. I hope my grandpa enjoyed it then as much as I do now.

The suggestion that proficiency "in the air" correlates to ability to land, and the referring to the PIC as "co-piloting" are both pretty good indicators that there's more to the story. Flying is fun, but doing so without training is terribly unforgiving.
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-08 22:01:50+00:00
It’s about trend. Not <Test Result>==Success. These evaluations try to put an objective number to what most of us can evaluate instinctively. They are not perfect or necessarily fair. Many, maybe most, job interviews are really a vibe assessment, so it’s an imperfect thing!

I don’t know my IQ, but I probably would score above average and have undiagnosed ADHD. I scored in the 95th percentile + on most standardized tests in school but tended to have meh grades. I’m great at what I do, but I would be an awful pilot or surgeon.

Growing up, you know a bunch of people. Some are dumb, some are brilliant, some disciplined, some impetuous.

Think back, and more of the smart ones tend to align with professions that require more brainpower. But you probably also know people who weren’t brilliant at math or academics, but they had focus and did really well.