MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aurareturn | 2025-08-29 04:44:22+00:00
He's the CEO of Microsoft. I don't blame him for trying to hype up Microsoft's AI offerings.

But at the same time, I like what he demonstrated even if it doesn't work as well as his demos. I believe all work data should be ingestible by an LLM. I'm just anticipating a wave of opposition on HN because people here value data privacy far more than the general public.
by omnimus | 2025-08-29 04:44:56+00:00
In europe it is exactly because people are less relaxed that they start to looking for someone to blame. Not the other way around.

They are less relaxed because power over time concentrated so much that the top is managing to kill the middle class and generally squeeze everyone. The same top is running huge marketing campaigns of blaming everything but them and as solution they offer authoritarianism and even more power concentration.

The public is too busy working to be able to analyze the issue correctly. Plus political education has disappeared from schools and has been methodologically deleted by the top.
by dfee | 2025-08-29 04:45:05+00:00
I want a vehicle the size of a tank.

Or at least, a vehicle the size of a Hummer H1. But, would be willing to try out a Marauder, because they look like they’re a blast.

I had tiny sports cars growing from 16-30 years old. They were fun in a different way.

1. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/modified/behold-500bhp-295k...

2. https://www.motor1.com/news/27190/marauder-armored-vehicle-f...
by kimixa | 2025-08-29 04:45:46+00:00
I had a Crucial drive fail to read-only.

I got the data off, but most of the data wasn't really that important so there might have been dead regions.

I feel that many consumers won't really know if it's still readable, I'd suggest that 90% of people just have a single drive, and windows doesn't cope with a non-writable root drive particularly well.
by rramadass | 2025-08-29 04:45:50+00:00
What you are trying to learn/understand falls under the rubric of Scientific Computing/Numerical Methods/Numerical Analysis/Numerical Algorithms. The mathematics underpinning them is quite wide but mostly Linear Algebra and Calculus. You might find the following useful for your study;

1) Scientific Computing by Michael Heath - Classic text covering a broad swath of domains and tries to build motivation/intuition before the mathematics (affordable Indian edition available).

2) Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization by Gerald Farin and Dianne Hansford - Nice overview of needed background. The authors also have a book named Practical Linear Algebra: A Geometry Toolbox which you might find a ideal companion.

3) Numerical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications by Rajesh Kumar Gupta - A relatively recent book with a really broad coverage of subjects and detailed mathematical expositions (affordable Indian edition available).

4) Numerical Algorithms: Methods for Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Graphics by Justin Solomon - Good explanations (affordable Indian edition available). Free ebook available at https://people.csail.mit.edu/jsolomon/

5) Finally, Mathematics for Physicists: Introductory Concepts and Methods by Alexander Altland and Jan Von Delft is an excellent book to have as a reference. It has three sections viz. Linear Algebra, Calculus and Vector Calculus. The presentation is very precise, does not focus on proofs/lemmas but on concepts and covers a wide swath of important mathematics.
by re | 2025-08-29 04:46:49+00:00
A CW Key is apparently a switch used for transmitting Morse code. Make sure to click through to the individual pages to see them in use, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghx3r_OFmt4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_CW_Operators%27_Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_key
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-29 04:46:53+00:00
The only, universally-valid advice is: it depends. There are no hard and fast universal rules except carefully deciding when and when not to break conventions and guidelines.

Depending on the complexity of and user requirements the system, hard-coding roles as an enum could span the spectrum anywhere from a good to a bad idea. It would be a terrible thing if user-define roles were a requirement because an enum can't model a dynamic set of ad-hoc, user-defined groups. The careful and defensive planning for evolution of requirements without over-optimizing, over-engineering, or adding too much extra code is part of the balance that must be made. It could be a good thing if it were a very simple site that just needed to ship ASAP.
by slt2021 | 2025-08-29 04:47:41+00:00
>>Do those people really believe they're the most intellectually superior to the rest of the world? If a job can be done purely remotely, what stops the employer from hiring someone who lives in a cheaper place?

capitalism dictates that a capable remote person will not keep working for a single employer, as it will be a waste of time.

he/she will work for multiple employers (overemployed and such), maximizing earnings, thus it will constantly keep a gap between in-office and remote workers
by thombles | 2025-08-29 04:48:13+00:00
For today's 10000: amateur radio operators call Morse code "CW" since it's a Continuous Wave (unmodulated) transmission while you're pressing the key. The most basic kind is a straight key which simply transmits when you push and stops when you let go. Electronic keyers often use iambic paddles/buttons where you use one switch to create a series of "dits" and the other switch to create "dahs" yourself, which is less physically demanding and lets you hit higher WPM. There are examples of both types here.
by georgeecollins | 2025-08-29 04:49:30+00:00
Another big problem is that performance is so much better than it was in the golden age of muscle cars. Lots of BMWs and Civics today would blow off the fastest car imaginable in '68-70. Of course the latest muscle cars also improved, with engines that are like 400- 1000 hp (really just that Charger, but a teen in my neighborhood has one).

That's just really a dangerous amount of power for a daily driver. A lot of electric drivers don't realize how much the potential power is taken down in daily driving to keep it safe. But Camaro LT's have a sport mode where the backend can get loose with just a squirt of acceleration.

Cars like that are insane. It's just not safe to drive cars like that on city street anywhere near their potential.
by al_borland | 2025-08-29 04:49:32+00:00
All those prompts seem like they’d have a high probability of hallucinations. Is he making decisions to steer a massive company based on stuff the AI may have simply made up? If a person feeds me bad data as often a Copilot does, I wouldn’t trust them with anything.

It’s incredible the error rate we are willing to tolerate from AI. It’s drastically higher than the error rate we would ever tolerate from a coworker.

Considering how much money Microsoft put into OpenAI, he has a very vested interest in hyping it to try and get it to pay off, but I can’t believe he actually relies on those queries.
by anthem2025 | 2025-08-29 04:49:36+00:00
Yes, I spent years working on exactly that. I personally was working with a compiler team to validate changes to eliminate non-determinism. That’s why I felt qualified to make the statement I did.

It’s non trivial because you have to back through decades of tools and fix all of them to remove non determinism because they weren’t designed with that in mind.

The hardest part was ensuring build environment uniformity but that’s a lot easier with docker and similar tooling.
by trinsic2 | 2025-08-29 04:50:22+00:00
> Problem is we've taken the idea of "minimum viable product" too far. People are saying "Doesn't have to be perfect, just has to work." I think most people agree. But with the current state of things? I disagree that things even work. We're so far away from the question of optimization. It's bad enough that there are apps that require several gigs to just edit a 30kb document but FFS we're living in a world where Windows Hello crashes Microsoft Outlook. It's not the programs are ugly babies that could be better, they are monstrosities begging to be put to death.

LOL. OMG that was beautiful. It almost feels like we are de-evolving software to a state where shit is going to stop working bad. I know this is not full of facts, but this take reminds me of Jonathan Blow's video "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"[0] Where he talks about how code runs worse than it ever has and I think he was arguing that civilization is collapsing before our eyes in slow time.

[0]: https://youtu.be/pW-SOdj4Kkk?si=LToItJb1Cv-GgB4q&t=1089
by mitchellh | 2025-08-29 04:50:24+00:00
Maybe. All the retail banks I know don’t start true private banking until there. For example, here is an article about JPM requiring 10 back in 2016 (it’s higher now): https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-j-p-morgan-9-million-in-asse...

The non retail banks that have a good reputation are even higher.

They don’t outwardly advertise their minimums because “it depends.” For example if you’re an up and comer in your field where it seems like you’re LIKELY to one day hit the mins, they’ll start the relationship early.
by dang | 2025-08-29 04:50:57+00:00
Related:

Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615114 - March 2022 (197 comments)

Death by PowerPoint: The slide that killed seven people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19668161 - April 2019 (127 comments)
by anonym29 | 2025-08-29 04:51:17+00:00
Firefox's sandboxing still wasn't anywhere near as robust as Chrome's from a security perspective last time I checked, but fwiw, FF mobile has full FF extension support these days, including full-fat uBlock Origin.

I refuse to be boiled slowly by Google. With MV3, it was full-fat ad blockers. With MV4 it could very well be ALL ad-blockers.

And yeah, I concede that sounds conspiratorial - as conspiratorial as Google cracking down on your ability to run the ad-blocker of your choice would've sounded a decade ago.
by niemandhier | 2025-08-29 04:53:37+00:00
I think what we see is the final struggle between the Anglo-Saxon concept of Education ( Locke, Dewy) and the German concept of “Bildung” (Humboldt, Herder).

The former puts more emphasis on the pragmatic transmission of knowledge and socialisation, while the latter focuses on self formation via the gaining of knowledge.

People will always be educated, acquiring skills and being part of a society does not go out of fashion.

I am not sure the ideal of the “gebildeter Mensch” will survive. Self discovery through deep engagement with intellectual tasks requires exactly those skills AI tries to automatise.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-29 04:53:59+00:00
The author doesn't consider the nuanced trade-offs of where, what kind, and how much data to persist, compute, and where to store it, whether in the database or modeled in code. It's a quite superficial article bordering on meaninglessness that doesn't expound on the considerations of thoughtful engineering for the stakeholders: swe maintenance, operations, and business/user needs. It should lead into asking questions rather than present "the" answer.
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-08-29 04:54:37+00:00
> Nobody programs assembly language

They certainly do, and I can't really follow the analogy you are building.

> We're at a higher level of abstraction now.

To me, an abstraction higher than a programming language would be natural language or some DSL that approximates it.

At the moment, I don't think most people using LLMs are reading paragraphs to maintain code. And LLMs aren't producing code in natural language.

That isn't abstraction over language, it is an abstraction over your computer use to make the code in language. If anything, you are abstracting yourself away.

Furthermore, if I am following you, you are basically saying, you have to make a call to a (free or paid) model to explain your code every time you want to alter it.

I don't know how insane that sounds to most people, but to me, it sounds bat-shit.
by anonzzzies | 2025-08-29 04:54:48+00:00
> They are less relaxed because power over time concentrated so much that the top is managing to kill the middle class and generally squeeze everyone.

which happened because we all were very relaxed for decades; most gave away all power because it was all going well so why fight instead of going to the beach? It is still too relaxed; people are still not actually doing anything to change it.

> The public is too busy working to be able to analyze the issue correctly. Plus political education has disappeared from schools and has been methodologically deleted by the top.

what country? in the countries in the EU I hang out in, people seem to all be on some perpetual vacation. They have busy social agenda's, but work not so much.
by bruce511 | 2025-08-29 04:55:06+00:00
>> What I've found is that only Americans exhibit self-starting and creativity.

I'm going to counterpoint somewhat. I think those attributes are evenly spread into all countries, but equally I think they are uncommon in all countries.

I don't live in the US. I have traveled there and elsewhere. I would agree that there are lots of cultural differences between places, even places as nominally similar as say the UK, Australia and the US.

Of course who you interact with in various places matters. If you go to India and visit a remote-programming-company you'll meet a specific kind of person, one well suited to providing the services they offer.

Dig a bit deeper elsewhere and you'll find some very bright, very creative, engineers in every culture. In some cases those folk are doing remote work for US companies. In a few cases they're building the software (creatively and all) that the US company is selling.

In countries that are isolated for one or other reason creativity thrives. Israel, South Africa, Russia, all have (or had) exceptional engineering abilities developed because international support was withheld.

Yes, it is hard to find good talent. It is hard to develop and nurture it. But it exists everywhere. And more and more I'm seeing folks outside the US take American jobs, precisely because American workers are so keen to explain how portable those jobs are.

I understand that the American psyche is built on exceptionalism. And that does exist in some areas. But unfortunately it also acts as a filter blinding you to both exceptionalism elsewhere and inferiority at home. By the time you realise someone else has the edge, it's too late. We've seen this in industry after industry. Programing is no different.

I understand also that shooting the messenger is easier than absorbing the message. Let the down-voting begin.
by danans | 2025-08-29 04:56:07+00:00
> I can’t think of a single job that modern AI could easily replace.

It could replace many workers, perhaps sacrificing quality, but that's considered quite acceptable by those making these decisions because of the huge labor cost savings.

It also could raise the quality of work product for those working at a senior level by allowing them to rapidly iterate on ideas and prototypes. This could lower the need for as many junior workers.
by laughing_man | 2025-08-29 04:56:43+00:00
>What I've found is that only Americans exhibit self-starting and creativity.

Isn't that mostly a function of how incentives are aligned? I had a job with a lot of outsourcing to India. The Indians were given specific bits of code to write. They didn't even know how their code fit into the application.

Their entire incentive structure was geared toward getting them to write those bits of code as quickly as possible, finish, and take another task. There just wasn't any room for "self-starting and creativity".

I have a feeling if the entire application had been moved to India things would have been different.
by a333999 | 2025-08-29 04:57:01+00:00
Why is everyone so mean? I believe the article delivered on its headline.

The author showed that no -large llm providers do not loose money on inference. Model training is not accounted for because that was not the point.

I personally felt that the maths calculations was a bit redundant, since after the maths part the same numbers are taken from open router pricing. But I think it is a matter of presentation.

I would have shown OR pricing first and then did the math. In that way it would have been as insightful, since it still showed that model providers do also make money and the reader would not have felt that he did maths he could have avoided :)

So, thanks to the author! Good job.

The feedback fro hn is overly harsh. Idk; It makes me sad how mean people have become. I guess the world is not in a great spot, but taking out anger on strangers will only make it worse.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-29 04:57:04+00:00
They also upgraded the GPT-4.1 (actually a special Apple variant) to GPT-5 by default, with the option to use GPT-5-thinking, using your ChatGPT subscription. I don't know if it's a special Apple variant of GPT-5 but this is a big upgrade and more exciting than Sonnet 3.7.

I also wonder if it will have separate rate limits from ChatGPT (app/web) and Codex CLI (which currently has its own rate limits).
by k310 | 2025-08-29 04:57:53+00:00
Closest I've come is being in some interminable meeting with the boss. Just too long. In the age of dinosaurs, we had only desk phones, so I would hold a sheet of paper behind my back saying "Call Me". And there are lots of fake call apps, or you could even put up a home screen with a fake call photo of someone notorious. Unfortunately, notoriety these days is not for good reasons.

That said, please build up some self-confidence, and have some really good reasons to break out of chit-chat, like "I'm late for a zoom meeting" or "Shit, I left my keys in the car". People say, rightly so, that "it's not about you".

In my fly-tying days, I'd feel weird about going to a sewing store. Heck, they had all kinds of yarn, burlap and scissors ideal for fly-tying. I got over the feeling, because "nobody really cares".

Besides, a little notebook or block of postit-notes looks smart. "I have to write down this idea before it goes away forever" and that's so often the truth.

Building self-confidence (or just a don't give a shit attitude) prevents the social anxiety, so you don't have to solve it.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-29 04:59:11+00:00
I got upgraded once to a yellow mustang in San Francisco. I admit, I wasn't unhappy about that. I reserved the economy car, I ended up driving around the valley in a yellow mustang. With a big smile on my face.

But it wasn't necessarily a great car. It had a lot of condensation on the inside of the car in the morning. I've never seen that in any other car. My suitcase barely fit in the back. Etc. A lot of form over function in that car.

I don't own a car. In fact, I've never owned one. I just rent cars when I need them, which isn't all that often these days. I live in Berlin which is a big city that wile car friendly (by European standards) is a bit of a PITA to get around in by car. And there's public transport. And it takes about fifty minutes to even leave the city in a car because you are stuck in stop start traffic. But if I ever move out, I might need a car.

If I ever buy a car, it will be electric. ICE cars are relics of the past. That mustang makes pleasing vroom vroom noises (and they are very pleasing) but that's about it. That's what they are optimized for. Even a modest EV has more torque (the whole point of a muscle car), better handling, etc. And they are just a lot more practical. EV performance breaks the illusion that a muscle car is, well, a muscle car.

As for EVs being boring. Many of them are. Especially those in the US because it's currently cut off from the rest of the world and not exactly state of the art at this point. If you want exciting EVs to lust after, go to China. They have them in every shape and size. The new xpeng looks great, there's the huawei car, the BYD u7 and u9. And some of those are quite affordable (in China). They are unobtainium elsewhere of course, which adds to their desirability.

I don't speak from experience of course, but I do watch a lot of EV reviews. There's this myth that EVs can't be fun. They can be. It's not about the noise but it is about the highly tunable driving experience, ridiculous torque, etc. What works for muscle cars (big engine, light weight car) also works for EVs. Some of the more affordable fun options are smaller, lighter cars. Even retro conversions of classic sports cars can be a lot of fun apparently. And some of those end up being lighter after their conversion and handle better than the original.

And I bet there are a few classic muscle car conversions. Are they still fun if you take away the vroom vroom noise but otherwise increase all the performance metrics? I don't know. It probably still is quite a lot of fun to drive one.
by tobr | 2025-08-29 05:00:36+00:00
This is all true. But it is what we have. I’ve found myself wondering if a model with stronger conceptual integrity could be designed and use CSS as a compilation target. For example, with container queries and calcs you could probably implement a more coherent layout system with just math.

Unfortunately the preprocessor languages we have just add even more half-baked ideas on top of the half-baked ideas already in CSS, according to the principle that syntax sugar = good.
by Razengan | 2025-08-29 05:01:15+00:00
I have been trying to make iOS/macOS apps for years, but god, every time I have a go at it, Apple's documentation regime is still hot garbage. Eons ago I gave up Windows development because of Microsoft's inconsistent and uncertain APIs, but MS had great documentation. Apple is the opposite.

The "best" way to get the "latest" details on Apple's APIs is to suffer through mind-numbingly vapid WWDC videos with their reverse uncanny valley presenters (where humans pretend to be robots) and keep your full attention on them to catch a fleeting glimpse of a single method or property that does what you were looking for. Even 1.5x/2x speed is torture. I tried to get AIs to sift through the transcripts of their videos, and may Skynet forgive me for this cruelty.

Then when you go try to use that API, oops it's been changed in the current beta and there's no further documentation on it except auto-generated headers.

They also removed bookmarks from Xcode's built-in documentation browser years ago, and it doesn't retain a memory of previously open tabs, and often seems to be behind the docs on their websites.

I wish they would just provide open-source sample apps of each type (document-based, single-window etc.) for each of their platforms that fully use the latest APIs. At least that would be easier to ask AIs on, since that is what they seem to be going for now anyway.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-08-29 05:01:22+00:00
It just means they bought the hype and thought they could actually use AI to fire people. Many companies try to do it, and I don't know how many it works for.

But I do know that companies fire people and stay short-staffed just to keep payroll down all the time. Even when externally that seems like a terrible idea, and likely impacts bottom line. It's important to realize just how much companies hate payroll. And AI is a great way to try to reduce it.
by ricksunny | 2025-08-29 05:01:22+00:00
>if you want to be heard... and really understood ... you have to say things up front that come across as overly simple, controversial, and poorly-founded, and then you can reveal your analyses as people question you.

I question your premise. :J

I'm just kidding, that's interesting I'll have to think about applying that. I don't suppose that would translate over to blogging? The fear of course is that one makes a statement and the commentariat thinks the speaker is full of it for not having provided backup instead of questioning. Maybe it's dependent on what type of forum it is.