MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pornel | 2025-08-06 00:36:46+00:00
This is tautological. If you keep instructions dumbed-down enough for AI to work well, it will work well.

The problem is that AI needs to be spoon-fed overly detailed dos and donts, and even then the output can't be trusted without carefully checking it. It's easy to reach a point where breaking down the problem into pieces small enough for AI to understand takes more work than just writing the code.

AI may save time when it generates the right thing on the first try, but that's a gamble. The code may need multiple rounds of fixups, or end up needing a manual rewrite anyway, after wasting time and effort on instructing the AI. The ceiling of AI capabilities is very uneven and unpredictable.

Even worse, the AI can confidently generate code that looks superficially correct, but has subtle bugs/omissions/misinterpretations that end up costing way more time and effort than the AI saved. It has uncanny ability to write nicely structured, well-commented code that is just wrong.
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by gtirloni | 2025-08-06 00:38:49+00:00
I can get 1Gbps up/down in a remote area (close to the fields) in a mid-sized city in Brazil with _zero_ government subsidies. The energy company that owns the poles was required to offer it to anyone that wanted to rent space on them and a dozen different fiber-only ISP's came to life.

I understand the US has a lot of pre-existing infrastructure and it's hard to move on (sunk costs) but.. the situation is just insane. If the government just stopped getting bribed and allowed competition, it seems this situation would be solved in a couple of years.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-06 00:38:53+00:00
No, that's not my defense. You're putting words in my mouth. I'm saying that because they voted for someone that you disagree with for whatever reasons does not automatically make them stupid. They could have voted for someone for a totally different reason than tariffs. Now their guy is doing something they don't know anything about and now they are personally getting attacked. Whether they know anything about that topic or not does not make them stupid. If they attempt to argue without being fully versed by quoting what the face on TV tells them, again, that doesn't make them stupid. It just makes them very bad at debating. Look at all of the "man on the street" comedy interviews that are out there. Most of these people have no clue about what they are talking about, but just want to argue against the other side. A lot of the people are definitely not "very smart" but that's because they are cherry picked for that purpose. There are a lot of people that voted for this guy because the last guy was just unable to articulate much of anything and did not put forth a lot of confidence in pretty much anything. Knee jerk reactions usually have some pretty negative consequences. Just looking at current polling suggests there are a lot of people that voted for this administration yet are not happy with what is going on. Yet you are saying they are stupid. If these people were really onboard with "other countries pay the tariffs" there would not be negative polling numbers.

All I'm saying is stop painting with a broad brush in that anyone voting for a party is stupid. I'll defend people voting for who they want or even voting against someone they don't want. To call them stupid is just stupid.
by UncleEntity | 2025-08-06 00:39:03+00:00
Ya know, in the over half a century I've been on this planet, choosing a new pair of shoes is so low on my 'life's little annoyances' list that it doesn't even rise above the noise of all the stupid random things which actually do annoy me.

Maybe the problem is I don't take shoes seriously enough? Something to work on...
by altruios | 2025-08-06 00:39:42+00:00
a good cop would not be “ruined” by being held accountable to their actions.

Do not excuse evil.

> I think most intelligent people are going to model out the expected outcome of their career choices at least intuitively

And yet we have doctors who face exactly the same risks as is being proposed. Your argument is flawed and 1-dimensional. People choose their careers on many factors.

If we make it so good cops are rewarded (by having cheaper insurance), we have more good cops. That’s a win.

Qualified immunity must go.
by Dagger2 | 2025-08-06 00:40:12+00:00
There has to be one somewhere. In my case it's running on my router, but your ISP can do it at their end, and since you can use any /96 including public ones, it's also possible for anyone to run one:

$ dig A +short github.com 140.82.112.4 $ dig AAAA +short github.com 64:ff9b::8c52:7004 $ dig AAAA +short github.com @2a01:4f8:c2c:123f::1 2a01:4f8:c2c:123f:64:5:8c52:7004 2a00:1098:2c::5:8c52:7004 2a00:1098:2b::1:8c52:7004

Note the embedded 140.82.112.4 in the last four bytes of the v6 addresses, which you can write in v4 format if you want:

$ getent ahosts 2a00:1098:2b::1:140.82.112.4 2a00:1098:2b::1:8c52:7004 STREAM 2a00:1098:2b::1:140.82.112.4
by prussia | 2025-08-06 00:41:03+00:00
> what I made

But did you really make it? Or was it the AI? If someone commissions a piece of art from an artist, I don't think the commissioner would be able to truthfully say they made it, even if they had a specific vision for what the piece of art should look like. But if you've edited or changed the track enough yourself, maybe it would be fair to call yourself a co-author...
by rsynnott | 2025-08-06 00:41:22+00:00
Roughly every ten years, Dublin Bus tries a few articulated buses, which then get stuck on roundabouts, reminding Dublin Bus why it abandoned them last time. Eventually this is forgotten, and they try again.

Really the great advantage of double deckers is precisely that they work where articulated buses don’t; otherwise they’re far too much trouble and you’d never use them.
by rchaud | 2025-08-06 00:41:49+00:00
> Millions of Soviet deaths; millions of Chinese deaths; deaths from the Khmer Rouge....these are not "violent capitalist repression".

How come every citation of comparative body counts in the Capitalism v Communism Olympics always seem to evade mention of:

- 3 million Indians starved under Churchill's Britain (+ countless more before that)

- 5 million dead in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

- 1 million dead in the war of Algerian independence vs France

- 600,000 dead in the Iraq war

- the 50 million + killed under the staunchly anti-communist Third Reich

- a million dead in "anti-communist" purges in Indonesia's Sukarno

Were these not carried out directly, or directly armed and abetted by capitalist regimes?
by hinkley | 2025-08-06 00:42:02+00:00
BTW, I often shorthand this as, "I'm not so much better [at optimization] as I am more stubborn."

The number of times I've gone in looking for 10%, backed out a bit and rearranged the code first to find 25%, better maintainability, and space for a feature that marketing has been bitching about for three years and development keeps insisting we cannot do in any reasonable amount of time? Probably averages out to at least three times per employer, which is a good number of miracles to perform.
by grafmax | 2025-08-06 00:42:03+00:00
Ethno-nationalism has spreading across the global north contributing to the decay of democratic and the rise of “illiberal democracy”. There are many ways to react to this. Fear, denial, touching grass - they aren’t your only options. You can try to do something about it. Even if you don’t change much, it feels good to stand up for what’s right. It feels better than fear and denial, if you ask me.
by asdefghyk | 2025-08-06 00:42:03+00:00
Why does not GHM give breakdown of combatants ( Hamas fighters, youth combatants 17 and 17 yo ) and civilians ) - probably because it does not support Hamas? Also In at least one situation UNrwra members where found to be harboring hostage's? UN seems to have their own agenda.

Remember the first casualty in War is truth, se we need to be suspicious of anything. coming from both sides is my opinion.

Look at the child that was on media front page around the world - reported by MULTIPLE media organizations as being food shortage suffer - when it was pointed out that was not the actual situation

There is criticism of Israel, but have not seem criticism of Hamas. Why? Hamas Command centers under hospital, weapons stored at school, They seem not to care at all about local Gaza people on the ground. In fact it is reported some Gaza people been executed for criticism of Hamas ?
by anigbrowl | 2025-08-06 00:42:23+00:00
Only the willingness to go to war, stops aggressors.

I'm pretty sure that's why China is saber-rattling so openly. I don't endorse the CCP's arguments for Taiwan being part of China (which rest on a very flimsy historical foundation and are mostly tied to the ROC government fleeing there), but I fully understand their dislike of being militarily encircled by the US. Other Asian nations appreciate the status quo under a Pax Americana, but have made it clear that they are less than enthusiastic about participation alongside the US in any military conflict centered on Taiwan.
by rockemsockem | 2025-08-06 00:43:01+00:00
See my previous statement

> Once you have several fundamental terms and phrases for new topics it's easy to then validate the information with some quick googling too.

You're practically saying that looking at an index in the back of a book is a meaningless step.

It is significantly faster, so much so that I am able to ask it things that would have taken an indeterminate amount of time to research before, for just simple information, not deep understanding.

Edit:

Also I can truly validate literally any piece of information it gives me. Like I said previously, it makes it very easy to validate via Wikipedia or other places with the right terms, which I may not have known ahead of time.
by tomrod | 2025-08-06 00:43:57+00:00
Ah. I see your confusion. I was referencing the phrase in terms of financial markets and irrational exuberance, not technology phase shifts.

We had books before and after the printing press adoption, just now we could produce more with lower quality materials.

The areas that blockchain-cum-AI grifters think they will succeed in is art, which is deliciously ironic, and thoughtful work. The areas current AI achieves value are the margins that few enjoy, like filler emails and blockbuster movies that few go to theaters to see, compliance checklists, boilerplate code, and repetitive low value work flows.

Still, it will be interesting to see where else we can build margins. Alphafold is a great example of where GenAI can do well.
by docmars | 2025-08-06 00:44:42+00:00
I'm using TypeScript. In my case, these refactors are usually small and only spanning up to 5 files depending on how interdependent things are. The benefit with an Agent is it's ability to find and detect related side effects caused by the refactor (broken type-safety, broken translation strings, etc.) and renaming for related things, like an actual UI string if it's tied to the naming of what I'm working on, and my changes happened to include a rename.

It's not always right, but I find it helpful when it finds related changes that I should be making anyway, but may have overlooked.

Another example: selecting a block that I need to wrap (or unwrap) with tedious syntax, say I need to memoize a value with a React `useMemo` hook. I can select the value, open Quick Chat, type "memoize this", and within milliseconds it's correctly wrapped and saved me lots of fiddling on the keyboard. Scale this to hundreds of changes like these over a week, it adds up to valuable time-savings.

Even more powerful: selecting 5, 10, 20 separate values and typing: "memoize all of these" and watching it blast through each one in record time with pinpoint accuracy.
by nneonneo | 2025-08-06 00:44:54+00:00
Useful ones to know:

- `R0lGOD` - GIF files

- `iVBOR` - PNG files

- `/9j/` - JPG files

- `eyJ` - JSON

- `PD94` - XML

- `MII` - ASN.1 file, such as a certificate or private key

These are nice to know since they show up pretty frequently (images in data: URLs, JSON/XML/ASN.1 in various protocols).
by sxp | 2025-08-06 00:45:05+00:00
Why use a new format instead of SVG or JS+canvas? The latter would deviate from "plain text" but it's still pretty close. It avoids reinventing the wheel and a webbrower is installed on almost every computer with a display.

Another format to look at is Markdeep which has support for rendering ASCII diagrams and is very close to plain text: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html

Personally, I just wrote a thin wrapper around the somewhat verbose JS Canvas API that lets me write code such as

ctx4b.save(); ctx4b.translate(x+=10, 10); new Line(ctx4b).b().m(36,50).lAD(180 + 50, 56).lXY(0, -7.1).lXY(7, 0).lAD(50, 55).f(); ctx4b.fillRect(36, 0, 10, 50); ctx4b.restore();

when I want to draw diagrams in my Markdeep notes.
by andai | 2025-08-06 00:45:41+00:00
I tried this (gpt-oss-120b with Cerebras) with Roo Code. It repeatedly failed to use the tools correctly, and then I got 429 too many requests. So much for the "as fast as I can think" idea!

I'll have to try again later but it was a bit underwhelming.

The latency also seemed pretty high, not sure why. I think with the latency the throughout ends up not making much difference.

Btw Groq has the 20b model at 4000 TPS but I haven't tried that one.
by flkiwi | 2025-08-06 00:45:59+00:00
This is kind of how I use it:

1. To work through a question I'm not sure how to ask yet 2. To give me a starting point/framework when I have zero experience with an issue 3. To automate incredibly stupid monkey-level tasks that I have to do but are not particularly valuable

It's a remarkable accomplishment that has the potential to change a lot of things very quickly but, right now, it's (by which I mean publicly available models) only revolutionary for people who (a) have a vested interest in its success, (b) are easily swayed by salespeople, (c) have quite simple needs (which, incidentally, can relate to incredible work!), or (d) never really bothered to check their work anyway.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-08-06 00:46:20+00:00
TBC I was addressing the parents suggestion that the writer was incurious.

One blog post is hardly enough to just someone as ignorant but after quick look at the author's writing/coding/job history, I doubt he is that either.

I think it's fantastic that you can look at a string and feel it's base64 essence come through without a decoder. Thinking about it for a minute, I suspect I could train myself to do the same. If someone who already knew how to do it well wrote a how-to, I bet it would hit the front page and inspire many people, just like this article did.

I just don't get the urge to dump on the original author for sharing a new-to-him insight.
by breve | 2025-08-06 00:46:21+00:00
> but there is one serious seemingly insurmountable obstacle

It can be surmounted with WebAssembly: https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js/

Single thread demo: https://niutech.github.io/jxl.js/

Multithread demo: https://niutech.github.io/jxl.js/multithread/
by asdefghyk | 2025-08-06 00:46:40+00:00
OBSERVATION - War fighting in suburban areas normally has a high civilian death rate. I do not know how it goes to the rate in Gaza ie Low/comparable/high

There is also , very unfortunate to say accidents . Not making a excuse - just look at previous wars. Example involving US was - collateral murder

Why did Israel ever give warnings for civilians to leave areas , if they set on deliberate genocide?
by jwrallie | 2025-08-06 00:47:19+00:00
The problem with the 10x engineer myth is that there is no baseline to what an engineer is, as much as there is no baseline for what a human is.

Any tool can be shown to increase performance in closed conditions and within specific environments, but when you try to generalize things do not behave consistently.

Regardless, I would always argue that trying new tech / tools / workflows is always better than being stiff in your ways, regardless of the productivity results. I do like holding up on new things until things mature down a bit before trying though.
by lordpipe | 2025-08-06 00:47:20+00:00
Author here -- the solution I discussed in that message isn't quite the same solution as the one linked. The `paper-zstd` repository is the one using dictionary compression on individual chunks. But in the `.mca.zst` solution I'm not using dictionaries at all. It's more like a glorified LinearPaper -- just take the region file, decompress the individual chunks, and recompress the entire 1024 chunk container together. It breaks random access to individual chunks, but it's great for archival or cloud storage offloading of infrequently visited parts of a MC world, which is what I'm using it for.

I don't remember the exact compression ratios for the dictionary solution in that repo, but it wasn't quite as impressive (IIRC around a 5% reduction compared to non-dictionary zstd at the same level). And the padding inherent to the region format takes away a lot of the ratio benefit right off the bat, though it may have worked better in conjunction with the PaperMC SectorFile proposal, which has less padding, or by rewriting the storage using some sort of LSM tree library that performs well at compactly storing blobs of varying size. I've dropped the dictionary idea for now, but it definitely could be useful. More research is needed.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-06 00:47:30+00:00
My current position is a source available license for any product I am working on solo. You can definitely get at the source code, but I'm gonna make you pay me money first and sign an NDA.

I strongly believe in the principles of OSS for things like frameworks and tools that everyone in the community can benefit from. But, when it comes to extremely complex end products like Word, Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc., it's a lot harder for me to buy the community-is-better argument. Even in some cases the frameworks & tools being semi-proprietary has major benefits (.NET/Visual Studio dev experience).

There are tradeoffs with everything. The key is focusing on the customer. Who do you want to keep around as your customer? You aren't going to make everyone happy. Someone is always going to be pissed at your particular approach. Might as well take a path that makes you a little bit of money if you can.
by arjvik | 2025-08-06 00:47:37+00:00
Did you apply through the website/job posting?

I’d strongly recommend trying again and reaching out to the friend of a friend who informed you of the role and asking for a more direct intro to the hiring manager. Unfortunately, it’s really really easy to slip through the cracks as a resume, and one feels no remorse rejecting a pdf file. Even without the warm contact, some way of directly reaching the hiring manager (notably: not the recruiters!) would mean that “I wrote that library!@ becomes front-and-center, not buried as a line item. I’ve seen so much more success with myself and the people I know in cold or warm outreach than through job application portals. In fact, I’ve yet to get a callback from a single job I’ve ever applied to online!

As an aside, does anyone know why the AI labs have such bad recruiters? I successfully got a job at one and am currently working there, but I still have many many complaints about the process.
by tzs | 2025-08-06 00:47:56+00:00
Nonsense. It was working fine and following close to the expected schedule. Numerous states had submitted their proposals for how they would use the money, those had been reviewed and approved, and the states were accepting bids from companies to do the construction and starting to select and approve them.

Delaware, Louisiana, and Nevada had selected contractors and passed final federal review and were ready to start construction as soon as the funds were disbursed.

Another 40 had contractors selected and were just waiting for final federal review to complete and funds to be disbursed. If the program had not been changed by the Trump administration most of them would have had construction starting this year.

All large efforts like this take a few years to go from initial passing of the law that enables them to construction actually starting.
by keeda | 2025-08-06 00:48:09+00:00
Good question, I don't believe they break out their workloads into training versus inference, in fact they don't even break out any mumbers in any useful detail. But anecdotally the public clouds did seem to be most GPU-constrained whenever Sam Altman was making the rounds asking for trillions in infra for training.

However, my understanding is that the same GPUs can be used for both training and inference (potentially in different configurations?) so there is a lot of elasticity there.

That said, for the public clouds like Azure, AWS and GCP, training is also a source of revenue because other labs pay them to train their models. This is where accusations of funny money shell games come into play because these companies often themselves invest in those labs.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-08-06 00:48:42+00:00
As a non-music person, can confirm - if someone tried to tell me something through their instrument I would probably tell them it should have been an email.

I can generally understand that music has moods, but don’t think I could distinguish human-generated music from silicon-generated music at this point (unless I recognize a specific artist, of which there are vanishingly few I’m capable of)
by rockemsockem | 2025-08-06 00:48:50+00:00
What is this AI slop that you're wading through and where is it?

Spam emails are not any worse for being verbose, I don't recognize the sender, I send it straight to spam. The volume seems to be the same.

You don't want an AI therapist? Go get a normal therapist.

I have not heard of any AI product displacing industrial design, but if anything it'll make it easier to make/design stuff if/when it gets there.

Like are these real things you are personally experiencing?
by dvt | 2025-08-06 00:48:53+00:00
And, imo key, is the fact that this goes both ways. I've had conversations with both blue-collar types as well as white-collar types where both groups fail to grasp nuances and economonico-historic context. It's TikTok turtles all the way down. Breaking through echo chambers is harder than ever and there are no incentives to do it.
by docmars | 2025-08-06 00:49:05+00:00
Work is. I actually don't have access to our billing, so I couldn't tell you exactly, but it depends on how many ACUs (Agent Compute Units) you've used.

We use a Team plan ($500 /mo), which includes 250 ACUs per month. Each bug or small task consumes anywhere between 1-3 ACUs, and fewer units are consumed if you're more precise with your prompt upfront. A larger prompt will usually use fewer ACUs because follow-up prompts cause Devin to run more checks to validate its work. Since it can run scripts, compilers, linters, etc. in its own VM -- all of that contributes to usage. It can also run E2E tests in a browser instance, and validate UI changes visually.

They recommend most tasks should stay under 5 ACUs before it becomes inefficient. I've managed to give it some fairly complex tasks while staying under that threshold.

So anywhere between $2-6 per task usually.