MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-08-08 20:36:11+00:00
You're using a lot of words to say "I believe yesterday's hardware might not run models as as fast as today's hardware."

That's fine. The point is that yesterday's hardware is quite capable of running yesterday's models, and obviously it will also run tomorrow's models.

So the question is cost. Capex vs opex. The fact is that buying your own hardware is proven to be far more cost-effective than paying cloud providers to rent some cycles.

I brought data to the discussion: for the price tag of OP's home lab, you only afford around 3 months worth of an equivalent EC2 instance. What's your counter argument?
by bell-cot | 2025-08-08 20:36:19+00:00
> I wonder if it's just an attempt to keep a cloud ...

Yes, but only peripherally. Atomic energy and atomic weapons are closely associated with a certain wealthy white western superpower. And within that superpower's political and ruling classes, there have been centuries of ideological struggles for what might be called "moral supremacy". Given how strongly the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombing push many people's "Moral Issue" buttons - those naturally become a point of contention, with plenty of folks weighing in on them whenever it seems opportune to do so.
by simonw | 2025-08-08 20:36:29+00:00
No, there are two things called GPT-5 (this is classic OpenAI, see also Codex).

There's GPT-5 the system, a new model routing mechanism that is part of their ChatGPT consumer product.

There's also a new model called GPT-5 which is available via their API: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-5

(And two other named API models, GPT-5 mini and GPT-5 nano - part of the GPT-5 model family).

AND there's GPT-5 Pro, which isn't available via the API but can be accessed via ChatGPT for $200/month subscribers.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-08 20:37:16+00:00
Stagflation?

How could that happen?

When has that ever happened before?

And if it did, wouldn't any record of it have been completely compromised by now?

How would people find out about something like that anyway? It sounds so made up that's the kind of books that would be banned first if they even existed. That kind of reading could be more shocking than anything!

What do these guys know about the financial world to begin with?

Is stagflation even still a word?
by antonvs | 2025-08-08 20:37:21+00:00
If you're a native English speaker you've probably seen it, even if you didn't know what it meant.

A common context in which it's used is in the idiom "herald a new era" - here's a search: https://www.google.com/search?q="heralds+a+new+era" which shows that it's pretty common.

It's also used in the names of many newspapers around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herald_(newspaper)

There's also the Christmas carol, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hark!_The_Herald_Angels_Sing

But I suppose if you don't already know the word "herald" you might just put that down to weird religious language.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-08 20:37:42+00:00
Not that I'd ever suggest someone take wikipedia as their only source, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Musl...

And, to show you that hamas (and other muslim terror orgs AND orthodox islamic institutes that are "not" terrorists) want to bring this back:

https://icct.nl/publication/isis-and-their-use-slavery

And even in this conflict where you're defending the agressors:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5v077nyjo

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-noa-argama...
by MaKey | 2025-08-08 20:37:49+00:00
ECC RAM protects against bit flips (a bit changing to the wrong state). These can be caused by electric or magnetic interference. A pixel of a picture suddenly having the wrong color because of a bit flip is not that bad but some day an important file might end up corrupted because of one. I want to sleep well at night not having to worry about silent data corruption so ECC RAM it is. See here for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
by metalman | 2025-08-08 20:37:56+00:00
ok,wtfn!,it's just that all those "allies" have been freloading while the US has been delivering democracy to the rest of the world, and as everyone knows B52’s are not cheap to run,and all those countrys are just not democraticaly paying up like they should, so as all these "allies" apparently already have democracy, standard methods wont work, so with great relief "fairness" has been invented and instead of B52's, god bless the almighty tariff to the tune of 50 billion a month and rising. happy?
by duxup | 2025-08-08 20:38:00+00:00
I don't get it. GOP is in theory all about small government, libertarian ideas, states rights. People who care about those things should care about this ... but I guess we can't count on that. Obviously that's all BS as far as the GOP goes and everything now is all autocratic, sort of cult of personality, and at times government policy seems to be, based on trumps own words, what he heard from his wife when he got home.

In a functioning democracy there's no place for a president to make these kinds of demands.

I would at least expect SCOTUS to have some level of concern regarding the law that would clash with all this, but they've put their hands in their pockets striking down any lower court action.

Harvard is suing so that's something, but outside that there doesn't seem to be anyone in power willing to say no.

Heck the demands for Harvard ask to employ someone to enforce "viewpoint diversity" of staff AND students and make adjustments based on input from that monitor. https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...
by Perepiska | 2025-08-08 20:38:15+00:00
The author of the article asked the same question in his personal blog in Telegram a year and a half ago [1], and received in response exactly the same example with maven. Probably, to build a personal brand and increase visibility, he needs to ask the same thing many times in different places.

1. https://t.me/nikitonsky_pub/597
by nodesocket | 2025-08-08 20:38:49+00:00
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by davidmurdoch | 2025-08-08 20:39:04+00:00
Yeah, I agree with you with you dig down into it.

But I tend to instinctually (as a mere human) think of a "hallucination" as something more akin to a statement that feels like it could be true, and can't be verified by using only the surrounding context -- like when a human mis-remembers a fact on something they recently read, or extrapolates reasonably, but incorrectly. Example: GPT-5 just told me a few moments ago that webpack's "enhanced-resolve has an internal helper called getPackage.json". Webpack likely does contain logic that finds the package root, but it does not contain a file with this name, and never has. A reasonable person couldn't say with absolutely certainty that enhanced-resolve doesn't contain a file with that name.

I think a "mistake" is classified as more of an error in computation, where all of the facts required to come up with a solution are present in the context of the conversation (simple arithmetic problems, "how many 'r's in strawberry", etc.), but it just does it wrong. I think of mistakes as something with one and only one valid answer. A person with the ability to make the computation themselves can recognize the mistake without further research.

So hallucinations are more about conversational errors, and mistakes are more about computational errors, I guess?

But again, I agree, it gets very difficult to distinguish these things when you dig into them.
by cornholio | 2025-08-08 20:39:28+00:00
You can knock off a zero or two just by time shifting the 700 million distinct users across a day/week and account for the mere minutes of compute time they will actually use in each interaction. So they might no see peaks higher than 10 million active inference session at the same time.

Conversely, you can't do the same thing as a self hosted user, you can't really bank your idle compute for a week and consume it all in a single serving, hence the much more expensive local hardware to reach the peak generation rate you need.
by gbacon | 2025-08-08 20:39:59+00:00
The article said the airplane is based at KAJO, which is barely within the lateral boundary of Ontario International’s Class C shelf. To legally avoid a requirement to talk to ATC going north, he would have to stay below 2,700 MSL and remain outside the KONT Class C core. There’s a lot of area to the south and east that a pilot could buzz around without having to talk to anyone. Avoiding terrain to the south would be important.
by daft_pink | 2025-08-08 20:40:51+00:00
You are mixing up two ideas.

The survey stated that Japan was going to lose the war with or without nuclear weapons as strategically Japan was overmatched, which was obviously true.

However, this survey was looking at Japan’s overall defeat, not the timing of surrender or the number of casualties avoided by dropping the bomb. At the time, US military planners were working with invasion timetables that projected tens of thousands to hundred thousands of US casualties if the US invaded Japan.

The survey doesn’t deny that many more American or Japanese soldiers might have died in the weeks or months before surrender if the war had not ended immediately after the atomic bomb was droppped.
by dannyobrien | 2025-08-08 20:41:20+00:00
I mean, apart from the open question of whether the majority of money gets moved into tax havens, if the money is out of the economic system entirely, won't it just inflate away? I presume rich people want to put their money in instruments that return interest, which means that it has to be used /somehow/. I mean, potentially just speculative assets like gold or art, but those are high risk.
by stillsut | 2025-08-08 20:41:33+00:00
I've been finding adding context for your external packages is really important when the package is relatively new and or has breaking changes since the model training cut-off date.

Two that stick out this week are google's genai (client for vertex/gemini ednpoints) that is updating methods and moviepy in their 2.x breaking changes (most of the corpus for this library was trained with v1.x).

I wrote about some findings here, and that there's still not a great way to have the models examine only the pieces of documentation that they need for their work: https://github.com/sutt/agro/blob/master/docs/case-studies/a...
by DanielHB | 2025-08-08 20:42:03+00:00
My wife is a management consultant and it feels 80% of her job is just interviewing people across different levels of the org and tell executives what the hell is actually going on and what the real problems are.

The amount of filtering of information going on throughout several layers of management is insane. People just keeping their heads down and not forwarding important information because it will affect short-term results/workload is insane in large companies.

IMO every large company should have dedicated people conducting _actual_ interviews with all employees regularly, outside the normal chain of command. Not that bullshit anonymous peer assessment crap. There is no reason companies need to pay external consultants crazy amounts of money for this kind of service.

By the way, the other 20% is usually just applying some common sense and/or industry best practices to the problems detected on the 80% part.
by kenmorechalfant | 2025-08-08 20:42:16+00:00
> Copyright is a deal society has made to advance the arts

Corn subsidies are a deal society made to advance the consumption of sugar water.

Who really makes these deals and who benefits from them?

Maybe having so much new content all the time is making us too content while the backroom deal makers laugh their way to the bank and fund more wars.

> and sciences

People en masse want cheaper energy, better machines and better medicine regardless of profitability of the producers. I don't buy into the idea that the only way to incentivize new inventions is with fame and wealth. People like to do good work they are proud of - not enough people, arguably, but they exist.

Some inventions may be too powerful to go without strict regulations like nuclear energy. I'd argue AI is in the same basket. I believe the internet, and by extension internet connected AI, should be considered a public utility and governed by the public.
by motorest | 2025-08-08 20:42:18+00:00
> i'm not the person you replied but if wages lag furhter, how rents going up?

The greater the number of people who cannot afford buying a home, the greater the number of people whose only option is to rent.

The more people enter the rental market, the higher rental prices get.

It would be very interesting to have statistics on how many people share apartments/rent rooms. I'd bet those numbers would be spiking.
by Volundr | 2025-08-08 20:43:08+00:00
Ok, what do they do with it, and how does effect the economy compared to the way lower wealth people behave when they receive money?

FWIW I do agree that if we give Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk more money, it's not headed straight for an account in the Caymans, but I also don't think the exact destination of said money is core to the point.
by whizzter | 2025-08-08 20:43:19+00:00
I think it might just be the other way around, if they front-loaded a lot of inventory shipments before tariffs were due to hit they might be loaded with unusually high inventory levels that needs shifting and will be hard to do so at price if a new model is out.

Add to this the recent economic uncertainty and prospective buyers might just have been holding up purchases (thus further adding to inventory if they already front-loaded before tariffs).

As for people buying powerful machines that could be worth going to a 5090 based machine instead, they're probably a fairly small part of the Mac purchaser market in the big picture.
by pjmorris | 2025-08-08 20:43:32+00:00
> IMO, he, and everyone involved with Apollo 13 after it left the ground, truly represent the peak of NASA personnel.

Agreed. One of the best books I've read on Apollo was 'Apollo: Race to the Moon', by Murray and Cox. It spends a lot of time on the engineering and management challenges behind what they accomplished then. One of the book's best chapters was on the enormous team(s) on the ground behind the troubleshooting and problem-solving for Apollo 13.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-08 20:43:33+00:00
I agree completely. My larger point is that Apple and Nvidia's hardware has depreciated less slowly, because they've been shipping highly dense chips for a while now. Apple's software situation is utterly derelict and it cannot be seriously compared to CUDA in the same sentence.

For inference purposes, though, compute shaders have worked fine for all 3 manufacturers. It's really only Nvidia users that benefit from the wealth of finetuning/training programs that are typically CUDA-native.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-08-08 20:43:54+00:00
I think it’s possible to deplore both the war crimes committed by the Japanese and the war crimes committed by the Americans. I don’t see the need to compare one to the other, to pretend to solve some impossible utilitarian equation that demonstrates either dropping the bomb was right or dropping the bomb was wrong. Too much discourse on this topic depends on whatever happened in those counterfactual timelines that in any case we can only imagine and cannot observe.

The important thing, which gets lost in the endless unresolvable discourse on blame and responsibility and ethics, is not to repeat the same mistakes in the future.
by sandinmyjoints | 2025-08-08 20:44:04+00:00
Yeah, the parent comment is interestingly and carefully phrased -- it is not claiming that the decision makers at the time could have known that Japan (according to this one report, anyway) would have surrendered without the bombings or invasion, but rather that since it is the case they would have (again, according to this report), that people should not claim the decision to bomb saved lives.
by titanomachy | 2025-08-08 20:44:24+00:00
“First things first, obviously AGI is going to solve all these problems for us within 10 years. So do you think your work will matter beyond then?” (Paraphrasing)

What universe is this guy living in where this is an obvious fact? I’m deep in the tech filter bubble, and even among my peers this is certainly not treated as a given.
by _Microft | 2025-08-08 20:44:31+00:00
If you are curious what PCB designs or schematics look like, you can use an online viewer for KiCad files to find out yourself:

https://kicanvas.org/?github=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FNich...

@creator of the card (phirks?): have you considered further interactivity or maybe using the LED matrix for showing text or other information?

You could use touch buttons for control as they basically add nothing to the BOM?

Edit: this is of course really awesome as it is
by aziis98 | 2025-08-08 20:44:56+00:00
I think this article can be interesting:

https://www.seangoedecke.com/inference-batching-and-deepseek...

Here is an example of what happens

> The only way to do fast inference here is to pipeline those layers by having one GPU handle the first ten layers, another handle the next ten, and so on. Otherwise you just won’t be able to fit all the weights in a single GPU’s memory, so you’ll spend a ton of time swapping weights in and out of memory and it’ll end up being really slow. During inference, each token (typically in a “micro batch” of a few tens of tokens each) passes sequentially through that pipeline of GPUs
by nine_k | 2025-08-08 20:45:07+00:00
It is, but these are much smaller-scale. The border between France and Germany has seen full eighty years of peace, which that land probably did not see since the time German and French nations formed. It's hard to imagine a full-on war between two countries possessing nuclear weapons, because it would be suicidal for the attacking party, so e.g. India and Pakistan remain at peace.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-08 20:46:01+00:00
> I ran a bridge until recently

A lifetime ago, I ran bridges from RAM only distros. But early versions of the Dan list (1st in wide use) killed that.

DL didn't try hard to differentiate between bridge IPs and exit IPs. Server hosts just grabbed the first list they saw and blocked with it.

It was years before the notion of Exit != Bridge became understood but everyone had moved on. We're at the entropic 'No One Cares Anymore' phase now.
by simonw | 2025-08-08 20:46:03+00:00
Sure, but that's how most of human society works already.

It's more cost effective to farm eggs from a hundred thousand chickens than it is for individuals to have chickens in their yard.

You CAN run a GPT-class model on your own machine right now, for several thousand dollars of machine... but you can get massively better results if you spend those thousands of dollars on API credits over the next five years or so.

Some people will choose to do that. I have backyard chickens, they're really fun! Most expensive eggs I've ever seen in my life.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-08-08 20:46:24+00:00
dot com bubble was a way to make retirement funds pay for global telecom infrastructure. after the companies are gone, infrastructure is still there. google is buying dark fiber to this day...

the last gpu-fuelled bubbles (gaming, web3, ai) are an attempt to starve enemies of chips without kinect involvement. you will have datacenters filled with garbage tech when it's over.

so, no, there won't be a pets.com in this space because as soon as it bursts, it crushes their business defensibility (access to chips and power) will be gone as the price plummet. there's no consumer products.

i guess the analogy to dotcom, is if people were buying pets.com stock just because it had more Herman Miller chairs!
by johnisgood | 2025-08-08 20:46:31+00:00
I am getting down-voted (for saying I did not know of this word, which is wild), but I asked a couple of people from the US and UK and they could not tell what it means, not without a dictionary.

It is a small sample, but you could ask your family and friends.

Plus, I still prefer something that most if not all people know: news-teller over herald, so I would have translated it to that.
by diggan | 2025-08-08 20:46:33+00:00
> It's not so easy to land a plane in real life, even if you have a lot of flightsim experience.

I dunno where I'd put it on the difficulty scale of things, but with lots of flight sim experience, it seems you're a lot better equipped than others. I've landed a Cessna, and I'm not a pilot, just eager enthusiast with some flight sim experience over many years. The person co-piloting/supervising told me I did great, and that he only allowed me to land the plane because I demonstrated proficiency in the air. I wouldn't say it's "hard", probably I'd have more trouble with finding and replacing the battery than the actual flying part.
by packetlost | 2025-08-08 20:46:47+00:00
If you've ever used speedtest.net, you've almost certainly been using benchmarking against a server in your own city, or at least as close as your ISPs routing will allow. Ookla servers are often specifically optimized for and sometimes hosted/owned by ISPs to give the best possible speeds. Google's DNS servers use anycast magic to get similar results. Basically no service you actually use outside of very, very large providers is likely to be anywhere near you an won't get that kind of latency, even with a very good ISP and LAN.

10ms is a best case for DOCSIS3.0/3.1, it means you have near optimal routing and infrastructure between you and the node or are using some other transport like ethernet that is then fed by fiber. I currently get 24ms to my local Ookla host a couple of miles away over a wired connection with a recent DOCSIS3.1 modem. Hotel internet is likely to be backed by business fiber. They're likely throttling you.

I worked for an ISP for several years, there's a huge range of service quality even within the same provider, zipcode, and even same location depending on time of day.
by nodesocket | 2025-08-08 20:47:28+00:00
I’ve spend a decent amount on EcoFlow units (Delta 2) that I use as online UPS for my servers and networking. They work great and I also recently installed dual 220watt EcoFlow solar panels on my roof that pump in solar during the day. Works nicely though the ROI admittedly is not there at all, just a cool thing.
by not_your_vase | 2025-08-08 20:47:35+00:00
I think the divide just got stronger, at least when I look at my, and my circle's sentiment, I feel that most of the original sentiments just got stronger.

Personally I have had very high hopes 3 years ago in some areas, that it would really make life better. But personally all I see is unmaintainable software (which is at least fast to write), still all the old bugs are present, vast majority of my programming and other technical questions get an obviously wrong answer from copilot, we have lots of fake pictures, disabled search engines, and weird generated porn videos.

Last week I tried an AI language learning service (YC backed), with a language that I speak at low-intermediate level, but want to level up. In the first 10 minutes I got 2 incorrect grammatical corrections - and that was my smallest problem with the service.

I don't have high hopes anymore. But also, I feel my career just as safe as I did during the lockdown.