MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bachmeier | 2025-08-09 21:49:42+00:00
> By being particularly bad at anything outside of the most popular languages and frameworks, LLMs force you to pick a very mainstream stack if you want to be efficient.

I haven't found that to be true with my most recent usage of AI. I do a lot of programming in D, which is not popular like Python or Javascript, but Copilot knows it well enough to help me with things like templates, metaprogramming, and interoperating with GCC-produced DLL's on Windows. This is true in spite of the lack of a big pile of training data for these tasks. Importantly, it gets just enough things wrong when I ask it to write code for me that I have to understand everything well enough to debug it.
by Zigurd | 2025-08-09 21:49:47+00:00
The math ain't mathing. If they are doing 20 rides per hour per segment, assuming 100% load factor and 24 hour service, which it isn't, that's 480 rides per day, per segment. In reality, probably half that or less.

If there were five separate segments, with the above parameters, that would be 2500 rides per day. Let's further assume two passengers per ride that's 5000 passengers, maxed out all day and all night.

Is there a Vegas betting book on this? What's the over under?
by hyperhello | 2025-08-09 21:50:16+00:00
The Hollow Men is from 1925. Try to read it like a beatnik poet, world-weary and confident, with finger snaps and bongo drums or a jazz orchestra in the background. Eliot was a fascinating fellow traveler person. My favorite site for his poems is here: https://mypoeticside.com/poets/t-s-eliot-poems
by nikonyrh | 2025-08-09 21:51:04+00:00
AMD already has Composable Kernels[1], and supports for example Triton[2]. Then there is also HIP[3], and there are tools to automatically convert from from CUDA to HIP. But since CUDA is the de-facto standard, there is always friction to use something else (unless you need to support also AMD stack).

Making something just CUDA-compatible is non-trivial, and since Nvidia decides its direction and new features then the alternatives would always be lagging behind. Currently there are also major hardware differences between Nvidia and AMD, which may make highly optimized CUDA code inefficient or even buggy.

[1] https://github.com/ROCm/composable_kernel?tab=readme-ov-file#composable-kernel [2] https://github.com/triton-lang/triton?tab=readme-ov-file#triton [3] https://github.com/ROCm/HIP?tab=readme-ov-file#what-is-this-repository-for
by electroly | 2025-08-09 21:51:24+00:00
This is much worse than using Mullvad if you need a lot of locations, which it sounds like OP did. There are far more Mullvad exit nodes than AWS regions, and it takes mere seconds to flip between them. VPN providers have exit nodes in every major city, but there are only a handful of AWS regions.

I'm not sure what trust you need--HTTPS gives you the confidence that your connection hasn't been read or modified as it passed through the VPN provider, and frankly, I trust Mullvad more than I trust AWS.
by bArray | 2025-08-09 21:51:46+00:00
This is clearly a change that appears to coincide with the Online Safety Act [1]. The question for me is - why?

The UK agency Ofcom are in charge of deciding what to censor, and their approach has typically been to remain strategically vague, and cause those acting under it to be overly censorious as not to get fined.

The list of illegal content covered by the Online Safety Act includes:

child sexual abuse controlling or coercive behaviour extreme sexual violence extreme pornography fraud racially or religiously aggravated public order offences inciting violence illegal immigration and people smuggling promoting or facilitating suicide intimate image abuse selling illegal drugs or weapons sexual exploitation terrorism

Particularly egregious within the UK currently is "illegal immigration and people smuggling" as it has been used against multiples groups (including journalists) reporting on illegal crossings into the UK. Discussion of this political topic is being tightly controlled.

It is a VERY hot topic in the UK currently, and an important political discussion is being had by almost everybody about the future of the UK. So far the government's efforts to quash anti-immigration discussions has resulted in multiple grass-roots demonstrations (and counter demonstrations) outside of hotels housing illegal immigrants [2].

If you want a picture of how things are going, you need only need to consider the Meadow Well [3] riots of 1991, England riots of 1981 [4], the Notting Hill riots of 1958 and possibly more aptly, the race riots of 1919 after the war [5]. It's essentially all of the issues these riots focussed on and the government has no plan or ability to meet the demands of the rioters.

All of this to say - expect the Online Safety Act to be used more heavily in the coming months to try and bring the UK back under control.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/08/three-thousa...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow_Well_riots

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_England_riots

[5] https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/1919...
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-08-09 21:51:52+00:00
I'm hoping I can escape being laid off for long enough for them to come around again and realize they need me to clean up the slop. And then I can capitalize on it.

More likely, they'll lay everyone off and with some luck start hiring them back at same or lower salaries and tell us we're lucky to even have a job, and we'll have no choice but to accept...
by epistasis | 2025-08-09 21:52:21+00:00
I have been continuously baffled by the people that think that soldered on RAM is somehow "throwaway". My last desktop build is eight years old and I have never upgraded the ram. Never will. My next build will have an entirely new motherboard, ram, and GPU, and the last set will end up at the ewaste recycler, because who could I find that wants that old hardware?

Soldered RAM, CPU, and GPU, that give space benefits and performance benefits is exactly what I want, and results in no more ewaste at all. In fact less ewaste, because if I had a smaller form factor I could justify keeping the older computer around for longer. The size of the thing is a bigger cause of waste for me than the ability to upgrade RAM.

Not everybody upgrades RAM, and those people deserve computers too. Framework's brand appears to be offering something that other suppliers are not, rather than expand ability. That's a much better brand and niche overall.
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-09 21:52:30+00:00
The idea of branches of government being checks and balances against one another was never a good idea. A major problem is that the constitution doesn't actually encode any requirement that government represent the interests of the people, and gradually we've moved to a system where we're told what we're supposed to support is "the constitution" rather than any actual principles. It's all about supporting certain arbitrary procedures and content-free mechanisms.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-09 21:53:05+00:00
According to the Framework CEO on the Linus Tech Tips video about this thing [1], they tried and AMD assigned an engineer on getting modular memory to work and decided it's not possible.

Unless there's another company out there shipping this CPU with replaceable memory, I'll believe them. Even with LPCAMM, physics just doesn't work out.

Of course, there are plenty of slower desktops you can buy where all the memory can be swapped out. If you want a repairable desktop like that, you're not stuck with Framework in the same way you would be with laptops. You'll probably struggle to get the same memory bandwidth to make full use of AMD's chips, though.

[1]: https://youtu.be/-lErGZZgUbY?feature=shared&t=446
by echelon | 2025-08-09 21:53:10+00:00
Apple's walled garden and mob tactics pissed DHH off [1-3]. Of course he's going to advocate for alternatives.

Tim Sweeney is in the same camp.

[1] https://www.hey.com/apple/

[2] https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-rejects-the-hey-calendar-fro...

[3] https://world.hey.com/dhh/hey-is-finally-for-sale-on-the-iph...
by simoncion | 2025-08-09 21:53:11+00:00
Is your normal breakfast spot a fast food joint? If it is not, it is my understanding that is not affected by the "higher minimum wages for fast food workers" regulation.

If it is a fast food joint... well, I can't speak for all of California, but the fast food places in the section of San Francisco that I live (and roam around) in seem to have a reasonably healthy amount of customers in them.

Perhaps things are different where you are, but I've noticed food getting markedly more expensive, have heard of commercial rents getting higher and higher, and have heard that many of the folks who would have done waitstaff jobs have decided to fuck off for places that were (at the time, if not now) less expensive than California. Oh, and there was the whole "flight from the expensive cities because WFH means that many folks don't have to tie themselves to an expensive, small apartment in a city they don't really like" thing a while back that gutted the downtowns (and leisure districts) of some-to-many big cities because -like- many folks exercised their new option to leave and left.

Were it me, I'd consider blaming factors like those before I blamed modest increases in wages.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-09 21:53:13+00:00
No, it's the entire architecture of the model. There's no real reasoning. It seems that reasoning is just a feedback loop on top of existing autocompletion.

It's really disingenuous for the industry to call warming tokens for output, "reasoning," as if some autocomplete before more autocomplete is all we needed to solve the issue of consciousness.

Edit: Letter frequency apparently has just become another scripted output, like doing arithmetic. LLMs don't have the ability to do this sort of work inherently, so they're trained to offload the task.

Edit: This comment appears to be wildly upvoted and downvoted. If you have anything to add besides reactionary voting, please contribute to the discussion.
by jeffrallen | 2025-08-09 21:53:49+00:00
I asked a colleague about this recently and he explained it away with a wave of the hand saying, "different streams of tokens and their context are on different ranks of the matrices". And I kinda believed him, based on the diagrams I see on Welch Labs YouTube channel.

On the other hand, I've learned that when I ask questions about security to experts in a field (who are not experts in security) I almost always get convincing hand waves, and they are almost always proven to be completely wrong.

Sigh.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-09 21:53:56+00:00
I had intense AiW syndrome at times when I was younger. It would involuntarily come on if I was extremely tired, and I eventually learned that I could control it or even induce it with some mental focus. Once I learned to control it, I could push it to the point that my visual perspective was just like looking through a telescope backwards. I was the size of the head of a pin and everything was far, far away. When it got very intense, I would start to have an almost out-of-body sensation like what I was seeing was somehow separate from me - a fisheye movie and I was in a void observing it. My hearing would sometimes start to have a similar effect as well.

I remember asking my parents about it like everyone experienced it when I was maybe 8 years old, and they had no idea what I was talking about. It stopped happening involuntarily a long time ago (maybe late teens - I'm in my 40s now), but I'm sure I could still induce it if I really wanted to, specially if I'm tired and laying down in a dim room.
by ben_w | 2025-08-09 21:53:57+00:00
> Do they just not teach in schools how devastating every Marxist/Communist regime has been?

Even if they do, when you're living somewhere that's free to fail you before you're even born, the second-worst case can still look good. And also the absolute worse case is Pol Pot, and there's many examples equally awful showing that a lot of people just flat out refuse to accept humans can be that evil.

But also, basically all types of governments can demonstrate the sorts of failure mode that Communism is famous for. Holodomor and Great Leap Forward's famines were Communist failures, the Irish Potato Famine and several in India under the British were Capitalist failures.

> the fact that this ideology is flawed at its very core?

You may be surprised if you read a copy of The Communist Manifesto. Several parts of it have been considered "common sense" in capitalist nations for over a century.

Me, I think Karl Marx made the same error as Adam Smith, that both think humans free from rules are naturally amazing and they largely ignore power seeking behaviours and the consequences of that. Hence Smith is associated with laissez-faire, and "socialist" and "anarchist" were seen by the authorities of the 19th c. as being much the same*.

(I over simplify a bit, this is just a comment and not a script for a replacement idiology).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_anarchism_and_li...
by aziaziazi | 2025-08-09 21:54:05+00:00
Willing to share if/what’s your plans? Do you live in a somewhat helping country like Swiss?

I’ve a similar view for myself but my GF find it creepy and don’t want discuss it, yet. That’s embarrassing, I don’t want to cause grief by a surprise disparition.

Practically speaking there’s NGOs that can help and even send kits after a (long) checkup. Inert gas asphyxia seems to be a classic as it’s fast, painless and quite cheap/easy.
by tomquirk | 2025-08-09 21:54:44+00:00
Not sure if they're still doing it, but GitLab does the code review interview, and I too really liked it.

Before the interview, you clone the repo and get the app running on your machine.

For the first half of the interview, you review a pull request in real time. There's a mix of obvious and non-obvious callouts. And the second half, you actually implement your suggestions.

Honestly the code review portion alone is a great indicator of a dev's experience and soft skills.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-09 21:55:29+00:00
I was well aware of the vagaries of chance, which is why I applied to the top 10 engineering universities in the country. I was accepted by Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, and Caltech. As a backup I had ASU.

I knew nothing about Caltech, and by amazing luck it was perfectly suited to what I wanted and my personality.

For a while now, I've been running the D Coffee Haus monthly meetings, where myself and fellow nerds meet and talk about nerdly stuff. It's as much fun as the same thing at Caltech.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-08-09 21:56:41+00:00
It’s a bold and unsubstantiated claim. In English language there’s a lot of confusion because the same word Russian is used both for citizenship and ethnicity, but in Russian they are different and such confusion doesn’t exist. If you run polls in Russia, ethnic minorities won’t say that they are Russians using the word for ethnicity, but they will certainly confirm that they are Russian citizens belonging to the same cultural space (and in that sense some may even use the word for ethnicity, e.g. “I’m Tatar, but I’m Russian too”). Nation is defined not by the government but by shared history and culture and may cross ethnic boundaries. Russia is big, but its people have developed the shared culture, the pride, the sense of belonging which qualify it for a nation. This comes on top of all geographical and ethnic identities, which make the picture more diverse and complex, but those identities are rarely stronger (even in regions like Chechnya).
by MandieD | 2025-08-09 21:56:49+00:00
Every time I see a 3-5 year old in a stroller on the subway staring at a phone their parent passed them, or worse, has dedicated to the child's entertainment (stroller mount included), my heart breaks a little more - though when my own preschooler won't stay in his seat and insists on standing while the train's in motion (his balance is really good, but oh, the looks I get), I'm a little tempted.
by nec4b | 2025-08-09 21:57:26+00:00
>> Yugoslav communism looked like people with high standards of living

You're just making things up as you go, aren't you? More then a million Yugoslavs left the country as "Gastarbeiters" to be able to feed themselves and their families. Inflation was high and people had to convert their salaries into German marks the same day they got pay checks, otherwise the money was worthless the next day. Basic goods were unattainable. People had to smuggle coffee, bananas and jeans across the border. Of course if you were a part of the red nobility, your life was easier as you got access to special stores and got to enjoy the fruits of the labor of your fellow equals.
by mrlonglong | 2025-08-09 21:57:56+00:00
Over in the UK, our phone lines are about to become 100% digital. Anyone with the old analogue modems now has some rather nice paperweights. I've still got an USR Robotics modem that was originally 14.4k, got upgraded a few times from 33k6 to v92 and an Hayes v92 modem gathering dust in storage.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-09 21:57:57+00:00
The Mac Studio (at least the M3 Ultra model) blows the Framework out of the water when it comes to AI performance, though, at least according to this (Dutch language) benchmark: https://tweakers.net/reviews/13614/framework-desktop-de-fram...

Paying twice the price for twice to seven times the performance may not be such a bad thing. Then again, with Apple you're kind of stuck with macOS and the like, so Framework may still be the better option depending on your use case.
by vondur | 2025-08-09 21:58:01+00:00
It's still a net loss of jobs. I'm certain the future will involve increasing automation to further reduce headcount. A McDonald's recently opened near me with no seating, and orders can only be placed through the app or at the drive thru. I spoke with the owner who mentioned two main reasons for this setup: first, ongoing issues with the local homeless population and second, a desire to minimize staffing. Fewer employees are needed when there's no dining area to clean or counter to staff. I’m pretty sure this is the direction things are headed in California.
by throwaway3060 | 2025-08-09 21:58:03+00:00
Unless you are limiting your comparison to just the homeless in America, this is just not true. Most people don't know much about life in the Soviet Union in the first place, but even what people do know is typically limited only to life in Moscow and Leningrad. Dismissing the conditions as "capacity to buy junkfood" is uncalled for.
by onli | 2025-08-09 21:59:04+00:00
> Not everybody upgrades RAM, and those people deserve computers too.

No. It's end of the line with consumerism and we either start repairing and recycling or we die. Framework catered to people who agree with that, and this product is not in line.

I have no idea why you would not upgrade your memory, I have done so in all PCs I ever owned and all laptops, and it's a very common (and cheap) upgrade. It reduces waste because people can then use their system longer, which means less garbage over the lifetime of a person. And as was already commented, it is not only about upgrades, but also about repairs. Ram breaks rather often.
by simonw | 2025-08-09 21:59:06+00:00
If you want to get good at something you have to do it a whole lot!

I only have one regret from the name Datasette: it's awkward to say "you should open that dataset in Datasette", and it means I don't have a great noun for a bunch-of-data-in-Datasette because calling that a "dataset" is too confusing.
by cyberax | 2025-08-09 21:59:20+00:00
> They don't care about little details, about craftsmanship and polish, about lint warnings, about "oh, that's a nice touch," or even quality beyond "will the customer return the product?"

I worked at large companies, and there are reasons beyond that. I've been on the both sides of this fence.

Senior engineers feel the pain of supporting all these features. You created a new streaming API prototype that provides a gradual response, progressively displaying details of the 3D model? Great. But it's 15000 lines of dense code without a lot of explanation. Who is going to support it once you leave the company? Is it secure? How does it work with kiosk-type browsers? Can you write a formal proposal so we can start the review process?

Oh, I see that you're already leaving the company :(

And that's also why startups are often so much more successful initially. They just don't care about the long-term support and YOLO a lot of functionality.
by hn_acker | 2025-08-09 21:59:27+00:00
> Can you provide an example where they've ignored a Supreme Court ruling?

How about the case where the Supreme Court told the administration to obey a lower court's order and facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the US [1]? The Trump administration openly defied the Supreme Court's order for nearly 2 months (April 11 to June 6) [2][3]. Setting aside whether the "temporary" violation of a Supreme Court order has been legally resolved, the administration brought Garcia back to press (hypocritical and doubtful) human smuggling charges to justify deporting Garcia again, and a judge let Garcia stay in jail for longer otherwise necessary because the judge thought the administration would deport Garcia before he could have his trial [4].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/even-the-supreme-court-s...

[2] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G...

[4] https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-deportation-immigra...
by ck2 | 2025-08-09 22:00:24+00:00
The technical explanations to why this happens with strawberry, blueberry and similar

is a great way to teach people how LLM works (and not work)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/27/why-ai-cant-spell-strawber...

https://arbisoft.com/blogs/why-ll-ms-can-t-count-the-r-s-in-...

https://www.runpod.io/blog/llm-tokenization-limitations
by jecel | 2025-08-09 22:00:32+00:00
Please note that RISC-V and RISC5 are different projects:

https://riscv.org

https://riskfive.com

Despite the name of the second site, the actual processor is called RISC5 (see the menu on the left) and is part of the Oberon project by Niklaus Wirth.
by atmavatar | 2025-08-09 22:01:18+00:00
It has at least as much to do with how wealthy your family is as it does with how well you do on standardized testing.

I was accepted to MIT, but my family wasn't poor enough to receive need-based aid, and we certainly weren't wealthy enough for me to go without aid (especially because it would have been out-of-state tuition), so I ultimately went elsewhere. I expect a fair number of others here have similar stories.

A big part of the reason ivy-league and other elite schools are selected for is that they are a strong signal for family wealth.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-09 22:01:37+00:00
A classmate dropped out in his sophomore year, and 10 years later asked to come back and finish. Caltech said sure, and aced the courses and earned his degree.

I asked him, were you smarter after 10 years? He laughed and said nope, he was just willing to work this time!

(Another gem about Caltech - once you're admitted, they'll give you endless chances to come back and finish. Your credits did not expire.)

One of my friends finally graduated after 6 years there. He endured endless students mumbling "7 years, down the drain!" as they passed by. (The line was from Animal House.)
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-09 22:02:09+00:00
> what it costs to scrape by is covered by government or charity, if they didn't do that the workers would die

I take this to mean the assistance covers the gap to prevent death.

I would amend that to note the following: We can exist in a state of profound poverty w/o assistance for a very long time without dying. Persistent Hunger and crisis-level stress kills very indirectly; it commonly takes decades.

source: me + 5 kids. a decade of hunger-level poverty in a red state.