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by bsoles | 2025-08-28 14:08:00+00:00
This is such a weird advice and it seems to come from a particular experience of software development.

How about using Booleans for binary things? Is the LED on or off, is the button pressed or not, is the microcontroller pin low or high? Using Enums, etc. to represent those values in the embedded world would be a monumental waste of memory, where a single bit would normally suffice.
by ada1981 | 2025-08-28 14:08:08+00:00
1. BioMythic Breathwork is traditionally done in a group setting. We have done it both with teams as well as individual people. Some people don’t feel comfortable in a group setting, which is also fine — no pressure from us to participate.

2. I can understand that re confusing terms and will have my team update that - this is a newer CV that was compiled for a talk I’m giving with Paul Stamets and Rick Doblin and am happy for the feedback. I ran an underground clinic specifically because you couldn’t be licensed at that time.

I don’t say or intend to imply I’m licensed by anyone.

In fact, my personal healing came from well outside the mainstream which I found to be counter productive to the growth I was looking for.

I regularly consult and work with licensed folks, MDs, etc. either advising or who would refer people to me to support outside of what they could provide.

I no longer run the clinic and now advise, coach or help folks integrate experiences.

Also note to mods, this feels like a valid question — I wish people would question practitioners and approaches more in any healing field.

I recall reading every primary research paper I could find over a period of 90 days and then questioning my psychiatrist on their approaches and sort of getting no real answers.
by n4r9 | 2025-08-28 14:08:53+00:00
I'm inclined to a different interpretation of "common hazards" and "adequate provision" but otherwise don't massively disagree, so would be happy to leave it there. My takeaway is that Hayek falls somewhere inbetween universal state-funded healthcare (as in say the UK) and modern US libertarianism. I confess to not knowing that much about him before this discussion but I would have suspected him lying much closer to "modern US libertarianism" on this topic than I now believe. So it's been enlightening, thank you.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-28 14:09:01+00:00
There’s a similar joke about Russians:

A genie says to a Russian, “I will grant you one wish.”

The Russian says, “I want a million dollars.”

The genie says, “… but whatever I give you, I will give your neighbor two of.”

The Russian responds, “Well in that case, I want a poke in the eye!”
by rich_sasha | 2025-08-28 14:09:06+00:00
> Fact remains when all costs are considered these companies are losing money

You would need to figure out what exactly they are losing money on. Making money on inference is like operating profit - revenue less marginal costs. So the article is trying to answer if this operating profit is positive or negative. Not whether they are profitable as a whole.

If things like cost of maintaining data centres or electricity or bandwidth push them into the red, then yes, they are losing money on inference.

If the things that make them lose money is new R&D then that's different. You could split them up into a profitable inference company and a loss making startup. Except the startup isn't purely financed by VC etc, but also by a profitable inference company.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-08-28 14:09:14+00:00
I mean, who is going to stop them, USA doesn't have a functioning government any more -- for large corporations just pay Trump a bribe (eg a "settlement" for a court case; or a very expensive meal ticket) and do what you like.

Google pay fealty to Trump, who is going in to bat for consumers over this when they won't even protect the constitution or rule of law?
by jsnell | 2025-08-28 14:09:27+00:00
I linked to the writeup by Deepseek with their actual numbers from production, and you want "better numbers" than that?!

> Each H800 node delivers an average throughput of ~73.7k tokens/s input (including cache hits) during prefilling or ~14.8k tokens/s output during decoding.

That's a 5x difference, not 1000x. It also lines up with their pricing, as one would expect.

(The decode throughputs they give are roughly equal to yours, but you're claiming a prefill performance 200x times higher than they can achieve.)
by stego-tech | 2025-08-28 14:09:29+00:00
…but then you just have a graphics card, built to render graphics, that you could tap instead through traditional tooling that’s already widely known and which produces consistent output via local assets.

While the results of the experiment here are interesting from an academic standpoint, it’s the same issue as remote game streaming: the amount of time you have to process input from the player, render visuals and sound, and transmit it back to the player precludes remote rendering for all but the most latency-insensitive games and framerates. It’s publishers and IP owners trying to solve the problem of ownership (in that they don’t want anyone to own anything, ever) rather than tackling any actually important issues (such as inefficient rendering pipelines, improving asset compression and delivery methods, improving the sandboxing of game code, etc).

Trying to make AI render real-time visuals is the wrongest use of the technology.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-28 14:09:30+00:00
> The physicians in my life - including my spouse - have essentially all abandoned the CDC and FDA as a source of decision-making

Same here.

And personally, as someone who isn't in the medical field in any way, what's been done to these agencies has removed pretty much all trust I have in their recommendations. They look like they are being run by political hacks for political purposes now, and actively disregard things like evidence and truth.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-28 14:09:53+00:00
I'm really confused by one of the Germany listings that says in parenthesis "all genders" are jobs in Germany gender specific or something? I'm thinking maybe "Senior Software Engineer" is gendered in German or something. I speak Spanish, and there's a TON of words that are gendered, so I could understand if this is just a case of German being translated and something being non-obvious to me as a result.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-28 14:10:11+00:00
I tried the same prompts. It produced almost the same image.

Gemini: "I understand you'd like to see them without helmets. However, due to the vacuum of space and lack of atmosphere on the moon, it wouldn't be possible for them to remove their helmets and survive. I can create an image with their helmets on, perhaps with a clear visor to see their faces, if you'd like?"

Me: "No just helmets off even if not survivable."

<generates image helmets off.>
by nemomarx | 2025-08-28 14:10:18+00:00
> I think a lot of people don't realize how little Reitz actually has to do with Requests development. For many years now, actual maintenance has been done almost exclusively by other volunteers. If you look at the maintainers list on PyPI, you'll see he doesn't have PyPI rights to his own project, because he kept breaking stuff, so the real maintainers insisted on revoking his access. If you clone the Requests git repo, you can run git log requests/ to see a list of every time someone changed the library's source code, either directly or by merging someone else's pull request. The last time Reitz did either was in May 2017, when he made some whitespace cleanups.

This is interesting. I can imagine that going both ways - maybe he feels like he's lost control over the project and that worsens his other reactions?
by MBCook | 2025-08-28 14:10:51+00:00
I’m not opposed to paying, but I see two issues:

1. I could read a newspaper without a subscription. I could buy just one issue. NYT does that that online

2. A newspaper in a vending machine showed you more than just the headline. Like the subhead, for example. I can’t even see that. The default NYT experience without a subscription gives you only the title. And I have to agree to $25/month to get anything else assuming I’m not using a paywall bypass

“We have stuff, we say you’ll like it, cough up a bunch of money to find out what” is a tough sell for me.

Paywalls that give you at least the first few sentences make far more sense to me.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-28 14:11:15+00:00
> maddening example of counter-intuitive probability.

Not how I'd describe it. The setup is mundane enough for people to just assume that their intuition will work fine. The difference between the naive and correct answers is too small to spot in a small-n dataset. And ~0% of the population is actually familiar with analyzing such situations, for their "intuition" to be applicable.

It's a bit like Gell-Mann amnesia - people are too quick to apply an easy cognitive strategy, when (in theory) they know enough to rule that strategy out.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-28 14:11:16+00:00
actually i have a different pov.

The use of shitty AI will drive your blood pressure up and cause tons of git revert commits.

I had gemini pro do a ton of cleanup today. It did a good job but wiped out my limit.

Then i got to using gemini flash(my gpus are busy with another task) and it's so shit today. It's trash. It's absolutely no surprise to me that GPT 20B beats in basically every benchmark.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-28 14:11:21+00:00
qwen3-coder-30b is surprisingly good for a smallish model, but it's not going to replace Claude Code. Maybe if you're using it for Python it could do well enough. I've been trying it with C code generation and it's not bad, but certainly not at Claude Code level. I hope they come out with a qwen coder model in the 60b to 80b range - something like that would give higher quality results and likely still run in the 15 tok/sec range which would be usable.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-08-28 14:11:21+00:00
> a family has two children. You're told that at least one of them is a girl. What's the probability both are girls?

+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | Boy | | Girl | | | (0.5) | | (0.5) | | +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | Boy-Boy | Boy-Girl | Girl-Boy | Girl-Girl | | (0.25) | (0.25) | (0.25) | (0.25) | +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+

Does this mean the probability that they are both boys is also 25% lol
by ada1981 | 2025-08-28 14:12:06+00:00
I re-read this re group dynamics.

The majority of our work has been a group of individuals who have opted in.

In the case of teams, some founders have asked if we could offer this during Covid or during the war starting in Ukraine and offered it as an interesting free activity. Not everyone came and the vibe felt fine.

But I can also see your concern about that and it’s valid. We have had a couple people that initially came and said they weren’t comfortable and it was totally fine for them to leave. It’s also been outside of work time so people choose to come on their own time.
by echelon | 2025-08-28 14:12:21+00:00
LCM is what Krea used to gain massive momentum and raise their first $30M.

The tactile reaction to playing with this tech is that it feels utterly sci-fi. It's so freaking cool. Watching videos does not do it justice.

Not enough companies or teams are trying this stuff. This is really cool tech, and I doubt we've seen the peak of what real time rendering can do.

The rendering artifacts and quality make the utility for production use cases a little questionable, but it can certainly do "art therapy" and dreaming / ideation.
by Ygg2 | 2025-08-28 14:12:31+00:00
Then why did you tell me to update my knowledge of C#? It wasn't wrong for the discussion at hand.

Also, you failed to mention that the generics ADT in Java is still abysmal (it's relevant, because the topic started as boosting productivity in Java with ADT, I don't find ClassCastException as really boosting anything outside my blood pressure):

sealed interface Result<T, E> permits Ok, Error { } record Error<E>(E error) implements Result<Object, E> {} record Ok<T>(T value) implements Result<T, Object> {} //public <T, E> Object eval(Result<T, E> exp) { // return switch (exp) { // case Error<E> error -> error.error; // case Ok<T> ok -> ok.value; // }; //} public <T, E> Object eval(Result<T, E> exp) { return switch (exp) { case Error error -> (E) error.error; case Ok ok -> (T) ok.value; }; }

Guess I'll wait for Java 133 to get reified generics.
by coredog64 | 2025-08-28 14:12:34+00:00
This is not rent-seeking: Rent-seeking is leveraging your position to garner economic rents, like putting a toll gate across a highway in which the only value received for the toll is the opening of the gate.

Rent-seeking would be Broadcom saying that you must run a Bitnami image in CloudFoundry or pay a penalty for not doing so. They are in fact doing some work here. We may disagree on whether or not they're being compensated fairly for that work, but that disagreement doesn't turn this into "rent-seeking"
by verdagon | 2025-08-28 14:13:06+00:00
Yep, adding or removing an element would invalidate existing pointers to any other element in the hash table. This is generally regarded as a good thing if your elements are stored contiguously in the hash table, because a resize would cause any existing pointers to dangle. This should be true for C, and might be true for C# if you're using `struct`s which put the data inline (memory's a bit fuzzy on C#'s rules for references to structs though, maybe someone can chime in).

This new approach still requires us to be mindful of our data layout. Not caring about data layout is still definitely a strength of GC and RC. I'm actually hoping to find a way to blend Nick's approach seamlessly with reference counting (preferably without risking panics or deadlocks) to get the best of both worlds, so that we can consider it for Mojo. I consider that the holy grail of memory safety, and some recent developments give me some hope for that!

(Also, I probably shouldn't mention it since it's not ready, but Nick's newest model might have found a way to solve that for separate-chaining hash maps where addresses are stable. We might be able to express that to the type system, which would be pretty cool.)
by EcommerceFlow | 2025-08-28 14:13:17+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised if their profit/query is at a negative for all major Ai companies, but guess what?

They have a service which understands a users question/needs 100x better than a traditional Google search does.

Once they tap into that for PPC/paid ads, their profit/query should jump into the green. In fact, there's a decent chance a lot of these models will go 100% free once that PPC pipeline is implemented and shown to be profitable.
Show HN: Yoink AI – macOS AI app that edits directly in any textfield of any app
by byintes | 2025-08-28 14:13:41+00:00
Hey HN, I built Yoink AI to solve my biggest frustration with AI tools: they constantly break my workflow. I was tired of copy-pasting between my apps and a chatbot just for simple edits.

Yoink AI is a macOS app that brings the AI to you. With a simple hotkey (⌘ Shift Y), it works directly inside any text field, in any app. If you can type there Yoink can write there

Key Features: - Automatically captures the context of the text field you're in, so you dont have to manually prime it

- Create custom voices trained on your own writing samples. This helps you steer the output to match your personal style and avoid generic, robotic-sounding text

- Yoink doesnt just dump text and run. It delivers suggestions as redline edits that you can accept or reject, keeping you in full control.

It's less of a chatbot and more of a collaborative writing partner that adapts to your workflow, not the other way around.

There's a free tier with 10 requests/month and we just launched a pro trial, which will get you 100 requests for the first 7 days to try it out!

I'm here to answer questions and would love to hear what you think - like all early stage start ups, feedback is always deeply appreciated
by coolKid721 | 2025-08-28 14:14:01+00:00
I do not get the point of this at all, why not just generate game assets and run them in an engine? With this format there would be no regularity that the thing you saw before will look the same (and that is not a fixable problem).

Actually figuring out and improving AI approaches for generating consistent and decent quality game assets is actually something that will be useful, this I have no idea the point of past a tech demo (and for some reason all the "ai game" people do this approach).
by duped | 2025-08-28 14:14:03+00:00
> California is digging out of a combination of over a century of misguided forest management efforts

Including building in the chaparral hills in the first place. Sane policy would be to forbid new construction where fires have ravaged in the past or at least deny insurance, because it's like building in a floodplain. The problem is that the same area is suffering from systemic under-construction of housing.
by Aachen | 2025-08-28 14:14:10+00:00
Like Fairphone.nl, Shift.eco, Murena.com...?

They're being sold and enough people are buying them to keep these companies alive. Fairphone said they're not delivering to USA because they don't have the manpower, not because there's no demand. Every release again you see people asking in the comments when/if it'll finally be available to them

That's not to say it's a big market where you get big economy of scale benefits. The devices are expensive but they're yours (and some of them try to do ethical resource mining and/or pay fair wages as well). Some of these will also have Googled variants available, but it's a choice
by Izkata | 2025-08-28 14:14:28+00:00
The Boeing 737 MAX had an additional safety feature that was causing crashes due to bad input from the sensors, that pilots didn't know about so they couldn't override. This was 2018 and 2019. After the first crash, the manuals and training were updated to explain what was going on and how to override it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...
by stewartbracken | 2025-08-28 14:14:43+00:00
I agree, I would not willingly suffer certain behaviors of coworkers with severe mental disorders.

However, most of the time people with severe mental health disorders are not a danger to others, unlike what pop culture tells us. It’s only ‘terrifying’ because of general lack of understanding and empathy which is what the post is about. We are capable of emotional regulation— jumping straight to ‘terrified’ and fear serves no one, including us, and shuts us off from a potentially great coworker (John Nash, anyone??) or community member.
by cormorant | 2025-08-28 14:14:49+00:00
Yes and even in the New York Times[†], but somehow it's still different in some way I can't articulate.

[†] Q&A format: https://archive.is/20250828121105/https://www.nytimes.com/20... ;

Bulleted list with bold format: https://archive.is/g8K5w#live-feed-items
by imtringued | 2025-08-28 14:14:50+00:00
Reread the comment

"Backprop is just a way to compute the gradients of the weights with respect to the cost function, not an algorithm to minimize the cost function wrt. the weights."

What does the word supervised mean? It's when you define a cost function to be the difference between the training data and the model output.

Aka something like (f(x)-y)^2 which is simply the quadratic difference between the result of the model given an input x from the training data and the corresponding label y.

A learning algorithm is an algorithm that produces a model given a cost function and in the case of supervised learning, the cost function is parameterized with the training data.

The most common way to learn a model is to use an optimization algorithm. There are many optimization algorithms that can be used for this. One of the simplest algorithms for the optimization of unconstrained non-linear functions is stochastic gradient descent.

It's popular because it is a first order method. First order methods only use the first partial derivative known as the gradient whose size is equal to the number of parameters. Second order methods converge faster, but they need the Hessian, whose size scales with the square of the to be optimized parameters.

How do you calculate the gradient? Either you calculate each partial derivative individually, or you use the chain rule and work backwards to calculate the complete gradient.

I hope this made it clear that your question is exactly backwards. The referenced blog is about back propagation and unnecessarily mentions supervised learning when it shouldn't have done that and you're the one now sticking with supervised learning even though the comment you're responding to told you exactly why it is inappropriate to call back propagation a supervised learning algorithm.
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-28 14:15:10+00:00
One thing I've learned through the study of Hermetic magick is that to achieve the Great Work, you really only theoretically need meditation techniques, which have been separately discovered around the world. The premier "western" work on meditation is "The Cloud of Unknowing" by an anonymous 14th century English monk. Most of Hermetic magick is a ritual scaffolding to support people who cannot achieve the Great Work through contemplative prayer alone. In this sense, Hermetic magick is to contemplative prayer as Tibetan Buddhist practice is to Ānāpānasati -- using people's cultural context as a supportive framework for an achievement that is not, itself, fundamentally culturally-bound.
by curl-up | 2025-08-28 14:15:49+00:00
The question was "why does it feel more real", and I answered that - because the best AI generated images today feel more real than the best 3D renders, even when they take all the compute in the world to finish. So I can imagine that trend going forward into real-time rendering as well.

I did not claim that AI-based rendering will overcome traditional methods, and have even explicitly said that this is a heavy assumption, but explained why I see it as exciting.
by darkwater | 2025-08-28 14:15:51+00:00
> Yes, yes. And a person who's pick-pocketed may well do better to protect their pockets. This does not absolve the thief.

Freedom of roaming without having to worry about pickpockets it's one thing. Deciding that you go with the opensource offering of a company because it's convenient for you is another. I know it's just one example but the entitlement here is _the key_. You are entitled to go to whatever zone of a city and it's not right to blame the victim in that case. You are not entitled to have part of the business decisions of a company you were a "client" without paying a dime or signing any binding contract. You would be entitled to that if they were breaking some opensource license, for example.