MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-08-09 01:30:10+00:00
I don't remember what is in it, but if you want to discredit the Protocols saying "it predicted X" when X then happened is not the easy path. The main counterargument is the idea that organisation could be race-based vs pointing at a voluntary society. If you blame Jews on racial grounds they can't very well disassociate from being Jews.

> Yes, women in Europe are very corrupted. Amazing insight there.

Not much of an insight, it's generally accepted. By the standards of conservative Europe in 1800AD they're probably more than corrupted, society seems to have gone through the most extreme cases for how they imagined change might evolve. It isn't a very accurately chosen word but if you dig in to what he would have meant the boxes got ticked. The stats I've seen suggest European women are mostly godless, probably don't respect men all that much and on average are not having enough children to sustain the population. These days we'd probably call all that a win, but he wasn't wrong that people were working to bring such a world around.
by Loughla | 2025-08-09 01:30:14+00:00
100% accurate. Livestock feed is (like most agriculture) hyper optimized.

If they could increase production by 60% with any additive at all, it would immediately see widespread use.

People still have this weird view of farming that it's like Johnny Goodguy and his family taking care of a small herd. While that exists still, Johnny is also tracking every input and outcome and optimizing daily.

The data collection and use in Ag would astound people.
by gmueckl | 2025-08-09 01:30:35+00:00
It is absolutely not semantic.

A deeper understanding is acomplete enough understanding of the relevant quantitative theories (e.g. classical mechanics) and the ability to to apply them to a system (real or imagined) to the point where it can rigorously derive future states of the system given initial conditions quantitatively within the margins of error of any quantitative experimental results. This predictive ability is the defining core of scientific theories.

Looking at a thrown ball and running to where you feel that it might land is different.
by lacoolj | 2025-08-09 01:32:32+00:00
So we do this exact thing in our software, and I implement it (along with other devs), and I was still entranced enough to read through the end. No differences between ours and theirs (this is a fairly common practice anyway) but article is written in succinct, informative chunks with "images" (of code) in between.

This is how you write a technical article. Thanks to the author for the nice read :)
by zahlman | 2025-08-09 01:32:59+00:00
> discuss how to organize an alternative when the repository is archived and discussion is not possible anymore on GitHub.

I see 154 outstanding forks, and the potential to create more. Perhaps an existing one has non-trivial amounts of stars/watchers?

That said, a fork can't just publish a new version on PyPI under the original name. That requires at minimum a PEP 541 request (https://peps.python.org/pep-0541/#continued-maintenance-of-a...).

You could also try contacting the author at the email provided in pyproject.toml (or the one on said author's GitHub profile), I suppose.
by burkaman | 2025-08-09 01:33:47+00:00
It is far but you can take the metro to the bus, that's how I've visited. And it is a really cool museum, I would recommend it to anyone. Try to go before the shuttle is gone I guess, but they also have an SR-71, lots of satellites, a Concorde, and a thousand other planes. Just a giant hangar full of cool stuff.
by bogwog | 2025-08-09 01:34:29+00:00
Basically, if Nvidia sold AI GPUs at consumer prices, OpenAI and others would buy them all up for the lower price, consumers would not be able to buy them, and Nvidia would make less money. So instead, we normies can only get "gaming" cards with pitiful amounts of VRAM.

AI development is for rich people right now. Maybe when the bubble pops and the hardware becomes more accessible, we'll start to see some actual value come out of the tech from small companies or individuals.
by happycube | 2025-08-09 01:34:31+00:00
The sad thing is that, from what I can tell, Intel doesn't have a true planned successor to Alder Lake-N.

It really might be as bad a mistake as not having Intel Isreal's futher development of Pentium 3 would have been. (in other words, no Pentium M, no Core 2 Duo, no Nehalem...)
by svggrfgovgf | 2025-08-09 01:34:42+00:00
So, am I understanding this correctly?

TX has D's at 12/38s with proposed changes bringing D's to 7/38s (ie 31% to 18% D)

And in retaliation, CA wants R's to go down from 9/52's to 4/52's (ie 17% to 8% R)?

BTW, IL has R's at 3/17s (ie 18% R).

But, somehow, TX changing the D's percent to match CA's and IL's R percent is somehow beyond the pale?
by npmipg | 2025-08-09 01:34:53+00:00
Hey, I'm the author of the post.

The image has been fixed, and the point I'm making is that proprietary models are almost always ahead, and this gap is widening. OS models that are nearly at the same quality are usually distilled versions of proprietary models, or somehow get training data from them. Sometimes, after massive, expensive training runs models are open sourced anyway, and at some point that becomes unsustainable.

The difference between a top model and a model with a similar ELO might seem small, but the value of even a marginal increase in intelligence is extremely high--for example I only use the best coding model for coding, whatever the cost.

There's also lots of evidence that large labs are only getting started. In the past year, they have secured massive amounts of compute, which is still not utilized well. I expect lots of big training runs in the future, which will shift the gap further between OS and proprietary models.

The major problem for these companies is they spend hundreds of millions of dollars training a model, and then someone comes in the next day and distills something almost as good for far less money (still a VERY large sum of money.)

I don't know how this will be resolved long term.
by MagicMoonlight | 2025-08-09 01:36:32+00:00
I've never seen such blatant mental illness before. People are screeching that their friend is dead, that they're actually crying over it. It's a really terrible model. The only different thing about it, was that you could get it to go along with any delusion or conspiracy you believe in.

It's absolutely terrifying seeing how fanatical these people are over the mental illness robot.
by K0balt | 2025-08-09 01:37:33+00:00
It’s a very interesting idea to separate syntax from language mechanics. In a way, that’s what all programming languages do, with bytecode or machine instructions under the hood, but the idea of segregating syntax from function seems distinct in an intriguing way. I wonder how much, exactly, of the comparative benefits of various languages stem from their syntax rather than the way it is compiled?
by spwa4 | 2025-08-09 01:37:53+00:00
Really? Because history totally disagrees with this assessment. Winston Churchill is a hero of democracy, and deservedly so.

But fuck man, that guy was a lying bullshit artist ... he was a drunk. He abused his power with women. He lied to the public, to the army, to preserve his own power. And worse. He was a terrible, terrible person by all accounts.

And frankly, in that he was not exceptional. Get some papers from the 1920s, 1930s, and compare against the history books, or against science, against the truth. Again: WTF.

No, what makes democracy work, is not truth. I don't really know what does make it tick, but truth? No way. Participation? I don't have that big a smoking gun, but I doubt it. It's the option to participate that matters, not whether people actually do. In my opinion, what matters a great deal is that the government is forced to drastically change course when a large portion of the population is unhappy (which is, let's face facts, why Trump got elected, and it is why republicans are in for a world of hurt next time)

Even today, the fact of the matter is that European governments are fundamentally forced to scale back the welfare state. It is framed as a money problem, but really it is a problem of labor availability, money is only the abstraction the government uses for everything. We're blaming the abstraction. The real problem is not being seriously discussed in any European country, instead democratically elected governments are trying to sneak in cutback after cutback because "immigrants suck" or "criminals are expensive" or ... bullshit essentially.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-09 01:40:07+00:00
For real. Say it takes 1 machine 5 seconds to reply, and that a machine can only possibly form 1 reply at a time (which I doubt, but for argument).

If the requests were regularly spaced, and they certainly won’t be, but for the sake of argument, then 1 machine could serve 17,000 requests per day, or 120,000 per week. At that rate, you’d need about 5,600 machines to serve 700M requests. That’s a lot to me, but not to someone who owns a data center.

Yes, those 700M users will issue more than 1 query per week and they won’t be evenly spaced. However, I’d bet most of those queries will take well under 1 second to answer, and I’d also bet each machine can handle more than one at a time.

It’s a large problem, to be sure, but that seems tractable.
by niceguy4 | 2025-08-09 01:41:06+00:00
I don't believe these solutions protect against flow correlation observations. If a global adversary is monitoring the entry and exit points, they can identify the user without needing to decrypt the traffic. There are research papers that demonstrate attacks on both these models.

Onion endpoint sites use encrypted traffic and the padding strategy, too and are still susceptible to the correlation attack.

There's a security blog that publishes research papers on different attack models. It's a total PITA to find but I'll see if I can locate it.

edit: JFC... finally found it: https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/

Correlation attack concept: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024-337-p...

Attack against Mixnet and Nym: https://petsymposium.org/popets/2024/popets-2024-0050.pdf
by dang | 2025-08-09 01:42:44+00:00
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
by shrubble | 2025-08-09 01:43:05+00:00
I view Intel as a company that has a huge number of missed opportunities:

1. They have excellent engineering resources - why didn't they just take their ARC cards and add more RAM to them? People are dropping $2K+ on the 5090 with 32GB and would surely pay $1200+ for an ARC with 32GB or even much more for one with 64GB or higher. Absolute performance wouldn't be the benchmark; being able to load larger models would make for excellent price/performance, for many lower-end uses.

2. We've been stuck at typical network speeds of 1GBit Ethernet for literally 20 years at this point. A first generation Opteron server like the Sun V20z (made by Newisys or Celestica, really) had dual-Gigabit interfaces; Intel should be pushing for 10Gb or higher as the bare minimum - and they make the 10Gb chips! More bandwidth capacity, even on the low end, will grow the computing market. And Intel has a big chunk of the market.

3. Intel did the same with their only offering dual-memory channel and thus much lower bandwidth of CPU <-> RAM ; unless you are buying an expensive server, you only get 2 channels to RAM; Apple increased their RAM bandwidth significantly and as it turns out, customers liked that, and bought more Apple CPUs.

Intel has to become "hungry" once more and stop their sedate, sclerotic ways. Maybe caring about their customers would help, too.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-09 01:43:06+00:00
Hmm... I guess someone thought that I was boasting about my setup.

It's really not a big deal. I know quite a few people that have much nicer rigs; especially gamers.

I was really just saying that the MPB has a processor that still rocks, several years later, but the large screen that I use (which is actually not as impressive as some of the gaming screens), has me spoiled, and using a laptop screen feels cramped.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-09 01:43:51+00:00
Hardware is slower to design and manufacture than we expect as software people.

What I think we’ll see is: people will realize some things that suck in the current first-generation of laptop NPUs. The next generation of that hardware will get better as a result. The software should generally get better and lighter. We’re currently at step -.5 here, because ~nobody has bought these laptops yet! This will happen in a couple years.

Meanwhile, eventually the cloud LLM hosts will run out of investors money to subsidize our use of their computers. They’ll have to actually start charging enough to make a profit. On top of what local LLM folks have to pay, the cloud folks will have to pay:

* Their investors

* Their security folks

* The disposal costs for all those obsolete NVIDIA cards

Plus the remote LLM companies will have the fundamental disadvantage that your helpful buddy that you use as a psychologist in a pinch is also reporting all your darkest fears to Microsoft or whoever. Or your dev tools might be recycling all the work you thought you were doing for your job, back into their training set. And might be turned off. It just seems wildly unappealing.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-09 01:44:40+00:00
> The midterms are in 2026.

What is it they say in America? "Oh sweet, summer child?"

Honestly and seriously: look at the abuse of power and its escalation. Consider the consequences to Trump if he lets the House flip. Impeachment again and this time removal really would seem likely.

Now consider, in all detached seriousness: why would a man who tried a coup and thinks he can disappear people to El Salvador let that happen?

Now consider that he's trying to force the creation of a new census that doesn't count illegal immigrants, which is obviously about denying the democrats seats, and he's fired someone for producing numbers he doesn't like and replaced them with "all new numbers".

It's not going to be the end of his interference, right?

The midterms, if they happen, will not flip the House. If they do, he will try to delay, confuse, challenge, set them aside, produce alternative results, claim massive fraud, or interfere with their certification. If he can't stop them, he will threaten them individually until they quit. (Don't say "he can't stop the election, under the constitution"; it's a meaningless phrase now)

You're not having a normal election in 2026.

Even if I turn out to be wrong, I really wish people would start acting as if predictions like these are entirely plausible. Because they are. He's moving much faster than critics expected, and yet he's doing all the things they expected.
by greenhat76 | 2025-08-09 01:45:36+00:00
Some of their cards were beginning to become competitive for the price in the consumer market, they were getting there imo, just afraid to sync the insane amount of money needed for R&D to get them to the next level to actually compete with Nvidia in the enterprise space.

Intel is just bending over for shareholders instead of doing actual engineering. A big reason the previous CEO got yeeted.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-09 01:47:09+00:00
That entire AI boyfriend subreddit feels like some sort of insane asylum dystopia to me. It's not just people cosplaying or writing fanfic. It's people saying they got engaged to their AI boyfriends ("OMG, I can't believe I'm calling him my fiance now!"), complete with physical rings. Artificial intimacy to the nth degree. I'm assuming a lot of those posts are just creative writing exercises but in the past 15 years or so my thoughts of "people can't really be that crazy" when I read batshit stuff online have consistently been proven incorrect.
by adidoit | 2025-08-09 01:48:56+00:00
I was lucky enough to hear him tell the story of Apollo 13 when I was at Purdue University.

In my second year, he came to the Electrical Engineering lecture hall and told the story of Apollo 13 to a packed crowd, standing room.

I believe it was during the events of the opening of Armstrong Hall in 2007

Unfortunately no one had smartphones then and I doubt it was recorded.

I barely remember the details but I still remember the feeling of watching someone deeply confident and caring who gave so much credit to the broader team he worked with. He remembered all the details including specific equipment and model numbers of switches. He spoke in that confident tone a lot of astronauts have but somehow still very humble and empathetic and answered so many questions.

He was 70+ at the time I guess so energetic he looked 40.

I honestly think this was the one time I met a "hero" who more than lived up to the hype.

Rest in Peace Commander Lovell.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-09 01:50:57+00:00
The Dell monitor goes on sale for lower prices from time to time. Those other cheaper 2560x1440 monitors aren’t really apples to apples comparisons, because they use older less capable panels (less contrast, lower brightness, no certified flicker free, no VRR, no factory calibration, capped at 60hz, etc etc) and many don’t include KVM functionality even if they do add a couple extra ports. Comparably feature rich monitors from other brands are similarly expensive.

As far as port counts go, to get anything close to what a TS4 adds, you’re looking at a desktop of some kind or maybe one of those monstrous 17”+ workstation or gaming laptops (but even most of those have fewer ports).
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-08-09 01:52:49+00:00
Did you skip searing it after sous vide? Did you sous vide it to the "instantly kill all bacteria" temperature (145°F for steak) thereby overcooking & destroying it, or did you sous vide to a lower temperature (at most 125°F) so that it'd reach a medium-rare 130°F-140°F after searing & carryover cooking during resting? It should have a nice seared crust, and the inside absolutely shouldn't be mushy.
by EthanHeilman | 2025-08-09 01:54:55+00:00
I am not, later breakthroughs tend to be harder.

Consider the research work for five in series breakthroughs: 1, 2, 16, 8, 128 each breakthrough doubles your research power.

If you start at 1 research, you get the first breakthrough after 1/1=1 year. Then you get the second breakthrough after 2/2=1 year. Then you get the third breakthrough after 16/4 = 4 years. The fourth breakthrough after 8/8= year. The fifth breakthrough after 128/16 = 8 years.

If it only takes one year for a competitor to learn your breakthrough, they can catch up despite the fact that your research rate is doubling after every breakthrough.
by BeauNer | 2025-08-09 01:55:24+00:00
Well, folks, I finally got access to GPT-5, and let me tell you, I am seriously impressed. For months, I have been reading speculation, leaks, and hot takes about what it would be like. Now that I have actually used it, I think a lot of the negativity swirling online is missing the bigger picture.

If you spend any time on Reddit, Twitter, or YouTube, you will see the same complaints repeated. Some people say GPT-5 is no different from GPT-4. Others claim it has lost its personality. Some insist it is too safe and refuses to answer too many questions. The internet has been quick to declare it a disappointment. The truth is, much of that does not seem based on actual use.

Let us start with what is actually better. GPT-5 handles coding, math, and reasoning more effectively than any version before it. The difference is clear if you give it complex instructions or ask it to work through problems step-by-step. It is more willing to think before answering, which means fewer mistakes and more complete solutions. For developers, students, and anyone working on detailed projects, this is a real improvement.

The too safe criticism is a different story. Yes, GPT-5 will shut down certain topics more quickly than older models. OpenAI has tuned it to be more cautious. This bothers some people who want a totally unfiltered AI. But that is not a sign of lower intelligence. If anything, the answers it does give are more precise, and it avoids wandering into random tangents or made-up facts as often.

Then there is the personality complaint. I get where this comes from. Out of the box, GPT-5 does seem more neutral. If you are used to the chatty, quirky tone that earlier models sometimes had, you might think something is missing. But after spending a bit of time prompting it and shaping responses, I can still get the same casual and conversational tone I enjoy. It just takes a nudge.

I think a lot of the frustration comes from unrealistic expectations. People saw GPT-5 and assumed it would be a massive leap toward science fiction-level AI. That was never realistic. GPT-5 is not an artificial general intelligence. It is still a language model. The fact that it did not instantly transform into a digital superhuman does not mean it is a failure. Calling it no better because it did not meet fantasy-level expectations is like saying a new smartphone is bad because it does not teleport you to work.

The other thing worth noting is how much online opinion is shaped by AI fatigue. Over the last two years, AI has dominated tech news. We have had constant product launches, updates, and press releases. By the time GPT-5 came out, some people were ready to dislike it before even trying it. Negativity often gets more clicks than praise, so criticism spreads faster.
by wonderwonder | 2025-08-09 01:55:52+00:00
Its a fair question, not sure why you are being downvoted. I don't buy organic. The primary reason for me to consider it healthier is just that the animals are fed (supposedly) on pesticide free feed. My opinion rests on that. If you are speaking from a pure nutrition perspective I would say nothing.

There are others that I am sure would argue for other reasons such as the reduction of drug resistant bacteria for the good of all but I'm not sure that really plays out. It only works if the amount of organic sold far outstrips non organic. It also means intentionally paying more for the good of the commons while the majority don't.
by raincom | 2025-08-09 01:55:58+00:00
tl dr without all bullshit: "False claims are circulating about my past roles. I’ve always acted to the highest legal and ethical standards, and I lead Intel the same way. The Board supports our work. This year, we’ll launch high-volume manufacturing on the most advanced U.S. semiconductor process—thanks to you. Stay focused. Our mission is clear, our impact critical."
by credit_guy | 2025-08-09 01:56:02+00:00
"Democracy" is just our short word for "checks and balances and the rule of law", which is quite a mouthful.

> and the democracy becomes "democracy", that is, little more than a show.

Autocrats all over the world rejoice when they hear this type of arguments. If nothing is perfect, then every system is as good as theirs.

I'm sure that's not what you are trying to say, but unfortunately, that's the logical conclusion of what you are saying.
by aetherspawn | 2025-08-09 01:56:53+00:00
Lithium is the wrong chemistry for this novelty throwaway thing. Risks of fire all along the supply and disposal chain.

They could just use a few watch cells. LEDs use no power at all, so lithium not required; and watch cells aren’t hazardous when shorted.

Even the form factor of 18650 seems wrong for this, they would be so bulky compared to watch cells or AAA cells.