MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nemomarx | 2025-08-28 15:11:41+00:00
Less serious, but this reminds me of how before stable diffusion was consistently useful, there were artists who made a sizeable Patreon income on anime characters in 'realistic' style. Unfortunately that seems to have been one of the styles that got trained into models the best and now their good work is associated with cheap looking art, and not through any fault of their own.

All the way down this kind of genai has weird impacts I guess.
by Wololooo | 2025-08-28 15:11:42+00:00
The point is everything require maintenance, the degree at which it does require it depends on how dependent you are on it and how resilient the system itself is.

You are but going to fundamentally be in distress if solitaire and minesweeper is not running, if your monitoring SW for some important infrastructure starts to exhibit some issues, you might want to take a look or two...
by redwall_hp | 2025-08-28 15:12:15+00:00
They're all perfectly normal words that literate people use. The problem is the typical American struggles to read beyond a fifth grade level and is actively hostile toward more advanced vocabulary, as the country is deeply anti-intellectual overall.

ChatGPT, of course, behaves like its training set...and the majority of that set is professional writers' published works, which would be more likely to use words like that. It's a collision of academic and literary writing styles with the expectations of people who think Harry Potter or the New York Times (which specifically targets a fifth grade level, placing them above other papers) are challenging reads.
by kbrannigan | 2025-08-28 15:12:18+00:00
We've moved past worrying about purchase data or location history. The real issue is the silent, constant ingestion of ambient data like License Plate Readers, Facial recognition and other biometrics voice, fingerprints . Even when you go to target or walmart, Exposed Cloud Backups and Private Messages. Just you driving to buy a potato, you have dozens of data points collected about you.

Every generation is already used to a degree of data collection so it's normal until it becomes overwhelming.
by sc68cal | 2025-08-28 15:12:24+00:00
This whole article is built off using DeepSeek R1, which is a huge premise that I don't think is correct. DeepSeek is much more efficient and I don't think it's a valid way to estimate what OpenAI and Anthropic's costs are.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/

Basically, DeepSeek is _very_ efficient at inference, and that was the whole reason why it shook the industry when it was released.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-28 15:12:30+00:00
Nah. I'm an old man. I remember when Java 1.0 shipped. It got relatively little initial enterprise adoption considering it was from Sun who had a lot of enterprise contracts. Traction took years and was often aligned with adoption of Tim's crap hypermedia system, the "World Wide Web" which he'd created years prior but was just beginning to intrude into normal people's lives by the end of the 1990s.

A big factor is that Java was the entire ecosystem, you're getting a programming language (which is pretty good), a novel virtual machine (most of their ideas fell through but the basic thing is fine), dedicated hardware (mostly now forgotten), a component architecture, and a set of tools for them.

You're still on this 1GB/core thing which is the wrong end of the scale in two senses. Firstly, I've worked on systems where we'd want 1TB/core and so today that means you're buying a lot of CPU performance you don't need to get enough RAM because as you say, that machine is "exhausted" anyway.

But more importantly the scale for big products isn't dictated by RAM or CPU it's dictated by service provision, and at large scale that's just linear. Twice as much provision, twice the cost. Avoiding a GC can let you slash that cost. Cutting a $1M annual bill in half would justify hiring a Rust programmer though likely not a whole team. Cutting a $1Bn annual bill in half - which is much more like what Microsoft are spending on O365 - is obviously worth hiring a team.

It's not instant. GC tuning is basically instant. RIIR might take three, five, even ten years. So don't expect results tomorrow afternoon.
by korhojoa | 2025-08-28 15:12:48+00:00
Should be, yes. As long as instant transfers are enabled (which, reading this thread seems to not be as common as I thought).

I don't have a complete solution but this is all public information.

Barcode to read with your bank app (guide is in Finnish) https://www.finanssiala.fi/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Pankki...

Example Bank API: https://op-developer.fi/p/psd2-info

The user will likely take ~20 seconds to get their phone out, unlock it, log in to the bank app, confirm the transaction and set their phone down. The PSD2 API shows the transaction immediately (again, instant transfer being enabled is a prerequisite) and the seller can confirm that payment is complete.
by NobodyNada | 2025-08-28 15:12:50+00:00
Zig's trying to be a "nicer C" that's easy to learn and fast to compile. It's a great language with a lot of neat design, and definitely setting itself up to be a "valid challenger" in a lot of the systems-y, performance-focused domains Rust targets. But it's not trying to compete with Rust on the safety/program correctness front.

Almost none of the Rust features discussed in this subthread are present in Zig, such as ownership, borrowing, shared vs. exclusive access, lifetimes, traits, RAII, or statically checked thread safety.
by netsharc | 2025-08-28 15:13:02+00:00
I assume the apps track how long you're in the browser, what URLs you open (does the in-app webview forward the URL requests through the app?), I don't know if it can detect how far along you're scrolling in the webview, if it can, then it knows what parts of the webpage has your attention...

It's no wonder most social media apps use in-app browsers.
by layer8 | 2025-08-28 15:13:15+00:00
Even if you take days, one can be born at 23:58 and the other at 00:03 the next day. (And it could be New Year’s day — in some cultures that would even imply different ages in years.) Regardless of days, it’s not uncommon to talk about who is the older twin.

Of course colloquially twins are the same age, but we are talking about a mathematical puzzle about probabilities here, where precision is paramount.
by brandall10 | 2025-08-28 15:13:36+00:00
More effective? No. Just a ballpark state similar to the article, which I believe is more like the initial come up where you still have the ability to snap back to reality. Quite efficiently and reliably. Can't edit my OP but the caveat should be applied that I was already experienced w/ psilocybin upon purchasing the device.

Can't claim it would produce the same results for everyone, but I provided a free, low friction option for anyone curious.
by gf000 | 2025-08-28 15:13:45+00:00
I mean, "fearless concurrency", while a hyped-up phrase that is definitely exaggerated, compared to the C-world where you are already blowing off your leg in single-threaded code, let alone thinking of multiple threads Rust is an insanely huge win. And it shows on e.g. the small Unix tool rewrites.

Sure, rewrites are most often better on simply being a rewrite, but the kind of parallel processing they do may not be feasible in C.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-28 15:13:51+00:00
The LLM scene is an insane economic bloodbath right now. The tech aside, the financial moves here are historical. It's the ultimate wet dream for consumers - many competitors, face-ripping cap-ex, any missteps being quickly punished, and a total inability to hold back anything from the market. Companies are spending hundreds of billions to put the best tech in your hands as fast and as cheaply as possible.

If OpenAI didn't come along with ChatGPT, we would probably just now be getting Google Bard 1.0 with an ability level of GPT-3.5 and censorship so heavy it would make it useless for anything beyond "Tell me who the first president was".
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-28 15:13:58+00:00
The reports from the usual "offshoring centers" aren't exactly inspiring. It's a bloodbath over there.

Seems like the capabilities of current systems map onto "the kind of labor that gets offshored" quite well. Some of the jobs that would get offloaded to India now get offloaded to Anthropic's datacenters instead.
by jordanb | 2025-08-28 15:14:09+00:00
Interestingly hills used to be considered a horrible place to build and poor shanty towns were constructed up the hill with the nicer parts of town in the valley. People didn't want to climb up the hill every day, you had problems with access to water and supplies. The ground was prone to shifting. You also had high winds and yeah, in fire prone areas, fire goes uphill.

What changed? Automobiles, reinforced concrete, retention walls, lift pumps, subsidized road construction.. People in LA with money now want their homes perched up a hill with inaccessible terrain covered in brush below it (that ensures nobody will build on their view!).

Same with oceanside land by the way. If you go to the shore of the bay of Biscay in France, for instance, the "seaside" villages are built not on the beach, but a few hundred yards inland. Building right on a sandy storm-swept shoreline would have seemed ludicrous when those towns were being constructed.
Show HN: HTML Commenter
by logicprog | 2025-08-28 15:14:17+00:00
Hi! I vibe coded a small tool that I think is relatively unique — at least, I haven't found anything like it — and I've found personally extremely useful. I don't know if anyone else will, but I'm sharing it just in case someone does find it useful. Basic description:

HTML Commenter is a zero-dependency, self-contained document annotation tool for any static HTML page. This system allows users to annotate the text on a web page, auto-saves their comments to local storage, and lets them share their comments with others via compressed links or back them up with JSON files, all without requiring a server or external libraries.

The goal of this project is to provide a lightweight collaborative document annotation experience for people who:

- don't want to use SaaS and/or heavy PWAs

- don't want to have to install and maintain software on their own server

- don't want to ask users to install software (like LibreOffice)

don't want to have to send - multiple versions of files around like it's 1990 and we're dealing with Word Documents

- prefer writing in plain markup languages (like Markdown, Org, or HTML), exporting to HTML, and posting their writing to their domain (either self hosted or on things like NeoCities)

Github: https://github.com/alexispurslane/html-commenter/ URL for trying it out: https://alexispurslane.github.io/html-commenter/try.html
by hu3 | 2025-08-28 15:14:19+00:00
No it's just Dell extended warranty. They call it "Dell Care Plus".

Just try to buy a desktop machine and you'll see it as an option.

An example: https://i.imgur.com/sSVnfjb.png

The important part: "On-location repairs, by Dell certified technicians, after remote diagnosis (1-2 business days)".

There's no special business contract or paperwork involved.

And you can get it for free in promos. Like it did.
by teekert | 2025-08-28 15:14:41+00:00
Idk what is going on but I'm using it all day for free, no limits in sight yet... It's just for small things, but for sure I would have had to pay 6 months ago. I actually would if they prompted tbh. Although I still find that whole "You can't use the webUI with your API credits" annoying. Why not? Why make me run OpenWebUI or LibreChat?

I guess my use is absolutely nothing compare to someone with a couple of agents running continuously.
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-28 15:14:56+00:00
I can setup Samba, NFS, and ZFS manually myself, but why would I want to? Configuring samba users & shares via SSH sucks. It's tedious. It's error prone. It's boring.

Similarly while docker's CLI interface is relatively nice, it's even nicer to just take my phone, open a browser, and push "update" or "restart" in a little gui to quickly get things back up & going. Or to add new services. Or whatever else I want. Sure I could SSH in from my phone, but that's awful. I could go get a laptop whenever I need to do something, but if Jellyfin or Plex or whatever is cranky and I'm already sitting on the couch, I don't want to have to get up and go find a laptop. I want to just hit "restart service" without moving.

And that's the point of things like TrueNAS or Unraid or whatever. It makes things nicer to use from more interfaces in more places.
by tremon | 2025-08-28 15:15:16+00:00
Giro was nice 15 years ago

What giro system are you talking about here? Do you mean the postal giro system that has existed in Europe since the 1960s and has been used for postorder shopping since before the Internet existed? That system was already obsolete in NL last century when we had the first digital invoicing systems via e-mail (and digital personal banking via dial-up), and we've had direct online payments via iDeal since 2005. Are you saying that some countries are still relying on paper-based payment instructions in 2025?

I don't know a single bank that offers an "address book" in their online banking app/website.

Conversely, I don't know a single online banking portal that does NOT offer such basic functionality. Santander, ING, and Rabobank all do.

And because the system comes with a degree of anonymity

What do you mean? Every payment in my bank's transaction history shows the account number on the other end of the transfer.
by blitzar | 2025-08-28 15:15:53+00:00
You are right it is not a bus.

Its a vehicle that holds idk like 20 people or maybe even a bigger one that holds 100 or so. It will go from one point to another, along a pre-determined route, stopping at designated places along the way. People can get on and off at any one of the places it stops at.

Its reimagining the way we travel, its going to change the world. A similar thing is in the works that goes on fixed metal rails, the details havent all been figured out yet nor what to call it, but expect exciting news soon.
by EMM_386 | 2025-08-28 15:15:54+00:00
I don't understand at all how this is maddening or counter-intuitive.

When you have a child, the odds are ~50% ... so the chance the next child is a boy or girl is almost equal. Is it because of the way it's framed that makes people think harder than they need to be?

This is like when I (very rarely) play something like "pick six".

I play 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. People think I'm crazy. They don't realize I have the same odds as any ticket they purchase.
by jsheard | 2025-08-28 15:16:04+00:00
I think we'll have to agree to disagree about well done 3D renders not feeling real. Movie studios still regularly underplay how much CGI they use for marketing purposes, and get away with it, because the CGI looks so utterly real that nobody even notices it until much later when the VFX vendors are allowed to give a peek behind the curtain.

e.g. Top Gun Mavericks much lauded "practical" jet shots, which were filmed on real planes, but then the pilots were isolated and composited into 100% CGI planes with the backdrops also being CGI in many cases, and huge swathes of viewers and press bought the marketing line that what they saw was all practical.
by cthor | 2025-08-28 15:16:06+00:00
Just because you want that to be "the key" doesn't make it so. You make that your singular focus and you let antisocial behaviour off the hook. That is your prerogative.

For me, the key is the bait and switch. It's like a drug dealer offering first time customers a discount. It's a good business strategy to get people hooked. Very enterprising. Nonetheless, I would prefer a society without such behaviour.
by justlikereddit | 2025-08-28 15:16:10+00:00
If you don't want to be insulted perhaps you shouldn't throw the first stone?

Can't handle counter battery because you grew up in a homogenized echo chamber? Boohoo reality don't care and neither do I.

When you've wipes your tears perhaps you should go read the actual reports you dearly advertise, and then you too could know they predict lukewarm bullshit indistinguishable from weather.

But nah, you'll keep being a fecal ruminants smugly chewing on your genAI-slop-level massmedia headlines while thinking your insults are clever.
by dkislyuk | 2025-08-28 15:16:14+00:00
Presenting information theory as a series of independent equations like this does a disservice to the learning process. Cross-entropy and KL-divergence are directly derived from information entropy, where InformationEntropy(P) represents the baseline number of bits needed to encode events from the true distribution P, CrossEntropy(P, Q) represents the (average) number of bits needed for encoding P with a suboptimal distribution Q, and KL-Divergence (better referred to as relative entropy) is the difference between these two values (how many more bits are needed to encode P with Q, i.e. quantifying the inefficiency):

relative_entropy(p, q) = cross_entropy(p, q) - entropy(p)

Information theory is some of the most accessible and approachable math for ML practitioners, and it shows up everywhere. In my experience, it's worthwhile to dig into the foundations as opposed to just memorizing the formulas.

(bits assume base 2 here)
by boroboro4 | 2025-08-28 15:17:14+00:00
DeepSeek inference efficiency comes from two things: MoE and MLA attention. OpenAI was rumored to use MoE around GPT4 moment, I.e loooong time ago.

Given Gemini efficiency with long context I would bet their attention is very efficient too.

GPT OSS uses fp4, which DeepSeek doesn’t use yet btw.

So no, big labs aren’t behind DeepSeek in efficiency. Not by much at least.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-08-28 15:17:27+00:00
I had to put together an AM5 computer pretty quickly after I accidentally fried some components in my last computer, so I got a Microcenter bundle.

I got 2x32GB sticks of RAM with the plan to throw in another two sticks later. I had no idea that was now a bad plan. I wish manufacturers would have just put 2 DIMM slots on motherboards as a “warning.”
by catgary | 2025-08-28 15:17:30+00:00
I’m going to push back on this a bit. I think a simpler explanation (or at least one that doesn’t involve projecting one’s own insecurities onto the authors) is that the people who write these papers are generally comfortable enough with mathematics that they don’t believe anything has been obfuscated. ML is a mathematical science and many people in ML were trained as physicists or mathematicians (I’m one of them). People write things this way because it makes symbolic manipulations easier and you can keep the full expression in your head; what you’re proposing would actually make it significantly harder to verify results in papers.
by orwin | 2025-08-28 15:17:48+00:00
You can, but it will destroy your plane electronics if you can't bring an external cooler fast enough. even with the next gen internal cooler (that won't be in test until 2029, so not installed until like 2035), the jury is still out until it's done.

And Stealth alone is not good enough, not anymore. Radar and optics tech caught up. You still have to load of flares for any CAS or any engagement that will involve fox-2 targeting (which, you know, break your profile and make you visible on old radars), and from what i heard, Thales is confident on its next-gen avionics/optics/radars ability to detect gen5 radar signal, so much so that they clearly focus on future-proofing against EW equipements (that don't yet exist, allegedly).

The future is Stealth+Altitude, or stealth+EW+unmaned, automated drone with similar radar profile, and that's probably when the F35 will probably shine, but until then, i just don't think it's a good plane, not yet.

Also i think fighter planes based on the Growler will probably be better in the future. If a country bought F35 without asking for Growlers, my intuition is that it was a political choice, not an informed/military one (So basically, Australia military, to me, is the only sane country).
by kaelandt | 2025-08-28 15:17:52+00:00
The API prices of $3/$15 are not right for a lot of models. see at openrouter, the gpt-oss-120b ones https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-oss-120b, it's more like $0.01/$0.3 (and that model actually needs h200/b200 to have good throughput).
by nemomarx | 2025-08-28 15:17:58+00:00
Oh yeah I don't mean to diminish that part. Rather, I'm thinking this might actually be one of the things he's talking about in the post? Whatever happened that the maintainers took over the repo, that could be a point of tension and maybe a loss of control for him. Which would definitely make you feel like the community was isolating you, right?

Different sides to the story, and neither post here explains exactly what happened with Requests.
by mathiaspoint | 2025-08-28 15:18:21+00:00
No I just won't use your crap. The value proposition is already marginal almost all the time, this tips over to "absolutely not, fuck off" territory.

>If you want to write your friends a message

Then I will use email as I do today. It works, it's universal, and it's free of this kind of bullshit (which is why they push everyone to use other things.) I even went on a date last weekend I set up over email (and it's far from the first.)

Again, fuck off.
by conartist6 | 2025-08-28 15:18:34+00:00
Huh? The DoD would not have used the package if they hadn't read every line, locked it down for updates, and were ready to patch it themselves if needed. Can you really imagine in a war they'd be like "damn, if only there were a second person we also don't trust at all to do this work for us cause otherwise we'd just be SOL"
by lotharcable | 2025-08-28 15:18:37+00:00
"Systems containers" are almost certainly isn't more secure since 'root' means things, even in a container.

Containers just leverage existing Linux namespace isolation techniques to isolate applications.

A good way to think about it is that they act like blinders on a horse. If applications can't "see stuff" or reference items outside of the container then they don't know it exists and don't know how to interact with it.

"application containers" can take advantage of more then just namespaces to isolate applications, such as running them as unprivileged users inside the container's context and thus limiting them from the sort of kernel features that get exposed inside the containers. Or cgroups to limit resource usage and other smaller things like that.

Regardless "Security" and "Containers" really shouldn't be written about in the same paragraph without MAC framework like SELinux in place or additional isolation techniques like VMs.

Although VMs are a lot more like containers then people realize.
by Rafaelo | 2025-08-28 15:18:51+00:00
Somebody won't pay their rent, what does Swiss coop do? Since they can't be kicked out. How to deal with teenager with a drum set? Or selling drugs?

Article says when you leave you sell shares for purcahse price + inflation That's no different from a US Government inflation-protected bond. You are simply storing your money rather than profiting from it.

But where does Coop get the money to pay everybody back if several decide to leave at once? Say, fed up with having to pay extra because their neighbor the drug dealer won't pay rent.
by smarterclayton | 2025-08-28 15:19:04+00:00
A good rule of thumb is that a prefill token is about 1/6th the compute cost of decode token, and that you can get about 15k prefill tokens a second on Llama3 8B on a single H100. Bigger models will require more compute per token, and quantization like FP8 or FP4 will require less.