MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-09-12 13:38:57+00:00
That depends on where you live.

In India you can pay people to do this for less than $1/day. My coworkers there generally are paying 2 people that price even though there isn't enough work to keep even one busy - that way if one servant quits they don't have to do the work themselves.

For me I'd have to pay something like $30/hour after you account for taxes, their take-home would be in the $15-20/hour range. I'd also have to learn a foreign language because almost nobody who speaks English (or even Spanish) will accept a part time job making that little part time. I'd need an accountant to figure out the exact price of course so more cost but lets just work with $30/hour. It would cost me nearly $10,000 per year to have such a servant in the US, and the only reason it is less is I can expect servants to quit often enough that I never have one for the full year as they find other jobs that are better (30*365 = 10950 if they work every day)

That is why so many Americans (and Europeans) want robots - there are a lot of tedious things that we are doing ourselves that we would love to have someone else do but labor is so expensive we can't afford it. Even if you live below the poverty line in these countries you realistically have a rich lifestyle in many ways - HVAC, lights, smart phones... modern life as provided many luxuries that kings of the past couldn't get (don't get me wrong, life for the poor is hard despite those luxuries)
by evelant | 2025-09-12 13:39:30+00:00
Cool stuff! This looks quite similar to https://traycer.ai/

I think there's probably a lot of value to be gained in tooling for coding agents that codify and enhance the describe -> explore -> plan -> refine -> implement -> verify cycle. With most popular tools (cursor, claude code, roo, augment, windsurf, etc) you have to do this workflow "manually" usually by having the model write out .md files, it isn't super smooth.
by pritambaral | 2025-09-12 13:39:45+00:00
Who says they didn't? There is only one party here who acted in bad faith, and it wasn't Hyundai.

In fact, this party has a — by now well-established — track-record of precisely this bad behaviour. They haven't even tried to hide their actions, only their individual faces. They've been public about their disdain for the law, for humanity, and their general evil plans.

And here you are accusing their victims of crimes you, like them, have no evidence of.
by achenet | 2025-09-12 13:39:54+00:00
I second this "just show up" mentality.

Putting too much pressure on oneself to do too much, especially in the beginning before the body has had time to adapt to the pressures of training, is a recipe for burnout.

On the other hand, a slow start, "just keeping showing up, do a little, give yourself plenty of time and space to rest" mentality, in the long run, leads to better performance.

Slow and steady wins the race.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-12 13:40:04+00:00
If you are seriously worried about PFAS in your beer, go to the ACS Journal article - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c11265 - which is pretty readable. That will give you some good ideas of which breweries might best be avoided for now.

> The researchers found a strong correlation between PFAS concentrations in municipal drinking water and levels in locally brewed beer -- a phenomenon that Hoponick Redmon and colleagues say has not yet been studied in U.S. retail beer. They found PFAS in 95% of the beers they tested.

(Being in the tap water, I'd figure it's also in locally-bottled water and soft drinks and such.)

FWIW - all the study's authors are with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTI_International They officially claimed no conflicts of interest. But if they're drinking local beers anywhere near RTI's HQ - yeah, ample reason to want things fixed.
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-09-12 13:40:42+00:00
It's the same tired trope that they trotted out in the .com boom. Same trope resurrected in whatever the recovery of the '08 recession was. And now since AI is the big hot thing, they'll bandy about the same mythic, stoic, ascetic founder baloney. "Get rich by giving up everything about yourself." It's just sad how so many are so taken in by it. "But no, I'll be one of the different ones" says ten thousand others. Fine, whatever, you do you. I guess we'll all have to be subject to the same navel-gazing when 99.999% crash and burn about how much I was changed, or we were so close but I'll never give up the mission or other hogwash that every other one of these delusional "founders" fall back on. They'll just go onto the next scam.

The correction can't come fast enough so the real, actual value-producers are left standing.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-12 13:41:03+00:00
It's an HP OEM (because I moved countries during the pandemic and getting parts where I settled was ridiculously more expensive).

The CPU is AIO (and the radiator fans are loud). The GPU has very loud fans too, but is not AIO.

It's four years old at this point and I might just build something else rather than try to retrofit this one to sanity (which I doubt is possible without dumping the GPU anyway).
by mcv | 2025-09-12 13:41:14+00:00
Intelligence has been a poorly defined moving goal post for as long as AI research has been around.

Originally they thought: chess takes intelligence, so if computers can play chess, they must be intelligent. Eventually they could, and later even better than humans, but it's a very narrow aspect of intelligence.

Struggling to define what we mean by intelligence has always been part of AI research. Except when researchers stopped worrying about intelligence and started focusing on more well-defined tasks, like chess, translation, image recognition, driving, etc.

I don't know if we'll ever reach AGI, but on the way we'll discover a lot more about what we mean by intelligence.
by biglyburrito | 2025-09-12 13:41:17+00:00
You still can, just don't drink beer made in US plague states.

Here's the study map: https://pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/acs.est.4c11265/asset/image...

And here's the 2024 presidential election map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/El...
by dotancohen | 2025-09-12 13:41:31+00:00
Partial moons are great for viewing. I almost never look at the moon, instead preferring Venus (same crescent as the moon!), Mars (ice caps!) and Saturn (over the course of my life, I've seen the ring system tilt). Not to mention the moons of Jupiter. Or some really bright nebulae.

However, for sharing photos or for people new to astronomy, the full moon is a very good target. Craters and shiny mountaintops are difficult to understand at first, but the large mare and Tycho crater are very prominent. Over the course of an hour, you can show them how the moon moves not only in relation to the Earth (because the telescope needs adjusting) but also relative to the background stars. And lastly, they can look up at the moon after they've pulled their eye away from the eyepiece, and still see detail. For that moment on, they'll look at the moon with a sense of familiarity - not just a disk in the sky but now an intricate object which they had one seen in intimate detail.
by mcrutcher | 2025-09-12 13:41:35+00:00
Also, though nobody has put the work in yet, the GH200 and GB200 (the NVIDIA "superchips" support exposing their full LPDDR5X and HBM3 as UVM (unified virtual memory) with much more memory bandwidth between LPDDR5X and HBM3 than a typical "instance" using PCIE. UVM can handle "movement" in the background and would be absolutely killer for these MoE architectures, but none of the popular inference engines actually allocate memory correctly for these architectures: cudaMallocManaged() or allow UVM (CUDA) to actually handle movement of data for them (automatic page migration and dynamic data movement) or are architected to avoid pitfalls in this environment (being aware of the implications of CUDA graphs when using UVM).

It's really not that much code, though, and all the actual capabilities are there as of about mid this year. I think someone will make this work and it will be a huge efficiency for the right model/workflow combinations (effectively, being able to run 1T parameter MoE models on GB200 NVL4 at "full speed" if your workload has the right characteristics).
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-12 13:42:04+00:00
>Who says they didn't?

Government law enforcement says.

>There is only one party here who acted in bad faith, and it wasn't Hyundai.

Oh, so you were there present witnessing the arrests, and then you managed to check their visas to confirm Hyundai was 100% squeaky clean?

Then why aren't you with Hyundai suing the US government for abuse. Lawyers will have a field day with this if what you say is true.

>In fact, this party has a — by now well-established — track-record of precisely this bad behaviour. They haven't even tried to hide their actions, only their individual faces. They've been public about their disdain for the law, for humanity, and their general evil plans.

If you're talking about the evil Chaebol Hyundai here, then you'd be right, as it indeed has a very poor track record for legal violations:

### Hyundai Motor Group Controversies (Korea & International)

- *Korea: Embezzlement (2006–2007)* Chairman Chung Mong-koo got a suspended sentence for embezzling ~$106M for bribes and family control. Exposed chaebol corruption. - *Korea: Labor Disputes (Ongoing, peaked 2014–2016)\* Violent strikes over wages and conditions cost $2.4B in production. Unions criticize Hyundai's autocratic management. - *Korea: Whistleblower Retaliation (2016–2017)* Engineer Kim Gwang-ho exposed safety defect cover-ups, faced retaliation, and sparked U.S. probes and recalls. - *Korea: Family Succession Feuds (1990s–2010s)* Chung family power struggles led to splits and nepotism allegations, highlighting chaebol governance issues. - *International: Fuel Economy Fraud (2012–2014)* Hyundai/Kia overstated MPG for 1M+ U.S. vehicles, paid $300M in fines and credits. - *International: Diesel Emissions Cheating (2015–2022)* Accused of using defeat devices, Hyundai settled for $192M in the U.S. and recalled millions globally. - *International: Safety Defects (2010s–2020s)* Engine fires and brake issues led to 3M+ U.S. recalls and $100M+ in fines, tied to whistleblower claims.
by cemdervis | 2025-09-12 13:42:50+00:00
Hi, I first designed this site as a way for C++ developers to quickly look up support for particular features (as you've described, in isolation). But in the long run, I think we can extract much more meaning out of these numbers, which is why I added the conformance overview as a first test candidate.

As for feature names: I agree that the paper titles tend to be very technical / niche. However, I didn't want to distort them and rename them, since the site is targeted at the in-the-know population you've mentioned. Do you have an idea how this could be improved?

Regarding the search: This is something I'm working on improving, so that coarse searches like "constexp sharedptr" would correctly yield the constexpr std::shared_ptr proposal.
by achenet | 2025-09-12 13:43:02+00:00
The irony is that, at least in my social circles, the stereotype of the "software developer who does rock-climbing" is really a thing.

To the point where, because part of my identity is being a hipster who is not like everyone else, I tend to avoid rock-climbing unless it's with friends, and when people ask me what sports I do I tell them I do Olympic Weightlifting, because it's actually somewhat original, even if, in practice 90% of the people at my Oly lifting club are either sports coaches or engineers :P
by Bender | 2025-09-12 13:43:18+00:00
in a microbrewery? You are kidding.

I am not. The level of filtration required to remove chemicals is simple. It's a cost, but that cost can be moved to the customers and the beer can be promoted as "The Only Safe MicroBrew In {insert_state}". Artesian waters are a massive money maker. Apply the same sales logic to the beer. If anything I would taunt all the other micro-brewers and laugh all the way to the bank.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-12 13:43:28+00:00
> The problem stems from one interpretation of a premise comprising multiple terms and an inability to consider alternate valid premises.

Apparently also either an inability or unwillingness to explain these alternate premises.

This comment hits the nail on the head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211312

You do not seem to be engaging in liberal discourse, but propaganda instead.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-12 13:43:47+00:00
This sounds like abuse. Give them the money to satisfy their ego, take their lives away and multiply your your wealth?

Then they hate the society, don’t have moral compass and relentlessly keep trying to increase control and resources for even more ego stuff.

Sounds very unhealthy to me. Fits with the observation that numbers are all time high but everyone hates their lives and trying to destroy the system(whatever they perceive it as). Suboptimal practices are better as they leave some life on the table.
by moduspol | 2025-09-12 13:43:59+00:00
A transaction can have multiple inputs and outputs, and with these Bitcoin wallets, they always do. Pretty much any transaction you make is going to look like it's going to at least two places: the actual intended recipient for the amount you wanted to send, and another (probably new) address that you control. The inputs could be from a single one of your addresses or multiple.

Yes, it does result in larger transaction sizes, and transaction sizes are used to calculate fees. In practice, my understanding is that the relative increase in size is not a big deal, but again, this is how pretty much all of them work.
by throw83939449 | 2025-09-12 13:44:24+00:00
Zero? Human exhales like 2kg of CO2 every day. That is just 200kg of CO2 emmisions from existing!

> Preparations for this special challenge have been ongoing for many months. However, for a project like this to come together, a lot of things have to fit together perfectly.

Take all the people, time and energy spend on preparations! It is probably several tons of CO2! Very long list of sponsors!

I refuse to believe, that super economy flight for $130 has higher CO2 emmisions than this stunt! It is like taking public transport!
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-12 13:44:33+00:00
I think the big difference would have been around Covid. The Trump administration really, really dropped the ball there, and a potential Sanders administration might have done better (i.e. invested money in preventing it from getting out of Asia, as was done for SARS 1).

Now, that might not have worked but anything might have had a pretty large impact on global/US deaths.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-12 13:44:39+00:00
Except ... where do you get the idea that the police forces will respect the law? If you want to get an indication of that just read the judgements here:

https://www.echr.coe.int/

Note, especially, how many judgements are about the state already getting convicted a first time and then immediately violating the judgement, and in some cases the size of the convictions tells you something:

https://www.echr.coe.int/w/judgment-concerning-t%C3%BCrkiye-...

(over 6000 very serious individual violations by law enforcement)

Or take https://www.echr.coe.int/w/judgment-concerning-greece-9 where the Greek state illegally abducted 2 children and moved the to the US. Obviously this court provides no recourse, and the Greek state is entirely free to just totally ignore the judgement.

So where do you get this idea that law enforcement or the state will respect the law when they don't get what they want?
by dmm | 2025-09-12 13:45:14+00:00
I've been following bachefs development for a while and supporting Kent on patreon so Bcachefs losing its mainline, supported status broke my heart a little. My home storage has always been under ZFS but being out-of-tree and requiring old kernels is increasingly annoying for me. It's basically the only reason I still use Debian, all my other systems are Fedora at this point.

Also, I hit one of the zfs native encryption send/receive bugs after it came out. It was clearly a rushed feature and made me question the future of zfs maintenance.

My plans have now changed to btrfs and I'm taking the opportunity to create a rock-solid and thoroughly tested backup/restore strategy. Wish me luck!
by bluGill | 2025-09-12 13:45:19+00:00
That depends. If you put the catfood in a robot friendly container that is a lot easier than getting the robot to scope if out of the bag. Can you train the delivery company (driver or robots) to place packages in a specific location on the porch - hunting a package down is hard, unless the package is a standard package that is somehow designed to be easy to locate (there are a lot of options here, but you and the packager must agree on using it).

In large part what makes this crazy ambitious is not that it can't be done it is that you need to program all the details and minor variations in environment mean the robot can't do anything. It is easy to program a robot to move 5cm, it is hard to program it to identify random items that are placed in random locations. Things are getting better, but this is a hard problem.
by dmlorenzetti | 2025-09-12 13:46:08+00:00
Regarding the idea to have some macros that expand to null when unwanted -- I have some "developer" macros that, in day-to-day use, do things like showing TODO items.

The most useful one typesets the labels of equations, sections, figures, and so forth, so I can copy-paste right from the document as I'm editing. That makes it so much easier to insert cross-references while writing, without breaking the flow to search out the definition.

Rather than commenting out packages, I have two top-level input files, which `\input{}` the actual content. Those files differ only where they read the developer-oriented definitions:

\input{latex_input/defn/dev_defns_for_devs.tex}

versus

\input{latex_input/defn/dev_defns_for_release.tex}
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-09-12 13:46:18+00:00
Don't take your health and lifestyle advice from start-up founders, episode 36. Elizabeth Holmes writes the same kind of nonsense.

It's just an attempt to pass themselves off as exceptional beings who owe their success solely to their talent and iron discipline.

I don't know anyone who can keep going in the long term by neglecting their sleep and their physical and mental health.
by the_biot | 2025-09-12 13:46:44+00:00
Yes, no reason at all. I submit as evidence gtk_hbox_new(), there since the very first version of GTK, and deprecated in 3.2, in favor of gtk_box_new(GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL).

It's a prime example of something that was entirely unnecessary, could have been hidden from the user with a macro, or (pointlessly) added but keeping the old API in place.

They do this all the time. It's not just the idiocy, it's the blatant hostility towards their users that gets me.
by achenet | 2025-09-12 13:46:59+00:00
> Although being the person that does the thing is something that I find a bit of a struggle with living in the UK. In general, I feel like there ends up being a bit of a pull down mentalility - "why are you spending time doing X side project", "why do you care about Y".

That's strange. If you're in a large enough city to have lots of other people you can potentially befriend, I would recommend trying to find open-minded groups of people - in Lyon, for example, people who are into electronic music or AcroYoga tend to be quite open-minded, so if you make friends with people in those communities, your long, heartfelt lecture on the relative merits of various UNIX-based operating systems, while it still might not be met with a standing ovation, will at least be listened to, in a "cool story friend, I may not share your passion for this subject but it's nice to know that you care about it" kinda way :)
by csomar | 2025-09-12 13:47:21+00:00
Self-Custody is problematic for any government as it allows any citizens to accumulate any kind of wealth they have and simply "transfer" it overseas without any oversight and in a ridiculously short amount of time. Some countries (rich/developed countries) allow free capital transfer but these transfers are regulated and also some jurisdictions are sanctioned. Transferring money abroad, from the perspective of the origin country, just moves the money inside the origin country system from one party to another. So it is well within the visibility and control of the state, especially for large amounts of money.

Today, you can brain-memorize $1bn in Bitcoin and move yourself from one country to another; and depending on the country; might be able to exercise different amounts of that purchasing power. Control moves from the origin country to the reception country.

Russia and China were always hostile because of this. The Chinese authorities regarded Bitcoin as some sort of capital flight scheme. Now both Europe and the USA are too. I think Bitcoin only chance for survival, in its current form, is if these two poles do use it as a mechanism to attack one another. Mining is already balanced between East and West.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-12 13:47:36+00:00
> I think most childcare is a lot more of a free for all than parents think, rather than some sort of well designed experience.

That's important and healthy. Kids need time to play, and part of that is being a "free for all." (As long as kids aren't parked in front of a TV all day.)

I even remember my preschool being mostly a free-for-all with some short lessons in between. It was great.
by KronisLV | 2025-09-12 13:47:41+00:00
> It sounds like the company is doing it as a community service. It doesn't make 'business sense' except perhaps by improving the company's image. Companies also donate to charities etc.

I applaud this kinda thing.

In a sensible world, that'd mean not just positive PR alongside the actual social utility, but also maybe the government being a bit more encouraging when it comes to taxes etc.

Plus, who knows, if they stock up a bunch on canned goods and still need to sell them in a reasonable amount of time, it might lead to a few good discounts here and there and also be a good thing for the regular consumer.

Aside from that, having a generator and accepting cash payments just seems like good common sense stuff to do.
by GistNoesis | 2025-09-12 13:47:47+00:00
These optimizations are often hidden when the compiler need to do some loop interchange optimizations.

If the order of the operations is important because you don't have associativity then you can't legally do it.

You can have special flags (-fassociative-math) for floats which allows to treat them as if they are associative but these mean your program result will depend on which optimization the compiler picked.

And it turns out that these loop reordering optimizations are really useful when you need to do some backward automatic differentiation. Because all the loops are basically iterated in reverse for the automatically generated code of the backward pass.

But the memory access pattern for the backward pass are not contiguous if you don't interchange the loop order, which the compiler can't do legally because of floats. Nor can he then merge loops together. Which is really useful because if you can merge the forward pass with the backward pass then you don't have to keep values inside a "tape".

So basically you can't rely on compiler optimizations, so your auto-differentiator can't benefit from existing compiler progress. (You can have look either at Julia Zygote, or enzyme which rely on compiler optimizations chaining well). Or you write backward passes manually.