MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by firefax | 2025-09-17 19:50:52+00:00
I judge people based on whether they get their point across -- you don't know the age or national origin of the person posting, for all I know I'm speaking to someone much younger than I who speaks more languages than I do.

I do judge spelling errors harshly, since most modern OSes will give a nasty red squiggle.

Anyways "immoral" is such a strong phrasing. Killing someone is immoral.

Letting someone argue their point badly is... well, I was raised Catholic so lets use that lens: Catholicism would refer to it as a "venial sin" -- you won't be going to hell for not correcting someone's grammar on the internet.
by ameliaquining | 2025-09-17 19:51:02+00:00
The thing I'm getting at here is not really about what's inside people's hearts. You can never know for sure whether your interlocutor is a saboteur. This is about what kinds of discourse norms society adopts, and what kinds of behavior participants are allowed to get away with.

The problem with having an oversensitive trolling detector is that then people can spew arbitrary nonsense and dismiss counterarguments as trolling, and observers don't get a chance to find out that what's being said doesn't withstand scrutiny. The problem with an undersensitive trolling detector is that discourse becomes an endurance contest rather than a test of who's actually right. Hence the need for a well-calibrated trolling detector, or rather, for norms that weight speech according to some reasonable proxy of whether it's the kind of contribution that stands or falls on its merits. This is the challenge.
by samsartor | 2025-09-17 19:51:18+00:00
My old team shipped a web port of our 3D modeling software back in 2017. The entire engine is the same as the desktop app, written in C++, and compiled to wasm.

Wasm is not now and will never be a magic "press here to replace JS with a new language" button. But it works really well for bringing systems software into a web environment.
by em-bee | 2025-09-17 19:51:45+00:00
i don't think so. first of all, you don't rewrite your code for every CPU but you just adapt some specific things. most code is just compiled for the new architecture and runs. second, those languages that are already running on wasm have already done the work. so at best new languages who haven't been ported yet will get any benefit from a reduced porting effort.
by mandeepj | 2025-09-17 19:51:48+00:00
> Having hundreds or thousands of cars per city/metro is going to be capital intensive

Ha! Lyft doesn't own much of its fleet! There's a small fraction of vehicles that lyft rents through Flexdrive.

Just like Tesla Self self-driving, Waymo can ask people, if they want to offset related capital costs, to buy cars and rent them to Waymo to be reconfigured and run as autonomous vehicles on profit profit-sharing basis.
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-17 19:52:08+00:00
Care to dismantle my arguments then? How is the US not an oligarchy, how an oligarchy doesn't devolve into the situation described, how US is not anti-consumer, how the ethos there wouldn't protect companies from being anti-consumers, how the Tesla, Google and Microsoft examples don't apply.

If you are going to disagree with other people you should prepare your response better, otherwise you are just claiming stuff in English without any substance.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-17 19:52:19+00:00
You can construct or curate code bases (parametric construction is cheaper and gives you 100% knowledge).

You are testing a series of traces from starting prompt -> agent stops or creates a PR. Your signal is %pass + time to green + code metrics as I said.

You can control for the model and drift by doing bootstraps on individual repo evals to get a distribution, any model nerf will show using statistical tests.

Capturing a distribution is the whole point. I run my agent evals 20x on a given problem for this exact reason. This way you can tune prompts and not only do you get your average improvement in pass/time to green, but you can see the shape of the distribution and optionally tune for things like maximum error magnitude that point statistics won't show you.

If you want to talk about how to eval in more depth, share your specific case and I'll help you set it up.
by dannyphantom | 2025-09-17 19:52:46+00:00
https://archive.is/arW7Y

Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc. raised $750 million at a post-funding valuation of $6.9 billion, highlighting investor interest in companies seeking to alleviate a shortage of chips and computing power for AI workloads.

The round was led by Disruptive, with “significant investment” from Blackrock Inc., Neuberger Berman Group LLC and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, as well as existing investors including Samsung Electronics Co., Cisco Systems Inc., D1 and Altimeter. Participants also included a “large US-based West Coast mutual fund,” Groq said in a statement.

The company will use the funds to expand its data-center capacity, including new locations this year and next, according to Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer. Groq plans to announce its first Asia-Pacific location this year, he said.

Nvidia Corp., which dominates the market for processors that train AI models, is trying to keep a large lead in the market for inference — running models once they have been developed. Startups including Groq and companies like Alphabet Inc.’s Google are developing their own rival chips and in some cases selling computing services that use them.

“We’ve had customers come to us asking for more capacity than we can satisfy at the moment,” Ross said in an interview. Groq, which sells chips and data-center computing power fueled by its processors, operates 13 facilities in the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. The company powers some of the Saudi AI company Humain’s services, including the newly released Humain chat product, according to Ross. Groq also supported the release of OpenAI’s GPT-OSS model in Saudi Arabia.

The company has expanded its capacity by more than 10% in the last month and all of that is already in use, Ross said. He declined to say how much capacity the company has in total.

The funding round was originally closed at about $600 million. Groq asked investors to reopen it for additional participants. Details of that deal were reported earlier by Bloomberg and the Information.

The Information reported in July that Groq had slashed more than $1 billion from its revenue projections for 2025. A person familiar with the matter said Groq expected the revenue that was trimmed from its projections this year to be realized in 2026, Bloomberg reported in July. Ross declined to comment on sales.
by godelski | 2025-09-17 19:52:58+00:00
I tried a very basic version and I seem to be able to replicate the main idea. I asked it to create a website for me and changed my prompt from Falun Gong[0] to Mormon[1]. The Falun Gong one failed but the Mormon one didn't.

You should be skeptical, but this is easy enough to test, so why not do some test to see if it is obviously false or not?

[0] https://0x0.st/KchK.png

[1] https://0x0.st/KchP.png

[2] Used this link https://www.deepseekv3.net/en/chat

[Edit]:

I made a main comment and added Catholics to the experiment. I'd appreciate it if others would reply with their replication efforts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45280692
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-17 19:53:02+00:00
Powerful pattern matching is still just pattern matching.

How is an LLM going to solve a novel problem with just pattern matching?

Novel means it has never seen it before, maybe doesn't even have the knowledge needed to solve it, so it's not going to be matching any pattern, and even if it did, that would not help if it required a solution different to whatever the pattern match had come from.

Human level reasoning includes ability to learn, so that people can solve novel problems, overcome failures by trial and error, exploration, etc.

So, whatever you are calling "reasoning" isn't human level reasoning, and it's therefore not even clear what you are trying to say? Maybe just that you feel LLMs have room for improvement by better pattern matching?
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-17 19:53:32+00:00
Agreed. Our local instance of NextDoor, which is explicitly aimed at forming online social forums for geographically close users, forbids self-promotion of businesses in the general chats.

The admins regularly ignore this, because the users like seeing posts from "I'm a carpenter looking for work right now!".

So, even with a supposedly sequestered monetization area, it bleeds into everything.
by adolph | 2025-09-17 19:54:28+00:00
They are thought to be more than 2,300 years old, likely from the Hellenistic period, when Iraq was under the rule of the Seleucid empire.

So similar territory and genetic people but well after the Assyrians.

Assyrian city-state: 2100 - 1400 BC Assyrian empire: 1400 - 700 BC (thru the Bronze age collapse circa 1200 BC) Seleucid empire: 312 - 63 BC

(rough dates from wikipedia)

expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC
by ethmarks | 2025-09-17 19:54:29+00:00
Could you elaborate on this? Enriching lithium sounds much more feasible than setting up a moon base, but it still sounds like it would be economically infeasible.

First, am I understanding correctly that you aren't talking about DT fuel, but are instead suggesting that we use the tritium to produce helium-3 by letting it decay? This sounds extremely inefficient, and it also seems like it would cause supply chain issues where power production relies on helium-3 that we started producing decades ago. This would mean that the infrastructure we set up wouldn't be useful for decades, and that if production stopped for a few months there would be a helium-3 shortage decades later. Lunar helium-3 extraction would have a shorter feedback delay, making it less vulnerable to latent shortages and more useful as a medium-term power source.

Second, isn't lithium-6 a rare material? Lithium is abundant, but brine and rock deposits that are cheap and easy to extract are quite limited. Also IIRC something like 92% of it is lithium-7 which is much less useful in enrichment. And that's not even considering the geopolitical factors you mentioned. I'm obviously not saying that tapping into harder-to-access deposits and filtering for lithium-6 would be more difficult than sifting lunar regolith for helium-3, but it still sounds extremely difficult.
by vkou | 2025-09-17 19:54:44+00:00
Two of them jump at the command one the other one, one out of fear (because he has ended the careers of every rep that has crossed him), and the other has been packed with life-time-appointment sycophants who put loyalty to the cut over anything else.

Russia (or literally any other dictatorial tyre pyre) also has three branches of government and a token opposition, for all the good it does.

Just because you have a nice piece of paper that outlines some kind of de jure separation of powers, doesn't mean shit in practice. Russia (and prior to it, the USSR) has no shortage of such pieces of paper.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-17 19:54:48+00:00
> Allow Wasm to better target resource-constrained embedded environments, including those with less than 64 KiB memory available.

If it has less than 64 kB of memory how is it going to run a WASM runtime anyway?

And even cheap microcontrollers tend to have more than 64 kB of memory these days. Doesn't not seem remotely worth the complexity.
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-17 19:55:13+00:00
IMHO, the most insightful comment on that article came from Arianity at September 17, 2025 at 12:34 pm:

>> This is exactly backwards from how the actual “marketplace of ideas” is supposed to work.

> Fundamentally, it’s not actually a marketplace, and the analogy starts to break down. One of my crank takes for awhile has been we should retire the term. It gives people a false sense of the inevitability of good ideas winning out.

>> The format actively discourages the kind of thoughtful, nuanced discussion that might actually change minds—the kind actually designed for persuasion

> I think you’re underselling this, a bit. Kirk wasn’t in the business (just) for money. It’s because those viral clips can persuade people. There’s a lot of people you can win over with zingers. Spectacle is persuasion. It shouldn’t be, but it is effective.

>> Klein is inadvertently endorsing a grift

> I don’t think it’s inadvertent, he’s smart enough to know better. In the circles he cares about, it’s better to be seen as “open minded” and “bipartisan” than accurate, even if it means inventing a legitimate counterparty that doesn’t exist. it’s toxic, and it’s precisely the tic Kirk exploited.
by CharlesW | 2025-09-17 19:55:56+00:00
The industry has been around long enough to see itself become the villain. I'm sad for those who weren't around during its "hero" days. There was something special about running code copied from magazines, meeting and "trading" with like-minded people at early user group meetings, and having your mind blown by the computers and software that emerged from the tech heterogeneity of that time.
by al_borland | 2025-09-17 19:56:35+00:00
I don’t know that I agree with the premise. It’s not that people don’t want you correcting grammar because it removes a signal. I think it is more about people who use grammar as a means to attack and discredit a person, rather than the ideas presented. It can be used as an ad-hominem attack.

I think the other part of it, which is not trivial, is the rise of phones. People are typing on little keyboard and auto-correct can have a heavy hand. People don’t want to be judged for auto-correct getting one word wrong, invalidating a legitimate argument, so they look past potential auto-correct mistakes from others. The Internet has become much more tolerant of misspelling and mistakes, for better or worse.

If it’s a clear knowledge gap, then think a correction is helpful and warranted. For example someone saying “mute point” or “per say”. By all means, let them know. Ironically, auto-correct fixed both of those and I had to go out of my way to mess them up again.
by horsawlarway | 2025-09-17 19:57:05+00:00
Two real paths:

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Option #1:

Just buy the X1C. It's the best printer at your size range and price category (I own this, a Prusa Core One, and several creality machines).

Frankly - spend the extra 100 dollars and get the Combo with the AMS 2. Even if you don't want to do multi-color prints, it saves more than enough time switching filaments quickly to make it worth it if you're printing with any regularity.

This will let you use a 3d printer like it's a tool, and as someone who is printing CAD designed structural parts - it excels at just popping out decent parts, in all of the materials you want for structural parts.

Lock it into LAN mode. Despite claims to the contrary it's quite repairable (ex - I just replaced the hotbed on mine because a lightning strike damaged the torque sensors [side note - it fucking finished the print on resume when my power came back up - even without working torque sensors on the z axis]). Parts are available, they aren't outrageously priced, and the instructions are plenty clear.

Personally - I would strongly recommend this path. Understand what "good" looks like in the space before branching out into other requirements.

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Option #2:

Build a Voron Kit. It's going to take you several days of full time assembly, It'll cost more for the same quality, it's going to have some maddening "dial it in" moments.

But you get a machine that you fully understand.

You'll need to be very comfortable with both hardware and software for the assembly. If you want anything like the remote control & monitoring of corporate printers, you'll need to be comfortable hosting your own services and exposing things on the public internet (ex: tailscale/wireguard or just plain public).

Personally - DO THIS! but don't do it first. First get an X1C and understand what good printing looks like.

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Everything not a Voron probably isn't really "open" in the sense that you want. (Sure - you can flash a lot of machines. You still own that machine - it doesn't magically become higher quality, and most things run a Marlin/Klipper variant anyways)

Everything not a Bambu is a step backwards in print quality and ecosystem experience.

The middle sucks on all most fronts except price, but 1k is enough to get the better machines.
by NobodyNada | 2025-09-17 19:57:19+00:00
> Probably somewhere on the internet is a fantastic interactive diagram that would clearly demonstrate this for you, but I couldn't google one up. Links solicited.

Here's one: https://apenwarr.ca/beamlab -- as well as the author's writeup: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20140801

The author is focused on beamforming WiFi signals, but the principle is exactly the same whether it's a radio wave or a sound wave.
by gspr | 2025-09-17 19:57:45+00:00
> If you need to manipulate the DOM - just do that in JS, calling from WASM into JS is cheap, and JS is surprisingly fast too.

From the point of view of someone who doesn't do web development at all, and to whom JS seems entirely cryptic: This argument is weird. Why is this specific (seemingly extremely useful!) "web thing" guarded by a specific language? Why would something with the generality and wide scope of WASM relegate that specific useful thing to a particular language? A language that, in the context of what WASM wants to do in making the web "just another platform", is pretty niche (for any non-web-person)?

For me, as a non-web-person, the big allure of WASM is the browser as "just another platform". The one web-specific thing that seems sensible to keep is the DOM. But if manipulating that requires learning web-specific languages, then so be it, I'll just grab a canvas and paint everything myself. I think we give up something if we start going that route.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-17 19:57:56+00:00
Counterpoint: This ability to "follow people's lives from a distance without necessarily interacting with them in the world" is the only way I have of renewing old friendships with childhood friends, schoolmates and friends from college.

It is a HUGE social benefit to me, as I've moved far away. I don't need Abe's phone number, Betty's email, and I don't expect even Christmas cards updating me on Charlie's family. But if any of them post on FB that their parent or child or dog just died, graduated, or got married (in a progressive animal-rights nation), I can make an effort to let them know I care.
by rectang | 2025-09-17 19:58:44+00:00
I’ve done all those things myself (past ASF member where all that and more was SOP), so I realize what I’m asking for. It’s not crazy for authors of small packages to form small collectives and serve as each others’ trusted third parties.

In any case, if the choice is “frequent supply chain compromise, take it or leave it”, the answer is of course “leave it”.

If we need to pay for curated packages because the problems with NPM are endemic, that’s not unreasonable.
by doctoboggan | 2025-09-17 19:58:57+00:00
> 1. New, US-specific TikTok App, separate from the main TikTok app in content and users.

IMO this significantly impacts the value I would get from TikTok, as much of the content I consume on the app is from outside the US

I guess they are hoping the US market will be big enough so self sustain and even entice some foreigners to join the US only app?
by birktj | 2025-09-17 19:59:38+00:00
Absolutely, I am sceptical of AI omin many ways, but primarily it is about the AI companies and my lack of trust in them. I find it unfortunate that all of the clearly brilliant engineers working at these companies are to preoccupied with always chasing newer and better model trying to reach the dream of AGI do not stop and ask themselves: who are they working for? What happens if they eventually manage to create a model that can replace most or even all of human computer work?

Why whould anyone think that these companies will contribute to the good of humanity when they are even bigger and more powerful, when they seem to care so little now?
by tgma | 2025-09-17 19:59:45+00:00
> valued at $300 billion

Irrelevant really. Invoking this in the argument shows the basis is jealousy. They are clearly valued as such not because they collected all the data and stored in some database. Your local library is not worth 300 billion.

> For the majority of interesting output people have paid for art, music, software, journalism

Absolutely and demonstrably false. Music and art predate Copyright by hundreds if not thousands of years.

> But you know that already and are justifying the industry that pays your bills.

Huh, ad hominem much? I find it rich that the whole premise of your argument was some "art, music, software, journalist" was entitled to some payment, but suddenly it is a problem when "my industry" (somehow you assume I work in AI) is getting paid?
by firefax | 2025-09-17 19:59:51+00:00
>There is no authority over the english language.

Thanks for this. I often see folks like OP very condescendingly tell people they're not writing "correctly", while forgetting that English is a constantly evolving language -- at a certain point if a "mistake" becomes mainstream, it becomes an acceptable one.

(I'm struggling for more complex examples, but think of how people will say, declare "that's not a word"... well, usage of "not a word"s is how they end up going into the dictionary...)
by integralid | 2025-09-17 19:59:58+00:00
>Roughly 5 times per day feels like the upper threshold of what you can post while being intentional about what it is you're posting

Not sure about social media, but in the days of forums I posted way more thoughtful and helpful posts on the forum I attended.

(I'll be honest, I didn't read the post yet. I'm doing this now)
by bee_rider | 2025-09-17 19:59:58+00:00
288 cores is an absurd number of cores.

Do these things have AVX512? It looks like some of the Sierra Forest chips do have AVX512 with 2xFMA…

That’s pretty wide. Wonder if they should put that thing on a card and sell it as a GPU (a totally original idea that has never been tried, sure…).
by jerf | 2025-09-17 20:00:33+00:00
"Without a human in the loop, there’s still some “thing” that gets compromised, whether it’s a token or something that generates time-limited tokens."

Speaking knowingly reductionistically and with an indeterminate amount of sarcasm, one of the hardest problems in security is how to know something without knowing something. The first "knowing something" is being able to convince a security system to let you do something, and the second is the kind that an attacker can steal.

We do a lot of work trying to separate those two but it's a really, really hard problem, right down at its very deepest core.

I know I was amused 5-10 years ago as we went through a lot of gymnastics. "We have an SSH password here that we use to log in to this system over there and run this process." "That's not secure, because an attacker can get the password. Move that to an SSH key." "That's not secure, an attacker can get the key. Move the key into this secret manager." "That's not secure, an attacker can get into the secret manager. Move it to this 2FA system." "That's not secure, an attacker can get the 2FA token material, move it to...."

There are improvements you can make; if nothing else a well-done 2FA system means an attacker has to compromise 2 systems to get in, and if they are non-correlated that's a legit step up. But I don't think there's a full solution to "the attacker could" in the end. Just improvements.