MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dinobones | 2025-09-24 17:41:42+00:00
Making this prediction now, LLM pricing will eventually be priced in bytes.

Why: LLMs are increasingly becoming multimodal, so an image "token" or video "token" is not as simple as a text token. Also, it's difficult to compare across competitors because tokenization is different.

Eventually prices will just be in $/Mb of data processed. Just like bandwidth. I'm surprised this hasn't already happened.
by binaryturtle | 2025-09-24 17:41:52+00:00
Tried this: "yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo*[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best' -S vcodec:h264 -other_options …" ? I'm still getting proper h264 with that (my Raspberry PI 3 only wants a proper codec too… none of that mushy new-era codec stuff. ;) )
by westurner | 2025-09-24 17:41:57+00:00
"Microsoft develops breakthrough chip cooling method — microfluidic channels can cut peak temps by up to 65%, outperform conventional cold plates by up to 3x" (2025) https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/mi...

"AI chips are getting hotter. A microfluidics breakthrough goes straight to the silicon to cool up to three times better." (2025) https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/microf...
by hmstx | 2025-09-24 17:42:14+00:00
Oh, that reminds me of a similar experience with Facebook video. Did a live DJ stream a few years ago but only recorded the audio locally at max quality. Back then, I think I already had to use the browser debugger to inspect the url for the 720p version of the video.

When they recently insisted by email I download any videos before they sunset the feature, their option only gave me the SD version (and it took a while to perform the data export).
by nic_seo | 2025-09-24 17:42:21+00:00
that's really great to hear—especially that you slept better that night :) I think a lot of learning is driven by emotional catharsis, so this is music to my ears. a lot of the topics I use Stella to learn are "troubling" to me in some way.

thanks for testing! excited to keep developing this to unlock more of these moments for people
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-24 17:42:35+00:00
Vaccines don't work on a "everybody makes their own choice" basis. It's a basic medical science fact that you need a large enough population to take them to make a difference, and for the people who legitimately cannot take a vaccine, it is in society's interest to help them stay safe and healthy by vaccinating most people.

>Also, I think the idea that we have all this healthcare it’s super expensive yet people aren’t really getting healthier

Americans don't "have all this healthcare". Americans avoid going to the doctors because they cannot afford it. Other countries pay dramatically less for healthcare and get better results.

Even just prescriptions in the US is absurd. People aren't taking medicine they need because a pill or injection that was invented 60 years ago and costs less than a penny a dose is sold for hundreds of dollars a week.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-24 17:42:36+00:00
Also seems like a great idea to create a business models where the companies aren't incentivised to provide the best product possible. Instead they'll want to create a product just useful enough to not drive away users, but just useless enough to temp people to go up a tier, "I'm so close, just one more prompt and it will be right this time!"

Edit: To be clear, I'm not talking about Zed. I'm talking about the companies make the models.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-24 17:42:41+00:00
It's possible the author is wrong, but one should consider the author's history and demonstrated technical proficiency, e.g., the programs he has written. Take a look at his code. He has been around much longer than "blogs" and "Substack"

IMHO, he is also proficient at explaining complex topics involving computers. If others have differing opinions, feel free to share

Anyone know where can we see parent commenter's code or something that demonstrates their knowledge of computers, computer networks or particular knowledge of "SIM farms"
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-24 17:43:33+00:00
I think that's unavoidable, but also not a bad thing. If we were to undertake any similar large scale public projects today, it would also have significant private sector participation. But, that drives job creation and positive effects on the economy (i.e., new deal).

The main difference is, ideally, the project was voted on by the public, and is being steered as such. A public-private collaboration, with the public driving it rather than it being entirely the domain of a single private entity for their own profit.
by flumpcakes | 2025-09-24 17:43:41+00:00
> You don't want Palantir to be able to buy list of Uber riders traveled to/from locations near MI6. A universal government backed ID cards on signup, or worse yet used as substitute for credit cards, makes that kind of things easy.

If you can purchase Uber rider's data then you already have this - you need proof to work/ID to get a job in the UK. I don't see how 'digital id' would increase the risk here.
by rimunroe | 2025-09-24 17:43:44+00:00
> Flying is a luxury.

You appear to have since edited your comment, but the version I replied to referred to being able to choose a seat as the luxury, not flying itself. As I've said elsewhere, flying is either a straight up necessity in some cases and a practical one in others. As I've also said in other places, people without kids can fly without need of choosing their seats.

> But I paid for my seat and if I did pay to sit next to my wife (which isn’t really a big deal for either of us), I would be really pissed if my seat was changed because a parent was too cheap to pay to have an assigned seat.

You can debate on whether or not flying is a necessity, but if we're flying then it's a luxury for you to sit next to your wife but it's a necessity for me to sit next to my infant.
by simonw | 2025-09-24 17:43:52+00:00
How long should it take for "wasmer run python/python" to start showing me output? It's been hung for a while for me now (I upgraded to wasmer 6.1.0-rc.5).

"wasmer run python/python@=0.2.0" on the same machine gets me into Python 3.12.0 almost instantly.
by cestith | 2025-09-24 17:44:02+00:00
Often it’s not. Back when Sony put a Windows rootkit on autorun on music CDs just in case someone wanted to rip a FLAC, that was a felony violation of the CFAA in the US. The big difference is consent. If I use your app to watch a game and the conditions of using your app include giving you microphone access, that’s legal. If you breach my phone to turn on the mic and listen to me, that’s illegal.
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-24 17:44:23+00:00
> BBC is highly skewed to the left. No debate on that.

The fact that you argued that shows there is some debate. ;)

> Can you show me any story on BBC that is biased to the right?

No, because my point is that it isn’t biased to the left nor right.

What the BBC does is offer both sides of the political spectrum to have equal time sharing their arguments.

If you think that’s biased then what you’re actually saying is that the left deserves less time than the right. Thus it’s not the BBC exhibiting bias.
by johnmaguire | 2025-09-24 17:44:31+00:00
First of all, I don't know where this specific example is coming from or how it relates to what I said exactly.

Secondly, when you look at the distribution of wealth in the US, and realize that the top 50% of Americans own 97.5% of the wealth, or that the top 1% owns over 30% of the country's wealth, or read a headline about Elon Musk's $1T pay package, conversations about "dual-earning families" versus "single-earning families" look kind of inconsequential.
by tromp | 2025-09-24 17:45:27+00:00
This is a great introduction to that most ancient and elegant model of computation. But I was a little sad to read:

> One can represent natural numbers in a simple way, as follows:

> Definition (ordered tuples, natural numbers) The ordered tuple ⟨a0 , … an⟩ of λ-terms is defined as λx [x a0 … an]. One then defines the λ -term ┌ n ┐ corresponding to the natural number n as: ┌ 0 ┐ = I and, for every k, ┌ k + 1 ┐ = ⟨F, ┌ k ┐⟩

which is a rather convoluted and impractical way to represent natural numbers compared to the Church numerals Cn which iterate a given function n times on a giving argument.

There are cases where it makes sense to use tuples to represent natural numbers, namely to simplify the definition of predecessor, subtraction, and comparison. But that uses 1-tuples rather than 2-tuples [1].

Replacing Church numerals by tuple numerals allowed a googologically VERY large number (based on the so-called Bashicu Matrix System) to be expressed in only 350 bits rather than 404 bits. [2]

[1] https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/numerals/tuple_nume...

[2] https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/fast_growing_and_co...
by stego-tech | 2025-09-24 17:45:50+00:00
I would argue that the role of small orgs has shrunk significantly from the perspective of the majority, but grown in importance and impact for groups outcast from that majority.

The example I like to trot out is the amalgamation of furry and queer persons into a larger unit when collaborating at scale, but otherwise fostering positive impacts in smaller groups. The response to their successes has been attacks by larger orgs who are unable to integrate or co-opt them for profit (corporations) or power motives (politicians), as well as cringe-y reputations by individuals not included in those groups (see the mocking of both subcultures and groups by eRandos). Yet despite these negative attacks, both groups continue to grow and create parallel economies, logistics networks, communities, and even limited forms of governance (cons, parades, and social forums).

So in that vein, I believe we’re simply in the midst of an era of transformation, from a broken system to something new. Smaller orgs often lead these changes until one or more balloon in size, at which point they become the larger and more dominant organizations in the new era that follows. What we’re seeing now is a classic fight between opposing political, social, and economic views, aided by technology on both sides of the battle and fundamentally reshaping how conflicts are waged.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-24 17:45:53+00:00
There are more basic issues with these apps too, which is that they turn dating into a second job. And it is very difficult for men especially, as data has shown that messages / likes mostly center on the most attractive men rather than being well distributed as it is for messages from men to women. So everyone without that attention just ends up swiping right on thousands of profiles and hoping for something to happen. It’s unproductive, depressing, and I would hate to be a single man today with all dating happening online. For that reason alone, we should move on from the online dating experiment.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-24 17:45:55+00:00
>In UK/Ireland you can easily identify if the venue in question is paying for the commercial package as it will intermittently display a pint glass symbol in a bottom corner of the screen. Indeed, Sky investigators, who do spot checks, use it to quickly ensure that the pub has a valid pub contract and not a residential contract.

That seems as if it would be so easy to fake...
by sandGorgon | 2025-09-24 17:46:00+00:00
totally this.

recently posted my opensource enterprise browser on producthunt - https://www.producthunt.com/products/wootzapp-ai-enforced-en...

did decently (but not in top 10). I got a lot of the same linkedin comments with "we even gave you some reviews for free to show we are serious". Said no to them and that turned into retribution.

started getting negative comments https://postimg.cc/n9tDDB0S . had to stay up all night to reply to negative comments with link to my github showing the source :(

for some reason they all deleted themselves (or got removed). not sure.
by fragmede | 2025-09-24 17:46:02+00:00
What did you tell him was the monetary value? Let's say there are like 5 holidays per year that result in days where some people have holidays but others do not, so business meetings happen that day that get missed. Let's say you have a 100 million people using this calendar software. Let's say 0.5 percent of those are in the executive class. Furthermore, let's say 10% of them miss a meeting due to this UI issue. That's 50,000 missed meetings. If we handwave that each of those meetings could have resulted in $10 million deals for their company, this UI bug is costing customers half a trillion dollars!

So, after estimating the number of ping pong balls that fit on a 747, the thing to do is to go write the regexp and put that on your promo packet. Half a trillion dollars!
by moomoo11 | 2025-09-24 17:46:10+00:00
I’d aim to go to Stanford.

I was immigrant here. Not a rich kid at all. I got scholarship to our state college based on my SATs but couldn’t accept because I was international student. I got my GC when I was in 3rd year.

I could have gone to NYU at full cost. Maybe I should have.

The network, caliber of people I met at my state college were so average. It kind of knee capped me as well in terms of elite opportunities because I think if I had gone to a “better” college I’d have met smart risk takers right off the rip instead of later on.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-09-24 17:46:40+00:00
What a horrible rule that was. Conceptually it's fine, or even good, but in practice it leads to terrible things.

...and I do mean terrible things and blown up accounts. In reality, you have smaller retail traders holding on to underwater positions instead of closing them out, because they won't want to use one of the 5 weekly daytrade tokens allocated to them. Some of them ship money to unregulated offshore brokers. Some go to extremely leveraged 0DTE markets and weekly options and move to suboptimal strategies to partially work around PDT.

There are many situations when a prudent smaller trader may want to burn daytrades. Maybe instead of using 0DTE options for gambling, they can hedge their exposure for a Fed speaker and close the position after an hour, etc.

Obviously there are dangers with churning small accounts, but that doesn't stop traders who want to trade with higher frequency, and as soon as a new trader types "how do I get around PDT" into Google, they're already off to a very bad start in their journey.
by tlahtinen | 2025-09-24 17:46:43+00:00
I'm a programmer (after a fashion) but I don't know how quicksort works.

This is how I understand it after reading these instructiöns, without looking up any further explanation:

1. Choose a random element as the 'center' point of the sort

2. That element defines the maximum 'height' (value)

3. Anything that is larger than that value, is moved to the right side of the 'center'

4. Anything that is smaller than that value, is moved to the left side of the center. After this, the array is partially sorted.

5. The sorting process is repeated on both 'sides' independently, picking a new random center element and so on

What isn't clear, is how often the process needs to be repeated, or when the algorithm 'knows' that the sorting has been finished - surely it can't be just three iterations?

By now I've already looked up how the algorithm actually works, but the above is what I got out of the illustration :)
by projectazorian | 2025-09-24 17:47:01+00:00
> if such a culture takes in too many immigrants of religions with complete counter ethical and moral views (I won't name names, use your imagination)

What parts of Islam are "complete counter ethical and moral views" to Christianity? As far as I can tell there's no inherent incompatibility, as demonstrated by the many contemporary and historic examples of Muslims and Christians coexisting peacefully. It's attitudes like this that drive vulnerable people to gangs and extremist ideology, causing the issues you see today in some - not all - Western societies.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-24 17:47:04+00:00
There is a huge difference between “soft power” and using the bully pulpit and bringing the full legal force of the government and taking away a broadcast license. This was a bridge too far for conservative politicians.

The other distinction you seem to be ignoring is that the Biden administration was doing it because of public health concerns. Trump and the FCC was doing it because a comedian said meab things aboit him and a devout racist.

What favoritism did the Biden administration show? They still went after Google for being a monopoly.

Unlike Trump who only had his administration approve the Paramount deal after accepting a $15 million bribe in public
by estebank | 2025-09-24 17:47:20+00:00
You might want to look at anyhow and thiserror, the former for applications and for libraries the latter. thiserror "just" makes it easier to do what I suggested of writing a manual `impl From` so that `?` can transform from the error you're getting to the error you want. When the API you consume is very granular, that's actually great because it means that you have a lot of control over the transformation (it's hard to add detail that isn't already there), but it can be annoying when you don't care about that granularity (like when you just want to emit an error during shutdown or log during recovery).

https://momori.dev/posts/rust-error-handling-thiserror-anyho...

burntsushi has a good writeup about their difference in usecase here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1cnhy7d/whats_the_wis...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-24 17:47:32+00:00
I haven't worked in the industry, but a family member does and owns several wells (ie the mineral rights) in Texas, passed down from their deceased parent who was a rig worker.

If you would be so kind as to suggest resources so that I can better educate myself in this domain for any missing nuance, I am open to any and all resources, including me traveling on my own dime to speak with a subject matter expert in person (who I am willing to compensate at a reasonable hourly rate).
by vtail | 2025-09-24 17:48:10+00:00
Prediction: the only remaining providers of AI-assisted tools in a few years will be the LLM companies themselves (think claude code, codex, gemini, future xai/Alibaba/etc.), via CLIs + integrations such as ASP.

There is very little value that a company that has to support multiple different providers, such as Cursor, can offer on top of tailored agents (and "unlimited" subscription models) by LLM providers.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-24 17:48:21+00:00
> Why: LLMs are increasingly becoming multimodal, so an image "token" or video "token" is not as simple as a text token.

For autoregressive token-based multimodal models, image tokens are as straightforward as text tokens, and there is no reason video tokens wouldn’t also be. (If models also switch architecture and multimodal diffusion models, say, become more common, then, sure, a different pricing model more tied to actual compute cost drivers for that architecture are likely but... even that isn’t likely to be bytes.)

> Also, it's difficult to compare across competitors because tokenization is different.

That’s a reason for incumbents to prefer not to switch, though, not a reason for them to switch.

> Eventually prices will just be in $/Mb of data processed.

More likely they would be in floatint point operations expended processing them, but using tokens (which are the primary drivers for the current LLM architectures) will probably continue as long as the architecture itself is doninant.
by incomingpain | 2025-09-24 17:48:22+00:00
>I submitted the article. I agree that much of the language and style is one-sided and intentional. If I could tone that down, I would.

It certainly crosses a line that makes the article rhetorical at best. It can never convince anyone of anything.

There's so much vitriol that even if there's facts in there to discern, I cant see it through the hyperbole and polarization.

>I submitted it because the outlined logical consequences stood out to me that I hadn’t encountered elsewhere—- the announcement itself, regardless of its underlying merits, opens the path to reduce vaccine access for all.

I dont see any of that there. Maybe it is, but they lose the chance to make these points.

Scientific reference needs to remain objective and seek to maximize the audience.
by Ar-Curunir | 2025-09-24 17:49:13+00:00
A secure lifestyle and a good lifestyle are not mutually exclusive. We have the tech to enable something which at least somewhat approximates, and even if we didn’t, it’s easy to imagine a world in which the trillions of dollars spent on wasteful garbage like surveillance, ads, engagement-farming, etc were instead redirected towards research and development of technology which enables a secure _and_ good lifestyle.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-24 17:49:23+00:00
Yes.

CMOS image sensors are naturally sensitive to near IR. Early feature phones had no IR filters on their cameras - you could see an IR remote light up through them. But as people became more and more obsessed with smartphone camera quality, smartphones started to ship with those filters too. You get more "lifelike" colors that way.

Although in some multi-camera smartphones, one of the secondary cameras may lack an IR filter.
by mattforrest | 2025-09-24 17:49:43+00:00
I wrote a book on PostGIS and used it for years and these single node analytical tools make sense when PostGIS performance starts to break down. For many tasks PostGIS works great, but again you are limited by the fact that your tables have to live in the DB and can only scale as much as the computing resources you have allocated.

In terms of number of functions PostGIS is still the leader, but for analytical functions (spatial relationships, distances, etc) having those in place in these systems is important. DuckDB started this but this has a spatial focused engine. You can use the two together, PostGIS for transactional processing and queries, and then SedonaDB for processing and data prep.

A combination of tools makes a lot of sense here especially as the data starts to grow.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-24 17:50:00+00:00
>Several of the examples are quite recent

The only one I'd consider recent is US national anthem kneeling.

I'm in my mid-30s. I only have the vaguest memories of cancel culture around 9/11. I have very vivid memories of progressive cancel culture during the late Obama administration and onwards. It very much was not a one-off sort of thing. It was a systematic practice which was systematically justified. The 9/11 stuff died down as 9/11 receded into the past. Progressive cancel culture only started dying down when Elon Musk bought Twitter.

I agree that progressive cancel culture was mostly not implemented with the help of the government. I agree that Brendan Carr overstepped in a way that wasn't a simple case of "tit for tat", and I think he should be fired.

On the other hand, consider Karen Attiah. If you took what she said, but replace "white men" in her statement with "black women", and imagine a white man saying it, he absolutely would've been risking his job just a few years ago. People were fired for far less.
by rfwhyte | 2025-09-24 17:50:02+00:00
Guess the child born into abject poverty in a war-torn country in sub-Saharan Africa who died before their 5th birthday due to malnutrition and disease just didn't properly prepare or have enough ambition then right?

Classic survivorship bias BS.

The privileged always think the people on top got their through their hard work and ambition, and those on the bottom just lacked the strength of character to succeed and give no consideration whatsoever to the structural / systemic conditions created by those on top to ensure they remain there, and no consideration paid to how said conditions disproportionately negatively impact those on the bottom.

Must be nice to sit all the way up there on high and look down on the world with such a smug sense of superiority.