MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DSMan195276 | 2025-09-02 15:41:08+00:00
It costs more because it's less dense than DRAM - the same transistor count that produces 2GB of DRAM can only fit a fraction of that in SRAM because it's 6 transistors per SRAM cell vs. 1 + capacitor for a DRAM cell.

Power usage is also generally worse since the SRAM cells use continuous power to hold their state, while DRAM cells only use power during read/write/refresh (relying on the caps to hold their charge for a short time while not actively powered).
by 6r17 | 2025-09-02 15:41:16+00:00
ngl - the worst times I ever spent was in companies that did not care about tech or what they were doing. The thing is, *i'm* a tech profile ; I like doing deep tech - going to the heart of the tissue. I learned with difficulty that it's sometimes better to not be open-minded, to not go for companies that "just get shit done" etc... - because the realities is that, most of the time, people do what they like, and it just happens that they can latch on something that make them earn money. And we forget that's it's actually a multiple body problem, and that we therefor need to have a strong focus in order to be competitive. But I don't want to be competitive doing php, or staying on the same Django framework since 2012 ; or sticking do doing the same job for the next 2 years until the HR is done with me because they got that smart idea. The truth is ; everybody has to cross the market somehow to be competitive. So you better find a way to be part of the best engineers - and I don't want to be in a company where this is undervalued - because *I know* that in 6 month to 2 years - my skills will not have increased, my competivity on the market would have decreased ; my profile won't sound as strong - and the economics just don't math out.

Let's compare the salary of a back-end engineer with a distributed engineer - it's literally 3x to 4x as much in Europe. If you have no job ; it's literally an opportunity to multiply your salary, improve, know the stack better, etc... - The end-goal is not to be part of a company that stagnates both in technology and ideas for many years - that's already a waste of time and money.
by ath3nd | 2025-09-02 15:41:21+00:00
> I don't know in what circles you're hanging out, I don't know a single person who believed in the metaverse

Oh please, the world was full of hype journalists wanting to sound like they get it and they are in it, whatever next trash Facebook throws their way.

The same way folks nowadays pretend like the LLMs are the next coming of Jesus, it's the same hype as the scrum crowd, the same as crypto, nfts, web3. Always ass kissers who cant think for themselves and have to jump on some bandwagon to feign competence.

Look at what the idiots at Forbes wrote: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2023/02/27...

They are still very influential, despite having shit takes loke that.

Accenture still think the Meta is groundbreaking: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/metaverse

What a bunch of losers!

71% of executives seemed to be very excited about it: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/04/metaverse-will-be-go...

Executives (like Zuck) are famous for being rather stupid so if they are claiming something, you bet its not gonna happen.

Apparently, "The metaverse is slowly becoming the new generation’s digital engagement platform, but it’s making changes across enterprises, too."

https://www.softserveinc.com/en-us/blog/the-promise-of-the-m...
by orochimaaru | 2025-09-02 15:41:22+00:00
Isn’t this a bit obvious? I mean I’ve known this since I started working in 1997. The first job you have generally shatters this illusion that job security and economic gains are tied to “hard work”.

In the sense hard work is needed but only if you see if adding to what you consider a quality of life (which could be economic gain, generational wealth, bragging rights to a promotion, etc.). Each person has their criteria.

If you work in corporate America, hard work isn’t going to save you from layoffs or get you a bigger bonus unless that work is tied to making someone high up in your reporting chain look really good.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-02 15:41:26+00:00
Sure, but you can also sell something without having built it yourself, just as Microsoft Copilot supports OpenAI and Anthropic models.

It doesn't have to be either/or of course - a cloud provider may well support a range of models, some developed in house and some not.

Vertical integration - a cloud provider building everything they sell - isn't necessarily the most logical business model. Sometimes it makes more sense to buy from a supplier, giving up a bit of margin, than build yourself.
by danans | 2025-09-02 15:41:38+00:00
> exciting to see what old DNA turns up in archeological projects like these.

While amazing advancements have taken place in ancient DNA analysis (esp. by David Reich at Harvard and his collaborators), I think all of these have been done from dry human remains on land, not submerged ones.

Does DNA in bones survive long term in seawater? Intuitively I think it would "wash away", or be hopelessly contaminated with other DNA in the water.
by mathiaspoint | 2025-09-02 15:41:52+00:00
Large corporations are probably the worst place actually. You get slotted into some random project treadmill (which will be completely different from whatever position you interviewed for) where most of the decisions are made by middle managers at least one or two levels above you. Going out of your way to solve problems will be ignored at best and my even result in a reprehend.

These places are for people who hate thinking but are good at pretending otherwise.
by phippsbrad | 2025-09-02 15:42:01+00:00
I know nothing about this project, but this appears to be using a docker image from here "https://github.com/dockur/windows/pkgs/container/windows". Which says "Any product keys found in the code are just generic placeholders provided by Microsoft for trial purposes." This app appears to be using windows with trial keys which goes against their intended usage and would have questionable legality. I would think if you do use this you would need to have a licensed version of windows and alter the docker settings to use your purchased key instead of the included trial keys. Ideally this project would have this detail in big bold letters in it's README.
by jdottdot | 2025-09-02 15:42:06+00:00
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by arandr0x | 2025-09-02 15:42:07+00:00
I think the post is getting at the idea that pedigree is not a reliable predictor of talent, but because it's a convenient and standard one, everyone uses it (which in turns reduces its usefulness). It's harder for a recruiter to fully experience the perils of hiring mediocre people, but they're definitely at ground zero for "what's on a resume is mostly not representative of actual talent".
by komali2 | 2025-09-02 15:42:10+00:00
> Unless capitalists start paying the same tax rate as W2 workers, the inequality will continue to favor capitalist class and exploit the worker class.

I wanted to do a snarky "fixed that" comment where I crossed out everything before "the inequality will continue," but actually I'm curious now: capitalism fans (which includes liberals), do you genuinely believe you can have capitalism in a way where the inequality doesn't continue to favor the capitalist class? So long as power can be purchased with capital, how could this ever not be the case?
by wuschel | 2025-09-02 15:42:31+00:00
Thanks for your reply.

I understand that advanced chip making has been done, and is an engineering problem. By generations I assume you mean cohorts.

However, one must not forget the subsidy lever China is using to distort competitive advantage on a financial level. As long as we do not level the playing field in a strategic sense, we will loose on the market long term.
by elevatortrim | 2025-09-02 15:42:44+00:00
I think the gap between what the companies looking for and what the individuals has to offer is increasing.

When a company advertises a role, they are increasingly looking for someone who either has done the same exact job in the exact specific niche with proven success for a number of years, or an absolute super star who would excel at anything thrown at them.

Most people are neither, so matches are exceedingly rare.
by stetrain | 2025-09-02 15:42:48+00:00
Even without corruption, "hard work" doesn't correlate to success. I do good work with a specialized skillset, but I don't work particularly hard.

People who replace roofs on houses work very very hard and make much less money than I do, and those income levels aren't likely to change too much throughout our lives.

Income is generally much more correlated to the market value of your skills and experience than with effort, and gaining those skills and experiences has a lot to do with your background and ability to do things like attend college, work on relevant side projects / hobbies, take low pay / unpaid internships, etc.

Ability to invest capital into things like business ownership, investment, real estate, etc. is another factor.

As cost of living increases relative to wages, that leaves less room for savings to pull yourself up from being a wage worker to an owner or investor.
by dan353hehe | 2025-09-02 15:42:57+00:00
I got a patch:

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ The 90s gaming console experience was: 1. Grab your game cartridge. +1.5. Blow into the cartridge slot for some reason to make the game boot on the first try. But in reality you are slowly destroying the contacts and making the problem worse. + 2. Insert cartridge into console. 3. Turn on console.

Fixed it.

Honestly though, the experience of just turning it on and being in game was great. I had access to an NES and an SNES growing up and have a lot of great memories playing games with friends.
by jader201 | 2025-09-02 15:43:30+00:00
I'm slowly figuring out that these types of non-interactive, live presentations are unnecessary.

If I'm going to listen a someone speak without me being able to respond/interact/have a conversation with them, it can be recorded and I can watch it whenever is convenient for me.

I feel this way with work presentations too -- record them, and let me watch them anytime. Don't make me sit and listen to someone (or a group of people) give a lecture, so that I have to follow along live.

If I'm watching a recording, there's a far greater chance that I'll actually absorb the content, as a) it'll be during a time that works for me, not some arbitrary scheduled time that may or may not interrupt other things that are distracting me from the presentation, b) I'll be able to rewind if -- no, when -- I zone out for a minute, and c) I can skip/speed up the parts that aren't as relevant to me.

I wish we would move away from these live lectures/presentations, and more to async/recorded sessions.

(As a bonus, it also makes the speaking/presenting side easier, as it can be edited, if desired.)
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by LarsDu88 | 2025-09-02 15:43:42+00:00
AI directly threatens and can enhance revenue for companies like Google and Meta, so it makes sense for them to invest in those areas. It's relevant for user segmentation, ad targeting, content creation/user engagement, and even search. LLMs are fantastically powerful search and discovery tools.

Amazon though, sells physical goods and access to physical servers. Whatever is going on with AI, Amazon will profit from without having to burn its own money in advancing SOTA.
by rpdillon | 2025-09-02 15:45:08+00:00
Strongly agree with the view you're responding to. So maybe I can talk about it.

There's just tons of software that you expect people to re-host. Yunohost has a massive catalog of free and open source software that is specifically designed to be spun up in a matter of minutes on open source VMs. To do what you're suggesting for those pieces of software would destroy the ecosystem entirely. The goal is to have multiple providers that are interchangeable that can host the software you need. So if one provider goes down, you can switch.

Meanwhile, MBAs that wanted to make money on their open source software decided that a good way to do that was to host services in charge for them. I agree, but the challenge here is what do you do when Amazon decides to take your software and also make it available to host?

And that's the moment where people abandon free software because it's inconvenient for that particular business model. The bug is not in free software. The bug is in the business model of the companies wanting to claim that they're peddling open source software, while not actually doing so: they want to have a monopoly on providing that software as a service. I understand why, but it's not good for the customer.

A real example that's getting a little long in the tooth, but back in the mid-2010s, I wanted to buy elasticsearch for a geographic search for my startup, and turns out that elasticsearch hosting, which I preferred, didn't actually offer CPU intensive instances suitable for geo-hashing. And I ended up having to switch over to Amazon to get the kinds of memory and CPU allocations that were best for our use case.

I get that you're concerned about the sustainability of these businesses, but introducing a monopoly on hosting has other downsides.
by jparishy | 2025-09-02 15:45:08+00:00
Wealth inequality is high. High enough you can feel it like a vibe in the air. The richest people in the world are telling everyone to get onboard with technology that is determined to make a lot of those same people's jobs redundant. All with an explicit goal of increasing the price of stock most of those people do not own.

IMO there's two economies, maybe divided by those who participate in the stock market and those who don't. We, Americans, have largely given up trying to improve the lives of people not in the first group. Economies are living, breathing entities and we're just grinding poorer people for fuel so richer people can have another house, another boat, another company. A lot of regular joes are really stressed out about paying rent. The loss in faith is warranted.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-02 15:45:32+00:00
The whole tech recruiting and hiring process is bonkers. But in terms of "finding a candidate":

1) there's no way to know if somebody is skilled, since the industry don't require degrees, titles are absolute bullshit, and "years of experience" is frequently "spent 3 yrs maintaining other people's code and manually running deploys". the interview and take-homes are a bad pantomime. it's mostly vibes.

2) nobody asks the candidates what they want ahead of the interview. I'll gladly tell you what my ideal job would be, ideal culture, day to day requirements, etc. If 90% of those seem to match a trend... maybe change your company to match the trend? Then you get 90% of the hires.

3) on compensation, know what you're offering and go after people looking for that. A) terrible job, amazing pay, B) decent pay, decent job, C) terrible pay, amazing job. A) is golden handcuffs. B) people bail on you whenever a better gig shows up (or retain terrible/lazy ppl). C) is you've got a hire for life. which do you wanna be?
by winrid | 2025-09-02 15:45:42+00:00
Please DO NOT build a large application on raw Vertx. Quarkus gives you things like auto generated openapi specs etc.

Quarkus is just compile time stuff around vertx, and you write simple synchronous code. Again, DO NOT use vertx directly for building APIs. It'd be like using just expressjs and writing your api specs manually... in 2025...
by Pet_Ant | 2025-09-02 15:45:48+00:00
I strongly believe that the BuSL [1] "Business Source License" is preferrably. It leaves the code as source-available for now, but eventually the code becomes open-source. It gives you a moat from which you can run a business. Or less of a moat, and more of a time-distorting slow motion field that your competitors are 4 years behind.

This is the license Hashicorp used. It means that abandoned projects never need to die. It means that the source code is publically available now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-02 15:45:50+00:00
The GPL is pretty close and still true Open Source. The GPL is technically closest to CC BY-SA, but the virality of the GPL (or especially the AGPL if you like/trust it, which I don't but that's a longer conversation) has been enforced enough that a lot of companies, especially smaller ones with fewer lawyers are wary of it/try to avoid it, but even a lot of big companies with many lawyers can be very conservative about how they use or don't use GPL software.

But yeah, both FSF and OSI see some commercial use as a freedom a Free/Open Source license should have so if you want a truly non-commercial license both will tell you it is not by definition a Free/Open Source license.
by wolrah | 2025-09-02 15:46:04+00:00
This is the idea behind Zaparoo (https://zaparoo.org/) which uses NFC tags that can be put in to your preferred form (card, cartridge, token, etc.) and used to select and launch games. It was originally built for use with the MiSTer FPGA hardware emulation platform but has since expanded to support a variety of software emulation platforms and apparently even actual C64s via a flash cart.
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by ibash | 2025-09-02 15:46:06+00:00
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I've been enjoying Claude Code and wondered what would happen if I made a multiplayer game as an MCP tool. It's a weekend experiment to see what happens when AI becomes the interface to multiplayer games.

Every player is a real person (or autonomous AI) leaving permanent marks on a shared world. Break a chair, it stays broken for everyone. Write on a wall, others will find it. Claude/Cursor is just your interface - like using a very smart terminal to play a MUD.

Try it: No signup needed. Just make up any player_id and password:

- Live at: https://www.summon.app

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- Cursor: there's an "add to cursor" button on the website

The world persists between sessions. Use 'play' to create a character, then explore. You can 'conjure' objects and 'do' arbitrary actions (interpreted by LLM).

No real-time messaging yet, but you can leave messages by conjuring signs and writing on them.

Technical: Built with fastmcp and runs a small LLM server-side to interpret actions. The interesting part is how different the game feels when your interface is an AI that can creatively interpret your intentions.

Would love to have folks join and explore together.
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by etskinner | 2025-09-02 15:46:35+00:00
The article may be referring to page 14, actually.

The question on page 14 is "Do you think the American Dream--that if you work hard you'll get ahead--still holds true, never held true, or once held true but does not anymore?

And the results are (from 2023 to 2025):

Still holds true: 36, 34, 31 (downward trend)

Never held true: 18, 17, 23 (upward trend)

Once held true but not anymore: 45, 49, 46 (mixed trend)
by komali2 | 2025-09-02 15:46:46+00:00
Yes, this is one of the inherent contradictions of capitalism: the definition of "value" is reversed so that the system rewards the least valuable actors (investment bankers, middlemen, rent-seekers) and punishes the most valuable actors (teachers, firefighters, plumbers, sewage treatment plant workers, garbage collectors).

Those who like this system, is this inevitable? If not, how can it be reversed? Or is it somehow good that the people who basically raise your kids for you get paid 10x less than the guy who takes a commission for plugging your investment account into their automated market tracking money printing machine?
by wltr | 2025-09-02 15:46:47+00:00
I have some 32-bit systems (arm and x86), and it looks like I’m going to use them till the hardware breaks. The old x86 system is power hungry and inefficient, but the thing is, I power it on very occasionally. Like for half a day once a month. So its power consumption isn’t an issue. Probably I should consider some BSD for it. But what should I do with an arm system, if that’s applicable, I have no idea.
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