MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adastra22 | 2025-09-23 14:55:08+00:00
You had him in the office? So he was in the US on a legal permit? Then IANAL but I think your legal dept fucked up. I know many Iranians working here in Silicon Valley. They have refugee permits and are 100% legal workers. Unless you are in defense tech or something which has stricter employment laws, your company did overreact.
by latexr | 2025-09-23 14:55:20+00:00
> If you’re a billionaire, giving all your wealth away is not really going to be appreciated much more than doing some highly visible good deeds that give smaller amounts of wealth away. So why do it?

You could do it for the intrinsic satisfaction of being a decent human and creating a better world. Could probably end or avoid a few wars, too. You’d certainly go into the annals of history is you eradicated poverty in whole areas of the world (which you could easily do, as a billionaire).

> It’s not that difficult to become a billionaire.

Please show us. Then give all your money away and see how that worked out. Don’t knock it until you try it. If you later regret it, that’s OK, shouldn’t be that difficult to become a billionaire again.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-23 14:55:35+00:00
100% agree. I really love D the language, if I could go back in time I would find Walter and challenge him that he couldn't write {insert half of the Go std lib packages} into the STD lib for D because its too hard and impossible, in the hopes he takes the bait. I would love to see something like a 'Framework' for D that is maintained by the maintainers, but isn't necessarily the standard library, because people get really touchy when you mess with the STD lib, maybe a way to test the waters before actually adding new packages to it, having an HTTP server OOTB with D would be amazing.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-23 14:55:46+00:00
I don't know. I don't think it's possible to answer "why aren't you a good fit?" without knowing a great deal more about the company culture than I'd know early in the application process.

The answers that the author liked aren't answering the "good fit" question at all, they're answering the "what are your weaknesses?" question. That's an entirely different thing.

All of which probably just means I'd be a poor fit at that company, because it looks to me like they're looking for an answer to a question that wasn't actually asked.
by seec | 2025-09-23 14:55:48+00:00
In your own sources they say +6,9% for nuclear (61GW) the three percent is for hydro, probably because they are maxed out in that matter like everyone else.

The direct comparison of solar/wind nameplate capacity with nuclear is extremely dishonest. They NEVER reach full capacity even with favorable weather and it's absolutely not comparable to nuclear if you don't have at least a decent amount of storage built alongside.

They are still using coal/gas predominantly (around 70%) so renewables are still peanuts. They are building solar/wind to supplement their other sources, since they can't build anything else fast enough. None of their other sources of electricity generation has gone down since they started investing in renewables. So, it's not replacing anything, and it still technically can't anyway.

In any case, they have 1408GW of installed solar + wind that generated 1836080 GWh (1836 TWh) of energy and they have 61GW of installed nuclear capacity that generated 450850 GWh (450 TWh) of energy. So, their solar & wind installation is 23 times larger but only generates about 4 times the amount of electricity, that isn't even reliable.

It doesn't matter if they hit a speed bump in their nuclear rollout, it doesn't have to be as fast to deploy as renewables because it fundamentally doesn't give you the same things. It is a true replacement for coal, which renewables aren't at this stage.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-23 14:55:59+00:00
Whether it's accurate or not (how could anyone really tell?) just another person spending a lot of time in AI systems starting to question everything about their reality. See also some recent anime/comic-cons where vendors have been accused of selling generated artwork. This being unable to unsee the potential for AI-use in many creative things etc driving one missions to unveil the 'truth', conspiracy theory/paranoia. Calling it being AI-pilled. Not saying it isn't unnerving/unfounded wanting to weed out the 'interference', but not a good direction for many.

Can we spare HN some of these off the wall Reddit dives?
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-23 14:56:38+00:00
> 2/ From a legal discriminatory standpoint, the law doesn't have much protections for people blocking certain raises or genders from renting.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but why is this a problem? When you're living in such close quarters with people, you should have some freedom in choosing who you're living with. The classic example would be a "female only" household that doesn't allow men for real or perceived safety reasons. There are also cultures/religions where cohabitation with those of the opposite sex is taboo.

The race angle is more thorny, but I'd rather lean in the direction of allowing people to choose who they co-habitate with.
by stackedinserter | 2025-09-23 14:56:41+00:00
How is US process identical to the one in Canada? Canada checks your papers and gives you a PR (Green Card) right away. You enter the country, and boom you're a citizen without voting rights and jury duty.

Is there such a thing in US? Maybe I'm missing something, because the only realistic way to immigrate to US that I know is h1b lottery/caps bs.
by medvezhenok | 2025-09-23 14:56:53+00:00
Right. I would say the most apt analogy is from poker.

In Poker, luck plays an integral role in the outcome of any specific game or match, but skill does show up when collected over a large enough sample (that's why they say you can't prove something is due to skill over chance until you've collected a sample of 10,000 - 100,000 played hands of poker - at least if you're playing online).

You could also be a very good poker player and have bad luck on one important occasion (say in the finals of the WSOP), where the outcome hinges purely on luck. Similarly, you could be a subpar player and "luck out" and strike it big purely because of the right sequence of cards at a big event. But generally, most people who succeed at Poker are not there purely based on luck; you can be lucky once or twice, but you're unlikely to make it through a whole Poker career just by being lucky.

I think similarly in life - you have a certain hand you're dealt, and if you play it to the best of your ability (and make opportunities for yourself), you increase your odds of winning the hand / the tournament / life; but ultimately even with your best efforts the outcome could still be decided by luck.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-23 14:57:09+00:00
I recently left a job at an electric resto-mod / conversion startup — the battery chemistries continue advancing while affordability per kWH increases. Hope you can convert your dreams into something special (which you could achieve for much less than $60k)!

If anybody wants to attempt such a rad little travel trailer conversion, I know a guy with several in-need-of-work Airstreams (not sure specific model, but the "iconic" classic -type).

Last spring, Owner literally cut both ends off the crappiest trailer and made it into a bridge across one of his littler creeks (please buy his Airstreams — the neighborhood/environment would appreciate it).
by eevmanu | 2025-09-23 14:57:11+00:00
If I understood correctly, VAD has superior results than using ffmpeg silencedetect + silentremove, right?

I think latest version of ffmpeg could use whisper with VAD[1], but I still need to explore how with a simple PoC script

I'd love to know more about the post-processing prompt, my guess is that looks like an improved version of `semantic correction` prompt[2], but I may be wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

[1] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#toc-whisper-1

[2] https://gist.github.com/eevmanu/0de2d449144e9cd40a563170b459...
by delfinom | 2025-09-23 14:57:21+00:00
Were they? I haven't seen that stated anywhere. The news report from NYTimes does say "the cartels were using it too".

>One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said agents also found 80 grams of cocaine, illegal firearms, computers and cellphones when they discovered the network.

Sounds like literally a mobile botnet and it was probably just leased out access to a range of users.

Leasing access to botnets and other resources is 1000% normal in the "crime web" and is a business in of itself rather than being directly part of the crimes.

On top of that, a "nation state" attacker isn't going to be giving their employees cocaine, unless its Hamas lolololol.
by seydor | 2025-09-23 14:57:37+00:00
> Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer.

The growth in energy is because of the increase in the output tokens due to increased demand for them.

Models do not get smarter the more they are used.

So why does he expect them to solve cancer if they haven't already?

And why do we need to solve cancer more than once?
by bobajeff | 2025-09-23 14:57:48+00:00
It doesn't seem right to blame this on just Apple. In developing countries Android is more common.

The reason I think things are more locked down in apps/silos on mobile is part of a general trend to restrict more and more what people can do with their stuff.

See Microsoft requiring an online account to use Windows. UEFI. DVD/Blu-ray players not allowing you to skip ads. Nintendo being able to brick your Switch remotely. Cars sending your driving data to insurance companies.
by gbolcer | 2025-09-23 14:58:30+00:00
I was going to say you need an extension cable. My first dual 3090 build I had three issues. First was the pcie extension wouldn't support gen4, so I had to change to gen3 in the bios. Second issue was that depending on which slot, you couldn't get x16/x16 and it would drop to x16/x8 unless you had it configured right. Third, I finally gave up and just had the card resting first inside the case and then outside which if fan kicks up, it'll jiggle around, so I had to make some makeshift holder to keep the card sitting there.
by gosub100 | 2025-09-23 14:58:49+00:00
On a related note, I'm terrified of typing his name into search or watching any of his videos because once yt thinks I'm interested in the "topic" I'll never be able to get rid of his face from my recommended videos or news suggestions. I have his channel blocked but I suspect that if you watch a blocked channel voluntarily they will treat it as an unblock.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-23 14:58:58+00:00
Microsoft's developer relations are highly variable: they are great in some areas (C# and .NET Core continue to be fantastic, Visual Studio's debugger is second to none, going back to gdb after it is like banging rocks together to make fire), and awful in others (if I want to write a GUI application in Windows, what should I do to be on the idiomatic happy path? Microsoft: shrug, try one of these half-dozen half-baked frameworks. No we won't tell you which one, and that doesn't matter because it'll be deprecated in three years anyway).

This is better than the story from Apple and Google, who are just terrible consistently, but there is room for improvement.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-23 14:59:24+00:00
> 3) The shopping link for the mainboard leads to the "ASUS ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming" model. This model can use the 2nd PCIe 5.0 port at only x4 speeds. The RTX 3090 can only do PCIe 4.0 of course so it will run at PCIe 4.0 x4. If you choose a desktop mainboard for having two GPUs, make sure it can run at PCIe x8 speeds when using both GPU slots! Having NVLink between the GPUs is not a replacement for having a fast connection between the CPU+RAM and the GPU and its VRAM.

Forgive a noob question: I thought the connection to the GPU was actually fairly unimportant once the model was loaded, because sending input to the model and getting a response is low bandwidth? So it might matter if you're changing models a lot or doing a model that can work on video, but otherwise I thought it didn't really matter.
by keiferski | 2025-09-23 14:59:37+00:00
What's the serious counter-argument to the idea that a) AI will become more ubiquitous and inexpensive and b) economic/geopolitical success will be tied in some way to AI ability?

Because I do agree with him on that front. The question is whether the AI industry will end up like airplanes: massively useful technology that somehow isn't a great business to be in. If indeed that is the case, framing OpenAI as a nation-bound "human right" is certainly one way to ensure its organizational existence if the market becomes too competitive.
by mothballed | 2025-09-23 14:59:44+00:00
In 1970 you could basically buy any non-city plot of land and build a shack on it without anyone bothering you. Think of the back to the land hippies in California just chopping down trees and starting their little communes -- they'd be utterly fucked if they did that now, some Karen would rat them out instantly to planning and zoning committee.

In the late 60s/70s DIY builders were almost completely displaced by developers who lobbied for regulations that stomped out "a guy and his pickup truck" by and large almost anywhere with desirable land. Then the owners of those houses reinforced same to prop up their property values.

I live in one of the last remaining counties that didn't do that, and last year I built a house for $60k. Pretty easy if you're in a place with essentially no codes or zoning. My (fairly) newlywed and I built the house with basically no experience either.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-09-23 14:59:59+00:00
If you're using more of it, because it's replacing corporate travel and going into the office and driving across town to see your friends and family and facetiming instead, then you are still MASSIVELY reducing your total energy.

It's not like the majority of electricity use by computers is complete waste.

You can poo-hoo and say I don't want to live in the digital world, and want to spend more time flying around the world to work with people in person or actually see my mom, or buy physical paper in stores that's shipped there and write physical words on it and have the USPS physically ship it, but that's just wildly, almost unfathomably, less efficient.

If Google didn't exist, who knows how many more books I'd need to own, how much time I'd spend buying those books, how much energy I'd spend going to the stores to pick them up, or having them shipped.

It's almost certainly a lot less than how much energy I spend using Google.

While we all like to think that Facebook is a complete waste of time, what would you be spending your time doing otherwise? Probably something that requires more energy than close to nothing looking at memes on your phone.

Not to mention, presumably, at least some people are getting some value from even the most wasteful pits of the Internet.

Not everything is Bitcoin.
by mikestew | 2025-09-23 15:00:03+00:00
I feel bad for the people who worked on teams where Younger Self was the senior engineer. I was full of ideals and convictions back then. “No, we’re not doing that. We’re going to Do It Right instead.” I was full of piss and vinegar. “Here, give me that; I’ll just do it myself.” I was full of shit.

Ouch, right to the heart. I do wish I could say that being an asshole was restricted to Younger Self, as I carried some of that way later in my career than I should have.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-23 15:00:17+00:00
> Nintendo being able to brick your Switch remotely.

This was wildly exaggerated; Switches cannot be bricked remotely. Nintendo can ban you from online services, but that has been around... for decades.

The warning in the Terms of Service is saying that if you use unauthorized tools, there's no guarantee of compatibility. Updates as far back as the Wii had this warning.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-prev...
by taeric | 2025-09-23 15:00:24+00:00
Do we use more electricity because of 5G? I confess I'd assume modern phones and repeater networks use less power than older ones. Even at large.

I can easily agree that phones that have internet capabilities use more, as a whole, than those that didn't. The infrastructure needs were very different. But, especially if you are comparing to 4G technology, much of that infrastructure already had to distribute content that was driving the extra use.

I would think this would be like cars. If you had taken the estimates of how much pollution vehicles did 40 years ago and assume that that was going to be constant even as the number of cars went up, you'd probably assume we are living in the worst air imaginable. Instead, even gas cars got far better as time went on.

Doesn't mean the problem went away, of course. And some sources of the polution, like tires, did get worse as total makeup as we scaled up. Hopefully we can find ways to make that better, as well.
by taylodl | 2025-09-23 15:00:31+00:00
There's nothing the article's author is saying that's wrong, it's just there are additional considerations.

For example, how many applications are using this database? If it’s more than one, replicating business logic across multiple tech stacks introduces risk. Each stack may implement logic differently, and maintaining consistency becomes a challenge. Plus, each team will have its own priorities, so now you’ve added the complexity of coordinating delivery across teams.

A common solution is to centralize the business logic in a web service, allowing all applications to consume it uniformly. This works well - unless one of those applications needs to process large volumes of data. In that case, the web service can become a bottleneck. There’s also the organizational overhead: Who owns the API? Who supports it? Often that lies with "enterprise" web service teams, and they often have a policy of not embedding business logic in their APIs, so you may face pushback if you try to place it there.

If a client requires high-volume data access, a materialized view can be a great option. It’s performant and allows you to embed the necessary logic. It’s also helpful for clients that struggle to consume web services - most of that’s behind us, but there are always stragglers in the app portfolio. The downside? Materialized views require clients to have a database connection and a managed application account. There are also network constraints around where the client and database server reside.

There’s also a hybrid option: embed the business logic in a materialized view and expose the data via a web service. This satisfies "enterprise" web service teams that don’t want business logic in their APIs, while still centralizing logic and supporting high-volume access.

Ultimately, business logic can live in several places:

- Application

- Web Service

- View

- Hybrid: Web Service utilizing a View

Each option has trade-offs. The right choice depends on your architecture, performance needs, organizational structure, and organizational policies.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-23 15:00:37+00:00
> For that matter, what critical new functionality has been introduced in the web standards/specifications over the last 20 years that was not possible to implement prior?

Wasm, 3D acceleration, PWA, geolocalisation, USB access, sandboxed local storage and offline mode, accelerometer and touch support.

If one thing, the web has declined in the past decade with a lot of things which could and should be on the web moving to phone apps where gatekeepers can take their toll because phone browsers are gimped.
by drooby | 2025-09-23 15:00:54+00:00
No offense but your comment is basically HN parody. OpenAI created AI tech decades ahead of estimates. And they just signed a 100B deal with Nvidea. They are actually doing the things that are astonishing.

Every engineer I see in coffee shops uses AI. All my coworkers use AI. I use AI. AI nearly solved protein folding. It is beginning to unlock personalized medicine. AI absolutely will be a fundamental driver of the economy in the future.

Being skeptical is still reasonable.. but flippant dismissal of legitimately amazing accomplishments is peak HN top comment.
by pier25 | 2025-09-23 15:00:54+00:00
> I'm of the opinion that this is the future of web development

Maybe but not with C#. Rust is a much better language for compiling to WASM. Leptos achieves something similar to Blazor with a fraction of the CPU and bytes.

https://leptos.dev/

Blazor is much slower client-side than even the worse JS solution. Scroll to the right to see it compares:

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

I would love to be able to handle all my web stack with C# but unfortunately the WASM bundles are too heavy for most use cases. Plus the DX for frontend is not even as good as it was with JS and Webpack like a decade ago. And these days the bar is much higher with Vite.
by lbhdc | 2025-09-23 15:00:57+00:00
I think that is more or less what cloudflare is trying to do with their market, and what tollbit is doing.

One nice thing about this new business model is that it doesn't rely on display ads (not that they can't do both). Conceivably ad rev could drop so low it isn't worth compromising their UX. So theoretically we could get far more readable news websites.

The new friction will be convincing the gate keepers you are a human.
by bwfan123 | 2025-09-23 15:01:44+00:00
You could ignore where it came from and evaluate it on its own merits. I had no idea who Packard was - initially i thought it was Packard of hp fame (lol). And I did not entirely agree with some things in the piece. However, it seemed authentic (not ai generated), was brief, and provoked some reflection which is what I expect from any reading.
by km144 | 2025-09-23 15:01:47+00:00
> According to this view, justice demands that variations in how well-off people are should be wholly determined by the responsible choices people make and not by differences in their unchosen circumstances. Luck egalitarianism expresses that it is a bad thing for some people to be worse off than others through no fault of their own.

When I see this line of reasoning, it leads me down the road of determinism instead. Who is to say what determines the quality of choices people make? Does one's upbringing, circumstance, and genetics not determine the quality of one's mind and therefore whether or not they will make good choices in life? I don't understand how we can meaningfully distinguish between "things that happen to you" and "things you do" if the set of "things that happen to you" includes things like being born to specific people in a specific time and place. Surely every decision you make happens in your brain and your brain is shaped by things beyond your control.

Maybe this is an unprovable position, but it does lead me to think that for any individual, making a poor choice isn't really "their" fault in any strong sense.
by azdle | 2025-09-23 15:02:06+00:00
It's not even claiming that. It's only claiming that people who responded to the survey feel more productive. (Unless you assume that people taking this survey have an objective measure for their own productivity.)

> Significant productivity gains: Over 80% of respondents indicate that AI has enhanced their productivity.

_Feeling_ more productive is inline with the one proper study I've seen.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-09-23 15:02:11+00:00
AI helped me fix my own car, no new parts, no driving to the stealership, no comfy lobby to light, no extra building to heat, no IT system to book me into...

It's my opinion AI, like many technologies since the 1950s, will lead to more dematerialization of the economy meaning it will net net save electricity and be "greener".

This is an extension of what steven pinker says in Enlightenment now.