MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coffeecoders | 2025-09-08 15:28:20+00:00
I agree that it's kind of magical that you can download a ~10GB file and suddenly your laptop is running something that can summarize text, answer questions and even reason a bit.

The trick is balancing model size vs RAM: 12B–20B is about the upper limit for a 16GB machine without it choking.

What I find interesting is that these models don't actually hit Apple's Neural Engine, they run on the GPU via Metal. Core ML isn't great for custom runtimes and Apple hasn't given low-level developer access to the ANE afaik. And then there is memory bandwidth and dedicated SRAM issues. Hopefully Apple optimizes Core ML to map transformer workloads to the ANE.
by bluGill | 2025-09-08 15:28:50+00:00
The fallen civilization was the Roman empire, so closer to 1500 years if you only count the western Roman Empire (which most do), or 600 years if you count the East. while a lot was last most technology was not and even knowledge of government was not lost.

You can get even m,roe interesting if you look too China, India, or the Americas for civilizations - but most of us don't really know much about them and don't think about them when we think of lost history.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-08 15:28:52+00:00
in a sense (no pun intended), you're sealing yourself off from "the real world" when you listen to podcasts/music on headphones in public.

i used to be a major headphone user but as i've gotten older, i really don't like to isolate myself like that when in public. i've started to enjoy just living in the moment a lot more than when i was younger, and i don't like to appear as antisocial as i often feel, because i actually feel a lot better about myself when i interact with the people around me instead of gliding through life trying to avoid notice.
by beerandt | 2025-09-08 15:29:16+00:00
>Fogbank

This is a more interesting example- the theory isn't that we lost the tech, but that the new tech was too good, too pure.

The incidentals of the old, 'dirty' way of manufacturing it (that we just spent billions and billions to destroy and clean up) apparently (speculation, since classified) added some unknown impurities that affected its performance.

And either it needed to be redesigned with the new manufacturing process, or go back to the old process to fit the specs of existing weapons or the weapons would need to be redesigned.

We didn't lose the tech, but other 'advances' in both tech and society (not having workers manually handle dangerous stuff) caused an overall regression, not advancement.

It's the EPA DC chlorine case all over again, of 'progress and safety' actually increasing danger and causing overall regression.
by nucleardog | 2025-09-08 15:29:17+00:00
I think I'm up to two five figure bills and two six figure bills refunded for various companies/clients. On one account, we had about $70k refunded, then a year or two later $130k. The normal monthly spend was closer to $30k.

There were no warnings or "don't do it again". They, very reasonably IMO, asked us to essentially explain how and why this happened and how we'd stop it happening again. They then provided some additional guidance and resources around those areas. In the one case where the charges were due to compromised credentials, they asked us to rotate all of our access keys before they issued the refund.

Completely anecdotal and slightly dated information, but that's been my experience.
by titanomachy | 2025-09-08 15:29:17+00:00
If the closest you can get to understanding populists is “some humans are just evil and selfish”, a large part of humanity will remain mysterious and unreachable to you.

I think everyone understands tribalism to some extent. You would probably expend more effort to protect your child than you would a stranger. Populism just turns up the knob on this instinct.
by rayiner | 2025-09-08 15:29:18+00:00
I would imagine math-focused people are even lower in empathy/people focus. Heck, I can imagine it being a recruiting advantage to tout that, at xAI, engineers won't be hamstrung by liberal arts majors telling them to make the results politically correct. After all, xAI seems to have brought Grok to a competitive state quite quickly.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-08 15:29:42+00:00
> quite a few were

Bay of Pigs wasn't a revolution, it was a failed invasion. The others, however, absolutely were instigated by the CIA.

You can compile similar lists for Iran, Russia, France and India. Reflexively dismissing every coup, much less protest, as the product of foreign involvement without evidence isn't thoughtful.
by SushiHippie | 2025-09-08 15:29:57+00:00
I just searched for the asahi linux (Linux for M Series Macs) battery life, and found this blog post [0].

> During active development with virtual machines running, a few calls, and an external keyboard and mouse attached, my laptop running Asahi Linux lasts about 5 hours before the battery drops to 10%. Under the same usage, macOS lasts a little more than 6.5 hours. Asahi Linux reports my battery health at 94%.

[0] https://blog.thecurlybraces.com/2024/10/running-fedora-asahi...
by techpineapple | 2025-09-08 15:30:02+00:00
You know what, I’m going to donate $100 to the human rights campaign. But also, who says I’m tuning out? The powers causing all these problems are the ones that run the news, they’re showing you exactly what they want you to see. Feeling rather than doing.

Also, by nature of my environment, and I know a decent number of activists and they seem to be the ones who understand the futility of doomerism the most.
by schmidtleonard | 2025-09-08 15:30:06+00:00
...and we're so damn good at it that we can grind a complex shape to micron precision for the purposes of a shitpost -- which then gets automatically blasted to a million algorithmically selected interested parties for the amusement of all.

https://youtu.be/uR-hY7hUsaY?t=79

I have nothing but respect for the skill and professionalism of the ancients, but I find it extremely distasteful when someone tries to express this by putting down their modern counterparts.
by gingerBill | 2025-09-08 15:30:12+00:00
I know very few people using Hare, especially since it only works on "FOSS platforms". And I will still maintain that V is vapourware. They still have the same false claims on the website that they've had from the beginning for ~6 years.

Odin is "successful enough" so far. Also, you know about it, so that says something.
by jt2190 | 2025-09-08 15:30:49+00:00
I guess you’d disagree with Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights then, on the basis that these human rights are a “western” concept and the United Nations is a “western” institution?

> Article 19

> Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-08 15:30:51+00:00
Thanks. I've been looking for a new app to give me immediate feedback on my pitch accuracy while I play, because the violin has no frets and my ear isn't good enough yet to identify whether I'm a little sharp or flat on each note. I think realtime feedback could really help me train my fingers.

I'll post more detailed feedback in a day or two when I've had time to experiment. Hopefully you'll still be checking the thread.
by nottorp | 2025-09-08 15:31:12+00:00
Irrelevant.

There are two entities allowed to make x86_64 chips (and that only because AMD won the 64 bit ISA competition, otherwise there'd be only Intel). They get to choose.

The rest will use arm because that's all they have access to.

Oh, and x86_64 will be as power efficient as arm when one of the two entities will stop competing on having larger numbers and actually worry about power management. Maybe provide a ?linux? optimized for power consumption.
by jandrese | 2025-09-08 15:32:44+00:00
It's not the concentration of wealth, it is the concentration of power. Communism doesn't solve that problem. The less centralized your power is the more efficient your economy works. Pushing decisions down to the edge means the people deciding how to allocate resources are the closest to the information about what is needed where. The problem with highly centralized economies is that as an economy grows beyond a trivial size it's impossible for the centralized system to manage the flow of information from the edges. It doesn't scale. Also, honest competition is good for optimizing your resource allocation, if someone is ultimately in charge of both sides they will be inclined to try to choose just one and "avoid waste", which ultimately is just avoiding optimization. This is also why companies become less competitive as they grow and are always under threat from startups and a big reason why antitrust is about more than just "protecting consumers". That's also why big companies are always lobbying government for protection of their business models.
by dragontamer | 2025-09-08 15:32:45+00:00
Alternatively, you can choose a proven source of white noise.

Such as the reverse-bias shot and/or avalanche noise at the pn junction of a reverse bias'ed Zener Diode. Which is white-noise into the hundreds-of-MHz. Maybe not good enough for RDSEED, but certainly good enough and fast-enough for most hobbyist projects who are experimenting with this for the first time.
by just-another-se | 2025-09-08 15:32:51+00:00
Fellow Nepali here. Corruption has always been blatant in Nepal, but in the past it was mostly limited to the monarchs and a small circle around them. With democracy, however, it feels like everyone in power has become corrupt. It’s reached a point where corruption is so normalized that people compare leaders based on the degree of their corruption, rather than whether they are corrupt at all. On top of that, the children of these politicians and officials openly flaunt their Gucci, LV, and Ferraris on social media—in a country where just one of their bags costs more than what an average Nepali earns in a whole year.
by lordhumphrey | 2025-09-08 15:32:57+00:00
This is a copy-paste of what I wrote elsewhere:

> Here's the definition from the esoteric programming language wiki, which is a lovely resource for anyone interested https://esolangs.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language:

> "An esoteric programming language is a computer programming language designed to experiment with weird ideas, to be hard to program in, or as a joke, rather than for practical use."
by Quarrelsome | 2025-09-08 15:32:59+00:00
> How about people who genuinely believe in a minimal state?

I agree that its technically a position but while that venn diagram may well include people who believe in charitable giving and local community organization its those who do not believe in those things (which I would argue constitute the majority of that position) who are the problem here. Even so, the idea that everyone gets to choose themselves what the issues are, belies a lack of unity and community that is close to what I'm trying to define. To respect society, one must give up an aspect of control.

Again, its not about tax in general, its the desire to get to 0% that is indicative of the sort of selfishness that defines the line I'm trying to draw.

> Painting them as first-order opponents is a mistake, I think.

You might be right. I think the bigger problem definitely are those who think stealing public money is ok to do.
by chowells | 2025-09-08 15:33:04+00:00
You know, my first job during college involved updating construction documents based on changes that were approved by both the contractors and the owners. Penmanship was critical when updating blueprints by hand - which was always a lot cheaper than getting the source documents, revising them, and reprinting them.

In my very limited experience, I learned the importance of penmanship in that profession.

In my much larger experience since, I've learned the irrelevance of penmanship to writing code. I don't practice my blueprint handwriting anymore. It would be wholly unfit-for-purpose without a bunch of practice. But I understand its value in that context.

If I understand the thrust of your comment correctly, you're pointing towards removing formatting as a channel being a net positive, despite the loss of all these indicators. I might almost agree with that, except for my point 4. Sometimes it's better, on the whole, to break conventions. Mechanical formatting systems cannot make these judgement calls.

I think the minor friction of explicit formatting is a net positive. I think the communication channel it adds carries more value than the friction it imposes hurts. (And I'm calling it explicit formatting because it doesn't have to be manual - it just has to be done with intention, judgement, and approval.)

I don't think the massive friction imposed by submitting code as ink on paper provides enough value to be worth its costs, by contrast.
by dcminter | 2025-09-08 15:33:10+00:00
> You don't need Excel

This is the kind of thing that gets tech people a bad reputation. YOU don't need Excel. I don't need excel - but that guy? You have no idea what he needs and if the people he's supporting need (or just want) Excel to get their jobs done it is incredibly arrogant to tell him what he does or doesn't need.

Now, I've loathed Microsoft since the 90s, but that makes me a weird and special little petal - it doesn't count for squat in business.
by zahlman | 2025-09-08 15:33:41+00:00
The author seems to live in a bubble where people are aware of RSS feeds. This article is the first I'd even heard of ICE in the first place. While multiple companies are listed as being behind ICE, no examples are given of websites that actually provided a feed for it.

Meanwhile, RSS is barely relevant today. For decades (Youtube turned 20 this year), people have had access to feeds curated by "the algorithm" operated by a commercial interest (hoping to maximize the amount of ads you look at); and most people seem to prefer it that way, if they're even aware of alternatives.
Roast my startup idea in the AI Analytics space
by kinstak | 2025-09-08 15:33:50+00:00
After 8 months on a different space, we just pivoted and are looking to launch a startup in the analytics space. We are building a middleware that helps data teams and business users talk and interact with their data sources (Data Warehouse, CRM, Shopify, Zendesk, GA4, FB Ads, etc.) using ChatGPT.

The idea is that business users and analysts can ask questions or build reports directly on ChatGPT (through a CustomGPT), simply by typing them out in English. Then, an admin panel will allow the Data team to stay in control by connecting data sources, setting permissions, defining guardrail, configuring and scheduling pre-defined reports, adding reference queries (what to do and what not to do), and tracking how the tool is being used across the company.

Our goal is to make data more accessible without bypassing the data team, empowering analysts and business users without forcing the Data Team to hand-hold every request.

I am looking for feedback on: - Would you (or your team) find this useful? - What concerns would you have (accuracy, trust, adoption)? - How would this compare to the tools you currently use (Tableau, Looker, Metabase, etc.)?

Thanks so much in advance!!!
by MarkusQ | 2025-09-08 15:33:57+00:00
> There are plenty of books in libraries.

You might want to check that. There are definitely a few libraries with plenty of books but, as I was shocked to discover a year or so ago, public libraries don't have nearly as many books as they used to. They can "get them for you" via inter-library loan, if you are willing to wait a few weeks.
by achenet | 2025-09-08 15:34:00+00:00
> Do it for one day nobody cares Do it for a week, people notice Do it for a month, you've got regime change

Occupy Wall Street lasted longer than a month, and I'm not sure they achieved regime change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

You could argue that it's below the 3.5% of the total population threshold mentioned in the previous comments tho.
by jbottoms | 2025-09-08 15:35:00+00:00
This architecture appears to overlap with the, then, Bell Labs LambdaXtreme telephone switch. It was sold to Alcatel as it appears to be an optimum design for a swich that covers the E.U. Switching was likely in the control plane, and perhaps an optical fabric was used for administrative changes in both the control and dats pkane.
by theamk | 2025-09-08 15:35:12+00:00
At least the parsers are optional now - you can still grep, diff, etc.. even if your tools have no idea about language's semantics.

But if you store ASTs, you _have_ to have the support of each of the language for each of the tools (because each language has its own AST). This basically means a major chicken-and-egg problem - a new language won't be compatible with any of the tools, so the adoption will be very low until the editor, diff, sed etc.. are all updated.. and those tools won't be updated until the language is popular.

And you still don't get any advantages over text! For example, if you really cared about "this function moved to new file" functionality, you could have unique id after each function ("def myfunc{f8fa2bdd}..."), and insert/hide them in your editor. This way the IDE can show nice definition, but grep/git etc.. still work but with extra noise.

In fact, I bet that any technology that people claim requires non-readable AST files, can be implemented as text for many extra upsides and no major downsides (with the obvious exception of truly graphical things - naive diffs on auto-generated images, graphs or schematics files are not going to be very useful, no matter what kind of text format is used)

Want to have each person see it's own formatting style? Reformat to person's style on load and format back to project style on save. Modern formatters are so fast, people won't even notice this.

Want fast semantic search? Maintain the binary cache files, but use text as source-of-truth.

Want better diff output? Same deal, parse and cache.

Want to have no files, but instead have function list and edit each one directly, a la Smalltalk? Maintain files transparently with text code - maybe one file per function, or one file per class, or one per project...

The reason people keep source code as text as it's really a global maximum. The non-text format gives you a modest speedup, but at the expense of imposing incredible version compatibility pain.
by sski123 | 2025-09-08 15:35:15+00:00
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by torginus | 2025-09-08 15:35:20+00:00
I remember reading this Jim Keller interview:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210622080634/https://www.anand...

Basically the gist of it is that the difference between ARM/x86 mostly boils down to instruction decode, and:

- Most instructions end up being simple load/store/conditional branch etc. on both architectures, where there's literally no difference in encoding efficiency

- Variable length instruction has pretty much been figured out on x86 that it's no longer a bottleneck

Also my personal addendum is that today's Intel efficiency cores are have more transistors and better perf than the big Intel cores of a decade ago
by vid | 2025-09-08 15:35:36+00:00
I'm not sure it really takes that kind of breakthrough approach. Apple chips are more energy efficient, but x86 can be much faster on CPU or GPU tasks, and it's much more versatile. A main "bug and feature" issue is the PC industry relies on common denominator standards and components, whereas Apple has gone vertical with very limited core expansion. This is particularly important when it comes to memory speed, where the standards are developed and factories upgraded over years at huge cost.

I gather it's very difficult and expensive to make a board that supports more channels of RAM, so that seems worth targeting at the platform level. Eight channel RAM using common RAM DIMMs would transform PCs for many tasks, however for now gamers are a main force and they don't really care about memory speed.
by codethief | 2025-09-08 15:35:48+00:00
I recently looked into both Immich and Ente.io for syncing and also sharing photos since 1) Syncthing has been rather unreliable for me in the last year, 2) my photo library has become too big to just sync it across devices, 3) I was never really happy with NextCloud for sharing photos.

Immich looked really nice but in the end I went with Ente because of its E2E encryption. So far I'm really happy!
by Jemaclus | 2025-09-08 15:36:00+00:00
You should install it, because it's exactly what you just described.

Edit: From a UI perspective, it's exactly what you described. There's a dropdown where you select the LLM, and there's a ChatGPT-style chatbox. You just docker-up and go to town.

Maybe I don't understand the rest of the request, but I can't imagine a software where a webpage exists and it just magically has LLMs available in the browser with no installation?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-08 15:36:39+00:00
> you are supposed to show somebody in a position of power that you are the victim so they solve the problem for you. This means victimhood is the principal currency of power

This doesn't describe how legal systems evolved at all.

They evolved to protect the powerful from each other. You went through the legal system because if you didn't you escalated your problem from a dispute with one powerful person to a dispute with the system of power.

The only way this victimhood notion works is if we describe all claims of damages as claims to victimhood. Which, I guess, they sort of are. But those pleas are made by the powerful, too. If you aren't the victim of something, if you haven't been harmed, what the fuck is the case you're bringing?

> how many of those governments were created by violent armed revolt against a previous authoritarian government? How many by "peaceful" protests?

Since mechanised warfare, I think there have been more peaceful revolutions than (non-state backed) violent ones. The latter tend to just result in failed states.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-09-08 15:36:46+00:00
Bad angle shot: This thing where advertisers exploit the need to clarify ambiguity in order to smuggle in custom, private definitions of words that mean the opposite of the agreed-upon definitions of those same words is a problem. Calling something "full self-driving" when it doesn't drive by itself fully is lying even if you put in the fine print that "full" means "not full" and "self-driving" means "not driving by itself"
by simonh | 2025-09-08 15:36:53+00:00
It’s often been assumed that accuracy and ‘correctness’ would be easy to implement on computers because they operate on logic, in some sense. It’s originality and creativity that would be hard, or impossible because it’s not logical. Science Fiction has been full of such assumptions. Yet here we are, the actual problem is inventing new heavy enough training sticks to beat our AIs out of constantly making stuff up and lying about it.

I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised in hindsight. We trained them on human communicative behaviour after all. Maybe using Reddit as a source wasn’t the smartest move. Reddit in, Reddit out.
by Ygg2 | 2025-09-08 15:37:02+00:00
> than a typical language consumer, who can and often is easily falling into the languages emo wars.

How is ginger bill excluded from this group? No one is more invested in a language than its creator(s).

Sure, he might have given it a lot of thought, but he came up with some completely bonkers conclusions. If you don't want dependencies, DON'T IMPORT DEPENDENCIES. Don't make your dependencies extremely hard to add.