MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bradford | 2025-09-17 22:43:29+00:00
> What do you want for the USA? Completely open borders? Closed borders, but we don't enforce it very well? Something else?

The 2024 bipartisan border bill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_b...) seemed like a good compromise to me. Of course, it wasn't brought to a vote by the house (for reasons that I won't elaborate on), so it's mostly a hypothetical.

And, if I had to choose between the two, I'm more supportive of the Biden era immigration policy than I am of the current Trump policy.
by asdff | 2025-09-17 22:43:36+00:00
The bus driver is making what 60k maybe 90k a year? According to LA metro their new electric fleet is costing about $1.1m per bus. It would take over a decade for labor to exceed just the initial outlay. I'm not sure that busses are even used that long before replacement.

In terms of bathroom breaks, I've seen the driver pull over to use the mcdonalds or grocery store bathrooms so that is probably "free." There are only a few places in LA metro system where there is a purpose built layover facility where one might imagine there being a metro maintained bathroom facility. Most layover facilities are just dedicated street parking for busses to queue, such as the one at the end of Western blvd and franklin where I've seen the drivers utilize the Lazy Acres grocery store facilities.
by estearum | 2025-09-17 22:43:52+00:00
Absolutely! But one of the tools we created to make this possible is government. There are forces (like multinational corporations) that exceed the power of an individual or many individuals to mitigate.

Social media is a far more “effective” technology than TV was, which was more effective than radio before it, and so on. It’s very important we figure out how to counteract these things because the trend is obviously in one direction, which is not the one that culminates in individuals having full, conscious agency over their lives and wellbeing.
by dwattttt | 2025-09-17 22:44:38+00:00
> Instead, you want to use the format that can be read and written by a rank novice with a single programming course under their belt, because that's what makes the field approachable by dewey-eyed undergrads eager to get their feet wet. Giving those folks an easy on-ramp is how you grow the field.

This is good, but you're implicitly saying there's a tradeoff made to achieve this, because otherwise we wouldn't be talking about alternatives. And an on-ramp for novices is good, but I don't see a step where the standards of the field move on from what novices can handle.
by Moto7451 | 2025-09-17 22:44:59+00:00
One of the use cases for Clickhouse and related columnar stores is simply to process all your data as quickly as possible where “all” is certainly more than what will fit in memory and in some cases more than what will fit on a single disk. For these I’d expect the allocator issue is contention when working with the MMU, TLB, or simply allocators that are not lock free (like the standard glibc allocator). Where possible one trick is to pre-allocate as much as possible for your worker pool so you get that out of the way and stop calling malloc once you begin processing. If you can swing it you replace chunks of processed data with new data within the same allocated area. At a previous job our custom search engine did just this to scale out better on the AWS X1 instances we were using for processing data.
by teleforce | 2025-09-17 22:45:10+00:00
It's very refreshing and good to see WASM is embracing GC in addition to non-GC support. This approach is similar to D language where both non-GC and GC are supported with fast compilation and execution.

By the way now you can generate WASM via Dlang compiler LDC [1].

[1] Generating WebAssembly with LDC:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Generating_WebAssembly_with_LDC
by kiratp | 2025-09-17 22:45:14+00:00
This is due to RoPE scaling.

> All the notable open-source frameworks implement static YaRN, which means the scaling factor remains constant regardless of input length, potentially impacting performance on shorter texts. We advise adding the rope_scaling configuration only when processing long contexts is required. It is also recommended to modify the factor as needed. For example, if the typical context length for your application is 524,288 tokens, it would be better to set factor as 2.0.

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
by grej | 2025-09-17 22:46:01+00:00
In addition to Korea being one of our most important military allies in the world, you need batteries for military drones, and the US is way behind in the development of a domestic manufacturing supply chain for next gen batteries.

So now we know clearly that nationalist xenophobia the true most important priority for this administration. Or at least, more important than either the domestic economic interests of their own base or strategic national security interests.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-17 22:46:06+00:00
But now you are talking about upending people's lives over misdemeanors. Should we deport someone for speeding?

I just don't see a work visa program as having any benefit. Anyone working in the US should be protected by workers laws the same as if they have a visa or not. Why should we put limits on who can work for who and be employed by who. Who actually benefits from such limits?
by sho_hn | 2025-09-17 22:46:11+00:00
It's worth noting though that this part of the game is about to change majorly for both brands.

Prusa is widely known to launch their next-generation tool changer at Formnext in Nov, which is going to be a concept where you have a rack of nozzle+heatpipe+filament tube tools that the print head grabs and heats up inductively. And Bambu is more or less working on something similar they will probably launch some time next year.

This is totally changing the "nozzle swap" equation. It means purge-free and much faster multi-material printing without outright duplicating print heads like the XL does, and the ability to park and mix nozzle sizes as well.

It'll be cool to see which company pulls it off better. As someone who was never convinced by either Bambu's shoddy and wasteful AMS or Prusa's ridiculously humongous MMU+Buffer approach, this is the leap I've been waiting for for an upgrade.

Edit: Amazing move to downvote a comment that simply and neutrally adds new information to the thread.
by HoyaSaxa | 2025-09-17 22:46:31+00:00
I’m pretty surprised that Anthropic can directly impact the infra for AWS Bedrock as this article suggests. That goes against AWSs commitments. I’m sure the same is true for Google Vertex but I haven’t digged in there from a compliance perspective before.

> Our own privacy practices also created challenges in investigating reports. Our internal privacy and security controls limit how and when engineers can access user interactions with Claude, in particular when those interactions are not reported to us as feedback.

Ok makes sense and glad to hear

> It remains particularly helpful for users to continue to send us their feedback directly. You can use the /bug command in Claude Code

Ok makes sense and I’d expect that a human can then see the context in that case although I hope it is still very explicit to the end user (I’m not a Claude Code user so I cannot comment)

> or you can use the "thumbs down" button in the Claude apps to do so

This is pretty concerning. I can’t imagine the average person equates hitting this button with forfeiting their privacy.
by runarberg | 2025-09-17 22:46:43+00:00
Quite often those differences exist because of systemic or cultural bias that affects the test design. Tests are often validated based off of other tests that showed a difference, but those tests often had a severe sampling bias that showed a group difference where non-existed. It then became an established theory that if you design a test that measures e.g. “emotional intelligence” (whatever that means) and it didn’t show a group difference, it was invalid and had to be adjusted until it did.
by doron | 2025-09-17 22:47:11+00:00
The reasons can be many. But if you believe that a genocide is indeed taking place and leaving Gaza saves lives, it’s a reasonable Path to help is to accept the refugees.

Europe accepted millions of Ukrainian refugees to keep them out of harms way, why do they not extend the same helping hand to Palestinians from Gaza? who are, at least according to this UN report, in much worse condition?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-17 22:47:21+00:00
I want enforcement of our immigration laws. ICE is deporting fewer illegal immigrants than Obama despite blowing Saudi Arabia’s military budget [1][2].

The entire endeavour is thoroughly corrupt, lawless and ineffective. It’s being run for TV, not for results.

So we get stupid spectacles like this from influencer ICE that make us, in the long run, trillions of dollars poorer, all while doing nothing to remove migrants much less gangs or cartels from our streets.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-budget-big-beautiful-b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest...
by somewholeother | 2025-09-17 22:47:31+00:00
This is a fair analogy, but let's also consider that these human beings weren't designed with the express purpose of becoming experts in their field and performing in this way for this specific purpose (albeit in a generalist manner).

We are most definitely in agreement about the folly of comparing the abilities of LLMs to humans, since LLMs are to a greater extent the product of much collective human endeavour. "Living memories" would perhaps be a better description of their current state, and their resultant impact on the human psyche.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-09-17 22:48:00+00:00
> If you have shipped with a bug, that automatically lowers the perceived priority as well.

This is unfortunately still true. I've had some radars de-prioritized with this exact reason and there are few things more infuriating.

It's really a sign of an overwhelmed, dysfunctional organization, but I heard from an ex-CoreOS guy that that's an intentional management choice, "people perform better under pressure"... (although I'm guessing Photos is not in the CoreOS org)
by bgwalter | 2025-09-17 22:50:24+00:00
"Database" was not meant in a literal sense. Clearly a lot of knowledge from similar problems is encoded in the model, that is why you can use models as a kind of fuzzy encyclopedia.

It is like an open book exam for humans where they also can lookup similar problems.

The current top comment makes the same point, but in a more diplomatic and sophisticated manner.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-17 22:51:58+00:00
I don’t use Claude Code or any of the newer coding assistants. I use ChatGPT and tell it the code I want with the same type of specifications I would do when I am designing an implementation. It can definitely type 200+ lines of correct code faster than I could especially since I would need to look up the API calls for the AWS SDK.

I treat it like a junior developer.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-17 22:52:11+00:00
The value of figuring out how to make their LLM serving deterministic might help them track this down. There was a recent paper about how the received wisdom that kept assigning it to floating point associativity actually overlooked the real reasons for non-determinism [1].

[1] https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...
by jm4 | 2025-09-17 22:52:30+00:00
Really? They are following Putin’s playbook and getting away with it. Controlling media and sharing the spoils with the oligarchs. Together, they are robbing us blind. What about what they are doing makes them incompetent? Evil, yes. But incompetent? They are winning! You think this ends with the next election or when ol’ Agent Orange kicks the bucket? Things are going to be very different here for a very long time unless we collectively get our shit together in a big way and take it back.
by cjensen | 2025-09-17 22:53:09+00:00
What I would like:

First, ICE should be competent. There's a long history of them being the dumbest and most thug-like people to hold a badge. Compare this to the US Postal Inspectors, who are the most competent. Reform has long been needed from top to bottom. Consider that they basically use skin color as probable cause, which is enraging and lazy.

Second, the silly quotas focus on the wrong issue. The government, being incompetent, is meeting quota by voiding valid permission-to-stay because they know where those people live. They are manufacturing people to deport because they are not competent to find people who can be legally deported.

Third, this is a case of supply and demand. The system is focused on the supply side composed of desperate workers rather than demand side of people who hired them for personal profit. This is silly: come down hard on one meatpacking plant and you "solve" the problem of hundreds of illegal immigrants with a single criminal charge. Trying to stamp out the immigrants one-by-one is inefficient and unjust.

Lastly, this is pretty much all the fault of the Republican Party. George W Bush wanted to make a grand compromise where sufficient barriers to entry were erected in exchange for amnesty. The nativist wing of the Republican Party went apoplectic at compromise and killed any practical solution for decades. There will never be a solution so long as one side wants to deport law-abiding hardworking taxpayers whose parents brought them here as children.
by l1n | 2025-09-17 22:53:30+00:00
(Anthropic employee, speaking in a personal capacity)

> I’m pretty surprised that Anthropic can directly impact the infra for AWS Bedrock as this article suggests.

We don't directly manage AWS Bedrock deployments today, those are managed by AWS.

> I can’t imagine the average person equates hitting this button with forfeiting their privacy.

We specify

> Submitting this report will send the entire current conversation to Anthropic for future improvements to our models.

in the thumbs down modal. Is there a straightforward way to improve this copy?
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-17 22:53:54+00:00
I took an IQ test as a high school student, and one of the subtests involved placing a stack of shuffled pictures in chronological order. I had one series in the incorrect order, because I had no understanding of the typical behavior of snowfall. The test proctor said almost everyone she tested mixed that one up, because it doesn't snow in the area where I live.

I have no doubt that IQ tests reproducibly measure the test takers ability to pass tests, as well as to perform in a society that the tests are based on.

I think it's disingenuous to attribute IQ to intelligence as a whole though, and it is better understood as an indicator of cultural intelligence.

I would expect that, for cultures who's members score below average on IQ tests from the US, an equivalent IQ test created within that culture would show average members of that culture scoring higher than average members of US culture.
by khuey | 2025-09-17 22:54:14+00:00
IMO it sort of depends.

For a serious crime like murder you want to imprison them for their sentence and then deport them. You obviously don't want the most serious consequence for a foreigner coming to the US to murder someone to be deportation.

But for a minor crime like shoplifting maybe just tossing them out is fine. Is it worth locking them up for a couple months when you can just wash your hands of them?
by Animats | 2025-09-17 22:54:23+00:00
That assumes that LG can find workers who want to risk going to the US.

The government of South Korea is forming a "task force" with the US embassy in Seoul to try to get visa procedures fixed so this doesn't happen again. "Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said the body will be led by director-level officials, emphasizing that its purpose is to facilitate practical consultations rather than political declarations." The view from the Korean side is worth reading. [1] This may reduce Korean investment in the US.[2]

[1] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/20250916/korea-u...

[2] https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/09/south-korea-v...
by bitpush | 2025-09-17 22:54:28+00:00
That's an uncharitable way of reading what Anthropic said. And they said it very plainly as well

> To state it plainly: We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load. The problems our users reported were due to infrastructure bugs alone.

Not sure why the twitter account/person is willfully misrepresenting the facts.
by runarberg | 2025-09-17 22:54:37+00:00
Twin studies are inherently biased. We have also learned since the 1950s that your genes are not nearly as static as previously assumed. The field of behavior genetics is very fraught indeed, full of disproven assumptions, flawed statistics, and racist pseudo-science. For the longest time behavioral genetics served to justify discrimination through eugenics.

Your parent is correct, the evidence for genetic effects only exist in pseudo-scientific fields using long debunked and flawed methodology. In other words, the “evidence” for behavioral genetics has failed to replicate.
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-17 22:54:58+00:00
Especially if there was major momentum of people writing their web applications with wasm, there would be a reason to eventually get that massive undertaking of creating the ABI for that working. Then all those applications could just recompile to make use of this new hypothetically faster API. The bigger issue here is that it just doesn't make any sense to write frontend code in rust or go or whatever in the first place.

The whole js ecosystem evolved to become a damn good environment to write UIs with, people don't know the massive complexity this environment evolved to solve over decades.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-17 22:54:58+00:00
> Hardware patents are already risky enough to get torched by some "submarine patent" troll, the US adds software patents to that mix.

Software patents are indeed a scourge, but not publishing source code doesn't get you out of it. Patent trolls file overly broad patents or submarine patents on things they get included into standards so that everyone is infringing their patent because the patent covers the abstract shape of every solution to that problem rather than any specific one, or covers the specific one required by the standard. They can still prove that using binary software because your device is still observably doing the thing covered by the patent.

Meanwhile arguing that this makes it harder for them to figure out that you're infringing their patent actually cuts the other way, because if plaintiffs are clever they're going to use that exact reasoning to argue for willful infringement -- that concealing the source code is evidence that you know you're infringing and trying to hide it.

> And even if you think you got all the licenses you need, it might be the case that the licensing terms ban you from developing FOSS drivers/software implementing the patent, or that you got a situation like the HDMI2/HDCP situation where the DRM <insert derogatory term here> insist on keeping their shit secret, or you got regulatory requirements on RF emissions.

To my knowledge there is no actual requirement that you not publish the source code for radio devices, only some language about not giving the user the option to exceed regulatory limits. But if that can be done through software then it could also be done by patching the binary or using a binary meant for another region, so it's not clear how publishing the code would change that one way or the other. More relevantly, it's pretty uncommon for a GPU to have a radio transceiver in it anyway, isn't it? On top of that, this would only be relevant to begin with for firmware and not drivers.

And the recommended way of implementing DRM is to not, but supposing that you're going to do it anyway, that would only apply to the DRM code and not all the rest of it. A GPU is basically a separate processor running its own OS which is separated into various libraries and programs. The DRM code is code that shouldn't even be running unless you're currently decoding DRM'd media and could be its own optional tiny little blob even if the other 98% of the code is published.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-17 22:55:13+00:00
> I'll defend his right of free speech to the death

See, I don't think you would. That's not a knock against you, practically no one (myself included) has that firm of convictions. But very, very few people are willing to even knowingly put their lives at risk for their beliefs. In fact, the only person who did so in this entire situation is the shooter. Kirk almost certainly didn't think he was in any real danger. You or I writing HN comments certainly don't.

I don't think the world would be a better place if our bluffs on firmly held beliefs were more regularly called. But it definitely doesn't sit right with me that you glamorized the very kind of extreme behavior that you're criticizing.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-17 22:55:52+00:00
I have been coding professionally for 30 years and 10 years as a hobbyist before then writing assembly on four different architectures. The first 12 years professionally bit twiddling in C across multiple architectures.

I doubt very seriously you could tell my code was LLM generated.

I very much rather explain to an LLM than write the code myself. Explaining it to an LLM is like pre rubber ducking.
by jm4 | 2025-09-17 22:56:48+00:00
I don’t want either of them, but credit where credit is due. China is doing well as a country and the standard of living has increased even if it’s under an authoritarian regime. I wonder how long that will last. Meanwhile, the USA is becoming Russia. Basically a bunch of misinformed morons living in the past and thinking we are on top of the world while we accelerate towards irrelevance on the global stage if not for a massive stockpile of nukes.
by throwaway346434 | 2025-09-17 22:56:53+00:00
What an insane thing to say! But also... how insane is it that I agree with you based on objective reality? Can you imagine seriously saying that 20-30 years ago? 1984's doublethink/doublespeak always seemed over the top, yet we are at a point particularly recently where the anti cancel culture sentiment has lead to... proposals to curb undesirable speech, cancelling people... which in turn is undesirable because it criticises a propagandist's undesirable speech with his own post death quotes in a lot of cases and bristles when accused of sane washing. Or that this won't matter in a few more news cycles as we lurch brokenly into the next phase of dystopia.

I wonder how many historical parallels exist and what the outcomes were; IE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_colors_(Japan) - which I think lead to a flourishing of clothing design for commoners. Like will we see massive social change in two or three generations hence as a rejection of the current hysteria? Will history books record the silliest parts that now seem quaint with a little distance, IE War on Christmas? Mission accomplished? WMDs that didn't exist? Etc etc.
by nis0s | 2025-09-17 22:57:09+00:00
Personally I say not to cry at work because it can affect your future prospects and credibility. It may also make some people like you’re getting an unfair advantage because you cry/cried. I feel bad for people who have situations going on in their personal lives, and the emotionality from that can bleed over to other spaces. That’s fair and understandable. But if that happens, it’s a good idea to just reflect on it and not let it happen again, just what I think on this.