MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-19 16:08:44+00:00
I disagree that HW blocks for lower precision take up that much die space. Data center GPUs are useless for gaming because it's tuned that way. H100 still has 24 raster operating units (4050 has 32) and 456 texture mapping units (4090 has 512). That's because there's only so much they can tune the HW architecture to one use-case or the other without breaking some fundamental architecture assumptions. And consumer cards still come with tensor units and support for lower precision. This is because the HW costs and unit economics are such that it's much more in favor of a unified architecture that scales to different workloads vs discrete implementations specific to a given market segment.

They've also not bothered investing in SW to add the H100 to their consumer drivers to work well on games. That doesn't mean it's impossible and none of that takes away from the fact that H100 and consumer GPUs are much more similar and could theoretically be made to run the same workloads at comparable performance.
by tetromino_ | 2025-09-19 16:09:56+00:00
There's a similar Russian tale in blank verse by Pushkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Fisherman_and_... - probably either inspired directly by the Low German story or mediated through a version told to him in his childhood by his nurse (who in turn heard it from someone else).

In the Russian version, the fisherman's wife's final and mistaken wish is to be the Queen of the Sea, with the fish as her servant.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-19 16:10:08+00:00
There's a whole backstory to this.

When he joined only a few months ago, he set the vision of making Intel a worthy participant in the AI space.

Then just a few months later, he announced "we cannot compete".

What happened in the middle? Recent articles came out about the conflict between him and Frank Yeary, the head of the Intel board. He wanted to acquire a hot AI startup, and Frank opposed it. Two factions were formed in the Board, and they lost a lot of time battling it out. While this was going on, a FAANG came in and bought the startup.

I think his announcement that Intel cannot compete was his way of saying "I cannot do it with the current Intel board."
by qingcharles | 2025-09-19 16:10:39+00:00
Yeah, you're in a black hole :( I can't even find anyone to pay off at Reddit, so you can't even go that route. My friend has an account and she has appealed it once per day (you can appeal every 24 hours) for the last 370 days and no response.

I did have an open conversation with spez about all of these things, but he eventually ghosted me.
by lanstin | 2025-09-19 16:10:47+00:00
S3 autoscales, so any time the load increases you can see 5xx and 429 errors, but it flexes up in a few hours. That’s not exactly an incident, sort of Works as Designed.

The first time you write a multithreaded utility to do something in account with S3 you will see this, and have to write the temporary back off code.
by mijoharas | 2025-09-19 16:10:58+00:00
In the linked article, DHH links out to a wikipedia article titled "Ethnic groups in London"[0].

He then uses a statistic that "only a third" are native brits in 2021, which roughly lines up with the "White British" line in the chart.

You can argue that "white supremecist" is a charged and problematic term, but I'd say that "Here he complains about too many brown people in London." is a fairly accurate representation of the article. I'd say "disgraceful slander" is a bit too strong as a rebuttal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London
by slg | 2025-09-19 16:11:05+00:00
I'll admit I was being somewhat simplistic blaming exclusively first past the post voting. The real problem is the combination of FPTP and our presidential system. That is what makes the US converge to a two party system, not the open primaries you mention.

The UK having a parliamentary system counteracts this due to when the coalition building step happens. In a parliamentary system, the government is formed via coalition building in the parliament after an election. However, the US being a presidential system means that post-election coalition building would be too late to impact the chief executive, the coalition must be built before the election. This combined with FPTP is what yields our two party system.

For example, imagine the US has an even 50/50 split between Democrats and Republicans. Now imagine the tension in the Democratic Party boils over and the party splits into Liberals and Progressives. Maybe some Republicans were really centrists, so they peel off to the center-left Liberal party. That might leave us with a breakdown of 45% Republicans, 35% Liberals, and 20% Progressives. This almost guarantees the president will be a Republican. Despite attracting a majority of voters, the Progressives and Liberals costs themselves a chance at winning by splitting. They would have a natural incentive to merge their parties again before the next presidential election. But if this was a parliamentary system, the Liberals and Progressives would now make up 55% of the parliament and they could successfully form a government together and choose a PM without having to actually merge parties.

The reason I blamed this entirely on FPTP in my original comment is because something like ranked choice voting is a much more reasonable change that the US could adopt. Shifting from a presidential system to a parliamentary system is an unlikely enough change that I didn't think it was worth mentioning.
by frithsun | 2025-09-19 16:11:15+00:00
I'm all about hating on the psychiatry profession, but I believe what may be missing here is that these diagnoses are always optional.

If you like your grief, you can keep your grief. But if you need help, the criteria need to be there for you, for insurance companies, employers, and such to systematically do all their accounting and such.

It's a bit similar to a lot of controversies around the autism spectrum. If it's just a personality quirk and you're a functional adult then it doesn't really matter if you meet the this or that criteria. If you like your autism, you can keep your autism.
by kubinashi | 2025-09-19 16:11:27+00:00
Thanks a ton—nice to meet another potato-PC hero!

Even if the big companies ignore this, I really hope more DIY/open-source AI pops up. If anyone wants to make a tiny prototype or just bounce ideas, I’m totally game!

I’m not a coder, so I can’t build or prototype this myself, but I’d love to brainstorm, discuss concepts, or be involved in the conversation as the idea grows.

Happy to contribute with ideas and feedback if any group wants to take this somewhere—even if it’s just for fun!
by cpncrunch | 2025-09-19 16:11:36+00:00
Exactly. I just tried fact checking the "milking" bit. Looking up lists of care home groups, Allegra Care came up first. Looking at their financial statements (all public, and include full details of profit and loss, thanks to UK company law), their profit in 2024 was 30k, and in 2023 they had a 300k loss. So not exactly milking!

I think running a care home isn't a great way to make a huge profit.
by Chyzwar | 2025-09-19 16:11:36+00:00
If you are CEO of a large company, and you see a huge uptick of ecommerce during covid, you could:

- Expand aggressively and compete for top talent - Wait and possibly miss opportunity if trend continue

Most CEOs decided to expand. For example meta hired around 30k people from 2020 to 2022.

If you see end of ZIRP, slowdown and inflation and you actually overhired as CEO what you should do?

- Keep employees locked in roles that are not needed? - Let go people that are not needed and hire for what is needed.

Meta let go most e-commerce positions and support and now is aggressively hiring AI specialists.

If you are hiring, and you see someone that cannot hold a job for more than 6 months, it is red flag. In capitalist system, employees are just to provide labor in exchange for wages. Nothing more, nothing less. Problem in US is that both retirement and healthcare is often provided by employer, creating this weird illusions of long term caring relationship.
by lukevp | 2025-09-19 16:12:00+00:00
60 cents per kWh? That’s shocking. Here in Oregon people complain about energy prices and my fully loaded cost (not the per kWh but including everything) is 19c. And I go over the limit for single family residential where I end up in a higher priced bracket. Thanks for making me feel better about my electricity rate. I’m sorry you have to deal with that. The utility companies should have to pay to cover those costs.
by alias_neo | 2025-09-19 16:12:06+00:00
> the raspberry pi is still an amazingly cost effective choice

It's really not though. I've been a Pi user and fan since it was first announced, and I have dozens of them, so I'm not hating on RPi here; we did the maths some time back here on HN when something else Pi related came up.

If you go for a Pi5 with say 8GB RAM, by the time you factor in an SSD + HAT + PSU + Case + Cooler (+ maybe a uSD), you're actually already in mini-PC price territory and you can get something much more capable and feature complete for about the same price, or for a few £ more, something significantly more capable, better CPU, iGPU, you'll get an RTC, proper networking, faster storage, more RAM, better cooling, etc, etc, and you won't be using much more electricity either.

I went this route myself and have figuratively and literally shelved a bunch of Pis by replacing them with a MiniPC.

My conclusion, for my own use, after a decade of RPi use, is that a cheap mini PC is the better option these days for hosting/services/server duty and Pis are better for making/tinkering/GPIO related stuff, even size isn't a winner for the Pi any more with the size of some of the mini-PCs on the market.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-19 16:12:08+00:00
Nah, it's like the wild West - I'll hold IA accountable ONLY for CP - ONLY.

If corpos want there shit off the site - they should have to send someone to take that down - every single times the whole process, always on them.

The IA is just like a big box with a copy of everything in another box.

Boxes aren't bad bc I put something bad into a box - this is a little more nuanced than that
by Pannoniae | 2025-09-19 16:12:35+00:00
well, just have a proper code-based API?

not even separate textures are necessary, you could very well use atlases and just stitch them together at runtime with rectpacking and just remap the input texcoords to the new, bigger atlas... boom, mod support with atlases without creating 400 2KB .png's in the game folder.

similarly, blocks can be done in code, and modders can either use that, and optionally you can expose the same API in LUA or whatever if you need a less involved / sandboxed version of mods which can be downloaded from a server or whatever.

Here's an example of shit being done from code, it's fairly terse and you don't need to trawl through 7 files to do anything: (yes I know it doesn't have i18n yet but that won't make it much more complex either)

SHORT_GRASS = register(new Flower(Blocks.SHORT_GRASS, "Short Grass")); SHORT_GRASS.setTex(crossUVs(8, 1)); SHORT_GRASS.setModel(BlockModel.makeGrass(SHORT_GRASS)); SHORT_GRASS.transparency(); SHORT_GRASS.shortGrassAABB(); SHORT_GRASS.noCollision(); SHORT_GRASS.waterTransparent();

These are fluent/chainable so I could have put all of them on one line but that's less readable IMO, but your choice really.

For data files (textures, sounds and other assets) you could use a virtual filesystem like Quake did (PhysFS is a good library which vaguely approximates that) and get rid of the stupid amount of folder nesting specifying behaviour, you can just have toplevel folders and use modloader order to disambiguate.

tl;dr: almost anything can be made to work with the most convenient/most sensible method of making stuff instead of using a bunch of awkward and convoluted JSON files you aren't even using! (MC internally generates the JSONs from code, so the data lives through a code -> JSON -> code roundtrip, they aren't even dogfooding their own format lol)
by dcrazy | 2025-09-19 16:13:06+00:00
Your comment is overbroad as written, but it is close to true about the boot chain. The Apple Platform Security Guide [1] says: “When a Mac with Apple silicon is turned on, it performs a boot process much like that of iPhone and iPad.”

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/boot-process-secac7...
by some_random | 2025-09-19 16:13:34+00:00
Hmm that makes sense, but it probably would be best to measure cash flow instead of revenue year over year, maybe some kind of Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. Alternatively you could skip all of that and just go with yearly revenue like you said although that could obviously be gamed with some stupid one-off sales and fees so maybe some kind of Annual Recurring Revenue metric would be more useful?
by condiment | 2025-09-19 16:13:42+00:00
The article is hyperbole and this only impacts ARR for consumer services, which tend to be either month-to-month paid in arrears, or annually prepaid. It doesn't change anything, but if your gym membership goes high-tech it might be easier to cancel.

The specific provisions[1] covering unfair contract terms apply only to "unilateral" contracts, meaning contracts that are offered to a customer who meets two important criteria. First that they attempted to negotiate specific terms in the contract. Second that they had no ability to influence those terms but continued to purchase the service anyways. Real, scaled, committed SaaS ARR isn't going anywhere.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng#cpt_IV
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-09-19 16:14:47+00:00
For $3000 you can get 3x used Epyc servers with a total of 144 cores and 384 GB memory, with dual-port 25Gbe networking so you can run them in a fully connected cluster without a switch. It will have >20x better perf/$ and ~3x better perf/W.

That combo gives you the better part of a gigabyte of L3 cache and an aggregate memory bandwidth of 600 GB/s, while still below 1000W total running at full speed. Plus your NICs are the fancy kind that let you play around with RoCEv2 and such nifty stuff.

It would also be relevant to then also learn how to do stuff properly with SLURM and Warewulf etc. instead of a poor mans solution with Ansible playbooks like in these blog posts.
by philipallstar | 2025-09-19 16:15:01+00:00
> whatever little amount of money on

The US has been spending the most globally, in real terms per capita[0] and a percentage of GDP[1] on healthcare for a long time. How on earth can you justify the phrase "little amount of money"?

The problem wasn't the amount spent. The problem was the terrible hybrid of regulations that let the private sector down crazy rabbit-holes of false value to chase and be paid for, instead of just direct exposure to the real health market's needs.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?end=2...

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?most_... (technically three massively smaller economies contribute more as a % of GDP, but that's off a crazily lower base)
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-19 16:15:15+00:00
Indeed. They are individual organisms, not one large organism. Talk of "superorganisms" seems to presuppose that each individual must seek his own survival and reproduction, but that's untrue. From the point of view of the species and its propagation and survival, it is not a question of individuals. That's just one strategy that may characterize the reproductive behavior of some species, but not others.
by fragmede | 2025-09-19 16:15:25+00:00
Ah yes, famed billionaire Larry Ellison, 98% owner of the Hawaiian Island of Lānaʻi, who you famously should not anthropomorphisize [1][2] who has proposed using AI on mass surveillance cameras so that ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’[3] is definitely not into authoritarian government. He's totally not known as being an authoritarian CEO, with financhill describing his reign as CEO: > Of these four leadership styles, Larry Ellison’s style is decidedly autocratic. [4]. He may be a Jew, and the holocaust may be the worst thing the Nazis did, but it wasn't the only bad thing about their reign.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1981s [3] https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveill... [4] https://financhill.com/blog/investing/larry-ellison-leadersh...
by kolbe | 2025-09-19 16:15:37+00:00
Nearly all people value good articulation over intelligence. This is why people who interview well get jobs over people who do good work. It's why Steve Jobs makes billions while Woz doesn't. And why Trevor Milton can bilk investors of claims about HTML5 supercomputers while nerds get brushed off talking about tensor-chip accelerated attention models.

The truly great founders, CEOs, and investors of our generation have generally been people who could see the difference between articulate and intelligent, and valued intelligence as the driving characteristic of people who built their products.
by nomilk | 2025-09-19 16:15:58+00:00
I've noticed similar false economy in some sports, where the holder of the rights is so strict that even famous pundits can't use footage (even a few seconds) or risk consequences. It seems highly detrimental to the sport itself, and perhaps even the rights holder due to the reduction in free advertising.

I wonder if this quirk is caused by the concentrated interests of rights holders' internal legal departments, where, in eagerness to keep their jobs or demand higher salaries, they pursue breaches of broadcast rights hyper aggressively, well past the point of optimal benefit to the rights holder.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-19 16:16:05+00:00
LTC is risky, as others have pointed out.

My company offers one that claims to be reliable (owned by an insurance company that's been around for over 100 years, albeit not in the LTC space).

The one thing I didn't like about them: They don't adjust for inflation. So if you sign up for a $100K plan, you'll get $100K - which will worth a lot less by the time I need it.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-19 16:16:17+00:00
Humans have always lived past their 40s. You've misunderstand life expectancy statistics, because human age-at-death forms a bimodal distribution: A lot of kids and infants die (especially historically), and then your body starts falling apart in your 50s. So while the average life expectancy at birth for a lot of history might have been in the 30-40 year span, it has never been common for people to die in their 30s. Because once you make it to ~15, your life expectancy is another 30-40 years. And if you make it to 30, your life expectancy was still another 25-30 years.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-19 16:16:19+00:00
> retirement has existed really since humans lived past their 40s

We've always lived past our 40s. We just stopped having a bunch of people die in childhood (or birthing children).

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-anc...

"If one’s thirties were a decrepit old age, ancient writers and politicians don’t seem to have got the message. In the early 7th Century BC, the Greek poet Hesiod wrote that a man should marry “when you are not much less than 30, and not much more”. Meanwhile, ancient Rome’s ‘cursus honorum’ – the sequence of political offices that an ambitious young man would undertake – didn’t even allow a young man to stand for his first office, that of quaestor, until the age of 30 (under Emperor Augustus, this was later lowered to 25; Augustus himself died at 75). To be consul, you had to be 43 – eight years older than the US’s minimum age limit of 35 to hold a presidency."

"As a result, much of what we think we know about ancient Rome’s statistical life expectancy comes from life expectancies in comparable societies. Those tell us that as many as one-third of infants died before the age of one, and half of children before age 10. After that age your chances got significantly better. If you made it to 60, you’d probably live to be 70."

Neanderthal elders probably took on lighter-duty tasks as they aged just like today's elders do.
by edot | 2025-09-19 16:16:59+00:00
Former shareholders, whoever currently holds the assets of the company as Nikola is in bankruptcy. Unless those people buy influence, they’re worthless to the current admin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/sec-trump-cle...

Each of the above guys did the smart thing of buying influence (Milton retained the attorney general’s brother as his lawyer, for example). In the past you’d have to hide that better, but now it’s out in the open.

One of the guys mentioned in the article is now cleared to work on his new crypto venture. Of course.

Edit: not to “both sides” this, but it is interesting and mentioned in that NYT article that Biden pardoned a guy involved in a multi-billion dollar ponzi after serving 10 years (with 10 to go). Found an article from 2008 showing that the Bidens were linked with the firm. Not as direct of a quid pro quo but more the standard back scratching …

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/stanford-reportedly...
by raincole | 2025-09-19 16:17:15+00:00
First of all OP is a shill for this paid.ai thing (as if this domain name isn't a telling sign, lol): https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=arnon

Second it's ridiculous. No one is killing ARR. That's absolutely not what EU is doing.

> Boom. Subscription gone. Access revoked. Business workflows broken.

> It’s the equivalent of your electricity being cut off because you didn’t click “confirm payment” on a reminder email.

Not what EU is doing again. At all. What a slop.
by leoc | 2025-09-19 16:17:15+00:00
If you want to run something like GNS3 network simulation on a hosting service's hardware you'll either have to deal with hiring a bare-metal server or deal with nested virtualisation on other people's VM setups. Network simulation absolutely drinks RAM, too, so just filling an old Xeon with RAM starts to look very attractive in comparison to cloud providers who treat it an expensive upsell.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-19 16:17:41+00:00
... of course it's the EU. It won't be enforced against large companies. I mean, it seems to me pretty obvious that this outlaws microsoft office. And yet, it's september, and ...

https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/963184/microsoft-365-pers...

https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/952796/adobe-photoshop-el...

Seems to me these trivially violate just about every condition talked about in this article ... yet it's still for sale with no way to cancel and get your money back. Am I missing something?

In fact this store only sells subscription software. That's the only thing available. Non-cancelable, of course. And there's plenty of technical and bundling barriers to switching.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-19 16:18:12+00:00
Forgive me for being blunt, I can't figure out a more polite way of saying this... since LLMs have trained on enormous amounts of code, and most code is terrible (most of the code I've written is rubbish), why would you expect otherwise? LLMs don't ingest great code, they ingest all code, which on average has the problems described.