MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by huntaub | 2025-09-27 15:36:28+00:00
Yes, definitely. S3 has a time to first byte of 50-150ms (depending on how lucky you are). If you're serving from memory that goes to ~0, and if you're serving from disk, that goes to 0.2-1ms.

It will depend on your needs though, since some use cases won't want to trade off the scalability of S3's ability to serve arbitrary amounts of throughput.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-27 15:37:01+00:00
>.e. if congress passes a laws that says "no guns" and SCOTUS says "yes that's what the 2A says" the president has to ignore it because the 10th amendment blocks him from having the power to enforce it.

No. Because the law would be constitutional since the Supreme Court said it is

You keep trying to argue that the president determines what is constitutional but the courts do. It doesn't matter what the president thinks is constitutional
by mindslight | 2025-09-27 15:37:18+00:00
I voted conservative, too. Actually conservative, meaning the Democratic party - not tear-it-all-down hate-everything-about-America revanchist Republican.

At least we've seemingly gotten an answer to the anthromorphic principle thought experiment of why we were (individually) born in this time - it's the most populous time in human history looking backwards and forwards. At this rate I doubt we'll be getting off this rock. That civilization-bootstrapping energy stored in easily-accessible oil deposits isn't coming back any time soon.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-27 15:37:39+00:00
Btw if you set your browser default search to anything other than Google searching for people works much better. No customized bumping of X based links over other options when searching for people.

Duckduckgo and Bing put the bluesky link as #1 for the above. Seems straightforward to make the switch to me. If you haven't changed your browsers default search engine in the past 5 years now's a good time to do so. Much better results await.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-09-27 15:37:41+00:00
> Good thing it's called the World Health Organization and not the American Health Organization, that way the 95.9% of the world that is not America can contribute to it.

First, imagine that your boss/largest customer decided, on a whim, to reduce your remuneration by half on the first of January. Where are you making up that money if there's nowhere else in the world that you can immediately turn to?

Anyway, other nations are spending more.

The World Health Organization and UN are just politically convenient names. These organizations were created by a victorious America to project power, like the takeover of UK military bases and exportation of US culture in the Marshall Plan.

How reprehensible that we throw away such power without receiving anything in exchange.

[1] Helpful example - we initially blocked penicillin production in other countries, despite having joined WHO, in furtherance of American interests https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-cold-wars-lasting-effec...
by hdlothia | 2025-09-27 15:37:55+00:00
It is 100% allowed, I just don't think it's really helpful or beneficial for them or society

Especially when they try to lean on their status as scientists in order to try and have their opinions be more influential.

The cdc for example saying it's ok to disregard their previous guidance in order to protest for black lives matter is one of these credibility damaging moments that is hard to undo.
by Fricken | 2025-09-27 15:37:59+00:00
The self driving car industry has been working hard to develop practical applications for AI as it exists in it's current state. Waymo is in the lead, and has been at it since 2009. They are making it happen, but it's hard, the going is slow.

Roboticists have spent decades trying to teach robots to stack boxes, and again, still not ready for primetime. Same with conversational AI. That's just the nature of it. It blows your mind one moment and wets the bed the next.

If Open AI or it's competitors had it in good confidence there was a way to get AI to perform consistently in a single marketable application, they'd be all over it, but that's just not how it works. We can watch China's robots perform all kind of cool tricks, but they still aren't useful for much of anything except entertainment.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-27 15:38:29+00:00
I agree they were not masked for people who can see through the masks, but the abstractness of their argument style gave them a level of plausible deniability that you just don't see anymore. For example, whereas before they would express their racism by pointing to literature like "The Bell Curve", now they just say stuff like this: https://www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvins-racist-slurs-hav...
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-09-27 15:39:03+00:00
To a degree that's pretty much true for every "aficionado" fad out there. After a certain price point, almost everything is indistinguishable. Just manufactured scarcity / "premium". I have friends passionate about wines, whiskey, coffee, audio, water??, and so on. Yes, there is a price point for every one where the difference is obvious, but after that, no one can tell the difference. We actually did a blind coffee tasting in our friend group, and most people preferred some new beans bought from starbucks out of every kind of "unique, pristine, virgin hills" stuff that's overpriced and overhyped. It's doubly funny because all my friends say starbucks coffee sucks. Well, well, well...
by MultifokalHirn | 2025-09-27 15:39:22+00:00
I think the formats are all supported natively, so I assumed that they are played using native macOS decoders etc., not something in Chrome.

Fun fact: I started using HQPlayer, which does upsampling so that whichever DAC you use it doesn't have to, with its limit power compared to for example the M1. It really makes a surprisingly big difference!
by ori_b | 2025-09-27 15:40:58+00:00
The architectural registers can be renamed to physical registers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_renaming

As far as that article, it's interesting that the numbers vary between 76 and 560 ns; the benchmark itself has an order of magnitude variation. It also doesn't say what syscall is being done -- __NR_clock_gettime is very cheap, but, for example, __NR_sched_yield will be relatively expensive.

That makes me suspect something else is up in that benchmark.

For what it's worth, here's some more evidence that touching the stack with easily pipelined/parallelized MOV is very cheap. 100 million calls to this assembly costs 200ms, or about 2ns/call:

f: .LFB6: .cfi_startproc pushq %rbp .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16 .cfi_offset 6, -16 movq %rsp, %rbp .cfi_def_cfa_register 6 subq $8, %rsp movq $42, -128(%rbp) movq $42, -120(%rbp) movq $42, -112(%rbp) movq $42, -104(%rbp) movq $42, -96(%rbp) movq $42, -88(%rbp) movq $42, -80(%rbp) movq $42, -72(%rbp) movq $42, -64(%rbp) movq $42, -56(%rbp) movq $42, -48(%rbp) movq $42, -40(%rbp) movq $42, -32(%rbp) movq $42, -24(%rbp) movq $42, -16(%rbp) movq $42, -8(%rbp) nop leave .cfi_def_cfa 7, 8 ret
by bormaj | 2025-09-27 15:41:02+00:00
I don't think Spotify and streaming killed the music subculture, it's still very much alive but requires more intention to find.

Back in the day how did you find new music? Pre-2000s it was likely MTV/radio for mainstream, or word-of-mouth/local events for niche genres. Nowadays Spotify and streaming services have supplanted the former for mainstream music. Finding new music outside the recommended engines requires a little more effort in knowing where to look. There are a lot of Internet radio programs (shout out to The Lot and Rinse.FM) and smaller record labels that do an amazing job at curating local and diverse sounds.

These days it's never been easier to start your own label or publish a track. Rock-'n'-roll is probably still alive (unfortunately I don't know that modern scene well), but assembling the necessary equipment and people to start a band is a big hurdle requiring practice, space and coordination. So I can see more wanna-be artists opting for pop/electronic having shorter turnarounds to a finished product.
by chmod775 | 2025-09-27 15:41:09+00:00
The amount of money they're asking for is so laughably small, the fact that nobody has stepped up so far can only be explained with apathy.

It's so small, lots of smaller cities could fit that in their budget without a second thought. The list of individuals to which that is an inconsequential amount of money is thousands strong.

Chump change to prevent something that could develop into a global threat to health and trade? What a steal.
by xg15 | 2025-09-27 15:41:17+00:00
If this were really the case, it would indeed be sad, as the standard HTTP request/response model is both too restrictive and too overengineered for many usecases.

But both HTTP/2 and QUIC (the "transport layer" of HTTP/3) are so general-purpose that I'm not sure the HTTP part really has a lot of meaning anymore. At least QUIC is relatively openly promoted as an alternative to TCP, with HTTP its primary usecase.
by Theodores | 2025-09-27 15:41:19+00:00
In the 1980s, at my particular school in the UK, we were being primed for a society where computers and machines would do so much work that we would only have to work for ten hours a week or so. Therefore, in the curriculum, we had lots of classes on leisure things, as in hobbies.

This world never came to be. Instead we had Graeber's 'McJobs', with ever more specialist roles as per the capitalist division of labour idea, with lots of important jobs that aren't important at all.

We had a glimpse of a 'leisure society' during the pandemic when only key workers were needed to do anything useful, everyone else was on the government furlough.

In theory, AGI offers the prospect of a leisure society of sorts. However, it doesn't. Going back to the unusual curriculum at the school I happened to go to, a key skill was critical thinking. As well as doing macrame, football, cookery, pottery, art and what not during what would be teaching time, we also had plenty of courses on philosophy and much else that can be bracketed as literature. The idea was that we were not being brought up to be compliant serfs for the capitalist machine, instead we were expected to have agency and be able to think for ourselves.

The problem with AGI is that we are bypassing our brains to some extent and at a cost of being able to master the art of critical thinking. Nobody has to solve a problem by themselves, they can ask their phone to do it for them. I could be wrong, however, I don't see evidence that AGI is making people smarter and more intelligent.

We have already outsourced our ability to recall information to search engines. General knowledge used to be something you had or you didn't, and people earned respect for being able to remember and recall vast amounts of information. This information came from books that you either had or had to access in a library. Nowadays, whatever it is, a search engine has got you covered. Nobody has to be a walking gazetteer or dictionary.

This ability to recall information rather than look up everything came with risks, mostly because it was easy to be wrong, or 'almost right', which can be worse. However, it is/was the bedrock for critical thinking.

Clearly the utopian vision of a leisure society never happened in the form that some envisaged in the 1980s. With AGI I don't see any talk of a leisure society where we are only having to put in ten hour working weeks. This isn't being proposed at all. If it was then AGI would not be a nightmare for the average person.
by jsheard | 2025-09-27 15:41:19+00:00
Total activity across the entire site doesn't meaningfully affect users as long as the activity they actually care about is still there, "Bluesky's aggregate metrics are down" and "Bluesky is the best place to talk science" can both be true at the same time. The website you're reading right now has abysmal metrics compared to Facebook and TikTok, but that's not really the point, is it?
by roversx | 2025-09-27 15:41:55+00:00
I'm sorry, I thought this would be fun at first, but now it seems not to be, and it does cause confusion. I will rewrite it. My technical skills are not good when it comes to code and technology, far from good. But I will try to make sure all functions are tested and will not cause more problems. I'm still a student, I know I shouldn't use this as an excuse, but my only hope is that many Mac users who can't adapt to the new Launchpad will have more alternatives and more choices.Until Apple bring Launchpad back( if possible)
by codedokode | 2025-09-27 15:42:06+00:00
I watched the whole video and the only new feature I saw compared to other DAWs is converting a singing clip to a trumpet clip (anyway, its better to generate track by track rather than have the whole song generated without any controls). In other aspects, it looks more like a toy DAW, like some iPad app with very limited features (didn't even have recording delay compensation). Also the UI looks like some web app, giant buttons and lot of unnecessary decorations.

I wonder how they trained the model to generate clips, did they hire lot of musicians to record the samples, or just scraped multiple commercial instrument libraries without permission?
by omoikane | 2025-09-27 15:42:46+00:00
Maybe the parent is lamenting how some people post a lot of interesting scientific content, but also a whole lot of other content on topics that they are not interested in, and unfortunately most social networks require following all aspects of a person and not just the parts that interest you.

Google+ had it right where you can follow just a community, and also you can selectively make your participation in certain communities visible in your public profile. I am not sure if Bluesky or Mastodon have something similar.
by harmmonica | 2025-09-27 15:43:02+00:00
I’m not so sure. 630,000 total HIV deaths annually. What percent are impacted by USAID and then how much growth in HIV deaths without USAID? My tens of millions comment is the people whose health care will potentially be impacted short term (medicaid and aca changes; Medicaid is currently 70 million people. ACA is 24 million) plus potential aggressive efforts to move medicare people to medicare advantage and you have another 68 million potentially exposed (that number isn’t actually that large today because a majority of those people will likely pass before the medicare changes have a negative impact, but over time, as people enter the system with worse coverage, the deaths will climb).

Please understand I’m not saying I’m right about this but just that the vast number of people impacted by the admin’s policies re domestic health care makes me think it could be greater than USAID.

edit: grammar and spelling
by pjmlp | 2025-09-27 15:43:04+00:00
Many C++ libraries are unfortunately not ergonomic, because they are tainted by C culture.

We see this in the compiler frameworks that predated the C++ standard, and whose ideas lived on Java and .NET afterwards.

Too many C++ libraries are written for a C++ audience, when they could be just as ergonomic as in other high level languages, and being C++, there could be a two level approach, but unfortunately that isn't how it rolls.
by analog31 | 2025-09-27 15:43:11+00:00
It also brought typesetting to academic research, which means it's doing something that wasn't necessary before it arrived.

I was one of the last holdouts from a bygone era. I finished my dissertation in physics, in 1993. It's neither typeset, nor even in a computer readable form. Some fellow students were already using LaTeX by that point (mostly high energy physics, the slowest to graduate of the physics specialties) but I wasn't going to change my already obsolete tech stack within mere months of finishing.

I also have my parents' chemistry theses. They took handwritten manuscripts to a typist who banged out 4 copies at once using carbon paper. And then they entered their equations and figures by hand. (My thesis is hand corrected too). And their theses were short.

LaTeX did a lot of things for my fellow students, but it didn't make them finish quicker.
by mint5 | 2025-09-27 15:43:30+00:00
If you saw an guy on the floor gasping for someone to help with his asthma inhaler while other people simply walked by, would you walk by thinking yeah I could help him but other people aren’t so tough cookies, I’m not either.

Fill in any situation where someone is in need, one has the ability to help with little inconvenience, but one choose not to because other people aren’t helping.
by epcoa | 2025-09-27 15:44:00+00:00
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re calculating, but this math seems wildly off. Sincerely don’t understand an alternate numerical point being made.

> Given a 16-bit, 512 x 512 x 100 slice CT scan, you're looking at 2^16 * 26214400

65536^(512*512) or 65536 multiplied by itself 262144 times for each image. An enormous number. Whether or not assume replacement (duplicates) is moot.

> That's 100 * 26214400 = 262,440,000

There are 100^(512*512) 512x512 100-level grayscale images alone or 100 to the 262144 power - 100 multiplied 262144 times. Again how you paring down a massive combinatoric space to a reasonable 262 mil?
by steveBK123 | 2025-09-27 15:44:15+00:00
The thing with physical media that is often missed is - it never interrupts you for an OS update, you never lose content due to lapsed subscription, artists/labels can't revoke songs, theres no controller app that can be broken by updates, you don't have to worry about your speakers aging out of firmware updates.

You just put the media in and press play.

Sure having infinite streaming libraries is cool yes, but people listen to the same stuff or slowly expand listening habits. $10-30/mo for life ends up being a lot more money than just buying what you actually enjoy and listening to radio/stream like stuff to sample new.

The streamers are slop slingers now. Ironically I have found that YouTube's recommendation engine is 100x better for me than Spotify/Apple/Tidal ever were, and I don't even pay for Youtube, lol. Or sites like Discogs for more engaged music discovery.
by Sophira | 2025-09-27 15:45:45+00:00
This looks like an attempt to reinvent HTTP and HTML, but I'm not entirely certain that I grok why it's useful. It feels like a developer-centric approach.

I'm reminded of another project called Gemini[0], which aims to solve a similar problem in a different way. The Gemini protocol is very, very simple to implement (with the exception that it uses mandatory modern encryption like Gurted does, so you need encryption libraries), and it's intentionally difficult to extend, in an effort to make it a simpler and more efficient alternative to the Web that is resistant to takeover by corporate desires, in a way that I'm not sure Gurted achieves.

[0] https://geminiprotocol.net/
by pndy | 2025-09-27 15:46:02+00:00
You're attributing too much

It's just a logo that's built around single triangle. It's like saying ACDC band promotes nazi ideology because it has a lightning symbol and gothic looking letters in their logo

It's clear these Linux logos weren't done by professionals and by some examples not even with serious usage intent

Compare above to:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_suggestions?useskin=vec...

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_logo_contest/F...

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_logo_contest/O...

https://www.without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Category_Logo...

https://pkgbuild.com/%7Ejelle/logo-contest/

Let me be harsh and say: some people know how to design and some shouldn't touch graphic programs
by vunderba | 2025-09-27 15:46:04+00:00
This looks like it must have taken FOREVER to compile - deep appreciations for Ishkur for putting this together. I'm a huge chiptune fan so was happy to hear Rob Hubbard [1] come up on there as well.

[1] https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/H/Hubbard_Rob
by andrewl | 2025-09-27 15:46:07+00:00
The rat experiment is usually referred to as Rat Park:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

There are criticisms of it, some of which are in the criticisms section of the Wikipedia article, and look to be valid.

I never liked when people talked about debunking an experiment that was honestly done and just needed refutation or at least correction. If researchers publish research that was honestly done and then later found to have statistical flaws, or that is disproved with a larger sample size or whatever, I wouldn’t say it had been debunked. I’d say it was refuted or corrected or refined or whatever. If it was a “research” study where the group publishing it knew is was junk designed to promote an agenda or sell a product, then the term debunked is fair.
by fathermarz | 2025-09-27 15:46:46+00:00
> to use a different program for turning equations to pixels?

They explain in the comment why it was risky (new thing instead of tried and true methods, not a large user base, etc.) and yet you minimized their explanation, over simplified and seem to not understand the risk involved in writing one of the most important pieces of literature in one’s career.

> why? they wont give you a phd if a single pixel is off by one bit in the alpha channel?

They meant pixel perfect as in matching the template to infer the importance of this. Then for some reason you went down the “off by one bit in the alpha channel” which is a bit of wise-assery and not meaningful nor necessary to the conversation.

As I said before, please dig deeper and use your well meaning System 2 to contribute, and not your Reddit-Tainted System 1.
Show HN: I built an AI Colosseum to battle-test different agent architectures
by aytuakarlar | 2025-09-27 15:47:00+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been obsessed with a problem: raw LLMs are powerful but unsafe for high-stakes decisions. I've spent the last few months building a hybrid architecture to make them more rational and disciplined.

To test it, I built an AI Colosseum.

The architecture is Neuro-Symbolic-Causal:

* Neuro (GPT-4o): The creative strategist that proposes actions.

* Symbolic (Guardian): A hard-coded, formally verified (TLA+) rule engine. It's the safety layer that says "no" to bad ideas.

* Causal (Oracle): An `econml` model trained on historical data to predict the long-term value of any given action.

The Colosseum is a Streamlit app where these agents compete. One of the first things I saw was the full Chimera agent choosing to hold cash to successfully survive a simulated market crash, while a simpler "LLM-only" agent lost heavily. It proved that sometimes the smartest move is not to play.

It's an early closed beta launching on Oct 7th. I'm looking for feedback from technical folks. If you're interested, starring the repo is the best way to get on the list for an invite.

Code for early access: Spartacus

Repo: https://github.com/akarlaraytu/Project-Chimera

Tech stack: Python, Streamlit, LangChain, econml, pandas_ta, TLA+.

I'll be in the comments all day to answer questions. Appreciate any thoughts or critiques.
by Ray20 | 2025-09-27 15:47:10+00:00
>In a post-scarcity society

Human needs unlimited. There can't be any "post-scarcity society".

The transition point to a post-scarcity society is in the eyes of the beholder, and moves away from them at the same speed with which they approach it.

From the perspective of the hundreds of millions of people working for 10 cents an hour, any American, even the poorest of them, whose only available job is a minimum wage of $8 an hour, has long since passed that point of post-scarcity society.

But try convincing minimum wage American that he's beyond that point and that he needs to give up $6 out of $8 because "there are no scarcity after $2 per hour". Then you will know the real opinion of people about "more equitable distribution of resources, incentivize stronger environmental policies to minimize waste, and drive technological innovation towards preservation"
by MultifokalHirn | 2025-09-27 15:47:24+00:00
Snake oil in what sense? If the difference is noticeable, and some people care about those differences, I think they should be able to enjoy it. There is a lot of hocus pocus for sure, but it would appear to me that just because you personally don't value the differences offered by Hi-Res doesn't make it "snake oil"...?