MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by koakuma-chan | 2025-09-19 15:24:54+00:00
I am only making conclusions based on what I see, and I comment hoping people can tell me how I am wrong. I am still trying to figure this out, but all evidence points to what I said.

People never "do good" "just for the sake of it" - there is always a reason, whether or not the person realizes it. The reason could be, e.g., as I said, the desire to seem good, some kind of religious belief, etc. Ultimately, it is never "just for the sake of it"

I am also disappointed, and I don't know what to do with this, but I am not willing to become some kind of ignorant, delusional lunatic.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-19 15:25:00+00:00
If you assume that the author did this to have content for his blog and his YouTube channel, it makes much more sense. Going back to the well with a "I regret" entry allows for extra exploiting of a pretty dubious venture.

YouTube is absolute jam packed full of people pitching home "lab" sort of AI buildouts that are just catastrophically ill-advised, but it yields content that seems to be a big draw. For instance Alex Ziskind's content. I worry that people are actually dumping thousands to have poor performing ultra-quantized local AIs that will have zero comparative value.
by pyuser583 | 2025-09-19 15:25:21+00:00
JavaScript isn't a generic term. There aren't lots of JavaScripts. Just the one.

If Oracle is going to lose the trademark, which it probably should, the reasoning could be better. How about the fact that Oracle doesn't really offer a service called JavaScript. Isn't abandonment a reason to lose trademark?

"Google" has become a generic term for search engine, like "Jello", "Kleenex", "Kool-Aid," etc. "JavaScript" isn't like that.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding. Can someone clear this for me?
by horsawlarway | 2025-09-19 15:25:36+00:00
There are an absolutely stunning number of ways to lose a whole bunch of money very quickly if you're not careful renting compute.

$3,000 is well under many "oopsie billsies" from cloud providers.

And that's outside of the whole "I own it" side of the conversation, where things like latency, control, flexibility, & privacy are all compelling reasons to be willing to spend slightly more.

I still run quite a number of LLM services locally on hardware I bought mid-covid (right around 3k for a dual RTX3090 + 124gb system ram machine).

It's not that much more than you'd spend if you're building a gaming machine anyways, and the nifty thing about hardware I own is that it usually doesn't stop working at the 5 year mark. I have desktops from pre-2008 still running in my basement. 5 year amortization might have the cloud win, but the cloud stops winning long before most hardware dies. Just be careful about watts.

Personally - I don't think pi clusters really make much sense. I love them individually for certain things, and with a management plane like k8s, they're useful little devices to have around. But I definitely wouldn't plan to get good performance from 10 of them in a box. Much better off spending roughly the same money for a single large machine unless you're intentionally trying to learn.
by dataflow | 2025-09-19 15:26:30+00:00
> Except jobs can't be just reinstated when people are out of them so long that the knowledge moves elsewhere or experiments expire.

Experiments expiring seems like a more compelling argument than knowledge moving elsewhere. The theory behind irreparable seems to be "it can't be fixed with money," not "you don't have enough money to fix it." If someone goes to a competitor then presumably there is an amount of money that would bring them back - it just might be out of your reach.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-19 15:26:35+00:00
They are probably responding to this:

>Deciding to put south, or north, at the top of maps is a decision of consequence. Psychologically, we tend to view things nearer the top as ‘good’ and those lower as ‘bad.’ This can influence our interpretation of maps at both global and local scales

I think they are certainly doing a lot of inferring here, but I wouldn't call it "pure projection."
by eesmith | 2025-09-19 15:26:52+00:00
Geerling links to last month's essay on a Frameboard cluster, at https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-clustered-four-fram... . In it he writes 'An M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 512 gigs of RAM will set you back just under $10,000, and it's way faster, at 16 tokens per second.' for 671B parameters, that is, that M3 is at least 3x the performance of the other three systems.
by hearsathought | 2025-09-19 15:26:52+00:00
> the entire West (EU, UK, Japan, South Korea, Australia)

Japan and South Korea are not western nations and hence not part of the west.

> This played a role in the recent Japanese pledge to invest $60B in India and transfer processing tech IP to Indian firms.

Think it had more to do with the US forcing Japan to join its trade war against china. Don't you?
by nine_k | 2025-09-19 15:27:59+00:00
I was surprised to find out that my apartment pulls 80-100W when everything is seemingly down during the night. A tiny light here and there, several displays in sleep mode, a desktop idling (mere 15W, but), a laptop charging, several phones charging, etc, the fridge switches on for a short moment. The many small amounts add up to something considerable.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-09-19 15:28:29+00:00
Every industry has its bad employers and good.

I know teachers that make $50k and no pension, with others making $93k, halfways to their pension at 35yrs old, get almost 12 weeks off total a year, and work from 8am to 3pm (1 hour lunch, 1 hour for 'prep' aka Netflix) and home by 335, and no, they basically never do any work at home. She technically has students (10 year olds she sends links to for their chrome books) about 5x53 minutes a day.
by theamk | 2025-09-19 15:29:14+00:00
it's config file, so they are often edited in unusual configurations without normal editors present. And they are often not checked in the source code, so there is no standard way to add linter.

And KSON is pretty unique in how bad is it. For example, go to playground and remove a single dot in line 11 (after the books list). Look how the parse tree changes - this 1-character edit means the file is still valid, but the rest of the file is now filed under one of the books.

Do you know of any other config language with this property - a single character removed yields a syntactically correct file which yet parses absolutely incorrectly? I don't. Worst I can think of is maybe one section parses weirdly, or next element of a list. But something like _entire rest of file_ is broken is unique to KSON.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-19 15:29:16+00:00
I recently put my finger on what has been changing lately, especially after the assassination:

We used to say, that online speech, is not the same as in-person speech.

Online, you can yell horrible things, imply that somebody should "do something" about another person, but police showing up at your door is a tyranny, even if those same things on a street corner would've had you on involuntary commitment. Online, a developer might build an app that pulls off phishing scams, but they have the complete right to be anonymous. Meanwhile, the person cutting your hair, preparing your food, or even selling you flowers needs registration, if only for taxes. In person was a "real" threat, while online was just "venting," "trolling."

That's dying. Online is now the real world. With real world consequences.
by Brendinooo | 2025-09-19 15:29:54+00:00
I don't think it's as simple as "wealth and power being bad". More that

- wealth and power are not reliable proxies for favor and righteousness (as many in Jesus's day thought)

- wealth and power come with unique temptations

Jesus also said "make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings" and there's a bunch of proverbs that talk about how the diligent prosper.

A lot of wealthy people are really generous.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-19 15:30:11+00:00
> Japan and South Korea are not western nations and hence not part of the west

Japan and South Korea are commonly treated as being part of the West for the same reason Australia is - they are geographically in Asia but aligned with the United States and EU.

If you don't like Japan or South Korea being called "Western" we can call them NATO+ then.

> Think it had more to do with the US forcing Japan to join its trade war against china. Don't you?

Japan began moving REE processing to India all the way back to 2010-12 when the Senkaku Diaoyu standoff happenened and China blockaded Japanese access to REEs. That's when both Toyota and Hitachi began working with IREL on REE extraction and processing.

And China initiated the trade war with Japan all the way back to the Senkaku Diaoyu standoff, just like China initiated the trade war with South Korea due to South Korea allowing THAAD deployments. The interest in developing an ExChina supply in Japan and South Korea has existed ever since China was the aggressor to both countries.

And Japan (as well as South Korea) has been an economic partner of India since all the way back during the socialist 1980s era. Japanese JVs like Maruti Suzuki, Tata Hitachi, Tata Docomo, Sumimoto Chemicals India, and others have been around for decades. Heck, it was Softbank that helped spark India's startup boom in the 2000s and 2010s which became the IPO boom today.
by theultdev | 2025-09-19 15:30:15+00:00
I use mine for a plex server.

I don't need to transcode + I need something I can leave on that draws little power.

I have a powerful rig, but the one time I get to turn it off is when I'd need the media server lol.

There's a lot of scenarios where power usage comes into play.

These clusters don't make much sense to me though.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-19 15:30:22+00:00
> The jets circled for about 12 minutes and Italian F-35s were scrambled to repel them.

Earlier this year, HN discussed the value of the F-35 (a plane I'm quite fond of!)

During that discussion, one overlooked point was the top speed of the F-35. At-altitude, the F-35 cannot intercept a MiG-31. Flying nap-of-the-earth would be a different discussion, but Russia knows this. Their planes commit an incursion, waited for a response, and then exited once they detected the response. They were in control of the entire intercept, from the start to the end.

This is what we mean, when we say Russia is "testing" us. They want to see if a serious response exists to these threats; an F-35 is a glorified ground-attack jet. It's an amazing piece of kit, but it can't do much besides lob an AMRAAM in a situation like this.
by nerdsniper | 2025-09-19 15:30:24+00:00
I sure hope no one does this seriously expecting to save some money. I enjoy the videos on "catastrophically ill-advised" build-outs. My primary curiosities that get satisfied by them are:

1) How much worse / more expensive are they than a conventional solution?

2) What kinds of weird esoteric issues pop up and how do they get solved (e.g. the resizable BAR issue for GPU's attached to RPi's PCIe slot)
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-19 15:30:38+00:00
Interestingly, one of my ex-girlfriends from my 20s had a dad that did this. He was an engineer and quit to become a farmer, building his own generators and living off the grid powering his operation with waste vegetable oil he obtained for free from the same restaurants he sold artisan vegetables to. He lived in a different state and I only met him once, but it actually did seem like a pretty great life and he was clearly happy with it.

The problem to me when I see this kind of life suggested as something people should try to do is that it isn't universalizable. There are only so many restaurants in any given city that need artisan vegetables. There is only so much land near such cities that can grow it. Even if all people who try are equally able, very few would succeed in doing this.
by drillsteps5 | 2025-09-19 15:30:41+00:00
I don't get what the big deal is. Most of this data has already been scooped by by Meta, Google, and yes, likely OpenIA, as well as other search bots and already used for training.

Maybe some of this data is gatekept (I've only been able to view other people profiles' only after logging in) but I wouldn't trust Meta, the company that used stolen e-book libraries to train their LLMs, not to find ways around it.
by bakugo | 2025-09-19 15:30:43+00:00
It heavily depends on the use case. For these AI setups, you're completely correct, because the people who talk about how amazing it is to run a <100B model at home almost never actually end up using it for anything real (mostly because these small models aren't actually very good) and are doing it purely for the novelty.

But if you're someone like me who intends to actively use the hardware for real-world purposes, the cloud often simply can't compete on price. At home, I have a mini PC with a 5600G, 32GB of RAM, and a few TBs of NVME storage. The entire thing cost less than $600 a few years ago, and consumes around 20W of power on average.

Even on the cheapest cloud providers available, an equivalent setup would exceed that price in less than half a year. SSD storage in particular is disproportionately expensive on the cloud. For small VMs that don't need much storage, it does make sense, but as soon as you scale up, cloud prices quickly start ballooning.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-19 15:30:47+00:00
Youtube has been turning on AV1 for 1080p content for me. My phone is the only device with an AV1 hardware decoder. The impact on battery life and CPU usage has been extreme.

You can tell Youtube to prefer AV1 only for low-quality videos (https://www.youtube.com/account_playback) or you can install an extension that will force h264 playback where supported.

Other playback features such as ambient mode and volume equalisation can also impact performance, though that kind of depends on how fast your web browser is at executing Javascript, and to a much smaller extent.

The substantial bandwidth savings are here to stay, though, so in time I think Youtube will move to AV1 more often.
by bri3d | 2025-09-19 15:30:48+00:00
> Presumably this one can be triggered on an already installed app - a key question being how that triggering occurs. i.e. will the Play Store act to push out details of developers that are now blocked so devices can act on it?

Your "presumably" is doing a _lot_ of work; these strings are from the PackageInstaller, and go along with all of the other reasons you can't install an APK.

Historically, apps that were pulled from the Play Store and developer accounts revoked due to malware do _not_ affect apps on the end-user device, and there's no current sign of this changing with this specific project. Google have generally achieved this goal using Play Protect, the separate app/service which _can_ download revocation lists and signal end-users to delete malicious apps, and there's no indication this will change.
by a2128 | 2025-09-19 15:30:57+00:00
Why do people buy gaming PCs when it's much cheaper to use streaming platforms? I think the two cases share practically the same parallels in terms of reliability, availability, restrictions, flexibility, sovereignty, privacy, etc.

But also when it comes to Vast/RunPod it can be annoying and genuinely become more expensive if you have to rent 2x the number of hours because you constantly have to upload and download data, checkpoints, continuous storage costs, transfer data to another server because the GPU is no longer available, etc. It's just less of a headache if you have an always available GPU with a hard drive plugged into the machine and that's it
by nevinera | 2025-09-19 15:31:06+00:00
Well.. "legal liability" is kind of complex topic. Usually what really matters isn't "what the courts will actually determine if such a case is brought" it's "how much will it cost to prove that lack of liability, and what is the risk that we are wrong?". I also don't believe that such an organization is liable for anything beyond negligence, but whether the lack of an action constitutes negligence is .. well, one can rarely be totally confident in the outcome of that kind of proceeding.

The (mostly PR) explanation they produced seems to express roughly the same thing I was guessing though: https://rubycentral.org/news/strengthening-the-stewardship-o...
by nromiun | 2025-09-19 15:31:57+00:00
There is a reason all the big supercomputers have started using GPUs in the last decade. They are much more efficient. If you want 32bit parallel performance just buy some consumer GPUs and hook them up. If you need 64bit buy some prosumer GPUs like the RTX 6000 Pro and you are done.

Nobody is really building CPU clusters these days.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-19 15:31:59+00:00
I will say, wait at least a day before coming to this conclusion.

Maybe the iPhone 13 Mini really will stay choppy, but even my brand-new current gen iPad got super-choppy for the first couple of hours and I was freaked out. Turns out it was just that thing where iOS reindexes everything for Spotlight on a major version upgrade, or god only knows what it's doing in the background.
by dlubarov | 2025-09-19 15:32:07+00:00
> The Americans and the Israelis both knew that Israel would rapidly win any war with Egypt.

I don't think that's accurate, but I'm not sure what it has to do with the discussion anyway. The point was just that the instigator of a war isn't necessarily the side that technically fires the first munition.

> Israel's own attack on Egypt in November 1966

What do you mean? There was no Israeli attack on Egypt at that time.

> then claimed those actions gave it the right to launch a preemptive war

Not sure what you mean. Israel's justification was the naval blockade and Egypt's apparent preparations for an invasion, nothing else.
by SilasX | 2025-09-19 15:32:12+00:00
>I think the order here is reversed: If you ask the public for money, it's fair to perform a public service. If you just do something you wanted to do anyways, and probably would have done anyways, then it might be viewed as less-than-charitable to ask others for money to help you achieve your goal for yourself (even if other people might benefit somewhat too). Especially when you are far richer (like 100+ times richer) than the people you're asking for money.

I get the where you're coming from, but it's this exact attitude that ends up with critical infra like OpenSSL being maintained ad hoc by some devoted geek for a pittance, who inevitably can't keep up with critical patches.
by Tsiklon | 2025-09-19 15:32:43+00:00
To quote @swiftonsecurity - https://x.com/swiftonsecurity/status/1650223598903382016 ;

> DO NOT TAKE HOME THE FREE 1U SERVER YOU DO NOT WANT THAT ANYWHERE A CLOSET DOOR WILL NOT STOP ITS BANSHEE WAIL TO THE DARK LORD AN UNHOLY CONDUIT TO THE DEPTHS OF INSOMNIA BINDING DARKNESS TO EVEN THE DAY
by dralley | 2025-09-19 15:32:54+00:00
I agree that he's not that bad, but he's definitely not 100% accurate, in particular with respect to Intel.

Notably this is about the 3rd time in 2 years that he's reported that the Intel dGPU efforts are being killed off.

Even on the latest developments the reporting is contradictory, so someone is wrong and I suspect it's him. https://www.techpowerup.com/341149/intel-arc-gpus-remain-in-...
by krrishd | 2025-09-19 15:33:17+00:00
Agreeing with your immediate hunch that the traditional rails are sufficient for agentic commerce, but still finding the x402/stablecoin etc work fascinating:

Under which circumstances are the traditional rails actually off limits? Some (trivial) speculation being:

- When the beneficiary is not a traditional business but itself some sort of protocol / contract (that benefits from or even requires final settlement into eg. a stablecoin wallet, eg. to pipe those funds into downstream dependencies) - nothing with mainstream PMF here yet, but feels like the "trivial" case for those rails

- In cases where "broad commercial relationships" around low-cost txns aren't feasible -> credit risk can't be pooled, there isn't credit infra, etc -> market never clears. Global micro-payments to regions with no local acquiring/robust banking? Something else?

(yes, very guilty of solution in search of a problem thinking :))
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-19 15:34:07+00:00
I’ve never seen IT be involved in a decision about the language edition being selected by a development team or even which dependency to pick. As for consulting, that’s a different type of world that’s not the best example of good software development practices.

As for incompatible changes, there aren’t any in Rust by design. That limits some of the changes they can make even in an edition but in practice it works ok. Even over a longer time span, I think the Rust community will figure out a way to trim irrelevant cruft away.
by kasperset | 2025-09-19 15:34:59+00:00
Granted I have the M4 Mac Studio, but it seems to be running just fine in my 3-4 days of use so far. Also the OS seems to be as stable as last version. I wonder if there are any issues besides the visual glitches and slowness? Also over the years I have found MacOS generally stable. I hope they will address the issues over time. On the side note, I actually miss Snow Leopard release and in general miss the "Skeuomorphism" in all the software I use.
by nodja | 2025-09-19 15:35:17+00:00
They had videos saying intel was gonna cancel the dGPU division and focus on datacenter pretty much since the intel cards came out. Amongst many other things they've said. I used to follow them too, but they speak with too much confidence about things they know nothing about.

They're a channel focused on leaks, but most of their leaks are just industry insider gossip masked as factual to farm clicks. Their leaks are useless for any sort of predictions, but may be interesting if you'd like to know what insiders are thinking.

A quick google search also yielded this[1] 2-year old reddit thread that shows videos they deleted because their predictions were incorrect. There's probably many more. (That subreddit seems to be dedicated to trashing MLID.)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/BustedSilicon/comments/yo9l2i/colle...
by yodafx | 2025-09-19 15:35:37+00:00
After having your cherry-picked "facts" dismantled, your last resort is to feign intellectual superiority and pretend to be above the conversation. It's not a "childish" story of good versus evil. It's an analysis of cause and effect, which you are desperately trying to whitewash.

You claim you "struggle to see the connection" between the Irgun and the Dahiya Doctrine[1]. Let me make it simple for you, since you find reality so "complex." The Irgun's philosophy was to use terrorism against a civilian population to achieve a political goal. The Dahiya Doctrine is the state-sanctioned military policy of using disproportionate force against a civilian population to achieve a political goal.

It's the same ideology. It just evolved from primitive bombs to a state-funded air force. Your refusal to see this direct, documented line is not a sign of intellectual curiosity, but a Zionist's attempt at upholding an impossible cognitive dissonance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine
by stirfish | 2025-09-19 15:35:56+00:00
Ten billion sounds like a lot, but it's not really for an organization like the DoD that has so many projects and so much money. I bet someone above you assessed the risks and decided your project was good to run for as long as it could, but wouldn't be a crippling loss if it had to shut down. It would be like Google having to decide to keep selling Chromecasts until they can't and just stopping, or buying up the entire supply chain to secure their ability to produce Chromecasts indefinitely.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-19 15:36:06+00:00
Does your PC have hardware-accelerated AV1 video decoding enabled in Firefox? And does your Mac? (you can check in about:support)

My PC plays videos just fine, but it started sucking down 50W more than it used to, and AV1 was the culprit. Now that I've switched YT back to hardware-accelerated h264 playback, everything is back to normal.