MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adzm | 2025-10-01 19:13:58+00:00
The Bojack example shows that it's not just reduced bandwidth; in some cases you can get higher quality with their AV1 encodes. Additionally if you are thinking of average bitrate, that's ignoring variable bitrates (and the extension, the per-shot encoding params that Netflix utilizes.) That is to say, high complexity scenes get more bitrate than low complexity, so very noisy scenes can look way better using AV1 even while still using lower bitrates, but notably some peaks have similar max bitrates.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-01 19:14:04+00:00
The thing about the Internet is it made cross-border interactions common and trivial.

If party A and B are interacting in jurisdictions A and B, which party has to abide by which jurisdiction's laws?

Is the consumer moving into the producer's jurisdiction or is the producer moving into the consumer's jurisdiction?

Laws tend to apply more to the business than the consumer around the world and it's probably fair that this remains to be true, but really it is a hard problem when to parties separated by a border are just sending messages back and forth and you're trying to figure out who has to follow which laws.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-01 19:14:19+00:00
This speaks more to the complexity of web and web development than as a pro of spreadsheets.

You can create a super quick Python app with visualization and whatnot in about the same time as a spreadsheet. But then it's not online. And it's not best practice.

Web is just a fucking beast and then developers go in and add additional complexity.

It would probably be a much simpler web app if you made it just, like, a bunch of PHP scripts thrown in a folder. But they won't do that.
by jorangreef | 2025-10-01 19:14:38+00:00
Give us 27 years—the company only turned 3 last month, and we designed for 30 :)

To be clear, TB's pretty young, only 3, but Jepsen-tested and already migrating some of the largest brokerages, wealth managements and exchanges in various countries. I'm excited to see what can be done in 27.

”Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast”
by ben_w | 2025-10-01 19:14:41+00:00
The closest the UK has to a constitution-like protection is getting it to sign an international treaty, e.g. what's behind the Human Rights Act — after Brexit, some of the usual suspects have been campaigning to also leave the corresponding treaty, because it limits the sovreign right of each government to completely disregard what the previous one did.

To answer your question, the other solution is to do what I did in response to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016: leave the country.
by timcobb | 2025-10-01 19:14:56+00:00
Great job ya'll! Admittedly I haven't tried Claude Code but that's because I think Cursor is the bees knees! I do agree with the people posting that the 500 requests pricing approach is kinda rough, but I can see how you're trying to figure this out as a company that doesn't own a frontier model like Anthropic. Anyway, great job! _Love_ the new Agent View. Fun to see you guys hashing out this UI/UX release by release.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 19:14:58+00:00
It's not unprecedented, but I think calling it "regular" is also downplaying the issue here. We've been roughly on a schedule of once per 5 years or so.

I think it is highly irregular given this presidency. Reagan shut down 3 times to weaken various unions and facilities, really wielding it as a bargaining chip. Clinton shut down twice as a president with a congress that didn't align with him

Trump has now shut down the government 5 times, and the truly odd thing is how 4 times he had congress on his side. This isn't really something to just shake off.

(and for completeness. Carter had the first shutdown ever and Obama shut down once as well).
by platelminto | 2025-10-01 19:15:02+00:00
Location: Netherlands Remote: Can do! Happy (maybe happier) with onsite too. Willing to relocate: Yes! I have an EU passport and right-to-work in the UK until summer 2026, but likely extendable. Technologies: Python, Java, Django, HTMX, Tailwind, Docker, PyTorch, PostgreSQL, more probably - I'll learn anything that's right for the job! Résumé/CV: https://gaveit.org/s/jeZYmpYGcdBmFFE Email: See CV

I just graduated from a Master's in AI, with some bio and neuroscience sprinkled in. I've been programming since I was 14 (11 years ago now - wow) and well yeah I love it. I love making things that people use! I'm now looking for a job, but honestly, for my 40-hours-a-week, I want to work on something impactful. Climate tech! Medicine! Energy! Maybe AI? Big data...? I don't know, I think pure tech/software companies can also be great, but reading the posts on the 'Who is hiring' threads doesn't exactly fill me with excitement.

But sometimes pure tech really scratches that itch, you know? Startup culture sounds super fun! Or I spend too much time on hn, idk. I'd love to make use of my relatively generalist skills, and just try to make something that people use. Ideally, even improve their lives.

I'm probably being way too optimistic on what I can realistically find, especially at this stage of my career, but hey you gotta start somewhere. If anyone's reading this - hi! Thank you for reading whatever this is, I think I roughly just want to give an idea of my uhhh... vibe.

Final (serious) note, because at the end of the day I am looking for a job: I try to write clean, performant code, using the right technologies for the job. I care about creating well-designed, intuitive programs. And I care about getting things done! If that's a piece of software, or using software to achieve something else, I'm happy to do it.
by popalchemist | 2025-10-01 19:15:16+00:00
>I don't get why this keeps being framed as a labor thing, it's unlocking genuinely new forms of interactive media.

Because it directly impacts people's ability to earn a living. If you truly don't understand this, I think you should spend some time talking to people who are impacted by it. Artists, and so on. Seriously, this is a head-in-the-sand take.
by brandonb | 2025-10-01 19:15:23+00:00
Can you explain how? If I'm understanding the paper right, the timeseries encoding is a Conv1D and the cross-attention layer is constrained to output the token space of a pre-trained LLM. My naive expectation is these constraints would make the model less expressive / fine-tunable to pick up on these types of subtle signals.

But obviously ML is an empirical field, so if you found that a constrained architecture worked well in practice, that's an interesting result in its own right.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-01 19:15:24+00:00
You write a sentence and get out media... what more personalization are you looking for?

And no, labor is not a factor in the way you tried to frame it.

There is absolutely no one tying up $250,000 in GPUs to let users spit out a funny clip of Sam Altman jumping over a chair because they think that's a smart way a way to get out of paying artists.
by toast0 | 2025-10-01 19:15:33+00:00
The promise of new codecs is reduced bandwidth and higher quality. Probably a new device also has a faster processor and/or more ram in general, which helps with incidental jank. Apple TVs are well regarded and maybe have less jank than other products (I don't have personal experience, I'm interested, but my Apple computer is a IIe so I expect account management issues), but it's nice to get a new Roku every once in a while as bloat/jank seems to creep up on them.
by jrowen | 2025-10-01 19:15:34+00:00
Maybe let's not leap to medicalizing large swathes of the human condition and just accept eccentrics as part of life.

I agree that a healthy dose of skepticism and acknowledgement of our rudimentary understanding is warranted, but it does start to sound a little anti-science. I don't think there's anything wrong with continuing to explore and attempting to explain or put words to these things even though they are near the highest level of complexity in nature and the hardest to empirically evaluate.

Are NSAIDs considered to be medicalizing large swathes of the human condition (or caffeine, or alcohol for that matter)? Where is the line between a universally accepted and ubiquitous pharmaceutical and an overmedicalized one? I think we should be moving more towards the question of "do you feel like this medication benefits you or would benefit you?" than "do you check these boxes in the DSM and officially receive this diagnosis".
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-01 19:15:44+00:00
> malloc

Yes, that's heap allocation. I'm talking about automatic allocation, by the compiler not getting a pointer from a library function. Like that:

Connection connections[200];

This will call the constructor, which forces me to write the class in a way that has `bool initialized`, and provide a random other method with poses as a second constructor. And now every function has to do a check, whether the constructor was called on the object or I just declare it to be UB and completely loose type safety.
by bashtoni | 2025-10-01 19:15:54+00:00
Came to say pretty much the same thing. This slop is unreadable for me at this point.

I keep getting a paragraph or two into something, read one of the terrible "It's not just word - it's massive hyperbole!" sentences, see that there are several more in subsequent paragraphs and can't continue.

However bad the author's original writing that generate this output was, it can't be as awful as this.
by g413n | 2025-10-01 19:15:54+00:00
egress costs are the crux for AWS and they didn't budge when we tried to negotiate that we them, it's just entirely unusable for AI training otherwise. I think the cloudflare private quote is pretty representative of the cheaper end of managed object-bucket storage.

obv as we took on this project the delta between our cluster and the next-best option got smaller, in part bc the ability to host it ourselves gives us negotiating leverage, but managed bucket products are fundamentally overspecced for simple pretraining dumps. glacier does a nice job fitting the needs of archival storage for a good cost, but there's nothing similar for ML needs atm.
by rbanffy | 2025-10-01 19:15:59+00:00
If you have a hundred million integers to add, please, by all means, use Rust, or C, and intrinsics for the features not yet in your favorite math libraries. You can call Rust from Python, for instance. Polars is excellent, BTW. This seamless integration between a nice language amenable to interactive experimentation and highly optimized code produced in many other languages I don't want to write code in is what makes Python an excellent choice in many business cases.
by xp84 | 2025-10-01 19:16:41+00:00
Hear, hear.

I think higher management likes to believe that those things (sprints, scrum, Jira and standups) provide a safety net against lazy employees not working hard enough, so they cling to them. Of course, they actually do little and are pretty easy to game. Their failure to magically make all software work predictable and deterministic and all developer time fungible actually means that you still need a manager involved and close to the work to identify people who BS their way through everything and take way longer than they should.

I'd rather be in an environment where you are given access to simple tools like kanban to prioritize and track work, and for people who don't deliver, the manager just fires them (maybe with one warning).
by drakonka | 2025-10-01 19:16:59+00:00
I've mentioned to relevant people a couple of times in the past that I generally feel like I am "acting" in most social situations. Like I have an idea as to who/how I need to be in that moment and act accordingly. I'm used to it and it's not really something very conscious in the moment, but if the event lasts a long time it gets kind of draining since you have parallel tracks going - reading the room, predicting what reaction someone expects at any time, issuing that reaction, etc. It's not that I don't enjoy the events, but I can "fill up" on interaction quickly and want to go home early to recharge.

I figured that was just being an introvert.
by palmotea | 2025-10-01 19:17:31+00:00
> Does this new company have some connection to that, such as some of the same people?

Really doubt it. This "Thinking Machines" seems like an on-trend SV AI software startup, that "Thinking Machines" was a Massachusetts-based hardware company that went bankrupt 30 years ago (and whatever's left is Oracle). That "Thinking Machines" people are retiring by now.

I wonder if Sun/Oracle let the trademark lapse, because if it's still active I'd imagine this startup's gonna get sued.
by i_don_t_know | 2025-10-01 19:17:48+00:00
Location: Augsburg, Germany

Remote: on-site, hybrid, remote

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C, C++, C#, Python, data acquisition, data visualization, and data analysis and decision making

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-ilberg/

Email: peter dot ilberg at gmail dot com

Software engineer with extensive experience in many areas of software development, and the demonstrated ability to drive challenging projects to completion.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-01 19:17:50+00:00
The main problem is that a complex spreadsheet is just code. Its a bundle of logic and data. That's code.

If the business stakeholders can edit said spreadsheet, they can code. Not well probably, but they can.

So, theoretically, they should be able to open a python script or whatever and hack away. A lot of calculations are actually much easier and straightforward in a real language as opposed to Excel.

But they won't, partially because developers would never let them.
by mxuribe | 2025-10-01 19:18:05+00:00
Yeah, i agree...which adds to my guess that its not *just* about storage...but something else above/beyond storage. In other words, maybe whatever infra is in place to do the fetching, storing, etc...is way more costly than the storage and way too costly to justify for the crazy low numbers that i would agree would still be using POP in this day and age and via gmail.
by binaryturtle | 2025-10-01 19:18:08+00:00
I agree that this text in its current style is very hard to read. Feels like the text was ballooned up to 3 or 4 times its original length with pointless "side content"? Lots of distracting noise basically. AI or not AI, this is not very good.

… and so I'll continue to stick with AVC, thanks! :-)
by TimmyAu | 2025-10-01 19:18:52+00:00
Location: Los Angeles

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not while I'm in school

Technologies: Python, R, SQL, Pytorch, ScikitLearn

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JJYeB1QsjX-KXQjZz68HSVW8Jiw...

Third Year currently studying data science at UCLA looking for primarily data analyst internship roles. Proficient in Python, SQL, R, and Java, with some AI and app dev skills. looks good?
by clawoo | 2025-10-01 19:18:54+00:00
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- Strong work ethic and comfortable working remote, asynchronous communication, and owning features end-to-end.

- Ability to hit the ground running and be able to deliver from day one.

Nice to have experience with:

- WebRTC, XMPP, and E2EE/encryption APIs experience.

You’ll:

- Maintain native modules and ship cross-platform releases.

- Implement/optimize real-time features and integrations.

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Must have:

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- Some NDK/JNI experience (not very much needed though).

- Strong work ethic and comfortable working remote, asynchronous communication, and owning features end-to-end.

- Ability to hit the ground running and be able to deliver from day one.

Nice to have experience with:

- XMPP and E2EE/encryption APIs.

- Managing CI/CD for Android

You’ll:

- Maintain and extend the Android client, we have tons of new features planned for the foreseeable future.

- Implement/rescue complex features (call reliability, background push, low-latency reconnects).

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by nyrikki | 2025-10-01 19:18:57+00:00
That is a bit of a simplification, many users found value in wysiwyg, there was an aborted low-code visual programming movement.

Microsoft drank early OOP koolaid and thus powershell suffered from problems that were well covered by the time etc…

Ray Norda being pushed out after WordPerfect bought Novell with their own money and leveraged local religious politics in addition to typical corporate politics killed it.

Intel convinced major UNIX companies to drop their CPUs for IA-64 which was never delivered, mainly because the core decision was incompatible with the fundamental limitations of computation etc…

The rise of Linux, VMs and ultimately the cloud all depended on the CLI.

Add in Microsoft anticompetitive behavior plus everything else and you ended up with a dominant GUI os provider with a CLI that most developers found challenging to use.

I worked at some of the larger companies with large windows server installations and everyone of them installed Cygwin to gain access to tools that allowed for maintainable configuration management tools.

There are situations like WordPerfect which had GUI offerings be delayed due to the same problem that still plague big projects today, but by the time the web appeared Microsoft had used both brilliant and extremely unethical practices to gain market dominance.

The rise of technology that helped with graphics like vesa local bus and GPUs in the PC space that finally killed the remaining workstation vendors was actually concurrent with the rise of the web.

Even with that major companies like SGI mainly failed because they dedicated so many resources to low end offerings that they lost their competitiveness on the high end, especially as they fell into Intels trap with Itanium too.

But even that is complicated way beyond what I mentioned above.
by adev_ | 2025-10-01 19:18:59+00:00
I really hate this kind of article. Because they do twist numbers to serve a narrative (on renewable energy) instead of showing the complete picture fairly.

> June 2025 was a milestone month: Solar became the EU’s single largest electricity source for the first time ever.

Yes June was a record for Solar power production due to an amazing weather.... But it was a pure disaster for Solar power profitability with an all time low.

The peak was too large for the grid to consume and the price went negative (or null) for the entire month during the solar hours.

That should bring serious questions on the ROI of any future investment in solar capacity and about Europe electricity storage capacity.

The article ignores that entirely.

https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/les-donnees-de-marche#

> Some countries are already nearly 100% renewable. Denmark led with an impressive 94.7% share of renewables in net electricity generated

This is also miss-leading. Production does not mean Consumption.

Denmark is very far from 94% consumption based on renewable. It rely heavily on import from German grid (Coal and Gaz powered) almost every night and this is a disaster in term of CO2 emission.

That leads to emissions over ~140CO2g/kwh in average, meaning way over what other Scandinavians countries are able to do (e.g Sweden < 15gCO2/kwh)

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DK-DK1/3mo/daily

> In total, 15 EU countries saw their share of renewable generation rise year-over-year.

Yes but that does not mean CO2 emissions are falling (which should be the only thing that matter).

Belgium is closing perfectly working nuclear powerplants recently that are providing around 30% of the country consumption.

Meaning the country CO2 emission are expected to increase significantly this year due to that and this is just plain stupid. Spain might follow a similar track and this is disastrous.

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

In short, please stop this kind of article.

- Renewable are good but what Europe need is massive investment in energy storage through battery and/or pump hydro. And this is nowhere here. Blind praise in solar capacity is counterproductive.

- If we do not carefully control our current capacity of non-controllable renewable in Europe, we might doom the ROI of an entire industry for the decades to come. And this is the taxpayer will have to sponge all this mess financially speaking.

- What matters is CO2 emission and CO2 reduction, not renewable capacity. This kind of article favors wrong political decisions by putting first and foremost renewable capacity as the only metric that matters. The Belgian nuclear situation is one of these terrible decisions.
by mothballed | 2025-10-01 19:19:09+00:00
Alright, you have a point here, as rayiner also pointed out.

The legislative powers more accurately are vested in only congress and senate, and not only that are defined as consisting of the house and senate.

Therefore the CBO exists in a rather odd area, where it cannot exercise any power unless it moves into the execute branch, or it somehow uses executive power.
by mxuribe | 2025-10-01 19:19:27+00:00
Yeah, that would be a good point...like, maybe its not just about cost, but more trouble than its worth. On another comment i made here, i wondered if its not just storage costs, but costs or *annoyance* of running infra. that oversees the fetching, the storage, yada, yada...al for POP, whose users leveraging said functionality are crazy low.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-01 19:19:45+00:00
It’s a monetary union with no common fiscal policies and no mechanism to correct disparity between members. Complete train wreck since it has been put in place.

Germany has been abusing it from the start running huge trade surplus, compressing salaries, using its excess savings to buy foreign debts instead of investing and being shielded from monetary appreciation by the consumption and investments of other countries. The euro is basically Germany robbing blind the other members while pretending to be virtuous and blocking most of what could have improved the situation.
by galaxy_gas | 2025-10-01 19:19:49+00:00
I would 100000% rather read the author's own writing even if English is their 10th language

Rather than this inflated slop that look like I am trying to reach word count in a paper and one sentence becomes 15 useless ones

Edit: This is not so much commentary on AI than it is the core of your post is a few tables. Just post the tables and one or two sentence of conclusion and that is all ! It is so tedious to read through dozens of paragraph of autogenerated unnecessary nonsense -- that contribute nothing of value to the data