MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flaxai | 2025-10-03 23:15:23+00:00
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by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-03 23:15:31+00:00
> 'USA-size cars' have absolutely no reason to exist in Europe. Our infrastructure isn't built for them and that's a good thing.

American infrastructure also isn't built to accommodate "USA-sized" cars. A recent car will not fit into a space in an American parking lot, and it makes it a nightmare to pass through toll booths, parking garage ticketing gates, or any other scenario where you're supposed to roll down your window and reach out to something outside the car. Going around corners is problematic too. I now park by looking for a stretch of several empty spaces in a row. I can (just barely) technically fit inside one marked space at my local grocery store, but I can't maneuver into a space if there are cars in the adjacent spaces.

American cars have very recently become much, much, much, much fatter, and they use that extra interior space to... place a bunch of empty space between the seating and the side of the car. As best I can tell, this is a response to crash safety requirements. It is definitely a bad thing.
by daneel_w | 2025-10-03 23:15:35+00:00
You have to differentiate common purchases from "large" purchases in this discussion. I'm certain you don't think there's something shady going on, or tax evasion happening, if someone uses cash in the grocery store or at Pressbyrån, or to pay for some little gadget or whatever at Kjell&Co.

This is what people think of when someone "uses cash". Not hauling tens of thousands to buy a used car or to settle the bill for having your bathroom tiled, which would be cases I too would raise an eyebrow over.
by rashkov | 2025-10-03 23:16:11+00:00
This study came out June 1 2025 so it doesn’t cover more recent developments, but it’s fairly comprehensive in its treatment of the issue during prior timeframe: https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/213-2.9.20...

Specifically pages 10-14 for an intermediate summary, or pages 29-30 for a shorter one, with chapter 1 providing the full details.

Curious to hear your thoughts if any
by phire | 2025-10-03 23:17:34+00:00
That AMD slide (in the conclusion) claims their switching fabric has some kind of bypass mode to improve latency when utilisation is low.

So they have been really optimising that IO die for latency.

NUMA is already workload sensitive, you need to benchmark your exact workload to know if it’s worth enabling or not, and this change is probably going to make it even less worthwhile. Sounds like you will need a workload that really pushes total memory bandwidth to make NUMA worthwhile.
by DonaldFisk | 2025-10-03 23:19:08+00:00
I remember those early systems, and was in touch with Upendra Shardanand and Pattie Maes at the time. Other early systems ca

As music recommendation was already being done, I developed MORSE, short for MOvie Recommendation SystEm, shortly after Ringo appeared. Like Ringo and Firefly, it was a collaborative filtering system, i.e. it worked by comparing how similar your tastes were to the tastes of other users, and took no account of other information (e.g. genre, director, cast). As it was a purely statistical algorithm, I didn't call it, or other collaborative filtering systems, AI. It was different to symbolic AI (which I was previously working on, in Prolog and Common Lisp), didn't use neural networks, and wasn't Nouvelle AI (actually the oldest approach to AI) either. I wrote it in C (it had to run fast and was just processing numbers) and used CGI (Common Gateway Interface) to collect data and give recommendations on the WWW.

In a nutshell, to predict the rating for a film a user hasn't seen yet, it plotted the ratings given by other users for that film against how their ratings correlated with the the user, found the best-fitting straight like through them and extrapolated it, estimating the rating of a hypothetical user whose tastes exactly matched the user for the film. It also calculated the error on this, which it took into account when giving recommendations. Other collaborative filtering systems used simpler algorithms which ignored the ratings of users whose tastes were different. When I used those simpler algorithms on the same data, recommendation accuracy got worse.

MORSE was released on the BT Labs' web site in 1995. It survived a few years there, but was later taken off the server. As BT Weren't going further with it, I asked if the source code could be released, This was agreed, but it wasn't on any machine, and they couldn't find the backup tape. The algorithm is described in detail here: https://fmjlang.co.uk/morse/morse.pdf and more general information is here: https://fmjlang.co.uk/morse/MORSE.html
by majewsky | 2025-10-03 23:19:26+00:00
This is unrelated to the original assertion: "If they charged users what it actually costs to run their service, almost nobody would use it."

5 million paying customers on 800 million overall active users is an absolutely abysmal conversion rate. And that's counting the bulk deals with extreme discounts (like 2.50 USD/month/seat) which can only be profitable if a significant number of those seats never use ChatGPT at all.
by nop_slide | 2025-10-03 23:19:59+00:00
I setup a fresh rails 8 app on Fly last year, using PG for the main data store but using SQLite for the ancillary solid stack dbs.

Only fuss I remember encountering was with fighting with rails migrating solid queue properly, but this seemed like a rails unit issue and don’t remember it being a Fly issue.

I’ve been contemplating migrating my pg primary to SQLite too. Anyways don’t have much else to offer other than an anecdote that I’m happily using fly with partial SQLite.
by 0points | 2025-10-03 23:20:53+00:00
> people under 60 that uses cash are considered, if not criminal, at least suspicious, like they have something to hide

You are spewing complete nonsense.

Here's some perfectly normal stuff I use cash for in sweden on the regular:

- flea markets

- strawberry stand by the road

- unmanned vegetable shop has a cash bin and a pay-for-what-you-take sign
by brewdad | 2025-10-03 23:21:18+00:00
I served on a jury for a week a few years ago and my check at the end was $22. It seems like it wouldn't be worth the company's time to handle and process that check.

I'm sure some jurors got more. My county's jury pay/reimbursement is primarily mileage based and I live 2 miles from the court house.
by rm445 | 2025-10-03 23:21:21+00:00
The strength of feeling some English lovers of history have for the Anglo-Saxon kings slightly mystifies me. Athelstan created a unified English kingdom. Briefly, till he died and it un-unified. England was fully conquered by a Danish king later (Cnut). A couple of the kings, Aethelred the Unready and Edward the Confessor, were such colossal wet blankets that you get the impression of a people just crying out to be conquered. I can see why so much of the popular conception of English history basically starts with the Norman Conquest.
by Pxtl | 2025-10-03 23:21:39+00:00
While it's still bad, you can see how it's worse when it's coming directly from a regulator top-down from the president, right?

Senators gave no individual direct control over regulation. They can influence appointments or influence legislation, which is still power backing the implied threat, but that's a much more roundabout threat than a single person with direct power to destroy your business.
by gerdesj | 2025-10-03 23:21:51+00:00
There are a lot of reasons for banning this beast and frankly some of the lessons are rather old.

For example, in the '80s the UK military stopped using military number plates on "family" vehicles outside the UK. Yes, we used to rock around in Germany in a family car with UK military plates - that's pretty daft. We switched to UK standard plates. So you had left hand drive cars with UK plates. lol

Anyway, its now modern times and we now have cars that would challenge a 432 for mass.

A Cybertruck is sharp edged, cruel and hard and will kill whatever it hits - "It will cut". That is not welcome outside the US. If you want to drive an armoured car then buy a proper one. I suggest something like a Saracen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Saracen or "Warthog".

A CT is missing two letters.
by bsder | 2025-10-03 23:23:25+00:00
> Companies also don't like dealing with cash because it requires extra accounting, security, and transportation.

At least in the US, individual businesses don't like dealing with credit because of the transaction fees but are kind of forced to thanks to everybody else taking credit everywhere.

Of course, the big chains love credit and are happy to pay the transaction cost because it lets them audit all the transactions and increase their control over local managers and employees. Presumably, the big chains also negotiate lower fees.
by jason_oster | 2025-10-03 23:26:18+00:00
I am grateful for grocery and food delivery services so that I do not have to brave the grocery store.

It gets worse. I haven't left my apartment in a few weeks. The last time I went out into the world is because I had to appear in court for jury duty. (Yes, it sucked. No, I didn't want to ask for a hardship.)

People experience things in a wide variety of ways. Things that most people believe are trivial can be an anxiety trigger for others.

And for what it's worth, I am not put off or patronized by "Brave the grocery store." That's an accurate description of what I feel every time I have to go to the pharmacy.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-10-03 23:27:05+00:00
Interesting article though it curiously deemphasizes what is likely the most significant reason for the differences in outcomes, which is that housing is more cheap and abundant in Houston/Dallas stemming from being easier and cheaper to build. (Yes this is mentioned, but it doesn't end up in the 5 point conclusion list).

This passage for example. Houston can only achieve permanent placement if it actually has homes to place people in. SF is just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic because it has no where to put people and they're in and out of shelters. (Vancouver has the same issue)

> Houston houses people first, then closes encampment sites permanently. San Francisco deploys enforcement first, achieves temporary displacement, and watches areas refill. Houston tracks every person from intake through permanent placement. San Francisco can’t determine if anyone is being permanently housed at all.

Beyond better outcomes around creating new affordable housing if Houston and Dallas are also doing a also better job at keeping rents low and maintaining existing affordable housing that will also prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place.

A recent study in Vancouver found that one of the most significant single causes of homelessness (20%) was people simply running out of money and being evicted. The direct cause of this is high rents. So any city that is building more housing in general, and not demolishing existing affordable rental is going to be doing a better job in this category at reducing homelessness.
by dhosek | 2025-10-03 23:27:08+00:00
When I got my first account to accept credit cards in the 90s, they sent me a kachunka machine along with a bunch of window stickers, all of which were kind of silly since it was for a magazine and I almost never took payments in person (it was also a challenge to persuade banks that the fraud risk was low since magazine subscriptions required a stable mailing address over the course of a year—as it turned out, the only instance of fraud I ever had was a subscription plus back issue order sent to Hungary—still kind of weird to think someone would engage in crime to get issues of a magazine about typography).
by gtoast | 2025-10-03 23:28:33+00:00
This 100% feels like a scam. Can't view a snippet of code on the website. Not even a "Hello World" not even a screenshot. There's no documentation available to look at. The website is entirely focused on getting you to download the Amazon "book". Which, if the "blog" is any indications, is filled with AI generated slop. There's incomplete sentencesin there, nonsense phrasing... I dare any human to read this horrendous post: https://medium.com/techtrends-digest/new-language-pipe-makes... I makes zero sense.

I think the only way to prove that the responses here aren't AI would be for the developers add the sum of the first 30 even integers, then the next 30 odd integers, and the next 30 even integers after that...17 times.
by gerdesj | 2025-10-03 23:29:34+00:00
Germany is quite content with some ridiculous vehicles and invented most of them.

What stands out is say civvies driving on military number plates (UK until the 80s). In this case, anyone driving a banned vehicle - these beasts have sharp edges and are banned.

No one has a problem with a Ford Musty GT - its just a car and not sharp.
by user____name | 2025-10-03 23:30:51+00:00
What I don't get is why the US media seems to keep talking about these things in terms of "left" and "right". Trump uses terms like "far left extremists" to designate large swaths of people who are clearly right of center, they're just not on the MAGA side. The average conservative or liberal pro-business party in Europe would be designated as "Marxist" or whatever by the GOP these days. But the media seems to go along with this and refer to every one to the left of Trump as "the" left?
by cakealert | 2025-10-03 23:31:26+00:00
If you asked to do something fishy then document it and consult a lawyer. Don't do anything that is above the bare minimum required to cover your ass. You get nothing for doing the "right thing" and are likely to be penalized for it - word will get around and future employers have no interest in figuring out if you were right nor will they care, you will have proven to be disloyal or worse an idealist.
by nitwit005 | 2025-10-03 23:32:21+00:00
Early Javascript and HTTP based APIs killed a lot of it. People generally did not want to put a ton of serialization code into their websites, just to call some API. Building XML and JSON APIs into the browsers was much more attractive.

That's started going the other direction, with people are more willing to do things like generate code for GraphQL, now that code size is less of an issue.

Besides that, a lot of these protocols come with other baggage due to their legacy. Try reading the COM documentation relating to threading: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/in-proce...
by wslh | 2025-10-03 23:32:25+00:00
I would add more metrics to think about. For example, very few people used Internet in the dotcom era while now the AI use is distributed into all the population using the Internet that will probably not growth too much. In this case, if Internet population is the driver, and it will not growth significantly we are redistributing the attention. Assuming "all" society will be more productive we will all be in the same train at the relatively same speed.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-03 23:33:13+00:00
If they want to centralize and provide recommendations for public video clips posted by anyone in the entire world but can't actually economically do that in a responsible way, then sure I don't have a problem with them being fined into oblivion. I don't see much need for businesses with hundreds of millions of customers to exist (and see plenty of downsides to allowing one company/platform to be that large. Especially a centralized communications platform), and if they can't actually handle that scale, then okay. Maybe their whole premise was a stupid idea. Or maybe they'll need to charge users to cover costs. Or ban children.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-03 23:33:14+00:00
> Interestingly, sleep doesn't erase my emotions, but pause them. I just continue from where I left.

That is interesting for me. It's something I wish was the case for me, because I've been struggling with this a lot. I started referring to it as "lack of emotional continuity" or "emotional cache flush". It's like a context switch, but on emotional layer. I basically can't seem to hold on to my emotional state for extended duration, and in particular it gets reset at the day boundary (i.e. when I sleep). This affects both positive and negative emotional states.

Practical consequence of that is that I prefer "sprints" to "marathons" when dealing with tough problems, whether intellectual or emotional - it can take up to an hour for me to "work myself up" the right way to focus on a hard task, or to talk about some difficult personal topics, so I need to make the best of it.

I really, really wish there was a way to do the emotional equivalent of the "write down plans and thoughts at the end of day, read them again in the morning" trick.
by firefax | 2025-10-03 23:34:53+00:00
>They don't have a narcissistic tyrant driving the country down.

Try posting a picture of Winnie the Pooh on one of their social networks then get back to me.

I had a Chinese coworker who confided he'd like to make $$$ in the US then maybe go back to be a professor after his post doc ended.

Next time I saw him all he would say is "China has changed". Apparently it's a dog whistle for all the things people used to say openly, at least when over here.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-03 23:34:55+00:00
Lots of coverage the story arc on HN:

Jaguar Land Rover production hit by cyber-attack (2 points, 1 month ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45102892

Jaguar Land Rover extends shutdown after cyber attack (9+10 points, 25 days ago, 4+1 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174419

When will Jaguar Land Rover restart production? "No one knows." (36 points, 17 days ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263838

Jaguar Land Rover hack 'has cost 30k cars and threatens supply chain' (10 points, 10 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45355857

UK government underwriting £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack (53 points, 6 days ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400540

The Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled factories, outsourced cybersecurity (33 points, 5 days ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409972
by crazygringo | 2025-10-03 23:35:24+00:00
Yeah, but you have to factor in the probability of the orange jumpsuit.

You're not going to be of much use to your family in jail.

It's still a difficult decision, but it's not just your job vs your morality. It's your job vs morality+potential jail.

We dish out criminal sentences precisely in order to affect the equation like this, because we know people don't always act on morality alone.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-10-03 23:35:59+00:00
I believe the charitable interpretation is that it is not possible without breaking an enormous amount of legacy code. Which does feel close enough to “not possible”.

Some situations could be improved by allowing multiple library versions, but this would introduce new headaches elsewhere. I certainly do not want my program to have N copies of numpy, PyTorch, etc because some intermediate library claims to have just-so dependency tree.
by firefax | 2025-10-03 23:36:56+00:00
I encouraged folks with strong English skills to apply to Canadian and UK unis in 2016 and got called hysterical and an extremist.

There's a big sunk cost in learning a language, but Canada and the UK have some fine unis. (No offense to Edinburgh but you're no Oxbridge yet -- I'd bet that Scotland declares independence and joins back with the EU at some point, the main reason independence failed last vote is a lot of the things they wanted they got via being in the EU.)
by danabramov | 2025-10-03 23:37:40+00:00
Author here, happy to answer questions!

Re: what is this even about, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45469167. Sorry I didn't write an elaborate intro to the article; I kind of meant it for a narrower audience of people looking for an answer to a technical question (how at:// resolves).

I'll say this preemptively — actually resolving at:// URIs isn't something you'd do much as an app author because the usual model for apps is to listen to all data commits over the network via websocket (like https://pdsls.dev/jetstream?instance=wss%3A%2F%2Fjetstream1....), and to write to a local database whatever you're interested in. So you'd mostly use at:// URIs as unique global identifiers for pieces of data, but you probably won't actually resolve them since the data will be pushed to you. But it's nice that you can always fetch it on demand too.

I focused on resolving in this article because I think "following along" the resolution procedure is a really good way to understand how handles, identity and hosting are tied up.
by user____name | 2025-10-03 23:38:09+00:00
> I feel the need to remind people that Americans labelled Hitler a tyrant and were willing to march to the death to Berlin before they even knew about the concentration camps.

This is probably a tad too cynical, but I think it was the attack on Pearl Harbor, by an ethnic and culturaly distinct nation that solidified "the great other" as an enemy. It allowed the nation to overcome the pro-fascist forces which were also present at the time. Racist propaganda alongside a sense of besiegement bound together the nation. You saw the same thing with 9/11.
by niam | 2025-10-03 23:38:23+00:00
I'm not even taking for granted what it means. Can you define it in a way that your neighbor will independently arrive at? It's an incredibly lossy container for whatever meaning that people will want to pack it with, moreso than for other words.

Is a hotdog a simulacrum of a sandwich? Or a fake sandwich? I have no clue and don't care because it doesn't meaningfully inform me of the utility of the thing.

An LLM might be "unintelligent" but I can't model what you think the consequences of that are. I'd skip the formalities and just talk about those instead.
by glenneroo | 2025-10-03 23:38:45+00:00
I don't know if the site is just broken for me at the moment, but this has used to track how much people were costing the companies (based on tokens per $ if I remember correctly): https://www.viberank.app/

One user in particular ran up a $50k bill for 1 month of usage, while paying $200 for the month: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lwimmfvjds2m

Plenty of people are to blow through resources pretty quickly, especially when you have non-deterministic output and have to hit "retry" a few times, or back-and-forth with the model until you get what you want, whereby each request adds to total tokens used in the interaction.

AI companies have been trying to clamp down but so far unsuccessful, and it may never be completely possible without alienating all of their users.