MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-22 02:47:08+00:00
You're talking about productivity gains through mechanization of labor.

Increased automation has always led to jobs and professions going extinct. We don't have typists or lamplighters anymore. It hasn't been a problem before because those people generally did just find new work.

The present level of hysteria really is unprecedented. Coupled with that, the very explicit goals of AI are to remove jobs almost everywhere, forever. Paying people to work is now unfashionable.

So jobs being automated has always been a thing, people have always worried about it and there was always someone opining about it in newspapers. The world moved on because we had a functional labor market. The current cycle is absolutely hysterically over-hyped. The end result won't be nearly as catastrophic for the labor market as Altman et al want you to believe. Mainly because their AI goals are almost certainly unattainable. However, the damage to the economy and labor market is and will continue to be quite severe.

It won't be as bad as everyone wants you to think, but it's still gonna suck
by somerandomqaguy | 2025-10-22 02:48:11+00:00
Doesn't really make any sense to in that example.

Where ever you're putting the TV you have to put in regular power anyways, so it's fairly tidy to just put the device's power cable parallel with the TV's power cable. WiFi will handle communication. On the other hand, NEC and CEC requires minimum of 2 inches gap for communication wiring to electrical so you're now you've got that minor complication.

POE makes sense mostly when it makes sense to combine communication and power cabling. Corded phones, wifi access points, security cameras, small touch screen modules, etc. Not saying what you're doing can't work, but the added expense of installing parallel CAT6 everywhere doesn't seem worth it.
by ajayvk | 2025-10-22 02:49:05+00:00
https://devpu.sh/ is another alternative, it has a nice UI built with Hypermedia (HTMX).

I am building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun/. Main difference is that OpenRun has a declarative interface, no need for manual CLI commands or UI operations to manage apps. Another difference is that OpenRun is implemented as a proxy, it does not depend on Traefik/Nginx etc. This allows OpenRun to implement features like scaling down to zero, RBAC access control for app access, audit logs etc.

Downside with OpenRun is that is does not plan to support deploying pre-packaged apps, no Docker compose support. Streamlit/Gradio/FastHTML/Shiny/NiceGUI apps for teams are the target use case. Coolify has the best support and catalog of pre-packaged apps.
by tnias23 | 2025-10-22 02:49:06+00:00
Prior to the EpiPen, people carried the Ana-Kit. It became commercially available in 1963 and was a little kit containing a syringe pre-loaded with epinephrine, antihistamine tablet(s?), and a tourniquet.

People in anaphylactic shock sometimes (often?) need more than one dose, and antihistamine should be taken asap. The epinephrine just bridges the gap until the antihistamine kicks in.

I liked the Ana-kit because the syringe had 2 doses in it (you turned the plunger 90° for the second dose) and the antihistamine. It was much cheaper, and it was pretty easy—- just pull off the needle cap, stick your thigh to the hilt, and press the plunger.

Despite the relative ease of autoinjectors like EpiPen, I was pretty upset when Ana-kit was discontinued and I had to start carrying EpiPens. That’s why I always get the generic 2-pack prescribed and keep it in a ziplock bag with a couple Benadryls.
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-22 02:49:51+00:00
At no point have I argued that LLMs aren’t autoregressive, I am merely talking about LLMs ability to reason across time steps, so it seems we are talking past each other which won’t lead anywhere.

And yes, LLM can be studied under the lens of Markov processes: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.02724

Have a good day
by badosu | 2025-10-22 02:50:09+00:00
I really have a hard time understanding this train of thought.

One could say these sentences are also a product of "its culture".

The world is not black or white, good or evil. Things are more nuanced and complicated than advertised to be.

I'm not the single source of truth either, but I think there are lots of resources for people interested in avoiding propaganda and trying to understand things more deeply.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-22 02:50:37+00:00
Somewhere in the middle, I would think. Maybe not immediately deliberate, but it's a large enough organization that someone in the company would have realized that the originally inadvertent actions paid off, and would continue to pay off, and so they put in effort to not accidentally stop doing it. Knowledge of the discovered strategy stays limited to some management, but not the rank and file.
by altairprime | 2025-10-22 02:50:58+00:00
> LLMs seem like a nuke-it-from-orbit solution to the complexities of software. Rather than addressing the actual problems, we reached for something far more complex and nebulous to cure the symptoms.

The author overlooks a core motivation of AI here: to centralize the high-skill high-cost “creative” workers into just the companies that design AIs, so that every other business in the world can fire their creative workers and go back to having industrial cogs that do what they’re told instead of coming up with ‘improvements’ that impact profits. It’s not that the companies are reaching for something complex and nebulous. It’s that companies are being told “AI lets you eject your complex and nebulous creative workers”, which is a vast reduction in nearly everyone’s business complexity. Put in the terms of a classic story, “The Wizard of Oz”, no one bothers to look behind the curtain because everything is easier for them — and if there’s one constant across both people and corporations, it’s the willingness to disregard long-term concerns for short-term improvements so long as someone else has to pay the tradeoff.
by glitcher | 2025-10-22 02:51:12+00:00
Grady Hillhouse does such an amazing job of presenting engineering topics to the layperson very thoughtfully. I'm not an engineer, but I always get completely drawn into their videos even when it seems like something I would have no interest in.

I didn't know anything about the engineering surrounding the Niagara Falls region, but this latest video leaves me curious about how the two countries managed to work together in those early years, with all of the disputes and collaborations involved.
A new kind of story chain social network
by ayyoub_ea | 2025-10-22 02:51:38+00:00
I’ve been thinking about how social media today is mostly built around individual creators — everyone posts in their own corner. But what if content could connect like chains?

Imagine you post a short video or idea, and anyone can join your chain by adding their own part — continuing the story, the challenge, or the vibe. Chains can grow in unexpected directions, mixing creativity from all kinds of people. You could start a dance chain, a travel chain, a meme chain, or even a storytelling chain where each user adds one scene.

The idea is that visibility shouldn’t depend only on followers. If your addition to a popular chain is good, people can find you through that chain — so smaller creators can grow next to bigger ones. It’s a bit like TikTok remixes, but more open and narrative — everything connected through these public chains.

I’m exploring how to make it global from day one, and maybe use AI tools to help users remix or extend chains in creative ways. I’m curious what you think: does this kind of network sound interesting, or too chaotic?
by adrianwaj | 2025-10-22 02:52:04+00:00
Profitably through serving you crypto, and products to buy with that crypto. Don't worry, they'll have pre-mined it. Paypal/Amazon gives new users free money. So it's the Faucet ftw.

Seen how big Binance Coin has become?

October 1999: "Critically, PayPal offers a $10 referral bonus for each new user, and $10 just for registering. This becomes their biggest driver of user growth, and also one of their biggest burns of money."

https://www.allencheng.com/the-paypal-wars-summary-pdf/

The main hurdle with crypto adoption is having a navy to protect the associated commerce and the sea lanes for companies/countries using some new currency. I realized that over 10 years ago. It's a gray area.

There are also privacy issues. This is a new concern for me. If someone can know about you, shouldn't you be able to know all about them? Transparency is fine, until it's not, then Privacy takes over. How are the serfs going to take out loans in 15 years to pull themselves out of poverty with all their parents' grand ideas, if they're even still alive?
by Nio1024 | 2025-10-22 02:52:28+00:00
I think using large language models really accelerates mental atrophy. It's like when you use an input method for a long time, it automatically completes words for you, and then one day when you pick up a pen to write, you find you can't remember how to spell the words. However, the main point in the article is that we need to feed high-quality data to large language models. This view is actually a consensus, isn't it? Many agent startups are striving to feed high-quality domain-specific knowledge and workflows to large models.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-22 02:52:57+00:00
> You don't know how any of these could be developed in good conscience?

The OP did say "...for resale in good conscience."

I personally read that as the commercial companies that allows anyone to buy the product off the shelf for the right price -- including governments, but also rogue elements. Bad actors, groups, or even people engaged in abusive domestic practices (customers without the time, experience, or resources to do it in-house). Not the people who work directly under government agencies developing these things for State level intelligence/ops
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-22 02:53:52+00:00
An atomic add on a 6ghz high end desktop CPU (13900) is I believe on the order of 4-10ns. If it’s in your hot path your hot path can’t go faster than 50-100 million operations/s - that’s the cost of 1 such instruction in your hotpath (down from the 24 billion non-atomic additions your 6ghz could do otherwise). A CAS brings this down to ~20-50 Mops/s. So it’s quite a meaningful slowdown if you actually want to use the full throughput of your CPU. And if that cache line is cached on another CPU you pay an additional hidden latency that could be anywhere from 40-200ns further reducing your hotpath to a maximum of 5-25MHz (and ignoring secondary effects of slowing down those cores without them even doing anything). God forbid there’s any contention - you’re looking at a variance of 20x between the optimal and worst case of how much of a throughput reduction you see by having a single CAS in your hot loop. And this is just talking about the task scheduler - at least in Rust you’ll need to have thread-safe data structures being accessed within the task itself - that’s what I was referring to as “sprinkled”. If you really want to target something running at 10Mops/s on a single core, I don’t think you can possibly get there with a task stealing approach.
by jerrygoyal | 2025-10-22 02:53:58+00:00
For those who don't want to switch browsers I built a chrome extension that lets you chat with page, draft emails and messages, fix grammar, translate, summarize page, etc. You can use models not just from OpenAI but also from Google and Anthropic.

Yes, you can use your own API key as well.

https://jetwriter.ai

Feedbacks are welcome.
by AugusteDupin | 2025-10-22 02:54:01+00:00
As meindnoch points out, the connection needs to loop over the rotating object. That is no problem if the only affect of the rotation that interests you is the centrifugal force.

When you give plasma (not whole blood) the nurses use a centrifuge machine that seems impossible: one tube goes from you to it (carrying whole blood), another tube goes from it back to you (carrying plasma depleted blood). The mechanism of Dale. A. Adams keeps the tubes from twisting. Search “antitwister mechanism patent” for a drawing of the mechanism. As for the principle behind the mechanism, see http://Antitwister.ariwatch.com for a PC program where you can adjust every variable imaginable.
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-22 02:54:55+00:00
If Luna is a textbook then we’ve read the section headings for chapter 15 of 43 and stolen half a page by ripping it out and taking it home. Oh and that’s just Volume I. There’s a whole Volume II (The Far Side) for which we’ve barely even read the sleeve notes.

In terms of field geology alone, we deserve permanent human presence on The Moon. Apollo was an impressive first shot but it is completely unrealistic to act like we know anything more than one percent of one percent about Moon’s geology. They nailed the flat bits on the marine side, but you’d laugh at someone who claimed they knew Earth’s geology after a few weeks in Buenos Aires, Houston, and Miami:

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/skills/see-apollo-...

Who will be woken up by the first moonquake? Who will visit the first mooncaves? Who will find the first water-based anomaly — some kind of periodic waterfall maybe, in a heat trap that warms up one day a year? Who will see the first solar eclipse?
by tranhuucanh | 2025-10-22 02:55:03+00:00
Thanks for the great feedback! You're absolutely right - I'll add QR code examples for each error correction level to the README to make the comparisons clearer.

Regarding error correction levels: yes, all benchmarks are done with the same parameters (error correction level and byte length) to ensure fair comparisons. I'll make this more explicit in the README and include a detailed comparison table showing the error correction levels used for each benchmark.

I appreciate you pointing this out - transparency in benchmarks is really important!
by bigyabai | 2025-10-22 02:55:25+00:00
You know what else has real world economic consequences? Dead astronauts.

I'm all for reinvigorating the global economy with a resurgence in scientific investment, but it only works if we do it patiently. China understands that, the CCP is quite capable of national planning that transcends administrations. You can't force a moon landing like it's a political OKR, if you do then you better have a pretty solid Plan B considering the amount of risk it represents.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-10-22 02:56:01+00:00
There may be some truth to it but to me gambling issues definitely do exists independently of the ability for someone to escape or not its class.

One of my friend has a real gambling issue and yet he was one of the highest paid person I knew. Then at some point he created a company, got funding and had 30+ employees. He was doing very well. But he was a degenerate gambler. On the weekends he'd ask me to accompany him to casinos (real ones) and he'd just burn money (his own money btw, not company money). I've seen him destroy something like $60 K in one bet in some (probably rigged) only crypto casino. His utter disrespect for money shocked me. The crazy thing is that over the years he lost it all (not just those $60K) and to this day he'll post-fact rationalize his actions. He literally burned so much money he could have FIRE'd. Maybe not mega FatFIRE, but still FIRE.

Last time he called me he asked me to lend him... 300 EUR to pay bills. He's a real friend, he could have asked 3 000 EUR, I'd have helped him pay his bills. But it's the amount that saddened me: how can you go from having so much, from earning so much, to asking for 300 EUR? (which he paid me back a few days later). How does that even happen?

Now he's literally a genius so maybe he'll come up with something. But meanwhile I'm worried and there's nothing I can do.

A friend of my great-grandmother (I knew my great-grandmother very well) lost all her family's inherited wealth because she was a degenerate gambler. Not online casinos, obviously.

I've read the book "The Player" by Dostoievsky. Twice, once when I was a teenager then once I don't remember when. To make sure I'd never end up like the people he describes in his book. He was a degenerate gambler and it's basically its most auto-biographic book (FWIW I've read Crime and Punishment too but The Player does it for me).

I'm sure half of the people who are degenerate gamblers do not do it because they have no way to get "rich". No. Half of people who are degenerate gamblers are the self-destructive types who subconsciously want to harm themselves. Who want to feel bad about themselves.

I'm sure there's truth to what I wrote too.
by G_o_D | 2025-10-22 02:56:36+00:00
i don't understand people believe it whether you accept or deny, does it matter if i had to log i will its not my site will have to pass all test about malpractice before being publish, or on everyday basis

Those prompt are not real prompts from browser permission system itself that if you deny will prevent site from accesing any data

those are dummy
by AnonC | 2025-10-22 02:56:43+00:00
The answer to the most important question is at the end of the article. They demonstrated that this is safe, not that it’s effective.

> “This is the first human data and the results are limited solely to demonstrating the safety of the procedure and not its effectiveness,” said co-author Takanori Takebe of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Osaka in Japan. “But now that we have established tolerance, the next step will be to evaluate how effective the process is for delivering oxygen to the bloodstream.”

If it’s proven to be effective and can help avoid ventilators for (at least some) people, it would be a huge breakthrough and improvement in the quality of life for the patient and for their close ones.
by impendia | 2025-10-22 02:56:58+00:00
An interesting point -- and I sometimes wonder if we would all be happy if romantic partners were decided by lottery, and nobody got to wonder if someone "better" was lurking just around the corner.

That said, compatibility may well be overrated, but what should you optimize for? I suspect most people are willing to make it work for someone they like or are attracted to enough.

Ideally, serendipity would settle the issue. But women have complained, and rightfully so, of getting hit on at the office, at the gym, etc. I don't blame them, but as a single man I do wonder what (if anything) I should be doing to scope out potential romantic partners without coming across as a creep. The apps aren't ideal, but at least I can use them with a clear conscience.
by nextos | 2025-10-22 02:57:04+00:00
The Hygiene Hypothesis, which is what you have described, fell out of favor in research circles during the late 2000s. What seems to be causing the allergy and autoimmunity epidemic is a loss of keystone species in the gut that have co-evolved with humans and provided essential services to the immune system, as well as stability to the entire ecosystem. See e.g. a famous review on this issue [1]. Other important factors might include novel protein antigens and small molecules we have not co-evolved with.

[1] Darwinian medicine and the ‘hygiene’ or ‘old friends’ hypothesis. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2841838
by ianburrell | 2025-10-22 02:57:13+00:00
In that scenario, there is a galactic community. Galactic community is going to have something like contracts, and a way to enforce them. It might be a problem for Earth since we would have to get to planet with court, and we don't have FTL.

Galactic community might have rules about developing species, but we can make agreements once "escape".
by toobulkeh | 2025-10-22 02:57:47+00:00
I vibe coded this at a hackathon a few weeks ago. The solution isn’t stable yet, but it’s similar to Claude Skills with the benefit of only needing an MCP client.

I open sourced it too.

It has a bit to go—like automatically monitoring reasoning traces and security—but I thought this would be easier to use than trying to maintain your own skills.md collection if the server handled more of it for you.

I’d be curious if anyone thinks I should keep working on it. I’d love someone to collaborate with on it!
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-22 02:57:50+00:00
Maybe it is my Wisconsin upbringing, but three beers an hour is not even a notable level of intake. Moving at a good clip, sure, but in no way a record setting kind of ordeal.

There are Power Hours which is a shot of beer every minute. Depending on the cleanliness of the pour, available glasses, you are looking at 5-7 beers in an hour.
by socketcluster | 2025-10-22 02:57:52+00:00
You can implement two-phase commit instead. It requires a bit of additional planning in terms of data management but I actually find it much more elegant and it scales better. DB transactions are expensive and unnecessarily complicated.

You can have a really simple two-phase commit system where you initially mark all records as 'pending' and then update them as 'settled' once all the necessary associated rows have been inserted into their respective tables. You can record a timestamp so that you know where to resume the settlement process from. I once had multiple processes doing settlement in parallel by hashing the ids to map to specific processes so it scales really well.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-22 02:57:56+00:00
"as soon as you hit swap" is a bad way of looking at things. Looking around at some servers I run, most of them have .5-2GB of swap used despite a bunch of gigabytes of free memory. That data is never or almost never going to be touched, and keeping it in memory would be a waste. On a smaller server that can be a significant waste.

Swap is good to have. The value is limited but real.

Also not having swap doesn't prevent thrashing, it just means that as memory gets completely full you start dropping and re-reading executable code over and over. The solution is the same in both cases, kill programs before performance falls off a cliff. But swap gives you more room before you reach the cliff.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-22 03:01:20+00:00
Unfortunately, not really. I worked in HPC when it was developed as a concept there, which is where I learned it. I brought it over into databases which was my primary area of expertise because I saw the obvious cross-over application to some scaling challenges in databases. Over time, other people have adopted the ideas but a lot of database R&D is never published.

Writing a series of articles about the history and theory of thread-per-core software architecture has been on my eternal TODO list. HPC in particular is famously an area of software that does a lot of interesting research but rarely publishes, in part due to its historical national security ties.

The original thought exercise was “what if we treated every core like a node in a supercomputing cluster” because classical multithreading was scaling poorly on early multi-core systems once the core count was 8+. The difference is that some things are much cheaper to move between cores than an HPC cluster and so you adapt the architecture to leverage the things that are cheap that you would never do on a cluster while still keeping the abstraction of a cluster.

As an example, while moving work across cores is relatively expensive (e.g. work stealing), moving data across cores is relatively cheap and low-contention. The design problem then becomes how to make moving data between cores maximally cheap, especially given modern hardware. It turns out that all of these things have elegant solutions in most cases.

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all architecture but you can arrive at architectures that have broad applicability. They just don’t look like the architectures you learn at university.