MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kazinator | 2025-10-06 22:29:47+00:00
Generally speaking, program-writing-programs (when they are not either buggy, or being updated to a new version) predictably write the same thing from the same specification according to rules.

LLMs do not replace program-writing-programs; they should be used to work with program-writing-programs, not as a replacement.

E.g. I wouldn't use an LLM to convert a grammar to LR parsing tables, but perhaps to get help with the grammar file.
by ecshafer | 2025-10-06 22:30:35+00:00
I am torn on this. I have friends who complain that they are engineers, and had to take so much math in school they don’t use. They apparently dont see much value in just the fact they learned it, or the increased knowledge. However, no matter how much experience someone may have, I am not sure I am willing to trust a bridge designed by an engineer that couldnt pass a basic calculus sequence. To steelman this position, the college degree is a singal that they are capable of learning some more complex concepts. So even if it isnt a business degree, if they start talking about cost basis they can pick that up, and that they can read and write at a high enough level to function in management. It also shows that the person is serious about moving up.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-10-06 22:30:40+00:00
> > Infact if OpenAI don't find a profitable use for them then both their stock price, and AMD's will go down.

In theory yes but OpenAI doesn't have a stock and in the word of AntiChrist Peter Thiel : "We only have AI, there is nothing else out there except for AI" so with the belief still strong to carry at least up until GPT 7 OpenAI will find ways to present itself to the world as capable of putting to use the AMD GPUs and AMD will benefit from it.

And honestly the anti Christ is right. Vibe coding is already bigger than self driving cars, the metaverse and all that stuff that emerged during covid
by Havoc | 2025-10-06 22:30:42+00:00
>NASDAQ lost 80% of it's value, which is something I'd certainly like to be sitting on the sidelines for.

And google gained how much in subsequent years?

Not disputing it was ugly & bloody, but rather saying the underlying tech was valid and the companies that built on it in a sound way crushed it.

Tricky bit is telling which of the current crop are going to be the survivors
by mulmen | 2025-10-06 22:31:23+00:00
It has become popular to dismiss the benefits of higher education but I think there’s still immense value in completing an undergraduate education. An undergraduate degree demonstrates an ability to succeed in a multi-disciplinary environment and to work collaboratively with peers. It gives the student knowledge outside their core domain which creates opportunities for cross-pollination of ideas. The only argument against higher education is the cost which wasn’t a factor here.
by ashirviskas | 2025-10-06 22:31:46+00:00
> Given Proton’s outstanding track record and reputation thus far as a free, open-source, crowdfunded organization, owned by a non-profit and based in Switzerland (a country known for its neutrality), this topic is worth a deep dive.

Either it was someone paid to write this, or if author really believes this, they are not someone I trust.

Maybe the organization is non-profit (which I do not believe is practically true), it does not explain them sharing so much with Tesonet.
by general1465 | 2025-10-06 22:31:54+00:00
> Historically, it's been the case that a relatively small percentage of men have monopolized the available women of their time. Perhaps the most famous example of this was Genghis Khan, to whom something like 1 in 12 men in Asia and 1 in 200 men globally carry Y chromosomes linked to him.

Bible (2000 years old) is heavily pushing monogamistic relationship from a simple practical reason - horny man is angry man, angry man is aggressive man and a group of aggressive men can completely destroy whole society. Polygamist societies are rare and unstable. If over supply of men is not used for military expansion, then they will collapse society from inside.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-10-06 22:32:07+00:00
> CS is a paid game, not free like Valorant, and makes probably much more money

(Veering offtopic here) Remember that Valve invented the free-to-play business model when they made TF2 free. As Gabe Newell said in some interview long ago, they made more money from TF2 after it went F2P ("sell more hats!")

Point being, being a paid vs free game is largely irrelevant to the profitability & engineering budget.

That said, I'm not sure why you say CS is a paid game. It is also free-to-play. Is some playable content locked behind a paywall?
by dheera | 2025-10-06 22:32:40+00:00
I used to do the one bag thing while travelling until I had more disposable income and could afford taxi rides, baggage fees and all of that.

I used to own only things that I could move on my own and fit in a normal car, until I had more disposable income and hiring movers became a non-issue.

I still try to maintain non-attachment to material things but I now welcome enjoying material things in a functional way. For example, I own a ton of kitchen gadgets and that allows me to make interesting food, but I'm not married sentimentally to any particular gadget.

Things change, I guess.
by calebjosue | 2025-10-06 22:33:20+00:00
Location: Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero. México. Remote: 100% Willing to relocate: Yes, maybe in the future. Technologies: Java, JavaScript, SQL. Résumé/CV: https://www.calebjosue.com/documents/CalebRuiz__CV__Mid2025__Edited.pdf Email: calebjosue-dev@outlook.com
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-06 22:33:20+00:00
When Battlefield 4 launched it had terrible network performance. Battlefield 3 wasn't great but somehow BF4 was way worse. Turned out while clients sent updates to the server at 30 Hz, the server sent updates back only at 10 Hz[1].

This was the same as BF3, but there were also some issues with server load making things worse and high-ping compensation not working great.

After much pushback from players, including some great analysis by Battle(non)sense[2] that really got traction, the devs got the green light on improving the network code and worked a long time on that. In the end they got high-tickrate servers[3][4], up to 144Hz though I mostly played on 120Hz servers, along with a lot of other improvements.

The difference between a 120Hz server and a 30Hz was night and day for anyone who could tell the difference between the mouse and the keyboard. Problem was that by then the game was half-dead... but it was great for the 15 of us or so still playing it at that time.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1xtq4a/battl...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleNonSense

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/35ci2r/120hz...

[4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/3my0re/high_...
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-06 22:34:00+00:00
> Sure, I'm giving you a chronological high level view of China's illegal practices past 15 years

The Chinese automobile industry in 2011 is hardly relevant to the EV industry in China today. The EV industry was not built by technology transfer requirements.

> This was never allowed

It was not only allowed, but actually viewed as a legitimate way for underdeveloped economies to develop.

> Sure, Biden's IRA passed in 2022 is a counter measure against China's domestic sourcing since 2015.

The US has all sorts of "Buy American" provisions and subsidies, going way back before 2022.

> False. Most, or close to 80% of all ACTIVE lithium ion battery patents are held by Japan and South Korea.

You're talking about the 1990s. I'm talking about now, 30 years later. The Chinese lead in battery technology and spend massive amounts of money on R&D.

> Sure, again Tesla is the only foreign automaker operating fully independently without forced tech transfer

Not true. First off, just as a footnote, there never was "forced technology transfer." Foreign companies knew what the regulations in China were and made a rational business decision to trade some amount of IP for access to cheap labor. Both sides benefited. But beyond that, nowadays, any foreign car company can operate in China without a local joint venture partner. Tesla was the first, but it's not the only one, and other companies are free to leave their joint ventures if they want to. Most of the large foreign automobile manufacturers in China have either acquired majority stakes in their China operations or have bought out their JV partners completely. This is the norm now.

> Wrong again. That's exactly how dumping works

No, dumping involves selling your products below the cost of manufacture in foreign markets. When you instead sell them at a substantial markup, that's called "making bank."
by jll29 | 2025-10-06 22:34:19+00:00
I've been using what the OP discusses for several years now, and it works.

In particular, as a scientist I can report that the brain is particularly creative when it is expected to work on something else; it comes up with very interesting and original research topics that are worth being captured in writing (to be executed later on).

The main task can be attacked (better) with Structured Procrastination by making a TO DO list on which we divide it into many small tasks. During procrastination, picking and completing a small task from the list is typically possible, and relatively effortlessly so.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-06 22:34:22+00:00
I think you're close but not quite there. I'm reminded of the scene from Office Space, where the Bobs say they prefer to avoid confrontation if possible.

>“Well Mike didn’t have a degree, so why not me?”

"Because you don't have the right degree" is an easier and less confrontational answer than the truth ("the position was filled nepotistically", "you know what you did but the incidents are not properly documented", etc.).
by terrelln | 2025-10-06 22:34:30+00:00
You could have an LLM generate the SDDL description [0] for you, or even have it write a C++ or Python tokenizer. If compression succeeds, then it is guaranteed to round trip, as the LLM-generated logic lives only on the compression side, and the decompressor is agnostic to it.

It could be a problem that is well-suited to machine learning, as there is a clear objective function: Did compression succeed, and if so what is the compressed size.

[0] https://openzl.org/api/c/graphs/sddl/
by dgunay | 2025-10-06 22:34:49+00:00
In CS you can leave the buy zone immediately. I don't necessarily believe that Valorant's decision to fence players in their spawn for the first minute during the buy period is simply to save on server costs, especially because they realized that optimization possibility after the fact. Being able to buy your weapons quickly may have an element of skill, but it doesn't make for particularly interesting gameplay. They may have just decided that they'd rather level this part of the playing field so people can focus on the core tactical FPS gameplay.
by tristor | 2025-10-06 22:35:30+00:00
I am not the OP, but traveling in a nomadic way is often significantly cheaper than you would expect. When I was doing this, I had roughly $4000/mo in expenses, and more than half of that is because I kept a house in the US while I was on the move, so I had to still pay mortgage, insurance, utilities, property taxes, etc. All-in, it's fairly easy to get by on less than $2k/mo as a single person in /most/ of the world, that's only about $37k/yr before taxes. Myself and most of the other digital nomads I met in my travel mostly worked location-independent remote tech jobs, often as one-person consultancies or as subcontractors to a prime contract agency, most of us made more than $100k/yr.

My observation when I'm talked to people about my experiences is that they imagine travel is a lot more expensive than it actually is. The most expensive thing I ever had to pay for was my plane ticket to get out of the US. Once I was abroad, even flights were significantly cheaper.
by pton_xd | 2025-10-06 22:35:32+00:00
That's very interesting. The CS2 netcode always felt a little brittle and janky to me, but I could never pin point exactly what was causing the issues. Especially since other games mostly run fine for me.

I also remember reading a few posts about their new subtick system but never put two and two together. Hopefully they keep refining it.
by jedberg | 2025-10-06 22:36:08+00:00
> Generally speaking, programs used to have more Easter eggs. I can't recall a single one in the cloud era.

The problem with Easter Eggs in the web era is that as soon as one person finds it, everyone knows about it. Part of the fun in the boxed software era was that you either had to find it yourself or hear about it from a friend.

That being said, we did have an easter egg on reddit for a long time that very few people noticed. Robots.txt included this:

User-Agent: bender Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass User-Agent: Gort Disallow: /earth
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-06 22:36:53+00:00
The original use for a VPN - getting access to private resources - is still very much in play.

I don't just mean being able to access some private web interface you have on a private server in your at home, I mean connecting a satellite office to the main corporate office.

But for all of these consumer marketed VPNs, I think your list has 90%+ covered...
by kazinator | 2025-10-06 22:36:59+00:00
> But it’s sad that one person gets to gatekeep everyone else and say, “This is abandoned, I’ll keep the crate name so now you have to make a worse one or be creative.”

Wouldn't reusing the name of a package that is no longer maintained create chaos for programs that use the discontinued package.

Maybe it's not simply one-sided gatekeeping from the former managers of the package?
by optimalquiet | 2025-10-06 22:37:03+00:00
Not quite. In order to make TLS certs work on a per-site basis, requests sent over HTTPS also include a virtual host indicator in cleartext that shows the hostname of the site you’re trying to connect to, so if the IP on the other end is hosting multiple domains it can find the right cert. For this reason some people feel that DNS over TLS is pretty pointless as a privacy measure.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-06 22:37:46+00:00
> The most powerful brands have enormous power and if they were to put up a fight they can get allies

Apple already had a chance to align themselves with the "sideloaders" and Free Software nerds, what did they choose instead?

They went the power-grab route. Tim Cook (and whoever his successor is) depends on informal US protectionism to stop Apple from being litigated into the dirt both by the DOJ and courts abroad. If they try to amend their greedy mistake, America's government has them blackmailed. They're the perfect, profitable lapdog.

From a customer perspective, power is the problem. Apple would have had no incentive to fuck over their users if they didn't desperately desire their App Store revenue to be locked-down and enforced by the state. Now, because America refused to seriously reign-in Apple, they are a fall-guy for the tech industry as a whole. You should not be surprised if Trump tries throwing Cook under the bus as part of the "woke deep state" by the time his admin is up. If you can imagine yourself in Tim's shoes, you're probably just trying to make it a few more years without destroying Silicon Valley in the legal catastrophe that would ensue if you resisted. Emotions like "regret" or "honor" don't even factor into that equation.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-10-06 22:38:04+00:00
True, but their demising technology appears to be quite good too. I had an interesting discussion at the Small Satellite conference in Utah with folks about demising and they mentioned starlink. "Good" demising has the 'slipstream' layer of the satellite burn up quickly on de-orbit and then the other bits are made purposely non-aerodynamic, especially with fastners which are designed to burn quickly to rapidly disassemble to satellite while it is still quite high so that the smaller pieces will have enough altitude to get to their "full demising" velocity on the way down.

The team I'm working with is just doing a cube sat which has pretty straightforward demising but overall it was interesting to see the thought and strategy that people put into this.
by nielsbot | 2025-10-06 22:38:33+00:00
Israel can become one state with democracy for all its residents. That's the real answer.

> I can already hear what international organizations are saying about that

What will they say? (And would they be wrong?) Imprisoning Palestinian refugees is definitely a human rights violation.

> Hamas on the other hand has the keys for the permanent peace

Not sure why everyone says Israel (the state with all the power in this relationship) is powerless. What do you propose Hamas do to ensure permanent peace?
by s1mon | 2025-10-06 22:38:55+00:00
It makes sense that this is possible. It's a very high volume item, with limited parts. The raw materials are not unique to any one location. If you have the capital to invest in a highly automated production line (which I'm sure cost many million USD), you will eventually get the ROI and the costs will be similar in many locations around the world. Labor costs are a small portion of the COGS (cost of goods sold). If most of the market is in the US, then shipping cost savings probably outweigh the higher labor and real estate costs. Energy costs and raw materials are likely similar enough to be a wash.

Contrast this with consumer electronics, especially new products. Those have huge benefits from the concentration of the supply chain and the agility of the supply chain in Southern China. That doesn't exist in the US.
by tejtm | 2025-10-06 22:39:14+00:00
This has already been addressed as LEO is not geostationary but to point as to why. Consider the earths equator rotates at a particular velocity so there is a particular orbital radius where the two cancel and NO energy is needed to fall around the equator at the same rate the equator is moving. That is a geostationary orbit.

LEO maxes out ~ 1,200 miles radius, geostationary is at little over over 22,000 miles radius.
by astrange | 2025-10-06 22:39:22+00:00
> First, LLMs can actually plan ahead - to a limited degree. Counterintuitive but true. So by the time the indentation is emitted, an LLM can already have something of a clue as to what the field names may be, and pick the indentation length accordingly.

I think this is a bad explanation. It's like saying that if execution enters a function in your program, the program has planned ahead because the rest of the function exists.

The LLM has circuits/basins which are ~guaranteed to emit a certain longer answer once inference has entered them. This is why it's capable of forming words in the first place.
by bryanwhl | 2025-10-06 22:39:25+00:00
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by baby_souffle | 2025-10-06 22:39:33+00:00
Doesn't pretty much every Starbucks location in the United States use a nationwide provider?

Despite the randomized Mac address, you can still fingerprint devices using all the usual tricks when they connect to the authentication and authorization page before you allow them to access the broader internet.

If the receipt had a passcode on it, you've got a link between all of your browser fingerprint, radio fingerprint and payment detail fingerprint and possibly customer loyalty provided at time of payment.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-06 22:39:34+00:00
> various online "challenges" like the "ice bucket challenge" are extreme

Ok I think you just have a very abnormal (extreme even?) definition of the word "extreme".

In a political context it literally means "far from the norm". His views are not far from the norm, as much as you might hate that. (I'm not a huge fan either but I'm not going to distort reality to make myself feel better.)
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-06 22:39:49+00:00
You are very wrong here:

Right now Starlink claims to be operating a mesh, but they are not. If they would want to build a mesh, Inter-sat links for NOT be used used to pipe through bandwidth to the "best" base station. It would be used for shared state to be able to prepare a handover. Synching state obviously is much easier and more stable if the neighboring sats can talk directly, instead of sharing it over their slow, high latency and lossy base stations.

See IEEE 802.11r for the equivalent for WiFi.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-06 22:40:31+00:00
I don't have a single reference that says outright "LLMs are doing the same kind of abstract thinking as humans do". Rather, this is something that's scattered across a thousand articles and evaluations - in which LLMs prove over and over again that they excel at the cognitive skills that were once exclusive to humans - or fail at them in ways that are amusingly humanlike.

But the closest thing is probably Anthropic's famous interpretability papers:

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticit...

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

In which Anthropic finds circuits in an LLM that correspond to high level abstracts an LLM can recognize and use, and traces down the way they can be connected. Which forms the foundation of associative abstract thinking.
by Animats | 2025-10-06 22:40:46+00:00
That was a Musk problem. His two lead manufacturing execs quit when he wanted the plant automation installed without the usual factory testing, to cut the time to production in half. It didn't work. For a while, Tesla Fremont had a huge work force working in tents in the parking lot. Cost per car went up and quality went down, but cars came out.

Tesla still seems to have quality problems, and never delivered the promised $30,000 car. Although BYD did.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-06 22:40:49+00:00
> handoffs between shifts at hospitals is where things go bad.

It'd cost more money, but the solution here is overlapping shifts.

The reason shift handoffs go bad is it's usually a singular information dump right as the next round is getting into work mode.

Overlap by an hour, long enough to pair on a round or two, and that information is much more likely to get remembered.

I've been in hospitals a few times for shift changes and there have been a few times I've been the one to inform what the last shift was doing simply because it wasn't communicated.

We do need more shifts and almost as important we need shift overlap.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 22:41:11+00:00
> They have the calculations to prove that

They have calculations that show this is how our models play out.

> What they are particularly concerned about is detecting faint objects inside the radio wave spectrum will be impossible because it will be lost in noise

Could become. They're not talking about mitigation because we haven't observed the problem yet.

> Now 2 years have passed since this paper was published, and we still don’t have mitigations for ground based radio astronomy

Again, where is the "scientific advancement" that "has suffered"?

> seriously doubt we will ever have one

Based on what?!
by GoatInGrey | 2025-10-06 22:42:31+00:00
Because the AI labs are just hovering up all internet text that they can, I've been seeing more and more marketing pilots that deliberately seed marketing material in thousands of fake, AI-generated blogs and tutorials. The intention here is to get new LLMs to train on these huge numbers of associations between specific use cases and the company's product. All in a way that gets their marketing information into the final weights.

You may have started seeing this when LLMs seem to promote things based entirely on marketing claims and not on real-world functionality.

More or less, SEO spam V2.