MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by koningrobot | 2025-10-20 19:38:26+00:00
It goes further back than that. In 2014, Li Yao et al (https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0585) drew an equivalence between autoregressive (next token prediction, roughly) generative models and generative stochastic networks (denoising autoencoders, the predecessor to difussion models). They argued that the parallel sampling style correctly approximates sequential sampling.

In my own work circa 2016 I used this approach in Counterpoint by Convolution (https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07227), where we in turn argued that despite being an approximation, it leads to better results. Sadly being dressed up as an application paper, we weren't able to draw enough attention to get those sweet diffusion citations.

Pretty sure it goes further back than that still.
by hakunin | 2025-10-20 19:39:25+00:00
This is the second comment of yours about LiveText (this is the older one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43192141) — I found that one by complete coincidence because I'm trying to provide a Ruby API for these frameworks. However, I can't find much info on LiveText? What framework is it part of? Do you have any links or any additional info? I found a source where they say it's specifically for screen and camera capturing.
by hyperion2010 | 2025-10-20 19:39:40+00:00
Linking my comment from (checks notes) 9 years ago on this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12781933

To extend the though there, the main question is not if, not when, but how long it will take. Do you bet on 90 years, 90 months, 90 days, 90 hours? Even if the change happens over 90 months (about 7 years) is that enough time to rebuild major shipping ports, forget resettling a substantial portion of the human population.
by missedthecue | 2025-10-20 19:39:55+00:00
In the US, if you are married with two kids, your first $70k is zero tax at the federal level.

The truth is that falling birth rates aren't about direct financial costs -- its about opportunity costs. The opportunity to do things that you frankly just lose the freedom to do when you become a mother or father. And lowering tax rates doesn't really solve that problem.
by mlhpdx | 2025-10-20 19:40:06+00:00
We use AWS for keys and certs, with aliases for keys so they resolve properly to the specific resources in each region. For any given HTTP endpoint there is a cert that is part of a the stack in that region (different regions use different certs).

The hardest part is that our customers' resources aren't always available in multiple regions. When they are we fall back to a region where they exist that is next closest (by latency, courtesy of https://www.cloudping.co/).
by andrewl-hn | 2025-10-20 19:40:09+00:00
Several reasons, really:

1. The main one: it's the cheapest region, so when people select where to run their services they pick it because "why pay more?"

2. It's the default. Many tutorials and articles online show it in the examples, many deployment and other devops tools use it as a default value.

3. Related to n.2. AI models generate cloud configs and code examples with it unless asked otherwise.

4. It's location make it Europe-friendly, too. If you have a small service and you'd like to capture European and North American audience from a single location us-east-1 is a very good choice.

5. Many Amazon features are available in that region first and then spread out to other locations.

6. It's also a region where other cloud providers and hosting companies offer their services. Often there's space available in a data center not far from AWS-running racks. In hybrid cloud scenarios where you want to connect bits of your infrastructure running on AWS and on some physical hardware by a set of dedicated fiber optic lines us-east-1 is the place to do it.

7. Yes, for AWS deployments it's an experimental location that has higher risks of downtime compared to other regions, but in practice when a sizable part of us-east-1 is down other AWS services across the world tend to go down, too (along with half of the internet). So, is it really that risky to run over there, relatively speaking?

It's the world's default hosting location, and today's outages show it.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-10-20 19:40:29+00:00
Yeah I can understand. In college I certainly lived with some folks who trashed the place. After I graduated and rented in nicer parts I haven’t had as much of an issue. Except most of them want to keep as much of the security deposit as possible and start coming up with bullshit costs with no itemization. I admit I’m biased against landlords - I hate how much of the costs can be passed down to the renter, like they aren’t making enough already. The best ones IME are the ones who have one or two properties, and the ones who have close to a dozen are a nightmare. Never been happier after buying my own place.
by steveBK123 | 2025-10-20 19:41:01+00:00
The Virus TI series are truly impressive even.. or especially, by modern standards. 16 multitimbral parts, up to 90 voices... 20 years ago!

These days you can spend $1000 and get 8-16 voices without multitimbral feature. Hydrasynth Deluxe or Novation Summit in the $2k-3k range for 2 parts and total of 16 voices is considered good now.

Everything has moved to DAW centric workflows tethered to your computer and the hardware has really stopped innovating.
by smallnix | 2025-10-20 19:41:08+00:00
> I guess I’d assumed this sort of thing would be allocated dynamically

At the scale of a hyperscaler I think Alibaba is the one that would be doing that. AWS, Azure and I assume Alibaba do lease/rent data centers, but someone has to own the servers / GPU racks. I know there are specialized companies like nscale (and more further down the chain) in the mix, but I always assumed they only lease out fixed capacity.
Show HN: Predictive Thermal Management for a Production Phone Server
by DaSettingsPNGN | 2025-10-20 19:41:33+00:00
I would like to present a thermal management system I have been working on. The idea was that I wanted to run a production Discord Bot on my S25+ rather than paying for a traditional server. I ran into the Samsung throttle wall: at 42 degrees Celsius for battery temperature, Samsung will hard throttle your phone down to 50% performance until it regains a more moderate temperature. This is by definition reactive, and can cause a spiral. Lower performance increases the duration of my renders, this heats my phone even more, and it never recovers. I propose a different method: predict thermal events before they happen, model the internal thermal properties of the different cores on your phone, and use Newton's Law of Cooling with thermal "banking" (having tasks wait to start for enough thermal overhead that it can successfully complete) and with using persistent learning to model how much thermal headroom you actually need for each action your bot takes.

The key is realizing that temperature is not a discrete event. Using sensors to measure the temperature now does not tell you how it will increase or decrease in the near future. Predictive intelligence is entirely possible when using thermal mass, knowledge of your hardware constraints, knowledge of your thermal effects from your bot, and preparing for thermal events BEFORE they happen, not when they do. This keeps your phone under the thermal throttle limit perpetually, which translates to improved performance, battery life, hardware life, and user experience.

Implementation includes using public facing sys reads and Termux API to monitor core temperatures in real time (non-root), and using physics and past data from your actual bot use to predict thermal impacts and how you can prevent them before they even happen.

The main principle is modeling your phone as a interconnected system with fluid states, not discrete events that end up being locked into either throttling or not-throttling.

I am sharing this to discuss my model with engineers and physicists, to see if my thermal model can be improved at all, to see if my code can be improved at all, and to see if it would be of use to anyone else who would like to run a production server on a flagship phone without rooting it or melting it. All feedback appreciated. I'm available to help teach my software practice as well: I code through a physics lens. Computers obey physics too, as much as they seem to not want to admit it.

GitHub: https://github.com/DaSettingsPNGN/S25_THERMAL- Discord: @DaSettingsPNGN
by fny | 2025-10-20 19:42:32+00:00
I've been using Happy Coder[0] for some time now on web and mobile. I run it `--yolo` mode on an isolated VM across multiple projects.

With Happy, I managed to turn one of these Claude Code instances into a replacement for Claude that has all the MCP goodness I could ever want and more.

[0]: https://happy.engineering/
by yansoki | 2025-10-20 19:43:45+00:00
This is an incredibly insightful and helpful comment, thank you. You explain exactly what I thought when writing this post. The phrase that stands out to me is "constant iterative process." It feels like most tools are built to just "fire alerts," but not to facilitate that crucial, human-in-the-loop review and tweaking process you described. A quick follow-up question if you don't mind: do you feel like that "iterative process" of reviewing and tweaking alerts is well-supported by your current tools, or is it a manual, high-effort process that relies entirely on team discipline? (This is the exact problem space I'm exploring. If you're ever open to a brief chat, my DMs are open. No pressure at all, your comment has already been immensely helpful, thanks.)
by nomilk | 2025-10-20 19:43:51+00:00
I hadn't follow closely enough and wasn't aware - thanks for pointing out.

Kramnick accuses Danya of cheating (several pieces of circumstantial 'evidence' in the thread): https://x.com/VBkramnik/status/1911179469773033512

A tweet by IM Kostya Kavutskiy of ChessDojo from November 2024 (paraphrased):

> Our intention was to express concern for what's going on. Many of us supported Kramnik's fight against online cheating for some time.

> But then he started naming players left & right, some of whom were likely 100% innocent, who got their name dragged through the mud regardless. Kramnik also started naming actual children at one point, without any real evidence from what I could tell

> And it's not "just asking questions", it's casting aspersions. And the words of any world champion obviously carry a lot of responsibility.

https://x.com/hellokostya/status/1852388806143390131
by hamburglar | 2025-10-20 19:43:58+00:00
Well that’s the default pattern anyway. When I worked in cloud there were always some services that needed cross-regional dependencies for some reason or other and this was always supposed to be called out as extra risk, and usually was. But as things change in a complex system, it’s possible for long-held assumptions about independence to change and cause subtle circular dependencies that are hard to break out of. Elsewhere in this thread I saw someone mentioning being migrated to auth that had global dependencies against their will, and I groaned knowingly. Sometimes management does not accept “this is delicate and we need to think carefully” in the midst of a mandate.

I do not envy anyone working on this problem today.
by mlhpdx | 2025-10-20 19:44:32+00:00
Yeah, it's not clear how resilient CloudFront is but it seems good. Since content is copied to the points of presence and cached it's the lightly used stuff that can break (we don't do writes through CloudFront, which in IMHO is an anti-pattern). We setup multiple "origins" for the content so hopefully that provides some resiliency -- not sure if it contributed positively in this case since CF is such a black box. I might setup some metadata for the different origins so we can tell which is in use.
by StefanBatory | 2025-10-20 19:44:33+00:00
I genuinely can't tell whether you are serious or trolling. Please tell me more about how Europe is socialist.

Or what does that even mean to you. Is socialism when state exists? You are not first American to say that, and every time it happens, I'm genuinely surprised. (I mean, rhetorical question. I suppose that's what socialism is to you. And you are a part of a problem too, because you are growing up internally people who genuinely believe that socialism is good because it means healthcare and higher education. Words no longer have meaning to you in America.)
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-10-20 19:45:06+00:00
Non-technical people don't really notice these things. They hear it and shrug, because usually it's fixed within a day.

CNBC is supposed to inform users about this stuff, but they know less than nothing about it. That's why they were the most excited about the "Metaverse" and telling everyone to get on board (with what?) or get left behind.

The market is all about perception of value. That's why Musk can tweet a meme and double a stocks price, it's not based in anything real.
by tptacek | 2025-10-20 19:45:07+00:00
I don't think this is a super useful comparison, because the two services have wildly different threat models. I think of Matrix as a secure replacement for Discord. Signal is about small group messaging. It's literally a replacement for the built-in texting app on your phone, and that's its intended userbase. Signal is what you use when you need to know, to the limit of best practices available to ordinary users, that your messages will be as private as they can be made to be. That's a goal that isn't compatible with many of the affordances people want for project discussion platforms and things like that.

If you pit Signal against Matrix and make the competition purely about security, Signal will win for the foreseeable future. But I think it makes much more sense to think about different sets of tradeoffs being more appropriate for different kinds of problems.
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-20 19:45:12+00:00
For the record, I was quite horrified—dogs are really dirty (most owners don't seem to know that). I never knowing let them lick me especially my face. The dog was exuberant, it happened so quickly.

I've often seen people letting their dogs lick their faces and eat off the table and I reckon they must never have been taught hygiene when young (surely if not at home they'd be taught that at school?).

I'd never knowingly eat food they'd prepared.
by yorwba | 2025-10-20 19:45:18+00:00
From the SCMP article you might get the impression that the various figures all refer to the same GPU cluster, but in the paper itself it's very clear that this is not the case, i.e. the 213 GPUs in the smaller cluster are not serving 1.35% of the requests in the larger cluster. Then if you want to scale it, you have a choice of different numbers you could scale, and each would get different results. Since they're constrained by the limited number of different models a single GPU can serve, I think scaling by the number of models is the most realistic option.
by throwway120385 | 2025-10-20 19:45:33+00:00
I think we're in agreement on that point. What I worry about is there's a line of reasoning in the US that there should be no permitting and zero code enforcement, and I think that's too far in the other direction. But I would like to see in the US a change to a model where you're not constrained to a Le Courbosier style development with residential, commercial, and industrial spaces situated in separate centers, because that's not a natural mode of development and it has created many ills here.

I suspect that I would feel the same as you do about flats in Prague.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-20 19:46:08+00:00
I also grew up in a small town and it could be I'm nose blind to it.

To me, pig and sheep were the worst smelling farm animals. Everything else, cows, horses, etc were just "meh". There's a smell, but it's not like stepped in dog poop smell.

Even driving past cattle feed lots I don't generally notice too much of a bad smell.
by ludicity | 2025-10-20 19:46:12+00:00
I'm much more skeptical about this for two major reasons.

Firstly, a huge amount of labour that can be accelerated by LLMs fall into the "bullshit jobs" category, where you can make someone faster at writing emails but the emails themselves don't really contribute much value. The majority of LLM use I see falls into this category. Many people can speed up parts of their job, but you can add as much efficiency as you want without actually impacting the bottom line -- and for various reasons that are not tractable right now, including with LLMs, businesses aren't able to get themselves to remove these roles.

Secondly, the median company is incapable of doing the things that aren't driven entirely by hype or political promises made by executives. We still exist in the universe where they prefer to have all their staff attrition out due to not getting raises, then end up paying the same amount for a bunch of folks that have no knowledge of the business when they inevitably have to replace their best talent.

With all that said, I'm sure a few savvier places would happily drop $1000 month per head if the value is there, but I really think in the average case that this would be more about marketing than any logic. People still buy Informatica in 2025 for much more money than they spend on LLMs.
by eimrine | 2025-10-20 19:46:12+00:00
> Do you think that when startup change direction that they are lying and betraying current customers?

From just these words and no more information I would like to say "no". But as someone who saw a bit of that, I notice that the way they do it is always falls to "yes, betrayal".

I mean that every service becames influenced by TikTok level of greed but no greed-powered service or proprietary piece of software has ever decided to remove unwanted/unjust functionality.
by XorNot | 2025-10-20 19:47:08+00:00
My son's daycare in Australia doesn't allow peanuts or eggs due to allergy management concerns so I don't think this is an American thing? I had a friend in high school who had a peanut allergy and had an epipen.

"breathing into a brown paper bag"? An anaphylatic reaction is literally a life-threatening event requiring prompt medical intervention. It's not "anxiety".
by greycol | 2025-10-20 19:47:15+00:00
It's all about interpretation, which is the point where you mark something as not appropriate for children so that parents can actively make the choice on if their kids should be exposed to it. In this case there's very little argument about whether we want more people following the voice in their head to kill their son, which is from the bible, or having vanilla sex, which is the definition of hardcore porn (as opposed to softcore porn, not hardcore as in extreme at least that was the definition I'm used to perhaps the meaning has drifted).

People are comfortable with religious texts because they are bought up with them and know which pieces to ignore, just look at the moral panic around teenagers getting hold of a Qaran and going off to join ISIS after 9/11. Hell I find the prevalence and acceptance of genital mutilation encouraged by religious texts horrendous when I spend time considering it.

It's not a hardship to let parents decide whether kids should have access to this stuff. That being said what the tag does in context of the f-droid shop is not really helpful behavior. It's not what most people would expect for parental control and outside of countries where the texts may be proscribed it's not really helpful behavior to hide these apps.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-10-20 19:47:30+00:00
Intelligence is a necessary but not sufficient condition to generating new technology.

I don’t have firsthand experience, but I have heard that China is attempting to restructure their education programs which have been historically 100% aimed at test taking which is not a good way to produce leaders, original thought, and value to society. The elites of China still send their children abroad to study.
by mecsred | 2025-10-20 19:47:31+00:00
None of the shadows you can physically see in the photos have 0 area because the construction of the fractal isn't perfect. What a perfect construction would look like and if it's ever theoretically possible to make physical are complicated questions. Beyond me for sure, how would an infinitely thin object even interact with light?

I would assume the problem with the idea is in the fractal physics rather than the definition of area, which has been solidly useful for me.
by immibis | 2025-10-20 19:47:36+00:00
This also isn't complete because it doesn't show code between or around the various tables. I used to think of iptables as dumb filters that manipulate raw packets before/after the rest of the kernel sees them, but this view is wrong, and doesn't explain, for example, how it does NAT.

And the answer is it doesn't do NAT. The code is already preparing to do NAT, and that code merely consults the table to find out what kind of NAT it should do. The diagram makes it look like you can just move a NAT rule to a filter or mangle rule because the kernel just applies these tables in sequence anyway, but you can't because they are consulted by different blocks of code for different purposes.
by upofadown | 2025-10-20 19:47:38+00:00
>I think requirements also changed a lot over the years with smartphones and mobile internet access everywhere.

I recently started using an XMPP client on a smart phone (Cheogram, fork of Conversations). It handles that stuff remarkably well. Switching between, say, mobile data and WiFi takes seconds. It seems to have some way of noticing the loss of connection and immediately fires up a new TCP connection on the new medium.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-20 19:48:12+00:00
Can you elaborate what you mean by pushover license?

Ladybird uses bsd-2 license which is OSI, I mean its not fsf/copyleft but permissive which should be better sometimes for things like embedding etc. no?

It looks like servo uses mozilla public license 2, can you please explain me the difference and why you think one is pushover and other is not?
by CivBase | 2025-10-20 19:48:32+00:00
To be fair, OP didn't say anything about being at the game. Could be at home.

9x 4% 12.5oz beers in 3 hours is quite a lot, but it's definitely something that could be accomplished without the person necessarily having a problem. I know plenty of people who are not alcoholics but have stories of one-off nights like that with friends.

Definitely don't do this in a public, child-friendly venu though. That would be grossly irresponsible.
by paddleon | 2025-10-20 19:48:37+00:00
he rejected it from the beginning.

https://www.heritage.org/commentary/the-man-who-would-not-be...

After the [revolutionary] war, there were calls for Washington to claim formal political power. Indeed, seven months after the victory at Yorktown, one of his officers suggested what many thought only reasonable in the context of the 18th century: that America should establish a monarchy and that Washington should become king. A shocked Washington immediately rejected the offer out of hand as both inappropriate and dishonorable, and demanded the topic never be raised again.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-20 19:48:44+00:00
Once had a site wide outage (biggish manufacturing company) of the internet and backup servers because one of the women wanted to plug her hair straighteners in for the xmas party.

In a surprise to literally no one that happening on the last friday before xmas break got my "We need to secure the main comms cabinet" (which had the backup server and main ingress for WAN and was in a separate building on other side of site) item that I'd been asking about for months to the top of the list.

Still one of my favourite "outages" because I got to my desk, turned PC on, no network, walked across the landing into the main office, opened comms cabinet, plugged it back in and was "resolved" before the MD got to my desk.