MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by uranium | 2025-11-22 00:37:02+00:00
Waymo's usually something like 50% more expensive than Lyft in SF, in my experience. But the drivers don't tailgate, have colds, listen to your conversation (AFAIK)...I'll generally opt for Waymo now if I have a choice. The biggest problem I have is that it's usually a longer wait due to the smaller fleet size, but if I'm planning ahead, I'll just book one for a given time, and that takes care of it.
by Melonai | 2025-11-22 00:37:08+00:00
That was definitely not my public school experience. I've had loads of issues but without public school I probably would be so extremely depressed and anxious, I'm not sure I'd be here today. I wouldn't have lots of important friendships, I wouldn't have my fiancé, and I'd have missed out on lots of experiences that I find were fundamental to shaping who I am now.

And despite all that, school was still really hard on me. I had a bunch of mean teachers, subjects I was miserable at and would cry about (Foreign language French still haunts my dreams...) and of course I was bullied as well for being kind of a weirdo. :) I wouldn't trade it for homeschooling. I know that if I didn't have those experiences at school, I would probably have different experiences that would have shaped me differently. But in the end, I'm still glad I went through all that though.
by rolph | 2025-11-22 00:37:18+00:00
every thing that went wrong would have been nullified, with one phone call, a phone call that is common place practice when making housecalls.

everything that went wrong could have been nullified by heed the reality that actions or inactions have consequences.

providing wrong map info, trusting sketchy information sources, lack of clear communication of purpose, and intent. lack of contact, with humans to confirm or verify.

its more than a victims contribution, there are second and third parties to look at.
by sneak | 2025-11-22 00:38:29+00:00
Uber, when it was launched, was limos only, and would come (with ETA) when cabs would not. It was expensive.

The story they told is that they were unable to get a ride. That’s not enshittification, that’s simply scammers on the platform not doing their job.

That won’t happen with robots.

They might raise the prices, or clean the cars less frequently, but if it shows up and runs the program, it won’t ever get worse than that.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-11-22 00:38:36+00:00
How do you know it isn't already at that price?

Uber estimated that it costs Waymo $2/mile to operate.

Google says they charge $1.60 to $2.60 a mile, depending on location and demand, so Waymo is already almost certainly at the price you claim you'd be taking it.

I think you dramatically underestimate how much it actually costs to operate a car. Most people think they pay $0 to garage their car, for instance, since the cost was rolled into the price of their house purchase and mostly invisible. But it isn't $0 to a business. Likewise, very few people depreciate their car over just 5 years. Or clean it inside and out every single day.

Here's one attempt at costs for Waymo that finds it costs them about $60,000 a year to operate a single car. Also notice the comments talking about how the per vehicle price is high, how that flows into higher insurance, and all kinds of other things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comments/1il5d5i/unit_costs_p...

Maybe someday there will be a discount AV taxi company using 10 year old beat up Honda Civics that only get cleaned once a month and provide extremely barebones support to pull the costs down to $1/mile. That's a 50% drop in costs from today, so hard to see it coming very quickly. But that's still pretty expensive to be using as a daily commuter!

And note that the IRS per mile rate is $0.70/mile. It's not perfect but it is a decent third party estimate of the true cost of operating a car. Hard to see any taxi company charging anything less than that. So a 10 mile commute every day is still going to cost you $280/month in an AV taxi for the foreseeable future.
by bentley | 2025-11-22 00:39:03+00:00
Did you make a point to interrogate all the non–socially awkward people you met at university to determine if they were homeschooled or not? Yeah, thought not.

When I was in university, there were several instances where people who’d known me for weeks or months found out for the first time that I’d been homeschooled, and expressed their surprise. (Surprise that I was “normal,” I guess, and not a social basket case, as the prevailing stereotype of homeschoolers seems to be.) They simply never thought to ask.

In fact there were even a couple of friends who surprised me by turning out to be homeschooled—when I should have known better than to assume one’s schooling background. But when society spends your entire childhood hammering you with untrue stereotypes about what you are (I heard well‐meaning “But what about socialization?” countless times growing up), some of it is bound to stick.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 00:40:34+00:00
Suicidal ideation at 7 years old is not normal kid behavior, neither is sudden and unprecedented paralyzing anxiety over the prospect of ordinary things like going to a friend's birthday party or trying a new playground.

Me and my mom are on identical doses of Prozac to treat very similar symptoms.

We consulted with a child therapist, a pediatrician, and a psychiatrist.
by more_corn | 2025-11-22 00:41:41+00:00
This is a clickbait headline and it doesn’t really resemble the facts (the article isn’t really about the algorithm it’s about the analysis of irregularities and the author’s conclusion.

I’m not sure there’s enough in this nothing burger to scream fraud. There are some irregularities with accounts due and inventory.

Are there reasonable explanations such as “big client requested 45d instead of the regular 30? Big customer requested 20M units and we have them on hand while we fulfill the orders in tranches.”

A declaration of fraud is going to need a lot more evidence.

I’d rewrite this headline along the lines of “irregularities in nvidia earnings report cause a big sell-of in some circles”
by jjwiseman | 2025-11-22 00:42:18+00:00
In 2003, "Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn, along with Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, the California Highway Patrol, the Los Angeles Police Chiefs’ Association and the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners sent a letter Feb. 26 to news directors of television stations asking them to consider reducing the amount of police car chase coverage they broadcast."

Officials asserted in their letter that live continuous coverage causes dangerous police chases to be looked upon as entertainment, and encourages suspects to flee in pursuit of instant fame. “Dangerous suspects are acquiring instant celebrity status when they recklessly evade police over our streets and highways. This form of notoriety is life threatening and should not occur,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca in the press release. "There have been instances where drivers look out windows and wave. Many [suspects] have made it abundantly clear that they’re enjoying the whole thing,” said Julie Wong, director of communications for the mayor’s office.
by jmole | 2025-11-22 00:42:30+00:00
It's ACPI - most laptops ship with half-broken ACPI tables, and provide support for tunables through windows drivers. It's convenient for laptop manufacturers, because Microsoft makes it very easy to update drivers via windows update, and small issues with sleep, performance, etc. can be mostly patched through a driver update.

Linux OTOH can only use the information it has from ACPI to accomplish things like CPU power states, etc. So you end up with issues like "the fans stop working after my laptop wakes from sleep" because of a broken ACPI implementation.

There are a couple of laptops with excellent battery life under linux though, and if you can find a lunar lake laptop with iGPU and IPS screen, you can idle around 3-4W and easily get 12+ hours of battery.
by ecshafer | 2025-11-22 00:42:33+00:00
The previous neighborhood I lived in, had around 100 townhomes, very secluded. I never saw kids outside other than walking from the bus stop. However my current neighborhood, which is a development of 15 houses, 11 of which have children. The kids are almost all doing things outside every day. Caveat: everyone in my neighborhood is college educated (mix of engineers, professors, finance, teachers, doctors, lawyers, and some other stuff) pretty sociable, and we (the parents) all seem to independently be anti smart phone, tv, etc. high school age kids do seem to go outside less, but theyre all 2 or 3 sport kids, and pretty busy academically.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-22 00:42:39+00:00
AI GPUs suck for gaming, I have seen a video from a guy playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on a H100 at a whooping 8 FPS! That's after some hacks, because otherwise it wouldn't run at all.

AI GPUs are stripped away of most things display-related to make room for more compute cores. So in theory, they could "work", but there are bottlenecks making that compute power irrelevant for gaming, even if they had a display output.
by mistersquid | 2025-11-22 00:42:46+00:00
> The writer mentions Kilduff is a 'trained comedian'.

This is the foundation that somewhat undercuts the message that failure is OK if not requisite.

That is, the latest YouTube episode of Let’s Paint TV, “Come to the promiseland”, is a chaotic performance piece that doesn’t “succeed” at painting (none is attempted), there are no actors other than Kilduff (except in digital post), the speech is improvisatory and halting, and the “music” is discordant. [0]

According to criteria of elite artistic production, “Come to the promiseland” is a “failure”. But judged as a spoken word performance piece that takes a wry look at the disappointments experienced by people who look to a “promiseland”, the performance is pure comedy gold, all the more successful due to its low-fi glitch-art aesthetics.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYG0zxwjjRg
by kentonv | 2025-11-22 00:44:02+00:00
I am not very familiar with Supabase edge functions, but it appears to be based on Deno. According to Deno's documentation, it does not implement hardening against runtime exploits, instead recommending that you set that up separately:

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/security/#executi...

The intro blog post for Supabase edge functions appears to hint that, in production, they use Deno Deploy subhosting: https://supabase.com/blog/edge-runtime-self-hosted-deno-func...

Note that Deno Deploy is a hosting service run by Deno-the-company. My understanding is that they have proprietary components of their hosting infrastructure just like we do. But disclaimer: I haven't looked super-closely, maybe I'm wrong.

But yes, it's true that we don't use containers, instead we've optimized our hosting specifically for isolates as used in workerd, which allows us to run more efficiently and thus deploy every app globally with better pricing than competitors who only deploy to one region. Yes, how we do that is proprietary, just like the scheduling systems of most/all other cloud providers are also proprietary.

But how does that make anyone "tied to one vendor"?
by yyyk | 2025-11-22 00:44:07+00:00
This assumes the direct mode of exploitation. The indirect mode (where an attacker inserts a vulnerability) does not necessarily have the 'short time span' issue. So not a complete solution by any means.

Also, there should a way to distinguish between security updates and normal updates for this. If there is, a cooldown is a useful idea in general for normal updates, since (presumably) the current version works and the new version may introduce bugs.
by didibus | 2025-11-22 00:44:55+00:00
GDP does not require that the goods or services were sold for money. GDP measures the market value adjusted to constant quality of all final goods and services produced. GDP can grow even with fewer workers, fewer hours, fewer buyers, and fewer units sold.

So the way I understood it, productivity, efficiency and quality gains can increase GDP year over year.

Say we are a country of 1 person. If that person can make a car in 2025, but in 2026 manages to make both a car and a house, the GDP has more than doubled. Doesn't matter that nobody paid the money for them.

Another weird thing is, say that 1 person country makes a car in 2025, and in 2026 makes a similarly priced car, if the car is higher quality, it counts as a higher GDP, because they'll measure its value as greater than last year's model, even if it sells for the same price, because the old model would now be worth less.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-11-22 00:46:34+00:00
I was working in a Windows-centric environment and started using ProxMox as the hypervisor instead of Windows Server. This combined with my self. Hosting hobby (Proxmox mini PC cluster, network diagrams of vlans, self hosting my own blog website, having a handful of small tools in my git repos) was what sold my current company on hiring me, more than my resume of working in tech.
by johngossman | 2025-11-22 00:47:00+00:00
I think you're right that the inelegant part is how AI seems to just consist of endless loops of multiplication. I say this as a graphics programmer who realized years ago that all those beautiful images were just lots of MxNs, and AI takes this to a whole new level. When I was in college they told us most of computing resources were used doing Linear Programming. I wonder when that crossed over to graphics or AI (or some networking operation like SSL)?
by tshaddox | 2025-11-22 00:47:33+00:00
> Most people think they pay $0 to garage their car, for instance, since the cost was rolled into the price of their house purchase and mostly invisible. But it isn't $0 to a business.

And on the other hand, each Waymo parking spot is probably a lot cheaper per unit time than 250 square feet inside a house in a residential area. And presumably they need a lot less than 1 parking spot per car.

> Here's one attempt at costs for Waymo that finds it costs them about $60,000 a year to operate a single car.

Doesn't that sound cheap? If a car can average 10 rides per day, that's $16 per ride.
by cuckmaxxed | 2025-11-22 00:47:57+00:00
Unironically I think I can help.

Frank Luna’s D3D11 bible is probably the closest thing we’ll get to a repetition spaced learning curriculum for 3D graphics at a level where you can do an assload with the knowledge.

No, it won’t teach you to derive things. Take Calculus I and II.

No, it won’t teach you about how light works. Take an advanced electrical engineering course on electromagnetism.

But it will teach you the nuts and bolts in an approachable way using what is by far an excellent graphics API, Direct3D 11. Even John Carmack approves.

From there on all the Vulkan, D3D12 shit is just memory fences buffers and queue management. Absolute trash that you shouldn’t use unless you have to.
by trzy | 2025-11-22 00:48:24+00:00
The idea that the size of Ukraine and the distance to Russia’s border through Ukraine diminishes the Russian threat. For two reasons:

1. Russia aims to either capture Ukraine outright or exert influence over it, which puts eastern EU states at grave risk. Note that Belarus, a Russian vassal, already borders the EU and was used by the Russians to launch the Ukraine invasion.

2. Russia already borders — and menaces - the EU in the Baltics.
by sublinear | 2025-11-22 00:48:48+00:00
I wouldn't say those things are completely ego-less, but I will say that they're not necessarily for personal enjoyment alone.

The function of all that is entertaining guests. Of course theirs must be the biggest and best to win people over. You may then ask why they need to win people over, and you will find it only keeps getting more complicated and torturous to maintain than what any individual's ego could possibly and stubbornly want to do.

I'm not saying the wealthiest are heroes or saints or anything like that. In fact, in some cases all of what I just said is totally wrong and it's just a front for massive money laundering. Having a means for large private gatherings is also ideal for other possibly nefarious activities.

I'm simply trying to explain what humanity and depth exists where you don't think it does. It's not really one single "evil" person, or even a group of "evil" people, but a situation caused by many well-intended constraints. That a system naturally becomes corrupt as a mere side effect of its scale and tiny imperfections adding up rather any intentions is probably the most evil thing imaginable.
by arjie | 2025-11-22 00:49:49+00:00
All right, I get it. The driving impulse for why our societies and civilizations exist is the fact that we are complex beings with desires, emotions, and so on. A machine facsimile built to imitate these things will have no such drive to 'expand' so to speak.

The bots talking to bots world is a problem only because the objective is finally for a human to observe the bot-bot conversation and have their objectives changed in some way. It's 'advertising' of some concept. Bot-bot conversations of the form currently possible have no purpose in a world without humans. There is no one to convince.

I think it's an interesting idea, certainly, but there is no reason to write it like this. The bits about call centre scamming etc. are sort of pointless. In general, I like when the complexity of a representation of an idea is required because the territory being mapped is complex.

I know he's a famous philosopher and all that, but the complexity of his text appears to be sort of like older segmentation models. You ask it to extract a circle from a background and it produces an almost fractally-complex circle-approximation. "What is the object in the foreground?", you ask, and the machine (and here the philosopher) responds "It is a strange approximation of a circle with a billion jagged edges". No, it's a circle.
by Numerlor | 2025-11-22 00:51:13+00:00
For company hosting cloud solutions gets you the various compliance stuff for free which can be worth it if you're not too large, and of course faster turnaround if you need to get a product out.

For personal a cheap vps will end up costing around the same as something you can do on your own, without the risk of messing up your machine/network from a vulnerable endpont
by acdha | 2025-11-22 00:51:19+00:00
> This assumes the direct mode of exploitation. The indirect mode (where an attacker inserts a vulnerability) does not necessarily have the 'short time span' issue. So not a complete solution by any means.

The short time span isn’t just because exploits get attention: it’s to allow the groups which do automated analysis time to respond. Significantly increasing the challenge level for an attacker to introduce a vulnerability is a meaningful improvement even if it doesn’t prevent that class of attack entirely.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-11-22 00:51:29+00:00
I think that's fine, its the people that aren't paranoid about it at all that concern me. There's definitely a responsible way to use llms and get value out of them. I just come off strong cause most people are the former and need to snap out the fuck out of it. I feel like 25% of the people on this site are "spiraling" i.e heading towards some silicon valley administered psychosis.
by econ | 2025-11-22 00:51:31+00:00
In the early 2000 I ran into an outgrowth of patents that described all variations of the seamless replacement of humans in phone calls. Years later I got a telemarketing call where a young lady introduced her employer so enegetically and it was so beautifuly articulated that my alarm bells went off. (I know what it is like to crank out a thousand calls) I asked a question, and after a static click the same voice continued, only now she sounded like she lost the will to live. The patent art never covered that angle.

Since they didn't have llms it described pressing buttons to elaborately explain all angles of a product. The operator was to monitor multiple calls as text logs and jump in at the right time or if overwhelmed press the please hold + $excuses button.

The entire automation was designed to preserve the illusion of human contact. Selling stuff only made it to second place.
by vrinsd | 2025-11-22 00:52:39+00:00
If you look at modern FPGAs they have prodigous amounts of on-chip memories (BRAMs and URAM in Xilinx speak).

You can buy Xilinx FPGAs on PCIe cards that could easily handle THOUSANDS of RISC-V cores.

Almost all FPGA dev boards include DDR memory so you could also put code there if you needed to.
by kurthr | 2025-11-22 00:53:25+00:00
Are there quantized (eg 4bit) models available yet? I assume the training was done in BF16, but it seems like most inference models are distributed in BF8 until they're quantized.

edit ahh I see it on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Olmo-3-1125-32B-4bit
by trzy | 2025-11-22 00:53:28+00:00
Slowly then suddenly. Movements in the frontline are gradual until one side is exhausted and collapses. With Trump’s ludicrous “peace” plan, Ukraine would be barred access to US weapons, the size of its military restricted, and Russia would simply rearm and try again.

And despite how things have fared in Ukraine thus far, the Baltics are a much softer target. If Ukraine does end up falling to the Russians, it’ll be used as a springboard by the Russians, potentially supported by Ukrainians disillusioned with the West’s betrayal. It would certainly not be the first time that Russia has annexed Ukraine and mobilized its people against Russia’s foes.
by sitkack | 2025-11-22 00:53:34+00:00
Was it one of

https://web.archive.org/web/20100612184109/https://nelson.be...

Neural Circuit Recording from an Intact Cockroach Nervous System https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3969889/

Descending influences on escape behavior and motor pattern in the cockroach https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11536194/

Multisensory control of escape in the cockroach Periplaneta americana https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00192001
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-22 00:53:47+00:00
24/7 labor is expensive. The goal is to have a 1:10 ratio of nurses to patients, but to get 24/7 coverage you need almost 5x as many nurses. Add other staff: food, cleaning, maintenance, executive/secretarial, etc and you have about as many non nursing staff as nursing staff.

So in other words you are covering the loaded labour rate for about 1 salary per occupant.
by tecoholic | 2025-11-22 00:53:57+00:00
I agree, generally. But there is always a bit of a nuance when it comes to personal finance. I have gone through the full cycle, I started off with logging every single transaction, then syncing everything and tracking monthly cash flow, investment dashboards and then to yearly syncs and now I barely think about it.

What happened was I slowly built an awareness of how things are going, where my spending and savings are and internalised a few things. For example, as a contractor I responsible for my taxes, so 30% of my invoice goes into a savings account as soon as I get paid. But, that wouldn’t have happened right away for me, if I have never done the monthly cash flow.

I think everyone goes through this journey. Because I often see people super into accounting for a couple of years and then completely abandon it later in life. Looking at it daily in early stages help get a feel and set expectations for the long term. Some people get sidetracked here and the phrase “Beat the market” grates on me for that reason.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-11-22 00:54:10+00:00
> what percentage of hardware supports it?

Pretty much everything modern except Apple. Intel since 11th gen (2021), AMD since Zen4 (2022), Samsung phones since 2021, Google phones since 2021, Mediatek since 2020.

With modern lifecycles the way they are, that's probably ~60-80% of everything out there.

Also software decoding works just fine.