MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gchamonlive | 2025-11-03 18:49:42+00:00
I did an interview for the job I'm currently at, and we were discussing in it an architecture for live updating chats and I said I wouldn't reinvent the wheel and just use the approach Phoenix LiveView uses, which is to have a basic framework loaded client-side that would just apply diffs that comes from a websocket to the UI and have the chat update using those diffs. Turns out this is exactly the architecture they use in production.

People are reimplementing things that are first class citizens in elixir. Live content update, job runners, queues... Everything is built into the language. Sure you can do it all in typescript, but by then you'll be importing lots of libraries, reimplementing stuff with less reliability and offloading things like queues to third party solutions like pulsar or kafka.

People really should try elixir. I think the initial investment to train your workforce pays itself really quick when you don't have to debug your own schedulers and integrations with third party solutions. Plus it makes it really easy to scale after you have a working solution in elixir.
by palata | 2025-11-03 18:50:01+00:00
Does it recover though, or do you end up in situations where your setup is essentially broken?

Like if I backup photos from iOS, then remove a subset of those from iOS to make space on the phone (but obviously I want to keep them on the cloud), and later the mobile app gets out of sync, I don't want to end up in a situation where some photos are on iOS, some on the cloud, but none of the devices has everything, and I have no easy way to resync them.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-03 18:50:29+00:00
> Would you consider it sentient?

Absolutely.

If you simulated a human brain by the atom, would you think the resulting construct would NOT be? What would be missing?

I think consciousness is simply an emergent property of our nervous system, but in order to express itself "language" is obviously needed and thus requires lots of complexity (more than what we typically see in animals or computer systems until recently).
by k__ | 2025-11-03 18:50:31+00:00
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by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-03 18:50:55+00:00
> a midpoint between "AIs are useless and do not actually think" and "AIs think like humans"

LLMs (AIs) are not useless. But they do not actually think. What is trivially true is that they do not actually need to think. (As far as the Turing Test, Eliza patients, and VC investors are concerned, the point has been proven.)

If the technology is helping us write text and code, it is by definition useful.

> In 2003, the machine-learning researcher Eric B. Baum published a book called “What Is Thought?” [...] The gist of Baum’s argument is that understanding is compression, and compression is understanding.

This is incomplete. Compression is optimisation, optimisation may resemble understanding, but understanding is being able to verify that a proposition (compressed rule or assertion) is true or false or even computable.

> —but, in my view, this is the very reason these models have become increasingly intelligent.

They have not become more intelligent. The training process may improve, the vetting of the data improved, the performance may improve, but the resemblance to understanding only occurs when the answers are provably correct. In this sense, these tools work in support of (are therefore part of) human thinking.

The Stochastic Parrot is not dead, it's just making you think it is pining for the fjords.
by sshine | 2025-11-03 18:50:57+00:00
> The IaC ecosystem is not the Javascript ecosystem; If you use good modules, pin them to a specific version, and update when you need to then you won’t run into the dependency issues that you may have elsewhere.

That’s a half-truth. The IaC consulting I take part of is overwhelmed equally by npm and docker/helm dependency hell.

Sure, worms in npm. But just as many things breaking and getting deprecated in IaC land. Bitnami deprecating their charts. Zookeeper operator breaking on newer Linux kernels. Lagoon not respecting resource requests.

“But if you stick to the good packages!” works for any package ecosystem. It’s just that sometimes you don’t choose the packages.

My only counter-argument: sometimes it is cheaper to maintain your own fork of something. Sometimes it is cheaper to make your own thing.
by avh02 | 2025-11-03 18:51:03+00:00
Had the same experience, what scared the crap out of me is that feeling of not even knowing you're out is how some people spend their last moment.

Not just in surgery for example but in extreme other situations (nukes, titan sub, piano to the head, etc)... You're just there then you aren't and you don't even know. Shook me (lightly) for a while
by tripflag | 2025-11-03 18:51:13+00:00
> I also miss Filerun's "Request a file" feature which worked very nicely if you just wanted someone to upload a file to you and then be done.

With the disclaimer that I've never used Filerun, I think this can be replicated with copyparty by means of the "shares" feature (--shr). That way, you can create a temporary link for other people to upload to, without granting access to browse or download existing files. It works like this: https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/#gf-bb96d8ba&t=13:44
by mywittyname | 2025-11-03 18:51:18+00:00
> LLM coding is really not in the most abstract sense any different from compiling a higher level language to a lower level language.

Hard disagree here. Anecdotally, know a few people who can't write a Java program that will compile, who can leverage ChatGPT to produce functional websites.

A good friend of mine ChatGPTed his way into a masters degree that involved a lot of coding. A good 97% of his degree was done by AI, and the other 3% was me helping him troubleshoot he couldn't get AI to solve.

LLM is vastly different from a compiler/translator. Despite the joke, you can't just fire up Python with import website and have a functional website. But you can basically do that with LLMs, which will then add features as requested. It's not perfect, nor guaranteed to be functional, but it is quite a bit more capable than a compiler is for such tasks.

At my work, the sales guys are using AI tools to rapidly prototype features on our website with prospects. While it doesn't do all the work, it can produce useful HTML templates that the front-end team can make functional.
by hinkley | 2025-11-03 18:51:43+00:00
Hub motors are problematic because they increase the sprung weight of the wheel, which loses more traction when hitting bumps. Dangerous while cornering or braking. Scale down a motor like this to 300 HP and you could have an amazing AWD vehicle.

This video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9Ptibu2WQ&t=179s claims that SMC materials have much higher losses at low frequencies than laminated materials, up to around 400 HZ when they very rapidly pull ahead.

So as the core of a step down transformer for consumer electronics, SMCs would be worse than a laminated core (stack of sheet metal pieces punched with a press, stacked and wound with the windings). But in a motor operating at 100s of rpms, no problem. And as I understand it, in high torque motors the magnetic fields pulse far more often than once per revolution because the windings are many and small, so that several can pull on the armature at any orientation.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-03 18:51:45+00:00
> The $1.4T commitment is spread over multiple years. Let's assume 4

The Amazon deal is actually spread over 7 years. Other deals have different terms, but also spread over multiple years.

Deals like these have cancellation terms. OpenAI could presumably pay a fee and cancel in the future if their projections are too high and they don't need some of the compute from these deals.

The deals also include OpenAI shares. The deals are being made with companies that have sufficient revenue or even cash on hand to buy the compute and electricity.

The claim above that someone needs to come up with $1.4 trillion right now or everything will collapse isn't grounded in any real understanding of these deals. It's just adding up numbers and comparing them to a single annual revenue snapshot.
by bluchen217 | 2025-11-03 18:51:52+00:00
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by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-03 18:52:12+00:00
You seem to be unaware of what is happening right now on the streets- there are thousands of videos all over social media you should spend a few hours watching. Peaceful citizens minding their own business are being terrorized and beaten by unprofessional and violent masked goons at a massive scale. The perpetrators are hiding their identities and often refusing to even look at documents proving someone is a citizen. In the detention centers people are being brutalized- left to sit for days in human shit, diabetics denied insulin, bright lights on 24/7, and food and water provided only as rewards for desires behaviors. Congress is denied their legal right and responsibility to tour the facilities, allowing them to hide human rights abuses. The cruelty and sadism of the tactics used is ratcheting up every week, and any agents that try to act lawfully are purged. Victims have no recourse- the DOJ and legal system are blocking victims from being able to even press charges, allowing these abuses to continue with no recourse.

I'm not sure about citizens being deported other than children of non-citizens together with their parents, but they are deporting huge numbers of people here legally on visas, green cards, and valid asylum claims. They revoked visas of some 6,000 college students - mostly for political "wrongthink" and then sent ICE agents after them, when it's actually legal in the USA for them to remain with a revoked student visa as long as they arrived legally, and illegal to detain or deport. They've also arrested and detained hundreds of citizens, that they absolutely knew were citizens, for peaceful protesting and video taping their illegal activities.
by al11588 | 2025-11-03 18:52:28+00:00
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by nailer | 2025-11-03 18:52:43+00:00
> You want to treat a video created and edited by the person who lost a libel case in this specific matter, as a valid source of truth about the matters of fact in this specific matter?

As I said, the documentary contains the interview with the girl Jamal Hijazi hit in her spine with a hockey stick starts at 21:49, and is followed by discussions with staff at the school, a student he spat at, other staff discussing him knocking a kid out by throwing him against a wall, school records of him bringing a knife and screwdriver to school, photos of the other girl he hit from text messages with the girl’s mother, an interview with the head teacher of the time about Jamal Hijazi bullying other children.

You don't have to believe Robinson, you can believe everyone else. I haven't read the rest of your comment as you haven't bothered to read mine, so there's little point.
by bjacobt | 2025-11-03 18:52:54+00:00
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by elseleigh | 2025-11-03 18:52:58+00:00
Yes, I still use FreePascal for utilities, libraries and console apps. I write these in Lazarus on Linux, and run them on local machines or (for some console apps) on our Intel Synology NAS. It's nice knowing I can easily recompile for other operating systems if I need to.

For some tasks FreePascal is quite clunky, but the lower level the task, the quicker it is to write a solution.
by willgogo | 2025-11-03 18:53:06+00:00
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by freefaler | 2025-11-03 18:53:18+00:00
It's not a manifestation on anything. What's cheaper with better quality will be chosen by the consumer. To get cheaper economies of scale are needed.

My competitor has a contracting factory in Pakistan that has the same labor costs as me, but works for 50 hours, instead of 32 hours. He can produce 36% more per week, while paying the same cost of capital, opex and other costs, even if he pays the same per hour as me.

But if he has 1/10 of the cost of labor and labor is a high % of end product cost, I can't compete and my business is bust, my employees are on the street and we all live from 1. the taxes of the productive people in the society who can sell something competitively outside (to have currency to buy imports) 2. governmental loans to be paid in the future by the people from 1.
by ranger_danger | 2025-11-03 18:53:27+00:00
I've got a different theory than this AI slop:

Engineers often aren't rational because engineers can still be stupid. Dogmatism/black-and-white thinking is often a sign of low emotional intelligence (and can also be a defense mechanism called "splitting").

The Dunning-Kruger effect also applies to "smart" people. You don't stop when you are estimating your ability correctly. As you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self estimates.
by technothrasher | 2025-11-03 18:53:49+00:00
I've passed out about that many times in my life as well. I'm very sensitive to dehydration and it can sneak up on me and drop my blood pressure enough that down I go. Happens maybe once every five to six years.

I don't have any crazy memories when I'm out. But coming back to, I always feel like there's something I just can't remember, it's just out of reach, at the tip of my tongue... and then my sight comes back and I can place where I am, but it feels like I've been gone for a very long time and am returning to the past, and then everything snaps in place and I'm back to normal.

Being put under with anesthetic feels very different. With that, I simply pop out and then pop back in.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-03 18:54:05+00:00
> Western nations came, they defeated their enemy, and they took their territory.

The various tribes also engaged in near constant warfare with each other, defeating them, taking their territory, and making the rest slaves. Cortez was only able to defeat the Aztecs because he was able to enlist the aid of the non-Aztec tribes, who hated the Aztecs because of the depredations of Aztecs against them.

The Inca empire was only recently formed before the Spanish arrived.

In North America, the Commanche carved out an empire in the south at the expense of the tribes that had been living there. See "Empire of the Summer Moon":

https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
by helicone | 2025-11-03 18:54:07+00:00
Those people have families. You're being really insensitive to the Altman family right now. You should take a look in the mirror and realize that your violent words have consequences and can spread malinformation, distrust of authority, and a collapse of democratic norms. They succeeded in the free market and have the backing of your freely elected representatives, they deserve your respect and obedience.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-11-03 18:54:08+00:00
as we delve further into the mass media spectacle one thing has become clear as everything else has become very muddy: the truth isn't what the facts support, it's what you hear three times from people you consider your peers. the fact is that the data that show increased wait times are for elective surgery (https://www.comparethemarket.com.au/health-insurance/feature...) which (by nature of being elective) doesn't correspond to increased mortality or cost, but the wait times on emergency care are comparable for single payer and individual payer systems are comparable, with the US doing slightly better in waits for people who actually receive care but, again, no indication of how many people avoid care due to the cost.
by atrettel | 2025-11-03 18:54:12+00:00
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by rezmason | 2025-11-03 18:54:30+00:00
Bravo! I love color and color spaces.

I've been researching the way classic Macs quantize colors to limited palettes:

https://rezmason.net/retrospectrum/color-cube

This cube is the "inverse table" used to map colors to a palette. The animated regions are tints and shades of pure red, green, and blue. Ideally, this cube would be a voronoi diagram, but that would be prohibitively expensive for Macs of the late eighties. Instead, they mapped the palette colors to indices into the table, and expanded the regions assigned to those colors via a simultaneous flood fill, like if you clicked the Paint Bucket tool with multiple colors in multiple places at the same time. Except in 3D.
by lesuorac | 2025-11-03 18:54:40+00:00
I think the main issue with your theory is that it's $38B in today's dollars. In the 1970s we saw a lot less independence between the Fed and White House and as a consequence severe inflation. Trillions of dollars of liabilities is not going to sound so bad after 4 years of double-digit inflation ...

Also, IIUC the guys in The Big Short would've lost everything if the government stepped in sooner since the banks controlled the price of the CDSs and could've maintained the incorrect price if they had a bunch of extra cash.
by mikepurvis | 2025-11-03 18:55:09+00:00
As someone who has spent my whole career in somewhat niche things (ROS, OpenWRT, microcontrollers, Nix), I think the answer for how to hire for these is not to look for someone who already has that specific experience but rather look for someone curious, the kind of person who reads wikipedia for fun, an engineer who has good overall taste and is excited to connect the dots between other things they've learned about and experimented with.

Obviously that's not going to give you the benefit of a person who has specifically worked in the ecosystem and knows where the missing stairs are, which does definitely have its own kind of value. But overall, I think a big benefit of working in something like Elixir, Clojure, Rust, etc is that it attracts the kind of senior level people who will jump at the opportunity to work with something different.
by nozzlegear | 2025-11-03 18:55:11+00:00
> My parents were upper middle class, but there's no way they paid enough into Medicare to cover the amount of medical care they've used just since retiring (last 5 years or so).

It's a common misconception that the money we all pay into Medicare is going into a generational savings account, so we all need to "pull our weight" to make sure there's enough in there by the time we start withdrawing from it. Medicare is a pay-as-you-go system though – the money we pay into Medicare is being used by the people who are on Medicare right now, and when we're old enough to be using Medicare, it will be paid by the taxes of the young people who are working at that time.

Your parents shouldn't feel guilty for using more of the Medicare resources than they feel they paid in. That money was used up years ago by people who needed it back then.
by RajT88 | 2025-11-03 18:55:18+00:00
I dunno. I am on a discord server with a bunch of people who share theories and lament the cancellation of Raised By Wolves.

Expecting people in the office to be able to talk about that show is too much to expect. Also, I no longer go to an office anyways.

Things are different than say 20 years ago.
by kode95 | 2025-11-03 18:55:25+00:00
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