MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NaomiLehman | 2025-11-22 19:42:04+00:00
when I say "control the software" what i mean is we need another company that can say "hey we are moving to architecture X because we think it's better" and within a year most developers rewrite their apps for the new arch - because it's worth it for them

there needs to be a huge healthy ecosystem/economic incentive.

it's all about the software for end users. I don't care what brand it is or OS and how much it costs. I want to have the most polished software and I want to have it on release day.

Right now, it's Apple.

Microsoft tries to do this but is held back by the need for backward compatibility (enterprise adoption), and Google cannot do this because of Android fragmentation. I don't think anyone is even near to try this with Linux.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-22 19:42:15+00:00
> The same total work gets done by the same group of people in both cases, but the second measures as "better" for "the economy".

It's worse than that, because it's not the same work. In Scenario B the person watching the kids isn't their parent so they don't have the same bond or interest in the child's long-term success. It also introduces a lot of additional inefficiencies because now you have trust and vetting issues, either the child or the person watching the child has to commute every day so that they're in the same place because they no longer live in the same house as each other, etc.
by exo-cortex | 2025-11-22 19:42:29+00:00
Funny that you mention IKEA. I have 4 very old IKEA glasses that were made by Duralex. I just love the fact that they're about as old as I am (40 next year) and we're able to survive that long. I consider them to be the peak of IKEA glassware. Today IKEA glasses are known to be breaking easy - sometimes simply by getting hot in the dishwasher. The design might look fresher, but they won't last.

The rest of my glasses (most) are Duralex as well. They're just very ... durable. I was kind of getting annoyed that the brand became so popular that I see them everywhere now (every other cafe serves water in them). I'm not French btw, my love for the glasses simply comes from seeing them outlast time and many pretty dramatic falls (a few times on hard ceramic tiles from a meter up and bouncing up almost as high again - leaving a few nearby mouths agape in the process). But reading that they're a worker owned cooperative makes me want to buy many more from them. That's what I want: Stuff that's build to last a long time by people who can live from their work. Who cares if they look dated? For something that's used daily being old is a testament to their quality. I use my IKEA-Duralex glasses almost daily. They look much cooler than any new shit with their battle-scars ight scratches :-D). IKEA is literally the opposite.
by jbverschoor | 2025-11-22 19:42:52+00:00
Sure, yes the cost of producing a wafer is fixed. Opex didn’t change that much.

Following your reasoning, which is common in manufacturing, the capex needed is already allocated. So, where does the 2x price hike come from if not supply/demand?

The cost to produce did not go up 100%, or even 20%

Actually, DRAM fabs do get scaled down, very similar to the Middle East scaling down oil production.
by pezezin | 2025-11-22 19:42:59+00:00
I understand what you mean, and I agree.

I have a similar experience: a couple of years ago I started to dip my toes into the retrogaming collecting world, and at first it was fun to get all those games that I really wanted to have as a kid, but it soon devolved into trying to track down all those overpriced "rare" games. It got exhausting, and made wonder why am I even doing this? Why would I spend several hundreds on a game or a console that I didn't even knew about until one year ago, just because some random YouTube guy told me so?

Being a kid, really wanting a game or toy, finally getting it and then enjoying it to death was awesome; this is not. As you say, it doesn't feel right, so I have decided to quit.
by svieira | 2025-11-22 19:43:58+00:00
It doesn't cost the fully salary of the woman, it redirects it to something that can't be captured by large scale economics. Which, if you're trying to break the backs of the uber wealthy, is an excellent way to do it.

> Women won't be put back into financial captivity without a fight

This, along with the language of the supposedly "pro-male" camp ("why shackle yourself to someone who will just rough you over for most of your paycheck later and leave") are both approaching marriage wrong. If you're trying to achieve a good that cannot be had individually (a happy marriage) then both sides have to freely give 100% of what the shared good requires. Marriage cannot work as a Mexican standoff between two parties who are trying to take as much as possible from it without giving anything in return.

Dangerous? Yes. It's the most dangerous thing you can ever do, to take yourself in your own hands and offer yourself to another.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-11-22 19:45:28+00:00
What you’re failing to acknowledge is the public was right. It was “leadership” across the board that failed. It’s been documented and continues to be documented. It’s simply not advertised, else the lack of trust gap would widen and be more than justified.

The failure(s), we are worse off for it at this point. The handling of the COVID 19 pandemic was as misguided and anemic as Bush’s “Keep shopping” (i.e., his advise to the country in response to 9/11).

Blaming those without power for the shortcomings of those with power is revisionist history bullshit. T
by watwut | 2025-11-22 19:46:07+00:00
I mean, that is an advantage to people who push for that. That way the woman is made completely dependent on man and cant leave no matter how bad the situation gets. If you want men to be head of households then lack of female employment is an advantage.

Of course men to get simultaneously resentful over having to work while women done and spend their money each time they buy something, are not super thankful all of the time cause people are not, but that is not concern to those people either.
by tastyface | 2025-11-22 19:46:31+00:00
What the fuck, dude?

Bud, "your" people are "getting replaced" because they’re not fucking enough. Pounding your chest about "low-IQ" immigrants and masculinity won't help: they still won't fuck until they feel they can afford the lifestyle they want, regardless of who you feel the "burden of proof" is on. Enjoy seeing -- gasp!! -- a whole lot more brown faces with scary names in the future. (As always, the kids will be alright, regardless of whatever scornful glances they might catch from insecure adult "men".)

Want to raise the next generation of humans in a healthy, humanistic way? Then you go fucking do it, Mr. Big Man. Otherwise, let us do the sensible thing of having universal child care and go back to your racist rat hole.

Someday your woke kids will read your comment and will be mortified.
by Vanclief | 2025-11-22 19:46:53+00:00
We have been working hard on the past two months implementing agents for different tasks. We started with Claude code, as we really liked working with hooks. However being vendor locked and having usage limit problems, we ended up implementing our own "runtime" that keeps the conversation structure while having hooks. Right now it only works with OpenAI but its designed to be able to incorporate Claude / Gemini down the road

We ended up open sourcing that runtime if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/Vanclief/agent-composer
by kbolino | 2025-11-22 19:46:57+00:00
Both stories can be true.

The firms can coordinate by agreeing on a strategy they deem necessary for the future of the industry, and that strategy requires significant capital expenditures, and the industry does not get (or does not want) outside investment to fund it, and if any of the firms defects and keeps prices low the others cannot execute on the strategy, so they all agree to raise prices.

Then, after the strategy succeeds, they have gotten addicted to the higher revenues, they do not allow prices to fall as fast as they should, their coordination becomes blatantly illegal, and they have to get smacked down by regulators.
by maebert | 2025-11-22 19:47:06+00:00
They're all great, but the 2012 "The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray" is the closest to the original script before the editor cut out things that he deemed... checks notes... "too gay".

It restores parts that were cut, and essentially bans chapter 3 and some other digressions on art history that Wilde added as a literary Beard to the footnotes - still there to read, but set in context)

It's not a huge different honestly, but I believe Oscar Wilde would want you to read that version.

It
by leogao | 2025-11-22 19:47:20+00:00
I'm not an expert at hardware, so take this with a grain of salt, but there are two main reasons:

- Discrete optimisation is always going to be harder than continuous optimization. Learning the right sparsity mask is fundamentally a very discrete operation. So even just matching fully continuous dense models in optimization efficiency is likely to be difficult. Though perhaps we can get some hope from the fact that MoE is also similarly fundamentally discrete, and it works in practice (we can think of MoE as incurring some penalty from imperfect gating, which is more than offset by the systems benefits of not having to run all the experts on every forward pass). Also, the optimization problem gets harder when the backwards pass needs to be entirely sparsified computation (see appendix B).

- Dense matmuls are just fundamentally nicer to implement in hardware. Systolic arrays have nice predictable data flows that are very local. Sparse matmuls with the same number of flops nominally only need (up to a multiplicative factor) the same memory bandwidth as an equivalent dense matmul, but they need to be able to route data from any memory unit to any vector compute unit - the locality of dense matmuls means that the computation of each tile only requires a small slice of both input matrices, so we only need to load those slices into shared memory; on the other hand, because GPU-to-GPU transfers are way slower, when we op-shard matmuls, we replicate the data that is needed. Sparse matmuls would need either more replication within each compute die, or more all-to-all internal bandwidth. This means spending way more die space on huge crossbars and routing. This would cost a lot of die space, though thankfully, the crossbars consume much less power than actual compute, so perhaps this could match dense in energy efficiency and not make thermals worse.

It also seems very likely that once we create the interpretable GPT-1 (or 2, or 3) we will find that making everything unstructured sparse was overkill, and there are much more efficient pretraining constraints we can apply to models to 80/20 the interpretability. In general, a lot of my hope routes through learning things like this from the intermediate artifact (interpretable GPT-n).

To be clear, it doesn't seem literally impossible that with great effort, we could create custom hardware, and vastly improve the optimization algorithms, etc, such that weight-sparse models could be vaguely close in performance to weight-dense models. It's plausible that with better optimization the win from arbitrary connectivity patterns might offset the hardware difficulties, and I could be overlooking something that would make the cost less than I expect. But this would require immense effort and investment to merely match current models, so it seems quite unrealistic compared to learning something from interpretable GPT-3 that helps us understand GPT-5.
by TZubiri | 2025-11-22 19:47:37+00:00
Nice. Additionally we should be using dependency limits and dependency moderation.

Half of my job when reviewing work is telling junior devs to try to do something without the dependency. Usually they just learn about a very basic skill.

"Ok so you downloaded a thing called apscheduler, what does that do?" "So it's like cron?" "Can you use threads, or even better just use a separate process?" "Cool"

My (least) favourite example is the amount of juniors that download a dependency from a random indian dev to store and read credentials from .env . Just open() and read() the security critical file my dude.
by worik | 2025-11-22 19:48:00+00:00
> Won't the value will be concentrated in the few with the scale to build competitive AIs?

No.

Open AI and their ilk can sell tokens, but how much business is there in that? Trillions? If not, they're bankrupt.

Dead man walking. Zombie

The open and free models are very capable and getting better.

If there is a breakthrough beyond transformers and neural nets that means trustworthy AI that can be agentic (does not exist, the "trustworthy" part) then it will be exponentially more valuable. But that was as likely in 2020 as in 2030.

Meanwhile something like 10% of the USA electricity supply is being "committed" to datacenters and no practical plans to supply it

Meanwhile the Chinese are leaping ahead and in a more community orientated open way. The cognitive dissonance is quite loud for that one!
by theoldgreybeard | 2025-11-22 19:48:09+00:00
Pewdiepie did something like this where all the AIs looked at each others answers and voted on the highest quality answer.

Democracy!

It worked pretty well until he updated them to know that poorly performing agents would get deleted and replaced. Then they started conspiring against him.

(19:43 for relevant part) https://youtu.be/qw4fDU18RcU
by owenversteeg | 2025-11-22 19:48:19+00:00
There are plenty of these restaurants all around the world, they’re just not cheap. Poke bowls and salads and Sweetgreen are very popular, go to any downtown anywhere. But where McDonald’s uses shelf-stable, globally sourcable bulk materials, these places are the opposite. Both Coke and salads are mostly water, but the Coke ships as a concentrate and the salad ships whole. You can sign one contract and get a regular, reliable delivery of Coke to your stores in Houston, Anchorage and everywhere between; good luck doing that with salad. There also aren’t any great huge-markup upsells with healthy foods; the closest thing is guac, which costs a ton, meanwhile McDonalds can upsell you on fries or coke (which are basically free!) There’s the trend factor: Baja Blast is catchy and you can rotate it out for another neon soda in a week, how do you do that with arugula? Artificial ingredients provide more of a moat/proprietary edge; it is legally and practically trivial to copy a healthy sandwich. Healthy foods are more difficult to eat while walking or driving, so you need more seating. Then there’s the prep time, the addictive factor, calorie density…
by mindslight | 2025-11-22 19:49:00+00:00
> I think it's a weird concept of a society where all the parts of it with money are directing people to do one thing - but at the same time, the people are expected to do the exact opposite and it's their own fault if they follow the coercion...

You've summed up the foundation of our entire consumer economy quite well. And people might be able to devote their attention to several types of things they need and not fall prey to adversarial pop culture for those specific things, but nobody is capable of doing that for everything.
by watwut | 2025-11-22 19:49:02+00:00
> We need fathers to protect and provide.

Protect from what? Themselves and other men? Why do they have to provide while women are being made helpless and dependent?

> Things worked this way for thousands upon thousands of years and led to our species being amazingly resilient

It led to high domestic violence against women. Even normalized one where being the wife was considered just being a man. These are very much correlated with lack of opportunities for women to get earn and live independently. Too many men were using the "protection" as an excuse for being the primary danger in their women's lives.
by pm215 | 2025-11-22 19:50:01+00:00
For small stuff, the cost is just going to be too much for people to want to pay it. This bug had a $1900 bounty attached. Let's put the cost of one software engineer (salary plus overheads) at $200,000 a year, which I think is an underestimate. That's $3850 a week, so unless your bug can definitely be fixed (including getting any necessary hardware, investigation, fixing, code review overhead, etc) in two or three days it doesn't pay. And if it could obviously be done in two days then it's likely somebody would have already done that.

The above back of envelope maths ignores the overheads of interacting with the people who posted the bounties to get them to agree to pay up, and of the cost overruns on the class of bugs that look like two day fixes but take two weeks.
by nineplay | 2025-11-22 19:50:09+00:00
FTA

> Think of the Perry and Quebec experiments—two of the most widely cited in the early-education literature—as poles at either end of a spectrum

Even The Economist acknowledges that its a single study in a single province which runs contradictory to other studies. That they turn that into headline article says more about The Economist and readers of The Economist than it does about universal child care.
by verdverm | 2025-11-22 19:51:11+00:00
yes, we should all stop experimenting and outsource our agentic workflows to our new overlords...

this will surely end up better than where big tech has already brought our current society...

For real though, where did the dreamers about ai / agentic free of the worst companies go? Are we in the seasons of capitulation?

My opinion... build, learn, share. The frameworks will improve, the time to custom agent will be shortened, the knowledge won't be locked in another unicorn

anecdotally, I've come quite far in just a week with ADK and VS Code extensions, having never done extensions before, which has been a large part of the time spent
by ok123456 | 2025-11-22 19:51:17+00:00
> This is demonstrably false given the election result in 2016. Donald Trump was absolutely the anti-elite candidate with all of the establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle denouncing him as a candidate and calling his supporters fascists. His election was a national shock.

And then he governed in a reactionary way that favored the elites with whom he transacted. One man cannot change the superstructure through electoral means, as Lenin pointed out. All the undemocratic, unilateral powers that Trump has taken advantage of didn't start with him; they began with his predecessors and the larger national security state, who expanded executive power without oversight.

>Fine, and we'll see how that system works over the next century. This thread isn't about the efficacy of the Chinese system. It's about protecting the concept of democracy from propaganda.

Propaganda is how you control public opinion and sentiment in a democracy. See the work of Edward Bernays and Chomsky. Propaganda is an integral part of modern liberal democracies to arrive at a consensus that is largely disconnected from the needs or will of the electorate.

China doesn't need us to tell them how to run their country or their provinces.
by g9yuayon | 2025-11-22 19:51:33+00:00
https://stanfordreview.org/jo-boaler-and-the-woke-math-death..., and wikipedia on Math Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_wars

Personally, I find Boaler's advocacy extreme. Her famous quote: "Every student is capable of understanding every theorem in mathematics – and beyond – the mathematics curriculum. They just need the opportunity to struggle with rich tasks and see mathematics as a conceptual, creative subject.” This sounds inspiring, but in practice she advocated the policy of truly dumbing down math curriculums and text books. To say the least, shouldn't she at least demonstrate that she could understand any theorem? But instead, she advocated that SFUSD eliminate algebra from 8th Grade . Another example was that the curriculum that she advocated, College Preparatory Mathematics, was so boring and trivial. She also said something along the line "Traditional mathematics teaching is repetitive and uninspiring. We give students 30 similar problems to do over and over again, and it bores them and turns them off math for life.” What's funny is that the alternatives that Boaler prescribed were quite uninspiring and low level: https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/. All I can derive from her policies and complaints is that she couldn't do math. Why people would listen to someone who sucked at math about math education is beyond me.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-22 19:51:42+00:00
> That either means that childcare is too expensive or teachers don't get paid enough (probably both tbh)

It's not necessarily either one. If you do it yourself, you reuse the existing home instead of needing a separate building with its own rent, maintenance and security, the children and the adult watching them wake up in the same place instead of both having to commute to the childcare building, you have no administrative costs in terms of hiring, HR, accounting, background checks, etc. By the time you add up all the additional costs, you can easily end up underwater against doing it yourself even if each adult in the central facility is watching more kids -- and that itself is a cost because then each kid gets less attention.
by fabianholzer | 2025-11-22 19:52:16+00:00
I'm involved in screening CVs and interviewing candidates. If there is so much as a email adress that indicates a personal domain, I look it up to see whether behind it there might be something like a personal website. When the CV is good and Github repositories etc. are mentioned I also take a brief glance there. But indeed, it is very rather rare that I make the content a part of the interview.
by throwaway6734 | 2025-11-22 19:52:38+00:00
It's a shame that there's not the option of providing parents with the choice of free child care or some kind of cash subsidy.

A bit tangential, but the overall problem is that cost of having children is privatized while the benefit is socialized. I'd love to see age and number of children progressively factored into the income tax bracket people pay. Something like a 60-80% tax rate for all income >150k for those >40 without children so those that benefit the most from future generations being born are helping to shoulder the cost
by 0xy | 2025-11-22 19:52:51+00:00
As someone who utilizes these tools for anti-fraud purposes, Firefox is just as trackable if not more trackable than Chrome (especially because you stand out by using a niche browser in the first place).

Firefox exposes a massive amount of identifiable information via canvas, audio device and feature detection methods. There's also active methods to detect private windows, use of the developer console and more.
by pojzon | 2025-11-22 19:53:02+00:00
Previous bubble did not take global market with it. It was close to it, but it did not happen.

It just made possible next one worse x10.

Bailing out 2008 was a mistake. All of those banks were supposed to collapse.

Next burst will be a lot worse. Reason why China, Japan, Europe are all dumping their USD reserves.

Everyone is preparing for inevitable collapse of USD.

It will be devastating for the whole world. Hard to predict how bad tho.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-22 19:53:18+00:00
Yeah but it's something that affects people differently. I took escitalopram and my libido was a bit reduced but mainly it became harder to orgasm. That was not all bad, it's nice to be able to last an hour and a half :) I was already heavy but didn't gain any more weight. I did lose some when I moved to other stuff though.

But these side-effects just need to be checked for (and the libido issue isn't relevant to under-teens anyway).
by chiefalchemist | 2025-11-22 19:53:25+00:00
This has been the best thing the government has ever done for Brazil's poorest by far,” according to Márcio Garcia, an economics professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

A single centralized system? Controlled by the Brazilian Central Bank? That is effective not optional? Is sold as a benefit for the already marginalized and repressed?

Is this 2026, or 1984?