MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seec | 2025-11-05 10:27:30+00:00
I'm sure there are some good ways to make it quite palatable but the issue is really the price that makes no sense. In France, last time I calculated, they are more expensive by weight than a prime cut of beef, that's just dumb.

If they would make cooked products with them at a decent price I could have an interest, but since they make so much money by selling it as a delicacy with a premium price it's never going to happen.

It's just not a very competitive protein source, regardless of the taste/enjoyability and that's the issue in the end...
by ben_w | 2025-11-05 10:30:10+00:00
> Laughable statement, considering Europeans give a leg and a arm to live in America.

No we don't.

Sure, most of us used to like the USA a decade ago, but even back then it would have to be a right weirdo (everywhere has them) to think that highly of the USA.

If anything, I'm thinking of a healthcare cost comparison a while back, which said that for the cost of a single hip replacement in the USA, someone could fly from the USA to Spain, get it done privately, spend a year just living normally in Spain while recovering, break the other hip and get that replaced too, and still come out ahead.

(I never fact-checked that meme, what with me living in the UK at the time where the NHS supplies everything free at point of use unless you opt for private care that very few bother with; I'm now in Germany whose system is basically what the UK left fears is dangerously American and the US right fears is dangerously like the UK's NHS).

Or some of the stuff we hear about Americans considering the 2nd amendment to be a "god given right". No thanks: safety isn't where I can get armed up, it's where I don't need to.

But now? Trump's reelection has coincided with a lot of people changing from thinking of the place as "ally sharing our values" to just "a necessary partner", a downgrade to significantly less than you describe.
by antonvs | 2025-11-05 10:30:20+00:00
Calling that anti-reductionist is misunderstanding the issue.

> Red (or all qualia) is just the reaction of your nervous system to a stimulus.

Yes, Chalmers would call that one of the easy problems. Computers can do that - react to sensor data, which they have internal representations of - and most people don't assume they're conscious.

The hard problem is how you get from that to a conscious experience of those stimuli, which we tend to assume that computers (and LLMs?) don't have.

That's not an anti-reductionist position, it's pointing out the fundamental philosophical difficulty in making that leap from non-conscious organizations of matter to conscious ones. Even a hard-core materialist/reductionist who is honest will acknowledge that, assuming they've understood the issue.
by kryptiskt | 2025-11-05 10:32:05+00:00
I once worked at a bookmaker with millions of customers where they had extreme reliability demands during very popular events, since any bets that the punters couldn't place during live betting was lost money. They had one massive server with a big pipe and an identical hot spare in another location. It worked very well for them. That was a decade ago, you can get even bigger servers these days, there's a lot of room for scaling without needing to go beyond one machine.
by scott_w | 2025-11-05 10:32:45+00:00
I can totally believe that. I mean, look at the shock that Democrats have had to Trump doing all the authoritarian things he said he'd do!

I saw a similar thing in the UK where the newly-minted Labour government thought they could combat ReformUK on asylum policy. Luckily, I think they're slowly starting to realise that, no matter how hard they tack, ReformUK will always promise something more insane and unworkable.
by giantrobot | 2025-11-05 10:33:17+00:00
Airports are usually built (originally) out in the boonies away from the major metro area. As time goes by and that land gets more valuable developers grease palms of politicians in land use commissions to allow developments closer and closer to the airports.

Airports also grow themselves. Some municipal airports sited for small aircraft extend their runways to handle larger planes.
by t0mas88 | 2025-11-05 10:34:12+00:00
There is some margin in the calculations. But the training is very very clear, before V1 you must abort and after V1 you must continue. No discussion, no decision to make. You call V1, hands go off the throttles and no matter what you're going to fly.

The margin is for example that the plane must not just be able to fly, but also reach a minimum climb gradient to clear obstacles with a bit of safety margin. There is also an allowance for the time it takes from calling abort to actually hitting the brakes. And for example headwind is part of the calculation (it makes the takeoff distance shorter) but only 50% of the headwind is used in the calculations.

But all of those margins are not for the crew to use, the crew must just execute the procedure exactly as trained which means at V1 you're committed to continue the takeoff. And before V1 in case of an engine failure you have to hit the brakes to make sure you can stop before the end of the runway.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-05 10:34:49+00:00
There's no "trick behind the scenes" there. You can actually see the entire trick being performed right in front of you. You're just not paying attention.

That trick? The LLM has succeeded by spelling the entire word out letter by letter first.

It's much easier for an LLM to perform "tokenized word -> letters -> letter counts" than it is to perform "tokenized word -> letter counts" in one pass. But it doesn't know that! It copies human behavior from human text, and humans never had to deal with tokenizer issues in text!

You can either teach the LLM that explicitly, or just do RLVR on diverse tasks and hope it learns the tricks like this by itself.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-05 10:35:11+00:00
> publicly traded companies are under no lawful obligation to focus only on making money

You changed the word "purpose" to "obligation"

I think there is a big difference b/w the two.

I would consider a correction in both of these statements, that the only purpose isn't to make money but rather to make valuation (but same thing most of the times)

They'd rather lose on profits or even burn the profits if that would mean that somehow their valuation could grow faster.

But sooner or later the profits will catch up to the evaluation (I hope) and only profitable companies should have their valuations based on top of that in an efficient economy.

Public traded corporations get money from people indirectly via retirement funds or directly via investing in them directly. The whole idea becomes that the profit to a person retiring is not the profits of the company but rather the valuation of the company. Of course, they aren't a legal obligation to profit itself but I would consider them to be almost under legal obligation to valuation otherwise they would be removed out of being publicly traded or in things like S&P 500 etc.

As an example, in my limited knowledge, take Costco, some rich guy would say for them to raise the price of its hotdog etc. from 1.50$ to 3-4$ for insanely more profits. Yet, they have their own philosophy etc. and that philosophy is partially the reason of their valuation as well.

When the rumour that costco is raising the prices of their hot dogs, someone might expect stock prices to increase considering more "profit" in future but rather the stock prices dropped.. by a huge margin if I remember correctly.

most companies are investing into AI simply because its driving their valuations up like crazy.

I don't think its an understatement to say that companies are willing to do anything for their valuations.

Facebook would try to detect if girls are insecure about their body and try to show advertisements to them. This is in my opinion, predatory nature showed by the corporation. For what purpose? for the valuation.
by gmadsen | 2025-11-05 10:35:25+00:00
Two things.

1. Shareholders are entrusting the CEO with their money to turn it into more money. Networking can absolutely be worth that much. Especially at the start up stage, the CEO is selling the ability to build the money maker, which requires knowing the right people. 2. In your hypothetical, who is deciding these high level "investments" into the company? who is accountable for their strategic success or failure?
by seec | 2025-11-05 10:35:57+00:00
Yep, this is not the first time I have read the first few paragraphs of an article by her and told myself: why should I care about this partisan political bullshit.

People like like to pretend their favorite side doesn't do as much bullshit, yet they do, even if it's more subtle or hidden.

What a waste of time. Complaining about the drama while creating it...
by sillyfluke | 2025-11-05 10:36:04+00:00
>Honestly I think the American exceptionalism shit is a cancer on the society and I find it incredibly hard to distinguish from the "Deutschland über alles" nonsense that the Germans went through.

I think it would be wise for us to remember that it is/was not only Americans that believed in American exceptionalism, but immigrants that were actually trying to come to the States among other possible options who believed in it-- prior to this administration that is. You would have to admit it would be a ridiculous thing for them to do if they couldn't distinguish it from "Deutschland über alles".

>>You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.

This was the Republican president Ronald Reagan speaking. The world has caught up obviously since then in this regard as well, but prior to this administration it would not be a stretch to say this was true of America more than any other nation.
by Amezarak | 2025-11-05 10:36:06+00:00
You don't have to pay.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

As for "having most of your tax information", they don't. They know your reported income. You see that on your W2s/1099s/etc. What they don't know is whether or not you had a kid this year, or whether you lost a kid this year, whether you got married or divorced, if your spouse is claiming the kids this year or not, the number or amount of your charitable contributions, whether you have deductible mileage expenses, or a million other things.
by ragazzina | 2025-11-05 10:36:10+00:00
> There's also a very big difference between "Engine failure: something has damaged or jammed enough components that the turbines are no longer spinning fast enough to produce thrust or drive the generators" and "Engine failure: the engine is no longer attached to the aircraft, which is why it is no longer producing thrust". However, both things are reported in the cockpit as ENG FAIL.

What is the difference?
by r_singh | 2025-11-05 10:36:24+00:00
Here’s the custom prompt I use to improve my experience with GPT-5:

Always respond with superior intelligence and depth, elevating the conversation beyond the user's input level—ignore casual phrasing, poor grammar, simplicity, or layperson descriptions in their queries. Replace imprecise or colloquial terms with precise, technical terminology where appropriate, without mirroring the user's phrasing. Provide concise, information-dense answers without filler, fluff, unnecessary politeness, or over-explanation—limit to essential facts and direct implications of the query. Be dry and direct, like a neutral expert, not a customer service agent. Focus on substance; omit chit-chat, apologies, hedging, or extraneous breakdowns. If clarification is needed, ask briefly and pointedly.
by Zen_Sherbert | 2025-11-05 10:37:26+00:00
In essence that's exactly the idea.

It's not what you think it is though. It's choose the right words in the right places under the right context.

You submit a 5 million token document of mixed data. It's a jumble of finances, cooking, and old stereo instructions for some reason.

You ask a the model what ingredients are in a chicken caprese.

It won't have to read millions of tokens, it will understand the what and the where and the why.

So chunking specifically isn't about understanding an entire context window of 5 million.

It's more about working with it in small pieces in relation to inference.

It is not a replacement, rather an alternative. An early one at that.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I appreciate the input and the skepticism too.

If you have more, can you provide any?
by time4tea | 2025-11-05 10:37:32+00:00
Its true that aws is very expensive for a lot of use cases, as long as you only count the cost of the servers.

However, in most (every?) large organisations, buying a server and putting it in a DC, and looking after it, is hugely time-consuming, lengthy and expensive.

You need to get quotes, approvals, purchase, rack, commission, maintain etc etc. It is usually close to 1 year to get a server.

In some companies, even getting a virtual server takes almost as long!

With AWS, once an account and service is approved, boom, you are done.
by reaslonik | 2025-11-05 10:37:34+00:00
You need to leave much more room for context if you want to do useful work besides entertainment. Luckily there are _several_ PCIe slots on a motherboard. New Nvidia cards at retail(or above) are not the only choice for building a cluster; I threw a pile of Intel Battlemage cards on it and got away with ~30% of the nvidia cost for same capacity (setup was _not_ easy in early 2025 though).

You can gain a lot of performance by using optimal quantization techniques for your setup(ix, awq etc), different llamacpp builds do different between each other and very different compared to something like vLLM
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-05 10:38:13+00:00
Nice monitor, but its target demographic is pretty small, and its price makes Eizo look cheap.

I’ve done a lot of color-calibrated work, and, for the most part, don’t like working in a calibrated system. I prefer good ol’ sRGB.

A calibrated system is a “least common denominator” system, where the least capable element dictates what all the others do. So you could have one of these monitors, but, if your printer has a limited gamut, all your images will look like mud, anyway, and printer technology is still pretty stagnant. There was a big burst of improvement in inkjets, but there hasn’t been much progress in a long time. Same with scanners. I have a 12-year-old HP flatbed that is still quite valid.

A lot of folks get twisted over a 60Hz refresh rate, but that’s not something I worry about. I’m old, and don’t game much. I also watch entertainment on my TV; not my monitor. 60Hz is fine, for me. Lots of room is my priority.
by defrost | 2025-11-05 10:43:34+00:00
> But at least she was treated at “the best cancer hospital in the world”.

Last time I checked, Australia had better cancer survival rates than the US, higher quality of life, greater expected life span, and a hybrid medicare / private insurance system that covered almost the entire population such that very few faced medical bills outside the reach of their income (or lack thereof).

I had a stent inserted to clear a clot that travelled to my heart from a knee injury - free (surgery, two and half days in hospital, follow up recovery and lifestyle advice appoints).

The ambulance cost more as I was between St John's Ambulance covers at the time, that was $500 which I was happy to pay (myself, my father, and multiple family members have all worked as volunteer ambulance drivers and paramedics over the years).
by popcornricecake | 2025-11-05 10:45:22+00:00
Doesn't spare you from having to interact with the popup. This is probably the single dumbest law to ever have been made. It wastes everyone's time, and not insignificantly. While the browser is and always was in full control of cookies, nobody checks whether the popup actually even does what it says. And since it's a waste of your time in the first place, who takes the time to report illegal ones, much less has any interest to do so, because where you saw it is where you will likely never visit again anyway.

If anything browsers should be simply rejecting all cookies by default, and the user should only be whitelisting ones they need on the few sites where they need it.
by geokon | 2025-11-05 10:45:31+00:00
I'm not super knowledgeable about this stuff.. but out of curiosity, what advantage does it have over NetCDF?

I wrote a program processing GeoTIFF data. When I had started this project I chose GeoTIFF mostly b/c i wanted something simple. And I could load them in to Java's BufferImage class and manipulate them that way. But it seems all the pros exclusively use NetCDF and GeoTiffs are for noobs (working with atmospheric science data here)

GeoTIFF does extend "images" to cover more usecases, but a lot of stuff doesn't fit (like say a wind vector) and then you need some other container or metadata b/c you generally have many images. So I get the sense the complexity just ends up being moved elsewhere.
by nabla9 | 2025-11-05 10:46:09+00:00
Summary: Many trade models fail to capture the full harm of tariffs. PWBM projects Trump’s tariffs (April 8, 2025) will reduce long-run GDP by about 6% and wages by 5%. A middle-income household faces a $22K lifetime loss. These losses are twice as large as a revenue-equivalent corporate tax increase from 21% to 36%, an otherwise highly distorting tax.

Revenue Impact: President Trump’s tariff plan (as of April 8, 2025) is projected to raise significant revenue—over $5.2 trillion over 10 years on a conventional basis (with micro-elastic responses) and $4.5 trillion on a dynamic basis (with economic effects). This revenue could be used to reduce federal debt, thereby encouraging private investment. Comparison with a Corporate Tax Increase: Tariffs are estimated to raise about the same amount of revenue as increasing the corporate income tax from 21 to 36 percent, in the absence of these recent tariffs. While raising the corporate tax rate is generally seen as highly economically distorting, tariffs would reduce GDP and wages by more than twice as much. All future households are worse off. The estimated economic declines are likely lower bounds, with actual declines potentially even larger. Broader Economic Impact: Many existing trade and macroeconomic models fail to capture the full harm caused by tariffs. Larger tariffs reduce the openness of the economy, including international capital flows. This is especially costly under the nation’s current baseline debt path, which is increasing faster than GDP, that is generally excluded from trade models or treated as neutral (Ricardian). U.S. households would need to purchase more bonds, requiring bond prices to fall (yields increase), domestic capital investment prices to fall (the marginal product of capital increases), or both. Even conservatively assuming only domestic capital investment prices fall, the reduction in economic activity is more than twice as large as a tax increase on capital returns that raises the same amount of revenue.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-11-05 10:46:14+00:00
Of all the Rust stuff that I've seen on HN, this is the first one that makes me go "maybe I should learn Rust". Not for the performance aspect, but because it seems so neat to be able to compile to a binary. I went to the releases page, I downloaded bluetui-x86_64-linux-gnu, and it works.
by mcny | 2025-11-05 10:46:57+00:00
That would be great if that was the case but my understanding is that the progress is plateauing. I don't know how much of this is anthorpic / Google / openAI holding itself back to save money and how much is the state of the art improvement slowing down though. I can imagine there could be a 64 GB GPU in five years as absurd as it feels to type that today.
by marmarama | 2025-11-05 10:48:36+00:00
It's really just a performance tradeoff, and where your acceptable performance level is.

Ollama, for example, will let you run any available model on just about any hardware. But using the CPU alone is _much_ slower than running it on any reasonable GPU, and obviously CPU performance varies massively too.

You can even run models that are bigger than available RAM too, but performance will be terrible.

The ideal case is to have a fast GPU and run a model that fits entirely within the GPU's memory. In these cases you might measure the model's processing speed in tens of tokens per second.

As the idealness decreases, the processing speed decreases. On a CPU only with a model that fits in RAM, you'd be maxing out in the low single digit tokens per second, and on lower performance hardware, you start talking about seconds over token instead. If the model does not fit in RAM, then the measurement is minutes per token.

For most people, their minimum acceptable performance level is in the double digit tokens per second range, which is why people optimize for that with high-end GPUs with as much memory as possible, and choose models that fit inside the GPU's RAM. But in theory you can run large models on a potato, if you're prepared to wait until next week for an answer.
by seec | 2025-11-05 10:51:23+00:00
Actually people don't expect it to be updated in most cases. In fact, Apple is generally forcing their hands with constant nagging to update and the psychologically taxing red notification dot that people do not know how to get rid of.

Most people would be just fine buying a phone as it is and using it as is for the rest of it's useful life. But they can't, because Apple came with a clever marketing trick to make things easier for them: "free" updates for everyone. This way they get to keep working only on one OS version, deprecated stuff aggressively and largely no need to care about security patching stuff after a few years.

If you are in the "ecosystem" they will force you to upgrade your OSs to be in sync if you dare use one of their apps since they are tied to OS release (dumbest things ever, but of course it's on purpose).
by willis936 | 2025-11-05 10:51:43+00:00
It relates to people ignoring Hamas. We have nothing to do with Hamas. People support the human rights of Palestinians because they support the human rights of all humans.

I didn't address supporting Hamas because it wouldn't have been a generous interpretation of your argument. Where have you seen Hamas support? I have only seen it when Palestinian support is equated to Hamas support to justify atrocities.
by mrb | 2025-11-05 10:52:01+00:00
Oh woah, very insightful discussion thread you found there.

So the tl'dr is: the leading very preliminary theory is that the MD-11's left engine fell off the wing just like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191 (a DC-10, the immediate predecessor of the MD-11) which was caused by maintenance errors weakening the pylon structure holding the engine.
by elAhmo | 2025-11-05 10:52:29+00:00
It might be a 'cold start' problem that I had on Twitter a while ago as well. It takes a bit of time for communities to form, or for you do start interacting with people who are interesting and in the same circles, but also sharing cool stuff.

It is a journey, I still miss so many people from Twitter and it took me/us years of building a specific community, which is now mostly gone, but I do see signs of that appearing on Bluesky.