MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lerc | 2025-11-26 12:14:42+00:00
I do apply the rule universally, they haven't gone out of business.

If they were unable to gain any revenue from advertising, they would go out of business if they could not find an alternative source of income.

I feel that they are more likely to find an alternative than go out of business. That alternative might not motivate people to make content that no-one wants and trick viewers into watching. If it were a system where the users being happy dictated their income perhaps the service might be better than a system where the happiness of advertisers defines how much they get
by fxtentacle | 2025-11-26 12:14:48+00:00
I wouldn't call these properties "emergent".

If you train a system to memorize A-B pairs and then you normally use it to find B when given A, then it's not surprising that finding A when given B also works, because you trained it in an almost symmetrical fashion on A-B pairs, which are, obviously, also B-A pairs.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-11-26 12:15:10+00:00
Yep! focussed light anything is a hassle really-- mirrors have to be maintained and positioned. For anything larger than a family, mirrors have to be unrealistically large..

There was a concentrated light power station in north of Vegas, but it bankrupted the company that built it. They didn't think about storage at the time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Pr...

>As of 2023, it is operated by its new owner, Vinci SA, and in a new contract with NV Energy, it now supplies solar energy _at night only_, drawing on [molten salt] thermal energy stored each day.
by p-e-w | 2025-11-26 12:15:12+00:00
Thousands of new regulations promulgated every year, many of them deeply invasive into aspects of life that were previously considered the prerogative of individuals or families to decide (in this case, what children are and aren’t allowed to do).

And after two decades of watching this authoritarian and paternalistic process unfold, I’m still unable to point to a single aspect of society that has been improved by it in any way.
by cb321 | 2025-11-26 12:15:39+00:00
As a slight refinement of your point, C does have storage map based N-D arrays/tensors like Fortran, just with the old column-major/row-major difference and a clunky "multiple [][]" syntax. There was just a restriction early on to need compile-time known dimensions to the arrays (up to the final dimension, anyway) because it was a somewhat half-done/half-supported thing - and because that also fit the linear data model well. So, it is also common to see char *argv[] like arrays of pointers or in numerics sometimes libraries which do their own storage map equations from passed dimensions.

Also, the linear memory model itself is not really only because of Algol/Turing machines/theoretical CS/"early" hardware and mechanical sympathy. DRAM has rows & columns internally, but byte addressability leads to hiding that from HW client systems (unless someone is doing a rowhammer attack or something). More random access than tape rewind/fast forward is indeed a huge deal, but I think the actual popularity of linearity just comes from its simplicity as an interface more than anything else. E.g.s, segmented x86 memory with near/far pointers was considered ugly relative to a big 32-bit address space and disk files and other allocation arenas have internally a large linear address/seek spaces. People just want to defer using >1 number until they really need to. People learn univariate-X before they learn multivariate-X where X could be calculus, statistics, etc., etc.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-11-26 12:16:27+00:00
> the models are smart enough, what we're lacking is the understanding and frameworks necessary to use them well

That’s like saying “it’s not the work of art that’s bad, you just have horrible taste”

Also, if it was that simple a wrapper of some sort would solve the problem. Maybe even one created by someone who knows this mystical secret to properly leveraging gen AI
by jappgar | 2025-11-26 12:16:40+00:00
It is a law. The law of entropy.

Try as you might, you cannot fight entropy eternally, as mistakes in this fight will accumulate and overpower you. It's the natural process of aging we see in every lifeform.

The way life continues on despite this law is through reproduction. If you bud off independent organisms, an ecosystem can gain "eternal" life.

The cost is that you must devote much of your energy to effective reproduction.

In software, this means embracing rewrites. The people who push against rewrites and claim they're not necessary are just as delusional as those who think they can live forever.
by energy123 | 2025-11-26 12:18:02+00:00
Because compression is one of the outcomes of the optimization, it pays to have a single gate/circuit that distinguishes good versus bad, rather than duplicating that abstraction with redundant variants that are almost the same. This is the fundamental reason why that happens. I feel that this has negative implications for AI alignment. It is not robust to defend against a single bit flip. Feels more robust to have a vast heterogeneity of tension that generates the alignment, where misalignment is a matter of degree rather than polar extremes.
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-26 12:18:45+00:00
Where I now work, in the government, all the devs are required to be part project managers. It’s a huge breath of fresh air. The devs are in all the customer meetings, assist in requirements gathering, and directly coach the customers as necessary to keep pushing the work towards completion.

This came about because our work isn’t too diverse but the requirements are wildly diverse and many of the customers have no idea how to achieve the proper level of readiness. I do management in an enterprise API project for a large organization.
by dagss | 2025-11-26 12:19:01+00:00
In buildings with water heating this is already commonly done, accumulating heat in water tanks. Size of water tanks is dimensioned after how much heat you have to store.

Electric heating with water heating is sometimes used in Northern Europe at least, often with a heat pump.

Ultimate would be solar panels on the roof, heat pump to multiply the electricity 3x-5x and water tank storage to last 24 hours.... Never recoup the investment though..
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by kamaal | 2025-11-26 12:22:08+00:00
>>As a CTO of a number of small startups, I am still struggling to understand what exactly AWS and other cloud providers give you to justify the markup.

If you are having a company that warrants building a data center, then AWS does not add much.

Other wise you face the 'if you want to build apple pie from scratch, you need to first invent the universe' problem. Simply put you can get started right on day one, in a pay as you go model. Like you can write code, deploy and ship from the very first day, instead of having to go deep down the infrastructure rabbit hole.

Plus shutting down things is easy as well. Things don't workout? Good news! You can shut down the infrastructure that very day instead of having to worry about the capital expenditure spent to build infrastructure, and without having to worry about its use later.

Simply put, AWS is infrastructure you can hire and fire at will.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-26 12:23:20+00:00
Dealing with banks was in many places horrible (still is probably). And more expensive. And worse than Stripe in every way you can think of.

You'd have to physically visit the bank. If they didn't like how your face looks, that's it. They'd say no we're not going to let your company open a merchant account for card payments. Or if they didn't like your last name, your age or your sex.

Then all kinds of strange fees. Although if you were a physical location with a high transaction volume, then banks offer better rates than Stripe.

Then your actual commerce software. The best quality systems for online sales all work with Stripe, and not with your local bank's offering. So if you want to forego Stripe, that also means you need to use a lower quality system. Meaning a worse experience for customers and for you and your staff.
by cinntaile | 2025-11-26 12:23:34+00:00
> I'm exasperated, because you felt confident "correcting" other people about US "deportations" in 2025

I still very confident about my original claim that this is not even close to people being sent to German concentration camps to be (slowly) murdered. You (or anyone else that responded to me) have provided zero proof of that happening.

I do appreciate you taking the time to provide sources for your claims, thank you for that.

I agree that better, more concrete proof is needed before deporting suspects to a prison. While a point system probably catches people that have managed to evade law enforcement and that should be in jail, there is also a bigger chance of regular people getting caught up.
by homo_economicus | 2025-11-26 12:24:06+00:00
Very cool post.. this could be a real game-changer if the signal holds up. The review + early human data on GLP-1 receptor agonists are compelling: beyond metabolic effects, GLP-1R activation seems to modulate core reward circuits (dopamine, GABA, etc.) linked to craving and addiction. At the same time, i would prefer a bit more caution i.e. reality check. Most of the data are still preclinical or from small/short Phase 2 trials; we need larger, longer, and more diverse studies to know who benefits, at what dose, and what the safety/side-effect profile looks like when used for ASUD.
by thenthenthen | 2025-11-26 12:24:12+00:00
Yep, you could actually fool phones into thinking they were somewhere else by just cloning a couple of ssids from another place (around 2014 iirc). I dont think this works anymore since phones now use multiple gnss bands etc. That said, my phone thinks its at my home station for the whole 20km’s ride underground, while 5g connectivity is excellent and i have wifi and gps turned on (edit, using Apple Maps).
by anovikov | 2025-11-26 12:24:31+00:00
My personal experience (i was a rather heavy drinker for decades) is not that you quit drinking, but you simply don't want to drink a lot. 2 glasses of wine and you don't want more.

A few times in a company of friends i felt compelled to have a 3rd glass but i could never finish it - not that it felt disgusting, or felt too drunk (i practically stopped feeling any effects from alcohol at all, at least not in amounts that i can drink), but i had a weird feeling much akin to being overly full with food. Like, i just didn't want any more of it.

So in practice, you quit drinking completely - in 2 years that i've been on Wegovy, i've never been even tipsy once, let alone drunk.

As expected, it had negative social consequences, i lost a lot of contacts and had a hard time building new ones, so i feel more lonely than before, but of course, the benefits of quitting drinking - especially without making any effort for this, or even trying - are more than worth it.
by woolion | 2025-11-26 12:24:43+00:00
The comparison are very useful but also quite limited in terms of styles. Models tend to have extremely diverse abilities in following a given style against steering to its own.

It's pretty obvious that OpenAI is terrible at it -- it is known for its unmissable touch. However, for Flux it really depends on the style. They already posted at some point that they changed their training to avoid averaging different styles together, which is the ultimate AI look. But this is at odds with the goal to directly generate images that are visually appealing, so the style matching is going to be a problem for a while, at least.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-26 12:25:58+00:00
There is a massive amount of pre-processing already done in the retina itself and in the LGN:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_geniculate_nucleus

So the brain does not necessarily receive 'raw' images to process to begin with, there is already a lot of high level data extracted at that point such as optical flow to detect moving objects.
by paranoidrobot | 2025-11-26 12:27:37+00:00
> “nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM”

Agreed, there's definitely a heavy element of that to it.

But, at the risk of again being labelled as an AWS Shill - there's also other benefits.

If your organisation needs to deploy some kind of security/compliance tools to help with getting (say) SOC2 certification - then there's a bunch of tools out there to help with that. All you have to do then is plug them into your AWS organisation. They can run a whole bunch of automated policy checks to say you're complying with whatever audit requirements.

If you're self-hosting, or using Hetzner - well, you're going to spend a whole lot more time providing evidence to auditors.

Same goes with integrating with vendors.

Maybe you want someone to load/save data for you - no problems, create an AWS S3 bucket and hand them an AWS IAM Role and they can do that. No handing over of creds.

There's a bunch of semi-managed services where a vendor will spin up EC2 instances running their special software, but since it's running in your account - you get more control/visiblity into it. Again, hand over an AWS IAM Role and off you go.

It's the Slack of IAAS - it might not be the fastest, it's definitely not the cheapest, and you can roll your own for sure. But then you miss out on all these integrations that make life easier.
by dv_dt | 2025-11-26 12:28:28+00:00
Because of their simplicity solar-cell based systems have become lower-cost and easier to install and maintain for water heating as panel + electric water heater, vs a piped direct solar thermal heating system. Higher "efficiency" for the direct thermal system, but overall system costs are lower for panel + heat.

I still love seeing the interplay with different combinations of physical systems and clever things humans figure out. Including with solar panels + other system items.
by raincole | 2025-11-26 12:29:06+00:00
> So the author's point is that "other" can never appear in-between "parent before" and "child start".

But isn't it true for JavaScript too? So I don't really get the author's point... am I missing something or the author('s LLM?) forced a moot comparison to JavaScript?

Edit: after reading the examples twice I am 99.9% sure it's slop and flagged it.

Edit2: another article from the same author: https://mergify.com/blog/why-warning-has-no-place-in-modern-...

> This isn’t just text — it’s structured, filterable, and actionable.

My conclusion is that I should ask LLM to write a browser userscript to automatically flag and hide links from this domain for me.
by vrighter | 2025-11-26 12:29:50+00:00
Yes most do. But that is not part of lua. That is just a library one can load. It's written in C. The lua interpreter does not allow any access to the outside world.

That rudimentary "built-in" io that's included with lua? It's actually a library shipped with the interpreter, that you need to explicitly load in from the C side of things.

Exiting with a process exit code? Optional library.

String operations such as pattern matching? Optional library.

Math? Optional library.

Debugging? Optional library.

If you didn't load any of these, then the only I/O you could do is to stdout with the print statement. When you instantiate a new lua state, you are expected to provide your own runtime. It's a language designed to be embedded in other software.

Take, for example, libc. It's the C runtime. It doesn't compile or interpret C. libc is just a bunch of C code (with assembly sprinkled in, of course).
by kokada | 2025-11-26 12:29:59+00:00
Things like "The misconception", "The key truth", "Why ... choose ...", "Putting it all together", "Notice what didn't happen". But not just that but the general wording of this post.

From the words of ChatGPT itself:

> The post follows a “classic” structure: introduce a common misconception → explain what’s wrong → show concrete examples → give a clear takeaway / conclusion. The paragraphs are well balanced, each chunk delivering a precise logical step. While that’s good for clarity, it also can feel like the “standard template” many AI-based or marketing blog posts tend to follow.

Now, if could just be a very well written blog post too. But I feel that AI just naturally converges to the same basic structure, while a human written post generally will miss one or two of those "good practices" for prose that actually ends up making the blog post more interesting (because we don't always need to have all these structures to make something enjoyable to read).
by srean | 2025-11-26 12:31:19+00:00
Data informed is good. Purely data driven is a bad idea.

After all even in Physics big advances came from thought experiments. Data is one way to reason about a decision, logic and knowledgebase is another way. Both can be very powerful if one retains the humility of fallibility.

In organizations one common failure mode is that the organisational level at which decisions are made are not the same levels where the decisions are going to have their effects felt.

It's a really difficult problem to solve. Too much decentralisation is also a bad idea. You get the mess of unplanned congested cities.
by graemep | 2025-11-26 12:31:22+00:00
Yes, I should have said "projects" rather than "systems".

Its when you need to coordinate it lots of bits. if you can modularise it its fine. If you have lots of small parts your replicate repeatedly its fine. So Each station is separate, they you lots of common components, trains come off a production line etc.

However building a single complex system as one project is the problem. A long distance railway line, especially if going through populated areas or difficult terrain that imposes constraints, for example.
by menaerus | 2025-11-26 12:31:58+00:00
With all due respect, all of those examples are the examples of "yesterday" ... that's how we have been bringing money to businesses for decades, no? Today we have AI models that can already do as good, almost as good, or even better than the average human in many many tasks, including the ones you mentioned.

Businesses are incentivized to be more productive and cost-effective since they are solely profit-driven so they naturally see this as an opportunity to make more money by hiring less people while keeping the amount of work done roughly the same or even more.

So "classical" approach to many of the problems is I think the thing of a past already.
by seec | 2025-11-26 12:32:14+00:00
Cooking legumineuse notoriously take a long time and you very often need to soak them before hand.

Even the simpler stuff like lentils have at least twice the cooking time of regular pasta (20-30 min at least) unless you like eating stuff hard as rocks.

On top of that; it isn't very good as is and need quite a lot of skill to taste great. The usual way to make it taste good, is to use animal fats/meats and various vegetables broths/sauces. It's a very time consuming process and very often quite expensive as well because the raw ingredients are not necessarily cheap.

So basically what happens is that either you are poor enough that one person in the household is basically dedicated to this task (especially if it's a large family) or both are working, most likely middle class, and then there is very little time to do that sort of cooking without completely destroying the possibility of having a life.
by apwell23 | 2025-11-26 12:32:36+00:00
did you not run into this problem described by ilya below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR20FWCCjAs&list=PLd7-bHaQwn...

this has been my experience purely vibecoding. i am surprised it works well for others.

btw the current production bug. how did you discover that and why it slip out. looks like site wasn't working at all when you posted that comment?
by fhennig | 2025-11-26 12:33:55+00:00
Okay, maybe I was overly technical. I'd still say that the average reader maybe reads 'the internet' as 'the websites I browse', so I still think the language isn't good. I think it makes sense to talk about "internet culture" instead of just "the internet", that level of distinction isn't really too technical, right?

To me it's important because "the internet" meaning the sites we browse, has become incredibly centralized! It's not helpful then to say the exact opposite. And I'd also argue that this centralization, as it went along with algorithmic content distribution, is exactly the reason for the fragmentation that the article talks about.

I think there is a missed opportunity there to write a few sentences about this.
by SpaghettiCthulu | 2025-11-26 12:33:59+00:00
> successfully killed ZLUDA

Did they? Sounds like AMD did that[^1] and that the project is continuing based on the pre-AMD codebase[^2].

[^1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZLUDA-CUDA-Taken-Down

[^2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-Third-Life
by xjm | 2025-11-26 12:34:37+00:00
agreed.

tiring.

maybe someone will make an "article-to-prompt" sort of reverse ChatGPT?

But of course someone already did that, and of course it's inside ChatGPT, what was I thinking? Though if I do try it, the prompt I get is not especially pleasant to read: https://chatgpt.com/share/6926f33c-8f98-8011-984e-54e49fdbb0...
by nake89 | 2025-11-26 12:34:47+00:00
> give a non-programming job a try for 1 year

I have a mortgage, 3 kids and a wife to support. So no. I don't think I'm going to do that. Also, I like my programming job.

EDIT: Sorry I thought you were saying the opposite. Didn't realize you were the OP of this thread.
by stephen_g | 2025-11-26 12:36:41+00:00
Yes, the base spec is another AU$1000 more expensive than the normal Mac Pro, and 3.7x the cost of the base Mac Studio in my country (despite having a processor two generations older)! That’s exactly what I’m complaining about in my comment!

What I’m talking about should be in the realm of 1.5x the cost of the Mac Studio.
by oliya88 | 2025-11-26 12:36:49+00:00
Impressive work on Onyx! It’s rare to see an open-source AI platform nail both enterprise-grade security (RBAC, SSO, 40+ connectors) and a truly polished UX. The attention to model-specific quirks—like GPT’s Jupyter assumptions—shows deep practical experience. Already spinning it up locally; thanks for keeping it open and extensible
by cbeach | 2025-11-26 12:36:52+00:00
The Telegraph is okay, but I find GB News publishes the stories that mainstream media chooses to avoid and/or minimise.

Without GB News' coverage of the migrant crisis, the UK public would be barely aware that 110,000 undocumented young men had entered the country in the last three years, many of whom have been housed in hotels at the taxpayer's expense.

And I don't think the Tavistock Center would have been forced to close in disgrace, had it not been for GB News reporting of the dubious and untested medical interventions being made on children there.
by kalaksi | 2025-11-26 12:37:14+00:00
When I was younger, I worked doing sales and customer service at a mall. Mostly approaching people and trying to pitch a product. Didn't pay well, was very easy to get into and do, but I don't enjoy that kind of work (and many people don't enjoy programming and would actually hate it) and it was temporary anyway. I still feel like that was much easier, but more boring.
by Sammi | 2025-11-26 12:37:17+00:00
I use the Stylus[0] extension with this style in order to fix it:

ytd-rich-item-renderer { max-width: 265px; } /* Show full length title instead of ellipsis cutoff at two lines. */ a.yt-lockup-metadata-view-model__title { display: inline !important; }

[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpee...