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by adrian_b | 2025-11-30 19:18:18+00:00
I am still using ancient AMD GPUs, bought between 2015 and 2019, because all later GPUs have much worse FP64 throughput per dollar.

So I was never able to upgrade them, because all newer GPUs are worse.

There was a little hope when the last generation of Intel discrete desktop Battlemage GPUs improved their FP64 throughput. While their throughput is relatively modest, i.e. half of a Zen 5 desktop Ryzen, they are extremely cheap so their performance per dollar is very good. Therefore they can be used to multiply the throughput of a desktop computer at a modest additional cost.

Unfortunately, with the new Intel CEO the future of the Intel GPUs is very unclear, so it is unknown whether they will be followed by better GPUs or they will be canceled. If Intel will stupidly choose to no longer compete in the GPU market, the last source of GPUs with good FP64 throughput will disappear.

The datacenter GPUs that still have good FP64 throughput have huge prices that cannot be justified for any small business or individual. In order to recover the cost of such GPUs you must have a workload that keeps them busy continuously, day and night. Such workloads must be aggregated from a large number of users. So we have regressed to the mainframes used by time-sharing around the beginning of the seventies of the last century, backwards from the freedom of personal computers.

I see no hope for the future availability of any computing devices with better FP64 throughput per dollar than the desktop CPUs. Technically, it would be trivial to make such devices, but the companies like AMD and NVIDIA do not care about small business or individual customers but only about selling to other equally huge companies, so they dimension their devices accordingly and they also set fictitious retail prices many times greater than the actual price that will be negotiated with the big companies. While the big companies will pay much less, small businesses or individuals cannot buy at other prices than the list prices, which means that they must give up on buying such devices as they are not worth such prices.
by alamortsubite | 2025-11-30 19:18:30+00:00
The people screaming like children during an emergency fare even worse when told the truth. It's tricky, because as you illustrate, they're incapable of accepting that working toward the benefit of the group in such a situation is the best approach to solving the problem.

In case you didn't understand my point because you don't work in healthcare, PPE for people dealing with the crisis was real fucking slim.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-30 19:18:43+00:00
https://archive.today/wCUhX

Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42399917 - December 2024 (0 comments)

Related:

Norway may break up with Europe's power grid over soaring energy prices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099592 - November 2025
by progfan234 | 2025-11-30 19:19:02+00:00
Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a tool that I built for personal consumption to keep documentation sprawl manageable in large agents-driven projects. I found the need for something like this since basic indexing wasn't doing it for me. Anyway, I would be happy to hear your thoughts and ideas. There are is an agent definition in one of my projects strategically defined to treat documentation etiquette as its only goal. It is defined to prefer yore over bash tools.

Thanks, Rahul
by forgetbook | 2025-11-30 19:19:06+00:00
Let's assume good intent and that the problem came up without foreknowledge of the solution (which I think is endemic whether or not it is the case here)

How would you reccomend someone discover/decide is faster to learn/learn/implement existing solutions?

I'm asking because I'm currently in my "cambrian explosion" phase of homelabbing, so implementing that loop for myself personally will pay dividends.
by OGEnthusiast | 2025-11-30 19:19:06+00:00
I'm a bit surprised how under-the-radar this story is in the mainstream press. It doesn't seem un-thinkable at all that in 5-10 years, countries will have digital borders to block certain countries from participating in their subset of the Internet. There's no way a Trump or Trump-like figure wouldn't love the ability to digitally block an entire country at their whim (like how he is doing with tariff rates now). And unlike a decade ago, it will be sold to the citizens with not much effort at all, especially if the current wave of protectionism/nationalism continues to hold.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-30 19:19:20+00:00
The original comment was that the cars are Clio/Golf sized instead of SUV-sized.

You countered that SUVs and crossovers are outselling other categories, but subcompact crossover SUVs like the Captur, Yaris Cross, 2008/3008, etc are, in fact, Clio/Golf sized.

So whatever statistics you're considering, if you're going just based on "type contains SUV" without considering size, then you're missing the actual important part.

If you're going based on your link's content, it also says:

"Compact SUVs (C-SUVs) were the most popular type within the category, accounting for 42% of total SUV registrations last year, followed by smaller models (B-SUVs), with 36% market share."

So that means that about a third (64% of the 54% number you're quoting) of vehicles sold are SUVs larger than the Clio/Golf size they mentioned.

And since this whole sub thread started based on a comment about vehicle sizes, it's not "moving the goalposts" to talk about the actual size of the vehicles being sold.

Of course, one could argue "it's SUV sized if it has SUV in the class name (regardless of compact or subcompact)" but I think that would be willfully sidestepping the point.
by mellosouls | 2025-11-30 19:19:37+00:00
As a convinced idler I've long thought this is the case; this was a reflection on my own flaws prompted by my strong belief that significant presentations in other people of what in the old days would be called "weak character",eg obesity must be majorly down to underlying mental disorders or weaknesses because nobody would choose to be like that, right?

The neural or mental cause hypothesis for the latter has been pretty much proven by the success of drugs like Ozempic; it's really not a great stretch to see other deadly sins as similarly significantly brain-derived in addition to (and possibly sometimes dominating) environmental and cultural influences.

The important thing though - if you believe this - is not to claim victimhood as a sufferer but to grasp the opportunity that comes from identifying a challenge, and investigating the tools and techniques available to counter and - with perseverance - defeat it.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-30 19:20:07+00:00
Putting probabilities to these things just seems so silly. Especially when the claims are not mutually exclusive.

UFOs being what they "appear to be" can mean a lot of things. UFOs are Unidentified Flying Objects. The USSR and the Iran would have had multiple, very real, UFO sightings thought their time, due to the US military.

There is a coherent explanation where neither the US military is deceiving anyone (to a large extent), nor UFO sighting being universally hoaxes. People see flying things in the sky and interpret them as some sort of object which should not be there. Across all cases these happens for one of these reason:

- Characteristic behavior of a flying object is mistakenly interpreted as as uncharacteristic. Likely these are most cases

- The object is genuinely novel and unidentified by the observer, but actually not hostile. E.g. you are seeing this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk

- The object is unidentified, but actually hostile and coming from another nation. The USSR during the cold war and China now have very significant aerospace capabilities. Hostile spying activities are interpreted as UFOs (which is what they are).

The US military is not deceiving anyone, because they themselves can not adequately distinguish these sightings from one another. Likely they could shed some light on some of these but are reluctant to do so.

Giving all of these a "10^-3 to 10^-4" probability of being actual aliens hatching some intergalactic plot to keep humans down just seems very silly.
by luma | 2025-11-30 19:20:48+00:00
I’m certainly no authority but i tend to write the same way for casual communication, came from the 90s era BBS days. It was (and still is) common on irc nets too. Autocorrect fixes up some of it, but sometimes i just have ideas i’m trying to dump out of my head and the shift key isn’t helping that go faster. Emails at work get more attention, but bullshittin with friends on the PC? No need.

I’ll code switch depending on the venue, on HN i mostly Serious Post so my post history might demonstrate more care for the language than somewhere i consider more causal.
by pandaman | 2025-11-30 19:20:58+00:00
>It's strange, and i don't think it's unintentional.

How do people call the homeless in Chicago? I've lived on the West Coast, in the South, and in the Midwest (not in Illinois though), and people called them "homeless" everywhere. It's obviously intentional because I am referring to the homeless and it would be strange to call them something else.

>Anyway, i know for absolute fact that bike thieves have been charged by the Chicago DA. Here's proof

Wow, a story from more than a year ago. It does seem you are correct, bike theft is so rare in Chicago and the police is vigilant, the last bike thief they caught was probably that guy and they did not have any bikes stolen since lol

As I said, bike thieves are never charged statistically. Surely there are some unlucky ones like that individual, who probably stole from somebody connected to the police. But, again, visit an encampment and observe hundreds of bikes and parts there. Those are not bought in stores.

> Unlike you, i live here, i bike nearly everywhere, and follow local media/social media. The problems you're describing aren't real and you've done nothing to prove they are.

Right, you bike everywhere and yet you never had bike stolen and don't know anybody who had a bike stolen. In Chicago, no less.
by hammock | 2025-11-30 19:21:27+00:00
Set aside pills.

Vit d deficiency is a known problem because of our indoor lives and sunscreen culture, so FDA requires by law supplementation of foods. Like milk. But because the RDA is wrong, these foods get supplemented with insufficient amounts.

Case in point, seasonally adjusted the typical American gets in a day average ~1800iu from the sun and ~200iu from supplemented dietary intake (2000iu total, deficient). If we were to acknowledge the RDA is wrong then milk etc could have 30x more supplementation bringing the average up and filling the gap better
by ilaksh | 2025-11-30 19:21:45+00:00
Greg Kohs and his team are brilliant. For example, the way it captured the emotional triumph of the AlphaFold achievement. And a lot of other things.

One of the smart choices was that it omitted a whole potential discussion about LLMs (VLMs) etc. and the fact that that part of the AI revolution was not invented in that group, and just showed them using/testing it.

One takeaway could be that you could be one of the world's most renowned AI geniuses and not invent the biggest breakthrough (like transformers). But also somewhat interesting is that even though he had been thinking about this for most of his life, the key technology (transformer-type architecture) was not invented until 2017. And they picked it up and adapted it within 3 years of it being invented.

Also I am wondering if John Jumper and/or other members of the should get a little bit more credit for adapting transformers into Evoformer.
by sunrunner | 2025-11-30 19:21:55+00:00
> It won't be as elegant as having access to a combinator-parser, but all of the AoC problems aren't parsing problems.

Yeah, this is essentially it for me. While it might not be a 'type-safe and correct regarding error handling' approach with Python, part of the interest of the AoC puzzles is the ability to approach them as 'almost pure' programs - no files except for puzzle input and output, no awkward areas like date time handling (usually), absolutely zero frameworks required.

> you can just wing things and work with a mess of dictionaries and lists.

Checks previous years type-hinted solutions with map[tuple[int, int], list[int]]

Yeah...

> but all of the AoC problems aren't parsing problems.

I'd say for the first ten years at least the first ten-ish days are 90% parsing and 10% solving ;) But yes, I agree, and maybe I'm worrying over a few extra visible err's in the code that I shouldn't be.

> if you just want to LLM your way through

Totally fair point if I constrain LLM usage to input handling and the things that I already know that I know how to do but don't want to type, although I've always quite liked being able to treat each day as an independent problem with no bootstrapping of any code, no 'custom AoC library', and just the minimal program required to solve the problem.
by siliconc0w | 2025-11-30 19:22:20+00:00
The thing is I don't really mind if the ad is super relevant and well integrated. My issue is when they get greedy and it becomes the the majority of the page. I sincerely think the reason people like ChatGPT > Google, even for trivial queries is the cleaner interface. It's also a reason that Google won over Yahoo/Altavista.

The danger is we'll get to where we are with Smart TVs where they all kinda have seemed to have embraced an openly user-hostile ads-filled UI and there is nowhere to hide. In which case, yeah you either go with the least bad or hopefully the OSS models are comparable or I just pay a la carte to use the API.
by mkagenius | 2025-11-30 19:22:26+00:00
Remember that things a "ceo" of anything says is just what he hears from people he has talked to. Now it doesn't make it obviously wrong, it's just then begs the question who he has been talking to that week. I doubt gary is doing any of the coding these days. For what it's worth, it's completely fine to ignore what he is saying - no offense.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-30 19:22:29+00:00
I think this gets lost somewhat in the distance between how conservatives describe themselves and how they actually behave. They cry the loudest about some vague "FREEDOM!" but are actively cheering on the blatant violation of human rights in the country. They pretend to be "individualists" but go out of their way to make fun of and ostracize people who don't conform to their version of "normal". Practically every position they state is directly contradicted by the things they support. They get to carry this "fiscally responsible" badge despite never once being accountable for delivering on that promise. Their entire ideology is based on lies and bad faith and it shows by the people they keep electing.
by hereme888 | 2025-11-30 19:22:30+00:00
fair point regarding data quality, but in the PEFT-Bench study, the base model actually outperformed the fine-tuned versions on those specific math/code tasks.

So the "chopstick capability" was already there (at least partially), but the SFT process actively degraded it. It seems less about the data being too hard and more about the parameter-efficient methods (like LoRA) overwriting or interfering with delicate reasoning circuits just to satisfy the formatting loss.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-30 19:22:42+00:00
People are suggesting all over these threads what we can do about it, but we (as a population) aren't. When my 2009 car dies, I'm going to deliberately NOT buy a new trackingmobile, and try to find another 2009 car to keep running. Yea, that means I occasionally need to take 30 seconds to scrape ice off the windshield. Big deal.
by willis936 | 2025-11-30 19:23:25+00:00
There are GPS antennas that land on that DCM and the data from that is forwarded over carplay/android auto. Phones fall back to their onboard GPS but it's a much worse experience than we're accustomed to. If you share the car with someone expect complaints. Pulling the cell antenna(s) is the most elegant solution. People shouldn't be afraid of a little work.
by an0malous | 2025-11-30 19:24:47+00:00
Do you have a source for that being their life savings?

Most of your points have nothing to do with their wealth. Why would it suggest they’re poor if his mom had him at 17 and was taking night classes while raising him? She wasn’t employed, that just sounds like she herself was still able to take risks beyond her means probably because her father was wealthy.
by breppp | 2025-11-30 19:24:56+00:00
I am not saying whether this war is regrettable or isn't and who is more right in this context

I am saying that the term "genocide" that is thrown around very lightly seems to me as an attempt to erase the actual genocide by misappropriating it.

When european governments support this action this has everything to do with their actions in the holocaust and the two millennia of scapegoating jews

essentially what they are saying is, remember the time when we shipped all our citizens of a certain race to the gas chambers for no reason? that is morally equivalent to you fighting a defacto state that slaughtered a thousand of your civilians, raped and kidnapped babies. this is so similar we will actually use the same word for that
Ask HN: Are 98% of HN Readers Using AdBlock?
by 7777777phil | 2025-11-30 19:25:06+00:00
I’ve GoatCounter [1], a "privacy-friendly" site visit counter that tracks pageviews by inserting a small JavaScript snippet on my website for some weeks now.

Today, I posted a link [2] to a blog post of mine on HN, but instead of linking directly, I used my YOURLS URL shortener. In the span of about 2 hours, I saw ~350 clicks counted on the shortened URL. When I checked the raw hits from my GoatCounter data, there were exactly 7 hits recorded—3 of which had hackernews.com as the referrer.

I was expecting that a good number of HN users might be using AdBlock or VPNs, but 98% of my traffic being blocked or filtered seems unusually high. Is this a common experience for anyone else here? Do most HN users have AdBlock, VPNs, or other privacy tools that block tracking scripts?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34265127 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097184
by hnlmorg | 2025-11-30 19:25:55+00:00
> Exactly, and the correct way to setup GET requests is to ignore their bodies for caching purposes because they aren't expected to exist

No. The correct way to set up this infra is the way that works for a particular problem while still being secure.

If you’re so inflexible as an engineer that you cannot set up caching correctly for a specific edge case because it breaks you’re preferred assumptions, then you’re not a very good engineer.

> and might lead some implementations to reject the request and close the connection because of its potential as a request smuggling attack"

Once again, you have control over the implementations you use in your infra.

Also It’s not a RSA if the request is supposed to contain a payload in the body.

> I am pretty sure our SecOps and Infra Ops and code standards committee will check it and declare that GET bodies is a hard no.

I wouldn’t be so sure. I’ve worked with a plethora of different infosec folk from those who will mandate that PostgreSQL needs to use non-standard ports because of mandating strict compliance with NIST, even for low risk reports. To others that have been fine with some pretty massive deviations from traditionally recommended best practices.

The good infosec guys, and good platform engineers too, don’t look at things in black and white like you are. They build up a risk assessment and judge each deviation on its own merit. Thus GET body payloads might make sense in some specific scenarios.

This doesn’t mean that everyone should do it nor that it’s a good idea outside of those niche circumstances. But it does mean that you shouldn’t hold on to these rigid rules like gospel truths. Sometimes the most pragmatic solution is the unconditional one.

That all said, I can’t think of any specific circumstance where you’d want to do this kind of hack. But that doesn’t mean that reasonable circumstances would never exist.
by fragmede | 2025-11-30 19:25:56+00:00
If you don't want to do any of the science part of computer science then this route may not be one for you to consider. However, if we assume that AI is going to be with us in 5 years, and that it would take you 5 years to get a PhD in an AI-related area you do find interesting, and furthermore that demand for talent with a PhD in that area has gone up, or stayed constant vs demand for general software development talent, then, based on that pile of "if"s, while a $100 million job offer from Meta may not exist in 5 years, it is still something to consider.
by D-Coder | 2025-11-30 19:25:59+00:00
Here's my analysis:

If an alien intelligence has reached Earth, it has technical capabilities at least a century ahead of ours.

Either (a) they do want to be seen by us, or (b) they don't care if we see them, or (c) they do not want to be seen by us.

For case (a), we would have unambiguously seen them by now.

For case (b), we would have unambiguously seen them by now.

For case (c), with their advanced technology, we'd never see them.

So... I very much doubt that an alien intelligence is here.
by quirino | 2025-11-30 19:26:29+00:00
Serious in-person competitions like ICPC are still effective against cheating. The first phase happens in a limited number of venues and the computers run a custom OS without internet access. There are many people watching so competitors don't user their phones, etc.

The Regional Finals and World Finals are in a single venue with a very controlled environment. Just like the IOI and other major competitions.

National High School Olympiads have been dealing with bigger issues because there are too many participants in the first few phases, and usually the schools themselves host the exams. There has been rampant cheating. In my country I believe the organization has resorted to manually reviewing all submissions, but I can only see this getting increasingly less effective.

This year the Canadian Computing Competition didn't officially release the final results, which for me is the best solution:

> Normally, official results from the CCC would be released shortly after the contest. For this year’s contest, however, we will not be releasing official results. The reason for this is the significant number of students who violated the CCC Rules. In particular, it is clear that many students submitted code that they did not write themselves, relying instead on forbidden external help. As such, the reliability of “ranking” students would neither be equitable, fair, or accurate.

Available here: [PDF] https://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/sites/default/files/documents/2025...

Online competitions are just hopeless. AtCoder and Codeforces have rules against AI but no way to enforce them. A minimally competent cheater is impossible to detect. Meta Hacker Cup has a long history and is backed by a large company, but had its leaderboard crowded by cheaters this year.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-30 19:27:53+00:00
Giving car companies your money (and then modifying your car) is still rewarding car companies for their bad behavior. We really need to stop buying new cars and somehow make it clear that telematics are the reason, but it's never going to happen. Not enough people care, and of those who care, not enough of them care enough to stop buying these cars.
by sunrunner | 2025-11-30 19:28:07+00:00
The crossover of language design/implementation and game development made me assume this was either a Jonathon Blow (Jai, Braid, The Witness) or Bob Nystrom project (Game Programming Patterns, Crafting Interpreters, 'Is There More to Game Architecture than ECS?' [1]).

Either way, given the time constraints and requirements I'm expecting a lot of text adventures and rogue-likes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxI3Eu5DPwE