MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-12-03 06:44:36+00:00
DMARC is a relatively recent addition to the email security space, and while it seems a bit superfluous at first, is actually quite useful! Sending and receiving the reports (which, should be noted, is entirely optional) might indeed be helped by a setup separate from the main mail handling workflow, as the 'best effort' nature and the fact that lots of systems sending DMARC reports have no business delivering mail for the sender domain in the first place are quite distinct.

Both Microsoft and Google seem to do it just fine using their main infrastructure though, so there's that. And apart from (performing or hopefully kickstarting) troubleshooting of SPF and (especially) DKIM failures, going through the forensic reports (which not everyone sends, even if they do summaries, due to message privacy concerns) will definitely satisfy your 'WTF-quota' for the day, since you get to see some spoofed messages that are usually just blackholed, and some of those are truly bizarre...
by sholain | 2025-12-03 06:46:30+00:00
"it would struggle to honor its long-term agreements. That failure would cascade. Oracle, for example, could be left with massive liabilities and no matching revenue stream,"

No, there's a not of noise about this but these are just 'statements of intent'.

Oracle very intimately understands OpenAI's ability to pay.

They're not banking $50B in chips and then waking up naively one morning to find out OpenAI has no funding.

What will 'cascade' is maybe some sentiment, or analysts expectations etc.

Some of it, yes, will be a problem - but at this point, the data centre buildout is not an OpenAI driven bet - it's a horizontal be across tech.

There's not that much risk in OpenAI not raising enough to expand as much as it wants.

Frankly - a CAPEX slowdown will hit US GDP growth and freak people out more than anything.
by JimDabell | 2025-12-03 06:46:45+00:00
I think this article is a good response to the MIT article: https://andymasley.substack.com/p/reactions-to-mit-technolog...

> AI normally generates marketing copy for someone in marketing, not by itself, and even when if it does everything itself, the marketing person might stop being employed but certainly doesn't stop existing and producing co2.

Sure, but it does it a lot quicker than they can, which means they spend more of their time on other things. You’re getting more work done on average for the carbon you are “spending”.

Also, even when ignoring the carbon cost of the human, just the difference in energy use from their computer equipment in terms of time spent on the task outstrips AI energy use.

> This may well be true for prompts, but misses out the energy intensive training process.

If you are trying to account for the fully embodied cost including production, then I think things tilt even more in favour of AI being environmentally-friendly. Do you think producing a Netflix show is carbon-neutral? I have no idea what the carbon cost of producing, e.g. Stranger Things is, but I’m guessing it vastly outweighs the training costs of an LLM.
by reilly3000 | 2025-12-03 06:48:17+00:00
GCP is sort of blending this into their Gemini APIs.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/google-search

You don’t have to do RAG or use a serp scraper MCP, just add the Search Grounding tool to the APzi request and it does the rest at the model’s discretion and $0.014 / search.

I think that’s generally a fair price for my time vs doing my own search queries at 1/100th the speed. It could get expensive for deep research type queries.
by RHSeeger | 2025-12-03 06:49:47+00:00
Doesn't the anonymous-ness of crypto/zcash make it impossible for the bank to handle fraud (reversing of charges and such)?

My understanding is that banks, at least in the US, need to have fairly extensive knowledge relating to all transfers of money, both for fraud handling and for non-fraud (money laundering, etc). A transaction they can't know anything about other than "transfer X money to some recipient you can't know anything about" just doesn't seem realistic with the regulations involved.

Plus, even "transfer X money to some recipient you can't know anything about" is a message that you're sending _to_ the bank, that they have to be able to decode and read. And, presumably, you'd encrypt that message and expect the bank to decrypt it.

Honestly, I don't understand what argument is that you're not sending a message TO the bank, and they need to be able to read it in order to act on it, and they need to decrypt it to read it. The bank is the target of the message, they are one of the "ends" in E2EE.

I feel like I need an "Explain this like I'm 5", because clearly you believe differently than me... and I don't understand _how_ it can be otherwise.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-03 06:49:48+00:00
Extensions to Khronos standards are hardly that greatly documented.

A TXT dump of the proposal, with luck a sample from the GPU vendor, and that is all.

Vulkan was famously badly documented, one only has to go to LunarG yearly reports regarding community feedback on Vulkan, and related action points.

OpenGL 4.6 never has had a red book editon, Vulkan only had a red book for 1.0, OpenCL and SYSCL just have the PDF reference, not all Khronos APIs have a cheatsheeet PDF on Khronos site.
by nirvdrum | 2025-12-03 06:49:51+00:00
Plaid still rubs me the wrong way. Not selling to 3rd parties is great. But, everyone uses it, so that's still a lot of people getting data I don't necessarily want them to have. If I want to link a bank account to a credit card account in order to pay my bill, there's zero reason for that credit card company to have access to my bank transaction data. I still do the ACH deposit verification method where I can in order to avoid Plaid. I'd love more granular controls here or an audit log of what was pulled in.

SimpleFIN¹ looks compelling. Actual Budget can use that and it seems to work more like a privacy-oriented Plaid. But, now you need to trust a much smaller player. Really, I wish this were all standardized with strict privacy requirements.

¹ -- https://www.simplefin.org/
by barrell | 2025-12-03 06:49:52+00:00
An idea that has been living rent free in my head is that "AI is ultimately nothing but a pure destruction of value". It's promise is unlimited value to everyone on demand; but if everyone can do everything without any effort, it is no longer valuable. Value and scarcity go hand in hand.

I realize the hyperbolic framing of the idea, but none-the-less I haven't been able to get it out of my head. This article feels like it's another piece of the same puzzle.
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-03 06:50:47+00:00
> Part of the challenge (and I don't have an answer either) is there are some juniors who use AI to assist... and some who use it to delegate all of their work to.

This is not limited to junior devs. I had the displeasure of working with a guy who was hired as a senior dev who heavily delegated any work they did. He failed to even do the faintest review of what the coding agent and of course did zero testing. At one time these stunts resulted in a major incident where one of these glorious PRs pushed code that completely inverted a key business rule and resulted in paying customers being denied access to a paid product.

Sometimes people are slackers with little to no ownership or pride in their craftsmanship, and just stumbled upon a career path they are not very good at. They start at juniors but they can idle long enough to waddle their way to senior positions. This is not a LLM problem, or caused by it.
by akdor1154 | 2025-12-03 06:50:57+00:00
Interested in tangent replies to this, even if such fonts are artistically unsuitable for games - are open source fonts OK for Japanese? I understand that Unicode denotes single characters for both Chinese and Japanese (and Korean outside of Hangul?) even though there are differences between how nations write these 'single' characters, so the result is a Unicode font will look like a Chinese font, or a Japanese font, but not both.

How do the big Unicode OSS fonts like Noto, Deja Vu deal with this?
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-03 06:51:00+00:00
Windows audience will always be split between the people that loved it for what it is (Win7), and those who tolerate it as long as it plays nice with everything else (*nix subsystem, latest hardware etc)

The win7 audience is IMHO shrinking the fastest, while the other camp has nowhere to go and is less demanding, making it an easier customer base.
by exmadscientist | 2025-12-03 06:51:08+00:00
My recommendation to anyone who finds themself stuck in this corner of the design space is to consider a tapped inductor converter.

I did a tapped inductor boost last year to take 3V input to 80V output (at not-much output current, I forget exactly what it was but it was mostly a bias voltage; also, the actual output voltage was DAC-set and could be quite low, so the loop dynamics were unpleasant). It was definitely annoying to wrap my head around, and very annoying to select the inductor (Würth has a nice OTS series, at the usual Würth prices; HVM would likely want a custom or semicustom design) but it just plain worked the first try and continued working through the usual stress tests and also the unusual stress tests of the Very Expensive Load™ getting itself Very Expensively Killed™ (for non-power-supply reasons). I was really happy with that converter, that kind of step-up ratio isn't easy and it just worked.
by kelnos | 2025-12-03 06:51:59+00:00
I think the problem is that most students, (as this study shows) are not figuring it out on their own, at least not in high school. It feels like you're one of the outliers, not the common case.

Having rules about what you can and can't bring into school is nothing new. I went to high school in the 90s, and there were plenty of things we weren't allowed to bring with us into class; back then, the closest analogue to smartphones would have been pagers, probably.

It seems entirely reasonable to ban smartphones (and dumb phones, even) from schools. Frankly, I think it's absolutely insane that they were ever allowed.

And sure, maybe these students who go to high schools where smartphones are banned will get to university and go nuts, sitting in lecture halls with their phones out all the time. They'll learn very quickly that their grades will suffer, and will clean up their acts or fail out of school. But this is like everything else: the first year of university is the big year of independence, of being away from parents for the first time, and college students do plenty of dumb things in the name of that independence. That's always been the case; I'm no stranger to that phenomenon myself. They either work it out on their own, or they fail out.
by antonvs | 2025-12-03 06:52:32+00:00
Are you suggesting that no meaningful distinction can be made in terms of morality between Trump and, say, Biden, Obama, Blair, the Bushes etc.?

Some people will point to their supposed crimes or immoral actions while in office, having to do with execution of their duties as president. Large countries tend to do many questionable things. But the current US administration is pretty unique in terms of its corruption, avoidance of accountability, authoritarian and fascist tendencies, etc.

It's not a useful contribution to the discussion to essentially claim that "they're all the same" without making some sort of case for it.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-12-03 06:53:09+00:00
The status bar icons on the top right of One UI (Samsung's firmware skin) aren't even aligned or the same size. It's only just been fixed in One UI 8.5, years from the problem first happening.

You're welcome if you can't unsee it now.

It's nothing major, but it's one example of how inconsistent and disorganised their software is, there's so much low hanging fruit that you'd think their software division was under duress, along with year long delays to software updates.
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by shrubby | 2025-12-03 06:53:11+00:00
The moral comes from the grassroots as power corrupts.

As long as we wait for a godlike leader for rescue the end result is same as with Stalin, Hitler, Trump, Thiel, Epstein, Musk, ...

The godlikeness can come though in many forms, political (Trump), propaganda (Musk/Zuck7Thiel) or via extortion material and money like Epstein.

A good litmus test for a decision maker is the universal ethical principle mentioned in the article put into concrete and compare everything via the lens of "what if all eight billion of current humans and also the future generations would do this".

Right now nobody's daring to to this but as long as we start asking "who's afraid of the narcissist zillionaire" the world starts to make sense and the solution appears.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-03 06:53:49+00:00
Steve Jobs, the guy that got booted out of his own company and that required a lifeline from his arch nemesis to survive?

This is all true, but it was only true in hindsight and as such does not carry much value.

It's possible that you are right and AI is 'the future' but with the present day AI offering I'm skeptical as well. It isn't at a level where you don't have to be constantly on guard against bs and in that sense it's very different from computing so far, where reproducibility and accuracy of the results were important, not the language that they are cast in.

AI has killed the NLP field and it probably will kill quite a few others, but for the moment I don't see it as the replacement of general computing that the proponents say that it is. Some qualitative change is still required before I'm willing to check off that box.

In other news: Kodak declares digital cameras a fad, and Microsoft saw the potential of the mp3 format and created a killer device called the M-Pod.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-03 06:54:15+00:00
It's not even a little bit of a joke.

Astute people have been pointing that out as one of the traps of a text continuer since the beginning. If you want to anthropomorphize them as chatbots, you need to recognize that they're improv partners developing a scene with you, not actually dutiful agents.

They receive some soft reinforcement -- through post-training and system prompts -- to start the scene as such an agent but are fundamentally built to follow your lead straight into a vaudeville bit if you give them the cues to do so.

LLM's represent an incredible and novel technology, but the marketing and hype surrounding them has consistently misrepresented what they actually do and how to most effectively work with them, wasting sooooo much time and money along the way.

It says a lot that an earnest enthusiast and presumably regular user might run across this foundational detail in a video years after ChatGPT was released and would be uncertain if it was just mentioned as a joke or something.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-03 06:54:28+00:00
We don't tell chemists they shouldn't spend their formative years learning how to manage electron orbitals. You need to understand the fundamentals of how a computer works, or else you get people who write software with the wrong mental model of the machine (namely, that it's some sort of inscrutable, magic black box). Learning the fundamentals of the machine teaches you that is not, in fact, magic at all, it's just a lot of simple circuits built on top of each other, providing what we know as computation. Will you sling bits in assembly all day at your job? Probably not, but that knowledge is invaluable to being a better programmer.

We make surgeons learn anatomy. We make hardware engineers learn physics. I think we can expect programmers to learn how computers work.
by RobinL | 2025-12-03 06:54:50+00:00
Price and scarcity go hand in hand, not value and scarcity.

Diamonds are pretty worthless but expensive because they're scarce (putting aside industrial applications), water is extremely valuable but cheap.

No doubt there are some goods where the value is related to price, but these are probably mostly status related goods. e.g. to many buyers, the whole point in a Rolex is that it's expensive.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-12-03 06:55:11+00:00
This is something that happens currently all over the world. Yet another company thinks they can get away with steep price increase at the end of the year. People must understand that economy must be ecological. If you behave like a cancer and kill your host, you won't live forever

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I'd add that companies always strive for more income. This is dead end. You cannot earn more without creating more. "Just add ai and convert to subscription" - this is current model. But, as Chris Rea sung, this ain't no technological breakdown, oh no, this is the road to hell
by jmathai | 2025-12-03 06:55:31+00:00
I feel a lot less pride in my creative work knowing it can be done much too easily with modern AI. It makes me less eager to create which is quite unfortunate.

I haven’t felt to bad about my creative works being fed into training models. Taken by itself, my creations are minuscule. But it’s very apparent when I look at AI as a whole, having taken from everyone in aggregate.

I feel that.
by kelnos | 2025-12-03 06:56:06+00:00
I don't think anyone is saying impulse control goes from 0% to 100% on everyone's 25th birthday, like flicking a switch. But is it not reasonable to say that a 25-year-old will have significantly better impulse control than they had when they were 18? (And that their 30-year-old self probably has a similar level of impulse control as when they were 25?)
by jacquesm | 2025-12-03 06:56:11+00:00
That's a good question. During the .com boom everybody was investing in 'the internet' or at least in 'the web'. And lots of those companies went bust, quite a few spectacularly so. Since then everything that was promised and a lot more has been realized. Even so, a lot of those initial schemes were harebrained at best at the time and there is a fair chance that we will look in a similar way at the current AI offerings in 30 years time.

Short term is always disappointing, long term usually overperforms. Think back to the first person making a working transistor and what came of that.
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by renewiltord | 2025-12-03 06:57:17+00:00
This stuff is all a bit much. Fan fiction sites are all “creative content lifted without your consent”. You think J K Rowling consented to Harry x Hermione slash fiction? Or Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality? Absolutely non-consensual.

All of this stuff is clearly a highly cherry-picked gymnastic exercise to justify a pre-existing position. Classic Elephant and Rider stuff.

It’s the same as support for the snail darter. Same as the story about how groups shouldn’t go out during COVID but BLM protests are fine. And if by some incredible chance it had been the FSF or Brewster Kahle who had produced GPT then you guys would be talking about how information should be unchained because creative work belongs to all Man.

Couching this blatantly motivated reasoning by quoting past philosophers is just such middle-brow woe-is-me whining. Take one look at yourselves in an honest sense. Do you have any principles or will you slave them all to your outcomes?

And now I must repeat the litany lest one assume that my opposition to this kind of balderdash be construed as some kind of political tribalism:

* I don’t think we should destroy endangered species

* I think COVID wasn’t a hoax and does spread in large groups

* I think people have a right to protest if they are discriminated against and that includes the black people at BLM

* I love the Internet Archive and have donated to them
by altmanaltman | 2025-12-03 06:58:12+00:00
every other day antrophic comes up with a new "AI is scary" marketing campaign. Like https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go (AI blackmails our employee episode) or https://time.com/7335746/ai-anthropic-claude-hack-evil/ (Our model turned evil and hacked us omgg)

They put these stories out just to make the general public (who might not understand that this is just bs) but makes AI seem scary so people get a lopsided view of AI and capacities that are straight out of science fiction.

Millions is an understatement on how much AI marketing spend is
by smilekzs | 2025-12-03 06:59:50+00:00
Single-chip specs according to:

https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/abou...

https://awsdocs-neuron.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/nki/...

Eight NeuronCore-v4 cores that collectively deliver:

2,517 MXFP8/MXFP4 TFLOPS 671 BF16/FP16/TF32 TFLOPS 2,517 FP16/BF16/TF32 sparse TFLOPS 183 FP32 TFLOPS

HBM: 144 GiB HBM @ 4.9 TB/sec (4 stacks)

SRAM: 32 MiB * 8 = 256 MiB (ignoring 2 MiB * 8 = 16 MiB of PSUM which is not really general-purpose nor DMA-able)

Interconnect: 2560 GB/s (I think bidirectional, i.e. Jensen Math™)

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At 3nm process node the FLOP/s is _way_ lower than competition. Compare to B200 which does 2250 BF16, x2 FP8, x4 FP4. TPU7x does 2307 BF16, x2 FP8 (no native FP4). HBM also lags behind (vs ~192 GiB in 6 stacks for both TPU7x and B200).

The main redeeming qualities seem to be: software-managed SRAM size (double of TPU7x; GPUs have L2 so not directly comparable) and on-paper raw interconnect BW (double of TPU7x and more than B200).
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-03 06:59:52+00:00
> I must ask once again why we are having these 5+ round interview cycles and we aren't able to filter for qualities that the work requires of its talent.

Hiring well is hard, specially if compensation isn't competitive enough to attract talented individuals who have a choice. It's also hard to change institutional hiring practices. People don't get fired by buying IBM, and they also don't get fired if they follow the same hiring practices in place in 2016.

> What are all those rounds for if we're getting engineers who aren't as valued for the team's needs at the end of the pipeline?

Software development is a multidiscinary field. It involves multiple non-overlapping skill sets, bot hard skills and soft skills. Also, you need multiple people vetting a candidate to eliminate corruption and help weed out candidates who outright clash with company culture. You need to understand that hiring someone is a disruptive activity, that impacts not only what skill sets are available in your organization but also how the current team dynamics. If you read around, you'll stumble upon stories of people who switch roles in reaction to new arrivals. It's important to get this sort of stuff right.