MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-12-03 03:43:09+00:00
> As a scouter working with teenagers, I feel that most kids with a supportive backgrounds will tame this beast for themselves eventually, so I hate to make hard "no phones" rules.

In my experience with mentoring juniors and college students, it’s common to have some wake-up call moment(s) where they realize their phone use is something that needs to be moderated. For some it comes from getting bad grades in a class (college in the age range I worked with) and realizing they could have avoided it by paying attention in lectures instead of using their phone. I’ve also seen it happen in relationships where they realize one day that their social life has disappeared or, in extreme cases, get dumped for being too into their phone. For others it shows up in their first job when someone doesn’t hold back in chewing them out for excessive or inappropriate phone use.

In the context of high school students, I don’t see this happening as much. A big component of high school social structure is forcing students a little bit out of their comfort zone so they can discover friends and build relationships. The default for many is to hide, withdraw, and avoid anything slightly uncomfortable. For a lot of them, slightly uncomfortable might be as simple as having to make casual conversation with people around them. A phone is the perfect tool to withdraw and appear busy, which feels like a free license to exist in a space alone without looking awkward.

So while agree that most people come to terms with the problem themselves as adults, I do also think that middle and high schools deserve some extra boundaries to get the ball rolling on learning how to exist without a phone. The students I’ve worked with who came from high schools that banned phones (private, usually, at least in the past) are so much better equipped to socialize and moderate their phone use. Before anyone claims socioeconomic factors, private high schools generally have sliding scale tuition and a large percentage of students attend for free due to their parents’ income, so it’s not just wealthy kids from wealthy families that I’m talking about.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-12-03 03:43:27+00:00
i am not familiar with rust and i gave up on python async years ago so i have no frame of reference here. but im really not sure why theres a need to distinguish between tasks and non tasks?

importantly in zig the execution isnt just limited to #1 and #2. if the caller of this function initiated a #3 before all of this it could also get run stuffed in that .await, for example.
by mike50 | 2025-12-03 03:43:28+00:00
Spending money is not the solution. Spending money in a way that doesn't go to subcontractors is part of the solution. Building shelters beyond cots in a stadium is part of the solution. Building housing is a large part of actually solving the problem. People have tried just giving the money but without a way to convert cash to housing the money doesn't help. Also studies by people smarter then me suggest that without sufficient supply the money ends up going to landlords and pushing up housing costs anyway.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-12-03 03:43:40+00:00
As of now, it's completely passive. It's just a wrapper around their website with some features which reduce friction.

For example, we have a DND (Do Not Disturb) system which is opt-in. Most people don't know about this. Originally signing up required a new user to send a series of text messages to register (opt-in) and select what kind of ads (spam) they would tolerate. For example you could say block everything except bank offers.

This app walks you through the process.

I keep a close watch on permissions etc which apps ask for. This app doesn't really want access to anything unusual.

This on IOS, I know nothing about Android.
by winddude | 2025-12-03 03:44:15+00:00
8T is the high-end of the McKinsey estimate that is 4-8T, by 20230. That includes non-AI data-centre IT, AI data-centre, and power infrastructure build out, also including real estate for data centres.

Not all of it would be debt. Google, Meta, Microsoft and AWS have massive profit to fund their build outs. Power infrastructure will be funded by govts and tax dollars.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-12-03 03:44:38+00:00
This isn’t a question of the senior teaching the junior how to use the LLM correctly.

Once you’re a senior you can exercise judgement on when/how to use LLMs.

When you’re a junior you haven’t developed that judgement yet. That judgement comes from consulting documentation, actually writing code by hand, seeing how you can write a small program just fine, but noticing that some things need to change when the code gets a lot bigger.

A junior without judgement isn’t very valuable unless he/she is working hard to develop that judgement. Passing assignments through to the LLM does not build judgement, so it’s not a winning strategy.
by more_corn | 2025-12-03 03:45:13+00:00
Try hanging out with people who have paying jobs doing the thing. (Not trying to break in, not founding a startup, not selling an idea). I worked at a FAANG company. People were honestly smart, capable, humble. (There was a strong correlation between the most effective tech people and their humility)

Maybe I got lucky. In retrospect I probably got super lucky.
by jimt1234 | 2025-12-03 03:46:38+00:00
Years ago, a friend and I were kicking around startup ideas. We weren't coming up with anything good, so we flipped it and decided to come up with the worst/dumbest idea possible. We landed on a social media site dedicated to poop (this was back when social media sites were all the rage). People could upload pictures of their poop, discuss poop, share "best poop" stories, and so on. We never actually built anything, realizing it was just a joke, a total waste of time. ... Fast forward to 2025: For $600-plus-monthly-subscription, we'll take pictures of your poop!

BTW, someone please tell me that there is/was a social media site dedicated to poop, and the founder got rich from it. I need that today.
by sudosysgen | 2025-12-03 03:47:01+00:00
Why do you need to handle DDR5? You can use DDR3 to play the vast majority of competitive video games. It's not hard to find an FPGA that can handle DDR3 or DDR4.

You also don't need to sniff the entirety of the traffic. You just need to introduce aliasing. That is much harder to do for DDR5 but you don't need it to be reliable or stable for a long time, because you won't be sniffing for very long. And you don't need to do 6000+MT/s either.
by dap | 2025-12-03 03:48:00+00:00
It seems obvious to me that "the ability to model, predict, and influence one’s future" is far more general and capable than "constrained to pattern recognition and prediction of text and symbols." How do you conclude that those are the same?

I do like that definition because it seems to capture what's different between LLMs and people even when they come up with the same answers. If you give a person a high school physics question about projectile motion, they'll use a mental model that's a combination of explicit physical principles and algebraic equations. They might talk to themselves or use human language to work through it, but one can point to a clear underlying model (principles, laws, and formulas) that are agnostic to the human language they're using to work through them.

I realize some people believe (and it could be) that ultimately it really is the same process. Either the LLM does have such a model encoded implicitly in all those numbers or human thought using those principles and formulas is the same kind of statistical walk that the LLM is doing. At the very least, that seems far from clear. This seems reflected in the results like the OP's.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-03 03:48:04+00:00
> The main challenge is that the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for impulse control and other things, only fully develops around age 25.

This factoid has been repeated for decades but it’s essentially a myth.

Brain development continues into your 20s, but there isn’t a threshold at age 25 where someone goes from having poor impulse control to being capable of good impulse control.

18-25 year olds are not children and are fully capable of having impulse control. That can continue to develop as they age, but it doesn’t mean age 25 is when it happens.

I would agree that actual children need some more explicit boundaries, which is also why we don’t allow children to do a lot of things that people over 18 can do.
by oblio | 2025-12-03 03:48:06+00:00
There is mounting evidence that even places like Meta are increasing their leverage (debt load) to fund this scale out. They're also starting to do accounting tricks like longer depreciation for assets which degrade quickly, such as GPUs (all the big clouds increasing their hardware depreciation from 2-3-4 years to 6), which makes their financial numbers look better but might not mean that all that hardware is still usable at production levels 6 years from now.

They're all starting to strain under all this AI pressure, even with their mega profits.
by mrexroad | 2025-12-03 03:48:45+00:00
> As of 2025, The Medog Dam, currently under construction on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Mêdog County, China, expected to be completed by 2033, is planned to have a capacity of 60 GW, three times that of the Three Gorges Dam.[3]

Meanwhile, “drill baby drill!”
by 7thaccount | 2025-12-03 03:49:43+00:00
I think you're exaggerating a little, but aren't entirely wrong. The Internet has completely changed daily life for most of humanity. AI can mean a lot of things, but a lot of it is blown way out of proportion. I find LLMs useful to help me rephrase a sentence or explain some kind of topic, but it pales in comparison to email and web browsers, YouTube, and things like blogs.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-12-03 03:52:03+00:00
To be completely fair the later versions of Netscape were increasingly giant bloated piles of crap while IE slowly caught up and surpassed in terms of speed and features. The first versions IE were only good for downloading Netscape.

Netscape, to a large degree, killed itself.

Not to say IE turned into anything good though. But it did have its hayday.
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by andai | 2025-12-03 03:56:31+00:00
I have a few lines of "download subtitles with yt-dlp", "remove the VTT crap", and "shove it into llm with a summarization prompt and/or my question appended", but I mostly use Gemini for that now. (And I use it for basically nothing else, oddly enough. They just have the monopoly on access to YouTube transcripts ;)
by tomnipotent | 2025-12-03 03:56:34+00:00
> and a link was made with Handmade software

I'm willing to wager that 99.99% of readers do not associate "Handmade" with the org you're associated with, and that most didn't know it existed until this comment. So yes "really", without OP replying, it's understandable that the poster you're replying inferred it had nothing to do with you.
by RHSeeger | 2025-12-03 03:56:40+00:00
The Narcissist's Prayer

> That didn’t happen.

> And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

> And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

> And if it is, that’s not my fault.

> And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

> And if I did, you deserved it.

You've checked off the first 3 so far. The government has checked off all 6 of them.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-03 03:57:01+00:00
> The history of cocaine in the US is quite interesting. It was being used everywhere and by everybody.

Be careful with that comparison. The cocaine infused drinks of the past are not comparable to modern cocaine use for several reasons.

The route of administration and dose matter a lot. Oral bioavailability is low and peak concentrations are much lower when drinking it in a liquid as opposed to someone insufflating (snorting) 50mg or more of powder.

You could give a modern cocaine user a glass of Vin Mariani and they probably would not believe you that it had any cocaine in it. The amount, absorption, and onset are so extremely different.

> So probably part of the reason it was so difficult to realize there is a problem is because everybody was coked out of their minds

That’s an exaggeration. To be “coked out” in the modern sense they’d have to be consuming an insane amount of alcohol as well. We’re talking bottle after bottle of the wine.

Be careful with these old anecdotes. Yes, it was weird and there were stimulant effects, but it’s not comparable to modern ideas of the drug abuse. It’s like comparing someone taking the lowest dose of Adderall by mouth to someone who crushes up a dozen pills and snorts them. Entirely different outcomes.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-12-03 03:58:26+00:00
> The PC speaker sound effects are bad enough (which is to say "as good as they can be, but still bad") and sound "cheap"

They are lifted as is from Shadow Knights.

> which is to say "as good as they can be, but still bad"

They could be done better or even way better, it's just that wasn't an important target in any way. Especially considering the performance target of 486DX+ whicih wasn't not a cheap machine in any way in 1993.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/1952/shadow-knights/
by mingus88 | 2025-12-03 03:58:26+00:00
People who have clinical gut issues need to track this kind of thing

And people who are being treated for gut issues can pay for their $600 medical toilet with HSA or insurance

Honestly, that this camera toilet exists is not a WTF for me. If my doctor needs to track changes to my stool, I certainly don’t want to have to hover over the bowl with my phone out. Please, just have the toilet take the picture.
by oblio | 2025-12-03 03:58:29+00:00
All those use cases would probably use up 1% of the current AI infrastructure, let alone ahat they're planning to build.

Yeah, just like gas, possible uses will expand if AI crashes out, but:

* will these uses cover, say, 60% of all this infra?

* will these uses scale up to use that 60% within the next 5-7 years, while that hardware is still relevant and fully functional?

Also, we still have railroad tracks from the 1800s rail mania that were never truly used to capacity and dot com boom dark fiber that's also never been used fully, even with the internet growing 100x since. And tracks and fiber don't degrade as quickly as server hardware and especially GPUs.
by biofunsf | 2025-12-03 03:58:40+00:00
I might missing some context. Just to check my understanding: HMC and Bun aren't a good match anymore because Bun devs use LLM/AI tooling more than HMC? Basically to really level up a system is incompatible these tools? (IYHO)

Thank you! I appreciated how you wrote up this clarifying.
by nradov | 2025-12-03 03:59:07+00:00
You seem to be confused. The AMA doesn't control physician licensing. That's done by state medical boards.

But are you suggesting we have separate licenses for every different type of developer? We have new types coming up every few years.

The whole idea of guilds for developers is just stupid and impractical. It could never work on any long term or large scale basis.
by pretendgeneer | 2025-12-03 03:59:21+00:00
> And when you have the opportunity to use human labour or AI, AI is almost certainly the greener option as well. For instance, the carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are far lower for AI than for humans:

Do you plan on killing that person to stop their emissions?

If you don't use the AI program the emissions don't happen, if you don't hire a person for a job, they still use the carbon resources.

So the comparison isn't 1000kg Co2 for a human vs 1kg Co2 for an LLM. It's 1000kg Co2 for a human vs 1001kg Co2 for an LLM.
by your_sweetpea | 2025-12-03 04:00:18+00:00
I suspect the end goal is to have suspend/resume (or some analogue) be userspace standard library functions used to implement Io.Evented. It'll end up being a userspace implementation like you see with many of the C coroutine libraries floating around on GitHub (minicoro, llco, etc).

Edit: Looking at the working prototype of Io.Evented, this may not be true actually. Perhaps this is the domain of a 3rd-party library except with stackless coroutines?

Another thing you may want to pay attention to, however, are the current proposals for getting evented IO working on WASM -- namely, stackless coroutines as a language feature: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/23446
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-12-03 04:00:56+00:00
For a while with bitcoin, it seemed GPU investing was almost a thing.

I just checked, the kit I bought in February was $270, today it is showing up for $1070. Woof. Now I have to decide if I should keep it on the off chance I do get around to that machine or dump it while the getting is good. Then again, who wants to buy RAM of unknown provenance unless they themselves are looking to scam the seller.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-03 04:01:34+00:00
Part of the lesson is understanding how we got here.

The answer is, of course, liberal hyperindividualism. By that I don't mean "liberal institutions" or respect for the individual person especially in the face of collectivism, but an ideology of antisocial atomization of the self that thrusts the self into subjective godhood. Paradoxically, this makes people more susceptible to control in practice.

Now, ideological and political programs don't fully realize the consequences of their premises instantly. It can take years, decades, centuries for all the nasty errors to manifest and become so conspicuous that they cannot be ignored. The Enlightenment program in our case. And so, in this hyperindividualism, the social order - its layers, its concentric circles, its various rights and demands on the individual that precede the consent of the individual - is all reduced progressively to not only the consensual, but also the transactional. Social bonds and structures evaporate or become fluid and contingent merely on the transactional; commitment and duty are a prison. Consent as the highest and only moral law leads us to relativism, because if all that is needed is consent to make an act moral and good, then naturally what is morally good will vary from person to person, and even minute to minute for a given person. On top of that, consent can be attained through manipulation and power, and so now individuals joust for power to manufacture consent in order to bless their exploitation of others.

The self cannot be limited in any way according to this program, and any residual limits are the lingering chains of some ancient past.

Perhaps most amusing is how so-called "countercultural" movements are anything but. These are typically just advancing the ideological program, not rejecting it. Contradictions between such movements and the status quo often come in the form of a tension between residual cultural features of an earlier age and the greater faithfulness to the trajectory of the program among the countercultural. Typically, conflicts are over power, not belief. And sometimes, the internal contradictions of the program lead to diverging programs that come into conflict.
by bombela | 2025-12-03 04:02:07+00:00
I am not so sure you know what you are talking about. Feel free to provide some reading material for my education.

Why would the scheduler tick frequency even matters for this discussion. Even on a single cpu/core/thread system. For what is worth, the default scheduler tick rate has been 2.5ms since 2005. Earlier this year somebody proposed switching back to 1ms.

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/dev-btrfs-design.... https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.html https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_... https://sqlite.org/wal.html#ckpt https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2025-Proposal-1000Hz
by RHSeeger | 2025-12-03 04:02:43+00:00
I would argue it depends on context. E2EE means it's encrypted until the "target" receives it. For a messaging protocol, it's the intended recipient of the message. For what the person you're replying is discussing, the intended recipient IS the bank.

That being said, the person you're replying to seems to be saying that "the server" is always an "intended" end, which is wrong.
by RickJWagner | 2025-12-03 04:03:06+00:00
One of the most important benefits will be the example being set.

People will have a visible example of the power of compounding. It’s just a shame there isn’t more time in the equation so they could see the real magic happen.

Did you know that at typical market rates, someone saving $1000 at age 20 would have $64,000 at age 62?

Even more illustrative, if the same person waited until age 27 to save the same $1000, they would only get 32k. If they started at 34, they’d only get $16k!

The importance of time as the secret ingredient is the best kept secret ( that’s endlessly explained by people like Warren Buffett ). Hopefully these accounts will help the message stick.
by rowanG077 | 2025-12-03 04:05:20+00:00
The case I'm making is not that different Io context are good. The point I'm making is that mixing them is almost never what is needed. I have seen valid cases that do it, but it's not in the "used all the time" path. So I'm more then happy with the better ergonomics of traditional async await in the style of Rust , that sacrifices super easy runtime switching. Because the former is used thousands of times more.
by diogenescynic | 2025-12-03 04:06:42+00:00
That's all besides the point I am making... All things being equal, why is remote work not better for the employer as well as employee? Less commute=more energy and better focus=increased efficiency (I get much more work done at home than in an office). At the same time the employer doesn't need to provide as much real estate space, so it's not only more efficient, but cheaper. The only advantage seems to be control/authority? In what way is having employees in office preferable. Most of my meetings are with teams that are geographically dispersed anyways. Is it really any more effective to take a Zoom call in an office vs at my desk at home?
by ragingregard | 2025-12-03 04:07:19+00:00
> Counting on 10% returns long term is way to aggressive especially when you have to consider sequence of returns risks during withdrawals

Yes though the propose is not to retire. There's better things to do with your life (IMO) than work a standard 9-5 job for some corporation once you've accumulated sufficient wealth to have financial independence.

> Even 5% is not conservative enough while you are in the withdrawal phase.

Assuming you spend 5% per year. 5M@5% is 250k, 200k+ after tax for CG + eligible divs. That's a lot of money to spend every year, more than most families get to earn thru their labor yearly. Can be secured against downturns with higher 4%+ bond allocations too. 5M is financial independence for vast majority of households. 2.5M can be as well for many if their baseline spend remains at 100k.

> All of my friends still work so what could I possibly do with my free time that I don’t do now?

Financial independence provides vast opportunities for those with ideas but lacking time. There's a reason most businesses are pursued by those who have financial wealth on their side.
by anamexis | 2025-12-03 04:09:16+00:00
Yep, exactly that. I recall that the voting was interesting because it was just ranked on absolute number of votes, no time decay or anything, so it would take quite some time for a new contender to accumulate votes to "compete" on the leaderboard. I don't remember if there were even accounts or if anyone could just vote repeatedly, modulo some IP or cookie-based limits.

As far provenance, I assume a lot of them were made up too, but this one was real.