MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Madmallard | 2025-12-23 03:41:59+00:00
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Grok 4 Heavy wasn't considered in comparisons. Grok meets or exceeds the same benchmarks that Gemini 3 excels at, saturating mmlu, scoring highest on many of the coding specific benchmarks. Overall better than Claude 4.5, in my experience, not just with the benchmarks."

I think these types of comments should just be forbidden from Hacker News.

It's all feelycraft and impossible to distinguish from motivated speech.
by thegrim000 | 2025-12-23 03:42:38+00:00
I read it as the inefficient part isn't the compute efficiency, the inefficient part is dumping all the resulting heat into the environment without capturing it and using it in some way to generate electricity or do work.

On a related/side note, when there's talk about seti and dyson spheres, and detecting them via infrared waste heat, I also don't understand that. Such an alien civilization is seemingly capable of building massive space structures/projects, but then lets the waste heat just pour out into the universe in such insane quantities that we could see it tens/hundreds of light years away? What a waste. Why wouldn't they recover that heat and make use of it instead? And repeat the recovering until the final waste output is too small to bother recovering, at which point we would no longer be able to detect it.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-23 03:42:52+00:00
I will offer an alternative POV: if your big brilliant plan is, sue the elected institutions over administrative decisions, don’t go to law school. It would be a colossal waste of your time. You will lose, even if you “win.”

You are advocating that talented people go for Willits as a blueprint of “civil service,” which is a terrible idea. It’s the worst idea.

If you have a strong opinion about administrative decisions, get elected, or work for someone who wins elections.

Or make a better technology.
Talented people should be working on Project Longfellow for everything. Not, and I can’t believe I have to say this, becoming lawyers.

And by the way, Flock is installed in cities run by Democrats and Republicans alike, which should inform you that, this guy is indicting civil servants, not advocating for their elevation to some valued priesthood protecting civil rights.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-23 03:43:12+00:00
I consider that I'm intertwined in the evolution of a very different friend's very local efforts, with their own hybrid battery-backed grid-tied offline-capable solar power system.

That rig is pretty sweet.

It pays for itself, and in present form and with their present use (wherein: they're not trying to live particularly-efficiently) it is almost entirely capable of keeping them with power even if the grid goes down for an indefinite period.

But, sure: We can talk about games, instead, if what you want to chat about is just games.

What games might you have in mind?
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-23 03:43:57+00:00
Check and see what your state's "judgment-proof statutes" are, i.e. how much you can protect from garnishment/seizure, in the event that you lose a lawsuit (the entire reason to create an LLC would be to limit your personal liability — this often fails, particularly in situation where you could have been just a sole proprietorship).

As an example, here in Tennessee, you may exempt $10,000 from seizure, plus $1900 in work tools (including computers). Therefore, if you have less than $11,900 in Tennessee, you are judgment proof. If you are judgment proof, there is no reason to create an LLC.

In Texas, your entire homestead is exempt!

Also, LLCs cannot represent themselves in court (i.e. require an attorney for litigation). You must also file quarterly taxes, tangible property taxes, &c. Dissolving the LLC costs way more money than creation.

Really just an all-around pain in the buttocks.

Src: Have worked individually as sole proprietor, LLC, and s-corp — the latter at least simplifies taxes.

See also: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil>
by inkyoto | 2025-12-23 03:44:10+00:00
I used «powermetrics» bundled with macOS with «bandwidth» as one of the samplers (--samplers / -s set to «cpu_power,gpu_power,thermal,bandwidth»).

Unfortunately, Apple has taken out the «bandwidth» sampler from «powermetrics», and it is no longer possible to measure the memory bandwidth as easily.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-23 03:44:23+00:00
> Hint: it's never about the kids

Well yes it is. It is about both the cover problem (child safety), and the ulterior motive (surveillance, control).

And not taking the reasonably concerning cover problem seriously, by finding sensible solutions, both leaves it festering unsolved in its own right, and growing in usefulness as a cover problem.
by jmward01 | 2025-12-23 03:47:26+00:00
There are so many package managers out there for different platforms. I feel like there should be some more general, standardized, package manager that is language agnostic. Something that:
- has some guarantees about dependencies
- has some guarantees about provenance (only allow if signed by x, y, z kind of thing)
- has a standardized api so corporate or third party curation of packages is possible (I want my own company package manager that I curate)
- does ????

I don't know, it just seems like every tech area has these problems and I honestly don't understand why there aren't more 'standardized' solutions here
by 15155 | 2025-12-23 03:47:53+00:00
Digital logic design isn't software programming, and today's FPGAs are for most intents and purposes 'single-configuration-at-a-time' devices - you can't realistically time-slice them.

The placement and routing flow of these devices is an NP-Complete problem and is relatively non-deterministic* (the exact same HDL will typically produce identical results, but even slightly different HDL can produce radically different results.)

All of these use cases you've mentioned (AV1 decoders, NN layers, but especially a JS runtime) require phenomenal amounts of physical die area, even on modern processes. CPUs will run circles around the practical die area you can afford to spare - at massively higher clock speeds - for all but the most niche of problems.
by notpushkin | 2025-12-23 03:48:59+00:00
Yeah, that’s the power of TUI. I would probably give it a go, too, but Git Cola works for me on Linux and Mac without too many issues.

(By “works anywhere”, I meant you can use it with any IDE or editor, or just run it from terminal, though it is cross-platform and should work on Windows, just not sure how well it would play with WSL.)
by arjie | 2025-12-23 03:49:08+00:00
Yeah, a while ago, they're all Singapore reporting Amazonbot. Here is an example request:

"GET /w/A_Wedding_at_City_Hall HTTP/1.1" 200 9677 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36"

The actual IP is in X-Forwarded-For and I didn't keep that.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-23 03:49:14+00:00
When people are operating at two levels, you can't leave either unaddressed.

That plays into the hands of those using subterfuge.

The power grab is riding on reasonable concerns about children. So its worth improving safety for children for two reasons: (1) reducing parents reasonable concerns and making parenting in the modern age a bit easier, and to (2) take that issue off the table (or meaningfully reduce the leverage it supplies), for the power grabbers.

Ironically, the fact that the underhanded motives lie beneath a reasonable concern, makes solving the reasonable concern in a healthy way even more critical.
by maxglute | 2025-12-23 03:49:36+00:00
>I have no idea

Yes, it shows. 11th hour liberalization was the spiked punch that subverted/prevented PRC from doing useful reforms, like (patriotic) education (MNE / moral national education in 2010s), getting rid of colonial british textbooks that koolaid generations of minds and tethered them to muh anglo liberal values, libtards that would later collude with foreign powers to sanction their own gov. Instead PRC had to waste 20 years unwinding the shitshow because they didn't want to rock the boat too hard during period of heightened end of history wank, i.e. didn't want to risk unrolling last minute landmine reforms which could lead to sanctions / capital flight.

Then there's liberalization bullshit like court of final appeal (staffed with overseas anglo "judges", read compradors, friendly to UK values and interests) that replaced UK privy council to enshrine liberal, UK aligned, rulings vs Beijing. Under colonial UK rule, privy council, decision makers in London, got to overrule HK local moves that countered UK interest. Or Legco reforms that enabled direct elections / local veto that didn't exist prior, which stalled art 23 / NSL implementation for 20 years, something Beijing would have otherwise been able to ram through using old colonial system where governor or Beijing equivalent get to rubber stamp whatever the fuck they wanted... like NSL. Or retooling societies ordinance, public order ordinance, bill of rights ordinance, that was previously used by UK crush dissenting groups with absolute power/prejudice into liberal instruments that now allow retooled ordinance to proliferate with greater judicial power over PRC appointed executive vs pre 90s when these were all tools UK executives used to crush dissent. Liberalization took away all the fancy authoritarian killswitch UK used to rule HK as colony with iron fist.

Post NSL, PRC gave all the compromised none-Chinese judges the boot and get to designate PRC aligned judges that rule on PRC interests. Nature is healing etc.
by E39M5S62 | 2025-12-23 03:50:09+00:00
Looks like the post was neutered, but this is another source. The speed of the car was well in excess of what the road conditions could tolerate. Horrible crash, but the fault can be placed squarely on the driver of the car.

https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/what-happened-to-vince-z...
by godelski | 2025-12-23 03:50:23+00:00
I agree but it is much harder to stop people from building slot machines than to stop children from using them. Even easier than telling people to stop using them.

And hey, maybe if we actually take some autonomy and remove that market from actors who don't want to build the things the market is requesting then they'll actually build the things the market is requesting... it's easy to say we want something but no one listens when we still buy the thing we say we hate. Maybe it's addiction but it's still hard to fight against. (Though we could still do better by accommodating those who are trying to break the network effects. You can complain how hard it is to get off Facebook but if you're not going to make the minuscule extra effort to accommodate those who do leave then how can you expect the ground to be laid for you to?)

At the end of the day though, with kids, the OP's argument fails because it either assumes smartphones are an inevitability or that the benefits outweigh the costs. It's a bad argument.
by zaiguru | 2025-12-23 03:50:42+00:00
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by mergesort | 2025-12-23 03:52:48+00:00
I started running AI workshops this year [1], stemming from work that I do teaching at a non-profit in New York. [2]

I've spent a lot of my life teaching people, but for the last 2-3 years I've been fascinated with AI. I'm not in the "Sam Altman is building a digital god" camp, but I've seen how amazing AI is by watching people who have no technical background build products, launch their own businesses, and change their lives in under 9 months. It's pretty remarkable what's already possible, but not everybody knows or believes that.

I set out to find a niche when it comes to teaching: I make AI more accessible to regular people. A lot of what's written about AI is unbelievable — either because people say AI can do things that it cannot or because people say that AI cannot do things that are already possible today.

I've been bridging that divide one workshop at a time. They've spread very well by word of mouth because there are no tricks here. People bring an idea that they want to build, and we do that in three hours by learning the mental models and communication skills necessary to work with AI in a short period of time.

I've had a few workshops every month since I started in April, which is remarkable as an indie who's been trying to earn a living by helping people. I'm grateful to my friend who sat down with me for what became my first workshop, and helped me start this new line of business.

It's very gratifying to hear a PM with great ideas tell me "I have a new hobby that I can't put down". That's what I mean when I say I'm making AI accessible — people are this close to manifesting the ideas in their head the way programmers have been able to for decades — they just may need a little bit of guided learning.

[1]: https://build.ms/ai
[2]: https://pursuit.org
by zaiguru | 2025-12-23 03:53:17+00:00
I'm completely blown away by ZAI GLM 4.7.

Great performance for coding after I snatched a pretty good deal 50%+20%+10%(with bonus link) off.

60x Claude Code Pro Performance for Max Plan for the almost the same price. Unbelievable

Anyone cares to subscribe here is a link:

https://z.ai/subscribe?ic=OUCO7ISEDB
by D-Machine | 2025-12-23 03:53:32+00:00
No, not at all. There is a transformer obsession that is quite possibly not supported by the actual facts (CNNs can still do just as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16764), and CNNs definitely remain preferable for smaller and more specialized tasks (e.g. computer vision on medical data).

If you also get into more robust and/or specialized tasks (e.g. rotation invariant computer vision models, graph neural networks, models working on point-cloud data, etc) then transformers are also not obviously the right choice at all (or even usable in the first place). So plenty of other useful architectures out there.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-23 03:53:54+00:00
Deployment of radars on the turbine farms themselves? I don't see how that's supposed to be a good idea. In the scenario we're talking about, war, electricity is one of the first targets. And those relatively defenseless turbines themselves are going to be targeted, and not only by air. The enemy getting to knock out military quality radar setups (which tend to be absurdly expensive), at the same time, is just icing on the cake.
by avaer | 2025-12-23 03:54:11+00:00
As off the wall as this kind of thinking is, I actually agree this is probably what Microsoft has to embrace, and this isn't even going far enough.

Anyone who has experience with LLMs knows that strong typing, static validation, and testing is how you get the most out of codegen. The kind of thing Rust is for. I can think of ways to do this gradually, that would actually work.

It's something that would take years to see effects in a C++ codebase but I think the alternative of sticking with C++ is a dead end.

Somewhat relevant: I chuckled at this (quite accurate) 2 hour overview of the unfixable problems with C++: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB-hjc2Gc.

Unreliable source: I worked at Microsoft (on C++) many years ago and I've been writing C++ on/off for ~15 years.
by autoexec | 2025-12-23 03:55:21+00:00
I don't doubt that there will be specialized chips that make AI easier, but they'll be more expensive than the graphics cards sold to consumers which means that a lot of companies will just go with graphics cards, either because the extra speed of specialized chips won't be worth the cost, or will they'll be flat out too expensive and priced for the small number of massive spenders who'll shell out insane amounts of money for any/every advantage (whatever they think that means) they can get over everyone else.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-12-23 03:55:23+00:00
Yes I'm sure that the regime and its cronies who have spent the past 50+ years fabricating evidence for illegal wars to enrich themselves and their friends in the military and energy industries, trafficking arms and sponsoring regime change, destabilizing and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, destroying Syria and Libya, droning Africa and Pakistan, arming and funding terrorist "JV teams" like ISIS, all uniquely care so deeply about the welfare of "the poor brown people" that they just desperately wanted to give the very shirts from their backs to this noble cause, if only the horrible government had not just forbidden it. Sure, that is the most likely explanation for all this.

Come on now. These programs are rife with corruption and ulterior motives. People have moved on from "think of the starving children" being able to shut down any questioning of it.

And really that's just silly when you think about it. If that's supposed to be an argument then we might ask why did previous governments practically murder 100 million people by not spending even more money on all these wonderful programs? Why are the European countries that have funded this paper you linked to murdering these orphans right now by not stepping in to replace the lost funding? It's just not really the way to have a reasoned discussion about it.

Interesting introduction to the paper too:

> Evidence before this study

> Despite the US Agency for International Development (USAID) being the world's leading donor for humanitarian and development aid, there is scarce evidence in the literature assessing its impact on global health. Few evaluations have attempted to estimate the effects of USAID funding on maternal and child mortality in selected low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and some reports have offered only approximate estimates for specific diseases.

Strange that the American public was being made to fund these vast expenditures for so many decades, on apparently scarce scientific evidence for its effectiveness. You don't think anybody could possibly have any negative feelings about how the ruling class has been spending their money?
by zaiguru | 2025-12-23 03:55:49+00:00
I'm completely blown away by ZAI GLM 4.7.

Great performance for coding after I snatched a pretty good deal 50%+20%+10%(with bonus link) off.

60x Claude Code Pro Performance for Max Plan for the almost the same price. Unbelievable

Anyone cares to subscribe here is a link:

https://z.ai/subscribe?ic=OUCO7ISEDB
by amluto | 2025-12-23 03:56:33+00:00
The socket API is all kinds of bad. The way streams should work is that, when sending data, you set a bit indicating whether it’s okay to buffer the data locally before sending. So a large send could be done as a series of okay-to-buffer writes and then a flush-immediately write.

TCP_CORK is a rather kludgey alternative.

The same issue exists with file IO. Writing via an in-process buffer (default behavior or stdio and quite a few programming languages) is not interchangeable with unbuffered writes — with a buffer, it’s okay to do many small writes, but you cannot assume that the data will ever actually be written until you flush.

I’m a bit disappointed that Zig’s fancy new IO system pretends that buffered and unbuffered IO are two implementations of the same thing.
by Espressosaurus | 2025-12-23 03:57:02+00:00
"What does this mean?

• New devices on the Covered List, such as foreign-made drones, are prohibited from
receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or
sale in the U.S. This update to the Covered List does not prohibit the import, sale, or
use of any existing device models the FCC previously authorized.

• This action does not affect any previously-purchased drone. Consumers can
continue to use any drone they have already lawfully purchased or acquired."

Commentary: DJI has effectively been banned from operation in the US (unable to import anything with a transmitter, including most of their gimbals, mics, and other photography related equipment) They represent 70 to 80% of the US drone market. Probably closer to 100% for those that fly noncommercially. Autel, the other large manufacturer, is also banned.
by lazylizard | 2025-12-23 03:57:09+00:00
You can always reinstall if the kid messes with the OS too much. --> then all your sysadmins will be reinstalling os all the time? so they figured why not give the users an OS that cannot be messed with...

unless maybe the sysadmins are also linux tutors or something? their job is teaching kids how to use linux. not to make sure their computers can work for the math class.
by corimaith | 2025-12-23 03:57:13+00:00
>the western intelligence hub into PRC

That's kind the point of 1C2S and embassies/consulates in general. Nor do they need or would find the NSC law effective to clamp down on the US Consulate if they wished, this just personal headcanon to justify clamping down on local figures you don't like.

>get shit done

Clearly they aren't lmao after 5 years of their candidate in control. Then again, looking at the job market or those useless bomb checks or mopeds in pedestrian streets, clearly they aren't getting much "shit done" in their "proper tier1 city" either.
by tomhow | 2025-12-23 03:57:18+00:00
We've turned off the flags.

Sorry for any distress over this. The moderators didn't flag (or see) it. Users flagged it, and whilst we never know why users flag things, in this case it may have been because it seemed outside of HN's usual scope. But as moderators we think it's fine if the community is able to discuss a topic like this and provide meaningful advice and help. We're really sorry this happened to your family, and we wish you well in finding a way forward.
by throwaway290 | 2025-12-23 03:58:23+00:00
Sure Trump gov is friendly to big tech/corporate ... but I'm not even sure it's that much more friendly than previous gov

I just the other day was in an argument over a pro maga comment that was killed along with an interesting thread. In my opinion it's insane to suggest there's some new trend of HN mods selectively killing specific political views because YC benefits from Trump. More likely enough of your fellow techbro HNers flagged it and the algorithm did its thing.