MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amluto | 2025-12-02 18:38:26+00:00
I can't quite parse what you're saying.

Python works like this:

import asyncio async def sleepy() -> None: print('Sleepy started') await asyncio.sleep(0.25) print('Sleepy resumed once') await asyncio.sleep(0.25) print('Sleepy resumed and is done!') async def main(): sleepy_future = sleepy() print('Started a sleepy') await asyncio.sleep(2) print('Main woke back up. Time to await the sleepy.') await sleepy_future if __name__ == "__main__": asyncio.run(main())

Running it does this:

$ python3 ./silly_async.py Started a sleepy Main woke back up. Time to await the sleepy. Sleepy started Sleepy resumed once Sleepy resumed and is done!

So there mere act of creating a coroutine does not cause the runtime to run it. But if you explicitly create a task, it does get run:

import asyncio async def sleepy() -> None: print('Sleepy started') await asyncio.sleep(0.25) print('Sleepy resumed once') await asyncio.sleep(0.25) print('Sleepy resumed and is done!') async def main(): sleepy_future = sleepy() print('Started a sleepy') sleepy_task = asyncio.create_task(sleepy_future) print('The sleepy future is now in a task') await asyncio.sleep(2) print('Main woke back up. Time to await the task.') await sleepy_task if __name__ == "__main__": asyncio.run(main()) $ python3 ./silly_async.py Started a sleepy The sleepy future is now in a task Sleepy started Sleepy resumed once Sleepy resumed and is done! Main woke back up. Time to await the task.

I personally like the behavior of coroutines not running unless you tell them to run -- it makes it easier to reason about what code runs when. But I do not particularly like the way that Python obscures the difference between a future-like thing that is a coroutine and a future-like thing that is a task.
by DenisM | 2025-12-02 18:38:26+00:00
Scale-up solves a lot of problems for stable workloads. But elasticity is poor, so you either live with overprovisinoed capacity (multiples, not percentages) or fail under spiky load which often time is the most valuable moment (viral traffic, Black Friday, etc).

No one has solved this problem. Scale out is typically more elastic, at least for reads.
by aljgz | 2025-12-02 18:39:02+00:00
I belong to one demography of ex Samsung customers:

I've blacklisted them for hurting UX to show ads. Last device: my very high-end OLED TV has the worst menu navigation, just to take me back to the home screen where they hoped to show ads to me. Once I realized they are analysing my content, even when coming from an external device to send home for ADs, I just disconnected it from the internet.

I'll not buy anything again unless they change this and stay away from it long enough to repair the damage to trust.

Not buying an Apple device either, but for different reasons.
by matharmin | 2025-12-02 18:39:17+00:00
As mentioned in those threads, there is no SQLite WAL corruption if you have a working disk & file system. If you don't, then all bets are off - SQLite doesn't protect you against that, and most other databases won't either. And nested transactions (SAVEPOINT) won't have have any impact on this - all it does in this form is reduce the number of transactions you have.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-02 18:39:34+00:00
>exponentially growing fees to allow truly big enterprises to stay copywritten longer

The problem with this concept is that things which are "worth it" to pay absurd fees to maintain long copyrights are the exact things which copyright is meant to revert to the public domain to mix in to future culture.

That's the point.

The idea that richer or more resourced members of a community should have more protections in the law is absurd. If you accidentally created a hit, too bad, you don't get to solely milk it for the rest of your life, and that's a good thing for economies and societies.

Letting you profit immensely for 90 years off a single work or creation is called stagnation and is bad, in the same way that we shouldn't be willing to let someone extend a patent forever just because it was effective.

Copyright ought to be for the little guy. The little guy should never have the resources to extend it past a short time frame. A little guy creative who is satisfied with milking the same thing for 30 years is, frankly, not a creative or artist and copyright is not intended to protect them.

Copyright is so you can live off the proceeds for a short while to spend time creating your next work. Copyright is not so you can profit for multiple generations off your work.

A reminder that any sort of inheritance of value or resources at all is inherently anti-meritocratic.
by nkmnz | 2025-12-02 18:39:57+00:00
Thank you for returning back to the original question. Being a good educator is something that can actually make someone "top tier", I agree.

On the other topic, I do not agree, as you have just proven: you explain very well why you appreciate Picasso. You thought I (or anybody) needed to be told why I/they should appreciate Picasso/OP. I don't care about that. But I'm very much interested in other peoples reasoning behind their appreciation, especially when I consider something - like HTML and CSS – to be neither very complicated, nor complex. On the other hand: that's what we love about Lumpito: simplicity. Right?
by cryptonector | 2025-12-02 18:40:09+00:00
To all the commenters telling me that cloud-init is not a credential provisioning system, the docs do not make that clear! They talk about provisioning and SSH keys too! So I looked and... then it became clear that that was not really the case, so I expressed an opinion with substantive information that might help someone -if anyone happens upon my comment who contributes or would contribute to clouid-init- improve it.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-02 18:40:11+00:00
> The current young generation is very respectful towards older people.

This has not been my experience.

I worked for a company that prized seniority, and I regularly dealt with folks older than me, more experienced than me, more capable than me, and willing to help me out. I worked there for almost 27 years, and it was awesome.

In my experience, I'm usually written off as an "OK Boomer," before I've even had a chance to open my mouth to prove it (or not).

My fave, is when we have a really promising text-only relationship, then, the minute they see me, it goes south.
by pierrec | 2025-12-02 18:40:12+00:00
It would be unergonomic, if not painful, to use a western classical approach to rhythm in a programming environment. Alex McLean, the main author of Tidal/Strudel, is very much into Indian classical, and this is reflected in the approach to rhythm. IMO this is an good choice, and people who know music theory and composition should feel right at home, assuming we're talking about the right theory.

When it comes to pitch (and I guess we agree on this) Strudel is firmly on the western traditional side. It generally assumes 12-tone equal temperament, uses ABC notation, has built-in facilities to express chords using their classical names...

Meanwhile I'm over here programming music where I express all frequencies as fractions or monzos. I find this better suited to a music programming environment, but this might be more personal.
by gwbas1c | 2025-12-02 18:40:43+00:00
> Mandatory licensing is a "no". I should not be required to license my material to anyone. I do not want my works of photography, fiction, or software development to be mandatorily licensed to someone who could then take it and make derivative works that I don't want them to. Consider how many people object to their CC work being included in AI models.

You just made the argument for mandatory licensing.

Why?

Piracy is about to become a lot harder to prosecute. (See the news coverage of the Cox case in the Supreme Court.) All those usages of your work that you object to (which many people consider fair use), are about to become much harder to prosecute.

Thus, shortening the period of exclusive control and introducing a period of mandatory licensing allows you to get paid in situations where it is extremely hard to prosecute for copyright infringement.
by avidiax | 2025-12-02 18:40:59+00:00
This isn't the first time that the industry has foot-gunned itself.

The continued reliance on say, COBOL, and the complete lack of those developers comes to mind.

Even before LLMs, there were periods recently where multiple companies had "senior only" hiring policies. That just inflated what "senior" was until it was basically 5 years of experience.

This time seems a bit different, however. There are both supply and demand side problems. The supply of students it tainted with AI "learning" now. Colleges haven't realized that they absolutely have to effectively crack down on AI, or the signal of their degrees will wither to nothing. The demand side is also low, of course, since the candidates aren't good, and AI seems to be a good substitute for a newly graduated hire, especially if that hire is just going to use the AI badly.
by dkdcio | 2025-12-02 18:41:00+00:00
genuinely asking, how do you network to get a job? esp. if you’re a new grad

where do you network? what do you network with these other humans on?

I do think I could get a job from my network because I’ve worked in the industry for years and done good work; I’m a little skeptical of advice to network to junior/new grads. I at least ignore those LinkedIn requests
by lenkite | 2025-12-02 18:41:06+00:00
> The basic problem is PRC resolved 12/14 land borders ...Still the pressure point going to keep get pressed, salami going to keep getting sliced until India or Bhutan decides the opportunity costs of not security drama is worth settling.

Yeah, this 12/14 number you picked out of the air will only work until China decides it is 12/30 next year and 12/50 the next decade. Kindly remember that China has expanded its international map. They have now formally put the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as part of Chinese territory since 2023. A state which has a duly ELECTED native chief minister and also native representatives. A state that has China has decided to claim due to its natural resources and extensive biodiversity - which India, by constitutional law, is not permitted to exploit to protect natives and indigenous tribal communities. NONE of whom have any Chinese traditions. You should come to the state and check for yourself.

Citizens of the state with transit flights through China get harassed and bullied by Chinese officialdom, even after getting "no-objection" by the Chinese embassy at nation of departure.

How can you settle borders when one nation keeps expanding their formal map ?
by flakiness | 2025-12-02 18:41:11+00:00
I don't disagree with Samsung's decline, but:

> Sales of the iPhone 17 series in the U.S. — including the iPhone Air — during the first four weeks after launch was 12% higher than that of the iPhone 16 series, excluding the iPhone 16e, the research firm said. In China, a critical market for Apple, sales of the iPhone 17 series during the same period were 18% higher than its predecessor.

So iPhone 17 is selling well. I think it's fair to call it a hit. Do they make another hit next year? Who knows (I'd bet against it), but they won this year's game I believe.
by hex4def6 | 2025-12-02 18:41:18+00:00
> We used to have a training ground for junior engineers, but now AI is increasingly automating away that work. Both studies I referenced above cited the same thing - AI is getting good at automating junior work while only augmenting senior work. So the evidence doesn’t show that AI is going to replace everyone; it’s just removing the apprenticeship ladder.

Was having a discussion the other day with someone, and we came to the same conclusion. You used to be able to make yourself useful by doing the easy / annoying tasks that had to be done, but more senior people didn't want to waste time dealing with. In exchange you got on-the-job experience, until you were able to handle more complex tasks and grow your skill set. AI means that those 'easy' tasks can be automated away, so there's less immediate value in hiring a new grad.

I feel the effects of this are going to take a while to be felt (5 years?); mid-level -> senior-level transitions will leave a hole behind that can't be filled internally. It's almost like the aftermath of a war killing off 18-30 year olds leaving a demographic hole, or the effect of covid on education for certain age ranges.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-02 18:41:20+00:00
But how is another company that is also VC backed and losing money providing stability for Bun?

How long before we hear about “Our Amazing Journey”?

On the other hand, I would rather see someone like Bun have a successful exit where the founders seem to have started out with a passion project, got funding, built something out they were excited about and then exit than yet another AI company by non technical founders who were built with the sole purpose of getting funding and then exit.
by pessimizer | 2025-12-02 18:42:04+00:00
Not only is "whataboutism" literally anti-communist jargon, you're using it wrong. It was meant to refer to when the US would criticize some aspect of the USSR and the USSR would point to the fact that the US was an apartheid state. The point was that the accusation that the US was making was entirely different from the observation that the USSR was making - it was simply a change of subject.

You can't call for a boycott on a cosmetics company that experiments on dogs if you are a rival cosmetics company that experiments on ten times as many dogs.
by fprotthetarball | 2025-12-02 18:42:22+00:00
I'm wondering if Bun would be a good embedded runtime for Claude to think in. If it does sandboxing, or if they can add sandboxing, then they can standardize on a language and runtime for Claude Code and Claude Desktop and bake it into training like they do with other agentic things like tool calls. It'd be too risky to do unless they owned the runtime.
by carlosjobim | 2025-12-02 18:42:26+00:00
> young folk these days

You should have stopped to think about why such a person was hired in the first place, while there are an endless supply of very talented, hard working, and honest young people who would never be given a chance at all.

But if I guess right, hiring is not seen as the responsibility of your company. And that's the core of the problem.
by hobofan | 2025-12-02 18:42:31+00:00
Even outside of code development, Anthropic seems to be very strongly leaning into code interpreter over native tool calling for advancing agentic LLM abilities (e.g. their "skills" approach). Given that those necessitate a runtime of sorts, owning/having access to a runtime like Bun that could e.g. allow them to very seamlessly integrate that functionality into their products better, this acquisition doesn't seem like the worst idea.
by PleasureBot | 2025-12-02 18:42:46+00:00
My company's CEO comes from the sales world, and I imagine that's the case in many companies making these RTO decisions. His idea of getting work done is getting everyone in a room together, having some handshakes, sitting down, and talking something out. This is not what getting work done looks like to software engineers, and many other IC positions. The blanket RTO policies come from a lack of understanding how other people & roles work best.
by chankstein38 | 2025-12-02 18:42:49+00:00
That's because Samsung's new offerings are trash compared to where we were a few years ago. I have the S24 Ultra and in my opinion it's better than the S25 ultra. The camera, the features, maybe it's better built for AI but I don't want Samsung's garbage AI on my phone. Even the new S-Pen loses features to the old one (one of the main features I used too, the remote shutter).

The Object Eraser feature recently updated to have an "AI Object Eraser" and now a simple removal of a sign in my picture adds an "AI Generated" watermark onto it. They spam me every time I use the regular Object Eraser to try the AI one, it's really not impressive in any way and now adds a watermark even for the simplest modifications.

Definitely all around seems like Samsung is on a decline. I probably won't be buying a Samsung next time I need a phone, though I won't be buying Apple either.
by Animats | 2025-12-02 18:42:50+00:00
Here's "Hot Rod Girl", from 1956.[1] The beginning title is a few minutes of footage of the real San Fernando Drag Strip in Southern California. Watch the sluggish acceleration. Yes, they're actually supposed to be racing, not that it looks like it.

[1] https://archive.org/details/hot_rod_girl_1956
by dotancohen | 2025-12-02 18:42:51+00:00
A 45 watt light bulb spreads the energy in all directions - at 1 meter away that's about 3 watts in every square meter or roughly 0.000003 watts per square millimeter. The laser is putting 45 watts into that same square millimeter at the same distance.

Of course the laser is tightly focused. That's pretty much one of the defining properties of laser devices. How else do you think the laser is heating the microprocessors in the video?
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-02 18:42:57+00:00
It's a JS runtime, not specifically servers though? They essentially can bundle Claude Code with this, instead of ever relying on someone installing NodeJS and then running npm install.

Claude will likely be bundled up nicely with Bun in the near future. I could see this being useful to let even a beginner use claude code.

Edit:

Lastly, what I meant originally is that most front-end work happens with tools like Node or Bun. At first I was thinking they could use it to speed up generating / pulling JS projects, but it seems more likely Claude Code and bun will have a separate project where they integrate both and make Claude Code take full advantage of Bun itself, and Bun will focus on tight coupling to ensure Claude Code is optimally running.
by iRomain | 2025-12-02 18:43:20+00:00
I am glad home assistant (HA) gets some exposure. I run it in a VM on a proxmox server (because I use it for other stuff), it works like a charm. If you only need HA buy the dedicated hardware they sell or buy a mini PC. For my lights and switches (via the wall module), I am 100% Philips hue which is expensive but make the best smart lights money can buy and works as expected locally even if the internet or my HA server were to go down. Beware the rabbit hole of home automation though
FT-Lab: A Lightweight Toolkit for Fine-Tuning and RAG Evaluation
by Sai-HN | 2025-12-02 18:43:26+00:00
FT-Lab is a clean, reproducible setup for fine-tuning TinyLlama (supports Full FT, LoRA, and QLoRA) and evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using LlamaIndex and LangChain.

Built for small GPUs and designed with controlled experiments and ablation studies in mind.

Feedback and contributions welcome!
by kk58 | 2025-12-02 18:44:05+00:00
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5409063

AI for science is much bigger than RL or Generative AI in science.

There are several classes of models Like operator learning, physics informed neural networks, Fourier operators

That perform magnificently well and have killer applications in various industrial settings

Do read the attached paper if you're curious about AI in science
by lwkl | 2025-12-02 18:44:11+00:00
Most of them were only in the lower scale maps and one of them is still there. Swisstopo even wrote an article [1] about them and gives some background and names the cartographers that added them. So our bureaucratic machine seems to have a sense of humor.

[1] https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/hidden-images-20161221
by bustadjustme | 2025-12-02 18:44:32+00:00
You make a good point -- it's easy to knee-jerk react based on the "I like free things" vibe and decry long-copyright as nonsensical.

I think a reasonable argument against copyright being so long is that things I experienced as a child, and especially shared experiences with others, have become a part of me: they've become shared culture, even parts of our shared language. "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts roasting..."; still under copyright in the US for another ~15 years) is just as much a part of Christmas to me as "Angels We Have Heard on High" (public domain). Maybe a good example of this is the "Happy Birthday" song: that song is synonymous with birthdays to me and those I associate with -- if you have a birthday that song is sung, if you hear that song sung it must be somebody's birthday. Yet for the longest time it was excluded from movies, TV, radio, establishments, because somebody was thought to own the copyright for it. It was part of our shared language and experience as much as aspirin or kleenex or thermos (genericized trademarks). Similarly, "hobbit" means the same thing as "halfling" to me, but don't use the word in a published work. Eventually copyrighted works seem to become pretty genericized, much quicker than ~100 years, yet their protection remains.

Disney's Snow White is about as old now as the Brothers Grimm version was when Disney's was made. I'm not allowed to make derivative works of Disney's version; should Disney have been disallowed from making it because elements of the story were "so recent"?

Obviously people should be able to profit from their own work, but I think the "shared culture/language" aspect is a decent argument that the public has an interest that counterbalances the interests of authors/creators.
by georgeecollins | 2025-12-02 18:44:49+00:00
First, I think it's $80b per 100 GW datacenter. The way you figure that out is a GPU costs $x and consumes y power. The $x is pretty well known, for example an H100 costs $25-30k and uses 350-700 watts (that's from Gemini and I didn't check my work). You add an infrastructure (i) cost to the GPU cost, but that should be pretty small, like 10% or less.

So a 1 gigawatt data center uses n chips, where yn = 1 GW. It costs = xi*n.

I am not an expert so correct me please!
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-02 18:45:24+00:00
> The only caveat being this assumes all your data can fit on a single machine

Does my data fit in RAM? https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

Not sure using EC2/AWS/Amazon is a good example here, if you're squeezing for large single-node performance you most certainly go for dedicated servers, or at least avoid vCPUs like a plague.
by newcompscigrad | 2025-12-02 18:45:43+00:00
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in December of 2024, my career path so far has been doing sex work and then a minimum wage job once I got finically stable enough to not do sex work, but my financial situation is precarious enough I still have to do sex work off and on when unexpected costs come up. I spent a few months applying to everything I could after getting my degree, but got nothing but automated rejections back if anything.

I didn't have the best networking skills to be fair, but I spent most of my college doing remote classes and didn't have much of a chance to network or whatever. I'm thinking about doing grad school so I can have another chance at developing some kind of network or make myself more attractive to employers. My grades were good and I genuinely enjoy computer science so spending half a year improving my portfolio sounds like a fun time. But going to grad school wouldn't really about getting employment, I just want to use my brain for something. Just working a job makes me feel completely insane, like I know that I can do so much more. I feel like I'm wasting the best years of my life and there's no place in this market where I can be useful. The only value I have is selling my body or being a human stand in for a robot at my "real" job.

Maybe this isn't the best place to post this. I have very little hope that I will ever get a job programming, and I'm just sad. What a waste of a life the past 5 years have been.

On a kind of funny note, I would say that doing sex work is genuinely less humiliating than applying to jobs as a new compsci grad. At least I have some signal that I have some value selling myself.