skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Solar and batteries are exploding in production, and prices are falling

Sure. Now look at the baseline. We’d need to 10x the growth rate for the numbers to rival the expected growth in power demand. The folks at the tech majors aren’t idiots. If they could buy this cheapest power at scale, they would. Everybody would. One can’t. The panels are easy, but the batteries are back ordered and getting the land and permitting takes years.

I’m in Wyoming. I have seen people spend more time and paperwork getting a wind farm and HVDC line up than an experimental (totally non-economic) nuclear reactor. That doesn’t apply if you’re putting up one windmill to power your off-grid house. But the economics present at that scale diminish when you’re building a fleet of data centre.
Maybe they are just good people and don't like to do evil things like deleting someone's life memories?
I think that the really big money in the world wants a large war to happen. They'd profit by producing war materiel, and then profit again by rebuilding all the stuff that was destroyed.
There's also COBRA, and the exchanges in the US. Frankly, even if you're eligible for Medicare it really isn't any cheaper if you're a current or recent high earner. But, in any case, it's about $7K/year for an individual who doesn't otherwise have coverage for a spouse etc.
Or hear me out use the 100 GW of clean energy so that you don’t have to use 100 GW of dirty energy
Kraken Appoints Tribe Capital's Arjun Sethi as CEO
Gridpane.

Love it
This literally happens every single time there is a big layoff announcement on HN; at this point it's completely predictable. People love these stories as a place to vent (not that I necessarily blame them), but I do find that these kind of stories always attract the lowest quality comments. E.g. "Why hasn't the CEO committed harakiri!" Which is always a bit sad to me because I think the biggest mistake (especially in highly paid industries) is to think that a layoff is the end of the world and the absolute worse possible thing that can happen to someone.
That’s nice, but if we all did that, the price would be 100 times
Does it make much difference for looking at code?
For me it is consistency. I control the model and the software so I know a local LLM will remain exactly the same until I want to change it.

It also avoids the trouble of using a hosted LLM that decides to double their price overnight, costs are very predictable.
"Killed by Google" has a similar problem.

Google has killed products that could be entire companies if they weren't attached to the Search Ads firehose.

A $100 dinner could be an annual splurge if you're making minimum wage, and an arbitrary Tuesday if you have a quarter million dollar salary.

Executives think the same way about revenue streams. When they have one product that makes $$$$$ in revenue, they think "not worth my time" to consider another that makes $$. Really frustrating for the people making and using the lower revenue product, but it's why Google feels like a "billion users or bust" company.
What was the dev tool?
> Specifically over a decade ago I was press ganged into a thought control hooligan army.

I think it would be helpful for myself and others to understand your perspective better if you can elaborate on something highly empirical like this.
Wear Majora's Mask and most monsters will just ignore you.
High end servers now have 12 ddr5 channels.
I see no need for a soul - you brought it up, not me.
Revenue recovery is such a big problem for subscription based businesses and honestly I don’t know many companies who have the capacity to handle it properly, let alone devote engineering efforts for this. Seeing from first hand the impact of FlyCode on the bottom line of businesses has been really amazing.
This hits home for me, on all counts.

What I've been doing is keeping track of all my projects and the actions that I've taken. Based on this, I can then weave a narrative.

I feel like I missed a lot of opportunities because I couldn't answer the "tell me about a technical problem you've solved" question. Once a problem is solved, the intermediate steps between problem and solution just evaporate out of my memory.
Show HN: LLGTRT: TensorRT-LLM+Rust server w/ OpenAI-compat and Structured Output
I wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past few weeks: llgtrt. It's a Rust implementation of a HTTP REST server for hosting Large Language Models using llguidance library for constrained output with NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM.

The server is compatible with the OpenAI REST API and supports structured JSON schema enforcement as well as full context-free grammars (via Guidance). It's similar in spirit to the Python-based TensorRT-LLM OpenAI server example but written entirely in Rust and built with constraints in mind. No Triton Inference Server involved.

This also serves as a demo for the llguidance library, which lets you apply sampling constraints via Rust, C, or Python interface, with minimal generation overhead and no startup cost.

Any feedback or questions are welcome!
Either you dont understand my point, or I dont understand yours.

Im saying CEOs have financial skin in the game tied to company performance. They get less, often much less when the company shits the bed. This was in response to a parent post that seems to think CEO comp is entirely isolated from performance.
> I'd fire the leadership every time there's evidence of short-term thinking

Have you owned a business? Worked for a manager who thought like this? You’re describing the sort of mercurial boss who fires people for disagreeing with them.
The big question for me is whether they will have a matte option for the Air. I want a fanless machine with a matte screen.

Unfortunately Apple won’t tell you until the day they sell the machines.
It seems the original commenter has never really been a "line-worker". But I could be very wrong too, but then I'd be curious how those opinions were formed.
Compare this to the human controlled puppets Tesla demonstrated. Tesla made a big show of something Disney could do years ago. While Boston Dynamics is quietly building the real thing and showing us footage of it actually working.
It only goes to 128 :/
Florida Banned Some Banks
honestly this is one of the reasons I prefer pre-IPO companies, my salary is lower until they do a buyback or an exit, but it ends up basically in the same place over the long term. This is how I was able to put a downpayment on a house without consciously "saving up" for it. Obviously there's some risk but I've had two buybacks, one IPO, and two acquisitions since 2012
This "Day is 12 hours long" thing just doesn't work anywhere else.

I live far from the equator - "Dawn" is sometimes after breakfast, and "Dusk" can happen before I get off work.
> If that task has cancelled its interest in this syscall, they should instead clean up the resources owned by that CQE.

So, first: how is that not consistent with the contention that the bug is due to a collision in the meaning of "asynchronous"? You're describing, once more, a synchronous operation ("when ... cancel") on a data structure that doesn't support that ("the kernel writes ..." on its own schedule).

And second: the English language text of your solution has race conditions. How do you prevent reading from the buffer after the beginning of "cancel" and before the "dispatch"? You need some locking in there, which you don't in general async code. Ergo it's a paradigm clash. Developers, you among them it seems, don't really understand the requirements of a truly async process and get confused trying to shoehorn it into a "callbacks with context switch" framework like rust async.
Counterpoint: one can only unlock the bootloader on Android phones and extend the device life for much longer than intended or supported by the OEM.
UTC is problematic since it splits the day: when it's midnight in Greenwich, it's still yesterday for half the world. The Unix epoch occurred in 1969 in Hawaii.

BIT (UTC-12) is better. Only positive offsets. Everyone on the same day.
"One of these experiments is expected to involve exposing bricks made from simulated lunar soil to conditions in space.
Should the tests prove successful, the bricks could be a key material used in the construction of a permanent lunar research station, which China hopes to complete by 2035, as it would in theory be more convenient than transporting building materials from Earth."
Well, you need cashflow on a house in general. Even with a paid-off mortgage, I'm easily $10K/year and probably closer to $20K if I'm not pushing various stuff off.
Not a silly enough title. "Russia fines Google a made-up number by mashing 2 and then the zero button on repeat for several seconds."

Russia has become a comic strip. If only they weren't so murderous.
I don't care, I don't need my opinions to match the majority. The bias of critics is obvious and has been analyzed to death, and the bias of fans is equally obvious. Very few people who aren't already Nintendo fans would bother to spend money on a Switch.
> There should also be some reasonable government provided safety net

There is, it's called Medicaid.
I've been hearing about this all my life. Is the problem really getting worse?
Nonsense. Are people who use spell checkers also lying when the computer helps them not sound like an illiterate 5th grader? What about Word’s pre-AI grammar correction?

Further, it’s pretty clear from the watching the commercial that the boss is not fooled by this. The humor of the commercial is supposed to derive from the absolute contrast between the well established and known behavior of the employee and the content of their email. Humor doesn’t always land for everyone to be sure but this sounds like the same sort of handwringing over tech replacing human effort we’ve seen for years. Calculators would let people bad at math sneak their way into jobs where you need math, IDEs will let people bad at coding sneak their way into places where you need to code. Now it’s “ai grammar editing” will allow people bad at writing professionally sneak into places where they need to edit professionally.
Right, but bear in mind that the "terminal" here is a teletype - basically a printer with a keyboard, as shown in the picture.

If you wanted a cheaper keyboard + display option, there was always Don Lancaster's "TV Typewriter" kit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Typewriter
I don't have any real basis for this but my "gluten free potato chips" sixth sense is tingling. Are people actually betting against USD in a large sense in favor of another government currency (I'm sure there is constant short term trading, also long term gold bets)

It's also tripping my "if you have to say it, it isn't true" alarm.

I just read somewhere that banks are currently holding a real estate bag that's 7 times more underwater than 2008. I really doubt we're heading for anything other than an even bigger inflation event than what we've already seen.

In which case, maybe USD vs any other currency is dumb (in large part because most global currencies are backed by USD in one way or another). It might be time to think about holding non currency assets though.
No, if you are having an LLM generate code that you are not reviewing, you are relying on the compiler 100%. (Or the runtime, if it isn't a compiled language.)
I bought a Beelink Ser6Max (7735hs) model on my trip to China in 2023. I'm using it for a NAS (a mini PC + a 4-bay DAS) I couldn't be more happier. My watt meter says the box sips 13-15W when idle in stark contrast to my desktop "oven" which usually goes up 250-300W even without GPUs.
I loaded it with 64GB of RAM and a 4TB nvme (out of which I use 1 for a zfs cache for my DAS) running Ubuntu (no proxmos).
It's running 20-40 containers behind a nginx instance and I didn't run into perf issues yet.
It really is a set-and-forget little machine.

The only slightly annoying thing is that there's only one thunderbolt port and it's being used by the DAS. For some reason, the DAS doesn't work on a USB3.1.
Otherwise, I'd love to plug eGPU in and use for simpler AI tasks such as CV in immich and RAGs on some repos.
It wouldn't surprise me if people typically use more storage on their phone than their computer. The phone should probably have a higher base storage than the base storage of their laptops.
They also bought that indie email app that was a peer of Inbox.

Neither exists anymore.
Interesting. I propose that the transition between AM and PM should happen right in the human-sensible middle of the day. If most people start their daily activity around 6, and retire by by 10pm, then the middle would be 14hrs.

This would also give a nice 3-part division to the day that matches their use: 1st 8 hours for the morning, next 8 hours for the afternoon, and the next 8 hours for evening/night. Currently, morning alone is 12 hours, and afternoon is like 6 (or less) and the evening takes the rest.

But I guess the current noon time is chosen for when the sun is highest in the sky, so maybe to preserve noon as the transition point, morning should start from 4:00 hrs, then the afternoon starts from 12:00 hours, and evening would start from 20:00 hours.
I agree, that seems like the most reasonable exit strategy. From what we know of the model, it's something that could reasonably get built by Stripe into Stripe. I wouldn't be surprised if they're already working on something like that.
> Performance based compensation is absolutely standard for CEOs- Both in terms of options and stock grants.

Yes but you’re still making $1.5M after a 34% haircut. That seems like a reward, and not any real sense of taking responsibility when you have to let go 1 in 5. Wouldn’t it be better if he just got a base salary of 200K or something and no stocks for that year? He already has a bunch of equity and if he does well at the end of the year, that equity will be worth more anyway.
> difficult to see the relevance of your point. Are you saying we should build nuclear now because we didn't then

The same statement will be true in twenty years. We’re not building gas generators because they’re pretty.

We have power demand growth well ahead of our solar and wind deployment potential, even assuming the rosiest production growth forecasts for the next ten years. That gap is being filled with natural gas, based on infrastructure with 20 to 40-year financing timelines. Not building a nuclear plant today means more gas generators burning through the 2060s. (I’m assuming we build and deploy solar and wind as quickly as possible, too.)
No luck from your connections at previous jobs? That's always the best way in.
Running a cheap (data) lakehouse on AWS
Vote-a-Mole
> Like the “oh yeahs” from the other person when someone is speaking.

I bet that if you select a British accent you will get fewer of them.
> Example of a multi-speaker dialogue generated by NotebookLM Audio Overview, based on a few potato-related documents.

Listening to this on 1.75x speed is excellent. I think the generated speaking speed is slow for audio quality, bc it'd be much harder to slow-down the generated audio while retaining quality than vice versa.
I always think it's a bit weird how people put so much effort and angst into (over)analyzing the language that execs use in layoff announcements in the first place.

It's a layoff. Yeah, it sucks, and no matter what the CEO says people will be pissed. Better to just take the same good advice as when starting a new relationship: "Just ignore everything they say, and only consider what they do." I.e. is the severance package good? Are folks given some assistance/recommendations finding new jobs? If so, I couldn't care less about what the preamble in the layoff announcement looks like.
Anyone know of articles that deep dive into "snappiness" or "feel" computer experiences?

Everyone knows SSDs made a big difference in user experience. For the CPU, normally if you aren't gaming at high settings or "crunching" something (compiling or processing video etc.) then it's not obvious why CPU upgrades should be making much difference even vs. years-old Intel chips, in terms of that feel.

There is the issue of running heavy JS sites in browsers but I can avoid those.

The main issue seems to be how the OS itself is optimized for snappiness, and how well it's caching/preloading things. I've noticed Windows 10 file system caching seems to be not very sophisticated for example... it goes to disk too often for things I've accessed recently-but-not-immediately-prior.

Similarly when it comes to generating heat, if laptops are getting hot even while doing undemanding office tasks with huge periods of idle time then basically it points to stupid software -- or let's say poorly balanced (likely aimed purely at benchmark numbers than user experience).

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-vs-amd-ryzen-...
what about pocket nuclear reactors? when are we getting them?
I’d like to understand the economics of size in nuclear reactors better. It seems like there are almost irresistible forces pushing towards bigger reactors. I’m looking particularly at the newish Westinghouse designs. Back in the early 2000s, Westinghouse designed the AP600, 600 megawatts, and it was supposed to have a lot of modularity and factory construction. No one bought one though and so they came out with the AP1000, of which a number have been built. China has now extended the design to the CAP1400 and they’re working on a CAP1700, almost triple the original power.
I saw the Altair 8800 on the cover of BYTE magazine in a newsstand in LA as a child and begged my grandparents for a copy. Reading that magazine changed my life and started my journey into programming.
Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac
I have an MBP M1 Max and the only time I really feel like I need more oomph is when I'm doing live previews and/or rendering in After Effects. I find myself having to clear the cache constantly.

Other than that it cruises across all other applications. Hard to justify an upgrade purely for that one issue when everything else is so solid. But it does make the eyes wander...
Haiku OS'S Beta 5 Release Brings US into a New BeOS Era
It is too bad that Biden is not letting Americans benefit from
cheap solar panels and electric cars¹

¹
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
I would argue that never since the advent of human society have we ever been capped by physical power - a crazy person with a sword, sure, but a crazy person with a posse? With followers, with a mob, with a movement, with an army?

I think the limits of how far a single person can project their power is physically is easily outstripped by how far they can project socially. (Tools do help with both those methods of course)
They said reasonable, not "endlessly-patched-up nonsense that conservatives want to gut at every turn"
Equity Markets think Kalshi has it right
Yep.

I've never kept any laptop as long as I've kept the M1. I was more or less upgrading yearly in the past because the speed increases (both in the G4 and then Intel generations) were so significant. This M1 has exceeded my expectations in every category, it's faster quieter and cooler than any laptop i've ever owned.

I've had this laptop since release in 2020 and I have nearly 0 complaints with it.

I wouldn't upgrade except the increase in memory is great, I don't want to have to shut down apps to be able to load some huge LLMs, and, I ding'ed the top case a few months ago and now there's a shadow on the screen in that spot in some lighting conditions which is very annoying.

I hope (and expect) the M4 to last just as long as my M1 did.
If your goal is to sell more MBPs (and this is marketing presentation) then, judging by the number of comments that have the phrase "my M1" and the top comment, it seems like M1 vs M4 is the right comparison to make. Too many people are sticking with their M1 machines. Including me.

It's actually interesting to think about. Is there a speed multiplier that would get me off this machine? I'm not sure there is. For my use case the machine performance is not my productivity bottleneck. HN on the otherhand... That one needs to be attenuated. :)
Next time someone says “gee I’m glad we aren’t anything like Reddit!” I’ll have the replies in this thread to point them to.

Keep ‘em coming fellas.
It really is annoying me how much Nvidia is now tied up into almost every ETF, which means that it’s becoming “too big to fail” but also will drag things down horribly if it doesn’t keep delivering the huge earnings growth or suffers competition or AI doesn’t really deliver the goods in a meaningful way.
The year "dies" on the longest, darkest nights. (Dec 21, technically). We mourn its passing and celebrate it's life with drinks. I'm guessing there was in antiquity, a whole bunch of dreadful and exciting parties in the last 10 days around the longest nights.

It slowly grows after that and blooms later.
That's not the kind of spatula they're talking about, I've rarely seen that kind be black. I'm pretty sure they mean the flat offset kind you'd use to flip eggs or pancakes.
I gave up on macos when they started making the OS partition read-only. A good security feature in general, but their implementation meant that changing anything became a big set of difficulties and trade-offs.

That, combined with the icloud and telemetry BS, I'd had enough.
I boot Windows on my Mac M1 just fine. Just yesterday I played Age of Empires 3.
..see my adjacent reply: it's the universality of access (kindof) that's tempting in replacing a physical keypad with a "virtual keypad". "Scan to enter => 1234 => Access Granted!"

Yeah, yeah, hackers, open API endpoints, DOS, rate limiting, etc., but it's an interesting use case: "Virtual Keypads" near doors.
There are many bald assertions in the article and it comes clearly in response to the growing prominence of BRICS. So to me it reads as somewhat fearful. I don't think trading in BRICS is inherently "betting against the dollar" but it's abundantly clear that dollar hegemony is over. We are well on our way to a world of multi-currency trading. If BRICS nations do establish a new reserve currency that will change a lot. It's even been suggested that "the unit" may be a gold-backed currency. That I might see as a bet against the dollar.
> Please look at your individual situation and don't take this suggestion blindly.

Exactly. The message here is it is incredibly important to re-evaluate your healthcare plan. Every household is going to be different! Bust out excel and crunch the numbers.
> torch.compile

torch.compile is a pt2.0 feature and has nothing to do with handwritten cuda kernels

> How easy is it to run on older GPUs

this is a torch cpp extension

https://github.com/HazyResearch/ThunderKittens/blob/8daffc9c...

so you're going to have the same exact issue (whatever issue you're having)
To give another point of view on this: many times there are essential services I use and I just forget to update my credit card after switching it or for some reason the charge didn’t pass. I would much rather get proper emails (or even better to have the charge recovered) than losing the service
The internet is a direct pipe to every person on earth. You have to acknowledge that this is new territory for humankind.

In fact, internet communication is much closer to dark-age "public square" type communication. Bring your soapbox to the square, talk loudly, gather a crowd, and listen to the crowd jeer or clap. We haven't had that since the industrial revolution pre-1800s (i.e. at the earliest 1700s)

For the forseeable future, we are in a situation where people will "feel" that the most authentic communication is intentionally said in-front of the internet bystanders. So a CEO posting an intimate reply to an individual with billions of people able to see the intimate reply is more "authentic" than everything else.

(Much closer to dark-age communication implies that we are closer to "old" methods of communication that disappeared for the last couple of centuries. We used to have industrial revolution-type communication medium, one-direction broadcast medium.)