skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A normal person sees that $500 fine as a incentive to not go that fast. But there's a certain kind of person for whom $500 is nothing compared to being able to tell the story of that time the city sold them a picture of them, complete with certificate that says they broke 100mph somewhere in the city limits, a trophy to frame and display openly in the garage next to said vehicle.
> I doubt that we have a huge paper notes mass being hoarded in the US, most of it should be circulating pretty constantly.

I suspect most of the seigniorage these days ain't in the paper notes, but in database entries. Ie reserves that banks hold at the central bank. (Though Interest on Excess Reserves makes this topic more complicated than it used to be in the past.)

The rest of your comment seems to be about what is logical for an individual or perhaps for society. And that's useful, but not at all where I wanted to go with my comment. I was purely speculating on how to get the maximum seigniorage for the central bank.

> Pension funds, 401k are all tight to various investments, indices, etc. that are all reflection of the total economy. And I see it as my participation in the broader economy as I spend money that creates jobs and creates new economic exchanges further, and as a shareholder I capture that value back anyway. People should keep their spending at their social level if they want to keep the economy going smoothly.

People keeping their money as cash under the mattress implicitly also lend it out to the economy. An inflation targeting central bank will notice that (statistically) less spending is going on when the money is under the mattress, and print more money to compensate. When you start spending the mattress money, the central bank will remove money from circulation to compensate.

The net effect on the economy is pretty much the same as if you had stuck it directly into a bank account. (The main practical difference is in who's doing the asset allocation. But the amount of total spending is about the same: it's whatever the central banks decides it should be. No need for you to help smooth it out.)

You are right that with an inflationary currency, keeping money under the mattress is a losing proposition for the individual. But with eg a deflating currency, cash might be a decent investment. (And you can get into these kinds of regimes without crashing the economy, by eg central bank that targets a constant nominal GDP, or with the historic gold standard.)

That's why I was bringing up the example of Japan: when they had deflation, people were keeping lots of cash around.

Just for clarity: I wasn't even thinking so much about money under the mattress, but mostly about 'cash in your wallet'.
Everything in America is a competition. I'm sorry, but I chuckled considering that this _very website_ is devoted entirely to ruthlessly choosing winners and losers in (what purports to be) a cutthroat field. It's Hunger Games over here, buddy.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618849
I agree with this. I keep harping on this, but we are sold automation instead of a power tool. If you have domain knowledge in the problem that you are solving, then LLMs can become an extremely valuable aid.
MobileMe.
Those three American Experience episodes on Chicago can be found here (#s 157–159): https://archive.org/details/american-experience_20220511
Crucially, this also determines the quality of your medical care, and how hard the nursing home staff will hit you after you retire.
Looks like most of the improvement is only going to come when DLSS4 is in use and its generating most of the frame for Ray Tracing and then also generating 3 predicted frames. When you use all that AI hardware then its maybe 2x, but I do wonder how much fundamental rasterisation + shaders performance gain there is in this generation in practice on the majority of actual games.
Despite the flak Nvidia gets for VRAM sizes, 5090 seems to be a decent offer. Can’t say the same about the rest of the line.

FWIW, it appears the best homelab set up would still be 2-4x 3090 if you want VRAM for LLMs, but a single 5090 would likely be the best in class for prosumers on any less VRAM heavy tasks such as image / video generation or deep RL research
If you accept it at face value, how have they recouped their losses? And how are you a sucker?

> Who are you going to resell it to?

Ebay or so, if you have no better idea.
Apple Silicons architecture is better for running huge AI models but much worse for just about anything else that you'd want to run on a GPU, bandwidth is far more important in most other applications.

That's not even close, the M4 Max 12C has less than a third of the 5090s memory throughput and the 10C version has less than a quarter. The M4 Ultra should trade blows with the 4090 but it'll still fall well short of the 5090.
Neither of them can reverse the Liberal fortunes.

Chrystia Freeland was too close to Trudeau for too long (their fallout notwithstanding) to be perceived as anything than Trudeau 2.0

Marc Carney is a (two time!) head of a central bank - he hasn't got a chance in the current anti-elite climate.
As your first HN submission and first HN comment since signing up two years ago?

That's ... unusual.

The overwhelming majority of submissions with a similar pattern are hawking wares via "hey did you see this, what do think?" organic marketing.
It's interesting that you find it useful for optimization. I've found that they're barely capable of anything more than shallow optimization in my stuff without significant direction.

What I find useful is that I can keep thinking at one abstraction level without hopping back and forth between algorithm and codegen. The chat is also a written artifact I can use the faster language parts of my brain on instead of the slower abstract thought parts.
At these prices:

> … Jan. 30 at $1,999 and $999, respectively.

At least we are getting more VRAM and wider memory width at 32G and 512-bits, respectively [1]

I’ll still wait for the reviews though.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/compare/
Step into what? Most users don't use or want to use these apps.
One interesting bit of context is that the author of this post is a legit world-class software engineer already (though probably too modest to admit it). Former staff engineer at Google and co-founder / CTO of Tailscale. He doesn't need LLMs. That he says LLMs make him more productive at all as a hands-on developer, especially around first drafts on a new idea, means a lot to me personally.

His post reminds me of an old idea I had of a language where all you wrote was function signatures and high-level control flow, and maybe some conformance tests around them. The language was designed around filling in the implementations for you. 20 years ago that would have been from a live online database, with implementations vying for popularity on the basis of speed or correctness. Nowadays LLMs would generate most of it on the fly, presumably.

Most ideas are unoriginal, so I wouldn't be surprised if this has been tried already.
Suppose a non-rich person needs to use the highways for work and can make twice as many stops during the day because of congestion pricing.

Imagine a group of non-rich people who decide to carpool because of congestion pricing and end up spending half the time in traffic every day and as a result get more leisure time.

Considering that a parking spot in Mahnattan costs close to $1K per month, most of the cars are driven by people who are not poor.
Half of this website punches "Create a React app" into ChatGPT at work all day. I would make peace with the future.
Cookie Clicker is indeed eye opening.

I think it is one of the few games that "changed my life" in the sense that by getting addicted to it for a few days, it made me see Cookie Clicker in every platform that tries to waste my time.

I remember when I first heard about it and I naively thought that such a simple game was silly and in now way could not be addictive, but I let myself play it for a while and it really changed the way I see games.
What does "doThing" do? I can't tell by reading. The above examples, while maybe slightly verbose, are completely self contained!
You can get standalone/isolated versions of chatGPT, if your org is large enough, in partnership with OpenAI. And others. They run on the same infra but in accounts you set up, cost the same, but you have visibility on the compute, and control of data exfil - ie is there is none.
What if we all just stopped competing?
These are probably int4 numbers.
Discussion on the first post (60 points, 28 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618761
More people need to know the story of Cow Clicker.
They seem incredibly ready to execute their vision of worker replacement, I have a hard time thinking this isn't the future we're heading for in the next few years.

The world is about to become a very interesting, increasingly unequal place.
That's a ridiculous loophole to wonder about... but if it happens at scale and becomes a problem, then they could write another clause into the law.
How AI agents of the current era (with LLMs) differs from the history of reinforcement learning-based agents
$2K, straight from nvidia and retailers. But after the scalpers, LLM companies and crypto miners, it will be $4K or more
Abstinence, single trusted partner, or, you know, Russian Roulette.
Oh, some of the positivity is surely caused by bots.

And lots of the cesspool was not caused by bots.
I'm sorry, but this is basically incorrect on every point other than the limited tenure. Source: I work in this sector.

PMs often come directly from industry. Once they do, there is a period over which they are not allowed to make direct decisions that affect their previous company, but the previous company is free to bid on that PM's programs and speak with that PM. When these conflict of interest situations arise, the office appoints a delegate PM to make decisions associated with that company.

There are absolutely varying qualities of PM, but the majority of them would be considered a domain expert or subject matter expert in some technical area. Standard practice is for a new DARPA PM to inherit existing programs that are already executing as the old PM finishes their tenure. When a PM leaves, the office tries to hand the executing programs to a new PM who knows something about that field (or is an expert). That doesn't always happen, for various reasons, but they do try to do it that way.

There is a large contractor staff that does a lot of heavy lifting on both technical and programmatic fronts. The PM is the decision-maker, but the contractor staff are integral. These contractor jobs can pay quite well for senior staff or technical experts. Maybe not FAMANG software developer salaries, but particularly for topics in the physical domain, the salaries can be significantly higher than the equivalent role in industry.
Hear me out: we could also build a more equitable society, one where the two choices aren't "live like an impoverished monk" and "win the Hunger Games".
Hodlers: An Apology
is this different than the existing law? like they're not lowering the penalty
There are primarily two things that those laws are concerned with: preventing fraud and preventing a shortage.

Shortages aren't much of an issue anymore, as so many transactions are digital, and fabric / paper currency doesn't have any precious metal. The actual value isn't lost, and is easily replaced.

Defacing currency to pretend a bill or coin is one of higher value is pretty hard to do simply by cutting. Most businesses won't take such heavily damaged currency, and banks won't exchange notes with less than half of the original present. Collectors hoping for rarity ("mistake" bills) are, like any speculator, on their own for verifying authenticity (ensuring serial numbers are right, usually).

More to your point, you've answered your own question. Non-fabric currency can also easily be damaged. The convenience and cost of printed fabric / paper versus stamped metal outweighs the risk posed by weakness to damage, and replacing a certain amount of loss each year is generally expected.
I’m 50 now and have plans to run a 5K in at around 30 minutes by the end of the year. I haven’t run a 5K in over 15 years. Even though I have worked out continuously since I was 12.

But from my current training, I don’t see any reason that isn’t achievable. No part of my body is giving me warning signs and the training isn’t any harder than it was 15 years ago.

As far as “ageism”, I changed jobs at 40, 42, 44, 46, 49 and last year at 50 and neither time did it take me more than 3 weeks to get a job. I got my first only and hopefully last job at a “FAANG” at 46.

None of those were management jobs and I’m now a “staff software engineer” at a third party cloud consulting company.

I’m well aware that my body will decline over the next 20 years. But no need to give up prematurely
I mean, I can do better (worse). Up until .. the 60s? 70s? They used to literally spray lead-arsenate on apple orchards as a pesticide.

Incredibly effective one, too.

Just that unfortunate thing of poisoning the top soil forever.

A lot of those old apple orchards have had other things done with them since. Which is kind of scary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_hydrogen_arsenate

"US EPA banned use of lead arsenate on food crops in 1988."
There's an art to cost-effectively coaxing useful answers (useful drafts of code) from an LLM, and there's an art to noticing the most productive questions to put to that process. It's a totally different way of programming than having an LLM looking over your shoulder while you direct, function by function, type by type, the code you're designing.

If you feel like you're wasting your time, my bet is that you're either picking problems where there isn't enough value to negotiate with the LLM, or your expectations are too high. Crawshaw mentions this in his post: a lot of the value of this chat-driven style is that it very quickly gets you unstuck on a problem. Once you get to that point, you take over! You don't convince the LLM to build the final version you actually commit to your branch.

Generating unit test cases --- in particular, generating unit test cases that reconcile against unsophisticated, brute-force, easily-validated reference implementations of algorithms --- are a perfect example of where that cost/benefit can come out nicely.
What about people who work for a living making service calls who can make twice as many because they don't sit in traffic as long? What about poor people who may choose to carpool to save money but who get an extra hour of leisure time each day to spend with their kids?

Meanwhile, if slightly wealthier people end up riding the subway, that will help a bit with public safety -- I lived in NYC a few years ago and never felt remotely in danger on the subway any time of day or night.
4o-mini is more than capable of doing grade school homework.
Even though they are all marketed as gaming cards, Nvidia is now very clearly differentiating between 5070/5070 Ti/5080 for mid-high end gaming and 5090 for consumer/entry-level AI. The gap between xx80 and xx90 is going to be too wide for regular gamers to cross this generation.
most likely because the police that let them in were complicit? do you not remember someone getting killed when they tried to breach the inner chambers?

what's the point that you're circling here? that these people were there to take a tour of the capitol and the gallows, weapons, and IEDs they brought and chants of "hang mike pence" were just jokes? based on the fact that outnumbered police didn't open fire on the crowd? just come out and say it.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iludfj6Pe7w

- https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-florida-virginia-co...
This is a guess, but I wonder if higher memory speeds led to a bigger jump in performance than ops/sec would suggest.
I like what you have done. But I'm also afraid that your daughter will quickly get better at prompt engineering instead, and bypass your system prompt (with the help of other children). I'm convinced that no help can replace parents, and we ought to help them learn to love the struggle and taste the sweet fruit of their labors.
Yeah, I don't like it either. I think it speaks to the mindset difference Crawshaw is talking about here. When I'm writing code, I don't want things getting in my way. I have a plan. I'm actually pretty Zen about all the typing. It's part of my flow-state. But when I'm exploring code in a dialog with a chatbot, I'm happy for the help.
What a brilliant way to frame being against H1-B visas! MAGA war on talent. Well I never
See, you were not supposed to say the quiet part out loud
The Apple bicycle is the Apple user.
They know how to ride it well.
And how to take the Money.

Generative AI is a dud. ML has a lot of applications.
I use my smartphone for calls, chat and banking apps.
I use my iPad only for drawing, mail and some games.

For everything else, I have computers. With real OS.
They may have already started...
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2228:_Machine_Lea...
I doubt you can do a clean comparison, likely too many confounding factors, at least to pull anything out easily.
https://archive.ph/fuL9C
Implicit in my argument is the idea that GenAI is a foundational building block of all sorts of innovations that people will come up with. I acknowledge that there are people who don't believe this.
Locking DLSS-4 to 50xx only is unfortunate. I don't expect it to rely on any new superpowers. Otherwise - looks like a big step with the AI.
"Who cooked them?", he pondered, on the HN post situated between "I built a robot waifu with ChatGPT" and "Here's why it's okay to kill the bottom 10% of the workforce".
It's interesting how different responses this article evokes. Many commenters found the writing "very good", "excellent", etc, while others thought the article "terrible" or "empty".

How comes?

Despite the hard to believe "No. 1 telemarketer in the United States" claim at the beginning, I ultimately found the author relatable. The article offered a glimpse into a world foreign to me, made interesting points about how doing sales changes one forever, and ended ironically wondering whether this article will help close a book deal.
Thanks for the info on local LLMs. Based on my chats with multiple LLMs, the biggest issue appears to be hardware.

Non-deterministic hardware: All LLMs mentioned that modern computing hardware, such as GPUs or TPUs, can introduce non-determinism due to factors like parallel processing, caching, or numerical instability. This can make it challenging to achieve determinism, even with fixed random seeds or deterministic algorithms.

You can find the summary of my chats https://beta.gitsense.com/?chat=1c3e69f9-7b8b-48a3-8b99-bb1b.... If you scroll to the top and click on the "Conversation" link in the first message, you can read the individual responses.
I'm curious, what flake are they getting? I assumed they limit gaming GPU VRAM specifically to avoid having them abused by AI people.
3000 TOPS meaning 3000 terraops per second? That’s 3 peta ops
Last titan was released 2018.... 7 years ago.

They may resurrect it at some stage, but at this stage yes.
0 - yesterday: can't really remember but happy with whatever I did to get here.

Future: stay the course.

I've never much liked who I was yesterday, but I'm (almost) always happy with who I am right now.
> iTunes, for instance.

assuming you mean on macOS, given your comment after this. (there is no iOS app called iTunes anyway)

yes, on both iOS and macOS, Apple intentionally hobbled iTunes/Music, incrementally making it worse each update, after Apple Music gained an initial foothold.

not that it was ever "great" after 1.0 maybe 2.0, but it certainly used to be good. Now, if you're not an Apple Music subscriber, you're left with a pretty basic player. I get that they want to segment the market, but to remove features and actively make it worse? horrible.
Well, hell, let's think about everyone who choked to death in New York. Krazy Kat should levy a masticulation tax below 60th street. It'll be easier to get a table! Think of all the environmental benefits of not eating fancy foods!
Yeah I’m not holding my breath if they aren’t advertising it.

I’m expecting a minor bump that will look less impressive if you compare it to watts, these things are hungry.

It’s hard to get excited when most of the gains will be limited to a few new showcase AAA releases and maybe an update to a couple of your favourites if your lucky.
It's a book written for non experts and clearly labeled as such. Bill Gates likely knows more about AI than you do and yet he recommends a book that normal people can understand. There may be a lesson here.
I wish it didn’t reset on refresh lol…
In the old days, when we decided something was bad for society at large, we'd handle it with laws. How quaint.
4k gaming is dumb.
I watched a LTT video that came out today where Linus said he primarily uses gaming monitors and doesn't mess with 4k.
Honestly, with how fast memory is being consumed nowadays and the increased focus on frame generation/interpolation vs “full frames”, I’ll keep my 3090 a little longer instead of upgrading to a 5080 or 5090. It’s not the fastest, but it’s a solid card even in 2025 for 1440p RT gaming on a VRR display, and the memory lets me tinker with LLMs without breaking a sweat.

If DLSS4 and “MOAR POWAH” are the only things on offer versus my 3090, it’s a hard pass. I need efficiency, not a bigger TDP.
And if you look to places like Meixco City and Bogota, their bus rapid transit is very fast and efficient. But good luck taking away a single lane of traffic for dedicated bus services anywhere in the US.
It looks like this if you're curious: https://i.imghippo.com/files/KX3627EjE.png
It's all about attack surface and HTMLs attack surface is huge. HTML in email is strictly unnecessary. Name another popular messaging tool that allows you to craft custom HTML messages. Text, Whatsapp, social posts, Snapchat, etc.

The only people who want to send HTML emails are marketers, advertisers, trackers, scammers, hackers, and that clueless manager who wants the cornflower blue background. (most of these actors are the same people, except for that last one).
This actually reduces competition as there are now only three viable streaming services that include local channels; YTTV, Hulu\Fubo, and DirecTv.
At what point do we stop calling them graphics cards?
Did giving teachers guns and reducing their salaries not fix it?
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