skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBF Stripe is a (effective!) middleman for (very common!) transactions, whereas Anthropic is selling a service with the potential to replace full time employees. It takes a lot of transaction margins to add up to how much a corporation will pay to replace a department of 10 employees earning $100K down to one person... So in this context I don't think frequency of use is very illuminating!

P.S. I'm so glad you're able to derive some joy from these new technologies, but I would also offer a soft suggestion to watch Season 3 of Westworld. It's probably not as good aesthetically as the previous two, but it's also pretty separated and deals throughout with the concept of AI therapists/friends, and how they might be a short-term comfort but a long-term threat to our individuality. Obviously a chat here and there with current LLMs is nowhere near that yet, but thought you might find it interesting!
This is a great example of creating value by making sure everybody's got a piece of the pie.

Say you're some OpenAI employees. You know a lot about AI, you've got the resume, you've got some buzz, and you want your own successful startup. How do you make sure that it gets maximum preferential treatment and first dibs on all the data and GPU? By making sure the big dogs are all going to get super rich off of your success.

So they got billions in investment from Google, even more billions in investments from Amazon, half a billion from FTX (whoops), then some VCs for additional shmoozing power, and you're good to go. It helps to have the technical chops and a good product to distinguish yourself, but at that point, Amazon and Google are both going to go out of their way to shove your AI into everything, so having something to contribute is practically just a nice bonus if you can manage it.
Brown rice tends to contain more arsenic. A little bit is fine but if you eat large amounts frequently then that can be problematic.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1209574

Many foods can become toxic in excessive quantities. That's why it's best to eat a wide variety of different foods and not get too many calories from any one food. Everything in moderation.
The Rust Discord is one of my favourite places on the internet. I've met so many helpful, friendly, interesting and incredibly smart people here. And this is coming from someone who's had a lot of frustrations on my rust journey, and who does evil things like use small unsafe blocks instead of bringing in dependencies - they even refused to ban me for this!

There are definitely a few loud, unpleasant voices in the rust community. But quite frankly the Rust discord was a lot more pleasant than the Zig one.

YMMV, I do have a fondness for Zig, and I honestly did find Loris's "safety coomer" comment really funny. But I've had such good experiences with rustaceans that I feel I must defend their honour every time it's besmirched like this.
> Even though it doesn't even get that much slower at a certain number of rows it just starts hanging

Yes, this brings back memories. I've definitely seen this kind of behaviour as well, in many different, not-particularly-exotic, situations.

I am absolutely convinced the issue I raised on the github project was a bug or a defect, despite the maintainers not taking it seriously.

I find QuickCheck and Clojure spec/test.check much more straightforward to use. I just never ran into this sort of thing with these other tools.
David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, has died
What I have in mind is something like this:

1) you write your web page in HTML

2) where you fetch data from a server and would normally use JS to render it you'd instead have an HTML attribute naming the "schema" to use to hydrate the data into HTML which would happen automatically, with the hydrated HTML incorporated into the page at some named location.

The schema would be something like XSLT/XPath, but perhaps simpler, and it would support addressing JSON/CBOR data.
I feel similarly; I just picked up a second hand 6600 XT (similar performance to 3060) and I feel like it would be a while before I'd be tempted to upgrade, and certainly not for $500+, much less thousands.
Service industry workers tend to get off between 2:30 and 4:00AM. If you get off at 2:30, great, you can take the bus or train back home. If you're held late to clean or do prep for the next day? You'll be waiting until transit service resumes in the morning (as late as 6AM).

So what do you do? You drive to work every day and pay the parking costs, because it's preferable to ending up stuck downtown with everything closed for several hours while you're exhausted from working a double.

This problem with public transit is the single biggest reason people who work at restaurants have to always drive to work. It's exactly as the comment you're replying to put it.
The article claims an 80% reduction in injections, but they must only be counting the injections prior to egg retrieval. After the 2 weeks of injections before the egg retrieval, there's another 8-10 weeks of intramuscular injections after the embryo transfer.

Still, this is a great development to lessen the entire ordeal for women undergoing IVF.
I don't have any first-hand experience, but there's a lot of data:

- https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/

- https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/12/07/low-spanish-costs-are-not-about-decentralization/
Facebook is virtual reality, whereas VRChat is inhabited by humans.
> One of the reasons that we don't have Universal Healthcare in the US is that things that are categorically unhealthy would be prohibited from being sold. Afterall, it would benefit not only the receivers of care but also the people funding the healthcare system. The sellers of those things will fight (to their death) to prevent that environment from existing.

Perhaps you’re implying something unique about the US, but those products are still sold in other countries that have state-funded universal health care.
I was under the impression that Community Notes were designed to be resistant to sybil attacks, but I could be wrong. Community Notes have been used at Twitter for a long time. Are there examples of state-influenced notes getting through the process?
The title is not editorializing. Sure it is not original, but because it clarifies what the OP found interesting (and perhaps what was Googled) it's incidental in the normal run of play, not a foul.
Freedom of expression comes to mind. If someone had a friend commit suicide, should they not be able to discuss their experience in public?
An invasion of Greenland would fall under Article 5 and we'd be at war with NATO.

An interesting strategy.
> > smoking rate is considerably higher in France or even in Spain

But they somehow compensate with other good habits considering that lifespan and healthspan is greater than the US.

Then we can get into a whole different conversation about the intensity of one's life in the US v. Europe not just the lenght, but that is a whole different conversation.
>I have less of a problem with tickets that are paying for something like running a train, or for that matter a bridge toll paying off the bonds that enabled the bridge to be built.

What about on-street parking or municipal parking lots? Given how cheap they are to construct it's questionable to claim that the fees collected are needed to fund their construction.

>I have more of a problem with someone demanding money for nothing. [...] To my knowledge the main justification has always been that the charge funds the payer's behavior modification. Is it for the payer's own good? Is it for the greater good? You may well differ, but something about that doesn't sit right with me however noble, especially when it pertains to law abiding citizens acting within their rights.

How do you think most other taxes (eg. income tax, VAT, corporation tax) work? If you argument is that congestion charge is bad because "demanding money for nothing" and "something about that doesn't sit right with me however noble", then you should be rallying even harder against those sort of taxes. At least with congestion charge you can argue it's in exchange for the ability to drive, and unlike income tax, most can agree congestion is a bad thing, unlike people getting a salary (income) or businesses making/selling stuff (VAT). What is the government providing in exchange you paying income tax? Not getting a visit from the tax collectors? If it's something vague like "roads and schools", why can't the same justification be used for congestion charge?
> It’s just that none of the stages are great.

Really? Nobody uses TF but plenty of people use XLA, which is what you allude to saying that TPU in Pytorch is possible. That's arguably the most important piece; the sledgehammer that makes good performance and good devex compatible.

> I wish Google would compete with Nvidia directly and let me buy a TPU

I don't see the utility of buying _any_ GPUs. It's mainly a cost + availability optimization to own them yourself if you're doing a lot of continual training. Outside of the foundation model companies, most of us just use cloud services -- and I want those to be cheap and always use the latest thing.

Google has a highly optimized infrastructure to make sure unused resources (CPU, TPU, RAM, disk) are properly allocated. This means preemptible instances, highly co-located compute + data, etc. In theory everyone should win when you use ML hw through hyperscalers, because they collect on their structural advantages and your TCO is lower.

> Google could have Nvidia’s business and OpenAI’s

They arguably have a better _business_ on their hands but a worse _speculative outlook_ in the eyes of Mr. Market. Those are different things. There's an argument to be made that Google's valuation could be as high if they ran their public relations strategy as well as OpenAI / Nvidia / Tesla, which are all riding monumental hype.
If you think you can't optimize your way into something, your objective function or constraints are simply wrong. You can always optimize.
[for C++]
It's a different type of activity though.

Facebook and Instagram's (pre-Reels) strength was that it was easy to have accounts of all sizes engage and be engaged with. Whether you have 10 or 100000 friends/followers/etc, the barrier of entry to have some engagement wasn't high and it encouraged people with all sizes of accounts to post, comment, and "like". Social networking felt much more intentional with these platforms.

Instagram Reels certainly has a lot of activity, but it's activity is driven by users passively consuming popular and trending media. This isn't a bad model, but it's a shift away from intentional social networking.

Ultimately, I think Reels is more evidence that Meta has had a user engagement problem for a while. Their current strategy for Instagram seens to be to hope passive consumption keeps everyone in the app and fall back on the "town square" model for comments as a means of engagement.
Do I understand correctly you chat wıth Claude as a form of social relief or are you talking about drinking beer and chatting with it about work/ideation etc. Either way, just curious!

On topic though, I wholeheartedly agree that this valuation seems rather... unrealistic. I do think "hype" is how we currently handle a lot of valuations, for the worse in my opinion.
Have you tried adding cream (but no sweetener)? I've done it on occasion to get down a cup of coffee that's more bitter than usual.
LOL hey Artix.

That made me laugh from Loris too. I can't believe it became a big deal, it was a funny comment.

And I believe it was one single lone frustrated rustacean... a frustacean, perhaps? ... who was making the unhinged comments.
Inequality weakens local governance and public satisfaction, study finds
>and chat with Claude almost every time I go out for a beer after a long day...

with all due respect, how can you take yourself seriously doing this? I tried to use an LLM as a "cheap therapist" exactly one time and it felt so phony I quit almost instantly, after about four messages.

The bot pretends to feel compassion for you! How does that not induce rage? It does for me. False empathy is way worse than nothing.

And on top of it, you're talking to a hosted LLM! I hope you are not divulging anything personal to the random third party you're sending your thoughts to..

This stuff is going to be such a huge boon to authoritarian governments.
It's not about actual employees, it's about signalling "Texas - yay!" and "California - booooo!" in order to make good with the incoming administration.
Most of this is automatically provided in those classic MVC frameworks like Rails or Django.
https://archive.today/cLcWH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lodge_(author)
I wonder how many generations it will take until Nvidia launches a graphics card that needs 1kW.
The fact-checking that Meta is ending, which put "misinformation" disclaimers on posts, is NOT the same as content moderation, which will continue.

A lot of comments in this thread reflect a conflation of these two, with stuff like "great! no more censorship!" or "I was once banned because I made a joke on my IG post", which don't relate to fact-checking.
You can find out how to do this with a hundred different detailed youtube videos.

I will outline the procedure on my car how I do it so you can see how simple it actually is. No you don't need a lift. Yes you lay down but keep in mind 65 year old mechanics can lay down and its not a big ask for most people in good health to lay down under their car.

> unscrew oil cap at the top of the engine

> get plastic pan to collect oil and slide it under the oil pan

> get 14mm socket wrench and slightly loosen the drain plug

> loosen it the rest of the way by hand, then carefully remove the plug to not drop it into the collection pan (not a big deal if it happens)

> go have lunch

> come back and pour a little new oil down

> go and clean up lunch

> come back and screw the drain plug back on with a new copper washer

> unscrew the filter which i do by hand because i do this myself and don't overtorque like the lube tech

> pour a little oil into new replacement filter and screw back on

> fill with oil

> cap the fill lid

> done

as you can see you screw and unscrew three things. this should fit within the mental model of most people quite easily barring intellectual disability.
what is new with this search engine? the home page has no clue...

better to tell more details, just saying it is new, seem not a good way to prompt it. people may feel, you bring up expectation for nothing, haha...
Au contraire, I wear very large shoes, so my step size becomes a limiting factor at some point.
> One of the reasons that we don't have Universal Healthcare in the US is that things that are categorically unhealthy would be prohibited from being sold.

For the most unhealthy class of people that are most affected by things like T2 diabetes, we have universal healthcare. At 65 you get Medicare which covers diabetes treatment.

We have yet to ban sodas despite the added cost to the taxpayers.

> I personally think mass scale tobacco and soda should not be sold, at the same time I think people can hand roll and pack a pipe into the grave. Same for their at home bathtub soda.

For tobacco, the age restriction has been the thing that has limited use more than anything. People don't tend to pick up smoking once they hit 21. Millennials by and large do not smoke and the anti-tobacco legislation in the 90s is a large part of that.

Unfortunately, because the legislation didn't target all nicotine products that left the door open for vape companies to come in and get Gen Z and Alpha addicted to nicotine all over again.

A broad ban on the sale of nicotine products to minors should be in place. It certainly shouldn't be sold over the internet.

Soda is trickier. I don't think an outright ban would be right (though it would have a fair number of positive health benefits). A sin tax would likely be ineffective and age checks seems like it would be somewhat burdensome.
I made a former company $100M p.a. And all I got was a 30K bonus paid out over 6 years. Not even a promotion as I was on a visa. The asset required maintenance and without me it slowly degraded away. Every now and then I offer to go back and fix it for a flat $1M but instead they would rather believe that it’s impossible. You could imagine the sheer dysfunction required to let that much money go.

A former colleague built a program that would have saved $30M p.a. in OpEx but as a policy they can’t deploy something unless more than two people understand it and they wouldn’t pay enough to hire someone capable enough. Probably would have taken $600K.

It’s about power and in general management does not want to yield power to ICs no matter how much money they could make with it. The more productive the IC the more power management loses.
It's been argued that similar dynamics also inflate executive pay, although I'm not well-versed enough in the overall economic policy debate to know how well-established this actually is [1].

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/reining-in-ceo-compensation-...
Show HN: I've been posting a sound I made everyday day for the last year
Hi - I'm part composer, part engineer and big fan of reading blogs where people learn out loud or with the garage door up by sharing their notebooks or journals. I've been doing this in Moleskines for years (going back to the 80s) but made it a new year's in 2024 resolution to post SOMETHING everyday, so long as I created the sound. I have a big archive of demos and seeds of ideas, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to do something with those in the process.

Being so steeped in programming for the last 30 years, a healty chunk of this material is made via coding with Csound, TidalCycles, some raw crude apps I've written from scratch, so I thought it would be of interest to the HN world.

Admittedly it's pretty self-indulgent, with a lot of names and references you won't get unless you know me, and the pics are often something from my camera roll that day if there's not a scan of music notation to share.

I think it's a very indieweb approach to take, though I wasn't aware of there being an indieweb movement until... 2022 probably. Thanks for reading and listening - let me know what you think.

Here's the ASK HN Part:

Here are a few blogs where someone is doing this learning out loud. Any others come to mind?

Rafal Pastuszak's Untested

https://untested.sonnet.io/

James Kochalka's American Elf

https://web.archive.org/web/20110107174215/http://www.americ...

Lynda Barry's Tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/thenearsightedmonkey
People can't get into the OpenAI round so they buy Anthropic maybe?
Point to point ConnectX connection (RDMA with GPUDirect)
I am having a pixel 6a and scroll feels normal.
Respectable outright, but 450W -> 575W TDP takes the edge off a bit. We'll have to see how that translates to at the wall. My room already gets far too hot with a 320W 3080.
The stock market has crashes, yes, but I don't think that's proof that all previous tech was overhyped nonsense. I'm not just talking computers here, I'm talking steam, metal, agriculture. What proof do we have that we live at the end of history, and that no such shocking, world-changing developments might occur in our lifetimes?

Certainly not debating that this isn't possible, ofc. As someone whose spent the past year+ working full time on the philosophy of this technology I think you're going against a pretty clear scientific consensus among AI experts, but perhaps you have your reasons.

I think we already have AGI anyway, so I'm either a loon or a pedant ;)
> however I still have yet to feel as threatened with a personal vehicle.

There's an old saying that if you can't spot the sucker at the poker table, you're the sucker.

If you've never felt threatened while driving a personal vehicle by all the road-raging, speeding, tailgating assholes--
Try the https://www.ti.com/product/TLV9301
$0.5 @ 1s of units w/ modern specs and a 40V supply range.
Harmonic is great.
Been using it for years !
Has the best UX/function quality ratio imho.
> After learning how microeconomics/"price theory" explains how prices emerge in markets, it can be hard to discuss with people who don't understand the mechanisms.

AP Physics is learning that a perfectly spherical cow does X.

Common sense is realizing perfectly spherical cows don't exist, and that certain things are overly simplified or more chaotic than theorists would sometimes like to admit.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus
Training is compute bound, not memory bandwidth bound. That is how Cerebras is able to do training with external DRAM that only has 150GB/sec memory bandwidth.
This, the Lenovo Legion Go S—Powered by SteamOS, shares the hardware as the Windows variant, Lenovo Legion Go S. They're not building hardware specific for SteamOS yet.

I think the Orange Pi Neo is the only (other) one that's targeting Linux only. And they do have touchpads
If you spend all your time worrying about how to be a good person, chances are you're not being a good person. Just go do nice things. Volunteer somewhere. Be of service. And stop worrying so much
Like the Internet Archive feeling that "oh shit the entire society just shut down" in the days after Covid lockdowns started, and uncapping their digital lending because they were the only "library" you could still visit.

And then getting sued six ways from sunday over it, years later when the crisis mood had faded and the help-people-any-way-we-can vibes were thoroughly forgotten. Time to make sure no good deed goes unpunished!

Yeah. This document makes a LOT of sense.
Zig has the feature of not having exceptions. I see that Nim is trying to move away from them, but exceptions color functions, which means that you have to account for them even if you don't use functions that throw them[1]. Life is too short to deal with invisible control flow.

[1]: https://github.com/status-im/nim-stew
Many American homes already have 240V sockets (eg: NEMA 14-30) for running clothes dryers, car chargers, etc. These can provide over 7200W continuous power!

I guess PC power supplies need to start adopting this standard.
> it’s almost a necessity if you want to be involved in your community

not really; I haven't had a FB account in 10 years

I use Craigslist for local ads.
A lot of 42's usage comes from it's proximity to NASA Goddard's cFS, the most widely used (and in my opinion, best) open-source flight software framework out there. However, many space companies move towards using their own simulation stack, especially when it comes to using the models for driving hardware-in-the-loop (HITL/HIL) simulations with things like fault injection for mission operations drills.

Other open-source solutions for this include:

* Nyx - https://github.com/nyx-space/nyx

* Basilisk - https://github.com/AVSLab/basilisk
>Isn't it great we have a massive private entity in control of the financial system that pleasantly reminds you that it is not accountable to government laws, and by extension is not accountable to the people ("A government of the people")

We have two massive private entities in control of the entire government: our two political parties.
> I'd much rather just have a text-only homepage than anything with thumbnails.

The mostly-text HACK is my favorite iOS client for that reason, so if you use iOS you might enjoy it too. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-yc-hacker-news-reader...
> "acoustic" to refer to an autistic person

Is autistic an illegal word or something? What the fuck?
Unified architecture is still on track for 2026-ish.