skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kdenlive just got a major audio waveform overhaul
It's essentially the same tactic as META have employed and one of the key pillars of a free market.
They also are making important contributions to efficiency sure to their hardware limitations which hopefully has a strong impact on reducing the long term power consumption of these models
Good. Companies screwing each other over like this creates huge social benefits. This is one of the best mechanisms capitalism has to externalize surplus value, a la "commoditizing your complement".
Sorry - typo. mail.
As a great example of this read Paul Graham’s essays that aren’t anout his core expertise.
The press is broke. Major press outlets can run at a loss, supported by a billionaire. Many press outfits are switching to non-profit status, or being replaced by non-profits.

The real problem isn’t money. It’s partisanship.

Journalists are overwhelming Democrats. The available numbers are stark: 96%, as far as anyone can tell.

If the roles were reversed, would any Democrat trust a media populated 96% by Republicans?
I still cannot believe that the Heaviside function is named after it’s creator, rather than simply being a literal description of what it is.
Fascinating; I just looked through the labs, and as a fullstack developer without that much experience in LLMs, it looks like I'm already closely familiar with half of them (git, flask, kafka, kubernetes) and the other half is just... code. No crazy math that I've come to associate with ML.

Does it mean that ML ops is a field that's actually not that hard to approach for a regular developer without a PhD?
China's AI says it is using less power and cost less, yet what I heard is that it's more powerful. How can it be? I know that China lies about it, but can people be that gullible to believe that?
> Alphas are just leaders

If you redefine alpha to just mean "leader", then the claim that CEOs are alphas is obviously true, but also meaningless.

But the theory TFA is about was not just that wolf packs had a leader. It made a bunch of other claims, as TFA describes, and those other parts (that you're excluding) are what's considered debunked.
It is hard to emphasize how insanely important editorials are for local news.

It’s hard to emphasize how unimportant it is for national news.
Egg prices are soaring. Don't expect that to change anytime soon
The source of the traffic to ChatGPT API servers would probably be obvious and if not, anomalous.
A Hardened Detective and an Angry Rock Star: How an Art Fraud Was Cracked
That means the remaining 10% are similarly disillusioned by the impression Apple or AMD could "just write" a CUDA alternative and compete on their merits. You don't want either of those people spending their money on datacenter bets.

10 years ago people said OpenCL would break CUDA's moat, 5 years ago people said ASICs would beat CUDA, and now we're arguing that older Nvidia GPUs will make CUDA obsolete. I have spent the past decade reading delusional eulogies for Nvidia, and I still find people adamant they're doomed despite being unable to name a real CUDA alternative.
Mastodon does not restrict the posting of URLs and it does not look like “the spam folder of a compromised email address” at all.
Author here. I said "random _to find_". But thank you for giving me an incredibly classic top HN comment :)
Unless we get actual AGI I don't honestly care as a non coder. The art is slop and predatory, the chatbots are stilted and pointless, anytime a company uses AI there is huge backlash and there are just no commercial products with any real demand. Make it as cheap as dirt and I still don't see what use it is besides for scammers I guess...
I spent quality time thinking about this last night, there is one and only one reasonable motivation that would possibly stop them from doing so - to avoid being killed by the CIA

The whole thing is no longer a startup being disruptive
Whether you love or hate OpenAI, the CapEx involved with this company will be viewed as historic in the future, and will change (has already changed) the paradigm of how tech startups/projects are funded
I think we're focusing on the wrong degrees. Replies assume I was focusing on "information engineering" when I was instead talking about the "electrical engineering".

EE as a US career is night and day from Software centered engineers. Night and day from 20 years ago as well.

http://www.talentsquare.info/blog/fall-engineering-jobs-elec...

I don't think it's much of a controversial take to suggest that China is kicking the US's butt in silicon chip production. EE's are one of the primary fields traditionally seeked to work with this.
I think you’re wrong and Wallstreet got Deepseek’s impact wrong.

You say DeepSeek should decrease Nvidia demand. Wallstreet agreed today.

I say DeepSeek should increase Nvidia’s demand due to Jevon’s Paradox.
There are many brands but, in the US - YakTraks and MICROspikes are common choices.
As someone who mostly works in Java it continues to floor me that this isn’t the default. Why does every project I work on need an identical copy of possibly hundreds of packages if they’re the same version?

I also like Yarn pnp’s model of leaving node_modules as zip files. CPUs are way faster than storage, they can decompress on the fly. Less disk space at rest, less disk slack, less filesystem bookkeeping.

Every single filesystem is way faster at dealing with one file than dozens/hundreds. Now multiply that by the the hundreds if does, it add up.
Did ASICs beat CUDA out in crypto coin mining? Not the benchmark I really care about, but if things slow down in AI (they probably won’t) ASICs could probably take over some of it.
100%

Equity valuations for AI hardware future earnings changed dramatically in the last day. The belief that NVIDIA demand for their product is insatiable for the near future had been dented and the concern that energy is the biggest bottle neck might not be the case.

Lots to figure out on this information but the playbook radically changed.
Would it be possible to get news on bluesky in addition to X please?
I ll give you an even better idea but it ll need atleast a 100 volunteers, maybe a 1000. Take each package and rewrite it without external dependencies. That will cut tech debt for that package significantly. Just like how we have a @types/xyz where some dude named DefinitelyTyped is busy making typescript packages for everything, lets make a namespace like @efficient/cors @efficient/jsdom @efficient/jest etc and eliminate all external dependencies completely for every library on npm
A mystery weapon would not have been necessary. You're talking about a Nazi army that would now be facing an enemy force missing the majority of its soldiers, in a war that was already very close. The Nazis clearly would not have fallen, or even really come close to falling, without the Soviets.

Now I think your argument is basically the same, but for America. In that the Nazis were in no position to invade and occupy America - which I fully agree with. But victory in a war doesn't require you occupy every single enemy nation. The most common way wars end is in settlement. And I see no possible path where the Nazis would not have been able to achieve a favorable settlement.
Another thing, the markets had priced in X demand scaling @ ~145 and suddenly it's X/30 demand scaling and therefore the price should drop.
So much this. Learn from Framework: Sell the hardware at a price point that makes your business sustainable without needing a cloud component to push you over into profitability.

Yes, it will lock out people for whom that price is unacceptable, but now more than ever your real customer is serious hackers, and we are collectively more than fed up with the cloud and subscriptions. Framework and Nabu Casa need to be your models here, because your customers are overwhelmingly their customers.
Presumably 100% of supply at this point is going into chinese government/military projects where not using a western design with possible backdoors is worth a price premium.
You’re arguing for a reduction in quality in internet services. People do notice those things. It’s like claiming people don’t care about slimmer iPhones. They do.
The phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” in the current sense precedes the Jim Jones massacre.

It began with a book called “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” (1968).
the PhD requirement is either for actual research positions or a gatekeeping function to help companies narrow down their massive candidate pools
They can be useful if you're working in situations where preserving and using the correct form of _this_ is necessary. Could be a situation with funky legacy code or writing library/utility functions (like an implementation of debounce) where you can't be certain of the context in which your function is going to be used.

These don't come up a ton in modern code bases in part because of the advent of arrow functions, and in part because of the general trend towards FP / declarative programming in JS/TS and away from OOP / "class" use and thus less need for managing "this" throughout an application. Also most of the time if you really need a utility function it's easier to rely on a bulletproof dependency library like Ramda/Lodash/Underscore... concerns about bundle size notwithstanding.

Another use case is if you need to use array methods on array-like things (this comes up sometimes with DOM manipulation). These data structures are iterables but lack the native array methods like map/filter/reduce etc. If for some reason you can't/don't want to create a new array from your data structure to operate on you can do something like Array.prototype.filter.call(myNodeList, filterFunction). Also not terribly common in modern codebases, but useful to be aware of!
A year ago Sam Altman was going around trying to convince people we all needed to drop 7 trillion dollars to build hundreds of fabs and nuclear power plants to fuel his AI ambitions. Only a week ago he was triumphantly announcing 500 billion dollar deals with our new President.

The (regrettably temporary) ousting of Sam Altman looks like the right call, in hindsight. Of course some amount of showmanship is expected, but the extreme nature of this self-serving BS is just laughable.

6 months from now we may be looking at Sam Altman the way we look at Adam Neumann.
Most people don't care about the fundamentals of equity valuations is the crux of it. If they can make money via derivatives, who cares about the underlying valuations? I mean just look at GME for one example, it's been mostly a squeeze driven play between speculators. And then you have the massive dispersion trade that's been happening on the SP500 over the last year+. And when most people invest in index funds, and index funds are weighted mostly by market cap, value investing has been essentially dead for a while now.
I was talking about the US and the marketing of insane server racks of GPUs "required" to run popular LLM models. Did I misinterpret something?
The situation seems unambiguous. According to an executive order published today, all federal agencies must pause all activities related to all financial assistance programs (except those paid directly to individuals) to the extent permissible by law. Then they must ensure that the programs are consistent with the new national priorities before continuing.
This doesn't sound like an Epic/CDC issue. This sounds like an insurance issue where they're not getting the medical coding they need. It's also possibly a hospital admin issue. Legally speaking, your doctors should be able to write a paper order for you to receive the vaccine (admin might disagree). Your medical coding experts in billing should be able to get you the required coding working with the insurance liason for the hospital.

Based on your definition of success, the paper orders fulfill that even if you don't get the coding and insurance coverage.
Could even argue that the price should go up, since the amount of with one GPU can do and its potential ROI just increased
When AI Writes Our Apps
I've tried this but never got the PyInstaller deployment process down smooth enough for my taste. Even for small apps, I end up rewriting in C# to compile executables with if I need to deploy to people who don't use code. With PyInstaller, since you have to package the Python interpreter the .exe always ends up too large and slow for my taste (especially since I usually compile with --onefile. I'm wondering how you do it, if you use onefile or have some better way to run PyInstaller so the final exe is smaller or faster.
Ask HN: Cursor worth the $20/Mo?
Last Friday, I saw a reference to Cursor, downloaded it, and set out to implement some stuff in a new sprint, in a tech stack I'm still gaining familiarity with (Elixir LiveView and associated JS hooks). The Composer feature has been pretty impressive honestly. It's not that it's so much better than copy/paste back and forth with GPT or Claude, it's just the level of easy to use integration. It's really fluid. It's been a good, if not somewhat misguided at times, pairing partner. I've actually learned a bit and been able to get stuff done.

I am leery of growing dependent on these tools. On the flip, web stack programming is just so bureaucratic (full of process and nuances), that it's nice to have a helper. I know there are all kinds of "free assemble it yourself" llm and coding tools out there, but I'm struggling to be motivated to row that river right now. I just want something that works.

I'm looking for some honest feedback from others who are paying customers of Cursor. Is it worth it? Does it stay worth it? Thoughts on the longevity of their offering?

(edit: I'm asking because I hit the "You've reached your trial request limit")
Reality can rarely compete with good showmanship. Weren't we discussing HyperNormalisation just yesterday?
Related:

Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3B in X loans next week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823908
It's a temporary thing. But there's no harm in making an account, I don't think you even need to verify your email.
adjusted for inflation?
Thats a much higher hurdle to jump. I don’t blame the author for trying this first.

If accepted, it might have been a good stepping stone too. A chance to get to know everyone and their concerns and how they think.

So if you wanted to see how this works (proposal + in prod) and then come back later proposing something bigger by switching off zip that would make sense to me as a possible follow up.
> They are closer to being deterministic machines that comply exactly with your instructions, for better or worse, than they are to magical pixies that guess what you must’ve actually meant.

If those are your only two reference points, yes they're closer to the former.

But the biggest problem is how much "pixie that does something you neither wanted nor asked for" gets mixed in. And I think a lot of the complaints you're saying are about lack of mind reading are actually about that problem instead.
You would be surprised at the amount of crap that exists and the amount of malware that posts to fb
ChatGPT has over $10 million paying subscriber. No I am not counting the people using the API programmatically
> But while Facebook’s costs decreased as it scaled, OpenAI’s costs are growing in lockstep with its revenue, and sometimes faster

And here comes DeepSeek and takes the steam out of this and the cost arguments that follow it.
https://archive.md/aBY4l
Stop playing rapid until you're well above 700. Play classical so you can think about each move long enough to not hang pieces.
I spend a good portion of my time asking people to fix their LLM code now at work. It has made code reviews tiring. And it has increased pairing time significantly, making it a less fun activity.
AI is still a fad.
They could make a ton of money shorting NVDA and releasing the paper. The most honest short position ever!
Basically if anyone receives it that wasn't expecting to it's illegal. That is at the core of the FCC rules in the US, you can't interfere with the lawful use of the band, nor can you cause "interference" on unused bands. That said, the process for prosecuting you is long and somewhat convoluted as they have to file a report, then the FCC will confirm the report, Etc.

But this kind of project (and a similar I saw that broadcasts on every FRS[1] channel at the same time) is a great example of something you can do with SDR that you cannot (easily) do with transistors and boring old analog radio.[2]

It is one of the reasons I enjoy it (playing around with SDRs and DSP) so much as I keep learning new things.

[1] Family Radio Service

[2] I know, I know, building 20 modulators isn't all that tough yadda yadda.
Until now we know only what the they claim what that costs are.
Do you think the cost won’t ever come down to make $20/month sustainable?
Yeah the text-based menus were what Half-Life launched with in 1998. Counter-Strike used these same text-based menus in 1999 and it wasn't until 2000 that the engine was updated to include VGUI. I guess Counter-Strike left the old ones in place for those that preferred them.
I got it quickly after I got "You've reach your trial request limit", because in that trial I was able to build something that would have made me work for a week, while here it was less than a day.

I'm building with js, and ruby, it works pretty well, obviously it's us who has to navigate it for better results.

For me, it's worth it.
> This just seems like a very bold statement to make in the first two years of LLMs

GPT-3 is 5 years old, this tech has been looking for a problem to solve for a really long time now. Many billions has already been burned trying to find a viable business model for these, and so far nothing has been found that warrants anything even close to multi trillion dollar valuations.

Even when the product is free people don't use ChatGPT that much, making things cheaper will just reduce the demand for compute then.
The increase in efficiency is usually accompanied with the process of commoditization as stuff get cheaper to develop, which is very bad news for nvidia.

If you dont need the super high end chips than Nvidia loses it's biggest moat and ability to monopolize the tech, CUDA isn't enough.
When you're up material? Assuming your opponent is in a tier to leave pieces hanging, we should be talking more than a pawn here, and following the first two rules should hold/build that advantage.

At least, as someone not even 900, closing an endgame when I'm already winning sounds like the easier part. But it's hard to believe that's all it takes to get to 1500, it is not my impression that 1300+ players are losing to big "whoops" moments.
DeepSeek R1 671B running locally [video]
It wasn't just Cats. There really is a layer in the ionosphere called the Heaviside Layer, or more formally the Kennelly–Heaviside layer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly–Heaviside_layer

Today this is more commonly known as the E layer or E region, and it is much beloved by ham radio operators because of its intermittent nature.

You never know when sporadic E skip will become available and you can use it to contact hams far away!
Will you post on HN in year describing how much money you earned by buying the stock today?
How big is your distribution file? I tried this but my project had numpy and pandas and the distributable was like 350 MB!
This assumes one ai replaces one human, but what’s much more likely in the short term is one human plus ai replaces four humans. The ai augments the human, and vice versa. A borg is still better than either of its components.

I agree though, search space constraint is a glaring limitation at the moment. Notebooklm accomplished some amount of focus.
Oh yeah, I remember those game .dll files shipping with Steam long after they were disabled.
yeah I think people just got spooked and sold to take some profits they were going to take soon anyways
Sure HNers hate Elon for various reasons. But overall some random dude who goes to disney world versus A billionaire who caught a rocket and makes stupid tweets online.... Let's be real here about what "society" defines as alpha, not some HNers backwater opinion.

ANd even that HNer knows his contrary opinion is backwater. Trump and Elon get a lot of hate, but they are leaders on the apex of the human status hierarchy.
The US has forced China to build a Better Mousetrap! And do so with GPUs of lesser processing power than the west has access to! The west's policy to limit GPU technology access to China has necessitated that innovation that is utilizing lower power GPU hardware than was assumed was needed! And so what a mother of invention that's become to the tune of some trillion+ loss in market value among the US AI Monopolies! The US has become so good at stifling out fair competition and the very driver of that innovation that creates the real wealth!
It's VGUI2 which was created for the Source engine, re-used for Steam and back-ported to the GoldSource engine when the games were launched on Steam.
Ooooh that's so much better. I'm gonna use that from now on. The speed at which you can communicate and the other can understand your statement is very important. I wonder what other common phrases have shorter versions
It had two FireWire ports -- one on the sound card, and one on the motherboard. IIRC, the one on the motherboard was used for the front panel connector.

And maybe I'm old-fashioned, but the last thing I think when I need to connect up some old gear is "I have just the answer! I'll buy a whole 'nother laptop!"

I mean: They still make PCIe Firewire cards in factories every day -- or at least, they once made enough of them that plenty are still kicking around for not very much money.

And it may be 2025, but they definitely do still make desktop computers (with industry-standard expansion slots, even!) in factories every day.
We're a 33-year-old small company, with thirty employees. I started the company in 1992 to do custom programming (VB and MS Access) and network support (Novell NetWare). I slowly grew to five employees. In 2000 I did not enjoy billing out our hours, so I decided to develop a product -- a web-based issue tracking application to help with IT support. The transition from a services business to a product business was much more difficult than I anticipated, but we made it. Now Issuetrak is doing fine. From what I read on Hacker News, there are nice aspects to working in a small company. We have no outside investment, so we call our own shots. Everyone is close to the customers. We listen to all team members' ideas. Everyone knows who is contributing. We can work from home. After 25 years of taking customer suggestions, our product is robust. We provide prompt, very good telephone support. We win deals (and lose them too) against competitors that are 400 times our size. One of the biggest satisfactions is that when we survey our customers after each support encounter, it is not unusual to hear them say that Issuetrak is the best software company they've ever dealt with. My salary is probably less than that of many FANG engineers, but life is good.
It’s the essay on the New Zealand McGyver using no. 8 wire that the world needs.
I'm cool calm and collected.

Don't project, don't assume you can read minds and emotional states over the internet.

Of course we here in Australia think of anyone bandying about "alpha" as a tosser .. how else do you suppose they'd be thought of?

They're literally right there with people that use "Bro" in a sentence and espouse paleo diets.
> This also took a lot of seeking time for disks because there were so many individual files.

The fact NPM keeps things in node_modules unzipped seems wild to me. Filesystems are not great at hundreds of thousands of little files. Some are bad, others are terrible.

Zip files are easier to store, take up less space, and CPUs are faster than disks so the decompression in memory is probably faster reading the unzipped files.

That was one of my favorite features of Yarn when I tried it - pnp mode. But since it’s not what NPM does it requires a shim that doesn’t work with all ps mage’s. Or at least didn’t a few years ago.