skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, really I'd love for my Home Assistant to be able to use a local LLM/TTS/STT which I did get working but was way too slow. Also it would fun to just throw some problems/ideas at the wall without incurring (more) cost, that's a big part of it. But each time I run the numbers I would be better off using Anthropic/OpenAI/DeepSeek/other.

I think sooner or later I'll break down and buy a server for local inference even if the ROI is upside down because it would be a fun project. I also find that these thing fall in the "You don't know what you will do with it until you have it and it starts unlocking things in your mind"-category. I'm sure there are things I would have it grind on overnight just to test/play with an idea which is something I'd be less likely to do on a paid API.
There needs to be a mechanism in capitalism that provides some essential goods for free and incentivizes that behavior. A likely source is to tax it from companies making luxuries (the economic definition), provided companies actually pay the tax fairly, and lawmakers don't leave gaping loopholes.

We need to undo how expensive it is to be poor - this is exploitative capitalism against the poorest. And the essentials should seek to be lowering prices, not go up like luxuries.

The deal then changes to: "you don't have to work, and you won't starve or freeze, but you also won't have any luxuries". And yes, all luxuries get more expensive.
Postgres upgrades were actually annoying the last time I did, where I had to explicitly import data from a previous version into the new one, instead of the software just automatically detecting that the data was a version behind and doing whatever to upgrade the format.

This would probably not have been as big of a headache, if it wasn't because it was running in a container, and was deployed as part of a separate project, meaning CloudNativePG (which probably handles this for you) was not an option.
At least it’s more money than was needed to buy the US government lmao.
Was about to say the same thing. It was already blazingly fast, with a typical album only taking seconds.
boring tech is _legacy_ tech so we need to rewrite it with copilot and redeploy it

let's schedule deployment for friday afternoon
Of course it's just macroeconomics, but AI is serving as an "optimistic" reason for layoffs and cost cutting. It's not the same old spreadsheets putting out different results, it's a new era.
That article refers to those charts by McKinsey as "incorrect" and instead gives a figure of $50M-$75M for 3nm.
> it's ridiculous that Google is also forcing this onto the rest of the world.

Yeah I was surprised (and frankly annoyed) by this as well, I don't see the value of showing this to everyone in the world when all of this relates to a "drama" played out in one country over the course of one presidential term with close to zero chance of extending that to another term (the guy is already 78 years old and it's showing in his ever more erratic behavior). I sure hope we can forget about this nonsense 4+ years from now...
Scalable, high performance Ethernet forwarding with CuckooSwitch (2013)
I'm not saying it's legal, but I don't think the motivation is testing limits.
So then it would need to be significantly larger.
Java, .NET/C#, C++, server side frameworks like Spring and ASP.NET, vanila.js when the option is on me, WinForms/WPF/Swing/Qt, Visual Studio, Eclipse/Netbeans.

Just as an idea, not listing everything.
Does it matter? Even most Chinese models are trained with <50% Chinese dataset last I checked, and they still manage to show AliExpress accent that would be natural for a Chinese speaker with ESL training. They're multilingual but not agnostic, they just can grow English-to-$LANG translation ability so long English stays the dominant and defining language in it.
Execution with masking is pretty much how broaching works on GPUs. What’s more relevant however is that conditional statements add overhead on terms of additional instructions and execution state management. Eliminating small branches using conditional moves or manual masking can be a performance win.
Global 3D rocket launch and re-entry air pollutant and CO2 emissions
> Do banks employ fewer people? Is it a smaller industry? No. Banks grew steadily over these decades.

Profits may have grown but In Ireland at least, the number of branches have declined drastically.
One word: cost.

Look up how much industrial/automotive connectors cost, and you'll see the huge difference in quality.
Their negative feedback consists of stating the obvious, with such gems as the economy makes things that go to waste, and the economy should make happiness, instead of products. They are stating blatantly obvious things. Yeah, everyone wishes things didn't go to waste. Everyone wishes they were happier. Say something new or stop being a hypocrite; pick one to be taken seriously.
>They’re trying to cosplay a version of a man.

The journalist sounds insufferable and I'm not particularly up in arms about tech leaders--but my god, this is a sick burn.
Can confirm the phenomenon.

For better or worse, I seem to never have developed the ability to hate people. I understand the concept of an enemy in the abstract, I can even emphasize with someone when they're talking about their enemies (but only if we're talking life or death, or comparable degree of trauma, and then only if I don't start thinking too much about it) - but I can't really classify anyone in my life as one. I might not like someone, feel threatened by them, but I can't bring myself to hate them - instead, I'll invent 20 different rationalizations for their behavior and hypothetical mutually-beneficial compromises.

I'm not bragging here - at this point in life, I'm not even convinced this is healthy[0], and it sure makes me struggle with being assertive as an adult.

Now, connect that with what the article says. I too, along with my lovely wife, inherited a set of enemies-in-law, and developed deep feelings of desire and obligation to hate the people she hates. Except at the same time, I can't. Josh Gondelman in the TFA wrote:

> My wife’s enemies are now mine, and the rationale behind why doesn’t really matter. Reasons great and small both count, not equally but heavily.

Unfortunately, for me, the reasons still matter. It took me a while to stop instinctively jumping to defend the enemies-in-law whenever she mentioned them, even those I never met. It took me even longer to accept that this is one of those "your partner needs you to listen, not to solve the problem" case - here, she isn't looking for conflict resolution, but rather to vent frustration. And while I still ain't gonna badmouth anyone for anything, I do accept the silent compromise of "if I can't say something mean about them, I won't say anything at all".

It still feels like emulating hatred, though. I'm not sure if I'm in a good place, or denying myself some healthy part of humanity, but I can't imagine the mindset the author has:

> Swearing to hate my wife’s enemies has made me a better, more rounded person. Not only does it give me a benchmark for measuring my loyalty to her, but it’s made me more resolute in my own beliefs. Because all the spiting and snubbing of her foes has shown me how much colder I could be to the people I already didn’t like.

I mean, like why? Why people want to have enemies?

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[0] - I'm pretty sure it's the result of me developing my moral compass as a kid from two "role models" simultaneously: fundamentalist Christianity and Star Trek: TNG. I bet it's about as healthy as it sounds. But then, I mostly like what I got out from it, and it could've been worse.
Speaking of EOL-driven upgrades, the absurdly short "LTS" that most tech stacks have makes them decidedly not boring. Even Microsoft has fallen for this absurdity with 36 month "long" term support intervals for .NET versions. Are three any language stacks with an LTS that is at least five years (ideally much more) that aren't spelled in all caps?
Some companies will try to fire as many programmers as possible and will end up struggling bc they have no moats against other companies with access to the same AI, or will hit some kind of AI saturation usefulness threshold. Other companies will figure out a smart hybrid to utilize existing talent and those are probably the ones that will thrive among the competition.
The RLHF sessions should incentivize responses like “I don’t know” and “I’m not sure”.

But they do not, because that will not attract investment.
I think the common theme is that a lot of people: meaning both people in the community, like here on HN, and people making decisions in industry, are treating AI today as if it's what they hope it will be in five years.

That's a very leveraged bet, which isn't always the wrong call, but I'm not convinced they are aware that that's what they're doing.

I think this is different from the usual hype cycle.
The millionaire mustache guy retired young. He still did a lot of odd jobs to make ends meet, but only on his time. It lasted for about a decade. Then his (now ex) wife realized she liked the things money can buy and the fallout from that forced him back into a job. (I'm not sure where he is now)
And boring tools make holes, not conversation.
That’s what people said about outsourcing too. The corporate meat grinder keeps rolling forward anyway.

Every single department and person believes the world will stop turning without them but that’s rarely how that plays out.
I mean, I think you’ll find that it wasn’t invented in 1980.
You’re failing to separate work and labor.
I like that take on boring tech, and a little like Oracle, I don't think X is boring. Wayland definitely isn't either, but I think it has potential.
Don't forget we made fake Internet points to tell people we don't like when someone says "I don't know" as well
Here's a question I've been having trouble finding a clear answer to -- do you have to let it talk to the internet at any point if all you want to do is play single-player?
First, it's HIPAA, not HIPPA.

Second, that's not a process. You're referring to a form. Process is everything from the doctor being willing, to understanding what they can and can't do, to the administration supporting it.

That process, as far as I can tell, does not exist in any medical system I've encountered.
This site is a cess pool of libertarian axioms and nit picks by people that believe they are the next Mark Zuckerberg. Anything remotely critical of capitalism is piled on. It's their culture.
Part of my work is rapid prototyping of new products and technology to test out new ideas. I have a small team of really great generalists. 2 people have left over the last year and I didn't replace them because the existing team + chatGPT can easily take up the slack. So that's 2 people that didn't get hired that would have done without chatGPT.
Show HN: Duory – A Notes App for Language Learners (iOS)
Hey HN, I built Duory as a companion app for Duolingo users like myself. After years of using Apple Notes, I realized it wasn’t designed for language learners—so last July, I decided to build one.

Duory is a notes app with inline phrase support. You can translate, add romanization/kana, and even attach audio clips to phrases for playback.

Current features:

* In-app Translation – Add and translate phrases within notes
* Romanization – Convert non-Latin text (supports Japanese: Hiragana/Romaji)
* Audio & Playlists – Attach recordings, create playback loops, and control audio from the Lock Screen
* Repetition Mode – Customize playback order, loop phrases, and add pauses for practice
* Vocabulary Browser – View words extracted from your notes
* Journaling Mode – Special note type with target-language keyboard suggestions
* Quick Capture – Save phrases from Duolingo, images, or documents
* Widget Support – Recently added phrases at a glance

It's still early, but I’m actively working on bringing it to iPad and Mac this month (fingers crossed!).

(Heads-up: It’s freemium with a trial for premium features.)

I’d love your feedback—what features would you like to see next?

Thank you!
Huh? can anybody else confirm this?
I remember reading an article based on a paper that tried to replicate small-scale hunter-gatherer "week". It turned out that "work" was less than 20h per week.

As in: about two days of necessary hunting-gathering was enough to sustain the group for the remaining five days. The rest of the week was for maintenance and leisure (so it's not like five days of staring at the sky; it just that work done during that time was _not necessary to immediate survival_).

That's anyways what I remember.
I think Trump is just playing the bad cop here. Both sides of the political spectrum see the writing on the wall regarding the projected growth of the interest on the debt.

They will both play their parts. The good cop side will act outraged, but they will ultimately go along with it.
Offline Together: How Christmas, NYE, and Lunar New Year Shape Online Behavior
Pizza maker will not be the first job automated away. Nor will janitor. Form fiddlers are cheap and can be blamed. AI fiddlers can be blamed too but are not cheap, yet.
What have you used it for, and what do you migrate to?
There's one good reason to believe that they wrote it down (mostly) unaltered and continued transmitting it (mostly) unaltered, which is that they continued copying it and reciting it well past the point where they even understood what many of the words meant any more, and they developed a lot of techniques to recite it and memorize it based purely on phonemes and developed ideas about how the sounds themselves carried religious power, divorced of any meaning. That's not to say that they didn't understand it at all, but surely if it were going to be altered, they would have updated the language to something more understandable at some point. Instead they wrote commentaries about the text, reinterpreting it over time.

It wasn't really until the 19th century that it was re-translated and the connection to other indo-european cultures and pantheons was rediscovered.
I am not a product sniper; I am a product ape with a shotgun
> This space feels ripe for a radical re-design.

Making electrical connectors that do their job safely and properly is a solved problem in the engineering world.

Doing so in a way that allows for maximum profit is not.
No? React reinvents itself constantly. I've worked on React websites and am currently working on a React Native app. React was first classes-based, now there's functions, hooks and it will soon get a compiler. Not to mention that they nudge you to use Next.js (and Expo for RN) now. Svelte did the same with the switch to these god awful Runes. Not to mention a lot of libraries that constantly get deprecated or don't work anymore with React 19.
For a lot of tasks like frontend development I’ve found that a tool like cursor can get you pretty far without much prior knowledge. IMO (and experience) many tasks that previously required to hiring a programmer or designer with knowledge of the latest frameworks can now be replaced by one motivated “prompt engineer” and some patience
Probably not. It only mentions multi-threaded encoding. Not decoding. But for streaming it shouldn't matter a lot since you only decode smaller chunks at a time. Latency should be good. At least that is my experience and 95% of my music listening is listening to FLAC files.
Amateur move.

Just before a one month backpacking trip to Sahara desert.
And human-refined training sets are also selected for the accuracy of their knowledge. Book authors mostly default to assuming they know.

There's just comparatively not much reference material for someone correctly self-assessing that they don't know.
I have never heard of that, can you elaborate ?
Because they don't inherently know anything to begin with.
In late 2013 Intel said 10nm was coming in 2015.
Zuckerberg said it.

https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/mark-zuckerberg-plans-to-repla...
Give it time. If they still haven't renamed after a year, that's something. But even then, maybe just some lag.
One would hope that hackers understand the distinction between name and referent.
I think my AMD Sempron 3100+ PC has an FDD header, and it can run x86_64.
Rubidium Can Be More Than a Lithium Cast-Off
I might be getting overly philosophical here but I'd say it's because they truly don't know anything at all (as opposed to knowing some things but not others). To be able to say "I don't know" you have to first "know" on a deeper level that there is a fundamental true or correct answer to a question and that you are disconnected from it.
Huh? Toys? You can run DeepSeek 70b on 36GB ram Macbook pro..
You can run Phi4, Qwen2.5, or llama3.3. They work great for coding tasks
Stronger: When you're just churning out the most likely set of next tokens, you don't know anything, in the sense that we normally think of "knowing". The only knowledge that it knows is encoded in the relationship between words.

But maybe it could still "not know" in those terms. If there is no next token that is more likely than some threshold, then it "doesn't know" even in "most likely next token" terms.
It's pretty standard when there is a territory in dispute.

For example, Islas Malvinas (for Argentina) / Falkland Islands (for the UK).
That is a hasty generalization. There are plenty of sub-reddits that are free of politics. I get more down voting on HN for being honest and not conforming to some group think than I ever do on reddit.
Can you quote the definition of work that the article uses and how it excludes women's labor? I don't think you actually read the whole article.

But in terms of steps, yes the problem of capitalist exploitation is solvable. Of course the 1% don't really want that solution which is why they try so hard to perpetuate the myths the author takes on.
what isn't threads?
So it's not really LLMs you want to see fail, it's the businesses people are building around them. I can sympathize with that for sure but to me it seems obvious that there's many potentially beneficial applications of the technology that don't involve taking jobs.
Thinking something fair is unfair is also denial.
It does its best to divert your attention from your following feed.

Ads. Sidebars. Political rants. Threadbois. Engagement bait.

No more APIs. Can’t easily export your data. Your likes. Your bookmarks.

It’s overridden with engagement bots that perform post, reply, and follow campaigns. AI posters and commenters.

And not the worst: but it’s likely nobody will read your posts, even if you have Premium, unless you game the algorithm and boost your standings. This requires you to act like an influencer.
That's because hacker news is often an echo chamber of venture capitalists (or VC wannabes) whose success depends on perpetuating these myths.
while the cabin may be able to be more spacious (like dirigibles and blimps) the flight my not be more comfortable because a turboprop's ceiling has you flying well within the troposphere where the majority of weather occurs. that may also put wear and tear on the airframe, incurring costs additional to the extended crew hours.
A low/no hallucination model would probably be the closet thing to a literal money printer in tech right now.
Ha yeah, IIRC macOS updates on Intel are slower (and not only because of the processor and/or disk, but because of the whole architecture).
How Many Fridays Are There in February?
whoosh! (that's the joke)
>The opposite of being bored is to be surprised

Eh, the opposite of being bored is being excited/engaged, and the opposite of being surprised is being predictable. I don't disagree that predictable is probably what we want for a lot of what we see around us (no one wants unpredictable traffic lights), I think we are lying to ourselves if for at least some subset of our work-life we want cool and shiny, so long as we are within the bounds of business objectives.
If so many people are so smart and still working on these products at Meta then either these product matter as per smart people or they are just ordinary people working for their paychecks.
The cables between 12V-2x6 and 12VHPWR are identical, it's the port that has different pin lengths (shorter sensing pin, longer conductor pins) to allow for better detection of poorly seated cables and better conductivity while loose.
Why would you transcode to FLAC when streaming? And transcode from what?
I've been using Org mode, more specifically org-babel. The only real downside of org mode is that it is Emacs exclusive. But it's very powerful and supports multiple languages. Lots more options than Quarto/Rmarkdown/Sweave which I have tried previously.
The creator of Halo’s soundtrack didn’t listen to music in fear of it influencing him.
Sharpness-Aware Minimization (2022)
Open-Source Ada: From Gateware to Application
We'll probably never have evidence either way ... Did Google and Stack Overflow "replace" programmers?

Yes, in the sense that I suspect that with the strict counterfactual -- taking them AWAY -- you would have to hire 21 people instead of 20, or 25 instead of 20, to do the same job.

So strictly speaking, you could fire a bunch of people with the new tools.

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But in the same period, the industry expanded rapidly, and programmer salaries INCREASED

So we didn't really notice or lament the change

I expect that pretty much the same thing will happen. (There will also be some thresholds crossed, producing qualitative changes. e.g. Programmer CEOs became much more common in the 2010's than in the 1990's.)

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I think you can argue that some portion of the industry "got dumber" with Google/Stack Overflow too. Higher level languages and tech enabled that.

Sometimes we never learn the underlying concepts, and spin our wheels on the surface

Bad JavaScript ate our CPUs, and made the fans spin. Previous generations would never write code like that, because they didn't have the tools to, and the hardware wouldn't tolerate it. (They also wrote a lot of memory safety bugs we're still cleaning up, e.g. in the Expat XML parser)

If I reflect deeply, I don't know a bunch of things that earlier generations did, though hopefully I know some new things :-P
I have had luck asking for a list of possible answers with an accompanying score of confidence, which comes close.
Chain of thought isn't exactly transparent either, you shouldn't fall into the pitfall of believing that the final sequence of tokens thinking about the task is the only processing the model actually performs during CoT.

There might me a lot of other hidden computations happening within the model's latents which may not immediately influence the predicted tokens but be relevant for the model's internal processing. And even disregarding that, the model is under no formal obligation to stick to the chain of thought it produced for its final decisions.
If the benefits of the newer tech outweigh its risks you use it. The challenge is weighing the evidence. Newer technologies will tout their advantages, but the disadvantages are not advertised as loudly, and are often uncovered after making the investment. "Boring" or "exciting" is the wrong framing.
Well first you have to set your alarm to be exactly 24 hours before check in.

Then if you are flying with another person there is no guarantee that you two can find a seat together.

Then you might be in the middle seat.
If there will be actual AGI (or super intelligence), none of these arguments hold. The machines will just be better than any programmer money can buy.

Of course at that point every knowledge worker is probably unemployable anyway.
Zuckerberg, as always, is well known for making excellent business decisions that lead to greater sector buy in. The Metaverse is going great.
Building PCs has gone pretty mainstream at this point. Cases where it is easy to melt the thing by plugging it in wrong should be pretty rare.
I've never cared for commas. I like cooking my family and my dog.
Does USB count as old & boring ? It sure beat the hell out of serial and parallel ports !