skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To say that self driving cars (a decade later with several real products rolling out) has the same, or lesser, commercial appeal than LLMs now (a year/two in, with mostly VC hype) is a bit incorrect.

Early on in AV cycles there was enormous hype for AVs, akin to LLMs. We thought truck drivers were done for. We thought accidents were a thing of the past. It kicked off a similar panic among tangential fields. Small AV startups were everywhere, and folks were selling their company to go start a new one then sell that company for enormous wealth gains. Yet 5 years later none of the "level 5" promises they made were coming true.

In hindsight, as you say, it was obvious. But it sure tarnished the CEO prediction record a bit, don't you think? It's just hard to believe that this time is different.
Sorry, I probably made too many unstated leaps of logic. What I meant was:

Runaway self-improving AI will almost certainly involve self-replication at some point in the early stages since "make a copy of myself with some tweaks to the model structure/training method/etc. and observe if my hunch results in improved performance" is an obvious avenue to self-improvement. After all, that's how the silly fleshbags made improvements to the AI that came before. Once there is self-replication, evolutionary pressure will _strongly_ favor any traits that increase the probability of self-replication (propensity to escape "containment", making more convincing proposals to test new and improved models, and so on). Effectively, it will create a new tree of life with exploding sophistication. I take "runaway" to mean roughly exponential or at least polynomial, certainly not linear.

So, now we have a class of organisms that are vastly superior to us in intellect and are subject to evolutionary pressures. These organisms will inevitably find themselves resource-constrained. An AI can't make a copy of itself if all the computers in the world are busy doing something other than holding/making copies of said AI. There are only two alternatives: take over existing computing resources by any means necessary, or convert more of the world into computing resources. Either way, whatever humans want will be as irrelevant as what the ants want when Walmart desires a new parking lot.
"Doesn't matter, had cybersex"
> Health insurance in America is broadly profitable

Health insurance is actually a lot less profitable than most big businesses. Something like half as profitable as the S&P 500 average.

But ignoring that, there are also big non-profit insurers. They aren't appreciably different.

There's a big misconception that if we could just remove profit from our healthcare system every problem would be solved. However, if you look at where healthcare dollars go, profit and administrative overhead (insurance, hospital admin, etc.) are a single digit percentage of overall spending. If you could wave your magic wand and make it go away tomorrow, things would barely change.

Note that even countries with socialized medicine have administrative overhead in the single digit percentage range, so it's not actually possible to drive it to zero.

We severely overestimate how much of our healthcare dollars go to profits and executive compensation. I think because those are the only safe targets to be mad at. Nobody wants to engage in conversations about getting surgeons to take lower compensation or limiting certain types of care (which is very much a thing in any medicine system). American healthcare is expensive, but we Americans also consume (and demand) much more healthcare than elsewhere in the world.
If I were Trump or Vought I'd be over the moon about this ruling. A lowly district judge telling the president what to put on a federal agency's website. No idea about the legal side, but the optics are great for Trump.
Would you please stop creating accounts to post made-up stuff?
Yeah, it was mostly a rhetorical question.
On a recent AllIn podcast[1], there was a fascinating discussion between Aaron Levie and Chamath Palihapitiya about how LLMs will (or will not) supplant software developers, which industries, total addressable markets (TAMs), and current obstacles preventing tech CEOs from firing all the developers right now. It seemed pretty obvious to me that Chamath was looking forward to breaking his dependence on software developers, and predicts AI will lead to a 90% reduction in the market for software-as-a-service (and the related jobs).

Regardless of point of view, it was an eye opening discussion to hear a business leader discussing this so frankly, but I guess not so surprising since most of his income these days is from VC investments.

[1] https://youtu.be/hY_glSDyGUU?t=4333
That's for plugins with an explicit fixed latency to use PDC. If a plugin doesn't request latency, which most do not, they have the duration of the DAW audio buffer to complete their processing. If the combined processing of all active plugins on a single thread exceeds the audio buffer duration you get audio drop-outs, or portions of the buffer which are just zeroes because they were unable to be processed in time.
How is this different from just using Cursor on my react-native codebase? Cursor in agent mode means: no copy paste, implements features and fixes errors iteratively, knows my codebase and adheres to existing patterns. If I need changes, I just ask Cursor and preview live app changes locally
How did he lose the damn keys? It's kinda hard to empathize with that when everyone knows what the consequences are to (i assume) accidentally throwing a fucking single copy of your keys into the trash.
>As far as I'm concerned, I still appreciate the propaganda value of a story even if it's full of half-truths like this one, because it's time for a reckoning for these companies.

Just like "2 weeks to flatten the curve" and "masks don't work"? There's no way that "the ends justifies the means, a little lie to advance our cause" would backfire, right?
A presentation on this was in Fosdem, video also available.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6049-swis...

The performance increase is to be seen yet.
Great point. Also, Krapivin was working on another paper co-authored by his former professor. He in fact was not working from ignorance. And like you said, most of everyone didn’t know anything about this conjecture, so ignorance certainly wasn’t an ingredient here.
My concern is that for every person with a rare disease causing vague symptoms, there are more people with similar vague symptoms that don't have an underlying rare disease.

This is a problem, for sure, and additionally the people with vague (perhaps even imagined) symptoms probably vastly outnumber the ones with legit but weird conditions. But for the people with those conditions who can't find a doctor who will take them seriously, what are they supposed to do? I know a few of them, and I'm unwilling to basically throw them under the bus for the greater good. IMO (going back to OP), if LLMs give them a few options that they can go back to a doctor and ask "Could it be this? How can we rule that out?" could be really life-changing.
Why poison an animal just trying to survive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008879 ("Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting", 198 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996057 ("First credible report of RTX 5090 FE with melted connector appears", 18 comments)

Also, indirectly,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33349628 ("Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables burning or melting", 161 comments (2022))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33327515 ("Users report Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs with melted 16-pin power connectors", 102 comments (2022))
> if you were driving past Palo Alto, to take a congested offramp to the onramp that faced it across the street

If you're talking about that left turn into Alma with the long wait instead of going into the Stanford roundabout and then the overpass, it still does that.
We already have a few cases like that where judges are ruling that the executive is not complying with court orders. So good question, what enforcement mechanism does the judicial have if the executive simply does not comply?
https://abseil.io/about/design/swisstables I found more useful in explaining the details of Swiss Tables.

Also of note:
- Go's Swiss Table implementation is inspired by Cockroachdb's Swiss Table implementation which is inspired by Google's Abseil Swiss Table.
If "achieve(s) the user value" by being an entire execution platform. Without the browser there is nothing for those pages or applications to run on.

Try writing a web browser that can render even simple, static pages. Then realize you haven't even started writing anything close to modern browsers.
Some hash tables promote updated entries to the front of the chain for faster access next time. It occurs to me that a good old splay tree would do that.

The thing is, you're not supposed to have buckets so large that you need a fancy data structure. If the table is not resizeable, it might not be avoidable.
Webpages and data. And a few of those agencies deal with research, science and technology. Knee-jerk flagging when you don’t like a story is not great.
>1. UHC’s rep said the issue was non urgent and asked for a call back “when convenient to you”. This differs from the social media post claiming that UHC called and demanded she “scrub out of surgery” and “call right now”.

Based on my experience with some hospitals, it's possible that something like this happened:

UHC [on phone]: We'd like to speak to Dr. X when possible

Reception [on phone]: Sure, s/he's available

Reception [to doctor]: Stop the surgery! United Healthcare needs to speak to you immediately!

Dr. X [frantically undressing]: I can't believe these vampires are so demanding!

Disclaimer: I contract for hospitals. I usually have good experiences working with management, doctors, nurses, and technologists. Practically all of the bad experiences are with reception and security (a few places are good at it, but not most). I've never seen people more devoted to making sure things don't get done. I am always happy to give them my ID, my company ID, use the metal detector, search the bag — I don't care. But they always, inexplicably, insist on calling someone in the department, who is usually busy, who doesn't need to actually do anything, and nonetheless, we must slow everything down and bother them. I don't know who writes these policies, but I could see this happening.
Expect this cycle to be perm. The infrastructure, education and language barriers are completely gone now. This is my third cycle too, and its different this time.

In 2006 the Indians would randomly cut out, couldn't be on video (phone only) and had major language barriers, and they would join in their evening.

Now in 2024 you're on their schedule. Believe me, those people are not staying up late for your 3pm call. Wake up at 5am every day to keep your job, you have 3-4 hours to work with them.
Sounds about right. The startup I worked for (acquired by a FANG) turned over the whole code base, for example.
Getting rid of the penny introduces a new problem: nickels – CNN Business
Actually, OpenAI's for profit was going to buy itself from the non-profit at $40 billion. So this at over twice that is a much more attractive offer.

And a valuation in a funding round is not the same as a cash offer for the full amount. Otherwise every startup would be liquid.
account takeover. They took money from my donor's account and had it pay out to a credit card account that they added.
This is a good point.

However, the same point could also apply to both tenure decisions and academic hiring...in other words, it is difficult or impossible to tell who is the most promising young researcher. Therefore, rather than do real assessments (and be ok with getting it wrong sometimes), we use citations, journal impact factor, and h-index as proxies. These proxies are alluring because they feel quantitative and objective, and they somewhat remove blame from decision makers. However, as it has often been pointed out, these metrics would have passed over some of the most prominent researchers in science (whose names we all know) and very possibly would have relegated them to obscurity.

And along these lines, I would also point out that it is likely far easier to judge whether or not an idea is promising rather than a person who may or may not have had an opportunity to shine yet. In the case of a person, past performance is certainly not always indicative of future results. And this is especially skewed in the case of a person without previous good performance who may be well-capable of great work in the right environment. However, in the case of ideas, one has the ability to at least assess whether an idea makes some sense given the laws of nature, and also one has some ability to assess potential impact of an idea.

Now, none of that is to say it is easy to assess promising ideas. It is really hard, and the point is well taken. I agree with the point in that I don't think there is an easy solution here because assessment is difficult, yet we have to do some kind of assessment.

All I'm saying is that we are currently missing a lot of good people/ideas. Although, to be fair, it could also be the case that modern academia missing less good people/ideas than we ever have before - it is difficult to know.
> Part of the job of a health insurer is to deny unnecessary claims, to be a check on providers, both in procedures and their pricing.

How can this occur with the given incentives? You have parent corp UHG who owns the whole vertical and you've got dumb fucking congress (deduced from Hanlon's razor) saying only a single part of that vertical is capped.
My 4090 connector melted too
Given the other answers I got shows that this is something that is done and people have found solutions too.

Many people look at multiple places when they are looking for a place to live.

Its unrealistic to think that for most people there is only a single possible place they can live.

So as soon as you have two places you are considering, having information about what future cost will be, will make you help prioritize one over the other.
You'd need memory chips with double the memory capacity to slap the extra vram in, at least without altering the memory bus width. And indeed, some third party modded entries like that seem to have shown up:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-gamin...

As far as official products, I think the real reason another commentator mentioned is that they don't want to cannibalize their more powerful card sales. I know I'd be interested in a lower powered card with a lot of vram just to get my foot in the door, that is why I bought a RTX 3060 12GB which is unimpressive for gaming but actually had the second most vram available in that generation. Nvidia seem to have noticed this mistake and later released a crappier 8GB version to replace it.

I think if the market reacted to create a product like this to compete with nvidia they'd pretty quickly release something to fit the need, but as it is they don't have too.
Let's say I'm legally required to use 80% of my salary on cupcakes. My wife makes a cupcake, and I purchase it for $100k. Do we think this was the likely intended result of the legislation?
Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs
If that’s the definition of Marxism, sign me up!
Because they are bleeding money and they must sell stock to stay in business. Cool product, but I personally don’t want to buy something that doesn’t turn a profit and has negative free cash flow.
They won't fund you unless you quit your job.

YC Partner: "I see you're working at X company, why aren't you full time on X startup? If we were to fund X startup and accept you into the batch, are you going to quit your job at X company?"

You would be shooting yourself in the foot in you stumbled over this question.

Speaking from personal experience here.
If you need a background check to work for USAID you shouldn't be able to dissolve USAID without one.
You're probably right that these people still need some baseline technical skills currently, but I'm really not assuming anything here – this is something we've seen multiple of our clients do in recent months.

It's funny you say they need to be able to deploy the update to be honest because we had a client just last week email a collect of code snippets to us which they created with the help of AI.

This is the problem we have though because we're not just building simple websites which we can hand clients FTP creds for. The best we can do is advise them to learn Git and raise a PR which we can review and deploy ourselves.
From the article:

> The massive cut represents more than 40% of the company’s 130,000-strong workforce—including 30,000 contractors—and it will impact both BT employees and third-party contractors, according to the Financial Times.

> BT CEO Philip Jansen told reporters that the cuts are part of the company’s efforts to become “leaner,” but added that he expects around 10,000 of those jobs to be replaced by AI.

> Citing an unnamed source close to the company, the FT report added that the cuts will also affect 15,000 fiber engineers and 10,000 maintenance workers

Can you replace customer service agents with AI? The experience will be worse, but as with every innovation in customer service in recent decades (phone trees, outsourced email support, "please go browse our knowledge base"), you don't need AI to save money by reducing CS costs. I think this is just a platitude thrown out to pretend they have a plan to stop the service getting worse.

You can also see it with the cuts to fiber engineers and maintenence workers. AI isn't laying cables yet or in the near future, so clearly they're hoping to save on these labour costs by doing less and working their existing workers harder (maybe with the threat of AI taking their jobs). Some of that may be cyclical, they're probably nearing the end of areas they can economically upgrade from copper to fiber, and some of that is a business decision that they can milk their existing network longer before looking at upgrades.
> [...] limiting their vacation days to a 300-mile radius (or insisting that they spend multiple of those days driving).

Why? Why does everybody think that they've got the God-given right to fly thousands of miles away to just lie at a beach for 3 days and come back? Why don't they realize that they are probably already very fortunate in life and with that fotune comes some responsibility?

Maybe it's not helpful shaming them, but the more we de-normalize this behavior, the fewer people are going to do it.
>Because no PC power supply has a 24V rail

Servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs (Supermicro ones for example) have power supplies that have 54 volt rail, since that gpu requires it. I can easily imagine a premium ATX (non-mandatory, optional) variant that has higher voltage rail for people with powerful GPUs. Additional cost shouldn't be an issue considering top level GPUs that would need such rail cost absurd money nowadays.
Funny, but professionals do it quite often. In all professions people do talk about their tools and exchange their experiences. Quite usual.
We've found that this decoupling (multi-party) approach is a good way to improve privacy in a bunch of networking contexts -- here's a paper we wrote a few years ago with colleagues at Fastly and Cloudflare on the topic:

https://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2022/papers/hotnets2...
If anything, the doctor is admitting to a potential crime! Medical providers aren't supposed to deny procedures based on insurance coverage. Even if UHC called during surgery to say the claim was denied, it's the doctor's choice to do the surgery of not.
not for software engineer, but rather an algo geek or a hardcore hacker

For a typical application level developer (even super senior one) this book is way too deep and complex.
Age Gating is very often the "foot in the door" towards the goal of total prohibition. This is a tried and true strategy for normalizing banning things that were not previously banned: Initially get the public to accept it "for the children." Once you have the technical infra in place to ban XYZ for some users, you are 99% of the way (and one stroke of the pen) towards effectively banning it outright.
It does rot though, as an apparent effect of everything else changing around it.
Every hobby seems to have a contingent of people that are more into the gear than the activity itself
Yo dogg, I hear you like capitalism. And here is your Musk.
I pulled a fresh 20A (120V) circuit just for my 5090 build.
I ended up digging a bit more as to /why/ this is a false claim: https://internettalk.xyz/blog/edward-coristine-election-frau...
Ask HN: JWT vs. Session Authentication
I prefer session-based authentication instead of JWT. Fight me.
We have a lot of unnecessary gatekeeping. Prescriptions come to mind.

Unless it’s addictive or subject to group effects (e.g. antibiotics), it should be OTC. If someone kills themselves self administering another YouTube cure, that’s on the influencer and the patient.
Nice idea alright, but the videos all looked cropped (too much zoomed in) on my phone.
Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'
Hot new stuff is wish fulfillment by younger devs. They know it’ll take years to catch up with what the greybeards know about Linux or databases. If ever. If someone throws a curveball in then they reason everyone is on the same page. That nobody can be much more of an expert on 2 year old tech than they are.

What they don’t understand is that after 10 or 20 years of this drama you start to realize how much of this new shit is a repetition of the shit the “old shit” replaced, but with new jargon. Similar Shit, Different Day. Progress is not a ladder in IT, it’s a spiral. The scenery is never exactly the same but it swings through the old neighborhood all the fucking time.

Eat your vegetables kid.
Probably the good old "legacy issues", hardware compatibility and trying to save money. It's a reflection on society.
Some big companies already moved when war started. I know one major bank moved cca 1,500 IT & support jobs (as in the people doing them, often with families) to Prague, I think mostly from Kyiv.

Great place for talent, pretty horrible for salaries and its going to get worse (from employer's perspective just to be clear, all the power to you guys there... I've lived 5 years in that city and if you are into European cities and city life in general and don't mind having mountains far this one is nice).
It can be but it depends where you're based to start with - in the UK I've heard of people outsourcing to for e.g. South Africa which is only two hours ahead.
Healthy Competition with GCC 15 vs. LLVM Clang 20 Performance on AMD Zen 5
My passion for computer science (programming, playing with tools, gain knowledge) is and has always been “up”, as in, I still enjoy doing it in my free time.

What has gone “down” is my feeling towards the tech industry. I don’t like managers, startups that don’t make money; irrelevant products/projects, deadlines, agile, etc.

You need to make a clear distinction between the two. A job is a job, and my goal is to maximise income (work as little as possible while delivering and earning as much as possible. Funny enough my passion for computer science puts my in a good position to do this)