skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the primary use case for *090 series gaming anymore? 5070 which is probably what most popular gaming card is 250W. If I recall correctly it can push 4k @ 60fps for most games.

But yes, I do agree that TDPs for GPUs are getting ridiculous.
Knowing the general madness of US healthcare, I want to stress this isn't rhetorical.

So why are people going with UHC?

EDIT I want to reply to 2 replies with the same comment, so I'll put it here - if the companies are paying & buying known-dodgy insurance, then why aren't they going with a cheap option?
> Passive safety is the art of engineering cars so that when they do crash, the occupants are unharmed.

Passive safety usually is defined as reducing the risk of injury or death to vehicle occupants in an accident AND also protecting other road users. You left off the second part.
I Built a Typing Speed Website
Zig is a completely different language than Rust. Memory safety is just one aspect. I personally find Rust to be very difficult to read and can never manage to be productive in it.
I know this is a bit offtopic but a lot of people have worse experience with using (otherwise excellent) PInvoke in .NET than strictly necessary.

> C# does not allow directly using a C header file

https://github.com/dotnet/ClangSharp?tab=readme-ov-file#gene...

there are bespoke libraries which build on top of it like CsWin32 where you specify the methods/modules to import and get nice and, often, memory-safe types and members in C#.

I think it should be possible to enhance this even further like having '// pinvkgen: #include <some_dependency.h>' at the top of any particular C# file and getting what you need in a C-like way. There are some problems with this inline approach but it could work.

The main point is there are quite a few community packages which simplify authoring bindings (there are more, like https://github.com/Cysharp/csbindgen/ for Rust or https://github.com/royalapplications/beyondnet for Swift). It really shouldn't be a necessity to write bindings by hand for large dependencies as it's both error prone and a solved problem.
I remember seeing this on a bunch of movies from the 90s & before.
1.7k€ and 300w for a playground. Man this world is getting crazy and I’m getting f-kin old by not understanding it.
You really want us to focus on more important impediments (whatever that means)? Just be glad we only want commas and add them already. If that trivial why even argue.
Nobody thought that they could push 50A at 12V through half the connector. It's management wanting to push industrial design as opposed to safety. They made a new connector borrowing from an already existing design, pushed up the on paper amperage by 3A, never changed the contact resistance, and made the parent connector push current near it's limit (10.5A max vs 8.3A). And oh, the insertion force is so, so much higher than ever before. Previous PCIe connectors push about 4A through a connector designed for about 13A.

Worth also mentioning that the same time the 12VHPWR connector was being market tested was during Ampere, the same generation where Nvidia doubled down on the industrial design of their 1st party cards.

Also there's zero devices out there that actually deliver or take 240W over USB-C. Texas Instruments literally only released the datasheets for a pivotal supporting IC within the last 6 months.
"A judge is dictating the contents of an agency site, at the behest of a private party."

No, a judge is undoing an executive order from a federal agency that did not pass judicial scrutinty for legalitybased on 200+ years of judicial framework and precidence. Nothing to do with information, politics, etc.

this is exactly what the framework of the constitution allows for and happens dozens of times a day every day in every locale.

Additionally, you performed mental gymnastics to use the the terms "Agency Site" in place of the term "Agency Operating under the Executive Privilege of the Federal Government" and "private party" in place of the "The United States".

This is IMO very cut and dry, will get very little media coverage, and I struggle to think how one falls on "This looks good for person X".
What’s amazing to me is that FSD to this day cannot recognize active school zones. Even my 6 year old Audi onboard cameras can do that. If you put FSD on and you go through a school zones, the Tesla will happily zip at full speed completely ignoring the school zone.
I'm very sorry to hear that, I've been through any number of ER visits with my child. I have not personally had any issues with hospital billing departments, so perhaps I have been lucky. It is only the insurance I've had problems from.
Well they do cooperate with each other. They are partners, working together to provide the service, and sharing the cost. But you have to trust that if they are trying to attack you, they do it separately...?

Ridiculous, as you point out this doesn't increase my trust at all.
Agree.

You have pesky PHI in the middle. Funny how of all things, PHI hasn't done a thing to prevent data leaks in healthcare, but it has done fairly well in hindering all async communications with payors.
I guess there's 3 players in the games that often get invoked in discussions about AI cogsec:

- the corporation running the AI

- the user

- the AI, sometimes - depending on the particular conversation's ascription of agency to the AI

It seems the downstream harms are of 2 kinds:

- social engineering to give up otherwise secured systems

- 'people engineering' - the kind of thing people complain about when it comes to recommender systems. "Mind control", basically, y'know. [0]

Things like r/LocalLlama and the general "tinkerer" environment of open source AI makes me wonder if it wouldn't be rather trivial in some sense for users to build the same capabilities but for personal protection from malign influences. Like a kind of user-controlled "debrief AI". But then, of course, you might get a superintelligence that can pretend to be your friend but is actually more like Iago from Othello.

But is that really a likelihood in a situation where the user can make their own RLHF dataset and fit it to the desired behavior? Generally I'd expect the user to get the behavior they were looking for. Plus, like immune system memory, people could continually train new examples of sleights into it. I guess maybe there could be a hint of the "Waluigi problem", perhaps.

[0] I think it does the people who are distressed about it a disservice to saturate all their news channels with reports about how they are utterly incapable of outwitting an algorithmic super intelligence. But that's a different discussion altogether
Open Source Software and Corporate Influence
This sounds like the answer. Retro-looking CGI will be right at home on a canvas like that.
Ideas I use to think about AI – Part 1: Philosophy
Oh, hi, creator of the SmartKnob (mentioned in the article) here - I'm continually blown away by how much UX discussion it has generated over the years!

One of the things I regret a bit about the prototype and demo I originally shared is that I used a press action and the screen as a modal/menu interface. The screen makes for a snazzy demo video, and works great for interfaces where you have the user's full attention (like a smart home control panel) but I think there's a lot more potential for just the haptics, paired with other dedicated buttons to switch to specific (i.e. not a menu of) modes, like this later demo I built using the haptic feedback for a video timeline jog tool: https://youtu.be/J9192DfZplk
I'm not sure lowering the barrier to contribute Linux kernel code is a great argument for C. It sounds like contributing code that doesn't segfault often still requires a PhD.
Other cars don’t claim to offer FSD. The limitations are more explicit, therefore it’s safer for people around it.
I understand that China and Russia, for instance, are blocking most or all QUIC traffic? Do you know otherwise? Is attempting to bypass state level blocking one of your goals?
This is wrong. AV1 encoding is supported since Nvidia 40 series.
Saussure didn't use"arbitrary" in the sense "with absolutely unrestricted selection of signifiant/signifié association regardless of the context."

I'm not sure what links you try to show and what you try to argue here though.
HP Z440, it's in the article.
Disrupting efforts to contain and eradicate a highly infectious disease with drug-resistant variants that kills over a million people each year [1], less than five years after a different global pandemic that killed half a million Americans a year [2], is so obviously stupid and evil that I simply have no words.

[1] Infobox at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis

[2] "Total Coronavirus Deaths in the United States" chart at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
This is why I won't build on anybody else's platform ever again. From now on I'm building on boring tech I can deploy on any machine.
The problem is that it's not just them putting in the risk: it's everyone else around them.
Waymo has been operating near-flawlessly for years now in some busy, complicated cities. I don't see self-driving tech as the problem. It's been proven to work. I see irresponsible companies as the problem.
> Sometimes I care only about my traffic being encrypted, and resent having to jump through hoops to ignore the name mismatch.

Why do you care about encryption without authentication? Without TOFU, PKI or a preshared key what is the value?

> Sometimes I care only about assurances that the name is correct, and don't care about having the traffic encrypted.

So signing?
Fault Injection – Looking for a Unicorn
(I deleted what I wrote in that link. Here it is.) The leftmost editor is used to write the section (or chapter), & the rest are used to take notes for that section, or to keep old versions of that section as reference, or to work out different ways of writing a subsection, etc. (& this seems hubristic, but I think this app might actually be a watershed moment in UI & UX & software development history. There's nothing out there that lets you juggle contexts nearly as seamlessly. Microsoft Word & Obsidian have alot of lines of code & hours behind them, but in terms of how much they empower me to write & think, they're far inferior to this app. & if you look at the html, you'll see it's only 750 lines of code, of which only 670 lines are actually used. So it's also extremely maintainable & forkable.)
Is it truly better if they were human though?
I think the confusion may be whether you're talking about the queries or the engine. I think this change to the engine/parser would be backwards compatible because old queries will still work on the new engine. A change to the queries in a codebase to include trailing commas would not be backwards compatible because it won't work on older parsers. It seems clear to me that the change discussed here is the engine, hence it should properly be characterized as "backwards compatible".
One of my first bosses was a big Perl guy. I checked on what he was doing 15 years later and he was one of 3 people at Windstream handling backbone packet management rules.

You just don’t run into many people comfortable with that technology anymore. It’s one of the big reasons I go out of my way to recruit talks on “old” languages to be included at the Carolina Code Conference every year.
Drive from Memphis to Nashville in my “long range” Telsa 3 that has almost an amazing 160 mile range at 70 Mph. FSD would periodically do something crazy and then ask me why I disengaged, adding further excitement to my drive.

I am now absolutely convinced that we will have full self-driving from Tesla when we have a beautiful wall all the way from the east to the west coast along both the Mexican and Canadian borders. Both will be beautiful.
Eeesh. Yeah, I was afraid it might still be that bad after 10 years of between "this year" and "within three years".

At the time, 2016, I trusted their promotional video showing it driving hands-free; I'm not going to make the mistake of taking them at their word again after it was revealed to have not been as it appeared: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-faked-video-in-2016-pr...

> I am just left wondering what FSD is for

The vision and promise, or the actually demonstrated use case?

The demonstrated use case is to charge people more money for the same product.

The vision? That is exactly what Musk keeps saying: in principle, a self-driving car never gets tired or drunk, so it can be safer than the mean human even if it only operates at the level of the median human. And it wouldn't need to be limited to median human level, as the whole fleet could learn from every member, so gain experience a million times faster than any human.

But at this point, I'm sufficiently skeptical of all of this, that I think they (and everyone else) should be banned from direct observation of the entire fleet's cameras — it's a huge surveillance network operating on every public road and several private ones.
I would more specifically label it as capitalism and its general brutality is hitting it
It's for the share price. Just like it was for uber.
The end of vibes-based LLM testing
There are two ways you can get better at predicting the future. One is the obvious one of being really good at discerning signals.

The other way is to alter the future to match your predictions.

This is something to think about when you combine something like this kind of training with agentic workflows.
This violates the GPL.
On a 3090 (24gb vram), same prompt & quant, I can report more than double the tokens per second, and significantly faster prompt eval.

total_duration: 10530451000
load_duration: 54350253
prompt_eval_count: 36
prompt_eval_duration: 29000000
prompt_token/s: 1241.38
eval_count: 460
eval_duration: 10445000000
response_token/s: 44.04

Fast prompt eval is important when feeding larger contexts into these models, which is required for almost anything useful. GPUs have other advantages for traditional ML, whisper models, vision, and image generation. There's a lot of flexibility that doesn't really get discussed when folks trot out the 'just buy a mac' line.

Anecdotally I can share my revealed preference. I have both an M3 (36gb) as well as a GPU machine, and I went through the trouble of putting my GPU box online because it was so much faster than the mac. And doubling up the GPUs allows me to run models like the deepseek-tuned llama 3.3, with which I have completely replaced my use of chatgpt 4o.
so particle researchers doing particle research, "CERN stuff".

vinyardmike's short spotlight on gluons (top level answer) was what I was looking for.
These companies - every company - know how to maximize profit. They know how many claims they can deny, they know what kind of claims they can deny, they know who is or isn't likely to fight back.

Hint - the people with the fewest resource are the least able to fight back.

UHC shouldn't have margins. Healthcare and profit are a deadly combination.
This. Articles like this are examples of motivated reasoning and seem to be coming from a place of insecurity by programmers who feel their careers threatened.
This is US only remote? (I’m from the EU; asking as the form seems to be for US-based applicants.)
If one developed such an oracle, you would surely not share it.
> I don’t believe those who went into this past election taking pride in the unemployment numbers understood that the near-record low unemployment figures — the figure was a mere 4.2 percent in November — counted homeless people doing occasional work as “employed.” But the implications are powerful. If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent. In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today — hardly something to celebrate.

But U6 unemployment is also near a 20-year low[0], as is the poverty rate[1].

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPAAUS00000A156NCEN
They can't build the mothership, that means they only have one product. The problem I have is that they build these editors to their benefit, not mine. I had the same problem despite liking the tools initially. Between nvchad and vscode, I have all my bases covered for any situation/language.
Abdicate, not advocate.

And just because it's the driver's responsibility doesn't mean it's not also Tesla's.
Sounds more like the author just had bad experiences with non fiction? There are plenty of non fiction books which are good and where the book doesn’t just feel like filler. Some that come to mind quickly :

- bad blood (about theranos)

- SPQR

- King Leopold’s Ghost

- Lost in Math

- masters of doom
And if he doesn't want it in the kernel?
Perhaps US Universities should tap into billion dollar endowments or slash the administrative headcount instead of raising tuition yet again.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/nih-trump...
> It's so surprising to hear these issues with FSD

Really?:

https://youtu.be/OIjp_NyAfMw?t=269

https://youtu.be/tax1THe_VO0?t=412

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pU1mpmOa6RM

https://youtu.be/pHLPu6_tIag?t=128

https://youtu.be/-NwhtNjc4N8?t=30

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OS_SiMZkc00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l8ld8ca_S0M

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lb0LCQXlMLw
> While we're sharing anecdotes, I have FSD (13 now) on my model Y and love it.

At what ratio of good anecdotes to bad anecdotes should we trust it? For me, the ratio has to be astonishingly high, such that if there are a few people in the discussion saying it did something suspect (much less dangerous), they're always going to be the ones I listen to. Not that I'm doubting your experience; it's just not enough to outweigh the other.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/937/
Over a range of the entire United States? Yes, absolutely. The grazing land is now a fraction of what it was pre-colonialization, and much more highly concentrated. Instead of giant herds moving from one pasture to another, they're kept in conparitively tiny cattle reservations where they overgraze leading, to these barren dustbowls.

The cycles of graze, move, graze, move, with seasons where plantlife had time to recuperate, are long gone. It's graze, graze, graze, until there's nothing left and the herd die out or are moved elsewhere to do the same.

The problem with this issue is it's complex in a bell curve nature. With humans in the mix, we take it to an extreme - it's either cattle land or its not, and there's no room for a compromise because cattle can't graze on cropland, or through urban/industrial areas, so they get put on lots too small for them and cause immeasurable ecological damage in the process.
Why is anything? I see no point in the feature.

One is always free to not read any comments that one does not wish to see...

Some people just enjoy the disruption of convesation.

Apropos:

Just give the man the fish (i.e. just answer the question) [4 camtarn]

https://blog.plover.com/misc/just-answer-the-question-2.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002679
The risk is mostly on the people outside without any say on the matter.
E-wallpaper you can lay out modularly sounds like an amazing use case. Tiling edges would need patterned conducting/insulation adhesives but with some clever protocol negotiation each wallpaper tile can self-identify and display the pixels assigned to it. With some printed antennas it can be powered via RF for changing the image and then left unpowered.
1950 according to wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation
AI Space Escape: Playing Games While Evaluting LLM Reasonsing
We hope to redefine ai evaluation via our gamified AI evaluation platform: game arena!
He needs to say so before wasting everyone's time
boiling corn in limestone pots makes it taste better
I do not share your pessimism. And you do not seem to understand the nuances of a representative democracy as it pertains to the Executive branch.

Please report back when the transition from the 11th Archivist to the 12th Archivist causes any data or paper loss.

https://www.archives.gov/about/history/archivists

I trust these folks far more than the "not affiliated with archive.org" Archive Team and their wget scripts that somehow jam data via backdoor into the web.archive.org database.

https://www.archives.gov/about/organization/senior-staff

If someone pulls nonsense at archives.gov, whistles will be blown and the press will respond. When nonsense goes on at archive.org, I see hagiographies, third party apologists, and people who lack the qualifications to get a job filing paper in a University library mismanaging simple archival projects.
Tied to AI listening agents drawing as you speak.
I own 5 of them and love them!
To play (BDFL's) advocate - Linux is an -enornous- project. It's not physically possible for any effort to be unilaterally directed. Linus does not personally maintain the whole thing, it's just not possible. So he has maintainers under him who are in charge of the subsystems - the implication being that he trusts their judgment and technical expertise. There's no other way the system could work, really.

Linus's position, as far as I've heard and ascertained, is that introducing any language into the kernel is going to require case-by-case and subsystem-by-subsystem analyses. He's not going to reject the language wholesale, but at the same time it's impossible for him to wholesale mandate its adoption. "Kicking maintainers in the ass" sounds great but nothing is ever that simple.
Or panels with slight defects.
I don't know enough to agree or disagree with the person you're replying to. But I assume the logic would be that if Linus doesn't approve then he should have shut the discussion down long ago or at least do it now without half measures
There fundamentally is going to be conflict in any system of checks and balances. Neither the SCOTUS nor POTUS get to unilaterally decide the limits.

Trump hasn't been following convention, but that doesn't mean he's wrong. We also can't just assume he's right. Having the 3 branches hash out a balance is perfectly reasonable and confirms the system is working as intended.
Arguably, the USA did even better with the feds funding research. I don't know of any program that had a higher ROI than DARPA's VLSI Project.
I doubt that AI can match the human mind
RDNS Map in Your Hands (FOSDEM 2025) [video]
Source:
https://youtu.be/nNM9nzeifuI
Yes I was gonna mention that Qwen model from the deepseek folks as maybe an exception
That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.
Electrical safety -> not destroying your GPU does seem like something sellable.

It could probably be spinned into some performance pitch if you really want to.
You’re talking about x86 assembly, right?
Because in the madness of our economy we've decided that people need to pay for their healthcare either out of pocket or through their employer. They have limited choices and often need to take the cheapest because its all they can afford.

Fortunately for health insurance companies, people who need to take the cheapest healthcare could rarely fight back.
This is why, for example, airline systems at airports (not the self-checkin terminals but what the agent is running behind the desk at checkin), and Costco in-store product lookup software -- still runs on AS/400 or some equally ancient non-GUI platform
I like that you've built a strawman for anyone who might disagree with you. "Oh there aren't any positive reviews they're just fanboys." You may as well write "Anyone who disagrees with me is wrong."
>There are options for this, that needn't cost.

> In a company with controlled workstations, have your own CA and push the trust of that through GP or in your standard OS build

I'd be surprised if this did not cost when done properly. Securing a (even internal) CA is a whole thing that is not trivial.
I haven’t experienced it, yet, but for my company it might be one of two ways it becomes profitable. The other way is to lay everyone off AND offshore work only when the lone remainer needs help.