skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3nm was over a half billion. So if costs are going up at the same rate, over a billion dollars.

https://semianalysis.com/2022/07/24/the-dark-side-of-the-sem...
>Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adp4256

.................

>This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical pollination

https://news.mit.edu/2025/fast-agile-robotic-insect-could-so...
> how is it that we can have a whole population of systems (eg scientists) eventually coming to a consensus about some phenomenon (eg the value of some physical quantity?) It seems necessary to have a unified global system coordinating the whole thing.

Not necessarily. It's not a "global system coordination" thing, it is coming to a consensus that "we will use this reference frame as our starting point", which might look like a global system coordinating. I guess you can say that 'science' initiallizes a reference frame in which we can all participate, compare answers, reproduce results, etc.
For privacy reasons I would strongly suggest only using an external HDMI device for streaming (and turning off your TV's internet connection), and at that point you can use anything you want and aren't limited to the apps on your TV.
Codekit still has the best release notes, https://codekitapp.com/updates/
AI fabricates and hallucinates (or whatever term you want to use) by design - it doesn't provide a neutral record the way audio recordings might.

I think a better question might be what, specifically, does AI bring to the table that justifies its inherent inaccuracy? Why not just use audio recordings, etc?
oh thank you, great feedback! Tbh I haven't checked that much on mobile, left all the design to AI :) but that's correct, on mobile it takes too much space. Adding Camden Art Center now.
Yes, before third-wave feminism every man in every relationship got along perfectly with all their wives’ friends and relatives. Those dastardly feminists!

You know, there’s a lot to be said about modern gender roles that isn’t total crap, but I imagine people read comments like this and start thinking the opposite
What you're picking on is the exact kind of laymen with a civilizational inferiority complex I am advocating to gatekeep this subject from.

On the Indian side we have fair share of people who blabber that, (Indra forbid), all IE languages took birth from Sanskrit, or on the other side of political spectrum, that Buddhism predates the Veda.
Tech has been a boom field for so long, is the demographic of this website really who this is for? I feel like this is not the place where a critique of capitalism and the modern wage system is going to go over well
I think people are missing that this is humor. Its approach to the truth is not direct. It lays out a humorously extreme position and challenges us to articulate where, presumably somewhere in between the Vulcan rationalism it's so easy to project on the internet and the abject surrender the piece portrays, the truth really lies.

It challenges us to figure out, to what extent can we deny these things about ourselves? Surely the entirety is an exaggeration, so which parts are untrue, and to what extent? If you don't approach it in that spirit, you waste your time reading it. And no, you don't have to be a genius about marriage to write something like this, but you would have to be a genius at marriage to read it and not feel in any way implicated.
I wasn’t saying advertising served no purpose and had no benefit. I just asked a question to point out the absurdity of the comparison. Perhaps ads are like bacteria, both good, bad and indifferent. But specifically calling out the fact that you can’t live without good bacteria makes the comparison ridiculous.
Interesting and novel take. Do you think making that would enable you to also make a better distributed note taking system, or do you think you need the distributed note taking system first?

Perhaps we need to make a diagram to decide.
It’s not about the ability to write code, it’s about the ability to communicate ideas back and forth. Even just a few time zones is a real issue let alone any linguistic or cultural issues.
> my definition of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) is the ability to come up with the tasks in the first place).

It’s remarkable how the business and strategy types keep adding new definitions of these things. “Coming up with new tasks” isn’t superintelligence, that’s just general intelligence. Ben Thompson even calls out that OpenAi annoyingly has like a dozen AGI definitions directly after. Yet he still adds to the pile and the confusion.

The G means “as intelligent as a typical human”. The S means “significantly more intelligent than a typical human”.

Any system which doesn’t realize you can’t wash your hands if you are missing both arms is not earning that G.
VPN to Mexico, or just set your device location outside of the U.S.
No, but only because it was officially created by act of Congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act
Exactly! While I have llama running locally on RTX and it’s fun to tinker with, I can’t use it for my workflows and don’t want to invest 20k+ to run a decent model locally

> How are HN users handling this?
I’m working on a startup for end-to-end confidential AI using secure enclaves in the cloud (think of it like extending a local+private setup to the cloud with verifiable security guarantees). Live demo with DeepSeek 70B: chat.tinfoil.sh
Dataviz: Wildfires and Climate Change
- Youtube pre-installed on smart TVs everywhere

- Bigger screens are more enjoyable

- Much lesser strain on hands compared to holding a phone means longer periods of watching

- More friction in switching apps on a TV compared to a phone and unless you are casting, much smaller selection of apps

- Fewer distractions like notifications on a phone

- Sofas are comfy; also, autoplay can keep going even if you fall asleep thus skewing the numbers
You pay a premium to get the theoretical local privacy and reliability of hosting your own models.

But to get commercially competitive models you need 5 figures of hardware, and then need to actually run it securely and reliably. Pay as you go with multiple vendors as fallback is a better option right now if you don't need harder privacy.
Will this translate to low latency FLAC streaming?
The death of Dennard scaling means that power efficiency is king, because a more power efficient chip is also a chip that can keep more of its area powered up over time for any given amount of cooling - which is ultimately what matters for performance. This effect becomes even more relevant as node sizes decrease and density increases.
Well yeah, there are a lot of counteies helping Ukraine without demanding a quid pro quo. There are a lot of cointeies that har participated in Americas wars without demanding quid pro quo.
>Brian Krebs learned Russian so he could understand where it was coming from and why.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/brian-krebs-c...

>Mr. Krebs — a former reporter at The Washington Post who taught himself to read Russian while jogging on his treadmill

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/technology/reporting-from...

>Krebs, who tells in first person his inquiries about this rivalry, even learned Russian and traveled to the Russian Federation to interview them in person and, along the way, gives us a portrait of how the mafias that use the Internet for their purposes act and organize themselves.

https://www.securityartwork.es/2022/02/08/spam-nation-a-port...
It’s marketing, but everyone is doing it. So you have got to live with it.

It’s exaggerated, but it still represents some degree of progress.
IMO, backpacks are better at conforming to size limits.

They're typically advertised by volume, so 30L, 40L, etc., so you can get one the size you want. I think carry on size is typically advertised as 35-40L. They've got all the same stuff as roller luggage - straps, dividers, etc., depending on what you want. Although, IMO, the best setup is to just get a bag with the volume you want and use packing cubes.

The great advantage of backpacks is that they're soft. Every carrier has their own "box" that your item is supposed to fit into. As long as you don't have too much stuff, you can just squeeze your bag into the box. But with a hard sided roller, it either fits or it doesn't.
thanks a lot for noticing it! one of the cons of web scraping, I should've checked.
I know you're probably looking for English language websites, but if you just want the satisfaction of knowing that forums are still "a thing":

This is a Dutch forum for Dairy Farmers. It's at the root of a lot of innovations:
https://www.prikkebord.nl

This is a Dutch forum for tractor enthusiasts. The people there are very helpful and you can basically restore a tractor as a newbie with their help:
https://www.tractorfan.nl

Even though these seem like very specific niches, both websites have tens of thousands of daily visitors.
> If C++ really wants to help "game-engines" or make actual strides, then it should add basic GUI support to the language itself. That'd kill off 90% of the other framework/libraries out there.

Find me a single language that has an included GUI that anyone uses. I'll wait.

Even VB.NET, for which building GUIs was its entire reason to exist at all, has multiple GUIs officially, they couldn't even stick to one.

This is absolutely a terrible idea for a language, any language, to engage with at a language / standard library level.
As someone who has always enjoyed the likes of Age of Empires / Age of Mythology, is there a reason to play Civilization style games?
Certainly there are competent engineers in every country, but I think what they are referencing is that back in the 90s and 2000s there were a lot of fears from US engineers that they would be replaced by less expensive engineers in other countries, which was attempted by some companies. Ultimately a number of these efforts failed to work well for the company, due to communication barriers and time zone differences.
No amount of gentrification would be able to hide the stain of ethnic cleansing.
Define the exact "they" you're talking about and you'll start to see the problem.
I've found that LLVM is slightly worse than GCC on reproducibility once you get past the basic issues in libm. For example, LLVM will incorrectly round sqrt on ppc64el in some unusual circumstances:

https://github.com/J-Montgomery/rfloat/blob/8a58367db32807c8...
This is based on # of conversations started. That's it. It's just bad data to compare AI use across professions that spend vastly different amounts of time sitting at a computer not in any meetings.
For 32-bit float single-operand ops it's simple enough to rely on a brute-force check. For 64-bit floats, though, while the goal of "sin(x) in library A really should match sin(x) in library B" is nice, it essentially ends up as "sin(x) in library A really should match... ...well, there's no option other than library A if I want sin(x) to not take multiple microseconds of bigint logic".

Though, a potentially-useful note is that for two-argument functions is that a correctly-rounded implementation means that it's possible to specialize certain constant operands to a much better implementations while preserving the same result (log(2,x), log(10,x), pow(x, 0.5), pow(x, 2), pow(x, 3), etc; floor(log(int,x)) being potentially especially useful if an int log isn't available).
Most of these new models release several variants, typically in the 8b, 30b, and 70b range for personal use. YMMV with each, but you usually use the models that fit your hardware, and the models keep getting better even in the same parameter range.

To your point about cloud models, these are really quite cheap these days, especially for inference. If you're just doing conversation or tool use, you're unlikely to spend more than the cost of a local server, and the price per token is a race to the bottom.

If you're doing training or processing a ton of documents for RAG setups, you can run these in batches locally overnight and let them take as long as they need, only paying for power. Then you can use cloud services on the resulting model or RAG for quick and cheap inference.
The authors speak about denial. Thinking that something unfair is fair is denial, when it helps you cope with your reality.
Finding a solution to being homeless doesn't make your life fair.
It can mean you're being exploited though.
Show HN: Quiz Me GPT: AI generated trivia questions for any topic you choose
I used to work for a small SaaS that _really_ cared about quality/speed/usability. Unfortunately, it doesn't really sell well. People care about features and if you're missing a feature compared to a competitor people won't pick you. Even if the competitors feature is absolute garbage and probably a net-negative because people will try to use something broken, people will still pick it.

We probably got a feature complete/working within less than a week then spent months as the CEO (who was a product guy) was nitpicking. We'd routinely throw away features if we felt they didn't fit well.

In the end it didn't really matter. I liked the tool and was proud of it, but it in terms of making money, it didn't do well.
> I think next gen we will begin seeing 24V power supplies to deal with this.

May as well go the whole hog & jump to 48V.

(50V is as high as you can go whilst still being inside the “low voltage” electrical safety regime in most countries IIRC.)
Yeah, don't give negative feedback at all. If you don't like a feature of the product or the supply chain, fuck yOu (in a Randy M. kind of way)
thank you! not now, but I will later. Maybe I can focus only on London and add other verticals, like concerts etc.
It was political theater when the Obama administration renamed Mount McKinley to Denali, but obviously they felt that it served a purpose.
IIUC, the very first option (designated initialisers with custom structs per function) is how Zig does it, and it seems to work well enough there. It's verbose, so I wouldn't use it for everything, but it doesn't seem all that unreasonable.
To your point, I replaced MongoDB with postgresql and a naive wrapper to still use JSON docs the same, and to my surprise my services got way faster and more stable. I write about it here:

https://blog.stuartspence.ca/2023-05-goodbye-mongo.html
I don't know if people have a natural inclination towards authority or they've been primed against it but there's a notable trend online to demonize consumer advocacy of this kind.
Of course not. I don't think that has anything to do with it, though.
This is literally every billionaire.
didn't their do-nothing CEO, Tavares, just split?
good grief it's a funny article, man. not everything is so serious.
Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk PSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ_0AwM93j4
Unfortunately it’s written in Rust, so it can only be used with Rust projects.
I never got the impression that Civ 6 ever caught on. At least in my circles, people still play and talk about Civ 5, but never 6.
Last week an issue came up where we have to upgrade from Postgres 12 to 16 because of EOL concerns. I said to another engineer, “Postgres is pretty boring so I bet it’ll be quite easy/low risk to do the upgrade.”

We got into a meta discussion about how we still have to approach it methodically, but the nice thing about boring, mature software is having a good gut feel that it probably won’t dip into the risk budget much at all.
Not the exact same comparison but I have an M1 mac with 16gb ram and can get about 10 t/s with a 3B model. The same model on my 3060ti gets more than 100 t/s.

Needless to say, ram isn't everything.
Riscv doesn't need smaller nm. It just needs someone to actually design and release a good core design. 14nm (or 4 or anything in between) is perfectly suffient to make a Riscv chip 10x faster than any Riscv that currently exist.
Because when you're just churning out the most likely set of next tokens, it's hard to understand "I don't know"
If it hates it that much it shouldn't have made CosmosDB.
The Breguet range equation is the first stop for roughly determining range. The three knobs are aerodynamic efficiency, structural efficiency, and fuel consumption.

Broadly speaking, fuel consumption has an outsized influence on range as the other two terms are usually fixed at a maximum value by state of the art.
I was meaning to do an Ask HN about this but this looks like an excellent post to ask my question.

What are some boring techs you use that you cannot live without? How long have you been using them?

For me, it'd be stuff like Vim, C, Python, Fedora, mutt and I've been using them for 25-30 years! How about you?
Spot on.

Also, to generalize a bit: if a human is expected to read it, the way humans write should be able to be parsed by it. That's subjective, to a point, but it's an easy rule-of-thumb to remember. Trailing commas are so common that people have built workarounds for them. Therefore, they can be understood as "the way humans write". If you're writing a language that you still want to be readable by humans, you really should account for that. And, no shade for it not already being done. I'm just reiterating that there should be NO pushback to allowing trailing commas. It's a completely "common-sense" proposal.
It seems that a lot of companies are skating where they hope the puck to go instead of hedging their bets for an uncertain future. Personally I would at least wait until the big AI players fire everyone before doing the same.
I find it very annoying that my M2 Air __always__ has something or other using at least 10-20% CPU for some system service. I even disabled spotlight and it’s still going on.
I sometimes do enjoy taking my tent out and roughing it for a weekend - then I want to get back to all the expensive comforts that my modern life gives me.

I could grow my own food. I sometimes do grow things like good tomatoes that money cannot buy. However I don't want to grow all my own food I know how to do this, and it is a lot of work.

People have this romantic notion of history thinking that nobody had to work, it was just play all the time, but that is almost entirely false. Worse in the few cases where somebody didn't have to work we quickly discover that it was because they had many slaves doing all the work for them. In reality your typical person today is working much less than at any previous time in history. If it seems otherwise it is because you are not counting all the work - hunter gathers may have only spend a few hours a week hunting/gathering, but they spent many many more hours once the hunting/gathering was done preparing the results of that work. Those mud huts they live in - a lot of effort to build and keep up. Those blankets they sleep on to keep warm - a lot of work to make them (and they don't last forever).
There's nothing discriminatory about it, it's the same if you outsource things within your own country except the price is higher. Contractors have a totally different way of working because they're not really interested in the long term of a project beyond being retained. If they code something in such a way that causes an issue that takes time to fix later then great - more hours we can charge the client for.

Outsourcing abroad is more difficult because of cultural differences though. Having worked with outsourced devs in India, I found that we got a lot of nodding in meetings when asked if they understood, avoiding saying no, and then it became clear when PRs came in that they didn't actually understand or do what they had been asked to do.
Reminder: don’t trust third parties with your digital belongings. Not because they’re evil, but because they’re third parties. And third parties, by definition, are people who today are on your side and tomorrow will sell you to the highest bidder.

It happens in life, and it happens on the internet. Today, your digital life, files, photos, chats, etc, are on a server run by a company with a cute logo and a manifesto about privacy. Tomorrow, that company gets bought by a billionaire with lizard-like features, changes its terms and conditions, and your stuff ends up on a marketplace for five cents a bundle.
But the biggest advantage in Ada is the the syntax and good compilers that can empower that syntax. These compilers are the expensive part and most worrying. Availability of the libraries does not matter that much if you can't access the good compilers. I would be particularly interested about the features of open-source compilers vs. these commercial ones. Also, whether there are any effective verification/proofs available on those open-source compilers.
"Work" is a heavily overloaded word that cleaves meaning in a very
unhelpful way. I've met great artists and scientists who tell me about
"their life's work". Things they did, or would have done, even without
money. There are people in therapy who are "doing the work", and they
pay well for that. I know one millionaire who volunteers at a hospital
and another at a theatre. When you get older and get a measure of
life, perspectives change. What the author describes is domination and
the abject penury of exploitation that flourishes under failed
systems. We need a richer language to talk about these things. The
real poverty is in our understanding.
I get where they're coming from though. Having trailing commas work in some common cases but most other cases where there are commas would be weird and definitely result in confusion. More confusion that knowing that trailing commas aren't a thing in SQL, currently.
fine, because that means your claim that artists create for the copyright incentive is also false
I feel like this is every nerd's experience when installing Linux/FreeBSD. I went through this cycle multiple times in high school.

* Oh wow, it's so snapy

* Look at all these cool effects I can get, it's just like macOS!

* Hmm, none of my software works here or the alternatives are far less appealing

* Guess I'll go back to Windows/Mac

And if I had ever been able to get all the software I used running I question if it would have been faster than my original windows/mac install.

All that to say this seems very subjective and not even close to real comparison.

Don't get me wrong, I love linux, I've built almost my entire career on linux machines, I just don't prefer them for my desktop environment. As for FreeBSD... Well I really wish it would work better for things like NFS among other things.
Right; IEEE 754 (2019) _recommends_ that correctly rounded transcendental functions be provided, but does not require it. The next revision of the standard may require that a subset of correctly-rounded transcendental functions be provided (this is under active discussion), but would still not require how they are bound in the language (i.e. a C stdlib might provide both `pow` and `cr_pow` or similar), and might not require that all functions be correctly rounded over their entire range (e.g. languages might require only that `cr_sin` be correctly rounded on [-π,π]).
> articles/videos where people have to have their jobs "invest"

> software/hardware partners in that website

> all of a sudden this person is a "Person of Interest"

Would you mind rephrasing these points? It's unclear what they mean or are referring to (e.g. what does it mean when a job "invests"?)
> We have hired people with expertise in the specific language needed to transmit our specifications to the AI with more precision.

Also known as programmers.

The "AI" part is irrelevant. Someone with expertise in transmitting specifications to a computer is a programmer, no matter the language.

EDIT: Yep, I realized that it could be the joke, but reading the other comments, it wasn't obvious.
Almost sounds like Cebuano / Waray-Waray in that sense.