skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am from El Paso on the border. There was a small existing border, mainly a chainlink fence style, my entire life. In 2016-2020 a massive metal structure 20ft tall was built throughout the city. It eventually leads into private ranch lands so I can't really see how far it extends, but yes there was an actual giant border wall built during term one.
And this investigation consists mostly of just repeating the same thing over and over again? Acting like work or having to put it real effort to survive is some new invention is stupid and incorrect. To live fairly, you must work. To pretend otherwise is foolish. Once again, say something new or give a new way to solve this "problem". This anti-work bs is stupid and has been stupid for all of time, in all of the many forms it has taken.
As a frame of reference, if one were currently on a 12 year old Kubernetes release you'd be running (charitably) 1.0.0 because this is the earliest snap I could find of kubernetes.io and it doesn't even have a version number https://web.archive.org/web/20141114180626/http://kubernetes... [1]

So, I hear them about "but I wanna run 1.32 on my PBX for-evvvvvah" but I don't think that choice is going to do what they expect. Hell, I'd gravely wonder if containerd would survive a 12 year old release cycle

1: chasing the API docs, one can see the 12 year old control plane managed three resource types: Pods, ReplicationControllers, and Services https://web.archive.org/web/20141013032652/http://cdn.rawgit...
If anyone contributed to the project under A/GPL, they cannot switch to a commercial license without removing all contributions first. Because they are not the sole IP owner any more.

But if you contributed under the MIT license, you allow them to re-license as whatever they want.
Deployed how? People who ask AI to "Write me a clone of Twitter" are incapable of deploying code.
A declining use of cable! Could be people are switch from traditional TV to new content that is online.

Or just phones are small screens and people have bad eyes and big TVs. It’s easy to send content from a phone or iPad to a tv these days.

Demographics, and low friction technology. And there is good content on YouTube for anyone and everyone
In the closeup of the table spot you can see the formica veneer cracking upwards, also, you do see discoloration of the blade near the plastic. Most of the heat would be rising upwards so it wouldn’t hit the blade as much.
And no ad blockers available for most devices connecting to a TV which could also push the premium numbers.
Summary of the Buildzoid video courtesy of redditors in r/hardware:

> TL;DW: The 3090 had 3 shunt resistors set up in a way which distributed the power load evenly among the 6 power-bearing conductors. That's why there were no reports of melted 3090s. The 4090/5090 modified the engineering for whatever reason, perhaps to save on manufacturing costs, and the shunt resistors no longer distribute the power load. Therefore, it's possible for 1 conductor to bear way more power than the rest, and that's how it melts.

> The only reason why the problem was considered "fixed" (not really, it wasn't) on the 4090 is that apparently in order to skew the load so much to generate enough heat to melt the connector you'd need for the plug to not be properly seated. However with 600W, as seen on der8auer video, all it takes is one single cable or two making a bit better contact than the rest to take up all the load and, as measured by him, reach 23A.

https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1imyzgq/how_nvidi...
How do AI agents work, anyway?
Are we using Hacker News for corporate advertisement now?
You seem to be arguing that your personal opinion is more correct than what markets say about Elon's companies, and you make this opinion the basis of your argument. Sorry, but you're not being logical here. By any measure, Tesla and SpaceX are extremely succesful companies, and to argue otherwise is just dumb.
it's actually $5090 where I live.
Investing edge comes from hard work.

These are not single strategy hedge funds. The places mentioned are doing something different not inexpensively duplicated, that returns a different investment profile.

Random Google: https://www.eatonvance.com/insights/articles/how-multi-manag...
Email is my HN handle at gmail
There is a long laundry list of specific requirements in order to be considered an eligible library, archive or museum that qualifies for the DMCA exemption, which you also have to apply for and continually renew: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-23311/p-191

Here are just some of them:

(ii) For purposes of paragraph (b)(3)(i) of this section, a library, archives, or museum is considered “eligible” if—

(A) The collections of the library, archives, or museum are open to the public and/or are routinely made available to researchers who are not affiliated with the library, archives, or museum;

(B) The library, archives, or museum has a public service mission;

(C) The library, archives, or museum's trained staff or volunteers provide professional services normally associated with libraries, archives, or museums;

(D) The collections of the library, archives, or museum are composed of lawfully acquired and/or licensed materials; and

(E) The library, archives, or museum implements reasonable digital security measures as appropriate for the activities permitted by paragraph (b)(3)(i) of this section.
An open, on-device model powered chat appfor iOS
Add to that Ralph Bakshi's film Heavy Traffic (1973) — a pinball table is something of a metaphor in the film for the fortunes and misfortunes of life. (That was a couple years before the John McPhee's article — must have been the Zeitgeist.)
Every language does that, including and especially English.

You should go and look up what Croatia is really called. Or Japan, Germany, Korea, China, Hungary, Greece, Finland...
.. because it's significantly more difficult to block ads on the TV. I'm not sure if Pi-Hole can do it?
Not OP, but I've had the same experience, and that's with tools that purport to handle the context for you.

And frankly, if you can't automate context, then you don't have an AI tool that can realistically replace a programmer. If I have to manually select which of my 10000 files are relevant to a given query, then I still need to be in the loop and will also likely end up doing almost as much work as I would have to just write the code.
Honestly I never went back to Windows so there are alternative experiences.

The thing that is crucial is if you think about software application or outcomes. If you are thinking about outcome, you can easily adapt to different applications to achieve the same outcome. If you think software application, you will never be happy not using photoshop/MS Office/ Whatever your favorite app is.

I am quite suprised about his justifications for going back to MacOs. While I understand Ableton Live is not supported on anything else but Windows and Mac, I understand Figma and Zoom are both web applications and work well on Firefox. I haven't tried on FreeBSD but at least this is the case on Linux.
O3-mini and the environmental rebound effect of reasoning models
I was looking for someone mentioning RoR.
We gotta put AI Crypto in the Blockchain Metaverse!
That list would be like saying "Java on Android". A single platform's narrow usage of a language != language's standard library having it.
https://steamdb.info/app/289070/charts/ vs https://steamdb.info/app/8930/charts/ would imply that Civ 6 was _far_ more popular than 5. And may understate it a bit, because Civ 6 had that rarest of all things, a usable mobile version. The iPad version in particular is basically just the same as the desktop one, and if you have Netflix you get it free.

(Of course, this isn't necessarily the full story, as it was certainly available outside of steam, but I would guess that most users got it on steam.)

I always assume that the popular ones were Civ, Civ 2, Civ 4, and Civ 6, though I suspect I'm biased there (I was way too busy when Civ 5 came out, and though I'm pretty sure I _did_ play 3 I found it totally forgettable.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
Is that how you read it? It seemed more to me that he was making bank from his website.
If you think Elon is a "good guy" at this point, he's got a bunch of self driving cars to sell you. Full self driving should be ready by next year.
Even still, it was no issue saturating all CPU cores since each core could transcode a track at a time.
I know the author immediately acknowledges the clickbait of the title, but it’s really an admission that the article is not interesting. It truly is clickbait in the purest form of the word..

It would be interesting if the article included some details about the work in any way shape or form. It sounds like the author mostly has bullshit check-in meetings to babysit the employees.

I feel like I’m reading someone’s eating schedule more than anything.

I also see basically zero information unique to being autistic or helpful to someone who is autistic. It just reads as the day to day of any old boring bullshit desk job. Double the boredom for the details about feeding the pets and the kids and the spouse. Sorry, that’s not good content.
eBPF potentially? There's a lot of security tooling out there (Wiz agent etc) that would assume a newer kernel on the node.
Your code snippet does not use the designated initializer feature that this comment thread is talking about.

Furthermore your code possibly contains undefined behavior depending on the behavior of the constructor of A.
I actually know a professional translator and while a year ago he was full of worry, he now is much more relaxed about it.

It turns out that like art, many people just want a human doing the translation. There is a strong romantic element to it, and it seems humans just have a strong natural inclination to only want other humans facilitating communication.
That's a lot of faith in the supply chain, that someone didn't swap in an even worse material (because, who's going to notice; not the rats).

Also, doesn't glamorizing this behavior, in a "lol im so random" way, encourage other people to do reckless stunts?
in 20 years of writing SQL, preceding commas is so much better IMO. Its so easy to miss a comma at the end of a long expression. preceding commas means you can never forget them.

Then if I can have an extra leading comma, I can reorder, comment out or remove, or add a column at any point in the list without having to think about the rest of the projection. Also diffs are cleaner, it only highlights the rows that have changed, not the row above it/below it that had its comma added or removed. This happens a ton when im iterating on a query.
then why don't they mention the most important thing, which they are presumably extremely aware of, on the promo page for the product?
Ironically, the first two panels in this comic are themselves a meme, i.e., a sort of lampshading. It is of course at least a little bit hypocritical to use your iPhone to post about how terrible Apple is. The second two panels are just strawmen.
Nice selective quote paraphrasing, but this was in the context they were already arrested.
I'm not old enough to remember these, but they were certainly more disruptive than AI has been so far (reverse chronological order):

- The word processor

- The assembly line

- Trains

- Internal combustion engines

I do remember some false starts from the 90's:

- Computer animation will put all the animation studios out of business

- Software agents will replace all middlemen with computers
My E39 (which is a beacon of reliability for the brand) had a radiator neck made of a kind of plastic that becomes brittle with prolonged exposure to heat. It's a good thing there's no heat associated with the radiator. "Replace the entire radiator" was a ~70k mile maintenance task.
> Code is a liability

I say that sometimes to people and they look at me weird. When you work in bigger projects with a lot of people it is harder to argue why you shouldn't write the code than to just do it.

Like, for example, I had to code some build-step that updated some assets that took about 5 seconds to run. That operation was done maybe once a month by other developers, during review another person asked why I didn't parallelize the process and cache already processed files and I was just like: it would add 200+ lines of extra code and error handling and it is not like I mind doing it, I just don't think it is worth the overhead of understanding this code and troubleshooting any possible bugs of this extra optimization code.

And it is harder to argue this kind of thing back and forth than it is to just do it. And now there are 200 extra lines of code that would take anyone else besides me at least an hour to grasp before they can make changes.

Same applies on discussing why you shouldn't add a dependency. If anything that is harder because you need to justify the extra time of not using the dependency.
If you’re not using a blocker on desktopOS, then probably about the same. Unless YT knows your on the couch and much less likely to switch away so they make loner ad blocks for TV than desktops??? I could see them playing with this kind of logic, but I have no idea if they do anything like that
This is an insightful comment. It smells of Jevron's paradox, right? More productivity leads to increased demand.

I just don't remember anyone saying that SO would replace programmers, because you could just copy-paste code from a website and run it. Yet here we are: GPTs will replace programmers, because you can just copy-paste code from a website and run it.
Recent price declines have just knocked the froth off the top of what is still an extremely frothy stock. About 20X industry PE ratios. I could imagine 5X to be sustainable, but...
Related:

FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012751
I don't think this is anyone's plan. It's the biggest argument against why it won't be the plan: who'll pay for all of it? Unless we can Factorio the world, it seems more likely we just won't do that.
Instant website loading with Signed Exchanges: How mutable subresources break it
Hebrew and Irish are illustrative examples.

Hebrew was brought back from the dead for the Jewish refugees populating Israel to have a common language. This solved a genuine practical problem.

Teaching Irish to kids who all speak English does not help anyone communicate better. It seems like a nationalist pride project, and those are not my favorite.
The penny is mostly zinc. It's only 2.5% copper.

Interestingly, the nickel is 75% copper -- so copper suppliers would strongly prefer to ditch the penny if it meant making more nickels.
Since we're already here, we could think about trailing AND, actually. Look:

SELECT a, sum(b),
WHERE foo = 1
AND GROUP BY a

Sounds pretty SQL to me.
im using the "kanata_gui_cmd_allowed" version on windows, but maybe if youre on linux or mac maybe it might work differently im not sure

i dont know if this would make a difference but i have "process-unmapped-keys yes" in my defcfg section
Muted ads playing to the sleeping. Great business for youtube, not so great for the advertiser.

(people who use youtube as a sleep aid - don't you get woken up by ads?)
Also, you can watch YouTube on your TV and then fiddle around on your phone without being left with a floating window that both obscures your other content and is too small to see some details in the video.
Website summaries are useful -- the only reason I keep the feature enabled at all.
Yes a superseding indictment would be all it takes. Charge him with something at the state level that doesn't have a federal equivalent. He reincorporated in Texas because of it's corruption friendliness, so that's unlikely.
> I think we are somewhat still at the “fuzzy super early adopter” stage of this local LLM game and hard data is not going to be easy to come by.

What's hard about it? You get the hardware, you run the software, you take measurements.
That has definitely improved. My bags used to get lost (well, more delayed than lost) nearly every time I connected through Paris CDG. Now it's been a long time since that has happened.
Apple Passes on DeepSeek as AI Partner
In a similar vein, there's Device Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/@DeviceOrchestra/videos
Well, I don't know what counts as success really.

But if Peugeot sold 61k cars in Europe, Opel/Vauxhall 31k, Citroen 23k and Fiat 18k the group overall is much better placed in the EU than Jeep's sales of 11.4k would imply.
I've always wondered what Mullvad's longterm business model was outside of just providing a trustworthy VPN service.

It looks like this might be the beginning of a Cloudflare style service that lays down the backbone for other VPNs to hop onto.

Mixed feelings.
I do feel with the rise of "reasoning" class of models, it's not hard to believe that code quality will improve over time.
Lzbench compression benchmark
We jumped I think 8 year old CentOS versions without too much issues.

It depends how badly you fucked up in the first place really.
I have a flac collection that I was streaming, and I ended up writing some software to encode the entire library to opus because when you are driving around you never know how good your bandwidth will be. Since moving to opus I never have my music cut off anymore. Even with the nice stereo in my car I don't notice any quality problems. There are definitely reasons to not stream wav or flac around all the time.
Just so everyone reading this is clear, it’s not 70% of grant money, it’s an extra 70% on top of the direct costs (41% of the total awarded). A more typical number for a large state university would be somewhere around 55%, or around 35% of the total awarded funds.

Also, indirect costs are not going to building sports centers. Funding agencies and the government audit universities in detail to make sure that the money is being spent only on research activities, down to calculating the amount of square footage per building that is being used exclusively for research, as opposed to instruction or clinical work. They have absolutely come after people and institutions, and successfully obtained multimillion dollar settlements, for using federal money to cover unrelated expenses. If NIH indirects were found to be going towards something like building a rec center or a facility for college athletes, it would be actual fraud and a national scandal, potentially on the “congressional inquiry” level.
According to the DMCA, legally, it does matter, because there is a very clear definition of an "eligible archive" that itch.io does not meet for the exemption to be valid. You also have to apply for the exemption explicitly, and renew it regularly.
Cutting edge tech like paying cents to captcha solving services?!
Because public complaints got traction and led to outcomes private complaints did not.
>Phi just loads the value out of its shadow variable and assigns it to its implicit variable.

Isn't this similar to block arguments? These shadow variables would have been block parameters, just unordered and maybe not explicitly collected in a set.
On an M1 Max 64GB laptop running gemma2:27b same prompt and settings from blog post

total duration: 24.919887458s
load duration: 39.315083ms
prompt eval count: 37 token(s)
prompt eval duration: 963.071ms
prompt eval rate: 38.42 tokens/s
eval count: 441 token(s)
eval duration: 23.916616s
eval rate: 18.44 tokens/s

I have a gaming PC with a 4090 I could try, but I don't think this model would fit
Terrible headline - the article says nothing about users. It does not link to Youtubes finding that TV is overtaking mobile. That news is here, and it's by WATCH TIME, not user count as claimed. https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/our-big-bets-for-2025/

I think TV>Mobile for watch time is less surprising because of the nature of content you'd watch on the TV (longer form, background stuff).

User count would be surprising. And this is from someone who primarily uses their TV for Youtube.

- There are more mobile devices than TVs. A family of four may have 1 or 2 TVs but they have 4+ phones/tablets. Similarly, you need another phone to accomodate another viewer, whereas you do not need another TV.

- TV accounts are often shared so even if you had multiple people using the TV there is a fair chance it would be squashed to 1 user

- Youtube content is increasingly short form which fits better with mobile than sitting down on the couch. All Youtube shorts are designed to be consumed on the phone, for example.

- You always have your phone with you. You're usually only around your TV a handful of hours a day.

- You are often getting funneled to YouTube via a link from somewhere else on your phone. Reddit, X, group text, etc. No chance of that while using your TV for something else.
NileRed has videos of him eating pure capsaicin, which evidently doesn't feel that spicy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFvoCCRZWyI
Yeah, I expect my next card with be AMD. I'm happy with my 3080 for now, but the cards have nearly double in price in two generations and I'm not going to support that. I can't abide the prices nor the insane power draw. I'm OK with not having DLSS.
A great thread with the type of info your looking for lives here: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/issues/89

But you can likely find similar threads for the llama.cpp benchmark here: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/examples/...

These are good examples because the llama.cpp and whisper.cpp benchmarks take full advantage of the Apple hardware but also take full advantage of non-Apple hardware with GPU support, AVX support etc.

It’s been true for a while now that the memory bandwidth of modern Apple systems in tandem with the neural cores and gpu has made them very competitive Nvidia for local inference and even basic training.
The point is not how much was raised.

The point is that the person who gave the most -- by far -- is now in a position to unilaterally make major decisions affecting all Americans, and other countries too (USAID).
This hurts me in so many different ways, and yet I love it.
Well, I can say that you definitely won't want to taste it twice.
Thank you Liz Cook for this brave and important research!

Love the writing style.
The Return of IRL Apps
> he's not, just another delusional venture capitalist that hasn't bothered to look up the counter arguments to his point of view, done by mathematicians

Don’t hate on it, just spin up some startup with “ai” and LLM hype. Juice that lemon.
You CAN upgrade RHEL (or CentOS Stream, or Alma, or Ubuntu) every 3 years if you want. Some people do it. Nobody forces you to live out the entire lifecycle on one release.

Some people appreciate having the option to pick and choose when the transition happens though.
It decoupled us from foreign markets.
Notably for serving Chinese devices (not in the US). It looks like they’re going with Alibaba instead.
> So glad I went with 7900 XTX - should be all set for a couple of years.

Really depends on the use case. For gaming, normal office, smaller AI/ML or video-work, yeah, it's fine. But if you want the RTX 5090 for the VRAM, then the 24GB of the 7900 XTX won't be enough.
> it's being eroded away

In the same way an axe erodes a tree
It's too bad AMD will stop even aiming for that market. But also, I bought a Sapphire 7900 XTX knowing it'd be in my machine for at least half a decade.
This is really just part of the switch from broadcast/cable to internet-native media. It's very noticeable when you watch terrestrial TV how many adverts are clearly targeted at the over-65s, the market is literally dying out.
I don't think companies realize AI is not free. A 100+ devs, openai, anthropic, gemini API costs, the hidden overhead of costs not spoken about.

Too much speculation that productivity will increase substantially, especially when a majority of companies IT is just so broken and archaic.
I'm not sure, it's an observation considering how AI improvement is related to Moore's law.

[1](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/nvidia-ceo-says-his-ai-chi...)
LTS makes sense for services with a finite lifecycle that are meant to be replaced at EOL, not upgraded.