skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that is a nightmare. But isn’t that a problem on all package systems except more dynamic runtimes like NPM which can load many copies of the same library?
my understanding of the development was that chili was used to cut the amount of salt, which wasn't cheap to produce
In jetbrains paradigm you should install IDEA and install python plugin, go plugin, etc. You only have to do it once

That should get you within 90%+ use cases
Ask HN: What is the ideal thermostat setting change when away from home?
Using home automation, when no one is home, I set the thermostat heat down and cool up. The goal is to avoid keeping the house warm/cool when no one is present.

Questions:

1. Is there an ideal thermostat setting based on the outside temperature?

2. Ignoring solar radiation warming, is the heat/cool loss in my home linear? Or is the rate based on the difference between inside and outside temperature?

For #2, for example in winter, if it's non-linear then perhaps it's best to find the lowest temperature to minimize the rate of heat loss in the house.
> Intel takes advantage of this by launching the Arc B580 at $250, undercutting both competitors while offering 12 GB of VRAM.

Not sure where you got that 350 EUR number for B580?
Double the memory for double the price and I would buy one in a heartbeat.
The enshittification will come for the software engineers themselves eventually, because so many businesses out there only have their shareholders in mind and not their customers, and if a broken product or a promise of a product is enough to boost the stock then why bother investing in the talent to build it properly?

Look at Google and Facebook - absolute shithouse services now that completely fail to meet the basic functionality they had ~20 years ago. Google still rakes in billions rendering ads in the style of a search engine and Facebook the same for rendering ads in the format of a social news feed. Why even bother with engineering anything except total slop?
Would technical depth change the fundamental supply and demand, though? If we view AI as a powerful automation tool, it's possible that the overall demand will be lowered so much that the demand of the deep technical expertise will go down as well. Take EE industry, for instance, the technical expertise required to get things done is vast and deep, yet the demand has not been so good, compared to the software industry.
100% C suite executives are not going to sit in front of a chat agent to fix a bug in an application or solve a problem.
Which is why the Nazis were defeated the first time by harsh OP eds in local newspapers.

Tolerance paradox, etc
Illusion of transparency
The financial and business press always invents causes to try to explain current events. Like you'll see an article that states "stocks fell today due to profit taking". In reality journalists have no clue why it happened and just make up something that sounds plausible or at least isn't objectively false.
can microwaves actually heat metal? i thought microwaves needed dipoles, which conductors won't have?
I don't really care about how it performs so long as it's better than a CPU. I just want to target the GPU myself and remove the vendor from the software equation. Nvidia has taught me there isn't any value that can't be destroyed with sufficiently bad drivers.
It's by design. Airlines, like most industries these days have decided that it's no longer "Profitable" to serve regular folks, so they are pursuing the "Whale" strategy of re-orienting their entire service offering to exclusively cater to the 20% of their customers that drive 80% of their profits.

The experience of flying first class is better than it's ever been, and all that extra comfort, convenience and luxury has come 100% at the expense of the experience of the unwashed masses flying "Economy" class. First class gets lie flat beds, priority boarding, lobster thermidor and hot towels, while economy seats keep shrinking, boarding times get longer, checked baggage that used to be free costs $100, and a child-sized bag of peanuts costs $5.

The reason airline travel sucks so much these days is because it's supposed to. If you're flying economy class, the airlines literally see you as a burden, rather than a valued customer, and are doing everything in their power to make your experience as awful as possible, while squeezing every last penny out of you in the process.
Seeing panels of this size is making me want eink whiteboards for planning meetings.
Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015)
Tell that to some of my 24bit/192kHz flac files. About 300 megabytes each. Not nice to stream with plexamp using my 40 Mbps upstream... Easy to encode in opus though.
> Modern web-dev comes around and now the old Java hands are annoyed that these new kids are just slamming NPM packages together and polyfills everywhere and no one understands Real Software Design.

The real issue here is that a lot of the modern tech stacks are crap, but won for other reasons, e.g. JavaScript is a terrible language but became popular because it was the only one available in browsers. Then you got a lot of people who knew JavaScript so they started putting it in places outside the browser because they didn't want to learn another language.

You get a similar story with Python. It's essentially a scripting language and poorly suited to large projects, but sometimes large projects start out as small ones, or people (especially e.g. mathematicians in machine learning) choose a language for their initial small projects and then lean on it again because it's what they know even when the project size exceeds what the language is suitable for.

To slay these beasts we need to get languages that are actually good in general but also good at the things that cause languages to become popular, e.g. to get something better than JavaScript to be able to run in browsers, and to make languages with good support for large projects to be easier to use for novices and small ones, so people don't keep starting out in a place they don't want to end up.
There are visualization techniques that help with the washing over, but there's also the advice, which CBT therapists do give but randos on the internet always forget, that sometimes you're having anxiety (or another "negative emotion") for a reason, and it's a bad idea to ignore it in those cases.

If you want to get better at the "washing over" thing, maybe try visualizations like:
- As you breathe, imagine you're pulling over to the side of the road and watching your anxious thoughts drive past.
- As you breathe, imagine taking each anxious thought and placing it on a leaf on a stream and watching it float away

But in general, security theatre is kind of a legit reason to feel anxious - these folks have real power over you and can screw up your life - so it's ok to just feel it in those situations.
I’ve done freelance translating (not my day job) for 20 years. What you describe is true for certain types of specialized translations, particularly anything that is literary in nature. But that is a very small segment. The vast majority of translation work is commercial in nature and for that companies don’t care whether a human or machine did it.
And how many C suite executives will be doing this?
jobs are leaving the US and going overseas. even h1b engineers here are treated like dogs because what are they going to do? complain and get sent home? no. they'll work weekends, and 12 hours days, sure.

and before you say this is false I've seen it firsthand many times. personally seen it with my eyes.
But AI isn’t making you productive, corporate execs are using it as an excuse to understaff the company.
This probably depends on how you define "IT". I think for employment type stats the list of categories is fairly wide, and can include almost anything that requires a computer that doesn't fit into other categories (which btw is often used for 'exempt' overtime status to put people in on-call rotations without resulting in an 'engaged to wait' scenario that requires payment for time not spent on a call. because they're "experts in IT related field").

But specifically this is probably mostly driven so far by tech support industries. "IT" being customer service reps who use a computer to respond to chat messages, in some cases.

Or actual tech support that's had its entire entry system stripped and replaced by an AI-guided walkthrough of predefined steps customers are required to take before they talk to a human. This will certainly have impact on the amount of support staff needed, even if a portion of that is simply frustrating customers into searching for answers themselves.
He ran Bluesky?
They are not transformers, though. The coil/chokes are not galvanically isolated which makes them (more) efficient. Stepping down from 48V to 0.8V (with massive transient spikes) is generally way harder than doing it from 12V. So they may ended with multi step converters but that would mean more PC with more passives.
The 80/20 rule[0] requires insurance companies to pay out at least 80% of premiums. That's revenue, not profit, and is independent of their costs.

So if they were a charity which magically had 0 costs the most payouts could increase is 20%.

Healthcare demand is infinite and providers have every incentive to inflate costs and recommend as many services as possible. I don't like our healthcare system but as it is, insurance companies play a necessary role of rationing care and there is no magical fix to claim denials.

[0] https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...
I think there was no C++ (ahem native) debugger in IDEA... but I'll check again, could be wrong really...
> competitive in quality of coverage

Doesn't mean much in a sanctioned cartel. Everyone in the cartel can agree the prices must go up. The industry is rotten and quibbling about who is relatively worst doesn't improve a long term picture.
Lol. That didn't last long.

I really liked the simplicity of the site.
Ultimately, it's executives and shareholders who make the decisions, and they will always be able to pay some programmers enough to replace the other ones. I don't think of developers as having a lot of professional or class solidarity.
That is what I do but it costs a lot of $, more than just using openrouter. I would like to have a machine so I can have a model talk to itself 24/7 for a realtively fixed price. I have enough solar and wind + cheap net electric so it would basically be free after buying. Just hard to pick what to buy without just forking out a fortune on GPU's.
And you see no functional difference between "peaking at a still image in a magazine, which even the hardcore versions are tame by modern internet porn standards" and "an infinite stream of videos of whatever sounds interesting at the moment"?

They're not the slightest bit the same in terms of impact on human brains.
Obviously not recommended but pepper spray works to spice up a drink in a pinch.
Like any new productivity tool, the people in charge of money are hoping that it makes people so much more productive that they can have one person do the job of several

This still does replace workers in the end. It doesn't really matter if you lose your job to an autonomous AI or you lose your job because someone else is using an AI to do your job and theirs

I don't personally believe AI makes people this much more productive, but clearly people in charge of headcount are thinking it is
Generating code takes some time. Sometimes when we look at the generated code half way, we know that it's not what we want. Better to stop and edit the prompt.
LLM-Powered Sorting with TrueSkill
> You are therefore I am

Reverse solipsism?
It is possible to install the Python and Go plugins into IntelliJ. That's the setup used wildly in my current place of work.

It wouldn't surprise me if that was the case with Rust, C++, and possibly even C# too.

I'm sure there is some loss of UX and related features in this setup but there are always trade-offs.
Dorky, alphabetical codenames are a big step up from a bunch of lakes in no obvious order.
They don’t?

> To be fair, I hadn’t really expected anyone in the company to get back to me
It seems the consensus is that we will reach level 3 pretty quickly given the pace of development in the past 2 years. Not sure about 4 but I’d say in 10 years we’ll be there.
N3 is mature and is already in full production for small Mobile SoC only.

The Blackwell goes up to ~750mm2 it is a completely different beast. And Nvidia is already having trouble trying to fill up their Blackwell on a higher capacity, relatively mature N4 Node. Imagine doing it on an expensive N3, and then charge $4999 only to get outrage as rip off on HN and reddit.

Generally speaking the larger die size, high performance chip tends to be a node behind simply because all the leading edge node and tools aren't even designed for them but are specifically aiming at Mobile SoC. Then you add in cost issue and yield.
Plenty of that 80% goes to profit, through their extensive network of subsidiaries to capture both ends of the equation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016192
That other protocol that people are re-inventing the open web on, Nostr, also has apps that only show picture and video posts and have the look-and-feel of Instagram.

Like Olas, for example. See https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsfpwa2degek7a57dsjss3h4x7whxzn...
> Their profit margin is 5.5%.

5.5% of what, dmm?

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/unitedhealth-unh-2024-re...

> the Minnesota healthcare behemoth reported adjusted profit of $25.7 billion — an all-time record.
Modeling Hierarchies with FusionAuth
Show HN: A simple deployment tool written in Go
I've released my first open source tool, a simple deployment written in Go.

It was born out of my frustration with the lack of simple and composable deployment tools for small/personal projects.

https://github.com/serversfordev/deploy

Any feedback is appreciated.
You're correct about 16AWG however "But 600W split over a 12-pin connector is 8.3A per wire" is only what _should_ ideally be occurring, not what Roman aka Der8auer _observed_ to occur. Even with his own 5090, cable, PSU, and test setup:

> Roman witnessed a hotspot of almost 130 degrees Celsius, spiking to over 150 degrees Celsius after just four minutes. With the help of a current clamp, one 12V wire was carrying over 22 Amperes of current, equivalent to 264W of power.
The humor is a bit too subtle for comfort or enjoyment.
> If the voltage was higher (i believe 'low volt' classification tops out at 48v)

Yep, 48V through sensitive parts of the body could be unpleasant but 24V is almost as safe as 12V. Why didn't they use 24V and 25A to achieve required 600W of power instead of 12V and 50A?
Fair question. Because there's no meaningfully deterrent penalty for a meritless defamation claim, and the costs and consequences of going to court are highly asymmetric—to the hard-working surgeon in a bloody white coat; as opposed to the lawfare attorney who performs barratry for a living.

It's in the public interest to proactively defend freedom of speech, particularly that of people who have important things to say (i.e. physicians who witness gross insurer abuses), from the speech-chilling effects of a dysfunctional and unjust tort system.

I'm not a lawyer or defamation law expert, so I will quote a person who is both:

- "I don’t know if this doctor lied about United Healthcare. I do know if I had unlimited money and no scruples and wanted to bully people into silence, Claire Locke would be a top choice to hire." –Ken White

https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3lhhgk5oh...
That is an extremely archaic definition that's pretty far from modern usage, especially in a tech context
Brilliant idea. Now we need to spray capsaicin all over the inside of our vehicles. I had mice chew up the firewall for nesting material. Pain. In. The. Ass.

My neighbor keeps an old tuna can filled with gopher poison (strychnine laced grains) strapped to the inside of his car. Mice are destructive little bastards.
No, this is not "the" dictionary definition.

This definition is obsolete according to Wikitionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sophisticated (Wikitionary is the first result that shows when I type your words)
I have a smart tv at home. And all its used for is YouTube (no-ad client) + a client for occasional movies. That's all it does. No live streaming. Everything I want to watch is on YouTube.

The TV shows that I am interested in watching are uploaded to YouTube by TV channels themselves.
Dwarkesh's Question
My 5700XT overheated constantly. It wasn't a reference card. The problem was that the default fan curve in the driver maxed out at 25%!

AMD is REALLY bad at software.
> and iirc at least comparable memory bandwidth

I don't think they do.

From Wikipedia:

> the M2 Pro, M2 Max, and M2 Ultra have approximately 200 GB/s, 400 GB/s, and 800 GB/s respectively

From techpowerup:

> NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB - Memory bandwidth - 2.04 TB/s

Seems to be a magnitude of difference, and that's just the bandwidth.
Because people need freedom, including freedom to speak their minds, especially about political and social matters, especially about the powerful. If everything you say has to be tried in court with legal expenses, there is no freedom and no check on the powerful.

People make spurious claims all the time, including on news, in commercials, in business and legal contexts, by corporations - look at what UnitedHealth says at times. It's absurd that someone can be sued - there would be no freedom of speech.
Bolt is actually open source. You can see how it works

https://github.com/stackblitz/bolt.new
It seems probable that the trend has accelerated.
I think you overestimate how many people could produce this document to the degree you're talking about
Thanks! The main difficulty & goal with this one was reducing the power consumption to the absolute minimum, which meant putting some effort into component choices and I also ended up writing the display controller driver myself.

But if you just want to get going, you don't really need to go through that sort of trouble. You can just buy a panel + controller board via a retailer like e.g. Waveshare, and hook them up to a computer. Quite a few of these controller boards even have HDMI input, or come with SDK code for e.g. Raspberry Pi if they use SPI over GPIO. You can tinker quite a bit without things getting more challenging, and if you can arrange for wired power you may not really need to optimize anything.
> Or actual tech support that's had its entire entry system stripped and replaced by an AI-guided walkthrough of predefined steps customers are required to take before they talk to a human.

How much tech support was still in the US though? Outside of small onshore teams, frontline tech support for the major players was already all in India/SEA. You could replace those people with AI, yes, but it wouldn't reflect in US unemployment stats.
Never tried it but there was was Ohm Studio from French company Ohm Force.
He was hated by anyone who knew what he was up to and who wasn't directly profiting from it.

Most people are completely clueless what's going on in the world of business and tech.

Bill Gates set back the world at least 10 years of progress with his illegal and immoral business practices.
I think that businesses are emboldened now because they believe AI will bridge the gap that couldn't be bridge in the last great offshoring.
> information that only changes infrequently, but often enough to offset the high cost of the panels vs. just having someone put up a new print

Bus advertising. According to people I worked with back in 2010 that were working on LED panels for buses[0], changing the vinyl advertising on a London bus took something like 3 days. Which is a long time for a bus to be out of service.

An e-ink panel is a great solution - lightweight, zero power use until it needs changing, and the refresh rate doesn't really matter.

[0] Didn't succeed because LED panels at the time were big, low-res, bulky, and extremely power hungry.
What is “your GPS” meant here. With Google Maps and Apple Maps it consistently picks the closest one (this being within minutes to both but much closer to one), which seems reasonable.
Maybe not ideal as when either of these apps will bring up a disambiguation for a super market chain or similar, but I’m not witnessing randomness.
This should help things a lot. I’ve completely forgotten about Barbra Streisand’s house!
Do you hate Hawaii’s protection of beach access even if it requires passage through private property? Legalized disrespect?
I wonder if there is a system to dumps where they can kinda triangulate an area and general depth to a calendar of when things were put there?

Talk about a needle in a haystack.
Yeah, with the way Intel has been struggling I thought they should get it out of their system and name one of their chips "Shit Creek."
Sadly not, as Clion is not available as a plugin like almost all other IDEs: https://www.jetbrains.com/products/compare/?product=idea&pro...
I know music can be bought from the artist, but is that true for shows or movies?
Efficiently Download Large Files into AWS S3 with Step Functions and Lambda
> Greenfield rewrites of a multi-decade old app

It depends on what you mean by "multi-decade old app".

Excel is a multi-decade old app. Windows is a multi-decade old app.

They're both still being actively developed with a lot of new and cool features added though, and that keeps it fresh.

The multi-decade old app that hasn't been touched in 20 years? It need a rewrite. And yesterday.

I suspect though, that is not what you meant.
The company's goal is to satisfy share-holders, not some pesky sick people.
This is confirmation/survivorship bias. You only hear about these positive cases. The vast majority just ends up rediscovering old techniques and their year-long paper/work got rejected.
In fact, Intel has been a stellar contributor to the Linux kernel and associated projects, compared to all other vendors. They usually have launch day Linux support provided that you are running a bleeding edge Linux kernel.
> The protocol makes wrong abstractions at the lowest level which causes problems everywhere else.

Can you point out any specifics? I think both the low-level operations (allocate some shared memory for a surface, agree on a pixel format, etc) and the high-level features (scaling!) are solid, the holes are mostly in the ecosystem fragmentation/extension support ("can you please draw some window borders for me, thanks?"). If you were designing a modern windowing system from scratch, what would you do differently?
> They're just outputting tokens that resemble a reasoning process.

Looking at one such process of emulating reasoning (got deepseek-70B locally), I'm starting to wonder how does that differ from actual reasoning? We "think" about something, may make errors in that thinking, look for things that don't make sense and correct ourselves. That "think" step is still a blackbox.

I asked that llm a typical question of gas exchange between containers, it made some errors and noticed some calculations that didn't make sense:

> Moles left A: ~0.0021 mol

> Moles entered B: ~0.008 mol

> But 0.0021 +0.008=0.0101 mol, which doesn't make sense because that would imply a net increase of moles in the system.

Well, that's totally invalid calculation, it should be "-" in there. It also noticed that those quantities should be same in other place.

Eventually, after 102 minutes and 10141 tokens, involving checking answers from different angles multiple times, it outputted approximately correct response.
It looks like it was AI generated, which makes us question if the product is also AI generated and doesn't really exist. I'm sure this is just bad advertising, they didn't take a shortcut with the product but they took a shortcut in showcasing the product, to the detriment of people actually believing if this is a real product.
It has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with an oversaturated market and over-employment. AI is just an excuse.