MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by austin-cheney | 2025-04-12 19:48:12+00:00
* Clarity by which you communicate in writing, such as emails. If you cannot do this you will never be put in charge in any kind of supervisory capacity.

* Task management, which is the ability to efficiently accomplish multiple small tasks without notes, reminders, or JIRA. It’s the notion of getting a bunch of shit done.

* Perceiving things in terms of facts. That means not guessing at measurements and not making assumptions. Most developers cannot do this. The inability to do this on any level is the most identifiable trait of Asperger’s.

* An ability to question the assumptions of others or even the modes of existing common practice. Most people generally cannot do this and it is this, not programming mastery, that makes for 10x developers.

* As for more technical things the ability to dive deeper and lower without leaving the current language or platform is what typically separates the masters from the commoners. These are the people who can solve problems others cannot, because the non masters are always more restricted by current conventions.
by hristov | 2025-04-12 19:50:40+00:00
This is very interesting and cannot happen fast enough, considering the current worldwide transformer shortage.

I have a question for people more familiar with these. What exactly happens at the isolation stage. They say it includes a high frequency transformer (HFT). But its input and out put is DC. And classic transformers operate on AC. So in order to get the transformer working, one would have to chop up the incoming dc power into a square wave or a sine wave. But what transistors can you use to do this, considering you are dealing both with very high power and very high frequencies?
by WillPostForFood | 2025-04-12 19:52:05+00:00
I was flabbergasted when I learned that there are watches being sold today for hundreds or thousands who require a manual adjustment at the end of every month that doesn't have 31 days

Watchmakers deserve more appreciation for how hard it is to track months/years mechanically in a package small enough to fit on your wrist! It's a lot of expectation for watch in the hundreds of dollars.
by happyopossum | 2025-04-12 19:52:45+00:00
> as if Google thinks direction and editing are technological limitations

“Google” isn’t making the artistic decisions here - there’s a full production staff from the studio doing that. Google is making what they ask for.

>I am … saying that these edits to the film are tasteless trash

Making such a claim with zero knowledge or experience is a pretty bold move - how are you so confident here?

While I didn’t get to see the private preview shown at the sphere this week, I’ve spoken to about a dozen people who did and they were all very positive about it.
by notarobot123 | 2025-04-12 19:53:06+00:00
AGI does sound a lot like a "psychological crutch" when it is pointed at as the answer for wicked problems like climate change. With faith in AGI, nothing else really matters because we can eventually surrender ourselves to the superior direction and interventions of this god we have created. There's no point worrying about anything else.

Human technology has evolved significantly in the last few thousand years but we are all the same religious fruitcakes we've always been, whether or not we can see it.
by elcritch | 2025-04-12 19:53:16+00:00
> Can you provide any reference to support this claim as far as actually good implementations go?

Ah yes now to the No True Scotsman fallacy. Async only works well when it’s “properly implemented” which is only .NET.

Even some .NET folks prefer actors model for concurrent programming:

> Orleans is the most underrated technology out there. Not only does it power many Azure products and services, it is also the design basis for Microsoft Service Fabric actors, which also power many Azure products. Virtual actors are the perfect solution for today’s distributed systems.

> In my experience Orleans was able to handle insane write load (our storage/persistence provider went to a queue instead of direct, it was eventually consistent) so we were able to process millions of requests without breaking a sweat. Perhaps others would want more durability, we opted for this as the data was also in a time series database before Orleans saw it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/16kk2l1/comment/k0x...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/benefits

Ironically what got me into Elixir was learning about Orleans and how successful it was in scaling XBox services.

> Because so far it looks like vibe-based reasoning with zero knowledge to substantiate the opinion presented as fact.

Aside from personal experience and years of writing and deploying performance sensitive IoT apps?

Well quick googling shows quite a few posts detailing async issues:

> What tools and techniques might be suited for this kind of analysis? I took a quick glance at a flamegraph but it seems like I would need a relatively deep understanding of the async runtime internals since most of what I see looks like implementation details.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/uph4tf/profiling_with...

> Reading a 1GB file in 100-byte chunks leads to at least 10,000,000 IOs through three async call layers. The problem becomes catastrophic since these functions are essentially language-level abstractions of callbacks, lacking optimizations that come with their async nature. However, we can manually implement optimizations to alleviate this issue.

https://www.ajanibilby.com/blog/async-js-performance-apr23/

> Asynchronous Rust seems to perform worst than multi-threaded Rust implementations.

https://dev.to/deepu105/concurrency-in-modern-programming-la...

> Under realistic conditions (see below) asynchronous web frameworks are slightly worse throughput (requests/second) and much worse latency variance.

https://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html

> I’m not going to say all async frameworks are definitely slower than threads. What I can say confidently is that asyncio isn’t faster, and it’s more efficient only for huge numbers of mostly idle connections. And only for that.

https://emptysqua.re/blog/why-should-async-get-all-the-love/

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/my-benchmark-done-elixir-is-fa...

https://blog.blackfire.io/the-challenges-of-async-python-obs...
by albedoa | 2025-04-12 19:54:51+00:00
...what? Did you mean to respond to me? I'm the one exposing the lie.

There's a weird trend on here of karma chasers playing "gotcha" by posting rebuttals to things that literally nobody is claiming and hoping that we don't notice. It's fucking pathetic man. What would it take for you to reevaluate your life.
by neonsunset | 2025-04-12 19:55:09+00:00
Do you realize that actor model and virtual/green threads/stackful coroutines vs stackless coroutines / async/await and similar are orthogonal concepts?

Also picking asyncio from Python. Lol. You can't be serious, can you?

The only impression I get is most Elixir/Erlang practicioners simply have very ossified perception and deep biases that prevent them from evaluating implementation/design choices fairly and reaching balanced conclusions on where their capabilities lie. Very far cry from the link salad you posted that does not answer my question e.g. the issues with .NET and Rust async implementations performance-wise.

It's impossible to have a conversation with someone deeply committed to their bias and unwilling to accept that BEAM is not the shining paragon of concurrent and multi-threaded runtimes it once was.
by wbraun | 2025-04-12 19:55:17+00:00
Where are your weight figures coming from, they are not in the linked article.

Packaged semiconductors are going to be more metal interconnect / plastic encapsulation / ceramic insulation than silicon by weight.

These systems will also have a significant weight fraction in magnetic materials, either ferrite ceramics or amorphous metals.

Still a huge weight savings, but the weight fractions you are giving see off and are missing some important materials.
by aragonite | 2025-04-12 19:55:28+00:00
Has this been confirmed? The original channel also posted a comparison video [1] showing what seems to be the same cylinders tested against titanium and tungsten cubes (though it's difficult to be sure they are identical)

There's also footage from another channel [2] showing a Prince Rupert's Drop bursting at 20 tons with significant damage to both the steel plate and the press.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SuPFbeqqKU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6NUNroyUys
by viccis | 2025-04-12 19:55:37+00:00
> Tech is one thing, but social credit scores and the level of censorship seem regressive rather than progressive to me.

I can't stress enough how you need to do your own research on this stuff. American propaganda has depicted China as a ruthless peasant state for decades, and it's only in recent years that news like this has opened peoples' eyes to the fact that that all was a cover for the fact that they've passed us in recent decades.

https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-unt...

tl;dr: The "social credit score" is mostly myth. From the article:

>By 2019, China’s central authorities were stating explicitly that they were not happy with the idea. They issued formal clarifications that scores could not be used to penalize citizens and that only formal legal documents could serve as grounds for penalties.

Compare this to the US, in which things like DUIs on your background can be used to deny you Constitutional rights. There's no nothing exceptional about how they're doing things over there when it comes to this.
by kaycebasques | 2025-04-12 19:56:03+00:00
This is my main concern as well. The article [1] that perihelions linked to says that the approved vehicle is produced by EHang and the model is called EH216-S. A quick search yielded this Reddit thread [2] which suggests the noise level is 80dB.

[1] https://www.flyingmag.com/china-approves-passenger-operation...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ehangstock/comments/mmz42r/for_anyo...
by mattnewport | 2025-04-12 19:56:10+00:00
Big little cores like on mobile or some Intel processors are really not the same thing. The little cores have the same instruction set and address the same memory as the big cores and are pretty transparent to devs apart from some different performance characteristics.

The SPEs were a different instruction set with a different compiler tool chain running separate binaries. You didn't have access to an OS or much of a standard library, you only had 256K of memory shared between code and data. You had to set up DMA transfers to access data from main memory. There was no concept of memory protection so you could easily stomp over code with a write to a bad pointer (addressing wrapped so any pointer value including 0 was valid to write to). Most systems would have to be more or less completely rewritten to take advantage of them.
by arthurofbabylon | 2025-04-12 19:56:19+00:00
I’m currently in a part of the world where helicopter delivery is so cheap and common that locals are complaining. “It should be more expensive…” someone told me last autumn.

The helicopters (and drones!) are loud and annoying. Until these problems are solved, locals will resist converting all airspace into the equivalent of a loud, high-speed roadway.
by Mawr | 2025-04-12 19:56:30+00:00
It is not right for you to choose to operate a deadly vehicle and then offload the dangers of that choice onto innocent bystanders. No pedestrian has forced you to drive a dangerous car around.

Therefore, yes, it is the responsibility of the operator of the vehicle to protect others from the dangers of their choice.

> You can really rely on everyone driving a motor vehicle to obey practically every traffic law every time.

This is satire, right? This is so hilariously wrong it's not worth elaborating on. You yourself even directly contradict this in your last paragraph.

> And they know that driving is a privilege and that violations can cost them their license, which will cost them their job, their freedom and a lot of things.

Driving is generally treated more as a right, especially in the US, where I infer you live. Look up the punishments for killing someone with a car vs not. DUI? No problem, just keep on trucking.

> On the other hand we’ve got cyclists, pedestrians, scooters, wheelchairs: all sorts of other conveyances on the road, and they basically ignore every traffic law imaginable.

Traffic laws only exist because of cars. Mostly due to the danger they cause to everyone.

Ever seen pedestrian only areas with roads, lanes, traffic lights? You haven't because only cars need those.

> Personally, I’m the slowest and smallest thing on the road, and I eagerly defer to everything else that’s bigger and faster than me.

So you break the law on the regular yourself then, sigh. If you have the right of way in the situation, do not preemptively yield. By not acting the way you're expected to, all you do is cause confusion and frustration for everyone else. A basic rule of traffic is to keep things moving and the best way to do that is to follow what's expected of you.
by kylebenzle | 2025-04-12 19:56:30+00:00
Yes, but a lot of us already understood that America no longer has a functioning judicial branch so expect nothing less from our highest office. The judicial system in America is simply a stack of bribes and a lobbyist in a trench coat. More or less the only system of justice in America is whoever spends the most money wins. It's a system of pure evil run by money and the most corrupt attorneys, known as judges.

Our family court system is broken beyond repair and the simple fact that we lock people up based on their skin color should be proof enough to anybody that America is simply corrupt to the core and has been for a generation. The court system is broken and corruption is incentivized at every step of the way. Even a good judge would turn bad in the face of so much money.
by WalterBright | 2025-04-12 19:56:46+00:00
Nobody's taking anything away if you want to watch the original form.

Besides, how many movies in the last 50 years are made in B+W, use title cards, have a soundtrack of someone plinking on a pipe organ, are fuzzy and grainy, etc?

Most people won't even watch a B+W movie, let alone a silent one.

P.S. Reddit has a subreddit for colorized photos. There is some amazing work done there. It really makes the photos more interesting. My wallpaper is showing one right now.
by maccard | 2025-04-12 19:58:14+00:00
At a certain point it's just beating a dead horse. A bit like screaming "Embrace Extend Extinguish" in every Microsoft thread, you're not really adding anything the discussion when you necro certain topics, and this one in particular has passed this threshold.

> They are just another $corp who show no respect to their users,

Great, so talk about the ways they're actually doing that not just getting mad about something that's no longer an issue.
by const_cast | 2025-04-12 19:58:39+00:00
This is just not true, sorry.

EDIT: Okay, to expand, it's true that speed limits in progressive cities have been falling for a while. This is meant reduce the number of pedestrain fatalities and overall make the cities safer and more pleasant.

HOWEVER, this does not mean that traveling by car is worse. These, in combination with anti-congestion legislation, make driving faster. The thing about driving is that broad roads and clear visibility encourage bad behavior, like speeding and tailgating. This actually increases traffic. It's counter-productive, but reducing speed can improve flow.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-04-12 19:58:46+00:00
Ah these... There was a "secret" sushi place like this near Irvine in OC (maybe still exists?). We'd call it informally "sushi nazi". The kind of place with only a few seats and as soon as it'd be full, there'd be a sign "we're closed".

Chef tolerated me because I asked for "kujira" (whale: which obviously they won't serve in California but in Japan there are places where the "whales only hunted for scientific experiment we promise" actually end up as sushi...).

Now seriously: unless you're in japan, TFA is all bullshit. The only one that's not all bullshit is that, if you're in Japan, you eat the nigiri sushi with your hands.

Enjoy your sushis however you want as long as you don't disrespect other customers. Meanwhile chefs living thanks to my money can thank me for being in their restaurant.
by jsnell | 2025-04-12 19:58:50+00:00
No, it was funded by Google.

Advertisers paid money for Google for totally unrelated services. Google invested that money in a number of ways. One of them was to build this very profitable non-advertising business. The advertisers didn't fund that business any more than the advertisers funded US treasuries, or the dozens of startups that Google has invested in as a VC.
by Whoppertime | 2025-04-12 19:58:58+00:00
"Corporations themselves cannot donate directly to federal candidates, but they can make donations through corporate PACs. The owners of companies and their employees also can make individual donations. For donations that exceed $200, campaigns are generally required to ask for information about the industry in which the contributor works, and they are required to disclose that information if provided.

In the 2019-20 Congressional funding cycle, Sanders received more money from people employed in the field classified by OpenSecrets as "pharmaceuticals/health products" ($1.4 million) than any other member of Congress. He also received roughly $400,000 from people employed in "pharmaceutical manufacturing."

This does not mean he received nearly $2 million from "the pharmaceutical industry," — it means the money was from people employed, in any capacity, in that field." So pharmaceutical companies cannot donate money directly to candidates, so they fact check it as false, saying it was the employees donating the money and not Pfizer directly, but acknowledging he did receive $1,400,000 from people that work in pharmaceuticals/health products, and $400,000 from people working in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Are we to presume that there is no strings attached when Bernie Sanders is receiving the money? Or are we supposed to offer the benefit of the doubt you wouldn't offer to a Republican politician who said that he didn't receive 1.4 million dollars from the NRA, but employees of the NRA, and a further $400,000 from people in Firearm Manufacturing
by hkpack | 2025-04-12 19:59:21+00:00
I am from Ukraine, and we have KGB archives opened for a while now.

It is a massive amount of information and it is studied rigorously by a lot of researchers. Unfortunately, most of the information I consumed are in Ukrainian. For example there is a book in Ukrainian released just few years ago from one of those [0]. But basically any researcher can get access to the whole archive and domestic ones wrote a lot of material. I am sure that it will get more popular on the west as well, while people will get understanding of the systems at work.

As far as I know Timothy Snyder is well known for his researches into Russia in his books such as [1]. However I've read only excerpts from it as we have better material in Ukrainian.

West generally doesn't understand Russia, it overestimates its military power and underestimates its propaganda influence. It also completely misunderstands its culture. Also west have a history to dismiss the voices of countries who do know Russia very well. But it is changing bit by bit.

[0] https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/arhivi-kgb-nevygadani-istorii.html

[1] https://a.co/d/6kMHDnJ
by trod1234 | 2025-04-12 19:59:33+00:00
The tragedy is in the flawed thinking this type of article promotes to the layperson.

A professional has a duty of care to diagnose correctly, delusion by its very definition is a false belief that is believed to be true. The professional may lose their license if they do not diagnose correctly.

The layperson will read this and say, global catastrophe, fear of poisoning, persecution etc, and discount/nullify these entire categories regardless of whether they may be true or false given the circumstances. They choose to ignore it, and worse through nullification compulse others towards that false belief.

Now when it does happen to be true because hey, WW2 happened, and hey Hitler's rise to power followed milestones which Trump has been following, or better yet the collapse of the currency which is a known fact to happen and based in science and history when money-printing gets out of control... these fears are warranted, and should be listened to and inspire action to correct, but these type of articles condition people to discount and nullify such things and by extension ensuring those things happen when the circumstances are true because they have blinded themselves.

That's how evil works in people. It is a self-blinding to the consequences of destructive acts, to the point where those acts are repeated until they are forcefully stopped.

A fear of poisoning may be quite relevant in cases of new technology where we have no frame of reference for adequate safety because its new, like those who are part of the vaccine injured.

I think its quite important for every one today to objectively revisit their sentiment and beliefs, following Descartes Method.

Many of the things believed today by many are quite delusional, and mass delusion does happen in systems where the people have been exposed to torture whether they know it or not.

The delusional don't base their measure in objective external reality.

Robert Lifton, Robert Cialdini, Joost Meerloo, are well established authors who touch on the elements of torture, structure, and clustering.

If you've been significantly downvoted for a personal opinion, technically you've been exposed to torture.

Few in fact realize this though because its indirect, and most people won't follow the indirections back. It takes advantage of a strategy which Nazi's, and Mao used, but also the Stasi perfected, and really everyone uses today in sensitive positions.

The separation of objectionable concerns.

As for why we see this in so many online platforms. Its 5GW, and the platform maintainers are complicit, either through a corruption by dependency scheme, or just improper priorities believing its better to do or provide something than nothing even if they can't solve the problem. There is a financial interest towards this which drives this forward.

Either way, action or inaction is a choice they made. Regardless of initial hope, destructive outcomes (negligence) and intent (choice to act or not) turn this into malice/malevolence. Even if they have isolated themselves so they don't know willfully, they are still accountable for their actions and choices.
by madaxe_again | 2025-04-12 20:00:39+00:00
I found this out the hard way…

But you know what? Karma’s a bitch. I think I am likely not alone in having used a cracked version of photoshop for far, far more time than I ever did an actual paid up copy.

I’m not unaware that piracy was part of their strategy for market penetration, and I guess it’s now a case of “we have the market cornered, let’s monetise”.
by Animats | 2025-04-12 20:01:08+00:00
Then they'll make them "cloud-enabled" and they will be hacked.

It's scary to see protective relays for power systems with embedded web servers. "IEEE C37.118 synchrophasor measurement, DNP3 Outstation, Modbus TCP/RTU, Telnet, FTP, Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP), built-in web server, and IEC 61850" [1]

[1] https://selinc.com/products/351/#
by MilaM | 2025-04-12 20:01:17+00:00
I live in a house next to a moderately busy street with car traffic and also some public transport (bus lines). I noticed that the windows (and frames) facing the street get dirty much faster than the windows facing the garden. The dirt on the street side is also pretty gross, sticky and hard to clean. It's just an anecdotal observation, but I could not come up with a better explanation so far.