MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nablags | 2025-04-01 16:39:44+00:00
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by walterbell | 2025-04-01 16:40:12+00:00
For most of their existence, Blackberry had no touch interface. One appeared in later versions as they tried to compete with Android and iPhone. One example of a "mobile keyboard" shortcut was long pressing a physical key to launch a specific function.

It might be hard to understand now, but Blackberry power users could be much more productive with email/texting than any phone that exists today. But they were special purpose 2-way radio (initially, pager) devices that lacked the flexibility of modern apps with full internet data access.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-04-01 16:40:33+00:00
> Many (most?) people get ectopic beats, but the threshold for noticing them seems to differ.

This. Some of us have very high levels of proprioception. I can feel my pulse just by sitting quietly - I don't need to put my finger on my wrist to take it. Same with ectopic beats, I definitely feel them. And I find that there's a cycle to it - as you say there's a feedback loop: feel ectopic beat, become anxious, more ectopic beats, more anxious, etc. Then I have to try to actively forget about them. During those feedback times I'll have many ectopic beats / day (many per hour, even), but then some days later I'll realize I haven't had any for a while and I might go for weeks without noticing any.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-01 16:40:36+00:00
Yes back to the socialist roots, indeed.

> Coops have been promoted by both left and right.

The "coop" in Corbyn's Labour manifesto were effectively "soviets" as the proposal was to nationalise companies and hand control to the workers by turning them into "coops". This was not "mildly social-democratic"...
by arp242 | 2025-04-01 16:40:39+00:00
All these superlatives ("voracious appetite", "devours", "conquering America", "dazzling", "crazy number") in the first few paragraphs alone make it sound like an Apple announcement or something.

Also, the "9 pounds of avocados a year" is about 27 avocados/year, or about one avocado every two weeks. Sounds a lot less spectacular. Of course, what we really need to know is many Olympic swimming pools all those avocados would fill.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-04-01 16:42:02+00:00
That would be a very valuable lab, IF students hadn't been explicitly trained in opposite behaviour for a decade by then.

I lived a very similar experience:

My 4th year computer science professor in software engineering assigned us a four-phase programming assignment for the semester.

My teammate and I spent several sleepless days on the first assignment, and felt some of the requirements were contradictory. Finally we reached out to the professor, and he formally clarified the requirements. We asked him, "well OK, if requirements are unclear, what are we as students supposed to DO?!?" and he answered - exactly what you did; ask the user/client for clarification. "OK, but what if we hadn't, what if we just made assumptions and built on those??". And his eyes twinkled in a gentle smile.

My team mate and I had worked in the industry as summer students at this point, and felt this was the best most realistic course university has offered - not the least because after every phase, you had to switch code with a different team and complete next phase on somebody else's (shoddy, broken, undocumented) code. This course was EXACTLY what "real world" was like - but rest of the class was trained on "Assignment 1, question 1, subquestion A", and wrote a letter of complaint to the Dean.

I understood their perspective, but boy, were they in for a surprise when they joined the workforce :)
by naveen_k | 2025-04-01 16:42:12+00:00
Thanks! That's an excellent point. You're right that there's likely a sweet spot that would be more efficient overall than aggressive throttling.

The current implementation uniformly sets max frequency for all 128 cores, but I'm working on per-core frequency control that would allow much more granular optimization. I'll definitely measure aggregate consumption with your suggestion versus my current implementation to see the difference.
by jeffhuys | 2025-04-01 16:43:04+00:00
Yes, of course! By all means, update the law. I don’t think anyone misses that part of being a human. Any concept we think of is fabricated.

But here’s the real meat of the issue I guess, how far do we wanna go? At what point SHOULD something be un-copyrightable? What describes a certain “style”? My style is black&white, can I copyright that?

What would your diff be? :)
by neonsunset | 2025-04-01 16:43:23+00:00
It is best to just use task CE full-time unless you need specific behavior of async CEs.

The author of the original comment, however, does not know this nor tried verifying whether F# actually works seamlessly with this nowadays (it does).

Writing asynchronous code in F# involves less syntax noise than in C#. None of that boilerplate is required, F# should not be written that way at all.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-01 16:44:45+00:00
The benchmark this article relies on is here[1], and is focused on a single-user case and uses QwQ-32B-AWQ with a context length of 4096 as far as I can see.

Which, from what I can gather, is a quite unrealistic setup for someone seriously considering buying a H100 for the home lab.

That said, the tensor parallelism[2] of vLLM is interesting.

[1]: https://github.com/DeutscheKI/llm-performance-tests#vllm-per...

[2]: https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/artificial-intelligence/tensor-pa...
by qsort | 2025-04-01 16:44:59+00:00
It's by Larry Kaufman, so it's safe to assume it's for computer chess rather than humans. If that's the case, it's not a problem; engine matches are usually played as "game pairs" where each engine plays the same position as both White and Black.

Having unbalanced positions could even be better, as you'd be more likely to have a decisive game pair.
by evanjrowley | 2025-04-01 16:45:40+00:00
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by Foofoobar12345 | 2025-04-01 16:45:55+00:00
Hiring devs is perfectly fine if you don't look for F# skills - just hire generally smart people, and allow them 1-2 weeks to get comfortable with F#. Make them just solve problems from project euler or something.

For those who have already done functional programming, they wont take more than 2 days to start getting productive. For those who have written a lot of code, it will take them ~2 weeks to pick up functional thinking.

Anyone who is still uncomfortable with F# after 1 month - well that's a strong signal that the dev isn't a fast learner.

Additionally, I've never had anyone reject our job offer because we do F#. I'm sure a whole bunch of people might only be looking for python or javascript jobs, but that's fine because I'm not looking for them. I always have more people who I want to hire but I can't due to budget constraints.

Source: direct experience - I run a pure F# company with a team size of ~80.
by ignoramous | 2025-04-01 16:45:55+00:00
> Values are copied in Go

Gotcha. Thanks for clearing it up.

> so what is your code for?

If that's not rhetorical, then the code was to demonstrate that sync.Pool could be "extended" with typedefs/embeds + custom logic. Whether it got pooling itself right was not the intended focus (as shown by the fact that it created int & bool pools).
by utkarshkhokhar | 2025-04-01 16:46:02+00:00
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by xnorswap | 2025-04-01 16:46:13+00:00
We have a few such odd arrangements, such as the "London Bus Museum", which isn't in London but is in fact entirely within a completely different museum, the Brooklands museum.

Operationally independent, although they have been considerate enough to synchronise their opening hours.

If you're interested in London Buses however, I'd actually recommend the (also unrelated) London Transport Museum, as this one is located in the tourist heart of central London in Covent Garden.

( NB: Brooklands is itself a great museum, but more for the aviation history )
by virtuallyvivek | 2025-04-01 16:46:59+00:00
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by pqtyw | 2025-04-01 16:47:05+00:00
> the accumulated wealth being redistributed over both society

That's fair in principle. Yet in this case but his brother didn't really have enough time to accumulate that much additional wealth after inhering it from his father so it's a bit of a lottery.

Also inheritance taxes are quite tricky to enforce and it's very hard to close all the loopholes (also the revenue isn't exactly reliable). IMHO a wealth tax seems like a better idea (then again there are quite a few complications as well as Norway's recent attempt has shown...).

> because the whole concept of inheritance will go away.

I fear the opposite. As property prices continue increasing and middle and lower class incomes stagnate inheritance might again become one of the few ways that are left for the majority of the population to attain and any significant wealth (I mean middle class level i.e. a hour or two). Birth rates also being so low might make it even more significant.
by balamatom | 2025-04-01 16:47:21+00:00
Yep, I read through some of their comments -- it is strange. I would certainly like to see people improve their grammar, punctuation, and general consistency; but, let's face it, people rarely care to.

Call me paranoid (because, let's admit it, I am) but... after all, it's the Internet, and it's 2025! There's been enough controversy about the political power of speech over the past decade alone, that I can see people running their stuff through ChatGPT just to stay on the safe side and make things sound blandly "professional": just so they can avoid being taken the wrong way by a random reader who happens to strongly object to some particular aspect of their communication style.

(Goodness knows I've found myself on either side of all that at different times -- personally, I find it highly inauthentic to make noncommittal "positive" statements in lieu of plain observations. It's absolutely grating; while some other people seem to require it, and can be indeed quite self-contradictorily harsh about it.)

I can definitely see a major use case for LLMs there -- though I do find the implications quite terrifying. Call it political correctness, call it jamming stylometry, call it a day. Either way there's definitely some sort of power differential here that needs to be examined and I think the world is less prepared than ever to confront whatever its meaning turns out to be.

Which brings me to my other point:

>To be clear, I don't really care, I use ChatGPT all day every day, but just letting OP know it's often pretty obvious when you have it write for you.

Now this I don't quite understand. Pointing something out ("letting someone know") generally implies you want someone else to care about that something, even if you honestly don't. So, since you don't care -- why is it that you want others to? Honest question.
by branko_d | 2025-04-01 16:47:57+00:00
> Also, React is a nightmare.

I think React is a “nightmare” in similar way that JavaScript is a ”nightmare” - it certainly can be, if you abuse it, and it makes it a little too easy to do so.

However, you can take “just the good parts” and ignore the rest. For me, that means using React as a rendering library and managing state almost entirely outside of it.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-04-01 16:48:26+00:00
It is well known in the PC hardware enthusiast community that the last few digits of percent of performance come at enormous increases in power consumption as voltages are raised to prevent errors as clock speeds go up.

Manufacturers chase benchmark results by youtubers and magazines. Even a few percent difference in framerate means the difference between everyone telling each other to buy a particular motherboard, processor, or graphics card over another.

Amusingly, you often get better performance by undervolting and lowering the processor's power limits. This keeps temperatures low and thus you don't end up with the PC equivalent of the "toyota supra horsepower chart" meme.

1400W for a desktop PC is...crazy. That's a threadripper processor plus a bleeding edge top of the line GPU, assuming that's not just them reading off the max power draw on the nameplate of the PSU.

If their PC is actually using that much power, they could save far more money, CO2, etc by undervolting both the CPU and GPU.
by metadat | 2025-04-01 16:48:35+00:00
Much better read than TFA, the submitted link seems written by an LLM with pronoun confusion, swapping between "he" and "it".

The tail end of the thread is particularly interesting: https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powe...

I'm curious what prevents the whole contraption from certain eruption into flames over time:

https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?attachments/image_rv... (image)
by jb1991 | 2025-04-01 16:48:41+00:00
What a rather hyperbolic comment to make. It’s simply not true. Just like in the states you can buy avocados grown in Florida which are terrible, and Europe you can buy avocados that are not so great. But many of Europe’s avocado sources are also the same sources that serve American stores. I bought the same great excellent Chilean haas avocados in the United States as I get in Europe.
by csdvrx | 2025-04-01 16:48:42+00:00
Another suggestion: when you want to save power, use irq affinity with /proc/irq/$irq/smp_affinity_list to put them all on one core.

This core will get to sleep less than the others.

You can also use the CPU "geometry" (which cores share cache) to set max frequency on its neighboring cores first, before recruiting the other cores
by 9rx | 2025-04-01 16:49:18+00:00
> then the code was to demonstrate that sync.Pool could be "extended" with other types and custom logic.

Wherein lies the aforementioned guarantee? The code guarantees neither the ask (zero values) nor even proper usage if you somehow didn't read what you quoted and thought that some kind of type safety was the guarantee being offered.

Furthermore, who, exactly, do you think would be familiar enough with Go to get all the other things right that you left out but be unaware of that standard, widely used feature?
by slg | 2025-04-01 16:49:34+00:00
>I said that free speech generally is about protecting the expression of "beliefs, opinions, and criticisms"...airing incriminating photographs within a courtroom setting would certainly be protected speech.

Is a free press not part of free speech? Are incriminating photos only protected speech in a court, but not when published in a newspaper?

I'm just trying to underline that people refuse to recognize the difficulty translating the philosophical discussion of free speech into the complexities of legal definitions. And "free speech absolutists" tend to only live in the philosophical sphere.
by tomxor | 2025-04-01 16:50:24+00:00
I have little experience with kernel modules. ZFS is the only one I have long term experience with on Debian.

The only issue I've had with the kernel module aspect is VPS configuration, I use Linode and they used to automatically set everything to use the hypervisor kernel, but the kernel module is obviously built against the versions installed on your OS and these will probably be different.

All you have to do is make sure the boot configuration is set to use GRUB if using a VPS. Linode seem to have switched to this by default for Debian now.
by icegreentea2 | 2025-04-01 16:50:50+00:00
The Chinese ecosystem is very impressive. They both have tremendous cash and resources flowing into their government owned agencies, and specific funding and competition in their private new space companies. I understand there's tremendous talent and knowledge transfer sloshing around the Chinese ecosystem, say nothing about funding and resources.

But let's be real - EU new space is not competing against the Chinese launch market right now. There's time and room for them to mature.

One major reason why EU capabilities are lagging is because they hitched their geopolitical wagon to the US and assumed that the US launch providers would be sufficient for commercial purposes, and that ESA/Arianespace only had to preserve enough capability to meet truly strategic requirements.

Now the EU is scrambling because they realized that there are unsavoury downsides. Just deciding to cede all European launches to the Chinese is literally just putting themselves in the same shit soup.

And even practically, the EU-USA decoupling is going to take time. And until the EU gets enough strategic autonomy in space, I think the EU is largely going to play nice with the US rules against collaborating with China in space (that means almost no EU payloads are going to be launched by China).
by mywittyname | 2025-04-01 16:51:41+00:00
> Better off learning a better (compiled) programming language.

I didn't really go too much into my background beyond the task at hand, but I have a CS degree and did C++ development professionally in the engineering space for years (and golang after that). I switched to data engineering because I enjoy the work, not because of an inability to work in "better" languages.

I'm not a rockstar or anything, but assume I'm as competent as a typical person who's been writing software for 20 years.

> If you have to use AI, use Groq or Ollama as you can keep these outputs to train or fine tune your own AI one day.

How do I train models via ollama? As I said, I've been using it for my work, but I've been leveraging it for "fuzzy matching" data, extracting pertinent elements from free form text, or general research. I'd love to be able to shove some of my datasets into one and use a prompt to interact with it. The best I've been able to do currently is showing it my database schema and having it write queries for me, which is not that valuable to me.
by pqtyw | 2025-04-01 16:52:37+00:00
> entrepreneurial behaviour and force young people to take risks that they wouldn't otherwise

Or get them stuck in a permanent debt cycle.

> the inheritance tax would be the only tax if it was total; there would be no other tax burden in one's entire life.

Wouldn't everyone be incentivized to spend as much as they feasibly can before they die and not accumulate too much wealth?

I guess it depends on the specific implementation but the optimal approach would be to take on as much debt as you can to keep your effective net worth close to 0. So even a 100% tax on that might not result in a lot of revenue...
by WalterBright | 2025-04-01 16:53:25+00:00
> that Americans startups are benefiting unfairly from SpaceX

Why is that unfair?

> Deep Blue, they're attempting recovery on their very first orbital launch

This shouldn't be a surprise. One would want to test as much as possible in each expensive launch. If the recovery failed, it would not impact(!) any other tests, so it is a very sensible idea to add it to the early tests.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-04-01 16:53:56+00:00
If you want mind-expandingly interesting theoretical physics, give the Wolfram Physics Project[1] a look. It is a refreshingly different look at fundamental physics, and one that is perhaps more familiar to a computer scientist's perspective than, say, quantum mechanics.

[1]: https://www.wolframphysics.org/index.php.en
by schwartzworld | 2025-04-01 16:53:56+00:00
> a single React/ShadCN button

So don't use ShadCN? It's so weird to put up this strawman app and then be like "see what's wrong with React"? Like showing two boards nailed together and being like "can you believe I needed all those power tools just to do this?"

> Add more widgets—tabs, modals, whatever—and that gap only widens

This is the benchmark I want to see. Two full-featured apps built with minimal prod dependencies. There's a pretty good chance that the various ShadCN modules share many of their dependencies so that importing more doesn't necessarily mean a linear increase in bundle size. It could be that once you build something full-featured, React projects come in smaller, or at least not big enough to invalidate the other upsides of choosing it.
by amszmidt | 2025-04-01 16:54:04+00:00
I don't know, but shouldn't UNESCO when marking something of significance do this kind of research, and reaching out to organizations that are trying (and have been trying) to do essentially what they want to protect?

It is a great way of spreading the word ... many small organizations don't have the man power to do "other things" (like looking up how to apply for strange grants, let alone maybe know about them).
by mercutio2 | 2025-04-01 16:55:03+00:00
I was about to say exactly this.

Applying force directly to the center of gravity with one finger is hard.

You end up applying torque plus adjustments in response to that torque. And that is heavily dependent on your moment of inertia, unlike the normal force.

But I do agree that explanations of friction are right up there with “how do airfoils work” where poor instructors are liable to get long past the edge of their knowledge and just make shit up.