MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2025-04-10 04:36:34+00:00
Everyone needs to learn to use a single, unique, unambiguous URL for new product announcements like this.

Google aren't the only company that consistently mess this up, but given how they built a 1.95 trillion company on top of crawling URLs on the web they really should have an internal culture that values giving things unique URLs!

[I had to learn this lesson myself: I used to blog "weeknotes" every week or two where I'd bundle all of my project announcements together and it sucked not being able to link to them as individual posts]
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-04-10 04:36:53+00:00
Our government is creating its own problems.

I see nobody talking on _why_ the egg crisis happened. Some incompetent folks at DOGE killed off the workers responsible for vaccinations against the bird flu. Guess what happened once they were fired: birds got the bird flu.

That's the point of right wing governments. Spin it around and point fingers at the fault of others who weren't even involved. As long as you can paint a picture of an enemy, you'll stay in power.
by noahjk | 2025-04-10 04:37:20+00:00
Same here. My two biggest hurdles are:

1. like you mentioned, the second I start talking about something, I totally forget where I'm going, have to pause, it's like my thoughts aren't coming to me. Probably some sort of mental feedback loop plus, like you mentioned, different method of thinking.

2. in the back of my mind, I'm always self-conscious that someone is listening, so it's a privacy / being judged / being overheard feeling which adds a layer of mental feedback.

There's also not great audio clues for handling on-the-fly editing. I've tried to say "parentheses word parentheses" and it just gets written out. I've tried to say "strike that" and it gets written out. These interfaces are very 'happy path' and don't do a lot of processing (on iOS, I can say "period" and get a '.' (or ?,!) but that's about the extent).

I have had some success with long-form recording sessions which are transcribed afterwards. After getting over the short initial hump, I can brain-dump to the recording, and then trust an app like Voice Notes or Superwhisper to transcribe, and then clean up after.

The main issue I run into there, though, is that I either forget to record something (ex. a conversation that I want to review later) or there is too much friction / I don't record often enough to launch it quickly or even remember to use that workflow.

I get the same feeling with smart home stuff - it was awesome for a while to turn lights on and off with voice, but lately there's the added overhead of "did it hear me? do I need to repeat myself? What's the least amount of words I can say? Why can't I just think something into existence instead? Or have a perfect contextual interface on a physical device?"
by jakogut | 2025-04-10 04:37:41+00:00
It depends on what you're doing, but the SoC is relatively powerful for it's size, and the battery is relatively undersized compared to the chip. Anywhere from 2-6 hours depending on what you're doing, generally.

I manage to get decent battery life, somewhere around four hours in general usage (not gaming or compiling) with TLP and disabling boost on battery, along with a few other small tweaks.
by fastball | 2025-04-10 04:37:55+00:00
Surprised you've been to ANZ and didn't find their sockets best. Breakdown of things Type-I has:

1. small form factor – BS1363/EU no, US yes

2. grounding not required – BS1363 no, EU/US yes

3. good contact / not much wiggle (in type-I due to angling) – BS1363 yes, US/EU no

4. cable can either be parallel or perpendicular to the wall. You claim this is a failing but having options is good. Having a cable perpendicular to the wall is never an option with BS1363 and not having options is clearly worse (like with grounding) – BS1363/EU no, US yes

5. no risk of plugging in upside down – EU/BS1363 yes (BS because of required grounding), US no (need one pin to be larger which is error prone)

6. wall/female side can be flush – US/BS1363 yes, EU no

There is literally no downside to ANZ plugs imo. You say having required grounding is good but eh, many things don't need it. Even if we do think grounding is necessary, then the best option would still be type-I (because it is smaller then BS1363 and has the parallel/perpendicular options).

Schuko is terrible because needing a cavity in the wall in order to have good contact is a poor design and makes the plugs larger than necessary and I think that is the most important requirement.
by zifpanachr23 | 2025-04-10 04:38:08+00:00
Reading the press release about the "Hypercomputer" and I can't tell what part of this is real and what part is marketing.

They say it comes in two configuration, 256 chips or 9,216 chips. They also say that the maximal configuration of 9,216 chips delivers 24x the compute power of the world's largest supercomputer (which they say is called El Capitan). They say that this comes to 42.6 exaFLOPs.

This implies that the 9,216 chip configuration doesn't actually exist in any form in reality, or else it would now be the world's largest supercomputer (by flops) by a huge margin.

Am I massively misunderstanding what the claims being made are about the TPU and the 42.6 exaFLOPs? I feel like this would be much bigger news if this was fully legit.

Edit: The flops being benchmarked are not the same as regular supercomputer flops.
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-10 04:38:27+00:00
> We also have VAT on imports.

Maybe you should not repeat these nonsensical talking points?

VAT applies to everything, both imports and domestically produced goods. This reasoning makes even less sense than Trump’s ChatGPT tables…

> but his goal is to introduce a fixed "tariff" like a soft VAT.

You really don’t understand at all what VAT is?
by DSingularity | 2025-04-10 04:39:35+00:00
This is now reality -- fighting to change the students is a losing battle. Besides in terms of normalizing grade distributions this is not that complicated to solve.

Target the cheaters with pop quizzes. Prof can randomly choose 3 questions from assignments. If students cant get enough marks on 2/3 of them they are dealt a huge penalty. Students that actually work through the problems will have no problems with scoring enough marks on 2/3 of the questions. Students that lean irresponsibly on LLMs will lose their marks.
by kqr | 2025-04-10 04:40:09+00:00
Queueing theory is one of my favourite secret superweapons. You can use it to back-of-the-napkin solutions out of feasibility much quicker than it'd take to simulate.

I warmly recommend Harchol-Balter: https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Modeling-Design-Computer-... It is an eminintly practical book which is written in terms of computers, goes beyond the basic M/M/1 but without being overbearing.

(The other secret superpower is statistical process control.)
by ModernMech | 2025-04-10 04:40:52+00:00
You know how in a game of Risk, at the early stages you form strategic alliances, but toward the end you inevitably have to break them because eventually someone has to win?

That's a little like what's going on now.

Pissing off your allies is good because if they're happy, that means you didn't squeeze them enough.

And it may hurt us and our companies more than theirs, but it doesn't hurt Trump personally, and that's all he cares about. He's going to be fine, so he's more than happy to cause us pain if it cause them pain as well.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-04-10 04:43:38+00:00
Yep. People love to cut down this argument by saying that a few decades ago, people said the same thing about calculators. But that was a problem too! People losing a large portion of their mental math faculty is definitely a problem. If mental math was required daily, we wouldn't see such obvious BS numbers in every kind of reporting(media/corporate/tech benchmarks) that people don't bat an eye at. How much the problem is _worth_ though, is what matters for adoption of these kinds of tech. Clearly, the problem above wasn't worth much. We now have to wait and see how much the "did not learn through cuts and scratches" problem is worth.
by codegladiator | 2025-04-10 04:44:15+00:00
redhat openshift is partly developed by this work. I know its not great. the "engineers" working there are afraid to touch the code even beyond whats asked of them.

> This is debatable

work is being delivered is relative, not talking about good work or great work. its average at best. The debate you want to do maybe is if this is better than call center scams
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-10 04:45:48+00:00
Some of the college students with revoked visas just happened to be in the vicinity of a protest (near commute to their apartment ) against Israel killing so many civilians, and then there’s the batch who had speeding tickets. They are hellbent on deporting criminals of any level and thought criminals to meet quota. So I would not trust anything to be benign when viewed by US agents.
by kamaal | 2025-04-10 04:45:50+00:00
>>You cannot import something without exporting something else. That something else, in almost 100% of the situations, is dollars.

If you want the world to trade using your currency. You have to give them dollars. That is buy something from them. That is, imports.

All of this comes a section of US politics not being able to understand why the dollar standard even exists.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-10 04:46:30+00:00
If not taxes, how do you suggest public infrastructure is funded? That road you drive on for example?

What about public service workers? Teachers, Firemen, Police etc?

What about external costs? If I'm dumping rubbish in the local stream who cleans that up? Who incentivises me to stop doing that?

I agree that unbounded taxes, and unbounded govt are a drag, but I'm genuinely curious as to how you see the alternatives playing out.
by viraptor | 2025-04-10 04:46:36+00:00
> At a basic level, how can you perform anything besides trivial queries if you don't know what you are searching for?

That's actually pretty doable. Almost every resource provides more context than just the exact thing you're asking. You build on that knowledge and continue asking. Nobody knows everything - we've been doing the equivalent of this kind of research forever.

> How can you assess the validity of a source if you don't know the fundamentals?

Learn about the fundamentals until you get to the level you're already familiar with. You're describing an adult outside of school environment learning basically anything.
by defrost | 2025-04-10 04:46:46+00:00
No need, the United States of America already has more surface and underground nuclear test locations than any other nation on earth (IIRC), even more if atmospheric tests are included as those drifted fallout onto US ground surface.

There have been 2,121 tests done since the first in July 1945, involving 2,476 nuclear devices

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests

Of these, one thousand and thirty two have been US tests (not all within the mainland contiguous USofA).

Air imagery of Yucca Flat looks like a bad case of acne, it's riddled with pockmark craters from underground nuclear tests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Flat

has been called "the most irradiated, nuclear-blasted spot on the face of the earth". In March 2009, TIME identified the 1970 Yucca Flat Baneberry Test, where 86 workers were exposed to radiation, as one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
by dharmab | 2025-04-10 04:47:03+00:00
My group is 3D printing most of our stuff for beer and pretzels games. But official tournaments have a rule where your miniatures have to be official products.

Note that a standard printer won't be anywhere near as nice quality as official models. You need a resin printer for that, which requires ventilation, some basic PPE, and additional labor to clean and cure the prints correctly. Not something you want to do with small children or pets in the house.

We resin print most of our models. We use FDM for blocky things like tanks and buildings, though. And some complex or very large models can't be printed (although we sometimes use alternatives for those).

Warhammer is an unusually expensive game, too. Other games like One Page Rules will sell you STLs to self-print, or charge very reasonable prices for pro-printed minis. You can buy a 2-player starter kit for OPR for about the same money as one WH40K unit.
by cyberax | 2025-04-10 04:47:43+00:00
> I would find it near impossible that someone dumping a truckload of cadmium down a sewer or into the river is caught today

Oh, I won't do it covertly. I'll just build my solar panel producing factory and dump the waste stream in your water supply.

> However if a factory was doing it as a matter of regular business, a law could ban this practice, and then citizens could sue just like they do now.

How quaint. Now you need laws? That's a big-government talk right here.

And how would you find out that I'm dumping cadmium? Do you have proof? Of course, we won't let you just visit our property. And without an injury, you have no standing in a civil court.
by settrans | 2025-04-10 04:47:48+00:00
The Columbia protests were plainly and unabashedly pro-Hamas, e.g. the chant "يا حماس يا حبيب اضرب اضرب تل ابيب" (Oh Hamas, oh beloved, strike strike Tel Aviv), or the protestors exclaiming "We are Hamas", or any of the other explicit pro-Hamas statements that have been caught on camera.

But I'm not sure what other pro-Palestinian protests have occurred since 2023 other than pro-Hamas protests. Have there been any explicitly pro-Palestinian protests that have advocated against Hamas, or for any other political entity?
by porridgeraisin | 2025-04-10 04:47:59+00:00
> How do you propose I demonstrate...heart rate...bugs per feature...

Just a doctor's note/certificate actually.

> Fight the gauntlet of bureaucracy needed to get a government approved certificate is a chore

Well that is a separate problem. Yes, bureaucracy causes a lot of problems(even renewing your driver's license is a pain), but that doesn't mean the entire basis of needing to prove you are disabled should be thrown away. Everyone in their life faces shit bureaucracy, it's not news.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-04-10 04:48:35+00:00
You're asking for decentralization. There's a reason you often get centralization in industries: higher productivity due to network effects and/or economies of scale. Even within China this is true, as some areas are particularly known for manufacturing (or specific types of manufacturing).

Spreading things out sound good until you realize it's doubled your costs or halved your productivity.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-10 04:48:48+00:00
Revenue share is better than ownership of the company because you get a piece of net payments

Covid was 5 years ago, was this successful?

Is this alongside the revenue sharing with the shareholder option in case this is additional liquidity?

My first thought is that this relationship with the individuals involved is too intertwined for rationality, but the first 10 years were good
by beau_g | 2025-04-10 04:51:54+00:00
Can you expand on this? Looking this up, most sources I find indicate the bird flu outbreak began in 2022[1], with a new strain particularly affecting egg producing chickens in Sept 2024[2], and affects many countries, not just the US [1]https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html [2]https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/us-egg-prices-see-...
by moandcompany | 2025-04-10 04:52:08+00:00
"Zonal" relates to the concept of "availability zones" which are the next-smallest unit below a (physical) "region."

Most instances of a cloud ___ created in a region are allocated and exist at the zonal level (i.e. a specific zone of a region).

A physical "region" usually consists of three or more availability zones, and each zone is physically separated from other zones, limiting the potential for foreseeable disaster events from affecting multiple zones simultaneously. Zones are close enough networking-wise to have high throughput and low latency interconnection, but not as fast as same-rack, same-cluster communications.

Systems requiring high availability (or replication) generally attain this by placing instances (or replicas) in multiple availability zones.

Systems requiring high-availability generally start with multi-zone replication, and Systems with even higher availability requirements may use multi-region replication, which comes at greater cost.
by eszed | 2025-04-10 04:52:23+00:00
I'm always charmed by museums that feel like this sort of "weird collection". The trend seems to be firmly away from it, however. During the time I lived in London, the Horniman museum reorganized itself and became "respectible" in the process. While I was living in Exeter the RAMM did the same thing. If you have a similar taste, I strongly recommend visiting the Pitt-Rivers museum in Oxford: it's a truly bizarre collection of absolutely amazing objects - or it was the last time I was there; if it's since been re-curated along modern lines, then you'll have missed a uniquely odd experience.
by gnopgnip | 2025-04-10 04:53:31+00:00
You can buy made in USA sneakers like New Balance 990 series. Generally all the materials except the sole are US sourced. Retails for $200 a pair. What kind of sneakers do you buy?

Running a manufacturing business in the US is more expensive. Consumers largely won't pay more, it's a limited market. The machinery for molding soles only makes economical sense at a large scale.
by settrans | 2025-04-10 04:53:46+00:00
Well, it depends on why you're protesting against Israel.

If you're supporting the dismantlement of the only Jewish state, like Hamas is, then you are in a precarious situation: why do you argue uniquely against Jewish self-determination?

Do you routinely protest in support of tear down all nations without prejudice, or just focus your antinationalism on the one liberal, democratic Jewish state? If so, why do you feel that only the Jews lack the right to defend themselves as a nation? Is it because you prefer to see the Jews defenseless against harassment and attempts at their genocide?
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-10 04:54:40+00:00
There are approximately 16 million Jews worldwide, with over 7 million in Israel and 6 million in the United States. Outside of these two countries Jewish populations are relatively small and often lack significant cultural or political presence. Talking about Israel is talking about over half of the worlds Jews. Israel is the only country explicitly with a Jewish ethos in a way similar to how European nations reflect Christian traditions or Middle Eastern countries reflect Islamic ones. Its population includes large numbers of Jews who were expelled from both European and Middle Eastern countries.

While criticism of Israel is not inherently antisemitic much of the antisemitic rhetoric of the past has shifted toward targeting the state of Israel instead of Jews as individuals (once the Jews were expelled/driven from those nations and no longer a convenient target). Israel is often held to higher political and moral standards than other nations under the guise of justified by its classification as a Western democracy. For many this uneven scrutiny mirrors historical patterns of discrimination, now aimed at the Jewish state instead of (often no longer existing/relevant) local Jewish populations. In some circles, classic antisemitic tropes have simply been reframed: accusations once directed at “the Jews” have been redirected toward “Israel” or “the Israeli lobby,” invoking ideas of secret influence or global manipulation that echo longstanding racist narratives.

Source: I'm not jewish but in any racist feeling conversation I invoke that I am in order to challenge fascists and more often than not invoking that surfaces that the conversation does in fact have anti-jewish sentiment. What I find especially uncomfortable is how little historical context or nuance is expected when discussing Israel, compared to nearly any other nation or group. Conversations that would normally require sensitivity, acknowledgment of trauma, and awareness of systemic patterns suddenly become blunt and ahistorical when they involve Israel. The level of deference people extend to other populations in terms of lived experience, historical persecution, and collective memory often disappears entirely in this context.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-10 04:55:39+00:00
Typically yes, a form of lack of empathy, an inability and unwillingness to relate to people that prioritize money over their “amazing groundbreaking idea”

I deal with this a lot, some clients are talking payment, equity, and other sharing right out the gate.

Other clients are thanking me for working for free an hour into an intro call where that assumption wasn't warranted. And then acting like I’m not into their vision enough, when even the future % compensation hasn't been detailed, offered, or considered at all.

Had a call yesterday like that where I pointed out that every founder’s idea are fairly interesting software problems and they also pay to retain me so there is competition for my time. This founder needs capital or to drop the idea until they do, like everyone else.
by IndrekR | 2025-04-10 04:59:27+00:00
> If you get sets designed in China and made at the same factories that make Lego bricks, they're like 1/3 the cost.

Lego does not outsource brick making. They tried it out back in 2005 with Flextronics in Hungary and got a painful lesson. Lego runs all their factories themselves now.
by decimalenough | 2025-04-10 04:59:51+00:00
Google's not really at fault here: the OP submitted a link to an article called "Introducing Ironwood TPUs and new innovations in AI Hypercomputer" that happens to mention Rapid Storage way down the page.

In case marketing seems to move faster than documentation though, since I can't find any mention of this in the main GCS docs. https://cloud.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rapid%20storage
by motorest | 2025-04-10 05:00:20+00:00
> Because HR has no technical understanding of transferrable skills in the tech sector.

That's a cheap excuse. That's not their job. Their job is to hire someone, anyone, within the budget and that meets minimum requirements. Their responsibility is to get a butt on a seat that can do the work. Any candidate that passes that hiring bar is a safe choice.

You're talking as if their goal was to hire the absolute best based on rigorous objective criteria and crisp stack rankings. It is not. They look for someone, anyone, that is able to do the job, fit in, and not shit the bed. And they need to be able to defend their choice. That's why education matters, prior experience matters, certiciation matters, and even recommendations matter.

Why do you think internal recommendations are a fast track to hire? Do you have any excuse like corruption? Or do you understand that the goal is to find people who are able to do the job, fit within the organization, and not cause problems?

If you fail to understand the problem, you will never find it's solution.
by MrDrMcCoy | 2025-04-10 05:00:25+00:00
> Maybe there should be a mount options to randomize directory order that people can use in their staging environments.

The behavior I've witnessed suggests that the the order is based on inode numbering, which is initially sequential from creation time, and drifts semi-randomly as inodes are unlinked and reused. I don't know this for a fact, but it makes enough sense. Directory ordering should be assumed to be random in all cases, as you suggest.
by kmoser | 2025-04-10 05:00:31+00:00
I don't think it's lack of empathy. Most clients aren't looking to screw you in advance; they just want the work done, but don't always have the money in time to pay for it (true, sometimes as a result of their own failings).

Without a contract, either party is free to prey on the other: the client can try to guilt the worker into working longer before they get paid, but the worker can also try to ask the client for money up front (yes, that's a thing).

That's why a contract is so important: it describes what happens when a client pays late, and presumably sets terms to either make it worthwhile for the worker, or gives the worker an easy way out of the contract.