MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chongli | 2025-05-01 10:32:22+00:00
No. We’re only searching for life in a tiny area around the Sun within our galaxy, the Milky Way. To find life we first need to find planets, which involves looking at stars over extended periods of time to detect tiny dips in brightness (transit method) or tiny wobbles causing minute redshift-blueshift cycles (doppler shift method).

Those cosmic filament structures are on the scale of millions and billions of galaxies over distances far larger than the size of a single galaxy. We can’t even resolve individual stars beyond our Local Group of galaxies and still most of the stars within the Milky Way are too far to use our exoplanet detection techniques (2 of them mentioned previously).

Finally, to search for life we’ve been attempting to search for spectral absorption lines of the gases in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, which involves recording a spectrograph during the transit method. This only works for stars with their orbital planes edge-on to us so that we can actually detect the planetary transits and record enough light from them over time to see how the spectrograph changes during the transit events.
by bArray | 2025-05-01 10:32:32+00:00
True, I had a large contract recently with this issue, but it worked out in the end.

The problem is that we thought "let's switch to the online MS Word editor", which then proceeds to delete your text as you write [1]. Bare in mind that my company pays an Office subscription per employee for that crap.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/11be6wd/firefox_...

[2] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-c...
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-05-01 10:32:58+00:00
> You get three videos before it inserts completely irrelevant and unrelated algorithmic recommendations

Worst part about this is you search for food recipes and after the first 5 results there are gross out videos, "popping" videos, kids dying in an elevator video.

I'm about to eat dinner here... I know Neal Mohan REAAAALLLLY wants people to watch the video about the kids dying in the elevator because he keeps putting it in the trio of videos that show up when you search unrelated to your search but can he not wait till I'm doing a search that isn't food related to try and make me watch gross out content if he's so desperate to make me watch it.

Report it every time, makes no difference it all has millions of views so they'll keep doing it.
by os2warpman | 2025-05-01 10:33:57+00:00
I am extremely experienced with Linux. Every single one of my servers is running RHEL/Rocky. I daily drove Linux back in the early 2000s. I have spent more time in sysctl.conf testing tunables than I have spent with my family, so it seems.

1. My capture card doesn't work reliably in any distro. I'm not a gamer so I can't use a cheap and ubiquitous USB V4L card, I capture retro computing screens at weird resolutions and refresh rates so I have to use an enterprise-grade solution that can handle strange things like sync-on-green from 13w3 connectors and extremely rare outputs from UNIX workstations from the 80s and 90s.

2. If someone sends me a link on my phone it is difficult to copy and paste it to a Linux system.

3. Battery life on laptops, despite decades of improvements, is atrocious on Linux. If my laptop gets twelve hours of real-world use under OS A and six hours under OS B, I've got to use OS A.

4. All of my screens are 4K. Today, in 2025, a full decade after 4K became standard, the way various DE/WMs handle scaling is embarrassing.

5. Nvidia. Yeah, it "works" for about 2-3 kernel upgrades then you're greeted with a blinking cursor upon boot because of DKMS or some random reason like patching the system and not rebooting for a couple of days and then patching again.

6. There's little consistency across devices. When I log in to system A I want every single icon, file, and application to be the same as system B. iCloud/Onedrive do this. You can do this on Linux while on a LAN with remote home folders. I don't work exclusively on a LAN. Or I can set up puppet/ansible for my non-infrastructure systems and that makes me throw up in my mouth.

Almost none of that is the fault of the kernel. That's irrelevant.
by snickerbockers | 2025-05-01 10:34:13+00:00
okay but that's not my point. The point is that their rulings are supposed to be based on their interpretations of the relevant laws, and that judges are not supposed to issue rulings solely on the basis that they don't like what the government is doing even if it is obviously stupid. The OP's basis for why the president shouldn't be allowed to do this was that publicly funded universities are "foundational pillars of America's strength in the 20th century".

I wouldn't be surprised if trump has in some way violated statute in relation to freedom of speech or academic independence but unless somebody makes a compelling argument that he has, he is a representative of the people operating under the authority granted to him as president, and being a wreckless fool doesn't change that.

I don't particularly like what he's been doing in his second term so far but in online discourse I've seen this worrying trend recently where people think that unelected bureaucrats who were hired because other unelected bureaucrats liked their resumes should be able to hamstring the president and overrule him (i think the strangest thing i've seen was people opining that the CIA should be getting involved). I think it's important to remember that the checks and balances in the US constitution are between the three branches of the federal government, and most of the big bureaus/departments/etc are under the executive branch which he is the sole executive of for the next four years.
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-01 10:34:21+00:00
What it can connect to and what protocols it supports all depends on the software you run on it. As long as there is supports for basic I/O, you can run a modern copy of Chrome on it. That's why Android 7 and Windows XP can still be used for day-to-day browsing just fine, even though the OS itself stopped being supported and maintained years ago.
by tim333 | 2025-05-01 10:34:49+00:00
I dunno - it's kind of the job of a ceo to be optimistic about the future and I'm not aware of him lying about stuff that has happened like the Nikola guy who went to jail. Apart from maybe cracking 420 jokes when stoned.

The BYD stuff in the article is more of a problem for them though. The S and Y succeeded because they were the best available. Now if BYD is delivering better and cheaper then that's a issue.
by bigpeopleareold | 2025-05-01 10:34:59+00:00
They might as well load the rest of Windows at startup if that is the magic bullet of how many performance issues their OS and software has. It still shocks me that my cheap 8-year old laptop with Fedora on it feels all around snappier and a relief to work with than the computer handed to me at work. That computer would fly with a decent operating system.
by hampowder | 2025-05-01 10:35:06+00:00
When making LearnTheWords[1] I had to wait 6 weeks for approval from Google. They weren't happy with how I documented what this testing process was like. I had to wait 3 rounds of 2 weeks between submissions, writing ever more kafkaesque descriptions of the insights i gleaned from the definitely-not-paid-for test users that i'd required.

I wasn't expecting it to be easier to launch on iOS than Android, but here we are.

[1] https://learnthewords.app
by xiphias2 | 2025-05-01 10:35:33+00:00
Maybe you are right, but sone things I really dislike are:

- Getting rid of native SQLite in Chrome (Firefox was forced to follow), with the main reason is that ,,there are no 2 different implementations, all browsers use the same''.

- While there is file system implementation, there's no mmap, so there is no fast app start (just have SQLite with mmap, nothing fancy).

- No file system persistency guarantee, the OS can just wipe out the data

- All the persistent page APIs are just super hard to use compared to simple HTML/javascript/css as they are in a different process and need communication...it's overcomplicated instead of embracing a simple page as an app as an option as well.

You are right that WASM is a great improvement, and file system API is slowly coming back (still I'm not sure about mmap API which is crucial for fast app startup), but I'm talking about what was possible 10 years ago then reversed.
by skissane | 2025-05-01 10:35:53+00:00
Our 12 year old recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu…

and now I’m constantly getting these complaints “I can’t get screen capture to work under Wayland… I switched from lightdm to sddm and I can’t work out how to switch back… I accidentally started an i3 session and I can’t work out how to log out of it.”

It makes me kind of miss Windows, in a way. It is good he’s learning so much. But the downside is Linux gives him lots more ways to break things and then ask me to fix them for him. And a lot of this stuff I then have to learn myself before I can fix it, because most of my Linux experience is with using it as a server OS, where desktop environments aren’t even installed
by whazor | 2025-05-01 10:36:45+00:00
Looking at Microsoft's proposal, it looks like the sovereign data centers will be ran by non-Microsoft owned European companies? But the software would be from Microsoft.

I wonder how much difference would there be between a European company running a DC or Microsoft running a DC under a Microsoft European entity.

Windows itself has had backdoors via viruses. But even the Linux kernel has been vulnerable in the past to backdoors, so there is also that.
by DFHippie | 2025-05-01 10:37:04+00:00
I believe "purged" here means primaried or threatened to primary. I'm sure you know of certain famous examples. Here are some recent headlines:

https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/president-trumps-first-...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/politics/cornyn-texas-senate-...

This list will contain more examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose...
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-01 10:37:42+00:00
The main feature of rust isn't borrow checking, the feature is safe low level programming. Borrow checking is Rust's default way of doing this, but it's not the only one (the standard library has Reference Counting primitives built in).

Borrow checking is a way to make manual memory management safe, ECS works around manual memory management entirely, so it doesn't need borrow checking to be safe (which is also why it's popular in C++, which doesn't have a borrow checker) but because it's Rust, you have strong guarantees about the safety of it, while in C++ you can still shoot yourself in the foot if you don't use ECS the right way.

Also Rust is more than safety: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/rust-is-more-than-safety
by Prunkton | 2025-05-01 10:40:20+00:00
I dealt with a EU//German regulator in the past about this very topic in a finance context.

This behavior is peak willful ignorance. Its sold as risk planing by EU entities but after all its just liability planing.

What I mean by that is, for convenience reasons everyone goes along with US Clouds knowing it is technically absolutely possible to access the data but as long the contracts are clean and state they are following EU law its fine. Just in case you can make the point the contract was broken the paper is of relevance.
by bgro | 2025-05-01 10:40:48+00:00
Car theft is on the rise. Rather than investigate or cooperate with police or policies they can just pay out the loss and lobby against crime reduction in a variety of ways. Then, because they paid a loss they can raise that persons amount they pay due to a rising “risk.” Then everybody’s rates can rise because of this problem.

The larger the cost, the bigger total cash value they can get on their percentage based profit.

Playing into the cost, they can cut deals with manufacturers directly or in lobbying for parts to be artificially inflated to make this problem even worse. Plastic fuel valve maybe costs 30 cents to manufacture but is sold for $900 and that price is doubled to install it. And the car isn’t safe to drive without it so insurance can demand you pay up or deny all coverage or payouts.

Same for medical inflation though that’s more commonly discussed.

If insurance didn’t exist as a service then these inflated prices would be dramatically cut down. We see this when you don’t use insurance at a doctors office or pharmacy checkout. Though insurance can sometimes demand insurance be used regardless of your consent simply if the cashier is aware they have insurance.

Lobbying and passively steering the direction into bloating end users cost is massively incentivized wherever possible for insurance. Then hiding behind a veil of blame to avoid accountability or even just fair payouts when you actually need them.

It’s like insurance is the IRS who runs a casino and they threaten you if you win the jackpot and then threaten to “randomly” select you for audit if you proceed to cash out for the full amount instead of a $25 Red Robin gift card.
by scq | 2025-05-01 10:41:34+00:00
- Fractional scaling: That's because X11 itself does not support it. Many older Windows apps also have problems with fractional scaling.

- HDMI 2.1: The HDMI Forum blocked it, as they don't want the details of HDMI 2.1 publically available. If you can, use DisplayPort, which is an actual open standard, and is better anyway. Nvidia works because they implemented it in closed-source firmware instead. https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected
by eimrine | 2025-05-01 10:42:01+00:00
Is the post-Covid political system a "legit"? The governments around the globe have been realized that the human rights is a joke at that moment, we would be in a complete disaster if no 2 persons are able to send means without some ruling class entity as MiTM. FOSS is the only way out there from the techno-feudalism.
by kuschku | 2025-05-01 10:42:42+00:00
> Right now I upgraded my GPU to 9070XT - I'm still not sure if that would work on Linux yet because of driver support delay

You can install AMDs driver from their repo directly, it works just fine (using it every day).

> I still cannot use my LG C4 as a monitor in full capacity because AMD on Linux does not support HDMI 2.1

That will never be possible. To prevent pirates from breaking it (lol), HDMI has decided to keep HDMI 2.1 secret. No open source version of HDMI 2.1 can exist.

That said, AMD's driver repo includes both the open source drivers and some proprietary versions of the driver, maybe that'll work for you.

Another option would be using a displayport output and a DP to HDMI converter, as e.g. Intel is using for their GPUs.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-01 10:42:46+00:00
> firefox is not remotely able to bring in enough cash to justify its current development costs

Mozilla’s donations are roughly equal to their CEO’s compensation [1][2].

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/a... ”$7.8M in donations from the public, grants from foundations, and government funding” in 2023

[2] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990... $6.9mm in 2022, page 7
by bArray | 2025-05-01 10:43:45+00:00
> I don't see how any of this refutes the claim that the Chinese population has a much greater pain threshold than the US.

I was more combatting the point that China has some super smart decade+ forward thinking leadership. Whereas the reality is that the same political party is still willing to sacrifice tens of millions of Chinese people for negative economic growth.

The resilience of course is another thing. The main reasons they have a higher pain threshold is that for many the quality of living never really changed drastically and there is a heightened sense of nationalism. More generally, on a personal level Asians try to "save face", meaning they could be starving to death and still smiling to not let their enemy see their pain.

I still maintain that they can't hold out, and that the CCP has been very quietly entering into negotiations with the US [1]. There was already an exceptionally difficult property market situation threatening stability, and now their entire supply chain is being disrupted on every level. The pressure they are under is immense.
by stevenhuang | 2025-05-01 10:43:52+00:00
Well said. I wouldn't be surprised if at the root of it for these people is motivated reasoning from belief there is something special about the mind that machines cannot possess.

Akin to the wayward belief animals can't feel pain, only humans do. Which we now realize is wrong, actually some animals understand pain and suffer just as much as humans can.

Would not be surprised if we come to a similar realization for LLMs and our understanding what it means to reason.
by mnky9800n | 2025-05-01 10:45:10+00:00
Because if the EU steps in to stop this you couldn't scale because the EU isn't one big market like the USA it is a bunch of smaller markets that add up to a big markert that all have their version of how things should go. If the EU wants to have hyperscalers like the USA they will at some point need to force EU members to do things like relax language requirements, have more overlapping business law, etc.
by plaidfuji | 2025-05-01 10:45:24+00:00
Surprised there’s no mention of Google Workspace here. I’ve been using Workspace exclusively for probably 5 years now. It’s obviously faster to open, the interface has remained clean and simple, and they’ve steadily closed the feature gap with Word, Excel and PPT.

The only major gap remaining, IMO, is on Sheets - performance as sheets get large or have lots of formulas, and plotting. If Google would take that product a little more seriously (rather than trying to turn it into a Notion databases clone), they could become a real alternative.
by danesparza | 2025-05-01 10:45:27+00:00
Import price + margin (and that covers a lot of ground) = shelf price.

So the one is necessarily influence by the other. I'm not sure where the breakdown in your understanding is. Trying to make a distinction doesn't really make sense. Somebody IN THE UNITED STATES is taking the brunt of this. More often than not, it will be the end-consumer.

"We saw the same thing during COVID" hints that you might understand the larger picture. You're on the right track: This comes down to supply chain costs.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-05-01 10:47:24+00:00
Contingent of community planning and political atmosphere is a serious caveat. North Texas is doing its best it seems with light rail but it’s an uphill battle on these flatlands. High speed rail is a political nightmare though the use case is extremely strong.

The future is actually some kind of teleportation, which is equally feasible in places like where I live when rail is dead on arrival.
by rasz | 2025-05-01 10:47:36+00:00
Straight from the horses caretaker mouth

Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."

United States Secretary of Commerce ladies and gentlemen!
by rsynnott | 2025-05-01 10:47:40+00:00
> I've said before that Musk must have read Surface Detail and assumed Veppers was some kind of 'tragic hero'.

I just can't imagine how that would happen. As others mention, missing the point on villains _is_ a thing, but Veppers is almost comically villainous. Like, he all but indulges in Bond-villain-style "have I mentioned that I'm evil" monologuing. He's _awful_.

(I actually think he's likely Banks' most objectionable antagonist.)
by resource_waste | 2025-05-01 10:47:40+00:00
>At this point I view Windows as a legacy/compatibility OS

I literally thought about that yesterday as my Windows computer I was using for a legacy application froze/slowdown to the point of unusability. Not the first time this has happened. And nearly every day I have a UI issue with some programs not maximizing and staying behind old windows. I've had embarrassing moments when my OS/MS teams crashes during a meeting. Not to mention the literal ads scattered in multiple screens that sometimes are impossible to turn off(the bottom left button)

My Fedora computer... Every year I have to upgrade it. That sucks. But its way better than anything I deal with on Windows.

FYI, Fedora is so solid that I don't even lump it in with Linux. Linux has baggage from the Debian/Ubuntu fanboys who use a literally outdated OS and have either: No idea its outdated. Or confuse the word "Stable" with bug free, when it means version locked.

If you havent used Fedora, you don't know where the current OS market is at. Fedora stands alone and separate from the rest of the Linux Distros. Its literally better than Windows. It just works.
by pmontra | 2025-05-01 10:48:18+00:00
I'd say that screen capture probably works under X11 no matter what your graphic card is. However this kind of confirm your general feeling: there is no only one blessed and enforced way to do things so everything can break because of combinations.

Examples (I've been on desktop Linux since 2009): shutdown actually reboots except for a few months with some lucky combination of kernel and nvidia driver. The brightness control keys didn't work for at least half of the years. They currently work. All of that has workarounds but I understand that some people legitimately fold and go using another OS.
by kmfrk | 2025-05-01 10:48:23+00:00
It's so jarring to get these kinds of message, especially for compliance with EU directives, because it's so obviously designed to look un-Apple-like which triggers some sort of malware or scam heuristic without the typical nice Apple presentation.

Ironically it ends up getting flagged as some deliberate Apple malicious compliance BS which just sours you on the whole iOS experience.
by criddell | 2025-05-01 10:48:48+00:00
Software compatibility in general. There’s still a lot of Windows-only software out there that people rely on.

Also, security-by-default for apps would be nice. Snap and Flatpak are great starts but it’s still to difficult to manage and too easy to install non-sandboxed software. Some random weather app should never have access to your photos, camera, file system, networking, etc… without the user explicitly granting permission.
by imtringued | 2025-05-01 10:48:50+00:00
As you said. Transformers are using linear attention for each token. It's just that n times n is quadratic. There is no way around this other than by adding a separate token that indicates rerunning the SSM from the beginning. Then you have a dynamically scaling system that seamlessly switches between linear and quadratic complexity depending on the problem.

MLA is probably the closest thing that is in-between both.
by resource_waste | 2025-05-01 10:49:29+00:00
>Libre Office is more than sufficient for most people.

Buddy, I love Fedora, but this is nonsense.

The UI for Libre Powerpoint(or whatever its called) doesnt have text size on the main screen. The reddit mods on the subreddit literally ban people for complaining about it.

Libre Office isnt the future.

I just use Google sheets.