MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danaris | 2025-05-23 11:14:29+00:00
Except that "America" is not monolithic.

America is currently a victim of Trump's batshit insane policies. A plurality of Americans voted for Trump, but not all of even that percentage actually support or desire what is happening now.

Most Americans are not in favor of this, so saying that "America is doing this to itself" rather than "this is happening to America" feels like it ignores all those people who very much do not want this.
by kragen | 2025-05-23 11:15:08+00:00
I wrote:

> So with just 2× = 3.01dB we already know (...) 8, to fairly good precision. (...) (The most imprecise of these is 8: 10⁰·⁹ is about 7.94, which is an error of about -0.7% when the right answer was 8.)

This is slightly mixed up. It's true that approximating 8× as 9dB gives you an 0.7% error. But I was talking about 3.01dB, and approximating 8× as 9.03dB gives 7.998×, only about 0.02% low.

The errors for the logarithms of the 10 digits thus approximated are:

>>> print('\n'.join([f' {10*p:.2f}: {100*(10**p-i-1)/(i+1):+.3f}%' for i, p in enumerate([0, .301, .477, .602, .699, .778, .845, .903, .954])])) 0.00: +0.000% 3.01: -0.007% 4.77: -0.028% 6.02: -0.014% 6.99: +0.007% 7.78: -0.035% 8.45: -0.023% 9.03: -0.021% 9.54: -0.056%
by impossiblefork | 2025-05-23 11:15:34+00:00
/r/Sverige is absolutely astroturfed, but if you ignore the obvious astroturfers you can have real discussion there, because you won't be banned.

/r/Sweden bans people, but is less astroturfed and you can still have real discussion there, except when the drug-liberals (for Americans speakers, think drug-libertarians) and other goons come out of their hiding holes.

I don't think either subreddit cares about Israel stuff at all, and they certainly don't care about what any Swedish government thinks. In both, everyone gets to have their say, whether he's Israeli public diplomacy or Qatari public diplomacy, although bots will of course downvote, and Reddit itself will sometimes remove comments.
by csomar | 2025-05-23 11:16:05+00:00
I've been looking for such a product/project but I don't think it'll be easy to find such a thing. The process from $0 to $x where x > 1 is the most challenging part. x -> x * 2 is much easier as going from 0 to any number, you are essentially breaking the PMF barrier. Someone who did that probably understands business enough to be able to monetize the project into profitability or sell this baby at significant premiums (ie: 5 figures or more).

Most of what I found on Flippa and other markets:

1. AI drivels.

2. Suspicious customers. (ie: probably fraud).

3. Hype driven.

4. Real customers but more like consulting than SaaS.

5. Insane premiums for the value.

I've shot you an email.
by bko | 2025-05-23 11:16:32+00:00
I agree. Then why are Asian students held to a higher standard?

Asian-Americans admitted to Harvard earned an average SAT score of 767 across all sections. Every section of the SAT has a maximum score of 800. By comparison, white admits earned an average score of 745 across all sections, Hispanic-American admits earned an average of 718, Native-American and Native-Hawaiian admits an average of 712, and African-American admits an average of 704

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/22/asian-american...
by thomasanders0n | 2025-05-23 11:17:15+00:00
>This paper analyzes the results from a think-aloud reading study designed to test the reading comprehension skills of 85 English majors from two regional Kansas universities.

I think a major factor in this study is that there aren’t exactly any prestigious universities in Kansas. If they were to repeat the same thing at an elite institution the vast majority of students in any major could understand this.

(Also it’s probably easier to read the whole thing and then go back and explain the meaning in my personal opinion)
by rollcat | 2025-05-23 11:19:46+00:00
It's more difficult to innovate today on a similar scale, or with similar impact. It also seems that big budgets don't really help.

Graphene chips are an insanely exciting (hypothetical) technology. A friend of mine predicted in 2010 that these chips will dominate the market in 5 years' time. As of 2025 we can barely make the semiconductors.

Apple makes chips that have both excellent performance per watt, and overall great performance, but they make small generational jumps.

On the other hand, startups, or otherwise small-but-brilliant teams can still produce cool new stuff. The KDE team built KHTML, which was later forked into Webkit by three guys at Apple.

Paxos was founded on theoretical work of three guys.

Brin & Page made Google. In the era of big & expensive iron, the innovation was to use cheap, generic, but distributed compute power, and compensate for hardware failures in software. This resulted in cheaper, more reliable, and more performant solutions.

But yeah, most of the "moonshot factories" just failed to deliver anything interesting. Maybe you need constraints, market pressure?
by account42 | 2025-05-23 11:20:13+00:00
> HDR displays are >1000nits

Displays as low as 400nits have been marketed as "HDR".

But nits are only part of the story. What really matters at the end is the range between the darkest and brightest color the display can show under the lighting conditions you want to use it as. 400 nits in a darkened room where blacks are actually black can have much more actual range than 1000nits with very bright "blacks" due to shitty display tech or excessive external illumination.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-23 11:21:44+00:00
A lot of developers and “UX” “experts” really don’t appreciate how extreme these modals are. They disrupt everyone a little bit, and for less-technical users can throw them off entirely.

“Once per year” heh, add it to all the other disruptive shit they pop up and out on launch basically at random and they’re training users to dread launching the program. “Will it slap me in the face this time? If so, how hard?” Most modern programs have a problem with this, but FF is bad about it. And it’s just a fucking browser! Why? Why do this crap?
by acdha | 2025-05-23 11:22:29+00:00
The STEM education cuts are especially damaging. Even if the next President isn’t anti-STEM there’s no way to train new scientists and engineers overnight, especially when a lot of institutional knowledge has been purged, and private industry hires a ton of the people who are trained on those grants to the extent of having major facilities near key universities just to better compete for graduates.

If that’s not happening here, those companies are going to reconsider investing in the United States at all versus cheaper countries like China which are investing in STEM.
by videogreg93 | 2025-05-23 11:23:10+00:00
This are just dumbed down phones in a sense: I don't want my mp3 player to be running android. I want a minimal piece of software that lets me quickly navigate to the songs that I want, and physical buttons to do it. I've look long and hard for something like this and cannot for the life of me find it. I'm really sad that I lost my Ipod classic 10 years ago.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-05-23 11:24:15+00:00
Given that nobody, and I mean nobody [including Scott Aaronson[0]] understands Grover's algorithm[1], one can only be certain that value was only delivered to the stakeholders.

The whole industry exists to prove Feynman, uh, consistent[2]. Didn't he say nobody understands quantum, but didn't he also claim that quantum computing can be useful?

[0]https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611976014.5

Although Scott is the most honest of them all

[1]3b1b was in good company, not sure about now?

https://youtu.be/Dlsa9EBKDGI

[2]he demonstrated that not fooling oneself was of the utmost importance by continuing to provide the prime example of fooling oneself?
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-23 11:24:21+00:00
YES!

Citi Field used to serve French’s. Which is odd because they were doing Mike’s mustard… money talks I suppose.

My son who was little was like “dad, there’s something wrong with my hot dog.” I tried it, and yes, something was terribly wrong. That stuff tastes like they put tomato flavor in strawberry jam.
by rkangel | 2025-05-23 11:25:27+00:00
> - They claim federation is impossible… yet matrix has it.

They absolutely do NOT claim that, at least from a technical point of view:

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

> Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.
by scotty79 | 2025-05-23 11:25:51+00:00
Very nice excuse for poor teaching ability.

In high school I was national laureate of Physics Olympiad. Then I went to college with a mindset that I can learn anything. First week's physics lecture taught me that, no, I can't, if the teacher's attempt at teaching is so abysmal. On the final exam at the end of the semester I ended up with barely passing grade, that I had to fight for at additional verbal exam. The same semester I got top grade with informal plus for excellence in the physics exercise classes where we solved physics problems, because the person teaching those was not terrible at his job.

You pay teachers garbage pay and not evaluate them competitively so you are attracting a lot of not so great people to the profession. Then you just give them students they can't control, let alone teach and never monitor if they actually learn anything during classes. So that's what you get in the end. People who haven't been taught anything but still "passed".

Wanna have educated young adults? Do Finland.
by devyy | 2025-05-23 11:26:40+00:00
In my case, it was pretty fast i would say, using S24 Fe, on Gemma3n E2B int 4, it took around 20 seconds to answer "Describe this image". And the result was pretty amazing.

Stats -

CPU -

first token - 4.52 sec

prefill speed - 57.50 sec tokens/s

decode speed - 10.59 tokens/s

Latency - 20.66 sec

GPU -

first token - 1.92 sec

prefill speed - 135.35 sec tokens/s

decode speed - 11.92 tokens/s

Latency - 9.98 sec
by neogodless | 2025-05-23 11:27:57+00:00
Oh parts of this remind me of having to write an HMAC signature for some API calls. I like to start in Postman, but the provider's supplied Postman collection was fundamentally broken. I tried and tried to write a pre-request script over a day or two, and ended up giving up. I want to get back to it, but it's frustrating because there's no feedback cycle. Every request fails with the same 401 Unauthorized error, so you are on your own for figuring out which piece of the script isn't doing quite the right thing.
by williamdclt | 2025-05-23 11:29:00+00:00
Not super interesting, this is fairly basic stuff that you'll encounter at orders of magnitude smaller scale than OpenAI. Creating indexes CONCURRENTLY, avoiding table rewrites, smoothing out traffic, tx timeouts, read replicas... It's pretty much table stakes, even at 10000x smaller scale.

Their requests to Postgres devs aren't anything new either, everyone has wished for it for years.

The title is kind of misleading: they're not scaling it to the "next level", they're clearly struggling with this single-master setup and trying to keep it afloat while migrating off ("no new workloads allowed"). The main "next scale" point is that they say they can "scale gracefully under massive read loads" - nothing new, that's the whole point of read replicas and horizontal scaling.

Re: "Lao Feng Q&A":

> PostgreSQL actually does have a feature to disable indexes. You can simply set the indisvalid field to false in the pg_index system catalog [...] It’s not black magic.

No. It's not documented for this use, so it's not a feature. It's fooling around with internals without guarantees of what this will do (it might do what you want today, it might not in the next release). Plus as they point out, managed Postgres providers don't let you fiddle with this stuff (for good reasons, as this is not a feature).

> there’s a simpler solution [to avoiding accidental deletion of used indexes]: just confirm via monitoring views that the index is not being used on either primary or replicas

That doesn't quite solve all the same problems. It's quite frequent that an index is in use, but is not _needed_: another index would also work (eg you introduced a new index covering an extra column that's not used in this query). Being able to disable an index would allow checking that the query plan does use the other index, rather than praying and hoping.
by ChemSpider | 2025-05-23 11:29:25+00:00
We have 2025, not 2022. So it is certainly not current. Inflation is a thing! ;-)

My data (see above) is from the same source ("Tarifvertrag"), but from 2024.

I am really surprised that PhD/PostDocs earning more (or at least same) in EU than the US is controversial. I tought everyone knows that.
by e2le | 2025-05-23 11:29:44+00:00
Thunderbird is quite healthy and received $8.6M in donations in 2023[0] which is used to employ 24 people[1].

Unlike Firefox, donations are used to fund development.

[0]: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-annual-repo...

[1]: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...
by krapp | 2025-05-23 11:29:58+00:00
>Most Americans are not in favor of this, so saying that "America is doing this to itself" rather than "this is happening to America" feels like it ignores all those people who very much do not want this.

And saying "this is happening to America" ignores all those people who very much do. Trump's election wasn't an act of God nor an unavoidable consequence of physical laws. People voted for him.

Between the two, it's more correct to say "America is doing this to itself." If I stab myself in the leg, it's still a conscious and willful act on my part even though my leg wasn't holding the knife. It didn't just "happen."
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-23 11:31:41+00:00
Another thought experiment - if OpenAI AGI was right around the corner, why are they wasting time/money/energy buying a product-less vanity hardware startup run by Ive?

Why not tackle robotics if anything. Or really just be the best AGI and everyone will be knocking on your door to license it in their hardware/software stacks, you will print infinite money.
by firesteelrain | 2025-05-23 11:32:46+00:00
Given that Harvard’s own report supports this administration’s findings I am doubtful. Harvard’s own ASAIB report proved there is a prevalence of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias which includes verbal harassment, discriminatory comments hostile environments in academic settings pertaining to Israel and the Middle East, and exclusion of Jewish students from certain campus activities and organizations due to their perceived political affiliations

Link https://www.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FINAL-Har...
by dejj | 2025-05-23 11:32:57+00:00
Yes. Afaik from Nick Lane’s “Oxygen” the Cytochrome Oxidase made from the mitochondrial DNA have to match the Cytochrome C made from nuclear DNA. Even slight mismatch seems to lower mitochondrial performance and is a problem why heteroplasmy (mixing of mitochondria from father and mother) seems to be selected-out.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-23 11:32:59+00:00
> Protesting against a country does not make a protester a threat.

Indeed but protesting a country happens at an embassy or on some public square usually used for rallies.

Let's draw a comparison: I don't like Trump but I don't go and beat up some random on the street for wearing an American flag, I go and protest in front of the local embassy (which, for the record, I actually did during his first term when Heather Heyer was murdered. Man, time flies.) I also don't go and throw rocks through the window of a McDonalds (something that happened to many Jewish restaurants), I also don't go and throw incendiary bombs on the nearest Evangelical church, and for fucks sake I also don't take a gun and shoot someone leaving the embassy like in yesterday's double murder of Jews in Washington.
by christina97 | 2025-05-23 11:33:58+00:00
This is the most ridiculous thing. The leap from deciphering ornate language from an old novel to “literacy” let alone being about to read is silly.

You can always set people up to fail. It’s like you gave some junior frontend engineers some highly optimized fortran from 45 years ago and asked them to explain it to you. Without much of a motivator you would probably conclude “software engineers can’t read code”.
by jsheard | 2025-05-23 11:34:31+00:00
It also wasn't even remotely close to learning Dota 2 proper. They ran a massively simplified version of the game where the AI and humans alternated between playing one of two pre-defined team compositions, meaning >90% of the games characters and >99.999999% of the possible compositions and matchups weren't even on the table, plus other standard mechanics were also changed or disabled altogether for the sake of the AI team.

Saying you've solved Dota after stripping out nearly all of its complexity is like saying you've solved Chess, but on a version where the back row is all Bishops.
by epr | 2025-05-23 11:34:44+00:00
Actually no, it's not interesting at all. Vague dismissal of an outsider is a pretty standard response by insecure academic types. It could have been interesting and/or helpful to the conversation if they went into specifics or explained anything at all. Since none of that's provided, it's "OpenAI insider" vs John Carmack AND Richard Sutton. I know who I would bet on.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-05-23 11:35:07+00:00
I was amazed by them having so much distrust of the various clients. Certbot is typically in the repositories for things like Debian/Ubuntu.

My favourite client is probably https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh

If you use a DNS service provider that supports it, you can use the DNS-01 challenge to get a certificate - that means that you can have the acme.sh running on a completely different server which should help if you're twitchy about running a complex script on it. It's also got the advantage of allowing you to get certificates for internal/non-routable addresses.
by card_zero | 2025-05-23 11:36:06+00:00
I guess the sense of a rubicon at the end of the 40s was due to WW2, but why at the year 2000? Because phones? Or big round number effect, perhaps? The year 2000 was built up in our minds as when the future was expected to begin. (Every new gadget produced around 1990 was the Something2000. CarVacuum2000, Ionizer2000, SuperShoehorn2000, etc.)
by seydor | 2025-05-23 11:36:37+00:00
> most of the problematic readers were not concerned if their literal translations of Bleak House were not coherent, so obvious logical errors never seemed to affect them

The inability to understand sarcasm on the internet is far worse today than it was 10 years ago, and i don't think this can be explained by the influx of larger audience, because this keeps happening in very niche communities. It's something happening globally, even in non-english countries. my guess is it has to do with the dumbing-down of popular media (the internet) to the point where words are removed and only emoji are left (which severely limits the bandwidth of conversation)
by constantcrying | 2025-05-23 11:36:50+00:00
>Just keep in mind that the latest salary data there is for 2022.

Haha. This is NOT data, this is the current contract. It is exactly what you get paid. It is the exact salary you get paid there.

>Source: https://www.research-in-bavaria.de/what-salary-does-a-postdo...

Why don't you look at the document I linked which tells you exactly what people working in that university are earning. That is not a guess, not an estimate and it is not out of date it is literally exactly what they are getting paid next month.

Instead of talking about hypotheticals and ranges, why do you refuse to look at the document which talks about the exact salaries? This is very bizarre behavior.

>That is wrong, too. But not the topic of my post.

I literally linked you the literal document where it is literally written what the literal highest paid person will literally get paid in the literal next month. What evidence against this could you possibly have? Unless you have the bank statements of that person your evidence cannot possibly be better.
by skywhopper | 2025-05-23 11:36:59+00:00
I identify with this so much because of my own revulsion for the ACME protocol and the available tooling for using it—and SSL tooling in general for that matter—and because this is also representative of my process for figuring out this sort of low priority technical issue that I have to understand before I can implement, in a way that clearly most folks in the industry don’t care about understanding.
by acdha | 2025-05-23 11:37:13+00:00
This is a great example of the problem. You clearly think there’s some “ugly things” which are widespread in your media diet, but nobody else can read your mind to know what those things are or how honest the people who told you about them were, and we don’t even know if they’re the same things the original poster had in mind.

Now, based on your characterization of even questioning a bold assertion of illegality as anti-Trump we can make some assumptions about your position and media diet, but those aren’t likely to be completely accurate and it’s unlikely that a thread started on a poor footing will result in a good conversation.
by ogogmad | 2025-05-23 11:37:29+00:00
Other than "Michaelmas term", "mire" and "blinkers", the broad meaning of it isn't that hard to understand. The language is fairly modern. That said, I suppose that if some grinning asshole were to have me read it in front of him and then yell at me "Quick! What did that passage mean?", I might stumble.

I like that Dickens mentioned the Megalosaurus.
ESP32 MCP Server
by horw | 2025-05-23 11:38:10+00:00
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by constantcrying | 2025-05-23 11:39:20+00:00
>We have 2025, not 2022. So it is certainly not current. Inflation is a thing! ;-)

Do you not understand that the document I linked is the up to date contract? If you think what I linked is getting "inflation adjusted" you are totally clueless about how you get paid under a Tarifvertrag in Germany.

The document contains the exact amount of the employee is going to get paid next month.
by rollcat | 2025-05-23 11:40:02+00:00
SaaS rots faster than the bits on your spinning rust. The incentive structure tends to drift away from a corp's long-term strategy. If you don't own it, you don't own it.

Even the bits you own rot faster than brick and mortar. It's just the nature of the universe - cosmic rays, magnetosphere, etc. Doesn't help that the integrated circuits are smaller, and hence much more brittle with each generation.

And do you even own the hardware you purchased? Even before the ongoing craze to turn fridges into subscriptions into landfill. Try some "retro" devices from 15, 20, 30y ago - many builtin websites/apps/services just 404, long before companies planned for obsolescence.

Only diamonds are forever.