MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Wobbles42 | 2025-05-01 14:13:44+00:00
I would agree that most people with that exact background would have learned the hard way to care about privacy.

The single example that ascended to be the CEO of Apple though? That selection process would seem more relevant than any personal background.

My base assumption is that any impressions we have about Tim Cook (or any other executive of a company that size) are a carefully crafted artifact of marketing and PR. He may be a real person behind the scenes, but his (and everyone's) media persona is a fictional character he is portraying.
by esperent | 2025-05-01 14:13:52+00:00
Two of my team Channels completely vanished last week. Not in the recycle bins, just gone. The only way I knew was because I got a sync notification from Onedrive.

I contacted support two weeks ago. So far they have asked me to check the Teams admin recycle bin (3 days) and then the SharePoint recycle bin (7 day). I had shared screenshots of both of these in the initial support request, both are empty.

Only 3 people have admin rights in the company, one of us deleted the channels, and even if we did there's supposed to be a 93 day recovery window. But they're just....gone.

I asked for them to escalate 3 days ago. No reply.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-01 14:14:20+00:00
To be knowledgeable about baseball is hard to fake. Like the GP said, I'd have been shot. I might know some names of players, and I might even get some of their positions correct. If you ask me about ERAs, RBIs, batting averages, I wouldn't have a clue. I might know a large number of teams, but I doubt I know all of them. I absolutely couldn't tell you which ones were in the NL and which were AL, nor what the differences are--something about designated hitters or not.

Also, they could just have them count three strikes using their fingers

So it's perfectly reasonable that a person of German ancestry would just not care about American sports.
by zelon88 | 2025-05-01 14:14:33+00:00
I support this. Especially the Google selling Chrome / Chromium part. If it's so important, then Google should relinquish (cede) control over it to the community, and just keep writing the checks.

Honestly, I have no compassion for Apple or Google. I'd be willing to endure a lot of headaches in the name of costing those two companies influence over our society.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-05-01 14:14:34+00:00
No, things like: we obtain money by working rather than by pumping assets. We pay income tax rather than capital gains tax. Our employers are always asking for more while paying less. We do not individually have enough assets to make individual lobbying efforts EV positive, but our employers and the largest shareholders sure do. Politics is an expense for us but an investment for them -- unless we join together.

Structurally we are more similar than different, even if tech workers have had it good for the last while.
by dust42 | 2025-05-01 14:14:46+00:00
I have a MBP M1 Max 64GB and I get 40t/s with llama.cpp and unsloth q4_k_m on the 30B A3B model. I always use /nothink and Temperature=0.7, TopP=0.8, TopK=20, and MinP=0 - these are the settings recommended for Qwen3 and they make a big difference. With the default settings from llama-server it will always run into an endless loop.

The quality of the output is decent, just keep in mind it is only a 30B model. It also translates really well from french to german and vice versa, much better than Google translate.

Edit: for comparision, Qwen2.5-coder 32B q4 is around 12-14t/s on this M1 which is too slow for me. I usually used the Qwen2.5-coder 17B at around 30t/s for simple tasks. Qwen3 30B is imho better and faster.

[1] parameters for Qwen3: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B

[2] unsloth quant: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF

[3] llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
by jasonephraim | 2025-05-01 14:15:15+00:00
Numbers has it's issues as well. I have to open .csv files dozens if not hundreds of times a day - always the same format. Numbers will not allow me to default to freezing the first/header column or _not_ show the formatting sidebar on open. I have to set the freeze header option and close the sidebar every time.

At this point, I've started using IDE extensions when I just need to view/filter
by tzs | 2025-05-01 14:15:39+00:00
> I can spin the drum after leaving it open for 2 weeks, and it still makes a pronounced sloshing noise, there's still a ton of water left in there.

Is it a top loader? If so double check to make sure you are really hearing left over washing water and not balancing water.

Most top loaders have a sealed hollow ring around the drum, usually near the top but sometimes at the bottom, that is partly filled with water or a saline solution. The liquid in the ring redistributes itself around the drum during spin cycles in a way that counters an off balance load in the drum which reduces vibration and noise.

If you spin the drum by hand the balancing liquid sloshes around and it can be quite noticeable on some washers. Next time you are at an appliance dealer try spinning the drums in some of the top loaders on display. It can sound like a surprisingly large amount of water.
by constantcrying | 2025-05-01 14:15:54+00:00
Because there are conflicts of interest. Factory workers create the products which create profits. I am paid with these profits, if the profits go down engineers loose their jobs.

If Factory workers longer and more efficiently my job becomes more secure. So obviously I want a union which advocates that factory workers work longer hours, it is clearly in my interest. The same goes for strikes, if factory workers strike they endanger my job and reduce the size of the engineering department, reducing my chances to get promoted.
by netsharc | 2025-05-01 14:16:06+00:00
I wonder if grandfather post means the Einheitswagen IV (https://youtu.be/u3unRLu2BXM?t=90) or if they were already impressed with the IC2000 (https://youtu.be/T1IdUgrIjR8?t=63).

Although the LED lighting in the newer IC2000 is too cold for my liking.
by anton-c | 2025-05-01 14:16:42+00:00
While it might not be widespread there were stories of it happening, and one alleged story of an American being held(but not harmed) because of his lack of knowledge.

A better one I heard is asking about the second verse of the national anthem. The enemies studied it to know it, but ask your average GI(or most americans) what the 2nd or 3rd verse is, lol.... that's a good trick.
by addoo | 2025-05-01 14:16:57+00:00
Now imagine that the play cannot be altered (game build), it can only be performed on a specifically shaped stage (hardware requirements), actors can only be replaced by lookalikes (‘remaster’ tweaks), it can only be performed with a full theatre (online requirements), and the playwright retains the only copy of the play (source code).

Then you start to approach the problem that is gaming.
by platypii | 2025-05-01 14:17:45+00:00
Duckdb and datafusion are super cool! But they are VERY large wasm blobs (30-40mb each). This is often larger than the data you’re trying to load. And they add complexity with serving and deploying wasm files.

Hyparquet is 10kb of pure js, and so its trivial to deploy on a modern webapp, and wins hands down on time-to-first-data metric.
by nostromo | 2025-05-01 14:18:07+00:00
I want Apple to protect me from app developers. For me, it’s a feature not a bug.

I want them to prevent social media companies from tracking my device across my other apps.

I want them to integrate billing so I can easily cancel subscriptions or get refunds.

I want them to require Oauth that allows me to keep my email private from app developers.

These features make my customer experience better not worse. I’m sorry it sucks for app developers to make less money but for customers it’s mostly a good thing.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-05-01 14:18:12+00:00
Concerning

> Why did you choose the expensive version

Big companies have (sometimes hard negotiated) volume contracts with Microsoft, which makes Excel much cheaper to them than to, say, small companies. Thus Excel is not really expensive for them.

Concerning

> where you never know what it will cost next year in the first place

For open source software there exists a similar risk that you don't know into which direction the product will develop.

In the past, Microsoft has been quite reliable in keeping backwards compatible, and continue selling office for decades.

In my observation, the zigzag course that Microsoft starting doing with Windows (but is now also doing with office), and, relatedly, deviating from the course of being very insanely dependable in delivering the software that companies need from them, is what by now got big companies at least have a look at what possible alternatives to Microsoft products could be.
by rs999gti | 2025-05-01 14:18:31+00:00
> but rather as part of a global digital infrastructure fund

Sounds like a backdoor way to add a kill switch or censor filter to browsers from a central, unelected authority that does not respect the sovereignty and speech and media laws of the individual users' home countries.

No thanks, I'll take an open source, corporate controlled browser 10/10 times.
by sega_sai | 2025-05-01 14:18:49+00:00
Currently we don't even know if type Ia is merger of two WDs, or accretion from a normal star to a WD. Also the light-curve of the Ia SN is determined by the specific decays of various elements (Nickel and so forth). The ratio of those elements will depend on initial abundances. Also even the exact detonation of the WD depends on whether it' carbon-oxygen etc.
by justsid | 2025-05-01 14:19:14+00:00
After watching the video I was trying to find out just how much one of those microscopes cost. Couldn’t find a price anywhere so I’m assuming it’s far out of my budget. But this kind of video is probably the greatest kind of ad there is, just genuinely showing how cool something is. Don’t have a use for it either though, but I would love to have one anyways.
by ben_w | 2025-05-01 14:19:18+00:00
> Because we don't live in a static equilibrium with respect to population? Even if we didn't gain jobs because the population was stagnant, this just puts wage pressure on employers to the benefit of workers. Or is that not a good thing?

Wage pressure in this case would be pointing in the opposite direction.

First: If the average tariffs are less than something like 558%, at current salaries and exchange rates it is currently still cheaper to import, because US salaries (well, nominal GDP/capita, I approximated) are on average that much higher than Chinese salaries. The Chinese can cope with this because of two things you don't have: (1) lower starting expectations because they're moving through the process of industrialisation and started low, (2) lower cost of living. This means that below that level (which a more detailed analysis will likely show varies between products), all the tariffs do is act like a stealth purchase tax that reduces aggregate demand without inducing production to relocate (though production may *claim* to relocate for reasons of political correctness, they won't actually move from tariffs below this level).

Second: The only way to free up US workers to work in these factories, is to first cause massive unemployment so that people are willing to take on much lower paid manufacturing jobs. Otherwise everyone says "no, I will not take this stupid manufacturing job that pays $6.5k/year, why would I want that? This won't even cover my rent!"

And that $6.5k/year is what I've heard Foxconn pays line workers — great when your rent is $2k/year; awful when your rent is $2k/month. If there were any wage uplift from moving the jobs themselves, it would act exactly like a permanent tariff, and lower aggregate demand accordingly.

> Which is it?

Which is what?

Those are the same point.

To move a factory, people have to stop doing the work they're currently paid to do.

Destroying your ability to import things that people need for their work will indeed free up people to make those things in local factories, by massively increasing unemployment. Do you, personally, want to switch from your current job to making iPhones?
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by kanaria007 | 2025-05-01 14:19:33+00:00
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> 50+ markdown-based lenses > 12+1 categories (including human systems) > Structured for design, review, and incident reflection > Includes meta-architecture guides and GPT reading protocols

Live Docs: https://kanaria007.github.io/saas-architecture-review-naviga... Medium article: https://medium.com/@kanaria007/the-missing-layer-in-saas-arc...

Curious to hear: What failure patterns do you design against?
by mattmcknight | 2025-05-01 14:19:58+00:00
It's bizarre to suggest this. They don't need Google's money to compete in browser development. The hard part is competing with a free product. If someone comes up with another way to offer the browser for free, or offer features that make someone want to pay, they can compete. Chromium is already open source. Moving Chrome out of Google does nothing that benefits anyone.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-01 14:20:15+00:00
Yeah it's because Mac Mail downloads every single email and indexes it locally. Outlook (especially the new one) is just electron-based webmail. So every search happens in the cloud and it doesn't have a full copy of all your emails.

This would not be a problem for searching of course, if the cloud-based search worked properly. But yeah... About that. :X

The "classic" outlook should do it better but it also doesn't in my experience. Though I can't use it anymore at work lately.

It's just so bad because how can they screw this up? It's not some fluff feature, it's a core feature in an email client.

PS: If you have copilot, it does a lot better at finding stuff somehow, though like every AI it can be a bit hit and miss.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-05-01 14:20:19+00:00
Does what the title is saying.

Running it via Ollama on some older ARM-cores integrated into that FPGA, with only 1GB RAM and 4GB swap on SD-Card.

Why?

It's not using any specific capabilities of that Xil.. err.. AMD Zynq™ UltraScale+™ MPSoC Processing System.

Could have done that on any ARM-board, without FPGA.

Bored?
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-01 14:20:21+00:00
> Why don’t labor issues resonate more with tech workers?

Because many tech workers don't see themselves as workers, with some justification, many having substantial capital investments alongside labor income, making them, in class terms, petit bourgeois or at least close enough to it to perceive their own interests in more bourgeois than proletarian terms. And even the tech workers that are clearly part of the proletarian intelligentsia tend see themselves (rightly or wrongly) on a path that leads into the bourgeoisie, with bourgeois interests.
by KiranRao0 | 2025-05-01 14:20:33+00:00
I think this is the right line of thinking. My understanding of the grandparent's argument is 2 pieces:

1. Heterogeneity/homogeneity of labour.

2. Tight/lose labour market.

I think Argument 1 is the weaker argument. There's a lot of fungibility between software roles. However, there's a higher learning cost. Moving to a new software company requires a few months before someone is close to full productivity. This in contrast between a painter moving from a Ford supplier to a GM supplier will likely close to full productivity within a few weeks. The cost (to the employer) is lower to rehire someone.

Argument 2 is the stronger argument, but may not be forever. In a tight labour market, I see very little need for unions. If the marginal worker can (and will) leave their position for a better position (pay, benefits, culture, etc), I see little need for unions. However, if the labour market for software engineers shifts in favor of businesses, this will change rapidly.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-05-01 14:20:37+00:00
I'm no UX expert but I'm going to claim it's because of the UX that Teams doesn't work for so many people, and I'm left wondering why Teams hasn't had a UX overhaul yet.

The other competitor to Slack is Discord, and if you remove the playful "gamer" elements I think it'd be a lot less jarring to people used to Slack, because they follow a lot of similar UX and design patterns.

At one point Discord tried to rebrand into something a bit more serious but it didn't work, but I think they should try again; create a Discord Pro or something like that, get the certifications, add SSO support, etc.
by yapyap | 2025-05-01 14:21:07+00:00
“New president of US Space flight rejects the Newton’s law of gravity”

Eventually you hit a point where something or someone is so stupid you can’t comprehend that what they say is what they really think. Like you may intellectually ‘know’ with near certainty that they are that stupid but the emotional centre of your brain can not accept it.

I hit that point with the politics of the US a long time ago, in the back of your head you think these are capable-ish people just grifting off the stupid people but that’d require such a malicious intent it’s from an emotionap standpoint nearly impossible again.

This is a paradox that will never be answered with certainty but given the track record of the current US president (and his pre political business ventures) I’d say it is stupidity, I’m nearly certain of it.
by oefrha | 2025-05-01 14:21:07+00:00
I have yet to see a single SQLite binding supporting this, so it’s quite useless unless you’re writing your application in C, or are open to patching the language binding.

In one of my projects I have implemented my own poor man’s session by writing all the statements and parameters into a separate database, then sync that and replay. Works well enough for a ~30GB database that changes by ~0.1% every day.
by Vinz_ | 2025-05-01 14:21:10+00:00
> This achieved our goal—AWS and Google now maintain their own fork

So the goal was to no longer have any contributions from hyperscalers to Redis? I don’t understand this, when the first paragraph complains that they weren’t contributing enough. Redis has burned a lot of goodwill in the open source community, and yet another license change doesn’t inspire much confidence in the future either…
by qwerty456127 | 2025-05-01 14:21:18+00:00
I'm sad all eInk monitor makers want to ship high refresh rates and other parameters to compete with classic displays, making them this expensive. I would rather buy a cheap 1 Hz monochrome eInk display (at least FullHD size and HDMI/DP-attached though) just to display text documents than a ridiculously expensive eInk to watch action videos on it (what a ridiculous aim, right tool for the job anybody?)
by kccqzy | 2025-05-01 14:21:54+00:00
I'm very glad the article contains an explanation of germ theory, miasma theory, and terrain theory. When talking to people in real life who have forgotten their middle school biology classes, I actually hear these theories referenced often but of course without the name. The idea that "diseases stem from imbalances in the internal 'terrain' of the body, such as malnutrition or the presence of toxic substances" sound plausible and intuitive, and is true to some extent, which is why people fall for it. I mean sure malnutrition causes diseases such as the lack of vitamin C causing scurvy, and substances like mercury cause poisoning; these are real. It's just that I found it astounding that both RFK Jr and several people I've met in real life would choose to believe these while discrediting germ theory.
by coryfklein | 2025-05-01 14:21:55+00:00
The contrast betweeen

a) beaurocrats' real comms setups (3 telephones, four monitors all sitting on the desk – versus mounted on arms/wall) full of clutter and sitting on an anachronism of a wood desk

and b) what you'd see in any "spy" movie with dark-mode graphics displaying fancy l33t charts displayed on quad-monitor setups mounted on arms, probably in a low-light setting and the beaurocrat doesn't look at the "small" monitors himself, his cronies do that, the only monitor he looks at is the single 136" on the wall used for teleconferencing with villains

is hilarious
by badsectoracula | 2025-05-01 14:22:40+00:00
If you don't mind going through the eldritchian horror that is building ROCm from source[0], Qwen_Qwen3-30B-A3B-Q6_K (6bit quantization of the LLM mentioned in the article which in practice shouldn't be much different) works decently fast on a RX 7900 XTX using koboldcpp and llama.cpp. And by "decently fast" i mean "it writes faster i can read".

If you're on Debian AFAIK AMD is paying someone to experience the pain in your place, so that is an option if you're building something from scratch, but my openSUSE Tumbleweed installation predates the existence of llama.cpp by a few years and i'm not subjecting myself to the horror that is Python projects (mis)managed by AI developers[1] :-P.

EDIT: my mistake, ROCm isn't needed (or actually, supported) by koboldcpp, it uses Vulkan. ROCm is available via a fork. Still, with Vulkan it is fast too.

[0] ...and more than once as after some OS upgrade it might break, like mine

[1] ok, i did it once, because recently i wanted to try out some tool someone wrote that relied on some AI stuff and i was too stubborn to give up - i had to install Python from source on a Debian docker container because some dependency 2-3 layers deep didn't compile with a newer minor version release of Python. It convinced me to thank yet again to thank Georgi Gerganov for making AI-related tooling that enables people to stick with C++
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-05-01 14:22:52+00:00
> I've worked with people who had a master's degree in CS who couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.

"Programming" consists of an insanely large number of isolated communities. Assuming the respective person is capable, I would assume that he simply comes from a very different "programming culture".

I actually observe a very related phenomenon for myself: the more I learn about some very complicated programming topics, the more "alien" I actually (start to) become to the programming topics that I have to do at work.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-01 14:23:33+00:00
My only in-person memory of the the /// was that, circa 1981 or so, I went to a short-lived 'Computerland' store on the outskirts of town and they had one that they were too afraid to demo because they were afraid it would burn up. They sure were willing to demo the ][, I remember playing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_Blaster
by Wobbles42 | 2025-05-01 14:23:34+00:00
#2 seems more probable to me for any given human being selected at random.

#1 seems more probable given a human being that has been selected to head one of the most valuable companies on the planet. That's his entire job -- to play a carefully crafted role for the public, the share holders and the media. He isn't paid to stand up at a shareholder meeting and let any sort of genuine feelings slip through, unless those feelings happen to be the right ones for that role at that moment.
by ajross | 2025-05-01 14:23:36+00:00
> Even if you avoid MITM or other attacks, a message sent via Signal today [...]

That's not the threat model. The threat model is that Signal is a tiny LLC making an app on behalf of a foundation and open source software project. It's a small group of human beings.

Small groups of human beings can be coerced or exploited by state-level actors in lots of ways that can't feasibly be prevented. I mean, if someone walks up to you and offers $2M (or blackmails you with whatever they found in your OneDrive, etc...[1]) to look the other way while you hand them your laptop, are you really going to say no to that keylogger? Would everyone?

At scale, there are auditing techniques to address this. The admins at e.g. github are (hopefully) not as vulnerable. But Signal is too small.

[1] Edit: Or, because let's be honest that's the scale we're playing at: straight up threatens to Novichok you or your family.