MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grep_name | 2025-05-20 21:15:24+00:00
I use nixOS, do a ton of container development, and have never had issues or been confused about containers? I have two lines that enable docker in my nix config:

virtualisation.docker.enable = true; users.extraGroups.docker.members = [ "green" ];

Since then, docker's been completely seamless. How far into kubernetes have you gone before? I'm a little confused about what you mean by "Install kubernetes". I used to use minikube but now use k3d, and those were both just packages available in nixpkgs. K8s (especially local k8s) is kind of hard to wrap your head around, but not because of NixOS
by oblio | 2025-05-20 21:15:41+00:00
> The rest all belong to or tried to join a military bloc which helped rape Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan for no particular reason other than because the gang boss demanded it.

Quick essay for 20 points, those countries all decided to join NATO BEFORE Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan.

WHY did they decide to try to join NATO? Who were they running away from and why?
by jll29 | 2025-05-20 21:16:27+00:00
In NSA parlance, a "selector" primarily is a string that semi-uniquely identifies and addresses a persons intercepted data, such as

- an IP address,

- an email address,

- a phone number,

- a SIM card's MSIN

- a person's social security number,

- a national ID card number,

- a passport number,

- a social media handle etc.

(elsewhere also known as "accessor", "key", "handle" or "index")
by pornel | 2025-05-20 21:16:30+00:00
ADHD meds contain controlled substances, and there's an annual production quota for them set by the DEA. The quota is intentionally set very tightly, so it's easy to hit it when the demand increases even slightly above projections.

Most international pharmaceutical companies have some presence in the US, so the US quota has a world-wide effect.

Additionally, prescriptions are for very specific doses of specific variants of the meds. Because it's a controlled substance, pharmacies aren't allowed to use any substitutes (not even something common-sense like dispensing 2x30mg for a 60mg prescription). This makes shortages happen even before all of the quota runs out, because some commonly used doses run out sooner.
by Animats | 2025-05-20 21:16:42+00:00
That's from the period when there was no standardization of how the CPU talked to the graphics device. Triangles or quads? Shared memory or command queues? DMA from the CPU side or the graphics device side? Graphics as part of the CPU/memory system or as part of the display system? Can the GPU cause page faults which are serviced by the virtual memory system?

Now we have Vulkan. Vulkan standardizes some things, but has a huge number of options because hardware design decisions are exposed at the Vulkan interface. You can transfer data from CPU to GPU via DMA or via shared memory. Memory can be mapped for bidirectional transfer, or for one-way transfer in either direction. Such transfers are slower than normal memory accesses. You can ask the GPU to read textures from CPU memory because GPU memory is full, which also carries a performance penalty. Or you can be on an "integrated graphics" machine where CPU and GPU share the same memory. Most hardware offers some, but not all, of those options.

This is why a lot of stuff still uses OpenGL, which hides all that.

(I spent a few years writing AutoCAD drivers for devices now best forgotten, and later trying to get 3D graphics to work on PCs in the 1990s. I got to see a lot of graphics boards best forgotten.)
by whiteandnerdy | 2025-05-20 21:16:57+00:00
Here is one - there are finitely many mathematical symbols (or at least, all mathematical symbols can be defined in terms of a finite core of symbols).

That means the set of all mathematical definitions is countable (i.e. you could assign a whole number to each one, putting them into an infinitely long ordered list).

However, the set of real numbers is uncountable (by Cantor's argument).

Therefore the vast majority of numbers ("almost all" numbers, in a mathematical sense) cannot be defined, even in principle.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-05-20 21:16:58+00:00
> When you see the delta between what's currently being burnt by OpenAI and what they bring home, the sweet point is going to be hard to find.

Moore's law should help as well, shouldn't it? GPUs will keep getting cheaper.

Unless the models also get more GPU hungry, but 2025-level performance, at least, shouldn't get more expensive.
by sokoloff | 2025-05-20 21:17:01+00:00
200 years ago, 80% of Americans worked in farming. 150 years ago, that was still over half. It’s now under 2%.

If you’ve seen the work hours and work ethic of farmers, it’s safe to say that most of those people got other jobs that take far less work than farmers did/do.

Closer to our field, I think we’d have far worse work lives (fewer of us employed and much lower pay) if we had to code everything in assembler still. The creation of more powerful abstractions and languages allowed more of us to become software devs and make a living this way than if all we had were the less productive tools of the early days of computing.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-20 21:17:13+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wendt

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/arts/television/george-we... | https://archive.today/scYm6

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/george-wendt-de...
by nico | 2025-05-20 21:17:39+00:00
Very cool idea, I wonder if that works better than their Postgres instances

Recently, I deployed a little side project using a small postgres vm on fly.io After a couple of days, and only having about 500kb of data stored in that db, the postgres vm went into an unrecoverable fail loop, saying it ran out of memory, restarting, then immediately running out of memory again, so on and so forth

It took about 3-4hrs to recover the data jumping through a lot of hoops to be able to access the data, copy it to another volume and finally download it

I would've reached for support, but it seems like the only option available is just posting on their forum. I saw a couple of related posts, all with unsatisfactory answers unfortunately

To be fair, it was incredibly easy to get up and running with them. On the other hand, almost all the time I saved by that quick start, was wasted recovering the failing db, all the while my site was down

Ironically, I originally developed the project using sqlite, but then switched to postgres to deploy
by coolhand2120 | 2025-05-20 21:17:43+00:00
Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System

The Sloot Digital Coding System is an alleged data sharing technique that its inventor claimed could store a complete digital movie file in 8 kilobytes of data — which, if true, would dramatically disprove Shannon's source coding theorem, a widely accepted principle of information theory that predicts how much data compression of a digital file is mathematically possible. The alleged technique was developed in 1995 by Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (27 August 1945, Groningen – 11 July 1999,[1] Nieuwegein), an electronics engineer from the Netherlands.[2] Several demonstrations of his coding system convinced high-profile investors to join his company, but a few days before the conclusion of a contract to sell his invention, Sloot died suddenly of a heart attack. The source code was never recovered, the technique and claim have never been reproduced or verified, and the playback device he used for demonstrations was found to have contained a hard disk drive, contrary to what he told investors.
by palmotea | 2025-05-20 21:18:27+00:00
> 1) The photo of Tony Bloncourt seems quite well preserved, and for whatever reason his style seems pretty modern. It somehow creates a bit of cognitive dissonance or something; how could he have been killed by Nazis, he looks like the subject of a modern drivers license photo.

I think it's sometimes easy to get tripped up by funny clothes or hairstyles, and forget the people in the past were just like us. But there are only so many ways one can do their hair, and an oddly contemporary hairstyle can pull us back to the reality we're not that different.
Show HN: Copilot Audit – PDF->Excel with AI
by miwend | 2025-05-20 21:19:17+00:00
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by oblio | 2025-05-20 21:19:24+00:00
That's step one, and you are right.

Step two is... sure, every pleb can now create art.

That devalues art. More than that, that makes for a "winner takes all" marketplace. So even fewer people than now benefit from it. More than that, guess who wins out: middlemen, the marketplace owners.

Read the Black Swan by Nassim Taleb, especially the chapters about Extremistan and Mediocristan. Basically every time we invent something that scales and unlocks something for a great amount of people, we commoditize it and the quality of life for the average person in that field goes down while the leeches, pardon me, the middle men, are the only ones that become constantly rich, after the initial struggle to achieve market dominance (so when the market matures).
by tzs | 2025-05-20 21:20:23+00:00
Here's the difference.

Musk's entire gesture matches a Nazi salute close enough that if you were making an animated documentary about WWII and needed some footage to rotoscope when animating Hitler and used the musk footage without credit no one would suspect you hand't used authentic Hitler footage.

Here's a post that shows side by side videos of Musk's gesture and several authentic Nazi salutes [1].

Nearly all of the "but Democrats did it too" or "but celebrities did it too" claims are stills showing an outstretched arm. When you find the video of the movements surrounding the arm being in that position that are nothing like Nazi salutes.

Here are several examples [2].

[1] https://x.com/BartoSitek/status/1882081868423860315?t=8F0hL-...

[2] https://x.com/ExposingNV/status/1881647306724049116?t=CGKtg0...
by dang | 2025-05-20 21:20:28+00:00
Discussed a couple weeks ago: Everyone is cheating their way through college - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43914834 - May 2025 (170 comments)

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by elcritch | 2025-05-20 21:20:49+00:00
> What "precise and accurate theory for protein folding" exists?

It’s called Quantum Mechanics.

> Nobody has been able to demonstrate convincingly that any simulation or theory method can reliably predict the folding trajectory of anything but the simplest peptides.

No we don’t have simplified models or specialized theories to reduce the computational complexity enough to efficiently solve the QM or even molecular dynamics systems needed to predict protein folding for more than the simplest peptides.

Granted, it’s common to mix up things and say that not having a computationally tractable models means we don’t have precise and accurate theory of PF. Something like [0] resulting in an accurate, precise, and fast theory of protein folding would be incredibly valuable. This however, may not be possible outside specific cases. Though I believe AlphaFold indicates otherwise as it appears life has evolved various building blocks which enable a simpler physics of PF tractable to evolutionary processes.

Quantum computing however could change that [1]. If practical QM is feasible that is, which it’s beginning to look more and more likely. Some say QC is already proven and just needs scaled up.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_funnel 1: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-021-00368-4
by asdff | 2025-05-20 21:20:54+00:00
This assumes no technological adaptions towards efficiency. Consider yourself walking a mile and the energy expenditure. It isn't insignificant. Now imagine you have a bicycle. Some bicyclists will train and do century rides, a distance that were never possible merely walking for a day. But these are few bikers overall, most will not maximize capability to that extent but will still be taking advantage of the efficiency of the bike.
by rayiner | 2025-05-20 21:22:11+00:00
That’s a different argument. The point above was that americans would not accept the quality of life sacrifice involved in manufacturing domestically. But they did quite recently, in a time period that is broadly viewed as a very good one.

Now you can argue that the cheaper prices we have today is even better and worth the lost factory work. But that’s a different argument than saying domestic manufacturing isn’t feasible, because it clearly is and we did it until recently.
by tcgv | 2025-05-20 21:22:39+00:00
China certainly can issue dollar bills more cheaply than the US and it already does in small size, but scaling that up would concentrate currency, rollover and sanctions risk on Beijing while simultaneously reinforcing the dollar system it ultimately wants to escape. The trade-off is therefore asymmetric: the political sting to Washington would be modest and reversible, whereas the balance-sheet, legal and geopolitical liabilities for China would linger long after the bonds are sold.
by echelon | 2025-05-20 21:23:03+00:00
> While wan and hunyuan are solid free options, the latest from Google and Runway

The Tencent Hunyuan team is cooking.

Hunyuan Image 2.0 [1] was announced on Friday and it's pretty amazing. It's extremely high quality text-to-image and image-to-image with millisecond latency [2]. It's so fast that they've built a real time 2D drawing canvas application with it that pretty much duplicates Krea's entire product offering.

Unfortunately it looks like the team is keeping it closed source unlike their previous releases.

Hunyuan 3D 2.0 was good, but they haven't released the stunning and remarkable Hunyuan 3D 2.5 [3].

Hunyuan Video hasn't seen any improvements over Wan, but Wan also recently had VACE [4], which is a multimodal control layer and editing layer. The Comfy folks are having a field day with VACE and Wan.

[1] https://wtai.cc/item/hunyuan-image-2-0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jIfZKMOKME&t=1351s

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1k8kj66/hu...

[4] https://github.com/ali-vilab/VACE
by teitoklien | 2025-05-20 21:23:04+00:00
Even the process is more democratized now, Want to learn coding ?

Build out your app idea first with replit -> Then export the codebase into your computer -> Run claude code on it and ask it to scan all the files and describe the tech stack to you and how it operates while giving you all the major components you need to learn to understand it with youtube channel and book recommendations for each topic + work exercises -> Use perplexity deep research once a week to further research every topic as you start to learn them

If you’re a busy man/woman make gumloop or lindyai workflow to check your calendar and pack in timeslots to do all of this learning, and then auto send you worksheets via email as homework to test you skills

All of this for a price of 1/15th of a college degree (not even an expensive college)

This is not hypothetical conjecture I do this daily.

So everyone has now 1) Low cost access to build stuff with one prompt to realise the value of tools 2) A personal tutor that can then help you scour the depths of the craft and force you to practice and learn deeply now with your added motivation of knowing what’s possible with building stuff

So it has the potential to connect us more too, it’s upto humans to choose whether they do at the end tho. That is their liberty.
by chadaustin | 2025-05-20 21:23:09+00:00
You are straight up wrong. The first computer I ever built was a Pentium 2, RivaTNT, and it had 640 MB RAM.

I can’t find the purchase receipts or specific board brand but it had four SDRAM slots, and I had it populated with 2x64 and 2x256.

Edit: Found it in some old files of mine:

I was wrong! Not four DIMM slots... three! One must have been 128 and the other two 256.

Pentium II 400, 512k cache Abit BF6 motherboard 640 MB PC100 SDRAM 21" Sony CPD-G500 (19.8" viewable, .24 dot pitch) 17" ViewSonic monitor (16" viewable, .27 dot pitch) RivaTNT PCI video card with 16 MB VRAM Creative SB Live! Creative 5x DVD, 32x CD drive Sony CD-RW (2, 4, 24) 80 GB Western Digital ATA/100 40 GB Western Digital ATA/100 17.2 GB Maxtor UltraDMA/33 HDD 10.0 GB Maxtor UltraDMA/33 HDD Cambridge SoundWorks FourPointSurround FPS2000 Digital 3Com OfficeConnect 10/100 EtherNet card 3 Microsoft SideWinder Gamepads Labtec AM-252 Microphone Promise IDE Controller card Hauppage WinTV-Theatre Tuner Card
by morkalork | 2025-05-20 21:23:32+00:00
I saw a reddit thread from sub about {specific retailer} in {specific geographical region} where the OP ends with ChatGPT's classic "Would you like some more variations of this text?" response and the whole damn thread was other users happily replying on topic, totally missing that OP was clearly a bot because they were probably bots too. But hey, they all get karma, all get activity and look they're members of {geographic region} so their opinions on future political threads in {region} are totally legit right?

But yeah, something something dead internet theory indeed.
by Qwertious | 2025-05-20 21:23:36+00:00
Most of the work was not done over two days, it says they did a bunch of prep work before the two days to minimize the downtime, and besides being done within two years they didn't specify how long the prep work.

As the Finns will presumably not permit Russia to do prep work on the rails in advance of their invasion, they'll have to do all that prep work after the invasion. The article doesn't say how long that two years of prep would actually take if needed ASAP, but if it would take a month then the Finns would have a huge boon.
by deceiving | 2025-05-20 21:23:39+00:00
Ebooks are way more convenient than print books. Plus you dont have to go through Amazon's system if you dont want to there are serveral alternative ereaders (kobo, pocketbook, boox).

Where are you getting inventing gripes from? Change font style and size is a major factor for many people along with weight. I started reading way more when I could use a ereader instead of print books.
by nico | 2025-05-20 21:24:27+00:00
That's so cool. Took me a bit to find the menu on the top left

Love that you can easily copy a link passing the equations as parameters

I copied the equation and created a quick jam here using emojis instead of dots: https://openjam.ai/stupid_coral_852/2fo5rq3clg/2

It does look better with little dots though: https://openjam.ai/stupid_coral_852/2fo5rq3clg/0

Thank you for sharing and the fun

Also, have no idea what equation this might be using, but it's a cool similarly-looking spinner: https://openjam.ai/lonely_ant_702/lxrav4006a/9
by godelski | 2025-05-20 21:24:52+00:00
I think we might be using "destroy" in different contexts. The ggp said

>>>> the premise that China wants to take over not destroy Taiwan.

Which I interpreted as "they want the territory, they do not want to make the area unusable". Given the context of nuclear power and the implication that attacking that nuclear power plant would lead to a nuclear exclusion zone across a significant region of such a small island, I'm not interpreting "destroy" as "bombs were dropped" or "some buildings were destroyed". It's pretty clear they mean "they don't want to scorch the earth and salt it so no one can use it ever again."

So, that's what you were responding to. The destruction you're referring to is "more" complete. Not

> famously not destructive towards infrastructure and people

This is certainly not the case and clearly not what is being referred to. You're right, that would be preposterous! But I'll suggest, if something sounds absolutely insane, chances are people are miscommunicating. Words hold multiple meanings after all...

I don't think it would be accurate to interpret them as saying there would be no blood spilt nor structure tumble. I think we all expect bombs to drop and bullets to fly in this conflict. So we should operate from this expectation.

But also, yes, there have been conquests that have been (almost) entirely peaceful. It's hard to be purely peaceful, but you could look at Russia's original invasion of Crimea. Only a few people were killed. But there are also examples of entire armies defecting or leaders deposed without killing them or destroying buildings. So even in the weaker usage of "destruction", yes, you can definitely conquer a territory without destroying a single building or a single life. Wikipedia even has a list of some of the more famous instances. You'll notice that in many cases control of territory changes[0].

Not to mention we have the entire class of conquests that are over uninhabited regions. But I think we'd agree that's out of scope of the conversation and not really relevant here. Just mentioning as we're talking about how easy it is to miscommunicate. Especially if we were to get into the complicated nature of determining what is a country or not. Taiwan being a perfect example, because clearly the PRC doesn't consider it a country while the ROC does.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bloodless_wars
by grep_name | 2025-05-20 21:25:39+00:00
Do you use guix? I've used nix for years now, and I really wanted to use guix instead, but I could never wrap my head around it for some reason. Once I installed nixOS, I felt like I could just kind of get rolling without the confusion. I couldn't tell you where that confusion comes from though.

However, after these last few years, I have a few gripes that I'd like to check with a guix user to see if they're represented in guix.

1) I can't easily pin a software I'm using to a specific version, it seems like everything has to be from a specific hash of nixpkgs

2) Relatedly, I can't upgrade firefox without upgrading every single piece of software installed on my computer

3) Dynamic linking doesn't work. I can get around it with steam-run, but that's hacky and I worry it won't be supported forever