MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by naasking | 2025-06-26 01:19:55+00:00
> All of these working together means that each year the act of having a child is much more deliberate and the parents likely having more resources. Which in turn should mean fewer youth delinquency, which as the article notes is how most in prison started out.

Or the less popular more controversial hypothesis: the steepest decline in births is among the poor, a population with, on average, worse impulse control and more issues with mental health, and since all qualities are at least partly heritable...

Surprisingly, the fertility rate among the affluent does not appear to be nearly as impacted.
by Thaxll | 2025-06-26 01:20:10+00:00
Those benchmark don't show anything interesting, where is the 2k, 4k, raytracing etc.. show us modern UE5 games, Ubisoft / EA games ect ...

From my personal experience overall games run much much better on Windows ( 10 or 11 ).

Edit: ok I just noticed the title is missleading, it's for handled device not pc.
by agentkilo | 2025-06-26 01:20:35+00:00
Yeah that part of the article put a big smile on my face.

I did the same thing back in college, when I was in a lab. We wanted to do some research on Wi-Fi signals, and I happened to own a bunch of Wi-Fi adaptors produced by SomeSmallTech Co. Ltd., which featured relatively new Atheros chips and didn't have Linux drivers at the time.

So I sent an email to the company's public email address, asking for some datasheets, "for science". To my disappointment, presumably a PR person replied that they "don't have a company policy to collaborate with academic research". (But they did send a quick reply, kudos to that.)

Funnily enough, years later I ended up working for said company. Naturally, when I first logged into the company network, I searched for the datasheets I asked for. There were "classified" watermarks all over the PDFs :)
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-06-26 01:21:17+00:00
I am of two minds of it having now seen both good coders augmented by AI and bad coders further diminished by it ( I would even argue its worse than stack overflow, because back then they would at least would have had to adjust code a little bit ).

I am personally somewhere in the middle, just good enough to know I am really bad at this so I make sure that I don't contribute to anything that is actually important ( like QEMU ).

But how many people recognize their own strengths and weaknesses? That is part of the problem and now we are proposing that even that modicum of self-regulation ( as flawed as it is ) be removed.

FWIW, I hear you. I also don't have an answer. Just thinking out loud.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-26 01:22:56+00:00
The guardian works because it has a reach far beyond the UK for having a clear progressive identify and deep insights. They're a paper that still does what it should. Most don't. I've subscribed for a while too but I dropped it during Brexit. I'm not in or from the UK and I got sick of reading about Brexit every day and Boris Johnson asking the EU for things he knew he couldn't possibly have (like the separation of goods and services market)
by ThatPlayer | 2025-06-26 01:23:03+00:00
Communities with dedicated servers include anti-cheat though. Most people aren't interested in spending time moderating a player base: they'd rather just play the game. So server admins use anti-cheat.

You can see this in existing games with current games with community servers. GTA V's modded FiveM and CS2 Face-IT include more anti-cheats, not less.
by mightybyte | 2025-06-26 01:23:17+00:00
It definitely has things in common with meetup.com. But it looks meaningfully distinct to me because the appear to specifically have some kind of strong preference against connected devices. Honestly, I've been wishing for things in this vein recently because of the feeling that our world is growing too superficial with our faces buried in phones and being fed by addictive algorithms.

That being said, I think you're right about some of the challenges that an effort like this will encounter.
by wonderwonder | 2025-06-26 01:23:20+00:00
Yes. You can order a significant variety of antibiotics over the counter / web in the US. I have 2 Z-Paks, a bottle of Amoxicillin and a bottle of Doxycycline sitting in my medical drawer. You can order them legally via US based online pharmacies. If you are an adult you should have the freedom to treat yourself. Freedom does not absolve you of responsibility though. If I mess myself up I have no one to blame but myself.
by al_borland | 2025-06-26 01:23:20+00:00
I tried using an LLM to give me various information for a given input. I gave in the parameters of what I was looking for, then told it what data I would provide with each subsequent message for it to process independently based on the initial directive. After 4 or 5 I noticed an error, and things quickly went downhill, as the context from various entries was mixing in with the current one and it started to get more and more confused as I tried to point it back in the right direction. I ended up giving up and doing it all manually.

It sounds like we may have hit similar limits, using slightly different means to get there.
by chubot | 2025-06-26 01:23:58+00:00
There seem to be a bunch of toxic people on the bash mailing list, and I think many or all of them don't even contribute code

The person who responded dismissively later says "I'm just another user."

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Every commit since they started using git in 2009 is attributed to one person:

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/log/

I think occasionally contributed patches are applied, but this is not apparent in source control.

I was attacked on the bash mailing list a several years ago, so I don't go there anymore :-)
by const_cast | 2025-06-26 01:24:22+00:00
I would agree it's not just hardware, software also plays a role. Tons of background services connected to the internet are going to drain battery like crazy, we learned this with mobile phones a decade ago.

However, I'm not convinced MacOS is much better than Windows here. I'm sure It's a little bit better though - I've never seen MacOS pinned at 100% CPU usage doing seemingly nothing.
by zamadatix | 2025-06-26 01:24:47+00:00
YouTube ran an experiment with up to 4x playback on mobile (???) but it went away in February. I get a lot of the experiments they do being experiments but why just allowing the slider to go farther is such a back and forth hoopla is beyond me. It's one of the oft touted features of 3rd party apps and extensions with nearly 0 UI impact to those who don't want to use it (just don't slide the slider past 2x if you don't want past 2x).

https://www.theverge.com/news/603581/youtube-premium-experim...
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-26 01:24:52+00:00
Yes I subscribed too in the past. Few good news sources that are as aligned with me. I dropped them during Brexit though, i got sick of the topic. And never subscribed physically, too difficult and annoying when not living in the UK.

But Brexit moved me from a slight "like" of the UK to a definite "dislike" and I've cut most of my ties with it.

The guardian suffered. I might have stayed if they'd made a Brexit-news-free front-page but that must have been a sensitive topic inside the UK. Sometimes their front page was half Brexit news and I was so sick of it.
by jitl | 2025-06-26 01:26:26+00:00
It doesn't make sense to benchmark a handheld gaming device w/ a native screen resolution of 1920x1200 at 2k or 4k. Likewise setting any graphics settings "extreme" like raytracing - it will run at slideshow speeds no matter what operating system. Besides, DOOM: The Dark Ages is a top tier graphics title released a month and a half ago; I think the selection of titles is decent for capability of the device.
by airhangerf15 | 2025-06-26 01:28:02+00:00
I took it to mean this particular accident was due to FSD, but he's never had other accidents in the past where the driver told them it was FSD related.

Why do you find that hard to understand?

Maybe the heavy wrecker was unnecessary, but I can also understand not want to take a chance. Thermal runaway fires are no joke. The railway probably didn't want to deal with that possibility.
by Aeolun | 2025-06-26 01:28:17+00:00
This seems absolutely impossible to enforce. All my editors give me AI assisted code hints. Zed, cursor, VS code. All of them now show me autocomplete that comes from an LLM. There's absolutely no distinction between that code, and code that I've typed out myself.

It's like complaining that I may have no legal right to submit my stick figure because I potentially copied it from the drawing of another stick figure.

I'm firmly convinced that these policies are only written to have plausible deniability when stuff with generated code gets inevitably submitted anyway. There's no way the people that write these things aren't aware they're completely unenforceable.
by kazinator | 2025-06-26 01:28:29+00:00
In the first place, in order to post to StackOverflow, you are required to have the copyright over the code, and be able to grant them a perpetual license.

They redistribute the material under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

This allows visitors to use the material, with attribution. One can, of course, use the ideas in a SO answer to develop one's own solution.
by rapind | 2025-06-26 01:29:02+00:00
> If a project successfully excludes AI contributions (not clear how other than controlling contributions to a tight group of anti-AI fanatics), it's just going to be cloned, and the clones will leave it in the dust.

Yeah I don’t think so. But if it does then who cares? AI can just make a better QEMU at that point I guess.

They aren’t hurting anyone with this stance (except the AI hype lords), which I’m pretty sure isn’t actually an anti-AI stance, but a pragmatic response to AI slop in its current state.
by kgwxd | 2025-06-26 01:29:10+00:00
Too much of life is already tied to a screen. I spent the last few years sitting in front of "offline" computers seeking fun and relaxation. I got all kinds of cool stuff for Atari 2600, bought a Commander X16, even learned how to program for both. Ultimately, it just feels like everything else in life now, but harder.

Anyone interested in buying a bunch of retro stuff? :)
by jeremy151 | 2025-06-26 01:29:33+00:00
> If you want safe and really high quality medical care you should absolutely have a personal physician you have a personal relationship with, who understands your lifestyle, your risk factors for side effects, and your medical needs deeply. How many Americans have that? Maybe a few dozen?

A bit of a tangent: I have this here in the US, through a model called Direct Primary Care. I pay $50/mo for a single provider, unlimited visits / communication, and highly discounted labs. She makes house calls on occasion. This doctor is working solely in my interest, and has little concern of insurance, except to help me navigate that system should I need a specialist, prior authorization, etc.

I do worry that it's sustainable, but I think there must by a way to scale up this practice of the general practitioner working in the interest of the patient.

My previous doctor was part of a large health system, who also happens to be directly associated with the large regional insurance provider whom my employer supplied to me without another choice. Every 8 minute visit centered around insurance and billing, with my health seeming to be a distant second. It seemed every visit had to end in some kind of prescription or referral, arrived at quickly and without much discussion. It quickly became clear they were not working in my interest, and I sought other options, eventually landing on the Direct Primary Care model. Now I have full 1 hour visits, and someone who seeks to understand what is happening for me completely, not through the lens of a payer.
by naasking | 2025-06-26 01:29:58+00:00
Perhaps, some fraction of the laser energy beamed to move the sail is redirected directly in front of the spacecraft to vaporize any dust particles in its path. Fragments of a circular sail could be angled in the right way so as to take some fraction of the light's momentum in its desired direction with the rest reflected at an angle to clear the opposite side of the sail. For a circular sail you'd then get a circular "clearance beam" of sorts.
by jitl | 2025-06-26 01:30:25+00:00
Microsoft is partnering with Asus to make the ROG Xbox Ally, which will run a stripped down Windows 11 that boots straight into the "Xbox" app, and you can switch to "desktop mode" much like how SteamOS / Steam Deck works. At least on Deck, it only boots the KDE desktop environment up when you switch to desktop mode so you aren't wasting resources on a windowing system you'll never see. It sounds like Microsoft is planning a similar setup, but only time will tell how much they manage to avoid enshittifying the plan.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-26 01:30:26+00:00
> I might not get hired by startups or FAANG for being in cruising mode

There is “One Weird Trick” to getting hired at FAANG as an old guy. Don’t try to get in as a software engineer. Amazon, Google and Microsoft all have cloud Professional Services department where they value a combination of technical knowledge, leadership, and communication skills and you don’t have to do the leetCode grind. They are all full time positions working directly for the companies with the same (but usually about 20% lower) compensation packages with cash + RSUs.

They are positions like Solution Architects, Account Managers, Engagement Managers, Sales, and billable consultants.

That’s how I got into AWS at 46 (no longer there) and until last year at least, Google/GCP was hiring former and current AWS ProServe employees like crazy. I ignored their outreaches because at 51 I would rather get an anal probe with a cactus than ever work at BigTech or any large company again and definitely won’t be going back into an office.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no issues with business travel (been there done that).

While I am still officially an IC these days, I spend most of my time either leading implementations, doing discovery sessions as a post sales architect and some hands on work when necessary.
by rklaehn | 2025-06-26 01:30:46+00:00
Yes. Iroh itself provides direct QUIC connections. iroh-blobs is a protocol on top of iroh that provides content-addressed data transfer of BLAKE3 hashed data.

What you describe sounds like https://www.dumbpipe.dev/ , a tool/demo built on top of iroh to provide a bidirectional pipe across devices, somewhat like netcat.

Dumbpipe also has a mode where it listens on a port using TCP.

It sounds like you want to basically build dumbpipe for UDP. You can of course use a QUIC stream, but QUIC has an extension, which we support, to send datagrams: https://docs.rs/iroh/latest/iroh/endpoint/struct.Connection....

This basically allows you to opt out of QUIC streams, but you still do get TLS encryption.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-26 01:30:58+00:00
Related to the API part, I was browsing and noticed that https://infuze.cloud/docs/api#/Virtual%20Machines/post_vms references templateVMID but https://infuze.cloud/docs/api#/Templates/get_templates shows only "get" so is the template just for quick-start scenarios or users could [eventually] create their own?
by TheBozzCL | 2025-06-26 01:31:12+00:00
I’ve been gaming on Linux for quite a while, and it’s overall been a great experience.

I mean, at least until last week, when I bought myself a new top-of-the-line laptop. I’ve been distro-hopping trying to find something that works and everything failed in its own annoying way. Part of it is because I stubbornly decided to stick to Wayland because I really wanted to use my laptop’s HDR display to the fullest.

Nobara KDE had serious issues handling hybrid GPU mode. The SDR color profile of my built-in display got completely borked - worked fine in HDR or plugged in to a display. But then I had serious graphical artifacts when I plugged in my display with VRR disabled! They went away when I enabled VRR, but the flickering was really bad. All of this went away if I switched my laptop to dGPU mode, but grub stopped showing anything and I couldn’t reach the UEFI anymore unless I removed the SSD.

Next I tried Garuda Dragonized Gaming. The styling is atrocious IMO, but I really liked the OS management tools. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it to recognize the dGPU, so I moved on.

Next I tried Bazzite. I was very impressed by how well everything worked and performed! Atomic Linux made some of my regular setup more complicated, but the challenge was interesting. But then I decided to unplug it from my dock, and I discovered that the kernel was rebooting the built-in keyboard constantly, making it impossible to type anything.

I decided to go back to my go-to safe choice, Pop!_OS. Installation went smoothly as usual, I even followed a tutorial to use Btrfs which I really like. Everything worked great until I plugged in my monitor and the whole system started stuttering.

I decided to give up for now, I installed Windows again and applied Atlas OS to it to trim down the annoying stuff. After some tweaking I got the battery life to something that seems reasonable. Games work as expected, and I’m mostly done finding alternatives to some of my personal setup quirks.

I want to be clear: my switch to Windows is temporary until fixes for the issues I experienced start to surface. My laptop model is very recent, and I don’t have the know how or time to dig deeply into all of these issues. I’ll probably be sick of Windows in 6 months, ready for round 2.
by alganet | 2025-06-26 01:31:40+00:00
In corporate, you are _forced_ to trust your coworker somehow and swallow it. Specially higher-ups.

In free software though, these kinds of nonsense suggestions always happened, way before AI. Just look at any project mailing list.

It is expected that any new suggestion will encounter some resistance, the new contributor itself should be aware of that. For serious projects specifically, the levels of skepticism are usually way higher than corporations, and that's healthy and desirable.
by classichasclass | 2025-06-26 01:32:19+00:00
I can't agree with you there, because if you're treating with the wrong dose or for the wrong length of time, you run the risk of making that infection resistant. For communicable illnesses, that can be a risk for others. But I appreciate your honesty.

I should also add that those pharmacies, if they are based on the United States, invariably have a licensed provider in there signing off (they would be illegal otherwise).
by const_cast | 2025-06-26 01:33:12+00:00
The problem is that our current tax system incentivizes the kind of venture-capital fueled market manipulation we see. Companies actively try to optimize for the lowest amount of profit, similarly to how the ultra-wealthy try to optimize for the lowest income.

We have some methods to address predatory pricing but I think it's obvious they pretty much don't work on any scale that matters. When I look around the modern US, I see the least amount of successful small businesses I've ever seen in my lifetime. We're living in a corporate hellscape, and more and more business look to rent-seeking anti-consumerist behavior.
by cryptica | 2025-06-26 01:33:25+00:00
I suspect hallucinations in LLMs are the result of contradictions in their training sets which were trained into it.

I suspect it's just like with humans. People who learn quickly and don't carefully curate their knowledge to resolve contradictions as they learn, they tend to make similar mistakes when it comes to subjects which they did not invest much time fully studying.

If I was an AI researcher, what I would try to do is find the highest quality information possible concerning very few axiomatic topics, with as few contradictions as possible, then train it into the LLM until it can generate text and basic reasoning which is fully accurate... Then once we have this basic but fully rational AI, start feeding it new data but, before giving it any piece of data to learn from, you first ask the AI to indicate if this new data contradicts any of its current knowledge. You only let it update its weights with the new data as-is if it does not contradict its existing knowledge. If it does contradict its existing knowledge, either discard it or maybe feed it the data but with some synthetic preamble like "Some people believe that..." so that it's aware of the existence of this belief system but knows that it's not to be internalized as its own beliefs.

Or maybe there is a way to do this to detect contradictions by looking at the weights themselves. You can rollback a round of training if the weights update in a way which suggests that a conflicting piece of information was learned in a specific round of training. Maybe there can be a different ANN which looks at the weights of the LLM during training and it was trained to detect contradictions and decides when to rollback a round of training.
by II2II | 2025-06-26 01:35:31+00:00
In times past, we used to have things like clubs and user groups. For the most part, they held open meetings. Anyone could attend without commitment. These meeting not only served the interests of members and the community, but they also served to engage people who would become members. Members paid dues. Dues paid the bills.

If it was a community based organization (ham radio, open source developers, etc.) and the membership worked out outreach, you could usually find someone who would provide a meeting space. Perhaps it would be at a local business. Perhaps it would be at a local university. Perhaps it would be at a local community centre or library. Even if you did have to pay for the space, there were typically a lot of inexpensive spaces to rent for an hour or two. But the key word is community based. There was always a surplus of space if you knew where to look and who to ask. Some people were willing to donate it and others were willing to let it be used for a nominal fee.

That seemed to change 10 or 20 years ago. I'm not quite sure as to the reason why.
by mulmboy | 2025-06-26 01:36:55+00:00
I gave it a shot just now with a fairly simple refactor. +19 lines, -9 lines, across two files. Totally ballsed it up. Defined one of the two variables it was meant to, referred to the non-implemented one. I told it "hey you forgot the second variable" and then it went and added it in twice. Added comments (after prompting it to) which were half-baked, ambiguous when read in context.

Never had anything like this with claude code.

I've used Gemini 2.5 Pro quite a lot and like most people I find it's very intelligent. I've bent over backwards to use Gemini 2.5 Pro in another piece of work because it's so good. I can only assume it's the gemini CLI itself that's using the model poorly. Keen to try again in a month or two and see if this poor first impression is just a teething issue.

I told it that it did a pretty poor job and asked it why it thinks that is, told it that I know it's pretty smart. It gave me a wall of text and I asked for the short summary

> My tools operate on raw text, not the code's structure, making my edits brittle and prone to error if the text patterns aren't perfect. I lack a persistent, holistic view of the code like an IDE provides, so I can lose track of changes during multi-step tasks. This led me to make simple mistakes like forgetting a calculation and duplicating code.