MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trod1234 | 2025-06-12 18:14:00+00:00
> It took some work to get it done...

Except, this was just a temporary measure, and largely was rapidly undone through concerted effort from the Fed and its partner money-printers (following the abandonment of the sound dollar policy/petrodollar), along with the legislative repeal allowing stock buybacks, dark pool/PFOF takeover of the market, commodity warrant printing (money printing to suppress and yield farm differences), etc.

The can has been kicked down the road so many times, and as happens, eventually juggling all those up in the air causes multiple of them to drop at once and the dynamics of the resources needed to overcome become simply unavoidable.

Many believe that we'll simply fall back into a Gilded Age, but Socio-economic collapse with an immediate malthusian reversion following Catton's updated model is far more likely.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-06-12 18:14:02+00:00
I'm going off of what is in the article.

> The second way forward is performing massive changes and/or refactorings to the implementation of the compiler. However, that is of course challenging, for a number of reasons.

> if you change one thing at the “bottom” layer of the compiler, you will then have to go through hundreds of places and fix them up, and also potentially fix many test cases, which can be very time-consuming

> You can try to perform the modifications outside the main compiler tree, but that is almost doomed to fail. Or, you will need to do the migration incrementally, which might require maintaining two separate implementations of the same thing for a long time, which can be exhausting.

> this is a process that takes several years to finish. That’s the scale that we’re dealing with if we would like to perform some massive refactoring of the compiler internals

There are other easier paths to improving the build times for common developer workflows.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-06-12 18:14:17+00:00
So my, admittedly distant, understanding of modern Russia is that the FSB and Oligarchs have formed a symbiotic relationship, with Putin as its fulcrum.

The FSB secure the oligarchs, and prevent them from being prosecuted for siphoning off billions from the Russian economy. These get distributed down through to FSB leadership as bribes. The whole thing stays loyal to whatever leadership coalition keeps it going. Putin has proved quite good at that.

This arrangement is also underscored by a sort of modern descendent of Chekism. There's an ideological component besides all the corrupt money making.
by andsoitis | 2025-06-12 18:14:25+00:00
> wants to ship is more like glasses than a helmet. But the tech to achieve this isn’t there yet, and the current product is a necessary iteration to get to that future.

Why is that step necessary? How does it help on the path to glasses?

Why not develop glasses that can block out peripheral light, have all the sensors, need little power etc. before selling a helmet? Those seem like intractable problems to solve in a glasses or contact lens form factor so my prediction is it stays at the helmet design OR we jump to direct neural solution.

But all of this begs the question if use case still, which even at $500 or $1000 doesn’t seem compelling (with other VR and AR as proof points).
by kjkjadksj | 2025-06-12 18:14:54+00:00
This is part of it yes. But after sufficient housing stock is built for the available working population, prices generally reach an equilibrium around median worker pay in the area. And if the median worker pay is now inflated by tech salaries and you are are still a line cook, you’ve been screwed. The construction market will not respond by making housing until it is cheap and unsold enough to be affordable on your line cook salary. The construction companies would sooner take jobs in more lucrative markets. If you are a line cook where most everyone in the area is paid about as much as you on the other hand, you can probably afford a local mortgage.
by bytefactory | 2025-06-12 18:15:13+00:00
Can you clarify my understanding as a layman please?

Are you saying that LLMs hold concepts in latent space (weights?), but the actual predictions are always in tokens (thus inefficient and lossy), whereas JEPA operates directly on concepts in latent space (plus encoders/decoders)?

I might be using the jargon incorrectly!
by bytesandbots | 2025-06-12 18:15:14+00:00
Has the realism of AI already caught on to that of animated CGI movies?

I assume that an expert in CGI can point out obvious flaws in these outputs. But I wonder if it is possible to fix those details by prompting it to change only specific segments.

There is also the question of how much compute/money they are spending per second of output, compared to a high-budget Hollywood CGI.
by kccqzy | 2025-06-12 18:15:17+00:00
Yeah but as a new hire, one doesn't yet know whether there is a good explanation for using a non-git tool. It takes time to figure that out.

A legacy tool might be bad, or it might be very good but just unpopular. A company that devotes political will to modernize for the sake of modernizing is the kind of craziness we get in the JS ecosystem.
by Zak | 2025-06-12 18:15:21+00:00
GrapheneOS is the security-first Android distribution. It tends to drop support for older devices not long after official driver updates stop, because it's harder to ensure top-notch security in that case. The Pixel 5A is in "extended support", which is to say deprecated.

LineageOS is the broad-support Android distribution. Its current version supports all Pixel devices. Third parties have even built recent-ish versions for ancient devices (e.g. Android 13 on the Nexus 5).
by KwanEsq | 2025-06-12 18:16:13+00:00
Huh, once I saw the image with the discrepancies I immediately assumed 'ah, "Nothing Coming Soon" must be in the pre-gap of "Don't Need a Reason", especially with that track length, and the rip combined that into one music file', but no, turns out it just isn't defined in the disc metadata at all. Wonder if that's a (mastering?) error, given that the TITLE metadata doesn't even include it.
by curious_cat_163 | 2025-06-12 18:16:15+00:00
Nathan Lambert provides a counterpoint to the recent "The Illusion of Thinking" paper by Apple [1]:

"On one of these toy problems, the Tower of Hanoi, the models structurally cannot output enough tokens to solve the problem — the authors still took this as a claim that “these models cannot reason” or “they cannot generalize.” This is a small scientific error."

"it appears that a majority of critiques of AI reasoning are based in a fear of no longer being special rather than a fact-based analysis of behaviors."

[1]: https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06941
by awkwardpotato | 2025-06-12 18:16:34+00:00
> The space race never was about science and exploration

To just blatantly ignore the decades of widely documented science NASA has done or contributed to is wild. I understand it raises your taxes by 0.5%, but really?? NASA is responsible for a significant portion of what we know about space and our neighboring planets, and that's if you ignore the amount of research and discoveries they've made about Earth, the planet that "always will be" our home.

Even if you ignore the actual scientific discovers, NASA and the space race are (partially or) directly responsible for inventions that benefit your everyday life. CT Scans, improved insulin pumps, scratch-resistant lenses, baby formula, memory foam, etc. You can find a collection of their contributions to your life here[0], though the page seems broken for me.

In 2021, for every dollar we put into NASA, it generated ~$3 in economic value. To say all NASA does is build rockets is just incorrect, NASA's benefit comes from the science they actively do with satellites, telescopes, probes, rovers, etc.

> Sure, Voyager went somewhere, but it was all a cover.

Past a small "Trajectory Correction Maneuver" thruster (which was fired only in 2017 and then 1980 before that), Voyager 1 isn't a rocket or have any other military impact. I'd happily argue the Voyager program is one of the greats feats of human achievement in history. It's in interstellar space for crying out loud!

Frankly, why even call yourself a hacker if you're anti-scientific progress and anti-technology?

[0] https://spinoff.nasa.gov/
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-12 18:16:57+00:00
> Generally every state allocation of funds is presented as incredibly vital

It’s quite likely that many of them are actually vital, with long term costs outstripping short term savings from cuts to an enormous degree. Nobody is doing the math to figure this out, though. The cuts aren’t calculated, but instead wide and largely blind. Some kind of major fallout is unavoidable when operating in such a manner.

In reality the deepest savings to be had are probably in doing things like cracking down on endless chains of government subcontracting, ousting the numerous middlemen pocketing money the whole way, and cutting places where excess clearly leads to little or no return. That’s a lot of work and takes time, effort, and expertise and doesn’t make a voterbase-placating big media splash though, and so there’s no chance of that happening.
by lotharcable | 2025-06-12 18:17:02+00:00
I don't know a whole lot about it, but GSI is "Generic System Image".

If a phone has proper "Treble" support and the bootloader is unlocked then it is theoretically possible to install a GSI image on it.

Treble is a design approach for Android that separates "Vendor implementation" from the "OS framework". The Vendor implementation being the kernel components and low-level hardware specific stuff.

This is primarily intended to be used by application developers who want to test out new OS interfaces without going out a buying a new phone or waiting for a updated Pixel to come or or something like that.

LineageOS and some other third party roms produce "Generic Images" that are intended to be used in this fashion.

Based on what I read it is very hit or miss in practice. Vendor specific hardware features might not work. So you might be without some bluetooth support or VoLTE support. This isn't really needed to test application OS features, so for people using GSI for development it doesn't really matter a whole lot.

This isn't really useful for projects like Graphene OS who want to be able to make kernel level changes and updates to their systems. You end up stuck with whatever the vendor provided and it isn't really a useful way to extend the usefulness of devices.
by rockemsockem | 2025-06-12 18:17:10+00:00
NASA still sets requirements and invites several companies to compete for contracts with different solutions. See the lunar lander contracts from a few years ago for example.

You are ascribing beliefs to be based on others in this thread I think.

What I think is that if a company is going to build and provide the solution then they should own the design. NASA should of course get to be involved in reviews and discussions, which they absolutely fucking are, but I do not think that it makes sense for one organization to design something and the other one to build it as if there's like a hard line between these two activities.

I'm not convinced that is how it worked in the days of Apollo either as you've just asserted that without citation.
by huslage | 2025-06-12 18:17:35+00:00
You are oversimplifying here. I ALREADY paid for the weather balloons and they are no longer being launched. This is not privatization in the way that you seem to think it is. This is explicitly against the will of the people.

I'm fine if they want to make new weather balloons and sell them to people to launch for whatever reason they want. Selling what by law should be public data is anathema.
by Ray20 | 2025-06-12 18:17:45+00:00
I am not an American and may not understand what is going on inside, but from the outside it appears that you are simply engaging in political smears.

Authoritarianism means oppressing the masses, having an undemocratic government and acting against the will of the people. It happens in Venezuela. It happens in Turkey. It happens in Hungary. It doesn't happen in the US.

If anything, what is happening in the US is exactly the opposite: Trump, who won the popular vote, therefore a representative of the oppressed majority, is waging a war against their oppression (as masses seems it) by the authoritarian deep state.

If I go to any American factory right now and ask random blue-collar workers how they feel about, for example, public NASA's commitment to "unity, diversity and inclusion in workforce recruitment, hiring, training and management", what will be their average position on this question?

So if we try to be fair with terms, here it is quite obvious on which side we have an authoritarian institution, whose views are shared only by a narrow group of the elite and those sections of the population that receive money or are otherwise influenced by the authoritarian government, and which side is fighting against those authoritarianism
by api | 2025-06-12 18:17:46+00:00
If you think there's a long term interest in advancing space flight in general, and human space flight in particular, then yes. They directly and indirectly fund a ton of science around that, heavy lift rockets, and also a lot of aviation stuff that is not directly related to space but impacts things like research on more efficient faster air travel. It also gets into aviation medicine, etc.

NASA in general is a decent bargain. It's a lot of cutting edge science and engineering expertise for not a lot of money compared to the DoD/DARPA. Cutting it is part of the general national suicide agenda we seem to be in of trying to hollow out all the ways America actually still does lead the world in order to bring back lower value lower margin things America did well in the 1950s.
by whoisyc | 2025-06-12 18:17:50+00:00
They exert immense influence over the React ecosystem, even its documentation.

Example:

https://react.dev/learn/creating-a-react-app

If you are new to React and just figuring out how to get it running, you will likely end up on this page. The first recommendation is Next.js.

The real best way for a beginner to start is IMO Vite. Comes with everything you need to get started and lets you choose what to do next. Curiously, the link to Vite only appears at the very bottom of the page and is implied to be only for those not already served by other options. Wink wink nudge nudge.
by mindslight | 2025-06-12 18:18:07+00:00
> modern American conservatism is now defined by hating everything that liberals love

Please stop giving this movement a disguise by continuing to call it conservatism. I know that word has had negative connotations to a large segment of liberals/progressives, but conservatism actually has a bunch of worthwhile values - despite being harmful when taken to the extreme, like everything.

What we're dealing with now is better described as populist reactionary fascism. There is nothing conservative about it beyond that the people supporting it used to align with conservatism but then got really angry because their fundamentalist mantras didn't pan out. The current home of actual conservatism is the Democratic party, who still have values like believing in American institutions and America being a force for good in the world.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-06-12 18:18:16+00:00
I was close to moving to Pitt a while back and was stunned when the house I was looking at doubled in price in less than 6 months...

Indianapolis has been going through the same thing (we are getting some of the overflow from the housing crunch in Nashville, etc.)

I snagged a house at a decent price last year after looking for over a decade.
by tripdout | 2025-06-12 18:18:19+00:00
The fact that you could buy a Pixel (or Nexus), real hardware sold to consumers as a phone, download AOSP (and proprietary blobs), and get a working build with all hardware supported with no additional work was super appreciated.

Cuttlefish, while it may be a more effective reference device, just doesn't accomplish the same thing because Pixels were used for more than just as a reference target (e.g. GrapheneOS).

Plus, there's just something cooler about running your own build of Android on real hardware v.s. a VM.
by martythemaniak | 2025-06-12 18:18:24+00:00
> creating an unprecedented crisis

Nope, that's just your brain on right wing propaganda. Nothing of the sort has happened to justify throwing away the rule of law as this administration is doing. It is like murdering someone because you're annoyed that they chew with their mouth open, just an absolutely, wildly disproportionate response to what has happened. Coincidentally (to riff on the GP) it is almost word-for-word the propaganda Orban used in the mid 2010s to consolidate his authoritarian rule of Hungary.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-12 18:18:25+00:00
That’s what I’ve done: made repeating tasks in OmniFocus to handle it. It’s a little janky, and I can imagine a bunch of ways a trusted CRM could help with that, like seeing from my phone and message all logs that I’ve talked to them or texted them recently and marking it “done” automatically. Or maybe letting me create an “old friends” tag or group that managed all the reminders for me automatically. Maybe even local AI’s summary of our last chat in a contact’s notes.

But those are just nice-to-haves. Given that I do not trust Automattic to the level I’d need for those features, I’ll just keep slogging away in my to-do manager.
by inetknght | 2025-06-12 18:18:34+00:00
I think there's high value in understanding and experiencing zero gravity in a relatively low-risk mission.

Forget Mars. I'd love to live in space. Having people in space would solve a lot of Earthly problems (and yes create a whole bunch of new ones). But it'd be cool.

Is there a problem with things being cool even if perhaps low-valued by other measures of value?
by panstromek | 2025-06-12 18:19:01+00:00
There are many more mundane examples of language design choices in rust that are problematic for compile time. Polymorphization (which has big potential to speed up compile time) has been blocked on pretty obscure problems with TypeId. Procedural macros require double parsing. Ability to define items in function bodies prevents skipping parsing bodies. Those things are not essential, they could pretty easily be tweaked to be less problematic for compile time without compromising anything.
by suriya-ganesh | 2025-06-12 18:19:27+00:00
This is a problem that occurs across game development to ML datasets.

We built oxen to solve this problem https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen (I work at Oxen.ai)

Source control for large data. Currently our biggest repository is 17 TB. would love for you to try it out. It's open source, so you can self host as well.
by ransom1538 | 2025-06-12 18:19:38+00:00
Why can't companies be honest with being down. It helps us all out so we don't spend an hour internalizing.

We are truly in gods hands.

$ prod

Fetching cluster endpoint and auth data. ERROR: (gcloud.container.clusters.get-credentials) ResponseError: code=503, message=Visibility check was unavailable. Please retry the request and contact support if the problem persists
by spmurrayzzz | 2025-06-12 18:19:53+00:00
Absolutely agree with that last sentiment. Recently I came across a project by a former google engineer called Dyad: https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad

This is built to be a lovable/bolt alternative and is definitely on the early side in terms of total capability and reliability. But once you start digging through the source you realize how much engineering actually went into building it. Not just chaining prompts together in a dart throwing exercise and praying for a good result.

This is much closer to the "turnkey" solution vertical I mentioned in my earlier commentary, since its meant to generically build any web app, but there's a few applied concepts that are shared with the promptyped approach used in the HTTP/2 server (though not as sophisticated when compared to the category theory / type theory approach).

I think it's a good example to work backwards from though, if you peel the onion a bit you realize how much more tightly you could scope this for more bespoke projects.
by platevoltage | 2025-06-12 18:19:57+00:00
I definitely hear you on this. I, like most people my age came into coding when it was mostly high level (Javascript, python, etc), yet I watch YouTube videos about things like NES programming using 6502 assembly. Part of me yearns for a time I didn't get to experience where we were closer to the hardware. Screaming at an LLM for giving me outdated methods to a library I'm trying to implement isn't in my ideal workday.

So far, the AI revolution has only given me more work. People have come at me with applications that are 80% done (really more like 50%) that they "vibe coded" and need an actual programmer to finish. These apps would most likely just be a spark in someone's imagination pre-AI.

In a way, this is a positive. I can't say it's been more fun though.
by rockemsockem | 2025-06-12 18:20:47+00:00
NASA still makes these competitive contracts though and picks among several contractors. Afterwards NASA is still involved in design through reviews and other lines of communication.

Using your analogy, if I do hire a contractor I'll talk with them a lot about what they're going to do and make sure it's generally in line with what I want, but they're generating most of the ideas and just incorporating what I say.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-12 18:20:57+00:00
This kind of comment is funny because it reveals how uninformed people can be while having a strong opinion on a topic.

Yes grammar can impact how theoretically fast a compiler can be, and yes the type system ads more or less works depending on how it's designed, but none of these are what makes Rust compiler slow. Parsing and lexing are negligible fraction of compile time, and typing isn't particularly heavy in most cases (with the exception of niches crates who abuse the Turing completeness of the Trait system). You're not going to make big gains by changing these.

The massive gains are to be made later in the pipeline (or earlier, by having a way to avoid re-compiling pro macros and their dependencies before the actual compilation can even start).
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-12 18:21:08+00:00
They put airports where there is room to put them. Frequently that means that they are well outside cities since finding space for a few 2 mile runways in the city is difficult.

However, there are plenty of airports in major cities and built up areas (in both developed and developing countries), and I have never heard of avoiding building in areas due to the (remote) possibility of crashes.
by kiitos | 2025-06-12 18:21:36+00:00
It turns out that the process of "tapping out characters" is (a) never any kind of bottleneck for meaningful product velocity in any kind of meaningful system; and (b) actually important for engineers to do in order to understand the system that they're expected to maintain.

If (a) isn't true for you, then you're operating in a pathological environment, context, organization, etc. which isn't representative of any kind of broader industry experience.

And (b) is usually clear to anyone who's, for example, taken a university course, and compared the efficacy of manual note-taking vs. (say) automatic transcriptions from lectures. The process of parsing the lecture through your brain and into notes that you write yourself, turns out to be essential to information retention and conceptual understanding.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-06-12 18:22:01+00:00
For starters, I think it's a matter of excitement and interest. People still enjoy unmanned missions to a point, but I think for the less technical crowd actually seeing people out there in space doing new things is exciting. I think if you told people cutting NASA would mean no more probes sent to Mars they'd shrug. If you told them it was cancelling a manned mission to Mars and showed them the faces of the people training to do it...they'd care a lot more. It adds a human element people can relate to.

Plus, adding people into the equation makes it a lot harder. Harder problems mean more creative solutions are required, which means an opportunity to learn.