MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jchw | 2025-06-15 04:35:47+00:00
I still find their delay with properly investing in ROCm on client to be rather shocking, but in fairness they did finally announce that they would be supporting client cards on day 1[1]. Of course, AMD has to keep the promise for it to matter, but they really do seem to, for whatever reason, finally realized just how important it is that ROCm is well-supported across their entire stack (among many other investments they've announced recently.)

It's baffling that AMD is the same company that makes both Ryzen and Radeon, but the year-to-date for Radeon has been very good, aside from the official ROCm support for RDNA4 taking far too long. I wouldn't get overly optimistic; even if AMD finally committed hard to ROCm and Radeon it doesn't mean they'll be able to compete effectively against NVIDIA, but the consumer showing wasn't so bad so far with the 9070 XT and FSR4, so I'm cautiously optimistic they've decided to try to miss some opportunities to miss opportunities. Let's see how long these promises last... Maybe longer than a Threadripper socket, if we're lucky :)

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-H2-2025
by luckydev | 2025-06-15 04:36:55+00:00
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by kristianp | 2025-06-15 04:38:39+00:00
It was actually 2016 with spelling fixes in 2018. They still missed a couple of errors:

"comparing two substrings is expansive" -> expensive

And:

"memcmp costs are simply ridden off" -> written

Interesting how bad buldozer was for stdlib, but with SSE2 it was more competitive with Westmere.
by hidelooktropic | 2025-06-15 04:39:14+00:00
The Uber comfort designation frustratingly has nothing to do with the condition of the vehicle. I believe the parameters are age, seats, and model.

From the driver's point of view, it just means that you are allowed to accept comfort rides but most of the time you're probably going to be picking up UberX passengers which are more plentiful. That means you're only slightly more likely to get one of the good comfort vehicles if you actually select the comfort tier.
by gblargg | 2025-06-15 04:39:36+00:00
I once did a chargeback of almost $5k to PayPal when someone scammed me (and PayPal sided with scammer). I still have my account, though I don't use it for anything I'd actually need protection on now.

On the other hand I did get banned from an online local selling site (rhymes with Canary) for charging back a small purchase where the wrong thing was delivered and their system for reporting it was broken and they refused to refund. I even tried having a roommate create an account (same address) and they banned that when they made a purchase.
by luckydev | 2025-06-15 04:39:41+00:00
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by bastawhiz | 2025-06-15 04:40:06+00:00
Certainly many cultures and religions believe in some flavor of intelligent design, but you could argue that if the natural world (for what we generally regard as "the natural world") is created by the same entity or entities that created humans, that doesn't make humans artificial. Ignoring the metaphysical (souls and such) I'm struggling to think of a culture that believes the origin of humans isn't shared by the world.

In this case, I was thinking of unusual beliefs like aliens creating humans or humans appearing abruptly from an external source such as through panspermia.
by Freedom2 | 2025-06-15 04:40:19+00:00
That's a fantastic outcome, and honestly, a bit of a unicorn from my perspective here in the US. Your story about the Australian Consumer Law having actual teeth is a breath of fresh air. Here in the US, it feels like we're playing a whole different ball game, and the house (of Google) always wins.

A buddy of mine, let's call him "Dave," had a strikingly similar issue with a Pixel phone a couple of years back. His device started bootlooping out of the blue about 18 months after he bought it. Not exactly what you'd call a "premium" experience. He went through the standard support rigmarole, which I'm sure you're familiar with – the endless chat bots, the canned email responses, the escalations to senior support agents who just read from the same script. The final word from on high was, "Sorry, you're out of the one-year warranty. We can't help you."

Dave, being the stubborn engineer type, decided he wasn't going to take that lying down. He'd read about people having success in small claims court and thought, "How hard can it be?" He did his homework, found the correct legal entity for Google in his state, and filed the paperwork. The filing fee wasn't outrageous, something like $75. He wasn't asking for the moon, just the cost of a replacement phone and the filing fee.

This is where the story takes a decidedly American turn. A few weeks after filing, he didn't get a settlement offer. Instead, he got a thick envelope from a fancy law firm. It was a motion to compel arbitration. Buried deep in the terms of service that we all click "agree" to without reading, there was, of course, a binding arbitration clause. And not just any arbitration, but one that would be conducted by an arbitrator of Google's choosing, in a location convenient for them (Northern California, naturally), and he'd have to split the cost of the arbitrator, which can run into thousands of dollars.

So, his $75 gamble to get a new phone suddenly had the potential to turn into a multi-thousand-dollar boondoggle. The letter from the lawyers was polite, but the message was clear: "drop this, or we'll bury you in legal fees." They weren't just trying to avoid paying for a faulty phone; they were making an example of him.

Dave folded. He couldn't afford to take the risk. So, not only did he not get his phone replaced, but he was also out the filing fee and a good chunk of his time and energy. He ended up just buying an iPhone out of spite.
by ghushn3 | 2025-06-15 04:40:55+00:00
> extremely dangerous neighborhood

I've lived in urban areas my whole life. Including some of the largest cities in North America. While there's places I consider higher risk, and routes I wouldn't typically take, simply existing in some neighborhood in Milwaukee isn't some existential threat to life and limb.

Keep your head down and walk a few blocks to somewhere safer and get a cab/uber/lyft out of there if needed.

Heck, book another Uber, you know at least one driver is in the neighborhood.
by data_maan | 2025-06-15 04:41:38+00:00
This is as much about Uber/Lyft, as it is about the (nonexistent) level of politeness in the vest (US+Europe).

Have you ever taken a Uber in Japan? The driver will make him/herself invisible. The space in the car is, factually, your space. No phone conversations on their part, no music, no odours.

Waymo won't thrive in Japan, because it offers nothing extra advantages to regular Uber.

We suck in the west in terms of customer friendliness.
by bradley13 | 2025-06-15 04:42:16+00:00
But do you know what it means to know?

I'm only being slightly sarcastic. Sentience is a scale. A worm has less than a mouse, a mouse has less than a dog, and a dog less than a human.

Sure, we can reset LLMs at will, but give them memory and continuity, and they definitely do not score zero on the sentience scale.
by b2fel | 2025-06-15 04:42:31+00:00
>I’ve always been a good deal better (maybe a couple hundred ELO points) at blitz (3+0 or 5+0) than bullet (1+0).

I believe this is just due to how the ELO system works on sites like lichess and chess.com - you can also see the difference between blitz and rapid, and rapid and classic, and it's the case for EVERY player.
by vunderba | 2025-06-15 04:42:36+00:00
So? My point wasn't that they were capable of EVERYTHING - it was addressing what looked like to me (and likely to any casual observer) factually incorrect information.

You're also really talking to the wrong person about potential deficiencies in GenAI for images.

I run an entire site where I compare a multitude of prompts I CREATED to explicitly test state of the art major generative image providers (Imagen4, gpt-image-1, Flux Kontext, etc.) - I'm all too aware of their shortcomings.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net
by wyager | 2025-06-15 04:43:59+00:00
There was a while, early on, where (at least in the areas I used it) the modal Uber driver was a college student or a (semi-)retired person looking for something to do. Generally polite, fluent in English, upwardly mobile or already successful. Cars were higher quality and cleaner than taxis.

Now, the modal Uber driver seems to be relatively rude, cannot speak English well, seems financially desperate, and drives a dirty/crappy car. Even if I pay extra for "comfort" I often get a pretty junky car. It's basically as bad as a taxi.

When the human element is a substantial net negative on the whole experience, I'll pay extra to avoid the human element.
by jen729w | 2025-06-15 04:45:49+00:00
That's what I mean! I adored my Saab. If 'they' make something now can you imagine what it'd look like.

My favourite car of all time is the Volvo 850 T-5R. In cream yellow. ;-) And now look at Volvo: the same bland SUVs as everyone else.

May Saab rest in peace with its integrity unblemished.
by scuff3d | 2025-06-15 04:46:42+00:00
I work for a company that's still obsessed with micro services. "Religious" is a pretty good way to describe it. Drives me absolutely nuts, especially when no one seems to understand what micro services are. I've seen at least half a dozen teams that have just created a distributed monolith and called it a micro service because they're using Docker and Kubernetes.
by inkyoto | 2025-06-15 04:49:57+00:00
I think the licence is only valid for the most recent version of Java (I can't remember whether it applies to the JDK only or to the JRE as well), which forces users either to keep on upgrading the Java version (not easily possible for 3rd party software) or to pay up.

We went through a mad rush of replacing Sun/Oracle Java with Amazon Corretto a few years back at a very large organisation when it became clear that Oracle won't let us off the hook easily. Most old applications that could not be upgraded to Corretto were promptly culled.
by 1776smithadam | 2025-06-15 04:50:52+00:00
> Have you ever taken a Uber in Japan?

You're being snarky but it's obvious you're speaking from the prospective of a foreign tourist who has only been to Tokyo and major cities while not being able to speak Japanese.

You're making a strong but false generalisations as a tourist. The tourist aspect is important because of the anthropic principle. If you were a local who was in the inaka where Uber doesn't operate and you had to reserve a taxi by phone in Japanese, you'd have an entirely different experience.

Japanese people are notoriously introverted and shy. That's why people don't make small talk especially on a taxi. Plus, if they presume you're a tourist who doesn't speak Japanese, why bother? It's also not true that it's "your space". Just because the driver and other service people aren't confronting you on your behavior doesn't mean it's socially approved behavior. Japanese people silently judged and tourists can't even notice. There is an unspoken rule you keep your conversation with your fellow passenger private and quiet. Even wearing a perfume/cologne in a communal space, which a taxi is, can be considered rude.

If the reason people prefer Waymo is because they're introverted and not just avoid socializing but avoid being the presence of other people alltogether, then it's entirely possible for Waymo to do okay in Japan.

> The space in the car is, factually, your space.

This such an arrogant Westerner thing to think and say. Until you can step out of that, you will never understand Japan like you think you do.
by stahtops | 2025-06-15 04:51:47+00:00
I waited 40 minutes for a Lyft at an airport because the driver made up a story about an accident and traffic, in the airport. No one else seemed to be affected by this traffic- so eventually I tried booking an Uber. It arrived 3 minutes later.

20 minutes after that the Lyft driver keeps texting me “where are you?!”. Their turn to wait!

Saw later they just started the ride without me and drove to my hotel.

Lyft said “this trip was completed, no refund”. Welp, app deleted.
by jMyles | 2025-06-15 04:52:11+00:00
One of the most broken aspects of the internet is on display here:

Apparently 700 devices concluded that their operators were in distress, in a crowd of many thousands more. And whom did those devices alert? The people around them? Or perhaps a select group of people around them known to be connected via a social graph?

No. They notified the cops. 700 accidental / inadvertent contacts with the state.

The internet has lost most of its sense of the geographical distribution of its nodes, and picked in the stead of this information, the authority structure of the legacy state.

Fortunately in this case the response from the cops appears to have been mature and responsible. But imagine if this wasn't a festival but a resistance action, and it wasn't in a place with legally restrained cops but a place where this information can be and is used to retaliate against the accidental informers?

This is perhaps one of the biggest problems facing deployments of real toolchains designed to facilitate the deprecation of tyrannical states: its users need to leverage their geographic closeness as a strength, and need assurance that a more real and local graph of authority underwrites the logic of emergency responses.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-15 04:52:12+00:00
> Why is "that person gets to be extraordinarily wealthy" for inventing the future rather than "we all chipped in so we could all benefit" for inventing the future?

Well obviously we want a lot of the benefit to be the latter. But if you don't have some of the former, then almost no multi-billion-dollar-cost inventions get made in the first place.
by smogcutter | 2025-06-15 04:52:58+00:00
> This way of thinking is likely more productive for what they are doing.

Which is… attempting a rigorous understanding of evolutionary biology, rather than idly ruminating.

I hate to use a dork-ism like “update your priors”, but this is actually maybe a situation where it applies? If you’re serious about a subject it’s more interesting to really incorporate the likelihood that you’re wrong than it is to wave it away as semantics or point of view.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-15 04:54:47+00:00
Well, there were no children. It was three adults, but two were women.

I don’t think that it would be OK to threaten any customer service person with physical harm (but it happens all the time, nonetheless. Check out notalwaysright.com), but I also know that customer service people have a responsibility to ensure the safety of their patrons. Kicking folks out in a bad neighborhood could have cost Uber quite a bit, and it’s surprising that there seemed to be no recourse. It’s entirely possible the driver was ignorant of company policy.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-15 04:55:21+00:00
I've never heard of car models named after the year after release. Weird. But here in Europe cars aren't changed every year anyway. I don't think they're ever even numbered.

Except for some brands like Peugeot and formerly Renault but those had nothing to do with the year.

But even even naming them after the year of release makes more sense than the year after. I think for cars it's sometimes done because people don't want to buy cars in the last 3 months because it affects the resale value.
by plastic3169 | 2025-06-15 04:55:44+00:00
I think he argues more that if 24-bit audio would have been brought to the market like HDR it would have been advertised as being able to be louder. The new stereos would lack the volume control as 24-bit audio would encode absolute volume levels and older formats would play quietly from the new amazing hardware. Songs would be mastered to have more dynamic range changes so that the sound would pop over to loud volumes every now and then. This would be attributed to the higher bit depth of the signal format even though it would be just a different style of producing music. In order to play old songs loud in the new amazing stereo you would need to buy remastered version which would not simply play louder but would overall be quieter to emphasize the volume spikes added in remastering.
by kens | 2025-06-15 04:56:10+00:00
The Soviet Globus is similar in some ways, but also has some major differences. As you mentioned, the ball shows the spacecraft's position over the earth, rather than showing the spacecraft's orientation in space, so the ball looks like a globe with landmasses and everything. The ball rotates along two axes, not three. Moreover, the Globus doesn't have any external inputs; it rotates the ball according to a preset track, regardless of where you actually are.

My three articles on the Globus had the following HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34468212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35311300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35038710
by seb1204 | 2025-06-15 04:57:34+00:00
After every ride the rider can vote on the driver. At least on Uber the driver gets 'punished' is his rating falls below 4. The driver will loose his rank benefits. As a rider you got to use the start. If it's ok, then 5. If there is something wrong, less than 5. Simple as that. As most people are voting 5 they seem to be over all ok with the overall service.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-15 04:59:34+00:00
I left macOS a few years ago but I had many apps that had such icons. Like cyberduck, little snitch etc.

But I left macOS because of the ever worsening lockdown, Apple constantly messing with the design without a way back and the move towards iOSisms. I'm glad I left when I see the sorry state it is in now.

I use KDE now which gives me a world of customisation options. I don't even have to use the themes or plugins to make it work the way I want to, which is quite different from the default.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-06-15 05:00:46+00:00
>A term like knowing is fine if it is used in the abstract and then redefined more precisely in the paper.

Sounds like a purely academic exercise.

Is there any genuine uncertainty about what the term "knowing" means in this context, in practice?

Can you name 2 distinct plausible definitions of "knowing", such that it would matter for the subject at hand which of those 2 definitions they're using?
by npstr | 2025-06-15 05:01:07+00:00
Android started doing the same thing to app icons many years ago, and I hate it. Luckily there's custom icon packs that help solve this but it's annoying to figure out how to set up on each new phone. Increasingly UI teams seem to be stopping developing interfaces for humans. Same has e.g. happened to icons in IntelljiJ IDEA, now only usable with icon pack plugins. All these UI teams need to put on mandatory HCI courses or fired.
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by bruce511 | 2025-06-15 05:03:14+00:00
It might help to define censorship and specifically who is doing the censoring.

For example, a govt can censor things by imposing restrictions on media, or media access. Documents can be classified etc.

In that sense, no I font think Dang is deciding which articles make the front page etc. So if it's govt censorship then no.

But your last paragraph takes about "feeling like censorship". If a collective group chooses not to discuss some things, if they express disapproval when topics come up - is that "censorship"?

Personally I don't use votes to disagree with a point. I use them to indicate the quality of the post, disagree or not. Personally I upvote people I am responding to because their point was good enough to make me reply.

That said, most people still use votes as a form of agree or disagree. That's not censorship. (Flagging would be closer). Disagreement is not censorship.

Unpopular positions have consequences. (I know, I have many.) And yes, popularity does not mean truth. Sometimes you can be "rejected" because your truth is still ahead of its time. Turing was rejected for being gay.

Other times your opinion is just both unpopular, and gets worse either time. I have the right to express say my belief that the earth is flat, but I dont expect many to agree, or history to prove me right. People ignoring that discussion is not censorship, it's that it's a waste of time arguing with fools.

When discussing current affairs you can expect at least some folk to vote based on their worldview. That's fair enough, but its not censorship. Regardless of how it makes you feel.
by ghushn3 | 2025-06-15 05:04:54+00:00
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in orbit, and that was absolutely a multi-billion dollar invention.

Alan Turing didn't pursue his ideas because he wanted to get wealth beyond imagining.

Mondragon makes billions of dollars annually, and strongly limits executive pay.

I think it's very reasonable to assume that we can, we have historically, and currently do, make multi-billion dollar investments for the good of all. The idea that it requires some profit incentive is, imo, a pernicious falsehood.