MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bell-cot | 2025-06-22 10:38:04+00:00
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Smith Note that Fred seems to have had some issues.

I once knew a guy who'd worked at FedEx, bottom-end, in the late 1980's. He saw Fred "drop in" to their airport a time or two. (When low-end managers demonstrated that they were the 4th Type of officer*). From the stories, I'd say the FedEx workers felt hard-driven - but they respected Fred, and didn't think the managers in-between were treated any better.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Cl...
by oezi | 2025-06-22 10:40:11+00:00
As a European three things stood out for me:

- He didn't consult with somebody who had any experience in planning such a project, but a person who - while maybe personally impressive - had zero experience and started by writing scripts to find suitable properties. Isn't the project already doomed at this point? You are looking to invest 7m USD, who will you consult for this?

- He wouldn't do the project unless he was able to get insurance for it. The whole issue of exploring and acquiring mineral rights was just to get insurance for the project. Why not forego insurance? EDIT: Okay, needed insurance for financing the project. I assumed the project would be financed through the crypto gains.

- From ballpark numbers his projected cost of 1,37 USD per Watt DC seems very high (~2 USD per Watt Peak AC). In Europe large scale PV has reached 600 EUR / kWp so building a 4.5 MWp plant should cost more like 3m USD rather than his projected 9m USD. Of course 4.5 MW is small (10000 panels) so this might be part of the issue.
by jpgvm | 2025-06-22 10:40:11+00:00
They don't affect determinism of the results but different architectures have different determinism guarantees with respect to performance, as a result of scheduling and other things.

TPUs share a similar lineage to the Groq TPU accelerators (disclaimer: I work at Groq) which are actually fully deterministic which means not only do you get deterministic output, you get it in a deterministic number of cycles.

There is a trade off though, making the hardware deterministic means you give up HW level scheduling and other sources of non-determinism. This makes the architecture highly dependent on a "sufficiently smart compiler". TPUs and processors like them are generally considered VLIW and are all similarly dependent on the compiler doing all the smart scheduling decisions upfront to ensure good compute/IO overlap and eliminating pipeline bubbles etc.

GPUs on the other hand have very sophisticated scheduling systems on the chips themselves along with stuff like kernel swapping etc that make them much more flexible, less dependent on the compiler and generally easier to reach a fairly high utilisation of the processor without too much work.

TLDR: TPUs MAY have deterministic cycle guarantees. GPUs (of the current generation/architectures) cannot because they use non-deterministic scheduling and memory access patterns. Both still produce deterministic output for deterministic programs.
by bmacho | 2025-06-22 10:40:45+00:00
I don't think that not having all the services is a problem. On the contrary, I think it is an advantage for userscripts, that those only have the redirects a user explicitly adds.

Tho I probably should've demonstrated first that it is possible, before advocating for it. The script I linked indeed only works for one website. Multiple websites with multiple rules, each with a list of instances (that often go offline for a time, so it is worth keeping them around, and make switching easy) indeed complicates it a bit.
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by kgwgk | 2025-06-22 10:41:09+00:00
> Setting a p-value threshold of 0.05 is equivalent to saying: "I’m willing to accept a 5% chance of shipping something that only looked good by chance."

No, it means "I’m willing to ship something that if it was not better than the alternative it would have had only a 5% chance of looking as good as it did.”
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by dismalaf | 2025-06-22 10:41:29+00:00
Source on Swedes being steppe barbarians? Most historians agree that Vikings originated in Scandinavia. Sami peoples originated in northern Russia and moved to the furthest north regions of Scandinavia. The Vikings were also more concerned with seafaring and raiding to the south and west and all the history I know of is that they coexisted mostly peacefully (Vikings would trade with the Sami). Conflict arose centuries after the Viking age.
by teleforce | 2025-06-22 10:43:43+00:00
Not sure why are you very adamant in defending Israel's govt inhuman actions in all your postings? How do you sleep at night?

Not condoning suicide attack but early zionists in Israel are all the same attacking civilians by the same actions, and after more than hundreds years the autrocities still continue until today albeit in different inhuman forms [1].

Worst now they're using indiscriminate military bombings against Palestinian people mostly women and children that has no proper protection from state military [2]. From your logic and claims, zionist and Israel military don't match your so called western rationality and seems to be based on different standards.

Perhaps all these inhuman actions based on the fact that they wrongly believe that they're God's chosen people destined for the Heavens and will not be touched by the Hell fire for whatever autrocities they've committed? [3].

[1] The Hundred Years' War on Palestine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Years%27_War_on_Pa...

[2] Zionist political violence [1]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence

[3] Chosen people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosen_people
by erikgahner | 2025-06-22 10:44:33+00:00
Looking good! What does it mean that it is free forever? That the code is available on GitHub and we should not have to be concerned about the site going offline or moving to a different place (that is not free)? Or, if it takes off, that we should begin to see ads? Or that this is the free tier option and future iterations can expect you to pay to, say, remove a watermark?
by erikerikson | 2025-06-22 10:44:50+00:00
The stability of society and the law based facilitation of peace are absolutely within the mission of police forces and highly facilitative to the prosperity of a society.

I was once involved with a project that returned determination of land ownership from people's physical custody to the courts and the resulting drops in assault and homicide rates (for the entire country) was in the double digits over a period of months.
by lenkite | 2025-06-22 10:45:50+00:00
I also fully support not just reading the call transcript, but also listening to the leaked call so you get Nuland's firm tone. I would reserve very skeptical judgement on the "annotations". Those weren't part of the call.

Listen to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUCCR4jAS3Y

> No, that does not mean they have "decided" who is going to form the next government. That claim is just Russian propaganda

Anyone with a rational brain who separates themselves from biases and emotions and carefully listens to the call would realize there is no propaganda involved here. Also, for better clarity of judgement, please perform a thought exercise and consider what would happen if a foreign government's members were discussing the personal choices , makeup and "talks" for members of the next American government.
by dreghgh | 2025-06-22 10:46:25+00:00
I'm not sure you know much about Iran.

They did spend a lot of the oil revenue on both education and developing their economy.

Compare them perhaps to Saudi Arabia, a similar sized country with much more oil and much fewer people. Saudi does not have any industry, does not export anything except hydrocarbons. All the extraction is done by foreign engineers.

Iran educates engineers, including many foreign students, has industry outside of oil, and largely works its own drilling and refinery. The Iranian economy is not dependent on migrant labor.

Saudi pays billions to Europe and America for high tech weaponry, yet can't defeat the Houthis. A considerable proportion of the money goes to baksheesh both for the Saudis themselves and their western suppliers. If Saudi decided tomorrow to challenge its Western backers in any real way, the umbrella would be withdrawn and the guys in the solid gold cars would last about a week.

Iran has wreaked havoc throughout the region for 40 years by putting $30 rifles, $200 RPGs, $100 IEDs and now, $2000 drones in the right (wrong) hands at the right time. They haven't lost a regular soldier in battle since the 1980s.

Even if you're calling the end of Iranian influence in the region right now, it's still an incredible run of hitting above one's weight. The only country in the Middle East this can be compared with is Israel, who are themselves legendary for hyper-insightful tactical leverage.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-06-22 10:46:36+00:00
Ok, understand the downvote. Probably should have caveated it with 'in my social circle'.

In my country, there was no universal messenger app circa 2010s except WhatsApp.

Not everybody had a Facebook account to use Facebook Messenger, adults did but children and elderly didn't. Not everybody had an Apple device to use iMessage.

Nobody knew each other's email outside of work and business - the digital revolution came much later than the US to many parts of the world, and email was a tool for personal communication only very briefly, and only if you already knew that person's email, which most likely you didn't.

The reason WhatsApp took off is because it didn't require anything other than a person's phone number - which was usually the only type of digital pointer you had about a person.

SMS was not an option - it was expensive and limited (to this day still is, unlike the US!), only used as a last resort.

I'm sure many countries around the world would share the same sentiment, though maybe not most. Esp. Europe and South America, probably.
by nickdothutton | 2025-06-22 10:46:54+00:00
Admirable but ultimately I suspect this will come to nothing. Sadly government attention is fleeting, R&D is far, far, down the list in terms of the national priorities (NHS is always top, the national religion with fanatical supporters). Take nuclear power for instance. The world has about 800 research/test reactors. About 250 are currently in-use. 0 of them are in the UK. This kind of statistic can be repeated over and over for any given area of research. I no-longer believe the barriers are financial, it is the regulatory ones that are hardest to remove. Goes for any physical endeavour here. Be it furnace or foundry, reactor or rocketry.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-06-22 10:47:09+00:00
> Javascript community suddenly got automatic code creation agents, and went to town.

I've been working on an MCP server[0] that let's LLMs safely and securely generate and execute JavaScript in a sandbox including using `fetch` to make API calls. It includes a built in secrets manager to prevent exposing secrets to the LLM.

I think this unlocks a lot of use cases that require code execution without compromising security. Biggest one is that you can now ask the LLM to make API calls securely because the JS is run in a C# interpreter with constraints for memory, time, and statement limits with hidden secrets (e.g. API keys).

The implementation is open source with sample client code in JS using Vercel AI SDK with a demo UI as well.

[0] https://github.com/CharlieDigital/runjs
by mandmandam | 2025-06-22 10:47:41+00:00
I get that you consider this important enough to write ~40 variations of this comment in this thread.

But people might think it sounds a bit silly, when Iran have been 'months' to 'a year' away from nuclear weapons for thirty years [0].

Especially when the IAEA themselves say there is zero proof that Iran have made any effort to obtain nuclear weapons [1].

Do you have any evidence for this? Any at all?? ... If so, wouldn't it be smart to share it the next time you make these claims in defense of acts of war?

9 days ago, Israel assassinated Iran's lead nuclear negotiator, along with 9 scientists [2]. They didn't offer any evidence for doing this, just claimed it was necessary. If you have access to any genuine evidence, it would be great to see it. And if you don't - consider not presenting you claims as fact ~40 times in a single post.

0 - https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/for-3-decades-israeli-pm-neta...

1 - https://truthout.org/articles/iaea-head-we-did-not-have-any-...

2 - https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-kills-ali-shamkhani
by IshKebab | 2025-06-22 10:48:39+00:00
1. Terrible performance.

2. Terrible installation UX.

The number of issues we've had with pre-commit because it's written in Python and Python tooling breaks constantly...

In fairness, the latter point may be finally solved by using `uv` and `uv tool install`. Performance is still a major issue though. Yamllint is easily the slowest linter we use.

(I'm tempted to try rewriting it in Rust with AI.)
by vixen99 | 2025-06-22 10:51:01+00:00
Not any longer but one might have thought of Britain as a theocracy at some point in the recent past insofar as members of the governing party would have put down Christian in the box marked Religion. On the other hand, in 2025, formal occasions in the UK usually take place in Christian cathedrals and churches. The King (albeit with no executive powers in the Government) is head of the Church of England - the 'Supreme Governor of the Church of England'.

Interesting that 20% of Israelis do not believe in a deity. 18% are Muslim. In Iran, Jews are 0.03% of the population.
by jrflowers | 2025-06-22 10:51:09+00:00
> You don't seem to be engaging in good faith.

You posted actual nonsense and then declined to say if you are for or against telling people that salmonella is real.

Anyway, in good faith

> Obviously that depends on context.

This makes sense. Context matters, and it is important to imagine some when it is missing. For example, in this exchange you saw a stranger on the internet post “rooting your phone can void your warranty and pose a security risk” and, in a vacuum of any relevant information, pictured a world where they work at Samsung in their Awful Spyware Division and started posting from that premise.

Or just saying it at all FUDs up the vibe and ruins the context?

The point you are making is either that it is important to invent context if you feel FUD, or that the wrong context for certain correct information is “the context wherein it is shared”.

Can you clarify which is it?

Either we agree that rooting your phone can void your warranty and pose a security risk and you just sort of imagine me working for a terrible company,

or

We both agree that rooting your phone can void your warranty and pose a security risk but you and I are the only people that should know that. Any context where this fact that we agree about could be shared is made inappropriate by its inclusion.

Like are we dealing with hallucinations or are we dealing with Untouchable Facts
by IshKebab | 2025-06-22 10:51:12+00:00
> Pointless changes like centering the bar make me wonder if you ever used it.

I agree that is dumb, but it's a trivial setting to make it left-aligned again. It's literally the only thing I've changed. Everything else is great.

> the injection of adverts over time.

I use the IoT LTSC version and have zero ads. I guess there's no guarantee it will last but it's great for now.
by vjerancrnjak | 2025-06-22 10:52:14+00:00
This kind of ranking is also not correct. You have to compare the outcomes , not their p values. Ranking by p values is just silly, just like ranking by avg metric is silly.

Startups in general have to make decisions with high signal, thinking that 100 improvements of 1% p=0.05 will actually compound in an environment with so much noise is delusion.

I’d say doing this kind of silliness in a startup is just ceremonial, helpful long term if people feel they are doing a good job optimizing a compounding metric, even though it never materializes.
by flaburgan | 2025-06-22 10:55:27+00:00
Signal is not a company but a non profit, and their service is not proprietary but fully open source including the server side. That being said, it is centralized and so less resilient, it can be taken down more easily. So you have to pick between more secure (Signal) or more resilient because decentralized (DeltaChat). Theoretically Matrix has both, but at the moment it is not as secure as Signal, and its UX is clearly worst. And to that you have to add the complexity of decentralization for normal people: which server to pick, how can I know if someone I know has an account... Here the comparison with email should help but still it is not as easy as entering a phone number and immediately you have all your contacts available.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-22 10:55:49+00:00
Israel has also been funding Hamas and other enemies of Israel.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

Reality is Israel is run by psychopaths who would be in jail if it weren't for their their cynical use of constant war as a misdirection.

Much like the US. And Russia. And numerous other countries, some of which are still pretending to be democratic.

The entire world order is built on greed, lies, narcissistic grandiosity, and violent murder at industrial scales.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-06-22 10:55:54+00:00
I'm using Orion as my daily driver on iOS mainly because of a Safari bug[1]. It used to be very buggy, had frequent app crashes for no reason at all but nowadays (since a year?) works pretty fine, even the UBO plugin works fine.

1: You can long tap and select "Download Linked File" on any link in Safari, including links that are forbidden by Content Restrictions, such as a news.ycombinator.com link from google search. Ping me if a Safari engineer sees this and fixes it!
by ivape | 2025-06-22 10:58:53+00:00
You don’t need a lot of funding to convince 15 year olds in Palestine to go murder. Pay closer attention to the settlements, it did more for mobilizing Israel’s enemies than any amount of psyops or military funding could ever do.

It’s very clear to me Israel has had some of the most retarded foreign policy experts for decades now. The truth is the same truth we have in the U.S, 70+ million that voted for Trump harbor a higher degree of racism that is near impossible to stop (will take generations). Israelis HATE Palestinians, and therefore they cannot make even the most obvious game theory choices on building better safety environments (finance and launch a multi decade campaign to uplift Gaza from poverty of mind, heart, and material - unless you are fucking racist and would rather live in conflict than EVER give an inch.)
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-22 10:59:14+00:00
FWIW, universities are pitching statistics the same way as every other subject, i.e. not at all. They operate under a delusion that students are deaperately interested in everything and grateful for the privilege of being taught by a prestigious institution. That may have been the case 100 years ago, but it hasn't been for decades now.

For me, stats was something I had to re-learn years after graduating, after I realized their importance (not just practical, but also epistemological). During university years, whatever interest I might have had, got extinguished the second the TA started talking about those f-in urns filled with colored balls.
by versteegen | 2025-06-22 10:59:52+00:00
You are missing Reasoning's point (although I think you're right about the Nazis needing to create or appropriate some other people's heritage). 'Aryan' was a linguistic term previously mistakenly used to mean Proto-Indo-European. Hitler didn't personally invent Nazi master-race ideology and look to India, it's a small pseudo-intellectual extension of (European) 19th/early 20th century ethnology and eugenics, and that's a very important distinction to make, to understand how the Nazi came to believe what they did through a product of many often-plausible steps and all-too-common character flaws, not through one man.
by anticodon | 2025-06-22 11:00:11+00:00
I don't remember all the details. But the triggering point was Amazon RDS: it was complaining every week that our DB consumed all available space and we had to increase the size and pay more with every week. Our DB and flow of data wasn't that big. I've spent some time investigating but haven't found anything: sum of sizes of all tables was quite moderate and much less than the size of the storage we paid Amazon for.

I lacked both expertise and time to find out where the wasted space go. After I've set up Maria DB on a smallest Digital Ocean droplet, mysterious storage growth haven't repeated and the cheapest droplet had enough capacity to serve our needs for years.

Also, there were 7-10 forgotten "test" server instances and other artifacts (buckets, domains, etc) on Amazon (I believe it's also quite common, especially in bigger companies).
by bitlax | 2025-06-22 11:01:25+00:00
I doubt you could describe the target of this piece but it is not people like myself. That is not to say that the piece should taken seriously. She would have been wiser to simply tweet the title rather than lift the veil on her various unearned grudges. At any rate, you can continue try to insult me but it will not persuade me. You might not think that matters but here we are.
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by simonh | 2025-06-22 11:01:56+00:00
I don't think the average Iranian citizen cares at all about Israel, one way or the other, but they don't have any say in Iranian state politics.

There's no natural law setting the mullahs against the existence of Israel, as I said they think and vocally declaim publicly that it is divine law. Don't believe me, just look up what they say.

I do think the way this is being handled is a travesty though. There was a functioning agreement with international monitoring in place in 2016 and Trump tore it up. Since then Iran has increased their enrichment capacity, and their stockpile of enriched material by 22 time above what they committed to in that agreement. Canceling that deal was a foolish blunder that had lead us to this.

Ultimately the only path to long term peace has to be the fall of theocratic rule in Iran, but that's a mater for the Iranian people. It's quite possible the nuclear question could have been managed, but just as with NAFTA Trump saw personal political advantage is scrapping an old deal in order to rebrand it as his better deal, but dropped the ball because he doesn't understand the geopolitics, and here we are.