MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnea | 2025-06-29 18:25:23+00:00
The article seemed a little fluffy, and I wondered if at least part of it was LLM generated.

However I do agree with the general sentiment.

I find the current hype cycle of LLMs to be similar to the petro industry: there are many useful applications of petroleum, without having to set it on fire. And yet the industry is loath to give up on a use that consumes copious quantities of it's product.

LLMs have many beneficial applications, in deep data analysis and pattern matching. Yet industry is intent on applying the tech to problems where its results are dubious, because of the mass market of those applications.

So much for the magical black box of the market 8-/ As in every documented case ever: product vendors will take every dollar possible, to hell with consequences.

Think of the radioactive skin cream of the '50s 8-/ Sure, it's "good" for you, and "more doctors choose camel"... And never mind that whole libtard fake-news that the planet's ecosystem is going to shit... Every patriot knows the little bebe jesus put it all here for us to trash, obviously...

It's in this context that LLMs are definitely the best way to decide whether or not your insurance company pays for you to get a kidney transplant 8-/

As long as I'm on a roll, and related to my first sentence, I _really_ dislike the em dashes 8-/ and their use has really spread with the prevalence of LLM generated text. Not just in the LLM text, but in the text of humans that are influenced by the LLM text.

If people would just use them "incorrectly", that is with spaces around them, then they would follow the general rule of english writing, to delimit words and phrases with a space.
by em-bee | 2025-06-29 18:27:15+00:00
this article explains a bit more.

https://ostechnix.com/fedora-32-bit-i686-support-withdrawal-...

currently only kernel and installers for 32-bit are dropped, but all packages are still built for 32-bit. why? that too doesn't make much sense either. are they still supporting running on 32-bit systems with an old or custom kernel? what for?

so that seems to be the problem then. somehow fedora is still supporting running on 32-bit systems. well, yes. do change that. but that doesn't mean that multilib support needs to be dropped. is there a problem to limit the build of 32-bit packages to only those that are needed?
by timewizard | 2025-06-29 18:27:43+00:00
That claim does not seem justified.

> 2016 failure of DMSP 19 without replacement[edit] On 11 February 2016, a power failure left both the command-and-control subsystem and its backup without the ability to reach the satellite's processor, according to the U.S. Air Force Space Command investigation released in July 2016 that also announced that DMSP 5D-3/F19 was considered to be 'lost'. The satellite's data can still be used, until it ceases pointing the sensors towards the Earth. The satellite was the most recent on-orbit, having been launched on 3 April 2014.[15]

> The failure only left F16, F17 and F18 – all significantly past their expected 3–5 year lifespan – operational. F19's planned replacement was not carried out because Congress ordered the destruction of the already constructed F20 probe to save money by not having to pay its storage costs. It is unlikely that a new DMSP satellite would be launched before 2023; by then the three remaining satellites should no longer be operational.[16]

To anyone acting as if this is a surprise or they're suddenly caught out and have to switch to another provider, I have to wonder, with the writing on the wall for 8 years now, how have you not already updated your plans?

That's the guardian for you. Remove context. Generate hyperbole. Beg for money.
by benreesman | 2025-06-29 18:27:57+00:00
I have work reasons for needing to learn a lot about kernel-level networking primitives (it turns out tcpdump and eBPF compatible with almost anything, no "but boss, foobar is only compatible with bizbazz 7 or above!").

So when an LLM vendor that shall remain nameless had a model start misidentifying itself while the website was complaining about load... I decided to get to the bottom of it.

eBPF cuts through TLS obfuscation like a bunker buster bomb through a ventilation shaft or was it, well you know what I mean.
by panpog | 2025-06-29 18:28:20+00:00
There is only one integer k that we can actually write down (given much more paper than could fit in the universe) such that ZFC+ “BB(748)=k” is consistent. However, given that same k, ZFC+ “BB(748)≠k” is also consistent. ZFC+ “BB(748)≠k” has theorems that can be thought of as it being wrong about what “finite” means.
by woleium | 2025-06-29 18:28:21+00:00
Antioxidant supplements provide no benefit, may even be harmful. See 2007 meta-analysis by Goran Bjelakovic, Dimitrinka Nikolova, Lars Gluud, Rosa G. Simonetti, and Christian Gluud, published in JAMA: “Mortality in Randomized Trials of Antioxidant Supplements for Primary and Secondary Prevention: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/20579...
by mandmandam | 2025-06-29 18:30:02+00:00
I was using OP's terminology, pointing out that people (including Moore himself) have been warning of an imminent cap on Moore's law since at least 1975. Getting into fine detail of what constitutes a 'fundamental physical limit' as opposed to an engineering challenge wasn't really the point, though I personally believe that our understanding of physical limits will develop further.

We don't know what we don't know - there's always the potential of radical technology coming from an upending of things which were 'established' for decades or centuries previously; that's just the nature of science.
by mnky9800n | 2025-06-29 18:30:09+00:00
I think it’s even more nefarious than that. They can attack other countries that claim intensifying climate and weather scenarios by saying their data is biased while claiming to have the best data in the world but not share for national security reasons. While this may seem like something unbelievable to you or me it is easily eaten up by their supporters who love propaganda. Like, my republican parents are convinced robotaxi is amaxing after the unreasonably bad debut in Austin. They simply didn’t hear or want to hear that Tesla would not produce a working product.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-29 18:30:40+00:00
The effects of drugs aren't bound to the individual, that's the reason nearly all societies have banned them throughout history: they cause addicts to create large external costs.

Saying vaccines are well studied is like saying drugs are well studied, it's a category error. You can't study vaccines as a whole, and the quality of studies of specific cases vary wildly. As a consequence, common psychedelics are probably much better studied than some common vaccines. LSD in 2025 is the same substance as it was when it first became available, as far as I know, and there's lots of research into its effects. Compare that to the COVID vaccines which weren't even the same substance from trial to deployment, as the manufacturing process was changed completely. The trials were done on vaccine made using a very slow, non-scalable and expensive process that yielded a very pure result. The stuff people actually took was made using a totally different process designed for cheap mass manufacture. That second process had problems, leading to DNA contamination in some batches, which seems to explain why injury effect reports clustered by batch serial number.

All this was heavily suppressed for a long time (e.g. by rules forbidding study of vaccine vials), but has been coming out over the past year or so as the initial findings were confirmed. Research into psychedelics at least doesn't have that kind of problem, I think?
by Aurornis | 2025-06-29 18:31:03+00:00
The U2 episode is a perfect example of something that went unnoticed by people who already used iTunes heavily, but became a major pain point for anyone who didn’t already have a large library on their phone.

If your iTunes was filled with songs, it got lost in the noise. This probably describes all of the Apple employees who thought it was a good idea.

If your iTunes was empty, U2 became that annoying song that played by default when you connected your phone to your car for any reason or other systems that played music by default. For years I can remember this happening to people in random situations and then everyone around would groan.
by alwa | 2025-06-29 18:31:15+00:00
Speak for yourself! The best defense against those sneaky Toxins is a good thick armor of crust… if you waste it on the trough, it’ll take months for you to build it back!

Remember personal care startup Mother Dirt, who briefly flirted with live “ammonia-oxidizing bacteria” as an alternative to soap?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90348480/how-this-bacteria-crawl...
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-29 18:33:17+00:00
One notes that Nabokov did not in fact only read 5 or 6 books. Curious.

Let's take him at face value, though. Why not read 2 classics 10 times instead of just once, then? Most every language with a writing system has at least 2 classics these days. Finnish, for example: Sinuhe egyptiläinen and Seitsemän veljestä. English: The Bible and Bart Simpson's Guide to Life. Etc.

Re/ Oppenheimer, I wouldn't necessarily point at the guy who rained atomic hellfire upon Japan as someone with an especially sound moral compass, or even an interesting view on anything except how to dispense violence at scale. It is true there's a lot of violence in the Gita, so, I dunno, maybe he was just trying to read it as a self-insert fic or something. I don't think you have to be a utilitarian to say he probably did a lot of really bad things, in fact I think it helps not to be. A deontologist can at least say "I don't care if you think someone else will do it anyway, it's still bad and you shouldn't pull that lever."
by Kwpolska | 2025-06-29 18:33:18+00:00
IPv4 addresses are scarce. IPv6 addresses are not easy to remember, and not supported everywhere.

Has the author never heard of shared hosting providers? This already exists. Those tend to be extremely cheap, often cheaper than a VPS, and do not require remembering IPs. You share one IP with many people, and the domain name and the Host header lets the server tell the sites apart. A .com is under $10/month. There are/were also free domains.
by motorest | 2025-06-29 18:33:57+00:00
> Because you have to live in a society with those other people.

Your reply was a strawman arguments, and fails to address OP's point. The point is quite simple and straight-forward: if your argument for UBI is that people could hypothetically pursue their interests, why should I have to be the one having to work to pay the taxes required to finance this income redistribution scheme only to have others, perhaps less talented and dedicated than me, pursue my interests at my expense?
by valianteffort | 2025-06-29 18:34:12+00:00
If congressmen never voted on double edged swords or poison pill legislation out of principle, they'd all be labeled do-nothing grandstanders like Thomas Massie. While it may work for Massie, as his constituents are smart enough to know voting no on every bill is better than voting yes on a bad one, most congressmen would not survive that for long.

It is, solely, the fault of disinterested constituents that congress get away with passing laws for special interests and corporate lobby rather than the country at large.
by mshockwave | 2025-06-29 18:34:16+00:00
> that modeling instruction scheduling doesn't matter all that much for codegen on OoO cores.

yeah scheduling quality usually has a weaker connection to the performance of OoO cores. Though I would also like to point out:

1. in-order cores still heavily relies on scheduling quality 2. Issue width is actually a big thing in MachineScheduler regardless of in-order or out-of-order cores. So the problem you outlined above w.r.t different implementations of uops cracking is indeed quite relevant 3. MachineScheduler does not use the BufferSize -- which more or less mirrors the issue queue size of each pipe -- at all for out-of-order core. MicroOpBufferSize, which models the unified reservation station / ROB size, only got used in a really specific place. However, these parameters matter (much) more for llvm-mca
by alwa | 2025-06-29 18:34:41+00:00
In fact, it was specifically one of those alternatives which was under test here:

“a fragrance-free body lotion containing linoleic acid (Neutral, Unilever body lotion for sensitive skin; 0% colorants and 0% perfume)”

Sounds like they blame the phenoxyethanol? Which serves a preservative kind of role?
by dgrabla | 2025-06-29 18:34:48+00:00
If MCP gets used this way I see big trouble when people hardcode stuff and then the provider updates the endpoints. MCP does not have versions as the list-tools is a living document, you are supposed to fetch and read the current version. AI would be totally fine with it because it would be able to reason the change and adapt, but the hardcoded app is going to break badly.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-29 18:35:01+00:00
> Cannabis is also a potent psychedelic, and its association with psychosis is well established.

It's really fascinating to read this, because Alex Berenson has been beating this drum for a while now and he claims the psychosis risk has been downplayed or even denied. It's easy to find evidence supporting his take because if you just search Google for [cannabis legalization psychosis] you get a big pile of papers like this one:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36696111

"Abstract: Psychosis is a hypothesized consequence of cannabis use. Legalization of cannabis could therefore be associated with an increase in rates of health care utilization for psychosis [...] states with legalization policies experienced no statistically significant increase in rates of psychosis-related diagnoses"

That's from 2023. So apparently it's not that well established? Or if it's well established, there's a lot of researchers denying it.
by Modified3019 | 2025-06-29 18:35:06+00:00
1. The article is clickbait, leaving out important but complicated context of what sort of process is happening. If you want to understand what’s actually going on, watch this instead of getting alarmed at the article title: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XgabGSI82M0

2. These kind of change proposals are just that. Proposals only, by whoever wants to make one. Fedora is not about to suddenly drop 32bit support. Proposals are for discussion and consideration of how changes would affect things, they are not acceptance of the change or even a commitment to do so.

3. The comment on shutting down from the Bazzite founder is about what would happen if the proposal were accepted right now. Which isn’t happening. Outlining the consequences of a proposal is exactly what needs to happen. Dropping 32bit support would be catastrophic to multiple projects. But it’s not happening right now, and Bazzite is not about to shut down.

4. Things on both Fedora and Bazzite’s side are taking place such that removing 32bit support is reasonable and doesn’t break everything. This will take some time.

5. The proposal was badly worded, and is being redone.

For fucks sake.
by brudgers | 2025-06-29 18:35:29+00:00
Tools like Scale AI are great but often priced out of reach for small labs or startups.

That those prices reflect the level of resources necessary to build a viable business is a very reasonable working hypothesis for any company entering the space.

In other words, trying to compete on cost is a way to attract customers who expect to pay $0 and don't care if your company stays in business. Requiring payment is the simplest way to test if a business idea is viable. It is also the most brutal psychologically because asking for money usually ends in rejection.

Solving the problem of labeled data is a problem people will pay for. Solving the problem of people not having money is a problem you, and only you, pay for. Unless you are running a payday loan service, a pawn shop, or a bank...but that's another matter. Good luck.
by geoctl | 2025-06-29 18:35:35+00:00
With all respect, regardless of the fact that Octelium can replace the products you just mentioned, its context of interest is much larger and focused towards zero trust rather than just merely a yet another VPN/a remote access tool to access internal resources. I'd really appreciate it if you could read the docs first so that you can understand the features and architecture of Octelium and what it is meant to be. Every product claims to be "zero trust" these days, even VPNs and simple tunneling applications, however, actual zero trust architectures as defined by NIST (i.e. architectures built upon L7-aware identity-aware proxies, policy-decision-points, L7-aware and context-aware per-request access control via policy-as-code and ABAC, centralized identity and policy management, integrating context information from external tools such as SIEM, SSO and threat intelligence tools into per-request access control decisions, etc...) and there are many commercial products that are "true" ZTAs (e.g. Cloudflare Access, Teleport, Google BeyondCorp, StrongDM, Zscaler, etc...). The term is being however abused by the companies, some of which are extremely well funded, to distort reality and the fact that their products were not even built for zero trust. What these fake "zero trust" vendors are trying to achieve is something like: "either we all are zero trust, or zero trust doesn't really exist or mean anything at all and it's merely a buzzword, it's your choice".
by exodust | 2025-06-29 18:36:00+00:00
If you need to wind back the clock before any of us were born to achieve a "gotcha", you're doing a disservice to whatever educated audience remains. Your what-aboutism opens a gaping hole where a point should be.

Ideological differences are gigantic valleys between nations in conflict, that's the point.

When one side shouts God's name as they butcher & jihad whoever's in their way who isn't a fanatic like them, the ideological differences can't be mended with "c'mon now". When one side thrives on martyrdom and human rights violations for breakfast, it's not a time to say "maybe we should look at what they're trying to say, are we just not listening?"
by asnelt | 2025-06-29 18:36:05+00:00
I live in a small apartment and do 20m using an attic antenna. Of course, I can't compete with big outdoor antennas. But from Scotland, SSB to mainland Europe and FT8 to the US or the Caribbean is not a problem.

Even if you don't have access to an attic, there are antenna constructions that can work for apartments. Have a look at "ARRL's Small Antennas for Small Spaces" and RSGB's "Stealth Antennas" as starting points.

Alternatively, you could consider a portable solution where you carry a small HF rig and some wire in a backpack. The Yaesu FT-857D is very popular for this as it's small, all bands, all modes and does 100W. If you search for "Yaesu FT-857D backpack" you will find many suggestions. It's not in production anymore but you might find it second hand. For Yaesu, other options include the FT-891 (no VHF/UHF) and the more bulky FT-991A. Icom has the IC-7100, which is also a little more bulky than the FT-857D.
by throw4847285 | 2025-06-29 18:37:02+00:00
> Male vs female differences, including differences in typical sex-specific sexual attraction, are obviously genetic

Typical is putting in a lot of work in that sentence. I could rephrase it with the same truth content and make it much more ambiguous.

"Many phenotypical sexual differences in humans are obviously genetic. Some very common differences in sex-specific sexual attraction are likely genetic as well. For large swaths of sexual attraction, we have absolutely no evidence of a genetic link."

What's funny is that the one example you facetiously picked (a curve detector) is extremely culturally dependent. Trying to tie elements of human sexuality to evolutionary just so stories is usually pseudoscience. When we start isolating genes for the things that we think of as natural, if we ever do, I bet you $100 the mapping from our social experience of these traits to some kind genetic reality is muddled to the point of total detachment.
by westurner | 2025-06-29 18:37:14+00:00
FWIU hydrogen plasma in water for hydrolysis would produce OH Hydroxl radicals. (and H2O2, O3 (Ozone), and NO_x).

TIL that Hydroxyl ions bind to methane and thereby clean the air?

Air ioniser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ioniser :

> A 2018 review found that negative air ions are highly effective in removing particulate matter from air. [6]

But the Ozone. Ozone sanitizes and freshens, but is bad for the lungs at high concentrations.
by dijit | 2025-06-29 18:37:38+00:00
I am seriously suggesting that a single bad decision (like taking some money from the cash register) can land you in prison, why do we hold jobs to a higher standard?

Learning from our mistakes is one thing, slip ups happen after all, but I’m just drawing a comparison to “a single misjudgement”.

If you don't know societies values (stealing is wrong) or a companies values (tarnishing the brand by looking cheap and desperate) the outcome should probably be the same: expulsion or exclusion.

Also, don’t go to the most extreme negative interpretation of what someone says, it’s against guidelines.
by p1mrx | 2025-06-29 18:39:06+00:00
It's much easier to build an IP layer 6-to-4 gateway (like NAT64) than a 4-to-6 gateway, because the IPv4 header doesn't have room for a 128-bit destination address.

The most practical "4-to-6 gateway" would be a SOCKS or HTTPS proxy, because those let the client connect directly to a hostname and not care about IP addressing. But configuring a proxy for all your home devices is probably more tedious than deploying IPv6.
by westurner | 2025-06-29 18:40:06+00:00
> ostree native containers are bootable host images that can also be built and signed with a SLSA provenance attestation

From https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/container/#ostree-native... :

> rpm-ostree inherits work in ostree-rs-ext to create “container native ostree” functionality. This elevates OCI/docker containers to be natively supported as a transport mechanism for bootable operating systems.

I think it means simplification of complexity and unnecessary re-duplication.
by renewiltord | 2025-06-29 18:40:12+00:00
The article's first paragraph has some alternative factors in selection

> Traditional evolutionary hypotheses, such as those invoking kin selection, mutation-selection balance, and evolutionary mismatch don’t quite explain this.

There's lots of explanations here but one that is often mentioned is "kin selection". If you increase evolutionary fitness of nephews, nieces, etc. There's many others, some of which apply here and others which don't.
by staunton | 2025-06-29 18:40:16+00:00
Sure, I never claimed otherwise.

What I'm saying is that evolution matters across large timescales. By contrast, I believe the topics I was commenting on concern timescales where effects of biological evolution are negligible compared to the effects of memetic evolution.

Thus, biological evolution doesn't matter at all for predicting what will happen (or is happening right now) to humanity, unless predicting so far into the future as to be completely futile speculation (imagine someone 200 years ago wondering how biological evolution might affect humanity during the next couple thousand years).
by Jonovono | 2025-06-29 18:40:35+00:00
You can use MCP to dynamically call different services, without ever having to use an LLM to decide.

With an LLM it would go

List MCP Tools -> Get User prompt -> Feed both into LLM -> LLM tells you what tools to call

You could skip the LLM aspect completely and get all tools and let the user at runtime pick the tool that "playsSong" for example