MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matthewdgreen | 2025-06-01 14:51:29+00:00
The biggest value I received in my undergraduate courses was from the classes where I built large projects. Building a compiler from scratch, piece by awful piece. Implementing a ray tracer, from splines to shaders. Even if I don't use compilers or graphics in my day-to-day work, it was my experience of building those larger-scale systems and working through the problems that benefited me.

As a teacher I just don't know how to replicate that experience in a world where half will skip the work, and all I'm able to do is a two-hour sanity check that they learned some concepts. How do I test for "the experience you developed spending four hours making that register allocator behave properly, to the point where you're intimately familiar with every failure mode"?
by classichasclass | 2025-06-01 14:51:41+00:00
(author) The ANS 500 I have and that this was developed on was purchased by the University I used to work for to serve as the bookstore inventory management system. The vendor refused to support it anymore after Apple cancelled the line, but it was purchased retail, minus Apple's academic discount, of course. The University had no particular relationship with Apple otherwise.

Apple did use ANSes for many years after they were discontinued. Austin had a group of Shiners still in service for internal use as late as 2005.

The ANS does have "big computer" I/O options but it's still descended from the Power Mac 9500, which is its closest relative. Harpoon AIX has a lot of changes to support the different hardware.
by defraudbah | 2025-06-01 14:53:46+00:00
the end example is the same as zustand, no?

svelte has earned it's place and the more people use it - the better. I couldn't find a reason to switch, same with ember in early days, same with any handlebars go/php/rust etc. We live in the era when it's enough to learn one UI framework and just ship things.

Good post though, I wish it had more examples so
by safety1st | 2025-06-01 14:53:56+00:00
Time to go full blown conspiracy theory mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY

1) Even telephone calls will become totally untrustworthy -->

2) Mandatory digital identity verification for all humans, at all times -->

3) Total control and censorship, the end of what we think of as the Internet today.
by goodcanadian | 2025-06-01 14:54:23+00:00
If I already understood the material, assignments became busywork that took time away from learning other things. I was not there for grades; I was there to learn. For this reason, I rarely did the assignments and I willingly took the hit to my grade. It is important to understand that not everybody learns in the same way. I have no problem with assignments as a method of learning. I have a problem with being "forced" to do them when I don't find them terribly helpful.
by elpocko | 2025-06-01 14:54:38+00:00
I think they've given up on this, it's ubiquitous. I've recently noticed that a CLIP model (a neural network for image understanding) gave me image descriptions using "it's" where "its" would have been correct. Hundreds of thousands of dollars to train the thing; no one noticed, no one cared ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-01 14:54:40+00:00
> Tinker AFB is flanked north and south by interstate freeways and surrounded by civilian truck stops and materiel depots

Isn’t Tinker mostly logistics, intelligence and AWACS? Don’t get me wrong, that’s important. But you’re not taking out a significant fraction of any U.S. armament hitting Tinker with drones.
by throw_m239339 | 2025-06-01 14:55:26+00:00
I did prefer the Amiga, but I still got an Atari ST for an very obvious reason: It had MIDI DIN port and was way cheaper than most digital sequencers at the time.

It's funny how some young producers today wonder "how did people do it without a computer before the 2000?"...well guess what, we did used computers! I cannot however remember what software sequencer I was using, I know it had MIDI effects (like MIDI echo), that's all I remember.

And by 1998, Logic was fairly advanced anyway and even had plenty of plugins.
by tracnar | 2025-06-01 14:55:51+00:00
I was always surprised that NixOS doesn't have a better story there, the main install instructions are to do manual partitioning, generate a config, edit it, etc. What I had expected at first would be that you'd write the config first and then deploy it, like in the article. But even with the method presented here you have the imperative step of running nixos-anywhere. Having something like the ignition system of Fedora CoreOS where you'd point at an existing config and it would install everything would make more sense IMO. Or pre build an iso which installs itself.
by exceptione | 2025-06-01 14:56:16+00:00
> and devex.

Indeed, devex is the strong point of react. See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43770579

> But it's not like that components are hard to build.

I really want to like other frameworks, but if I'd have to build a MUI(x) by hand, I'll accidentally pivot our business model to "component library maker" as a result.

I think we need to be clear about what scope we are talking about. A full fledged data-heavy B2B application, or something simpler like a web shop?
by kemotep | 2025-06-01 14:56:24+00:00
You’re reading too much into the half-assed back of the napkin math I used. The simple dumb end I posit is compared to the Somer method in the linked post. The Somer method is night and day. The point is that the numbers add up to fully fund all levels of government with more than enough left over to service debt and payout a dividend. Even a stupidly self-destructive implementation would on paper fund the entire system. But we shouldn’t do it that way, no one would accept it, and it would have second order effects I talk about in the original comment.
by kingkongjaffa | 2025-06-01 14:56:48+00:00
Yeah.

Figma itself is great.

Figjam (digital whiteboarding, sticky notes) is okay, but one might move over to Miro or any other and it wouldn’t really matter which tool you use.

Everything else is a distraction. Devs don’t want or need dev mode. Slides doesn’t make any sense, figma and figjam work just fine for presentation.

The AI tools are really bad (asking for layouts and stuff using AI in figjam is just broken)

Slides was literally made because they realised customers were using figma for presentations.

Being a tool native with the story teller is probably better. Heavily rehearsed presentations are dumb anyway inside a company, we’re not doing PR, there’s no black turtleneck here.

The best presentations at every level are a conversation between the presenter (trying to inform or spur a decision to be made) and the audience.

I really wished they had gone more the way of Linear - focus on doing a few things really well.
by voodoo_child | 2025-06-01 14:56:55+00:00
One of the big problems is Oracle decide what does/doesn’t go in. Understandable, but they provide no insight into the decision making process, why patches don’t get merged, or even if/when they take it. They used to post worklogs for features they were working on which gave some insights, but they’ve stopped doing that now too. Imagine working on a new feature for months, submitting a patch only to find out oracle have went their own route, many people will just say what’s the point. Last updated work log was in 2021: https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/

Edit: As an example, one of the optimizations called out in this repo was submitted in October 2023. “Thank you for the report and contribution.” and then radio silence ever since.

https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=112737 https://www.percona.com/blog/what-oracle-missed-we-fixed-mor...
by johannes1234321 | 2025-06-01 14:57:15+00:00
The thing is: When working with the material afterwards the important part are the small details. The talk/recording are good for the high level overview and following along on the big picture, but for details it is annoying as one has to jump around for specific words and phrases. Something written or an image/diagram is a lot better to study in depth.

And there lies the trouble with slides: During a talk they should support what is being said, but they are often abused as also being the handout for afterwards.
by codr7 | 2025-06-01 14:57:32+00:00
Experience and observation?

There are plenty of things I know that have nothing to do with guessing.

I understand the incentives to pretend these algorithms are even approaching humans in overall capability, but reducing human experience like this is embarrassing to watch.

Go do some hallucinogenics, meditate, explore the limits a tiny bit; then we can have an informed discussion.
by hotsauceror | 2025-06-01 14:57:35+00:00
Unless there was some sort of tractor beam, the Tantive IV did, in fact, escape, and may have been able to jump to light speed. In such an event, any eventual recapture by the Star Destroyer and battle with Vader's boarding team would have looked exactly the same as the escape sequence. There's nothing definitively saying "and they were recaptured within a few minutes of their initial escape."
by elif | 2025-06-01 14:57:39+00:00
Mr beast "had some reality show on Amazon" he released a season of a reality show which broke many world records and got renewed with a larger budget for two more seasons.

But the path was paved way before last year. Think of how many podcasts started as one person on YouTube and became major multiplatform productions with dozens of creatives.

If "reality" isn't your thing plenty of narrative fiction has been picked up by Netflix and HBO, Cobra Kai probably the most recognizable but also maybe you've seen broad city or workaholics. In journalism we've seen Channel 5 get at least one HBO deal, etc

But I think you'll find that the majority of these creators are making enough revenue on YouTube that these deals are more an optional way to grow their audience than "the next step"
by Liftyee | 2025-06-01 14:58:16+00:00
Bravo!

I love thinking of ways to exploit and circumvent hardware restrictions like the extensive tamper protection here, but it seems I'd assumed that once they were triggered it was game over. Apparently not so - still plenty of interesting bits left over to poke around with. Makes sense that the secure part gets properly disabled though, otherwise I'd lose all confidence in their designers.
by bartread | 2025-06-01 14:58:28+00:00
I have to say, I love the industrial design of these 80s machines from Atari, and also from contemporary Commodore offerings. As an example, the original Amiga 1000 is beautiful, and I'd be incredibly happy to have a machine with that form factor, but equipped with modern internals, today.

Honestly, I don't think even Apple could touch the best of Atari and Commodore industrial design in the back half of the 1980s. To be blunt, the early Macintoshs simply weren't practical in their design: for starters, a tiny monitor - that was originally black and white (which in 1984 was already kind of a joke) - and very limited upgradeability, relatively poor multimedia capabilities (speech synthesis was no more than a gimmick that was also available on other platforms), and then the whole aesthetic just wasn't that pleasant.

And I say this as someone who, personally, has only owned Apple machines for the past 15ish years, so I'm not exactly coming at this from a "not a fanboi" perspective. I'd still take 1980s Atari or Commodore aesthetic over modern Apple, or modern anything else for that matter[0].

Also, as an aside, I really enjoyed seeing "Atari Means Business with the Mega ST" as the top headline on Hacker News in 2025. Even on a Sunday when content typically tends to be more varied and interesting this was still an entertaining surprise.

[0] I suspect the reality may be that I'm an "anything but Wintel" kind of person, although not at any cost, because I did run PCs exclusively for 11 or 12 years. They never really helped me enjoy computing in the way the other machines have though.
by rjpower9000 | 2025-06-01 14:58:34+00:00
It's true you're still working, but it's a different, more distracted effort: you put the LLM on something for a while and then come back.

Sometimes it does it right, some times not. I can see the relation to gambling if, say, it does it right 50% of the time. If I had been taking a more scientific approach to the problem and had a clear direction of what I wanted to test, I suspect I wouldn't have gotten quite as "stuck".
by jmclnx | 2025-06-01 14:59:09+00:00
I noticed more ads on YouTube recently, a small say 10 minute clip could have a 3 minute add at the start and in the middle.

Plus I think the young likes the small clip type content than traditional entertainment. Just look at ticktoc (I never use it) how it is dragging all the young people to their content.

I an curious about seeing an age breakdown, but that is hard to get.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-01 14:59:20+00:00
I'm on both sides of the fence with early Mandalorian. I need to watch it again until it jumps the shark because I don't know how early it did that.

The latter episodes were incredibly laboured, with the narrative being spelt out, as if to a child, by various characters. I think it may have always been like that, but the look and feel overwhelmed the ridiculous dialogue for a while.

If they were more clever with the body language of the main character, then the others wouldn't have had to carry the direction of the storyline so heavily verbally. Again, I think this was done well early, but kinda lost in the desperation for grogu storyline and screen time cuteness.

I'd have to watch it again, and right now it ain't worth the time.

Haven't seen Andor, but now it's "on the list".
by busyant | 2025-06-01 14:59:24+00:00
Thank you for the link.

If you haven't heard of this book, you may find it interesting:

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

The Moral Basis of a Backward Society is a book by Edward C. Banfield, an American political scientist who visited ... the ... town of Chiaromonte, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata ... in 1955. He observed a self-interested, family-centric society, which sacrificed the public good for the sake of nepotism and the immediate family. As an American, Banfield was witnessing what was to become infamous as the Southern Italian Mafias and a self-centered clan-system promoting the well-being of their inner group at the expense of the other ones. Banfield postulated that the backwardness of such a society could be explained "largely ... [by] the inability of the villagers to act together for their common good or, indeed, for any end transcending the immediate, material interest of the nuclear family."[1]

Banfield concluded that Montegrano's plight was rooted in the distrust, envy, and suspicion displayed by its inhabitants' relations with one another. Fellow citizens would refuse to help one another unless their own personal material gain was at stake. Many attempted to hinder their neighbors from attaining success, believing that others' good fortune would inevitably harm their own interests. Montegrano's citizens viewed their village life as little more than a battleground. Consequently, there prevailed social isolation and poverty and an inability to work together to solve common social problems or even to pool common resources and talents to build infrastructure or address common economic concerns.
by danabramov | 2025-06-01 14:59:28+00:00
I used this analogy more from the user's perspective (as a user, a gradually sharpening image feels similar to a website with glimmers gradually getting replaced by revealing content). I don't actually know how JPEG is served under the hood (and the spec is too dense for me) so maybe if you explain the point a bit closer I'll be able to follow. I do believe you that the analogy doesn't go all the way.

RSC streams outside-in because that's the general shape of the UI — yes, you might want to prioritize the video, but you have to display the shell around that video first. So "outside-in" is just that common sense — the shell goes first. Other than that, the server will prioritize whatever's ready to be written to the stream — if we're not blocked on IO, we're writing.

The client does some selective prioritization on its own as it receives stuff (e.g. as it loads JS, it will prioritize hydrating the part of the page that you're trying to interact with).
by alexisread | 2025-06-01 14:59:36+00:00
You have a point, but the ST bottleneck during development appeared to be the software, so there was possibly space for hardware tweaks. The BOM would go up slightly but remember they would have saved on developing and shipping a separate disk drive which would cover a lot of these changes.

Realistically it's amazing the ST was as good as it was, given the 6 month development time and the kings of penny pinching at the helm :)
by kemotep | 2025-06-01 14:59:37+00:00
The Single Tax is just that. And extracting (or not extracting) natural resources off the land would either count towards or against the unimproved land value depending on how we value it in that specific context.

The second tax you bring up is pigouvian sales taxes and those should absolutely be implemented. They are the second least bad kind of tax.

But of course the Two Tax Movement is not what Georgism is referred to as.
by quuxplusone | 2025-06-01 15:00:28+00:00
Specifically the "b4 trailers" command, somehow. I don't have any special knowledge of b4, but it sounds as if a command that was expected to rewrite only the history of an under-review feature branch accidentally reached back too far and rewrote some of Kees' copy of master — without leaving a hint in the "Committer" field as it was conventionally supposed to.

Linus (rightly-ish) objected to this confusing breach of convention and did the contributor equivalent of a "revert quickly, debug at leisure." Kees (rightly) dug into the puzzle, figured out the problem, and explained it to Linus's (or at least Konstantin's) satisfaction.

https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/contributor/trailers.ht...
by zozbot234 | 2025-06-01 15:00:42+00:00
You could load different "experts" in a round-robin way on a single node and only aggregate "batches" opportunistically, when you just have multiple requests in-flight that all happen to rely on the same "expert". The difference being that instead of "batches", you would only really have queues. Of course this would come with a sizeable increase in latency, but that's acceptable for many applications (such as for "deep research" workflows)
by p_ing | 2025-06-01 15:00:54+00:00
The parent partition is not considered a VM, nor does the implementation of VBS make the "parent partition" (with just VBS, it isn't) a VM.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-...

The parent partition has full access to hardware and child partitions (VMs). The hardware is not virtualized to the parent.
by lxgr | 2025-06-01 15:01:13+00:00
That's possibly still true for the hardened processor: As TFA notes, that's not what was compromised here.

> [...] only text strings seem to be passed to a binary (display_tool), that issues some inter-processor messages. The same goes for the key pad or the card reader itself. I could not find any evidence that these peripherals could be accessed directly from Linux.

> Instead, there is an entirely separate processor, refered to as mp1, that seems to handle all the “secure” stuff, like handling the card, getting the pin and showing information on the screen. The “insecure” Linux, running on the second processor, mp2, only handles the networking, the updating, and the business logic.
by simonw | 2025-06-01 15:01:48+00:00
I want a web page I can go to where I can type a prompt (give me a list of example prompts too) and see the result from the base model on one side and the result from the fine-tuned model on the other side.

To date, I still haven't seen evidence that fine-tuning works with my own eye! It's really frustrating.

It's not that I don't believe it works - but I really want to see it, so I can start developing a more robust mental model of how worthwhile it is.

It sounds to me like you might be in a great position to offer this.
by kazinator | 2025-06-01 15:02:02+00:00
I experimented working with large fonts when I was in my early 20s. I discovered that it turned out to be bad for the eyes. I believe I understood the issue. I was able to continue to read text fine in spite of not taking any breaks for hours or even not blinking for long periods, letting the eyes dry out. Sure, the text would get blurry, but because the font was so large, that wasn't an impediment.

So while I did confirm the obvious readability of large characters, what you actually want is a small font which is not readable unless your eyes are relaxed and moistened by sufficient blinking.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-01 15:02:34+00:00
Glad you liked it, though I will mention for others that it does involve self-harm, as that may be relevant information, but it is necessary to the story, and it did win an Academy Award for what it's worth, which I think was probably deserved, though I didn't see any of the other also-rans.

Thanks for having the courage to post under your real name, also, as you mentioned in another thread of yours I was reading. It's been a growth experience for me as well.
by duxup | 2025-06-01 15:02:45+00:00
On Reddit I’m seeing a ton of what seems like engagement or karma spam that seem LLM generated.

It will be a story or question with just enough hints at personal drama and non specifics to engage the community. The stories always seem like a mishmash of past popular posts.

They’re usually posted by brand new accounts that rarely if ever post a comment.

Some subs seem relatively free of them, others inundated with them.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-06-01 15:03:02+00:00
The PC industry of the late 80s was a disaster.

We had affordable windowing and GUIs on the Atari and the Amiga, with instant boot from ROM and tons of RAM. The Amiga had the beginnings of multitasking and hardware acceleration for graphics and sound.

Then suddenly the industry decided to go back to a cut-down version of late 70s S-100 computing, with insanely unaffordable prices, crippled specs, bizarre semi-manual memory management, ugly hardware, and a command line interface that was basically CP/M but not as good.

Infuriating.
by kriro | 2025-06-01 15:03:16+00:00
And this is exactly where I disagree. Andor does not stand very well on its own outside of SW (and that takes it from great tier to very good for me with the other minor squibbles that I have). If you don't know the lore, things will be less clear and the writing will feel strange at times. FWIW, I have recommended this show to many friends who never watched anything SW, they mostly liked it but found some things odd.

WARNING, SPOILERS

The story is not properly resolved. If you have no SW knowledge, the threat isn't even very clear. Some galaxy government lead by an emperor is building a weapon, shown once. If S2 is the end it's pretty unsatisfying in general. The politics are kind of unclear.

The sacrifice of Mothma is very unclear without a SW background. A senator said something and had to flee to a planet (oversimplified).

Without knowledge of R1, the killing machine super droid is down right comical/a sloppy resolve for things.

Without SW knowledge the (imo) best part of the Imperial machinery, bureaucracy, power hunger also becomes awkward at times and frankly less interesting. Syril is my favorite character and Dedra probably second. I found their arcs great, every single non-SW viewer I talked to found them "boring", "that guy with the annoying mother was strange" and "why did they have to be a couple, that's pretty unimaginative writing" etc.

END SPOILERS

My personal quibbles are that the crashed tie episode was pretty bad filler. I have not heard anyone say anything good about it.

Someone else already mentioned minor technical problems (field scene).

I found Diego Luna's acting ok but not great. It felt wooden at times. To some extend that's subjective but it doesn't compare to the lead acting I have in my personal top tier (Breaking Bad for example)