MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mock-possum | 2025-06-06 15:16:39+00:00
> 2009, renowned artist Ai Weiwei published an image of himself nude with only a 'Caonima' hiding his genitals, with a caption "草泥马挡中央" (cǎonímǎ dǎng zhōngyāng; 'a Grass Mud Horse covering the center'. One interpretation of the caption is: "fuck your mother, Communist Party Central Committee"). Political observers speculated that the photo may have contributed to Ai's arrest in 2011 by angering Chinese Communist Party hardliners.

How did I never hear about this detail??
by xg15 | 2025-06-06 15:16:52+00:00
> A philosophy that any harm now is justified if it has even a .1% chance of doing something very good in the long term.

Even then, our descendants, who'd finally have the privilege to live in that faraway future that we sacrificed everything in the present for - they'd also be obligated to treat their present as a disposable resource in service of an even further away future.

If you took the "philosophy" at face value, it would actually guarantee that the entire future of humanity will be miserable. But we'll colonize space and number in the trillions. Yay...
by ericmay | 2025-06-06 15:17:05+00:00
Well you just have to prioritize, unfortunately.

If you want to lose weight - and part of my comment was a critique on nutritional advice and dieting - or save money or just cook for the enjoyment of it you have to make time to do that.

It's not easy. I work full-time and do other things. I'm tired. I don't want to drive to the grocery store. it's Friday I want to relax, etc. and sometimes I don't cook! But it's just another life choice to make and we can be better and more consistent over time and make improvements without going straight to 0 eating out.
by fulafel | 2025-06-06 15:17:13+00:00
High end Apple M chips have it beat still I think.

edit: there's a new marketing claim from AMD that it beats M4 in some configuraton by 2.6x: https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/technical-article... .. but it's a small memory mode of M4 Pro, I wonder if there's independently benchmarked numbers of M4 Max vs the 395 out there.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-06 15:17:24+00:00
Smol = wit.

11 characters. Could omit the period and spaces for 8. Needed to use the meme spelling "smol" since it's shorter than "small". Can we get it shorter without losing the meaning entirely? Maybe `wit□smol` though that's not the syntax for how `□` is used in modal logic, and still 8 characters (though a bit closer to the original meaning).
by jmclnx | 2025-06-06 15:17:55+00:00
>AheadComputing is betting on an open architecture called RISC-V

I wish them success, plus I hope they do not do what Intel did with its add-ons.

Hoping for an open system (which I think RISC-V is) and nothing even close to Intel ME or AMT.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...
by ecshafer | 2025-06-06 15:18:07+00:00
Are there parts of your whole self that are not always appropriate to bring up? I sure think so. If one team mates whole self includes their support for Israel and another whole self is their support for Palestine, maybe we can leave some of these whole selfs at home, and just talk about work, and maybe how our camping trip this weekend was. People shouldn't have to be proselytized by any other people's extreme religious or political views at work.
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-06 15:18:22+00:00
I don't know, RISC-V doesn't seem to be very disruptive at this point? And what's the deal with specialized chips that the article mentions? Today, the "biggest, baddest" CPUs - or at least CPU cores - are the general-purpose (PC and, somehow, Apple mobile / tablet) ones. The opposite of specialized.

Are they going to make one with 16384 cores for AI / graphics or are they going to make one with 8 / 16 / 32 cores that can each execute like 20 instructions per cycle?
by solarkraft | 2025-06-06 15:18:53+00:00
> Engineering opportunities at volume and high skill allow changing the margin in ways low volume and low capitalization provider cannot

Everything depends on this actually being possible and I haven’t seen a lot of information on that so far.

DeepSeek‘s publication suggests that it is possible - specifically there was recently a discussion on batching. Google might have some secret sauce with their TPUs (is that why Gemini is so fast?)

And there are still Cerebras and Groq (why haven’t they taken over the world yet?), but their improvements don’t appear to be scale dependent.

Speculating that inference will get cheaper in the future might justify selling at a loss now to at least gain mind share, I guess.
by omneity | 2025-06-06 15:19:11+00:00
I am not entirely surprised by the relative equivalence for the sparse model. The combined bandwidth of 2x 5060 Ti ≃ 1x 3090. There are inefficiencies in multi-gpus that are more negligible at smaller dimensions, hence why the dense 32B model performs significantly worse on the dual 5060 setup.

For reference I am getting ~40 output tok/s on a 4090 (450W) with Qwen3 32B and a context window of 4096.

> Ultimately, as the user note aptly put it, the decision largely boils down to how much context you anticipate using regularly.

Hah. (emphasis mine)
by bediger4000 | 2025-06-06 15:19:28+00:00
I would not subscribe to any newsletter written with AI. Why would I do that? The "content" so generated is almost by definition average or median. It will also be nothing new, by definition, but instead a rehash of other material the model's been trained on.

Now that I think about it, any organization or entity that makes a newsletter with AI/LLMs is probably creating "content" just to fill up space, for SEO purposes or some such not-even-nefarious, but rather dull and boring, reason. I'd probably ignore their newsletter and "content" accordingly.
by pwg | 2025-06-06 15:19:52+00:00
Hmm, a big commercial site who's purpose is to provide free eyeballs for the viewing of advertising considers a video about how to avoid providing free eyeballs for the viewing of advertising as "harmful".

Of course that video is harmful. /s

The "harm" is to youtube's revenue stream. Which is why they gave it a strike and denied the appeal.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-06-06 15:20:23+00:00
I don't have aphantasia but you might be wrong in many different ways:

- you assume the outcome of your experiment which is not a given

- even if the outcome is what you assume it is: there's the possibility of other explanations: for example having a pen paper to draw the car serves as an aid that helps them draw the car without having to imagine it. Just like having pen and paper can help me compute the square root of 4572847 without having to imagine the computation in my mind.
by rcarmo | 2025-06-06 15:22:02+00:00
You can run theoretically run ollama on it, as with the earlier APUs (I did it on an M780 by allocating 16 of the machine's 32GB to the iGPU). I am _very_ interested in getting my hands on one because I see it as a decent compromise between power, RAM capacity (with soldered-on RAM, it's got pretty good latency) and performance.
by zamadatix | 2025-06-06 15:22:28+00:00
As the article highlights the problem is really twofold. You need enough VRAM to load the model at all but there also needs to be enough bandwidth that accessing all of that memory is fast enough to be worthwhile. It'd be "easy" to slap 2 TB of "slow" DDR5 onto a GPU but it wouldn't perform much better than a high core count CPU running LLMs with the same memory.
by jeffbee | 2025-06-06 15:22:30+00:00
Imagine having 2 or more of the OP in the same organization, raging at each other about a tiny, perceived difference in outlook. You can easily have software engineering partnership but it's clear that a person like the OP would destroy any organization, no matter the structure, which is probably why they describe themselves as an anarchist (i.e. a person with a life-long inability to adapt to any give context).
by fishtoucher | 2025-06-06 15:22:36+00:00
It's a ridiculous and extreme example but it actually did happen. I was going skiing quite often at the time though so maybe it didn't have the sticking power it would've normally.

In general, without some kind of trigger my ability to remember specific episodes is nonexistent. The OP talks about this too but those times when you have to give 3 fun facts about yourself or when someone asks my hobbies are moments of of existential dread because I genuinely have no idea what to say.

I realised recently that there are whole years of my life I'm basically missing when I think back. Like I know where I was living, what job I was working, and my general circumstances, just not anything specific I actually did.
by 999900000999 | 2025-06-06 15:23:29+00:00
Ideally smaller models will get better.

For most tasks I don't need the best model in existence, I just need good enough. A small law firm using LLMs for summaries can probably do it on prem and hire a smart college student to setup a PC to do it.

The problem is that's still more difficult ( let's say our hypothetical junior IT only makes 60k a year) than just sending all your private business information to some 3rd party API. You can then act shocked and concerned when your 3rd party leaks the data.
by internet101010 | 2025-06-06 15:24:05+00:00
More additions:

- Kometa + Imagemaid: a Plex collection and cover art manager that allows you to create custom overlays, such as having ratings for IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic embedded directly into the cover art. Also gets rid of the issue in Plex where cover art occasionally changes.

- Doplarr: a Discord bot that connects to Overseerr, allowing you to search/add from within Discord
by beej71 | 2025-06-06 15:24:20+00:00
They are two different things, though. One is actually producing content, and the others deciding which content host and share. And there are all kinds of various legal and illegal combinations, here. For instance maybe they decide that it's okay to host Nazi content, something that is absolutely protected under the first amendment. Or maybe they decide that it's not okay to host Nazi content, even though it's definitely protected under the first amendment.

Also see Gonzales v. Google.

But really the most dangerous thing here is telling a company that they are legally liable for everything their users post. A large company like Google has the legal firepower to handle the massive onslaught of lawsuits that will instantly occur. A smaller startup thing? Not a chance. They're DOA.

Heck, even on my tiny traffic personal website, I would take the comment section down because there's no way I can handle a lawsuit over something somebody posted there.

I should not be required to host content I do not wish to host. And at the same time I must be shielded from liability from comments that people make on my website, if we are to have a comment section at all.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-06 15:25:02+00:00
I see the benefit, but... that looks like work. From the post:

> Why save vim /etc/rc.conf when sudo vim /etc/rc.conf is what I meant 100% of the time?

Good point, but AFAIK all shells search history by recency by default. Whether I search with Fish's up-arrow, or with Atuin's ^r, the first result will be the match I executed most recently. In this case, that means I'd have to type `sudo vim /etc/rc.conf` correctly one time and then that's the first version of the command I'll see next time I look for it. And if it's something I do often enough for it to matter, but still manage to screw it up frequently, I'll turn it into an alias or function.

This is the kind of busywork that feels like an ADHD tarpit to me. No. I absolutely do not need to optimize my shell history, lest I end up with a beautiful, tiny history file that's free from the detritus that would have come from me spending that time actually doing my job.
by bluGill | 2025-06-06 15:25:22+00:00
X just worked for a large subset of users. However Wayland just works for a large subset as well. In either case if you are in the subset where it doesn't work then you will complain. Wayland has a design such that if things don't work for you today we have a hope that we can make it work for you in the future. Many of the issues where X didn't work for some people could not be fixed, and some of those were issues that are becoming more important.
by rdlw | 2025-06-06 15:25:43+00:00
It does start out by saying they worked in Brazil for Google.

> The fact that Google fired me...

Normally you have to work somewhere to get fired. I suppose that's an assumption I made upon reading that part.

> let us go back in time and space, and journey to tropical Brazil in the distant time of 2007…

This article is set in Brazil, in 2007. Did you skip the introduction and then complain about the lack of an introduction?
by haiku2077 | 2025-06-06 15:25:58+00:00
No, mermaid is not fine. You don't have fine control over layout and composition, you can't place your own media and annotations where you like, you can't even use the correct icons for things like databases and cloud services. I usually go into Figma for anything more complex than about 7 entities or if I need to tell a story with composition.
by tstrimple | 2025-06-06 15:26:24+00:00
Readily available? No. But if I wanted to draw a car, I'm iterating through parts in that way. And the accuracy of our "mental description" is certainly in question. Similar to how folks who can "picture a bicycle" can picture it incorrectly.

My wife and I have very different navigation skills. She can almost always tell me the compass direction and she's very good at relative directions. If she's in the house, she can instantly point in the correct direction of our children's school. I've got to stop and think through the steps I'd take to get there. I have to "reason" it out and she can just "see" it. It's almost like she's looking at a map of places and I'm dealing with a graph of nodes. I can walk the graph and understand how places are connected. But I can't really step back and see the bigger picture like she can. And I've got a lot of gaps in my graph because I only add nodes when needed. I could drive by a church a hundred times and not be able to tell you it exists. But when my daughter has a girl scouts meetings there, the graph gets updated.
by Cockbrand | 2025-06-06 15:26:35+00:00
I've been following a similar approach for a while. In bash, I have `HISTCONTROL=IGNOREBOTH` activated (or `setopt hist_ignore_space hist_ignore_dups` in zsh - most shells have an equivalent setting), and I just prepend most commands with a space. So only the more or less important stuff ends up in .bash_history or .zsh_history. This has the added nice effect that I don't accidentally trigger something destructive when I browse through my history.

I also spend most of my online life in incognito windows, at least for sites that don't absolutely require a login. This keeps my browser history clean from all the disposable pages that I only visit once, and I take care to do only the more meaningful stuff in a regular browser window.
by orev | 2025-06-06 15:28:33+00:00
Unless you’re working 16h per day, every day, you have time to cook. There are many things that are very easy to cook and don’t even take that much effort, but people just refuse to learn how to use the tools they have.

All you need is an oven and some baking pans, and you can easily make a well balanced meal in less than an hour. Roasted chicken, potatoes, vegetables. Done. There’s only a little bit of prep, then it’s mostly waiting.

The biggest impact of industrialized food companies is not their poor products, it’s that they convinced everyone that cooking is too hard.
by ghusto | 2025-06-06 15:29:25+00:00
For those voicing the "yeah, well they're not a charity" sentiment:

What Google have done with YouTube is push it at a loss for long enough to kill competition. Once they're the only ones left, they get to dictate everything because there's nobody left to compete.

It's not _illegal_ (not exactly, anyway), but don't expect me to then call using the service and blocking ads "stealing".
by wizardforhire | 2025-06-06 15:30:17+00:00
Oh my friend, you are visiting a different hn than a lot of us. I nearly got in a flame war yesterday with a noob and had to step back because of the density, caught my self being bated by a potential troll. Their argument was exactly what you’re claiming to have not seen.

To be fair I never stereotyped them even in my mind. But the audacity and dismissal of others was very bating.

I did my best but still a very poor job of arguing and had to step away.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-06 15:30:47+00:00
Sure it can.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-h...

> On November 9, 2021, pursuant to a judicially authorized premises search warrant of ZHONG’s Gainesville, Georgia, house, law enforcement seized approximately 50,676.17851897 Bitcoin, then valued at over $3.36 billion. This seizure was then the largest cryptocurrency seizure in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice and today remains the Department’s second largest financial seizure ever.

Having you physically within their jurisdiction (and/or drone strike reach) permits quite a bit of leverage. As the XKCD comic notes… https://xkcd.com/538/
by woodruffw | 2025-06-06 15:31:27+00:00
> I have never seen anyone auto-merge Dependabot PR automatically using GitHub Action.

For better or worse, it's a pattern that GitHub explicitly documents[1].

(An earlier version of this page also recommended `pull_request_target`, hence the long tail of public repositories that use it.)

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-...
by JohnMakin | 2025-06-06 15:31:34+00:00
> Google back then prided itself on broadcasting its Best Place To Work award, won year after year after year. Younger people will have trouble picturing this, but Google used to nurture an image of being the “good one” among megacorps;

It's crazy to think about now. Google's image was a big driver in my choice to go back to school and start a tech career, my end and pretty much only goal was to work at google. I made it through several rounds of interviews and got rejected pretty late. It hurt really bad at that time, but looking back now, I think it was one of the best things that could have happened to me.
by redczar | 2025-06-06 15:31:40+00:00
The “obnoxiously open about” part of your post says much about you. Your post would have been much better without that part.

Google was “obnoxiously open about” do no evil and the other stuff described in the blog post. It’s natural for people who bought into those lies to react accordingly. Nothing in the blog post suggests a belief that polyamorous anarchists would be better at running things.
by SuperNinKenDo | 2025-06-06 15:31:51+00:00
When you consider the growing evidence that we've seen over the years that apparently unresponsive people can be fully aware of their surroundings, this is truly terrifying.

From some of the remarks at the end of the article one really statts to wonder how much survivorship bias there is here... How many procedures went forward despite the medical professionals in the room being uncomfortable...
by Aunche | 2025-06-06 15:31:54+00:00
You can't have radical transparency without a blameless culture. Calling someone out in the open is in bad taste anywhere. It's also common sense. As Omar says, "If you come at the king, you best not miss." It's possible that the author really did just write an innocuous post criticizing recruiting practices, but I don't see why their the manager would single out the boss if that were the case.
by corytheboyd | 2025-06-06 15:33:22+00:00
Agree, the recency sort sort ends up normalizing history over time anyway. Use fzf with your history to see more than one match a time anyway, and you can at least glance through a few of the iterative commands you went through if your history isn’t “normalized” yet. I like keeping shell history dead simple— it’s a stack of executed statements. Period.

I do pull very often run things into functions and source them into every shell session. Usually only parameterized things that aren’t trivial to use reverse search for.
by pimlottc | 2025-06-06 15:33:24+00:00
Might want to mention what the bug is [0]:

> Noticing that the audio balance for your headphones is going slightly to the left or right? Balance Lock was designed to solve this by keeping the audio centred either in the middle or to a custom lock point. No more annoying left/right audio drift!

I've never personally noticed or heard of this bug, myself.

[0]: https://www.tunabellysoftware.com/balance_lock/
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-06 15:34:09+00:00
A GPU is a very different beast that relies much more heavily on having a gigantic team of software developers supporting it. A CPU is (comparatively) straightforward. You fab and validate a world class design, make sure compiler support is good enough, upstream some drivers and kernel support, and make sure the standard documentation/debugging/optimization tools are all functional. This is incredibly difficult, but achievable because these are all standardized and well understood interface points.

With GPUs you have all these challenges while also building a massively complicated set of custom compilers and interfaces on the software side, while at the same time trying to keep broken user software written against some other company's interface not only functional, but performant.
by elia_42 | 2025-06-06 15:34:15+00:00
Really interesting reflection on small languages, the relationship between simplicity and expressiveness. Also interesting is the broadening of the theme with the beautiful final quotations of a philosophical nature as well, about the importance of the habits of those who like to enclose themselves and build their own little world that does not exclude the real world, since it depends, for them, on their own little world.
by bumby | 2025-06-06 15:34:50+00:00
This is true but I’ve wondered how much of the dynamic is because Tesla offers a limited number of models.

As others have said, Tesla is a status symbol. Meaning people often want one just because it’s a Tesla. For someone who is set on a Tesla, they have five options. By contrast, someone set on a Toyota has 20 or so. Meaning, if I want a Tesla there’s a reasonably high probability my choice will be a Model Y because I don’t have many options. 66% of Teslas sold are Model Y while only 15% of Toyotas sold are Camrys.
by hahahacorn | 2025-06-06 15:35:22+00:00
This is amazing and exactly what I needed as of ~12 hours ago.

The coincidence is kinda insane though - quick personal story I think is worth a readers time. I was just working on assets to develop a very quick (3-levels, built for one person) narrative romance game until I fell asleep last night. I’ve never developed any game of any kind.

I then wake up to a JS library for narrative games at the #1 spot on HN.

FTR the game is a simp game I’m using it to ask someone I’ve been seeing to make things official.