MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bgirard | 2025-06-11 21:05:40+00:00
> FFOS was doomed because the pixel explosion wasn't just stretching the GPUs of that time

Actually this is the reason that I, at the time working at Mozilla on the rendering team and helping with Firefox OS, proposed will-change. To solved this exact problem. With it, I managed to get the home screen to be perfectly smooth using pure web technologies and no hard coding on low end mobile hardware. Here's the original proposal: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Nov/0414....
by frozenseven | 2025-06-11 21:05:46+00:00
I could list many breakthroughs in medicine, material science, and engineering. Point out how AI makes information more accessible, automates away drudgery, etc. I see it every day, making the world a better place.

But I feel this disagreement isn't precisely about the technical details. If your stance is based on some fundamental idea of politics/philosophy, I can't change your mind.
by yawgmoth | 2025-06-11 21:05:46+00:00
Adjust the height to the highest setting.

Put gas in it. If there's a soft rubber thing near the gas, hit it twice to provide some fuel but no more as you risk "flooding" the engine.

Hold down any handle at the top of the mower, often the thing will require you to manually hold it down during start and all operations.

Look for the starter pull. It's often on the right, on the motor or mower handles. It's a piece of plastic attached to a cable. Give it a yank with a full follow through. It doesn't have to be maximum effort but too gentle won't work either.
by crote | 2025-06-11 21:05:53+00:00
Desktop computer are barely on 2.5GBASE-T, and there's still 5G in-between. I reckon it'll be 5-10 years until we'll see widespread 10G rollout, and it'll easily last another 10 before we need something better. The bigger issue is wireless access points. High-end ones are already on 10G today, and unlike desktops PoE is quite critical here.

25GBASE-T and 40GBASE-T are dead-on-arrival: the spec exists, but nobody ever bothered to actually ship it. It requires yet another cable upgrade and the maximum distance is too short to be usable. And that's before we even looked at power consumption.

The obvious answer is fiber, but that's orders of magnitude more complicated to roll out. The fiber itself is a massive pain to install when you want to make it to-length on site, the currently-popular connectors require a lot of babysitting, it can't be backwards compatible with the old RJ45 stuff, and it can't do PoE. Pulling a standard single-mode fiber pair with LC connectors to every cubicle and access point? Not exactly an attractive option.

I personally think we're probably going to see some kind of Frankensteined (think GG45-like) RJ45-with-fiber pop up, but that won't be any time soon.
by IggleSniggle | 2025-06-11 21:05:54+00:00
Please. It looks like he was doing dev as a hobby, asked a big company how to handle removing his packages, and did what they told him to. They might not have had the right policy, but that doesn't make a guy who doesn't want to give his packages away to a company just because they're making threats into an asshole. It makes him typical.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-11 21:06:04+00:00
Global Fertility Crisis Can't Be Solved With Financial Perks, UN Report Says - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-11/un-report... | https://archive.today/667Qp - June 11th, 2025

> The UNFPA partnered with YouGov and surveyed more than 14,000 men and women across 14 countries. Of the 10,000 respondents who said they wanted children, nearly 40% said financial limitations were keeping them from having their ideal family size.

> The survey found that millions of people are unable to have as many children as they wish because of financial constraints, gender inequality and uncertainty about the future.

> “This crisis is not rooted in individual reproductive decisions that fail to align with the needs of a state or economy,” the report said. Instead, it’s due to systems that “failed to create the economic security and personal empowerment that people say are preconditions for realizing their family formation goals.”
by sanderjd | 2025-06-11 21:06:36+00:00
This is exactly my take as well!

I do really like programming qua programming, and I relate to a lot of the lamentation I see from people in these threads at the devaluation of this skill.

But there are lots of other things that I also enjoy doing, and these tools are opening up so many opportunities now. I have had tons of ideas for things I want to learn how to do or that I want to build that I have abandoned because I concluded they would require too much time. Not all, but many, of those things are now way easier to do. Tons of things are now under the activation energy to make them worthwhile, which were previously well beyond it.

Just as a very narrow example, I've been taking on a lot more large scale refactorings to make little improvements that I've always wanted to make, but which have not previously been worth the effort, but now are.
by mike_ivanov | 2025-06-11 21:06:42+00:00
"T-SQL to PL-SQL" -> (implies an > 40 age, most likely being an Ask TOM citizen, a consultant with >> 100K annual income, most likely conservative, maybe family with kids, prone to anxiety/depression, etc) -> This WORRY FREE PEACE OF MIND magic pill takes America by storm, grab yours before it's too late!
by smcleod | 2025-06-11 21:07:03+00:00
Sorry, reading that back I could have worded that better. I think sometimes security groups also have a vested interest in making their findings sound complex or at least as accomplished as plausible as a showcase for their work (understandable), but I was (at least in my head) playing off the idea that news around Microsoft security in general also has a canny knack for either being played off as sophisticated or simply buried when it is often either down to poor product design or security practices.
by ben_w | 2025-06-11 21:07:59+00:00
> No explanation has been found, even according to CERN

Incorrect.

First, let's be clear, "our understanding of the laws of physics" is not "the actual laws of physics". Every physicist knows this. The universe always follows the real laws, physicists are very excited about the difference because it's a chance to win a Nobel Prize.

For example, the one in 1980 for the discovery (in 1964, they're slow to award the prize) of CP violation in decays of neutral kaons, which is fancy physics language for "matter and antimatter do not behave the same way". This year, the LHCb experiment in CERN also discovered CP violation in baryons.

In fact, this is in your own linked article from CERN: """In the past few decades, particle-physics experiments have shown that the laws of nature do not apply equally to matter and antimatter. Physicists are keen to discover the reasons why."""

That said, personally I like the response from Sabine Hossenfelder: There's nothing to be explained, conservation laws only apply to time-evolution of a system, not to the initial conditions.

We don't look for a reason why the mass-energy was non-zero, why do we even need one for why the baryon number isn't zero?
by dkga | 2025-06-11 21:08:03+00:00
I find it surprising actually how much these seniority rules are well-defined in many cultures, but in Brazil there is strong variation - even in the same geography. For example, a colleague who is learning Brazilian Portuguese was under the impression that "você" and "tu" were the equivalent of "vous/tu" or "Sie/du". In reality, they are just different regional ways of saying the informal you. In Brazilian Portuguese is to call someone "o Senhor/a Senhora" based on their gender, with a singular third person declination. And in the countryside, it is common to hear people use "Doutor/Doutora" the same way they would use the normal formal language when addressing educated people or land-owners.

Another example many people outside Brazil find interesting: in my family we were taught to never use the formal towards anyone. The rationale is that everyone is equal and that using the formal language was disrespectful because it created an artificial distance between us and the other person. We were also taught never to use the formal language when praying for the same reason. However, other people are taught to use the formal language towards bosses and elders, also with a respect rationale, and some other folks in Brazil (even from big cities) actually require that their children address them with formal language. So now when in doubt I use the formal language with people that are much older than I am although that feels utterly unnatural to me, but I always make people comfortable to use the informal with me as I personally find this to be more respectful.

Just one more comment: in Brazil it is unfortunately the case that some offices have a standard treatment like "your excellency", etc, which are nominally meant to respect the office but in reality become a kind of test of compliance and obedience. I recall in particular one incident where an attorney presenting in front of the Supreme Court was severely reprimanded for not address justices with the proper term. Personally, I am not sure that required compliance with a style - by regulation or by societal expectations - is indeed "respect" if it is not matched with actions and posture that really reflect due consideration towards the other person.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-11 21:08:33+00:00
> Does the model capable of tool use feed the uninspected user input to a sandboxed model, then treat its output as an opaque string?

That was one of my early thoughts for "How could LLM tools ever be made trustworthy for arbitrary data?" The LLM would just come up with a chain of tools to use (so you can inspect what it's doing), and another mechanism would be responsible for actually applying them to the input to yield the output.

Of course, most people really want the LLM to inspect the input data to figure out what to do with it, which opens up the possibility for malicious inputs. Having a second LLM instance solely coming up with the strategy could help, but only as far as the human user bothers to check for malicious programs.
by psalaun | 2025-06-11 21:08:39+00:00
You assume there are enough trees on the desertic island to build the ship that will allow us to reach the brave new world full of resources.

We don't know that. It seems to be a leap of faith, based on the possibility of numerous successive achievements (IA, then fusion, then robots, then interplanetary mining, etc.) where each new step is always reachable. Like in a video game.

Maybe the necessary amount of oil (or whatever) required to reach the next key milestone towards unlimited resources has never existed. Maybe it'd have required 1 billion more years before humankind reached the industrial age.

Maybe the trees on our island are just enough to build a raft, not a brig, and we should have used them to build a shelter and make the inevitable end more comfortable.
by bmacho | 2025-06-11 21:08:50+00:00
We have no theories working at those conditions. Wiki says

> General relativity also predicts that the initial state of the universe, at the beginning of the Big Bang, was a singularity of infinite density and temperature.[6][obsolete source] However, classical gravitational theories are not expected to be accurate under these conditions, and a quantum description is likely needed[7].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-11 21:09:11+00:00
I discovered her music 'recently'. The 'imagination library' is a thing she has been doing for years, and I read about this on CNN or BBC or something like that, and I was deeply moved. When I read more about it (if I remember well) she started this initiative because her father couldn't read, and she wanted to make sure every kid has books to read. When I read that last part I thought to myself "shit.. this is a KIND person" (like wow!! she is a great human being!).
by munificent | 2025-06-11 21:09:45+00:00
I don't disagree but... wouldn't you rather be working with actual people?

Spending the whole day chatting with AI agents sounds like a worst-of-both-worlds scenarios. I have to bring all of my complex, subtle soft skills into play which are difficult and tiring to use, and in the end none of that went towards actually fostering real relationships with real people.

At the end of the day, are you gonna have a beer with your agents and tell them, "Wow, we really knocked it out of the park today?"

Spending all day talking to virtual coworkers is literally the loneliest experience I can imagine, infinitely worse than actually coding in solitude the entire day.
by crote | 2025-06-11 21:10:17+00:00
> Debbie in accounting will practically never need more than 10g networking to do her job.

And 640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone. Who knows, perhaps in 2050 Edward will be mailing Debbie iterations of their 500GB AI fraud model for local inference?

The question isn't if 10G will need to be replaced with something better, but when.
by directevolve | 2025-06-11 21:10:19+00:00
The reason we use animal models is that we don’t know enough about animal biology to be confident we can simulate it accurately.

However, computational tools that help biologists “replace, reduce, and refine” animal experiments are helpful. That catchphrase is a good one to Google to look for previous efforts.

Building computational tools to help scientists improve the design of necessary animal experiments is certainly worth working on.
by Frost1x | 2025-06-11 21:10:26+00:00
I would argue that theory is a critical part of the research process and is therefore research.

There’s of course a line between simply coming up with ideas that are quickly provably wrong or inconsistent vs generating ideas that are consistent and not quickly falsified. It’s especially valuable the ideas are falsifiable and it seems like this is the case here.

As such, theory finds patterns in existing knowns, makes some leaps and tries to connect them. Then empirical evidence can help solidify or falsify those ideas. But we tend not to just connect dots of empirical data without attempting to know the casual relationship, otherwise the connections can be rather nonsensical or may have weak predictive power.

With all that said I didn’t read the paper in detail nor am I qualified in this domain to say if it’s quackery or a reasonable shot a developing some new theory. It is peer reviewed and published in APS so I suspect it’s not complete quackery: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.1...
by afroboy | 2025-06-11 21:10:49+00:00
I'm not a scientist or astrophysicist but i do believe in science, is it ok to believe that we as humans and all our scientific development still very very far from proving anything remotely close to how the universe got created? I feel this subject is for humanity in year 2600 to start discussing it.

Scientist still can show their theories and search papers and i can't understand a shit but i don't believe in any theory that proves how the universe got created.
by sequeller | 2025-06-11 21:10:57+00:00
I understood Apple modernized the icons on iOS, because many users fell into the "I want to unify everything" mode. But I can't believe they done the same with macOS. Not only they screw up many icons (incl. my favorite; the Finder) - they destroy the investments of many indie developers.

But this is a tendency they have started long ago. Latest when they unified the shape, we should have send thousands of mails to Cupertino. No it is too late… is it?
by throwaway173738 | 2025-06-11 21:11:06+00:00
I think that’s an entirely reasonable stance to take if I can reframe my anguish as in the case where I’ve been dumped and am feeling sad. But if my heart is dying and my life can only be prolonged through great and endless suffering, I think choosing death is entirely reasonable, and demanding that someone live a few more miserable weeks is cruel. And I don’t think those parables about Satan considered the difference between those two situations. What lesson is there to absorb to become a better person?

If tomorrow I invented a machine that could keep us all alive indefinitely but also required us to be immobile and in great pain, who would choose that outcome?
by allknowingfrog | 2025-06-11 21:11:07+00:00
I'm no expert, but it seems like the value add is the firmware they wrote to turn this into a more accessible platform. Hardware is always composed of other hardware, so "included" is not inherently the wrong word, though it maybe takes too much credit. In general, the intent feels wholesome to me. As a software guy, I had no idea that hardware could be so approachable, and I'm suddenly excited about the possibilities.
by davely | 2025-06-11 21:11:08+00:00
My house has never been cleaner. I have time to catch up on chores that I normally do during the weekend. Dishes, laundry, walk the dog more.

It seems silly but it’s opened up a lot of extra time for some of this stuff. Heck, I even play my guitar more, something I’ve neglected for years. Noodle around while I wait for Claude to finish something and then I review it.

All in all, I dig this new world. But I also code JS web apps for a living, so just about the easiest code for an LLM to tackle.

EDIT: Though I think you are asking about work specifically. i.e., does management recognize your contributions and reward you?

For me, no. But like I said, I get more done at work and more done at home. It’s weird. And awesome.
by dcminter | 2025-06-11 21:11:28+00:00
I went to a British private school (which we also call "public schools" to annoy Americans) and it was certainly still hanging on there into the 80s.

My brother attended the same school where we briefly overlapped so I was by default "Minter" and when the distinction was needed I was "Minter Minor" and he would have been "Minter Major".

Like many things it doesn't make much sense in retrospect.

Edit: People do still often call me "Mister Minter" where I'd expect them to use my first name, but I think they just like the alliteration. It's not old schoolfriends doing it.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-06-11 21:11:59+00:00
It's not a new desire on many people's part. Many residents of eg. LA, Chicago, NYC have been lamenting the decline of law and order since (and also before) the 2020 riots. Politicians and law enforcement in these cities have shown that they either won't or can't enforce the law.

In a situation like that eventually either mobs or federal law enforcement need to get involved. Of those two choices, maybe you prefer the former. Many people prefer the latter though.
by strangattractor | 2025-06-11 21:12:40+00:00
The couple from Arizona would likely disagree if both were still alive - they heard what he said and acted in accordance with their interpretation.

Looking at Birx face while he is making those comments indicates - to me at least - a person very uncomfortable with what is being said. If they were discussed with him before (your source of info unknown) then he clearly did not understand what was being said to him. Yes UV kills all viruses on surfaces as does bleach - it is not useful for someone already infected with COVID and neither is Hydroxychloroquine (taken internally or otherwise).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d57zJr82dhQ

Whether it is redrawing NOAA Hurricane projection maps, claiming COVID will all go away in a couple of months or cabinet members claiming vaccines have not been tested while simultaneously giving indication that taking untested remedies is ok - make it a little unclear who is MIS and DIS informing the public.
by HocusLocus | 2025-06-11 21:13:30+00:00
Suggested hard sci-fi light reading: "Cosm" by Gregory Benford, 1999. A universe the size of a bowling ball created in a laboratory. The scientist responsible for it, keeping it safe and on the run from gvt spooks. They want to protect it for as long as it lasts, and since its time is as relative as its size, they won't have long to wait.
by ben_w | 2025-06-11 21:13:37+00:00
It requires imperfect reproduction where the imperfections alter the probability of further reproduction.

If each black hole in our universe contained a pocket universe with very slightly different laws of physics (to each other and to us), but the same amount of mass-energy on the inside as our universe had when it started, then (1) those pocket universes able to create stars and black holes would also go on to create black holes with pocket universes, but also (2) those pocket universes not able to create black holes, would not create more pocket universes.

I have never seen a reason to think that this could happen, nor why such pocket universes might have more mass on the inside than they appear to have on the outside, but that's the argument.
by rolandog | 2025-06-11 21:13:46+00:00
Well, then we find ourselves finding each other out of touch!

I think your line of thinking might be either overly naïve, or maliciously turning a blind eye:

First, "both-sides"-ing, for lack of a better word, is — IMHO — a false equivalence that treats the current democratic transgressions of rights and freedoms from the alt-right government to, for example, democrat's normalizing that saying racist stuff is a faux-pas; i.e. some goons are actively harming humans and that isn't the same as racists being butt-hurt that they were banned from some site.

Second, in this particular case — where there is push back against fascists — trying to reduce the scope of the discussion is like trying to censor police-cam footage to just the split-second segments where the cops get scared and shoot, but that leaves out how the trigger-happy cop broke protocol, escalated the situation, and berated confusing orders at the victim. So, no... We need nuance and context.

I really hope people that find themselves what-abouting for fascists are able to escape whatever information bubble they find themselves in so that they may be able to stop willfully looking past other people's humanity before we all find each other on the wrong end of a power-tripping cop that won't even have to come up with a good lie to snuff our lives out.
by gassi | 2025-06-11 21:14:10+00:00
The project that powers the in-browser emulator is EmulatorJS, which use RetroArch's libretro cores compiled to WASM. More info on the process here: https://emulatorjs.org/docs4devs/buildingraw

I believe it's running RetroArch, as when you load a corrupt file or start without selecting a game it displays the RA menu. If you want to dig deeper you can check out their github or ask in their Discord, the team have been wonderful to work with.
by jfengel | 2025-06-11 21:14:13+00:00
I don't think c is a good candidate, because it's not really a parameter. It's just a correction factor for our mis-judgment in picking different units for time and space.

In "natural units", we define the units so that the important conversion factors (c, G, h-bar, etc) work out to exactly 1. You can say that c is one light-year per year and then forget about it.

The true parameters of the universe are the dimensionless constants: the fine structure constant, proton-electron mass ratio, 3+1 dimensions, etc.
by Arelius | 2025-06-11 21:14:31+00:00
> Legally perilous maybe, although my non-lawyer brain sees that as fair use, especially if the emulator doesn't let you play the full game. Idk, but it'd be a unique thing on the internet.

IANAL, but I think what a lot of people don't understand is that "fair-use" is a defense. Which basically means you have to be prepared to argue in in court. A lot of potential fair-use is quashed before it gets to that point.

It's also a balancing test, which means that it's very fact/context dependent, and subjective, which results in for a lot of cases, you really won't know until you actually get to court.