MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wand3r | 2025-06-01 18:46:56+00:00
I don't really see this as equivalent at all. Scammers, spammers and botnets etc. degrade the quality of life on Earth for many people with 0 consent. You could say that this product is disingenuous but ultimately it really only has an impact on dumb rich people. As a more general rule, it depends on the level of deception and the claims being made, but ultimately you are simply offering a product into the market. The other examples you mention are an extreme nuisance in general, but also have huge negative knock on effects from things like mitigation and general behavioral changes.

So it's really small potatoes to me. If some idiot willingly buys a cord for 50x the market price, that is largely on them.
by coalteddy | 2025-06-01 18:47:00+00:00
I have a friend that works on physically based renderers in the film industry and has also done research in the area. Always love hearing stories and explanations about how things get done in this industry.

What companies are hiring such talent at the moment? Have the AI companies also been hiring rendering engineers for creating training environments?

If you are looking to hire an experienced research and industry rendering engineer i am happy to connect you since my friend is not on social media but has been putting out feelers.
by jlokier | 2025-06-01 18:47:21+00:00
Round trips for parallel requests work fine over HTTP/2. (As long as there aren't vast numbers of tiny requests, for example every cell in a spreadsheet).

However, sequentially-dependent requests are about as slow with HTTP/2 as HTTP/1.1. For example, if your client side, after loading the page, requests data to fill a form component, and then that data indicates a map location, so your client side requests a map image with pins, and then the pin data has a link to site-of-interest bubble content, and you will be automatically expanding the nearest one, so your client side requests requests the bubble content, and the bubble data has a link to an image, so the client requests the image...

Then over HTTP/2 you can either have 1 x round trip time (server knows the request hierarchy all the way up to the page it sends with SSR) or 5 x round trip time (client side only).

When round trip times are on the order of 1 second or more (as they often are for me on mobile), >1s versus >5s is a very noticable difference in user experience.

With lower latency links of 100ms per RTT, the UX difference between 100ms and 500ms is not a problem but it does feel different. If you're on <10ms RTT, then 5 sequential round trips are hardly noticable, thought it depends more on client-side processing time affecting back-to-back delays.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-06-01 18:47:48+00:00
And there is some significant evidence that it is not true.

Think about training soldiers and the concept of “non-firers”. I’m not an expert on those things but the fact that training soldiers to kill is hard, and no one has a great solution even after a lot of effort, and passive combat personnel concepts even exist at all, I think gives evidence to the idea that not everyone can be a murderer, even under extreme circumstances.

“ Gen. S.L.A. Marshall once described war as “the business of killing”. And yet many war-fighters throughout history have gone out of their way to avoid it. Marshall himself estimated (though some say he exaggerated, or even fabricated) that only 15-25 per cent of infantry soldiers in the Second World War fired their weapons in any given battle. The rest were so-called “non-firers”; they had the opportunity to shoot at enemy soldiers but failed to do so. Marshall added that even those who did shoot often deliberately missed their target — they were so-called “mis-firers”. These “passive combat personnel”, as they are sometimes called, have long been a thorn in the side of military institutions. War is a “competition in death and destruction”, in the words of Henry Shue, and these individuals deliberately forego opportunities to score points for their own team.”

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/ned-dobos-military-training-...
by crote | 2025-06-01 18:48:30+00:00
The user will always have internet access - except when it suddenly drops out during that one critical meeting.

Doing a presentation at a conference? The hotel promised there would be "internet", but failed to mention all 10.000 attendees would be sharing a 10Mbps link. Doing a presentation at another company? They've got an overly-aggressive firewall on the guest network, so Figma isn't loading - and your provider decided to temporarily block your 5G tethering due to "misuse". Presenting a keynote at Computex? Guess Figma is having an outage, better tell the hundreds of journalists to come back tomorrow!

Your internet may have always worked so far. Are you willing to bet your career on some random 3rd party internet connection - or Figma itself - never having an outage?
by rubicon33 | 2025-06-01 18:49:09+00:00
Sure that's possible too (that research is heavily funded and swayed by the stake holders).

TBH though, over the last 20 years, I've seen enough to safely conclude for myself that SSRIs like Prozac are mostly harmless and probably have more benefits than drawbacks for the general population.

Coffee / caffeine falls into the same camp. Does it have drawbacks and side effects? Of course. Is it almost certainly a net-benefit? Yes.

So many other drugs where its very easy to say the opposite about. Alcohol for example, is mostly negative. My only recommendation for when to use alcohol is for ACUTE social situations. But even then, I recommend people work on their anxiety and self image before relying on alcohol for confidence. That said, it can be a silver bullet. Point is, everything is nuanced, everything has a plus and a negative.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-01 18:49:14+00:00
There's a creative energy that comes when something that has been planned for days/weeks/months suddenly can't be done but the expense of the equipment, cast/crew, location is going to be owed anyways is one of my favorite things about working in production. Only the largest of box office budget productions can actually shut down, but even they have the "behind schedule, over budget" issues too. Everyone works within their teams to solve the issue in ways that someone not on set would probably never know about, but ends up "saving the day" or whatever. There's a lot of hurry up and wait on set, but sometimes those hurry up moments are a lot of fun.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-06-01 18:50:23+00:00
What's wrong with light sabers? It's just a weapon with some useful properties (like bouncing back blaster shots). Finn used it fine for a sec, so it's proven that the user doesn't need to be trained at all in anything really.

The Force though... yeah, as much as I'm a big fan of SW, the whole concept leans way too hard into soft magic territory, at least to my taste.
by tantalor | 2025-06-01 18:51:47+00:00
> a float is a float

That's not what is happening here. With this software there are no raw floats; all variables are typed by the kind of coordinate system (WGS84, ECEF, etc.)

Using your example, the variables would be typed by left- or right-handed. So it is impossible to mix them up, e.g., perform some illegal operation combining them.

Whether implicit conversion is allowed is just saying, does the programmer have to call a function to convert type A -> B, or can the compiler do that for them?

For example,

void doFoo(LeftHandedVec3 v); RightHandedVec3 myData; // With explicit conversion. doFoo(convertToLeftHanded(myData)); // With implicit conversion. doFoo(myData);

Does one of these produce more bugs?
by thechao | 2025-06-01 18:51:53+00:00
I don't know about powers-of-10; but, you can use something similar to bootstrap logs-in-your-head.

So, 2^10=1024. That means log10(2)~3/10=0.3. By log laws: 1 - .3 = 0.7 ~ log10(5).

Similarly, log10(3)*9 ~ 4 + log10(2); so, log10(3) ~ .477.

Other prime numbers use similar "easy power rules".

Now, what's log10(80)? It's .3*3 + 1 ~ 1.9. (The real value is 1.903...).

The log10(75) ~ .7*2+.477 = 1.877 (the real answer is 1.875...).

Just knowing some basic "small prime" logs lets you rapidly calculate logs in your head.
by cc101 | 2025-06-01 18:51:56+00:00
Someone with access ought to tell these researchers of the massive improvement lightly cooked steel-cut oats have on bowel movements compared to any other form of oats. In my experience any form of processed oats (either steel-cut or rolled) has only a minor effect compared to lightly cooked steel-cut oats. Commercial cooking is doing something to the effectiveness of oat fiber.
by YZF | 2025-06-01 18:51:56+00:00
I think modern general purpose CPUs are perfectly capable of low latency and jitter. The problem isn't the CPU, the problem is stuff around the CPU (mostly the operating system). The less deterministic aspects of modern CPUs (branch prediction, speculative execution, caches etc). happen at timescales much smaller than what you usually care about (and possibly smaller than the jitter specs on microcontrollers).
by aziaziazi | 2025-06-01 18:52:21+00:00
It's fascinating how visceral the reactions are when someone introduce a comparaisons between humans and other animals, that doesn’t start with the conclusion that humans are superiors anyway.

There’s reflections done around the term Speciesism (and anti-speciesism) and most people today stands for speciesism.

Interestingly the reflection is close to the debate on racism and anti-racism (where most people settled to anti racism to the point there isn’t much debate anymore), but race is only an informal classification that don’t hold much meaning in biological term, contrary to species.
by IshKebab | 2025-06-01 18:52:46+00:00
I couldn't agree more. These "rules" are to help people avoid really really bad presentations. They shouldn't be viewed as an official way of making good presentations.

The "say what you're going to say, say it and then say what you said" rule is probably the worst offender here. It's meant to stop people missing out important context but very often it just leads to boring repetition.

Funny you should mention stand-up comedians because the best presentation advice I ever got came from a workshop my company arranged that was given by a standup comedian. His main message was to follow the "hero's tale" format, which you'd think doesn't apply to tech presentations, but you'd be surprised how often it actually does.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-06-01 18:53:03+00:00
> The videographer has the right to sell sponsorships on their videos in exchange the attention they've attracted.

As is my right to use uBlock Origin and Sponsor Block to automatically block and skip every single one of those segments. Won't be long until we have AI powered ad blocking that can edit ads out of video streams in real time.

We decide what we pay attention to. Making videos is not a license to dupe us into viewing advertising noise. Baiting us with some interesting topic only to switch to commercial nonsense is just rude, and that's the most charitable interpretation I can offer.

> YouTube has been the wellspring for indie videographers

Because of ads and surveillance capitalism. Those are the root causes of everything that is wrong with the web today. Blocking those will reduce their returns on investment, thereby fixing the web.

> One-shot experiments with 0 funds are killed under your scheme.

Nah. Only the money motivated people will leave. People have been creating things just for the joy of it since the dawn of humanity. Those humans with intrinsic motivation are the ones I really care about. Not these insipid profit driven "content creators".
by briian | 2025-06-01 18:53:15+00:00
This reminded me that the economies of scale in AI, especially inference, is huge.

When people say LLMs will be commoditised, I am not sure that means that the market is going to be super competitive. As the economies of scale of AI get even bigger (larger training costs + batch inference etc.) it just seems likely only around 3 companies will dominate LLMs.
by duxup | 2025-06-01 18:53:19+00:00
>Justice Moraes is the lead judge in the federal criminal trial that will decide whether Mr. Bolsonaro attempted to stage a coup and hold on to power following his election loss in 2022. Mr. Bolsonaro has been one of Mr. Trump’s closest allies among current or former world leaders, and he has publicly called on Mr. Trump to help rescue him from what he says is political persecution.

This would seem the most likely reason the judge is being targeted.
by MangoToupe | 2025-06-01 18:53:19+00:00
Oh yea, critiquing movies is fun as hell, and with a franchise like star wars there's basically endless opportunity for it. I basically think Phantom Menace gets way too much critique, Clone Wars/A New Hope/Return of the Jedi don't get enough. Empire Strikes Back is really good, and whatever the third movie is was just kind of bland and depressing(it has some of the best action sequences of the series, but Padmé should have featured more strongly before dying offscreen.)

But there's a reason why the star wars fandom has such a stank reputation, and it's 100% because adult men care way too much about something meant for children to a quite creepy extent. Two things immediately come to mind: 1) the explicit and physical sexualization of Leia, which I understand but definitely don't think was necessary in retrospect (at least not so ham-handedly), and 2) the abuse of the guy who did the Jar Jar Binks voice acting. It's not his fault Lucas wrote the character as a moronic alien speaking patois. I wasn't aware of the abuse until long after it was over, but I adored jar jar binks as an eight year old boy and didn't understand why he was thereafter sidelined. This makes me also question whether criticisms by adults of the new content is a reflection of what we actually loved growing up. Could a character as weird as Yoda make it into a film now without catering much stronger to people eager to deconstruct him into eg orientalist stereotypes? Would Luke really be allowed to kiss his sister? Would Han Solo be allowed to shoot first, really?

Even the sexualization of Leia—look I'm into pulp fiction, I understand what shallow sexual stereotypes can deliver in terms of entertainment, it wasn't and still isn't crazy. You can see the same phenomenon in the current explosion of mass-published erotica ("romance"). But the stories I've heard about what Fisher was subjected to make me look at the fandom with pretty severe prejudice. It makes nerds look bad, and I also think the success of Indiana Jones shows that this wasn't necessary. It's also not the easiest thing to explain to a child or teenager who grasps something of the power dynamic between Jabba the Hutt and Leia but doesn't have the social knowledge or, frankly, cynicism to make the sense of it we do as adults.
by nozzlegear | 2025-06-01 18:53:28+00:00
> G4 storms are rare events and occur only a few times per 11-year solar cycle.

Did you mean G5 storms? If I'm reading NOAA correctly, we get about 100 G4 storms per cycle, but only 4 G5 storms per cycle.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-06-01 18:53:51+00:00
I enjoyed the Red Letter Media series but felt it was unfair on the Prequels (which is fine, RLM is still a great series.) I ended up watching the OT a bit after Episode 2 and found them to be just as campy and flaw filled as the Prequels just in different places. But this has been litigated to death on the net since Usenet days so I'm not sure if we're gonna break new ground here (:
by rjsw | 2025-06-01 18:54:02+00:00
You could have a GUI on a PC as well. I developed GEM applications on an Olivetti M24 before I got my first Atari ST.

The Olivetti had a B&W 640x400 monitor and a Logitech mouse that plugged into the back of the keyboard. You could replace the 8086 CPU with an NEC V30 for a bit more speed.
by mopenstein | 2025-06-01 18:54:02+00:00
This can't be true. I'm reading all these positive accolades for Andor in this thread and there's no way I'm watching it.

Star Wars after Jedi is garbage. Lucas got me with those awful prequels and Disney got me with the first 2 new movies. I will never watch another Star Wars anything outside of the original 3 movies.

Either you never really abandon your Star Wars fandom or you're lying. There can be no other choice.

One cannot be shat upon by corporate hucksters that much and still think, "okay. I'll give 'em one more chance to shit in my eyes and ears"

Is just not possible.
by avidiax | 2025-06-01 18:54:29+00:00
A practical implementation of such a system would allow arbitration by the courts, have limitations such as a minimum bid increment (e.g. 10%), etc.

If you can demonstrate that the purchase offer is made because of personal animus, or the buyer has no reasonable and specific plans for the property (i.e. the billionaire buying out a small town without a workable business plan), then the courts would overturn it.

Ultimately, billionaires have lots of ways to mess with someone they don't like. If we don't like that, we should circumscribe what billionaires can do with their power.
by nradov | 2025-06-01 18:55:56+00:00
A lot of the tier-3 schools are getting desperate due to declining enrollment. Demographic changes are killing them. Tolerating cheating might help them keep enrollment up for a few more years by attracting the laziest students but eventually this will wreck their reputation with employers and lead to a death spiral. If those schools want to survive then some will need to pivot to other business models, like become a trade school or corporate training center.
by wizardforhire | 2025-06-01 18:56:05+00:00
Film sets can seem enigmatic, the pacing, the language, the decorum. Film has over a hundred years of cultural development that manifests on set as set etiquette. Combined with mature unions that actively and heavily defend their trades. It can seem ridiculous and wasteful to the uninitiated… and indy productions split off constantly to try and reinvent the wheel only for individuals later in their career to converge back to established industry practices. In software there seems to be an overwhelming and toxic opinion that tech can solve all problems and that disruption at all cost is good. While not to dismiss these opinions wholeheartedly the wake of their destruction is not to be ignored. In film the human element is not only never ignored, it is the soul reason for being. As a creative endeavor whose output ideally is art, the working relationships, delegation of duties and decision making power is well established and enforced in the interest of efficient collaboration. Software on the other hand seems to be fully staffed with individuals who rarely get past tier four on the Maslow hierarchy, are entirely individualistic, highly competitive to a fault and in a never ending combative relationship with management that seems to be highly antithetical to the act of creation. For lack of deeper insights I chock it up to different financial incentives in the respective industries writ large. One is making cultural artistic or purely entertainment artifacts for humans, the other arguably creating solutions maybe for humans maybe not with the only goal of always more money no matter what.
by oarsinsync | 2025-06-01 18:56:21+00:00
Considering the ridiculous amount of memory and cpu very simple apps use nowadays, in large part thanks to things that enable developers to optimise for their own time, rather than compute, I think you’ve unintentionally hit the nail on the head.

Very few developers today care about resource usage and resource management. Very few developers even understand that there’s something there to care about.
by dijit | 2025-06-01 18:56:29+00:00
No?

Cloud gives you direct access to compute at the click of a button (provided you have quota).

The ISO/PCI cert requirements are not accelerated by their use, only the initial deployment speed of your solution. If at all anything the latest I've seen is that there are more checks in cloud for various areas where you can accidentally leak data through poor permissions or because someone could enable those permissions.

For example in Google Cloud there was an additional requisite that I monitor any admin users oauth2 application accesses for their google accounts; this was not a requirement for on-prem.
by Animats | 2025-06-01 18:56:30+00:00
PJM issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning, then an action. No emergency actions, and it's already over.

Msg ID: 104606 Message Type: Geomagnetic Disturbance Action Priority: Action Effective Start Time: 06.01.2025 09:31 Effective End Time: 06.01.2025 12:25 Regions COMED A Geomagnetic Disturbance Action has been issued as of 09:31 on 06.01.2025 to protect the power system from damage or disruptions due to increased geomagnetic activity.

Times are "Eastern Prevailing Time", which is Eastern Daylight Time right now.

Background:

These messages are from the US east coast power grid control room in Valley Forge, PA sending to people at generating stations and other key control centers. This is a slow-moving event. If the grid was stressed, there would be "Pre-Emergency Load Reduction" and "Conservative Operation" actions ordered. If there was real trouble, there would be many more actions. But things never got beyond preparing for trouble.

A geomagnetic disturbance event in 1989 caused transformer damage leading to outages. The solar flux going between power lines and conductive ground induces DC currents into the ground and lines, so that ground potential is different at different points. This causes partial saturation of transformers, and heating. That wasn't noticed until it was too late. So now, DC current in some key AC lines is monitored continuously, so power levels can be reduced if necessary.

Training materials for understanding this:[1] Start at slide 21.

Background info on how a power grid works.[2] Start with "PJM 101"

[1] https://pjm.adobeconnect.com/p63ultsdb2v/

[2] https://www.pjm.com/training/training-resources
by _1tem | 2025-06-01 18:56:54+00:00
As a person who changed my name, I think it simply signifies a massive internal, personal shift in identity and self-image; that is usually a characteristic of highly ambitious (aka crazy) people. I don’t think the name Elton John is any “better” than Reginald Dwight, it just probably made him, as a person, act differently and feel different from within.

Other reason is for branding. Names matter. Trump is more brandable in America than Drumpf.
by prmoustache | 2025-06-01 18:57:12+00:00
> Declarative OS management really sticks once you accept that the first few weeks are gonna suck and the first few months are still gonna have friction. But once you get over the hump, the rewards are there to reap.

Only if you don't change your mind and do not decide to try out that new cool distro that just came out 6 months later.

I like declarative management but so far I have sticked to puppet for that. Sure like with ansible puppet needs to be installed first but on the other hand you can quite easily convert/reuse a config for say debian, to ubuntu, arch or fedora. The main differences are usually package names.
by blooalien | 2025-06-01 18:57:19+00:00
> At some point, they have no excuse but to believe what's proven good and true. Christ and His Word.

Funny how the people who claim this sort of thing are often responsible for some of the worst atrocities in history. It's almost as if they don't actually believe (nor have even read) the words of Christ at all... :shrug: