MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MindSpunk | 2025-06-25 05:34:48+00:00
AMD isn't overfit to graphics. AMD's GPUs were friendly to general purpose compute well before Nvidia was. Hardware-wise anyway. AMD's memory access system and resource binding model was well ahead of Nvidia for a long time. When Nvidia was stuffing resource descriptors into special palettes with addressing limits, AMD was fully bindless under the hood. Everything was just one big address space, descriptors and data.

Nvidia 15 years ago was overfit to graphics. Nvidia just made smarter choices, sold more hardware and re-invested their winnings into software and improving their hardware. Now they're just as good at GPGPU with a stronger software stack.

AMD has struggled to be anything other than a follower in the market and has suffered quite a lot as a result. Even in graphics. Mesh shaders in DX12 was the result of NVIDIA dictating a new execution model that was very favorable to their new hardware while AMD had already had a similar (but not perfectly compatible) system since the Vega called primitive shaders.
by kazinator | 2025-06-25 05:35:17+00:00
Mathematics is dominated by chaos. Let's consider the real numbers. Most of them can't be written down. Most real-valued functions of just one variable cannot be written as a symbolic formula of that variable. Consider the n-body problem. The underlying rules of motion are easy to write down symbolically, but the resulting trajectories have no symbolic solution and are chaotic. Even in discrete math or number theory there is chaos. Like there is no pattern as to where on the integer number line the prime numbers land.
by handfuloflight | 2025-06-25 05:37:35+00:00
I did rebut it.

> Third, you preemptively accuse me of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, but you're the one committing it. You claim "perpetrators of Islamic violence" cite these doctrines, but when pressed for specifics, you can't name them. That's you implying that a Muslim who doesn't commit violence isn't following the "real" Islam, which is literally the No True Scotsman fallacy you're projecting onto me.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-25 05:37:56+00:00
This almost makes sense, but it is certainly not how Microsoft marketing did things. "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" is a suite of productivity apps, most well known for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It was formerly known as "Office". Microsoft 365 Copilot app includes Copilot as one of the apps.

This is all information taken from office.com, not some joke or exaggeration...
by DaSHacka | 2025-06-25 05:39:14+00:00
I've noticed this too, I think its becoming more apparent in recent times as the allure SV and other large cities once had begin to fade, with hackers and innovators moving elsewhere (or simply not actively experiencing the same level of brain-drain)

Related post I came across recently that highlights some of the effect quite well:

https://goetzman.com/2025/01/07/small-town-hacker-culture/
by 9rx | 2025-06-25 05:39:46+00:00
> which might then compromise some of the reasons you liked the suburb in the first place.

What might be those reasons?

This 3,000 person town has some very well paid people and low paid workers living side-by-side seemingly in harmony. Seriously, I really cannot imagine any quality that would be different in a suburb. I did even live in a suburb of a large city a number of years ago for a while when I was young and dumb and I can really find no noticeable difference in the way of life other than everything I do outside of the home is a lot easier to access now.

Granted, in this part of the world the small town/rural areas are predominantly – almost exclusively, even — white. Is that what you're trying to subtly hint at? That the people in those suburbs are afraid of reverting their "white flight" efforts? Apparently that's a thing, astonishingly.

> I don't think suburbanites complain about the cost of transportation.

That's exactly how we got here, though: Comments were complaining about how transportation is of high cost/unaffordable. When we dug into why transportation was even needed, the answer was that many people live in suburbs that are void of any nearby jobs, other amenities, or anything at all, requiring access to transportation to live out life.

The people who don't need transportation because they have those things nearby have no need to be worried about the cost of transportation. So who is worried about the cost of the transportation? Are you suggesting nobody — that the original comments were making shit up?
by nailer | 2025-06-25 05:40:38+00:00
But I have named the doctrines. Remember when we discussed your beliefs about fighting Jews at the end of time and traitorous bushes? You got very angry about it. There are many more but you should probably acknowledge this one.

I didn’t need to do that. You say you’re an Islamic scholar so you should already be aware of this. I shouldn’t be needing to do research for you.

And you still haven’t defended my original accusation that you repeatedly stated that followers of Islamic violence are somehow un-Islamic - this is a textbook no true Scotsman.

> That's you implying that a Muslim who doesn't commit violence isn't following the "real" Islam

No it isn’t. Many Muslims do not commit violence although Islam itself states it is a violent belief system. Most Christians eat shellfish.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-06-25 05:41:31+00:00
> Are patents (and trade secrets) the right model for protection?

This probably deserves a more expansive discussion in its own right. I think what has become clear is that the tools we have (patents, trade secrets, copyright) are extraordinarily crude. Nonetheless, they worked pretty well in a time when intrinsic friction and overhead in markets was high.

Now that we’ve eliminated almost all friction in markets, everything has become extremely sensitive to the intrinsic cost and supply chain structure of the IP being protected and the speed at which those supply chains can adapt to competitive opportunities. To make matters worse, these intrinsic cost and supply chain structures tend to vary considerably depending on the particulars of the domain. Consequently, the IP protection tool in any particular case is the one that in practice has highest cost burden (both money and speed) on anyone trying to circumvent it with the lowest cost to both implement and defend. Patents rarely win that argument anymore for many things.

The most robust protection these days is information asymmetry, and trade secrets are good at maximizing that. Unlike patents, it is also extremely cheap to implement, so it is economically favorable. Defending that information asymmetry has become more difficult in some ways (more sophisticated reverse engineering) but easier in others (hello cloud). Unfortunately, we lived in an age of trade secrets in past centuries and it had many downsides; patents were essentially invented to mitigate those downsides.

The entire dynamic has many downsides but trade secrets are essentially winning out. Information asymmetry still has a lot of market power if you are good at exploiting it, much of the benefit isn’t even the secrecy per se in many cases.
by Aardwolf | 2025-06-25 05:42:58+00:00
Exif can also cause confusion for how to render the image: should its rotation be applied or not?

Old decoders and new decoders now could render an image with exif rotation differently since it's an optional chunk that can be ignored, and even for new decoders, the spec lists no decoder recommendations for how to use the exif rotation

It does say "It is recommended that unless a decoder has independent knowledge of the validity of the Exif data, the data should be considered to be of historical value only.", so hopefully the rotation will not be used by renderers, but it's only a vague recommendation, there's no strict "don't rotate the image" which would be the only backwards compatible way

With jpeg's exif, there have also been bugs with the rotation being applied twice, e.g. desktop environment and underlying library both doing it independently
by eikenberry | 2025-06-25 05:43:32+00:00
Most of my issues were around interviewing, I got plenty of them but somewhere in the 3+ rounds of interviewing I'd choke. I have always been nervous during interviews and had previously got most of my positions through my network, but none of their companies were hiring. Next time this happens I'm going to try an interview tutor to see if that helps and probably take some Xanax or something to help settle my nerves.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-06-25 05:44:13+00:00
Wrong because the underlying assumption is that we are moving from a system where energy can be brought on as required to an equivalent system.

One of the big issues with renewables that the author is, I can only assume, is deliberately eliding is that energy cannot be brought on as required. Even in Texas, you still need non-renewables to fill the gap and you still need to recover the costs of running those assets in the price...Texas is the absolute best case scenario, and it isn't working (as the comments show, it is quite easy to see why: people are obsessed with politics and reality matters less than your political enemies being wrong, companies have also realized that the subsidies in this area are incredible if you tell politicians they are right). The same thing is happening with battery operators.

You also see the same thing in other countries that invested heavily in renewables (UK is one example, they are mothballed a lot of non-renewable sources ten years ago, the government had to introduce massive subsidies for retail consumers because electricity prices are so high due to the need to recover costs of the remaining non-renewable sources when the wind happens to stop blowing): it has to increase the cost of energy because you have to pay for renewables and pay for the battery operators to do nothing and pay for the gas operators to do nothing.
by rwyinuse | 2025-06-25 05:44:35+00:00
Right now China is meeting all of its increasing energy demand by building more renewables (in fact more than rest of the world combined). Their citizen buy electric vehicles at a record rate. Yet I don't see Chinese people starving.

Climate change caused by burning fossil fuels is what has the potential to cause a mass starvation, not getting rid of oil where possible. It should be also noted that all fossil fuel is just sun's energy stored in another form, although I can understand some of you Americans may think it was magically created by a god. Why not use that sun's energy directly wherever possible?

There will be no need for fossil fuels in energy generation and transporting stuff. Whatever use cases remain are fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and many of those have alternatives too.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-06-25 05:45:17+00:00
I suggest buying a Three Wolves t-shirt.

I once saw a guy in a similar predicament. To address this, he donned his Three Wolves shirt and stood in an empty meadow by his house. Within 15 minutes there were 10-12 attractive women (some single, some not) circling him in a tight formation.

He returned to his house and sat near the pile of punch cards (or coupons, I forget). His ad hoc harem sat as well so they could study his chiseled features, which kept the coupons safe from blowing away.

I've heard that although the coupons have long-since expired, the women happily remain.
by drdeca | 2025-06-25 05:46:41+00:00
I think there should be models of ZFC in which the set of reals of the model is, in the meta-theory, the same object as the set of reals of the meta-theory.

And I think by virtue of this, the statement should have meaning.

As like, a statement in the meta-language that models of ZFC which have as their sets of reals, the (according to the meta-theory) set of reals, that the set of reals definable within ZFC, is a countable set of the meta-theory.

Also, did someone downvote your comment?? I don’t know why if so. It seems a productive comment to me.
by djangofree | 2025-06-25 05:47:05+00:00
Honestly, this feels like yet another example of Apple’s design team prioritizing aesthetics over usability. The Finder icon isn’t just decorative—it’s a visual anchor in the Dock. Subtle tweaks like color correction are fine, but when redesigns lose recognizability or affordance, it impacts real workflows. I get that design evolves, but sometimes it just feels like change for the sake of change.
by nsonha | 2025-06-25 05:47:58+00:00
Any kind of open extensions can be framed as "lifeline" but it's also the only way a platform can evolve and actually cater to consumers' need. The alternative is the company somehow knowing how every consumer thinks. It can happen over time just not on any realistic time frame. If it take too long it's not exactly great for the people building on the platform either.
by nailer | 2025-06-25 05:48:20+00:00
But you do remember me mentioning your beliefs about fighting Jews at the end of time and traitorous bushes right?

Here is a link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351856

You specifically asked me to put up or shut up and I put up and then you got very angry about it. Surely you must remember?
Show HN: Chess Brag – A vibe coded chess variant
by nishikar | 2025-06-25 05:48:51+00:00
Chess, the grand game of logic and foresight, once crowned human intellect. But against the powerful machines, our minds falter, revealing not mastery but mortality. In response, a mischievous spirit created Chess Brag — not to mock chess, but to give humanity a fighting chance.

Here, the human plays White. Before each turn the human gets to draw a hand from a simplified game of Brag. A lucky hand may remove one of the computer’s pieces — chance becoming the equalizer. A pair might claim a pawn, a flush a knight, and a rare three-of-a-kind, the queen herself.

This is no abandonment of reason, but a reclaiming of the human spirit: flawed, hopeful, daring. Chess Brag reminds us that life, like victory, is not won by logic alone — but by risk, whim, and wild fortune.

It is a protest against the sterile dominance of machines, a celebration of audacity. A new kind of game, where we say, “I may not outthink you, but I might just outluck you.”

Yours imaginary, BR GPT
by nailer | 2025-06-25 05:53:05+00:00
So you do believe you will fight Jews at the end of time, but dispute that this is a call for unrestricted violence? Do you think it’s a call for… a more restricted violence? It is the end of time - I would assume your intentions are to really make it count.

I believe anyone is allowed to behave as they reasonably want, including pointing out all the illness Islam has borne onto the world, for Muslims, for Jews, for Christians, for women, for journalists, for intellectuals and for everyone else.

And you still haven’t responded to the original accusation of no true Scotsman.
by 4dregress | 2025-06-25 05:53:39+00:00
I’ve been a python dev for nearly a decade and never once thought dep management was a problem.

If I’ve ever had to run a “script” in any type of deployed ENV it’s always been done in that ENVs python shell .

So I still don’t see what the fuss is about?

I work on a massive python code base and the only benefit I’ve seen from moving to UV is it has sped up dep installation which has had positive impact on local and CI setup times.
by petesergeant | 2025-06-25 05:54:11+00:00
> I will call out one thing for European readers. You’re suspiciously absent on lists of battery build outs

If I had to pull reasons out of my ass for this, I'd suggest South Australia and Texas both have a great deal of land with shitty agricultural output (as compared to Europe) and a lot more sunlight. I suspect building batteries is obviously very profitable today in Australia and Texas today, and companies will target Europe when the tech is a bit cheaper and the most profitable markets have been saturated.
by sofixa | 2025-06-25 05:54:17+00:00
> I will call out one thing for European readers. You’re suspiciously absent on lists of battery build outs. You guys don’t have lots or lobbying from legacy power providers wanting to maintain the ridiculously high peak prices by any chance?

The European power grid has multiple interconnections between the various countries, and some of those counties already have their grid scale storage (mostly pumped hydro). So it's much less needed.

So why would the countries heavy on renewables in their mix invest a lot in batteries? For instance the UK can rely on French nuclear and Norwegian hydro as a grid scale alternative source. While sometimes there are continent wide issues (we've had twice a month of low winds + overcast which impacted negatively wind and solar), the grid is sufficiently diverse and dispersed that it works pretty well.

As the recent outage in Iberia showed, it's slightly more complicated than that and batteries could still have a part to play to smooth demand ups and downs. And there are still a bunch of battery projects, even in France that doesn't have that much renewables in its energy mix, being heavy on nuclear.
by cik | 2025-06-25 05:54:20+00:00
My LLM use case preference is exactly that - a google replacement. I've modified my prompts to ask for links to direct source material, thereby allowing me to go deeper. I find this in no way different then a search engine.

The downside however, is that at least 50% of the links cited no longer exists. This points to a general issue with LLMs, temporal knowledge. I tend to at least go to archive.org on a per-link basis when so inclined.. But clearly that's not ideal.

Does anyone have a better solution, short of just asking the LLM to remove the extra step, and link to the archive.org cache for the ingestion date (which frankly, I also don't have faith in being accurate).
by almosthere | 2025-06-25 05:54:41+00:00
no, but you have two avenues - you have a business purpose and for what you were building, a video game, could probably be best approximated through chatgpt.

If you're a historian writing a non-fiction book, then visit the fucking archives.

the point I'm making is that everyone is making this a thing, when it is not.

This is classic TDS. Everyone is attributing everything wrong with anything to Trump, his administration. And it's just insane.
by fxtentacle | 2025-06-25 05:54:53+00:00
Are there any affordable open source projects in the opposite direction?

I’ve built a rather complex robot with Nema steppers. Now something is messing with the control board and causing the CPU to glitch. Physically apart from the robot, the CPU board works fine for weeks. It also has a completely separate power circuit with optocouplers. So my guess is that it might be the power supply or one of the motors emitting electromagnetic interference. But how would I measure that?
by ikrima | 2025-06-25 05:55:12+00:00
Sorry, autistic + recovering from a TBI.

Algebraic Effects are common enough that I think they're in react, no?

Here's the actual chatgpt log that's much more detailed: https://chatgpt.com/share/685b8f18-3154-8004-a074-1e7fd2573e...

"I can't believe a human wrote this and thought it was a good explanation."

- This might be the definitive proof that i"m autistic XD (b/c I still think it's a good explanation? sorry!)
by haiku2077 | 2025-06-25 05:55:28+00:00
> According to wikipedia

Wikipedia says "at least 20" and cites a source that says the exact number is unknown.

In general Wikipedia is an extremely inaccurate source for military aviation. I have found while following the citations that information is routinely entirely fabricated in this topic, with unrelated or marginally related citations added without quotes to make them seem plausible.
by SlowTao | 2025-06-25 05:55:54+00:00
It was about 15 years back, I remember some reasonably smart but partially anti-renewables folk talking about this. By anti-renewable I would say they were just skeptical with a much higher bar to get over than others. Weren't saying it was impossible but where much more cynically inclined.

They argued there would be issues with renewables unless there was a big uptake in storage. That was the key to making it all happen. Well now we have a big uptake in storage and it is starting to look like the future in that sense is very bright.

Scale is funny like that, it looks like it won't happen for the longest time and then it suddenly become ubiquitous. There is still a long way to go but improvements are happening fast.
by sveme | 2025-06-25 05:56:44+00:00
Cannot find a graph of battery capacity growth for Germany right away, but anecdotally (stories in the news and number of startups I‘m aware of), that market is super hot right now.

Edit: according to [1], numbers predict a coming tsunami of battery installations for Germany

[1] https://www.pv-magazine.de/2025/01/13/uebertragungsnetzbetre...
by koito17 | 2025-06-25 05:57:09+00:00
> Having an extensible format and electing never to extend it seems pointless.

This proves OP analogy regarding USB-C. Having PNG as some generic container for lossless bitmap compression means fragmentation in libraries, hardware support, etc. The reason being that if the container starts to support too many formats, implementations will start restricting to only the subsets the implementers care about.

For instance, almost nobody fully implements MPEG-4 Part 3; the standard includes dozens of distinct codecs. Most software only targets a few profiles of AAC (specifically, the LC and HE profiles), and MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio. Next to no software bothers with e.g. ALS, TwinVQ, or anything else in the specification. Even libavcodec, if I recall correctly, does not implement encoders for MPEG-4 Part 3 formats like TwinVQ. GP's fear is exactly this -- that PNG ends up as a standard too large to fully implement and people have to manually check which subsets are implemented (or used at all).
by mrtksn | 2025-06-25 05:59:11+00:00
what I find puzzling is how come the new administration is moving so fast without resistance? As with US other countries also have some intrinsic understanding of how the government should work and when a government does something against some principle, they are met with huge pressure from the public. People will stop cooperating or start protesting.

It took Erdogan 20 years to dismantle the core of the secular republic for example , arguably he hasn’t finished it.