MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by viccis | 2025-07-23 19:59:36+00:00
No. Non sequitur. If I say Pinochet is bad, saying "Allende is bad too" is a completely nonsensical comparison, as they aren't even remotely similar and the things people are claiming are bad aren't even in the same categories.

It would be like someone saying "Kim Jong Un is a horrific leader" and then another person responding with "yeah well my home owner's association president is terrible too." Just a complete non sequitur.
by markus_zhang | 2025-07-23 19:59:44+00:00
My opinion is success is difficult to copy and luck plays a huge part.

A better way is to observe the people who failed and failed miserably, and learn from their failures. My model of the world is that, for ordinary people, you are going to be exposed to some opportunities to succeed from time to time, but in a random fashion. You only need to catch one or two to be successful. So the key is NOT to maximize your success rate, but to make sure you never fell into a hole you cannot climb back, and prepare for the next opportunity.

But so far I have not seen any serious conference that focuses on failures. Everyone wants to learn from the winners. I’d hold a losers conference if I got the time.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-23 20:00:09+00:00
They are contradictions. Let me be clearer, citing the end:

> The bottom line is this: It's a good idea to pull meat early from the pan or oven and let it rest, but only long enough to give it the time to slide up via carryover cooking to the target internal temperature, which you need to track closely.

Wrong. You need to let it slide up and then slide back down. The target internal temperature is for doneness. It's too high for slicing, very often.

> What resting is not: a fixed amount of time for the meat to sit, which risks it overcooking and losing its crust. Once again, it's all about temperature, not time.

This is a strawman. You've always rested meat until the temperature came down. The reason it takes time is because time is what brings the temperature down. The fix is not to not rest, it is to not overcook in the first place.
by nicholasjbs | 2025-07-23 20:00:12+00:00
(Author here.)

This was a really fascinating project to work on because of the breadth of experiences and perspectives people have on LLMs, even when those people all otherwise have a lot in common (in this case, experienced programmers, all Recurse Center alums, all professional programmers in some capacity, almost all in the US, etc). I can't think of another area in programming where opinions differ this much.
by adastra22 | 2025-07-23 20:00:41+00:00
Do you cook steak? I do, multiple times a week (my kids love it). If you cut it right away, you end up with a pool of meat juice. If you wait a few minutes, you don't.

I call bullshit. Resting the meat keeps the juice inside. This is objectively the case, whether or not some blind taste test agrees. (I'm not even sure why a blind test is relevant here...)
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-23 20:01:20+00:00
> Nonsense. Plenty of wars have no genocide component at all.

It's the norm that a genocides occur during wars. Are you going to be this obtuse through this whole comment?

> This is new. If this is the goal, then why leave Gaza in 2005 in the first place?

I don't pretend to understand the political calculations done by mass murderers, aspirant or otherwise. That said it's no secret that there's been a surge in right-wing politics all over the world. Perhaps 2024 was more amenable in the minds of those in charge than 2005 was. I don't know and am not particularly interested.

> Palestinians also claim that want all the land to themselves. Are they committing genocide too?

The Palestinians who live in Palestine and want to remain living and in Palestine? Those Palestinians? No they are not committing a genocide.

> Genocide has very specific definition, and it’s different from yours.

From the UN: https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

> Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Think you could argue a solid case for all five. Certainly the first three.

> Politicians? Politicians talk all the time, so?

I mean there's also the bombed hospitals and piles of dead kids, the words of the IDF on the ground, rampant social media posts from Israeli's, if you don't strictly want to go by the words of Israel's leaders, the definition provided by the UN, the definition in common understanding...

Like, to be clear, whether you want to call it a genocide or simply an international power abusing it's close ties to the West to obliterate a neighbor with the express purpose of colonizing their land, I think that's pretty fucking bad too, and am equally opposed to it.
by mrbigbob | 2025-07-23 20:01:31+00:00
For those curious meta actually bought out a company that orginally pioneered this idea (wrist controller) from a company called CTRL+Labs in 2019. Here is a verge article that has some photos of the prototype from CTRL-Labs. https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17433516/ctrl-labs-brain-c...
by fitsumbelay | 2025-07-23 20:01:57+00:00
As @otterly already posted there has, is and will always be weather.gov

As a matter of fact US Commerce department provides many API services including free geolocation (wuuut) via census.gov among so many services

A side note about Trump and politics/shmolitix etc: his stageshow budget cuts will have short term impact but will likely be repaired when the House flips and Dems make gains in the Senate after the mid terms. A lot of White Americans living at or below the poverty line will be hurt by the scheduled cuts and will have questions n' thoughts, but man this Epstein footcannon-nuclear-grenade-launcher of Trump's just might be the thing that ends Republican Party's 10 year abusive relations with an objectively adjudicated and multifacted criminal
by eichin | 2025-07-23 20:02:35+00:00
It might be a lot easier to check the ratio "by hand" (by counting rotations etc) if it's numerically simple. (IIRC in some earlier videos he noticed that the pulley size ratio wasn't producing the expected movement ratio, because they were built as an obvious 8:1 or 10:1 or something, and didn't match - which led to him figuring out the subtleties of the design - I can easily imagine wanting to preserve that aspect just for debugging, at that point, even if you now have correct math.)
by kentonv | 2025-07-23 20:03:27+00:00
Heh, of all arguably-valid definitions of "LAN Party" I think this one is as far away from mine as you can get.

Traditional LAN party: Everyone brings their computers to one place to connect via a LAN, where they play games, swap files, demo stuff to each other, etc.

My LAN party: All my friends come over to my house and use the computers that I have already set up for them. Nobody brings their own. The point is to interact face-to-face, with video games as a catalyst. Swapping files and demos doesn't really happen since nobody brought their own computer. (My house: https://lanparty.house)

The Promised LAN Party: The LAN is extended, virtually, across multiple houses, so that the participants can play games, swap files, and demo stuff without actually leaving home. It's arguably no longer "local" but functionally it enables the same activities as a LAN party, other than the face-to-face interaction part.

I wonder who gets told their definition is "wrong" more. :)
by Aachen | 2025-07-23 20:03:39+00:00
> You can fairly easily build and flash a rooted version of GOS yourself.

This won't be signed with the right attestation key because I'm not them.

My understanding is that attestation is tied to the distribution's private key, so this government software wouldn't trust my version of the OS, assuming the govt could be made to understand Android's attestation framework is a vendor-neutral way to achieve the same goal (whatever goal that may be). With a rooted GOS, I'd still need another device, tied to my government identity, of which I can't verify what it's doing, much less control it
by jesse__ | 2025-07-23 20:03:47+00:00
Clang -O2

..

-O3 didn't seem to make any appreciable difference.

Re. the auto-vectorization, I really don't know. I didn't even read the assembly the compiler generated until at least halfway through the process. Generally I've found that you basically can't rely on the compiler auto vectorizing anything, ever, if it actually matters.
by ericdiao | 2025-07-23 20:04:15+00:00
Yeah.

I personally ran into the legacy setup issue for running vanilla Wireguard for my setup before Tailscale is a thing and have to manually manage keys, routing and DNS.

But one thing Tailscale has that annoyed me is that they are using 100.64 CGNAT addresses (which is more RFC-compliant) but conflicts with one of my cloud service provider's pre-configured DNS, NTP and software mirrors setup. Using it became more or less messy for this reason.
by SpecialistK | 2025-07-23 20:04:35+00:00
For reasons I won't go into, but should be obvious... this is very exciting.

I would love to see police officers, who often do peruse busy nightlife districts, handing these out to people in line for nightclubs and other venues so that people can test their drinks. And for these to be available at pharmacies like Covid testing kits are.
by krapp | 2025-07-23 20:04:36+00:00
>Despite this, said ideology simply having to compete in the marketplace of ideas and practical reality, slowly turned into more of a running joke than any real threat in any meaningful sense to U.S society.

More people in the US take communism and socialism seriously as an ideology than ever did during the Cold War.

I also doubt that communism as an ideology was ever a "threat" in any meaningful sense. Actual communist states, sure, but collectivist ideology can be found everywhere in American culture, from social welfare programs to unions and progressive activism. The current frontrunner for mayor of New York is a self-described socialist.

And it didn't work with the Nazis - we debated and denounced that for nearly a century and white supremacist ideology is still popular. Antivax has become not just mainstream but integrated into American policy. Conspiracy theories, racial realism, UFOs, antisemitism, all of it debated and criticized ad nauseum and ad infinitum and none of it has gone away.

>Bear in mind the obvious too: once you create the legal right to legally repress insidious ideas, it's a very small leap for successive administrations to also start banning "insidious" ideas, meaning anything they happen to not like out of some self-serving convenience.

Fair, but I really don't see how letting disinformation and hate run rampant and answering it only with polite debate and criticism when the authoritarians control the means of communication and discourse is much better. Part of combating harmful ideas (after recognizing that such a thing exists and truth has value) has to be attempting to limit the rate at which such ideas propagate, and for that mere debate simply isn't enough.

Maybe the state isn't the solution but free speech alone also isn't.
by westurner | 2025-07-23 20:06:34+00:00
> Qwen3-235B uses an efficient mixture-of-experts architecture that delivers exceptional compute efficiency, enabling Cerebras to offer the model at $0.60 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens—less than one-tenth the cost of comparable closed-source models.

$ 0.60/million input tokens $ 1.20/million output tokens

How many minutes of 4K YouTube HDR video is that equivalent to in kWh of energy usage?

> Concurrent with this launch, Cerebras has quadrupled its context length support from 32K to 131K tokens—the maximum supported by Qwen3-235B.
by dvt | 2025-07-23 20:06:50+00:00
I don't necessarily mean financial risk (though tbh, even the golden parachutes you cite are often a drop in the bucket compared to the market cap of these companies), but there's a lot of legal risk involved: think testifying to Congress, embroilments with the FTC/FCC, etc., dealing with a board of directors, navigating potential hostile takeovers or activist investors, etc. My point is that it's just a different ball game and being a CEO of a public company simply isn't the same thing as being an accountant that works 9-5.

I personally have significantly more of a problem with Congress having no term limits and being able to trade on the very market they're regulating.
by michaelt | 2025-07-23 20:07:04+00:00
Well, it probably wasn't that much effort. When you're 3D printing you're going to end up printing everything 2-3 times anyway, so why not dial in the ratio while you're at it?

And you can't really declare your design is "high precision" and present yourself as someone others should take transmission design advice from if you aimed for a gear ratio of 8 and achieved "somewhere around 7.9 to 8.2"
by smashed | 2025-07-23 20:07:53+00:00
Not sure they are using l2 transit.

They are using BGP and routing nodes (backbones), recreating a mini IP (layer 3) network I think.

I've used raw wireguard in a p2p fashion to interconnect LANs. I run wireguard on each segment directly inside the network routers.

Just make sure all LANs are using a different subnet. A /24 is standard. Then configure all the peers and you get a fully peer to peer network. No relays. You only need one side of every peer "pair" to be reachable from the internet.

I do have a small management script to help peer discovery (dynamic IPs) and key exchange, but it's not strictly required. With a dozen nodes or so, it's maintainable manually. Wireguard supports roaming natively, as long as one peer can reach the other.

Very little overhead. ICMP, TCP and UDP support.
by saratogacx | 2025-07-23 20:07:59+00:00
At least a bit of credit to jetbrains, In the new interface you can pull all the gutter buttons off the side and put them in the top tool bar. That got it to be "good enough" for me. So many apps put in a double sized gutter to hold a half dozen icons.

All being said, my preference is still to the old interface.
by apparent | 2025-07-23 20:08:19+00:00
Same. I don't mind AppleCare for my Macs but have never gotten it for my iPhones/iPads (and never needed it). And this program conflates AppleCare and AppleCare Plus, which means you're paying for accidental damage and theft on all your covered devices. I'm careful enough with my computers that these are not things I'm really worried about. Plus, if my computer was stolen out of my car or home, it would be covered by an existing insurance policy (albeit with a substantial deductible).

I guess this could make sense for a family that has 3 iPhones and already purchases AppleCare Plus for each one separately. But for people who would be applying it to a computer, it probably doesn't make financial sense to add these extra protections.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-23 20:08:52+00:00
> I'm pretty sure it will come to Android as well.

With material 3 expressive, Android seems to be going in the total opposite direction and it's a breath of fresh air and I'm even considering switching over if I can ever get over the loss of some Apple conveniences and an inferior smart watch.

The two OSes have largely followed each other over the years but no we are actually starting to see a divergence, at least in look and feel.
by jerf | 2025-07-23 20:08:55+00:00
Heck, they're underused in general. Checklists to pack for vacation. Checklists for "what did I mean to do this weekend". Checklists for "here's what we need to run the volunteer dinner this organization I belong to does weekly". Checklists for "things to check before my presentation".

I'm nowhere near as obsessed with them as that may make me sound; by temperament I'm definitely a go-with-the-flow sort of guy... which is perhaps exactly why I make sure to use them in certain important places. Go-with-the-flow has its strengths but also its weaknesses. Selective augmentation with checklists means I can often end up with the best of both worlds between that and being "detail oriented" for important tasks.

I have been called "detail oriented" a few times in my professional career, and I sort of laugh to myself because it is absolutely and utterly untrue. I'm not detail oriented in the slightest. It's all offloaded to the computer, with my unit tests, checklists, and such. I just know I need that augmentation and am quite aggressive about getting it precisely because I know I need it.
by lkuty | 2025-07-23 20:09:15+00:00
Tsoding made a video about hot code reloading in C (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y57ruDOwH1g) and also used the same concept in "My Own 3b1b Animation Engine but in C" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVwuYgXNUCM).
by nawgz | 2025-07-23 20:09:18+00:00
Definitely.

It's intellectually exciting.

On the flip side, capitalistic / private / special interests both controlling the progress and having the most ability to utilize it to further centralize power and wealth is deeply concerning. We can already see more controversial figures involved in AI using it to spread their personal viewpoints.

It feels really easy to see how our jobs/labor and therefore our capital and therefore our value in the modern system are being directly attacked by these capabilities and deeply concerning to imagine how further centralization of power could be good for the masses.
by jesse__ | 2025-07-23 20:09:20+00:00
I just called _rdtsc() before and after the noise gen once every iteration, and pushed the sample onto a fixed size buffer .. after some N iterations (4k maybe, can't remember) of samples, computed min/max/avg.

There's a little project here that I used to benchmark in part 4

https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai_noise_bench
by pmarreck | 2025-07-23 20:09:32+00:00
LOL. This only makes sense if you can know all the ways your code will fail... which you cannot.

Erlang/Elixir's approach is to simply say, "It's gonna fail no matter how many precautions we take, so let's optimize for recovery."

Turns out, this works fantastically in both cellphone signaling, which is where OTP originated, as well as with webserving, where it is perfectly suited.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-23 20:09:32+00:00
My experience is that the practical performance achievable with Go is higher because the C++ lifetime issues are too difficult to reason about and therefore the developer is forced to copy for safety. In Go you can fairly easily alias everything from the physical buffer into your parsed object. In the official C++ library, protobuf refuses to acknowledge even the possibility of aliasing. Even if you say that your string types are "view" there is an owned buffer inside the generated class into which your data is copied. This is exasperating because inside Google they have several different ways to not copy a string into a protobuf, and they're all patched out of the open source edition, and you can read them and cry about it by looking at their git logs for "internal change" commits with baffling only-whitespaces changes that are symptomatic of where they are patching out the good stuff.
by deepsun | 2025-07-23 20:09:35+00:00
Sometimes just voting is not enough.

For example, Nazi Party didn't come to power democratically. Hitler lost 1932 elections to Hindenburg, and didn't get any position. But in two months, Hindenburg appointed him to Chancellor position, opening way to big money. And there was no democracy after that: in about a month they organize the Reichstag fire and issue a lot of consecutive "emergency" decrees, kill political opponents etc.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-07-23 20:09:36+00:00
> 80% of this post was written by me. The last 20% was edited and modified by AI. I can share the thread if anyone wants to see it.

For fuck's sake, it's seven short paragraphs. Maybe OP is slipping into a crisis not because AI will replace him, but because he's replacing himself with it, and acting like he's a helpless bystander, instead of active participant.

> I always believe Super Intelligence would come, but it happened a decade earlier than I had expected.

It hasn't happened yet.
by rjbwork | 2025-07-23 20:10:09+00:00
We are. Just look at the current administration. What they've accomplished in just 6 months is staggering.

We've just let the wrong sort of people control our communication infrastructure, set the messages disseminated by that infrastructure, and take power in a multi-pronged attack.

There's no reason there couldn't have been an FDR-esque strongman driven emulation of China's approach.

Instead we're blowing up the national debt, cutting services, dismantling soft power, destroying our scientific and academic infrastructure, and expanding the military.
by olivierestsage | 2025-07-23 20:10:21+00:00
Pumped for this. I was (and am) massively impressed with Debian 12. I've been an on-again off-again Linux user since around 2003, but this release was the one that finally got me to switch completely. The jank factor actually seems to be less than that of Windows and macOS at this point, which I never thought I'd say.
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-07-23 20:10:37+00:00
He's easily one of my favorite content creators. Ofc, there are much better engineers, domain experts or more entertaining people on youtube, but he strikes a very enjoyable balance.

I wanted to start writing a list of other tech related, pop-sci and industrial-design Youtubers I kinda enjoy, but noticed just how many channels I'm subscribed to... If there's any interest, I'll drop it, just tell me. Meanwhile I have some filtering and sorting to do.
by SirMaster | 2025-07-23 20:10:47+00:00
You seem to be fundamentally misunderstanding me I guess because nothing you are writing here makes sense for what I am proposing.

Why did you pull a drive from your RAIDZ1 to purposefully degrade it?

I am not sure why you keep saying 18TB. Your drives are 8TB. I am suggesting that you should have simply bought another 8TB disk so you wouldn't have to degrade your RAIDZ1.
by woodpanel | 2025-07-23 20:10:55+00:00
The article mentions the old chestnut „but due to preference given to automobiles“ without further explaining what that actually means. Since there’s no need to. We’re all very well aware how to fill out the blanks in our minds: cars are bad, car manufacturers are evil, they did this to us, only government intervention can save us.

yet, what this historiography conveniently omits is that it was the glorious government intervention that strangled the often privately owned interurban/tram/train companies out of business due to massive amounts of roads being built under public works programs that were all too common from the 1920s-1940s.

As the article mentions later:

automobile doomed the interurban whose private, tax-paying tracks could never compete with the highways that a generous government provided for the motorist.

that provision had many names, one was “New Deal”

I don’t have a solution but two observations:

1) somehow in Asia never happened what happened in the West, that is, private transportation companies are still private, they prosper, and the societies excel at mobility.

2) Never ever destroy built infrastructure. Always plan for the possibility for a comeback. Post-war, many cities removed tram tracks. But even a rusty tram track is cheaper to repair 70 years later than, paying upfront for the dismantling and 70 years later for a complete new construction.