MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jhide | 2025-07-04 18:36:52+00:00
On the topic of rat control, your comment interleaves two diametrically opposed approaches in the biological solutions space. Providing calorie input to a feral (invasive, nonnative) cat as opposed to merely recognizing the beauty and effectiveness of a species which is native to this continent (although maybe not Vancouver before 1900, TIL). I have an indoor cat so I understand the caretaking instinct. But the consequences for our urban ecosystems of artificially supporting feral cats are severe. They rarely kill rats, especially not when they have easier options like our birds and native small mammals. And with the surplus calorie supply that so many concerned city dwellers give them, they often fall back to their kill and play instincts instead of actually hunting for food, which leads to even less of the desperate “I shall attack a 12 ounce demon with buck teeth” behavior that we fantasize about.

I live in Chicago and had a coyote briefly staying under my deck last autumn when the juveniles leave their dens. They regularly prowl through my neighborhood, traveling north and south on the commuter rail line tracks and ducking off into parks and backyards for hunting. Such a magnificent creature to see up close. That experience motivated me to kill the ornamental boxwood that was in my backyard and start planting native plants which can support native birds, pollinators and small mammals and in turn provide a food supply all the way up the food chain to that coyote. I wish more people in my city spent their money and time on that food chain instead of one that begins and ends at PetSmart.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-04 18:36:55+00:00
The ice core gas samples go back thousands of years, and cover ice ages. The algae fossils taken from core samples of the earths deep ocean sediment go back even further.

There is data that reaches back to a pre-human time where the world was indeed very different, and if you go far enough into the past CO2 levels were extremely high. However, the planets environment also looked very different in that period.

The reason people know fossil fuels are primarily responsible is the radioactive isotope mix of carbon versions differ from what should normally be seen on the earths surface. If it was a natural process, than this would not have occurred or matched the industrialization trend data in the ice core and recent direct atmospheric data.

The world is full of folks that cherry pick data sources to obscure reality. Yet there are scientists that present verifiable facts, and only PR companies seem to think there is some sort of argument over the implications. =3
by nativeit | 2025-07-04 18:37:18+00:00
> The maximum cycle length is 2256 ≈ 1.16×10^77 iterations. If you can evaluate 10^12 hashes per second, then working your way through all possible hashes would take you about 10^65 seconds (about one quindecillion times the age of the earth). Even if you're fortunate enough find a loop in a tiny fraction of that time, you're still liable to be waiting for trillions of years.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/43636715

Edit: fixed missing exponent notation
by M4v3R | 2025-07-04 18:37:30+00:00
Please tell me - how exactly you think is typing English prose into a box different vs typing a bunch of english keywords and symbols in the exact correct order into a box? To me these are both conceptually the same. But typing English to me is an order of magnitude faster than typing code, especially in a domain that's new to me (like game dev).

> What did _you_ do? How were _you_ creative? Where in this project is _your_ passion?

My passion is, and was never in the act of typing code. It was put in creating something that's useful or, in this case - fun. It's the end product that matters to me. I've put a lot of thinking into how exactly each element should work, look and behave. Then I verbalized all this thinking and created prompts that got turned into code, which resulted in a game that's apparently fun for people to play. And that's it.

Thank you for taking time to check my project.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-04 18:37:39+00:00
Also not much of a coincidence that Yarvin is an out and out white nationalist, though he denies it, or at least the name: "I am not a white nationalist, though I am not exactly allergic to the stuff" - whatever the hell that mealy mouth answer is meant to mean.

He even wrote a bloviating article to further clarify that he is not a white nationalist. You'd be forgiven though, if you didn't read the title. It spends most of the article sympathizing with, understanding, agreeing with and talking of how white nationalism "resonates" with him. But don't worry, he swears he's not one at the end!
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-04 18:37:45+00:00
> An insistence - in spite of the reality - that you're a democracy seems likely prophetic.

Lord of War:

> Yuri Orlov: [Narrating] Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, the Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves Freedom Fighters.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-04 18:37:49+00:00
one was, but liked to sit in the front patio, where the coyote literally grabbed it right in front of my mother, just a foot from the door. The other two were younger and outdoor cats. The dogs I know of having been killed were no more outdoor dogs than any dog is while being walked, sometimes briefly off-leash, in a park or wood, by its owner.

Implying blame on the owners of these pets for a plague of predators way outside the scope of any natural population they would have in an area is also just off the rocker. We live in a modified environment largely of our creation, where many wild animal populations have long since slid from whatever would have in some distant past been natural. Culling coyotes in urban areas, where they can be a real danger to both pets and kids, is not some sort of grotesque ecological sin.
by vitaflo | 2025-07-04 18:38:23+00:00
This is the future for all tech companies. Tech workers in the US are the modern day factory workers. Offshore skill set rise plus AI means the end of US tech jobs in the next decade just like it meant the end of US factory work in the 90's.

Everyone in tech thinks they are special but companies will always do what they can to reduce costs and tech salaries are some of the biggest costs companies have. They're going to do everything in their power to reduce them.
by immibis | 2025-07-04 18:38:27+00:00
You can do anything - the question is whether you'll get caught and then whether you'll get punished. Does the employer have anything to gain by suing the employee in these cases?

All successful big tech businesses - all of them - got that way by openly breaking laws. They don't trigger automatically, but upon a manual review, triggered by someone with at least a couple grand to spend on the endeavour. A lot flies under the radar in practice.
by senbrow | 2025-07-04 18:41:24+00:00
Did you even look at the content of the post?

There's a prompts.md (link: https://github.com/maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game/blob/ma...) that shows what the author did in this project, most of which is providing creative direction and corrective nudges to the AI.

Most people only care about the end result, and vibe coding got the author there much faster and with less effort.

Your comment reads like a carriage driver bemoaning car drivers because they didn't have to feed, groom, harness, and command a team of horses, yet still arrived successfully at their destination.

"Why should I be impressed that you turned a wheel and pushed a pedal?"
by kbenson | 2025-07-04 18:41:25+00:00
I actually ran across that and read the relevant section when googling earlier in this thread. To me it seemed unclear what his motivations allegiances were, just that enough people were worried that he was a piece on the board that could cause problems that he was removed from it. That doesn't mean it was likely, it just means that they didn't want to deal with the complications of having to think about it at all would entail, or to worry about players that would be enticed by it, etc. I imagine in a time of way you try to reduce complexities and unknown as much as possible. Even if a few people have concern over him, it may be easier to just ship him away and appease anyone's concerns if he's not meaningfully important to the war effort. He was made a major-general, but how much experience he had in that role and how good he was performing in it is unknown to me, but I suspect it was at least partially honorific or nepotism whether from the top down or emergent (do I promote the royal or the unknown? Which is safer for my career...).

But that's all during the war, and with one individual of the royals, and I would think the rest of the royals would not be happy going forward with the Nazis thinking they could mess with the line of succession/assassinate they King.
by M4v3R | 2025-07-04 18:42:21+00:00
Hard to tell what exactly went wrong in your case, but if I were to guess - were you trying to do all of this in a single LLM/agent conversation? If you'll look at my prompt history for the game from OP you'll see it was created with a dozens of separate conversations. This is crucial for non-trivial projects, otherwise the agent will run out of context and start to hallucinate.
by asdf6969 | 2025-07-04 18:42:36+00:00
Inequality is increasing and we’re anxious about being on the wrong side. It’s just standard (and justified) economic anxiety. We’re correct to see that the standard path through life is increasingly precarious and there’s no safety net. On the other hand, successful people are more successful than ever.

Your students who can’t graduate will have to reevaluate their entire lives. If I didn’t become a software engineer I would have to move across the continent and choose a new career. I already had to leave all my friends and family behind and I’m one of the success stories. Sometimes there is a solution but it’s not worth the trade offs and that’s typically when pessimistic thinking is helpful.

If you live in a low cost of living area then I have no idea though. Those people really are just whining.
by kiitos | 2025-07-04 18:43:07+00:00
> I used plow to make concurrent HTTP requests and measure the results.

If this refers to https://github.com/six-ddc/plow then -- oops! lots of issues in that repo, no tests, etc. etc.

The results in the README are also pretty clearly unsound! In both scenarios, writes were faster than reads?

_edit_: I guess because the writes all returned 3xx, oops again!

Probably don't take this article's claims at face value...
by windowsrookie | 2025-07-04 18:43:18+00:00
9W at idle for the N100 is similar to what I get with my N100 based PC. Although under windows it's often sitting at 10-12W.

I also see lower power consumption with an 8th Gen intel Core system.

The small cores that the N100 use are size efficient, but not necessarily power efficient. The N100 chip is just not that efficient power-consumption wise.
by immibis | 2025-07-04 18:43:42+00:00
It's by design. Either the inventor knew what he was doing, or was tricked by someone who knew what they were doing. Perhaps it was invented by someone who made a lot of money speculating on gold so they knew how the model worked.

Luckily there's more than one cryptocurrency. Many of the current generation have asymptotically constant tail emissions, which doesn't really solve the underlying mismatch between emission and demand, but at least doesn't make it deliberately bad.

Well, there was one that tried to maintain a constant US$ price by cross-leveraging all of the risk onto a sister currency, but that crashed pretty hard (partly by the algorithm not working as well as thought, and partly by deliberate rugpull).

One that I'm aware of is radically different and allows both positive and negative balances that decay towards zero; although I don't really like that one's implementation, that feels like an idea worth exploring. It's pretty much incompatible with any traditional currency though.

Last time I named specific cryptocurrencies I got downvotes for advertising so I won't.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-07-04 18:44:25+00:00
A single graph might save hours. A full feature series where each graph type has yet new syntax to learn is indeed much more. Especially when there's followups, "let's make the graph move over the left half of the screen and then the next animation shows in the right half?" which again were one shot done in minutes with AI. For me just to gain the context of how to move the animation into the left half smoothly and then move all animations that were drawn into a separate animation file into this file and reposition each element from that second file into the right half of the screen would have probably taken a day.

We tend to underestimate engineering time generally. So i wouldn't look at the above and say "that seems doable in X hours". I stand strongly by my assertion that it saved me a week (at least!) all up.
by thadk | 2025-07-04 18:44:47+00:00
idk, if you're going to center that good old TI computer, you gotta contrast the Conways law of that company, and the semi-solo person sharing 'grammable tidbits. The desired carrying capacity lies in that institution. Today it's in Shenzhen.

But the ~1980s corporation is no longer and it was driven by the hype cycle too, it's just not a recognizable one. You can google the adverts or read Soul of a New Machine.
by rcxdude | 2025-07-04 18:45:26+00:00
I mean, bitcoin needs to not be the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap. It's a comment on the utility of bitcoin compared to other networks, not about how it can be subdivided. As long as bitcoin is the most valuable coin, the cryptocurrency market is unconcerned with utility for everyday transactions and far more concerned with line go up by finding more and larger bag holders.
by eszed | 2025-07-04 18:45:39+00:00
> a collar with a little bell. It's nearly guaranteed to ruin their hunting.

Unfortunately, that's not true. There was a study by some academics in Britain a few years° ago that showed effectively no difference in hunting success rates between belled and un-belled cats. The explanation is that cats are ambush predators, so once they (very quickly) learn how to stalk (they're moving slowly, anyway) without ringing the bell, their quarry doesn't hear the bell until they pounce, when it's (mostly) too late.

They were specifically looking at songbirds, as I recall. Maybe success rates for rodents are different - though that'd hardly be a good thing, because we generally want cats to kill mice and rats!

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[On reflection]: Based on where I remember I was living when I read it, this was over a decade ago. (Where does time go?) There may have been updates since.
by immibis | 2025-07-04 18:45:55+00:00
Ordinary ovens also do that alright. Takes 20-30 minutes instead of 2-3, but that just trains your delayed reward system a little. Also, don't use a plastic container.

They do a lot more things though, which microwaves don't. Pizza, for example, has to be cooked properly, not with a microwave. If I can only have one, I'll take the mini conventional oven.
by asdf6969 | 2025-07-04 18:47:03+00:00
> The bar is so low in corporate America you could trip on it.

I talk to incompetent people all day every day but I don’t know anyone competent who could get the opportunity to work here without at least a few weeks of studying and a lot of luck. Thousands of applicants for every position and you still think meritocracy matters? The only winners in this market are people with no self respect and the well connected
by dinfinity | 2025-07-04 18:47:34+00:00
Yeah, we're worried as fuck, I can tell you.

The US is sitting on a lot of fucking firepower. It has always been hawkish and trigger-happy, but with the current crop of lunatics in power anything could happen. "But Trump is against foreign wars!" -- yeah, right up until he gleefully shared a meme of the parody song "Bomb Iran".

Everybody hopes cooler heads will prevail than Trump and his batshit insane cronies.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-07-04 18:47:55+00:00
I don't disagree with this. When running the infrastructure for the Blekko search engine we did the math and after 115 servers worth of cluster it was always cheaper to do it ourselves than with AWS or elsewhere, than after around 1300 servers it is always cheaper to do it on your own space. (where you're paying for the facilities). It was an interesting way to reverse-engineer the colo business model :-)
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-04 18:47:59+00:00
Been running without for 15+ on my NAS boxes, built using my previous desktop hardware fitted with NAS disks.

They're on 24/ and run monthly scrubs, as well as monthly checksum verification of my backup images, and not noticed any issues so far.

I had some correctable errors which got fixed when changing SATA cable a few times, and some from a disk that after 7 years of 24/7 developed a small run of bad sectors.

That said, you got ECC so you should be able to monitor corrected memory errors.

Matt Ahrens himself (one of the creators of ZFS) had said there's nothing particular about ZFS:

There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem. If you use UFS, EXT, NTFS, btrfs, etc without ECC RAM, you are just as much at risk as if you used ZFS without ECC RAM. Actually, ZFS can mitigate this risk to some degree if you enable the unsupported ZFS_DEBUG_MODIFY flag (zfs_flags=0x10). This will checksum the data while at rest in memory, and verify it before writing to disk, thus reducing the window of vulnerability from a memory error.

I would simply say: if you love your data, use ECC RAM. Additionally, use a filesystem that checksums your data, such as ZFS.

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=...
by lordnacho | 2025-07-04 18:48:20+00:00
Everquest was my first warning about game addiction. Every teenage kid by the year 2000 had spent too much time in front of a game, of course.

But not like this.

I was sitting with a friend of mine at a computer café. This was more prevalent at the time, since a capable computer with all the modern games on it was still somewhat pricey.

So my friend starts taking to our side guy, who is playing EQ. Nice fellow.

"Hey guys, I gotta stop playing. Been here 24h straight. If I don't go to work they'll fire me."

My friend and I leave for the night.

My friend comes back to the café one night later. Our buddy is there, in the same seat.

"Shit dude, they fired me. I haven't been able to get up and go to work. This game, man."

"Sorry to hear it, what was your work?"

"I'm an attendant at a computer café."

"WTF, which one? Why didn't you just sit there and play?"

"The one across the street. Because I couldn't stop."
by CursedSilicon | 2025-07-04 18:48:34+00:00
I was late to this blog post but I added some of my own thoughts. Copied below for those just stumbling across this post

The bigger picture that I think too few people focus on is the desperation of it all. The slop machine is just the latest in tech's desperate attempt to recapture what they did in the 90's where they connected a chunk of the planet to the fucking internet at large. Of course, they forget the part where "buying pet food on the internet" doesn't mean we want to be in Zuckerberg's legless dystopic "metaverse" for fucking standup meetings. Even when we had SecondLife 20 years earlier (and I guess VRchat and friends today)

I think the only people that really know this are Nvidia and AMD. The same way the only people who made money in the California gold rush were the people selling pickaxes and supplies and all that. Nvidia's stock price soaring to the size of half the fucking planet like Nortel or Standard Oil before them.

But the dogfooding, good god the dogfooding that is already going on. It feels like that the majority of people have either resoundingly rejected using the slop machine, or, much more troubling for capital. Their uses of it simply aren't "profitable". In the same way that having a speaker on your kitchen counter you can ask "what's the weather today" doesn't actually make you any money but we're going to pretend because we manufactured billions of these fuckers and if we just grin and pretend the musical chairs won't stop just yet. Right? Right?

So you've got an unprofitable product that you dumped hundreds of billions of dollars into. The only thing you can do to stave off your own demise as a C-suite (for making the line not go up. Or, heaven forbid making the line go down) is to feed one end of your workforce into a woodchipper and shackle the remainder of them to the slop machine you bought by installing it on all their desks and demanding they use it so you can pretend your workforce is some order of magnitude more productive now. If you as a C-suite (somehow) come from a tech background you might even know, deep down. Where you push all those feelings down into that it's all a lie, a farce. A distraction for the forces of capital that are even bigger than you are. Unless you're someone like Intel and they push you out the door for not making the line go up fast enough, of course.

But the question I keep coming back to is if there'll ever be a point of reckoning. When does this money black hole escape confinement and suck all the players into oblivion with it? That's been the historic reality of everything from tulips to houses. Or has tech found a way to truly become so inescapable, so irredeemably beyond understanding that they've escaped financial reality for their own mistakes?
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-04 18:49:29+00:00
> ZFS could be in-tree in no time at all if Oracle would fix its license. And until they do that, it's not safe to use ZFS-on-Linux anyway, since Oracle could sue you for it.

IANAL, but I don't believe either of these things are true.

OpenZFS contains enough code not authored by Sun/Oracle that relicensing it now is effectively impossible.

OTOH, it is under the CDDL, which is a perfectly good open source license; AFAICT the problem, if one exists at all[0], only manifests when distributing the combination of CDDL (OpenZFS) and GPL (Linux) software. If you download CDDL software and compile it into GPL software yourself (say, with DKMS) then it should be fine because you aren't distributing it.

[0] This is a case where I'm going to really emphasize that I'm really not a lawyer and merely point out that ex. Canonical's lawyers do seem to think CDDL+GPL is okay.
by vitaflo | 2025-07-04 18:49:30+00:00
>For the "deep"/important/critical technical work, there will likely be staff retained on-shore, while the "boring" CRUD-type work that comprises some portion of the FANNAGS (whatever) is done overseas.

Someone who was a highly skilled factory worker would have said the same thing in the 80's. That didn't work out too well for them in the long run. You have to assume that eventually those overseas workers will become experts in that "deep" work because they have the incentive to.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-04 18:49:34+00:00
One of my cousins said the following things which is also kinda like what you said haha

When we feed a dog, it thinks that we (humans) are the god, but then when we feed a cat food, it thinks that I(cats) are the god.

And to be really honest, in ancient egpyt or something, cats were really considered close to god (IMO?) and I remember a incidence where people would wrap cats around their shields when battling since both sides didn't want to kill cats.
by immibis | 2025-07-04 18:50:08+00:00
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

(Original source: https://xcancel.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?... )