MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-07-07 20:46:39+00:00
> Sleep has worked pretty much fine on the vast majority of the Windows computers I've owned/managed

Good for you, and I believe you. However you're the only person I've ever met with this sentiment. IME even multi-thousand dollar Windows laptops do not sleep right.

Luckily, it kind of works out. Windows rots if it's left un-rebooted for a few days so forcing reboots with broken sleep almost optimizes the Windows experience.

> Yes, and I'm sure if an average user used ps aux on Linux they'd know what everything in that list is doing.

Fair, but they also don't need to. I never, ever have this problem on Linux. We do have background processes but they seem to be written by people who are, I'm assuming, not asleep. They work fine. Even file indexers like baloo work correctly. I can find any file on my computer on the order of milliseconds, and I never have high CPU usage. I'm being a bit cheeky here - it's very easy to hate on Windows search so I shouldn't be bragging about functional search.

There was that one Windows handheld recently that released a SteamOS version, but I can't remember the name. Anyway sleep works correctly on the SteamOS version, though that's mostly valve's work with properly suspending games. Oh and it gets an extra hour or so of battery. But the tradeoff is... wait... 10% extra performance in games? Through the translation layer? Wow, that's shocking.

Point being, Windows on battery-enabled devices is truly ass. The bottom of the barrel of experiences. It becomes evident when you try out other devices. I have a switch. I press the power button and it turns off. It turns back on instantly. The power doesn't drain. And, my game is right back where I left it. I didn't restore from a save. I'm not on the main menu. It literally suspended the entire state of the game and un-suspended it like nothing happened. That's unthinkable on Windows.

I would never, ever put my Windows laptop to sleep with an unsaved Excel sheet open. If it wakes up, there's a good chance that application is mysteriously restarted. I don't trust anything on Windows.
by frognumber | 2025-07-07 20:46:39+00:00
3 second with a web search would bring up citations:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=gpu+lifespan&ia=web

You'll need to scroll past the ones talking about obsolescence versus failure. Toss in 'data center' if you like.

You'll see a range of numbers -- including some lower than I cited -- but it's all in that ballpark.
by humblebeekeeper | 2025-07-07 20:47:12+00:00
As someone who is heavily tattooed, I'd LOVE to see this analysis for tattoo inks.

Fun fact: UV light makes tattoo particles smaller, which makes them easier for your lymphatic system to carry them to your lymph nodes. The particles are easy to transport into the lymph nodes, but difficult for your body to remove from your lymph nodes, meaning that for heavily tattooed people like myself, surgeries can be a potentially very colorful endeavor! (Or, if you have primarily black tattoos, it can be a spooky endeavor, I suppose.)
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-07 20:48:52+00:00
If anything, "the vast majority of people" find mass deportation of millions of citizens and noncitizens to gulags, conflict zones, etc, to be even more unreasonable than doing nothing. Please don't cut off my quotes mid-sentence when it omits critical context.

> Given the context and aggressive sarcasm of the post, the vastly more likely explanation is the poster didn't agree with the point rather than not understanding it at all.

Given that every person who responded in that thread expressed confusion at your quote (myself included), the more likely explanation, based on the evidence, is that a given message failed to provide sufficient context and/or explanation.

Now that we have the context explained in my previous post, we see why the quote was confusing: because it does not support the position you have been espousing. That is to say: to whatever extent that other poster 'doesn't get to decide what constitutes American interests', neither do you.

> if you want to call for intellectual honesty and civility, you can lead

I think I have been civil. If I've insulted you personally, I am sorry, and wouldn't mind you pointing it out.

> I'd ask you to be consistent when and with who that incivility started

That other poster isn't being nice either, but I don't like to comment purely to criticize tone. I prefer redirecting to substance when I can. That said, the incivility started when you cited an out of context quote, were asked what you meant, and refused to explain.

Now that you have civilly explained what you meant (thank you), we can focus on substance, which is that if you don't provide an acceptable solution, then it's probably not reasonable to expect others to.
by danaris | 2025-07-07 20:49:25+00:00
By understanding what terms actually mean. It's not "my definition", and you don't just get to pull the relativism card on me.

You want to paint government as a concept as being inherently evil? You need to do the work. Don't just expect me to agree or back down because you can use some deliberately-confusing rhetoric.

Show your work. Show your evidence. Show how government as a concept, not just a specific government at a specific point in time, is inherently genocidal/corrupt/evil/whatever it is you're actually trying to do. The burden of proof is on you.
by tmiku | 2025-07-07 20:49:35+00:00
"Artslop"? Care to elaborate on your usage here? I'm curious if your problem here is with the incursion of art into your preferred dinoslop, or if artslop is your catch-all for works that aren't in the high-concept genre film realm.

Just trying to keep my finger on the pulse of a neoword as it spends more time outside of containment.
by Alifatisk | 2025-07-07 20:49:45+00:00
Love the ui in the playground, it reminds me of Qwen chat.

We have reached a point where the bottlenecks in genAI is not the knowledge or accuracy, it is the context window and speed.

Luckily, Google (and Meta?) has pushed the limits of the context window to about 1 million tokens which is incredible. But I feel like todays options are still stuck about ~128k token window per chat, and after that it starts to forget.

Another issue is the time time it takes for inference AND reasoning. dLLMs is an interesting approach at this. I know we have Groqs hardware aswell.

I do wonder, can this be combined with Groqs hardware? Would the response be instant then?

How many tokens can each chat handle in the playground? I couldn't find so much info about it.

Which model is it using for inference?

Also, is the training the same on dLLMs as on the standardised autoregressive LLMs? Or is the weights and models completely different?
by jajko | 2025-07-07 20:50:08+00:00
That's a nice theory but I don't want to bet future of mankind on some feel-good logic. In my view, a-holes remain a-holes, self-centered narcissists double so.

Feel like trump for example got wiser and saner and more rational the second term? Because literally whole world believes otherwise. He has his whole clan to think of due to consequences of his actions, if he cared. puttin' is same, just sour keg of bad beer that should be poured down the river (or some better ecological disposal of garbage).
by ordu | 2025-07-07 20:50:31+00:00
> On the contrary, anthropomorphism IMO is the main problem with narratives around LLMs

I hold a deep belief that anthropomorphism is a way the human mind words. If we take for granted the hypothesis of Franz de Waal, that human mind developed its capabilities due to political games, and then think about how it could later lead to solving engineering and technological problems, then the tendency of people to anthropomorphize becomes obvious. Political games need empathy or maybe some other kind of -pathy, that allows politicians to guess motives of others looking at their behaviors. Political games directed the evolution to develop mental instruments to uncover causality by watching at others and interacting with them. Now, to apply these instruments to inanimate world all you need is to anthropomorphize inanimate objects.

Of course, it leads sometimes to the invention of gods, or spirits, or other imaginary intelligences behinds things. And sometimes these entities get in the way of revealing the real causes of events. But I believe that to anthropomorphize LLMs (at the current stage of their development) is not just the natural thing for people but a good thing as well. Some behavior of LLMs is easily described in terms of psychology; some cannot be described or at least not so easy. People are seeking ways to do it. Projecting this process into the future, I can imagine how there will be a kind of consensual LLMs "theory" that explains some traits of LLMs in terms of human psychology and fails to explain other traits, so they are explained in some other terms... And then a revolution happens, when a few bright minds come and say that "anthropomorphism is bad, it cannot explain LLM" and they propose something different.

I'm sure it will happen at some point in the future, but not right now. And it will happen not like that: not just because someone said that anthropomorphism is bad, but because they proposed another way to talk about reasons behind LLMs behavior. It is like with scientific theories: they do not fail because they become obviously wrong, but because other, better theories replace them.

It doesn't mean, that there is no point to fight anthropomorphism right now, but this fight should be directed at searching for new ways to talk about LLMs, not to show at the deficiencies of anthropomorphism. To my mind it makes sense to start not with deficiencies of anthropomorphism but with its successes. What traits of LLMs it allows us to capture, which ideas about LLMs are impossible to wrap into words without thinking of LLMs as of people?
by bdunks | 2025-07-07 20:51:09+00:00
Thank you for sharing! After reading the article, I played your game and really enjoyed it. My first text based game in ~30 years.

I was inspired and went on to play one of the games listed on IFDB tagged “short” and “recommended for beginners”. (Suveh Nux).

Also super fun and satisfying to beat!
by int_19h | 2025-07-07 20:51:51+00:00
> Many languages have combinations of letters that have a single sound, it's no excuse for not having accents.

You don't need an "excuse" for not having accents. Digraphs and diacritical marks are simply two different ways to mark a letter as being pronounced as "somewhat similar but different". Whether one is better than the other is a matter of subjective perception, and it's very common for languages to not do it consistently. For example, Spanish has "ll" but also "ñ" (ironically the latter used to be "nn"!), and Czech has "č" but also "ch".

What's criminal about English is not the lack of diacritics, but rather the extremely convoluted and hard to predict rules for interpreting digraphs and trigraphs. If "ch" always meant the same thing, it would be just fine.
by empath75 | 2025-07-07 20:53:57+00:00
"The Bible" is not a single coherent text, but rather a collection of hundreds or thousands of years of oral tradition that was created and passed on by various people at various times for various purposes, and then collected and edited again by different people for different purposes.

There are layers of edits that you can tease out with careful reading, and they can be supported by archeological evidence from sites all around the near east.

It is not remotely controversial that the Hebrews/Israelites/Canaanites/Judeans were originally polytheistic, with a pantheon built around Canaanite gods (El, Ashera, etc), just like all of their neighbors and then gradually became henotheistic (our god is the best god), and then finally monotheistic (there is only one god). Pure monotheism was a very late development, and a lot of the conflicts in the bible is straightforwardly interpreted as describing a conflict between Yahwist henotheism and traditional near-eastern polytheism. Even just reading the very first part of Genesis, there are two creation stories with very clear signs of a pantheon of gods.

There are also completely retellings of polytheistic myths in the Bible which are basically a find-replace of Ba'al, etc, with either "El" or "Yahweh" or both.
by mxs_ | 2025-07-07 20:54:16+00:00
In their tech report, they say this is based on:

> "Our methods extend [28] through careful modifications to the data and computation to scale up learning."

[28] is Lou et al. (2023), the "Score Entropy Discrete Diffusion" (SEDD) model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16834).

I wrote the first (as far as I can tell) independent from-scratch reimplementation of SEDD:

https://github.com/mstarodub/dllm

My goal was making it as clean and readable as possible. I also implemented the more complex denoising strategy they described (but didn't implement).

It runs on a single GPU in a few hours on a toy dataset.
by SlowTao | 2025-07-07 20:56:10+00:00
Pretty much this. I saw the latest Jurassic whatever film on the weekend. 6 out of 10. It is some cheap but well done thrills that achieves exactly what it set out to do.

Not every film has the strive for some great metaphors, and the ones in the film are basically "greed bad" but that doesn't stop the action for more than a minute at best.
by kragen | 2025-07-07 20:56:22+00:00
You're trying to put out a forest fire with an eyedropper.

Stock your underground bunkers with enough food and water for the rest of your life and work hard to persuade the AI that you're not a threat. If possible, upload your consciousness to a starwisp and accelerate it out of the Solar System as close to lightspeed as you can possibly get it.

Those measures might work. (Or they might be impossible, or insufficient.) Changing your license won't.
by jajko | 2025-07-07 20:56:26+00:00
Death is a natural sweeper that allows progress, evolution, rapid change and adjustment to new situations. The opposite brings, well, the opposite.

The life well lived is a life thats easy to let go, regardless of your beliefs. The more people messed up the more they desperately cling to it (I know its vastly more complex, but this is the core of what I see around).

I am not claiming we shouldn't be trying to make lives better, or longer. But immortality will be humanity's doom - there is endless row of puttin' and trumps and hitlers and stalins and maos in every single generation, and the only real working solution is inevitable death, none of them went or will let go power on their own from the bottom of their good hearts. That is unavoidable since it comes from base character of humans, whether we like it or not.

I'd say we should shoot on sight all researchers and VCs pouring time and money into directly immortality, that's much safer bet than some immortality bringing long term prosperity for mankind.
by int_19h | 2025-07-07 20:57:01+00:00
This comes from typewriters. Curiously, the reason why Esperanto uses Ĉ, Ĝ, Ĥ, Ĵ, and Ŝ is because the circumflex was present on French typewriters (which were very common in Europe at the time). Even though French itself only uses it for Â, Ê, Û - since it was a distinct key used for overtyping, it could be repurposed in this manner, just like Unicode combining marks today.
by duxup | 2025-07-07 20:57:36+00:00
> if his goal is to help create a more moderate government?

Is it? I can't find any idea of what his platform would be anyhow. Put AI in charge of everything maybe?

Granted I guess with the GOP platform doesn't matter, states rights, less debt, any sense of libertarianism, being some magical 'leader of the free world' just about every GOP traditional platform item is out the window.

I think in any other case a new party with some nobody's might have a chance with an electorate looking for answers, but Elon is not nobody and carries baggage. Can you win elections consistently as "Elon's party"?
by kragen | 2025-07-07 20:57:41+00:00
That doesn't make sense. It's like saying that the best general advice about which way to turn when you're driving is to turn right. From your comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44493308, and from the fact that you used the passive voice in your comment ("they should be avoided") apparently without noticing, it appears that the reason you have this opinion is that you don't know what the passive voice is in the first place.
by SR2Z | 2025-07-07 20:57:48+00:00
Waymo doesn't need to produce a million cars. They need to dominate rideshare in the top 10 US cities, which gives them 90% of the ridehailing market. Then they license their technology into long-haul trucking, then eventually personal cars (with a subscription fee, obviously) to starve out their competitors.

Even 20k cars in one city is likely too many for them.
by licebmi__at__ | 2025-07-07 20:58:24+00:00
Because it misses how secular and liberal societies are the ones subsidizing and weaponizing islamists on one side, and causing the ire of other groups that will also weaponize islam as revenge of the military incursion of same secular societies.

I don't have any qualms to detest fundamentalism, jihadism included; but any analysis that focuses on religion and not on the different geopolitical incursions the so called "secular" west, it's childish and it's not even worth to consider. And it's such a joke that these "secular" and "rational" individuals would rather embrace religion than accept that their societies might be complicit and reponsible of all this suffering.
by no_wizard | 2025-07-07 20:58:41+00:00
because our industry would improve massively if we actually removed a barrier to allowing standardized licensure

I also never said it should be held behind a degree, instead I said a fee, which could be sponsored. No degree required, though one certainly would help I imagine.

We live in a society, and we should think beyond the individual in terms of benefits. This would be a big win for society.
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by seethedeaduu | 2025-07-07 20:58:51+00:00
There are no tests that can show if someone is trans or not.

> the other could be rendered infertile due to hormones pr castration.

With the alternative of being mutilated forever due to testosterone and being forced to waste decades of your life existing in limbo.

Although I should note that the claim that trans people become permanently infertile due to hormones is questionable.
by lucideng | 2025-07-07 20:59:16+00:00
As an owner of a Shark, I don't agree. The ergonomics are great, controls/buttons are grey, everything else is red or black, sounds like you just made a poor choice in model and/or colors. Mine is a corded vac and just works. Replaceable, washable filters, switched power, handles egregious amounts of pet hair (Husky) and a lift-away tank. We replaced a cheap Bissel vacuum with the Shark, and the Bissel was great, it was just really hard to clean stairs with it.

I think of a Dyson as more of a status symbol, like the latest Mac Book, a watch collection, or a Porsche. Dyson owners like telling people they have a Dyson. Most people just need things to work well for their use case, be reliable and affordable.

The saying goes... "Fast, reliable or cheap. Pick two."
Show HN: Life_link, an app to send emergency alerts from anywhere
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-07-07 20:59:30+00:00
2-factor authentication terrorizes me.

Many years ago, I was at a friend's house and decided to quickly pop downstairs to buy something.

When trying to re-enter the building, the main gate had locked. And since my phone, keys, and any spare cash were all left upstairs, I was stuck outside.

Thankfully, Google, at the time, allowed users to send SMSes (SMSs?) through the Hangouts app, which I did after logging into my account from an internet cafe. (Back then people weren’t constantly connected to Facebook, etc.)

Since that day I feared being locked out of my accounts by 2FA, simply because my phone (and my access codes) weren't with me.

And while it's true that today people are always connected to messaging apps, I wouldn't be able to reach any of them without me being able to log into mine.

That’s why I built life_link, an app that allows my loved ones to reach me, wherever they are, without having to care about 2FA or even needing to log in. To do so, they simply need to reach the app on a secret (short) URL.

I've since expanded life_link by creating a "generator" app that can produce a pre-configured, single-file application, ready to be deployed on any static site hosting service and decided to open-source it for other people who might find it useful.

You can find the life_link project and learn more about it here:

https://github.com/ahmedsaoudi/life_link
by martinald | 2025-07-07 20:59:35+00:00
FWIW I think you're mostly on the right track. I have noticed the "implementation ability" of designs that have came over from designers since figma had autolayout massively improve.

Maybe there is an argument that it is stifling creativity (though I'm not entirely convinced of this), but it is saving SO MUCH eng time on implementing (or going back and forth) on 'non standard' elements that are often not very intentional nor have the designers realised the impact of them, especially when it comes to responsive design.

FWIW I think the next big improvement (from eng side) would be some sort of (simplified?) git style version control for figma. For big projects with many people collaborating this would be hugely helpful, but would actually be hugely useful even with small teams.

We often spend so much time as engs implementing designs to find out they were one revision behind or hadn't actually been signed off, especially working remotely.
by trhway | 2025-07-07 20:59:45+00:00
similarly waiting for mass adoption of iPhone based ultrasound and some kind of laser computational tomography-interferometry (capable to see at least few centimeter deep). We're probably can do iPhone bases X-ray too - the CCDs are very sensitive so the dose at dental Xrays is already much lower than film-based, and may be we can go even lower with small discharge device (at the level of unrolling a duct tape roll) Naturally, add in some diagnostic AI, and you get tricorder :)
by retrac | 2025-07-07 21:00:16+00:00
As the quote says, you only really need two components: an induction coil and a Crookes tube. If connecting the two counts as building their own machine, then yes many early doctors did build their own. An induction coil was an off-the-shelf part (as much as anything electrical was in the 1890s). The Crookes tube was initially a custom piece, but workshops started turning them out as soon as the Roentgen pictures caught on.

Maybe worth pointing out that both doctors and laboratory scientists historically had a close relationship with glass blowers and glass work. Many doctors back then would have known someone who was able to make them a Crookes tube (often themselves). A sufficiently hard vacuum pump was I think the trickiest part?