MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MinimalAction | 2025-07-31 20:48:41+00:00
As an academic, I fairly resonate with this message. Also notice that most examples he noticed are from academia/science endeavors. I see academia as probably the only place where slow projects are expected and even encouraged; think of PhD students working on basic science problems, often supported for 5-7 years at end (of course close to minimum wage).

This is not to hide that all slow undertakings are good or anything. Often because of inefficient executions or bureaucratic hurdles, academic suffers. But, I am trying to highlight the observation that how a slow and steady progress is the typical modus operandi for an academic lab/group. A famous saying comes to mind: Rome isn't built in a day.
by nkmnz | 2025-07-31 20:48:42+00:00
How does this compare to ingesting all your code into some RAG tool and using that in a chat? I understand the citations part, which is a cool feature indeed, but especially tools for graph-RAG, such as graphiti https://github.com/getzep/graphiti can deliver so much more information that can be stored in a graph versus the code-repository alone, such as info about collaborators, infrastructure, metrics, logs, etc. pp.
by caycep | 2025-07-31 20:48:53+00:00
Also they are very specific owners. There's one guy here in LA, specifically the San Gabriel Valley neighborhood who realized there were a ton of visitors from mainland China flush with cash who were either coming as tourists or buying property, i.e. the "fuerdai" phenomenon. Cue a few strategically placed watch/jewelry and lambo/ferrari dealerships later, and I think he's one of the top sellers of their cars in North America...
by ssl-3 | 2025-07-31 20:49:43+00:00
I'm not sure what they meant, either. It's just a thing I've heard, verbatim.

I think "extruded" in this context comes from CAD terms, wherein: One builds the 2D cross-section of whatever complexity is entailed, and then mashes the "Extrude" button to add a third dimension to the shape.

I don't think the term, as-used, has anything at all to do with extrusion as a manufacturing process.
by esseph | 2025-07-31 20:49:46+00:00
Python users (pypi.org) just got hit that were using TOTP.

"If the user had enrolled a Security Device for PyPI second factor authentication, the attacker would not have been able to use the second factor, as the WebAuthn protocol requires the user to physically interact with a hardware security key, or use a browser-based implementation, which would not be possible if the user was not on the legitimate PyPI.org website (Relying Party Identifier)."

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-07-31-incident-report-phish...
by resters | 2025-07-31 20:50:04+00:00
AI will be both a floor and a ceiling raiser, since there is a practical limit to how many domains one person or team can be expert in, and AI does/will have very strong levels of expertise/competency across a large number of domains and will thus offer significant level-ups in areas where cross-domain synthesis is crucial or where the limits of human working memory and pattern recognition make cross-domain synthesis unlikely to occur.

AI also enables much more efficient early stage idea validation, the point at which ideas/projects are the least anchored in established theory/technique. Thus AI will be a great aid in idea generation and early stage refinement, which is where most novel approaches stall or sit on a shelf as a hobby project because the progenitor doesn't have enough spare time to work through it.
by jameslk | 2025-07-31 20:50:26+00:00
For a while, there was a library built to do this: https://github.com/guess-js/guess

You can do this with speculation rules too. Your speculation rules are just prescriptive of what you think the user will navigate to next based on your own analytics data (or other heuristics)

Ultimately the pros/cons are similar. You just end up with potentially better (or worse) predictions. I suspect it isn’t much better than simple heuristics such as whether a cursor is hovering over a link or a link is in a viewport. You’d probably have to have a lot of data to keep your guesses accurate

Keep in mind that this will just help with the network load piece, not so much for the rendering piece. Often rendering is actually what is slowing down most heavy frontends. Especially when the largest above-the-fold content you want to display is an image or video
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-07-31 20:50:35+00:00
I use ATT Fiber and using the pass-through mode has worked pretty well for me. The main problem is their box is still a piece of shit that they introduce bugs/regressions into sometimes. But that'll affect their own service as well, regardless of whether you use your own device w/ passthrough. So you might as well hook your stuff up.
by boogieknite | 2025-07-31 20:50:35+00:00
if i understand your eloquence i think youre right that im lucky to apply my kind of "crazy" (tfa) for money

i recently spoke with an extended family member who works a secure 9-5 job for which they are paid well, requires little effort, is physically active but not taxing. they feel pressured by society or internal expectations to reach for something more challenging

they are young and asked if i have advice. i told them them are in an ideal situation and not to care so much about work. they can consider that box checked and seek satisfaction outside collecting paychecks

this is like a lifelong smoker telling their relative never to smoke. programming is my biggest hobby
by laurencerowe | 2025-07-31 20:50:50+00:00
TinyKVM [1] has similarities to the gVisor approach but runs at the KVM level instead, proxying a limited set of system calls through to the host.

EDIT: It seems that gVisor has a KVM mode too. https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/platforms/#kvm

I've been working on KVMServer [2] recently which uses TinyKVM to run existing Linux server applications by intercepting epoll calls. While there is a small overhead to crossing the KVM boundary to handle sys calls we get the ability to quickly reset the state of the guest. This means we can provide per-request isolation with an order of magnitude less overhead than alternative approaches like forking a process or even spinning up a v8 isolate.

[1] Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358980

[2] https://github.com/libriscv/kvmserver
by steveBK123 | 2025-07-31 20:50:51+00:00
It's good to do some snooping up the food chain like that.

I've been at a few small-scaling-to-big firms going through tremendous growing pains. Most of the time it was that they had the insight to hire team leads & ICs with experience from bigger competitors but not any higher up the food chain.

That is - higher extremely experienced, talented people, and have them report to the some guy that was hired 20 years ago because he went to school with the founder, or his buddies kid, or some dude who never worked elsewhere in the industry. So ultimately the deciders and decisions didn't change and it was all window dressing.
by jjjutla | 2025-07-31 20:51:01+00:00
We’ve limited the free tier to one scan per user, so deleting a scan and starting a new one won’t work because of that restriction.

And yes, we don’t support C or C++ yet. Our focus is on detecting business logic vulnerabilities (auth bypasses, privilege escalations, IDORs) that traditional SAST tools often miss. The types of exploitable security issues typically found in C/C++ (mainly memory corruption type issues) are better found through fuzzing and dynamic testing rather than static analysis.
by ggm | 2025-07-31 20:51:03+00:00
Considering asking they have to hand in their "judge licence".

I believe some judges have asked if barristers and attorneys should, if they "pull this one trick which judges hate"

I never like Edward de Bono but the metaphorical value of his "thinking caps" here is strong: nobody asked for judges to reach for a dismembered nexus 9 android head to put on.
by philipkglass | 2025-07-31 20:51:20+00:00
I know that this is a joke, but reactors cannot scale down that far. Unlike an electrical source powered by radioactive decay (like certain pacemakers [1]), the minimum mass for a nuclear reactor includes several kilograms of material. It's possible to shed neutron moderator mass by using high-purity fuel operating on fast fission, but these require more fuel to go critical so they still have multi-kilogram masses.

[1] "Plutonium powered pacemakers (1974) https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/miscel...
by rolph | 2025-07-31 20:51:23+00:00
my first thought was "Spaz"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Qh2Bx6TIM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatballs_(film)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=spaz+meatballs&iar=images&t=lm
by dvrp | 2025-07-31 20:52:08+00:00
Relevant links:

- GitHub repository: https://github.com/krea-ai/flux-krea

- Model Technical Report: https://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-release

- Huggingface model card: https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-Krea-dev
by bangaladore | 2025-07-31 20:52:12+00:00
Can someone ELI5 why the safetensor file is 23.8 GB, given the 12B parameter model? Does the model use closer to 24 GB of VRAM or 12 GB of VRAM. I've always associated a 1 billion parameter = 1 GB of VRAM. Is this estimate inaccurate?
by RiverCrochet | 2025-07-31 20:52:33+00:00
This bill is different than the domain seizures of the past; it seems to be the start of a framework where the government is using its power to tell ISPs to block access to IP addresses - in this case, those identified as foreign piracy sites. Honestly I don't know what's already happening in this space, though. I haven't heard of many instances where U.S. judges are ordering ISPs to block traffic to sites like in other countries, but maybe I haven't been paying attention.

There's a number of precautions and exceptions in the bill, and they're good ones, but I don't think we've seen anything like this before.

I feel like this bill is the beginning of a type of thinking that could grow past piracy by riding the current isolationist wave in U.S. politics. I think once this passes, it's probably going to be easier to justify ordering ISP blocks of non-U.S. IPs/ASNs on other criteria.

It will also further cement social media as the primary thing that is "Internet," instead of websites or other applications based on network protocols. After all that's probably what most people think of as the Internet - social media, a few apps, and streaming. Big social media will always have an international reach as its owners are very rich, they cooperate with governments, their users are individually accountable, and those users will likely become more so over time. I bet soon, that's all that will be left to the masses - social media and streaming.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-31 20:52:46+00:00
> We're nowhere close to hitting the limits of scaling hardware capability

Would note that we've only recently crossed Bostrom's 10 ^ 17 ops line [1].

To my knowledge, we don't have 10 ^ 14 to 10 ^ 17 ops computing available for whole-brain simulation.

[1] https://www.top500.org/system/180307/
by wwweston | 2025-07-31 20:53:15+00:00
And it’s not only never done, it’s always on the verge of dying off. Like Bill Thurston said, mathematical understanding basically lives in communities of mathematicians, every one of them a cell in the superorganism that is the field. You’re part of the distributed filesystem providing persistence as well as the possibility of new understanding.

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematici...
by resource_waste | 2025-07-31 20:53:26+00:00
>It seams like you conclude from the fact that there are a lot of (not sure if infinite) properties of the universe, that none is really important?

Yeah thats basically it.

Analytical Philosophy can generate linguistically true statements. I just don't find "1 = 1" interesting. You are doing the same thing with 2 x pi x r = c. That really boils down to 1 = 1. I think this is useful, but I don't think there is ontologically anything more special about circles vs 1 = 1.

>If you give me an electron microscope I can show you the "shape" of an atom. A single atom is also a property of the universe, but that is not the kind of property we are talking about. But it is strange that they all look alike, isn't it?

You mean, using our detection mechanisms that convert data into something we can understand with human vision and brains? How do we know they are that shape, rather than a 5D string? How do we even know they have a shape, and its not just a failure of our detection mechanisms and its merely useful to imagine it with such a shape? Not to mention, what if all atoms are technically different and we are merely assigning it to be the same shape because we don't understand the differences yet?

Anyway, I reiterate, you are speaking like a Platonic Realist/Scientific Realist. The more modern understanding is withholding ontological beliefs and Instrumentationalism.

I may suggest talking to chatGPT about this. But otherwise maybe send an email or add it temporarily to your profile. I put my philosophy substack in my profile, I'll respond in detail to your thoughts via substack.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-31 20:53:47+00:00
Everything I've heard is that micro-reactors produce far worse waste situations than larger scale options.

I think there's a huge opportunity for nuclear power in the world today.

But: all these micro-reactor strike me as disastrously bad idea, that's all too likely to offload incredibly complex nasty gross problem to the future. Costs that alas will likely be handled as network externalities, as drains and damage against humanity and people and government, that the creators and purchasers of these device will skate through with comparatively little injury.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-31 20:54:08+00:00
QUIC is already out and in active use. Every major web browser supports it, and it's not like IPv6. There's no fundamental infrastructure change needed to support it since it's built on top of UDP. The end points obviously have to support it, but that's the same as any other protocol built on UDP or TCP (like HTTP, SNMP, etc.).
by miohtama | 2025-07-31 20:54:10+00:00
This is true.

One of rich folks here I know automatically orders the latest Ferrari, gets it in some months or years, then sells it after driving one month.

Even for some profit. Because he is one of rare people who is "on the list."

Then orders the next one.

Ferraris are a bit like NFTs for boomer investment bankers.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-31 20:54:13+00:00
IQ is mostly a measure of processing speed and memory, with some educational bias that's hard to filter out.

You don't get useful intelligence unless the software is also fit for purpose. Slow hardware can still outperform broken software.

Social status depends on factors like good looks, charm, connections, and general chutzpah, often with more or less overt hints of narcissism. That's an orthogonal set of skills to being able to do tensor calculus.

As for an impending AI singularity - no one has the first clue what the limits are. We like to believe in gods, and we love stories about god-like superpowers. But there are all kinds of issues which could prevent a true singularity - from stability constraints on a hypercomplex recursive system, to resource constraints, to physical limits we haven't encountered yet.

Even if none of those are a problem, for all we know an ASI may decide we're an irrelevance and just... disappear.
by McAlpine5892 | 2025-07-31 20:54:28+00:00
This kind of crap will only grow the MAGA base. Everyone knows our politicians work to serve the corporations and are sick of it. Democrats won’t allow a real candidate that will be anti-corporate. So we end up with Trump who pays lip service to it. For reasons beyond me, people seem to believe him.

Meanwhile Altman & Co. continue to steal data at large scale. Trump himself encourages it by removing any potential for regulation the LLM industry. I guess his followers can’t be bothered to read the actual news and get angry about it.

Most politicians that stand up against this stuff aren’t allowed to succeed. Unless someone does, this pro-corporate downward spiral will continue.
by WJW | 2025-07-31 20:54:41+00:00
I think it is part of the point for a cathedral to take several generations. If you can point to a building and say "that took 5 years to build and I was there for all of it!", then that's great, but the building is in some way "smaller" than you. If you can point to a partially constructed building and say "my grandfather worked on it, my father worked on it, I'm working on it and my children will work on it too", that's a building that is "larger" than any one person.

Taking a century or more to construct anything makes that thing larger than life. There's a certain sublime quality in such efforts, whether they're explicitly dedicated to a god/pantheon but also if they are "just" earthly like the White House (technically took 178 years to construct from start to finish).
by ggm | 2025-07-31 20:54:55+00:00
I'd speak up. It's disrespectful, it's lazy, and it's very probably deceptive. I'd speak privately to them and if it continues and you don't agree to their reasoning to continue, Cc their manager and HR.

Of course this is high risk. For a working relationship, for your own longevity in the company. But, so is the loss of mutuality. And if the company wants what they are doing, you are so far out of alignment the signal to leave will be strong.

I do think it starts with questioning their behaviour one on one, privately. And listening to their response, and reflecting on it: you may not have all the information: what if they are operating under instruction?

If you do talk, try to keep your temper under control. Avoid giving signals which could be misinterpreted or used against you.
by slt2021 | 2025-07-31 20:55:05+00:00
I love that you brought up right to self-determination.

However it comes with the bundle with all human rights and international laws, including Prohibion on forced displacement (like Nakhba), full recognition of Human Rights (apartheid state), territorial integrity (settlements), prohibion on genocide (ICC/ICJ is awaiting trial)

The international law has been settled on this: Two state solution, 1967 borders, full rights to Palestinian state, etc.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-31 20:55:17+00:00
My spouse loves watching old direct to home video movies and I'd say about 75% of them have no accessible copies outside maybe eBay. Most of the remainder are only available via piracy. A vanishingly small percentage are available from streaming platforms.

One that I wanted to watch recently was Disney's 2000 animation short John Henry. It's now part of the American Legends compilation, which is only available for purchase on Amazon, not rent. It's not even on Disney+.
by daxfohl | 2025-07-31 20:55:40+00:00
And even aside from defining your own axioms, you can have the same experience just by taking the wrong path in a proof. You'll frequently try something and the goal checker will say that the only thing left is to prove 1 < 0 or such. That's obviously impossible, but it doesn't mean the theorem you're trying to prove is wrong, it just means that you've painted yourself into a corner with your proof attempt, and need to back up and try something else.
by ender341341 | 2025-07-31 20:55:41+00:00
Howto is super important to me, it's absolutely bananas how many docs seem to assume you understand the whole library and don't explain any surrounding context or how things effect other things in the context.

Especially bad in 100% documention requirement shops where you get stupid things like '@param foo - Control <foo>' where having some examples would be much more useful than a wall of those parameter 'descriptions'.
by caycep | 2025-07-31 20:55:48+00:00
the problem with rarified air is that only Ferrari can race Ferraris. Given the low volume, high prices, and resultant engineering issues (cough cough overheating) that wouldn't exist in cars more on the mass market, requiring teams of engineers to support.

The average car enthusiast for track days will be seen running Mustangs, Corvette/Camaros, BMW M2/4s, Toyota GR 86s/Supras/Corollas, Honda S2000s, Nissan Z's, etc. But Ferrari is essentially irrelevant.

Sadly, I think Porsche is going that way; before, one could also run with the above gaggle with a decent 911 or Cayman. Now that the entry level is climbing well above the $100k mark new, and what was supposed to be their track car (GT3) is approaching Ferrari prices, they are becoming less and less relevant. And they might not even survive the China situation...
by cultofmetatron | 2025-07-31 20:55:53+00:00
well it turns out that it in fact, has not grown since the war began

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/dec/06/instagram-...

but I mean, you guys also call amnesty international, the ICC, the BBC and reality itself antisemetic so believe whatever you want. the only "tribe" I'm in is the one where indiscriminate killing of innocent people is wrong.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-31 20:56:01+00:00
>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

I can only read the title due to paywall, but that doesn't answer the question that I made to your comment that someone is stealing someone else's researchers. I asked for hard examples of researchers being stolen that back up your point.

>He's an engineer, and that's also a group that economies need

And why is he and the rest like him in the US and not in Europe?
by hopelite | 2025-07-31 20:56:12+00:00
You are missing the point of just how impactful "media" is on people's minds. It may even affect you so much that you either don't realize it or do not want to realize it. It is most apparent in America, but it has spread across the globe, where people's whole world view and mental framework is materially impacted by what they see in movies and on TV in general; they think cars explode when you shoot at them and you can take shelter behind them from bullets, they scheme and connive as if they are on Survivor, they style themselves and speak and quote things form TV and movies, they take queues on how to be, live, act, and even parent from sitcoms and movies, they have delusional senses of romance, sexuality, and relationships... the list is long.

You may not recognize it as alcohol and you make make the laissez-faire argument, but it is really kind of irresponsible even if you do it. Permissiveness should not be the response to detrimental things, especially with what all else happens in environments related to and gateway by alcohol permissiveness.
by xtracto | 2025-07-31 20:57:05+00:00
In my country it is not illegal to download or share copyright content for non-profit and personal use. It's the IPTVs, torrent and streaming pirate sites with Ads or asking for money the ones that should die (that's why I don't agree with Anna's Archive profiting from sharing copyrighted content).

As I said before: it's 2025, we shouldn't need an ad infested "website" to share, discover and download content in a p2p fashion. Kademilla and similar DHT truly decentralized tech has existed for more than 15 years...

The problem is that new generations want to profit from everything and have stopped "sharing is caring"
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-31 20:57:07+00:00
BBC: This Was the Week That Was. TV, aired 1962-1963

NBC: This Was the Week That Was. TV, aired 1963-1965. Someone found acetate audio recordings of two episodes and ripped them to YT. An act of culture, done in spite of rights holders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtVRJ2qdYw4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pprBfg6OSRM
by generalizations | 2025-07-31 20:57:25+00:00
"Only"

Looks like a giant part of the value is that it can be shipped in, dropped on the ground on site, turned on overnight, and it only takes up the footprint of a shipping container.

If you have 24 hrs to find an empty football field within a powercable's distance of what you're trying to power, and then fill it with solar panels and batteries, you're gonna have a bad day.