MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by labster | 2025-07-25 00:42:18+00:00
Another statement that I would have simply accepted as fact a year ago, but now I believe is false. The US government is now primarily one person, and occasionally a small set of people, making cost-benefit decisions on what will benefit themselves more. The complex system is mostly gone, soon to be washed away, in favor of layers of patronage and favoritism. Much simpler.
by astrange | 2025-07-25 00:42:36+00:00
The claim is that by not renting out some of your properties you can raise rent on the rest. But the way you make money from properties is by renting them, so if everyone else is refusing to do it then you get the rents from anyone who shows up.

That and if you don't rent out a property for long and leave it unused, it'll literally rot because nobody is there to notice squatters or water leaks or etc.
by jdlshore | 2025-07-25 00:42:57+00:00
As someone else said, it was probably a sales meeting or other corporate training. You’re off in conspiracy theory land.

No conspiracy theories are needed. Boards are incestious, most board members aren’t all that bright or forward looking, they have a lot of imposter syndrome about it, they worry about getting important trends wrong, and so they follow the herd. CEOs follow the board, companies follow the CEO, voila, everybody does the same thing at the same time.

And yes, I think there is an opportunity to zig while everyone else is zagging.

Also: major institutional investors (such as VCs) demand a seat on the board and then send their B team to actually sit through the board meetings of their less key investments. Those board members follow the investor company’s line, spreading it to lots of companies at once.
by TheFreim | 2025-07-25 00:43:04+00:00
> I've been in my fair share of sus situations in my life and they've been either telegraphed (people starting with yelling, then intimidation, then getting into personal space) or ambiguous.

The problem is that in a "sus situation" you would not be able to chamber a round without brandishing the firearm, which in many situation would be illegal in a merely "sus" situation where you don't have a clear threat (brandishing laws, intimidation, etc). This is why many self-defense advocates encourage people to carry with a round chambered while also carrying something like pepper spray for situations where lethal force is not necessary.

> So I personally think people with good situational awareness have plenty of time to act appropriately in a variety of common dangerous situations.

Most people I've encountered who carry concealed would agree that you should try to keep yourself from being in common dangerous situations. The reason they carry is not for the avoidable situations, since they'd obviously just avoid them, but for the unavoidable situation. The vast majority of people who carry concealed never need to use their firearms, the point is to be ready to defend oneself and others if the situation should arise.
by robmensching | 2025-07-25 00:44:00+00:00
> Its only appeal was that it was free.

That was definitely its appeal to people who didn't want to pay anything for setup installation tools. But that definitely wasn't our only appeal or even our primary appeal. The WiX Toolset unlocked access to the Windows Installer in ways no other installation build tool does. If you didn't need that power then there were absolutely a lot of sharp edges and "missing features" to make your life easier. But if you had hard installation problems, those sharp edges were sometimes the weapons you needed to solve the problem.

> Rob Mensching was supposed to monetize WiX by offering $5,000/yr enterprise consulting & support services.

I don't monetize WiX for $5,000/yr. I monetize my team and my decades of experience building software installation packages of all shapes and sizes. With this "WiX Developer Direct" program from FireGiant (my company), you get monthly office hours directly with me to discuss whatever you want, you get SLAs for answers to tickets and guaranteed bug fixes so that your development team is never blocked. You also get an annual code review of your code by us and access to some high-end tools we develop. It is a high-touch offering and my customers dig it.

> I guess that's not enough.

That's not the case at all. The XZ Utils incident showed that Open Source sustainability is a huge problem and I was compelled to try to do something to address it. I don't think the Open Source Maintenance Fee is the only solution for sustainability, but I think it's a pretty good one for projects like mine. The WiX Toolset is the first project to adopt it because I need a real project to help work out all of kinks in the OSMF concept. Everything is working very, very well.
by z3c0 | 2025-07-25 00:44:03+00:00
I think Graphene gets posted here yearly. Having tested a variety of ROMs dedicated to different elements of security, I can attest that Graphene allows the most "normal" phone usage compared to many others. The biggest factor is the sandboxed Google Play Services, which allow you to use a lot of apps that you wouldn't be able to otherwise.

I've used Lineage without MicroG, as a comparison, and that's becoming more-and-more unusable every day some lousy Android developer tethers their company's app to some feature exclusive to Play Services.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-25 00:44:07+00:00
Of course there's a meaningful comparison! It may not be 1-to-1, but if per-capita the US has equal crime but double the fatal crime, it's a red flag that should at least direct our attention.

It's obvious that firearms are an escalating force. Their presence creates a scenario where a criminal now has to very quickly decide between dying, killing, calling the bluff, or fleeing. It can make a non-fatal crime fatal.

There are questions like "are firearms even effective for self defense?" Or "do firearms save fewer people than the number of conflicts escalated to fatality?" If most women won't pull the trigger, is it an equalizing force or does it give the criminal a more fatal weapon to wield.

All the discussions I see on firearms are so surface-level and generally lack the level of intellectual curiosity I think the topic requires to properly discuss whether or not the second amendment was a good inclusion. And that's before you get into the (IMO nonsense) discussion of "overthrowing the modern government".

I'm not equipped to have this discussion, to be clear, it's far too nuanced and requires numbers I don't know. I would need to rely on dedicated researchers.
by rtkwe | 2025-07-25 00:44:08+00:00
The whole point of the moneyball movie and system is to find players who are undervalued relative to their ability to produce runs and critically continue paying them low relative to their game utility to get a good, competitive team cheap.

There's a market distortion from the rest/majority of teams incorrectly evaluating the players. Knowing that and taking advantage of it is underpaying if you believe in paying people their real worth instead of just what you can get away with paying them.
by TMWNN | 2025-07-25 00:44:19+00:00
Of course. But that is the case for all fees, taxes, surcharges, etc. Money is fungible. There is always some amount of give and take in terms of whether "they" or "me" is the one paying the tax bill/tariff bill/etc in terms of the bottom line.

Given that, and given the necessity of there being some amount of fees to support the credit-card infrastructure, the question for a consumer like me is whether I come out ahead on balance. I can pretty clearly say that I do for the Amazon Amex, and believe that I do for the Wells Fargo.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-07-25 00:45:16+00:00
I mean, if I thought I had a plan to be the guy who saves Intel from it's own mistakes, I'd be optimistic too.

Also, I looked into the claim when he had said it, apparently he was being intentionally misleading about it, and the press tried to ask what he meant: he was speaking tensor performance on future enterprise Arc card products at datacenter scale, ie, AI bait.

In early 2021, Nvidia's compute flagship was the A100, 19.5 FP32 MAD TFLOPs, but the misleading number they quote in marketing is the tensor performance of 312 TFLOPs of FP16 accumulates. That would be about 3.2 million of these at tensor perf.

Skipping H series, in late Nov of last year, their new flagship is the B200. 124 FP32 MAD TFLOPs, 2250 tensor FP16 accumulate TFLOPs. That is now 445k cards to reach zettascale if using tensor cores. You won't be fitting ~1400 GPU-laden machines in a single datacenter, but the number is becoming more manageable.

They improved, in 3.5 years, 7.2x.

Lets say Nvidia does this again. 3.5 years, again, would put you in early 2028, and they manage another 7.2x win: that could be 62k cards across 7.7k. That absolutely is doable in a single datacenter.

The problem is, and this is where the prediction actually falls apart, not that its impossible: We don't know what future Arc cards look like, nor enterprise ones. Battlemage is an improvement over Alchemist, so the tech *is moving forwards at, but either Celestial or Druid was supposed to introduce the enterprise compute card variants, but that seems to be dead, and no indication either of those lines will even see the light of day now. The new CEO seems to be hard set on making Xe for iGPU only.

I can't find any hard numbers on Intel's tensor units, but apparently they're actually competitive. I can find the normal FP32 MAD numbers, and it ends up that Intel is 13.5w per TFLOP and Nvidia is 8 and both companies have equal efficiency in transistor usage. Assuming Intel made a B200 competitor, and assuming the higher power usage is due to voltage (Intel B series voltage is similar to Series 40's voltages, which is a lot higher than equivalent enterprise/pro series cards), Intel could be making a card that's somewhere in the ballpark as 2/3 as good for the same power usage.

So, in the end, yes, I don't agree with his claims of future Zettascale at Intel by 2027. I don't think he was wrong for the industry as a whole, however. If he would have said, say, 2030, I don't think we would be discussing this, that certainly would have been doable if he was at the helm and they kept doubling down on Arc every gen and everything went according to plan.
by panopticon | 2025-07-25 00:46:36+00:00
The cracks in the media were already visible 30 years ago. Conservative talk radio was taking off, people were beginning to call CNN "Clinton News Network", and Fox News was right around the corner. There was clearly an appetite—and a market—for partisan news. This was further fueled by the growth of national radio and TV networks that were less beholden to capturing local audiences.

I think the internet just supercharged a change that was already well underway.
by pmarreck | 2025-07-25 00:46:39+00:00
Do most people tend to conclude that concatenative languages are absolutely an intellectual curiosity for any nerd who knows RPN and thought "what if we kept going?", but kind of fail in larger-scale production contexts?

(Yes, I'm aware of PostScript... Seems to be one of the sole exceptions here... And, uh, PDF... of course...)
by dingnuts | 2025-07-25 00:46:49+00:00
This still works if X11 is installed on the remote. I have a remote that runs Wayland locally, and I run Wayland in the client machine as well, but I have X11 installed on the remote and X11 forwarding still works, it just opens the remote application in an XWayland window inside the local Wayland session. No biggie
by ksherlock | 2025-07-25 00:47:02+00:00
Wikipedia says it's based off RHEL and this[1] suggests it just vim.

1: https://dl-cdn.openeuler.openatom.cn/openEuler-25.03/source/...

Are they actually UNIX Conformant? That PDF just says they've entered a trademark license agreement. They're not listed in the conformance database.

https://www.opengroup.org/csq/search/t=XY1.html
by bjackman | 2025-07-25 00:47:08+00:00
If you think the org that produced the hardware might have backdoored it, architecting your software to avoid the TPM or whatever is dumb. Targeting Google HW at all is an unavoidable act of complete trust so you might as well use the HW properly.

Also, why would Google bother backdooring their special HW when 99.999% of its users are anyway gonna be running a totally Google-controlled proprietary SW stack?
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-25 00:47:37+00:00
I’d also argue not everyone should have children.

There are so many broken families and it is horrible for the children. It leads to increase in crime and drug use. This is bad for everyone else who has to deal with it. It’s like that saying don’t get a dog if you can’t care for it. dog is way easier to care for than a human and people still fail at that (animal shelters full)

I think what’s happening right now is fine. Socioeconomic pressure, hopefully for better than worse, will make it so that those who are responsible and capable will have healthy and happy families, and I think it will be good that we are making progress in automation.
by martinald | 2025-07-25 00:48:28+00:00
But "agentic AI" (and LLMs in general) are far less about compute than everyone talks about IMO. I know what you mean FWIW but she does have a point I think.

1) Context memory requirements scale quadratically with length. 2) "Agentic" AI requires a shittonne of context IME. Like a horrifying amount. Tool definitions alone can add up to thousands upon thousands of tokens, plus schemas and a lot of 'back and forth' context use between tool(s). If you just import a moderately complicated OpenAPI/Swagger schema and use it "as is" you will probably run into the hundreds of thousands of tokens within a few tool calls. 3) Finally, compute actually isn't the bottleneck, its memory bandwidth.

There is a massive opportunity for someone to snipe nvidia for inference at least. Inference is becoming pretty 'standardized' at least with the current state of play. If someone can come along with a cheaper GPU with a lot of VRAM and a lot of memory bandwidth, NVidia's moat is far less software wise than it is for CUDA as a whole. I think AMD are very close to reaching that FWIW.

I suspect training and R&D will remain more in NVidias sphere but if Intel got its act together there is definitely room for competition here.
by robmensching | 2025-07-25 00:48:54+00:00
Note that the package.lock file is not the place to look for your OSMF dependencies. That file will list your project's dependencies and all of their dependencies and so on and so on. You want to look at the list of packages in your package.json file. That will almost certainly be an order of magnitude (or two) smaller.

For example, IIRC, GitHub (all of GitHub) calculated they had 660 direct dependencies. That's still a lot but it's not 9400. :)
by lmm | 2025-07-25 00:49:26+00:00
Yeah. High-margin, high-end businesses can afford the fees. If there's a space to compete it's low-margin businesses where 3% really stings, even if it's 3% of a smaller gross. I used to work with a company that served mainly immigrants and blue-collar workers, and something lower-fee than credit/debit was a constant conversation (we were partway through building an ACH backend by the time I left, but I don't know if that ever made it into production given concerns we had).
by ryukoposting | 2025-07-25 00:50:17+00:00
If it were named anything else besides "moneyball," the take about it glorifying underpaying players wouldn't exist.

I'm not old enough to remember a pre-moneyball world, but MLB has been mitigating the effects of the “three true outcomes” problem quite well over the last few years. The pitch clock is the best thing to happen to baseball since integration.
by kazinator | 2025-07-25 00:51:23+00:00
> The first industrial implementation of derivatives for standard regexes in an imperative language (C#) materialized a decade later [Saarikivi et al. 2019]

Nope; I did it in TXR in early 2010:

b839b5a212fdd77c5dc95b684d7e6790292bb3dc Wed Jan 13 12:24:00 2010 -0800 Impelement derivative-based regular expressions.
by ivanjermakov | 2025-07-25 00:51:24+00:00
Wayland is a protocol, X11 is both protocol and a library. X11 client has much less functionality than Wayland compositor. Writing Wayland compositor is usually done with wlroots library to handle barebone stuff, but it has its own flaws: https://inclem.net/2021/04/17/wayland/writing_a_wayland_comp...
by rtkwe | 2025-07-25 00:51:44+00:00
It was just after the 90s in 2002 so not too far off. Teams were collecting more data but looking at it wrong and now it's likely much less effective because it's been brought out into the open by both the book and the movie. Though small cap teams are still paying way less per win than the big boys like the Yankees who can pay almost 3x per win.
by dwattttt | 2025-07-25 00:52:39+00:00
> If a language is memory safe but not thread safe, then you can race, but the outcome of those races won't be memory corruption or the violation of the language's type system.

By these definitions, doesn't that mean go is neither memory or thread safe? It looks like concurrent modification can result in memory corruption, e.g. the attempted access 0x42 example in the article
by Graziano_M | 2025-07-25 00:53:09+00:00
Not free or open source, but Mixel[1] is fantastic. You can find recipes by name, by ingredient, by taste. You can say what ingredients you have, and see what you can make, and you can even have it calculate which ingredient, if purchased, will open up the most new recipes to you.

[1] https://www.mixelcocktails.com/
by cyberax | 2025-07-25 00:53:31+00:00
> However, I think that China has a significant advantage versus the U.S. — they are primarily selling very small vehicles for intra-city use

This doesn't really matter that much. The average car commute in the US is less than 40 miles per day. Even if we assume that everyone gets a fairly giant Model X, that's still around 12kWh of energy per day.

You can get that much power from a regular 120V wall plug within 8 hours.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-25 00:53:59+00:00
Answering a question with a question: is "happy" something that should be aimed at as a baseline, or is that setting humanity up to fail?

I'm currently sitting on the hospital bed next to my daughter who's in for an eating disorder, so I wouldn't say I'm "happy".

We're often in situations that are outside of our control that we'd prefer not to be in, therefore unlikely to be classified as "happy".

And maybe this is the mode I'm having to rationalise myself into given my current situation, but I'm currently "getting it done", "doing what I need to do", "moving forwards, slowly, but still forwards", "not letting it get on top of me".

Any of the above.

Happy, by my definition, is fleeting. I was "happy" last night when my daughter was joking around like her normal self. I was "happy" chatting to a colleague yesterday about things that don't matter, but are funny.

Maybe just the the ability (or frame of mind) to have those moments of happiness scattered throughout a day could be a secondary definition of happy? I'm which case, yes I am.

Despite the declining state of the world and my daughter's current situation, I can still notice and enjoy the few flakes of gold scattered throughout a day.

Am I happy? I don't know. But I'm not scared of or intimidated by the idea of the future; I'm an optimist. Maybe I am "happy", but, despite this essay, it's not something I spend a lot of time thinking about, I just move forwards - as slowly as that is sometimes.

Reading some of the other answers here I feel horribly privileged. I hope people are able to sort themselves out, they deserve to be able to sort themselves out.

https://desiderata.com/desiderata.html
by benreesman | 2025-07-25 00:54:53+00:00
Much more complicated than that though market price action dynamics do play a role in corrupt corporate governance at some remove.

Different market participants will be trading on different signals, sentiments, or theses, and this will influence everything from the order types they use to the hold time of the instruments in question.

But one of many things they all have in common is that they know that what other people think about the future affects the price right now: an intuitive proof of this is that if some major announcement is made about e.g. trade policy, and the market deems it credible, you will see instruments transact up or down in price immediately.

In any effort to go deeper, one must be wary that this goes from market microstructure to Ito calculus to voodoo real fast, a closed form solution would be an infinite money machine! But a reasonable jumping off point might be the notion of a Keynsian Beauty contest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

The TLDR is that hold times across like 13 orders of magnitude (rumor has it a cutting edge FPGA fielded by someone like Optiver or HRT or Virtu can pull a whole ladder in 20-50ns glass-to-glass, so whatever Buffet does divided by that) the market still in some sense reflects expectations about the future: it's "priced in" in trading parlance.

"Too late" has some ways you can use it meaningfully in finance, but it's not in the sense I take you to mean above.
by wtallis | 2025-07-25 00:55:13+00:00
If Intel's fabs has been spun out and operating at arms length from Intel's chip design side, then Intel's fabs would be dead. The guaranteed volume from manufacturing Intel's CPUs is all that's been keeping their fab side going. If they had to depend on customers who were actually sane and free to take their business elsewhere, Intel's fabs would have long since chased off all their customers with unfulfilled promises that next time they'll have a working process.

What Intel process from the last decade would have been enticing to Nvidia or Apple?
by stevenwoo | 2025-07-25 00:55:47+00:00
This was only proven by Pontzer and others with double labelled water studies when the cost of double labelled water went down enough for testing with humans to become affordable. Initially it was so expensive that only trials with a few small animal subjects were done so doing this large study was impractical until recent years. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...
by Jensson | 2025-07-25 00:56:19+00:00
> The issue is, if we're going to do this heavy lifting anyway, might we do it in a way that doesn't involve theft ?

Expropriation usually involves paying the owners so it isn't theft, its just the government buying out the stocks just like a private corporation would. Are you saying Elon musk stole twitter? That is the same thing.

Anyway, here since this is shared between countries its better to just regulate what these processors can do, like the EU does when they regulate how large payment processing fees can be etc. Since its used for international trade no single country can own it.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-25 00:56:32+00:00
> Targeting Google HW at all is an unavoidable act of complete trust

Doesn't the existence of FHE downgrade that to just "complete practical trust" at least? Not that I know of it being employed, but that it could be, and that it may be worth shouting out exactly cause of how niche and impractical it is.
by devonbleak | 2025-07-25 00:58:25+00:00
I have a cousin with DS. You have to be committed and have the means to raise a child with extreme needs. Many of them will live with their parents their entire lives and will not develop cognitively beyond their tweens (hence the Britney Spears anecdote above). The ones that do move out tend to have to go to a place that specializes in assisting them. They can also have pretty extreme health issues.

Yes, they can be beautiful people that bring light to others around them, but those others also don't typically get exposed to the behind the scenes struggles of the entire family to cope with this.

Some people are prepared to do this; I don't judge the ones that decide they're not. I would hate for someone to go into it not understanding what they're signing up for.