MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by susanromo2009 | 2025-07-19 16:05:12+00:00
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by sgarland | 2025-07-19 16:05:35+00:00
> Oh man, having a 25U rack sounds really fun.

For certain definitions of the word “fun,” yes. I have a 35U (I don’t need that many slots, but at the time I did need it tall enough that my kids couldn’t reach the top, where I put the keys), with:

* 3x Dell R620

* 2x Supermicro (one X9, one X11)

* 1x APC UPS w/ external battery

* Unifi UDM Pro

* Unifi Enterprise 24-port switch

The Dells have Samsung PM863 NVMe drives which are used by Ceph (managed by Proxmox), with traffic sent over an Infiniband mesh network via Mellanox ConnectX3-Pro.

The Dells run K3OS in a VM, which is a dead project. Big mistake there.

The Supermicros have various spinners, and are in a ZFS pool. One of them is technically a backup that should power up daily to ingest snapshots, then power off, but there’s been some issue preventing that, so…

It was all very fun to set up, and has been eminently reliable, but it’s a bit much. While you can in fact make R620s relatively quiet, they’re still 1U, and those little 40mm fans are gonna whine. It’s background noise to me, but guests definitely mention it if we’re close to the rack.

Also, I’m now in the uncomfortable position of being stuck on Proxmox 7, because v8 (or more accurately, the underlying Debian release) dropped support for my HBAs, so the NAS would be dead in the water. I mean, I could compile my own kernel, or perhaps leverage DKMS, but that somewhat defeats the purpose of having a nice AIO like Proxmox. Similarly, my choose of K3OS means at some point I need to spend the time to rip everything out and start over with Talos.

Or - just maybe - I’ve done enough playing, and I should simply buy a JBOD chassis and a relatively new and quiet server (4U under light load means you can get away with much quieter fans), and just run stuff in Docker or gasp systemd. Or, hell, single-node K8s. My point is that it is fun, but eventually your day job becomes exhausting and you tire of troubleshooting all the various jank accumulating at home, and you stop caring about most of it.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-19 16:05:36+00:00
By default, the secure boot status is part of the TPM registers that are used to unseal the encryption key for your drive. That's because if you disable secure boot, or reconfigure it with different keys, any bootloader could just replay measurements from a normal Linux system to the TPM and unlock your drive.

If you want, you can pick a different set of registers to use. The Arch wiki has a bunch of them: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module#Acc...

Calling systemd-cryptenroll with --tpm2-pcrs would allow you to manually pick a set of options. I believe Bitlocker uses 0, 2, 7, and 11 (11 being an OS specific register rather than a spec-defined one), which is why firmware updates often make you re-enter your Bitlocker key. Some people choose to only record the secure boot state, relying on the firmware to validate its own updates and config, which means you don't need your recovery key after firmware updates as long as the secure boot state remains the same.

Not taking secure boot state into account makes the entire setup rather easy to bypass, but you could do it to make your setup harder to break while still protecting against the "thief steals my SSD but not my laptop" scenario.
by LEDThereBeLight | 2025-07-19 16:06:04+00:00
Your anger about his comment suggests that it actually is about pride and identity. I simply don’t buy that most people here argue against AI because they’re worried about software quality and lowering the user experience. It’s the same argument the American Medical Association made in order to allow them to gatekeep physician jobs and limit openings. We’ve had developers working on adtech directly intended to reduce the quality of the user experience for decades now.
by kennywinker | 2025-07-19 16:06:18+00:00
Have you noticed that your comments are primarily describing what you believe i am thinking / what you believe my motives are?

Have you noticed that’s not something I’m doing back at you? Even now I am describing your words not your mental state.

Just something for you to consider - I’ve been telling you my motives and thoughts with full honesty this entire time. Yet you keep guessing.

> As soon as I called you a provocateur, you wore that. Now you're provoking.

Huh… I thought I already was a provoking provocateur before that. What do you think I am trying to provoke in you, when I joked that The Game was your bible?
by marcusverus | 2025-07-19 16:06:21+00:00
> MAGA has been about paranoia and propaganda directed at immigrants since the day Trump came down the escalator.

And literally none of it, not even all of it together, gets close to this disgusting, monstrous lie about 8 million people being "disappeared".

> 20 million illegal immigrants in the US

Trump exaggerates number of illegals, so it's okay to invent, from whole cloth, a conspiracy theory that he's disappearing millions of them? Yikes.

> it's an invasion

It is, in the same sense that Jan 6 was an "insurrection". Politics is a word game. Playing a word game is different than hysterically fearmongering about a nonexistant holocaust.

> they're all military age men

Military-age men are much more common among illegals than the US population. Reading too much into a fact is obviously deceptive. It's also obviously a different kind of deceptive than inventing, from whole cloth, the lie that 8 million people are being "disappeared".

> the white population of this country is being replaced

MAGA extrapolates trendlines. Disgusting!

> they're sending rapists, they're sending murderers

Trump said this once in 2016 so you can invent any hysterical lie, forever, and pretend that it's justifiable, because the standard for your behavior is... Donald Trump, apparently.
by Sophia95 | 2025-07-19 16:07:14+00:00
TLDR Linux systems using Secure Boot rely on a Microsoft certificate (from 2011) that will expire on September 11, 2024. After that, new Linux installs using Secure Boot may fail to boot unless the system firmware includes Microsoft’s newer 2023 key and updating the key often requires a firmware update from hardware vendors which doesn’t always happen. It’s crazy that many users are relying on an outdated Microsoft key unknowingly (I will be checking if I’m among them smh) Also great that people are bringing awareness to this
by mrweasel | 2025-07-19 16:07:16+00:00
> Or adopt?

Adopt who? There is almost no children available for adoption, only highly handicapped children who needs an auxiliary family.

Might be easier with a donor egg, but where are you going to get that? Egg donation is highly regulated and many would find it hard to get a donor. Of course this solution also requires a donor egg, so you'd already need to have that available.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-19 16:07:19+00:00
Completely agreed. I think the first time you go with some friends to an olympic diving board, it's the exact same thing. When you look at it from the ground it's "only" 10m, it doesn't feel so scary. But when you get up there and look down, zomg is 10m friggin high! Oh and the climb up there... It's high enough that by the time you reach the platform you've completely dried off.

It's completely safe and trivial to do, but awesome nonetheless, and a show for your friends, just because it's really scary the first time you do it!
by xg15 | 2025-07-19 16:08:26+00:00
I can imagine handlebars breaking or a wheel suddenly coming loose or a mechanical gearshift just ripping off because you were a dumb teenager and didn't realize that switching while going uphill is a bad idea. (had the pleasure of the last two)

But seatposts "apple-coring" riders through the saddle? What?

Or the chain springing out of the gear just while you're climbing uphill on the wrong side of a road next to busy traffic, and the sudden jolt throwing you off balance and making you sway into the traffic?
by spacemadness | 2025-07-19 16:08:38+00:00
You’re twisting my words. I didn’t blame the tech. I blamed management and how they perceive the tech. Tech and hype have societal effects that can cause a lot of pain. Ignoring that helps nobody. That’s why people created the term tech bro, to highlight tech careerists that haven’t a clue or don’t care about the effects of their work on society. If we had reasonable takes on the techs limitations you wouldn’t have people in charge overreaching like this due to their own ignorance. But lots of these folks want to believe the hype as it’s in their best interest to do so.
by dawnerd | 2025-07-19 16:09:15+00:00
I do use them throughout the house and I didn’t have to write a single algorithm because the libraries available handle that for you. What I was meaning was they don’t have any magic sauce. The most I can see them doing is maybe est voc greater than x for y duration.

I guess you could pedantically say see that’s an algorithm! But you know what they’re heavily implying in their marketing…
by vidarh | 2025-07-19 16:09:32+00:00
Why? Copyright is 1) presented as being there to protect the interests of the general public, not creators, 2) Statute of Anne, the birth of modern copyright law, protected printers - that is "big businesss" over creators anyway, so even that has largely always been a fiction.

But it is also increasingly dubious that the public gets a good deal out of copyright law anyway.

> From artists and authors not publishing their works publicly

The vast majority of creators have never been able to get remotely close to make a living from their creative work, and instead often when factoring in time lose money hand over fist trying to get their works noticed.
by r1ch | 2025-07-19 16:10:12+00:00
Loss-based TCP congestion control and especially slow start are a relic from the 80s when the internet was a few dialup links and collapsed due to retransmissions. If an ISP's links can't handle a 50 KB burst of traffic then they need to upgrade them. Expecting congestion should be an exception, not the default.

Disabling slow start and using BBR congestion control (which doesn't rely on packet loss as a congestion signal) makes a world of difference for TCP throughput.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-07-19 16:10:44+00:00
Greatest breakthru in compsci.

You mean the one that paves the way for ancient Egyptian slave worker economies?

Or totalitarian rule that 1984 couldn't imagine?

Or...... Worse?

The intermediate classes of society always relied on intelligence and competence to extract money from the powerful.

AI means those classes no longer have power.
by renewiltord | 2025-07-19 16:11:30+00:00
I have a local LLM router app with profiles that set up the right system prompts and the right MCPs so I can swap between toolsets as I work.

This would take time to write if I’m doing it myself so I decided to vibe code it entirely. I had this idea that a compiled language is less likely to have errors (on account of the compiler giving the LLM quicker feedback than me) and so I chose Tauri with TS (I think).

The experience has been both wonderful and strange. The app was built by Claude Code with me intermittently prompting it between actual work sessions.

What’s funny is the bugs. If you ever played Minecraft during the Alpha days you know that Notch would be like “Just fixed lighting” in one release. And you’d get that release and it’d be weird like rain would now fall through glass.

Essentially the bugs are strange. At least in the MC case you could hypothesize (transparency bit perhaps was used for multiple purposes) but this app is strange. If the LLM configuration modal is fixed, suddenly the MCP/tool tree view will stop expanding. What the heck, why are these two related? I don’t know. I could never know because I have never seen the code.

The compile time case did catch some iterations (I let Claude compile and run the program). But to be honest, the promise of correctness never landed.

Some people have been systematic and documented the prompts they use but I just free flowed it. The results are outstanding. There’s no way I could have had this built for the $50 in Claude credits. But also there’s no way I could interpret the code.
by quesera | 2025-07-19 16:12:02+00:00
One huge challenge is in identifying and measuring the axes of appreciation.

Asking "What do you like about X?" is a tough way to extract good data. People usually cannot explain why they like things. And it's legitimately difficult to know sometimes.

Also, tastes are often context-driven/sensitive. A book that I loved when I read it last summer in Barcelona, or on the 16-hour flight to Auckland ... does not necessarily map to what I would enjoy reading right now. Or that I should pack for my trip next week.

I've tried to suss this out in music. Songs are theoretically more approachable than books/films/etc: Bite-sized consumption quanta, a fairly robust (but large) genre taxonomy, one basic grounding theory (not really, but a reasonable approximation for the culture within which I exist). Then you can split out by instrumentation, style, arrangement, tempo, etc and get some well-defined groups.

This doesn't work. It's over-analytical, and under-representative of human taste spectra.

The "best" engines use high-resemblance cohorts, but no one actually likes them -- they give lame obvious suggestions, and are terrible at surfacing surprises. They're OK at "good enough, sometimes" in the same way that turning on a TV for the 6pm news and sitting there on the same channel until Letterman signs off was "good enough" (i.e. horrifically bad!) back when serial TV was a thing.

There remains something ineffable about taste -- "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing". (Ironically, "swing" is now probably measurable! But the point remains for other as-yet-undefined axes.)
by daedrdev | 2025-07-19 16:12:14+00:00
Humanity has discarded natural selection thanks to modern medicine. Gene mutations that would have meant someone didn't survive now can be treated.

The cold truth is that it is thus inevitable that in the future humanity will need gene modification to avoid the spreading of harmful mutations. This is what they are doing here, especially since mitochondrial DNA is inherited directly from the mother means that any problems will be propagated to all future generation unlike normal genes.
by hinkley | 2025-07-19 16:12:36+00:00
Reminds me of cities shortening yellow lights to make money off of red light cameras.

The thing is that the cameras are supposed to make the public safer. That’s what they are meant to do. But they’re so expensive that you need a certain number of tickets to offset them (but whoever heard of public safety being a profit center instead of a loss leader?).

It’s a proven fact that short yellows lead to more accidents. So these red light cameras make everyone less safe. Public endangerment to try to balance a budget.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-19 16:12:44+00:00
Eh, idk. First of all, the article is really wordy to say very few things. That just frustrated me a bit.

Second of all, it's easy to fart out some program in a few days vibe coding. How will that fare as more and more features need to be added on? We all used to say "Dropbox that's just FTP wrapped in a nice UI anyone can make that". This protocollie project seems to be a documentation viewer / postman for MCP. Which is cool, but is it something that would have taken a competent dev months to build? Probably not. And eventually the actual value of such things is the extensibility and integrations with various things like corporate SAML etc.

Will the vibe code projects of today be extensible like that, enough to grab market share vs the several similar versions and open source versions anyone can make in a few days, as the author suggests? It can be hard to extend a codebase you don't understand because you didn't write...
by upperhalfplane | 2025-07-19 16:12:50+00:00
100% agree about this too (also a professional mathematician). To mathematicians who have not been trained on such problems, these will typically look very hard, especially the more recent olympiad problems (as opposed to problems from eg 30 years ago). Basically these problems have become more about mastering a very impressive list of techniques than at the inception (and participants prepare more and more for these). On the other hand, research mathematics has become more and more technical, but the techniques are very different, so that the correlation between olympiads and research is probably smaller than it once was.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-19 16:13:13+00:00
Very naive take that's not based in reality but would only work in fiction.

Historically, all nations that developed and deployed new tech, new sources of energy and new weapons, have gained economic and military superiority over nations who did not, which ended up being conquered/enslaved.

UK would not have managed to be the world power before the US, without their coal fueled industrial era.

So as history goes, if you refuse to take part in, or cannot keep up in the international tech, energy and weapons race, you'll be subjugated by those who win that race. That's why the US lifted all brakes on AI, to make sure they'll win and not China. What EU is doing, self regulating itself to death, is ensuring its future will be at the mercy of US and China. I'm not the one saying this, history proves it.
by dbg31415 | 2025-07-19 16:13:42+00:00
Man, I hate when companies do this kind of thing.

Also...

Man, I really hate checking into a hotel room and getting hit with that unmistakable “someone vaped in here” smell.

It was so nice traveling in parts of Asia where vaping is banned. I’d honestly rather deal with cigarette smoke outside, where I expect it, than that overly sweet, plasticky vape air inside. It’s like someone boiled a Jolly Rancher in a humidifier.
by bmau5 | 2025-07-19 16:13:46+00:00
The significance, though, is that the "very limited space and well defined problems" continue to expand. Moving from a purpose built system for playing a single game, vs. having a system that can address a broader set of problems would still be a significant step - as more high value tasks will fall into it's competency range. It seems the next big step will be on us to improve eval/feedback systems in less defined problems.
by lukeschlather | 2025-07-19 16:14:22+00:00
> If we figure out that some specific genetic difference results in people eventually dying before they reproduce, what's the difference between editing that out vs. letting nature do its thing?

We're not that smart. Everything has unintended consequences. One example some people have studied is sickle-cell anemia. It's a recessive trait so if you get two copies of the gene you get sickle-cell which is a horrible disease. However, if you only get one copy of the gene it provides substantial immunity against malaria.

Now, maybe in this case you could say, okay, we will cure malaria somehow, not worth sickle-cell existing. But the thing is that gene isn't "the gene for sickle-cell anemia," nor is it even "the gene for malaria resistance and sickle-cell anemia." It affects hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of different things.

I think there are some conditions where I don't have a problem doing that, and sickle-cell, mitochondrial disease, these things do seem "bad enough" to be worth putting our fingers on the scale. But I am not sure it's so clear-cut, and I think it's right to say that eugenics are categorically suspect.
by mirdaki | 2025-07-19 16:14:27+00:00
The services we use, like Nextcloud or Mealie, are designed for folks to have their own user accounts. SSO means they can use the same login across all of them without me having to manage that for them (and also avoids me having to know their passwords). It does complicated the setup, but not the operation, and that makes it more likely folks will use the services
by vladms | 2025-07-19 16:14:34+00:00
Cards and transfers are different things though. What I have seen from Wero (released to the public) are Peer to Peer transfers, so if you don't need to transfer money to a person, Wero will not help you for now.

Some card fees are capped by the EU: https://www.visa.co.uk/about-visa/visa-in-europe/fees-and-in..., quoting "From 9 December 2015, European regulation on interchange fees (Regulation (EU) 2015/751 of the European Parliament and of the European Council of 29 April 2015 on interchange fees for card-based transactions, “the IFR”) imposes interchange fee caps on most product types within the European Economic Area (EEA).".

It is true though that French banks have huge fees even for debit (0.20%) compared to, for example The Netherlands (0.02 eur).

So the doupoly is not as powerful everywhere, but I have no clue why the difference.
by colinmorelli | 2025-07-19 16:15:01+00:00
Even if we accept as a premise that these models are doing "smart retrieval" and not "reasoning" (neither of which are being defined here, nor do I think we can tell from this tweet even if they were), it doesn't really change the impact.

There are many industries for which the vast majority of work done is closer to what I think you mean by "smart retrieval" than what I think you mean by "reasoning." Adult primary care and pediatrics, finance, law, veterinary medicine, software engineering, etc. At least half, if not upwards of 80% of the work in each of these fields is effectively pattern matching to a known set of protocols. They absolutely deal in novel problems as well, but it's not the majority of their work.

Philosophically it might be interesting to ask what "reasoning" means, and how we can assess if the LLMs are doing it. But, practically, the impacts to society will be felt even if all they are doing is retrieval.
by ookblah | 2025-07-19 16:16:08+00:00
seriously, the near future is going to be:

1) people who reject it completely for whatever reason. 2) people who use it lazily and produce a lot of garbage (lets be honest, this is probably going to happen a lot which is why maybe group #1 hates this future. reminds me of the outsourcing era) 3) people who selectively use it to their advantage.

no point in groups 1 and 3 trying to convince each other of anything.