MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by incomplete | 2025-07-24 22:01:33+00:00
hard no for me WRT positron... i managed a university's jupyterhub deployments for a while and we had faculty CLAMORING for this vs. Rstudio.

the problem? the fact that you need a license to use. it's not OSS. you are not allowed to deploy this on a hosted/managed system:

``` Limitations

You may not provide the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service, where the service provides users with access to any substantial set of the features or functionality of the software.

You may not move, change, disable, or circumvent the license key functionality in the software, and you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software that is protected by the license key.

You may not alter, remove, or obscure any licensing, copyright, or other notices of the licensor in the software. Any use of the licensor's trademarks is subject to applicable law. ```
by modeless | 2025-07-24 22:01:54+00:00
Taking out one or even a few dozen satellites isn't going to make communication unreliable. They can redistribute themselves to fill holes. You'd need to take out thousands, requiring hundreds of launches at least. And neither Russia nor China has reusable rockets, so the costs would be much higher than SpaceX's costs. The interceptors would take a long time to spread out to reach their targets if they were launched in groups like Starlink is, so it wouldn't be a surprise attack and SpaceX would have time to prepare. They would need to start launching on-orbit spares for each orbital shell, but there are only a few shells, not hundreds.

And in a few years when Starship is launching Starlink, the economics will be tilted even more wildly in SpaceX's favor.
by heraldgeezer | 2025-07-24 22:02:49+00:00
Hyberbipeline is back :DDDDDD

https://imgur.com/a/dvUSgA3

Honestly, good. AMD is amazing for laptop/desktop and server now, but may flop like Intel did. Always good with competition. But I need a new CPU and right now AMD is king.

Phone only plebs need not apply.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-24 22:02:56+00:00
Many times a day both in scripts and interactively I use a small program I refer to as "yy030" that filters URLs from stdin. It's a bit like "urlview" but uses less complicated regex and is faster. There is no third party software I use that is distributed via "curl|bash" and in practice I do not use curl or bash, however if I did I might use yy030 to extract any URLs from install.sh something like this

curl https://example.com/install.sh|yy030

or

curl https://example.com/install.sh > install.sh yy030 < install.sh

Another filter, "yy073", turns a list of URLs into a simple web page. For example,

curl https://example.com/install.sh|yy030|yy073 > 1.htm

I can then open 1.htm in an HTML reader and select any file for download or processing by any program according to any file associations I choose, somewhat like "urlview".

I do not use "fzf" or anything like that. yy030 and yy073 are small static binaries under 50k that compile in about 1 second.

I also have a tiny script that downloads a URL received on stdin. For example, to download the third URL from install.sh to 1.tgz

yy030 < install.sh|sed -n 3p|ftp0 1.tgz

"ftp" means the client is tnftp

"0" means stdin
by kulahan | 2025-07-24 22:03:04+00:00
Ah yes, Taiwán - that famously stable nation with no existential threats to its very existence.

I don’t think this is an “if” situation, but rather a “when”. There is no question in my mind - it’s simply too attractive to China. It may not come through all out war, but they will eventually claim what they feel is theirs. They operate on much more manageable time scales.
by isthatafact | 2025-07-24 22:03:52+00:00
I am no expert in Intel, but in my view, Gelsinger lost the faith of many by being unrealistically optimistic. Of course a CEO needs to be optimistic, but he promised (in 2021) zettaflop systems by 2027 (the worst example I remember). Did anyone believe that could happen?

His over-optimism gave the whole "5 nodes in 4 years" supposed path to leadership a weird flavor, like it must be somehow a bit of a con even if it gets technically achieved.
by dang | 2025-07-24 22:04:19+00:00
Related. Others?

Why Do Buses Bunch? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19558482 - April 2019 (150 comments)

Pittsburgh Bus Bunching (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17589349 - July 2018 (60 comments)

Why do buses bunch? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9577476 - May 2015 (154 comments)
by raincole | 2025-07-24 22:04:27+00:00
Uh, Visa/Mastercard chose to do that. We're talking about payment processors who process trillions of dollars every year. They won't just bend Steam over backwards to make an Australian NGO happy.

It's either that Visa/Mastercard always want to censor porn, or they're pressured by government(s) to do so.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-24 22:04:41+00:00
Flatpak and AppImage.

Or download & compile & install to a PREFIX (e.g. ~/.local/pkg/), and use a symlink-manager to install to e.g. ~/local (and set MANPATH accordingly, too). Make sure PATH contains ~/.local/bin, etc. It does not work with Electron apps though. I do "alias foo="cd ... && ./foo".
by nickitolas | 2025-07-24 22:04:44+00:00
Since you already quoted wikipedia, here's what it says about ECS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system

> Entity–component–system (ECS) is a software architectural pattern mostly used in video game development for the representation of game world objects. An ECS comprises entities composed from components of data, with systems which operate on the components.

> Entity: An entity represents a general-purpose object. In a game engine context, for example, every coarse game object is represented as an entity. Usually, it only consists of a unique id. Implementations typically use a plain integer for this

> Common ECS approaches are highly compatible with, and are often combined with, data-oriented design techniques. Data for all instances of a component are contiguously stored together in physical memory, enabling efficient memory access for systems which operate over many entities.

> History > In 1998, Thief: The Dark Project pioneered an ECS.

So, according to wikipedia:

- An entity is typically just a numeric unique id

- Components are typically physically contiguous (i.e an array)

- Their history began with Thief pioneering them in 1998
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-24 22:04:52+00:00
Cars cause congestion for emergency vehicles.

A dedicated bus lane or a dedicated cycling lane on the other hand keep a lane free for emergency vehicles to drive in.

I think pretty much anyone who is pro-walkability would hop onboard a car-free lane for emergency vehicles which is a strictly better solution than the status quo where ambulances compete with cars to get people where they need to go.
by pcrh | 2025-07-24 22:05:38+00:00
I am experienced in writing scientific papers, so I know what it takes.

I remain to be convinced that the tasks you propose an LLM could do contribute any more to the process of writing a paper than dictating to a typist could do in the 1950's. It's impressive for a machine, but not particularly productivity-boosting. Tedious tasks such as correctly formatting references belong to the copy-editing stage (i.e. very last stage of writing a paper), where indeed I have seen journals adopt "AI" approaches. But these processes are not a bottleneck in the scientist's workflow.

I certainly don't think the performance of LLMs that I'm familiar with would be any use at all in compiling the original data into scientifically accurate figures and text, and providing meaningful interpretations. Most likely they would simply throw out random "hallucinations" in grammatically correct prose.
by maccard | 2025-07-24 22:05:45+00:00
My last job had a modern endpoint detection system running on it and my 7 year old MacBook was as quick as my top of the line i9 processor because of it. I have never seen software destroy a systems performance as much as carbon black, crowdstrike and cortex do.

They’re also not exactly risk free - [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_...
by topdan | 2025-07-24 22:06:22+00:00
China is a footnote in the article, but their story here is interesting. China's WTO accession commitments in 2001 agreed to open its financial services sector, including payment card services, to foreign companies, except they never did.

The US sued (presumably on behalf of VISA and MasterCard) and won in 2012: https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-...

MasterCard just started being full offered in 2024. VISA still has not. In the meantime, China built their own dominate offerings, essentially avoiding the duopoly.
by pnt12 | 2025-07-24 22:07:28+00:00
On YouTube, I follow:

- Steve the bartender - How to drink - Cocktail time with Kevin Koz - The educated barfly - Anders Erickson

Good recipes, sometimes adding new things, but usually tasteful.

But maybe they're better to search for than to strictly follow regularly; there's so many cocktails that is impossible to buy all ingredients or try all of them.
by iamleppert | 2025-07-24 22:07:30+00:00
You can tell from the tone of this letter and the bizarre reference to agenetic AI he is completely clueless. Compare this to someone like Jensen, a nerd's nerd who gets up on stage with the latest GPU, can talk about new CUDA API's and goes deep on specs like memory bandwidth. He knows exactly who his customer is, and what kinds of workloads they run for AI.

It's just such a massive difference. You can tell Lip-Bu spends his weekends playing golf while Jensen is checking out the latest model from Huggingface.

You can't buy passion or genuine interest in what you're doing.
by AdrianB1 | 2025-07-24 22:07:46+00:00
It is not the layers of management that is the problem, it is the quality of management. While great engineers mind their own business and deliver great products, the people that are not great engineers manage their way into management. They are more and more incompetent and corrupt and this is killing the companies, slowly or not that slow. So it is incompetent and corrupt management, not too much management.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-24 22:07:54+00:00
Wouldn't that be funny to see an AI bot replace the CEO of something like Boeing, and then see the company turn around in positive moves? Feed an LLM all of the business data that a CEO would have and then ask it to make the same decisions the CEO would be expected to make. Since layoffs would be the trend online for LLMs to train on, would they come up with slop that looks like they too follow the trends? If companies are willing to replace dev with AI, why are boards not looking at all of the C-suite offices with the same mindset?
by fullstackwife | 2025-07-24 22:08:33+00:00
Practically it is more than eight, because when multiple branches of managerial deposits cross on the project you are working on, all of sudden your work depends on decisions of dozens of people and their management chains.

Cutting this to four may give compound effect, but IMO this is focusing on the symptoms instead of the real causes like for example people being territorial or obsessed about their promo package. Convoluted managerial chain is often just a weapon to achieve your hidden agenda.
by mandevil | 2025-07-24 22:09:11+00:00
I feel like one of the under-appreciated problems with modern society (1) is the sheer quantity of lies we are surrounded with. RTO is just the current most blatant example (2) in the American economy of people saying lies knowing that they will never be held to account for those lies. All of these lies together are corrupting and destroying civil society, destroying the sense of trust necessary for people to work together, to respect and trust institutions, and to build a better world.

As the excellent series Chernobyl put it (in the words crafted by a writer, not an actual scientist) "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth" and at some point someone is going to have to pay all of those debts.

1: Here I'm focusing on Anglosphere/largely US and UK societies, as a monolingual American that's all I can effectively comment on.

2: 'this will make you more productive/more efficient/more creative' whatever
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-24 22:09:36+00:00
> slow/inefficient

I find it interesting to want speed in deciding who should get screwed in a transaction.

There are economic advantages in people giving around their payment information, but the social impacts (the very existence of Visa/Mastercard and their influence on businesses or prices) aren't worth it IMHO.

IMHO people should be responsible of how they handle the keys to their money, and better tools should be given to secure and manage that, instead of a Big Brother like middlemen.

I mean, you don't pay cash at a restaurant with a string stuck to your money so you can pull it back three months after, because arguing with the restaurant feels too inefficient.
by ranger_danger | 2025-07-24 22:09:38+00:00
Not sure if this is part of their reasoning but I can think of a few scenarios that seem plausible to me at least:

- being blamed for facilitating, and/or having to monitor for, illegal content like reverge porn and CSAM

- reputation damage from being associated with content they (and others) morally object to

- history of increased risk of chargebacks and fraud from adult sites

- adult actors have explicitly petitioned sites and processors to ban unverified content uploads, and they would rather ban everything than play police
by cthalupa | 2025-07-24 22:10:15+00:00
Lots and lots (and lots) of small subconscious movements throughout the day. Many thousands of them. Moving your heard around, tilting it a bit, wiggling your toes, rolling your shoulders, scratching an itch, etc.

Anecdotally, I believe I have a personal example of the sort of thing that changes. I went from being ultra-sedentary to exercising 5+ days a week over the past year. My body had enough of these tics that they had long since passed over the subconscious and unnoticed level into "why the fuck do I keep bouncing my legs around all the time when sitting or in bed." Now, I never do. After years of trying, I stopped making any sort of intentional effort to stop - and even things like weighted blankets, etc., in the past did nothing.

Now, I just don't do it. I fidget less at my desk while working. I make a whole lot less 'random' movements for no discernible reason.

Add up enough of all these tiny things over the course of a day, things you probably don't even realize you're doing, and each tiny fraction of a calorie expended eventually pushes you to the levels you see with more regular exercise.

(Now, of course, exercise is hugely important for a variety of other health factors)
by abaghyangor | 2025-07-24 22:10:25+00:00
It's like GitHub, but for pretty much anyone. Version-control, ability to collaborate with your team, and receive donations from your audience without any external tools. We wanted to build platform that enables everyone to collaborate and work together seamlessly the same way tech people do through using GitHub. Check out Medium article for more - https://medium.com/@abaghyangor/what-if-github-existed-for-e...
by jug | 2025-07-24 22:10:25+00:00
It’s kind of true. The amount of direct training material per language still matters quite a bit. They’re best at the giants Javascript or Python, but starts influencing Rust and in particular languages like Zig. So if you ask it to write a Python app in C it’ll probably do better than if you ask it to write it in D, Zig, Nim, Crystal, what have you. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find the excellent chart that had in fact benchmarked coding based on languages right now.
by homefree | 2025-07-24 22:11:15+00:00
It's one reason why founders matter so much and why founder led companies often have better outcomes.

Intel is in trouble, it's not clear how or if they'll be able to get out of the hole they're in. Their only saving grace is natsec concerns and even that may not be enough to save them. I was hoping Gelsinger would be able to do it, but it was too late.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-24 22:11:17+00:00
Creatively? Yes, definitely, at least for Amazon. IMHO, for that company there is an internal battle what they want to be: a webshop filled with garbage or a cloud hyperscaler? The way the web shop is degrading, I strongly assume that Amazon will attempt to exit that business sooner or later.

As for Apple, I do love their hardware, but the software side has seen better days.
by Modified3019 | 2025-07-24 22:11:26+00:00
Interesting. Found a GitHub issue that covers this bug: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14290

The latest comment seems to be a nice summary of the root cause, with earlier in the thread pointing to ftruncate instead of fsync being a trigger:

>amotin

>I see. So ZFS tries to drop some data from pagecache, but there seems to be some dirty pages, which are held by ZFS till them either written into ZIL, or to disk at the end of TXG. And if those dirty page writes were asynchronous, it seems there is nothing that would nudge ZFS to actually do something about it earlier than zfs_txg_timeout. Somewhat similar problem was recently spotted on FreeBSD after #17445, which is why newer version of the code in #17533 does not keep references on asynchronously written pages.

Might be worth testing zfs_txg_timeout=1 or 0
by dathinab | 2025-07-24 22:11:48+00:00
yeah that might happen

I mean for gaming there is already the Ryzan Max+395 which already is beyond the level of low end graphics (at least if placed in a desktop where it's not heat/power throttled). But it's a bit of a unicorn (especially if you look for a system where it can run full throttle).

but I'm not sure about the beat nVidea part, nVidea has some experience with putting ARM CPUs on their graphic cards and as far as I remember on for their server center solutions there is one which pairs up graphic cards (and their RAM) over PCIe and mostly cuts out the CPU
by pavlov | 2025-07-24 22:12:20+00:00
The credit card duopoly is another instance where the EU has done a good job with regulation, but everyone just takes it for granted until they’re reminded how much worse the rest of the world has it.

In the EU, card payment fees are capped at 0.2% for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards. In the US, these interchange fees are about 2%.

US businesses pay over $100 billion annually in these fees to card networks. If the fees were capped like in the EU, 85% of that money would stay with the businesses rather than feed the duopoly.
by stebalien | 2025-07-24 22:12:34+00:00
The main reason for CachyOS to exist is that it can take bigger risks and ship defaults more mature distros wouldn't be comfortable with.

In terms of benchmarks, gamers tend to care more about consistent responsiveness (and worstcase performance) than raw throughput. Phoronix benchmarks are probably not the best way to compare CachyOS against other distros. E.g., look at the game benchmarks you linked: all tested games were already running above 500 frames per second in the worst performing game.
by heraldgeezer | 2025-07-24 22:12:44+00:00
>Granted, ISA is less crucial than it used to be

Depends on what you do.

Gaming PC = x86

Work laptop = x86

So AMD or Intel. "Switch to Mac" means ripping out the whole MS management stack. Or keep/move to 365 and Intune but tune it to Mac. Or keep 365 but move management to Jamf. Can be done ofc, but it's a process.

That's how I still see it. Maybe I'm out of touch :)
by chlobunnee | 2025-07-24 22:14:20+00:00
I built a calculator to help researchers and engineers pick the right GPUs for training and inference workloads!

It helps compare GPU options by taking in simple parameters (# of transformer layers, token size, etc) and letting users know which GPUs are compatible + their efficiency for training vs inferencing.

The idea came from talking with ML researchers frustrated by slow cluster queues or wasting money on overkill GPUs.

I'd love feedback on what you feel is missing/confusing!

Some things I'm thinking about incorporating next are >Allowing users to directly compare 2 GPUs and their specs >Allowing users to see whether a fraction of the GPU can complete their workload

I would really appreciate your thoughts/feedback! Thanks!
by Alupis | 2025-07-24 22:15:33+00:00
This is the 9th circuit - which historically is very anti-2A. This decision is a bit surprising, in a positive way, under that light.

I'm not a lawyer, but I believe the challenge was to the infringement on citizen's rights. Many people were barred from purchasing ammunition for legally-owned firearms - which was prohibiting people from exercising their 2A rights.

In CA, we already have a 10-day waiting period and background checks on every firearm purchase. Doing another (fallible apparently) background check every time someone purchases ammunition is pretty absurd and discriminatory. Additionally, apparently the State was compiling a database of firearms and calibers - to prohibit you from purchasing ammunition in a caliber they didn't believe you owned (never mind the fact that caliber can be easily changed on many firearms with a few, legal, components you can buy online).

For instance, as it was, a friend you were inviting out for a range day was not legally eligible to purchase a box or two of ammunition. Technically, they could not hand you cash for ammo they shoot either...

When the law was first implemented, many people who had purchased firearms a decade ago or longer were suddenly prohibited from purchasing ammunition.

The backwardness of this law goes on and on... it was an absurd law and I'm very happy to see it struct down.

It might also come as a surprise for some... but the actual criminals laws like this target don't go to their local Big5 Sporting Goods to purchase ammo anyway...
by jug | 2025-07-24 22:15:42+00:00
I doubt it will have. OpenAI planned to release GPT-5 in 2024 or early 2025, it underwhelmed, and anonymous OpenAI sources have claimed that the later GPT-4.5 was actually GPT-5 relabelled to set expectations. It was seen as roughly a 20% improvement over GPT-4o. This is when it sunk in for OpenAI that they were at the end of the road for non-reasoning models. Scaling issues made them too costly.

Turning to their reasoning models, it’s also known and documented through SimpleQA and PersonQA that OpenAI o3 hallucinates more than o1, and o4-mini even more than o3. There’s an unmanaged issue where training on synthetic data improves benchmark results on STEM tasks but increases hallucination rates, especially troubling OpenAI models for some reason (my guess: they’re fine-tuned to take risks since it’s known to also increase likelihood of getting it right for hard tasks?)

Google has long known OpenAI struggles with hallucinations more than them according to an anonymous Googler that I saw commented on this. This has been verified by the aforementioned benchmarks. Anthropic also struggles less. But as far as I can tell, they’re all facing issues with synthetic data acting like a double edged sword.

So GPT-5 is going to be interesting. How well it exactly does will bear a lot of meaning for the kind of trouble OpenAI is in right now. Maybe OpenAI has found a novel approach in reducing hallucinations? I think that’s among their most crucial points right now. But other than this, no, I don’t expect a revolution, only an evolution. They might currently win benchmarks, but it will hardly be something that catapults them.

If GPT-5 underwhelms, it will bear a stronger signal than merely the one that GPT-5 underwhelms. Because then OpenAI has trouble with both non-reasoning and reasoning models, and we’re likely to be looking at the end of the road on the horizon for current GPT based LLM’s and one where the winner will probably ultimately be cheaper open weight models once they catch up.