MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saurik | 2025-07-05 02:17:33+00:00
We already did migrate to that license: (A)GPLv3+. You can use my code if-and-only-if you won't then hoard your own changes from the world and lock users of your derivative software away from having the same empowerment you did. It isn't about "expectation of gains", and that's a ridiculous way of portraying the situation: it is about a social contract that happens to be enforced by copyright.

And, as such, when your favorite AI generates code similar to my code after having read my code, that's infringement, the same as if a human had done the same thing... only, the AI doesn't bother to consider that angle, and, even if you know to care, you have no way to know what is going on, in the way a human at least usually can know when it is cribbing off of what it knows (though even a human can do this accidentally).
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-05 02:17:51+00:00
Some architectures have/had branch hint instructions.

https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/cluster/ps3/SDK3.0/docs/a...

The impact of a branch miss is a particular pipeline stalls to flush the incorrect prediction. If there were resources available for the other branch to be speculatively executed concurrently and in parallel it might take less wall time.
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-05 02:18:03+00:00
With a stable driver API/ABI, vendors will just dump closed source drivers once and call it a day, or pull a Apple/Sony/Nintendo with FreeBSD, where you effectively get a closed source OS that supports your hardware.

An unstable interface means the driver source needs to be updated frequently, you can't just dump a .ko file online and expect it to work for however long the hardware lasts.

Easiest way to approach it is to attempt to upstream drivers, and potentially take advantage of free labor and maintenance in virtual perpetuity, which is good for all Linux users. If vendors don't want to spend the effort upstreaming drivers, but they need to support Linux, by necessity the drivers must be open source so they can be compiled against users' changing kernels. That's at least a step in the right direction, and should anyone want to make the effort, they're free to upstream drivers themselves.
by MochaBlend | 2025-07-05 02:18:58+00:00
In the first link you provided the Keidanren Chairman is sitting in front of a bunch of English signs that say "Keidanren Policy & Action" and "Society 5.0 for Sustainable Development Goals".

SDGs along with ESG, DEI, LGBT and pro-feminism / anti-male messaging are all part of the western propaganda indoctrination playbook.

Thanks, I thought my kowtow didn't quite sound right.
by heavensteeth | 2025-07-05 02:19:06+00:00
Whether or not you agree with Kent on this, you have to commend that he tends to be very active in discussing issues with the community in a fairly open, calm, and thought out way (at least from what I've seen).

Comparatively, I find subtweeting him from the sanctity of Mastodon, with a few insults and backhanded complements thrown in for good measure, a bit low.
by ksec | 2025-07-05 02:19:51+00:00
And what if Nvidia booked but the order didn't come. What if Nvidia's customer isn't going to commit? How expensive and how much prepayment is needed for TSMC to break a new Fab?

These are the same question Apple Fans asking Apple to buy TSMC. The fact is isn't so simple. And even if Nvidia were willing to pay for it TSMC wouldn't do it just for Nvidia alone.
by 9283409232 | 2025-07-05 02:19:54+00:00
The answer is to vote out politicians. Getting ranked choice voting on your states ballot would go a long way to fixing this. They would not have Mamdani on the ballot for NY mayor if it wasn't for ranked choice voting. Certain politicans know this and have made RCV illegal in their state. Get RCV on the ballot for your state.
by cherioo | 2025-07-05 02:20:10+00:00
Maybe I over exaggerated, but I was dumbfounded myself reading people’s reaction to Lossless Scaling https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/wlaoHl6GAS

Most people either can’t tell the difference, don’t care about the difference, or both. Similar discourse can be found about FSR, frame drop, and frame stutter. I have conceded that most people do not care.
by seec | 2025-07-05 02:20:25+00:00
I used to think like that because it's very much a core tenet of the mac/apple ideology (it's basically a form of narcissism at the level of a brand).

But the actual reality is that the OS does not matter that much. The application is actually what's useful and exactly why we are even using the computer in the first place. The OS is just a middle man that we can't really cut out but should make itself as transparent as possible.

It follows then that the UI should be designed around the needs of the application and that it should be translated/transposed/copied across platforms regardless of the primary look of the platform. And this is exactly the problem with Apple stuff, focusing too much on superficial aesthetics at the expense of more substantial usefulness.

For example, if Apple hadn't decided to completely re-skin their whole office suite to make it "mobile ready", maybe they could have worked on the actual feature set and performance (awful in both cases against the offering of Microsoft).

Ironically, when Apple ported iTunes to Windows, they did a perfect copy paste, going through the trouble of creating their own UI framework specifically for Windows. So, it seems that their requirement/demands only applies to others, never themselves.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-05 02:20:59+00:00
> I'd not use RAID-5 for my personal homelab.

What would you use instead?

ZFS is better than raw RAID, but 1 parity per 5 data disks is a pretty good match for the reliability you can expect out of any one machine.

Much more important than better parity is having backups. Maybe more important than having any parity, though if you have no parity please use JBOD and not RAID-0.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-05 02:21:52+00:00
One thing that helps with this: getting old. You just stop worrying about what other people think of you. All the drama and gossip and cliquish behavior just gets so boring.

Why do you think old fat guys walk around naked in the locker room at the gym? They've certainly got nothing to show off, but they don't give a shit.
by Mawr | 2025-07-05 02:21:59+00:00
I get what you're saying but that driver behind you did not almost crash into you because you decided to abruptly slow down. He almost crashed into you because he did not maintain a safe following distance, wasn't paying attention, etc.

It's insane how normalized terrible driving is. I don't even mean following the law at this point. It's much more basic than that and applies to every vehicle in every context. You must drive in such a way to be able to stop in time if the vehicle in front of you decides to apply max braking. This is dictated by the laws of the universe we exist in, not by some rule arbitrarily decided by humans.
by photon_garden | 2025-07-05 02:22:50+00:00
In a similar vein, I’ve found helpful:

There’s a difference between pain and suffering.

This is true for emotions: feelings people often find uncomfortable (sadness, loneliness, fear) don’t have to make you miserable. You can just feel those feelings in your body, pay attention to what they’re asking you to pay attention to, and feel deeply okay about it all.

The same is true for physical sensations. Pain is loud so it’s really good at drawing our attention, but there’s a difference between noticing you’re hurt and getting upset about being hurt.

I flipped my bike a couple months ago and scraped myself up incredibly badly, but there wasn’t a ton of suffering involved.

The massive adrenaline shot left me shaking, I felt overwhelmed and like I wanted to cry, and the pain was very loud. But I laid on the ground for fifteen or twenty minutes and then walked the fifteen minutes back home. I wouldn’t call it fun, but it was totally okay.

(Nick Cammarata has a good Buddhist take on this: suffering is a specific fast, grabby movement you do in your mind called “tanha” and if you pay attention you can learn to do it less.)
by peteforde | 2025-07-05 02:23:10+00:00
... this from an account with <100 karma.

Look, the person who wrote that comment doesn't need to prove anything to you just because you're hopped up after reading a blog post that has clearly given you a temporary dopamine bump.

People who understand their domains well and are excellent written communicators can craft prompts that will do what we used to spend a week spinning up. It's self-evident to anyone in that situation, and the only thing we see when people demand "evidence" is that you aren't using the tools properly.

We don't need to prove anything because if you are working on interesting problems, even the most skeptical person will prove it to themselves in a few hours.
by esafak | 2025-07-05 02:23:42+00:00
I am not saying that at all, am I? I am saying DO BACKGROUND CHECKS. If the previous company says "He hasn't actually done any work yet" you would have avoided the problem.

I can't tell you what to do differently because I don't know what you are doing. But I can say you can catch him, and others have caught him, so why can't you?
Show HN: We made a tool to reduce echo chambers on social media
by academic_84572 | 2025-07-05 02:23:48+00:00
Hey everyone,

Our team recently published a paper introducing a tool to reduce echo chamber effects on social media. Essentially, we’ve developed an “allostatic regulator”, grounded in psychological theory, that can be applied at the inference layer of pretty much any existing recommender.

Think of it as a code wrapper that helps machine learning algorithms offer a more diverse content diet, by subtly nudging users away from extreme algorithmic reinforcement, based on a user’s recent content viewing history. We've shown it works in simulated environments, but the big next step is real-world deployment and testing at scale.

We believe this tool has significant potential for platforms like Google and Meta – not just for user mental health, but also as a long-term strategic benefit for their ecosystems. So we're really keen to get this into the hands of researchers and engineers who are working on these problems. If you're at Google, Meta, or elsewhere and this resonates, we'd love to explore how we might collaborate on testing it in a live setting.

You can read the full paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/29974100.2025.2...

Any advice or feedback is very welcome!
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-05 02:23:49+00:00
I usually see the opposite.

Detractors from AI often refuse to learn how to use it or argue that it doesn't do everything perfectly so you shouldn't use it.

Proponents say it's the process and learning that builds depth and you have to learn how to use it well before you can have a sensible opinion about it.

The same disconnect was in place for every major piece of technology, from mechanical weaving, to mechanical computing, to motorized carriages, to synthesized music. You can go back and read the articles written about these technologies and they're nearly identical to what the AI detractors have been saying.

One side always says you're giving away important skills and the new technology produces inferior work. They try to frame it in moral terms. But at heart the objections are about the fear of one's skills becoming economically obsolete.
by jhide | 2025-07-05 02:27:15+00:00
The word natural is doing a lot of lifting here. I think we are talking past each other because we don’t have the same framework for understanding how ecosystems work. Predation by an invasive species is not natural in the sense that the species did not coevolve. It seems we don’t agree that cats are an invasive species or even on the definition of an invasive species
by mastazi | 2025-07-05 02:27:59+00:00
> people normally actively invite you to their places.

I've recently watched a Youtube vlog made by some tourists who went there on motorbikes and they stopped just to have a look at one of the Hydro settlement, they were invited in, given coffee and when they mentioned they wanted to find a spot nearby to pitch a tent they were told they could sleep in a hut that was unused at the time. So I guess they are indeed very nice with passersby, I guess they just have a general "rule" because they don't want travellers to rely on them.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-07-05 02:28:23+00:00
NJ, home of the H1B scam. I worked with these guys at some large corporations on contract and as an employeed (F500 companies). I felt bad for them. Modern serfs. They lived in housing owned by you know the names of these indian firms that do 'anything'. Companies love the low cost, unlimited hours, and no need to hire, they're contractors. they sign deals with big indian vendors to provide everythingunderthesun.

Poor dudes are like ' this is my chance to make it in America' and the high caste indian management treats them like dirt.

The 'old boomers yelling at young people' is a myth in professional America compared to the absolute screaming insults you'd hear hurled at these guys.

And if they messed up? boom, gone, next guy flown in.
by georgeecollins | 2025-07-05 02:28:54+00:00
I am not saying that about Steam. In fact Steam pretty much saved triple A PC gaming. Your timeline is quite accurate!

>> Microsoft's strategy is going to come to the same result as Embracer Group.

I hope you are right.

If I were trying to make a larger point, I guess it would be that big tech companies (Apple, MSFT, Amazon) don't want content creators to be too important in the ecosystem and tend to support initiatives that emphasize the platform.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-05 02:30:01+00:00
First, background checks are obvious and I don't know any startup of any scale that's hiring engineers "without background checks."

But typical background checks would not catch someone doing this, and in fact did not catch him several times, clearly.

Background checks do not alert you to other business who claim to have recently hired someone, so it's not clear how this helps whatsoever. He had references, he had a LinkedIn, etc. etc. Your solution is made up.

If you believe background checks would help, then answer my prior question: which type of background check? The standard ones would not detect this!
by jhancock | 2025-07-05 02:30:25+00:00
thanks for the article.

I'm dreaming of this: mini-nas connected direct to my tv via HDMI or USB. I think I'd want HMDI and let the nas handle streaming/decoding. But if my TV can handle enough formats. maybe USB will do.

anyone have experience with this?

I've been using a combination of media server on my Mac with client on Apple TV and I have no end of glitches.
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-07-05 02:31:23+00:00
Making a comparison to crypto is lazy criticism. It’s not even worth validating. It’s people who want to take the negative vibe from crypto and repurpose it. The two technologies have nothing to do with each other, and therefore there’s clearly no reason to make comparative technical assessments between them.

That said, the social response is a trend of tech worship that I suspect many engineers who have been around the block are weary of. It’s easy to find unrealistic claims, the worst coming from the CEOs of AI companies.

At the same time, a LOT of people are practically computer illiterate. I can only imagine how exciting it must seem to people who have very limited exposure to even basic automation. And the whole “talking computer” we’ve all become accustomed to seeing in science fiction is pretty much becoming reality.

There’s a world of takes in there. It’s wild.

I worked in ML and NLP several years before AI. What’s most striking to me is that this is way more mainstream than anything that has ever happened in the field. And with that comes a lot of inexperience in designing with statistical inference. It’s going to be the Wild West for a while — in opinions, in successful implementation, in learning how to form realistic project ideas.

Look at it this way: now your friend with a novel app idea can be told to do it themselves. That’s at least a win for everyone.
by hedora | 2025-07-05 02:32:45+00:00
It’s happened before, and we’ve observed it indirectly.

The last time the northern Atlantic current shut down, parts of Western Europe were covered in glaciers.

The climate models are extremely accurate within certain ranges. When you get outside those ranges, previously unknown tipping points like this will start to manifest themselves.

It’s the difference between predicting what a piece of precision machinery will do when it’s new vs after it’s been dropped and hit with a sledgehammer.

This is why the 1.5C global warming goal was irresponsibly high. We’ll cross it in ~ 18 months, so expect more terrible news like this article’s findings as we get further and further away from well-understood climatology.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-05 02:32:52+00:00
>Creation is not birth; it is murder. The murder of the impossible in service of the possible.

What a stupid quote. You know why it's stupid. Because murder is creation. It is the creation of death while destroying life.

Just use the word the way it's meant to be used. Don't come up with quotes that sound clever and trick the mind into thinking a statement is profound when really it's just more word trickery.
by alshival | 2025-07-05 02:33:08+00:00
I agree. I used to live high class. Then the Mafia came at me. I learned to lay low and appreciate poverty. Also, my ex and I bought a house, but then a richer man came and she kicked me out on Valentine's day. Now I despise wealth and luxury and now date only women at the flea market, cashiers and walmart stockers. Highly recommend. The devil wears Prada.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-05 02:33:49+00:00
> Nvidia doesn't earn more money when cards are sold above MSRP, but they get almost all the hate for it. Why would they set themselves up for that?

If you believe their public statements, because they didn't want to build out additional capacity and then have a huge excess supply of cards when demand suddenly dried up.

In other words, the charge of "purposefully keeping stock low" is something NVidia admitted to; there was just no theory of how they'd benefit from it in the present.
by jorl17 | 2025-07-05 02:33:53+00:00
Exactly! Here's my take:

4o tens do be, as they say, sycophantic. It's an AI masking as a helpful human, a personal assistant, a therapist, a friend, a fan, or someone on the other end of a support call. They sometimes embellish things, and will sometimes take a longer way getting to the destination if it makes for a what may be a more enjoyable conversation — they make conversations feel somewhat human.

OpenAI's reasoning models, though, feel more like an AI masking a code slave. It is not meant to embellish, to beat around the bush or to even be nice. Its job is to give you the damn answer.

This is why the o* models are terrible for creative writing, for "therapy" or pretty much anything that isn't solving logical problems. They are built for problem solving, coding, breaking down tasks, getting to the "end" of it. You present them a problem you need solved and they give you the solution, sometimes even omitting the intermediate steps because that's not what you asked for. (Note that I don't get this same vibe from 2.5 at all)

Ultimately, it's this "no-bullshit" approach that feels incredibly cold. It often won't even offer alternative suggestions, and it certainly doesn't bother about feelings because feelings don't really matter when solving problems. You may often hear 4o say it's "sorry to hear" about something going wrong in your life, whereas o* models have a much higher threshold for deciding that maybe they ought to act like a feeling machine, rather than a solving machine.

I think this is likely pretty deliberate of OpenAI. They must for some reason believe that if the model is much concise in its final answers (though not necessarily in the reasoning process, which we can't really see), then it produces better results. Or perhaps they lose less money on it, I don't know.

Claude is usually my go-to model if I want to "feel" like I'm talking to more of a human, one capable of empathy. 2.5 pro has been closing the gap, though. Also, Claude used to be by far much better than all other models at European Portuguese (+ portuguese culture and references in general), but, again, 2.5 pro seems just as good nowadays).

On another note, this is also why I also completely understand the need for the two kinds of models for OpenAI. 4o is the model I'll use to review an e-mail, because it won't just try to remove all the humanity of it and make it the most succinct, bland, "objective" thing — which is what the o* models will.

In other words, I think: (i) o* models are supposed to be tools, and (ii) 4o-like models are supposed to be "human".
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-07-05 02:35:53+00:00
> I've seen claude "monkey patching" a system so that it returns true to the tests.

I’ve watched Github Copilot do the same thing. I’ve also seen it doubling down on ridiculous things and just spewing crash-laden messes. There seems to be a low upper ceiling on how “competent” it is, which makes sense.
by selfhoster11 | 2025-07-05 02:35:54+00:00
> Gaming needs no additional VRAM.

Really? What about textures? Any ML that the new wave of games might use? For instance, while current LLMs powering NPC interactions would be pretty horrible, what about in 2 years time? You could have arbitrary dialogue trees AND dynamically voiced NPCs or PCs. This is categorically impossible without more VRAM.

> the perfect excuse to create infrastructure for a global analogue of the Great Firewall

Yes, let's have more censorship and kill the dream of the Internet even deader than it already is.

> From the software engineering perspective, LLMs are a nuissance, a distraction. They harm everyone.

You should be aware that reasonable minds can differ in this issue. I won't defend companies forcing the use of LLMs (it would be like forcing use of vim or any other tech you dislike), but I disagree about being a nuisance, distraction, or a universal harm. It's all down to choices and fit for use case.
by kec | 2025-07-05 02:36:45+00:00
Well, according to ABET Engineering is: “The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind”.

By that definition, developing and training an LLM model could be argued to be a form of engineering… but exercising that model definitely isn’t. An analogy to mechanical engineering would be the difference between designing a CNC machine vs programming the machine to carve out a widget.
by djoldman | 2025-07-05 02:36:50+00:00
Many well-trusted and reasonable tech folks who are known for sober takes on subjects have reported substantial improvements in their programming work by using various forms of generative AI.

What does substantial mean? Somewhere between 5% and 100%. Something NOT insignificant.

At a minimum, it is safe to say that GenAI is or could be a significantly beneficial tool for a significant number of people.

It's not required that folks disclose how many CPUs, lines of code, numbers of bytes processed, or other details for the above to be a reasonable take.
by mindslight | 2025-07-05 02:37:50+00:00
Twisting not required. Depreciation straightforwardly applies to every other business capital expenditure. Hire someone to put a new roof on a rental property, and you're out the tens of thousands of dollars cash while only getting an immediate deduction for one thirtieth of the value. If you were expecting to pay that cash out of income, it's effectively a realized income and then reinvestment.

The recent (-ly undone) change went against decades of how things were, was crippling for medium size cashflow-positive startups, effectively increased taxes, etc. But it was really just a straightforward application of the general principles that apply to most everything else.