MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anovikov | 2025-07-05 09:40:17+00:00
Well, Israel could never come into being if it cared about any of that. If Jews obeyed laws - that were, in those times, specifically instituted against them in all-Christian Western world, and similarly antisemitic Islamic one - they'd just be wholly exterminated long before Israel was founded. Also, well, they could instead just be kept in, separated by gender, until they age out of terrorism, as a worse (too expensive), but still acceptable solution.
by richardatlarge | 2025-07-05 09:42:02+00:00
As a potter, when I open my gas fired kiln, I hope for one piece I really love. That’s enough. I think success is in the moment of experience. Maybe an effective passage in one of my novels.

Just a diet of the small things. Above and beyond that, we lose control over what’s good, great, bad, or important. We don’t see the true consequences of most of what we do.
by aziaziazi | 2025-07-05 09:42:14+00:00
OP mixed the "central bank" as an unique one (it doesn’t exists, although MFI could be representative for the west) and the multiple national ones (FED for the US). They arguments doesn’t hold as the national ones creates money and the are much more numerous and diverse in interest around the world than the ~5 bitcoin pools mentioned ahead.

The FED is quite powerful and US strongly influence many other banks but that’s by situation, not by design.
by rob_c | 2025-07-05 09:42:38+00:00
> It's a big loss if a user has to wait 3 months for a bugfix

Either the bugfix is not serious and they can wait because the system is mature. Or, The fs is so unstable you shouldn't be pandering to the crowd that struggle with build deps and make install.

There is no in between, this is the situation. And the "but not all bugs are equal" argument doesn't stand.

I know if I read of a metadata but getting fixed in ext4 or ZFS there's a very small chance of this causing my platter to evaporate. By definition of stable, if that was happening it would be hitting that one unfortunate guy (<0.001% of users) running a weird OS or hardware and that's just the luck of the draw.

If the fix is from a fs marked experimental, yes I kinda expect this could fry my data and hurt kittens. That's what experimental and stable mean. That means I expect up to 100% of users to be impacted under certain workflows or scenarios.

Everything outside of this is wasted energy and arguing with the tide.
by PoshBreeze | 2025-07-05 09:42:58+00:00
I don't want to use Fedora. Other than I've found it unreliable I switched to Debian because I was fed up of all the Window-isms/Corporate stuff in the distro that was enabled by default that I was trying to get away from.

It the same reason I don't want to use Bazzite. It misses the point of using a Linux/Unix system altogether.

I also learned a long time ago Distro Hopping doesn't actually fix your issues. You just end up either with the same issues or different ones. If I switched from Debian to Fedora, I suspect I would have many of the same issues.

e.g. If a issue is in the Linux kernel itself such as HDMI Audio on AMD cards having random noise, I fail to see how changing from one distro to another would help. Fedora might have a custom patch to fix this, however I could also take this patch and make my own kernel image (which I've done in the past btw).

The reality is that most people doing development for various project / packages that make the Linux desktop don't have the setup I have and some of the peculiarities I am running into. If I had a more standard setup, I wouldn't have an issue.

Moreover, I would be using FreeBSD/OpenBSD or some other more traditional Unix system and ditch Linux if I didn't require some Linux specific applications. I am considering moving to something like Artix / Devuan in the future if I did decide to switch.
by erwan577 | 2025-07-05 09:43:03+00:00
Is that kind of setup still usable for some kind of desktop computing or only for command line stuff ?

128MB RAM sounds huge for the early 90s - win 3.1 and word / excel of the time could fly with much less. Is the lack of hardware floating point support an issue to run modern apps ?

The speed difference with current systems is mind boggling. The original A1200 CPU is 2,000 to 5,000 times slower than a random N100 setup. one second wait nowadays means one hour delay on the A1200. This shows how much software bloat accumulated.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-05 09:43:35+00:00
This is what electronic music was before it became commercialised and mainstream as "music with synthesizers."

Most of it is pre-synth, with early experiments with tape, and sometimes analog synthesis and computer DSP.

It's ended up in a strange space culturally - lurking in modern music's attic like an ageing mad uncle whom everyone agrees was a genius, but hardly anyone still listens to. (Outside of academia, which is its own world.)
by saubeidl | 2025-07-05 09:44:49+00:00
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." - Jean Paul Sartre.
by ThouTo2C | 2025-07-05 09:45:49+00:00
There are numerous guides for all levels of Baba Is You available. I think it's likely that any modern LLM has them as part of its training dataset. That severely degrades this as a test for complex solution capabilities.

Still, its interesting to see the challenges with dynamic rules (like "Key is Stop") that change where are you able to move etc.
by qqqult | 2025-07-05 09:46:44+00:00
> for the sake of argument, is there any way to introduce monetary policy into crypto currency so as to correct for unwanted inflation/deflation

yeah and you don't even need to change bitcoin - just use a stablecoin over-collateralized by BTC built on the bticoin network. In essence these systems work with $1 of the stablecoin backed by $N dollars (N > 1.6) of the the backing asset (BTC). Then they use a smart contract system of price oracles, liquidations & interest rate curves to balance supply, demand and risk parameters. It's pretty much an over-collateralized lending protocol that issues its own asset that is pegged to $1

This has worked well for the past 11 years with MakerDAO on Ethereum and it's stablecoin DAI. I think at its peak the DAI stablecoin had around $7 billion in circulation and was about 5-10% the size of USDT, now it's about half that. However, high treasury interest rates and low interest in decentralized stablecoins have made more "traditional" stablecoins like USDT, USDC vastly more profitable and successful. In recent times even DAI has been trying to become more like USDC and USDT with treasuries held in intermediaries
by paddim8 | 2025-07-05 09:48:05+00:00
This is such a strange mindset. First of all, unsafe Rust is not comparable to C. It still has a lot of checks and balanced that C does not have. The author is also planning to make it more safe. And what do you mean "the primary reason"? The primary reason for this was to have fun. Let the man have fun.

> but nothing that I will install on any box of mine any time soon

Well, no one asked? I will never understand you chronically negative people that have to come in and whine about things that don't matter every time someone posts their fun little personal project that they made for fun. Have you tried being a little more positive? It makes life more enjoyable.
by baxtr | 2025-07-05 09:48:15+00:00
> At semester's end, all the best photos came from the quantity group.

The quantity group learned something that cannot be taught: that excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection, that mastery is built through befriending failure, that the path to creating one perfect thing runs directly through creating many imperfect things.

This reminded me of Roger Federer, who has won 82% of all matches but only 54% of all points.

I really enjoyed this article and also believe that in many cases doing is superior to planning.

Just a word of caution: the author doesn’t account for cost. All examples given are relatively low-cost and high-frequency: drawing pictures, taking photos, writing blog posts.

The cost-benefit ratio of simply doing changes when costs increase.

Quitting your high-paid job to finally start the startup you’ve been dreaming of is high-cost and rather low-frequency.

I don’t want to discourage anyone from doing these things, but it’s obvious to me that the cost/frequency aspect shouldn’t be neglected.
by bgnn | 2025-07-05 09:50:18+00:00
There's nothing inherently wrong with it. Though it creates a competitive advantage and forces other countries to do the same, of not more. Everyone starts pointing fingers at each other and imposing tariff at the end.

Plus this puts pressure on manufacturing, as they will not be able to compete. So yeah, as a tool to boost knowledge economy it works but is it objectively a good thing to do I don't know.
by sizzle | 2025-07-05 09:50:39+00:00
I remember getting a slick new GPU card and learned about Bitcoin mining with my idle gpu power to collect these Bitcoin worth cents, like collecting soda cans for recycling type of $ and thought it wad a terrible waste of my idle processing power compared to harnessing my idle gpu for the noble cause folding proteins at foldingathome.org

I downloaded the bitcoin mining client and everything to see how it worked and had some faucets slipping me Bitcoin for free…
by seanhunter | 2025-07-05 09:51:02+00:00
If a farmer describes something as “organic” (meaning produced in a certain way without artificial fertilizers etc), a chemist sneers because to them all produce is organic (consisting of carbon compounds). If a chemist calls something a metal, well, to an astrophysicist everything heavier than helium is a metal.

So someone describes themselves as a “prompt engineer” and a software engineer sneers. Well, many mechanical/chemical/electrical engineers would take issue at the use of the word “engineer” from someone who can’t convert a vector between rectangular and polar coordinates, find and solve the differential equations governing the motion of a harmonic oscillator etc.

Language is dynamic and used in context and no-one really gets to hold back the tide if society decides to use words in a particular way.
by tankenmate | 2025-07-05 09:51:47+00:00
I run llama.cpp using Vulkan and AMD CPUs, no need to install any drivers (or management software for that matter, nor any need to taint the kernel meaning if I have an issue it's easy to get support). For example the other day when a Mesa update had an issue I had a fix in less than 36 hours (without any support contract or fees) and `apt-mark hold` did a perfect job until there was a fix. Performance for me is within a couple of % points, and with under-volting I get better joules per token.
by preetsojitra | 2025-07-05 09:52:06+00:00
> Someone whips up and deploys something with an LLM, but is unable to change a colour scheme because "computer says no".

I meant to say that, I do not have great design sense and I tried different color schemes suggested by LLMs but all were very weird or mid.

> At the same time you need to register and provide an email. How confident are you about what to do when there's a leak?

Based on all the comments and feedback, I have decided to make signup optional. If I don't have data, I can't lose it.
by kragen | 2025-07-05 09:52:15+00:00
Except for the secrecy of Colossus, Crypto AG, the 9/11 hijackings, Bill Cosby drugging and raping dozens of women, Peter Thiel funding lawsuits against Gawker, the Manhattan Project, the CIA-funded coup against Mossadegh, Stuxnet, the Five Families, most of what the NSA does, the Stealth Bomber, and so on.

Almost all of those remained secret longer than the 17 years we're talking about here, and due to selection bias, I am forced to omit the much more successfully kept secrets, because I don't know about them yet.
by diggan | 2025-07-05 09:52:37+00:00
The world of "spicy reading" isn't new to me (male), just that website in particular.

I don't think it's as gendered as you paint it, but I'd also acknowledge it depends a lot on geographic location, probably looks different where I am compared to where you are, I agree with that we probably aren't all that different in tastes in general :)
by blackoil | 2025-07-05 09:52:57+00:00
This is insightful at least interesting considering it is from 1992. Shows the problems we face aren't as novel as we tend to believe, and humans are struggling with them maybe since the dawn of civilization.

I find my own thoughts about this ironic and paradoxical while I want information to be free and myself to be free to access information of my choice. I am also a slave to my basal desires and will gravitate towards "veriest trash".

As an anecdote, in 1980s India, there was one TV channel whose content was controlled by some elite and government with pittance of budget. People were forced to consume with no other choice. With 90s liberalization we now have 100s of channels and customers paying ton of money to view anything of choice; but general opinion is the quality of content has constantly degraded to the rock bottom. Same goes for the Internet. As much as I blame corporations, the publicly driven discourse isn't any better on mediums like WhatsApp and Reddit. For quality content you have to rely on platforms where some "elite" have decided on rules and vehemently enforce them like HN or some sub-reddits.
by niemandhier | 2025-07-05 09:53:04+00:00
I think it’s a great idea for a benchmark.

One key difference to ARC in its current iteration is that there is a defined and learnable game physics.

Arc requires generalization based on few examples for problems that are not well defined per se.

Hence ARC currently requires the models that work on it to possess biases that are comparable to the ones that humans possess.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-05 09:54:35+00:00
>You're allowed to let your cat outside and kill nature, but you aren't allowed to be mad when nature fights back.

Feel free to smugly tell me that same thing whenever some animal or human you love is killed off by some element of nature. Its also hypocritical: Your comfortable, modern existence is absolutely, wholly the product of a colossal bending and crushing of nature to human will that let you sit at a laptop or on your phone and complain about people who simply recognize this practical reality in a more direct and basic context.

Also, I have no problem with culling feral cats and dogs if their populations can't also be controlled with more humane things like sterilization campaigns. Why let them starve and suffer pointlessly?
by throwaway2037 | 2025-07-05 09:56:52+00:00
> Offshoring as a tactic emerged in the pandemic when companies realised that being “remote” works just as well.

I am confused by this comment. Offshoring IT work to India has been going on since the early 2000s. The established model at many non tech companies is a few people onshore talking with biz stakeholders, then directing offshore staff.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-05 09:58:32+00:00
> but that on one occasion he met two coyotes together, and they began circling him.

He must have done something to react fearfully. I've charged at literal packs of 10 to 15 of them, yelling and enjoying myself, only to have them scatter in complete chaos. With children and no adult present, coyotes are a real danger, but when they meet adults that show no fear, they're amazingly nervous. I know of only one North American attack on a human adult in recent history (a rather petite woman) that was fatal.
by firesteelrain | 2025-07-05 10:00:08+00:00
Huh? It’s ADSB 1090 MHz on a short run of coax to a FlightAware SDR USB dongle. It’s an urban environment so I don’t expect much but I receive plenty of aircraft over 300 nm. Any further away and I would have loss due to inherent limitations of the coax. I could go with like LMR400 but I am not going to spend that kind of money or add like a LNA. This is a setup people commonly use
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-05 10:01:13+00:00
> How many 9s are you getting in your closet at home?

Far, far better than my residential internet connection, that's for sure.

Of course, I have offsite backup of important stuff in case of fire.

That said, ease of use is likely a lot better with S3 for those who don't like to tinker or have a box sit and hum.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-05 10:02:27+00:00
And are you proposing that culling coyotes is just the same as killing off humans who overpopulate?

Also, in our case, whatever our sustainable population in a place is, that's our natural population. Seeing as how we're completely a product of nature too, the numbers we can keep alive are natural.

An exaggerated coyote population in an urban landscape on the other hand, isn't natural because it depends on our presence to stay that way.
by rep_lodsb | 2025-07-05 10:02:44+00:00
Operating system kernels did return multiple values from system calls, even the article says so:

>Using multiple CPU registers for system call return values was even used by Research Unix on the PDP-11, for certain system calls.

Or MS-DOS, which also set the carry flag to indicate errors, as was a common convention in assembly language. Very convenient, since a single conditional jump to return can pass it back up the call chain.

C and modern Unixoid systems are why we can't have nice things.
by bakugo | 2025-07-05 10:03:46+00:00
The game should remain playable, even if via LAN only. How that is accomplished is the responsibility of the studio, not the player - maybe they should think twice before licensing proprietary components that players cannot run themselves.

If the company fails to do this, they are effectively committing theft, and should be punished accordingly by the law. If studio execs think this it's an unreasonable thing to do, then they're free to not release their games to the public and keep their proprietary services to themselves.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-05 10:03:50+00:00
What's an example of something you've had Claude Code do that would take a software engineer a week to do? Just curious.

I see people mention converting old legacy code from an old language to something more modern. I've also seen people mention greenfield projects.

Anything other than this? I'm trying to bring this productivity to my work but so far haven't been able to replace a week of work in a few minutes yet
by distances | 2025-07-05 10:03:56+00:00
Agreed, seems it's a great day if I get close to 50% of coding time. The rest is various meetings, communication, and code review.

And even with reviews you can currently plausibly automate only the code correctness check part, the juicy part of reviews is always manual testing of the change and doing the logical reasoning if the change is doing a meaningful thing. And no, the ticket with the spec is not a reliable source of this info for an LLM as it's always just a partial understanding of the concept.
by lolc | 2025-07-05 10:04:47+00:00
Where did you get this number? All I can find is much higher, showing more than half of the coins have not been moved over a year.

https://en.macromicro.me/charts/32355/bitcoin-supply-last-ac...

https://charts.bitbo.io/dormant-coins/

Edit: If I understand correctly around 15% of coins has not moved in even ten years. So more than 20% of all the mined coins up to mid 2015 have not moved since.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-07-05 10:05:12+00:00
I think the bulk of this is kind of a silly semantic argument

"After all, I didn't click 'Rent now'. I paid 60 bucks and clicked a button that said 'Buy'"

With all the Terms of Service, you rarely actually "own" a piece of software. If all the "Buy" buttons were replaced with "Lease License" buttons - would that really change everything..? everyone would suddenly stop complaining？ I doubt it

B/c the core issue is people/consumers feel entitled to relive childhood experiences. But just like you don't have some inaliable right to go see Terminator in theaters because you did it once as a kid. I don't see why you have a right to emulate and replay a game. You don't own a right to enjoy other people's work. If they want to show it to you once and then burn it in a fire - that's their right. They have the right to distribute it the way they see fit.

I think it's easier to think of the mortality when it's not a big mega corporation and think of it as a singular person's creation and you as a passive consumer asserting your rights to what they made and how they should share it

The secondary issue of "owned" and "leased" being not clearly labeled.. I think is an issue. You should know a priori what you're getting in to - and at the moment it's really unclear at times (ex the washing machine example)
by rsynnott | 2025-07-05 10:05:31+00:00
The website appears to date from 2008. This was a _very_ common latent bug at that point, particularly because Rails would basically force you to implement it. I assume this got fixed at some point, but for a long time all ActiveRecord models had an autoincrementing ID, which had to be a signed 32 bit int. There were scary monkey-patching workarounds if you wanted something more sensible.

EDIT: And, yes, it is apparently Rails! https://fanlore.org/wiki/Archive_of_Our_Own#Timeline
by notahacker | 2025-07-05 10:05:47+00:00
Countries like Zimbabwe and Venezuela printed those currencies in vast quantities to pay bills instead of raising [most of] that money through taxes. Taxes owed in previous quarters were worthless compared with the new trillion dollar notes Zimbabwe's central bank issues to pay government officials, and most private transactions were black market so they weren't seeing them returned in taxes. Zimbabwe and Venezuela are the defining example of how a currency which isn't backed by mountains of debt and taxes is reliant entirely on speculators' confidence...
by bambax | 2025-07-05 10:06:19+00:00
> I bought a Bosch 500 series because our old one broke, and we needed one quick.

Slightly OT (or maybe not) older dishwashers are usually not very hard to fix (depending on the problem). My dishwasher is over ten years old. The pump broke: I replaced it. It was easy and cheap (EUR 60).

It wasn't even the pump that was broken, just the heating resistance attached to it that had fried. You can replace only the resistor if you're skilled enough to reattach a new one. I couldn't: removing the old one was easy, but I couldn't put it back in place so I bought a whole pump instead.

Likewise, my laundry machine is over 15 years old. I just replaced the carbon brushes: they last for something like 10 years and cost less than EUR 10 a pair.

I don't think I will buy a new machine any time soon, or if I have to, it will be a used one.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-07-05 10:06:33+00:00
> Americans have a... distinct work culture

That is a mighty wide brush to paint your generalisation. Do Brazilians or South Africans or Sri Lankans also have "distinct work culture"? I assume yes. Not much being said there.

Another way to look at it: If your country was much richer than the US the model would be flipped. Do you think Americans would post a similar generalisation here? Yep. Not much being said.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-05 10:06:44+00:00
I usually get a good mileage out of jumping straight in the middle :). Like, "hmm let's look at this block; oh cool, there's enough space around it that I could push it away from goal, for whatever reason". Turns out, if it's possible there usually is a good reason. So whenever I get stuck, I skim every object in the puzzle and consider in isolation, what can I do with it, and this usually gives me anchor points to drive my forward or backward thinking through.