MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Timwi | 2025-07-31 00:27:56+00:00
You're derailing the conversation. The discussion was about thinking, and now you're arguing about something entirely different and didn't even mention the word “think” a single time.

If you genuinely believe that anyone knows how LLMs work, how brains work, and/or how or why the latter does “thinking” while the former does not, you're just simply wrong. AI researchers fully acknowledge ignorance in this matter.
by ianpenney | 2025-07-31 00:28:48+00:00
I’m Canadian and even I know this.

https://youtu.be/j58V2vC9EPc?feature=shared

So it's Tuesday morning And my Centrelink hasn't come through

So I pick up the phone Because I've got some abusing to do

But all I get is elevator music, waiting on the line

On hold all the time

All I get is elevator music, waiting on the line

'Til I get a reply
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-31 00:29:26+00:00
PE buys all these businesses out (there's demand, and its rising), and they close most of them to consolidate into cold, brutal buildings.

PE did this with medical providers. When I was a child family doctors were a thing (btw, 2000s). I saw in my area that a lot of the small practices were bought out, and now there are medical "campuses" which have like dozens of different providers. I was talking to my dentist about this and she explained it to me that way so unless she's lying idk what to say.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-31 00:30:28+00:00
"Ag" is the keyword there and I suspect it roughtly translates to "somehow tax subsidized by the rest of us". Go try and get a loan on residential/industrial or otherwise non-ag land and get back to me. Everyone looks (i.e. does their due diligence) and nobody ever goes for it because the rates or terms are always laughable.

Since you're an expert link poster why don't you cherry pick us all up some of those underwriting guidelines you cite?

I look forward to learning about ag specific loan products.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-31 00:30:40+00:00
> the city's collaboration suite, Territoire Numérique Ouvert (Open Digital Territory), is being developed in partnership with local digital organizations and will be hosted in regional data centers. This homegrown solution is designed to provide secure, interoperable tools for videoconferencing, office automation, and document collaboration.

It's nice they're not just moving to a fully baked solution with no control on it, potentially staying stuck there, and instead secured local developers who can help iron out the issues or move to other alternatives if push comes to shove.
by WD-42 | 2025-07-31 00:31:08+00:00
"Because I can" or "Because it's funny" are more than enough reason for most people. The fact that the hacker refunded all the customers, then emailed them to warn them that they were using a terrible app actually sounds like a pretty tame troll to me. If the hacker was truly hired by the competition to act maliciously, they could have done far, far worse.

Your friend should take this as a lesson instead of trying to deflect blame to their competitors.
by lstamour | 2025-07-31 00:31:11+00:00
Unfiltered web browsers might be harder to come by these days than when I was growing up, but they still exist. I remember finding out by accident that certain restricted apps would pull up help pages, and from there I could click a link that would take me to an unrestricted web browser due to a bug in the code. I also remember computers where you could show up with pocket apps on a floppy or USB key and bring your own unrestricted web browser. On top of that, just because the web is restricted often doesn’t mean YouTube is restricted. For example, schools need YouTube to show educational content, so it often is unrestricted even when the rest of the web is restricted e.g. by dns.
by brokencode | 2025-07-31 00:32:02+00:00
Microsoft has zero vision in the UI space. It’s crazy that there isn’t there a single, obvious solution for developing Windows applications in 2025.

I agree that it seems they’ve made some bad bets and now are bogged down supporting half a dozen different frameworks with different limitations and tradeoffs.

They keep trying to reinvent the wheel, but it doesn’t seem like they’ve ever really meaningfully improved on WPF.

At least there is Avalonia for an open source, cross platform WPF alternative. It seems like the sanest way of making desktop applications with C# currently.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-31 00:32:28+00:00
> There is nothing private about the internet and I wish people understood that.

I don’t know that that is useful advice for the average person. For instance, you can access your bank account via the internet, yet there are very strong privacy guarantees.

Concur that it is a safe default assumption what you say, but then you need a way for people to not now mistrust all internet services because everything is considered public.
by flykespice | 2025-07-31 00:32:52+00:00
Yep, stenzek is a really talented emulator dev, he made big contribuitions to household emulators such as Dolphin (esp. Ubershaders) and Pcsx2.

He also made AetherSx2 under his alias Talreth, the first android ps2 emulator that was practically runnable on android devices, before he abandoned due to getting fed up with complaints and "death threats" (Yes, Talreth and Stenzek were the same person, it has already been debunked multiple times)

Unfortunately on the social side he fails very shortly being over sensitive to user complaints and having a big inflated ego so much that you couldn't criticise the emulator or you'd get banned from the discord server.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-07-31 00:33:02+00:00
> The only real use case

The original idea behind an SPA was to enable API-only backends (with static file service). I still think that's a very worthy use case.

Why not decouple the backend from the concerns of particular views? It makes for a more complex frontend, but it also allows multiple, highly differentiated frontend apps to be build on top of a single set of backend APIs. Esri's ArcGIS Online powers a lot of specialized frontend-only web apps. I used to be on their Business Analyst team (that's a web app) - and I have to say I really like the pattern of building apps this way.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-31 00:33:27+00:00
I can have a wholesale originator (UWM) extend me credit for those use cases in ~15 minutes up to almost $1M at 7% (conforming, ready for sale into the ABS market), which is very reasonable imho. I can get up to $5M within a few days if it’s commercial through one of the commercial banks I work with (Wintrust). 80% LTV, most of the time.

Guidelines are openly available at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and USDA websites (unless there are specific overlays a bank is using, which is typically proprietary).
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-31 00:34:35+00:00
>It's the people who constantly assert that LLMs “don't think” who are not engaging in a conversation.

I'm responding to the conversation. Oftentimes it's engaged on "AI is smarter than me/other people". It's in the name, but "intelligence" is a facade put on by the machine to begin with.

>because we simply don't know what thinking actually is

I described my definition. You can disagree or make your own interpretation, but to dismiss my conversation and simply say "no one knows" is a bit ironic for a person accusing me of not engaging in a conversation.

Philosophy spent centuries trying to answer that question. Mine is a simple, pragmatic approach. Just because there's no objective answer doesn't mean we can't converse about it.
by rayiner | 2025-07-31 00:34:48+00:00
That’s what nsterm.m uses. As far as I can tell, the problem is that nextEventMatchingMask needs to be called from the NSApp main loop. But calling NSApplication:run blocks and takes over the main loop, which doesn’t work with for Emacs.

So what Emacs does is keep control of its own main loop. It has a select() that listens for events, and then calls NSApplication:run in the event handler. Emacs’s implementation of run() processes all pending events and then exits and returns control to the real Emacs main loop. So every keystroke or timer event in Emacs invokes setting up and tearing down the entire NSApplication main loop.

The relevant code is ns_select_1 in nsterm.m, line 5102. https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/nsterm...
by mchiang | 2025-07-31 00:36:15+00:00
one of the maintainers for Ollama. I don't see it as a pivot. We are all developers ourselves, and we use it.

In fact, there are many self-made prototypes before this from different individuals. We were hooked, so we built it for ourselves.

Ollama is made for developers, and our focus in continually improving Ollama's capabilities.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-07-31 00:36:36+00:00
> I'm struggling to understand what you're suggesting here, to be honest. First of all, banks don't sell cloud compute, so no bank is going to do that. Secondly, what does "work financially the same" mean? These are fundamentally different products, AWS is a service, Oxide is purchasing hardware that you then own.

You're telling me it's important to people to "own" instead of "rent." Well I can manufacture an "Own" out of a "Rent": I write up a contract for my customer that says "$1,000,000 for 100 EPYC servers", I ship an empty steel box, the end user gets an AWS account which they cannot add anything to, and it has 100 EPYC server metal instances in it. I pay the bills in that account. Okay? Now I have created "owning" out of renting.

If we pontificate on the objective value of owning versus renting, such as the ability to sell the hardware, I can manufacture that too: you might want to sell your empty steel box 5 years later, and I will buy it from you for $300,000. Or maybe the value of owning versus renting is that owning is "cheaper" than AWS. Okay, I'll sell the rack for $500,000 instead of $1,000,000. Do you see?

The important part of course is, I didn't have to make any racks. I didn't have to write any software. I give people something they really, really want, AWS, and I give it to them in the shape of an "Own." Of course, your "Own" and my "Own" are different, but whose "Own" is more different from a typical IT purchaser? You guys know 100x better than me.

I agree that it sounds stupid though. That's BAD. If it sounds stupid to manufacture an "Own" out of a "Rent", and it is an arbitrage, and it also is something people like, that is BAD for you. If it sounds like something banks should not be involved in, that is BAD. Banks are involved in extremely lucrative businesses!

> First of all, banks don't sell cloud compute, so no bank is going to do that.

Ha ha, but this is what you do! You might not be a bank, but you are a $100m bank account. You're more bank than I am today. And you are selling something - you know, you say you sell a rack, and you say, "that's the business," and there are people on this thread - and this is not at all an unorthodox opinion - who are saying, what is really the material difference between cloud and on-premises compute, when the interfaces between the two look so similar?

A huge difference is "Rent" versus "Own" which is why we are talking about it and why you brought it up. But I am showing you that you can manufacture an "Own" out of a "Rent," and it would be interesting to see, well, should I take $100m and spend $200m on R&D with it (ha ha), or should I take $100m and directly fuel it into a flywheel of reselling AWS into a shape that people like, which is "Own" instead of "Rent"?

> Hardware and software, working together.

See it's stuff like this that says to me, "Apple (Minus the iPhones) of Racks." That is really your thinking. It's about buying experiences. You guys are answering this question, clearly, in your own rhetoric. Because if it was really about "Own" versus "Rent," a bank could do it.
by ethagnawl | 2025-07-31 00:37:26+00:00
Why are tech dudes so hung up on homelessness? Also, the reference to it was so callous and would seem to reveal a complete lack of empathy: NYC has too many homeless people; let's build a metro in Jersey City in order to make Jersey City ... more of a thing and not even attempt to address the "problem" in any substantive way.

It's also a feat of mental gymnastics to put European infrastructure on a pedestal while ranting about NY's taxes and, more broadly, the US' difficulties building infrastructure.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-31 00:37:55+00:00
> "Our position remains clear: YouTube is a video sharing platform with a library of free, high-quality content, increasingly viewed on TV screens. It's not social media," a YouTube spokesperson said by email.

That’s disingenuous. YouTube about page exclaims:

” Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world.

We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share and build community through our stories.”

If that isn’t social media, I don’t know what is.

https://about.youtube/
by 9rx | 2025-07-31 00:38:14+00:00
> You must have better land than we do.

It's decent enough, but hardly the best ever known. 200-220bu corn and 50-60bu soybeans would be pretty typical for good ground. Whereas, as I understand it, that is merely average ground in Illinois?

But the farmers are really hungry. Case in point: When I was a kid there were eight adjacent farms, including where I grew up, that all had farmers living on them. Of their kids (my generation), there are now 12 of us trying to farm in the same area. That's a 50% increase! As you can imagine, the competition is fierce.
by w10-1 | 2025-07-31 00:38:23+00:00
True, but not fast. More fun than fast.

Fast reading does not just enumerate examples.

Fast reading does not straw-man.

Fun conveys opportunity and emotion: "changing behavior", "signals simplicity", "fun". Fun creates an experience, a mode, and stickiness. It's good for marketing, but a drag on operations.

Fast is principles with methods that just work. "Got it."

Fast has a time-to-value of now.

Fast is transformative when it changes a background process requiring all the infrastructure of tracking contingencies to something that can just be done. It changes system-2 labor into system-1 activity -- like text reply vs email folders, authority vs discussion, or take-out vs. cooking.

When writers figure out how to monetize fast - how to get recurrent paying users (with out-of-band payment) just from delivering value - then we'll no longer be dragged through anecdotes and hand-waving and all the salience-stretching manipulations that tax our attention.

Imagine an AI paid by time to absorb and accept the answer instead of by the token.

Fast is better than fun -- assuming it's all good, of course :)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-31 00:38:30+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conforming_loan

I love government subsidies through implicit and explicit loan guarantees. It’s the reason a 30 year mortgage exists. It’s the reason one can default on an FHA mortgage with almost no consequences (while being almost impossible to default on student loan debt).

To your point this is “subsidized by the rest of us,” the bottom 50% of American earners only pay 2.3% of total federal income tax collected, with the top 50% paying the rest. The poor folks are not on the hook for subsidies when they come out of general federal gov revenue (FHA loans charge an upfront and monthly mortgage insurance premium, and there are similar costs for USDA and VA loans but lesser so; we can consider those costs “cost recovery” for the purpose of evaluating self funded vs subsidies via transfer from the general fund).

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in...
by pentagrama | 2025-07-31 00:38:59+00:00
The article doesn't mention which Linux distribution was chosen. I'm curious about that, since in my opinion it can make or break the project. It's also possible that multiple distributions were used for different cases, which could make sense.

As for user-friendly options, I think Ubuntu and Mint are the best choices right now, with Mint (Cinnamon Edition) being a better fit for users coming from Windows, which seems to be the case here.

Also, I recently switched from LibreOffice to OnlyOffice. I find its UI and UX much better. That said, I'll look into the licensing aspect mentioned in the article, maybe LibreOffice aligns better with my values.
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-07-31 00:40:06+00:00
> I do not pretend to have or be able to gain any knowledge that could help this thousand year conflict

Why do you think this is a "thousand years conflict"? It started in 1917 when the British government initiated the process of handing over Palestine to jews in return for Lord Rothschild's money that they needed to keep fighting WW1 [1]. Jewish population of Palestine at that time was only around 7%.

Subsequent immigration of mostly European jews into Palestine, resulted in about 30% jewish population by the time Western powers decided to declare an independent Jewish-dominated state of Israel on top of Palestine in 1947. How could it be jewish-dominated when they were a minority? Well, you just forcefully displace everyone who isn't a part of your group, of course. Oh, they refuse? Massacre a few villages [2] [3] and then most remaining people will flee on their own. Sure, sure, you allow a small number to stay within the borders of the new country that you now claim, so that they can consistute about 20% of your population and you get to claim that you aren't a nationalist supremacist nation.

There is nothing "thousand years old" about this 20th century European white supremacist colonial settlement project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantura_massacre

You can also try this book by an Israeli historian, called "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palest...
by cryptonector | 2025-07-31 00:40:08+00:00
Bitfields have other problems. Say you have two bitfields each of `uint8_t` type and totaling 16 bits: well, you might think that's _two_ fields, but the compiler is allowed to treat them as _one_ whenever it wants to, and _that_ can be a problem if you're accessing one with atomics and the other without because the other can yield unsynchronized accesses to the one that needs synchronization.

Bitfields in C leave way too much behavior to the compiler or undefined. It's really intolerable.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-31 00:41:08+00:00
Do you want to shift the discussion to the definition of a "pattern" or are we going to continue to move the goalpost? I'm trying to respond to your inquiry and instead we're just stuck in minutia.

Yes, to make an apple pie from scratch, we need to first invent the universe. Is that productive conversation to fall into or can we just admit that your dismissing any opinion that goes against your purview?

>If I think back to something I was taught in primary school and conclude that 1+1=2 is that pattern matching?

Yes. That is an example of pattern matching. Let me know when you want to go back to talking about LLMs.
Built a design directory cus I didn't like others
by atharv_rem | 2025-07-31 00:41:29+00:00
Link - https://designindex.xyz/

Features - Super-fast search that lets you search in natural language clean and clutter free UI no sign up or waitlist required, visit and take what you want filter based on pricing and a sweet small description lets you decide whether the tool is right fit for you

I am a newbie designer and was looking for resources in these directories to improve my design. But there were a few challenges - * search requires putting the tool name and doesn't let me type the description of the product I want. * some had a cluttered UI * people had signups which wasted time * I couldn't tell what the resource actually does or whether it was free or not

This is my first ever full-blown project, if you like it please support and any kind of feedback is appreciated.
by jghn | 2025-07-31 00:41:39+00:00
Maybe. I've been coding professionally for a few decades now. I have always looked stuff up constantly. It's a lot more seamless now due to first search engines and later the ever improving autocomplete. To be honest, I think half the time I just do it to do it. But for instance I bounce between languages so often that I can never remember the fine details of syntax. To use your example, things like for loops, matches, and the like are things that I tend to double check.

And that's the point. Everyone has their quirks, and if you're going to claim you want them to work they way they normally work, who cares? If they're able to turn out quality code at a reasonable clip, who cares what they need to look up.
by cowsandmilk | 2025-07-31 00:42:05+00:00
It is much more expensive to build another line at that point due to the increase in density of the city (and sometimes new requirements of stations to meet building codes). Nearly every high volume transit system out there has choke points that are extremely expensive or impossible to fix by building another line. The tunnel between VA and DC on WMATA’s Orange, Silver, and Blue lines is a 20 year project. Tracks for LIRR to go to Grand Central took 60 years from proposal to opening. It is viewed as nearly impossible to build a line parallel to the MBTA underground green line, a system that has short two car trains and 4 branches above ground on the Boston side, so very easily could use a parallel line.
by ggm | 2025-07-31 00:42:15+00:00
I think homomorphic encryption through a third party would be better. Gov app could be one side of it, blinded evidence provision to the identity, to the intermediary.

Maybe this is what you meant? it's what the CSIRO and the Privacy Commissioner said was their recommended method to do proofs of age/identity through government issued documents, without revealing what the URL was being accessed.
by renewiltord | 2025-07-31 00:43:32+00:00
Smaller vehicles allow more dynamic dispatch. SF buses are low quality transport because they have to stop every block to allow for an elderly local population. With vans, you can put more of them on the road and dynamic dispatch allows them to skip stops for non-loading.

This structure allows for greater QoS through the system. Almost any sufficiently dense place without regulation limiting it approaches a mix of larger buses on fixed routes with smaller vehicles on slightly less fixed routes.

SF Muni has a 13% absence rate. Without the driver we can have more vehicles, more often, and on-time every time. Once we can do that, we can vary the size of the vehicles to cover different routes and to allow for QoS.
by atmavatar | 2025-07-31 00:44:26+00:00
Are we sure per capita GDP is the measure we want to use, though? Doesn't that just take the overall GDP and divide by population?

When I look at median income over time versus per capita GDP over time, adjusting both for inflation, they're both increasing, but they're also diverging because the bulk of the gains are concentrated at the top.

That is as big a reason people are having a hard time making ends meat nowadays as anything. Unfortunately, fixing that trend will require reversing most of the tax code changes made in the last half century and a lot of aggressive anti trust action - i.e., breaking up markets allowed to consolidate too much.

I don't see any of that happening without a clean sweep of DC, though.
by ggm | 2025-07-31 00:44:40+00:00
A point sometimes missed is that government bans on access to knives and aerosols aren't so much designed to actually make it "impossible" as to impose a social barrier, which demands active bypassing, and so clarifies the responsibility across the boundary.

Speeding isn't made impossible by speeding fines. It sets a civil penalty, non-compliance with the penalty in turn sets a criminal penalty, which in turn can lead to significant consequence.