MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2025-07-15 01:05:15+00:00
I assumed that whatever magic would be used to get me a dinner with Hitler would only last for that meal and we'd be back to being in separate times. No matter how charismatic he is I don't think he could convince me to do anything at dinner, like try to kill a waiter.

Best I think he could do would be to make me think maybe he wasn't quite as bad as I've been taught, but once back home and out of his presence I think all that would do is make me do some research to check and I'd find out that he was indeed as bad.

Also, I'd not go to my dinner with him without my friends knowing about it and I'd ask them to be on the alert for any signs that I'd been unable to resist him and they could probably keep me from doing anything bad before I could be convinced to become rational again.
by orderone_ai | 2025-07-15 01:05:48+00:00
Thank you for your question!

Because I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for when you say 'compares to' -- whether accuracy, speed, or architecture -- I'll hit all 3, but sorry if it's a bit much.

1. Accuracy: For simple tasks (like sentiment analysis on straightforward examples), it won't be much more accurate than a classical linear classifier, if at all.

1a. Accuracy on more diverse or challenging tasks: Because a linear classifier is just so damned simplistic, it simply cannot handle anything even resembling a reasoning task. Meanwhile, (when specifically trained), this architecture managed to get 8/10 on textual entailment tasks, which are generally considered the sort of entry level gold standard for reasoning ability.

2. Speed: It's slower than a classical classifier...in light of the ~1B params it's pushing. They're both still pretty much blazing fast, but the tiny classical classifier will definitely be faster.

3. Architecture: Here's where it gets interesting.

The architecture of the core model here differs significant from a classical linear classifier:

Classical Classifier: Input: BGE embedding (in this hypothetical) Output: Class labels through softmax Internal Architecture: No nonlinearity, no hidden layers, direct projection

General Classifier: Input: BGE Embedding Output: Class labels through nearest neighbor cosine similarity search of vocabulary Internal architecture: An input projection sparse layer, a layer for combining the 3 inputs after their upwards projection, and 14 hidden layers with nonlinearity (GELU), layernorms, skip connections -- all of the standard stuff you'd expect in an LLM, but...not in an LLM.

I hope that clears up your questions! If not, I'm happy to tell you more.
by throw0101b | 2025-07-15 01:06:47+00:00
Eventual replacement:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Warning_System

An upgrade was recently announced with a collaboration with Australia:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canada-early-warning-de...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindalee_Operational_Radar_Net...
by dylan604 | 2025-07-15 01:06:53+00:00
Credit card companies are known to sell data. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mastercard-credit-card-customer...

Mobile service providers are known to have sold data. https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-fines-largest-wireless-carr...

Auto makers are known to sell data. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a61711288/automakers-sold-...

You act like it doesn't happen, yet time and time again we learn about companies selling whatever data they can collect.

I can't believe we are still questioning this fact

What else do you need to know?
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-15 01:08:02+00:00
Action at a distance means there is nothing connecting the two things. That's the "distance" part of action at a distance. Modern physics rejects the concept, saying instead that forces are carried by particles from a source to a destination, and the effect of the force is the result of local [opposite of "distant"] interaction with the particles carrying the force.

Compare wikipedia:

> Under our modern understanding, the four fundamental interactions (gravity, electromagnetism, the strong interaction and the weak interaction) in all of physics are not described by action at a distance.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_a_distance )

Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_locality

> This is an alternative to the concept of instantaneous, or "non-local" action at a distance.

> The idea is that for a cause at one point to have an effect at another point, something in the space between those points must mediate the action. To exert an influence, something, such as a wave or particle, must travel through the space between the two points, carrying the influence.

You'll note that "action at a distance" does in fact specifically mean that information travels faster than light!

But this understanding would seem to be incompatible with the idea that the mass inside a black hole can interact gravitationally with anything outside the black hole.
by hamandcheese | 2025-07-15 01:08:34+00:00
For the uninitiated, Strix Halo is the same as the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 which will be in the Framework Desktop and is starting to show up in some mini PCs as well.

The memory bandwidth on that thing is 200GB/s. That's great compared to most other consumer-level x86 platforms, but quite far off of an Nvidia GPU (a 5090 has 1792GB/s, dunno about the pro level cards) or even Apple's best (M3 Ultra has 800GB/s).

It certainly seems like a great value. But for memory bandwidth intensive applications like LLMs, it is just barely entering the realm of "good enough".
by Demiurge | 2025-07-15 01:08:35+00:00
How is the largest GIS project, or OpenStreetMap, relevant example for most projects?

But, to help those wondering about RnR vs Django for dealing with GIS data, the answer is the python ecosystem is just larger for dealing with GIS data. There are more libraries like fiona, shapely, gdal examples, etc. Django ORM supports all of the PostGIS functions, geos and ogr object helpers.

Rails does not have an alternative for PolygonField, Raster support, or geometry field queries like filter(geom__intersects=area)
by deathanatos | 2025-07-15 01:08:52+00:00
> 100 people. Working full time. Cannot take leave at last minute (or may not have it to take).

You're misinterpreting the thread. The context here is that the candidate is post-hire (…candidate is perhaps a poor word, but in the context of TFA, it makes more sense), so they're employed by the same company they're visiting.

I.e., the suggestion here is that Person A's employer E flies A out to E's headquarters to work for ~1 week.

Then you meet them in person, and can visually see they're not some fraudster in NK.

I.e., you start in-person, and transition to remote after 1wk.
by nulbyte | 2025-07-15 01:09:41+00:00
I don't think GP meant static addressing but literally, how many ask for IPv4 service? None, because you just provide it; it's an unstated expectation.

Now apply that to IPv6 and you can see the point that (I think) GP is making.

Side note: The claim it is not widely used doesn't track. How many people use Google or Facebook? More than half of that traffic is over IPv6.

https://circleid.com/posts/ipv6-usage-in-the-u.s-surpasses-5...
by readthenotes1 | 2025-07-15 01:10:11+00:00
Tldr: 'Davidson stripped off his nightshirt and swam away from the ship. The suction took him down, and when he came up, he swam into a frenzied crowd. “They tramped me under three times before I got through them. I swam on a little farther, but the water was fearfully cold, and I was out of practice swimming,” he said.

Davidson was picked up by a lifeboat and taken to the _Storstad_, which survived the collision.'

The article was apparently edited to increase prolixity.
by slowcache | 2025-07-15 01:11:45+00:00
I didn't think that this was much of a thing that needed to be investigated. Adding additional processing into your code will make it slow down.

On a related note, I had a consultant come into my work one time to the teach us some pragmatic things in C++. One of the lessons was that that gcc will not attempt to reorder the code within a try block to optimize it. This could be leading to some very minute slowdown in a C++ app in addition to the overhead associated with try/catch as a whole
by dylan604 | 2025-07-15 01:13:38+00:00
John Oliver likes to spend HBO's money to do things others can't do while entertaining the rest of us. I'm not spending my money on something to prove what is known as possible for you. At this point, even with receipts, you're coming across as someone that would argue that grass is not green, or water isn't wet, and fire isn't hot.

Just because someone doesn't answer your belligerent questions does not mean it's not possible. It probably means that the people that are doing this with first hand knowledge have too much to do than trying to convert doubting Thomas over here.
by cgibson2025 | 2025-07-15 01:14:04+00:00
I have a big question. When a startup takes on investors with no product, no user traction, no real feedback. How do they know that their "idea" or company is going to make all those millions of dollars? I built a working product, with real users, real traction, not just a pretty pitch deck. I am trying to build this into an actual company worth millions, not just a " 10 million dollar valuation", all that means is that you raised a bunch of money in a short amount of time, with no actual proof that people want what you are selling or providing. I am doing the opposite, I provided a product and I now know if people actual want what I'm providing. And they do. But I am not selling(equity) part of my company for millions of dollars without proof that my company will actually be used, or bought by real people. When I do take on investors, they will be pitching to me, not the other way around.
by ewoodrich | 2025-07-15 01:15:33+00:00
I use Roo Code (Cline fork) and spend roughly $15-30/mo by subscribing to Github Copilot Pro for $10/mo for unlimited use of GPT-4.1 via the VS Code LM API, and a handful of premium credits a month (I use Gemini 2.5 Pro for the most part).

Once I max out the premium credits I pay-as-you-go for Gemini 2.5 Pro via OpenRouter, but always try to one shot with GPT 4.1 first for regular tasks, or if I am certain it's asking too much, use 2.5 Pro to create a Plan.md and then switch to 4.1 to implement it which works 90% of the time for me (web dev, nothing too demanding).

With the different configurable modes Roo Code adds to Cline I've set up the model defaults so it's zero effort switching between them, and have been playing around with custom rules so Roo could best guess whether it should one shot with 4.1 or create a plan with 2.5 Pro first but haven't nailed it down yet.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-15 01:16:06+00:00
That article sure has 49 pictures, none of which show more than the very edge of the solar panel.

But looking at some proper pictures, it covers most of the midroof with 7x8 tiles of solar. But you could fit a good percentage, even sticking with a design where a huge amount of the roof into the trunk is all glass. And there are no panels on the hood. So that's an easy doubling right there, more with an average car roof shape.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-15 01:16:30+00:00
The movie is a distraction, past a certain point. Superman been a problem since forever, it's the problem Alan Moore grappled with as a writer and what drove Garth Enis to make superhero comics. As the author notes, it's why we have postmodern edgy "capekiller" franchises like The Boys and Invincible. Superman makes for a cool hero on a superficial level, but represents an uncanny villain for audiences with media literacy.

Superman's backstory has been rewritten too many times to count. I'm sure the new movie will make plenty of new retcons. Superman exists today for the same reason he did 100 years ago, the same reason Stan Lee got out of bed and the same reason we still get garbage Marvel flicks. These companies need money, and we're all gullible soulless creeps who need a superhuman feel-good story to enrich our solipsistic and deeply immoral lives. cha-ching Do you want popcorn and tickets to F1 with that?
by CanRau | 2025-07-15 01:17:30+00:00
HOC with render prop in 2025 https://github.com/TanStack/form/pull/1469 Render props in 2025 https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/Dialog.html#aler... and there's more examples, just couldn't find more without looking just saying, in general I agree, but they still have their place
by nulbyte | 2025-07-15 01:17:52+00:00
> Outside of the major cities, Internet service falls off extremely quickly.

Saline is less than 10 miles from Ann Arbor.

> The people who attempt to fill these gaps are commonly rural telephone companies, electric cooperatives, tribal entities, or mom and pop shops...

That's fair, but at some point, you need to recognize you are competing with a major ISP. No one appreciates it when you come in, tear up the roads, and then pull out once the incumbent ISPs bump up their speeds ever so slightly. (Looking at you, Google.)

> They are very, very unlikely to decide to run an IPv6 network just because.

No one deploys IPv6 "just because," and yet more than half of the traffic to major sites is IPv6.
by mlyle | 2025-07-15 01:17:55+00:00
I feel like you are not reading what I write, and what you write feels a little abrasive, so it kinda moots having a discussion.

> So you will force $190/MWh on all industrial consumers? This will end up killing said industry.

It is possible to have 10% of production be nuclear without having every kilowatt of energy sell for what nuclear production costs. And having stable base generation lowers some other costs (less storage required; less renewable overprovisioning required) and reduces some risks (that not enough storage can be built).

It comes down to:

* How much energy do you need to store for normal daily variation? If nuclear provides 10% of the energy overall, it's about 15% of the base load. On a typical day, you this means need to store 15% less to make it through the night.

* How much energy do you need to store for longer term variations, like hot weeks without much sunshine or cold weeks without much wind (via technologies like power to gas, etc). This means providing for normal demand during 99th percentile events and for critical demand for 99.99th percentile events. Batteries can't help much with this, so it's to some extent a duplicated set of infrastructure (power to gas, gas turbines operated at very low duty cycle, etc).

* How can you operate longer term storage infrastructure, like p2g and pumped hydro for more of the day, so that its capital costs amortize better? Shifting the renewable production curve upwards improves duty cycles.

New-build LCOE for both nuclear and storage often falls in the same ballpark — around $100–200/MWh — but they mean very different things. Storage LCOE doesn't include the cost of the energy being stored, so total delivered cost depends on the generation mix and timing. Without firm generation like nuclear, you need to overbuild renewables even more to cover gaps, which adds cost. On the flip side, nuclear has a fixed output profile, so you’re paying its full LCOE even when cheaper solar is abundant and curtailment is high.

Even if nuclear does prove more expensive per MWh than wind or solar + storage, having it supply 10% of total annual energy won’t significantly raise average rates. A higher LCOE on a small slice of the mix has limited impact on the weighted average, especially as it will reduce other system costs by cutting the need for overbuilding or long-duration storage.
by cheema33 | 2025-07-15 01:18:04+00:00
> I genuinely don't understand what value Cursor itself brings. It's like a wrapper for some APIs, right?

By similar token Windows is mostly a wrapper around Intel and AMD and now Qualcomm CPUs. Cursor/Windsurf add a lot of useful functionality. So much so so that Microsoft GitHub Copilot is losing marketshare to these guys.
by staticman2 | 2025-07-15 01:18:35+00:00
I can't guarantee it hasn't been patched- it's not like I frequently boot the Deck when the Internet is down but my network is running- but this reddit thread describes the problem though it seems the existence of a network but no Internet may not have been the trigger, any lack of Internet may have killed it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/ynxson/possible_...

As I recall I also hadn't used my Deck for a while.
by mbreese | 2025-07-15 01:19:05+00:00
I don’t think the Silverado is optimized for driving range, but rather - can it do typical “truck” stuff. For example hauling and/or towing. For this workload, having more towing capacity in a slightly less aerodynamic package is probably a good trade off. You don’t get a truck for the efficiency, you get one so you can do stuff with it.

Still, having a 400 mile range also makes this more useful for the middle of the country where there are wide open spaces between towns for charging. Also, having a legitimate truck EV makes it more likely for traditional truck buyers to think of getting an EV.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-15 01:19:13+00:00
> Everyone is also glossing over the distinction that regardless of the actual amount, it's not at an actual voltage that can charge the battery to add mileage.

Neither is the voltage when you plug it in at home. The car has a unit specifically to convert the voltage.

If you're saying they didn't connect the right wires for that, that sucks but is easily fixed.

> it's all out the window the second the car starts the ICE side of the hybrid drive system for even an instant

Nah, doing a drive where it's 99% solar power and 1% "burned an ounce of gas to maintain the engine for the month" is fine.
by dathinab | 2025-07-15 01:21:36+00:00
There are multiple aspects to it:

- sqlite is a bit like a RWLocked database either any number or readers xor exactly one writer and no readers

- but with WAL mode enabled readers and writers (mostly) don't block each other, i.e. you can have any number of readers and up to one writer (so normally you want WAL mode if there is any concurrent access)

- if a transaction (including implicit by a single command without "begin", or e.g. upgrading from a read to a write transaction) is taking too long due to a different processes write transaction blocking it SQLITE_BUSY might be returned.

- in addition file locks might be used by SQL bindings or similar to prevent multi application access, normally you wouldn't expect that but given that sqlite had a OPEN_EXCLUSIVE option in the past (which should be ignored by half way modern impl. of it) I wouldn't be surprised to find that.

- your file system might also prevent concurrent access to sqlite db files, this is a super obscure niche case but I have seen it once (in a shared server, network filesystem(??) context, probably because sqlite really doesn't like network filesystems often having unreliable implementations for some of the primitives sqlite needs for proper synchronization)

as other comments pointed out enabling WAL mode will (probably) fix your issues
by acjohnson55 | 2025-07-15 01:21:52+00:00
It would be one thing if it were some kind of sacrifice to have immigrants, but if all the undocumented immigrants disappeared, we would be substantially worse off as a country. We would have a shrinking, aging population.

The system of rules they are breaking is kept slow, arbitrary, and complex so that we can benefit from their labor without granting all the rights of being US citizens. This is so that they can be illegally exploited, but also because of the anxieties Americans have about the dilution of their culture (and to some, their bloodlines) by other ethnicities.

We didn't always have a system like this. It evolved into what it is, and now people feel morally righteous about upholding laws their own ancestors never were subject to.

And not a small number of people who did navigate the system but want everyone to have to pay the same dues. It's reminiscent to me of the folks with 4 year engineering degrees feeling salty that other folks have gotten into the industry through bootcamps, for a fraction of the time and money.
by gpm | 2025-07-15 01:22:17+00:00
They are distributing for free. For free, they are distributing a compiled version of the game which I have no source to, and no license to creative derivative works of, or to perform or display publicly, and so on.

That thing, which they call Dogwalk, and are distributing for free, is clearly not open source.

The other thing, which they probably also call dogwalk, and they'll give you if you pay them presumably is open source (or maybe the more accurate term is "free software" since the source isn't publicly available - i.e. open), but that doesn't make the download on the page linked by HN open source.
by scarby2 | 2025-07-15 01:22:54+00:00
> Thier max output is only 9.6kW so it can’t do a whole home backup and the car can only run in backup mode when the grid is out.

9.6kW should be enough to backup your entire house, that's 87A... Lots of people only have a 100A supply in general. Depending on your setup you may have to limit what you use at one time but even in a large house that will be more than enough for AC, lights and electronic devices.
by abletonlive | 2025-07-15 01:23:11+00:00
I'm not misunderstanding anything. It's just that the idea of a massively profitable company being labeled "over-funded" when excess profit is used in a way that you find disagreeable is stupid. It doesn't matter how well they allocate their revenue.

Stop looking at the entire world through the eyes of VC, because it doesn't work.

You're not funding google by paying for youtube, you're buying a service.

You didn't "overfund" your pizza shop that hired a stripper for friday night vibes, and neither did 99.99% of customers that paid google for their service offerings.

You just bought a pizza. Put down the VC podcasts
by mlyle | 2025-07-15 01:23:45+00:00
> the amount of storage needed was readily affordable.

I'm sorry, I don't think that cost is readily affordable!

> You agree that there's a reasonable chance the price could go down

I think the most likely outcome is that the price goes down. But I also think it's possible that the price goes up (decreasing returns to scale) as you try to build more.

> agree that parts other than the battery chemistry do indeed last much longer.

We often depreciate substations at 40 years despite parts inside lasting longer, and we have a whole lot of experience to value that. We don't have a lot of experience with long term lifecycle of batteries. E.g. recycling and decommissioning of batteries at scale is still a big unknown.
by swed420 | 2025-07-15 01:24:03+00:00
It's not as outlandish as you're attempting to paint it as, considering the author is assuming that capital interests remain in control when making such a claim.

And under that assumption, it's a bit crazy to think anything but depopulation will happen. Everything points to it being in their playbook; the blatant mishandling of COVID (which is far from over) by the uniparty being one of many glaring examples.
by btown | 2025-07-15 01:28:11+00:00
...nor is it meant to?

Two things can be true simultaneously: (a) it is worrisome that a company is selling PII at scale to government entities who would otherwise need to request that data through accountable warrant processes, and (b) we shouldn't call every such company a "data broker" lest we dilute the specificity of that term, particularly when the companies in question participate in the funds flow of the customer transaction.