MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-07-31 22:33:06+00:00
> Yeah thats basically it.

Good to know. I'm the opposite, knowing how large the universe is, makes me more curious.

> linguistically true

You seam to perceive any kind of statement as purely linguistical and not really about the thing itself. To me this seams like taking the map for the territory. This makes it hard to argue, because I want to express something about the nature of a thing, but you take it to mean the perception of a thing and seam to reject that the nature of a thing even exists?

> I just don't find "1 = 1" interesting. You are doing the same thing with 2 x pi x r = c. That really boils down to 1 = 1.

Yes that's a tautology. 2 x pi x r = c is a also tautological if that is what you defined c to be. That's obviously not useful. But that's not what the meaning of pi is. It is that r -> c is computable and how.

Yes you can claim that tools and perception aren't correct and giving you the truth. I think this leads to the idea that everything is just made-up by your mind and we are all just things your mind images that don't exist at all. This just means that everything is meaningless and nothing can be true at all.

But this idea has a fallacy. Everything you believe or make ideas is based on that you can perceive things a being real and truthfully. If you reject that you can just reject any insight INCLUDING the idea you just had. The idea can't be true, because you just rejected that truth exists. Everything humans do and think assumes that Laplace's daemon exists and that humans somehow participate in it. Without it there is no truth, no understanding, no thoughts; nothing is anymore.

> talking to ChatGPT

Yeah I refrain from that especially for things I don't know about, because I know how subtly incorrect it is about things I know about quite a bit. I also like to my correspondent having a grounding in reality.
by dvrp | 2025-07-31 22:33:25+00:00
Haha-classic!

It’s simple: hackability and recruiting!

The open-source community hacking around it and playing with it PLUS talented engineers who may be interested in working with us already makes this release worth it. A single talented distributed systems engineer has a lot of impact here.

Also, the company ethos is around AI hackability/controllability, high-bar for talent, and AI for creatives - so this aligns perfectly.

The fact that Krea serves both in-house and 3rd-Party models tells you that we are not that bullish on models being a moat.
by actinium226 | 2025-07-31 22:33:37+00:00
> This nuclear reactor has to be connected for fleet monitoring if you want to operate it. Which excludes it from many real life scenarios where diesel generators are used.

I don't understand this sentence, why does connection to fleet monitoring preclude using this microreactor as opposed to a diesel generator? Can't you just hook a starlink up to it, and program it to shut down in the event of prolonged comms loss?
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-31 22:33:44+00:00
The project to build

https://www.libraryplaceithaca.com/

was almost a decade late, like a nuclear reactor, and they realized only after it was built that there is no market in our town for "luxury senior housing" because seniors with money go to Florida or Arizona. If they could fill the places you might say that it's better business to build expensive rather than cheap apartments but when these places are vacant you start to wonder if they are farming tax writeoffs or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wfblqh9icQ

What you expect first is they are going to tell the local town they can't pay the property taxes, in a few years they'll tell the bank they can't afford the loans they took out to build it.

Other "luxury apartment" projects outside of Collegetown usually have some segment of subsidized "affordable" units, one of these has at least two police calls to it a day and in the last few weeks these have included murder and arson.
by gargalatas | 2025-07-31 22:34:06+00:00
I totaly agree with the author. Not even the smartphone or the iphone brought such a sudden change to so many people and in many cases, for free. I know we want to oppose this huge thing just because it doesn't make sense moraly but when you learn using this tool there is no way back. Just imagine what is coming in the next 5-10 years. Even if the tools remain at the same level as today, people have learned to use it so well that ever sector every industry will speed up tremendously. We will see great new products and ideas emerging. Just can't wait for the revolution.
by evil-olive | 2025-07-31 22:34:23+00:00
> The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business.

ctrl-F "RealPage" - nothing. hmm.

ctrl-F "rent" - also nothing. really?

from about a year ago: Justice Department Sues RealPage for Algorithmic Pricing Scheme that Harms Millions of American Renters [0]

> The Justice Department, together with the Attorneys General of North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against RealPage Inc. for its unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing and to monopolize the market for commercial revenue management software that landlords use to price apartments.

> ...

> Another landlord commented about RealPage’s product, “I always liked this product because your algorithm uses proprietary data from other subscribers to suggest rents and term. That’s classic price fixing…”

if I hear about antitrust in the context of housing policy, RealPage making it easier for apartment buildings to collude on rent prices is the very first thing that leaps to mind.

it seems like Thompson is being awfully selective about which antitrust-related criticisms he's responding to here. he seems to be focusing exclusively on building single-family homes, and completely ignoring the concrete example of monopoly power being used for apartment rentals, and antitrust laws being used to address that.

0: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...
by kccqzy | 2025-07-31 22:34:35+00:00
Building only affordable housing is how you get cities into a downward spiral. The people who want luxury housing are the well-to-do. They probably contribute 10x the sales tax per capita than the people who live in affordable housing. And almost by definition luxury housing causes more property tax to be paid to cities than affordable housing. Both sales tax and property tax revenues shrink. And the city gets into a fiscal crisis. The city reduces services. People leave. Housing becomes more affordable but also more undesirable.
by nodja | 2025-07-31 22:35:10+00:00
> As things have shifted more towards mass consumption of model weights it's become less and less common to see.

Not the real reason. The real reason is that training has moved to FP/BF16 over the years as NVIDIA made that more efficient in their hardware, the same reason you're starting to see some models being released in 8bit formats (deepseek).

Of course people can always quantize the weights to smaller sizes, but the master versions of the weights is usually 16bit.
by soulofmischief | 2025-07-31 22:35:23+00:00
If someone has cognitive dissonance over hearing the word "dark" and immediately jumps to a racist interpretation, it's really not my problem to fix. Racism exists in many forms, and the road to hell is paved in good intentions. I would argue that avoiding the word "dark" because it reminds you of black people is pretty damned racist.
by russellbeattie | 2025-07-31 22:35:31+00:00
The article conflates a few different "slow" projects, rather than the premise which is efforts that required decades to come to fruition.

He mentions projects started long ago but are still ongoing, like the Sagrada Familia. Then there's innovations from long ago which are still being used, like Linux. Also, he includes ideas which took decades to finally be implemented, like LIGO.

In my opinion, none of these examples are particularly good at demonstrating, "What problems can human beings only solve over a very long period of time?", except for Fermat's Last Theorem.

All technology builds on that which came before, step by step. You can trace Unicode directly back to Morse Code, via various steps like ASCII, Telex, Baudot Code, etc. But the original goal of Morse wasn't to display emojis.

I'd say General Relativity might be a good example, starting with Newton's efforts to quantify the forces of the real world, ending with Einstein's explanation of spacetime. But again, it's not as clear of a problem as Fermat's Last Theorem which was a single problem that required centuries to solve.

AI may be a good example as well, starting with the advent of the digital computer. The very first scientists who worked with them like von Neumann immediately looked forward to the day of an electronic brain. It's taken nearly a century so far and is still underway.
by ajkjk | 2025-07-31 22:35:33+00:00
Gosh, no, the barriers just make few people feel like there's any meaning at all. You want a world designed to keep everyone depressed? No, it's a skill issue: it shouldn't be that way but we suck at fixing it, or even conceptualizing the problem. So much so that they do what the managers and directors and a lot of everyone else fo: pretend really hard that their life is giving them fulfillment. It's so hard in this economy to find meaningful work that pays decently that it's easier for most people to lie to themselves and pretend (or take the right drugs) because being honest about how fake it is would reveal the falseness of the whole thing.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-31 22:36:18+00:00
Recent research shows that medium is excellent. It's the same high waterline of quality you expect from big with the cost-consciousness of small. Medium has huge opportunities for growth - excellent long-term staying potential, and if you invest now, you too can reap a portion of the profit.

Of course, our first action will be to break into the big market. We need lower-expectation luxury customers to sample our medium, so we can understand how it compares to big. Then we have to cut margins down on medium to be closer to small, which gives us more freedom to address the most profitable markets. It's a delicate balance, you know!

But our medium is the best, most-affordable medium you can buy. Not one person can question the excellence of our medium (which continues to delight) or the genius of our pricing model (which captures more customers every day). Why settle for greatness when medium is so attainable?
by standardUser | 2025-07-31 22:36:23+00:00
> You'll probably need to bail out recent homebuyers, who will be permanently underwater

If you buy a house for $400k, and suddenly it is worth $300k, you don't need to be "bailed out" for your purchase decision. You should have been certain that the house was worth $400k to you at the time of purchase. Otherwise you're a speculator, and we shouldn't be bailing out speculators.

It's called buyer's remorse. We accept it when it's a car or a TV, but suddenly when it's a house we're supposed to give massive government support to correct the buyer's mistake?
by verte_zerg | 2025-07-31 22:36:40+00:00
In the M4, Apple mostly added counters only for the SME engine. The full list of supported counters can be found in the official guide: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/cpu-...

Regarding branch profiling, all arm64 (M1+) cpus support these counters: - BRANCH_CALL_INDIR_MISPRED_NONSPEC - BRANCH_COND_MISPRED_NONSPEC - BRANCH_INDIR_MISPRED_NONSPEC - BRANCH_MISPRED_NONSPEC - BRANCH_RET_INDIR_MISPRED_NONSPEC - INST_BRANCH - INST_BRANCH_CALL - INST_BRANCH_COND - INST_BRANCH_INDIR - INST_BRANCH_RET - INST_BRANCH_TAKEN

afaik there is no limitation to implementing the fetching of all these counters based on ibireme’s research on kperf. btw, forked "poop" already can fetch BRANCH_MISPRED_NONSPEC.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-31 22:36:41+00:00
> But when the user is the device owner? Doesn't do much.

A decent Secure Boot implementation together with a BIOS/EFI password at least makes the life of US CBP or similar thugs wanting to use my devices against me much more difficult.

And no, that's not an imaginary threat, certainly not under this administration which has come under fire multiple times for first detaining and then deporting random tourists.
by pornel | 2025-07-31 22:37:08+00:00
Even with the best intentions, the implementation is going to have bugs and quirks that weren't meant to be the standard.

When there's no second implementation to compare against, then everything "works". The implementation becomes the spec.

This may seem wonderful at first, but in the long run it makes pages accidentally depend on the bugs, and the bugs become a part of the spec.

This is why Microsoft has a dozen different button styles, and sediment layers of control panels all the way back to 1990. Eventually every bug became a feature, and they can't touch old code, only pile up new stuff around it.

When you have multiple independent implementations, it's very unlikely that all of them will have the same exact bug. The spec is the subset that most implementations agree on, and that's much easier to maintain long term, plus you have a proof that the spec can be reimplemented.

Bug-compatibility very often exposes unintended implementation details, and makes it hard even for the same browser to optimize its own code in the future (e.g. if pages rely on order of items you had in some hashmap, now you can't change the hashmap, can't change the hash function, can't store items in a different data structure without at least maintaining the old hashmap at the same time).
by baby_souffle | 2025-07-31 22:37:18+00:00
> Lotta haters out there but this is just advanced as I want to get in my home lab

IN all fairness, that hate is reasonable. Ubiquity has _some_ things done super well. As long as your needs are addressed by the config/options/UX/API that they expose, you'll have a pretty good experience. As soon as you need to do something that isn't easy, you're going to be fighting your core network infra the entire time and that's a miserable place to be.

Stick to unifi for switches and *basic* routing. Use their LED lighting / Cameras / Access Control and other side-projects at your discretion.
by ozgrakkurt | 2025-07-31 22:37:34+00:00
Why not have some platform that lets users to actually buy the movie and download/stream it as a file at full quality on their device?

Renting is sucky compared to just buying things, you could watch any movie you want and have unlimited access to it instead of juggling 5 subscriptions and get frustrated with shitty products. And publishers that make actual good movies that people want to watch would be rewarded
by freddie_mercury | 2025-07-31 22:37:46+00:00
Thompson is responding to a specific paper.

'One of the most detailed articles in this space is an analysis of the Dallas, Texas, housing market by the lawyer and writer Basel Musharbash. In “Messing With Texas: How Big Homebuilders and Private Equity Made American Cities Unaffordable”'

Musharbash doesn't mention RealPage either, so go blame him, since he doesn't think RealPage contributes to Dallas's problems.
by upghost | 2025-07-31 22:37:50+00:00
> Within weeks I built a serverless system processing 5 million social media posts daily, tracking topic clusters and emerging narratives in real-time. Then brand monitoring dashboards. Then a "robojournalist" that could deep-dive any trending story. Then hardware and firmware specs for a coffee machine. Then my first mobile app.

I call bullshit. Let's see some repos.
by lambda | 2025-07-31 22:37:50+00:00
This is a perfectly succinct way to put it.

New housing is simply more expensive; so it's marketed as "luxury", and it's sold at a premium to the higher end of the housing market. This reduces demand for the older, more affordable existing housing stock, and with depreciation and wear and tear, the new housing will become more affordable as time goes on.

If you're in a market with a shortage of housing, those with more money will simply outbid those with less, even for older, less desirable housing. I've seen it, where when I moved out of my last apartment before I bought a house, my landlady raised rent considerably when looking for a new tenant, and even then she got a tenant who wanted to pay her over the rate that she was asking for to ensure that they were able to get the apartment over all of the other applicants. Wealthy empty-nesters who were downsizing, and willing to pay a premium for an older apartment in a desirable neighborhood, forcing out anyone who might have otherwise been able to afford it.

So yes, while it does help for there to be some push to build more affordable housing, if taken to an extreme building only luxury housing will leave an unbalanced market, in a lot of cases building luxury housing is exactly what you want to do to reduce the competition for the existing, more affordable housing stock.
by bpc777 | 2025-07-31 22:38:06+00:00
Ableton Live is very intuitive and there is a lite version that is bundled with some interfaces (https://www.ableton.com/en/products/live-lite/features/?pk_v...). It has been years so I don't remember which interface / version I started with but I quickly fell in love and upgraded to the full version. The time I have spent learning it has been fun and worthwhile, so maybe give it a try.
by echelon | 2025-07-31 22:38:13+00:00
100%

"Supply and Demand" is a law of nature.

If you build infinite luxury apartments, in the limit their value is zero.

Build more luxury housing and the inventory increases. If you've met the city's housing demands (which you probably won't since nearly every city is behind on meeting demand), then it follows that typically less desirable inventory experiences less demand and will subsequently experience a price drop.

The problem is nobody is building enough. The equations of taxes, property value, and developer profit all balance each other out and control the rate of building. Regulations slow this equilibrium even more.

A few policies that can help:

- Remove stupid regulations against building dense housing. Keep the fire safety regulations, but nix the multifamily zoning regulations, the building height regulations, curb space and parking space minimums, etc. There are so many NIMBY and outdated 1950's era regulations that make it costly and time consuming to break ground.

- Tax unproductive land use, eg. storage units and parking garages. This will convert those plots into housing and businesses.

- Heavily tax unused and dilapidated land that is not currently occupied by businesses or residents. Burned out houses have no place in the city. Tax these properties to the point that they fall into foreclosure and give cities the power to take over the land and sell it at a profit to developers. Give owners the chance to cure the issue, but make quick work of clearing these useless plots.

- More controversially, tax single family housing more than multi-family housing. Tax it proportional to how many people could live on the plot if it were occupied by a 10-story development. Or if you don't want to raise taxes, lower taxes on multi-family housing. This will encourage density.

- Give tax breaks to developers, apartment and condo complexes, and businesses that help underwrite development.

Note that these policies only make sense in dense metropolitan cities. Suburbs and rural areas don't need to operate in this way.
by zmmmmm | 2025-07-31 22:38:29+00:00
I think a key point from this article that I agree strongly with is the simple point that it is crucial that everyone recognise we are currently in an AI bubble.

I often find people contest this with the non-sequitur of "No, it's not a bubble, there is real value there. We are building things with it". The fact there is real value in the technology does not contradict in any way that we are in a bubble. It may even be supporting evidence for it. Compare with the dot com bubble : nobody would tell you there was no value in the internet. But it was still a bubble. A massive hyper inflated bubble. And when it popped, it left large swathes of the industry devastated even while a residual set of companies were left to carry on and build the "real" eventual internet based reworking of the entire economy which took 10 - 15 years.

People would be well advised to have a look at this point in time at who survived the dot com bubble and why.
Show HN: Demitter – Distributed Node.js Event Emitter (Pub/Sub)
by pmbanugo | 2025-07-31 22:38:40+00:00
WHat if you could take Node.js event emitter and turn it into a distributed pub-sub system?

I built Demitter to solve a problem I kept thinking about recently: how to easily share events between Node.js processes without the complexity of setting up Redis, RabbitMQ, or other heavyweight message brokers? It uses ZeroMQ for messaging and MessagePack for serialization, ensuring high performance even at high event frequencies.

What it does:

- Takes the familiar `emitter.on()` and `emitter.emit()` API you may already know in Node.js - Makes it work seamlessly across multiple processes/machines - Zero configuration required: just `npm install demitter` and go

Don't take my word for it, see it in action:

I created a live auction demo where multiple bidders run in separate terminal windows, all bidding in real-time on the same auctions. Watch it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQShQ9-dsk – it's pretty satisfying to see ~7 processes staying perfectly synchronized in real-time.

Where I you might use it:

- Worker processes needed coordination without complexity - You want to scale Socket.IO or WebSocket servers without heavy message brokers - any other need for pub/sub across Node.js processes.

I built this because I wanted a lightweight solution that didn't compromise on the familiar Node.js event API. Existing solutions felt too heavy for simple pub/sub, and I wanted to keep the Node.js event API developers already know.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this approach. Is it something you would find useful? What other use cases do you think it could solve for you?

I'm in EU and it's very late here, so I'll catch up on comments tomorrow.
by mjg59 | 2025-07-31 22:39:06+00:00
Vouched for the parent because it's a reasonable question.

As well as the new root certificates in db, which are used to decide whether signed code will execute or not, there will be a new signed Microsoft key for KEK. This isn't involved in the boot process, but is required for Microsoft to be able to sign further revocation updates. The article is discussing the db case, and if you want to ensure things signed only with the new key will boot on your system, you would want to add them to db.

Microsoft can sign a db update themselves (since there's a valid Microsoft key in KEK and db updates need to be signed with a key in KEK), but KEK updates need to be signed with PK. Microsoft doesn't own PK, so adding the new KEK requires the system vendor produce an update signed with their PK.

If you are in a position to enroll the new keys then you should enroll the new db keys if you want new binaries to be guaranteed to boot, and add the new KEK if you want to be able to apply future Microsoft-signed dbx updates.
by poemxo | 2025-07-31 22:39:09+00:00
But sitting in front of computers isn't what computer science is about, and some of those students might have aspirations to change the HCI status quo.

Software engineering and computer science seem to have two strict criteria to consider and neither of them is the same sort of continuous, analog suffering as wearing large shoes or practicing shooting a basketball. These criteria are

1) can you solve hard problems? 2) do you want to continue solving hard problems?

At least to me it seems that those two things take more effort and willpower than anything else in software. So I don't think challenging a person about whether they would love to sit in front a computer all day is the right approach.