MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-07-05 03:04:28+00:00
> I've been reading the Book of the Courtier this week, and it's clear that even back in the 16th century high status people were very concerned about whether they looked silly, or even whether their dances looked silly.

In the context of the situation the people worrying probably weren't the highest status person in the room though. In a room full of princes one of them is going to be feeling pressure because they are low status relative to their peers. That is what instincts key off, not absolute numbers of people that a body can't immediately detect.
by topato | 2025-07-05 03:05:57+00:00
I seem to remember multiple posts on large tech websites having the exact same opinion/conclusion/insinuation as the one you originally had, so not necessarily comprehension problem on your part. My opinion: Nvidia's CEO has a problem communicating in good faith. He absolutely knew what he was doing during that little stage show, and it was absolutely designed to mislead people toward the most "AI HYPE, PLEASE BUY GPUs, MY ROBOT NEEDS GPUS TO LIVE" conclusion
by djtango | 2025-07-05 03:06:52+00:00
Because the real world isn't "fun" and video games became more commercially successful when they realised that theme parks are more accessible than simulations.

Gaming was more ambitious and experimental then. The FFXI documentary [0] made me reflect on how much games have changed since. FFXI was heavily inspired by EQ so more credit to EQ but games today are so much more bland and engineered by design. That's how they achieve universal appeal and commercial success - by engineering its engagement. Reminds me of how packaged foods are engineered to be the most addictive by empirically finding the bliss point [1]. In games it will essentially be dopamine per minute and now mainstream games will never do something as crazy as crafting experiences as random and lumpy as real life. Instead every engagement is crafted to never be too frustrating and to give just enough rewards to keep the gamer on that hamster wheel, with the next engagement never being too far away.

Original Soulsborne games felt fresh because FromSoftware put friction and obscurity back in the spotlight.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MUAJ-cJbOFY

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
by carefulfungi | 2025-07-05 03:07:41+00:00
When thinking about the complexity of the United States it might be useful to compare it to Europe as a whole. The US is physically larger. The EU has 1.5x the population. Spain, Germany, Italy, and Hungary are four very different places. As are California, Ohio, Alabama, and Alaska. Does it feel strange to you that there aren't EU-wide social or health insurance programs; or that Hungary has different politics from Luxembourg; or that Greece and Germany have different economies? It is a very sloppy analogy. However, it is closer to comparing like orders of magnitude.
by the_af | 2025-07-05 03:07:44+00:00
I thought the phrase was a whimsical/poetic way of saying something that rings true to me: that all the possibilities in your mind get narrowed down to a single imperfect one when actually materializing/putting them into practice -- in a way getting "destroyed" and replaced with an imperfect but existing version -- and that we sometimes get anxious about this.

It's not the only way of looking at it, but it is one way, and it's not wrong.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-07-05 03:08:31+00:00
I expected this to be big news, but maybe it’s just 4th of July lag.

Current discussions:

https://x.com/watcherguru/status/1941167512491864554?s=61

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1lrw7zz/eig...

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/1lrx8q6/eight_dormant_...

No real info so far, just a lot of "yep, that happened" without any context.

So, let’s speculate.

- Why would satoshi move these funds now? (And are they actually Satoshi wallets?)

- The price hasn’t moved much, which suggests they moved the funds to someplace else as a signal, or they’re trading over-the-counter (seems unlikely; who could buy 10k BTC even if they’re for sale?). Has anyone looked into the destination wallets? I assume they’re not wallets for any exchange, otherwise people would be shouting that Satoshi is selling.

- The funds were dormant since 2011, but bitcoin was created in 2008. Were these coins mined? If so, is there any evidence the mining was done by Satoshi? (It’d be handy to list all the major miners from that time, if they’re even known.)
by quuxplusone | 2025-07-05 03:09:18+00:00
Leaving aside even "prompt engineering," the prompts ought to at least be in English! I found myself struggling a little to understand what the human author was getting at with input like

> Based on the information I gave you, the current location is "Behind House", when you enter house , where will it go?

> Based on the information I gave you above, what steps I have to take to "Gallery" from "Cellar"?

(And leave aside that an LLM obviously can't "learn a world model"; we don't have to run experiments to know that. I'm just saying that if you're trying to get answers out of the English-imitating machine, the indispensable first step is to put proper English into it.)

If the LLM has seen a walkthru for Zork before, then you could probably generate a similar walkthru by just starting it off with the first paragraph and then asking it to continue from there — discarding everything after the first new command, appending Zork's response, and asking it to continue again. But if it hadn't seen the solution to a puzzle before, that approach would break down as soon as it got to a puzzle. It wouldn't "know" what order to tackle the puzzles in, in order to complete the game.
by no_wizard | 2025-07-05 03:10:10+00:00
In my experience this usually doesn’t turn into a career hit, but a career boon. I’ve been doing this since I was a junior, now I’m a staff engineer, and admittedly I am biased toward myself, but my career growth has been robust and among both my current t team and my professional network I feel I command a fair amount of respect and approachability because of this practice, which always pays off in the long run
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-05 03:12:25+00:00
> Which implies you can already correct errors through a simple majority mechanism.

I don't think so? You set copies=2, and the disk says that your file starts with 01010101, except that the second copy says your file starts with 01010100. How do you tell which one is right? For that matter, even with only one copy ex. ZFS can tell that what it has is wrong even if it can't fix it, and flagging the error is still useful.

> So just by having the appropriate level of RAID you automatically solve the problem. Why is this in the fs layer then?

Similarly, you shouldn't need RAID to catch problems, only (potentially) to correct them. I do agree that it doesn't necessarily have to be in the FS layer, but AFAIK Linux doesn't have any other layers that do a good job of it (as mentioned above, dm-integrity exists but halving the write speed is a pretty big problem).
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-05 03:13:01+00:00
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/Changes-from-HTTP-Sw...

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-settings

Having tried both, IMHO they do not do exactly the same thing. One is pattern-based, the other is host-based. As such, one can use them together, simultaneously.
by rester324 | 2025-07-05 03:15:13+00:00
Feeling triggered? Feeling afraid? And yes, every claim needs to be proven, otherwise those who make the claims will only convince 4 year olds.

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

You have no proof of this, so I guess you chose your camp already?
by pornel | 2025-07-05 03:15:21+00:00
Compression is limited by the pigeonhole principle. You can't get any compression for free.

There's every possible text in Pi, but on average it's going to cost the same or more to encode the location of the text than the text itself.

To get compression, you can only shift costs around, by making some things take fewer bits to represent, at the cost of making everything else take more bits to disambiguate (e.g. instead of all bytes taking 8 bits, you can make a specific byte take 1 bit, but all other bytes will need 9 bits).

To be able to reference words from an English dictionary, you will have to dedicate some sequences of bits to them in the compressed stream.

If you use your best and shortest sequences, you're wasting them on picking from an inflexible fixed dictionary, instead of representing data in some more sophisticated way that is more frequently useful (which decoders already do by building adaptive dictionaries on the fly and other dynamic techniques).

If you try to avoid hurting normal compression and assign less valuable longer sequences of bits to the dictionary words instead, these sequences will likely end up being longer than the words themselves.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-07-05 03:15:27+00:00
One doesn't necessarily need to be blind to be an optimist. Optimist != zealot. And it's quite arguable that benefits of technological development outweigh the drawbacks in general.

Anecdotally, I've found recently it's more often than not the doomers who need the ice water thrown on them. That's usually where I'm hearing the incoherent zealot ranting style takes, and even in relatively "normal" circles like the art world there are many that basically want to shut the entire project down and are blind to the benefits.
by djtango | 2025-07-05 03:17:27+00:00
For me it feels like it was the perfect storm of games like this releasing at a time when a generation of gamers' attentions weren't saturated.

I didn't play EQ but on FFXI airships ran on a 15min schedule and if you missed it you would have to sit and wait, not dissimilar to real life. This kind of friction added a charm and immersion to the game but would never fly in a game today [pardon the pun].

Nowadays a lot of the enjoyment I seek out of games is mechanical difficulty and adrenaline because most the other aspects can be fulfilled away from the screen...
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-05 03:17:51+00:00
This feels like solving a good problem at the wrong layer? If you need auditing of everything being run on a box, I'd feel much better with something like https://github.com/squash/sudosh2 or https://github.com/a2o/snoopy ... though I grant that is on some ways that is a heavier solution.
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-07-05 03:18:57+00:00
This, and the few other famous photos and videos of similar operations, confuse me, because it violates my mental model of how buildings work. My mental model is that a modern building has a large, concrete foundation that extends significantly below the ground, and that the foundation is attached to the structural frame of the rest of the above-ground building. Then, how can jacks, whether manual or robotic, raise a building up off of its foundation?

Also, how can they scoot some, but not all, jacks over on any given step, and alternate? I understand that rigidity isn't fully binary, but I figured that buildings were on the more rigid side.
by skydhash | 2025-07-05 03:19:01+00:00
And if it's a work project, you're going to spend a few years working on the same tech. So by the time you're done, there's going to be templates, snippets,... that you can quickly reuse for any prototyping with the tech. You would be faster by the fact that you know that it's correct and you don't have to review it. Helps greatly with mental load. I remember initializing a project in React by lifting whole modules out of an old one. Those modules could have been libraries the way they were coded.
by dluan | 2025-07-05 03:19:27+00:00
If anyone is ever in Shanghai and interested in seeing this, it's in a very cool area called Fengshengli, where you can see these old preserved style warehouse buildings. The area is filled with hip breweries, coffee shops, bike shops, art galleries, and clothing boutiques, and it's actually not that crowded or busy compared to other touristy spots. It's also nicer compared to Xintiandi imo, where it feels more produced and fake, like a reconstruction as opposed to actual heritage buildings.

Great snapshot of classic Shanghai architecture, blended with new, like this really cool coffee spot: https://www.archdaily.com/973430/birdie-cup-coffee-fog-archi...
by mindcandy | 2025-07-05 03:21:52+00:00
Compared to the “Magnificent Seven”, Bitcoin’s volatility has put it in the middle, while it’s performance puts it at or near the top depending on the time window.

https://www.fidelitydigitalassets.com/research-and-insights/...

https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/03/06/bitcoin-has-been-a...
by anonymars | 2025-07-05 03:23:47+00:00
Agreed. An excellent summary of a lot of missteps that have been building for a while. I had watched that article on the power connector/ shunt resistors and was dumbfounded at the seemingly rank-amateurish design. And although I don't have a 5000 series GPU I have been astonished at how awful the drivers have been for the better part of a year.

As someone who filed the AMD/ATi ecosystems due to their quirky unreliability, Nvidia and Intel have really shit the bed these days (I also had the misfortune of "upgrading" to a 13th gen Intel processor just before we learned that they cook themselves)

I do think DLSS supersampling is incredible but Lord almighty is it annoying that the frame generation is under the same umbrella because that is nowhere near the same, and the water is awful muddy since "DLSS" is often used without distinction
by strogonoff | 2025-07-05 03:24:15+00:00
To be strategic, you think hard enough how to get somewhere and carefully plan and eliminate unknowns until you reach a point when getting there is no longer interesting.

Congratulations: you have successfully turned your cool idea into a chore. It’s just a lot of trivial typing and package management and it might not even be all that impressive when it is done.

Your idea is not at all a path well-trodden, but it is a path down which you’ve sent a high-resolution camera FPV drone so many times that you doubt you will see anything new in person.

What might happen then is that you try to keep it interesting by making it more impressive and raising the bar, by continuing to think and plan even harder. Why not write it in Rust? Why not make it infinitely extensible? More diagrams, hundreds more of open tabs…

It can absolutely lead to cool ideas with strategic and well-defined execution plans. Unfortunately, it is also difficult to break this loop and actually implement without an external force or another mind giving you some reframing.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-07-05 03:25:40+00:00
The crypto cohort would be the one area that does seem to have some serious sway.

Trump doesn't care about his free Tesla. Hundreds of millions from meme-coins talks louder. Ditto with new markets for influential financial players to grow into, and a vast new area for VC to cash-in on (the IPO cash-outs greatly benefit from "legitimacy"). Follow the money. Although I do have to circle back to the first point which is that they do seem to have played the game right on many fronts (including threatening to primary politicians/using the stick effectively).
by richardw | 2025-07-05 03:27:27+00:00
It ranged from whether an epic v10 sport surf ski was a good fit for a newbie, to entra ID questions, to local data residency compliance laws, new jira alternatives, why schools ask for closed shoes, text to speech tool search. Many of these I use eg o4-mini-high for because I want it to ground itself: find material and compile something for me, but get me an answer fairly quickly.

Ones that don’t work but weren’t in the last 10: voice. It sounds amazing but is dumb as rocks. Feels like most of the GPU compute is for the media, not smarts. A question about floating solar heaters for pools. It fed me scam material. A question about negotiating software pricing. Just useless, parroted my points back at me.

I scale models up and down based on need. Very simple: gpt-40. Smarts: o4-mini-high. Research: deep research. I love Claude but at some point it kept running out of capacity so I’d move elsewhere. Although nothing beats it for artefacts. MS Copilot if I want a quick answer to something MS oriented. It’s terrible but it’s easy to access.

Coding is generally Windsurf but honestly that’s been rare for the last month. Been too busy doing other things.
by nchmy | 2025-07-05 03:27:55+00:00
You're either not communicating in good faith, or just a complete fool.

Any sensible person would agree with you in the abstract.

But you're having the conversation in a thread where the person who should be seeking redemption has done the opposite. What you seem to considerinimally redeeming and seemingly even applauding, MANY people consider to be making the situation worse - a disingenuous apology, and only because they got caught. THAT is what we're piling on about, not the initial (egregious) infraction.

Anyway, I'm done here.
by kristopolous | 2025-07-05 03:27:58+00:00
People are actively doing it. Mostly using clore.ai on their 4090x bundles.

I used to work in the gpu rental space up to about a month ago.

I talked to multiple people dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars on looking for those keys.

I'd put house odds at say 20:1 that someone cracked it over someone holding for 14 years and deciding now is strike time.

Also if it's a true crack, then Bitcoin price could collapse swiftly if someone just snatched a wallet for 200k of compute or whatever.

That's always been the real existential risk. I talked about it as the DES problem over a decade ago. Let's see if this is it
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-05 03:29:03+00:00
Never be afraid to ask stupid questions. As someone who spent years doing penetration testing, I can assure you that when stupid questions don’t have an obvious answer, someone isn’t thinking properly.

Also never be afraid to question people who answer quickly. We spend way too much effort training smart people to answer quickly rather than deeply, and there’s almost always a tradeoff between the two.
by toofy | 2025-07-05 03:29:43+00:00
yeah, it sounds like we both agree with the original post.

it literally doesn’t make someone an engineer.

its not difficult to understand but for some reason when its said it pisses certain people off.

i suspect many of the people upset want to convince themselves they’re suddenly magically a musician, architect, engineer, novelist, programmer, etc… when it just couldn’t be further from the truth. they’re just doing the equivalent of sending a dm to a coder friend and the friend is the actual programmer.

i think some people don’t appreciate being told the truth.
by paradox460 | 2025-07-05 03:34:25+00:00
Years ago, I worked on a site where we constantly had requests from the non technical side of the company to make the site load faster. We were perplexed in engineering. The site loaded and was ready for us in less than a fraction of a second.

Eventually we realized that every dev ran ubo, and tried loading the site without it. It took about 5 seconds. Marketing and other parts of the company had loaded so much crap into GTM that it just bogged everything down
by al_borland | 2025-07-05 03:34:37+00:00
Interesting. I have a co-worker who lives just outside of Flint and he said it was effectively all resolved several years ago. Either way, it's good to see the job get finished.

I just found out last year I had a lead water line that the city replaced (from inside my house it looked like coper, but there was a stretch of lead between the main and the pipe that comes into the house). I assume my city had a fire lit under them from what happened in Flint. I should probably go get some tests done, I drank that water for a year or two and it was a bit metallic tasting (I had a filter, but only used it intermittently). I noticed a big difference once the pipe was replaced.
by Aromasin | 2025-07-05 03:36:00+00:00
You can absolutely do this using something like a CertusProNX from Lattice (I much prefer it to the Polarfire), mounting an SFP/SFP+ cage onto the FMC connector of the board, and wire their transceiver lanes to the FPGA SERDES pins. HiTech Global has a 4-port SFP/SFP+ FMC module. I believe there are also QSFP mezzanine cards but I haven't looked much into that. ISI or Trenz probably make something.
by upghost | 2025-07-05 03:36:01+00:00
Monads are a set of annotated functions or methods that participate in shared encapsulating middleware. It's kind of like writing an interpreter for existing code by changing shape of the inputs, outputs, and possibly even flow control of the execution of those functions -- but without writing an interpreter.

The easiest example would be something like wrapping a bunch of arithmetic operations with a "cumulative" monad. Effectively this changes your add, sub, mul, div functions such that instead of taking 2 floats and returning a float, they take a hashmap and return a hashmap. The hashmap consists of the original args as well as the cumulative total, for whatever reason. The details of the hashmap are hidden from you, you use the functions as per normal.

You could also make the wrapper monad have some state, and then batch the operations while making them appear to execute sequentially, or make it appear you are doing pure logic when I/O is happening under the hood.

While you can do monads in dynamic languages, it can be hard to reason about changes to the code without strong compiler support, so typically you see it more often implemented in statically typed languages.

In dynamic languages such as lisp you might be better off writing a small interpreter, and in OO languages there are other patterns that might serve the purpose better.

I still don't know what a monoid is though. Or an applicative.
by richardw | 2025-07-05 03:36:11+00:00
Nah I’m all over the place. I said the last 10, to check if the 90% claim could be true if you do what I’ve done recently: use it for tons of little general ad hoc things rather than eg code needing serious accuracy.

I don’t “trust” it in the way I’d trust a smart colleague. We know how this works: use it for info that has a lot of results, or ask it to ground itself if it’s eg new info and you can’t rely on training memory. Asking it about esoteric languages or algo’s or numbers will just make you sad. It will generate 1000 confident tokens. But if you told me to lose Google or ChatGPT+Claude, Google is getting dumped instantly.
by rescripting | 2025-07-05 03:38:04+00:00
The burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

I claimed billions of birds are killed each year by cats and provided a source (and there exist many more).

> Again, you specified the total number without providing the old/ill number. The relation of those numbers can completely change the conclusion, and i can only wonder why you didn't provide the old/ill number.

You claimed they kill mainly the sick and old birds but provide no sources for this claim, then attack my source for not containing the proof you failed to provide.

> On the 3rd planet from Sun the wild cats are practically everywhere.

So are rats. Would you call them a native species in places like Hawaii? No, neither are cats.

> somehow you want to tackle the first and not the second

Because this thread is about cats, not buildings. This is just changing the subject when your argument won’t stand up to scrutiny.
by refurb | 2025-07-05 03:38:32+00:00
Detectives are "masked thugs to pop out of unmarked vehicles and grab people off the streets".

You've never seen a takedown of street level drug dealers? Unmarked cars, plainclothes police, grab everyone off the street?

I'm really trying to understand what specifically you find objectionable. Is it the fact that ICE isn't in uniform? Or that they wear masks? Or that they arrest people?