MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sangwulee | 2025-07-31 21:33:45+00:00
We have not added a separate RTX accelerated version for FLUX.1 Krea, but the model is fully compatible with existing FLUX.1 dev codebase. I don't think we made a separate onnx export for it though. Doing 4~8 bit quantized version with SVDQuant would be a nice follow up so that the checkpoint is more friendly for consumer grade hardware.
by tptacek | 2025-07-31 21:33:45+00:00
Until you reach transient shelter beds, which may not be saturated in a region (in some places in Chicagoland the work is going into outreach to get people off the street and into shelter beds as much as it is in expanding the number of beds), every additional unit of housing you build frees up some unit at or below that unit on the stack of housing. The effect percolates all the way down to long-term supportive housing rooms.

I don't really understand the intuition people have for how anything else could be the case. You make new housing available, people move into it, leaving vacancies. Pretty simple.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-07-31 21:33:58+00:00
> yet it is still an obscure tech and will likely end up like IPv6.

Probably. According to Google, IPv6 has a measly 46% of internet traffic now [0], and growing at about 5% per year. QUIC is 40% of Chrome traffic, and is growing at 5% every two years [1]. So yeah, their fates do look similar, which is to say both are headed for world domination in a couple of decades.

[0] https://dnsmadeeasy.com/resources/the-state-of-ipv6-adoption...

[1] https://www.cellstream.com/2025/02/14/an-update-on-quic-adop...
by ben_w | 2025-07-31 21:34:01+00:00
> I asked for hard examples of researchers being stolen that back up your point.

"Stolen" is a far cry from "taken". Researchers are not property, they have free will. And in this case, it's "taken" in the sense of "taken on" or "taken in", because the USA is actively cutting science and research budgets.

So, you want what, a dozen names of people you've likely never heard of because most researchers are not celebrities?

Or you could ask Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, the vice dean of research and graduate education at UW Medicine, who said "We’re going to have a big brain drain in the U.S. of these really talented folks, … It’s not just a switch that you flip, right? If people move out into another direction with their careers, they often don’t come back." - https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/one-countrys-lead...

There's some pseudonymous examples here, too: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-03-27/us-scient...

> And why is he and the rest like him in the US and not in Europe?

Why did he go to the USA in the first place? Because of the different world in 1997 when he graduated.

Why is he still there? Everyone's different, but I can say that the older you get, more ties you have. After Brexit, I was free to move to Germany, but my brother, a decade older and with a family, couldn't even though he was interested.
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-31 21:34:59+00:00
> For black-list/white-list replacing with block-list/allow-list (also more descriptive) is a a clearer example of the rationale to change the terminology.

Sometimes it is more descriptive, but sometimes other words will be more descriptive, too. (Usually the words "blacklist" and "whitelist" are not hyphenated from what I could see, though) Sometimes the list is used to block and allow something, but sometimes other words such as exclude and include will be better. To really be more descriptive you might write e.g. "allow by default but deny whatever is listed", and "deny by default but allow only what is listed", etc.

> If we become conditioned that uses of "dark" invoke gut feelings of sneaky, shady, illegal, secretive, nefarious, evil, etc.

At least to me, it does not. It might be secretive (because, it is dark, it cannot be seen; however, just because it cannot be seen does not necessarily imply that they intend to keep it secret and prevent anyone from knowing what it is), does not necessarily mean it is illegal and nefarious and evil.

> Whether that is true or not, in any case, the alternative terminology being more descriptive, it is low-hanging fruit to adopt it.

I do agree, if you actually do have a better more descriptive terminology, it will be better, although being more descriptive can also make the wording too long, so that can be a disadvantage too. Also, sometimes words are suggested, which do not sound good, or are too similar to the other word.
by BeetleB | 2025-07-31 21:35:30+00:00
Not the ones I dealt with.

Mechanical Engineer: I build real things that I can touch!

Electrical Engineer: I get to play with oscilloscopes, and do soldering!

You get the idea.

I think this is because as students, a lot of engineering work is either labs, or on paper. They don't realize how much dependent on computers professional engineering work is.
by acidburnNSA | 2025-07-31 21:35:36+00:00
If they radiation shield it properly, I'd like to think so. That won't do anything to 8 ft of concrete plus 4" of tungsten.

Plus the fuel form holds in a lot of the fission products even when scattered around. It may overheat and release volatile fission products but I don't think it would be a widespread disaster no matter what.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-31 21:35:46+00:00
There's much much better Secure Boot and encrypted disk options than there used to be, which is good!!

But it does feel like the security regime is pretty lax. I feel like some BLE tracker system is a natural fit for laptops. I'd love a motion sensor alarm built in.

Framework laptop's embedded controller is open source, run Zephyr. I don't think there's a ton of peripherals it has access too, but I love the idea that one could potentially make their own firmware that has their own security designs built in.
by metadat | 2025-07-31 21:35:46+00:00
1. Can I have one in my driveway?

2. Why only refuelable 4 times?

3. Is it really safe to fly around with in an airplane? Can major airlines help distribute these via standard flight routes to reduce cost?

4. What happens when home base monitoring detects a problem with the reactor? (And why isn't this covered in the slides to put the audience at ease?)
by robenkleene | 2025-07-31 21:35:46+00:00
Personally I think comparing media editing apps to games is a bit of a fallacy because their goals and programming practices are so different. There's an 18 part series from ProVideo Coalition that's about this subject through the lens of After Effects https://www.provideocoalition.com/after-effects-performance-...

E.g., this one https://www.provideocoalition.com/after-effects-performance-...
by firefax | 2025-07-31 21:35:49+00:00
Thanks, I think the thinkwiki is a link I didn't have last time I looked into this.

I'm more a fan of debian than ubuntu due to the advertising things they've done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu#System_terminal_adverti...

But honestly I'm not someone who's got strong views beyond my controverial view that XFCE style graphics are both artful and functional and that going beyond that is a waste of resource ;)

I'll look around on Craigslist for a used laptop and then run it through thinkwiki.

This was a long time ago BTW. As in, the end of the Bush administration -- but I was in uni and didn't have time to troubleshoot, and then I went into the workforce and as VMs became ubiquitous, I glommed onto MacOS since Apple Stores are great about fixing hardware quickly and software wise, I could beef up my ram and run Debian or Kali or whatever as needed.

(As an aside I've found Parrot more well run than Kali's "try harder" anti-user philosophy in later years)
by qcnguy | 2025-07-31 21:36:28+00:00
Yeah he's right, Guardian and BBC are garbage. Check the actual data from the people who would know.

https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS2101....

Page 34. They have a graph. "After normalizing the data by annual flight hours, there was no obvious trend over time for turbulence-related Part 121 accidents during this [30 year] period."

BBC article is citing some academics doing a modeling exercise. They never learn. Academics can prove the sky is green if they're allowed to play with R for long enough. That paper isn't measuring actual turbulence, they try to derive it from physical models, but their models must suck because they draw a totally different conclusion to the real world experience of accident investigators. Evidence > academic theories.
by tpoacher | 2025-07-31 21:36:41+00:00
I tried OnlyOffice once and couldn't stand it. It felt as horrible as MS Office. I'm a happy Libreoffice user, and find that their UX choices make sense once you look into the rationale and are very functional and easy to adapt to.

I guess everyone's experience is different, but I'm always very surprised and humbled when people talk passionately about how bad the UX is on projects, which I use because of their UX rather than despite it. (GIMP is the other big example here)
by j45 | 2025-07-31 21:36:46+00:00
Articles that poopoo on one language kind of have a dated all/nothing perspective.

Most languages have a decent enough framework or two that the differences between using them for different use cases may be closer than many folks realize vs whatever we hear about as the new hotness through the grapevine.

A mess can be made in a lot of languages, and a long time ago, it was even easier, except some of that code worked and it didn't get touched for a long time.
by 1123581321 | 2025-07-31 21:37:33+00:00
I would guess the lack of comments to be partly because this only has a political solution and partly because the article is paywalled.

I can at least help with the second: https://archive.ph/2025.07.30-200830/https://www.vox.com/wor...

I thought the article was a decent review of the situation. It goes without saying the situation is a bad one.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-31 21:37:45+00:00
You are thinking accidents. I think we need to be thinking deliberate attempts to compromise these things and all the security measures needed to mitigate against that. And most importantly, the cost associated with that. Which comes on top of already significant cost.

The naive notion of we'll just ship these all over the place by the thousands and it's going to be fine is not going to withstand a lot of critical thinking very long.
by vik0 | 2025-07-31 21:38:10+00:00
Long-term planning on a colossal scale (like nation-state-level) (or even on a not-so-colossal scale - think of how many plans YOU have made and how they turned out) is pointless because of black swans

Sure, having a general idea of where you want things to go is fine, and everyone already does that; but when a government starts thinking that they should set a concrete goal X and they should do Y to achieve it, it's just akin to trying to predict the future, and we all know how well that always works out, because theyre under the faulty premise of thinkin Y will be constant forever, or that even the goal itself (X) should remain constant in a world that is anything but constant

So, this is a terrible argument for not having elections, or bigger election cycles. I'm sure someone could potentially put forward a better argument, but this one is not it
by psyclobe | 2025-07-31 21:38:11+00:00
Idk about you but I’m rocking a site to site link to my parents house, I have vlans for each segment in my home network (iot, priv etc) with full ipv6 routing and custom filtered dns over https with full network name resolution for all dhcp clients by their hostname on my local subnet domain…

I have complete control over my kids network access, can block specific types of traffic by app type or time based rules. I have high visibility into my WiFi setup and everything is on prem and self hosted and integrated with home assistant…
by TacticalCoder | 2025-07-31 21:38:19+00:00
Can someone knowledgeable on the subject explain if I understand the following right:

- on a mobo the motherboard provider signs the PK - there's only one PK - the PK signs one or more KEK, like "Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011"

If that understanding is correct, can I add myself the new "Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2023" (the one that expires in 2038: I think that its name) the same way I can enroll new keys in the dbx? (say my own signed keys?)

If I add the new Microsoft key myself, shall it be as a KEK or in the dbx?

Will motherboard manufacturer release new firmware, with the new Microsoft key already signed? In that case, shall be a KEK ?

Basically instead of thinking, as TFA suggests: "Let's not worry about anything, everything shall be fine and keep working because keys expiration date aren't enforced", can I pro-actively enroll the new Microsoft key myself?

P.S: I don't drink the SecureBoot kool-aid but something has to be said about having a Linux unikernel (kernel+initramfs) signed and enforced by SecureBoot. And SecureBoot does at least somehow work. Source: I modified on bit of my kernel and had a SecureBoot error and the kernel refused to boot. You can try it for yourself.
by strstr | 2025-07-31 21:38:22+00:00
With the default key hierarchies, the benefit is more limited. It raises the bar. Implementing known vulnerabilities takes work. And not ever configuration is vulnerable to every issue. And, for a lot of the vulns, the OS vendor shoves things in the dbx to mitigate.

With custom hierarchies, it's a bit more compelling. But it's a lot of work to maintain.
by tester756 | 2025-07-31 21:38:39+00:00
>I imagine .NET developers often think this is a good thing, in regard to their ecosystem. No guessing what to use, just go with the "blessed" path and don't think about it. And, to that end, there is some obvious merit to this.

Supply chain security is important thing, especially after last years

You go with Microsoft's libraries and you don't have to care that much about some random developer receiving 50k USD for their GH account
by famouswaffles | 2025-07-31 21:39:10+00:00
LLMs playing chess isn't a big deal. You can train a model on chess games and it will play at a decent ELO and very rarely make illegal moves(i.e 99.8% legal move rate). There are a few such models around. I think post training messes with chess ability and Open ai et al just don't really care about that. But LLMs can play chess just fine.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15498v2

[1] https://github.com/adamkarvonen/chess_gpt_eval
by cyberax | 2025-07-31 21:39:18+00:00
The USSR did it first! No, really. There was a mobile power plant: Pamir-630D ( https://imgur.com/a/rCexHAA ).

It was even deployed to provide power to a remote Arctic outpost. It had to use an exotic coolant (basically, a rocket oxidizer) to make it work, and it had to be placed far away from anything else. The shielding was not enough to bring down the gamma radiation to a safe level when the reactor was active.
by tim333 | 2025-07-31 21:40:37+00:00
>Rebuilding Notre-Dame’s “forest” also meant selecting 1,300 oak trees from across France that were “as close as possible to those of the 13th century”, that is, “very straight and very slender”, according to Desmonts, with “no defects”. Jean-Louis Bidet, the technical director of Ateliers Perrault, remembers the rush to harvest the trees in autumn so the carpenters could begin squaring the green wood from “dozens of truckloads” before the end of 2022.
by jmye | 2025-07-31 21:41:14+00:00
What a weird comment. What do you think you need an MD for, in your primary care visit, that an NP can’t do? What do you actually know about their education? What do you actually know about licensing? How much time, in a day, do you think doctors are spending on “insurance”, and what specific experience leads you to believe that?

(Because the actual answer is “near zero for literally any provider who isn’t completely independent, and almost none of them are, anymore”.)

Or was this just a way to memetically add “enshittification” to a conversation it doesn’t even slightly apply to, but you think that’s currently trendy?
by dvrp | 2025-07-31 21:41:25+00:00
Copying and pasting Sangwu’s answer:

We used two types of datasets for post-training. Supervised finetuning data and preference data used for RLHF stage. You can actually use less than < 1M samples to significantly boost the aesthetics. Quality matters A LOT. Quantity helps with generalisation and stability of the checkpoints though.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-07-31 21:42:33+00:00
Right now in cities homelessness is often associated with addiction or mental illness. We spend billions every year giving these people resources to get off the street, get treatment for addiction or mental illness. Right now? Many, many, many of those people have no desire to get off the streets or get clean or get treatment for their mental illness - despite the copious amounts of safety nets and other programs designed specifically to help those people.

I agree, we already have programs designed to help those who need it - focusing on the larger percentage of the population just makes sense if you're concerned about having bigger positive outcomes.
by jcims | 2025-07-31 21:42:34+00:00
I'm short on vocabulary here but it seems that using content embedding similarity to find relevant (chunks of) content to feed an LLM is orthogonal to the use of LLMs to take automatically curated content chunks and use them to enrich a context.

Is that correct?

I'm just curious why this type of content selection seems to have been popularized and in many ways become the defacto standard for RAG, and (as far as I know but I haven't looked at 'search' in a long time) not generally used for general purpose search?
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-07-31 21:42:36+00:00
Most of their devices act as bridges; some of the newer ones don't. Some have multiple ethernet ports, and anything that has both an ethernet port and is part of their "sonosnet" mutant-wifi will bridge between sonosnet and their ethernet port(s) with spanning tree using classic (pre-RSTP) link costs.

If you're not careful you can end up with the "best" path between two switches going over the sonos-to-sonos wifi.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-07-31 21:43:14+00:00
> It does. Twenty thousand units represent about 5% of Denver's housing stock [1]. Commit to adding this many units to the housing stock every year for the next 10 years and you'll have solved the housing crisis. (You'll probably need to bail out recent homebuyers, who will be permanently underwater, but that's a separate issue.)

That is only if you believe that more capacity does not induce more demand, which really isn't true as long as the city remains popular for jobs/climate/nature/etc.... People not moving to Denver because the rent is too high will decide to move to Denver if rents decrease (and the demand they add will cause rents to increase, wash/rinse/repeat until an equilibrium is reached). You also have cases where a city becomes even more attractive because of growing density alone (NYC, Hong Kong, Tokyo).
by dang | 2025-07-31 21:43:24+00:00
Related by content (OP says "This page is a riff on Patrick Collison's list of /fast projects"):

Fast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36605912 - July 2023 (298 comments)

Fast (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872279 - March 2022 (97 comments)

Fast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21848860 - Dec 2019 (291 comments)

Fast · Patrick Collison - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21355237 - Oct 2019 (5 comments)

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Also related, if only by title, this from yesterday:

Fast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736967 - July 2025 (418 comments)
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-31 21:43:43+00:00
One view of this article is that it is about doing exactly that, building an intentionally broken axiom and playing with it until it breaks down. (Shows an example "math_is_haunted" axiom that "proves" 2 + 2 = 6 and then also the contradictory state that 2 + 2 != 6.)
by resters | 2025-07-31 21:44:09+00:00
AI is going to cause a regression to the most anodyne output across many industries. As humans who had to develop analytical skills, writing skills, etc., we struggle to imagine the undeveloped brains of those who come of age in the zero-intellectual-gravity world of AI. OpenAI's study mode is at best a fig leaf.

edit: this comment was posted tongue-in-cheek after my comment reflecting my actual opinion was downvoted with no rebuttals:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44749957
by elashri | 2025-07-31 21:44:14+00:00
I am not old enough to have learned perl but not young enough to not know some perl and its problems.

But the article or at least the title would be much more suitable if perl is replaced by "CUDA". You can't be working with that and be arrogant, because even self centric people would suffer enough pain not to change. And if perl makes you feel it is made by humans. Then "CUDA" sure would feel like something that came straight from the hell.

Note: I understand that the article is more about talking about perl and remind people that it existed and was famous language one day. But I couldn't resist the temptation of the title.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-31 21:44:18+00:00
I admit I'm not super well versed in what conda's main uses are. Python's whole tooling situation has felt like a nightmare & I've tried to keep far away, but I've had to face it a lot more recently because it's so prevalent for AI. Thankfully uv seems to have done a huge amount of what I need.

Still, if the concern is language-agnostic ways to use tooling, mise (nee rtx) is the 1000 pound gorilla in the room today. Incredibly fast well built Rust based tool that has really massively expanded in scope & offerings, with grace & elegance. I thought it was an asdf replacement, for installing/using toolchains, for .tool-versions files. But it's really grown to be a lot more, capable of letting you isolatedly manage tools it can install from a huge variety of backends (pip, npm, cargo, others). https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/backends/
by skhameneh | 2025-07-31 21:44:52+00:00
The later remarks are very strong assumptions underestimating the power AI tools offer.

AI tools are great at unblocking and helping their users explore beyond their own understanding. The tokens in are limited to the users' comprehension, but the tokens out are generated from a vast collection of greater comprehension.

For the novice, it's great at unblocking and expanding capabilities. "Good enough" results from novices are tangible. There is no doubt the volume of "good enough" is perceived as very low by many.

For large and complex codebases, unfortunately the effects of tech debt (read: objectively subpar practices) translate into context rot at development time. A properly architected and documented codebase that adheres to common well structured patterns can easily be broken down into small easily digestible contexts. i.e. a fragmented codebase does not scale well with LLMs, because the fragmentation is seeding the context for the model. The model reflects and acts as an amplifier to what it's fed.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-31 21:45:48+00:00
This is part of why I believe that smart hybridization is the key. In a complex application, you need qualities from all major schools of UI framework design, but broadly speaking we’ve been obsessed with trying to find a “silver bullet” one true paradigm that fits every use case, when no such thing exists.

I also think that UI frameworks try to hard too be “magic” and unopinionated where they should instead be highly communicative and naturally guide developers into the happy path. So following your example of the excessively re-rendered button, the framework should really be detecting the unneeded redraws and complaining to the dev about them and potentially even presenting as compiler errors in production builds until they’re fixed (which the compiler offers hints on how to do).