MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-10 04:11:45+00:00
> Not really: this false equivalence between Democrats and GOP (especially their recent incarnation) is absolutely delusional.

You may be more interested in reading the lyrics than watching the video, the song is not about "equivalence between Democrats and GOP".

It's about the powerful who control the media and how the media is used to control the narrative. (some much worse than others) It's not only about <media bad>, but also how the American people (already with an insatiable searching for satisfaction in movies, glamour and tabloids) have become slaves to it [all media/types]; glaringly obvious today vs the 2000s as media heads have gained cult status in parts, to the point of earning government appointments only this cohort would be able to appoint and not get laughed out of office.

Those who control the narrative controls the present, who controls the past -- controls the future. To bring it full circle, fitting in that rewritting reports is controlling the narrative; similar to firing a messenger of statistics

I fully agree with you, it was strange thinking; and if we're drawing parallels -- interesting how real election scandals led to GOP presidents. [scotus/hanging chads & Mueller report]

Oh, and the "delivers it best" part is biased as I like Rage; they deliver the line better than reading it imo
by int_19h | 2025-08-10 04:12:55+00:00
I see that systemd is still doing this thing where they are trying to strong-arm all Linux distros into arbitrary stuff that someone decided is the only right way to do something:

> 5.2.2. systemd message: System is tainted: unmerged-bin systemd upstream, since version 256, considers systems having separate /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories noteworthy. At startup systemd emits a message to record this fact: System is tainted: unmerged-bin. It is recommended to ignore this message. Merging these directories manually is unsupported and will break future upgrades. Further details can be found in bug #1085370.

No option to disable this either, per discussion in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085370
by riehwvfbk | 2025-08-10 04:12:59+00:00
I think you got your timelines mixed up in your effort to portray me as a neo-Nazi.

I know Russians are responsible for everything wrong in the world ever, but when I say that there is a rich tradition of antisemitism in Europe, I mean since at least the time of Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice kind of thing.

In Germany, Nazis didn't just invent antisemitism out of thin air. They exploited a common sentiment held by the working class. If you think that's due to Russian propaganda, well, we are also under your bed. Be very afraid.

Lastly, there is a trend lately to label "problematic" any sentiment of insufficient piety towards all things Semitic. This is a great culture, but it has shown that like any other great culture it is capable of genocide.
by ryao | 2025-08-10 04:15:36+00:00
Saying “always” based on your experience with a word that is over 2000 years old without knowing the history is a great way to be wrong. In this case, if there is a group of multiple people, the correct word is alumni, unless the entire group is female, when the word becomes alumnae. Alumni is correct even for a hypothetical group with a billion women and 1 man. If there is just 1 person, it is alumnus for a male and alumna for a female. Most universities would use alumni because there is always 1 male in the group and they want to use the plural. A women’s only university would use alumnae. That said, English speakers have a tendency to mispronounce alumni as alumnae, so trying to maintain a minimum understanding of how to use the word correctly might be a losing battle.
by namibj | 2025-08-10 04:17:53+00:00
Just wanna remind that transformers are devoid of any "ordering/sequence" concept until you feed one in via positional encoding. It'd be easy to flag retracted tokens as such (e.g. pointing an input token one direction or the opposite similar to how RoPE encodes into directional modulation/wobble) but otherwise represent the malleable edit state with the positional encoding and accept overlap (just probably make sure autoregressive decoding/casual self attention makes it so the tokens are sufficiently able to interact preferentially with their immediate neighbors _of the same attempt/edit-revision_).
by tguvot | 2025-08-10 04:19:09+00:00
given installation price vs system price, it's possible to trash old one and buy a new few times for a price of professional install.

mrcool also has ducted units that comes with precharged/vacuumed lines. very tempting as one of my hvacs lives on extended timeline and quote for a new one was $25k 2 years ago
by bb88 | 2025-08-10 04:19:12+00:00
> So it shouldn't matter if your address is public or not, in fact making it public raises the awareness for the problem. That's the argument.

Forget about the internet, we've had almost 100 years to prove we can secure identity theft. And the best thing we can do is to keep our SSN's secret -- security through obscurity. Keeping your SSN private reduces your personal attack surface.

We've had 50 years to secure the internet, and yet, we still have zero day attacks. Nuclear submarines try their best to keep their locations a secret? Why? You cannot attack something you cannot see or hear.
by nickm12 | 2025-08-10 04:19:38+00:00
> This idea that 'work life balance' should mean that the two should be compartmentalised to specific blocks of time seems counterproductive to me.

Different people are different and can have different preferences.

For me, having different physical spaces helps me focus on work at work and my family at home. When they are the same physical space, both suffer. I'm not saying everyone should feel this way.
by throwaway3060 | 2025-08-10 04:21:16+00:00
Only bits and pieces of culture can survive through such methods. It is enough to escape full assimilation, but only just. All it would take is the whim of another Stalin. The damage is such that those who went through it may not even realize what has been lost, until one day they (or future generations) find evidence on the outside of what culture was once like.
by justinclift | 2025-08-10 04:22:23+00:00
I made this snap "alternative" to solve this exact problem: https://github.com/justinclift

Packaged as: https://github.com/justinclift/snapd-empty/releases/download...

It's just an empty package that tells the system snap is installed, to stop the broken dependency chains you otherwise get from force uninstalling snap.

It's been working fine on a handful of Ubuntu 24.04 systems I've been handed and can't change the OS of, for about half a year now.
by mcapodici | 2025-08-10 04:22:34+00:00
The lethal trifecta is a problem problem (a big problem) but not the only one. You need to break a leg of all the lethal stools of AI tool use.

For example a system that only reads github issues and runs commands can be tricked into modifying your codebase without direct exfiltration. You could argue that any persistent IO not shown to a human is exfiltration though...

OK then you can sudo rm -rf /. Less useful for the attacker but an attack nonetheless.

However I like the post its good to have common terminology when talking about these things and mental models for people designing these kinds of systems. I think the issue with MCP is that the end user who may not be across these issues could be clicking away adding MCP servers and not know the issues with doing so.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-08-10 04:22:46+00:00
> the assumption legacy admits are unqualified I believe not to be true.

> some analysis of data

> stereotype of a unqualified child of rich alums is not accurate anymore

Yeah. What data might that be? Gini coefficient has been rising since 1980, and student achievement / quality of US university freshman classes has declined since at least 1993. So what you're saying couldn't be possible, in fact, you're 200% wrong. It would be completely improbable to observe these trends and for you to also be right.

So I think you read a real report about Varsity Blues or whatever, and I think you are using this report to make believe that you are doing something other than first principles thinking. But the first principles thinking, "more students and greater selectivity, therefore, overall class at Harvard has gotten better," is wrong! It's not knowable from first principles what the quality of Ivy League classes are. The people who have measured see declines everywhere, and there's absolutely no reason to believe that those declines should be smaller among the top students - if anything, top students have far further to fall! How's that for first principles? Clearly a bankrupt approach.
by zanderwohl | 2025-08-10 04:26:16+00:00
> but many of the other questions should be things like "explain why this doesn't work", "why did you start with this approach?" and "are you sure that is the best name for that function?"

This is important and something more interviewers should do. The blind adherence to leetcode doesn't tell you much, especially if you're silent during the interview instead of having a short back-and-forth every 15 minutes or so. The problem solving process is more important than the problem solved.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-08-10 04:26:18+00:00
Nobody was proposing "giving suburban kids points because they never had to hold a job". Nor was anyone proposing an entitlement to disenfranchise others based on race or ethnicity, except for you, with the reference to "rich minorities at the expense of those who regard America as their homeland".

Who regard ... ? Implying that the "rich minorities" do not regard America as their home? Go on, explain to me how Chinese kids applying for university have dual loyalties and are exploiting the decent honest American.

"The current victims of the world"? You're reinventing white nationalism for minorities, bud.
by CPLX | 2025-08-10 04:28:35+00:00
We absolutely do have laws that are the equivalent of “no one is allowed to sell their used car for less than X".

These laws take the form of transfer and registration fees for vehicles, taxes, and especially inspection requirements. We also have much stricter requirements on what a large commercial enterprise can sell versus a private individual.

We have rules like that for everything. We also say you can’t sell houses for less than X by mandating things like how many stairwells they have, and so on.

To the extent you’re tempted to argue some semantics about how you could still sell a car for a dollar you’re wrong and missing the point on purpose by arguing over the definitions in a way that doesn’t change the principle.

We do this because we are a society and we get to decide what the society looks like. Prices are downstream of our value system.
by dcrazy | 2025-08-10 04:29:35+00:00
Sort of. Your photoreceptors are sensitive to overlapping frequencies, which means they’re not linearly independent and therefore cannot form the basis vectors of a 3D space.

CIE XYZ accounts for this by projecting SML excitations down to a 2D plane (XY) and making the third dimension a color-independent luminosity (Z). Since it’s luminosity-independent, the 2D slice is directly analogous to the color wheel.
by shannon-data-ai | 2025-08-10 04:29:51+00:00
During initial data loading, AP analytical scenarios often require importing massive datasets. If the traditional serial loading approach is used, loading tens or even hundreds of millions of rows from InnoDB into Rapid can take an excessively long time, severely delaying the start of analytical tasks. To address this, the Rapid engine introduces coroutine-based parallel parsing, accelerating column data parsing and assembly to significantly reduce query rendering time for wide tables.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-08-10 04:29:52+00:00
People you don't like: Jews, Asians, "tent boy".

People you do like: "the current victims of the world", who apparently aren't a "tent boy", who don't suffer a "lack of class".

Seems like the people you actually like are economically well-off people from aggrieved "victim" identities who feel the need for quota systems to stop those nasty "academically inclined" economically well-off people ("suburban kids", I think were your words) from the non-"victim" identities from competing with your precious ones on fair and even grounds.
by DoesntMatter22 | 2025-08-10 04:30:16+00:00
Tons of industries and companies get huge boosts from the government, and that's true for all the other EV manufacturers as well.

You said Tesla gets "Virtually all their profits" from regulatory credits. Tesla has made 45 billion in profit since 2021. Even if they took in 10 billion in regulatory credits that is less than 1/4th of their profit just since 2021. So not exactly a truthful statement when you say "Virtually all their profits"
by rdtsc | 2025-08-10 04:30:25+00:00
> The cool part that I liked the most is when Voyager's neural packs (think of them as the AI-to-system control adapters) actually got sick with a biological virus because they were essentially made out of brain matter.

I liked that part too. I hadn't paid attention much before but that was a fun revelation that the computer is run by a bunch of brain tissue pouches. The LLM "guts" to speak is pretty much a collection of brain tissue clumps semantically, with weights and connections as opposed, to some database of logical assertions, like an expert systems people envisioned in the 1980s.
by specproc | 2025-08-10 04:30:37+00:00
I don't consider myself particularly adept with linux. I've only been running it daily on the desktop for the last few years and, aside from mucking around with TWMs, I've not done much poking about with the internals.

Despite the reputations, I've had far fewer issues on Arch-based desktop distros than back when I was rolling Ubuntu and Debian.

That said, Debian on a server every time.
by throwaway3060 | 2025-08-10 04:31:17+00:00
Have you ever heard of Protocols of the Elders of Zion? This was the central source of the Nazi's specific claims, even when antisemitism was nothing new to Germany. It was created by a pro-Tsar Russian publishing house. All the conspiracy theories relating to communism came from this source.

If you see a timeline discrepancy, point it out. But if you've never heard of the Doctor's Plot or Soviet "Zionology", maybe consider looking them up.
by tarun_anand | 2025-08-10 04:32:59+00:00
Very interesting... I have been contributing with the exact same interoperability issues to the MCP Community (Anthropic Google etc)

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...

The Python Bindings PR is here modelcontextprotocol/rust-sdk#172

The Typescript Bindings PR is here modelcontextprotocol/rust-sdk#183

MCP Bench at https://github.com/unimcp/mcpbench
by lsy | 2025-08-10 04:35:48+00:00
I think the wide variance in responses here is explainable by tool preference and the circumstance of what you want to work on. You might also have felt "behind" not knowing or wanting to use Dreamweaver, or React, or Ruby on Rails, or Visual Studio + .NET, all tools that allowed developers at the time to accelerate their tasks greatly. But you'll note that probably most programmers today who are successful never learned those tools, so the fact that they accelerated certain tasks didn't result in a massive gap between users and non-users.

People shouldn't worry about getting "left behind" because influencers and bloggers are overindexing on specific tech rather than more generalist skills. At the end of the day the learning curve on these things is not that steep - that's why so many people online can post about it. When the need arises and it makes sense, the IDE/framework/tooling du jour will be there and you can learn it then in a few weeks. And if past is prologue in this industry, the people who have spent all their time fiddling with version N will need to reskill for version N+1 anyways.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-08-10 04:43:07+00:00
Yeah same. I think the release cycle actually doesn't matter at all. The reason for it is that the majority of breakage are caused by components/extensions of gnome and kde and non-DE-yet-complex software in distros with a lot of those present out of the box, like manjaro, breaking backwards compatibility every other week.

When people switch to arch they typically set things up from scratch, end up choosing simple tools and avoid most of the unstable stuff distros push onto you.
by hamishmacewan | 2025-08-10 04:44:53+00:00
Cloudflare sits in a privileged choke-point of the internet, peering into traffic others can’t. Now they’re playing hall monitor, publicly wagging their finger at Perplexity for “stealth crawling.” If Perplexity’s a customer, they should be furious at the breach of trust; if not, this smells like a cheap sales pitch dressed up as public service. Who appointed Cloudflare as Miss Manners of the web, or deputised them as law enforcement?
by smsm42 | 2025-08-10 04:48:38+00:00
> provide "space" between work and home.

This is part of the company culture. If the company respects the boundary between work and personal life, and it's a cultural value, then it shouldn't be a problem for you establishing a space even without going to the office. You just close down your work laptop, put it aside and open it up next time when it's time to work again. Of course, there's stuff like on-call shifts, and there's a temptation to just stay later and finish this one thing, but if the company culture does not expect you to be tethered to work 24x7 then it's doable. If the culture is right, you don't need a physical barrier for this to be doable.

> so I started taking hour long walks at the end of every day to reset. It helped a lot.

A good habit. I dont see why any remote worker couldn't do that.
by dvrj101 | 2025-08-10 04:49:38+00:00
typical bootlickers response to deflect from uplifting lower class people. Either move it to crying illegal immigrants or they already have enough with social welfare lol. It's amazing how you'll defend top 1% getting tax cut's when we need a small part of it actually help avg. person's anxiety of not living paycheck to paycheck.

Decades of tax cut's for top financial class did not workout of everyone else, the extra money did not trickle down but was used to buy politicians to get more tax payer money

Raising minimum wage will close down businesses depending on exploitation and help businesses who are ethical enough to give working class their fair share.
by petre | 2025-08-10 04:49:46+00:00
Too bad ir doesn't do CAN-bus, either using ESP32's integrated TWAI controller and a hardware interface with a transciever or a MCP2515 controller. The M5 has a CAN-bus transciever¹. Thay way it would be really useful on cars and more recent e-bikes.

1. https://docs.m5stack.com/en/unit/can
by nurettin | 2025-08-10 04:50:13+00:00
In my experience, AI assistance can't really do what you can't. Sure, you can force it, but the result will be a discardable mess.

Yesterday I used Gemini and Claude cli to create a symbolic regression library in C++ with added state of the art features (hobby). Gemini is there to assist when Claude runs out of context. It took me six hours. I cannot imagine how anyone could do this without being an expert in these fields.

The initial code generation was pretty much on the spot, with a few subtle bugs here and there, few inefficient choices.

As I made them add features, there were so many bad decisions that would break the initial interface simplicity, add shared states, constantly switch between SoA and AoS without a plan, introduce circular deps for no reason. I fought back, keeping code concise and functional, removed randomly introduced oop features, added low hanging optimizations. I hand fixed some of the compilation errors and warnings myself to prevent them from using up unnecessary context like a taxi driver who takes you to the long route.

How would anyone who doesn't know what they are doing accomplish all this? They would have to learn.

Sure, the bar is lower. This is a task that would have taken me a few weekends of hard work. And mind you this is a hobby project. I would've lost a significant amount of hair if I was fighting AI assistance while under pressure at work.
by yichuan | 2025-08-10 04:53:01+00:00
I think there’s huge potential for a fully local “Cursor-like” stack — no cloud, no API keys, just everything running on your machine.

The setup could be: • Cursor CLI for agentic/dev stuff (example:https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/1953559384531050724) • A local memory layer compatible with the CLI — something like LEANN (97% smaller index, zero cloud cost, full privacy, https://github.com/yichuan-w/LEANN) or Milvus (though Milvus often ends up cloud/token-based) • Your inference engine, e.g. Ollama, which is great for running OSS GPT models locally

With this, you’d have an offline, private, and blazing-fast personal dev+AI environment. LEANN in particular is built exactly for this kind of setup — tiny footprint, semantic search over your entire local world, and Claude Code/ Cursor –compatible out of the box, the ollama for generation. I guess this solution is not only free but also does not need any API.

But I do agree that this need some effort to set up, but maybe someone can make these easy and fully open-source
by protocolture | 2025-08-10 04:55:44+00:00
>Similarly, I saw a corporation "lock in" a sweet discount for the WAN network provider for 7 years where they got an upgrade from 1 Mbps to 2 Mbps and a discount of 40%. At the same time, residential broadband was already 25 Mbps minimum and business-grade fibre had three-digit Mbps speeds within months. The sales rep that got that deal signed probably laughed his ass off.

Its actually one of the least bad ISP business models. Its fantastic for capacity planning. I worked for an ISP that got a lot of businesses signed up on 700 buck per month EOC services, 4-5 year terms, before the NBN rolled out and provided 20 times the bandwidth for 50 bucks.

Thing is, when the NBN passed those customers, they would reach out and try and move them sideways. Extend the contract for 2 years, drop 700 bucks down to 400 and bundle in voice and managed router services. Add in fixed wireless for backup. Offer them 100M business fibre for a transition up to 1k/ month.

An ISP that can do this can afford service techs, upgrades, more peering and transit. It can breathe. Trying to sell a 40 dollar TC-4 NBN service for 42 dollars is a losing proposition. The customer feels good when they get a good deal but they lose out when the ISP starts downsizing or crawling back costly transit. And if its month to month, the constant churn is crazy.
by dvrj101 | 2025-08-10 04:55:49+00:00
where's the raid on drug sellers, distributors or human trafficking. Avg people trying to make living getting arrested right at court's doorstep is not crackdown on crime by illegals.

some guy working 8-12 hours shift, has family and participate in community programs is suddenly getting deported to nowhere is making America safe again ?

This looks more like making lowest white people better than everyone else
by astrange | 2025-08-10 04:56:15+00:00
China (at least its current incarnation with Xi) doesn't care about soft power and thinks the only reason anyone else tries it is they're overly sentimental losers. That's why they have that wolf warrior diplomacy program where they just had diplomats insult everyone.

We already have piracy coming back with the Houthis; China didn't join the alliance with other countries, defended their own ships and ignored everyone else.