MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-26 17:28:34+00:00
I remember being taught how to change the brakes on my car. Was explained very simply, it was easy (or so I thought). So I decided to do it to my car next time I needed brake work. And I did, and a year or two later, my brakes failed.

The thing I was taught wasn't wrong, but it left out important details. There are very specific steps involved in cleaning parts, applying the right lubricant, not applying lubricant, aligning parts, not forcing things, doing the same change on both sides, torque specs, bedding steps. If you don't do them, the brakes just fail again. The person who taught me didn't go over those important yet intricate details - probably because they were taught by a non-expert too.

If the choice is "quit my job to start writing lots of expert content", or "accept the status quo", I choose neither. I have my own life to live. But if during the course of living my life, a wave of inaccuracy begins to lap at my door, I will attempt to stem the tide, in my own way. The toxic aspect, I think, is really just the way in which these corrections are given, and definitely I and others could do better with our tone. But to just give up and not give the corrections at all, I think would be disastrous.

(fwiw, I think HN's overzealous "guidelines" force people to either be toxicly positive or insidiously critical. that's not to say I'm not an asshole, but it's hard to just be normal on this forum without this bizarre culture coming down on you)
by Moomoomoo309 | 2025-08-26 17:28:54+00:00
If you see how real disposable personal income is defined, it basically just says how much personal income in total there is - if 90% of it was in the hands of 1% of the people, it does not tell you that. It does not tell you a median either - it's just how big the pool is. Household incomes are up, but is that inflation adjusted, and how does that compare to cost of living? The conclusion you are coming to is not supported by the data you provided alone.
by theMMaI | 2025-08-26 17:29:16+00:00
Maybe the problem for Intel is complacency exactly because there is this expectation of a bailout when things don't go to plan.

While other hardware companies got lean operationally and employee wise Intel did not. The ex-Intel employees all paint somewhat the same picture of bureaucracy, layers of (poorly managed) dependencies and reliance on paradigms that worked during late 90s / early 2000s.

If you followed sources like semiaccurate the situation at Intel is not surprising either, they've been reporting on issues there since their inception.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-26 17:29:24+00:00
I've never felt so old. It's genuinely incredible to me that someone could be actively working with web technologies and not have a basic understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

Like, I get it, it's no different than starting with a high level language like JavaScript itself, but just wow. I remember when we didn't have these frameworks at all, when they were just about adding the missing stuff to js or making things a little easier for people in that world. Didn't realise we had moved on so far.

I'm not being critical btw, from the down votes I guess it came across that I was being down on OP but I'm genuinely just so surprised.
by Bender | 2025-08-26 17:29:27+00:00
Why do people hate on Sabine Hossenfelder so much?

She might be bringing attention to some shady people in the scientific field [1] and that could cost them money so I could see them getting salty. Good on her for bringing more attention to it. I expect AI to expose much more as people abuse it more. Just ignore the haters.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NOWoQW5RLk [video][7 mins]
by arduanika | 2025-08-26 17:29:31+00:00
Not exactly what I was joking about, but interesting nonetheless.

I suppose some amount of adoption by politicians and staffers is good, so that they can see what this new thing is, and crucially, what it is not. But of course it comes at the cost of making a new class of errors. Hopefully these will be contained enough to mainly just serve as a learning experience for them.
by ghaff | 2025-08-26 17:30:03+00:00
Computing sort of got too big. Early on, Byte could be eclectic with lots of different architectural discussions and hardware like circuit cellar. But from my perspective they got to a point where they were, for lack of a better word, pretty random. I was at an event where they were trying to reboot sometime in the 2000s but not sure what the market was for a popular computing magazine trying to cover all the bases at that point.
by hajile | 2025-08-26 17:30:06+00:00
2. uops are a cope that costs. That uop cache and cache controller uses tons of power. ARM designs with 32-bit support had a uop cache, but they cut it when going to 64-bit only designs (look at ARM a715 vs a710) which dramatically reduced frontend size and power consumption.

3. The claim was never "stuck on 4-wide", but that going wider would incur significant penalties which is the case. AMD uses two 4-wide encoders and pays a big penalty in complexity trying to keep them coherent and occupied. Intel went 6-wide for Golden Cove which is infamous for being the largest and most power-hungry x86 design in a couple decades. This seems to prove the 4-wide people right.

4. This is only partially true. The ISA impacts which designs make sense which then impacts cache size. uop cache can affect L1 I-cache size. Page size and cache line size also affect L1 cache sizes. Target clockspeeds and cache latency also affect which cache sizes are viable.
by roughly | 2025-08-26 17:30:08+00:00
> Very well argued. It's such a stunning dereliction the US let things get to this point. We were doing the "pivot to Asia" over a decade ago but no one thought to find TSMC on a map and ask whether Intel was driving itself into the dirt? "For want of a nail the kingdom was lost" but in this case the nail is like your entire metallurgical industry outsourced to the territory you plan on fighting over.

What's annoying about this is that it's the same people who drove the outsourcing and decline of American industry who are using the same framework they've been using to drive that stunning dereliction to argue that this is the wrong approach.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-26 17:30:52+00:00
You don't really micromanage things, just like managers in a company shouldn't micromanage things. You don't make decisions on how much bread should be made by each of the 300 bakeries; you decide that making bread itself is important so you give subsidies. You decide that making bread locally is important so subsidies are only available to locally made and not imported bread. You decide that whole wheat bread is more important than white bread so you give subsidies only to whole wheat bread.
by seaal | 2025-08-26 17:30:58+00:00
Thing have come so far in the past couple years that I'm not sure anything you mentioned is even a problem anymore. Global hotkeys work, pulse audio just works, screen sharing just works, redshifting is no issue?

https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Binds/#global-keybinds

https://wiki.hypr.land/Hypr-Ecosystem/hyprsunset/

https://wiki.hypr.land/Useful-Utilities/Screen-Sharing/
by tzs | 2025-08-26 17:31:09+00:00
> From what I've seen, spending has almost no effect on competitive elections. Groups like Fairshake are more about punishing candidates who take opposition positions.

A large number of elections for the House of Representatives aren't competitive. The candidate from the incumbent party is going to win no matter how bad they are and no matter how good the other candidates are. No amount of money spent on that election will change things.

However, in a large number of those districts only a small fraction of the voters from that party vote in the primaries or attend the caucuses where that party chooses its candidate. There usually isn't a lot of spending on this. A well funded primary challenger has a very good chance of knocking the incumbent out in the primary or at the caucus.

The threat of this is how Trump keeps the Republicans in the House almost completely under his control. Look at all those Republicans in the House who voted for the "Big Beautiful Bill" and then went home to get completely excoriated by their constituents at town halls for not holding out to get the parts of the bill that were terrible for those constituents removed.

They knew that would be the reaction. But Trump told them that if they didn't vote for it or delayed it to make more changes he'd fund a primary challenger.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-26 17:31:26+00:00
> Recently, the US was pushing NVDA to start using Intel's foundry. I assume it's for national security reasons.

The real reason is simple, if you've been following IFS: Intel's foundry has no large customers. The free market has spoken and almost every single customer prefers TSMC or Samsung silicon. America was boxed-out of serious world-class chip manufacturing ever since Intel swerved on EULV. If it was for natsec reasons then I doubt the fed would waste their time taking a passive seat when they could claim Intel as eminent domain.

It's not about national security whatsoever; this is part of a last-ditch effort to force Apple and Nvidia to buy American silicon.
ElixirForum Problem
by rixilexhp | 2025-08-26 17:31:52+00:00
The reason most of you can not find criticism and shortcomings in your Search Engines, or even in the forum search around Elixir is because

1. Most posts are locked behind authentication 2. The forum search does not show you the "locked" threads

Here, as an example: https://elixirforum.com/t/whats-the-status-of-next-ls-and-lexical-merging-forces/71880/29

So you will never see even veterans of the ecosystem pushing back against the situations. And people reacting defensively, avoiding taking responsibilities.

If I am wrong, Admins are more than welcome to disclose stats information, and provide details about it. And let you decide for yourself.

The whole situation is controlled behind the most amazing experience, using the same "success" examples from the last 15 years, and some of them are due to Erlang, not Elixir as a language per se (so use Gleam for that matters).

The ecosystem is incrementally becoming worst over time, the leadership fails to sustain the needs of the ecosystem hidden behind the public face of "I don't want to tell the community what to do" while also having strong opinions and providing very little support or opportunities for others to take the lead.
by syncsynchalt | 2025-08-26 17:31:52+00:00
The better tooling and automation already exists, it's really all over but the shouting. The pain comes from supporting vendor equipment that's already on its way to the dustbin. Vendors that fired their entire engineering group half a decade ago and have no way to respond, but the equipment will still be in production for another 20 years.

There are many solutions (reverse proxies, private CAs, literally hiring a guy to manually update certs on each bit of equipment every 35 days), some of them are painful, but it's not worth handicapping the security of the entire public web for them.
by didibus | 2025-08-26 17:31:57+00:00
I think that used to be true, but influencers and such I believe would value some of the freedom of moving to other platforms and keep both their content and follower.

Also, I think many users would now appreciate more control over the moderation policies they want applied, and also be able to choose between different feed algorithms to find one that promotes things that they prefer.

Would most people still probably use the one big "instance"? For sure, but I think you'd still have a good 20-30% that would use alternatives.

Assuming it all just-worked. Which I think is what this article is trying to say, the AT protocol can provide these features and ease of use. I don't know if that's true, but it seems to be the claim.
by dang | 2025-08-26 17:32:29+00:00
Related:

The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481166 - Sept 2023 (124 comments)

The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29811788 - Jan 2022 (5 comments)

The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24055125 - Aug 2020 (2 comments)

The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17818069 - Aug 2018 (11 comments)

The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082585 - Dec 2016 (16 comments)

The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11654774 - May 2016 (60 comments)

Isaac Asimov: The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9629797 - May 2015 (138 comments)

Isaac Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147968 - Feb 2010 (32 comments)
by tracker1 | 2025-08-26 17:32:38+00:00
Some Dell business models have them as well... I used to be a fan, but at this point I prefer the Mac touchpad experience. The closest I've felt are Razor and a few higher end Chromebooks (that I won' t buy). I'm hoping other mfgs get a lot closer to the Apple touchpad experience as patents start to expire in the next few years.

There's a few that are close, but still not close enough. Also, Mac slightly changed their default settings (regarding the physical click behavior), I never recall what it is but only that I change it back when starting out on a new machine.
by umbra07 | 2025-08-26 17:32:48+00:00
No, sorry. By and large, when people criticize RMS for his behavior, they aren't saying "RMS being deeply associated with Open Source makes it harder for me to convince my boss to get the company to switch to X FOSS software or donate to Y project". The Open Source side of things is way bigger than RMS now. He's inconsequential to their world.

No, just about everyone critiquing RMS's behavior is saying that it negatively affects his own movement. That it makes it more difficult to advocate for Free Software, that it diminishes the FSF.

> Well, it is absolutely true, for their cause, not his.

You have it backwards. Open Source is so much bigger than Free Software, that it's not even funny. The Open Source people are not scared of RMS affecting a movement widely accepted in almost every major tech company.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-26 17:33:02+00:00
They have trillions of dollars to burn. They have expensive lobbyists which they use to essentially buy laws. Governments want them to succeed because they also want to control people's computers.

It's just a matter of time until we lose everything. It's not really a struggle. Look at what just happened. We made sacrifices for years by using Android because it was open and Google just rendered it all moot by introducing hardware remote attestation to discriminate against anyone who's actually enjoying that openness. What's the point?
by ajmurmann | 2025-08-26 17:33:32+00:00
Doesn't sound all the bad from the linked wiki:

""" In March 2024 Kimer Med announced it has signed a contract valued at up to USD$750,000 (NZD$1.3 million) with Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle), the world’s largest independent, nonprofit research and development organization. The contract is focused on the discovery and development of new antiviral drug candidates for the treatment of alphaviruses. """
by mlyle | 2025-08-26 17:33:33+00:00
You came here in your first comment blindly disagreeing with "This is your missing analysis."

Then you seemed determined to misunderstand, e.g.

> > But it's hard to escape your consumers paying most or all of the costs of those tariffs.

> I think we agree if I'm understanding you correctly, yes the Suppliers have more elasticity and must ultimately absorb this.

This is really simple fundamental microeconomics stuff. If you want to understand it, there's plenty of sources online. If you want to argue it, you should learn the basics first.
by valorzard | 2025-08-26 17:33:57+00:00
Japan seems to really be into osmotic pressure for whatever reason. It reminds me how in Splatoon, the reason given for why the character die when they touch water is osmotic pressure and there's a whole scientific explanation about it.[1] However, that all got cut out in the international localization for some reason.

Maybe there's a cultural reason why Japan is more aware this is a thing that exists? Dunno

[1] https://youtu.be/N3bn57twbHM?si=nmxVjFPaeaxlTqyk
by nickff | 2025-08-26 17:34:32+00:00
The requirement which is driving the posting is a requirement that they search for candidates other than the one specific person they have in mind. If they post it with 'already filled' in the posting, they would not be complying with the requirement. The requirement is usually driven by a law or some policy created outside the hiring process for that position, so the hiring manager(s) are not permitted to do what you suggest.
by bri3d | 2025-08-26 17:34:42+00:00
Where's the 0-click or the RCE here?

I'm actually really curious about how the ITW exploit for this CVE worked; the OOB write is quite obvious in hindsight but going from OOB write to execution on iOS is very much not easy these days, and going from OOB write to sandbox escape should be extremely hard, especially since I thought (?) all image previews in iMessage should be behind BlastDoor. There's a lot of interesting stuff that's still missing here.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-08-26 17:34:51+00:00
This is typical of "why not just one drug/treatment" for something big like viruses, cancer, etc.

I think we'll never have this "one shot," but continue to find tailored treatments for individual conditions. There's no way out of this complexity with "one simple trick," which seems really appealing to the people who determine what gets popular in social media and seemingly politics now. Its just going to be boring and grueling academia and medical trials that are hard for the layperson to understand, hence the important of funding these programs. The recent right-wing election wins and thus a right-wing government cutting all manner of medical grants is supported by the "one weird trick" crowd. Hopefully, the USA will have better leadership in the future to get us back to actual science and to find actual new treatments.

Already, even on HN, the top comments are conspiracy-culture coded, "but, but this one company bought the patent and disappeared with it!" Sigh.
by carefulfungi | 2025-08-26 17:35:29+00:00
This is explictly restricting speech (restricting the right to advertise for labor) and would have to meet a high first amendment bar in the US.

Pay transparency law supporters have argued successfully that there is a compelling interest in closing gender and racial wage gaps and that salary range information can be mandated in job listings for that purpose. What's the compelling interest in this case that allows the government to control speech?
by craftkiller | 2025-08-26 17:36:11+00:00
> It's lack of education

Saying "the users need to be educated" doesn't solve anything. Google could start an education campaign tomorrow and it would be ignored by most of the people that need it. If they were interested in learning then we wouldn't have this problem.

> If they act against users, there should be a way to circumvent them

Then install a custom rom. All the power you want is already available, just no longer on the official android builds. Seems silly to demand Google screw over the majority of their customers because you don't want to install a custom rom.

> The situation with all side loading restrictions is opposite - you don't get to choose.

On the contrary, you choose when you purchase your phone. If you don't like it, purchase a phone that caters to users like us. There's the librem5 which I sadly own but that phone is a joke (but tolerable if the android landscape starts looking too much like Apple). I've heard good things about the pinephone but personally I'm never touching anything that comes out of pine64 again after the disastrous pinebook pro. I love the idea behind the FairPhone but the security on that device is a joke. I'm hoping the GrapheneOS people launch a decent phone.
by xg15 | 2025-08-26 17:36:14+00:00
Divisive is an understatement.

If this tech could be made to work flawlessly, it would be the gate to all the SciFi cyborg stuff, including body enhancements, "telepathy", etc.

Also, as a "side effect", it would open a path to fully immersive VR, as in Matrix, Snow Crash, Neuromancer, etc - with all the upsides and downsides of those scenarios.

All that "just" from hooking up motor and sensor neurons. And then people would probably start and mess with neurons that are involved in cognitive functions and the consciousness.

If generative AI had potential for cultish behavior, I think that will pale in comparison to this stuff.
by nine_k | 2025-08-26 17:36:14+00:00
I'd say that VC funding may be an inappropriate tool for that. VCs want you to either grow fast, or fail fast. Not necessarily to bring profit fast, but to visibly capture the market (see Uber). Move fast, break things, rework things every week, trigger that wave of sign-ups.

Agriculture is much slower, every iteration may be is a year, or (in tropical climates) half a year. Microelectronics is comparably slow, and even more unforgiving about making mistakes. Building robots does not scale ls easily as producing chips, let alone software.

These areas need a different model of investment, with a longer horizon, slower growth, less influence of fads, better understanding of fundamentals. In some areas, DARPA provided such investment, with a good rate of success.
by const_cast | 2025-08-26 17:36:16+00:00
Yes but using a real problem as a vehicle for increased control and permission is, in it of itself, a Trojan horse.

Google is doing the same thing the fake apps are doing. Real problem: bad ads. Solution: cracked app. Trojan: too many permissions, steals data.

Google: problem: bad apps. Solution: advanced Google DRM. Trojan: too many permissions, steals data.
by e12e | 2025-08-26 17:36:24+00:00
A little reminder about the GNU definition of free software and the four freedoms:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms

Quote below:

The four essential freedoms

A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms: [1]

The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2). The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-26 17:36:28+00:00
Can you give an example of the kind of prior restraint you're thinking of?

What you're describing is an injunction, and in general, courts are loathe to hand them out (this one notwithstanding). It happens, but the bar is generally extremely high. Even prior to Trump, I wouldn't expect one for this category of executive operation for the same reason that I wouldn't expect one if someone complained that the government was physically transferring PII in an agent's car instead of a Brinks truck.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-26 17:37:14+00:00
Neuralink is amazing technology and watching videos of participants who have completely different abilities and freedom with Neuralink implants is mind blowing. It’s sad that many want to dismiss these amazing achievements just because it’s an Elon Musk founded company. At some point you simply have to acknowledge his success (and his team’s), and hope they get further with all of this.

For those interested in their clinical trials:

https://neuralink.com/trials/