MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GeekyBear | 2025-08-27 03:45:27+00:00
The new leadership team set a short term goal of getting their existing work upstreamed, which seems to be going well.

> Our priority is kernel upstreaming. Our downstream Linux tree contains over 1000 patches required for Apple Silicon that are not yet in upstream Linux. The upstream kernel moves fast, requiring us to constantly rebase our changes on top of upstream while battling merge conflicts and regressions. Janne, Neal, and marcan have rebased our tree for years, but it is laborious with so many patches. Before adding more, we need to reduce our patch stack to remain sustainable long-term.

https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/

> With Linux 6.16, we also hit a pretty cool milestone. In our first progress report, we mentioned that we were carrying over 1200 patches downstream. After doing a little housekeeping on our branch and upstreaming what we have so far, that number is now below 1000 for the first time in many years, meaning we have managed to upstream a little over 20% of our entire patch set in just under five months. If we discount the DCP and GPU/Rust patches from both figures, that proportion jumps to just under half!

While we still have quite a way to go, this progress has already made rebases significantly less hassle and given us some room to breathe.

https://asahilinux.org/2025/08/progress-report-6-16/
by chao- | 2025-08-27 03:48:23+00:00
Depends what you mean by "break". There have been backwards-incompatible changes, but as you say, very few since the 1.8.7 to 1.9.X jump.

I can think of one meaningful breaking change going from 2.7 to 3.0, where the longtime behavior of creating an implicit "options hash" as the last argument to a method was finally removed. It was gradual though. First we got keyword arguments. Then keyword arguments got faster. Then there were two versions of warnings about the removal of the old, implicit options hash. Thus if you really wanted to kick the can down the road, you had about 5 years where you could be on a "supported" Ruby version without having fixed your code. Plus the change required was relatively simple outside of a few edge cases.

The best part was that most of the community was pretty good about upgrading gems across the years of warnings we had for this. Hats off to the maintainers and contributors for that!
by betterhealth12 | 2025-08-27 03:48:37+00:00
I think it's time to build a new system - something that can annotate the post the user is on, if there's at least another savvy user (or AI system) that can pick up on the uncanny signals. This youtube video about the "Walker Family" sham on Facebook is particularly relevant here:

Don’t Pay This AI Family To Write You a Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-DDHSfBBeo
by 999900000999 | 2025-08-27 03:48:37+00:00
I'm not an expert, but I would of vastly preferred a fund to start a bunch of smaller fab companies.

Most systems don't need start of the art processors. Get some minimal fabs set up for RISC V chips. If we removed the profit motive, how much does this cost ?

Alternatively... Even a refurbished GameCube can probably run a basic rest API server.

If anything we have enough EWaste that we can probably just recycle what we have. At least for most applications.
by roggenbuck | 2025-08-27 03:48:51+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! Yea, you're totally right. I'll update the docs to reflect this.

> why not just wrap vanilla JS regex, rejecting patterns including them?

Yea! I was thinking about this too actually. And this would solve the problem of being server side only. I'm thinking about making a new version to do just this.

For a pattern rejecting wrapper, how would you want it to communicate that an unsafe pattern has been created.
by dang | 2025-08-27 03:49:30+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait and generally using HN for political/ideological battle? You may not owe $ThatPerson better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by unraveller | 2025-08-27 03:49:59+00:00
>we expect to be misled for the purpose of entertainment, and rightly decry illusion in what is presented to us as documentation

Believe in unbiased documentation at your peril. When you desire a peek behind the curtain into random people's lives you are going to get taken for a ride everytime. That makes scrolling heavy on entertainment value and all users know it.

Social media algorithm scores are just a way for us to outsource easy reputation management, that puts a lot of hops in between you and authenticity and can't really be called a "shared reality" with a straight face. Perhaps now something better can come along that doesn't favor Image marksmen.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-27 03:50:51+00:00
Allow me to defend the professor here. Asimov is making a couple different claims and attempts to equivocate them, perhaps incorrectly. It's fairly obvious that spelling "sugar" as "sugur" is less wrong compared to spelling it as "afjkdsfk". This is because we have an objectively correct value for "sugar" that we can compare it to. This is different from refining theories and observations over time and declaring that they are less wrong!

Take stomach ulcers for example - before modern medicine people didn't know their cause, but were able to somewhat treat them using bismuth compounds. Doctors and scientists refined their theories over the years based on the concept that they are caused by stress, spicy food, and excess stomach acid, developing various cures, until Barry James Marshall discovered that they were actually caused by H. pylori. Before this discovery it would seem reasonable to think we were "less wrong", that because our theories became more refined that we were closer to the truth.

As theories of the universe become more uh, theoretical, we cannot accurately measure and gain a sense of if we are moving closer or farther from the truth. Perhaps this was the point the professor was getting at, or maybe it's just some postmodern "knowledge doesn't exist" thing - we can't really tell because Asimov only paraphrases the professor. But I increasingly get the idea that we don't actually know much of anything about the universe based on the seemingly insane theories coming out (eg string theory, infinite worlds).
by AuthAuth | 2025-08-27 03:52:04+00:00
Interesting but boring approach. I think he weighs the social positives to low and the consequences of disagreement to high.

Lets take politics at work.

If you talk about politics and everyone agrees then you know you are working along side aligned people. Which is good and it can be fun to talk politics and see why people think the way they do.

If people disagree thats fine. If theyget mad thats on them. You can always retreat to only professional interaction and if they want to break that by being petty or mean then the manager can sort that out. If your views are so insane you are getting kicked out of groups then you should probably reconsider why you hold those views or why you work with these people.

As for looking professional, do you want to be a robot or a human? Of course your boss would rather you be a blank robot who just gets on with work but they are hiring a human and humans are allowed to express themselves.
by avmich | 2025-08-27 03:52:33+00:00
It seems lately a lot of comparisons are with Nazi Germany. And there are many questions, they repeat, if people can do any other comparisons.

Can those asking stop for a moment and think, why we have such a situation?

One of the reasons would be that, indeed, we're in a point in time when parallels with Nazi Germany can well be argued for. Political and historical processes are relatively slow, so for us, humans, ten years could seem a lot - we're saying "it's all the time, already for ten years!" - while historically such a period isn't considered long in many cases. In America we don't have the situation of post-WWI Germany, with the rest of Europe mostly ignoring Hitler's preparations, so the struggle in USA looks like a significantly slowed down movie. Step from one side, counterstep from another. Another step, success or retreat again. Counterstep - success or not. There is a trend, but it's slow and, naturally, exploratory - the situation doesn't repeat anywhere near exactly.

So do we still have grounds to compare the situation with Nazi Germany?

What to do? Is it reasonable to label the side "crying wolf" and dismiss them as detached from reality - or does it make sense to take care with serious accusations, figure out what's going on lately - particularly in America - and do the first principles analysis, if the comparison with Nazi Germany is justified? And how much? Wouldn't sometimes better to be cautious and wrong instead of careless and unprepared?

Which history people learn anywhere, not only in USA? The history teach that we don't learn on the history lessons, but - do we study the Nazi Germany enough to not want any kind of it coming back?
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 03:53:32+00:00
>how does one get a business loan, with real stuff at stake

Show them your finances and collateral to demonstrate that you'll be able to pay off the loan.

>I especially dislike the way VC funded startups use VC dollars to effectively be a “loss leaders” for years to choke out the rest of the market.

It's a fair point, but it's a point which does not apply to the industries we are discussing, which do not receive VC investment.

I actually really like your point about Masayoshi Son-style investments which are just an attempt to entrench a monopoly. I'm no socialist, but if socialists called for identifying and taxing such investments, I wouldn't object. The trick is to distinguish between the WeWorks of the world, and the Boom Supersonic type companies which genuinely need gobs of capital for breakthrough innovation.
by fcpguru | 2025-08-27 03:54:16+00:00
craziest paywall i've ever seen:

https://i.imgur.com/15pxGM5.png

Here’s a breakdown of what you get with the Aspect Pro plan:

Features Included

Unlimited Posts Per Day – No posting limits.

Unlimited Messages Per Chat – You can keep chatting without hitting a cap.

Get Replies to Comments – Likely unlocks responses from other users or AI-generated replies.

Get Blue Check – Verification-style badge for your profile.

Control Your Audience – Probably lets you filter or restrict who sees your posts.

Pricing

Yearly Plan: $39.99/year

Works out to $3.33/month, billed annually.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-27 03:55:21+00:00
Ah, but now you're finally revealing the core of your argument. You seem to be effectively insisting that somebody must equate illegal immigration and legal migration. Am I somehow straw manning you?

Because if not this is of course rather silly, as the two have little in common besides moving. Legal immigration to the US is absurdly difficult and entails extensive vetting, qualification, and a lengthy process of 'proving' oneself. Illegal immigration requires breaking the law to enter a country, breaking the law to remain in that country, and then generally also continuing to break the law as you reside in the country. So with one you're getting the best of the best and with the other you're getting people who view the law as something to be followed when convenient.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-27 03:55:43+00:00
The Dalles is just at the end of the wet side of the Columbia river gorge before it starts getting to a semi-arid region (starting about at Biggs Junction). Golf courses are more desirable toward the dryer side because it’s hard to get a game of golf in when it’s raining all the time. It is still a water limited place.
by 14 | 2025-08-27 03:57:28+00:00
I used a bar of Ivory soap as hair wash and body wash for many years. I do not have dandruff, I don't have any body odor and I don't wear deodorant, I do not have dry or irritated skin and I can not think of a single issue. I am leaning towards the belief that sure what you use may have some effect but for the most part it is just based on genetics and that some people are more scaly or prone to skin irritation and so on.
by anon6362 | 2025-08-27 03:57:32+00:00
Sigh Yep. Dunning-Kruger effect specimens hammer out puff pieces to get their participation awards.

Meanwhile, here's some other articles:

NTP: https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/02/14/revisiting-microse...

PTP: https://austinsnerdythings.com/2025/02/18/nanosecond-accurat...

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/diy-ptp-grandmaster-c...
by tptacek | 2025-08-27 03:58:35+00:00
Without support from a law enforcement agency with actual arrest powers, marching around like toy soldiers is all they can do. A detachment of National Guardsmen "arrest" someone, take them to the ground, zip-tie their wrists. Now what? Every step after this involves cooperation with a prosecutor --- unless a federal crime is charged, a local prosecutor. They're doing this to freak you out, not because the National Guard can actually do any policing. Policing is as much about logistics and procedural infrastructure as it is about patrol.
by brookst | 2025-08-27 03:58:54+00:00
“Easily” is doing a lot of work there. “Possibly” is probably better. And of course it doesn’t have unfettered access to all of your private data.

I would look at it like hiring a new, inexperienced personal assistant: they can only do their job with some access, but it would be foolish to turn over deep secrets and great financial power on day one.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-27 03:59:51+00:00
Forgive me if this is a stupid interpretation and question, but are you basically saying that the tools we use to measure the universe actually produce our knowledge, rather than reflect an accurate model of reality? As in, in an alternative universe where we used different measurement tools, we would have discovered entirely different phenomena that we would consider to be part of the universe, but is really just a different way of interpreting the single substance of the universe?

If so this is compelling to me. In the same way that or senses impact our view of what exists and how it exists, but it's really just an interpretation of what's out there.
by acyou | 2025-08-27 04:00:10+00:00
This is one of those cases where we fly by and don't think much about it because we live in a plentiful environment. The more detailed we get, the more we realize that everything has a cost, and wasting water is not free as in beer. Have we also considered the disposal costs of wastewater?

I used to live in a place where water was infinite. Fast forward 20 years, now it's not anymore, the fish bearing watersheds ultimately bear the price, but everyone is still unmetered and there isn't low flow anything. If you piss away precious resources for no good reason and claim it's not wasteful, shame on you.
by kbenson | 2025-08-27 04:00:24+00:00
> If you talk about politics and everyone agrees then you know you are working along side aligned people.

You state that as it it's a a truism. There are many times when having a group not be homogeneous allows for a greater breadth of knowledge and consideration to be brought to bear on a topic.

The point of being professional is that it's a way to allow people that may be very different to coexist and function together, sometimes to great effect.
by prewett | 2025-08-27 04:02:00+00:00
Xi is a return towards Communism, or at least Communist-style control. And things have slowly gotten worse over his tenure. I think zero-Covid and the Shanghai debacle lost a lot of trust, too.

I don’t foresee the Party choosing someone more hardline than Xi, though. China has always been authoritarian, but collective ownership was new and an unmitigated disaster. They are too smart to go back that direction, although if they did, I could see that happening.
by _heimdall | 2025-08-27 04:04:47+00:00
With something like MRSA how do you determine that the virus is cause for disease when, as you said, many will be infected without showing symptoms?

That the root of the confusion for me. I haven't wrapped my head around how we can know a specific pathogen causes disease if a large number of people can be found to have that pathogen present without showing symptoms.
by ben-schaaf | 2025-08-27 04:04:57+00:00
You are wrong. The Snapdragon X Elite is actually a great example, unlike M1 it's performance isn't particularly great and it eats 50W under load. That makes its CPU cores a fair bit less efficient that AMDs even on the same production node. If Apple Silicon didn't exist then you might instead argue that x86-64 is more efficient than ARM.

If all that's true then why does Snapdragon have better battery life? As I said in my comment the great battery life comes from when the CPU isn't being used. It's everything else around it. That's where AMD is still significantly behind.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-27 04:05:23+00:00
Yeah, and the T score doesn’t seem to have any medical basis.

Between 1.0 and 2.5 standard deviation is something like 15% of the population. “1.0” and “2.5” are ridiculously round number. What is the medical significance of such?

Sure, at some point, it will be correlated with fragile bones.

Adult male height is roughly 5’9” with standard deviation of 2.8”.

We DON’T say adult males under 5’2” are diagnosed as having medical disease.
by pfdietz | 2025-08-27 04:05:29+00:00
One can move heat from one place to another by moving a fluid. This is not a heat pump, even if the fluid is pumped.

A heat pump is a specific kind of thermodynamic device that moves heat energy from lower to higher temperature.

The system that is described in the OP link does not use a heat pump. Electrical energy is used to make heat, but it does so with a resistive heater, not a heat pump.
Ask HN: Does sentience put stress on the brain?
by trinsic2 | 2025-08-27 04:05:41+00:00
I'm working on this idea that the brain might be going through stages of evolution and wondered if high-level forms of cognitive function cause stress on the brain enough to create distortions in thinking? I wondered that maybe the brain is evolving to a more stable state at some point in the future and maybe this mental stress causes or helps to cause societal problems throughout history.
by umanwizard | 2025-08-27 04:05:55+00:00
> Etiquette, norms, and formal communications are fundamentally about precision.

Not at all, in fact often exactly the opposite is true. The French president could have posted “fuck you for writing that letter, our recognition of Palestine has nothing to do with antisemitism” on his Twitter account. That would be a lot more precise than this diplomatic act.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-27 04:07:57+00:00
"The AI industry's demand for massive amounts of data warrants revisions to the way statutory damages are structured under copyright law, Eisgrau said. As "impressive" as Anthropic's valuation may be-it is soon to be valued at $170 billion-those numbers don't indicate "cash on hand" but "marketplace prognostication," he added."

Could Anthropic have paid the potential damages

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/anthropic-settles...

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/26/bartz-v-anthropic...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2025/08/26/33264...

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
by claw-el | 2025-08-27 04:13:17+00:00
During a security breach, if the vendor’s brand is more popular than you, you say, they are a popular brand, everyone uses them. We couldn’t have known better.

If your brand is more popular than the vendor’s, it is called, you should have known better to not use such unknown brand. Your choice of vendor is your responsibility.

If both you and your vendors are popular, it’s up to the narrative to place blame.

Thats why most large companies still refuse to buy from small brands.
by tacticalturtle | 2025-08-27 04:13:20+00:00
You might find these posts informative:

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-matter

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/why-x86-doesnt-need-to-die

All instructions across x86 and Arm are being decoded to micro-operations, which are implementation specific. You could have an implementation which prioritizes performance, or an implementation that prioritizes power consumption, regardless of the ISA.

Decoding instructions, particularly on a modern die, doesn’t consume a significant amount of area or power, even for complicated variable length instructions.
by frollogaston | 2025-08-27 04:13:22+00:00
I think Go is going away. It occupies such a weird niche. People have said it's good for app backends, but you should really have exceptions (JS, Py, Java) for that sort of thing. For systems, just use Rust or worst case C++. For CLIs, it doesn't really matter. For things where portability matters like WASM, can't use Go. Bad syntax and type system on top of it.

What if Google spent all that time and money on something from the outside instead of inventing their own language? Like, Microsoft owns npm now.
by ben-schaaf | 2025-08-27 04:13:40+00:00
This is easy to disprove. The Snapdragon X Elite has significantly better battery life than what AMD or Intel offer, and yet it's got the same number of cooks in the kitchen.

> Perfect example is trying to get to the bottom of why your windows laptop won't go to sleep and cooks itself in your backpack

Same thing happens in Apple land: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897. My Framework 16 hasn't had this issue, although the battery does deplete slowly due to shitty modern standby.
by raindeer2 | 2025-08-27 04:13:55+00:00
Having a Scandinavian perspective on this, where birthrates also have fallen a lot recently, I don't think financial stability is the only factor. In my experience ppl here don't wait with having kids so long due to lack of money. With the social safety net we have here, free healthcare and education, paid parental leave etc, you are fine as long as you have a decent job. The reason that ppl wait until they are 35+ to get kids is rather that they want to do other shit first and just stay "young" longer and don't want the responsibility. Having kids is just not that important for ppl so they wait until they are kind of bored of other things and then they are often suddenly too old, or fail to find a good partner, or just don't want the responsibility.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-27 04:14:10+00:00
> Since (M.2) NVMe to USB adapters exist, protocol conversion is certainly possible, and since such adapters are surprisingly inexpensive, presumably there's enough demand to drive down the price of the underlying controller chipsets.

> (These chipsets are, for example, the Realtek RTL9210B-CG or the ASMedia ASM3242.)

The NVMe to USB adapters aren't converting the NVMe protocol to another disk access protocol. They are USB3-connected PCIe endpoints, which allow the PCIe NVMe drive to connect to the host as an NVMe device.

This isn't equivalent to the protocol conversion the author is seeking, which would accept SATA commands on one end and translate them to NVMe on the other end. I would actually call that SATA drive emulation, not protocol conversion, as SATA and NVMe aren't 1:1 such that you can convert SATA commands into NVMe commands and vice versa.