MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-23 21:17:36+00:00
>It does not matter that the home grown product can only compete with government support,

Even that isn't a given, because unless you have amassed a certain amount of technocratic and governmental competency chances are it can't compete even with government support and you just produce crony dysfunctional companies.

And of course there's economic trade offs. If you're politically ordering your economy to make chips, it doesn't make something else, and whatever it was making and trading for chips it was better at, and so you get fewer chips, that's comparative advantage. Industrial policy (and tariffs) do not increase aggregate production, they reduce it. And given that the circle of items you "can't do without" seems to be a bit of a moving target these days, at some point you're actually more brittle because you've replaced large chunks of the market with state production.
by ano-ther | 2025-08-23 21:18:32+00:00
Learnt something. As one of the linked articles says: "The higher derivatives of motion are rarely discussed in the teaching of classical mechanics of rigid bodies; nevertheless, we experience the effect not only of acceleration, but also of jerk and snap." [1]

Now I understand jerk as when you get pressed into your seat when starting a car. But how would I notice snap or even crackle?

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/37/6/06...
by kroaton | 2025-08-23 21:18:40+00:00
Load up the context with your information + task list (broken down into phases). Have Sonnet implement phase one tasks and mark phase 1 as done. Go into planning mode, have Opus review the work (you should ideally also review it at this point). Double press escape and go back to the point in the conversation where you loaded up the context with your information + task list. Tell it to do phase 2. Repeat until you run out of usage.
by dan-robertson | 2025-08-23 21:18:56+00:00
Looking at Jacobians is the general method but one can rely on an interesting property: not only is the surface area of a sphere equal to the surface area of a cylinder tightly enclosing it (not counting end caps), but if you take a slice of this cylinder-with-sphere-inside, the surface area of the part of the sphere will be equal to the surface area of the shorter cylinder that results from the cutting.

This gives an algorithm for sampling from a sphere: choose randomly from a cylinder and then project onto a sphere. In polar coordinates:

sample theta uniformly in (0,2pi) sample y uniformly in (-1,1) project phi = arcsin(y) in (-pi,pi) polar coordinates (theta, phi) define describe random point on sphere

Potentially this is slower than the method in the OP depending on the relative speeds of sqrt and arcsin.
by Kirby64 | 2025-08-23 21:19:05+00:00
Depends on which line of DACs. And calculators are an almost irrelevant amount of TIs revenue. They don’t report it individually, but it’s categorized under the miscellaneous “other” bucket which is only 6% of their business and includes DLP and “other charges” related to M&A. $947 million with all those other things means you’re talking about probably 100-300 million in revenue. There’s other businesses within TI that do more revenue than that by themselves.
by neilmovva | 2025-08-23 21:19:42+00:00
Today, training in "low precision" probably means computing FP8 x FP8 -> FP32. The FP32 accumulation is still important, but otherwise yes this works, especially if we're talking about MXFP8 as supported on Blackwell [0].

What's less proven is a recipe using MXFP4 x MXFP4 -> FP32 compute, e.g. [1], which needs more involved techniques to work. But if you get it to work stably, that pathway is running at full throughput on 5090.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08027 [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20586
by techpineapple | 2025-08-23 21:19:51+00:00
I do feel like there are some ideas growing on the right that I could find appealing; many of the ideas listed here could come out of Bernie Sanders mouth, and I’m open to rational conversations on issues like immigration. I remember watching a relatively right wing podcast recently and the economist said “I’m right wing on income but support a tax on wealth” and I think that summarizes my pinnacle concern in the modern economy. It’s interesting to read this like a few years after citizens united and then Trump installing a judiciary that seems to support more policies that entrench wealth and not less. (Not to mention putting a direct line to Silicon Valley billionaires in his Oval Office)

Both the incredibly nihilistic tone, and the inconsistent policies of the Trump administration make it nearly impossible, and as mentioned, the old school right of lowering taxes on billionaires and Christian Nationalism still seem to be the ones holding the most power.
by ratsbane | 2025-08-23 21:20:23+00:00
This really made me think - and not just because I went to Artsy Rugs last week and talked with the someone there about a rug that I bought at an estate sale and which I would like more information about ( http://provenancevault.com/treasures/12x16-persian-rug-ajrk8... ) but also because I've been moving to a new house the last few months and going through a lot of the possessions I've accumulated, deciding what to keep (definitely things with strong sentimental value or family history) and what to get rid of (a lot) but also what it means to have things. They can be both a joy and a connection with the past as well as a burden.

And because of that, I started building this website https://provenancevault.com/treasures/discover (it's probably not ready to introduce widely yet, but relevant to this conversation)
by msgodel | 2025-08-23 21:21:48+00:00
Up until relatively recently we were the SOTA and #1 semiconductor exporter. When people talked about the "american manufacturing sector" a significant portion of it was actually that.

Those foundries didn't go away, they're still manufacturing with the same capabilities they used to (and they're much cheaper now since they're competing with the better ones in Taiwan.)

It's good to hear TI hasn't given up on high performance SOCs as it was beginning to look like they had. But most of this stuff is still here. Freescale and many other American companies are still making the same (better even) chips they always have which is more than enough for cruise missiles (more than enough for decent PDAs and smartphones really) even without "stockpiling."
by dmix | 2025-08-23 21:22:50+00:00
They should be doing neither.

America is the last place that is short of capital for industry investments where it requires gov taxes going to it, they have a huge domestic financial market and tons of foreign investment (but those require legitimate plans, not national security woo woo). This is just propping up weak megacorp industry like they did with Boeing, instead of fostering real progress.
by matttproud | 2025-08-23 21:23:09+00:00
I presume this is hat a based on the ribbon.

Note: That link's (actual) photographs seem to suggest that the topic was not adequately researched or generatively produced.

Namely the photo with the caption "The Origin of Swiss Traditional Dress Photo by Cabinet Card Gallery" contains a sign within some words that indicate that even though these are Swiss people in the photo they are actually wearing costume to celebrate Austrian traditional costume of the region of Styria. The hints are "Steirisch" (Styrian) and "Buachstoana" (looks like a phonetic spelling of a Bavarian/Austrian dialect word as opposed to Swiss German and "Verein" (club/association). If someone could expand the "erh." abbreviation in a period-correct way, that would probably be definitively telling. This also doesn't resemble much of the Tracht I have seen worn at festivals in Switzerland either (regionalisms aside).
by TacticalCoder | 2025-08-23 21:23:19+00:00
> In the example, username validation is a job of another layer. For example I want to make sure username is shorter than 60 characters, has no emojis or zalgo text, and yes, no null bytes, and return a proper error from the API. I don't want my JSON parsing to fail on completely different layer pre-validation.

Usernames are a bad examples. Because at the point you mention, you may as well only allow a subset of visible ASCII. Which a lot of sites do and that works perfectly fine.

But for stuff like family names you have to restrict so many thing otherwise you'll have little-bobby-zalgo-with-hangul-modifiers breaking havoc.

Unicode is the problem. And workarounds are sadly needed due to the clusterfuck that Unicode is.

Like TFA shows. Like any single homographic attack using Unicode characters shows.

If Unicode was good, it wouldn't regularly be frontpage of HN.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-08-23 21:23:36+00:00
I have some kids into editing Roblox, and I'm a full time Unity / Unreal dev, and I would say that the Roblox editor and engine _are_ really good.

Kids don't care about fancy graphics, they care about connecting and running around with their friends, in a wide variety of games, that are downloaded and up and running within seconds.
by jrflowers | 2025-08-23 21:23:44+00:00
>The meta point here is that both parties are basically the dregs of the last generation of politicians

No it’s not. That is a completely different point than what you initially made. You specifically called out leftists for causing the OSA and then tried to pivot to saying “by leftists I actually meant everyone” after someone pointed out that your point was invalid because you were factually wrong
by krick | 2025-08-23 21:24:59+00:00
Exactly. I wanted to also point this out in the relation of the author's desire to put all build commands in `just` configuration file. It sounds to me like a desire to use some another "slick and shiny tool" (which `just` is when compared to `make`), but what's the point exactly? The build-process will still be container-dependent and may or may not work outside of the container, and you don't get the benefit of Docker caching anymore.
by karmakaze | 2025-08-23 21:25:15+00:00
What I find impressive with V3.1 are the things that are different, especially efficiency:

Significant improvements in training efficiency through innovations like FP8 mixed precision training, which reduces memory use by up to 75% and accelerates training.

Faster inference speed with multi-token prediction architecture, generating multiple tokens per step, resulting in 2-3x faster outputs.

New hybrid thinking mode that allows switching between fast non-thinking mode and slower, more thoughtful reasoning without quality loss.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-08-23 21:25:28+00:00
I think their point was that for everything the US congress makes available through client-rendered XSLT, they already also do the transformation on their side and serve the HTML under another page. Which I think is part of Google’s point - you can just compile the XSLT offline once (or during your release process) and provide the same experience without rewriting anything.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-08-23 21:25:38+00:00
I'm guessing the commenter above was asking what trading places and commodities futures have to do with the referenced article. I'm trying to figure out if you view Trump + cronies as the good guys in Trading Places (Dan Aykroyd + Eddie Murphy) or the bad guys (Ralph Bellamy + Don Ameche). Or if you think the old institutional guys conspiring to ruin young Dan Aykroyd's life over a bet were the bad guys or the good guys? I'm not trying to be snarky, it's just that there are a lot of opinions offered on this site and we don't all view the world the same way.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-08-23 21:26:28+00:00
> Saying 'fuck responsible disclosure' is basically saying 'let’s hurt innocent users until the company caves.' That’s not activism, that's collateral damage.

Correct. And I have good reasons for that. Activism has failed, consequences are required. The inevitable march towards the end of privacy due to the apathy of the unthinking majority of careless idiots will only be stopped when everyone feels deeply troubled by entering even the slightest bit of personal information anywhere because they've felt the consequences themselves.

> If someone genuinely cares about accountability, there are legal and ethical ways to pressure companies. Dumping 0-days into the wild only helps criminals, not users.

I could point to probably thousands of cases where there wasn't any accountability or it was trivial to the company compared to the damage to customers. There's no accountability for large corporations, the only solution is making people care.
by filchermcurr | 2025-08-23 21:27:15+00:00
The Gemini CLI tool is atrocious. It might work sometimes for analyzing code, but for modifying files, never. The inevitable conclusion of every session I've ever tried has been an infinite loop. Sometimes it's an infinite loop of self-deprecation, sometimes just repeating itself to failure, usually repeating the same tool failure until it catches it as an infinite loop. Tool usage frequently (we're talking 90% of the time) fails. It's also, frankly, just a bummer to talk to. The "personality" is depressed, self-deprecating, and just overall really weird.

That's been my experience, anyway. Maybe it hates me? I sure hate it.
by tene80i | 2025-08-23 21:28:34+00:00
The goal is to increase revenue, and one way to do that is to make the experience worse for people blocking ads. Some, like you, will keep finding new ways to bypass them. Others will give up and allow the ads, or pay for ad-free. They don’t need to stop all the ad-blocking users, just more and more each time. And if you’re a die-hard who will never allow ads, they probably don’t care what you do at all. Why should they? It’s not personal - they just want to keep increasing revenue, and it’s not coming from you no matter what, so they don’t care what your experience is like.
by mgraczyk | 2025-08-23 21:28:41+00:00
You are arguing my point. Canada may stop importing from us but will never stop exporting. There are no incentives for that and never will be.

We import tons of food and energy from them and have no alternative on time scales or 10 years

If we imported chips from Canada, that supply chain would be safe for at least 50 years, probably hundreds
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-08-23 21:29:50+00:00
I think that is probably true now (in the US), but the hypothetical is that it is made easier to lose your license.

DC recently banned "right on red" but it is routinely ignored and the penalty is apparently a $100 fine. If the penalty was loss of license (maybe not on first offense) I think there's a lot of people ignoring the current rule that would not be willing to ignore the possibility of losing their license.
by agiguru | 2025-08-23 21:30:04+00:00
ASIZ is set to spend 100 billion over 10 years to build ASI. Rumors on X say it is a group of defectors from openai, anthropic, deep mind, Allen institute, and others. The rumor is they have completely abandoned the transformer architecture.

No one knows who is backing this, whether it's Saudi SWF's, Softbank, or China although the fact that they say the U.S. makes it seem unlikely. There is an easter egg on the website which leads to a demo of what their agent sees.

What does this imply for the mature transformer? Considering this is double what open has raised so far, it seems crazy and insane the figures.
by ncruces | 2025-08-23 21:30:17+00:00
Yes.

But here they are deciding between "pushdown o.status==shipped" and "pushdown u.email==address@", in parallel both, then join (which they already did) or first doing "u.email==address@" then pushing down "u.id==o.user_id" mostly.

This is a judgment call. Their planner is pretty dumb to not know which one is better, but “push down as much as possible” doesn't cut it: you need to actually decide what to push down and why.
by snickerdoodle12 | 2025-08-23 21:30:28+00:00
Developing a cheat does not ruin anyone's fun. The same goes for guns, knives, anything that could be used as a weapon. It's all about how you use a tool, and in this case creating the tool is fun. Unless you think that everyone who fires a gun for fun, or creates a knife or even just a baseball bat, is a murderer?
by lithocarpus | 2025-08-23 21:31:46+00:00
The "unique" relationship appears to be primarily that those living to 100 developed significantly lower rates of chronic disease - cardiovascular and metabolic - in their younger years, than those who died earlier.

In other words, healthier people live longer. Nothing "unique" or surprising in this article that I could find.

Rates of these chronic diseases are rapidly increasing. ~48% of US adults have hypertension (chronic cardiovascular disease) and ~38% have pre-diabetes (chronic metabolic disease). Particularly concerning is 33% of children age 12-17 have pre-diabetes.

Understanding the most prevalent causes of these diseases should be IMHO the top priority for anyone who cares about health.

My hunch is that #1 and #2 would be low exercise and poor food.

For exercise it's obvious what to do.

For food it's a big debate.

My hunch is that the problem must lie in foods or aspects of foods that are new to the human diet. So I discourage eating anything that requires industrial processes to create and thus was never eaten by people before the industrial revolution. This includes probably 95% of prepared or packaged food sold in the US. In particular refined flours, refined sweeteners, and refined oils, and then all the stuff with un-natural sounding names.

I'm aware that many institutions of science and health declare that for cardiovascular disease, the villain is natural fat and salt. I've spent a lot of time looking at their rationale for this. I think they are wrong and that this conclusion is based on badly done and poorly interpreted science.
by Shorel | 2025-08-23 21:32:15+00:00
> I would blame the adoption of containerization for the lack of interest in XML standards, but by the time containerization happened, XML had been all but abandoned.

Whoa, that doesn't have anything to do with the dislike for XML. We dislike XML because its use is heavily correlated with IBM java tech stack, and that is a complete disaster in usability and project management.

IBM WebSphere with all its fragile XML configuration files, which can't be edited by hand because everything breaks if you try, are my reason to avoid XML since, and if I ever have to choose, I will choose against XML.

Containerisation became a normal practice about a decade after I and the other developers I know, started to avoid XML.
by hyghjiyhu | 2025-08-23 21:32:28+00:00
From a cynical point of view, the point of democracy is to get the people to blame each other - for voting for the wrong party, for not voting at all, for voting for one of the two big parties or for voting for the spoiler. And thus prevent revolution or murder of politicians.

Inferring who you would vote for doesn't accomplish this as well.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-08-23 21:32:56+00:00
I'm aware of how it works since I have been spending a lot of time over the last two months working with Claude's internals. If you have spent some time with it, you know that it is a transpiled and minified mess that is annoyingly hard to detangle. I'm very happy that claude-trace (and claude-bridge [1]) exists because it makes it much easier to work with the internals of Claude than if you have to decompile it yourself.

[1]: https://github.com/badlogic/lemmy/tree/main/apps/claude-brid...
by MisterMower | 2025-08-23 21:33:21+00:00
No, it would be like a city building a dog park and then having parents bring their kids to the park and demanding that dog owners keep their dogs on leashes while in the park.

By your logic, this is fine because the kids aren’t pooping in the park which degrades it less.

Never mind that the park was created for dog owners, and their enjoyment of it is impaired by these new restrictions placed on them by people who shouldn’t even be there.
by samanboz | 2025-08-23 21:33:28+00:00
Gen Z here. Personally I’m glad to get a call from a close friend any time. Especially when it serves the purpose of them just telling me about something funny or interesting that has happened, to discuss some issue where tone of our speech is an essential part of communication, or to organize some get-together and make plans. In such cases I actually appreciate getting the call and happily pick up the phone. I only don’t if it’s an unknown number, or if the person repeatedly only calls to ask for a favor. Robocalls I don’t get often.

I agree with the argument presented here that one can communicate more effectively by intentionally not making oneself available right away and allowing oneself to be silent first. I totally relate to this in cases where e.g. a friend is asking for advice. However I feel that this is used mostly as an excuse to avoid communication. I don’t think there is a non-negligible proportion of teenagers that really think to themselves “hmm this matter calls for some contemplation, I should answer later”, rather “I really don’t want to deal with this right now”. I also feel that, similarly, what I see in the comments here is less “I don’t answer calls so that I communicate more effectively”, rather “I don’t answer because I don’t want to be bothered with real human interaction”, and I think that’s just sad. How can someone take such pride in intentionally isolating and disconnecting himself?
by dmix | 2025-08-23 21:33:29+00:00
Yes and those Russian semiconductors aren't sophisticated or high end at all which supports my point. The military isn't making cellphones, they make missiles and fly jets with decade old computer chips. A few years of war with China is not going to magically eliminate all computer chips. The global market will still exist in some form and wars are far more motivating than a few government grants.

Not to mention China (and/or Taiwan) is still going to want to sell to someone to survive, and those countries can smuggle them into America - just like Russia does for it's drone industry and oil. America is much more capable in that regards with NATO and it's huge purchasing power.

I still think TI and Apple should be investing in foundries and domestically. It should just make sense as a business otherwise it's going to be a very expensive embarrassment.
by roscas | 2025-08-23 21:34:27+00:00
"About 11% of YouTube users openly say they use ad blockers. Some communities report 40-60% of viewers use ad blockers. Overall global ad blocker usage is around 42.7% for all internet users."

So, almost half of people online use adblockers. I know some use adblockers that have white lists. Everyone should use uBlock Origin as it does not have white lists to allow "some" ads and it is the best adblocker and protection to be online on every site.

First we have to close every company that depend on ads to survive. All of them.

If your business is ads, you need to close. That simple.

A company that depends on ads, lives by using you. Your data. Your information. Your privacy.

Remember that first thing to do before open any site is to install uBlock Origin and then spend some time learning how to install a Pi-Hole for a network block on network level.
by musicale | 2025-08-23 21:34:38+00:00
Berkeley has more Nobel prizes (and actual elements in the periodic table); Stanford has more Turing awards (with MIT at #2 between Stanford and Berkeley).

> However the raw number of graduates is not at all comparable between the two

This is true. Stanford isn't too far removed from Berkeley by grad student enrollment (10K vs. 12K) but the undergraduate enrollment is tiny by comparison (7.5K vs. 33K).