MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anthem2025 | 2025-08-29 17:46:14+00:00
It doesn’t develop any thinking, it’s just predicting tokens based on a statistical model.

This has been demonstrated so many times.

They don’t make mistakes. It doesn’t make any sense to claim they do because their goal is simply to produce a statistically likely output. Whether or not that output is correct outside of their universe is not relevant.

What you’re doing is anthropomorphizing them and then trying to explain your observations in that context. The problem is that doesn’t make any sense.
by spectraldrift | 2025-08-29 17:46:17+00:00
This is such an insightful take. As someone who has interviewed many candidates, I wholeheartedly agree. While it's important to reflect on how you can improve, it's also critical to maintain morale and become comfortable with rejection during the job hunt. One of the biggest obstacles I've seen; whether with friends, family, or candidates; is the tendency to internalize rejection as a sense of being inherently 'bad.' Of course, once you internalize this belief, any motivation to study is gone. It can be challenging to help people see that this negative self-talk has become the primary barrier to their success.
by transpute | 2025-08-29 17:46:24+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463813

> It's genuinely crazy how much better value an N100 is and how much better it works out of the box than a Pi for anything.. that doesn't need to talk to electronics/GPIO.. Low cost x86_64 solutions beat the pants off ARM in the PPPITA (performance per pain in the arse) department. The Raspberry Pi software ecosystem advantage nopes the moment x86 shows up to the party.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465319

> Intel N150 is the first consumer Atom CPU (in 15 years!) to include TXT/DRTM for measured system launch with owner-managed keys. At every system boot, this can confirm that immutable components (anything from BIOS+config to the kernel to immutable partitions) have the expected binary hash/tree.
by jnwatson | 2025-08-29 17:46:32+00:00
I've written a lot of low level software, BSPs, and most of an OS, and the main reason to not write your own OS these days is silicon vendors. Back in the day, they would provide you a spec detailed enough that you could feasibly write your own drivers.

These days, you get a medium-level description and a Linux driver of questionable quality. Part of this is just laziness, but mostly this is a function of complexity. Modern hardware is just so complicated it would take a long time to completely document, and even longer to write a driver for.
by drdaeman | 2025-08-29 17:46:33+00:00
Oh! Thank you!

That popup was confusing as hell then, because I've read and understood it as two separate points: I've got it that they're making training opt-out, and that they're changing data retention to 5 years, independent of each other. I got upset over this, and haven't really researched into the nuances - and turns out I've got it all wrong.

Appreciate your comment, it's really helpful!

I hope they change the language to make it clear 5 years only applies to the chats they're allowed to train models on.

(Weirdly, I can't find the word "years" anywhere on their Privacy Policy, and the only instance on the Consumer Terms of Service pages is about being of legal age over 18 years old.)
by ljosifov | 2025-08-29 17:46:41+00:00
Maybe in the US. In the UK, I have found obstacles to data sharing codified in the UK law frustrating. I'm reasonably sure some people will have died because of this, that would not have died otherwise. "Otherwise" case being - if they could communicate with the NHS, similarly (via email, whatsapp) to how they communicate in their private and professional lives.

Within the UK NHS and UK private hospital care, these are my personal experiences.

1) Can't email my GP to pass information back-and-forth. GP withholds their email contact, I can't email them e.g. pictures of scans, or lab work reports. In theory they should have those already on their side. In practice they rarely do. The exchange of information goes sms->web link->web form->submit - for one single turn. There will be multiple turns. Most people just give up.

2) MRI scan private hospital made me jump 10 hops before sending me link, so I can download my MRI scans videos and pictures. Most people would have given up. There were several forks in the process where in retrospect could have delayed data DL even more.

3) Blood tests scheduling can't tell me back that scheduled blood test for a date failed. Apparently it's between too much to impossible for them to have my email address on record, and email me back that the test was scheduled, or the scheduling failed. And that I should re-run the process.

4) I would like to volunteer my data to benefit R&D in the NHS. I'm a user of medicinal services. I'm cognisant that all those are helping, but the process of establishing them relied on people unknown to me sharing very sensitive personal information. If it wasn't for those unknown to me people, I would be way worse off. I'd like to do the same, and be able to tell UK NHS "here are, my lab works reports, 100 GB of my DNA paid for by myself, my medical histories - take them all in, use them as you please."

In all cases vague mutterings of "data protection... GDPR..." have been relayed back as "reasons". I take it's mostly B/S. Yes there are obstacles, but the staff could work around if they wanted to. However there is a kernel of truth - it's easier for them to not try to share, it's less work and less risk, so the laws are used as a cover leaf. (in the worst case - an alibi for laziness.)
by rasz | 2025-08-29 17:47:23+00:00
OSI model makes no sense when applied to USB vs PCIE vs SATA :)

But if you really insisted SATA and USB would occupy layers 1 and 2 while PCIE goes all the way to 3, so would ancient Firewire. PCIE (and FW) support bus mastering, USB does not. USB/SATA devices are purely host pooled and unable to initiate any transfers, PCIE device can talk to any other PCIE device without host help.
by tuyosvawnt | 2025-08-29 17:47:24+00:00
there are more of all these bottlenecks among the proprietary or open source project worlds, which have yet to collaborate amongst themselves to unify the patterns in their disparate codebases and algorithms into a monolith designed to compress representations of repeated structures edited for free by a growing userbase of millions and the maturing market of programmers who grew up with cheap GPUs and reliable optimization libraries

the article's subtitle is currently false, people collaborate more with the works of others through these systems and it would be extremely difficult to incentivize any equally signifciant number of the enterprise software shops, numerics labs, etc to share code: even joint ventures like Accenture do not scrape all their own private repos and report their patterns back to Microsoft every time they re-implement the same .NET systems over and over
by sneak | 2025-08-29 17:47:28+00:00
> Property itself is a legal fiction.

Maybe real property (which only exists because of a property record held in a government building), but it is self-evident to me (and, I believe, most people) that personal property is a natural right.

One only need look up some TikTok videos of Americans getting pickpocketed in Europe to see how large groups of people feel on the matter.
by derefr | 2025-08-29 17:47:40+00:00
It's the stuff you find in LLVM's libc++abi (https://libcxxabi.llvm.org/spec.html) or GCC's libsupc++ (https://wiki.osdev.org/Libsupcxx).

• These libraries provide the set of functions that compiled C++ code expects to call into to implement syntax-level features, like exception unwinding, destructors, and runtime type inference (RTTI).

• These libraries also define the C++ equivalents of the C runtime's _init and _fini functions. The C++ versions do a lot more: they set up the exception unwinder (copying and fixing-up .data-section DWARF tables into exception-unwind lookup tables for the active .text-section address-space mappings); they register global destructors; they register signal handlers (and per-thread-create handlers to re-register those signal handlers), to make the particular signal received by https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_cancel.3.html trigger exception-unwind and destructors; ...etc.

Usually, a C++ runtime support library gets static-linked into a C++ stdlib; and then a program implicitly receives linkage to the C++ runtime support library as part of statically or dynamically linking to the C++ stdlib.

However, if you want a "minimal" C++ binary — and you never use anything in `std` (maybe because you're just using C++ to be able to write "C with templates") — then you can just link only the C++ runtime support library itself.

(And yes, all of these C++ syntax features that require runtime support are technically optional. You can just `-fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -ffreestanding -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-unwind-tables`, and then never link a C++ runtime support library at all — if you're willing to only use placement `new` and never use destructors or exceptions or RTTI. But at that point you're not exactly writing C++; you're writing an "embedded profile" of C++, akin to targeting the Java SE Embedded platform. Which makes sense if you're coding e.g. an RTOS kernel; but goes against the much of the point if you're just writing e.g. the "native loadable module" for an HLL ecosystem package. Now your code can't depend on arbitrary third-party C++ code [because there isn't an "embedded C++" ecosystem, only a regular C++ ecosystem]; you can't find any FOSS contributors willing to help you maintain it [because 99% of people only know C++, not "embedded C++"]; and so on.)
by greggman65 | 2025-08-29 17:47:59+00:00
And yet, Sony did it, Nintendo did it, both have been pretty succeesful.

We also need to be clear what an OS is. Is it "darwin" or "macOS" - they have different scopes.

Things I'd want from an OS for an XR device.

1. Fast boot. I don't want to have to wait 2-3-4-5 minutes to reboot for those times I need to reboot.

I feel like Nintendo figured this out? It updates the OS in the background somehow and reboot is nearly instant.

2. Zero jank. I'm on XR, if the OS janks in any way people will get sick AND perceive the product as sucking. At least I do. iOS is smooth, Androind is jank AF.

Do any of the existing OSes provide this? Sure, maybe take an existing OS an modify it, assuming you can.
by kstenerud | 2025-08-29 17:48:21+00:00
“If it takes longer to explain to the system all the things you want to do and all the details of what you want to do, then all you have is just programming by another name”

If it's taking you that long to direct the AI, then either you're throwing too small a problem at it, or too big a problem at it, or you're not directing its attention properly.

In a way, your prompts should feel like writing user documentation:

Refactor all of the decode functions in decoder.rs to return the number of bytes decoded in addition to the decoded values they already return. While refactoring, follow these principles: * Use established best practices and choose the most idiomatic approaches. * Avoid using clone or unwrap. * Update the unit tests to account for the extra return values, and make sure the tests check the additional return values. When you're finished, run clippy and fix any issues it finds. Then run rustfmt on the crate.
by some_random | 2025-08-29 17:48:21+00:00
Worth mentioning that there are ~3 companies called Sig with many name changes over the years:

SIG Switzerland, the original who mainly services the Swiss government and domestic market. They created the original P210, SG 550 series, etc

SIG Sauer Germany, the now-defunct company SIG Switzerland created when it bought German firearms company JP Sauer and Sons in order to develop, market, and sell firearms in a legally easier jurisdiction. They are most famous for the P220 series of handguns.

SIG Sauer USA, the New Hampshire based company that was initially created to make importing easier that is now by far the largest and most well known SIG. They created the P250, P320, P365, SG556, MCX series, etc. They are very well

Overall, SIG Switzerland and Germany have very good reputations for making high quality products (Sig Sauer Germany almost won the competition with the P226 to become the M9, they lost because they were more expensive than the Beretta 92, very similar to what happened between Glock and Sig Sauer USA for the M17...), SIG USA on the other hand does not.
by hitekker | 2025-08-29 17:48:43+00:00
Apollo News sounds like German Fox News. But it looks like the citation behind "distorted beyond recognition" is itself misleading. The fact-check admits:

> At a discussion event, Green Party politician Katrin Göring-Eckardt advocated for networks where East Germans who have problems with right-wing relatives can register

The rest of the cited fact check searches for technicalities to diminish Apollo's conclusion that the politician wanted "denunciation of relatives". In my reckoning, the politician's rhetoric was not "distorted beyond recognition"; rather, the consequence of their rhetoric was highlighted.

IMHO, I wouldn't dismiss semi-reputable news sources so easily. I think it's valuable to hear the other side (https://ground.news/blindspot) especially when the fact-checkers/media on my side prefer that I just swallow the party line.
by ehnto | 2025-08-29 17:49:13+00:00
> There is a lot of cope in the games industry about this ever happening because of how disruptive it would be.

I don't think it would be that disruptive, we already have a sea of sloppy half-baked games to swim in and it hasn't destroyed the industry.

I think what people will quickly find in their holodeck reality is that the average gamer can't think up good games, that the shared playerbase is half the fun, and that there would be a serious shallowness to the experience.

I think what will really happen is that game studios will start pumping out even more shitty mobile games with AI, and the type of people who binge 20 advertainment games per week will be sufficiently numbed.

Meanwhile everyone else will continue to desire the same more genuine and substantive games from studios, that is my prediction.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-29 17:49:24+00:00
If it turns our universe is discrete (at the Plank scale), that supports the possibility that all reality may be discrete.

Which would mean integers are baked in, rationals too, but non-constructible reals (essentially all reals, given any degree of approximation) are a useful abstraction but don't actually exist in any way.

Reals are not real.

(Roughly) Equivalently: There may be no perfect circles in nature.
by lbhdc | 2025-08-29 17:49:43+00:00
That isn't too surprising. Creating a new ad market is very difficult. Why should advertisers move their spend to a platform where its not clear users have the same intention, and where the user base isn't as diverse as the big markets (google and meta)? They need to be able to prove that spend on their platform performs better for advertisers than spend on other platforms.
by webdevver | 2025-08-29 17:49:50+00:00
tbh linux has quite a bit of cruft in it these days at the syscall and interface layer.

if youre apple, it does make sense to do stuff from scratch. i think in a way, software guys wind up building their own prisons. an api is created to solve problem X given world Y, but world Y+1 has a different set of problems - problems that may no longer be adequately addressed given the api invented for X.

people talk about "rewrite everything in rust" - I say, why stop there? lets go down to the metal. make every byte, every instruction, every syscall a commodity. imagine if we could go all the way back to bare metal programming, simply by virtue of the LLM auto-coding the bootloader, scheduler, process manager, all in-situ.

the software world is full of circularities like that. we went from Mainframe -> local -> mainframe, why not baremetal -> hosted -> baremetal?
by plqbfbv | 2025-08-29 17:50:04+00:00
A custom Arch install is what I have on my router.

There's no real auto-update for Arch, and it wasn't designed for it (IIRC according to their forums/wiki), so I have to login every now and then and run pacman (I'll admit I haven't invested more than a couple hours searching).

The `kea` package (DHCP server) got updates this summer, 3 weeks apart, that both broke configuration file parsing, and I had to discover the next day on reboot. "But you should have read the changelog!", "But you should have tested the config files on updates!", "But you should have restarted the service!" ...: no, no I don't normally test every config file or restart every service after an upgrade, and I don't normally read Changelogs of all software installed on my machines. I shouldn't have to do that in 2025.

`zfs` is out of kernel, I've dabbled with that for a while until I understood if you want your machine to reboot 100% of the times, you'd better stick with in-kernel filesystems, no matter how worse featureset they have.

Sometimes stuff will just break on package upgrades without notice or warning, and you're left to pick up the pieces, normally in a hurry because your partner is screaming at you.

Compare that with Synology, where I have never, ever needed to login to click "run updates" or put it in "maintenance mode" to fix it. It updates itself, it boots at the set time, it brings up all services, runs periodic scrubbing, informs me via mail, shuts down at the specified time. It has a 2x-SSD mirror for cache, and I don't need to care about the disk layout and configuration, and the cache configuration, .....

It's literally a set-and-forget auto-upgrading box that I can just use instead of maintain.

I understand that Synology is not in good shape anymore, see my other top-comment :)
by simne | 2025-08-29 17:50:32+00:00
Sorry, from your post could not understand, what value could create your AI?

And yes, that is part of answer - how to make money, depend on what type of value it create. Next may need (may not), to create some product, which is similar to some existing but much better because of your AI value. This need to answer to question who will be client and how sales could argue him to buy product.
by jakogut | 2025-08-29 17:50:48+00:00
The P320 absolutely has design and manufacturing flaws. The P250 fire control unit was shoehorned into a striker fired pistol when they should've gone back to the drawing board like they did with the P365, which doesn't have these issues.

There are also manufacturing issues with intermingling parts with different geometries intended for different calibers and building guns with the wrong parts, such as installing a 10mm Auto/.45 ACP takedown safety level in a 9mm gun, or installing a metal injection molded firing pin safety that's out of spec, worn, or contributes to tolerance stacking in such a way that the gun becomes unsafe.
by eoskx | 2025-08-29 17:50:54+00:00
Please stop repeating this incorrect corporate structure. While there are still 3 entities, they are all now owned by the same German holding corporation, L&O Holdings, which is owned by 2 German individuals. The holding company now includes Sig Sauer USA, Sig Sauer AG (Swiss), and Sig Germany.

I do agree with your assessment of quality between the companies, though.
by mystraline | 2025-08-29 17:51:11+00:00
As a real world counterexample, medical in the USA does this shit all the time.

Local office will do a blood draw, send it to a 3rd party analysis which isn't covered by insurance, then bill you full. And you had NO contractual relationship with the testing company.

Same scam. And its all because our government is completely captured by companies and oligopoly. Our government hasn't represented the people in a long time.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-29 17:51:20+00:00
You need to understand that you are a very unusual case. Most people can't get 25 Gbps for a connection, it's 1 Gpbs at best. Most people, even most technical people, are not running a 25 Gbps home network. You have specific needs for speed and that's fine, but they are not commonplace and most people will be served just fine with SATA drives.
by tanvach | 2025-08-29 17:51:32+00:00
Was at Oculus post acquisition and can say that the whole XROS was an annoyance and distraction the core technology teams didn’t need. There were so many issues with multiple tech stacks that needed fixing first.

Mind you, this XROS idea came after Oculus reorged into FB proper. It felt to me like there were FB teams (or individuals) that wanted get on the ARVR train. Carmack was absolutely right, and after the reorg his influence slowly waned for the worse.
by V__ | 2025-08-29 17:51:46+00:00
That really is not a good takeaway.

Regarding free speech: How many arrests happen in the U.S. at town halls, school assemblies etc. because someone says something the board or mayor doesn't like? How often do police officers arrest people for filming them and so on? The courts typically side with you, however let's not pretend there aren't any consequences. Be it jail or police brutality.

Regarding the U.S. constitution: It is worthless. If the president can ignore it without consequence and the supreme court and congress doesn't care, what is the point?

It may very well be that the state might fail, but let's be honest not before the U.S. will.
by glenstein | 2025-08-29 17:51:55+00:00
It's a frying pan/fire choice that could create a de-facto standard we end up depending on, during a critical moment where the hot topic could have a protocol or standards based solution. Cloudflare is actively trying to make a blue ocean for themselves of a real issue affecting everyone.

>But the irony of taking an ideological stance about fairness while using AI generated comics for blog posts…

"But you participate in society!"
by bkazez | 2025-08-29 17:51:56+00:00
I do video postproduction and am trying to archive/backup 100-250GB of large files per month. Ended up very slowly rsyncing to Synology NAS, confirming checksums with another script, using Synology onboard stuff to backup to AWS, and dealing with all the totally random hard drive noise.

If I want to work on one of these old projects, I have to download it locally so 4K editing works.

Meanwhile my old projects back when I used different software are impossible to open.

I have spent days setting up all this junk, HATE the Synology UI, and regret it all.

What’s the better solution? Just a bunch of RAIDs that I connect to with USB??
by PaulKeeble | 2025-08-29 17:52:14+00:00
No that wasn't the problem. Intel was providing too much voltage internally on boost and it is damaging the CPUs. They decreased the voltage but then a bunch of already damaged CPUs are marginal so now they are boosting other voltages to bring them to stability and the consequence is a reduction in the boost clock speeds. The patches will keep coming as these CPUs degrade more rapidly, they are all going to die young its just a question of when and whether Intel will be on the hook for it or not.