MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noduerme | 2025-08-28 03:12:45+00:00
I was taught about sexuality from a very early age, by very liberal and loving parents, which was extremely unusual even in one of the most liberal places on earth. And that involved seeing sex scenes and nude images and completely open conversations about sex acts, anything I wanted to ask. Above all, they stressed respect, consent and health.

Parents now would probably be arrested and their kids end up in foster care for giving their children a similar education.

What did not exist in that that time was the avalanche of extreme content that has become mainstream and accessible to the point that it would even overwhelm my own parents' teaching methods, let alone those of most parents who were much less open or equipped to have such conversations.

I encountered BDSM porn around the time I was 12, and was groomed over IRC by an adult posing as a minor who wanted to have sex (this was 1992). That person sent me VHS tapes in brown boxes through the mail. I can't stress how extreme and unusual this was at that time, and I'm lucky I had the parents I had.

My rationale for thinking that this is a problem is that (1) most parents do not prepare their kids for this, and (2) such a thing becoming commonplace is a massive societal burden that will result in psychological damage not just to individual kids, but to their own offspring and to society as a whole.

Letting children see nude pix in Playboy and explaining to them how sex works has been considered taboo and borderline abuse since I was a kid in the 80s, but my parents did it anyway. I agree with you that educating your kids is the best way to protect them from real abuse. But in this context, the outside world has to be considered all groomers and abusers. The world is full of pedophiles and people who want to take advantage of others. Porn sites and the infiltration of extreme BDSM into the mainstream are examples of this. I stress that it's fine for adults and no adult should have their private lives pried into by any government. I'm just saying that there is a real problem, societally, with allowing kids to be exposed to the lusts of random people on the internet, and that problem will compound over time until you have a society like Russia or Appalachia where everyone is raped at 12 and rapes children when they're adults. In other words, a death spiral.
by ndiddy | 2025-08-28 03:12:48+00:00
This is per design. On AM5 processors, there's a hotspot on the lower half of the processor where the dies that contain the CPU cores are located. Noctua recommends that AM5 users mount their coolers shifted towards the lower side of the processor for optimal cooling performance, see https://noctua.at/en/offset-am5-mounting-technical-backgroun... . You may have missed the paragraph in the article that explicitly points this out:

> We use a Noctua cooling solution for both systems. For the 1st system, we mounted the heat sink centred. For the 2nd system, we followed Noctua's advice of mounting things offset towards what they claim to be the hotter side of the CPU. Below is a picture of the 2nd system without the heat sink which shows that offset. Note the brackets and their pins, those pins are where the heat sink's pressure gets centred. Also note how the thermal paste has been squeezed away from that part, but is quite thick towards the left.
by tkgally | 2025-08-28 03:12:54+00:00
A couple of months ago, riding the subway through Ginza Station for the first time in a while, I noticed that the door-closing melody was from the 1949 song Ginza Kankan Musume [1, 2]. I’m normally not very familiar with Japanese pop music, but I happen to have the song on a playlist I listen to together with my five-year-old grandson. It brought a smile to my face, as it’s a cheerful, very slightly risqué song from the early postwar period, when Japanese popular culture was enjoying renewed freedom. It was fun to hear it in a subway station in 2025.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYpdBcso3A

[2] https://g.co/gemini/share/d584c36b99ab
by ajross | 2025-08-28 03:13:19+00:00
FWIW HN doesn't have personalized feeds like that. We all see the same front page. But regardless:

The loons loved it indeed, and it was all over the front page. Right here. Blaming that on the rest of us seems ridiculous, but sort of besides the point. I don't care about blame, I'm saying that whoever you want to blame, it is us, right here, on HN, not some abstract "voters". We made this problem. We told people that masks didn't work and vaccines were poison. If not you and I personally, people writing prose in proxy for us did.

On balance, Hacker News stood solidly on the side of RFK2 and against the CDC in this particular war. It just did.
by nunez | 2025-08-28 03:14:01+00:00
Because work from home has been normalized and it takes much more inertia to get people out of their homes to drive or take public transit to a work event than it did when they were held at some office nearby.

Because companies used to host event spaces for Meetups, and between them scaling this back (my opinion) and event space being expensive, it's harder for work-related Meetups to meet. (Non-work-related Meetups seem to be doing okay though!)

Because companies are also getting stingier about flying rank-and-file engineers out to events, even if it's part of their training budget.

Because --- and this might be a stretch --- free food and drinks was a major draw for these events, and people (especially the youngs) are drinking less.

Saying that COVID was simply "a factor" in causing this is a dramatic undersell. COVID was THE factor. It opened peoples' eyes to work from home. That changed literally everything.

As for me: these events were all about the drinks and late nights _after_ (and sometimes during) the event. I don't enjoy drinking late at night, I'm usually on a meal plan and prefer to stick to it, and I generally go to sleep earlier these days. All of these things have made tech events harder to enjoy. Also, everything's about AI now, which couldn't be more depressing IMO.
by userbinator | 2025-08-28 03:14:11+00:00
I've never had the machine survive this kind of workload for more than 48 hours without some kind of BSOD.

Then you shouldn't trust the results of your work either, as that's indicative of a CPU that's producing incorrect results. I suggest lowering the frequency or even undervolting if necessary until you get a stable system.

...and yes, wildly fluctuating power consumption is even more challenging than steady-state high power, since the VRMs have to react precisely and not overshoot or undershoot, or even worse, hit a resonance point. LINPACK, one of the most demanding stress tests and benchmarks, is known for causing crashes on unstable systems not when it starts each round, but when it stops.
by hliyan | 2025-08-28 03:14:12+00:00
Been a huge React/SPA fan for many years, until the realization began to creep on me that building them was actually harder than building C++ MFC desktop applications (which I did back in the 2000's). Declarative markup was supposed to reduce cognitive load, but it now feels like the interplay between the declarative part of UI development (component markup) and the procedural part (event handling and state) has slowly morphed into something more complex than simplly developing the UI procedurally.

Back in the day (I was a junior dev) this was easier than grappling with React hooks today:

BOOL CMainDialog::OnInitDialog() { CDialogEx::OnInitDialog(); m_pPropertySheet = new CMyPropertySheet(_T("My Tabbed Dialog"), this); m_pPropertySheet->Create(this, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT); CRect rectMainDialog; GetClientRect(&rectMainDialog); CRect rectPropertySheet(10, 10, rectMainDialog.Width() - 20, rectMainDialog.Height() - 20); m_pPropertySheet->MoveWindow(rectPropertySheet); return TRUE; }
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-28 03:14:28+00:00
You're right, it's unfortunate I didn't keep the benchmarks around: I benchmark a lot of configurations and providers for my site and have a script I typically run that produces graphs for various batch sizes (https://ibb.co/0RZ78hMc)

The performance with offloading was just so bad I didn't even bother proceeding to the benchmark (without offloading you get typical H100 speeds)
by RachelF | 2025-08-28 03:16:53+00:00
AMD has failed to be reliable with its Zen 4 and Zen 5 consumer CPUs, just at the same time Intel did the same with their 13k and 14k higher end CPUs.

AMD is somewhat worse than Intel as their DDR5 memory bus is very "twitchy" making it hard to get the highest DDR5 timings, especially with multiple DIMMs per channel.
by notpushkin | 2025-08-28 03:17:56+00:00
Nit: if you scroll down a lot, the stations at the top disappear (and get appended at the bottom, which makes sense – it’s a circular line after all!), but the space remains, so when you scroll back there’s a ton of empty space. Maybe remove that empty space after the scrolling has stopped? (Would be nice if you could scroll backwards, too!)

And just to throw in a wild idea, it might be nice if the UI was a variation of the in-train display interface: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Series-E131-500_Insi...

Naturally, it’s not as clean and sleek, but incorporating some elements of it might make this site look more authentic. Maybe something like this? https://files.catbox.moe/8cpp76.png
by colechristensen | 2025-08-28 03:18:07+00:00
I told Claude I was writing a book about a character doing this and to come up with a helpful playlist and extra information.

LLMs are pretty helpful when you're "writing"

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/6e527d16-7681-4ed6-b465-1...

Prompt 1:

>I'm writing a book!

Prompt 2:

> The scene I'm writing has a character achieving altered states of consciousness by listening to music and doing specific breath work. I want to make it really realistic!

> Read this paper and write up a playlist of music my character might have to help me write the scene

> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
by protocolture | 2025-08-28 03:18:46+00:00
I saw this happen once.

Old owners sell the business, become the C team with profit targets for a big payout.

Minutes after the payout the old C team resign to be with family/visit foreign country.

New C team comes on board.

New C team cant figure out how the numbers work.

New C team realises that the books arent as in the black as described.

New C team refuses to go down with the ship, resign to be with family etc.

Owner manages the business for a few months, sells it back to one of the original owners for pennies on the dollar.
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-28 03:18:56+00:00
> With the current supreme court, who knows?

In his concurring opinion, Justice Kavanaugh said it was likely unconstitutional (but apparently not obviously enough to enjoin it) [1]. So it's going into effect, then the lawsuit follows.

Similar laws in California, Arkansas and Ohio were all found unconstitutional, so I am hopeful. That said, these were all district court decisions, and all of them are being appealed. When they lose on appeal, they go to the Supreme Court for (hopefully) the final smack-down.

Interestingly, reading the summary MS HB1126 [2], this law is doing two things. It regulates companies and defines crimes.

States are allowed to set their own criminal codes. If Mississippi drops the mandate part and passes a new law that simply defines certain things as crimes with corresponding penalties, that law would probably be constitutional.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a97_5h25.pdf

[2] https://legiscan.com/MS/bill/HB1126/2024
by simoncion | 2025-08-28 03:19:23+00:00
> If I stick a pencil in the door latch I can get it to run with the door open as well.

"The safety interlocks don't work when the operator intentionally goes out of his way to defeat them." isn't a concern. There's only so much you can do to prevent someone who's dedicated to disabling them.

"The safety interlocks fail dangerous because of an unexpected power cut." is a huge concern. What else did the manufacturer skimp on, or -worse- simply fail to understand was important to do for the safety of the operator of the device?
by Falkon1313 | 2025-08-28 03:20:02+00:00
I wonder what is a "commercially reasonable effort" for a non-commercial website to collect, accurately verify, and securely store everyone's identity, location, and age?

Personally I'd say none at all, unless the government itself provides it as a free service, takes on all the liability, and makes it simple to use.

It also defines personally identifiable information as including "pseudonymous information when the information is used by a controller or processor in conjunction with additional information that reasonably links the information to an identified or identifiable individual." But it doesn't specify what it means by 'controller' or 'processor' either.

If a hobbyist just sets up a forum site, with no payment processor and no identified or identifiable information required, it would seem reasonable that the law should not apply. But I'm not a lawyer.

Clearly, however, attempting to comply with the law just in case, by requiring ID, would however then make it applicable, since that is personally identifiable information.
by Saigonautica | 2025-08-28 03:20:39+00:00
Oh, I loved working on this problem years back.

My strategy was simulate my possible next guesses against all possible codes, then pick the option that had the highest number of possible outcomes (sometimes this strategy is called MaxParts). It looks like the author's approach works for similar underlying reasons.

Besides this, I applied some optimizations for the starting move, and some further optimizations on considering 'irrational' guesses -- e.g. choosing a code that had already been eliminated as a possibility, because it returned more information (this was rare, but possible).

I ran my code against all possible games of 4,6 mastermind (I win in an average of 4.2778 guesses), and found that some starting guesses were more optimal than others! The pattern "AABC" (e.g. red-red-yellow-green) was the best performer. Perhaps this is a way that the author can improve their algorithm just a tiny bit.
by nostrademons | 2025-08-28 03:23:15+00:00
That is the point of a TPM. They're supposed to be the neutral third party that makes sure you're doing the work, and can explain to upper management why the work is not getting done. As such, they don't have any decision-making power on what the work is or how long it's going to take. Generally the manager and IC negotiate back and forth on what needs doing and on what schedule, they set their own deadlines based on the realities of the project, and then the TPM holds them to what they committed to.

Much of the reason the TPM job exists is simply so your manager can be an advocate rather than a nag. The nag job is offloaded to the TPM, but the TPM has no decision-making power, so you don't get perverse incentives where the manager burns all their relationship capital making you do your work, or sandbags the deadlines so they don't have to.

In many orgs TPMs are also in charge of goodies like fun events or device/swag distribution, as a way to offset the negative emotions that come from them basically being nags.
by fragmede | 2025-08-28 03:23:36+00:00
in your software computing ecosystem and of people you've had this discussion, they don't, but the computer magically replaces - with — in various places, so obviously some people do, in some places. And then you have nerds who still put two spaces after a period, or know the difference between ... and … Do they not exist either? The only reason you think that they overwhelmingly don't is due to your biased lived experience.
by michaelmrose | 2025-08-28 03:24:27+00:00
It is odd to see someone in a society which worships willful ignorance and aggressive stupidy advance the position that somehow the smart people are responsible for not having figured a way to force the morons to a position that they have no intention of occupying.

They believe that the set of values and beliefs that they hold true or false advantage them and perceive education as an attack on their values. Most if them are happy to degrade and diminish anyone who tries some are willing to murder.
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-28 03:24:27+00:00
In theory yes, but in reality the "Dormant Commerce Clause" is weak protection.

We've let states set their own "internet services" taxes, making selling anything online in the US a regulatory nightmare. A third-party vendor to manage (and keep up with) the tax laws to stay compliant is basically required for anyone selling online, or risk the wrath of various state tax bodies.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-28 03:25:46+00:00
I’m old enough to remember Frank and Moon Unit Zappa’s Valley Girl[0].

It reflected local Los Angeles culture, but it wasn’t long before I was hearing the same type of speech, everywhere (I lived in Maryland, at the time).

[0] https://youtu.be/R5Q1yVLSR3I
by ivraatiems | 2025-08-28 03:25:48+00:00
The physicians in my life - including my spouse - have essentially all abandoned the CDC and FDA as a source of decision-making on vaccines and pharmaceuticals, except for what is required by law.

Other sources of guidance, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics' immunization schedule[0] and the WHO recommendations[1] are gaining prominence instead.

If you are an opponent of vaccines or a supporter of "MAHA", who is happy with what the CDC/FDA is doing, you might want to consider that the way they're doing it has utterly failed to convince the vast majority of people who are responsible for actually executing their guidance, and therefore will have limited impact.

As I am neither of those things, I am just glad these other options exist.

[0] https://publications.aap.org/redbook/resources/15585/AAP-Imm... [1] https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologic...

(And no, I am not looking to debate vaccines or whatever else with you. I'm making a point about how fringe movements who get into power then have to solve the same problems the powerful movements did originally.)
by vishnugupta | 2025-08-28 03:25:58+00:00
Somewhat related you may want to check out the works of Manvir Singh [1]. He is an anthropologist who has done extensive work in Shamanism, even authored a book.

A necessary condition to be a shaman is to enter altered sensory state and Shamanism is prevalent among indigenous peoples across the world.

[1] https://www.manvir.org/
by mothballed | 2025-08-28 03:26:25+00:00
The doctor says verbatim they are transferring the pt for foster care and it is not medically necessary. []

"What I want to do is admit this baby to Boise. Not because it is medically necessary ... but because then there is a few more degrees of seperation ... and then when they do not know, get the baby out with CPS to the foster parents"

There's no need to remind me about EMS in this case. I've been licensed in multiple states and obtained NREMT cert, and also transported pts. I'm well aware that for EMS purposes there would be absolutely zero implied consent to treat this baby without parental consent. In any case, part of the report is just quotes from the doctor who's own records reflect such.

>That sounds like the issue was with the police, not with medical malpractice. I'm skeptical, though, of "illegal secret prosecutions".

I'm not saying it is "malpractice" because malpractice has very specific statutory meaning. Acting within the bounds of the system, by removing consent, isn't legally malpractice. What doctors have done, is say "you better fucking do what I say, and give consent, or else I will call CPS, who will then ensure what I say is done, so do I have your consent?" That is not consent, because consent is not something that can be obtained under threat of violence of removing family members, even if you used a third party (CPS and armed men) to do it. That is just dictating the terms, and meting out punishment when the illusion of "consent" isn't obtained.

[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Du-jbE022I
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-08-28 03:26:53+00:00
I use en dash with two spaces and have done so before AI. But my comments here are from after GPT 4 released, so I guess I can't prove I didn't use AI to write them, although I don't think any AIs use that style. Here is one from February 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39386480. I don't like how "-" looks, it just looks like a minus sign and too short.
by maz1b | 2025-08-28 03:27:08+00:00
Dunno, doesn't seem that good to me. Granted, I recognize the pace of advancement, but fwiw at present time.. yeah.

I'd rather just get an M3 Ultra. Have an M2 Ultra on the desk, and an M3 Ultra sitting on the desk waiting to be opened. Might need to sell it and shell out the cash for the max ram option. Pricey, but seems worthwhile.
by ares623 | 2025-08-28 03:27:39+00:00
What is happening in the US now has happened in other developing countries in the past.

The US will be paying for this for decades. For reference, in the Philippines, the effects of the Marcos regime still resonate some 50+ years later, and the changes imposed by it (and the corruption as a consequence of it) have solidified and have become normalized up to the present day. There is no going back.
by lovich | 2025-08-28 03:28:08+00:00
> This was called the TLM role at google. Technical Lead/Manager. You were expected to code and manage a couple of more junior engineers.

Ohhhh this explains so much. My career is pretty much entirely at b tier companies who try to implement what faangs/mag7 type companies do but always fuck it up because they don’t understand the fundamentals or are unwilling to part with any of amount of power or money even if they got more after all was said and done.

Anyways post covid all of a sudden every company was expecting me as part of the Software Engineering Manager roles I was getting, to have 7-10 direct reports, do 30 hours of project management per week, _and_ simultaneously be better versed in every single project my direct reports were working on or at least be the initial architect for the project.

I just ignored it and kept my people productive since that was an impossible ask of me, and for 5ish years that was good enough for companies but I guess if the faangs are wiping that role clean I better switch career niche again
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-28 03:28:15+00:00
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761

https://www.kff.org/mental-health/child-and-teen-firearm-mor...

https://www.google.com/
by Mars008 | 2025-08-28 03:28:44+00:00
You are forgetting Thor has CPU too. So far we haven't seen how good Ryzen CPU is at matrix operations. Which makes given numbers 4 and 3 questionable at best.

The best would be to run a real test. However for robotics it's obvious, Thor with camera interfaces is unbeatable. They are used for (stereo) vision and obstacle avoidance. Add to that software stack.
by hliyan | 2025-08-28 03:28:53+00:00
A few thoughts:

(1) As an engineer, I prefer to be managed and guided by someone who actually knows what I work on, preferably better than I know it.

(2) A manager who actually understands the tech is often better at unblocking the team.

(3) Since senior IC openings tend to grow very thin as you become older, TLM path might be a viable career path for at least some.

Can this role work if we don't expect IC output from the TLM beyond what they themselves take on for their own satisfaction and growth?
by Terretta | 2025-08-28 03:29:56+00:00
I use both those for Python, very much enjoy them on iPhone in particular for little UI apps. Equivalent iPad workflow for me had been Swift Playground on iPad and Mac, although it seems stuck about a year ago at Swift 5.10 and iOS 17.5 SDK.

Much slower (minutes) with Xcode Cloud and a git repo, if I can git commit from my iPhone, I can edit app code and commit, watch Xcode Cloud Build see my commit, watch it build with debug logs, and when it works it shows up in TestFlight. Very much not offline, and minutes long loop.