MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-08-25 22:07:23+00:00
such claims by one of the parties to the war (especially a party with such a long history of lying about it) are insufficient justification for attacking a hospital, doctors, journalists, etc

otherwise hamas could claim with at least as much credulity that every innocent person they killed just happened to be beside a soldier and they just missed, oops, so it's all good right?

or they could claim with at least as much credulity that there were no combatants launching attacks from the hospital, and that would cancel out israel's claims that there were, and thus israel's claimed justification

yes: absent independent investigation and judgement, there is no credible justification for this attack on civilians

of course, this is to say nothing of morality: killing innocent civilians and their press for exercising their right to video their own land? gross.

killing the rescuers and doctors and reporters who responded to your first killing (and were within their rights to do so)? sick.

genociding hundreds of thousands of innocent palestinian civilians to avenge a thousand israeli ones because you think israeli people are superior and more valuable than palestinian people? literally atrocious.
by krackers | 2025-08-25 22:07:57+00:00
https://www.sdcard.org/press/thoughtleadership/the-sd-memory... has more details, and a comparison to disk utility format. There is also this open source implementation https://github.com/profi200/sdFormatLinux

The main difference seems to be stuff about block size and alignment.

>Technically speaking, the SD Memory Card Formatter optimizes the layout of data structures on a SD memory card in accordance with flash parameters defined by the SDA. This includes placing the partition at the correct offset for the internal flash layout of the card, properly aligning the FAT and the cluster heap (an area containing the file and directory data) to internal flash boundaries, and minimizing wear-leveling, while maximizing read/write performance.

>Manufacturers of small embedded devices most often expect a file system to be formatted to the above stated parameters, so they optimize their relatively simple system implementations based on the assumption that the file system is already optimized for the internal flash layout.

I don't know enough about flash memory to understand why SSDs don't have this issue. Presumably they use more advanced controllers that just hide all this
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-25 22:08:51+00:00
I thought people stopped believing this around 2005 when Apple users finally had to admit that PPC was behind x86.

Even though this was the case for the most part during the entire history of PPC Macs (I owned two during these years)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-matter
by pedalpete | 2025-08-25 22:09:48+00:00
I've been thinking about going this route for my work PC at the office.

Currently I drag my laptop with me back and forth from the office. It's small and light, so not a huge issue. I also use Resilio Sync to sync my data between a few different laptops I use, plus github, and the amount of work which is just in the browser now, I have almost nothing that isn't accessible from anywhere.

The only reason I'd need a laptop at the office is for when I go into a zoom meeting and need a device in one of our breakout rooms.

Sure, I could just use my phone for that, but not quite the right experience.

Anyone have suggestions for this?
by xp84 | 2025-08-25 22:11:02+00:00
> they were on links marked nofollow

if i'm understanding you correctly you had an indexable page that contained links with nofollow attribute on the <a> tags.

It's possible some other mechanism got those URLs into the crawler like a person visiting them? Nofollow on the link won't prevent the URL from being crawled or indexed. If you're returning a 404 for them, you ought to be able to use webmaster tools or whatever it's called now, to request removal.
by RedComet | 2025-08-25 22:11:57+00:00
Cell carriers will just start requiring the attestation as well. And eventually, even an internet connection will - wifi routers will have to attest to ISP equipment, etc.

The final phase is "AI" monitoring everything you do on your devices. Eventually it won't just be passive, either, but likely active: able to change books you read and audio you listen to on-the-fly without your consent. It will be argued that this ok because the program is "objective".
by JohnKemeny | 2025-08-25 22:12:20+00:00
Okay, I see what you mean.

It really hinges on what is meant by "this question", i.e., Given the code of a computer program, can you tell whether it will eventually stop or run forever?

If what's given to you is the code and its input, then I think the statement's correct.

However, if the input is assumed to be either the code itself or any other fixed thing, then I agree with you.
by trashface | 2025-08-25 22:13:00+00:00
I may be out of date or wrong, but I recall when the M1 came out there was some claims that x86 could never catch up, because there is an instruction decoding bottleneck (instructions are all variable size), which the M1 does not have, or can do in parallel. Because of that bottleneck x86 needs to use other tricks to get speed and those run hot.
by hinkley | 2025-08-25 22:13:04+00:00
We were only getting 60% of our from bots at my last place because we throttled a bunch of sketchy bots to around 50 simultaneous requests. Which was on the order of 100/s. Our customers were paying for SEO so the bot traffic was a substantial cost of doing business. But as someone tasked with decreasing cluster size I was forever jealous of the large amount of cluster thatwasn’t being seen by humans.
by monero-xmr | 2025-08-25 22:14:04+00:00
I would be interested in balancing trade with each individual country, with magnitude of deficit taken into account (i.e. a tiny island country would have vastly less impact than China).

Tariffs artificially increase costs of goods with another country. That should incentivize purchasing the goods from other countries, with the cheapest being our own. Of course we have very high labor costs, and lack a huge supply chain, and on and on. But China only 50 years ago had very little of the same, and America systematically de-industrialized, teaching other countries, moving the kit, and so on, until we lost the ability to make things at scale cheaply ourselves. But the same thing can happen in reverse, there is nothing inherently impossible about having Americans build and run factories, with the benefit of robots and AI and all the latest tools.
by breakyerself | 2025-08-25 22:14:04+00:00
I don't think it antagonizes liberals, but I think they think it does. Wind and solar are already the cheapest forms of electricity in human history. Which is driving demand for low cost storage which is also on an exponential cost curve. The most logical move is to subsidize carbon free energy in whatever form it's generated and tax co2 producing energy and then let the market figure out the solution, but now days all these "conservatives" are against market based solutions and in favor of picking winners and losers if they perceive it pisses off old school environmentalists.
by jmcphers | 2025-08-25 22:14:23+00:00
I read for pleasure every day and watch very few movies, but on an airplane I often wind up watching a movie. I think it's because it helps distract my senses from the grubby discomfort of modern air travel (people packed in tightly, loud jet engines, etc.), and because in my everyday life I'm always obligated to consider others' preferences for a film -- the airplane is one of the only places I can watch something I'd actually choose for myself.
by cesarb | 2025-08-25 22:14:43+00:00
The reason I chose the Android ecosystem over the Apple ecosystem, once I found out that the Maemo/Meego ecosystem was a dead end and the Openmoko ecosystem was a non-starter, is that the Android ecosystem allowed me to develop and install my own apps on my own devices whenever I wanted to, without arbitrary limitations like having to periodically plug the phone into my computer to renew some authorization. Additionally, there was even for some devices the possibility of rebuilding the whole operating system with any changes I desired.

If I'm not allowed to develop and install my own apps on my own phone, what advantage does Android have over Apple?
by Smalltalker-80 | 2025-08-25 22:14:51+00:00
As creator of the language and the logo...: It is not meant to be the Romanian or any other flag. It was indeed modeled after the Smalltalk balloon on the BYTE Magazine linked, but simplified into 3 'basic' colors: red, yellow (iso green) and blue, each with a slightly darker shade to make it look better. PS I own a copy of that visionairy BYTE magazine :-).
by error503 | 2025-08-25 22:15:31+00:00
Ultimate control over devices you own should be a basic right. Apple's wanton abuse of users and developers via the control they have over their platform, and Google's nipping at their heels, should be evidence enough of that.

Fundamentally, it is a trust issue. Why should I be forced to trust Google or Apple has my best interests in mind (they don't)? That is not ensuring 'device integrity', it's ensuring that I am at the whims of a corporation which doesn't care about me and will leverage what it can to extract as much blood as it can from me. You can ensure 'device integrity' without putting any permanent trust in Google or Apple.
by kragen | 2025-08-25 22:15:36+00:00
Oh hey, this is the Energy Superabundance guy.

Overall it's a good idea but I'm skeptical that random "dirt" will reliably withstand the temperatures required for

> the stored heat creates steam on demand for the turbines instead of burning coal

but mostly-quartz sand without any calcite and crushed granite surely can, and those are widely available for barely more than the cost of driving a truck to your construction site, because those are the main ingredients in concrete. (As he says in his white paper https://findingspress.org/article/141340-thermal-energy-stor..., US$20–50 per tonne.)

From perusing https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost... I'm also skeptical that the turbines (especially steam turbines rather than gas turbines) will have a low enough cost to make this worthwhile.

If your random dirt is good enough I'd think you'd want to trench into the existing dirt to lay pipe, the way most ground-source heat pumps are done, rather than hiring a bulldozer. But I haven't done it; maybe the cost structure is different than what I imagine.

I wonder why he says

> Surrounding the earthen mound will be high-density, low-profile solar arrays.

What's stopping you from putting the solar arrays on top of the earthen mound (or sandpile) too?

Sand or feolite thermal "batteries" on the daily rather than seasonal timescale are eminently economical for even household thermal storage for heating. With TCES energy storage, which I expect to be barely more expensive at the household scale, you can get cooling too. TCES also scales down to small systems and long storage times in a way that sensible and phase-change thermal energy storage can't, while also bettering them on density.
by Havoc | 2025-08-25 22:15:38+00:00
I'm thinking of programming.dev in particular but suspect my wholesome comment is pretty universally true. The type of crowd that sets up their own servers like these are in my experience slightly biased towards wholesome side. Setting up software, build initial user base etc...there is a level of intent there that you don't get with the free for all that is reddit or whatever.

Maybe that's just my impression but suspect there is a kernel of truth there
by EnPissant | 2025-08-25 22:15:56+00:00
All ideas exist in an evolutionary system. New ideas are being produced all the time and the ones that prosper have the best fitness. An idea like this prospers because it has multiple fitness advantages:

- It tells people they are inherently better than other people: "Other people aren't as good as you."

- It excuses their bad behavior: "Your bad behavior is not your fault, you just reached your limit in dealing with bad people. It would happen to anyone".

- It offers a false veneer of being reasonable, even when it is just a framework of excuses. As you say: "It points to a need to balance compassion for self and others."

I don't think such ideas are necessarily engineered this way, but that is why they proliferate.
by satisfice | 2025-08-25 22:16:07+00:00
I recommend The Shape of Actions, by Harry Collins for a book length, sociologically adept treatment of this idea.

My books were edited by professional editors. These editors did not have and did not need any special expertise in my topic to do so. So there's a fundamental difference between grammar checkers/spell checkers, and a tool like an LLM that works in a way that subtly or overtly modify or contribute to the ideas themselves.

I don't mind that a doctor wears a white, nicely laundered lab coat with a stethoscope so that he looks like a doctor. I mind when some rando impersonates a doctor. This is why I distrust people who write by asking ChatGPT to generate text for them.
by shazbotter | 2025-08-25 22:16:09+00:00
Yes. The Supreme Court affirmed this in Texas v Johnson. It is an act that expresses a political view through a symbolic act. It might be offensive to you, but "I find it offensive" is not sufficient defense to stop political speech.

And the left did not get their way for sixty years. The left is predominantly socialist, communist, anarchist. Democrats are not a leftist party. The left hasn't held many political positions in the US. But we on the left hate the democrats as much (or more) than folks on the right. We also tend to be broadly supportive of individual freedoms (most of my leftist colleagues are anti gun control, for instance.)
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-08-25 22:16:19+00:00
I've got one of those Minisforum UM790 Pro Ryzen mini PCs and I loved it for the first 8 months -- very fast, worked well -- and then the fan started making noises. Took it apart, tightened things up and cleaned it, and the fix lasted a few days before it started being noisy again.

But the problem is.. custom non-replaceable parts. I realistically don't see a way I'm going to be able to fix the problem so I have to live with the noise. So basically another disposable consumer appliance. But it wasn't cheap.

This is frankly the problem I see with these little things. They're just too custom and the brands not mainstream, with no retail supply chain into Europe or North America to support the product.
by nehasuresh1904 | 2025-08-25 22:16:57+00:00
Thank you. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

There is a category of users who have to deal with emails and meetings as a primary part of their job. For instance our power user is a Head of Sales who uses April to just get a rundown of his day and get context about his customers before the meeting. It's his typical workday and wouldn't be a mismanaged workplace.
by nunclieh | 2025-08-25 22:17:21+00:00
@achrono (I cannot reply to the other post, I don't know why). Yes, you can use just a web browser.

> Mobile Payments They work with a card, no smartphone required. Moreover, cash didn't cease to exist.

> Navigation Again, physical maps are a thing. Google Maps or OpenStreetMap are accessible by browser. Having a physical map and having to follow road signs can be a beautiful experience. If one is addicted to a machine that tells them where to go, navigators are still a thing (no smartphone required)

>All manner of IoT devices

Don't put an IoT device in your house if you don't know what it does and how it works. If the only way to interface to it is via an app... then you don't know what it does and how it works. Don't put it in your house.

>Wearables

I don't even know what are wearables: if I write it on Firefox it underlines it in red. By doing a quick search, I can see images of watches. Watches can work without an app. Moreover, watches that work without an app are usually less expensive than the other kind.

>Digital versions of ID (Mobile Passport Control)

Don't. I know that some governments are pushing this crap thinking it's the future. Simply don't. Imagine you're at the airport and you accidentally drop your passport. You pick it up, nothing lost. Imagine you drop your phone and it stops working. You lost:

- Your documents - Your money (if you rely on your phone for paying and don't have cash with you, which seems a growing trend among people I know) - All your ways to contact people for help

Instead:

- Your wallet is stolen: you lost all your money and your cards, but you have your documents (at least the passport because it surely does not fit a wallet). - Your phone is stolen: you lost all the ways to contact people, but you can buy another one - Your passport is stolen: you can contact your embassy.

Smartphones are becoming a SPOF (Single Point Of Failure) for our lives.
by VLM | 2025-08-25 22:17:43+00:00
My credit union app already wants 24x7 GPS tracking of my location and full access to my camera at all times and full access to my collection of photos, so the app is already dead to me anyway. Demanding that I use it on a locked down device isn't going to change anything for me, I'm already actively not using it. I use the website on a desktop, I rarely need to access my CU at all much less access it remotely. Given the large amount of battery and bandwidth already used to track my every move, I wish there was something like "Docker for phones" where I could enable and disable 24x7 full access to my every action IRL.
by pjdesno | 2025-08-25 22:17:44+00:00
In theory data center cooling is simple - CPUs run at 60-70C, while the outside ambient is usually 30C or less, so heat should just "flow downhill" with a bit of help from fans, pumps, etc.

The problem with using air cooling to get it there is that the humans who run the data center have to enter and breathe the same air that's used to cool the computers, and if your working fluid gets too hot it's quite unhealthy for them. (we run our hot aisles at 100F, which is a bit toasty, and every third rack is a heat exchanger running off the chilled water lines from the outside evaporative cooler, modulo a heat exchanger to keep the bird shit out)

We're not going to be able to pump much heat into the outside world unless our working fluid is a decent amount hotter than ambient, so when it gets reasonably warm outside we need to put chillers (water-to-water AC units) in the loop, which consume energy to basically concentrate that heat into a higher-temperature exhaust. When it's really hot outside they consume quite a bit of energy.

If the entire data center was liquid cooled we could have coolant coming from the racks at a much higher temperature, and we'd be able to dump the heat outside on the hottest days without needing any chillers in the loop. As it is we have some liquid cooled racks running off the same chilled water lines as the in-aisle heat exchangers, but the coolant temp is limited by the temperature of our hot aisles, which are quite hot enough already, thank you.
by rl3 | 2025-08-25 22:18:12+00:00
Thanks.

>That plus babysitting Claude Code's context is annoying as hell.

It's crazy to me that—last I checked—its context strategy was basically tool use of ls and cat. Despite the breathtaking amount of engineering resources major AI companies have, they're eschewing dense RAG setups for dirt simple tool calls.

To their credit it was good enough to fuel Claude Code's spectacular success, and is fine for most use cases, but it really sucks not having proper RAG when you need it.

On the bright side, now that MCP has taken off I imagine one can just provide their preferred RAG setup as a tool call.
Grok: Thousands LOC a day in C is a big deal even if the "coder" uses LLM?
by adinhitlore | 2025-08-25 22:18:21+00:00
Since I got addicted to vibe-coding (to the unilluminated "vibecoding = using LLM to generate code), I asked grok couple of days ago if getting thousands or more LOC/day in complex language like say C is a lot or not, especially since the project involves AI (so it's 4-digit loc number/day for a complex task, we're not talking a Notepad clone, PoS, dental appointment, crypto wallet or anything that junior dev should do).

Here is the thing though: while one may be a total newbie and can barely type code apart from say downloading Python 3.9 if you have to deal with tremendous amount of code you'd have to compile, address potential errors (during compilation), if the LLM gives you code that erronously works against your goal (example: it automatically put a safety 'alignment' on my project basically forbidding 'rm -rf' to be run on my computer...but i'm on windows so i saw this "safety" feature and just manually deleted it from the code).

The question is: Is there any difference between a junior dev or rather someone just starting and someone who's been coding for years or even decades? In a way it's kind of like asking "do mathematicians use calculators the same way non-mathematicians use them?" I guess the difference is minimal?
by EarlKing | 2025-08-25 22:18:21+00:00
If "false information" is common there... don't go there. No, I don't think they, or indeed anyone, needs to be held to a "higher standard". No one is obligated to tell you "the truth" as you see it. If you're uncomfortable being on a forum where you opinions may be challenged then the American side of the Internet simply isn't for you. In fact, if it really bothers you that much, may I suggest that your country recommend de-peering from the global Internet? That would certainly solve the problem.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-25 22:18:47+00:00
Having to pre chill water (via a refrigeration cycle) is radically less efficient than being able to collect and then disperse heat. It generates considerably more heat ahead of time, to deliver the chilled water. This mode of gathering the heat and sending it out, dealing with the heat after it is produced rather than in advance, should be much more energy efficient.

I don't know what surprises me about it so much, but having these rack-sized CDU heat-exchangers was quite a surprise, quite novel to me. Having a relatively small closed loop versus one big loop that has to go outside seems like a very big tradeoff, with a somewhat material and space intensive demand (a rack with 6x CDUs), but the fine grained control does seem obviously sweet to have. I wish there were a little more justification for the use of heat exchangers!

The way water is distributed within the server is also pretty amazing, with each server having it's own "bus bar" of water, and each chip having it's own active electro-mechanical valve to control it's specific water flow. The TPUv3 design where cooling happens serially, each chip in sequence getting hotter and hotter water seems common-ish, where-as with TPUv4 there's a fully parallel and controllable design.

Also the switch from lidded chips to bare chips, with a cold plate that comes down to just above, channeling water is one of those very detailed fine-grained optimizations that is just so sweet.
by asdff | 2025-08-25 22:19:03+00:00
Funny how no one really complained about the random reboots but everyone noticed throttling and assumed their phone was "too old" and they needed to buy a new one. Interesting how this move greatly benefited apples bottom line versus improving actual quality of life for the user considering a reboot is 30 seconds perhaps and a slow phone is slow for every second you use it.
by UncleMeat | 2025-08-25 22:19:10+00:00
> Every time I hear mentions of "safety" from the folks at Google, I'm reminded that there's a hidden Internet permission on Android that can neuter 95% of malicious apps. But it's hidden, apparently because keeping users from using it to block ads on apps is of greater concern to Google than keeping people safe.

You've never needed the internet permission to exfiltrate data. Just send an intent to the browser app to load a page owned by the attacker with the data to be exfilled in the query parameters.