MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tstrimple | 2025-08-04 23:11:35+00:00
The misattribution to screens instead of antisocial behavior is what's making things worse. My children are fine despite having basically unlimited "screen" time. It's not my fault other parent's are incapable of parenting and rely on heavy handed legislation to protect their children from themselves. My children's lives are richer for having those "screens". They are far more curious and explore more than many of their peers do thanks to them. I think the pejorative of "screens" is far better spelled as "bad parents". But bad parents won't ever acknowledge that. Especially bad parents on HN thanks to Dunning-Kruger.

It's quite frankly ridiculous that people who associate with "hackers" want to isolate their children socially and technologically until some magical time that their mind is ready for controversy. As if the generations most capable of "hacking" weren't doing things far beyond their parent's understanding. Half the "hackers" here wouldn't be a fraction as successful if the censorship and restricted access they wanted were present when they were kids. Ladder pullers are some of the worst people in society.
by neilv | 2025-08-04 23:11:50+00:00
Presenter: "With a million dollars, you can own a nice home."

Presenter: "With two million dollars, you can own two nice homes."

Presenter: "With three mil--"

Audience: "Wait, who owns two nice homes, when so many people don't have any? Why is that even legal?"

Presenter: "Please, no interruptions; I have a lot more counting to do."
by aaaja | 2025-08-04 23:11:58+00:00
Agreed. Now that web access is so readily available, it's about time online service providers started taking more responsibility for what they publish and who can access it. That short-lived era of the Internet being only for tech-savvy adults is long gone. The online world is the real world now.

People often use the phrase "think of the children!" mockingly, but we really do need to think about their welfare and what sort of society we want them to develop and grow up in, and that includes the part of society that is mediated online.

Despite the criticisms people have over some of the detail in these new regulations, I see this as a very positive first step in the right direction.
by jkmcf | 2025-08-04 23:12:21+00:00
I used to be the one who reached out to everyone. Lack of reciprocity and a general frustration led me to stop keeping in touch with most everyone, which had the obvious outcome.

OTOH, when I see these people after years, it's like no time has passed. OTOOH, in order to be friendly, I have to overcome my general annoyance with their lack of effort.
by slickytail | 2025-08-04 23:12:31+00:00
All of this only really applies to LLMs though. LLMs are memory bound (due to higher param counts, KV caching, and causal attention) whereas diffusion models are compute bound (because of full self attention that can't be cached). So even if the memory bandwidth of an M3 ultra is close to an Nvidia card, the generation will be much faster on a dedicated GPU.
by amluto | 2025-08-04 23:12:55+00:00
I’m a bit confused by this writeup. It seems to me that you’re experiencing two issues:

1. An object that’s really a Rust Vec under the hood is awkward when you try to pass ownership to C. ISTM you end up solving it by creating what is, in effect, a handle, and freeing that using a custom free function. Is this really a problem with Rust FFI? This style of API is very common in native C code, and it’s a lot more flexible and future-proof than having a library user call free() directly.

2. You’re consuming the API in Rust and being sad that there’s no native defer statement. But Rust can do RAII — could you build a little wrapper struct that implements Drop?
by _carbyau_ | 2025-08-04 23:14:31+00:00
There have been articles written - including words from the writer of the show - that mention the issue of Bandit's impossible dad standards.

So yeah, don't take Bandit as the benchmark for being decent, but as something to aspire to.

I figure that in a world where good role models are lacking for men in so many ways, here's a good one.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-08-04 23:15:01+00:00
> You are giving advice to some of the dumbest people in the country. I'm not saying its bad advice, but these people are universally stupid. I don't know exactly why things ended up this way, but I'd love to hear where this isn't a truth.

These organizations are so dysfunctional on this front too, in so many ways.

Even when the technical people communicate "requirements" to HR, it's often a scattershot of everything the department touched even in some ancillary fashion in the last 5 years, and now ends up a game of telephone that, because someone in the department wants to migrate to 'Hive MQ', it's a "hard requirement" with 7-YOE required even tho it was literally just a managers' idea with no implementation path aside from a sprint ticket to "discuss it."

They allegedly need "an expert in IOT" but you'll spend 6 months configuring GitHub runners for some Java CRUD thing. Companies accidentally, by product of pure dysfunction, end up rug pulling people all the time.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-08-04 23:15:05+00:00
"The work was originally published in The New Yorker, which had planned to run it over four issues but instead dedicated the entire edition of August 31, 1946, to a single article"

TO OUR READER: The New Yorker this week devotes its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of its use.

The Editors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book)
by benjiro | 2025-08-04 23:16:00+00:00
> Toyota Corollas are exceptionally well-engineered cars. The thing is, they're engineered for convenience, reliability, and affordability.

Say that to the half a dozen recalls my 2007 Toyota Corolla had. The constant sensor issues. And a slew of other issues, like the very well know chain issues.

Well engineered is something that really does not fit with my 2007 Corolla. Yes, my 1992 Corolla was a tank, but not the "modern" 2007 version.

> affordability?

You mean the 33.000 euro that a base model Corolla now costs??? I think people have been living in the old corolla's mindset from the 90's because modern Corolla's are expensive cars.

Worst of all, its not even the good hybrid. A BYD SUV with 1080km actual road range, with full loaded electronics, solar roof, the works was 36.000 euro here. When a not big hatchback is that expensive, vs a freaking SUV...
by fn-mote | 2025-08-04 23:16:01+00:00
> I don't like the subjectivist take on historical truth [...]

The work of historians is to make inferences based on incomplete and contradictory sources.

Historians aren't simple fact-checkers. They make judgements in an attempt to understand the sweep of history.

You can see what kind of work they have to do every time you stare at some bullshit narrative put out by a company about how really it was good for the local economy for them to run their fracking operation, and the waste water really was filtered three times so it couldn't be causing the overabundance of three-legged frogs, and last year they funded two scientific studies that prove it. (I just made this up, hope you get the idea.)
by nosignono | 2025-08-04 23:16:01+00:00
> It's not even clear until like the last dozen episodes that Zeon is evil.

Zeon is literally portrayed as eugenicist Nazis early in the show. They literally chant "Sieg Zeon!" while saluting. Literally the very first episode shows Zeon dropping a space colony on Earth, essentially nuking a major population center (and says half the civilian population dies in the war.)

It's pretty clear Zeon is evil. What's unclear initially is that it was the Zabi family that made it evil.

Originally, Zeon was an idealistic movement by an essentially leftist philosopher (Zeon Deikun) whose work was co-opted by a militant autocratic family (the Zabi family). The leftist guy gets assassinated, and a big part of the series is watching his son, Char (the primary antagonist of the show) trying to take down the Zabi's while fighting for independence from the Federation.
by jgeada | 2025-08-04 23:16:35+00:00
Only the the context of weak labor laws and no unions.

There are more workers than CEOs and CEOs don't create the value, the workers do. What CEOs largely do is monetize and take credit for all the value creation.

I don't think things can continue along the current unsustainable path in the US. Something will break; hopefully in a sensible way and not the historical pitchforks and arson.
by metalman | 2025-08-04 23:17:07+00:00
might work out perfectly starship will land 220000 lbs on the moon as a human landing craft, and will likely do twise that as a one way freighter, more if the main booster is expended as well...

put it in a convienient crater, especialy good if it went into one permanently blocking sun light no shielding needed run it as hot as the materials will bear likely lots of optimisations that would be impossible on earth and whenever it needs fuel, the used stuff can be just pushed to the side throw in some solar , batteries the question is are they going big enough to start up a smelter to produce building materials on site?
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-04 23:17:21+00:00
I got a brand new microwave that controls time with a actual mechanical tomato clock mechanism, with a single distinct mechanical "bing" as it mechanically reaches 0 and hits a piece of brass.

It's the best microwave I've ever used. Meanwhile at work we have one that has a touch button for opening the door, and a touch slider to increase time. If power cuts, your food rots in there.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-04 23:17:31+00:00
I'm interviewing. I'm just not getting answers back. I have 9 YOE now so I've done the usual gauntlet hundreds of times by now.

Paet of it is that a lot of places just aren't hiring to begin with. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised that those who remain either have poor processes (maybe some by design) or don't know how to find what they are looking for.
by dabedee | 2025-08-04 23:17:36+00:00
Being "100% subject to European law" doesn't override the parent company's obligations under US law. At best, it creates a legal conflict where AWS must violate either US or EU law. Which one will the US parent company prioritize if/when faced with enforcement actions?

The only way this would work is if the European operation were truly independent & separately owned, no corporate control from the US. But I don't think that's what AWS is proposing.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-04 23:17:42+00:00
Whether you measure it as nominal dollars, real dollars or real dollars per capita, the US government's tax revenue has only increased over time, so the only explanation for why there are huge deficits now and not before is that its spending has increased by even more. Moreover, a major proportion of that spending increase did go to social programs, and the top 50% of incomes pay 97.7% of the federal taxes.

The actual problem is that even a lot of the "social programs" don't ultimately go to the poor. They require specific services that divert the money to contractors or landlords, or go to affluent retirees who don't really need the money. And, of course, the defense budget is entirely out of hand as well -- but why should we extract more from the economy to fund things that ought not to be funded?
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-04 23:18:56+00:00
> I can quickly count about 5 badges on my page of numbers that I don't think I'll ever actually care about.

Oh, I just noticed a few minutes ago that Watsapp has 4 main-screen tabs now. Not that any one besides "chat" is useful for anything...

And the "search for contact" functionality didn't go into any of them, apparently it was just replaced with "talk to AI".
by vunderba | 2025-08-04 23:19:46+00:00
I've been playing around with it for the past hour. It's really good but from my preliminary testing it definitely falls short of gpt-image-1 (or even Imagen 3/4) where reasonably complex strict prompt adherence is concerned. Scored around ~50% where gpt-image-1 scored ~75%. Couldn't handle the maze, Schrödinger's equation, etc.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net
by crazygringo | 2025-08-04 23:20:03+00:00
I don't think it's bleak, just the opposite.

If someone writes valuable stuff on a blog almost nobody finds, that's a tragedy.

If LLM's can process the information and provide it to people in conversations where it will be most helpful, where they never would have found it otherwise, then that's amazing!

If all you're trying to do is help people with the information you've discovered, why do you care if it's delivered via your own site or via LLM? You just want it out there helping people.
by commandersaki | 2025-08-04 23:20:10+00:00
A passkey manager is morally required to do an extra factor of authentication (e.g. fingerprint, Face ID, hardware keys, etc.) when you login, but the site/app has no way of knowing/proving whether that happened; they just get the password.

Thought sites can request hardware attested passkeys? In this case usb keyfob, or passkeys instanced from a secure enclave, etc.?
by nijave | 2025-08-04 23:20:41+00:00
>Why do you get a surprise bill?

You get a surprise bill because of surprise usage of services billed based on usage.

If you ask anyone how much water or electricity they use per month, the first thing they're going to do is look at last month's usage.

Estimating what you need ahead of time is a hard problem.

In fairness, AWS doesn't give you a lot of tools to help you measure and predict how many "units" you'll use outside of running your thing and measuring. On the other hand, running your thing and measuring is the defacto way to figure out how much of something you'll use.

Finally, there are AWS services like EC2 and RDS you can run at a fixed cost to help you stay within budget. Traffic/bandwidth is the only thing that comes to mind that you're pretty much required to use without a way to fix the cost (although you can get pretty close with bandwidth limits on EC2 interfaces)
by blitzar | 2025-08-04 23:21:50+00:00
> It will operate as a subsidiary company based in Europe.

Already was - I pay Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL ("AWS Europe") an entity established in Luxembourg.

> That means it's 100% subject to European law.

Always have been. What is it with tech companies thinking the law doesn't apply to them because muah internet?

> US can't compel a European employee

Courts compel companies not employees, companies get fined and CEOs go to jail for failure to comply.
by prmph | 2025-08-04 23:22:17+00:00
Man, the whole war was horrific.

The Japanese did things that were arguably even more horrific than the bomb; read up on unit 731 and the rape of Nanjing. I'm sure those who experienced those things would have far preferred dying in a flash.

The German did the holocaust, Babi Yar, etc.

The Allies did various fire-bombings.

The current singular taboo around nuclear weapons kind of misses how destructive and horrific the whole war was. This was total war on a scale that is hard to imagine today. To be fair modern nuclear weapons pack a punch that far exceed those atoms bombs.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-04 23:22:37+00:00
It seems like you should build a water reservoir at a higher elevation than the core and then apply a similar principle where valves regulate the water stream, but if the valves lose power they fail open. The reservoir can be built so that there is always enough water to cool the core.

For light water reactors this basically just amounts to a large pool up a nearby hill or in a water tower.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-04 23:22:42+00:00
> At best, it creates a legal conflict where AWS must violate either US or EU law.

No, that's the whole point of this setup. Amazon will not be violating US law when its European subsidiary says no, we won't respond to your subpoena. It would be if Amazon USA owned the European data centers directly and employed American workers. But it will do neither. The US courts can't compel companies to do things they have no legal authority over. It doesn't matter that Amazon owns the subsidiary -- fundamentally, the subsidiary is a foreign entity.
by notJim | 2025-08-04 23:22:55+00:00
You're still missing it, we are not in a deadlock. Developed countries are in fact decarbonizing. China too is decarbonizing, though they're behind where the West is, but their goal is to peak their emissions by 2030.

In fact, it's kind of the opposite of what you say—everyone is contributing fractionally to the solution. This is what climate doomers miss.
by tharkun__ | 2025-08-04 23:23:39+00:00
Did you actually scroll to the bottom or got bored while scrolling and scrolling and scrolling on the big black box running "top to bottom"?

The whole thing is about perspective. The big black box is just the start.

I find it much more enlightening to think about all the pixels I had to scroll past, then seeing the same thing represented by a big and then small black circle and put it in perspective with things like people working minimum wage all their lives all the way up to the Bezos and Musks of the world.

Those relative sizes feel immediately "relatable" even though they're "just numbers".

On the other hand I find your examples (no offense intended) lack that.

This is a house (or palace rather) that you could buy for $1B

This is very area specific. I can buy the same house / palace for way less than a billion in one place vs. another.

This is an oceanic yacht of the same value

From a quick Google, most super yachts "in that price range" cost less than 0.5 billion. Not that this makes it any more relatable.

This is a shopping mall which did cost about $1B to build

Seems like the house thing above :shrug:

This is an oil refinery that recently sold for $1B

Refineries always just look huge to me. Whether they cost $1B or $100,000,000 I really couldn't tell you. It's just a huge place of tubes and stuff. I have no frame of reference so to speak.

This is how many US senators you can bribe, and how many favorable bills you can push through Congress /s

Lacking frame of reference as well, though yeah, the /s was worth thinking about this one. Maybe the original site could represent this as a number or relatively sized circles. "This is how many bills you could buy with this in 1975 vs. 2000 vs. 2025" /s

But then it'd really be about inflation instead of perspective.
by OJFord | 2025-08-04 23:24:26+00:00
I'm not sure if I don't understand, or completely disagree, but if you look anywhere 'digital' like Reddit for example, a lot of Hindi is written in Latin script. WhatsApp too in private communication, where people don't have or haven't understood how to use a devanagari (or transliterating) keyboard on their phone.

As a Britisher learner it's frustrating¹ actually, because there is a standard for how to do this - IAST, for Sanskrit/derived generally - but of course that's not what native speakers use casually. E.g. your 'angrezi se hindi' would be 'añgrezī se hiñdī' but anyone writing Hindi with those accents is foreign or an academic. (Also people will casually write 'ay' instead of 'e' ए or 'ee' for 'ī' ई, etc. cf. 'paneer'.)

[1: The frustration is because it leads to ambiguity, whereas IAST is 1:1 and so preserves the phonetic nature of devanāgarī, and tells me exactly which t/d/r sound, if it's aspirated, etc. which a fluent native layperson's anglicised interpretation really doesn't. They might write gora & gora and know from context if that's gora or ghoṛā, but if I don't already know the word a gora like me is stuck.]
by kstrauser | 2025-08-04 23:25:06+00:00
It is literally exactly the same issue, just with slightly less of an error window. I don't think those devs are poor and dumb, but I do think it's likely they've been working in environments where production errors are more tolerated than in other environments.

> Maybe just maybe small chance of one bad request is not such a bad deal.

If your company is OK with that, seriously, sincerely, right on! Keep doing this and move on to other problems.
by jameshart | 2025-08-04 23:25:15+00:00
True! But writing an egregiously erroneous blogpost used to take actual effort. The existence of a blogpost was a form of proof of work that a human at least thought they knew enough about a topic to write it down and share it.

Now the existence of this blogpost is only evidence that the author has sufficient AI credits they are able to throw some release notes at Claude and generate some markdown, which is not really differentiating.
by 827a | 2025-08-04 23:25:29+00:00
Many companies exist in a state of this reality. Very few people at these companies genuinely want it. There are some companies that are clearly and intentionally designed to want this, but they're very rare (oftentimes in consulting, oftentimes companies which prey on visa programs or undocumented immigrants. oh, and amazon).

The goal of recruiting at most companies is to get the best candidate for the role at the best price within the time it is feasible to recruit for.
by vinay427 | 2025-08-04 23:26:18+00:00
> My personal theory is that this is because you can make every sound you hear in English using the Devnagari script, but not the other way around.

This is not very close to true. English (even a given accent) has a rather high number of phonemes, and they don’t overlap very closely with Hindi. What is probably more relevant here is that Devanagari is relatively phonetic so writing in it is useful to describe English pronunciations, more so than the English script is for Hindi (or English, for most unfamiliar words).

A very incomplete list of languages by approximate number of phonemes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
by bri3d | 2025-08-04 23:26:36+00:00
They definitely appear to use beamforming internally. It appears that the satellite uses knowledge of receiver location (or at least receiver density) to select beamforming codebooks.

It's less likely they use this in their mobile coverage, but for their own terminals this is absolutely a thing.

https://people.engineering.osu.edu/media/document/2022-10-12...
by skissane | 2025-08-04 23:26:39+00:00
> Being "100% subject to European law" doesn't override the parent company's obligations under US law. At best, it creates a legal conflict where AWS must violate either US or EU law. Which one will the US parent company prioritize if/when faced with enforcement actions?

IANAL/etc, but the subsidiary and the parent are different people (legal personhood). The US parent is only responsible for the EU subsidiary’s actions under US law to the extent it has effective control of them. If the parent tells the subsidiary to obey a US legal order, and the management of the subsidiary refuses on the grounds of EU law - then the management of the parent has done what US law requires them to do. The US management might consider firing the EU management and replacing them with new managers - but if the job requirement is “must be willing to break local law”, nobody with an appropriate background is going to apply, so if they fire them they won’t be able to replace them, hence they are legally justified in not firing them.

It is normally true that a wholly-owned subsidiary just does whatever the parent’s executive management demands, but this is one of the rare cases where that generalisation breaks down. (If we consider non-wholly-owned subsidiaries, it becomes a much more common thing.)