MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marshray | 2025-08-28 04:24:18+00:00
Clearly paste was squeezed out from the entire perimeter of the CPU. Offset mounting is used intentionally for this CPU.

Probably there's less paste remaining on the south end of the CPU because that's where the mounting force is greatest.

If anything, there's too much paste remaining on the center/north end of the CPU. Paste exists simply to bridge the roughness of the two metal surfaces, too much paste is a bad sign.

My guess is that the MB was oriented vertically and that big heavy heat sink with the large lever arm pulled it away from the center and north side of the CPU.

IMO, the CPU is still responsible for managing its power usage to live a long life. The only effect of an imperfect thermal solution ought to be proportionally reduced performance.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-28 04:24:31+00:00
The small coolers used by them are not recommended by Noctua for 9950X. Noctua recommends only bigger coolers for 9950X, which dissipates 200 W permanently on a workload like theirs (which is much less than the over 250 W dissipated in similar conditions by the competing Intel CPUs).

Despite this, the overtemperature protection of the CPUs should have protected the CPUs and prevent any kind of damage like this.

Besides the system that varies continuously the clock frequency to keep the CPU within the current and power consumption limits, there is a second protection that stops temporarily the clock when a temperature threshold is exceeded. However, the internal temperature sensors of the CPUs are not accurate, so the over-temperature protection may begin to act only at a temperature that is already too high.

So these failures appear to have been caused by a combination of not using the appropriate coolers for a 200 W CPU, combined with the fact that AMD advertises a 200-W CPU as an 170-W CPU, fooling naive customers into believing that smaller coolers are acceptable, and with either some kind of malfunction of the over-temperature protection in these CPUs or with a degradation problem that happens even within the nominal temperature range, but at its upper end.
by majormajor | 2025-08-28 04:26:38+00:00
Routing and account numbers have been on every check written for decades. Banks usually aren't quite that naive to let anyone with the numbers transfer whatever they want. There's name validation they can do, but legally/contractually IIRC it's optional. So the numbers + a lot of social engineering skill can do damage.

But I kinda suspect the ROI is higher for social engineering into an online account portal to Zelle a bunch of stuff around vs waiting for ACH transfers. Breach a login vs find an ACH list and transfer stuff out of the high-value accounts without triggering any flags (imagine you had access to that Paypal list - how are you trying to exfiltrate from millions of accounts without looking suspicious?).
by sws303 | 2025-08-28 04:27:15+00:00
I’m building PartyGem AI intended to tackle virtually all the issues I’ve read here and more.

I’ve been working in silence but progress has been made and my work will surface soon.

No nonsense ads, vaporware, data brokers, nor VCs own me. I’m going to make something that threatens all those apps which started great and sold out.
by kelnos | 2025-08-28 04:27:25+00:00
Art is a difficult, subjective matter sometimes. I don't think we can expect everyone to "get" every piece of art. If the poster upthread wanted to, they could read more about the painting, in detail, where perhaps someone writes about various specific features of it and what people believe those features mean. Maybe that would provide more understanding, and they could feel his emotions that way.

I'm not saying they have to or should do that; maybe they just don't care enough. And that's fine. But the option is there.

If someone prompts an AI, "generate an image in the style of Picasso's Guernica", then the result of that, by definition, has no deeper meaning. No emotion went into creating it. The person who prompted the AI could make something up, but it's hard to say what's "real" there. Even if they were to guide the image generation by describing their own emotions, the result wouldn't really be their own expression of their emotions. It would be the AI's probabilistic guess as to what those emotions look like on paper, when rendered using Guernica's style, based on a mish-mash of thousands of different artists and art history research. Ultimately it just doesn't mean anything.

I accept the idea that a talented artist could guide the AI with much deeper specifics about what to "draw", how to draw it, etc. And maybe -- maybe -- that's something that would convey the human's emotions faithfully. But I don't think that's what we're talking about here.
by nxobject | 2025-08-28 04:27:31+00:00
> In fact, the AAP recommendations include some extremely questionable vaccines for children in the USA, such as Mpox and Dengue. Filtering for duplicates, I count 19 recommended vaccines for children in the AAP document, vs. 10 for the WHO.

Having read the AAP's schedule: the recommendations are Mpox and Dengue are only for populations at risk, and not necessarily infants: e.g. Mpox is indicated for individuals 18+ and at risk; Dengue is indicated for ages 9-16 in areas with endemic Dengue and with history of prior infection.
by specialist | 2025-08-28 04:27:58+00:00
What is your threshold for epidemic?

Does 47,000 deaths per year (13.7 per 100,000) not qualify?

Why are you even complaining (trolling)? After decades of pressure, the gun lobby (NRA, GOA, etc) has finally eliminated CDC's role in researching gun violence.

Is outright victory insufficient? Must you continue to belabor the point?
by homefree | 2025-08-28 04:29:05+00:00
You’re unable to engage substantively, so you fall back on moral posturing and dismissal.

The “dictator” framing also reveals your own unfalsifiable assumption - that Trump is inherently authoritarian regardless of policy outcomes or democratic processes. It’s the kind of tribal reasoning that makes genuine political discourse nearly impossible.

Pretty much proves my point about ideological capture better than any argument could.

So much for your “critical thinking”.
by h4kunamata | 2025-08-28 04:29:58+00:00
To be honest, I am tired of seeing people complaining and yet using, buying Apple's goods.

So why are even complaining for??

We all know that the current Apple will go until the last consequence before reverting anything. If you continue using their devices, you are agreeing with their practices.

Apple business model is no longer based on the sales of hardware as it tanked, but 30% cut from the Apple Store. Thanks to Epic, that income has been severely affected making it very easy to hit Apple where it hurts: Their pocket.

Apple will never listen while folks keep using their services, buying new iPhone that is just the same crappy year after year.
by lmm | 2025-08-28 04:33:17+00:00
> Calling geoip databases "surveillance capitalism" seems like a stretch. It might be used by "surveillance capitalism", but you don't really have to surveil people to build a geoip database, only scrape RIR allocation records (all public, btw) and BGP routes, do ping tests, and parse geofeeds provided by providers. None of that is "surveillance capitalism" in any meaningful sense.

How is it not? Most "normal" surveillance works the same way - you look up public records for the person you're going after, cross-reference them against each other somehow, and eventually find enough dirt on them or give up. This is surveillance, and it's being done by and in the interests of capitalism.
by marshray | 2025-08-28 04:33:35+00:00
Clocking and changing register states requires charging and discharging the gate capacitance of a bunch of MOSFET transistors. The current that results from moving all that charge around encounters resistance, which converts it to heat. Silicon is only a "semi" conductor after all.

You are correct that there is energy bound in the information stored in the chip. But last I checked, our most efficient chips (e.g., using reversible computing to avoid wasting that energy) are still orders of magnitude less efficient than those theoretical limits.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-08-28 04:33:42+00:00
I check the commit messages to make sure i didnt use my personal git credentials (as i sometimes do), i comb through the git diff to make sure the changes are all what theyre supposed to be. i avoid whitespace or stylistic changes because they distract from the main point. I run git diff and git status maybe 10 times befire i submit a PR

my coworkers, from what i can tell, are much more incorrectly confident in the quality of their PRs
by magicalist | 2025-08-28 04:35:23+00:00
> I literally just went to the PDF guide the OP linked to, which presents it as a recommended vaccination (for a non-endemic disease in the USA):

https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-Immunization-Schedule....

They have a 1-6 steps right on the first page. Step 1: "Determine recommended vaccine by age (Table 1)"

OK, turn to Table 1. Dengue:

> Seropositive in areas with endemic dengue (See Notes)

Mpox: 18+ "for certain high-risk groups or populations"

You can also turn to page 7 for the same notes for Dengue, and page 11 for what constitutes risk factors that would lead you to consider administering the mpox vaccine.
by timr | 2025-08-28 04:35:39+00:00
Neither recommendation is in the WHO document for good reasons.

Mpox isn't endemic in the USA, and children under 18 were never a risk group here even during the outbreaks a year or two ago. This is purely political.

The Dengue vaccine is...not very good, and has serious interactions with the virus itself. Getting the Dengue vaccine before you get Dengue can put you in the hospital. Even suggesting that this should be on a document of "recommended" vaccinations is, quite frankly, stupid [1].

I recognize that the AAP puts asterisks on these things, but the point is that there are big differences between the schedules, and you can't just put blind faith in their recommendations because you've decided that the CDC is anti-science.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/hcp/vaccine/eligibility.html
by rjurney | 2025-08-28 04:35:48+00:00
This is not a surprise to anyone that has engaged in prolonged meditation, especially across more than one day. It makes shortcuts like psychedelics look foolish. During a ten day Vipassana retreat time slowed down to such a great extent it changed my entire perception of time thereafter. The space provided by the mental quiet created by Anapana is so profound.

TLDR Anapana: Sit comfortably and monitor the sensation of the breath exiting the nose and return to it as your thoughts wander. Don't get mad when you wander, it's part of the process. Just return and try to maintain equanimity, to not react. If you get frustrated at first, you can increase your exhale slighlty to make it more noticeable.

That's about all there is to it. After you do this for a while your thoughts become less and less frequent and... you only have important, creative thoughts :) It turns out conscious thought is just a refection of a deeper process and most of it is garbage: worries, self doubt, fears.

I have just inspired myself to take up daily Anapana by writing this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anapanasati
by Wololooo | 2025-08-28 04:35:49+00:00
Well, actually I could see a use for this in specific context and use cases, for instance if you happen to have different dev environments you're able to just move from machine to machine while keeping all the bookmarks in the repository.

If you organise them you can even reference them from the codebase, or the documentation to avoid clutter. The format is simple and dumb enough so that a simple bookmark.txt can be converted into a dictionary, array that can be used in the program if some URLs are supposed to be used there.

It's not revolutionary by any means, but I have to confess that it didn't occur to me that's a great per repo documentation reference tool or per folder.
by majormajor | 2025-08-28 04:35:51+00:00
How would that have ever worked for a car in OR as a CA resident? You don't need inter-state data sharing when you have to register the newly-purchased car with the CA DMV and fill out the form saying you bought it inside or outside of CA. If you said "inside" when you didn't CA could likely catch that discrepancy against purely in-state dealer/tax records; if you said "outside" then they're gonna make you pay the tax difference.

Now, buying a fancy computer or something... but a car?
by miki_oomiri | 2025-08-28 04:37:20+00:00
Yes. But qualia, subjective experience, state of consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, etc. these are not good definitions (as asked by OP). These are just all talking about the same thing without a proper definition that would allow us to define its different states. Measure, quantify, understand, sort, etc etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
by timr | 2025-08-28 04:38:04+00:00
You can nit-pick if you want, but there are major differences between the two schedules, they're different for a reason, and my point is that there's actual scientific disagreement around many of these vaccines.

In the case of Mpox, it's because the disease isn't a risk for most children (especially not in the USA). In the case of Dengue, it's because you can actually kill someone by giving the vaccine before they get Dengue. It's not a great vaccine.

Rejecting one schedule because you read that it was "anti-science" is as non-sensical as accepting the AAP without knowing that it's actually very different than the WHO recommendations.
by magicalist | 2025-08-28 04:38:42+00:00
> I'm probably going to be down voted... but if an organization (business or government) is full of people that refuse to sing the same song, how can such an organization accomplish anything?

If the purpose of the organization is based in science, what does it matter if you accomplish anything if you've fired all the scientists and all you have left are the politicians and spokespeople?

And if the acts of Congress that created your organization mandate that science be conducted, is it maybe time to do some soul searching about why no one wants to sing your terrible song?
by scheme271 | 2025-08-28 04:41:16+00:00
I think it's unavoidable for any sufficiently complicated object or variable. Think of c++'s unique_ptr that guarantees that only a single reference to memory exists so that that the memory can be free'd safely when it goes out of scope. Or thing of a complicated object that has references to allocated memory. You either allocate a bunch of memory and copy values over or have two objects refer to the same bit of allocated memory. Each solution potentially has major downsides. Your objects don't even have to be all that exotic, think of a vector holding 1024 fp64 values or a 8kb long string.
by bawolff | 2025-08-28 04:41:57+00:00
I would disagree with your premise that every major right wing paper is listed.

For example fox news and the Washington Examiner are considered right wing and are not listed as a deprecated source.

Similarly there are left wing sources on the deprecated list like the grayzone or Occupy Democrats. (Arguably those are rather fringe)

Certainly the epoch times has been widely criticized for being factually inaccurate in ways the new york times has not been.

I also don't particularly think the new york times is equivalent to the epoch times in terms of reputation.
by rmunn | 2025-08-28 04:42:12+00:00
Then you might want to update the Wikipedia article which claims that it's a fallacy "in which one modifies a prior claim in response to a counterexample by asserting the counterexample is excluded by definition", citing three links to support that: https://iep.utm.edu/fallacy/, http://www.fallacyfiles.org/scotsman.html, and https://archive.org/details/godphilosophy0000flew/page/104/m....

To say "No true Scotsman would dislike haggis" is to assert "If A, then B": If you are a true Scotsman, then you will like haggis. The response "Angus doesn't like haggis" is asserting "not B". To which the response "therefore he's not a true Scotsman" is asserting "not A". But "if A, then B" logically implies "if not B, then not A". Therefore when the person's definitions don't change, *it is not a fallacy*. It might be wrong — his definition of a "true" Scotsman might be a false premise — but the conclusion logically follows from the premise, so it is not a fallacy.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-28 04:42:30+00:00
that would be completely correct... sorry. the export options now read "ASCII Basic" and "ASCII Extended", and "Basic" generates plus signs for corners, as of now. I feel like the behavior might have changed. Extended option seem to use 0xE294xx range for lines.

1: https://gist.github.com/numpad0/7880ad1e3ed32b91d1ccf9c3374f...
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-28 04:42:40+00:00
The article is mostly about first level managers. I’ve never had any “manager” that really has any power over raises more than 3-4% or any real control over budgets.

When I was being hired as a strategic hire for startups - and was being interviewed by the director or CTO - I specifically asked would I be reporting directly to them or another manager. I actually refused one job because I saw that the expectations they had from me and how far I was down in reporting structure was incongruous.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-28 04:42:46+00:00
First they laid off the non-technical employees. As a big tech company, Google needs to focus on coding. But that wasn't enough, so they laid off the middle managers in charge of coders. As a big tech company, Google needs to focus on coding. But that wasn't enough, so they laid off the low-level managers who were the domain experts on each product. As a big tech company, Google needs to focus on pure coding, and anyone who isn't doing 100% coding is extraneous. But, that won't be good enough, so next they'll lay off the senior engineers. As a big tech company, Google needs to focus on coding, and senior engineers spend too much time doing "architecture" (whatever that means). But that won't be enough, either. So they'll lay off the regular engineers, too. As a big tech company, Google needs to focus on only the purest coders, meaning junior engineers who don't actually understand the product (understanding the product considered harmful). But that won't be enough. So they'll lay off all of the juniors and only keep one guy named Greg who will adopt the title "webmaster of google dot com" and rewrite the whole thing in PHP. Then this big tech company can really prosper!
by SirGiggles | 2025-08-28 04:42:51+00:00
This has been one personal pet peeve with the documentation surrounding Incus.

As a stack, Incus has been exceptional, it has largely replaced Proxmox and Podman Quadlets for me. For context, I homelab so I cannot generalize my claim to SMB or enterprise.

But the documentation has been very end user oriented, information regarding specifics like seccomp as you mentioned are only discoverable with the search bar and that leads to various disparate locations; and that also isn't taking into account that some of the more nitty gritty information isn't on the Incus portion of linuxcontainers.org, see the LXC Security page for example: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/security/
by nxobject | 2025-08-28 04:45:22+00:00
> Mpox isn't endemic in the USA, and children under 18 were never a risk group

> The Dengue vaccine is...not very good, and has serious interactions with the virus itself. Getting the Dengue vaccine before you get Dengue can put you in the hospital.

The "asterisks" contradict what you're saying: one of the Dengue recommendation's conditions are people who have diagnostic confirmation of a previous Dengue infection (endemic areas include Puerto Rico and American territories in the Pacific); Mpox is recommended for people over 18 (minimum age) which meet a series of risk factors primarily concerning being men-having-sex-with-men plus other conditions.

Seemingly having found more in the recommendations than you have, it seems to me the AAP's recommendations are complementary, rather than contradictory, save the recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-08-28 04:45:35+00:00
I think it depends on your model size

Fits into 32gb: 5090 Fits into 64gb - 96gb: Mac Studio Fits into 128gb: for now 395+ $/token/s, Mac Studio if you don't care about $ but don't have unlimited money for Hxxx

This could be great for models that fit 128gb and you want best $/token/s (if it is faster than a 395+).
by speakingmoistly | 2025-08-28 04:46:00+00:00
[Relevant xkcd.](https://xkcd.com/2347/)

It's interesting to see the periodic rediscovery of "capitalism + technology relies on unpaid, voluntary labour", or as the author puts it, "Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars".

The one flaw that I see in the author's analysis though is that they don't seem to account for whether the packages accounted for by their source have dependents or monthly downloads. There's *a lot* of dead code out there. When excluding abandoned packages, I bet the picture is still grim, but it might be less so.
by necovek | 2025-08-28 04:46:18+00:00
This is where you might be "not getting it". A human can carefully weigh every word, every swipe of a brush, or every tone... weigh it for the emotional expression and connection it produces (frequently subconscious). Whereas AI as a tool simply can't.

This is a difference between using a gradient in Photoshop, which is still a tool, and generative AI which will make "decisions" you as an author can't explain or connect with.
by MisterMower | 2025-08-28 04:46:35+00:00
Requirement 73 of the IAEA's Safety of Nuclear Power Plants would be a start. That rule is so stringent that it requires bag in/bag out procedures for changing HEPA filters at nuclear power plants.

Bag in/bag out was developed for labs handling infectious micro-organisms. It involves a complicated bagging system, which, if done properly, isolates a contaminated filter from the environment during filter change outs.

But for nuclear the bag only protects from alpha particles and electrons. It has zero impact on photon dose. If workers are wearing bunny suits and respirators they are already protected from alphas and electrons. The extra change out time required by Bag In/Bag Out increased the worker photon dose.

This regulation actually increases workers’ exposure to radiation.
by hellojesus | 2025-08-28 04:46:44+00:00
Iirc, there was case law where a site was successfully found guilty because the site allowed ads, and the advertisers were targeting based on ip location. Not the site! The site didn't even log that data. But the ads were used as the vector of purposful availment.

When I get the time, I'll be hosting a site from my closet that allows anything short of csam and I will reject states like MS and TX. My final act will be to die. But I don't much want to live.
by enos_feedler | 2025-08-28 04:46:45+00:00
I spend most of my days wading through the web. When i come across something that excites me I share the link to apple Notes. I dont write anything. Its just a bookmark. In February I spent a week sorting 5000 links into folders. It was quite satisfying to guess why i saved things, find patterns, create an organizational structure etc. the activity yielded both motivation and direction for my personal projects.