MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adzm | 2025-08-05 19:38:57+00:00
Web browsers already have code in place for webp (lossless,vp8) and avif (av1, which also supports animation), as well as classic jpeg and png, and maybe also HEIC (hevc/h265)... what benefit do we have by adding yet another file format if all the use cases are already covered by the existing formats? That said, I do like JPEG-XL, but I also kind of understand the hesitation to adopt it too. I imagine if Apple's push for it continues, then it is just a matter of time to get supported more broadly in Chrome etc.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-05 19:39:03+00:00
Also, the green-blue shoes charge per-step, but the blue-green shoes are billed monthly by signing up for BlueGreenPro+ or BlueGreenMax+, each with a hidden step limit but BlueGreenMax+ is the one that gives you access to the Cyan step model which is better; plus the green-blue shoes are only useful when sprinting, but the blue-green shoes can be used in many different events, but only through the Nike blue-green API that only some track&field venues have adopted...
by EA-3167 | 2025-08-05 19:39:21+00:00
Screens have been popular since the first time they were effectively used to display moving pictures with a projector, "I want this, but small and in my pocket" was reflected as long ago as the original Dick Tracy comics and the original Star Trek. It's not like Apple invented the smartphone and then tried to shove it down everyone's throats.

Meanwhile Zuckerberg and 'Meta' seem to have a new fixation every few years. Last time it was 'The Metaverse' and crypto (and VR) and now that crypto is a dirty word for most people and 'The Metaverse' turned out to be the train wreck people thought it would be... it's just the VR. He's spent billions trying to convince people that they want what he wants them to be engaging with, and the market keeps telling him that they don't want it.

In case you're wondering that sort of feedback is what the meaning of, 'The Customer Is Always Right' really means. If you keep telling a market they definitely want your expensive new thing, and they keep not buying it... they're right, you're wrong.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-08-05 19:39:37+00:00
Over the last six months, capital expenditures on AI—counting just information processing equipment and software, by the way—added more to the growth of the US economy than all consumer spending combined. You can just pull any of those quotes out—spending on IT for AI is so big it might be making up for economic losses from the tariffs, serving as a private sector stimulus program.

Wow.
by nikkwong | 2025-08-05 19:39:47+00:00
I don't know, I hear this advice all the time and I think people are just not looking hard enough. I invested in Seattle between 2017-2022 and have several properties here that are cash flowing.

For example, for an $800k house you would have to generally put down 160k. If you picked the right property, with enough rooms, you can cash flow around $1-2k on this which will net you around 10-20k a year, and that's not counting the tax advantage of depreciating the house which is substantial.

When you throw in the fact that the asset could/should appreciate, the fact that you can borrow against it, leverage aggressively to buy more—don't know, my reasoning could be wrong, but it doesn't seem to always be an inferior investment vehicle.
by krisoft | 2025-08-05 19:39:51+00:00
> I take smoking as a cautionary tale, in the beginning it was pushed as not just a recreational thing but a healthy activity

While i agree the gist of what you are saying, also important to mention that humans started cultivating tobaco when mamoths still roamed the Earth. There was indeed a concentrated pro-smoking publicity campaign by tobaco manufacturers in the 1930s, but it was hardly “in the beginning” of our tobaco use.
by ben_w | 2025-08-05 19:40:33+00:00
So what?

My previous comment said:

> to reduce the fuel consumed running an existing plants

As in: no storage or new transmission needed, put it right by the existing gas plant and wire it together, *burn less while the sun is shining*.

Batteries… well, I hope they keep getting cheaper, but IIRC them+PV currently beat nuclear. Not sure about other stuff though.
by dimal | 2025-08-05 19:40:39+00:00
With the dynamics of publish or perish being what they are, what’s the way out? As long as there is high demand for papers (not knowledge) then some market will pop up to feed that demand.

I hate to say it, but cutting off the money spigot of government funding for papers seems like a good start.

It feels like our society has been optimized to game a few metrics like this (government wants to raise GDP, CEOs want to increase shareholder value, university deans want to increase funding to write papers), and all of them have toxic second order effects that make society worse.
by tsol | 2025-08-05 19:41:17+00:00
Not necessarily. Some people respond well too intermittent fasting but not everyone. Some people respond to keto but not everyone. And just because you respond doesn't mean it's gonna take you to where you need to be.

I've always been skinny but for some reason I've gained weight recently. Even with keto, intermittent fasting, tirzeptide, and workouts twice a week I have only lost 5 lbs in months. When I was skinny and forgot to eat, I would feel a little crappy but still could function. Now I begin to feel incredibly depressed, I can't sleep nor focus. This solidified it to me that there's a circuit in your brain that controls feeding and if it's out of whack it'll punish you until you eat. Dieting takes months and no one can go that long without sleep. So it's still a practical problem, its just hard to see if your system is well calibrated.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-05 19:41:32+00:00
> Gluttony or overeating are not the sin, but being fat.

This is a strange thing to say. If you do something normal, and you end up in a normal state, why would that be a moral failing? There's no such thing as "overeating". Different people eat different amounts. The same person eats different amounts at different times.

> (From that perspective:)a miracle cure that allows someone to stop being fat is like an indulgence (in the Roman Catholic sense). It’s a cheat, a shortcut that allows the unworthy to reach a state they do not deserve.

This is incoherent. If you believe that being fat is a sin, but that the things you do that make you fat are not sins, then a miracle cure that makes you thin removes the only sin you were committing. You can't be unworthy if you're not fat. In order for a miracle cure to be "cheating", it is necessary that the sin is in the behavior and not the result.
by genewitch | 2025-08-05 19:41:59+00:00
coax was $5,000 a mile, here, 5-6 mile run (i forget), and they said "there's no guarantee it does anything except TV" - that is, no internet.

fiber loop from cogent or centurylink was $15,000. even though they have a loop a half mile up the road. Dark fiber is probably cheaper, but i cannot remember the pricing to run my own fiber via some legit company. i had DSL (6mbit), switched to my own CPE with cellular wireless, then their CPE after they stopped selling the SIM plan i was using, then starlink after they stopped selling their fixed wireless for some newer one that isn't supported anywhere but metro areas.

There's a tree interfering with satellites at my location, and it's still 20x faster and better than anything before; except my own CPE solution, starlink is only 2x as good as that.
by scarmig | 2025-08-05 19:42:02+00:00
Humans are dependent on their input data (through lifetime learning and, perhaps, information encoded in the brain from evolution), and yet they can produce out of distribution information. How?

There is an uncountably large number of models that perfectly replicate the data they're trained on; some generalize out of distribution much better. Something like dreaming might be a form of regularization: experimenting with simpler structures that perform equally well on training data but generalize better (e.g. by discovering simple algorithms that reproduce the data equally well as pure memorization but require simpler neural circuits than the memorizing circuits).

Once you have those better generalizing circuits, you can generate data that not only matches the input data in quality but potentially exceeds it, if the priors built into the learning algorithm match the real world.
by gsch1 | 2025-08-05 19:42:26+00:00
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by cadamsdotcom | 2025-08-05 19:42:35+00:00
> experts recommend using “I” statements to avoid sounding accusatory. For example, “I feel like I’m being corrected and that makes it harder for me to want to share things with you,” or “I know you probably don’t realize you’re doing this, but it seems like you contradict me whenever I open up.”

> And if after these kindhearted efforts they’re still not willing to hear you out (or worse, they deflect blame back onto you), it may be worth reevaluating keeping this person in your life.

Good advice for any unhealthy relationship.
by gnabgib | 2025-08-05 19:42:50+00:00
You can spot Base64 encoded JSON.

The PEM format (that begins with `-----BEGIN [CERTIFICATE|CERTIFICATE REQUEST|PRIVATE KEY|X509 CRL|PUBLIC KEY]-----`) is already Base64 within the body.. the header and footer are ASCII, and shouldn't be encoded[0] (there's no link to the claim so perhaps there's another format similar to PEM?)

You can't spot private keys, unless they start with a repeating text sequence (or use the PEM format with header also encoded).

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7468
by iJohnDoe | 2025-08-05 19:43:16+00:00
Some real gems here and learned some things I wasn't aware of.

> "Now, if it fails, then you have to stop, and it's -- again, this is not something that just happens all of a sudden. It doesn't just implode. It screams like a mother before it implodes."

> On dive 80 during surfacing people heard a "loud bang" from the submersible (according to a witness it sounded like a gunfire)

Well, there you go.

> But instead they left Titan <during the> winter on the parking lot in Saint Johns where it was not protected from any exposure because that was cheaper.

> During hauling it become loose and started knocking against the hauling platform (LARS) because of the waves. Day later they did a dive where it imploded.

Early on, it was made clear that carbon fiber hulls could not easily be inspected for integrity issues like metal hulls can be. I'm not an expert, but I'm guessing sensitive instruments have been around for a while for the purpose of inspection. Having a hull you cannot easily inspect would/should make most people/companies nervous.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-05 19:43:20+00:00
Wouldn't surprise me. Getting rid of the other research programs won't be great for the labs though. The weapons research has a bunch of weird incentives because of the geopolitical context it exists in. The goal usually isn't to operationalize research, it's to have credible evidence of a functioning nuclear program, maintain the arsenal, and act as a jobs program for nuclear physics. The other programs act as a way to operationalize things in socially acceptable ways. If you get rid of them, I suspect the labs aren't going to be better-off for it even with more funding.
by user568439 | 2025-08-05 19:43:35+00:00
My wife with Long Covid for 3 and a half years has the same issue and doctors just don't want to be bothered by her. For example spirometry test showed that her lung capacity is fine but the test itself left her exhausted for one week.

The pulmonologist analysing the results didn't even want to hear about her idea to do 2 tests in 2 sequential days. It was going to be harming for her but she was willing to do it just to have some evidence of what happens to her next day after an "effort".

She also asked for help to understand why polluting or pollen can trigger her fever and even coughing blood. Doctor just said she doesn't know and there is not test he can do.

It's so discouraging the lack of curiosity, eagerness to help and to try to learn new things 99% of doctors show.
by timkam | 2025-08-05 19:43:53+00:00
> That's not as inspiring as it could be, but it's a lot better than the tech industry overall.

I regularly see both worlds. What I find more troubling in academia is that it is difficult to openly talk about how flawed the system is, that people make mistakes, that papers have mistakes (the own ones as well as others'). We know all software has bugs; but the code that a PhD student hacks together over night is assumed to be flawless (the more senior people rarely even glance at it), otherwise the paper is all wrong, and papers are set in stone... So I genuinely struggle with the lack of a proper failure culture in academia, as it is designed as a system that is fundamentally geared against openly discussing failure.
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-05 19:44:09+00:00
John Cleese: "Look, if I argue with you, I must take up the contrary position"

Michael Palin: "That isn't just saying 'no it isn't'"

Cleese: "Yes it is"

Palin: "No it isn't!"

Palin: "..."

( https://youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc?t=79 - Monty Python's Argument Clinic )
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-05 19:44:22+00:00
I don't understand why Safari (and any browser) does not include ad blocking out of the box, ideally enabled by default but at least an option. Nobody like ads. Especially ads that take over a majority of your screen space and seem to fight efforts to close them (moving, slow response to tapping "X", etc.)

Ads are just a cancer on the web. If a site can only exist by ad revenue then it should not exist. Block them all.
by alfiedotwtf | 2025-08-05 19:44:36+00:00
Let’s extreme this further - why would the company exist in the first place? The customers of said company pay them because they don’t do the service themselves - but in the future when it’s laughably easy to vibe code anything your heart desires, their customers will just build the service themselves that they used to outsource!

tl;dr: in the future when vibe coding works 100% of the time, logically the only companies that will exist are the ones that have processes that AI can’t do, because all the other parts of the supply chain can all be done in-house
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-05 19:44:53+00:00
The slavery of free humans is illegal in America, so now the big issue is figuring out how to convince voters that imprisoned criminals deserve rights.

Even in liberal states, the dehumanization of criminals is an endemic behavior, and we are reaching the point in our society where ironically having the leeway to discuss the humane treatment of even our worst criminals is becoming an issue that affects how we see ourselves as a society before we even have a framework to deal with the issue itself.

What one side wants is for prisons to be for rehabilitation and societal reintegration, for prisoners to have the right to decline to work and to be paid fair wages from their labor. They further want to remove for-profit prisons from the equation completely.

What the other side wants is the acknowledgement that prisons are not free, they are for punishment, and that prisoners have lost some of their rights for the duration of their incarceration and that they should be required to provide labor to offset the tax burden of their incarceration on the innocent people that have to pay for it. They also would like it if all prisons were for-profit as that would remove the burden from the tax payers and place all of the costs of incarceration onto the shoulders of the incarcerated.

Both sides have valid and reasonable wants from their vantage point while overlooking the valid and reasonable wants from the other side.
by eyberg | 2025-08-05 19:45:11+00:00
Access Control: There is none internally. We don't have the notion of users.

Logging: Keep using whatever you want be it elasticsearch, syslog, cloudwatch, etc. No opinions here.

Debugging: GDB works fine and in many cases since you can simply export the vm in it's entirety and then attach to it locally this becomes even easier to debug than the same application running on linux.

Profiling: We support things like ftrace and of course things like prometheus you can export.

Monitoring: Kinda in the same boat as logging - keep using whatever you are using today - datadog, victoria metrics, etc.

Throttling: This is traditionally an app-level concern that someone would implement at perhaps a load balancing layer - keep using whatever you are using.

Backup/Recovery: Running unikernels make it trivial to backup as you can clone running vms. In fact most cloud deploys involve making a snapshot that is already stored as a 'backup' and makes things like rollback much easier to do.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-08-05 19:45:13+00:00
Semaglutide is a signaling peptide, these are basically in a different class of medication that has traditionally been largely ignored. Partly due to difficulty defending patents for a class of medication that the body produces naturally, I.e. the instructions are in the DNA. Even if a drug company patents one GLP-1A they can’t patent all of them and any of them will work much the same way.

Because it’s a naturally occurring signaling peptide there already exist people who have too much of it and too little of it due to normal genetic variation.
by jlokier | 2025-08-05 19:45:14+00:00
> It's apache2.0, so by definition it's open source.

That's not true by any of the open source definitions in common use.

Source code (and, optionally, derived binaries) under the Apache 2.0 license are open source.

But compiled binaries (without access to source) under the Apache 2.0 license are not open source, even though the license does give you some rights over what you can do with the binaries.

Normally the question doesn't come up, because it's so unusual, strange and contradictory to ship closed-source binaries with an open source license. Descriptions of which licenses qualify as open source licenses assume the context that of course you have the source or could get it, and it's a question of what you're allowed to do with it.

The distinction is more obvious if you ask the same question about other open source licenses such as GPL or MPL. A compiled binary (without access to source) shipped with a GPL license is not by any stretch open source. Not only is it not in the "preferred form for editing" as the license requires, it's not even permitted for someone who receives the file to give it to someone else and comply with the license. If someone who receives the file can't give it to anyone else (legally), then it's obvioiusly not open source.
by genewitch | 2025-08-05 19:45:30+00:00
the USDA, which gives broadband grants, considers an area "served by broadband" if there is a 2 megabit provider in the jerrymandered area. This includes cellular, even if using a fixed or hotspot link would be cost prohibitive.

Look at the coverage maps for rural areas with trees, and you'll see an interesting pattern. They used multi-pathing to their jerrymandering benefit. checkerboard pattern means the USDA says "no grant for you!"

i have no idea when or if the definition changed to 20mbit. there are people here still served by 6mbit - on a good day.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-05 19:45:35+00:00
My "No Backdoors. No Kill Switches. No Spyware." T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Anyway, I missed the news - apparently this is in response to a proposed bill by one Bill Foster that would mandate tracking & kill switch technology in chips that could be sent overseas: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-gpu-t...

(The body of the article doesn't mention kill-switch, but the cached search engine results do.)
by tgtweak | 2025-08-05 19:46:09+00:00
I think their MXFP4 release is a bit of a gift since they obviously used and tuned this extensively as a result of cost-optimization at scale - something the open source model providers aren't doing too much, and also somewhat of a competitive advantage.

Unsloth's special quants are amazing but I've found there to be lots of trade offs vs full quantization, particularly when striving for best first-shot attempts - which is by far the bulk of LLM use cases. Running a better (larger, newer) model at lower quantization to fit in memory, or with reduced accuracy/detail to speed it up both have value, but in the the pursuit of first-shot accuracy there doesn't seem to be many companies running their frontier models on reduced quantization. If openAI is in doing this in production that is interesting.
by the_af | 2025-08-05 19:46:48+00:00
> Realistically, the answers the students gave the teacher were probably motivated by the practical benefits that come with giving teachers the answers they want to hear…bullshit questions are likely to produce bullshit answers.

Like I said to you in another comment, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the article.

At least one of the polls was anonymous, too. There were no punishments in the class for using AI, in fact at least a couple of the students later revealed they had been using AI for everything.

This wasn't a "bullshit inducing poll", it was an experiment in perception vs reality, and how they modified those perceptions after the experiment had run its course.
by jaredklewis | 2025-08-05 19:47:03+00:00
Over time I’ve come to appreciate boilerplate more.

Early in my career I really appreciated very DRY code with minimal repetition. However over time I’ve noticed that such code tends to introduce more abstractions as opposed to more verbose code which can often rely on fewer abstractions. I think this is good because I think we also have a sort of “abstraction budget” we have to stay within or our brains, metaphorically, stop reading from memory and need to start reading from disk (consulting docs, jumping to function definitions, etc…)

I feel the ideal code base would rely on a small number of powerful abstractions.

In practice I think this usually means relying mostly on the abstractions built into the language, standard library, and framework used and then maybe sprinkling in a couple of app/domain specific abstractions or powerful libraries that being their own abstraction.

So in my experience reducing boilerplate can often make the code more difficult to understand.
by xp84 | 2025-08-05 19:47:26+00:00
Ok, "destroying" is ambiguous meaning.

But you don't think that admitting, say, half the populations of all the world's best-known failed countries like Somalia, Haiti, Syria, El Salvador, DRC, etc. would be bad for a Western country? A combination of lack of education, different cultural expectations, normalized crime and corruption, etc. means that the citizens from there would be bringing all of their problems with them. A randomly-selected person from those countries is a poor fit to be productive within our alien societal framework (doesn't speak the language, doesn't understand how Westerners conduct business, doesn't have cultural context in so many things). However the problem is, compared to a random person born into a Western society, such a newcomer is well-suited to get ahead by subverting the Western societal framework, such as by taking advantage of our lax approach to property crimes, or as I pointed out in this thread or another, exploiting Western guilt to land years-long rent-free hotel stays.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-05 19:47:32+00:00
The good thing is that as long as you are not person of interest in some spy stuff, you get the same firmware as everyone else.

It's not Nvidia vs you, It's Nvidia vs every customer. Black-hat hackers, white-hat hackers, comp-sec companies working for Nvidia customers, foreign governments, all have incentive to find out if there is a backdoor. For profit, security, exploit or fame.