MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by classichasclass | 2025-09-14 14:29:13+00:00
(author) Just because I'm used to 6.5, no other reason particularly. Any of the SCSI emulators are generally fine but I now gravitate to the ones that let you run multiple devices from image files because that makes it very easy to do backups. Here I used a ZuluSCSI, which is also one of the ones where if you have an existing drive, it will clone it for you in initiator mode.

The power supplies are a bigger question, but some work has been done on this already with other systems, notably the Fuel. There is at least a way to repair the Impact supplies' caps, though that's not all that can go wrong. I expect we'll eventually see conversion kits for these other big systems at some stage.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-14 14:29:28+00:00
Meanwhile, buying the U.S. dollar is investing in the continued pumping of CO2 into the atmosphere (Drill, baby, drill) and quite possibly the end of humanity as we know it.

It's also notable that China is pretty much the only game in town for sustainable, renewable energy, so we have a choice between the U.S. (extinction) and China (survival?).
by prmoustache | 2025-09-14 14:29:37+00:00
It is rather easy to have one running alongside the other and the gemtext syntax is such it is quite easy to make automatic converters. Did you encounter issues maintaining both?

I mean I truly believe anyone can do small websites using HTML standards so for the actual content producer Gemini doesn't have much appeal. On the other hand using Gemini provide the users/visitors a guarantee they will not end up following a link and ending up in a bloated, privacy and ad nightmare. So I think it is sane to offer that even if you believe in small regular web.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-14 14:30:59+00:00
I think the data presented at ASCO this year showed an increase in adenomas (benign, potential precursors of colon cancer) among marathoners. It’s unknown yet whether the that translates into an increase incidence of colon cancer in this population, though it would be prudent to assume so for now. The study was smallish n=100 IIRC so more research is warranted. Interesting to consider the biological mechanisms if this relationship holds up.
by jerf | 2025-09-14 14:31:57+00:00
Count how many places have a search on a website that let you run "((A and B) or (C and D) XOR E) AND NOT F". It's not many.

The very complaints you are making are kind of my point; that you can even consider making them means they've put a lot of work into a search interface that few other search interfaces have. The vast majority of "search fields" I run into can't even do a single AND or OR; one does not get so far as to wish for those things because clearly we're miles away from them.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-14 14:32:27+00:00
Sorry but it just isn't. INDIVIDUAL things the CCP does today dwarf the sum total of the atrocities the US committed over it's entire lifetime. The situation in Xinjang has more victims yearly than every event in the US since it's founding, and it's not even close to the only mass-atrocity the CCP is engaged in. Tibet. Mongolia. Chinese religious movements.

Ah you're a communist idealist who "won't go into details" (and you'll probably refuse to discuss why almost every attempt at communism ended in a massacring dictatorship ...)
by wanderer_79 | 2025-09-14 14:33:48+00:00
I can't tell if you are speaking from experience or not. I tried googling about this company wide competition and cant find any hits about this, searched "lets fitness" in english and Japanese, cant find anything.

High blood pressure is a medical condition, and you are telling me that a suggestion from the doctor regarding stress levels at work is bad?

And kids, cmon. Kids will make fun of anything. I did some schooling in the US and I was made fun of purely for being of a particular race.
by hliyan | 2025-09-14 14:33:57+00:00
I have a personal theory (I'm sure it's not a novel one and it probably has a name) that human brains are naturally predisposed to negative thought than positive thought because our brains are essentially evolved prediction engines. And because it is often easier and faster to lose something than gain it (e.g. it is usually less urgent to act on the signs of deer you might want to hunt and eat, than the sign of a tiger who might want to hunt and eat you), our prediction engines have a bias toward negative prediction. Conscious awareness of this fact (or rather, theory) has helped me curb negative thoughts at least to some extent.
by igravious | 2025-09-14 14:34:05+00:00
As the title suggests it is not a website of models of European metro stations because:

(a) it contains models of North American stations, and

(b) it does not contain stations from the St Petersburg[1] or Moscow metros which are significant European metros (the Moscow metro[2] is the longest in Europe)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Metro

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro
by quietbritishjim | 2025-09-14 14:35:14+00:00
That comparison between the matplotlib and ultraplot APIs doesn't seem fair. Most of the difference in length is that the separate methods for formatting in matplotlib are bundled into a single format() function in ultraplot. But, in matplotlib, you can pass those as kwargs to add_subplot() [1] which would work out at a similar length (or even shorter).

[1] https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.figure....

Maybe there are much more important API differences (I hope so, as that's a pretty trivial difference to start with.) I just mention it because that's what the screenshot seems to focus on as a justification: "Why UltraPlot? | Write Less, Create More".
by lazide | 2025-09-14 14:35:26+00:00
I take it you’ve never had a sick 18 month old before?

Or three under 5?

There is a legitimate interest, but subtlety and critical thinking are some of the first things to go out the window.

Personally, it completely redefined my concept of ‘exhausted’, though the military veteran family of mine seemed to consider it a not entirely uncommon level of suffering. They were all enlisted though.
by tzury | 2025-09-14 14:35:30+00:00
There is no way to restore the most precious sites which were destroyed intentionally. Some a perfectly preserved sites. It simply gone and will never returned.

Just look at the map in page 7 in the report below:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/C...

What they are doing here is "rebuilding"
by johnisgood | 2025-09-14 14:35:49+00:00
It is not a cherry-picked example at all. That is the essence of the mentality. It is used as a deterrent. If people (thieves, criminals) think "this guy may have a gun", then others are less likely to rob him to avoid getting shot.

I do not think it is that difficult to grasp either. Do you understand now?

I am Eastern European, no guns here either, and as I said, it may not universally apply to all countries, or even cities within one country.
by da_chicken | 2025-09-14 14:36:16+00:00
In the context of a bombing campaign for a war, yes, a month and a year are a massive difference. And while they hadn't done the Trinity test, you don't do a test like Trinity until you're pretty damn sure it will work. Apparently, when you're ready to do the test you're also ready to start picking targets.

Saving Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be proving grounds for the scale of destruction is horrifying. However, all war is a series of horrifying and unnecessary events. Pointing out that some of them near the end were also horrifying is just not a very compelling criticism. It's not out of character for what happened during the rest of the war.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-14 14:36:44+00:00
People get paid to create holes for useful purposes all day everyday. It is creative in a very literal sense. Precision hole digging is - no joke - a multibillion dollar industry.

Unless you are out in nature you are almost certainly sitting or standing on top of a dirt that was paid to be dug.

If you mean hole digging isn’t creative in the figurative sense. Also wrong. People will pay thousands of dollars to travel and see holes dug in the ground. The Nazca lines is but one example of holes dug in the ground creatively that people regard as art.
by mikewarot | 2025-09-14 14:37:52+00:00
Training a model requires repetition, in the case of large language models, it's feeding it a trillion tokens while using gradient descent to improve it's predictive power, then repeating that loop a trillion times.

Those tokens save a few orders of magnitude in training costs compared to doing it with raw streams of text. (But also result in LLMs that suck at basic math, spelling, or rhyming)

Doing the same thing with raw inputs from the world would likely add 6 more more orders of magnitude to any given training task, as you would have to scale up that initial input fed into the AI to match the wider bandwidths you're talking about.

You also have to have some form of goal to have a loss against. It's unclear what that would be. I'd suggest using "surprise minimization" as the goal. Something that can just predict raw surprise might turn out to be useful.

To get the compute requirements down into the feasible range, I'd suggest starting with an autoencoder. Like we do with LLMs, you could take that raw input and just try to compress it to a much lower dimensionality. You could then try to predict that value in the future.
by trinsic2 | 2025-09-14 14:37:57+00:00
Doesn't good 2factor minimize a large attack surface like this?

I like the idea of storing password data in individual encrypted files and using git to store changes, but I wonder if it creates more friction to retrive the information. I havent tried this solution yet. I will when I get more time. It seems like this solution would benefit from a more standardized specification for storing and retrieving information. I known its not every persons cup of tea, but maybe some kind of separated add-on for streamlining this process could be beneficial.
by jolmg | 2025-09-14 14:38:59+00:00
> I persisted with the work-around of `pass -c <path>` from the run command prompt for a while to paste into the browser, but its not ideal.

There's also `passmenu` that comes with `pass`. You setup a keybinding that calls that. It autocompletes your password selection with a menu (calls dmenu) and puts it on your clipboard. You skip having to invoke the command prompt then manually calling `pass -c` and writing the path.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-14 14:39:24+00:00
It is also relevant, that as proven on FOSDEM corridors full of Apple laptops, most folks only care about some sort of POSIX experience, and couldn't care less about Linux/BSD religion.

So that target audience gets a cool modern experience, without fighting with driver issues and such.

It is also the reason why Microsoft ended up bringing Project Astoria from the ashes into WSL.

UNIX has won, but not as Richard Stallman would have liked to.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-14 14:39:32+00:00
It is interesting that the early shipping containerization boom resulted in a bubble in 1975 and had a new low around 1990.

1990 is when the real outsourcing mania started, which led to the destruction of most Western manufacturing. Apart from cheap Chinese trinkets the quality of life and real incomes have gotten worse in the West while the rich became richer.

So this is an excellent analogy for "AI": Finding a new and malicious application can revive the mania after an initial bubble pop while making societies worse. If we allow it, which does not have to be the case.

[As usual, under the assumption that "AI" works, of which there is little sign apart from summarizing scraped web pages.]
by shikhar | 2025-09-14 14:40:13+00:00
How we run it:

Auto-scaled Kubernetes deployments, one for each availability zone, currently on m*gd instances which give us local NVMe. The pods are able to easily push GiBps with 1-2 CPUs used — network is the bottleneck so we made it a scaling dimension (thanks KEDA).

On the client side, each gateway process uses kube.rs to watch ready endpoints in the same zone as itself, and frequently polls /stats exposed by Cachey for recent network throughput as a load signal.

To improve hit rates with key affinity, clients use rendezvous hashing for picking a node, with bounded load (https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01350) – if a node exceeds a predetermined throughput limit, the next choice for the key is picked.

We may move towards consistent hashing – it would be a great problem to have, if we needed so many Cachey pods in a zone that O(n) hashing was meaningful overhead! An advantage with the current approach is it does not suffer from the cascaded overflow problem (https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08762).
by unleaded | 2025-09-14 14:40:53+00:00
Something that's confused/annoyed me about the AI boom is that it's like we've learned to run before we learned to walk. For example, there are countless websites where you can generate a sophisticated, photorealistic image of anything you like, but there is no tool I know of that you can ask "give me a 16x16 PNG icon of an apple" and get exactly that. I know why—Neural networks excel at fixed size, organic data, but I don't think that makes it any less ridiculous. It also means that AI website generators are forced to generate assets with code when ordinary people would just use images/sound files (yes, I have really seen websites using webaudio synths for sound effects).

Hopefully the boom will slow down and we'll all slowly move away from Holy Shit Hype things and implement more boring, practical things. (although I feel like the world has shunned boring practical things for quite a while before)
by browningstreet | 2025-09-14 14:41:06+00:00
I think about this TED Talk from 2012 a lot.. and he presents some data. It changed some of my goals, and I’m a bit more multi-sport than I used to be.

Run for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far: James O'Keefe at TED×UMKC

https://youtu.be/Y6U728AZnV0?si=EI8ubUwEr4KqR2PC
by lucideer | 2025-09-14 14:41:07+00:00
> I don't think Apple would be removing UNIX-like tools from macOS even without certification. They know how valuable it is that most developers use their systems.

I hope you're right but I'm not as confident. Corporations - Apple included - have been guilty of some surprising ignorance when it comes to things like this. I'm thankful for this certification circus to continue so that we don't need to test your theory.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-14 14:41:10+00:00
I’m going to comment on the homebrew part because well that’s your tastes but I personally think it’s the worst package manager I have ever used and is not really a port system so opinions do vary here.

> I have to learn the replacement from ifconfig

MacOs switched to networksetup and ipconfig a long time ago. Ifconfig is not recommended so the situation is exactly the same than on Linux here.

> launchd IMHO is way better than init.d and systemd

Systemd is basically a more complete and better designed launchd. Having used both I have trouble thinking of anything launchd does better.

> the command line diskutil and other additions still feel like its more Unix like

Diskutil is a MacOS only tool. I’m a bit lost about what your argument is here.

Linux still use fdisk and dedicated tools to create file systems exactly like on FreeBSD or any other Unix. It’s MacOs doing its own thing here.
by philistine | 2025-09-14 14:42:53+00:00
With the way Apple is running its App stores, do you honestly believe that we would benefit from an Apple package manager?

I'm convinced the devs inside Apple know what I'm saying as well, and are giving as much help as possible to Homebrew to keep it independent. There is some small proof, Homebrew was considered very highly during the DTK rollout for Apple Silicon.
by sixtyj | 2025-09-14 14:43:12+00:00
Yeah, you’re right.

Ease of entry brings more creative people into the industry, but over time it all boils down to ~5 hegemons, see FAANG - but those are disrupted over time by the next group (and eventually bought out by those hegemons).

Offtopic: I once read a comment that starting a company with the goal of exiting is like constantly thinking about death :)
by mr_mitm | 2025-09-14 14:43:15+00:00
I don't even know where to begin.

JWST didn't just "happen". It was conceptualized, designed, built and launched by the very scientists who wanted to test and improve their theories. No serious scientist thinks that their theories are perfect or that they have all the answers. Quite the opposite, usually. They're constantly challenging each other and themselves with the common goal of approximating reality with their models better and better. Science would never have come as far as it did if it were any different.

Where does this sheer ignorance come from? Clearly you've never worked with scientists in any capacity.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 14:43:16+00:00
> This is a disingenuous framing of his quotes that are being thrown around.

No, it isn't. The disingenuous framing is the one supposing that his model of "some gun deaths" included political assassinations. It clearly did not.

> That's not "of course there will be deaths", it's "the deaths are justified".

It is "of course there will be deaths". Just as it would be if the subject were cars, or kitchen knives, or poisonous household cleaners, or pesticides, or any other potentially lethal thing that ordinary Americans have access to.

If your standard for "justifying" is weak enough to include this, then it is too weak to conclude that there is any harm or moral wrong in saying it. To pick on this is to miss the point completely:

> This does not contradict the quoted point in the slightest. It is worlds apart from what you are trying to dispute. Taking risks is not in the same category as being targeted.

I've explained this in many other comments already. And I'm doing this as a Canadian who doesn't share Kirk's view.
by p_ing | 2025-09-14 14:44:39+00:00
Related:

https://www.osnews.com/story/141633/apples-macos-unix-certif...

Identical changes were made for Tahoe's certification. This includes disabling SIP.

https://www.opengroup.org/csq/repository/noreferences=1&RID=...

So Tahoe is certified, but what ships with every Mac isn't certified UNIX. Not that being certified makes any difference what-so-ever.
by mikestew | 2025-09-14 14:45:06+00:00
We’ve got a rescue dog like that, reflections off watches or whatever (including kitchen baking sheets). It genuinely distresses him. Dog was seven years old when we got him, probably no fixing it now, but we do try to mitigate things as best we can.

In his particular case, his hunting instinct doesn’t help, I’m sure. He’s a pit bull, but that speckled neck and feet tells me that there’s some Spaniel in there somewhere.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-14 14:45:52+00:00
The initial argument was that MacOS is nice because it has the core Unix tool. I find this baffling because MacOS has very little to do with a traditional Unix apart from the certification and the core utils are literally usable on approximately anything.

Speed bumps regarding what?

I’m mostly using Linux nowadays but when I have to use Windows, the experience is fairly ok. The tooling when you want to manage it is imho superior to what Apple provides. I’m not used to develop on it but I have seen people do and it didn’t seem particularly worse than Linux-like environment.

Not that I really have anything against MacOS. I think it’s neglected by Apple and not as enjoyable as it used to be. I dislike Apple and the policies it’s pushing for. Nevertheless, it’s ok to use. Everything pretty much is nowadays.
by sim7c00 | 2025-09-14 14:46:16+00:00
finding more and more papers in my field..ppl interviewing 5-6 peers. feedin their opinions in chatgpt and calling it a day. waste of time to read that crap especially since i dont work in philosophy / social sciences where it might be slightly more ok...

more and more respect for papers which come out still stating and showing good methodologies and rigor
by Isamu | 2025-09-14 14:46:33+00:00
The main supporting point made here is about bad CarPlay integration in an expensive car?

That’s a whole systems problem, it could be your phone struggling or your car system struggling, or the communications with both. Bear in mind that Apple doesn’t make your car display system and the even the car maker may contract that out. I’ve seen variable quality in car display systems.

And bear in mind that the car system has to be compatible with Android car software, and typically they also integrate their own software features. There’s a lot expected from car systems and they don’t always perform well.

Also you can have various things running in the background on your phone competing for resources. Just saying.
by nostrademons | 2025-09-14 14:46:36+00:00
It very much is a cousin of the broken window fallacy.

Bastiat's original point of the Parable of the Broken Window could be summed up by the aphorism "not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts". It's a caution to society to avoid relying too much on metrics, and to realize that sometimes positive metrics obscure actual negative outcomes in society.

It's very similar to the practice of startups funded by the same VC to all buy each others' products, regardless of whether they need them or not. At the end of the day, it's still the same pool of money, it has largely come around, little true economic value has been created: but large amounts of revenue has been booked, and this revenue can be used to attract other unsuspecting investors who look only at the metrics.

Or to the childcare paradox and the "Two Income Trap" identified by Elizabeth Warren. Start with a society of 1-income families, where one parent stays home to raise the kids and the other works. Now the other parent goes back to work. They now need childcare to look after the kids, and often a cleaner, gardener, meals out, etc. to manage the housework, very frequently taking up the whole income of the second parent. GDP has gone up tremendously through this arrangement: you add the second parent's salary to the national income, and then you also the cost of childcare, housework, gardening, all of those formerly-unpaid tasks that are now taxable transactions. But the net real result is that the kids are raised by someone other than their parents, and the household stuff is put away in places that the parents probably would not have chosen themselves.

Regardless, society does look at the metrics, and usually weights them heavier than qualitative outcomes they represent, sometimes resulting in absurdly non-optimal situations.
by pseudocomposer | 2025-09-14 14:46:50+00:00
Given that both grep and find are weird/inconsistent between BSD/GNU versions, and I typically use them piped together for the same things anyway, I’ve found that ripgrep is a nice/faster/universal alternative that is pretty unproblematic to install in whatever environment I want: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
by johnisgood | 2025-09-14 14:46:52+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...

Check out both tables and you will see that the facts do not say what you think they say, at all.

Homicide rates by firearm per 100,000 inhabitants (2017):

Jamaica - 47.857 United States - 3.342 Serbia - 0.415

Ranking by country for civilian-held firearms per 100 population (2017):

Jamaica - 8.8 United States - 120.5 Serbia - 39.1

Those are just to compare three countries, but you will see a similar trend for all other countries.

It shows that Serbia has loads of guns, yet barely any firearm-related homicides, whereas Jamaica has much less guns, yet homicide rates by firearm are way higher than the US.

Thus, the statement that "More guns -> More gun-related violence" is evidently false.