MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jerojero | 2025-09-18 20:32:10+00:00
I think one of the most interesting parts here is, and this is something we've been seeing with other models too, how these capabilities can be passed down to smaller models to improve their capabilities.

Personally I'm really interested in on-device models, our phones have gotten pretty good and I think for a lot of things it should be possible to have these capable but not amazing little ants running around in our phones doing things.
by OptionOfT | 2025-09-18 20:32:15+00:00
Same with bugs. Reporting bugs rarely seems effective anymore. Maybe my use-cases are more unique, but sometimes I stumble upon things where there the bug I encounter is 2 years old with 0 responses from the company, but I don't know how many comments from customers.

And it's already a hassle to report, so actual amount of people encountering the issue is probably higher.

One example comes to mind... I can't ask my Google Mini anymore to ping my remote. Many reports. Nothing from Google.
by syndeo | 2025-09-18 20:32:50+00:00
>When FileVault is enabled, the data volume is locked and unavailable during and after booting, until an account has been authenticated using a password. The macOS version of OpenSSH stores all of its configuration files, both system-wide and per-account, in the data volume. Therefore, the usually configured authentication methods and shell access are not available during this time. However, when Remote Login is enabled, it is possible to perform password authentication using SSH even in this situation. This can be used to unlock the data volume remotely over the network. However, it does not immediately permit an SSH session. Instead, once the data volume has been unlocked using this method, macOS will disconnect SSH briefly while it completes mounting the data volume and starting the remaining services dependent on it. Thereafter, SSH (and other enabled services) are fully available.

Now THAT is a welcome change!
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-09-18 20:32:57+00:00
Years ago I attended a USGS talk about Critical Minerals. (it's archived somewhere...) The federal government (at least a competent one, not sure about the current status) tracks the stability of Critical Mineral sources.

Turns out (to no surprise) that it's to the US's advantage to outsource very polluting mining and processing of critical minerals. (Nobody likes open-pit mines, see people thoughts about the Permanente quarry south of Cupertino)

Of course it's a trade-off, as the US becomes dependent on an external source, and the cost of bringing up internal production increases as internal mining sources are shut down and potentially skill is lost.

Related link: https://www.usgs.gov/news/science-snippet/department-interio...

And here's the 2025 draft report: https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2025/1047/ofr20251047.pdf

Edit: here's the USGS talk, from 2017: https://youtu.be/N53Rm-aDCu8
by alephnerd | 2025-09-18 20:33:01+00:00
The economics are out of whack in the mining industry in the 2020s as well.

North American mining firms tend to be private sector, but in Asian countries like China, Indonesia, India, and Vietnam the mining conglomerates and processors are state-owned enterprises, or in the case of Japan and South Korea, private sector firms with a controlling stake owned by a sovereign development fund.

This is why we need a Temasek or Mubadala for America.
by pythonatsea | 2025-09-18 20:33:20+00:00
From Zach, founder of Hack Club:

You all are amazing. Thank you so much to everyone who helped raise awareness and advocate for Hack Club. That wasn't the goal of my post yesterday (I mostly wanted to pre-empt #hackclub-leeks because I knew GitHub activity would show up :stuck_out_tongue:), but wow - you made a huge difference, especially @mahad's blog post that went viral. Thank you.

I have some great news. @Christina Asquith and I just got off a call with Denise Dresser, CEO of Slack.

She was incredibly apologetic for putting Hack Clubbers in this position and very generously offered to donate Slack Enterprise+ to Hack Club with a 5 year commitment. We think this is the best option, so we're going to move forward. Additionally, she is going to join us in-person at #athena-award's 200-person hackathon in NYC in November!

We hope this will be a great start to a renewed relationship as Hack Club has benefited tremendously from Slack's 11 year partnership. We're very grateful.

This means that all of Hack Club's history and bots will be preserved. Additionally, it will open up the path for a special Hack Club OAuth login flow to reduce friction for new Hack Clubbers and APIs to build better moderation tools.

Thank you to the enormous outpouring of support. There have been so many kind messages, emails, and even alumni from years ago reaching out. It's meant the world as we've navigated this difficult situation. @here
by mobattah | 2025-09-18 20:33:49+00:00
Cultural obituaries are often premature, and the one for literacy is no exception. A nascent contrary impulse is emerging: readers deliberately turning to long-form works as a form of intellectual resistance. I’ve been working through Norman Lewis’s Word Power Made Easy and Tom Heehler’s The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, not just to expand vocabulary but to restore the sinew of productive speech.

That project led me to conscript AI as a private tutor. With custom instructions, ChatGPT and Gemini now surface new words and nudge my prose toward clarity, turning a vague fear of erosion into conviction. A dedicated subset of users will inevitably harness such tools to strengthen their expressive range and communicative precision.

Until recently, my writing rarely left emails and journals. Now, with AI as scaffold and sparring partner, I draft short stories from my own life and recast them in the voices of authors I admire. This feels less like a technology poised to supplant teachers, and more like the substrate for a renaissance in autodidactic education.
by jleyank | 2025-09-18 20:33:53+00:00
How will US politics affect HN startup's potential market? How will it affect their ability to form, hire and retain staff? Will it affect the H1b's that underpin all sorts of programming efforts. Will it lead to VC money sloshing into Europe/UK? ... There's all sorts of HN-relevant things that are impacted damn near daily by US politics.

Not counting all of the impact on health, medicine, science, ... One can keep flagging away, but if you're going to watch the cash flow elsewhere and the jobs remain open, I would think some concern is merited. And if, somehow, people working in this area realize what their work has helped produced...
by yeutterg | 2025-09-18 20:34:17+00:00
I am a founder of one company and work in sales. Here's where I'm coming from:

As a founder, if everyone is always DMing you, the knowledge is not shared with the team. You become the bottleneck for everything.

In sales, you end up having the #account-[customer] thread and about 4 or 5 DM groups with different internal people on them for each account. Lots of time bringing everyone up to speed when it could be more unified.

Sure, there are sensitive issues like employee conflict, salary discussions, etc. I'm not saying everything needs to be in the public. But I think DMs as they work in Slack cause more issues than they solve.
by pbasista | 2025-09-18 20:34:40+00:00
> This was a mistake.

Yeah, right. Tell us more.

You mean like it has become a mistake when the story about it broken up and went viral?

But if Hack Club did not complain about it, you would have happily took and kept taking their money?

That kind of a "mistake"?

In all seriousness, why should anyone believe what you are saying?

It seems to me that your story about a "mistake" is just as plausible as this kind of behavior simply being Slack's business strategy. Be ambiguous. Change the terms of the sale after the sale. Try poking. See which tactics works. If someone bites, take advantage of it. If they complain, call it a mistake and do damage control. Collect profits. Rinse and repeat.
by SkyBelow | 2025-09-18 20:34:49+00:00
>Programming languages don’t solve that problem

The idea is that a programmer will work with natural language dynamically to create enough of an understanding to create a formalized specification within the programming language (eh, we technically need to include the entire ecosystem needed to run the code, but rarely is that an issue). Often it won't be perfect, but then a demo can occur where natural language can then comment on what was missed, which can then better be captured in the formal language. This continues until we get close enough that further effort to refine isn't justified.

This isn't the only reason programming languages were created, much as rarely anything has a single reason it was created. They were created as a way to get computers to do what we wanted without needing to modify the hardware, and then higher level languages were created so we can write more specification faster while losing a bit of the lowest level exactness.

Also why we have many different programming languages, as they try to fit into different levels of trade off between the different reasons for a programming language to exist. Well, one of the reasons we have many different programming languages....
by alephnerd | 2025-09-18 20:34:51+00:00
> Let China process the materials under normal circumstances, but keep 6 months of processed output on hand in case trade is disrupted (trade disagreement, pandemic, war, etc.)

That's not enough of a leeway when dealing with a country who has active land disputes with 2 countries we have a defense treaty with (Japan, Phillipines) and 1 with whom we have an ambiguous defense commitment (Taiwan).

And even the Chinese government knows that countries like the the US will try to stockpile. Almost all processing, mining, and exporting in China for REEs is managed by SoEs and under close monitoring from state regulators.

This is why the Biden admin initiated the Minerals Security Partnership with Japan, India, and Australia.
by npteljes | 2025-09-18 20:34:51+00:00
>It’s still unclear which exact refrigerators are getting the ad infestation

You know the ones that won't? The ones without a display.

Wherever there is a display, there is software. Whenever there's software, there will be updates. Whenever there are updates and a screen, ads will show up - and consent will be trampled. We will just see the different iterations of this, ad infinitum.
by bdamm | 2025-09-18 20:35:03+00:00
This is actually super interesting to me. Given that the US is actually blessed with mineral concentrations, why is it so assumed that only China can produce rare earths? Is it the land opportunity cost? Is it the cost of labor? Is it the cost of regulation? And in the end, this is only a motor, or a battery, and the actual rare earth content is not very high. If the cost of rare earths was double or even triple the amount of sourcing them from China, how much does that actually impact the end price of a consumer good?
by andsoitis | 2025-09-18 20:35:10+00:00
> What are "developing" countries developing into? Nice white western ones like the global north? Nope. That one is the worst of the choices.

The way to think about it is along economic, social, and infra/tech dimensions, and are not coupled to culture or ethnicity (your "white western").

Specifically, developing countries:

- Economic: low income, underdeveloped industry

- Social: lower quality of life, limited access to basic services (jobs, food, clean water, education, healthcare, housing)

- Infra/tech: poor infrastructure, limited access to technology

Furthermore, the following countries in Europe ("white") can be considered developing: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, etc. while Japan is not developing (and not "white western").

Some countries have a high HDI (e.g. in Africa you can think of Algeria, Egypt, South Africa, Morocco, Botswana, etc.) but can still be considered developing on other dimensions.

In the Middle East, counties like Qatar, UAE, Israel, Kuwait, and Bahrain can be considered developed (and not "white western").
by gm678 | 2025-09-18 20:35:18+00:00
I know you can export directly to the backend, but the collector typically uses less than 50MB of RAM in my experience (even when handling lots of traces) and it's pretty easy to add sidecars to however you deploy your backends nowadays. Using Grafana SaaS metrics could look a little spiky or generally weirder without the collector, but normal with it, so I just default to using it now.

It's the shame the docs on it are still quite bad. The example config in the article here does look almost identical to the one we use everywhere, just without the redact, and should probably be pasted somewhere into the official docs.

Every provider seems to produce their own soft fork of the collector for branding (eg Alloy, ADOT, etc) and slightly changes the configuration, which doesn't help.
by protonbob | 2025-09-18 20:35:28+00:00
> Sometimes, I close my eyes while I breastfeed my daughter and the cocktail of oxytocin and prolactin saturates my brain in a way that resurrects Jake with hallucinatory vividness. Suddenly, we’re 27 and running out of the cold Seattle rain into Belle’s Buns for coffee, and then Athena unlatches from my nipple and I’ve lost him again.

I don't really have anything to add but that this is chilling. It really makes me want to take care of myself better even though this man's death had nothing to do with that.
by ordinaryradical | 2025-09-18 20:35:41+00:00
I think you’re right on Kimmel while being wrong about TFA.

The president does not get to dictate broadcasting licenses on the basis of whether or not they criticize him but ABC is not required to platform Kimmel.

(I think it’s a bad move to deplatform people and bad for democracy but it’s been misconstrued into an issue of constitutional guarantees and it is not one.)
by agentcoops | 2025-09-18 20:35:42+00:00
The article hints at it, but my guess would be this investment is intended towards Intel foundry and getting it to a place where NVIDIA can eventually rely on them over TSMC — and the ownership largely to give them upside if/when Intel stock goes up on news of an NVIDIA contract etc. It isn’t that uncommon of an arrangement for enterprise deals of such a potential magnitude. Long-term, however, and without NVIDIA making the call that could definitely have the effect of leading to Intel divesting from directly competing in as many markets, ie Arc.

For context, I highly recommend the old Stratechery articles on the history of Intel foundry.
by Ray20 | 2025-09-18 20:35:56+00:00
> So if you want to make money, you need to focus on things like enrichment and test/college prep for the top 10%

But there's no potential market in the top 10%. I mean, these people just hire a good teacher and that's it. There's no room for improvement; there's nothing that can beat a good teacher.

> Helping inner city kids who are 3 grades behind in reading doesn’t print money

This is a political problem. Political problems cannot be solved by technological means. So there is no market here either.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-09-18 20:36:10+00:00
I agree and appreciate that, but I would venture a guess that most of the nearest ones to us likely don't have "earth-like" planets, even accounting for the bias in our viewing capabilities you described. The moons, however! Maybe that bumps the chance of having a habitable celestial body to 0.00001% per solar system? That's my current rough guess. It would be remarkable if "actually life is very easy to form in the universe, it turns out Earth was just first".
by jleyank | 2025-09-18 20:36:44+00:00
They've tried building concentration camps. They're muzzling the press, they're thinking of banning the opposition, they oppose "them", and are going to great lengths to harm them. They're muzzling scientists and doctors, leading to population exodus. I'm sure there's other things I'm missing.

But this is a reasonable approximation to where things stood in, say, 1937. Granted, they've not gone after neighbouring countries (yet?) but they've had their vom Raths, Horst Wessel's, ... And we'll see if the Reichstag burns over the next year. If they screw up the mid-term elections or talk about an enabling act or let trump run a 3rd term, will that be good enough for ya?

And they talk about racial purity and limit women's roles and future. I'm sure there's a lebensraum in there somewhere. If you think using the term "Nazi" Godwin's the discussion, ok, just use Fascist. You have more countries to compare to with that term: Italy, Spain, Portugal, ...
by cloudmike | 2025-09-18 20:37:36+00:00
I mentioned fast hot reload because your original comment complained about compilation speed, and some people might not know you were referring to the speed of compiling your custom Luau integration in C++ (which is also fast for me, personally).

Sounds like the Discord I mentioned is technically the Roblox discord. The #luau-lang and #luau-lsp channels are where I lurk.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-18 20:37:53+00:00
Ceph isn't that well suited for high performance. its also young and more complex than you'd want it to be (ie you get a block storage system, which you then have to put a FS layer on after.)

if you want performance, then you'll probably want lustre, or GPFS, or if you're rich a massive isilon system.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-18 20:38:08+00:00
Horrid is just what dramatic people say. Old styles were and are still great. You have to see things for what they were to really understand them. Anything with a good amount of thought put into it is great no matter the time or place. This is why fashions are cyclical: it was always a good idea just one that became too familiar at one point and had to be forgotten and rediscovered. A sort of wanderlust situation.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-18 20:38:15+00:00
> why is it so assumed that only China can produce rare earths

You want carcinogens in you water supply, and a whole NYT expose about it? That's why. Mining and processing is VERY VERY VERY dirty.

Countries like China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India are choosing the accept the externalities and/or make deals with shady partners if needed.

Add to that spamoflauge campaigns lead by nation state competitors trying to stoke opposition to these projects [0], and it becomes hard.

[0] - https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dra...

Edit: can't reply, so replying here.

> mines many elements domestically, so why the sudden environmental concern specifically with rare earths

Optics mostly, along with a healthy dose of social media disinfo [0]. Processing is also a pain in the butt and causes severe externalities.

> while the US relied on market forces to handle supply chains.

Pretty much, but private sector firms are also worried/hemmed by the implications of litigation.

The recognition that the status quo is unstable arose after China weaponized exports to Japan during the Senkaku Diaoyu crisis (it was one of the first things I worked on in my short stint in policy), but "industrial policy" was a dark word you could never utter on the hill until the last 3-4 years.

Also, 13-15 years ago, China wasn't really viewed as a threat the same way it is today. Russia was viewed as the primary peer state competitor to the US back then. I yelled hoarse warning the people I reported to that we needed to deep dive into Chinese institutions back then, but no one listened.
by bmacho | 2025-09-18 20:38:27+00:00
> I think this is an act of a generosity. It shows that an artist is not only competent enough to execute something that complex, but also thinking deeply of their audience's time and money.

If the artist is thinking deeply of her audience's time then she should not make the book (or art) worth rereading. Putting things at the beginning that only make sense at the second reading is rude and inconsiderate to the audience.

Well, this is my view of the books or shows that have rewatchability anyway. Fuck them, I won't. Also screw the artist for messing with my time.
by npteljes | 2025-09-18 20:38:28+00:00
Regulators don't "value attention little", they did the exact opposite, harnessed the power of the internet to grab unreal amount of power. They are doing the exact mind control you are writing about, and what they care about is whether they control the minds or not.

How we fix, I have no idea. Personally, not many ads make it into my private life. Other than this, I got nada.
by stevenicr | 2025-09-18 20:38:37+00:00
OMG - this is it! thank you SO much!

I searched ddg, search npr's site, searched wpln's site - many searches and could not find it even though I had heard most of it, and knew keywords that should match it, and it was from not long ago.

This is well done, wish it had a 'share starting at 2:23' option like YT does.

thanks again!
by stareatgoats | 2025-09-18 20:38:37+00:00
A repeat of this experiment, with a few thousand participants, conducted under strict control would probably settle that question. One can't help wonder, why hasn't this been done?

I guess ethical and practical considerations aside (you'd have to find participants that agreed to the experiment, as well as having no grieving and potentially experiment-disturbing kin by the bedside): conducting such experiments would not earn you any positive citations from other scientists who largely try to steer clear of anything that smacks of spirits.

Plus, what if Duncan MacDougall's claim is proven correct?
by kelnos | 2025-09-18 20:39:07+00:00
Six months feels insufficient. You'd want several years, at minimum.

I think there are two ways to effectively mitigate this risk: 1) have mining and manufacturing of your own that covers most of your needs, or 2) balanced trade where you get something critical from another country, but they also get something critical from you (and can't easily get it somewhere else).

(Of course when you have very solid allies, you can relax a bit more and rely on them, but you still have to be prepared for a situation where that ally has a shortage and prioritizes their own use.)
by magicalist | 2025-09-18 20:39:37+00:00
> Granted, there have been a lot of times I have trouble finding a website in my history, open tabs or even bookmarks, so I could potentially see how that might be advantageous as long as I was in a situation where I had a second browser for "non-work" related tasks, or this was strictly prohibited in in-private mode.

Yeah, this seems like it would be super helpful, and would work really well with a smaller local only model since it doesn't need to generate nice prose about the results or whatever. Until they keep the data strictly local, though, yes, I'm keeping it off too.

Weirdly, from their help page[1] they mention needing to "Have a high performance computer" as a requirement, and that

> When you turn on "History search, powered by AI," in addition to the page title and URL, the page contents of the website you browse at that time are stored locally.

and that the contents are even encrypted at rest, which makes you start to think they did it the right way, but then, no:

> When you use History search, powered by AI, your searches, generated answers, best matches, and their page contents are sent to Google. This information is used in accordance with the Google Privacy Policy to improve this feature, which includes generative model research and machine learning technologies

They don't outright say it anywhere, but it seems like the implication might be that this is a strictly local only model running (Nano), but then they ruin it by sending the history search results and all the page contents of those results to google so they can use that to improve their models?

Why why why. Looking at the preference in Canary, it's just on/off. No "on, but don't send my search history and the contents of pages I've seen to google".

> I'm still waiting on that 'Google Duplex'

FWIW this has been shipping for a long time. Try doing a reservation through google maps. If there's not open table support or whatever, it'll make the phone call for you.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/15305774