MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-09 04:39:46+00:00
The unified GPU and unified memory design was pretty important. They just didn’t go and replace intel, they replaced AMD/NVIDIA also. The GPUs in high end Apple silicon are even good enough for mid model inference, and unified memory makes it somewhat cost effective…that advantage probably wasn’t planned and comes from just a lot of good execution and smart R&D.
by throwawayq3423 | 2025-09-09 04:40:04+00:00
> Knocking you over with military force technically destabilizes things far more

There are just as many examples of national identity being forged in war than there are it being removed.

For example, Russian-speaking Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine had no affinity for Kyiv and didn't think of themselves as Ukrainian before Russia invaded. Now they do.
by HexDecOctBin | 2025-09-09 04:40:35+00:00
People chose C because they liked C. Of course they don't want C to change. The only thing the ISO committee should be adding is stuff for filling in the holes in language (C23's Improved Tag Compatibility and __VA_OPT__ are good examples), not add features that were never part of C and were never supposed to be there.

Your question can be reflected back to you: if you want an ever changing languages, go to Java, C# or C++, why mess with C?
by zartcosgrove | 2025-09-09 04:41:05+00:00
I feel like SEO and click bait of all kinds has already broken that unwritten social contract. I feel like your argument is that using an adblocker is impolite, borderline unfair. But I also feel like we, the users, have been exploited by surveillance capitalism. If anyone broke the social contract, it's the websites that participated in [enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification).
by spamjavalin | 2025-09-09 04:41:13+00:00
Relevant - worth a listen, changed my mind about nuclear, also beautifully and compellingly read by the author.

'Going Nuclear - How the Atom will save the world' by Tom Gregory https://open.spotify.com/show/7l8wXWfPb3ZAUmd1pfUdv3?si=52fe...
by teeeeeegz | 2025-09-09 04:42:17+00:00
Using iOS 26 with the glassy-reflective elements feels like a storm in a teacup with making people even more addicted to their phones the moment they pick them up, observing all the shiny effects with a slight tilt of their wrist.

I wish Apple would open up customization capabilities to properly kick the addictive elements from the phone, like Android with custom launchers...

I've also experimented with Apple Configurator many months ago but unfortunately it's too tedious for most people wanting to enforce a simplified phone, but its beauty is in its level of power of creating a bespoke iPhone experience.

fwiw I'm the maker of the Dumb Phone app (dp) that somebody mentioned below and what's mostly kept my daily average screen time to 1-2 hours is getting rid of the addictive elements from the home screen.

No more color, icons, fancy wallpapers, just a simple single-colored text-based list of my most essential apps that open when tapped. Zero social media.

We live in 2025 and as much as i'd love to experiment with a nerfed feature phone, I personally need a high quality camera each day, maps of course, banking apps, authenticators, etc.

Kicking that dopamine hit has helped me use my phone as a utility again, otherwise I put it away. I have an Apple Watch too with all alerts turned off except for calls, texts - so another reason to keep the phone down.

Since I also run a business I do need to leverage mobile social apps, so these now all live on a "separate" iPhone which stays in a drawer until I need to perform a particular task with it, then it goes back in right away.

Genuinely feels good to have my phones work for me now rather than the other way around, and I see a lot of common sentiment when I speak to people who have also done the same thing to their phones.

Highly recommend cleaning up your Home Screen as a good starting point, and purge your notifications.

edit: I also begrudgingly installed Beeper last week to keep in touch with an important group chat on FB messenger on the main phone, but it's bliss only seeing a list of group messages vs the long list of story buttons along the top in the main app, green and red dots, so i'm not inclined to tap around afterwards.
by mkleczek | 2025-09-09 04:42:18+00:00
> Tackle the real problem instead of removing the most fundamental of rights so you can suppress speech and dissent you dislike, which is all this is.

But the real problem is oppressive government. My government is not oppressive - my government is here to help me and help the society to maintain civil rights.

The view that it is the government that is against civil rights is anarchistic and... wrong. In reality it is the opposite: the only way to maintain civil rights is to have the rule of law and the government that protects them.

What's more: anonymity itself has to be guarded by... the government (and that's what you require). So your logic is twisted: you trust your government to protect anonymity while at the same time you don't trust it to protect freedom of speech.
by bb88 | 2025-09-09 04:42:19+00:00
Ads in and of themselves aren't really the issue. It's the tracking that is.

If the ad was delivered without cookies and without tracking, as just a stationary gif, I'd be more okay with it.

But without tracking, back in 2008/9 ish before the real estate crash, the Simpsons made a reference to the dancing cowboys ad for selling mortgages. These were the adjustable rate mortgages that went sky high shortly after closing on the house.

https://trailers.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/1f73a011-858b-418b-940...
by ggm | 2025-09-09 04:43:19+00:00
I am doing this, because normally Hinton is my go-to for cautious, useful input to a debate. When he makes this kind of sweeping statement, my hackles get up. The rest of the article had nothing I didn't expect. I did NOT expect him to make such a sweeping assertion.

They're useful. They're not intelligent. He invited the reproach.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-09 04:43:35+00:00
A batteries included standard lib included with the runtime is one approach. Yes, you would know upfront the version which the browser implements. From there you could dynamically load a polyfill or prompt the user to upgrade.

Alternatively, because there are now (often ridiculous) build systems and compilation steps, we might expect similar behavior to other compiled binaries. Instead we get the worst of both worlds.

Yes, JS as it is is some kind of standard, but at a certain point we might ask, "Why not throw out the bad designs and start from scratch?" If it takes ten years to sunset the garbage and offer a compatibility shim, that's fine. All the more reason to start now.

A purely compiled WASM approach with first class DOM access or a clean scripting language with a versioned standard lib, either option would be better than the status quo.
by Suppafly | 2025-09-09 04:44:02+00:00
>When getting something appraised they actually ask you “is this for sale or insurance reasons?” This never made sense to me because the insured price should be the replacement price, and that should be the same as what you would sell it for, no?

Obviously no. Insurance has to buy you the item new, used items sell for a fraction of the new price. Being confused by this makes me think you're new to living on earth.
by perihelions | 2025-09-09 04:44:26+00:00
> "The people detained were suspected of being here illegally and weren't citizens."

The people detained included US Citizens who weren't carrying documentation of their citizenship.

> "...The judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.'"

https://bsky.app/profile/maxkennerly.bsky.social/post/3lydsb...

It's an absurd law for basic reasons: if US citizens are not required to carry proof of citizenship, and non-citizens are, then the law either is totally pointless and unenforceable; or (in this case) trigger-happy police unlawfully detain US citizens on suspicion. It's a Catch-22: a US citizen is not obligated to carry *the papers proving they're not obligated to carry papers*.
by landgenoot | 2025-09-09 04:44:36+00:00
Tried to browse a while with NoScript addon. But barely any page loads, so you need to whitelist almost every page you visit, which defeats the purpose.

I have been thinking about some kind of render proxy that runs all the JS for you somewhere else in a sandbox and sends you the screenshot or rendered HTML instead. Or maybe we could leverage an LLM to turn the Bloated JS garbage into the actual information you are looking for.
by throwawaygmbno | 2025-09-09 04:47:09+00:00
This is a fine social contract for the independent blogger just sharing their thoughts on the Internet and maybe hoping to get a few dollars for their server cost.

Mega corporations that have been sucking up personal data for a couple decades now are not people. There is no social contract with them. They just sell your data.

If you know what they are doing, know how to block it, and refuse to, you are complicit in making the world a worse place. Corporations are not people that should be treated with the respect you are talking about.
by spease | 2025-09-09 04:48:38+00:00
Yes. And everyone is glossing over the benefit of unified memory for LLM applications. Apple may not have the models, but it has customer goodwill, a platform, and the logistical infrastructure to roll them out. It probably even has the cash to buy some AI companies outright; maybe not the big ones (for a reasonable amount, anyway) but small to midsize ones with domain-specific models that could be combined.

Not to mention the “default browser” leverage it has with with iPhones, iPods, and watches.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-09 04:49:33+00:00
There are myriad accounts. Who you follow is taste specific, you need to do your own work. Mine are exclusively on Twitter and I mostly found them by randomly clicking through art things on Twitter. My tastes in art cover a very broad spectrum. Gotta both explore and curate the feed.

My favorite piece acquired in the last few months is Olivier Neuray’s “L’Empire des Lumières”. Not everyone is going to appreciate it.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-09 04:49:47+00:00
My view is that core bargain was fine, but advertisers have broken the agreement with other offenses, like:

* Autoplay videos that preemptively take my bandwidth.

* Autoplay audio that takes over my speakers unexpectedly and interrupts other things.

* Forms of pop-ups that clutter or disrupt my tab/window control.

* Being spied-on by a system that tries to aggregate and track all of my browsing habits.

* A mostly unaccountable vector for malware and phishing sites.

* Just a genuinely horrible experience whenever a page is one part content to three parts blinking blooping ever shifting ads that would make Idiocracy blush.

They try to pretend customer resistance is just over the most innocent and uncontroversial display of ads, but it's not true, and it hasn't been for decades.
by cookiengineer | 2025-09-09 04:50:07+00:00
I wanted to point out that the users that download websites to read them aren't the freeloaders.

The actual freeloaders are the ISPs, because they don't share the profits with the networks they provide access to.

In a better world, Browsers would all be peer to peer, and share their caches end-to-end, with verifiable content hashes, so that websites don't need to provide the majority of bandwidth.

But here we are, Google not giving a fuck because they actually like being a monopoly that does not need to create a healthy ecosystem because everyone involved is paying them anyways. With resources, and with money. Who would have thought?
by exmadscientist | 2025-09-09 04:51:24+00:00
Yes, Intel/AMD cannot match Apple in efficiency.

But Apple cannot beat Intel/AMD in single-thread performance. (Apple marketing works very hard to convince people otherwise, but don't fall for it.) Apple gets very, very close, but they just don't get there. (As well, you might say they get close enough for practical matters; that might be true, but it's not the question here.)

That gap, however small it might be for the end user, is absolutely massive on the chip design level. x86 chips are tuned from the doping profiles of the silicon all the way through to their heatsinks to be single-thread fast. That last 1%? 2%? 5%? of performance is expensive, and is far far far past the point of diminishing returns in turns of efficiency cost paid. That last 20% of performance burns 80% of the power. Apple has chosen not to do things this way.

So x86 chips are not particularly well tuned to be efficient. They never have been; it's, on some level, a cultural problem. Could they be? Of course! But then the customers who want what x86 is right now would be sad. There are a lot of customers who like the current models, from hyperscalers to gamers. But they're increasingly bad fits for modern "personal computing", a use case which Apple owns. So why not have two models? When I said "doping profiles of the silicon" above, that wasn't hyperbole, that's literally true. It is a big deal to maintain a max-performance design and a max-efficiency design. They might have the same RTL but everything else will be different. Intel at their peak could have done it (but was too hubristic to try); no one else manufacturing x86 has had the resources. (You'll note that all non-Apple ARM vendor chips are pure efficiency designs, and don't even get close to Apple or Intel/AMD. This is not an accident. They don't have the resources to really optimize for either one of these goals. It is hard to do.)

Thus, the current situation: Apple has a max-efficiency design that's excellent for personal computing. Intel/AMD have aging max-performance designs that do beat Apple at absolute peak... which looks less and less like the right choice with every passing month. Will they continue on that path? Who knows! But many of their customers have historically liked this choice. And everyone else... isn't great at either.
by alexchantavy | 2025-09-09 04:52:17+00:00
When I was in college, I bought Demon's Souls and also started the most difficult semester I'd had yet with 3 classes deeply into my CS major. I was terrified of what lay ahead of academically, so I procrastinated by playing Demon's Souls.

Yes, Demon's Souls was hard, but eventually I somehow I started passing dungeons and beating bosses. The rush that I got from that gave me what I needed mentally to persevere through my classes: by the end of the semester I had A+s in 2 and an A in the other. I don't think I've had a better semester since. Beating big demons in video games made me feel like I could beat my own big demons in real life.

Lots of others feel the same way about Souls-like games; there are many video essays on Youtube that cover how Souls-likes got them through depression and other things.
by 000ooo000 | 2025-09-09 04:52:32+00:00
>official wireguard clients allow you to set “excluded” wireless SSIDs, so if you are out and about, and not on a SSID that matches one of your excluded SSIDs, you are automatically connected to wireguard.

Very neat, thanks for sharing. Hopefully the Android client is the same. A home WG server is next up on my homeland TODO. WG-easy looks to be a good spot to start.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-09 04:52:56+00:00
Collecting big-ticket art is a weird hobby in that it's very passive. For most collectibles, you're supposed to go to garage sales, scout eBay, walk around with a metal detector, or even dumpster-dive. And if you find something unfamiliar, you form a hypothesis, do research, share your findings... and maybe get other folks excited about your find. It's all very make-your-own-adventure.

For mainstream "rich person" art, all of this is outsourced. Curators discover the artist, promote the work, and set the price. Glossy trade journals tells you what the artwork means and how to talk about it to others in a way that's more erudite than any thoughts you can form on your own. Your function, really, is just to show up with money and then hang the piece.
by schaefer | 2025-09-09 04:53:06+00:00
gentle reminder: online advertisements are so dangerous that the fbi recommends you use an ad blocker [1]. If there’s a social contract at play, users aren’t the ones breaking it.

Their behavior is abusive, and our behavior is self defense.

Let the ads networks do the hard work of 1) cleaning up their act, and 2) rebuilding trust before you worry about your end of the social contract.

[1]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-b...
by wnc3141 | 2025-09-09 04:53:53+00:00
I find this take not credible. The key quotation the article centers on. It's weird that they make this claim but then say "but hey it's really not our place"

> “As per the Genocide Convention, the crime of genocide occurs only where there is specific ‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’. The government has not concluded that Israel is acting with that intent.” <

Of course its also weird that they would throw water on the scholarly and international consensus that Israel is conducting a genocide.

https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IAGS...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-c...

These are the articles defining genocide: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-...

> In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group <

Beyond the effect of Israel's actions there is a question of intent. To illustrate these are statements of the Israeli government:

\* Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister: "“There is no such thing as a Palestinian nation. There is no Palestinian history. There is no Palestinian language,” (1) \* Official Israeli Twitter accounts: "there are no innocent civilians” (2). \* Itamar Ben-Givir, national security minister, conditionally returning to government in exchange for the complete eradication of Palestinians from Gaza (3) \* Amichai Eliyahu, Heritage minister: "the government is racing toward erasing Gaza. Thank God we are erasing this evil. All of Gaza will be Jewish." (4)

(1) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/no-such-thing-as-palestin...

(2) https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/israel-posts-video...

(3) https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-says-hell-return-to-g...

(4) https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hk00mgaypll

It was perhaps put best in a review of the worst opinion pieces of 2024 from the podcast "If Books Could Kill." The hosts reviewed a think piece saying "the war in Gaza might not technically be genocide" but the hosts point out: Maybe so, but if not than its this other thing that's bad and should be stopped. To intellectualize an arbitrary boundary sort of throws water on the very real and unnecessary suffering that occurs. What does this take accopmlish?
by innocentoldguy | 2025-09-09 04:53:54+00:00
There needs to be a balance. I don't block ads on sites that respect me enough not to drown out the main content with ads. However, I always block sites that have excessive ads or use pop-ups. On a side note, whoever invented pop-up ads should be sentenced to life in prison on a diet of pickled beets and prune juice.
by wallopinski | 2025-09-09 04:55:23+00:00
Well duh, the IFU. :) No, I was fond of the FPU because the math was just so bonkers. The way division was performed with complete disregard to the rules taught to gradeschoolers always fascinated me. Bob Colwell told us that P6 was the last architecture one person could understand completely.

Tooling & Languages: IHDL, a templating layer on top of HDL that had a preprocessor for intel-specific macros. DART test template generator for validation coverage vectors. The entire system was stitched together with PERL, TCL, and shellscripts, and it all ran on three OSes: AIX, HPUX and SunOS. (I had a B&W sparcstation and was jealous of the 8514/a 1024x768 monitors on AIX.) We didn't go full Linux until Itanic and by then we were using remote computing via Exceed and gave up our workstations for generic PCs. When I left in the mid 2000's, not much had changed in the glue/automation languages, except a little less Tcl. I'm blanking on the specific formal verification tool, I think it was something by Cadence. Synthesis and timing was ... design compiler and primetime? Man. Cobwebs. When I left we were 100% Cadence and Synopsys and Verilog (minus a few custom analog tools based on SPICE for creating our SSAs). That migration happened during Bonnell, but gahd it was painful. Especially migrating all the Pentium/486/386/286/8088 test vectors.

I have no idea what it is like ~20 years later (gasp), but I bet the test vectors live on, like Henrietta Lacks' cells. I'd be interested to hear from any Intelfolk reading this?
by jdprgm | 2025-09-09 04:57:26+00:00
I really can't comprehend how aggressive ad blocking isn't the norm and at 90%+ at this point. Whenever someone just doesn't seem to care i'm concerned something is wrong with them. Youtube ad blocking was briefly not working for me recently and the volume of ads just while doing some chores which forced interrupting flow to go manually skip was astounding and enraging. It's like if I was at a quiet library and every 30 seconds someone randomly started screaming yet half the people have a reaction of "meh, doesn't bother me".
by habosa | 2025-09-09 04:58:36+00:00
I’m confused. I read (see below) that these very tall fronts are significantly more deadly to pedestrians. Which is true?

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-v...

Not to mention how much bigger the blind spot is now:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna52109
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-09 05:00:38+00:00
The point of the baseload argument isn’t the “desirability” of power sources that can provide baseload, it’s the necessity. Renewables that can be scaled up (i.e. not niche cases like geothermal) are all too inconsistent to replace the entirety of generation without storage. Other tactics like long range transmission can reduce the amount of storage needed but not eliminate it. Fully replacing generation with renewables isn’t just unprofitable without storage, it’s impossible.

Storage is making great strides but for it to get good enough to fully convert the grid we need qualitative advances in the underlying technology, not just manufacturing scale driving down prices.