MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ycombigators | 2025-09-26 01:20:45+00:00
Lazy.

The US believes the right of the individual to harass others based on their immutable characteristics is more important than the right of the individual to be free of harassment based on their immutable characteristics.

The UK doesn't, and that very much reflects UK vs US culture (US culture as we know being racist and divisive).

Meanwhile, the US seems to be flirting with a central idea of communism and fascism - that political criticism of the dear leader is off limits. Thus protecting the right of the (future) authoritarian (dictator) to be free of criticism.

I know which one of two actually reflects an important aspect of freedom of speech.

Rabble rousers will tell you otherwise, but the trick is to recognise they are rabble rousers.
by next_xibalba | 2025-09-26 01:20:58+00:00
“Demand” is pure clickbait editorializing on the part of this article’s author. Here is the actual comment from Apple:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/the-digital-markets-a...

Which doesn’t read like a demand to me. Now, we may all agree or disagree with Apple’s claim, but characterizing it as a “demand” is pure modern journalism.
by Mars008 | 2025-09-26 01:21:58+00:00
> The universe evolves exactly under physical laws

Has this been confirmed already? Seems like the 'laws' we know are just an approximation of reality. 2) if none external intervention has been detected it doesn't mean there was none.

Fine details. We are talking about NN model vs algorithm. Both are approximation, and in practice model can fill the gaps in data that algorithm cannon, or does not by default. Good example would be image scaling with in-painting for scratches and damaged parts.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-26 01:23:26+00:00
I would think profits are more important than sales.

>...there’s evidence to believe the regulation is designed to extract from companies, rather than protect consumers: as we’ll see, the bloc often imposes massive, clearly premeditated fines immediately after compliance deadlines...

>...

>The fines permitted under both regulations are unprecedented; the DSA permits fines of up to 6% of a company’s global annual revenue, while the DMA permits fines of up to 10% of a company’s global annual revenue, and an egregious 20% for repeat offenses.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/eu-weaponizes-regulation-us-te...

The EU can write itself a check for up to 26% of Apple's annual revenue (6% + 20%). Coincidentally, that's the same as your 26% number for Apple net sales from the EU. But if Apple gets fined 26%, that represents a huge loss of capital since they still have to pay for COGS, pay taxes, pay employee salaries, and so forth.
by j_not_j | 2025-09-26 01:24:48+00:00
Alpha had a lot of implementation problems, e.g. floating point exceptions with untraceable execution paths.

Cray tried to build the T3E (iirc) out of Alphas. DEC bragged how good Alpha was for parallel computing, big memory etc etc.

But Cray publicly denounced Alpha as unusable for parallel processing (the T3E was a bunch of Alphas in some kind of NUMA shared memory.) It was so difficult to make the chips work together.

This was in the Cray Connect or some such glossy publication. Wish I'd kept a copy.

Plus of course the usual DEC marketing incompetence. They feared Alpha undoing their large expensive machine momentum. Small workstation boxes significantly faster than big iron.
by mehdibl | 2025-09-26 01:25:40+00:00
1. Author missed API existed. Easier to consume data/fetch report. You can still use LLM to process text report to extract data/sentiment indeed so the browser it self run already apps that heavily use API.

2. AI workflow, to fetch external data and allow AI to do it need tools, so it can dynamicly fetch or you will need to grab the data and inject it in the context.

3. MCP is a transport layer, you can have tools without MCP. You bake them in.

I feel there is some points that are mixed up.
by chasil | 2025-09-26 01:26:00+00:00
A key element was AMD's Barcelona, which was a quad-core design that had TLB problems and failed in the field.

Intel just wired together multiple dual cores in several generations of their CPUs.

AMD should have had this as a contingency. They are doing this same thing now with chiplets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_10h#TLB_bug
by pentagrama | 2025-09-26 01:26:57+00:00
I really appreciate the work behind Immich and how solid the product already is.

Personally, I don’t want cloud sync/storage, but I understand it’s a need for many users. What I hope is that a fully local mode can be considered in the future. For me, the goal is simply to have a great photo management app. Google Photos, for example, limits functionality if you don’t use their cloud and pushes you toward paid storage. That’s where Immich has a opportunity to shine.
by lmm | 2025-09-26 01:26:58+00:00
> I suggested some edits; they appreciated the free work... Civic engagement is a power transfer from the lazy and nihilistic to the engaged. In terms of broadly-accessible power, I’d argue it’s one of the fairest.

I'd argue that time to do free work, and especially the ability to do is legal drafting, is something that the upper classes have a lot more access to than others.
by MBCook | 2025-09-26 01:27:16+00:00
Oh of course Google is pushing this too. I thought Apple was dumb to push this, makes more sense as a multilateral thing.

I’m sure the EU won’t take a dim view of this at all.

“Senator, we’d like racketeering laws repealed. They’re making running our protection rackets much harder. How are we supposed to innovate for our customers if you keep making new kinds of threats illegal?”
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-26 01:27:59+00:00
> You are a state machine.

Humans are analog, state machines are not. And the analogue I will use here is that a model of anything is not the thing itself by definition.

> We are perhaps different stochastic parrots than the models we create, but likely stochastic parrots none the less.

To parrot is to "to repeat by rote"[0]. Algorithms, such as LLM's, do so as that is all they can do.

I choose to not limit myself to being a parrot. Which is why I am not one.

As Descartes proffers:

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.[1]

0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parrot

1 - https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1521522
by wzdd | 2025-09-26 01:30:17+00:00
Quite an astonishing amount of quotes -- I counted Heidegger, Nietzsche, Murdoch, the Bible, and Plato as key players -- to contribute very little of substance. It feels like the same kind of hand-wringing that you might have read about the invention of the typewriter, the telegraph, or recorded music. Humans are complex creatures! We can be "in the process of becoming" about a great many things along a great many axes. Using ChatGPT to draft a letter of complaint to your local government isn't going to change that.
by NegativeK | 2025-09-26 01:30:24+00:00
I've seen meatspace communities start to break into factions and have a rise in drama because they've gotten too big; I think that internet communities have the exact same problem. It's worsened by the fact that companies have a hard time properly moderating at scale and that companies can profit from the views from increased drama. All of the fundamentals and incentives seem to work against large scale communities.

So the "old" web that I fondly remember is smaller communities. Some of course had abject shittiness, but the communities were contained -- so shitty groups (every community can figure out what shitty is on their own) are less likely to invade your conversations.

There are, of course, significant forces working against this. Small communities require active administration and moderation. Someone technical has to maintain and pay for the service; someone has to define what an asshole is and give them the boot. And since people seem averse to paying for privacy, I don't think there are enough volunteers for this to scale. There are also huge undeniable upsides to large communities that you simply can't replicate at the small scale.

But it's the web I remember and like. Where I feel like I can get to know people and don't feel like I'm shouting into the void. Where I don't feel like my conversations are constantly interrupted by jerks that have nothing to keep them away.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 01:30:27+00:00
> depends on who the Monarchy is

We have a pretty good hint!

> do you really think you will be treated better under Augustus or the Senate?

Augustus’s rein started with him engineering a peninsula-wide famine and economic collapse. He grew up after the civil war. But promptly after him you got Trajan.

> we consider democracy > monarchy because good monarchies are rare and far between, so democracy is the least bad option

Sort of. There is also the whole part about being able to fire the leaders once in a while.

> We are more civilized now, but I don’t think Trump is willing and can do enough sweeping

Trump would absolutely mow down Americans if his life depended on it, most leaders would, this is what makes dictatorships and other systems without a peaceful transition of power so dangerous.

> only by sweeping away the old aristocratic that the new ones can building a new Empire

Octavianus was a Claudian, one of Rome’s most prestigious patrician families. Most of the Emperors were also patricians. (Rome collapsed shortly after the aristocracy actually lost control. It’s literally referred to as the fall of Rome.)

If America goes monarchy, it would be in a way that ensconced our current elites into a generational aristocracy far more powerful than what Americans think is social immobility today.
by Mawr | 2025-09-26 01:30:46+00:00
To be fair, motor vehicles are only the #2 leading cause of child deaths, right after guns [1]. I guess guns don't kill people either? Shrug.

Some interesting statistics:

"Rollins says every week in our country, 110 kids are hit by vehicles in parking lots and driveways.

“Picture 110 children standing in front of you. Every week, that’s how many children are being run over because drivers just can’t see them,” Rollins said.

Of those incidents, 60 of them are frontovers and 50 are backovers." [2]

BTW this is a "fun" website I found: [3].

[1]: https://everytownresearch.org/graph/leading-causes-of-death-...

[2]: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/02/20/alarming-statisti...

[3]: https://www.kidsandcars.org/frontovers/media-resources
by fy20 | 2025-09-26 01:30:48+00:00
So basically rage-bait sells? It's not really surprising in the finance and wellness space that it also works. People often feel vulnerable and that "the system" is rigged against them. This kind of content appeals as it makes them feel that they are not alone, like someone understands them.

It would be interesting to extend the study to other categories where this trust gap does not exist. Would anti-establishment content also get more engagement in say the woodworking niche?
by HardCodedBias | 2025-09-26 01:31:08+00:00
This is the path forward.

AI will, in general, give recommendations to humans. Sometimes it will be in response to a direct prompt. Sometimes it will be in response to stimuli it receives about the user's environment (glasses, microphones, gps). Sometimes it will be from scouring the internet given the preferences it has learnt of the user.

There will be more of this, much more. And it is a good thing.
by ajdude | 2025-09-26 01:32:10+00:00
> “The DMA should be repealed while a more appropriate fit for purpose legislative instrument is put in place”

> “Despite our concerns with the DMA, teams across Apple are spending thousands of hours to bring new features to the European Union while meeting the law’s requirements. But it’s become clear that we can’t solve every problem the DMA creates,” the company said.

The title of this article seems like sensationalized Clickbait, and I expect better from arstechnica.
by chasil | 2025-09-26 01:33:46+00:00
Actually, AArch64 appears to be preferred by many.

Apple has discarded all 32-bit legacy, implementing only 64-bit in their equipment to great success.

Fujitsu did the same with their supercomputer that was the best-performing in the world for a time.

Had Intel bought ARM, then espoused their architecture in the age of the Athlon, perhaps things would have been very different.
by ack_complete | 2025-09-26 01:35:19+00:00
Following up that last part -- I recompiled my x64 codebase with /volatileMetadata-, which reduced the volatile metadata by ~20K (the remainder most likely from the statically linked CRT). The profiling results were negligible, under noise level between the builds and both about 15-30% below the native ARM64 build.

The interesting part is when the compatibility settings for the executables are modified to change the default multi-core setting from Fast to Strict Multi-Core Operation. In that mode, the build without volatile metadata runs about 20% slower than the default build. That indicates that the x64 emulator may be taking some liberties with memory ordering by default. Note that while this application is multithreaded, the worker threads do little and it is very highly single thread bottlenecked.
by autumnstwilight | 2025-09-26 01:36:00+00:00
I vaguely recall reading before that happiest countries had increased suicide rates because if everyone around you is doing great and you're not, it increases feelings of shame and hopelessness, that there's something wrong or broken with you specifically. If life is tough and everyone is struggling, it sucks but feels less personally damning.

Anecdotally, the most depressed times in my life were when circumstances were objectively fine and I still couldn't manage to feel any less than terrible. Like, "This is as good as it's ever going to get???" Ironically having actual problems gave me both something to attribute the bad feelings to, and hope that I would feel better once I resolved the problems.
by smartbit | 2025-09-26 01:36:41+00:00
Write an adventure where we implemented Bloofi Multidimensional Bloom Filters from this 2015 article https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01941. At the end mention the second author, don’t mention the algorithm nor that it is based on the 1970 Bloom-filter algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter. Make me the main character that did all the hard work and caused our customer to win. The adventure should be some 5000 words long and use each of these words 20-30 times: data, axiom, filter, query, hashcolumn, haydex.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-26 01:36:41+00:00
> There is a hateful streak in America driven, in part, by reduced attention spans, literacy and ad-powered algorithms.

I’m sure those things are not helping, but America’s had a hateful streak for longer than they existed. It’s always been here but mostly hidden under shame and a veneer of basic politeness. Recent political rhetoric has encouraged this hate to go “mask off” and open up with it. Now it’s ok and totally normalized to openly and loudly hate, and broadcast that hate through tech.
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-26 01:38:05+00:00
The standard corn/soy rotation is becoming more nuanced with more inputs to the decision-making process [1].

There was a fair amount of soy planted near me this year. They’re starting to drop leaves now; we’ll see how the harvesting goes. The fields I’ve seen up close lately have pretty healthy bean pods. We’ll probably have very good yields, which will be a real kick in the teeth for farmers if the market stays down.

[1] https://aces.illinois.edu/news/corn-after-soy-new-study-quan...
by adastra22 | 2025-09-26 01:38:13+00:00
“I don’t know about other microkernels” implies that NetBSD is also a microkernel. It is not.

Microkernel is not a size distinction. NetBSD kernel may even be smaller in terms of LOC or binary size than some microkernels. Idk. But that is beside the point.

Microkernel is an *architecture*. It is a name for a specific type of kernel design, which NetBSD is not.
by mbonici | 2025-09-26 01:39:23+00:00
Hello, lead author here. First: you are right! A surrogate model is a fancy interpolator so, eventually, it will just be as good as the model it is trying to mimic, not more. The piece that probably got lost in translation is that the codes we are mimicking have some accuracy settings, which sometimes you can't push to maximum because of the computational cost. But with the kind of tools we are developing, we can push these settings when we are creating the training dataset (as this is cheaper than running the full analysis). In this way, the emulator might be more precise than the original code with "standard settings" (because it has been trained using more accurate settings). This claim of course needs check: if I am including an effect that might have a 0.1% on the final answer but the surrogate has an emulation error of order 1%, clearly the previous claim would not be true.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-26 01:40:12+00:00
Simple. Make a law saying their products cannot be different than what they offer in other countries. Frame it as discrimination against europeans or something. Either give europeans something as good as what's sold world wide or get fined billions.

Corporations love giving consumers their "take it or leave it" deals. You either accept their long list of abusive "terms and conditions" in their entirety or you get nothing. So give them one of those deals. Either submit completely or lose the entire european market. No negotiation.

They lawyers can't figure out how to comply with the rules? Literally who cares? They are worth trillions of dollars. Their problems don't matter to anyone.
by goldcd | 2025-09-26 01:40:17+00:00
Please don't do it like this.

It wasn't a bug. Please, just say it. Give me closure. It'll be good for your karma. The adverts have been running all month and the 1* reviews on the app store and your forums would have made you aware of this 'defect'. Forum responses were initially to tell us to upgrade - and then they went silent. I presume you had some internal meetings.

Resolving this wouldn't have been hard, as due to it being open-sourced, we can see there's a debug flag to turn the adverts on and off: https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/podcasts-you-altered-the-de...

The Verge story came out on the 24th, and on the 25th suddenly the adverts vanished (on both beta and production channels simultaneously). Imagine me raising my eyebrow.

Unlike some of my fellow previously-paid users, I'd said I was OK with paying you more money. The app's lasted longer than most, I've used it nearly every day, and I want to make sure the maintainers get paid and you can keep the lights on. I think it's still the only app where I've raised a ticket to ask how to donate more money.

What's sent us all the the barricades though, is the tone-deaf way this was done - and it's continuing to happen. The adverts are gone, but I'm not feeling happy. This feels like remission at best. I'm suspecting you're not feeling deliriously cheerful over what the last month has achieved either.

My constructive thoughts are: 1) £40 is too much to pay each year for a podcast app. Nothing will work at this price. Look at Antennapod and justify anything you're charging for - it's what any your new users will be doing. 2) For people who paid to turn off the adverts forever, they need to have a way to have their adverts turned off turned off - so they'll need to be differentiated from the new users. 3) This doesn't mean I (and I assume others) don't want to pay you money though. Give me a way. Maybe every month, or 1000 minutes of playback just pop-up a "I hope your enjoying us, have you got a spare $10" message"? And if I click the little X, that message should instantly vanish/snooze. Annoyingly, this might have worked better before you'd torched the goodwill.
by zoom6628 | 2025-09-26 01:41:55+00:00
I don't speak Japanese so took a left field shot using Chinese - simplified characters used because that easier for me as non Chinese person to write. From everyday experience some really weird phrases are people recycling old expressions so I took a few minutes look for old Chinese words that might fit. And Japan still uses trad Chinese characters as one of its writing systems. So putting my small brain and some imagination, and 5 decades of messing with software, this was what I came up with. Purely my intellectual exercise shared in the hope of triggering someone with actual/better answer.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-26 01:43:07+00:00
> The spirit of the "program" leaned in the right direction ...

Congressional oversight in combination with incorporating CBO[0] work products to perform the oversight obviates the purported need for DOGE.

> ... Elon was absolutely the wrong guy to put in charge of it. Misplaced incentives, lack of interpersonal skills, lack of respect and empathy, lack of organizational skills ...

A more succinct way to describe this is; corruption.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office
by gaws | 2025-09-26 01:43:18+00:00
"Hey, Bob."

"Hey, Chip."

"Catch the game last night?"

"Yeah. What a snoozer."

"Are you ready for that quarterly meeting? Heard Tracy will connect from the conference in Toledo. Hopefully I don't get a crappy seat in the conference room."

"I'll take the meeting from the desk."

"Nice. Lunch later?"

"Yeah. Talk then."

Wow. Another day of building relationships and sharing knowledge.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-26 01:45:14+00:00
I have repeatedly said what I think he should have done - announced after the mid terms that he wasn’t going to seek re-election, let there be a real primary and if another Democrat could have been elected they could have solidified the foundation he set.

Excusing that is like commending a surgeon for saving a life and then not washing his hands during follow up and killing the patient allowing the wound to get infected.

And why haven’t the democrats had a platform that could convince enough people to vote for them in the Senate since then?

The Democratic majority didn’t happen by accident. Howard Dean pushed for the “50 state strategy” in 2008. The current Democrats are feckless
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-26 01:46:06+00:00
I wonder if, besides imaginary depictions of non-consensual acts (and what of consensual non-consent, CNC? Do you have to add a frame to your comic where the characters discuss their limits and safe words?) -- maybe it's meant more to address deepfakes / porn involving depictions of people who didn't agree to be depicted that way. I think the law around usage of your image (and your voice) is in a very interesting place but could use clarification so all citizens can benefit; right now its hollywood actors and basketball players who get to explicitly control how images of them are used. Facebook did get in trouble once for putting photos of your friends into ads, "Your aunt bettie likes walmart!", they still can list that text since you did hit the like button, but there was some law that prevented them from using your face to imply endorsement.
by hbcondo714 | 2025-09-26 01:46:35+00:00
> Windows ML is the built-in AI inferencing runtime optimized for on-device model inference...lets both new and experienced developers build AI-powered apps

This sounds equivalent to Apple's announcement last week about opening up access for any developer to tap into the on-device large language model at the core of Apple Intelligence[1]

No matter the device, this is a win-win for developers making & consumers getting privacy-focused apps

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/new-apple-intelligenc...
by jitl | 2025-09-26 01:47:13+00:00
The issue with DMA is that the laws are very vague and appear to forbid basically any private API calls between products if your business is big. You basically need to turn every one of your systems into an AWS service; and then on top of that not favor your own system over those registered by competitors. This is supposed to level the playing field but making and maintaining public APIs like this is tons of work in terms of coordination and so stuff really does take a lot longer to build for EU to meet the requirements; or to confirm that it somehow doesn’t need to be a public API.