MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tails4e | 2025-09-17 12:41:06+00:00
This makes sense, but what does not make sense is who tested this 'ultimate mode', I mean they went to the trouble of adding a physical hardware switch on the motherboard for this, surely when testing there was some kind of benchmark or comparison to show this feature was an advantage. Maybe they don't test, or they have 'internal firmware' that is not what the user gets, but it's a serious fail either way.
by thunky | 2025-09-17 12:41:28+00:00
> Total deaths in Gaza are 1/4 comparable numbers for total deaths in similar conflicts in recent memory, like Fallujah

This is factually incorrect, and even if it were true it's not exactly a great example for you to rest your case on.

> the IDF is actually doing far better than any other army in protecting civilians

According to who, Israel? Not according to the thousands of women and children they've murdered. Who likely far outnumber the number of militants they've killed.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-17 12:43:29+00:00
> because apparently (?) no one else can make chips like them

No, that's not really why. It is because nobody else has their _ecosystem_; they have a lot of soft lock-in.

This isn’t just an nvidia thing. Why was Intel so dominant for decades? Largely not due to secret magic technology, but due to _ecosystem_. A PPC601 was substantially faster than a pentium, but of little use to you if your whole ecosystem was x86, say. Now nvidia’s ecosystem advantage isn’t as strong as Intel’s was, but it’s not nothing, either.

(Eventually, even Intel itself was unable to deal with this; Itanium failed miserably, largely due not to external competition but due to competition with the x86, though it did have other issues.)

It’s also notable that nvidia’s adventures in markets where someone _else_ has the ecosystem advantage have been less successful. In particular, see their attempts to break into mobile chip land; realistically, it was easier for most OEMs just to use Qualcomm.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-17 12:44:04+00:00
Have you written significant amounts of C or C++?

Most people don't write C, nor use the C compiler, even when writing C. You use C++ and the C++ compiler. For (nearly) all intents and purposes, C++ has subsumed and replaced C. Most of the time when someone says something is "written in C" it actually means it's C++ without the +± features. It's still C++ on the C++ compiler.

Actual uses of actual C are pretty esoteric and rare in the modern era. Everything else is varying degrees of C++.
by ramses0 | 2025-09-17 12:44:13+00:00
...and a tip for `ranger`: `alias r='source ranger'`

See `cat "$( which ranger )"` for what it does, but TLDR lets your shell `cd` (navigate) to the directory where you've navigated to within ranger. (ie: you can use the alias `r` as a lazy man's `cd`).

It has to be done as a shell alias b/c `$PWD` is exclusively a shell concept, can't be modified by a mere program that you're running (thankfully).

Other useful bits are sometimes `F2` for interactive file-rename (eg: backspace `.txt` to `.csv` or whatever), mark/tag support so `'d` goes to `~/Downloads`, `'g` goes to `~/Git`, `'t` for `/tmp`, etc.

Overall if you're decent at vim there's a lot to love, and otherwise the basics pretty much work like you'd expect with keyboard/gui conventions (arrows, f2, etc).
by piltdownman | 2025-09-17 12:44:13+00:00
For the most part yes, with caveats.

Specifically for Ireland, we are the only EU member state where the Constitution ordains a referendum to validate ratification of any amendments that result in a transfer of sovereignty to the European Union; such as the Nice Treaty which we can prevent from passing on an EU level. Ratification of other Treaties without the sovereignty component is decided upon by the states' national parliaments in all other member states.

Ireland, Netherlands, and Luxembourg also have veto powers when it comes to EU wide regulations. That's why Article 116 exists.

In the particular, the Seville Declaration recognised the right of Ireland (and all other member states) to decide in accordance with National Constitutions and laws whether and how to participate in any activities under the European Security and Defence Policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville_Declarations_on_the_Tr...

It's enshrined in German Case Law as 'Identitätsvorbehalt'.

https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/lexika/das-europalexikon/30945...

The Polish constitutional court has also ruled that EU law does not supercede national law. Thus, primacy of EU law is wholly rejected in Poland.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/07/polish-court-rules-some-...
by somenameforme | 2025-09-17 12:44:16+00:00
Those data you referenced are per household, not per person, and the majority of that is loan+insurance. The actual cost in terms of maintenance, fuel, etc is quite low, and that's the price that eventually will be the goal line for autotaxi companies. 20% [net] profit margins do not generally exist in competitive real world industries, outside of perhaps something like real estate. A net profit margin of 5% would be huge, and I think it will likely be much closer to 1%, or even less, simply because in the end it's going to be a commodity where all that matters is price.

I also think you're overestimating the impact of things like ads, buses, etc. The second Waymos become less pleasant than any remotely comparably priced option, they will lose customers.
by philipallstar | 2025-09-17 12:44:47+00:00
> I know the world of technology is a different place now. But I _loved_ the fact that I had a computer in my room as a teenager in the early 2000s.

I think it's slightly less the world of technology, and more survivorship bias (and self bias, if that's a term?) You doing well, and well enough to be on a site like this, isn't evidence of very much when applied to a population. In general I'd say better ways to do things are totally to allow technology, but have it in public areas of the house, rather than in kids' rooms.

> 'parenting' is not simply taking tech away from their children

Indeed; no one is saying that.
by sarchertech | 2025-09-17 12:45:24+00:00
>expecting nothing in return

Let’s ignore that no one contributes to open source expecting nothing in return.

I can help someone out expecting nothing in return. Then if my situation changes and I need help, but they look at me and say “sorry your help was a gift so I’m not going to return the favor even though I can”. That person is a dick.

The problem is you are taking the act of applying a permissive license as some kind of ceremony that severs open source software from all normal human ideas of fairness. You may view it that way. Most people don’t.

It’s perfectly reasonable to put something out in the world for other people to enjoy and use. And yet still think that if someone makes a billion dollars of it and doesn’t return anything they are displaying bad manners.
by westurner | 2025-09-17 12:46:09+00:00
Did tech reduce hiring after Section 174 R&D tax policy changes?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45131866 :

> In 2017 Trump made businesses have to amortize these [R&D] expenses over 5 years instead of deducting them, starting in 2022 (it is common for an administration to write laws that will only have a negative effect after they're gone). This move wrecked the R&D tax credit. Many US businesses stopped claiming R&D tax credits entirely as a result. Others had surprise tax bills.

Then companies bought their own stock instead of investing in labor:

"S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US" (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21762582

People just want the same R&D tax incentives back:

"Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)" (2025 (2439 points)) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-17 12:46:12+00:00
> quite often access based errors are very opaque

Yes they are, and it's hard to design good scopes especially when the project is new.

A better default might just be to have the write permission expire much more quickly than the read permission. E.g. the write token might be valid for an hour and the read token might be valid for 90 days.
by low_tech_love | 2025-09-17 12:46:19+00:00
Try to get your LLM of choice to find its way out of a labyrinth that you describe in text form. It's absolutely awful even with the simplest mazes. I'm not sure the problem here is memory, though? I think it has to do with spatial reasoning. I'd be willing to bet every company right now is working on spatial reasoning (at least up to 3D) and as soon as that is working, a huge amount of pieces will fall into place.
by trhway | 2025-09-17 12:46:26+00:00
>The phrasing is a bit clumsy (e.g. "that's why we say")

You're kidding. "Top UN legal investigator" on genocide is clumsy with genocide definition. And not on some detail. She is "clumsy" on the main thing delineating genocide from the other crimes otherwise similar.

That isn't clumsy. That is absolutely incorrect. It isn't "why ... intent" . The intent in genocide is the "why". She obviously knows it, and thus does it deliberately. There is no other explanation here.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-17 12:46:52+00:00
It isn't. That's just projection from the left who are dismayed that the young generation are not as enthusiastic as they are about the arbitrary, opaque and ever changing social justice causes that they love. "luxury beliefs".

Put another way, the left wing, particularly in the US has a single, holistic philosophy with very little tolerance for anyone who doesn't support every aspect of it and the young generation cannot see how that vision can substantially improve their lives.

You even said it yourself

>traditional values and group identity in opposition to individualist and technocratic norms.

What on earth does that have to do with facism? Not a personal criticism, to be clear, just a general observation.
by zomg | 2025-09-17 12:47:33+00:00
i find it hard to be sympathetic here. they sold their business to unilever, a multinational consumer goods company, for $326m in 2000 ($613m in today's money).

25 years later, jerry thinks the company has lost its independence? the independence was lost before the ink dried on the sales agreement. unilever never cared about their social mission, period. they've been "dealing" with it since the acquisition.

why not take the sale proceeds and pursue other social missions? btw, phish food is my favorite flavor! <3
by Balgair | 2025-09-17 12:47:41+00:00
That's a half week of work without breaks at one resume per minute-ish.

I agree that it is a very important decision, but that's also unreasonable for a manager to set time aside to look through. You've just set the other projects that you're already behind on (that's why you need to hire in the first place) back another half week or so.

It's like a reverse rocket equation here. You need time to make more time, so you take time, but that time needs time, so ...

The cost isn't really borne by the hiring manager though, it's just their budget (that they argued for) that they need to spend down. The decision makers really don't care that much about the numbers, just that they don't go over.
by rs186 | 2025-09-17 12:47:53+00:00
Exactly.

The biggest problem with npm is that it is too popular. Nothing else. Even if you "mitigate" some of the risks by removing features like postinstall, it barely does anything at all -- if you actually use the package in any way, the threat is still there. And most of what we see recently could happen to crates.io, pypi etc as well.

It is almost frustrating to see people who don't understand security talk about security. They think they have the best, smartest ideas. No, they don't, otherwise they would have been done a long time ago. Security is hard, really hard.
by arevno | 2025-09-17 12:48:35+00:00
> the most unergonomic keys mandating moving your hands off their resting place

Touch typists always have to get their dig in.

I've been using vim for 5 years now and still use up/dn/lf/rt - it's easier to find in a tactile manner with the right keyboard and makes MUCH more sense to the brain than hjkl. It's like 80ms travel, worst case.

Even the gaming community got this more correct with wasd, in terms of key positions that make sense to the brain.
by dotancohen | 2025-09-17 12:50:28+00:00
The only reason Arab states are ethnically homogeneous is that they ethnically clean minorities. Ask any Christian Lebanese. Or any Jew that you might happen to find in Lebanon, or Syria, or Iraq, or Yemen, or Tunis. Or the Kurds, or the Yazidi, or the Druze, or even the Alawites.
by tw1984 | 2025-09-17 12:50:54+00:00
Several years ago, whenever some Chinese engineers dared to propose using some Chinese parts, the challenges he/she had to face is always "who is going to be responsible if it is not reliable enough for its quality?"

Nowadays, whenever some Chinese engineers dared to propose using some American parts, the challenges he/she had to face is always "who is going to be responsible if it is not reliable enough for its supply?"
by yabones | 2025-09-17 12:51:21+00:00
SSDs are worth it to me because the restore and rebuild times are so much faster. Larger HDDs can take several days to rebuild a damaged array, and other drives have a higher risk of failure when they're being thrashed by IO and running hot. And if it does have subsequent drives fail during the rebuild, it takes even longer to restore from backup. I'm much happier to just run lots of SSDs in a configuration where they can be quickly and easily replaced.
by AndrewDucker | 2025-09-17 12:51:33+00:00
I don't understand why LinkedIn haven't stepped in to this market more strongly.

They can verify if people are real. They have the information on what experience people have. If I was them then I'd be saying that your LinkedIn profile was your CV, and persuading companies to make LinkedIn be their route to applying for jobs.

(Not a shareholder, don't really use LinkedIn myself, just feels like such an obvious step for them to take.)
by quesera | 2025-09-17 12:51:41+00:00
That's funny, because I also worked at two of those three, and I have a distinctly different memory.

NSCP, SUNW, and CSCO did not in any way define dotcom-1.0. Except maybe in the national press (Fortune, WSJ, etc). They were important parts, but not particularly special on any axis: money, employees, technology, cachet.

NSCP IPO was a defining moment, but the corporation was ultimately nothing in the boom. CSCO and SUNW were not even startups, they just produced higher volumes of their (mostly) existing product lines.

Obviously we're coming from different frames of reference, but I stick to my assertion. SF city was crawling with startups, startup money, and startup employees. So was SV.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-17 12:51:46+00:00
> In most cases they need to be able to issue a commercial invoice in a region compatible with company accounting.

The need for this invoice is because companies cannot justify irrational spending. The have no process for gift-giving. There is almost nothing that will make spending on OSS not irrational, unless you're paying for specific bugfixes or customization work. You can't issue an invoice for nothing. How much would the invoice be for?

edit: that being said, please continue to make up any pretense to get OSS contributors paid if that's working for anyone.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-17 12:52:07+00:00
> External libraries are not for functionality that is used by most modern software.

Where do you draw the line though? It seems like you mostly spend your time writing HTTP servers reading/writing JSON, but is that what everyone else also spends their time doing? You'll end up with a standard library weighing GBs, just because "most developers write HTTP servers", which doesn't sound like a better solution.

I'm willing to stick my head the other way, and say I think the languages today are too large. Instead, they should have a smaller core, and the language designed in a way that you can extend the language via libraries. Basically more languages should be inspired by Lisps and everything should be a library.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-17 12:52:20+00:00
By "a lot of devs" do you mean devs at these companies?

If so I think this is a good point. It's easy to see from any one open source project's perspective how a little help would go a long way. But it's really hard to see from the perspective of a company with a massive code base how you could possibly contribute to the ten gajillion dependencies you use, even if you wanted to.

People will say things like "Why doesn't Foo company contribute when they have the resources?" But from what I've seen, the engineers at Foo would often love to contribute, but no team has the headcount to do it. And acquiring the headcount would require making a case to management that contributing to that open source project is worth the cost of devoting a team to it.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-09-17 12:53:39+00:00
Earning report does not break out profit from Gemini separately, but this is still useful https://abc.xyz/assets/34/fa/ee06f3de4338b99acffc5c229d9f/20...

A long time ago I worked as a contractor at Google, and that experience taught me that they don’t like things that don’t scale or are inefficient.
by hu3 | 2025-09-17 12:54:01+00:00
My non-solution years ago was to use as little dependencies as possible. And vendor node_modules then review every line of code changed when I update dependencies.

Not every project and team can do that. But when feasible, it's a strong mitigation layer.

What worked was splitting dependency diff review among the team so it's less of a burden. We pin exact versions and update judiciously.
by loudmax | 2025-09-17 12:54:25+00:00
If it's running an LLM you're thinking of, there was a post yesterday on r/LocalLLaMa from someone who put a 24 GB VRAM AMD 7900xtx into their GMK X2: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ni5tq3/amd_max...

The GMK X2 doesn't have the Framework motherboard, but it's the same AMD APU, so the characteristics should be similar.

This really ought to be a consumer-grade LLM powerhouse, but the results were underwhelming. Due to the APU design, bandwidth between the APU and the discrete GPU is limited. From the Reddit poster "In this case adding the 7900xtx is effectively like just having another 24GB added to the 128GB."

Running an AMD GPU with the AMD APU should save the headache of dealing with both Nvidia and AMD drivers on the same host. It's possible that an Nvidia GPU might give better performance here, or there might be other optimizations to be made.
by probably_wrong | 2025-09-17 12:55:10+00:00
I believe the concept is that I may not be able to jail you for your criminal activity but I can still jail you for breaking the encryption law.

But more generally I think one has to account for the power of the default option - with so many criminals posting their crimes on social media and/or their Venmo descriptions, the likelihood of criminals abandoning (say) WhatsApp and coding their own is rather slim.
by Bjartr | 2025-09-17 12:55:29+00:00
> like we all do

Do we though? Sure, we communicate sequentially, but that doesn't mean that our internal effort is piecewise and linear. A modern transformer LLM however is. Each token is sampled from a population exclusively dependent on the tokens that came before it.

Mechanistically speaking, it works similarly to autocomplete, but at a very different scale.

Now how much of an unavoidable handicap this incurs, if any, is absolutely up for debate.

But yes, taking this mechanistic truth and only considering it in a shallow manner underestimates the capability of LLMs by a large degree.
by simonw | 2025-09-17 12:55:51+00:00
sandbox-exec is so frustrating. It could be a genuinely excellent solution to a whole bunch of sandboxing problems, except...

1. Documentation is virtually nonexistent. I think that is inexcusable for a security tool!

2. The man page says that it's deprecated, and has done for around a decade. No news on when they will actually remove it, maybe they never will? Hard to recommend it with that axe hanging over it though.
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-17 12:56:44+00:00
When there are grocery stores within easy walking distance, people tend to grab the next few days’ worth of groceries. When everything is inconveniently far apart, people drive forever away to get giant stocks of things from Costco to haul back to their house.

If people aren’t spending $12k a year[1] to own a car, paying $50-150 to have a large piece of furniture delivered isn’t a big deal.

When there is well maintained, pedestrian friendly infrastructure, instead of a tiny uneven sidewalk inches away from 45 mph traffic, pushing your baby stroller home is not an issue.

[1] https://www.bts.gov/content/average-cost-owning-and-operatin...
by oguz-ismail | 2025-09-17 12:56:57+00:00
$ ./murex-linux-arm64 Loading profile `.murex_preload` SIGSYS: bad system call PC=0x18fd0 m=8 sigcode=1 goroutine 498 gp=0x4000283340 m=8 mp=0x4000100808 [syscall]: syscall.Syscall6(0x1b7, 0xffffffffffffff9c, 0x40000227e0, 0x1, 0x200, 0x0, 0x0) /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.24.6/x64/src/syscall/syscall_linux.go:95 +0x2c fp=0x40001119c0 sp=0x4000111960 pc=0xa067c syscall.faccessat2(0xffffffffffffff9c, {0x4000359fb0?, 0x4000022780?}, 0x1, 0x200) /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.24.6/x64/src/syscall/zsyscall_linux_arm64.go:33 +0x84 fp=0x4000111a20 sp=0x40001119c0 pc=0x9df74 syscall.Faccessat(0xffffffffffffff9c, {0x4000359fb0, 0x27}, 0x1, 0x200) /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.24.6/x64/src/syscall/syscall_linux.go:171 +0x3c fp=0x4000111b00 sp=0x4000111a20 pc=0x9c9ec internal/syscall/unix.Eaccess(...) ...

I'm tired boss
by jjcob | 2025-09-17 12:57:05+00:00
I tried running the file segments through a binary diff with Hex Fiend

As far as I can tell:

- 0x7800 bytes were replaced at file offset 0x00aa0000

- 0x2200 bytes were replaced at file offset 0x00aa8000

I can't tell if the replacement data came from a different part of the file, or somewhere totally different. Race condition somewhere sounds plausible.
by 11mariom | 2025-09-17 12:57:18+00:00
Same feeling… but. For me fastest and easiest way to manage files are coreutils (sometimes with help of rsync/zmv/zcp). And that way I always have exactly same toolset no mather where I am logged in (local pc, server, router, etc).

I'm using GUI File Manager only for multimedia (photos, movies, pdf files).
by FooBarWidget | 2025-09-17 12:57:32+00:00
What gave you the impression that it's "without too much sweat"? They sweated insanely for the past 6 years.

They also weren't starting from scratch, they already had a domestic semiconductor ecosystem, but it was fragmented and not motivated. The US sanctions united them and gave them motivation.

Also "good" is a matter of perspective. For logic and AI chips they are not Nvidia level, yet. But they've achieved far more than what western commentators gave them credit for 4-5 years ago. And they're just getting started. Even after 6 years, what you're seeing is just the initial results of all that investment. From their perspective, not having Nvidia chips and ASML equipment and TSMC manufacturing is still painful. They're just not paralyzed, and use all that pain to keep developing.

With power chips they're competitive, maybe even ahead. They're very strong at GaN chip design and manufacturing.

Western observers keep getting surprised by China's results because they buy into stereotypes and simple stories too much ("China can't innovate and can only steal", "authoritarianism kills innovation","China is collapsing anyway", "everything is fake, they rely on smuggled chips lol" are just few popular tropes) instead of watching what China is actually doing. Anybody even casually paying attention to news and rumors from China instead of self-congratulating western reports about China could have seen this day coming. This attitude and the phenomenon of keep getting surprised is not limited to semiconductors.