MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bitwize | 2025-09-22 19:47:12+00:00
Oh, and if the author thought that modding Half-Life by changing a couple images around was creative freedom, his mind will be blown by 80s home computers, which booted directly into BASIC. Growing up, I learned that a computer is to be programmed as a pencil is to be written with, from machines whose first act upon power-on was to cry out to be programmed. Since 32-bit Windows, computers haven't even shipped with BASIC in a meaningful sense. Computing, for most people, boiled down to "using applications"—word processor, spreadsheet, browser. We've only just dumbed these down even more, including shortening the term to "apps".
by xmprt | 2025-09-22 19:47:58+00:00
> Valve isn't in the business of preventing you from playing your games on niche operating systems

Getting your Steam library to work on Linux before it got Valve's blessing with Proton wasn't a great experience. If they wanted to, they could have easily decided to block games from running on Linux and gave some statement about preventing piracy and protecting users from malware.

I'm optimistic that this investment means we'll see more open standards and large browser makers being forced to collaborate and create simpler standards without compromising security.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-22 19:48:04+00:00
> Conclusions

> This study shows that playing an open-world game, such as The The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and nostalgia evoked by Studio Ghibli films significantly foster a sense of exploration and calm in life, as well as a feeling of mastery and skill, and purpose and meaning, hence ultimately contributing positively to one’s overall happiness in life.

(Though if you seek happiness, you might want to avoid Studio Ghibli's Grave of the Fireflys. An awesome film, but ...)
by bluecalm | 2025-09-22 19:48:17+00:00
I lived in country A - normal apartment, I went to a really shitty school, got bullied there, didn't finish university. I had to pay out of pocket for healthcare as public option sucks and didn't want to help me. I made my money selling my software to people abroad. How is it in any way fair that I pay all my taxes in country A instead of to all the countries that really made it possible for me to earn money?

>>Thus it doesn't matter whether you make your money at home or abroad -- it counts toward the taxes you're morally obligated to pay for where you reside and/or are a citizen of.

What about all other countries that were stable and nice enough and allowed me to make money? Why should I be "morally obliged" to pay taxes in a country I didn't choose, that was shitty to me and didn't help me much if at all? I used very little resources there (now I finally moved). It would feel even more unfair if they followed me abroad and required even more taxes.

>>There are many other forms you could imagine.

Yeah, like paying proportionally (or progressively) for resources you use in a country or for business you do in that country. It seems really unfair that my country gets all my taxes for providing very little to me while all other countries that gave me business opportunities got close to nothing (some VAT in EU countries but that's it).
by sarlalian | 2025-09-22 19:48:45+00:00
They are on the record about why they switched to a chromium based browser. It’s been a while, but if I’m remembering correctly, at the time Google was making changes to YouTube to make it actively slower, and use more power on IE. Microsoft realized that while they could compete as a browser, they couldn’t compete and fight google trying to do underhanded things to sabotage their browser.
by nilkn | 2025-09-22 19:48:49+00:00
It's 100% plausible and believable that there's going to be a spectacular bubble popping, but saying we are way past peak LLM would be like saying we were way past peak internet in 1999-2001 -- in reality, we weren't even remotely close to peak internet (and possibly still aren't). In fact, we were so far from the peak in 2001 that entire technological revolutions occurred many years later (e.g., smartphones) that just accelerated the pace even further in ways that would've been hard to imagine at the time. It's also important to note that AI is more than text-based LLMs -- self-driving cars and other forms of physical "embodied" AI are progressing at exponential pace, while entirely new compute form factors are only just now starting to emerge yet are almost certainly guaranteed to become pervasive as soon as possible (e.g., real AR glasses). Meanwhile, even plain-old text-based LLMs have not actually stagnated.
by robocat | 2025-09-22 19:49:01+00:00
> modern death of democracy

The primary key to democracy is that it allows voters to vote out unpopular autocratic politicians. Politicians don't want to give up power, but must be forced to (as seen in previous US election).

The usual narritive about democracy is that voters get to vote for policies they want: however I haven't seen that occur in my personal experience in New Zealand. However parties can lose an election for unwanted policy or because their leaders are not desired.
by seanhunter | 2025-09-22 19:49:24+00:00
Differentiability isn’t a requirement for homomorphism I don’t think.

Homomorphism just means say I have a bijective function [1] f: A -> B and a binary operator * in A and *’ in B, f is homomorphic if f(a1*a2) = f(a1)*’f(a2). Loosely speaking it “preserves structure”.

So if f is my encryption then I can do *’ outside the encryption and I know because f is homomorphic that the result is identical to doing * inside the encryption. So you need your encryption to be an isomorphism [2]and you need to have ”outside the encryption “ variants of any operation you want to do inside the encryption. That is a different requirement to differentiability.

1: bijective means it’s a one to one correspondence

2: a bijection that has the homomorphism property is called an isomorphism because it makes set A equivalent to set B in our example.
by badc0ffee | 2025-09-22 19:49:40+00:00
> Put another way, from 1977 to 1979 (when the Atari 8-bit appeared), the Apple II was the world's best video game machine.

I suppose if you restrict this to personal computers with keyboards, that's true. But the Atari VCS (2600) came out in 1977 and had better sound, and in some ways better graphics, than the Apple II.
by rdmuser | 2025-09-22 19:50:00+00:00
Oh totally I wasn't suggesting that as a direct replacement but more an alternate approach and that privacy factor is important to consider. Apologies if that wasn't clear. Personally I don't check that often so the occasional connection on click isn't serious vs the complexities of adding another extension even if it's a neat one.

I think you may be overlooking some nuance related to that extension vs my solution though. Extensions like that check every page you visit whereas my approach only checks on click so there is a much greater need for privacy solutions with extensions like that since they would normally be sending out your entire browser history in real time to the api.

Jstriebs solution seems pretty neat though and it's definitely something I'll keep in mind for similar use cases even if I skip using it to minimize my extension usage. I was happy to hear about it and read how it worked.
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-22 19:50:07+00:00
I will grant you that intelligence is very difficult to quantify in absolute terms and is very context dependent. If it was easy I would give you a mathematical proof instead of hand waving hypotheticals. IQ is not a great measure of it either and you also have to account for intelligence as in the ability to learn new things, create new concepts, recognize patterns, connect the dots, and having the wisdom when to do and not do certain things. In the context of this conversation we were talking about a society’s ability to innovate. I postulated that innovation in a society is not bounded by the median intelligence (or perhaps more accurately ability to innovate) of its members but by the intelligence/ability to innovate of its top members as ranked by intelligence/ability to innovate. I have not seen anything so far that disputes this hypothesis. A corollary to this hypothesis is that the median for a society can be, in theory, dumb as an ant and that society can still produce innovation at an impressive rate. Think of it as min-maxing your D&D party if that helps.

Ants do not feel so it doesn’t matter what the smartest ants feel. A CPU is infinitely more complex than an ant hill in its function, and is equally as predicable. Ants do not innovate any more than a laser etched chunk of silicon. They are a bad analogy to a conversation about innovation.

But I am also explicitly saying that there are ways a society can hamper its ability to innovate. One such way is to not create the organizational structure to set up its most able innovators for success. Another is to try to systematically eliminate them. A third is to separate them so that you do not get the synergistic effects of multiple experts in different fields being able to cooperate. All of these can happen in a society with a low median ability to innovate as well as a high ability to innovate.

The only truly unique thing you get in a society with low literacy in terms of innovation is that someone of very high intelligence as defined not by education but by ability to learn, would not be able to find the education they need to proceed. Before Fermat was a genius of his age he had to learn from some perfectly average people +/- one deviation. If there are no average teachers then your geniuses cannot be recognized as such. You see this same phenomenon in sports. Countries that do not have kids playing soccer for fun produce fewer world class soccer player per capita because there are fewer opportunities for the most talented players to get the experience and recognition. But even so, you can get exceptions. In basketball you still get Yoa Ming out a country that does not emphasize basketball in the same way the US does.
by testing22321 | 2025-09-22 19:50:08+00:00
It doesn’t need to be dramatic or announced or even a major policy. Every country is finding out that dealing with Trump’s US is an expensive pain in the ass of unknowns, constant flux and mafia-like pay to play bribes.

Many countries will just deal with other countries because it’s cheaper, easier and less of a headache.

Tourism from foreigners in the US has taken a severe and extremely expensive nose dive. Everything else will too.
by triceratops | 2025-09-22 19:50:54+00:00
> The only winner here is the state, which wastes the money on useless projects and subsidies.

They should use that to reduce other taxes instead. Especially income taxes.

> If you tax people so hard that they lose the drive to work and create

That a bigger problem for income taxes. If the top marginal rate is over 40% people will prefer chilling out instead of working hard for the next promotion.

> more than half of the 400 wealthiest people in Norway have already left the country

Did they take their money too? And their factories and land and patents and other assets? Does it matter that they're not physically present in the country?

> There’s no risk capital left for startups

Was Norway previously known for having a lot of capital for startups? I thought Europe was generally bad for startup funding.

> hiring of junior software developers has basically stopped

You've described the entire world in 2025.
by latexr | 2025-09-22 19:51:15+00:00
I think you might’ve missed this part from the post:

> AI-generated slop his non-technical boss is generating

It’s his boss. The type of boss who happily generates AI slop is likely to be the type of person who wants things done their way. The employee doesn’t have the power to block the merge if the boss wants it, thus the conversation on why it shouldn’t be merged needs to be considerably longer (or they need to quit).
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-22 19:51:27+00:00
Cloudflare is 100% acting in bad faith.

They're a gatekeeper to a large chunk of Internet already. If they decide that your IP range stinks? Hope you enjoy your ration of 22 captcha pages a day!

Now, they're making some very transparent moves to leverage what they have to get even more control. And once they get even more control? It's not an "if" they start choking you with it to get more revenue. It's a "when".

People used to say "I wish more companies were like Google". They don't say that anymore.
by onirom | 2025-09-22 19:51:47+00:00
doesn't need to be accurate, could do something like this (distance + treshold) :

https://susam.net/fxyt.html#XN128dXN128dpYN128dYN128dpsN4096...

smaller with dup :

https://susam.net/fxyt.html#XN128dDpYN128dDpsN4096lN255pC

circles pattern : https://susam.net/fxyt.html#XDpYDpsN8qN3riN255pC

PS: fun tool !
by hspak | 2025-09-22 19:51:53+00:00
My Thinkpad X1 Carbon (gen 5) running linux can suspend for weeks without dying. There was definitely a window where battery life under suspending wasn't a huge problem in Linux, not sure what happened.

I also have a Framework 13 (11th gen intel) which has terrible suspend battery life (also loses 2-3%/hour like the newer AMD version)– I was hoping that the AMD chips would fare better, but it seems not.
by elbasti | 2025-09-22 19:52:39+00:00
I work in the datacenter space. The power consumption of a data center is the "canonical" way to describe their size.

Almost every component in a datacenter is upgradeable—in fact, the compute itself only has a lifespan of ~5 years—but the power requirements are basically locked-in. A 200MW data center will always be a 200MW data center, even though the flops it computes will increase.

The fact that we use this unit really nails the fact that AI is basically refining energy.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-09-22 19:53:12+00:00
This paper uses a very heavily modified version of an encoder-only BERT model. Forward pass on a single 4090 is cited there at 13 seconds after switching softmax out for a different kernel (21 seconds with softmax). They are missing a non-FHE baseline, but that model has only about 35 million parameters when you look at its size. At FP16, you would expect this to be about 100x faster than a normal BERT because it's so damn small. On a 4090, that model's forward pass probably runs at something like 100k-1M tokens per second given some batching. It sounds like 6 orders of magnitude is still about right.
by fragmede | 2025-09-22 19:53:33+00:00
What's been a learning experience for me is seeing Reddit, HN, Facebook, discords, private slacks, and the mainstream media discuss some thing I went through, and the different faces they all have about it. Reddit was just a barrel of negativity about it. So was half of TikTok. Facebook however was mostly full of positivity and happiness, but obviously my Facebook feed is curated to be my Facebook friends. Maybe it's something about the "anyone can join" aspect that both enhances but also destroys the community?
by lordofgibbons | 2025-09-22 19:53:37+00:00
Maybe a stupid question but: given the massive vulnerability surface area that a browser presents, why would one choose to build it in C++ instead of something memory and concurrency safe like Rust?

I know Rust doesn't automatically make the software safe, but it does rule out a very large % of the exploitable vulnerabilities allowed by unsafe languages like C and C++.
by bluecalm | 2025-09-22 19:53:45+00:00
>>Because physical presence incurs costs to taxpayer funded infrastructure? Why should I be able to dodge taxes by working remotely abroad? Are you saying independently wealthy people should be able to roam around and freeload without paying tax to their resident nation?

Yeah so tax their presence: land, resources usage, consumption. If you insist on taxing their whole world wide revenue don't be surprised when someone living across multiple countries choose one that isn't yours and then you get 0 taxes.

I live across 4-5 countries spending a few months here and there. Fair system would tax me for my presence/consumption/resource usage accordingly. That tax might be progressive (bigger house taxed at higher rate, luxury consumption taxes at higher rate etc.) but shouldn't belong to one country if you care about fairness.
by oblio | 2025-09-22 19:53:49+00:00
Stuff like HCL and Ansible YAML makes me want to require mandatory training in Ant contrib tasks for developers creating them:

https://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/if.html

<if> <equals arg1="${foo}" arg2="bar" /> <then> <echo message="The value of property foo is 'bar'" /> </then> <elseif> <equals arg1="${foo}" arg2="foo" /> <then> <echo message="The value of property foo is 'foo'" /> </then> </elseif> <else> <echo message="The value of property foo is not 'foo' or 'bar'" /> </else>

</if>

https://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/for.html

<for param="file"> <path> <fileset dir="${test.dir}/mains" includes="*.cpp"/> </path> <sequential> <propertyregex override="yes" property="program" input="@{file}" regexp=".*/([^\.]\*)\.cpp" replace="\1"/> <mkdir dir="${obj.dir}/${program}"/> <mkdir dir="${build.bin.dir}"/> <cc link="executable" objdir="${obj.dir}/${program}" outfile="${build.bin.dir}/${program}"> <compiler refid="compiler.options"/> <fileset file="@{file}"/> <linker refid="linker-libs"/> </cc> </sequential> </for>

Yes, programming with them was as fun as you're imagining.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-22 19:54:12+00:00
> It seems really unfair that my country gets all my taxes for providing very little to me

Do you not get police and fire protection? Health care? Rule of law? Urban and rural infrastructure? National defense? Some level of education? Courts that enforce property protection? And so forth?

We often don't see all the benefits our government provides because we take it for granted. But if you ever go visit somewhere where you need to hire bodyguards so that you're not kidnapped while driving, security forces around your compound to prevent it from being looted, and pay constant protection money to the local crime boss so he specifically doesn't kill you and take your stuff... you might realize your taxes pay for a whole lot more than you think.

Obviously every country can do more. But in a democracy that's why we try to vote in candidates who will improve things. And you can always try to move to a better country, if they'll let you. But that's up to them.

(If you live in a dictatorship, then obviously you have more reason to be able to complain since you don't have any legal ability to work for change from within the system.)
by NeutralCrane | 2025-09-22 19:55:16+00:00
You didn’t miss it, because there was no methodology to speak of. Colin Woodard isn’t a sociologist or historian, he is a reporter for the Maine Sunday Telegram who wrote a book premised on the idea that the arc of 300-400 years of culture and history of the various regions of the US are cleanly defined entirely by the initial groups that settled them. Every region has a stupid, manufactured brand (it’s not the West Coast and New England, it’s the “Left Coast” and “Yankeedom”). What little data that is referenced is cherry picked to support the narratives. It’s also hilariously patronizing (spoiler: The reporter from Maine concludes that New England and the West Coast are the epitome of all that is clean and good, and everyone else are barbarians and unwashed rubes).

It is closer to a Buzzfeed quiz explaining how your astrological sign dictates your Hogwarts House than anything remotely resembling academic rigor.
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-22 19:55:19+00:00
I've spent 16 years and I won't exactly be cheering if we hit a wall with AI.

I love programming, but I also love building things. When I imagine what having an army of mid-level engineers that genuinely only need high level instruction to reliably complete tasks, and don't require raising hundreds of millions while become beholden to some 3rd party, would let me build... I get very excited.
by Animats | 2025-09-22 19:55:35+00:00
> To me, an European, what's troubling about US is the amount of power the presidential office has. It's reaching disturbing levels under this administration.

It has. No US president ever went this far before. Past US presidents have made remarks such as "If I'd tried to do that, I would have been impeached".

Congress has more power than the President but the current members of congress are not inclined to use it against Trump. Or at all.
by pharos92 | 2025-09-22 19:55:41+00:00
I had communist leaning political sentiment in my youth, and traveled to Cuba in my early 20's.

You could tell the country (and Havana in particular) had once been stunning. I was horrified by what I saw; just how broken the infrastructure was, how poor and destitute the people were. The quality of food was poor, the country dirty, access to basic energy needs unmet. The cost of basic services high (i.e. $100 USD cab ride from airport to Havana).

I spent a lot of time getting to know locals and understanding what life looked like. Ration books for food, suppression of speech and behavior/associations. At the time, I was a mad keen surfer and met a few locals who showed me their hand-made boards, sourced from scrap and supplies stolen from their jobs. The state at the time viewed it as a non-sanctioned activity, and so no resources were approved for it.

That experience for me was certainly the straw that broke the camels back in terms of sympathy for communist-leaning ideologies. I hope the Cuban people break free of state tyranny.
by tarkaTheRotter | 2025-09-22 19:55:56+00:00
Hey. I'm currently making Typeflows to solve this (amongst) another few pain points, and am planning to make it available in JVM (this exists now)/TS and Python at least.

There are existing solutions around, but do miss out a bunch of things that are blatantly missing in the space:

- workflow visualisations (this is already working - you can see an example of workflow relationship and breakdowns on a non-trivial example at https://github.com/http4k/http4k/tree/master/.github/typeflo...);

- running workflows through an event simulator so you can tell cause and effect when it comes to what triggers what. Testing workflows anyone? :)

- security testing on workflows - to avoid the many footguns that there are in GHA around secrets etc;

- compliance tests around permitted Action versions;

- publishing of reusable repository files as binary dependencies that can be upgraded and compiled into your projects - including not just GHA actions and workflows but also things like version files, composable Copilot/Claude/Cursor instruction files;

- GitLab, CircleCI, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps support using the same approach and in multiple languages;

Early days yet, but am planning to make it free for OSS and paid for commercial users. I'm also dogfooding it on one of my other open source projects so to make sure that it can handle non-trivial cases. Lots to do - and hopefully it will be valuable enough for commercial companies to pay for!

Wish me luck!

https://typeflows.io/