MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hagbard_c | 2025-09-30 18:38:41+00:00
Wikipedia needs some 'right wing' to offset the heavy 'left-wing' bias on nearly every article which has some political tangent, no matter how distant. It was supposed to be an encyclopedia, not an activist manual or propaganda organ but in many ways it has turned into the latter. You may - for some unfathomable reason - agree with the lefties who rule the roost among the editors so you may not realise just how much resistance the site has against publishing things which go against whatever desired narrative there happens to be but that does not make it right. Just like Michael Jordan realised 'Republicans buy sneakers too' it is time for Jimmy Wales (et al) to realise conservatives use encyclopedias too or it will end up not being known as an encyclopedia but as a political platform. There's plenty of those already and it would be a damn shame if Wikipedia remained stuck in that mire. Come on, Wales, wake up and smell the coffee (or tea or whatever you prefer) and realise the 'progressive' grip on the media is weakening. The site should be neither 'left' nor 'right' but 'factual' as facts neither care about your feelings nor about your ideology.
by derbOac | 2025-09-30 18:39:22+00:00
Yeah, I think usually the recommended time is an underestimate for me, but it depends strongly on the brand and type of pasta. I usually treat the recommended time as a ballpark of when to think about monitoring it closely if I'm busy prepping other things. Usually the first time I cook a given type of a given brand I'll watch it more closely and then try to remember what seemed best.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-30 18:39:47+00:00
I don't think Windows 11 is as responsive as I wish it was. I don't have any complaints about my M4 Mini yet but if I used it to do tasks I didn't want to do that was late (psychology matters on how annoying unresponsiveness is) or had as much installed on it as I have on the Windows (e.g. things like Adobe Creative Cloud or the backup manager on my machine at work make full startup take 10+ minutes) or installed iOS 26 I might feel differently about it.

I thought mobile OS were a big advance in responsiveness circa 2012: today my feelings are mixed. Low end Android phones are so bad it's easy to say "why do people get so excited about apps when it takes five minutes to load one?", my iPhone is clearly fine tuned to deliver notifications instantly, but my iPad sometimes has that out-to-lunch daydreamy feeling that Windows gives.
by mccoyb | 2025-09-30 18:39:59+00:00
I think this is a strictly worse name than "agentic harness", which is already a term used by open-source agentic IDEs (https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenai%2Fcodex%20harness&... or https://github.com/openai/codex/discussions/1174)

Any reason why you want to rename it?

Edit: to say more about my opinions, "agentic loop" could mean a few things -- it could mean the thing you say, or it could mean calling multiple individual agents in a loop ... whereas "agentic harness" evokes a sort of interface between the LLM and the digital outside world which mediates how the LLM embodies itself in that world. That latter thing is exactly what you're describing, as far as I can tell.
by pydry | 2025-09-30 18:40:37+00:00
>Has your company actually done this?

Ive worked for plenty of companies that pretended that they cared about the human resources and not one that has ever been upfront about the fact that they will lay you off for a bump in the stock price without blinking.

>Similar problem happens with take-homes: About 90% of the take-home interview problems people shared in the #interviewing channel were entirely reasonable, short, and clearly not real work. Yet many had picked up this idea that take-home problems were unfair because they were “a week of unpaid labor”

It's largely been my experience that a lot of companies think an 8 hour take home is actually 2.

They tend to be badly constructed and full of ambiguities that require you to read the mind of the test setter.

Of course the people who set them dont know this and they never test their tests. My experience on the other side of the hiring desk is that rank amateur shit is the norm.

The "unpaid labor" thing happened to me once, I think. It was a company that wanted somebody to build an X. Take home was "build an X". Not common, doesnt happen to juniors, but it happens.

Corporate America could clean up its act or Gen Z could force itself to grin and bear it with a smile it like you seem to want. I wont hold my breath for either to happen.
by rtkwe | 2025-09-30 18:41:20+00:00
It would do it but you had to explicitly type a double dash -- iirc without spaces between the preceding and following word for Word to create an em-dash instead of an en-dash; ie this--is an em dash and this -- is and en dash. (at least in my work's version of Word, which should be pretty default, I haven't touched it at least).

Also LLMs use them a lot more than most people so randomly seeing them pop up in tweets and forum posts was taken as a pretty clear sign the text wasn't legitimate. It's also weirdly deeply embedded in the models and you cannot simply prompt it out of existence. [0] A lot of it is about context too. If I see it on a blog post it feels less out of place than on Reddit or bluesky.

[0] https://medium.com/@brentcsutoras/the-em-dash-dilemma-how-a-...
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-30 18:41:20+00:00
>But the treadmill, used properly, is still significantly better than an extra 30 minutes sitting on the sofa,

That's right. Most of the criticism directed at Duolingo seems to be about unrealistic expectations of engaging with an app for 10 minutes a day. That is not going to get you to fluency, but it does beat doom scrolling on your phone.

Before I committed to study Japanese seriously I did about a year of Duolingo. I learned about a thousand words, maybe 100 kanji, I could follow parts of conversations and read easy sentences, and that is exactly what I expected from the effort I put in. In fact I was happy with what I got out of it. What it excels at isn't teaching you a language fast, it's that it keeps you going and has course material laid out for you.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-30 18:41:30+00:00
I keep away from GUI package managers as much as I can. I can tell somebody to

$ sudo apt-get install X

and they can cut and paste and it's done. To do the same with a GUI package manager I'd have to spell out 10 or so steps. I've had enough times where the spinner started spinning and never stopped spinning and the lock file never got unlocked or the package database got corrupted that I won't even try using one.
by pico303 | 2025-09-30 18:41:52+00:00
My “fancy” Windows work laptop has 45 minutes of battery life, while my M3 MacBook Pro will go 14 hours compiling C++ or running JavaScript and Docker images, and do so twice as fast as my work laptop could. I’d say you get what you pay for, but my work laptop was around the same price as my M3.

I wouldn’t be opposed to going back to Linux. But once you stop looking for power sockets all the time and start treating your laptop like a device you can just use all day at any moment, it’s hard to go back.
by allisdust | 2025-09-30 18:42:00+00:00
If the idiots at AMZN have any brains left, they would acquire this and make it the center of their inference offerings. But considering how lackluster their performance and strategy as a company has been off late, I doubt that.

Disappointed quite a bit with this fund raise. They were expected to IPO this year and give us poor retail investors a chance at investing in them.
by lostlogin | 2025-09-30 18:42:12+00:00
This aspect matters and there is little comment here on this (other threads on Kagi have raised it).

Kagi’s ‘neutral’ stance on politics, their association with Yandex/the Russian state mean this will be interesting to watch.

It’s by far the best search I’ve ever used.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_ka...
by fsckboy | 2025-09-30 18:42:13+00:00
i had similar objections to yours but i would phrase the corrections differently.

>The point of a financial market is

no, the point of a financial market is to be a place where people who need money for lucrative projects can get it, and a place where people who have money can invest it, decoupling those transactions from the term of the investments and the irregularities of the different economic opportunities. To put it in simpler terms, think of the market of a town in medieval england, a financial market would allow you to know nothing in particular about farming but invest profitably in the farming activities of the town, getting what portion you want of your money back whenever you want it.

>to allocate capital to its most productive uses

is in the nature of a market that has the features markets need to function efficiently.

The point of a financial market is capital allocation, and people will partake even if the market is inefficient. Consider illegal/black markets, they are often cited as truly free markets where you can invest large sums of cash or buy anything for a price, and even though the prices are high, there are customers. Those markets can be made more efficient, but the fact they exist shows the power of markets without efficiency.

>>And an efficient market would allocate a lot of capital to her

>Then that would give a single individual more control over the market than is healthy

one of the features a market needs for efficiency (think of efficiency as "goods at a fair price") is that no participant alone can affect the prices; for that to be true there needs to be competition, and without it you get "market failure", a market where participants receive no benefit from participating. (markets should operate at a point where sellers are saying "that price offer is too low" and buyers are saying "that price offer is too high", but all the "great deal, I'll take it" transactions that already took place to get it to that point are were the happiness is created from thin air.) as new information emerges, prices can shift up and down to maintain that "take it or leave it" equilibrium.

no system is perfect, not democracy, not the courts, etc., but regulations and people mostly acting sensibly even in self interest makes markets the best method we have of allocating happiness most effectively.

being cynical about market capitalism is understandable, but it doesn't get you anywhere, other systems demand even more cynicism.
by gundmc | 2025-09-30 18:42:24+00:00
It's not novel research, but I think it drives home the point that many narrow applications of AI do not require the largest, latest (and most expensive) models. And in many of those cases, a small fine-tuned model is the most performant and cost-effective.

It is probably obvious to most who follow the space closely, but you'd be surprised how many engineers don't recognize this.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-09-30 18:42:35+00:00
In all honesty, I don't think cpu has ever been a huge limitation for me outside of gaming. The biggest bottlenecks for me have always been disk speed and memory. My soon-to-be decade old xps 13 gets on well enough, except it only has 8gb of soldered on ram. That absolutely is a bottle neck for me.
by thayne | 2025-09-30 18:42:56+00:00
> A PR was made that contained something that was more feature-like than bugfix-like, and that resulted in a whole module being ejected from the kernel?

From what I can tell, what happened is that was just a trigger for a clash of personalities between Linus and Kent, both of whom have a bit of a temper, and refused to back down, which escalated to this.
by alberth | 2025-09-30 18:43:04+00:00
Looks like an improvement over the M4 iPad of:

Single Core: ~12% (3679 vs 4133) Multi Core: ~15% (13420 vs 15437)

Which is in alignment historically with improvements from a new node improvement.

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/ipad-pro-13-inch-m...
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-30 18:43:04+00:00
> This is how employees of your business on vacation in the UK end up in jail.

I mean its not. Because this is data protection laws, the company is liable, not its employees. (https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...)

Even in cases where a company causes death, or destruction and the company is found liable, employees are not allowed to be used as standins, employees need to be convicted as well. a conviction isn't fungible, that kinda the point of common law.
by p_l | 2025-09-30 18:43:10+00:00
Sun leadership wanted to license OpenSolaris under GPLv3. However, GPLv3 work was dragging on at FSF and the license was not released in time. Moreover, there was opposition from Solaris dev team due to belief that GPLv3 will lock out reuse of OpenSolaris code (especially DTrace and ZFS) in Free/Net/OpenBSD.

CDDL was a compromise choice that was seen as workable for inclusion based especially on certain older views on what code will be compatible or not, and it was unclear and possibly expected that Linux kernel will move to GPLv3 (when it finally releases) which was seen as compatible with CDDL by CDDL drafters.

Alas, Solaris source release could not wait unclear amount of time for GPLv3 to be finalized
by dekhn | 2025-09-30 18:43:20+00:00
an enormous amount of software was developed on the PDP-10 and PDP-11 and later VAX systems that could not have been done on microcomputers in the day. You can't just compare raw RAM and clock rates, the PDPs were set up for multi-user productivity on complex problems and had a wide range of system software to enable building and deploying advanced software.
by silverquiet | 2025-09-30 18:43:29+00:00
I read "Airframe" by Michael Crichton probably twenty years ago, and it was around ten years old at that time. I remember that that book talked about how the planes were unstable by design and required software to maintain proper flight characteristics, and that this was so because it was more efficient. The book is fiction, but I doubt it was far off the mark at the time. I suspect that there is no going back from this state of things, and so if there must be software, it should be good software.
by ssivark | 2025-09-30 18:43:41+00:00
Think for a second about what that means... this is a very easy thing to do IFF we already had a general purpose intelligence.

How do you make an LLM understand that it must only give factual sources? Just some naive RL with positive reward on the correct sources and negative reward on incorrect sources is not enough -- there are obscenely many more hallucinated sources possible, and the set of correct sources is a set of insanely tiny measure.
by jokethrowaway | 2025-09-30 18:44:08+00:00
the subject of this news likely doesn't generalise to random documents

You need some serious resources to do this properly, think about granite docling model by IBM.

For LLM: Finetuning makes sense for light style adjustments with large models (eg. customize a chat assistant to sound a certain way) or to teach some simple transformations (eg. a new output format). You get away with 100-1000 samples.

If you want to teach new behaviour you need a lot of data, likely too much to justify the investment for your average chatgpt wrapper AI company. The pragmatic choice is often to just prompt engineer and maybe split your task and combine multiple prompts
by m3047 | 2025-09-30 18:44:10+00:00
I have a steep pitch (1:1) roof, and I'm building ladders so I can get on top of it for cleaning, etc. I actually did this a decade ago out of wood, but it apparently hadn't been inspected / seasoned / treated correctly (by the people who produced the lumber) and after a couple of years the thing started growing mushrooms so I had to tear it all out. Just re-roofed a month ago. Building it this time out of mild steel. Cutting, drilling, bending, welding... oh my! Plus there's the risky business of assembling it in place on aforesaid slope.

If I don't have a consulting gig where risk is taken seriously, I can always work on my house or my motorcycles. :-p
by mamonster | 2025-09-30 18:44:38+00:00
>Somewhere out there is a person who’s spent years running a 4 Sharpe ratio at her $5 million friends-and-family hedge fund, or her Robinhood personal account, but she never gets a job at a big hedge fund.

Weird numbers to pick here. I know like 10 guys off my personal contact list who can do 4 Sharpe at 5 million easy. The "game" in hedge funds isn't 4 Sharpe at 5mio AUM, its 1.5-2 Sharpe at 1b AUM or 1 Sharpe at 10b AUM, both of which are infinitely harder than 4 Sharpe at 5mio AUM. You can do 4 Sharpe at 5mio AUM after 6 years at a BB in anything that's not equities or delta 1.
by techblueberry | 2025-09-30 18:44:39+00:00
Maybe? But Americans by and large don’t like being told what to do. I think part of the movement against like rural broadband and to control social media is to try and control the narrative for the people outside of citied that they think can, sort of exactly what you’re talking about.

But again, Americans are pretty rebellious by nature. Look at the increase in anti-vax sentiment, we like to disagree with institutions, I don’t know that controlling institutions, even religion makes them appealing to disillusioned young men, like arguably the biggest strategic misstep liberals made was thinking they could control the narrative.

The interesting (scary?) one is what Pete Hegseth is doing with the military. Giving people a shared enemy? That could work.
by hbredin | 2025-09-30 18:44:40+00:00
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by azan_ | 2025-09-30 18:44:45+00:00
> An apple is an abstraction over the particles/waves that comprise it, as is a banana.

No, you don’t understand what abstraction is. Apple is exactly arrangement of particles, it’s not abstraction over them.

> hence to claim that it is unusually abstract

Who talks about him being unusually abstract (and not just abstract)?

> is to ignore, as you did, the abstraction inherent in day to day life.

How am I ignoring this abstraction when I’ve provided you exactly that (numbers are abstraction inherent in day to day life). I’m sorry but you seem to be discussing in bad faith.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-30 18:45:22+00:00
There is huge bias to the left. Wikipedia outright bans right wing sources from being used as citations, including non-US sources like the Daily Mail, so it's not true that it's something to do with US bias.

This isn't due to a quality problem. Daily Mail articles are usually highly accurate and they publish voluminously. It's because leftists on Wikipedia ban conservatives as part of their relentless ideological war, as they do in every other context.
by Fwirt | 2025-09-30 18:45:24+00:00
There's an art to sifting through the "random letter" products on Amazon. While there is a lot of bottom-of-the-barrel garbage that gets churned out by grey market factories, bought in bulk on Alibaba and silkscreened with a random throwaway trademark, there are also smaller Chinese brands that have their own injection molds, engineers, etc. and are actually making quality products, but the easiest way to reach yet another global market is to slap together a random brand on Amazon. Even a Chinese company that's making good quality stuff isn't going to go through all the hassle of setting up a US office, hiring a US marketing team, etc, just to sell their coffee maker.

As many have noted, this happened in the 1960s-1980s with Japan. My specific experience is with guitars: all kinds of random companies would buy mass-produced Japanese guitars, slap their own label on them, and sell them in their tiny music shops. Despite the disparate labels, the guitars were mostly coming out of the same handful of factories (Matsumoku et. al.). Of course there were exceptions like Yamaha. Some of the early examples were mediocre at best, but as the product landscape improved, many of the later examples from the 1970s and 80s are competitive with much more expensive guitars today. The only difference with today's landscape is that the Chinese manufacturers are starting to realize they can cut out the middleman. Imagine you were in the 1960s, pre-internet, trying to decide whether you should get a guitar from a brand name you recognized, like Decca, a record company, or some random Japanese company called "Yamaha".

Also, after a while you learn to spot the "Alibaba bulk" listings and can then decide whether you want to optimize for price and just buy the cheapest one that is exactly the same as all the others.
by hajile | 2025-09-30 18:45:34+00:00
x925 does according to GeekerWan. C1 Ultra is even faster. x86 GB6 results are from the Geekbench website. I searched for the fastest overall scores I could find in the first few pages of GB6 results to steelman as best as possible.

The long and the short is that x86 is WAY behind in every way. The chips are larger, hotter, and slower too. If the rumored A19 Pro in a $500 laptop happens, it's going to absolutely crush the wintel market.

The stuff about Graviton is missing a key element too. Look at the X3 scores below. They are around 30% slower than the x86 competitors. This is what Graviton 4 is using (Neoverse V2 is based on X3). Neoverse V3 was announced almost 2 years ago now and is based on X4 which is a pretty big jump. I'd expect Neoverse V4 in Feb 2026 to be based on either X925 or C1 Ultra. When these newer, faster cores hit the market, they will be beating x86 in cost (the cores are smaller) and power consumption if not peak performance too.

CPU Spec2017int Spec2017fp GB6 1T GB6 nT a19 Pro 12.11 17.37 4019 11,054 A18 Pro 10.63 15.93 3605 9,376 A17 Pro 9.39 12.92 2975 7,273[10] A16 8.52 12.01 2679 7.026[11] 9400 (x925) 8.73 13.67 3010 9,317 9500 (C1 Ultra) ~9.50 ~16.50 3709 10,716 O1 (x925) 9.19 14.46 3125 9.671 SD8Gen2 (X3) 6.52 10.49 2080 5,640[7] SD8+ (X2) 5.71 9.68 1656 3,716[6] SD8Gen3 (X4) 7.10 10.95 2366 7,552[9] 8 Elite 8.91 14.18 3237 10,242 8 Elite Gen 5 ~9.75 ~16.50 3946 12,546 U7 258v 8.28 11.57 2864 11,263[3] HX370 8.02 12.81 3059 14,525[4]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PFhlQH4A2M

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJaHi-gZESo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB510ZeFe8w

[3] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14113967

[4] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14136651

[5] https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Zen-5-Strix-Point-CPU-anal...

[6] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14141425

[7] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14173239

[8] https://web.archive.org/web/20240308050136/https://www.anand...

[9] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14169554

[10] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14172509

[11] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14172532
by artursapek | 2025-09-30 18:45:42+00:00
This is also my thesis. The internet is going to be saturated with AI slop indiscernible from real content. Once it reaches a tipping point, there will no longer be much of a reason to consume the content at all. I think social networks that can authenticate video/photo/text content as human-created will be a major trend in a few years.
by while_true_ | 2025-09-30 18:45:52+00:00
Interesting, I have the opposite opinion. I'm considering switching from Windows to the KDE Plasma desktop and so far I'm impressed with it. Plasma is the first Linux desktop I've used that feels polished and professional. It is more customizable than Windows is. I'm looking to avoid Win 11 with its telemetry, background downloads, advertisements, OneDrive problems, etc.