MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lindboe | 2025-09-18 12:17:55+00:00
Great paper!

Off the top of your head, are you aware of any similar general-multiphysics NN work that's been applied to electromagnetics problems? In particular, some colleagues in my lab are investigating imaging via acoustic waves which are induced by microwave absorptive heating (in liquids, biological tissues, etc.); this approach is most commonly known as RF-induced thermoacoustic imaging [1]. It's very tricky to model this phenomenon in simulation, doubly so to measure it experimentally.

Most in my lab (myself included) are leery of throwing NNs at problems and seeing what sticks, but sometimes I wonder whether a model like yours might help us skip past the boring details to get at the novel technical stuff, or else extend simulations to more complicated boundary conditions.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6248685
by Grimblewald | 2025-09-18 12:17:59+00:00
I fully agree, and any doubters, I can assure you that an LLM is bested by most undergraduates when it comes to reasoning. LLM's will universally get smoked by any PhD. They have great big wealth of knowledge to draw on but critical thinking is sorely lacking.

LLM's strength is being an interactive encyclopedia, not a decision making thing.
by imiric | 2025-09-18 12:18:10+00:00
You can't be serious.

Intel was well on its way to be a considerable threat to NVIDIA with their Arc line of GPUs, which are getting better and cheaper with each generation. Perhaps not in the enterprise and AI markets yet, but certainly on the consumer side.

This news muddies this approach, and I see it as a misstep for both Intel and for consumers. Intel is only helping NVIDIA, which puts them further away from unseating them than they were before.

Competition is always a net positive for consumers, while mergers are always a net negative. This news will only benefit shareholders of both companies, and Intel shareholders only in the short-term. In the long-term, it's making NVIDIA more powerful.
by Grimblewald | 2025-09-18 12:20:45+00:00
> just read the description

Seems fine enough to me. Wanna really challenge an LLM? get it to make an image stitching algorithm that isn't shit. Implement the results from brown et al https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-006-0002-3 and I'll be impressed.

This is a paper from 2007 and there are plenty of packages available to help make it all happen through some API calls and a bit of cleverness on the coders part, and so far not a single LLM has gotten close to an acceptable implementation. Not a single one.

Now, why is it so hard? Because there's not public code for good quality high performance image stitching on the level of the image composite editor microsoft research once hosted. There's nothing for the LLM's to draw on and they fundamentally lack reasoning / planning other than something that superficially resembles it, but it falls apart for out of domain things where humans still do fine even if new to the task.
by naikrovek | 2025-09-18 12:20:59+00:00
it's not the same thing. it looks the same to you, because you don't give a shit, but it's not the same.

I want ad-free viewing on any youtube client in my house, and I do not want to maintain infrastructure to allow that. The terms of the service indicate that I should pay if I want an ad-free experience, so that's what I do.

Some unknown portion of my subscription fee goes towards the monetization of videos that I watch, which I definitely want to happen. Ad blockers don't pay people in lieu of ads, and youtube premium does.
by unwind | 2025-09-18 12:21:09+00:00
This is of course quite old, although C is older so it's not too bad.

I really like the ones in the "Purity" section, and also appreciate the name, I sometimes struggle to express those ideas. To me it's a lot about using the language as if you knew it, not from some strange position of fear that you sometimes see.

My pet peeve in the context is comparing boolean values with boolean literals, i.e.

const bool success = do_something(); if (success == true) { }

which is just horrible in my opinion since the result of an expression like `a == b` is in itself a boolean[*], so it just goes around and around, then! But nobody pretends that is true, since that would lead to

if ((success == true) == true)

which never happens, so for some reason in people's heads there is some significant difference between that and the first case ... which I find offensive. Always just write

if (success)

for the win.

Also, since nobody actually uses `const` as much as possible, using the explicit comparison also opens your code to the fantastic typo of:

bool success = do_something(); if (success = true) // Oops! { }

[*] In C it's more like "an int-type value equal to 0 or 1", I know, but logically that is a boolean in quite many ways.

Edit: markup asterisk failure.
by nobodyandproud | 2025-09-18 12:21:09+00:00
I personally agree with your aim to replicate this, because I suspect the outcomes will be surprising to all.

Here’s my sketch of a plan: You’d need controlled environments, impartial judges, time, and well defined experiments.

The controlled environment would be a set of static models run locally or on cloud GPUs; the impartial judge would be static analysis and security tools for various stacks.

Time: Not the obvious, “yes it would take time to do this”. But a good spread of model snapshots that have matures; along with zero days.

Finally: The experiments would be the prompts and tests; choosing contentious, neutral, and favorable (but to whom) groups, and choosing different stacks and problem domains.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-09-18 12:21:42+00:00
or PT1400M or P0.5DT700M?

oh, you can use commas too.

and if you're still not thinking this is fun, here's a quote from Wikipedia "But keep in mind that "PT36H" is not the same as "P1DT12H" when switching from or to Daylight saving time."

just add a unit to your period parameters. sigh.
by phtrivier | 2025-09-18 12:22:00+00:00
> This new company would also have an American-dominated board with one member designated by the U.S. government.

This is the part I'm really curious about : what is the legal framework for mandating a privately-owned company to have a board member designated by the government ?

The closest thing I could imagine is "national" companies (totally or partially owned by the government.) We have plenty of that in France (once in a while the State would nationalize energy utilities, banks, car makers, etc... then make them private again, then buy x% of them, etc, etc...)

In this case I completely understand that the "State" wants their say in the board - they have money in the game.

But here, it does not seem like the US are part of the new ownership (or did I miss that ?)

So, what happens when the next government nominates a board member that Elison dislikes ? On which law would a judge rule ?
by melagonster | 2025-09-18 12:22:05+00:00
Oh, I did not notice your comment, sorry.

Soil bacteria around plant roots are very different from all other soil.

But in very large scale (e.g., km), geology is main factor of microbiom composition.

So the previous studies usually focus on topics like:

1. how plant <-> enviroment <-> microbiome interactions work in small range(meter/cm/even mm length).

2. how bacteria diversity change in large scale, and how it influce plant and enviroment.

The first type is more common (cheaper), but comparing of bacteria diversity is difficult, usually we nee more than ten plants in each experimental group. So focusing on single plant require very different methods, and it is more difficult check whether it is not caused by random effects.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-18 12:23:01+00:00
systemd doesn't kill your SSH session (if you'd WoL your PC there's a good chance you can continue typing unless your local terminal detects that the other end goes down).

It's more that when you configure systemd to suspend your computer when there is no physical activity, it will suspend your computer when there is no physical activity.

The author wants their computer to suspend automatically.

I think modifying your system configuration to never suspend is a much worse solution than using the tool designed to prevent suspending the computer while a specific program is running to prevent suspending the computer while that specific program is running.

It'd be easier if `sshd` would permit you to wrap the incoming command line/shells so `sshd` would spawn your session with systemd-inhibit, but I don't think that's possible?
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-09-18 12:24:14+00:00
I can accept the performance issues for now- it's an emerging platform, and hasn't had the huge amounts of resources poured into it like ARM. There's a chicken-and-egg problem here, since those resources will be limited since people aren't buying RISC-V equipment, which limits the incentive to commit resources, etc.

But what I cannot accept is the truly awful documentation and software support from the vendors. This is where Raspberry Pi shines, and is IMO one of the most significant factors in its success. I'm excited that RPi is dipping their toes into the RISC-V pool with the Hazard3 cores in the RP2350- perhaps they will be able to release a Raspberry Pi RISC-V edition board some day.

But I'm hesitant to buy one of the current RV SBCs, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

I'm also surprised that there aren't any startups producing small, simple CPUs and SOCs outside of China (as least, none that I'm aware of). Is there no investment available in India, N. America, Japan, Europe, Israel (* not bringing the current situation into this, just noting they have chip fabs)? Fabricating chips is not cheap, but the first ones don't need to be the top-of-the-line TSMC 3nm process.
by k12sosse | 2025-09-18 12:25:13+00:00
Their video platform, your rules? Nah mate, you're just being weird now if you think this is a one way street. You can block ads all you want in your computer but they'll have just as much right to stop serving you videos when you're blocking ads.

Also stop leaving your children unattended on brain slop videos. You're basically speaking out of both sides of your mouth.

Today it's that they're not moderating the content and tomorrow it's a complaint of censorship.
by al_borland | 2025-09-18 12:25:25+00:00
From what I can find, Kmart only has 3 remaining stores (Miami, Guam, and US Virgin Islands).

While I am all for getting these types of cameras out of retail stores, I’d hardly call them a “retail giant” at this point. A multi-year investigation hardly seems worth it when they will likely be out of business on their own merits soon enough.
by milkshakes | 2025-09-18 12:26:09+00:00
with the exception of maybe llama, each of these releases represented not only solid, accessible implementations, but actually also a paradigm shift and a massive investment. then they gave each away for free, and continued to invest in them for years. _you_ might not need any of these, but the internet as we know it today certainly is built on the shoulders of each of them, and in some cases, continues to use them directly.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-09-18 12:26:12+00:00
Do you suppose that automated dependency upgrades are less likely to introduce malicious code than to remove it? They're about compliance, not security. If I can get you to use malicious code in the first place I can also trick you into upgrading from safe code to the vulnerable code in the name of "security".

As for lock files, they prevent skulduggery after the maintainer has said "yeah, I trust this thing and my users should too" but the attacks we're seeing is upstream of that point because maintainers are auto-trusting things based on their name+version pair, not based on their contents.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-18 12:26:12+00:00
I included the earlier dates to capture the various government agencies comments on Hunter Biden's laptop, which I doubt that you can claim Trump was directing.

As for point 2, I am not aware of any of the government directed censorship going reaching the Supreme Court.

>On July 20, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield appeared on MSNBC. Host Mika Brzezinski asked Bedingfield about Biden's efforts to counter vaccine misinformation; apparently dissatisfied with Bedingfield's response that Biden would continue to "call it out," Brzezinski raised the specter of amending Section 230—the federal statute that shields tech platforms from liability—in order to punish social media companies explicitly.

>In April 2021, White House advisers met with Twitter content moderators. The moderators believed the meeting had gone well, but noted in a private Slack discussion that they had fielded "one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn't been kicked off from the platform."

Is there a difference between the White House stating they are looking at Section 230 and asking why this one guy has not been banned?

https://reason.com/2023/01/19/how-the-cdc-became-the-speech-...
by ValdikSS | 2025-09-18 12:26:36+00:00
IMO, the hardest is to initially find the faulty subsystem, and then to find a suitable instrument to trace/debug it.

It's great if you have a working software which shows the possible culprit (as in this case), but often you have only vague guess what could be the reason, and you need to test everything one by one, write you own code, or sometimes use hardware probe.
by fishbacon | 2025-09-18 12:26:58+00:00
If sponsored projects and in-video sponsor spots dried up because of low view count I feel like a +20% loss would be something they would feel on their bottomline?

I suspect their business still requires that revenue.

But my example could be better. Take any moderately sized youtube channel which has a sponsorship in each video. Maybe one of the gaming channels that figured this out? If they lose the sponsorships it would probably not be great for them.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-18 12:29:38+00:00
Most of this stuff runs on autopilot once it's set up, which is why these companies have such huge margins.

That rounding error in accounting is also a monthly charge, and it sometimes happens that you get a spontaneous demand for $50K in a week and $200K in the next year. That could buy you enough hardware to run a chat for every school hacking club in the world, and a sysadmin to manage it.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-18 12:29:44+00:00
And the most amazing part --- the BS has actually worked.

Tesla now has a market capitalization of $1.4 TRILLION --- more than all the other major car brands in the world COMBINED (US+Germany+Japan+Korea).

All while commanding only about 10% of *EV* sales world wide --- and falling.

The scale of the BS is kinda unbelievable.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/automakers/largest-automakers...
by stephenlf | 2025-09-18 12:30:34+00:00
Some users, like journalists and the visually impaired, disable JavaScript. If you can make a product that works for them, why not do it?

Some web clients, like TTY-based clients, ignore both JavaScript AND CSS. People using these clients rightly expect to get a worse web experience overall. But if you can make a functional web page for them, why wouldn’t you?

These both sound like relatively niche edge cases. But nobody knows how things will change in the future.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-09-18 12:30:36+00:00
I'm sure Larrabee will be superb any year now. The Xeon phi will rise again. For supporting evidence, the success of Aurora. Weren't the loss-leading arc GPUs cancelled as well? Maybe that only one generation of them, it does look like some are on the market now.

I think this partnership will damage nvidia. It might damage intel, but given they're circling the drain already, it's hard to make matters worse.

It's probably bad for consumers in every dimension.

Or to take the opposite, if nvidia rolled over intel and fired essentially everyone in the management chain and started trying to run the fabs themselves, good chance they'd turn the ship around and become even more powerful than they already are.
by epolanski | 2025-09-18 12:30:36+00:00
> It is never going to win market share from react

Not sure what React has anything to do with this.

XSLT was pretty much never used as a rendering platform but for XML-data processing.

As JSON became the standard of API communication in early 2000s (less powerful, but also much less verbose and easier to manipulate in JS) XSLT became less relevant.
by hirako2000 | 2025-09-18 12:30:46+00:00
I can't talk for the entire region, but what I saw across my travels is quite the opposite. You enter a repair shop the owner typically knows how to solder and will fix about any laptop and mobile phone. Back home in Europe is where repairs are overpriced or deemed "impossible". I can't recall more than once in south east asia the words "you better off buying a new one", oh so common in the "west".

I agree the critic sounds misplaced though, he wanted a Macbook. However not because all the other models are complicated to fix in his land.
by immibis | 2025-09-18 12:31:39+00:00
Right, it's the same as asking why you don't expect an adblocker to block you from ordering pizza online - i.e. a stupid question. You expect adblockers to block ads and not block things that aren't ads. A lot of them block pointless analytics stuff but when this is actually an important part of site behaviour, it shouldn't be blocked.
by immibis | 2025-09-18 12:32:36+00:00
All that means is an interchange of definitions: Chinese calls "corporations" what US calls "government" and vice versa. But not fundamental different reality.

On planet Floorp, carpets (organic bipedal tetrapods) use people (machines that suck air) to clean vacuums (woolen floor lining). How quaint - no, not really, that's exactly the same as on Earth but with different words.

There are good arguments to be made that the USA's government is corporations, and the entity we call "the US government" doesn't actually meet the definition of being the government of the US.
by sleepyguy | 2025-09-18 12:32:48+00:00
Canada's private land ownership is low, with only about 11% of the total land area privately owned, the vast majority being public Crown land.The Gov hoards it and doesn't make it available to for people to participate in property ownership.

The Gov also has failed to provide access to many parts of the country.The Canadian Highway System is poor and lacking. In provinces like Ontario there is still little access outside of major routes which have not been expanded (Highway 11) for over 50 years. I'm not even going to mention services such as electricity. There are areas 1 hour from Toronto that have no electricity without any hope there will ever be.

The Canadian Gov just doesn't invest in anything outside of major population centers.
by tremon | 2025-09-18 12:33:23+00:00
I don't think that's an apt comparison, given that Microsoft and Apple were more direct competitors than Intel and Nvidia; the latter have a more symbiotic relationship. I think the rationale is closer to the competitor of my competitor is my friend -- they face two threats by AMD growing larger in the CPU market:

- a bigger R&D budget for their main competitor in the GPU market

- since Nvidia doesn't have their own CPUs, they risk becoming more dependent on their main competitor for total system performance.
by Retric | 2025-09-18 12:33:33+00:00
Mergers where one company is on the verge of failing can be a net positive for consumers. Most obviously this happens when banks fail and people’s bank cards still work etc and at least initially the branches stay open.

Intel isn’t at that point, but the companies trajectory isn’t looking good. I’d happily sacrifice ARC to keep a duopoly in CPU’s.
by sebkow | 2025-09-18 12:33:41+00:00
One trend I’ve noticed again and again: when projects fail, it’s rarely the tech. Human problems are almost always harder than technical problems.

That’s why I ended up writing what I call an “Operator’s Manual” basically a handbook for how I work, make decisions, and collaborate. It’s not about telling other people what to do, but about making the hidden rules explicit so teammates don’t waste energy guessing.

Because every system runs better with documentation. We write docs for code and infrastructure, but rarely for ourselves. Yet people are the most complex systems we work with.

I finally published my own Operator’s Manual, along with a framework so others can write their own. Curious if anyone here has tried something similar, or if you’d find this useful on your teams.
by immibis | 2025-09-18 12:33:58+00:00
I don't think they're banning it because it promotes what China wants. I think they're banning it because it doesn't promote what the US wants. The US is not offended that you can't criticize Tiananmen Square. It's fine whether you can or can't criticize Tiananmen Square. Only China cares about that.

The reverse also happens - Gaza being the main one. China couldn't give two shits about what happens in the middle east - it's not involved at all. So it lets footage be played sometimes. But the USA cares deeply about making sure young people don't see footage of Gaza and that's the sort of thing that motivates the US to ban this app.
by mb2100 | 2025-09-18 12:35:18+00:00
Totally, agree. And new HTML elements (like <dialog>) and CSS features (like MPA cross-document view transitions) have made client-side JavaScript unnecessary for a loot more use-cases in recent years. This is something a lot of devs unfortunately haven't caught up on, especially if they were stuck in their framework's tiny world.

This inspired me to explore what the simplest possible framework/site generator could be, that still has great DX: https://mastrojs.github.io/
by blueflow | 2025-09-18 12:35:35+00:00
Unwarranted suspends by logind have always been a menace, i have been fighting them for a decade.

> It'd be easier if `sshd` would permit you to wrap the incoming command line/shells so `sshd` would spawn your session with systemd-inhibit, but I don't think that's possible?

sshd already links against systemd (by distro patches, not per upstream) but since SSH is a "legacy protocol" and its users are "uneducated troglodytes", this is not going to happen.

I think this is because OpenSSH is an OpenBSD project, and both systemd and OpenBSD refuse to support each other.
by bgarbiak | 2025-09-18 12:35:40+00:00
I tried this approach years ago. Now I consider it an anti-pattern. You really don’t want the look of your website/document to be dependent on its structure. Things like li:has( > a + p) - it seems so clever initially, but then you need to have a button instead of an a, or an icon, or a wrapper over entire thing; but only for a single item on the list. You either end up with messy CSS that covers all these scenarios, or you just go back to classes.

I kinda see a potential usefulness of custom attributes, but I’m still not entirely sure how they’d be better than classes. What’s the advantage of [shape-type="1"] over .shape-type-1?