MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frozenseven | 2025-09-27 00:11:44+00:00
This is nonsense. LeCun is working on LLMs (and all the rest of it): https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14252

His work isn't all that different from what many other people in the space are doing. He just prefaces himself to be far more iconoclastic and "out there" than he actually is.
by themafia | 2025-09-27 00:12:08+00:00
> the responsible adult that was in charge of my protection

So you're infantilizing an entire nation to make this point?

> So he should surrender and spare us the war.

Do you have any measure on this sentiment among the population currently? If it is, as it is in so many places, that the leaders actions are detached from the will of the voters, then what should we make of this?

Should they be allowed to surrender to a _neutral_ party?

Should they be allowed to keep their state?

Is there any reason not to presume a peaceful negotiation under these terms? Is there any reason to attempt to assassinate the party trying to coordinate this?

> How would you feel? Insulted?

Violated. These are _our_ emergency broadcast services. They should be used for the intended purpose and not to force an angry political message on a powerless population.

Do you not have any good faith in yourself for this topic?
by ajross | 2025-09-27 00:12:25+00:00
That's valid jargon but from the wrong layer of the stack. A Harvard bus is about the separation of the "instruction" memory from "data" memory so that (pipelined) instructions can fetch from both in parallel. And in practice it's implemented in the L1 (and sometimes L2) cache, where you have separate icache/dcache blocks in front of a conceptually unified[1] memory space.

The "Von Neumann architecture" is the more basic idea that all the computation state outside the processor exists as a linear range of memory addresses which can be accessed randomly.

And the (largely correct) argument in the linked article is that ML computation is a poor fit for Von Neumann machines, as all the work needed to present that unified picture of memory to all the individual devices is largely wasted since (1) very little computation is actually done on individual fetches and (2) the connections between all the neurons are highly structured in practice (specific tensor rows and columns always go to the same places), so a simpler architecture might be a better use of die space.

[1] Not actually unified, because there's a page translation, IO-MMUs, fabric mappings and security boundaries all over the place that prevents different pieces of hardware from actually seeing the same memory. But that's the idea anyway.
by aidenn0 | 2025-09-27 00:12:44+00:00
Can anyone recommend mailing list hosting for a non-public group of about 20-30 people that costs less than $100 per year?

My family plans all of their reunions via e-mail and every year we end up with someone putting an out-of-date e-mail for someone in the list, or forgetting to include someone, or including someone who has asked to not get updates. I offered to host a mailing server, and I may just end up rolling my own on a DO droplet with mailgun or something for reliable delivery because mailing list hosting I could find was rather expensive.
by endgame | 2025-09-27 00:12:46+00:00
Whizz-bang cryptographic solutions to this class of problem (digital ID, electronic voting, etc) have at least three major problems that I consider fatal:

1. The contract to build the thing will go to the lowest bidder, who is all but guaranteed not to do any of it correctly (cf. the UK Post Office scandal and Fujitsu's role in it).

2. The public has no guarantee that it is implemented in the cryptographically secure way, or that is is ONLY implemented in the cryptographically secure way (e.g., either by accident or through malice the system leaks info it shouldn't).

3. The overwhelming majority of the public are not trained in nearly enough computer science to understand "no actually this system isn't a total privacy nightmare" (assuming that it's actually implemented securely).
by 0ct4via | 2025-09-27 00:12:46+00:00
"After the deadly offensive by Hamas against Israel in October 2023, Ismail Haniyeh, who replaced Mashaal as head of the Hamas political bureau in exile, again invoked religious rhetoric. “Today, the enemy has had a political, military, intelligence, security and moral defeat inflicted upon it, and we shall crown it, with the grace of God, with a crushing defeat that will expel it from our lands, our holy city of al Quds, our al Aqsa mosque, and the release of our prisoners from the jails of the Zionist occupation,” he said." [1]

Excerpts from the Hamas Covenant [1]:

"Article 8:

Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes."

"Article 15:

The day that enemies usurp part of Muslim land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Muslim. In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised."

Hamas' *literal* goal is the extermination of Jews and the Jewish people. That's literally genocide.[2][3]

[1] https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/doctrine-hamas

[2] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...

[3] https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law:epil/97801992316...

...now don't get me wrong — I don't side with Netanyahu or what his government have been doing — but that doesn't change the fact that Hamas' goal is the eradication of the only Jewish state in the world, and it's people — actual genocide.

The attacks on October 7, 2023 were much more than a "hate crime" as you mistakenly claim... and your whataboutism is just immature, and isn't conducive to actual discourse.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-27 00:12:47+00:00
> Your goal here is to make the best GITHUB OPEN SOURCE game engine possible.

That sounds awful if applied to Bevy, and seems you misunderstand what "Mr. Beast" is trying to say.

They're not saying make the best game engine, but make the game engine that would do best by GitHub-popular metrics, which is absolutely the wrong way to go.

I hope they continue to simply make the best game engine available, as before, and ignore useful metrics or focusing on where it's hosted.
by roflcopter69 | 2025-09-27 00:12:59+00:00
> /Looks around all innocent ... does 57 billion count?

That surely counts as a case where brute-force search will not do :) I'm intrigued though, do you really need to make searches over all those vectors or could you filter the candidates down to something <5M ? As I wrote, this is one of the nice advantages of no-index brute-force search, you can use good 'ol SQL WHERE clauses to limit the amount of candidates in many cases and then the brute-force search is not as expensive. Complex indices like HNSW or DiskANN don't play as nice with filters.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-27 00:13:36+00:00
In the late 90's, I worked on porting a FORTRAN reactor simulator to Windows 95/NT/XP. On the order of 30 MLoC for an industry/research joint project that was around 40 years old at the time. It took a long time to compile, but even longer to run. It turned out that disabling swap on Windows was the single biggest runtime performance improvement on machines with around 128-258 MiB of RAM. Windows would cheerfully page out the working set when there was no other non-system source of memory pressure.

PS: The time for SMRs was 40 years ago. Renewables radically transformed the economics such that only fusion reactors, geothermal, and tidal are part of a short list of viable alternatives because fossil fuels and fission need to go the way of whale oil and hunting passenger pigeons.
by tecleandor | 2025-09-27 00:14:07+00:00
Ah, I didn't remember that. I've been googling a bit and I think this was it [0]: binaries on their download page or GitHub releases were only usable on a personal basis. If you were to use them in a company, even internally, you needed to get a commercial license or build the binary yourself.

That's not the case anymore.

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0: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2185#issuecomment-392470508
by closeparen | 2025-09-27 00:14:34+00:00
It has been obvious for at least 10 years of "digital privacy" as an issue that the next time people with certain database attributes would be restricted from full participation in society or rounded up by armed men, the attributes at issue would be citizenship and immigration status.

This moment is the test for the edifice that the privacy advocates have built in all that time. We should all be watching closely.
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-09-27 00:16:03+00:00
"Government says digital ID will make it harder to work illegally"

Today it's immigrants, tomorrow it could be dissidents.

In East Germany a common strategy the government used was to not put dissidents in prison, but make life hard for them in many ways including by denying them employment.

Of course none of this stops under the table work - which those engaging in illegal work are probably already doing.
by NewAiParadigms | 2025-09-27 00:16:20+00:00
I wrote an article about the link between intellectual abstractions and the physical world.

Essentially, my goal was to show why getting AI to understand the real world isn’t just a robotics issue but something necessary even for solving math and coding problems at a human level.

I tried to show why intellectual fields are filled with references to the real world, and thus why AI needs to understand the physical world first if it is to have any chance of pushing the boundaries of science.

I think this is quite a controversial take so I would be really curious to get your opinion on the article!
by namibj | 2025-09-27 00:17:48+00:00
Imagine if they could just order from vendors like "Solaris Bus & Coach sp z o.o."... They're even running some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Urbino_12_hydrogen over here that I at least hope have their hydrogen premium costs paid for by the EU grant the decals claim. Riding them I can't note a difference between what I would expect from a battery only version. But I can't imagine it's cheaper to take the hit of hydrogen roundtripping and the cost of hydrogen infrastructure just to avoid some 400 kW DC fast chargers at some strategic extended-stay bus stops where they take their lunch break (kick the last passenger out, walk outside, plug it in, lock the door and take a walk or go back inside and read the newspaper, and at the end unplug and hang it back on the electricity-vending-machine).

Unless it's different for bus drivers than for truck drivers, there is plenty mandatory break time under German rules to allow fast charging of such style to give enough range. And it's easy to set up by just fitting route-after-route with the charging spots and keeping a few diesel busses in reserve to handle broken chargers until there are enough chargers to maintain bus schedules even if some of them go offline.
by gosub100 | 2025-09-27 00:17:52+00:00
No they aren't exclusively to blame. But they were a big part of elimination of manufacturing jobs in the 90s, and were huge critics of attempts to bring them back. I don't want people thinking that the left are some kind of "underdog" that is championing the people. Also their fiscal policy doesn't depend on manufacturing jobs. They can just print more cash and hand it out in various "programs". They, as a party, profit off suffering of Americans because they are always there to sell their voters a solution. The worst thing that could happen for them is people doing well. Because they won't be needed anymore.
by lomase | 2025-09-27 00:19:20+00:00
I listened to it when you posted before. Better than most of the others I have listened wich were all much more "cold".

The visual stuff also helps to make it more powerfull and cohesive.

The bad part is that it wanders a lot to get nowhere and it does not create a climax that bridges with the second part. The same sounds and ambient with a producer behind that creates an arragment for it would be much more powerful.
by randerson | 2025-09-27 00:21:13+00:00
> No. I’m arguing that people who say “people change their personalities to suit mine” are hypocrites.

Assimilating doesn't mean changing one's personality. I'm still the same person I was before I came to the USA, but I respect that some things are customary and others are considered offensive. I know I'm expected to tip for services that in other countries would be considered insulting. Yet if enough immigrants refused to tip, it would become a stereotype that would create negative sentiment towards said immigrants because workers rely on that income.

> If you think a fraction of a percentage of people coming to the UK is suddenly going to change the identity of the entire country then you need to get out and explore more of the UK yourself.

I roadtripped across the UK earlier this year actually, spending time in 2 major cities and 4 small towns. The demographic shift over the last decade is immediately noticeable. It is multiple orders of magnitude more than you're making it out to be.

> I do think it’s courteous for people to make an effort to integrate. But it should also be their decision, not ours.

That's a matter of opinion, and perhaps not up to either you or me to decide whether it is right, but up to the % of citizens who will vote against immigration at the next election. Unchecked immigration is the top reason that western populations are shifting rightward. And this trend has evidently scared the Labour Party enough that they're finally preteneding to do something about it.

But let's say it is up to an immigrant to decide whether to integrate. What if their values are incompatible with the country's? If you move to the UK and take great offense over how people dress or their type of humor or their freedom of religion or their pub culture or whatever, why did you even move there? And if you then expect this entire sovereign nation (who is already doing you a favor by allowing you in) to change their ways to accommodate your beliefs, that is a hell of a lot more entitled than the other way around (the country expecting an individual to integrate as part of the terms of being let in).
by msm_ | 2025-09-27 00:22:03+00:00
From experience, it's not overstated. Running your own email server is pain, and even if you do everything right you may get delivery problems. And if you want to improve your chances, you have to do whatever big tech wants you to. And if you ever get onto the bad side (for example, your site is hacked and distributes malware for a few days) you may never recover.

It's not impossible, but it's not something you run once and forget.
by gertlex | 2025-09-27 00:22:21+00:00
FWIW I found the report's summary (a few days ago when this was also discussed) essential for clarifying for me what the linked "article" was talking about regarding "anode overhang" and "edge alignment".

To summarize it myself, the battery is cylindrically wrapped sheets of anode/cathode material, and you want the top edge to have a straight line consistently having the anode layers (|) sticking out beyond the cathode layers ()

edit: Welp, the unicode I illustrated with got stripped out; so trying again with pipes

anode cathode a a c c | | | ||||||

The pics with red and blue dots didn't immediately make this obvious to me, but made sense once I understood the "overhang" meaning.
by codedokode | 2025-09-27 00:22:28+00:00
The point of digital ID might be to add more cases when ID is required in future. One thing if everyone buying a kitchen knife must fill a long form, another thing if they just must tap a phone on the cash register linking knife ID and person's ID. Half of you are already tapping a phone to pay for the items anyway.

One thing is showing a passport to enter the gay bar, another thing is tap a phone and have time, person ID and bar ID recorded. Much faster. Also the mobile application can collect other data from the phone without distracting a user. So much more convenient.
by p_ing | 2025-09-27 00:22:56+00:00
What a talented woman, thank you for sharing! I resign myself to Apple Music's discovery station and it's a rare bit chance I'll find something that swings with me (chamber alt/rock... or desperately trying to find reproductions of TEB/Smashing Pumpkins/Amber Run/Audioslave/Arcade Fire... I know, the past isn't coming back).
by MadnessASAP | 2025-09-27 00:23:11+00:00
Its certainly not as bad as some licences but there are still some gotchas to the CDDL. The 2 big ones here (AFAICT) is it's not compatible with MIT, and any reimplementation of CDDL code would not have the patent protections of the original.

Also, and again, the validity of a lawsuit isn't going to stop Oracle from filing it.
by jofer | 2025-09-27 00:24:50+00:00
It requires more input energy, but it's been really good to see electrolysis of H2O for hydrogen generation take off. There are honestly industrial/grid scale operations actually starting now (as opposed to being constructed). E.g. Aces Delta in Utah. 220MW of wind/solar as input (i.e. equivalent to power for a medium sized city) As a disclaimer, my wife works on that project, but I think it's incredibly cool regardless.

Pyrolysis is a less energy intensive way to produce hydrogen, and does deserve more attention. But it still requires methane as a feedstock.

Hydrolysis let's use use hydrogen as essentially a fixed loss battery. It's perfectly complimentary to seasonally variable renewables like wind and solar. Batteries have too high of a loss though time for seasonal or multi-year storage. If you can store it (big if... Not everywhere has a salt dome like Delta, UT), hydrogen really is a great solution.
by z_rex | 2025-09-27 00:25:37+00:00
Some back of the envelope calculations from fellows I work with suggested that the waste heat from a single gas turbine exhaust could supply enough H2 for 3 gas turbines - so a CC power plant with 3 gas turbines, 2 with standard HRSGs that use the exhaust gas to run a steam turbine, and the 3rd using the exhaust heat to run a methane pyrolysis process, would be the preferred configuration. Slightly less efficient, but 0 carbon emissions. The biggest issue would be running the plant at varying loads - you would need storage for excess H2 to run more efficiently.
by arp242 | 2025-09-27 00:25:56+00:00
"Previous studies have disagreed on whether or not weaker memories are stabilized, or made easier to recall, by attachment to a more prominent one."

So doesn't seem that obvious at all.

I remember random mundane events from tons of random days, unconnected to any prominent event (as near as I can determine anyway). And I also remember some random mundane stuff from days something prominent did happen. Whether there's a bias towards days with prominent events is entirely unclear to me.
by nom | 2025-09-27 00:26:22+00:00
That's funny :D because Bosch doesn't manufacture dishwashers anymore, or any home appliance for that matter.

BSH Home Appliances Group manufactures all the washing machines, dishwashers, fridges, ovens, microwaves etc for big German brands like Bosch, Siemens, Neff, Gaggenau, Junkers, ..

Same components in different shells done by the same engineers.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-27 00:27:25+00:00
I don't know how old you are, or what your sleep is like. You may get better luck asking on reddit.

We work in neurotech/sleeptech, and there is significant research into slow-wave enhancement via auditory stimulation on memory and cognitive function.

Meta-analysis - https://doi.org/10.3389/frsle.2023.1082253 Cognitive decline - https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13818

I link to more research on our website https://affectablesleep.com if you're interested. Happy to answer questions.
by dogmatism | 2025-09-27 00:27:30+00:00
I think there's a story about him beating a white kid from a rival private school in a boxing match

certainly unreliable reports of him doing well in informal rooftop bouts amongst the various Wing Chun students in Hong Kong

there are also stories of him getting his ass kicked by William Chung and Wong Shun Leung (others of Yp Man's students) and being a petty little bitch and getting kicked out of Yp Man's school

Who knows. It's all apocrypha at this point
by mindslight | 2025-09-27 00:27:32+00:00
I mean every single different thing he's done. Raising taxes raises immediate revenue, sure. The problem is all the second order effects down the line. The only halfway sensible policy has been the $100k for H-1B, and even that is being implemented so ham-fistedly as to create pointless harm for individuals (ie diminishing the appeal of the US), while actually benefiting companies that hire foreign labor (one more thing to hold over employees' heads). But I'm not really looking to argue this for the umpteenth time with people who are still buying into the administration's marketing.
by phi-go | 2025-09-27 00:27:45+00:00
Ask you anything? Well here it goes...

What languages do you use?

What kind of projects?

Do you maintain these projects or is this for greenfield development?

Could you fix any bugs without Claude?

Are these projects tested, who writes the tests. If it's Claude how do you know these tests actually test something sensible?

Is anybody using these projects and what do users think of using these projects?
by nanolith | 2025-09-27 00:28:32+00:00
I have actually argued for the use of mailing lists for corporate engineering discussions. When that becomes the medium for code review or design discussions, there's a nice streamlined workflow. Further, it's practically trivial to write or customize a mailing list reflector. If you have a decent and secure mail client library, you're a weekend away from it just working. Contrast that with customizing or rolling your own IRC, Slack, Discord, or web forum clone. Mailing lists don't suffer from vendor lock-in, and anyone with a mail client and who can follow basic rules can participate.

An invitation-only mailing list with a reflector that verifies PGP encryption and non-repudiation is just fine for most corporate discussions. For mailing lists open to the public, new users can be placed in a moderation queue for a period of time until it's clear that they understand list netiquette and formatting rules.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-27 00:28:48+00:00
Flock is so much more than an ALPR, that'd be one thing. They recognize vehicles based on all the metadata you'd expect, color, etc. But they also look at vehicle panels that are a different color, collision damage, bumper stickers and window decals, roof racks, tow hitches, wheels and rims to identify a vehicle.

And then they'll happily run their AI over that knowledge and based on their prompt, if the vehicle is "behaving suspiciously", then they'll ping law enforcement directly and proactively.

It is utterly Minority Report-lite.
by Behnaz-Sobhani | 2025-09-27 00:28:59+00:00
Tested on the preparation of a legal draft. Asked each subagent to find what is missing in the draft and rewrite the draft, + show a list of what was missing.

Run it through Codex, and repeat the process for 2 times. (2 times each subagent from Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini)

The final version was shocking. The process found some flaws that surprised me.
by ruszki | 2025-09-27 00:29:15+00:00
No, I’m arguing that it can be used for good, and it shouldn’t be dismissed when it cannot be used for evil things by law, especially not because of future possible evil usage, because that’s true for everything. Btw, why do use the internet? It’s quite contradictory to argue about this here. And that is the case since almost its inception.
by jraby3 | 2025-09-27 00:30:50+00:00
Josh waitzkin breaks this down really well in his book the art of learning.

He's a chess champion and push hands champion and discusses how to learn. Basically as you become and expert in something you learn to pay less attention to the surrounding environment and only focus on what matters, which allows you to see it in "slow motion". This applies to chess champions where masters eye movement focuses on a much smaller part of the board than a beginner, and also in push hands or BJJ where experts fighting for a tiny bit of grip change is what matters but a novice might just see the whole body not moving or doing anything that matters.

Very worthwhile read.