MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fwipsy | 2025-09-11 07:10:07+00:00
You're not taking into account dynamic clock speeds, just "idle" and "load." Most CPUs have configurable TDP, and if you give them more power they will run more cores at a higher frequency. Suppose I measured the same laptop CPU under "full load" in two different computers at full load, but one is configured for a 30w TDP and the other is configured for a 40w TDP. The first PC will be more efficient, because you get diminishing returns for increased power. But it's the same CPU.

To go back to your original argument, you're claiming that x86 ISA is more efficient than ARM because a certain AMD chip beat certain M1/snapdragon chips at 50w. You can't draw that conclusion because the two chips may be designed to have peak efficiency at different power levels, even if the maximum power draw is the same. Likely the Snapdragon/M1 have better efficiency at 10W with reduced clock speed even if the CPU is not idling.

Hence my response: it doesn't make sense to talk about performance per watt, without also specifying the workload. Not only will different workloads use different amounts of power, they will also rely on different instructions which may give different ISAs or CPUs the edge.

Not to mention -- who even cares about ISA efficiency? What matters is the result for the product I can buy. If M1/snapdragon are able to match AMD on performance but beat it in battery life for my workloads, I don't care if AMD has better "performance per watt" according to your metric.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-11 07:10:41+00:00
I don't celebrate his death, I fear the consequences it will most certainly bring (especially with the hot mess going on in the US), but given his evidenced lackluster attitude to tens of thousands of gun victims every year in the US alone, a kick in the face to the relatives of all the victims and their families, yes I do not feel a single shred of smypathy for him.
by dangus | 2025-09-11 07:11:38+00:00
Basically, there’s nothing wrong with screens if they’re used thoughtfully, but they can be overused especially if they’re being used in an environment of budget pressures.

Just a nitpick though, Avatar Flight of Passage is just 3D glasses. The ride system actually suspends everyone in a vertical moving theater in front of a spherical theater screen similar to IMAX Omni.

It’s basically Soarin’ on steroids.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-11 07:12:23+00:00
This was in Spain 6 years ago. Here, educational trends in countries like the US or Northern Europe tend to be copied with ~10 years delay, so we are still in the "boasting about screens" phase, although awareness is building up among parents so I think they already boast less. I expect what you describe to become the norm in a few more years.
by keiferski | 2025-09-11 07:13:28+00:00
I think create is the wrong word choice here. Shaping reality is a better one, as it doesn't hold the implication that before language, nothing existed.

Think of it this way, though: the divisions that humans make between objects in the world are largely linguistic ones. For example, we say that the Earth is such-and-such an ecosystem with certain species occupying it. But this is more like a convenient shorthand, not a totally accurate description of reality. A more accurate description would be something like, ever-changing organisms undergo this complex process that we call evolution, and are all continually changing, so much so that the species concept is not really that clear, once you dig into it.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/

Where it really gets interesting, IMO, is when these divisions (which originally were mostly just linguistic categories) start shaping what's actually in the world. The concept of property is a good example. Originally it's just a legal term, but over time, it ends up reshaping the actual face of the earth, ecosystems, wars, migrations, on and on.
by andai | 2025-09-11 07:13:46+00:00
I often hear "The first hour is the rudder of the day."

In my case, it's "The first hour is the time during which my neurotransmitters are still mostly present."

I'd also expand energy to attention, or maybe even "mental space".

I notice that I'm able to think much more clearly when I don't fill my mind with random clutter. (i.e. when I make an effort to stay away from my phone for at least an hour.)
by selectnull | 2025-09-11 07:13:52+00:00
> It’s very difficult to make money in developer tools.

Just to be clear: we are talking the 90s here. Everybody was charging for developer tools (). MSDN was not free, far from it. From today's viewpoint where every compiler imaginable is free and the tools are better than ever (except there is nothing like Delphi and VCL), the 90s were a heaven for tool makers.

I'm talking about the Windows ecosystem.
by PenguinCoder | 2025-09-11 07:14:19+00:00
You know nothing about me. Take your 'so-called tolerant' crap elsewhere. The social construct of tolerance was already broken by others like this, don't expect me to abide by it when you don't.

What is dishonest about the mans words being brought up in relevant context?

> I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.

> - Charlie Kirk [0]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote...

> Christian Bible says [1]https://biblehub.com/topical/e/empathy_as_a_christian_virtue...

> transgender people should be "dealt with the way we did in the 1950s and 60s"

> - Charlie Kirk

Really extols peace and forgiveness eh?
by salamanderman | 2025-09-11 07:14:21+00:00
I've heard parents say they "got a 504 and then had to pay a lawyer to enforce it" so many times. I just hate the idea of being forced into such an adversarial relationship with the school. In my life, any time we start talking about needing a 504 I think "we might as well just say screw it, because what good will come of this?" Like, in your story, I assume that while they complied, the way they interacted with your kid was tainted in some other from that point forward because your kid got them in trouble. Hopefully I'm wrong, but it's that kind of thing that I worry about for my own situation.
by japanuspus | 2025-09-11 07:14:35+00:00
I think a lot of it is covered under "New Public Management" [0], which was maybe a result of the financialization happening in the 80's [1].

And I completely GP, having been in or in contact with academic research since the late 90's, there has been a very strong shift from a culture where the faculty had means for independent research, and were trusted to find their own direction, to the system we have today where a research project has much tighter overlook and reporting than most corporate projects.

A professor with a 4-5 person group will typically need two staggered pipelines of 4-5year funding projects to run risk free. In the EU it is virtually impossible to get funding for projects that do not involve multiple countries, so you need to set up and nurture partnerships for each project. Coordination the application process for these consortia is a major hassle and often outsourced at a rate of 50kEUR + win bonus. And you of course need to run multiple applications to make sure to get anything. When I talked to mentors about joining academia around 2010, the most common response was "don't".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_public_management [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization
by fedeb95 | 2025-09-11 07:14:40+00:00
Am I the only one thinking this urge to optimize our time is just anxiety? I'd argue not spending time worried about time usage would make one use better its time.

I'm not referring to the article per se, but to this kind of articles in general.

On this article: why school is considered not discretionary time? Also commute and meals are somewhat discarded. While cooking, or helping, read a poem or a short story; while commuting, read a book, listed to some good music. This way, discretionary time becomes 100%.
by geokon | 2025-09-11 07:15:10+00:00
This example just scratches the surface. I don't think it's showing any Clojure-magic per se, b/c in effect what you're showing is just "implementing an interface". You can do that in most languages.

The magic of protocol/records is that they work across library boundaries. A library may provide a record - and then you can extend the record with new protocols. Key is that it's all without needing to explicitly creating new agglomeration types.

You can take some Dog record from some pet-simulation library and then `extend-type` it with the IPageObject protocol and make the Dog record now something that can be displayed on a webpage
by visarga | 2025-09-11 07:15:14+00:00
I think the Stochastic Parrots idea is pretty outdated and incorrect. LLMs are not parrots, we don't even need them to parrot, we already have perfect copying machines. LLMs are working on new things, that is their purpose, reproducing the same thing we already have is not worth it.

The core misconception here is that LLMs are autonomous agents parroting away. No, they are connected to humans, tools, reference data, and validation systems. They are in a dialogue, and in a dialogue you quickly get into a place where nobody has ever been before. Take any 10 consecutive words from a human or LLM and chances are nobody on the internet stringed those words the same way before.

LLMs are more like pianos than parrots, or better yet, like another musician jamming together with you, creating something together that none would do individually. We play our prompts on the keyboard and they play their "music" back to us. Good or bad - depends on the player at the keyboard, they retain most control. To say LLMs are Stochastic Parrots is to discount the contribution of the human using it.

Related to intelligence, I think we have a misconception that it comes from the brain. No, it comes from the feedback loop between brain and environment. The environment plays a huge role in exploration, learning, testing ideas, and discovery. The social aspect also plays a big role, parallelizing exploration and streamlining exploitation of discoveries. We are not individually intelligent, it is a social, environment based process, not a pure-brain process.

Searching for intelligence in the brain is like searching for art in the paint pigments and canvas cloth.
by ta2234234242 | 2025-09-11 07:15:36+00:00
This is the worst of my linked in feeds.

"If there were only more hours in the day we could work."

The problem really is:

* Human malware. * Managers introducing complexity where it shouldn't be. * People wasting your time on issues that could really have been emails.

The fact I need a full weekend to recover from people propagating these shitty ideas is bad enough. Don't promulgate this stuff to HN.
by mr_mitm | 2025-09-11 07:16:29+00:00
I hate how Atlassian products hijack regular browser features and re-implement them in JS. When I open our Confluence page, it runs a bloated mess of 10MB of JavaScript. All of their WYSIWYG editors are terrible and I'm constantly fighting the formatting. Just let me input regular markdown already.

TUIs are usually the most snappy interfaces you can have. Pure bliss in comparison. To their credit, at least Atlassian provides usable APIs.
by zastai0day | 2025-09-11 07:17:12+00:00
Using LLMs to assist with code audits and vulnerability hunting is a really interesting direction. The article doesn't detail exactly how ChatGPT (o3) found this use-after-free vulnerability, though. Did it independently analyze and understand the flaw in the concurrency logic, or was it just doing pattern matching or fuzzing under human guidance?

I feel like the details are what determine whether this is a true milestone or just a great headline. Regardless, the era of automated AI vulnerability discovery might really be upon us, and the pace of offense vs. defense is about to get much faster.
by NomDePlum | 2025-09-11 07:18:36+00:00
How any mature company can allow this to be enabled for their employees to use is beyond me. I assume commercial customers at scale will be able to disable this?

Obviously in some companies employees will look to use it without permission. Why deliberately opening up attackable routes to your infrastructure, data and code bases isn't setting off huge red flashing lights for people is puzzling.

Guess it might kill the AI buzz.
by komali2 | 2025-09-11 07:18:53+00:00
No. Slavery is a unique evil and people knew it was a unique evil since the time of the ancient Greeks.

I refuse to accept "it was just the way things were at the time" when there were people opposed to slavery thousands of years ago. Aristotle wrote about them:

> others however maintain that for one man to be another man’s master is contrary to nature, because it is only convention that makes the one a slave and the other a freeman and there is no difference between them by nature, and that therefore it is unjust, for it is based on force.

There were abolitionists in the first days of the United States through to the civil war. People knew it was wrong or had ample opportunity to hear it argued that it was wrong, and furthermore, the inherent wrongness of it should be obvious to anyone that encounters it, and I don't give a moral pass to anyone that brushes it off because it was common any more than I do for American politicians that brush off school shootings because it's common.
by keiferski | 2025-09-11 07:18:59+00:00
It matters if your civilizational system is built on assigning rights or responsibilities to things because they have consciousness or "interiority." Intelligence fits here just as well.

Currently many of our legal systems are set up this way, if in a fairly arbitrary fashion. Consider for example how sentience is used as a metric for whether an animal ought to receive additional rights. Or how murder (which requires deliberate, conscious thought) is punished more harshly than manslaughter (which can be accidental or careless.)

If we just treat intelligence as a descriptive quality and apply it to LLMs, we quickly realize the absurdity of saying a chatbot is somehow equivalent, consciously, to a human being. At least, to me it seems absurd. And it indicates the flaws of grafting human consciousness onto machines without analyzing why.
by llmthrow0827 | 2025-09-11 07:19:29+00:00
About 26 hours with my family, 6 hours of exercise, 10 hours cooking and house chores, and 10 hours playing games or something else relaxing.

It's not that hard to think about the things you want to prioritize and roughly schedule them, or to pick from that list of priorities depending on your energy/motivation levels at any given time.
by sersi | 2025-09-11 07:19:31+00:00
No books before age 8 sounds like waldorf. They have this weird crazy belief that books shouldn't be introduced before the first adult teeth come out but at least they usually also shun digital in favor of more physical activities.

When we visited schools, we were also very surprised at how many schools encourage screen time. One of the most reputed school near us require each child to have an ipad at 6 years old. I'm completely against that. I see no value in introducing an addictive locked down device this early on. Instead, we chose a Montessori school that forbids electronic devices on campus except for the computing room where primary school children can go with a clear objective in mind (research, robotics project).

But, it was really surprising to me that that school is the exception and most highly ranked school have significantly more exposure to screens even at a very young age
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-11 07:19:35+00:00
The situation they describe is true in the overwhelming majority of Spanish cities of comparable size. It is an actively discussed topic in Spain that there is a serious problem with people having to move to Madrid or Barcelona for jobs and the rest of the country emptying out. Regions with no coast that aren't Madrid are now often called "la España vaciada" ("the emptied Spain"). Near the sea cities don't empty so much, but often most jobs are in tourism so there is still a lack of high-skilled jobs.

There are a few cities of that size that are more dynamic, because they have managed to attract some IT/biomedical/etc. Santiago, which they mention, probably falls into that bucket, although it's still far from being a skilled jobs powerhouse. And anyway it's an exception rather than the rule, and I'd say it's mostly related to having a university with over five centuries of history and all the ecosystem that generates, not to anything a mayor could do.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-11 07:19:54+00:00
Yes, the OEB report is for a paid off fleet. Sure, some investment in recent years but not even close to a new build.

The cost for the Darlington SMR is somewhere in the 25-35 cents/kWh range with the calculation assuming large learning effects to subsequent reactors and that the entire project goes on time and on budget.

Does that sound cheap to you?
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by tclover | 2025-09-11 07:20:15+00:00
I tried recently once again to ditch Windows for Linux. Everything kinda worked, but the MediaTek Wi-Fi drivers were janky and my speed was like 10x slower than it should’ve been. After spending about 10 hours messing around with configs, I realized I was doing literally everything except what I actually wanted to do when I turned on the PC… so I just went back and installed LTSC Windows again.
by thayne | 2025-09-11 07:20:36+00:00
> However, the Apache 2.0 patent shield is comparatively weak (when compared to GPLv3 and MPLv2) because it only revokes the patent license rather than the entire license and so it actually acts like a permissive license even after you initiate patent litigation.

Isn't the idea that you could then sue the suer for infringing your patent?
by thephyber | 2025-09-11 07:20:51+00:00
It was never the question that was bad faith. It is that he pretends like there is only one definition to the word, so there’s never a fruitful discussion. His entire existence at these events is to get video footage to use as marketing for his political group, not to actually debate in good faith.

An informed take from Forest Valkai on Kirk’s “what is a woman?” Debate style:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M0uCLgFMC-c
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-11 07:22:23+00:00
Did the Author missed the note about digital age ? Society evolved since he was a kid.

His kid will also probably end up doomscrolling on TikTok and have the attention span of a gold fish.

That’s just how it is, you can’t change society and going against it is a tough fight.

I’d even say that the author contributed to it seeing his age and he works in tech.
by thiago_fm | 2025-09-11 07:22:27+00:00
Just read business books if you want to improve your decision making skills and leadership books, of course, network etc.

Those publications' content are ephemeral and age quite fast, you don't learn much that can help you develop over time.

Those subscriptions aren't very helpful on what you want to improve, they are good for you to understand the current economic scenario and new hypes and booms, and each have their own biases. I'd prefer HBR over the others.

They are also good for you to keep up on subjects so you can talk with other people that are business types.
by ayush_xeneva | 2025-09-11 07:22:35+00:00
We do mean AI being as an OS Functionality, although this has a long way to go and we transparently admit that we're still in initial stages. One of the primary use cases or functionality for AI integration would be for app development. The idea is to leverage AI by training an advanced model on our own data, thus making it capable to help developers port their existing software and applications to XenevaOS conveniently. Also it'll help beginner programmers create an app on XenevaOS from scratch easily.

App development wouldn't necessarily be the only functionality of AI in the OS but it will definitely be a primary one.
by ayush_xeneva | 2025-09-11 07:22:42+00:00
We've looked closely into MentraOS and respect them for what they're doing! We see that they're funded by YC and are doing great but although both Team Xeneva & Team Mentra operate in similar fields, both of our ventures are fundamentally different. We've planned our own route & path that is filled with a set of unique goals & milestones.
by tossandthrow | 2025-09-11 07:22:57+00:00
There are many books on this, you can start by picking up eg. Marianna mazucato and rutger bregmann to get some contemporary views.

In unequal societies governance is controlled by less people and they tend to divert money into activities that increase their wealth instead of benefitting everyone - this has in particular happened in the west over the past 40 years.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-11 07:23:02+00:00
> why school is considered not discretionary time?

Because most schools are so underfunded that, in practice, they are prisons with a food quality to match instead of providers of an environment conductive to good learning outcomes. State obviously varies by country a bit, but it's painfully obvious that schools (and their precursors daycare and kindergarten) primarily serve to enable women to join the workforce.
by rbits | 2025-09-11 07:23:13+00:00
From the article:

> Neon has ""served admirably for a decade"", he said, but it ""has somewhat reached its limit in terms of what we can do with it"" because of its Ubuntu base. According to the wiki page, neon's Ubuntu LTS base is built on old technology and requires ""a lot of packaging busywork"". It also becomes less stable as time goes on, ""because it needs to be tinkered with to get Plasma to build on it, breaking the LTS promise"".
by tux3 | 2025-09-11 07:23:35+00:00
That's indeed the first thing you would want to try. In this case these time ranges can repeat according to a formula, like a cron job for example.

An exclusion constraint needs concrete values to compare, but here we can't pre-compute and index every future value (there are infinitely many)

We solve a diophantine equation for this check (if there is a solution to Ax - By = 0, then formulas A and B can conflict at some point)
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-11 07:24:01+00:00
"you're just uncomfortable sharing space with the less fortunate."

This is the sort of vacuous moral posturing that loses elections and if it wins them, it makes cities unlivable.

Why should I be fine sitting next to someone who shit his pants several times and likely has lice and scabies? And yes, it occassionally happens even in Czech public transport.

If you not just tolerate this, but scold people for being disgusted, the public transport system will lose the middle class and with it, any benevolence of the tax payer.

Civilizations always have some minimum for public behavior. Not stinking to high heaven in closed spaces is one of them. If you fight against such bare minimums and tell people that they are bad people for requiring them, you are promoting pure, unadulterated barbarism.
by ttoinou | 2025-09-11 07:24:40+00:00
The fact that it can copy smartly exactly ONE of the information in a given prompt (which is a complex sentence only humans could process before) and not others is absolutely a progress in computer science, and very useful. I’m still amazed by that everyday, I never thought I’d see an algorithm like that in my lifetime. (Calling it parroting is of course pejorative)