MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryao | 2025-09-12 21:46:22+00:00
That is a misconception. They added VR support to the Xorg server long after people started saying this. New features need to be well written and not break existing things, which is hard to do. The entire premise of Wayland was to make a clean state to avoid having to worry about existing things. However, they are not opposed to having new things added, as long as adding new things does not break existing things.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-12 21:46:38+00:00
I have a ReMarkable tablet and it's pretty nice. It's large, yes, but you can get a keyboard and then it's a word processor and Linux terminal. Use emacs or ssh into a bigger machine. Plus it's just regular linux and you get root shell out of the box.

There are smaller devices in a similar vein, I hear good things about Kobo.

E-ink tablets are about the best thing I can think of here. Second best option is probably just an old Android device without a sim card.
by sailingparrot | 2025-09-12 21:47:11+00:00
I assume by "node" OP meant something like a DGX node. Which yea, that would work, but not everyone (no one?) wants to buy a 500k system to do vector search.

B200 spec:

* 8TB/sec HBM bandwidth

* 10 PetaOPs assuming int8.

* 186GB of VRAM.

If we work with 512-dimensional int8 embeddings, then we need 512GB VRAM to hold them, so assuming we have 8xB200 node (~500k$++), we can easily hold them (125M vectors per GPU).

It takes about 1000 OPs to do the dot product between two vectors, so we need to do 1000*1B = 1TeraOPs, spread over 8 GPUs, that's 125 GigaOPs per GPU, so a fraction of a ms.

Now the bottleneck will be data movement between HBM -> chips, since we have 125M vectors per GPU, aka 64GB, we can move them in ~8 ms.

Here you go, the most expensive vector search in history, giving you the same performance as a regular CPU-based vectorDB for only 1000x the price.
by nxobject | 2025-09-12 21:47:25+00:00
Or, alternatively, you could just skip over "general intelligence" and get to your second measure that's directly validated against college outcomes – SAT score.

(My understanding is that the "general" GRE – not the math subject test – is less of a predictor of completing a PhD, but I think we can come up with a hundred reasons why.)

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
by torstenvl | 2025-09-12 21:47:32+00:00
Ehhh I view things slightly differently. Overlong encodings are per se illegal, so they cannot encode code points, even if a naive algorithm would consistently interpret them as such.

I get what you mean, in terms of Postel's Law, e.g., software that is liberal in what it accepts should view 01001000 01100101 01101010 01101010 01101111 as equivalent to 11000001 10001000 11000001 10100101 11000001 10101010 11000001 10101010 11000001 10101111, despite the sequence not being byte-for-byte identical. I'm just not convinced Postel's Law should be applied wrt UTF-8 code units.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-09-12 21:49:13+00:00
Total non starter.

Nuclear submarine power plants are not in any way a technology useful for utility scale power generation.

To start with they use fuel enriched to weapons grade.

They aren't cost effective vs the amount of power produced, and the designs don't scale up to utility scale power.

Submarine plants are not some sort of miracle SMR we can just roll out.

The Navy is willing to page cost premiums a utility company cannot, because for the Navy it's about having a necessary capability. There's no economic break even to consider.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-12 21:49:43+00:00
The EU is fining France because they don’t have enough clean energy in their mix despite France having the cleanest energy in Europe because nuclear used to not count. They are also forcing the French national energy company to resell their electricity at a loss to competitor moving money which should be used to invest into the pocket of private investors. And let’s not talk about the utter stupidity of the current discussion on the dams.

Then you realise that a significant part of France new debts was due to them shielding their population for the soaring prices of electricity despite France producing cheap energy, said prices being due to Germany brain dead strategy leading to a dependence on Russian gas and the obligation to go through the European market, and you start to see the double whammy.

Well, at least, the energy market is not as bad as the ECB rules.
by Retric | 2025-09-12 21:50:08+00:00
Coal is already losing, and things are only getting worse for steady state production.

Grid solar drives wholesale rates for most of the day really low long before new nuclear gets decommissioned. If nighttime rates rise above daytime rates a great deal of demand is going to shift to the day. Which then forces nuclear to try and survive on peak pricing, but batteries cap peak pricing over that same timescale.

Nuclear thus really needs to drop significantly below current coal prices or find some way to do cheap energy storage. I’m somewhat hopeful on heat storage, but now you need to have a lot of turbines and cooling that’s only useful for a fraction of the day. On top of that heat storage means a lower working temperature costing you thermodynamic efficiency.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-12 21:50:41+00:00
> I don't think US workers should have to compete with 1 billion+ other global workers for their jobs.

They already do though. Do you own any items made in other countries? If so, you’re competing with other workers already. It seems weird to focus on immigrants workers in America versus citizens in America while importation is allowed at all. I find all of this also very much in conflict with HN’s anti tariff attitude.
by Exoristos | 2025-09-12 21:51:21+00:00
> If it didn't actually work, it would've been discarded by companies long ago.

This that I've singled out above is a very confident statement, considering that inertia in large companies is a byword at this point. Further, "work" could conceivably mean many things in this context, from "per se narrows our massive applicant pool" to "selects for factor X," X being clear only to certain management in certain sectors. Regardless, I agree with those who find it obvious that LC does not ensure a job fit for almost any real-world job.
by ziml77 | 2025-09-12 21:51:28+00:00
That was a concern when I had an ultrawide monitor. Fortunately I remote into work and the screen share happens on that remote side. So whenever I had to screen share, I would take Citrix Viewer out of full screen and size the window to my best estimate of 16:9. I don't think anyone ever knew that I was using an ultrawide monitor, though I do wonder if they ever noticed that the aspect ratio of my desktop shifted a bit between each sharing session.
by yorwba | 2025-09-12 21:51:39+00:00
Those numbers are for the case where you want all possible pairs of two vectors to have a corresponding query that returns those vectors as the top two results.

If you mostly just want to find a particular single vector if possible and don't care so much what the second-best result is, you can get away with much smaller embeddings.

And if you do want to cover all possible pairs, 6500 dimensions or so should be enough. (Their empirical results roughly fit a cubic polynomial.)
by alephnerd | 2025-09-12 21:51:51+00:00
> Are there US workers who should have been hired to do this factory-bootstrapping instead

Yes. Of these companies [0], Hyundai-LG has been the only malcontent

The European and Japanese manufacturers haven't done anything similar - only the Koreans are.

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/tracking-the-ev-battery-fa...
by dvdkon | 2025-09-12 21:51:52+00:00
I don't think the comparison is quite apt, because while LibreOffice has no support for collaborative workflows (short of error-prone shared drives), QGIS can connect to quite a few geospatial databases, with third parties offering plugins for their own cloud platforms.

It would be nice to have better support for browser-based sharing and editing, but the desktop-based parts are there already.
by fsflover | 2025-09-12 21:52:18+00:00
The page uses Google Tag Manager. Related discussions:

Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) (woolyss.com)

1384 points by thyrox on Feb 21, 2022 | 883 comments

Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022) (backlit.neocities.org)

213 points by fsflover 70 days ago | 155 comments
by dbaupp | 2025-09-12 21:52:49+00:00
UTF-8 encodes each character into a whole number of bytes (8, 16, 24, or 32 bits), and the 10 continuation marker is only at the start of the extra continuation bytes, it is just data when that pattern occurs within a byte.

You are correct that it never occurs at the start of a byte that isn’t a continuation bytes: the first byte in each encoded code point starts with either 0 (ASCII code points) or 11 (non-ASCII).
by daft_pink | 2025-09-12 21:52:53+00:00
I think it’s lot tricker for the large companies that tend to hire H1B visa holders to do this, because a manager would need to convince the HR department to violate the law, and the company might be concerned the risks involved are not a good idea if enough candidates apply.

Plus, there seems to be some indicator tha the job you are applying is an H1B position and they are posting them on sites for Americans to apply too. So it’s not hard to imagine a bunch of highly qualified idealogue’s applying to jobs they never wanted in the first place and reporting them to the government when they get rejected.

It doesn’t seem like a good idea to try and manipulate the system with the current government’s willingness to go after companies.

If they’ll go after a US ally like Hyundai for using ESTA under the VWP illegally, when Hyundai could probably have easily applied for and been granted B-1 visas. Can you imagine what they would do to a company illegally sponsoring H1B visas?
by kragen | 2025-09-12 21:53:11+00:00
Much better in every way except the one that mattered most: being able to correct punching errors in a paper tape without starting over.

I don't know if you have ever had to use White-Out to correct typing errors on a typewriter that lacked the ability natively, but before White-Out, the only option was to start typing the letter again, from the beginning.

0x7f was White-Out for punched paper tape: it allowed you to strike out an incorrectly punched character so that the message, when it was sent, would print correctly. ASCII inherited it from the Baudot–Murray code.

It's been obsolete since people started punching their tapes on computers instead of Teletypes and Flexowriters, so around 01975, and maybe before; I don't know if there was a paper-tape equivalent of a duplicating keypunch, but that would seem to eliminate the need for the delete character. Certainly TECO and cheap microcomputers did.
by krapp | 2025-09-12 21:53:34+00:00
Complaining about the moderation, because it will only lead to harsher moderation.

Political content of any kind is considered mainstream and off topic by many people here, and thus unlikely to lead to curious and intellectually stimulating conversation. Which is the only kind of conversation we're allowed to have. Good hackers aren't supposed to find this interesting.

If you want to keep discussing these things, it really is best to just keep your head down and accept that the thread will be flagged at some point, and when it's dead, move on.
by spicyusername | 2025-09-12 21:53:44+00:00
This is classic "whataboutism". "What about guns or violence?"

Maybe they will next, maybe not. What does that have to do with them taking this first step? We have to evaluate the merit of this action, on its own.

Personally, I think that opening Steam's "New and Upcoming" and seeing nothing but low-quality porn games is bad. Bad for steam, bad for gamers, and bad for children.
by dataflow | 2025-09-12 21:53:48+00:00
I think the crucial bit you're missing is that the fundamental disagreement boils down to whether a properly-signed-and-executed warrant ought to be sufficient for the government to get its hands on evidence or otherwise do what it needs to do to deliver justice.

To you, he seems to believe Yes, and to him, I think you seem to believe No. Historically, the answer has been Yes, and crypto has fundamentally changed that. I think crystallizing exactly why you believe the right answer is No is essential, otherwise you're just not going to convince people on that side -- in their mind, I think, you're demanding more rights than you historically had, and at the cost of protecting the rest of the population.
by Hilift | 2025-09-12 21:54:09+00:00
Or acknowledge the true cost of $10 billion to build a reactor. Look at recent implementations. Finland was complaining that they had to deal with the mafia. The plant cost €11 billion, original proposal: €3 billion. Yikes.

"... 3,800 employees from 500 companies. 80% of the workers are foreigners, mostly from eastern European countries. In 2012 it was reported that one Bulgarian contracting firm is owned by the mafia, and that Bulgarian workers have been required to pay weekly protection fees to the mafia, wages have been unpaid, employees have been told not to join a union and that employers also reneged on social security payments."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant
by paleogizmo | 2025-09-12 21:54:27+00:00
Was there actually more to this posting and it got cut off? I'm not seeing why this is a practical issue. I'm partial to large displays with a more traditional aspect ratio, but using ultrawides, including curved ones occasionally isn't annoying to me. What really grinds my gears is that one coworker who doggedly insists on sharing his full desktop every single damned time which makes text nearly unreadable on anything other than another ultrawide.
by autoexec | 2025-09-12 21:54:29+00:00
Our government has been more or less openly for sale for a long time now, but he has really taken it to an extreme that I never thought I'd live to see in America.

You'd think that removing the weak deniability and unconvincing hand-waving covering for the outright bribery in the system would only result in increased outrage and demand for changes, but his supporters just don't care. They went from pretending to care about draining the swamp to supporting levels of open corruption you'd normally only see in third world countries.
by stirfish | 2025-09-12 21:54:45+00:00
As a parent, I don't want my child reading your comment. Also, your comment is absolute trash, so deleting it wouldn't be a loss of anything of cultural significance.

No, I will not talk to my son about it. Hacker News has unlimited resources, so they should do it for me. I'm already stretched too thin - I have to get to Walmart to buy more wine and ammunition before it closes.
by layer8 | 2025-09-12 21:54:48+00:00
The context of my comment was (emphasis mine): “lots of fun to be had there if something accepts overlong encodings but is scanning for things with only shortest encodings”.

Yes, software shouldn’t accept overlong encodings, and I was pointing out another bad thing that can happen with software that does accept overlong encodings, thereby reinforcing the advice to not accept them.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-12 21:54:49+00:00
> The better options in my opinion are the places where you can use the landscape to your advantage.

We already do that. France notably has a lot of hydropower and they pump water up when they don’t want to shutdown a nuclear unit.

The issue is that there is very little places where you could build new dams in Europe and water shortage is becoming a regular occurrence.
by muglug | 2025-09-12 21:54:57+00:00
You say that the WSJ is "more balanced and less biased than NYT", based on that website.

But a bias towards centrist American politics doesn't mean a lack of bias — far from it.

For example, 30 years ago a "centrist" report on global warming might have given equal space to right-wing and liberal perspectives, even though the vast majority of scientists at the time sided with liberals on the facts.

20-ish years ago a centrist report on Iraq would have parroted the administration's lies about WMDs and the urgency of going to war. And the New York Times was one of those organisations!
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-12 21:55:33+00:00
I wouldn’t say it’s people ‘preferring’ it. The fact is, finding people that are competent enough to be hired is easier through referrals than other ways. And if you are receiving referrals, why wouldn’t you put them through the hiring process to see if they’re talented enough to hire? Rejecting those because they share the same race as the hiring manager is itself racist (since it would be taking race/ethnicity as a factor). In most big companies the hiring process has enough checks and balances to prevent nepotistic hires anyways (for example hiring panels or bar raisers or whatever).
by toast0 | 2025-09-12 21:55:49+00:00
I guess it's the end of days, if tags have stopped blinking.

> And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days. — from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
by cerved | 2025-09-12 21:56:10+00:00
I've worked on a model with thousands of variables and hundreds of thousands of parameters with a hundred constraints. There are pitfalls you need to avoid, like reification, but it's definitely doable.

Of course, NP hard problems become complex at an exponential rate but that doesn't change if you use another exact solving technique.

Using local-search are very useful for scaling but at the cost of proven optimality
by preisschild | 2025-09-12 21:56:43+00:00
I completely agree with you and I'm pro nuclear. But those regulations have to be streamlined and the regulator needs to have enough manpower so licenses aren't stuck in limbo for years.

It's also unacceptable that the regulations can change during builds and then you have to make large parts completely new before you get the license to load fuel into the reactor.
by ubitaco | 2025-09-12 21:56:43+00:00
It's slightly buried in the readme on Github:

> how can we store a 24 byte long string, inline? Don't we also need to store the length somewhere?

> To do this, we utilize the fact that the last byte of our string could only ever have a value in the range [0, 192). We know this because all strings in Rust are valid UTF-8, and the only valid byte pattern for the last byte of a UTF-8 character (and thus the possible last byte of a string) is 0b0XXXXXXX aka [0, 128) or 0b10XXXXXX aka [128, 192)
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-12 21:57:07+00:00
The mom of the allegedly murdered employee spoke to Tucker Carlson months ago:

https://www.newsweek.com/openai-tucker-carlson-whistleblower...

> Speaking on The Tucker Carlson Show on Wednesday, Balaji's mother, Poornima Ramarao, revealed the results of a private investigation she hired to look into her son's death, claiming that authorities "just ignored everything that showed murder and picked up everything that showed suicide."

> Ramarao said the private autopsy she had conducted by Dr. Joseph Cohen indicated that the bullet wound in Balaji's head had missed the brain and another injury on the other side of the head indicated signs of a struggle, implying the presence of an attacker.
by kergonath | 2025-09-12 21:57:17+00:00
> Or acknowledge the true cost of $10 billion to build a reactor. Look at recent implementations. Finland was complaining that they had to deal with the mafia. The plant cost €11 billion, original proposal: €3 billion. Yikes.

This particular plant is a terrible example. It was the first of its kind, so it was bound to be more difficult than as part of a series. For example, there were issues with contractors that would not have happened if it had been the 5th reactor with the same specs. There were also issues with project management and changing regulations, which prompted some extensive tweaking of the reactor core almost as it was built. This is not representative of the difficulty of building a reactor that is par tof a fleet with identical designs.
by snailmailman | 2025-09-12 21:57:43+00:00
Steam has pretty good built in parental controls imo. You can allow-list or block-list games, and block viewing various content on the store, or even entirely disable the store. There are tiers to filtering such as “frequent violence” “any nudity” “frequent nudity” and “adult only”. You can also separately disable the viewing of user-generated content, which I think disables the steam workshop. And even set playtime limits.

Steam’s parental controls are pretty good if used properly.
by rzzzt | 2025-09-12 21:58:16+00:00
I think I've seen such a conversion, and am now frantically searching for it but with all the wrong keywords it seems!

There was also a "shucked" 1541 PCB and drive fitted in the top section of a tower case and IIRC in the post I've read they have served all power demands either from a standard PSU or an off-the-shelf power supply module.
by seadan83 | 2025-09-12 21:58:42+00:00
Untrue because 'very often' should instead be stated as 'sometimes'?

Even if someone concedes "good point", it does not mean they frequently are debating in good faith. My view of the "very often in bad faith" is not being aware of a single position where he evolved. For example, not only saying "good point" but also "you're right."

Your retort, my comment, the comment I responded to all seem very predictable. Charlie Kirk's debates seem to be a Rorschach test.

Google AI says similar when asked "how often did Charlie Kirk debate in bad faith". The response lists lots of criticisms, but also that defenders point out that Kirk did at least engage in open debates (which is commendable even if not always done in good faith, it was some level of dialogue at least).

There are other sources that indicate there are quite a few of these bad faith examples (not just my words, not just my anecdata):

> "When we found out about his death, I wanted to know if I misjudged him, so I looked again on YouTube," she said. [1]

> "But I found the way he talks to people in a debate is not opening up any genuine discussion – especially when he debates with a woman. He tends to talk very fast and talk over them," she said. [1]

I've seen debates with Pastors, and others, where opinions do change - the tenor of those debates is all quite different. I don't see the same talking points constantly brought out even after someone thoroughly debunks one (from a previous debate).

[1] https://ca.news.yahoo.com/young-fans-critics-debate-charlie-...
by Enginerrrd | 2025-09-12 21:58:46+00:00
Hey FYI, this isnt the place for that type of comment. This isn't Reddit, and we don't want it to become such.

Unnuanced, potentially inflammatory quips about a vaguely related current political situation just aren't appropriate here.

There are plenty of ways to express the same sentiment without resorting to the type of commentary that is common elsewhere.

I encourage you to read the community guidelines for HN.
by gioele | 2025-09-12 21:58:58+00:00
We need to drive down the cost of dealing with nuclear waste. Possibly to zero, because that is a cost that will have to be paid basically forever.

Between 1961 and 2023 «5,600 TWh of electricity were generated from nuclear energy in Germany». [1]

Every year Germany spends (and will have to spend until the end of time) at least 2 billion Euros just to keep the existing nuclear waste safe [2] (more than half of the yearly budget of the ministry of the environment and about 0.5% of the yearly government budget). That's a drag. Think about it: it's all unproductive money, that does not produce any new energy, and stopping these payments will cause irreparable damage to the environment. Forever.

[1] https://kernd.de/en/nuclear-energy-in-germany/ [2] https://www.bundesumweltministerium.de/ministerium/struktur/...