MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by einsteinx2 | 2025-09-08 20:31:56+00:00
I have an NVidia Tesla P40 in my home NAS/media server that I use for video encoding purposes. It doesn’t even have any video outputs, but it does have dual media encoders and a decent amount of VRAM for lots of (relatively) high quality simultaneous transcoding streams using NVENC/NVDEC to re-encode 4K Blu-ray remux’s on the fly.
by bornfreddy | 2025-09-08 20:32:05+00:00
> It just wouldn't work for me. I need Jira, Slack, and GitHub during work hours for example. But I don't want them during non-work hours.

Not an iPhone, but my solution to this is LineageOS + microG, where I just disable push notifications when I'm not working, or enable them for just the few select apps if I am expecting some messages there. The price for this is that I don't always receive the social app message when it is sent, but that's fine by me.
by billy99k | 2025-09-08 20:32:07+00:00
What's odd about this entire conversation is that many of the same people posting here:

-Wanted sites like Parler and other social media sites completely censored -Want people fired at work for sharing inappropriate memes/content (you can see examples of this over the years with leaks and other news stories about big tech, which is where a large portion of the people reading and commenting on HN work).

"authoritarian local system."

HN and the tech community in a nut shell.
by wtallis | 2025-09-08 20:32:31+00:00
Until recently, consumer, workstation, and datacenter GPUs would all share a single core design that was instantiated in varying quantities per die to create a product stack. The largest die would often have little to no presence in the consumer market, but fundamentally it was made from the same building blocks. Now, having an entirely separate or at least heavily specialized microarchitecture for data center parts is common (because the extra design costs are worth it), but most workstation cards are still using the same silicon as consumer cards with different binning and feature fusing.
by pier25 | 2025-09-08 20:32:35+00:00
Yes this is the fundamental problem.

It started with browsers giving you basically nothing. Someone had to invent jQuery 20 years ago for sensible DOM manipulation.

Somehow this ethos permeated into Node which also basically gives you nothing. Not even fundamental things like a router or db drivers which is why everyone is using Express, Fastify, etc. Bun and Deno are fixing this.
by dijit | 2025-09-08 20:32:55+00:00
I was curious about why someone would have a preference, what does Teams serve that alternatives do not.

But you blanket claimed its fine, its not fine.

I won’t work in a company that forces me to use Teams- its a good proxy for how they think about internal communications and how they feel about staff.

You can claim what you want, I was curious, but don’t come in here telling people its ok to use teams- we’ve established that his options were fucking WebEx- which is also not fine.
by mlillas | 2025-09-08 20:32:56+00:00
I’ve been running a small web agency for almost 2 years. One thing I wanted was a simple way to keep track of client websites in case they went down. The existing tools felt too heavy for my needs, so a few weeks ago I decided to build my own.

In 3 weeks went from scratch to a working product. It’s nothing fancy yet, but it works great for me! It monitors websites every 5 minutes, sends alerts to email, and has a clean dashboard. Very minimalistic, you can set it and forget it. It just works. Like a smoke detector you only think of it when your really need it.

The main reason I built it was to solve my own problem, but I thought it could be useful for other freelancers or small agencies too. Hence; I've put out an open beta to the public as an MVP to see if there is any demand for it.

You can check it out here: sitepuls.app I'd love feedback, insights and constructive critisism!

Happy to answer questions about the build process, tech stack, or what I learned along the way (I learned a ton).
by epiccoleman | 2025-09-08 20:33:35+00:00
> I think that asking people to treat ChatGPT with "kindness and respect" is patently embarrassing. We don't ask people to be nice to their phone's autocorrect, or to Siri, or to the forks in their silverware drawer, because that's stupid.

> ChatGPT deserves no more or less empathy than a fork does.

I agree completely that ChatGPT deserves zero empathy. It can't feel, it can't care, it can't be hurt by your rudeness.

But I think treating your LLM with at least basic kindness is probably the right way to be. Not for the LLM - but for you.

It's not like, scientific - just a feeling I have - but it feels like practicing callousness towards something that presents a simulation of "another conscious thing" might result in you acting more callous overall.

So, I'll burn an extra token or two saying "please and thanks".
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-09-08 20:33:39+00:00
I do have an idea of how wrong I am.

Nvidia's own people are the ones who have made Vulkan performance so close to CUDA's. AMD is behind, but the data shows that they're off in performance proportional to the cost of the device. If they implement coop mat 2, then they would bridge the gap.

99.9% of people who use Pytorch and so on could achieve good enough performance using a "simple vulkan backend" for whatever Python stuff they're used to writing. That would strip out millions of lines of code.

The reason nobody has done this outside of a few github projects that Nvidia themselves have contributed to, is because there isn't a whole lot of money in iterative performance gains, when in reality better algorithmic approaches are being invented quite near every month or so.
by m00x | 2025-09-08 20:33:57+00:00
Can you attribute it directly to tariffs? There is more than one factor at play here.

Job numbers during Biden's presidency, and early in Trump's presidency were also wildly over-estimated.

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/21/2024/us-job-growth-wea...

Tariffs might be a factor, but there's also a wider economic downturn globally at the moment. Canada lost 66k jobs in august, UK unemployment rate rose to 4.7%, Europe as a whole has slowing growth, deflation is becoming crisis-level in China and unemployment is rising.
by praptak | 2025-09-08 20:34:34+00:00
The issues make it not continuous. The 1d limit of 0.01, 0.011, 0.0111, ... is 0.1

The 2d limit of the same series is the top right point of left half. The 2d representation of 0.1 is the bottom left point of the right half.

The Hilbert curve is mirrored and that's how it solves this problem.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-08 20:34:56+00:00
This is the flip side of Intel trying to drop AVX512 on their E cores in the 12th generation processors. It didn't work. It requires the OS to know which processes need AVX512 before they get run. And processes themselves use cpuid to determine the capability of processors and they don't expect it to change. So you basically must determine in advance which processes can be run on E cores and never migrate between cores.
by j45 | 2025-09-08 20:35:00+00:00
Ask Claude Opus to search, verify, source and then quote back passages and provide a link back the information for the supplement and any particular health needs and start reading.

Keep modifying the prompt until you don't need to review it as much, but still review it. I have a pretty long one like this now and it almost doesn't seem real. Still double check what it returns. It's easy enough to take the retrieved studies to your doc for verification too .

For example, if targeting the brain, levels can be much higher.

Magnesium Threonate crosses the blood brain barrier, which is great, leaving Magnesium Biglycinate for the rest of the body.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-09-08 20:35:05+00:00
It is true that early man specifically during the Ice Age, had a much higher omega-3 diet. But many of you are not genetically ice age people. I know I am because of my haplotype, which is K1.

Most European Caucasians would probably do better on a high omega-3 short chain poly unsaturated fatty acid diet. Like the omega-3’s from flaxseed. The change from gather cultures to farming culture changed the way we processed polyunsaturated fatty acids.
by trod1234 | 2025-09-08 20:35:31+00:00
Socialism by definition is where the means of production cannot be individually owned, which presumes and dictates centralized authority to enforce this.

This is central-planning from a structural view, and people doing the work don't have ownership of their tools under such systems. So your anarchist commune as a socialism example can't really be called socialism if the individuals own their own tools, though socialist in a different context (as an ideology) may engender this in contradictory fashion.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-09-08 20:35:40+00:00
Linux kernel has an interesting optimization using the ALTERNATIVE macro, where you can directly specify one of two instructions and it will be patched at runtime depending on cpu flags. No function calls needed (although you can have a function call as one of the instructions). It's a bit more messy in userspace where you have to respect platform page flags, etc. but it should be possible.
by alanbernstein | 2025-09-08 20:36:02+00:00
I think I misinterpreted your comment as not understanding the AI effect, but actually you're just summarizing it kind of concisely and sarcastically?

LLMs are one of the first technologies that makes me think the term "AI effect" needs to be updated to "AGI effect". The effect is still there, but it's undeniable that LLMs are capable of things that seem impossible with classical CS methods, so they get to retain the designation of AI.
by SLWW | 2025-09-08 20:36:10+00:00
Young people also like to see if there is a way to have a better world, old people tend to keep the status quo.

While I'm sure the connection to technology and the Internet as a whole plays a role, but much more-so the gross and clearly corrupt government is the reason why they demonstrated.

No one is willing to die so they can just post on social media.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-08 20:36:22+00:00
> from AWS or MS about their serverless offerings and other such lock in mechanisms

IME in Cybersecurity/Enterprise SaaS, F1000s largely eschewed serverless capabilities and control plane lock-in features (eg. Fargate, Autopilot) because they wanted to be able to reduce single vendor risks as well as negotiate better contracts.

Most firms I've dealt with that size tend to have at least 2 hyperscalers used internally, plus an on-prem footprint that is increasingly being reduced.

The firms I've seen use serverless and lock-in features the most tended to be smaller shops (eg. Mid-markets, hyper scaling startups) that simply don't have the bandwidth to invest in a large DevSecOps org but are also technical enough to not get locked into an MSSP contract.

Also, OCI is on an absolute warpath right now - a LOT of very large tech-first F500s are getting and signing OCI sweetheart deals as we speak. They've replicated GCP's GTM approach, which is ironic because Thomas Kurian is ex-Oracle and was the de facto "keeps the lights on" guy there, until Catz and Ellison pushed him out.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-08 20:36:34+00:00
>you do not know if it is your own citizens talking or some foreign agent with their own vested interest

You wouldn't know that if the site was from your own country either. Could you be sure your neighbor is not a foreign spy?

>I don't consider regulating social media as "censorship" at all

To clarify, you don't consider it censorship because you believe your government would make it more difficult for foreigners alone to use their speech, and never your own countrymen. You're either delusional or adorably naive.

Inevitably, censorship will get used against you, either to silence you or to silence speech you would want to hear. Anyone who calls for censorship is a useful idiot.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-08 20:36:54+00:00
> Huge swathes of the American public are so utterly underwater in propaganda that they've lost the ability to reason entirely.

They're right here on HN as well.

And they're accusing the rest that they are the ones that are drinking the kool aid. It's a pretty weird time, tbh, I never ever thought it would get this bad. But I've seen some glimpses of it, a Dutch guy I know emigrated to the USA, got married to a woman in one of the heartland states and within a short few months he was completely on the Trump bandwagon and saying and writing stuff that his previous incarnation would be horrified at.
by axiolite | 2025-09-08 20:36:59+00:00
To reduce dependence on China, tariffs should ONLY be on China, and not the entire world including neighbors and close allies.

To help bring manufacturing back to the US, the tariffs should have been fixed, in legislation, with 2+ years of advanced notice before implementation, to allow companies to plan for them and implement something.

The ad-hoc approach taken by the current administration ensures 100% that neither of those will happen.
by jbverschoor | 2025-09-08 20:37:15+00:00
Local llm.. everybody is scared of privacy.. many people don’t want to buy subscriptions (still).

Just sell a proper HomePod with 64GB-128GB ram, which handles everything including your personal LLM, Time Machine if needed, back to Mac (Tailscale/zerotier)

+ they can compete efficiently with the other. Cloud providers.
by godelski | 2025-09-08 20:37:38+00:00
> Whereas grandma on Windows and Chrome is "less unique," and therefore in some sense less fingerprint-able.

I got highly unique on FF so I tested Safari on a M2 Air. Still says I'm highly unique. I'm on a university campus internet, there's thousands of people with that exact same setup. I don't think I've ever seen a finger printing site that doesn't say I'm very unique.

I think the problem I have with these types of sites is that they do not really offer advice on how to become less unique and how to protect one's self. It's probably pretty easy to identify machines through things like canvas fingerprinting or through all the other things that the browser actually exposes. Many privacy browsers like Tor or Mullvad will just send no data to those. That makes them "unique" because there's not many people using browsers that do that but it's unique in a way that makes you fungible. There's unique as in "uncommon" but also unique as "differentiable." I can't understand how these sites never make that distinction.
by stillsut | 2025-09-08 20:38:16+00:00
I think the "magic" that we've found a common toolset of methods - embeddings and layers of neural networks - that seem to reveal useful patterns and relationships from a vast array of corpus of unstructured analog sensors (pictures, video, point clouds) and symbolic (text, music) and that we can combine these across modalities like CLIP.

It turns out we didn't need a specialist technique for each domain, there was a reliable method to architect a model that can learn itself, and we could already use the datasets we had, they didn't need to be generated in surveys or experiments. This might seem like magic to an AI researcher working in the 1990's.
by rolph | 2025-09-08 20:38:29+00:00
about your TPLINK,

there is often a "recovery feature", an alternate boot partition [ i posted about this some time ago.]

if you configure your router so that it "bricks" you can boot in the last working configuration before your changes; rescue; and save to overwrite the brick partition. presumably you can do this forever, as long as you dont brick both partitions.

3 interrupted boot cycles would cause a switch to last successful boot partition.

in my case i had problems because of the curious way we have power failures here. the power would brown out and each phase of generation would send a peak and trough, equivalent to turning power on then off before boot completion 3 times.

if you want to be snazzy, you can play on this and work two partitions at once each configured for different purpose, and accessed by briskly cycling power thrice.
by ars | 2025-09-08 20:39:05+00:00
Here is one of the crash reports: https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/15999dc2-9465-4...

(I happened to have an un-subitted one which I just submitted, all the other ones I submitted are older than 6 months and have been purged.)

It would crash in random spots, but usually some kind of X, GLX, EGL or similar library.

But I don't think it was GLX, etc, because it also didn't save my profile except very very rarely, which was actually a much worse problem!!

(This crash is from a long time ago, hence the old Firefox version.)
by toast0 | 2025-09-08 20:39:05+00:00
The market (either producers or consumers or both) don't seem to care about visibility. If you sit in a 20 year old car vs a brand new car, visibility is clearly better in the 20 year old car; if you go back to a 40 year car, it's even better. I've got an 81 VW Vanagon, the visibility is really good: cabover [1] means there's no hood in front, clear vertical windows and no safety features makes it easy to see out in every direction. Terrible side mirror attachments are a negative, but I'm putting aftermarket windows that promise to hold position after adjustment.

[1] It's not really a cabover, the engine is in the rear. but the front seats are slightly in front of the front axle, and the windshield is at the front of the vehicle. Some contemporaries were really cab-over, like the Toyota Van (aka TownAce) although that has a sloped front which reduces drag and visibility.
by dingaling | 2025-09-08 20:39:12+00:00
It's being chipped away, though.

It started innocuously with mandatory emergency signalling in the instance of a crash, then mandatory reversing cameras, then mandatory lane keeping assistance, auto emergency braking, speed limit indication. Coming soon in Europe is automatic speed limit adherence. Emissions regs have also led to a huge rise in automatic transmissions in Europe.

For very many people the only thing they do to control their car now is turn the wheel and push the accelerator.
by anthk | 2025-09-08 20:39:26+00:00
32 bit Atom netbook. I use offpunk, gopher://magical.fish among tons of services (and HN work straight there) and gemini://gemi.dev over the gemini protocol with Telescope as the client. Mpv+yt-dlp+streamlink complement the video support. Miserable?

Go try browsing the web without UBlock Origin today under an i3.
by amai | 2025-09-08 20:39:33+00:00
Is that a joke? The myopia rate in China is much higher than in India:

China's myopia rate is 31%: 400 million of its 1.3 billion people are myopic. The prevalence of myopia in high school in China is 77%, and in college is more than 80%.

A study indicated that the prevalence of myopia among urban children in India of aged 5 to 15 increased from 4.44% in 1999 to 21.15% in 2019.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia
by karlgkk | 2025-09-08 20:39:35+00:00
My phone is pretty permanently on silent and do not disturb. I have close friends on favorites so they break through.

I have about 10 third party apps installed on my phone

Chat, maps, ride share, music, study, and my car

Everything else i do is through the browser.

It’s great. If im on the bus and i want to watch slop, instagram web interface is fine lol.
by egypturnash | 2025-09-08 20:40:40+00:00
All the blockquotes are coming in as black on black for me in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. This appears to be due to a css file called "https://understandlegacycode.com/_astro/ai-support.D3anziw5....". Anyone wanna lay odds on whether that filename is a big tell that much of the text is also written by three autocompletes in a trenchcoat?
by procaryote | 2025-09-08 20:40:51+00:00
Isn't this just youtube cracking down on adblock?

They have a plethora of ways to make the app and website suck for non-paying users now, including and not limited to:

* faking an interruption when starting to play

* random errors mid-play

* no longer playing on hover on-web or in-app

I've just taken that as a good signal I should read more books instead, but I imagine it kills view-counts
by bgwalter | 2025-09-08 20:41:02+00:00
What are the next steps after the install? Discover that local LLMs are inadequate or freeze the machine (as stated in the article)?

If you are at NIH, perhaps wait until you are fired?

It is very sad that the whole scientific ecosystem is jumping on the hype train. There are no interesting articles any longer, no real scientific discoveries. Just article after article how to feed the bureaucratic LLM machinery and become a good apparatchik within it.
by Theodores | 2025-09-08 20:41:08+00:00
To be honest, a decent image server that can be the root server for a CDN and do the right things with modern web formats is something that should be standard and built in by now, with nobody needing to build and install their own.

That said, this is far better than my own non-existent image server.

For me a measure of quality is the rendered HTML code, which should use all the content sectioning elements and not be bloated with gazillions of divs and classes. This software is well off the pace in this regard.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-08 20:41:47+00:00
It depends on your flow honestly. If you're just using your vectors for where filters on domain objects and you don't have hundreds of millions of vectors PGVec is fine. If you have any sort of workflow where you need low latency access to vectors and reliable random read performance, or where vector work is the bottleneck on performance, PGVec goes tits up.
by m00x | 2025-09-08 20:42:01+00:00
He's not wrong that the BLS is terrible at projecting these numbers, and the media is even worse and presents these guesses as facts.

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/21/2024/us-job-growth-wea...

But he's wrong that it's new: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bls-jobs-report-revision-trump-...

Who knows if it'll end up improving with someone new. The BLS is using pretty outdated and poor data collection methods, but it hasn't changed in decades. My guess is that nothing will change with someone new, but who knows.
by ars | 2025-09-08 20:42:53+00:00
I tried about:memory, I did not find anything useful. See also my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173661

(I'm no longer running it, I switched to 64 bit and was VERY happy to no longer have crashes.)

I technically could re-install the 32 bit one, and try it, but honestly, I don't really want to!
by nikeee | 2025-09-08 20:43:13+00:00
> alongside features that let you transfer your encrypted message history between Android, iOS, and Desktop devices.

That's actually the feature I've been looking forward to. As I moved vom Android to iOS, I lost _all_ message histories from all messenger apps that use E2EE (Signal, WhatsApp, Threema, etc). The only one that "just worked" was Telegram due to not being encrypted. WhatsApp had a migration app that has to be done when setting up the iPhone, but it failed due to some bug. Signal had backups, but they didn't seem to be compatible between different OS versions.
by jasonjayr | 2025-09-08 20:43:19+00:00
I have a bunch of old WD MyBook Live NAS drives (PowerPC CPU) from an older project, and was surprised that OpenWRT was the best way to get a modern linux on them:

https://openwrt.org/toh/western_digital/mybooklive

They're slow, but great for stuff that doesn't need to be fast.
by wnc3141 | 2025-09-08 20:43:34+00:00
I'm sure some of it has to do with operating within the North Atlantic Tracks. Essentially when you lose radio connection you are placed in a slot with a specific speed, bearing, and altitude without the ability to be in constant contact with FAA radio guidance. - the airspace is more congested than you might imagine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Tracks