MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-09-29 03:48:20+00:00
So this requires the two VMs to be sharing execution on a core? Or perhaps a shared cache? Or would it work across VMs "pinned" to different CPUs?

It's weird to me that cloud hosts aren't absolutely swimming in cores now, but with Intel struggling and AMD somewhat resting on its laurels, which it stupidly did in the Hector Ruiz days, nothing is pushing the envelope. In 2010, fifteen years ago, we had 12 core CPUs.

In 2010 we had a billion or so transistors. In 2020, we had 50 billion. In 2010 we were at 28nm, now we're at 3nm.

We should have 100x the CPUs on die now or more. a thousand x86 cores, god knows how many Arms, and god knows how much you could do with hi-low core counts.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is all of these vulnerabilities across process execution or VM execution could be moot: if the processes were isolated to a core or set of cores, and the VM isolated to its own dedicated branch predictors in its own cores. Then go ahead and do whatever tricks you want. Obviously you don't want hyper-threading.
by musicale | 2025-09-29 03:48:20+00:00
> the point they were making wasn't just about pure quantity, even though that's what they said directly

(emphasis mine)

> Obviously, the implication is that they're talking about "real" games, as in fully-produced games that are published on PCs and consoles

Is "real" games like "no true Scotsman" games? As you note, GP said "games ever made" rather than (for example) "PC games". But your reframing of the category makes me wonder - what percentage of Steam games are also on the App store? I wouldn't be surprised it if is more than .01%.
by smelendez | 2025-09-29 03:48:49+00:00
Wikipedia mentions heightened regulation and litigation around 2000, along with layoffs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Clearing_House

Also the business was probably becoming obsolete at that point. The internet brought easier access to magazine content, magazine subscriptions signups, and sweepstakes. I remember there being a pretty big sweepstakes forum community at that point.

It also seems like the most lucrative customers may have been using the sweepstakes as a form of gambling, and gambling options have just steadily expanded for decades.
by naet | 2025-09-29 03:49:58+00:00
I do dev work for a marketing dept of a large company and there is a lot of talk about optimizing for LLMs/AI. Chatgpt can drive sales in the same way a blog post indexed by Google can.

If a customer asks the AI what product can solve their problem and it replies with our product that is a huge win.

If your business is SEO spam with online ads, chatgpt might eat it. But if your business is selling some product, chatgpt might help you sell it.
by DangitBobby | 2025-09-29 03:50:19+00:00
Sounds like the overuse of antibiotics in animals we slaughter was noted and regulated against, according to the document you linked:

> Did you know? As of January 1, 2017, Federal guidelines require a veterinarian to write the prescription or order when antibiotics important to human health will be used in feed or water of livestock and poultry. Why is this important? As in health care, professionals in veterinary medicine must identify where antibiotic use practices can be improved. Eliminating unnecessary antibiotic use is an important part of antibiotic stewardship.

Anyway, I took GP's comment to refer to the overuse of antibiotics in animals we slaughter and not the amount of antibiotics still detectable in the meat. As of 2015 at least that was still a problem and had an impact on resistant bacteria.

> Of all antibiotics sold in the United States, approximately 80% are sold for use in animal agriculture; about 70% of these are “medically important” (i.e., from classes important to human medicine).2 Antibiotics are administered to animals in feed to marginally improve growth rates and to prevent infections, a practice projected to increase dramatically worldwide over the next 15 years.3 There is growing evidence that antibiotic resistance in humans is promoted by the widespread use of nontherapeutic antibiotics in animals. Resistant bacteria are transmitted to humans through direct contact with animals, by exposure to animal manure, through consumption of undercooked meat, and through contact with uncooked meat or surfaces meat has touched.

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4638249/
by bruce511 | 2025-09-29 03:50:59+00:00
Sure, I get that things like Huntingtons would certainly be worth knowing about. But for genetics like that simply looking at your own previous generations would give you the answer there. (And of course, that assumes you have access to that, which clearly not everyone does.)

Having children is obviously a big responsibility, and every parent wants only the best for them. Doing genetic testing can at least feel like you've done your due diligence.

I would point out though that genetic diseases are a tiny tiny fraction of the things that can go wrong. The overwhelming majority of children turn out fine. But some don't. That's life I'm afraid. Genetic testing isn't a guarantee they'll be OK. I'd go so far as to suggest it's basically meaningless in that context (especially if you have access to parents, grandparents etc.)

However you progress, I wish you well.
by DaSHacka | 2025-09-29 03:51:00+00:00
Please look inward before levying criticism against others.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

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And, for your first reply to this thread's OP:

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by analog31 | 2025-09-29 03:51:34+00:00
Yes. Mostly, until relatively recently on a historical time scale. In the middle ages, musicians were employed by towns, and had a guild. They also worked for princes, the church, etc. I read an article saying that they often did double duty as cops on market days.

There was perhaps less of a distinction between "arts" and trades. People did all kinds of work on paintings, sculptures, etc., and expected to get paid for it. They rarely put their names on their works.

I've read a bit about Bach's life, and he was always concerned about making money.

One music history textbook I read identified the invention of printed music as the start of the "music industry." Before the recording era, people composed and published sheet music. There were pianos in middle class parlors, and people bought sheet music to play. Two names that come to mind were Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton. Movie theaters hired pianists or organists, though that employment vanished when talking movies came out. The musicians of the jazz era were making their livings from music. One familiar name is Miles Davis. His father was a dentist, and his parents considered music to be a respectable middle class career for their son. People did make a living from recordings before the Internet era. Today, lucrative work in the arts still exists for things like advertising and sports broadcasting.

(Revealing my bias, I'm a jazz musician).

In fact the expectation that an artist should not earn a decent living is kind of a new thing.
by ggm | 2025-09-29 03:53:06+00:00
I'd be interested in a more dispassionate write up of the failure. 75% of rated power isn't nothing, Much is made of birdlife losses but with wind power, this has been seen to be both over-rated, and nothing compared to the billions which die from other man-made causes.

Did this die for being .. unfashionable? Not enough power for capex? Too unusual against other emerging modes of power gen?

Using gas a fill-in suggests the thermal mass was grossly inadequate. Maybe backfill of newer solar-thermal tech defeated them.

Do we have any significant solar thermal power generation systems in the world any more? Or just demonstrator and research facilities?

Also, whats the site restitution burden like? Do they dismantle, or try to find a private buyer (bitcoin...)
by Balgair | 2025-09-29 03:55:56+00:00
The cost of the next number in a GPT (3>4>5) seems to be in 2 ways:

1) $$$

2) data

The second (data) also isn't cheap. As it seems we've already gotten through all the 'cheap' data out there. So much so that synthetic data (fart huffing) is a big thing now. People tell it's real and useful and passes the glenn-horf theore... blah blah blah.

So it really more so comes down to just:

1) $$$^2 (but really pick any exponent)

In that, I'm not sure this thing is a true sigmoid curve (see: biology all the time). I think it's more a logarithmic cost here. In that, it never really goes away, but it gets really expensive to carry out for large N.

[To be clear, lots of great shit happens out there in large N. An AI god still may lurk in the long slow slope of $N, the cure for boredom too, or knowing why we yawn, etc.]
by onion2k | 2025-09-29 03:56:02+00:00
OpenAI cookbook says LLMs understand XML better than Markdown text.

Yes, for prompts. Given how little XML is out on the public internet it'd be surprising if it also applies to data ingestion from web scraping functions. It'd be odd if Markdown works better than HTML to be honest, but maybe Markdown also changes the content being served e.g. there's no menu, header, or footer sent with the body content.
by donavanm | 2025-09-29 03:56:08+00:00
Yes, I havent done CDN work in a few years, but AFAIK that applies to all of the cloud "partners" in PRC as well. The customer needs to sign up with the PRC entity, provide ICP & local contacts, etc.

I would say that any MIIT approved infrastructure provider _is_ co-opted by the CCP. Its the entire point of requiring ICPs, tying the ICPs to network addresses/endpoints, and infra providers to be local entities; the MIIT gets their MITM equipment and RTBH routes directly in to the providers local DC.
by kianN | 2025-09-29 03:57:28+00:00
Totally agree and great point that hierarchical models have been around for a long time; however, these were primarily analytical, leveraging conjugate priors or requiring pretty extensive integration.

I would say his work with Stan and his writings, along with theorists like Radford Neal, really opened the door to a computational approach to hierarchical modeling. And I think this is a meaningfully different field.
by ggm | 2025-09-29 03:57:42+00:00
In Australia there was a belief (false? unmet?) that gas would displace coal, as wind and solar took up major load. What seems to be happening is that gas plant owners bid for spot profit and then turn off, and coal continues to secure the load contracts it needs to be left pumping out electricity.

Maybe it needs more pumped hydro or batteries. Maybe it needs more directions from the regulator.

Gas should be a cleaner alternate to coal for supply of power via highly efficient gas turbines. They're jet engines. We know they work. This should be a no-brainer.

I believe South Australia, which is one of the largest solar/wind-mostly nets in the world, has two or three gas peakers, but it also uses an inter-state interconnector so has indirect access to cheap coal sourced electricity from NSW and Vic. Kinda cheating.
by boriselec | 2025-09-29 03:58:52+00:00
Also read "stupid" code :)

I didn't know about Deno and streams, but this looks fine

const file = await Deno.open("huge-quotes.txt"); const quotes: string[] = []; await file.readable .pipeThrough(new TextDecoderStream()) .pipeThrough(new TextLineStream()) .pipeTo(new WritableStream({ write(line) { quotes.push(line); } }));
by totetsu | 2025-09-29 04:00:06+00:00
I think PP's point was .. that even if you spend your whole life pressed into laboring to produce a surplus to satisfy the excessive consumption of the elites of your heretical society, in ways that create existential risk for future generations, and are at odds with your own inner values and moral compass.. you can still see the 'immateriality' of all that in the grand scheme of things and choose to be happy.
by ShakataGaNai | 2025-09-29 04:02:41+00:00
I've run into the "falsely marked as delivered" thing a few times (at home, wfh). Last time I called and threw a shit fit and the rep gave me the usual run around about "how you must have simply missed the delivery" or "maybe you didn't hear the doorbell" or whatever BS. I basically said "Look, I've got a security camera on my front door. I've pulled the video at the timestamp saying I'm not home. The truck isn't even on my street, let alone at my door. What's your email address and I'll send it to you?"

They always demure saying it isn't necessary, they can't accept it, yada yada. And somehow always insist that they can't get ahold of the local distro manager, and just to wait until tomorrow (in this case this was "Attempt" 2 of 3, both of which were a lie). I had to upgrade to the nuclear response "I'm going to send this video to the corporation who sent me the item to show them that FedEx is actively lying on their delivery statuses. And I'll CC our local news team who's bored and happy to burn down corporations because they've got nothing else going on." Turns out they actually CAN get a message to the local distribution manager (no shit, I know that) who CAN call me to apologize and the truck magically finds its way to my house by the end of the day.

I'm not sure who to be ticked with or feel bad for. The drivers are typically the ones being abused, so I sort of feel bad for them. But also... stop freaking lying. Don't say you tried when you did. It wasn't even something that required signature. All you had to do was to walk the 15 steps from the truck, chuck it as hard as you can towards my porch (because... of course they do), and call it a day.
by prewett | 2025-09-29 04:02:58+00:00
Having lived in China, the whole control part that's part of Communism (and Chinese dynasties) drove me nuts. The market economy part, though, that was great. In the late Hu years China seemed like a place where you could get anything you wanted (special order? no problem), and every Chinese person seemed optimistic. I gather that feeling has changed (by increased government control, it seems), which is sad, because it was a great time.

I share the article's interviewee's opinion that Americans and Chinese are similar, I came to the same conclusion. I think China has so much to offer the world, and Americans could easily think of it sort of how we see the UK. The reactions I get from Americans when I mention I lived in China makes me think that Americans want to love China. Kind of the way that the "otherness" between men and women acts to attract. (And also to make relating difficult.) Unfortunately, the Communist engineering the human soul is completely at odds both with flourishing humanity and American's rampantly individualistic culture.
by chii | 2025-09-29 04:05:14+00:00
> it's just that the $/token may not be able to pay back the capital investment.

the loss is private, so that's OK.

A similar thing happened to the internet bandwidth capacity when the dot-com bust happened - overinvestment in fibre everywhere (came to be called dark fibre iirc), which became superbly useful once the recovery started, despite those building these capacity not making much money. They ate the losses, so that the benefit can flow out.

The only time this is not OK is when the overinvestment comes from gov't sources, and is ultimately a taxpayer funded grift.
by jen729w | 2025-09-29 04:05:58+00:00
In Australia (and many other countries), we need to KYC when we get a new mobile plan. This makes sense: you can do a lot of criming with a 'dark' phone number.

Predictably enough, then...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Optus_data_breach

> In September 2022, Australian telecommunications company Optus suffered a data breach that affected up to 10 million current and former customers comprising a third of Australia's population. Information was illegally obtained, including names, dates of birth, home addresses, telephone numbers, email contacts, and numbers of passports and driving licences.
by tacitusarc | 2025-09-29 04:07:39+00:00
I think this is mostly true, but also I’d highlight the necessity of having a mental model, and iterating.

I think it is common for a programmer to just start programming without coming up with any model, and just try to solve the problem by adding code on top of code.

There are also many programmers who go with their first “working” implementation, and never iterate.

These days, I think the pendulum has swung too far from thinking about the program, maybe mapping it out a bit on paper before writing code.
by LeonenTheDK | 2025-09-29 04:09:05+00:00
I actually ended up purchasing this unit and getting it running with the instructions from [0] mentioned elsewhere. RAM and everything else seems to be almost identical to the dongles. (4 core A53 CPU running just shy of 1Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 4GB flash storage).

The only couple issues I had getting a plain old Linux on it from the instructions was that it didn't like the image buddy prepared custom for his tutorial in [0]. The solution was to follow the source links in the article, and flash it with a "generic" image from the person I believe originally got Linux working on these types of devices. I can't overstate how good these instructions and discussions in the comments are. The other thing was the modem didn't work, but all that required was copying the files from the original modem partition on the device to /lib/firmware of the new Linux installation. Super straight forward.

Sadly the screen, while it did function with the stock firmware, doesn't work out of the box with the Linux I flashed to it. Digging around, I think I've determined it's a DSI display, with maybe some evidence of Linux showing its there, but the kernel I have wasn't compiled with any support to run it. I'm not knowledgeable at all in this space though so there's that.

It's a great device, all the same benefits of the dongles, but with a battery to boot. If only I knew how to get that screen to work.

[0] https://wvthoog.nl/openstick/
by onion2k | 2025-09-29 04:11:58+00:00
You missed the part that says "viewed and listened to hours of video from the bus". The evidence is already available. The problem is that no one was bothering to look at it to check the kids were OK.

Kids will find ways to harass each other: between classes, lunch times, recess, etc.

This is true, but in most countries it doesn't escalate to mass murder. That's specifically a US thing (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-sh...). So while you're right, I don't think it's fair to suggest it's hard to stop this problem or to resign to it being typical kids behaviour. The shooting aspect bucks the global norm.
by lkey | 2025-09-29 04:13:02+00:00
Since Reagan and Clinton, the US has a center right party with a left flank and a center right party with a right flank. This is the beating heart of neoliberlism. MAGA is what happens when the right flank overtakes the entire party. You have to travel to other countries if you want to see an active left movement.

"hope you like the Trumps of the world instead!"

Newsom is not a presidential candidate, so this is not the only option. Instead, the Dems should run candidates with real convictions and better policies. Newsom believes in nothing, same as Buttigieg, Harris and Clinton. There is no one they wouldn't sell out for a taste of power. The Dem reaction to Bernie, years ago, and Zohran now tells us everything we need to know about how they feel about 'vote blue no matter who' when an actual SocDem wins a primary.

It is not a 'purity test' to demand politicians respond to public pressure with the understanding that, if they don't, they will lose votes. The sooner you tell them your terms, the better.

Harris chose to ignore the genocide and lost votes to Trump, who lied and promised to 'end wars'. She muzzled Walz in favor of her SV weirdos. She has the political instincts of a cabbage, which is why she dropped out first in the last primary.

"what parts of homeless encampments are leftist?"

Homeless encampments are not an ideology, they are an externality of the housing market requiring 'number go up'. A market means someone (the poor and disabled) won't be able to afford what is on offer.

Dismantling homeless encampments is a violent act. That's everything they have in the world. This kind of sociopathy has no wide constituency. Even if the staunchest NIMBYs don't want to see the homeless (it feels like crime!), they also don't want to see them abused on camera. Newsom is a demon for doing it live.

The Left 'solution', such as is, is to provide housing. This is also the economical solution. If you have a stable address and shelter, you don't waste money on ER visits and jail time, which cost more money from the same purse.

It's not rocket science, but it is politically untenable because the private housing market is load bearing for American middle class wealth.

Also, folks feel like if you are poor, you should be punished for it and housing feels like a reward. The gut reaction of too many Americans is they'd rather jail the homeless at twice the price than provide them an apartment free from sun and rain.

This same principle explains the immigration 'policy' on display in American cities. The recent ICE allocations could revive medicaid, end child hunger, raise classroom salaries, alleviate homelessness, create a federal public works program, and subsidize drug prices... but instead we get defunct concentration camps in swamps that cost billions and roaming masked kidnappers that have a daily bounty on the heads of uber drivers.
by more_corn | 2025-09-29 04:13:22+00:00
I have a center channel. I have the same problem. It’s irritating.

It’s not like people have invented some newfangled thing in their living rooms. Most people have super vanilla audio setups and tuning the audio in a way that sucks for nearly everyone is simply a mistake.

Making excuses for people who make a bad product doesn’t do anyone any favors. We can calmly and clearly call out the error and request that people who make the error cease.
by vasco | 2025-09-29 04:13:31+00:00
Being harassed non-stop and only doing a gesture and getting suspended by a gesture when you get much worse is so unfair. Like "let's see if we can create school shooters" level of unfair.

I wonder if the USA has a lot of school shooters because the teachers and administrators are dumb like this and not because of other reasons. If adults misunderstand situations like this you feel like nobody has your back.
by DaSHacka | 2025-09-29 04:14:13+00:00
> Well that is too bad. I am glad it is taken seriously here in the US because wireless jamming is a serious public safety issue.

Yet evidently we don't care about an actual massive public safety issue in the form of these cameras cataloging each person's habits and frequented locations and freely handing them out like candy to any organizations willing to fork out the cash.

Go figure, at least people can't jam the cameras, imagine how bad that would be...?
by CharlesW | 2025-09-29 04:14:38+00:00
> Media producers would have to invent an entirely new mode of media playback that could detect your speaker setup, and then load an entirely different audio mix made for stereo, say, lacking some of the background noises, music, etc. when dialogue was more relevant.

Object-based audio (MPEG-H, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X) can do this, and lots more.