MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by martin-t | 2025-09-15 10:49:04+00:00
Almost all power is like that. Power comes from the ability to do violence (or threaten/imply it) and there's only so much guns and ammo you can carry. Not to mention the attacker has the advantage here and full-body ballistic protection would be too cumbersome and still wouldn't stop an IED. I mean, the IRA mortared Downing Street and that was 1990s tech.

To amass enough violence to control large numbers of people, you need to incentivize other people to apply violence for you. Dictatorships are more honest in this regard - they reward such subservients with the opportunity to abuse others for pleasure and material benefit.

Democracies OTOH tell people that we're all better off if the system works and anyone upsetting it hurts everyone so it's everyone's best interest to "pacify" them.

You're right that many people are very submissive though and just do what they are told even it it harms them long term. Usually the forcing mechanism is other people would punish you if you didn't punish the person you are supposed to. I mean, most of the cops who hunted down Luigi benefited from the CEOs death, yet they still did it. Because the benefit is too indirect and delayed and the punishment for getting caught not doing your job on purpose is immediate and direct.

I still object to the term leader because they don't lead, they tell people what to do. Not all leadership has to be be example but it implies some participation in the activity, its benefits and its dangers. Modern politicians are too well-shielded from the reality of working people.
by dgb23 | 2025-09-15 10:49:25+00:00
I'm also a slow thinker and can relate with the author.

But something stands out to me here: The article doesn't mention making music, drawing or similar.

I started drawing a bit this year with a book that focuses on how it feels to draw and how to think about drawing and it has been quite fun and enlightening. It is hard to describe, because it's a unique experience.

The big lesson here for me is that you can switch thinking or rather brain state modes deliberately as long as you know how they feel. It's almost like switching on your intuition and stop getting bothered by your thoughts.

This intuitive mode is much quicker and more automatic. My theory is that slow thinkers have a harder time to get into that state or generally switching back and forth. That's fine in of itself, everyone has different strengths. But it's also not completely out of reach and it can be enriching to practice that way.
by taminka | 2025-09-15 10:51:02+00:00
lowkey ppl who praise cargo seem to have no idea of the tradeoffs involved in dependency management

the difficulty of including a dependency should be proportional to the risk you're taking on, meaning it shouldn't be as difficult as it in, say, C where every other library is continually reinventing the same 5 utilities, but also not as easy as it is with npm or cargo, because you get insane dependency clutter, and all the related issues like security, build times, etc

how good a build system isn't equivalent of how easy it is include a dependency, while modern languages should have a consistent build system, but having a centralised package repository that anyone freely pull to/from, and having those dependencies freely take on any number of other dependencies is a bad way to handle dependencies
by mctt | 2025-09-15 10:51:10+00:00
What happened to curl? The comment is referring to how the curl project is being overwhelmed by low-quality bug/vulnerability reports generated (or partially generated) by AI (“AI slop”), so much so that curl maintainers are now banning reporters who submit such reports and demanding disclosure, because these sloppy reports cost a lot of time and drain the team.

[generated by ChatGPT] Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217858
by monegator | 2025-09-15 10:52:29+00:00
I can assure you one hundred percent, the only thing i ever used "AI" for was for stupid stuff like this: Dall-E to generate low quality absurd images from the most random prompts was my favourite.

This is the complete opposite of AI Slop: A website that turns absurd queries into unbelievable producs, all for the lulz. Well done to the author
by lr4444lr | 2025-09-15 10:52:46+00:00
I took CBD twice and both times it worsened my sleep, so I really wanted a pure CBN product.

Not sure where you live, but this is what I use for CBN: https://www.charlottesweb.com/products/stay-asleep-cbn-gummi...

One gummy (10mg) works for about 2-3 nights, then I get another 2-3 nights effect with 20mg. Then I have to cease taking it for several days.
by erphy | 2025-09-15 10:53:01+00:00
Many small business owners still manage bookings and client notes on paper or in scattered apps. This often leads to missed reminders, lost appointments, and frustrated clients.

Erphy combines three things into one: a simple website, an online booking system, and a lightweight CRM. Clients can book appointments directly, receive automatic reminders, and all orders are stored in one place. The calendar view helps track visits and outcomes easily.

The site can be set up in minutes with a step-by-step wizard. I built this as a solo founder and am currently looking for early users and feedback.
by rossant | 2025-09-15 10:53:42+00:00
Mostly these sentences. QuillBot finds these are 100% AI-generated, but I'm not sure how much we can trust it.

> While exploring this question, I discovered something unexpected that led to an interesting collaboration with Grant and a deeper understanding of vector space geometry.

> When I shared these findings with Grant, his response exemplified the collaborative spirit that makes the mathematics community so rewarding. He not only appreciated the technical correction but invited me to share these insights with the 3Blue1Brown audience. This article is that response, expanded to explore the broader implications of these geometric properties for machine learning and dimensionality reduction.

> The fascinating history of this result speaks to the interconnected nature of mathematical discovery.

> His work consistently inspires deeper exploration of mathematical concepts, and his openness to collaboration exemplifies the best aspects of the mathematical community. The opportunity to contribute to this discussion has been both an honor and a genuine pleasure.

I don't know how to express it, maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker, but my brain has become used to this kind of tone in AI-generated content and I find it distracting to read. I don't mean to diminish this blog post, which is otherwise very interesting. I'm just pointing out an increasing (and understandable) trend of relying on AI to "improve" prose, but I think it sometimes leads to a uniformity of style, which I find a bit sad.
by noduerme | 2025-09-15 10:55:10+00:00
>> You don’t get to do whatever you want on the land of your nation state just because of blood and soil arguments like you and your blood is from there.

Yet you get to invade your sovereign, self-governing and peaceful neighbors if you're Russia or China, and have such grand imperialist adventures all while claiming to be anti-imperialist? How convenient. And oh, Russia's annexation of Crimea isn't about blood and soil? That was sure the pitch made to its own population.

You say you're a pan-nationalist, but then what's wrong with Ukraine choosing to ally with Europe? Is pan-nationalism only valid when the alliance is under Kremlin despotism? Whatever Putinism is, it certainly isn't about human rights either. [Perhaps you meant you are pan-Slavic? In that case, Kiev may as well be your capital]. And if you're so cynical as to believe that no system is any better than any other system when it comes to human rights, who are you or the despots and tyrants you side with to declare who should do what? What system are you offering the citizens of Taiwan or Ukraine that they would want? Your entire argument seems to boil down to a circle of hypocrisy: The people of some country have no inherent right to be there, so even if a larger belligerent power has no right either, there's nothing wrong with annihilating whatever freedom the local people have.

By your statements, you are actually justifying settler-colonialism. Should the Han take over Tibet and dispose of Tibetans? Sure, in your opinion, since no one has claim to land. (Strange how the new settlers lay claim to the land though, isn't it?) What right do native American people have to their land? None, according to you. So then what's this imperialism of America you're yapping about? It would be easier to say: It's not as if America has done anything China or Russia isn't currently doing. But that would be playing into your trap of equivocation. As a Tibetan freedom fighter friend of mine once said, when I suggested that America was sliding toward authoritarianism: never ever compare America to how much worse things are in a dictatorship like China. To do so is an insult to everyone fighting for their freedom from these thugs around the world.

If Ukraine had wanted to join Putin's Russia, they had ample opportunity. If Taiwan wanted to join China, they could do so tomorrow by a majority vote. And if your only argument is that the West is no better and just as hypocritical - apart from the fact that I believe you to be arguing in bad faith - then what difference is it to you which sphere of influence they end up in?
by crazybonkersai | 2025-09-15 10:56:21+00:00
The thing is that you almost need strong authoritarian control to transition society from agrarian to industrial state. You don't achieve that with globalization and open markets, but instead you nurture and develop your industry (which of course developed democratic countries find uncompetitive and undemocratic). Once you get your industry going, you can start opening up both markets and society.
by InCom-0 | 2025-09-15 10:56:50+00:00
Just use sanitizers properly. You are done. Everyone doing anything half-professional with C++ has been doing that for years already. And no you don't have to run sanitizers in production.

That being said: It is inconvenient and it is stacking yet another set of tools and workflow that you have to integrate into your development practice, which is not so nice.

Also, profiles are a better idea anyway. Also, I wish people would stop calling things 'safe'. Ain't nothing 'safe'. There are only various degrees of safety.
by drivenextfunc | 2025-09-15 10:59:00+00:00
The behavior of CPython and a few other implementations of Python (such as PyPy) is well documented and well understood. The semantics of the tiny subset of Python that this Python-to-eBPF compiler understands is not. For example, inferring from the fact that it statically compiles Python-ish AST to LLVM IR, you can have a rough idea that dynamic elements of Python semantics are unlikely to be compiled, but you cannot know exactly which elements without carefully reading the documentation or source code of the compiler. You can guess globals() or locals() won't work, maybe .__dict__ won't as well, but how about type() or isinstance()? You don't know without digging into the documentation (which may be lacking), because the subset of Python this compiler understands is rather arbitrary.

And also, having an LLM translate Python-ish pseudo code into C does not imply that you cannot examine it before putting it into a program. You can manually review it and make modifications as you want. It just reduces time spent compared with writing C code by hand.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-15 11:00:13+00:00
No "cups" in old British recipes I've made but there will be measures you have to look up like a "gill".

Counterpoint:

https://oldbritishrecipes.com/collection-of-old-biscuit-reci...

And yeah, depending on how far back you're going or what sources you're using, there will be a lot of vaguely defined quantities. Glen of Glen and Friends on Youtube regularly cooks vintage recipes and gets into how things evolved over time. Most of his old cookbooks are either Canadian or American but from time to time he cooks from UK cookbooks.
by awesome_dude | 2025-09-15 11:00:21+00:00
Pile on all you like, but your gross misunderstanding isn't changing the facts.

As has been repeatedly pointed out, we have systems now that are accurate for 24 hours into the future, generally accurate for 72 hours, and mostly accurate for 120 hours

That's not "impossible because of chaos", that's "actually happening right now"

You're saying it cannot get any better, I'm saying it can

That's how wrong you are.
by creata | 2025-09-15 11:00:49+00:00
There are mathematical definitions of the terms "real number", "rational number", etc., but there is no mathematical definition of the word "number".

> we can approximate it with better and better precision

In one of the three common formal definitions of the real numbers, that's what a real number is: a Cauchy sequence of rational numbers, which approximate that real number with increasing precision. (Well, a real is an equivalence class of such sequences.)

(The other two common definitions are the Dedekind reals and the reals as the unique complete ordered field.)
by hilios | 2025-09-15 11:01:33+00:00
>So, Chat Control is an attempt by a few politicians to give police some tools to prevent teenagers from shooting each other in gang wars

No that is not ChatControl, that is just some Swedish thing. Chat Control would make it mandatory for servive providers to scan every single message in the EU for offending material and notify the authorities if anything is detected. It's blatant mass surveillance under the guise of protecting the children.
by abricq | 2025-09-15 11:01:49+00:00
This is great ! Congratulations. I really like your project, especially I like how easily it is to peak at.

Do you plan on moving forward with this project ? I seem to understand that all the training is done on the CPU, and that you have next steps regarding optimizing that. Do you consider GPU accelerations ?

Also, do you have any benchmarks on known hardware ? Eg, how long would it take to train on a macbook latest gen or your own computer ?
by kruador | 2025-09-15 11:02:15+00:00
Blame the European regulators who decided that it was no longer necessary to have standard pack sizes.

Pack sizes were regulated in 1975 for volume measures (wine, beer, spirits, vinegar, oils, milk, water, and fruit juice) and in 1980 for weights (butter, cheese, salt, sugar, cereals [flour, pasta, rice, prepared cereals], dried fruits and vegetables, coffee, and a number of other things). In 2007, all of that was repealed - and member states were now forbidden from regulating pack sizes!

I think the rationale was that now the unit price (price per unit of measurement) was mandatory to display, consumers would still know which of two different packs on the same shelf was better value. But standard pack sizes don't just provide value-for-money comparisons, as this article shows.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-15 11:02:24+00:00
You are making the very common "mistake" of comparing 1 nuclear accident with 1 wind turbine accident.

And are completely missing that you need a LOT more wind turbines, and these have a lot more accidents.

For example, wind turbine accidents killed 14 people just in one year, 2011. How many people were killed in the UK in nuclear accidents that year? That decade.

Ladder accidents kill ~80 people per year in Germany.

Google "avilability bias"
by Canada | 2025-09-15 11:02:44+00:00
They froze accounts in this situation:

Mr Bob Smith is married to Mrs Alice Smith. The bank has their status as married, which they have been given copies of marriage certificates over and over and over for many years.

Bob works, and Alice is dependant based on Bob's visa.

Bob has an account, Alice has an account, and they also both have credit cards under their own names. Bob and Alice also have joint accounts, where most of the money is, and it is a lot of money, enough that Alice and Bob have "VIP" status at the bank, and they've been good customers for about a decade.

Alice and Bob have recently updated all FATCA, CRS, and whatever other insane bullshit has been asked of them by the bank. Alice and Bob have Thai tax IDs, which the bank also has.

Alice and Bob have cell phones of course, and naturally, the family phones are in the account "Bob Smith"

The bank freezes Alice account.

Alice goes to the bank in person. The bank doesn't unfreeze the account, they demand she change her phone account to be in her name.

Yeah, for real.

Bob isn't happy. He thinks Thais shouldn't rely on these banks and should use cash as much as possible and avoid QR payments as much as possible.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-15 11:07:07+00:00
This seems like it’s reversing the M->V generation. You don’t want to write your tests explicitly for the minutiae of the markup you are generating, but you don’t want to bypass the view layer entirely and go straight to the model because then you aren’t testing what you intend to. So you build a new model from the view layer, and then test the model. If the markup changes enough that tests start failing, then you update the model instead of all the failing tests.

I’m not certain that it buys enough to justify an extra layer of indirection in every front-end test though. Having a collection of selectors with meaningful names seems to get you about half the value without that extra layer.
by teiferer | 2025-09-15 11:07:35+00:00
Ironically, that response runs into the standard problem that many "limit" arguments have.

Generally speaking just because something looks like it's converging from some angle, it doesn't mean that it actually has a well-defined limit, and if it does then it also does not mean that the limit shares the properties of the items in the sequence of which it is the limit.

Examples: 1/n is strictly positive for all n. Its limit for n going to infinity, while well-defined, is not strictly positive. Another example: You can define pi as the limit of a sequence of rational numbers. But it's not rational itself.

So, no, your argument does not prove that pi is a number.

(I'm not arguing that pi is not a number. It definitely is. It's just that the argument is a different one.)
by em-bee | 2025-09-15 11:07:41+00:00
which sectors would that be? not the tech sector, not the oil sector, not the car sector. i see companies buying up properties in real state, i hear about companies buying up retirement homes (or some other kind of care facilities). retail? online retail? fast food? processed food, everywhere i see massive dominating brands. music labels? movies are consolidating in major studios. although they recently got some new players with netfix, apple and amazon. but those are still dominating companies.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-15 11:08:18+00:00
> Well, AWS is hosting a multitude of their EC2 instances - Graviton4 (Neoverse V2 cores). This implies that there are customers.

AWS has a bit of a different cost-benefit calculation though. For them, similar to Apple, ARM is a hedge against the AMD/Intel duopoly, and they can run their own services (for which they have ample money for development and testing) for far cheaper because the power efficiency of ARM systems is better than x86 - and like in the early AWS time that started off as Amazon selling off spare compute capacity, they expose to the open market what they don't need.
by sunshine-o | 2025-09-15 11:08:20+00:00
> Therefore, your criticism of app sandboxing is more for Arch than Omarchy IMHO.

I've never been an Arch user but deeply respect the project since their wiki as always been my favorite documentation.

From what I understand Arch is very much DIY, non opinionated and you you need to decide and build the security level / strategy that fit your needs. It seems you can go Flatpak, SELinux but only if you want.

I was kind of lurking for an equivalent of SecureBlue in the Arch world, meaning an Arch derived distro with a strong security posture. Allowing me to get started without worrying too much about it.
by whstl | 2025-09-15 11:08:28+00:00
100% this.

Some people are indeed very good at picking up on specific behaviours. The problem is that requires maturity and self reflection, so it's not something you learn in a day.

The lesson here should be that trusting one's gut might be good, but acting out on it is bad. Don't spiral. Don't confront the possible charlatan. Don't react on your gut the second after the other guy stole your credit.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-15 11:11:28+00:00
The issue with recycling, as-practiced, is that there's no lifecycle accounting (in many countries, including most of the US).

If we boosted plastic price at point of sale by a recoverable amount, claimable when returning the container for recycling, we'd get higher participation.

Separately, we should also apply the same to the post-return lifecycle: company pays a premium for the material flow, then it rebated that premium upon proof of recycling.
by tucnak | 2025-09-15 11:12:05+00:00
It's solely dependent on the workload's memory access patterns. The higher you go in thread count, the more you're constrained by contention, caches, etc. The paper in OP is demonstrating how relatively subtle differences in the memory model are leading to substantial differences in performance on actual hardware. The same as having lots of FLOPS on paper doesn't necessarily mean you'll get to use all that compute, if you're waiting on memory all the time. M-series processors have packaging advantage that is very hard to beat, and indeed, is yet to be beat—in consumer and prosumer segments.

See my reply to adjacent comment; hardware is not marketing, and LLM inference stands to witness.
by karel-3d | 2025-09-15 11:12:08+00:00
They are using actual slaves, not "wage slaves". They kidnap people, lured for work in Thailand, and take them to Myanmar/Burma, where there is a civil war ongoing and a form of lawlessness; while there is a relatively good internet connectivity and electricity. They beat people and force them to do this.

It's mostly run by Chinese. (But they scam Chinese too. It originated as scamming older single Chinese ladies, actually.)
by Rohansi | 2025-09-15 11:13:45+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20250125040351/anandtech.com/sho...

You're realistically going to reach power/thermal limits before you saturate the memory bandwidth. Otherwise I'd like to hear about a workload that'll make use of the CPU, GPU, NPU, etc. to make use of Apple's marketing point.
by omneity | 2025-09-15 11:13:47+00:00
What does `n` correspond to here? And why is it “ours”? (although the second I understand as euclidean space corresponds to n=2 and we seem to live in a locally euclidean space)

Surely it’s not dimensions, since all of these examples were two-dimensional (x and y). So I’m a little lost here.
by hereme888 | 2025-09-15 11:14:55+00:00
I've saved at least one elderly person from giving "Elon Musk" $100k for the secret bitcoin mining operation he's building, as Elon explained to them in the deepfake. "Elon" apparently has secret telegram accounts too.

The scammers worked with additional people who met them in the real world.

Someone else's elderly father wasn't so lucky: they kept sending all their life savings to the scammers, until the wife divorced him and the family suffered so much.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-15 11:15:06+00:00
> seem cake mix in stores my whole life

I checked my lagest local grocery store chain and they do have one brand of cake mixes. They never really crossed my mind before.

Chocolate chip and two types of pundcake.... though that's both among the simplest baking recipies so i still don't quite see the point.

There's also pre-made pie dough, that i could see using.