MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-23 07:35:02+00:00
An even more outsized role is played by a virtuous life. It may not make you a billionaire, but if you finish high school, get a full-time job once you finish school, get married before you have children, then you are quite likely to have a good life.

We are doing a disservice to our fellow man by not telling them this truth.
by peterldowns | 2025-09-23 07:35:35+00:00
One object level suggestion is you shouldn't be doing string formatting manipulation to construct valid YAML objects as part of your ops pipeline; instead, do it all with actual data structures and then just render the result. Yes, I know that Helm directly encourages text templating — it's bad and wrong.

Beyond that, this a too-long essay about a deeply poisonous and discouraging worldview. I regret having read it. At least it wasn't written by AI!
by latexr | 2025-09-23 07:36:27+00:00
> I feel like quoting that classic hn comment reaction to the release of Dropbox.

You mean the one where the commenter was respectful and helpful and had a productive conversation, just like HN encourages?

Every time you mention that comment in a bad light, you worsen dang’s day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-23 07:36:35+00:00
* the link between vaccines and autism is ridiculously super debunked.

* there is no evidence linking acetaminophen to autism

* frequency of autism diagnosis is growing at a considerable rate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_autism

* males are diagnosed at a rate of 4.3:1 compared to females

The current evidence suggests challenges in the current diagnostic approach because it does not appear that females less inclined to possess autism though they are diagnosed at such a lower rate. That indicates poor and incomplete means of identification. Despite the greatly increased frequency of overall diagnosed individuals the numbers of impacted persons might actually be quite a bit higher.

My wife works special education for a large public school system and the difference in population, both quantity and diversity, is stunning compared to just a prior generation. You can’t help but wonder if it’s something in the food supply or some other widely distributed factor that compounds over time and impacts either early childhood development or environmental/parental conditions.
by t0lo | 2025-09-23 07:36:55+00:00
"The Tech Prosperity Deal is a significant bet on US-led AI infrastructure rather than a step towards UK technological sovereignty. The numbers are speculative, the economic benefits remain uncertain, while the risks of dependency, rising energy costs, and limited job creation are substantial. To avoid long-term vulnerabilities, the UK government will at the very least need to introduce clearer conditions and safeguards to ensure that these investments serve national interests and deliver broad public value.

As the economist Mariana Mazzucato pointed out in the Guardian, “governing AI for the common good means steering markets, not just opening them up for ‘business-friendly’ contracts. [...] For a government struggling to bring the public with it, promising growth through unfettered AI adoption risks repeating the mistakes that fuelled populist backlash against globalisation. When citizens see deals with tech companies while local jobs fail to materialise at resource-heavy datacentres, the political costs are inevitable.”
by f4c39012 | 2025-09-23 07:37:35+00:00
Yup simple laptop sleeve with a good zip and a reliable handle works well for me. In case of inclement weather there's a ziplock bag inside big enough for the laptop.

That goes inside another thin bag for safe carry. If I'm visiting somewhere new and carrying other things, bag-in-bag works well; leave the day bag in the conference room, the thin bag with the laptop comes with me.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-09-23 07:39:24+00:00
> Bro I can name like 20 games that are better than Cyberpunk if you want

Sure, go ahead. But I already played a lot of games, and I'm picky.

> your bar is really low if this is your standard of happiness

Cyberpunk is not that bad, I mean, it's definitely better than most AAA games that come out nowadays.
by simianparrot | 2025-09-23 07:40:01+00:00
The Grooming Gangs feature a lot of nationalities, but some more than others.

There's nothing racist about the facts. How one responds to it can indeed be racist -- ie. "all people of one of said nationalities are like these ones" would be racist. But observing that a nationality of immigrants are vastly overrepresented is just using your eyes to observe reality.
by vintermann | 2025-09-23 07:40:46+00:00
No mention of ozone. The more directly dangerous 254nm UV light has the advantage that it doesn't create ozone.

Viruses and bacteria aren't the only bad things you don't want in your air. Ozone is thought to be a carcinogen in its own right and aggravate the health effects of particulate pollution. We want filtering and air circulation anyway, we don't want anything that makes it worse. The consumer electronics industry is all too willing to try to sell us things that make our problems worse, such as ultrasonic humidifiers, or ionizing air purifiers with special chambers for your aromatherapy oils, so it's best to be careful.
by account42 | 2025-09-23 07:42:07+00:00
> Getting your Steam library to work on Linux before it got Valve's blessing with Proton wasn't a great experience.

There weren't any real roadblocks for that caused by Valve. And it definitely wasn't as hard as you're implying.

> If they wanted to, they could have easily decided to block games from running on Linux and gave some statement about preventing piracy and protecting users from malware.

They could have just like any software developer could but they didn't. They also didn't block the Steam for Linux client from running on unapproved distributions or even FreeBSD.
by AJRF | 2025-09-23 07:42:39+00:00
> WARNING - these components don't fit if you try to copy this build. The bottom GPU is resting on the Arctic p12 slim fans at the bottom of the case and pushing up on the GPU.

I built a dual 3090 rig, and this point was why I spent a long time looking for a case where the GPU's could fit side by side with a little gap for airflow

I eventually went with a SilverStone GD11 HTPC which is a PC case for building a media centre, but it's huge inside, has a front fan that takes up 75% of width of the case and also allows the GPUs to stand up right so they don't sag and pull on their thin metal supports.

Highly recommend for a dual GPU build! If you can get dual 5090s instead of 3090s (good luck!) you'd even be able to get "good" airflow in this case.
by itsmek | 2025-09-23 07:42:42+00:00
In the US most things are funded by income and payroll tax, the taxes you mention add up to about 30% of our budget so are not enough on their own. In addition I am unconvinced that it is even possible for consumption taxes to be progressive enough to make up for their inherent regressivity at high income levels. I do think it would be reasonable for the global tax to be prorated by time spent in the US though, which would solve your objection.
by ang_cire | 2025-09-23 07:43:38+00:00
Yes, this is absolutely doable, and many companies are rolling their own ML models (I work with a MedTech company that does, in fact). LLMs are a little more involved, and you'd probably want something beefier than this (maybe a Framework Desktop cluster, if you're not wanting to get into rackmount stuff), but it's definitely feasible for companies to have their own offline LLMs and ML models.
by simianparrot | 2025-09-23 07:44:25+00:00
That's a misrepresentation of statistics though. FRP is the second largest party this election, with 23,8% of votes, only second to AP who got 28%. But many people won't vote based on the immigration issues, because so far, other issues are more pressing.

But my point was that I am absolutely sure the majority of Norwegians _want Norway to remain a country that retains its cultural history_ while not being exclusive to one ethnic group. It's about retaining a majority.

I don't understand why that sentiment is so problematic here on HN, because simultaneously people are clamoring for a Palestinian state for the Palestinian people.

Why can't Norway have a Norwegian state for the Norwegian people? Or Denmark? Or the UK?
by shubhamjain | 2025-09-23 07:45:23+00:00
In my late 20s, I felt disillusioned with this kind of wisdom. Found it too simplistic and not enough to cope with the fact that existence is absurd. I am 32 now, and I can't help think that simplicity is all that there is: curate a happy state of mind, meaningful relationships, active lifestyle, and maybe some audacious goal to keep yourself busy. Thinking that there's some higher state of mind (via spirituality, for eg) is delusion at best.

I feel everything follows the Midwit meme progression [1]: at first you use crude, obvious methods because you don’t know better. Later, complexity is alluring, you drown yourself in optimisations and finding the bestest tools and methods. In the end you come back to the same conclusion: simplicity was the most reliable tool the whole time.

[1]: https://medium.com/@obandoandrew8/bell-curve-meme-avoiding-t...
by AJRF | 2025-09-23 07:45:47+00:00
You really don't need NVLink, you won't saturate the PCIe lanes on a modern motherboard with dual 3090s.

Tim Dettmers amazing GPU blog post posits NVLink doesn't start to become useful until you are at 128+ GPUs

https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...
by casey2 | 2025-09-23 07:45:57+00:00
With Linux you can have a million rices with passionate creators who motivate their family, friends, audience to try something new. I would prefer spliting the money among more projects like this rather than misplacing resources into a hobbiest/poweruser thing. Ideas that would be more appropriate than money: an award, signal boost, pizza, invite to a convention

If I was conspiratorially minded I would say Omarchy exists and get support just so LARBS users have someone to spit at while feeling like the underdog. Props to the Omarchy creator for being so unabashedly opinionated in their rice despite the years of hate on soy devs. Unused RAM is wasted ram!
by immibis | 2025-09-23 07:46:39+00:00
Then it does whatever is needed to make it safe. For example, it might use a hash ring to assign each meeting room to a single node, and that node processes one request at a time. Most distributed systems are like this.

A traditional database funnels all your data changes down to one leader node which then accepts or rejects them, and (if A+C in the case of single node failure is desired) makes sure the data is replicated to follower nodes before accepting.

A distributed database is similar but different pieces of data can be on different leaders and different follower sets.

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by theshrike79 | 2025-09-23 07:46:50+00:00
Replace calculator with the modern equivalent: Excel.

It does make mistakes and is not reliable[0]. The user still needs to have a "feel" for the data.

(to be pedantic "Excel" doesn't make mistakes, people trusting its defaults do)

[0] https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-wrong-tools-...
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-23 07:47:13+00:00
That link doesn't say 3/4 of prisoners. It says 3/4 of incarcerated workers. Incarcerated nonworkers aren't counted at all.

It also doesn't say that they report being compelled to work. It says they receive benefits from working that they don't receive without working. The fact that voluntary workers get their sentences reduced doesn't convert them into involuntary workers.
by jbstack | 2025-09-23 07:47:20+00:00
> I hope the world gets more decentralised

It's not looking too likely. You have Google's planned app developer verification, the UK's Online Safety Act, the EU's plans to interfere with E2EE, EU privacy rules causing sites to be riddled with popups, money laundering rules making banking increasingly more tedious, power concentrated in the hands of a few nation-state sized tech companies, countries becoming more authoritarian even in the West.

As an anecdotal example, I'm currently living/travelling between various EU countries, where a few years ago I would have expected a great deal of online freedom. Instead I now have to constantly change my VPN exit point to get around various restrictions depending on what site I'm using and what they have decided to block based on location.

If we can't even get these things right in the so-called free democracies of the West, what hope is there for the world in general? I'd like to be optimistic about this, but it's hard to find reasons to be.
by cedilla | 2025-09-23 07:48:16+00:00
Fish was weird at first, with it's insistence on `or` instead of `||`, and `and` instead of `&&`. Since they relented on this, there's not much non-POSIX weirdness for me. From time to time I'll try to `export` something, but fish just reminds you what to do instead. 3rd party integration is excellent now, too.

When I write scripts I'll just target /bin/sh, or /bin/bash if necessary. Never saw a reason to write zsh or fish scripts.
by woolion | 2025-09-23 07:48:16+00:00
A lot of people will dismiss with some of the usual AI complaints. I suspect they never did real research. Getting into a paper can be a really long endeavor. The notation might not be entirely self contained, or used in an alien or confusing way. Managing to get into it might finally yield that the results in the paper are not applicable to your own, a point that is often obscured intentionally to make it to publication.

Lowering the investment to understand a specific paper could really help focus on the most relevant results, on which you can dedicate your full resources.

Although, as of now I tend to favor approaches that only summarize rather than produce "active systems" -- with the approximate nature of LLMs, every step should be properly human reviewed. So, it's not clear what signal you can take out of such an AI approach to a paper.

Related, a few days ago: "Show HN: Asxiv.org – Ask ArXiv papers questions through chat"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212535

Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers in Machine Learning

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796419
by yonisto | 2025-09-23 07:48:23+00:00
I'm using Framework with Windows and AMD and I have excellent hibernate/sleep time... It is really a Linux thing. I remember a post on reddit that claims that the Bluefin distribution has excellent battery life.

It amazes me how the legend of ARM being more efficient than x86 took hold. I'm not saying that we don't have a more efficient ARM processors BUT it has nothing to do with the ISA. What you gain with a simple encoder (ARM) you gain with code density (x86) and after that it is converted to microcode. You wouldn't gain more than single percent if any.

Process node is by far more important (5nm , 3nm, etc) and usually Apple gets access to them first. Also placing the memory in the CPU package also proved to be great for efficiency (case of point is Intel's Lunar lake that can last like forever) and last but the least is the intergraded GPU that no one seems to talk about and their respective efficiency (cause there are like 30 people in the whole world that can truly make and educated talk about them and their ISA)
by qmr | 2025-09-23 07:48:33+00:00
First time (only time?) a game made me cry, Floyd's death.

13-15 or so, Up way too late, hiding under my blanket to muffle the noise from the folding Stowaway keyboard, playing on a glowing green 160x160 LCD display on a Palm VIIx running a Z machine interpreter.

Apparently the author still gets emails now and then to this day about how Floyd’s death affected players. He used to have a personal site but I can’t find it now. A lot of players have written about this moment.

I think the other one I beat was Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams. Got somewhat deep in Beyond Zork and HHGTTG, but don’t think I completed them.

I remember my father getting excited when he saw those Infocom compilations on Walmart store shelves.

I’ve also considered introducing those to my son. He’s 5 now. Lately having him play Mario RPG, Zelda, and Final Fantasy to practice reading.

—-

“Perhaps the most amazing thing about the creation of Floyd was how easy it was. The entire code and text for the character, if printed out, would perhaps run to ten pages. What’s amazing is not that I was able to create a computer game character that touched people so deeply, but how infrequently the same thing has been accomplished in the intervening two decades.”

Steve Meretzky
by Califishguy | 2025-09-23 07:49:48+00:00
Coming from the plant/facility management and process engineering side of things , the pain isn’t PCB parts but pumps, valves, blowers, sensors.

I'd be interested in the industrial-world application of being able to ask things like “which pumps are seawater-rated, 10 bar, 40k hr bearing life, share the same footprint, can run on the same VFD, have BSPT or BSPP threads?”

Do you see Zenode extending into that kind of industrial equipment/knowledge realm?
by zipy124 | 2025-09-23 07:49:59+00:00
I'm not refering to junk papers by quantity, but that not all papers at the same venue are equal, and some fields take longer. For example a logic/programming-language paper often takes much longer to theorize than an AI paper.

Even within the same field should a paper that speeds up LLM's by 10x be equal to one that improves object detection accuracy in a specific dataset by 2%, or a dataset paper? All could be published at NeurIPS and all are good papers, but that does not make them equal in impact.

A better example might be that a hypothetical paper curing some cancer through some magic technology, or a differnt one detecting cancer better using AI could both target a similar venue (as evidenced by various nature puplications), but are vastly different in impact.
by immibis | 2025-09-23 07:50:03+00:00
The C in CRDT means the order doesn't matter, which means you can just put all the gossiped changes into a big bag of changes and if everyone knows the same changes, they have the same final document, so a simple gossip protocol that just shares unshared data blobs will eventually synchronize the document. If order matters, it's not a CRDT. This one isn't a CRDT because the order matters if two clients insert text at the same position.
by abtinf | 2025-09-23 07:50:07+00:00
> I’m no closer to anything resembling inner peace. I find I’ve grown to despise large swaths of the only thing I’ve ever been able to earn reliable income from. I tire of walking a path that has seemingly shifted beneath my feet to point toward a destination I no longer recognize. I’m embarrassed by the jerk my Younger Self used to be, and simultaneously ashamed of the energy I lost as I matured. I don’t really want to do most of what I have to do, while feeling a deep unsated need to achieve something that I have neither the stamina nor the freedom to pursue. At some point I’m going to reach down deep into the well of ambition to discover there ain’t nothing there to pull out anymore. And then?

What advice does one give when confronted with this?
by Tepix | 2025-09-23 07:50:54+00:00
OK, here's my quick critique of the article (having built a similar AM4-based system in 2023 for 2300€):

1) [I thought] The page is blocking cut & paste. Super annoying!

2) The exact mainboard is not specified exactly. There are 4 different boards called "ASUS ROG Strix X670E Gaming" and some of them only have one PCIe x16 slot. None of them can do PCIe x8 when using two GPUs.

3) The shopping link for the mainboard leads to the "ASUS ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming" model. This model can use the 2nd PCIe 5.0 port at only x4 speeds. The RTX 3090 can only do PCIe 4.0 of course so it will run at PCIe 4.0 x4. If you choose a desktop mainboard for having two GPUs, make sure it can run at PCIe x8 speeds when using both GPU slots! Having NVLink between the GPUs is not a replacement for having a fast connection between the CPU+RAM and the GPU and its VRAM.

4) Despite having a last-modified date of September 22nd, he is using his rig mostly with rather outdated or small LLMs and his benchmarks do not mention their quantization, which makes them useless. Also they seem not to be benchmarks at all, but "estimates". Perhaps the headline should be changed to reflect this?
by intermerda | 2025-09-23 07:50:58+00:00
> Obama's love of drones and his ordering extra-judicial execution of US citizens, their destruction of Syria and Libya and Iraq, etc.

Good thing that you prefaced with that you're not an American and you try not to wade into it too much. Your have a good excuse for ignorance of drone strikes and are a great example of how manufactured consent works. "Obama" + "drones" eventually leads to "both sides" enlightened centrism without understanding policy nuances. Just one such example - https://www.jstor.org/stable/23526906?seq=8.

> It's not unanswerable, but it is impossible to have a reasoned discussion about it even with otherwise reasonable people, sadly.

You're right about that one.
by kepeko | 2025-09-23 07:51:44+00:00
I don't think this from the point of view of who I'm rewarding. To me, Israel looks like a state with its independent foreign policy, army, government.

How about Gaza/West Bank, no even before Oct 7 attacks it didn't look like a state. Israel is right now so much more powerful that it won't let Palestinians have independence. This situation is so strange I don't have time to write a more detailed answer about my opinions.
Ask HN: Tool to manage glossaries and train a small bias adapter for Whisper?
by jempf | 2025-09-23 07:51:47+00:00
I’m validating a tool - not-model approach for teams running local Whisper pipelines:

• Manage domain glossaries (terms/aliases/weights) → export glosspacks.

• Optional: train a tiny bias adapter on your audio+list; drop-in wrapper (logit fusion).

• A/B eval with WER + rare-word metrics.

For those shipping Whisper in production:

How do you handle rare words/terminology today?

Do you bias at decode time today? How?

What pack/adaptor formats would fit your stack?

Which failure modes worry you (over-biasing, latency, multi-lingual)?

Would love your feedback. Thanks!
by notepad0x90 | 2025-09-23 07:52:01+00:00
with local models, you don't have to take the personal data off device, thus bypassing every privacy law. there is also a cost to collecting enormous amounts of data from telemetry sources, if they don't leave the device, that cost is 0 now. imagine recording the audio of every user you have with 1M+ MAU and shipping that to a cloud, storing and processing it,etc... now you don't have to do that. it's huge game changer.

This is like how we had flip phones with browsers and apps before the iphone..and then the iphone changed the game.
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-23 07:52:07+00:00
It's a language model, not a compiler. Which is what people get wrong.

Ask one to count the 'r's in "strawberry" and it may or may not get it right.

Ask it to create a program to do it, it'll get it right instantly and it'll work.

When we get to a point where "AI" can write a program like that in the background, run it and use its result as a tool, we'll get the next big leap in efficiency.
by simianparrot | 2025-09-23 07:52:14+00:00
So do you consider what the Danish PM said racist?

> There are really a lot of us Danes who believed that when people came to this ‘world’s best country’ and were given such good opportunities, they would integrate. They would become Danish, and they would never, ever harm our society. All of us who thought that way have been wrong.

That's objectively observed reality in Denmark. And in Scandinavia in general. It's not about race, it's not about skin color, it's about cultural heritage and values.

All we're saying is that to retain a country's cultural heritage and carry it -- and obviously shape it -- into the future, you have to retain a majority of that heritage, and integrate newcomers. Otherwise it's no longer Denmark.