MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thunky | 2025-09-19 18:22:18+00:00
> explain to me how what Israel is doing in Gaza to Palestinians is in any way comparable to the Nazis murdering six million Jews

It's the mass murder of civilians part they have in common. Sure they haven't hit the million mark yet but they're getting there.

> Nazis murdering six million Jews by rounding them up, loading them on trains to concentration camps, and then packing them in gas chambers. How does this compare with Israel targeting Hamas combatants, evacuating civilians population, and providing them with aid

Somewhat similar if your look at the effect on innocent civilians. The Israelis are accused of starving them, blocking aid (and even targeting aid workers), and other crimes.
How are we supposed to debug GPT-5 thinking?
by corvus-alex | 2025-09-19 18:22:22+00:00
With o3, looking through the agent reasoning steps was extremely useful in improving the prompt and surrounding workflow. If you have confusing instructions, like asking for a malformed JSON response, the reasoning flow will make that very clear, as it expends reasoning tokens to work through issues that aren't central to the task at hand.

Now, all of that is obscured to you, the user. How are you supposed to vet that it's properly following instructions, or reasoning the way you anticipate?

Strategically I understand why OpenAI has done this - but makes for poor user experience for builders.
by immibis | 2025-09-19 18:22:30+00:00
It was like that when it was in Java, too. Just tweak just a few values in a custom Java class. Plus you could be as weird as you wanted instead of limited to a very rigid format. You weren't limited to tweaking values.

You can still override it in Java code instead of tweaking values, but it's much more painful because all the existing code is geared towards reading the tweakable values.
by angott | 2025-09-19 18:23:16+00:00
I wonder how much of this was driven by public/media interest in the H-1B program rather than technical policy concerns.

For instance, there is still no action taken about the L-1B visa classification, which is a lot more open to abuse than H-1B is. It has no cap on how many visas can be issued every year. It also has no obligation to pay the employee a prevailing wage, no requirement for a bachelor's degree to qualify, and it cannot be transferred to a different employer (which means employees are stuck with their sponsor until they qualify for a green card).
by D-Machine | 2025-09-19 18:23:23+00:00
>> I don't mean "sort of", I mean literally.

Well, then we disagree, or are talking past each other, and I think writing out the equations and code show that, as I said, these are really not exactly the same thing. From a code standpoint, direct, long skips require retaining copies of earlier "x" values, and this is a memory cost that is a problem for certain purposes. Mathematically, this also means in a long, direct skip, you are adding in that exact earlier x value.

In the sequential or indirect "long skips" of a transformer, this is not the case. Yes, if you write the equations you can see there is a "path" for identity information to theoretically flow from any layer to any layer unmolested, but in practice this is not how it is implemented, and identity information is not flowing through the layers unchanged.

If everyone thought these subtle differences were irrelevant, than I am not sure why anyone would bother with making a dense residual transformer over the classic transformer. EDIT: nor would much of the papers incorporating special additional long skip connections to various transformer architectures make much sense. The point I was merely making was that, long skips generally serve a very different purpose than shorter / classic residual connections.
by devmor | 2025-09-19 18:23:32+00:00
I think it’s less about culture and more about the world around us.

Who has time to work on free open source projects when your bills and groceries cost far more than they did 10 years ago? The kind of money that being a developer made me in 2015 was enough to pay all my bills, save money and buy cool stuff to experiment on for my hobbies. Now I make twice that much but I’m delaying paying my medical bills until they start leaving voicemails.

My spare time that I used to spend hacking and making things that other people could use is now spent trying to earn a little more, or away from work of any kind dealing with the stress.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-19 18:23:49+00:00
There are plenty of fair points many would find uncomfortable trying to accept from above, particularly around how much risk is sensible to take and deal with. Hell, even knowing and believing people tend to undervalue risk... I still don't think I take enough risk myself.

At the same time, I think going from mid-6 to 7 figure income is a lot less controversial than 10 figure net worth. It's still unlikely to be related to whether someone is a scaled up version of another, but at what point you consider the reasons for earning that much "fair" tend to go a lot deeper than plain fraud.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-19 18:24:16+00:00
Not really.

It's pretty common sense to say that YouTube CPU usage will not be linked to adblocking for most people. Any more than a sunny day is linked to what you ate for dinner last night.

It's not psychology. It's just straightforward common sense.

You seem to be trying to obfuscate something here that is really quite simple.
by nromiun | 2025-09-19 18:24:21+00:00
They do not. The CPUs are only there to support and push data to the GPUs. Much like Nvidia GH200 systems. Nobody buys these APU chips for their CPU parts.

For comparison there are 9,988,224 GPU compute units in El Capitan and only 1,051,392 CPU cores. Roughly one CPU core to push data to 10 GPU CUs.
by Animats | 2025-09-19 18:24:27+00:00
> I wonder when beige will come back.

Beige was last in back in October 2023.[1]

You can read the past Color Alerts month by month for free. If you pay money, you get advance notice. There's a whole planning process.

[1] https://www.colormarketing.org/blog/2023-october-color-alert
by constantcrying | 2025-09-19 18:24:29+00:00
Here is a much better rule: Make it look like everything else.

E.g. making a bad looking Qt App takes a lot of effort. If you use the things everyone else is using, the same frameworks, the same layouts and standard components, then users will be immediately familiar and know how your interface works. No, you aren't special, no you do not need to reinvent UX with your SaaS product.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-19 18:24:39+00:00
There are already missiles that can pull 50-80Gs, most modern air-to-air missiles can pull over 20Gs easily.

Part of the issue is optimizing for weight/G pull, versus a high-sustain motor. A lightweight 50G missile has a very high P/K off the rail, but the longer it flies the harder it is to capitalize on your G rating. If the pilot notches it, you can potentially outrun the dangerous portion of the missile burn and force it into a sustained glide where the warhead is harmless.

Contrast this with other missile designs like the MBDA Meteor, which probably has a relatively low G pull. Much less maneuverable, but it also remains dangerous for much longer than even an AMRAAM. Optimizing for these kill envelopes is what you want, if shooting down MiGs is your goal. By the time you're close enough to fire a 50G missile, you've got a helmet-queued R-73 hot-and-ready delivered through your canopy.

I will leave you with the audio of an Su-34 defeating a MiM-104 (content warning: distressing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_en_xvSvU
by whatevertrevor | 2025-09-19 18:24:45+00:00
I do agree with your conclusion, but I'd add that charisma is also very much learned, like a lot of other traits. Lots of trials at seeing what people respond to and honing in on what works, weeding out what doesn't and if you're in the serial entrepreneur/cult leader business: an ever evolving language of sophistry that keeps up with the baseline level of critical thought, but also weeds out actual skeptics quickly because you don't want them around your followers.
by dmix | 2025-09-19 18:25:03+00:00
For context Trump suspended all of UCLAs federal funding re: antisemitism claims and the case is being fought in court by professors, with a judge saying she's likely to restore medical research funding (which is what Tao was doing there on MRIs) because the government didn't follow proper administrative processes. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-18/ucla-n...
by jraby3 | 2025-09-19 18:26:16+00:00
I don't think it's at all healthy to look directly at the sun.

But I have noticed that my eyes get weaker after spending a lot of time indoors, like if I'm sick. Getting enough time in sunlight seems to be heavily correlated with better eyesight, both in my personal experience fighting farsightedness as a man in his 50s and with studies done on children regarding nearsightedness.
by MattGrommes | 2025-09-19 18:27:21+00:00
Take a look at the maker community if you want to see people doing stuff just for the heck of it, with bits or matter. The article from the other day about a guy who put a web server on a vape, for instance.

I do agree that there has been a significant shift in developer culture because of business bros and hustle culture, but it's not nearly gone.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-19 18:27:37+00:00
You need to add tsmcs employees to the amd and nvidia counts since intel is a foundry. +82k puts it around equal.

Now intel isn’t doing as well on the chip design side as amd or nvidia nor as well on the fab side as tsmc but i suspect that’s on leadership thrashing constantly like it is more than anything else.
by pndy | 2025-09-19 18:28:31+00:00
Two months ago I visited Primal by accident (which appears to be some Nostr instance) and the first impression I've got it's a platform for promoting crypto because streams were just about bitcoins all around

Last year one of users on mastodon I was casually talking to decided to move to Nostr - he claimed in his last posts that some features like pools and voting are locked behind payments there. Can someone shed some light on that? I couldn't find any info if that platform does contain paid features.
by simonw | 2025-09-19 18:28:43+00:00
If I am looking at a web page that shows me my own API keys for a service in plain text, and I accidentally click the Gemini button while viewing that page, is there a chance that someone in six months time might ask Gemini for an API key for that service and have mine returned to them?

I'd love to get a confident answer to that question.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-09-19 18:28:56+00:00
It also goes hand in hand with people undervaluing the act of taking on risk in the first place. Hence overbeaten cliches like "insurance is a scam"/"stock market is just gambling" etc.

(Don't get me wrong there are systemic issues with both of the examples above, but the point is fundamentally there's value in understanding and taking on risks that others might be less willing to take)
by namuol | 2025-09-19 18:29:45+00:00
> Is it legal to teach [corruption]

Essentially what corporate law is all about. Huge drain on innovation and an accelerant for corruption. We’ve grown so used to it now that we don’t even see it. Agree to terms, move on. Hear about some class-action lawsuit relevant to you, but never get anything from it. Nowadays we don’t even have a right to class-action in most agreements we sign with corporations. The same vultures in corporate law are making their way into public law. It’s like mixing bleach and ammonia.
by quentindanjou | 2025-09-19 18:29:48+00:00
ARR is a metric. It does not assume anything. The people using it assume, and that's where the mistake is.

Most of the monthly subscriptions currently allow you to cancel at any time. And most of the yearly plans are actually "yearly-prepaid", and this isn't affected (per my understanding) by this law. What is actually impacted are plans like the Adobe year plan, where you pay monthly for a service and cannot cancel unless you pay for the amount remaining of the year.

ARR isn't dead, at all. ARR of the current year was always a predicted metric, subject to plenty of factors such as payment refused on peoples cards. Maybe some businesses were not correctly using this metric and now will have to be more careful.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-19 18:29:48+00:00
For winter I got a standing tanning machine. Which I use 2-4x a week for 1 minute per use. I calculated this was equivalent to 5-15 minutes outside, depending on time, but engages the entirety of the bodies largest organ.

My (anecdotal, subjective) experience is that it helps. Both vitamin D and nitric oxide are good rationales for that.

This would be economically impossible at a tanning salon.

If you like to be tan, it turns out that a minute at a time, sporadically but regularly, is enough to train the skin to be somewhat tan all the time. Presumably with far less skin damage than longer more random sun exposures, or typical duration salon sessions.

I also have bright rope LEDs surrounding a few of my room ceilings, hidden behind coving. That light reflects smoothly off the entirety of the white ceilings. A great combination of very high intensity lighting, that is also gentle, diffuse and calming. Summer days, indoors, all year round.

There is nothing subjective about the mental benefits of the lights. I am far more alert during the day, and sleep better at night, even in summer. Rationale: We were meant to live outside.

I have worked at home my whole career, so I tune things.

I also enjoy the real sun!
by Finnucane | 2025-09-19 18:30:04+00:00
>I suspect that you're not remembering version 10.6.0 but rather version 10.6.8

That is correct. It is specifically 10.6.8 I remember as being good. I didn't upgrade again 10.11 (el capitan), and only because some software upgrades I needed wouldn't run on snow leopard.

Now my main home system is linux, though I have a work-issued macbook.
by fogzen | 2025-09-19 18:30:56+00:00
He likely violated the terms of his visa, which is a crime.

“I had to [stay in school]..otherwise I’d get kicked out of the country.” ... “since I already had my undergrad, I could..get an H1-B visa” (not correct, he had no degree in 1995, so he's already on record lying about many aspects of his visa and schooling situation)

"I was legally there, but I was meant to be doing student work," adding to The Post, "I was allowed to do work sort of supporting whatever." You cannot work "supporting whatever" on an F1, exceptions like OPT are restricted to specific programs. Musk has (more than once) admitted to violating the terms of his visa and working illegally.

> Derek Proudian, a board member for the Musks' former internet startup Zip2, which they founded in late 1995, told the Post, "Their immigration status was not what it should be for them to be legally employed running a company in the U.S.," adding, "We don't want our founder being deported."

Musk had no degree in 1995. And it sounds like he was on an F1. If those are both true he was working illegally.

Snopes has a lot more details https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-undocumented-immigran...
by vogu66 | 2025-09-19 18:30:56+00:00
I mean... on the one hand, more people getting in the field may (or may not, I didn't measure) mean less people whose vocation is software.

On the other hand, if that can cheer someone up... * https://ladybird.org/ * https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock * Zig rebuilt a C compiler from scratch https://ziggit.dev/t/zig-as-a-c-and-c-compiler/10963 * Rust rebuilt the core nix utilities from scratch https://github.com/uutils/coreutils I've heard a bunch of people making their own OS from scratch just to see how it works, heck there are guides online (https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial ... 30k stars...)

So... Cheer up ! If people are building all that, I'm sure innovation and creativity are at least not dead everywhere.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-19 18:31:04+00:00
Yea, reverse mortgages are yet another underhanded scheme to harvest what remains of the elderly's wealth. Some CEO somewhere said "Well, we've already found a way to drain their health savings, their retirement and pension... what else can we get our hands on?" and poof! The Reverse Mortgage! They're not going to stop until they make debt inheritable, so they can soak the next generation before they even retire.
by Fishkins | 2025-09-19 18:31:17+00:00
I'd say "good old days" thinking is probably involved, but not the full explanation. Over the past few decades, software has gone from a fairly obscure profession to being seen as a great way (maybe the best way) to make a lot of money. In absolute numbers, there are probably at least as many engaged, curious engineers as before. There are almost certainly drastically more uninterested engineers who are there partially or fully because of the money, though.

edit: I hadn't scrolled down to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303388 when I wrote this
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-19 18:31:33+00:00
JS would be hard to trademark now because there’s so many other services using JS as part of their trademark. There’s also already quite a few companies who’ve already registered JS as a trademark.

You also couldn’t call it Jscript because Microsoft owns the trademark there.

EMCAScript is the most practical from a legal standpoint, but that name sucks badly.
by rapfaria | 2025-09-19 18:32:19+00:00
Just recently we got an e-mail from a consulting company we work with, their devs are 100% allocated to the client. The letter was something along the lines: "We hear you guys are using Github Copilot, and we would appreciate if from now on you could provide the number of lines from each developer that was created with AI, that was helped by AI (they are distinct metrics), and how many the developer created on their own. Per month". We, the paying client, that work with several consulting companies, got that e-mail.

I understand the author, and if these days the developers are on it for the money and deliver, but don't bring up stupid shit like this, I don't care much. Not everybody is on it for any kind of creativity relief. Spending hours on their Lottie animations or shaving off miliseconds out of request is not really for everybody either. We are lucky to cross paths with people that care.
by cybwraith | 2025-09-19 18:33:19+00:00
I have no metrics on this, but I've been seeing/hearing of scrum popping up in all sorts of places, not just in software but in other firms where it doesn't belong. For example, my relative works in a chemical engineering firm and they use scrum. A friend of mine is in another flavor of engineering field and they use scrum as well. The sad truth is agile/scrum has really lost the plot in most places and is mostly used as a way to justify micromanagement of developers (or other roles) and lack of proper long term planning.
by homebrewer | 2025-09-19 18:33:30+00:00
AFAIU your device will no longer pass their treacherous "Play Integrity", which means that many banking and government applications will no longer work. For me it's a complete deal breaker because that's 99% of why I own a smartphone at all.

Apple is prohibitively expensive here, there's no official warranty and much difficulty with doing quality battery replacements, so I will probably have to own two phones.
by bitwize | 2025-09-19 18:33:31+00:00
> Does Mark Zuckerberg own Facebook and care about Facebook?

Mark Zuckerberg is a metric, given human form. He smokes meats because statistics show human males engage in meat-smoking behavior.

Ultimately I think it boils down to normie influx, people with no love for the craft getting in it for the money. That said I've seen grown "normies" approaching middle age catch "the bug" and get really into programming for its own sake. They rapidly develop tastes that align with my own.

And computing has always had its share of people whose interest in the technology was entirely in using it to meet business objectives, nothing more. Here's a video from 1975 that shows exactly what I mean. It's about the time-sharing facility recently added to IBM mainframes. Note the utter lack of imagination. Nothing is mentioned about the new things one could do with their mainframe with time-sharing. It's strictly about how much faster you can do the things you're already doing. Time and money saved. Numbers on a balance sheet. Seems stodgy to us, but that's how IT professionals thought in 1975.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo2q7d5dJgg
by 6SixTy | 2025-09-19 18:33:38+00:00
I was skeptical about this claim, as the NES and Famicom are pretty simple at the end of the day, and apparently the NESWiki[1] says that there's a second CPU handling modem capabilies with UART communication to a modem controller. Usually networking gear before VLSI has a second off the shelf CPU on the board.

[1] https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_System
by seemaze | 2025-09-19 18:34:15+00:00
Global migration outpaced evolutionary adaption a long time ago. Many peoples have adapted to local UV conditions, but can now jump on an airplane and are instantly in a completely different environment.

Additionally, if you've ever seen a portrait of a human in the UV spectrum, you'll notice how shiny they look. I'm sure modern people have much less protective oils in their skin as a result of increased bathing required by societal and sanitation norms of modern urbanized habitation.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-19 18:34:17+00:00
>Then, suddenly, they called us 2 days ago and said they are going to de-activate the Hack Club Slack, including all message history from 11 years, unless we pay

While I don't use slack and am barely familiar with its functionality, this stuck out just as an example of how important it is to export and save backups of anything you do with a third-party platform that your business completely depends on. That by itself is dangerous but at least saving all those DMs and channel content would have been a good idea.

As far as I understand, there are apps that let you do this. 11 years is a lot to lose.
by immibis | 2025-09-19 18:34:38+00:00
Yes, but I'm not talking about pre-Forge modding. Anyway, Fabric enables similar mods without the conflicts (it's actually great. You can edit any piece of code without being limited to the hooks someone else chose to install for you. My first Fabric mod completely replaced how your inventory worked. It was installed on the modfest showcase server and drew lots of complaints.). Anyway, that's not what I'm talking about either.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6eNqSCTTKQ
by randerson001 | 2025-09-19 18:35:28+00:00
Reading the other campaigns on Kickstarter, I think I might not fit the Kickstarter mold... most of them are really tight and focused, but I'm giving off a bit more of a Jack Kerouac stream-of-conscious kind of vibe....

I'm ok with Jack Kerouac stream-of-conscious, but not Clint Eastwood stream-of-conscious. Any thoughts?
by lock1 | 2025-09-19 18:35:32+00:00
> But now string literals are “untrusted”. So you have to do new String(“this is trusted content”) everywhere you need it, which is a pain.

Eh? Isn't that the main point of doing all of this? Being explicit on the boundaries but still providing a way to manipulate them like a String?

I don't see anything wrong with `new Validated("literal")` (or functional friendly `Validated.of("literal")`). If you intend to create a `Validated`, then create it via constructor / static factory method that enforces necessary validations to create `Validated`.

> So you have to live with that, or make overrides for every single string function that fix the types where necessary.

Like `Optional<T>` and `Stream<T>`, you could define `Validated::map(Function<? super String,String>)` if you want. With `map()`, you could operate `Validated` with anything that accepts `String` like usual.

With that said, I don't recommend using `Validated` in your actual Spring project though, use (OOP) value objects instead. I used value objects quite a lot on my legacy Spring project. It plays nicely with functional-style, cover "validation" stuff, and avoiding primitive obsession. Putting `String` on `UserId` will result in a loud compiler error.