MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MarsIronPI | 2025-09-21 12:05:55+00:00
Well, the CPU is OK for mobile, but the GPU/GPU-driver situation is not. Just look at the Pinephone to see a device with fine CPU performance that struggles with UI. Though, in fairness, some of this could be fixed with more optimized software.

Also still waiting for more userspace tools to support the v4l2-requests API for hardware video decoding.
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-09-21 12:06:28+00:00
This is such a weird comment to me. These are trivial functions that could be faster to code than describe. I’d hope people aren’t relying on AI for functions as simple as clamp.

I mean, people have been writing these simple functions over and over for decades when they just needed one or two things that importing a library wasn’t needed. I wasn’t aware there was a gap to be filled.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-09-21 12:06:29+00:00
This post from 2003 has made the rounds several times in recent years...

"The 14 Characteristics of Fascism" https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

...and I recall people reading it and saying they don't see how Donald Trump ticks the boxes.

It's all very tedious to complain about when half the electorate supports it. It makes one feel like a nag and a broken record.
by jackstraw42 | 2025-09-21 12:06:59+00:00
Excerpts from this have popped up in Reddit comments quite a bit the last few years. At first it did feel out of place, but now I'm going going back and listening to Dan Carlin talk about the headspace of society before something like Nazi Germany happens. With all the Executive Orders and lawlessness from the Executive Branch and throughout our federal government with this new regime, it's pretty clear they're attempting to do their part to usher in the chaos. "They" are the ones who have the most resources who will rebuild and control after everything goes to shit, like how Europe and the US thrived after WW2 because they were the winners/rebuilders. Currently the right wants to skip the messy war part required to take control of a government and skip to the implementing changes part. Whether or not that actually happens, well right now they're trying to push the left into drawing the line.

I have no idea where our current "line" is but it's not the same as it was last time and who knows what it will look like if we have some kind of civil war out of this.

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpWvz0dR3wc

The other day I watched this interview with Dan Carlin from 4 years ago and near the beginning the interviewer says something like "I don't think any of us want to draw any comprarisons to current nations and Nazi Germany"

that caught me, because why not? Of course no one wants to actually create parallels, but do we see any? maybe we didn't see as many then, and it was more of a worry in 2021 about even thinking about the possibility of tipping MAGA into that territory. but then again after January 6th we should have seen that they basically don't have a line and are just pushing it gradually. They don't really know what to do when they get the new power either, but the people who could stop it may not even realize it because they haven't had to deal with this kind of thing before. like invading Greenland? taking it from Denmark? how do you even create a response to a suggestion like that? so nothing happens and they see what else they can do.

another edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpWvz0dR3wc&t=570s

The really interesting part of the interview gets going around the 7:50 mark, but here Dan talks about the options if you're an average citizen trying to figure out what to do. A litany of poor options if you're trying to pick a side right now really resonates with me.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-09-21 12:07:42+00:00
Makes me think of the "The purpose of a system is what it does" axiom. Universities were always about credentials whether professional or just to indicate social class. They can at the same time be places of learning, and many still are in some disciplines.

The problem is that value of the credential is now worth more (to most people) than the value of the learning/knowledge. So universities adapted to the that model. Its more profitable and university presidents can now earn millions of dollars, further intrenching the problem as it now attracts exactly the kind of people into those positions who only care about money (and themselves).

The true blame for this situation, (IMHO), are the employers across the economy who require applicants have 'university degrees' for jobs that in no way need those skillsets. Bullshit requirements then led to the demand for bullshit degrees which the universities changed to supply.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-09-21 12:08:14+00:00
> They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, published by the University of Chicago Press. ©1955, 1966, 2017 by the University of Chicago.

Such books will no longer be published if universities are not free.

And if freedom begins to disappear, even those who believe themselves safely conformist are not safe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
by metalman | 2025-09-21 12:09:14+00:00
And only from reading Chinese history and how the Chinese inteligencia see's it can you get the full wieght that what to them is an inevitable and unstopable cycle. They go so far as to describe the stages and symptoms of each stage, along with specific societal conditions that we continue to replicate with a mechanical precision they gave the name "The turning of the dynastic wheel" The chinese with there long history, and pragmatic introspection have codified things like this in there pictographic written language, where the symbol for disaster is derived from combining the two symbols for danger, and oportunity.
by cbfrench | 2025-09-21 12:09:33+00:00
My college (Sewanee: The University of the South) is one of the few places in the US with a change ringing tower. It definitely fit the Anglophilic vibe of the place. It was always lovely to hear.

Apparently, I now live in one of the other places where there is a tower (Carmel, IN), but I’ve never heard changes rung on it. It doesn’t appear from the website that it has any local players, which is too bad.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-09-21 12:09:43+00:00
I’ve seen something similar happen in Rust as well (and I do consider it an antipattern).

Some libraries take a `TryFrom<RealType>` as input, instead of RealType. Their return value is now polluted with the Error type of the potential failure.

This is a pain to work with when you’re passing the exact type, since you basically need to handle an unreachable error case.

Functions should take the raw types which they need, and leave conversation to the call site.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-21 12:09:58+00:00
> It became very financially oriented.

> The number of students kept rising, norms kept dropping

All due to the student loans scam.

https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-first-myth...

https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-second-myt...

https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/03/myth-3-college...

https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-last-myth....
by Foreignborn | 2025-09-21 12:10:23+00:00
I just read the book last week. What you said is not true in any useful sense. “Germans were acutely aware…” tries to reduce an entire population and years into one statement. Reality has much more color.

For the germans interviewed in the book, it seems to be true that many had read or heard about the camps or other atrocities, but (1) not the “final solution” which was not in the press and (2) there seems to be heavy desensitization from 1933-1955 when the book was written.

Aside from the tailor that had started the fire at the synagogue, the other 9 interviewees had not directly witnessed atrocities being committed, and instead focused on their personal hardships during the war.

Even though they may have been literate, the people in Mayer’s book were ignorant of the specific realities. Perhaps willfully ignorant, yes, but the nazi regime really did not give any opportunities otherwise.

—

not an expert, just reporting my notes from the book.

i highly recommend all americans read it, its not a long book. it feels eerily familiar, even though many circumstances are drastically different.
by Amezarak | 2025-09-21 12:11:10+00:00
That’s the problem. Everyone makes tendentious arguments about how their exact reasoning and mechanism is justified, while the other sides’ is not justified. The outcome is the same.

Edit: I have been rate limited so I cannot reply, but note I was referring to prior administrations coercing media companies to censor and deplatform people, so yes, it is functionally the same whether it’s the FCC or Congress or other executive departments doing the coercing.
by xanderlewis | 2025-09-21 12:12:43+00:00
Phone cases are not required. I’ve been using an iPhone 12 for nearly five years now — and yes, I’ve carelessly dropped it plenty of times, onto very hard surfaces.

It’s got a couple of tiny dents in it, but the screen is untouched and it works like new. I’ve never used a case.

In the iPhone 4 era, if you were unlucky enough to drop your phone even once onto a table the screen will have almost certainly instantly shattered into a million pieces. But that’s far from true now; things have come a long way. The ‘No Case Required iPhone’ is already here.
by Amezarak | 2025-09-21 12:13:28+00:00
You may want to read the Appeals Court ruling that overturned his conviction 3-0 because the government lied.

But also consider the point that everyone has a reason why their exact situation is different than the other sides when the outcome is the same. They would say for example that Kimmel was simply deplatformed because he also spread misinformation.

There’s no way out until everyone agrees it is the outcome that matters rather than doubling down because their ideology is so correct that it is beyond contestation and the other side are enemies destroying democracy rather than rivals.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-09-21 12:14:04+00:00
I tend to skip these threads because there's a gulf in understanding between those who have accepted the marketing and those who are hoping to profit from them.

"PhD level reasoning" means they have asked PhDs questions and finetuned on their responses. It does not mean that every response is "PhD level", that the models only provide responses that PhDs have validated, or that every response is correct. It is "Lysol kills 99.9% of germs" logic.

The domains I work in and contribute to largely view being paid to write out their thought processes when answering questions models answer incorrectly as a novelty, like grading homework with some minor bragging rights.
by jokoon | 2025-09-21 12:14:27+00:00
Bourdieu covers this

I am able to write C++, I worked as a C++ dev, and in france I cannot get a job because I failed to validate the degree for personal reasons 15 years ago, so I don't have a degree, yet I have excellent senior C++ tests. French companies want degrees. Many recruiters say that it's a problem.
by jw1224 | 2025-09-21 12:15:20+00:00
> “To stave off some obvious comments:

> yoUr'E PRoMPTiNg IT WRoNg!

> Am I though?”

Yes. You’re complaining that Gemini “shits the bed”, despite using 2.5 Flash (not Pro), without search or reasoning.

It’s a fact that some models are smarter than others. This is a task that requires reasoning so the article is hard to take seriously when the author uses a model optimised for speed (not intelligence), and doesn’t even turn reasoning on (nor suggest they’re even aware of it being a feature).

I asked the exact prompt to ChatGPT 5 Thinking and got an excellent answer with cited sources, all of which appears to be accurate.
by jongjong | 2025-09-21 12:15:49+00:00
Insufficient context is definitely a major hurdle for LLMs when coding, but I think an even bigger hurdle is their inability to synthesize ideas and to resolve logical conflicts.

They don't seem to have a 'cohesive worldview'; additional context can easily sway them from one conclusion to the opposite conclusion. A large part of coding is about decision-making and prioritization; it's difficult to perform well at either of these tasks unless your worldview is internally consistent.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-09-21 12:16:11+00:00
>> I notice this on other forums. If marketing isn't slick and well targeted, people get upset and suspicious because it's marketing.

For me, I get extra upset and suspicious if marketing is well targeted. Add a plus one if it is particularly slick.

Just something off-putting in someone trying to draw on my strings, which I see all too well myself, thank you.
by saagarjha | 2025-09-21 12:17:11+00:00
Ok, come on, be reasonable. You finding a Cellebrite price list does not mean you know more about how Pixels are targeted than Google because their marketing team put something out saying they’re super hard to hack. I have worked directly with Google’s threat research teams and they are well aware of their limitations while also having better insight than you’re giving them credit for.
by IanCal | 2025-09-21 12:17:57+00:00
Have you never used a knife like this? I’ve got one that’s been used by people on plates enough that it’s dull - I can press it into my fingers and pull back and forth and it won’t cut me with pretty reasonable pressure. With more pressure if it’s a glancing thing it’ll not take off a knuckle. I’ve just used it so that I could say this but chopping up a cucumber is totally fine and easy. I can’t cut like I can with my actually sharp knife but it’ll cut stuff.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-09-21 12:18:22+00:00
Oh but they did and they do. There are absolutely massive offshore centers for Big Tech in India and also Eastern Europe. People from these places will then either stay in their countries or go non-US destination.

It's not a coincidence Microsoft is run by an Indian. More and more of the talent pool is coming from abroad. And particularly international companies care little where their work is done, as long as it improves the bottom line.
by lokimedes | 2025-09-21 12:18:42+00:00
Assuming the LLM is more competent than the user, it will still require “absorptive capacity” for the user to meaningfully use the output.

Many discuss AI without considering that unless the LLM is going to take over the entire process, those interacting with it, must be sufficiently skilled to do the integration and management themselves.

This goes for organizations and industries as well. Which is why many companies struggle with merely digitalizing their products.
by soegaard | 2025-09-21 12:19:04+00:00
When a large force is applied unintentionally to a finger we have the problem. With a dull knife you need to apply a larger force than with a sharp knife. [The video illustrates this with breaking the skin of the tomato.] For a normal cut this is not a problem.

But - if the knife slips and a large force is applied at the same time - then you will get a large cut.

If the knife slips and a small force is applied, you will get a smaller cut.

If the probability of slipping is the same for sharp and dull knifes, then due to the forces applied, the cuts you get with a sharp knife are less dangerous.
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-21 12:19:10+00:00
One of the reasons they specifically lost the war was because Hitler was such a fuck up that he was decimating the German economy. When you look at how the war was progressing, the only outcome for the Nazis at the time was either defeat or collapse. Combined with the endemic usage of Pervitin and other drugs at this time both to fuel soldiers and keep the citizens relatively placated they were burning up everything both at the frontline and at home.
by bitlax | 2025-09-21 12:20:38+00:00
I saw an example I thought you'd appreciate:

https://x.com/martinwalsh__/status/1967758029157437754

https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1967903888868077994

https://x.com/AlHSantana/status/1968104234588717543

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/abc10-sh...

Who do you condemn?
by eastbound | 2025-09-21 12:20:40+00:00
> Coding is something you can’t learn at the university, you have to do it yourself

Yes, but I have a great divide with people who can’t draw UML on a whiteboard. Same length of studies, and yet it takes double the time to agree on what’s to build.

They start, and after 3 code reviews I ask them “So where is this abstraction we’ve talked about?” and they say “It’s planned, I’ll do it at the end” and that’s when I know they’ve understood nothing.

The first two employees caught me off guard with implementing the instances instead of the pattern, but for the third, I made it a requirement to start with this.

Lack of abstraction and lack of UML language to express it, is definitely an impediment for a good developer.

(Come the “but you said same length of studies”, so, for those guys: Imagine slaving away with a 5-year bootcamp with no sleep where, at the end, you think you know coding, but you can’t write a treeview where every node is of a different type and calls different implementations — it’s that simple, but in the end, it’s not done).
by Hackbraten | 2025-09-21 12:20:56+00:00
Been ordering since January 2000 (> 1,000 orders) from Amazon Germany and never received anything counterfeit as far as I can tell.

I think I'm pretty good at spotting fakes, because I'm sensitive to tiny typographical or material-wise quirks. In the same period, I've received multiple fakes on eBay, including a genuine phone that came with a counterfeit charger.

I can imagine that commingling introduces a very low-percentage risk of receiving a counterfeit product but due to the immense scale, it still affects a huge absolute number of orders.
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-21 12:20:57+00:00
> "Your ‘little men,’ your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better.[...]"

I read this book a few years ago and I can't stop thinking about this line of discourse (there's more of this subject in the book). I've felt this exceptional frustration and disgust towards the (in my opinion) wildly underreacting non-fascist millions in the States, more so than the fascists themselves, which seemed contradictory.

The closest I've come to communicating why is that one group is on script while the other isn't. For example, a deadly airborne disease is awful, but the truly scary thing to me would be witnessing doctors and immunologists just kind of shrugging their shoulders.

I grew up with this belief that for all their loud, obnoxious quirks and faults, Americans do not fuck around when it comes to their principles of liberty and freedom. I always admired that. I remember thinking it was a feature that they're so quick to protest and make a scene. I had, without any doubt in my heart and soul, anticipated total disaster. I was expecting to see protests and riots and fires and further uncelebrated but deemed necessary violence in response to the slow ablation of freedom and liberty.

It's quite possible that I'm wrong and that total disaster is premature. But never before have I felt this certain about an "everyone else is wrong" belief. It's scary and somewhat lonely. Reading this book made me feel much less lonely, and much more scared.
by DonHopkins | 2025-09-21 12:21:10+00:00
It's not anglicized, just misspelled. ;) And awkward to pluralize (bakfietsen? bakfietses?)

The fit parents and delighted kids I frequently see riding bakfeitsen in Amsterdam are always so happy and healthy and safe that I am envious I wasn't born here myself.

They effortlessly ride through busy city streets, wander through parks, and trek across the countryside, all with well maintained bike paths, and gather together to have picnics and play, which you can't do with an SUV. Also dogs love riding in them, and they're great for shopping and hauling too.

An electric bakfiets with an Enviolo continuous stepless automatic shifting hub is ideal and safe for kids, because you don't have to worry about shifting gears or even preemptively shift down before you stop at an intersection or unexpected obstacle.

It can shift when you're stopped and even while you're accelerating, and it automatically and smoothly shifts up as you accelerate. You just dial in your preferred cadence and it does the rest. So you can concentrate on the traffic and kids and scenery instead of your gears, even in stop-and-go city traffic.

I love the one on my normal eBike, it's a joy to ride, and I'll never go back. I have no affiliation, it's just a fantastic piece of technology. They're a Dutch company, so many Dutch brands of bike, bakfiets, and delivery bikes use them, but they're available worldwide.

https://www.koga.com/nl/elektrische-fietsen/e-nova-evo-pt-au...

They have special heavy duty bakfiets motors and hubs, and smooth quiet indestructible carbon fiber belt drives instead of clackety chains and derailleurs. Silent, reliable, maintenance free, and greaseless!

Enviolo fully automatic stepless transmission for e-bikes:

https://enviolo.com/products/#tab_automatic

>No distractions: Liberate your attention

>Enviolo Automatic is a “set and forget” system that adjusts to you – set your preferred pace and you’re ready to go. Focus your journey in bustling cities, relaxed countryside rides, or when travelling with kids.

Cargo L Cargo Line:

https://www.urbanebikes.nl/cargo-l-enviolo-automatic

Rave reviews on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CargoBike/comments/1f0rsu9/enviolo_...

Enviolo Automatic - Never Shift Again (check out the beautiful scenery and bike paths and parks of Amsterdam: it's really like that, on purpose!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQrgKBQrkag

Carqon Classic Enviolo | Elektrische bakfiets met stijl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2gWJvolBjg

Is enviolo the best internally geared hub for eBikes? (This is a nerdy technically detailed deep dive!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vob5Rb4IKsw

I Tested The Boujiest Cargo Bike You Can Buy (Monster Bakfiets!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7w57U3ijHY
by jongjong | 2025-09-21 12:21:10+00:00
How hypocritical of someone preaching the virtues of formal proofs to be using a single example to try to prove the 'for all' case... As if it's feasible for all systems, for all requirements, under all possible financial constraints.

Oh yes, I'm the LLM here.

Maybe you should run your comments through your Coq proof-assistant before you post them!
by MagicMoonlight | 2025-09-21 12:21:16+00:00
Notice how this slop doesn't happen in real languages like C++ or Java. It's only the slop languages.

You don't need a "is it a number" package in java, because the function cannot be passed a string, because it actually has a type system. All this slop has come about because meme developers refuse to accept the truth - programming languages have proper syntax for a reason.
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-21 12:21:40+00:00
> Deming helped develop in Japan

Deming’s process was about how to operate a business in a capital-intensive industry when you don’t have a lot of capital (with market-acceptable speed and quality). That you could continue to push it and raise quality as you increased the amount of capital you had was a side-effect, and the various Japanese automakers demonstrated widely different commitments to it.

And I’m sure you know that he started formulating his ideas during the Great Depression and refined them while working on defense manufacturing in the US during WWII.