MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by luismedel | 2025-09-10 10:49:33+00:00
So,

$ git-down -d bootstrap-dist https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git:master dist

is *way* better than

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/twbs/boostrap.git $ cd bootstrap $ mv ./dist ~/stuff/boostrap-latest

because: "C'mon, you don't have the time to be doing all that."

And then we wonder how the fuck we end with malware in our systems.
by wiseowise | 2025-09-10 10:49:40+00:00
> If you go to a restaurant, do you worry about how many hours the waiter, the chef, etc had to travel in the morning to put food in your face?

I don’t give a shit how long they work a day and from where, as long as I have food my plate.

If they could deliver food from their home, I would certainly take this option over forcing them into the restaurant kitchen.

Knowledge workers do not have to be in the office to deliver value, period.
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-10 10:49:42+00:00
Then rename them at the off-site server?

There are very specific and common standard on renaming video files to contain "metadata" so that every single tool doesn't have to use ffmpeg to investigate and try to guess the exact movie/tv show from the title.

The Plex naming guidelines are pretty good: https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-...

Some people like to add resolution and audio track information to the file name too.
by joz1-k | 2025-09-10 10:50:23+00:00
Except that the "comma" was a poor choice for a separator, the CSV is just a plain text that can be trivially parsed from any language or platform. That's its biggest value. There is essentially no format, library, or platform lock-in. JSON comes close to this level of openness and ease, but YAML is already too complicated as a file format.
by flr03 | 2025-09-10 10:51:55+00:00
I love my iPhone 12 mini, the screen has great pixel density better than the 16 or 17 even. It is compact and light, easy to put in and out of the pocket. The battery is not great and the peak luminosity could be better, but it still runs so well in 2025. I've been contemplating buying a new one since the back glass is shattered and the front is scratched, the battery is also getting worse. I don't think it's viable now to get it fixed.

So I might reluctantly grab one of the new ones.
by wltr | 2025-09-10 10:53:20+00:00
I’m not very sure about the unscratched one, but I remember researching this a couple of months back, in Ukraine. And there were tens of good options (nice condition), for below $200 or $300. Which I consider a pretty decent value. I have no idea whether the war affects this, but pre war this situation was the same, more or so. Maybe that’s because the internal market is quite huge (40 M population pre-war, perhaps 30 M now), plus the country is literally the biggest in Europe. As compared to relatively small(er) Sweden, population of 10 M if I’m correct. I guess there might be cultural aspect as well. More wealthy countries and their societies (like Sweden) might actually be much less obsessed with things like newer iPhones. While they are wildly popular in Ukraine (pre-war). They may be even more popular these days, since we had very massive electricity blackouts just a year ago. And for many people their smartphones is the way to stay connected, and to check in with their loved ones. Plus, the ‘what if I’d be killed tomorrow?’ factor, I see people’s attitude is a bit different because of this either. I know at least one local friend, who said just recently he thinks of updating his 15 Pro Max (which he bought after the realease of the 16 models, saying they’re mostly the same) for the Air. He’s just a middle class guy, nothing too impressive. Other folks I know, they’re wealthy, and it looks like they won’t even think twice, and more likely to upgrade. I bet their logic is a mix of YOLO, plus they’re constantly invest into military equipment and drones for the army, so that $1K for themselves look a minute amount compared to that. All that creates pretty good market conditions for the used phones, so the folks like me could get something of a value for cheap, because others upgraded for no real reason. Personally, I see little difference after the 12th models.
by b112 | 2025-09-10 10:53:50+00:00
the US is already very aggressive militarily and happy to attack whenever and wherever it pleases

Completely untrue, because a statement such as this requires counter examples, comparators.

Compare the US to any colonial power. Such countries were hell bent on ruling the world. The Brits had the largest empire the world has ever seen, boots on ground in dozens of colonies. And everyone in Europe was invading each other, their colonies endlessly and constantly.

Compared to the scale and scope of action those colonial powers undertook, the US is the most peaceful and benevolent country ever.

Modern comparisons show much the same. For example, Canada was more than a decade in Afghanistan. Canada is not war like, but does think stamping out oppressive regimes is a good idea. Canada also has blue hats in multiple countries.

Those sort of actions may turn out poorly, but the intentions are not to harm but help. And yes, I agree that is debatable except we're talking about the statement I quoted.

And when you look at truly aggressive nations, such as Russia, again no comparison. When recently has the US invaded a country, with the goal of taking it over and absorbing it? That's right, never in living memory.

If US truly did what it had the power to do, it could have easily taken over the world.

Has it? Did it invade everyone? No.

Yes, the US does deploy its military might. Yes, maybe it should less often.

No, it isn't aggressive, it's just very powerful.

I would very much argue it restrains its use of power mightily.
by Aldipower | 2025-09-10 10:54:39+00:00
There are quite some good tape simulation VST plugins outside, but as they sound good, they sound like the plugin sound, not like my very own tape deck sounds. Sure, I could master with my very own tape deck, but then it sounds like my tape deck and not like yours, if you are playing the tune.

There is something very special, if you put the cassette into _your_ tape deck and run it.

You cannot replace this with something digital/virtual.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-10 10:55:35+00:00
> So my anecdotal theory is that the (public) education system is optimized to the edges, abandoning the middle entirely...

Yep. Those edges are pushed by very vocal parents, usually backed by large communities and interest groups.

And the modern-day politics of American public schools (which generally have very low voter engagement) dictate that only the squeaky wheels get the grease.
by Fnoord | 2025-09-10 10:55:54+00:00
Yep, my bad I misread.

That existed in past. It was a program you had to run, and it would force you to watch ads (while browsing?). IIRC it embedded MSIE. I was still in high school, and my classmate who had cable internet would run this almost 24/7. It made him earn a couple of hundreds of dollars (end of 90s). There were also all kind of hacks to make it not so annoying (because you had to watch it all the time). Eventually, they quit paying.

There's also a TV you can get for free (it being worth 600 EUR?), but it has a camera and watches your living room 24/7 (if the TV is in your living room?). It also has very strict ToS.
by lupusreal | 2025-09-10 10:56:39+00:00
Trump is probaby too senile to even know what RTO is, and even if he does, I'm pretty sure he doesn't own Microsoft's office buildings. And the premise that Microsoft would let themselves get bullied into RTO, causing a lot of their best employees to quit, without raising a public stink about it? Far fetched.

This is the doing of Microsoft's own leadership, not Trump.
by anentropic | 2025-09-10 10:57:58+00:00
I don't get it.

TBH most of the time I find markdown's collapsing of whitespace annoying - if you want a 'visual' line-break you have to add unnatural double space at the end of preceding line. And even this is renderer dependent, I don't think is part of the spec (?) so some renderers don't respect it (and IIRC GitHub comments renderer does't need it, i.e. doesn't do semantic line breaks)

Another pet hate is text editors which auto-convert double space into ". " - I find this even cropping up in IDEs now, so you try to add an end of line comment "...] # here" and it turns into "...]. # here". Awful
by coldtea | 2025-09-10 10:58:17+00:00
>This is honestly very confusing to me: the content of the post is totally contradicted by the image! Just look at the features listed:

Sure, let's...

>There is a completely new body material and design

Which for most people is irrelevant. They care for functionality, not whether they device got it's nth different material or a slight look adjustment (any smartphone is still a rectangle slab of glass with cameras, not much to change anyway).

>There is a new faster chip, with GPUs actually designed for AI workloads (a reminder that Apple’s neural engine was designed for much more basic machine learning algorithms, not LLMs)

Still not interesting. AI on iOS is nowhere near that usefull atm.

>There is a 50% increase in RAM

Substantive. But who hit limits with the previous 8GB? A tiny handful of ultra-power users. So his point still stands.

>The front camera sensor has 2x the pixels, and is square

So what? A slightly better selfie and videocalls.

>The telephoto lense has 4x the pixels, allowing for 8x hardware zoom

And how often did a regular iPhone user say "I could really use an 8x hardware zoom"?

>There is a much larger battery, thanks to the Pro borrowing the Air’s trick of bundling all of the electronics in a larger yet more aesthetically pleasing plateau There is much better cooling, allowing for better sustained performance There is faster charging

Those 3 are good. The second not that interesting though - regular users didn't have any use for the 16 or even 15 level performance, it's not like the new "better sustained performance" will change their life.

So, basically, to the average smartphone user (not smartphone photography/video afficionado, and no power user running ultra demanding apps or games on their iPhone) it's basically: "slightly better cameras, if you're into that sort of thing, faster charging, and longer battery life".
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-09-10 10:58:45+00:00
an interesting youtube comment:

"2:42 Check out the readout on the bottom right . One of the numbers is the target height above terrain - and after it's hit that goes down from 86 to 59 over about 6 seconds before the video cuts off. So after being hit the object isn't continuing on course, it's falling at an increasingly fast rate. The video was sent to Rep. Eric Burlison with no chain of custody and no context, and it's a video taken of a screen which crops out 80% of the analytical data along the edges of the screen, but that's the MOST IMPORTANT PART which would tell us the distance, speed, size, range, angle and other critical information for interpreting the video. This could be drone to drone intercept footage from a training mission, we just don't know at this point."

Also note that the article's title contains an error - this is not "radar footage, it's IR camera footage. Before assuming this is even an "orb" at all, check out this video on how these cameras work: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

I'm no expert but my most likely bet is someone cropped IR footage of a drone intercept and sent it without context or SME interpretation to a congressman.
by PxldLtd | 2025-09-10 10:58:51+00:00
Anecdotes are not a very useful tool in discussions about generalisations. They provide little evidence aside from saying that it's a category of event that can exist. No one at any point has said citations are gospel. Just that anecdotes aren't adding much to the discussion at hand. If you've got issues with the cited data, be precise instead of casting general aspersions on academia.
by znpy | 2025-09-10 10:59:44+00:00
One other super-interesting feature is connection multiplexing and keeping connection alive with the ControlMaster and ControlPath directives in your ~/.ssh/config file.

The nice thing is that it makes opening a new ssh connection much faster, which if you make a lot of connections, it can be very handy.

See https://ldpreload.com/blog/ssh-control for some examples
by dgacmu | 2025-09-10 11:00:28+00:00
Network latency in most situations is not 500ms. The latency from New York California is under 70ms, and if you add in some transmission time you're still under 200ms. And that's ignoring that an NYC request will probably go only to VA (sub-15ms).

Even over LTE you're looking at under 120ms coast to coast.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-10 11:01:12+00:00
> The main thing is that viewers only ever go to YouTube, a learned habit. This is where they listen to music, where they get their news, where the algorithm suggests them related videos, where they can search for tutorials and reviews for gear, etc.

They go to Spotify and Apple Music to listen to music, they turn on cable TV or go to a website to get their news, they get the Netflix algorithm to suggest them related videos. Etc.
by azernik | 2025-09-10 11:01:44+00:00
I think generally, games should move to using the GPU less for graphics and more for computation. Not just AI computation - those fancy GPUs are a big resource that simulation games could be taking advantage of and just... aren't.

(Yes, this is a Paradox callout. Give me less fancy particle effects in Vic3 and use the GPU for computing pop updates faster!)

(Probably the biggest barrier to this is the lack of a convenient C++/C#-level cross-manufacturer compute API. Vulkan is a bit too low-level for game devs to work with, OpenCL kind of sucks, and CUDA is NVIDIA-only.)
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-10 11:02:18+00:00
If you included the previous and following sentences, it's at least to me clear what they mean:

However, existing methods for training such models still rely heavily on vast human-curated tasks and labels, typically via fine-tuning or reinforcement learning, which poses a fundamental bottleneck to advancing AI systems toward capabilities beyond human intelligence

To overcome this limitation, we introduce R-Zero, a fully autonomous framework that generates its own training data from scratch.

Starting from a single base LLM, R-Zero initializes two independent models with distinct roles, a Challenger and a Solver.

Training a LLM is a multi-stage process[1], and they're tackling the stage at the end. That's where you do fine-tuning or reinforcement learning. They're not training a LLM from scratch. They're explicitly stating they start from a base LLM, ie a pretrained non-tuned model.

As I understand it, and as they mention, training data for the latter stages has typically required high-quality human-curated samples in large numbers, even if they're augmented using LLMs, say by generating multiple variations of each human-curated training sample.

Their proposal is to have a generative adversarial network generate that data without any initial human input, ie from scratch.

[1]: https://snorkel.ai/blog/large-language-model-training-three-...
by dvdkon | 2025-09-10 11:02:19+00:00
Not really, since it's not just about the light intensity, but also its spectral power distribution. This especially matters when using the display in a darker environment with low-temperature illumination, e.g. when reading before bed.

Quick experiment to show the effect: Go into a room with low 2700K or lower-temp lighting. Take an LCD, set its colour temperature same as the external lighting, then display an all-black screen. Since the screen is displaying #000, the software colour temp adjustment can't do anything, and you'll see the screen as emitting blue light, the colour of its backlight.

OLEDs don't have this issue, which makes them great for night-time use when configured properly, but they also generally use low-frequency PWM dimming on low brightness.
by devnullbrain | 2025-09-10 11:02:50+00:00
>the normal behavior shareholders expect.

And for each CEO, those shareholders are mostly the same people.

It's easy to get sucked into thinking this is just the way the world works but really we've just enshrined a local and temporal phenomenon. Layoffs aren't a physical law. There are places and times where this would not happen.

Let me put my investor hat on: hiring at the top and firing at the bottom is a predictable inefficiency and represents a CEO failing at their responsibilities. You don't get to be a CEO and claim ignorance of market cycles.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-10 11:03:00+00:00
> Yeah, but we're not that good at cutting stone anymore

We are pretty good at cutting stone, but not very good at cutting stone with the resources available to the ancient egyptians. So in some sense the technology has been lost: but that's more because there aren't really people try to perfect that craft, as opposed to because of some magical trick or technique that we don't know anything about (Though it's murky exactly what approaches they used, that's because there's multiple plausible ones and it's hard to pin them down, not because there's no plausible ones we can think of).
by 400thecat | 2025-09-10 11:04:39+00:00
Package: chromium Version: 138.0.7204.49-1~deb12u1

I am experiencing very weird and suspicious issue on debian 12.

For context, I am using grsecurity + RBAC, which gives me the possibility to see what files each program wants to access. My issue is not caused by RBAC. but RBAC brought my attention to this issue.

SO, I have upgraded chromium browser to: 138.0.7204.49

and suddenly when chromium starts, in addition to trying to access the usual files in my home, such as ~/.config/chromium or ~/.cache , it now tries to access sensitive folders on my system:

~/.ssh/ ~/.gnupg/ ~/.dbus/ /boot/

(while ~/.dbus is not as immediately alarming as the others, Chromium accessing this when it didn't before is still a change in behavior that deserves scrutiny)

this never happened before. I am sure, because the RBAC rules that I am using would have alerted me.

this is highly suspicious and potentially a serious security issue !

this issue was originally reported on chromium 138, fixed in next version, and now it's back in version 140.0.7339.80
by steveBK123 | 2025-09-10 11:05:29+00:00
It's called performance management.

If middle management can't figure it out for remote or in-office employees, they need a new line of work.

The people that are slackers at home have low output in the office and are probably the annoying gabber distracting the rest of the team in-office.

Collective punishment isn't a solution, and the best will walk.
by throw0101a | 2025-09-10 11:06:03+00:00
From Tom Nichols (a now-retired prof at the US Naval War College):

> It is almost impossible to overstate the inanity of this move. The United States has a Department of Defense for a reason. It was called the “War” Department until 1947, when the dictates of a new and more dangerous world required the creation of a much larger military organization than any in American history. Harry Truman and the American leaders who destroyed the Axis, and who now were facing the Soviet empire, realized that national security had become a larger undertaking than the previous American tradition of moving, as needed, between discrete conditions of “war” and “peace.”

> These leaders understood that America could no longer afford the isolationist luxury of militarizing itself during times of threat and then making soldiers train with wooden sticks when the storm clouds passed. Now, they knew, the security of the country would be a daily undertaking, a matter of ongoing national defense, in which the actual exercise of military force would be only part of preserving the freedom and independence of the United States and its allies.

* https://archive.today/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arch...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Nichols_(academic)

The current president seems to think that this change is important, but Nichols goes over some previous presidents:

> That name was good enough for Truman, who served in combat in World War I and dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan. And it was good enough for President Dwight Eisenhower, the former supreme allied commander, who oversaw the largest military operations ever undertaken in all of human history.

> It was also good enough for John F. Kennedy, who served his country as a naval officer and nearly got killed during World War II. It was good enough for Lyndon B. Johnson, who won the Silver Star for his military service, and then, as commander in chief, embroiled the United States in a decade-long war in Southeast Asia. It was good enough for Naval Reserve officer Richard Nixon, who took over Johnson’s war and unleashed the fury of American bombers overseas. It was good enough for Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, both former Navy officers. It was good enough for Ronald Reagan, a former Army officer who as president pushed through a huge program of military expansion and modernization. It was good enough for his successor, George H. W. Bush, a decorated naval aviator who was shot down during combat in the Pacific.

* Ibid
by illiac786 | 2025-09-10 11:06:07+00:00
agreed but I think you are underselling it. “loosing the country” sounds like an administrative detail. I know you probably do not mean this at all, but I’d like to remind everyone: reports coming from (previously) russian occupied areas are horrifying. Loosing the country would mean the situation of these areas extends to all of Ukraine.

Even if the war ends, Russia will continue to run a regime of terror and brain washing to make sure no one ever even thinks of regaining independence again, ever.
by ClaraForm | 2025-09-10 11:06:34+00:00
I mean an LLM (bad example, but good enough for what I'm trying to convey) doesn't need any sort of "memory" to be able to reconstruct something that looks like intelligence. It stores weights, and can re-assemble "facts" from those weights, independent of the meaning or significance of those facts. It's possible the brain is similar, on a much more refined scale. My brain certainly doesn't store 35,000 instances of my mum's image to help me identify her, just an averaged image to help me know when I'm looking at my mum.

The brain definitely stores things, and retrieval and processing are key to the behaviour that comes out the other end, but whether it's "memory" like what this article tries to define, I'm not sure. The article makes it a point to talk about instances where /lack/ of a memory is a sign of the brain doing something different from an LLM, but the brain is pretty happy to "make up" a "memory", from all of my reading and understanding.
by blacklion | 2025-09-10 11:07:03+00:00
> I think the simple and boring answer is it really depends

Yep, people are different.

> are way more productive remotely

Is this measured, or they are feel more productive? (I think, answer is the same: there is full spectrum here and somebody is less productive but feels more productive and somebody is really more productive and, maybe, feels the same :-))

But my previous team (where I worked at the peak of COVID) was less productive for sure (I can compare release notes between product release and see as they are shrinking from release to release at COVID time!), though we have some team members who thought that they become more productive!.

Also, long time ago I worked in distributed team (St.Petersburg, Russia / Boston, USA / Santa Clara, USA) and we had twice-a-year week-long whole-team in-person meetings in Boston office (I was from St.Petersburg). These were two hyper-productive weeks, when we solved a lot of problems which accumulated between these meeting, fast and efficient. It was before video-conferencing, so all other meetings was phone-calls (only audio), but still.

I understand, that it is not statistics, it is anecdotal, but I'm very skeptical about broad claims that distributed / remote teams (!) can be as efficient (or even more) as local ones. Personal contributors — sure, all people are different, but whole teams — I'm in doubt. We are social animals, and all these video calls are still conversation with pixels, not people.