MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-09-26 08:41:33+00:00
Probably by just thinking about it and working to incrementally improve their answers. I'd expect plenty of people solved it before them but never published or publicized their solution. It's quite logical in many ways. For instance just thinking about the problem abstractly:

- You can only have 9 queens and they're going to want to be as centrally placed as possible with as little overlap as possible.

- The black king will need to be tucked in a corner and covered by a minimum of his pieces and nonchecking pieces of your own.

- All your other pieces, if useable, will probably end up on the edge of the board since minimizing the number of squares they block is likely to be more impactful than maximizing the number of squares they cover.

There's probably other heuristics I'm not considering, but just with those 3 you're already well on your way to the solution. So you'd lay out the pieces, and then try to find a way to do it one move better, and iterate! The concerns I'd have: pawn promotion can complicate things dramatically. Pawns can promote to 4 different pieces which would technically be 4 different moves. And a pawn can have up to 3 different paths to promote - so that's 12 possible moves tucked in a very tiny space. And then king placement - castling can add up to 2 more moves, and so compensating for that (and the corresponding rook position) adds some complexity.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-26 08:41:54+00:00
One of the strange joys of this site is reading the insane takes of otherwise intelligent right-wingers as they try to bend reality to fit with their beliefs.

At the very best you'll get "the left forced them to do it" but blank denial of reality and invention of entirely fake parallel worlds is much more likely.

They've been doing that for climate, renewables, COVID, Trump etc. far longer than for DOGE with no sign of giving up.
by scott_w | 2025-09-26 08:42:57+00:00
>> A good manager gets in a fight with their superior(s) if their superior happens to be wrong. A bad manager will avoid conflict with their superior, nod too unrealistic demands and then badmouth the superior with their team.

> I characterized a certain type of person by how they would act at the extremes.

This is literally a false dichotomy.

> Why did you turn what I said into "punch them in the face"?

It's called dramatic effect, I don't literally think that you said it but my comment stands even if you take your literal argument.

> But what if the manager had not said the truth but (trying to please the superior) promised impossible things?

Neither I nor the article argue you should do this, so you threw a strawman on top of your false dichotomy. I don't see how we can have a fruitful discussion when the positions you claim are being taken are positions that exist only in your head.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-26 08:43:52+00:00
Signing PDFs digitally is kind of a pain, though. There are several different standards, compatible with different readers, and you need to pay up to get a trusted certificate or Adobe will stick a huge "THIS DOCUMENT WAS SIGNED BY AN UNKNOWN PARTY" banner across the screen when you open it. And then you need to opt into the services of a timestamp server to validate your signature or your document might be marked untrusted when your certificate expires.

It's a better technical solution but unfortunately it's not as simple as you'd hope it to be.
by smacker | 2025-09-26 08:44:36+00:00
I like using postgres for everything, it lets me simplify infrastructure. But using it as a cache is a bit concerning in terms of reliability, in my opinion.

I have witnessed many incidents when DB was considerably degrading. However, thanks to the cache in redis/memcache, a large part of the requests could still be processed with minimal increase in latency. If I were serving cache from the same DB instance, I guess, it would cause cache degradation too when there are any problems with the DB.
by hans_castorp | 2025-09-26 08:44:43+00:00
My favorite "strange unit" is poronkusema:

"A Sami measurement of distance; the distance a reindeer can travel before needing to stop to urinate. Today used to describe something that is at a very obscure distance away" (approximately 7.5 km)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_Finnish_units_of_meas...
by Moosdijk | 2025-09-26 08:45:12+00:00
My experience with Gemini is the sole reason I am convinced that there's an AI hype going on. It consistently hallucinates key information which has led me to spend countless hours tracking down which information the output was based on, only to find that it dreamt up the facts that it gave to me.

The way I have come to perceive AI is that it's mostly good at reassuring/reaffirming people's beliefs and ideas than an actual source of truth.

That would not be an issue if it was actually marketed as such, but seeing the "guided learning" function fail time and again makes me think we should be a lot more critical of what we're being told by tech enthusiasts/companies about AI.
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by niksmac | 2025-09-26 08:45:29+00:00
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by john01dav | 2025-09-26 08:46:27+00:00
Calling that "low hanging fruit" isn't accurate, because entrenched and powerful interests benefit from it being kept that way. That extra $750 is valuable to the capitalist that gets it. The jobs to process those appeals and reviews are valuable to the employees who do them. Deleting all of this overnight will fuck these people over to varying degrees, and it could even have macroeconomic implications.

With that said, although it will not be easy, this shit needs to change. Health care in the United States is unacceptably expensive and of poorer quality than it needs to be.
by niksmac | 2025-09-26 08:47:13+00:00
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by fredoralive | 2025-09-26 08:48:32+00:00
Generally, Turbo toggled some form of slow mode. Back in the XT era, enough software relied on the original 4.77MHz CPU clock of the PC and XT that faster Turbo XT clones running at 8MHz would have a switch to slow things back down. It persisted for a while into the early ‘90s as a way to deal with software that expects a slower CPU, although later implementations may not slow things down all the way to an XT’s speed.
by joz1-k | 2025-09-26 08:48:34+00:00
> What's the appeal of this compared to a cheaper and more powerful N150 NUC, or a used mini PC

This is a very good question. The Pi 500+ is a beautiful product, but when compared in terms of price/value to the NUC and various other mini PCs, its value proposition is questionable.

Perhaps the target group are enthusiasts who had 8/16-bit "all-in-one" computers like Commodore64, Amiga, Atari, ZX Spectrum, Acorn etc., in their younger years and now want to buy something similar (non-x86) for themselves or force it on their kids. :)
by joelthelion | 2025-09-26 08:48:39+00:00
As someone who works in a related field, I think Hinton's original assessment is mostly correct (although we will always need a few radiologists around).

However, the timelines are far too optimistic. It takes time to refine the technology for day to day use, adapt mindsets and processes, and update regulations as needed. But it will come, it just needs more time.

It's the same story as self-driving vehicles or programming. AI will have an impact. It just takes time.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-26 08:49:14+00:00
Way more common than people will admit.

From the comments:

>The moral of the story is that planning and structured R&D funding matters. If 90% of inventions over this time period were intentional (people looking for a solution to that specific problem), it matters a lot.

Mainly the "accidents" occur as collateral surprises during intentional efforts to create targeted solutions. Tangential or not.

Targeted solutions that succeed are the main thing that's appreciated, I feel that most researchers who are dedicated to that kind of effort have preferred not to reveal that any of their advances are accidental if it's avoidable.

I expect lots of under-reporting of the serendipidous breakthroughs has been tradititonal.
by camilomatajira | 2025-09-26 08:49:44+00:00
This is worth gold: """ Power Imbalance

In theory, GitOps is neutral. A robot pulls from Git and makes reality match. Everyone gets to review, and every change is versioned. Feels fair. Right?

But in practice, GitOps introduces a very specific kind of power dynamic: the gatekeeper pattern.

Most of the time, it’s the infra or platform team that sets up GitOps. They define the rules—how environments are structured, how approvals work, which tools are allowed. And once that system is live, every change has to go through them.

It sounds like collaboration. In reality, it’s almost always a one-way review.

A backend developer wants to change a config file. They need a review from someone on the platform team. A frontend dev wants to bump a service version. They open a PR. They wait. A product engineer wants to expose a new route for testing. Same story. PR. Wait. Fix a nit. Wait again.

But it doesn’t go the other way. It almost never goes the other direction.

Infra changes things, merges to main, the bot deploys it. No one outside the infra team is reviewing their changes. No one’s stopping their PRs with a comment. They own the system, and everyone else is a guest.

That’s not collaboration. That’s control. """
by bob1029 | 2025-09-26 08:50:04+00:00
This seems like a really reasonable implementation looking at the actual physics loop. From a game design perspective, lookup tables can be a very powerful way for artists to interact with the physics. For example, it makes balancing 2 different vehicles a lot easier in conversation. You could say things like "I think we need to reduce the performance of XYZ between 1000 and 8000 feet to balance with ABC". Inserting a new band into the table is an obvious exercise in Microsoft excel.
by conartist6 | 2025-09-26 08:51:48+00:00
Indeed. So it's a good way to make friends.

It's also naming an enemy, which I find ominous. That was the first thing Trump did.

It defines such a narrow vision of what is socially acceptable liberalism that I dislike it as a diehard liberal because we need to build coalitions to win elections. Liberals win when the center votes with the left, and ostracizing moderates for having failed a purity test helps exactly none with that.
by tpm | 2025-09-26 08:52:09+00:00
Long time ago when I came to the UK I had that exact problem, there was only one bank (HSBC I think) that agreed to open an account for based on passport only. Even though I'm an EU citizen and UK was part of the EU at that time. Otherwise I would be stuck, because my employer (no employer I know of) would send my wage overseas.
by zdc1 | 2025-09-26 08:53:01+00:00
The only issue I'd have with this is that you'd be very overweight on one signal; that has a lot of data and context to give compelling advice of any degree of truthfulness or accuracy. If you reflect on your own life and all the advice you've received, I'm sure lots of it will be of varying quality and usefulness. An LLM may give average/above-average advice, but I think there is value in not being deeply tethered to tech like this.

In a similar vein of thought to "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him" sometimes we just need to be our own life coach and do our best to steer our own ships.
by thisisit | 2025-09-26 08:53:14+00:00
> Did I say anything that made you think otherwise, right?

Yes this line made you seem ignorant.

>> Because China is so much more immigration and foreigner friendly?

The brain drain to China will not be based on immigrants or foreigners rather Chinese going back. Capisce?

And you seem to be arguing for the sake of arguing.

> Yes, the US is also on a bad path. But so is China. And they too push plenty of bullshit. How is that Tianmen Square investigation coming along?

Tiananmen Square happened in 1989. China has been on the "bad path" for years. No one is denying that. But that is not the same parallel as US government pushing hack medicines and correlation studies like autism and Tylenol. Find me an example of China doing that instead of going for the lowest denominator of "Tiananmen Square, see gotcha".
by luxcem | 2025-09-26 08:53:54+00:00
From [1],

I asked a few students to read aloud the titles of some essays they’d submitted that morning. For homework, I had asked them to use AI to propose a topic for the midterm essay. Most students had reported that the AI-generated essay topics were fine, even good. Some students said that they liked the AI’s topic more than their own human-generated topics. But the students hadn’t compared notes: only I had seen every single AI topic. Here are some of the essay topics I had them read aloud: Navigating the Digital Age: How Technology Shapes Our Social Lives, Learning, and Well-Being Navigating the Digital Age: A Personal Reflection on Technology Navigating the Digital Age: A Personal and Peer Perspective on Technology’s Role in Our Lives Navigating Connection: An Exploration of Personal Relationships with Technology From Connection to Disconnection: How Technology Shapes Our Social Lives From Connection to Distraction: How Technology Shapes Our Social and Academic Lives From Connection to Distraction: Navigating a Love-Hate Relationship with Technology Between Connection and Distraction: Navigating the Role of Technology in Our Lives I expected them to laugh, but they sat in silence. When they did finally speak, I am happy to say that it bothered them. They didn’t like hearing how their AI-generated submissions, in which they’d clearly felt some personal stake, amounted to a big bowl of bland, flavorless word salad.

[1] https://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-mys...
by kritr | 2025-09-26 08:54:07+00:00
I don’t see this article actually arguing against GitOps. It just argues that the policies in place for GitOps need to make sense for the environment you’re developing in.

Obviously, the level of auditing and reviewing for infrastructure changes in a Prod environment make no sense for a Sandbox environment, and there’s nothing in GitOps that implies these need to be the same.

Ideally at every phase of development, you have very legible infrastructure that can be shared and iterated on by a team. The CI pipelines backing this should offer rapid turnaround times, and things should be easy to test.

All things which the general GitOps concept still works in tandem with.
by SarahMas | 2025-09-26 08:54:20+00:00
Summary: Consensus anchor $300M–$1.0B/day (CBO 2019; S&P 2018). We show a working range ~$350M–$1.05B and a peak-day tail ~$1.2–$1.3B by adding reliability penalties, behavior, and small spread bumps. We cite CBO, GAO, USDOT, Treasury and show per-household math. Method notes: conservative, nonpartisan; we separate recoverable delays vs. non-substitutable activity. Happy to share the spreadsheets and discuss assumptions.
by Uptrenda | 2025-09-26 08:54:37+00:00
Nice tool, man. It found 240 STUN servers in my test run. I hope you don't mind but I was curious to see if I could trick it into giving me results for TURN servers (with user + pass.) I wasn't able to trick it. Not even if the TURN servers were part of my grandmas famous cookie recipe did it give in. Oh well, no cookies for me I guess.
by michaelt | 2025-09-26 08:54:46+00:00
> i've also accidentially fallen in the river a couple of times over the past two years, and i will confirm that the water is safe

I believe for open water swimming, the definition of 'safety' they're aiming for includes checking the water for human faeces and bacteria like e.coli.

A one-in-250 chance of getting diarrhoea the next day is no problem for clumsy drunks, who'll just be glad to make it out - but for a health/fitness event it's undesirable.
by sunrunner | 2025-09-26 08:55:13+00:00
The 'List of non-coherent units of measurement' [1] and 'List of humorous units of measurement' [2] pages are always a fun rabbit hole to go down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-coherent_units_of_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_meas...
by pepoluan | 2025-09-26 08:56:15+00:00
The important thing about making commits separately and as much self-contained as possible is to allow cherrypicking.

Say you're on a development branch and you added something new, that the Project thinks can be and should be added to the Main branch. By having that addition in its own self-contained commit allows the Project to create a new branch, cherrypick the commit, and merge the branch to Main, without having to pull in the rest of the development branch.

It's of course not really necessary if you're the only person doing all the development, but it's just a good etiquette if you're working with other people in the Project.
by isaacremuant | 2025-09-26 08:56:26+00:00
You may have a family but how much time are you spending with them.

You know yourself but I think it's extremely unhealthy advice to give to people and usually hides a lot of inefficiency and misused hours.

Constraints breed creativity and efficiency. Do more with less and all that.

Have you done the exercise of "how can I produce the same value output in 80% of the time". The exact percentage doesn't matter, just doing the exercise to improve efficiency and have a more balanced approach. That also gives you space for actual crunch time whereas you seem to work in a perpetual state of crunch.

Is it real or is it performative? Are you taking care of health? Do you realize work is not everything to life and that you CAN have your cake and eat it too if you slightly balance it out.

Again, what you're doing might work for you but I'm trying to offer a slightly more nuanced take than what I consider it to be the "constant crunch" mode.

Busy doesn't mean value.
by norskeld | 2025-09-26 08:56:53+00:00
While I agree that monopolies suck, I _absolutely hate_ having to waste my time adjusting styles and writing workaround code just to make everything look and work consistently in a multitude of browsers. This is one of the reasons — among a hundred others — that I grew to somewhat hate front-end, doubly so with the rise of mobile devices. And the more rendering engines we have, the more developers will have to fight frustrating battles with inconsistencies and quirks.
by LightBug1 | 2025-09-26 08:57:22+00:00
You people really are unhinged. I guess verifiable reports on the ground, from people I trust, isn't enough for you either. Literal eyeball witness accounts won't be enough for you. Mass graves won't be enough - obviously fabricated.

When this is over, people like you should be forced to go to those graves and the destruction and be made to reflect and be educated.

Just like people are now sent to Auschwitz.

You're the flip side coin equivalent of Holocaust deniers. My condolences on where you've ended up in life. Bye.
by keyringlight | 2025-09-26 08:57:24+00:00
Having played a good portion of Daikatana with a big fix-up mod, I'd say it's one of those games where there's a good game trying to get out and would have been a great if it released in a better state - but it didn't. However it's really hard to see how any commercial project could do an overhaul/remake to try and explore that potential and not deal with that baggage. Probably similar for Duke Nukem Forever, if that had been a well run project instead of a 14 year saga, it seems like the poison is being a bit drunk on earlier success and having too much money available without accountability for it.
by lemagedurage | 2025-09-26 08:57:26+00:00
The main issue is that a reader might mistake Redis as a 2X faster postgres. Memory is 1000X faster than disk (SSD) and with network overhead Redis can still be 100X as fast as postgres for caching workloads.

Otherwise, the article does well to show that we can get a lot of baseline performance either way. Sometimes a cache is premature optimisation.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-26 08:57:55+00:00
Some people need to be in physical proximity. And sure... not always. And I would be happier about coming into the office if I actually had an office with walls and a door. And many poor managers substitute people coming into the office for knowing how to manage technical projects.

But... for some people in some teams... there's nothing that beats getting people around the same whiteboard.
by Wololooo | 2025-09-26 08:58:00+00:00
> When it comes to very complicated things, physics tends to fall down and we need to try non-physics modeling, and/or come up with non-physics abstraction.

"When things are complicated, if I just dream that it is not complicated and solve another problem than the one I have, I find a great solution!"

Joking apart, models that can help target potentially very interesting sub phase space much smaller than the original one, are incredibly useful, but fundamental understanding of the underlying principles, allowing to make very educated guesses on what can and cannot be ignored, usually wins against throwing everything at the wall...

And as you are pointing out, when the complex reality comes knocking in it usually is much much messier...
by creesch | 2025-09-26 08:58:04+00:00
Given it has been a few days it might be unlikely that you read it. But I figured I'd reply anyway in case you do.

I mean this with no hostile intend, but have you honestly stopped and thought about what you did type down here?

What I mean by that is, have you looked at the complete picture to see if what you are saying makes sense in relation to what you initially said.

You questioned the need for documentation. Now you are saying there needs to be good documentation for LLMs to train on. Good documentation for LLMs to train on is actually much more extensive than than the documentation written for humans to begin with. So, you are effectively saying there needs to be more documentation.

Secondly, how can developers ask about something when they don't have decent documentation to start with.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-09-26 08:58:45+00:00
From the OSS' 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual:

> Bureaucratic Delay: Insist on adhering strictly to formal procedures, requiring multiple approvals for tasks, and making all requests go through official channels.

> Meeting Manipulation: Prolong meetings by making long speeches, referring all matters to committees, bringing up irrelevant issues, and constantly questioning previous decisions.

> Communication Delays: Use long, convoluted language and haggle over the precise wording of communications to slow down understanding and action.

Oh, the irony