MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fsckboy | 2025-09-19 16:01:00+00:00
in my comment i gave a link to what a fairly large group of university professors, scientists who study, test, and measure intelligence, and what they say they've learned about intelligence. you think you know more, but you don't even investigate or reference what they say, you just think it's the way you think it should be based on ideas you have that you have not tested. not very convincing.

also, cultures don't have iq's, there is no known link to culture.
by hnthrowaway1956 | 2025-09-19 16:01:12+00:00
no, they don't allow it, they maybe begrudgingly tolerate it. They have a history of false-copyright striking youtube videos, and they've recently started using AI (Tracer AI) to DMCA-spray claims, some of which are obviously nonsensical.

Of course, they are fine with you making youtube videos about their game (itdraws people in) but try making a video about a bit darker topics related to the game and you can quickly find your video striked.

I even found an instance of a project like this one (a unfinished open-source MC clone which is vaguely similar but original assets and code and everything) receiving an LLM-written copyright claim based on "it looks similar and that's protected by our IP"
by ogig | 2025-09-19 16:01:51+00:00
Ants, and wasps too, have an incredible variety of amazing resources. Some species will have more than one queen, other will cultivate fungus or sheep aphids, others make nests the size of a nut and others the size of the ecuator, some are parasitic of an specific specie. There are sun reflecting desert ants, amazonian river floating ants, container ants full of sweet for the colony, mechanical ants with cyborg-like mandibules with absurd power ratios, you have bridge building ants that use their own body. Their genetic tricks are amazing and diverse too.

It's better than sci-fi, if you like strange creatures, dive into myrmecology.
by actualwitch | 2025-09-19 16:01:52+00:00
Society's failure was taking gamergaters seriously. It was the beginning, slippery slope into full on totalitarian censorship but because basic human respect was framed as oppression it served as invitation for tit for tat retaliation. This tactic has been ridiculously successful in turning extremest ideas mainstream, and it was obvious to many people even back then, however because it exploits human nature it's hard to fight. You can find the most ridiculous crazies that present as "other side" and use it to justify whatever you want, and if you keep repeating "this is totally normal" some people just start to believe. If you are interested in finding the peaceful way to oppose this, I invite you to try and come up with the answer to this "totalitarian ratchet" because no one so far figured it out and it is a foundational part of modern authoritarian playbook.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-19 16:01:53+00:00
For example, a music fan could tell an agent to buy concert tickets that go on sale at midnight and then go to sleep, knowing that the agent would buy the number and location of tickets they had asked for (presumably with a price limit).

In other words, you may pay the maximum price for the least desirable seats in your price range --- and of course Google makes money and invades your privacy in the process.

Buyer beware: A "Google" label means their interests are served first.
by belval | 2025-09-19 16:02:01+00:00
Honestly, the rumor mill surrounding Intel is actually very similar to AMD 2015-2016 pre-Zen (not saying that they will see the same outcome). I swear I have seen the same "x86 license is not transferable [other company] might sue them" 9 years ago or "Product Y will be discontinued".

When it comes to GPUs, a $4T company probably couldn't care less what their $150B partner does in their spare time as long as they prioritize the partnership. Especially when the GPUs in question are low-end units, in a segment that Nvidia has no competition in and not even shipping that many. If they actually asked them to kill it, it would be 100% out of pettiness.

Sometimes I wonder if these articles are written for clicks and these "leakers" are actually just the authors making stuff up and getting it right from time to time.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-19 16:02:22+00:00
But you can use a gaming card to do AI and you can use H100 to game. The architecture between them is quite similar. And I expect upcoming edge AI applications to break down and end up using GPUs more than having dedicated AI accelerator HW because A) you need something to do display anyway B) the fixed function DSPs that have been called "AI accelerators" are worse than useless for running LLMs.
by glimshe | 2025-09-19 16:02:23+00:00
My Mac Air M1 ran a lot slower until I reduced transparency. The glass change would be fine if the UI was objectively better, but it's an usability downgrade. Things are harder to see/read.

Meanwhile, I still get prompted by the OS whether I want to allow Chrome to access my local network after it asked me that 10 times already.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-19 16:02:26+00:00
It's not so easy to evolve new enzymes, but one of the main hypothesis is that at the beginning of the Carboniferous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous the plants invented lignin (that is the browns part of wood, that is mixed with cellulose that is the white part) and nobody knew how to eat eat, so for 50 millions years the dead trees accumulated on the floor and later transformed to the current mineral coal.

Also cellulose and starch are very similar, they are chains of glucose, but bounded slightly different. We can split only starch, but we don't have enzymes to split cellulose, were "we" includes cows and a lot of animals that would really love to digest cellulose.

I think some bacteria can digest weird sugars, even the mirrored versions, but they are more efficient digesting usual sugars.
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-19 16:02:28+00:00
> I think this is going to single-handedly destroy the OSS ecosystem that Android enjoys.

This was always the plan. Co-opt FLOSS with services running on FLOSS platforms that are not, themselves, FLOSS. Make it insanely unattractive to run actual FLOSS services on the otherwise FLOSS platform. At that point, it might as well be what Apple does.

There's a reason why rms was insistent upon GPL, but he never did have a real answer to that sort of corporate behavior.
by cpncrunch | 2025-09-19 16:02:43+00:00
As others have noted, if you don't have hardware decoding for the codec being used, it will suck up a huge amount of cpu. Last year I got a new Macbook Pro with M3 Pro cpu, and it's amazing how little cpu it uses for video playback. After watching an hour of Youtube, the battery is down only about 5 or 10%.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-19 16:03:12+00:00
I think the majority of infringing was uploaded by the labels themselves. I believe that, without evidence contrary - like you know, what should actually be happening if this was actually bad, but like someone already addressed - I don't know that they lost a dime when the labels uploaded the labels copy written music.

How much did they lose again? Where did that number come from?

Say what you will - no actual consumer that operates under actual capitalism would piss us off this much - but they can do whatever they want tho.

I will never see fault with the IA for any of this.
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-09-19 16:03:30+00:00
When I first encountered this description of grief it really resonated, but it's felt less poignant as I've gotten older, partly because I find myself grieving people who still live, and are simply too different from how I remember them or how I thought I knew them to support the relationships I want to have with them.

I suppose the principle still holds: the "love" I have for those versions of those people cannot go anywhere, but that feels dissonant with not wanting to know these people as they are, or knowing the relationship I'm wishing for is otherwise ill-fated. In either case, the relationship cannot continue, and that drive the sense of grief anyway, so maybe I'm just splitting hairs.

Such is the complex nature of grief and of human relationships, I suppose.
by hopelite | 2025-09-19 16:03:33+00:00
People don’t seem to realize that none of these issues are a light switch, red or blue, left or right, my team vs your team; a template the system has worked hard to confine people into especially in the core of the empire, America, because it makes management easier.

It starts as early as childhood cartoons/movies. You are/project yourself as the righteous character and they are the zombies, bad guys, evil wizard, etc. Things are never that simple, but that’s why people are trained into this format. It’s easier managing things when you’ve constrained people into a duality and even intentionally set them against each other to distract.

What is confusing to people is that things like TikTok is like ranchers battling over control of the cattle. Most don’t realize they are not ranchers, as they graze and consume what they are fed to think and engage with.
by RajT88 | 2025-09-19 16:03:34+00:00
Everyone wants to grab whatever seniors have. I've seen it.

Children and other family squabble over the assets even before they pass. You'll see neighbors talking senile/demented seniors into giving away their stuff, or selling it for a silly low price (like a truck for a dollar, or my one neighbor asking my other neighbor for a free fishing boat). Then there's the scam calls...
by fair_enough | 2025-09-19 16:03:35+00:00
That sounds like a good semi-retirement gig just to get out of the house for a little while. If you're teaching the tech-related electives rather than mandatory core courses, the students are likely a lot more pleasant to deal with. I took German just to get away from the all the kids taking Spanish or French who were just there because they have to get their foreign language credit.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-19 16:03:45+00:00
I don't know how the law is framed but generally no refund is illegal because it would be too easy to create loopholes in the law otherwise.

What's customary is forfeiting any discount, then a partial refund with eventual early termination processing fees.

So if you had an annual subscription with a 10% discount which you stop after 3 months, your refund would be what you have paid minus three months at full price plus a token processing fee. It's a very common setup for mobile phone and internet subscriptions here. You generally end up paying roughly the equivalent of one additional month when you cancel which competing providers often actually refund when you switch.
by Someone | 2025-09-19 16:03:47+00:00
> The choice of Go has strengths like simple syntax, fast development cycle, built in support for concurrency, and good infrastructure. At the same time there are compromises like weaker memory control compared to C and some runtime overhead which can be critical for low level languages

But the implementation language doesn’t matter for that, doesn’t it? Or does it transpile to golang? Reading https://scarlang-docs.pages.dev/philosophy/, which says

Compilation model C backend for practical reasons.

I don’t see that being the case.
by conradev | 2025-09-19 16:04:01+00:00
When you say “running slowly”, do you mean:

- Apps launch slower (time from app launch to interactivity)

- Apps hang more frequently (interface freezes after interaction)

- Apps drop frames (scrolling and animations stutter)

I imagine it’s some combination of the above. Apps and the operating systems that run them get bigger and slower over time.

There really isn’t a “slowness constant” to tweak short of animation speed, and I believe Apple made app launch noticeably faster, animation-wise in iOS 26. Just lots and lots of regressions to fix.
by squigz | 2025-09-19 16:04:01+00:00
That isn't what the teacher said though. "just accept that these reactions happens and memorise them for the test. Don't try to understand it"

And in either case, there are far better ways to phrase that that aren't going to demotivate a kid to learn - "that's pretty advanced! We'll talk about that later in the year" or something along those lines.

More likely though, is that this teacher didn't know, didn't care, and couldn't stomach saying the words "I don't know; let's find out together" to a highschooler - which also would have been a far more productive answer!
by ilikepi | 2025-09-19 16:04:23+00:00
There is some more context on a post[1] in /r/ruby, including the fact that the maintainers and others had been working on a proposal[2] for a formalized organizational governance structure as recently as yesterday. The latter also adds some context into Mike McQuaid's involvement: the proposal was influenced by the structure put in place by the Homebrew project.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1nkzszc/ruby_centrals...

[2]: https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/61
by parineum | 2025-09-19 16:04:29+00:00
The issue now is that, at the time, the Clinton admin was looking at a political reality of cuts happening in a Republican congress and chose to work with them to make those cuts align more with his party's agenda than it would have before.

That reality isn't something either party seems to be willing to deal with today. The only time changes happen in the federal government are when one party controls the whole thing. Which is why there's such a fight for these mid-terms. If Republicans lose either house of congress, the last 2 years of the Trump admin will be stalemate.
by 999900000999 | 2025-09-19 16:05:00+00:00
OK.

You don't believe in copyright.

It still would of made more sense to create a separate legal entity ( maybe based out of someplace with different copyright laws), if that's what they wanted to do.

Imagine you have a lemonade stand, all is well. The local health inspector is cool with it even though you don't have a permit.

Your cousin asks you if he can start selling raw milk. If you say ok fine, and sell it at the same stand the local health inspector is well within reason to shut you down.

Why couldn't your cousin start up his own stand ?

As is, I think having all of this concentrated in one entity like IA is a really bad idea. It should be distributed across a dozens of organizations, and dozens of countries.
by mercutio2 | 2025-09-19 16:05:03+00:00
Huh? My maxed out Mac Studio gets 60-100 tokens per second on 120B models, with latency on the order of 2 seconds.

It was expensive, but slow it is not for small queries.

Now, if I want to bump the context window to something huge, it does take 10-20 seconds to respond for agent tasks, but it’s only 2-3x slower than paid cloud models, in my experience.

Still a little annoying, and the models aren’t as good, but the gap isn’t nearly as big as you imply, at least for me.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-09-19 16:05:10+00:00
> an overrated, overhyped little computer.

No, you are dismissive because you don't care about the use-cases.

The R.Pi 4 , 400, and the 500 are great models. Consider all the advantages together:

i= support for current Debian

ii= stellar community

iii= ease of use (UX), especially for people new to Debian and/or coding and/or Linux

iv= quiet, efficient, low power and passively cooled

v= robust enough to be left running for a long time

There are cheaper, more performant x86 and ARM dev boards and SOCs. But nothing compares to the full set of advantages.

That said, building a $3K A.I. cluster is just a senseless, expensive lark. (^;
by stuxnet79 | 2025-09-19 16:05:33+00:00
> Fun fact, a raspberry pi does not have a built in Real Time Clock with its own battery, so it relies on network clocks to keep the time.

> Another fun fact, the network module of the pi is actually connected to the USB bus, so there's some overhead as well as a throughput limitation.

> Fun fact, the Pi does not have a power button, relying on software to shut down cleanly. If you lose access to the machine, it's not possible to avoid corrupted states on the disk.

With all these caveats in mind, a raspberry pi seems to be an incredibly poor choice for distributed computing
by cogman10 | 2025-09-19 16:05:40+00:00
Usually rich parents.

That said, looks like this guy is actually more of a "self made man" as he started several businesses out of college with moderate success. The first was an alarm company (Spoiler, those are generally MLMs and there's 100 of them). Looks like he was just successful enough at it.

It's not shocking to me that someone who starts an MLM ends up in trouble with the SEC.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-09-19 16:06:11+00:00
>absolve developers

Doesn't this ultimately go all the way up to the top?

You have 2 devs: one who mostly writes their own code, only uses packages that are audited etc; the other uses packages willy nilly. Who do you think will be hired? Who do you think will be able to match the pace of development that management and executives demand?
by jorams | 2025-09-19 16:06:17+00:00
This article is just a lie and also seems deeply confused. First it talks about the (false) claim that you can no longer count a yearly contract as such, then it switches to "involuntary churn" without at any point explaining why those concepts are related in any way.

The regulation[1] explicitly says:

> Nothing in this Regulation prevents a customer from compensating third-party entities for support in the migration process or parties from agreeing on contracts for data processing services of a fixed duration, including proportionate early termination penalties to cover the early termination of such contracts, in accordance with Union or national law.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng
by ModernMech | 2025-09-19 16:06:38+00:00
That's the fun part about all of this. Boomers bought their houses for $30k in the 80s and today they're worth $3M. Sounds like they are set up comfortably for retirement and their millennial kids, who are pushing 40 and haven't been able to afford a house yet, are in for a nice inheritance.

Wrong! Because while their house is worth $3M, it will be fully leveraged to pay for the cost of their deathcare. Mom and dad will die broke in a retirement home, and your inheritance will be paying for their funeral out of your own pocket.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-19 16:07:05+00:00
I too prefer to get things cheaper (all else being equal). But in this case they aren't equal, which is kind of the rub. I would much rather have desktop software which doesn't suck, even if I had to pay more for it. And of course don't forget that just because the company is saving money, doesn't mean you the customer do. Companies are very happy to cut their own costs and pocket the extra profit, so it's difficult to say whether this reduction in software quality is actually benefiting us by making things cheaper.
by jfengel | 2025-09-19 16:07:12+00:00
I believe that the school curriculum should a course on proper interaction with police. It would include things like the correct way to request a lawyer and how to assert that you will not answer questions (so stop asking). It would make clear what "probable cause" and "reasonable suspicion" are -- not to the level of a lawyer, of course, but enough to know when the police are entitled to do a search and when they aren't.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-19 16:08:04+00:00
How is it a problem? Any bad software companies put a gun to your head to force you to buy their products on their terms?

I am an EU citizen, too, and I would like that the EU do not intervene and regulate anything and everything they might think of just for the sake of justifying their jobs...

B2C in Europe has very strong consumer protection laws, so terms must be clear and fair. People can then make their own decisions. B2B has less protection, i.e. you're supposed to be clued-up a minimum to read and understand contracts, but then people can make their own business decisions, too.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-19 16:08:14+00:00
I'm fairly certain it was to create this platform right here and right now - this is exactly what they wanted, an actual challenge to the record labels authority's.

The 90s ended forever ago - def jam and blah blah, why tf are they still relevant again??

Bc they are a monopoly with like a super legal total control over their distributed products - that doesn't end for like 100 years.

If copyright law changes - who win more than the IA?

THATS why this is happening ;)
by lmeyerov | 2025-09-19 16:08:18+00:00
This is a big problem for many enterprise startups. Most (90%+) are customer funded, not VC funded, and it is common to have a few big design partner customers as they figure it out. Imagine several 3yr $1.5M ($500K/yr) contracts, so a team of 10-15 funded on that.

Companies have annual whimsical budget cycles, with new innovation initiatives always big easy targets as not cemented yet. This change makes it very easy to yank one of the 3 year commitments... Which would cause layoffs of a third of the startup.
by qhwudbebd | 2025-09-19 16:08:22+00:00
This is certainly the reputation but I'm not sure they deserve it. They've always had the horrible closed-source bootloader with threadx running on the gpu, without a free alternative. At least up to pi4 they weren't bad at linux mainlining, but progress on upstreaming pi5 support has been glacial.

Cf. the various Beagle boards which have mainline linux and u-boot support right from release, together with real open hardware right down to board layouts you can customise. And when you come to manufacture something more than just a dev board, you can actually get the SoC from your normal distributor and drop it on your board - unlike the strange Broadcom SoCs rpi use.

I'm quite a lot more positive about rp2040 and rp2350, where they've at least partially broken free of that Broadcom ball-and-chain.
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-19 16:08:24+00:00
First World were countries aligned with the United States, Second World were countries aligned with the Soviet Union, and Third World were countries who were "neutral" or not aligned with either major superpower. Many Third World countries were newly independent, and were economically struggling but also wanted to assert sovereignty. Many were given aid packages to attempt to court them to one side or the other. The terms are outdated because of reality, not because of "progressives".
by fsckboy | 2025-09-19 16:08:34+00:00
>What exactly are they meant to replicate other than other IQ tests?

if a variety of different IQ tests sort the same people the same way, even though every question on the tests is different from the other tests, you have shown that the test is showing something about the subjects, not something about the tests. and that is replicable, and falsifiable.

if you follow the same people over time and provide them with new tests, and they continue to sort in the same relative fashion, you have increased confidence that you are measuring something relatively fixed, not variable. For statistical significance (look it up) you don't draw conclusions on the basis of one person (or one Dad) but on population samples tested under standard conditions.

this is like all study results published here, a thousand nerds who've never studied intelligence come up with a hundred objections to what was tested, assuming with arrogance that the people who specialized and did the work aren't considering what comes off the top of this nerd's head. Better qualified nerds did this work.

>Myers-Briggs...'s obvious horseshit

Myers Briggs is not complete horseshit, correlates closely to, but not as good a fit as, the generally accepted Big Five Factor system, the gold standard of personality tests: you should educate yourself a bit more. Myers-Briggs essentially tries to phrase everything in a postive way, where the Big Five separates and includes Neuroticism which is a more negative (for the person) trait. All these traits should be considered adaptive till proven otherwise, so resist the urge to judge.