MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by milch | 2025-09-25 05:16:10+00:00
I was told the total cost was about 10k or so including filing fees and lawyers, and so on, and O1 closer to 50k or so. Seems like most of big tech will just try for O1 instead now... I've heard some wild stories over the years of how people "manufactured" eligibility, and/or the kinds of arguments their lawyers made.
by wenc | 2025-09-25 05:16:17+00:00
Canada has great homegrown software talent (mostly out of schools like UWaterloo and UToronto). They usually come to the US on TN visas, not H-1B.

Canada has given the US so many great people: Brian Kernighan, Alfred Aho, Rob Pike, Ken Iverson, James Gosling, Rasmus Lerdorf, Matei Zaharia, Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, John Chambers, Robert Gentleman...
by anonym29 | 2025-09-25 05:16:27+00:00
Wow, rendering their entire core business operation vulnerable to extortion from a DDoS attack that's capable of taking down a single API endpoint? Even if they have a major commercial WAF/CDN, the cost to take down Cloudflare is a lot lower than the revenue lost by an entire airline being unable to process boarding at all.

Fingers crossed the Russians figure this out and help remind these businesses why lacking paper alternatives is NOT a cost-saving measure. The group that can take down that API endpoint can pretty much name their price to Ryanair and the C-suite will effectively have a fiduciary duty to shareholders to pay it if there's truly zero alternative and that starts disrupting revenue indefinitely.
by godelski | 2025-09-25 05:16:37+00:00
> Helium is based on Chromium > Best privacy by default

Sorry, pass...

Even with un-googled Chromium I do not think these statements are self-consistent. We need browsers that do not allow Google to control the ecosystem. We need legitimate competition. So what, our choices are Firefox (Gecko), Safari (WebKit), and Ladybird?

Personally I go with Firefox on most devices and Orion (WebKit) on my iPhone and iPad.

> Helium anonymizes all internal requests to the Chrome Web Store via Helium services.

This seems like something pretty easy to mess up. Maybe it is good now, but it sure is going to be a cat and mouse game.

I really would be curious to have some breakdown comparison with something like the Mullvad browser (Gecko). I have a lot of trust for both the Mullvad and Tor teams. They have a much longer history working with this kind of stuff and have been consistently updating it since release. Launched in early 2023[0] and last update was last week[1].

[0] The Mullvad Browser (mullvad.net) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35421034

[0.5] Mullvad Browser (torproject.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37159744

[1] https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser
by downrightmike | 2025-09-25 05:16:47+00:00
If you are not awake, you are asleep. American Cinema has been all for defeating nazis since before the war ended. Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds

All we have seen so far is white kids shooting people in red states.

Is DHH trying to legitimize a stance that fascists are some how good?
by man8alexd | 2025-09-25 05:17:24+00:00
You keep repeating that the program text pages are being evicted as if that were the only thing that happens under memory pressure. It is the last thing that happens after the kernel drops all regular page cache, causing I/O starvation, and without swap, the kernel can't do anything about inactive anon pages. This means that at this moment, you are almost out of memory and the kernel can't do anything other than shuffle the remaining pages, thrashing the I/O. The kernel can't predict the future and doesn't know if it is a temporary situation due to some load spike or if it is a memory leak and resources won't be available again. The kernel doesn't know SLOs and operator priorities - whether the workload should survive at all costs, or the stalls are not acceptable and the workload should be OOM-killed. It is the job of the operator to give the kernel appropriate information by setting cgroup limits and monitoring memory pressure. If you want the workload to be OOM-killed before it consumes all the memory and starts causing I/O thrashing - set `memory.max` and `memory.swap.max` cgroup limits. If you want the workload memory not to be reclaimed by the kernel - set `memory.min`.
by nofunsir | 2025-09-25 05:17:50+00:00
I just want normal buttons and dials back. Not time-based capacitance buttons that take 5.02 seconds to activate, not 5.0 seconds; nor free-spinning encoder wheels that mandate you give it a jiggle before the washer does anything, even if it's already on the setting you want.

I want kachunk-a-chunk back first. Then we can decide if it needs smarts.
by jerryliu12 | 2025-09-25 05:18:19+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Pro is pretty expensive, mostly because videos take up a lot of tokens. It's roughly 1 million input tokens/hr, with a relatively insignificant amount of output tokens. Fortunately, Gemini has a very generous free tier, which is more than enough to cover daily usage. If you set up one paid project (and just don't consume any tokens), you can still use the free tier on a different project, and they can't train on your data.
by eru | 2025-09-25 05:18:44+00:00
A lot of people have trouble with understanding recursion. Perhaps that's where they struggle with quicksort?

Luckily, there's a simple non-recursive quicksort variation. It goes like this:

Simplifying assumption: all items are distinct.

Invariant: Throughout our procedure, we will have a bunch of bags arranged in a sequence before us from left to right. Items in a bag are all jumbled up, but all items in bag A are smaller than any item in bag B, if A comes before B in our sequence.

Now, we start by stuffing all our items into a single bag.

We repeat the following:

- Pick an arbitrary bag X. Anyone will do, you can pick at random, or your favourite bag, or always the left-most or whatever. Only one condition: bag X has to have more than a single element left in it.

- Grab a random element E out of X as your pivot.

- Categories all elements of X into: smaller than E, E itself, and bigger than E. Stick these categories into their own bags and place them into our sequence in the appropriate order.

Repeat until all bags left have one or fewer elements.
by pdonis | 2025-09-25 05:18:47+00:00
> It’s closer to “freedom to make the right choices.”

Not quite. It means, individuals have to have the freedom to make their own choices, because nobody can be trusted to know what the "right" choices are and dictate them to others.

By "a moral and religious People", John Adams did not mean that every one of those people must agree on exactly what the right thing to do is. He meant that the people have to have the concept of right and wrong as things they are supposed to discern, things outside themselves that aren't dictated by any other authority (or at least not any human one), and to understand that they have a duty to do their best to make the right choices. The problem with our society today is that that concept of "right" has been discarded; instead there is a different concept of "right" that revolves around adherence to whatever political ideology is favored by those in power.

> more government coercion becomes necessary to suppress anti-social behavior

The problem is that the government can't be trusted to do that job. That's what "freedom" means in the American context. That's why the US Constitution doesn't give the Federal government the power to do it. The fact that our government does it anyway is a bug, not a feature.
by josefrichter | 2025-09-25 05:19:05+00:00
I share your skepticism. The approach you mention seems to be not only the most efficient, but maybe actually the only one that works. This is probably more about neuroscience than personal preferences.

The approach presented in the post is not necessarily on conflict with that, but it seems like extremely laborious preparation stage. And despite expectations, learning the different alphabet is usually unnecessary until fairly late into the learning process.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-25 05:19:37+00:00
You mean this platform[0]? Not sure where it says they're going to "gut regulations and consumer protection." Perhaps you could point that part out to me?

I understood that to actually be the case, even though that wasn't actually included in the platform. Which is one of reasons I didn't vote for the current administration.

That said, I imagine that among those who did so, some folks are fine with it, some folks didn't care one way or another and some folks were unaware that this would happen.

As such, I think you're painting folks with far too broad a brush. Which is, I imagine, quite satisfying. I hope you got what you wanted out of that.

[0] https://rncplatform.donaldjtrump.com/
by GeneralMaximus | 2025-09-25 05:20:32+00:00
> Does Kagi have a better localized experience?

I'm in India and it works well. I can even search in Hindi and get good results.

The only thing that doesn't work are local points of interests (restaurants, hotels, local businesses, etc). I still have to use Google Maps to look these up. Then again, even Apple doesn't have good local results for PoIs in India, so I don't expect Kagi to get this right either.

That said, I often turn off localized results completely and just use the international results. Those tend to be more diverse and more useful, at least for the sort of searches I tend to do.
by lordkrandel | 2025-09-25 05:21:19+00:00
And also behold: as the tide turns, red will turn to blue once again, when the people will realize that racism and tariffs won't bring the America great again you all aspire to. No, that's just a 1800's fever dream. Here we are, still firmly believing what we believed 2 years ago. You didn't "defeat" anyone. It's just that people like you are free to be more "cocky" because the government has your own color. But they will come after the Danish and South Africans when they will have no more targets, be aware.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-25 05:22:44+00:00
On Windows nested virtualization already existed before WSL, all the kernel and device drivers security features introduced on Windows 10, and made always enabled on Windows 11, require running Hyper-V, which is a type 1 hypervisor.

So it is rather easy having to deal with nested virtualization, even those of us that seldom use WSL.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-25 05:22:50+00:00
Upper stages breaking apart is kinda expected. It's a rocket, and it has rocket fuel (explosives) on board. Derelict spy satellites, on the other hand, shouldn't be just going kaboom for no reason. But the Russian ones do.

As noted by another poster, prior to the recent ASAT tests, one of the largest sources of junk was old Soviet nuclear-powered satellites leaking coolant and/or having their pressure vessels explode. Mind you these are actual nuclear reactors, not RTGs.
by zarzavat | 2025-09-25 05:23:10+00:00
WebKit is easy but has terrible compatibility because the fruit company makes money from native apps. They do the bare minimum to keep Safari functional so that people keep buying iPhones.

Gecko has an uncertain future and is perpetually at risk of dying.

It's at least possible to switch from Chromium to WebKit if necessary so the risks of building off of Chromium are not that big.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-09-25 05:27:51+00:00
When a "Think Tank" has an opinion, you can usually trace through the money who's political interests they are indirectly pushing. And if it's not clear then its hidden.

And if their opinion seems counter intuitive then it probably doesn't make sense, but they sure would like you to think this way please cause that's what the funders want.
by saithound | 2025-09-25 05:32:19+00:00
The primary claims of the site, both made without any evidence (presumably by you), are that

1. Tor is primarily used to distribute CSAM,

2. a single organization with a budget of $150k could deanonymize every Tor user simultaneously.

Since pretty much every firat world law enforcement organization can cough up this amount in spare budget, either

- at least one of the claims above is false; or

- there's a global conspiracy involving every major law enforcement organization in the planet being taken over by pedos.

In fact, both claims (you?) made without evidence are simply false.

Having published calculations for the second claim is like having published calculations for "the Sun went supernova yesterday". The conclusion is blatantly wrong, so the calculations have a mistake, and an intellectually honest author would double check them, find that mistake, then retract the claim (or would not have made it in the first place).
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by bsder | 2025-09-25 05:35:06+00:00
> Increasing the number of H1-B visas has very little support from both sides of the isle.

A lot of us simply want the H1-B to green card conversion time to be 12 months to 24 months MAX and all the expense should be borne by the company.

That unblocks the pipeline and prevents the whole indentured servant depressing salaries problem. Any company that genuinely needs an H1-B will obviously hold onto the H1-B when it converts to a green card. Companies that are abusing the pipeline will be obvious as the green card holders will leave and the company will have to reapply for more H1-Bs.
by mobilemidget | 2025-09-25 05:36:01+00:00
RAG, or Retrieval Augmented Generation, is an AI technique that improves large language models (LLMs) by connecting them to external knowledge bases to retrieve relevant, factual information before generating a response. This approach reduces LLM "hallucinations," provides more accurate and up-to-date answers, and allows for responses grounded in specialized or frequently updated data, increasing trust and relevance.

I was unaware what RAG referred to, perhaps other too.
by summis | 2025-09-25 05:36:02+00:00
I got a warm "She is so smart! She thinks and feels exactly like I do!" moment when reading this post. The only diff is that in past years I have mostly stopped reading. I am curious how she has found many personally impactful books in past 5 years? I still appreciate good stories but don't anymore feel moved or my world view changed after reading one like it used to be when I was younger
by speakspokespok | 2025-09-25 05:36:40+00:00
Own using "chaqueta" instead of "chamarra".

This is a regional bro distinction. I have certainly heard chaqueta used by respectable people in Jalisco. This joke is a reflection of people that don't travel.

In Jalisco y Nayarit the normative word for the large beer bottles is caguama. In central MX that word is ghetto.
by brokenmachine | 2025-09-25 05:37:41+00:00
>The comments on that youtube video mocking the guy and not even addressing the airline's unreasonable policy are also an absurd lack of solidarity against these companies.

I see this a lot on reddit and youtube. I tend to think that it's bots paid for by the company.

There's always just too much unanimous agreement in favor of the corporation.

Maybe I just don't want to believe that people are that homogenized.
by mhast | 2025-09-25 05:38:16+00:00
It depends on the model.

It's typically ok for MoE models but if you try to run something non-MoE the speed will plummet. In that same thread there are people getting 50 tok/s on MoE models and 5 on non MoE. (https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1n79udw/comment...)

And while it has unified memory the memory is quite slow. 250GB/s compared to 500+ for M4 Max or 1800 GB/s for a 5090. So it's fast for a CPU, but pretty slow for a GPU.

(That said, there are not a lot of cheap options for running large models locally. They all have significant compromises.)
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-09-25 05:38:39+00:00
It has good performance in a general sense. But what it really lacks is value types and good tools for cache efficiency.

That may not be important for what you're doing. But if it is, it's a huge pain in the ass to do on the JVM. For that reason, some people want to avoid Java altogether, not because it's slow, but because it has a lower performance ceiling.

But is that an argument against Java altogether? I don't think so. If your problem is solvable with sparse FFI, that is worth doing over throwing out a massive ecosystem you're familiar with. Value Types may yet come to the JVM someday, as ridiculous as that is to say now.
by robbiep | 2025-09-25 05:38:43+00:00
Huntingtons is not unique but certainly notable because it is caused by repeat sequences and therefore uniquely suited to mRNA silencing in this manner. There are very few other progressive (and I presume you also mean neurological) conditions, but also applied to the rest of the body, where this is the pathophysiology. For example, currently there is no immediate expansion of this to ie Parkinson’s (different pathophysiological basis) Lewy body (although maybe?) alzheimers (again possibly depending on whether it is tau, amyloid beta or simply ‘type 3 diabetes’) and nothing whatsoever for vascular dementia or ALS
by scbzzzzz | 2025-09-25 05:40:36+00:00
You need to look at history. In early 90s why did Microsoft invest in apple when it is its competitors. Investment doesn't mean they are medling into mozilla business. For companies like google (present) or Microsoft in 90's. It is better to have a crippled competitor than no competitor. No competitor attracts government agencies for monopoly which is worse.
by litexlang | 2025-09-25 05:43:01+00:00
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by rkomorn | 2025-09-25 05:43:30+00:00
I don't have access to any data that supports my vibes, but it just feels like any business that sells stuff has very little incentive to actually give you what you're searching for.

I can't think of a single online store that's good at search and it seems like it's because the thought is "don't miss anything that might come close to the search terms".

Whether it's Amazon, IKEA, the supermarkets where I live, etc, any search I make comes back with what looks like spray and pray SEO.

Maybe it's actually a hard problem to solve, or maybe the goal is "sell anything!" (including better placement the seller pays for) rather than "give the user what they want".
by chneu | 2025-09-25 05:44:33+00:00
I completely understand why someone wouldn't want to get tested.

There are several episodes of House M.D. that deal with this. Hadleys, one of the doctors, mom had Huntingtons and house hounds her to get tested. She doesn't want to get tested. Really great set of episodes.

I can completely understand how knowing/not knowing would change how you approach life.
by vasco | 2025-09-25 05:46:12+00:00
Because a university's ability to charge the prices they do depends on people being on location. Nobody is going to pay 50k or 100k for an online course.

Plus if rich fucks can't buy a building to put their name on that kids will walk through they won't donate money.

You make it sound like it's a decision based on school administrators putting learning first.
by flave | 2025-09-25 05:47:03+00:00
I don’t buy this, at least in the short and medium term. Engineers spend a really significant amount of their time (pick your own number) doing maintenance of apps and internal tools are such a time sink so they’re generally super simple. Unless the agents can be basically 1000x their time horizon (measuring in quarters instead of hours) then all of this is stuff for show-and-tell with c-suite and the internet tools won’t be used three months from now.
by impendia | 2025-09-25 05:47:11+00:00
Your tool library sounds fantastic! Congratulations on your success.

That said, although starting a new organization may not take much money, it does take a lot of wisdom and social capital. I would say that you succeeded at something quite difficult.

When I've sought out volunteer activities in the past, it was usually when my social and personal life were on shaky grounds. In particular, when I was in no shape to start something new the way you did.

I've often heard volunteering recommended as an antidote for loneliness, but as grogenaut observed, this advice can sometimes be tricky to follow in practice.
by xp84 | 2025-09-25 05:47:42+00:00
Oy! Why do people do what?

"the issue is they are actually just trying to turn their copyright into a trademark"

That is certainly your opinion of "the issue," but that is a complete begging of the question. That would have to be argued in court. They do have a trademark which includes that public domain character in it, that much is fact. This is no less of a trademark than any other trademark that consists of non-copyrightable elements. The rulings on a trademark case would simply be based on the intent or likelihood to mislead people into believing there's an endorsement or association there.