MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by creata | 2025-09-14 00:49:11+00:00
People should be able to say things without those things following them around for the rest of their lives.

> As in real life.

No, your proposal is very different to real life. In real life, the things you say will eventually be forgotten. You won't be fired for things you said or did years ago, because people will have moved on.

Having a convenient index of everything anyone has ever shared is very different to real life.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 00:49:26+00:00
> Where it starts to get frustrating is if they throw a fit when someone forks their open source project, or when they start rejecting PRs from other people but then lightly rewriting the code and resubmitting it as their own work.

Agreed, that's horrible. I would absolutely give credit at least for the idea behind even heavily rewritten code. And the freedom to fork is one of the essential freedoms of FOSS. Many people in certain organizations (cough GNOME cough RedHat cough) don't seem to get this. Typically the same ones who overlook key parts of the OSI definition:

> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
by hbarka | 2025-09-14 00:49:52+00:00
In the United States, political votes are not anonymous. There is a database of how someone voted.

If you’re out in public, you’re also not fully anonymous. You display metadata such as race, gender, age, behavior. Now you could wear a ski mask during broad daylight but I doubt if you’d be allowed inside a bank. And the bank has a right to judge you for that.
H100 PCIe – 1.86 TB/s memcpy roofline and 8× uplift
by GPUrouter | 2025-09-14 00:50:06+00:00
I ran A/B benchmarks on an H100 PCIe 80GB node. Contiguous memcpy sustained ~1.86 TB/s in both baseline and optimized runs, showing no overhead. For strided and misaligned access the baseline was ~230 GB/s, while the optimized version reached ~1.86 TB/s, about an 8× improvement. Large 8–24 GB payloads sustained ~1.86 TB/s as well. Canonical CUDA kernels such as memcpy, strided access, KV-cache, and LayerNorm improved from ~220–330 GB/s to ~1.8–1.86 TB/s, around 7–8× faster with very low jitter.

Using a simple LLM decode cost model (BPT = 1.13 MB/token), throughput improved from ~161.9k tok/s to ~225.1k tok/s (≈1.39×). This suggests memory-bound operations like KV-cache and strided loads can be lifted closer to roofline bandwidth, with direct impact on decode throughput.

I’m interested in feedback on how such memory-bound optimizations might affect LLM training versus inference, and what good public long-context (8k–32k) benchmarks would be to test next ?
by latexr | 2025-09-14 00:50:25+00:00
I get the impression the OP isn’t saying they “had to” in the sense of “being forced to by outside forces” but rather “wanted to for personal satisfaction and pride”. I understand the feeling: you create something you’re proud of and which means a lot to you, and before you let it go you want to ensure it’s in good competent hands which will care for it and make it flourish the same way you would.

That is very different from being exploited or taken advantage of.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-09-14 00:51:38+00:00
> Households—especially in low-income and communities of color, which disproportionately share broadband connections with other people—would face collective punishment for the alleged actions of a single user.

Organizations really need to re-calibrate their messaging for the current government. I'm sure this statement is correct on the merits and I do think equity is important, but if you want to actually get stuff accomplished you've got to read the room!
by lubujackson | 2025-09-14 00:52:35+00:00
The difference is AI is closing on doing the EXACT work with the EXACT info as a junior dev. Give an LLM a Jira ticket and a codebase and it can push a PR. Spreadsheets are great, but that was a tool that minimized effort but didn't remove it. LLMs can directly replace a remote junior with no visible difference already.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-14 00:52:43+00:00
Geoff's stuff is mostly about heuristics. For his purpose that makes sense. If Apple are spending say $1Bn on security problems and Geoff spends $1M cutting such problems by 90% that's money well spent. The current direction of profiles is big on heuristics. Easy quick wins to maybe get C++ under the "Radioactively unsafe" radar even if it can't pass for safe.

The most hopeful thing I saw in Geoff's talk was cultural. It sounds like Geoff's team wanted to get to safer code. Things went faster than expected, people landed "me too" unsolicited patches, that sort of thing. Of course this is self-reported, but assuming Geoff wasn't showing us a very flattering portrait of a grim reality, which I can't see any incentive for, this team sounds like while they'd get value from Rust they're delivering many of the same security benefits in C++ anyway.

Bureaucrats don't like culture because it's hard to measure. "Make sure you hire programmers with a good culture" is hard to chart. You're probably going to end up running some awful quiz your team hates "Answer D, A, B, B, E, B to get 100%". Whereas "Use Rust not C++" is measurable, team A has 93% of code in Rust, but team B scored 94.5% so that's more Rust, they win.
by aabhay | 2025-09-14 00:53:37+00:00
Is it cheap? It adds up really quickly. One shot at trying to build an iteration of a simple python app (<1000 LOC tops) can cost between $1 and $5. And that’s a single attempt.

And this is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg of what even a medium sized startup spends. This is not cheap in any way.
by adithyassekhar | 2025-09-14 00:53:38+00:00
I used to think the same way. Why does xyz developer refuse to do this? Don't they know that feature will be of great use to people like me?

Then I made something for myself. It took a lot of time and iterations because my needs were evolving. After it was perfectly tuned for me, I put it out there so someone else can find it useful directly or indirectly.

I started receiving feature requests and changes. I accepted a few, but rejected a a lot. This is mine. I made it for myself. I didn't step out there to build something for the world, I made it for myself and it was perfect for myself. If someone wants my stuff to do things their way and not mine, they're completely free to do so, that's why I shared it.

If I put my paintings out there and the steps I took to draw it, people are free to follow those steps and recreate mine or do it in their own way. You don't demand changes on my original painting.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 00:55:48+00:00
Not the firings, but the effort to pressure employers.

And it's really not in doubt; the coordination is real and public. I have seen many conservative pundits be very open about it (and preemptively engage with the "isn't this the same cancel culture you used to hate" argument).

My thoughts on the legitimacy of this, from another submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234875
by creata | 2025-09-14 00:57:22+00:00
If you're talking about reactions to the murder of Charlie Kirk, I really don't think anonymity is the problem here, because the opinions I've seen people express anonymously aren't much different to the opinions I've seen people express with their names attached.

If anything, the ones where people have attached their names tend to be a bit more extreme. Maybe attaching your name to something makes it feel more important to signal what group you're in.
by FloatArtifact | 2025-09-14 00:58:01+00:00
That's someone that uses speech text for much more than just typing. This is amazing potential, but it has a very long way.

What kind of compute power will be needed for local inference? Its latency is pretty bad, which makes interaction tiresome. If you truly want to support the disabled, it needs to be open source at one point.

Even if it had 99.9% accuracy is not enough. One correction out of every 101 ish words.

Not insurmountable, but we will see.
by cj | 2025-09-14 00:58:22+00:00
Yes, there is an ordering physician.

The parent commenter we're both responding to said "I can go to a lab, order this, and pay for it." -- the point I'm trying to make is that the system in the US is basically the same, since the ordering physician is employed by the lab testing company and you never interact with them, so it's as if they don't exist for the purposes of comparing to Greece.

Edit: I see you own a blood testing startup! Now I understand why you were surprised about the ordering physician detail. I thought you were implying that the process is difficult in some way because a doctor is involved.
by defrost | 2025-09-14 01:00:13+00:00
The position put forward in the BMJ paper is, as per your comment,

> In general because your immune system has a finite memory for diseases and because

and then leans in hard on the erosion and depletion of that finite memory held within the T cell population

SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells (a different type of immune cell), leaving people vulnerable to pathogens they were previously immune to. Brazilian researchers found that covid-19 triggered a sharp rise in T cell exhaustion and cellular ageing.10 Although the comparator group was limited, the strongest effects were seen in CD8+ T cells, which suppress latent viruses such as EBV and VZV. These effects were seen even after mild infections.

rather more than

> diseases tend to mutate faster when infecting larger number of people

Regardless, all paths land on

> its more like the latter.

( > your immune system .. tends to be depleted like your blood sugar. )
by noodletheworld | 2025-09-14 01:00:20+00:00
I think the key insight I walked away with from this whole thread, for me, was:

A compiler takes source and maps it to some output. Regardless of the compiler detail, this is an atomic operation; you end up with source (unmodified) and an artifact.

These “agent workflows” are distinctly different.

The process of mapping prompt to an output is the same; but these agent workflows are destructive; they modify the source.

Free reign over the entire code base; They modify the tests. The spec, the implementation.

It seems like this is a concept people are still struggling with; if your specification is poorly defined, and is dynamically updated during the compilation process, the results are more than just non deterministic.

Over time, the specification becomes non deterministic.

Thats why unsupervised agents go “off the rails”; not because the specification cant be executed, but because over time the spec drifts.

That doesnt happen with compilers.
by hbarka | 2025-09-14 01:01:10+00:00
> cover that anonymity grants [] journalists

Quite the contrary, a core journalism principle is accountability and transparency. Readers must know who the reporter is to assess credibility, context, and potential conflicts of interest. Attribution builds trust, allows audiences to verify the source, and distinguishes reporting from anonymous or propagandistic material. This is different from covering source anonymity, but the audience is still relying on the journalist’s _known_ integrity that they’re not just making up some bullshit source.
by theturtle | 2025-09-14 01:02:07+00:00
For decades, I've said

You don't go to college to get a job

You don't go to college to get a degree

You don't go to college to learn things

You go to college to LEARN HOW TO LEARN

If you do that, all the other things will come to you.

If you get out of college and have not learned how to learn, your "degree" is toilet paper.
by latexr | 2025-09-14 01:03:50+00:00
> They can lie, but if they say they did and it crashes on me right when I start it, then I may never trust this contributor ever again.

If it’s obvious without a shadow of a doubt that someone has lied, either on an issue or a PR, I’m very much inclined to block them. I have a lot of patience for people who are still learning or make silly mistakes but are genuinely making an effort; but if someone doesn’t even help me help them, that’s disrespectful and such behaviour shouldn’t be rewarded.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-14 01:03:54+00:00
You should probably disclose that the order link at the end of your post goes to your own company.

Basic LDL cholesterol and triglycerides blood panels are still an essential part of heart disease bloodwork, too.

I would suggest most people start by asking your doctor for some of these tests at your next annual checkup, as many of them and the doctor visit are likely covered by insurance. The ACA has special handling for routine annual checkups, so don’t assume it’s going to be expensive until you’ve checked the cost with your insurance. A routine bloodwork panel will also include a number of other important measures that are routine and very cheap. It’s helpful to have all of these on your medical record so trends can be identified over time.
by azjezz2 | 2025-09-14 01:04:15+00:00
That's a great point, and you've touched on what might seem like a paradox: while the toolset is ambitious, keeping up with new PHP features is actually one of Mago's biggest strengths.

The traditional PHP tooling ecosystem relies on a dependency chain. A new syntax feature has to be implemented in a core library like nikic/PHP-Parser, then released, then adopted by tools like Psalm or PHPStan, and then finally those tools make a new release. This process can take weeks or months.

Because Mago is a single, cohesive toolchain, we control the entire stack. We can add support for new syntax across the lexer, parser, formatter, linter, and analyzer in one go.

For example:

- Mago's formatter and analyzer already have full support for the Pipe Operator (`|>`) and `clone with` from the upcoming PHP 8.5. The pipe operator was implemented across the entire toolchain in about 30 minutes, just hours after its RFC was approved. - For comparison, many existing tools are still catching up with PHP 8.4 features like Property Hooks.

This agility is a core part of the project's value proposition.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 01:05:20+00:00
> For better or worse, the US political left has self-labeled as "liberal", and dresses up and cosplays in the image of an educated, erudite elite. To have members of that tribe resort to violence to suppress speech -- to celebrate that violence -- is a wholesale rejection of the fundamental tenets of the identity itself.

Indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqrG9N-cmds originally aired in late 2005 (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_West_Wing_episodes).

Ever since about 2011 or 2012, I have been wondering what on earth happened.

Of course, Santos says nothing about freedom of speech in this scene. But he speaks of expanding rights for everyone, not threatening people for exercising them.
by 0xy | 2025-09-14 01:05:49+00:00
The UK is arresting people for social media posts at a staggering rate, and has long given up on free speech as policy. Additionally, the UK Labour party sent staffers to the US to campaign for the US Democrats, a blatantly illegal interference in US politics.

The UK is no longer a functioning democracy but more like a failed state clinging to mass censorship while trying to prevent complete collapse.

For these reasons there should be a political change.
by autoexec | 2025-09-14 01:06:07+00:00
> The media should not be deciding what is true, they should be reporting what they see.

Largely I don't think the media has been dictating anything. They've just been reporting on the growing body of evidence showing that social media is harmful.

What you'd call "trial by media" is just spreading awareness and discussion of the evidence we have so far which seems like a very good thing. Social media moves faster than scientific consensus, and there's a long history of industry doing everything they can to slow that process down and muddy the waters. We've seen facebook doing exactly that already by burying child safety research.

A decade or more of "Do thing, say nothing" is not a sound strategy when the alternative is letting the public know about the existing research we have showing real harms and letting them decide for themselves what steps to take on an individual level and what concerns to bring to their representatives who could decide policy to mitigate those harms or even dedicate funding to further study them.
by 0xhald | 2025-09-14 01:07:40+00:00
Location: Mexico

Remote: Yes

Technologies: C, Python, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Vue, React, Slim Framework, Laravel.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.proton.me/urls/E7893XFZ8M#WnB5pPoIJKfq

Email: hector[/at/]halozano.com

I am a software developer, mostly fullstack but I have delved into other areas of development. My latest role was in a fintech company here in Mexico where I was in charge of the implementation of AML/CFT policies in the company, I also was part of the support team where I attended tickets of our customers. I am passionate about machine learning and anything where statistics and programming mix up. Adaptability and continuous learning are my key strengths, honed through my university studies, which have equipped me to excel as an agile learner.
by 0xhald | 2025-09-14 01:08:15+00:00
Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Technologies: C, Python, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Vue, React, Slim Framework, Laravel. Résumé/CV: https://drive.proton.me/urls/E7893XFZ8M#WnB5pPoIJKfq Email: hector[/at/]halozano.com I am a software developer, mostly fullstack but I have delved into other areas of development. My latest role was in a fintech company here in Mexico where I was in charge of the implementation of AML/CFT policies in the company, I also was part of the support team where I attended tickets of our customers. I am passionate about machine learning and anything where statistics and programming mix up. Adaptability and continuous learning are my key strengths, honed through my university studies, which have equipped me to excel as an agile learner.
by sedawkgrep | 2025-09-14 01:08:18+00:00
While I appreciate the idea that moving without factual data is often detrimental (which is what I believe you're implying here), I don't share the opinion that SM deserves any benefit of the doubt.

I'm old enough to have lived as an adult pre-SM, and from my perspective the overwhelming impact of social media has been more inflammatory, degrading, divisive, etc., etc., etc., than whatever positives you think you're getting.

A family friend's teenage daughter isn't allowed a cell phone, and thus has zero presence or view into SM spaces. Unlike nearly all her friends, she doesn't suffer from depression, anxiety, or any other common malady that is so prevalent today with the youth. Yes it's anecdotal, but it's also stark.

We got along just fine before SM, and we'd be just fine again without it.
by dredmorbius | 2025-09-14 01:12:20+00:00
Peptic ulcers are another well-known case, in which most (though not all) instances can be traced to a Helicobacter pylori infection. Other causal factors include NSAID usage, stress, and diet.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptic_ulcer_disease>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_peptic_ulcer_disea...>

One of the rare examples of a mental health condition being virtually completely eliminated is that of General paresis of the insane, a symptom of late-stage syphilis.

Successful treatment and elimination of syphilis in patients and populations through antibiotics. As one of the few cases of near-total elimination of a class of mental conditions, this a useful reminder to the psychiatric profession that not all mental conditions have causes limited to the brain and its function, whether through its biochemistry or neural/behavioural processes.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_paresis_of_the_insane>
by dredmorbius | 2025-09-14 01:14:48+00:00
Adding to this: a chief advantage of antibiotics (particularly the early ones) is that they were both broad-spectrum (controlling a vast array of bacteria) and sparing of non-bacterial cells (e.g., those of our own bodies).

Evolved resistance is changing at least the first part of that relationship.

Phages as you note are far more tailored, and may (if I understand correctly) need to be targeted to a patient's specific infection's genetic line. It's as if you had to select ammunition based on the specific type of target you were hunting, if not specific individuals. In the early days of antibiotics it was far more a case of "fire and forget" with a single magic bullet. (Not literally always, but for the overwhelming majority of bacterial infections.)
by Bender | 2025-09-14 01:15:04+00:00
It's come up a few times on HN. [1] I've made reference to it in a cell phone thread half joking, knowing only some would get the reference. [2] I don't know if our civilization will get to that point. Only time will tell. If we are enslaved then I hope it's at least long after I and those related to me are long gone.

[1] - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=butlerian+jihad

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140431
by neilv | 2025-09-14 01:15:34+00:00
It's pretty much necessary to have Internet access to function in US society.

So we shouldn't even have to talk about whether someone can be cut off from that.

A complicating factor is that we're looking at decades of rampant media piracy in the US. This gives awful media companies and lawmakers both reason and pretext to introduce otherwise ridiculously inappropriate legal and technological measures. Our entire society suffers because a bunch of people want to freeload on media, in a way that doesn't jibe with the US laws and social contract. Rather than work to change the laws/contract, which could be brilliantly positive and even utopian, they instead simply disregard and take. And so society heads further towards dystopian.
by catapart | 2025-09-14 01:15:49+00:00
Every time I see one of these whiny, self important articles, I feel more vindicated in my choices, than ever.

Bluesky is great (and flawed!), and I couldn't care less if whiners don't feel like their type of politics is welcome. Finally there is a place for my type of politics[0], and they can all piss right off about it.

[0] long way to go before this is actually true, but they're closer than any other platform.
by snailmailman | 2025-09-14 01:16:11+00:00
If you are doing that,

- what if some site has weird password requirements and the derived password doesn’t work

- what if a site gets hacked and you need to rotate one password.

If you have to store data per-site anyway because of those cases, may as well just store passwords. You can (and should) still generate extremely high entropy passwords.