MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frumiousirc | 2025-09-11 10:41:49+00:00
> Identifying the best pseudo-label seems like it would be the limitation of the approach.

Yes, I think this says in a different way what I'm trying to express.

In GAN, the Discriminator pegs the training to some chosen reality (assuming the "real" data set is truly real). In Challenger/Solver alone, there is no peg. The Solver could hallucinate consistently and "win" the race. It's the consistency that is the goal.

With GPT-4o as an arbiter of the Challenger/Solver training it provides the reality peg (or rather, the peg that biases toward GPT-4o's training set).
by tpm | 2025-09-11 10:42:37+00:00
Without knowing the specifics, I would assume two things. Once the factory is working, it will employ local people - either people who already lived there or people who came to the town to work in the factory. It will also support an ecosystem of suppliers, some of whom will build their factories nearby. The second thing is that usually businesses pay some sort of local tax that supports the town infrastructure, is that not the case there?
by metalman | 2025-09-11 10:42:55+00:00
yes, and many experiments have shown.that analigs of those conditions have yielded various amino acids usedby life forms, but never amino acids inside vesicles. foams/vesicles are ubiquitous positing there existance and conflating that with life on Titan is a big ask, if, IF they has included a statement along the lines that "vesicles are certain to be found anywhere in the universe where liquid water exists" then it would be completly acceptable and could be viewed as an exercise in creative chemical theory to be investigated, but as is, it's a fever dream
by johnisgood | 2025-09-11 10:44:03+00:00
I wish it was that easy to switch to Wayland, but I have always ran into serious issues. Granted it has been a year since I last tried, so who knows.

I use X11 features such as highlight to copy and then using middle mouse button and/or Shift-Insert to paste its contents (just to mention one), and I use xclip extensively to copy contents of files (and stdin) to it. I use scrot, I use many other applications specifically made for Xorg, and so forth. I have a custom Xorg config as well which may or may not work with Wayland.

Thus, I do not think I could realistically switch to Wayland.
by pradn | 2025-09-11 10:44:06+00:00
I have used it actually! It's been years so the fact that it's an accessibility tree just like in a browser didn't come to mind immediately. Both Mac and Windows have such representations for native apps. The actual functionality apps and the accessibility clients support is something like a two-way negotiation. A lot of stuff that should be supported in apps, in theory, is not, just because no client supports it, etc.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-11 10:44:46+00:00
> 34MB static built version

I've forgotten how to count that low.

Also, static programs are demand paged like anything else. Files aren't loaded as monoliths in either case. Plus, static linking enables better dead code elimination and devirtualization than is possible with an AOT-compiled and dynamically linked setup, which usually more than makes up for the text segments of shared dependencies having been pre-loaded.

I'm not sure you have enough technical depth to make confident assertions about linking and loading performance.

> =3

The "blowing smoke" emoticon isn't helping your argument.
by tim333 | 2025-09-11 10:45:14+00:00
>the energy required to kick up a rock to a trajectory where it will hit Mars (or vice versa) is orders of magnitude more than the energy required to vaporize all nearby life, so we've got a pretty big problem already

Not necessarily. Something like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs would have created temperatures at the impact point high enough to vapourize everything but probably also chucked a lot of more distant stuff into the sky that didn't get as hot.

Here's a Discovery channel 'simulation' of a large impact chucking stuff up https://youtu.be/bU1QPtOZQZU?t=67 Not sure it's very accurate but it gives an impression of the sort of thing that may have happened.
by api | 2025-09-11 10:45:23+00:00
I think this is overblown. Most people do have reasons for what they believe.

I know everyone hates it when people “both sides” things these days, but one thing I do see both sides having in common is a refusal to honestly engage with and comprehend the other position. This doesn’t mean agreeing. It means understanding what someone believes and how they might have gotten there.

Where the echo chambers and other things that you mention do come in is in reinforcing that dynamic, in reinforcing each side seeing only a straw man version of the other.
by tfrutuoso | 2025-09-11 10:45:38+00:00
I really love these posts almost as much as i love the signs blocking cars from a certain area of my city's center, except for -amongst the common sense exceptions- cars owned by the office of the mayor. Rules for thee, or something or other. Is it fair to have more public transportation, bike lanes, bus lanes, walkable paths? yes. Is it fair to lock entire urban areas from cars? Not at all.
by four_fifths | 2025-09-11 10:45:46+00:00
If you do a bit of digging into most of the popular benchmarks that all the big labs report on, you'll see pretty quickly that they have almost zero correlation with any real world tasks.

The approach that they're taking here of working backwards from a OS repo pull request and reverse engineering a question is unusually well thought out for a benchmark.

I haven't dug into more of the dataset questions yet, but the example they give in the blog post for the question generated for Hugging Face Transformer's repo gives me hope that this could actually be a solid benchmark:

> How do the fast image and video processor base classes prevent shared mutable state when instantiating multiple instances?
by cahaya | 2025-09-11 10:47:39+00:00
I tried adding Context7 Documentation MCP and got this

URL:https://mcp.context7.com/mcp Safety Scan: Passed

This MCP server can't be used by ChatGPT to search information because it doesn't implement our specification: search action not found https://platform.openai.com/docs/mcp#create-an-mcp-server
by johnisgood | 2025-09-11 10:48:41+00:00
Same. I liked many of its features (actually, all features, see https://bcachefs.org) and I was waiting for it to become usable, but I guess that day will never come now?

So, the alternative is ZFS only, maybe HAMMER2. HAMMER2 does not look too bad either, except you need DragonflyBSD for that.
by barrkel | 2025-09-11 10:48:53+00:00
I think it's a little bit perverse to pile a lot of punishment on the OOW when it seems pretty clear that it's a training and experience problem, combined with years of efforts to cut crew sizes.

The ship is lean crewed and relies on automation. When that fails, the lack of slack in the system - too few people responsible for too much, suddenly, in a situation they've never been in before - the cliff is much worse.
by deafpolygon | 2025-09-11 10:49:04+00:00
KDE seems to be losing the plot here-- how does this help build the best possible DE for the community? I feel like they are fragmenting developer attention and time by futzing around with this.

Meanwhile there are issues that haven't been solved for months; the latest Plasma version has barely any decent themes (the online community theme submissions seem to be wrought with spam), Discover is not really useful, needs curation, settings and configuration is everywhere to be found which is great for the average power-user, but hard to know what you can tweak without being overwhelmed. Flatpak is great, but really needs improving, more TLC and work towards cleaning up. It's looking more and more like the Android App Store every day.

KDE needs to stop trying to be everything to everyone and start getting a little more opinionated. I'd rather have a few well maintained components of a DE than many components that are no better than barely polished turds.

In any case, it's my favorite DE and each/every KDE developers are absolute legends in my mind.
by cm2187 | 2025-09-11 10:49:20+00:00
The EU parliament is highly dysfunctional. First look at the number of MEP that have been indicted for corruption. Also in the countries I know, political parties send as MEP their least able politicians that they don’t know what to do and would never be elected if their name was on the ticket. Combine that with the flaws of all the national parliaments and you get a sorry clown show.
by rcarr | 2025-09-11 10:49:40+00:00
I felt this way at one point and vocally proclaimed as such on here. My Fold 5 developed a bubble under the screen protector after about 18 months. I sent it into Samsung through the website to get it repaired. Whoever "repaired" it, just seemed to slice the screen protector down the middle with an knife so it had a big ugly line down the center. Predictably, it was full of bubbles again within a week. I'm not even bothering opening it anymore for fear that it will break the inner screen. Between this and the fact that I had another two Samsung phones that developed hardware faults making them unusable after 2 years of use, I'm absolutely done with Samsung. Before that, I had an iPhone that was still going strong after 7 years. I'm preordering an iPhone tomorrow and selling the Samsung. Doubt I will be venturing into the Android ecosystem again. Might get an Apple foldable depending on what the initial reports are like on durability after it's been around for a couple of years. The time sink of having to transfer a phone across is high and I really cba with doing it because of avoidable screen repair.
by immibis | 2025-09-11 10:50:29+00:00
The EU is not sovereign. Member countries can just outright ignore EU law (see: Hungary or the former UK) and the only recourses are civil things like issuing declarations, withholding payments, crossing them off treaties, or kicking them out of the EU. There are no EU police that can be involuntarily forced on a country the same way the USA can send armed federal police or military into its states. Doing anything like that would be a declaration of war.

A state is a monopoly on violence and EU member states overwhelmingly control their own.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-11 10:50:51+00:00
> This distro doesn't seem to be born out of some real need for non-KDE-developers?

It's born out of a few things:

a) KDE as a community has increasingly focused on good and direct relations to end-users of late, which e.g. has resulted in most of the funding now coming from individual donors. Wanting to make more of their computer-using experience better isn't a strange impulse to have.

b) The community has hardware partners (e.g. laptop makers) that want to collaborate on pre-installing something with a KDE-focused out of the box and user experience. That has so far been Neon, which has a number of engineering and stability issues that have been difficult to overcome. KDE Linux is an attempt to improve on that.

c) It's also generally driven by a lot of the lessons learned from the SteamOS and Neon projects, and is attempting a lot of new solutions to risk-free updates and hackability, oob experience, and down the road likely also backups. The team does think there is a value prop to the distro as such beyond the KDE GUI.

d) The developer audience isn't unimportant either. More KDE developers on an immutable+sandboxed apps distro will mean more eyeballs on e.g. Flatpak problems, improving that for everyone else. Many recent new distros that ship Plasma by default (e.g. SteamOS, Bazzite, CachyOS, etc.) benefit.
by markisus | 2025-09-11 10:50:58+00:00
Interesting article. It’s actually very strange that the dataset needs to be “big” for the O(n log n) algorithm to beat the O(n). Usually you’d expect the big O analysis to be “wrong” for small datasets.

I expect that in this case, like in all cases, as the datasets become gallactically large, the O(n) algorithm will start winning again.
by latexr | 2025-09-11 10:51:10+00:00
Feels like your second paragraph negates the first. That he wasn’t honestly debating ideas but fishing for soundbites to spread hate and appear intellectual, using the backdrop of college campuses to lend legitimacy to his divisive ideas. That is not what college campuses are for, and it is not a debate.

I’m not American, I never heard of this guy before. But I saw the video of the last moments and it’s a telling snippet. He was incredibly dismissive in his answers which were vague and devoid of information, while being clearly rage bait meant to be cheered on by his base.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-11 10:54:09+00:00
Well, the Internet knows I'm a white guy in my 60s, so I get these really weird ads, all the time. Wouldn't surprise me, it the choice of ad was deliberate.

These ads look like they were designed by young folks, that have no idea what it's like, being older. AI is making them even weirder.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-11 10:54:35+00:00
> KDE seems to be losing the plot here-- how does this help build the best possible DE for the community? I feel like they are fragmenting developer attention and time by futzing around with this.

A lot of the manpower working on this previously worked on KDE Neon, so it's perhaps better to think of it as a lessons-learned project that doesn't in fact do what you worry about (but it has already attracted new contribitors that also improve things elsewhere).

KDE also does serve users (and hardware partners) with Neon that deserve improvement.

There's also the fact that increasingly new users experience KDE software e.g. as Flatpaks on new distros that ship Plaama by default, e.g. Bazzite and CachyOS, and it makes sense to get more developer eyeballs on this to make sure it's a good experience.
by lproven | 2025-09-11 10:55:28+00:00
> I guess I'm confused on what the difference between "being the most popular Linux DE" and "being the default DE of the most popular Linux distros" is.

You put the things in quotation marks but I do not see these phrases in the thing to which you're commenting.

KDE is roughly a year older than GNOME.

Snag: KDE was built in C++ using the semi-proprietary (dual-licensed) Qt. Red Hat refused to bundle Qt. Instead, it was a primary sponsor of GNOME, written in plain old C not C++ and using the GIMP's Gtk instead of Qt.

This fostered the development of Mandrake: Red Hat Linux with built in KDE.

In the late 1990s and the noughties, KDE was the default desktop of most leading Linux distros: SUSE Linux Pro, Mandrake, Corel LinuxOS, Caldera OpenLinux, etc. Most of them cost money.

In 2003, Novell bought SUSE and GNOME developer Ximian and merged them, and SUSE started to become a GNOME distro.

Then in 2004 along came Ubuntu: an easy desktop distro that was entirely free of charge. It came with GNOME 2.

Around the same time, Red Hat discontinued its free Red Hat Linux and replaced it with the paid-for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the free, unsupported Fedora Core. Fedora also used GNOME 2.

GNOME became the default desktop of most Linuxes. Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, even OpenSolaris, you got GNOME, possibly unless you asked for something else.

KDE became an alternative choice. It still is. A bunch of smaller community distros default to KDE, including PC LinuxOS, OpenMandriva, Mageia... but the bigger players all default to GNOME.

Many of the developers of GNOME still work for Red Hat today, over 25 years on. They are on the same teams as the developers of RHEL and Fedora. This is a good reason for GNOME OS to use a Fedora basis.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-11 10:55:40+00:00
You don't need a medical degree to have logic and common sense takes on the observed use of PCs by doctors around which I spend a lot of time around.

That's why doctors in my country still prefer legacy physical pen and paperwork, versus interactions with the modern digitized equivalents which are universally hated because they're not designed by doctors but by some consultancy who won the government tender.

Adding dealing with an unfamiliar OS and Wine on top of that is not the slam dunk you think it is.
by ktosobcy | 2025-09-11 10:55:49+00:00
> Sounds like a good distro to use with your parents and grand parents, if they're not solely using iPads...

THIS!

I was pondering putting Linux on my father's ancient machine (still running Windows7; or migrating him to something slightly newer but win10/win11 doesn't rub me the right way) but I was weary of "something wrong happening" (and I'm away right now).

And having immutable base would be awesome - if something goes wrong just revert back to previous one and voila, everything still works. And he would have less options to break something…
by aa-jv | 2025-09-11 10:56:40+00:00
ClockworkPi's uConsole comes pretty close:

https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole

I have a couple of these - they work great for dev systems and its occasionally fun to load up PICO8 and have a bit of a bash..

I also have a couple of OpenPandora's but I stopped using them when I got a Steam Deck.
by licebmi__at__ | 2025-09-11 10:57:38+00:00
Leaving personal feelings about the person. What exactly does 2nd amendment guys think using guns to fight "tyranny" looks like? People rising up to a group of people clad on black clothes and an eerily fascist reminiscent symbol ala rickandmorty?

Some people using guns to defend themselves against who they believe are the harbingers of this authoritarian State is 2nd amendment working as intended. Not a "tragic but necessary sacrifice" as some will put school shootings, but actually what right to bear arms is supposed to be about.

And it's immaterial if you ultimately disagree to whether this administration is authoritarian, but these things will keep happening as long as enough people believe that to be the case. It's a feature, not a bug.
by riedel | 2025-09-11 10:58:02+00:00
You are right, I had to look it up again : Zugangserschwerungsgesetz [0] But the law did not feature any kind of data collection afaik.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz

Edit: I think I mixed it up with her game censorship [1] (which I guess also contributed to her nick name).

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/von-der-leyen-sofortp...
by ben-schaaf | 2025-09-11 10:59:04+00:00
> You're not taking into account dynamic clock speeds, just "idle" and "load." Most CPUs have configurable TDP, and if you give them more power they will run more cores at a higher frequency. Suppose I measured the same laptop CPU under "full load" in two different computers at full load, but one is configured for a 30w TDP and the other is configured for a 40w TDP. The first PC will be more efficient, because you get diminishing returns for increased power. But it's the same CPU.

Dynamic clock speeds are exactly why you need to do this testing under full load. No you're probably not getting the same power draw on each chip, but at least you're eliminating the frequency scaling algorithms from the equation. This is why it's so hard to evaluate core efficiency (let alone what effect the ISA has).

What you can do however is compare chips with wildly different performance and power characteristics. A chip that is using significantly more power to do significantly less work is less efficient than a chip using less power to do more.

> To go back to your original argument, you're claiming that x86 ISA is more efficient than ARM because a certain AMD chip beat certain M1/snapdragon chips at 50w.

I never claimed x86 is more efficient than ARM. I did claim the latest AMD cores are more efficient than M1 and snapdragon elite X, while still having worse battery life.

> You can't draw that conclusion because the two chips may be designed to have peak efficiency at different power levels, even if the maximum power draw is the same. Likely the Snapdragon/M1 have better efficiency at 10W with reduced clock speed even if the CPU is not idling.

Firstly this is pretty silly: All chips get more efficient at lower clock speed. Maximum efficiency is at at whatever the lowest clockspeed you can go, which is primarily determined by how the chip is manufactured. Which brings me to my second point: What does any of this have to do with the ISA?

> Not to mention -- who even cares about ISA efficiency? What matters is the result for the product I can buy.

If you don't care about ISA efficiency why are you here‽ That's what this discussion is about! If you don't care about this just leave.

And to answer your question: We care about ISA efficiency because we care about the efficiency of our chips. If ARM was twice as efficient then we should be pushing to kill x86, backwards compatibility be damned. In actuality the reason ARM-based laptops have better efficiency has nothing/little to do with the ISA, so instead of asking AMD/intel to release an ARM-based chips we should be pushing them to optimize battery usage.
Could faceless AI videos create the next wave of anonymous influencers?
by jamessmithe | 2025-09-11 11:00:01+00:00
AI video tools now make it easy to create full videos without a camera or even showing your face. With platforms like Synthia, InVideo, LunaBloom, and Fliki, anyone can spin up content in minutes. Do you think this will create a wave of faceless influencers, or just flood the internet with more low-effort videos? What's the future of the original content creators now?
by joz1-k | 2025-09-11 11:01:24+00:00
I also think this is just a delay, not a final win. Also, this page hasn't been updated yet: <https://fightchatcontrol.eu/>

I recently heard a political discussion about this topic and was disappointed by the lack of technical competency among the participants. What we're talking about here is the requirement to run a non-auditable, non-transparent black box on any device to scan all communications. What could possibly go wrong with that?
by dml2135 | 2025-09-11 11:02:57+00:00
I think you missed the parent comment’s point. They are not saying that a free market had it’s downsides, but rather that a lassaiz-faire approach often does not even result in a free market, but rather in a market that tends towards monopolization. And a market without competition is not free.

In order to have free, competitive markets, you need to have a referee to enforce a common set of rules, like antitrust.
by davidhyde | 2025-09-11 11:03:26+00:00
> “ After heating the swatches to simulate aging, they treated the samples for 10 minutes, by soaking them in a hydrogen peroxide solution or exposing them to the blue LED or UV light. The blue light reduced the yellow stain substantially more than hydrogen peroxide or UV exposure. In fact, UV exposure generated some new yellow-colored compounds.”

They did test with UV light. The sun is broadband (it will have both blue light and uv light) so it works to a degree. The insight is that uv generates some new yellow coloured compounds and only using blue light prevents this.
by petcat | 2025-09-11 11:03:31+00:00
> Or a percentage of the global revenue. That's basically the EU's GDPR directive.

> Worked wonders.

Unfortunately the GDPR is mostly toothless considering that the fines against Meta and Amazon were basically nothing. Certainly nothing close to a "percentage of global revenue".

Honestly, the whole thing seems aimed at just shaking down American tech companies to try to collect some additional revenue to keep funding the EU bureaucracy.

The system only exists to preserve itself.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-09-11 11:05:10+00:00
I think you missed my point entirely. I'm not trying to argue there shouldn't be any privacy or anything like that

That's not my questions at all. My question is, is there some good clear framework for what should and shouldn't be private. B/c otherwise it's kind of some meaningless platitude, like "everyone should be nice to each other"