MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by p_l | 2025-09-26 11:28:52+00:00
I suspect it was less "Alpha is not capable of being low power" and more "We didn't have resources to make low-power from-scratch implementation" including the transistor budget driven by available lithography and constrained by Alpha being pure 64bit architecture.

Most importantly, outside of packaging the core in SoC-like setup, Digital essentially could only ship one microarchitecture at the time with Alpha.
by throwbway37383 | 2025-09-26 11:29:11+00:00
You say you don't usually defend LLMs, and then give a defense of LLMs based on a giant misreading of what is absolutely standard human behaviour.

In my local library recently, they'd two boards in the lobby as you entered, one with all the drawings created by one class of ~7 year olds based on some book they read, and a second the same idea but the next class up on some other book. Both classes had apparently been asked to do a drawing that illustrated something they liked or thought about the book.

It was absolutely hilarious, and wild, and some genuinely exquisite ones. Some had writing, some didn't. Some had crazy absolutely nonsensical twists and turns in the writing, others more crazy art stuff going on. There were a few tropes that repeated in some of the lazier ones, but even those weren't all the same thing, the way LLM output consistently is, with few exceptions, if any.

And then there were a good number of the ones by the kids which were shockingly inventive, you'd be scratching your head going, geez, how did they come up with that. My partner and I stayed for 10 minutes, and kept noticing some new detail in another of them, and being amazed.

So the reality is the upside-down version of what you're saying.

I recognise that this is just an anecdote on the internet, but surely you know this to be true, variants on the experiment are done in classrooms around the world every day. So may I insist, that the work produced by children, at least, does not fit your odd view of human beings.
by simonw | 2025-09-26 11:29:22+00:00
So run the LLM in an agent loop: give it a benchmarking tool, let it edit the configuration and tell it to tweak the settings and measure and see how much if a performance improvement it can get.

That's what you'd do by hand if you were optimizing, so save some time and point Claude Code or Codex CLI or GitHub Copilot at it and see what happens.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-09-26 11:29:48+00:00
I do think they’d be better focusing Pulse on business users. Connecting information in a workplace for those with ChatGPT enterprise in this way would be welcome. If I can get notifications that span all the various information sources, infer urgency, and overnight patterns of activity of a distributed team that could have value. With zero retention policies and control over / opt in to what can be connected it’s not as invasive. I do understand the point made that it could be used to evaluate you too by someone with your analytics of time spent etc.
by siberpunk | 2025-09-26 11:30:02+00:00
Fair point, but we can’t ignore the fact that many coffee shops provide desks with power outlets, and sometimes even dedicated workspaces, and that this has become a clear trend. These coffee shops also earn revenue from customers who want a workspace, and they incorporate this into their marketing. So, cafes don’t rely solely on coffee sales; the environment they provide contributes significantly to their income. Many people choose cafes as an alternative way to spend time outside. Therefore, some bussinesses aim to offer a workspace, some a social space, and some simply create an environment for spending time. And their offer just don't work for me. I'm not demanding anything from them; I just don’t use their business.
by supermatt | 2025-09-26 11:30:02+00:00
> a tiny math receipt

Im not familiar with how these zk proofs work, but for a PoW scheme I was working with the binary proofs were over 60kb - and they were sample based to decrease probability of cheating - not an absolute proof without full replay.

Do you have some info/resource to describe how these proofs work and can be so small?
by inhumantsar | 2025-09-26 11:30:15+00:00
> Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

> The JTTFs shall also investigate: > > (i) institutional and individual funders, and officers and employees of organizations, that are responsible for, sponsor, or otherwise aid and abet the principal actors engaging in the criminal conduct described in subsections (a) and (b) of this section; and > > (ii) non-governmental organizations and American citizens residing abroad or with close ties to foreign governments, agents, citizens, foundations, or influence networks engaged in violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.) or money laundering by funding, creating, or supporting entities that engage in activities that support or encourage domestic terrorism.

I'm no lawyer but it seems like, by these criteria, half of Reddit could be terrorists
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-26 11:31:03+00:00
It was, for me, one of the best experiences for linux desktop. In a very practical way, it was popos that got me off of windows at home. There are some issues, but they seem to mostly revolve about me getting opinionated over what something 'should' look like ( so I occasionally try other distros ).

It is less bloated than ubuntu ( but still has heavily embedded stuff that is hard to remove like accessibility -- the amount of times kid pressed key combination to turn on voicing each key was super annoying ). Store is slow af. But all of those are smaller things.

edit: note about the store
by johnwayne666 | 2025-09-26 11:31:08+00:00
https://genode.org/download/sculpt

> Sculpt is an open-source general-purpose OS. It combines Genode's microkernel architecture, capability-based security, sandboxed device drivers, and virtual machines in a novel operating system for commodity PC hardware and the PinePhone. _Sculpt is used as day-to-day OS by the Genode developers_.
by ggm | 2025-09-26 11:31:20+00:00
I have an ATX supply with 12v dc output leads. I have a usb-c powered device which can only consume 12v dc coming in on usb-c and needs to be signalled, or attached to a power source which matches the signals. I do not need a buck conversion. I need the supply side signalling suitable to act as a 12v usb-c output, to connect to the devices usb-c input. A pd trigger appears to be a chipset which acts as a device needing power and accepts voltage in on usb-c to put out, offering the client side signals to trigger 12v to be emitted.

I want the other direction: the chipset and logic which would be inside a 12v power source emitting usb-c.

It doesn't help that 12v was the voltage emitted from the final specification, it's optional.
by metalman | 2025-09-26 11:32:04+00:00
my mom is in a nursing home, ended up there after dad fell and got hurt, and her memory was shot, and the rest of her cognitive performance was going to hell, and through whatever combination of factors, PLUS getting the shingles vacine she has made a very very significant recovery, my dad got the same vacine, and has also had a significant cognitive improvement, which has translated into physical improvements, as he was stuck in bed after breaking his 11'th vertebra after the fall, prognosis was "death" and he is able to struggle to his feet and is getting stronger, he's 97, mom's 82, were both hospitalised during covid. point bieng: if they can bounce back, whats your fucking excuse?

get.off.your.fucking.ass.
by Earw0rm | 2025-09-26 11:33:31+00:00
They're a battle-tested technology but, like fossil fuels or pesticides, come at a price.

We should aim to take a balanced, complete and holistic view of what that price has looked like, and looks like today.

In general terms it optimises for the middle of various bell-curves, at considerable disbenefit for those towards the edges of the distribution. Essentially if you naturally conform to its proposed life-model, you'll broadly have a fairly good time, and if you don't, you won't.

It's OK to recognise the pros and the cons as part of the assessment, in a quest for a more fulfilling and long-term-sustainable model for society and human existence. I'm not sure many have the open-mindedness and maturity to participate, though.
by flir | 2025-09-26 11:33:45+00:00
For what most of us are using it for (generating code), that's not a bad outcome. This audience might have less of a problem with it than the general population.

Whether we have the discipline to limit our use of the tool to its strengths... well, I doubt it. Just look at how social media turned out.

(Idle thought: I wonder if a model fine-tuned on one specific author would give more "original" titles).
by ldoughty | 2025-09-26 11:33:50+00:00
Businesses are not expected to protect your freedom of speech. If you want to say stuff that no one wants to print, you can't sue a business for not printing it.

The government can't stop you from requesting a permit and saying it on public lands, though... And back when telecoms were common carriers, you could have done such from your home Internet, now you can only do it from your voice line.
by pelagicAustral | 2025-09-26 11:34:00+00:00
This is fine, but Hyprland/Omarchy is a different paradigm than you average Gnome/KDE distro... As much as I would love to love Omarchy, it is just not my cup of tea, I just like to operate on windows floating everywhere, and get pissed that I can't find what I'm after and Super+Tab two full rounds before landing where I want to be, I just like that, I thrive in this chaos... I settled for Bluefin which is by far the best developer experience I have ever had in my life, it is just the perfect distro for coming from either Windows or macOS...
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-09-26 11:34:30+00:00
Yes, completely agree. Marshall Mcluhan used the term "extensions of man" in the subtitle for "Understanding Media" to refer to information technology (in his day, TV). He said that in the same way a car or our clothes become an extension of our bodies, information technology becomes an extension of our central nervous system, and as the world becomes more connected through information, we begin to form a global village, where people on the other side of the country or even the earth begin to share a common memetic understanding. Things far away become immediate and personal and the layers which we filter them through become thinner, giving a kind of sameness to how we react to new information
by sokoloff | 2025-09-26 11:34:44+00:00
It sounds fairly reasonable to me to have to pay to get a second opinion for a negative finding on a screening. (That's off-axis from whether an AI should be able to provide the initial negative finding.)

If we don't allow this, I think we're more likely to find that the initial screening will be denied as not medically indicated than we are to find insurance companies covering two screenings when the first is negative. And I think we're better off with the increased routine screenings for a lot of conditions.
by hopelite | 2025-09-26 11:36:45+00:00
I thought you were a bit harsh by calling it entitled, but then I saw “Then rent an office or subscribe to a co-working space? What? I get paid to work, not to pay for it.” Right afterwards, so I’m included to agree that there is definitely some kind of entitlement going on.

The irony is that even as this person complains about “paying to work”, libraries are often immensely expensive and he pays for that library with every paycheck and tax bill.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-26 11:36:59+00:00
>And we're talking about doing so before we ask the rich to pay (as Warren Buffet says) the same tax rates as their secretaries, and before we trim the military budget back to the levels requested by the military.

Yes, there are issues with Social Security and Medicare. Not least of which is that, at least for the next thirty years or so (at least until the baby boomers are mostly all dead -- not because I wish them ill, but because later generations are smaller, constraining the pool of contributors to SS/Medicare).

A simple fix (that would give us ~50 years to figure out how to do this better) would be to remove the income cap on SS/Medicare contributions. Currently, that's $176,100[0]. Doing so would keep SS/Medicare solvent long enough to figure out how to structure the safety net appropriately, without jeopardizing the health/well being of those who paid in expecting it to work for them too.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc751
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-09-26 11:37:15+00:00
I think you missed my point. I'm trying to say a people split, some left, some stayed. The part that left is now doing violence on the part that stayed, claiming ownership of the area.

The goal of the genetic stuff is to point this split out, not delineate races.

Sadly though, this conflict is full of racism. The Gazans are described as "Arabs" and therefore undeserving of the land. If it turns out the Gazans are not Arabs, but also locals to the region, then what does that mean?
by pjmlp | 2025-09-26 11:37:29+00:00
A UNIX graphical system without a proper developer stack, with frameworks for all layers, means everyone does their little thing, the people that can't be bothered just ship Electron or something just as bad, and for all user purposes to manage windows, and a couple of xterms, one could just be using FVWM from 1994.

Which is how I look to most of these new desktops.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-09-26 11:37:31+00:00
I have opposite version of this problem.

Is it possible for AI to learn so much about myself that it will be more me than me myself?

An AI could potentially accumulate detailed information about your behaviors, preferences, communication patterns, and decision-making tendencies - perhaps even more comprehensive data than you consciously remember about yourself. It might predict your responses or model your thinking patterns with impressive accuracy. An AI might become very good at simulating aspects of "you" - perhaps even better than you are at articulating your own patterns.

It could create high probability "coherent action paths" of what I might do in future given current context. Then matching my initial choices to see which action path I am on, it could in theory "predict" my choices further down the line. Similar to how we play chess.
by anonbuddy | 2025-09-26 11:38:04+00:00
This is a signal for a future where either we own our 'memories' or companies own them for us.

Technologies like Solid (https://solidproject.org/) are our only way forward. If you don't care you can use your chatgpts or whatever for whatever you want. But there are people who DO CARE about their memories.

We are no longer speaking about tiktok or instagram feeds and algorithms, as some people compare the addictive side of this (ie. OAPulse) kind of technologies to.
by sokoloff | 2025-09-26 11:38:49+00:00
Can a human reliably carefully study for hours on end imaging from screening tests (think of a future world where whole-body MRI scanning for asymptomatic people becomes affordable and routine thanks to AI processing) and not miss subtle anomalies?

I can easily imagine that humans are better at really digging deeply and reasoning carefully about anomalies that they notice.

I doubt they're nearly as good as computers at detecting subtle changes on screens where 99% of images have nothing worrisome and the priors are "nothing is suspicious".

I don't want to equate radiologists with TSA screeners, but the false negative rate for TSA screening of carryon bags is incredibly high. I think there's an analog here about the ability of humans to maintain sustained focus on tedious tasks.
by unkulunkulu | 2025-09-26 11:38:57+00:00
there certainly is if you consider 50 moves rule.

And you can derive an easy upper bound from that as 50x8x8x2 (basically each 50 moves you make a pawn move)

if you only consider 3 moves repetition and not 50 move rule then this is harder and the number becomes one of those crazy combinatorical numbers.
by lproven | 2025-09-26 11:39:06+00:00
I am aware. But I don't program, I have no interest in hardware hackery like this, and one of the things I most like about the Pi range is that I can run OSes that are not Linux. I think two of my Pis currently run RISC OS. I could also run NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Windows IoT, or Inferno. I do not know of any other SBC with so many options.

I am not saying these things are not valid, but they are not unique selling points -- other Pi-style SBCs offer them too.

However, the Pi has other merits that other SBCs don't: price, range of OSes, long-term OS support, a vast range of special-purpose distros for everything from server to dedicated special-purpose client stuff.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-26 11:39:08+00:00
Where "invented" really means "had the right set of skills, knowledge and experience, and was paying attention at the exact right moment when all the pieces of the puzzle were collected together on the table".

Scientific and technological progress is inherently incremental. It takes a lot of hard work, dedication and specialization to spot the pieces ready to be connected - but the final act of putting them together is relatively simple, and most importantly, it requires all the puzzles to be there.

Which is why, historically, ~all scientific discoveries have been made by multiple researchers (or teams) independently, at roughly the same time - until all prerequisites are made, the next step is ~impossible, but the moment all are met, it becomes almost obvious to those in the know.
by zahlman | 2025-09-26 11:40:17+00:00
> > Not just because their capital is twice as old as ours

Yeah, that's kind of the point. Preserving a culture that is several times as old as the USA.

> > Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits.

> [there] aren't as many white people in London as there used to be. Now, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but it's pretty easy to interpret that as non-white people shouldn't be seen in London.... I am open to hearing alternate interpretations

The "alternate interpretation" is that "native Brits" means "native Brits", not "white people". Per your source, in the time frame DHH is talking about, the population was still specifically about 3/5 British. As in, English (and possibly Welsh and Scottish, although I imagine they mostly keep further north). So presumably that's what he actually observed.

A Dane isn't going to see this as a matter of race. Denmark is still about 5/6 ethnic Danish, and a big chunk of immigrants and their descendants are European. The concept of race is just not something you think about when you aren't exposed to it all the time. The difference between an ethnic Dane and and ethnic Englishman is salient to someone like that, in a way that a typical American can't be expected to understand.

We're talking here about people who are in their ancestral homeland. They are the natives of the area; they don't have anywhere to go back to. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons have been there since the 5th century — far longer than the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people have been in New Zealand, for example. And London was founded by the Romans, even longer ago than that. And those groups were both fully admixed with the indigenous population long before the establishment of modern immigration policy. So now we have recognizable "native Brits" who look different from modern-day "native Italians" or "native Germans". Not to mention, those indigenous island folk would presumably have been quite pale themselves.

If someone were pointing out that the settlements of Turtle Island were no longer full of First Nations peoples, would you make that out to be about race? Rounding all of this off to "white people" is a projection of an Americentric view of race, and frankly offensive. It's strange to me how there are people who put effort into knowing about the cultural and ethnic and religious distinctions found across, say, South Asia, and seem to think themselves morally superior for caring; but couldn't be bothered to do the same for Europe.
by celticninja | 2025-09-26 11:41:11+00:00
It is easily gamed and it requires providing documents, usually these are photos or reproductions of passports which are provided digitally and can be easily altered. And employers don't have the skill or ability to detect them, or often the will to investigate.. by having copies of the documents they can show they did what was required and claim to have been misled and they are the victims, so no prosecution or fines.
by p_l | 2025-09-26 11:41:14+00:00
It's not an issue of GPL virality because the CDDL-ed code is not derivative of GPLed code and thus out of scope for GPL.

The problem is, IIRC, that GPLv2 does not allow creating a combined work where part of it is covered by license that has stricter requirements than GPL.

This is the same reason why you can't submit GPLv3 code to Linux kernel, because GPLv3 falls under the same issue, and IIRC even on the same kind of clause (mandatory patent licensing)
by gprok | 2025-09-26 11:41:51+00:00
Macscope has a feature for this. You can right-click any item in the switcher and choose to hide it. There are two options: hide it just from the main list (it will still appear when you search), or hide it completely from both. You can manage all your hidden items later in Settings > Exclusions. Like here https://screen.studio/share/bcC1YlQR

Regarding privacy, I take that very seriously. All screen-capturing for live previews is done locally and is never stored or transmitted. You can also disable live previews entirely in the settings if you prefer a more minimal view. The app's only network calls are for checking for updates (Sparkle) and validating the license (Lemon Squeezy), never for any user data.

I completely agree with the 'zero-trust' approach (I'm a security-conscious person myself), so I'm planning a tutorial on how to use a firewall like LuLu to block all network access if users want it, just in case. The core app is designed to be fully functional offline—only license activation, automatic updates and some url favicons would be affected. If you interested here is our privacy policy here I describe the usage of each data/permission. https://macscope.app/privacy
by palata | 2025-09-26 11:42:11+00:00
> That they are free to do so doesn't mean I shouldn't be free to preserve the secrecy of my communications.

My point is that ChatControl does not say that all your communications will be shared. And you will still be able to send encrypted messages with Signal, and your ISP won't be able to read them, and Signal won't be able to read them. So it's not true that it won't preserve the secrecy of your communications. If used correctly, it will preserve the secrecy of almost all your communications. And it would be possible to have a version of ChatControl that would absolutely preserve the secrecy of all your communications (e.g. by only using a list of hashes instead of machine learning).

Maybe you think that you should be free to have illegal material on your phone, but I am not sure the rest of the population agrees. If one could prove that ChatControl never made a mistake (e.g. it's just a hash comparison) and that the list of illegal hashes is never abused, then I'm pretty sure most people would find it okay.

The problem is that we cannot prove that, and in fact it's pretty clear that it is fundamentally difficult to make sure that the list of hashes is not abused. Even more so if instead of a list of hashes it is a machine-learned set of weights.

So ChatControl would be a powerful tool that is difficult to audit, and that therefore could be abused by whoever controls it. This is the risk, this is what we should be talking about.