MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by duckdriver | 2025-09-11 23:27:19+00:00
I cannot quote it -- it appears to be flagged so I cannot view it. Quote it in reply and I will respond.

Quoting you and responding to you is not a cheap gotcha. You need to take responsibility for your words. You said those things, and you have not retracted them. To your point, this is what you seem to expect of Charlie Kirk. You were welcome at any point to say "Ok I exaggerated a bit with that sentence, fair enough -- he's been in some real debates. My main point was XYZ and I'd like to discuss that." You have not done this, even now. I welcome you to accept the draft language I was forced to write on your behalf.
by runarberg | 2025-09-11 23:28:32+00:00
Iceland made a similar—albeit a bit more vague—announcement, and as an Icelander and an ex-Eurovision fan, I have to say this is far too little and far too late. If this boycott would have been announced 2 years ago, I would have celebrated, and maybe it could have had an impact, but at this point a handful of countries announcing boycotts is not gonna have any meaningful impact. In my opinion the head of the respective radios need to apologies for not acting sooner, and they not only need to boycott, but actively try to prevent Eurovision from being held this next year if Israel is allowed to participate. A good start would be to sue the EBU, or to hold an alternative competition.
by aeonfox | 2025-09-11 23:28:59+00:00
> and the display server will wait on the relevant fences (on the CPU side, which is responsible for most GPU scheduling tasks) before starting any render task that would texture that buffer or before attempting scanout from the buffer.

Given the fetching and compute performance per watt of modern GPUs I'm still surprised that the watts saving of reducing overdraw is anything but negligible, and certainly if you're talking about pipeline stalls, having pixel data shuttling over the bus between the GPU and CPU seems like a much bigger deal?

> ^2: One could implement this instead by creating a different render list for just the area the blur needs to sample instead, in the hopes that this will render much faster and avoid waiting on completion of the primary buffer, but that would be an app specific optimization with a lot of limitations that may end up being much slower in many scenarios.

It looks like Apple Silicon avoids the overdraw problem with TBDR, and the tile system would efficiently manage the dependency chain right back to the desktop background if needed. So if a browser is maximised over a bunch of other windows, only a portion of a portion of render targets are being sampled, with no intermediate CPU rendering.

To me, the flex by Apple here is that they can do this efficiently, because their rendering system is likely fully GPU and also resource efficient in a way that other typical display servers and GPUs can't be. For this to work on Linux or Windows, a complete refactoring of the display servers would be required, and it would only service GPUs that have tile-based deferred rendering, which seems to be nil outside of Apple's Silicon (and their older PowerVR chips).
by ewoodrich | 2025-09-11 23:29:48+00:00
I've been using an iPhone I got from a carrier deal for the last year after using Android phones since the T-Mobile G1, and the notification shade drives me insane on iOS. Notifications in general are so much more annoying to deal with on iOS vs Android. For the love of god please just let me clear all notifications!

Also, how Apple seems to deliberately avoid including a shortcut to the full settings anywhere in the control center or the shade. It honestly feels like one of those stubborn Apple things where at one point they decided Android including a settings shortcut (gear icon on the shade) was somehow an admission that its quick actions were poorly designed and iOS is above that.
by endigma | 2025-09-11 23:30:04+00:00
This site makes a big point of using the term "RESTful" repeatedly, but it seems to be JSON-based by default?

I don't know why modern web frameworks insist on continuing to misuse or misapply the term despite a fairly large amount of messaging recently about how exactly this term is misapplied, and the resurgence of frameworks and tools that do correctly apply it, e.g. HTMX, Datastar, Alpine AJAX.

Otherwise, this looks cool. I'd encourage you to un-roll-your-own docs and use something like Starlight or Docusaurus so you can have usable search and versioned docs.
by omnicognate | 2025-09-11 23:30:35+00:00
What is "inherent" supposed to mean here?

LLMs are understood to the extent that they can be built from the ground up. Literally every single aspect of their operation is understood so thoroughly that we can capture it in code.

If you achieved an understanding of how the human brain works at that level of detail, completeness and certainty, a Nobel prize wouldn't be anywhere near enough. They'd have to invent some sort of Giganobel prize and erect a giant golden statue of you in every neuroscience department in the world.

But if you feel happier treating LLMs as fairy magic, I've better things to do than argue.
by fluidcruft | 2025-09-11 23:32:00+00:00
But aren't we only worth something like $300/year each to Meta in terms of ads? I remember someone arguing something like that when the TikTok ban was being passed into law... essentially the argument was that TikTok was "dumping" engagement at far below market value (at something like $60/year) to damage American companies. That was something the argument I remember anyway.
by kirb | 2025-09-11 23:33:21+00:00
Note: This appears to be a fork of Sam Henri Gold’s recent lid-angle sensor project, with the wav file changed. The readme does give credit, though the license has been changed from Apache to MIT for some reason.

Original: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Demos (no farts, sorry): https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159295473019599 https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159854830332329
by whateveracct | 2025-09-11 23:33:26+00:00
You can Nixify appimages pretty easily. Oh, and you can run flatpak with a single line of config and install things that way. Oh and you can build from source using the language's package manager (e.g. cabal install etc). I've even just run the Windows exe using Wine (super easy with Nix - it has great Wine support).

Obviously the ideal is built from source. This has a lot of benefits. It allows you to overlay the package very easily - modify its source to be a fork, change compile options, etc. It allows you to expose its dependencies. Stuff like that.
by ok1984 | 2025-09-11 23:33:26+00:00
For you first question I didn’t have an answer, so I did some research and based on what I read, it seems a lot of expansion, land seizure and legalisation of unauthorised outposts in addition to new expansion plans for existing settlements.

For hostages it seems that neither side wants them to be released, hamas wants to keep them to bargain and Israel uses them to have a reason to continue bombing Gaza.

Any Palestinian government should have full authority on its land, people, resources and financies, I agree that the current one is full of corruption but it is also largely controlled by Israel, even their wages pass from Isreal, a government with no authority is no government.

As for the school curriculum, again I had no idea and I searched and I found that both sides are guilty: [A study titled “Israeli and Palestinian textbooks erase the other side, report finds” analyzed dozens of school books (Israeli and Palestinian) and found that a large proportion of Israeli books (75%) and Palestinian books (81%) describe the other side as “the enemy.” This suggests that portrayal of the “other” as adversarial is common]

Most of the 100K either had another nationality or left for human aid (injured people), many of gazans already left their homes in 1984 and lived as refugees in Gaza, I don’t think they want to leave a second time because leaving means no coming back, also why those people should leave their land? They should have the right to stay there.

Finally for the last comment, do you think there is a place to hide? How can you get food? Medicine? Money? I can’t imagine being put in such conditions!
by cosmicgadget | 2025-09-11 23:33:26+00:00
Perhaps we aren't seeing the term 'generate' in exactly the same way. I took your meaning to be "the government hatched a kidnapping plot and suckered some libertarians into going along with it". You understand this is a much different scenario from "the FBI let confidential informants play their part as militia members but let the conspirators fully bake their plan."

> If the best counterpoint is another crackpot conspirator had allegedly the initial mere idea (which, depending how it is conveyed, may not even be illegal

Seems like exactly the reason the feds would have to allow the conspiracy to develop. What would you have them do? Give them a stern warning and let them know who their informants were?
by brucehoult | 2025-09-11 23:33:36+00:00
There were also many incompatible 8086 machines before (and at the same time as) the IBM PC, including many that ran MS-DOS but had different memory layouts (e.g. without the 640k limit), different floppy disk formats etc.

IBM's machine had great market success and was trivially easy to copy, at least if you illegally simply copied their ROM too. IBM sued many such companies out of existence (including Exzel here in New Zealand.

But then Phoenix reverse engineered the BIOS -- easy as it was small, simple, and even badly written (compared to e.g. the large 64k very cleverly coded ROM on the Mac) -- documented it, including the bugs, and then had other engineers do a clean-room reimplementation of the BIOS.

At that point IBM couldn't touch them, as there were no custom chips used in their machine.

Then Compaq beat IBM to using the 80386 by seven months, and when IBM's PS/2 machines did appear they used a different BIOS, different and incompatible expansion bus, different keyboard and mouse connectors and video display.

The market basically ignored IBMs (expensive!) machines and copied Compaq and IBM lost control of the "PC".

People did adopt the PS/2 connectors (easy enough) and VGA, but otherwise continued with the same BIOS and memory map and "ISA" expansion bus until Intel did PCI 6 or 8 years later.
by PatchworkCasino | 2025-09-11 23:33:51+00:00
My favorite museum experience ever was at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry in the early 00's where they had this whole room that was just wood blocks, a little plastic tub running like a creek, a few little water-directing mechanisms and a couple water guns. No goal, I dont think it was even teaching anything, it was just me and 8 other kids. When I first got there some kid was telling everybody how to use everything and what little project he was working on and how they could help, basically like a little foreman. I helped and had fun with everybody for maybe 15 minutes until he had to leave and by then I had been there longest and just naturally ended up taking over as "foreman" until it was my turn to go and I told another kid everything that was left to do. It's a very important dynamic you experience a lot in life, and that exhibit taught me it naturally in half an hour. It's such a shame to see how many of these learning museums are now basically having these kids just walk from point to point and read and maybe play something that would have been bad as a flash game. The Seattle one (forget the name) I went to last year had a decent number of physical exhibits (which I still enjoyed as an adult) but none of them had any social element. Ironically, the screen games were all very poorly maintained.
by mrlongroots | 2025-09-11 23:34:04+00:00
Kitchen knives murder people. Toyota Hiluxes have powered more jihad than modern battle tanks. Our tastes, beliefs, and opinions as a society are shaped by recommendation algorithms run by facebook/instagram/twitter, to our profound detriment (personal opinion).

> And so its important for us to understand how they can be weaponized and to consider the social cost of that weaponization.

To be clear, I absolutely agree. Plenty of tech is double-edged. And Palantir very much so.

Let me restate my point. Palantir (or that class of tech products) is powerful at enabling visibility over a complex system. But visibility is not decisions, it is an input to decisions. If you had real-time telemetry from every single stomach, you could maybe automatically dispatch drones with food wherever someone is starving. Or you could use the data as a high-frequency indicator for a successful invasion. Morality is downstream of decisions not data.
by seec | 2025-09-11 23:34:40+00:00
What are you even saying? It's funny you think I'm bragging.

Here is the thing, people are buying foldables only to show off, the functionality/usefulness makes no sense for the vast majority of people. Which is why they are still expensive and it will stay that way.

Even tech reviewers with infinite choices and zero affordability issues are not using them. If they were any good, they would be using them daily, but it's not the case.

What I'm saying about the first iPhone is that it was good and useful on release day, even though it was a flawed product missing many things that would only come later. And the cost wasn't a problem.

We have had many generations of foldables with improvement/refinements everywhere and they are still nowhere close to being ubiquitous or mainstream. At its 4th generation, Apple was selling 50 million iPhones globally even though it was one of the most expensive phones you could buy. We are in the 6th or 7th generation of foldable and they are not reaching anywhere near those numbers. Even if the price would come close to a regular smartphone it's doubtful that most would pay up because there are other compromises.

Fundamentally, foldables are niche products for tech geeks or people who like to show off, they will stay niche, just like VR and 3D before them.

I have been right on both of those before, do you want to make a bet?
by Talanes | 2025-09-11 23:34:44+00:00
The 1993 movie Super Mario Bros. features both a major and minor antagonist clearly modeled after Donald Trump. He was a well known, highly referenced figure for DECADES before he entered politics. Where are you getting this idea that nobody in 2008 could have been thinking about Donald Trump?

He was literally in the middle of his 13-year run on Network tv. If he hadn't won the presidency, that would be talked about as the apex of his time as a public figure.
by jbellis | 2025-09-11 23:34:48+00:00
swe-bench's bigger problems include (1) labs train on the test and (2) 50% of the tickets are from django; it's not a representative dataset even if all you care about is Python.

I created a new benchmark from Java commits that are new in the past 6 months to add some variety: https://brokk.ai/power-ranking
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-11 23:35:11+00:00
The answer is right in the text you quoted. Because it's a different market than the smartphone itself and *unfair competition. It's Apple using its dominant position in the smartphone market to prevent others from competing on equal grounds in a different market.

With iOS Apple owns the playing field where all accessory vendors compete, and Apple competes on the same field. There is no healthy competition possible if Apple puts the finger on the scale to ensure it always wins.
by Tade0 | 2025-09-11 23:36:21+00:00
What a glorious homage to fartscroll.js:

https://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/

Coincidentally the number of stars this library had over the years was a decent predictor whether a new frontend library/framework was mature enough for adoption.

In other words: if something is less popular than a joke library that makes fart sounds, can it really be considered as having the momentum to go mainstream? For instance, ReasonML struggled for years to beat fartscroll.js. Where is it now?
by jrflowers | 2025-09-11 23:36:29+00:00
> I cannot quote it -- it appears to be flagged so I cannot view it

This entire time you’ve been arguing about something I said that you couldn’t even read? Like every point you’ve made was based off of what you thought I said?

Here is the entirety of my first post (because context matters!), which was clear, and I have further clarified over the course of this discussion.

I have italicized the sentence I would like you to address.

>We can say that killing people is bad without making stuff up about the victims.

>Charlie Kirk was never involved in real debate. He was a performer that found a niche in race baiting and spreading conspiracy theories, which is what his legacy will be. He happened to sometimes structure his performances to kind of look like good-faith debate, but pretending that the owning-the-libs displays are the same thing as actual discussion does everyone a disservice.

You are also welcome to _additionally_ address my further clarifying statements, such as:

> The race baiting and conspiracy theories will be what Charlie Kirk is remembered for because that’s what he did constantly. There’s a whole section of his Wikipedia covering the falsehoods he spread about covid, election fraud, H1N1, human trafficking, protests in France etc.

And

> Charlie Kirk’s many documented years race baiting and knowingly spreading false conspiracy theories disqualified him as being considered someone to be taken seriously as a good-faith debater
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-11 23:36:41+00:00
The Trump bit may be revisionist (I admittedly hadn't heard of that comparison before), but the Musk bit goes pretty far back, here's a 2011 article about it: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/08/robert-down...

And, having been a kid at the time, I remember excitedly talking with friends about how Elon Musk was the real life Tony Stark. We were young enough to be insulated from his controveries, and to not truly appreciate how impossible the Iron Man suit was.
by renehsz | 2025-09-11 23:36:41+00:00
Wow, hats off to you! This is one of the most impressive solo projects I've seen in a while!

Making a toy C compiler isn't rocket science, but developing one that's complete and production-ready is whole nother story. AFAICT, Kefir fits into the latter category:

- C17/C23 compliance

- x86_64 codegen

- debug info gen

- SSA-based optimization passes (the most important ones)

- has a widely-compatible cc cli

- is extensively tested/fuzzed

Some advantages compared to the big three (GCC, Clang, MSVC):

- It's fairly small and simple

- That means it's understandable and predictable - no surprises in terms of what it can and cannot do (regarding optimizations in particular)

- Compilation is probably very fast (although I haven't done any benchmarking)

- It could be modified or extended fairly easily

There might be real interest in this compiler from people/companies who

- value predictability and stability very highly

- want to be in control of their entire software supply chain (including the build tools)

- simply want a faster compiler for their debug builds

Think security/high assurance people, even the suckless or handmade community might be interested.

So it's time to market this thing! Get some momentum going! It would be too sad to see this project fade away in silence. Announce it in lots of places, maybe get it on Compiler Explorer, etc. (I'm not saying that you have to do this, of course. But some people could genuinely benefit from Kefir.)

P.S. Seems like JKU has earned its reputation as one of the best CS schools in Austria ;-)
by rufus_foreman | 2025-09-11 23:37:24+00:00
>> I had hundreds of feeds in Google Reader, which quickly became overwhelming

I never used Google Reader, did it not have any ability to put feeds in directories or any other way of prioritizing?

I have hundreds of feeds in my RSS reader, a dozen of them are in the directory titled "Good", and for those I read pretty much every entry in every feed every day. There are a hundred or so of them in the directory titled "Bored". I get to those every once in a while. There's a limit on how many entries it keeps, so most of the entries in the Bored directory will expire unread. But it's good sometimes to have a self-curated source of reading material even if you don't get to it all.

>> I get far more enjoyment browsing HN today than I ever did sifting endlessly through my RSS feeds

HN, of course, has an RSS feed. (It's in "Bored").
by foobarbecue | 2025-09-11 23:37:58+00:00
Man, I hate this. It all looks so good, and it's all so incorrect. Take the heart diagram, for example. Lots of words that sort of sound cardiac but aren't ("ventricar," "mittic"), and some labels that ARE cardiac, but are in the wrong place. The scenes generated from topo maps look convincing, but they don't actually follow the topography correctly. I'm not looking forward to when search and rescue people start using this and plan routes that go off cliffs. Most people I know are too gullible to understand that this is a bullshit generator. This stuff is lethal and I'm very worried it will accelerate the rate at which the populace is getting stupider.
by nxobject | 2025-09-11 23:39:01+00:00
That also deflects moral responsibility away from Palantir: they have and had every choice to question the purpose of their contracts. The essence of Palantir is specifically pursuing government surveillance contracts as a lucrative, never ending source of profit.

No doubt Deloitte or any other contractor shop would be able to do the same thing - but they don’t choose to.
by vunderba | 2025-09-11 23:39:08+00:00
I love the attention to detail in this post. I've thought about picking up one of those Vortex86 based ITX boards like the ITX-Llama [1] since you get the joy of running on real hardware but don't have to worry about tracking down a soundblaster card, network cards, etc. Assuming that they ever come back in stock that is.

[1] https://retrodreams.ca/products/itx-llama-mainboard
by mdaniel | 2025-09-11 23:39:35+00:00
I thought you were making an entirely different point with your link since the lag caused the page to view just the upskirt render until the rest of the images loaded in and it could scroll to the reference of your actual link

Anyway, I don't think that's the flex you think it is since the topology map clearly shows the beginning of the arrow sitting in the river and the rendered image decided to hallucinate a winding brook, as well as its little tributary to the west, in view of the arrow. I am not able to decipher the legend [that ranges from 100m to 500m and back to 100m, so maybe the input was hallucinated, too, for all I know] but I don't obviously see 3 distinct peaks nor a basin between the snow-cap and the smaller mound

I'm willing to be more liberal for the other two images, since "instructions unclear" about where the camera was positioned, but for the topology one, it had a circle

I know I'm talking to myself, though, given the tone of every one of these threads
by segmondy | 2025-09-11 23:39:39+00:00
would it have been better if I called it "shortcut" instead of cheating? all shortcuts are called cheating until people decide on it's fairness. the AI has been given a task to fix a bug, the AI figured out that looking at other PR might yield a solution, if it was a human that did so, it would clearly be called cheating. Does AI know that it's cheating? Was it prompted to solve it without cheating? If you give AI access to the internet and quiz it, it would use info from the net to answer. Does that really skew it's score? Is it cheating? Is it a sign of intelligence? Sure, I think all of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_hacking
by hadlock | 2025-09-11 23:40:11+00:00
A big chunk of society has realistically 2-3 days of groceries in their house, plus maybe a 5-year-old bag of rice or pasta and can of string beans buried way in the back. If you have a 1-6 year old you're probably buying 1-3 gallons of milk per week, and need to get more tomorrow.