MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crackrook | 2025-09-11 20:33:55+00:00
First, "conspiracies can't be true" was definitely not the point. You're right, conspiracies happen, governments do keep secrets! The point was: if a conspiracy theory with poor evidence were to be a reasonable explanation for another claim's poor evidence, I could claim whatever outlandish thing I wanted, e.g. "Unicorns are real, our puppet masters just don't want you to know about them!" This explanation is hard to falsify, and (in my view) shouldn't be our top choice, it's definitely not enough for me to regard the ultimate unicorn claim as "well-established fact."

If I wanted to make a compelling argument for my conspiracy theory, I would not only want to explain how the government has managed to keep this profound secret about unicorns, I'd want to to explain why it was theirs to keep in the first place. In a world with many sovereign nations with a vast array of publicly and privately-funded research institutions, camera-toting citizens, security cameras, wildlife cameras, etc., why is the U.S. government holding all of the compelling evidence? Or is not just the U.S.? Maybe we explain this with more conspiracies? Or maybe one really big conspiracy? Do you think it's likely that the government could keep narwhals a secret?

I haven't/wouldn't make any claims about David Grusch being who he says is, I haven't intentionally made any truth claims at all here; that said, whatever titles Grusch formerly held, and whatever title his lawyers formerly held, those titles don't, in my view, grant him credibility in perpetuity, maybe one could argue that they didn't grant much in the first place. The same goes for members of Congress. Should we believe Marjorie Taylor Greene if she tells us "The Jews" are starting forest fires with their space lasers to serve their malicious globalist agendas, on the basis that she's a congresswoman?

If you or anyone else has evidence, I'd urge them to be agents of truth and go update Grusch's Wikipedia article, at the time of writing this it states: > No evidence supporting Grusch's UFO claims has been presented and they have been dismissed by multiple, independent experts.

Or, perhaps we go searching for explanations as to why Wikipedia or the news organizations it accepts citations from are mere puppets of the conspirators, but at that point, who's being tiresome?
by larsiusprime | 2025-09-11 20:33:56+00:00
> As a final thought to recursively illustrate this. The very best artist can utilize sound waves and directly manipulate energy to build one of the Pyramids at Giza by hand. However, the most efficient way for someone without that ability or time to master those techniques is to draw the design of a pyramid as an artistic rendering on paper or a computer screen and have 24/7, nonstop nuclear/solar powered robots build it.

???
by dml2135 | 2025-09-11 20:34:28+00:00
> You are asserting that a free market is unstable and will inevitably lead to a monopoly.

No, I am not asserting that.

I think the first thing to clear up is our definitions. My main point would be that a market that is controlled by a monopoly is not a free market. I would define a free market not as a market that is free from government interference, but a market in which all of the actors are free to participate on a fair competitive playing field.

I think that lassaiz-faire, with the meaning of "hands off" may be a more precise way to describe what you are saying when you say "free market".

I think that a fair competitive landscape is ultimately what we want out of markets. I agree that it is bad when government actions interfere with a fair competitive landscape. But it is not inevitable that all goverment actions will do that, and in many cases government action can help rather than hurt. And similarly, plenty of actions by non-government actors can interfere with a fair competitive landscape as well.
by nfriedly | 2025-09-11 20:34:38+00:00
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by AndrewKemendo | 2025-09-11 20:34:50+00:00
I recently read “The impending Crisis in the south: How to meet it” from Hinton Helper

In it, among all of its tables and charts was a list of cabinets and it stood out to me that when the book was written in 1857 it still was “The Department of War” with Secretaries of War and Secretary of Navy separated - practically the Army and Navy.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-11 20:36:04+00:00
And the difference between Romania's mortality rate and Italy's mortality rate is shameful, how could the EU let there be such a stark gap between them?

I'm just not interested in nitpicking superfluous numbers with you. You've got the data in front of you showing that outcomes are, by and large, the same across the US and Europe, but you've decided to plant some jingoistic flag on a molehill of miniscule differences when there are countries in your own union with equally "shameful" results.

Please don't waste my time further by harping on these minute differences, I won't respond.
by mweatherley | 2025-09-11 20:36:07+00:00
A tidbit here some might be interested in is that a version of the accept-flip method works for simplices of arbitrary dimension.

For an n-simplex, start by generating a random point in an n-cube (i.e. n uniform random numbers between 0 and 1).

Next, sort the coordinates. This leaves you with a chain `0 <= c_1 <= ... <= c_n <= 1`.

Taking successive differences from this chain gives you n+1 numbers `d_j` (`0 <= j <= n`) that sum to 1.

Finally, the random point in the n-simplex is just `j_0 v_0 + ... + j_n v_n`, where `v_j` are the vertices of the simplex.

It's not hard to verify that this produces the accept-flip technique in dimension 2. As for why it's uniform: the sorting step is mapping a coordinate in the cube into a fundamental domain for the action of the symmetric group (which breaks the cube into a number of simplices of equal size); the other steps are linear maps, which therefore preserve the uniformity.
by jquaint | 2025-09-11 20:36:16+00:00
For stuff that's not in Nixpkgs like this, IMO flakes is the best option. Both of these require flakes.

On the topic of deploying flakes to consumer users. I'm currently exploring using https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators to create pre-made install iso's for a full "batteries included" experience. You can just "overwrite" the regular nixos image. Its Nix all the way down.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-11 20:36:59+00:00
Because they likely already have more than enough and have been blessed by society/civilization as a top earner who will enjoy a comfortable retirement without any social security, and they’ll be better off if other people that didn’t earn and save as much are able to retire without being destitute in old age.

That perspective could be someone who is willing to say “You know what, I already have enough, let’s make sure the floor is raised for everyone.” Someone who believes more in individualism would probably disagree with that perspective.
by rossant | 2025-09-11 20:37:42+00:00
> This year we reached a significant milestone:

> We successfully interacted with a member of the public.

> Because our corporate Uber was in the process of being set up, we had to take a public bus. On that bus, we overheard a man talking about AI on the phone.

> "I don't know," he said. "All the safety stuff seems like a load of bullshit if you ask me. But who cares what I think? These tech bros are going to make it anyway."

> He then looked over in our direction, giving us an opportunity to shrug and pull a face.

> He resumed his conversation.

> We look forward to more opportunities to interact with members of the public in 2026!
by SweetSoftPillow | 2025-09-11 20:37:45+00:00
Please check an example #2 here: https://github.com/PicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images/blob/...

It is not "language alone" anymore. LLMs are multimodal nowadays, and it's still just the beginning.

And keep in mind that these results are produced by a cheap, small and fast model.
by godelski | 2025-09-11 20:39:43+00:00
> When I was a PhD student, I already had 12 years of using and administrating Linuxes as my personal OS, and I'd already had my share of package manager and dependency woes.

I'm in a very similar boat (just defended a few months ago).

More than once I had installed pytorch into a new environment and subsequently spent hours trying to figure out why things suddenly aren't working. Turns out, PyTorch had just uploaded a bad wheel.

Weirdly I feel like CUDA has become easier yet Python has become worse. It's all package management. Honestly, I find myself wanting to use package managers less and less because of Python. Of course `pip install` doesn't work, and that is probably a good thing. But the result of this is that any time you install a package it adds the module as a system module, which I thought was the whole thing we were trying to avoid. So what? Do I edit every package build now so that it runs a uv venv? If I do that, then this seems to just get more complicated as I have to keep better track of my environments. I'd rather be dealing with environment modules than that. I'd rather things be rapped up in a systemd service or nspawn than that!

I mean I just did a update and upgrade and I had 13 python packages and 193 haskell modules, out of 351 packages! This shit is getting insane.

People keep telling me to keep things simple, but I don't think any of this is simple. It really looks like a lot of complexity created by a lot of things being simplified. I mean isn't every big problem created out of a bunch of little problems? That's how we solve big problems -- break them down to small problems -- right? Did we forget the little things matter? If you don't think they do, did you question if this comment was written by an LLM because I used a fucking em dash? Seems like you latched onto something small. I think it is hard to know when the little things matter or don't matter, often we just don't realize the little things are part of the big things.
by o11c | 2025-09-11 20:39:56+00:00
There's no distortion for the purposes of randomness (there would be if you cared about distance between specific points before/after the transformation), but the blog article fails to actually explain the method.

Clicking through to SO explains it (but assumes you can read numpy). The `s * u` and `t * v` (where `u` and `v` are vectors) are the transformation from right-triangle (half of square) to triangle (half of parallelgram).
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-11 20:40:06+00:00
I really love the rising justification as of late of "they didn't know" for reckless manslaughter.

They're called "less lethal" for a reason. It's not a paintball that splatters on impact (and even then, those can also harm). Even a properly shot rubber bullet carries injury risk if you're too close. What's all that police training for?
by Aperocky | 2025-09-11 20:40:35+00:00
epochs ago when random forest was part of machine learning nomenclature, we had a strong claim from an adjacent team in the form of a powerpoint circulated upwards that they had achieved almost perfect prediction accuracy.

We relatively quickly identified that the testing set are taken directly from the training set, but the claim has been advertised already so they were more difficult to retract... if it were at all, I left shortly after.

The incentives are not aligned with accurate reporting.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-11 20:40:41+00:00
They use the honey for:

- feeding themselves during the summer dearth

- feeding themselves during the winter

- to feed themselves in an emergency (think forest fires)

- to feed a large portion of them who will leave the hive due to lack of space and/or to reproduce the hive (swarming)

- to feed the whole hive ahead of abandoning it due to lack of space (absconding)

Honeybees have two stomachs, one that is basically a bag in which they can carry nectar (and honey) which they can deliver into comb cells and to feed larvae and the queen (who is too busy to feed herself), and one that they digest in and which they can't vomit up from. When they swarm/abscond they gorge themselves, filling both stomachs, and fly off with the queen to a new place, then they use all that stored up honey to make new comb in which to start making honey and new bees.

Feral honeybees need every drop of honey they make.

Domesticated honeybees -which are the same as feral honeybees, just in captivity- overproduce only because the beekeeper will manage their desire for space and reproduction so as to make them need much less of the honey they make, and therefore they have a large surplus that the beekeeper takes.

(Well, not all beekeepers produce honey. Some of them also or instead produce queens, nucs, hives, and/or propolis.)
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-11 20:40:43+00:00
Okay, though I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment. I understood that from the post: you were concurrently maxing out multiple parts of the SoC and it was overheating as they all contributed to the thermal load. This isn't new or novel -- benchmarks that saturate both the CPU and GPU are legendary for throttling -- though the claim that somehow normal thermal management didn't protect the hardware is novel, albeit entirely unsubstantiated.

That is neither here nor there on CoreML -- which also uses the CPU, GPU, and ANE, and sometimes a combination of all of them -- or the weird thing about MLX.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-11 20:40:49+00:00
I wasn't trying to be generous. I was making a nod toward something like malicious compliance. I used to have a big old Mercedes sedan that had the worst cupholder in automotive history that would break as soon as possible. It was designed to pop out of a slot in the center console. But real German car drivers finish their coffee before stepping into the car. That's how I see the touch bar. It was meant to be awful.
by meerab | 2025-09-11 20:41:51+00:00
My actual time breakdown as a solo developer:

10% Daily time to learn about various AI tools and improve my workflow.

20% Procrastination (this might be way more than what I'm willing to accept. But this is HN, I want to appear smart )

20% Writing detailed description of features and breaking down task lists, writing acceptance tests.

20% AI Coding (Claude Code)

20% Testing + Production
by lm28469 | 2025-09-11 20:42:12+00:00
Man this "us vs them" mentality is getting out of hand, now you're grouped in a mob by default depending on which website you log in. If you have a Twitter account you're a literal nazi who eats babies, if you're on bluesky you're a radical antifa terrorist, both side can't even stand being in the same room as the other.

They're both using the same arguments too, the other are "demons" who aren't able of "common sense" and should be "eradicated" because they don't want to debate things.

I can't believe how seemingly smart and educated individuals can behave like cavemen, even the most brain dead football hooligans seem well behaved in comparison

Leave your online cesspools and go out, most people aren't like you're trying to portray them. A small percentage of the most deranged ones of both sides are fighting online 24/7 (not even including the foreign bots who love to stir some internal shit)
by Malipeddi | 2025-09-11 20:42:26+00:00
There are other quite elegent methods for triangle and simplices.

For a triangle, drawing α and β uniform over [0,1) the barycentric coordinates given by (1-sqrt(α), sqrt(alpha)(1-β), βsqrt(alpha)) is uniform over the triangle. No rejection and no test for flipping.

For simplices (triangle, tetrahedron, 5-cell etc) barycentric coordinates obtained by drawing uniformly from (0,1] taking a log and normalizing will be uniform within the simplex.

I wrote about this and other related sampling below.

https://abhila.sh/writing/5/Random_Sampling.html

https://abhila.sh/writing/8/Random_Sampling_2.html
by belter | 2025-09-11 20:42:52+00:00
Lol...That contract has Oracle offering licenses at a discount of 75% and is estimated to make them not more than one 1 Billion. The other big contract on Cloud services the DoD JWCC is $8B to 9B but shared by four vendors (AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle) and Oracle orders under it are in the hundreds of millions not even 1 Billion...

Wall Street is currently heavily punishing any company who misses their quarter, including NVIDIA!, after beating on their quarter.

Oracle had a earnings miss in the current quarter!

Their current REALITY is ~$15B quarterly revenue (with cloud infra ~$3B) and only ~$12B in near-term deferred backlog and deferred backlog is NOT revenue. To justify the valuation, this would imply OCI going from ~$18B in FY26 to ~$140B by FY30 that is an insane promise of +$120B in 4 years but back-loaded into the year 3 or year 4. :-))

Capex needs ~$35B next year just to chase GPUs/power and if they miss one quarter the story implodes. The supposed rational, efficient market, is paying near $1T today for back-loaded hopes.

Is completely bubble math. Like anybody, including Oracle AND their Customers, have ANY idea of their Capex in 4 years.

Complete and total bubble.
by xenadu02 | 2025-09-11 20:42:54+00:00
So FSKit is public API and supports userspace filesystems but on macOS most built-in filesystems are kernel modules. On iOS everything except APFS is userspace.

Modern Darwin is mostly a monolithic kernel, though more and more things are moving to userspace where possible (eg DriverKit).

One interesting side-effect of various spectre mitigations is silicon improving the performance of context switches. That has the side-effect of decreasing the cost of kernel/userspace transitions. It isn't nearly as expensive as people still believe - though it isn't free either.
by bri3d | 2025-09-11 20:43:30+00:00
The information leak in this bug is particularly useful for Windows 24H2 and later only because _prior_ to 24H2, there were immensely simpler methods that made the protection this bypasses (KASLR) completely useless anyway. And KASLR is still mostly useless due to the prefetch exploit linked elsewhere in the thread.

So, it's not that this bug is a _bigger_ problem on Win11 24H2, it's that there were so many _other_ problems prior to Win11 24H2 that nobody would bother with this bug in the first place. You have nothing to worry about from being on Win11 24H2 specifically when it comes to this bug.

And:

This is an information leak bug. No danger exists in practice for anyone from this bug alone. It erodes one very weak layer to a defense-in-depth strategy. It could have been used as part of a chain of exploits to provide the attacker with information (the kernel slide) that they needed, but it just provides a meaningless memory address on its own.
by godelski | 2025-09-11 20:43:44+00:00
I can read perfectly well in my dreams. Like the letters are sharp, clear, and perfectly legible. The problem is when I look away from something and then look back the text usually changes. Once I lucid dreamed because I walked past a street sign, realized it was the name of a different street than the one I was on, looked back and say the other side of the sign read a third street name, walked back to the other side and saw a fourth name. I decided I should take this opportunity and be cliche and try to fly. I just kept going up till it was really bright and I woke up. Mostly now I just recognize I'm in a dream and go along for the ride, but better able to remember it.
by ge96 | 2025-09-11 20:46:45+00:00
Yeah I'm working on the debt part

The car thing I like driving fast/sporty cars, cheapest one for performance would be an older Corvette but yeah (not saying Lambo is performance, that one it's the looks, Exige though is both though different eg. acceleration/curve handling vs. top speed).

I'm just saying, there was a guy I was talking to who owned a Lambo and he's like "if it went up in flames I'd be fine", it's like I have to get to that headspace or maybe I'm not built that way not sure

But yeah I do go back and forward between wanting things/feeling guilty for being better off than others
by pavon | 2025-09-11 20:46:55+00:00
I love the sandboxed Play Services. It works better than microg, and is more secure/private than installing Play Services normally which are your two options on LineageOS.

The main downside for me was the limited phone choice. I really liked being able to use a smaller Sony phone with LineageOS, but now that those aren't really available in the US, I had to move to big phone anyway and Pixels aren't the worst option out there.
by jimt1234 | 2025-09-11 20:47:19+00:00
Many parents I talk to have this notion that idle-time/free-time for their children is unproductive, a waste of time, and thus bad for their children. And that's why they feel the need to micromanage their kids' time - "If I don't give Timmy productive things to do, he'll just rot away."

There's a number of articles about this topic, but I just don't see parents accepting the message: boredom is good for young people. Heck, boredom is why I got into programming my Commodore-64 back in the day - Midwest winters are long and boring as shit, lots of time stuck inside.

- https://youthfirstinc.org/why-its-important-for-your-child-t...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/well/family/kids-summer-b...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-11 20:47:33+00:00
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/climate/china-clean-energ... | https://archive.today/kRVro

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/21/china-clean-renewable-e...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45176574
by makizar | 2025-09-11 20:47:56+00:00
You might want to have a look at Matt Paras’s config. He’s been developping the plugin system using steel, his own scheme interpreter in rust. To send things to the repl, it uses eval-buffer from the helix-ext.scm file.

The integration and customizability is for sure not that of Emacs yet, but with the plugin system soon to be merged, we can hope to have a proper REPL and Parinfer implementation!

https://github.com/mattwparas/helix-config