MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sonicvroom | 2025-09-18 22:39:29+00:00
it's brutal!!!!

we could blame universities... but nobody forced their hand and they adapted to lower standards because ... [no peace of mind to take the time, ok, economists x'] ...

I can supply a personal narrative, though: ( I have to exclude the conspiratorial part )

I move back home when my little sister had issues in 8th grade. it was coincidental. I started tutoring her.

(background: After I turned 13, every spring, summer and fall, I WORKED at a Gaertnerei aka garden center until I finished my Abitur with a C)

She made progress. ( she's a bad example because someone fucked with her thyriod right when she started to make progress ( it's Germany, they are D.U.M.B with eugenics, they outsourced it to The USA because they are bad losers but whatever ))

She made progress. What did I learn? A LOT. Zero hand waving. In retro, I learned the MINIMUM ( I, do you understand who I felt like back then and NOW ? ) ( for clarity, I THINK I know where your comment comes from ) ... HOW can they fail to teach this to youngsters in University? Wait ... I get it. The system works well to reach it's objective, but CAN it be aware of what lies ahead? No way. I was 15, or 16, now 37, when I was planting some dumb trees in some dumb pot, when I realized, in my ADHD obliviousness, that neither my boss, nor his son, my age, my then colleague, knew how things would turn out. Working class, programmed* to be this way, ok.

Fast forward: my classmates, the Jahrgang before and after, all teachers for more or less ten years now. ... ... ... None founded their own school, despite abilities to get the finances, ... ... ... all abiding to the standard curriculum ... ... ... none of them being a Studienrat ( some higher regional rank ) ... ... all feeling very cool cuz they make 5k a month (if) ... ... ... ... ... .PERIOD, moving on:

THEY wouldn't think of

> supporting instructors or instructional evolution.

HOW THE FUCK WOULD/COULD COMPUTER SCIENTISTS, OR ENGINEERS THINK THE SAME?

GERMANY: (our region lacks E V E R Y T H I N G ... agricultural corporations with something worthwhile developing ... I had someone uniquely capable (and experienced in my Jahrgang) but ... ... ... nothing ... not even a 0.1%er now or soon to be ... so even if you judge form a punched drug dealer's aka Fortune 500 POV... N O T H I N G.... HOW, except portfolio capitalism featuring "please don't make my child understand how disrespectful my capabilities are to the evolution of my grandparents genes" ... )
by roscas | 2025-09-18 22:39:53+00:00
I remember one of the worst programs ever was from SAGE and it was called "Linha50". Originaly for MS-DOS, they converted it to Windows. The wait for a key on each field pushed the cpu to 100% because it was checking if there was any key being pressed.

Result, when "idle", the cpu was at 100%. Just imagine this.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-09-18 22:40:32+00:00
No problem, it’s deceptively court-like with much less of the rigor and independence; Khalil and his team are right to call it a kangaroo court for such procedural reasons alone, whether or not he should be deportable under the law. At least he likely can appeal most or all of the case to the true federal courts - which is actually not always true; there are many situations where immigration law forbids judicial review or some or all of the immigration court’s findings, even when those findings may well be wrong.

I was slightly wrong about one unimportant detail: the immigration court system is under the DOJ and so the official with full control is the Attorney General (either herself or through her delegates/subordinates), not directly the President. But of course the President can fire the Attorney General and her politically appointed subordinates at will, so the effect is mostly the same.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-18 22:40:33+00:00
"The American Dream" was made possible by government spending to subsidize home purchases. The 1950s housing act.

America was great when the pocket books of the government were open to public spending and funded primarily by high taxes on the rich. In the 1950s the top marginal tax rate was 90%.

What made america great was taxing the hell out of the rich and big business to the point where they'd rather invest in their employees and companies. That's what drove the innovation and quality of life improvements throughout the 50s and 60s. We abandoned that in the late 70s onwards because of an economic downturn that hit everyone. Rather than just powering through it we went with "Let's just tear down everything" and now we are dealing with what the government was like in the gilded age of the 1920s. Stories of corruption, corporate capture, and scandal are nearly identical to what we see today.

We need a new deal.
by DaveZale | 2025-09-18 22:40:40+00:00
Sure, but for many, it's a place for community too. Rites of passage. Selecting a godparent. And singing! Hey without gospel music, we might not have had Motown.

Also, in some religions the temples are places for job searching, business networking... nothing wrong with that.

I wish I could have faith, a double major in science and philosophy killed all of that. But mystical moments still happen without all of the religious trappings, in conversation or nature.

I just don't know. Here in the US, Christian ethics still predominate, usually, and without organized religious participation, will that continue? Is it too much work to agonize over decisions without it?
by rat87 | 2025-09-18 22:40:49+00:00
The idea behind DOGE was to

1. fire people who don't automatically support Trump regardless of the law/constitution/good of the nation 2. Fire people who Trump or maga dislike for some reason (LGBTQ, minorities, people who have ever criticized Trump) 3. Destroy government in general (from people on the ideological right who are willing to set aside any principles to work for Trump)

Reducing waste or making government efficient was never one of the goals. Otherwise they wouldn't have gotten rid of people doing actual oversight work for the government. They also wouldn't have fired so many people on whims (that they had to take back in many cases)
by koobz | 2025-09-18 22:41:01+00:00
Visited Barcelona a decade ago to see this. It's awesome. I often think calling it "kitsch" is some sort of unfortunate linguistic quirk because Antonio Gaudi's name evokes "gaudy."

The thing is a celebration of creation, inventiveness, and natural beauty. Maybe even playfulness - though being a catholic building there's some requisite "death" mixed in: I guess the full spectrum of life is lurking in there.
by epistasis | 2025-09-18 22:41:17+00:00
I'm looking for what you're describing, some way to remote unlock a system. Is this the wiki page you're talking about?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Remote...

However, I'd prefer that the box is not on the general internet, but only over my tailscale net. I wonder if tailscale will also fit in the initramfs...
by cvoss | 2025-09-18 22:41:18+00:00
The author's understanding of ritual/tradition as the sum total what religion means is at best extremely naive, but I am receiving it as condescending and dismissive. There was a way for the author to redeem the subtitle of the article. He could have gone down the route of "ritual for ritual's sake is not good, but the bigger thing that ritual is attached to is good". But instead, the argument went "religious ritual is empty and has nothing else attached to it, and that's bad; let's be sure to attach Humanism to the ritual to make it good."

The irony of the whole thing is that Humanism is a religion too, though many people won't recognize it as such. This makes the author's argument doubly misguided.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-18 22:41:45+00:00
>YouTube recently introduced an AI-driven policy that automatically places suspected under-18 accounts into Restricted Mode

This is blatantly false. This was a single youtube channel's mistaken belief

It was incorrect. Restricted Mode is completely unrelated to the issue, and plenty of the videos that are doing just fine are not available if you have restricted mode on.

There's still no definitive answer IMO, but it might be that an analytics endpoint was blocked by ad blockers.

Note that the people affected by this problem say they are getting the same revenue, just view counts changed. That means their videos are getting the same number of not-adblocked views.
by kennywinker | 2025-09-18 22:41:46+00:00
> current regulation allows people to buy vehicles which go 60MPH+ on just two wheels, no airbags, and no doors at all

Are you talking about motorcycles?? Yeah nobody thinks motorcycles are safe. But the issues with them are inherent to the form, not created by the design.

To be clear, i also think motorcycles should be regulated better. The tiny signal lights on a honda cbr are obviously a creation of valuing design over safety.

> Just let manufacturers innovate...

We did. They innovated door handles that depend on the car electronics functioning, headlights that blind other drivers, and monthly subscriptions to unlock heated seats.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-18 22:41:55+00:00
Liquid Glass is butt ass ugly true enough. But the iPad finally having real windows after 15 years is a god send.

It is the first OS version that made my iPad Air 3 (released in 2019 with an A12 processor) feel slightly sluggish. But I could see using it with a Bluetooth key used and mouse without hating myself.

I’m waiting for my wife to get back to see how it feels on her current generation M3 13 inch iPad Air.
by M_farhan_h | 2025-09-18 22:43:00+00:00
Really appreciate the kind words, and I mean it sincerely, it's only possible because of my incredible Taiwan partners, my Industrial Designer Tomas(who I am lucky to call my friend), the other founders, and being razor focused on our goal.

Joyce flew from Taiwan to make sure I had them in my hands, folded boxes with me in the office, and just as she got over her jet lag and went back to Taiwan.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-18 22:43:33+00:00
The article seems to say and show that once you prompt it searches your history by page titles and can then dig deeper into the top hits. The permissions in Chrome seem to agree with this:

> History search, powered by AI Use everyday language to search your browsing history and find sites you visited. You can also ask questions and get answers based on your browsing history.

> When you search browsing history, your history searches, the page content of best matches, and generated model outputs are sent to Google

It's also worth noting enabling history awareness is a separate toggle from having Gemini enabled, and it doesn't seem to be able to answer anything about history when I turn it off. Sharing the currently open pages also seems to be a separate permissions toggle from either of these.
by franga2000 | 2025-09-18 22:43:37+00:00
As far as I know kaniko handles the "I'm a CI job inside a container and I want to build a container image" part. The reason CI/CD runners need socket access is to create those job containers in the first place. Using Podman to create job containers inside the app Docker container would be a solution, but Podman containers have many subtle incompatibilities with Docker and its ecosystem, so it makes sense they wouldn't want to use that, at least by default.
by vunderba | 2025-09-18 22:43:43+00:00
Do you have a lot of experience and knowledge around other non-Abrahamic world religions to make such a bold claim?

Because I can think of at least a few (Jainism, various Chinese schools of thought, etc) that capture the spirit if not the exact message of "love your enemy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohism
by derefr | 2025-09-18 22:44:25+00:00
> someone still has to explain what needs to be done in natural language unless the end customer is also the programmer

You're conflating requirement analysis with design. The customer only needs to describe the problem — a set of constraints on what comprises a valid solution. The software engineer is then free to design and develop a particular valid solution (and show it to the customer, which will result in more feedback, which will feed back into design, and so on.)

Formalizing this split is the premise behind Domain Driven Design (DDD): you can sit with the customer and pin down a problem description (= set of design requirements) together with them, expressed in exactly the natural language the customer-as-problem-domain-expert uses, without any reference to any particular potential design's solution-space domain. You can then turn around and reuse that set of natural-language statements as the skeleton of a test suite, that "enforces" the customer's expectations upon any potential design you create.

It's a lot like an artist sitting with a customer who's commissioning them, with the artist sketching something the customer is describing; and then the artist going away to actually illustrate/paint/craft/design/etc the thing, constrained by that sketch.
by imiric | 2025-09-18 22:44:35+00:00
Ah, I was thinking of Core 2, but was off by a couple of years. Although "peak" consumer Intel was undeniably in the 90s.

Like I said, Intel may not be market leader in some segments, but they certainly have very competitive products. The fact they've managed to penetrate the dGPU duopoly, while also making huge strides with their iGPUs, is remarkable on its own. They're not leaders on desktops and servers, but still have respectable offerings there.

None of this points to a company that's struggling, but to a healthy market where the consumer benefits. News of two rivals collaborating like this is not positive for consumers.
by bobajeff | 2025-09-18 22:44:39+00:00
I once had an mini pc with Nvidia. I got it for Cuda dev. One day the support for it was dropped for it so I was unable to update my system without it messing things up. So regardless of Cuda I decided Nvidia is not for me.

However, doing research when buying a new pc, I've found that AMD kind of sucks too. ROCm isn't even supported on many of the systems i was looking into. Also, I've heard their Linux graphics drivers are poor.

So basically I just rock a potato with Intel integrated graphics now. GPUs cost too much to deal with that nonsense.
by superkuh | 2025-09-18 22:45:00+00:00
Synapse server is the only server that does the things matrix says it can do. All those others don't. Notice only two of those say 'stable' and only one, synapse, implements the full set of features. Also can't switch between them.

And your links to synapse features ("Please note that, as this feature isn't part of the Matrix specification yet, the use of m.room.retention events for per-room retention policies is to be considered as experimental.") may describe certain synapse functionality but in practice is doesn't work and the db keeps growing as does IO load. The compression thing is an attempt at mitigation because the protocol just doesn't handle it.
by greyb | 2025-09-18 22:45:31+00:00
>This is one of the most magnificent buildings I've seen in my life and everyone should go see it even if you're not religious.

On the flipside, I remember thinking it was a kitsch architectural icon and my family was bullying me into going to visit by dictating my plans while solo traveling.

When I went inside, I had a brief moment where I was struck by awe, and wondered if I should consider converting to Catholicism.
by kristopolous | 2025-09-18 22:45:34+00:00
or when you go to chrome's history and it just lists the title of the page followed by simply the domain. It's like "some designer thought the pages feng shui wasn't in alignment and now the useful stuff is gone."

I have to assume they just hire artists that have never used a computer to make UX decisions and act as product dictators.

It's either that or empiricism by idiots: "We made the feature take 5x more time to use and got a 5x increase in engagement! Won't my boss be proud!?"
by krapp | 2025-09-18 22:45:41+00:00
Jesus was not the first person to preach the concept of loving your enemies. At the very least, everything he preached was based on existing Jewish philosophy, particularly the messianic strain of Judaism he was a part of, but it also existed (and preceded Christ) in Buddhism, Taoism and the Babylonian Councils of Wisdom. Nothing Jesus preached was unique.

I suggest a look at the Esoterica channel on Youtube for a perspective on Jesus as a historical figure in the context of Judaism at the time[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82vxOBbYSzk
by SJMG | 2025-09-18 22:46:47+00:00
Right, that specific claim should be understood with US high schools and higher education in mind. There the massed approach rules the day.

Since these things I mentioned are well demonstrated to be effective and you don't think there's anything left to be had with a subject-agnostic approach, I infer you have a high opinion of how well these countries have implemented these "tactics". Is that right?
by locococo | 2025-09-18 22:47:51+00:00
All the text books I've ever seen had practical examples in them. Like determining the height of a tree or a house simply based on trigonometry.

Your suggestion is interesting but I am not convinced that a student would be helped by aligning the examples with their interests. I could see a student asking how trig relates to computer games and the example the LLM generates becoming much more involved.

I see no problem with the examples being boring. The people that developed these techniques had such fundamental problems to solve and the wonder to me is the human mind that came up with these methods.

All this to say, maybe we lack appreciation for the fundamental sciences that underpin every aspect of our modern lives.
by yallpendantools | 2025-09-18 22:48:40+00:00
I have a friend who does magic shows. He sells his shows as magic and stand-up comedy. It's both live entertainment, okay, but he is the only person I've ever seen use that tagline. We went to see him perform once and everything became clear when he opened the night.

"This is supposed to be a magic show," he told us. "But if my tricks fail you can laugh at it and we'll just do stand-up comedy."

Zuck, for a modest and totally-reasonable fee, I will introduce you to my friend. You can add his tricks (wink wink) to your newly-assembled repertoire of human charisma.
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-18 22:49:00+00:00
As long as it isn't misappropriated, who cares? Countless companies in the Americas benefit from selling bubble tea, and now a Taiwanese company gets to benefit from a naming scheme.

Neither exchange harms the other party, instead we all benefit from sharing our cultures. It's not like they're growing cherimoyas in Taiwan and trying to pass them off as Chilean grown, or anything fraudulent like that.
by danso | 2025-09-18 22:49:15+00:00
Visited this a few months ago, somehow having never heard of it as an American (in the way that I learned about Notre Dame and St. Peter’s and Westminster Abbey) and it surpassed the hype far more than any European famous attraction I’ve ever been to.

I first glimpsed it while doing a touristy bike tour my first day in Barcelona and it’s hard to convey how surreal it is, like a video game’s final level glitching into its tutorial stage.
by pranay01 | 2025-09-18 22:49:20+00:00
hey, SigNoz maintainer here.

Can you share which version of SigNoz did you try or what time frame? We recently made a lot of improvement in how you can host SigNoz including support for Postgres and better docs fro self hosting corretcly - https://signoz.io/docs/collection-agents/get-started/
by rattlesnakedave | 2025-09-18 22:49:32+00:00
Yeah, the Buddhist or Jain approach is more about detachment and non-harm. It feels almost clinical in its universality. “Love your enemies” is much more personal and emotionally demanding. It’s not just “don’t hurt people” or “be compassionate to all beings,” it’s specifically telling you to have positive feelings toward people who are actively trying to harm you. Combine with the innocent victim motif and you get something really unique.
by WaltPurvis | 2025-09-18 22:49:40+00:00
>Altman was touring globally to raise $7T (yes, trillion), just a few months ago.

A few points about that: It wasn't just a few months ago, it was more than a year ago; he wasn't raising funds for OpenAI, it was for a separate chip-building venture; the $7T number was universally regarded as laughable, and the whole thing has predictably gone nowhere; and, FWIW, both OpenAI and Altman have publicly denied that he was ever trying to raise such a comical amount.
by greyb | 2025-09-18 22:50:04+00:00
This remembers of the Youtube channel TRNGL [1]. They got banned from posting for some reason, and their channel was about to be deleted within a few days. They had no following, so they instead looked for bypasses to put a video publicly. They found that while their uploading rights were disabled, they were able to use Creator Studio to record a webcam video begging for help since nobody was hearing their pleas. They have ~200k subscribers too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@TRNGL
by M_farhan_h | 2025-09-18 22:50:09+00:00
I have been a consumer HW founder for years, and I applied to YC eleven times, and just got in this time with Blue.

I think for consumer, if you can really simplify the product and solve the absolute basic version, the costs should be low enough to validate the idea. YC will value your skills to create this simple version, and that you are able to actually execute and create something that could be real.

The missing link was really showing I could take a prototype and mass produce it (even at a small scale). That was what this whole exercise was about.

One additional note that comes to mind, building really great partnerships is essential for hardware to work.
by charleshn | 2025-09-18 22:50:14+00:00
A few questions if the authors are around!

> Is hardware agnostic and uses TCP/IP to communicate.

So no RDMA? It's very hard to make effective use of modern NVMe drives bandwidth over TCP/IP.

> A logical shard is further split into five physical instances, one leader and four followers, in a typical distributed consensus setup. The distributed consensus engine is provided by a purpose-built Raft-like implementation, which we call LogsDB

Raft-like, so not Raft, a custom algorithm? Implementing distributed consensus correctly from scratch is very hard - why not use some battle-tested implementations?

> Read/write access to the block service is provided using a simple TCP API currently implemented by a Go process. This process is hardware agnostic and uses the Go standard library to read and write blocks to a conventional local file system. We originally planned to rewrite the Go process in C++, and possibly write to block devices directly, but the idiomatic Go implementation has proven performant enough for our needs so far.

The document mentions it's designed to reach TB/s though. Which means that for an IO intensive workload, one would end up wasting a lot of drive bandwidth, and require a huge number of nodes.

Modern parallel filesystems can reach 80-90GB/s per node, using RDMA, DPDK etc.

> This is in contrast to protocols like NFS, whereby each connection is very stateful, holding resources such as open files, locks, and so on.

This is not true for NFSv3 and older, it tends to be stateless (no notion of open file).

No mention of the way this was developed and tested - does it use some formal methods, simulator, chaos engineering etc?
by isk517 | 2025-09-18 22:51:04+00:00
Most likely because America has been in a political dead lock for the last 2 decades. Everything supported by one party is rejected by the other, everything that would benefit one state is a detriment to another, everything that would benefit the masses are extremely rejected by very load minorities. There is a strong man in charge pushing every button to see what happens, in the course of things it will turn out that at least one or two of them were far overdue to be pushed.