MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lelanthran | 2025-09-02 06:15:29+00:00
> a bit weird to think about it since google has literally internet.zip in multiple versions over the years, all of email, all of usenet, all of the videos, all of the music, all of the user's search interest, ads, everything..

Yeah, Google totally has a moat. Them saying that they have no moat doesn't magically make that moat go away.

They also own the entire vertical which none of the competitors do - all their competitors have to buy compute from someone who makes a profit just on compute (Nvidia, for example). Google owns the entire vertical, from silicon to end-user.

It would be crazy if they can't make this work.
by mrandish | 2025-09-02 06:16:44+00:00
> So it doesn't matter if visitor numbers have dropped

Large corporate casino owners who can still benefit by making up the shortfall in visitors from high rollers who spend (and lose) bigger chunks of money gambling aren't the bulk of the overall Vegas tourist economy - which is mostly employees, suppliers and service providers whose income is driven more by "number of visitors" than "spend per visitor".

And it matters to the visitors who can't afford to go there anymore.
by simondotau | 2025-09-02 06:17:26+00:00
To be precise, it's not the hardware but rather Apple's operating system software which is restricting what software applications can run on your device. Do you really own the iOS operating system? No.

I don't know precisely where the line is between owning the literal physical atoms and not owning the literal binary blobs of software, but agree or not, it's well understood that buying the right to use software is not synonymous with owning the software. I feel like the hardware–software distinction is a difficult one to square in the context of "owning an iPhone."

Does owning the atoms of your phone entitle you to a mechanism for side-loading your own operating system binaries? I think so. If you buy hardware, there should be a reasonable mechanism for wholesale replacing the supplied operating system software with any alternative you like. Should Apple be required to document how any of hardware works? On that I'm ambivalent but I lean towards yes. But as for how iOS works, I personally think that's regrettably out of scope, because owning the hardware isn't the same as owning the software.
by obfuscator | 2025-09-02 06:17:47+00:00
Not far away, but partially preserved by the mudflat, lies Rungholt. A city of ~1000-1500 (some sources say 3000) inhabitants that was drowned in the Grote Mandrenke (1362 AD). That's a very big city in that time. In my childhood we were told, while wandering the tidal flat, that we should listen closely if we could hear the church bells under the mud. Only in 2023 the whereabouts of the sunken city were definitely confirmed and mapped. "Rungholt" probably means "wrong/low wood".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rungholt
by johnisgood | 2025-09-02 06:17:52+00:00
So you admit to it being an unknown word.

I did not, for a second, think, that an unknown word was intended to be racist, ableist, etc.

Why would you?

Also parent's reply:

> If you’re not familiar with the experience of browsing the internet and then suddenly having deeply-held parts of your identity deemed undeserving of respect [...] the solution is not to blame people for doing what they feel like they need to do to protect themselves.

It was a comment under a submission, FWIW.

Seriously though, just stop assuming everything is about race and friends. It is what is tiring. Ask first before making assumptions if it really is not a slur you know of, but an UNKNOWN WORD. If he were to say n***e* then yeah, have at it. That cannot be misunderstood.

And by my reply "That is on you" is down-voted for fuck-all, because people does not realize that the people preoccupied with racism are the ones first to believe it was a racist slur. I did not think it was a racist slur, because 1) it was an unknown word, 2) I am not preoccupied with such stuff, my mind is not filled with racism and such. Thus, the people who say "racist!" usually turn out to be the racists. I have seen it everywhere. Now I saw it on HN, too, which is just splendid. A single search would have sufficed. I do not deny that the person saying the word could have clarified what it is, but defaulting to believing it has to do with racism is one of the reasons for why we have racism. It did not cross my mind. Why did it cross yours, especially if you knew nothing but the unknown word?

I do not see race. Am I the racist one or the people thinking everything is about racism? Do not worry, I see race when it comes to a groups of people, except in that case it does not matter much, a group of people may always be trouble, regardless of race, so no, I did not abandon my self-preservation.

There is a lot to unpack here, my bad.
by fifilura | 2025-09-02 06:19:28+00:00
No, I don't think there is a reason to switch.

This is not exactly news for people living in this area, you would have learned it at school.

There is a vast area between Denmark and UK called Doggerland where fishermen constantly being up mamooth tusks and stone age artifacts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
by cyberax | 2025-09-02 06:19:31+00:00
Fargate is simply a userspace application to manage containers with some ties-in to the AWS control plane for orchestration. It allows users to simply request compute capability from EKS/ECS without caring about autoscaling groups, launch templates, and all the other overhead.

"AWS Lambda for model running" would be another nice service.

The things that competitors already provide.

And this is not a weird nonsense requirement. It's something that a lot of serious AI companies now need. And the AWS is totally dropping the ball.

> AWS now has to take responsibility for building an AMI with the latest driver, because the driver must always be newer than whatever toolkit is used inside the container.

They already do that for Bedrock, Sagemaker, and other AI apps.
by motorest | 2025-09-02 06:19:43+00:00
> Here are some performance numbers: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zapcc-Quick-Benchmarks

If you look at the benchmarks you just quoted, you see cache-based compilations outperforming zapcc in quite a few tests. I wonder why you missed that.

The ones that ccache fares as well as builds that don't employ caching at all are telling. Either ccache was somehow not used, or there was a critical configuration issue that prevented ccache from caching anything. This typically happens when projects employ other optimization strategies that mess with ccache, such as pipelining builds being enabled or extensive use of precompiled headers.

The good news is that in both cases these issues are fixed by either by actually configuring ccache or disabling these other conflicting optimization strategies. To be able to tell, it would be necessary to troubleshooting the build and take a look at ccache logs.

> Do you talk down to people like this IRL as well?

Your need to resort to personal attacks is not cool. What do you hope to achieve, other than not sounding like an adult?

And do you believe that pointing out critical design flaws is "talking down to people"?

My point is very clear: your baseline compiler cache system, something that exists for two decades, already supports caching template code. How? Because it was never an issue to begin with. I explained why: because a compiler cache fundamentally caches the resulting binary given a cache key, which is comprised of data such as the source file provided as input (basically the state of the translation unit) and the set of compiler flags used to compile it. What features in the translation unit is immaterial. It doesn't matter.

Do you understand why caching template code is a problem that effectively never existed?

> What I said is that zapcc has a different approach that offers even more performance benefits, answering the question of what zapcc offers that ccache doesn't offer.

It's perfectly fine if you personally have a desire to explore whatever idea springs to mind. There is no harm in that.

If you are presenting said pet project as any kind of solution, the very least that is required of you is to review the problem space, and also perform a honest review of the solution space. You might very well discover that your problem effectively does not exist, because some of your key assumptions do not hold.

I repeat: with pretty basic compiler caches, such as ccache which exists for over two decades, the only thing you need to do to be able to cache template code is to install ccache and set a flag in your build system. Tools such as cmake already support it out of the box, so onboarding work is negligible. Benchmarks already show builds with ccache outperforming builds with the likes of zapcc. What does this tell you?
by swarnie | 2025-09-02 06:19:50+00:00
I wonder if its a generational thing or at least a failure to market to a new generation, i know Vegas by reputation but what does it actually offer? 9/10 of the top destinations on TripAdvisor for Vegas are to leave Vegas....

Gambling? We've been able to do that via our phones since the mid 2010s.

Collect an interesting variety on venereal diseases? Same, smartphone compatible for a decade or more.

Celebrity fronted restaurants? Mr Ramsey will ship his slop directly to my door in 48 hours or less.

If forced to travel to the USA a team of marketing grads haven't made it clear to me why i should go to Vegas.
by mrandish | 2025-09-02 06:20:43+00:00
> But I guess that's not what makes it expensive

I went for a niche conference a few weeks ago which was held at a lower-end 'budget' casino hotel off the strip and the actual room price per night was more than 2.5 times the relatively reasonable-seeming room rate I booked under due to resort fees, taxes and other bullshit.
by safety1st | 2025-09-02 06:22:50+00:00
I live in Thailand which is very mobile first and the main way to pay for things here is through your banking app, you scan a QR code, it fires up the app and you make a transfer.

The convenience is great but increasingly businesses now begin to offer this as the ONLY way to pay.

I keep telling people because I'm seeing it begin. This is how it happens, this is the endgame for freedom, democracy and life as you know it. Give the West 20-30 years, it will happen in some developing countries sooner.

They will require the approved app to buy and sell. Without it you will be outside the financial system, and maybe will starve.

They will require the approved app to only run on the approved operating system. You will have 2-3 options for the approved operating system but total surveillance will be a mandatory feature on all of them.

Finally, they will punish you for wrongthink when your surveilled device detects you writing or saying it.

As the world gets worse political leaders will become more authoritarian until one finally checks the last box on that list, and that's the end.

There will be no escape except for death.

All the pieces are coming into place. Every time you hear them talking about better security for XYZ you can see how it's one of the pieces on the board, being moved one square.

I don't think there is one guy who has this master plan I think it's the inevitable end state for surveillance capitalism that's as pervasive as ours.

I am an atheist, I think the Bible is all fairy tales, and yet the "Mark of the Beast" vibes I get from where the world is going are out of control. The mark on your hand or your forehead that will be required to buy or sell, that was what you'd be forced to accept once the Antichrist took over, or whatever. The 2,000 year old fairy tales were not wrong they are starting to set it up now, you carry the device in your hand, they will do it through payments and banking.
by watwut | 2025-09-02 06:24:41+00:00
> And it used to be very cool if your OSS project get used by a big company, until it is not.

Yup. Open source advocates would brag about adoption in enterprise. They would incessantly argue about how safe open source is compared to close source and would constantly complain about stupid managers not allowing open source.

Not all of them, but that stance was predominant when I was younger.
by rramadass | 2025-09-02 06:24:46+00:00
Man, this makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. I just love books, have a large collection of my own (though obviously not on the scale of the article) and am always on the lookout for offbeat books (old/new/whatever) on any subjects that i find interesting. With Internet Archives/Project Gutenberg/etc. you can of course have your ebook versions but there is nothing like having a hard copy in hand.

The right book at the right time can often be transformative opening up your mind to new ideas/possibilities and leading to better knowledge and wisdom.

For example; reading Bergen Evans' The Natural History of Nonsense (https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77094) from 1946, one of the earliest books on skepticism w.r.t. people's irrational beliefs/thinking/behaviour teaches you the importance of critical thinking for yourself which is arguably even more important today. A good review from Goodreads here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2099042654

Another good collection are the excellent science/mathematics books from the erstwhile USSR many of which are now available at https://mirtitles.org/ A subset of those titles are available in hard copy form from low cost publishers on Amazon India. Checkout for example B.N.Ivanov's Fundamentals of Physics (https://mirtitles.org/2018/04/21/fundamentals-of-physics-iva...) and Roman Podolny's Something Called Nothing: Physical Vacuum: What Is It? (https://mirtitles.org/2013/11/24/something-called-nothing-po...) both of which are interesting takes on aspects of Physics.
by sandspar | 2025-09-02 06:25:23+00:00
I think trading card game art has a ratchet effect. Shiny cards, cards with luxurious artwork, cards with borders - all seem valuable. And worthy of purchase! Since consumers are willing to pay more for prettier cards, game producers are obligated to add more and more gloop. Eventually almost every card has some kind of "thing" happening. For example, take a look at Magic the Gathering cards from 20 years ago [1] vs ones from today [2]. Today's cards have more gloop.

[1] https://gatherer.wizards.com/sets/7E

[2] https://gatherer.wizards.com/sets/EOC
by vunderba | 2025-09-02 06:26:11+00:00
Neat concept. I had to dig through a lot of the docs before I could get a good grasp of exactly how this works, though. It's an OS that mounts/searches all drives (such as an SD card reader) for the first available KZI file which is a format that describes how a specific game is run (the runtime, additional gamescope options, etc).

While the idea of essentially mimicking old school carts by having a dedicated SD card per game is intriguing, I'm not sure I personally see the appeal of something like this over a Steam Deck + EmuDeck installed - particularly since you'll probably need to build/buy a miniPC that is compatible with Kazeta.

Another concern would be controller compatibility, from what I can see only one controller is listed as being officially supported (8Bitdo Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller).

https://github.com/kazetaos/kazeta/wiki/Requirements
by rswail | 2025-09-02 06:26:15+00:00
It's a damn shame that the control characters for "Field Separator" (FS ASCII 28 decimal) and "Record Separator" (RS ASCII 30 decimal) weren't used instead of TAB and CR/LF.

Then the whole CRLF vs CR vs LF for line endings in files would have been totally avoided, with CR returning the print-head/cursor to the left-most position (right-most on R-L languages) and LF literally moving the print-head/cursor down.

The drivers for the particular terminal could have translated as required, and we would not need (in 2025!) to be specifying to git and elsewhere what to convert line endings to/from.

I know that back in the days of literal TTYs (ASR-33) where I cut my teeth, the BEL/BS/SP/CR/LF/FF etc characters were literally controlling a print head, but even then it didn't make much sense that we didn't have internal representation of what was needed (field separator, group separator, record separator) that was translated when doing actual I/O to a physical device.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-02 06:27:02+00:00
1. Pointing to Irish people being arrested doesn't mean racial profiling isn't happening.

2. You're assuming that all Irish people are white

3. You've seemingly refuted the point above with this article but your haven't in any way down that the current methods of enforcement are necessary in policing the border. Americans are allowed to police the border, criticism of their methods doesn't change this and citizens of a democracy should be allowed to ask these questions.

4. Two seconds of Googling can counter your article anyway: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/04/nx-s1-5438396/antagonized-for...
by scrubs | 2025-09-02 06:27:09+00:00
I agree completely with your idea of marketing totally: its getting customers to yes before you know their name:

Funny example: Futurama's Fry goes to the eye-phone store and pulls out wads of cash and yells at the cashier. First two sentences: "take my money! I hope you have a phone left!"

I've not worked in sales and marketing but I have a soft place for those who do it well. I distinctly remember being asked by a Chem Eng at a young age: what's the difference between sales and marketing. And i distinctly remembered being confused. At that time both ideas where so fuzzy in my mind I had no idea how to start an answer.

Many years later I might add strong cross functional coordination and a great COO can help a company market itself. Its a base to build off. Its such a breath of fresh air when customers think a company isn't a bunch of silos.
by jjav | 2025-09-02 06:27:14+00:00
> And yet >15% of cars on the road are not insured, and those with insurance are punished by this fact. Functionally, the state is in the best position to capture the necessary revenue to support these services.

And that is exactly why any service that is universally required is best handled as a "tax". I put tax in quotes because it might be literally paid from taxes, or could be a mandatory fee charged by the government under some other name, but still looks and quacks like a tax, so same thing.

So yes, car insurance should be simply part of the registration payment. No use making it more complicated since everyone is better off if every car has insurance. Anything that is unconditionally mandatory is best paid from taxes.
by rswail | 2025-09-02 06:29:28+00:00
Carriage return moved the paper (on typewriters before the IBM Ball) and moved the print head (the "ball" on an IBM typewriter, or the actual print head on TTYs and DECWriter equivalents) back to column 0.

Line Feed moved the paper up one line, Form Feed moved the paper up by a "form length" or, in the case of chain printers, to the particular position on the chain that was synchronized with the perforations on the paper itself.

The carriage return physical device on the typewriter combined moving the carriage (which could be done by hand) and the rolling of the paper up one line (which could also be done by hand) into one convenient motion.
by happymellon | 2025-09-02 06:30:01+00:00
> No, the license disallows use of the software for seeing up a multi-user blogging system as a paid service

This is incorrect.

https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/blob/master/LICEN...

> You may not provide the Software as a hosted or managed service that offers users access to substantial features or functionality.

It does not make the distinction around a financial transaction.
by watwut | 2025-09-02 06:30:03+00:00
There is not caring about an unknown person which is default stance. And then there is going out of your way to make everyone know other people do not deserve empathy or whatever and how worthless they are to you. The two are not the same.

Why do you want us all to compare them to other people who died? You are not callous. You are angry and emotional over others having interest in the story.
by serf | 2025-09-02 06:30:33+00:00
sd card contact wear is pretty radical on constant insert/removal.

second: one of the things that made cartridges great was that they were human-sized. as were CDs. An sd card inserted into a more handle-able/human 'cartridge' would be cool, maybe gameboy sized was about perfect imo.

fiddling with sd cards and slots isn't great.

an snes/genesis cartridge falls into the thing, you can't miss or do it backwards without reeally trying to. They give an affirmative 'clunk' when fully engaged.

(also the contact wear on those was horrendous too.. maybe the SD card IS authentic..)
by hommes-r | 2025-09-02 06:31:11+00:00
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by adrian_b | 2025-09-02 06:32:01+00:00
Making at home transistors, or even small-scale integrated circuits is not exceedingly difficult.

However, making at home a useful microcontroller or FPGA would require not only an electron-beam lithography machine, but also a ion-implantation machine, a diffusion furnace, a plasma-etch machine, a sputtering machine and a lot of other chemical equipment and measurement instruments.

All the equipment would have to be enclosed in a sealed room, with completely automated operation.

A miniature mask-less single-wafer processing fab could be made at a cost several orders of magnitude less than a real semiconductor fab, but the cost would still be of many millions of $.

With such a miniature fab, one might need a few weeks to produce a batch of IC's worth maybe $1000, so the cost of the equipment will never be recovered, which is why nobody does such a thing for commercial purposes.

In order to have distributed semiconductor fabs serving small communities around them, instead of having only a couple of fabs for the entire planet, one would need a revolution in the fabrication of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment itself, like SpaceX has done for rockets.

Only if the semiconductor manufacturing equipment would be the result of a completely automated mass production, which would reduce its cost by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude, affordable small-scale but state-of-the-art fabs would be possible.

But such an evolution is contrary to everything that the big companies have done during the last 30 years, during which all smaller competitors have been eliminated, the production has become concentrated in quasi-monopolies and for the non-consumer products the companies now offer every year more and more expensive models, which are increasingly affordable only for other big companies and not for individuals or small businesses.
by Burnstreet | 2025-09-02 06:32:09+00:00
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