MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by komali2 | 2025-09-10 23:21:19+00:00
I had a couple friends tell me this is bad because Trump will use it as an excuse to send troops in to arrest liberals, which I just heard his press secretary on tv talking about leftism as a terrorist ideology or some such so I think it'll probably happen, however, I don't think that's why the assassination was bad. Trump was looking for any excuse to send more troops to places not politically aligned with him, I don't think I should be expected to feel a certain way about the trigger because of what it causes Trump to do. I don't regret Charlie Kirk "becoming a martyr" or whatever.

I will feel about this shooting the same way the media has trained me to feel about all incidents of gun violence in America - nothing at all, because gun violence isn't a problem in America, if it was we'd have done something about it by now.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-09-10 23:21:44+00:00
From their Twitter:

Introducing checkpoint-engine: our open-source, lightweight middleware for efficient, in-place weight updates in LLM inference engines, especially effective for RL. [x] Update a 1T model on thousands of GPUs in ~20s [x] Supports both broadcast (sync) & P2P (dynamic) updates [x] Optimized pipeline with overlapped communication and copy [x] Lightweight & flexible for large-scale deployment Check out our work on GitHub: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/checkpoint-engine
by prasadjoglekar | 2025-09-10 23:22:14+00:00
The national divorce was tried once in 1860. Hundreds of thousands died to effectuate it or stop it.

When people say the north fought to preserve the union, I always thought it meant the physical union. But recently, I saw a lecture by Gary Gallagher at the UVA that shone a brighter light on what union meant in 1860. It's worth a listen, search for it on YT.
by jebarker | 2025-09-10 23:23:32+00:00
I think it’s worth posting the actual wording of the 2nd amendment:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

There’s endless legal debate how this should be interpreted, but it’s not obvious that there was an assumption that there would be mass individual gun ownership.
by placardloop | 2025-09-10 23:23:32+00:00
Again, this isn’t at all in the scope of restic’s docs. If you’re using S3 as the storage, it’s on you to understand how S3 works and what permissions are needed, just like it’s on you to understand how your local file system works and file permissions work if you use the local file system as a backend.

If you don’t understand S3 or don’t want to learn, then that’s fine, and you can pay the premium to tarsnap for simplifying it for you. But that’s your choice, not an issue with restic.

If you think differently, have you submitted a PR to restic’s docs to add the information you think should be there?
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 23:23:35+00:00
>A lot of people want to say marketing doesn't work or that filter bubbles don't matter. But the bare facts are that we've had nearly a decade of multiple military intelligence agencies running nonstop campaigns promoting violent ideology in the US. And it would be naive to think that didn't make a difference.

Hmm, interesting thesis. I'm aware something like half of the Whitmer Kidnapping plotters were feds/informants, to the point a few were exonerated in trial. There's certainly some evidence the government is intentionally provoking violent actors.
by jorvi | 2025-09-10 23:23:45+00:00
Not only is Arch also a rolling distro (despite them saying "not Arch!"), Arch is one of the most horrible rolling distros in terms of stability. Their general principle for package breakage is "you should have checked it on our (site) release log". They don't throw an error or a warning, if something is a breaking change and you pull it into your system, you basically get a "hehe should have checked the release log", and you're hosed.

If you want a good, actually professional rolling release, use SUSE Tumbleweed. They test packages more thoroughly, and they actually hold back breaking or buggy changes instead of the "lol read log and get fucked" policy.
by ipv6ipv4 | 2025-09-10 23:23:47+00:00
America is founded on the principle of human selfishness. People are selfish, so let’s harness it instead of pretending that people are utopian selfless creatures.

More recently, selfishness has taken second seat to hurting the “other” (whatever other happens to be) even to the detriment of one’s own self interests. America is not built for this.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-09-10 23:24:25+00:00
> The left is sick

I don't think that's a particularly helpful statement, given the person responsible is one person, given that the "left" or the "right" aren't really solid concepts and are rather used to describe individuals that vote once every four years for a party that pretends its eiter "right" or "left".

Furthermore as someone outside of America, I sometimes feel like I care about America more than Americans, given the current government and its dismissive attitudes to liberty.
by danudey | 2025-09-10 23:25:09+00:00
The distinction is:

1. The goal of the second amendment was never "everyone should be able to have as many guns as they have, and if people use a gun to kill a dozen children then so be it", it was "it should be illegal for the government to take away people's weapons because the first step a tyrant would take is to disarm the populace so they couldn't fight back." That goal doesn't hold water anymore in a world where a computer geek working for the US military in a basement in Virginia can drone strike a wedding on the other side of the world. Instead, the NRA has made "guns good" into something that too many people make their whole personality, and the people who are actually trying to destroy society use that as a weapon to prevent any positive change when someone murders a dozen kids by making people feel like the only choice is between "anyone can have guns and children are murdered every day" or "the government takes your weapons and forces any dissidents into siberian-esque gulags".

2. Firearms were far less common, far less accessible, and far less deadly than they are now. Compared to what was available at the time, modern-day weapons like the AR15 are effectively weapons of mass destruction. If you went into a school with a civil war-era rifle and tried to kill as many people as you could, you'd maybe get one shot off which might not even kill someone if you hit them, and then you'd get tackled while you were trying to reload.
by tolerance | 2025-09-10 23:26:07+00:00
I’m clearly biased. But I enjoyed the format and it's risk like this that make me more likely to read the content where under different circumstance I may not even care about your professional experiences. The smaller font size mitigates any issues due to the line breaks because I can still see all the text.

Although I can get how someone else would feel that the text is too small and if the size was a conscious decision on your part to accommodate the line breaks they would hold you to blame further.

I think you’ve got a nice personal website overall. Even down to the drafts that lead to 404 errors; a nice touch even if unintentional.

Everybody wants personality to return to the Web again until they’ve got to deal with personalities.

You win some, you lose some.
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-09-10 23:26:31+00:00
Things like citation brokers (paid to cite papers), abuse of power, paper mills, and blackmail (pg. 10) is appalling to me. I have to question how we ended up here. Academia seems very focused on results and output, and this is used as a metric to measure a researcher's worth or value.

Has this always been an issue in academia, or is this an increasing or new phenomenon? It seems as if there is a widespread need to take shortcuts and boost your h-index. Is there a better way to determine the impact of research and to encourage researchers to not feel so pressed to output and boost their citations? Why is it like this today?

Academic mathematics, from what I've seen, seems incredibly competitive and stressful (to be fair, so does competition math from a young age), perhaps because the only career for many mathematicians (outside a topics with applications such as but not limited to number theory, probability, and combinatorics) is academia. Does this play into what this article talks about?
by kazinator | 2025-09-10 23:26:55+00:00
It's going to backfire. In real scenarios (not regression testing) users don't want to see the exact same thing twice out of the LLM in the same session in spite of trying to refine the result with more context.

There are going to be false positives: text that is subtly different from a previous response is misidentified as a duplicate such that the previous response is substituted for it, frustrating the user.
by mainde | 2025-09-10 23:26:55+00:00
One could argue that advocating against firearm control and regulation has resulted in significantly increased societal harm, which could also be identified as not fair, if not even evil/hateful, especially from those who have directly suffered from it.

Of course two wrongs don't make one right, and people can be more classy than this, but it's a totally understandable sentiment and response.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-10 23:26:56+00:00
Assassinations are surprise killings of prominent individuals for political purposes. Targeted gang killings are an interesting case, because they are political within the context of intra- and inter-gang politics, but not viewed in that light in a broader context. If I was watching a documentary about two rival gangs, I probably wouldn't blink twice at someone referring to a hit on a rival leader as an assassination. In every day conversation, it would probably be weird, because the normal assumption is of the broader political sphere.

People are calling this an assassination because they are making the (probably reasonable) guess that the reason to shoot Charlie Kirk during a political speech is to make a political statement.
by DannyBee | 2025-09-10 23:27:27+00:00
Yes, you are correct. It has a 4k60 HEVC decoder, i forgot about that.

It has no h264 encoder or decoder or other encoders or decoders.

I know this from watching lots of people try to use it on 3d printers and discovering that their camera streams now take tons of CPU[1] after "upgrading" from a pi 4b to a cm5.

In any case, from just about any perspective, you are better off shoving a rockchip based cm5 compatible board in this.

[1] the commonly-used logitech cameras used to do h264 streams, but they removed the h264 encoder chips in all of their models a few years back, without changing any of the model numbers. All the current ones are like yuvy420 at 5fps or mjpeg at 30fps. Even for something like the mx brio. But for things like the c920,if they are old enough, they do h264, and if they are new, they don't.
by teleforce | 2025-09-10 23:27:29+00:00
Please check the new Braid HTTP, it's shaping up the as the killer feature of the Web 3 to enable killer web based local-first application [1],[2]:

[1] A Synchronous Web of State:

https://braid.org/meeting-107

[2] Local-first software You own your data, in spite of the cloud:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/
by nikcub | 2025-09-10 23:28:01+00:00
This was an intentional adoption of leaderless resistance[0] in response to the vulnerabilities in centrally administered organisations of the 60-80s.

Resistance orgs across the ideological spectrum were systematically dismantled after decades of violence because their hierarchical command structures made them vulnerable to infiltration, decapitation and RICO-style prosecutions.

The Weather Underground, Red Army Faction, European Fascist groups and many white supremacist groups all fell to the same structural weaknesses.

Lessons were codified by the KKK and Aryan Nations movements in the USA in the early 90s by Louis Beam[1] who wrote about distributed organisational models.

This was so successful it cross-pollinated to other groups globally. Other movements adopted variations of this structure, from modern far-right and far-left groups to jihadist organisations[2]

This is probably the most significant adaptation in ideological warfare since guerilla doctorine. There has been a large-scale failure in adapting to it.

The internet and social media have just accelerated its effectiveness.

"Inspired by" vs "carried out by" ideological violence today is the norm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaderless_resistance

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/louis-be...

[2] https://www.memri.org/reports/al-qaeda-military-strategist-a...
by nebula8804 | 2025-09-10 23:28:23+00:00
It was a single can of beer.

The brand was already declining. Americans are drinking less beer and when they do, its higher quality beer.

Imagine you are brought in to grow the business. What avenues do you have? Lower the price? Its already low end product. Move upmarket? Its difficult since the brand has been around as low priced product for decades and it would risk other higher quality brands in the parent companies portfolio.

Whats left? Expand the user base to people that typically don't drink the product.

Once things fell apart, the fact that management overrode the marketing person's decisions and tried to backpedal pissed off the potential new customer base.

Meanwhile the existing base continues to decline either way.

Maybe some items just can't grow no matter what you do. We see this with a lot of processed food junk. People are waking up to how unhealthy a lot of pre packaged food is so companies are trying all sorts of nonsense to keep people (Just look at an account like @snackolator).
by bitwize | 2025-09-10 23:29:56+00:00
Ultimately it doesn't matter now, because Xorg is kind of in a state of "active abandonment", that is to say, the only maintenance being done is to ensure that no more bugs are being fixed aside from critical security issues on distros Red Hat still supports. In open source, you go where the developer energy is, and right now that's Wayland.

If you're about to tell me that XLibre is a viable alternative, no you're not because it isn't.
by sliq | 2025-09-10 23:30:04+00:00
No, please WATCH IT! It's important to learn how reality really is. This is the process of using 100% of available information. You have been trained to block, censor and avoid everything that doesnt do good on you, but it's extremely important to open your eyes as wide as possible, and let your brain process this, then build conclusions on this data.

You feel sick because you cannot process reality.
by blooalien | 2025-09-10 23:30:57+00:00
I actually used to tunnel Netscape Navigator via SSH to my Commodore Amiga desktop via an Xorg server way back in the 56K phone modem Internet days from my ISP's SSH user account login, since Amiga didn't have Netscape (and even if it did, the Amiga likely would have choked on it, massive and bloated as Netscape was), and the browser AmigaOS did have just wasn't up to the task of normal day-to-day usage of the Web as it existed back then. Fun times.

Sure am glad of the broadband Internet and modern "powerhouse" PCs we have so readily available today. Hell, even the computer most everyone carries in their pocket these days is infinitely more powerful than the average desktop machines of my childhood. :)
by averageRoyalty | 2025-09-10 23:31:00+00:00
I think you've moved the goalposts here a little. You are making (good) arguments on why the second amendment maybe shouldn't apply any longer and that guns of now are different. You're arguing for gun reform.

However I was speaking in the context of the tradeoffs of danger and the awareness of what blood you get on your hands for agreeing. Although the writers of this bill couldn't forsee AR15s and drone strikes, I'm sure they could forsee that there was a cost to freedom to bear arms.
by lupusreal | 2025-09-10 23:31:30+00:00
> Exactly! And who sets those incentives?

The organization.

Executives like to think they're in charge, but they're selected for their alignment with the goals of the organization and if they stray far from that they get replaced. Satya isn't the kind of man who would put good taste in software design first, and if he was then he wouldn't be in the position.

> As a side note, I see the blaming of bad situations on "for-profit organizations" as if management had no other choices

They have one key choice, they can walk away. Whenever they realize the corporation is going to do something they don't want to be involved with, they can and should walk away. Sometimes they do, but when they choose comfort over good aesthetic sense, ethics, morales, laws.. they can and should be judged for that. The worldview I am advocating for (viewing organizations as organisms, or Slow AIs as others have put it) is not about absolving individual humans of responsibility. As long as they continue to participate in the organization, they're responsible. Rather, the point of the mental model is to remind people that organizations, particularly in this case corporations, are inhumane monsters which lack an innate understanding of human values.
by o11c | 2025-09-10 23:32:23+00:00
The last time I tried it extensively was on Debian Bookwork (12.1 and later; I always wait for the first point release), released July 2023 but freezing sometime around February 2023.

Yes, this was a while ago now. But just as now, people said then "all the bugs are fixed and missing features added"; all that really means is "we're in the long tail". I might've put up with it if not for the fact that there were 2ish major bugs that directly affected my main workflow (e.g. temporarily swapping to non-Latin text input).
by m-watson | 2025-09-10 23:32:32+00:00
100% serious statement here, who are you looking at on Bluesky or how? Looking at the Discover (so a general feed) my follow which would be unique to me, and the trending ALL I see is people talking about this being bad OR posts showing how everyone is saying Bluesky is celebrating. I truly do not see this celebration happening that people are saying is happening rampantly. Right now, in a private browser going to https://bsky.app/ there is 0 celebration.

(quick edit) And anyone who doesn't believe me go to Bluesky right now and look.
by throw_m239339 | 2025-09-10 23:33:03+00:00
> The confederates should have been punished, publicly.

No, it would have led to decades or centuries of resentment between the north and the south and eventually another civil war among those lines. It would have destroyed the union for good. The only purpose of the civil war for the North was to save the union, humiliating the south would have ensured that it would never really happen.
by judah | 2025-09-10 23:33:44+00:00
Conservative, but definitely not alt-right. Kirk was a strong supporter of Jews and Israel, which put him at odds with the antisemitic alt-right.

Kirk regularly spoke out against antisemitism on both the left and right. So much so, in fact, Israeli Prime Minister tweeted[0] his condolences, praising Kirk as a strong, positive force for Jewish and Christian values.

[0]: https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1965888327938158764
by gleenn | 2025-09-10 23:35:12+00:00
I just wish more people appreciated those things at all. What's the name of the rule where everyone with a sufficiently large codebase has a partially implemented, buggy time oriented data log somewhere and it's too bad people didn't realize that sooner. Datomic et all are so cool and solve so many interesting and pervasive problems but people would rather just mangle those bits themselves. The glory of refactoring a large, purely immutable piece of software is so glorious and easy. The wrapper/adapter hell that comes out of the Expression Problem is just one more thing that people just assume is unavoidable and the amount of gross code that falls out of that is so painful.
by eek2121 | 2025-09-10 23:35:30+00:00
The issue is that you are using Debian stable. Software quickly becomes out of date, sometimes by years, with the exception of security fixes and occasional backports.

Wayland, KDE, and several other pieces of software evolve rapidly. What may be broken in one release will very likely be fixed a few releases after the last debian stable release.

I'll run Debian on a server if I need predictability and stability with known issues. I won't run Debian on a desktop or workstation for the same reason.
by tptacek | 2025-09-10 23:36:12+00:00
I have no idea what the former has to do with the latter. NFTs were a scam (I think the same about crypto more generally, but know that's a more idiosyncratic belief). LLMs are not.

Is your point that LLMs are overhyped? Everything is overhyped. That's not what distinguished NFTs from previous hype cycles; the fact that there was literally nothing there is what distinguished it.
by oskarkk | 2025-09-10 23:36:29+00:00
I just wanted to mention that. Recently I was wondering what was that even about, and I was surprised to read this on Wikipedia:

> Yamagami told investigators that he had shot Abe in relation to a grudge he held against the Unification Church (UC), a new religious movement to which Abe and his family had political ties, over his mother's bankruptcy in 2002.

> The assassination brought scrutiny from Japanese society and media against the UC's alleged practice of pressuring believers into making exorbitant donations. Japanese dignitaries and legislators were forced to disclose their relationship with the UC, (...) the LDP announced that it would no longer have any relationship with the UC and its associated organisations, and would expel members who did not break ties with the group. (...) [The parliament] passed two bills to restrict the activities of religious organisations such as the UC and provide relief to victims.

> Abe's killing has been described as one of the most effective and successful political assassinations in recent history due to the backlash against the UC that it provoked. The Economist remarked that "... Yamagami's political violence has proved stunningly effective ... Political violence seldom fulfills so many of its perpetrator's aims." Writing for The Atlantic, Robert F. Worth described Yamagami as "among the most successful assassins in history".
by gobdovan | 2025-09-10 23:37:04+00:00
I'd recommend checking out the full conclusions section. What I can tell you is that with LLMs, it's never a linear correlation. There's always some balance you have to strike, as they really do operate on a changing-anything-changes-everything basis.

excerpt: Claim: Avoiding hallucinations requires a degree of intelligence which is exclusively achievable with larger models. Finding: It can be easier for a small model to know its limits. For example, when asked to answer a Māori question, a small model which knows no Māori can simply say “I don’t know” whereas a model that knows some Māori has to determine its confidence. As discussed in the paper, being “calibrated” requires much less computation than being accurate.
by MegaDeKay | 2025-09-10 23:37:29+00:00
I wouldn't say they are reinventing the wheel. Putting a new set of rims on them, maybe...

"KDE Linux is an “immutable base OS” Linux distro created using Arch Linux packages, but it should not be considered an “Arch-based distro”; Arch is simply a means to an end, and KDE Linux doesn’t even ship with the pacman package manager."

https://kde.org/linux/
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-10 23:38:18+00:00
The Second Militia Act of 1792 clarified that assumption somewhat when it specified all free able-bodied white male citizens must be part of their local militia and are required to own a gun among other things.

What they couldn't have predicted is that the Bill of Rights would also apply to the individual state and local governments since that wasn't true until the 14th amendment almost 100 years later and didn't really kick off until the 1900s. This is obviously important to understand what the original amendments mean.