MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hn_throw_250915 | 2025-09-19 15:11:39+00:00
I read through it and it’s amusing but along with the title being something I’d receive in email from a newsletter mailing list I’ve never subscribed to (hoping it has an unsubscribe link at the bottom), there’s nothing really of hacker curiosity here to keep me hooked. It’s shallow and appeals to some LCD “I did the thing with the stuff and the results will shock you because of how obvious they are now click here” mentality. Vainposting at its most average. The Mac restoration video was somewhat easier to sit through if only because the picture quality beats out a handful of other YT videos doing the exactly same thing as I’m holding back a jaw grating wince of watching someone butchering a board with poor knowledge of soldering iron practice, so YMMV? Back to hackaday for me I think. I’m not here to read submarine resumes of people applying to work at Linus Tech Tips.
by vel0city | 2025-09-19 15:12:09+00:00
He may also be a good OSS contributor and writer, but he is also a Youtuber. Over 500 videos posted, 175M views, nearly a million subscribers.

Not that its a problem, I don't see why it would inherently be a negative thing. Dude seems to make some good content across a lot of different mediums. Cheers to Jeff.
by rramadass | 2025-09-19 15:12:17+00:00
Sherlock Holmes said it best :-)

“Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

-- From "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Every kid should be given a copy of the complete Sherlock Holmes canon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes) This will turn them towards learning and practicing "The Art of Deduction (or Ratiocination according to Edgar Allan Poe)" like nothing else and will directly lead to them understanding the importance of Logic and Science/Mathematics in today's world.

For example, as a kid growing up in 80s India, i read whatever i could get my hands on (eg. Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton, Alistair Maclean, Desmond Bagley, Frederick Forsyth etc. etc.) but none of them really made a mark. Then somebody gave me a copy of "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" and i was zapped. Here was somebody who focused on reasoning and showed you the steps involved. Of course once you grew-up you realized that much of the "Deductions" were far-fetched/implausible but nevertheless the fire was lit. It directly led to my interest in Science/Mathematics and then a career in Software (much of Holmes' methods are directly applicable to Debugging).
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-19 15:12:24+00:00
> Adequacy of the hood seems like it's not going to be usefully quantifiable or provable

If the exhaust mechanism is attached to an above the range microwave, it’s not adequate. And that is the vast majority of kitchens I see on Zillow, and I have probably sifted through thousands and thousands of houses.

A dedicated exhaust hood is seen in very few home listings, mostly in new higher end homes, or older renovated homes.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-19 15:12:24+00:00
I’d say it’s inconclusive. For traditional compute it wins on power and cost (it’ll always lose on space). The inference is noted to not be able to use the GPU due to llama.cpp’s vulkan backend AND that clustering software in llama.cpp is bad. I’d say it’s probably still going to be worse for AI but it’s inconclusive where it could be due to the software immaturity (ie not worth it today but could be with better software)
by ModernMech | 2025-09-19 15:12:36+00:00
This is how you know AI will not live up to the hype. You have the highest paid people, at one of the richest companies in the world, building the AI and with unlimited access to the best models and the most talent.

And they still can't pull off a keynote.

So then... what does AI have to offer me? Because I would have thought, as Sam Altman put it, having an expert PhD level researcher in all subjects in my pocket could maybe help me pull off a tech demo. But if it can't help them, the people who actually made the thing, on their very high stakes public address where everything is on the line, then what's it supposed to do for the rest of us in our daily lives?

Because it seems more and more, AI is a tool that helps you stage your own very public humiliation.
by glenstein | 2025-09-19 15:12:39+00:00
I find it fascinating that people think 12 seconds armchair psychology is enough to definitively rule out phenomena that hinge on complex tech and complex human deliberations about policy. That works on campy monster of the week TV shows but it catastrophically underestimates real world complexity.

We've got documented cases in the wild of youtube adding 5 second timer, as well as experimenting with 3 video limits for adblock users, not to mention the cat and mouse game of breaking scraper-oriented tools like Newpipe. So it's happened before, and on-the-ground evidence of historical precedent and a straight look at incentives tell us more than assumed psychological states.
by notapenny | 2025-09-19 15:12:40+00:00
You have no idea whether or not I lack those. If you're going to make a blanket ad-hominem statement like that, at least don't follow it up by agreeing with my point.

Nobody is telling you to build things that just "have merit". Just because you don't like them, it doesn't mean that great things weren't built off the back of Oracle and in JavaScript.

If some Oracle product is the best pick for the task, or JavaScript is the best pick for the task... will you pick it? Or will you whine about what you dedicated your life to?

If you can't see that other people might feel different about this, or be able to build great products with these, maybe you're the one without the imagination and ambition...
by notmyjob | 2025-09-19 15:12:44+00:00
The problem with LTC insurance is it’s likely to go belly up and you are at the end of the day dealing with an insurer whose business model involves denying valid claims. All of that is assuming you can actually get LTC insurance. Good luck if you are over 50. It’s like the private form of social security, a Ponzi that’s approaching its moment of truth.
by philipallstar | 2025-09-19 15:13:31+00:00
> this is absolutely going to cause irreparable harm to science in the United States

Science isn't the plaintiff.

> If the Europeans were smart and faster moving they would have large scale programs to hire up people and move them over there, because there are tons of brilliant people doing important work that are being left high and dry.

Science often requires a lot of money, and generally Europe would rather wait for America to spend the money and make the discoveries while laughing at them for not spending the money on social niceties.
by imtringued | 2025-09-19 15:14:08+00:00
Oh come on Jeff, you forgot to buy GPUs for your AI cluster. Such a beginner mistake.

All you needed to do is buy 4x xtx 7900 used on ebay and build a four node raspberry pi cluster using the external GPU setup you've come up with in one of your previous blog posts [0].

[0] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/use-external-gpu-on-r...
by eviks | 2025-09-19 15:15:06+00:00
> Defaults cannot always please every unique user. That's an impossible goal.

You're just continuing in your quest to ignore the issue. Just set the goal at "most users", that's fine, you'll still need to defend this actual screen waste to make an argument, but you can't hide behind a generic "can't please everyone"

> hate

There is no hate, you've made it up to make your argument sound better.

> this minor (yes, I'll die on this hill)

No one is looking at, let alone fighing, you on this imaginary hill. The other commenter explicitly said it's not a big issue. I also agree it's minor. Stop bringing more straws for your scarecrow!

> took the time to even report this

To waste it on a repeat of this argument with ~0 chance of a win? Again, you've made up that hate, so there is no motivation in doing that, a more productive use of that time is to use a better terminal (or just configure it away), so that's usually what happens
by mattlutze | 2025-09-19 15:15:31+00:00
Except jobs can't be just reinstated when people are out of them so long that the knowledge moves elsewhere or experiments expire. Irreparable harm also includes things like injury to reputation, goodwill, professional practice.

The impending harm here is explicit, immediate, and as demonstrated previously serious for these labs and research fields. It's unfortunate that Judge Cobb didn't find this to be sufficient, but hopefully on appeals some relief may be offered.

Temporary loss of income is I think not generally a basis for irreparable harm for more or less the argument you hint at.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-19 15:15:38+00:00
>If a man can have multiple women, but a woman can't have multiple men, it's just a different form of oppression.

There are reasons to allow only one of the sexes to have multiple sexual partners/spouses.

* In a community with such liberal sexual practices, STDs spread more easily, especially in earlier centuries.

* It makes marriage intrinsically more complicated simply because of the more complex interactions. For example, if Alice is married to Bob, who is married to both Alice and Carol, who is married to both Bob and David, what are Alice and David to each other? Anything? Nothing? Is the entire married community a distinct entity?

* Relatedly, how is inheritance handled if such complex spousal organizations are going to be legally allowed?
by freedomben | 2025-09-19 15:15:59+00:00
Philosophically I don't disagree, but in reality the likely effect of a rule like this would be even greater empowerment to the incumbents, which are mostly huge tech companies. Maybe it doesn't matter since the vast majority of startups don't mind be equally abusive, and often have an exit strategy in mind of getting acquired by huge tech, so hell it might even be a net positive in some ways. However, this would also have the net effect of ensuring that ethical startups seeking to disrupt gross entrenched practices would be dead before they can even start. Given the direciton the tech cos have already long demonstrated they want to go, that strikes me as a much bigger evil than not having access to customer support
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-19 15:16:22+00:00
You made the analogy & the claim that cooking in the west feels like cooking in your bedroom. The onus is actually on you to explain it and prove it. I didn't make any claims. Oh, I guess I claimed that the bedroom is where people sleep and get dressed. No, I will not be providing data for this. :)

The link you've provided says nothing about hoods generally not being in western homes or make your analogy any more apt.
by joules77 | 2025-09-19 15:16:23+00:00
Retirement is a stupid concept.

One of my Grandfathers just stopped taking medication and going to the docs. And died quite peacefully within a couple years of retiring. Death and decay is just natural and quick. While my other grandfather has been kept alive 30-35 years post retirement popping a tray full of pills everyday, having gone through dozens of surgeries and has had hopeless quality of life post retirement.

The med-industrial complex is a run-away train that is detached for any moral system. It can't even produce any morality anymore. Because its not efficient or rational to do so :)
by dash2 | 2025-09-19 15:17:37+00:00
I read the article and didn't actually see any evidence that this is not a reasonably fair and functional system. I did read:

* People complaining that the cafe wasn't as good as they liked.

* The fact that old people have signed up for a retirement village.

* The fact that some of them get confused and need help.

What's the evidence base here?
by corygarms | 2025-09-19 15:17:47+00:00
This is nuts. If I'm understanding correctly, the M. ibiricus queen mates with a M. structor male, uses his sperm to create sterile, hybrid female worker ants for her colony, then she (astonishingly) can also lay eggs that develop into fertile M. structor males, which means she has removed her genetic material from the egg and effectively cloned the male she previously mated with.
by causal | 2025-09-19 15:18:01+00:00
1) Data proximity (if you have a lot of data, egress fees add up)

2) Hardware optimization (the exact GPU you want may not always be available for some providers)

3) Not subject to price changes

4) Not subject to sudden Terms of Use changes

5) Know exactly who is responsible if something isn't working.

6) Sense of pride and accomplishment + Heating in the winter
by crazygringo | 2025-09-19 15:18:04+00:00
Did you mean to reply to a different comment? Mine didn't say anything about psychology.

But you do seem to be strengthening my comment -- when YouTube was implementing a 3 video limit for users blocking ads, they were doing so with a big huge message: "It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback will be blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled."

That makes sense as a strategy, telling the user what to change. Silently using up more CPU doesn't.
by theamk | 2025-09-19 15:18:49+00:00
It's kinda opposite - the whole point of your site is to allow people to be selfish by breaking the law. So by reporting fake sightings, one makes being a selfish jerk harder, and hopefully there will more order and more space sharing, as city planners intended.

(There are certainly plenty of bad laws in US that should not be enforced strictly, the highway speed limits for example. But the metered parking is not such a law. Having enforced metered parking means that visitors can find a place to park, and businesses have more business. There were plenty of times in my life when I thought, "There are no free parking spaces here! Wish they put some meters!")
by epistasis | 2025-09-19 15:18:51+00:00
HN is highly stochastic, and honestly I don't think there's any way around it.

The upvoting scheme can not distinguish between a hot topic of interest to 10% of readers, that deliver 10 upvotes in the first 10 minutes, from a more niche topic of interest to 5% of readers, that gets 10 upvotes in 10 minutes.

At least it can't distinguish at that time. So things go to the front page, and future votes determine what happens!

But that initial "on the front page" boost is a nonlinearity that many good posts do not get through.

Personally, I really liked this post, and was merely asking because I was very surprised others liked it too!
by op00to | 2025-09-19 15:19:45+00:00
"He is not a YouTuber"... what?

https://www.youtube.com/c/JeffGeerling

"978K subscribers 527 videos"

Jeff's had a pattern of embellishing controversies, misrepresenting what people say, and using his platform to create narratives that benefit his content's engagement. This is yet another example of farming outrage to get clicks. I don't understand why people drool over his content so much.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-19 15:20:12+00:00
Can you take a minute to actually research why immigration is a hot topic, right now? Your recent comment history is not made in good-faith and lacks basic due-diligence. For instance, what's so unique about Japan?

Japan has an aging problem. Old people need to be taken care of, and everyone who is capable of caretaking is working in a more-valuable job. How do you keep your old people alive without blowing up your GDP? Any ideas? If you've got a short-term solution to this, go tell Japanese economists. Their short-term answer is immigration.

America also has this issue, exacerbated by a housing crisis. What happens when H1B immigrants buy up the house that a family of four wanted to buy in America? Do you think a new house gets built? Nope, the cost of housing goes up and rearing a family becomes that much harder. "Real" American families are falling through the cracks to make pensioners rich and allow immigrants to subsume our highest-GDP jobs. We should be copying Japan's strategy, the H1B floodgate has quite plainly not done anything for America.
by 15155 | 2025-09-19 15:20:20+00:00
Why not just shell the shit out of this thing and the entire path to it with smoke (or real ordnance?)

If you don't have artillery, the first wave of drones could be sacrificially carrying smoke achieving an instant attenuation highway straight to this system.

Or just wait for a rainy day and then take it out. Expensive optical systems with large, expensive, glass focusing lenses aren't typically durable.
by John23832 | 2025-09-19 15:20:21+00:00
Customers who are elderly, obviously don't have others watching over them, and are mentally and/or physically degraded? You expect those customers to exercise the choice of the market?

The reality is that once that elderly person has moved to the retirement facility, they're pretty much a locked in customer. The firm (sadly) can pretty much do with them as they please within the extent of the law.
by consp | 2025-09-19 15:20:39+00:00
If you used the first gen "pay later" services they'd scrape you for "compliance checking" or simply mask it as a transaction which is actually just personal information scraping.

Most of the times you did not see it, as it's obfuscated as a part of the transaction.

They are also the companies complaining a lot about the "failure" of the PSD standards since it limits how much and how obfuscated they can scrape everything (and there are records).
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-19 15:20:47+00:00
> Science isn't the plaintiff.

But scientists are and science is the industry that is being harmed.

> Europe would rather wait for America to spend the money and make the discoveries while laughing at them for not spending the money on social niceties.

And so now we’re not spending the money on discoveries and also cutting back on the social “niceties” we had spent whatever little amount of money on?
by synapsomorphy | 2025-09-19 15:20:58+00:00
This is a really interesting discovery. In ants it's apparently common for one species to stop being able to produce workers on their own, and use the sperm from another species instead.

In this case, that happened. But if you do that, you can only expand as far as the other species expands. So you can expand further if you can find a way to keep the males of that species around with you.

This species does that by having a reproductive pathway that, if a queen is fertilized by that 'domesticated' species, the DNA of the 'host' species is removed from the eggs. So you get an ant that has none of the host's DNA. Except they do inherit the mitochondrial DNA (it always comes from the mother). The 'domesticated' males and the 'wild-type' males do look slightly different - it's not clear if this is because of the mitochondrial DNA or because they're raised differently or what.

I read someone compare the domesticated species to a 'superorganism organelle' - just like an archaea cell sucked up a bacteria to become a eukaryote, the host species sucked up the domesticated species to become some combination of both.

Wild to think what other crazy ways of living and makin babies must be out there that we haven't figured out yet.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-19 15:21:17+00:00
> The reasoning behind the auto-locking feature is that when the doors are locked it adds to rigidity of the car

No, this is not the primary reason. The primary reason is safety from potential attack while in a confined, transitional space.

My late grandparents' Lincoln Mark VII non-LSC had autolocking doors when shifting into drive in 1988.
by wackget | 2025-09-19 15:21:27+00:00
The people at these companies probably do realise that literally nobody has ever tried to watch a video like Rick Beato's to simply listen to a piece of music. Anyone who is watching a Rick Beato video is watching it because of the theory, discussion, and commentary surrounding the music.

A record label has never lost a sale because somebody discovered they could "get music for free" by watching YouTube critique videos.

Realistically, what's probably happening is the labels have decided it's too (i.e. would cost too much money) to apply a nuanced approach to copyright striking and so are knowingly flagging everything containing snippets of their music whether it's fair use or not. They've simply decided to not care.
by Schmoigel | 2025-09-19 15:22:04+00:00
> It's pretty shameful that these large companies have no real way to contact them.

It's sadly all too common these days for companies to have no general customer support, only forums full of powerless volunteers. It's even started to become that phone support lines don't have anyone on the other end anymore; Microsoft for instance basically just has an LLM on the other end that waits for you to talk, then tells you to fuck off to the powerless support forum.
by deadbabe | 2025-09-19 15:22:42+00:00
I really don’t understand the hype over raspberry Pi.

It’s an overrated, overhyped little computer. Like ok it’s small I guess but why is it the default that everyone wants to build something new on? Because it’s cheap? Whatever happened to buy once, cry once? Why not just build an actual powerful rig? For your NAS? For your firewalls? For security cameras? For your local AI agents?
by sidewndr46 | 2025-09-19 15:23:29+00:00
Yeah, I came here to say the same thing. I'm really confused how the female can produce a clone of the male of another species. Wouldn't the other males sperm contain only half the genetic material needed to reproduce? But apparently ant DNA doesn't work that way for sex:

https://press.uni-mainz.de/determining-sex-in-ants/

somehow a male ant has one set of chromosomes while the female ant has two sets of chromosomes. So a male ant sperm must contain enough information to make a complete male? Then when they mate with the female of the other species, the females egg actually gets blanked out so to speak, containing none of the females own genetic material. Then the male sperm fertilizes the egg with one set of chromosomes producing a male offspring that is a clone?
by pjmlp | 2025-09-19 15:24:12+00:00
Depends on which tools, clang tidy can be customised, Apple just did a talk at C++ Now about their custom checks for Webkit "Safe C++".

Commercial tools like PVS and Coventry, or those used in high integrity computing, also allow for rule customisation.

However the first step is to use anything at all, a challenge since lint was born in 1979.
by edd25 | 2025-09-19 15:24:15+00:00
This looks awesome! I've been struggling fine tuning using Discord messages from my server (for memes), issues with CUDA mostly. Will defo try this out!

On a side note, has anyone tried something similar? I have 100K messages and want to make a "dumb persona" which reflects the general Discord server vibe. I don't really care if it's accurate. What models would be most suitable for this task? My setup is not that powerful: 4070S, 32GB of RAM for training, Lenovo M715q for running with, Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE, 16GB of memory.
by ToDougie | 2025-09-19 15:24:45+00:00
Lest we forget:

"The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer," Milton said. "That's the standard language for computer programmers around the world, so using it let's us build our own chips. And HTML 5 is very secure. Every component is linked on the data network, all speaking the same language. It's not a bunch of separate systems that somehow still manage to communicate."

https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-... - April 24, 2019