MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexjplant | 2025-10-20 06:29:47+00:00
The N64's processor had triple the clock speed of the Playstation's on top of having more RAM (up to 8MB versus the 3MB of the Playstation). Its graphics subsystem could also do perspective-correct texture mapping and push more polygons per second. It also had a hardware FPU which the Playstation notably lacked. It's pretty widely acknowledged that the N64's Achilles heel was its small texture cache which caused developers to use lower-resolution textures with heavy anti-aliasing than they otherwise would. This results in the characteristic smeary look of N64 games versus the Playstation's wobbly, pixelated aesthetic. You probably thought the PS1 looked better because of the more detailed textures.

I've no doubt (as a thoroughly amateur video game historian) that with a few small tweaks Nintendo would have ate Sony's lunch that generation. In that alternate universe Sega would have had better developer support for the Saturn and done crazy stuff with their super-wacky architecture too but I digress...
by tock | 2025-10-20 06:29:57+00:00
> if you care about democracy

I do

> they are the only power that can arguably undermine it

Stares at current administration

> tiktok

Meta. Myanmar. Report: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

> fueling division

Again stares at current administration

> funding antidemocratic parties like Germany's AfD

Elon. Vance. Report: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/us/politics/vance-far-rig...

> support of Russia in their war of conquest against Ukraine

Agree. Looks over at Palestine.

> the treatment of their neighbors like the Philippines

Venezuela. Today.
by dluan | 2025-10-20 06:31:18+00:00
I don't know enough of the fine details, but I believe Andre when he says he was acting in the best interest of the community and in his job as a maintainer, and his actions were exacerbated by the lack of clarity from Ruby Central. I don't know about the previous politics between Andre and Ruby Central when their orgs merged, but based on the comments from the other Ruby Central maintainers, I will always side with maintainers first.
by KronisLV | 2025-10-20 06:32:08+00:00
> We have the DevOps knowledge on our team to go to containers, prepackaged dev environments, etc.

This is lovely to strive towards and going all in on containers (albeit not with Kubernetes) has worked out great for where I work; their resistance to the approach sucks, I'm sorry you have to deal with that. Hope it works out in the end.
by whatever1 | 2025-10-20 06:35:04+00:00
Not even the Party claims that China is capitalistic. I don't see the point you are trying to make.

You cannot succeed or do any sort of business in China unless you have the blessings of the Party.

Whether your are an unimportant shop owner or Jack Fucking Ma.

When the time comes to close completely the borders, the Party will not look at the stock market or the house prices. They will do what they think is the best, for itself.

These are not new things, they happened in the previous generation in Eastern Europe.
by js8 | 2025-10-20 06:36:02+00:00
Because it is the simplest thing we have, and has a pretty straightforward self-interpreter.

It feels like you need a lot more metamathematics to deal with typed lambda calculus than with untyped one, and types are something that comes without a justification.

Anyway, the idea is, if you have a language, you can think of source code written in the language as a giant lambda term, where you have all lambdas upfront and only composition in the body. A tree of symbols to be composed, essentially. And then to interpret this source code in a language, you supply definitions of the language's primitives as arguments to the source code term.

Now if your language is typed, the primitives need to be chosen in such a way, so that the interpreted term (the source code applied to language primitives) fails to normalize if the program is not typed correctly.

You can then have a correspondence between the primitives of the typed language that typecheck and simpler set of primitives of the same language used purely for computation, used under the assumption that the program typechecks. This correspondence "defines" the typing mechanism of your language (in untyped lambda terms).
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-20 06:37:24+00:00
There is a world outside the USA where most of what you wrote doesn’t apply.

Here I think the labelling doesn’t really make sense but it never does anyway and pretty much means "this content is part of a corpus American think is objectionable and wouldn’t want to be seen with in public”.

I enjoy the controversy for putting in light the usual imperial blindness however.
by Munksgaard | 2025-10-20 06:39:07+00:00
As someone who comes from Haskell/ML-like languages, I decided to opt for Elixir and Phoenix for my latest project, simply because of the maturity of the web framework and LiveView. If I weren't building a web app, I'd probably have gone with Gleam instead.

Edit: I do miss static typing, but it's worth it to not have to reinvent the web framework wheels myself.
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-10-20 06:40:24+00:00
I liked how Karpathy explained part of this problem as "silent collapse" in his recent Dwarkesh podcast. Meaning the models tend to fall into a local minima situation of using a few output wording templates for a large number of similar questions, and this lack of entropy diversity it becomes a tough hard to detect problem when doing distillation or synthetic data generation in general. These algorithms as nice python functions are also useful repurposed for labeling parts of ontology and topic clusters etc [1]. Will definitely star and keep an eye on the repo !

[1] https://jina.ai/news/submodular-optimization-for-text-select...
by rswail | 2025-10-20 06:42:07+00:00
To be fair, every developing industrial nation has done this, including the US in the late 19th century, the Asian "tigers" during the 80s/90s and others.

Personally, I don't find anything particularly immoral or unethical about the Chinese actions. Respect for intellectual property regimes only applies with nations that have IP to protect.

Note that China has become more protective of IP rights as they advance to be a major player in the initial development of technology rather than "just" the manufacturing hub.
by chao- | 2025-10-20 06:42:57+00:00
I'll never forget the big, dumb gorilla on the side of my mid-2000's 7900 GTX from a King Kong game tie-in product launch. Never played the game, but when I'm installing a GPU I sometimes think of that stupid decal and chuckle.

Searched and managed to find an image:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/144323l/great...
by pols45 | 2025-10-20 06:43:07+00:00
Ages ago I used work on the code for wikipedia's infoboxes and to make testing less boring, had a list thousands of famous people. The test script would pick one randomly to populate the info box. After many months of staring at the spouse list of famous people, it felt like literally all of them had been married multiple times. Maybe its just natural and affordable for people who are doing well. And maybe successful women just need to target younger men who communicate their issues better, and aren't carrying as much older belief baggage.
by usr1106 | 2025-10-20 06:43:56+00:00
I luckily hardly use any Windows so I refrain from commenting on its (maintenance) quality.

But I have to use another MS product daily: Teams. It's a product with very poor usability. Even simple things like tracking which message you have read and which one you haven't don't get better upgrade after upgrade. I am sure they have a huge development budget and tons of paid developers. The number of paid developers can be completely uncorrelated to quality.

(I am sure zulip has just a little fraction of paid developers, but it is a program in the same domain that works muuuch better.)
Show HN: MoraCode – AI assistance on large/multi-repo codebases
by nemanjar | 2025-10-20 06:44:02+00:00
We built MoraCode, a JetBrains IDE plugin that helps navigate large and messy codebases—including multi-repo workspaces—using an index-first approach. Instead of heavy file-system crawling, we rely on an AI code index for context, which often reduces the number of agent turns needed to answer questions. It’s multi-repo aware, so you can combine several repositories in a single conversation. Running multiple tools concurrently helps reduce turnaround. It’s privacy-first/BYOK: your code goes directly to the LLM you choose, and indexes plus API keys stay local. It works with OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and others.

We’d love feedback on how well it ranks relevance in monorepos and multi-repo workspaces, how it behaves on very large codebases (and any comparisons you’ve tried with other tools), which latency and embedding/provider setups worked or didn’t, and which features you consider must-haves.

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by IMSAI8080 | 2025-10-20 06:46:02+00:00
I think it comes from a marketing exaggeration of what the card could do. None of the cards of the day could actually produce their own box art (in real time) but the art implies they could in a way they can get away with. It follows the tradition of box art on 8-bit games wildly exaggerating what the in-game graphics might look like and they'd sometimes post a tiny disclaimer in the corner.
by krige | 2025-10-20 06:46:51+00:00
Well there is still an NPC that proclaims Kirkbride's drug binge fueled [affectionately] lore.

Besides, in Skyrim you eat souls of hitherto immortal beings in an act of metaphysical cannibalism, and, among other things, get to witness firsthand exactly what happens to those souls you trap to fuel your fancy sword of zapping.

Meanwhile, in the background, Vivec might or might not have been kidnapped to be on the receiving end of that spear thing, and fascist elves are trying their hardest to undo the universe (it's not plot pertinent though), and also briefly did (or claimed to do) something to the moons (that are not moons, remember) that terrified an entire race into submission.

The point is, the lore is still there. You just have to pay attention, because it's not always spelled outright.
by squigz | 2025-10-20 06:47:52+00:00
So... what's the big deal? Putting aside the various arguments whether religious texts should be marked as such, the wording of this policy, etc, etc... literally what difference does it make that these apps now have this flag? Do people think users will see this flag and be like, "Oh dear me I had no idea the Bible was NSFW; won't be reading that now!"?

Just confused about the outrage.
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-10-20 06:48:13+00:00
The best way I like to summarize the absolute crisis in education is like this:

A plant meticulously cloned and grown within constrained pot sizes, to exact specifications, given nutrient pellets at exact regular intervals, and grown under meticulously calculated artificial lighting will form a completely different plant than one that grows in the absolute wild.

But one that grows in the wild is growing as is required for it's own perpetuation and flourishment with it's place in the environment.

Our education systems are increasingly and perhaps for quite some time now been far too much of the former.

And that many (myself included) educated under that former kind of system are now not adjusted for thriving as PLANTS_IN_THE_WILD (Humans as humans, not as [half-baked, politically-expedient, last-thursday-created metric] achiever).
by chao- | 2025-10-20 06:48:18+00:00
Years ago, I picked up a low profile, single-slot GPU that worked well in Linux to throw in old machines when someone gives me one to mess with or recover. The best fit at the time was a Yeston AMD card, and in a world of cards that are all "Black with {{primary_color}}" the choice of blinding magenta made me smile.
by piker | 2025-10-20 06:48:47+00:00
This looks really cool for prototyping and playing around.

It seems to me though if one is building a modern application that needs to get image segmentation and/or text recognition right there are better APIs available than natural language? It seems like a lot of effort to make a production-scale CV application to weigh it down with all of an LLM’s shortcomings. Not a field I’m familiar with but I would assume that this doesn’t produce state of the art results—that would change the analysis.
by nevon | 2025-10-20 06:49:06+00:00
The company I work for has a similar, yet even worse instance of this. The employee satisfaction survey was advertised as anonymous, but when I looked into the implementation they were just hashing the email address, of which there were only a few thousand. A more conspiratorial mind would conclude that it is to easily be able to find who a particular piece of feedback came from, but in this case I legitimately think it's just incompetence and not being able to figure out a better way of ensuring each employee can only submit the survey once.

This year it's advertised as confidential, rather than anonymous, so I suppose that is an improvement.
by tempestn | 2025-10-20 06:49:29+00:00
TIL it's estimated that over 48 tons of meteors hit the atmosphere every day.

Regarding actual space elevators though, while they're not sci-fi to the extent of something like FTL travel - ie. they're technically not physically impossible - they're still pretty firmly in the realm of sci-fi. We don't have anything close to a cable that could sustain its own weight, let alone that of whatever is being elevated. Plus, how do you stabilize the cable and lifter in the atmosphere?

A space elevator on the moon is much more feasible: less gravity, slow rotation, no atmosphere, less dangerous debris. But it's also much less useful.
by miclys | 2025-10-20 06:50:11+00:00
Microsoft Research proposes BitNet Distillation, a pipeline that converts existing full precision LLMs into 1.58 bit BitNet students for specific tasks, while keeping accuracy close to the FP16 teacher and improving CPU efficiency. The method combines SubLN based architectural refinement, continued pre training, and dual signal distillation from logits and multi head attention relations. Reported results show up to 10× memory savings and about 2.65× faster CPU inference, with task metrics comparable to FP16 across multiple sizes.
by extr | 2025-10-20 06:50:19+00:00
Yeah of course, same here for formatting. But in the world of LLM agents it's pretty easy to have formatting issues sneak by without the IDE being involved. It's a very quick and easy check.

For type checking, I guess that makes sense if your unit tests are small and quick. At work type checking our entire codebase can take like 10-15 seconds with a cold cache, but running all unit tests takes 20 minutes (and multiple shards in CI). Seems like a no brainer to just run the cheap one more often.
by uecker | 2025-10-20 06:50:34+00:00
This is missing the point. The issue with "configure" is that it is easy to hide malicious code in it because it is so arcane. The issue with "curl | bash" is that - on top - there is not even a proper trust chain and independent verification. "curl | bash" needs to die. Any project who promotes this does not care or does not understand security. "configure" was a necessary evil in the past with all commercial UNIX working differently. Nowadays I think it should go away.
by Veedrac | 2025-10-20 06:53:13+00:00
> Let’s start with an example: (2#x)#1,x#0 is code from the official q phrasebook for constructing an x-by-x identity matrix.

Is this... just to be clever? Why not

(!x)=/:!x

aka. the identity matrix is defined as having ones on the diagonal? Bonus points AI will understand the code better.
by watwut | 2025-10-20 06:54:43+00:00
> Don't get me wrong, effectively surfacing unappreciated research is great and extremely valuable. So there's a real thing here but with the wrong headline attached to it.

If I said that I solved a problem, but actually I took a solution for an old book, people would call me a liar. If I was prominent person, it would be academic fraud incident. No one would be saying that "I did extremely valuable thing" or "there was a real thing here".
by brosco | 2025-10-20 06:55:45+00:00
Good point! I used to be guilty of this myself, so now I'm pretty sensitive about other people doing it. I am now one of the more senior students in an academic research group, and some of the younger members would benefit from this advice. I think it's a symptom of sophomorism, and hopefully most will grow out of it.

I agree it's especially frustrating when they don't even get it right. That crosses the line for me, and I will admonish them to let me finish what I am saying.
by sthlmb | 2025-10-20 06:56:15+00:00
It's a little bigger than what I imagine you're looking for, but the Radxa 5 ITX (not the ITX+) has 4 SATA ports, PoE+ (via a separate module), 2x2.5GbE, and the RK3588 SoC - I've been testing OpenMediaVault on it for the last couple of weeks and it's been pretty solid. If you're fine with M.2, the Radxa ROCK 5B+ has 2 M.2 M-Key connectors, the same RK3588 SoC, and PoE via a HAT bought separately.

Otherwise, there are dual NVMe HATs for the Raspberry Pi 5 but you'll be splitting a single PCIe Gen 2 lane across both drives (unless you go for the much more expensive HATs that have a Gen 3 PCIe switch on them to then share a single Gen 3 lane across them!)
by comex | 2025-10-20 06:56:31+00:00
I used this a very long time ago and rather disliked it. My impression at the time was that it was just a worse version of C. As low-level as C, with fewer features, and much slower - unlike a normal scripting language which is slower but higher-level with more features.

They've since changed the language syntax, but this is the version I was dealing with:

https://wiki.alliedmods.net/Introduction_to_SourcePawn_(lega...

No structs/classes/objects. No pointers. You had to store everything with arrays of primitives.
by koliber | 2025-10-20 06:57:01+00:00
What does it mean to provide services in a jurisdiction?

4chan offers services at it's web servers which are in the US. People from the UK come over, access the servers in the US, and then import the content they see into the UK. 4chan is offering services locally in the US. People come from all over the place to access those services in the US.
by krackers | 2025-10-20 06:57:27+00:00
The paper is more interesting than just another VLM for OCR, they start talking about compression and stuff. E.g. there is this quote

>Our work represents an initial exploration into the boundaries of vision-text compression, investigating how many vision tokens are required to decode text tokens. The preliminary results are encouraging: DeepSeek-OCR achieves near-lossless OCR compression at approximately 10× ratios, while 20× compression still retains 60% accuracy.

(I guess you could say a picture token is worth 10 textual tokens...)

Could someone explain to a noob what the information-theoretic intuition is here? Why does this work, is it that text tokens are still too "granular"/repetitive and don't come close to the ideal entropy coding? Or is switching to vision tokens escaping the limitation of working "one word-ish at a time", allowing you to get closer to entropy (similar to the way that arithmetic encoding does compared to huffman codes)?

And then they start talking about handling long-context by literally(?) downscaling images, forming a correspondence between information loss in the textual domain and the image domain.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-20 06:57:34+00:00
I think it's more a correlation than a causation, and I think it's the other way around.

It's not "I tend to not want to work with people who name-drop RFCs", it's "people I don't want to work with tend to name-drop RFCs".

And PKI engineers are cool (and a lot smarter than me).
by madaxe_again | 2025-10-20 06:57:34+00:00
The reality of what is in the bible is not, no. It is written, in black and white. Yes you could argue about gnostic gospels and shit but what people accept to be the Bible has been a static set of texts for centuries now.

Now, anyway, you need to stop talking smack about my mother, and I disliked the death threat you made just there, and I don’t need to know about what you do with fish in the bedroom.
by Aachen | 2025-10-20 06:58:32+00:00
I think cops here can pull anyone over any time for a check of driver's license and car papers, also outside of a checkpoint. To look in your trunk or do other actions, they need suspicion though, but that's extremely easily obtained ("I smelled weed" is unfalsifiable as a subjective opinion). They also have discretion: they can see your license expired last week and send you on your merry way with a warning afaik (bad crimes is where they have to act, like conspiracy to murder as an obvious example). Of course, this is most likely with a good excuse (if you have your route navigation device already set to the office where you can renew your licence, say). It goes too far to say that we like cops here (especially people with any amount of pigment are always (among) the chosen ones in random checks afaik), but police are portrayed a positive force that's there to make things better in general and that's I guess why we trust them to be reasonable and use their best judgment to find a solution when each situation is different. Some parties (that usually also happen to be racist) would love to tear this down with more shows of force by police, and harsher and minimum punishments that judges (the third "independent" govt branch) then can't override anymore per case. This is scientifically proven to be not just ineffective but actually countereffective, but who needs science when you can have rhetoric? With them being the biggest two parties now, with the next one the polar opposite, it's looking bleak for justice in the Netherlands' near future. Forget climate, I'm not even sure how to fight for the good things we already had :( Idk to what extent you found this interesting but I thought it could be an interesting window into how things are handled and going in our tiny corner of the world :)

As for the actual question (finally replying to your first paragraph now): sorta. GDPR has exceptions for law enforcement. Pretty broad ones for actual enforcement, iirc much less so for e.g. a statistics bureau or random other government services. If the municipality wants to put up a camera in the busiest places, I think they can use the same argumentation as a private person about their need being greater than people's privacy there, and I'd imagine a judge or privacy agency are more likely to accept it because it's less likely to be abused (the people monitoring the cameras are bound by rules that the organisation makes, and not personally involved) and that changes the up-/downsides analysis. You, the govt, and businesses always need to hang a sign, also on private property (to avoid someone spies on housemates or guests), afaik a judge needs to stamp when a camera needs to be placed secretly somewhere for a defined duration and purpose
by hommes-r | 2025-10-20 06:59:30+00:00
My personal opinion is that true engineering, which revolves around turning complex theory into working practice, has seen a decline in grace. Why spend a lot of time trying to master the art of engineering if you can ride the wave of engineering services and get away with it?

In true hacker spirit, I don't think trying to train a model on a wonky GPU is something that needs an ROI for the individual engineer. It's something they do because they yearn to acquire knowledge.