MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by waynesonfire | 2025-10-25 03:31:10+00:00
The last paragraph in the article states how Fedora uses lockdev(3) to somehow address the issue. It's not clear to me how a library that exposes a standardized management interface to these locks enables non-root users to create them without a world writable lock directory. Is it that lockdev(3) allows the system to use a different directory?

Secondly, it's suggested that the /run/lock directory and/or the solution of acquiring a lock for a shared resources is dated -- but, no mention of the "modern" way to address this? Is it implied that systemd offers a solution to this? What is it?

PS lockdev has such a poorly written manpage.
by devmor | 2025-10-25 03:31:31+00:00
No, your original understanding was the more correct one. There is absolutely zero logic to be found inside an LLM, other than coincidentally.

What you are seeing is a semi-randomized prediction engine. It does not "know" things, it only shows you an approximation of what a completion of its system prompt and your prompt combined would look like, when extrapolated from its training corpus.

What you've mistaken for a "logical model" is simply a large amount of repeated information. To show the difference between this and logic, you need only look at something like the "seahorse emoji" case.
by glxxyz | 2025-10-25 03:32:23+00:00
People told me that, but I did the calculations myself and the impact on my energy bills is real. Net metering is essential though, so not everyone can do it.

Compared to say SoCal I generate 2/3 as much per year, much less evenly- a lot more in summer than winter, whereas further south there's less variation year round. Cooler temperatures improve solar panel efficiency too. There are online solar potential calculators if you want to compare for yourself.
by derbOac | 2025-10-25 03:32:24+00:00
It's been decades (?) since I read the paper, but I think the questioner is key for multiple reasons, especially if you consider a generalized iterated version of the Turing test as it develops into the future.

I think the general idea is about being able to detect a difference between a machine and human, not whether the human alone can guess, as you're pointing to. In a general case, you can think of the questioner as some kind of detector, a classification system, an algorithm or method.

Let's say the classification system, the questioner, is able to be improved, and in this sense, there develops a kind of adversarial or challenge relationship between the AI developer and the questioner developer. Both improve, such that the AI becomes more humanlike, the questioner is improved and then can tell the difference again, and so forth and so on. Whether or not the AI "passes" the test isn't a static outcome; it likely passes, then fails, then passes again and so forth as the AI and questioner improve.

What's key is that you could argue that what happens is the AI becomes more humanlike, but at the same time the questioner also develops a more detailed model or representation of what it means to be humanlike. In this case, you could argue that the questioner must develop some descriptive representation of "human-likeness" that's just as sophisticated as the AI instantiates it, and what likely would occur is that the AI would become more humanlike in response to the improved respresentations and classification of the questioner. The questioner in some sense is a kind of mirror image instantiation of humanness as that represented by the AI, and vice versa.

It's the questioner in this iterated Turing test that ensures the AI becomes more humanlike, maybe to an extent the humans themselves aren't able to understand or recognize during the test. The AI wouldn't necessarily be imitating the human, it would be imitating what the questioner thinks is human.
by EngCanMan | 2025-10-25 03:32:34+00:00
Umm, I encourage you to do that math a little closer. A contractor would have to;

Come to your house to quote, and only land 1/4 quotes maybe.

Schedule the workers

Order the equipment.

Get an electrical permit.

Pay for the truck and all the tools.

Insurance for the company and trucks.

Advertising costs

Warranty and callbacks

I can assure you that this is not the get rich quick scheme you may think it is.
by MBCook | 2025-10-25 03:33:59+00:00
No, that’s a stupid question. Is Excel responsible financial fraud? It’s just software.

It’s the company behind the chatbot is the target here and the one who should be held responsible. All they had to do was add the word “maker” or “author” to the headline.

Messing with people’s emotions is damn dangerous. Especially teens. I hope something comes of this.
by zippyman55 | 2025-10-25 03:34:47+00:00
Do you have someone functioning as senior engineer? That person should help establish the direction. Sometimes people think they are smarter than the head engineer and you get a lot of non congruent engineering that is hard to unwind from. I’d review the landscape and see what support you and your team is getting and what support this guy is getting. Who does his reviews? Do you have input? Could you influence his removal or not? He may be resentful that he is not running the team. After reviewing what levers you have, I’d consider meeting him in your office. Let him know you want to discuss some things. Let him know you will want to hear from him. Explain that it’s a challenge running the group, historically there have been issues even before you showed up. Point out that many skills are needed to run the group, and when he acts a certain way, it’s way harder for you and his is also demonstrating he is weak in these executive level skills. Then listen to him in his points. Discuss if relevant. Does he have points or is he a nut. Then, tell him you need to re-baseline expectations. Explain how things need to operate. Summarize the discussion in email and send it to him. Separately send a write up to your boss in the conversation. Again, this is not an attempt to throw him under the bus, just to get him aligned with direction. But if the re-baseline of expectations fails, you can work to take more steps regarding his review. I wonder if your team does not have a good well defined engineering leader.
by CTDOCodebases | 2025-10-25 03:38:05+00:00
If anything the "highest hacker to user ratio" has diminished since then.

Hardware compatibility was a major issue. Even if hardware was compatible with Linux it often wouldn't work out of the box. Most homes had only a single internet connected device so if you borked your system you had to have friends that would know how to guide you to fix it over the phone or you had to travel to someone else house to check the internet then come back and try what you wrote down. Users who had no patience for this would get filtered out of the userbase.
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-25 03:38:23+00:00
>I suppose, however, that the majority of low-population states were also frontier states, seems like a fairly compelling distinction.

Not so much, unless you consider Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont to be "frontier" states in 1787. Actual frontier states like Georgia were in favor of the Virginia Plan as they figured their population would grow soon enough and they could take advantage of their eventual large population (with slaves being counted as 3/5 of a person) in a "Virginia Plan" world.

The Connecticut Compromise[0][3] ended up in the Constitution as a reconciliation of the Virginia Plan[1][4] and the New Jersey Plan[2][5], with the larger states supporting the Virginia Plan and smaller states supported the New Jersey Plan.

The above is incredibly abridged and ignores much context. As such, I strongly recommend you read Article I, Sections 2 and 3 of the US Constitution[7] (the result of the Connecticut Compromise) as well as the original Virginia and New Jersey plans, or at least the wikipedia pages I linked for a much better discourse on the topic.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Plan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Plan

[3] The current system. Which differs from the original only in direct election of Senators, rather than them being appointed by state legislatures[6].

[4] Proposed a bicameral legislature with both houses apportioned by population.

[5] Proposed a unicameral legislature with one vote per state.

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_U...

[7] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Edit: Added the missing link.
by eviks | 2025-10-25 03:39:29+00:00
> want the app to try and highlight it based on an assumed syntax,

It will take you less time to figure out how to disable highlighting than how to do line wrapping in the primitive app

https://superuser.com/questions/80896/how-to-disable-line-wr...

> start indenting things, or whatever else it will try and do.

Nothing, they'll try to do nothing. Sublime Text doesn't even have a package manager embedded. Also, see the previous point
by komali2 | 2025-10-25 03:41:28+00:00
> Once we had some of that sales pipeline working, I had a dreadful moment where I realized that I would struggle immensely to participate in a conventional job search again because the idea that you need permission to earn money is sort of ridiculous, but it’s the only model that most people in corporate environments have ever experienced.

Various really smart people in our world keep rewriting Marx and it makes me wonder how different our working conditions would be if people read a little outside the "Chicago school of economics" validated selection of books about economics, rather than occasionally stumbling across things that have already been discovered and discussed extensively the last two centuries.
by antasvara | 2025-10-25 03:43:29+00:00
Having been through Montessori, I think it's fantastic for kids that are naturally self-driven. I had a great time when it came to learning science and English (the two subjects I cared the most about).

Howrver, I was also pretty far behind in math for reasons unrelated to ability (standardized testing and secondary educational success indicate that I'm actually pretty good at math). I also left with very underdeveloped time management and study skills.

Could these downsides have been mitigated? Definitely, and my parents largely made sure they were. But in talking to my peers at the time, my parents after the fact, and parents of to hers that went to Montessori schools, I think the general idea holds.

Point being that self driven education is fantastic for a lot of reasons. But it will also let a lot of kids stay far behind their ability if not carefully monitored.
by alexpetros | 2025-10-25 03:44:27+00:00
> Purists have long claimed that a “truly” RESTful API should be fully self-describing, such that a client can explore and interact with it knowing nothing but an entrypoint in advance, with hyperlinks providing all necessary context to discover and consume additional endpoints.

> This never worked in practice. Building hypertext APIs was too cumbersome and to actually consume APIs a human needed to understand the API structure in a useful manner anyway.

Every time I read one of these comments I feel like DiCaprio's character in Inception going "but we did grow old together." HATEOAS worked phenomenally. Every time you go to a webpage with buttons and links in HTML that describe what the webpage is capable of (its API, if you will), you are doing HATEOAS [0]. That this interface can be consumed by both a user (via the browser) and a web scraper (via some other program) is the foundation of modern web infrastructure.

It's a little ironic that the explosion of information made possible by HATEOAS happened while the term it self largely got misunderstood, but such is life. Much like reclaiming the proper usage of its close cousin, "REST," using HATEOAS correctly is helpful for properly identifying what made the world's largest hypermedia system successful—useful if you endeavor to design a new one [1].

[0] https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/

[1] https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/why-insist-on-a-word/
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-25 03:45:29+00:00
>The Bible is the source of law here. My point was that interpreting it solely in the way you deem "obvious" does not work: you cannot have "thou shalt not murder" on its own without additional rules clarifying what counts as "murder" and what counts as "lawful killing" - and the Bible contains plenty of those.

It is obvious to people who know the Bible lol. It may have lots of contradictions but this isn't one of them. Murder was understood in a particular way to these ancient people, that still applies to us today.

>That's how you interpret it. Modern law allows for killing out of greed - if the soldier firing the bullet is different from the politician wanting to capture some resources.

As I said, I am not referring to laws of any country. The laws of modern countries are irrelevant to interpretation of the Bible. The dictionary does not count either.

>Looping back to the original discussion: contrary to what ikiris was originally claiming it is not "thou shalt not kill" but "thou shalt not murder", and we've been updating the definition of "murder" (and by extent the meaning of "thou shalt not murder") quite a lot over the last few thousand years, so it is false to claim that " 'thou shalt not kill' never needs an update ".

The only thing that needs an update is the translation. The meaning is very clear and universal. Don't kill people except in self-defense. It is just as antisocial today as it was thousands of years ago.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-10-25 03:47:13+00:00
I don't know, probably not. My dad has wet macular degeneration, and it's treated with injections into the eyeball every few months. The treatment works well, but timing the injections is tricky. Too often and the side-effects become significant. Not often enough and you can get a retinal bleed, which my dad did. Fortunately he regained most of the vision lost in the bleed, and now they've increased the frequency of the injections. He'd probably be blind by now without them. Not to mention the cataract surgery and the glaucoma...

It isn't carrots.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-10-25 03:49:25+00:00
>"The GizmoEdge Server receives a SQL query from the client, parses it, and generates two statements:

o A worker SQL to execute on each distributed node

o A combinatorial SQL to run server-side for final aggregation"

A specific instance of MapReduce (using SQL!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-25 03:52:26+00:00
Lol yes... I've heard some alternative explanations of this. The Ten Commandments are not recognized outside of Christianity. They are just some important general sounding rules in a book that is full of rules for Jews, who get into battles with other people at times. Many of those rules in the same book have prescribed punishments of stoning to death, as well. So clearly, killing is at least allowed for purposes of punishment and warfare. Common sense also tells us that no religion can realistically prohibit self-defense.
by kstenerud | 2025-10-25 03:53:07+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20241219125418/https://social.tr...

In a nutshell:

> Getting hibernate to work would mean a metric truckload of work on the drivers to support restoring firmware state. Not happening any time soon, it's basically forever the bottom of the priority list and we're unlikely to ever run out of other things to work on first.

> Fixing PM with no documentation is a game of trial and error. You do "more things" like macOS and hope that one of them reduces power consumption.

> It definitely isn't obvious what we're missing, and we don't know what the real answer is going to be. If we did, it would already be fixed.
by JojoFatsani | 2025-10-25 03:53:41+00:00
This. You’re the boss, would you let your grade school kid keep talking back to you like this? You are the authority figure here. I seriously doubt he will begin to treat you any differently unless he has some fear put in him (and a slim chance even if that happens)

I would suggest that to come out on top here that you need to pitch a perfect game from here on out, even if it means following some suggestion from this guy or something. Being correct and being willing to verbalize when you don’t know something or don’t know the ideal answer to a situation is the number one trick to establishing a reputation as a rockstar IMO. That may give you a lot of sway.

Keep a great paper trail both on this guy and to cover your own ass.

I would probably begin building a case to fire him, aka “managing him out”.

I would start by documenting every incident and every fuckup by this guy in detail with links to tickets, slack and commits related to problems he has caused. Meeting notes about his poor professionalism could be used against him. You need that evidence, once you have a pretty good book on him, 5-10 incidents, especially with production downtime or company revenue ramifications, and you will have a good base with which to PIP him.

Make life as uncomfortable for him as possible while remaining professional. What’s the worst thing that happens, he quits? As long as you document the shit out of everything he does wrong, your ass is covered.

Best of luck, I can’t stand obnoxious people at work so I hope you can get him his comeuppance.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-10-25 03:53:49+00:00
You're onto something. BabyLM competition had caps. Many LLM's were using 1TB training data for some time.

In many cases, I can't even see how many GPU hours or what size cluster of what GPU's the pretraining required. If I can't afford it, then it doesn't matter what it achieved. What I can afford is what I have to choose from.
by sterlind | 2025-10-25 03:53:54+00:00
laughs in NixOS

it's remarkable to me that NixOS manages to run so well despite breaking the FHS so thoroughly. and not just in superficial ways like not calling it /bin, I mean forsaking dynamic linking (hence /var/lib and /usr/lib), keeping man pages, resources and config bundled into the same derivation as the binary sometimes, and occasionally hacking up binary blobs to rewrite rpaths.

on the other hand, there's a place for legacy distros too.
by schoen | 2025-10-25 03:55:16+00:00
One thing that amuses me is that this could mean "health" (in Latin) or "anything goes" (in Portuguese; normally two words). They're actually from the same root (valeo, 'to be well, to be OK, to be valid'; I think the oldest meaning is 'to be strong'), then with the Latin suffix -tudo (like our -tude, meaning the state or condition of being a certain way), or the separate Portuguese word tudo 'everything' (originally from Latin totum, meaning 'all, entire').

So, the Latin one is like "OK-ness", and the Portuguese one is like "everything is OK" (here in the more modern sense of being allowed, rather than the older sense of being in good condition).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/valetudo

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vale-tudo
by rssmith121999 | 2025-10-25 03:55:42+00:00
Short answer, no. Long convoluted, nuanced and layered answer, maybe. The bot possesses no will or intent of its own, it is probably just using probabilities to generate the next iteration of the conversation being presented by the user. Now if the company is proven to have had an already known issue and ignored the potential problems with flagrant abandon, then there may be some sort of civil case, and the true intention of the case filer can be seen by how they proceed in pre-trial negotiations.
by afro88 | 2025-10-25 03:55:55+00:00
We use it in my team and it works well enough, but iOS is a bit second class citizen. Everything translates to Obj-C (NSObject at the root), so even something as simple as a data class becomes NSObjects with a cumbersome dev experience rather than a native swift enum.

We're looking forward to native swift export to go stable - it's currently experimental / beta.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-25 03:56:30+00:00
This is actually a really interesting point. English portmanteaus usually work by combining all of one word with "half" (broadly construed) of the second word. Nopert fits the pattern precisely, including all of nope and half of Rupert.

The reason I find this so interesting is that Mandarin Chinese portmanteaus take a different standard form: instead of combining all of one word with half of the other word, they combine half of one word with half of the other word.

Think about how much you'd need to know about the structure of an arbitrary language before you'd feel confident predicting how it creates portmanteaus.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-10-25 03:56:59+00:00
2k NZD to install minisplit vs 160KWh per winter month to heat my bedroom. Thats about $150 in power or 16 yrs to pay itself at COP 5. Or install 1 additional $130 solar panel to make about 650 KWh per year.

Makes sense for living room tho.
by maxutility | 2025-10-25 03:57:49+00:00
Previous discussion of the offending claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633482

An OpenAI researcher tweeted: “ Using thousands of GPT5 queries, we found solutions to 10 Erdős problems that were listed as open: 223, 339, 494, 515, 621, 822, 883 (part 2/2), 903, 1043, 1079.

Additionally for 11 other problems, GPT5 found significant partial progress that we added to the official website: 32, 167, 188, 750, 788, 811, 827, 829, 1017, 1011, 1041. For 827, Erdős's original paper actually contained an error, and the work of Martínez and Roldán-Pensado explains this and fixes the argument.”

This was taken (out of context?) to be claiming ChatGPT solved the open problems, when in fact it “just” found them through a literature review. (Though an earlier tweet in the same thread made the literature review interpretation more explicitly)

The ensuing controversy around whether there was false hype buried a potentially significant demonstration of LLMs’ ability to unlock lost and forgotten knowledge in a way Sebastien explains and makes the case here as being a big deal.