MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-31 19:39:04+00:00
> I don't believe that EU will have comparable quality "tech" without restricting US market access in EU.

> Sure, EU doesn't need to discover everything again but they will need to pay top talent world class money for years until their products become refined.

Just like the US didn't need to rediscover the inventions of cars, submarines, the web, the printed press and more to be able to build better iterations on those, wouldn't the exact same apply the other way?

It feels like whatever you're saying today could be said the other way in the past, so why does it really matter?

The fact on the ground is that people don't trust the US overall as much, even less the leadership of the US, so whatever dependency has been built up over the years, has to be fixed, no matter if the "local" technology is shittier at the moment.

I'm sure Americans felt the same about printing presses back in the day, where some things you just have to be able to do without needing the permission of others far away.
by bebb | 2025-10-31 19:39:12+00:00
I did the same to some old tracks, feeding them into Suno with different style requests, and it was fascinating. It didn't quite hit the mark on a whole-song scale but I enjoyed the exploration of ideas and genres.

If I could compare Suno to anything it'd be like having a studio full of rather disobedient and unpredictable session musicians available 24/7.

Even that's not quite what one gets as if you listen closely enough it doesn't really sound like a recording. Like the reverb is all over the place and there are certain other artefacts that are hard to describe but gratingly noticeable once you've spotted them.
by davsti4 | 2025-10-31 19:39:45+00:00
One word answer - security.

Any website you visit could have been compromised and serving malicious content. Upon first visit to a website, I block all connections to domains not in the address bar, then go back in and add rules to allow connections as needed. It doesn't address malicious activity by the site directly, like a server compromise, but does limit non-addressed connections, including ones to local addresses.

For example, a compromise of .google.com which leveraged assets/code from .googleusercontent.com wouldn't initially be able to run, unless I added a rule to allow the connection. Likewise, a compromise of *.discord.com that made a connection to localhost:8983, then tried to send that data to someserver.ru would get blocked and logged. Where this can't protect me is if the server sends the mined data back to itself, then forwards that data on using its own connection.

Ad networks sell to anyone. Malicious content can be injected almost anywhere. Its happened before; it'll happen again. This web browsing hygiene has protected me enough times for me to make it my standard practice.
by yesfitz | 2025-10-31 19:39:49+00:00
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28411712

I was originally critical of this piece because I work in a highly regulated industry (and silos can lead to compliance issues), but after a little more consideration, I realized I see re-siloing happening organically due to lines of business competing for scarce resources.

For example:

Because everyone needs Team X to complete their projects, Team X's leadership has to decide how to allocate their time. This rarely makes the lines of business feel like their needs are fulfilled. So different lines of business start building back channels to members of Team X, in a bid to get an advocate for their projects.

Eventually, a line of business might hire a Business Analyst just to deal with Team X.

I guess an alternative would be to embed a member of Team X with the line of business. They're dedicated, but could also be reassigned as needed.
by westurner | 2025-10-31 19:39:56+00:00
"Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second" (2011; MIT) https://youtube.com/watch?v=EtsXgODHMWk&

"Single-shot real-time femtosecond imaging of temporal focusing" (2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-018-0044-7

"Filming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS" (2019; The Slow Mo Guys) https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys_yKGNFRQ&
by gpm | 2025-10-31 19:40:13+00:00
> So if a craft departs from rendezvous with another craft it must do so by pushing away from that other craft.

More commonly we push away propellant, but pushing on the other craft is an option.

> If the rendezvous was in orbit does that mean departing from rendezvous pushes both crafts out of orbit?

Assuming we're pushing on the other craft, it means both crafts will change orbits, but in opposite directions. If we're talking about an instantaneous push in the direction of travel one craft will move to an orbit where it is closer to earth one half rotation later, and the other craft will move to an orbit where it is farther from earth one half rotation later.

Both, either, or neither craft could exit orbit like this, but one would be exiting orbit by crashing into the thing its orbiting around (e.g. earth) and the other would exit by reaching escape velocity and flying off into the distance.

> I ask because Earth is an third body scenario between the sun and Jupiter. Jupiter has enough gravity to occasionally pull the Earth slightly (not significantly) out of orbit from the Sun, but Earth's orbit to the Sun is self-correcting due to the difference in mass between the Sun and Jupiter. Quick web searching reveals Jupiter's pull on Earth is only approximately 0.005% of the Sun's after accounting for both mass and distance, but that number rises to 0.011% after accounting for syzygy with the moon.

Yes, Jupiter constantly (not occasionally) perturbs earths orbit, and technically earth constantly perturbs jupiters orbit (though the influence in that direction is completely negligible), but as you note its not enough for either to reach escape velocity or crash into the sun, and it appears to more or less even out over time.
by jimmaswell | 2025-10-31 19:40:17+00:00
Not to minimize your experience or anything like that, I'm just thinking out loud: What's typically the delineation between repressed and "not on the mind at the moment"? We naturally "forget" things all the time because there's no need for them to be in our current context window, e.g. I can't recite every coffee shop I've been to, but maybe if you start talking about a coffee shop with uncomfortable seats, I'll remember the one I went to with uncomfortable seats. Not a comparable experience in general of course, but one wouldn't say I repressed the coffee shop. Is it more like if I started at "uncomfortable coffee shop", nothing came to mind, but then I later remembered only after smelling some special flavor of coffee beans they had had?
by knlb | 2025-10-31 19:40:26+00:00
Perfetto is definitely one of my favorite tools to use ever, thank you for working on it!

My personal favorite tool I've built this year is to dynamically generate a trace from a sql query, and allow quickly combining queries. Something like `SELECT timestamp, track, name, ` etc. where column names get transformed to packets automatically.

That way I can overlay multiple py-spy traces and instrumentation into a dynamically implemented generated perfetto trace, loaded into a perfetto iframe using the ping/pong mechanism at https://perfetto.dev/docs/visualization/deep-linking-to-perf....
by golem14 | 2025-10-31 19:40:51+00:00
I'd be extremely interested if someone has managed to do this with platform-wide product features. For example, take all login procedures across Microsoft products. In my experience, this is super difficult to pull off.

Individual teams don't know enough to make the right decisions, as login, recovery etc is really complex under the hood, so you need a central team handling that (even and especially the UI - you may want to have a login button appear in the same place regardless of which product you use).

Having a platform-wide team controlling (part of) the OKRs of a large number of other teams does not work great, because to those teams, enforcing company wide mandates feels like a priority inversion, and is often countered with passive-aggressive behavior.

I'm not too familiar with Apple product internals, but the apple ecosystem feels overall coherent. Maybe they managed?
by lapcat | 2025-10-31 19:40:52+00:00
> It's classic Apple to spend over a decade insisting that that glossy screens were the best option

I don't recall Apple ever "insisting" anything about glossy vs. matte. They simply eliminated the matte option without comment, and finally brought it back many years later.

If you have a reference to a public statement from Apple defending the elimination of the matte option, I'd like to see it.

To be clear, I've been complaining about glossy Macs ever since matte was eliminated, and I too purchased an M4 MacBook Pro soon after it was available.
by epsilonic | 2025-10-31 19:40:56+00:00
Sure. When I have a night of poor sleep or anticipate one, I usually take 6 grams of BHB salts in the morning on an empty stomach. You can work your way up to a maximum of 12 grams, but I would advise caution since it can cause diarrhea. I would start by buying the cheapest product (nutricost) you can find online; if it costs more than $80 for ~300g, then you're probably getting ripped off. I noticed that I have very lucid dreams and experience strong hypnagogic jerks when I take this supplement.

Here is some literature that I've perused to support my experimentation with BHB salts:

1. β-hydroxybutyrate is a metabolic regulator of proteostasis in the aged and Alzheimer disease brain (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245194562...)

2. Refueling the post COVID-19 brain: potential role of ketogenic medium chain triglyceride supplementation: an hypothesis (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3...)

My motivation for pursuing this was protracted sleep disturbance from long-covid.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-31 19:40:56+00:00
> It has a hardware mode which emulates the x86 memory model, and IIRC also has something in hardware to help emulate the x86 flags register.

AFAIK, the memory model is the main missing piece. And it seems like it's certainly something that could be implemented separately. IMO, it's something the ARM group could (and probably should) easily add into the platform.

The flags register is a minor thing that's pretty easy to pull off. Most of the x86 instructions that mess with the flags have direct ARM instructions. The ones that don't can easily be emulated by burning a register and maintaining the flags in said register when needs be.

I think the other important thing to note is that while x86 has a wealth of exotic functions that do wild things, a lot of those instructions aren't generated by any modern compiler. Not saying you can't find a stray `ENTER`/`LEAVE` instruction in old software, it's just not likely. That significantly cuts down on weird instructions doing wild things harming performance.

A quick google about what apple did to support x86 flags is they added undocumented bits to their own flags register to help support 8080 instructions.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-31 19:41:08+00:00
That is a custom APU made by AMD for a certain customer.

It is not a device that AMD sells on the open market, so it does not compete with the ubiquitous Intel N-series CPUs or with the Arm-based CPUs from various vendors.

Like I have said, since Jaguar and Puma, which are older than the first Zen, AMD has never sold on the open market any CPU/APU designed for a TDP of 10 W or less.

While for some AMD APUs, like Ryzen Z1, which are designed for a TDP of 15 W, their specification says that they have a TDP that is configurable down to 9 W, when such CPUs are configured for a lower TDP than they are optimized for, they become inefficient, by having a bigger die area, i.e. a higher cost, and a lower energy efficiency, in comparison with the CPUs that have been specifically designed for that lower power.
by kergonath | 2025-10-31 19:41:10+00:00
Personally, I like a forum for sorting things out peacefully without relying on the goodwill of the bully du jour.

Your argument is not new and is exactly why enlightened absolute monarchs were fashionable at some point. It sounds good, but the problem is that this works as long as the monarch is good. When they aren’t, or aren’t any more, or their heir aren’t, then it’s horrible.

Democracy is an exercise in optimising for the middle ground: sure, it’s not going to be as efficient as a competent autocracy, but it limits the worst case scenarios.
by mberning | 2025-10-31 19:41:17+00:00
I don’t have an overly paternalistic view of the government. I’m rather libertarian in that regard. But is it too much to ask that we place some guardrails on things that are know to have trouble with? Smoking, drinking, gambling, etc.

I certainly feel that people should be able to do it if they really want to, but making it super accessible and highly advertised seems like a bad idea.
by sethhochberg | 2025-10-31 19:41:29+00:00
The evolutionary force is really just "everyone else showed up at the party". The Internet has gone from a capital-I thing that was hard to access, to a little-i internet that was easier to access and well known but still largely distinct from the real world, to now... just the real world in virtual form. Internet morality mirrors real world morality.

For the most part, everybody is participating now, and that brings all of the challenges of any other space with everyone's competing interests colliding - but fewer established systems of governance.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-31 19:41:57+00:00
the flash of enlightment I had when I understood the incredible power the rules of functional programming give you as a coder is probably the biggest one I've had in my career so far. idempotence, immutability and statelessness on their own let you build a thing once in a disciplined way and then use it all willy nilly anywhere you want without having to think about anything other than "things go into process, other things come out" and it's so nice.
by deaddodo | 2025-10-31 19:42:06+00:00
Welcome to the Mac ecosystem. Where basic functionality is gated behind apps that Apple fans will tell you "are lifesavers and totally needed in Windows/Linux/etc)" for $4.99-14.99/piece. And, when they get popular enough, Apple will implement that basic functionality in its OS and silently extinguish those apps.

And that's when they let you modify/use your OS the way you want.
by arcticfox | 2025-10-31 19:42:23+00:00
> Yes, a tired doctor sucks. But a tired doctor who already has the patient's state loaded into their head may still be better than doctor who is completely fresh in both senses.

AI fixes this. Imagine the boot time of loading a patient's state from dozens of labs and files vs. a summary that gets you to exactly what they're going to end up remembering anyways. And if a doctor finds something interesting that the AI doesn't flag, they should be flagging it in the chart for the next doctor anyways.
by alt227 | 2025-10-31 19:42:38+00:00
This is why Huwawei equipment was disallowed to be part of Western Europes 5g rollout.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/08/12/eleven-eu-countries...

What can we do about it indeed!? I guess its either fully digitally detox or accept the fact that if you use modern technology then somebody is watyching what you do.
by munk-a | 2025-10-31 19:42:57+00:00
I think there's a massive shift in what the letter of the law needs to be to match the intent. The letter hasn't changed and this is all still quite legal - but there is a significant different between what webscraping was doing to impact creative lives five years ago and today. It was always possible for artists to have their content stolen and for creative works to be reposted - but there was enough IP laws around image sharing (which AI disingenuously steps around) and other creative work wasn't monetarily efficient to scrape.

I think there is a really different intent to an action to read something someone created (which is often a form of marketing) and to reproduce but modify someone's creative output (which competes against and starves the creative of income).

The world changed really quickly and our legal systems haven't kept up. It is hurting real people who used to have small side businesses.
by deaux | 2025-10-31 19:43:29+00:00
No Korean government services rely on US hyperscalers (which is the subject of this post). I'm 99% sure the same goes for financial institutions. Those are the key infra and they're sovereign. A lot of big companies do have some things on US hyperscalers, but even that is a relatively small percentage. Overwhelmingly things are on prem.

And now someone will link "but there was just a fire that resulted in many online gov services being down for weeks!!!". Yes. And having that happen once in a decade, after which measures will be taken so that from now on it happens once in 3 decades, is absolutely 100x preferable to depending on US hyperscalers like EU governments do. As we just saw, it's not like AWS and Azure don't go down.

Sure, they don't have their own OS. But even much of China still runs on Windows. China might manage to get entirely rid of it at some point but not yet.

Doesn't Intel depend on ASML when their chip machines break? I don't think there exists a single country in the world that can currently produce a significant amount of full-stack, modern compute. If there is one, it's definitely China rather than the US.
by NewsaHackO | 2025-10-31 19:43:45+00:00
But different people have different parts of the creative process that they find appealing. For instance, in this blog, he said he had multiple stems but felt as though AI helped him flesh them out. By using AI assistance, he was able to create the music he always wanted to create, and therefore have fun with his hobby. If people like listening to it, then there is an added benefit. The people who think that things other than AI are more conducive to their creative process are still allowed to use them, so AI assisted music doesn't really change anything for them. The only people I can think of who face negative side effects from AI are those attempting to commercialize or sell their music.
by stray | 2025-10-31 19:44:14+00:00
You require something the bot won't have that a human would.

Anybody may watch the demo screen of an arcade game for free, but you have to insert a quarter to play — and you can have even greater access with a key.

> and you’ve explicitly left a sign saying ‘you are not welcome here’

And the sign said "Long-haired freaky people Need not apply" So I tucked my hair up under my hat And I went in to ask him why He said, "You look like a fine upstandin' young man I think you'll do" So I took off my hat and said, "Imagine that Huh, me workin' for you"
by cogman10 | 2025-10-31 19:44:50+00:00
That increases the surface area, which is certainly bad. But that doesn't really mean the risk isn't similarly there for C++.

A few years back, the university of Minnesota was banned from the kernel (are they still banned?) for testing this exact theory. They tried to figure out how hard it would be to inject an intentional CVE into the kernel.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-bans-un...
by alexpotato | 2025-10-31 19:45:07+00:00
For several years I worked at a place where the median tenure was about 18 months firmwide and only 9 months on the infra (e.g. networkings, k8s, DBA etc). This is despite being a 30 year old company that paid REALLY well.

The high turnover led to some interesting downstream effects:

- entire teams could be let go

- so you tried to remove as many dependencies on other teams as possible

- e.g. "application teams" did everything from development to project mgmt to infra work (you were given VM hosts and then the rest was up to you)

- this meant that app managers could focus on building their apps

- the downside was whenever the overall "pipeline" had to be fixed. e.g. data enters app A then goes to B and so on. B/c everyone was so siloed, problems injected in A could flow down to D,E,F but no one was really incentivized to fix them

- it also meant that changes in individual apps were REALLY fast b/c you only had to convince one person (app mgr) to change them. On the flip side, large projects took FOREVER as everyone was doing something different.
by ptmcc | 2025-10-31 19:45:13+00:00
QA and SDET has been gutted as a role more or less industry-wide over the past 10-15 years. Nobody in charge cares about quality. Devs doing their own QA is like Boeing doing its own FAA certifications. Even with the best of intentions it's a setup for failure.

Yeah a lot of QA teams weren't the best, but the solution isn't to get rid of them it's to hold them accountable and improve them. But that takes effort and costs money, easier to just cut them and shift more responsibilities onto devs. The results are predictable.
by burnerzzzzz | 2025-10-31 19:45:19+00:00
Hummelgaard and his colleagues have repeatedly demonstrated that they believe a backdoor can be made that would only be used occasionally only by the right authorities. Even some of the opposition seems to believe this.

When discussing politics in foreign countries, consider how much context you are missing. Those of us that live in the country and speak the language have consumed its news for years.

HN discussions about politics in foreign countries are bizarre
by brokencode | 2025-10-31 19:45:20+00:00
Data centers are massive infrastructural investments similar to roads and rails. They are not just a bunch of chips duct taped together, but large buildings with huge power and networking requirements.

Power companies are even constructing or recommissioning power plants specifically to meet the needs of these data centers.

All of these investments have significant benefits over a long period of time. You can keep on upgrading GPUs as needed once you have the data center built.

They are clearly quite profitable as well, even if the chips inside are quickly depreciating assets. AWS and Azure make massive profits for Amazon and Microsoft.
by the_af | 2025-10-31 19:45:42+00:00
> In the first place, the existence of erotic literature doesn't prove this is true, like you claimed

Everything we are discussing in this comments section must be understood in an informal way. I obviously did not "prove" anything; I don't think anything can be proven about this anyway. Whenever I say "proof", read my statements as "[in my opinion] this is strong evidence that [thing]".

It's a figure of speech: "this cannot be so!", "it must be like this other thing", etc. It's informal conversation.

> If the goal was imagery, the more straightforward approach would be to draw an image.

Maybe straightforward, but as with anything related to the phenomenon of closure (as in Scott McCloud's closure), drawing an image closes doors. If you describe but don't draw an image, the reader is free to conjure their own image. Maybe they visualize a more attractive person than the artist would have drawn, or simply the kind of person they would be more attracted to.

Have you never seen a movie adaptation after reading the book and thought "wait, this wasn't how I imagined this character"?

> If that wasn't possible, you would instead describe the image you wanted to draw in words in great detail. But this isn't at all what most erotica consists of.

That's such a mechanistic description! Words don't work like this. Sometimes describing less is better, because the human brain fills in the gaps. You don't simply list physical attributes in an analytical way, you instead conjure sensory stimulus for the reader.

(If talking about sex and adjacent activities makes anybody nervous, simply replace this with literature about food. In order to make somebody's mouth water you cannot simply list ingredients; you must evoke imagery and taste. Then again, some people -- aphantasiacs -- simply cannot "taste" the food in textual descriptions!).