MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skissane | 2025-10-13 19:48:45+00:00
WSL1 effectively is a true Windows subsystem.

Okay, technically it is something new – a picoprocess provider – because classic Windows environment subsystems were too heavyweight.

Trying to use the classical environment subsystem model (which POSIX and OS/2 used) for Linux wouldn't give you any clear advantage and would come with a significant performance cost. That's the whole reason why they added picoprocess providers to NT (originally intended to support Android emulation, later retargeted to generic Linux, the result of which was WSL1)
by scns | 2025-10-13 19:48:45+00:00
Got in contact with his art through Yes too. Fragile, Close To The Edge and Relayer. Their best albums IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ogdCG3tAWiL8m1GcsVL...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ktk8PtkXO8Gdsh...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mB2Z4c14a1jFhh...

[edit] Roundabout has an absurdly high number of views, totally deserved though
by the__alchemist | 2025-10-13 19:49:03+00:00
Here is what has changed for me: I spend less time on tedious or solved work, and focus on the interesting parts. If there's some sort of algo that I think the AI could solve cleanly, but I want to refresh my skills, maybe I do that part myself.

Note: I don't vibe-code, or use agents. Just standard Jetbrain IDEs, and a GPT-5-thinking window open for C+P.
by xp84 | 2025-10-13 19:49:08+00:00
It really is absurd how expensive our energy is across the state. Meanwhile Virginia gets electricity for 15 cents a kwh.

Notably, the municipal power companies mostly are far lower. It's PG&E and SoCal Edison who are that high, because they're shoving the costs of doing 75 years worth of deferred system maintenance all at once onto current ratepayers instead of their investors taking the hit. It's too bad that there wasn't a viable legal framework whereby the investor-owned utilties' shareholders could be wiped out as they deserved to be, and the utility infrastructure transferred to municipal ownership. Around PG&E's bankruptcy there were rumblings, but Sacramento couldn't figure out how to do it, so they propped them up and created a Wildfire Fund paid for by ratepayers to keep bailing them out.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-10-13 19:49:21+00:00
> Just give us a date/year/etc in which you think the value of bitcoin will go to zero

So you can take advantage of the market? No way, only insiders are allowed to do that.

I could change your question: Do you think possible that the value of bitcoin will go to zero?

If yes, you implicitly agree that it's fueled by speculation and a Ponzi scheme that needs a constant influx of fresh, if boring, fiat currency.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-13 19:49:27+00:00
I would adjust your formula to the:

number of people you help x how much you help them x number of people you harm x how much you harm them

For example - harming a little bit all content creators of the world, by stealing their work without compensation or permission. How much does that cost globally every year after year? How do we even quantify long term consequences of that? Stuff like that.
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-13 19:50:02+00:00
I think in the premodern era, you never saw strangers (not like we do). You probably had a pretty good idea who everyone was, and probably knew most people pretty well. If that's even partially true, then although nowadays you might drive past a person on the highway, if your cousin or a lifelong trusted acquaintance asked for help you'd give it. It seems that everyone you saw, esp saw injured or sick, was probably someone you've known your whole life.

You're also heavily discounting the fact that you had to live not only with yourself if you did nothing, but the shame/angst of their family who you definitely lived next door to. TFA is about taking care of "their own", not strangers.
by getpokedagain | 2025-10-13 19:50:18+00:00
You are missing the part where the OS provider is the virus and keylogger. Unless of course you feel it reasonable that google and apple datamine everything you type via their software keyboard[0] or reading the contents of your notifications via play services[1].

0 - https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/16046-google-keyboard-w-net... 1 - https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/sandboxed-google-play-pr...
by lesuorac | 2025-10-13 19:50:22+00:00
The public is generally not allowed to finance nuclear. I don't know about your state but a lot of them don't allow for rate payers to finance new construction so the interest payments need to be covered by the profit margin until the plant is operational and then you can start using the electric rate to pay off the principal of the loan.

This is a giant issue with nuclear as you're going to be financing it for decades while solar/natural gas will be producing in a year or two.
by mrkeen | 2025-10-13 19:50:36+00:00
"The assumptions are wrong" is an unsatisfying "catch-all": compiler, hardware, environment, concurrency bugs.

Here's one that's been bugging me lately: Dekker's algorithm (mutual exclusion / critical section) won't work on modern hardware. CPUs are free to rearrange reads and writes such that they still make sense under single-threaded conditions.

It's kind of put me off learning about lockfree/lockless programming. Even if I make a machine-checked proof that my concurrent code races only in acceptable ways, I have no way of knowing which instructions will be re-ordered, invalidating the proof.
by marxism | 2025-10-13 19:51:06+00:00
I actually agree with everything you said, and I see I failed to communicate my idea that's exactly why I'm so upset.

You said "the only exception here is learning" - and that exception was my hobby. Programming simple things wasn't work for me. It was entertainment. It was what I did for fun on weekends.

Reading a blog post about writing a toy database or a parser combinator library and then spending a Saturday afternoon implementing it myself. that was like going to an amusement park. It was a few hours of enjoyable, bounded exploration. I could follow my curiosity, learn something new, and have fun doing it.

And you're right: if an LLM can solve it with the same quality, it's not a problem worthy of human effort. I agree with that logic. I've internalized it from years in the industry, from working with AI, from learning to make decisions about what to spend time on.

But here's what's been lost: that logic has closed the amusement park. All those simple, fun learning projects now feel stupid. When I see those blog posts now, my gut reaction is "why would I waste time on that? That's one prompt away." The feeling that it's "not worthy" has completely drained the joy out of it.

I can't turn off that instinct anymore. I know those 200 lines of code are trivial. I know AI can generate them. And so doing it myself feels like I'm deliberately choosing to be inefficient, like I'm LARPing at being a programmer instead of actually learning something valuable.

The problem isn't that I disagree with you. The problem is that I agree with you so completely that I can no longer have fun. The only "worthy" problems left are the hard ones AI can't do. But those require months of serious investment, not a casual Saturday afternoon.
by mullingitover | 2025-10-13 19:51:14+00:00
> operating an airline or high speed rail network makes you less money than running an ad or porn website

Airlines and high speed rail systems are also services. Heck, even Tesla's real value isn't in manufacturing, it's in the (delusional, but nonetheless) belief that they're going to make an absolute killing on services at some point in the future. They could probably sell off their manufacturing arm and their stock price would increase.
by addisonj | 2025-10-13 19:51:29+00:00
I will repeat my comment from 70 days ago:

> I was discussing with a friend that my biggest concern with AI right now is not that it isn't capable of doing things... but that we switched from research/academic mode to full value extraction so fast that we are way out over our skis in terms of what is being promised, which, in the realm of exciting new field of academic research is pretty low-stakes all things considered... to being terrifying when we bet policy and economics on it.

That isn't overly prescient or anything... it feels like the alarm bells started a while ago... but wow the absolute "all in" of the bet is really starting to feel like there is no backup. With the cessation of EVs tax credits, the slowdown in infra spending, healthcare subsidies, etc, the portfolio of investment feels much less diverse...

Especially compared to China, which has bets in so many verticals, battery tech, EVs, solar, then of course all the AI/chips/fabs. That isn't to say I don't think there are huge risks for China... but geez does it feel like the setup for a big shift in economic power especially with change in US foreign policy.
by yatopifo | 2025-10-13 19:51:39+00:00
I think teaching beginner linear algebra using matrices representing systems of equations is a pedagogical mistake. It gives the wrong impression that matrices are linear algebra and makes it difficult for students to think about it in an abstract way. A better way is to start by discussing abstract linear combinations and then illustrating what can be done with this using visualizations in various coordinate systems. Once the student understands this intuitively, systems of equations and matrices can be brought up as equivalent ways to represent linear transformations on paper. It’s important to emphasize that matrices are convenient but not the only way to write the language of linear algebra.
by nyrikki | 2025-10-13 19:51:42+00:00
SO(3) contains all of the orthogonal 3x3 matrices of determinant 1.

If you are dealing with rigid bodies rotated though the origin like with the product of linear translations you can avoid the problem. At least with an orthonormal basis R^3 with an orthogonal real valued 3x3 matrix real entries which, where the product of it with its transpose produces the identity matrix and with determinant 1

But as soon as you are dealing with balls, where the magnitude can be from the origin to the radius, you run into the issue that the antipodes are actually the same point, consider the north and south poles being the same point, that is what I am saying when the topology is not simply connected.

The rigid body rotation about the origin is just a special case.

Twist a belt twice and tape one end to the table and you can untwist it with just horizontal translation, twist it once (360deg) and you cannot.
by ben_w | 2025-10-13 19:52:00+00:00
> One of the rational reasons people are preferring nationalists is simply because they are less powerful than the neolibs, who all work together against their populations. Better a the dumb local boss you know than a being the local outpost of a faceless world boss.

If you think that's rational, you are wrong. Rationalising, sure, just not rational.

"Divide and conquer" is very much desired by those who want to control you, and thinking "a local authoritarian for local people" will (or even could) eject the influence of the outside world, is a false narrative.

Popular sentiment though, so may well get authoritarian parties some votes.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-13 19:52:15+00:00
Pre socials all the social movements around had been already captured by vocal "status quo defenders" that insisted (violently if needed) that the way to get what you want is to do the no-impact highly-performative action they picked.

Your only chance of attending a gathering of like minded people was by somebody organizing a new one, and only before those vocal bad elements discovered it.

Today the same happens over the internet.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-13 19:52:22+00:00
> could you give me a contemporary example of a small country close to the US that is practically independent and is not meddled with ?

You asserted that small states cannot stably border weak states. I am saying that’s obviously untrue.

You’re now adding a “practically independent and is not meddled with” condition, which is impossible to show for any state in human history since part of geopolitics is mutual meddling, you could literally describe any act of statecraft this way.

> there is one thing that he certainly isn't, an idiot. Neither is Lavrov

Putin was an idiot and surrounded by idiots when he launched the invasion. His intelligence was clearly no better than America’s, given he not only expected victory in days but didn’t bother to contingency plan. And his knowledge of his own military was clearly flawed given he attempted combined-arms strategy (like lightning warfare) without a military that practiced combined-arms maneuver outside special ops.

But Putin hasn’t been an idiot for his own interests. Putin and Lavrov’a families have extracted enough wealth that they’ll be fine. So have the oligarchs. This, of course, is lovely for American and British and Gulf financiers who get to extract and manage that wealth from Russia.

That’s why I didn’t say Putin or Lavrov are idiots, I said “Moscow is ruled by idiots.” The Moscow elite are corrupt to the point of self destruction. They’ve allowed themselves to be played by Washington and Beijing into selling out their country’s status as a global power in exchange for minor battlefield headlines. They continue a war that keeps getting them played, the latest phase which will involve their energy export competitors bankrolling the razing of Russia’s energy export infrastructure.
by Herring | 2025-10-13 19:52:31+00:00
"Bad" is a judgment call. Trump approval ratings haven't dipped that far, so Congressional Republicans won't dare abandon him and there's not much political will for change.

It might change if we get into millions of foreclosures like the great recession and the pain really hits home. From what I can tell right now they're in wartime mode where they just need to buckle down until Trump wins and makes other countries pay for tariffs or something.
by orioninsist | 2025-10-13 19:52:46+00:00
To help my non-tech-savvy relatives, I put together a basic guide on spotting common phishing red flags (link here: [https://orioninsist.medium.com/what-is-phishing-a-beginners-...]). It got me thinking about more advanced attacks. I'm curious to hear from the community: what are the most clever or sophisticated phishing tactics you've encountered in the wild?
by ftkftk | 2025-10-13 19:53:19+00:00
Beavers were hunted so intensely that they completely disappeared decades ago in the area. Without the beavers building dams and thus slowing down the flow of creeks, more and more erosion took place and area that used to be wetlands dried out. With the gradual drying the willow tree disappeared, which is one of the major food sources for beavers. So while beavers are starting to repopulate, they don't move in where there is no food available.

So Philmont is building BDAs in order to slow down the creeks, providing suitable habitat for willows - and once this food source is once again established, the beavers should return and take over maintenance of the BDAs.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-13 19:54:32+00:00
> they're choosing to support the political arm under the claims of "hate speech" and "ungood bad think"

I do wonder if you bother to actually read the stuff you are typing.

like have you _met_ anyone from ofcom? or seen the shit that 4chan routinely post?

4chan is literally the living embodiment of what the OSA was designed(and will probably fail) to stop. No moderation, loads of porn, incitement to violence

but to your point, `claims of "hate speech"` Ofcom have no mandate for hate speech. But then I imagine facts are less interesting than a daydream of cypherpunk rebellion.
by missinglugnut | 2025-10-13 19:55:05+00:00
The author wants to find content when he is looking for something specific. He does not want his attention grabbed by something he wasn't looking for, no matter how educational it may be.

Multiple people have clearly explained this to you in several comment threads and you're still insisting it makes no sense. At this point the only question is why you don't want to understand.
by agentultra | 2025-10-13 19:55:30+00:00
Can’t be disappointed if you don’t use it.

I’ve never met so many people that hate programming so much.

You get the same thing with artists. Some product manager executive thinks their ideas are what people value. Automating away the frustration of having to manage skilled workers is costly and annoying. Nobody cares how it was made. They only care about the end result. You’re not an artist if all you had to do was write a prompt.

Every AI-bro rant is about how capital-inefficient humans are. About how fallible we are. About how replaceable we are.

The whole aesthetic has a, “good art vs. bad art,” parallel to it. Where people who think for themselves and write code in service of their work and curiosity are displayed as inferior and unfit. Anyone who is using AI workflows are proper and good. If you are not developing software using this methodology then you are a relic, unfit, unstable, and undesirable.

Of course it’s all predicated in being dependent on a big tech firm, paying subscription fees and tokens to take a gamble at the AI slot machine in hopes that you’ll get a program that works the way you want it to.

Just don’t play the game. Keep writing useless programs by hand. Implement a hash table in C or assembly if you want. Write a parser for a data format you use. Make a Doom clone. Keep learning and having fun. Satisfaction comes from mastery and understanding.

Understanding fundamental algorithms, data structures, and program composition never gets old. We still use algebra today. That stuff is hundreds of years old.
by inovaitech | 2025-10-13 19:55:37+00:00
Automation 4.0 represents the new era of intelligent systems — where AI no longer just executes commands but learns, adapts, and decides. This article explores how machine learning, NLP, and cognitive automation are transforming workflows, from predictive maintenance to self-optimizing supply chains. Read more: https://inovaitech.com/automation-4/
by shkkmo | 2025-10-13 19:56:12+00:00
> we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

Since these are open source apps, couldn't f-droid maintain their own fork of each app with a different application identifier?

It would give Google the ability to shutdown F-Droid at will by baning their account and thus far more power to control what F-Droid publishes and how it operates. However, it seems like anyone could fork an open source app and use their own account and setup their own unique identifier for their fork.

No question this increases Google's power but it doesn't seem like it technically makes it impossible to operate a store like F-Droid.
by jppittma | 2025-10-13 19:57:26+00:00
If you're not developing k8s operators, you're calling the api server directly, then complaining about lock in, then that's a skill issue. If you're developing k8s operators, then you should use a tool like kind for integration tests and dependency injection for other stuff and the concept of lock in doesn't make sense. You can also deploy your helm chart directly to kind.
by leakycap | 2025-10-13 19:57:40+00:00
> then switch immediately into thermonuclear asshole mode

I can't imagine the number of clients I would have lost over the years if I'd had this approach.

People need time to pay for soft services. Unless you're billing hourly for your time at general labor rates, surely the margins are incredible for what you're doing.

Being a jerk to a client is a surefire way to end that relationship. Some clients who have taken their sweet time to pay over the years are also some of my longest and overall most valuable business contacts. Being a jerk to them would have given someone else a chance to step in and earn their business by providing better customer service.

Invoice dates aren't thermonuclear deadlines and treating them as if they are is shortsighted.
by serjester | 2025-10-13 19:57:43+00:00
I feel like interviews with Sam always leave you underwhelmed - OpenAI needs more compute, he’s excited AI will accelerate science, and some sort of subtle hint he doesn’t care about copyright holders, while saying the exact opposite.

Would have loved to see a deeper explanation of how they will make something cost competitive with the Nvidia / AMD and where Broadcom is helping.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-13 19:57:55+00:00
Exactly. I don't think Google is doing this so that people don't install some random FOSS alternatives through F-Droid.

Things like Newpipe seems much more of a target, especially if you want to take legal action. More so than stopping users, this gives Google fat more leverage about what Apps can exist. If they ever want to stop Newpipe a serious lawsuit against whoever signed the APK seems like an effective way to shut down the whole project. Certainly more effective then a constant battle between constraining them and them finding ways to circumvent the constraints.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-13 19:58:44+00:00
The supposed force behind the Geneva Convention is the threat of being tried for war crimes after the dust settles.

If you are Putin, and can accept never traveling to a list of western countries again, that threat is toothless.

But if you are literally defeated (as opposed to being forced to retreat from Ukraine, the most anyone could hope for in the invasion), it could weigh heavily on you. Or not. Politics are stupid.
by sammyd56 | 2025-10-13 19:59:27+00:00
There's not much to it... it took longer to spin up the cloud machine than it did to kick off the training run. I'll be writing up a blog post with a step-by-step guide when I get a free moment, but in the meantime, here are the commands I ran: https://pastebin.com/sdKVy0NR
by bediger4000 | 2025-10-13 19:59:37+00:00
Sure. But in the case of code, LLMs are trained on internet code, which is typically eyewateringly bad. If you read LLM generated code, you're going to see some awful code. Yes, you're technically correct, but the wrong way: keep your eyes peeled because the code will probably suck in ways you can hardly believe.
by watty | 2025-10-13 19:59:41+00:00
Not shocking, a lot of time goes into making Vite and they need to make money.

One approach is to setup consulting services. Looks like Void Zero's approach is to start building value-add tools and features on top of Vite that are no longer free.

The decision that users must make now is whether it's worth the risk investing in Vite, assuming that more and more functionality will move to the paid tier.
by madaxe_again | 2025-10-13 19:59:46+00:00
Nope. I have the same dividing line as I had when I was leading development teams:

If this seems interesting to me, and I have time, I will do it.

If it is uninteresting to me, or turns out to be uninteresting, or the schedule does not fit with mine, someone else can do it.

Exactly the same deal with how I use AI in general, not just in coding.
by xp84 | 2025-10-13 19:59:50+00:00
> Some people are Honda Civic people, only concerned with utility - that's fine, I'm the same way. But the money comes from cars designed to evoke eroticism or animal aggression.

They sell a ton of Civics, and even more of the kind of boring-ass SUV like a Nissan Muranos and Ford Escapes. None of these are the 'sexy' cars you describe. True, individual Lamborghinis sell for an order of magnitude more than a Murano and are sexy cars, but your original comment suggests that only an aesthetically sexy robot maid would be "popular." Would a sexy robot maid be a sensation? I bet it would, but I just don't think adoption is waiting on that necessarily. Rather, usefulness and 'right price' are the current barriers.

> The humanoid robot in the article is, aesthetically speaking, horrifying to most people.

Hard agree, it's for sure gross looking. They could do a lot better by literally just letting an animator design a cute cartoon face to put on a cheap screen. If anybody wants the weirdo look pictured there they can just turn the screen off.