MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IshKebab | 2025-10-04 07:09:32+00:00
I used to work for Graphcore. Microsoft gave up on Graphcore fairly early on actually and I think it was a wise decision. There were a number of issues with Graphcore's GC1 and GC2 chips:

* a bet on storing the entire model (and code) in 900MB of SRAM. Hell of a lot of SRAM but it only really works for small models and the world wants enormous models.

* Blew it's weirdness budget by a lot. Everything is quite different so it's a significant effort to port software to it. Often you did get a decent speedup (like 2-10x) but I doubt many people thought that was worth the software pain.

* The price was POA so normal people couldn't buy one. (And it would have been too expensive for individuals anyway.) So there was little grass roots community support and research. Nvidia gets that because it's very easy to buy a consumer 4090 or whatever and run AI on it.

* Nvidia were killing it with Grace Hopper.

GC3 was way more ambitious and supports a mountain of DRAM with crazy memory bandwidth so if they ever finish it maybe they'll make a comeback.
by Veedrac | 2025-10-04 07:09:48+00:00
Nobody knows.

Flight 11 is the last of the 'Block 2' Starships, so not 11, but potentially Flight 12 could be a successful derisking mission of Block 3, and then Flight 13 would be first full operational mission. Actual full reuse could follow soon after that.

The optimistic case is that they've demonstrated everything they need to except for having a fully reliable heat shield, but they also seem to have a workable plan for the heat shield for literally the first time in the program's history.

The pessimistic case is that Block 2 was rough, and making mistakes doesn't prevent an organization from making more mistakes. If things continue to go wrong, it could be arbitrarily far out.

Wikipedia has a compilation of what's on the agenda:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starship_launches#Futu...
by ruszki | 2025-10-04 07:10:27+00:00
It depends on the country. It’s not possible to operate large companies in Hungary without paying to the prime minister’s family. When I lived there, I signed a paper at a large multinational company as a simple developer. The paper’s only purpose was to channel EU funds to the family. I was naive, and I thought that it’s a real project, with real work. It wasn’t. Later I realised why some of my coworkers were against it, but I didn’t believe that that company would go down on that route. I was really naive.
by noduerme | 2025-10-04 07:10:38+00:00
Vague. Are you talking about reasons to create like the joy of creating? Your bio describes you as a 'tech entrepreneur', not 'DIY tinkerer'. So I'll assume that when you spend a great deal of time entrepreneuring something, you do so with the hope of remuneration. Maybe not by licensing the copyright, but in some form.

Permissive licenses are great in software, where SAAS is an alternative route to getting paid. How does that work if you're a musician, artist, writer, or filmmaker who makes a living selling the rights to your creative output? It doesn't.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-10-04 07:11:36+00:00
Not the person you're replying to, but my own IBD went away completely after I did keto for an extended period. This was a decade ago and it hasn't come back even as my diet returned to normal.

In my n=1 experience, it seems maybe significant dietary changes can perturb the gut ecosystem out of whatever state corresponds to IBD.
by Robdel12 | 2025-10-04 07:12:23+00:00
I’ve been working on [Vizzly](https://vizzly.dev) -- my attempt to make visual quality part of the development workflow, not an after-the-fact testing phase.

Most visual testing tools spin up a recreated environment (copy the DOM + assets, render in their own infra) and then compare diffs. The problem is: that’s not what your users actually see. You end up debugging rendering quirks in their browser instead of yours. I wrote about it here if you’re curious: [Why Visual Testing Needed a Different Approach.](https://vizzly.dev/blog/why-visual-testing-needed-a-differen...)

Vizzly flips that around by focusing on developer workflows first:

- Local TDD: vizzly tdd lets you iterate on UI changes locally, instantly, against real screenshots. - Bring your own screenshots: Works with whatever infra you already have (Playwright, Puppeteer, BrowserStack, CI runners, etc.). - Team review: When you push, every commit builds a visual review dashboard with position-based comments, review rules, deep links, etc.

The CLI/SDK are open, you can even use just the local TDD bits without ever touching Vizzly’s hosted service. The goal is to close the developer ↔ designer gap by making visual review a normal part of shipping features, not a separate QA checklist.

Would love feedback from folks who’ve wrestled with visual diffs before. Does this workflow resonate with you, or do you see gaps I should be thinking about?
by scotty79 | 2025-10-04 07:13:11+00:00
> What does it mean in practice to have energy instead of money as currency?

Something like Bitcoin. When the progress in miners efficiency stalls any kWh of energy not used for something else will be used to make some amount of bitcoins. If you have energy you can make btc. If you have btc you can give your btc to someone in exchange for their energy so that they give you their energy, instead of using it to mine bitcoins themselves.
by Zafira | 2025-10-04 07:14:00+00:00
Based on the paper for DiffDock (https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01776) it looks like it was a great use case for a diffusion model.

> We thus frame molecular docking as a generative modeling problem—given a ligand and target protein structure, we learn a distribution over ligand poses.

I just hope work on these very valid use cases doesn’t get negatively impacted when the AI bubble inevitably bursts.
by Findecanor | 2025-10-04 07:14:02+00:00
Swish uses the proprietary "BankID" system, and the company behind it has let frauds go on for years and blaming the victims. Therefore I have chosen not to support them.

It didn't have proper two-factor authentication when you just had to tap a button on the smartphone to approve a log-in or a bank transfer (and users didn't always tell which was which). Now it requires reading a QR code — which it should have done all the time.

AFAIK it still does not use any secure key storage on the smartphone, so if your phone gets rooted by an attacker, the attacker could gain access to your bank accounts. So far, frauds have been much easier to pull off, so criminals have not bothered to hack it. (that we know of)
by kassner | 2025-10-04 07:14:04+00:00
If you ignore supermarkets, basically no place sells stuff in that low of an amount. Using Stripe as an example, transaction fees are 1.5%+1.8kr. I’m hard pressed to find a place that sells items with a price below 20kr, and even cheap crap from china costs at least that when buying online. So unless your business has an unexpectedly large amount of low price transactions, it’s not a big issue.
by astrobe_ | 2025-10-04 07:14:53+00:00
Owning a private key is the best way to prove your identity. As for hosting, I think BitTorrent is the most rock-solid? So maybe store your content in a Git repo, sign your commits, and publish on Torrent. And NNTP or RSS to notify users/followers of updates? Problems though are discoverability and passivity (e.g. no user comments from blogs etc.).
by aidenn0 | 2025-10-04 07:15:02+00:00
As with many such sites I've used in the past, there are some issues with the data. Gnooks suggested one author, then the same author, but with a typo in the name. Gnoosic suggested Procol Harum, then it suggested A Whiter Shade of Pale (which is the title of the song most associated with Procol Harum).
by contrarian1234 | 2025-10-04 07:15:28+00:00
According to Wiki

Falcon 9 was announced in 2005

First launch in 2010

By the third flight they were delivering to the ISS

Starship .. it's a bit unclear when they started designing it b/c they kept changing the design. But It's been in design for ~10 years.

> As of August 26, 2025, Starship has launched 10 times, with 5 successful flights and 5 failures.

10 launches.. and not even in orbit. Not to speak of ISS. I'm sure they'll make it work eventually, but I would expect with experience the design time would decrease, not increase. Starting from zero, making the first rocket engine has got to be much much harder than making an improved iteration (even if more complex)
by lxgr | 2025-10-04 07:16:29+00:00
Often this is indeed trust-based, but the trust isn't due to you having a card issued by a trusted bank (most airlines accept debit cards too), but rather due to passengers being extremely visible and well-identified:

In-flight credit card fraud is an incredibly bad idea, given that most countries check your ID at least at some point during getting on the plane, and seats are usually assigned as well. (Doesn't mean that nobody tries, of course [1]).

Sometimes airlines also use ACARS (basically airline-specific telex over VHF, HF, or satellite) to send the card number to their backoffice for authorizations of large amounts, such as business class upgrades.

These days, of course, Internet connectivity is getting more common, and with that the problem will likely go away.

[1] https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/pair-spared-jail-after-a...
by js8 | 2025-10-04 07:16:35+00:00
The military industrial complex in the U.S. is constantly lobbying the American government to start and participate in wars. So after Afghanistan, some other place had to be found where to cause trouble, so that ḿilitary contracts can be made.

Now that Ukrainian resolve to fight is cooling off, you can see Trump administration planning more wars - in Palestine, Yemen, Iran, Venezuela..

These operations benefit wealthy class in the U.S. (the profit from government contracts) as well as a fat layer of middle class Americans who are involved in making wars.

Every country that exports weapons has this incentive, including Russia, but the U.S. is by far the largest country producing weapons it doesn't need internally. International arms trade should be IMHO completely banned, because it gives (capitalist) countries strong motivation to cause wars. It's a negative externality.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-04 07:17:38+00:00
"Shut down SLS" is a political issue, not a technical issue. If SLS was surviving solely on its technical capability, SLS program would start getting cut down the moment Falcon Heavy has proven its mettle.

There was a chance at getting that done with Jared Isaacman, but it looks like Team Pork Barrel has put its foot down, and that just isn't going to happen now.

If the goal of Starship development program was just "make it to the orbit", they could have done it quite a few flights ago - as early as Flight 4. Instead, they keep testing first stage RTLS, reentry profiles and heat shields - neither of which is a requirement for "make it to the orbit".

Starship is much larger, much more ambitious, and SpaceX can now afford to burn through more hardware than they ever could. They are setting harder goals and taking more risks with the test program.
by fsiefken | 2025-10-04 07:17:43+00:00
The book can be bought here: https://www.minotavrosbooks.com/pages/books/011217/tony-solo...

Other's also voiced their concerns at the time:

Sherry Turkle https://monoskop.org/images/5/55/Turkle_Sherry_The_Second_Se...

Tom Athanasiou ghostwrote Hubert Dreyfus's book 'Mind over Machine' (1986) https://www.ecoequity.org/about/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Dreyfus%27s_views_on_ar...

Athanasiou, Tom (1985). “Artificial intelligence: cleverly disguised politics”. In: Compulsive technology: computers as culture. Ed. by Tony Solomonides and Les Levidow. Free Association Books, pp. 13–35

Carl Mitcham https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222771271_Computers...

Other articles citing these early critics:

Special Issue Artificial intelligence through the lenses of Marxism and critical thinking https://periodicos.ufs.br/eptic/article/download/21789/16168...

Artificial intelligence and the ideology of capitalist reconstruction https://ouci.dntb.gov.ua/en/works/lRaVX6M4/
by bigyabai | 2025-10-04 07:18:10+00:00
> I am Israeli and I completely oppose the war ending until the hostages are all returned.

Then surely you are capable of empathizing with Palestinians. Israel holds thousands of their (civilians!) hostage, in violation of international law, with no fair or expedient trial planned.

Demanding the slaughter of captors does not set a safe precedent for the release of Israel's political prisoners.

> We don't want this expensive war either.

Israel is a nuclear nation. Your countrymen chose to invest in catastrophic war as a way of life, no different from America or Russia. Don't weep about the price of fighting until the IAEA inspects Dimona proper.
by sebra | 2025-10-04 07:20:25+00:00
Riksbanken have been pushing for cash payments too. Personally I think its too little too late. The culture in Sweden has already changed to purely digital

https://www.riksbank.se/sv/press-och-publicerat/nyheter-och-...

Sweden has also done multiple pilots of a digital currency pressed by the state. This might be an interesting alternative to not give up control of our currency and privacy to banks and cc companies. Also supposed to work offline. https://www.riksbank.se/globalassets/media/rapporter/e-krona...
by danman114 | 2025-10-04 07:20:56+00:00
Seconded @the original commenter.

To the posters who say: Ah why should anyone care that you don't care... and actually going to call the post "narcissist"... what the heck, aren't you pointing the gun in the wrong direction? :P

I agree with the sentiment that this is sad. I was very excited for space, space space! And new cool technology and the options it'll bring. It's like we could follow the Apollo project again, but for a new generation, after decades of not-a-lot happening.

So I am sure there are hundreds of millions which are now caught between starry-eyed fascination with the technology and the progress of technology and extending humanity's reach with these biggest and most powerful, while also incredible sensitive and complex machines ever built...

But seeing the main guy unravel into a spit sputtering raving lunatic on social media, going deep into the nastiest rabbit holes available, and showing no concern for the wellbeing and welfare of those requiring protection...

Turns the whole endeavour on its head. Now it looks like the selfish race to capture space for the 1%, to monopolize access and use it as a political tool to further only the very selfish agenda of some detached madmen who don't care about the political "temperature" on earth and the damage they are doing.

So, millions of people turn their heads in sadness, and I completely understand and share that sentiment. It's a shame. It's breaking hearts.

@Elon open your eyes! Enough is enough! :)

Empathy is not weakness.

We'll have you back on the woke team the moment you're ready! :)
by xucian | 2025-10-04 07:21:50+00:00
lots of red flags with this one. first of all, the poster conveniently omits the real jd, here and in the google doc (most important is the unpaid 3h assignment). full info:

Thanks for applying to ArcPrime, I appreciate your application!

Our interview process consists of: 1) Written interview below 2) Live behavioral interview 3) Collaborative technical project evaluation (~3 hrs) 4) Live interview with select team members 5) Offer

If you’re still interested, please complete the written interview below. Since we are a remote team and will be working mostly asynchronously, writing will be an important part of working together. Concise answers are appreciated.

WRITTEN INTERVIEW: 1. Please tell us about a time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage. 2. Please tell us in one or two sentences about the most impressive thing that you have built or achieved. 3. Tell us about things you've built before. For example apps you’ve built, websites, open source contributions. Include URLs if possible. 4. What convinced you to apply to ArcPrime? 5. What’s the longest stretch of intense work you’ve ever put in? 6. Pick a topic that you are passionate about. What's something interesting about your passion that most people wouldn't know?
by lxgr | 2025-10-04 07:21:53+00:00
> However there has been a bit of shift towards online transactions

Not just a bit of a shift: Offline-preferred transactions are basically a thing of the past. EU rules have nothing to do with it (offline EMV is fully SCA compliant as well, as the chip can keep count, although it's a bit annoying to keep counters in sync if there's more than one); it's mostly for risk management and simplification reasons, I believe.

> The terminal has the transaction cryptographically signed using symmetric encryption with a private key

Offline transactions essentially always require card authentication as well, which requires asymmetric cryptography. (Otherwise, you could trivially forge valid-looking cards and offline terminals would be none the wise since they obviously don't hold the symmetric keys for every card issued; that would be way too risky).
by danabramov | 2025-10-04 07:22:52+00:00
Neither of these is quite right.

In AT, data is tied to identity (DID), not handles or hosting. That’s what my article tried to explain.

If you lose the “handle” domain, all it means is that you won’t have a valid handle (which apps will tell you about) but your posts will remain up (they’re still addressable by your DID, which is how apps look things up). In the Bluesky app, for example, it would say “invalid handle” instead of your username. However, it’ll work. It’s the same situation as what happens if your domain expires or you delete your records. Your data is still there, you’re still “followed“ by the same people, etc. A handle is just an alias.

All you’ll need to do is to change the handle, thereby attaching a new domain, through any app that has the “change handle” flow. (It’s enough to have one app that gives you free ones.)

With hosting, it is similar (although there are barriers which need to be lowered). If your repo shuts down, you absolutely can move it somewhere else provided that you have a backup of it. Backups are trivial to automate on AT so this is something I expect hosting providers to offer. There are already third-party apps that regularly do backups for you. And you can export your repository from some clients as well (eg from the official Bluesky client).

In the “happy” case, your hosting will cooperate with moving your repo to another host. See https://pdsmoover.com/info.html for the happy case.

For the “unhappy” case where your old hosting doesn’t cooperate, you also can move if you saved a rotational key. See https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/adversarial-pds-migrat.... This requires some technical knowledge today but you can imagine a backup solution having that feature also.

And when your repo goes up again at a different host, the difference will be imperceptible to you or other users, since it's signed by the same identity. All your posts, followers, etc, will "come back" with no disruption or broken links.

This is very different from email. Yes, there's some technical know-how in setting up protections if you expect to be adversarial to your hosting, but you do have that ability, and I expect with the AT ecosystem developing, it'll be much more user-friendly to set them up than it is today.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-04 07:23:07+00:00
I don't see the difference? There's a POSIX spec for coreutils (and some other shell-usable executables), there's a POSIX spec for libc (and some other C libs), and both are a somewhat painful subset of what most programs/scripts actually use. And yes, in both cases often the solution is to explicitly depend on a particular implementation or even version thereof; systemd explicitly only supports glibc, shell scripts targeting macOS may require that you install a newer version of bash than the OS ships, and yes, if you need nc to behave a particular way then you need to depend on the right one (I've actually personally hit that; IIRC I installed netcat-openbsd but it didn't include a feature I needed). In all cases, there may be a portable standard, but it doesn't cover everything, so if you're not inside what's covered by the standard then you should specify your actual dependencies. It still doesn't matter whether the API you're touching is mediated by the link phase of a compiler chain or *sh calling particular binaries.
by scotty79 | 2025-10-04 07:23:29+00:00
> If you scratch under the hood of UBI, it's a mechanism to keep revolutions at bay.

It's also putting money in the hands of the consumers so the rich can compete between themselves at how much each can scoop back up.

Something like feeding animals in the forest to compete with your friends at who can hunt better.

When poor have nothing then you have to shift to taking money of the other rich, but they are clever, so it's easier to take a little bit from the hands of all rich equally, give that money to the poor and reduce the new problem to the old one, how to extract as much as you can from the poor.
by Jarmsy | 2025-10-04 07:24:37+00:00
I don't think they do, people move around and swap seats. I expect they just find the losses small enough to write off. I was once travelling shortly after being issued a new debit card, but still had the old one in my wallet and used it by mistake and I wasn't charged. They never tracked me down for the cost of that packet of crisps!
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-04 07:25:17+00:00
He is the boy wonder genius who will usher an era of infinite abundance but before he does that he has to take a detour to generate a lot of synthetic media & siphon a lot of user queries at every hour of every day so that advertisers can better target consumers w/ their plastic gadgets & snake oils. I'm sure they just need a few more trillions in data center buildouts & then they can get around to building the general purpose intelligence that will deliver us to the fully automated luxurious communist utopia.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-04 07:25:50+00:00
I mean I bought an Inkjet printer 10 years ago and it worked all that time. I replaced the ink cartridges once.

I have had to replace it finally because it got an issue where it kept thinking the paper was jammed or empty (it wouldn't tell me which) even when it wasn't. But that isn't anything to do with inkjet Vs laser.

I did replace it with a Brother laser printer simply because it was very cheap (and I don't need colour).

Annoyingly the Brother app uses the old temporary AP WiFi pairing method which doesn't at all work on modern Android because it constantly detects no internet access and disconnects no matter what you do.

So instead I had to tediously enter my WiFi password using up and down arrows and a 30 character display. Like 01234567890abcd next 01234567890abcdefghij next 0123... Seriously tedious but it's lucky they had the option otherwise I'd have had to return it.
by lxgr | 2025-10-04 07:25:58+00:00
Yes, stored value cards are a very mature technology.

For various reasons, they're mostly used in closed-loop systems these days (think laundromats, transit systems etc.), but historically there were open-loop deployments in many European countries, and in some countries, stored-value POS payments are still very popular, e.g. in Japan.

It's a real shame that the entire world moved to online-only. Sure, it's much easier and there's less opportunity for various kinds of fraud as a result, but in terms of availability during outages or cyber attacks, it was a big unforced step backwards.