MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 11:25:33+00:00
> whole EU is debating putting sanctions on Israel

Not really. It's debating applying "tariffs on some Israeli goods and impos[ing] sanctions on Israeli settlers, and two members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet" [1].

(The EC has also endorsed Trump's 20-point plan [2].)

[1] https://apnews.com/article/eu-israel-sanctions-tariffs-gaza-...

[2] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025...
by Symbiote | 2025-10-03 11:26:37+00:00
Oh great /s

In a month or two, I can be annoyed when I see some vibe-coded AI startup's script making five million requests a day to work's website with this.

They'll have been ignoring the error responses:

{"All data is public and available for free download": "https://example.edu/very-large-001.zip"}

— a message we also write in the first line of every HTML page source.

Then I will spend more time fighting this shit, and less time improving the public data system.
by whism | 2025-10-03 11:26:55+00:00
I think you almost have a point in that you seem to be advocating for something along the lines of unbiased input (questioning the presented information because it was constructed for presentation, suggesting that an AI could somehow assist, presumably to help ground your information in a wider context etc)

I think what you may be missing is the role of trust. There is much to say about that, but in this instance, a nice thing about RSS is that I can trust the algorithm it uses to generate my feed. It is very simple, and I, myself choose the sources it draws from. With some other systems, this is not the case.
by benbristow | 2025-10-03 11:27:41+00:00
They'll find another Android based device to use instead.

The main reason, at least around the people I know, people buy Fire Sticks is to watch football/soccer at 3pm on a Saturday (there's a UK wide blackout to encourage fans to go to their local game, albeit if you're a fan of a club far away or a Premier League team you're going to struggle to get there, games are still aired abroad, IPTV services skirt round this) and to save money on multiple media subscriptions (IYKYK).

I can only imagine after this change people will stop buying them as they're close to useless as people have Smart TVs for the legal stuff.
by david-gpu | 2025-10-03 11:27:50+00:00
Sometimes you write some heavily tuned code in a high level language like C++ that you know could be translated into very specific GPU assembly, then find that the compiler isn't producing the exact assembly that you had in mind.

When you talk to the computer team about it they may offer a range of solutions, some of which may not be applicable to open source code. Picture proprietary #pragmas, intrinsics, or whatnot. What do you do? You can't ship a high performance library that doesn't deliver high performance. It is then when you rely on things like function names to enable specific code transformations that can't be used in general because they would sometimes break third party code.

I never worked on Cutlass, but this is the sort of thing that is done in the real world.

There is nothing nefarious about this sort of optimizatkon. People comparing this to cheating on benchmarks by rendering lower quality images are not on the right track.
by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn | 2025-10-03 11:28:27+00:00
Basically the whole article can be distilled into the single paragraph:

> He was officially crowned in September 925AD. The following year, in 926AD, he married off his sister to the Viking king of Northumbria, which lay to the north of his kingdom's border. A year later, the Viking ruler died, and Æthelstan took over Northumbria.

In consolidating the previously separate kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria, Æthelstan became the first king of all England.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-03 11:28:31+00:00
Someone has to remember younger folks about IE 6 outcome, while others pretend only Chrome exists and ship Electron crap as well.

Firefox barely surviving at 3%, Safari as the last one standing, remains to be seen if Servo or Ladybird ever become relevant.

Yes, shitty point for anyone that only cares about Google's agenda to take over the Web.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 11:28:44+00:00
I'm not actually defending Israel. I'm demonstrating that the practice is not only widespread among nations that the West generally agrees with (Japan, Australia), it is practiced more there than here. And our neighbours here (Egypt) as well. So arguing against Israel on this subject does not put Israel at a moral disadvantage here.

In any case, at least in Israel, the vast, vast majority of those under administrative detention are held for violent acts such as throwing stones, molotov cocktails, etc. There are a few cases in which the authorities have not stated reason, I know this, but that number is in the single digits. Administrative detention is not a violation of Article 9.

I'm not excusing it, I'm putting it in perspective. For what it's worth, I personally am against the whole idea of administrative detention in any country. If a government body detains someone, the reason should be clear and transparent before the arresting officer punches out of his shift.

And your equivalence of administrative detention to the taking of babies hostage and murdering them and their mothers in captivity only reinforces the notion that those who oppose the state of Israel are generally unreasonable and lack the morals which form the basis of a stable, productive Western society.
by perching_aix | 2025-10-03 11:28:50+00:00
> I think you almost have a point

Thank you for almost granting me the capability of having a point. That is very nice of you.

I am not missing the role of trust. I have instead simply had that trust betrayed countless of times by now, so I'm seeking a little more. It would be a great first step, but far from the whole journey. And so I'm wary of people mistaking the latter for the former, intentionally or otherwise.
by int_19h | 2025-10-03 11:30:12+00:00
And Phoenician and Proto-Sinaitic in turn derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Furthermore, most alphabets in the world derive from that same one source.

It goes to show just how powerful the idea of writing is - once you have a society where it's pervasive, all its neighbors acquire it from them in short order, and they usually do so by adapting the original writing script to their needs. I strongly suspect that the reason why alphabets (and to a lesser extent syllabaries) spread especially widely is because they are easier to adapt to a different language - usually, once you've learned a new alphabet, it's more or less readily obvious how to use it to approximate any language that you already know.

(Which is also how you get imperfect spellings even in brand new orthographies. Practicality usually beats purity.)
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-03 11:30:48+00:00
>ChatGPT has more consumer trust than Google at this point

"There are increasing reports of people having delusional conversations with chatbots. This suggests that, for some, the technology may be associated with episodes of mania or psychosis when the seemingly authoritative system validates their most off-the-wall thinking. Cases of conversations that preceded suicide and violent behavior, although rare, raise questions about the adequacy of safety mechanisms built into the technology."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai...
by vanderZwan | 2025-10-03 11:30:51+00:00
I personally am more fond of provoking an "angstschreeuw" in English speakers by asking them to pronounce "slechtstschrijvend" or "zachtstschrijdend" and watching them recoil in horror at the consonant clusters[0][1].

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

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medeklinkerstapeling (Dutch wiki page for consonant clusters with more examples)
by ezst | 2025-10-03 11:31:30+00:00
That's why I skip the Signal intermediate stage plain and simple: once Signal inevitably enshittifies (a property of centralised services), the people you painfully brought there will no longer kindly listen to you when, lesson learned, you will try to pull them into federated services.

For anyone else (i.e. the majority, which already has 2-5-10 messaging services on their device depending on how you count), quicksy.im does a decent job at emulating the onboarding experience of phone-based social graphs (WhatsApp & al.) and substantially lowers the barrier to being reachable over XMPP.
by menaerus | 2025-10-03 11:31:47+00:00
> Not entirely sure what you're getting at here?

> I believe the motivation is to avoid needing to pay the cost of atomics when there is no parallelism going on.

Obviously yes. What I am wondering is what benefit does it bring in practice. Single-threaded program with shared-ptr's using atomics vs shared-ptr's using WORDs seem like a non-problem to me - e.g. I doubt it has a measurable performance impact. Atomics are slowing down the program only when it comes to contention, and single-threaded programs can't have them.
by SapporoChris | 2025-10-03 11:32:28+00:00
Two things: She wrote, "I had fallen into a trap and said something I did not mean", in her memoir. https://archive.org/details/madamsecretary00albr_0 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright#Sanctions_a...

Tangentially related: On the other hand, several later surveys conducted during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) "all put the U5MR in Iraq during 1995–2000 in the vicinity of 40 per 1000," suggesting that "there was no major rise in child mortality in Iraq after 1990 and during the period of the sanctions." from same link above.
by pol_avec | 2025-10-03 11:32:43+00:00
I was in the first batch, I'll be in the second and I'll probably try to be in any of the following.

This is not a course about AI only. It is about learning how to learn and develop yourself specially with the coming AI age. The concepts learned here apply to solve other problems in life. I would recommend it to even non-programmers.

All the industry is moving into vibe-coding, where we delegate more and more into AI, while we do less and less ourselves. The big issue with this is of course that you stop learning. You stop using the ability to put effort into things, and those things, like muscles, go away without use.

It is very tempting to dismiss the solveIT approach as an outlier, at the end of the day if all industry is moving towards full automation instead of careful coding together with the AI, they are probably right, right?

Well, AI getting better at coding, does not mean YOU are getting better at it. In fact it's actually the opposite, without practicing your ability to learn and solve problems, you will lose it. On another level, the kind of one-shotting where you give the AI a problem and come back later after 30 min (or more!) to check if it's done and throw it away if it went of the rails is psychologically. It is the same pattern on which slot machines operate, and gambling is about.

I'm not saying vibe-coding is always bad at all, just there are a lot of caveats and people do not seem to be concerned about.

Those concerns are front and foremost in the solveIT approach, Jeremy has a very thorough understanding about meta-learning for example, the slot machines insight was shared by Johno, and the full team has range of experiences that are rare in the narrow-minded AGI at all costs world of Silicon Valley.

Your psychological health, learning abilities, and in general happiness in life are rarely the main concern of VCs but it rans firsts and foremost in Answer.ai (they are even a public benefit corporation, look it up if you don't know what is that).

With that in mind, I recommend everyone to take the course because it is a multi-dimensional experience that will make you grow as a person and as an engineer. You just gotta look at previous fast.ai course & students.

And finally, if you end up joining because you read this message, I'd love if you get in touch in the Discord server, my name is pol_avec.

See you there!
by tankenmate | 2025-10-03 11:33:05+00:00
They are the same only sometimes; devs work on code on feature / fix / whatever branch, then when they've finished dev testing you do a code review and then it gets fast forwarded onto the dev branch, then when it suits for staging (non dev team stakeholder testing / infra testing) it gets fast forwarded to staging, then when it passes staging testing (if necessary), then it get ff onto prod and deployed. so dev will sometimes point to the same commit as staging but sometimes not, and staging will point to the same commit as prod but sometimes not. It's a funnel, a conveyor belt if you will.
by SpaceNugget | 2025-10-03 11:33:08+00:00
It's not entitled to not want to try out some new thing if it has major drawbacks over what you are already successfully using.

If someone randomly comes up to you and offers you an apple with a rotten spot and you say "No thanks, there's a big rotten spot" would you expect them to scold you for being entitled and looking a gift horse in the mouth? _They_ came up to _you_ offering an apple!
by newsclues | 2025-10-03 11:34:51+00:00
No one listened, no one prepared.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Munich_speech_of_Vladim...

It’s not like there was any warning signs…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

Bullies exploit weaknesses. Time to grow a pair.
by efitz | 2025-10-03 11:35:06+00:00
I want to see English become mor fonetik and mor regular.

As I watched my son learn to speak, then later to read and write, I paid attention to his misspellings and they all made perfect sense if you approached the language phonetically.

The first sentence he wrote for me was:

“my daddy and i tocd on d woki toki” (“My Daddy and I talked on the walkie talkie.”)

At first confusing, but it omits all the silent, or effectively silent because native speakers usually omit the sound, or abbreviate it so much that non-native speakers would miss it if they didn’t know it was there. Like “l” in “talked”.

And don’t get me started on irregular conjugations.
by jnaina | 2025-10-03 11:37:01+00:00
Surprised the Atari 8-bit series was left out. It was arguably one of the first home computers designed with an appliance-like philosophy, rather than the typical open, hobbyist-oriented design of its time. Features like ROM cartridges, the Atari SIO serial bus (which even influenced the design of USB), multiple joystick ports that doubled as input for external switches or sensors, and support for smart peripherals like disk drives and drawing tablets set it apart.

I still have my Atari 800 — it was my first real step into learning 6502 machine language.
by kotaKat | 2025-10-03 11:39:17+00:00
Yeah I know saying that in hindsight it's just going to go to the ONN sticks instead and stay within Google TV - but it solves the problem Amazon wanted which is to quickly and smartly move the problem away from themselves and onto someone else's loss leader.

(And Walmart already has started doing regionlocking to try to crack down on that, too! Taking an ONN box out of the US will error out in setup and complain it's only for sale in US/PR.)
by msadowski | 2025-10-03 11:39:22+00:00
Full disclosure, I work at Foxglove right now. Before joining, I spent over seven years consulting and had more than 50 clients during that period. Here are some thoughts:

* Combing through the syslogs to find issues is an absolute nightmare, even more so if you are told that the machine broke at some point last night

* Even if you find the error, it's not necessarily when something broke; it could have happened way before, but you just discovered it because the system hit a state that required it

* If combing through syslog is hard, try rummaging through multiple mcap files by hand to see where a fault happened

* The hardware failing silently is a big PITA - this is especially true for things that read analog signals (think PLCs)

Many of the above issues can be solved with the right architecture or tooling, but often the teams I joined didn't have it, and lacked the capacity to develop it.

At Foxglove, we make it easy to aggregate and visualize the data and have some helper features (e.g., events, data loaders) that can speed up workflows. However, I would say that having good architecture, procedures, and an aligned team goes a long way in smoothing out troubleshooting, regardless of the tools.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 11:39:27+00:00
> Most of the time US sells the weapons used to do the genocide

We sold weapons to Burma, China, Russia, ISIS, Sudan and Somaliland [1]?

We're absolutely complicit in Gaza, the DRC f/k/a Zaire and Bosnia. And we helped defend the Yazidi and Ukrainians. Honestly, looking at the list, that's a better record than Russia or China have had since WWII.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-03 11:39:29+00:00
> I’m still of the opinion that iOS 6 was peak iPhone.

You’re not alone. The release of iOS7 basically took us from having one OS that didn’t constantly confuse the non-tech-savvy, back to having zero of those. And it’s gotten a little better in a couple releases, but overall the trend is that it’s moving even farther from that over time.
by tgv | 2025-10-03 11:39:59+00:00
> could go either way

Why do innate differences stop at the brain-blood barrier? Isn't it quite reasonable to assume that physical, biological differences exist everywhere in the body, since birth? A priori there's no reason for assuming otherwise.

There's enough evidence that intelligence is partially heritedary. It's also obvious that there are differences between people who dedicate themselves to their hobbies and profession, well beyond the 10k hours.

If it could the other way, why isn't there an endless stream of Einsteins and Newtons? Are all physicists lazy?

That "castle of hidden abilities" exists, BTW, even though it's usually focussed on short-comings. Our genes are quite hidden, and determine a great deal of our capabilities and lack thereof.
by theknarf | 2025-10-03 11:41:47+00:00
The current problem with Gemeni 2.5 Pro is not that its not intelligent or can't oneshot problem, the problem is that its _terrible_ at tool calling and waste most of its context on trying to correct itself from mistaken tool calling. If they can solve that with 3.0 then they may have a useful model for agentic coding, if not its not keeping up with Anthropic and OpenAI.
by imiric | 2025-10-03 11:42:06+00:00
"AI" tools can be very powerful once you approach them as what they are: very good pattern matchers and generators. This ability far surpasses anything a human could do. Detecting potential issues in software is a great application of the technology.

The key word is "potential", though. They're still wildly unpredictable and unreliable, which is why an expert human is required to validate their output.

The big problem is the people overhyping the technology, selling it as "AI", and the millions deluded by the marketing. Amidst the false advertising, uncertainty, and confusion, people are forced to speculate about the positive and negative impacts, with wild claims at both extremes. As usual, the reality is somewhere in the middle.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-03 11:42:40+00:00
Somewhat roundabout, but WEI can make it so you need to have an allowed device-OS-browser combo for important services like banking. The device can then make it impossible to install another OS, and the OS can make it impossible to install another browser. Then the browser (or the OS) just receives blacklists (and possibly eventually whitelists after everything is entirely corporate captured) from Google/Microsoft/Apple.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 11:43:28+00:00
> genocide reveals how much Israel truly controls the US government and other Western countries

Nonsense. Israel has influence because a lot of American voters make Israel one of their ride-or-die issues. If that support shifts, the influence does, too.

> last couple of months also showed that international rules and agreements don't mean anything

Did you miss Russia invading Ukraine, America invading Iraq and China annexing Tibet? Or the ongoing genocides in Burma, Sudan and recently-concluded one in Ethiopia? (I think.)
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-10-03 11:43:37+00:00
Great that you can do this and it is a great thing to do, but saying that a vast majority has this option (at least in the US) and just choose not to is blatantly false. Distance is just one of the parameters, but so is the infrastructure, weather, being able to shower at work so you don't start a morning meeting all sweaty, time needed to get the kids ready for school, etc. etc. It just isn't viable for many people, even when at surface level it seems like it should be.
by prein | 2025-10-03 11:43:52+00:00
I switched from i3 to Niri a couple weeks ago, and I've been super happy with it.

Niri feels like it lines up more naturally with the way I tend to use windows and workspaces. I'm working on one project per workspace, opening an occasional ephermeral terminal window or web browser to the right when I need to reference something or run a quick command. My other windows in the workspace aren't altered by these new ones, no reflow happens, and then I can close it when done.

My only problem with Niri is that now I really want an Ultrawide monitor.
by benbristow | 2025-10-03 11:43:58+00:00
They may as well stop selling them. I doubt many people are going to buy a Fire Stick to watch Prime and Netflix when you already can on any standard Smart TV. It's harder to buy a dumb TV now than it is a smart one. Never mind if you also have a game console connected which can run the same apps. Or a set top box like Virgin Media which run apps too.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-03 11:44:13+00:00
Human DNA has under 1GB of information content in it. Most of which isn't even used in the brain. And the brain doesn't have a mechanism to read data out from the DNA efficiently.

This puts a severe limit on how much "innate knowledge" a human can possibly have.

Sure, human brain has a strong inductive bias. It also has a developmental plan, and it follows that plan. It guides its own learning, and ends up being better at self-supervised learning than even the very best of our AIs. But that guidance, that sequencing and that bias must all be created by the rules encoded in the DNA, and there's only this much data in the DNA.

It's quite possible that the human brain has a bunch of simple and clever learning tricks that, if we pried out and applied to our AIs, would give us x100 the learning rate and x1000 the sample efficiency. Or it could be that a single neuron in the human brain is worth 10000 neurons in an artificial neural network, and thus, the biggest part of the "secret" of human brain is just that it's hilariously overparameterized.
by fidz | 2025-10-03 11:44:33+00:00
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