MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nekusar | 2025-10-07 13:29:21+00:00
Well, you definitely can, in a safer and legal manner.

1. Get crossfaded (cannabis and alcohol to do both drunk and high). Sit in comfy chair. Close eyes, imagine a roller coaster. Yeah, that works.

2. Get in car, PASSENGERS seat. Someone else not inebriated drives. Enjoy the ride!

3. You can do on the sly cannabis vapes before going on a roller coaster at a theme park. Obviously harder to do. Again, you get strapped in, and enjoy the ride.
by InMice | 2025-10-07 13:29:23+00:00
Nothing to do with psychotherapy. Plumbing, nerves, muscles, bodily functions - stuff like that completely disrupted and fucked up. is all I can say in this public context.

Let me put this way: Assuming you only get 1 life on this earth, 1 body, one chance. You get certain bodily functions that basically work the same way from puberty into your older age assuming no other harm or accident. You are in mid adulthood you try a drug for a few months. you quit that drug because weird symptoms develop. shortly after stopping those symptoms magnify and then persist. you can classify the persistence in two categories (1) persistent irrevisble, my body worked this X or Y way in this or that category my entire life now it doesnt and hasnt for years. (2) slowly reversing with random waves of lingering symptoms. there is a small % of people that will get permanent issues from ssri similarly and for finasteride its a small % that get totally messed up. and i tried straterra (an ssri) once and had side effect that made me quit. read worse cases than mine but there is a subjectively persistent pushback that its all a delusional mental problem but if i knew you and talked to you in a secure setting and i can assure you this drug is exceptionally dangerous to a small % of people that try it and seems like we have no science and or data to tell who is at risk anywhere close reasonable safety.
by tapoxi | 2025-10-07 13:29:32+00:00
As someone who was burned by it during the 2010s, this is no longer the case. My Bazzite install worked out-of-the-box with no tweaking whatsoever. I've been on this install since April 2024.

Better hardware support, more funding and development on the desktops, Flatpak, more apps being web apps, Proton, everything converged finally.

What's odd is this machine does not work seamlessly under Windows, it doesn't support the wifi or ethernet driver out of the box and refuses to load it during Windows setup, and that of course requires an internet connection to complete now. This works fine under Linux.
by maples37 | 2025-10-07 13:29:34+00:00
Can confirm. Daily drive Linux for software development, and have a Linux on a laptop for gaming (Silksong anyone? :D). I keep a Windows 10 partition around on the laptop for Fortnite with friends, but that's about it.

I was actually pleasantly surprised the other day, I booted into Windows for the first time in several months and it was surprisingly quiet. No nags, no bs. Just "normal" stuff like Epic Games forgetting my account again and Windows updates going on in the background.

My friend whose laptop has Windows 11, on the other hand, that was a WILD experience. Similar situation, he mostly only brings it out for gaming with friends. He also had gone several months without booting, and the system was borderline unusable. Like, the battery settings page would refuse to open until he waited for the updates to finish and rebooted. No error, just an infinite loading spinner. Windows 11 also seemed much more aggressive about hogging the laptop's Internet connection -- our laptops were both downloading Windows updates and Fortnite updates at the same time, and my Fortnite update was literally progressing at twice the speed (~200mb/sec vs his ~90mb/sec).

Anyway, all that to say, I don't miss Windows, and anytime I'm exposed to it, that attitude is constantly re-affirmed.
by flashgordon | 2025-10-07 13:29:47+00:00
Yeah build speed was actually quite good (I am sure rust-wasm has better over all performance but I am not that advanced yet). Two things I still am not able to get a feel for is:

a. load time - the Go wasm bundles can be large (TinyGo should help) but even with 25mb -> 5mb - that 5mb feels like big especially on a mobile download (i think?). But this is one off so I can suck it up.

b. This feels like a big one. I am only doing turn based games so may not be a big issue but it feels like the wasm <-> browser ser/deser can be a killer. Thank fully I am not doing high (or even medium) FPS games so will deal with that later :D
by geerlingguy | 2025-10-07 13:30:22+00:00
I'm speaking in a broader sense, comparing the variety of other Arduino boards like the Uno R3/R4. That wasn't too clear in the OP, sorry!

The concern I have with the $44 Q is it has 2GB of RAM and 16GB eMMC, and a processor that's probably between a Pi 3 and Pi 4 in terms of speed and IO (though 4nm, so probably much more efficient).

For $45 I can buy a Pi 5 with it's own built-in GPIO, PCIe, and a much faster SoC, though it lacks a few niceties like the Q form factor, the more efficient SoC, a realtime microcontroller, and a USB-C port with display out capabilities (I really wish Pi had that...).
by cmos | 2025-10-07 13:30:25+00:00
I biked around the US for 1.5 years, and loved every minute of it. Initially I had a hammock (Hennessey) and then a 1 person tent. Lived at a whitewater rafting company, was invited into a music festival, and was invited into people's homes and fed 2-3 days a week. I stopped to do the family thing, but gearing up to take them on bike trips soon.
by Teknomadix | 2025-10-07 13:30:33+00:00
Not necessarily. There are lots of use cases for on device AI inference. I run YOLO on an Nvidia Jetson powered Lenovo Think Edge, which processes incoming video at full frame rates on four channels with recognition and classification for a bespoke premises security system. No clouds involved other than the Nix package manager etc. Make sure your argument May carry more weight when you're talking about ultra low power devices like an Arduino running AI inference locally that seems like more of a stretch.
by gpm | 2025-10-07 13:30:59+00:00
> US rocketry has a tradition of making second stages dispose of themselves after their work is done. AFAIK no regulatory body enforces this - but launch providers usually do it anyway.

The FCC individually licenses every launch, and explicitly cares about collision risk. I'm not sure if there's a specific rule about when second stages must be deorbitted, but I'm pretty sure that if a launch provider intended to leave a second stage in a crowded orbit the FCC would cause trouble for them.
by tomp | 2025-10-07 13:31:05+00:00
So why is "distilling from N-gram" better, why does it make the transformer learn English faster?

Hypothesis: it's the standard "teacher-student" or "distillation" trick - if you're learning next-token-prediction, you only learn what the correct answer is (i.e. the spike in probability), but when you're distilling from a teacher model, you learn the entire distribution of potential answers.

Curious, can anyone more experienced in AI research comment on this?
by latexr | 2025-10-07 13:31:23+00:00
> I've spent most of my career in the 4/ths of startups that aren't wildly successful.

That has nothing to do with the point. And again, you’re only focusing on one type of job which is not the only one which exists. There are other people in the world.

> I've done pretty well for myself. Of course I want more, but I'm well past the point of "enough."

And therein lies the issue. No, it’s not “of course”, that idea of “I have enough but want more” is not a universal desire. But it is a major source of the world’s problems. That’s how we get to major corporations exploiting workers, customers, polluting the environment, rigging elections… All because of “more” well past what they need. That is called “greed”.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-07 13:31:33+00:00
The common story getting shared all over is from a guy named Jason Lemkin. He’s a VC who did a live vibe-coding experiment for a week on Twitter where he wanted to test if he, a non-programmer, could build and run a fake SaaS by himself.

The AI agent dropped the “prod” database, but it wasn’t an actual SaaS company or product with customers. The prod database was filled with synthetic data.

The entire thing was an exercise but the story is getting shared everywhere without the context that it was a vibe coding experiment. Note how none of the hearsay stories can name a company that suffered this fate, just a lot of “I’m hearing a lot of stories” that it happened.

It’s grist for the anti-AI social media (including HN) mill.
by slackfan | 2025-10-07 13:31:45+00:00
>If you’re really good you can do one 25 minute episode in about 35 minutes. I miss the days of hand-timing 25 minute episodes in about 20 minutes in Aegisub because I learned to read the waveform, and had custom snap-to-keyframe commands set up in Aegisub.

Of course, the typesetting would take 8 hours, but timing was always easy.
by the_af | 2025-10-07 13:32:26+00:00
OK, if it's a matter of priorities, let's just ignore all hard learned lessons in software engineering, and vibe-code our way through life, crossing fingers and hoping for the best.

Typing systems? Who needs them, the LLM knows better. Different prod, dev, and staging environments? To hell with them, the LLM knows better. Testing? Nope, the LLM told me everything's sweet.

(I know you're not saying this, I'm just venting my frustration. It's like the software engineering world finally and conclusively decided engineering wasn't necessary at all).
by timschmidt | 2025-10-07 13:32:29+00:00
Viruses aren't dice.

And past experiences inform future actions. It's called learning, and some of us feel it's worthwhile for no other reason than the knowledge.

Put another way, one might ask your same question about polio or smallpox or any other outbreak of any other disease. Everything we learn about every one of them prepares us in some way for the next.

It's literally the foundation of epidemiology.
by ImPleadThe5th | 2025-10-07 13:32:37+00:00
I agree with you on all of this. The no friends and no DIY is brutal for me to be honest.

I think one thing that helps with some of this is staying in Hostels often even if they are sometimes a bit uncomfortable.I feel like people in hostels kind of speed-run friendship because they are low in time and need connection so people are very candid and open. Then instead of having to do research usually there's someone going the opposite direction to you and can recommend stuff to see.

I also 100% agree about museums and tourist attractions. This is why I often will only spend 1-2 days in a big city to get my bearings and hopefully catch some tips from a fellow traveler and go find the unique stuff in smaller towns or out in nature as soon as possible.
by webdevver | 2025-10-07 13:32:39+00:00
But intel being "cooked" was a massive psyop. how was intel ever "cooked", when they were still designing, taping out, and delivering massive quantities of CPUs to DCs and consumer products?

AMD briefly gave them a run for their money, but it was nowhere near the catastrophe that bulldozer was, where the company basically needed rescuing. For a brief moment, they weren't a monopolist - that's all that happened, right?

AMD being circled by OpenAI makes sense since AMD makes NVidia knockoffs. that's objectively useful. Harddrive company make sense for storing weights and generative content. Marvell is networking...

what does QCOm present here, that openai or the AI scene at large needs? the only bet is robotics - but why on earth would I put some washed-up adreno into a 40kg man-sized apparatus which would very comfortably fit a H100?
by laborcontract | 2025-10-07 13:33:06+00:00
Claude's research mode is by far the worst one I've used, I consider it nearly useless. I cannot trust it specifically because Anthropic has a policy of refusing to use reddit for anything, whether it be as a research source or in claude chrome.

Reddit may not be the greatest source for hard science, but for things like "tell me what shoes people are finding helpful for their plantar fasciitis" I appreciate reddit's anecdata of reddit over every other source.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-07 13:33:13+00:00
> Also I always found it weird, that a lot of things are "files" in Linux, but not ethernet interfaces, so you have to do that enumeration dance before getting an fd to oictl on. I remember HP-UX having them as files in /dev, which was neat.

My main complaint in general with everything-is-a-file is that it isn't taken far enough:) (Well, on anything except Plan 9)
by rimunroe | 2025-10-07 13:33:32+00:00
Easter eggs can contain basically anything. In a video game I'd expect an easter egg to be anything from a secret weird level or item, a nod to another game/movie, or a picture of one of the developers' pets. As that bit you quoted from the story was trying to make clear, in the context of Taylor Swift, "easter eggs" are a much more specific and are often hints about what will happen next. This seems like a very reasonable clarification to make, and to my eyes doesn't imply that Swifties invented the term.
by gspetr | 2025-10-07 13:33:33+00:00
>anyone can invest in software in the public market and through institutional investments like mutual funds, ETFs, ect.

"Public" being the keyword. There is some irony in being on HN, a YC site, yet a random HN user cannot invest in a YC company: https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-176-annual-return-of-a...
by fidotron | 2025-10-07 13:33:38+00:00
The fact we don't have viable western competition for Espressif is likely to become far more of a headache than all the angst about AI GPU production.

Where can you get a half decent microcontroller with wifi integrated on it? Espressif. All the others are flat out bad in some very important dimension, which isn't to say the Espressif products are perfect, but they fit in the important ways.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-07 13:33:55+00:00
Worth noting though, those monoliths themselves come with tradeoffs; artists don't earn shit for streaming, which is why the only way to really "support" one anymore is concerts and merch.

And don't get me wrong I love concerts and merch, but I'd rather people earn a reasonable living without needing to be on tour basically in perpetuity.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-07 13:34:15+00:00
Arduino wasn't strictly confined to Atmel/Microchip for a while now. Their newest mainstream boards roll with Renesas chips.

And Qualcomm itself is not in the business of making mass market MCUs. Does Qualcomm want to be?

They can, they already have the kind of dies they could put into those. But they would be competing against the likes of ST, and they wouldn't have the wide ass margins they're used to.

They would also have to be writing public documentation, and dealing with hobbyists and small developers. And the impression I got from dealing with Qualcomm? They'd rather douse themselves in gasoline and set themselves on fire than acknowledge that small developers exist.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-07 13:35:09+00:00
Please don't quote AI at me. If I want to read the output of a bullshit machine, I can do it myself.

One thing I didn't mention before is that it's really bizarre that Kirk cites Leviticus for "love your neighbor." It's true that Leviticus says this, but that's not what most Christians are going to think of when they think of that phrase. "Love your neighbor" is typically associated with Jesus. Jesus said nothing about gay people but he was very clear on loving your neighbor. Three of the four gospels have him saying that this is the second greatest commandment, behind loving God. This is not just one of hundreds of specific rules that got thrown away when the Messiah came. This is one of the two most fundamental rules in the religion, explicitly affirmed by that Messiah.

So it makes zero sense from a Christian perspective to say that "love your neighbor" is not to be taken literally because it's tucked in there next to the "kill gay people" law and all that stuff is just for Jews. And it makes zero sense to assume that "love your neighbor" is a reference to the old Mosaic laws rather than a reference to the literal words of the Son of God.

Your interpretation basically requires us to take everything Kirk said here as sarcastic. And I don't see the justification for that. It's not like "God's perfect law" is a phrase he's throwing back at her. If she had said "God's perfect law from Leviticus commands us to love our neighbor" then I could buy it, but she didn't.

So what's your reasoning for this interpretation? It seems to rest on the idea that Christians ignore Leviticus, so he can't have meant it seriously. But that's just not true in general. Christians typically follow some of those laws and ignore others, more or less arbitrarily (or more accurately, in a way that fits their beliefs about what's right and wrong). If you look up Christian writings about homosexuality, you will find many Christians citing Leviticus on this subject.

The justification for taking Kirk to mean the opposite of his literal words here seems to boil down to, he can't have actually meant that he believes this passage from his holy book, because if he did then that would mean he's a bad person, and implying that Kirk is a bad person leads to political violence.
by oefrha | 2025-10-07 13:35:25+00:00
> it would not have been possible to source local candidates, handle HR and payroll, understand local regulations, etc, without outside assistance

I have no dog in this fight, but I agree with the "smear campaign" that this is 100% bullshit. I work for a fully remote company with employees from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, and we didn't need to partner with any local company, let alone a competitor. Plus even if we need local HR assistance there are plenty of global/local HR services to choose from that focus on HR, no "employee sharing" needed.

I don't know if any other claims are false, but this kind of bullshit obvious to anyone who has been in a similar position undermines everything else they claim. Plus it was never mentioned what these "local partners" get in return, which seems to be the most interesting thing if there's no secret ownership, which is the thing they set out to debunk.
by tuyiown | 2025-10-07 13:35:44+00:00
I'm with you on this one. Massive IO on directories with many files is only reliable when a single process access to it, which is not the case, fs are by definition open to concurrent IO. Even though it's true that several processes having uncoordinated reading and writing in the same directories is not a typical case, I'm not sure it's something one can afford to ignore.

But in the end both npm and git ends up having mass writing files in their use cases, regardless of meta data that could be put in a sqlite-like db. Making things faster safely really implies having those apps operating on some OS features that would allow of acquiring lock and committing semantics on fs subtrees or equivalent.
by Carlseymanh | 2025-10-07 13:36:04+00:00
Sounds like you have no idea how dangerous is to put your hands around electric car batteries and how expensive certified electricians are. Without a mechanic that ALSO has an advanced expert certification for high voltage electronics, the blown BMS or contactor (500$) becomes a whole battery to scrap (20k). Then you add the 6 hours of diagnostics and labor on top of it. Electric vehicles are not an arduino circuit with a couple of led and an usb cable.
by rswail | 2025-10-07 13:36:14+00:00
Then the proposal doesn't affect them one way or the other.

But as public transport is electrified, it is perfect to be incorporated into the grid. Vehicles follow predicted schedules, they are used in a predictable way from the depots, so charging can be optimized, and knowing their schedule, the charge on the battery can be kept optimized as well.
by yupyupyups | 2025-10-07 13:36:21+00:00
That's something worker unions can help with, by enlightening members what a reasonable salary is. These consultancy companies often underpay their consultants. Sometimes the salary is egregiously low with the excuse that they are providing some kind of preparatory education for some length of time. The work of that same consultant that is "in education" is then heavily overcharged for.

I've heard some horror stories with these.

tl;dr Make use of a good union or org to find out what a good salary is and don't get yourself ripped off.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-07 13:36:24+00:00
>Also, in addition to planned obsolescence and repair hostility is Design for Manufacturing (DfM) that doesn't care about maintainability, safety, comfort, or durability, only lowest cost to shove things together on an assembly line.

Exactly. It's basically fight club math. Spend $10 on a click-fit connector that can't be disassembled but that a $60/hr (though they only see a fraction of that) UAW laborer can plug in in half the time can't easily short-insert that can be visually checked.

The fact that it costs $200 the 1/10000 times it fails under warranty doesn't matter with those numbers. And you don't even care about the 100/100 times it fails at 2-3x the warranty period.

Of course, you're burning credibility doing this. But credibility doesn't have an obvious mapping to a number and stonk go up, KPI go up, bonus get paid, nobody cares.
by johnhenry | 2025-10-07 13:36:52+00:00
This makes me sad. For a while, the video player team at Crunchyroll was essentially just me. I spent countless hours fixing bugs and building features, especially around subtitling. The teammate who joined after me really took it to the next level. When I left, the player felt like it was in good hands — they even open-sourced the code for a time.