MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wmil | 2025-10-26 14:05:59+00:00
In the spirit of brining down the level of intellectual sophistication here, I have a few recommendations I've enjoyed.

- All 18 Expeditionary Force books by Craig Alanson

- The first 5 Starship's Mage books by Glynn Stewart. UnArcana Stars (book 6) went in a direction that made the government look extremely incompetent.

- Jacques McKeown series by Yahtzee Croshaw

- Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

- Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor
by upofadown | 2025-10-26 14:06:01+00:00
When things go wrong there are three main entities to consider:

The User

They need a coherent explanation of what happened, based on the concepts they can be expected to understand. Ideally enough information/explanation should be provided to allow them to overcome the condition.

The Maintenance

This should be a super detailed description of the error and include any possible context. The user will not reliably preserve this sort of information.

The Attracker

Could they conceivably get access to the data?

Could they get any use out of the data?

Could they cause the error condition that generated the error.
by iterance | 2025-10-26 14:06:04+00:00
Your fact checking was not successful: there is no typical background expressed in counts. Background count rates vary globally by significant amounts, but importantly, they vary by device. Some devices may get a measly 10-20 counts per minute in a background, next to another device that could get 500. It also matters what kind of radiation the device is configured to detect.

At any rate 300 is widely recognizable as not an alarming value for a typical contamination detector in a typical configuration, but the report is likely slightly deficient because it does not specify how the measurement was taken. However, even if we accept 100 as the background CPM value, 300 on 100 does not represent significant contamination in a typical environment (but does imply some occurred).
by animuchan | 2025-10-26 14:06:34+00:00
It's absolutely possible, but on an M4 mac the largest / slowest model I could feasibly run was very inferior, compared to the default paid Cursor experience.

I tested with Kilo Code: https://kilocode.ai/ -- it's a VS Code / Cursor extension.

To host models on desktop, there's this: https://ollama.com/
by mpweiher | 2025-10-26 14:07:25+00:00
Pure disinformation.

EDF is generally highly profitable while at the same time delivering cheap, reliable power. 2023 was the one exception, due to the energy crisis and its interaction with the ARENH program that forces EDF to sell power from nuclear at a fixed low price (usually way below market).

Even if it needs that power itself.

So in 2022, it still had to sell this power at 4 cent/kWh, and then had to buy that same power back from the market at up to €1/kWh.
by mnky9800n | 2025-10-26 14:09:02+00:00
Yes. I think the hype is crazy and also the tools are awesome. Like the other day i had all this different documentation in different files. .tex, .md, .docx, .xlsx, it was a mess and I needed to put it together into a summary document that could be shared with stakeholders because they aren't going to read through all that and make sense of it. So I dropped them in a folder and asked claude code to do it and 5 minutes later I had something I could edit a bit and send out. That would have been at least half a days worth of work. Did it fudge some bits? yes but then i just fixed it and everything is fine.

to me i think all the hype comes from promises of C3P0s and R2D2s instead pitching it as building computational tools that make you more efficient or give you new ways to model your ideas inside a computer.
by _wire_ | 2025-10-26 14:09:24+00:00
Here's a very clear, coherent and approachable talk by Zizek on the tensions within our reckonings over the "commons" (as in commonwealth) and ideology at this threshold of post-capitalism.

Zizek: A New Kind of Communism:

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=zizek+new...

Compare with this excellent speech by Chomsky and its clear why Chomsky would dismiss Zizek:

Chomsky: Mind, Language & Limits of Thought

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bWDJ2zFe4Pc

OTOH In general, stay away from Zizek's interviews as he has a distressing affect and tends towards interpersonal babbling.
by sarimkx | 2025-10-26 14:09:27+00:00
I am in my early 20s too so can't provide the depth you're probably looking for but here is what I know so far:

Move to a country/location/environment where you can actually achieve your goals/dreams ASAP. Location is the number 1 determining factor imo. This is step zero, nothing happens without this.

Build a lean, aesthetic physique (assuming you're a guy). Workout and stay healthy.

Get skills ASAP. Stack as many real tangible skills as you can. Skills will pay your bills and will be the foundation of your career.
by DrinkyBird | 2025-10-26 14:09:51+00:00
Mercurial has no distinction between a bare repo and a non-bare repo: any repo can have a working copy or not. You can check out a working copy with `hg update somerevision`, or get rid of it with `hg update null`.

You can push to a repo with a working copy, if you like; nothing will happen to that working copy unless you run `hg update`. Since you don’t need a working copy on the server’s repo, you never run `hg update` on it, and it’s effectively what git calls a bare repository.
by jhanschoo | 2025-10-26 14:10:31+00:00
Ah I now think I know what you were thinking of when you were talking about "noisy" in terms of K-parsimony, you were thinking of maximally random input strings.

> is that true intelligence might not have these big gaps between explanation-lengths that parsimonious TMs do.

I don't know the field and literature well enough to know if this is the case, is there a published result you can point me to?

> And there’s also the question of deduction; having a few redundant “theorems” on hand might make deductive inferences more efficient whereas parsimony would elide them.

Especially with the words "redundant", "deductive", and "efficient", it sounds to me that you have in mind something like CDCL SAT solvers learning redundant conflict clauses that help prune the search space. In respect to this recall that the AIXI definition/Solomonoff induction definition is noncomputable and so doesn't have a notion of efficiency.

Indeed, some optimally parsimonious TMs for some inputs are not going to meet fixed resource bounds on part of the input. Intuitively if you are concerned about a finite part of the input space, you can just tack them on to the definition of the TM to obtain a TM that has good efficiency on that finite space, at the cost of definitional parsimony. Possibly something in-between for particular infinite spaces exist (dovetailing with a more complex TM with better runtime characteristics that agrees on that space?) and I wonder if there might very well be an efficient frontier of parsimony against say time complexity.
by codeduck | 2025-10-26 14:10:35+00:00
it does at a macroscopic level by making scraping expensive. If every "valid" page is scattered at random amongst a tarpit of recursive pages of nonsense, it becomes computationally and temporaly expensive to scrape a site for "good" data.

A single site doing this does nothing. But many sites doing this has a severe negative impact on the utility of AI scrapers - at least, until a countermeasure is developed.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-26 14:11:16+00:00
I generally agree with you, but this:

"This name makes no sense" -> "Sure, give me a better name for X doing Y to Z" -> "Nevermind"

Should really result in a comment "/* X doing Y to Z */" before the declaration. I try to address these issues by treating PRs the same as phone calls, they can be gone tomorrow, so I put all the things in the code or the commit message. But of course I am not perfect, the people after me will determine whether I was successful.
by throw0101a | 2025-10-26 14:11:17+00:00
> At face value, then in the worst case that's just 4 days per year of using resistive heat to keep a home warm.

The design philosophy for using 1% is that you may end up having to run your heating (or cooling) 24/7 to keep up with temperature delta between outside and desired inside, but it will keep up with the demand.

The rest of the time (99%) the mechanicals only run intermittently. Also note that the 1% would not necessarily occur every year: it is just the historical average. The charts also have the 0.4% extremes if you want to be extra conservative, but most building codes specify 1% because that is what experience has shown is a good trade-off.

Part of the process (in the US) is to use what is called the Manual J to determine/estimate/calculate how much energy is needed to maintain a particular temperature (typically ≥70F/21C in winter, ≤75F/24C in summer):

* https://www.acca.org/standards/technical-manuals/manual-j

* https://www.youtube.com/@HomePerformance/search?query=Manual...

> The Cooling Design Day is effectively the "worst case" day for your air conditioning loads. The "worst case" hour of this day determines equipment capacity, fan sizes, and subsequently duct sizes. This largely impacts first cost. The Design Hour also impacts peak KW demand which often has a huge impact on the utility bill.

* https://energy-models.com/blog/hvac-what-cooling-design-day

* https://hvac-blog.acca.org/sizing-selecting-hvac-equipment-p...

* https://www.airequipmentcompany.com/2021/what-does-design-da...

Here's an overview of the design process for one particular municipal jurisdiction:

* https://www.suffolkva.us/DocumentCenter/View/7362/Understand...
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-10-26 14:11:30+00:00
It's far more arrogant to expect/demand changes without blocking than it is for the author to take the reviewer at their word about whether the change needs additional work or not.

By leaving a non-blocking review, the coworker has said that they have no strong objection to merging the code as is.

If it makes you feel better, just think of ignoring non-blocking comments as equivalent to reading them and disagreeing.
by wallflower | 2025-10-26 14:12:45+00:00
Congratulations on your life awareness at age 25! Good luck!

If you have not already done this, in addition to maxing out your 401(k), start a Roth IRA and max it out every single year. I regret not doing this.

Compound interest is everything for most regular people to build net worth. Compound debt is the worst.

As the saying goes, there will be friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. Friendships will run their natural course. That being said, do your best to maintain friendships you want to try to keep as you get older.

Don't get stuck in the friend zone. Be bold and ask that person out umambigously.

As many dentists say, floss the teeth that you want to keep. I recommend flossing then Water Pik then brushing with a mechanical toothbrush like an Oral-B.

If you don't know, learn how to cook. There are so many resources out there. While not knowing how to cook might be cute or excusable by a potential partner in your 20s, by your 30s or 40s it is no longer funny and definitely a liability.

Don't sit all day. Even standing desks aren't enough. Do some light calisthenics every hour. Push-ups, wall-sits, squats, knee bends.

Make the time to see friends in-person. We are all hardwired to crave IRL social interaction, even the most introverted of us.

You might want to skim Sahil Bloom's book. While it might not the best at being actionable, it might make you think about the next 25 years in better context.

https://www.the5typesofwealth.com/

Don't give other people advice. They probably don't want it. They don't want you to fix their problems. Shut up and listen instead.
by gdulli | 2025-10-26 14:13:01+00:00
Maybe it's the same sort of deal as Google where they sell the traffic to Yelp and agree not to compete? So they can sell your privacy without it looking like they're selling your privacy. If they did what you're suggesting they'd either do it in a privacy-respecting way and leave money on the table, or else directly profit from the sale of privacy and lose the ability to claim they respect your privacy. They don't like either of those options, so they go this indirect route.

Again, I have no idea if they have this relationship with Yelp, I'm just speculating if it's like the Google deal.
by Krispy805 | 2025-10-26 14:13:05+00:00
I am a HERS Rater and Title 24 Consultant in California. Our State Government hyped the idea of replacing every unit in California with Heat Pumpsnover 2p years. Unfortunately the big cookie cutter new home developers did not really like the idea. Sonthey installed 80% efficient old fashioned gas firwd furnaces like usual in 90% of new homes since 2015. Heat pumps are flashy, but most models do not handle cold weather. Units that use R410A will not ever peoduce heat in the true sense of the word. They are much more efficient at cooling however they simply cannot produce meaningful amounts of heat. HP Units that run on CO2 (R-0) as a refrigerant have been used in Alaska winters to provide emergency heat. The extreme performance difference between R410A and R0 is so staggering that one might wonder why R22, R134, R500 or R410A were ever used in thebfirst place. That has to donwith patent law and stubborn, lead poisoned engineers. Ya I said it, anone born before 1980 is a retard with Lead Poisoning. Get over it boomer, nobody respects you cause you lead in your soft tissue!

Anyways, if you feel like running the AC, then go outside. It is much hotter in Mexico, think about that.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-10-26 14:13:12+00:00
“Gurman warned that the move risks some amount of consumer backlash.”

The frogs don’t have to wait and see if the pot is boiling, they have a pot named Android right next to them for a direct temperature comparison and other Maps apps available. If I lose screen space to ads in my native Apple apps then I’m out. How is the money they are getting from hardware sales and their developer fees not enough? I don’t see how the execs can’t tell how damaging this is to their brand image.

Apple used to be something you accepted because you were filled with rage at Microsoft. Then Apple was something that cost extra money but it had good software and cross device integration. Then Apple’s software quality went down noticeably, but I stuck with them because at least I figured my data was slightly safer on an Apple device. But now if they’re using my data to sell ads they don’t even have a privacy angle. Apple now lags Android flagships in features, costs at least as much, and also sells my data.

I’m out.
by Iulioh | 2025-10-26 14:13:34+00:00
The problem is that these systems are so costly and hard to make that without a capital incentive no indipendent entity is going to make them and what entity do have an interest in making them as a "loss leader" if not monetized in any way (ads or paid product)?

Do we all jump on Bing maps?

Open street map is a second but still...
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-26 14:13:46+00:00
The situation is almost identical except you don't have a cute name for your new commit. Let's say you add a ref to your detached commit, perhaps local/foo. Then you're looking at a divergence between foo and local/foo. If you had a bare upstream it would be a divergence between origin/foo and foo. No real difference. And if you don't want to reconcile then you don't have to.

If git was a tiny bit smarter it could remember you were working on "foo" even after the ref changes.
by daveguy | 2025-10-26 14:13:54+00:00
The implication wasn't to use the raspberry pi toolchain. Just that toolchains are required and are a critical part of developing for new hardware. The Intel/AMD toolchain they will be competing with is even more mature than rpi. And toolchain availability and ease of use makes a huge difference whether you are developing for supercomputers or embedded systems. From the article:

"It uses technology called RISC-V, an open computing standard that competes with Arm Ltd and is increasingly being used by chip giants such as Nvidia and Broadcom."

So the fact that rpi tooling is better than the imitators and it has maintained a significant market share lead is relevant. Market share isn't just about performance and price. It's also about ease of use and network effects that come with popularity.
by ryukoposting | 2025-10-26 14:14:12+00:00
> i think the constructivist idealism got in the way here.

Oh yeah, they had their heads miles up their own asses. That's absolutely a major part of the story. Idealism led to hubris.

The hand crank is a big part of the story, though its role is more complicated than you might expect. It wasn't a silver bullet. Some developing nations, like Paraguay, had decent electrical infrastructure, but their OLPC deployments still went poorly due to lack of training and lack of maintenance/repair programs.

Also, it takes very basic physics to prove that the hand crank could never have been the silver bullet in the first place. My math in the essay agrees that no child-operated hand crank was ever going to be sensible.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-26 14:14:32+00:00
Oh wow! Combined with the explaination of iso files which can be a single file which can have things like fat and bzimage and rootfs etc. with the bootloader and combined with software like dd / gnome-disks and your article and the HN thread article, this finally makes me understand how Linux starts and how we can install things from https / internet and use software to fundamentally change the operating system

Its magic.

I was recently trying to build my own linux operating system and I felt so frustrated as to how to build an iso image from bzImage / linux kernel + initramfs but I was able to withstand its pain somehow and it took me a week to actually learn a lot more about the fundamentals of linux which are so fascinating.

Now, I was trying to do some mix and matching (imagine tinycorelinux initramfs and buildroot bzImage and merging them) and doing some other shenanigans.

Sometimes my computer kernel didn't work or the userspace didn't work in the vm and I guess now WHEN I AM WRITING THIS POST, I realized that it was because of the difference in 32 bit and 64 bit, I think I had 64 bit kernel and 32 bit userspace which had some issues

There were some different things as well, which had caused some issues which made me want to scratch my remaining hair but it was so worth it (maybe i used some llm assistance in the end as well), its all just makes sense now, I always wanted to learn how computers work from scratch, now I feel like I have a very basic idea on how things work and they are complex indeed :sob:

I was looking for a post like yours yesterday and so I am still glad I found it when the topic is still fresh.

I faced so many issues trying to build my own iso but I don't know if it was my skill issue which streched it to a week. But the whole process of building your own iso seems less daunting to me now knowing what it really is

I may have skill issues indeed but I fixed those, I feel like that there is a lot to learn from those errors that I missed but maybe that's also because they got too overwhelming. But I now know a path which works and some explainations of why they work. I feel more confident in my ability to make my own custom distro even, but my appreciation for linux grows so much.

Its just such a massive rabbit hole and most of linux is literally just "it just works", linux is amazing.
by jm4 | 2025-10-26 14:14:39+00:00
How times have changed. It wasn't long ago that Apple was all about promoting privacy and a premium experience, making a clear distinction between themselves and the likes of Meta and Google. Now they are using AI to profile us and deliver ads.

We badly need a good open phone with an open source OS. Choosing a more open phone shouldn't mean having to settle for five year old hardware.
by webstrand | 2025-10-26 14:14:47+00:00
It's a little more complex than that. Yes git can work in a peer-to-peer fashion, but the porcelain is definitely set up for a hub-and-spoke model, given how cloning a remote repo only gives you a partial copy of the remote history.

There's other stuff too, like git submodules can't be configured to reference another branch on the local repository and then be cloned correctly, only another remote.
by berikv | 2025-10-26 14:15:09+00:00
“Then there is the % address operator: user %domainB@domainA is first sent to domainA, which expands the rightmost (in this case, the only) percent sign to an @ sign. The address is now user@domainB, and the mailer happily forwards your message to domainB, which delivers it to user. This type of address is sometimes referred to as “Ye Olde ARPAnet Kludge,” and its use is discouraged“
by Sharlin | 2025-10-26 14:15:44+00:00
If, as you claim, the association of 25 to "advent" is primarily commercial, that's much more of a reason to avoid that association. In any case it's very culture-specific. In many countries, including mine, Christmas Eve is the "main" event that people look forward to, and the number of "advent days" in calendars and such is 24. On the other hand, ecclesiastically there are four Advent Sundays, and the number of days is thus variable and also not really pertinent.
by apwheele | 2025-10-26 14:16:03+00:00
Can folks comment on what applications they use k-means for? It was a basic technique I learned in school, but honestly I am not really familiar with a single use case that is very clearly motivated besides "pretty pictures".

So I do a bit of work in geospatial analysis, and hotspots are better represented by DBSCAN (do not need to assign every point a cluster). I just do not even use clustering very often in gig (supervised ML and anomaly detection are much more prevalent in the rest of my work).
by markus_zhang | 2025-10-26 14:16:10+00:00
I have always recommended this strategy: flood the AI bots with garbage that looks like authentic information so that they need actual humans to filter the information. Make sure that every site does this so they get more garbage than real stuffs. Hike up the proportion so that even ordinary people eventually figure out that using these AI products has more harm than use because it just produces garbage. I just don't know what is the cost, now it looks like pretty doable.

If you can't fight them, flood them. If they want to open a window, pull down the whole house.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-26 14:16:24+00:00
Yes, October 7th was a terrorist attack - so what? Israel's actions before October 7th were also terrorism, and their actions after October 7th have been many orders of magnitude worse than terrorism.

"Palestine doesn't get what they deserve because they engaged in terrorism" is a hypocritical, useless argument.

P.S. Everyone is "justified" in doing anything they can to regain their freedom once all legal options are exhausted. If you lock a person in your basement I believe they're entirely justified in bashing your face in the first chance they get. It's absurd to imply that they aren't, and it's even more absurd to try to use "but they bashed my face in" as a moral justification to further victimize your basement prisoner.
by haskellshill | 2025-10-26 14:16:39+00:00
> all the experts you know use it in slightly different ways

What? Knowing that a git repo is just a folder is nowhere near "expert" level. That's basic knowledge, just like knowing that the commits are nodes of a DAG. Sadly, most git users have no idea how the tool works. It's a strange situation, it'd be like if a majority of drivers didn't know how to change gears.
by xyzal | 2025-10-26 14:16:40+00:00
I think random text can be detected and filtered. We need probably pre-generated bad information to make utility of crawling one's site truly negative.

On my site, I serve them a subset of Emergent Misalignment dataset, randomly perturbed by substituting some words with synonyms.

It should make the LLMs trained on it behave like dicks according to this research https://www.emergent-misalignment.com/