MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by veeti | 2025-10-01 00:00:03+00:00
Extinction Rebellion is actually the perfect example, because they are a bunch of protesters so high on their own farts they think blocking ordinary commuters on electric trains will stop Big Oil [1]. And as you can see from the video, bringing this sort of shithead attitude to actual hard working folx will only backfire on you.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOr2WH7V1k
by alberth | 2025-10-01 00:00:31+00:00
First, I really respect Frank. He’s an amazing designer and have enjoyed using what he’s made in the past (Abstract, etc).

I have a different take thought and it’s not so bleak, and believe a few different topics are conflated in the post.

- Everything in life trends towards the lowest common denominator. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, it just means companys optimize for mass appeal (e.g. they want Walmart volume, not low boutique sales).

- Information asymmetry is actually not as bad as the post would make you believe. 5-star rated system for seller & products (and buyer comments) exist preciously to prevent information asymmetry. This helps buyers make informed purchasing decisions. You see this from: Amazon, Yelp, Uber, Airbnb, etc.

What I think is getting conflated is:

- Launching a new physical good (not just software) has never been easier. In tech, we got accustomed to how easily it became to launch a 1-person SaaS over the last decade (i.e. “indie hacker” movement). The same is now happening with physical goods.

- Curation matters. Nordstrom has the legendary return policy where they will take back any good sold. This is in part able to be done because Nordstrom is hand selecting any good they sell. Which means they are vetting it coming from a reputable supplier and has a certain degree of quality. In an economy where it’s just one big open marketplace (which is directionally where we are going), customers lose the relationship they once had with a merchant who performed the trusted curation of product selection for them.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-01 00:00:36+00:00
> Cessna 172s flying into international airports have to fly their landing approach way faster than usual for that type of plane because _everybody_ flies approaches at 747 speeds.

This isn't even close to true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_approach_category.

Cessnas approach at less than half the speed of 747s. The safe maximum cruising speed is 20-30 kts short of a 747 approach speed. You would have to be willing to risk your airplane and your life to get a Cessna up to the approach speed of a 747.

My experience landing Cessnas and other light aircraft at airfields where they land the big boys (including busy international ones) is that you approach and land at the speeds that the aircraft you are flying is designed for (which, btw, ATC and the FAA don’t give two shits if you are an international airport, the rules are the same everywhere in the US. I am licensed and have flown in other countries, and it varies ever so slightly, but not in the direction you are implying). I have had controllers ask me to keep speed up for spacing, but they aren't expecting miracles, they know that you simply can't get a Cessna to go above a certain speed.

The rest of your comment also has some dubious claims. I suspect that the top speed was set just below mach 1, not because Boeing had no engineering knowledge about supersonic flight, but because fuel efficiency, and a host of other factors that make supersonic flight difficult. As a counter to that assertion I would point out that Boeing had a supersonic engineering team that started in 1952. They even designed a supersonic airliner that was never built in the 1960s. Hard to believe that they chose not to make the 747 supersonic because they lacked the experience to design an SST while they simultaneously had an SST design and supersonic research team before the 747 was conceived.

The 747 was a groundbreaking airplane, but it wasn't all of the things being claimed here.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-01 00:00:53+00:00
> You can't say "the system is actually really fast, it's just the OS that's slow", because the end result is just plain "the system is slow."

If performance is so critical, people do find ways around this. Just to give an arbitrary example since you mention file systems:

Oracle implemented their own filesystem (ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)):

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oracle_Cloud_File...

"ACFS provides direct I/O for Oracle database I/O workloads. ACFS implements indirect I/O however for general purpose files that typically perform small I/O for better response time."
by luckydata | 2025-10-01 00:01:05+00:00
In an immersion context I can get to conversational fluency in about 3 months and to complete mastery in a year. I've done it twice, once for Spanish and once for English. A few things in my approach helped me move quite a lot faster than my peers:

1. I would carry a mini-dictionary with me EVERYWHERE. Anytime there's a new word, I would ask a local to teach me how to pronounce it and then make sentences with it while I was walking around. CONSTANTLY.

2. accent and good basics help more than a vast vocabulary: when I went to spain for the first time I would hear in the metro the famous male and female voices saying "proxima parada... something something" and I would repeat that sentence trying to imitate the pronunciation and rythm to get used to "sounding spanish". That helped a lot.

3. date a local: in spain I was dating this girl that was a journalist and from a pretty conservative family. She was very afraid that I would put off her family by being a foreigner and not being able to pronounce things correctly or making grammatical mistakes so she would correct me on the spot EVERY TIME I said something wrong. I dind't mind it and it worked like a charm. Years later I met my American wife that wasn't nearly as concerned about my pronunciation in English so my accent is not nearly as good as in Spanish, but I definitely learned the language, went from being barely understandable to business meeting in about 4 months.

3. Watch tons of movies with the original subtitles (for example spanish movie with spanish subtitles) to understand how people pronounce certain words. DO NOT limit yourself to learner materials, you won't learn a thing. Find something you enjoy and just dive in, you'll learn a lot quicker that way.

Dedication and systematic work is all you need to move pretty quickly, the human brain is wired for language, if you feed it what it needs it will do the work for you.
by Teever | 2025-10-01 00:01:10+00:00
It's a stepping stone to building very large spacecraft/space stations that have rotating habitat rings that would be used to colonize the solar system.

These kinds of things can be put into cycler orbits around the Moon or Mars[0] which would allow relatively comfortable and cost effective journeys to these locations. As the scale of these kinds of craft expand they could eventually become destinations themselves akin to massive cruise ships in the sky where some people live out their entire lives.

Biosphere 2 was obviously a flawed experiment but it seems that Mir, the ISS, and Tiangong have shown that long term habitation in micro-G is possible, it seems like the extension of that is to try long term habitation of a body with gravity and material to experiment with.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
by vkou | 2025-10-01 00:01:20+00:00
Or at minimum, banning advertising for it.

If people want to gamble, they are free to look for a bookie, if people want to buy heroin, they are free to look for a street pharmaceutical sales representative, but neither should be allowed to manufacture demand for their poison, or hand out free samples.

> In 2022, Washington Post reported a bettor Beau Wagner who bet $1,000 and won $50,000 on an NBA game. He tweeted a screenshot of his winning bet, and DraftKings reposted it with the caption, “BEAU KNOWS BETTING”. However, a day after his successful bet, his betting limit was severely restricted to a grand total of three dollars and sixty three cents. DraftKings used his win as an advertisement to lure new, unsophisticated bettors to the platform, but they shut down the very bettor they were advertising.

Absolute scum.
by anyonecancode | 2025-10-01 00:01:50+00:00
My current slack channel organization:

- Channels I care about: ones where real work gets done every day, eg my team channels, other people I interact with frequently and directly.

- Temporarily important: short lived channels, or project channels that aren't as frequently actionable as the first category. Eg, I am struggling with some build issue so I join the public channel for the team that owns that process until I resolve my issue.

- Channels I need to follow: I don't really care too much about this, but partners or stakeholders are in them and sometimes say things I should know about or ping me or will add me if I leave, so I need to somewhat monitor it.

- Channels not really about me: Broad-based channels about company strategy, etc. In theory I guess they impact me since its about what the org, or my part of it, is up to, but tbh it doesn't actually impact me materially.

- Channels I may leave soon. Basically recycle bin, before I leave channel entirely.
by FreeGuessr | 2025-10-01 00:02:19+00:00
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by nabla9 | 2025-10-01 00:02:28+00:00
Team: Abhijeet Gangan, Alexandre Passos, Costa Huang, Dogus Cubuk, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Elsa Cong, Eric Toberer, Gowoon Cheon, Janosh Riebesell, Joe Checkelsky, Kate Lauterbach, Killian Sheriff, Liam Fedus, Mansheej Paul, Matt Horton, Michael Zhang, Muratahan Aykol, Naveen Menon, Reiichiro Nakano, Rishabh Agarwal, Rohan Pandey, Sam Cross, Vincent Moens, Wei Chen, Xander Dunn, Xiang Fu.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-01 00:02:44+00:00
This all seems unbelievably more complicated and prone to failure than just doing luks over mdadm. You could just skip this weird, arcane process by imaging the disks, walking them to where they needed to be, then slapping them into the other machine and mounting them as normal.

I do not understand making RAID and encryption so very hard, and then using some NAS in a box distribution like an admission you don't have the skills to handle it. A lot of people are using ZFS and "native encryption" on Archlinux (not in this case) when they should just be using mdadm and luks on Debian stable. It's like they're overcomplicating things in order to be able to drop trendy brand names around other nerds, then often dramatically denouncing those brand names when everything goes wrong for them.

If you don't have any special needs, and you don't know what you're doing, just do it the simple way. This all just seems horrific. I've got >15 year old mdadm+luks arrays that have none of their original disks, are 5x their original disk size, have survived plenty of failures, and aren't in their original machines. It's not hard, and dealing with them is not constantly evolving.

Reading this gives me childhood anxiety from when I compressed by dad's PC with a BBS pirated copy of Stacker so I would have more space for pirated Sierra games, it errored out before finishing, and everything was inaccessible. I spent from dusk to dawn trying to figure out how to fix it (before the internet, but I was pretty good at DOS) and I still don't know how I managed it. I thought I was doomed. Ran like a dream afterwards and he never found out.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-10-01 00:03:07+00:00
The real trouble with bandits is that people don't bother to look into what the real potential benefit is as far as the target you're optimizing. Despite theoretically loving bandit techniques, I've convinced multiple teams not to go that path because the real advantage of using them is a slightly more optimal mix of people in experiment than if you ran them manually.

At some scales it can make sense, but for the vast majority of products/companies the statistical benefits don't outweigh the added complexity.

Bandits work best for relatively simple optimization choices at very large scale. If you care at all about the information gained in an experiment, it's fairly unlikely bandits are a good choice for you (or any reinforcement learning algorithm at that point).
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 00:03:13+00:00
No. They’re saying that damage is cumulative over a lifetime - plaque deposition - so that a point in time snapshot of LDL says little about lifetime exposure. If I live my life with high LDL and only get on statins at 65 I might have low LDL when I have a heart attack but the damage came from the decades of high LDL.

The current guidance from the AHA and NLA is that lower is better for as long as possible.
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-01 00:03:34+00:00
Alyssa's work was already upstreamed in May, and the driver is ready to go when the kernel is ready to accept Rust GPU drivers.

> We are pleased to announce that our graphics driver userspace API (uAPI) has been merged into the Linux kernel. This major milestone allows us to finally enable OpenGL, OpenCL and Vulkan support for Apple Silicon in upstream Mesa. This is the only time a graphics driver’s uAPI has been merged into the kernel independent of the driver itself, which was kindly allowed by the kernel graphics subsystem (DRM) maintainers to facilitate upstream Mesa enablement while the required Rust abstractions make their way upstream. We are grateful for this one-off exception, made possible with close collaboration with the kernel community.

https://asahilinux.org/2025/05/progress-report-6-15/

Alyssa didn't abandon the project, she completed it.
by vkou | 2025-10-01 00:03:51+00:00
There's more to it. Even if the sports-book functions as an exchange, holding ~zero stake in the outcomes, they still want to ban anyone who consistently wins.

That's because if you have a few smart players who consistently win, that means you have a lot of fools who will consistently lose money on the platform - which will drive them away, and impact both betting activity and the spread you collect.

Ideally, you want a bunch of uninformed fools generating huge volume gambling against eachother, while you siphon away spread.

It's a deplorable, lose-lose industry.
by woodruffw | 2025-10-01 00:05:26+00:00
I find this post pretty unsatisfying: it sticks very closely to factual claims that aren’t particularly controversial (see: access control) while avoiding the elephant in the room, which is that the Ruby community sees any legitimate security concerns as pretextual for a sponsor-backed takeover.

I think it’s pretty hard to avoid acknowledging this, which gives the distinct impression that the post (and by extension Ruby Central’s current leadership) are not particularly committed to transparency on the issue. I’d love to be wrong about that.
by k310 | 2025-10-01 00:05:32+00:00
It goes very deep. Quite simply, the act of taking (money, land, benefits, lives) comes quickly, like the second law of thermodynamics on steroids. Advance planning, collusion, and deception ("You'll own the liberals if you cut our taxes") are the external force that speeds the entropy blast.

Building, creating means to help others, is an uphill battle, and is too often a response to the above. Think "Move fast and break peoples' lives". We haven't even begun to undo the demolition of society and even the "western culture" that tech gurus crave, after they demolished it. We want Plato and got Pluto. [0]

Destruction and rapacity come quickly. Construction and repair of values and lives (when possible) are an eternal struggle. "Warrior ethos" does not make lives better. It just makes wars. And history shows how long it takes for them to end, and the irreparable damage they bring.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_(mythology)

> In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Pluto ... also known as Dis Pater or Orcus, was the god of the dead and the king of the underworld.
by fraserphysics | 2025-10-01 00:06:30+00:00
Please take a look at the most recent draft of my book "Hidden Markov Models and Dynamical Systems" https://www.fraserphysics.com/book.pdf In the first chapter I talk about a chaotic model for laser dynamics, and in the last chapter I use the same ideas to analyze ECGs.

The code and text are at https://gitlab.com/fraserphysics/hmmds. From a Nix command line, "make book" builds the book in about 10 hours.

I'd be grateful for any feedback on the book or the software.
by astrange | 2025-10-01 00:06:46+00:00
> - Intel Itanium, which (besides some other problems) needed a super-smart compiler (which never existed) so that programs could make use of its potential

Well, no such thing is possible. Memory access and branch prediction patterns are too dynamic for a compiler to be able to schedule basically anything ahead of time.

A JIT with a lot of instrumentation could do somewhat better, but it'd be very expensive.
by dgfitz | 2025-10-01 00:07:27+00:00
I enjoy sports gambling. I’m sure people reading this won’t believe me, but I am “up” about 47% over the past 2 years, which is when I started. I’m good at it and I have a system.

I wholeheartedly agree with you, they need to ban advertising, as they did with tobacco. The amount of commercials and adverts is nauseating, the industry is predatory, and I’m having serious thoughts about stopping because of that.
by jim-jim-jim | 2025-10-01 00:07:28+00:00
Conversely, I'd imagine that conservatives are more likely to "experience a crisis of faith" than their counterparts. And remote jungle tribes are more likely to be hexed by a witch doctor than either cohort. You have to buy into the system for it to affect you.

I'd like to engage more directly with the body of this piece, but since it's paid, I have to extrapolate from the headline. Sorry.
by 3abiton | 2025-10-01 00:07:47+00:00
> I very nearly permanently lost 8.5 TiB of data after performing what should've been a series of simple, routine ZFS operations but resulted in an undecryptable dataset. Time has healed the wound enough that I am no longer filled with anguish just thinking about it, so I will now share my experience in the hope that you may learn from my mistakes.

As a zfs user employing encryption, that read like a horror story. Great read, and thanks for the takeaway.
by hellosecpeeps | 2025-10-01 00:08:57+00:00
I really appreciate the reply - everything you mentioned basically confirms my suspicions and gives us some good pointers to look at next.

Is my interpretation of your message correct in that, even in the HTTPS/TLS-based agent approach, that mTLS might be hard to achieve in practice? I am trying to guage if the absense of mTLS would be something that would frequently be nit-picked in security reviews. My first-hand experience reviewing vendor agents (Newrelic, Datadog, AWS SSM, Azure Connected Machine etc) tells me probably not as its generally not default-required in those agents, but just looking to crowd-source some other opinions.

Another value prop of TLS-based agents appears to be that it allows customers to potentially keep the credentials to systems we are automating inside the agent config, as opposed to us needing to store those credentials in our SaaS platform. Wondering if you have any thoughts on this topic as well.

Lastly, are you aware of any open-sourced python-based agents that could serve as a good reference point in terms of best practices?

Thanks again!
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-01 00:09:13+00:00
I'm not an expert in the space, but I'm guessing that graphics cards have only been a non-thin-margin-business for like 5 years. If that's true, the Joel's prediction about graphics cards may even still turn out true on net -- it could still go back and stabilize at low-margin.

That said, I think your overall point isn't affected by my idea. Even a great mind can be wrong occasionally. He doesn't have to be right every time.
by morleytj | 2025-10-01 00:10:08+00:00
The democratization of storytelling is probably the best argument in favor, I'd agree. Thank you for the response!

I do find the actual generation of video very cool as a technical process. I would also say that I can find a lot of things cool or interesting that I think are also probably deleterious to society on the whole, and I worry about the possibility of slop feeds that are optimized to be as addictive as possible, and this seems like another step in that direction. Hopefully it won't be, but definitely something that worries me.
by ben_w | 2025-10-01 00:11:06+00:00
We said we would aspire to buying US gas. EU can't order member states around like that, and the member states themselves can't order private businesses who to buy from; US can't actually ship much more, even if it could it can't do so to us; and that's about 100% of our imports anyway (not just replacing Russian, replacing all of it) and the way global markets and fungible goods work is that it makes no difference who we buy it from or who sells it to us anyway.
by wrigby | 2025-10-01 00:11:16+00:00
There are two completely distinct differences that jump out to me initially that I think may help justify your feelings:

1: Reading a long book demands focus on a longer timespan than scrolling TikTok, and with focusing on a single thing for a long time, we get a sense of accomplishment. I don’t know how to justify this as valuable, but for some reason I feel that it is.

2: The Song of Ice and Fire (and GoT) were consumed by a huge proportion of people, and you now have this in common with them. This act of consuming entertainment also grants you a way to connect with other humans - you have so much to talk about. Contrast that with an algorithmic feed, which is unique just for you - no one else sees your exact feed. Of course, there are tons of people that see some of the same snippets of content, if their interests overlap with yours, but it’s not nearly as universal as having read the same series of books (and there’s much less to talk about when you’ve seen the same 17-second short form video than when you’ve both invested dozens of hours in reading the same series of books).

I don’t think these thoughts fully justify your belief, but hopefully they provide some support to it.
by physarum_salad | 2025-10-01 00:11:31+00:00
What's ur opinion on adult neurogenesis? Do you think the progression of that article suggests that wikipedia is the model to follow for scientific information?

What about important and controversial historical events? Do you think that wikipedia omitting information is acceptable?

Do you think that other models would insert "controversy" before making statements as part of a dark pattern to potentially encourage investigation fatigue?

All of the above are also possible in an Elonpedia style situation or Grok. I never said it will be absolutely BETTER.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-01 00:11:55+00:00
I think a lot of it is 'a dog trained to play the piano at a 4th grade level' effect: yes, it's really notable and impressive, but it gets old fast and isn't obviously useful beyond the novelty. You need to put in a lot more effort to get any actual value out of these tools and at that point their strengths and limitations become a lot more clear and it's obvious that they are not an everything machine.
by triceratops | 2025-10-01 00:13:43+00:00
I agree that women have gotten a raw deal for much of history and continue to do in many parts of the world but

> female spouses have endured centuries of unpaid labor

Until fairly recently, due to the realities of childbirth and breastfeeding, women had to shoulder that burden. Unpaid is wrong - women received the fruits of their spouse's labor in return for their own work at home. Underpaid labor is more accurate, since women often couldn't inherit or own their spouse's property.