MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rldjbpin | 2025-10-03 09:15:19+00:00
> please be warned that this really is research code; it is sensitive to compiler versions, GPU setup, and sometimes even being looked at the wrong way

the writeup is a classic example of what we lose through abstraction and how writing custom (and optimized) code still beats sticking to high-level implementations.

i would go further and say that the "megakernel" written as part of the optimization is highly-model dependent as well.

the whole "cuda moat" is from the generic implementations of the moving parts of the model architecture. at the same time, you lose a lot of performance through the generic code. it is like comparing writing a stock trading algo in next.js vs assembly.

training models is another landscape altogether, so props to those who can quickly adapt to the hardware they got.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-03 09:15:33+00:00
Baffling article. This is an EU publication (owned by a Berlin based multinational conglomerate), and the EU commission went after criticism of politicians, which frankly is a lot more serious than what is happening in the US.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/in-eu...

Now why would I say this is about killing criticism of politicians? Well, here is an example of a person who used the right to be forgotten, who was in fact instrumental in creating it in the first place, as well of one of the first ever people to use it. I'm not going to elaborate further on the owners of this publication, except to say one is an EU billionnaire who made a LOT of money making academic papers inaccessible, and is also a user and supporter of this right to be forgotten.

The person who was in charge of EU at the time was Jose Manuel Barrosso, an extreme leftist Portugese politician, a law professor (with a very bad reputation when it comes to attacking students, including physically beating one into the hospital), betrayed communism, joined the PSD (Portugese Social Democrats), suddenly forced through heavy austerity after promising the opposite, then when he and his party had become deeply unpopular, forcing through the EU constitution against voter wishes, then abandoned his position as prime minister and his party to become president of the EU commission. If you look at the circumstances surrounding Portugal and the EU constitution effort and failure, obviously he was "compensated" by the EU and the EPP to directly go against voters' will to the advantage of the EU, and rewarded with the position of EU commission president. This person, who started out as a violent Maoist suspected of murder, EU commission president, ending his career as "non executive chairman" of Goldman Sachs, after they got some serious help from the commission when he was EU commission president, in 2008. For "some reason" he and, Neelie Kroes, the person who threatened us social media companies into accepting the right to be forgotten (remember? Google and Facebook refused to globally implement the right to be forgotten and this was the start of social media companies and the "monster fines" that are being levied every few years now). There was a whole fight.

As a student and assistant, he actually supported the massacres of the cultural revolution. On track to become a professor, he cheered on and demonstrated in support of Mao and the CCP massacring academics in China. This is also when he was involved as a leader in demonstrations ... demonstrations in which several people were killed.

Let's just say some of the details of this person's political career (and, frankly, academic career) could be criticized. Except he "has a right to be forgotten" (he clearly focuses on his student time). From a Maoist suspected of inciting murder, to EU commission president, to chairman of the board of Goldman Sachs ...

The EU criticizing the US about political name calling? Please.

I mean, I still agree what Trump's doing is bad, but the situation in the EU is much worse. Wait until you check out what this whole situation is leading to.
by latexr | 2025-10-03 09:15:37+00:00
Please don’t engage in bad faith. My post was very clear about its goal. It’s one thing to wrongly “correct” someone (as the poster above me did) and quite another to notice that someone is taking the care to do something but is making a mistake, and politely point them in the right direction.

Just because you don’t care about something doesn’t make it worthless or boring. If I didn’t think the OP cared I wouldn’t have pointed it out. Above all my point was constructive and took the other person’s interests into account, it was not a pedantic critique.

If you find the matter boring, I encourage you to move along. Prolonging it seems counterproductive.
by eesmith | 2025-10-03 09:16:20+00:00
Is this satire?

> First, get rid of speed bumps. It is ridiculous in 2025 to limit car speed by making roads unpleasant. Second, it’s time to make speed cameras properly Bayesian: every time you drive past a camera at a legal speed, you should earn points which you can redeem against future offences. When you think about this a little, it’s not quite as mad as it first sounds.

Speed bumps are a symptom of bad transit design. They mean the road was designed to encourage faster traffic than is appropriate, eg, a broad flat road feels pleasant at a high speed, even if that road passes next to a primary school where the law mandates a lower speed in order to reduce the rate of child slaughter.

As I understand it, the UK has already spent the last 60 years making the roads more pleasant for drivers, to the detriment of other road users (those walking, cycling, taking mass transit, etc.) and many of those living next to roads. Will the hedonic treadmill (hedonic highway?) for car ownership ever stop?

There are roads through towns and villages which are hundreds of years old, and not designed for the traffic. Towns where houses needed special barriers added because drivers keep crashing their cars into the walls, as two lanes of car traffic can only barely fit down a lane earlier used for horse-drawn carts.

The Tories should order these buildings torn as they also make the roads unpleasant. /s

Second, the point system is easily gamed - drive in circles past a camera to build up points.

And of course there isn't a hint about the environmental costs of encouraging more driving.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-03 09:16:39+00:00
If you have an address, you have a proof of address. Digital IDs won't magically prove your address, and I don't think there plan is to include addresses. But if Dìgital IDs include address then you'll have to prove your address to the Digital ID first exactly like you prove your address now: with documents.

Regarding right to work (you are changing topic): if you are a citizen you can show your passport, if you don't have a passport because you don't want one you can show your birth certificate. If you are not a citizen you show your passport and provide a share code. It is simple and there are no "excessive requirements".
by alisonjd | 2025-10-03 09:16:51+00:00
Strong recommend. I did the trial course which meant I could complete Advent of Code and also build an app to take you to the moment in the course videos where topics were discussed. With SolveIt you can have your hand-held while you go from idea to result; learning as you go.

These achievements may not sound much to hard-core tech bros but that's the beauty of the problem solving method - it meets you where you are. After working through your problem you'll have learnt something and be able to tackle harder tasks next.

It's been fun watching the team continuously evolve the product over the last year. Looking forward to round 2.
by davydm | 2025-10-03 09:17:03+00:00
1. many modern smartphones can be configured (and are configured, by default) to listen for keywords like "ok google" to start a search. So if this is enabled, then technically, yes, your phone is always listening 2. I think that there's a lot of serendipity involved in the stories. Sure, there's malware, and I 100% don't trust that facebook isn't constantly listening if mic is enabled, because I don't trust meta at all, but I think that a lot of the time, people notice the subsequent ad or whatever because the topic is still on their mind, and don't notice all the stuff they see that's _not_ relevant to what they were talking about.
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by usrnm | 2025-10-03 09:17:21+00:00
I learned several languages as an adult, so I compare the effort needed to learn Dutch to the effort needed to learn a much more different language, like French.

1) Yes, Dutch is even closer to German, but it doesn't change the fact that it's very close to English. The grammar is very close, a lot of words are clearly related, learning to read Dutch when you are already profficient in English is a breeze. I never said they were mutually intelligible, but they are close enough to make the leap from one to the other much simpler.

Just as an example, let's consider three words from three different languages that mean the same thing: "gestolen", "volé" and "украденный". Which one of them is closer to the English word "stolen"? Not only in its stem form, but even in the way this irregular verb is conjugated.

2) Some content does exist, but not much. Again, comparing to a language with a much bigger speaker base, like French, let alone English. The difference is orders of magnitude, it's very noticeable when trying to find something interesting to watch or listen.

3) Every time I go to a country where English is less prevalent, I'm forced to learn and practice the language. The same pressure just does not exist in the Netherlands, and the sad fact is, people do not like making unnecessary effort. It is an obstacle and it doesn't help, no matter how you look at it
by sjw987 | 2025-10-03 09:18:31+00:00
Not everybody wants to carry a smartphone around all the time.

If the ID becomes about more than proving right to work, and becomes a daily carry, it's not hard to see the appeal of a government down the line tapping into an always on-hand microphone, GPS, internet enabled device.

Even putting the tin foil hat aside, I and many people like me enjoy leaving the phone at home, and want as little time spent on the thing as possible.
by detaro | 2025-10-03 09:18:34+00:00
a) the title of the regulation is not equivalent to the law (unsurprisingly), onestay42's translation is clunky but a lot closer

b) the official title of the law was "Gesetz zur Übertragung der Aufgaben für die Überwachung der Rinderkennzeichnung und Rindfleischetikettierung", so how again is it that English "gets to use a sentence" and German doesn't? German has the choice depending on context, sometimes having one word is convenient.
by agedclock | 2025-10-03 09:19:19+00:00
Sorry you are totally misrepresenting how difficult it is. Here is the checklist:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68b6b7e7536d6...

> If you don’t have a passport, for instance, it’s much harder for a UK citizen to prove their right to work in the UK, for which your employer is liable if they get it wrong.

No it isn't. You need a Birth Certificate and a previous paycheck and something that has your NI number on it, and usually something to prove your address e.g. Utility Bill.
by Xelbair | 2025-10-03 09:19:47+00:00
Digital ID is fine if it is a choice of citizen if to use it or not, without any consequences - soft or hard. It is convenient to use, and can streamline processes.

If physical ID gets heavily discouraged and Digital ID gets mandated for everything, you basically have to keep a tracking device(a phone, which already fulfills that role) that is now tied to government records. Location, who do you meet, your contacts, when do you access your bank etc - all of that can be exposed extremely easily. The ease of access is the problem - as normally law enforcement needs to go through lengthy process to access such data across multiple vendors - but now all it takes is just storing metadata about access to Id Portal, and can do so in bulk.

Now they have it in single place - and in most cases - no code is open source, with no way to verify if it even does what it promised to even if it was open source.

The issue is that even if you have 100% trust in current government, you are one election away from a change to something vastly different. Always ask yourself this question when a law is proposed:

- would I be fine with this legislation if the government in charge represented everything I hate?
by johnisgood | 2025-10-03 09:20:21+00:00
Okay, let us look at it this way: you are constantly starved, blocked from trading food and water, and all sorts of things Israel did to Palestine. Would you just sit back and watch?

What do you think that Israel is doing to civilians going to do to long-term? There will be another Hamas, I guarantee it. Israel's actions only breeds violence, i.e. Hamas.

What I am saying is that you cannot expect people to be okay with it. And they will not be okay with it. These kids who survived will turn adults and will retaliate for these actions of Israel. They may have fled, but they will come back full force one day.

In any case, no, Hamas did not start the war, they only started this battle. There will be more because of Israel's ways of doing things.

Israel should have let them live in peace.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-03 09:20:26+00:00
There is no "proper" way to use git, there is only a proper way to interact with your fellow developers.

You can do whatever you like locally. That's the luxury of git: it's distributed so you always get your own playground. You can make commits with short names if you find that useful. Personally I prefer to track my progress using a todo system, so I don't need commits to tell me where I am. I use `stash` instead of committing broken stuff if I need to switch branches.

I've found the idea of "rebase later" always easier said than done. In my experience if you work like that you'll more often than not end up just squashing everything into one commit. I prefer to rebase as I go. I'll rebase multiple times a day. Rearranging commits, amending the most recent commit etc. Keeping on top of it is the best way to achieve success at the end. It's like spending that bit of extra time putting your tools away or sweeping the floor. It pays off in the long run.
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by megamix | 2025-10-03 09:20:45+00:00
I believe this less as of now. Sure you can put in the hours, but you can see the difference between ppl that are fast learners and not.

™Do what you are" is a much better ordination. Some people are better wired for sports, maths or arts etc. Far too many are shoehorned into careers not suitable for them intrinsically - but that's also how the economy works. Hey, maybe you're talking about hobbies though?

I think also that what you're getting inner motivation from is also the most hidden from you, therefore it becomes necessary to explore and try to align with as many things as you can. If you're lucky then you do it at an early age.
by xlii | 2025-10-03 09:20:49+00:00
I discussed this with doctors and I was told that visual and audible aphantasia exist, but visual one is much more known. It seems I have both, which explains why I never could learn in classical way through repetition, hearing etc.

However I need to also say that after this year I sometimes can humm in my mind simple tunes like "Old McDonald", "Twinkle Twinkle" or that Looney Tunes piano melody that was always portrayed during rigging the piano, so it might not be hopeless.
by belorn | 2025-10-03 09:22:26+00:00
The US military math for calculating combatant:civilian casualty ratios was, to quote:

every boy 15 and over killed in drone strikes now is automatically listed as an enemy combatant

This math is why the civilian casualty numbers from US military shows almost zero deaths for drone strikes.

The New York Times reported in the 29 May 2012 article Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will:

Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.*
by omgmajk | 2025-10-03 09:22:41+00:00
That's because every person who struggles with sleep has heard this advice a thousand times. It just doesn't work for all of us.

I lift weights, and I make sure to do big muscle groups. I wake up around the same time every day, ish. I do not drink coffee in the afternoon. I do not use blue light screens at night. And any number of other advice that people keep bringing up.

Like the comment above that says if you wake up at 06, you will be tired at 23. Yeah, sure, but you still won't be able to sleep. All that does is make you more tired permanently, but sleep still doesn't happen.

People just do not work the same, some people are really more active at night. And this advice is echoed constantly whenever this topic is brought up.
by dspillett | 2025-10-03 09:22:57+00:00
That only works if the code is good enough to be the documentation. In DayJob prefer to cover all the bases:

∞ Try make the code sensible & readable so it can be the documentation.

∞ Comment well anyway, just in case it isn't as obvious to the reader (which might be me in a few months time) as it is to me when making the change. Excess comments can always be removed later (and, unless some idiot rewrites history, can potentially be referred to after removal if you have a “why t f” moment), comments you never write can't be found later.

∞ Either a directly meaningful commit message, or at very least ticket references to where more details can be found.

For personal tinkering, I'm a lot less fastidious.
by kldg | 2025-10-03 09:23:18+00:00
Yeah, for me, the biggest issue is, counter-intuitively given it's Google, I know Gemini is going to continue existing as a product for a long time; I feel comfortable storing data and building things out for it. Anthropic's putting out great models, but it's financially endangered, and OpenAI isn't doing great either; and I'm confident Gemini 3 release will put it right back at top-of-pack again as far as model output quality, so these little windows where I'm not using The Best are not a big deal.

Once the single-focus companies have to actually make a profit and flip the switch from poorly monetized to fully monetized, I think folks will be immediately jumping ship to mega-companies like Google who can indefinitely sustain the freemium model. The single-focus services are going to be Hell to use once the free rides end: price hikes, stingy limits, and ads everywhere.

.... but the field will change unpredictably. Amazon offers a lot of random junk with Prime -- hike price $50/year, slap on a subscription to high-grade AI chatbot 10% of users will actually use (say 2% are "heavy users"), and now Anthropic is financially sustainable. Maybe NYT goes from $400 to $500 per year, and now you get ChatGPT Pro, so everything's fine at OpenAI. There're a ton of financial ideas you'll come up with once you feel the fire at your feet; maybe the US government will take a stake and start shilling services when you file taxes. Do you want the $250 Patriot Package charged against your tax refund, or are we throwing this in the evidence pile containing your Casio F91-W purchase and tribal tattoos?
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-03 09:23:56+00:00
You don't understand the aphorism if you think that death in itself causes scientific progress.

It means something else. When old, entrenched scientists die, they lose their ability to prevent younger scientists from studying topics they personally don't like. Dead people cannot deny the living use of labs, grants etc.

Plenty of otherwise impeccable great minds died "stuck" on bad ideas. For example, the great German pathologist Rudolf Virchow utterly rejected the idea of archaic humans existing, and did his best to slow down the research on the Neanderthals etc.

Einstein himself rejected the quantum theory, though, to his credit, he didn't prevent others from studying it.

Ancel Keys, who lived to be almost 100, tried to destroy career of every nutritional scientist who toyed with the idea that saturated fats may not be the killers he pronounced them to be, and defended sugar from more scrutiny.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-03 09:23:58+00:00
I’ve been lucky enough to meet a number of high performers across some disparate domains. In nearly all cases genetic / nature explanations count for zilch. Alignment, in the sense that TFA talks about, is everything.

I think that across the board a lot of people mistake passion for talent. Which’s what OP is discussing. The people who do well are those whose passion drives them to do better, every waking moment of every day, because that is where they find their enjoyment.

This isn’t a substitute for talent. It is talent.
by reincoder | 2025-10-03 09:23:58+00:00
I work for IPinfo and provided the data for it. The original intention for the project was to identify data center locations. The original idea of the project came from https://stefansundin.github.io/traceroute-mapper/. I reworked it and then OP added a lot of bells and whistles. For my day-to-day work, I still use my version.

I manage approximately 1,200 PoPs that are part of IPinfo's ProbeNet platform, which is used to generate our internet measurement data. We, in turn, use this data to produce the IP geolocation data you utilize. The issue is that the servers we manage can be moved to different locations or not be in the advertised locations. We operate these PoPs across 500 cities.

Whenever the PoP fails to meet certain physical location checks, I run basic diagnostic tests to determine where the server is located and where it is not. Aside from running ping and traceroute operations to the target servers, I can run traceroutes to certain IP addresses whose paths I am familiar with. A traceroute visualizer provides a visual interface, information on the ASN, the geolocation, and the time measurements. This provides an intuitive view of where the server "could not be" located rather than could be located. We use several techniques to run basic diagnostic tests. This traceroute visualizer isn't an official test of IPinfo; it is something I vibe-coded together. There are far better internal tools, such as running ping and traceroutes across all of our ~1,200 servers simultaneously.

It is a network diagnostic tool. I think based on your comment, it is not just a tool, it is more of an abstraction of a tool! But it is somewhat useful I thinkl.

I am happy to hear your thoughts. I manage these servers and we are trying our best to improve our data consistently. So, any ideas or even random thoughts you might have can help us improve.