MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sidkshatriya | 2025-10-22 05:34:03+00:00
> Why does AMD come across as so generally clueless when it comes to giving developers what they want, compared to Nvidia?

I have some theories. Firstly, Nvidia was smart enough to have a unified compute GPU architecture across all its architectures -- consumer and commercial. AMD has this awkward split between CDNA and RDNA. So while AMD is scrambling to get CDNA competitive, RDNA is not getting as much attention as it should. I'm pretty sure its ROCm stack has all kinds of hacks trying to get things working across consumer Radeon devices (which internally are probably not well suited/tuned for compute anyways). AMD is hamstrung by its consumer hardware for now in the AI space.

Secondly, AMD is trying to be "compatible" to Nvidia (via HIP). Sadly this is the same thing that AMD did with Intel in the past. Being compatible is really a bad idea when the market leader (Nvidia) is not interested in standardising and actively pursues optimisations and extensions. AMD will always play catch up.

TL;DR AMD made some bad bets on what the hardware would look like in the future and never thought software was critical like nvidia.

AMD now realizes that software is critical and what future hardware should look like. However it is difficult to catch up with Nvidia, the most valuable company in the world with almost limitless resources to invest in further improving its hardware and software. Even while AMD improves, it will continue to look bad in comparison to Nvidia as state of art keeps getting pushed forward.
by eptcyka | 2025-10-22 05:34:55+00:00
If the person in question has never had the need to know iptables, why would that change now? If a job will require such knowledge, they will pick it up. Iptables is exposed as a facade to nftables, lots of the concepts just transfer over, just that iptables is the more antiquated option.

I for instance have never really used iptables in anger, but have lots of experience with nftables and pf. I’ve used both in a professional setting. People can be made aware of iptables, but unless there’s a need to know it, I wouldn’t recommend picking it up now. And you’ll know if you need to learn c++17 or iptables, or python 2.7.
by scrubs | 2025-10-22 05:35:40+00:00
Async etc is also a function of dynamic work loads sometimes exasperated by the fact socket/channel A is slow so while waiting there deal with channels b,c,d,.. which are also slow for various reasons.

Per core threads and not much else are fairly required for nyse, trading, oms, and i bet things like switches. A web browser might be their polar opposite.
by tim-- | 2025-10-22 05:35:45+00:00
The Wikimedia Endowment [0] has been created for this. From it's Financials [1] it mentions that

> ... [its mission is...] to act as a permanent fund that can support in perpetuity the operations and activities of current and future Wikimedia projects, which are projects that are approved by and advance the purposes of the Foundation or its successor if the Foundation ceases to exist

[0] https://wikimediaendowment.org/

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f6/Wikim...
by theptip | 2025-10-22 05:37:11+00:00
> Because our enhanced Session class now enables retries by default, we don't even need to instantiate it directly. modshim's AST rewriting ensures that internal references within the requests module are updated. This means convenience functions like requests.get() will automatically use our enhanced Session class

This seems to explicitly handle the case you are interested in - automatically updating library-internal references to the lower to instead use the upper?
by ofalkaed | 2025-10-22 05:37:14+00:00
It is doing well, I run both current and 15, rock solid, stable both in use and features. It has never given me anything to complain about, OS stays out of your way and even running current I never have to think about my system or worry about what is going to happen when I update. It all just works and sticks to the slackware way.
by itsajchan | 2025-10-22 05:37:16+00:00
I hosted this Hack Day up in Seattle at the GitHub office and this project was one of 10 from an event that brought in nearly 60 project submissions! @toobulkeh is an awesome builder and was a pleasure to see this project come to life in a few short hours.

Come check AutoLearn and all the other projects here! https://hackersquad.io/showcase/events/cmf08dkr00004ph0kdzxp...
by afishhh | 2025-10-22 05:37:56+00:00
> Drawing text isn't simple

I agree, but even this article seems to oversimplify.

> You can't really optimize texture copies much more.

Did the author try packing the textures in an atlas?

Texture atlases can improve performance significantly since then you can use instanced draw calls to draw a whole bunch of glyphs at once.
by layla5alive | 2025-10-22 05:39:13+00:00
Yup, data movement and contention and coherencey are the things that will increasingly dominate power use as core scaling continues. Exploiting locality is a must for high performance systems.

Linux would benefit from a scheduler per CCD (in AMD parlance) approach being a first-class option. CCD pinning is a mechanism to push in this direction today, but partitioning kernel scheduler(s) along hardware boundaries would reduce complexity and overhead for a lot of use cases..
by bruce511 | 2025-10-22 05:39:38+00:00
Sputnik was the first object to orbit the earth. It was the spark that lit the fire under the US space effort. It may not have been grand, but it was the first.

Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space, first to orbit the earth.

To minimize these achievements is like saying the Wright Brothers test was meaningless because it only lasted 12 seconds. In truth each "first" represents a milestone, each required substantial effort.

In more recent times Russia alone was capable of manned space flight (2011 to 2020).

To return to your question, the USSR was critical to the space race. You cannot gave a race with 1 entrant. Without USSR constantly being in the news doing things first, there would not have been a space race at all.

Indeed, by the time of JFK's speech there was not much to race for except the moon. Once the Soviets stopped the US stopped as well. It's taken the talk of a Chinese mission for the US to even bother.

Earth satellites are an enormously valuable use of space. But very unsexy. Trips to the moon have pretty much no value. But they make for good PR.
by tzs | 2025-10-22 05:40:37+00:00
I know someone who lives in Bremerton, WA. Every so often lots of garage door openers and car keyless entry systems and key fobs intermittently stop working for a few hours and this can go on for weeks.

It correlates with aircraft carriers coming to the Bremerton naval shipyard for repair work.

The 315 MHz band for unlicensed low power civilian devices overlaps with several military bands, and the military users have priority (i.e., if they interfere with civilians it is the civilians' problem, and if civilians interfere with the military it is the civilians's problem).

In particular a band used for air-to-ground aircraft communications includes the 315 MHz band. Apparently when a carrier is at the shipyard for repairs they take advantage of that opportunity to test and tune up the radio systems.

They also have radar that uses frequencies in the 315 MHz band. There was an incident in the news in 1999 when the USS Carl Vinson visited Hobart, Australia and disabled nearly every garage door opener within about 10 km of the port while is was pulling in and docking. It was fine once docked because they don't need the radar when not underway.
by tock | 2025-10-22 05:42:08+00:00
Your examples of the US doing good for democracy is correct. My examples of the US doing bad and dismantling democracy for its own benefit is also correct. The US has been fantastic for its own people and its allies. Not so for others. Please note that 85% of the world population lies outside.

But all your examples are vs Russia. I will be happy if Russia is dismantled. Both the Soviet Union and Russia has been terrible for its people. China has been absolutely fantastic for its people. They went from absolute poverty to challenging the greatest empire the world has ever seen in just a few decades. I doubt the Chinese people hate their regime.

> to assess which sphere of influence (and its implications on national self-determination) is preferable

Iran, Guatemala, Brazil, etc. All had democratic govt's overthrown by the US.

> I personally view Russia and China as adversaries because they are a serious threat to democracy worldwide (that I think we agree on?), which I believe is the very thing we're discussing.

I personally view Russia, USA and China as serious threats to democracy. Because all three have toppled democratic countries for its benefit. And no I don't think they do it because they hate democracy. They do it because it helps their superiority. The victims just happened to be democratic sometimes.

> So in summary, there are very good reasons to be critical of China (CCP) independent of the current US administrations actions and historical baggage of the US.

And there are very good reasons to be critical of the USA independent of the current Chinese administrations actions and historical baggage of China.

My whole point is that administrations do things for economic and military superiority. Things like morality are just used by administrations to justify actions to their populace. I am sure you _personally_ dislike China for purely moral reasons. Most people are good who think in terms of morality. That is exactly why framing a rival as "evil" works so well. It's about power. If the world works on the basis of justice then the EU should have sanctioned the US for the Iraq debacle and now Palestine.

Can you maybe take a few minutes and write down all the good+bad things the US has done since say WW2 vs China? You'll understand why a neutral third party is wary of both.
by swarnie | 2025-10-22 05:42:10+00:00
Find me an FTP server which integrates with your entire productivity, communication and collaboration suites easily enough that an admin can run a 50k person company off of it and equally Doris from accounts can manage to get some work done.

I hate SharePoint, but i use/administer it every day and it works, mostly.

Exposing it to the internet is a mistake. Why anyone would do that is beyond me.
by varenc | 2025-10-22 05:42:20+00:00
Ubiquiti sells Wi-Fi access points with 10GbE uplink ports that are PoE powered: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-wifi/products/e7

In theory at peak throughput the access point might use close to 10 gigabit. But definitely more than 1G/2.5G.
by masklinn | 2025-10-22 05:42:29+00:00
Apple generally has excellent sleep support, even on my old falling-to-pieces unibody which would KP if you looked at it funny I don’t remember résume ever being a concern.

I’m not going to say their ever degrading software quality won’t affect that one day, and I know that some updates have caused issues for some people, but I genuinely can’t remember it ever failing me and not doing its job correctly.
by scrubs | 2025-10-22 05:43:09+00:00
I periodically wonder why corps outsource functions like qa (toyota/Xerox certainly didn't do that in the 80s), harassment training (eg. having an outsider lawyer firm do it for you becauase HR wouldnt touch it), and other management functions like where to make cuts. The reasons ... well we know ... is to avoid accountability which says a lot ... I am reminded of the Basil Fawlty line to his wife: ah it must be tough to be you; your work is never fully delegated.
by positron26 | 2025-10-22 05:45:50+00:00
While Nvidia's strategic foresight explains why Nvidia is ahead, it doesn't quite capture why the challenge is not something that only AMD can or should tackle alone.

The 7,484+ companies who stand to benefit do not have a good way to split the bill and dogpile a problem that is nearly impossible to progress on without lots of partners adding their perspective via a breadth of use cases. This is why I'm building https://prizeforge.com.

Nvidia didn't do it alone. Industry should not expect or wait on AMD to do it alone. Waiting just means lighting money on fire right now. In return for support, industry can demand more open technology be used across AMD's stack, making overall competition better in response for making AMD competitive.
by twixfel | 2025-10-22 05:47:22+00:00
Ok since i can already tell that you’re going to argue all numbers are western propaganda, let’s do something you can at least not argue with: the frontline has barely moved in three years. At this rate it will take decades for Russia to conquer Ukraine.

Well done for using fewer exclamation marks. Stil not able to avoid using them entirely though. They’re considered terrible style you know that right?
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-22 05:47:32+00:00
Oh boy! As someone from another democracy (so far) who saw it happen exactly like this slightly over a decade ago, I'd say your Democratic Party has everything to do with it (just like our own equivalent). Republicans didn't win; Democrats handed that win on a platter, and that too when they had seen it play out once already just one term ago!

This is the kind of politely dismissive language that pushes the other side even further :)
by Maxion | 2025-10-22 05:48:06+00:00
> There’s more to the story than timing, notably my first has eczema and asthma too so there’s that atopic march.

Eczema often comes with digestive issues, bowl inflammation, loose stool, blood in the stool etc.

Eczema essentially gives you wounds, if you allow allergens to enter the bloodstream directly without going through the digestive tract you are at an increased risk of developing allergies.

For kids/babies with these kind of issues it's probably better to delay introducing common allergens until their gut can heal or you will end up causing allergies rather than preventing them.

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7494573
by bruce511 | 2025-10-22 05:48:12+00:00
Putting people on Mars US equally useless. Any colony on Mars would require enormous support from Earth. It would never be self-suffient.

Mars would need water, air, energy, raw materials, fuel and everything else for (basically) ever.

There is zero to be gained (here) from a Mars colony. Mars lacks a magnetic field, air to breath, water to drink or cultivate crops, a temperature suitable for plant or animal life, fuel sources to build industry, supply chains for the construction or maintainence of the simplest electrical systems.

Talk of Mars is purely a PR play. Someone will be first. Yay. But Mars will play no part in Earth's future.
by Nemo_bis | 2025-10-22 05:48:20+00:00
> And while Hetzner's price-performance is exceptional, its limited presence in the US was a consideration; for this staging workload, it wasn't an issue, but it's a factor for production services targeting US users.

What is this referring to? Concerns about capacity if you need to scale up quickly? Or just "political"/marketing considerations about people not being used to being served by a Hetzner server?
by necovek | 2025-10-22 05:48:37+00:00
FWIW, GSuite seems to do fewer things, but at least does them better (think nested groups and calendar invitations for parent groups: adding/removing people does not update future events with MS tools).

But at the same time, within an org of 150k people, we have separate people to support our Teams usge, our Outlook usage, our AD/Entra usage: with the same number of "sysadmins", could we do the same with open source stack?

I don't know, but I know the bugs I see with MS365.
by dlgeek | 2025-10-22 05:50:18+00:00
Nerdsniped: You're describing a IEC 60320 C13 cable - they're technically only spec'd for 10A, which means you're looking at ~1200W, not 1800.

(However, UL will list them for the full 15A -> 1800W, and I'm sure plenty carry that. And for that matter, I suppose you can get twice that in Europe on 240v...)
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-22 05:50:22+00:00
At one of our offices (it is not a large office), I have a 24-port Netgear POE switch running the show. If it has a fan inside (it may! there's cutouts for fans on the sides of the chassis but I have not looked inside), I've never heard it.

It fit the price-performance curve for our needs several years ago when we eventually outgrew the previous Netgear POE switch...that was also apparently fanless, and that I installed in 2007.

IIRC, it is a GS724TP. It's running a dozen cameras and some access points, and almost all of the rest of the ports are filled up with computers and printers and other Ethernet stuff. No issues at all to to report so far.

(A used enterprise switch with serious fans may be cheaper and/or more featureful and/or more reliable, but do we need that kind of noise at home? We sure don't need it at that small office.

I've also installed some fanless Cisco POE switches with big heatsinks (and dual power supplies, each fed from different sources) on some high-dollar projects where ultimate reliability was kind of a big deal, but... sheesh.

If one of these installed Netgear switches dies in one of these low-risk environments, I'll just patch things up for now and get a replacement coming under warranty.)
by flowerthoughts | 2025-10-22 05:50:48+00:00
Please, quiet down. Thank you all, for accepting my personal invitation and coming tonight.

As you can see, there is only a carrot in front of you, but that is not to say that this dinner will be uneventfull or unfulfilling. On the contrary, I believe. In fact, I hope you will accept my humble request that we let our mouths be free for candid conversation, and the colon for breathing. It will be an evening like none you have ever seen, I assure you, my dear medical students.
by throwawayq3423 | 2025-10-22 05:52:31+00:00
> Great. And as we have already established, that case went nowhere. Anybody can accuse someone of anything.

You've already admitted twice you did not read any of the evidence. You literally have no idea what the case is. You outsource your thinking and argumentation to a sitting Republican senator, as if their opinion on the matter counts for anything.

You created an account four days ago in order to post a series of justifications as to why the politically motivated violence of January 6th wasn't that bad, or was really just in response to other violence and therefore cannot be condemned, etc. etc.

If this is your hobby, I suggest you find a new one.
by dijit | 2025-10-22 05:53:01+00:00
Equally?

Definitely not.

Maybe it can be argued that it depends on how you use it, but meet is so far and away better for video calls and screen sharing, its not even funny.

Jitsi is also an incredible improvement, and it is self hostable and free.

Teams is likely the worst software that a company will force on all its employees- with that in mind, I guess some people can get stockholm syndrome? Some people who only jump from MSFT shops literally don’t know that there’s anything better. They went from Communicator to Lync to Skype for Business and now to Teams- and Teams is better than those just about.
by ofalkaed | 2025-10-22 05:53:01+00:00
For me, an OS should be something I never have to think about, slackware gives me that. Very little has changed in all the years I have used it and almost everything I learned all those years ago when I first installed it still applies. The scripts I wrote over a decade ago to setup and install some stuff on a fresh install, still work 100% and the only change I have made is to have it enabled PipeWire, which is one command.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-22 05:58:08+00:00
Incredible lack of imagination. If we went back to the moon on the regular we could by now have high resolution cameras permanently installed there pointing back at Earth, sending video in real time.

but we have satellites for that

High resolution photographs of the entire earth (as opposed to tiny pieces of it) would have a massive positive emotional effect on people. The Earthrise photo's enduring popularity is proof of this. There's water on the Moon; we could have bases there by now, even if they were limited in functionality and size, like the ISS. We could have remote-control or autonomous moon rovers and bipedal robots exploring there 24-7.

Instead we have Moon landing denialists one one hand and jaded 'it's just a rock, who cares' nay-sayers on the other.
by dijit | 2025-10-22 05:58:22+00:00
Using collaboration and productivity software as a proxy for how the company thinks about collaboration and productivity is, good, actually.

He didn’t say he doesn’t like Satya or Gates or whatever, he was clear that he doesn’t like the solution.

I just went back to a microsoft shop, and honestly while the company is great you can feel how the communication is stilted compared to my previous company. Those little edges, warts, unreliable loading moments and awkward loading times all sum up to people being disincentivised to create, edit and consume documents or even to chat.

This inexplicably drives meeting culture as async communication just doesn’t happen. I totally understand why its primarily MSFT shops that have RTO mandates.
by dcrazy | 2025-10-22 05:58:24+00:00
FWIW you cannot have Unicode-correct rendering by caching at the codepoint (what many people would call “character”) level. You can cache bitmaps for the individual “glyphs”—that is, items in the font’s `glyf` table. But your shaping engine still needs to choose the correct “glyphs” to assemble into the extended grapheme clusters dictated by your Unicode-aware layout engine.
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-22 06:00:06+00:00
> Apollo was funded at a much higher fraction of the national budget, and I believe in inflation-adjusted dollars the cost is comparable but generally higher depending on how you measure it.

The Apollo mission had to invent technology from scratch that did not exist in the 60s. We have all of that knowledge today and then some, plus computers that are millions of times more powerful.

There is no reason to believe that the 8th mission to the moon in the 2020s should cost just as much relative to the national budget as the original did in 1969. We don't expect each new nuclear warhead to cost as much as the Manhattan Project did relative to the national budget.

Funding doesn't make things happen. In some ways funding can be a curse, and bureaucracies will grow to waste whatever funds are allocated. People make things happen. Competent people make things happen. Strong leadership makes things happen. The current NASA has leadership and talent gaps galore. It is also saddled with bureaucratic cruft that has caked onto its gears in the last 5 decades. It is not the same ambitious upstart that it once was. Could it be reformed? Yes, but not without cleaning house.

For what its worth, I don't think we should exclude SpaceX, obviously, as they are clearly iterating at such a rapid rate relative to everyone else that it seems hard to believe anyone will catch up (and at the most efficient cost basis).

I'm not sure why you think the Chinese will win, as even their smaller rockets are regularly crashing back to earth, one just yesterday: https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/chinese-rocket-crash...

But sure, at least they are deploying, at least they're in the running, which is more than most nations can say.
by Nemo_bis | 2025-10-22 06:00:23+00:00
Yes. The "cloud" is sold on grounds of "efficiency" but really it's just an ideological decision to increase outsourcing and reduce the employees' bargaining power.

(Except this backfires, because a service running on a RHEL or Debian machine might go on for 5-10 years untouched without any particular issue, security aside, while anything relying on kubernetes or the hyperscaler's million little services needs to be tweaked every 6 months and re-engineered every few years or it will completely stop working.)