MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-10-28 22:46:31+00:00
> If anyone knew Elon Musk existed by the time of the Thai cave rescue and didn't determine from that who he really is, they may not be perceptive.

Took me a while after that to accept it wasn't just an aberration.

My perspective now is that it continues a pattern of behaviour also seen with his response to Top Gear; it's just that when he reacted to Top Gear, I had an even lower regard for Top Gear…

> I don't know that "evil" is a really useful word to fling around, full stop, because it's actually quite subjective.

I agree. FWIW, I think "evil" is mostly a strong overlap with dark triad personality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad

But clearly the word is used far more broadly, and it does not reliably keep any meaning from one person to the next.
by oakwhiz | 2025-10-28 22:46:58+00:00
If it's a PON then it's not Ethernet media. You would then be looking for an ONT SFP but those are far from ordinary SFPs. They are not just dumb devices, there is a lot going on inside them since they crammed a whole ONT into the SFP, and it communicates SFI back to the host equipment as if it would have been Ethernet.

https://hack-gpon.org/ont-wo-mac/

You would need the ISP to "adopt" your ONT into their network similar to what is observed with cable modems.
by aj_icracked | 2025-10-28 22:47:04+00:00
I have the Samsung Frame TV (great TV btw) and decided I didn't want to pay the $5 / month to have curated art in the room and when Superman the movie came out a few months ago it was only displaying Superman comics on the screen. Was super annoying bc was subtle but not subtle enough. I uploaded family pics instead so I don't have that anymore but it was still pretty annoying. I have samsung washers / dryers / dishwasher etc all connected to the internet and I love the notifications when a load is done but I don't know how useful the data is... I assume data brokers are like, "Oh Aj uses his washing machine 7 times a month let's hit him with Tide ads", but I assume everyone uses the machine that much. I'm fine having my machines tell Samsung use bc it's normal usage (i think?)
by mdasen | 2025-10-28 22:47:25+00:00
I think it's the difference between having enough CPUs that you can launch a product and having enough CPUs that people start planning future products.

Volume takes time. That's why we're seeing 2026. And before someone says "that just gives Apple an advantage because they're smaller," Apple is shipping a comparable volume of CPUs - and they're doing basically all their volume on the latest fabrication tech.
by notahacker | 2025-10-28 22:47:42+00:00
I think it's emulating human writing about computers having breakdowns when unable to resolve conflicting instructions, in this case when it's been prompted to provide an AI's assessment of the context and avoid repetition, and the context is repeated failure.

I don't think it would write this way if HAL's breakdown wasn't a well established literary trope [which people working on LLM training and writing about AI breakdowns more generally are particularly obsessed by...). It's even doing the singing...

I guess we should be happy it didn't ingest enough AI safety literature to invent diamondoid bacteria and kill us all :-D
by dvaun | 2025-10-28 22:48:34+00:00
Steroid abuse indicates body dysmorphia. There isn’t an addictive property like other abused drugs, unless you’re considering it addictive via its effects on dopamine production.

Your body doesn’t become addicted, though. The potential for harm is real if you are not taking it under medical supervision or without proper knowledge of usage, like any other drugs.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-28 22:48:34+00:00
Is there no line, in your opinion? At this point, there are computers (many of which run variants of Linux in many cases) in my:

1. Laptop

2. Phone

3. Car

4. Washing machine

5. Handheld GPS

6. E-reader

7. TV

Is there some intrinsic different between a device where the manufacturer has programmed it using an ARM/x86-based chip vs a microcontroller vs some other method that means in the 1st case I have the right to install whatever I want? Because that feels like what's happened with cell phones: manufacturers started building them with more capable and powerful components to drive the features they wanted to include, and because those components overlapped what we'd seen in desktop computers, we've decided that we have an intrinsic right to treat them like we historically treated those computers.
by qcnguy | 2025-10-28 22:48:45+00:00
We do know better than Signal's CEO because Whittaker's statements are false. She said:

> The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers

> Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies

Which is both dishonest and stupid. She's claiming it's impossible to run an app like Signal outside of public cloud despite all her main competitors doing so. That's why she lists a bunch of non-competitors to try and support her argument.

So it's ironic you say it's arrogant for us to judge their requirements, because we know their requirements. Signal's design is fully open and the requirements of such platforms are well known. It's rather Whittaker's thread which is the height of arrogance. Her response to criticism of downtime is to be "concerned" at the ignorant users who don't "understand" the "concentration of power" and to "explain" to people why it's impossible to do better even as her competitors all do it. It's practically gaslighting.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-10-28 22:49:08+00:00
What exactly does "taste" mean in this context? Taste is about artistic quality. Aesthetics is generally a tertiary concern when it comes to software or hardware tinkering. That assumes it's a concern at all.

And while I'm talking about artistic quality on HN, I have to take some obligatory potshots at the website in question. When I have to use Safari's reader mode to see what you wrote, something has gone terribly wrong.
by vardump | 2025-10-28 22:49:34+00:00
Perhaps a Macbook is now fast enough to just run Windows 7 in full emulation? Haven't tried, though.

Edit: Checked on Youtube. Yeah, Windows 7 seems to be fast enough on an Apple silicon Macbook in full emulated mode. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9zqfv54CzI
by eminence32 | 2025-10-28 22:50:04+00:00
> just how Apple cannot block their developer tools from being able to transfer apps onto an iPhone.

If I recall correctly (I might be wrong, because this was 10+ years ago), but Apple did exactly this when the iPhone was first released. When the iPhone first came out, Apple released its XCode devtools for free, including an iOS emulator that you could use to test your iPhone app. But you had to pay a $99 USD per year "developer program" free in order to use the devtools to test the app on your physical device.

If Google is also blocking preventing you from loading your own software onto your own phone with adb unless you pay a free, then this would be a very important thing to call out explicitly.
by kelnos | 2025-10-28 22:51:33+00:00
> They make nice stuff.

Do they? I've never owned a Samsung phone, in large part because I was always turned off by reports that they liked to skin Android in annoying/lame ways. I have a Samsung fridge/freezer (old and not-smart), but the in-door ice maker has a design flaw that causes condensation to drip, freeze, and clog it, so we've given up on it and just make our own ice with regular old-school trays in the freezer.

I'm not going to say they make crap, but their stuff is... okay, I guess.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-28 22:51:55+00:00
That’s what I’m saying. Codex will search but then won’t read full files and is stingy with ingesting context. 5 Pro will take in a lot more context (quality up to about 60k input tokens) but you must give it. So sometimes you can even use Codex first to find what full files you should give to 5 Pro to create the spec/task list.

What my quote meant is that once you have the context Codex needs to do its work, if you give it to it, it’ll start the work right away without going and reading all those files again, which can help minimize context use within a Codex session (by having 5 Pro or just another Codex read in a lot of context to identify what is relevant for Codex instead of having Codex waste precious context headroom on discovery in a session that is dedicated to doing the work).
by dangets | 2025-10-28 22:52:16+00:00
> "Underlying ideas" means cherry-picking opinions that suit your fancy while ignoring those that don't.

Yes, that is how terminology evolves to not meet a rigid definition that was defined in a different era of best-practice coding beliefs. I'll admit I had trouble mapping the DDD OO concepts from the original book(s) to systems I work on now, but there are more recent resources that use the spirit of DDD, Domain Separation, and Domain Modeling outside of OO contexts. You're right in that there is no single recipe - take the good ideas and practices from DDD and apply it as appropriate.

And if the response is "that's not DDD", well you're fighting uphill against others that have co-opted the buzzword as well.

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/micros... - https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/06/actor-model-ddd/
by scottlamb | 2025-10-28 22:52:28+00:00
> Article start mentions WaPo not endorsing Harris, as if they're supposed to. I was glad hearing it, but turns out it's only because they have a new master due to Bezos-Trump ties.

Right: it's not just that they didn't endorse Harris. [1] It's that they had a 36-year tradition of endorsing a presidential candidate, had planned to endorse Harris, and then were overridden by their owner in a way that became really public. I expect the editorial positions (or lack thereof) to be chosen by senior journalists, not billionaires.

My subscription may or may not be among the 300,000 cancellations mentioned in the story. I turned off autorenew nearly a year ago; my subscription expires in a few days.

[1] Though I did feel that endorsement would be appropriate. I voted for her, and everything that's happened since has only confirmed to me that she would have been a far better choice than Trump.
by jacobgorm | 2025-10-28 22:52:48+00:00
Denmark has a large hearing aids industry due to lots of government funding for hearing aids, and a large wind turbine industry due to funding for wind farms. So stimulating demand can work to build or strengthen an industry, but what Denmark and EU are doing with GPUs is stimulating supply in Europe and demand in the US. I would be surprised if that does not end up strengthening US and not EU industry.
by 9x39 | 2025-10-28 22:53:10+00:00
It's secondary but I maintain it's related because from what I know from talking to local restaurants, as delivery grows, margins shrink, and it's a different animal catering to floods of online orders. One option is to go cheaper to grow that revenue especially if you're not full with dine-in guests.

It's primarily a trap when a restaurant doesn't command value relative to others in that segment, and their dishes are basically commodities (sure, food in general doesn't have great margins, but compare steakhouse vs fast food).

Chopped lettuce or sliced tomatoes from Sysco/distributor is one thing for sandwiches but maybe not salads, and then there's giving in and having entire dishes replaced from their catalog: pancake mix, gravy, premade frozen entrees, desserts. Enter the death spiral as floundering restaurants raises prices and cut quality, discourage customers, raise prices and cut more, losing more customers, etc.

FWIW regarding chicken-fried steak, I live in an area of people with "chicken nugget" palates and lots of diners. Most of the chicken-fried steak now is pre-breaded with canned gravy that is probably Sysco or Chef Store - I know I see the gallon cans walking through the aisles when I go. Yet, there's two local joints that still hand-bread and differentiate with home-made gravies, one spicy, one with herbs. Dinner-plate size dishes to boot which we split. They've resisted delivery and focus on dining in, but...mains start at $22 or so.

It's representative of the split between cheap vs quality. The chicken-fried delivery anecdotes might be a proxy for the class divide, too, hmm.
by speff | 2025-10-28 22:53:12+00:00
I absolutely agree with your assessment that it should be the last resort option due to the societal cost of a large number of people losing their job. On top of the risks you mention, there's also the mental hit that often accompanies layoffs not just for the folks who were fired, but the increased feeling of paranoia from the people who are left.

But can it not be the case the this /was/ the company's last resort? There's another option of moving people around and retraining them to do another function. What if that was considered and then rejected because there weren't enough departments growing to warrant that? Rhetorically, if they don't have the ability/opportunity to re-assign people, then what?
by Telaneo | 2025-10-28 22:53:23+00:00
That anecdote goes the other way if you skew towards popular multiplayer games, since those are the ones with anti-cheat. Someone who plays League, Apex, PUBG, and Destiny 2, and was really looking forward to BF6, will be mightily disappointed. You're unlikely to be invested in all of those games, but a pretty large amount of people are very, very invested in at-least one of those, which, unfortunately, makes Linux a non-starter for them.

Even if 99% of games worked fine on Linux, a large amount of people spend 50+% of their time in-game in one of those games, so it doesn't end up feeling like 90+% of games work.

Thankfully, the corollary of that is that single-player games pretty much all work, barring some edge cases, like very recent titles that haven't had the kinks ironed out yet.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-28 22:53:53+00:00
Interesting. Almost all my actual experience writing Java is in Java 8, so I'm not super familiar with the modern stuff (other then a few things like Records). I'll have to take a look.

Most of the people I know who write Java would have an aneurysm at seeing a switch statement.

To be clear, that's a critique of the Java mindset, not your code. Lol
by no_wizard | 2025-10-28 22:54:17+00:00
The two things are not equals. The US has for a western country, relaxed standards for immigration[0], in particular if you were coming from Europe, it's quite a bit easier to establish residency here.

The reverse is not true. European nations aren't very immigration friendly by comparison. On top of that, the US government, assuming you keep your citizenship, does not make it easy to live abroad. US government tax policy for citizens who live overseas is much more aggressive than any other western country, from what I understand.

Combined with the fact its alot harder to go the other way, and the US government does a fair amount to discourage it, I'm not shocked more US citizens aren't moving to Europe.

[0]: At least before Trump returned to office, I'm unsure how much of this has changed.
by saxelsen | 2025-10-28 22:54:35+00:00
I used to resonate with the word "taste" as a distinguishing factor between good and bad quality, but a comment on HN some months ago about one of the many blog posts that talks about taste really nailed it:

"Taste" is just the degree to which two people value the same things.

When someone is rated as having "good taste" it just means that the person rating them values a lot of the same qualities.

The more I thought about it, the more that applies everywhere: Food, wine, clothes, architecture, software design, etc.
by ggm | 2025-10-28 22:54:36+00:00
If you drew the symptoms of conditions in the DSM as a Venn diagram I tend to believe most of the conditions would overlap for their expression and key signature.

A small set would represent polar opposites but also have underlying related definitions and a few would have no analogues and just be solitons.

Even florid mania could expose with depression. Depression would have to be "it's always the DNS" of the DSM.
by 29athrowaway | 2025-10-28 22:54:39+00:00
In terms of compatibility and performance, there is a noticeable increase over the last years since Proton came up.

Racing wheels are still not well supported IMO. Although on Linux you can map a racing wheel to any other peripheral and work this around.

Another thing is that streaming experience is not as good on Linux as it is on Windows. OBS exists but the whole ecosystem around it is largely not.

Still... Linux is my choice of OS.
by ruben81ad | 2025-10-28 22:54:58+00:00
Amazon was an innovative, day 1 company, but it is not any more. They are becoming an IBM.

Enshitification is here: they are doing mass layoffs periodically, and you don't hear innovative news from AWS any more.

Additionally, companies are realising that they are pretty much using a minor offering of the AWS products, competitors are catching up, and every day there are lessser reasons to pay the AWS premium.
by airspresso | 2025-10-28 22:55:00+00:00
> I keep hearing that LLMs are trained on "Internet crap" but is it true?

Karpathy repeated this in a recent interview [0], that if you'd look at random samples in the pretraining set you'd mostly see a lot of garbage text. And that it's very surprising it works at all.

The labs have focused a lot more on finetuning (posttraining) and RL lately, and from my understanding that's where all the desirable properties of an LLM are trained into it. Pretraining just teaches the LLM the semantic relations it needs as the foundation for finetuning to work.

[0]: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy
by dylan604 | 2025-10-28 22:55:00+00:00
all dimmable LEDs use blinking, but interesting case for your suggestion for an even more efficient use of a "steady" LED. what blink frequency did you use to keep it from being visible to the eye? did it not dim the overall brightness to a meter? early LEDs were atrocious with their slow blink rates that quickly scanning across them could see it, but even more noticeable if you pointed your camera at them. now, they blink incredibly fast, fast enough even for some slo-mo to not strobe.
by buran77 | 2025-10-28 22:55:01+00:00
What do you do when the model you know to be best ("past experience") consistently fails to predict anything after an agent of chaos is introduced to the mix? Do you still stand by it? Can you really say past experience consistently predicted the events of this year alone?

If you're in the middle of a nuclear winter do you still insist summer is just a few months away based on past experience? And if you hear someone saying it will you believe it's anything other than disingenuous or ignorant?
by chrysoprace | 2025-10-28 22:55:09+00:00
AGENTS.md is an attempt to standardise around the different conventions each of the agents uses[0]. It's an initiative by OpenAI. Anthropic don't seem to be in a hurry to support it though[1], possibly to maintain some kind of walled garden, but that's purely speculation on my part.

[0] https://agents.md/

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235
by orangecat | 2025-10-28 22:55:22+00:00
For everything on that list, I'd say that if you figure out how to run software of your choice on them the manufacturer shouldn't be able to legally stop you. (And specifically, the anti-circumvention clauses of the DMCA are terrible).

Phones get a lot of attention in this regard because they've replaced a large amount of PC usage, so locking them down has the effect of substantially reducing computing freedom.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-10-28 22:55:33+00:00
I briefly worked in adjacent space. While I hate the way it works, it makes a lot more sense when you understand that the billed amount is essentially just a negotiation tactic that represents a price well above what they ever expect to be paid (and a bit added to that for safety).

Then, they negotiate with all of the in-network providers for some number that’s well below the billed amount. That number varies a bit based on how effective various negotiations are.

Realistically, OP simply found the number that insurance was going to pay out anyways.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-28 22:55:34+00:00
Yeah, on the one hand, independence of all institutions and especially ivy-leagues is of the utmost important. But like, I've always done better in the workplace than in the school environment.

Does anyone think that a degree from Harvard says more about what you know than who you know? I suppose for certain careers, particularly perhaps research or writing/ideas/think tanks, a 4.0 GPA plus increasing distinctions / PHD work etc. is important.

But for just like working in business?
by kragen | 2025-10-28 22:55:45+00:00
Yes, you absolutely should have the right to install (or uninstall) whatever software you want on any of those, assuming it contains writable program memory. The alternative is a nightmarish dystopian future where your washing machine company is selling its estimate of your political inclinations, sexual activities, and risk aversion to your car insurance company, your ex-husband, your trade union representative, and your homeowners' association.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-28 22:56:01+00:00
Good catch. They are similarly noteworthy to phones: there are all kinds of projects and tools built around making custom and modded games for the Gameboy, or hacking the NES, but there wasn't a movement saying Nintendo was violating our fundamental rights by not allowing users to overwrite or modify the code inside the actual console.

Then consoles started shipping with recognizable internals, and we had waves of people very frustrated at things like Sony's removal of OtherOS, or Nintendo's attempts to squash the exploits that enabled Wii Homebrew.
by simoncion | 2025-10-28 22:56:02+00:00
I've run fiber in my apartment, but it's running along baseboards in no-traffic areas and draped high up along wall and window moldings in nonzero-traffic ones.

> I am also thinking it might need to be shrouded in EMT conduit

Why would you need to run your fiber in metal pipe? EMI isn't a problem with fiber.
by electroly | 2025-10-28 22:56:16+00:00
While true, we're not talking about the chips losing TSO; Apple plans to keep Rosetta 2 for games and it has to remain fast because, well, it's video games. It also seems like they plan to keep their container tool[1]. This means they can't get rid of TSO at the silicon level and I have not heard this discussed as a possibility. We're only discussing the loss of the software support here. The answer to "How much die area does it use that could be used for performance?" is zero--they have chosen to do a partial phase-out that doesn't permit them to save the die space. They'd need to kill all remaining Rosetta 2 usage in order to cull the die space, and they seem to be going out of their way not to do this.

[1] https://github.com/apple/container -- uses Rosetta translation for x64 images.
Show HN: Run PyTorch on CPU boxes, offload kernels to remote GPUs
by medicis123 | 2025-10-28 22:56:19+00:00
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