MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lostlogin | 2025-10-31 18:24:00+00:00
> But as a hypothetical conundrum, who would you return the relics from a long expired society to -- the current (arguably quite distinct, religiously & culturally) administrations of those lands?

Has this ever been in doubt? With Egyptian artifacts, they’d go to Egypt, with looted Greek artifacts they’d go to Greece. With the heads of Māori warriors, New Zealand Maori.

Are there any real world situations where it’s confusing as to who they would be returned to?
by tommy_axle | 2025-10-31 18:24:08+00:00
Not the OP but yes you can definitely get a bigger quant like Q6 if it makes a difference but you also can go with a bigger param model like gpt oss 120B. A 70B would probably be great for a 128GB machine, which I don't think qwen has. You can search for the model you're interested in on hugging face often with "gguf" to get it ready to go (e.g. https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF/tree/main). Otherwise it's not a big deal to quantize yourself using llama.cpp.
by iamben | 2025-10-31 18:24:14+00:00
To be fair, I think the fractured rights thing is a big thing a well. I can subscribe to one music service - Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Tidal - and pretty much every new release is available on all of them (or risk a terrible opening week/zero buzz if you go for the 'exclusive' - but ever then, available a week or so later).

The movie/TV companies sell their show to the SVOD platform that offers the most in the territory. Or it's developed by the service themselves. So if you have to subscribe to a handful of services to watch everything your friends recommend.

Most of us can afford one music service. If you're forced into 5 streaming services a lot of people will just pirate. And even for those that do pay - the "we'll show this in the UK a week later than the US" means unless you pirate it, it's spoiled on social media within a few days.
by shermantanktop | 2025-10-31 18:24:35+00:00
“I never got around to it” is a useful filter. Actual artists are able to pass through it because they are driven to do the work.

If some retired lawyer wants to “write” a novel, good for them I guess. But AI is not the only reason it won’t be worth reading. The other problem is that the “writer” is actually just a reader. Consuming and producing are totally different.
by stuxnet79 | 2025-10-31 18:25:00+00:00
Any resources you can share for these experimental builds? This is something I was looking into setting up at some point. I'd love to take a look at examples in the wild to gauge if it's worth my time / money.

An aside, if we ever reach a point where it's possible to run an OSS 20b model at reasonable inference on a Macbook Pro type of form factor, then the future is definitely here!
by SatvikBeri | 2025-10-31 18:25:01+00:00
A pretty basic example: I write a lot of data pipelines in Julia. Most of the functions don't mutate their arguments, they receive some data and return some data. There are a handful of exceptions, e.g. the functions that write data to a db or file somewhere, or a few performance-sensitive functions that mutate their inputs to avoid allocations. These functions are clearly marked.

That means that 90% of the time, there's a big class of behavior I just don't need to look for when reading/debugging code. And if it's a bug related to state, I can pretty quickly zoom in on a few possible places where it might have happened.
by nticompass | 2025-10-31 18:25:03+00:00
As a kid (ok, as an adult too), I knew what the "CH" on floppies meant. I was curious, but never asked or tried looking it up.

I forget when, but one day, it dawned on me that it said "HD"!

I guess most of my floppies had their labels on in such a way that the flap/door was facing down, so it said "CH". To read "HD," then the label would be upside down.
by tartoran | 2025-10-31 18:25:10+00:00
Let the fire burn through everything, it's fun to watch. That until it consumes the land under you. Well, this is metaphorically speaking.

I have no problem with AI tools per see, however what bothers me is the flood of sloop that is inescapable. If things were tagged AI and I could opt out when I'm not looking for that kind of content I'd be totally fine with it, it's just a took after all.
by jetsnoc | 2025-10-31 18:25:10+00:00
It’s a Claude agent prompt. I don’t recall who originally shared it, so I can’t yet attribute the source, but I’ll track that down shortly and add proper attribution here.

Here’s the Claude agent markdown:

https://github.com/lst97/claude-code-sub-agents/blob/main/ag...

Edit: Updated from the old Pastebin link to the GitHub version. Attribution found: lst97 on GitHub
by runjake | 2025-10-31 18:25:23+00:00
> Maybe it would be better for them to enter the Risc-V market

The demand isn't there for the RISC-V product. AMD is exploring this space[1][2] but they aren't bringing them to market because sufficient demand isn't there yet.

1. https://www.amd.com/en/products/software/adaptive-socs-and-f...

2. https://www.amd.com/en/products/software/adaptive-socs-and-f...
by jajuuka | 2025-10-31 18:25:36+00:00
I wouldn't call 6 years a long time for support. Imagine if Microsoft announced that any software older than 2020 will not longer work. Not be out of support or not get any more updates, just become not runnable.

The problem I have with it is Apple unilaterally deciding that support ends. I don't see the harm in no longer supporting it but leaving it as an option for legacy support. No garentee that anything will work with it and no support for it. They've done this with their hardware before but here it's just a cudgel to force devs to update their apps.
by runevault | 2025-10-31 18:25:43+00:00
Eh, I'd say it depends.

I write way more algol-derived language code than ML, yet piped operations being an option over either constant dot operators where every function returns the answer or itself depending on the context or inside out code is beautiful in a way that I've never felt about my C#/C++/etc code. And even Lisp can do that style with arrow macros that exist in at least CL and Clojure (dunno about Racket/other schemes).
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-10-31 18:26:05+00:00
I also just don’t understand, as someone with no business experience, how they aren’t just pouring all of that money into enhancing their production capacity. That’s very clearly their bottleneck here.

Yes, I’m certain they are spending an astronomical amount on that already, but why not more? Surely paying more money for construction of more facilities still nets gain even if you run into diminishing returns?

Instead they set up this whacko tax laundering scheme? Just seems like more corporate pocket filling to me, an idiot with no business knowledge.
by tom_ | 2025-10-31 18:26:05+00:00
Well some people do, I'm sure, but most people just pay ordinary levels of attention to him. And they do that because he's made interesting contributions to multiple products that people like using - which is enough, surely?

(Regarding this specific tweet, this seems to be him visiting his occasional theme of how to write C++ in a way that will help rather than hinder the creation of finishable software products. He's qualified to comment.)
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-31 18:26:20+00:00
> The thing to keep in mind is that Git doesn't version the file system, it versions the index.

Yes. I think that this difference is what introduces a lot of friction, both in the model, and how people use it. The divergence between the files that exist on disk inside your working copy and what's actually tracked means lots of opportunities for friction that go away once you decide that it should. That doesn't mean things are perfect, for example, by default jj only snapshots the filesystem when you run a `jj` command, so you can still lose changes from in between those, you need to enable Watchman to get truly full logging here.

> all these states occur in the reflog.

Well, let's go back to the documentation for reflog:

> Reference logs, or "reflogs", record when the tips of branches and other references were updated in the local repository.

It only tracks changes to refs. That is, the states that refs have been in. So, one big example is detatched HEADs: any changes you make to those, which still are contents of the repository, are not tracked in the reflog.

Even for refs, there's differences: the reflog says "ref was in state x and changed to state y" without any more details. jj's oplog keeps track of not only the state change, but the reason why: "rebased commit <sha> with these args: jj rebase -r <sha> -d trunk"

The reflog only tracks individual refs. Say we rebase multiple commits. The reflog still just says "the head of this branch was in state x and changed to state y" but the oplog says "a rebase happened, it affected all of these commits refs in these ways," that is, it's just inherently more rich in what it tracks, and does it across all relative commits, not only the refs.

This doesn't mean the reflog is bad! It's just a very specific thing. Git could have an operation log too, it's just a different feature.
by d0mine | 2025-10-31 18:26:56+00:00
In Python, no user object is modified by a simple assignment to a name. It just binds it.

It is not about mutable/immutable objects , it is about using a name for a single purpose within given scope.

a = 1 b = 2 a = b

"a" name refers to the "2" object. "1" hasn't changed (ints are immutable in Python). If nothing else references it, it might as well disappear (or not).

Though both "single purpose" and immutability may be [distinct] good ideas.
by tgma | 2025-10-31 18:26:59+00:00
The way you describe it as if a widow is reaching out to interest from a nest egg to get by and I got a little tear.

But since I do know better:

- some of these endowments grow over time to infinity.

- that's tax-free gain/interest and any hedge fund would kill to get that special treatment.

As long as they have such special tax treatment, it is only fair they should stay in line with a framework that taxpayers provide.
by DenisM | 2025-10-31 18:27:02+00:00
A couple of thoughts on the big picture:

* Rise of AI is one of the biggest “transfers” of IP-generated wealth.

* It is also a dramatic increase in the “software is eating the world” trend, or at least an anticipation of such. It kinda turned from everyone dragging their feet through software andoptin over the course of 30 years into a massive stampede.
by lyricaljoke | 2025-10-31 18:27:02+00:00
My very similar pet peeve is about websites that use `onclick` handlers and similar to implement navigation. Just use a damn anchor tag, which gets you correct link behavior for free:

* works with middle click for new tab

* integrates with accessibility devices

* works with right click + open in new window or similar options

* etc. etc. etc.

If it's notionally navigation, don't use javascript soup: use a link.
by jdiff | 2025-10-31 18:27:43+00:00
There's an interactive story that has elements of this[0]. Many of the simpler objects don't have much capacity to think or feel on their own, but the corru equivalent of elevators are fully sentient beings capable of conversation and problem solving, and they're just kind of built to be quite satisfied helping move people around. Corru computers are capable of hosting entire communities of distinct intelligences, each program sentient and (mostly) dedicated to its role. Not all of them can be chatted up, the authorization/access control program understandably isn't very chatty, but it is an intelligent being.

It's a pretty enjoyable experience, and all of the graphics are ordinary HTML elements with 3D CSS transformations, which makes it super hackable and fun to crack open in an inspector.

All that to say, if the best chairs required intelligence, it'd be in everyone's best interest to make that intelligence real thrilled about ass.

[0] http://corru.observer/
by lostlogin | 2025-10-31 18:27:44+00:00
> Even during WW2 the UK, Germany and France set out programs to saveguard historical cultural treasures in protected areas.

Did they though? That sounds revisionist.

Eg The Badeker raids in one direction, a Bomber Harris and everything he did in the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baedeker_Blitz

> A few simple examples of nations who have went through rather devastating wars and civil wars including Islamists who's main ideology is that anything pre-Islamic is to be destroyed as it might lead to heresy, and who go out of their way to destroy historical places and artifacts.

The Reformation shows that this isn’t just an Islamic trait. Plenty of religious artifacts, and location were destroyed.

> the middle east is stuck on an unresolved powder keg of issues

It is. And several of the key players in this are missing from your comment. The US, the UK, Russia and China. This isn’t a problem with undeveloped Islamic countries, it’s considerably broader than that.
by mindslight | 2025-10-31 18:27:57+00:00
The other half of it is the GOP long ago put themselves up for sale to the highest bidders. Those high bidders used to be the American business community, so they'd work to pass legislation that helped existing US businesses at the expense of US citizens [0]. But at least the US as a whole remained the world leader. However those high bidders have now become foreign interests, so the policies are directly aimed at hurting our country.

I think this is the real outcome of having so much debt owed to foreign countries. The political kayfabe all focuses on it like it's some mortgage where other countries will foreclose or whatever. But there is no mechanism for that to actually occur. What it does allow those foreign countries to do is to buy up significant chunks of the US, and then exert the control that customarily comes along with ownership.

[0] this is also why they'd constantly rage-farm about immigration, but then turn around and facilitate the supply of cheap illegal labor
by vntok | 2025-10-31 18:28:03+00:00
> but we're getting close to the point where we cannot really add more details and realism to video games

Lots of human senses aren't tackled by video games yet. Smell, taste, balance, cardioception, proprioception, pain, temperature, pressure are all missing. Where are the immersive tanks or piezzoelectric coveralls that stimulate all of our senses coherently? I bet adding those would hammer the hardware.
by MattyRad | 2025-10-31 18:28:17+00:00
Ok, I'll bite though, let's try it out as a non-maintainer.

I loaded https://0github.com/laravel/framework/pull/57499. Completely random, it's a PR in the last github repo I had open.

At 60%, it highlights significantly more test code than the material changes that need review. Strike one.

At no threshold (0-100) does it highlight the deleted code in UniqueBroadcastEvent.php, which seems highly important to review. The maintainer even comments about the removal in the actual PR! Strike two.

The only line that gets highlighted at > 50% in the material code diffs is one that hasn't changed. Strike three.

So, honest attempt, but it didn't work out for me.
by jcranmer | 2025-10-31 18:28:31+00:00
The explanation of the symbols is largely found here: https://www.sandpile.org/x86/opc_enc.htm

Essentially, the uppercase letter of an operand is a combination of the operand type (immediate, register, memory) along with how that is encoded (as ModR/M bytes have a register and a register/memory field), while the lowercase letter is the size of the operand (largely 8-bit/16-bit/32-bit/64-bit for the 1-byte opcodes).
by Jackpillar | 2025-10-31 18:28:43+00:00
> Places where technological innovation and development happen have existed long before the internet and semiconductors. The industrial revolution didn't originate or center around the Bay Area.

You said tech hub. By all definitions of the term the Bay Area was the first. Nor did I say the industrial revolution originated around the Bay Area?

> What? You made the argument that Bay Area has some kind of special access to tech talent because of Stanford - I simply pointed out that the vast majority of Bay Area tech employees are not from Stanford (not to mention many Stanford alums leave California).

You tend to do this a lot. "Many Stanford alums leave California" and "talent is being outsourced at ever increasing rates". Just vague generalizations that offer nothing to the overall conversation.

I made the argument that being close to these universities gives the region a constant flow of world class engineers and researchers. This is true whether or not they work for Bay Area tech companies you understand this right? Regardless, out of the reported feeder schools into tech 5 out of the top 10 are California universities.

> MIT, Harvard, Yale, Georgia Tech, Waterloo don't exist?

You just named universities from 5 different states/regions? Please keep up.

> And several google/deepmind employees from/educated in UK won a nobel prize in 2024... what's your point?

They weren't from the same school? The UC system altogether has over 150 nobel prizes and thats before including private institutions like Stanford, Caltech, USC, and others. Thus exemplifying the unique system dedicated to research and technology consolidated in one region..

> It was more true (but still very boring) 10 years ago, not anymore.

Going to be honest man from interacting with you it seems like you have a chip on your shoulder about the bay. I don't even live there I live in LA. It shouldn't bug you to point out the objective fact that the unique confluence of geographic location, surrounding education system and research institutions, compounded wealth from prior historical industrial/technological windfalls, makes SV the premiere tech hub that is consistently on the forefront of burgeoning technologies - not by accident.

Are you also confused as to why NYC is the finance capital of the world? Do you think Toronto could usurp it one day if they just try hard enough?
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-31 18:29:05+00:00
Trumpism is all about maximizing tariff gain/benefit. Economically and politically he may not have room to do more without crippling the USA. The EU is already dealing with tough tariffs from the USA.

Most of the "500% tariffs" is bluster and he backs down to the min/max level the capital owning class he is part of and he ultimately serves don't want to go past.
by susam | 2025-10-31 18:29:47+00:00
> Not events generally, keydown events specifically, which do not fire on child elements of the document.

Are you sure? I have a 17 year old HTML tool written using plain, vanilla JavaScript where keydown on a child element seems to have been working as expected.

https://susam.net/quickqwerty.html

https://github.com/susam/quickqwerty/blob/1.2.0/quickqwerty....

Nice article, by the way!
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-31 18:30:19+00:00
Historically speaking, this does not change things, at least for Dropbox/Google Drive. Stack Overflow is tons of posts like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199637/is-it-possible-t...

That said, I haven't tried this lately, maybe it's gotten more robust over time. But historically, even a bare repo on something like Dropbox has issues.
by dialup_sounds | 2025-10-31 18:30:32+00:00
If I follow you correctly, you're saying that we should not investigate or prosecute crimes committed by politicians¹ because the CIA did something on a TV show? That's an interesting point of view.

I am skeptical that doing so would result in greater concentration of executive power constrained only by political optics—given that that's what we're seeing now—and it is hard to envision a scenario of executive harassment of the legislature more obvious than what we've already seen² happen.

¹ to be clear, we're talking about things which actually happened in real life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

² Senate Chamber, January 6 2021 https://share.google/kJois0ZmHS7j6XMAU
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-31 18:31:16+00:00
No, a lapsed memory can be provoked. It doesn't have to be relearned. It is "lapsed" because the organizational path to it within your brain has been lost, like a book in a library that has been left out of the card catalog, but just like the book, if you happen to find it anyway, it will be there.

Compare, from https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/anthropology-... :

> at the first news of English ships in the area, Buckley rushed to the spot. He attempted to make contact, but couldn’t swim out to the ship and couldn’t convince the ship to send a boat to him (Buckley had, at this point, forgotten how to speak English.) Buckley was again heartbroken until another ship showed up, and he found the English colonists and tried to approach them:

> “Presently some of the natives saw me, and turning round, pointed me out to one of the white people; and seeing they had done so, I walked away from the well, up to their place, and seated myself there, having my spears and other war and hunting implements between my legs. The white men could not make me out–my half-cast colour, and extraordinary height and figure [Buckley was around 6’5” or taller,]–dressed, or rather undressed, as I was–completely confounding them as to my real character. At length one of them came up and asked me some questions, which I could not understand; but when he offered me bread–calling it by its name–a cloud appeared to pass from over my brain, and I soon repeated that, and other English words after him. …

> “Word by word I began to comprehend what they said, and soon understood, as if by instinct, that they intended to remain in the country; that they had seen several of the native chiefs, with whom–as they said–they had exchanged all sorts of things for land; but that I knew could not have been

I submit that it takes more than a day to learn English if you don't already know it.

Once I was in a Toys-R-Us and noticed a cover image among the bottom-of-the-barrel DVD display which caused me to put what I was doing on hold for several minutes while I stared at the DVD. I bought it, and it turned out to be a movie I had watched many times when I was very young, but that information hadn't been accessible to me.