MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blindriver | 2025-10-20 19:00:03+00:00
I attempted OCR using all of the open source models available about 3 months ago, including Llama 4. These were pngs of text using a regular font. Most produced garbage except Llama 4, and even then it was only about 90% accurate. Using OpenAI or Gemini produced much better results but the open source models were really bad.
by sowbug | 2025-10-20 19:00:16+00:00
I might be failing at reading comprehension, but after reading this short article several times, I still don't know what the "unexpected benefit" is.

The first couple paragraphs list (1) regular sleep schedule and feeling more rested, (2) "no zombie feel" first thing in the morning, and (3) less anxiety. And then it says "I still feel these benefits are true but I've also discovered a new one."

So what's the new one?

The rest of the article seems to discuss #2 again -- that the author can wake up and be productive without the kick-start of coffee.

Is there something I'm still missing in the rest of the article? (Yes, I've had my coffee today.)
by crote | 2025-10-20 19:00:31+00:00
The main reason for the Dutch dependence on Russian gas is the rapid shutdown of the Slochteren field for political reasons[0], while there weren't yet any LNG terminals available to import it from outside Europe. Considering Europe didn't yet view Russia as a genuine threat it's not exactly surprising that importing Russian gas was seen as a viable short-term strategy.

[0]: The Slochteren field still has plenty of gas remaining. It was shut down due to pushback from the inhabitants of Groningen, whose houses were being destroyed by earthquakes - caused by soil subsidence as a result of gas extraction. If there were to have been a serious war with Russia at that point, The Netherlands could've trivially shut off all gas imports by scaling the extraction back up.
by sunrunner | 2025-10-20 19:00:55+00:00
> You could also say that there isn't any purpose to be found anywhere else, so all the purpose must be in the recursive grind of continuing

I really like this angle and do find my own solace in this approach, but I've never quite been able to convince myself that it's not essentially just an artificial or manufactured purpose. Which is fine. It's useful for my own goals and personal growth. But it still feels like a very localised view. If there is some kind of global maxima, I certainly haven't heard about it yet.
by TYPE_FASTER | 2025-10-20 19:00:59+00:00
> While most operations are recovered, requests to launch new EC2 instances (or services that launch EC2 instances such as ECS) in the US-EAST-1 Region are still experiencing increased error rates.

> We continue to investigate the root cause for the network connectivity issues that are impacting AWS services such as DynamoDB, SQS, and Amazon Connect in the US-EAST-1 Region. We have identified that the issue originated from within the EC2 internal network.

So, kinda? Some global services depend on us-east-1...

> Global services or features that rely on US-EAST-1 endpoints such as IAM updates and DynamoDB Global tables may also be experiencing issues.

Basically, you know it's going to be a bumpy day when us-east-1 has an issue because your ability to run across regions depends on what the issue is what the impact is.
by toast0 | 2025-10-20 19:01:21+00:00
I think you've probably got to pester your local bottler and see if there are any retailers that stock it, or if you can special order it (possibly through a patient retailer). I've seen HFCS Coke and Pepsi available without caffeine as well, although less frequently, I can find some product listings but none with availability. In my (wide) area, it looks like Target has Diet Pepsi without caffeine in some stores, and diet coke without caffeine in more.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-20 19:01:38+00:00
> I don't think there are any physics reasons why it'd be impossible

There is extensive evidence that the incidence of severe peanut allergies is significantly increased by the practice of avoiding early exposure in the absence of particular risk indicators, which is why that practice is now advised against.(IIRC, some of the first targeted studies were motivated by observed differences in incidence between the US where early avoidance had become common and Israel where peanut-based puff snacks were a common thing to give to babies not long after starting solid food.)
by pverheggen | 2025-10-20 19:02:03+00:00
Fabricating a custom chip costs several million dollars, which is kind of a non-starter for such a niche product.

Is it theoretically possible? Maybe, there are high-res die photographs used for reverse engineering and improving simulator accuracy. But I doubt this is accurate enough to fab an exact replica.

http://visual6502.org/images/pages/MOS_6581_SID_die_shots.ht...
by labrador | 2025-10-20 19:02:05+00:00
Kieran Healy @kjhealy@mastodon.social

Always worth taking sentences that use “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115407725852594322
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-20 19:02:09+00:00
> History (including recent history) says the leanings of political party of the administration in charge are unrelated to how truthful the government communication is.

If anything, recent history says the exact opposite: truthfulness has absolutely varied historically based on the person in charge. The current person in charge has a record of untruthfulness unrivaled in magnitude by any of his historical predecessors. It isn't even close.
by khedoros1 | 2025-10-20 19:02:30+00:00
I've got a computer that I built in 2008 and upgraded in 2012. It's pretty solid for higher-requirement games up until about 2015, and can still handle lower-requirement indie stuff today.

I built its successor in 2020, using a GPU from 2017. The longevity of the PS4 has given that thing serious legs, and I haven't seen the need to upgrade yet. It still runs what I want to run. It's also the first post-DOS x86/64 machine I've owned that has never had Windows installed.
by nomilk | 2025-10-20 19:02:41+00:00
From what I understand, Kramnick pointed out Danya's behaviour was erratic and suspected alcohol or drug use (everyone else broached it much more sensitively, saying drugs was a ridiculous notion, and giving him space/privacy but perhaps suspecting possible mental health, mental breakdown, or maybe narcolepsy).

Kramnick may have been forthright and lacking tact, but it was clear from Danya's behaviours that he sadly had an underlying psychological condition that could happen to any of us.
by Arathorn | 2025-10-20 19:02:55+00:00
Hm. Something sounds wrong here, then. On my iPhone 12 Pro Max on iOS 26, my account (~5000 rooms) opens in about 2s in Element X iOS. On the classic app it’s about 10s (ie unusable).

Roughly how many rooms are you in? and what server is this on (it could be a serverside problem)? And what precise build of the app?
by brudgers | 2025-10-20 19:03:03+00:00
I tried the vanilla emacs bindings and I have to say they are the worst bindings I have seen in my life, period!!. I had my hand bending into the weirdest of shapes

That's a sign of poor keyboard layout (relative to emacs).

Emacs was designed for keyboards with control and alt on both sides of the spacebar (and really benefits if the layout places control and alt symmetrically).

Thinkpads have this layout. There are other keyboards with a suitable layout. Most keyboards are not suitable for sustained Emacs use...

...and for what it is worth, Linux shells tend to use Emacs shortcuts out of the box.
by sdwr | 2025-10-20 19:03:12+00:00
I see the time pressure effect on article quality, could have used some editing (muddled message, abrupt ending, could be situating the points better). It feels more like a dense outline than an article.

What it's saying (I think) is that IQ tests measure learnable skills, and population-level changes over time are measuring learned competence and not innate intelligence, proven by statistics.

I think most people would agree that most skills reflect both innate talent and preparation/training. I can get better at running, but could never beat Kipchoge in a marathon, no matter how much I train.
by tonymet | 2025-10-20 19:03:48+00:00
I don't think blaming AWS is fair, since they typically exceed their regional and AZ SLAs

AWS makes their SLAs & uptime rates very clear, along with explicit warnings about building failover / business continuity.

Most of the questions on the AWS CSA exam are related to resiliency .

Look, we've all gone the lazy route and done this before. As usual, the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair.
by reaperducer | 2025-10-20 19:04:13+00:00
There's lots of knowledge from that era that didn't make it to the internet age. Not being listed on Wikipedia does not mean something didn't exist.

Maybe your modem just didn't support it. Or maybe it was one of the many mods people did to their modems.

I know that at least one of the modems I had (a combination of Commodore, Hayes, and Avatex modems) supported higher-than-usual baud rates out of the box. I can't say how exactly it worked, you just issued commands or the terminal program handled it.
by eimrine | 2025-10-20 19:05:09+00:00
It would look like Web2 website.

I don't think deepfakes is more problems than spammers.

Cultural and regional diversity without stereotyping.

A lot of questions.

No data-driven matching, just let me set the location and show me who is online and who was online recently. Please no funny business here.

Just don't be a jerk.
by kerblang | 2025-10-20 19:05:11+00:00
Also, docker.io is rate-limited, so if your organization experiences enough growth you will start seeing build failures on a regular basis.

Also, quay.io - another image hoster, from red hat - has been read-only all day today.

If you're going to have docker/container image dependencies it's best to establish a solid hosting solution instead of riding whatever bus shows up
by dingnuts | 2025-10-20 19:05:25+00:00
The person driving is the one that learns the most in pair programming. In the scenario you've described, that would be Claude. LLMs don't learn.

Doesn't CC sometimes take twenty, thirty minutes to return an attempt? I wouldn't know, because I'm not rich and my employer has decided CC is too expensive, but I wonder what you would do with your pair programming partner while you wait.

The bosses would like to think we'd start working on something else, maybe start up a different Claude instance, but can you really change contexts and back before the first one is done? You AND your partner?

Nah, just go play air hockey until your boss realizes Claude is what they need, not you.
by mads_quist | 2025-10-20 19:05:31+00:00
Our strategy has always been to use as little higher abstractions from cloud providers as possible. Glad we went this way, saved us quite a bunch of SLA breaches today! I am confident to say that it's "best of both worlds". We get great availability zone redundancy by AWS without having to rely on and pay for all those PaaS stuff the cloud giants offer. Also, we can "fairly easy" migrate to any other cloud provider because we only need Debian instances running.
by nine_zeros | 2025-10-20 19:05:32+00:00
This is not a government issue. It is a Republican government issue.

Democrat governments don't seem to purge information. Republicans are so infantile that they literally display a picture of an Autopen instead of Biden as President in the historical presidents wall.

Republicans are so infantile as to want to erase the reality of slavery.

Republicans are so infantile that they want to erase evolution from textbooks.

Republicans are so infantile that they want to erase the Jan 6 coup from memory.

Republicans are so infantile that they want to erase real jobs data from BLS site.

I could go on. But this is a Republican problem. No both-sides here.
by Lendal | 2025-10-20 19:05:40+00:00
The article describes it as a "useful analogy" but doesn't specify in what way it's useful. Seems the manner in which it's useful depends on your worldview or even your intelligence. Does it mean that predictions of crisis are all equally valid or worthless? Or does it mean that we should question how the conclusion was reached, or that we should require some minimum standard of scientific consensus before publishing such predictions?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-20 19:05:57+00:00
Poland's total fertility rate (tfr) is lower than Japan at the moment, and lowest in 200 years, ~1.1. Based on all available evidence, I think it is highly unlikely this increases the fertility rate in a meaningful way, but only time will tell.

> While different agencies use slightly different methodologies to calculate fertility rate, according to the Population Reference Bureau, a US-based NGO, only eight countries in the world had a lower number than Poland’s figure of 1.1 in 2024. They include Singapore, Thailand, Ukraine (all 1.0) and, in last place, South Korea (0.7). Poland’s rate is lower than Japan’s (1.2), a country that has long struggled with demographic issues, as well as those of western European states such as Germany, the UK (both 1.4) and France (1.6).

> A recent University of Warsaw study found that, among members of Gen Z (born 1995 to 2012) the most commonly cited reasons for not wanting children were poor housing conditions, unstable work, and a difficult financial situation. But over half said that nothing would convince them to have a child.

Poland’s fertility rate fell to new low in 2024 - https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/06/02/polands-fertility-rat... - June 2nd, 2025

https://www.tvp.info/87031294/demogorafia-w-polsce-badanie-p...

> Given that South Korea recently broke its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate for the fourth year in a row, with a TFR which currently stands at just 0.72, I will focus on South Korea as the obvious case of a nation-state vying to get its citizens to procreate. South Korea has spent $270 billion in the past 16 years to promote childbirth, and ideas for pronatalist incentives to date have included baby bonuses, cash rewards, exemption from mandatory military service and even state-sponsored dating events. Superficially, these heterogeneous incentivising measures don’t seem all that morally objectionable, though a question that will loom large in the background for the foreseeable future is the extent to which they actually work, and at what cost.

Towards an ethics of pronatalism in South Korea (and beyond) - https://jme.bmj.com/content/51/6/371 | https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2024-110001

TLDR Poland doesn't have the financial capacity at nation state scale to encourage their target demographic outcome.

(think in systems)
by bravetraveler | 2025-10-20 19:06:14+00:00
For what's left of your career: sometimes it's neither. You're confused, perfection? Where? A past employer, who I've deliberately not named, is selling something: I've moved on. Their cloud was designed with multiple-zone regions, and importantly, realizes the benefit: respects the boundaries. Amazon, and you, apparently have not.

Yes, everything has a weakness. Not every weakness is comparable to 'us-east-1'. Ours was billing/IAM. Guess what? They lived in several places with effective and routinely exercised redundancy. No single zone held this much influence. Service? Yes, that's why they span zones.

Said in the absolute kindest way: please fuck off. I have nothing to prove or, worse, sell. The businesses have done enough.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-20 19:06:44+00:00
If you do not want to talk about this issue then don't. I brought it up because you claimed it was only something the far right claimed. Demanding that someone from another country has to be able to point to a media environment he has no interaction with just so that he can talk about an issue seems incredibly close minded and petty. We both know how to use a translator for a website, this isn't some unreasonable obstacles I am asking you to overcome.

Am I just now allowed to share my perspective on anything, because the only sources I can point to on this specific topic are in my native language? How idiotic is that.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-20 19:06:49+00:00
I’m slightly confuse as to how all this works. Do the GPUs just sit there with the models on them when the models are not in use?

I guess I’d assumed this sort of thing would be allocated dynamically. Of course, there’s a benefit to minimizing the number of times you load a model. But surely if a GPU+model is idle for more than a couple minutes it could be freed?

(I’m not an AI guy, though—actually I’m used to asking SLURM for new nodes with every run I do!)
by mk_stjames | 2025-10-20 19:06:56+00:00
That didn't sound right to me, and so I checked it as follows:

Estimate for a standard classroom globe at 13" in diameter (I'm seeing a rnage of 12-14 inches as typical). I'm reporting in inches because that is what came up first and most of the globes are for sale in the US. Mixing units here, but, it works out.

But, in meters, the diameter of the Earth is 12,742,000 m on average. if we use the 'Karman line' as defining the edge of what the atmosphere is, that is 100,000 meters. Solving for X ... (13" / 12742000 m)=(X / 100,000 m). gives us an atmosphere thickness of approximately 0.1". -----

Paper glued to the globe would have a thickness of maybe, 0.004" (thin paper) to 0.012" (like a card stock paper).... so that analogy is off by an order of magnitude or more.

Even if you use the mesosphere as the definition for the top of the atmosphere, that is still 85,000 meters and thus similar.

People can check the numbers I used.

* Perhaps the analogy should go more like: the thickness of the cardboard sphere the globe is made out of is about the thickness of the atmosphere. Because, having completely destroyed a globe once in my youth, I remember the cardboard shell being approximately a tenth of an inch thick. But, that's maybe not a great reference for the analogy because not everyone has cut apart a classroom globe....
by Hemospectrum | 2025-10-20 19:07:10+00:00
> Servo has been in development for a decade

I was curious how you arrived at that figure so I checked the dates. Servo began in 2012 as a Mozilla skunkworks project, died off in 2020, and was revived in late 2023. If you simply subtract the "dead" period, sure, it doesn't look like it was going anywhere fast, but that's ignoring the multiple major changes in direction and the 5+ years during which Servo development was fully subordinate to Firefox development. It only became a fully independent browser development effort after the project was revived by Igalia.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-20 19:07:26+00:00
Certainly not the formatting you have done manually, because the auto-formatter will likely throw it away. You likely do that, because you care about the consistency of the formatting, not for the formatting already present in the file.

Personally, I don't like auto-formatters. It's like having someone else cleaning up your room. I have put every byte of whitespace where it belongs, I certainly don't want someone else to mess that up.
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-20 19:07:28+00:00
Our actual running instances were pretty much fine throughout, as was the RDS cluster, but we had no way to launch new instances (or auto-scale), and no way to invoke any of the other AWS services (IAM, SQS, Lambda, etc). Also no cloud watch logs/metrics for the duration, so limited visibility.

Overall not that bad for us, but if you had more high-level service dependencies, there would have been impact.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-20 19:07:38+00:00
Generally overstated and repeated by folks with an agenda these days, but yes there were some concerns about cooling particularly one or two steps away from actual research. And there were some periods of slight cooling in the 20th century and in the north atlantic there was the "little ice age" for a few hundred years depending on who you ask.

There wasn't a consensus and science isn't a democracy where the most popular idea wins. Global climate ideas and modeling are very new and if you go back to the 70s or the 20s "consensus" isn't what you're looking for, nobody should have been particularly sure of anything as there wasn't enough information available.
by everforward | 2025-10-20 19:08:26+00:00
They probably could, but then electricity consumption goes up because in a lot of places the temperatures required are below ambient. I'm seeing quotes that place desired water temperature around 80F, which is below ambient temperatures in most of the US at least part of the year.

It takes less energy to get fresh water that's 85F and cool it to 80F than recycle 90F water and cool it to 80F.

Also, I think the only truly "consumed" water is from evaporative coolers. Unless I'm mistaken, they start with potable and end up with warmer potable water. I don't think there's a reason it couldn't be fed into the water grid, where it should cool back down naturally. I guess the problem is when the datacenter requires more water than the rest of the water grid so you end up producing excess potable water.
by cyberax | 2025-10-20 19:08:46+00:00
These are different AWS partitions. They are completely separate from each other, requiring separate accounts and credentials.

There's one for China, one for the AWS government cloud, and there are also various private clouds (like the one hosting the CIA data). You can check their list in the JSON metadata that is used to build the AWS clients (e.g. https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/blob/1a7301b01cbf7e74e4... ).
by gertlex | 2025-10-20 19:08:55+00:00
I wonder how standard this globe size is. My mental one is the one we had at home that was about 15" in diameter I'd guess.

Another comment talks about atmosphere being a 1 mm layer on a grapefruit... so definition of atmosphere extents might be different in these two anecdotes.

(edit: I submitted this comment two minutes after another comment did the math on the globe/paper layer version...)
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-20 19:08:59+00:00
"There is absolutely no reason we have to use increasingly inefficient and poorly-constructed software with steeper and steeper hardware requirements in the decades to come."

The term "we" as used here hopefully means individual, free-thinking computer users, not so-called "tech" companies

If Silicon Valley companies want to use increasingly-inefficient, poorly-constructed, resource-insatiable software, then nothing stops them from doing do

"Forth is not easy. It may not always even be pleasant. But it is certainly simple."

Complex isn't easy, either

That is why (a) "insecurity", unreliability, expense, etc. and (b) complexity generally go hand-in-hand
by cyberax | 2025-10-20 19:09:04+00:00
I had this problem, and I solved it by farming the known-blocking syscalls to a separate thread pool. Then the calling thread can just abandon the wait. To make it a bit better, you can also use bounded timeouts (~1-2 seconds) with retries for some calls like recvfrom() via SO_TIMEOUT so that the termination time becomes bounded.

This is probably the cleanest solution that is portable.
by vasco | 2025-10-20 19:09:18+00:00
> All of AWS operates out of it.

I don't think this is true anymore. In the early days bad enough outages in us-east-1 would bring down everything because some metadata / control pane stuff was there, I remember getting affected while in other regions, but there's been many years since this has happened.

Today for example no issues. I just avoid us-east-1 and everyone else should to. It's their worst region by far in terms of reliability because they launch all the new stuff there and are always messing it up.