MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by messe | 2025-10-27 12:22:46+00:00
Yes, you write inline assembly that saves the frame pointer, stack pointer, and instruction pointer to the stack, and list every other register as a clobber. GCC will know which ones its using at the call-site (assuming the function gets inlined; this is more likely in Zig due to its single unit of compilation model), and save those to the stack. If it doesn't get inlined, it'll be treated as any other C function and only save the ones needed to be preserved by the target ABI.
by com2kid | 2025-10-27 12:23:06+00:00
Git brings different things to different people.

For me the largest advantage of Git was being able to easily switch branches. Previously I'd have to have multiple copies of an entire source repo on my machine if I wanted to work on multiple things at the same time. Likewise a patch set going through CR meant an entire folder on my machine was frozen until I got feed back.

Not having to email complex patches was another huge plus. I was at Microsoft at the time and they had home made scripts (probably Perl or VBS, but I forget what) that applied patches to a repo.

It sucked.

Git branch alone was worth the cost of changing over.
by fuzzy2 | 2025-10-27 12:23:25+00:00
But the "walled garden" on mobile (iOS mostly, but now also Android) isn't really about trusted computing at all. Trusted computing (locked bootloaders) is but a small part of it.

Trusted computing and even remote attestation have legitimate use cases. It's good, great even, that they exist. But just like everything, they can be used against you.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-27 12:23:59+00:00
This kind of thing will always just feel shoddy to me. It is not much work to properly close a tag. The number of bytes saved is negligible, compared to basically any other aspect of a website. Avoiding not needed div spam already would save more. Or for example making sure CSS is not bloated. And of course avoiding downloading 3MB of JS.

What this achieves is making the syntax more irregular and harder to parse. I wish all these tolerances wouldn't exist in HTML5 and browsers simply showed an error, instead of being lenient. It would greatly simplify browser code and HTML spec.
by rpigab | 2025-10-27 12:24:02+00:00
Plus, Epic and Gog work through the third-party launcher "Heroic Game Launcher", for Ubisoft, EA and Blizzard, you can just install their launcher using Steam compatibility, or Lutris, then run games from it.

The major hurdle is games plagued with Windows-only Kernel-level anti cheat software (mostly competitive multiplayer games): https://areweanticheatyet.com/
by candiddevmike | 2025-10-27 12:24:19+00:00
IMO, I don't see how remote hardware attestation avoids being spoofed. Yes, TPM is involved, but the end of the day, it's an API request/response. There are so many ways the request could be spoofed, and the attestation likely requires coordination with hardware vendors that have proven to be Highly Secure TM with the history of secure boot leaks.
by troupo | 2025-10-27 12:24:42+00:00
Every day you can expect 10000 people learning a thing you thought everyone knew: https://xkcd.com/1053/

To quote the alt text: "Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time."
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-27 12:24:44+00:00
I agree by and large with the thrust of what you're saying, but

> wasn't the USA founded by... very religious people?

The USA was founded by a mix of people religiously, but many of them were essentially deists. That is, not outright atheists but the closest thing you could admit publicly at the time. It's true that some of them were Christians, like John Jay. Some of them, like Jefferson, retained some Christian belief but rejected many of the core Christian beliefs. Jefferson even literally cut much of Jesus out of the bible. Most of them were committed to religious freedom, and that freedom successfully became the very first enumerated right in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution. Relative to the standards of the time, I think the USA was founded by remarkably secular people.

You may be thinking of the Puritans who founded an American colony a century before the founding of the USA. They still remained a powerful community locally during the founding, but the founders of the USA (as we normally consider them) were not Puritans.

The secular roots of the country are written into the Constitution, but the country gradually Christianized over the years. For example, adding "In God We Trust" in the 1860s and adopting it as an official motto in the 1950s.

But at any rate, I agree if your point is that (consistent with my point above) widespread social media in a Puritan colony or similar would have been unpleasant. In literature, the Scarlet Letter and the Crucible raise a similar point.
by hexbin010 | 2025-10-27 12:25:02+00:00
As a taxpayer, I can't stomach such acceptance of incompetence and mismanagement and corruption in the UK, personally.

It was a "litany of avoidable failures" as the Hardie report explained.

It does look like a tremendous success now though (not financially though. A double whammy for the taxpayer). The ends justify the means I guess?
by yunruse | 2025-10-27 12:25:09+00:00
"Good deed math" feels like it drives legitimacy from some intrinsic sense of 'goodness', which to my ken looks de-emphasised in Franklin's model. Each act is a deed unto itself: a good deed and a bad deed do not counteract or excuse one another in some cosmic calculus.

The only link is the person -- that their acts inform their thoughts and habits, which informs future acts. In this case "good deed math" is likely a post-hoc rationalisation, predicted by the Franklin model but not exactly encouraged.
by ml-anon | 2025-10-27 12:25:14+00:00
It’s amusing how “ads” is seen as an obvious way to make profit for OAI as if Google’s (especially) and Meta’s ads businesses aren’t some of the most sophisticated machines on the planet.

Three generations of Twitter leadership couldn’t make ads on that platform profitable and that exposes far more useful user specific information than ChatGPT.

The hubris is incredible.
by graynk | 2025-10-27 12:25:15+00:00
Local LLMs I've found to not be good enough for OCR (while being a lot more resource hungry), and OpenAI models I want to avoid for privacy reasons. Default tesseract does the job for me, since my only requirements for the results it "I can easily find what I need with full-text search" - I rarely need to actually copy the text from the resulting PDFs
by xattt | 2025-10-27 12:25:18+00:00
Prince Edward Island had a century-old plan that was finally executed in the 1990s to build a bridge to connect to mainland Canada (1).

This is the same debate that happens each time there’s a fixed connection to an island until the damn thing opens and people grow to love it.

It’s a pain in the arse to have to wait for the ferry, to sync your travel plans to ferry times, only to have to change plans again when the ferries break down.

(1) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-isla...
by fjfaase | 2025-10-27 12:25:48+00:00
I wonder if they also have a strategy for deleting generate tiles, otherwise the infinite is limited to the size of available memory. I also wonder if with their method can exactly recreate tiles that have been deleted. Or in other words, that they have a method for generating unique seeds for all tiles. The paper does not give much technical details. If the seed has a limited size and there is a method for generating seeds for each 2D coordinate, I wonder if it is possible to make a non-repeating infinite world. I think it is not possible with a limited size seed.
by cainxinth | 2025-10-27 12:26:07+00:00
> Write a short article explaining that JPEG XL's genius is its bit-depth-agnostic design, which converts all image data into a perceptually-based floating-point format (XYB) to optimize compression for what the human eye actually sees. In contrast, AVIF is locked into its video-codec legacy, forcing it to use rigid, integer-based bit-depth modes that optimize for numerical precision rather than true perceptual quality.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-27 12:26:09+00:00
> I certainly like to think I have agency

Thats the rub though, it is only the thing we like to believe, not the objective truth.

The libet experiment, and others like it, show us that free will is only a useful fiction, but we must live as though it is not. Which goes a long way towards explaining the seeming contradiction described here.

We must believe the things that it is useful to believe, rather than the things which are true.
by GreenWatermelon | 2025-10-27 12:26:18+00:00
"Keeping your head down" means not doing anything that would cause a government (especially your own) to want to disappear you.

If you vocally oppose your tyrannical government, you won't avoid a bomb on your head. In the best case you'll get a bullet through your head. Worst case, you spend a lifetime in a prison.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-27 12:26:18+00:00
I can't speak for GPUI specifically, but in general for Rust UI toolkits I'm seeing about 10-15mb for an O3 build with LTO enabled and when including things like ICU data, a WGPU-based renderer, SVG rendering support, and a "full fat" async HTTP client. More minimal builds with features disabled and/or Os/Oz can bring that down to more like 5mb.

(obviously you can also take things much higher by building more functionality into your application, but that gives you an idea of the kind of "base size" achievable).
by Suzuran | 2025-10-27 12:26:24+00:00
ITS had no file permissions, but even before PWORD was installed to keep randoms from the network away there were means of keeping the turists out when the system was to be reserved for Real Work. Other parts of the system that were considered sensitive were hidden behind undocumented commands or program-level passwords - For example, the innards of INQUIR, since the INQUIR database determined who was to be excluded and who was not.

There may have been no file permissions, but there was a definite hierarchy of users that was enforced by other (generally more subtle) means.
by TheChaplain | 2025-10-27 12:27:12+00:00
Bit of clarification here, anyone working at Tesla in Sweden are free to join the union, Telsa can not stop them nor terminate them for that.

It is up to the individual.

And even on a individual level you can join a strike if the union wants it, and again Tesla can not do anything about it. Strong labour laws in Sweden.

What the union is trying to do here is make Tesla the company to sign a collective labour agreement.

These agreements are voluntary, and you can ask ChatGPT what all benefits/drawbacks are with them. In any case Tesla doesn't want it but let the it be an individual decision.

Well, by law voluntary, but the unions will force it.
by Moru | 2025-10-27 12:27:29+00:00
Not to mention the functions are also translated to the other language. I think both these are the fault of Excel to be honest. I had this problem long before Google came around.

And it's really irritating when you have the computer read something out to you that contains numbers. 53.1 km reads like you expect but 53,1 km becomes "fifty-three (long pause) one kilometer".
by jaberjaber23 | 2025-10-27 12:27:54+00:00
I was using 4 sometimes 6 different tools just to write CUDA. vs code for coding, nsight for profiling, many custom tools for benchmarking and debugging, plus pen to calc the performance "I was cooked"

So I built code editor for CUDA that does it all:

Profile and benchmark your kernels in real-time while you code

Emulate multi-GPU without the hardware

Get AI optimization suggestions that actually understand your GPU "you can use local llm to cost you 0$"

It's free to use if you use your local LLM :D Still needs a lot of refinement, so feel free to share anything you'd like to see in it
by lupire | 2025-10-27 12:28:10+00:00
In fact FSF specifically exempts special purpose hardware like microwaves from its purview. The philosophy is targeted at software the user has a choice to install. If the hardware provider does not intend the user to choose to install an alternative version of the system software, software freedom doesn't come into play.

https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
by Movah | 2025-10-27 12:28:16+00:00
I wonder if it had anything to do with the empty "alcoholic bottles" being found?

FITNESS FOR DUTY (FFD) EVENT

The following information was provided by the licensee via phone and email:

"On 10/25/25, at approximately 1230 EDT, 3 empty alcohol bottles were found in the protected area by a contract employee. Site security was notified and took possession of the empty bottles which were removed from the protected area. The individual who accidentally brought in the empty alcohol bottles with other non-alcoholic empty bottles was tested for FFD and was negative. This event is reportable in accordance with 10 CFR 26.719(b).

"The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified."
by incomingpain | 2025-10-27 12:28:59+00:00
A "general intelligence" is equivalent to a golden retriever or dolphin. A human general intelligence is a $3/hr minimum wage worker from some undeveloped country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattell%E2%80%93Horn%E2%80%93C...

If a person has all those criteria, they are superintelligent. They are beyond genius.

The AGI definition problem is that everyone keeps conflating AGI with ASI, Artificial Super Intelligence.
by dundercoder | 2025-10-27 12:29:11+00:00
Had a buddy on a nuclear sub drink water from the primary coolant loop when he joined the team.

While I do see this as a form of hazing which I am morally opposed to-

8oz (.237 liters) of primary coolant in a properly maintained pressurized water reactor might contain up to 13mrem of orally ingestible radiation, or approximately the radiation of a chest x-ray. (For comparison you get between 3-8 milirem on a 7 hour transatlantic flight)

Don’t make it your primary source of hydration and you’ll be ok. If the fuel is degraded or there is a leak (unlikely in properly maintained PWRs) the radiation dose is significantly higher.
by perihelions | 2025-10-27 12:29:53+00:00
RFK Jr. directly contributed to this outbreak!

> "Somalia is the first country to apply to Gavi for new funding to give children diphtheria boosters — shots delivered to children in their second year of life, then between 4 and 7 years old and 9 to 15 years old — in areas where the outbreak has seemed most severe."

RFK Jr. was personally responsible for ending US' involvement in Gavi, due to his insane view that the diphtheria vaccine is unsafe:

https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/02/rfk-jr-vaccines-former-c... ("RFK Jr.’s intellectually dishonest excuse for defunding Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance" / "The diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis shot study he cites is fatally flawed")
by vhantz | 2025-10-27 12:30:38+00:00
From the video:

"The most advanced AI is not conscious. It actually has an entirely different basis. It is not alive. It has no body. It has no feelings. It does not participate in some sort of struggle for survival or anything like that. It doesn't actually care about what it's doing.

The point is not really whether it is more or less intelligent than a human being, which people seem to be obsessed with answering. As I've said, it's already superhuman in many ways. In other ways, it can be very very stupid. But they are fundamentally different things. It's an extension to our consciousness that we have made which if used correctly would have tremendous advantages for ourselves, allowing us to save energy and discover new materials. If we had a socialist society it would allow us to plan the economy much better because we could centralize all the data and allow AI to spot patterns.

It is a tremendously powerful thing but it also rather limited and one-sided. But that's not a bad thing. That's not a mistake. We ont want something that's somehow independently conscious, we already have humans for that, and we know how to create new human beings.

There is no magic ingredient to consciousness. There's no mystical property to it that we haven't yet discovered. There's no "perceptronium" out there. No new state of matter that needs to be discovered and understood. It is not a direct product of the soul of some technical wizardry of the brain.

To understand it scientifically we have to grasp the role of consciousness in society. To understand anything you have to be active. You don't understand something by just being passive and having no interest in it. Therefore of course it's no coincidence that the ones who really understand society the best are the ones struggling to change it, who then discover how society really is, without illusions, in other words Marxists, communists. And it's in the struggle to change society that we really become self-conscious as human beings, where we understand what society is without illusions. And when we take control of society in our hands properly as a species, collectively, that is when we will really understand what we are doing and why and adjust our behavior accordingly. So that we may finally live to our full capacities, and not live in this kind of confused and alienated existence that we do under capitalism."
by acidburnNSA | 2025-10-27 12:31:06+00:00
The cruise missile is technically easier than the airplane because you don't need to shield the pilot or crew, which is the really hard part in the air because radiation shielding is heavy.

Project Pluto got quite far along in the US in the 1960s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qMuS5kaDBI
by animal531 | 2025-10-27 12:31:10+00:00
It seems it was mostly to the north all over the Northern Cape, followed by Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

Apparently South Africa was the world's second-largest market-economy producer of asbestos from the 1950s to the 1980s and the largest producer of amosite and crocidolite (I had to google those and it appears among asbestos there are a few different types/lengths of fibers).

The big mines all closed around 1992/98, with a complete cessation of all asbestos mining in 2002/3. I found this scanned document from the University of Cape Town that goes into detail on the discovery, mining and a few epidemics as they called them: https://vula.uct.ac.za/access/content/group/9c29ba04-b1ee-49...

The numbers are crazy, for example in 1931 mill workers (in a sample of 100) only 14% had more than 5 years of service (the single longest having been there for 9 years). "Yet every worker experienced a cough productive of mucoid sputum, 72% suffered dyspnea on exertion and 47% reported loss of weight".

In less than 1 year 36% showed early signs, 9% advanced signs, 45% any abnormal sign. In 3 years that went up to 55%, 24% and 79% respectively; and by 5-9 years 36%, 64% and 100%.
by mpweiher | 2025-10-27 12:31:24+00:00
Once again: source? Mycle Schneider by any chance?

Anyway: those numbers are not "reactors likely reaching EOL". Those are reactors reaching the end of their original operating license.

These two things are not the same. At all.

Initial operating licenses were intentionally relatively short, because at the time there was no experience with the longevity of reactors. So you conservatively license towards the short end.

Now that we have that experience, reactor operating licenses are getting extended. A lot. The first reactors in the US have had their licenses extended to 80 years, and the current consensus appears to be that 100 won't be a problem.

So France won't be running low on nuclear power anytime soon. Unless you're Mycle Schneider and/or confuse "current operating license expiry" with "EOL".
by dc396 | 2025-10-27 12:32:23+00:00
Never experienced the 15 second wait for an unlock myself -- sounds like something has to time out for you before unlocking, e.g., some network thing.

As for the UI, meh -- I suppose it's personal taste. I could take it or leave it, but I wish they'd focus on substance over form, i.e., addressing bugs and fixing functionality (e.g., Mail's search remains useless, particularly compared to something like infoclick) instead of gratuitous appearance changes that no one asks for.

But form over substance seems the norm in our industry (see e.g., Windows 11)
by haunter | 2025-10-27 12:32:24+00:00
>You are how you act

"Four Silicon Valley executives have been recruited into a specialist tech-focused unit of the US Army Reserves in a bid to “bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and make the armed forces “more lethal”."

" Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, the CTO of Meta – will “work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems”." [0]

0, https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366626673/Silicon-Valley...

He is actively making the world worst for all of us, so sorry not sorry for not having any sympathy at all.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-27 12:32:30+00:00
I don't think GPUI has it integrated yet, but Dioxus's Subsecond tool [0] implements binary hot-patching for Rust apps which can help alieviate this problem.

The other thing you can do (which is popular in the Bevy community) is to compiile the "core runtime" into dynamic library. Then you don't need to recompile that set of crates for incremental builds.

[0]: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/tree/main/packages/subs...
by mrweasel | 2025-10-27 12:33:15+00:00
There's an absolutely massive disconnect between the technology Sam Altman is presenting in interviews and what is available. Like they're going to create an AI that will design fusion power plants, but right now they can't turn a profit on a technology that millions of people actually use in their day to day work? Can you sell enough ads to carry you through to the fusion capable AI?

More and more OpenAI is drawing parallels to the Danish scandal of IT Factory. Self-proclaimed world leading innovation and technology in the front, financial sorcery in the back.
by teunispeters | 2025-10-27 12:33:15+00:00
Partially competition, as a couple of provinces have large car manufacturing. (Ontario and Quebec, mostly). Partially that there's no repair or maintenance infrastructure, nor guarantee a car will keep functioning if (say) the manufacturer shuts down or a model gets discontinued.

As to how much of which, that's a good question, and not one I've seen any answers to.
by tim333 | 2025-10-27 12:33:32+00:00
I muck about on HN and get ~80% of my video content on youtube. I think it's great overall. The rest ~5% twitter, 0% TV although I have one sitting switched off with a £174 bbc fee. 5% pirated maybe.

If you go with the official HN guide of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" and avoid "stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities" then youtube is much better - watching Hinton explain AI and neural networks at the mo. https://youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk and https://youtu.be/IkdziSLYzHw which is kind of interesting.
by zukzuk | 2025-10-27 12:33:34+00:00
The Canadian and American automotive industry was (until very recently) tightly integrated. 1 in 10 American cars were made in Canada, with parts going back and forth across the border sometimes multiple times in the assembly chain. The automotive sector is also a significant portion of Ontario’s GDP.

So a lot of incentive for Canada to side with America on this. But Trump blew up that relationship, and this is the consequence.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-27 12:33:48+00:00
That seems to be either an oversimplified take on the FSF's position, or argument in bad faith. The FSF wants people to be able to run free software for all purposes, as they fight for user freedoms. If said free software cannot be used, because of all kinds of vendors limiting their services to proprietary software or platforms, then this should be a major concern to the FSF, because their advocated kind of software is being sabotaged.