MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zerof1l | 2025-10-13 10:41:49+00:00
Germany desperately needs a wake-up call in the form of recession. German car industry has been non-competitive for multiple years now. Instead of letting it fail, the government kept on flushing money down the toilet and prolonging the inevitable.

For a business, there's no incentive anymore to choose Germany over other EU countries. Cheap energy is gone. Germany is literally collapsing under its own weight: endless bureaucratic structures that just keep on growing.
by vintermann | 2025-10-13 10:42:03+00:00
As opposed to the Epic MUMPS pile?

Epic has been sold in in Denmark and Finland, where it was a disaster, and then in Norway, where they failed to take lessons from the disasters. I don't think it's federal requirements which is the selling point there, though I wonder what the hell the selling point is, or what the Epic sales people put in acquirers' coffee.
by jansan | 2025-10-13 10:42:10+00:00
Keep in mind that the ICE market is still huge. Even in China 50% of new cars are still ICEs, 30% are Plugin Hybrids and only 20% are BEVs. On the EV market, especially in China, there is a brutal price war going on, with falling profits even for giants like BYD, so trying to milk the ICE market for a little more could give German car makers some air while trying to catch up (which they do if you look at the new Mercedes and BMW models).

Porsche (having the same CEO as Volkswagen) went all-in with EVs too early with offering their bread-and-butter model "Macan" as an EV exclusively, and they had to find out that it's not what their customers what at the moment, so they are currently trying to backpaddle.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-13 10:43:09+00:00
This goes far to explain a lot of Chinese room situations. We have an intuition for the way something is. That intuition is an unshakeable belief, because it is something that we feel directly. We know what it feels like to understand Chinese (or French, or English, or whatever), and that little homunculus shuffling papers around doesn't feel like it.

Hopefully we have all experienced what genuine inspiration feels like, and we all know that experience. It sure as hell doesn't feel like a massively parallel search algorithm. If anything it probably feels like a bolt of lightning, out of the blue. But here's the thing. If the conscious loop inside your brain is something like the prefrontal cortex, which integrates and controls deeper processing systems outside of conscious reach, then that is exactly what we should expect a search algorithm to feel like. You -- that strange conscious loop I am talking to -- are doing the mapping (framing the problem) and the reducing (recognizing the solution), but not the actual function application and lower level analysis that generated candidate solutions. It feels like something out of the blue, hardly sought for, which fits all the search requirements. Genuine inspiration.

But that's just what it feels like from the inside, to be that recognizing agent that is merely responding to data being fed up to it from the mess of neural connections we call the brain.

You can take this insight a step further, and recognize that many of the things that seem intuitively "obvious" are actually artifacts of how our thinking brains are constructed. The Chinese room and the above comment about inspiration are only examples.

I cannot emphasize enough how much I dislike linking to LessWrong, and to Yudkowsky in particular, but I first picked up on this from an article there, and credit should be given where credit is due: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yA4gF5KrboK2m2Xu7/how-an-alg...
by kijin | 2025-10-13 10:44:02+00:00
There are records from every country around Korea, throughout recorded history, that Koreans eat a lot.

There are also statements that Irish farmers ate 14 pounds of potatoes, English peasants ate 4 pounds of bread, and that Japanese samurai ate 4 pounds of rice a day.

All of these statements were made from the point of view of aristocrats who had rich foods, as they looked down upon commoners who had nothing but plain starch to fill their caloric budgets with.

So I think that a large part of this stereotype has to do with the fact that Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world until very recently. In China, even commoners had access to delicious 9-Calories-per-gram cooking oil since the Song dynasty. In Japan, sushi as we know it appeared in the Edo period and became the fast food of choice for urban laborers. Meanwhile, Korean society remained almost exclusively agricultural until Western visitors arrived to take photos of their massive rice bowls. Same caloric content, just more voluminous.

There are also issues of measurement that were lost in translation. The report that Korean soldiers ate 3 times as much rice as the Japanese? True, Koreans ate 7 cups of rice, while the Japanese ate 2 cups. But the Japanese measuring cup was 3 times as large as the old Korean cup (hob). The much more reasonable 7:6 ratio can probably be explained by the fact that Koreans had the home advantage at the time of the war, or that Koreans are taller than the Japanese on average. And yes, the obesity rate is also higher in Korea, despite the fact that Japan has enjoyed a modern lifestyle for much longer.
by kukanani | 2025-10-13 10:44:11+00:00
Are you perhaps thinking of torch.matmul? torch.mul (and torch.multiply, and the * operator) perform element-wise multiplication.

torch.matmul was one of the first functions I implemented on WhyTorch and it uses and highlights rows and columns as you would expect.

I’d love to hear any feedback or outcomes from your training session, please feel free to reach out - email in profile.
by adwn | 2025-10-13 10:45:46+00:00
Whenever you hear a German entrepreneur talk about the biggest obstacles they have and are facing, it's never crumbling infrastructure or slow internet. The number one complaint is always excessive bureaucracy and crippling regulations.

> Slow internet access and slow build out of fiber network

We don't have dial-up anymore. High-speed access is not a problem for commercial and industrial sites, and rarely a problem for remote work in residential areas. Despite what some commentators like to imply, you don't need 1 Gbit/s for productive work. 100 Mbit/s is usually fast enough, and if your browsing experience is still slow, it's most likely caused by round-trip delay, not bandwidth.

> low wages in European comparison

That would actually help commercial output and competitive position, not lower it.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-10-13 10:45:49+00:00
Export markets for European cars are cratering. The Chinese and Koreans are taking over with really decent, affordable EVs. And while the likes of VW are producing good EVs, it's at the cost of their ICE vehicles and those losses aren't offset by their EV sales.

In general the ICE car market is not just car manufacturers but many thousands of companies all over the place that make parts and components. Quite a few of those are becoming redundant and quite a few more are facing stiff competition from abroad. Anything to do with components for petrol or diesel engines is going to face year on year declines.

What's currently happening in the market is price parity before incentives, before considering benefits from lower maintenance, and before considering benefits from lower energy cost. An EV is simply becoming the cheaper vehicle to buy. And with all that included, EVs are far cheaper overall. That's not a trend that's ever going to revert. It's only going to get worse and it's going to have some obvious effects.

A lot of this applies to US car manufacturers as well BTW. The current tariffs are distorting the market dynamics. But that's unlikely to last very long. GM and Ford will need to keep up internationally if they want to stay relevant in foreign markets.

Germany is merely ripping off the band-aid right now (or having it ripped off for them). Short term disruptive but it needs to happen at some point.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-10-13 10:47:03+00:00
A fourth reason that is overlooked is that rubber component prices (if you don't import from Asia) have almost doubled in the Eurozone since 2019. I haven't worked in a company whose products use many rubber components in their supply chain since late 2024 but a single seal, gasket or vibration absorber with a single coating of a wear or friction modifying polymer could have had quoted prices rise from 11,000€ per batch to the neighbourhood of 18,000-20,000€. Smaller price rises have also hit non-imported thermoplastics, fiberglass and plastic textiles, presumably because of structural component lead time and cash flow issues in petrochemicals as a whole.

The German industrial sector might be shy at importing most of their parts from Asian developing countries and China in order to keep friendly relations with their domestic supply chain, keep friendly relations with their domestic political system, reduce IP cloning and keep some semblance of national pride, all of which combine to impact their prices. Also, there may be legal or tax requirements about domestic or EU component origin percentages, but I wouldn't know, since my business was in medical appliances.
by wartijn_ | 2025-10-13 10:47:18+00:00
It has a Mediatek soc, custom roms for these chips are scarce. If you look at the supported devices on the Lineage wiki, you’ll see only 2 out of 550 devices have a Mediatek soc[0], most of them are Qualcomm.

And iirc from the xda forums, even for Xiaomi phones with a Qualcomm soc it isn’t certain anyone will try to make a custom rom. Xiaomi just releases too many devices to have support for all of them.

[0] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
by Scarblac | 2025-10-13 10:48:05+00:00
I just don't see why any of your comment is relevant to the situation today, after Putin has been in power for 25 years. If something has a pro-Putin bias nowadays, that's a right wing bias, because he's clearly part of the right wing.

I don't think he was ever a communist. Soviet Russia was a single party state, so people with ambitions had to join it.

I don't know much about Maduro or Thunberg and don't see why they're relevant.
by imtringued | 2025-10-13 10:50:15+00:00
Most of the performance gains also came from smaller datatypes such as fp4. Going from bfloat16/fp16 to fp8 is easy. fp4 is challenging but possible. fp2 can't exist independently, because it is just the sign bit plus a single bit.

The next frontier would be training directly with block floating point, where you have a shared exponent plus the two remaining bits. It's getting tight.

Maybe it is possible to have mini LoRA blocks where an n times n block is approximated by the outer product of two n sized vectors. For n = 4 the savings would be 50% less FLOPs and for n=8 the savings would be 75% less FLOPs.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-13 10:50:37+00:00
There is a massive difference between chemical processes, like fire, and computational processes, which thinking likely is. A computer can absolutely be made to interact with the world in a way that assigns real physical meaning to the symbols it manipulates, a meaning entirely independent of any conscious being. For example, the computer that powers an automatic door has a clear meaning for its symbols intrinsic in its construction.

Saying that the symbols in the computer don't mean anything, that it is only we who give them meaning, presupposes a notion of meaning as something that only human beings and some things similar to us possess. It is an entirely circular argument, similarly to the notion of p-zombies or the experience of seizing red thought experiment.

If indeed the brain is a biological computer, and if our mind, our thinking, is a computation carried out by this computer, with self-modeling abilities we call "qualia" and "consciousness", then none of these arguments hold. I fully admit that this is not at all an established fact, and we may still find out that our thinking is actually non-computational - though it is hard to imagine how that could be.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-13 10:50:41+00:00
> I saw the phantom menace when I was 12 and hated it. I was a massive Star Wars fan. I've seen nothing from Star Wars since

Too bad; after seeing the recent Disney mary-sue-iffied, everyone-carries-the-stupid-ball, hey-look-new-big-bad-with-no-explanation-of-where-he-came-from movies, my estimation of the prequels went up by a considerable amount.

In light of the newer movies, those prequels are actually very very good; a very mature take that approached mature themes ("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause", and many more I can't think off right now).

Maybe your 12yo mind was not sufficiently mature enough[1], but your middle-aged mind might be - you should seem them again.

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[1] Hell, I saw them in my mid-20s, and even then I was not mature enough to appreciate the subtext and themes. When I saw them again recently in my mid-40s, I was much more aware of things in the world, especially how impressionable Annakin was, because now that I am older I see how actual adults are easily impressionable at that age (mid-20s).
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-13 10:51:18+00:00
Germany (and the EU generally) import 98% of their oil-derived products..

Before sanctions the leading import source was Russia.

EVs could have helped a lot more as China has demonstrated but people like the brum-brum noise and all the right-wing parties with mysterious ties to Russia and other fossil fuel producers didn't think they'd work for some reason.
by tamnd | 2025-10-13 10:51:22+00:00
For clarification, I meant the Algorithms, 4th Edition book at https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/ which is entirely in Java. All the example code, libraries, and exercises there use Java, and the authors explicitly note that the book is written for that language.

However, you are right, Prof. Sedgewick has long maintained versions of his material across multiple languages. I remember that the third edition has C, C++ and Java versions.
by geob01 | 2025-10-13 10:51:44+00:00
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by geob01 | 2025-10-13 10:51:54+00:00
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by 4gotunameagain | 2025-10-13 10:51:57+00:00
> Straw man.

Nope. Challenge to presuppositions. The argument would be valid only if Ukraine was a threat of a "working democracy"

> Yes. Literally how alliances have worked since the Bronze Age.

Since we are now past the Bronze age could you give me a contemporary example of a small country close to the US that is practically independent and is not meddled with ?

> Moscow is ruled by idiots.

Putin might be a power hungry lunatic — like most leaders — but there is one thing that he certainly isn't, an idiot. Neither is Lavrov.
by djoldman | 2025-10-13 10:52:21+00:00
I think other responses here may miss an important line of thought.

There seems to be confusion around the differences between bug and correct.

In the referenced study on binary searches, the Google researchers stated that most implementations had bugs AND were "broken" because they did:

int mid =(low + high) / 2;

And low + high can overflow.

Ostensibly, a proof may require mid to be positive at all times and therefore be invalid because of overflow.

The question is: if we put in assertions everywhere that guarantee correct output, where aborting on overflow is considered correct, then are folks going to say that's correct, or are they going to say oh that's not what binary search is so you haven't implemented it?

EDIT: thinking about it more, it seems that null must be an accepted output of any program due to the impossibility of representing very large numbers.
by wewxjfq | 2025-10-13 10:52:47+00:00
There was de facto no investment into nuclear energy across all countries since the early 80s and it's beyond tiring to see online commenters adamantly trying to blame that on a scheming cabal of Green politicians, when Green parties never got beyond 10% of the vote in the elections. Yes, Germany prohibited the ban of new reactors in the earyl 2000s, but the truth is no one wanted to build them anyway and hadn't for a long time. Under the Schröder government, only two or three reactors were shut down and they were the oldest, had a meager output and weren't even profitable anymore. And the only way Russia influenced that was by mishandling Chernobyl. It's laughable to claim a country whose only high-technology export is nuclear technology is pushing others to abandon it.
by easyThrowaway | 2025-10-13 10:53:19+00:00
Did Arduino have any patents that were in some way useful to Qualcomm?

I can't think of any other reasons for them to be interested in a retail-facing company, with mostly educational products, like Arduino.

Honestly that's so far way from their usual stuff I'm expecting to find an "Our Incredible Arduino journey" blog post in a few years from now.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-10-13 10:53:48+00:00
> Even if we assume, for the sake of argument, that Ukraine "was flirting with NATO". Why does that justify an invasion? Why do you think Ukraine or NATO or the US are at fault here?

Read up on Cuban missile crisis, it might provide some context.

No superpower has the right to impose its will on its neighbours, yet here we are : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-10-13 10:54:04+00:00
I know this isn't the place to chime in with a conversation about economics, but when has that stopped me before? I read Mokyr's book, A Culture of Growth [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/964805224 ]] a couple years ago and enjoyed it. I had a few nits about the content, but then again, I'm not a Nobel Prize winning economist, so maybe I should keep my mouth shut about that. If you're interested in either history or economics, you should put it on the list of books to consider reading. If you're interested in both, you probably should read it. But... I can also recommend von Hipple's Innovation series: [[ https://evhippel.mit.edu/books/ ]]. And for the beginnings of a contrasting view to the "yeehaa! growth!" mindset from the timeframe covered by Mokyr's book, I would recommend Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful." [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1239792692 ]] To be honest, except for two chapters, I found the writing a little uninspired. But it's worth a read as it introduces concepts you hear from "post industrial" types (thinking of the Slow Food and Slow Money movements.) I have a to-do item to write a book about the "Slow Code" movement, but the industry probably doesn't need help with that. I haven't read Aghion's Endogenous Growth Theory [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1027693933 ]], but worldcat tells me it's at my local academic library, so I may have to give it a go.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-13 10:54:17+00:00
> They don’t operate like ants in a direct sense, etymology or logic, they operate like ants when it’s convenient for the world of Alien.

Sure, but this movie is aimed at a general audience, who don't have an exact understanding about ant society.

It's more important for the movie to conform to what the audience thinks ants are like than to conform to what ants actually are like.
by antonvs | 2025-10-13 10:55:05+00:00
Looking at immigration and refugee numbers around the world, more people take it as an option than you might imagine.

For many of those that don't, that's a choice. Keep in mind that emigrating doesn't necessarily mean adhering to all the bureaucratic procedures involved, all the time.

I lived in my home country and then Botswana for nearly 30 years. I've been in the US for over 30 years. I don't anticipate many more moves.
by kome | 2025-10-13 10:55:15+00:00
"TBF, at the time, I also fell to the propaganda of Merkel being the best and smartest stateswoman ever."

to be honest, this is what enrages me. I feel like I was in a madhouse; the mass media were pushing an image of Merkel as the only adult in the room and the patron saint of liberalism.

I saw, live, how she mismanaged the Eurocrisis, turning a banking crisis into a humanitarian crisis, and how her reaction to the invasion of Crimea was meek.

but if you dared to say something about this, you were seen as a dangerous communist or worse.

I hated her flawed politics for 15 years. But now, surprisingly, I kind of miss her. not because she was good; she was terrible as i said, but the new leadership, especially in Germany, is far worse: Friedrich Merz is a zero, and von der Leyen seems utterly retarded, and i don't mean it in a mocking way, but literally: they are always choosing the worst option for Europe at every step.

dark clouds over europe... but mostly, of our own making.
by danabramov | 2025-10-13 10:55:21+00:00
The way I think about it, ingesting a stream of records from an arbitrary server is not any different to ingesting a series of <form> POST requests from someone’s computer. It doesn’t make moderation different.

Moderation in AT is layered. Hosting servers do their own moderation but it’s very minimal (just trying to catch illegal content early). Relay operators also have levers to stop broadcasting from specific nodes if they’re problematic (but again, this is reserved for either extreme illegal content or for network abuse). Most of what you’d think as moderation happens at the app server level, which is the same as in non-AT apps. The app server can easily choose to not serve a certain user’s posts even if they exist upstream at their hosting.

One wrinkle is that AT goes a step further and extracts moderation primitives (“labelers”) as a separate thing — for example, you can ingest Bluesky’s moderation decisions from a separate service (and the Bluesky app server listens to the same service). This makes moderation composable, and also lets someone make a fork of Bluesky that “listens” to a different moderation authority.
by therealfigtree | 2025-10-13 10:55:23+00:00
> I'm beyond saddened that they are wasting my hard-earned money in this

Lol, What do you mean your hard-earned money ? You already spent your money. It is their money now. Consumer != Investor.

Your equivalent is someone going to their local grocery store and asking them to sell stop selling Avocados because they are allergic.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-13 10:55:27+00:00
I don't see how his views can be made sense of without dualism. He believed very much in this concept of qualia as some special property, and in the logical coherence of the concept of p-zombies, beings that would exactly like a conscious being but without having qualia. This simply makes no sense unless you believe that consciousness is a non-physical property, one that the physical world acts upon but which can't itself act back upon it (as otherwise, there would obviously have to be some kind of meaningful physical difference between the being that possesses it and the being that doesn't).