MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kragen | 2025-10-28 22:36:33+00:00
Maybe so; I haven't tried. Probably a lot less code depends on unsigned long wrapping at 2⁶⁴ than used to depend on unsigned int wrapping at 2¹⁶, and we got past that. But stability standards were lower then. Any code that runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit LP64 systems can't be too dependent on the exact sizeof long, and sizeof long already isn't sizeof int the way it was on 32-bit platforms.
by skissane | 2025-10-28 22:36:56+00:00
I think a very useful term here is Broad Autism Phenotype (BAP) - subclinical ASD - you have significantly more of the traits than the average person does, but they are not strong enough or not disabling enough to merit a clinical diagnosis of ASD.

BAP is very common among (1) STEM professionals, (2) close blood relatives of people with clinical ASD (if you have a child or sibling with an ASD diagnosis, then if you yourself don’t have ASD, odds are high you have some degree of BAP), (3) people with other psychiatric diagnoses (especially those known to have a lot of overlap with ASD, e.g. ADHD, personality disorders, PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, the schizophrenia spectrum), (4) certain LGBT subgroups (especially transgender people) - all of whom have heightened odds not just of having BAP / subclinical ASD, but clinical ASD too

Like ASD, BAP skews male, but women can have it too. (The average man is a little bit more autistic than the average woman.) Also, autistic traits are positively correlated between romantic partners, so a woman in a relationship with a man with BAP or ASD is more likely to have some degree of BAP herself (as well as being more likely to have clinical ASD)

BAP itself is a matter of degree… autistic traits is a continuum and we are all somewhere on it (actually a one-dimensional continuum is a simplification, it is a multidimensional construct-but a useful simplification) - and clinicians draw a line at some point (they don’t all draw it at the same place, and its location varies across time and space and culture and even clinical subcultures) and if you are on one side of that line you have clinical ASD, if you are on the other you don’t-if you are on the non-clinical side of the line, but nearing it, you have BAP… but “nearing” it subdivides into people who are closer and people who are further away
by lexszero_ | 2025-10-28 22:36:59+00:00
For a short while, I worked at one of Samsung subsidiaries on their TV firmware, mostly fixing Linux kernel bugs introduced by the product teams cannibalizing upstream features to serve their needs (including intentionally disabling reasonable kernel security measures that happened to be in their way). I've seen things, both technical and organizational, that led me to pledge never to give my money to that company, or have their devices connected to networks I care about. I don't trust any of it, if not due to evil intent, but just incompetence.
by stephen_g | 2025-10-28 22:37:02+00:00
I’m glad to have avoided it - when I moved from sharing with room-mates into my own place and had to buy new appliances, there had just been a spate of Samsung appliances literally randomly catching fire in the news. Those models have all been recalled but it put me right off.

Otherwise I might have considered them but steered well clear, and am very happy with the decision a decade later. Went Bosch for the washer and Electrolux for the fridge, had zero issues.
by bleomycin | 2025-10-28 22:37:06+00:00
Not quite accurate as a blanket statement. Munro did a very detailed tear down series of a sub zero refrigerator that’s very interesting. Youtube link: https://youtu.be/KAYj6m9QtDU

I wish more content like this existed. It’s the only type of review that is worth paying attention to.

Long story short if you live in an energy market like california the energy savings of the sub zero will likely offsets its additions cost over the lifetime of the unit.
by jakebasile | 2025-10-28 22:37:38+00:00
I'm never going back. If something changes and the only option is Windows or consoles I'll just stop buying new games or take up another hobby.

Being able to use sane scripting to solve problems, ZFS snapshots to undo bad mod installs, using the same system for development, and so on is no longer something I'm willing to give up. I've also started amassing a small collection of Cloud Init configs that set up game servers inside LXD containers. Some of these have native Linux binaries but a few only have Windows servers. They run perfectly well through Wine.

Anyone here even vaguely interested, I encourage you to just try it. I use Ubuntu and it works great on both AMD and Nvidia cards for me. What have you got to lose?
by whatever1 | 2025-10-28 22:37:57+00:00
Hi, people are not widgets.

They take huge personal, family and financial risks to move for a job. When you are getting rid en-masse people, you are ruining local communities. There is a real societal cost.

It also sucks for businesses, because hiring & onboarding is so freaking hard and expensive. Not to mention that once the company has established a reputation of a revolving door, then nobody gives a shit about it. They will exploit it for the short term and let it die.

Layoffs should the absolute last resort for a company due to the disruption they cause. If the market dynamics do not naturally lead to this, then regulation should shape the field.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-28 22:37:59+00:00
Iunno, I'm willing to give Trump a fair shake but none of those descriptors seem particularly wrong to me. Trump runs on quid-pro-quo politics, for better and worse.

It stands to reason that the most blatantly-corrupt people in America are now in a race to the bottom to buy out their pardon and negotiate protectionist foreign policy.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-10-28 22:38:10+00:00
The counterargument is simple - it works in other countries.

Other countries have healthcare systems that don't generate medical bankruptcies, and don't put a slaver's chain around the necks of employees who risk financial destruction if they have to give up an employer-funded plan.

You're essentially arguing that 500k medical bankruptcies every single year, out of a population of 340 million, is a small price to pay for an imaginary financial benefit that you're convinced exists, for some loosely defined demographic, but which you've failed to quantify.

This is, very specifically, the problem that destroys your argument.

Some people in the US are better off until they aren't.

One serious medical crisis - like an extended bout with cancer - is enough to wipe out the benefits, and leave people who used to be prosperous out on the streets.

Literally. Not as an exaggeration, not as rhetoric, but as a cold, hard reality that affects half a million people every year.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 22:39:08+00:00
> Include instructions for carrying out the functional method which are accessible and easily usable by a non-technical individual

Good luck for anyone to claim this bounty if that's one of the requirements. Does the fridge have any exposed ports at all that the average person could access without removing anything from the fridge?

It's also not clear in the bounty, if I add funds to the campaign and it gets fully funded, does that mean that software/hack will be released publicly? Or only to "backers"? It's not clear what the donation goes to, besides for the person who makes the hack to claim.
by spacechild1 | 2025-10-28 22:39:15+00:00
There's another aspect: In my country, hospitals and (public) health insurance are both operated by the state and work together. If I break my arm, I go to the hospital, show my e-card and that's it. All the financials are directly handled between hospital and the (public) insurance provider. I don't have to worry about cost of treatment because I know it will be fully covered.
by scblock | 2025-10-28 22:39:45+00:00
Definitely GPS. Other methods have been used in the past--I remember reading operating reports from a wind farm nearly 20 years ago that slowly brought all its lights in line with each other over several months--but these days you can buy mainstream lighting with the GNSS receiver built in from a number of suppliers. They make it easy.

For wind farm use most also have an external input for ADLS triggers, though that usually also requires a separate controller and communications connection to manage the ADLS signals.

The flashing red lights are L-864 type. The requirements are 20 to 40 flashes per minute (FPM), and typically 30 FPM is used.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-10-28 22:39:50+00:00
I shudder to think when insurance companies use AI to counteract customers using AI to navigate through their system. They'll eventually catch up, and people who don't use any kind of AI will be disadvantaged.

That is, until someone sells them a turnkey AI service to do insurance claims... and decides to play both teams so resolutions come back at pre-AI levels, and the free market(TM) is happy because a new equilibrium has been reached.

Maybe I just need more sleep.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-28 22:39:59+00:00
> They can describe what they want in natural language ("show me all active users who registerd this year"), but translating that into correct, optimized sql requires at least familiarity, and sometimes expertise

They can describe what they want in natural language only if they have sufficient familiarity and expertise.

If you think that being fluent in a language means you can ask clear and coherent questions in that language, I'd like to invite you to a couple of MS Teams calls this week.
by thatfrenchguy | 2025-10-28 22:40:00+00:00
Add a French and American person, in the US you hear "insurance did not approve", in France it's more "you can't get an appointment / the surgery provider does not have any spots unless you go to their spots in their private hospital".

The French system is more predictable (because any vaguely sane healthcare system has a price for a code instead of negotiated rates, negotiated rates is the most inefficient way to run this market) & you can get cost estimates though. And in both countries, if you live in a small town in both systems, the healthcare you will receive will suck.
by shepherdjerred | 2025-10-28 22:40:02+00:00
Hi all!

I wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past couple of years. It's a Discord app that posts League of Legends match summaries.

I made this since many of my friends play LoL, and it's nice to watch them climb the ranks.

Over the past few months I've been polishing it up so that it can be used by anyone. I've also been adding new features so that server owners can run friendly competitions. As an example, a while ago my friends and I wanted to see who could gain the most ELO/LP, with a small prize.

A lot of the work I've done recently was with the help of AI. It's amazing how much I've been able to accomplish with Cursor. It's been very useful to make mistakes with this project so that I can both work on more interesting features, and so that I can apply what I learn to my dayjob.

Hope it's of use to someone!
by kgwxd | 2025-10-28 22:40:21+00:00
Is this to scan your own MCP servers? Does using someone else's MCP server put you at risk?

I didn't even know want an MCP server was until I noticed the annoying category in VSCode Extensions panel today. Only able to get rid of it by turning off a broad AI related flag in settings (fine by me, wish I knew it was there earlier). An hour later, I'm seeing this.
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-28 22:41:05+00:00
I bought a Samsung phone back in like 2014, and shortly after bought smartwatch to pair with it. A year later, Samsung released an update that removed the pairing functionality so my smartwatch could no longer pair. They did this in conjunction with releasing their own smartwatch and some proprietary pairing protocol.

I'm not a fan of vendor lock in, but their decision to retroactively remove functionality that I was depending on led me to never buy another Samsung product since.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-28 22:41:30+00:00
Taste is real and a question of subjective alignment with objective reality. Hence, we can speak of the objectivity of beauty, but the bad taste of an person. That is only possible if both exist and an misalignment exists between them.

Whether the author knows what he's talking about is another matter.

And that font of his could use a few treatments from the taste bat.
by daurentius523 | 2025-10-28 22:41:46+00:00
"one particular set of contributors' political sensibilities." - the entire western world is now particular sets of political and ideological sensibilities. Why puritan christians always assume that theirs is somehow different of others and won't be subject to new puritanism?

"Read the comments and you'll see their tone is clearly dismissive and condescending" - you think that way because you are biased to classify your religious text as not nsfw - but there is no such reason really - christianity is no longer main ideology of everyone.
by jdeibele | 2025-10-28 22:42:18+00:00
I'm not sure about that. The issue that I'm having is that if I could spend $10,000 and not have fridge issues for 10, 15, 20 years I might be tempted.

The problem is that there might be problems with the equipment or problems caused by the installer.

A few years ago, we ended up replacing a Sub-Zero fridge (27 years old) with another one because the repair bills were mounting. Because of the way the previous owner did the kitchen, using any other kind of fridge other than the 2' deep, 7' high kind would have involved remodeling. It wasn't quite $10k but it was close.

At our new house, we had a repairman fix the ice maker in our current fridge. It's 17 years old and could have come off the floor at Best Buy or Home Depot (NOT a Sub-Zero, in other words) but he recommended keeping it until it failed because the quality of current appliances is not as good.

Our water heater is going to need to be replaced because it's 17 years old and showing signs that it's getting too old. I want a heat pump water heater because the gas water heater is the only gas-powered appliance we have. Trying to assess reviews of heat pump water heaters and of the local plumbing companies is not fun.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-28 22:42:21+00:00
So think about why it was naive and iterate/pivot to not be naive. Having ideas shot down is part of the process. Just like an actor being told no for more often than yes. Those that can't take rejection don't fare well. But being told no isn't a person slight to be taken as don't ever offer suggestions again. It's just that suggestion isn't the one. If you work for someone that does mean never again, work some where else as soon as possible. Some ideas are just bad for the purpose. Some just need more work.
by simoncion | 2025-10-28 22:43:10+00:00
> * I will note that the 10gb sfp+ modules from 10gtek on a Mikrotik just don't work.

Weird. For the past three years, I've had 10Gtek 10gbit SFP+ optical modules in all of my Mikrotik switches [0] and they Just Work.

My switches are the CRS326-24G-2S+, and the SFPs were the "generic" versions. I wonder why yours were so troublesome.

[0] ...and (after fixing their eeproms) my Intel x520 NICs...
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 22:43:21+00:00
They in fact differ wildly between students and between colleges! UIC and NIU are commuter universities where students generally don't live on campus. Students at UIUC live in campus-provided housing for their first year, but not generally for subsequent years. Everybody, whether they're in school or not, pays for housing. So no, the cost comparison you're offering here is not very useful.

Shortly later

I also think you might have to ask around to find a student paying full price for books.
by mdasen | 2025-10-28 22:43:24+00:00
Yea, this is how I feel too. I've been hoping that Intel would turn itself around, but Intel has failed at its roadmap over the past few years. Intel canceled 20A and 18A is delayed. It had looked like Intel would leapfrog TSMC, but that didn't come to fruition.

I hope that Intel does well in the future. It's better for us all if more than one company can push the boundaries on fabrication.

I also remember the days when the shoe was on the other foot. Motorola or IBM was going to put out a processor that would decimate Intel - it was always a year away. Meanwhile, Intel kept pushing the P6 architecture (Pentium Pro to Pentium 3) and then NetBurst (Pentium 4) and then Core. Apple keeps improving its M-series processors and single-core speed is up 80% since the M1 and 25% faster than the fastest desktop processor from AMD and 31% faster than the fastest desktop processor from Intel.

I'd love for Panther Lake to be amazing. It will put pressure on Apple to offer better performance for my dollar. Some of performance is how much CPU a company is willing to give me at a price point and what margins they'll accept. If an amazing Panther Lake pushes Apple to offer more cores at a cheaper price, that's a win for Apple users. If an amazing Panther Lake pushes Apple to offer 2nm processors quicker (at higher cost to them), that's a win for Apple users.

But I'm also skeptical of Intel. They kept promising 10nm for years and failed. They've done a bit better lately, but they've also stumbled a lot and they're way behind their roadmap. What kind of volume will we see for Panther Lake? What prices? It's hard to compare a hopeful product to something that actually exists today. Part of it isn't just whether Intel can make 18A chips, but how fast can they produce them. If most of Intel's laptop, desktop, and server processors in 2026 aren't 18A, then it isn't the same win. And before someone says "Apple is just a niche manufacturer," they aren't anymore. Apple is making CPUs for every iPhone in addition to Macs so it has to be able to get CPUs manufactured at a very high scale - around the same scale as the Intel's CPU market.

I hope Intel can do wonderfully, but given how much Intel has overpromised and underdelivered, I'm definitely not taking their word for it.
by alyxya | 2025-10-28 22:43:29+00:00
I think the solution to continual learning is as simple as using context distillation. We know that models are good at in-context learning, so we just want an efficient way to distill context into the weights. I suspect context rot may come from how the softmax in attention gets diluted with a longer context, so this wouldn't be an issue with context distillation.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-28 22:43:30+00:00
OSU.Edu - original research (6 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698732

PLOS - original paper (3+6 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45714547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731592

Toms Hardware coverage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718691

SemiEngineering coverage (3 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45730587

Phys.Org coverage (2 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732287
by ambicapter | 2025-10-28 22:43:38+00:00
If anyone's wondering, author makes no attempt to demonstrate the veracity of the title, he just talks about being a tinkerer and why it's important to have taste nowadays, and lets the reader make the connection.

edit: I lied, the connection is that if you don't try many things, you won't know what's good and what's bad, and if you don't tinker, you won't try many things.
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-28 22:44:16+00:00
I don't think anyone should upgrade if they're happy, but I also think faster chips do have real-world benefits that tend not to be appreciated by people who aren't valuing their time enough. I replaced my M1 MBP with an M4 earlier this year, and it's had a couple real-world benefits:

- builds are noticeably faster on later chips as multicore performance has increased a lot. When I replaced my M1 MBP with an M4, builds in both Xcode, cargo and LaTeX (I'll switch to Typst one of these days, but haven't yet) took about 60% of the time they had previously. That adds up to real productivity gains

- when running e.g. qwen3 on LM Studio, I was getting 3-5 tok/s on the M1 and 10-15 on the M4, which to me at least crosses the fuzzy barrier between "interesting toy to tinker with sometimes" and "can actually use for real work"
by glenstein | 2025-10-28 22:44:29+00:00
Regardless of its origin, its usage in context clearly implies it's supposed to be understood as a non-standard, non-default process. Making preferred software design choices feel like defaults, or making preferred app or distribution ecosystems feel like default is the product of extraordinary and intentional effort to set expectations, and so I don't see it as an accident that the nomenclature would be used for the purposes you describe.

I did make a comment in this thread about the historical usage of the term sideload, although for my purposes, I was noting a historical quirk frim a unique time in the history of the internet rather than disputing any premise in your post. It was the first and only comment at the time I posted it and I was not anticipating such an unfortunate backlash that seized on terminology for the purpose of disputing your point, or for otherwise missing your point.

But it is indeed missing the point. Requiring developer registration to install is exercising a degree of control over the software ecosystem that's fundamentally out of step with something I regard as a pretty important and fundamental ideal in how software is able to be accessed and used.
by themadturk | 2025-10-28 22:44:31+00:00
I'm familiar with all these titles. Three of them: The Worm Ouroborous, The Night Land, and A Voyage To Arcturus, were republished in the late '60s and early '70s in an effort to follow up on the popularity of LOTR. It took a few years for the modern fantasy market to ramp up, and books like these helped calm the hordes screaming for more. I never made it through any of them. I wish he'd mentioned the Gormenghast novels -- those I enjoyed, especially the first.
by panny | 2025-10-28 22:45:51+00:00
>But isn't Google saying that you will still be able to sideload via ADB?

No, it will not. Nothing will install an application without a Google approved signature on it. They will remove ad blocks from your Android and you will like it. "The beatings will continue until morale improves" sort of behavior.

I'm hopeful that the mystery OEM that GrapheneOS is targeting is in fact Sony Xperia. If it isn't, I'm just going to stop carrying a smartphone when all my installed apps stop working on it.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-28 22:45:56+00:00
I bought a Samsung notebook in ~2008. No crapware! Nice and small, it survived long beyond the guaranty date.

My cellphone decided to die last month. It was near retirement, but still working until it didn't. I bought a Samsung phone. First it asked twice if I wanted to share all my life with Google (using some dark patterns) and then it asked twice if I wanted to share all my life with Samsung (using more dark patterns). (After that, I installed WhatsApp, so I'm not sure I bothered.)

Next the phone offered to install the app from my carrier, TikTok and a ¿third? app-store. I didn't want them so in the screen with the offer I disabled the first and the other two were disabled by default. Anyway, I got TikTok and the other app for some reason! (I uninstalled them inmediately.)

I still get random notifications, like complaining that I'm using the phone too much. Or a notification that they upgraded something, restarted the phone and all apps notifications were disabled until I unlock it. (Lucky, I didn't miss any important urgent message.)
by ebbi | 2025-10-28 22:46:30+00:00
Agree. So many people online (not just reviewers) complaining that it's just a spec-bump, demanding a new design. I remember the time people were (rightfully) complaining that the update schedules were slow for Macs, mainly because of Intel's limitations. Now we get yearly refresh, they complain that it looks the same.

I don't think they appreciate the cost of redesigning and retooling. Echo your thoughts and hope Apple doesn't listen to this feedback. Imagine more expensive laptops because some people want more frequent design changes!