MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by intelec1 | 2025-11-27 15:31:23+00:00
In this episode, we analyze a single Bloomberg news report as a full-fledged investigation. Secret US-Russia negotiations on Ukraine, phone calls to the Kremlin, a peace plan for Trump, a war of attrition, and a dismal US economy—these aren't isolated news items, but a single scenario that directly impacts our wallets. We discuss how US Special Envoy Steve Varicap is effectively advising Putin's aide, how the "Ukraine deal" is being sold to Trump, bypassing ally Zelensky, and why experts call this not diplomacy, but the destruction of alliance logic. We discuss Putin's hidden motives, the goal of destroying Ukrainian sovereignty and turning Ukraine into a dependent satellite. Next, we move on to the economy: the Fed's Beige Book, the K-shaped economy, where the "party goes on" for the rich while the lights are turned off for everyone else; trade wars with China; tariffs that appear 47 times in the Fed's report and boomerang on US industry. The Deere & Company case and its idle factories serve as a barometer of the real economy. At the micro level, we're looking at mass layoffs at HP and the replacement of thousands of employees with AI-powered tools. We discuss the boundaries between "progress" and social crisis, who is becoming redundant in corporate reporting, and how the same AI systems are being used by retailers to combat "friendly fraud" and abuse of return policies. Finally, we bring it all together: • geopolitical games and behind-the-scenes calls about Ukraine • a weak US economy, tariffs, and inequality • corporations replacing humans with algorithms • buyers trying to game the system • technologies that simultaneously lay off workers and "protect business" This is an independent analytical analysis, not propaganda. Subscribe to the channel if you want depth, context, and a coherent picture of the world, not just headlines. Comment below to share your views on the role of the US, EU, and technology in this conflict, and whether societies are prepared for this level of instability.

#Ukraine #Bloomberg #USARussia #Trump #Putin #Fed #USAeconomy #artificialintelligence
by oofbey | 2025-11-27 15:31:32+00:00
One or the biggest ironies in US politics to me is the complaints about the degradation of the rule of law in this country under Trump. While simultaneously arguing that federal immigration law should be actively ignored and blocked by cities and states. Of course the details are all messy and complicated. But if you feel both of those things are true, you owe it to yourself to take a moment and reflect on the irony of your own views. Empathy for people you disagree with is in dangerously short supply these days and is fundamental to a functioning democracy.
by cgriswald | 2025-11-27 15:31:42+00:00
As a lefty who is proficient with the numpad, I’d adapt quickly to it being on the left, but I wouldn’t ultimately be any faster with it, regardless of whether key order was reversed or kept the same.

I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a lefty who prefers (or at least regularly uses) a left mouse. I adjusted to right for the same reason as you, but I also think being able to type one handed with my left while mousing with my right is superior to its opposite for me.
by docjojo | 2025-11-27 15:33:08+00:00
I’ve published an Internet-Draft proposing standardized “Passive Hot Reload” semantics for servers — allowing configuration/state reloads without interrupting active connections or forcing process restarts.

This isn’t just conceptual: the mechanism is implemented in the FoxyFy Web Server and currently runs in production across 35+ global Points-of-Presence.

Draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ahrweiler-hotreload/

Implementation: https://foxyfy.net/

The aim is to move away from ad-hoc reload behaviour (SIGHUP chaos, partial reloads, race conditions) toward predictable, interoperable reload semantics.

I’d genuinely value technical feedback: - Is this solving a real operational pain point? - How does this compare to existing reload models you rely on (nginx, systemd, HAProxy, etc)? - Any edge cases, security concerns, or failure modes you’d expect to see addressed?

Happy to go deep on implementation details if useful.
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-11-27 15:33:13+00:00
That's pretty much what they've been doing incrementally with the data center line of GPUs versus GeForce since 2017. Currently, the data center GPUs now have up to 6 times the performance at matrix math of the GeForce chips and much more memory. Nvidia has managed to stay one tape out away from addressing any competitors so far.

The real challenge is getting the TPU to do more general purpose computation. But that doesn't make for as good a story. And the point about Google arbitrarily raising the prices as soon as they think they have the upper hand is good old fashioned capitalism in action.
by rootlocus | 2025-11-27 15:33:24+00:00
I feel like the distinction is equivalent to

LLMs can make mistakes. Humans can't.

Humans can and do make mistakes all the time. LLMs can automate most of the boring stuff, including unit tests with 100% coverage. They can cover edge cases you ask them to and they can even come up with edge cases you may not have thought about. This leaves you to do the review.

I think think the underlying problem people have is they don't trust themselves to review code written by others as much as they trust themselves to implement the code from scratch. Realistically, a very small subset of developers do actual "engineering" to the level of NASA / aerospace. Most of us just have inflated egos.

I see no problem modelling the problem, defining the components, interfaces, APIs, data structures, algorithms and letting the LLM fill in the implementation and the testing. Well designed interfaces are easy to test anyway and you can tell at a glance if it covered the important cases. It can make mistakes, but so would I. I may overlook something when reviewing, but the same thing often happens when people work together. Personally I'd rather do architecture and review at a significantly improved speed than gloat I handcrafted each loop and branch as if that somehow makes the result safer or faster (exceptions apply, ymmv).
by abrdk | 2025-11-27 15:33:40+00:00
Thanks for the feedback!

The zh.wikipedia demo uses a simple method: it averages the previous 30 days and checks whether the current value is within ±10%.

As for the zh data itself, starting from late March 2025 it changes irregularly compared to other languages and even to its own 2024 pattern. That usually points to data issues — maybe bots or crawlers — though there could also be another cause.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-11-27 15:33:50+00:00
The model is 17GB, so you'd need 24GB VRAM:

https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara-7B/tree/main

If you want to find models which fit on your GPU, the easiest way is probably going to ollama.com/library

For a general purpose model, try this one, which should fit on your card:

https://ollama.com/library/gemma3:12b

If that doesn't work, the 4b version will definitely work.
by graemefawcett | 2025-11-27 15:33:54+00:00
Sorry, I had to get my kids off to school (there's two of them) and daddy tends to need some help on the best of days, but the abstraction is already designed for a polyglot runtime and my entire current platform is based on Ruby (she's just so pretty isn't she...) so the guts were there. I had a Ruby SDK for the graph from a week or two ago laying around so I just needed to get the fence processor and context injection wired up.

This I think proves the power of what Obie is saying. We do RSpec now and it's glorious

https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/115622344011576598

That shows how we can create a single node on the graph with a pair of {{include:statements}} and a bit of ${interpolation:based-pointer.math} and poke and peek tools in an MCP proxy turns a markdown file into an Rspec test runner, just by reading the file. And that same {{include:}} lets me drop that pattern anywhere I want all over the graph, which is pretty neat.

Obie's definitely on to something with this. There's a rather lot of negative emotion surrounding the changes to our profession. There's a certain lack of joy bleeding through many of the comments. Computing doesn't have to be that way, didn't used to be anyways. If you're smart about your verification process, if you're smart about optimizing the framing of your intent, this isn't a scary world we're all crashing headlong into. Remember what they're for - they're generative not thinking - and they'll serve you well.

Or not

They can be little gooses sometimes ;)
by timmg | 2025-11-27 15:34:22+00:00
They will, I'm sure.

The big difference is that Google is both the chip designer *and* the AI company. So they get both sets of profits.

Both Google and Nvidia contract TSMC for chips. Then Nvidia sells them at a huge profit. Then OpenAI (for example) buys them at that inflated rate and them puts them into production.

So while Nvidia is "selling shovels", Google is making their own shovels and has their own mines.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-27 15:34:24+00:00
> Inspectors cut openings into the walls of the cantilever in 2016, finding that water and road salt had penetrated the structure at the joints. This caused the steel rebars in the concrete to corrode and expand, forcing chunks of concrete to fall off. Without major structural intervention, this degradation progressively weakens the triple cantilever’s strength.

Very sadly, I'd assume the "can't agree" deadlock will persist until there's a major collapse, à la Champlain Towers South. At which point the spectacle of charred bodies amid smoking rubble will give the pro-fixit coalition the cards they need to "win".
by skylurk | 2025-11-27 15:34:34+00:00
> Thank you to the Forgejo contributors who helped us with our issues switching to the platform, as well as the Codeberg folks who worked with us on the migration - in particular Earl Warren, Otto, Gusted, and Mathieu Fenniak.

To me this said more than anything else in the post. The fact that there are genuine people at forgejo/codeburg that give a thought about what they are working on is pure gold.
by UmGuys | 2025-11-27 15:34:44+00:00
One hack is to end the prompt with: following solid architecture principles.

EG: Step 1: Define problem in PROBLEM.md Step 2: Ask agent to gather scope from codebase and update PROBLEM.md Step 3: Ask agent to create a plan following design and architecture best practices (solid, etc) and update PROBLEM.md Step 4: Ask agent to implement PROBLEM.md
by mindslight | 2025-11-27 15:35:05+00:00
I won that lottery with 3x 26TB Exos shipped. I decided to try and get two more but they ended up being HAMR (returned). Then I managed to find two more earlier manufacturing dates in store stock at a somewhat-far Best Buy that I was driving past anyway.

It felt like an unnecessary purchase at the time (I'm still waiting to CAD a CPU cooler mounting solution for the build in a new case that has room for the drives). But it seems like that deal is going to be the high water mark for a few years, at least.
by claw-el | 2025-11-27 15:35:07+00:00
One reason I like CBS’s Elementary’s depiction of Sherlock (maybe more so than BBC’s Sherlock) is because how Elementary treats Sherlock’s mental health and addiction recovery as central to the character. As great as Sherlock is at solving cases, he still struggles greatly to handle his own mental health and addiction recovery, which makes him more grounded to earth.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-27 15:35:40+00:00
The account requirement for nearby share is, as I understand it, to enable "contacts only" mode, which is how you prevent people from receiving random dickpics the second they try out the protocol and permanently turn the feature off afterwards. I think NS also has some kind of cloud transfer backup connection in case local transfers don't work (using Samsung's cloud), but I'm not 100% sure if that's related.

The account requirement can already be avoided using existing implementations of standard QuickShare (i.e. https://henriqueclaranhan.github.io/rquickshare/) but those are limited to devices sharing the same WiFi connection. However, as there is no contact sharing between iOS and Android, interoperability basically forces Google to pick between "Google account optional" and "doesn't work with iOS".
by omnicognate | 2025-11-27 15:36:20+00:00
It's not just words, except to the extent the law is just words. You said there haven't been any cases involving the "virality portion" but there have. Just not under the "GPL makes other code GPLed" interpretation, because that, as we clearly agree, doesn't exist.

What you're calling the "virality portion" says that one of the ways you *are* allowed to use the code is as part of other GPLed software. If you're going to look for court cases that explicitly "involve" that, it would have to be someone either:

* using it as a defense, i.e. saying "we're covered by the GPL because the software we embedded this code in is GPL" (That will probably never happen because people don't sue GPLed projects for containing GPLed code), or

* coming into line with the GPL by open sourcing their own code as part of resolving a case (The BusyBox case [2] was an example of that).

If you just want cases where companies that were distributing GPL code in closed source software were prevented from doing so, the Cisco [1] and BusyBox [2] cases were both notable examples. That they were settled doesn't somehow make them a weaker "test of the GPL" - rather the companies involved didn't even attempt to argue that what they were doing was permitted. They came into line and coughed up. If you really must insist on one where the defendant dug in and the court ended up awarding damages, I don't think there have been any in the US but there has been one in France [3].

As for "nobody was ever claiming it does", the "viral" wording has been used for as long as the GPL has been around as a scare tactic for introducing exactly that erroneous idea. Even in cases where people understand what the license says, it leads to subtle misunderstandings of the law, which is why the Free Software Foundation discourages its use. (Also, you literally said, in these exact words, "the virality causing the whole LLM model to be GPL'd".)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation,_Inc.....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox#GPL_lawsuits

[3] https://www.dlapiper.com/en/insights/publications/2024/03/wa...
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-27 15:36:21+00:00
Seems low at the moment with the concept of G2 being floated as generic understanding of China's ascension to where Russia used to be effectively recreating bipolar semi cold war world order. Mind, I am not saying impossible, but there are reasons China would want to avoid this scenario ( probably one of the few things US would not tolerate and would likely retaliate ).
by tossandthrow | 2025-11-27 15:36:38+00:00
Your view is representing a traditionally more masculine point of view.

A more feminine point of view is that we should shield against experiences that lead to a trauma.

What we want as a society is a democratic process, and it is heavily up for negotiation these years. It is completely fine.

Personally, my core belief is that whatever we ultimately decide on, it counts for all equivalent regardless of their gender.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-11-27 15:36:52+00:00
Training is not redistribution. It's the exact same as you as a person learning to program from proprietary secret code, and then writing your own original code independently. Even if you repeat patterns and methods you've picked up from that proprietary learning material, it is by no means redistribution. The practical differentiator here is that you do not access the proprietary material during the creation of your own original work, similar in principle to a clean-room design. With AI/ML, it matters that training data is not accessed during inference, which it's not.

The other factor of copyright, which is relevant, is how material is obtained. If the material is publicly accessible without protection, you have no reasonable expectation to exclusive control over its use. If you don't want AI training to be done on your work, you need to put access to it behind explicit authentication with a legally-binding user agreement prohibiting that use-case. Do note that this would lose your project's status as open-source.
by Shoetp | 2025-11-27 15:36:58+00:00
LLMs do NOT have intelligence. Achieving AGI would mean solving self-driving cars, replacing programmers, scientist, etc. All things LLMs are currently unable to do in a way that replaces humans.

There's a huge gap between what Gemini 3 can do and what AGI promises to do. It's not just a minor "technical definition".
by jsheard | 2025-11-27 15:37:14+00:00
That and they were harvesting data way before it was cool, and now that it is cool, they're in a privileged position since almost no-one can afford to block GoogleBot.

They do voluntarily offer a way to signal that the data GoogleBot sees is not to be used for training, for now, and assuming you take them at their word, but AFAIK there is no way to stop them doing RAG on your content without destroying your SEO in the process.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-11-27 15:38:10+00:00
I think the problem with "mental illness" is that I think in many cases it's the environment that is not suitable. In modern times we've created this environment that just doesn't fit all archetypes of people and those who it doesn't fit well with, we declare "mentally ill". There are obviously actual serious issues, but I believe a lot of it has to do with environment. It's not a clear illness like diabetes, etc. For instance I couldn't handle going to school, people can label it ADHD or Autism, but does it make sense in the first place to force me to study specific things that I don't care about as opposed to playing into my interests and strengths. I'm glad I'm grown up now, and can decide to learn what I'm actually interested in and do it 100x more effective per unit of time, as opposed to in school.
by ilaksh | 2025-11-27 15:38:13+00:00
This is ageism and it's rampant and very problematic. He is ageist against himself almost as much as society is.

You should not need to do anything special to be a 40 or 50 year old (or whatever) and fit in with a group.

This is one of the last 'isms' that society has yet to tackle. But society will eventually become less ageist as it ages more and more.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-27 15:38:30+00:00
Personally, I'm not angry. On the contrary, I'm pretty neutral about closed-source, optional add-ons. I started playing/working with computers pretty early, and the current state is an utopia when compared to olden times in terms of Free and Open Source software (OTOH, both Free Software and Open Source is under heavy attack because of many reasons I won't enter here).

What bothers me is "100%" part of the open source claim. I personally like the Debian model a lot. It's DFSG compliant by default, and if non-free software is needed, it's attainable. Debian is "as Free as you want, as closed as you need".

I see, new Pebble follows the same model, and it's perfectly fine, but branding it as 100% Open Source is not.

I'll not discuss hardware companies. It's a can of worms that doesn't belong to that reply. Let's say while I understand some of their reservations, these reservation doesn't change that they're greedy and selfish (beyond acceptable limits).
by westacular | 2025-11-27 15:38:38+00:00
The latest version of YouTube for Apple TV has broken swiping on the remote's trackpad to select videos. (For the older style black Siri Remote, at least.)

The direction of your swipe no longer matters. All the app does is interpret wherever your finger _lifts up_ as a _directional tap_ on that side of the trackpad. So you can't do nice smooth accelerated swiping like it works _everywhere else in tvOS_; you can only use the remote as a bad D-pad.
by Mistletoe | 2025-11-27 15:38:54+00:00
>Fred Lazarus Jr., the head of Federated Department Stores (which would later become Macy's, Inc.), urged Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving to a week earlier, to the second-to-last Thursday in November instead of the last Thursday in November. The goal was to extend the Christmas shopping season and help boost retail sales.

Feels like abolishing executive orders completely might be a good idea.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-27 15:39:19+00:00
FWIW, I'm a mobile dev. So I wouldn't have my career if not for phones. If I were given a wish from a genie, and asked if I wanted to erase smartphones from the human experience, I honestly don't know. At once they're sources of incredible utility, convenience and personal productivity and edification. And again, they are just a CANCER on most people's ability to simply perform being human.

So I absolutely 100% cosign the conflict.
by cmsj | 2025-11-27 15:39:53+00:00
I started thinning in my early 20s and by my late 20s I was hanging on for dear life to too little scalp hair.

Then one day I decided enough was enough and I just shaved my head. 20 years later I wouldn't go back to a full head of hair.

It's easier than having a hairstyle, quicker than having a hairstyle, cheaper than having a hairstyle, and best of all, any time I've gotten hot and sweaty, I can just chuck some water over my head in a sink and enjoy whole-scalp-cooling!
by ricardo81 | 2025-11-27 15:40:01+00:00
It's a cool subject and article and things I only have a general understanding of (considering the place of posting).

What I'm sure about is having a programming unit more purposed to a task is more optimal than a general programming unit designed to accommodate all programming tasks.

More and more of the economics of programming boils down to energy usage and invariably towards physical rules, the efficiency of the process has the benefit of less energy consumed.

As a Layman is makes general sense. Maybe a future where productivity is based closer on energy efficiency rather than monetary gain pushes the economy in better directions.

Cryptocurrency and LLMs seem like they'll play out that story over the next 10 years.
by dredmorbius | 2025-11-27 15:40:53+00:00
"Propelled" is the other term in that definition. A conveyance might be mechanical in the sense you describe without being propelled by a machine.

At the same time, an individual person being blown forward by a sufficiently large fan might meet the qualification of "mechanically propelled" without being in a mechanical conveyance per se.

But more generally, a vehicle plus a motor of some description would seem to meet the definition. ICE, steam, electric, spring-wound, whatevs.
by zenoprax | 2025-11-27 15:40:54+00:00
I have read in the past that ASICs for LLMs are not as simple a solution compared to cryptocurrency. In order to design and build the ASIC you need to commit to a specific architecture: a hashing algorithm for a cryptocurrency is fixed but the LLMs are always changing.

Am I misunderstanding "TPU" in the context of the article?
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-27 15:40:54+00:00
> He is ageist against himself almost as much as society is.

I think he's just trying to be proactive with an insurance policy to cushion the blow since societal ageism is completely out of your control.

You might not believe in ageism being real, but if the job market does, then you're shit out of luck, so might as well start prepping for it.

>But society will eventually become less ageist as it ages more and more.

I doubt it. Employers will just demand more immigration that's more youthful and more exploitable or just offshore more.

Where I live in EU, there really isn't a huge market for white collar workers over 50 despite society already skewing quiet old. One compounding issue is that in my country once you hit 50 you get firing protections so nobody wants to hire someone they won't be able to fire, especially if the industry is full of ambitious young blood like in SW.