MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eclipsetheworld | 2025-11-22 17:26:51+00:00
Interestingly, sticking to the "Agent = REPL" mental model is actually what helped me solve those specific scaling problems (sub-agents and shared data) without the SDK bloat.

1. Sub-agents are just stack frames. When the main loop encounters a complex task, it "pushes" a new scope (a sub-agent with a fresh, empty context). That sub-agent runs its own REPL loop, returns only the clean result with out any context pollution and is then "popped".

2. Shared Data is the heap. Instead of stuffing "shared data" into the context window (which is expensive and confusing), I pass a shared state object by reference. Agents read/write to the heap via tools, but they only pass "pointers" in the conversation history. In the beginning this was just a Python dictionary and the "pointers" were keys.

My issue with the heavy SDKs isn't that they try to solve these problems, but that they often abstract away the state management. I’ve found that explicitly managing the "stack" (context) and "heap" (artifacts) makes the system much easier to debug.
by undeveloper | 2025-11-22 17:26:53+00:00
It is extremely hit and miss. My understanding is that for those with "shit life syndrome", prozac is generally ineffective, but for those with genetic predispositions it can be extremely helpful. the catch is that the two are not exclusive, and those with genetic predispositions to depression may never have it, and people with bad life circumstances may feel more stable mentally with prozac and better equipped to tackle life's challenges.
by arcfour | 2025-11-22 17:26:54+00:00
I have updated my HP laptop's UEFI 4-5 times now using LVFS with HP's officially published updates. Just did it 2-3 days ago, in fact, for the latest update. I got a GUI prompt that there was a firmware update for my system, I clicked install, it said it would reboot my system, and I said ok and went to go make tea. Came back to a login screen and the update installed successfully.

I have used Secure Boot with Linux for several years now, too. Microsoft signed the shim loader and most distros can do it out-of-the-box now, much like fwupdmgr (above).

I think the biggest thing is finding, for example, devices that are Ubuntu Certified. You don't have to use Ubuntu necessarily, but the whole ecosystem benefits from hardware manufacturers having a slight degree of accountability having done this.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-11-22 17:27:09+00:00
Expanding to undocumented providers is probably ripe for abuse. Although perhaps abusable either way.

What stops someone from saying “I’m an undocumented provider with 500 kids. Pay me 500 x AMOUNT”.

Public schools have residence and identity requirements. What’s an undocumented childcare provider going to have?
by dringov | 2025-11-22 17:27:20+00:00
> Worst of all, perhaps, it can extract a canvas fingerprint. Canvas fingerprinting works by having the browser run code that draws text (perhaps invisibly), and then retrieving the individual pixel data that it drew. This pixel data will differ subtly from one system to another, even drawing the same text, because of subtle differences in the graphics hardware and the operating system.

I am concerned about the detail here: does this mean per hardware class (e.g. same model of GPU), or per each individual device?

Is the implication that there are certain graphical operations that - perhaps unintentionally - end up becoming akin to a physically unclonable function in hardware?
by Tanoc | 2025-11-22 17:27:39+00:00
You don't reduce the regulation, you increase it's flexibility. Such as allowing dynamic zoning where an area that is zoned as medium density residential automatically becomes hybrid high density residential/low commercial once the districts zoned around it as low density residential are filled.

The issue is we zone something and it stays that way until it's manually reviewed and rezoned. The district has no ability to change itself according to the circumstances. It has to rely on a third party that acts without due haste and with great reluctance.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-11-22 17:27:44+00:00
I don't think I am. I don't think economies of scale on hardware will drive costs below free, and while subscription providers might be willing to offer services below the cost of the hardware that runs them, I don't think they'll offer services below the cost of the electricity that runs them.

And while data centers might sign favorable contracts, I don't think they are getting electricity that far below retail.
by lukeschlather | 2025-11-22 17:27:54+00:00
Shooting people and high speed chases are bad tools for apprehending criminals. They are more likely to harm innocent people than criminals. Facing off with "violent and brazen" criminals doesn't change this, but also the fact that crime is down suggests US criminals are in fact, neither more violent nor more brazen than those in areas where police use less destructive methods.
by roywiggins | 2025-11-22 17:28:20+00:00
> No body goes to the doctor because they want to.

This isn't entirely true, there are entire industries catering to the worried well, eg expensive precautionary full-body MRIs with unclear scientific backing, whatever it is Bryan Johnson is doing and selling these days, etc.

And exactly what counts as need flexes and changes depending on circumstance and who is asking. "Do I need a doctor for this" is not a question that everyone answers the same way.
by INTPenis | 2025-11-22 17:29:06+00:00
It is more expensive than for example IKEA glasses, but I swear by Duralex.

Ever since an IKEA glass spontaneously exploded on my desk.

I suddenly remembered we used Duralex at school in Sweden in the 90s, so I ordered brand new Duralex glasses and no explosions yet.

I imagine if they were being used in schools, with 13-17 year olds, being washed every day for years until they were covered in scratches, they must be pretty tough.
by hkpack | 2025-11-22 17:29:15+00:00
What about depressed people? What about stressed people? What about people with autism who overreact when spooked? What about people on the edge who didn't care about the consequences because of the life situation?

What about people who are convinced that police may kill them for mild violation as they saw that multiple times on the news and social media? The reaction to flee may be justified at the moment as it is life or death anyway, even if only in their heads.

There are a lot of "normal" people around who will act abnormally in a high stress situation.
by seneca | 2025-11-22 17:30:22+00:00
Me? I'm not opposed to it. I think tax-payer funded attempts to increase birthrates in our own population are a good idea. We should be doing more to encourage people to have and raise children.

I'm opposed to weasel words and intentionally misleading people about how economies and governments work. I'm also not particularly confident encouraging people to have their children raised by strangers is a good idea.
by smileysteve | 2025-11-22 17:30:51+00:00
It's less so the taverns own money and more so that the food, wine, bar (or future visits) subsidize the beer, ie the food is taxed so that the beer is free.

Same with credit card rewards, they're not paid for by the bar, they're paid for by volume at the bar, debit/cash transactions, and the savings on cash controls, and the people that can't payoff their credit card bill.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-11-22 17:31:23+00:00
You shouldn’t be downvoted, kind of a lame part of HN lately.

I disagree that it’s a recipe for disaster - there are many valid kinds of holistic experiences of how a product is priced / sold, that don’t change the positivist economics of what is happening.

As long as childcare is economically positive, I think it is, it doesn’t really matter whatever you call it. And perhaps, it’s free in a way that matters most: redistribution from the very rich, that makes more customers with bigger budgets to spend on shit made by the firms they own.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-22 17:31:40+00:00
Yes, that's why I described it as "silly" :)

Is there a better way to test the contribution of aliasing optimizations? Obviously the compiler could be patched, but that sort of invalidates the test because you'd have to assume I didn't screw up patching it somehow.

What I'm specifically interested in is how much more or less of a difference the class of optimizations makes on different calibers of hardware.
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-22 17:31:45+00:00
Firstly, that they are here among us is inescapable to the point that the new psyop is to explain what the US has been up to the whole time.

Hi, I am known as “The Astrian” and I have been in contact with these “visitors”. Many thousands I would estimate have chatted with them, and a huge faction of men are their haters, as their cultures of treachery before these are exposed.

Moving on to address your challenges…

> Realistically, this is psyops to say such a thing.

The ultimate psyop is American Thought Control and the literal fact that you refuse to believe humans can entangle and navigate our minds at a distance through our very own consciousness. The CIA Stargate programs (and their many still secret successors) work through this phenomenon.

> The very first questions to answer is why they’d go to the U.S.?

After WII the US was racing ahead with nuclear weapons. They crashed a “kite” to give the US gov something else to ruminate over. In the 80s the US thanked them by striking a small scout craft emerging from the ocean (where some comfortably habitate, just like in Abyss) this fragment bomb warhead took them completely by surprise.

In all of their memories, while having braved the uncertainties of space, they had never ever been attacked before.

One of their oldest leaders from the “nomadic space tribe” which found Earth came to collect the still living crew. America tricked and trapped this one and coerced him “Ion” to do horrible things.

> How did they know that they should go there?

They communicate through entangled consciousness, of which there is an entire secret culture of humans throughout humanity who can also travel among and interact with our thoughts through consciousness. These signs have been evident for thousands of years. It conceals itself in “mysticism” and being indistinguishable from bullshit.

> Were they already observing humans, and if so how are their communications escaping our notice?

Yes, they have been here for approximately 10,000 years, and while they “know all about us” they really don’t “watch” us or take interests in our affairs unless for some reason (like, who wants to nuke us all actually?)

Consciousness is quantum holography and entanglement allows instantaneous communications of entire holographic renderings at any distance. Modern theory is wrong.

Few civilizations would rely on radio propagation beyond a brief period of development. Sooner or later, everyone learns the value of silence.

> They use different physics and electromagnetic spectrum? When you think this way, the next set of questions is why someone would want to convince you of this. What’s the goal?

America has lost control of its own intelligence apparatus, these ops and psyops and counter ops are all between American Thought Control and the unwitting public or instruments of governance necessary in obtaining their own goals.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-22 17:31:50+00:00
A part of why GPS is such a weak point is that existing receivers out there are pretty basic. Including receivers in things like JDAMs and other PGKs.

This is even worse in Ukraine, where a lot of "precision munitions" are cobbled together from civilian parts and duct tape, jammers are cheap and plentiful, and anti-radiation missiles are unicorns.
by doug_durham | 2025-11-22 17:31:59+00:00
I agree with the points in the article. Fingerprinting of any kind is a major risk for personal freedom. At the same time I want to make sure that content creators are compensated for their work. Ad firms that employ fingerprinting stand between me and the content creator. That said, I'm not going to pay $5/month for every blog that I occasionally read. The ad based model provides a more streamlined approach to compensation, but at the unacceptable price of privacy. I'm not quite sure what the answer is.
by MengerSponge | 2025-11-22 17:32:11+00:00
Erin Brockovich and Lois Gibbs generated outrage, which was well deserved and a societal good. They were working against unregulated/underregulated firms, which did not have effective oversight.

Oversight for PG&E should have come from the US EPA. I suppose the EPA should have handled Love Canal too, but the agency didn't exist when Hooker dumped their pollutants.

Your cultural references suggest you're American, so you don't have a direct way of interacting with a sovereign nation's internal affairs. You can, however, elect competent politicians who support a competent foreign service.

If you want to verify the work of experts, you need knowledge. You need to read, practice, and talk. Once you develop relevant expertise, you're an expert and no longer Joe Public. There are public universities near you where you can learn any of these topics. If you're in a remarkably remote location, you can take online courses. It takes time, but that's true of almost anything worth doing.

If you aren't willing to do that, you're just proving Asimov right: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
by arcfour | 2025-11-22 17:32:18+00:00
HP publishes updates to LVFS regularly for both their laptops and their thunderbolt docks(!)

I believe Elitebooks are Ubuntu Certified, which I would imagine gets their firmware updates pushed to LVFS.

Personally, with the Thunderbolt Dock 4 and an HP ZBook G10, I have gotten timely (<30 days of release) automatic updates from LVFS for both on Ubuntu/Fedora with 0 effort on my part.
by xg15 | 2025-11-22 17:32:34+00:00
Makes sense, but from a layman perspective it seems like introducing additional complexity and lots of inefficient, high-loss transmission steps.

We start with detached electrons moving at high speeds (plasma). We want detached electrons moving at moderate speeds (electrical current). And yet, the intermediate steps involve everything from heat, steam, large-scale mechanical forces and magnetic induction, just to get back to the electrons?

It feels more like the "pull in a 500MB framework instead of writing the function yourself" kind of simplicity.
by dahart | 2025-11-22 17:32:53+00:00
Hehe, I like it. Yeah that’s a valid, if funny and tautological way to summarize it. I am arguing that the monetary value comes from the story attached something that’s unique, historical, famous, etc. The artifact itself didn’t change value when it was proven to be a da Vinci, a new and very valuable story was attached to it. Without the story/proof it really is worth less.
by goobatrooba | 2025-11-22 17:33:04+00:00
Thanks for promoting russian propaganda (I mean the framing and source). Unfortunately tolerance has to stop with the intolerant. For anyone actually interested in the substance of why she is banned it seems rather clear and reasonable from the official EU Council decision. These decisions always end in front of the courts, so they only can list things for which they have direct evidence; presumably there is this much more - e.g. a good chance that in the background she is being funded by Russia for this work:

> Alina Lipp runs the blog “Neues aus Russland”, in which she systematically disseminates misinformation about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and delegitimises the Ukrainian government, especially with a view to manipulating German public sentiment as regards support for Ukraine.

> Furthermore, she is using her role as a war correspondent with the Russian armed forces in eastern Ukraine to spread Russian war propaganda. She regularly appears in troop entertainment and propaganda shows on the Russian military TV channel Zvezda.

> Thus, Alina Lipp is engaging in and supporting actions by the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten security and stability in the Union and in a third country (Ukraine) through the use of coordinated information manipulation and interference, and through facilitating an armed conflict in a third country.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202...
by hibikir | 2025-11-22 17:33:17+00:00
Note that even many of those "long knowledge" things people learned are today obsolete, but people that follow them just haven't figured it out yet. See how many of those object oriented design patters just look very silly the minute you use immutable data structures, and have access to functional programming constructs in your language. And nowadays most do. Many seminal books on how to program in the early 2000s, especially those covering "pure" OO, look quite silly today.
by tbrownaw | 2025-11-22 17:33:41+00:00
If the tax man can't see it, it doesn't exist.

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Scenario A: Max and Alex are a couple and have kids. Max stays home with them, and Alex has a job with a coworker named Avery.

Scenario B: Max and Alex are a couple and have kids. They both work, and hire Avery to watch the kids.

The same total work gets done by the same group of people in both cases, but the second measures as "better" for "the economy".
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-22 17:34:31+00:00
Non starter for me if I can't run Linux on any of the laptops.

I had high hopes for the X1 Elite after Qualcomm said they'd put equal effort into both Windows and Linux support.

That didn't happen in reality. Damn shame, the surface laptop hardware is really nice. About the only macbook level competitor out there, no Linux.

So I'm not getting my hopes up for this one, but maybe the fact that this chip is supposed to power the new Android/ChromeOS hybrid laptops, maybe we'll see Linux desktop support.

If not, I'll be staying on my MacBook.

It's so frustrating that there's no real competitor to this machine if you want to run Linux. I mean one that checks every box, including battery life, screen quality, touchpad, speakers, etc. All other OEMs sacrifice in some area.
by btilly | 2025-11-22 17:35:24+00:00
Huh.

I remember the capability coming as a surprise in 1990, but you're right that Reagan announced that civilian access would happen back in 1983.

Now I don't know if I was misremembering, or if Iraq was simply unaware of the technology, or whether that announcement was for access at some future date.

I do remember discussing GPS on sci.physics in the mid-90s though. Where I learned that GPS is the only commercial technology that has to take general relativity into account. Clocks on Earth run measurably slower than clocks at the altitude of GPS satellites, and the effect is big enough that GPS has to correct for it.
by evanelias | 2025-11-22 17:36:18+00:00
It's a combination of importance and condition.

Superman was arguably the first super-hero, and certainly the first successful/popular one. And Superman #1 is the first time a super-hero got their own dedicated comic book. It has long been generally considered the third-most desirable comic book issue in existence, after Action Comics #1 (first appearance of Superman) and Detective Comics #27 (first appearance of Batman).

This copy of Superman #1 was graded as a 9.0, which basically means it's like-new, despite being 86 years old. And it's naturally in that condition without ever undergoing restoration, which affects the value. Of all known unrestored copies of Superman #1, this copy is in the best condition.

That said, there are at least three known comic book copies that would be valued more highly: two known unrestored 9.0 copies of Action Comics #1, and one known unrestored 9.2 copy of Detective Comics #27. If any of those were to be sold at auction today, their value would almost certainly be a lot higher than $9 million, in part due to this Superman #1 auction setting a recent precedent.
by rectang | 2025-11-22 17:36:20+00:00
I agree with the concept of not labeling things which are subsidized as "free", while still considering the price worth it. Similarly, I think the framing of negative rights vs entitlements makes sense, while still believing that certain entitlements are worthwhile.

Unfortunately, I have found that such framings are mostly associated with a set of beliefs which I feel profoundly at odds with (e.g. unlimited wealth inequality is fine). So I find myself aligned with the "health care is a human right" crowd despite my discomfort with the ideological underpinnings.
by godelski | 2025-11-22 17:36:30+00:00
It baffles me that it's so hard to argue for care for children. The response is always "but it's the parents' responsibility". Which, okay, fair, BUT if the parent is failing their responsibility (which can happen for many reasons, many of which don't need maliciousness nor incompetence), then what? We let the child die? We let the child starve? That's what I don't get. A child doesn't have autonomy, so it shouldn't even be a question of helping them out.

We can argue about what to do with the parents but in the mean time we're going to let children suffer? That's lunacy. I don't even have children and I'll gladly pay taxes to prevent child suffering. How is anyone against that?
by nis0s | 2025-11-22 17:36:39+00:00
I mean sure, the markets would have momentarily tumbled. Then, focus would have shifted around a new story, and they would have stabilized. NVDA isn’t the center of the universe it thinks it is.

If you look at it critically, NVDA isn’t that far off from competitors, if the range overlaps then you can get comparable performance depending on the use case and ML framework used.

https://sanj.dev/post/amd-vs-nvidia-ai-workloads-performance...

I am unconvinced that only Nvidia knows how to make the best GPUs, but they do have a nice software ecosystem.
by balamatom | 2025-11-22 17:36:58+00:00
>And even though my personal safety and liberty probably aren’t at stake, I don’t want to give any support to the global advertising behemoth, by allowing advertisers access to better information about me.

Giving the surveillance economy access to your habits means making them slightly better informed about everyone. That won't directly endanger you; the SE will just become slightly better informed about how people like you function.

This will enable it to increase the amount of risk faced by some other person that you will never hear of (and vice versa) if any of you is even suspected of endangering the SE, in proportion to the risk to the SE which people like you may hypothetically pose, as quantified by the methods of nepotism-powered pseudoscience.
by MengerSponge | 2025-11-22 17:37:23+00:00
In the dictionary definition that politics is "the total complex of relations between people living in society", academic rigor is defined by academic politics. It is a political problem, which means the definition and fundamental regulation will be made by politicians.

Consider supporting politicians who respect expertise. If you aren't presented with that ballot choice, at least vote against the anti-intellectuals.
by meindnoch | 2025-11-22 17:37:27+00:00
>What I know for sure is that apples in the 50s had at least an order of magnitude more calories than apples today.

At least an order of magnitude more calories? Just to be on the same page, you're saying that apples in the 50s had at least 10x as much calories as they do today? :DD

You realize an apple is ~10-12% sugar by weight, right? The rest is just water and fibre. So an apple with an order of magnitude more calories would mean a solid block of sugar. (alternatively, an apple that's 10x the size, but we have photos of 50s apples, and they were roughly the same size as today)