MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-30 03:55:45+00:00
Only because that's what college has become. I loved studying my field for four years, free of most of the vicissitudes of life that would otherwise prevent me from being able to focus on an education. I guarantee you a lot of people would like to get a degree simply for the sake of learning, and to become a better person. Hell, I'd take a few classes if it didn't cost like $800 per credit hour. This whole "college as job training" thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and none of the innocent people subjected to it are particularly happy with the situation. They are not, crucially, in a position to change that.
by fragmede | 2025-11-30 03:55:46+00:00
You time receiving the money specifically so that you don't hit the next tax bracket, which has a higher tax rate. If you get $1,000,000 in one year and $0 the next, you'd pay more in taxes than two years where you get $500,000 and $500,000 (approximately. don't focus on the exact numbers, but that's the concept).
by exploraz | 2025-11-30 03:57:49+00:00
> Though I was let down last week when I ported a TUI to GTK4 and found out that even a hello world gtk4.h C app uses 200mb RAM.

Bit of a rant I wanted to share here:

I've seen the same happened on zenity (a GUI dialog utility for shell scripts) since they migrated from GTK3 into GTK4.

Now zenity took almost 2 seconds to launch instead of .5 to a second when they still used GTK3.

This might be an issue on both libadwaita and GTK4 itself.

Both pavucontrol (which uses GTK4 but not libadwaita, at least for now) and even a simple dialog in zenity (GTK4+libadwaita) consumed over 100 MiB of memory according to btop measurement, while both thunar and engrampa, which is both GTK3 apps, only consumed half the amount of memory usage (about 50 MiB according to btop).

However, I've noticed that zenity, GNOME apps, and other apps that uses libadwaita took longer to launch compared to apps that only used GTK4 (pavucontrol), which launched as fast as other GTK3 apps does.
by Borealid | 2025-11-30 03:58:09+00:00
Bazzite has a command, `ujust setup-boot-windows-steam`, which when run adds an entry to Steam-in-Bazzite that causes a Windows boot.

It also has a command `ujust regenerate-grub` which adds a Windows entry to the bootloader.

Each of these is a single command which only must be run one time after install. I suppose it could take a few hours to either do it by hand, or to discover one of these options, but they are both documented and in particular the guide at https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/dual_boot... (which you implied you followed) mentions the latter command.

It works on each of my Bazzite machines without any manual tinkering/intervention. Not sure why it would not Work On Your Machine (TM).
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-30 03:59:20+00:00
The good news it that you don't need to hand out money or degrees. See, some people have an inordinate, obscene amount of money, and they would be able to lead full, happy, fulfilling lives if some of that money went to help people who have very little. Because if you're making $30,000 per year working at a gas station, and you lose that income, you're basically screwed. But if you make millions of dollars every year, you won't really miss a small portion of that. You'll be just fine.

So you just need to sort of move wealth around such that it is less egregiously unequal. Oh, and states can fund universities like they did a few decades ago. :) Win-win! Poorer people get to participate more freely in society, with more opportunities, and you don't have to print any extra money.
by Pannoniae | 2025-11-30 03:59:54+00:00
You can either go the custom licence route, but many people do raise (valid) concerns that if you do that, it will be incompatible with others. I do not share that view but I can certainly understand it.

A possible alternative would be using a standard licence like MIT but putting swears/slurs in either the author list or the code itself so using it would be a PR risk, and this could work as a deterrent against commercial usage.
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by ozgurozkan | 2025-11-30 03:59:56+00:00
I built this to truly use myself. I have a completely jailbroken model with 10K context window. I was trying to explore with exactly same settings which models will not binary reject the prompts my model accepts and answers. Then I realized it can be quite useful and seems like a Github Gist tool for AI chats.

There are some weird bugs, but it's still helpful I need to go back continue building my model but sharing this in case if someone finds it helpful.
by nashashmi | 2025-11-30 04:00:37+00:00
Total cost of ownership is 4 years x $15k-$25k (for a cheap public school) + missed income from working that same four years ($35k x 4 years). This is equal to $220k +/- $20k of lost money.

Now compare this to income differential. Starting grad income is $80k(?). At 4% raise per year compared to 3.5% raise per year for a non-college employee. Over 43 years.

My math comes out to the college grad is still making more money despite the initial sunk cost.
by angiolillo | 2025-11-30 04:00:38+00:00
I have a few LoRa radios running Meshtastic and they're fun to play with, but I wouldn't rely on them in a critical situation. It's too easy to accidentally configure a node incorrectly and cause problems for nearby nodes.

Perhaps someday the project will settle on a handful of sensible presets for different use cases. Even better would be if more of the options were managed dynamically by the software itself, things like adjusting timeouts and hops based on current network utilization and previous transmission success rate, or automatically tweaking the role based on the current mesh toplolgy, that sort of thing.
by bb88 | 2025-11-30 04:00:56+00:00
One thing to keep in mind is that it's not even a very good mesh network.

There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic. Or find my comments on meshtastic here.

If anything they showed there's demand for a public mesh. Unfortunately, they didn't want to learn from AlohaNet or any of the other meshes.
by beefnugs | 2025-11-30 04:01:36+00:00
So lets see a $60k robot, lets say the whole economy crashes and money means nothing so they just call it $30k for kicks and giggles. Super cheap power since elon owns all the land now, he can have a tiny nuclear reactor every few house lengths. So $1 a day for power : 30365 / 365 days a year is about $80 a day in the first year, or maybe $40 a day assuming the reactors dont melt down for 2 years. So that is about 2 forced cokes down your throat per hour, 4 if you are a "known criminal" who is being robo-babysat. And that is still zero profit for elon because he has to shuffle all his assets around to the next farce of a fucking company
by timschmidt | 2025-11-30 04:02:55+00:00
> I can guarantee you any gamedev worth his salt will have used alt-tab at some point in the game's development on windows.

Not exactly a repeatable testing framework, that.

> You seem to be trying really hard.

I almost strained a typing finger! /s lol

> Most devs are using cross platform graphics APIs. OpenGL/DirectX/Vulkan. Alt-tab breaking is likely an OS issue.

All the OSes seem to suffer from it similarly. More likely an issue that even the cross-platform graphics APIs rely heavily on shared memory buffers and most games depend on code written in languages which aren't strictly memory safe. Sharing a memory buffer between CPU and GPU (or even just multiple CPU cores) is quite difficult to do safely under all possible circumstances without proper language support.
by josephg | 2025-11-30 04:04:09+00:00
I mean, that's a real advantage. But personally I'm not so keen for all my system software to have the performance of garbage collected languages. I don't want my software to suddenly get 1.5x-4x slower and start using twice as much RAM. For pam and sudo it wouldn't matter, sure. But across the whole linux system? I'd rather a slow and careful rewrite in rust over that sort of system wide slowdown.
by linsomniac | 2025-11-30 04:05:48+00:00
The funny thing about SuSE, and admittedly I haven't touched it for over a decade now: Everyone I knew who used it touted that it had great enterprise support as a reason for using it, but everybody I knew that used SuSE used OpenSuSE. This was over ~20 years of providing Linux support, RHEL-based and Ubuntu were by far the distros we dealt with the most.

One issue I had with OpenSuSE was that once a new release drops you have around 6mo to migrate all your machines over to it. Which, for most businesses, is a pretty short timeline, in my experience.

I've always preferred authoring RPMs over debs, but Caninical having basically one distro without the forks, I think is a huge benefit for a business using them.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-11-30 04:06:01+00:00
Again, if you'd just look at the example provided: the coldness really isn't the issue. I checked a few major Canadian cities, and Oulu was similar or colder, looked like, and it has plenty of biking going on.

Investment is the issue. Cities and countries largely aren't willing to invest anywhere close to the same money into bikes the same way they do cars, and then everyone feigns surprise that this somehow makes biking harder and less popular.
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-30 04:06:17+00:00
You may have had a bad instructor. I don't think I've ever been in a class where I couldn't do some genuine questioning, but of course I didn't always feel the need to do so.

Edit to add: Also, you failed to learn the lesson that you can't always quit in the face of tyranny. Did you never have a history or civics class in high school?
by solarized | 2025-11-30 04:06:30+00:00
Yes. I’m talking about the social majority. Dopamine has gone way too far, making everyone—kids, elders—drown in addictive scrolling.

We can’t control their addictiveness, but we can control what they consume.

Or just leave it as is? So the “focused society” ends up controlling the “unfocused” ones?
by clickety_clack | 2025-11-30 04:06:56+00:00
It’s rare that I have a project that justifies the full DDD treatment, but one of the great ideas from it that stuck with me was command/query separation, where you separate out queries, which can be mangled agglomerations of objects for reporting and lists, from commands, which drive your business logic.

I love the idea of a separate verb. It always felt like get is just not quite enough.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-11-30 04:07:23+00:00
Okay, I’m a little confused, the HTTP already supports 8000 octets, and some are having issues because they have too many filters?

Looking at the logs I see that most of the long URI traffic is due to UTM and other tracking related codes, which are mainly a way to work around 3rd party cookie blocks.

I must be missing something, because it sounds like to goal is to have longer URI without the need for encoding URL parameters, but without using POST.
by xethos | 2025-11-30 04:07:25+00:00
I actually included the graduate as a beneficiary ("a well-paid, highly taxed contributor" or "the graduate" in the counter), but more importantly:

The entirety of society benefits from a well-educated populace. That's one reason even those without children pay for public education.

Following that, if everyone benefits, why is the graduate taking on all the risk (via a non-dischargeable student loan) instead of spreading the risk across the entirety of society?
by pandaman | 2025-11-30 04:07:48+00:00
>Bike theft is rare, parts theft is even rarer. Idk what you don't get.

Source for these claims. "People I know" is not really a source.

>Bike thieves are charged, regardless of housing. Why would their housing affect that?

Bike thieves are not charged, why do you believe they are? How do you explain massive bike chop shops operating in the open in homeless camps? Do you think they bought all those bikes and just disassemble and reassemble them as a hobby? Should not they be able to afford rent if they can afford $10K+ bikes they sometimes have?

>so I'm not convinced you're describing a real problem.

That's a given, you are a part of the problem this is why you can't see it. Who do you think steals all the bikes? Where do homeless get all their bikes? Do think for 1 minute, it will come to you.
by okillbite | 2025-11-30 04:07:48+00:00
I think a better question is if there is an operating framework that would remove Microsoft's ability to sanction individuals on the whim of the current US administration in lieu of the appropriate EU institutions.

Microsoft's partnership/JV with 21Vianet in China shows that it can be done (with limitations on features) and this is probably the right direction to go.
by waltbosz | 2025-11-30 04:08:15+00:00
Looks like they've turned the feature on. I just got an ad in the Android app. My account is plus subscription.

https://imgur.com/a/jmh8EN5

Context of the conversation, I was asking it to convert a photo into Studio Ghibli style and it objected to the blender in the image so I asked if it could do one with a mason jar instead of a blender. Then it started to generate the picture, then instead it displayed the ad.

... Edit ...

Looks like this may be a existing feature I didn't know about "shopping research" connector. I can't seem to turn it off in the app .
by simoncion | 2025-11-30 04:08:23+00:00
> There seems to be little evidence of that, at least from a reputable source.

I dunno. I remember a little while back some reviewers got a hold of both a Windows version and Linux version of a handheld gaming machine that had exactly the same hardware. The conclusion reached was that the Linux version was better in nearly every way.

As I remember it, a little while after this happened, some muckety-muck in the Gaming Division in Microsoft announced something like "We're making a new committment to consistent, high performance in Windows on handheld gaming devices! We're going to ensure all those little game-spoiling roadblocks are removed!". Which, like, good job making it NOT look like you're spasmodically reacting to bad press, guy.
by robocat | 2025-11-30 04:08:49+00:00
I live in New Zealand and I see or hear of thefts in my old neighbourhood (Woolston). Yet I can't recall anything about the issue on the news.

Every bit of reliable information I've had points to Meth users (although many years ago I knew of opiate users trying to get copper).

I was recently in New Orleans and had two theft surprises (one positive, one negative:

1: walking in Gretna I noticed an aluminium ladder under a house. You don't leave them visible at home because they get stolen (I presume for metal)

2: an Uber driver pointed out the theft of Aluminium guard rails. Obviously missing at road side. Needed grinders since they were welded infrastructure. I haven't seen much of that level of theft in Christchurch yet.
by perihelions | 2025-11-30 04:09:08+00:00
It's not a viable heat sink because it's a thermal insulator that doesn't support transport of heat. The thermal conductivity of lunar regolith is lower than rock-wool insulation,

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9646997/ ("Thermophysical properties of the regolith on the lunar far side revealed by the in situ temperature probing of the Chang’E-4 mission" (2022))

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/thermal-conductivity-d_42...

(Imagine, for entertainment purposes, what would happen if you wrapped a running server rack in a giant ball of rock-wool insulation, 50 meters in radius).

Only way to dissipate large amounts of heat on the moon is with sky-facing radiators.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-30 04:10:15+00:00
No, adequate reactions and preparations before war are building up the industrial base, securing energy and primary production, stockpiling arms, planes, subs, drones, recruiting and training military, building fortifications to defend invasion routes, building up air defenses around critical infrastructure.

Spending 2% of GDP on the military and locking people up for hurting feelings on with facebook posts, while buying Russian gas and trying to sell China EUV chip technology, and groveling to sell their yachts and football clubs and mansions to Russian and other oligarchs is not preparation for war.

Russia and China are threats, and the European ruling class are not taking those threats seriously. Quite the opposite actually they had been enabling and appeasing them and selling out their countries to help their friends and themselves get rich. While also peddling their lies about how those threats require these draconian domestic policies.

If there was real serious concern for such threats and real action taken, it would have been foremost to try to prevent real or perceived need for strong alliances between Russia and China. Instead, all actions of the past 5-10 years have been to drive those two countries closer together, making the threat much bigger. The common people do not need to be spied on and monitored and censored, it's not that there is exactly zero threat that could be mitigated or intelligence that could be gathered from doing such things, it is that it is such a minuscule non-issue compared to the gargantuan one next to it of treasonous politicians, intelligence agencies, bureaucrats, corporate bosses - "the ruling class" when it comes to dealings with adversaries.
by dunham | 2025-11-30 04:10:30+00:00
I didn't find them hard to find (in the front seat). When I first got my car it kept complaining because I instinctively reached for that lever instead of the button. The computer claimed I could break the window if I kept using the manual lever, and I had to figure out where the button was.

Not saying the car is great, just that I found the door lever easily. I'd still rather have real controls (and a real sensor) for the wipers and the reliance on software and software updates makes me very nervous. You can't even open the glove box without a voice command or touch screen (as far as I can tell).
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-30 04:10:51+00:00
> My point: cool benchmark, what does it matter?

And then people explained why the effects are smoothed over right now but will matter eventually and you rejected them as if they didn't understand your question. They answered it, take the answer.

> It didn’t merely say Google’s TPUs were better. It said that Nvidia can’t compete.

Can't compete at clusters of a certain size. The argument is that anyone on nVidia simply isn't building clusters that big.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-30 04:11:39+00:00
Back in college I stopped doing maths in second year as a major because of the way it was taught. I just hated it. Numerical methodds in particular broke me. My main problem was we never really got told how things fit together. Resources like 3blue1brown just didn't exist at that time, sadly. We just had dusty and expensive and very dry textbooks to rely on. For example, we just got through into ODEs and were told "just use e^at". We started doing contour integrals without really telling us what was going on. Honestly, things like linearity were never really taught for basic stuff like derivatives and integrals.

But I had always loved maths and went back to it much later. After having done some computer science, some concepts just made it click more for me. Like sets were a big one. Seeing functions as just a mapping between sets. Seeing functions as set elements. Seeing derivatives and integrals as simply the mapping between sets of functions.

What fascinates me is that differentiation is solved, basically. Don't come at me about known closed form expressions. But integration is not. Now this makes a certain amount of sense. Differentiation is non-injective after all. But what's more fascinating (and possibly really good evidence of my own neurodivergence) is that integration isn't just an algorithm. It requires some techniques to find, of which the Feynman technique is just one. I think I was introduced to it with the Basel problem. I have to confess I end up watching daily Tiktok integration problems. It scratches an itch.

I kinda wish I'd made it to complex analysis at least in college. I mean I kinda did. I do remember doing something with contour integrals. But it just wasn't structured well. By that I mean Laplace transforms, poles of a function in the S-plane and analytic continuations.

I'm not particularly proficient at the Feynman technique. Like I can't generally spot the alpha substitution that should be made. Maybe one day.
by perrygeo | 2025-11-30 04:11:57+00:00
> I know my goal: shift the default in open source from “it’s free for anyone to use” to “please don’t use this if you’re evil”. I don’t just want to do this for my little project; I want to slowly change the discourse.

Good luck. Defining evil objectively is, of course, a challenge. But even with an unambiguous definition in hand, enforcing or detecting it is nigh impossible. Especially since the truly evil will simply lie, ignore the terms of your license, and use it anyway.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-30 04:13:38+00:00
Sounds like you might be the perfect audience for consoles then. And here's the good news, that's the same audience SteamOS and Bazzite targets.

I am/was a big PC enthusiast but could no longer keep up with all the stuff due to real-life, eventually even gave up gaming for a few years as I just did not have the time.

The Nintendo Switch bought me back into (limited) gaming. I liked that I could just play from anywhere in short bursts, or could just hook it up to my TV and pick up the controller for longer sessions. The best part, I never had to worry about updates breaking things, or doing system maintenance - I could just power it on and jump straight into gaming. But I still missed my old PC games, especially playing games like Diablo II and Age of Empires.

When the Steam Deck came along, it changed everything. Well, technically I didn't get the Deck, I got a GPD Win Mini instead, and installed Bazzite on to it... but same thing. I get the same convenience as I had with the Switch, except now I had the added advantage of being able to play all my PC games (yes, all of them. No, I don't play games with nasty kernel anticheats).

Regarding your concern about Bazzite completely disappearing, the good news it it doesn't really matter. Since everything you customised lives on your home drive, all you need to do is backup your home drive, and that backs up everything you'd care about. You can use this same backup in Windows (Steam allows you to easily import a library from a different drive/folder) and your Pictures/Documents etc are basically the same folder layout as Windows. I actually ended up setting a triple-boot setup of Windows, Bazzite and CachyOS on my handheld, and they all point to the same Steam Library, same Documents etc. So not only do I have tripe redundancy, it shows how portable and migratable this stuff is.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-11-30 04:13:42+00:00
American colleges give out a GPA, which used to mean something but has now been inflated to the point of meaninglessness. 60% of my college class 10 years ago had a 3.5/4 or higher. The median grade at Harvard is an A. I am told that since COVID, B grades and below now require a written explanation by the professor at several schools.