MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ddtaylor | 2025-11-08 02:46:13+00:00
> Microsoft and Google weren't meeting in secret backrooms to censor this one channel

That's not the argument IMO. They don't have to be intentionally malicious in each action. A drunk driver doesn't want to kill a little girl in the road. Their prior choices shape the outcome of their later options. A drunk driver decides to get behind the wheel after drinking. A large company makes a decision to make more profit knowing there are repercussions and calculating the risk.
by fsmv | 2025-11-08 02:46:31+00:00
I built a reverse proxy server for this kind of usecase specifically. I have a chroot launcher with a simple config file and the reverse proxy is auto configured over RPC and automatically acts as a CA root so internal communication is HTTPS. You can also set the API key as an env var and just run your binary on the command line for testing and it will auto configure and be available on your URL with https.

https://github.com/fsmv/daemon/

It's a bad time for me to be mentioning it because I have a major update that's not quite ready to release that changes some client APIs and makes the whole thing much nicer with fully automatic lets encrypt. I haven't had the space to work on it for a while unfortunately.
by superbowl | 2025-11-08 02:46:40+00:00
I read the article, but i don't know enough about finance to understand why this is bad.

The title makes it sound dubious, but it seems like another way of seeing it is nvidia diversifying from just selling chips to operating datacenters, via a "special purpose vehicle" (spv) entity. Instead of xai selling bonds to raise money to pay for chips, they lease usage from the spv.

Seems comparable to a new datacenter company starting up to serve xai. Since nvidia is funding the new company, though, I suppose it gives the impression there's more money in the ai market than there actually is. Xai raising debt would make it more obvious.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-08 02:47:52+00:00
Yeah, I screwed up here.

I don't have a background in psychology or sociology (academically) but they are subjects that interest me.

I was introduced to DK by pop psychology, especially in business management contexts.

The reason I wanted you to comment on the viral graphs was because I was trying to triangulate our disagreement.

Turns out that there is a ton of misinformation about DK. Kind of ironic given the topic of this thread, but especially because it long predates LLMs. If anything it hints why LLMs are confidently incorrect, since the internet is full of it.

The reason why what I was saying is not self evident is because I was making a logic error, specifically ecological fallacy.

Also sort of ironic, I managed to get to the root of this using an LLM.

Part of me suspects psychology is your domain, and you may be an academic or at least have some graduate experience. The way you engaged with me is maybe the way you've been conditioned to act in these situations.

There's good reasons for why you responded the way you did. Part of me wants you to know that I would have really appreciated it if you had said something like "while I dont take issue with the claim that competence increases with time, it doesn't mean the DK relationship is time based, as there could other conflating factors." Also "I looked at those graphs and they don't match what the DK paper claims, that looks like pop psychogy and I can't confirm it has a scientific basis".

Or course you have no obligation or responsibility to help me improve my understanding, but the fact you responded to a bunch of my comments shows you care. So if you care about changing minds, especially the mind of someone who is curious and ignorant, than engaging this way would have made my interaction with you more pleasant.

And it's in the spirit of the community guidelines.
by tartoran | 2025-11-08 02:48:24+00:00
Windows 10 is also the stop I'm getting off at. Windows 11 does not serve me and it does not suit my needs. Windows 10 was not too great either, debloated was somewhat manageable to run on one of my machines. It's inertia of all these years, my first windows installation was Win 95. But Windows 11 is a horror show I don't want take part in and warn anyone that could be tricked into using to stay away.
by Yodel0914 | 2025-11-08 02:48:39+00:00
I recently went with a Kobo Libra Color to replace my aging 10th gen Kindle. It’s a nice device, and the stock Kobo software is fine. The best part though is how well koreader runs on it (much more seamless than koreader on Kindle).

The killer features of koreader for me are sane PDF scaling/reflowing, the ability to handle large PDFs, and multiple export formats for annotations.
by zzzeek | 2025-11-08 02:49:48+00:00
so now that jim crow is over, redlining is over, and legalized discrmination is...."over", so to speak, generation upon generation of Black people (the people who were referred to as "colored" in that photo) have been denied generational wealth and prosperity, we now deem that whatever problems the Black community has, are disconnected from any of that. Impossible to pin down factors like "group preference" are why Black communities continue to be so segregated, why the community has a dramatically higher rate of incarceration, poorer academic outcomes, poorer health outcomes...we can never know how much 400 years of institutional oppression had to do with that vs. simple "group preference". Attempts to observe any of these factors as potential causes are deemed as "Wokeness" and giant multinational corporations are run by zealots who seek to eradicate any such "wokeness" who are also cheered on by Hacker News readers similarly tired of this bothersome "wokeness". 400 years of institutional oppression simply can't be separated from random group preference, and that's why it should be illegal to even question this conundrum.
by Desafinado | 2025-11-08 02:50:52+00:00
I read books all the time, every day. I don't watch TV, I don't use Youtube much, most of my activity online is reading.

I disagree that you 'need to build the habit of reading to improve your cognitive skills'. There is nothing inherently healthy about reading, I know plenty of people who've been reading fiction for their entire lives and they aren't more informed than people not reading books.

The reason you should read books is because if you look hard enough for good books, the content you can find in them is more interesting, more relevant, more engaging than almost any other form of media. I read books all the time because every other form of media is trash, because they teach me esoteric things about the world around me, that you can't get from Ted Talks or other superficial forms of media. But the interest has to be there, if you aren't interested in engaging, intellectual content then just stick to Youtube and be happy.
by torginus | 2025-11-08 02:52:15+00:00
That's a rather mean spirited interpretation of my comment and I debated whether to respond to it, but I guess here goes:

In general Rust claims to provide you with a set of safety rules that are a more comprehensive extension of C++ unique_ptr and co. so you can do write the same code, have like 10% more mental overhead because of additional safety, but in exchange you can fearlessly do anything, and know your program doesn't have memory leaks or race conditions.

However that's not how it works in practice. Rust rejects all non-trivial naive multi-threaded programs. There's a zero percent chance that you can map a non-trivial C++ program to Rust without major rewrites, even though said program is 100% safe from aliasing bugs.

How multi-threading actually works in Rust:

You copy everything between threads, or try to adapt every structure that needs to be threaded with Sync, Send, Arc etc. Not very efficient use of ones time.

Or you rely on one of the threading libraries/frameworks which makes certain styles of parallelism easier to express. These libraries usually contain giant blobs of unsafe Rust, which isn't exactly a win for the language.

The TLDR version of my post is Rust still rejects a significant percentage of non-trivial but correct programs. If we were anal about it and cared about the soundness of the language, and disallowed libraries with unsafe, that number would jump even higher.
by westurner | 2025-11-08 02:53:11+00:00
Are any of them making compostable sustainable chips out of graphene or carbon nanotubes yet though?

They all compete for Silicon (SiO2) and P and B and Copper (Cu) and Neon (Ne), and PFAS for photoresist masks.

Graphene can be made from CO2 and unsorted plastics, though graphene is typically manufactured from imported graphite FWIU.

Traditional nanolithography works on silicon carbide.

FET nano transistors can be patterned into graphene and other forms of carbon.

Graphene oxide and Carbon epoxide are probably better substrates than doped Silicon.

The work functions of graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes are different enough for reduced graphene oxide to be the substrate for carbon-based integrated electronic, phononic, and photonic computing chips.
by senectus1 | 2025-11-08 02:54:09+00:00
too much of ANYTHING is bad for our plastic brains.

Too much religion, too much water, too much movies, too much food, too much air, too much sun , too much video games, too much sex, too much boredom, too much living.

the answer is not to take any of these things away, the answer is to be open and honest about them, reason about them and communicate freely.
by tzs | 2025-11-08 02:54:32+00:00
The digital ID provider is only involved in issuing the ID to you. When you use that ID to verify age to a site the only communication is between your phone and the site. The ID provider has no idea when you use the ID, how often you use the ID, or where you use the ID.

Briefly, when the ID provider issues the ID it gets cryptographically bound to your phone. When you use the ID to prove something to a site (age, citizenship, etc) the is done by using a zero-knowledge proof based protocol that allows your phone to prove to the site (1) that you have an ID issued by your ID provider, (2) that ID is bound to your phone, (3) the phone is unlocked, and (4) the thing you are claiming (age, citizenship, etc) matches what the ID says. This protocol does not convey any other information from or about your ID to the site.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-08 02:55:26+00:00
For the people who refused, why?

Not meaning to sound accusatory, just asking. Was it the tools provided that they didn’t like? Ideological reasons not to use AI? Was the CEO being too prescriptive with their day to day?

I guess I find it hard to imagine why someone would dig in so much on this issue that they’d leave a job because of it, but 1) I don’t know the specifics of that situation and 2) I like using AI tooling at work for stuff.
by manquer | 2025-11-08 02:56:11+00:00
What exactly is wild about the 30 odd years of his later life that he spent trying to build a unified field theory ? The rest of the physics community at the time(and even largely now) did not share his ideas, maybe grand unified theory is possible maybe not, but getting stuck with it without a lot of progress did happen?

I would have thought of all examples this would be less controversial, it had nothing to do with politics or ideology or religion, it was an entirely technical belief, he felt chasing.

In an alternative reality he may have switched to another area of study after hitting dead ends with unified theory with better results.

It is not for us to say or expect what luminaries do, it is privilege for us they do share anything at all, but it is not also true we do lose a bit when such brilliant minds do get sidetracked ?
by ebbi | 2025-11-08 02:56:14+00:00
I probably sound like a broken record, but the death of Apple won't come from being behind on AI, from losing developer support, from bad products or services. Fundamentally, it'll be because it is optimising for being on the stock market and chasing endless revenue growth.

All other issues I've outlined is a symptom of that fundamental issue. Apple is losing its soul.

The author suggests Steve would have done something based on what Steve did in the past in that particular set of circumstances. But it's not fair to suggest what Steve would have done today, given where Apple is now. Would Steve have said "screw it" to the share price and just ran the company with the same ethos? Maybe, he was bold like that. But then he also had a Board to answer to.
by mrandish | 2025-11-08 02:56:17+00:00
My understanding is that Firefox on iOS is substantially limited from Windows and Android. Like they can only run uBlock Origin Lite and many add-ons aren't available. Something about Apple policy blocking browser extensions that can run scripts/code, as it might compete with Apple's app store. But that's just what I've read online from other people. It also might be somewhat different recently in the EU, at least about the installing alt app stores. As I said, I haven't used an iOS device in over a decade, so have no first hand knowledge.
by yndoendo | 2025-11-08 02:56:20+00:00
I just finished _Culture In Nazi Germany_ by Michael H. Kater. [0]

Near the end it goes into percentages of which counties Jews moved to and why during their immigration. A good portion of the UK was antisemitic, along with a number of other countries, and didn't want them moving to their country.

UK colonized part of Palestine at the time and pushed Jews to move there. Only the most devoted that wanted to be closer to their religious holy land went because the only work at the time was farming. Ones that wanted to maintain living off their crafts; acting, music, writing moved else where.

UK's antisemitic view actually help create Israel and push for the Zionist movement.

One of the most surprising aspects is that a number of Jewish immigrants actually supported fascism and told themself that it just was not implemented right. It wasn't until the 1960s when the views changed to fascism is bad.

Warning, the book is very dry and goes into detail of what happened to famous actors, writers, and musicians.

[0] https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300253375/culture-in-naz...
by aoasadflkjafl | 2025-11-08 02:57:46+00:00
More people are simply more aware of Watson and not Bernal, Klug, Wilkins, Fankuchen, Hodgkin, i.e. other people from that era involved in x-ray crystallography, many of whom made significantly more and larger advances, precisely because he was a self-aggrandizing and controversial asshole while they were not.
by graypegg | 2025-11-08 02:58:11+00:00
I gave it a try! I tried to get the odd-ball perfectly circular cut and square dimensions, but I'm mostly just eyeballing it. Haven't tried printing it yet, but I have some nice red filament that I think is going to look good!

Here's a screenshot from inside FreeCAD:

https://f.toi.sh/rubygem-screenshot.png

A nice manifold solid:

https://f.toi.sh/rubygem.3mf / https://f.toi.sh/rubygem.stl

A terrifying non-manifold FreeCAD mess: (requires surface WB)

https://f.toi.sh/rubygem.FCStd
by DroneBetter | 2025-11-08 02:58:13+00:00
it looks like equirectangular (shine horizontal lasers from a rod through the poles through the Earth's surface onto a cylinder of the same height, record its surface image, then unfurl it), which is still about as bad as Mercator (shine omnidirectional light from a point source in the centre through the surface onto an infinitely tall cylinder) since the means by which it conserves area (exaggerating horizontal distance as much as it understates vertical) make distance:area only correct for diagonal Rhumb lines.
by eru | 2025-11-08 02:59:47+00:00
Well, they won the war on terror, too. Or at least, terror gave up.

In any case, most of the time the people who claim that the war on poverty hasn't been won, like to look at the pre-tax, pre-redistribution income. Ignoring the great impact of the very programmes they are meaning to defend.

See https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61157 for more than you'd ever wanted to know.
by radsj | 2025-11-08 03:00:54+00:00
Use the situation to your own advantage. Here is what I would do:

- Make sure to post on the community that this is happening and people should help call them out

- Use this to bolster your messaging and differentiation. Needs work, but will pay off in long run

- Start monitoring their keyword/domain name via tools like F5bot (or others) and start inserting yourself in those conversations. AI agents now make this possible for small teams as well. Play their game. And beat them at it.
by seec | 2025-11-08 03:01:47+00:00
Apple has stopped caring and producing local/personal software for a while now. Which is absolutely brain dead because that was the primary reason to buy their hardware in the first place. Why spend the premium for a Mac if you are going to run some shitty cloud software anyway.

For now the illusion is maintained because they are dominating with their chips, but that won't last forever and the competition is almost caught up (it's not that relevant for non mobile computers anyway).

iTunes had it's flaw but at least it was a very useful software and it worked quite well (at some point I had a library of over 100k tracks); the replacement while trying to keep some of the fundamentals is a joke in comparison.
by bearjaws | 2025-11-08 03:02:09+00:00
Working at a company that uses react-native I wish nothing more than for the end of app stores and differing platform languages.

We're heavily considering just having a website next year with a mobile app using webview, and then native code for the native notifications, GPS and healthkit / health connect.

I feel like AI is changing the equation, its nearly better to write your business UI 3 times one for each platform.
by diath | 2025-11-08 03:03:41+00:00
GPU code performance != CPU code performance. You can have a visually trivial game (Dwarf Fortress pre-makeover) that will grind your CPU to a halt because of all the simulations it has to process. You can also have a visually complex game that will run fine because the rendering will be properly optimized to reduce drawcalls etc but as the number of units grows, it will push your CPU to the limit.
by sothatsit | 2025-11-08 03:04:06+00:00
AI helps most for low-value tasks as well. The real valuable problems are the ones that can’t be solved easily, and AI is usually much less help with those problems (e.g., system design, kernel optimisation, making business decisions). I’ve seen many people say how AI helps them complete more low-value tasks in less time, which is great but not as meaningful as other work that AI is not that good at yet.

You have to get quite sophisticated to use AI for most higher-value tasks, and the ROI is much less clear than for just helping you write boilerplate. For example, using AI to help optimise GPU kernels by having it try lots of options autonomously is interesting to me, but not trivial to actually implement. Copilot is not gonna cut it.
by an0malous | 2025-11-08 03:04:10+00:00
I’d also add these lessons I’ve personally learned:

- Greed is blinding even to intelligent people, especially greedy people in groups

- Society is incredibly vulnerable to lying, we mostly rely on the disincentive that people usually feel bad about it, but the ones who don’t can get away with anything.

- There’s really only a subtle difference between many successful startups and Ponzi schemes. Sam Altman’s grift is only one level more sophisticated than SBF or Elizabeth Holmes
by stingraycharles | 2025-11-08 03:04:36+00:00
Yeah I would love to use FreeBSD jails with ZFS and everything, it’s just that the whole cloud and containerization thing happened based on Linux and FreeBSD just never made it into that ecosystem.

You’ll be sacrificing a lot and have to hand-roll a lot if you want your organization to switch from Linux+docker to FreeBSD+jails
by calvinmorrison | 2025-11-08 03:07:25+00:00
being a compiler engineer is like making it in hollywood with a lot less glam. There are maybe 10-15 serious compiler projects out there, think LLVM, GCC, Microsoft, Java, then you've got virtual language bytecode intepreters.

The world needs maybe what, 5000, 10000 of these people maximum? In a world with 8 billion people?
by kayodelycaon | 2025-11-08 03:07:37+00:00
That’s a nice strawman you’re creating there.

An aircraft has fewer and simpler variables to deal with than ground vehicle.

If a ground vehicle runs a red light, it’s potentially fatal error. There are more of these for a car than there are for an airplane.

You don’t have to write automation to avoid hitting trees in a plane. An airplane just needs terrain data and a few algorithms.

There are a few enough airplanes and airplane manufacturers that you could regulate a specific algorithm for traffic avoidance.
by this_user | 2025-11-08 03:09:42+00:00
Altman definitely has enough wealth of his own to survive no matter what. But if you look at how he operates, it is pretty clear that what he really wants is power, and he is usually extremely good at getting it. But OpenAI is rapidly losing their leadership in the space, and it turns out that their product has no moat. Meanwhile, new Chinese open source SOTA models just keep coming on an almost daily basis.
by superkuh | 2025-11-08 03:10:13+00:00
The point is to prevent viral videos from getting widely viewed during their peak. To cut it off. It doesn't matter if the block is removed some days or weeks later and then there's a trickle of traffic. This is the status quo for corporations that wish to suppress content on Alphabet's platforms. Another well known recent example is Forbes attacks on Gamer's Nexus investigative documentary on the GPU black market that competed with their video.
by oxcidized | 2025-11-08 03:10:22+00:00
Admittedly I've not tried running on system RAM often, but every time I've tried it's been abysmally slow (< 1 T/s) when I've tried on something like KoboldCPP or ollama. Is there any particular method required to run them faster? Or is it just "get faster RAM"? I fully admit my DDR3 system has quite slow RAM...
by k310 | 2025-11-08 03:11:29+00:00
IIRC book and paper sites use ipfs in part or in whole.

And before I discovered the Apple "magic trick" Automatic Verification [0] I was being forced to solve a f%>|{>^ captcha with every archive.* site access, the Wayback Machine worked.

If it's (going to be) just de-listing the sites in dns, I just did a "host -a" on the sites, so I have IP addresses if names go away.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102591
by defrost | 2025-11-08 03:11:36+00:00
The issue isn't that billionaires aren't human, the problem very much is that billionaires are regular petty spiteful human beings with poor judgement, impulse control, odd beliefs and an the utter lack of checks and balances that can be disregarded when a human has a billion and more.

NotAllBillionaires, sure .. but it only takes a few to screw over millions of other humans on a whim.
by hoppp | 2025-11-08 03:12:33+00:00
I think every company would like to have that. OpenAI is in a hyped up position that it can get it, so they go for it.

I don't buy that they can create AGI by investing trillions in training models and infrastructure.

If you ask me, this is just more money spent on pollution.

The need to replace humans to be profitable, just sounds like the end goal is to destroy the planet with datacenters and hurt people generally.

Sounds like a net negative for the planet.
by bpodgursky | 2025-11-08 03:12:41+00:00
You can criticize OpenAI for many things but this was blatantly misquoted.

They were talking about backstops for chips, to get fabs constructed in the US. If anyone else said this, it would have been considered a great idea, both republicans and democrats talked about the same thing to get TSMC production into the US, but everyone pretended that OpenAI was talking about data centers in this context. They weren't/