MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crabmusket | 2025-11-23 02:16:13+00:00
Alternative: I do a lot of commits just marked "wip" as I go, then when I'm ready to consider a PR, I rebase my branch into something for public consumption. Some commits will get thoughtful messages when warranted, others will get one line, and the PR description will tie it all together with screenshots and links to the most interesting parts.

(On a good day, that is. Though even on a bad day I don't let "wip" commits into the main branch.)
by gus_massa | 2025-11-23 02:17:49+00:00
> The last version was posted on arXiv, a global repository for unpublished science research, in December.

It looks like it was never published.

HN discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115310 (180 points | Nov 12 2024 | 47 comments)

Interesting comment by lysecret

> Interesting, a large US company with over 1000 materials scientists (there can only be a handful of those) introduced a cutting-edge AI tool and decided to make a study out of it / randomize it and gave all the credentials to some econ PHD student. Would love to know more about how this came to be. Also, why his PHD supervisor didn't get a co-author, never seen that. I'm always slightly suspicious of these very strong results without any public data / way to reproduce it. We essentially have to believe 1 guys word.
by komali2 | 2025-11-23 02:17:54+00:00
Read diaries of anyone heteronormative living in a collapsing empire.

The Israeli experience is swayed heavily by decades of supremacist propaganda which is unfortunately becoming baked into the religion. I've had a surprising number of conversations with Israelis about politics that at some point involved them mentioning Israelis being "god's chosen people."

Even Israeli progressives have to couch opposition to war in desire to get the hostages back, or they'll face incredible social blowback. Not to mention those with religious oppositions to serving in the military are propagandized as "not contributing to Israeli society," since the only valid way to do that is commit violence on behalf of the State.
by Animats | 2025-11-23 02:19:37+00:00
The other extreme, where you can go inside everywhere, turns out to be boring. Second Life has that in some well-built areas. If you visit New Babbage, the steampunk city, there's almost a square kilometer of city. Almost every building has a functional interior. There are hundreds of shops, and dozens of bars. You can buy things in the shops, and maybe have a simulated beer in a pub. If anyone was around, you could talk to them. You can open doors and walk up stairs. You might find a furnished apartment, an office, or just empty rooms.

Other parts of Second Life have roadside motels. Each room has a bed, TV, bathroom, and maybe a coffee maker, all of which do something. One, with a 1950s theme, has a vibrating bed, which will make a buzzing sound if you pay it a tiny fee. Nobody uses those much.

No plot goes with all this. Unlike a game, the density of interesting events is low, closer to real life. This is the fundamental problem of virtual worlds. Realistic ones are boring.

Amusingly, Linden Lab has found a way to capitalize on this. They built a suburban housing subdivision, and people who buy a paid membership get an unfurnished house. This was so successful that there are now over 60,000 houses. There are themed areas and about a dozen house designs in each area. It's kind of banal, but seems to appeal to people for whom American suburbia is an unreachable aspiration. The American Dream, for about $10 a month.

People furnish their houses, have BBQs, and even mow their lawn. (You can buy simulated grass that needs regular mowing.)

So we have a good idea of the appeal of this.
by drtgh | 2025-11-23 02:20:19+00:00
You have a processor with more than eight threads, at same bus bandwidth, what do you choose, dual channeled or four channeled processor.

That number of threads will hit a bottleneck accessing only through to channels of memory.

I don't understand why you brought up the topic of single-threading in your response to the user, given that processors reached a frequency limit of 4 GHz, and 5 GHz with overclocking, a decade ago. This is why they increased the number of threads, but if they reduce the number of memory channels for consumer/desktop...
by jaredklewis | 2025-11-23 02:20:41+00:00
I’m confused.

Bounties for security holes make sense because you don’t need to submit the patch, just find the hole.

And bounties for open source (like in this case) also make sense because you have everything you need to submit a patch.

But for everything else (like big tech, startups, and so on) bounties can’t fix bugs because even if I find a bug, how am I going to patch it without access to the source code? How can someone submit a patch to Netflix or whatever?

IME your average SV startup has a long list of bugs they are aware of, but just haven’t gotten around to fixing because other priorities are in the way. But people can’t help patch unless you have an open development process.

Am I missing something?
by glenstein | 2025-11-23 02:21:02+00:00
They already do that. They invest the endowment, and right now it exists as a firewall to cover operations in the event that their search licensing revenue becomes unstable. The annual growth of the endowment is not nothing, but it's also nowhere near enough to fund their browser development on a yearly basis.

And while I don't love the dabbling in ad tech, and I do think there's been confusion around the user interface, I think by far the most unfair smear Mozilla has suffered is to claim they haven't been focusing on the core browser. Every year they're producing major internal engine overhauls that deliver important gains to everything from WebGPU to spidermonkey, to their full overhaul of the mobile browser, to Fission/Site Isolation work.

Since their Quantum project, which overhauled the browser practically from top to bottom in 2017 and delivered the stability and performance gains that everyone was asking for, they've done the equivalent of one "quantum unit" of work on other areas in the browser on pretty much an unbroken chain from then until now. It just doesn't get doesn't mentioned in headlines.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-23 02:21:17+00:00
> you should be honest about which classes of people that was referring to

I'll go with "all men" from the Declaration of Independence.

> the working poor are being absolutely crushed by capital right now

They're being crushed by the government. You cannot make a country wealthy by raising taxes and redistributing the money.

> your guys won!

I go with the "all men" thang.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-23 02:21:32+00:00
> I would not call huge the 4% market share.

4% was last year, it was 5% by this summer (a significant YoY increase and about what macOS had in 2010) and the Windows 10 end of support was only last month so the numbers from that aren't even in yet.

> Usually what is stopping us are the drivers that don't work in other distro kernels, or small utilities that might not have have been provided with source.

A lot of these machines are pure Intel or AMD hardware, or 95% and then have a Realtek network controller etc., and all the drivers are in the kernel tree. Sometimes the laptops that didn't come with Linux to begin with need a blob WiFi driver but plenty of them don't and many of the ones that do will have an M.2 slot and you can install a different one. It's not at all difficult to find one with entirely open source drivers and there is no apparent reason for that to get worse if Linux becomes more popular.
by jjcc | 2025-11-23 02:24:58+00:00
Exactly. That's less noticed by many people. Just give you two examples:

1.While China scaled up the EV production, the development of Hydrogen based technology is still going on. There are some progress but lost in the bigger noise of EV.

2.China became the largest automobile exporter, leading by EV. But most people thought that's because EV took over ICE. That's partially true because EV dominate the export. What the most people missing is a quite portion of export are ICE cars. Because the ICE engine from China achieved higher energy transformation efficiency than Japanese and German cars. Again the information was lost in the EV noise.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 02:25:36+00:00
Depends on what you want out of your reactor. You want to make a synthetic fuel, Thorium not Uranium. You want a liquid fueled reactor (because its safer and proliferation resistant), Thorium not Uranium. You want 900C heat instead of 300C heat, Thorium not Uranium.

The fuel costs of a NPP are a tiny rounding error. If you want electricity and want to build it today, Uranium not Thorium. You are using arguments from 50 years ago when many incorrect assumptions about cost structure and fuel availability were used to make decisions.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-11-23 02:25:52+00:00
> Nah it's nothing to do with women, it's simple jealousy.

On the same note here. It's quite interesting what women are quick to attribute any negative behaviour or feeling against them as a sexism and maybe this is a result of some popular culture behaviour.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057441
by epolanski | 2025-11-23 02:26:11+00:00
> There is no law the court can do anything it wants, arrest anyone for any reason. There is no expiry date for their term.

The judiciary does not write the laws, only applies them.

I'm quite sure that removing a tracking bracelet and trying to flee is against the law.

While it's true that the judiciary holds lots of weight in Brazil, let's not forget that different branches fighting over their boundaries is the norm in any functioning government and democracy.

We're merely more used to the judiciary bending to the executive, Brazil's an exception on this.
by watersb | 2025-11-23 02:26:16+00:00
FWIW I was watching a warfare simulation game on YouTube yesterday, and the players were talking about the 1998 Cavalese cable. I remembered reports of it vividly; as a student pilot, one of my recurrent nightmares is of massive electrical cables everywhere, flying through that and trying to escape.

It was far worse for the people on that cable car. It was awful then and still awful now.
by sdenton4 | 2025-11-23 02:26:21+00:00
Yep! Think of LORA for network fine tuning. Monarch (linked above) uses lots of block diagonality. These ideas also make flash attention flash.

I haven't seen banded matrices as much, though (with weight sharing) they're just convolutions. One nice feature of block diagonality is that you can express it as batched matrix multiplication, reusing all the existing matmul kernels.
by benjoffe | 2025-11-23 02:27:16+00:00
A write-up of a new Gregorian date conversion algorithm.

It achieves a 30–40% speed improvement on x86-64 and ARM64 (Apple M4 Pro) by reversing the direction of the year count and reducing the operation count (4 multiplications instead of the usual 7+).

Paper-style explanation, benchmarks on multiple architectures, and full open-source C++ implementation.
by xpe | 2025-11-23 02:27:46+00:00
I’ve worked at many companies with market mechanisms of sorts in play enough to matter. As one example, product lines that do better (as evidenced by market feedback) get more clout and revenue and command more influence. As another, there are a wide variety of ad-hoc teams that form not because of hierarchy but because people have learned who they like working with and have seen results with. These are closer to markets than C&C or hierarchical decision making.

Next, to avoid a definitional stalemate and talking past each other, let me try a different angle. If you want to predict what a company will do next, what mix of models do you use upon?

If I were to predict a company’s production choices, I would model them as being very sensitive to costs and changing dynamics to maximize profit . I would not do that when modeling a centrally planned economy. For that I would use longer time scales and do long supply chain analysis in the service of a social welfare function. See what I mean? What am I missing from your POV?
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-23 02:27:55+00:00
> What language do you put that list in? Would you still want to show it to every visitor when you know most of them speak a particular language?

Judging by... a large number of websites, you make the list available in a topbar, and each language is named in itself. You don't apply one language to the entire list.

Here's the first page that popped into my head as one that would probably offer multiple languages (and it does!):

https://www.dyson.com/en

They've got the list in a page footer instead of a header, but otherwise it's an absolutely standard language selector. It does technically identify countries rather than languages. The options range from Azərbaycan to Україна. They are -- of course -- displayed to every visitor.

Why would you want to force someone to consume your website in the wrong language?

And why would the list be in a single language, again?
by vee-kay | 2025-11-23 02:28:29+00:00
I humbly disagree. Humans have inherent bias, and politics and ideologies skew their behavior, even if they themselves mistakenly think it is well intentioned when it really is not.

Social media and news media, in general, are controlled and dominated by Leftists. And that inherent bias and prejudiced ideology is very evident on social media posts, news articles and Wiki articles, especially about my country and culture. And it's because humans are being taught (and some of them are taught or indoctrinated to perpetuate) skewed and ideology driven versions of history and (mis)information for centuries.
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-11-23 02:29:06+00:00
Yes, to simulate pheromones and related stimulus, that too, but I'm sorry if you already don't know this but a faint smell of urine would be a big deal to a non-trivial amount of men for immersion, without going into too much detail "squirting" fans and all the ecosystem around such kind of fetishes.
by komali2 | 2025-11-23 02:30:56+00:00
I feel like the implication here is "see, it's not so bad, the world didn't end, not a big deal!" But plenty of these articles describe small events that absolutely contributed to world changing, and often world degrading, things. For better or worse the collapse of the Soviet Union completely changed the world and I've heard compelling arguments this had consequences as faraway as the weakening of Unions in America and the subsequent degredation of labor protections. Or the fall of one of the three world lowers led to one becoming far too powerful (USA) rather than having a somewhat more balanced tri-hegemony.

There's articles about the ongoing conflict against Palestine, the failure to resolve which through choosing escalation of settling and apartheid we still obviously feel today and which led to tragedies such as 9/11 and Oct 7 having fertile grounds to occur.

We see the application of "Reaganomics" (neoliberalism) in Western democracies so we can watch real time as regulations are turned into tools of Capital or defanged to allow corporations to run rampant, the dismantling of labor protections, and the beginning of privatization.

If anything this just teaches the lesson of "no actually the things that are happening really do matter." I say that as someone that doesn't read the news and believes that that makes me much less stressed out than other people I know who daily read the news. But for me it's less about reading the news or not and more about accepting lost causes - for example, I see the USA as a lost cause for a comfortable and safe life for the duration of my lifetime, and so I left, and now I don't really care about internal politics there the same way I don't care about starving children in Africa - well of course I care in my heart but in my mind I don't stress day to day about it because what can I do other than the occasional donation? So too for daily suffering in America and so I don't read about it to uselessly add to my sadness or stress.
by throwaway-11-1 | 2025-11-23 02:31:19+00:00
were blacks considered men? did it include women? it feels like you're purposely ignoring history

Btw ~40% of the people i've met in homeless outreach have full time jobs, taxes are not what's keeping them homeless. In china 90% of the population own their homes, I'm sorry but the all that libertarian shit is such an obvious myth to protect the rich. Every country I've ever visited with more redistributive policies has a substantially better quality of life
by araes | 2025-11-23 02:31:46+00:00
They actually have an Enterprise Edition [1]

[1] https://www.firefox.com/en-US/browsers/enterprise/

Features: [2]

- Rapid Release or Extended Support Release channels - MSI deployment wrapper - ADM and AMDX group policy templates - MacOS plist file policy templates - Linux target JSON file “policies.json” policy templates - “Open in IE” extension for ActiveX

Does not have the built-in DLP you're requesting (at as far as I could find) and Firefox already has pretty aggressive adblocking that sets off lots of sites for me.

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-enterprise-vs-n...
by glenstein | 2025-11-23 02:32:25+00:00
I think the vast majority of attempts to shoehorn ai into the browser are deeply unimaginative and very much garnering a "who ordered that?" reaction. But I suspect we're going to converge on some specific use cases that everyone's going to want and it might just be important to be in the game now as we collectively figure out what they are.

Recently some Ycombinator funded project got highly upvoted on HN, a Chrome based extension that used LLM capabilities to effectively do grease monkey style scripting live in response to human requests. Now that is interesting, and it's a specific application that's actually meaningful and it's not just another AI chat sidebar.

I think it's a matter of workshopping but I bet we're going to be discovering things users actually want that are not yet obvious to us. The example I keep thinking of is non-stupid agent tasking. I wouldn't mind an agent that browsed Amazon for Kindle unlimited hard sci-fi books with critical acclaim. I would be willing to be there's going to be numerous "whybdidn't I think of that" uses cooked up in the next few years.
by idle_zealot | 2025-11-23 02:32:31+00:00
> Companies can't really be expected to police themselves.

Not so long as we don't punish them for failure to. We need a corporate death penalty for an organization that, say, knowingly conspires to destroy the planet's habitability. Then the bean counters might calculate the risk of doing so as unacceptable. We're so ready and willing to punish individuals for harm they do to other individuals, but if you get together in a group then suddenly you can plot the downfall of civilization and get a light fine and carry on.
by Aeolun | 2025-11-23 02:32:48+00:00
Ok, the big problem in this whole thing is assymetrical nature of the thing. The Israelli military is a military funded and shaped by the US one, and it’s a mammoth in all the ways that matter.

Hamas, after years of being supressed, is a group of militants with handguns.

The Isrealli response to those terrorist with guns killing and abducting some of their people, was to flatten and impose collective punishment on the whole country that those people came from.

I have no issues with them defending themselves, but I do with the disproportionate nature of what has been happening.

It’s especially ironic because the jews are one of the few people in the world that should have learned that lesson.
by le-mark | 2025-11-23 02:33:41+00:00
The author went old turkey. That is rough. For me going cold turkey caused massive headaches. I cut out caffeine a decade ago. It was a haphazard affair. I wanted to improve my sleep, so I started limiting my intake by stopping in the afternoon. At the same time I started having anxiety and panic attacks in the morning before my first dose. It was so bad I lost 10 pounds. That’s when I started to figure out “hey this might be a problem”. Over the course of a month I reduced my caffeine intake to zero. No headaches. Panic attacks went away. Ymmv.
by RHSeeger | 2025-11-23 02:34:01+00:00
This was a fantastic writeup, thanks. If you don't mind an additional question...

How does this work,

function coolPeopleOnly(person: Person & { isCool: true }) { // only cool people can enter here } const person = { name: "Jerred", isCool: true, } satisfies Person; coolPeopleOnly(person);

Since

- person isn't const, so person.isCool could be mutated

- coolPeopleOnly requires that it's input mean not only Person, but isCool = true.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 02:34:19+00:00
Germany has the most expensive and dirtiest grid in the developed world. They get the majority of their baseload power from other countries, often generated by nuclear or gas. Also, that you think they have 500 GW of anything that generates power is pretty funny. The only thing your comment says is that you don't understand anything about how power is generated or how an electrical grid works. People like you are why we still use so much FFs. You can't solve AGW with accounting tricks.

PS Maybe ask Spain how that renewable baseload generated power is doing for them.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-23 02:35:33+00:00
> The government is the body for setting up the economic rules, it is not bound by it.

When a new law is proposed, the Congressional Budget Office prepares a report on the impact it will have on the budget.

Now suppose a new law is proposed that will remove an existing unfair advantage of large companies over small ones, causing more small companies to form and take market share from incumbent larger ones. If large companies pay a 50% tax rate and small companies pay a 10% tax rate, the CBO analysis will show tax revenue going down. Then in order to make up the shortfall at a given level of deficit spending, the government would have to raise taxes or reduce spending, both of which are unpopular, so instead the bill gets tabled and the huge companies retain their unfair advantage. That's the perverse incentive we don't want to see.

> Money is created by the government, it doesn't have a value yet.

If the government can create an unlimited amount of money with no drawbacks, why don't they just send everyone a check for a trillion dollars? If they can't then whatever they want to spend in excess of what they can get away with printing or borrowing has to come from tax revenues, and then what happens when you set up an incentive structure where the government gets more money to spend the bigger they allow companies to get?

> Sure, there are a lot of idiots now-a-days, that think a state should work like a business and make profits, but they are misled.

This is a straw man. The only people who think the government should make a net profit are the people trying to build some kind of sovereign wealth fund. The US government isn't doing anything even resembling that -- it has been running massive deficits for decades. It's to the point that interest on the debt is now a major component of the budget -- we're now spending about as much on interest as on Medicare.
by ksec | 2025-11-23 02:35:48+00:00
And I am 100% sure a lot of other industries in commodities would have been convicted of price fixing if we look into it. And I say this as someone who have witnessed it first hand.

Unfortunately commodity business is not sexy, it doesn't get the press, nor does it get told even in business schools. But a lot of the times these call called price fixing is a natural phenomenon.

I wont even go into what get decided in court doesn't always mean it is right.

I will also add we absolutely want the DRAM and NAND or in fact any industries to make profits, or as much profits as it could. What is far more important is where do they spend not those profits. I didn't look into SK Hynix but both Samsung and Micron spends significant amount of R&D at least try to lower the total production cost of DRAM per GB. We want them to make healthy margin selling DRAM at $1/GB, not losing money and then go bankrupt.