MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by miamibre | 2025-11-03 22:26:46+00:00
Exactly! People who think that the vitriol is just cordoned off to social media haven't been paying attention to the very real spillover that has already claimed lives.

I think the issue is that mainstream media like movies showcases political violence as very well organized and full of manifestos when the majority of these attempts are very poorly planned and the people carrying it out clearly have mental disorders so it's very hard to pinpoint what ideology they are promoting.

I also believe that these recent attempts have showcased that the current political establishment has been doing an awful job at reconciliation and instead pouring gasoline by refusing to make a joint statements condemning the violence or making any sort of gesture that isn't blatantly bipartisan.

If you look at the political violence of the 60's and 70's in the US, there's a lot of overlap but at least the government took steps to not only keep it under control but congress actually took steps in dealing with the hot button issues. Nowadays it seems like we're just kicking the can down the road and blaming the other side for it. I mean just look at the current shutdown and tell me if this state of affairs won't result in further anger and people taking action with their own hands rather than rely on political institutions.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-03 22:26:51+00:00
https://npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/16/392789753/a...

https://irishtimes.com/news/remarkable-story-of-maths-genius...

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/64017/what-secti...

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by khedoros1 | 2025-11-03 22:27:39+00:00
"Video card" was the more general word. "VGA" is one of the IBM video cards for PCs that later became a de facto standard, as its behavior was cloned by other companies. It's sometimes used descriptively to talk about the 640x480 resolution, or the DE-15 connector that remained a standard connection for analog video output on personal computers for a long time.
by shirro | 2025-11-03 22:27:50+00:00
The US is in a recession when the AI bubble is taken out. So obviously jobs are in decline. Machine learning hires are up because there are billions of dollars in circular financing.

While consumers are generally receptive to assistive machine learning like speech recognition, translation, limited auto-complete I think there is a huge backlash towards it being used to generate content and as far as I know all the major AI companies are losing huge amounts of money with every transaction. I am sure AI is being widely used as a reason for staff reductions but the reality is more likely sales are down, costs are up and head count is too high for current business requirements.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-03 22:28:09+00:00
I never had data outright vanish, but similar to the comment you replied to, it was just unreliable. I found Syncthing much more useful over the long haul. The last 3 times I've had to do anything with it were simply to manage having new machines replace old ones.

Syncthing sadly doesn't let you not download some folders or files, but I just moved those to other storage. It beats the Nextcloud headache.
by mindcrime | 2025-11-03 22:28:27+00:00
This thing feels like a mortal danger to the (up to 8x!) iron pipes / hydrants it's pulling from,

When pumping a fire engine supplied by a hydrant (or any other pressurized source, as opposed to drafting from a static water source like a pond or lake) there's an idea of "residual pressure" which is monitored by a gauge on the pump panel. The engineer is responsible for making sure the residual pressure doesn't drop below the level where damage would occur to the water system, supply hose, or the pump itself. It's been a few years, but I think most departments spec somewhere around 20psi as the minimum residual pressure they allow.

Also wondering: what replaced this!

The Super Pumper[1], of course! :-)

The new one isn't quite as extreme, not tractor drawn and no separate engine. This is more of a traditional fire engine style platform, but the specs are still pretty impressive.

[1]: https://www.firefighternation.com/lifestyle/new-fdny-super-p...
by schwarzrules | 2025-11-03 22:28:50+00:00
>> basically all the money will have been spent on Nvidia GPUs that depreciate to 0 over 4 years

I agree the depreciation schedule always seems like a real risk to the whole financial assumptions these companies/investors make, but a question I've wondered: - Will there be an unexpected opportunity when all these "useless" GPUs are put out to pasture? It just seems like saying a factory will be useless because nobody wants to buy an IBM mainframe, but an innovative company can repurpose a non-zero part of that infrastructure for another use case.
by dg0 | 2025-11-03 22:28:50+00:00
Nice article, but somewhat overstates how bad 1995 was meant to be.

A single image generally took nothing like a minute. Most people had moved to 28.8K modems that would deliver an acceptable large image in 10-20 seconds. Mind you, the full-screen resolution was typically 800x600 and color was an 8-bit palette… so much less data to move.

Moreover, thanks to “progressive jpeg”, you got to see the full picture in blocky form within a second or two.

And of course, with pages was less busy and tracking cookies still a thing of the future, you could get enough of a news site up to start reading in less time that it can take today.

One final irk is that it’s little overdone to claim that “For the first time in history, you can exchange letters with someone across the world in seconds”. Telex had been around for decades, and faxes, taking 10-20 seconds per page were already commonplace.
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by zahlman | 2025-11-03 22:29:04+00:00
This one is scheduled to land in the next "minor" version, 3.15. Python has an annual release cadence; 3.14 came out recently and 3.15 is due next October.

In general, most PEPs are authored targeting the "next minor version" at the time of proposal; but they may be intentionally deferred at the start, and sometimes the process can take multiple years anyway.

There are also PEPs that don't involve any change to the Python language, standard library or interpreter. In particular, there are PEPs that exist simply to document existing practice (or changes thereto), PEPs that concern governance (the Python Software Foundation, the Steering Council etc.), and PEPs that cover related special interests, such as packaging standards (which in turn can range from technical details about how metadata is formatted, to changes in PyPI's API).

https://peps.python.org/pep-0000/
by F3nd0 | 2025-11-03 22:29:20+00:00
Are we talking about the kind of syrup that’s essentially just a solution of sugar, or the kind of syrup with other flavourful ingredients? I was mostly concerned with the sugar, since it’s detrimental to our health (and following your argument, you can always add more sugar if you will it); it’s really the flavour that’s the bread and butter of the drink.
by paxys | 2025-11-03 22:29:29+00:00
There's a lot more to infrastructure spending than GPUs. Companies are building data centers, cooling systems, power plants (including nuclear), laying cables under oceans, launching satellites. Bubble or not, all of this will continue to be useful for decades in the future.

Heck if nothing else all the new capacity being created today may translate to ~zero cost storage, CPU/GPU compute and networking available to startups in the future if the bubble bursts, and that itself may lead to a new software revolution. Just think of how many good ideas are held back today because deploying them at scale is too expensive.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-03 22:30:07+00:00
I don't think that there is some good alternative to open source syncthing ,the way syncthing just does syncing no

Let me know if you know of any alternative which have helped you but I haven't tried syncthing but I have heard good things about it overall so I feel like I like it already even if I haven't tried it I guess.
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by xfalcox | 2025-11-03 22:30:43+00:00
I was taken back when I saw what was basically zero recall loss in the real world task of finding related topics, by doing the same thing you described where we over capture with binary embeddings, and only use the full (or half) precision on the subset.

Making the storage cost of the index 32 times smaller is the difference of being able to offer this at scale without worrying too much about the overhead.
by lukemercado | 2025-11-03 22:30:54+00:00
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by gambiting | 2025-11-03 22:30:55+00:00
>>On a decent hill you can get a regular bike going >60mph.

Yes, I've done this before by riding all the way up a local mountain on a road bike, clad in lycra, then on the way down I went over 60mph. It was terrifying and the physical fitness required to get up there in the first place required months of riding to actually do it. Meanwhile literal kids ride these on pavements, in between people, in cities where pedestrians walk - it's simply not acceptable. And I do own and ride an ebike(limited to 15.5mph) legally.
by vintermann | 2025-11-03 22:30:57+00:00
Yes, that's probably the excuse that got the guy off the hook for burning the entire written history of those civilizations.

But it was not actually a good excuse. Burning those books was still wrong. Even people around him understood how wrong it was. We do not have to view colonialism from the stratosphere, we can judge the actions individually down at the ground.

We know why he wanted to focus on other things than the things he was actually personally responsible for, but what's your motive? Got a project of your own to defend?
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-03 22:30:59+00:00
I understand the temptation to compare LLMs and computer vision, but I think it’s misleading to equate generative AI with feature-identification or descriptive AI systems like those in early computer vision. LLMs, which focus on generating human-like text and reasoning across diverse contexts, operate in a fundamentally different domain than descriptive AI, which primarily extracts patterns or features from data, like early vision systems did for images.

Comparing their 'real-world accuracy' oversimplifies their distinct goals and applications. While LLMs drive economic value through versatility in language tasks, their maturity shouldn’t be measured against the same metrics as descriptive systems from decades ago.
by observationist | 2025-11-03 22:31:14+00:00
Right, the 250 microgram figure was the maximum amount that you might dump into your system in one go, normal DMT blood concentration is far lower. The bare minimum for a psychedelic experience is 20k micrograms, but many people won't notice anything overt until 35k+, and a full "breakthrough" experience requires 50k or more, generally speaking, independent of weight.

For such a tiny amount of DMT to have a significant impact, it would have to be 40 to 100 times more "effective" than usual, or be supported by the soup of other chemicals released in those situations in a sort of entourage effect, with MAO metabolism reduced, and all sorts of neurons firing that otherwise would be silent.

NDEs often overlap real events, where full-on DMT trips shut out the world, so the entourage effect theory makes the most sense to me. Your brain gets overwhelmed, and the dump of DMT all at once, with serotonin, dopamine, and adrenaline maxed out as well, contributes to a predictable psychedelic effect on subjective experience.
by cyberax | 2025-11-03 22:31:33+00:00
The early trains did not significantly change the situation, they were more useful for trade and long trips. They were not frequent enough for daily commutes for the majority of city residents.

London and Paris were real outliners, with the early adoption of steam-powered subways. Mostly because they had to due to their size, but it really was the tram that initially allowed the working-class city population to commute freely.

It's also interesting that it coincides with the significant boost in productivity, and also with general improvements to workers' rights.
by 4cidBurn | 2025-11-03 22:32:06+00:00
I haven’t had a chance to download The Barge yet; it’s still on my to-do list. A few months ago, back in July, I went through the PureVolume archives and built a handy searchable database and app. It ended up being about 181GB, so I didn’t want to host it myself, but I did make a torrent.
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by cal_dent | 2025-11-03 22:32:45+00:00
I think adjacent to this is an element of reduced risk taking from younger people because the stakes are much higher (or at least feel much higher). I've worked with so many smart and talented grads who have seemingly planned their lives/career to the nth degree, in a way that was certainly not that common in my broad circles when I was a similar age.

From conversations with them, it all stems from the view of you can't afford any mistakes/missteps if you want a relatively benign type of comfortable middle class life, in terms of things like housing in particular. If that'd your starting point, you're looking to ge a guaranteedish success at anything you're trying to do and that inherently puts a lid on how much you want to deviate or be creative from the norm. More so than ever, I think, people are more aware of optimising monetisation in all aspects of their lives, and that sort of results in more things being the same or only having minor deviation from what "works".
by Animats | 2025-11-03 22:32:57+00:00
> I saw just a couple nights ago some kid doing what appeared to be about 40mph on an eBike. Wind in his hair, not pedaling, just blasting it.

Saw an ebike zip past me at about 40 MPH in a wheelie, little motor screaming, splitting a lane in traffic. (El Camino Real, Silicon Valley). If anything happens ahead of them, they're toast. Can't stop and can't evade.
by saltysalt | 2025-11-03 22:32:58+00:00
Not sure the dial-up analogy fits, instead I tend to think we are in the mainframe period of AI, with large centralised computing models that are so big and expensive to host, only a few corporations can afford to do so. We rent a computing timeshare from them (tokens = punch cards).

I look forward to the "personal computing" period, with small models distributed everywhere...
by cmiles8 | 2025-11-03 22:33:54+00:00
The amount of Big Tech cash flow being diverted into capital investment coupled with the lack of viable business models to actually fund that outflow of cash is outright scary.

A lot of parallels here to infrastructure buildouts leading up to the .com implosion. A lot of dark fiber got dusted off later and used, but unclear if the present buildout of GPUs will have similar decades-long utility.
by swores | 2025-11-03 22:34:03+00:00
Oops yeah I forgot to state that, thanks for pointing it out.

There are cheaper options than Google Workspace (which is £11.80/month) for quality email hosts for your custom domain though - like FastMail (£4.50/month), ProtonMail (£8.19/month), or Microsoft 365 Business Basic (£5.52/month).

Personally I think it's a price well worth paying for knowing you genuinely own your own email address (while not having to manage both the software and the reputation of your own email server) - even more so if you either have friends/family to share the cost with (one domain cost between you, and potentially discounted per-account cost for multiple users depending on the plans available from the various email host options, such as Fastmail family going as low as $2.33/user/month), or if you also want other services bundled with email (such as Google Workspace's other tools, or Office 365 software, etc)

But for anyone who can't afford it, the free alternative of Option 2 from my comment above is still a big upgrade on just relying on a single account for everything.
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by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-03 22:34:16+00:00
https://npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/16/392789753/a...

https://irishtimes.com/news/remarkable-story-of-maths-genius...

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/64017/what-secti...

https://cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edit...