MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EliteGadget | 2025-11-30 15:37:26+00:00
And I get totally different results. It not just the distro. It the version of the Kernel, the version of proton, whether you are using X or Wayland etc. Etc. Etc.

The very point I am making is that it is so variable. So posting benchmarks pretending that it proves anything is asinine.

I won't even get into all the other issues with the mouse getting lost on some games, text being too small/to large. Having to fuck around with LD_PRELOAD flags and loads other gumpth that is never mentioned on a YouTube video.
by epistasis | 2025-11-30 15:37:34+00:00
You are not being honest, but you are trying to your best to undermine the idea of honesty.

Every vaccine safety study was questioned and examined, thoroughly.

Introducing this idea of "mocked and ostracized," is a rhetorical tactic to try to establish the idea of some sort of mistreated people that other mistreated people can identify with. It's not based in truth of how the scientific community worked. If there's "mocking and ostracization" then it's in some sort of other social space, not in the evaluation of the vaccine safety studies.

And by trying to conflate these two areas, you are trying to undermine the very idea of truth seeking, and replace it with this weird vibes-based in-group/out-group emotionally-based judgements.

We need to pivot to rationality, and away from in-group/out-group analysis. Let's evaluate claims on their merits, not based on who is making them.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 15:38:13+00:00
> Wouldn’t running something like this 24/7 cause a substantial energy consumption?

Obviously depends on the actual usage, and parent's specific setup, lots of motherboards/CPUs/GPUs/RAM allow you to tune the frequencies and allows you to downclock almost anything. Finally, we have no idea about the energy source in this case, could be they live in a country with lots of wind and solar power, if we're being charitable.
by dagmx | 2025-11-30 15:38:21+00:00
This is something that is unlikely to be merged into Blender.

It’s not usable standalone as it requires a companion app and a companion device.

If Blender did want to integrate it, there’s nothing novel here that would prevent them writing their own. There’s plenty of similar plugins, and it’s just forwarding events from the companion device.

The place where it would make the most sense to add would be for Blender on the iPad where it would require no companion device at all.
by keepamovin | 2025-11-30 15:38:34+00:00
I feel a graph diagram (hub and spoke, showing "data flow") would be a useful alt view here.

Cool website. As others note if this could tie in deep sources like FB, X, Reddit, etc...it would be almost "chain of evidence" canonical.

A view where websites/sources were associated with geo data (possibly involving a globe or map) would be very cool, too.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-30 15:38:59+00:00
That's easily solved with labor market reform. First implement federal and state law that requires every worker performing any profession to have a college degree in that field.

Then companies are evaluated on how much work is produced in their business (for example by revenue), and they have to either contract the equivalent number of people with college degrees, or even better - license the degree from a college graduate. This can also be used to pay for tuition. The student gets a mortgage that pays for her education when she enters college, and then the lender has the right to part of either her salary, or the licensing fee for her degree to companies that need it, or to people who need it.

Let's say a chef who hasn't gone to culinary college, he can pay a culinary college graduate 20% of his salary to use their degree, which is a professional license. Or a company needing programmers. They can hire immigrants or an AI to program, and pay licensing fees to computer science graduates who have the degree.

Think what I thriving market for banks, investors, and insurance companies! They will be able to package these licenses and offer them on the market to individual workers or to companies for competitive and efficient rates. The college student of course gets rewarded as well, as they can rent out their degree, or even sell it. So a good student can get several degrees, and have a very good income from both his own work and from degree licensing fees. Of course we'll make sure that students belonging to an oppressed class be allowed to license their one degree to several places at the same time.
by keithlfrost | 2025-11-30 15:39:10+00:00
Elixir Livebook is my tool of choice for Advent of Code. The language is well-suited for the puzzles, I can write some Markdown if I need to record some algebra or my thought process, the notebook format serves as a REPL for instant code testing, and if the solution doesn't fit neatly into an executable form, I can write up my manual steps as well.
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by robby1110 | 2025-11-30 15:39:56+00:00
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by forgotoldacc | 2025-11-30 15:40:02+00:00
I'll be the voice of dissent here. I've heard nonstop praise for Anker online. Bought a couple keyboards and adapters from them and they all failed within a year. My wife got a mobile battery from them and that ended up dying in under a year as well. I'd be willing to write off one bad item, but I've had no good experiences and the pattern is clear to me.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 15:40:44+00:00
> Microsoft already discloses extensive disclosures on key human rights risks, and has an independent assessment each year of how they manage risks and its commitment to protecting freedom of expression and user privacy

Where can one find those extensive disclosures, especially for year 2024/2025? I'd love to hear how Microsoft are protecting freedom of expression and user privacy in a country like Saudi Arabia, which has a track record of excelling at whatever you'd call the opposite of those two things.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-30 15:40:47+00:00
Well, you also have those who are capable but not necessarily willing.

I’m increasingly leaning that direction. Day job is software dev, have been using and/or tinkering with some form of *nix for almost 25 years, and have been using computers for even longer and sometimes I just don’t have the patience for fiddling around with computers to coax them into doing what I want them to.
by MisterTea | 2025-11-30 15:41:18+00:00
I still have an old Anker 20,000 mAh power bank that works fine. Might not have the same charge ability as it once had but I can still get 2-3 charges out of it for a Pixel 8 Pro. Has 4 LED's to display charge level and a button that flashes them when you want to check status.

I bought a UGREEN bank on a recommendation and it was a buggy mess. It discharged more than it should when charging and when plugged in it rapidly charged to 100% which was sus. Graphical menu was weird and displayed ambiguous graphic messages to avoid text. These things feel like time bombs.
by mietek | 2025-11-30 15:41:37+00:00
Threads and locks are fundamentally the wrong abstraction for most scenarios. This is explained in complementary ways in two of the finest technical books ever written, Joe Armstrong's "Programming Erlang" and Simon Marlow's "Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell". I highly recommend both.

Thank you for many fond memories of playing Glider and Pararena.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-11-30 15:41:52+00:00
> Introducing this idea of "mocked and ostracized," is a rhetorical tactic to try to establish the idea of some sort of mistreated people that other mistreated people can identify with. It's not based in truth of how the scientific community worked. If there's "mocking and ostracization" then it's in some sort of other social space, not in the evaluation of the vaccine safety studies. And by trying to conflate these two areas, you are trying to undermine the very idea of truth seeking, and replace it with this weird vibes-based in-group/out-group emotionally-based judgements.

Well put
by baranul | 2025-11-30 15:42:36+00:00
Sadly, this appears to be true. For whatever strange reasons, Rust (and Zig) are glazed and hyped beyond any sense and way out of proportion to their language rankings (see TIOBE)[1]. Rust is not even in the TIOBE top 10. Zig is barely in their top 50.

These two languages look like they have a weird kind of "protected and special status" on HN. Other programming language don't get anything like the push and special treatment that these do.

[1]: https://archive.md/sJRyf (TIOBE Index Novemeber 2025)
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 15:42:37+00:00
Not sure if you're American, but investment funds in other countries, especially those with "hints of socialism" usually don't put "profit above all else" like is common in America, hence "good enough" is usually just that, good enough.

Seems they're doing exactly what is expected of them, staying around the benchmark index, so that sounds pretty good:

> The fund has outperformed the benchmark index set by the Ministry of Finance by 0.24 percentage point since 1998.
by arunabha | 2025-11-30 15:42:52+00:00
>> Or maybe he was as arrogant as he seemed and believed he knew better than everyone else.

Do you have any references for this? Our understanding of Covid evolved pretty rapidly during the pandemic and as usual hindsight is 20/20.

I have no doubt that *you* are convinced of your statement. I'd just like to understand what data you based your conviction on.
by teiferer | 2025-11-30 15:42:56+00:00
> could be they live in a country with lots of wind and solar power, if we're being charitable.

Because solar wind and hydro have no impact on the environment at all. Or nuclear.

I wish people would understand that waste is waste. Even less waste is still waste.

(I don't argue for fossil fuels here, mind you.)

Plus, the countries have shared grids. Any kWh you use can't be used by someone else, so may come from coal when they do, for all you know. It's a false rationalization.
by tim333 | 2025-11-30 15:43:13+00:00
I still think Ukraine wasn't primarily about Russia's military security though. I mean the US/Nato could stick missiles in Estonia if they wanted.

It may have been about political security. If Ukraine which is basically at least part Russian had become a prosperous democracy on Russia's doorstep it would make it harder for Putin to justify his autocracy. In fact that one may come to pass.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-30 15:43:42+00:00
> You could never get a Trump or an RFK Jr without these two things.

Fully agree with the rest but not with this. Pure and simple economic devastation is enough - yes, the Iraq war did a number on y'all... but most countries in Europe didn't join in on that particular shitshow and still got our version of Trump.

Hell I'd say even the 2008 bank bailouts aren't the problem. The uber rich looting the country for all it's worth, that's been a staple of human society, it doesn't mean automated flip to fascism.

IMHO, the true problem rather is that we (i.e. Western countries) allowed unrestricted trade with Asia, in particular China and India - our greedy big corporations swooped in and moved a lot of economic activity providing decent paid jobs of all skill levels there. Production mostly went off to China, service (i.e. callcenters) to India, high-tech to South Korea and especially Taiwan. And there was nothing domestic, other than maybe be a drone in an Amazon warehouse or Walmart (that, in turn, destroyed even more decent paid jobs in small retail!), to provide alternative gainful employment.

That is what destroyed democracy the most - the devastation and the utter ignorance of politicians.
by derbOac | 2025-11-30 15:43:48+00:00
There's some insights there about the base rate of correct responses and pretraining to boost that. Basically searching a suboptimal versus optimal area of the model space at a suboptimal versus optimal rate.

I think the framing of the discussion in general is kind of misleading though, because it kind of avoids the question of "information inefficient about what?"

In RL, the model is becoming more informative about a stimulus-action-feedback space; in SL the model is becoming more informative about a stimulus-feedback space. RL is effectively "built for" searching a larger space.

In situations like the essay where you are directly comparing SL and RL, you're kind of saying for RL "the action space is restricted to dictionary X and the feedback space is binary yes or no" and for SL "the feedback space is restricted to dictionary X". So in a certain sense you're equating the RL action space to the SL feedback space.

In that case, maybe searching over suboptimal regions of the RL-action-SL-feedback space is inefficient. But the reason why, I think RL exists is because it generalizes to situations where the feedback and action space is bigger. Maybe you want to differentially associate different responses with different rewards, or sample a response space that is so large that you can't define it a priori. Then SL breaks down?

Maybe this is obvious but I guess I get a little uneasy about talking about information efficiency of RL and SL without a broader framework of equivalence and what information is being represented by the model in both cases. It seems to me RL is a kind of superset of SL in terms of what it is capable of representing, which maybe leads to inefficiencies when it's not being used to its fullest.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-30 15:44:03+00:00
To me, this sounds like a good change. And FWIW, I an finding I am using dillo more and more these days.

I went to gitlab from github due to Microsoft changes, my needs are very simple so far gitlab seems OK.

I also mirror just the current source on sdf.org via gopher. If gitlab causes issues this could very well become my main site.
by epistasis | 2025-11-30 15:44:37+00:00
It wasn't the CDC doing vaccine mandates, it was some employers, by their own choice.

If the mandates were the problem, wouldn't people hate their employers for doing that, not the CDC?

It's certainly not the first time people have been required to be vaccinated. I remember talking to some people in the military, who were very upset about the COVID vaccine, yet they get so many more vaccines all the time. Why would they be upset about vaccine mandates for COVID out of nowhere, when they get far more vaccines as a matter of course and have for decades?

There's something new in the information space, specifically about COVID and vaccines, and maybe it is such an irrational thing as trying to destroy the CDC because of some employers' mandates for vaccines, because under this all its irrationality, but I don't understand it.
by linehedonist | 2025-11-30 15:44:39+00:00
In general I think I have a lot more faith in medical professionals than it seems you do, but I do agree that the early mixed messaging around face masks in Feb. 2020 left me with a lot of distrust of Fauci in particular: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/01/8862991...
by shagie | 2025-11-30 15:44:43+00:00
There is one. It is the sun synchronous dawn/dusk orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit

> Special cases of the Sun-synchronous orbit are the noon/midnight orbit, where the local mean solar time of passage for equatorial latitudes is around noon or midnight, and the dawn/dusk orbit, where the local mean solar time of passage for equatorial latitudes is around sunrise or sunset, so that the satellite rides the terminator between day and night.

The dawn dusk orbit is in constant sunlight. The noon-midnight orbit isn't.

Those orbits (and their corresponding constellations) lack 100% availability for a ground station.

Furthermore, a polar orbit launch is quite a bit more expensive since it requires a significant change in inclination.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 15:45:16+00:00
> Because solar wind and hydro have no impact on the environment at all. Or nuclear.

> I wish people would understand that waste is waste. Even less waste is still waste.

So if I have 10 mining rigs connected to the state power grid, what the source of that energy has matters nothing for the environment? If I use a contract that 100% guarantees it comes from solar, it has the same environmental impact as if I use a cheaper contract that guarantees 100% coal power?

I'm not sure if I misunderstand what you're saying, or you're misunderstanding what I said before, but something along the lines got lost in transmission I think.
by abe_m | 2025-11-30 15:45:23+00:00
The alternate take is that improved information publishing and distribution platforms (the internet) have allowed the exposure of some pretty corrupt and questionable relationships between the authorities and the industries they regulate (regulatory capture).

Previously people only got their information from the authorities and newspapers. Newspapers were owned by the industries (either directly, or via advertising). Now we can see diverse view points from others in various fields, and it is clear when "doctors say ..." that doesn't mean that all doctors believe that to be true. We can now see that NIH scientists that approve drugs are allowed to approve drugs where they have a patent and commercial interest in the drugs they are approving, which is mind-bendingly wild that level of corruption is allowed.

People can also question where the studies are to back guidelines from authorities. Like what is the scientific basis of the food pyramid? Turns out that was created by the Department of Agriculture to support grain farmers, not because it is a good diet for humans. Or that the deaths and injuries for many infectious diseases had significantly declined before their respective vaccines hit the market, and that the authorities have been cherry picking the points of the graph to hide how much of the improvement happened before vaccines were available.

The biggest change is the availability of diverse voices in an industry being able to be heard, rather than just a select few chosen by "authority", aka power, aka money.
by jhgb | 2025-11-30 15:45:50+00:00
There's one obvious potential application, which is caching of common requests. If something like segments of streams or any CDN contents is cached on the satellite, it reduces communication to a single hop for a large portion of traffic (IIRC, 70% or so?). Storage is very lightweight these days and failure to read cached data is not critical, so putting lots of SSDs on a LEO constellation satellite seems like a no-brainer to me if you're trying to optimize bandwidth usage.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-30 15:46:26+00:00
> No comment on Anker quality, but the "feels well made" feeling is something that has been known and gamed (for example, by including dummy weights in devices) in the hardware industry since forever.

Yup but for Anker devices you have a lot of nerds picking them apart on Youtube. If Anker were to engage in shady practices, the uproar and resulting shitstorm would be on a scale that could tank the entire company.

IMHO, Anker is one of the last remaining (funny, the company isn't that old) "brands" in the original sense.
by kachapopopow | 2025-11-30 15:47:07+00:00
ok I actually wanted to look up what antisematism actually means since the only context I've seen it is israel, so I looked up what sematism is which lead me to one who has sematic qualities which is:

Semitic

of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic

Saudi Arabia is arabic so technically they're correct?
by Arrowmaster | 2025-11-30 15:47:07+00:00
In the sovereign citizen cases they are talking about, the typical case is that the vehicle is not registered/doesn't have plates and the driver refuses to identify themselves. They only barely lower the window if at all. They usually go back and forth a few times until the police tell them they are under arrest for multiple reasons relating to driving without a license and failure to identify.

The glass breaking happens after multiple offices have arrived for backup as the person usually gets dragged from the car screaming. The videos are extremely entertaining to watch.

The combination of unregistered vehicle, failure to prove the driver has a license, and the drivers insisting they should be allowed to drive away is absolutely a combination where arrest is legal.
by refulgentis | 2025-11-30 15:47:12+00:00
Dwarkesh's blogging confuses me, because I am not sure if the message is free-associating, or, relaying information gathered.

ex. how this reads if it is free-associating: "shower thought: RL on LLMs is kinda just 'did it work or not?' and the answer is just 'yes or no', yes or no is a boolean, a boolean is 1 bit, then bring in information theory interpretation of that, therefore RL doesn't give nearly as much info as, like, a bunch of words in pretraining"

or

ex. how this reads if it is relaying information gathered: "A common problem across people at companies who speak honestly with me about the engineering side off the air is figuring out how to get more out of RL. The biggest wall currently is the cross product of RL training being slowww and lack of GPUs. More than one of them has shared with me that if you can crack the part where the model gets very little info out of one run, then the GPU problem goes away. You can't GPU your way out of how little info they get"

I am continuing to assume it is much more A than B, given your thorough sounding explanation and my prior that he's not shooting the shit about specific technical problems off-air with multiple grunts.
by matkoniecz | 2025-11-30 15:47:28+00:00
> what RFK is doing is quite frankly insane.

oh definitely - that is why I have not commented on this part of article, as I agree that such pseudoscience is simply idiotic, dangerous and will kill people and I am in agreement that it is bad

But this part made me go "really? really? really?" - this kind of reality denial is not helpful either and prompted my comment. And they could phrase it a bit more mildly for far greater accuracy.

I edited my initial comment a bit.
by mxey | 2025-11-30 15:48:06+00:00
Terrible article. The whole style is annoying but let me just quote two things.

> The funniest thing is when Cuck Licensers complain that people are abiding by their licenses. They will complain that people took their code and made money off of it. They will complain when they don't get some social credit they feel like they deserve when their code is used in a project. They will complain if people fork their project and it becomes more popular than the original. They will complain when some tech giant takes their code and makes spyware out of it.

None of these things are prevented by making your code GPL. GPL only means that if they distribute the software, they also have to distribute the source. There is no requirement to provide “social capital”, to not make money or to not put spyware in it.

> With Cuck Licenses, you get the worst of two worlds: You get no credit for your work, […]

BSD-style licenses require attribution when distributing the software. So if Intel distributed MINIX, they had to put the license and Andrew Tanenbaum’s copyright notice somewhere in their documentation. That’s why we get all those screenshots of curl being in things.