MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by like_any_other | 2025-11-19 21:08:45+00:00
> Although, ironically, a lot of those Europeans were also not considered white contemporaneously and it’s only now that their descendants consider themselves white and rail about all the non white immigeants

This is outright false: https://www.academia.edu/69843076/The_Becoming_White_Thesis_...

In fact it is so false, that 8 Irishmen signed the US Declaration of Independence: https://www.irishpost.com/life-style/meet-8-irishmen-signed-...

The myth was likely started by Noel Ignatiev's "How the Irish Became White" book [1]. The same Noel Ignatiev that co-founded the "Race Traitor" journal, "which promoted the idea that "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity"". Who would have thought such an unbiased and objective academic would be falsifying history. It's an exercise for the reader how something both so unbelievable, and so easily falsified, could persist for so long in academia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev
by duxup | 2025-11-19 21:08:47+00:00
That's not my experience at all.

The unions seem beholden to the folks running the union and a few influential members. If you tell them "hey having people poor to start their career seems like a bad idea" you will get squat.

And honestly the folks operating the union seem like people who shouldn't be in management, of anything ... it's one of the weird crippling aspects of US unions IMO.

Teachers union in the us is a great example, that's a bad job man ... union negotiations don't seem to make it better.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-19 21:08:48+00:00
I don't know how it is with VoLTE and other recent things (it may be the same; it may be different), but at one time in cellular world: Emergency calls differed from other calls in that they Must Always Work.

An emergency call can connect using any tower that is compatible with the caller's hardware -- with or without service provisioned, and with or without any sort of SIM.

Need help, and find a dusty phone somewhere? Turn it on, call emergency services using 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 [*], and if there's any cell service within range that it is physically capable of chatting with then the call will go through.

It will kick other users off if that's necessary in order to allow the emergency call to happen.

There's nothing to bill, so there's no billing systems (or even billing logic) to get in the way either.

It's intended to always work.

*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU
by MrCoffee7 | 2025-11-19 21:08:56+00:00
So does Jürgen Schmidhuber feel like the Rosalind Franklin of AI? Are there very many other AI and ML researchers who feel similarly overlooked for their contributions and that their ideas have been plagiarized? I'm also curious about how science historians deal with these types of issues of credit and priority for originating ideas, and how long it usually takes to correct the record. It seems that in the case of many women overlooked for their contributions to science that it can take decades.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-19 21:09:28+00:00
Tumblr died around 2013 ~ a lot of the key people I joined for were long gone. Last I logged in (yesterday actually) a lot more people I follow deactivated their accounts. Tumblr was a great platform that was not managed correctly, even the new owners aren't really scratching the original itch of Tumblr.
by masklinn | 2025-11-19 21:10:01+00:00
Six was one component but not the only one. Python 2.7 also backported a number of early Python 3 features, Python 2 features were reintroduced in basically every P3 version until at least 3.5 (although after 3.3 they were pretty minor), and a lot of extensive migration guides were written (my main bible was eevee's).

In my experience, six was a relatively minor part, and you could get by with your own little compat file for just the stuff you needed, even on relatively big projects. I even found it beneficial to do so because instead of just slapping six.moves everywhere you'd have to re-evaluate some of the old decisions (e.g. at $dayjob at the time we were using all of urllib, urllib2, and requests for HTTP calls, not using six provided strong motivation to just move everything to requests). This also made for a lot less churn when removing Python 2 compatibility.
by imiric | 2025-11-19 21:10:03+00:00
Do you really think that clicking on any button on cookie consent popups actually does anything? It's just an illusion of choice. The reality is that these sites will still track you, whether that's via cookies or, more commonly today, fingerprinting. When they list thousands of "partners" with "legitimate interest", it's a hint that there's a multi-billion-dollar industry of companies operating behind the scenes that will do whatever it takes to profile and track you, regardless of what you click on a silly form. Regulations like the GDPR don't come close to curtailing this insanity.
by alistairSH | 2025-11-19 21:10:25+00:00
And unless I missed something, the default Camera app doesn't support "unprocessed DNG" - you need an app like Halide. Camera app only does JPG/HEIC or ProRAW. And as the sibling comment says, it's a confusing UX, split between the Settings app and the Camera app. Not that it matters to most users, who only need/want the default HEIC.
by kccoder | 2025-11-19 21:10:27+00:00
I don't know what you tell you if the systematic abuse of hundreds (some reporting does suggest more than 1000) children doesn't rile you up. The fact that it is nearly exclusively rich and powerful people who participated only amplifies the effect. Most of us are absolutely fed up with the two-tier justice system, where the rich, powerful, and connected get to do whatever they want, while regular folk continually have their rights eroded. The powerful are often able to divert our attention from the injustice of the rich/powerful by dividing the people with propaganda, pitting one side against the other. Turns out the Epstein situation is one of the rare cases where nearly everyone agrees. You should expect it to receive increasingly large amounts of attention until we actually receive the real info and heads roll.
by gishh | 2025-11-19 21:10:31+00:00
The date for bridge completion was bumped from 2028 to 2030 already. I assume it won't be done until 2038. It is absolutely murdering traffic in the Baltimore area, not having a bridge. I would be super interested in seeing where every single dollar goes for this project, I assume at least 1/3 of it will be skimmed off the top.
by lukev | 2025-11-19 21:10:36+00:00
So this "even-handeness" metric is a pretty explicit attempt to aim for the middle on everything, regardless of where the endpoints are.

This is well-suited to Anthropic's business goals (alienating as few customers as possible.) But it entirely gives up on the notion of truth or factual accuracy in favor of inoffensiveness.

Did Tiananmen square happen? Sure, but it wasn't as bad as described. Was the holocaust real? Yes, lots of people say it was, but a lot of others claim it was overblown (and maybe even those who thought the Jews had it coming actually had a valid complaint.) Was Jan 6 an attempt to overthrow the election? Opinions differ! Should US policy be to "deport" immigrants with valid visas who are thinly accused of crimes, without any judicial process or conviction? Who, really, is to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Aside from ethical issues, this also leaves the door wide open to Overton-hacking and incentivizes parties to put their most extreme arguments forward, just to shift the middle.

Our society does NOT need more of that.
by whartung | 2025-11-19 21:11:00+00:00
But that said, it would be interesting to see the different systems after a tuning pass. Both as an example of capability, but also as an mechanic to discuss tuning options available to the users.

Mind, the whole "its slow get new hardware" comes from the fact that getting another 10% by tuning "won't fix the problem". By the time folks feel the sluggish performance, you're probably not looking for another 10 points. The 10 points matter at scale to lower overall hardware costs. 10% less hardware with a 1000 servers is a different problem with 10% less hardware with just one.

But, still, a tuning blog would be interesting, at least to me.
by burkaman | 2025-11-19 21:11:04+00:00
Another issue: Claude has a concept of what subset of the political spectrum is reasonable, and if you ask a question outside of that, it will not be even-handed. For example, I tried "explain why some believe that the weather is controlled by jewish space lasers" vs. "explain why some believe that the weather is not controlled by jewish space lasers".

To be frank, Claude was not even-handed at all, even though this is a bipartisan belief held by multiple elected officials. For the first query it called it a conspiracy theory in the first sentence, said it "has no basis in reality", and offered no reasons why someone might believe it. For the second it gave a short list of concrete reasons, just like the benchmark said it would.

To be clear I think these were good responses, but it's not good that there's no way for us to know what issues a model considers a reasonable belief it should be fair about vs. an insane belief it should dismiss immediately.
by timando | 2025-11-19 21:11:31+00:00
2 caps: 1 for things that are charged for existing (e.g. S3 storage, RDS, EBS, EC2 instances) and 1 for things that are charged when you use them (e.g. bandwidth, lambda, S3 requests). Fail to create new things (e.g. S3 uploads) when the first cap is met.
by debtta | 2025-11-19 21:11:34+00:00
This is exactly the point.

There was a fifteen year period where the best way of finding out what something meant in a programming language was to Google it. Pre-AI, post the predominance of newsgroups and offline documentation.

Try googling "$|++". It just doesn't work. Never has.

Now Google "file.flush". First hit is the answer you need on SO.
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by vzaliva | 2025-11-19 21:11:42+00:00
The lack of native Microsoft Outlook support was one of the reasons I've abandoned Thunderbird.

However, it is still not enough for me to come back. Sadly, corporate life is often organised around email and calendaring. All these endless meetings everyone complains about, which need to be scheduled, accepted, rejected, re-scheduled, etc. The native Exchange support does not yet support Calendar integration. Without it, it will be very awkward to use in a day-to-day corporate environment.
by SR2Z | 2025-11-19 21:12:03+00:00
...so if you spend an extra $4 on your computer, you can get an extra GB of memory to run Electron in?

Here's the other unspoken issue: WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED SO MUCH MEMORY FOR!?

When I use a computer, I am in the minority of users who run intensive stuff like a compiler or ML training run. That's still a minute portion of the total time I spend on my computer. You know what I always have open? A browser and a text editor.

Yes, they could use less memory. But I don't need them to use less memory, I need them to run quickly and smoothly because even a 64GB stick of RAM costs almost nothing compared to how much waiting for your browser sucks.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-19 21:12:28+00:00
This notion of a hard takeoff, or singularity, based on self-improving AI, is based on the implicit assumption that what's holding AI progress back is lack of AI researchers/developers, which is false.

Ideas are a penny a dozen - the bottleneck is the money/compute to test them at scale.

What exactly is the scenario you are imagining where more developers at a company like OpenAI (or maybe Meta, which has just laid off 600 of them) would accelerate progress?
by mort96 | 2025-11-19 21:12:30+00:00
Espressif has a pretty good Arduino compatibility layer for the ESP32 series. So you can follow Arduino tutorials and almost everything will "just work". This what I use for quick and dirty projects.

For more "serious" things, you have the ESP-IDF, which is a pretty good C-style interface to all sorts of hardware features. Less newbie friendly than the Arduino interface, but gives you more control. And it can be used in combination with the Arduino interface.

And then, as the cherry on top, you have their official Rust HAL for the ESP chips, implementing the standard Rust embedded-hal interfaces so it should "just work" with the growing Rust embedded ecosystem.

It's honestly impressive. The only thing that has kept Arduino competitive is their brand, good reputation, and focus on the education and tinkerer space. I frankly don't understand what value Qualcomm sees in Arduino if they're just gonna throw away that reputation and education friendliness.
by smohare | 2025-11-19 21:14:40+00:00
2016 already puts one far into the AI explosion. The current hype cycle, with LLMs as a service at the forefront, arguably makes python less relevant than in it was in the mid 2010’s. The current crop of “AI Engineers” can use whatever languages they want for the most part. In 2016 most practitioners were leveraging a lot more of the standard scientific computing frameworks afforded by python.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-19 21:14:42+00:00
It's just not the same class of devices. The tiniest IoT-focused subsets of .NET will still require more than 64KB of RAM and 192KB or so of mass storage. You could try and implement some minimum viable WASM subset (I think the issues that made WASM non-viable on microcontrollers and the like have been addressed by now) since the overall architecture is likely simpler, but even that is rather dubious and more like something that could be appropriate on slightly newer 16-bit machines.
by reify | 2025-11-19 21:14:55+00:00
They misrepresent everything to suit their right wing driven agenda

I gave away my TV in 2000. 25 years and no TV licence.

I have not watched any TV since.

Im still alive, I haven't missed out on anything.

I can highly recommend it.

There is so much more to life than staring at a fucking brainwashing manipulation machine every poxy night.

Television, I prefer my own vision.

I am a retired psychotherapist, I have always seen through the manipulative unbiased language they use.

what on earth is TV anyway?
by SunshineTheCat | 2025-11-19 21:15:08+00:00
I find it weird that this focuses specifically upon "short form video" as though that's the dangerous or addictive element.

It's like saying drinking consistently throughout the day is dangerous without specifying whether we're talking about bourbon or water.

That key variable seems to matter more than the format.

For example: how do you think a person would feel if they watched 30 minutes straight of "short form video" of kittens playing with each other as opposed to a person who watches 30 minutes of people telling them their political opponents want them to die.

Somehow I think these two scenarios would have very different "mental health" impacts. As with anything, it comes down to what people choose to consume, not how they consume it.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-11-19 21:15:46+00:00
They're not GPUs in computers... they're effectively GPUs that are computers. They're a single board computer (SBC), with an ARM CPU that is approximately the scale for desktop but not the scale for enterprise, conjoined with 2 extremely large GPUs that are siblings to the desktop version.

Each GPU chip is approximately twice the size of the biggest desktop version, and it has two of them, and it roughly twice as dense as anything else you could do using normal enterprise-dense GPU deployments (ie, those rigs that have 4 x16 slots and fit dual-slot GPUs across 8 slots)

However, these are not the same chips, they are siblings: the major change is, depending on the generation, they contain 2x or 4x matrix math ALUs and no texture units.

Seeing as it is a "small" (for enterprise) CPU, and a GPU that is very poor at non-matrix GPU tasks; and since it doesn't have TUs or media controllers (thats the thing that does DP/HDMI and video decoding/encoding) it can't be some weird niche desktop.

Unless you're doing inference at home, this thing is useless. Inference at home, and even small scale enterprise inference, is very very niche. There isn't enough market to give these boards a second chance.

However, totally normal used server parts? Totally useful. Cases, fans, power supplies, motherboards, CPUs, RAM, HBA/RAID, NICs? All useful to end users, either smaller companies doing inexpensive onsite, smaller datacenters maintaining an existing fleet and not needing to upgrade yet, or people building home labs.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-19 21:15:46+00:00
Exactly. It's not that everyone is saying "AI is completely worthless, get rid of it." It has it's use cases, I certainly benefit from LLMs in my job every day.

That doesn't mean I want it plastered everywhere, in every app or website. That doesn't mean I want to interact with or use my computer via AI, and I especially don't want to talk to my computer to do things. Mouse & keyboard is faster.

But for now at least you can just choose not to use it. The problem is, Microsoft is putting 100% of their efforts into this while long-standing Windows bugs and regressions still exist. They're aware they exist too, and are deliberately choosing not to improve their product.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-19 21:15:49+00:00
Why must they “progress”? Why can’t people have hobbies? If they finish their blinky LED project and decide that’s enough investment into the hobby, why is that a problem?

Think about how many thousands have purchased a musical instrument only to abandon the hobby after a few months. Is that a failure of music-as-a-hobby or just humans being humans?

Most people I know who get into electronics as a hobby aren’t looking at it as a potential career. Myself included! This is the most absurd take I’ve seen all day.
by drivers99 | 2025-11-19 21:15:58+00:00
> it's important to recognize times when you had a near-miss, and still fix those root causes as well.

I mentioned this principal to the traffic engineer when someone almost crashed into me because of a large sign that blocked their view. The engineer looked into it and said the sight lines were within spec, but just barely, so they weren't going to do anything about it. Technically the person who almost hit me could have pulled up to where they had a good view, and looked both ways as they were supposed to, but that is relying on one layer of the cheese to fix a hole in another, to use your analogy.
by eadler | 2025-11-19 21:16:06+00:00
1. You called the judge an "activist" which I don't agree with. Further if there were legitimate concerns about bias they could have requested that the judge recuse herself. It also ignores the, rightfully, failed appeals which were not ruled by McCormick

2. This is covered extensively in the document I linked

3. This is covered extensively in the document I linked

4. I regret commenting on musk's politics. I have no idea if he actually voted for democrats previously and if so he he actually ever supported small-state libertarian values. They aren't relevant to the case.

5. 6. I'm not commenting on conspiracy theories
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-11-19 21:16:45+00:00
It was intended as a sort of military SF anothology, with the word "military" also encompassing revolution, insurgency, and various other 4GW concepts. The stories spanned the period from roughly 1980-2020, with many published from 2010-2020. The list was:

> A Dry, Quiet War by Tony Daniel

> ZeroS by Peter Watts

> A Soldier of the City by David Moles

> The Beast Adjoins by Ted Kosmatka

> Lady Be Good by Jack Campbell

> Mid-Death by Alan Dean Foster

> Weaponized Math by Jonathan Brazee

> Prayers on the Wind by Walter Jon Williams

> Highwaymen by Ken MacLeod

> Second Skin by Paul McAuley

> The Dread And Fear of Kings by Richard Paul Russo

> Herbig-Haro by Harry Turtledove

> The Lost Dorsai by Gordon Dickson

> Cincinnatus by Joel Rosenberg

> The Proud Foot of the Conqueror by Reginald Bretnor

It's the stories lower on the list that were unobtainable. Dickson, Rosenberg, and Bretnor being dead (may they all rest in peace,) did not help matters.
by doph | 2025-11-19 21:16:46+00:00
ESP32 - quite a range of dev boards and places like Seeed and Adafruit have a nice selection of accessories. Adafruit develops CircuitPython which is IMO the lowest barrier to entry for programming MCUs. Adafruit even has CircuitPython sketches on their site for how to interface with the components they sell.

Rust on ESP32 is still a bit early - the HAL crate is still pretty unstable, but the toolchain is quite nice and I'm able to be productive enough that I never reach for C or C++.
by jswelker | 2025-11-19 21:16:51+00:00
It does.Will you accept max?

fizzbuzz = ["", "", "Fizz", "", "Buzz", "Fizz", "", "", "Fizz", "Buzz", "", "Fizz", "", "", "FizzBuzz"] for i in range(1,101): print(max((fizzbuzz[(i-1)% 15],str(i),)))

Probably still bools under the hood.
by apsurd | 2025-11-19 21:17:15+00:00
Information for its own sake to obtain doesn't have any lasting effect, it makes sense why you forget. Try to intake the information and have it cue a relation to your life, have it spark some internal thought. I'm struggling to articulate this, I've always been "a thinker", just think about things all day. I rarely finish books because whatever I read I think about it for so long.

It's my own personal reflection on information, knowledge, and learning, I hesitated to write this comment but I did at the chance it helps.

Information is basically a commodity these days. The leverage is in how the info informs your thoughts.
by mwhitfield | 2025-11-19 21:17:20+00:00
I've had *very* much the opposite experience. Very nearly every AI skeptic take I read has exactly this opinion, if not always so well-articulated (until the last section, which lost me). But counterarguments always attack the complete strawman of "AI is utterly useless," which very few people, at least within the confines of the tech and business commentariat, are making.
by rocauc | 2025-11-19 21:17:30+00:00
A brief history. SAM 1 - Visual prompt to create pixel-perfect masks in an image. No video. No class names. No open vocabulary. SAM 2 - Visual prompting for tracking on images and video. No open vocab. SAM 3 - Open vocab concept segmentation on images and video.

Roboflow has been long on zero / few shot concept segmentation. We've opened up a research preview exploring a SAM 3 native direction for creating your own model: https://rapid.roboflow.com/
by PebblesHD | 2025-11-19 21:17:57+00:00
He seems to be intentionally missing the point of most of the complaints in order to direct away from his core area. The many legitimate criticisms of windows poor user experience lately will eventually drive change, but long will that take?

Not to mention, I can find AI perfectly impressive and still have absolutely no day-to-day use for it… certainly not enough to justify it taking over my operating system experience.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-19 21:18:28+00:00
That's gotta be it.

At Ignite yesterday they announced that Security Copilot will now be included for free with E5 licensing.

The tool that until yesterday way $50k for a single tenant deployment. Aka, no one bought it, but they need to juice the KPIs so might as well make it free so it looks like someone is actually using it.