MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-15 05:50:51+00:00
> Ideally, reduces cognitive complexity because you don't have to think about the staging area anymore, just commits.

My git use is mostly a direct translation of mercurial (which I learned first), and the staging area is really optional. The only time I ever type `git add` is when adding a new file; otherwise I just

vi foo.txt git commit foo.txt

every time.

I guess jj is different still (by way of ~autocommitting), but my point stands.
by pahae | 2025-11-15 05:51:31+00:00
Remote Write is a viable alternative in Prometheus and its drop-in replacements. I'm not a massive fan of it myself as I feel the pull-based approach is superior overall but still make heavy use of it.

The pushgateway's documentation itself calls out that there are only very limited cirumstances where it makes sense.

I personally only used it in $old_job and only for batch jobs that could not use the node_exporter's textfile collector. I would not use it again and would even advise against it.
by psychoslave | 2025-11-15 05:52:39+00:00
States are not all mighty entities acting without any restriction. Wannabe rulers have to go through that kind of abstract notions to manipulate people at scale, but they have limited skills and abilities to use these tools that people about m accept only under certain conditions.

ECHR is on same ontological level as the notion of state. If no one concrete is willing to enforce it, it has zero agency.

Politicians can ignore constitutions like citizen can ignore laws. Politicians can send military forces on manifesters, and people can make politicians meet the guillotine.
by vladgur | 2025-11-15 05:52:51+00:00
Im not going to engage in "Hamas slaughered festival goers on camera, killed a father in front of his kids, while blowing out one their eyes and kidnapped toddlers, but we will question the sex crimes being committed".

Is protecting the killers of families, babies and kidnappers of toddlers from accusations of sexual assault really the proverbial "hill you want to die on"?

Lets focus on order of operatons:

1) Hamas started a war

2) Israel responded in order to free its citizens and protect from future attacks.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-15 05:54:28+00:00
This strategy is often called a "concierge" MVP. You deliver the service you claim, but behind the scenes everything is incredibly manual. Once you've proved people like the service, you then go make the process less manual. Zappos and Amazon are both famous for doing this.

p.s. -- I already put this in a chain, but the majority of comments are just claiming this is fraud. Thought it might be worth posting something slightly more visible.
by geuis | 2025-11-15 05:55:56+00:00
Unlike many other languages, English has grown because it's adaptable. It has almost as many borrowed words for advanced concepts as "native" words. It's hard to even distinguish anymore.

If anything, a solid counter argument can be made that Romance languages (descended from Latin) lack the flexibility of English and other Germanic languages.

Non primary English speakers frequently complain that English is more complicated than other languages. This is true. I'm a native speaker and only can read limited Spanish. Where I get hung up is the dependence on gender of objects. Similar experience with Japanese when I was studying that a few years ago.

I completely believe that primary language has a physical effect on the brain in terms of neural structure. It must have.

But since English is so adaptable, if there's a concept that is better expressed in another language we tend to adopt the words of other languages to express it.

However other languages seem to be less adaptable. For example, France has or had an official government ministry for decades to manage new foreign words entering the French language. To this day, there are newish specific French words for technologies coming from English speaking countries.

Another good example is some YouTube videos from India I've run across. (I turn on subtitles). But say the speaker is talking in Hindi. Many times more technical terms are English words or phrases that are freely interspersed with Hindi. They're borrowing the English words, with a bit of a Hindi dialect hitting the pronunciation.

Going back to Japanese, we see the same thing. I don't know if the JP gov has a language ministry.

But if you look at written Japanese text you definitely see that most numerology is written with western/English 0-9 characters mixed with katakana or hiragana. When you hear people speaking, and once your ear is oriented towards Japanese sounds, you can start to pick up on the adopted English words that are said with a native dialect emphasis.
by superkuh | 2025-11-15 05:56:05+00:00
When the ban happens it'll be really easy to implement without requiring only government approved hosts or any such distributed measures requiring enforcement. Certificate Authorities.

There are just a handful of corporations get to decide which websites are visitable every 90 days. Put a bit of legal pressure on the corporate certificate authorities and there's instant centralized control of effectively the entire web thanks to corporate browser HTTPS-only defaults and HTTP/3 not being able to use self-signed certs for public websites.
by morganherlocker | 2025-11-15 05:56:18+00:00
I frequently use a docker-compose template with prometheus pushgateway + grafana for deploying on single node servers, as described at the start of the article. It works well and is trivial to setup, but the complexity explodes once your metric volume or cardinality requires more scale like prometheus alternatives a la mimir.

I think this would not need to be an issue as frequently if prometheus had a more efficient publish/scraping mechanism. iirc there was once a protobuf metric format that was dropped, and now there is just the text format. While it wouldn't handle billions of unique labels like mimir, a compact binary metric format could certainly allow for millions at reasonable resolution instead of wasting all that scale potential on repeated name strings. I should be able to push or expose a bulk blob all at once with ordered labels or at least raw int keys.
by mcny | 2025-11-15 05:56:31+00:00
Just the fact that there is now a whole generation of children who have missed over two years of school.

One child missing two years of school is already a tragedy. A whole generation missing school, starving, under constant risk of violence and death, this is the first thing I think of when I think of Gaza.

I'm not even a Palestine "supporter" but I will not longer support the state of Israel for any reason, even if the "good guys" come to power.
by tismyname | 2025-11-15 05:56:51+00:00
Working on a meal tracking app (iOS/SwiftUI) that helps you understand eating patterns - mood, hunger levels, where you eat, etc. Built it to learn Swift and shipping to the App Store.

Honestly struggling with whether it's solving a real problem though. The detailed tracking with quantities and calories feels like too much friction.

Would love to hear if anyone actually tracks their meal habits and what works for them.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-15 05:57:26+00:00
Wouldn't it be wiser, fairer, and less xenophobic/nationalistic appearing to simply require particular audit/compliance/certification requirements and then disallow nonconforming equipment/systems?

Because if something can't be sold under brand X specifically, then brand Y will be invented to circumvent it, hence it's a superficial and ineffective process to forbid a brand by name.

Rigorous audit and compliance processes should assure products are tested, supported, and hopefully minimize the risks of hostile anti-functionality.

Perhaps some key tech bits are so fundamental that they should be grown domestically without necessarily a huge profit motive to offer reliable components for strategic infrastructure.
by ivape | 2025-11-15 05:57:42+00:00
That’s interesting, I was specifically looking for AMD hardware being offered by neoclouds, they seem to be rare.

I like your bet though. The difference between NVDA and AMD has never really existed on a hardware level for decades. AMD has always been on par, and software is software, it will catch up.

AMD will be a stock many people will miss because the opportunity has presented itself at the height of AI bubble talk, and this will leave many in the dust. Doubling and tripling of their market cap is pretty much a forgone conclusion.
by theultdev | 2025-11-15 06:00:23+00:00
That's from 2016 and it's widely accepted as being a hoax. She may or may not even exist as she's never been seen publicly or by reporters trying to verify the claim.

The court documents referencing Johnson were filed in California and New York but were dismissed or withdrawn due to lack of credibility and proper legal standing. The plaintiff provided false contact information, including the address of a foreclosed home, and repeatedly failed to appear for scheduled press conferences despite promises to do so.

The claims were tied to Norm Lubow, a former producer for "The Jerry Springer Show," who used the pseudonym Al Taylor to promote the allegations.

Lubow admitted to Snopes in 2024 that he was behind the Al Taylor persona and had helped draft the initial lawsuit and publicize the claims, though he maintained the story was true.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3914012/Troubled-wo...
by FuckButtons | 2025-11-15 06:02:01+00:00
"Maybe because they have so much free time to do office politics because they’re not doing much work.”

I mean, isn’t that always the way? Honestly, I feel like you could do a lot worse than just firing most of the people who demonstrate above average social skills. Sure, some would be fired unnecessarily, but I can’t think of any engineers that have seemed almost pathologically shy that also didn’t want to work hard.
by bccdee | 2025-11-15 06:02:39+00:00
> who would gladly give them the guest room for a few weeks

Yeah, a couple weeks and then what? Couch-surfing is a form of homelessness, and the membrane between sleeping on a couch and sleeping on the street can be very thin, especially when your health makes it unlikely you'll find work in the near future. Something as simple as a concussion can stop you from working for months.

> but treating everyone like zero-agency victims or helpless children has never fixed anything

I hear this argument a lot, and I find it baffling. What's your proposal here? That we all wag our fingers at homeless people? The people with agency who can fix their situations on their own already did—in fact, they course-corrected long before they slid into poverty or homelessness in the first place. If they had agency, they wouldn't be in this situation.
by jamesblonde | 2025-11-15 06:03:29+00:00
1. Important points that the query is a projection that only returns a fraction of the 650GB that fits in memory. DuckDB is good at streaming larger than memory queries, Polars less mature there. That would show in the results.

2. S3 defaults shouldn't prevent all available threads/cpus from reading the files in parallel, so I would assume that the network bandwidth of the VM (or container) would be the bottleneck.
by scrps | 2025-11-15 06:03:50+00:00
Preexisting solutions to future problems! Thanks to AI (mostly) botnets specifically for renting residential IPs have multiplied since most commercial VPN IP blocks get rate-limited, captcha'd, outright blocked which got even worse with AI.

People causing shenanigans using residential IPs if they ban VPNs is gonna lead to a lot of kicked doors, red herrings, lawsuits, and very probably ballooning budgets and will yet again fail to stop Bad Things™ not that it was really designed to anyway. I wonder if they think this is a good idea because they have machinations or is it just that they are clueless wealthy dinosaurs corrupting a future that isn't theirs?
by ivape | 2025-11-15 06:03:51+00:00
I don’t think NVDA will have anything like a real moat, and more like whatever the difference was between iOS and Android. The gist of it is, the big bang of AI has happened and that universe is rapidly expanding, just like it once did for smart phones. There is the Apple of AI which is NVDA, and then there is Android (AMD). Moats are irrelevant here because the universe has just started rapidly expanding for them.

Apple didn’t really “win” out against Android, and it would be a very wrong way of measuring what actually happened. Yet, Apple could have been seen as more premium during various points of that timeline. The truth of the matter was, it was never a swimming race at any point in that smartphone timeline. It was simply a flood that you could convince yourself was an orderly race.

I believe the same is happening now, and it’s in Nvidias interest to maintain the narrative that there is a race and they are winning it. Believing something like this during the smartphone era would have been foolish.
by Duanemclemore | 2025-11-15 06:03:58+00:00
When I got back on Linux as a daily driver a year ago I knew I wanted to be on a tiling / dynamic window manager.

I started with i3 and really like the keybindings. A couple months later I found out about xmonad through general interest in the subject. I installed it, found someone's config to use i3 keybinds (which I was used to at that point) and had a lot of fun. It's definitely quick as heck and I like how compact the codebase is for edits. Plus, it gave me an excuse to learn some rudimentary Haskell.

My visual setup is always SUPER minimal, as it comes out of the box. So that was nice.

Unfortunately I had some serious trouble with X11 and an app my workflow relies on running in wine, so I switched to sway for Wayland (such as it is it fixed the issue). I know some folks from the xmonad community are trying to implement it over Wayland [0], and were it to come to fruition it would be a VERY welcome development.

[0] https://discourse.haskell.org/t/xmonad-for-wayland-call-for-...
by zeroq | 2025-11-15 06:04:45+00:00
As someone who has been described as "mister Wolf" (Pulp Fiction reference) several times I'd say it's hard to market yourself and getting hired as a joker.

If you're THE guy, like when Google hired Guido, then it's super cool story. But for normal folks when you look around for new job it's really hard to get past "oh we need either X or Y".

And when you finally get hired you susceptible to corporate politics. I personally had a few bad stints with higher ups about having low count of commits because as a team lead I would prefer to grow a team member by doing most of the work and passing the task to someone else to drive it past the finishing line.

EDIT: the irony is that small companies that can cherry pick candidates don't need jokers, and big companies who would benefit the most from having such people are deeply trenched in siloes and scripted hiring.
by bsder | 2025-11-15 06:06:04+00:00
> They charged $100/month for this. If it were free then whatever, but lying to paying customers about the service is not okay.

Erm, to the customer, what is the difference between a bunch of humans transcribing your meetings or an AI doing it? If I'm paying $100/month to get my meetings transcribed, why do I care whether it's the founder, an AI, or magic pixie dust (but I repeat myself)?

Misleading investors is a different problem.
by poink | 2025-11-15 06:06:20+00:00
Are we pretending that optimizing for taste is a bad thing?

It’s obviously bad to eat super salty “ultraprocessed” food all the time, but it’s not like the salt is the primary problem

To take OP’s example, I’d much rather kids eat generously salted broccoli that is “optimized for taste” rather than unsalted mac & cheese, regardless of whether they just throw it away (which I probably would, too)
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-15 06:08:00+00:00
English has words that are both connotative and denotative for “they think X” where X is false. The denotative verbs are simply “misbelieve” or “misthink” if you know it is false.

The connotative form which immediately comes to mind is the various forms of “notion”. Its primary use case is to indicate that the thing it refers to is likely false and has no connection to reality.
by vladgur | 2025-11-15 06:08:15+00:00
I find middleeastmonitor.com an extremely biased anti-israeli propaganda piece that makes BBC seem like an unbiased news organization.

If you search for the name "Moran Gaz" used in this article to conclude that "Gaz stated that her department has found no evidence of sexual violence" is actually not true and is Moran's statements were quite nuanced:

" In the end, we have no complainants. What was presented in the media compared to what will ultimately emerge will be completely different. Either because the victims were murdered, or because the women who were raped by them are not prepared to reveal it. We contacted women's rights organizations and asked for cooperation. They told us that they simply did not contact them. There were parents who contacted the organizations and asked what to do if something happened to their daughter, but they did not disclose the abuse...I know there is public expectation and understand the need to address the horrific sexual crimes and sexual assaults that have been committed, but the vast majority of them will not be able to meet the threshold of proof in court, and the criticism will ultimately come to the prosecutor's office – unjustly. "

>> Either because the victims were murdered, or because the women who were raped by them are not prepared to reveal it.

>> We contacted women's rights organizations and asked for cooperation. They told us that they simply did not contact them.

This reads entirely different that what that article from MiddleEastMonitor.com leads you to believe. The way its titled and the way you interpreted is there were no sexual assaults, only slaughter, only murders.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen...

Or if you read Hebrew (i dont): https://archive.ph/yEKjp
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-11-15 06:11:09+00:00
It's entirely plausible that sometimes one genius sees the answer all alone -I'm sure it happens sometimes- but it's also definitely a common theme that many people/ a subset of society as a whole may start having similar ideas all around the same time. In many cases where a breakthrough is attributed to one person, if you look more closely you'll often see some sort of team effort or societal ground swell.
by blueblisters | 2025-11-15 06:12:49+00:00
Kinda genius to scale exoskeleton data collection with UMI grippers when most labs are chasing "general" VLMs / VLAs by training on human demonstration videos.

Imo the latter will be very useful for semantic planning and reasoning, but only after manipulation is solved.

A ballpark cost estimate -

- $10 to $20 hourly wages for the data collectors

- $100,000 to $200,000 per day for 10,000 hours of data

- ~1,500 to 2,500 data collectors doing 4 to 6 hours daily

- $750K to $1.25M on hardware costs at $500 per gripper

Fully loaded cost between $4M to $8M for 270,000 hours of data.

Not bad considering the alternatives.

For example, teleoperation is way less efficient - it's 5x-6x slower than human demos, and 2x-3x more expensive per hour of operator time. But could become feasible after low-level and mid-level manipulation and task planning is solved.
by coliveira | 2025-11-15 06:14:19+00:00
Language imports are a poor substitute for grammatical flexibility. That's why French, for example, has limited need to import words directly: it can recreate the same meaning with native words. German is another great example, its grammar provides a lot of the flexibility that was lost in English. It is almost impossible to translate German philosophy into English without losing the natural flavor of word combinations that make German so adaptable.
by soulofmischief | 2025-11-15 06:14:57+00:00
You're not going to justify colonial genocide with whataboutism. It wasn't OK when the US did it and then called natives savages as a defense for our inhuman treatment of them, and it's not OK now that Israel is doing it. No amount of whining about Hamas will change that, especially considering Netanyahu openly funded Hamas through Qatar. You act like this conflict hasn't been perpetuated for decades. It's manufactured consent, plain and simple.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

Hamas' actions are easily condemnable and doesn't need a mention, the only people who can't seem to understand that are the same people who seem to have a problem condemning Israel's actions. It is extremely easy to condemn both of them at once, if you start from an ethical, secular foundation.
by mcny | 2025-11-15 06:15:24+00:00
I feel like we are talking past one another here. I disagree that all the computer processors in the world combined don't have enough raw processing power to simulate a single bee brain. That to me is an absurd idea.

Now if you meant we don't know enough about bees to actually model what its brain does and create a processor to actually process an artificial bee brain, then yes, we don't have that ability yet.

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Aside, when I watched Netflix show black mirror such as the grain episode, I always kept getting stuck at how are they lowering this tiny device... What kind of battery technology works here was my question even though this is science fiction.
by bccdee | 2025-11-15 06:16:25+00:00
It's honestly amazing how many people hold a powerful a conviction that the world is essentially fair; that the poor must have some moral failing which justifies their poverty. If it's happened to thousands of people—if you see the afflicted every day—then it must just be a plague of poor morals. We'll believe anything before we accept that we're lucky, and that we owe something to those who aren't.
by antisthenes | 2025-11-15 06:16:44+00:00
> The percentage of people so dumb that they can't hold a useful job is staggeringly low.

It's in the single digits of %. Multiplied by the number of people in a country, it's millions.

It's definitely not "staggeringly low".

> Unless in your mind anybody of average or below average intelligence "can't contribute to society"

Classic fallacy of "it's either 0 or 50%".
by sho | 2025-11-15 06:17:23+00:00
Came into this thread hoping for good news about GPUs and instead there's some surprisingly thoughtful management discussion!

> What they should do is bump TC by 60-70% and simultaneously lay off 50% of the engineers.

Tell me you're an engineer without telling me you're an engineer. The problem is they don't know which half and they can't know. It's an issue of legibility and transparency - put yourself into the shoes of the C-suite. You're staring down a complete black box of, what, 5,000 people. How can you possibly know who's good and who's not? Think of the information they have at hand - what the chain of command tells them. What if the chain of command itself is the problem? Think about how you yourself could protect a bad employee if you were a manager. You could! How can they possibly find the truth?

People rightly hate stack ranking, but you can see why ideas like that exist - attempts to come up with organizational pruning algorithms that are resistant to the managers themselves being the problem.

And this is also why CEOs incoming with a turnaround mission often do a clean sweep and stack the c-suite with all their friends. Not because they're giving jobs to their mates - although sure, that does happen - but because they're trying to establish at least a single layer of trust, which can then in time hopefully be extended downwards. But it all takes time, and for some organizations, they never do manage it. When unlimited orgs all compete for the same limited number of good managers - well, some of them are going to lose.

Ironically I'm bullish on AI being able to greatly help with all of this. Maybe running on AMD GPUs...