MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hnlmorg | 2025-11-30 09:32:15+00:00
I get the GPs suggestion is non-conventional but I don’t see why it would cause caching issues.

If you’re sending over TLS (and there’s little reason why you shouldn’t these day) then you can limit these caching issues to the user agent and infra you host.

Caching is also generally managed via HTTP headers, and you also have control over them.

Processing might be a bigger issue, but again, it’s just any hosting infrastructure you need to be concerned about and you have ownership over those.

I’d imagine using this hack would make debugging harder. Likewise for using any off-the-shelf frameworks that expect things to confirm to a Swagger/OpenAPI definition.

Supplementing query strings with HTTP headers might be a more reliable interim hack. But there’s definitely not a perfect solution here.
by surgical_fire | 2025-11-30 09:32:30+00:00
Is that the implication? I thought that the legal contract you mentioned was a standard document, basically the same for everyone that was licensed. But I am not s lawyer, and I don't pretend to be one.

It would be neat to have this licese codified (Like we have MIT, GPL, etc), with the proper incentives to "ask for open source access, if I lile you, you might get it". And, of course, a "contract" that gave licensees the open source benefits.
by tjpnz | 2025-11-30 09:32:38+00:00
It will make getting to orbit cheaper, significantly so, but I can't see it being rapidly reusable. Rapidly refurbishable perhaps if Starship were modular and the heat shield could be quickly swapped out on site where necessary. But being able to top off the methalox and fly again? That's a pipe dream. Orbital spaceflight isn't like air travel in any sense.
by fzeroracer | 2025-11-30 09:33:00+00:00
When I see posts like this, it reminds me of when I went to community college. I was working towards an associate degree to transfer to a larger university which saved both money and allowed me to bypass some of the admission issues. One of the classes I was taking was a Gen Ed class around the philosophy of religion. I was an especially strong atheist at the time, and this class involved a well-rounded discussion and examination of religions from across the world as well as debates around our religious beliefs.

By the end of the class I had softened on my stance a bit (though still an atheist), and I saw multiple Christians get up, walk out of the class mid-lecture and never come back. Not all of them mind you, but a few of them took such great offense at the class even mentioning other religions that they left, and some really couldn't handle any sort of debate or discussion.
by simonask | 2025-11-30 09:34:01+00:00
This is false. Moved-from is a "valid but unspecified" state in C++, so perfectly safe, but each type must decide what to do. At the minimum, the destructor must be able to run, because it will be invoked, meaning that the obvious choice is also the only sensible one: letting moved-from be equivalent to the "empty" state.

An empty std::vector does not require that any buffer is allocated. It just has a null data pointer.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-30 09:35:01+00:00
There's a simple and effective escape hatch: study abroad. Europe, Australia, South America, Canada even. Some countries are more affordable than others but the most expensive (by far) option is staying in the US.

From the point of view of developing your brain, leaving your country is a free education in itself. There is also the effect of embedding yourself in a network of expats made up of the best and brightest from countries all over the world. That all comes on top of the education you receive. And if you are less in it for the intellectual stuff and are more into drinking and partying, college life in the US is pretty lame compared to some university towns across the world. Cheaper, wilder, better.
by tovej | 2025-11-30 09:35:08+00:00
The EU is aggressively neoliberal or liberal-conservative, and that is the reason universities have begun to be more expensive. It's related to austerity, privatization, the aggressive revision of tax codes, and New Public Management.

The left has not been popular in the EU since the 70s, which is why this development has gotten increasingly aggresive in the last few decades. You cannot seriously suggest that the EU has moved left in any meaningful way. The EU commission is currently trying to implement that every new regulation can only pass once an old regulation can be removed. It's a neoliberal dream, where the amount of regulation can only go down, and public funds are allocated to private companies more and more.

This is especially true for universities, where public funding programs for research has begun to be funneled to startups instead of research groups.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-30 09:35:09+00:00
Because those who nowadays have money for investing, do not invest them in the research problems whose solutions are urgently needed for the survival of humanity, e.g. for developing technologies for using all substances in closed cycles (like biosphere did before humans), but instead of that they invest all their money in research for the dream of developing AGI, which even if successful will be of benefit only for a small number of humans, not for all mankind.

The fp64 and fp32 performance is needed for physical simulations required by the former goal, while fp16 and fp8 performance is useful only for the latter goal.

So AMD's choice logically follows the choice of those who control the investment money.
by astrange | 2025-11-30 09:35:32+00:00
There's actually an Orwell essay about this.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

The thing I find odd about British restaurants is that all the Japanese chains (Wagamama, Itsu) have names that are so dumb it's like they're actively trying to be offensive.
by t0mas88 | 2025-11-30 09:37:50+00:00
It's a choice for the authors to make based on what type of free they believe in. I think free under MIT and GPL are two different philosophies on how you see "free".

MIT: free for anyone, do whatever you want

GPL: free if you also make your software free

AGPL: GPL but SaaS can't circumvent the requirement to make your software free

I see why principled open source proponents would select GPL or AGPL. They don't just want their code to be used freely by others, they also believe more software should be free and using GPL helps with that.

GPL restrictions don't make software under the GPL not "free" as in freedom. Just a different philosophy.
by praptak | 2025-11-30 09:38:19+00:00
My intuition for the Feynman's trick is that we construct a "morph" which produces the given function (the parameter t drives the morphing).

The key to the trick is that we construct the morph so that: a) we can tell the rate at which it increases the "area under curve" b) the rate is easier to integrate that the original function and c) the starting function has a known integral

a) is generally easier because differentiation under integral sign lets use use the standard differentiation rules.

b) this is where the difficulty in constructing the morph lies.

So we start from a known value of the integral (from c above) and then just add whatever the morph adds, which is the integral of the rate from a) over the interval of the morph.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-11-30 09:38:20+00:00
Yes! I've been toying with this project idea for a few ~months, trying out most of the models out there. The physics and the look of the spring would come out quite crazy looking, so I put it on the back burner.

This is not an ad, there's no affiliate link... but the physics & drawing code were one shot by the recently released Gemini 3 Pro. It was pretty incredible to see. Additional tweaks & boing counter server by Claude Code.
by Yoric | 2025-11-30 09:38:25+00:00
In my experience, the discovery is much worse, because now, I need to look at all the menus (or tabs, etc.), which makes me see many terms I don't understand, instead of being able to simply search in the documentation.

I've had the same experience with the Unreal IDE, for instance, vs. Bevy (or Pygame, etc.)

But yeah, you may be right that for people not used to documentation, this might be less bad.
by walthamstow | 2025-11-30 09:38:34+00:00
I don't know about actively avoiding, but I have worked for multiple companies in London who prefer not to hire at the 'top' end of candidates (hence hiring me!), because they'll cost more and can have cultural issues like not be very fun people or thinking themselves to be above the self-taught and weird-career guys who didn't get a first from Imperial.
by K0balt | 2025-11-30 09:39:23+00:00
It’s unpopular to say, but a disproportionate amount of value is of course derived from people who are both educated and have immediate access to resources to fully exploit that education as well as the risk tolerance to innovate in the process, and the social status to build strong trust and social bonds with other similarly prepared people…so although it pains me to say it, yes?

It is certainly plausible that the most benefit to society comes from people that are both educated and empowered.

Whether the cost of that empowerment > the burden outsourced to society, well, that is another discussion.

Perhaps more on point, because I definitely think we can find examples of this in practice, it’s perhaps more truthy and also more actionable to say that college provides its optimal outcomes when it serves people who have intrinsic gifts that are empowered by knowledge. Sometimes these gifts are resources, but often these gifts are cognitive brilliance. Either one is like oxidiser for the fuel of knowledge, but especially brilliance when given resources.

I’m pretty sure that for the majority of college graduates, aside from its social signalling value, the amount of their secondary education that directly benefits them in their life could fit in a couple of years of summer school or a year of community college.

A quarter million dollars in debt is a tragic price to pay for a couple thousand dollars of educational utility. A system that requires a social signal 100x more costly than the value it represents is externalising that cost onto everyone, and the only benefits flow to financiers and the moneyed class.

Aside from educational titles (as opposed to capabilities) society is generally sensible regarding the cost of symbols vs the reality they facade.

We recognise the ridiculousness of people owing $90,000 for a truck when they live in a dilapidated trailer on a rented lot. We understand that a man who lives hand to mouth but wears a half of kilogram of gold around his neck is probably not making the best life decisions. We ridicule the faux-intellectual with their ridiculously stilted props. But somehow, we are convinced to dress up our children like heirs to the crown and send them to finishing school for their jobs in retail. It’s a profound mis-investment.

It’s also worth noting that it is way more expensive to provide an education to the intellectual proles than it is to educate brilliant and hungry minds. We are shovelling money (distilled human effort) into a furnace of misery in the service of vanity.
by cuu508 | 2025-11-30 09:39:29+00:00
I'm running Immich on NanoPi R6C (arm64, even lower idle power usage, still plenty fast for running Immich).

I use Cloudflare tunnel to make it available outside the home network. I've set up two DNS names – one for accessing it directly in the local network, and and a second one that goes through the tunnel. The Immich mobile app supports internal/external connection settings – it uses the direct connection when connected to home wifi, and the tunnel when out and about.

For uploading photos taken with a camera I either use immich-go (https://github.com/simulot/immich-go) or upload them through the web UI. There's a "publish to Immich" plugin for Adobe Lightroom which was handy, but I've moved away from using Lightroom.
by gblargg | 2025-11-30 09:39:52+00:00
Even the article's author seems confused:

> one of the very few satellites to have returned from its mission in space intact

This makes it sounds like it was due to great luck rather than human decision. It's in fact one of the very few satellites that it was decided to have retrieved (intact) from space (at significant expense) rather than letting it deorbit and burn up on re-entry.
by sillyfluke | 2025-11-30 09:39:58+00:00
Yes, it's a bit forced trying to turn someone's anecdotes that spur some food for thought into some kind of a categoric stance.

They asked the parent who they were thinking of, a more recent example of an "up and coming" billionaire would be Palmer Luckey, whose life experience seems to be at least consistent with his stance against optionality.

Edit: Ref

"A lot of my peers in the tech industry do not share this philosophy … They’re always pursuing everything with optionality. ’Oh, I need to be able to raise money from anybody. I need to be able to sell my business in any way. I need to have liquidity in any way. I need to make sure that I’m not closing myself off to future romantic partners. I need to make sure I’ve got my options open. I need to make sure that I’m not going to buy a house and settle down in one place and lock myself down. Oh, having children. I don’t know. Maybe I’m not ready to commit to that path."

https://archive.is/BlzA9
by brabel | 2025-11-30 09:40:02+00:00
I consider myself a hacker as I spend many evenings and weekends writing code for no commercial purpose but to create cool stuff and sometimes even useful stuff all in the open. I have no idea why I should be against using LLM. Just like I use an IDE and wouldn’t want to write code without one, sometimes an LLM can quickly write some drudgery that if I had to write completely myself would likely stop me from continuing. It’s just another tool in the toolbox, stop regarding it as some sort of evil that replaces us! It doesn’t and probably never will, we will always have more important things to do that will still require a human, even if that does not include a whole lot of coding .
by rounce | 2025-11-30 09:40:17+00:00
Perhaps it’s just evidence that anecdata isn’t some universal truth.

I’ve had the complete opposite experience for the vast majority of games, where in most cases performance for me has been better on Linux than it was on Windows (can’t compare like for like now as I no longer have a Windows install outside of a VM). Friends of mine experience weird mid-session crashes and hangs on Windows that I’ve never had on Linux. I’m running an Nvidia GPU which is supposedly some kind of Linux boogeyman, but have had only one issue with EDID of a specific monitor and that’s it. Just my experience YMMV.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-30 09:40:20+00:00
> It's always a tradeoff. Nothing is ever going to have zero benefit

Realizing that is the first step to having any kind of productive discourse, much less a chance of influencing the outcome. It's also the step I see most commenters in discussions on this and related topics here, are unable to take.

But then, the follow-up step is:

> the problem is that these laws use the marginal benefit as an excuse to institute something that actually has massive downsides

Are they marginal though, and are the downsides that big? Or does it only seem that way from our armchairs, as we debate computer philosophy and look at the world as a diagram of interacting systems, instead of, you know, the real world?

I'm not saying these particular regulatory ideas are good - I just have a problem with this assumption (not even implicit, it's often outright spelled out here), that it's some evil elites that try to strip us off our privacy and freedom, and keep trying to push the same laws hoping to catch our vigilant protectors off-guard.

Truth is, there's plenty of people who push for these things because they actually think of the children and honestly think these are good trade-offs, and they may be even more right than we are. They definitely sit closer to the real world and real people, real problems and real policing, than we do. They may be fatally misguided, too, but we won't achieve anything unless we try and see their perspective and honestly address the issues they're concerned with.
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-11-30 09:40:37+00:00
Does the EU assume criminals are brainless?

First, suppose two child pornographers get together and agree on a set of word substitutions that remove the key words and phrases deemed suspect. Now the authorites are scanning chats about flowers being planted, or birds being watched, etc. that are actually about targeting victims. Then the only detected uses of suspect words and phrases are accidental. If the authorites learn the new lingo the perpetrators will evolve it.

The only child pornographers that will be caught are the very stupid ones but they would have been caught by other less invasive means.

Meanwhile, the mass surveilance will destroy the free market. Imagine having to negotiate contracts when every business is a global corporation that knows what colour underwear you are wearing from scanning all of your chats. That means every business has a permanent information asymmetry in its favour, in every economic transaction you will ever make. Try to negotiate the purchase of a car, home, and so forth.

It would seem the end of freedom is nigh, listen for the sound of cheering and applause.

Isn't it obvious that mass surveilance only works on those who can be kept ignorant of it? If people know about surveilance then their behaviour is altered. How do entire nations and groups of nations fall for nonsensical plans like chat control.

The idea of chat control is to combat child vicimization by setting authorities on impossibly costly, technically insane strategies that can be thwarted by a high functioning chimpanzee.

What am I missing?
by iberator | 2025-11-30 09:40:51+00:00
In Poland all you are allowed is literally calling the cops/medics. It's easy to get convicted if you hurt an attacker on self defence.

You are not allowed to use let's say knife to protect yourself from random attack on the street.

Actually attacking some random person in the middle of the day (sucker punch) is not even a crime prosecuted by the law... Even if you are bleeding and the attack is not provoked in any way.

Insanity
by fzeroracer | 2025-11-30 09:40:59+00:00
> One of our guest speakers was a man with autogynephilia—a man who derives sexual pleasure from dressing like a woman.

> In a follow-up discussion, I committed the "sins" of referring to him as a man, and saying things like he is not a woman, and there are only two sexes.

Now I definitely agree with the other poster that this sounds made up, or at the very least you are significantly embellishing the story in such a way to completely ruin your own credibility.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-11-30 09:41:43+00:00
Your best solution is I think simply proprietary or CC-BY-NC + maybe non-government, then just license it to whoever you want that emails you. Consider just not making infrastructure software with free labor if you don't want to fund megacorps, because they will be the primary benefactors. Consider also that anything you upload to the internet goes into the LLM funnel which leads back to them. It's funny if you sold guns, shovels, or even printers everyone would be very understanding if you expressed a desire to not support Russia or whatever. Once its printer drivers though its "The only thing we can say for sure about the nature of evil is that you're a bad actor".
by delaminator | 2025-11-30 09:41:57+00:00
Perplexity sponsors Lewis Hamilton, with a prime spot on his helmet so every on board shot has their logo.

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-x-lewis-hamilt...

Here it is in action

https://youtube.com/shorts/1SqQV5iD__s
by Zedfragg | 2025-11-30 09:42:58+00:00
Soooo, after having to migrate multiple college campus sites across to Windows 11 in time for the W10 drop dead date. I kinda gave up with trying to get my PC running Windows 11 without bugs and freezes.

Switched to PopOS, was "ok", switched to Arch, performance was awesome.

A few days ago I gave Bazzite a blast and now I'm currently installing it as the primary OS on my gaming rig. Other than a few small tweaks, it just works.

It's quite a bit more performant than PopOS and PopOS came with a myriad of tweaks and issues needed for things like Ubi Connect (I've been going through the first Division game with my kids and PopOS/Lutris hated... Everything...

It all just works on Bazzite.

Plus the Nvidia drivers don't seem as bad, unsure if it's just the RTX5xxx that were having issues ala GamersNexus but the 4090 doesn't seem to have the same frame time issues that were raised (Knock on wood)
by lurk2 | 2025-11-30 09:44:53+00:00
> when partisanship has to be disguised.

The conservatives are right about the partisan bias of universities. See this survey by Mitchell Langbert.

https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_p...

Anthropology and communications saw no registered Republicans. English, Sociology, and Art departments had a ratio of around 40:1 Democrat professors Republican professors, whereas in technical fields the ratio drops considerably to only 1.6:1 in engineering, and around 5:1 for economics, chemistry, and mathematics.

Langbert notes:

> The political registration of full-time, Ph.D.-holding professors in top-tier liberal arts colleges is overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, faculty political affiliations at 39 percent of the colleges in my sample are Republican free—having zero Republicans.

Duke: https://dukechronicle.com/article/duke-university-faculty-su...

> When asked for their political identities on a scale of “very liberal” to “very conservative,” 23.2% of respondents identified as “very liberal,” 38.53% identified as “somewhat liberal,” 24.48% identified as moderates or centrists, 9.92% identified as “somewhat conservative” and 3.87% identified as “very conservative.”

Yale: https://buckleyinstitute.com/faculty-political-diversity-rep...

> Across 14 departments in the Social Sciences and Humanities, the report identified 312 Democrat faculty (88%) and only 4 Republicans (1.1%), a ratio of around 78 to 1.
by t0mas88 | 2025-11-30 09:45:54+00:00
Why would it not be enforceable? If you own the copyright on your software anybody that wants to use it has to get a license from you. The traditional way is for you to sell those licenses for money, but you could also decide to give them away based on how much you like the buyer.

Or a hybrid, sell them, but refuse to sell to certain entities and discount up to 100% to others based on how much you like them.
by ansgri | 2025-11-30 09:47:36+00:00
There should be two dark modes: a simple dark mode, like most dark themes today, to work in dimmed lighting, and an actual night mode, designed to be legible but not mess with adaptation in total darkness. I don't know the research on this (and I'm sure military and aviation have lots of data here), but intuitively it should use mostly thin red and green lines.