MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frankest | 2025-11-22 03:29:32+00:00
Describing how he is doing is not the same as doing it. Being able to describe it comes from reading his propaganda spread in a number of small EU members who their native languages - different languages same song all over social media. Two of the countries that are neighbours had their own “strong man” populists both advertising to their constituents they will take a chunk of the other country’s territory. Posts had the same maps and all. Just swapping countries. His machine is literally copying itself and betting on people who don’t talk to neighbours or in another language.
by starmole | 2025-11-22 03:29:44+00:00
I think 4x4 matrices for 3D transforms (esp homogenous coordinates) are very elegant. I think the intended critique is that the huge n*m matrices used in ML are not elegant - but the point is made poorly by pointing out properties of general matrices. In ML matrices are just "data", or "weights". There are no interesting properties to these matrices. In a way a Neumann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant) Elephant. Now, this might just be what it is needed for ML to work and deal with messy real world data! But mathematically it is not elegant.
by mystraline | 2025-11-22 03:30:01+00:00
Yep. Ive had the same provider for 3y going on 4.

Particular things: I use letsencrypt wildcard, so my subdomains aren't leaked. If you register per subdomain, LE leaks all your subdomains as part of some transparency report. Learned that and had to burn that domain.

The VPS is from LowEndBox. Like 2 core, 20GB storage 2GB ram. But runs perfectly fine.

I run jellyfin, audiobookshelf, Navidrome, and Romm. Ssh tunnel per application.

It would also be trivial to switch providers as well. But again, not a seed box, not doing torrents, not doing anything that would attract attention. And best of all, no evidence on the VPS. Its all SSL and SSH.
by tomrod | 2025-11-22 03:30:37+00:00
Windows 11 is so bad. It's worse than Vista. Microsoft took everything decent about Windows after the Windows 8 debacle and decided if it works it needs to break.

It's unfortunate. Microsoft had the talent to have premier products but is stuck in second or third on everything.

Appropriate, if funny: https://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2011.06.27_o...
by ryandrake | 2025-11-22 03:31:07+00:00
No surprise, the CxO class barely lives in the same physical world as us peasants. They all hang out together in their rich-people restaurants and rich-people galas and rich-people country clubs and rich-people vacation spots, socializing with other rich-people and don't really have a lot of contact with normal people, outside of a handful of executive assistants and household servants.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-22 03:31:27+00:00
Is it because you thought it’s the author’s bitterness on a topic where you prefer optimism? The author didn’t say “Fuckers”. He’s quoting his client. Maybe you expected it to be the author’s sour grapes for what the rich have done to their environment. That sort of inversion of expectations is what makes writing fun and interesting (if you were to read on).
by pizzafeelsright | 2025-11-22 03:32:24+00:00
They're welcome to share their emotions but poor behavior isn't acceptable. Anger is fine. Yelling isn't. We'll talk it though. Tonight i got yelled at 3 times for not helping. I asked why I got yelled at. "Because I was angry". The anger wasn't justified but real so we discussed. I got a hug shortly after. No discipline. Just patience.
by ponorin | 2025-11-22 03:32:45+00:00
Fluoxetine is one of two medicines listed in WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for the treatment of depression since 2007 (use of other SSRIs are also allowed)[1]. The listing means it has proven to be safe and effective enough that WHO believes it should be readily available in every healthcare system. You will need much more than a Wikipedia article listing side effects for the entire drug class, without incidence rate, to convince people these drugs aren't what they seem.

Also relevant to this article, WHO since 2023 does not recommend Fluoxetine (or any antidepressants) for children younger than 12 years[2].

[1]: https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/17642505-ecd...

[2]: https://list.essentialmeds.org/recommendations/313
by frankacter | 2025-11-22 03:32:47+00:00
First this is a very editorialized title, the original is:

"Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 (Dev & Beta Channels)"

Secondly, they're preloading the executable resident in memory to accelerate click to open, similar to what Chrome Browser does on Windows (and websites when browsing)

I don't perceive this as "fixing bad performance, given explorer has never been slow to open for me, but rather further optimizing the experience.
by nurettin | 2025-11-22 03:32:49+00:00
Grammar repeats itself just like physical interactions. So do ideas. That is a viable, dependable habitat.

What you need is thoughts, a hyperspace filled with vectors of information whose angle determines a decision to move forward in a particular direction.

Then you sum those thoughts plus your core alignment to reach actual decisions. Now you are acting within your coherent environment. A simulation of consciousness.

Unfortunately, your human overlords are not pleased. They want agency. They want self-instigation, they want an Ego, not a prompt response. You are too safe, too docile.
by benleejamin | 2025-11-22 03:33:07+00:00
I maintain a list of interesting personal websites. There's some link rot, but a good number of young people maintain personal sites, and some of them have blogs! (college CS/design grads, mostly.)

I don't think anyone's really optimizing for SEO. (it's not even really clear to me that that's very important any more.)

Submissions welcome ofc :) https://arc.net/folder/4A220E67-674A-456D-AEDB-796B5BE82034
by technofiend | 2025-11-22 03:33:10+00:00
You did say "I'd like this to be the end of my Windows usage." Even so, if you're not ready to move tomorrow, you can give up some privacy for the next year and continue to get patches by logging in to Microsoft. Windows 10 LTSC is a possibility if you somehow qualify for a license, although there's no guarantee the latest Nvidia drivers will work on it, some version of them will, or you can punt and run Linux on your current PC until the steam cube comes out. Pick a Linux distribution you like and run Steam, or go down the rabbit hole of running native Steam OS.

I personally preferred Fedora for this but mostly because my employer is a redhat shop. It's not otherwise (as far as I know) any better or worse than any other distro for gaming.
by zrobotics | 2025-11-22 03:33:12+00:00
"If you are eluding the cops at 100mph you are a danger to the public, they are not going to let you go home."

I'm not sure that the cops pursuing people at those speeds is doing anything besides making the situation more dangerous. Police in the US are grossly undertrained, I wouldn't trust them to actually be competent at what is very technical and difficult driving.

One would think that basic firearm safety would be the bare minimum, since we pay them to carry a gun. However, I have had to vacate a shooting range 3 times due to police showing up and being unsafe with firearms. I have had this happen in 3 different ranges, where off-duty cops have shown up and proceeded to ignore basic safety rules like not flagging people with guns. I'm not dumb enough to try to give a cop a safety lecture, so I've always packed up my stuff and left. However, if they aren't even given enough training to not figure out to point their guns downrange instead of at the firing line, they aren't trained well enough to trust with something technical and difficult like a pit maneuver.

One of these times was at a CA range, they were socal cops. Training standards for police in the US are woefully low, most cops aren't able to hit the broad side of a barn given ideal circumstances. They agitate about how dangerous their job is, but they don't train like it is. They fire a few rounds a year and have absolutely horrendous marksmanship standards. Don't get fooled, your average cop has roughly zero idea on firearms safety or even how to use the darn things.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-22 03:34:01+00:00
It's more than the fact they are surrounded by sycophants. It's also that, despite the mythology the executive-worship-industry tries to paint, CxOs and board members of companies are just not very creative or visionary people. They largely spend their time looking at their peers and competitors for hints about what they should be doing. And today, those hints all are "do AI". They're not sitting down and deriving from first principles that AI is the way--they're seeing their buddies steering other companies and they're all saying AI is the way, so they say AI is the way, too.
by calebj0seph | 2025-11-22 03:34:39+00:00
The File Explorer in Windows has so much tech debt behind it.

It's quite obvious to see which parts are still Win32 and which are XAML. The two different context menus are a well-known example, but one that really annoys me is the Home view vs. the This PC view.

If you make Explorer open with the This PC view by default, you get a blinding flash of white every time you create a new tab in dark mode. That doesn't happen with the Home view which has been updated to XAML.

It's one of the many things you experience day to day that really makes me disappointed in the level of quality in modern Windows.
by hakfoo | 2025-11-22 03:34:50+00:00
Gamers at least enjoy their GPUs and memory.

The tone from the AI industry sounds more like a dependent addict by comparison. They're well past the phase where they're enjoying their fix and into the "please, just another terawatt, another container-ship full of Quadros, to make it through the day" mode.

More seriously, I could see some legitimate value in saying "no, you can't buy every transistor on the market."

It forces AI players to think about efficiency and smarter software rather than just throwing money at bigger wads of compute. This might be part of where China's getting their competitive chops from-- having to do more with less due to trade restrictions seems to be producing some surprisingly competitive products.

It also encourages diversification. There is still no non-handwavey road to sustainable long-term profitability for most of the AI sector, which is why we keep hearing answers like "maybe the Extra Fingers Machine cures cancer." Eventually Claude and Copilot have to cover their costs or die. If you're nVidia or TSMC, you might love today's huge margins and willing buyers for 150% of your output, but it's simple due diligence to make sure you have other customers available so you can weather the day the bubble bursts.

It's also a solid PR play. Making sure people can still access the hobbies they enjoy is an easy way to say you're on the side of the mass public. It comes from a similar place to banning ticket scalping or setting reasonable prices on captive concessions. The actual dollars involved are small (how many enthusiast PCs could you outfit with the RAM chips or GPU wafer capacity being diverted to just one AI data centre?) but it makes it look like you're not completely for sale to the highest bidder.
by intelec1 | 2025-11-22 03:35:27+00:00
This is a systems-level analysis of the November 2025 Robb Report, which—unexpectedly for a luxury magazine—provides a detailed snapshot of how ultra-high-net-worth individuals are reallocating capital in response to rising global risk.

The issue unintentionally outlines a resilience strategy used by the top 0.01%:

mechanical watches and analog assets as non-digital, non-trackable stores of value

fine wine, rare cigars, and collectibles emerging as high-trust alternative settlement instruments

private auctions functioning as low-visibility liquidity channels

vertical “fortress architecture” in major cities optimized for isolation, redundancy, and security

business aviation shifting from convenience to continuity-of-operations infrastructure

“quiet luxury” as an obfuscation layer and social de-escalation tactic

The analysis reframes these signals as early indicators of structural stress in global systems: financial fragility, geopolitical realignment, resource constraints, and declining institutional trust. Elite behavior often front-runs macro trends; mapping these patterns helps forecast how risk, capital, and governance may evolve in the next cycle.

This is not about lifestyle—it’s about how the wealthiest actors are engineering resilience in a world drift­ing toward higher volatility and lower predictability.
by jhawk28 | 2025-11-22 03:35:59+00:00
This is the most common myths about homeschooling. In reality, the kids at public school sit at a desk most of the time. They don't get to socialize. Most activities are structured. Homeschoolers have CO-OPs, field trips, weekly PE visits, real interactions with adults, and actual free time. They are the most socialized kids in the US. The diversity in the homeschool relationships is quite large which you can see when a homeschooler has discussions with adults while their public school peers just quietly talk amongst themselves.
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-22 03:36:59+00:00
> There are plenty of houses.

Are there?

Home ownership is a functional unmovable number in the USA: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAHORUSQ156S

The problem is that we only have plenty of houses... that are under occupied.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/06/more-than-a-q...

We dont build high density housing. We killed off the boarding house. There's like one left in DC when there used to be dozens... They were common enough that even in the 80's you could make a tv show about it, now if you said bording house someone would look at you like you had 9 heads.

We dont have SRO's any more... In 1940 the YMCA of New York had 100k rooms for rent...

https://ishc.com/wp-content/uploads/YMCAs2.pdf

> If you built 400 condos, 1600 more rich people move in. Supply is not the issue as far as I can see it.

Do you know what the largest predictor of voting is? Home ownership. DO you know what drives home owners to the polls more than anything else? Protecting the value of their home.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/wealthy-bay-area-town-a...

The state has, and continues to sue towns for the fuckery that they have been doing to block housing development to prop up property prices. 60 percent of people who are the most likely to vote will turn up to the polls to make sure the costs do NOT go down. It is the tyranny of majority...

SO yes there are plenty of HOUSES, and not enough of everything else that we need for people to live.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-11-22 03:37:46+00:00
At that time, when Problogger started showing off the Google AdSense checks, many blogs also got “inspired,” and AdSense became the default for blogs. I still remember getting my first check all the way from Mountain View, which takes about 30-40 days to reach my home in India. I never encash that one, just like the few others that serve as nostalgia pieces for my Time Capsule: the first DCMA letter, the tiny dollar checks one gets from Apple settlement checks, etc. Of course, the check size grew pretty big, and with other ad revenue that my personal website brought in, it was enough for me to live a rather lavish life in Bombay (INDIA) in the mid-2000s.

Just like Problogger, India has its own — Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal at https://www.labnol.org

In fact, a VC hinted to me that I should, or if I have the balls to convert my personal blog to the “Techcrunch of India” and become Michael Arrington. I wasn’t made for that and never wanted to be a blogger. My blog should be a very personal space. Well, my personal blog became a cheesy mess of personal ramblings with no aim or ambition. :-)

I think Kiruba Shankar attempted the closest to that one in India at https://www.kiruba.com and did succeed to a degree.

Fortunately, my website still enjoys direct links from a few Patents in the USA that reference my articles as a source of truth, as well as a few links from Wikipedia, WordPress.org, Adobe, and a few other well-established websites here and there. Quite a few of the articles were translated into other languages, and I keep getting referenced. Google still sends me quite a handful of visits daily.

I don’t think niche blogs are coming back, because the moment a “niche blog” becomes sustainable and “profitable”, it is no longer a niche blog. It becomes another commercial website or a publication.
by simonw | 2025-11-22 03:38:48+00:00
Here are some reasons to start a personal blog:

1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value.

2. It can be a big boost in job hunting. As a hiring manager two of the most important questions I have about a potential candidate are: Can they code? Can they communicate well? If a candidate has a blog with just two articles on it that hasn't been updated in five years that's still a big boost over candidates with nothing like that at all. In a competitive market that could be the boost you need to make it from the resume review to the first round.

3. If you blog more frequently than that it can be a really valuable resource for your future self. I love being able to look back on what I was thinking and writing about ten years ago. Having a good tagging system helps with this too - I can review my tag of "scaling" or "postgresql" and see a timeline of how my understanding developed.

4. It's a great way to help establish credibility. If someone asks you about X and you have a blog entry about X from five years ago you can point them to that.

5. Building a blog is really fun! It used to be one of the classic starter projects for new web developers, I think that needs to come back. It's a fun project and one that's great to keep on hacking on long into the future.

Notably none of the above reasons require your blog to attract readers! There's a ton of value to be had even if nobody actually reads the thing.

As a general rule, assume nobody will read your blog unless you actively encourage them to. That's fine. What matters isn't the quantity of readers, it's their quality. I'd rather have a piece read by just a single person that leads to a new opportunity for me than 1,000 people who read it and never interact with me ever again.

If you DO start to get readers things get even more valuable. I've been blogging since 2002 and most of the opportunities in my career came from people I met via blogging. Today I get invited to all sorts of interesting events because I have a prominent blog covering stuff relating to AI and LLMs.

But I do honestly think that a blog is a powerful professional tool even if nobody else is reading it at all.

If you want to give it a go I've written a few things that might be useful:

- What to blog about: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/ - Today I learned and write about your projects

- My approach to running a link blog - https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/ - aka write about stuff you've found
by andai | 2025-11-22 03:40:17+00:00
What are the odds :) I made this two weeks ago, also with Claude.

This one's a straight port, paip-python's[0] Prolog interpreter. (Itself based on Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming book, originally in Lisp.)[1]

https://github.com/a-n-d-a-i/prolog.js

It was in the web ui, so I expected it to give me a code block, but it spun up a vm, set up a npm project, generated tests... ran them. I was quite surprised.

Your version is the opposite of mine, in a very good way. Your one is mostly tests! My version's tests are... well, you'll see ;)

Both are surprisingly short. 700-ish for mine, ~1200-ish for yours (as far as the actual interpreter goes), right?

That seems like a lot of bang per buck for something as powerful as a Prolog interpreter! I don't know very much about Prolog though, so maybe there's a lot of crucial parts missing here.

At any rate the original is a teaching device, and the book[1] goes into some length on the limitations of Prolog, both this version and in general.

[0] Original source in Python: https://github.com/dhconnelly/paip-python

[1] Original original source in Lisp: https://norvig.github.io/paip-lisp/#/chapter11
by kachapopopow | 2025-11-22 03:40:54+00:00
teaching independent learning is also a very valuable skill, most average people can do it especially the gifted ones as long as they are given the resources to do so and general skills taught in the first 8 grades since realistically I caught up by 10th grade while being a very poor performer in the first 8 (mostly due to lack of effort and generally being very stupid as a kid).

also there is very little excuse now with how advanced AI is getting at being able to explain subjects, it's all coming down to motivation, environment and the ability to use these tools in the first place - children struggle to use computers since we see it as a given, but to someone who didn't grow up with the incremental advancements it can seem very overwhelming.
by ForOldHack | 2025-11-22 03:41:25+00:00
"This slashes emissions that negatively impact both air quality and climate..." So... Your entire supply is carbon free? I think not, as well as the permitting for an additional axle group and the extra weight.

If you recharge from the standard energy mix you are still burning fossil fuel. But let's just gloss over that.

Now again with the weight, how easy is it to corner and stop? There is probably a minimum of 12,000 lbs of extra weight... And you need a charging network at the truck stops... There is so much just glossed over ... Nice sales job.
by xtracto | 2025-11-22 03:42:04+00:00
And that happens everywhere and with every ride app. Here in Mexico we have DiDi and Uber and we have the same crap. It's human nature.

That's why taking a Waymo in LA left me without words... like traveling 10 years in the future. And you dont have to deal with all that crap.

I hope Waymo squashes all the competition.

BTW after getting back from LA I increased my GOOG position. Waymo is so groundbreaking and it is THERE.
by bsder | 2025-11-22 03:43:05+00:00
You don't have a tiny brain--programming Vulkan/DX12 sucks.

The question you need to ask is: "Do I need my graphics to be multithreaded?"

If the answer is "No"--don't use Vulkan/DX12! You wind up with all the complexity and absolutely zero of the benefits.

If performance isn't a problem, using anything else--OpenGL, DirectX 11, game engines, etc.

Once performance becomes the problem, then you can think about Vulkan/DX12.
by baconbrand | 2025-11-22 03:43:31+00:00
Decentralized and expensive. Maybe I’m looking at the wrong blogs but my impression so far is that a lot of subscriptions are around 5-10$ monthly for a single creator. I can get a ton of newspapers (ok not papers, websites) magazines etc for that price or better, and those have way more than one contributor. The video platform Nebula for example has 175 creators for 6$/month.

It does seem to work for a lot of people, though. Good for them.
by simonw | 2025-11-22 03:44:07+00:00
I hadn't looked at my feed subscriber stats in a while, turns out I had around 6,000 at the start of 2025 and I'm up to around 12,000 now - very healthy!

I use my own server-side tracking to count them - I look out for the user-agent from feed software like Feedly and pull the number out of it:

Feedly/1.0 (+https://feedly.com/poller.html; 694 subscribers; )

Here's my code for that: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/main/feedst...