MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amatecha | 2025-11-15 00:22:22+00:00
> terrified to discard anything even if its broken because there are components that might be useful to fix something else; the constant churn of second-hand (and cheap/disposable) things that are already close to death before they come into your possession and- crucially: the crushing weight of knowing that any financial roadbump is existential.

I mean, I'm quite well off (and have never experienced true financial "poorness" at all), and I still have this mindset. Our hyper-capitalist society will have you on the streets for even the the most minor setbacks. Everything feels like a house of cards that could collapse from the smallest breeze.

I just replaced a faulty AC adapter and kept the old one in case the new one fails and the faulty old one will remain an option to repair if I can't repair the newer one.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-15 00:22:31+00:00
These are the dying days of neoliberalism where only a fasicst police state is capable of propping it up.

The core problem here, and pretty much everywhere else, is rising inequality. We have seen a truly massive wealth transfer from the poor to the rich (either directly or via the government) and we're rapidly reaching the point where the poor simply won't have anything left.

Post-GFC austerity measures have been an abject failure. Successfully blaming those failures on immigration (as what became the Reform movement did) directly led to Brexit because neoliberalism in the UK is uniparty. So here we are where Nigel Farrage is odds on favorite to be the next Prime Minister of the UK (barring whatever leadership coups take place in Labor in until the next election, at least 1 of which is expected).

So the problems of neoliberalism are blamed on migrants. There is no counter-narrative to that. So we see a rise in isolationism and nationalism. And nothing improves. Well done, the system works.

What I find particularly fascinating is that many who push this agenda fetishize the 1950s (particularly in the US), which is funny because there was vastly less inequality and the marginal tax rate (in the US) was 91%.

Switzerland and Norway have better navigated being on the edge of the EU but not in it. But Norway has vast oil reserves (and, to their credit, is using them for a sovereign wealth fund instead of minting a handful of billionaires). Switzerland was the banking center but is really losing that title. Britain was once the heart of a vast empire and it too is a financial hub and a center for international money laundering (ie real estate) but, much like Switzerland, it doesn't really produce anything anymore.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-15 00:23:08+00:00
It is also the way we keep score in America.

Kids in America are hopelessly addicted to Tiktok but that doesn't count as a cultural export.

Most the items in people's homes are made in China but that doesn't count either.

Chinese rappers could be dominating the pop charts and we would just say rap was invented in America so that doesn't count.

All the American kids could be learning to play the guzheng and we would just say we invented a new American style of playing the guzheng, doesn't count.
by Genego | 2025-11-15 00:23:12+00:00
Thanks! Its really refreshing to work on this sort of stuff, not even knowing what the end result is going to be. Just a hobby? Something that some new model or third party app will completely replace next week? A new career path? Me getting back to my filmmaking and arts roots? I have no idea, I just know that its some of the best fun I have had with software in my career. I am hoping that more people jump on this experimental path with GenAI, just for themselves or to see how far they can push boundaries.
by hashim | 2025-11-15 00:23:18+00:00
Yes, antisemitism, in the same way it was anti-Americanism for the Viet Cong to resist the American occupation of Vietnam and that famous terrorist Mandela to resist apartheid South Africa. Desperate people who have heinous things done on them for 70 years do desperate, heinous things, and no-one is more desperate and more wronged than the Palestinians. Again, 70 years. It's almost like Europeans don't belong in the Middle East. Remind me what Netanyahu's real name is again? Also, since I'm sure you wouldn't want to be intellectually dishonest, I'm sure you no doubt equally agree that any criticism of Saudi Arabia, if it were doing anything remotely as heinous as Israel has for the last 70 years, would be Islamophobia, right? Right?
by xdennis | 2025-11-15 00:23:52+00:00
I don't know why people are being to negative towards GP. (Maybe because he didn't argue his point?) It's well known that GDP is not a good measurement for common people.

You can have a rich elite and a high GDP, but that doesn't mean the common people are doing as well as the GDP suggests.

A good example of this is Ireland. It has a huge GDP. 129,132$ per capita. It's the 3rd richest country in the world if you look at it like that (Liechtenstein and Luxembourg are first and second).

But do you think the average Irishman actually makes 129,132$ per year? No. Ireland is a tax heaven and its artificially inflated by tax shenanigans from foreign multinationals.

There are other reasons why absolute GPD is bullshit. Even PPP GDP is a little bullshit.
by immibis | 2025-11-15 00:24:03+00:00
People are concerned about Palestine because we're the ones doing it indirectly. It's not US or European troops on the ground, but it's almost entirely funded by the US and Europe and our governments fully support it and help it to keep going. Whereas the war in Sudan, while also very bad, isn't our fault. Maybe if we could get our own governments to stop bombing little children, after that we could consider intervening to stop other governments from bombing little children, but as it is, we can't even get past step 1.
by 0manrho | 2025-11-15 00:24:12+00:00
> AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity

Well said, their Instinct parts are actually, at a hardware level, very very capable pieces of kit that - ignoring software/dev ecosystem - are very competitive with NVidia.

Problem is, AMD has a terrible history of supporting it's hardware (either just outright lack of support, cough Radeon VII; or constantly scrapping things and starting over and thus the ecosystem never matured) and is at a massive deficit behind the CUDA ecosystem meaning that a lot of that hardware's potential is squandered by the lack of compatibility with CUDA and/or a lack of investment in comparable alternative. Those factors has given NVidia the momentum it has because most orgs/devs will look at the support/ecosystem delta, and ask themselves why they'd expend the resources reinventing the CUDA wheel to leverage AMD hardware when they can just spend that money/time investing in CUDA and NVidia instead.

To their credit, AMD it seems has learned it's lesson as they're actually trying to invest in ROCm and their Instinct ecosystem and seem to be sticking to their guns on it and we're starting to see people pick it up but they're still far behind Nvidia and CUDA.

One key area that Nvidia is far ahead of AMD on in the hardware space is networking.
by nitwit005 | 2025-11-15 00:24:14+00:00
A bee is an autonomous walking, climbing, and flying drone that investigates its environment, collects resources, builds structures, and coordinates with other drones.

We're totally incapable of building an AI that can do anything resembling that. We're still at the phase where robots walking on rough terrain without falling over remains a bit impressive.

I doubt the limitation is that we can't produce enough raw compute to replace a single bee.
by rekabis | 2025-11-15 00:24:43+00:00
Having software create the UUID is, IMO, more problematic than letting the DB create it itself as a part of its autogeneration for that identity column. Not the least because of any latency issues between a backend and the DB itself, if the DB is safely isolated from world+dog on a separate server that is only accessible by the backend.

It gets even worse if more than one backend has the ability to create entires that need to be in precise chronological order, either inserted “immediately” to a master DB or via eventual consistency through geographically distributed backends+DBs.

Sure, you can also use separate timestamp columns, but the timestamp portion of v7 appears to be sufficient for most use cases anyhow -- why have redundant data?

I believe I have recently bookmarked a trigger for MSSQL Server that is meant to autogenerate a UUIDv7 for an identity column, will try to link here later if anyone signals interest.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-15 00:24:59+00:00
The reason Google Wave failed so spectacularly was that Google's Marketing team insisted on copying the "invite only rollout" that was so successful for Google Mail.

The thing is that a Google Mail early invitee could collaborate with everybody else via the pre-existing standard of SMTP email. They felt special because they got a new web UI, told their friends about it, generated hype, which then made the invites feel even more special, etc...

Google Wave had no existing standard to leverage, making it 100.00% useless if you couldn't invite EVERYBODY you needed to collaborate with. But you couldn't! You weren't allowed! They had to wait for an invite. Days? Weeks? Months? Years!? Who knows!

There was a snowball's chance in hell that this marketing approach could possibly work for a collaboration tool like Google Wave, but Google knew better. They knew better than every journalist that pointed this obvious flaw out. They knew better than every blog post, Slashdot commenter, etc...

It was one of the most spectacular failures caused by self-important hubris that I've ever seen in any industry.
by sharkjacobs | 2025-11-15 00:26:34+00:00
This part of his argument is not self evident or intuitive and I'm not convinced that the abstract economic model maps cleanly to the messy reality. I'm much more assuaged by the fact that it seems to cost ~$1/1000 gallons to convert fresh water into potable water.

Like, if agriculture uses fresh water and data centers use potable water, the important question is how hard it is to convert fresh water into potable water?

The answer seems to be "not very" so the difference is kind of moot
by mmooss | 2025-11-15 00:26:38+00:00
> only a fasicst police state is capable

That's what the fascists always have said.

The post-neoliberals have created even more inequality, and openly oppose any efforts to fix it. The US government is still trying to disrupt food programs for the hungry.

> There is no counter-narrative to that. So we see a rise in isolationism and nationalism.

Few argue for a counter-narrative, but there are plenty. One is that almost everyone in the US is in a family of immigrants. The economic counter-narrative is overwhelming. Also economics is not a zero-sum competition - it's not beggar-thy-neighbor: If your neighbor does well, you do well - they are your employers, customers, employees, lenders, borrowers, renters, etc. Fewer neighbors is a smaller, slower economy.
by immibis | 2025-11-15 00:27:09+00:00
I live in Germany and I can tell you German denazification was a complete failure. Yes they're not run by a party calling itself NSDAP. Yes there haven't been concentration camps. Yes everyone knows you have to protect Jews. But the underlying feelings are still there - they're just directed towards different groups. Germany is inching closer to doing it again with Muslims.
by echelon | 2025-11-15 00:28:21+00:00
Rust is the most defect free language I have ever had the pleasure of working with. It's a language where you can almost be certain that if it compiles and if you wrote tests, you'll have no runtime bugs.

I can only think of two production bugs I've written in Rust this year. Minor bugs. And I write a lot of Rust.

The language has very intentional design around error handling: Result<T,E>, Option<T>, match, if let, functional predicates, mapping, `?`, etc.

Go, on the other hand, has nil and extremely exhausting boilerplate error checking.

Honestly, Go has been one of my worst languages outside of Python, Ruby, and JavaScript for error introduction. It's a total pain in the ass to handle errors and exceptional behavior. And this leads to making mistakes and stupid gotchas.

I'm so glad newer languages are picking up on and copying Rust's design choices from day one. It's a godsend to be done with null and exceptions.

I really want a fast, memory managed, statically typed scripting language somewhere between Rust and Go that's fast to compile like Go, but designed in a safe way like Rust. I need it for my smaller tasks and scripting. Swift is kind of nice, but it's too Apple centric and hard to use outside of Apple platforms.

I'm honestly totally content to keep using Rust in a wife variety of problem domains. It's an S-tier language.
by sebastos | 2025-11-15 00:28:46+00:00
The conversation is about trying to do everyday activities inside of a combat zone. The international community's opinion about the war is, I should think this is obvious, not the relevant factor. It doesn't matter what people think of the war, only that _there is war_. I think it's safe to say that Ukraine and Gaza are both plenty distracting places to work.

That said, even though it's totally off-topic, I can't help but respond to this:

>those same governments have been enabling and arming the occupier in Palestine/Gaza, and its media has pontificated that occupation, continuous ethnic cleansing and the hundreds of massacres and hostages - sorry, prisoners - is actually somehow justified

I think Western governments have been quite consistent: they condemn people who start wars. If you want to be supported by the international community, don't start a war. Finishing a war is different: those governments are perfectly happy to provide arms and support to anybody — be they white and European, like the Ukrainians, or non-white and non-European, like the Israelis — so long as it's in service of fighting back against a belligerent aggressor.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-11-15 00:28:46+00:00
It can't do that without the answer to who did it being in the training data. I think the reason people keep falling for this illusion is that they can't really imagine how vast the training dataset is. In all cases where it appears to answer a question like the one you posed, it's regurgitating the answer from its training data in a way that creates an illusion of using logic to answer it.
by pxc | 2025-11-15 00:29:51+00:00
> It is becoming clear that the LLM approach is not adequate to reach what John McCarthy called human-level intelligence

Perhaps paradoxically, if/as this becomes a consensus view, I can be more excited about AI. I am an "AI skeptic" not in principle, but with respect to the current intertwined investment and hype cycles surrounding "AI".

Absent the overblown hype, I can become more interested in the real possibilities (both immediate, using existing ML methods; and the remote, theoretical capabilities follow from what I think about minds and computers in general) again.

I think when this blows over I can also feel freer to appreciate some of the genuinely cool tricks LLMs can perform.
by beejiu | 2025-11-15 00:30:13+00:00
The impact on trade is almost entirely in goods and the UK is >80% services. Services is basically unaffected by Brexit. (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/7657...)

Hits on GDP aren't felt equally across the population.

> Fewer workers in UK etc.

You mean fewer European workers. The UK has far more workers today since the post-Covid migration wave.
by phkahler | 2025-11-15 00:31:04+00:00
>> I think they want to reboot the program to try to remove the corruption.

A reasonable thing to do - in principle. In practice that many people applying at once is going to cause all kinds of problems and delays for people. No big deal to inconvenience fraudsters, but delaying for people legitimately in need isn't good. Forced reapplication 5 percent at a time would be better. Or maybe thats what they're doing?
by tell_me_whai | 2025-11-15 00:31:06+00:00
Hey, funny finding you comment as I've actually recently been developing a CLI app to improve LLM integration in my filesystem. Not sure what you are doing with your files, but maybe it could be useful for you too! You can check it out on my github (https://github.com/gael-vanderlee/whai) and hopefully that can help you with your use case. Look into roles in particular, as they allow you to save and reuse specific workflows.
by sltkr | 2025-11-15 00:31:39+00:00
That's an overly simplistic take. Obviously the absolutely richest nations in the world are better places to live than the absolutely poorest. But that doesn't mean there is a strict ranking based on GDP.

For example, based on GDP/capita:

- The United States outrank the Netherlands. - The United Arab Emirates outrank Italy. - Puerto Rico outranks South Korea. - Saudi Arabia outranks Japan.

I don't know about you but for all of these pairs I'd rather live in the latter rather than the former.
by standardUser | 2025-11-15 00:31:53+00:00
It's not uncommon in some democracies to require multiple votes for major changes (such as constitutional changes or leaving/entering intergovernmental orgs). And 4 points may be a clear margin, but it's not a large margin, and polling showed an immediate shift in opinion. In terms of the Scots, 62% is an actual blowout. And I'd think it might be enough to overcome the 10 point gap on their vote on independence (pre-Brexit).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-15 00:32:40+00:00
> Have hundreds of thousands died in any country and even more expelled (ethnically cleansed) in the world since 1948 apart from Palestine?

What? Seriously?! It isn’t even in the top ten!

The partition of India. Zanzibar. Nigeria. The Khmer Rouge. The Cultural Revolution. The invasion and annexation of Tibet. Indonesia. Bangladesh. Rwanda. Idi Amin. The Kurds. Srebrenica. Biafra. The Khmer Rouge. Guetemala. The Cultural Revolution. The invasion and annexation of Tibet. Guatemala. Indonesia. Rwanda. Uganda. The Kurds. Srebrenica. Off the top of my head.

This sort of extremist ignorant activism hurts the people one claims to be protecting, because once exaggeration is shown it’s easier to dismiss the whole thing.
by LeoPanthera | 2025-11-15 00:33:00+00:00
I bought an MS-01 (the earlier Intel version of this) for homelab use and I don't know what was wrong with it, but Debian just refused to reboot on it. It would boot, but not reboot, freezing up every time.

I replaced it with an Asus NUC, which came with a non-functional BIOS, but was eventually coerced into working after forcibly flashing it.

I haven't had a lot of luck with mini PCs.
by itake | 2025-11-15 00:33:15+00:00
My experience with the kids working in Laos was similar but I have a different interpretation.

Your answer was through the eyes of an adult. 12 year olds dont have concept of money. What is a lot of money or why they need to go to school.

Asking a 12 year old to understand the value of money and education and life is not fair to the child.

What’s actually going on, at least in Laos, is the parents are directing the kids to do these jobs. The kids don’t understand why, but it’s what their mom wants him to do and it makes her happy when they do it.

I think to address these problems, the better solution is to help parents be better parents. Get them jobs, get them educated, get them skills.
by discoutdynamite | 2025-11-15 00:33:19+00:00
Skimmed the patent. Its 99% a pedantic and exhaustive explanation of a linear motor. The only interesting thing they mention, is this:

The inertial mass of an object varies with the variation of its magnetic field and therefore a variation of inertia can be created

But they provide no explanation whatsoever for how a glorified linear motor is relativistically (or otherwise) affecting inertial mass. This could be operating under a novel application of ECE Theory, wherein they are using magnetism to affect gravity, but I doubt it. They would have claimed so.
by astrange | 2025-11-15 00:34:01+00:00
You'll have somewhat better luck if you fix the spelling errors.

https://lmarena.ai/c/019a84ec-db09-7f53-89b1-3b901d4dc6be

https://gemini.google.com/share/da93030f131b

Obviously neither are good but it is better.

I think image models could be producing a lot more editable outputs if eg they output multi-layer PSDs.
by mmooss | 2025-11-15 00:35:45+00:00
The average citizen is much better off than in low-GDP places. The issue is how much prosperity they miss out on because it's captured by a few.

The world has never seen an explosion in prosperity, and reduction in poverty, like the post-WWII and post-Cold War years, and it was accomplished via free markets, trade, etc. (not perfectly or exclusively, of course). Look at S Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, China, India - like nothing the world has ever seen. Billions lifted from poverty.

Look at Western Europe after the absolute destruction of two world wars, and compare their recovery with places that did not follow the path of free markets and trade.
by jltsiren | 2025-11-15 00:37:04+00:00
In parts that do not care much about property rights and citizens are not allowed to challenge government decisions in the courts.

If I was trying to build new infrastructure in Finland, I would add four years to the project between the planning and the construction stages. Two years for urban planning and public hearings, and another two years for the inevitable lawsuits. Other Western countries should have similar delays.
by hdjdndben | 2025-11-15 00:37:16+00:00
Sorry to say but that is bad advice. SmartOS is great and it was cool tech, but it is not Linux and it doesn't act like Linux is certain scenarios.

My favourite example is OOM .. Linux will kill your docker container. SmartOS locks it up and makes it super hard to see understand why it failed.

I like smartos but I have painful memories from about a decade ago.

Incus however is what in use now in Linux.
by mmooss | 2025-11-15 00:38:12+00:00
> It's well known that GDP is not a good measurement for common people.

It has many flaws, but can you name a better one?

> that doesn't mean the common people are doing as well as the GDP suggests.

Nobody who understands GDP would say everyone is doing as well (or poorly) as GDP suggests. Some people do better, some worse.

But people in places with higher GDP reliably do better. Visit a poor or middle-income country; the difference is unmistakeable and this debate becomes absurd.

Inequality is a major problem in high-GDP countries; that doesn't mean GDP is meaningless.
by Sanzig | 2025-11-15 00:38:23+00:00
Torque rods do work in MEO/GEO, but you need significantly more magnetic moment to get the same torque (ie: larger rods and more current).

It's more a question of how much momentum you need to dump that determines if they are practical or not - magnetorquers are rarely used for direct attitude control, since they don't produce much torque. Instead, they are used "dump" excess momentum stored in the spacecraft's reaction wheels. The wheels can generate high torque, but they do so by changing their rotational speed, storing angular momentum. Ultimately, wheels have a finite maximum rotation speed, so they need to be "desaturated" by transferring angular momentum elsewhere. Magnetorquers provide a way to slowly transfer the angular momentum to the earth over time via its magnetic field.