MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Stranger43 | 2025-11-22 19:13:04+00:00
We saw how fast and decisively modern states can move doing covid, so what is being suggested here is that at the end of the day the current leadership of the EU(especially some of the more US loyal smaller states) is not really ready to believe the US wont restore that trust at the next election.

I am from Denmark and it's been interesting seeing our politicians dance around the very plausible direct invasion threats made by the current US president against Greenland, where our PM made strong declaration while her ministry of defense kept increasing it's dependency on American planes ect.

And it's the same story almost everywhere for the digital sovereignty stuff, yes they claim to want it but when the legislation arrives it's nothing and there is no urgency within the technical departments actually running government it to change anything.
by abustamam | 2025-11-22 19:13:37+00:00
I'd argue that that's the wrong goal. Ideally, families can afford to live off of one salary so that mothers could choose to continue to care for their children if they wanted to do so.

Currently, very few families are privileged enough to live off of one salary. Both parents need to work in order to make ends meet.

I'm not saying it's an easy problem to solve, or that free childcare isn't a good interim solution. But important to keep the end goal in mind.
by DamonHD | 2025-11-22 19:13:48+00:00
Someone I know who is a patent lawyer suggested that if I found myself in this situation asking for more details of the claim, calmly, to determine if it has substance. But depending on the counterparty's motivation that may or may not help.

Make sure that you get enough legal advice to avoid digging yourself a deeper hole: you may be wanting to mark such correspondance "WITHOUT PREJUDICE" or similar for example. IANAL and that is not legal advice.
by bluebarbet | 2025-11-22 19:13:54+00:00
>If one posts a couple of solid paragraphs as a reply, one looks like an autistic weirdo info-bombing.

As one should. The rando who spams a discussion thread with an impenetrable wall of text is like that guy who uses their "question" at the end of an in-person panel discussion to ramble incoherently for three minutes. Yes, here we can scroll past it, but it's still presumptious and annoying. This is not primary content (that's at the top). Here we're all nobodies to everyone else. For my part I try to remember that fact - and get to the point.
by p1esk | 2025-11-22 19:14:09+00:00
“Useful” does not mean “better”. It just means “we could not do dense”. All modern state of the art models use dense layers (both weight and inputs). Quantization is also used to make models smaller and faster, but never better in terms of quality.

Based on all examples I’ve seen so far in this thread it’s clear there’s no evidence that sparse models actually work better than dense models.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-11-22 19:14:27+00:00
> The US was founded on individual rights

Excluding those whose land was stolen and redistributed by government.

> not community sacrifice

Excluding government-funded infrastructure projects like canals that enabled growth. And support that immigrants received from ethnic communities.

> Meanwhile, during the 1800s, scores of millions of people moved up from poverty

Yes, fifteen tons, we know that song.
by owenversteeg | 2025-11-22 19:15:19+00:00
>if you polled any number of therapists what people's hangups are about it would be more likely to be the parents. Everyone I know is an inheritor of some significant amount of their family's generational trauma.

I completely agree.

The study looked at “individual differences in general attachment anxiety and avoidance in adulthood, as well as adults’ relationship-specific attachment orientations in each of their close relationships” - each quantified. Of course, the study isn’t about the source of trauma, but I don’t think you can quantify any of these things - the source of trauma, the source of anxiety, or the source of attachment styles.

Imagine you have a very frugal parent. Maybe that early influence makes you a big spender. Maybe it makes you cheap. Maybe you spend normally, but you’re always anxious about not having enough. The same goes for other parental influence, good or bad. How does something like that show up on a chart? You can’t quantify it and you can’t generalize it.

That said: I do think your early friendships and early relationships are full of useful hints. There are a lot of things caused by your parents that might be camouflaged (e.x. because the parents are older) that your own early friendships and relationships reveal.
by charlie-83 | 2025-11-22 19:15:36+00:00
Relevant/personalised ads doesn't mean ads that benefit you. It's means ads that are better able to extract money from you.

It means that, when you need a new dishwasher, you will never see the actual best dishwasher for you, only dishwashers that are a bit more expensive than you actually need but you will end up buying one of them anyways.

It means that you are more likely to see products you would impulse buy just after you get your paycheck. Or slightly inflated prices on things you usually buy.

It means ads designed to take advantage of addictions to sugar, alcohol, gambling etc

Finding stuff you actually want to buy has never been easier, you can find hundreds of reviews and comparisons instantly. People who opt into personalised ads don't end up being more savvy online shoppers, they just end up buying more junk.
by maks198 | 2025-11-22 19:16:18+00:00
>Firefox w/ the Arkenfox user.js is probably as good as it gets in terms of privacy.

No. It's LARP. You either don't care or go with Tor Browser and/or commercial antidetect browsers.

But you shouldn't care, this issue of fingerprinting is overblown. (really reminds me of AI)
by gruez | 2025-11-22 19:16:29+00:00
>We've repeatedly proven that with math and code alone, we can fingerprint and identify almost every unique person on the planet, given enough data points.

I'm very skeptical of this claim, especially in practice. Contrary to what many fingerprinting sites claim ("you're unique of everyone we fingerprinted!!"), browser fingerprinting can't possibly uniquely identify someone. Smartphones are pretty locked down and there's very few customization options that allow for fingerprinting. In the US Apple has around 50% market share in the US, and there are 30 iPhones models that are still in support. That means if you're an iPhone user in a city of 1 million, there are, on average, approximately 16.6k (500k / 30) other people with the same exact model of iPhone (and therefore fingerprint) as you. As long as you don't do anything to stick out (eg. living in the US but setting Denmark as your locale), you'll be reasonably anonymous.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-22 19:17:20+00:00
Actually, the mercenary garbage that Lenovo started doing was absolutely hateful. I'd been tearing my hair out forever trying to figure out why nothing I could do would make my bluetooth work right on an old T430, even when I upgraded the chip. Assumed it was a Linux bug.

Turns out that Lenovo put awful bluetooth in the laptop, and made it ignore any other bluetooth chip you installed (you can get around this in Linux by force ignoring what the system reports.) I have no idea why you would do that except out of spite; I don't remember them selling bluetooth upgrades or anything. They were just keeping their options open? This is aside from having to hack the bios in order to upgrade wireless or use generic batteries.

I would be awesome if the people that sold me products weren't awful people. They don't have to feel bad about it, but they should.

I don't care that you're angrier at Apple than at Lenovo. I'm angrier at the electric company, but I don't bring it up to defend my local alderman. I also don't care that FOSS hasn't solved all your problems for free like they apparently promised you they would.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-22 19:17:53+00:00
OEMs don't care about that. It's Qualcomm in particular that sucks. If you buy a Linux PC from System76 it comes with their own flavor of Linux but it's basically Ubuntu and there is nothing stopping you from putting any other version you want on it. The ones from Dell just use common distributions.

Meanwhile Linux is getting a huge popularity boost right now from all the PCs that don't officially support Windows 11 and run Linux fine, and those are distribution-agnostic too because they didn't come with it to begin with.
by epolanski | 2025-11-22 19:18:02+00:00
While I absolutely understand the entirety of this post, and I understand why large organizations have such ladders I want to emphasize that you don't have necessarily to aim for this vertical climbing.

It is absolutely fine to make good money and limit your responsibilities.

It is also fine to work in smaller organizations and unknown companies where you enjoy the work and there would make no sense to have more labels and roles than personnel.

There's more to life than money. I'm a freelancer/independent consultant, and as such I'm never considered for anything but senior or tech lead roles and...it's fine.

I make more money than I spend (I have the same lifestyle I had when I was making 2500€s per month), but I can optimize for choosing projects and things that I care for.

That's not really doable when you aim to climb the ladder, you need to "play" the game and you don't get to set it.

I'm free from those political shenanigans.

I also know plenty of senior devs that enjoy simply being senior devs and renouncing more responsibilities.

Eventually, for the same peter principle organizations too should not necessarily aim to push everybody to grow (albeit I understand in big tech managers do have incentives into growing and promoting people).

There's many elements of freedom in forgoing this ladder climbing and everybody should set their own priorities and goals regardless of what the industry and society says. It's liberating.
by verdverm | 2025-11-22 19:19:02+00:00
Google's ADK is pretty nice, I'm using the Go version, which is less mature than the python on. Been at it a bit over a week and progress is great. This weekend I'm aiming for tracking file changes in the session history to allow rewinding / forking

It has a ton of day 2 features, really nice abstractions, and positioned itself well in terms of the building blocks and constructing workflows.

ADK supports working with all the vendors and local LLMs
by nightshift1 | 2025-11-22 19:19:23+00:00
With a quick search, it looks like some ai datacenters are not designed/built with hyperscaler grade reliability in mind so the would have to be upgraded for that purpose.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/12/infinite-scale-t...

We are pushing the envelope in serving this compute with cost-efficient, reliable power. The Atlanta site was selected with resilient utility power in mind and is capable of achieving 4×9 availability at 3×9 cost. By securing highly available grid power, we can also forgo traditional resiliency approaches for the GPU fleet (such as on-site generation, UPS systems and dual-corded distribution), driving cost savings for customers and faster time-to-market for Microsoft.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-22 19:19:51+00:00
Is it possible that autism is like a mode that gets switched on by the environment and in modern day it doesn’t switch off?

In many parts of the world during tribal times, feeling like you didn’t have control and feeling like the world is unpredictable is probably going to lead to death. Hyperfocus on getting things under control (in specific areas) would be useful, for example hyperfocus on shelter before winter if you feel like that is not under control, or hyperfocus on the food supply if that is not under control.

In the modern world it’s plausible to me that the conditions are just so out of control of the individual that the mode never turns off, and you get random seeming intense focus and irritability around lack of control and lack of focus on social fluidity (which in the tribal environment was basically N/A since everyone was basically the same as each other and you didn’t need these flexible protocols for socialization) etc etc.

I’m not diagnosed with autism but I feel like I have a lot of the classic traits and when I pay attention to my environment a lot of things bother me and I feel better when I fix them. But so many things bother me that it’s basically impossible to fix them all and then I disassociate from them. The things that bother me are like “this design is bad, fix it” but I can’t change all the objects around me like one could in a tribal setting where everything was made in house. Same with routine that is impossibly complex compared to tribal life.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-22 19:20:05+00:00
I will get back to this later, but I literally quoted you and I replied to what I quoted you said, so you cannot say that I made it up myself when I quoted you verbatim and then responded to that.

In one instance you did say "If the brain is limited to the Turing computable, then the brain itself is existence proof it is possible to do so efficiently.", for example, and I explained why it is not the proof you thought it was.

In any case, no hard feelings. I will get back to you in a minute.
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-11-22 19:20:16+00:00
Or maybe consumers do not want to (because it doesn't make economic sense for them, or because they don't want to spend every second of their free time optimizing) spend a significant amount of their time doing this kind of research before every purchase decision? I have never understood this argument that as long as information is technically available companies should be absolved of meeting some minimum level of baseline quality. You're also describing an industry that's unusually transparent (in part because there are not that many models of planes); for a lot of online goods there is absolutely no reasonable way you can know what a particular brand will be like before you buy.
by rlonstein | 2025-11-22 19:21:06+00:00
> What they'd want to do is try to recover and reuse heat. In principle, there's no reason "new" heat has to be added each time they heat a batch of glass, if heat can be transferred from cooling glass back to the input materials.

Have you worked in any industrial or craft setting involving molten glass or metal? Walked around a workshop? There's no way the heat is going back into the process.
by vee-kay | 2025-11-22 19:21:32+00:00
Those high-powered toys by the cops are merely for showing off and to victimize the weak. Those toys typically never come into play to protect the citizens.

Case in point: during the Uvalde school shooting incident in 2022, when a shooter (Salvador Ramos) went on a killing spree inside the school, then hundreds of cops gathered outside with brand new body armor (gifted to them just months ago) and armed with automatic guns, but they never dared to go inside to tackle the shooter. Not only that, those cowardly cops actively prevented parents and state patrol officers from going in to rescue their kids. The cowardly cops were led by a cowardly police chief, who later gave excuses for the delayed response to the deadly situation and his mishandling of the police force, by claiming to have forgotten his walkie talkie!

Ultimately one of the border patrol officers and some US deputy marshalls (who had travelled 70 miles to reach the scene after getting an alert) managed to sneak in to the back, break the locked door, and used a tactical shield to corner and finally kill the shooter, thus ending his bloodbath (19 children and 2 teachers were tragically killed).

And if you think arming cowardly showoff cops with guns and armor is useless and potentially dangerous, you should know the Uvalde school shooter was a minor but he managed to buy the guns legally from a gun shop on credit!

That's how lax and evil the gun laws and resulting shootouts in USA are.

USA has more mass shootings and more school shootings than any other place in the world.

No wonder they facilitate and glorify high-speed car chases. It is all a thrillride for these adrenaline junkies high on power.
by bluecalm | 2025-11-22 19:21:32+00:00
Switzerland has mandatory healthcare insurance and subsidies for low income earners. The insurance is provided by private companies. It's not really universal healthcare system like in most EU countries.

Private insurance can work out fine if regulated well. In USA you have regulatory capture that makes services expensive. Impossible barriers to entry coupled with terrible regulation on price transparency and a lot of cartel like behavior.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-11-22 19:21:53+00:00
Sure but most people aren’t going to do that. It automatically limits the audience willing to use the software.

This isn’t an easy problem! I’d argue signed binaries are good for everybody… They are good for the end user because it provides some assurance the thing hasn’t been tampered with and provides at least some form of audit history. It’s good for the developers too! It ensures that users are running the binaries the dev intended them to run! It’s good for the platform maker as it reduces the attack surface…

The problem is… getting the keys to sign binaries requires getting a private key! And not just any key but one that been blessed somehow by something that all parties can trust. And trust isn’t a technical problem but a meatspace human some. Apple solves it by requiring the dev to cough up 100USD and probably some other personal information. I have no idea how Ubuntu does it or Microsoft…. But something, somewhere has to bless that signing key.
by ninalanyon | 2025-11-22 19:22:25+00:00
In Norway every child has a right to a barnehage place (kindergarten). It's not free unless you are poor but it is very affordable at a maximum of about 3 000 NOK per month, about 300 USD, for five full days a week.

Children in barnehage learn to be social and cooperative, resilient and adaptable. They play outside in all weathers, learn to put on and take off their outer clothes, to set tables, help each other and the staff. They certainly do not fail to gain motor skills. It's not just child care and every barnehage has to be led by someone with a qualification in early childhood education although no formal class based instruction takes place.

So what exactly is New Mexico proposing to provide and what did Quebec provide?
by cma | 2025-11-22 19:22:44+00:00
Yes it's small, but:

At least during emergence of life there was the faint young sun + higher proportions of radioactive elements, so could have made up 0.2% of outgoing thermal radiation or so on earth (ignoring outflow of residual heat from early collisions). I think 5-10 earth masses is the limit for terrestrial planets, and you can imagine having say 10x more radioactive elements and still hospitable to life, rather than being made of solid uranium. So maybe double digit percentage radiant heat outflow differences between very small and very large on those.
by brnaftr361 | 2025-11-22 19:22:46+00:00
Isn't yield relative? Take a bell pepper for instance, perhaps one grown in x soil another in y, the nutrient contents will vary even if one is clonal.

There have been some rumblings about the nutrient qualities of certain food goods. You also hear about European vs. American vs. garden-grown in terms of qualitative differences. I've even seen it quantitated, indeed there was a documentary surrounding this [0]. There's a researcher that took historical records of micronutrient measures and compared them against modern cultivars, finding a decline in the per-volume contents.

I think it begs several questions about modern practices in agriculture beyond increased volume yield which is too often in the limelight. It just reminds me of Pika, which is associated with micronutrient deficiencies.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjAqzam0fU
by hedora | 2025-11-22 19:22:58+00:00
The main “problem” with contextualized advertising is that the people producing the content get a larger share of the ad spend.

Targeted ads concentrate control over the market into a few players, which can do things like acquire competitors or run them out of business with loss leaders.

With AI, the supply of ad real estate will go to infinity, so the only thing that will matter is the quality of the places the ads run.

This would be a good time to ban targeted advertising, or for the content producers to form a cartel that only purchases contextual ads.

That cartel will probably be even worse than what we have now, since it’s going to be 2-3 mega conglomerates like Disney, and they already have handed editorial control over to the White House.

Hopefully the invisible hand of capitalism will somehow fix this.
by thequux | 2025-11-22 19:23:19+00:00
As much as I dislike mandatory certification, I can understand the need for it in wireless battery powered devices: a malfunctioning decide can talk the battery life if everything within range, and most consumers aren't equipped to realize that this is happening much less identify the device that's causing the problem

Perhaps the solution is to make the spec open but make using the trademark contingent on certification (much like USB, for example)
by m_ke | 2025-11-22 19:24:08+00:00
yeah it's not happening anytime soon, especially with the whole economy betting trillions of dollars on brute fore scaling of transformers on manhattan sized GPU farms that will use more energy than most mid western states.

Brains do it somehow, so sparsely / locally activated architectures are probably the way to go long term, but we're decades away from that being commercially viable.
by MindSpunk | 2025-11-22 19:24:17+00:00
I suppose from the outside I cant meaningfully distinguish from hardware or software bugs except in a few cases. Doesn't change the outcome for us either, it's not like we can rely on driver updates to be shipped on Android. Many extensions are broken like extended dynamic state to the point of being unusable. We've hit plenty of issues in the driver shader compiler too, even in Vulkan 1.0 features like relaxed precision.

We've hit a ton of bugs on the adreno 830, with even basic stuff like barriers being broken.

The problem isn't exclusive to Qualcomm fwiw, we've run into plenty of bugs in ARM's driver. Apple's too
by ako | 2025-11-22 19:25:57+00:00
I read from too many different sources through aggregators like hackernews. With a network you'd probably still have too many subscriptions.

Also wonder if it will really work out, i open too many articles that are pretty bad when you start reading them. So i quit after 1 or 2 paragraphs.

Now if you get the first 2 paragraphs for free, contents writers will start to optimize for good first 2 paragraphs, and afterwards quality will drop. Also, many blog posts or news articles don't have more than 2 paragraphs of good content.
by powerclue | 2025-11-22 19:26:03+00:00
That's not what capitalism is... or it's a very elementary understanding of it. Trade without force existed prior to and contemporary to capitalism. (See markets and mercantilism for more history there.) Capitalism is specifically the sort of mercantilism under which maximizing one's capital (typically the money commodity) becomes the aim.

Historically, money commodity was used to mediate exchange between two other commodities - I sell my wheat, get money, use money to buy pork. I'm buying commodities because I intend to use them or share them. Commodity -> money -> commodity. Capitalism inverts this -- the goal is to maximize money. I start with money, I convert it to a commodity that I can sell for a greater value, to get larger money. Money -> commodity -> money. You see Amazon operate this way: "if we can put one dollar in and get $1.01 out, do it".

Highly recommend this book on the transition in England and France from agrarian and feudal mercantilism into capitalism in the 18th and 19th centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Capitalism