MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KronisLV | 2025-11-30 14:36:26+00:00
> Let’s say I did try to start my own company at 22 10x and spent 3 years at each one. I’m now 52 and would have been better off just working those 30 years and saving and investing with a lot less stress.

Some people would succeed eventually, others wouldn’t. I think it’s really hard to effectively gauge what the chances are cause you’ll see a lot of survivorship bias and a bunch of grifters with courses and blogs and stuff that try to pass it off as a reproducible skill.

I wonder what dataset would show real world outcomes well, especially since failed startups won’t be catalogued as well as people trying to enter the dining business and most of them going under.
by cyphar | 2025-11-30 14:36:29+00:00
Other LSMs are slowly switching to syscalls too, and while I in principle like (and have abused) the whole "everything is a file" principle, most security mechanisms really should be done via special-purpose syscalls. Way too many footguns with filesystem-based APIs. Also, you wouldn't be able to use Landlock to restrict filesystem access based on dirfds with a filesystem-based API.

The questions you have about seccomp depend on the rules. Well-written filters would return -ENOSYS in that case, so it would look to the program as though the syscall is unsupported.
by vel0city | 2025-11-30 14:37:13+00:00
> Uh, which country again was it?

Hawai'i became a territory of the United States on April 30, 1900. It had been US territory for 40 years. One can point to the US doing bad things to make that the state of affairs, but it was decidedly US territory for a long time at that point. It seems you need to learn history, or you're just being willfully obtuse about things.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-30 14:37:34+00:00
If you can afford an 2025 S-class you can afford to fly for medium distance travel, you probably aren't slogging out a long commute because you live in one of those rich inner suburbs. You leave the house at reasonable hours and get home at reasonable hours, etc, etc.

There's all sorts of stuff that's just a proxy for generalized correlation with wealth and wealthy lifestyles.
by superkuh | 2025-11-30 14:37:54+00:00
While there are use cases for NAS, generally, if you have a desktop PC it's far better to put the hard drives in it rather than setting up a second computer you have to turn on and run too. Putting the storage in the computer where you'll use it means it'll be much faster, much cheaper, incomparably more reliable, with a more natural UI, and it'll use less eletricity than having to run 2 computers.

Now if your NAS use case is streaming media files to multiple devices (TV set top boxes, etc), sure, NAS makes sense if the NAS you build is very low idle power. But if you just need the storage for actual computing it is a waste of time and money.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-30 14:37:58+00:00
Classic misaligned incentives - pretendgineering is far more profitable than building stuff that works reliably and is useful.

We've moved past bullshit jobs to a bullshit economy, which operates by moving money from investors to billionaires and back again, driven by pitch deck thoughts and prayers and implied threats. ("Bail us out or everyone dies.")
by spwa4 | 2025-11-30 14:38:22+00:00
This is assuming no reaction from people to this tax going into effect. And that's of course stupid. This is trivial to game and for that reason it will rapidly turn into a money pit for the tax agency.

After all, it's real easy for entrepreneurs to be unsuccessful. You get some nonzero valuation by having a friend bid or give some investment and thereby set the valuation, and then you go bankrupt.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-30 14:39:26+00:00
All irrelevant when politics are involved.

You will never get me to say anything positive about the Kotlin advocates on Android team.

It isn't only Scala, it is using Java 7 samples to sell Kotlin, the original language for Android, still used for the large majority of Android tooling, where your argument fails flat.

They have begrudgingly being updating Java support, up to Java 17, when Java 25 is the latest LTS, because that great Kotlin interop with Java is useless when Android loses access to the Java ecosystem that keeps moving forward regardless of Android.

Some of them even don't have any ideas how out of date their Kotlin "improvements" over Java are out of date.
by Zambyte | 2025-11-30 14:39:56+00:00
I genuinely believe more people violate permissive licenses than copyleft license. I have no data to back this up, but just look at how much people focused on if LLMs were violating the GPL by reproducing code covered by the GPL without reproducing the license. If LLMs violate the GPL, they violate all licenses besides ones that are effectively public domain.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-30 14:39:58+00:00
It's not about immediate intentions, but about strategic options. Imagine Russia decided to form a military alliance with Mexico with the expected intention of deploying weapons on the Mexican border. If Mexico agreed to this, it would take approximately 0 seconds before the US invaded them under some whimsical pretext (drug gangs probably) and overthrew their government to prevent this. In fact this is, more or less, what the Cuban Missile Crisis was where we were willing to bring the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation over it, and that was an even lighter weight version of this event since there isn't even a land route from Cuba to the US obviously!

But in this scenario would you think Russia deploying weapons in Mexico is a precursor to them invading? Or that the US would be worried about that? Obviously not. Neither was Cuba. But it gives an adversarial power a tremendous strategic edge, while you get less than nothing out of it since it reduces your 'power' in the relative strategic balance of countries.
by upmostly | 2025-11-30 14:40:07+00:00
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by saubeidl | 2025-11-30 14:40:11+00:00
> What percentage of Norway would really be willing to sacrifice their pensions for this? I don't know but I would bet a lot it's single digit percentage at most.

Luckily, even if their MS investment goes to 0, it wouldn't be "sacrificing their pensions". Around 2.5% of the wealth fund is invested in MS, so it seems to line up pretty well with your "single digit percentage at most."
by Waterluvian | 2025-11-30 14:40:15+00:00
Eliminating the leaderboard might help. By measuring it as a race, it becomes a race, and now the goal is the metric.

Maybe just have a cool advent calendar thingy like a digital tree that gains an ornament for each day you complete. Each ornament can be themed for each puzzle.

Of course I hope it goes without saying that the creator(s) can do it however they want and we’re nothing but richer for it existing.
by jvanderbot | 2025-11-30 14:40:22+00:00
In theory rocket launches sound bad, with burning fuels all the way up to the top layers of the atmosphere, but it's not clear right away that we're significantly increasing the "burnt up stuff" vs say, the ~100 tons of meteorites that hit every night.

Arguments re: Methane as a non-renewable resource are of course right, except that we technically can synthesize methane from CO2 + electricity (e.g., terraform industries), but the pollution angle is presented as-is, without a systematic analysis, right?

What's the actual atmospheric burden here?

This essentially says "We dont know"

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/03/04/rockets-affect-...
by tonyarkles | 2025-11-30 14:40:53+00:00
Hahahaha well that behaviour is certainly fun!

I recently had a less wild but similarly baffling experience on an embedded-but-not-small device. Address 0 was actually a valid address. We were getting a HardFault because a device driver was dereferencing a pointer to an invalid but not-null address. Working backwards, I found that it was getting that invalid address not from 0x0 but rather from 0xC… because the pointer was stored in the third field of a struct and our pointer to that struct was null.

foo->bar->baz->zap

Foo = 0, &bar = 0xC, baz = invalid address, *baz to get zap is what blew up.
by superkuh | 2025-11-30 14:41:50+00:00
>frontend barely works without JavaScript, ... In the past, it used to gracefully degrade without enforcing JavaScript, but now it doesn't.

And the github frontend developers are aware of these accessibility problems (via the forums and bug reports). They just don't care anymore. They just want to make the site appear to work at first glance which is why index pages are actual text in html but nothing else is.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 14:41:54+00:00
> Of course it is a thing when the country of their nationality is committing genocide, and an authoritarian government.

Bit ironic to continue posting comments here, isn't it?

None the less, I agree with your worry and caution based on where software is produced, but I enact that by checking my OS/software before installing/updating it, not spreading FUD on internet forums.
by chongli | 2025-11-30 14:41:56+00:00
Because schools are in competition with one another to attract students (who have the ability to broadcast applications to multiple schools). The campus life factor is a major part of a student’s decision.

Put yourself into the student’s shoes. If you had the choice between two schools of otherwise roughly equal academic reputation but one offered luxurious residences while the other housed students like medieval monks, which would you choose?
by WD-42 | 2025-11-30 14:41:59+00:00
They are for you because you're a pro at it by now even if you don't realize it. You have to remember there are a ton of people installing Linux now for the first time ever. Some distros give a better out of the box experience. My guess is Cachy is popular with people that have heard Arch is great (because it is) but don't want to deal with a text mode installer, or enjoy the value add it brings to gamers.
by phkahler | 2025-11-30 14:42:41+00:00
>> Non-AI workloads prefer vector units and not matrix units

FEA and other "scientific" workloads are all matrix math. This is why super computers have been benchmarked using BLAS and LAPACK for the past 40 years. OTOH are those matrix * vector where AI is matrix * matrix?

Either way its a regression which seems strange.
by goku12 | 2025-11-30 14:43:31+00:00
> I know the answer is money but I would assume that, at a certain point, you have more than enough money to do literally anything you want in the little bit of time you leave yourself to not be working.

Technically, you're correct. But I believe that a different phenomenon is at play here. That is psychologically, the more money you have, the less likely you're to be satisfied with what you already have, regardless of what use you have for it. (Meaning, the richer you are, the greedier you become.)

This may be not be entirely correct at the lower end - there may be an inflection point below which you're too poor to be satisfied with what you have. But the craving is almost always increasing at large wealth levels.
by numbsafari | 2025-11-30 14:44:02+00:00
I didn’t take a single unnecessary course.

The course I took on Literature of the Apocalypse, in fall of 1999, is probably one you would say is unnecessary. It has proven quite valuable as I learned how to read a lot, a lot more quickly. I learned how to write quickly as well. I also learned a lot about an important aspect of our cultural and political context, as western society is dominated by doomsday cults (especially the atheistic ones, everyone’s got a utopia they are trying to sell in order to get you to sacrifice your life for them).
by pjmlp | 2025-11-30 14:44:22+00:00
Why should he?

That paper was only relevant among UNIX people, and largely ignored by anyone doing 8 and 16 bit home computing with Pascal and Modula-2.

It is no accident that to this day, it is the UNIX accolades that keep bringing it back every couple of months, most of whom never used a single Pascal compiler in their lifes, or aware that Modula-2 was already around.

Modula-2 relevance as systems language is quite easy to find out in some of his essays, and the companies selling compilers for Acorn, Amiga and PC.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 14:44:28+00:00
> [1] I realise CachyOS makes some kernel modifications, but is that typical?

Yes, very common. I think not making modifications (like Arch) is the atypical case, as "unmodified from upstream" is one of the core value propositions for Arch and why we chose it in the first place.

Still, CachyOS is probably an outlier in the amount of tweaks it does, and the amount of choices it surfaces to users about those tweaks.
by shipman05 | 2025-11-30 14:44:38+00:00
I think the info is even more outdated than that. The article is from August 2024 but it cites "a recent survey by Databricks" that from what I can tell isn't linked to, so who knows what data they're referring to.

I was deep into the big data ecosystem in the 2010s. Those numbers feel like they're from 2017 or so. Scala has been on a slide every since.
by wcoenen | 2025-11-30 14:44:42+00:00
Geosynchronous orbits do not pass through the Earth's shadow as much as you might think. These orbits sit in the same plane as the equator, which is tilted 23.5 degrees when compared to a line from the sun to the earth.

They still pass through the earth's shadow in the weeks around the equinoxes though. Worst case is about 70 minutes of shadow.

That said, it seems more likely to me that there is no requirement to stay over the same spot on the earth, and a lower altitude sun-synchronous orbit would be used.
by the__alchemist | 2025-11-30 14:45:30+00:00
We are in the disapora phase; there is a steady stream of these announcements, each with a different GitHub alternative. I speculate that within a few months, the communities will have settled on a single dominant one. I'm curious if it will be one of the existing ones, or something new. Perhaps a well-known company or individual will announce one; it will have good marketing, and dominate.
by salawat | 2025-11-30 14:45:46+00:00
You think there wasn't a reason Microsoft bought GitHub, whose ToS allowed them to expand their training corpus vastly beyond their own internal systems? Why Amazon does the same thing with CodeCommit? If your stuff is hosted somewhere with a ToS, you can bet that repo is getting into the training corpus. Having you flavor of LLM in today's is too valuable for any corp to pass up the opportunity.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-11-30 14:45:53+00:00
I appreciate the message of this article. I've played with half a dozen types of home NAS / RAID / storage solutions over the decades.

The best way I can describe it is:

There are people who just want to use a car to get from A to B; there are those who enjoy the act of driving, maybe take it to the track on a lapping day; and there are those who enjoy having a shell of a car in the garage and working on it. There's of course a definite overlap and Venn diagram :-).

My approach / suggestion - Understand what type are you in relation to any given technology vs what is the author's perspective.

I will never resent the time (oh God so much time!) I've spent in the past mucking with homelabs and storage systems. Good memories and tons of learning! today I have family and kids and just need my storage to work. I'm in a different Venn circle than the author - sure I have knowledge and experience and could conceivably save a few bucks (eh not as given as articles make it seem;), as long as I value my time appropriately low and don't mind the necessary upkeep and potential scheduled and unscheduled "maintenance windows" to my non-techie users.

But I must admit I'm in the turn-key solution phase of my life and have cheerfully enjoyed a big-name NAS over last 5 years or so :).

The trick with old computers harnessed as NAS is the often increased space, power, and setup/patching/maintenance work requirements, compared to hopefully some learning experience and a sense of control.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 14:46:07+00:00
> start maintaining the stack instead of just endlessly complaining about Wayland it'll only get worse.

This is actually what forced me to migrate to Wayland, seeing lots of people complaining about Wayland but not seeing people stepping up to maintain X11. And those who used to maintain X11, built Wayland instead.

Yes, Wayland isn't perfect, but for professionals who just want shit to continue working, you kind of have to move to the software that is being maintained, for better or worse.
by neogodless | 2025-11-30 14:46:40+00:00
I've self-hosted web apps (typically IIS and SQL Server) for over 20 years.

While using desktops for this has sometimes been nice, the big things I want out of a server are

- low power usage when running 24/7

- reliable operation

- quiet operation

- performance but they don't need much

So I've had dual Xeon servers and 8-core Ryzen servers but my favorites are a miniForums with a mobile Ryzen quad core, and my UGREEN NAS. They check all the boxes for server / NAS. Plus both were under $300 before upgrades / storage drives.

Often my previous gaming desktop sells for a lot more than that ... I just sold my 4 year old video card for $220. Not sure what the rest of the machine will be used for, but it's not a good server because the 12-core CPU simply isn't power efficient enough.
by cbeach | 2025-11-30 14:46:47+00:00
The below are conservative estimates of the money raised by Reform policies:

* £10bn+ per year - Adjusting how the Bank of England (BoE) treats reserves — e.g. stopping interest payments to commercial banks that receive money under quantitative easing (QE)

* £11bn+ per year - Rolling back expensive "net zero" policies

* £9bn+ per year - Alter eligibility for welfare

* £25bn - Scrap HS2

* multiple billions - Reducing foreign aid budget and cost of housing illegal migrants.

It's likely that pro-growth Reform policies such as lowering corporation tax to make the UK more competitive will significantly increase the corporation tax take - as was shown when the Tories entered power in 2010, lowered the corp tax rate and corp tax revenue increased significantly. In general, Reform's tax cuts are aimed at increasing the tax base.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 14:47:43+00:00
I've only used CachyOS for a couple of months, before that Arch since 2017, and never had any issues with nvidia cards on Linux, and I think I'm usually in the areas where people find them cumbersome (tiling WMs, gaming, machine learning, CUDA). Started with a 1080, then 2080ti, then 3090ti, and finally a RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, don't remember any issue with any of them.

I think both Arch and CachyOS would do fine with nvidia cards, but thanks to who I don't know.
by iammjm | 2025-11-30 14:48:32+00:00
“I repurposed an old gaming PC with a Ryzen 1600x, 24GB of RAM, and an old GTX 1060 for my NAS since I had most of the parts already.”

Wouldn’t running something like this 24/7 cause a substantial energy consumption? Costs of electricity being one thing, carbon footprint an another. Do we really want such a setup running in each household in addition to X other devices?
by herewulf | 2025-11-30 14:48:34+00:00
I also started my Linux journey with a turn of the century Slackware install. Linux has come a long, long way since then, but I learned a lot back then. Distros like Bazzite are practically "turn-key" now.

In any case, I would rather use those hard earned skills hand configuring Slackware today than to put with the shitshow of Windows pop-ups, forced account creation, telemetry collection, UI changes for the sake of change, advertisements built into the OS, random OS corrupting BSODs, etc..
by jsnell | 2025-11-30 14:48:50+00:00
That is a bizarre take. Dwarkesh Patel is publishing in a very specific domain, where RL is a very common and unambigous acronym. I'd bet it was immediately clear to 99% of his normal audience, and to him it's such a high frequency term that people finding it ambiguous would not even have crossed his mind.

(Like, would you expect people to expand LLM or AGI in a title?)
by sunrunner | 2025-11-30 14:49:26+00:00
> For both, I recommend coming prepared.

Any recommendations for Go? Traditionally I've gone for Python or Clojure with an 'only builtins or things I add myself' approach (e.g. no NetworkX), but I've been keen to try doing a year in Go however was a bit put off by the verbosity of the parsing and not wanting to get caught spending more time futzing with input lines and err.

Naturally later problems get more puzzle-heavy so the ratio of input-handling to puzzle-solving code changes, but it seemed a bit off putting for early days, and while I like a builtins-only approach it seems like the input handling would really benefit from a 'parse don't validate' type approach (goparsec?).
by throwaway7356 | 2025-11-30 14:49:43+00:00
Most distributions also don't allow to 'customize' any of the following:

- compiler used for building the distribution, - libc implementation, - C++ standard library implementation, - coreutils implementation, - system shell, - kernel (e.g., using Hurd), - PAM or equivalent, - util-linux, - package manager,

and so on. systemd is just one more thing in that looong, looong list.
by hollerith | 2025-11-30 14:49:45+00:00
I think your attitude (landlords are the problem; we must make life harder for landlords) is a big reason housing is so expensive because it creates a situation in which not enough people with money or access to credit want to become landlords.

You say that the landlord industry has captured its regulators, but you give no example of any action or ruling by an regulator that benefits landlords at the expense of tenants.
by IX-103 | 2025-11-30 14:49:47+00:00
One mistake that the article seems to make is to assume that the data center is in one huge satellite.

I think a better model would be a fleet of rack or server level satellites. That significantly reduces the heat and cooling requirements and improves redundancy since losing a single satellite sure to radiation would be less significant. Further, due to economies of scale these satellites could be produced in mass, similar to the starlink satellites of today.

One issue is that these satellites would be to be connected via high bandwidth free space optical links instead of Ethernet, requiring precise formations, but that is currently being tested by multiple companies.

That being said, I don't see this ever being cheaper than terrestrial data centers. I just don't think the idea is as stupid as the article implies - it just requires doing things differently than NASA has done in the past.
by b112 | 2025-11-30 14:50:10+00:00
I don't know of any legal rulings or laws, which say not disclosing an embedded ad is illegal. In fact quite the opposite. There are loads and loads of prior such cases, movies, TV shows being an example.

For example every product mention (snapple, oh henry candy bars, jr mints) on Seinfeld was an ad. The skit is written, but any product can be dropped in. If no advertisers are interested, made up names are used.

This has been going on for 100+ years, including radio.

Why would ChatGPT be special?
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-30 14:50:16+00:00
> Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund said on Sunday it would vote for a shareholder proposal

> Microsoft management had recommended shareholders voted against the motion.

Ok, cool, but what about the reasons for those actions? What kind of lazy journalism is this? I guess it's nice that we know that something is happening, but what about reaching out to people and asking them why so people can actually understand? For the love of Adam Smith, at least mention the involved countries!