MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nayuki | 2025-12-08 06:15:25+00:00
> The ia64 is a very demanding architecture. In tomorrow’s entry, I’ll talk about some other ways the ia64 will make you pay the penalty when you take shortcuts in your code and manage to skate by on the comparatively error-forgiving i386.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040120-00/?p=40... "ia64 – misdeclaring near and far data"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/2004/01
by solatic | 2025-12-08 06:16:23+00:00
Having needs is not the same as slavery. Wage slavery is described as such because of the power imbalance between employer and worker, who has limited agency to find another employer, with whom he would also have a relationship with a power imbalance.

A wealthy man who receives a check for dividends and interest most months is not subject to such power imbalances. Wealth makes him free.

It's not an argument that socialism would enable people to just live off a public dividend, so to speak. Somebody has to work, and workplaces require discipline. Rather it's an argument for better labor safety controls, and a personal appeal to people to save as much money as they can.
by delusional | 2025-12-08 06:17:56+00:00
The states (or rather the national banks of said states) are usually the ones running the central clearing system. That's the place where all the different banks report their net change in relation to all the other banks, and settle that change on their account with the central bank.

Believe it or not, banks don't ferry around cash to each other. It's all just numbers in a computer.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-08 06:17:56+00:00
These guys claim >40degC, and are deploying in Dubai..

https://www.i2cool.com/tideflow/uwJVdixI.html

https://baitykool.com/radiativeskycooling.html

Peak performance, I think. Considering that they got the black white sides flipped
by flomo | 2025-12-08 06:18:06+00:00
IBM had/has a monopoly on mainframe systems. But they never were really dominant in midrange systems (e.g. VAX, UNIX), and Microsoft and Apple etc became huge companies in the PC market. So you can't really disagree with the rationale.

Obviously Google + Phone makers is a "trust", its frustrating the lawsuits aren't really going anywhere.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-08 06:18:50+00:00
Lies sold by Google.

Nokia and Sony Ericsson were using J2ME perfectly fine, as did Blackberry. I should know ad ex-Nokian.

Kotlin met nothing, it was pushed by Kotlin heads working on Android Studio, telling lies comparing Kotlin to Java 7, instead of Java was already offering at the time.

To this day they never do Kotlin vs Java samples, where modern Java is used, rather the version that bests fits their purpose to sell why Kotlin.

Fragmentation, what a joke, the fragmentation got so bad in Android, that JetPack libraries, previously Android X, exist to work around the fragmentation and lack of OEM updates.

Gosling said it better, regarding Google's "good" intentions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y&feature=youtu.be...
by chickahoona | 2025-12-08 06:18:54+00:00
Try Psono. You can share any secret via a link https://doc.psono.com/user/basic/sharing.html#with-externals...

You could eather host it yourself or use e.g. https://psono.pw, a free hosted instance of Psono. In regards of trust. Psono is audited every year and the company behind it is ISO27001 certified.
by ares623 | 2025-12-08 06:18:59+00:00
I think a better metaphor is the Library of Babel.

A practically infinite library where both gibberish and truth exist side by side.

The trick is navigating the library correctly. Except in this case you can’t reliably navigate it. And if you happen to stumble upon some “future truth” (i.e. new knowledge), you still need to differentiate it from the gibberish.

So a “crappy” version of the Library of Babel. Very impressive, but the caveats significantly detract from it.
by Qwertious | 2025-12-08 06:19:01+00:00
The route length isn't important, only the longest distance between ports that you can recharge at. Cargo ships regularly slow steam (I.e. run the engine slow to improve fuel-efficiency) and stopping to recharge batteries at multiple ports to reduce the batteries needed is the exact same concept - sacrificing speed to improve fuel costs.

Shanghai to LA is probably the worst example (since the pacific ocean is basically the emptiest spot on the planet, as land/port frequency goes), but Hawaii still exists and they could recharge there.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-08 06:19:48+00:00
I shop at Family Dollar sometimes, and also Dollar General and (shock, horror) even Dollar Tree.

I shop at these places because I am very cheap, and these places are also often (not always, but often) very cheap and the selection is usually pretty good, for the size.

And before someone else blames math for my perception: I can math. I can also remember prices between the shelf and/or the website and the register, and between different stores. (I've been cheap for a very long time. One cannot succeed at being cheap without honing these kinds of skills.)

The shelves at these places aren't beautifully-faced. The lighting is shit -- lowest-bidder, lacking design coherence, and either too bright or too dim. The music, if it exists, is usually a Bluetooth speaker playing from an employee's phone or a single pair of thrift store speakers from a 1990s Aiwa mini system [sometimes, even fancy-style with one on each side of the building] with some local radio station or other playing. There's usually large delivery carts sitting around in the already-narrow aisles with fresh inventory that the 1 or 2 employees who might be present sometimes get time to stock a bit of.

And that's... that's all just fine.

I don't want to pay for beautifully-faced shelves, good lighting, and a professionally-installed overhead PA system that plays professionally-programmed musical selections in a professional manner. I don't want to pay for shelves that are magically stocked in the wee hours of the morning by a dedicated team of professional stockpeople.

Like, seriously: I'm not that proud. My goal is to save money; shopping for inexpensive canned beans and a gallon of milk from some factory farm does not have to be an enriching, transcendent experience.

So when I have need to buy stuff, and there's a Family Dollar across the street from the office and Dollar General is around the corner from my house? I cheerfully stop in and give them my money.

The employees are almost unilaterally very polite and helpful. They know the entire store's products very well, even if the price tags aren't always up-to-date. It's a good, quick, cheap place to shop for good cheap stuff.

(I see comments here that read like "I only shop at Whole Foods. I went to an Aldi once and turned right around and walked out" and all I can think of are callously demeaning phrases like "You blithering, sheltered, classist snob. It may be possible for a person to bring even less relevancy to this discussion, but I cannot presently imagine how that would be possible."

But I usually try to keep that kind of phrasing to myself.)
by preommr | 2025-12-08 06:19:50+00:00
> Why can't people build radical things after learning or after being assisted by LLMs?

Because that's not how this is being marketed.

I agree with you completely - the best use case I've found for llms (and I say this as somebody that does generate a lot of code with it) is to use it as a research tool. An instantaneous and powerful solution that fills the gap from the long gone heydays of communities like mailing groups, or Stack overflow where you had the people - the experts and maintainers - that seemingly answered within a few hours on how something works.

But then that's not enough for all the money that's being fed into this monster. The AI leadership is hell-bent on trying to build a modern day tower of babel (in more ways than one), where there is no thinking or learning - one click and you have an app! Now you can fire your entire software team, and then ask chatgpt what to do next when this breaks the economy.
by Narushia | 2025-12-08 06:21:43+00:00
My additional recommendations:

1. You don't need a separate browser extension for blocking cookie notices, Ublock Origin can do that just fine. You just need to enable the cookie notice filters in the settings (they are disabled by default).

2. AdAway on Android allows network-level blocking without resorting to a VPN (it's based on /etc/hosts). Though it does require root.
by altmanaltman | 2025-12-08 06:21:50+00:00
I don't really like the assumption that anyone who uses AI to, say, write an essay, is not the "kind of person who can think."

And using AI to replace things you find recreational is not the point. If you got paid $100 each time you lifted a weight, would you see a point in bringing a forklift to the gym if it's allowed? Or will that make you a person who is so dumb that they cannot think, as the author is implying?
by energy123 | 2025-12-08 06:22:19+00:00
Everyone already does. If a job involves picking up toxic sludge, commuting long distances, or any other badness factors, you're going to get paid more because the labor market will clear at a higher price. This is how all markets function, the labor market is no exception. I believe governments should fix market failures, but this isn't an example of a market failure.

You could maybe make an argument only for minimum wage jobs as a special case, because the price for labor can't freely adjust downwards if you force companies to also pay for commute.
by coriny | 2025-12-08 06:23:46+00:00
The EU, like almost every democracy ever, is a "representative democracy":

> Representative democracy is a system where citizens vote for officials (representatives) to make laws and political decisions on their behalf, rather than voting on every issue directly, making governance of large populations more efficient while holding elected leaders accountable through regular elections. It's also called an indirect democracy and is the most common form of democracy, seen in the UK (MPs) or India (Members of Parliament).

Direct democracy has historically been completely impracticable. And even with modern comms, I still don't see a way of doing it in practice, personally. The direct democracy of ancient Greece was notoriously corrupt.
by solatic | 2025-12-08 06:23:50+00:00
> someone needs to be getting less for doing more, so that someone else doing less can have more

This is true of all societies, not just socialist ones. In capitalism, it's called philanthropy and charity. The underlying social contract is noblesse oblige, that the right to enjoy the trappings of wealth comes with an obligation to ensure that the poor are reasonably taken care of.

The real difference that socialism poses is not that it should happen at all, but that it should happen by force with the power of the State, due to the wealthy as a class no longer making the independent free choice of discharging such obligations.
by zmmmmm | 2025-12-08 06:24:14+00:00
This is a really dumb point from my point of view.

People vastly over rate the novelty of software work. The vast majority of the time, it's at least got conceptual similarity to things created before. A lot of the time, being "radically new" is a huge negative. It's a recipe for something nobody can understand or maintain. Almost all software is mild variations on existing things that are assembled to create something new in feature space, but its nearly 100% mind numbingly boring in the methodology of how it is built.
by kaashif | 2025-12-08 06:24:51+00:00
Salaried employees are already paid for their labour, I'm not paid hour by hour.

If I work one extra hour, was that unpaid and my employer stealing from me? If I work one hour less, is that me stealing from my employer? No on both counts in my opinion.

When picking a job I consider a commute a cost already and would need to be compensated for it in the form of higher pay.

But I don't think we should artificially stack the deck in favour of people who live close to work, that just adds a totally fake and unneeded item to the long list of advantages e.g. non parents have over parents who need a bigger house or access to schools.
by hobs | 2025-12-08 06:25:20+00:00
If we compare the traffic of Github vs Bitcoin, Github is likely doing 1,000+ writes per second and Bitcoin is doing what, 5-7 maybe higher with specialized stuff?

Github is nowhere near the world's "central and only" service for Git, so what am I missing to not laugh about?

The downside of a global distributed database (no matter what) is the speed of light, if you need ordering in any transaction you are in trouble, and no classic service requires that for all transactions in its scope, we figured out partitions, row locks, and shards a long time ago.
by altmanaltman | 2025-12-08 06:25:41+00:00
I literally pasted the sentence as a prompt to the free version of ChatGPT "Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when?"

and got ths correct reply from the "Bag of Words"

The species Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to its own genus by Michael P. Taylor in 2009 — he transferred it to the new genus Giraffatitan. BioOne +2 Mike Taylor +2

How that happened:

Earlier, in 1988, Gregory S. Paul had proposed putting B. brancai into a subgenus as Brachiosaurus (Giraffatitan) brancai, based on anatomical differences. Fossil Wiki +1

Then in 1991, George Olshevsky used the name Giraffatitan brancai — but his usage was in a self-published list and not widely adopted. Wikipedia +1

Finally, in 2009 Taylor published a detailed re-evaluation showing at least 26 osteological differences between the African material (brancai) and the North American type species Brachiosaurus altithorax — justifying full generic separation. BioOne +1

If you like — I can show a short timeline of all taxonomic changes of B. brancai.

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As an author, you should write things that are tested or at least true. But they did a pretty bad job of testing this and are making assumptions that are not true. Then they're basing their argument/reasoning (restrospectively) on assumptions not gounded in reality.
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-12-08 06:25:46+00:00
If by capitalism you mean whatever is happening right now, then there is a mix of different things going on.

There is the system of private enterprise governes by capitalist accounting methods which is driven by the action and exchange of people acting to fulill their needs. This is like a functioning organism whose organs act autonomously, and in doing so affirm the life of the organism itself.

There is then the system of hegemony and bureaucracy which is organized by rules, dictates, and orders. It is like an organization, a machine whose parts operate according to a will, and function only so far as the will of the organizer operationalizes them into the pattern that fulfills the organizer's ends.

A natural, organic system can survive only as it functions in the matter of the former. When it functions in the matter of the latter, it dies with the failure of the organizing force which binds the parts. Society is an organism, not an organization. It is as senseless to organize society as it is to tear a plant to bits and make a flower out of the pieces. I should hope that we figure this out sooner rather than later before we smother society and its people with endless bureaucracy and regulation.
by Yokolos | 2025-12-08 06:25:52+00:00
That's unfair. I'm going unfairly called out even though I stand by my beliefs and I'm only trying to defend myself. How are the replies to my comments in any way acceptable and according to HN guidelines???

"Put your money where your mouth is", come on. That's not acceptable and it's provoking. How can you defend bullies like this?
by ctoth | 2025-12-08 06:26:03+00:00
FEP doesn't conflict with complex dynamics, it's a mathematical framework for explaining how self-organizing behavior arises from simpler variational principles. That's what makes it a theory rather than a label.

The thing you're doing here has a name: using "emergence" as a semantic stopsign. "The system is complex, therefore emergence, therefore we can't really say" feels like it's adding something, but try removing the word and see if the sentence loses information.

"Neurons are complex and might exhibit chaotic behavior" - okay, and? What next? That's the phenomenon to be explained, not an explanation.

This was articulated pretty well 18 years ago [0].

[0]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8QzZKw9WHRxjR4948/the-futili...
by 000ooo000 | 2025-12-08 06:26:10+00:00
Counter-perspective: my WFH office setup is the exact same setup I game and do personal dev on. I'm a button-press away from my KB+M+LCD pointing at my much-more-enjoyable home PC (my corporate device is laughably bad). I don't find I'm tempted away from work during work hours, not even a little bit, UNLESS work sucks: uninteresting work, painful people, busywork, endless process, low autonomy, low trust.. all that stuff has me yearning for the satisfaction I'd otherwise get from productive relationships, meaningful work, and high autonomy. If circumstances permit, I'll leave, but sometimes they don't.
by zmmmmm | 2025-12-08 06:26:39+00:00
Well the article went in a totally different direction to what I expected.

I do feel imprisoned by my vibe coded apps. But it's because I've lost control of them. I don't understand the code that was written well enough to work on it myself any more. So now I'm at the mercy of the AI to maintain it. When there's a bug to fix I just type it into the LLM and pray and hope that it will be able to solve it, because if it can't, I'm screwed.

It's actually a big reason I'm sticking with tools like Aider for things I care about and not going fully agentic yet. Having an agent do reams of work and then submit hundreds of lines of code for me to examine is counter productive to my longer term aims. I'm happy with the 2-3x improvement I get from lesser tools that still leave me in control.
by Jolliness7501 | 2025-12-08 06:27:52+00:00
Did same thing, not everything works, but there are (almost) no ads for me. I would add Smarttube with Sponsorblock extension for android TV to the list. They had hickup recently with melitious hack and malware in their code but now seems to recovered. And for all ads-trolls: "Oh, you are stealing income from creators." If I consider their work worth it I pay them (semi)directly.
by DeGoldman | 2025-12-08 06:28:46+00:00
Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to generalgiist.com. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.

What can you do about it?

The issue is most likely with the web site, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the web site’s administrator about the problem.
by tovej | 2025-12-08 06:28:51+00:00
I recently asked an LLM to give me one of the most basic and well-documented algorithms in the world: a blocked matrix multiply. It's essentially a few nested loops and some constants for the block size.

It failed massively, spitting out garbage code, where the comments claimed to use blocking access patterns, but the code did not actually use them at all.

LLMs are, frankly, nearly useless for programming. They may solve a problem every once in a while, but once you look at the code, you notice it's either directly plagiarized or bad quality (or both, I suppose, in the latter case).
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-08 06:29:27+00:00
The Fed has had a wire service (Fedwire) for banks, allowing them to transfer their balances on the Fed’s balance sheet to another bank during settlement, since before the dollar moved off the gold standard. It was initially done with literal telegraphs - not sure at what point it became digital.

It obviously has no pseudo anonymity, is literally the least democratized banking system in existence, and is subject to the government’s whims in a whole host of ways. But it is a digital ledger of massive sums of real dollars (the banks can ask for it in cash if need be), and you couldn’t really steal the money even if you managed to create an unauthorized transfer on some bank’s master account.
by jofzar | 2025-12-08 06:29:50+00:00
I'm not joking, in Australia the tax "filing" takes like 2 mins, you literally go, next, next, look at the details, "yep looks correct" put in your claims, and then submit.

You are all done.

Unless you have something wack going on its not even a process. I have had signups which are more complicated then it.

American taxes on the other hand mega suck, and have 9000 pitfalls.
by tvshtr | 2025-12-08 06:30:33+00:00
You're building your arguments on a false premise, that ALL resources are distributed from some magical mutually exclusive abstract bucket. While it's true when applied to some slices of reality (be it on micro or macro levels) it isn't true in general, where it's parallelized, distributed, discrete and largely independent instead. Doing it your way would inherently lead to socio-cultural diversity collapse. Which is what's actually happening currently, not due to failure of distribution, but due to resources being siphoned and accumulated by hostile entities.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-08 06:31:01+00:00
> and just 24 percent of those eligible receive Section 8 housing vouchers

There are definitely problems with the distribution of these programs, but it’s also a mistake to think that everyone eligible for every program wants to collect every benefit. The housing vouchers are a good example of something that isn’t applicable to a lot of people who, for example, are living with relatives. I have some people in my extended family who fit this description right now. They have housing in a beneficial family situation, so any housing benefits they qualify for aren’t relevant to their current situation.

Not to minimize the problems, but the number of people who should be or want to be receiving every benefit isn’t 100% minus the number of people currently receiving it
by vkou | 2025-12-08 06:31:40+00:00
You could do some basic research on this topic, it's been exhaustively covered over the past few centuries, but I'll drop you three starting points.

Pushing the tax burden for upkeeping society off people who own more shit than any of us ever will onto people who have to work for a living.

Legal protection and structural advantages for landlord interests over tenant interests.

Legal protection and structural advantages for employer interests over employee interests vis a vis wage theft, worker safety, worker injuries, etc.

There are many others, but even a brief summary of injustice in any one of these topics is big enough for ~a few hundred books, and alas, the margins of this website are too small to contain them.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-12-08 06:31:46+00:00
The compute side of real-time tracking and analysis of entity behavior in the environment is bottlenecked by what the sensors can resolve at this point. On the software side you really can’t flood the zone with enough drones etc such that software can’t keep up.

These systems have limits but they are extremely high and in the improbable scenario that you hit them then it is a priority problem. That design problem has mature solutions from several decades ago when the limits were a few dozen simultaneous tracks.
by js8 | 2025-12-08 06:31:55+00:00
I don't think so, only if they need to have a schedule as well. Most OSS projects operate as Kanban and it's just fine.

Waiting on a dependency is kinda like waiting on a lock held by another process in the operating system. It has little bearing on whether dispatch queue is effective or not; in fact, it shows the solution: Do something else instead of waiting. (This is why the OS analogy is so useful for project management, if only PM's would listen!)

It's again, if you need to plan things ahead (for some reason) when the dependencies become a problem.

But maybe I misunderstand what you mean, if you still disagree provide a more specific example.