MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by manishsharan | 2025-12-02 13:50:01+00:00
BS. I grew up in Delhi. We used to have a large open space where I and neighborhood kids used to play cricket . Eventually the whole area converted to slums with people from Bangladesh. They took over the whole area. I was too young to care about ethnicity but the loss of my cricket field still bothers me. My neighbor was a bank manager and he once said that the government politicians forced him to give "loans" to Bangladeshi people , with no documents and only their thumbprint,before elections to those people to ensure victory of the ruling party.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-02 13:50:10+00:00
There is no way to detect our civilization bio signatures and technology signatures from more than a few closest stars range at most. None at all. Not even with magic.

There is likely hundreds or thousands of isolated alien worlds in the galaxy, the is no point in getting to them just because they they are alive, because of the next problem - it is absolutely mind boggling what amount of energy and technological advances are mandatory to even short interstellar travel. If you can solve them all, your civilization are practically gods. Why would they concern themselves with some early stage civilization, to which they must travel for millennia in an iron box? This would also mean they have solve immortality btw, or they would all die in transit.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-02 13:50:12+00:00
I was on the latest officially supported OS, which I think was Catelina. No unofficial patches or anything. Had no problems with Firefox (other than battery life, which I didn't need other than it nominally being there).

To be fair, I did replace the SSD early in its lifespan, and I don't use my laptops for anything heavy. It could still play Youtube when I decommissioned it, and that was probably the heaviest thing I regularly did on it.
by 0xEF | 2025-12-02 13:50:12+00:00
I have not experienced that, which is why I questioned the difficulty. I've installed Windows 10 on a good amount of machines at this point, bypassing the NRO during the install process, and have not had any issues that prevented me from installing software/games or just using it like a normal PC, even after connecting it to the Internet.

However, my experience may be dated. It's been awhile since I've had to freshly install Windows. Perhaps things have changed.
by weavie | 2025-12-02 13:50:53+00:00
The more you struggle at something the more you will learn. That works up to the point where the struggle is beyond your capacity for struggle - then you just get stuck. So ideally (assuming you are doing this because you want to learn something) you want to reduce the amount of struggle to just below your capacity.

Just copying someone else's solution, or getting an LLM to fix it for you will be very low struggle, so you won't learn much.

To add some struggle, maybe look up a solution in a different language and translate to your language? You could choose a solution in a language similar to your language, so if you are solving in C, perhaps look up a C# solution or to make it harder look up a solution in a different paradigm. Find a Haskell solution or a Prolog one and see if that gives you enough hints.
by AnnaHP | 2025-12-02 13:51:00+00:00
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by vladms | 2025-12-02 13:51:12+00:00
It is about the practicality of convincing people to do something. Many people I know are inert and would say no to change. Even those that want change have a favorite topic.

So, personally, when discussing economic topics I discuss the taxes part, which is so clearly unjust when explained (most countries tax less capital gains than work, which results in rich people able to accumulate things faster).

Additionally, I am not convinced that me or you know exactly what will work - humans are complex. So while I hope that it is possible to have "A society can also thrive without high income disparities.", proposing too many changes at once might result in an undesired result. There are enough examples in history where good intentions led to catastrophes.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-12-02 13:52:03+00:00
Generally, people who think apple has made good os ui/experience choices like gnome, people who are used to windows or like to tinker like kde, people who are comfortable with linux and want to specialize their workflows for greater productivity go tiling window managers (I personally like hyprland but a big part of that is it's the first tiling window manager I managed to get key combos to my liking before the big change of tiling pissed me off so much that I fled back to kde. I also don't mind the drama because I too hold political beliefs that would be characterized as center right libertarian sympathizing in the 80's and 90's but were labelled fascism 2017-2024ish. There are other options, niri is interesting, sway is an old standby that I never liked the aesthetic of.)
by Oliverbrandt | 2025-12-02 13:52:16+00:00
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by mistersquid | 2025-12-02 13:52:17+00:00
> Long term they wouldn't be, and hence lower ROI and therefore disincentivized

While the ROI would be lower compared to allowing rent to increase uncontrolled, in a rent control zone there is more incentive to build (and renovate) to take advantage of market rate leases for (in California's case) 15 years.

Does the argument that rent control (as in California) disincentives building reduce to the argument that uncontrolled rent yields a higher ROI than rent control?

Such an argument is a refusal to allow public good for the benefit of landlords.
by giantg2 | 2025-12-02 13:53:10+00:00
"We need people who understand how computers work more than ever."

In small numbers, yes. In current/large numbers, maybe not. Do college students need to understand language, grammar, or the subject to write B grade papers? No, they can just prompt an LLM to do it for them. Same thing for basic CRUD apps and websites. We will always need people who understand computers, but it seems likely that the proportion of the overall IT employees that need to know how it works will approach a horizontal asymptote.
by bmulholland | 2025-12-02 13:53:40+00:00
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by RYJOX | 2025-12-02 13:53:57+00:00
We’ve been experimenting with a new database architecture for real-time AI, robotics, and agent workloads. The prototype in this 90-second demo shows a persistent graph engine that:

delivers 0.12–0.4 µs hot-path reads

stores 50M durable nodes on an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano

streams a 40–50GB graph from NVMe as if it were RAM

maintains ACID guarantees under power-fail/crash tests

uses a hardware-native concurrency lattice instead of locks or B-trees

The goal wasn’t to optimise an existing database, but to test whether durable sub-microsecond access was even possible without keeping the whole graph in memory.

We’re a very early startup exploring this space and would genuinely appreciate critical feedback, collaboration, and technical pushback from people who’ve worked on database internals, kernels, robotics systems, or high-performance storage.

If you see flaws, edge cases, missing failure modes, or things that “shouldn’t work,” we’d love to hear from you.
by the_gipsy | 2025-12-02 13:54:01+00:00
Yes we can!

I would never say that's all we need, but... I do say that that might be the most important part we need! That is, language is the most distinctive feature our brains we have. DMN, and similar shallow "activity scans" don't tell us much. Yes, some animals have some kind of language, they communicate and predict trivial results or remember some events. But this is meaningless compared to the output of a human brain, the difference is abysmal.

I don't think there's anything interesting left in the bag.
by snowwrestler | 2025-12-02 13:54:34+00:00
Focusing on privacy was obviously the right strategic move for Apple. People complain about Siri, but they still buy iPhones in huge volumes. And a huge part of that is the belief that it’s safe to use iPhones for private things.

In terms of actually building a profitable business, no one seems to know how to make that work with AI right now. Leaks suggest OpenAI may turn to ads to monetize ChatGPT… which will raise all sorts of data questions. Privacy concerns might yet be an issue with AI chatbots.
by drbt | 2025-12-02 13:54:40+00:00
Same architecture, same dataset, same loss, same seed. The only variable changed is the geometry of the target space. That's enough to completely change the convergence behavior: FM keeps reinforcing a slightly wrong trajectory until late in training, while AToM never commits to a wrong trajectory in the first place. The point isn't a huge final FID gap. It’s that the failure mode disappears.
by niall00c | 2025-12-02 13:55:49+00:00
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by pjmlp | 2025-12-02 13:56:18+00:00
Until Valve starts shipping native SteamOS games, they were and are right.

Games are developed on Windows, using Windows APIs and development tools, and then Valve does the job studios don't see any value in spending development resources on, even though some of them use engines that also target GNU/Linux.

Talking about Linux gaming with Proton is no different than if Windows users would start talking about Windows being their favourite Linux distribution due to WSL 2.0.
by sg0pf | 2025-12-02 13:56:33+00:00
Pithy: "Writing things down is a special way of processing them for yourself."

A fictional example of this that I love is (seriously) the Twilight rewrite Luminosity: https://luminous.elcenia.com/chapters/ch1.shtml. Bella writes everything down in her notebook and is unusually self-reflective.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-02 13:56:57+00:00
Sounds like Dells chargers are garbage. Yet another reason to stay away from Dell in that case. Never had this issue with any charger in my life.

Everything USB should still take normal 5 volts, which any charger should provide without needing negotiation, and anything larger that actually needs more juice also should have the appropriate electronics to handle that (i.e. it's a phone or a laptop or a tablet or similarly expensive device). If you have devices that don't fall into either of those categories, so they don't take normal 5 volts, or they need more juice but are picky about USB, I'd consider them faulty from the get-go, as it's clear they haven't actually implemented USB-PD in any meaningful way. And if your charger doesn't provide 5 volts without asking, it too is faulty.

It's hard to go wrong with charging cables when it comes to USB-C. I agree there's a mess on the data side, but the USB Forum can't even get its head straight with what it should even be called, so it's no wonder nobody there has the balls to mandate colour coding or something similarly helpful.
by vessenes | 2025-12-02 13:57:02+00:00
From the paper, this is a research model aimed at dealing with the runaway error common in diffusion video models - the latent space is (proposed to be) causal and therefore it should have better coherence.

For a 7b model the results look pretty good! If Apple gets a model out here that is competitive with wan or even veo I believe in my heart it will have been trained with images of the finest taste.
by pwg | 2025-12-02 13:57:45+00:00
It (LEA) does all the work of a memory access (the address computation part) without actually performing the memory access.

Instead of reading from memory at "computed address value" it returns "computed address value" to you to use elsewhere.

The intent was likely to compute the address values for MOVS/MOVSB/MOVSW/MOVSD/MOVSQ when setting up a REP MOVS (or other repeated string operation). But it turned out they were useful for doing three operand adds as well.
by DannyBee | 2025-12-02 13:57:51+00:00
"I often write "too much" and struggle to really condense my thoughts into a sharpened essay. Most of my posts are 2000+ words...nowadays I'm trying to restrict myself to 1000 words. The limit forces me to really think about the core idea I want to share."

I clerked for a judge who helped us become really good writers. I know this is shocking to some, but some judges actually really do care and don't try to write thousands of pages. He really cared about trying to write opinions everyone could read and understand.

We would all get together as clerks, read the draft we had written out loud to the judge and the other clerks, and remove excess words, rewrite sentences that were too complicated, you name it. For every sentence, he encouraged us to think about who the audience really was and what we want the reader to take away from it.

If you want to make your writing shorter, this is a good approach whether you read it out loud or not. Lots of engineers write very long things because they are unsure who the audience is, or they don't think about how each sentence helps them convey something to that audience. Or they are trying to guess what questions they will get asked. Pick an audience. Go through every sentence. Remove the ones that don't actually help you convey something to your audience. Be ruthless to yourself. It's better to answer questions people have later than try to guess what they will ask you and answer it in the piece.

If you are trying to be persuasive, i'd double down on making it short, and add "order your writing and arguments in order of strength", and then "remove all the weak arguments". People won't read all the way through most of the time, and either it's convincing or it isn't. If your strongest arguments don't convince someone, your weak ones will probably make people feel like you are grasping at straws, and make the whole thing less convincing overall.
by swores | 2025-12-02 13:58:35+00:00
Their point is that Siri is not consistent with these things. If you've never had these issues yourself then good for you, not everyone is as lucky.

I have had the same issues myself. The "allow Siri when locked" toggle for my phone is set to on, yet it still often refuses to do stuff like turning my home lights on/off, giving the reason that I need to unlock my phone.

And I've also had the location issue they gave an example of, where asking "what is the weather in Berlin" does not need it to know where you are because you've told it the location you're asking about, so the answer is the same regardless of whether you're asking while in Berlin or Tokyo, yet it still sometimes gets stuck believing it needs location access.

Edit: oops the issue of having said a location in the request wasn't in the comment you replied to, but another reply to it. But the overall point of Siri being annoyingly inconsistent still stands.
by RickJWagner | 2025-12-02 13:59:23+00:00
I go back and forth in crazy cycles.

It started when I was younger. I had 2 unreliable, but fun muscle cars. ( Souped up Corvette and souped up El Camino. ) When they both broke down at the same time, I over reacted and bought a reliable, new Saturn coupe with a 5 speed.

After 3 years of trouble free motoring in the Saturn, I traded it off for a Gen 1 Ford Lightning pickup. ( Strong acceleration for the day. ) I followed that up with a Lexus GS 300, hardly a hot rod.

The cycle continued, back and forth. My last 3 cars have been WRX STi, Lexus ISF, and now Corolla hybrid.

I love trying to keep the hybrid in EV mode, it’s kind of a game. A very different game than rowing the STi through the gears, but oddly similar.

I’m hopeless.
by keyringlight | 2025-12-02 14:00:56+00:00
I wish convenient ideas like that which become memes would die off as I really doubt there's any rhythm at Microsoft that causes it, for example I doubt they have alternating teams for every other version. More to the point, from an outside perspective I don't see any change in direction that would drastically change windows for the better within foreseeable future or the timespan a "windows 12" would release.
by pera | 2025-12-02 14:01:00+00:00
In a sane world I would have agreed but in the US at least I am not certain this is still true: In Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Alsup expressed his views that the work of an LLM is equivalent to the one of a person, see around page 12 where he argues that human recalling things from memory and AI inference are effectively the same from a legal perspective

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/jnvwbgqlzpw/...

To me this makes the clean-room distinction very hard to assert, what am I missing?
by matt_s | 2025-12-02 14:01:23+00:00
> feeling trapped and bound to the golden handcuffs to try and survive this expensive world while being forced to work on things I have little care for

I consider this just work. I've worked my entire career for other people, in corporate settings, doing the work they want me to do for a paycheck. I enjoy some aspects of my job, enjoy working with many of the people but when it comes down to it, I'm just a worker bee. Many people in many industries do this. I think social media and the tech culture of "passion" and "save the X" mission statements probably contribute some to thoughts that if you don't have those things that its bad or depressing. Work for humans hasn't changed much in a long time, you're usually working for someone on things they prioritize. The fact that you have "golden handcuffs" means you at least have the perspective that you're better off than most. If someone (or combined with a partner) makes $200k gross they are in the top 1% globally of earners, probably top 5% in the US.

I like building things in software and have found building physical things enjoyable as well, lots of problem solving and usually a finished project that you can look at. Try taking up a hobby or spending time outside of work on things you enjoy.
by cts-i-cts-d | 2025-12-02 14:01:24+00:00
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by aristofun | 2025-12-02 14:01:31+00:00
You are not depressed because you don’t care about your work.

You don’t care about your work because you’re depressed.

Same with everything else.

Your brain will show you opposite rationalizations if you’re really depressed.

This doesn’t mean you can’t influence it by changing external factors.

This means you need to take it seriously and find a good psychiatrist to help with it. Not random dudes on the internet who think their boredom is a depression and brag how they fight it with gym.
by Tohsig | 2025-12-02 14:02:05+00:00
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My background is heavy in web development, computer networking, and devops. For the past decade I've worked across the entire web stack building network monitoring software (NMS) for large, distributed networks. I'm particularly experienced in building performant, large-scale browser based GUIs in Vue.js for data heavy applications.

I've built my career around organizing complex and/or abstract product requirements into structured, modular applications. Whether working as an IC or leading a team, that approach allows me to create pragmatic solutions in the near term that can be fully iterated on and improved for the long term.

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by NackerHughes | 2025-12-02 14:02:17+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised if a fair majority of them have been taught to see goto as nothing but a vestige of the 70s which should never be used under any circumstances except as a meme or to deliberately obfuscate code.

I have recently become quite fond of goto-based error handling and find it a lot cleaner and more readable than the if-else-mountains you otherwise end up with. I just make sure to leave a comment with a link to xkcd.com/292 so anyone else reading it knows I'm aware of what I'm doing. Now with this URL trick I can do both in one line. :)
by grvdrm | 2025-12-02 14:02:28+00:00
Recommendation: use Hemingway (hemingwayapp.com) or something similar.

That apps spots problems I often don't see in first drafts. Weakeners like adverbs/passive voice. Complicated sentences. Fancy words over simple words. Etc. Stuff that makes writing harder to read.

Not perfect here at all! Always practicing. But more and more use helps me spot problems in first drafts, or avoid them altogether.