MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by manquer | 2025-12-27 23:38:01+00:00
Unlike other SaaS "acquisitions" of late, this will be not as straightforward closure of a subscription business.

The $1.5B contract with the Saudi Arabia is substantial and investors will want that monetized too, there are also existing DCs GroqCloud have in the ME region and also other spots around the world that are quite valuable for their hardware and power agreements etc.

Nvidia has CIFUS and other regulatory concerns and also don't want to compete against their customers be a neo cloud provider, the Saudis likely still want their DC build outs to proceed.

All this to say, the remaining parts while no longer as glamorous is still worth a lot and cannot be easily sold to big tech co. GroqCloud is more be like Nokia Technologies/ Networks rather be killed.

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As a result, staff not part of the Nvidia deal likely have solid jobs and also now the opportunity to climb the ladder quickly now that a lot of leadership positions have opened up.

They are also going to have to be compensated higher in cash or poached by an upcoming chip startup as they are no longer tied to equity options vesting scheduled of a very valuable company (Pre deal Groq or now Nvidia).

In any scenario they will come out better of the deal, not as much they could have in a full acquisition yes, but certainly better than most engineers not working for a hyped AI startup nonetheless.
by palata | 2025-12-27 23:39:01+00:00
> It survives only because nerds have a parasocial relationship with it.

I really would like to replace PGP with the "better" tool, but:

* Using my Yubikey for signing (e.g. for git) has a better UX with PGP instead of SSH

* I have to use PGP to sign packages I send to Maven

Maybe I am a nerd emotionally attached to PGP, but after a year signing with SSH, I went back to PGP and it was so much better...
by thaumasiotes | 2025-12-27 23:39:01+00:00
> But wouldn't these causally disjoint regions overlap with each other

Yes.

> stringing together a chain of causality from anywhere to anywhere?

No? Causality reaching one edge of a sphere doesn't mean it instantaneously teleports to every point in that same sphere. This isn't a transitive relationship.

> What are "disconnected events"?

The sentence you're responding to seems like a decent definition. Disconnected events are events which might be observed in either order depending on the position of an observer.
by websiteapi | 2025-12-27 23:39:09+00:00
your scenario here doesn't really make any sense. one you're conflating getting married with staying together. you could get married and then divorced. two, such a bet wouldn't make sense since it could easily be rigged (and indeed this is what happens with sports betting).

again, if someone says they know the winning lottery and they don't play, they're unserious. nearly impossible to rig, high payout - outcome is of interest to layperson.
by gnabgib | 2025-12-27 23:39:15+00:00
October: Elon Musk's SpaceX and XAI Are Buying Tesla's Unsold Cybertrucks (26 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572152

Last week: Elon Musk's SpaceX bought tens of millions worth of Cybertrucks Tesla can't sell (21 points, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317462
by structural | 2025-12-27 23:39:55+00:00
Of course, you can do this in good conditions. The extremely powerful part that TrueTime brings is how the system degrades when something goes wrong.

If everyone is synced to +/- 20ns, that's great. Then when someone flies over your datacenter with an GPS jammer (purposeful or accidental), this needs to not be a bad day where suddenly database transactions happen out of order, or you have an outage.

The other benefit of building in this uncertainty to the underlying software design is you don't have to have your entire infrastructure on the same hardware stack. If you have one datacenter that's 20yrs old, has no GPS infrastructure, and operates purely on NTP - this can still run the same software, just much more slowly. You might even keep some of this around for testing - and now you have ongoing data showing what will happen to your distributed system if GPS were to go away in a chunk of the world for some sustained period of time.

And in a brighter future, if we're able to synchronize everyone's clocks to +/- 1ns, the intervals just get smaller and we see improved performance without having to rethink the entire design.
by hypfer | 2025-12-27 23:40:34+00:00
Oh.
Okay, yeah. Makes sense

Yeah, sorry about that. I agree it indeed worked out for you and that is great.

The point that I'm getting at is that it is necessary for the system to occasionally produce a winner, because otherwise, people would stop trying.

Think for example about a casino with zero wins. No one would come to play.
If they however occasionally select a winner, that winner will then be the best marketing they can get, encouraging all his friends to also start gambling.

Please do not mistake this analogy as me questioning your merits.
I am confident in your abilities at your craft.

What I am however saying is that the system does not select its winners based on that merit. Instead, the criteria for selection are usually based on what benefits the system most.
This, in some situations, might line up with general merits to some degree, but it also might not, and that is one of the core deceptions, the corporate world runs on.

I do believe you that the idea of the article was to encourage people so that they can also have these great wins and experiences you had.
But, as said, that is just one side of the coin, and it would be unethical to not mention all the outcomes in which a person does not win.
by g-b-r | 2025-12-27 23:41:01+00:00
I think a prohibition to lie to the public would already be incredibly impactful (if it had no statute of limitations and adequate punishments).

A delicate issue I see is how to handle personal matters that the public don't need to know.

Anyhow, you might think that it's hard to know when someone is really lying vs just being uninformed, but in truth in the long term most lies become apparent; while you couldn't prevent
every single lie, you'd reduce them enormously, in my opinion; even in countries where the president doesn't lie almost constantly.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-27 23:41:50+00:00
> speculate that Japanese passengers expect to promptly get their stuff back while North Americans know they are effectively throwing it in the garbage, and so are more tempted to grab a few things

If this behaviour were isolated, this hypothesis would make sense. Given it exists in a broader context of Japanese altruism, I’d say it’s just a fitness advantage to having a high-trust, rule-following society.
by csense | 2025-12-27 23:41:53+00:00
The article implies it's a mystery, but to me the cause is pretty obvious:

Some businesses and consumers had spending patterns that were only viable due to ZIRP, COVID stimulus, and QE. The resulting inflation spike followed by QT and interest rate hikes to fight it led to the current slowdown.

It's almost as if doubling the number of dollars in existence between 2020-2022 had some negative long-term consequences...

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
by rldjbpin | 2025-12-27 23:42:09+00:00
the related post from simonw is quite insightful and while the reaction is quite intense, this was quite technically interesting:

> Turns out Claude Opus 4.5 knows the trick where you can add .patch to any commit on GitHub to get the author’s unredacted email address (I’ve redacted it above).

given how capable certain aspects of these models are becoming over time, the user's intent is more important than ever. the resulting email content appears like a poorly-made spam (without the phishing parts), while able to contact someone just from their name!
by yieldcrv | 2025-12-27 23:42:36+00:00
it's about to be 98% and I'm fine with that

people need to re-evaluate their relationship with open source instead of as a synonym for FOSS, because it clearly doesn't mean that regardless of the colloquialism

and FOSS has an adjective and noun for a reason, its older than the colloquialism

this is just a reversion to the mean
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-27 23:42:48+00:00
> would support a law that imposes grave consequences for airline passengers found to be in possession of personal baggage following an evacuation

My preference would be for a massive fine and one-year flight ban for the first offence, and triple that fine plus one year in jail plus lifetime for a second offence.

In all cases, you’re personally responsible for your injuries and those of anyone behind you.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-27 23:42:49+00:00
What? The EU has super-rich, especially if you compare to the average incomes of the country rather than to the global top.

And yes, because of the tax situation these people are often not resident in the EU. London, Paris and Geneva have small neighborhoods of oil sheik families, for example. Brussels has entire neighborhoods effectively only accessible to EU appointees. Amsterdam ... and so on and so forth.
by superkuh | 2025-12-27 23:43:01+00:00
For corporations, institutions, and for-profits this matters and there's no real good solution.

But for human persons and personal websites HTTP+HTTPS fixes this easily and completely. You get the best of both worlds. Fragile short lifetime pseudo-privacy if you want it (HTTPS) and long term stable access no matter what via HTTP. HTTPS-only does more harm than good. HTTP+HTTPS is far better than either alone.
by amiga386 | 2025-12-27 23:43:01+00:00
It's more like Usenet users complaining that NZB downloaders don't let their users read text posts. Nobody using an NZB downloader gives a fuck about text posts. They're not there to chat with their fellow humans, they're there to download files. Both the text posts and binary files are transmitted by the same substrate, NNTP, but the protocol clearly has multiple groups of people using it for very different purposes.

Comparing it to email is inappropriate, because email is addressed to you, and you get upset if email servers/clients drop emails. But newsfeeds are not addressed to you. Neither is RSS/Atom. ActivityPub, generally speaking, isn't either. How you choose to experience messages coming your way is up to you. This whole article is making the assumption that if you want something more different, e.g. Pixelfed, PeerTube, Lemmy (Fediverse Instagram/YouTube/Reddit), it basically must also be Mastodon/Pleroma (Fediverse Twitter). Why must it?
by StephenHerlihyy | 2025-12-27 23:43:16+00:00
Little bit of both. Pi still uses a sort of unique boot sequence due to it’s heritage. Most devices will have the CPU load the bootloader and then have the OS bring up the GPU. Pi sort of inverts this, having the GPU leading the charge with the CPU held at reset until after the GPU has finished it’s boot sequence.

Once you get into the CPU though the Aarch64 registers become more standardized. You still have drivers and such to worry about and differing memory offsets for the peripherals - but since you have the kernel running it’s easier to kind of poke around until you find it. Pi 5 added someone complexity to this with the RP1 South Bridge which adds another layer of abstraction.

Hopefully that all makes sense. Basically the Pi itself is backwards while everything else should conform. It’s not Arm specific, but how the Pi does things.
by jaggederest | 2025-12-27 23:43:53+00:00
In the 80s my uncle had digital clocks that used an antenna to tune into the atomic clock time signal that (was/is?) broadcast nationwide. I've long wished that it was incorporated into stoves, microwaves, essentially everything that isn't an internet device (yet... sigh)

Sadly I think the actual antenna and hardware were relatively large since it's a long wave signal, but maybe with SDR it'll all fit on the head of a pin these days.
by woodruffw | 2025-12-27 23:44:18+00:00
You can do this pretty easily with Let’s Encrypt, to my knowledge. You can request resistance every 30 days, for example, which would give you a ladder of three 90 day certificates.

Edit: but to be clear, I don’t understand why you’d want this. If you’re worried about your CA going offline, you should shorten your renewal period instead.
by Karliss | 2025-12-27 23:44:19+00:00
Few more additional ones, more about editing than just rendering:

The style change mid ligature has a related problem. While it might be reasonable not to support style change in the middle of ligature, you still want to select individual letters within ligatures like "ff", "ffi" and "fl". The problem just like with color change is that neither the text shaper nor program rendering text knows where each individual letter within ligature glyph is positioned. Font simply lacks this information.

From what I have seen most programs which support it use similar approximation as what Firefox uses for coloring - split the ligature into equal parts. Works good enough for something like "fi", "fl" not so much for some of ligatures within programming fonts that combine >= into ≥.

There are even worse edge cases in scripts for other languages. There are ligatures which look roughly like the 2 characters which formed it side by side but in reverse order. There are also some ligatures in CJK fonts which combine 4 characters in a square.

Backspace erases characters at finer granularity than it's possible to select them.

With regards to LTR/RTL selection weirdness I recently discovered that some editors display small flag on the cursor displaying current position direction when it's in mixed direction text.
by WickyNilliams | 2025-12-27 23:44:24+00:00
Of course I have no sway, politically or otherwise, but I would have happily given credit to Trump where it was due if it panned out.

But Israel does not seem to have abided by the ceasefire, and the larger peace plan now feels like it's going to be stitch up for the Palestinian people.

It is definitely tragic
by nandomrumber | 2025-12-27 23:44:39+00:00
Is there any evidence that the fall in birth rates is caused by humans having produced reality TV shows?

I’d say there is better evidence to suggest the fall in birth rates is predominantly caused by telling women they should prioritise education and career over children, and enabling the invention of the single mother who survives on government largesse. Separating church and state appears to be contributing at least to some extent.

Single mothers, and women having their first child in their late 20’s or 30’s, appear to be maladaptive.
by JCattheATM | 2025-12-27 23:44:42+00:00
> Then it’s not easy enough to deal with is it?

I mean, the solutions are easy, getting people to vote for them is a problem, although a problem more specific to the US.

> And capitalism seems to have created this situation so you could are the that this is inherent in the system.

I wouldn't say that, given most countries capitalist systems were able to deal with or avoid that situation altogether. Rather than this problem being inherent to capitalism, it seems it is the result of specific events that unfolded in the US. Really, it can all be traced back to Reagan.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-27 23:45:03+00:00
You're oversimplifying (to be fair, so did I). There is usually a cost/quality tradeoff. In the long run I think every major country could figure out how to make things with any given level of quality, and have certain costs in the same ballpark. But our labor costs are higher than nearly any other country. Chinese labor is currently very cheap.

>Western companies should have been doing this. I feel that Tesla tried and never really got there. Protectionism alone won't make it happen.

Just because some people online claim they want $10k EVs doesn't mean they would buy them. It also doesn't mean that we could make them for that price, at any level of effort. We pay auto workers WAY more than the Chinese pay theirs.

Protectionism is why we have not already been flooded with crappy cars from overseas. We do not allow garbage vehicles to be imported. Neither do other countries. Of course, forcing people to buy cars at higher prices or different quality points inhibits domestic innovation. But if the industry dies because of ideological purity, we would be worse off as a nation than we would be driving cars that cost slightly more or lack certain features.
by musesum | 2025-12-27 23:45:12+00:00
Has California Law changed, since 2015?

My company was acquired by another company that had in-house lawyers. California Law states that you have rights to your own IP, when produced on your hardware and on your own time. So, I was careful to air gap all my work on a separate computer. Meanwhile, the acquiring company ask me to sign an employment agreement. Its terms restated the California law in very ambiguous terms. I couldn't tell if I was declaring rights to my own IP or signing away my rights. So, I asked them: "which is it?" Their replay was "Yes." ... I was an employee for a day.
by nl | 2025-12-27 23:45:30+00:00
Windows 2 was an interesting moment in computing history.

Microsoft wasn't the dominant player and was sort of the underdog in many ways. Lotus was usually considered a more important company (Lotus 123 was huge) and WordStar dominated word processing.

The idea of the office suite hadn't taken off.

There were multiple competing GUI shells (GEM was popular and considered better than Windows).

Other non-PC, non-Mac computers were legitimate choices. Commodore, Atari, Tandy, Amstrad all had non-PC lines that sold really well.
by moralestapia | 2025-12-27 23:45:39+00:00
That question will not be answered as it is off-topic.

Many times I've talked to @dang and @tomhow about some of my past comments here. I avoid that nowadays and we're in good terms, imo.

If you want to argue specifically about which things you consider good or bad about the current US administration then good.

(Actually not even that, because it's not the main topic of the article and is also politics which is even more off-topic for HN's interest).

I won't continue this particular discussion as it feels like flamebait, it's not productive to anyone, etc. I'll stop it here, please do the same.
by oblique | 2025-12-27 23:46:00+00:00
Each server on a federated platform has control over how content retrieved through ActivityPub is delivered to its users. A healthy federated network allows competitions between "algorithms" for the same content. The social graph can be identical, but how it's traversed differs.

Think about how platforms have algorithmic comment ranking now, where two users who open the same comment section can see different top comments. This is a corporation or state (think tiktok) directly influencing how someone sees what their community thinks.

I don't see the bitcoin comparison.
by Alupis | 2025-12-27 23:46:16+00:00
Wealthy people fund all sorts of non-profitable things, ie. non-profits, charities, philanthropic initiatives, etc.

Look at Bill Gate's philanthropy over the years. There's thousands of others, including all of the Hollywood Celebrities that like to crow about the climate so much.

The NCAR was spending less than $150MM per year - it's not some outrageous amount of money for donors to fund.
by dboreham | 2025-12-27 23:46:20+00:00
JS on the server seemed to me to be a solution looking for a problem. We already had plenty of arguably adequate server side languages. JS was the weird language you were forced to code in for the browser so why on earth would you want to use it elsewhere? Well I suppose the answer was "because there's a zillion people who know how to use it". But that wasn't true until it was.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-27 23:46:29+00:00
> that is a superior system

It’s more robust and less efficient. Transaction costs—and opportunities for middlemen—will increase. But the chances that your country’s economy is entirely shut down on the whim of one man in Washington is reduced.

> the BRICS system is based on honoring multiple currencies

The BRICS system is nonsense, as evidenced by basically nobody using it beyond a totem amount. Both the PBoC and RBI have superior settlement systems they could open up if they wanted to. Neither does because neither wants an unrestricted capital account.
by Terretta | 2025-12-27 23:47:04+00:00
> I believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human languageI believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human language

Ask any human client buying dev work from a web agency how "natural language" spec works out for them.

It's not clear to me at all that "natural language" alone is ideal -- unless you also have near real time iteration of builds. If you do, then the build is a concrete manifestation of the spec, and the natural language can say "but that's not what I meant".

This allows messy natural language to vector towards the solution, "I'll know it when I see it" style.

So, natural language shaping iteratively convergent builds.
by idorosen | 2025-12-27 23:47:21+00:00
Yup! I was referring to the TrueTime/Spanner papers, not whatever's currently deployed. The original paper makes reference to distributed ordering guarantees at the milliseconds' scale precision, which implies many more transactions in flight in the uncertain state and coarser distributed ordering guarantees than the much tighter upper bound you can set with nanoseconds' precision and microseconds' comms latency...
by mindcrime | 2025-12-27 23:47:26+00:00
I never stopped listening to mp3's, at least not altogether. I do spend quite a bit of time listening to music these days using Youtube / YT music, but I do still listen to my local collection at times. And I buy mp3 albums from Amazon every once in a while.

For listening I've mostly used xmms over the years, but recently I've been using Audacious[2] mostly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS

[2]: https://audacious-media-player.org/
by adrian_b | 2025-12-27 23:47:37+00:00
Neutrons turn spontaneously into protons, which is called beta decay, and which happens in any nucleus with too many neutrons. This includes the free neutrons, which decay into protons in minutes.

Neutrons and protons differ in their composition, a neutron being made of 2 d quarks + 1 u quark, while a proton is made of 1 d quark + 2 u quarks, much in the same way as a nucleus of tritium differs from a nucleus of helium 3, the former being made of 2 neutrons + 1 proton, while the latter is made of 1 neutron + 2 protons.

For the strong interactions, nucleons (i.e. protons and neutrons) and nuclei are analogous to what atoms and molecules are for the electromagnetic interaction.

The strong interaction attempts to neutralize the hadronic charge (a.k.a. color charge), while the electromagnetic interaction attempts to neutralize the electric charge.

To a first approximation, the hadronic charge is neutralized in nucleons and the electric charge is neutralized in atoms.

However, because of the movement of the quarks inside of a nucleon and of the electrons inside an atom, the neutralization of the charge is imperfect and there remain some residual forces of attraction, respectively strong and electromagnetic, which bind the nucleons into nuclei and the atoms into molecules. Because they are just residual forces, the binding forces between nucleons in a nucleus are much weaker than those between quarks in a nucleon, similarly to how the binding forces between atoms in a molecule are much weaker than those that bind most of the electrons to the nucleus in an atom.