MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2025-12-10 22:17:21+00:00
It's not inappropriate to be outraged. What's inappropriate is to post comments to Hacker News that vent aggression at other commenters and/or those on the other side of the conflict. Doing that is against both HN's rules and, more importantly, the intended spirit of this community (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). A certain amount of processing or, if you like, metabolization needs to happen between those two steps.

As I say in many contexts, you may not owe the other side better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Here's an analogy which may (or not) be helpful. Even in the middle of a war, it sometimes happens that enemies meet and discuss things. Such discussions won't help anything or anyone if they just consist of yelling at each other.

p.s. I appreciate your question and apologize that you had to reply here instead of to my comment itself (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221528). We have to turn off replies on pinned comments, but I hate giving the impression that we don't want to hear responses or objections.
by axi0m | 2025-12-10 22:17:28+00:00
Gosh, this story resonates so much with me... I had the exact same experience few days ago, desperately trying to get a small agent prototype working for a quick demo. I spent an good hour dealing with that pile of nonsense. Online payments and accounts management have been mastered for 20 years now, why do we still have to endure such things? It just kills me. The same goes with Azure (and all MS online-related services), if not even worse.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-10 22:18:44+00:00
> Our societies globally have become hugely polarised and are manipulated daily because of social media.

Watching 18 year old kids getting drone striked every other day has done more for the anti-war movement than a hundred years of post-WW1 globalist utopianism. The only demographic of war hawks you find online anymore are psychotics and boomers, both being unfit for military service.

This is the fundamental reason why western countries are turning on social. The TikTok ban had less to do with Chinese influence campaigns and more to do with it being a platform where Israeli war crimes were openly discussed without being hindered by shadow algorithms.

You’re seeing Zionists like Larry Ellison make plays in the media space for the same reason; military-aged white men are going off the plantation, and Zionists feel threatened by it. That is literally all these bans are intended to remedy.
by jsheard | 2025-12-10 22:19:11+00:00
The more pertinent issue is that many TVs will only do VRR over HDMI 2.1, and many active DP to HDMI 2.1 adapters won't pass VRR through either.

That's also why the Switch 2 supports VRR on its internal display but not when connected to a TV - the dock can't encode a HDMI 2.1 signal. That's just Nintendo being Nintendo though, they could support it if they wanted to.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-10 22:19:22+00:00
The US would rather pay off to tarriffs the competition than properly compete. Even the Ford CEO drove A Chinese EV for 6 months and he didn't want to give it up. Also indirectly he didn't think Ford could compete, calling it an "existential threat"

https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-driving-xiaomi-su7-...

It's really stupid because Xiaomi isn't making anything truly revolutionary. It's just a lot of consumer thoughtful ideas, not ones that try to shove ads and subscriptions in your dang car. And this is our "existential threat" to a century of manufacturing. Wonder how Henry would feel.

(and the tarriffs stuff isn't just 2025. That's been there through all of Biden's admin. Good idea... If they used those 5 years to actually ramp up production).
by freefaler | 2025-12-10 22:19:38+00:00
Social networks aren't that social anymore. Around 65% of the facebook content is not shared/generated by your friends in your social graph. So they're all just a Tik-Tok clones basically. Short dopamine addiction info-snacks with more and more AI generated slop. (and some of the slop is interesting like Cold War military tech stories from books read and visualized by AI).

The network effects doesn't matter that much for the Tiktok's of the world.
by Havoc | 2025-12-10 22:20:42+00:00
>Serious question: does this thing actually make games run really great?

LTT tried it in one of their videos...forgot which card but one of the serious nvidia AI cards.

...it runs like shit for gaming workloads. It does the job but comfortably beaten by a mid tier consumer card for 1/10th the price

Their AI track datacenter cards are definitely not same thing different badge glued on
by dlivingston | 2025-12-10 22:21:14+00:00
I had a friend in grad school who influenced my political beliefs more than anyone I'd met.

He never engaged in political conversation with "here's what I believe, and here's why you should too." His approach was more Socratic; to listen to me talk, and then offer an additional viewpoint or context.

I never got the impression from him that he was trying to convince me of something, or that he thought I was wrong about X/Y/Z, but rather, that we were on an intellectual journey together to identify what the problems actually were and what nuanced solutions might look like.

I still have no idea to this day what his ACTUAL political party is (or if he even has one). I genuinely could not tell you if he was left, right, or center.
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by adrian_b | 2025-12-10 22:22:00+00:00
The size is a fundamental constraint of optical technologies, because it is related to the wavelength of light, which is much bigger than the sizes of semiconductor devices.

This is why modern semiconductor devices no longer use lithography with visible light or even with near ultraviolet, but they must use extreme ultraviolet.

The advantage of such optical devices is speed and low power consumption in the optical device itself (ignoring the power consumption of lasers, which might be shared by many devices).

Such memories have special purposes in various instruments, they are not suitable as computer memories.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-10 22:22:33+00:00
Oh, I know you all did and I remember the cross-signing. I worried that you'd get slapped down somehow, that the crappy cert companies would find a way to stop/reverse it, that the project would fizzle out, etc. I thought it was cool as hell but it seemed something so clearly good couldn't stay good but you all have only gotten better over time.
by _wire_ | 2025-12-10 22:22:54+00:00
Regarding Sun's slogan: Supported a VLSI component and software engineering group at Intel in mid 80s built from Moto 68K-based Sun workstations that were provisioned engineering staff in groups of 5, with a diskful server and 4 diskless clients attached via 10Mb thicknet, running Sun's bootp, NFS and Yellow Pages. This was the meaning of "network is the computer" in the context of the Sun salespeople. It gave a VAX-11/780 of CPU performance to each engineer at a time where compute had been provisioned at 10–15 engineers to a 780. And the kit was all on/under desk, not in a special room with AC and a raised floor. The internet was a 2400b leased line to an ARPA IMP and was used only for file transfers with researchers at CMU. External mail and USEnet was UUCP via VAXes.
by tart-lemonade | 2025-12-10 22:23:01+00:00
Only if the adapter is active; passive ones just tell the GPU to switch protocols to HDMI or whatever, so those are still kneecapped by driver limitations.

Edit: I just checked Amazon and active adapters are a lot cheaper (and less niche) than they used to be, though there are still some annoying results like a passive adapter which has an LED to indicate the connection is "active" being the first result for "DP to HDMI 2.1 active".
by hypertexthero | 2025-12-10 22:23:07+00:00
The following from clicking on the i on the top-right after starting the show:

> Created by Neal Agarwal

> Illustrations by Julius Csotonyi

> Production by Liz Ryan

> Music & SFX by Aleix Ramon

> Cello performance by Iratxe Ibaibarriaga

Beautiful work.
by anon84873628 | 2025-12-10 22:23:27+00:00
Yes, this is one of those game theory traps like the prisoners dilemma, because it requires coordinated action across a large group of people. Unfortunately the lowest common denominator parenting is not able to handle the problem, because the parents don't understand the situation, are addicted to platforms themselves, and just generally don't have the necessary skills.

Government regulation is a ham fisted approach that risks unintended consequences / secondary effects, but it is generally good at breaking the game theory traps because it changes the playing field for everyone. That is fundamentally why we have government at all - to solve coordination problems.
by tptacek | 2025-12-10 22:23:28+00:00
The figure of merit in a military strike is casualties, not KIA; it's the "wounded" part you actually care about (in fact, in some tactical situations, wounding is preferable to killing, as it ties up adversary logistical resources).

Since the pagers that were targeted were exclusively used by Hezbollah (which fought an actual civil war with the Lebanese security forces specifically in order to establish its own telecom network), I would be extraordinarily wary of any source that has claimed more injuries to noncombatants than to combatants.

You can still tell a story where the pager attack was unacceptable owing to civilian casualties: there could be so many civilian casualties that any number of combatant casualties wouldn't justify it. But if you're claiming that there were more casualties to noncombatants over small explosions from devices carried principally in the pockets of combatants, it is rational to draw the conclusion that your reasoning (and sourcing) is motivated.
by sirfz | 2025-12-10 22:24:18+00:00
Hezbollah is an organization consisting of civilian infrastructure besides its military wing (political party, media, hospitals/medical centers, schools, banking, etc) . These devices were distributed amongst different personnel of whom nobody knows their military activity and can safely be assumed it's highly likely they're civilians (hence the randomness of this, not targetted at all). Besides the fact that these targets weren't in active duty but rather targeted in their homes, workplaces, and other random whereabouts (supermarkets, playgrounds, etc) again emphasising how random and not targetted any of it is and the danger it imposes on others (physical or psychological) around them. It's just insane.
by HaZeust | 2025-12-10 22:24:26+00:00
Another buckwild measure for absolutely nothing. Since being directly affected by this in my real life, my resentment for these measures has grown ten-fold. These enforcement agents are costing my family friends everything in real value and real sentimental time.

Because of recent anti-immigration measures in the new Administration, a great Mexican family friend of mine has a dying uncle here in the States - with only a few months to live. And with a vast majority of his relatives in Mexico, almost none of them can get visa approval to see him and say goodbye. Not even Humanitarian Parole program visas are being accepted for ANY one of the family members; and they are good, upstanding people who took the process seriously.

I have absolutely nothing nice to say about the rule-writers for immigration in this Administration - and most past ones, and I have nothing mean to say about otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants in America - until the process for legal immigration becomes necessarily easier.
by keeda | 2025-12-10 22:24:55+00:00
> Demand is inflated in a bubble.

Is it? The dot-com fiber bubble for instance was famous for laying far more fiber than would be needed for the next decade even as the immediate organic demand was tiny.

In this case however, each and every hyperscaler is bemoaning / low-key boasting that they have been capacity constrained for the past multiple quarters.

The other data point is the climbing rate of AI adoption as reported by non-AI affiliated sources, which also lines up with what AI companies report, like:

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/nov/state-gen...

That article is a little crazy. Not only are 54% of Americans using AI, that is 10 percentage points over last year... and usage at work may even be boosting national-level metrics!

> In fact their math doesn't seem to consider failure at all, which is highly suspicious.

That's a good point! If I had to guess, that may be because Burry et al don't mention failure rates either, and seem to assume a ~2 year obsolescence based on releases of new generations of GPUs.

As such, everybody is responding to those claims. The article I linked was making the point that even 9-year old generations are still in high demand, which also explains the 5 years vs 9 years difference -- two entirely different generations and models, H100 vs M4000.

And while MTBF is not directly related to depreciation, it's Bray who brings up failure rates in a discussion about depreciation. This is one reason I think he's just riffing off what he's heard rather than speaking from deep industry knowledge.

I've been trying to find any discussion that mentions concrete failure rates without luck. Which makes sense, since they're probably heavily-NDA'd numbers.
by pseudalopex | 2025-12-10 22:25:04+00:00
You said you used ChatGPT to help you get to the hospital. Then you said you used it to translate pharmaceutical names. Then you said you asked it about your travel insurance. These could be true together. But it says more of you than LLMs if you could not imagine how to solve any of these problems without LLMs.

Your travel insurance did not have emergency phone service?

LLMs are not reliable for medical advice or document questions.
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-10 22:25:30+00:00
Not great. They still clog, the printer still wastes a ton of ink on cleaning or adjustment or whatever. Last time I had one I woke up one day to find that all of the yellow ink was gone. Several ounces of ink presumably dumped into a sponge inside the printer. I chucked the whole damn mess in the trash and bought a Brother laser printer.
by leopoldj | 2025-12-10 22:25:54+00:00
>As for Copilot? I don't know anyone who uses it. Do you?

This sloppy journalism. One should probably read the original report in The Information [1].

Bloomberg has updated its story today with a note from Jeffries [2]. "The analysts also said their checks showed robust adoption of Microsoft’s Copilot line of AI assistants"

1. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-lowers-ai-...

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/microsoft...
by decipherer | 2025-12-10 22:26:04+00:00
I had one of the Panasonic models a long time ago, and I used to love typing with it.

I didn't have a reliable source for pen cartridges though, so I usually saved it for things that were "important" at the time.

Everything else was typed on an IBM Wheelwriter, which in my mind is still the pinnacle of typewriter technology.

Supposedly you can still order the film ribbon cartridges for them online.
by djoldman | 2025-12-10 22:26:18+00:00
> Getting the actual GPU working was also painful, so I’ll leave the details here for future adventurers:

> # Data Center/HGX-Series/HGX H100/Linux aarch64/12.8 seem to work! wget https://us.download.nvidia.com/tesla/570.195.03/NVIDIA-Linux...

> ...

Nothing makes you feel more "I've been there" than typing inscrutable arcana to get a GPU working for ML work...
by 9rx | 2025-12-10 22:26:32+00:00
"Developer experience matters" and "Vercel" being the example is something I never thought I would see together.

I actually do agree that Vercel's admin screens are quite good compared to the other usual suspects. But I don't consider that to be on the development side of things. It's done decently well because it is geared towards the business folks who are paying the bills.

Developers writing code on top of the development solutions produced by Vercel have been completely forsaken.
by tptacek | 2025-12-10 22:27:00+00:00
The reason foreign military organizations don't routinely target active duty US military generals isn't that they're worried about being dragged into some mostly-fictitious courtroom to answer for their misdeeds. It's that the United States armed forces will very quickly reduce their entire organization, and much of the surrounding area, to its combustion products.

There aren't a lot of opportunities in life you get to use the word "annihilatory"; this is one of them. And in the immortal words of William Munny out of Missouri: "deserve's" got nothing to do with it.
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-12-10 22:27:10+00:00
> when it comes to Israel, everything is to be distrusted

Correct, with a good reason for it. Israelis have been caught lying so many times that now when they make a claim, it is on them to prove that the claim is correct, rather than on others to prove that it is not. Just a few examples off the top of my head include:

- The killing of medical workers in a convoy of ambulances and burying them in shallow graves, then lying about doing it until someone dug the bodies up and found footage confirming that they lied on the phone of one of the buried aid workers. [1]

- The hunting down and killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers via multiple air strikes [2]. This was repeatedly denied by Israelis until too much evidence was stacked up and they settled for "it was a grave mistake".

- The high profile case of killing of Hind Rajab [3] who for a brief period of time was the sole survivor of a tank attack in a shelled vehicle filled with her dead family members. Aid workers were dispatched to rescue here, coordinated with Israelis. Neither the girl nor the aid workers were ever seen alive after that. Israelis repeatedly insisted that there were no troops in the area, until too much evidence was stacked again.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-isr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_conv...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab
by grepex | 2025-12-10 22:27:35+00:00
The way I think about it is that LLMs are just a tool, and if you trust the tool too much it can backfire. It reminds me of this video [1] that Louis Rossman posted regarding a police officer essentially trusting his AI tool (Flock cameras) too much and falsely accusing a woman of a crime, claiming "you can't take a breath of fresh air without us knowing about it".

[1] https://youtu.be/AoEQg1M92_E?si=A-XNXP_smH2I3hWj
by archagon | 2025-12-10 22:27:47+00:00
Weird to call it entitlement when the natural state of information is to be free. What's entitled is asking the government to enforce arbitrary restrictions on other people making use of some information that you somehow intangibly "own."

(Of course, it's fucked up that corporations can siphon up all this content and then try to twist the law to carve out an exception for their extra special use case. Information still isn't free unless you're an AI company, I guess.)
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by BoorishBears | 2025-12-10 22:29:14+00:00
You can sum it up as: Gemini from AI Studio and Gemini from Vertex AI Studio have independent rate limits.

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And I guess to add some context, it's because Google seemingly realized that Google Cloud moves so glacially slow, and has so much baggage, that they could no longer compete with scrappier startups like OpenAI and Anthropic on developer mindshare.

So there's a separate product org that owns AI Studio, which tries to be more nimble, and probably 50x'd Gemini adoption by using API Keys instead of Service Accounts and JSON certs that take mapping out the 9th circle of hell to deploy in some environments. (although iirc Vertex now has those)

They definitely do ship faster than Google Cloud, but their offerings actually end up feeling like a product team with fewer resources than OpenAI or Anthropic (like shipping purple tailwind-slop UIs as real features), which is just nuts.
by godsinhisheaven | 2025-12-10 22:29:20+00:00
This is an extremely reductive take. Thomas Jefferson was a hero and a scholar! Think about the times he lived in, everyone lived under some sort of aristocratic monarchy, that was the norm. Certainly there were some economic interests at play in tge Revolution, but is it economically smart to declare independence from the most powerful empire of the day? Indeed, many of the "elites" at the time sided with the British! There had to be something more than just "class interests" at play to convince these wealthy elites to renounce their fealty to their government, giving up all legal claims to their property and indeed their very lives, should the revolutionaries have lost.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-10 22:29:20+00:00
I grew up without television. We had a TV until I was 7, but it was never left on, and I was rarely allowed to watch it.

When I was 9 we had a cheap TV for about 3 months and it broke. Family decided we didn't need one.

At 36 I got a TV for a couple years. My kids watched Blue's Clues, etc.

At 38, I again got a TV for a couple years. Then decided dumb late night shows were not helping the insomnia, so cancelled cable, but started streaming HBO.

Since then, I have enjoyed high quality streaming series on occasion. But no live TV, no TV "news", and strictly avoid anything with ads.

When I see a live TV on, with the strange voices and non-logic of ads, and the bizarre posturing they call "news", I get a little sick. Even "nature" and "history" shows have strange pacing and repetition. The transparent sucking sound of ads needing tamed attention-providers warps everything.

I think being sheltered from regular TV, TV ads, and TV news, has been tremendously positive for my mind and life.

Not being exposed to "social" media sites, which are often not actually social, and often unhealthy when they are, is a great win. Quality can sometimes survive in rare small social-conversation sites, not driven by ads or agenda.