MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by torified | 2025-12-04 22:42:10+00:00
As a child I had unlimited time to work out how to access stuff that interested me, a lot of which was forbidden in some way, because that's the most interesting stuff!

In the process I learned about computers and eventually got a modem to access BBSes. It was exhilarating! I would have spent any amount of effort and time to access it.

I basically attribute my entire career to accessing stuff the puritans would have tried to prevent me from accessing.

Also, almost all of the porn I have came from private trackers.

I very much doubt they will be concerned with any of these rules. Things will just move more underground if that happens. And the more underground you go, the more unsavory stuff you might find.

But we all know this isn't actually about protecting children.

In a way, I hope that it ends up being a good thing because the whole clearnet should probably be nuked from orbit.

Us nerds can come up with something better. Federated, encrypted, anonymous and unblockable. It's just the spam problem that is the hard thing to solve. Maybe reputation with proof of work could work.

I'll happily leave the normies to their milquetoast, corporate, manipulated existence.
by defrost | 2025-12-04 22:42:20+00:00
If you carve a wooden part with "the right shape" for an engineering application that the part lacks the physical properties that allow it to perform under load stress ... then yes, that's vibe carving.

Looks good - falls apart in practice, and a junior can't tell the difference as they "look the same" to the inexperienced eye.

From practical experience, you cannot just replace a tyre on a car with any old bit of wood - you really need to use hard wearing mulga (or equivilant) as an emergency skid. (And replace that as soon as possible)
by TZubiri | 2025-12-04 22:42:33+00:00
I get the sentiment, but just denouncing that the given reason is a facade is not sufficient.

It creates a divide between people that are looking for a solution to a problem, and people that disregard the problem completely. If you just ignore the actual problem and cynically call it a front for something else, you are just going to be ignored in the actual conversation. The problem is real and it needs a solution, suggest something better or be forced to stay out of the conversation.

For example, if there's a lot of car accidents, and we suggest a speed limit, you might say that it's actually a way for cops and cities to control the population, and make everything slow, and increase city income by charging fines. But the problem still exists despite your cynicism, unless you suggest another solution for the problem, you won't be able to keep your precious speed freedom. Because of course reducing car fatalities is more important than the freedom to go super fast, that's not really under discussion.
by themanmaran | 2025-12-04 22:43:15+00:00
> The metric reflects the proportion of all tokens served by reasoning models, not the share of "reasoning tokens" within model outputs.

I'd be interested in a clarification on the reasoning vs non-reasoning metric.

Does this mean the reasoning total is (input + reasoning + output) tokens? Or is it just (input + output).

Obviously the reasoning tokens would add a ton to the overall count. So it would be interesting to see it on an apples to apples comparison with non reasoning models.
by kibwen | 2025-12-04 22:43:17+00:00
> In Rust, creating a mutable global variable is so hard that there are long forum discussions on how to do it. In Zig, you can just create one, no problem.

Well, no, creating a mutable global variable is trivial in Rust, it just requires either `unsafe` or using a smart pointer that provides synchronization. That's because Rust programs are re-entrant by default, because Rust provides compile-time thread-safety. If you don't care about statically-enforced thread-safety, then it's as easy in Rust as it is in Zig or C. The difference is that, unlike Zig or C, Rust gives you the tools to enforce more guarantees about your code's possible runtime behavior.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-04 22:43:24+00:00
If the AI boosters are right about what the technology will be capable of in 5 years, at least some of the big player’s investments will be literally the most profitable investments that ever happened. This is a potential mispricing, not a system inherently incapable of paying off long term like the subprime mortgages were. I don’t think another step-change like we saw with GPT2/3 is likely in the mid-term future, but I don't think anyone has shown it’s virtually impossible.
by eek2121 | 2025-12-04 22:43:49+00:00
If your rant is about the USA: Are we really going to try to turn this into a war against the ADA?

I counter: If students are requesting specific accommodations en-mass, maybe schools should rethink overall decisions. Maybe housing shouldn't be shared. Maybe the workload should be relaxed.

Disabilities are far more commonplace than you might imagine. The number of disabled people per 1,000 likely hasn't changed, but our recognition of disabilities such as autism, anxiety disorders, etc. has gotten better.

I'm sure a very small amount of folks do abuse the system, but I'd bet money that most actually have disabilities.

If you still think otherwise, think again: I was diagnosed with ADHD in my mid 30s, and with autism in my mid 40s. This is through extended, multiple hour testing. Nobody told me I had these issues. I was simply told I was a terrible person that didn't do his school work and behaved poorly at school. Now, with an understanding of autism, ADHD, and the new anxiety disorder I have thanks to a recent brain injury, I'm able to finally address this stuff.

I also aced higher level, computer centric stuff, and set a record for one of the quickest to graduate in my state at a technical school (2 months instead of 2 years).

Bottom line is that you should not be making poor assumptions about people abusing the system without evidence to prove it.
by estearum | 2025-12-04 22:44:05+00:00
No no, your observation is that a large amount of (per your assessment) low-quality people are already being brought in.

This is completely unrelated to the question of whether the highest quality people are being brought in.

By analogy: "New York City doesn't have a lot of the greatest restaurants in the country because 90% of the restaurants in New York City are not that great."

It's just logically invalid.

And divorced from reality. There's a reason the top students in the world overwhelmingly come to study in the US (at least up until recently). The US's dominance on this and its downstream effects is absolutely unambiguous and it's frankly silly to suggest otherwise.

"We also have a lot of underqualified Indian H1Bs" is completely irrelevant.

P.S. It's "moot" not "mute"
by genewitch | 2025-12-04 22:44:41+00:00
Belite, a company that folded (and just renamed themselves) after a certain number of crashes of their experimental ultralights, sold my dad a plane where the AOA sensor was malfunctioning, the propeller hit the ground if there was someone in the plane, and one wing side was longer than the other. By a visible amount. My dad broke a set of propellers and they sent him a new set with 3" cut off each blade. i have those in my shed.

I'm no aerospace engineer or anything, but that plane shouldn't have been able to stay in the air.

and, lo, it didn't, the motorcycle engine used as the prime mover sputtered out at 200' AGL and since it's not a glider (and i don't even think it can glide), it crashed straight into the ground.

Fly an ultralight if you want, just be aware that people will think very poorly of you.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-12-04 22:44:47+00:00
>ADHD sometimes comes with hyper focus, which if it manifest in the right way can help you in university.

"Hyperfocus" is a clinical term for focus that is excessive enough to be an impairment. People often conflate it with the term "Special interest" used for Autism, but it's completely different, it refers to the inability to pull focus away from something despite wanting and needing to. It is, definitionally, without benefit. If there's a benefit, it's not hyperfocus.

Which makes sense, if you think about it. ADHD is characterized by poor ability to direct attention. People know about it causing a lack of attention to things that need attention, but it can also cause attention to things that don't need it.
by jberto | 2025-12-04 22:45:40+00:00
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by SabrinaJewson | 2025-12-04 22:45:51+00:00
You know that “learning disability” isn’t a synonym for “stupid”, right? We neither call people who are less academically able “disabled”, nor are disabled people necessarily less able to work academically (apart from some more debilitating mental disorders, which would be a disability). In fact, it’s quite the opposite: the word “disability” exists _precisely_ to distinguish “intelligence” – which is what the university is selecting for – and other characteristics, so in theory intelligence and disability are entirely orthogonal (apart from the exception I mentioned).

Of course, understanding what disability actually is requires considering each learning disability separately, which is something this article unfortunately fails to do. We can do this though:

- Anxiety and depression: I see no reason why this should decrease somebody’s intelligence, so the fact that there are elevated rates of such people at top universities does not seem odd. Since these are treatable conditions, they won’t necessarily affect the ability for a student to become an effective researcher.

- ADHD: This condition is marked by a lack of ability to focus, which is a property unrelated to intelligence. Some very famous mathematicians like Paul Erdős likely had ADHD, demonstrating that it’s not necessarily true this condition makes one a worse researcher.

- Autism: Does not necessarily reduce intelligence. We can look at professional mathematicians and see that a lot of them are autistic.

- Chronic pain, migraines, etc: Unrelated to intelligence. It’s possible this will decrease one’s ability to be a researcher, but if one is able to complete University at all, it’s likely not that severe.

I mean, I could go on, and of course there will be a couple of counterexample. However, it is still the case that generally speaking, “learning disability” and “stupid” are different things, and therefore there is no reason to expect that there would be lower rates of learning disabilities among those who are highly academically skilled.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-12-04 22:46:06+00:00
That's true, but astigmatism:

- is clearly defined

- can be measured objectively (with autorefractors, keratometers, corneal topographers)

- can be corrected cheaply ($20 glasses) to eliminate any disadvantage in performance or efficiency

Neurodivergence:

- is not clearly defined

- cannot be measured objectively, and is diagnosed using behavioral observations and cognitive tests

- may rely on 'accommodations' that, in the hands of someone without a diagnosis, would be considered cheating

Imagine I don't have astigmatism. If I were to take your glasses, would they improve my performance in college?

Imagine my legs are fine. If I were to take someone's wheelchair and start using it daily, would that improve my performance in college?

Imagine I am neurotypical. If I were to take 2x the time on a test, would my performance improve?
by iterance | 2025-12-04 22:46:06+00:00
I will at least remark that adding a new error to an enum is not a breaking change if they are marked #[non_exhaustive]. The compiler then guarantees that all match statements on the enum contain a generic case.

However, I wouldn't recommend it. Breakage over errors is not necessarily a bad thing. If you need to change the API for your errors, and downstreams are required to have generic cases, they will be forced to silently accept new error types without at least checking what those new error types are for. This is disadvantageous in a number of significant cases.
by gambiting | 2025-12-04 22:46:41+00:00
Well like the article points out - even that outrageous cost of 250M is nothing compared to the national budget. We as a country could easily afford it - but this is the second part of the whole problem, not just that things are expensive, but that no one is willing to actually sign off on any solution, so we just end up with the default of doing absolutely nothing. In a way it would have been better if the bridge actually collapsed(with no injuries to anyone, of course) because then it would have been much easier to replace it or repair it. Right now it's usable at least somewhat so there's all kinds of reasons why nothing should be done(money being just one of them).
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by ggreer | 2025-12-04 22:47:52+00:00
I doubt there is any form of ABS filament with such a low glass transition temperature. As the original poster said, it was probably PLA.

I find it odd that the report didn't name the manufacturer of the part, and that the part was not listed on the LAA modification form. There can't be many people selling such parts at airshows, so you'd think the investigators would have been able to find out who made it.

Now I wonder if the previous owner (who installed the new fuel system) printed the part himself, then claimed he bought it overseas to avoid blame.
by angoragoats | 2025-12-04 22:48:09+00:00
You illustrated my point exactly: yes, a single 32GB 5090 has half the memory of your Mac. But two of them (or three 3090/4090s) have the same total memory as your Mac, are in the same ballpark in price, and would be several times faster at running the same model as your Mac.

And before you bring up the “efficiency” of the Mac: I’ve done the math, and between the Mac being much slower (thus needing more time to run) and the fact that you can throttle the discrete GPUs to use 200-250W each and only lose a few percent in LLM performance, it’s the same price or cheaper to operate the discrete GPUs for the same workload.
by n8cpdx | 2025-12-04 22:49:39+00:00
I grew up similarly but regularly had eggs for breakfast, at least some of the time. Usually on toast. When eggs are cheap, that is competitive with cereal or pop tarts.

I would have hoped that better access to nutrition information would have led to parents making better choices. Absolutely insane that they’re still choosing desserts for breakfast every day instead of high quality Whole Foods like eggs.
by zahlman | 2025-12-04 22:49:55+00:00
> Take that responsibility away from the uploaders and away from Youtube and hand it to the parents.

The system described still requires action by the webmaster. Their options are: deny the entire site to those sending an RTA header; evaluate the content themselves; or trust the uploader. (Or a combination: have uploaders opt-in to evaluation for a fee, with the content denied to kids by default.)
by Aperocky | 2025-12-04 22:50:10+00:00
Anecdotally, as a result of the traits that made it hard to learn for humans, Rust is actually a great language for LLM.

Out of all languages I do development in the past few months: Go, Rust, Python, Typescript; Rust is the one that LLM has the least churn/problems in terms of producing correct and functional code given a problem of similar complexity.

I think this outside factor will eventually win more usage for Rust.
by lurking_swe | 2025-12-04 22:50:21+00:00
i remember being woken up at 3am by him vomiting in the middle of the room. In the morning he used my swiffer to clean up his vomit. I told him to keep the swiffer .

On the bright side, i met my spouse and we’ve been together for 10+ years so not all bad lol.
by Quothling | 2025-12-04 22:51:25+00:00
> Rust is not hard. Rust has a standard library that looks an awful lot like Python or Ruby, with similarly named methods.

I would read this in regard to Go and not so much in regards to Zig. Go is insanely productive, and while you're not going to match something like Django in terms of delivery speed with anything in Go, you almost can... and you can do it without using a single external dependency. Go loses a little of this in the embeded space, where it's not quite as simple, but the opinonated approach is still very productive even here.

I can't think of any language where I can produce something as quickly as I can in Go with the use of nothing but the standard library. Even when you do reach for a framework like SQLC, you can run the external parts in total isolation if that's your thing.

I will say that working with the interoperability of Zig in our C for Python binaries has been very easy, which it wasn't for Rust. This doesn't mean it's actually easier for other people, but it sure was for me.

> This is one of Rust's superpowers !

In some industries it's really not.
by lurking_swe | 2025-12-04 22:52:13+00:00
not even moral decline! I’d personally feel like a fraud every day if I “made it“ by using 5 different _unnecessary_ accommodations. Where is the satisfaction in that?

I’m a slow reader. Do i have a disability? Who cares - i can still read well and did OK at school, that’s all that matters.

People that game the system in this way are basically frauds. They take resources that are intended to benefit people that ARE struggling with basic life skills in some way.
by nomel | 2025-12-04 22:52:18+00:00
Maybe "load" includes the heat that comes from the changes forces from the vibrations? But even then, that would be additional heat sources, rather than a change in the temperature where it happens.

Polycarbonate shows little change vs pressure [1]:

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6403934/
by snuxoll | 2025-12-04 22:53:03+00:00
> Beyond these concerns, I also don't love enums for errors because it means adding any new error type will be a breaking change. I don't love the idea of committing to that, but maybe I'm overthinking?

Is it a new error condition that downstream consumers want to know about so they can have different logic? Add the enum variant. The entire point of this pattern is to do what typed exceptions in Java were supposed to do, give consuming code the ability to reason about what errors to expect, and handle them appropriately if possible.

If your consumer can't be reasonably expected to recover? Use a generic failure variant, bonus points if you stuff the inner error in and implement std::Error so consumers can get the underlying error by calling .source() for debugging at least.

> By contrast, I just wrap Go errors with `fmt.Errorf("opening file `%s`: %w", filePath, err)` and handle any special error cases with `errors.As()` and similar and move on with life. It maybe doesn't feel _elegant_, but it lets me get stuff done.

Nothing stopping you from doing the same in Rust, just add a match arm with a wildcard pattern (_) to handle everything but your special cases.

In fact, if you suspect you are likely to add additional error variants, the `#[non_exhaustive]` attribute exists explicitly to handle this. It will force consumers to provide a match arm with a wildcard pattern to prevent additions to the enum from causing API incompatibility. This does come with some other limitations, so RTFM on those, but it does allow you to add new variants to an Error enum without requiring a major semver bump.
by wahern | 2025-12-04 22:54:44+00:00
You would need Chinese laws and regulations. This is one of the reasons why when building Belt & Road Initiative projects in SE Asia, Africa, etc, China demands exclusion from local regulations and insulation from local politics, at least after initial negotiations and before work begins. In many nations the problem is corruption and kickbacks, but in a country like Britain the problem is bureaucratic red tape and "community input" (i.e. every Tom, Dick, and Harry effectively has veto power).
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-12-04 22:56:05+00:00
> have firsthand experience being diagnosed and prescribed medication for ADHD within about half an hour of self-reporting mild symptoms with a physician remotely,

And that makes you competent to determine the value of the disability claims of others and the appropriate accommodations such folks should receive?

Really?

Then again, you are the eminent galaxy-wide expert on such things, aren't you bananalychee.

Will you honor my request to impregnate my wife and daughters so they can carry offspring that's so much more valuable than anyone else on the planet? Pretty please!
by librasteve | 2025-12-04 22:56:17+00:00
I tried to get an LLM to write a Raku chapter in the same vein - naah. Had to write it myself:

Raku

Raku stands out as a fast way to working code, with a permissive compiler that allows wide expression.

Its an expressive, general-purpose language with a wide set of built-in tools. Features like multi-dispatch, roles, gradual typing, lazy evaluation, and a strong regex and grammar system are part of its core design. The language aims to give you direct ways to reflect the structure of a problem instead of building abstractions from scratch.

The grammar system is the clearest example. Many languages treat parsing as a specialized task requiring external libraries. Raku instead provides a declarative syntax for defining rules and grammars, so working with text formats, logs, or DSLs often requires less code and fewer workarounds. This capability blends naturally with the rest of the language rather than feeling like a separate domain.

Raku programs run on a sizeable VM and lean on runtime dispatch, which means they typically don’t have the startup speed or predictable performance profile of lower-level or more static languages. But the model is consistent: you get flexibility, clear semantics, and room to adjust your approach as a problem evolves. Incremental development tends to feel natural, whether you’re sketching an idea or tightening up a script that’s grown into something larger.

The language’s long development history stems from an attempt to rethink Perl, not simply modernize it. That history produced a language that tries to be coherent and pleasant to write, even if it’s not small. Choose Raku if you want a language that let's you code the way you want, helps you wrestle with the problem and not with the compiler.