MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pessimizer | 2025-12-04 21:01:03+00:00
Corporations and center-left/center-right liberal governments support now and have always supported mass immigration because it lowers wages. Nobody especially cares about identifying them, the reason they flooded in recently (over the past couple decades) is because they were deliberately let in through written policies. They did this despite public objections. In the US, we know exactly who they are; we issue illegal immigrants special IDs and business licenses. They get bank loans; they're homeowners. They get in-state tuition at colleges.

Starmer is currently using anti-immigrant sentiment to push his digital IDs, but that's because he is a cynic. He does whatever he needs to do to satisfy his bosses.

> That movie Scarface in the first 25 minutes tells you something.

It tells you that the US puts nations under siege for decades for committing the crime of self-determination, then lets in with absolutely no obstacles all of the economically destroyed and desperate, the extremely right wing, and the participants in CIA-financed death squads who flee, then uses them as a voting block (and a resource) to support the continuation and escalation of those sieges.

edit: immigrants commit less crime in the US than natives. Their children commit more crime, because they rise to the level of natives at their socioeconomic bracket.
by toast0 | 2025-12-04 21:01:08+00:00
> Not minding viewed ads, so viewers are punished with duplicate ads plays if they close or skip by accident (Netflix is mindful of this)

The Roku Channel used to be really bad at this; I had a bad experience over a year ago and avoided it until recently as they carry a show I was watching that left another platform in the past couple months and it's good at this now.

Of course, it still has the basic issues that make me skip back after ad breaks frequently. a) they consistently insert ads slightly offset of the intended insertion points; b) the ad has different audio/video/hdcp properties than the content its inserted into, so my receiver (and sometimes my tv) blanks audio to resync when the content resumes.

I'm not thrilled that Amazon added ads into their streaming product, but at least the insertions are well timed and I don't recall audio dropouts when content is resumed (but maybe I missed it).
by vasilipupkin | 2025-12-04 21:01:30+00:00
the original article is factually incorrect. Accommodations at Stanford are only 25% of students, according to their website, and that includes every possible kind of accommodation, not just time and half on tests. If you had carpet replaced in your dorm because it gave you an allergy, it would be included. So, this is just an article that is just flat out bullshit.
by q3k | 2025-12-04 21:01:33+00:00
You're just talking about a lithography machine. Patterning is one step out of thousands in a modern process (albeit an important one). There's plenty more stuff needed for a production line, this isn't a 3D printer but for chips. And that's just for the FEOL stuff, then you still need to do BEOL :). And packaging. And testing (accelerated/environmental, too). And failure analysis. And...

Also, you know, there's a whole process you'll need to develop. So prepare to be not making money (but spending tons of it on running the lines) until you have a well tested PDK.
by smartbit | 2025-12-04 21:01:44+00:00
Another analysis, by Heise Verlag, publisher of C’t Europe's largest IT and tech magazine https://heise.de/-11102550

The Russmedia ruling of the ECJ: Towards a “Cleannet”?

A change in liability privilege for online providers will lead to a “cleaner”, but also more rigid, monitored internet, says Joerg Heidrich.
by wvbdmp | 2025-12-04 21:02:00+00:00
>U.S. bonds and some stock prices were once quoted in fractions rather than decimals (typically in sixteenths or thirty-seconds). For example, a bond price might appear as 101 8/32. This means $101 and 8/32 of a dollar, or $101.25 in today's notation.

Delightful.
by eZinc | 2025-12-04 21:02:02+00:00
While I agree that smart people tend to play the system, I will offer another explanation.

I think university students are just weirder now. They just don't have the same social skills as before. Maybe Covid has erased social skills and behaviors, or maybe the internet is too prevalent.

I don't know what the social equivalent of the Overton Window would be, but I think that's shifted so hard that traditional autism tests would mark most modern students as autistic.
by loeg | 2025-12-04 21:03:07+00:00
They're not the only player trying to buy more RAM. Every hyperscaler is also growing.

AWS, MS, Oracle, and Google demand is growing ~100% in 2026. Nvidia demand is growing ~50% in 2026. Supply isn't forecast to improve at all until H2 2026 and it's probably ~all spoken for through at least EOY 2026.
by daveguy | 2025-12-04 21:03:10+00:00
Given the amount of evidence that Russia and the Trump campaign were working together, it's devoid of reality to claim it's a hoax. I hadn't heard the Bernie angle, but it's not unreasonable to expect they were aiding Bernie. The difference being, I don't think Bernie's campaign was colluding with Russian agents, whereas the Trump campaign definitely was colluding.

Seriously, who didn't hear about the massive amounts of evidence the Trump campaign was colluding other than magas drooling over fox and newsmax?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report

https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
by jiggawatts | 2025-12-04 21:03:22+00:00
> exclusively search-based rewards so that the model isn't required to compress a large proportion of the internet into their weights.

That just gave me an idea! I wonder how useful (and for what) a model would be if it was trained using a two-phase approach:

1) Put the training data through an embedding model to create a giant vector index of the entire Internet.

2) Train a transformer LLM but instead only utilising its weights, it can also do lookups against the index.

Its like a MoE where one (or more) of the experts is a fuzzy google search.

The best thing is that adding up-to-date knowledge won’t require retraining the entire model!
by arjie | 2025-12-04 21:03:23+00:00
That's a good point. And particularly in immigration (and I think I recall in this very form - the DS-160) which has such questions such as "Are you a communist?" and "Are you a terrorist or have you ever sympathized with them?" which are clearly intended for the purpose you describe: to catch you in a lie and prosecute you for that even if not for something else.

I suppose the analogous technique here is whether you delete content they've already recorded. Though it could be simpler, and they're just trying to cause an unforced error where someone fails to make a profile public, creating an avenue to reject them even if it were perfectly fine otherwise.
by ibejoeb | 2025-12-04 21:03:35+00:00
Sure. We're also changing rubrics and even inventing new conditions, and we don't really try to graduate them. On top of that, there are perverse incentives. Amphetamine is an amazing drug, and since some people get it, those who don't find it hard to compete. So, we have to give them a way to get it, because the side effect of not doing that is popping them with felony drug trafficking charges at the airport. I don't blame anyone for playing the game.
by 59nadir | 2025-12-04 21:03:49+00:00
While I understand that people might downvote the parent post because it seems in bad taste and touches on a culturally sensitive thing, haven't we all wondered this? Why is it that the poor give relatively more generously than the rich?

It's such an interesting phenomenon that so many ultra rich people are essentially just hoarding wealth beyond what they should reasonably be able to even have use of in multiple generations. Worse, some of them simply cannot seem to get enough and will literally commit crimes and/or do indisputably morally wrong things to get even more.

I would personally never ask anyone this, and I wouldn't expect anyone who could answer it to actually answer it, but I think what komali2 asked is one of the most interesting questions out there.
by snuxoll | 2025-12-04 21:03:58+00:00
I'm not even talking about RT, specifically, but overall production quality. Increased texture detail, higher-poly models, more shader effects, general environmental detail, the list goes on.

These massive production budgets for huge, visually detailed games, are causing publishers to take fewer creative risks, and when products inevitably fail in the market the studios get shuttered. I'd much rather go back to smaller teams, and more reasonable production values from 10+ years ago than keep getting the drivel we have, and that's without even factoring in how expensive current hardware is.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-04 21:04:01+00:00
Yet tech workers are “owed” making money because they are in an industry where their employers “deserve” to survive despite losing money because they can get VC funding - funded by among others government pension plans?

I find it slightly hypocritical that people can clutch their pearls at small businesses who risk their own money while yet another BS “AI” company’s founders can play founder using other people’s money.
by jedberg | 2025-12-04 21:04:05+00:00
Looking back at the best leaders I've ever worked for, they all followed that philosophy that was explicitly stated at Netflix: Context not Control.

The goal of the manager was to explain to their reports what problems the team need to solves and why. Make sure the team was aware of any factors elsewhere in the org that might make a difference, and then connect the people on their team with the people on other teams who they need to talk to.

Beyond that the leader's job was to seek out such context from their peers and leadership.

But then it was up to the IC to figure out the how. The manager never told me how to accomplish the task unless I asked, and that was more of a mentorship than as a manager. And when I was a junior, most of that mentorship came from my more senior peers than my manager.
by jfindper | 2025-12-04 21:04:15+00:00
>but not everybody who works minimum wage needs to make a living wage

I think this is a distraction that is usually rolled out to derail conversations about living wages. Not saying that you're doing that here, but it's often the case when the "teenager flipping burgers" argument is brought up.

Typically in conversations about living wages, people are talking about financially independent adults trying to make their way through life without starving while working 40 hours per week. I don't think anyone is seriously promoting a living wage for the benefit of financially dependent minors.

And, in any case, the solution could also be (totally, or in part) a reduction in expenses instead of increase in income.

>It's a complicated issue and one can't propose solutions without acknowledging that there's a LOT of nuance...

That's for sure! I know it's not getting solved on the hacker news comment section, at least.
by drdaeman | 2025-12-04 21:04:33+00:00
> ability cooperate across time, space, and culture. That requires shared stories like the ideas of nation, religion, and money.

Isn't it the opposite? Cooperation requires idea of unity and common goal, while ideas of nations and religion are - at large scale - divisive, not uniting. They boost in-group cooperation, but hurt out-group.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-04 21:04:35+00:00
Kind of no.

The example I am going to point to is TSMC/Morris Chang.

> During his 25-year career (1958–1983) at Texas Instruments, he rose up in the ranks to become the group vice president responsible for TI's worldwide semiconductor business.[19] In the late 1970s, when TI's focus turned to calculators, digital watches and home computers, Chang felt like his career focused on semiconductors was at a dead end at TI.

The guy was literal gold, and Texas Instruments pivoted away from him (I have also read that anti-Asian sentiment in the USA/TI created a glass ceiling where he could never be CEO

His ability to "hit home runs" was ignored in the USA, and only worked in his favour in the ROC/Taiwan. In both cases (positive and negative) it wasn't his ability, but who believed in him that made the difference.

Edit: At the risk of drawing (more) ire for making it political.

Almost all of the "isms" that the left are (in general) working to stop, are actually preventing economies from reaching their full potential - sexism, racism are the really big ones (because of the sheer numbers of people they affect)
by jdefr89 | 2025-12-04 21:04:36+00:00
I hold a R&D Position at an MIT lab. I also hold gov clearances for DoD work. They are pretty accepting of the fact that a lot of folks in the field are neurodivergent. No one cares because if you deliver results you deliver results. No one cares about shit under the Trump administration because its an absolute joke that has thus far only stood to get in the way of the way we carry out research. The party of "minimal government" sure as hell loves to tell public established institutions how to carry out their own damn business.
by zingar | 2025-12-04 21:05:36+00:00
I think I know what you mean in that the most experienced person often writes proof of concept code that others take over. But I can’t imagine a situation where someone is expected to specialize in everything but the PoC.

Also in my part of the Ruby community most folks love tests and are that their code gets better when they write tests. I’d be sad the day I’m writing code and someone else writes the tests.
by cardanome | 2025-12-04 21:05:38+00:00
> The main argument in favor of treating it as a single condition tends to come from the advocacy side, rather than from the diagnostic side.

Seeing it as one single conditions is established scientific consensus not some advocacy thing.

The diagnosis "Asperger's" was invented by Hans Asperger, a Nazi scientist that was responsible for the murder of many autistic children. It was never about science. It was invented because he thought that some autistic children might have a potential to become scientist and the like and therefore useful to Nazi Germany and some might not.

Hans Asperger decided which autistic children should be murdered and which one to be spared purely based on ideology.

Autism is something you are born with but support needs can change over your life depending on many factors like you environment, if you are diagnosed early and so on. They are not fixed.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-04 21:06:11+00:00
I think one has to be a bit careful in picking one's goals and priorities. I'm not saying "going the straight path" will lead to success in all endeavors (likely not at Wall Street, for example).

In my case, it so happened that the goals I was pursuing (e.g. job in tech industry) had lots of opportunities that didn't involve playing many games. I think it's still the case today.

But if your goal is "I have to go to an elite university, and become a senior exec at a FAANG", then my way may not work out.

The one variable that's hard to control, though, is how things are growing up (childhood/teen years). You can't control these - your parents/school do. If you grew up in an unfair environment and had poor parents, you may have to play those games. My point is that once you get past those stages, you don't have to convince yourself that you need to continue playing those games.
by Aloisius | 2025-12-04 21:06:39+00:00
A majority of the 38% are receiving accommodations:

> This year, 38 percent of Stanford undergraduates are registered as having a disability; in the fall quarter, 24 percent of undergraduates were receiving academic or housing accommodations.

Mind, the disability rate for 18-34 year olds is 8.3% in the US, so even 24% is shockingly high. That's the same disability rate as 65-74 year olds.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-04 21:06:41+00:00
> What an absurd request.

If you can show me archaeological evidence of mass graves or a settlement having been razed during the paleolithic I would recant my claims. This isn’t really a high bar.

> Where's your archaeological evidence that humans were egalitarian 10000+ years?

I never made this claim. Structures of domination precede human development; they can be observed in animals. What we don’t observe up until around 10,000 years ago is anything approaching the sorts of systems of jack_tripper described, namely:

> which has always been a feudalist type society of a small elite owning all the wealth and ruling the masses of people by wars, poverty, fear, propaganda and oppression.

> The idea that we didn't have wars in the paleolithic era is so outlandish that it requires significant evidence.

If it’s so outlandish where is your evidence that these wars occurred?

> You have provided none.

How would I provide you with evidence of something that didn’t happen?
by interloxia | 2025-12-04 21:07:22+00:00
Note that some tinkering may be required for modern cards on old systems.

- A UEFI DXE driver to enable Resizable BAR on systems which don't support it officially. This provides performance benefits and is even required for Intel Arc GPUs to function optimally.

List of working motherboards

https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI/issues/11
by bluGill | 2025-12-04 21:07:28+00:00
Blame the system is only useful if there is a different/changed system that would be better. The current system isn't perfect, but if you can't handle it I'm not aware of any change that would be worth it - there are a lot of changes that would get worse results (sometimes for everyone, sometimes for a different subgroup of people). Remember results is not how well you do in school, it is how well you do in life after school that counts. (economics is only one measure of this, it is important because wealth is a good proxy for a lot of useful things like enough food)
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-04 21:07:35+00:00
Eliminating time limits on standardized tests is infeasible; it would require changes to processes on a state or national levels, and mindsets in education as a whole. It's also a complex enough issue that you'd have factions arguing for and against it six ways to Sunday. It's not going to happen.

In contrast, special-casing few disadvantaged students is a local decisions every school or university could make independently, and initially it was an easy sell - a tiny exception to help a fraction of people whom life treated particularly hard. Nobody intended for that to eventually apply to 1/3 of all students - but this is just the usual case of a dynamic system adjusting to compensate.
by delecti | 2025-12-04 21:08:04+00:00
The bigger problem is that, whichever term you choose (confabulate or hallucinate), that's what they're always doing. When they produce a factually correct answer, that's just as much of a random fabrication based on training data as when they're factually incorrect. Either of those terms falsely implies that they "know" the answer when they get it right, but "confabulate" is worse because there isn't "gaps in their memory", they're just always making things up.
by taurath | 2025-12-04 21:08:16+00:00
Last published 2019.

I think were it rewritten with the current leadership, the very first thing they'd remove would be this topic line:

> Army professionals recognize the intrinsic dignity and worth of all people and treat them with respect

Both in political and corporate (especially tech) leadership, this principle has proven to be convenient to say and equally convenient to be tossed aside with the slightest provocation - people are seen as consumers, workers, undesirables, or chattel, not as beings with dignity, that is only for people in privileged positions.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-04 21:08:27+00:00
> the original article is factually incorrect. Accommodations at Stanford are only 25% of students, according to their website, and that includes every possible kind of accommodation,

The original article said 38% students are registered with the disability office, not that 38% of students have accommodations.

Not all students registered with the disability office receive accommodations all of the time.

25% is still a very, very high number. The number of public universities is in the 3-4% range. From the article:

> According to Weis’s research, only 3 to 4 percent of students at public two-year colleges receive accommodations, a proportion that has stayed relatively stable over the past 10 to 15 years.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-04 21:08:51+00:00
Concurrency?

Suppose some some parallelized, distributed task requires 700GB of memory (I don't know if it does or does not) per node to accomplish, and that speed is a concern.

A singular pile of memory that is 700GB is insufficient not because it lacks capacity, but instead because it lacks scalability. That pile is only enough for 1 node.

If more nodes were added to increase speed but they all used that same single 700GB pile, then RAM bandwidth (and latency) gets in the way.
by zahlman | 2025-12-04 21:09:15+00:00
> Advertisements deserve more strict regulation than general user-generated content because they tend to reach far more people.

They deserve strict regulation because the carrier is actively choosing who sees them, and because there are explicit fiscal incentives in play. The entire point of Section 230 is that carriers can claim to be just the messenger; the only way to make sense of absolving them of responsibility for the content is to make the argument that their conveyance of the content does not constitute expression.

Once you have auctions for ads, and "algorithmic feeds", that becomes a lot harder to accept.
by narrator | 2025-12-04 21:09:30+00:00
What you are witnessing is the process of "mystification" where it requires an "expert" annointed by some organization to interpret arbitrary criteria to make a politically or economically important determination that can't really be challenged on any objective basis. Since you are not an "expert", you are not permitted to do your own research and therefore by rule are incapable of being able to access the special mystified knowledge that only the "expert" has access to.
by Teever | 2025-12-04 21:10:21+00:00
Great link!

The Youtube Algorithm must be recommending similar videos to the both of us as I started getting the same kind of content a few weeks ago. I'm pretty partial to the Ace of Base "I saw the sign" cover that it's been recommending.[0]

I did a little bit of digging and found this guys website: https://www.mechanicalmusicman.com/

It would be neat to see a humanoid robot feed the tape into the machine and press play and then have the camera zoom out to a bunch of robots dancing together.

Something about robots dancing to music that's produced by a mechanical MIDI machine feels right. Like a prelude to the impending replacement of humanity.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAXxcx2uGQ
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-12-04 21:10:28+00:00
I've seen this before and it has always rubbed me the wrong way, and now I think I know why. This framing of answering questions as "wasted time and energy" is assholeish and contemptible.

It is also not an appropriate framework for a responder to follow, only for an asker to think about what they should be asking. And far far far too many people read it and take away from it a belief that they need to find out the real reason a person is asking a question before answering.

When a person asks a question, you do not need to understand why they are asking it. It does not matter that you cannot guess why they want to do or know something. Assuming and digging for an XY problem is just looking for an excuse to not answer the question.

If the question has an answer and you know the answer, answer it and be done. The knowledge is valuable even for its own sake. If not to the person asking, then to someone else who has the same question for another reason. If you want to probe further, do it after answering the question.

Because, goddamn, if you think it's annoying to be asked about something that you think is the wrong thing to do, it's really fucking annoying for someone to demand to know your backstory before deigning to answer a question as asked.