MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by greatgib | 2025-12-02 13:27:49+00:00
I would not be surprised that Rust be faster than Python, but looking at the code of his Benchmarks, I'm not sure that it really means anything.

For example, the "light" test will do calls to "dynamodb". Maybe you benchmark python, or you benchmark the aws sdk implementation with different versions of python, or just you benchmark average dynamodb latencies at different times of the day, ...

And, at least for Python, his cpu and memory test code looks like to be especially specific. For example, if you use "sha256" or any other hashlib, you will not really benchmark python but the C implementation of the hashlib, that might depend on the crypto or gcc libraries or optimization that was used by AWS to build the python binaries.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-12-02 13:27:55+00:00
Have you even been to Ukraine lately? you can walk on the streets of Kyiv and there is so many men walking on the streets without getting picked up. I've been walking the street as a man and and from the looks of it you can't tell if I'm a foreigner or a Ukrainian and I never been stopped and they never tried to conscript me. Do some people get conscripted in Ukraine and Russia? Sure.

But it's just an exaggeration claiming that anybody walking the streets are just grabbed and thrown into a van and shipped to a conscription office. That is not what is happening.
by kachapopopow | 2025-12-02 13:28:14+00:00
people put too much weight onto words, the first lesson I learned on the internet is that words are harmless, might be deeply painful for some, but because people as my self put no weight behind them we don't even have a concept of keeping such things mindful since it never crosses our minds and it's really difficult to see if any other way even if we try to since it just seems like a bad joke.

And when I say 'it never crosses our minds' I really mean it, there's zero thoughts between thinking about a message and having it show up in a text box.

A really great example are slurs, for a lot of people they have to double take, but there's zero extra neurons fired when I read them. I guess early internet culture is to blame since all kinds of language was completely uncensored and it was very common to run into very hostile people/content.
by Madmallard | 2025-12-02 13:28:22+00:00
I wasn't aware people were still using Mozilla after they changed their terms a year ago in a user-adversarial way. That's when I dropped them and never looked back myself. They basically removed a line in their terms saying they will never sell your information to third parties. It's gone now. So they will. And with this announcement with AI, they're just jumping on the 'get as much information from the user as possible and sell it'.

Needs to cease to exist at this point. It is part of the cancer.
by DoctorOW | 2025-12-02 13:28:36+00:00
Googled it:

> During the past year (2020), Ignacio Etcheverry worked on significantly improving C# support and its integration in Godot, adding support for Android, HTML5 and iOS, as well as popular third party IDEs. This was financed thanks to a generous donation from Microsoft.

https://godotengine.org/article/help-us-reach-next-funding-g...
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-02 13:29:15+00:00
Linux is very much "pick your poison"

Run Debian Stable and it basically doesn't happen - only updates are actual security ones.

Run any rolling distro and you basically accept "with newest version comes the newest bugs"

And there is a whole bunch of distros between those extremes ,depending on how new you need your software to be (that being said, Debian Testing hits nice mix between "new enough" and "someone actually tested stuff before publishing").
by jrklabs_com | 2025-12-02 13:29:17+00:00
The driver quality (mainly around display and sleep/resume features) has been terrible on my now 2 year old AMD powered Lenovo P14S. I've been using Lenovo laptops since 2001 and this one may push me to another brand for my next purchase. My issues have been seemingly slowly getting better with software updates but it's still really tarnishing the brand reputation/experience for me.
by zero_k | 2025-12-02 13:29:56+00:00
My favourite quote from him:

“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future, too. We persuade ourselves that the universe is modestly employed in unfolding our destination. We note the haphazard chaos of history by the day, by the hour, but there is something wrong with the picture. Where is the unity, the meaning, of nature's highest creation? Surely those millions of little streams of accident and wilfulness have their correction in the vast underground river which, without a doubt, is carrying us to the place where we're expected! But there is no such place, that's why it's called utopia. The death of a child has no more meaning than the death of armies, of nations. Was the child happy while he lived? That is a proper question, the only question. If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.”
by re-lre-l | 2025-12-02 13:30:09+00:00
Damn, people, what's the deal with the em dash? You only learned about this stuff now? Back in the 00s I had a design course as part of my main program, and guess what — yeah, we actually studied when to use which: dash, minus, em dash, whatever. That stuff was crucial back then; it was one of those tiny details that separated a “professional” from the average crowd.

So yeah, nothing magical here. AIs just picked up that old “academic-only” knowledge and now use it to… well, to look a bit less average. Lol.
by 0xEF | 2025-12-02 13:30:16+00:00
By Microsoft's own admission, it sounds like it:

> Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC is built on the Windows 10 / 11 code base so it’s natively compatible with the software and solutions you use today.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-...

I've not tried to use it specifically, which is why I'm curious.
by Fnoord | 2025-12-02 13:30:25+00:00
I guess I agree (used to be a massive 90's EBM collector together with my ex, though I kind of got out of the loop of EBM end of 00's / start of 10's). Seeing a Woob album from 1994 recommended a few comments below <3 for CBL, I do like the track ~42 degrees.

How we used to find music: go to the record store every week to listen to whatever you couldn't afford, look at P2P networks at people who like similar music as you, and browse their collections. Eventually, use Discogs to search. Or simply talk with other people (at parties, on the internet) who also like the same music.

How we can find music nowadays: Spotify (and such). I mean, seriously. Their suggestions can open you up to a plethora of new artists. If you then look at the top 10, chances are you'll like some of their work. I found a lot of music this way, for all kind of genres. As Valve's Gabe used to say: piracy is a service problem. Though I am not sure Spotify is so good for the artists, given they earn pennies via that.

..and it is still nowhere to getting and downloading and listening 24/7 to every new release (or, well... trying to), using SMB to the NAS (which automatically gets the releases from a scene FTP) and Winamp locally to add some .m3u files.
by rjmunro | 2025-12-02 13:30:28+00:00
> solar and wind are now cheaper than hydro in many places.

It's not possible to run a country entirely on wind and solar, you need backup for when it isn't windy or sunny.

It is possible to run a country entirely on Hydro. The lake on a hydro electric dam will last for a while - in some cases several months - between needing to be topped up by rainfall.
by _cs2017_ | 2025-12-02 13:30:38+00:00
I noticed:

1) A lot of informal (i.e., not in a scheduled meeting) chats are more valuable than meetings. They are much more rare when people WFH.

2) Many folks tend to be more distracted when WFH. TLs don't have a perfect vision into whether someone spent 4 hours on a bug (or a design doc) or 2 hours on the bug / design doc and 2 hours on online shopping / playing with kids.

It's quite confusing to me that none of the comments I saw in this thread don't discuss those factors (I'd be fine if people mentioned them and explained why they are not too important).

Obviously there are also factors in favor of WFH: commute costs, personal satisfaction (which may indirectly improve productivity and/or retention of the best people), noise in the workplace, lack of meeting rooms, etc. But it's far from obvious to me if, on balance, WFH or RTO works better for building a successful company.
by pmarreck | 2025-12-02 13:30:39+00:00
Ruby is 1000x better than Go or Python IMHO. Personal opinion, of course.

I've been lucky to work in Elixir jobs for a few years. Funny thing, though, I've been curious about getting closer to the metal after messing with LuaJIT and its C FFI and seeing the rather shocking performance (coming from a high-level scripting background). I content myself with converting some of my more unfortunately-sophisticated Bash utility functions to LuaJIT, which so far has been an all-positives experience.
by agentultra | 2025-12-02 13:30:59+00:00
This is predicated on the myth that people can re-skill and move into new industries. Sure the former can happen and people can learn new things. But we're talking about an economy where there are no new industries. And an economy where you have to work in order to live.

What's a software developer in their 30s, 40s, and 50s supposed to re-skill into? Take on debt for the rest of their lives and re-skill into a profession (if they can even afford to take several years out of their lives to go back to school)? Into blue collar work along with the salary cut for which they might not have the physical capabilities for?

There's no social system for providing the necessities for living.

The other side of it is skill. Human societies have lost knowledge before. We've had to rediscover various aspects of metallurgy before. We could lose the ability to understand the technology we've made if we trust everything to the LLMs. There are already vibecoders who don't even be able to review the code that it generates for them because they're starting to lose the critical faculties and skills to understand it.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-02 13:31:06+00:00
There is zero evidence for anything alien in the Solar system. Not a single good photo or video or item. Not a single verified experiment showing paranormal things work.

So it's not a question of belief, there is nothing to believe in. But r/ufos is genuinely funny place I have to admit, it's like a live study into human psyche. :)
by belter | 2025-12-02 13:31:27+00:00
DoD Law of War Manual:

"18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."

...For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal...
by tacoooooooo | 2025-12-02 13:31:54+00:00
Standard benchmarks (like BEIR/MS MARCO) are great, but they are likely already in distribution for foundation models training sets, and crucially, they lack the complex, structured metadata needed to test real-world filtering scenarios (e.g., "Find docs from region X, between dates Y and Z, with tag A").

datasetFactory is an orchestrated LLM pipeline that turns a single natural language prompt into a (potentially) massive, structured evaluation dataset.
by Thorrez | 2025-12-02 13:32:02+00:00
If you read about Huang's childhood it's quite surprising:

> At age nine, Jensen, despite not being able to speak English, was sent by his parents to live in the United States.[15] He and his older brother moved in 1973 to live with an uncle in Tacoma, Washington, escaping widespread social unrest in Thailand.[16] Both Huang's aunt and uncle were recent immigrants to Washington state; they accidentally enrolled him and his brother in the Oneida Baptist Institute, a religious reform academy in Kentucky for troubled youth,[16] mistakenly believing it to be a prestigious boarding school.[17] In order to afford the academy's tuition, Jensen's parents sold nearly all their possessions.[18]

> When he was 10 years old, Huang lived with his older brother in the Oneida boys' dormitory.[17] Each student was expected to work every day, and his brother was assigned to perform manual labor on a nearby tobacco farm.[18] Because he was too young to attend classes at the reform academy, Huang was educated at a separate public school—the Oneida Elementary school in Oneida, Kentucky—arriving as "an undersized Asian immigrant with long hair and heavily accented English"[17] and was frequently bullied and beaten.[19] In Oneida, Huang cleaned toilets every day, learned to play table-tennis,[b] joined the swimming team,[21] and appeared in Sports Illustrated at age 14.[22] He taught his illiterate roommate, a "17-year-old covered in tattoos and knife scars,"[22] how to read in exchange for being taught how to bench press.[17] In 2002, Huang recalled that he remembered his life in Kentucky "more vividly than just about any other".[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang
by TrackerFF | 2025-12-02 13:32:13+00:00
I can’t speak for others, but I’ve never met anyone really successful in the industry that hate their job, or were purely driven by the grind.

Every single one have been deeply passionate about their craft.

Not saying that you can’t grind your way to success - earning enough to retire at FAANG firms is possible, just by grinding. But the vast majority, even those with a grind mindset, will not be able to do that.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-02 13:32:35+00:00
It's called life.

All life grows and consumes as much as it can. It's what makes it life. "Control" happens when there's more life contesting the same limited resources, and usually involves starvation, but if the situation persists on evolutionary timescales, then some life adapts to proactively limit growth. Then, if some of that adapted life unadapts itself, we call that "cancer", which I think is what you were going for.
by dodomodo | 2025-12-02 13:32:51+00:00
Nothing is "really anonymouse", it's all a game of information sharing and hiding. I think I now understand the difference in our definitions, for you anonymouse means that at the protocol level no one can link the transaction to "you" (defined by a set of identifiers). My defenition is just "not publicly linked to your real world identity", so for example, sending a message under a pseudu name in a public forum would be anonymous under my defenition but not anonymouse under yours. What do you think?
by Balinares | 2025-12-02 13:33:32+00:00
I'm not seeing anywhere in that page anything about an assumed static basket of human wants and needs. Maybe I missed it -- can you point out where you saw that?

Interesting, though, that per the very same article someone like Adam Smith concurred empirically with Marx's observation on the titular tendency of rates of profit to fall. This suggests to me it likely had some meat to it.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-12-02 13:33:46+00:00
This was a bad problem with earlier Chinese (Qwen and Kimi K1 in particular) models, but the original DeepSeek delivered and GLM4.6 delivers. They don't diversify training as much as American labs so you'll find more edge cases and the interaction experience isn't quite as smooth, but the models put in work.
by jlokier | 2025-12-02 13:33:49+00:00
> - but it wasn't obviously better than Firefox.

Ah, but Chrome was obviously better than Firefox.

When Chrome was released, the advertising I recall focused on one killer feature that Firefox didn't get for many years after that: Speed.

Chrome's JIT JavaScript was so much faster than everyone else's interpreted JavaScript that you could run a materially different kind of software in the browser. It was like the difference between a slow interpreted language and a fast compiled one. Chrome's rendering was also fast.

There was even a cartoon explaining how the new JavaScript engine worked.

Chrome felt like the next generation of browser.

I say this as someone who remained a fan and user of Firefox throughout. I stuck with Firefox through its relatively slow years.

Firefox caught up, but it took years. It got its own JIT JavaScript, but there were a few years after that where Firefox's rendering was relatively slow by the new standards. However, Firefox has excellent performance all round by now.

I was disappointed when Chrome came out that JIT JavaScript could even be a marketable feature and wasn't already the default in the best open source browsers, because it seemed like such an obvious thing to do for many years prior, and not particularly difficult. I guess market forces resulted in nobody deciding to do it in Firefox, or any other open source browser, until competition made it a necessity. I was quite surprised, because Firefox seemed like the product of passionate technology nerds, and performance JITs are very fun and satisfying things to make, with visible results.
by noduerme | 2025-12-02 13:33:52+00:00
>> why do we think that they are using this as a ruse to like become despotically authoritarian in general

You stated this very well.

But I do think it's a ruse. I don't have a problem with enforcing the law on illegal immigration.[0] But I do think the deployment of National Guard and in some cases Marines on American streets, allegedly to disperse anti-ICE protests, is a long game to make sure that there will be no judicial obstacles in the way if MAGA loses the 2028 election fair and square, cries foul that the election was stolen, decides to send in their own slate of electors, and faces nationwide protests.

I live in Portland. I see the ridiculous cosplay of protesters outside the ICE detention facility. I see the absurdity of deploying troops to face off against them. If these clowns can be used as a casus belli to declare war and use the US military against the civilian population, then it will be no stretch to do so when a large portion of the population rises up to demand a proper electoral count in 2028. That's the scenario I see when I see the willy-nilly, unnecessary use of federalized troops on American soil.

And for the record, I'm a registered Republican and mostly libertarian.

[0] I am not anti-immigration, and I don't view immigration as a "demographic problem". I don't care what race people are as long as they are coming here for the right reasons and want to integrate and be productive members of our society. I was also an illegal immigrant in Europe for years. I accept the fact that countries have the right to decide who they want to accept as citizens, and that breaking those rules may damage your ability to become a citizen of the country you want to be accepted into. And that going there illegally may carry certain risks.
by kashyapc | 2025-12-02 13:34:42+00:00
"... the way to commoditize suppliers and internalize network effects is by having a huge number of unique users. And, by extension, the best way to monetize that user base — and to achieve a massive user base in the first place — is through advertising"

Urgh. There we go, advertising as the panacea.

How about a decent product that people actually want to pay for?
by BinaryIgor | 2025-12-02 13:34:57+00:00
Ahh - so many gems!

"The dream of the widespread, ubiquitous internet came true, and there were very few fatalities. Some businesses died, but it was more glacial than volcanic in time scale. When ubiquitous online services became commonplace it just felt mundane. It didn’t feel forced. It was the opposite of the dot com boom just five years later: the internet is here and we’re here to build a solid business within it in contrast with we should put this solid business on the internet somehow, because it’s coming."

Yes. And it continues on.
Show HN: Significance-Hypothesis-Based-ARC-AGI-2-puzzle-solver
by judahmeek | 2025-12-02 13:36:12+00:00
First, I'd like to thank METR.org[0] for recently agreeing to fund my work on this project.

That little bit of validation goes a long way.

Second, I have questions for patent lawyers:

* When do I know if I have enough specification detail to start working on filing a patent?

* Does this public repository qualify as prior art?

Third, if my post text seems overly sparse with the details, I promise to answer any questions you have as fast as Hacker News allows me.

0: https://metr.org/
by Joker_vD | 2025-12-02 13:36:37+00:00
Eh, that's really just a side effect of almost 50 years of constant evolution from a 8-bit microprocessor. Take look at VAX [0], for instance: its instruction encoding is pretty clean yet it's an actual example of a CISC ISA that was impossible to speed up like, literally: DEC engineers tried very hard and concluded that making a truly pipelined & super-scalar implementation was basically impossible; so DEC had to move to Alpha. See [1] for more from John Mashey.

Edit: the very, very compressed TL;DR is that if you do only one memory load (or one memory load + store back into this exact location) per instruction, it scales fine. But the moment you start doing chained loads, with pre- and post-increments which are supposed to write back changed values into the memory and be visible, and you have several memory sources, and your memory model is actually "strong consistency", well, you're in a world of pain.

[0] https://minnie.tuhs.org/CompArch/Resources/webext3.pdf

[1] https://yarchive.net/comp/vax.html
by sumtechguy | 2025-12-02 13:36:53+00:00
MS needs a 'windows xp sp2' moment. Where they stop jamming new things in and just fix as much junk as possible. They still have a mixed control panel situation. Things just randomly work/break for no real reason. Camera here one day gone the next oh look its back again. Hey my sound is broken again. Linux/MacOS in many benchmarks is faster. Hundreds of old programs now just flake out for random reasons. But then will work again sometimes. Backwards compat is a reason to stick with them. But if it doesnt work, why am I here? SteamOS is going to remove one of the large reasons people keep windows.

MS is losing the people who cared about using them. Those people are migrating to linux/macos. I dont blame em.
by ryanckulp | 2025-12-02 13:36:59+00:00
cheers, im on the TRMNL team.

looks like reMarkable runs linux so in theory our OSS lib would do the trick: https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-display

which can then point to one of several OSS server clients we offer: https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byos#implementations