MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Kaibeezy | 2025-12-27 17:05:08+00:00
Wolf Hall. Despite a sprinkling of linguistic and philosophical gems, I really struggled, then put it down for a couple of months, and couldn't bring myself to read anything else of any substance during that time. Thought it had destroyed some part of my brain. I finally had a long flight and determined to finish it, which I did. Then I sat in the heated pool on the roof of the TWA Hotel, with an icy wind whipping the rising steam, glad I was not Henry and don't have to deal with Anne, even though people are still mostly the same as they ever were, and grateful for the planes, phones and even Slack setting me free.

To quote Wolsey via Shakespeare:

A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience
by bob1029 | 2025-12-27 17:05:44+00:00
I have started a new OSS project and intend to provide optional enterprise offerings on top. I really don't care if someone steals the ideas presented in code because they're actually fairly pedestrian. The much bigger concern for me is the fact that if I do not make my source open by default, I will have a very hard time developing trust in the community and prospective customers. I know I nearly instantly walk away from the "provide your info to download our white paper PDF" sales experiences in 2025.

It is also helpful to remember that 100% of $0 is still $0. And that .001% of a trillion dollar TAM is still a pretty big deal.
by Closi | 2025-12-27 17:05:54+00:00
Anecdotal experience, but when bugfixing I personally find if a model introduces a bug, it has a hard time spotting and fixing it, but when you give the code to another model it can instantly spot it (even if it's a weaker model overall).

So I can well imagine that this sort of approach could work very well, although agree with your sentiment that measurement would be good.
by Roguelazer | 2025-12-27 17:06:19+00:00
So what's going to happen in 3 years after these startup bros have left government, none of the frameworks they're using are supported any more, and nobody in the office that they parachuted into is trained to maintain whatever spaghetti they crapped out over three months of all-nighters? There's a reason that we don't build critical infrastructure by giving it to some guy whose entire accomplishments are "working at Airbnb for 10 years"
by _flux | 2025-12-27 17:07:34+00:00
It kind of is, though. You use some input material to produce the weights via some process, even if the weights might not become exactly the same every time you reproduce the process; the production of the weights isn't done by working with the weights, but with the training material and the process to convert them into weights. The analogy to source code and the resulting binaries is there.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-12-27 17:07:41+00:00
I appreciate the clarity, anyway. I will wait and see how intrusive the AI focus turns out to be.

If it turns out to be very intrusive, I guess I'll use Clion for my platformio stuff:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/platformio.html

(since I've already got a Toolbox subscription from them)

and neovim or zed for my blog. That's really all I was using VS Code for anyway.
by Youden | 2025-12-27 17:08:21+00:00
This has often been the case in the past but the situation is much improved now.

For example I have an Orange Pi 5 Plus running the totally generic aarch64 image of Home Assistant OS [0]. Zero customization was needed, it just works with mainline everything.

There's even UEFI [1].

Granted this isn't the case for all boards but Rockchip at least seems to have great upstream support.

[0]: https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases

[1]: https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588
by guywithahat | 2025-12-27 17:08:26+00:00
I think executive orders are going to keep growing. Every president now signs, ostensibly political, executive orders when entering office to enforce certain social norms. The following president of a political party must undo those orders, and then orders the opposite. I suspect as time goes on we'll see more and more things being declared, and the retribution list will simply keep growing.

Certainly the president needs the power to do some things, but it does feel silly in implementation.
by indigoabstract | 2025-12-27 17:08:43+00:00
I certainly hope so, but we'll see. To give an example, std::chrono::current_zone (C++20) still doesn't work on Android even to this day.

So as long as #embed isn't supported by all the 3 major compilers, I am sticking with my current embedding setup. I guess that's what I was thinking of.
by computator | 2025-12-27 17:08:55+00:00
The Costco one uses household current (as can be seen in one of the photos that shows a cord and a plug) and the AliExpress uses USB. I doubt that USB can supply enough power to do more than a trivial amount of heating. USB 3.1 has a max of 15W, and I can't imagine that a $25 blanket is going to use the more sophisticated USB Power Delivery connections where even the cable & charger can cost more than $25.

While trying to find the actual power consumption of the Costco model, I found this very useful comment on the Costco site: "The power consumption is not listed anywhere - product packaging, website, or included manual. I went ahead and made the purchase and hooked it up to my battery unit once I got home. I can confirm, the blanket uses an average 99W regardless of which mode it's in. I left it in each mode for about 5 minutes. There's no difference to the touch of the blanket and there's no difference with the power consumption. In other words this blanket has one heat setting and it's not very warm."

So disappointing.
by mindslight | 2025-12-27 17:09:09+00:00
You've skipped over my two counterexamples of the DEA and the ATF, and their supporting laws criminalizing substances and tools. Those have been around much longer than merely 2001, and gad created some pretty totalitarian spectacles of government attacking the People.

Also driving this conversation towards race reeks of race-to-the-bottom "privilege" politics. Which is why I facetiously asked if your intention is to encourage white people to become less concerned.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-27 17:09:38+00:00
> The only reason to pay attention to this "license" is because it's enforced by Apple

Yes, but the most important reason to pay attention to ANY license for most people is because it is a signal for under what conditions the licensor is likely to sue you (especially in the US, which does not have a general “loser pays” rule for lawsuits), not because of the actual legality, because a lawsuit is a cost most people don’t want to bear while it is ongoing or cover the unrecoverable costs of once it is done, irrespective of winning and losing, and, on the other hand, few people care about being technically legal with their use of copyright protected material if there is no perceived risk of enforcement.

But even if that wasn’t true, and being sued was of no financial or other costs until the case is finally resolved, and only then if you lose, I wouldn't bet much, in the US, in the court system ultimately applying precedent in the most obvious way instead of twisting things in a way which serves the interest of the particular powerful corporate interests involved here.
by echelon | 2025-12-27 17:10:20+00:00
This is all going to become super accessible to everyone. And it'll become fast and eventually free.

Everyone will be able to flex their muscles as a creative. Everyone will be able to become an artist (expressing themselves though their unique lens) without putting points into a mechanical skill that is dimensionally orthogonal to idea expression and communication.

This is the "bicycle of the mind" that Steve Jobs talked about 40 some years ago. We've all had keyboards with which to express ourselves and communicate, but soon everyone will be able to visually articulate themselves and their thoughts. It's going to be so uplifting for society.

In fifty years we'll even be able to render our direct thoughts and mold them like clay. Share them directly with one another. Co-think.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-27 17:10:25+00:00
As for many standards, the question is less what's available/supported and more what's the format actually used irl.

Half the mail I received from that period was in iso-2022 (a JIS variant), most of the rest was latin-1. I have an auto-generated mail from google plus(!) from 2015 in iso-2022-jp, I actually wonder when Google decided it was safe to fully move to utf-8.
by corndoge | 2025-12-27 17:10:51+00:00
This "national design studio" seems strikingly similar to 18F, which was cut by DOGE earlier this year. Was not aware of it until now. Apparently it was established in August by EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/impr...

Does anyone have a scoop on NDS? Is it composed of 18F staffers?
by Richardh-17 | 2025-12-27 17:11:07+00:00
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by qudat | 2025-12-27 17:11:16+00:00
I run https://pico.sh where we don’t ask for email. Even on our website we instruct users to generate a token so if they do lose their key they can use it to recover their account.

People regularly lose their ssh keypair and also don’t generate a token. I think using email as a form of recovery is totally fine and regardless when you have to pay for the service you’re going to give up your email (and other personal info) via payment processor
by bmgxyz | 2025-12-27 17:11:40+00:00
> 25 years ago it seemed like physics was mostly complete, and the only remaining work was exploring the corner cases and polishing out all the imperfections. It doesn't feel that way anymore!

Physicists thought the same thing c. 1900, but then one of the "corner cases" turned into the ultraviolet catastrophe[1]. The consequences of the solution to that problem kept the whole field busy for a good part of the 20th century.

I'm highly skeptical of the idea that physics is anywhere near complete. The relative success of our technology gives us the illusory impression that we're almost done, but it's not obvious that physics even has a single, complete description that we can describe. We assume it does for convenience, in the same way that we assume the laws are constant everywhere in spacetime. I view this as both exciting and terrifying, but mostly exciting.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
by vtomole | 2025-12-27 17:12:05+00:00
Good point. I didn't sufficiently delineate what counts as a scientific problem and what counts as an engineering problem in QC.

Quantum theory, like all physical theories, makes predictions. In this case, quantum theory predicts that if the physical error rate of qubits is below a threshold, then error correction can be used to increase the quality of a logical at arbitrarily high levels. This prediction can be false. We currently don't know all of the potential noise sources that will prevent us from building a quantum logic gate that is of similar quality as a classical logic gate.

Building thousands of these logical qubits is an engineering problem similar to Dyson spheres and space elevators. You're right that the lower levels of building 1 really good logical qubit doesn't mean that we can build thousands of them.

If our case, even the lower-levels haven't been validated. This is what I meant when I implied that the project of building a large-scale QC might teach us something new about physics.
by JoeAltmaier | 2025-12-27 17:12:27+00:00
I get it. Lots of people fall for design over usefulness. Not very technical, so a mac is enough.

but lets never fool ourselves into thinking they are more useful, more efficient or flexible. That's tiresome, and it's repeated endlessly as well.

People buy all sorts of things that are not very good. Audience is an excuse; salesmanship is not about selling what the customer needs.

I'm no newb, just ranting about macs. I've been around, even before the mac existed. Written code for them, for nearly every platform around. I'm not sanctimonious; I'm educated. The Mac OS was a pile of bad code. The current Mac OS, dev tools, documentation, deployment environment is among the worst.

Not entitled; just very tired of fighting it.
by dcrazy | 2025-12-27 17:12:49+00:00
Again, my suspicion is that you are actually seeing the ICC profile being applied correctly, and it is the pixel values in your image that are incorrect.

A good test would be to run a single 100% sRGB red pixel through your image processing pipeline, and then inspecting the resulting PNG file in a hex editor to see what value is encoded.

You can also visit this web page to actively test each web browser’s respect for embedded ICC profiles: https://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJP...
by dfc | 2025-12-27 17:13:59+00:00
Netbox project used to go on and on about the philosophical justifications for not including n-type connections or different types of LMR. But the most recent release notes that I read had a blurb about all the new coax cable types they are supporting. I understand having limited time but instead of saying "no" they always had to make lofty philosophical arguments. It's weird.
by wartijn_ | 2025-12-27 17:14:08+00:00
From the FAQ in the "about" section of the website:

- You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.

- Quest #1 - Mafia Treasures. To start the quest, go to the room where the Mafia is holding the annual meeting and click on the suitcase.

- Quest #2 - Subspace Tuner: To start this quest, click on the large advertising screen that says 'Bad Signal' next to the pirate ship.

- Payphone - you can call different subscribers on the 796th floor. Subscriber numbers are constantly being added and can be found in various places on the floor.

- In the Police Station click on the big screen to see the project statistics: current online, visits by country, number on interactions with all elements on the floor, etc.

- One of the arcade machines has a real game - Racer796.

- In the park zone there is Change My Mind guy. Click on him to add your own phrase to the rotation.

- You can compose a 10-second melody and add it to rotation by clicking on the guy in the hospital with the pink synthesizer.

- You can draw small pixel animation and add it to rotation by clicking on the Fun Drawing Screen near the Police Station.

- Click on the Chunk Norris in the park zone.

- Click on the JAWS 19 ad screen in the block with Back to the Future references.

- Click on Naruto near the pirate ship.

- There is Free Ads Board next to the pirate ship. You can draw your own advertising screen and specify which URL it links to.

- There are also many small interactive elements on the floor, clicking on which will show an additional picture, play a sound or cause some action to occur.
by pelzatessa | 2025-12-27 17:14:25+00:00
I like matrix, but I'm glad they decided to go with SimpleX as an alternative instead of slack, discord etc. XMPP would be fine too i guess, but I think that projects like SimpleX and Matrix need more people to mature, while XMPP seems to have a lot of users but no ability to grow anymore. I also had to choose between simplex and matrix for my personal communications foundation, and I chose matrix as I gambled on its longer existence as indicator for maturity and therefore adaptability for my non-tech friends, time will tell if the bet was right.
by evanjrowley | 2025-12-27 17:15:04+00:00
It's also worth acknowledging the effects of testosterone (which males have in greater quantity) over emotional processing, behavior, and development. In human society, these are complicated topics which are difficult to properly examine in vitro, and so modern research has resulted in conflicting conclusions.

Question for $LLM: Aggression (and adversity) have prominent roles in the lives of male mammals. How do our synthetic concepts used to rationalize violence weigh against the reasons for it we see in nature among lions, chimpanzees, wolves, and dolphins?
by turtleyacht | 2025-12-27 17:15:15+00:00
AI-code editor or AI code-editor? Future versions may include traversing gigabytes of code, supervising hundreds of agents, and peer-to-peer (P2P) content-addressed caching.

Someday, could right-click a dependency and click "Zero dep," and it updates with a library integrated with the app. Stored in the cloud, other users benefit from the same generated output.

Apps become instances consuming them, the thinnest crust around various baked libs (mantle) or triggering changes in the molten core.
by AnonymousPlanet | 2025-12-27 17:15:53+00:00
I'm not talking about laughable little stunts like IE. I'm talking about the ongoing cancer that is eating up billions from little companies all the way to big corporations. All of that is ongoing, and they squeeze their prey for everything they have. They are the most disgusting and damaging disease you can imagine.

Once you start using even a small fraction of their tech it instantly metastasises throughout the entire organisation because of lock in and "open standards" that weirdly only work with their own tech. If the MS tech creates a problem the solution is to pour more MS tech onto the festering wound.

You apparently have been so insulated from how actual companies have to deal with tech that you think your little forays using computers are what everything should be measured by. All you have is a developer and hobbyist point of view.
by NohatCoder | 2025-12-27 17:16:26+00:00
The nature of these AIs is generally such that you can always throw more computation at the problem. Bigger models is obvious, but as I hinted earlier a lot of the current research goes more towards making various subqueries than making the models even bigger. In any case, for now the predominant factor determining how much compute a given prompt costs is how much compute someone decided to spend. So obviously if you pay for the "good" models there will be a lot more compute behind it than if you prompt a free model.
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-27 17:16:48+00:00
Exactly. You've highlighted the ultimate hard constraint: Thermodynamics.

While financial debt (like Tesla's valuation) can be hidden by printing money, "Energy Debt" cannot be hidden. Physics doesn't accept IOUs.

The proposal to launch servers into space is just a desperate search for a bigger heat sink because the terrestrial system is in thermal runaway.

Shinise wisdom teaches that if you cannot sustain the energy cost, you don't seek a new planet—you fix the inefficiency of the process. We are trying to overclock a planet that has no more cooling capacity.
by firefax | 2025-12-27 17:17:15+00:00
So please trust me I'm not just ask me to be a reply guy. but... what do you mean by "better at outbound sales"?

Like, you want to call up a company and get them to buy your software? To pay you to make them software?

Because while either way I'd say be more targeted -- try to network IRL and have linkedin (retching noise) just the place you go to get their email... and then make a targeted pitch to a smaller number of people you've met IRL. Budget to go to a few conferences.

But that's a strategy I think works best if you have good product and want to get businesses to pay to use it, and is less effective in selling "consulting" (sarcastic finger quotes).

Either way though, going to conferences where people will be legitimately interested in your product (Think going to HOPE instead of Blackhat)... offer to take people out to dinner, expense it as marketing.

Also I don't reccomend buying people alcohol, just food. For whatever reason, people will overdrink and turn into asshole reasons when alcohol is free... by all means point them to a decent dive bar.

(For example there's one behind Bally's that's attached to a convenience store. They used to let folks buy shit in the store and eat it in the bar if they weren't entitled about it.)

If you're selling that you can make cool stuff, software wise? Try more academic conferences. A lot of people would kill for a decent software engineer, it can be extremely hit or miss with academic CS types, they often would love people who can do stuff like set up a limesurvey server or whip up a nice looking static site for their lab or do really basic stuff like make R scripts to automate stuff done in the opendocument equivalent of excel...

But no course, book, or framework for outbound sales will ever Trump face to face interaction. A lot of companies discount who being the "cool guy at the conference" can lead to sales... especially as people age (because again, I said go for authentic gatherings, not sport coat fests).

Over time, if you combine being friendly with having something of value, sales will happen -- those in person leads will be your most valuable IMHO.
by xp84 | 2025-12-27 17:17:29+00:00
If the people who set up the DW and set up the data to flow into it did not also build any applications to actually take advantage of the data, they didn’t complete their job properly. It’s been 18 years, that’s long enough to document the existence of it. Some might say 18 years is even enough time to build at least one useful application powered by it.

I’m sure in reality the people who built this system were smart, and wanted people to use it, but were just buried under layers of technology-unaware management and bureaucrats who felt threatened, afraid it would marginalize or eliminate their paper-pushing jobs. But this very likely reality is just more proof that the government needs significant restructuring. Most people in management at the government are there purely because of tenure, not because they’re great leaders, nor subject matter experts in how complex things are efficiently built and run outside the government world.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-27 17:17:45+00:00
> I doubt resolution is a limiting factor LCoS (transmissive ones are lower resolution typically though, but you could build reflective) phase modulators are available in 4k resolution (and maybe even higher)

We’re talking about a specific camera, the lytros, which had a 4MP resolution. I’m not saying there was a limitation in the technology broadly speaking. Just that this camera was not worth it for the time. It’s sacrificed too much for one feature and at $400 it just didn’t sell
by Marsymars | 2025-12-27 17:17:47+00:00
> But realistically, most workloads of the kind you would run on these machines don't scale benefit from multithreading as much as single core performance. At least at home these machines will do things like video streaming, router, or serving files.

You're probably right about "most workloads", but as a single counter-example, I added several seasons of shows to my N305 Plex server last night, and it pinned all eight threads for quite a while doing its intro/credit detection.

I actually went and checked if it would be at all practical to move my Plex server to a VM on my bigger home server where it could get 16 Skymont threads (at 4.6ghz vs 8 Gracemont threads at ~3ghz - so something like 3x the multithreaded potential on E-cores). Doesn't really seem workable to use Intel Quick Sync on Linux guests with a Hyper-V host though.
by Aromasin | 2025-12-27 17:17:57+00:00
The FTC requested significant increases for technology and economic analysis for FY2025 ($535M), but was given a static budget with plans to cut by 11%. FTC chair Ferguson reduced staff from 1,315 to 1,221 and aims to reach around 1,100 through attrition to align with lower budgets.

Oversight hearing is worth a listen to get a better idea on how the current administation is harming regulators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZxkvYaVuk