MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlexandrB | 2025-12-04 21:52:06+00:00
This is true about other things like reading speed as well. It still doesn't mean that time limits are useless. These are skills you can develop up to a reasonable level through practice if they're lacking, not something fixed like height. And if it takes you 12 hours to get through a 2 hour test because of these factors it's a sign that you're not going to be a very effective employee/researcher. Being able to read/write with some haste is not unrelated to job/academic performance.
by schnable | 2025-12-04 21:52:19+00:00
Why is it a poor proxy? Someone who really understands the concepts and has the aptitude for it will get answers more quickly than someone who is shakier on it. The person who groks it less may be able to get to the answer, but needs to spend more time working through the problem. They're less good at calculus and should get a lower grade! Maybe they shouldn't fail Calc 101, but may deserve a B or (the horror) a C. Maybe that person will never get an A is calculus and that should be ok.

Joel Spolsky explained this well about what makes a good programmer[1]. "If the basic concepts aren’t so easy that you don’t even have to think about them, you’re not going to get the big concepts."

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-12-04 21:52:22+00:00
By older Arc, I presume you're referring to Alchemist and not Battlemage in this case.

One of my brothers has a PC I built for him, specced out with an Intel Core i5 13400f CPU and an Intel Arc A770 GPU, and it still works great for his needs in 2025.

Surely, Battlemage is more efficient and more compatible in some ways over Alchemist. But if you keep your expectations in check, it will do just fine in many scenarios. Just avoid any games using Unreal Engine 5.
by wisty | 2025-12-04 21:52:29+00:00
There can be a genuine need to make it fair. Some students with anxiety can take 10 minutes to read the first question, then are fine. ASD could mean slower uptake as they figure out the exam format.

So let's say you have a generally fair time bonus for mild (clinical) anxiety. The issue is that it's fair for the average mild anxiety, it's an advantage if a student has extremely mild anxiety.

As you say, hopefully the test is not overly time focused, but it's still an advantage, and a lot of these students / parents will go for every advantage they can.
by RunSet | 2025-12-04 21:52:56+00:00
> The SESTA-FOSTA law is a combination of two bills: the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act; and the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act. It passed Congress in March, and President Donald Trump signed it into law in April.

> ...

> The biggest companies say they can manage the risks. Match Group—owner of Match.com, Tinder, Ok Cupid and Plenty of Fish—says any potential legal issues give “huge advantages” to those with enough size to comply. “We are able to have a big legal team, a big customer care team,” Chief Executive Mandy Ginsberg said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-law-targets-sex-trafficking...
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-12-04 21:53:07+00:00
> So? Nobody cares

Yeah the business surely won't care when we rerun the prompt and the server works completely differently.

> Is the output of your C compiler the same every time you run it

I've never, in my life, had a compiler generate instructions that do something completely different from what my code specifies.

That you would suggest we will reach a level where an English language prompt will give us deterministic output is just evidence you've drank the kool-aid. It's just not possible. We have code because we need to be that specific, so the business can actually be reliable. If we could be less specific, we would have done that before AI. We have tried this with no code tools. Adding randomness is not going to help.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-12-04 21:53:17+00:00
Not idiots necessarily, sometimes just long-time observers who have finally become cynical. People that were pro-guns for decades may watch several years of failure to adopt basic and uncontroversial gun-control regulation, then eventually become anti-gun. People that were in favor of regulating it once may suddenly become fearful for their safety, and want no regulations at all in case that regulation puts them out in the cold. Since both PR campaigns and any action on policy tends to cater to extremes, there's always pressure that is shrinking the middle
by xoa | 2025-12-04 21:53:36+00:00
>The entire point of Section 230 is that carriers can claim to be just the messenger

Incorrect, and it's honestly kinda fascinating how this meme shows up so often. What you're describing is "common carrier" status, like an ISP (or Fedex/UPS/post office) would have. The point of Section 230 was specifically to enable not being "just the messenger", it was part of the overall Communications Decency Act intended to aid in stopping bad content. Congress added Section 230 in direct reaction to two court cases (against Prodigy and CompuServe) which made service providers liable for their user's content when they didn't act as pure common carriers but rather tried to moderate it but, obviously and naturally, could not perfectly get everything. The specific fear was that this left only two options: either ban all user content, which would brutalize the Internet even back then, or cease all moderation, turning everything into a total cesspit. Liability protection was precisely one of the rare genuine "think of the children!" wins, by enabling a 3rd path where everyone could do their best to moderate their platforms without becoming the publisher. Not being a common carrier is the whole point!
by dctoedt | 2025-12-04 21:54:00+00:00
> some of these students may need the accommodation specifically because of the pressure of the final exam.

Success as a lawyer often requires the ability to handle a certain amount of pressure. Timed exams are one way of screening for that ability. But it's by no means a sure-fire predictor of success: Legendary trial lawyer Joe Jamail [0] flunked his first-year Torts class at UT Austin [1], yet went on to become a billionnaire.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jamail

[1] https://abovethelaw.com/2015/12/r-i-p-to-a-billionaire-lawye...
by constantcrying | 2025-12-04 21:54:22+00:00
Hardware engineering is hard. Especially for any safety critical component.

In this case engineering was done by someone, who either did not understand the material he was working with, or the operating conditions in which that part was deployed.

Obviously no testing or any kind of proper engineering was done to create requirements validate them and verify them.

Being able to design a 3D model and print it does not mean you are done with engineering. It is just one step in a very long chain, which is needed to produce devices which stand up to their use.
by rupellohn | 2025-12-04 21:54:32+00:00
Full report here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69297a4e345e3...

The aircraft owner who installed the modified fuel system stated that the 3D-printed induction elbow was purchased in the USA at an airshow, and he understood from the vendor that it was printed from CF-ABS (carbon fibre – acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) filament material, with a glass transition temperature3 of 105°C.

An alternative construction method for the air induction elbow, shown in the Cozy Mk IV plans, is a lamination of four layers of bi-directional glassfibre cloth with epoxy resin. The epoxy resin specified for the laminate has a glass transition temperature of 84°C, after the finished part has been post-cured. The aircraft owner stated that as the glass transition temperature listed for the CF-ABS material was higher than the epoxy resin, he was satisfied the component was fit for use in this application when it was installed.

A review of the design of the laminated induction elbow in the Cozy Mk IV plans showed that it featured a section of thin-walled aluminium tube at the inlet end of the elbow, where the air filter is attached. The aluminium tube provides a degree of temperature-insensitive structural support for the inlet end of the elbow. The 3D-printed induction elbow on G-BYLZ did not include a similar section of aluminium tube at the inlet end.
by order-matters | 2025-12-04 21:54:40+00:00
I'll admit I did not have something specific in mind for how to disperse with the IP/Profits, that would be open for discussion. the main point would just be that the party breaking ethical standards is held accountable and it cannot be construed that incentives exist to elicit the behavior.

Is moving a bill around to have someone else pay for the hosting an issue? Is hosting an already built model itself an ethical concern?
by jeffbee | 2025-12-04 21:54:40+00:00
> elite schools need a better way to gauge an applicant's ethics

You are perhaps mistaking which side of the line Stanford would select for. It is a school that produces and prefers sociopaths. Its engineering curriculum, almost uniquely among universities, has no requirement for an ethics course. You can fulfill Stanford's "Technology in Society" requirement by taking a course where you network with VCs for a semester. It is a factory for making jerks.
by bigiain | 2025-12-04 21:55:07+00:00
I wouldn't be too surprised to find at least some of the big ram foundries are deeply bought into the fake money circles where everybody is "paying" each other with unrealised equity in OpenAI/Anthropic/whoever, resulting in a few trillion dollars worth of on-paper "money" vanishing overnight, at which stage a whole bunch of actual-money loans will get called in and billion dollar companies get gutted by asset strippers.

Maybe larger makerspaces and companies like Adafruit, RasPi, and Pine should start stockpiling (real) money, and pick themselves up an entire fab full of gear at firesale prices so they can start making their own ram...
by gpm | 2025-12-04 21:55:36+00:00
I agree, but I note that the 3d printing people are making progress in making really cheap injection molds. I wouldn't count on the difference in cost remaining prohibitive enough that only reasonably serious people can afford it for much longer.

Edit: And I hope the lesson that the safety critical people take away from this is "actual engineering work is needed for airplane components" and not "3d printed parts are scary" because sooner or later they'll run into the same issue with parts made in other ways
by owenversteeg | 2025-12-04 21:56:31+00:00
Glass-liquid transition temperature, which is approximately where plastics and other materials change from hard and relatively brittle into flexible and rubbery.

As the other comments here noted, it doesn’t exactly mean that the material is safe to use for a rigid part below that temperature, and the transition extends over a range in temperatures, but it does give you a rough idea about the behavior of a material at various temperatures.
by tucnak | 2025-12-04 21:56:35+00:00
I bought 384 GB of DDR5-4800 RDIMM a few months back for a Zen 4c system with lots of I/O like dual 25G NIC's and ten MCIO x8 ports... So far it has been the best value for money compared to any memory before it. The bandwidth is nuts. Power consumption went DOWN compared to DDR4. Doesn't matter much if you got two sticks, but as soon as you get into 6+ territory, it does matter a lot. The same goes for NVMe's.
by thinkharderdev | 2025-12-04 21:56:44+00:00
That makes sense. I don't know anything about embedded programming really but I thought that it really fundamentally requires async (in the conceptual sense). So you have to structure your program as an event loop no matter what. Wasn't the alleged goal of rust async to be zero-cost in the sense that the program transformation of a future ends up being roughly what you would write by hand if you have to hand-roll a state machine? Of course the runtime itself requires a runtime and I get why something like Tokio would be a non-started in embedded environments, but you can still hand-roll the core runtime and structure the rest of the code with async/await right? Or are you saying that the generated code even without the runtime is too heavy for an embedded environment?
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-12-04 21:57:14+00:00
I know. I was trying to be snarky. I still have an AlphaServer that I boot up from time to time to relive the glory days. Alphas were too good to be allowed to continue. I understand that intel won in the marketplace and DEC did some pretty stupid things, but I would be happier if they won with products that weren't so crappy.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-04 21:57:24+00:00
Most people who say these things frequently do want all the other functionality one buys with that money, though. As an example, in times with lower safety standards, many projects proceeded without incident. The point of modern safety standards is to guarantee to a greater likelihood that a project will proceed without incident. Would you be willing to give that up?

Another concern is the loss of a historically listed structure. Most people today prioritize historical structures over any modern structure. Would you be willing to demolish the bridge? You certainly can't rebuild an identical one because we don't have that many expert workers of wrought iron.

It will have been built to older standards. You'll have to convince a lot of people that the weight standards of then, the fire standards of then, and the disaster management standards of then should be exempted from modern controls and in order for them to be exempted you need to create a framework for exemption if it doesn't already exist. Coordination costs a lot of time and money. Even deciding that you don't need coordination for this project requires coordination because without a framework for exempting coordination you can't do it without allowing for always exempting coordination.

You will have seen this in any other realm. The more people have an opinion on something the harder it is to get done. The union of all requirements creates a project that is the intersection of all possibilities enabled, which combined with the classic aphorism about every additional percent taking as much effort as everything before, means that things cost more now.

We can build better and faster when we don't have to listen to anyone. This happens in emergencies. Take a look at the US MacArthur Maze tank truck fire and rebuild.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-04 21:57:51+00:00
>The whole point of 3D printing is that the material is moldable when hot but rigid when it cools.

Which means what exactly? Aluminum will go soft under high temperatures as well, yet this part would not have failed if it was made out of aluminum.

The failure is not the material, the failure is someone neglecting the operating conditions or material properties when choosing materials.

This exact part could have also been milled out of some plastic and would have failed the same way. The method to produce that part is only relevant in so far it is open to more people.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-04 21:58:02+00:00
I'd say life becomes more frustrating of you really think this extreme. You realize your values and then realize certain people with contradictoryvalues aren't part of your community, hut obstacles to overcome. Now it's not a team game, it's a battle royale. Not necessarily winner take all, but overall a lot of people will lose more than they win.

A collective sense of "score" is needed to prevent that.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-04 21:58:30+00:00
What if you overprovision the newer SSD to a point where it can run the entirety of the drive in pseudo-SLC ("caching") mode? (You'd need to store no more than 25% of the nominal capacity, since QLC has four bits per cell.) That should have fairly good endurance, though still a lot less than Optane/XPoint persistent memory.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-04 21:58:48+00:00
> Supply and demand.

Fake demand - fueled by ponzi debt financed by other debt.

Oh, forgot to mention - fake supply too. China was doubly-excluded from the RAM market by using both equipment export bans and tariffs - ensuring the supply is frozen solid.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a coincidence or due to incompetence.
by margalabargala | 2025-12-04 21:58:55+00:00
I think you're reading more into what I said than what I intended.

I'm not endorsing the specific behavior, but I am pointing out that if there's a "cheating" lever anyone can pull to improve their own situation, it will get pulled if people think it's justified.

There's plenty that do get pulled and plenty that don't. In the US, SNAP fraud is sufficiently close to nonexistant that you can't tell the difference in benefits provided. But fraud surrounding lying about medical conditions to get a medical marijuana card is universal and accepted.

The people we're talking about here are teenagers that are told "if you have an ADHD diagnosis you can ask for and get your own room". The sort of systems thinking you are describing is not generally done by your average fresh high school graduate. This is therefore a Stanford problem.
by quesera | 2025-12-04 21:59:02+00:00
Sure, but valuation should always exceed cash reserves. It's very odd when it does not. I think I recall that that SUNW (by then JAVA probably) was at one point valued below cash, prior to ORCL acquisition.

If Valve's secrecy is so good that they have (substantially more than) 30-500x cash stashed away in excess of their public valuation estimates, then perhaps I underestimate Valve's secrecy!

More likely, it was an obviously-humorous exaggeration, but I wasn't sure -- I am quite ignorant of the games industry. :)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-04 21:59:06+00:00
The last time I watched broadcast TV, I had a DirectTV box with first TiVo and later their own pretty good DVR. I think I had my first DirectTivo in 2003. It’s been over two decades since I sat through commercials regularly outside of the occasional big event sports as social gatherings or award shows we watch live to discuss with friends on social media
ToddyCat tools steal Outlook emails and Microsoft 365 tokens
by redmug | 2025-12-04 21:59:25+00:00
Toddycat threat actor has been identified to use newer techniques in gaining access to corporate email information of target companies such as a home-made tool called TCSectorCopy.

This attack, according to Kaspersky, is carried out to gain tokens of the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol which was made with the browser of the user, and can be used outside the perimeter of the compromised infrastructure to access corporate mail.

Toddycat, which is estimated to have been operational since 2020, has a record of attacking numerous companies in Europe and Asia with a multitude of tools, Samurai and TomBerBil, to stay connected and steal cookies and credentials of web browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
by carlCarlCarlCar | 2025-12-04 21:59:28+00:00
I watch both here and there, not every race. Both Indy and F1 have very similar format with the "peripheral" parts.

OP had to have been referring to the "peripheral" parts of the race, as it's the only time celebs are trotted out.

They don't have Ja Rule calling the action during F1 races; they aren't getting Ja Rules input when there is a crash.

The celebrities are nowhere to be found during the actual F1 race.
by jasomill | 2025-12-04 21:59:51+00:00
Integration is the biggest thing. While some desktop VM hosts provide various integration bits like file sharing and rootless window support, the experience is rarely seemless.

Drawing a few examples from an old Raymond Chen blog post[1], integrations required for seemless operation include

• Host files must be accessible in guest applications using host paths and vice versa. Obviously this can't apply to all files, but users will at least expect their document files to be accessible, including documents located on (possibly drive-letter-mapped) network shares.

• Cut-and-paste and drag-and-drop need to work between host and guest applications.

• Taskbar notification icons created by guest applications must appear on the host's taskbar.

• Keyboard layout changes must be synchronized between host and guest.

These are, at least to a useful degree, possible. Integrations that are effectively impossible in the general case:

• Using local IPC mechanisms between host and guest applications. Chen's examples are OLE, DDE, and SendMessage, but this extends to other mechanisms like named pipes, TCP/IP via the loopback adapter, and shared memory.

• Using plug-ins running in the guest OS in host applications and vice versa. At best, these could be implemented through some sort of shim mechanism on a case-by-case basis, assuming the plug-in mechanism isn't too heavily sandboxed, and that the shim mechanism doesn't introduce unacceptable overhead (e.g., latency in real-time A/V applications).

Finally, implementing these integrations without complicated (to implement and configure) safeguards would effectively eliminate most of the security benefits of virtualization.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20051223213509/http://blogs.msdn...
by oersted | 2025-12-04 21:59:53+00:00
I have been a big fan of Valve since the Orange Box days and I always dreamed of working there, but let’s not kid ourselves. This is all enabled by the massive monopolistic cash-cow that is Steam that requires a tiny team to maintain. Similarly their top games have minuscule teams and still rake-in millions in microtransactions, fueled by a shadow economy of gambling and speculative trading aimed at kids.

Yes to a large extent they got those monopolies by building truly outstanding products in good faith and by being pioneers in quite a few areas. And certainly they are an exemplary case of investing that wealth into legitimately innovative and widely appreciated long-term endeavors.

My point is that Valve is not all that special for being nice, many organizations do crave to be like that but they don’t have the luxury to have hit that jackpot. For people with mountains of money, they are among the best, but it’s not exactly a high standard, and they are remarkably inefficient in leveraging that advantage.

They’ve long lost the organizational know-how to make good games, and they have delivered remarkably few public facing successes in the last decade: mainly Valve Index and Steam Deck, both still relatively niche and wide apart, both primarily attempts at expanding Steam’s dominance to fairly uncharted markets, with mixed success. The first iteration of Steam Machines was dead on arrival, as was their long-anticipated game Artifact. CS 2 was not a significant enough upgrade to Go to really count. Half-Life Alyx was popularish I suppose. Anything else of note?
by fweimer | 2025-12-04 21:59:58+00:00
The judgement is a bit more nuanced than that: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document_print.jsf?mo...

The court uses the phrase “an online marketplace, as controller” in key places. This suggest to me that there can be online marketplaces that are not data controllers.

The court cites several contributing factors to treat the platform as data controller: they reserved additional rights to upload content, they selected the ads to display. Github only claims limited rights in uploaded content, and I'm not sure if they have any editorialized (“algorithmic”) feeds where Github selects repository content for display. That may make it less likely that they would be considered data controllers. On the other hand, licensing their repository database for LLM training could make them liable if personal data ends up in models. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.