MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AKluge | 2026-01-13 20:01:15+00:00
I was a heavy user of the Cray-1, Cray-XMP and Cray-2 at the magnetic fusion computing center at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. One of the important things to remember was that the Crays of this generation were vector processors, that is they carried out operations across multiple elements of arrays at once. If you didn't structure your code properly, you didn't see these extraordinarily high instruction rates.

And, yes, quite some time ago I noticed that my cell phone had surpassed the capabilities of these early Crays :)
by BanAntiVaxxers | 2026-01-13 20:01:18+00:00
What about in LCOL areas?

When I moved to SF when I was 25, I sure could not afford a house or even a condo.

But I sure could have bought a house in the Tahoe area.

Would the commute suck? Yes. Could I have made a go of it? Slept in my car during the week?

I sure would have built a lot of equity, plus you'd have a cool place to go on weekends and invite your friends.
by overfeed | 2026-01-13 20:01:19+00:00
> As you get older, please try to find people who you can love unconditionally until you die.

Protip: the love has to be reciprocated. Never, ever unconditionally love an abuser in the name of family. Set boundaries, when they are crossed, leave. There may be a cost, but it may be lighter than the cost of staying. We may not choose family, but we continually choose whose company we keep.
by tptacek | 2026-01-13 20:01:22+00:00
Ironically, the Argument just a few months ago ran a long and well-researched piece on how the housing market isn't for parents --- in many rental markets, there are policies that lock out parents, particularly through permitting processes that favor developments for seniors while icing out any other developments.

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/no-country-for-young-famili...

Meanwhile, a really important dynamic to keep in mind is that in most inner-ring suburbs in the US, the primary driver of home values (and of property taxes) are school systems. If you don't actively enact policies that work against the dynamic, you get trapped in a spiral of increasing prices, in part because parents can bid up prices and suffer them only for the span of time their kids are in school --- "renting the schools".
by ygjb | 2026-01-13 20:01:42+00:00
Not American, but as I understand it, 401k's are tied to your employers 401k implementation and while you are employed you have little choice in how the funds are managed. If you are contributing to a third party managed fund (employer or otherwise) that is not being matched, then you are ceding control of your retirement funds for no practical benefit. You would be better off putting your savings into another tax shelter appropriate to your needs that you can control.

If you aren't getting a matching benefit or other reward for using an employer managed investment, then you shouldn't. If someone doesn't have the time, inclination, or knowledge to understand the difference then investing in an unmatched 401k is still better than not saving at all :S
by epistasis | 2026-01-13 20:01:55+00:00
Your link does not support the idea of a supply deficit, at least that I see. Propel panicked about lithium under supply, prices surged and didn't even affect battery prices much, and now we are in oversuppply. The worst that can happen is lag time between demand increase and supply match, and there are substitutes for all key metals for most applications, even copper.

Every country will have to figure out how to supply its own power, but Sweden's seasonal variation in renewable resources is not likely to be fixed by batteries, even though batteries will be abundant and in massive supply throughout the rest of the world. If Sweden can't figure out, or merely can't, take advantage of great cheap new technology, they will be at a disadvantage compared to countries that will

> I know California has rotating blackouts already as it is

You don't know that because it's not true. Due to planning not taking into account climate change, there were a few days with demand above expected ability to provide capacity, but there were no blackouts because people were asked to voluntarily cut back on excessive cooling. That mere ask was more than enough to get through the few days. And it was fixed the next year, by what? By batteries! Adding nuclear wouldn't have helped, but batteries were the perfect solution. Perhaps nuclear can help Sweden, but it will be far more expensive than the solutions available to other countries.

It is quite funny that what I thought was US propaganda has been spread to Sweden for repetition. Even including the IEA report that doesn't say what people claim it says!
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-13 20:01:58+00:00
> the heartburn I thought was just a part of life went from “literally every day” to “once or twice a year, and only if I do something I shouldn’t have”.

I feel this, too. I was on Prilosec indefinitely, gastroenterologist said I have a mild hiatal hernia and that I'll probably be stuck on PPIs forever. But after losing a lot of weight, I was able to switch to occasional Pepcid instead, with Prilosec temporarily if I get tolerant to the Pepcid. The hernia won't heal itself, but taking the pressure off has really reduced the GERD symptoms.
by Ritewut | 2026-01-13 20:02:10+00:00
This is actually the definition of competition. You are just being drowned by AI music so no one can discover your music. Steam had the same issue years ago with asset flips drowning out the discoverability of actual titles and they implemented many curating tools to help resolve the issue. Acting like AI music isn't having a similar effort on genuine musicians is just playing dumb.
by HPsquared | 2026-01-13 20:02:15+00:00
"The rent of land, therefore, considered as the price paid for the use of the land, is naturally a monopoly price. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take; but to what the farmer can afford to give." — Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter XI "Of the Rent of Land"
by hinkley | 2026-01-13 20:02:19+00:00
There’s also a lot of artistic creepers, which predate the internet but the internet shone a light on their creepiness.

I would, for instance, watch The Ninth Gate a couple times a year if Polanski hadn’t directed it, or had directed it post jail instead of hiding from justice for 25 years. Instead I watch it about twice a decade. Luke Beson is almost as problematic, and I have a hard time reconciling just how brilliant Gary Oldman is as Stansfield with how creepy the overall tone is, especially the European cut. I enjoyed that movie when I was young and had seen the American version. Trying to show it to other people (especially the Leon version) and seeing their less enthusiastic reactions made me see the balance of that story less affectionately. As well as seeing it through the lens of an adult responsible for children instead of being the child. Now I watch The Fifth Element and that’s about it.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-13 20:02:28+00:00
> If you put too much in your Telemetry/crash reports, yeah, users become fingerprintable.

It's not only what gets send to Mozilla as telemetry or crash reports that is a problem. That can be turned off (many Linux distros do), or firewalled.

The main issue is that websites can more or less accurately identify users uniquely by extracting information that they should not have access to if the browser was designed with privacy in mind.

This includes, but is not limited to, fonts installed, system language, time zone, window size, browser version, hardware information (number of cores, device memory), canvas fingerprint, and many others attributes. When you combine all of that with the originating IP address, you can reliably determine who visited a website, because that information is shared and correlated with services where people identify themselves (Google accounts, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) Even masking your IP may not be enough because typically there is enough information in the other data points to track you already.
by Stefan-H | 2026-01-13 20:03:06+00:00
When the server is the final recipient of a message sent over TLS, then yes, that is end-to-end encryption (for instance if a load balancer is not decrypting traffic in the middle). If the message's final recipient is a third party, then you are correct, an additional layer of encryption would be necessary. The TEE is the execution environment that needs access to the decrypted data to process the AI operations, therefore it is one end of the end-to-end encryption.
by ilaksh | 2026-01-13 20:03:10+00:00
In a weird way, I want to give him credit for saying out loud what he actually thinks. It's a good reminder for people to see it out in the open.

The reality is that there are tens of millions of racists in the United States. In fact, they put a group of Christian Nationalist (Nat-C) white supremacists in the White House.

It's not a Scott Adams problem in particular, and trying to make the issue just about him is a cop out.

Loved Dilbert anyway.
by nyrikki | 2026-01-13 20:03:10+00:00
I actually forgot that they made a low end ‘Indy’ and never saw one. We called the Indigo2 Indy

There were some oddities with ad dollars and prestige clients in the 90s, where systems would be upgraded, avoiding swapping out the serialized, asset tagged parts, yet upgrading systems.

The teal Indigo2s were the original with the impact graphics ones being purple.

But all the Indigo2s I saw typically were r10k + max impact graphics despite the color.

The cases were identical.

But Evans & Sutherland and Lucas are the only places I dealt with SGI, so probably not a good source for typical customer’s experience
by 15155 | 2026-01-13 20:03:34+00:00
> Pumping out a lot of noise is usually easier than locating a source of a weak signal.

Not at the frequencies in question - this isn't 2.4GHz where a magnetron ripped out of a microwave oven will wreak havoc, these are highly-directional, beamformed signals. Also, ostensibly, there should be zero unapproved energy whatsoever in those bands.
by jbm | 2026-01-13 20:03:58+00:00
I always thought it was the same as a solid part of his specific cohort and generation; excessive entertainment-style news consumption through the normal rabble rousers. For a group of people who were obsessed with telling me that wrestling was fake, they sure were a group of marks when a guy with a gravelly voice told them what to think.

I didn't know about his comments about Black people until today. It's more than a bit pathetic that he devolved into colour-based absurdities so late in life. For someone who could pattern match the reality of life at a large company so effectively, it's unfortunate he couldn't realize he was being played by 4chan trolls and fellow travelers in the media.
by delusional | 2026-01-13 20:04:25+00:00
> It's difficult to draw any lines line on a creative work, by just by nature of the work being creative.

If you want to be some neutral universal third party sure. If you're OK with taking a position, the arbitrariness actually makes it much easier. You just draw the line you want.

Creativity demands limitation, and those limitations don't have to be justified.
by strangecasts | 2026-01-13 20:04:32+00:00
They handle a lot of sales [1], I do not think they can be called irrelevant under any reasonable definition of the word:

> In the past year alone, [customers] spent $208 million on 14.6 million digital albums, 11.2 million tracks, 1.55 million vinyl records, 800,000 CDs, 250,000 cassettes, and 50,000 t-shirts.

[1] https://bandcamp.com/about
by neom | 2026-01-13 20:04:35+00:00
Sure, but you also just disregarded a whole swath of people who use the tools/abstractions as a component of the composition of a final work. If I download a free vector of a premade sun to put into my final multimodal image, how is that any less authentic to me and my work? You feel like I cheated? Not how you would do it? This reminds me of when the film industry moved to digital and the pro associations said for contest submissions, first no digital at all, then it was ok for you to use digital post production but not a digital camera.
by goatlover | 2026-01-13 20:04:50+00:00
The road wasn't blocked since we see other vehicles drive around her, which ICE could have done instead of escalating the situation as we see them doing in dozens of videos coming out of the Minneapolis area. Keep in mind that the administration is not acting in good faith. Trump has politicized ICE to go after blue cities he doesn't like. Stephen Miller started the escalations when he sent ICE to Home Depot parking lots in LA because his desired quoata wasn't being met.
by TrackerFF | 2026-01-13 20:05:00+00:00
Where I live you're pretty much screwed if you're single, or a family that needs extra bedrooms. Extra screwed if you're a single parent, obviously. People spending 50%-60% of their net pay on rent alone, basically stuck renting, because housing prices have increased 10% annually for almost 15 years.

It is also a town that has seen explosive growth in tourism, so the new trend is that people are only willing to rent 6-8 months to normal people. Rest of the year they'll rent out their unit on airbnb, where they can earn 3-5 times more.
by bognition | 2026-01-13 20:05:02+00:00
It is the sites job to make documentation available to the users, no?

It’s so odd for a tech focused crowed to be so opposed to newer technology.

Users are getting used to natural language search, not having it will be perceived as friction.

Users are increasingly turning to agentic coding tools, those tools do best when documentation is available via an MCP server. Not having one will make it harder for people to use your product.
by nitwit005 | 2026-01-13 20:05:12+00:00
It's quite possible a lot of this stuff just doesn't work, or only has an extremely slight effect. The internet is so full of nonsense, I'm not sure how much effect you can add by tossing some more on the top of the pile.

But, these sorts of bots are fairly cheap to run, and they have time on their side to try a bunch of different ideas.
by miyoji | 2026-01-13 20:05:26+00:00
> you sound like someone from the 1800's shouting about how photography should be banned and not allowed to crowd out hard working painters.

I'm saying that you shouldn't call photographs paintings because they aren't paintings. I don't particularly care if people make AI "music" or "art" and I don't particularly care if they consume it (people have been consuming awful media for the entire history of humanity, they aren't going to stop because I say so), but if you give me a ham sandwich and call it a hamburger I am going to be annoyed and tell you that it isn't a hamburger and to stop calling it that because you're misleading people who actually appreciate hamburgers.

AI "art" isn't art. I don't care whether you like it. It's like fractals or rock formations or birdsong - it may be aesthetically appealing to some people, but that isn't the definition of art.
by usednoise4sale | 2026-01-13 20:05:30+00:00
I don't disagree with your overall point, but I would point out that "happen to share 0.0001% more DNA than any other human" is probably not the best mental model of how to quantify this sort of relationship. Due to combinatorial explosion, these numbers are kind of misleading. It is similar to saying that it is trivial to crack a 1 million bits of entropy password because we already know 99% of the bits. This leaves out that you still have 2^(10000) possible passwords.

Your immediately family shares hundreds of thousands more variable sites in your genome than a 'random' individual. Which is to say there would need to be something like a 2^(100000) population of humans before someone 'random' would be as close to you in terms of variable sites.

I guess my point being "you happen to share 0.0001% more DNA" is just not trivial or a small coincidence that can be waved away with "we are more similar to each other than not". Whether any genetic similarity means that one's biological family deserves one's attention, I have no comment.
by tkz1312 | 2026-01-13 20:05:38+00:00
AFAIK the signal backups use symmetric encryption with user generated and controlled keys and anonymous credentials (https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/). Do you have a link about the usage of sgx there?

Also fwiw I think tees and remote attestation are a pretty pragmatic solution here that meaningfully improves on the current state of the art for llm inference and I'm happy to see it.
by Archio | 2026-01-13 20:05:41+00:00
>Well you could rally in support of more action, or protest outside an Iranian embassy for example

You're describing methods of protest, but not demands. What specific action do you believe Americans should demanding from their representatives re: Iran, that the US government isn't already doing? We bombed Iran just this past summer, are you saying we should go back for round 2?

>obviously hard to speculate about because it's just the world we live in

The world we live in is the world where the US gives huge financial, material and political support to Israel. Your statement feels akin to saying "Sure there is a gigantic elephant in this room right now, but something tells me there's some unique reason why everyone is complaining about the room being cramped. Especially compared to these other rooms that don’t have a giant elephant inside.”
by raffael_de | 2026-01-13 20:05:50+00:00
I would actually argue that the sensation from experiencing asphyxiation is not really an emotion but instead one of the most fundamental sensations any life form will experience. Just saying as I already argued that ratio is a layer above emotions. Having said that, Jujutsu (as well as all forms of martial arts and sports) are intertwined with emotional experience and needs. Jujutsu for example is probably one of the best physical therapies for adults to overcome fear of non-sexual physical contact. Also the whole idea around fighting other people in your spare time draws its inspiration from a desire to externalize negative emotions which are either too abstract or too challenging to address in a mental reflection process.
by mkroman | 2026-01-13 20:06:05+00:00
Ah cool, thanks, didn't know this existed. I just get a dummy message when playing audio, so I'll play around with some speech dispatcher[1] solutions later!

> Oh, and mozilla's off-line translate for private translation of web pages... that's another neat AI thing they added that I've found super helpful.

Yes, it's awesome! And one of my favorite additions to Firefox in many years, it's stuff like that they should focus on if they want AI, imo.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Speech_dispatcher
by Intralexical | 2026-01-13 20:06:16+00:00
IMO Dilbert was always at its best when it focused more on absurdity, and less on rage, cynicism, or ego. I still occasionally think about Dogbert's airliners that can't handle direct sunlight, the RNG troll that kept repeating "Nine", Wally's minty-fresh toothpaste-saturated shirt, and Asok's misadventures.

I do think there was another formula he gravitated towards, though. Maybe one in every four strips, it seemed to me like he would have a canonically "stupid" character present a popular belief or a common behavior, and then have his author self-insert character dunk on them... And that was it, that was the entire comic. Those strips weren't very witty or funny to me, they just felt like contrived fantasies about putting down an opponent.

Once I noticed that, it became harder to enjoy the rest of his comics. And easier to imagine how he might have fallen down the grievance politics rabbit hole.
by graemep | 2026-01-13 20:06:32+00:00
If their objective is to damage the UK they can do that without breaking it up. For example, for example by fostering violent Scottish Nationalism, or even just sowing hatred between the Scots and the English, or between Scots who want to remain the UK and those who do not..

Its quite unusual for separatist movements to both remain peaceful themselves, and not to be violent suppressed. Even other western democracies have not managed, nor did one other part of the UK for a long time.

My other nationality is Sri Lankan so I have seen how bad it can get. I do not think that will ever happen in the UK, but even a very small number of sufficiently nasty people can do a great deal of damage.
by whaleofatw2022 | 2026-01-13 20:07:03+00:00
You have to remember, it is theorized that Scott Adams is the 'Cartoonist' from the Pick Up Artist book "The Game".

If you aren't familiar with it, well I was once given a copy by a friend who said they used it to 'get their partner'.

I tried reading it, found it despicable (its basically everything we hate about manipulation in the attention economy,) also the person who loaned it to me had bad narcissistic tendencies; the only time I saw them cry was when someone died that they didnt get to bang.
by ajkjk | 2026-01-13 20:07:03+00:00
The only countervailing forces are:

* landlords not wanting as much money (unlikely, although it happens at small scales)

* rent control-type policies

* competition

And as far as I know competition is the only thing that works at scale. Although, people tend to emphasize intralocal competition as where this gets fixed. But I tend to think that the even larger issue is that so many places suck to live in (due to schools, jobs, culture, lack of prosocial governance...) that everyone with options congregates in the good ones.

There's an effect every larger than all of those, though, which is wealth disparity. If incomes differ by fewer orders of magnitude then prices can't vary as much across markets. At the end of the day when rich people can and do buy 2-5 homes and everyone else can barely buy one of course you're going to have problems.
by adrianmonk | 2026-01-13 20:07:09+00:00
To get a journeyman electrician license in Texas, you need to have 8000 hours of documented on-the-job experience working under a licensed electrician[1].

So you'd need to find an electrician who will let for you work them on the weekends, and if you work 8 hours every Saturday and every Sunday, then it will take you 500 weekends.

A residential wireman license only requires 4000 hours[2], but I'm not sure if that kind of license would be good enough for the inspection.

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[1] https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/jo...

[2] https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/electricians/apply/individuals/wi...
by jakeydus | 2026-01-13 20:07:12+00:00
Ah, so you're socially conservative, support Trump but probably consider yourself a libertarian, secretly a big fan of the moves ICE has been making? I'm assuming you've used the term "liberal media" unironically in the last year. You didn't storm the capitol, but you consider the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 to be worse than January 6. Antifa is more of a danger than far-right agitators. Charlie Kirk's death hit hard. No social identity group is more persecuted than white, heterosexual, cisgender Christian men.

Any of those resonate? You're welcome to correct me.

EDIT: in light of another reply to this same thread I recognize that much of this comment was written sneeringly. I apologize for the snark and am leaving it as is in the interest of transparency.
by FarmerPotato | 2026-01-13 20:07:20+00:00
Uhoh, I think I mistook Oxygen for Origin. It was 25 years ago.

The funny thing was that our Cray sales team, from the C90 and T3D, jumped ship from Cray to SGI before their merger.

So got to set up some Indys as web servers/ Oracle database. Surprise! Same sales team. Then the merger happened and we got the Origin boxes.
by vladde | 2026-01-13 20:07:55+00:00
from the email sent to me:

> Although our investigation is still ongoing, our early review indicates that your personal data has been accessed, which may include:
Identity information:
> - first name, last name, date of birth, gender;
> - Contact information: email address, home address, telephone number, if provided;
> - Passport information: passport number, country of issue and expiration date (not including copies of the documents).