skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've believed for a while now that GPUs are eventually going to get so big they'd need to be external to satisfy power and cooling requirements, and this is just more proof of that IMO.

There's a meme image somewhere out there of a GPU crudely photoshopped to look like a split-type AC condenser unit, i.e the kind you mount outside your house. It's pretty much how I picture GPUs will end up if things keep going the way they are.
> This should be much better as of last week's release, when you can say "please use git as a subprocess rather than libgit2/gix".

I understand the decision here from an SSH-support situation, but doesn't this feel like a bit of a step backwards?
I wish Jet brains would give AI features for free for some time, Github co pilot will be incompatible with fleet for some time and even with other legacy jetbrain IDEs like webstorm / pycharm it does not work very well. They always release features for vs code first and then webstorm follows.
My hacker roots come from a different line. Will look it up. Thanks for the pointer.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond ESR
Eh. Containers will have their day.
A while back someone claimed to me that WASI was structured as capabilities. True/false?
I very much relate to the sentiment of starting out with simple tools and then backfilling knowledge gaps as I went. For me it was Excel -> Access shared DB forms -> Django web application framework -> etc. From spreadsheets, to database design, to web application development, to scaling HTTP services, and on and on it goes.
And why was this currently socially relevant post that comes from an organization which despite certain biases has lots of experience examining this very issue, flagged? Who are all these intolerant idiots flagging such content, and more importantly, why does this site keep maintaining such a stupid policy of letting a few rando readers with all their personal ideological baggage flag whatever the hell they want?
> "write once, run it on your specific server".

Funny, how people forget that a "specific server" can be running Linux on bare metal ARM or a x86 container, or maybe Windows or even MacOS.
Hello 2025 quantum-resistant file encryptor publicly available
The same disabled people whose hard earned rights are on the chopping block right now in the name of anti wokeness? I’ll say, taking away their ability to participate in society first, then selling it back to the richest of them is an ingenious business approach.
Looks like much was deleted by the outgoing party as well.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-committee-jan-6-delet...
...why not? Is this inaccurate?
The type of person who owns a 5090 must also be the type of person who knows about the 40 series and it's cable problems. Little timmy building his first PC wasn't camping outside of microcenter for a week just for a chance to spend $2000 on a video card
Elon Musk’s companies provide service: starlink and spacex that nobody else can provide, at contracts started even before trump was elected in 2016.

Recent contracts were signed by biden admin, so I dont think there is any nefarious collusion, but rather arms length transaction.

You say he is getting rich, I would love some more nuance: is it unfair that he created a company and out-executed everyone including nasa?

Would usa be better off without spacex, relying on Russians to launch satellites???

At least he created thousands jobs, created blns in wealth for his shareholders, made some incredible innovations.

Compare to usaid, whose only achievement was promoting trans surgeries to children
> Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism.

The BOFH was plenty authoritarian, and was celebrated for it.
This "anonymously at the cost of a phone call" thing doesn't get us anywhere. It's possible to do that because armed robberies happen, and people expect to be able to call in a police response to those on the phone. If you can propose a plausible alternative system that doesn't rely on "anonymous" calls, do so, but you can't just leave that argument hanging out there.

"Hello, 911? Someone is breaking into my house. I think they have a gun!"

"Authenticate yourself."
No, XKCD is not the liberal establishment but is a good tell. You can search on that comic link in forum and see how it was being used.

I do hope that you would consider the ACLU as liberal establishment.

>But over the past ten years, Donald Trump and other right-wing provocateurs have co-opted free-speech values to advance an agenda often at odds with liberalism and social justice (see Elon Musk’s X), while Democrats, progressives, and, arguably, the ACLU have retreated from the ideal that free speech needs to be protected regardless of the viewpoint being expressed.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-free-speech-war-...

And in case you don't like that source, here is the reference from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

And a choice quote:
>Traditionally, the A.C.L.U.’s state affiliates monitor and argue free speech cases, but in recent years some shied from such fights.
:cq is useful in a shell loop that compares two directory trees that invokes vim to let you see what's changed in every file that's different. I use it often:

((cd /tmp/t; find . -type f -print) | sort | while read f; do cmp -s {/tmp/t,/tmp/t1}/$f || vim -f -d {/tmp/t,/tmp/x1}/$f 0<&9 || break; done) 9<&0

Typing ^C to vim doesn't get you very far, so if you make a mistake causing the loop to return 1000's of files you are in for a bit of pain without :cq. The :cq triggers the break, exiting the loop.
I would much prefer nearly other alternative...

But at this point I'm rooting for pain and lots of it. It's literally the only way we're going to get this ruling party out of power. And even that might not be enough.
Welp. Thanks Biden for drafting and making the cease fire happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_war_ceasefire
As a long time player, F14 Tomcat my fave, this really hit me
Every other nation on Earth calls it the Gulf of Mexico. Calling it some other nonsense name (it's not even majority in US territorial waters) does users a disservice.

"The review process is tedious" is a non-excuse. It's the largest geographic feature in this quadrant of the globe to receive a name "change" in my memory, and it's highly politicized.
yes thats right a plain text will be distinctive from a watermark version thus outed as an automated forgery. vs incorrect watermark sugesting human attempt to forge, this introduces complications for the generation of output, namely conserving the cypher as well as making sense
Last go around my client used Brazil. Worked for a while until there was a major system outage and it turned out they didn't have the skill set to actually solve any problems.
> 5080 is really more of a 70 series

Oft repeated, never explained.

The numbers don't really mean anything and never have. 5080 is faster than the 5070 is faster than the 5060. That's what the number means. The performance gap between tiers isn't and has never been constant.
Right, but also left alone to do what he wanted for years without revenue is not the American model.
Reactive Haptics
What is the sort of person who is in this audience?
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiine, you rightfully pointed out my linguistic imprecision :). Mea culpa. Another attempt, likely no better than before:outside of calling on the militia, prosecuting alleged fascists, or never voting them into power in the first place by enshrining education, media transparency, and banning dark money, it's a great option.
Indeed, the sequel was really a huge step up from the original Katamari Damacy in many ways to me, as who have played all available console games in the series. (Nowadays I play in Steam.) Most expensive katamaries are particularly fun because you have much less visual cues than other games, but once you've immersed yourself into the world, you will see likely places to roam around.

> IIRC the first game had an eternal level whereas the 2nd game’s longest level was 18min.

For the record, a recent remastered version for PC does have eternal levels.
What Trump and Musk are doing is picking up pennies by gutting public services citizens rely upon instead of plugging the tax system, and addressing the waste in the military and healthcare industries. The way Trump and Musk operate not only makes enemies out of loyal government employees, it will also cost the government more money once it starts losing in court.
Cloudflare, Fastly, and Amex use WASM in their FaaS implementations
perhaps an attempt at cloaking vs co-pilot scrapes?
maybe it was faster and easier, or facilitated distribution in a non spec way.
The US does not control the majority of the Gulf of Mexico. It cannot "change the name" of it any more than it can change the name of the Moon.

The executive branch has decided to call it something different than its internationally accepted name as a political stunt. Google could just ignore this, but instead they chose to obey in advance.
Complete nonsense. American media and Israeli media both credited Trump with the ceasefire deal, with the WSJ complaining that "Trump forced Netanyahu to make a deal with the devil" and AIPAC complaining that Trump isn't being blamed more for the action.

- https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-forced-netanyahu-to-make-a...

- https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64825

- https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-13/ty-article/.p...

- https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-official-trump-envoy-sway...
I feel like dividing the outcomes into just two buckets of "direct cause of permanent death" versus "everything else" isn't the ideal way to approach routine decisions about what to eat. :p

("This cardboard is unlikely to kill me, sooooo...")
My first memoir is now available
>The academics I know are all focused on achieve specific goals, they rarely talk about the papers in the way the Canadian Acedemics I know did back home. Think "I want to automate boar trap monitoring so that farmers do not need to check it everytime, and so that non-boars do not get trapped".

I guess one of the bigger risks of doing science the Japanese way would be the development of pet projects and tunnel vision leading to dead-ends. This is by no means limited to Japan, but the number of cases where this has happened (hydrogen fuel cells, Honda robots, TRON OS) are notable.

Main topic aside, what's your position on research in Tsukuba? I've read several articles suggesting it's become a waste of money, infrastructure, and manpower as a number of labs (aside from JAXA) and private research firms (mainly in semi conductors) have either shuttered or moved elsewhere (mainly Tokyo). While Tsukuba may be a bit out of your way in both location and relevant subject matter, I would appreciate any insight you might have.
That terrible brutal grief is what death leaves us every time. I remember Jake's posts. He fought, and he all of us to fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
"Left" and "Right" are luxuries of democratic societies.

Pro-democracy and anti-democracy is another axis entirely.

Both are political comparisons, but they are not the same thing.

The implication of the article is that we will only discover whether the current government is authoritarian based on how it handles social resistance.
It's weird how a series of big things happening in a short period of time changes who you are as a person, and not always for the better.

When I failed to stop an acquaintance from killing himself a few years ago [1], it really fucked me up. I barely knew the guy, but I couldn't stop myself from feeling guilty over it, and I still have nightmares about it.

It led to a severe funk of depression that I still haven't gotten over, and it's led to poor sleep, poor performance at work, an increased irritability towards pretty much everyone, and I'm not completely convinced that that will ever stop.

I've seen therapists, taken various medications for depression and PTSD, trauma dumped onto pretty much anyone who will listen, and I think I'm a worse person now than I was in 2021.

I guess the likelihood of an event like this happening approaches 1 as you get older, but it doesn't mean it's not terrible.

[1] Written in some detail here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29185822
China builds space alliances in Africa as Trump cuts foreign aid
This loser (Tony Fadell) got fired from Google for yelling nonstop at employees, other googlers, management, everyone.

But sure, tell me about his narcissistic story telling skills.
The other posts on her substack are also worth reading (and the earlier ones from his perspective) - I read through a bunch of them last August when one was posted. A tragic story well told, something that waits for all of us.
We use it at work and honestly I'd rather have Google Docs. Very limited formatting (why are there only 3 levels of headings?), very slow interface (why does it take what feels like 30s to load a folder with 25 entries in it?) and the search feature might as well not exist. When I write a Quip doc I basically have to realize and rationalize to myself that I am not going to be able to find it again in the future. So much time lost to "anyone else have the link to...". It's a black hole that allows real time collaborative editing and comments. Sometimes they'll have spells of a few hours to weeks where comments or edits are randomly lost. Randomly the UI will also pop up a 500 or 503 error, which never inspires confidence that it is actually saving my edits. I basically do all my writing in markdown locally, then copy it into Quip — both so I have a local copy I can full text search on and so that if it has one of its random fits I don't lose a half day of work.

(You can also very easily get the UI in an inconsistent state. I forget what the exact sequence is for the one I found most recently but it is something like: if you position your cursor after an image, and there is an empty line and then a line with a header, and you press forward delete, it'll get rid of both line and the header. Clicking undo won't get the header back, it'll only reappear when you refresh the page)
Presumably, the plan is to move them into prisons in e.g. El Salvador for a fee.
I’ve felt the pain
Lots of people don’t do the analysis and leave out the IMO, so at least this is more honest.
It could use any existing commercial service. Again, you could very feasibly set it up to be plausibly deniable until it's not.
WASM can run on real hardware. e.g. innative.dev
The reason you see these kind of takes from people in liberal democracies is that other countries generally do not permit critical analysis of their governments, even if the conclusion is ultimately that it's better than the alternatives.
So sad to hear. I know the words of a stranger probably do not matter but trust me when I say this, you'll get through this. Sending you virtual hugs.
Not exactly. There is a 2025/26 model coming out. They just stopped selling it while they moved it to a new platform and battery.

https://electrek.co/2025/02/06/first-look-new-chevy-bolt-ev-...
This guys recent startup endorsement is the infamous rabbit r1.

Should tell you enough lol.
Tony Baloney
Interestingly page 2 of the file doesn't seem to indicate a crisis. All the numbers a roughly stable, some are actually improving (for example less people struggling with housing costs in Germany and generally fewer people struggling in France). What sticks out is that more Germans expect a recession around the corner.
Competitive Programming with Large Reasoning Models
Ah man, that's amazing. It's insanely cool to hear from you! Thank you for hosting!! It's such a strong memory for me, hopping on Hotline and finding just how much amazing stuff was on there -- your server is one of very very few I remember the name of! I was so excited to try a pre-release version of Mac OS and even moreso a port of Quake for Mac! I had first played the demo/beta while I was taking a course at the local university, but I didn't have any Windows machine at home so it was SO LONG before I could play Quake. I was so thankful to be able to play, even with the brutal low framerate I had to suffer with on my Performa 5260/120. Yeah, I ran a server as well back then, definitely fun times (and great memories around all that), even if it wasn't something I could keep doing forever.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you're not typically deploying JAR files outside of an extremely controlled environment.

For a server environment, I set all the parameters I want and then I code around it. Obviously there's a lot of variation between different servers, but you typically develop your server code a specific set of servers.
California loves Dungeness crab. But whale safety concerns put industry in peril
https://archive.is/ryGhd
Author here: it wouldn't have been. Sure, it would be nice to have a native version, but that is a lifelong maintenance burden, and ExifTool is already the best at what it does and stays up-to-date with file format changes.

By completing this work, I can use ExifTool in any environment now - and more broadly, there is now a portable, embeddable, and sandboxed version of Perl that others can use in their projects. I can think of a lot of use cases, and helping other developers makes any hardship I endured worth it.
As @mmastrac points out in a related comment, Google has chosen, at the behest of no law, to place the US on its "sensitive countries" list, which is the mechanism it uses to show users from certain countries incorrect names which it is legally obliged to.

But, Google is not legally obliged to in this case. Google is obeying in advance.
The proposed measure is highly correlated with U-3, so as time-series they should basically tell the same story. If the assertion is "U-3 doesn't predict this phenomenon but this other measure does" it's likely to be wrong since the signals are roughly equal to a constant factor. For the entire data range depicted in the paper this property holds. Is it possible that back in $GOOD_OLD_DAYS this isn't true? Well I'd like to see the data but I don't have time to chase it down and none has been offered to support that claim.
Coralogix
The big problem was not wanting to write even a small amount of is.

After all, a simple web component in a page of code would have allowed client side includes.
It's only fitting that a """leader""" like Fadell is featured in """journalism""" like Fast Company. Stay away.
I think that has already largely happened. Writing has become more homogenous on the web. It is rare that I read anything with any real personal writing style anymore.

There are bloggers with distinctive writing styles, but most bloggers write in a fairly generic "blogger style", a bit like the writing equivalent of the ~universal "youtube video essay voice".

I would say the prevalent of automatic spelling and grammar checkers has has a bit of an influence. I find Outlook often "corrects" something I write to an alternative style that is not any more correct than what I wrote.
I as a taxpayer has no trust in the system if bureacrats never show even an ounce of care about taxpayer’s money.

Mind you Musk is the biggest taxpayer so he is interested that system spends money wisely
Speaking of Perl: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017739
Wow, I totally forgot what it stood for - thanks for reminding me! I was just digging up the old snapshots of the site on archive.org . Were you involved in the project at all? I wonder if I still have any builds/files on any of my old MO disk backups from those days..!
> were there similar sayings in 1940 german?

This is why studying history is important. It makes clear the dividing line between systems that use violence as a legitimate political tool and those that don’t.
How does it compare against Facebook's Sapling? https://github.com/facebook/sapling
Can you expand? What was your understanding before, and how did the book change it?
That’s called Survivor bias
What better place than here, what better time than now?
> It's not enough to just depend on educating people - we can see that education hasn't been very effective,

Are you referring to the anti-Israel protests on college campuses in the US?
DOGE Is Hacking America
The dark part of me is like 'Ok, yes, I hope they implement their stupid plans so that people can see how stupid they are'. The sane part of me then thinks 'Well, a lot of people will be hurt and many die if they do.'
I wish I could trust this.
Ignoring everything that shows they are authoritarian up to now.

If they ignore court orders, they are ignoring the rule of law and therefore are authoritarian.
First they came for people without pronouns their email signature, and I did not speak out because I was not a person without pronouns their email signature.
Honestly, I thought this was going to be another AI post. TIL about zola. Looks cool.
Edge cases like snow and rain? If you live in Southern California it seems like it will replace humans everywhere. If you live anywhere with seasons, you wonder when they’re going to figure out cameras don’t work in heavy rain or with a layer of salt caking the lens.
I did think about that! However, I didn't like the idea of making the client side do work to make up for my own poorly-managed website. Forcing users to run code just to render some boring text seems like a waste.
The classical computer both exists and doesn’t exist. You’d need another quantum computer to figure out the IBM bill.
Gmail bounced my email and returned this:

The response from the remote server was:
554 5.7.1 : Client host rejected: Address locked or deactivated; see http://mail.messagingengine.com/docs/locked.html
Yes, these are essentially commissars.

I wish it need not have happened in my time.
Glancing at the code, the rules for whether neighboring cells live or die (see const liveness and the surrounding code) seem to be the same as regular Life. The hue/hueverage vars are used to colorfully display cells in various board types, and trig is used to turn the conventional square grid into a hexagonal or triangular display, but these canvas display flourishes don't propagate back their value to the underlying cellular automaton in a way that affects the rules of the game. Underneath all that, it's still vanilla Life. That why the various gliders, blinkers, and so on, still work even though they look nothing like their traditional forms.
Nope... US$120k is most likely the base price (car + taxes). The Certificate of Enrolment (CoE) is market rate, and right now it's an additional SG$85k to SG$111k depending on the vehicle category (on top of the base price).

https://www.motorist.sg/coe-results
https://bydcars.sg/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/BYD-Pricelist-...
Why do you think Covid, a public health emergency, was fascism, an inchoate merger of corporate interests that overthrow the rule of law?

Edit: cobbzilla, your comment disappeared on me, but to respond:

> Got it. Would-be authoritarians should definitely go to the public health playbook.

Covid responses were certain targeted towards incentives that they could be to push for responses believed to be the best for society, especially in domains were personal action may strongly deviate from social good.

We should never accept these actions as a normal operating procedure. In times of real emergency, such as Covid, natural disasters, and if the alleged events on the border were happening as claimed by right-wing propaganda news sources, the use of force is the purview of the government. We select them for this job during non-emergency times. For example, vaccine approval by the FDA is horrible slow. The time to change those standards isn't during an active disaster, but rather before or, less good, after.

Emergencies by definition need to be immediately addressed above all other priorities. A state of emergency is not indefinite. If someone claims it is, that is an exercise in authoritarianism all the same.