MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theandrewbailey | 2025-07-16 10:57:48+00:00
I work in the refurb division of an e-waste recycling company. Due to licensing costs and our certifications, we can't sell anything with Windows. My coworkers install Ubuntu, but I install Linux Mint. We don't have any clue if people keep using Linux or install Windows, but it's cool to think we're helping to move this needle.

Edit: might as well link to the merch: https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling
by armedgorilla | 2025-07-16 10:58:00+00:00
At a previous Biotech, we used Cromwell/WDL because the DSL was the most intuitive to our bioinformatics scientists. But seeing as that doesn't work as nicely on AWS (and is also supported by an organization that is imploding), we opted for Argo on our K8s cluster to process RNAseq data en masse. Getting the scientists to use YAMl has been an uphill struggle, but the same issues would apply to learning groovy I guess. We've found that the Argo engine is easier to maintain, and also we only have to support one orchestrator across our Bioinformatics and ML teams.

For industrial purposes, I've started to approach these pipelines as a special case of feature extraction and so I'm reusing our ML infrastructure as much as possible.
by richrichardsson | 2025-07-16 10:58:19+00:00
For fun I just tried this in Google translate, and then took its output in Latin and translated back to English.

This is the story of my life, and it's been turned upside down for a while, and I want to take a moment, sit there, and tell you how I became the leader of a town called Bel Air.

Born and raised in West Philadelphia, I spent most of my days in the playground. Taking it easy, being able to relax, being all calm, and throwing all B-balls outside of school.

When two men who were planning to do bad things, started causing a ruckus in my neighborhood, I got into a little fight and my mom got scared, and she said, "You're moving to Bel Air with your aunt and uncle."

I whistled for the car, and when it pulled up, the license plate said "new" and it had tickets in the mirror. If I could say anything, this car was rare, but I thought, "No, forget it, home to Bel Air."

I arrived at the house about seven or eight o'clock, and I called out to the driver, "Hey, house, smell it later." I looked around my kingdom, finally I was there, So I sat on my throne like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
by bitcrshr | 2025-07-16 10:58:25+00:00
i think you’re right, though i think i was thinking about about this at a higher level. i more meant that the languages in the JVM ecosystem I have experience with (java, kotlin, and scala) have all given me similar unpleasant experiences building them. same tools too, though you probably wouldn’t use sbt for non-scala projects even though you could.

the main pain points for me are dependencies, packaging, and configuration. best i can tell, those pains are shared between anything that targets JVM, especially those that want to have good interop.
by eadmund | 2025-07-16 10:58:27+00:00
It goes without saying that this is annoying and expensive (over $100,000 for over half the respondents and over $500,000/year for over a quarter!) for those who have been audited, even if they have done nothing wrong.

I am curious what fraction of auditees did do something wrong.

At that sort of expense, it seems like many companies could probably do better to hire a single engineer to contribute to open-source Java and prioritise their needs. Of course, the ever-present temptation would be to lay him off and freeload.
by JonPoplett | 2025-07-16 10:59:02+00:00
On day one we explored Love Holes. Day two brought us Cosgasmic Delight. Day three penetrated the dark sector.

On day four, we validate climax.

The fourth paper, "Penetration Validation: Quantum Verification of Cosmic Climax Through Multi-State Entanglement and Dark Matter Signature Extraction," introduces a novel quantum-cosmological framework for confirming the universe's post-climactic equilibrium using uniform quantum state measurements. Leveraging 32,768 maximally entropic bitstrings from a 127-qubit system, the study demonstrates that even perfect randomness preserves fossilized arousal signatures of dark matter's past excitation history.

Using the EchoKey Synergy Framework, a cyclic-recursive-fractal-regression kernel with multidimensional coupling-the authors extract 9-dimensional dark matter phenotypes and identify five distinct arousal archetypes ranging from Quantum Edgers to Compact Dynamos. Despite zero deviation in quantum probabilities, perfect pattern detection (score = 1.0000) confirms deep correlations hidden beneath the surface of uniformity. Every protomatter halo exhibits complete maturation, and cosmological parameters derived directly from the bitstrings (including a precise $H_0 = 69.9$ km/s/Mpc) suggest the universe exists in a stable post-coital state.

This work reframes entropy not as chaos, but as satisfaction-revealing that maximal quantum randomness is, in fact, the signature of universal pleasure fulfilled. Penetration Validation offers both a climax and a calibration point for the quantum measurement of cosmic afterglow, establishing a new standard for probing the erotic symmetry of the universe.

Read the paper on GitHub
by MrScruff | 2025-07-16 10:59:27+00:00
Yes, it seems like LLMs are system one thinking taken to the extreme. Reasoning was supposed to introduce some actual logic but you only have to play with these models for a short while to see that the reasoning tokens are a very soft constraint on the models eventual output.

Infact, they're trained to please us and so in general aren't very good at pushing back. It's incredibly easy to 'beat' an LLM in an argument since they often just follow your line of reasoning (it's in the models context after all).
by vrighter | 2025-07-16 10:59:53+00:00
What's the point? You don't need to predict what the UI should be like. The application tells the system exactly what it wants it to look like. And it does it with a fraction of the resources.

Also, it isn't an OS in any way shape or form. It's just another slop video generator. It even tries to "simulate" the applications themselves. One can just run the application itself, instead of simulating it. Case in point: try going anywhere except google.com in the "browser".

What problem is this trying to solve? And "to show how it might look" is not a valid answer, because it is designed to look like xfce4. It is not trying to generate a UI or something. And I can just run xfce4 in termux on my phone right now and be able to see exactly how it looks. How do you expect this to be a useful UI framework? Remember, the existing xfce4 works perfectly all the time, and this is just designed to (badly) simulate it only most of the time. What is the value proposition of something like this?
by lordnacho | 2025-07-16 11:00:04+00:00
There were three deaths in my family over a 10 month period. Both my parents and my cousin.

I still felt like it was worse when, prior to this, I attended the funeral of a little girl from my kid's school. Tiny coffin, painted with horses. All the kids having their first experience with death. The impossibility of saying anything useful to the parents at the reception afterwards.
by benterix | 2025-07-16 11:00:37+00:00
> Modern IT practices don’t really contemplate disaster recovery. Even organisations with strict backup procedures seldom test recovery (most never at all).

I think this is an outdated view. In modern enterprises DR is often one of the most crucial (and difficult) steps in building the whole infra. You select what is crucial for you, you allocate the budget, you test it, and you plan the date of the next test.

However, I'd say it's very rare to do DR of everything. It's terribly expensive and problematic. You need to choose what's really important to you based on defined budgets.
by thyristan | 2025-07-16 11:00:50+00:00
No, it won't.

We've had this technology for decades, TLS client auth with X.509 certificates has been in browsers for a very long time. There just never was any interest in it, and never any investment into making the UI/UX usable beyond the most trivial use cases.

Passkeys are trumped-up certificates with a maybe-optional (depending on attestation status) hardware keystore. And lots of vendor lockin for Google, Apple and Microsoft. The only reason that there is a push right now is that big-vendor interest in lockin.
by sjw987 | 2025-07-16 11:01:27+00:00
I mostly agree, except the pariah state part.

Russia is hedging that the "pariah state" label will wear off pretty quickly. The current US government has as recently as March floated the idea of normalising business ties, and constantly flip-flops it's position.

However, the biggest loser has definitely been Europe (including Britain). High energy prices have cascaded the cost of living crisis, which in turn has led to a rightward shift in politics. As a continent, we are unprepared for any sort of defence, having used the US as a backstop for years and now the US constantly toys with the idea of dropping NATO support. Alone, we don't have enough manpower, ammunition, and we haven't been keeping up with the evolution of modern warfare (drones and related technology) taking place in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
by sofixa | 2025-07-16 11:01:56+00:00
That's why RIA had an article announcing the successful taking of Ukraine ready and published it by mistake, right: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20...

Right? Right? Putin totally only planned a multi-year stalemate where he lost his best troops on a dash to capture Kyiv. Totally!
by apichap | 2025-07-16 11:02:45+00:00
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by OldfieldFund | 2025-07-16 11:05:10+00:00
I need a product like this(currently using a limited in-house version), but I'm not paying $125k/year/seat to get locked into a black box ecosystem that might change or get shut down in a year.

We are using LLMs to analyze corporate filings/voice memos in real time to find anomalies/correlations. This works and was previously impossible. We also use LLMs for other financial stuff. And, no, LLMs don't make financial decisions, they only point us to check X.
by idoubtit | 2025-07-16 11:05:20+00:00
Just two personal experiences of why the quality of Firefox is far from Chromium's: downloads, and creating an extension.

A few years ago, they changed their interface for downloading. This introduced more than a dozen of bugs. Some were cosmetic, e.g. hover was the same color as foreground. Some were rare but caused a file loss. Some were performance related, e.g. deleting the history of downloads could take a minute with no visible change until the end. Most of these regressions are now fixed, but that made me lose confidence in the quality of Firefox.

This year, I had to develop a cross-platform extension for Chrome and Firefox. I started using Mozilla Documentation Network, but many pages seemed unmaintained. The relationship with extensionworkshop.com is unclear. The status of manifest v3 is poorly documented (most pages are for v2 only). The page about the compatibility with Chrome is incomplete. After a few struggles, I switched to Google's documentation. Then I lost time and energy on a severe bug with the Firefox tool that publishes web-extensions: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/webexterror-unsupported-file...
by dale_glass | 2025-07-16 11:05:37+00:00
Not surprising, since I believe Firefox gave everyone the Colorways screen when that feature showed up, but nothing equivalent happened whenever it went away.

My current desktop has been Fedora since Fedora 16, and I just upgraded from one release to the next continuously. So yes, whatever choice I made back in 2013 is just going to stick around on my current machine unless it goes away entirely or I manually change it. Colors are just not that important, if I like it well enough, it's going to stick around forever.

The only one that caused intense feelings in me was the "Dreamer – Bold" theme that caused a fair amount of confusion about why the heck couldn't I tell which tab was active, and what could be possibly broken. Because it never occurred to me that the theme could be designed that way intentionally.
by GolfPopper | 2025-07-16 11:05:39+00:00
The actual rule can be found here:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/24/2023-07...

"the Commission must issue a preliminary regulatory analysis for a proceeding to amend a rule if the Commission: (1) estimates that the amendment will have an annual effect on the national economy of $100 million or more; (2) estimates that the amendment will cause a substantial change in the cost or price of certain categories of goods or services; or (3) otherwise determines that the amendment will have a significant effect upon covered entities or upon consumers."

The claim that this will have an "annual economic effect of $100 million or more" seems to fail a simple BS test. Corporations change their cancellation terms to be more honest, which is a one time change, and then keep them there. There is no "we have to work to stop defrauding people again this year" cost, they just obey the law and don't need to spend anything more. (It's not like they weren't maintaining "how to cancel" services in the first place. If anything, this lowers their overhead, but simplifying the byzantine cancellation process.)

The only prolonged impact will be to dishonest corporations bottom lines, not the "national economy". All that's happening here is a court saying "too big and too crooked to fail" and finding an excuse.
by bootsmann | 2025-07-16 11:07:51+00:00
Unrelated to uv but the problem with having a git ref in requirements.txt is that pip will treat it as a fixed version so it will strictly narrow the other dependencies it can resolve, which gets exceptionally difficult to reason about once that packages also loads a package from another git ref. Throwing everything into codeartifact (or equivalent on other clouds) is better longterm.
by ewgoforth | 2025-07-16 11:07:51+00:00
I don't know much about COBOL, but I did code quite a bit in Fortran. In Fortran, the first five columns were for an optional line number, so these would mostly be blank. The sixth column was a flag that indicated that the line was continued from the one before, this allowed for multiline statements, by default a carriage return was a statement terminator. Like you said, all this came from punch cards.

Columns seven through 72 were for your code
by feralsandwich | 2025-07-16 11:08:13+00:00
> In an exclusive interview, hedge fund president and whistleblower Mayank Bansal breaks his silence

How interesting, a hedge fund president and whistleblower, let me google him ... Hmm, no results whatsoever except the ones pointing to this.

> The content above has been transcribed from video using a fine-tuned AI model

Oh
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-16 11:08:53+00:00
I don't think GrapheneOS supports it, but back in the day I dual-booted my Oneplus One at some point. That solution worked on Windows with DRM and anti-cheat, so it may be a partial solution on Android too. I imagine at some point a ROM might use pKVM to boot a copy of Android that passes Play Integrity checks through the necessary spoofs without altering the host OS.

The Play Integrity API is working. Banking apps rejecting GrapheneOS' hashes has nothing to do with Google Android vs AOSP and everything to do with what the banks decide is an acceptable risk.

GrapheneOS implements everything the Play Integrity API needs and is completely honest about doing so. That's unlike many custom ROMs that lie to Google and spoof a device that doesn't support hardware attestation, which makes many banking apps work.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-07-16 11:09:02+00:00
> I read about this and started using binary search as my interview question. It worked well - about 2/3rds of highly credentialed applicants could not write a working implementation in 20 minutes.

I'd be interested to know why you feel that this is a useful interview question.

Implementing a well-known and widely implemented algorithm under stressful interview conditions wouldn't seem to me to demonstrate much about a candidate. In that situation I'd much rather be given a printout of some code and asked to talk around the implementation - how the code maps to the abstract algorithm, implementation trade-offs, readability, etc.
by pyman | 2025-07-16 11:09:08+00:00
Looks like someone needs to update Wikipedia :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Smith

> Smith began as an Agent, an AI program in the Matrix programmed to keep order within the system by terminating human simulacra that would bring instability to the simulated reality, as well as any rogue programs that no longer serve a purpose to the Machine collective.
by dan-robertson | 2025-07-16 11:09:22+00:00
I suppose one should expect ‘time to agi’ to be a function of:

1. Researchers

2. Productivity-enhancing things in the org (either technical stuff like frameworks/optimisations or nebulous social things like better collaboration)

3. Amount of available compute.

4. Luck

And then the past experience with openAI should help a lot with doing a good job of #1 and #2 even if it is just being a competent executive.
by 9dev | 2025-07-16 11:09:48+00:00
Actually I think this is hard to properly implement. If you're a small shop, really setting up backups with redundancies, writing the documentation, and testing disaster recovery, that's so much more work than people anticipate, and it has implications on all areas of the business, not just IT. So usually it's hard to justify to management why you would put in all that work and slow down operations—which leads to everyone postponing it.

Either that bites you sooner or later, or you're lucky and grow; suddenly, you're a larger organisation, and there are way too many moving parts to start from scratch. So you do a half-hearted attempt of creating a backup strategy held together by duct-tape and hope, that kinda-sorta should work in the worst case, write some LLM-assisted documentation that nobody ever reads, and carry on. You're understaffed and overworked anyway, people are engaging in shadow IT, your actual responsibilities demand attention, so that's the best you can do.

And then you've grown even bigger, you're a reputable company now, and then the consultants and auditors and customers with certification requirements come in. So that's when you actually have to put in the work, and it's going to be a long, gruesome, exhausting, and expensive project. Given, of course, that nobody fucks up in the mean time.
by cwillu | 2025-07-16 11:11:07+00:00
It's a pretty exact description: the universe is made of fields, smashing stable excitations of those fields together produces disturbances in other fields (“virtual particles”) that sometimes makes (fleetingly) stable excitations in other fields, which then fall apart through the same dance into different stable excitations than we started with, allowing us to prove that the field in the middle exists and start to determine its properties.

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
by stevesimmons | 2025-07-16 11:11:50+00:00
The key factor imo was Travis Oliphant merging the competing numeric and numarray libraries into numpy in 2005. That quickly became the foundation of Python as the key environment for open source numeric processing.

It brought across a ton of users from R and Matlab.

Pandas, Matplotlib and ScikitLearn then consolidated Python's place as the platform of choice for both academic and commercial ML.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-16 11:13:14+00:00
Is there any sense that your view of what HN "has always intended to be" needs to be updated in the face of changing relationships between tech and politics? Any reflection on the role this moderation policy has had on the broader world outside of tech?

I regularly see positively rated HN comments that are indistinguishable from stormfront posts 20 years ago. The main stream of tech leadership is directly involved in eliminationist & unconstitutional policies in the US and elsewhere, and uses their authority and influence within the tech industry to promote these racist political platforms.

Any reflection on how HN's moderation policy has allowed them to do so, the impact it has had in providing such fertile ground for them to work in? It seems that what HN was "always intended to be" has turned out to be an effective propaganda tool for one of the most destructive political movements in living memory. I wouldn't feel good about staying the course here.
by lambdaone | 2025-07-16 11:14:09+00:00
Purely symbolic AI has been tried and found wanting. Decades of research by hundreds of extremely bright people explored a large number of promising-looking approaches to no avail. Intuition tells us thinking is symbolic; the failure of symbolic systems tells us intution is most likely wrong.

What is interesting about current LLM-based systems is that they follow exactly the model suggested by this paper, by bolting together neural systems with symbol manipulation systems - to quote the paper "connectionism can be seen as a complementary component in a hybrid nonsymbolic/symbolic model of the mind, rather than a rival to purely symbolic modeling."

They are clearly also kludges. As you say, they are built on shaky foundations. But the success - at least compared to anything that has gone before - of kludged-together neural/symbolic systems suggests that the approach is more fertile than any that has gone before. They are also still far, far away from the AGI that has been predicted by their most enthusistic proponents.

My best guess is that future successful hard-problem-solving systems will combine neurosymbolic processing with formal theorem provers, where the neurosymbolic layer constructs proposals with candidate proofs, to submit to symbolic provers to test for success.
by watwut | 2025-07-16 11:14:14+00:00
It is because you read the translation that intentionally translated them into obscure hard to understand and interpret language. So that they poem feels more ancient and "serious" to reader.

But originally they were written in the language of the time and in the way that made them easy to remember for contemporaries. They had rhythm, because that is easier to remember. They contained a lot of repetition, because that is easier to remember.
by novaRom | 2025-07-16 11:15:14+00:00
Maybe because as from another comment: "Firefox is an antitrust litigation sponge". They also absorb some useful users feedback. But do they have a real intention to increase market share (which could be done easily)? They are well paid - see in other comments how much its CEO is earning. So, "antitrust litigation sponge" sounds plausible?
by pferde | 2025-07-16 11:15:40+00:00
This is called "break-glass procedure" in enterprise IT (as in "break glass in case of emergency"), and often consists of independent, normally unused, admin accounts on key systems, access info for which is locked in some safe location, e.g. physical safe in a secure location.

Testing this reliably is difficult, though, and often these procedures and their documentation is outdated.
by acdha | 2025-07-16 11:16:16+00:00
> Every single generation before ours had worse life outcomes in everyway than us. They had lower lifespans, struggled with food insecurity, Lack of travel accomodations, no access to education for the majority, nothing.

What’s your definition of our generation? What you described is true of multiple generations, and flat out wrong for things like lifespan in the United States which has been declining.