MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by garciasn | 2025-08-18 21:33:28+00:00
Trump nominated E.J. Antoni to lead the BLS. According to CBS News here is his background some of his recent comments (source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-bureau-of-labor-statistic...).

>Antoni is a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, and he holds a doctorate in economics from Northern Illinois University. He's defended Mr. Trump's economic policy moves in the past, including the president's tariff strategy. He has also criticized the BLS for low response rates and questioned the agency's methodology, calling its health insurance figures "phoney baloney" last year and at one point joking that "the 'L' is silent" in BLS' name.

>"DOGE needs to take a chainsaw to the BLS...," he wrote in a November post on X.

>"There are better ways to collect, process, and disseminate data—that is the task for the next BLS commissioner, and only consistent delivery of accurate data in a timely manner will rebuild the trust that has been lost over the last several years," he wrote shortly after Mr. Trump fired the former BLS chief.

Please read through Erika McEntarfer's Wikipedia page and then EJ Antoni's and decide, for yourself, who may be better suited for the role:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.J._Antoni

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As someone who has made a career out of working in analytics, data engineering, and data science, I can tell you that I'm very much a skeptic, but I value, highly, honesty, experience, rigor, and business acumen. Only one of these two has those.
by andy99 | 2025-08-18 21:35:16+00:00
$40B seems very low. I wouldn't be surprised to find the annual corporate churn on innovation / transformation / IT/IM new initiatives whatever you call it, is way higher than that. There's some subset of corporate spend that's just chasing new stuff and keeping up on what the hot topics are.

I think there is a bubble, if it's really just $40B maybe I'm wrong.
by DrillShopper | 2025-08-18 21:35:18+00:00
You're going to have to wait until Texas voters collectively grow the ability to reason and a backbone before you can toggle that option off (yes, I know it's not all of them but the fact that Abbot and company aren't metaphorically tarred and feathered then run out of town on a rail for even suggesting redistricting right now is telling)
by tzs | 2025-08-18 21:35:45+00:00
> Most manufacturers offer a warranty somewhere in the range of 8 to 10 years, and 100,000 miles. That usually means that if your battery is below 70% health within either 8 years or 100,000 miles, they’ll replace it for you.

This disagrees with pretty much every other source I've been able to find. An N year/M mile warranty is good until whichever of N years or M miles you hit first.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-08-18 21:37:41+00:00
Found this through the Go blog where they've done some special work to support it recently in their FIPS-140-3 effort:

https://go.dev/blog/fips140

Nonce management with AES GCM is a huge pain, and I think this provides a way to just throw more randomness at the problem and stop worrying about it.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-18 21:37:46+00:00
> - Rails handles our API, domain logic, and billing workflows.

> - Go powers services that need high I/O concurrency or long-lived network connections.

> - Rust handles CPU-bound jobs.

It's always amazed me than the discourse around dynamic vs. static languages is that you can't have both.

Like, dynamic languages are literally built on a foundation of static, compiled languages. Ruby's source is C and now some Rust.

So just build in Ruby and when you hit a bottleneck, rewrite that bottleneck in C or Rust...
by andsoitis | 2025-08-18 21:38:12+00:00
> Programs should be valid as they are typed.

Not possible. There are more keystrokes that result in invalid programs (you are still writing the code!!) than keystrokes that result in a valid program.

More seriously, I do think that one consideration is that code is read more often that written, so fluidity in reading and comprehension seem more important to me than “a program should be valid after each keystroke.
by yorwba | 2025-08-18 21:38:16+00:00
Mixture-of-Depths trains the model to choose different numbers of layers for different tokens to reduce inference compute. This method is more like stochastic depth / layer dropout, where whether or not the intermediate layers are skipped for a token is random independent of the token value, and they're only using it as a training optimization. As far as I can tell, during inference all tokens are always processed by all layers.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-18 21:38:29+00:00
If you think copyright law as we know it will survive what's happening today, then... wow. No chance.

Copyright is not a natural right. We pulled it out of our asses, very recently at that, to meet socioeconomic goals that existed at the time. It can and will go back where it came from, if it turns out that AI is indeed a better way to organize, analyze, and distribute human knowledge.

Even if AI doesn't turn to be anything all that revolutionary, we'll still need to update the law to address both training input and ownership of generated content. Congress and eventually the international community will have to resolve a large number of conflicting legal judgments, unless we want to leave it up to SCOTUS in the US and various unelected judges and bureaucrats elsewhere.
by mr_toad | 2025-08-18 21:38:37+00:00
There are some very large single celled organisms that aren’t eggs. E.g.:

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

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

Even some bacteria can grow to visible size:

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

There are some other examples here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-18 21:38:50+00:00
> Suburbanites who are only active while engaging in intentional exercise because they need to get in their car to go anywhere are in the worst situation.

This is true. We have nowhere to go on foot. In every direction we have roads, private property and that's it.

If we walk we risk automobile/pedestrian injury, unless we'd prefer to risk trespassing charges. This is also the full selection of kids' choices, btw.
by bsder | 2025-08-18 21:39:13+00:00
> A big reason why others did not have power is because those that did did not reduce their consumption by much.

First, that was the big manufacturers. ERCOT couldn't force big companies off the grid, and they didn't go off grid until the press noticed and started complaining.

Second, the Texas grid has insufficient granularity to actually shed enough non-critical load to do rolling blackouts. There are too many "critical" things connected to the same circuits as non-critical ones, and it would cost money to split those loads (something Texas just ain't gonna do).

Third, the base production got hit because fundamental natural gas infrastructure wasn't winterized, froze and exacerbated the whole situation. It would cost money to fix. (aka: something Texas just ain't gonna do)

Finally, when you don't have big industrial consumers defining your power grid (aka massive overprovisioning), you can't "shed load" your way out of trouble.

The fundamental problem is that, like so many things in the US economy, personal consumption is so low that it doesn't help when the problem is systemic. We've optimized houses with insulation, LED lighting, high-efficiency appliances, etc. Consequently, the difference between "minimal to not die" and "fuck it, who cares" in terms of consumption differential isn't sufficiently large to matter when a crisis hits.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-08-18 21:39:24+00:00
The VCs are the small players in this bubble now. Big traditional finance is helping Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon build out their datacenters, and the infrastructure to power them. VCs have a lot of money compared to your startup, but they can’t finance a trillion dollars in construction projects.

They’re all so highly levered up that they can’t afford for the bubble to pop. If this goes on for another couple of years before the pop, we may see “too big to fail” wheeled out to justify a bailout of Google or Microsoft.
by ktallett | 2025-08-18 21:39:44+00:00
I greatly question why the initial hype was ever thought of as factual and why those in the know believed they could develop at any significant pace considering it has taken LLM'S almost 40 years to get to where they are today which is inaccurate factually, useful for admin tasks level of functional. It feels as though every once in a while those in tech seem to get blinkered by the latest craze that they ignore all the warning signs from every tech company that previously over promised in a similar way.
by observationist | 2025-08-18 21:40:53+00:00
Kelley 1960 (the gradient/adjoint flight‑path paper) https://perceptrondemo.com

AIAA 65‑701 (1965) “optimum thrust programming” for lunar transfers via steepest descent (Apollo‑era) https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1965-701

Meditch 1964 (optimal thrust programming for lunar landing) https://openmdao.github.io/dymos/examples/moon_landing/moon_...

Smith 1967 & Colunga 1970 (explicit Apollo‑type trajectory/re‑entry optimization using adjoint gradients) https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19670015714

One thing AI has been great for, recently, has been search for obscure or indirect references like this, that might be one step removed from any specific thing you're searching for, or if you have a tip-of-the-tongue search where you might have forgotten a phrase, or know you're using the wrong wording.

It's cool that you can trace the work of these rocket scientists all the way to the state of the art AI.
by wjrb | 2025-08-18 21:41:42+00:00
Wow, I remember when this feature was planned/announced. It's great to see first class support for the Dataview-type workflows.

I hope the API has support to allow extensions---I see that it is on the Roadmap[0].

I'm particularly interested to see how this integrates with Canvas and other note types.

[0]: https://obsidian.md/roadmap/
by LordDragonfang | 2025-08-18 21:42:17+00:00
I've been using bases (in beta) for a month or so for the vault I keep for the notes for each of the (many) D&D/ttrpg campaigns I play in, and it's really made it a ton easier to get an overview of e.g. the many different NPCs we meet and interact with, and the relevant info (name/pronouns/pic/race/class/etc) all in one place.

The Obsidian dev team has been really responsive to feedback from those of us in the beta, and I'd encourage people to look at the changelog to see that in action (e.g. changing the syntax to be more object oriented, smoothing over UI issues, etc)
by giantrobot | 2025-08-18 21:42:52+00:00
> You got nearly every forum and HN thread that even tangently mention systemd, flooded with people proclaiming systemd to be the spawn of the devil "forced down their throat".

There's a large cohort of Linux users whose entire personality is "I'M A CoNtRaRiAn!" and argued against systemd because Red Hat was pushing it. Reddit was filled with such a minority of loud anti-systemd trolls. Pushed for reasons for their disdain you'd get non-sensical or baseless replies. The best ones were known bugs that had been closed for months.
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-18 21:42:53+00:00
I do keep joking that I've got hundreds of dollars to invest in the first restaurant that wants to be the McDonald's of EV Charging. (The early business model of McDonald's was notoriously putting one near almost every interstate exit so it became a ubiquitous staple of the driving landscape.) Could be McDonald's itself. The Sonic-style of sit-in-your car "drive in" restaurant seems almost like a preternatural echo of an EV restaurant business. It would be a beautiful irony if Cracker Barrel decided EV charging was the next great idea; sit in a rocking chair and peruse the gift shop of very analog goods while you wait for your car to charge sounds like a smart business model to me.

Some company that wants a restaurant near every interstate exit to build their brand is going to figure out that the economics of electric charging are simpler than they expect and with it they build a potentially very loyal audience of travelers with easily 30+ minutes a stop on their hands to eat, shop, what-have-you. Maybe it will be one of the old guard of such restaurants, maybe it will be a new disruptor. If someone on HN wants to start it, I have a very tiny seed fund round in the hundreds of dollars to invest.
by ashishb | 2025-08-18 21:43:01+00:00
Sikkim is one of the most beautiful states in India. And surprisingly a fairly prosperous one[1].

Thankfully, the mistake of Tibet where India helped Chinese army was not repeated.[2]

1 - https://ashishb.net/travel/gorkhaland-west-bengal-and-sikkim... 2 - https://latest.sundayguardianlive.com/news/nehrus-india-help...
by disposition2 | 2025-08-18 21:43:07+00:00
I’ll be curious to see if they ever provide a reason for the reduced functionality. From an outsider’s prospective, it seems like they just want to make it harder for citizens to be able to comment

Or based off of this comment, maybe they are just looking to limit API usage and ensure only that only institutions that align with the current administration’s wishes (i.e. Heritage Foundation) have API access.

> As of Friday, the POST method will no longer be allowed for all users *with the exception of approved use cases by federal agencies*

If the motivation is the latter, I wonder if there would be any legal recourse for other institutions that have had previous access revoked?
by amy_petrik | 2025-08-18 21:43:34+00:00
The solution to spam is that everyone replies to the spam and engages up to the point that human labor is required, thus making it financially impractictable

The solution to this problem is not to provide YOUR ID but to provide AN ID, again and again, once per day. Again - cannot scale if a manual check is done by a human somewhere, flipside if it's fully automated now it's game-able
by daemonologist | 2025-08-18 21:45:00+00:00
Parakeet is amazing - 3000x real-time on an A100 and 5x real-time even on a laptop CPU, while being more accurate than whisper-large-v3 (https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard). NeMo is a little awkward though; I'm amazed it runs locally on Mac (for MacWhisper).
by bawolff | 2025-08-18 21:46:43+00:00
Yeah. I personally think the original bitcoin whitepaper is a work of genius. Balancing the soft game theory incentives with hard cryptography garuntees is really cool.

I'd love to see more systems exploring this combination approach. There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that.

Its everything that came after that point that is the problem.
by tptacek | 2025-08-18 21:46:58+00:00
This is a neat project, I don't know why you'd want to set it up with this comparison to Xbow. As someone who works (worked? I'm non-ironically still trying to figure out if I belong in this space post-AI!) in this space and knows some of the actors, I'm pretty sure there's more to Xbow than ~1800 lines of prompts. Like: this is your RCE template prompt:

https://github.com/usestrix/strix/blob/main/strix/prompts/vu...

... and this is great, I'm not dunking, but pretty basic?

We just had the DARPA AIxCC results come in, and those systems are (1) open source and (2) presumably simpler/less polished than Xbow (some of the authors will be quick to tell you that they're doing PoC work, not product development), and (3) they're more complicated than this.

Again, to be super clear: I think there's a huge amount of potential in building something like this up. Nessus was much simpler than ISS when it first shipped, but you'd rather be Nessus than an ISS scanner developer! I'm just: why set this bar for your project?

Best of luck with this!
by hereme888 | 2025-08-18 21:47:10+00:00
Earlier today I discovered Vibe: https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe

Local, using WhisperX. Precompiled binaries available.

I'm hoping to find and try a local-first version of an nvidia/canary like (like https://huggingface.co/nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5b) since it's almost twice as fast as Whisper with even lower word-error-rate
by taeric | 2025-08-18 21:47:50+00:00
"I want 'first_name, last_name, and average(grade)' for my report." That is easy enough to state without knowing anything about how the data is normalized.

Back when I worked to support a data science team, I actually remember taking some of their queries and stripping everything but the select so that I could see what they were trying to do and I could add in the correct parts of the rest.
by kiitos | 2025-08-18 21:48:01+00:00
you said

I talk to extremely experienced programmers whose opinions I have valued for many years before the current LLM boom who are now flying with LLMs - I trust their aggregate judgement.

but every time i've seen you comment on this website or other similar websites on the topic of using LLMs for coding, at least half of the responses you get express precisely the opposite perspective -- that they are not flying with LLMs at all

so i think it is disingenuous to make claims like that without at least acknowledging the differences in experience which are pretty clearly demonstrated

this wouldn't be particularly worth mentioning, if it weren't for the fact that you comment extensively, prolifically, on agentic coding topics, on this website and many others, and your comments are generally effusively and uncritically positive, no matter what responses you get, over time, from anyone
by tptacek | 2025-08-18 21:49:00+00:00
It is if you can keep a baseline level of quality uniform across both your customers and each of your customers projects. It's less OK if the human-assisted output is a loss-leader you burn on the pilot project, the first couple projects, or high-profile customers.

There's nothing fundamentally bad about having Oompa Loompa's behind the scenes, as long as you're honest about the outcomes you can provide.

I agree, though: also a very sensible way to prioritize development work.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-08-18 21:49:04+00:00
We are all aware that public projects can fail. However, it does not logically follow that because some public projects fail, that all public projects fail, or even that most fail. Nor does it logically follow that because some private projects succeed, that all private projects will succeed.

Your LLM mentions two examples of failed public airports. Counterpoint: ATL is the worlds busiest airport by a few different metrics, and it is publicly owned and managed. So are most (maybe all?) of the rest of the worlds busiest airports. What does that mean?

By analogy: just because a person doubles down on a misinformed take using an LLM's output as evidence, that everything they think and know is false and misinformed by LLMs is not a foregone conclusion. It would be silly for me to think that someone that uses bad arguments once, or the same bad argument repeatedly in an online thread, is always going to be wrong.

You could do us all a service if you used your chatGPT account to learn about the basics of formal logic and sound arguments instead of spamming this thread with the same response from a machine that you asked for a biased output.
by herf | 2025-08-18 21:49:06+00:00
Thank you for doing this - I think there are two lines in the sand that a true "user agent" would allow us to set:

1. Don't show recommended content at all--I want to view only the content I've specifically asked for (or searched for) in this session

2. Recommend only content that I've chosen (e.g., by following), where there is a finite amount of it

You'd like such things to be part of the basic wiring of your device, though writing an app to regulate how other apps work is often not easy to implement today, so efforts like this are super valuable. What if a device could look after your attention and ensure you have the motivation to do other things?

Another way these kinds of switches could get built by requiring them as child safety features, like "Watch the YouTube video for school, but don't get an assault of Shorts after" or "See the single TikTok your friend sent, but don't spend five hours scrolling after"

It's pretty clear "willpower" does not suffice.
by kenjackson | 2025-08-18 21:49:45+00:00
If you view this around identity then its pretty straightfoward.

Republicans are the party of the dominant group and maintaining their power. Democrats are the party of the non-dominant groups and speading power across groups. Everything else is just chips to push these two agendas. And I think this is why Republicans will have a long-term advantage. The dominant group is by definition the group in power and its the group that people eventually want to be in (see Hispanics). No one wants to stay in the out-group.
Show HN: AI agentic, no-code platform for automated forex trading
by ymaini | 2025-08-18 21:50:31+00:00
We just launched OrynTrade — think of it as TradingView, but with AI agents built-in, focused entirely on forex traders (for now).

Why we built this: Most traders use TradingView to chart and test ideas, but turning those ideas into automated strategies still requires coding, custom integrations, or buying opaque black-box bots. We wanted a platform that combines charting + AI guidance + live execution in one place.

What it does today: • TradingView-style charting — real-time forex data with the indicators you already use. • AI strategy agents — instead of coding, you describe rules (e.g., “Buy when RSI crosses 30 and MACD turns positive”), and an AI agent helps structure, refine, and validate them. • Instant backtesting — run those strategies across years of historical forex data. • Deploy as trading agents — launch agents that trade automatically through our paper trading and broker integration (not available in beta as we are still working out broker integrations). • Transparency — you see exactly why an agent takes each trade (no black box).

Who it’s for: • Traders who use TradingView but wish it could trade for them. • People curious about algorithmic trading but don’t want to learn Pine Script or Python. • Forex traders looking for structure, consistency, and automation.

How it’s different: • AI agents baked in — guiding you step by step, not just charting. • End-to-end — from idea → backtest → live agent, all in one platform. • Forex-first — built around the quirks of forex markets, prop challenges, and 24/5 trading.

We’re in early beta, and would love HN’s feedback: • What pain points do you hit with TradingView or algo tools today? • Which integrations (stocks, crypto, more brokers) would you want next? • How much “AI help” feels useful vs. too much?
by icelancer | 2025-08-18 21:50:54+00:00
Been using WhisperX myself for years. The big factor is the diarization they offer through pyannotate in the single package. I do like the software even if they make some weird choices and configuration issues.

Allegedly Groq will be offering diarization with their cloud offering and super fast API which will be huge for those willing to go off-local.
by Aachen | 2025-08-18 21:52:09+00:00
Wait, I'm confused. The text here says all data remains on device and emphasises how much you can trust that, that you're obsessed with local-first software, etc. Clicking on the demo video, step one is... configuring access tokens for external services? Are the services shown at 0:21 (Groq, OpenAI, Antrophic, Google, ElevenLabs) doing the actual transcription, listening to everything I say, and is only the resulting text that they give us subject to "it all stays on your device"? Because that's not at all what I expected after reading this description