MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by empath75 | 2025-08-25 19:48:13+00:00
What I described isn't really an algorithm, it's just taking the digits of a number, let's say:

foo=3.14159265...

Where after 5 is some continuing sequence of decimals.

The series of functions is literally just:

foo(0) = 3 foo(1) = 3.1 foo(2) = 3.14...

And to be clear, it's not just like, an algorithm that estimates pi, it's literally just a list of return values that is infinitely long that return more and more digits of whatever the number is. That is actually how he defines pi.

https://youtu.be/lcIbCZR0HbU?si=3YxcHfPlCFrlr5h3&t=2080

pi _happens_ to be computable, and there are more efficient functions that will produce those numbers, but you could do the same thing with an incomputable number, you just need a definition for the number which is infinitely long.

To be clear, I don't think any of this is a good idea, just pointing out that if he's going to allow that kind of definition of pi (ie, admit a definition that is just an infinite list of decimal representations), you can just do the same thing with any real number you like. He of course will say that he's _not_ allowing any _infinite list_, only an arbitrary long one.
by dingnuts | 2025-08-25 19:48:21+00:00
yeah, I know, I'm addicted to this hellhole of a site. I hate it but I still open it every five minutes.

But that's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking specifically about people who've made a SoTA model their buddy, like the people who were sad when 4o disappeared. Users of character.ai. That sort of thing. It's going to get very, very expensive and provides very little value. People are struggling with rent. These services won't be able to survive, I hope, purely through causing psychosis in vulnerable people.
by cyberpunk | 2025-08-25 19:48:51+00:00
The latest South Park episode had a fairly funny bit about this whole thing, so I think we (society in general, I mean) are aware of this. I don't think there are any easy answers to prevent people getting sucked into these sort of problems though. I mean, look at how much people shared on social media back in its early days. Stories are coming out every week about how people have been waylaid by these properties.

Education I guess is the answer, but we don't even seem to be able to properly educate children about pornography and social media, let alone the subtleties of interacting with AIs..
by da_chicken | 2025-08-25 19:49:21+00:00
See, I would be terrified of doing that because different RDBMSs and languages store and sort UUIDs differently. A UUID is not just a number. It's a structured data format.

Both MariaDB and SQL Server have dedicated data types for UUIDs, and they sort in an unexpected order if you're unfamiliar with the structure of a UUID or the endianness of certain portions of it. Oracle assumes it's going to be binary, but the generating function SYS_GUID() has some endianness issues you can run into. Meanwhile, PostgreSQL kist sorts them like a string!

Similarly, if you're using .Net to generate a native GUID type and passing that through your RDBMS provider, it may arrive and be stored differently due to that endianness problem.

Expecting that every SQLite database is going to be storing UUIDs in an identical manner seems insane to me.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-08-25 19:49:45+00:00
> Education I guess is the answer

If these are real problems, hell no, because education has never forced anyone to do anything right.

You can yell about the dangers of STDs until you are blue in the face, but 20% of the population carries one.

You can yell about the dangers of speeding just 5 MPH with graphic imagery in drivers ed, but 35% of adults go 10+ MPH over in residential areas every month.

The answer, quite literally, is possibly age verification, outright bans, or mandatory licensing. None of which are priced into the stock market.

However, any government will quickly realize that having up to a quarter of your population vulnerable to developing psychosis and mental problems (due to 27% of the population experiencing at least some form of mental illness just in the last year, making them presumably more vulnerable to AI) is absolutely literally financially impossible to allow freedom in experimenting with.
by TZubiri | 2025-08-25 19:49:58+00:00
Confirmed:

>$dig io >$dig a0.nic.io >$whois 65.22.160.17

OrgName: Afilias, Inc. OrgId: AFILI-2 Address: 10500 NE 8th Street City: Bellevue StateProv: WA PostalCode: 98004 Country: US
by andrewmonostate | 2025-08-25 19:50:00+00:00
OP here.

This is a project I built during the YC hackathon. The idea was to make fine-tuning as simple as describing vibe coding, but with proper rails - no notebooks, no GPU setup, pytorch problems, venv chaos, etc, no ML background required. You tell the system “train a model that does X” (or “make customer support sound like a surfer”), and it:

• searches Hugging Face for relevant datasets • generates synthetic examples to fill the gaps • runs a LoRA fine-tune 3 epoch run • streams logs/metrics live • then saves + optionally pushes to the Hub (will exports GGUF for mobile testing too)

What I’m trying to explore is: • Make it easy to any professional or researcher of any field to create a purpose built model -> classifiers for example; • Synthetic data -> Everyone uses it, but no public pipeline yet (datasetdirector.com should be a standalone for that - still on development) • Fast iteration -> training in a coffee break instead of a weekend.

What I need to know is if this is interesting and valuable to anyone!
by tensor | 2025-08-25 19:50:19+00:00
Yes, but many places in the EU use proportional representation or something close to it, so even if those parties gain significant traction, there is still protection as they are forced to work together with the rest of the parties.

In contrast, my own country Canada is far more at risk of the rise of an authoritarian adjacent party. A party with majority control has too much power here, and lack of proportional representation also means that majority control can be achieved with less than 50% of the voting population supporting you.

This is why I say the EU has better protections. The existence of parties that want more authoritarian control shouldn't be a measure of the health of a democratic system. In fact, somehow forcing these parties out would be pretty against the principles of democracy and free speech.

I do suppose its worth asking the question of whether democracy should allow the voting down of democracy itself, but I don't think the EU is at risk of that as a whole, even if a few member states are.
by jmaestrooper | 2025-08-25 19:50:19+00:00
I very much disagree. Terms and definitions matter, and in this case what you mean by "AI" changes the answer. Again, general-purpose LLMs might be a dead end. Specialized neural networks are not. One might argue that even specialized LLMs (ie fine tuned for code generation) have ways to go, too.

I'm not sure about target audience of the TheRegister but here on HN we should be more precise in our discussion.
by al_borland | 2025-08-25 19:50:50+00:00
I bought a cheap Beelink mini pc to tinker around with. It didn't take long before something went wrong. It still technically works, but I can't simply reboot it anymore. I have to unplug the power, let it sit for 10-20 seconds, plug it back in and then boot. It's too annoying, so it's basically trash at this point. I tried a new PS, but that didn't help. I assume there is a bad capacitor in there or something.

I've had great luck with Mac minis over the years. I've had many of them. I'll probably go that route in the future if needed.

I know there are better quality x86 options out there, but the prices go up fast, and I find them hard to justify for what I'd be doing with it. The Mac is really price competitive, which makes it even harder to justify those other options.
by altairprime | 2025-08-25 19:50:52+00:00
Your viewpoint of there being one true way of spectrum gradation under restricted device domains is not universally agreed upon; neither among designers, nor among the ‘normal’ population. No other way is the one true way, either! What works well for a PC sRGB display will be drab and lifeless on a laser cinema projection systems. Printers have faced this problem for centuries and innovated to use glass (long ago) and brushed-metal prints (more recently) as a way to regain control of luminosity independent of saturation and to express their design in less restrictive ways. The only ‘normal’ in this scenario is the shared agreements we make, and the primacy of sRGB’s desaturated brights as the sole exclusive agreement is ending.

(Since this reminded me of it, a random pro tip: For those using macOS Terminal.app, you can redefine the 16 ANSI colors using the full P3 colorspace, so long as you use the full GUI color picker rather than the sRGB-limited #rrggbb entry method. Access to improved saturation helps the eye distinguish different shades in the dim and bright color sets more effectively without having to alter their brightness. It won’t improve the limitations of ANSI color as a whole — the insistence on Luminosity = f(R,G,B) is baked into everyone’s assumptions quite deeply thanks to sRGB! — but it does at least mean you can have seven equidistant and non-desaturated, non-sRGB colors at two levels of brightness for syntax highlighting and other typical 16-color uses.)
by itishappy | 2025-08-25 19:50:58+00:00
I disagree somewhat. Color mixing just isn't particularly intuitive. It's not the most intuitive to get a third hue, but that doesn't justify grey (which has an undefined hue). I do think most people are quite comfortable with the fact that between blue and yellow exists green, but is it a saturated green or a desaturated green? Additive and subtractive color mixing behave very differently here.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-08-25 19:52:02+00:00
>On the other hand, the Great Wayland Security Theater probably doesn't admit such riff-raff.

I really tried switching over to sway / wayland a couple years back, but there were just so. many. things. which, despite wayland being 'the future' and 'ready for prime time' among proponents just bugged the heck out of me.

Why is it an act of congress to setup screen sharing / recording. Like sure it works for this one fork of OBS but if I'm trying to set up a telehealth session with my doctor all of a sudden I can't share my screen? Or global hotkeys don't work? I can't easily redshift my monitor at night? Pulse audio is jank for some unknown reason (Idk if this was even related)

It was just death by a thousand cuts. When it really came down to it, wayland added nothing but headaches to my life without any discernible benefit. None of it's 'selling points' meant anything to me.

Then suddenly I remembered I'm no longer the early adopter / OSS enthusiast I was in my youth. I'm now a grumpy grey beard who just wants things to work. I installed pop 22 with gnome on xorg and went on with my life. I think it's pretty telling that cosmic was released in alpha this time last year and it's still there today. While I realize that writing a DE is a big undertaking, they were basically trying for a fresh rewrite of gnome's UI in rust under wayland. No way it would have taken this long if they were targeting x.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-25 19:52:48+00:00
Trump literally cannot sign an executive order to criminalize anything. Executive orders just instruct his branch to take some action. Congress still has to pass the law.

You know the best thing about all of these executive orders? It allows a future president to literally wipe out every single order with a single order nullifying them. He's making it rather simple to delete his entire legacy.
by jajuuka | 2025-08-25 19:53:02+00:00
Then you're familiar with the process of getting a DUNS number. Because that is a massive barrier for individual devs and small teams. That is actual legal paperwork. Not having to do that makes the process significantly easier.

It's not a massive privacy breach. If you are so anti-Google yet use their devices then most likely you're already only distributing to GrapheneOS or LineageOS anyway. For most people who already have a Google account this is a very small bar to clear.
by martin-t | 2025-08-25 19:53:08+00:00
Human time is valuable, LLM time is not. If you spend hundreds of hours creating something, nobody should have the right to copy (verbatim or with automatic modifications) it unless you allow them.

Human rights are valuable. LLMs allow laundering GPL code (removing both attribution and users' rights to inspect and modify the code). Free software cannot compete against proprietary in a world where making a copy is trivial but proving it's a copy is nearly impossible.
by jonathaneunice | 2025-08-25 19:53:19+00:00
LOLWUT? Hyperscalers and HPC data centers have been very concerned about power and thermal density for decades IME. If you're just running web sites or VM farms, sure keep racks cooler and more power efficient. But for those that deeply care about performance, distance drives latency. That drives a huge demand to "pack things closely" and that drives thermal density up, up, up. "Hot enough to roast a pig" was a fintech data center meme of 20 years go, back at 20kW+ racks. Today you're not really cooking until you get north of 30kW.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-08-25 19:53:19+00:00
Well this is how Chinese shippers on Amazon were able to sell goods so cheaply; in addition to the U.S. subsidizing Chinese mail costs. This will lead to a more fair and just system in the future. While the halt may seem like a bad thing, the dictation of global commerce means it's really symbolic. They can't withhold mail forever
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-25 19:53:27+00:00
MIPS isn’t a standard, but an enhancement (and there is some argument that its benefits are overstated: e.g. you’ll get some beneficial slippage in your helmet if it isn’t as tight as possible, if you have hair, or if the thing you hit is more slippery than asphalt)

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45018181
by oooyay | 2025-08-25 19:53:42+00:00
I find myself in the odd position of disagreeing with you and the person you responded to.

First, software engineering doesn't just consist of Computer Science majors. We have a lot of people from accounting, physics, or people who have no degree at all. Teaching this concept in CS fixes very little.

Second, and complimentary to the first, is that asymptotic behavior is derivative of the lessons you learn in Calculus. You can't really full understand it beyond a facade unless you have a rudimentary understanding of Calculus. If you want to put this theory to the test then ask someone with a functional understanding of Big-O to write asymptotic notation for a moderately complex function.

I don't have a degree and in order to really understand asymptotics (and Big-O as well as the others) I read a primer on Calculus. It doesn't take a ton of knowledge or reading but a decent background is what will get you there. I do think we need a lot better continuing education in software that goes beyond O'Reilly style technical books that could fill this gap.
by amalcon | 2025-08-25 19:53:55+00:00
This one kind of smells like Trump throwing a bone to the court and feeding his base's persecution complex. I highly doubt that he actually cares about flag burning. The court can rule against him here (answering the criticism that they always rule in Trump's favor). Then he can tell his people that the court is biased against him.

I'm not usually the kind of person to speculate about hidden motives like this. Frankly I think this kind of move is usually too uncertain to make sense. It could always just be one of his frequent semi-random actions like renaming the Gulf of Mexico. If I assume it's a considered action, though, I can't come up with another explanation for it.
by joshstrange | 2025-08-25 19:54:03+00:00
Before I saw this comment I thought that's how it "fixed" it. I recorded my screen so I could slow it down and see what it said and sure enough:

I've made the following change: 1. Added a fixed height of `h-[298px]` to match the tallest card (which was 298px)

Screenshot: https://cs.joshstrange.com/d75pC236

This joins the ranks of prominent demos on the landing page that do the wrong or silly thing. It really makes it hard to take some things seriously.

That said, I like the overall idea of this. I think that Claude Code and friends will get way more powerful as we find ways to feed them better (not necessarily more) context.
by nutjob2 | 2025-08-25 19:54:13+00:00
> In practice of course, my phone is 100% permanently in "do not disturb" mode and does not ring at all unless I've added you to my contact list.

I go even further, unless there is a good reason for someone to have the ability disturb me, they're not whitelisted. I have no phones that ring unless it's for a specific and temporary purpose.

A ringing phone is an anachronism, it's incredible to me that people let anyone bother them in this way these days. Its an invasion of ones personal space.
by geephroh | 2025-08-25 19:54:21+00:00
YMMV, but it works for my org. We're an archival institution and have been using git-annex for more than a decade as the storage backend for a digital repository system designed for long-term, robust preservation. Admittedly, we only have 15-20 staff; but +30TB of data, ~750K files (binaries + metadata), across hundreds of collection repos.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-25 19:54:23+00:00
I suspect this won't be disastrous for Google, because where will people care about this go? Apple, who is even more restrictive? This is just another in a long series of incidents showing why we desperately need a real alternative to the mobile duopoly. I would ditch Android over this, but there's no realistic alternative available to me.

Damn the future sucks ass.
by korkybuchek | 2025-08-25 19:54:35+00:00
> Google's bot was one of the few well behaved ones and would even slow scraping if it saw a spike in the response times.

Google has invested decades of core research with an army of PhDs into its crawler, particularly around figuring out when to recrawl a page. For example (a bit dated, but you can follow the refs if you're interested):

https://www.niss.org/sites/default/files/Tassone_interface6....
by antiloper | 2025-08-25 19:54:35+00:00
Why even run Android at that point anymore? iOS devices get security updates for longer and have much less data collection than stock Android.

GrapheneOS won't survive the next generation of devices because bootloader unlocking will also go away (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939), and without kernel security updates that OS can't continue.

Now there's also no more sideloading, so what purpose does Android even serve anymore?
by anticorporate | 2025-08-25 19:55:12+00:00
This sounds good in principle, but I think it would be helpful to have some real numbers to look at in terms of lifecycle management before deciding.

Are mini-PCs actually more likely to have a shorter lifespan? Does the smaller physical footprint contribute to a smaller ecological footprint than a full-sized machine? Does the smaller energy consumption offset the manufacture footprint in a meaningful way?

Personally, I found that I've been more likely to donate older mini-PCs to local nonprofits who repurpose them than I am full-sized machines, which I tend to keep around for "just in case" parts scavenging that in practice I rarely actually do. Meanwhile, having a lower cost mini-PC available has made me more likely to start out with a low power machine for a dedicated task with them promise I can always replace it with a "real" machine if the need ends up requiring it. To date, though, the mini-PC has always ended up proving to be "enough" and I've never actually needed to replace one for performance reasons.

But this is just anecdotal. Like I said, I'm curious if there's any real data pointing one way or another.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-25 19:55:49+00:00
I think that under-appreciates the slippery slope of political leverage. There's a reason Iowa is so hell-bent on keeping their primaries first.

Without explicitly and financially tying subsidy-fueled gains to modernization efforts, market participants begin to consider the subsidies as business as usual, plan around them, and get lazy.*

It removes a primary incentive to maintain pace with global technology improvements. Domestic industry whispers in politicians' ears that their global competitors are unfair for reasons X, Y, and Z, and they really need more subsidies to protect them.

{Benefit from politically driving new tariffs / subsidies} must never be higher than {benefit from investing in efficiency increases}.

* Lazy as measured by peak international efficiency, not work. E.g. a farmer who works their ass off manually farming is economically inefficient compared to one who mechanizes most of their work
by gspencley | 2025-08-25 19:55:49+00:00
The thing about automated systems is that they typically cover the happy paths, and leave people who fall outside of those happy paths extremely frustrated.

Take automated phone menu systems, for example.

"If you are calling about X, press 1

If you are calling about Y, press 2

If you are calling about Z, press 3"

customers presses 0 because they are calling about none-of-the-above and wants to talk to a human

"I'm sorry. I don't recognize that menu option. To hear the options again, please press 9."

Oh just today, to give another example of how automation can seriously frustrate end users, I'm trying to get a Square POS account approved for my new business. Their automated verification system sent me a form requesting more information about my business because certain information "could not be verified." One of the questions on the form was asking me to explain a discrepancy between the legal business name I typed in when setting up the account and the business name as it appears on the articles of incorporation that I submitted. The discrepancy in question: white-space and capitalization. No human being would read the two strings as distinct or recognize any discrepancy. Only software does that.
by shahakshat609 | 2025-08-25 19:56:03+00:00
Most brokerages sell your oldest shares by default. That invisible setting can cost you thousands in taxes.

Here’s a simple scenario: You need $20K for house downpayment, so you log in and sell 100 shares. Done.

What most people don’t realize: by default, your brokerage likely sells your oldest, cheapest shares. That choice matters for taxes.

Example:

I hold 300 shares of Amazon (current price $210).

If I let the brokerage sell my oldest lot(bought at $180) → $3,000 capital gain → ~$900 tax bill (30% rate).

If I instead specify a different lot(bought at $230) → $2,000 loss → can offset gains or income → ~$600 tax savings.

Same 100 shares sold. A $1,500 swing in taxes.

This isn’t about trading strategies. It’s just about being intentional with which tax lots you sell. Most investors don’t even know they have that choice.

I only discovered this last year, and it surprised me enough that I built a tool, ProfiTree- to help track and optimize these decisions.

Curious if others here have run into the same issue. Do you actively choose tax lots when selling, or just let the default ride?
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-25 19:56:04+00:00
It depends on the particular construction. You could construct the "complex rational field" by adding i to the rationals with the rule i^2 = -1. That seems to be what Wildberger is ok with. The standard complex numbers involve adding i to the real numbers, which Wildberger doesn't like.

I don't know how you'd do electrical engineering with the rational complex field, because electrical engineering and physics in general involves a lot of irrational quantities and calculus, and the standard foundations of these concepts use real numbers.

It's really up to finitists to show that there are problems with these methods and that they have a better way of doing things, because so far the standard way seems to work very well.