MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eviks | 2025-08-04 19:32:18+00:00
> and what a pain in the ass it was to find the specific symbols I needed.

But that's exactly the same issue with the hardware solution - you can't use Ctrl+F to find by name and you can't see all the many symbols on the keyboard itself. You'd need a software solution to show a visual searchable "cheat sheet", and also you can map more mathy keys to an existing bigger keyboard, where entering some symbols will be way more natural, e.g., for greeks you can map most of them to different A and B latin keys instead of having both αβ on the same key. Similarly, you could do map ℤ to Z and ℕ to N, so these would be simpler to remember/input than using a dedicated keypad, so the printed symbols on the keypad aren't that useful anymore.
by codingdave | 2025-08-04 19:32:52+00:00
> I vibe coded...

Well, there ya go.

To be fair, it says the attention was unexpected, and this was just a coding exercise... And the port-mortem shows what I'd hope to see: digging in and figuring out root causes. So I'm not judging OP poorly over this.

But still. Launching a vibe-coded app that accepts input from anonymous users is just asking for trouble. I'm frankly surprised it ran as long as it did without such problems. (Although I did see a few weenies swimming around even before the problem hours.)

The lesson I'd pull from this is that if you are not the type of dev who could put together a post-mortem along these lines... don't launch a vibe-coded app.
by EPendragon | 2025-08-04 19:32:59+00:00
lol, that's likely part of the problem :D

I have started using nvim about a year ago, and that one also took three separate tries before it finally stuck with me :) After that, about 8 months ago I found tmux and had a harsh "first impression".

These days I enjoy using both of those tools and get more excited the more I learn about them.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-04 19:33:10+00:00
Let's look at the opposite benefit to a store if a mom that would need to bring her 3 kids to the store vs that mom having a personal shopper. In this case, the personal shopper is "better" for the store as far as physical space. However, I'm sure the store would still rather have the mom and 3 kids physically in the store so that the kids can nag mom into buying unneeded items that are placed specifically to attract those kids' attention.
by DaveZale | 2025-08-04 19:33:22+00:00
Remember in high school when we were told to "use our own words" to summarize an article, film, or other piece?

The youtube links I get emailed or texted on a daily basis without a single word, phrase, or sentence is one regularity that I wish would go away.

Nothing personal but, like the reddit moderators often say, "no low effort posts"

So, what is the point of this video, in your own words? Seriously, I've seen no less than 3 Chris Hedges pieces in the last 18 hours on this topic. Of course, the situation is appalling, and all Americans share complicity, even if it's out of their own ignorance. But I'm not going to click without a good reason. Sorry.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-08-04 19:33:57+00:00
This actual answer according the the author realized after he already liked the name.

He created it intending to be +1 of APL. Accidentally came up with BQN instead of BQM. Sat with that for 1hr, really liked the name, then realized that it should be BQM which he hated, so he stuck with BQN.

That said, it's and incredibly designed language. I honestly have never read any language (especially not designed by a single person) with the level of creative thought as he put into BQN. Some really incredible insights and deep understanding. It's amazing reading his posts / documentation about it. The focus on ergonomics, brand new constructs and the consistency/coherence of how all of his decisions fit together is really impressive.
by jg0r3 | 2025-08-04 19:33:59+00:00
It really depends what your industry is. I've been writing some printer drivers for custom hardware + windows applications at work. Much of the technical jargon I've been learning during development involve things like "driver interfaces" and "communication interfaces".

Depending on how recently I'd been working on our printer drivers I also would likely need clarification. Now if the job is "frontend developer" I agree, someone needing to clarify if you're talking about a user interface or communication layer interface is probably a bad sign.

But if it's a looser role I'd definitely look to clarify the question!
by Terretta | 2025-08-04 19:34:41+00:00
"Creators" need to eat, OK, but there's no right to get paid to paste yesterday's recycled newspapers on my laptop screen. Making that unprofitable seems incredibly good for by and large everyone.

It'd likely be a fantastic good if "content creators" stopped being able to eat from the slop they shovel. In the meantime, the smarter the tools that let folks never encounter that form of "content", the more they will pay for them.

There remain legitimate information creation or information discovery activities that nobody used to call "content". One can tell which they are by whether they have names pre-existing SEO, like "research" or "journalism" or "creative writing".

Ad-scaffolding, what the word "content" came to mean, costs money to make, ideally less than the ads it provides a place for generate. This simple equation means the whole ecosystem, together with the technology attempting to perpetuate it as viable, is an ouroboros, eating its own effluvia.

It is, I would argue, undetermined that advertising-driven content as a business model has a "right" to exist in today's form, rather than any number of other business models that sufficed for millennia of information and artistry before.

Today LLMs serve both the generation of additional literally brain-less content, and the sifting of such from information worth using. Both sides are up in arms, but in the long run, it sure seems some other form of information origination and creativity is likely to serve everyone better.
by munificent | 2025-08-04 19:35:12+00:00
I haven't reached those ones yet. :)

The upcoming one I really worry about is retirement. The statistics are grim if you look at retired men in terms of number of close friends, mental health, and suicide.

The whole "live in a high cost of living area with good jobs and then move somewhere cheaper when you retire" pipeline makes a lot of sense economically. But I worry that is disastrous when it comes to community and connection right at the time when people need it most.
by afiori | 2025-08-04 19:35:18+00:00
Famously Jane's Street started by using excel automation for its core trading business.

I do not particularly like excel, I find it interesting but often obtuse and limited in annoying ways and I agree that for an established workflow using "proper" code is generally better. But imho where Excel excels is in dynamic exploration and supporting decision making, where the type of analysis and visualisations you might want to do can change radically and quickly
by duxup | 2025-08-04 19:36:04+00:00
>The Aalborg zoo said it is trying to mimic the natural food chain of the animals housed there “for the sake of both animal welfare and professional integrity” and offers assurances the pets will be “gently euthanized” by trained staff.

I assumed they were going to allow the predators to hunt the animals, but I guess not. I don't quite get what is natural about feeding them an already dead animals, vs say ... feeding them dead animals like normally?
by xinweihe | 2025-08-04 19:36:15+00:00
Thanks for the follow-up. Let me try to clarify!

When we say we "organize all logs, metrics, and traces", we mean more than just linking them together (which otel already supports). What we’re doing is:

- context engineering optimization: We leverage the structure among logs, spans, and metadata to filter and group relevant context before passing it to the LLM. In real production issues, it's common to see 10k+ logs, traces, etc. related to a single incident — but most of it is noise. Throwing all that at agents usually leads to poor performance due to context bloat see https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.03172. We're working on addressing that by doing structured filtering and summarization. For more details see https://bit.ly/45Bai1q.

- Human-in-the-Loop UI: For cases where developers want to manually inspect or guide the agent, we provide a UI that makes it easy to zoom in on relevant subtrees, trace paths, or log clusters and directly select spans to be included in the reasoning of agents.

The goal isn't just unification, it's scalable reasoning over noisy telemetry data, both automated and interactive.

Hope that clears things up a bit! Happy to dive deeper if useful.
by quantified | 2025-08-04 19:36:17+00:00
That too. We need our security organizations, there are lots of unpatriotic profiteers in there, we could get a lot more value for our moeny on those. (Littoral battleships? F-35s? Let's just get actual spent-uranium-tipped unicorns.) The way we do infrastructure and social services leaves a lot of room for improvement. I'd pay 50% tax gladly if I got half my income in value back.
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by narcraft | 2025-08-04 19:36:32+00:00
Anyone who hasn't used Excel is totally out of touch with reality (constrained to developed world). Excel is counterintuitive to whom? What intuition does it upset? It's a grid of cells. Each cell can reference any other. You can immediately see the definition of any cell when selecting it. I'd wager that it's used as a presentation or modeling tool far more than as a CSV editor. Its dynamic aggregated views, what-if scenarios, charting and dashboarding hardly could be replicated with SQLite or CSV tools alone. Surely not as seamlessly or intuitively as Excel.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-08-04 19:36:51+00:00
> Stop insulting us and show some f*king proof, or go back to playing with LLMs until you can make them do the things you claim they can do.

Everything revolving around these LLMs so far as been tech hype culture and similar "think of the future" vibes. IMO we never see proof of this because right now it simply doesn't exist.
by DataDaoDe | 2025-08-04 19:37:19+00:00
Just put your kids outside. You don't need anything as a kid to start playing. We used sticks and mud and built ourselves houses and towns and had wars and put on plays and did everything under the sun without toys or anything.

Some trees and dirt will take you a long way providing thousands of hours of fun. As kids we found these big black horned beetles and started a beetle gladiator arena that kept us preoccupied for months at a time feeding and training our biggest beetles. Kids are very creative if you let them be.
by agile-gift0262 | 2025-08-04 19:37:34+00:00
I only know that my time tracker says that now I spend 9 times longer reviewing MRs from some of my senior colleagues than what I did before. I'm not sure the company is realising that the tens of thousands of dollars it's spending on Claude and Gemini are making some of their 6-figure (in Europe) senior developers produce code that's worse than the one most of the juniors produce.
by GabrielBianconi | 2025-08-04 19:37:36+00:00
Thanks for the feedback!

We chose a set of tasks with different levels of complexity to see how this approach would scale. For LLMs, the "challenge" with NER is not the task itself but the arbitrariness of the labels in the dataset. I agree it's still much simpler than the other tasks we present (agentic RAG, agentic tool use, maze navigation).

There are definitely strong parallels to model distillation and student-teacher training, with the primary difference being that we don't simply take all the data from the larger model but rather filter the dataset based on metrics from the environment. In the "Does curation even matter?" section, we show that this generally improves the result by a good margin.

We link to Vicuna, which might be the closest reference as prior art: https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/

Thanks!
by ascorbic | 2025-08-04 19:37:44+00:00
I dont get this attitude. If there is some specific test you need before you'll trust it, what's stopping you doing that? I can understand your response if it was a paid product, but this doesn't even require you to install anything. Instead of appreciating the work that they've put in, you come right in with a negative comment that's not even based on trying it or knowing anything about it.
by tharkun__ | 2025-08-04 19:37:55+00:00
I still believe I did the right thing by leaving—the community there goes against many of my most deeply held values. But as I've gotten older

That is probably also relatively prevalent in HN circles I would presume. Especially if one was "the odd one out. "Community" is not everything. A lot of "small town" stuff and "values" aren't really only positive. Everyone knows everyone and everything about everyone? Great, right? No it's not. I prefer my relative anonymity in the overall scheme.

Nothing to look down upon. But some people just don't prefer that sort of "the community dictates your life" environment, while others may thrive in it.

Like, think, Sheldon Cooper if he had stayed in Texas. That weirdo atheist in a small Texas town? Not fun.
by _0xdd | 2025-08-04 19:38:04+00:00
I think it's worth mentioning that, if you can, set these IP cameras up on a separate VLAN that doesn't have internet access (or access to the rest of your network), run an open source PVR, and use firewall rules to allow the PVR to access the local streams on the IP camera VLAN. I think this mitigates much of the risk of using Chinese OEM cameras.
by const_cast | 2025-08-04 19:38:19+00:00
I'm just not sure how you get around a private market inevitably letting people die.

If someone can't afford healthcare, and in your vision we should refuse to provide it, then they die. That means, unfortunately, you are advocating for their death.

Which is fine, maybe. Except that we still have to deal with that. If they can't afford to dispose of their own bodies, now what?

No matter how you cut it, we either go back to the government or everything is awful.

Me asking you if you want to scrape bodies off the freeway isnt rhetorical. It might seem that way, because it's so extreme, but that's the reality here.

Someone, somewhere, has to pay for that. We already established that the person themselves cannot do it.

Should it be you? Should it be me? Or should it be everyone? If you answer everyone, congratulations, you've reinvented taxes.

The issue here is that these are already solved problems. Why do you think governments invented taxes hundreds of years ago? To steal from you? Look at the big picture.
by WASDAai | 2025-08-04 19:38:23+00:00
From my vantage point, the arrival of roughly ten to twelve thousand North Korean troops in Russia’s Kursk sector since late 2024 signals a risky yet calculated gamble by Pyongyang: Kim Jong Un is trading his soldiers’ blood for hard currency, fuel, food and, most importantly, Russian missile, air defense and submarine know-how while exposing his army to a drone-saturated, precision-fire battlefield it has never faced. These forces, often disguised in Russian uniforms and hurled into frontal assaults, have suffered over six thousand casualties yet earned Kremlin praise for plugging manpower gaps after Ukraine’s brief cross-border push; in return, Moscow shields the North at the UN and pledges to modernize its arsenal. The bargain is already warping security equations from Kyiv to Seoul, alarming NATO and Asian capitals that a battle-hardened, better-armed DPRK could emerge from the conflict and that the war has now tightly fused European and Indo-Pacific theaters.
by reactordev | 2025-08-04 19:38:33+00:00
Oh it is however, most of your neighbors will be in that very same boat so to speak so really it’s up to you to get outside.

Also retirement plans go out the window if you hit milestone 5. By the end of milestone 6 (if you make it) will be just a cabin in the woods with a dog, because that’s all you can afford.
by cnst | 2025-08-04 19:38:38+00:00
I'm pretty certain any UPS in a working order should not have an issue staying for an hour at 5W load.

A 5W load for an hour is just a 5Wh capacity. That's nothing. A 16in MacBook Pro has a 100Wh battery.

Vertiv Liebert PST5-660MT120, rated 660VA/400W, retailing at $77 USD on Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BXZPF99, is supposed to last "2 min" at full load, "7 min" at half-load, per Amazon listing.

However, looking closer at the specs in the listing's User Manual in PDF, https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/B14RNuD0LXS.pdf:

10% — 56; 20% — 28; 25% — 13; 30% — 14; 40% — 11; 50% — 7.5; … 100% — 2.

But what's 10%? A 10% of 400W is 40W.

A load of 4W would then be a load of 1% of capacity that would be like 560 minutes (9.33 hours) if we extrapolate.

So, my guess is, at a 5W load, a device can easily last about 5 hours or more, on an average UPS that's in good working order.

I think the biggest problem may be, that it'd be consuming less than 5W during sleep, and could be deemed as parasitic load, and thus the UPS could actually turn itself off, to avoid wasting the energy, thinking that it's unloaded.
by jjulius | 2025-08-04 19:39:44+00:00
This claim has been passed around for years and comes from an article in 2011.

>“So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves. “They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

https://archive.is/u3bbA
by benrutter | 2025-08-04 19:39:57+00:00
If you've used Neovim vs Helix, I'd say the comparison is pretty close.

Tmux is more customisable, but a lot messier out the box. It's much older so has picked up a little cruft along the way.

Zellij is newer so has the benefit of being a clearer implementation. But it's designed as an "out the bix" experience, not one you can customise to your hearts content.

Edit: if you did want to try out zellij, I should point out there's a "no install, try in shell" option on their website's main page which is a super quick way to get a taste!
by CraigJPerry | 2025-08-04 19:40:09+00:00
Conservation of energy is universally true given that you or i cannot travel at the speed of light.

Whereas supply and demand is obviously not universal and i'm not just talking about Giffen goods, Veblen goods or the Chivas Regal effect. No i'm talking specifically about ceteris paribus. Application of ceteris paribus is to step away from reality, the more you do it, the further away from reality you've gotten.

The model of supply and demand is useful and its utility is only reduced by ceteris paribus.

The law of supply and demand is blocked from existing, thanks specifically to ceteris paribus.
by perihelions | 2025-08-04 19:40:14+00:00
$820 billion in hurricane damages since 2016, and the cost center we should focus on is some $40 million/year spent researching causes of that? That's roughly similar in proportionality—and in reasoning—to a datacenter deleting its smoke detectors. (If that is what you want for your discounts, there is OVH).

https://www.wunderground.com/article/storms/hurricane/news/2...
by thephyber | 2025-08-04 19:40:44+00:00
One of the few reasons I have _never_ entertained the possibility of buying a Tesla: despite collecting enough data to know what happened in almost every crash, the company will withhold the data if Tesla is at fault, but is more than happy to quickly publish selective data to support a PR assassination of a driver who is at fault.

There are obviously other reasons, but I would much rather buy a car from a company that either doesn’t collect my data or doesn’t feel the need to bury me in the media if I screw up.
by brav8isgood | 2025-08-04 19:40:49+00:00
I agree that the research is about various languages bitrates. My point is a bit different, yes, it is about total information bitrate.

Maybe I am racist, but I am not sure how the speed at which one speaks is a racist trope. I sure do not look down on the Swiss, they're a pretty successful nation.

Question for you: what is your relative confidence based on?

On the positive, your comment invited me to check Wikipedia and I was surprised to see there are actually studies about some of this. They seem to confirm the stereotype. Belgian and Parisian seem to have a higher syllable/ms rate than several Swiss counties, with some caveats. [1]

But no, it does not talk about total information bitrate, that is much more subjective. Maybe if you are a "frontalier" and have some anecdotal experience with it, I'm curious.

[1] https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ais_de_Suisse

"Après examen des différentes études, le stéréotype des Suisses qui articulent plus lentement que les Parisiens est confirmé, à quelques exceptions près"
by dale_glass | 2025-08-04 19:41:15+00:00
Some translators may add notes on the bottom of the page for things like that.

It's going to greatly vary of course. Some will try to culturally adapt things. Maybe convert to dollars, maybe translate to "a day's wages", maybe translate as it is then add an explanatory note.

You might even get a preface explaining important cultural elements of the era.
by closewith | 2025-08-04 19:41:23+00:00
Domestic food supply is still subject to tariffs because many of the inputs are. Agricultural machinery, parts, chemical feedstocks.

Not to mention that tariffs on directly imported goods reduce the lowest earners' ability to pay for domestic products.

If the goal was onshoring too benefit the population, it would be coupled with a strong wealth redistribution to the least wealthy to allow them to buy domestic goods. But that's not the goal.
by jajuuka | 2025-08-04 19:41:50+00:00
This is by and large not because of him though. Tim was handed a golden goose with the iPhone and Mac line. Comparing Apple when Tim took over and Apple today and they are not very different. Still majority of revenue from iPhone sales. They have a couple new products now. The only way he could have failed is due to active sabotage.

Apple is "dominant" now in a couple spaces, but if they miss the next thing they will become the next Blackberry.
by cma | 2025-08-04 19:42:10+00:00
Thinner makes it get through faster if it doesn't collide. If it is a charged particle dwell time is important as it usually doesn't collide unless its charge interacts with other charged particles enough to slow itself down giving it more time to interact with charged particles. This is how I understand ion beam deposition in silicon to work at least, it goes to a predictable depth and if the silicon is thinner than that it goes on through most of the time.

Thinner and denser then makes it interact more per unit time but any induced charge imbalances have closer neighboring material to rebalance charge shifts with, maybe you have a better chance of getting through the same number of particles over a shorter distance than at higher distance.

You definitely have a better chance faster than slower. its when it slows to a critical speed its non-collision charge based interactions build.