MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by megaloblasto | 2025-08-30 21:33:32+00:00
I see what your saying but I would argue that vibe coding an ODE solver is an incorrect use of the tool. For something like and ODE solver you need to have a really solid understanding of what data structures you will use,and solid general knowledge of the numerical methods you want to implement. Then, you can use AI as an assistant when you get stuck, or to deepen your understanding, look over your implementation, etc.

It seems like developers used to always joke about how much they used stack exchange (even senior devs). Now it seems like there are suddenly so many people who claim to never need any help and can just smoothly bust out beautiful code all day long.
by hinkley | 2025-08-30 21:33:40+00:00
I love learning and until recently despised teaching. I felt like a double agent nodding along at all the lies my teachers told me while I mastered the material almost in spite of the teaching instead of because of it. This became a real problem I college when the material was no longer a given. There were going to be people who flunked because the material was just too hard.

I have always been a C+ student of rote memorization at best. Almost enough to be good at trivia, but not enough to do well in coursework. I am always trying to build a Theory of a System from practically word one, which is the fifth stage of learning, where rote is the first.
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-30 21:37:36+00:00
So, without IQ it would be impossible for social programs to give better educational opportunities to exist? And on that same note, and this a genuine question, how much evidence supports that better educational opportunities truly manifests into the outcomes we socially desire?

I'd be leery of anyone that claims that the only reason they were able to become a doctor, lawyer, etc. was because of being in a gifted program or something similar.

As far as I am concerned, I firmly believe the truly talented will create their own environment within reason. Take Von Neumann, for example. He was god-like in abilities. I am certain someone of his caliber did not need better educational opportunities in order to be exceptional. The man was, by all accounts, born exceptional.

Also, I am not certain that giving better educational opportunities to the bright is better than giving better educational opportunities to the disadvantaged, but I will admit I am likely too ignorant on this topic to have an informed opinion.
by estimator7292 | 2025-08-30 21:38:33+00:00
TNG was produced in the eighties and set centuries into the future. Given the technology, budget, and foresight available at the time, what they produced did sufficiently convey "future spaceship" in a way that was comfortable and relatable to (then) contemporary audiences.

TNG is one of the most tastefully done, IMO. The Expanse is only good because it's set in the immediate future with technology only slightly more advanced than today. But also the technology, materials, and SciFi corpus is so advanced now that it's just as easy to create an extremely convincing 2050's set as it is a 3050's set. Today's space opera is so incredibly egregious. What is the ratio of lens flares in a single modern trek movie compared to all 20th century trek? The Expanse definitely suffers from this kind of overproduction when you look closer, but because it's so close into the future we tend to overlook a lot.

ST: Enterprise did this extremely well, IMO, and for the same reason as The Expanse. It's in the immediate future and built around contemporary technology. Personally I adore the horrendous passive matrix LCDs everywhere in that show. It just adds to the scrappiness of Earth's first exploration ship.
by ajross | 2025-08-30 21:39:22+00:00
I didn't really think it was that bad? But sure, point taken.

My goal was actually the same though: to try to short-circuit the inevitable platform flame by calling it out explicitly and pointing out that the technical details are sort of a solved problem.

ZFS argumentation gets exhausting, and has ever since it was released. It ends up as a proxy for Sun vs. Linux, GNU vs. BSD, Apple vs. Google, hippy free software vs. corporate open source, pick your side. Everyone has an opinion, everyone thinks it's crucially important, and as a result of that hyperbole everyone ends up thinking that ZFS (dtrace gets a lot of the same treatment) is some kind of magically irreplaceable technology.

And... it's really not. Like I said above if it disappeared from the universe and everyone had to use dm/lvm for the actual problems they need to solve with storage management[1], no one would really care.

[1] Itself an increasingly vanishing problem area! I mean, at scale and at the performance limit, virtually everything lives behind a cloud-adjacent API barrier these days, and the backends there worry much more about driver and hardware complexity than they do about mere "filesystems". Dithering about individual files on individual systems in the professional world is mostly limited to optimizing boot and update time on client OSes. And outside the professional world it's a bunch of us nerds trying to optimize our movie collections on local networks; realistically we could be doing that on something as awful NTFS if we had to.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-30 21:39:38+00:00
What’s the latest about Anduril’s work environment? They’ve been pushing vibes-heavy approaches to recruiting like making videos sneering at remote work and highlighting how quirky Palmer is, but the last I heard it wasn’t a great place to work. When I start seeing PR puff piece journalism about a workplace to make it seem extra fun, they’re usually compensating for something (low pay, long hours, bad work environment) in my experience.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-30 21:39:43+00:00
Yeah I think even traditional OoO designs use replay for missed loads rather than stalling. The performance would be too bad if it actually stalled for every load.

I think stalling is used for rarer more awkward things like changing privilege modes or writing certain CSRs (e.g. satp) where you don't want to have to maintain speculative state.
by jonplackett | 2025-08-30 21:40:31+00:00
Don’t really buy this logic.

If you want companies to invest in your country, the tariff has to make doing so make financial sense, and for the long term.

A lot of these tariffs are going on things that would require a whole factory to be built in the USA which doesn’t currently exist at all, and has no supporting infrastructure or workforce.

Companies can’t just decide right now, “oh shit there’s a tariff. Better but it in the USA right away!”
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-30 21:40:57+00:00
I suspect that an important factor was that math was sufficiently abstract so that the smart people could go there and do their thing without risk of saying something that would offend the regime. If you said something carelessly in economy, you might have disagreed with Lenin. If you said something carelessly in biology, you might have disagreed with Lysenko. But in math, you could say anything you wanted, and you were okay. And in communism you were not allowed to start your own company anyway, which is why many smart people became math teachers instead.
by araes | 2025-08-30 21:42:18+00:00
At least from this article[1], comments on this reddit thread[2], and this Bloomberg article[3] (if you happen to have Bloomberg), the view appears to be Microsoft / Meta, with Amazon/Google afterward (they make more of their own). Results are out of date from 2024, yet the implication is that Customer A and B are still the same with increased spend. Google's search results on the subject also notably list them in that exact order ("Companies like Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet are the largest buyers")

"Microsoft reportedly plans to amass some 1.8 million GPUs by the end of 2024" "Meta’s plans to purchase some 350,000 H100 GPUs" "Google and Amazon, which each purchased around 50,000 chips" "the four Big Tech companies account for nearly 40 percent of Nvidia’s revenue"

[1] https://observer.com/2024/06/nvidia-largest-ai-chip-customer...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/NvidiaStock/comments/1eh1vrc/who_ar...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-21/nvidia-fo...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-30 21:43:05+00:00
The Transformer was only ever designed to be a better seq-2-seq architecture, so "all you need" implicitly means "all you need for seq-2-seq" (not all you need for AGI), and was anyways more backwards looking than forwards looking.

The preceding seq-2-seq architectures had been RNN (LSTM) based, then RNN + attention (Bahdanau et al "Jointly Learning to Align & Translate"), with the Transformer "attention is all you need" paper then meaning you can drop use of RNNs altogether and just use attention.

Of course NOT using RNNs was the key motivator behind the new Transformer architecture - not only did you not NEED an RNN, but they explicitly wanted to avoid it since the goal was to support parallel vs sequential processing for better performance on the available highly parallel hardware.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-30 21:43:14+00:00
I do love Go for that. Python less so, lots of syntactic sugar, less immediately understandable than Go, IMO, just the list comprehension is less understandable, i.e. I would rather have a for loop when I am reading a reference implementation.

As for Factor, of course, it is a concatenative language. You not only have to learn it, your brain probably has to work in a certain way. Common Lisp vs. Forth vs. Haskell vs. C. They are all at the different end of a spectrum I would say.
by sleazebreeze | 2025-08-30 21:43:27+00:00
Anduril employees think they're Tony Stark, but they're just cranking out cheap shit that kills people. America's enemies or whatever.

The employees seem to be laboring under the idea they're a family and the author sure seems to think so, but the 10% desired attrition rate and the weeks without sleep is really just an indicator they're expendable resources. They don't love you like that, man.
by svro | 2025-08-30 21:44:13+00:00
Last year my wife lost her job and I was trying to work on my startup. So we thought of organizing a small event, make connection to land some opportunity. That small event turned into a small conference of 250 AI enthusiasts. It kind of changed our view on what we initially thought it could be.

So this year, we wanted to do it bigger. The start was humble, not much interest. But soon enough, we started reaching out to personal connection, posting on Linkedin and create a whole new website with complete event management, ticketing, coupon etc. Just within last 1.5 months we got 450 sign ups and 10 sponsors. 150 Speaker submitted their talks.

Sometimes the most impactful ideas can be the smallest one. I am loving this journey, wanted to share with everyone.

P.S. if you need a discounted ticket, or want to sponsor reach out to our help email and mention YC. Cheers
by jameslk | 2025-08-30 21:44:39+00:00
> Repricing, though, isn’t as easy as changing a tag—in part because suppliers and big-box stores are engaged in an epic tussle over who will pay what.

> Retailers, including Lowe’s and Home Depot, buy Thompson Traders’ wares and set the retail price themselves. And they have been reluctant to pay Thompson Traders more.

It seems like this sort of scenario would benefit from some kind of risk protection, like insurance, or a futures market
by ryanjshaw | 2025-08-30 21:45:00+00:00
Sometimes the number of joins is fine but they don’t understand the data properly and should be spending more time understanding why multiple rows are being returned when they expect one (eg they need to filter on an additional field).

I wish SQL had a strict mode syntax that forces you to use something like `select one` (like LINQ’s Single()) or `select many` to catch these kinds of bugs.
by tremon | 2025-08-30 21:46:02+00:00
They do, see /etc/firefox-esr/firefox-esr.js -- but the aforementioned settings are not in that file by default, and [0] seems to suggest Debian does not alter the compiled-in defaults either.

Some quick digging in the source suggests that it's simply not enabled by default in ESR 128. I don't know if that's because it's only enabled by default in a later release, or because it's disabled in all ESR releases; I suspect the former. Compare [1] and [2]:

-pref("browser.ml.enable", false); # in upstream/128.14.0esr +pref("browser.ml.enable", true); # in upstream/142.0.1

The other pref, browser.ml.chat.enable[d] is not mentioned in that file at all.

(edit: according to [3a] and [3b], it's browser.ml.enable and browser.ml.chat.enabled... yay for consistency, I guess)

[0] https://sources.debian.org/src/firefox-esr/128.14.0esr-1~deb...

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/firefox/-/blame/upstre...

[2] https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/firefox/-/blame/upstre...

[3a] https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/firefox/-/blame/esr128...

[3b] https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/firefox/-/blame/esr128...
by reactordev | 2025-08-30 21:46:13+00:00
The only reason PHP still exists is because of shared hosting companies and Wordpress.

PHP’s initial appeal was you could do scripting on the server side, “turn off PHP with a ?>” spit out normal html, and “turn back on PHP with a <?php”.

For a beginner programmer, it was simple, easy to understand, and had an include so your designs were’t nested table hairball messes of garbage. (but your CSS was definitely garbage).

Today, it’s so easy to run JavaScript, I can build a basic jsx site in under an hour, just like I can with PHP and includes. With Bun, I can quickly write a data access layer as well and wire up crud APIs w/ JWT auth. A weekend project in both.
by scoofy | 2025-08-30 21:47:06+00:00
I always explain it this way:

Balancing a cup on a tray isn't too hard. The skill comes in when you can balance 10 cups, and a tray on top of them, and then ten more cups, and another tray, and a vase on that... each step isn't difficult, but maintain the structure is difficult. It's like that, but with ideas.
by dahart | 2025-08-30 21:48:21+00:00
I wouldn’t say archaic or historical definitions are improper, but you’re right - the primary meaning of decimate in English changed and now means to destroy the majority of. Maybe this is because decimate was always very damaging; threat of death is very serious, regardless of the numbers.

That said, I had sweet breads recently. And a cat being a deer sounds strange in English now, but deer is still the word for animal in other Germanic languages today, even if it faded in English, so it doesn’t sound completely archaic.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-30 21:48:47+00:00
The easiest way to understand why it works is to imagine the opposite strategy: put the best students in the same classrooms as the worst one so the entire class advances very slowly, make the school system centered on success at sport.

(I skipped the opposite to "put the best teachers with the best students" part, because if those best students are each in a different class, one of them will randomly get the best teacher and the others won't.)
by DrewADesign | 2025-08-30 21:49:02+00:00
This just doesn't seem to sink in with a lot of people.

The very second most people need to think about implementation details, like what instance is connected to what instance and what that means, they're done. It's not like they couldn't understand it if they tried: they don't want to try because they don't care. In fact, they don't want to care.

What they care about is interacting with their friends and family and celebrity personas that amuse them, and also get some news handed to them that fits their world view. They don't want to have a little independent social network-- they want to connect with whoever they want to connect with and access whoever they want to access and any barrier to that makes it worse for them. The centralization is the selling point for a lot of those people. Being at the terminal point in a federated service, as they exist, makes all of that harder. It makes it harder for great reasons but they're reasons that most people don't even want to care about. They trade good, easy experiences with the things that are important to them for things they never wanted and have no interest in learning about. Nerds get a kick out of being on a decentralized social network. Most people absolutely do not care. It's not like they don't want to be: it just doesn't matter to them, so if they have to give literally anything up to achieve that, it's too high of a cost.

It's almost like trying to get people to switch from mobile phones to amateur radio.
by Lockal | 2025-08-30 21:49:51+00:00
I think a bit more interesting statistics is to count only \w—\w. This excludes cases like "(—)" and emdashes surrounded by spaces, which is, apparently, what Russian-speaking users like to use. Also it is an very old tradition to format page titles as <title>[Page name] — [Website name]</title>: depending on language this is a default setting for MediaWiki, WordPress, etc.
by dev0p | 2025-08-30 21:50:55+00:00
Users only care about content, how it's brought to them is inconsequential to 99.9% (likely higher) of users.

The chicken and egg problem is that users go where the content is, and content goes where users are.

In reality what this means is that the vast majority of both users and content tend towards a single solution, and that is where there is the least friction, aka the path of least reesistance.

Monetary incentives and various perks (features, first mover advantage, ...) can help but overall it seems to tend towards ease of use.

For users, TikTok is the king for a reason: EVERY SINGLE SWIPE (caps because I want to intentionally put a LOT of emphasis on this) is content that YOU, specifically YOU, are likely interested in. If not, the very next swipe is likely to be what your brain thinks is good, because the algorithm is so good it already knows what you want. Yeah, I know, that's because they spy on their users, whatever, sadly users do not care about that.

BlueSky? Even if you follow specific users, content discovery is so, so much harder. But the main problem is that the vast majority of users, especially new ones, will be subjected to subpar content compared to other platforms.

So why should a new user come back there instead of literally anywhere else? And if there are no users, why put the content there, and if there is no content, there are no users, and so on...

Notice how in all of this the underlying architecture has quite literally no relevance and is nothing but a technical detail.
by sksxihve | 2025-08-30 21:51:04+00:00
Predictably, pushback takes familiar forms. This will slow us down really means “I don’t want to be pinned down.” We need to trust each other, not sign contracts is code for “I prefer commitments I can’t be held to.” This feels like we’re inviting conflict is a fear of exposing leadership weaknesses. We can’t document everything often means “I don’t want a paper trail.” And leaders need room to maneuver is a desire to pivot without owning the cost of disruption.

This hits the nail on the head, I've heard all those excuses almost verbatim from upper management when proposing changes and I've countered all those objections with the answers given in the paragraph that follows. The current C-Suite thinks RTO is going to fix all the company problems and I'm out of ideas on how to effect meaningful change. My team is fantastic but interfacing with other directors/execs is a nightmare.

Do any of you that have gone through this have any advice, short of finding a new job?
by rayiner | 2025-08-30 21:51:12+00:00
It’s not an arbitrary concept. It’s reliably measured and correlated with lots of factors we care about: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11683192/iq-testing-intelligen...

The benefits have been huge. The Chinese realized this a thousand years ago when they invented civil service exams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination.
by mingus88 | 2025-08-30 21:51:18+00:00
It’s important to know that Andruil is culturally very similar to Palantir and is run by many ex-Palantir folk.

My experience with the latter is very outdated but assuming Andruil is at a similar phase of growth as Palantir was a decade ago, you pretty much nailed it

Someone correct me if I’m wrong:

Underpaid compensation, with a justification that they are only hiring people who are “mission driven”. Heavily military based culture with a “need to know” approach to projects and overreliance on acronyms to align thought. Perks are golden age startup perks with full meal service, massages, fitness classes, laundry because of you are looking for a 9-5 then this is not the job for you
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-08-30 21:52:12+00:00
Soybean farmers are predicting a world of hurt as China continues to acquire from South America instead.

“Overall, export sales of this fall’s (U.S.) soybean crop are down 81% from the five-year average,” Brasher reported.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/08/20/soybean-farme...
by emptysongglass | 2025-08-30 21:52:43+00:00
I said a good overview. Many experts have given their analysis on why Lynetteholmen sucks including environmental scientists [1]. The very fact that the environmental assessments were done piecemeal [2] plainly demonstrates the politicians responsible for this mega-project disaster knew exactly how bad it was.

[1] https://www.dn.dk/nyheder/forskere-i-skarp-kritik-af-miljovu...

[2] https://dm.dk/bio/alle-artikler/groenne-byer-skov-og-landska...
by sokoloff | 2025-08-30 21:53:23+00:00
> If you charter a plane you can be as anonymous as you like

In practical terms: Not any more.

You must present a REAL-ID compliant ID as of May 7, 2025 for Part 135 (charter) flights using aircraft with maximum certificated takeoff weight over 12,500 lbs [which is almost all of them].

ID is not required for straight Part 91 flights (private aviation), though the pilot or operator has to identify all adults if the aircraft has MGTOW over 12,500 pounds and is operating under Part 91K.

You can remain anonymous if you own/borrow a plane or charter a light plane so long as you operate only from airports where TSA doesn't run the FBO security.

NBAA link: https://nbaa.org/aircraft-operations/part-135/real-id-deadli...
by bitwrangler | 2025-08-30 21:53:23+00:00
my iphone 16 pro works, but wife's iphone 14 pro is "sos only" mode.

we tried the full reset (volume up/down/side button hold) and network reset, which is not helping.

Both my and her phone have same cellular data settings.

tried calling '611' verizon help line which dumps us saying "the system is down" unable to take calls.

it's a big outage for sure.
by nycdotnet | 2025-08-30 21:54:19+00:00
In some software platforms, the tooling makes it really easy to use a debugger to see what’s happening, so it’s common for everyone on the team to use them all the time.

The comment you’re responding to mentioned pulling code into a function. As an example, if there’s a clever algorithm or technique that optimizes a particular calculation, it’s fine to write code more for the machine to be fast than the human to read as long as it’s tidy in a function that a dev using a debugger can just step over or out of.
by kg | 2025-08-30 21:55:20+00:00
Some people really sincerely do believe in pacifism. That doesn't seem misaligned with 'the victim of an immoral war should win'.

One can also believe multiple things at the same time, like:

* Waging war is immoral

* If someone wages war on you, it's acceptable to defend yourself instead of allow them to kill you

* Enabling war for personal profit (by selling weapons) is immoral

* Making weapons for self-defense is acceptable

i.e. during WW2, many countries repurposed existing industry in order to build all the weapons that were needed to win the war. That's a very different thing from spinning up a new startup with the stated goal of making weapons to sell for money. You can personally think it's okay but it seems totally reasonable to me that someone would believe "weapons should not be manufactured for personal profit the way we manufacture toys or food".