MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by infamouscow | 2025-08-06 17:55:47+00:00
As a published researcher operating outside traditional academia, I find this rhetoric somewhat tiresome, as it overlooks the systemic interplay between public funding, academic training, and industrial commercialization in scientific advancement.

To address your query on long-term planning for the species versus short-term gains, consider the role of tax dollars allocated through NSF grants to universities. These grants primarily support basic research and graduate education in fields like chemistry and biotechnology, which inherently trains the next generation of skilled workers for industry. For instance, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides stipends and tuition support to outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in STEM.

Similarly, the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program funds interdisciplinary training for graduate students, often in areas such as chemical ecology or bio-inspired technologies, equipping them with advanced skills through hands-on research and stipends of at least 12 months.

NSF accounts for approximately 25% of federal support for basic research at U.S. colleges and universities, much of which involves training students who subsequently enter the workforce.

Most of these NSF-supported graduates are hired by multinational corporations in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and chemical manufacturing—entities like Pfizer, Moderna, or Dow Chemical, which are among the largest in history.

Once in industry, these professionals conduct proprietary research behind closed doors to protect intellectual property and competitive advantages. The resulting products, novel drugs or biotechnological therapies, are frequently priced at astronomical levels, often rendering them unaffordable without insurance subsidies or government interventions. This raises serious questions about the equity of public investment: taxpayers fund the foundational training and basic discoveries, yet the downstream benefits accrue disproportionately to private shareholders through high-margin sales.

In essence, while scientific progress indeed demands years of dedication, the current system subsidizes corporate profits via public education of the workforce.
by estearum | 2025-08-06 17:56:51+00:00
Meh, I'd be happy to know that. But in several other instances of "honest mistakes" from this administration, we've found out later they were quite deliberate violations of people's rights.

For example from this Trump personal defense attorney → Deputy AG → freshly minted federal judge whose team "made a mistake" in allowing planes to take off despite court orders: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/emil-bov...
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-08-06 17:56:51+00:00
When I used to lead a Maven project I'd take dependency-upgrade tickets that would just be me bumping up a package version then whack-a-moling overrides and editing callsites to make dependency resolution not pull up conflicting packages until it worked. Probably lost a few days a quarter that way. I even remember the playlists I used to listen to when I was doing that work (:

Lockfiles are great.
by alvaro_linoa | 2025-08-06 17:56:56+00:00
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by FrustratedMonky | 2025-08-06 17:56:58+00:00
"explained his reasoning"

Well, I guess, if you are taking some pretty wild speculation as a reasoned explanation. There isn't much hope for you.

Maybe it was because the Democrats new the Earth was about the be invaded by an Alien race , and they also knew Trump was actually a lizard person (native to Earth and thus on their joint side). And Trump would be able to defeat them, so using the secret mind control powers, the Democrats were able to sway the election to allow Trump to win and thus use his advanced Lizard technology to save the planet. Of course, this all happened behind the scenes.

I think if someone is saying the Democrats are so powerful and skillful, that they can sway the election to give Trump the primary win, but then turn around and lose. That does require some clarification.

I'm just hearing a lot of these crazy arguments that somehow everything Trump does is the fault of the Democrats. They are crazy on the face of it. Maybe if people had to clarify their positions they would realize 'oh, yeah, that doesn't make sense'.
by bproctor | 2025-08-06 17:57:58+00:00
Having wasted 6 years of my life intensively working to create an algorithmic trading system (and failing to make it consistently profitable), what they have here is the easy part. You need a system for discovering strategies. That's were almost all your effort will go. The simulator for backtesting, integrating with a broker, etc. is such a small part of it, if you're serious about it, you're probably better off writing your own.
by burnte | 2025-08-06 17:58:21+00:00
I still remember when preemptive multitasking became big in the X86 world in the late 80s/early 90s. It was a real sea change in OS stability. DESQView was fantastic but real preemptive multitasking was amazing. It was why I stayed on OS/2 until 1996 or 1997.
by tjohns | 2025-08-06 17:58:30+00:00
Related: Some airliners directly transmit automated weather reports via either AMDAR or AIREP.

AMDAR: https://madis-data.ncep.noaa.gov/MadisAircraftPublic/

AIREP: Go to https://www.1800wxbrief.com/Website/interactiveMap, turn on the "Pilot Reports" layer, and look for "ARP" symbols on the map. You'll mostly see these over oceanic routes, especially in the Atlantic.

The AIREP reports are coded in PIREP format, so you'll need to look up the instructions for manually decoding those online.
by mikae1 | 2025-08-06 17:59:11+00:00
> They appear to be designed without pedaling in mind, as exerting effort without proper ergonomics would quickly become uncomfortable and painful. You can actually see some such bikes in the linked article.

Came here to write exactly that. Those who design those bikes clearly don't know a thing about bicycle design. Want to use them for pedaling? Say hi to knee problems and inefficient pedaling!
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-08-06 17:59:13+00:00
With computer vision you end up wanting to read and write to huge buffers that aren't practical to serialize and are difficult to share. And even allocating and freeing multi-megabyte framebuffers at 60 FPS can put a little strain on the allocator, so you want to reuse them, which means you have to think about memory safety.

That is probably why his demo was Sobel edge detection with Numpy. Sobel can run fast enough at standard resolution on a CPU, but once that huge buffer needs to be read or written outside of your fast language, things will get tricky.

This also comes up in Tauri, since you have to bridge between Rust and JS. I'm not sure if Electron apps have the same problem or not.
by WBrentWilliams | 2025-08-06 17:59:14+00:00
I'll admit, my perspective is now 16, almost 17 years out-of-date, but my read of this article is that nothing much has advanced beyond what I was doing in the field back then.

My job? Data plumber and analyst, same as now. I scripted the nuts-and-bolts of matching the mass/time/time data off the instrument being developed by much more qualified PhD candidates and their advisor while I finished up my own degree. They did the heavy lifting. I was paid for by F&A funds to do the boring work. Great job for a student.

The job lead to a failed business venture. Water under the bridge. My last foray in data analysis was Principal Component Analysis of the data, trying to cluster detected proteins for visual analysis. I got the plots working outside of Matlab, and then my position was eliminated.

I have a rag-mag credit I could chase down to support my war story. To be honest, I read the article looking for familiar names and faces.

None found.
by trjordan | 2025-08-06 17:59:17+00:00
Of course there's no 0-risk version of any of this. But in my experience, bugs tend to get introduced with features, then slowly ironed out over patches and minor versions.

I want no security bugs, but as a heuristic, I'd strongly prefer the latest patch version of all libraries, even without perfect guarantees. Code rots, and most versioning schemes are designed with that in mind.
by hansvm | 2025-08-06 17:59:19+00:00
import ctypes ten = 10 addr = id(ten) class PyLongObject(ctypes.Structure): _fields_ = [ ("ob_refcnt", ctypes.c_ssize_t), ("ob_type", ctypes.c_void_p), ("ob_size", ctypes.c_ssize_t), ("ob_digit", ctypes.c_uint32 * 1), ] long_obj = PyLongObject.from_address(addr) long_obj.ob_digit[0] = 3 assert 10 == 3 # using an auxiliary variable to prevent any inlining # done at the interpreter level before actually querying # the value of the literal `10` x = 3 assert 10 * x == 9 assert 10 + x == 6
by iLemming | 2025-08-06 18:00:14+00:00
Emacs arguably is the only one of the true meaning of "Integrated Development Environment" perhaps more thoroughly than any other editor. When we break down what IDE really means - integrated, development, and environment - Emacs excels in each dimension: it deeply integrates every tool and workflow through its unified Elisp ecosystem rather than merely bundling separate applications;

I can start extending it on every possible dimension without even having to write any code into a file - I can open a scratch buffer, write some Elisp and evaluate it in-place.

What else can provide a complete environment where one can code, debug, manage version control, read documentation, run terminals, manage projects (I search through Jira in Emacs), and even handle email or browse the web without ever leaving the editor? I'm reading this thread and typing this comment in Emacs, btw.

While modern "IDE"s like IntelliJ or VS Code offer polished, pre-configured experiences for specific languages, Emacs takes integration to a philosophical level where everything shares the same keybindings, configuration language, and conceptual model, making it less of an application that integrates other tools and more of a platform where all tools become native citizens of a unified computing environment.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-08-06 18:00:15+00:00
I was just referring to the predominant number of cases where Church officials, and Republicans are caught in under-age scandals. It seems like it is coming out of the shadows now, and Republicans are just openly going with it, they like em young and illegal. Epstein is just the case where the 'right' bothered keeping up tabs on it, so now they are clutching their pearls.
by jwr | 2025-08-06 18:00:25+00:00
gpt-oss:20b is the best performing model on my spam filtering benchmarks (I wrote a despammer that uses an LLM).

These are the simplified results (total percentage of correctly classified E-mails on both spam and ham testing data):

gpt-oss:20b 95.6%

gemma3:27b-it-qat 94.3%

mistral-small3.2:24b-instruct-2506-q4_K_M 93.7%

mistral-small3.2:24b-instruct-2506-q8_0 92.5%

qwen3:32b-q4_K_M 89.2%

qwen3:30b-a3b-q4_K_M 87.9%

gemma3n:e4b-it-q4_K_M 84.9%

deepseek-r1:8b 75.2%

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M 73.0%

I'm quite happy, because it's also smaller and faster than gemma3.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-06 18:00:28+00:00
I fear it says something unfortunate about our entire subculture if the greatest remnant remains at the Nazi bar. :(

(To be generous: it might be that we didn't build our own bar the moment someone who is at least Nazi-tolerant started sniffing around for the opportunity to purchas the deed to the bar. The big criticism might be "we, as a subculture, aren't punk-rock enough.")
by timw4mail | 2025-08-06 18:00:35+00:00
I dislike Python for that reason. I don't love the offside-rule syntax, but compared to how often I have an issue with software written in Python due to some old/deprecated/broken packaging issue...

I've lately been pretty deep into 3d printing, and basically all the software has Python...and breaks quite easily. Whether because of a new version of Pip with some new packaging rule, forced venvs...I really don't like dealing with Python software.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-06 18:00:35+00:00
I was commiserating with my brother over how difficult it is to set up an environment to run one LLM or diffusion model, let alone multiple or a combination. It's 5 percent CUDA/ROCm difficulties and 95% Python difficulties. We have a theory that Lanyone working with generative AI has to tolerate output that is only 90% right, and is totaly fine working with a language and environment that only 90% works.

Why is Python so bad at that? It's less kludgy than Bash scripts, but even those are easier to get working.
by Vidyavarshini | 2025-08-06 18:00:41+00:00
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by deepsun | 2025-08-06 18:00:50+00:00
I don't understand how Maven's YOLO is different from NPM's range.

If you force a transitive dependency in Maven, then yes, some other library may get incompatible with it. But in NPM when people declare dependency as, say, ~1.2.3 the also don't know if they will be compatible with a future 1.2.4 version. They just _assume_ the next patch release won't break anything. Yes npm will try to find a version that satisfies all declarations, but library devs couldn't know the new version would be compatible because it wasn't published at that time.

And my point is that it's _exactly_ the same probability that the next patch version is incompatible in both Maven and NPM. That's why NPM users are not afraid to depend on ~x.x or even ^x.x, they basically YOLOing.
by ajross | 2025-08-06 18:01:00+00:00
> That assumes python is one monolithic thing and everyone agrees what it is.

It's exactly the opposite! I'm saying that python is BIG AND DIVERSE and that attempts like SPy to invent a new (monolithic!) subset language that everyone should use instead are doomed, because it won't meet the needs of all the yahoos out there doing weird stuff the SPy authors didn't think was important.

It's fine to have "differing ideas on what python is", but if those ideas don't match those of all of the community, and not just what you think are the good parts, it's not really about what "python" is, is it?
by hinkley | 2025-08-06 18:01:10+00:00
I don’t know how slighting customers who want to work for you works out in the long term. You end up getting fewer opportunities from them and their friends in the future.

Seattle is full of people who will tell you what it’s like to work for Amazon and how you don’t want to work there. I guess if you’re big enough though the money papers over a lot of sins. The smaller you are, the more people you can piss off before you run out of prospects. Anthropocene still has a long way to go before they are Facebook, who struggles because something like 50% of the people who would work for FB already have.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-06 18:01:32+00:00
Rivian execs gave money to the Biden/Harris campaign and their causes, and they gave Rivian a ~6.6 billion dollar taxpayer subsidized loan. The idea an executive might have personal political opinions is not enough to claim it's corruption.

It feels like your argument is they will have to compete in the free market instead of just being given free money, which isn't corruption. Corruption would be giving companies 7B in grants through the EPA or 6.6B dollar loans through the DOE. Letting people plan on a fair playing field isn't corruption

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-throws-struggling-ri...
by panarchy | 2025-08-06 18:01:36+00:00
Yup "It's just a software bug! Don't be dramatic!" Yeah. A software bug that just happens to cover the part of the constitution the current administration has been criticized over violating and other parts that just happen to be in line with the war (like "war on drugs"-- well until it potentially escalates) on the blue states they've been alluding to? As if the current regime wouldn't be so blatant as to point to a website version of the constitution and then go "See it's not in the constitution. We did nothing wrong, all the media outlets reporting the constitution has been illegally altered are spreading fake news." Then there will be a flurry of articles "Trump is in shock at what people are saying he did" for two weeks and then the next disaster will have arrived where the same fanfare will be repeated and nothing will actually be done.
by immibis | 2025-08-06 18:01:37+00:00
Because they don't think about it deeply - that's why reminders are necessary. They think they're only donating to people with similar attitudes to themselves. xGPL licenses (SSPL included) are the license family most similar to that...

... but MIT is what corporations told them they want. There has been a low-level but persistent campaign against xGPL in the past several years and the complaints always trace back to "the corporation I work for doesn't like xGPL." No individual free software developer has a problem with xGPL (SSPL not included).
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-06 18:01:41+00:00
That doesn’t sound that egregious in my opinion.

Bugzilla is a Mozilla product so you’d hope they’d use it themselves (it’s often referred to as “dogfooding”). But Jira is everywhere so I’m sure some project managers argued that it was needed.

And once you have Jira then the same people push for Confluence too. But MediaWiki was the de facto standard before everyone jumped on proprietary solutions like Confluence and Notion. In fact I seem to recall that very early versions of Confluence was just a 3rd party Wiki that Atlassian bought. Or at least there was a Java-based Wiki in their early portfolio.

You also have to bear in mind that organising docs is an endless and thankless job which nobody wants to do. So these things tend to multiply like vermin once someone starts creating docs on another platform. One startup I worked for somehow managed to have stuff scattered between Confluence, Notion and Google Docs despite only employing 50 people. It was crazy.

Another client I recently worked for had Sharepoint, Notion and Confluence as their official tools for documentation.

As for IRC and Slack, every company I’ve worked at in the last 5 years had two of either MS Teams, Zoom or Slack. Literally every company. And that’s in addition to email. Go back further and there was Skype, WebEx, and so on and so forth too.

It’s almost a meme these days to hear the sentence “how would you prefer to be contacted” because so many solutions are competing against each other with overlapping functionality.

Then you have developer-focused tools like GitHub with their own docs and issue tracking too

At this point in time, it’s easier to just accept that each org is going to end up with multiple overlapping solutions because you’ll get new people join the team and they’ll want to use their preferred tool because that’s what they’re productive in and so the spiral continues.

So if Mozilla managed to keep the options down to just 2 for each product category, then I’d say they were doing better than most other organisations.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-08-06 18:01:43+00:00
In this scenario, are you in the country illegally? If so, how is this any different than an immigration court serving you for a hearing?

I get that immigration law enforcement is all the rage to rage about right now, but is this a threat of AI?

I think the argument you might be trying to make is that based on Kroger submitting you grocery bill and VISA with your totals everywhere else, and the tickets you bought for a comedy show and your vehicle reporting your driving and your phone reporting your location that you are 92% likely to have commuted some crime, pattern matched in a way that only AI could see.

That would be a topic of consideration.
by gotoeleven | 2025-08-06 18:02:01+00:00
Sorry what supreme court ruling are you referring to? There was one batch that was deported that included Garcia, and Garcia has since been returned to face federal human trafficking charges in the US. There was another batch of venezuelans that was going to be deported to el salvador but was stopped by a Supreme court ruling on April 19th.

Perhaps you are referring to an appeals court ruling to that effect ("some deportees lacked criminal records and denied any meaningful judicial review or legal defense") ? This was overturned by the supreme court on the narrow grounds that the habeus petition should have been filed in TX, not judge shopping in DC.
by scherlock | 2025-08-06 18:02:05+00:00
We have a 3 way intersection with lights outside my kid's elementary school. 30 min before and after the school day begins and ends, there is no right on red. There is a sign that says "no right on red during x times". There is a red arrow for the right hand turn. The crossing guard stops cars EVERY DAY that try to turn. The cops come out and ticket once a week during the school year and it persists. So yeah, I can see 500,000 violations a year. A majority of drivers really don't look, so yeah, f'em.
by unethical_ban | 2025-08-06 18:02:47+00:00
Well, we don't have a parliamentary system, and our executive has more power than a UK prime Minister, I believe. What you're advocating for is a vestigial legislature to do the will of the king (in the US system).

Between a two party system, a gerrymandered House and a useless Senate, the last thing we need is an absolute ruler.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-08-06 18:03:01+00:00
As a mereological nihilist I like type theory but I wish it was type and schema theory.

Treating complex types, structure, arrangement, entanglement, etc. as if it has the same realness or priority as primitive types is a mistake.

It's like acting like recursion is physically real (it's not) when it smuggles in the call stack.