MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-06 17:40:38+00:00
It does make sense. A small fixed stop loss is just asking to be triggered. A large fixed stop loss will result in a zero-gain zero-loss scenario over many trades.

More generally, there is no optimal amount of stop loss. It ultimately gets auto-stopped out at 3:30 pm, although by then it could have gone nearly to zero anyway. Either the strategy works or it doesn't, and with Trump manipulating the market on random days with significant news, it increasingly doesn't.
by benoau | 2025-08-06 17:40:38+00:00
If they get you using their browser they have complete visibility and control over what you do, whereas Google and Apple control the dominant browsers and subsequently what anyone else can build upon them.

Google has also locked-down default search engine on every major browser, including in at least Apple's case contractual obligation not to provide a search engine selection screen so they're fighting an up-hill battle for adoption there.

This doesn't allow for much and I think especially in terms of agent-control, for example IIUC Playwright and Puppeteer have always had to use modified derivatives of the main browsers for their automation.
by appease7727 | 2025-08-06 17:40:58+00:00
Over-reliance on AI tools is probably going to be seen as one of the great mistakes of this generation of engineers.

I use AI to work through certain problems or help with semantics. 99% of the actual work still comes from my experience and skill.

My workflow is the same workflow I've always used. Work until I get stuck, have a five minute conversation with a colleage who may be slightly drunk, extract any useful information, then attempt to integrate that while I get back to work.

It's a tool to solve problems, not do work.
by jgalt212 | 2025-08-06 17:41:29+00:00
> This results in no effective browser competition on iOS, and web apps being deprived of the APIs and performance they need to compete with native apps.

To my eyes, the regulators hit the nail on the head here. It's not about other browsers, it's about keeping the iPhone browser crummy so the app store and the 30% Apple Tax stays humming along.
by adrian17 | 2025-08-06 17:41:32+00:00
> Also note that canvas based input is also why Google Docs has so much trouble with emoji and non-English input.

It's far from the only thing it has issues with; I've found obviously broken UI patterns within a couple clicks of opening Earth's map view:

- right click doesn't appear to work anywhere (except input boxes), even on elements that have direct equivalents in other Google sites (like the account switcher),

- when you click the account switcher, as long as its open, the rest of the site ignores the mouse events; attempting to drag the map screen doesn't close the switcher, hovering over buttons doesn't change the cursor etc.
by benreesman | 2025-08-06 17:41:42+00:00
Can't speak for you friend, but I got my ass kicked through a combination of the hiring freezes and absorbing a bunch of famiku-wide expenses around a nasty bereavement like, right before that and got pretty much wiped out. Having been very well off (to put it mildly) from like, 2010-2023, I was pretty unclear on the fact that going broke is straight up existential now in a way that was not true ten or fifteen years ago. If you've been doing alright for a decade or so, I wouldn't blame you for not knowing that.

But as a guy who is a known enemy of the Valley establishment to begin with rebuilding from all that? When I say I'm dead serious, I'm being earnest.

If you don't have a family/community safety net and/or a plugged-in nepo golden age network?

Stack cash on hand like your life depends on it, because it fucking does.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-06 17:41:49+00:00
>they just got unlucky

then let me ask you: as an ethical person trying to write a review, how do you handle that situation? It seems like that's an angle to this that we're not exploring, and that's whether the review is epistemologically justified rather than whether it's objectively correct. The way I see it, as a reviewer I get a product that fails well sooner than I expected it to and I have three choices:

1) Don't report the failure

2) Report the failure

3) Report the failure but try to contextualize it (basically, trying to solve for sure whether they got unlucky or not)

1 is obviously unethical, and 3 seems like it's well outside the scope of a reviewer's duty (and could be seen as carrying water for a particular brand. after all, do you think the person who wrote the OP would be okay with it if his product's failure was considered typical but another product's failure was determined to be atypical, regardless of the truth?). The only ethical approach is to report what happened, and not speculate as to cause.
by redbluered | 2025-08-06 17:41:53+00:00
I have your product. I like your product. I like your company. Fundamentally, I can't disagree with the review. You got unlucky, and the reviewer was looking for a different product. It happens.

It's not a universal product. Competitors have upsides and downsides, and different people want different things.

I think this is the time to move on, and focus on people so like and appreciate you, and not dwell on those who don't. Success brings more of both, and if you can't handle a few haters, you probably don't want to be too successful.

And reviews are imperfect, but a lot better than no reviews. Accept life isn't perfect.

Thanks for a great product and for running a company with integrity.
by Telemakhos | 2025-08-06 17:41:59+00:00
Back when I was in the 80%, I used to do my own US taxes by hand on paper. It's really very easy, if you just have W2 and 1099 forms. It's when you start getting into Schedule K partnerships and corporations in multiple states that you should hire a tax preparer.

The 80% don't need AI to do their taxes. They didn't in the 1970s and 1980s, and they still don't.
by anyfoo | 2025-08-06 17:41:59+00:00
That’s like saying: “This is the main reason that, even though I know I’d enjoy a nice car, I stubbornly stick with a run-down PT Cruiser without radio and air conditioning. It’s because I know that I will be extra frustrated when I have to take an Uber.”

I personally use zsh and do not want to miss it on my own machines. I however do log in onto machines that sometimes do not even have bash (yeah it’s rare nowadays, but it exists), and I adapt just fine. It’s not super pleasant, but not using zsh on my machines would be less pleasant.
by fennecbutt | 2025-08-06 17:42:39+00:00
This is why wealth accumulation is so terrible. People with lots of money drive science and technology. They accumulate more wealth from science and technology whilst demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the thing that's making them the money.

Most executives and investors just throw shit at the wall to see what sticks, imo. Then move on to the next place. That's why golden handshakes exist.
by azemetre | 2025-08-06 17:42:50+00:00
Having a plan for several hundred years is possible and we've seen such things happen in other facets of life. We as humans are clearly capable of building robust durable social organizations, religion and civics both being testaments.

I'm curious how these plans would look and work in the context of software development. That was more what my question is about (also only being familiar with sqlite taking this seriously).

We've seen what lawyers can accomplish with their BAR associations and those were created over 200 years ago in the US! Lawyers also work with one of the clunkiest DSLs ever (legalese).

Imagine what they could accomplished if they used an actual language. :D
by ranger_danger | 2025-08-06 17:43:09+00:00
Yes I understand... but they already knew that the license explicitly allows this, and they already knew companies regularly take advantage of FOSS without giving back, so I'm not sure why they were expecting to get lucky or something.

To me this is just like getting upset when someone forks your open source project. Which ironically I've seen happen a LOT. Sometimes the original developer/team even quits when that happens.

It's like... they don't actually want it to be open source, they want to be the ONLY source.
by llm_nerd | 2025-08-06 17:44:19+00:00
>People literally in this comment section are directly blaming trump

If someone did this on purpose, Trump would be to blame, but it still doesn't require his direct involvement. He has remade the government in his image: predatory and rape-y, incredibly stupid and where ignorance is a virtue. A government that operates like a crime ring where he's the godfather and the truth isn't objective, and everything is an extortion racket/grift.

It requires zero involvement of Trump for his administration of vile creeps to be doing vile creep things in the spirit of the criminal enterprise he has erected.

>What do you mean by data corruption? How does a page template in whatever framework they use get "corrupted" to remove just these paragraphs of text but not impact literally anything else?

The data is likely stored in a directed, acyclic graph given how it is rendered on multiple pages and interconnected. Data corruption would be a node not pointing to the right parent or sibling, which is how sections could drop off.
by vkaku | 2025-08-06 17:44:42+00:00
I keep my DotFiles on my GitHub not without its embarrassments, this will help me backup and restore my tools and workflows on systems anywhere I want it to.

https://github.com/guilt/DotFiles

There's no knowledge shared here, just my own setup which can be barebones git cloned. Planning to add a curlbash installer here to help me set it up with a oneliner.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-06 17:45:24+00:00
> That only distract people from the government trying to censor free speech on the internet using kids as a human shield.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth to that point: we already know this, but we’re the exception to the norm.

Listening to non-technical folks, they genuinely believe the internet is entirely hardcore smut that’s destroying kids and that we’re actively soliciting minors with sexual content. That’s not remotely true, but more people believe that narrative than the technically correct argument that this is all just a mass surveillance ploy by the government to weed out and persecute “undesirables” by wielding sex as a weapon.

So now picture how we sound making the technically correct argument to the masses who believe the narrative: we sound batshit insane, and they won’t listen to us.

Instead if we take the side of faulting absentee parents for failing to police their kids online, then that usually results in their defensive rebuttal of “we both work full-time, and I don’t have the time or skill to do this!”

That’s what we want to hear. That argument can be reasoned with, because they’re correct in their justification, even if the act they’re justifying is wrong. Once they admit that, we can take their side in more constructive ways, like:

* Yeah, tech companies do make it too easy for kids to go online and wade into adult spaces. Big Tech and Social Media companies should do more to curate a child-only space that’s entirely curated rather than throwing them onto the open internet by default

* Yes, the fact everything requires kids to be online in front of a screen is bad, and we should be mandating kids have healthier relationships with technology by limiting their access or promoting better understanding of its functions

* Yeah, a society where both parents have to work full-time to survive does hinder child development and prohibits parents from nurturing their growth in desired ways. We should build a society where one parent can stay home full-time and be the caregiver and mentor children need to thrive

* Yeah, these devices are deliberately complicated to prevent easy moderation by parents of their children, and it’s by design. We should create regulations that make it easier for parents to secure their children’s devices, not make it easier for kids to get online

See? Once we pivot the argument back to, “You’re right in your feelings but wrong in your attack vector, let’s work together on this”, we’ll get more support and allies in building a better solution for everyone.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-06 17:46:24+00:00
I can only imagine the thousands of lines of code I saved by using Excel '97 for a scientific tabular calculation effort alone.

Because I had already done about the same thing in HP basic before PC's existed, when there wasn't a spreadsheet app anyway.

And it was on my mind the whole time.

It didn't take many more years before clients wanted their results in XLS on one tab and the invoice on another tab. Rather than the DOC files they had been wanting, which were reasonable facsimiles of the top linen typewritten paperwork I used to fax then mail by USPS or Fedex at the beginning. With the original invoice attached using a "gold" paperclip, nothing ever stapled or folded.

Oh how low I have sunk since then :\

Anyway it was pretty easy to switch from Word to Excel using the same fonts and similar formatting, even though direct integration was provided for, I just switched. When clients printed it they looked almost indistinguishable from my old typewritten multi-font documents.

And that just happened to put the paperwork onto the same spreadsheet as the data. Left one blank tab for future AI use, and the two tabs to send to the clients are in place to the right of that.

Eventually there were quite a few tabs in between the blank placeholder and the final two tabs that the clients would receive. Each with its own function to further leverage built-in Excel capabilities and make further progress toward a "paperless" office.

Saved gobs of code there too, but it gets "worse" from here ;)

It all came together by writing more VBA modules until there was an automation "shell" around the working system. Once complete it would stop so you could look at the data, decide what to type into the blank tab ("naturally", in the absence of AI) then hit the button.

And you were done.
by Tony_Delco | 2025-08-06 17:46:33+00:00
It’s quite a philosophical question. Working eight hours a day for someone else can, in a way, be seen as outsourcing your own will: you think, decide, and act—but always within the framework of what someone else needs. Self-employment, on the other hand, can be deeply rewarding, but it also requires a great deal of self-discipline. In my view, that’s where you run the risk of becoming your own worst boss: demanding, inflexible, and with no clear boundaries.
by jampa | 2025-08-06 17:46:48+00:00
I am reading this right, is this model way better than Gemma 3n[1]? (For only the benchmarks that are common among the models)

=====

LiveCodeBench

E4B IT: 13.2

Qwen: 55.2

===== AIME25

E4B IT: 11.6

Qwen: 81.3

[1]: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3n-E4B
by radixdiaboli | 2025-08-06 17:47:18+00:00
This is a really strange take to me. If I go online to look up my rights from an official source, like the Library of Congress, and some of them are missing, that isn't benign. No, it hasn't changed the law, but it changes what I know about the law.

Y'all act like the administration didn't rename the Gulf of Mexico like it changes the physical gulf or ownership status. Or direct museums about how to portray history. Or, historically, sharpie on a weather map. Removing or changing information as they find convenient is entirely reasonable to expect from the admin.

That said, they rolled it back, so likely someone effed up.
by nemomarx | 2025-08-06 17:47:41+00:00
I can say when I wanted to move my desk from one place to another I had to write up the "business justification" (I was already working from both offices on different days and still am, it was a change on paper)

so I'm sure there's large corps that do this for everything. probably ones where you're not asking your manager, but asking finance or IT for everything
by patcon | 2025-08-06 17:47:42+00:00
It's interesting that, if this became commonplace, it could be much easier to get value out of poorly written books...

Some people have deep knowledge, but don't have the skills to untangle context and lay out the right learning path for a reader. These people likely bell-curve around certain neurotypes, which perhaps know certain sorts of knowledge more strongly.

Right now, those people shouldn't publish. But if LLMs could augment poorly structured content (not incorrect content, just poorly structured), that perhaps open up more people to share their wisdom.

Anyhow, just thinking out loud here. I'm sure there are some massive downsides that are coming to mind for ppl reading :)
by tetha | 2025-08-06 17:48:25+00:00
Also, if you have useful nice shelves that make your fridge aka postgres run better, why shouldn't we work on putting that on servers to make all fridges run better? Also, having a comparable and shared admin experience is a big deal in a team.

Like sure, if you need to quibble about red or yellow prompts, eh. But if there is a good log colorizer or analyzer that makes an expert better at handling the system, or some aliases that make a system easier to manage - I want this deployed for _all_ admins on _all_ relevant systems.

And sure, all code running on a server is a security topic. But then let's figure out a way to run your favorite tools through the software security pipeline and then deploy it to systems. Sure, I dislike installing the latest js-based npm fad on a database for a minor advantage, but if there is some well-aged tool from the postgres space... I'd probably rather work to have it.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-08-06 17:48:38+00:00
I don't even know what the author means here. I put them public on GitHub, because I can clone them from anywhere and have my config on any machine. The approximate number of people, who read them and see what I did, is 0. I just "share" them for public and free backup.

Someone thinking that bash aliases can be "intimate" is a next level of nerdyness for me. Reminds me of "gay code" scene from Silicon Valley.
by nyrikki | 2025-08-06 17:48:46+00:00
Even with compute performance it is probably closer than you expect.

Python isn't evaluated line-by-line, even in micropython, which is about the only common implementation that doesn't work in the same way.

Cython VM will produce an AST of opcodes, and binary operations just end up popping off a stack, or you can hit like pypy.

How efficiently you can keep the pipeline fed is more critical than computation costs.

int a = 5; int b = 10; int sum = a + b;

Is compiled to:

MOV EAX, 5 MOV EBX, 10 ADD EAX, EBX MOV [sum_variable]

In the PVM binary operations remove the top of the stack (TOS) and the second top-most stack item (TOS1) from the stack. They perform the operation, and put the result back on the stack.

That pop, pop isn't much more expensive on modern CPUs and some C compilers will use a stack depending on many factors. And even in C you have to use structs of arrays etc... depending on the use case. Stalled pipelines and fetching due to the costs is the huge difference.

It is the setup costs, GC, GIL etc... that makes python slower in many cases.

While I am not suggesting it is as slow as python, Java is also byte code, and often it's assumptions and design decisions are even better or at least nearly equal to C in the general case unless you highly optimize.

But the actual equivalent computations are almost identical, optimizations that the compilers make differ.
by LarMachinarum | 2025-08-06 17:49:05+00:00
fun fact (or not so fun): incidentally, AFD (or more precisely written AfD) is also the name of a radical far-right party in Germany. The party has progressively shifted to the fringe and is now classified as "confirmed right-wing extremist" by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz), Germany's main domestic intelligence agency. Ref:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_the_Protect...

It's interesting to see which prominent figures of tech and politics in the USA have publicly associated with the AfD.
by grafmax | 2025-08-06 17:49:12+00:00
Violence has been used for good ends such as deposing monarchies and ending slavery. Marx argues that capitalists are akin to the new kings. Witnessing billionaires funding the destruction of democracy, I wouldn’t say he’s wrong.

And you refer to Soviet Russia as if that’s supposed to represent socialism and communism. In fact there are many different kinds of socialists and communists, many who support democracy and oppose authoritarian governments. In fact many such people opposed the Bolsheviks and were killed by them. It’s simply not true that being socialist or communist entails supporting totalitarian government.
by inanutshellus | 2025-08-06 17:49:38+00:00
The original statement was "vim plugins" SO yeah you can have your fancy alias or whatever but I'm with the GP that adding a bunch of cool plugins that I get used to and then... perpetually can't use because 40% of my time is spent on remote machines I don't have admin on... ehh.. quickly becomes not worth it.

It's like when I tried to get used to a DVORAK keyboard when I'd spend my weekdays in a school computer lab...
by nerdjon | 2025-08-06 17:49:56+00:00
If we are purely talking about textbooks, I can see the value in a tool like this... assuming we still have yet to actually solve the problem of AI being able to tell the truth and could just lead to more issues if we can't even read a textbook without it and then learn the wrong thing.

Not to necessarily diss the work that was done on this, but the idea of actually wanting this for reading feels like it is a continuation of the lack of attention span that has seemed to get worse and worse. We already saw this with the oversimplification of television shows and movies. Many of them leaning more towards slapping you in the face with something instead of subtly.

I know way too many people that struggle to sit still for a half hour episode of some show now (like my partner, frustratingly) and have to be doing something else.

If you are struggling with absorbing the information you are reading that is likely a sign you should put down the book and come back to it later, obviously your mind wants to be doing something else. If it is a continued issue than practice reading something that you know you would like. Personally my "in" for my love of reading was reading video game books that expanded the lore and it grew from there, but I was already invested in the story so the book was easier to read.

Using this for a book feels more like a crutch than anything else. That is obviously before you get into whether or not the LLM is actually going to tell you the truth.

There is however one possible use case I could get into, but this is something that could be solved by just finding a video or something online. A refresher when it has been a long time between books coming out in a series.
by drdaeman | 2025-08-06 17:50:00+00:00
> that enables your customers to use you freely [...] There are such licenses

There are such licenses only if you change the definition of "freely" to fit the narrative. Historically, "freely" (as in "free software") means granting end-user four essential software freedoms:

- The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).

- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

If I can't redistribute ("resell") software, or can't run it and let others access it for a fee - it's not "use freely" anymore.