MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Larrikin | 2025-09-04 01:36:58+00:00
This is wrong.

The visa gift cards work pretty much everywhere, unless they are specifically disabled by the establishment. They do show as a gift card but all the POS systems are perfectly capable of splitting the payment now. I've only seen them disabled at small restaurants that have dealt with scam charge backs and sites like Raise that deal in gift cards and gift card scams as part of their business.

Usually they simply aren't worth it because of the activation fee. It's always more than the highest paying credit card cash back. However sometimes stores, run sales where they waive the activation fee, but there's always a limit.
by tstrimple | 2025-09-04 01:37:26+00:00
This is it quite frankly. Platforming anti-vaxxers creates more anti-vaxxers no matter how thoroughly their arguments are discredited. Just the fact that conspiracy theory lunatics are put on the same stage as actual fucking experts elevates the opinions of the ignorant masses to the same level as actual research and results.

You saw the exact same thing when big name scientists started debating religious zealots on the TV. It literally does not matter how many facts are presented or how logically outmatched the Christians are. Just the fact that there is a Christian apologist on the same screen as Bill Nye makes the Christian claims more credible and has proven to be an incredible fund raiser for them. Same thing happens when we entertain debates with flat earth believers. Doesn't matter that in every debate and in every experiment the flat earthers are proven to be completely ridiculous people. The more their ideology is exposed and debated the more morons who think there must be something to it.

The "great marketplace of ideas" is full of spam and outright lies and the majority of the population aren't equipped in the slightest to navigate it.
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-04 01:37:49+00:00
I think it's Benedict Evans who frequently posts about 'blue collar' AI work not looking like humanoid robots but instead Amazon fulfillment centers keeping track of millions of individual items or tomato picking robots with MV cameras only keeping the ripe ones as it picks at absurd rates.

There are endless corners of the physical world right now where it's not worth automating a task if you need to assign an engineer and develop a software competency as a manufacturing or retail company, but would absolutely be worth it if you had a generalizable model that you could point-and-shoot at them.
by hatthew | 2025-09-04 01:38:31+00:00
You should classify living beings according to a system that is helpful to understand and discuss the livings beings in a given context. "Fish" isn't a specific taxon in the standard biological taxonomy, but is rather a description of a specific set of common physical attributes and behaviors that is helpful to differentiate some organisms from other organisms. Regardless of official taxonomy, for 99.99% of people it's helpful to describe eels as fish.
by xwowsersx | 2025-09-04 01:39:51+00:00
Funny timing. I literally just started poking around with Gleam last night. Got it installed, I think I have the LSP set up, though I wasn't really seeing much autocomplete in nvim. Either way, I'm already pretty excited about it. I love functional languages, I like fast languages, and I like them statically typed. Gleam seems to check all those boxes, so I'm looking forward to digging in more.
by abathologist | 2025-09-04 01:40:12+00:00
My theory is that the digital revolution has mostly cancelled out potential productivity gains with its introduction of productivity sinks: the technology has tended to encourage less rigorous thinking, more distraction, more complexity; and even if you can do task T X times faster, most people as spending X * Y more time being distracted, overwhelmed, or just reflective button pushers.

The ways AI is being used now will make this a lot worse on every front.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-04 01:40:48+00:00
It’s not exactly that, but:

Open Shortcuts.

Go to Automations.

Create one, for App, when Safari is opened, run immediately.

Create a new blank shortcut.

Add one action: go to Home Screen.

Now when you open Safari, it instantly closes again. You can disable that by turning off the automation. It’s more of a slap on the wrist than a handcuff, but a reminder that you don’t want to use the app on that device.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-09-04 01:41:14+00:00
This is the original issue that added this: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/20893

Apparently this has been a long-time goal of the Neovim project, but it isn't really explained why. It feels like bloat in a space where existing plugins did a fantastic job, but apparently some people disagreed with that.
by tstrimple | 2025-09-04 01:41:27+00:00
Some of these folks are willing to kill themselves as well if they think the alternative is some minority receiving benefits. See Dying of Whiteness.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jonathan-m-metzl-dying...

> Even on death’s doorstep, Trevor was not angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. “Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,” he told me. “I would rather die.” When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained: “We don’t need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.”

> At the most basic level, Trevor died of the toxic effects of liver damage caused by hepatitis C. Yet Trevor’s deteriorating condition resulted also from the toxic effects of dogma. Dogma that told him that governmental assistance in any form was evil and not to be trusted, even when the assistance came in the form of federal contracts with private health insurance or pharmaceutical companies, or from expanded communal safety nets. Dogma that, as he made abundantly clear, aligned with beliefs about a racial hierarchy that overtly and implicitly aimed to keep white Americans hovering above Mexicans, welfare queens, and nonwhite others. Dogma suggesting to Trevor that minority groups received lavish benefits from the state, even though he himself lived and died on a low-income budget with state assistance. Trevor voiced a literal willingness to die for his place in this hierarchy, rather than participate in a system that might put him on the same plane as immigrants or racial minorities.
by egl2020 | 2025-09-04 01:41:43+00:00
Lots of apparently unexplored alternative explanations. In times of uncertainty, you don't hire unless you need to. Another junior developer or customer service agent can be delayed, and youngsters in the labor force are most exposed to this. But if you need a home health aide, you probably don't have a lot of choice: somebody has to change grandma's diapers. Tariffs top my list of uncertainties for businesses, but interest rates are a close second.
by selcuka | 2025-09-04 01:41:45+00:00
> If you are a secular person, it should follow that you are a non-dualist.

It depends on your definition of "dualism". If you define it as "having a soul that was created by a higher being", then yes, they are mutually exclusive.

On the other hand, one can also define dualism as being purely evolutionary. David Chalmers [1], an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist, has some interesting ideas around how dualistic consciousness may relate to quantum mechanics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers
by lofties | 2025-09-04 01:41:46+00:00
This is no longer true. With the advance of "cashless" systems that were heavily pushed and promoted by the government, cash payments have dropped significantly![0] Cashless payments now sit near 50%, up from 16% 10 years ago.

[0]https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2025/0331_001.html
by dwd | 2025-09-04 01:42:19+00:00
The credit score provided by someone like Equifax is just a number - cheap and quickly requested via an API. And yes, bureaus don't have operations in every country - but my point was that credit scores don't just exist in the US.

Take the Netherlands, they don't use scores; rather you would request a report that details any known factors that influence creditworthiness.

The difference is: - the score is a simple weighting (0-1000) that is systematically calculated by the bureau. - Without a score provided, you have to make a judgment yourself on that individual's creditworthiness from their report.
by qingcharles | 2025-09-04 01:43:31+00:00
That's wild that it passed me by. I've never seen that before. I used the Windows version from 1.0, but all my main development was still in TUI apps like Borland until about 1995.

Funny that the DOS version came out after the Windows one.

It amuses me that I'm sat here at my desktop right now using the exact same interface in Visual Studio 34 years later to build a WinForms app.
by _mu | 2025-09-04 01:43:40+00:00
It's not that Claude can't but iOS / Apple development is such a bear and beast. You could really build a whole model just to solve for that ecosystem. There are huge issues in the Apple ecosystem with documentation and so much tribal knowledge. In many cases it's hard to know what is the right thing to do, and there is keeping up with all of Apple's required changes.

So Claude could do it, it just seems like they're focusing on a different set of developers for the moment.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-09-04 01:44:11+00:00
Why should they pay for a licence? Once a technology reaches such ubiquity, there's a strong case for it being part of the technical infrastructure of that society. To me, that means that governments have a responsibility to ensure that the technology is widely available, and arbitrarily locking it behind commercial licences does not help achieve that. To the extent that patents and licensing provide an incentive to develop such technology, it's beholden on governments to foot the R&D bill in some other way.
by strix_varius | 2025-09-04 01:44:51+00:00
That isn't how LLMs work.

They are probabilistic. Running them on even different hardware yields different results. And the deltas compound the longer your context and the more tokens you're using (like when writing code).

But more importantly, always selecting the most likely token traps the LLM in loops, reduces overall quality, and is infeasible at scale.

There are reasons that literally no LLM that you use runs deterministically.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-04 01:45:29+00:00
I'm a game engine programmer and part of my job is to figure how how to "do it next week". I don't see it happening with the we we use LLM's right now. We don't have time to push data to a cloud and come back and render a scene, we have 16ms per frame on most projects (maybe 33 if you are doing something cinematic).

You're gonna have to break the light barrier before thinking about how to do real time Ai rendering at this rate.
by pezezin | 2025-09-04 01:45:48+00:00
Sega was quite crazy too. From the top of my head:

* The Megadrive plus MegaCD plus 32X, affectionately called "The Tower of Power". I have one and it is quite a hefty beast.

* Sonic & Knuckles with its lock-on technology that allowed plugin Sonic 3 (or Sonic 2) to form the full game.

* Virtua Racing and its SVP chip, Sega's answer to the SuperFX.

* The Saturn and its extension cartridges that provided additional RAM.

* The Dreamcast and its VMU.
by lvspiff | 2025-09-04 01:45:52+00:00
In right there with you. I live in a small town and so whenever spending money at a local small business I try as much as possible to use cash. The shopkeeps who are also the owners are so appreciative as it's essentially a 5-7% "tip". It's difficult for them to keep good change though as people who do spend cash are either $20 or $100 bills which for a few $5-10 items consumes the small bills pretty fast. But in a no sales tax state so makes giving change easier (no coins)
by zoeey | 2025-09-04 01:46:13+00:00
Several teams around me stopped hiring juniors over the past couple of years. It’s not that the newcomers aren’t good, it’s just that no one has time to train them. AI showed up at just the right moment to offer a convenient excuse, and companies are happy to save on the cost of mentoring. But long term, this feels like borrowing from the future. Without someone to train, there’s no one ready to step up later.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-04 01:47:08+00:00
>It’s not going to happen this week. But, in 5 years? Somebody’s gonna pull it off.

in a tech demo, sure. In a real product? I doubt it. We have neat tech demos from 20 years ago that amounted to not much, because implementing it in a real business product was unviable, unweildy, or didn't meet standards.

There's a lot to get away with with demos. Not so much in a product you want to sell. Much less so for a deluxe product with a bunch of competition like games.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-04 01:48:28+00:00
Yes, I'm sure it varies by area.

But from a business point if view, cash is super expensive to deal with.

As a side-effect of an acquisition we inherited a small number of customers that paid in cash. Turns out it's expensive to bank that cash, it's a security risk, it's a risk to the person transporting it and so on.

In the general case, if most sales are already by card, the marginal gains of cash transactions are consumed by the cost of dealing with the cash.

I'm not saying stores should be cashless, but it's worth understanding that accepting cash is very much "not free".
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-04 01:49:11+00:00
>Mostly just worse with respect to feature resolution.

Inclusive to my injection-molded comment, but could be mitigated (e.g.) with an acetone bath (to "smooth" the layers/resolution).

The stress fractures will most-definitely grow parallel to the layers, though... watch a Selectric's mechanism (rotational; linear; impact), in slow motion:

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RTtKaqIpOJc

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/izZ02t2UEGc

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/1ctlRduNCn4
by mkaic | 2025-09-04 01:49:15+00:00
Location: Boulder, Colorado

Remote: Open to Remote, Hybrid, or In-Person

Willing to relocate: Only for an exceptional offer.

Technologies: AI / Machine Learning, Docker, Python, PyTorch, Numpy, Pandas, Linux, TrueNAS, Pandas, SQL, Blender, Git / Github

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1io7PASX56d7eJTCXQnPxjqy3...

Email: matthew.kai.christensen (at) gmail.com

Hello, my name is Kai and I'm a machine learning researcher with an interest in computer vision and novel neural network architecture design. I have 4 years of experience working on computer vision models for medical imagery, including publishing an echocardiography-focused finetune of CLIP in Nature Medicine last year. I'm self taught and enjoy work where I can be creative and learn new skills. I would love to be a part of the team that invents the Transformer-killer. I'm also open to more data-sciencey jobs if the work is interesting.

I also have 3D modeling, filmmaking/editing, and music-making skills and experience if they're relevant. I've been making movies and doing VFX ever since I was little.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-04 01:49:18+00:00
> If I call the prime minister a criminal liar - worst that will happen is I get a defamation lawsuit. In authoritarian countries I go to a prison camp, and the neighbors are the one to report me. Even if I'm not political - if step on toes of people in party I can disappear and the rest will know not to ask questions.

Try implementing direct political action and see how Western governments treat you. You'll be deemed a terrorist, and if you're caught alive, you'll never see the sun again.
by Supermancho | 2025-09-04 01:49:27+00:00
Many people decry the tyranny of capitalism, but this site tends to lean into it and defend it at every turn because capitalism is painted as the tide that lifts all boats, despite the bodies on the ocean floor. Some believe, wholeheartedly that a few regulations is all that is needed to establish a fair free market, despite evidence to the contrary. ANY niche market where a world-spanning monopoly can be established, makes a mockery of regulation time and time again.
by nikki93 | 2025-09-04 01:50:06+00:00
Pasting a comment I posted elsewhere:

Resources I’ve liked:

Sebastian Raschka book on building them from scratch

Deep Learning a Visual Approach

These videos / playlists:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOY23Y0BoGoBGgQ... https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOwvldxftJTmoR3... https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7m7hLIqA0hoIUPhC26ASCVs_... https://www.youtube.com/live/uIsej_SIIQU?si=RHBetDNa7JXKjziD

here’s a basic impl that i trained on tinystories to decent effect: https://gist.github.com/nikki93/f7eae83095f30374d7a3006fd5af... (i used claude code a lot to help with the above bc a new field for me) (i did this with C and mlx before but ultimately gave into the python lol)

but overall it boils down to:

- tokenize the text

- embed tokens (map each to a vector) with a simple NN

- apply positional info so each token also encodes where it is

- do the attention. this bit is key and also very interesting to me. there are three neural networks: Q, K, V – that are applied to each token. you then generate a new sequence of embeddings where each position has the Vs of all tokens added up weighted by the Q of that position dot’d with the K of the other position. the new embeddings are /added/ to the previous layer (adding like this is called ‘residual’)

- also do another NN pass without attention, again adding the output (residual) there’s actually multiple ‘heads’ each with a different Q, K, V – their outputs are added together before that second NN pass

there’s some normalization at each stage to keep the numbers reasonable and from blowing up

you repeat the attention + forward blocks many times, then the last embedding in the final layer output is what you can sample based on

i was surprised by how quickly this just starts to generate coherent grammar etc. having the training loop also do a generation step to show example output at each stage of training was helpful to see how the output qualitatively improves over time, and it’s kind of cool to “watch” it learn.

this doesn’t cover MoE, sparse vs dense attention and also the whole thing about RL on top of these (whether for human feedback or for doing “search with backtracking and sparse reward”) – i haven’t coded those up yet just kinda read about them…

now the thing is – this is a setup for it to learn some processes spread among the weights that do what it does – but what those processes are seems still very unknown. “mechanistic interpretability” is the space that’s meant to work on that, been looking into it lately.
by ch4s3 | 2025-09-04 01:51:35+00:00
> Also, the 2017 tax cuts and the recent bill have provided substantial tax cuts to these corporations too.

That's just not how big companies look at their budgets, it isn't all one big pool of funds coming in and going out everything has a cost center and is accounted for individually end to end. This tax change made certain jobs suddenly 20% more expensive on paper. People in corporate finance look at these numbers and make recommendations that get implemented.
by bayesianbot | 2025-09-04 01:51:53+00:00
Am I the only one who thinks the way plugins are updated in lazy.nvim (and probably others) is a bit insane? It seems to just pull the latest commits. Every time I update, I feel one rogue commit away from someone stealing my keys. It definitely feels like the riskiest thing I do on my system. Or have I misunderstood something?
by thr0w | 2025-09-04 01:52:20+00:00
I do consulting, I'm constantly scouting clients. Right around November 2022 something very stark happened. I went from fighting off prospects with a stick, to crickets, almost over night. I deal mostly with startups and mid-size companies, nobody with insider knowledge or cutting edge interests. I can tell you that GPT was not heavily on anyone I dealt with's radar as an opportunity to reduce costs.

Some sort of cultural zeitgeist occurred, but in terms of symptoms I saw with my own eyes, I think ZIRP ending (projects getting axed) and layoffs starting (projects getting filled within ~24 hours) were huge drivers. I have no proof.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-04 01:52:22+00:00
An interesting piece documenting various examples of people lying (basically doing fraud) to gain some advantage. It poses this as evidence of America not being a high trust society. There’s some truth to that, but those who have lived in other countries will know that many (most?) countries have a lot more of corruption and bribery and grifting and people breaking the rules or lying to navigate the system and gain some benefit. I personally still find America to be higher trust than all developing countries.
by selcuka | 2025-09-04 01:53:02+00:00
> I suppose every one of us has asked

Not at all. I was shocked when I noticed that how few people have asked themselves this question. In fact, it is impossible to even explain this question to the majority of people. Most people confuse the question with "what makes us intelligent", missing the whole "first person perspective" aspect of it.

I guess evolution tries to stop us from asking question that might lead to nihilism.
by higon | 2025-09-04 01:53:17+00:00
Still primitive. But I'd love to drop lazy for this once they implement a differed load.

I love lazy.nvim. It's great no doubt. But recently I felt like the author is taking an aggressive user retention behavior by re-imprementing every useful open-source community plugins out there (like snack.nvim, mini.nvim). That's a kill-zone/copycat strategy. I don't get it.
Consumer-pgmq – Dead letter queue new feature
by tiagorosadacost | 2025-09-04 01:53:34+00:00
Hi everyone!

I’m here to show the dead letter queue feature I implemented on the node.js module named consumer-pgmq, so if I set up to try 2 times and the message failed 2 times on the third time will send the message to the dead letter queue.

What is it?

Recently I discovered a feature queue on Supabase where I can implement a messaging queue using Postgresql database.

Spoiler if you have a Postgresql running out of Supabase you can use the queue feature too, you need only install the extension named pgmq. Link of instructions: https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq

But I noticed something missing on my opinion I didn’t find a package on Npm to make the polling from the message and passing to a function I defined to execute something, so as result of it I created the npm package named consumer-pgmq where integrate with Supabase and Postgresql

Link of module on Npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/consumer-pgmq Link of Github repository: https://github.com/tiago123456789/consumer-pgmq
by daemonologist | 2025-09-04 01:54:20+00:00
This is kind of true, in that a data engineer is probably mostly thinking about data that already exists somewhere in a consumable fashion (a database, S3, an API, whatever). These usually have some default access method either built in or prescribed by devops/security/another team.

However, anyone who's ever worked with a server should be able to talk about moving files on and off of it - at least come up with one reasonable way to do it.