MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lisper | 2025-09-30 18:45:56+00:00
> with large organizations where once their markets mature, everybody who can build a product end-to-end leaves or gets forced out, leaving only people with highly specialized maintenance skillsets

It's not just building a product end-to-end. Tim Cook is a supply-chain guy. He knows how to build a product. What he doesn't know how is how to design a new one. This is the reason that all of the "new" stuff that has come out of Apple since Cook took over is actually just riffs on old degrees of freedom: thinner phones. New colors. Different UI skins. The only thing I can think of that Apple has done in the Cook era that was actually new was the Apple Vision Pro. That was really cool, but it was a commercial disaster, the modern equivalent of the Lisa or the NeXT.

Jobs took Lisa and NeXT failures and turned them into the Mac and OS/X. There is no hint that Apple intends to do anything with the Vision Pro, and they've already been scooped by Meta.
by deng | 2025-09-30 18:46:17+00:00
As usual: impressive until you look close. Just freeze the frame and you see all the typical slop errors: pretty much any kind of writing is a garbled mess (look at the camera in the beginning). The horn of the unicorn sits on the bridle. The buttons on Sam's circus uniform hover in the air. There are candleholders with somehow candles inside as well as on top. The miniature instruments often make no sense. The conductor has 4 fingers on one hand and 5 on the other. The cheers of the audience is basically brown noise. Nedless to say, if you freeze the audience, hands are literally all over the place. Of course, everything conveniently has a ton of motion blur so you cannot see any detail.

I know, I know. Most people don't care. How exciting.
by MountDoom | 2025-09-30 18:46:18+00:00
Not really. Fractals and chaos theory were a bit like blockchain in that it was a "new kind of science" and it was supposed to explain everything, and you could buy pop-science books talking about the implications.

And then it sort of fizzled out, because while it's interesting and gives us a bit of additional philosophical insights into certain problems, it doesn't do anything especially useful. You can use it to draw cool space-filling shapes.
by stared | 2025-09-30 18:46:37+00:00
Nice to see an approach to reduce doomscrolling (for myself, and most of my bubble, the biggest addiction, impacting productivity, mental health, and neck).

Yet, there is Hacker Newsletter (https://hackernewsletter.com/, which I like and use), there are others pointed by GPT5 that I don't Mailbrew and Digest. Kagi looks like the true former.

What I do want is personalization - not by picking interest, but actual personality, prompt, tastes, good enough that it puts something other, rather than only narrowing and narrowing my view. Yet high quality, rather than clickbaits and other "fluff". Otherwise, following a few Reddits would do the job (with some API to send emails).

What I would like even more is something that actually turns my social media into daily emails.
by rvz | 2025-09-30 18:47:19+00:00
Sooner or later, lots of competitors including Cerebras are going to take apart Nvidia's data center market share and it will cause many AI model firms to question the unnecessary spend and hoarding of GPUs.

OpenAI is still developing their own chips with Broadcom, but they are not operational yet. So for now, they're buying GPUs from Nvidia to build up their own revenue income (to later spend it on their own chips)

By 2030, eventually many companies will be looking for alternatives to Nvidia like Cerebras or Lightmatter for both training and inference use-cases.

For example [0] Meta just acquired a chip startup for this exact reason - "An alternative to training AI systems" and "to cut infrastructure costs linked to its spending on advanced AI tools.".

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-buy-chip-startup-rivos...
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-30 18:47:25+00:00
Yes you’re right. My apologies. I was glancing at the examples while cooking, specifically the git example (https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/#commit-stats) thinking that it was iterating over the lines output from git, but clearly that’s not even how bash would work. That will teach me for commenting without giving something my full attention first doh!

Looking properly at this, I can see no iteration is needed. Which actually makes the Murex implementation even easier because Murex already has tee pipes just like dgsh. It’s just not (yet) particularly well documented.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-30 18:48:05+00:00
> He broke an unwritten, cardinal rule, which is to never steal from the rich.

Right from the article

> Addressing the court before she was sentenced, Javice,

"she was" ...

The title even:

> Charlie Javice sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale of her startup

"her startup" ...

Kind of curious, how did you determine their gender? Guessing, saw the title on HN only without clicking on the link assumed it must be a "him"?
by nonethewiser | 2025-09-30 18:48:33+00:00
This is eerily similar to the comment on the thread about LLMs that says software teams have to maintain a "theory" or model about how the software works and when they cant, they can no longer function beyond limited forms of maintenance. And in that comment the idea was that LLMs are accelerating this dynamic.

I dont want to stretch the analogy too thin but in this case instead of LLMs being a catalyst, perhaps its a monopoly.
by raufakdemir | 2025-09-30 18:48:43+00:00
Great question. We usually sync per user in cases where this matters. That seems inefficient until you realize the following: for most teams, workspace data is pretty small - at least compared to other data workloads (CRMs << 1gb).

We plan to implement unified ACL syncs to dedupe the data or even have 1 sync per org, but that’s mostly a cost optimization; Airweave will just scale horizontally until then.
by g9yuayon | 2025-09-30 18:49:55+00:00
I guess I have a different philosophy: whoever owns the problem should learn everything necessary to solve the problem. In my case, the engineers showed no interests in learning the algorithm and the math behind it. For instance, when they built the dashboard for the testing, they omitted a few important columns and got the column names wrong. When I tested them on their understanding of the method, there was none. To say the least, my team should know enough to challenge me in case I made any mistake, or so I assume.

On a side note, I believe it is an individual's responsibility to find the coolness in their project. What's the fun of building a dashboard that I have done a thousand times? What's the fun of carrying out a routine that does not challenge me? But solving a problem in a most rigorous and generalized way? That is something in which an engineer can find some fun. Or maybe it's just me.
by hinkley | 2025-09-30 18:50:05+00:00
I worked on the 787 but far from the engineering team.

Boeing vowed to never build a plane like that again. They gave the wing design away to Mitsubishi for fucks sake. You never do that.

They were neck deep in the McDonnell Douglas metastasis at the time, and doing an impression of Captain Ahab in trying to union bust in Seattle by fucking off to South Carolina. Boeing customers would figure out which plane numbers were produced in SC and avoid purchasing them.

The thing about Boeing though is if you think the 737 team learns anything from the 747 team you’d be mostly wrong. Each airplane design builds up a new company inside Boeing to design that plane. They have their own meetings with each other and vendors. You’ll get some staff migration between the projects but if I saw any I didn’t notice. Toward the end during ramp down I’m sure some people moved onto the various -8 and -9 projects that were trying to stick composite wings onto existing lines.

I was asked if I was interested in porting my software to the C-17, after they figured out how to turn it into a bomber. I said fuck no, and that was the last I heard about it. Not that our code was particularly opaque. Some of the cleanest code I’ve ever done (knowing it would be maintained by someone else for as much as 30 years).
by datadrivenangel | 2025-09-30 18:50:20+00:00
This is what Anthropic does for their "High Compute" SWE benchmarking:

" For our "high compute" numbers we adopt additional complexity and parallel test-time compute as follows:

- We sample multiple parallel attempts. - We discard patches that break the visible regression tests in the repository, similar to the rejection sampling approach adopted by Agentless (Xia et al. 2024); note no hidden test information is used. - We then use an internal scoring model to select the best candidate from the remaining attempts. - This results in a score of 82.0% for Sonnet 4.5.

"

But running in parallel means you use more compute, meaning that the cost is higher. Good results are worth paying for, but if a super recursive approach costs more and takes longer than a human...
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-30 18:50:44+00:00
A number of people from JPMC have gone to prison for financial crimes in general, including some (e.g. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-jp-morgan-tra...) which occurred during 2008. Nobody from JPMC has gone to prison for causing the 2008 financial crisis because there's no evidence that someone from JPMC caused the 2008 financial crisis.
by bravetraveler | 2025-09-30 18:51:09+00:00
Funny to hear your success; I've managed to break almost every mirror I've entrusted to BTRFS! How? Holding down the power button!

Seemingly regardless of the drives, interface, or kernel, other filesystems paired with LVM or mdraid fail/recover/lie more gracefully. NVMe or SATA (spindles). Demonstrated back-to-back with replacements from different batches.

Truly disheartening, I want BTRFS. I would like to dedicate some time to this, but, well, time remains of the essence. I'm hoping it's something boring like my luck with boards/storage controllers, /shrug.
by missinglugnut | 2025-09-30 18:51:11+00:00
It baffles me that they dug this hole in the first place. I have feelings on the zero-indexing vs one-indexing debate, but at the end of the day you can write correct code in either, as long as you know which one you're using.

But Julia fucked it up to where it's not clear what you're using, and library writers don't know which one has been passed! It's insane. They chose style over consistency and correctness and it's caused years of suffering.
by jjice | 2025-09-30 18:51:16+00:00
100% agree. Free services have their place, but I'd love to have more paid service alternatives for derives that only exist as "free".

That said, all my friends think I'm insane and poke fun at me for paying for search, so I imagine we're a small minority.

People just hate paying for software in general in my experience, especially a subscription.

I have multiple good friends who refuse to pay 99 cents a month to get 50gb of iCloud storage so they can backup their phones, and instead of all their precious memories on a single device that is out and about.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-30 18:51:20+00:00
I did say it was extreme on purpose to make the point clear, or so I thought. Looks like it isn't clear to you...

Whatever you think of my example, it is exactly the same legal reasoning at play here. If you broke the law then withdrawing does not change that and accountability.

> It's not comparable because the "crime" has been committed in the hosting country

Obviously not, that's the whole point: They may (investigation ongoing) have breached UK law. So, to really labour the point, if you breach the law in one country then cutting links with that country afterwards does not change anything.

Now, to be a bit more substantive than this tedious bike-shedding, I think the UK are just trying to send a message here even if enforcement may be difficult. The EU could do the same with the GDPR since it is the same type of law (global reach and applicability).
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-30 18:51:22+00:00
>This will apply maximum pressure on the government to reverse these parochial laws

Whatever the annual revenue of imgur was is now up for grabs for any British entrepreneur willing to build an image hosting site and unless British people have an innate preference for exporting their data to the US they'll likely stick with that. In other words, it's a good opportunity for the domestic tech sector, that's what happens in most cases when foreign companies tend to be blocked.
by matdehaast | 2025-09-30 18:51:30+00:00
Interesting, on Geekbench they have very different scoring

365: 2515/12552 M4: 3763/14694

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-ai-9-365 https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/11020192
by RagnarD | 2025-09-30 18:51:57+00:00
After leaving active involvement in a still-extant biotech I co-founded in 2020, I'm focusing on some ideas I've kicked around for awhile but didn't have time to work on.

The first is a document search system for over 200,000 high quality OCRed pages from successful CD/DVD-ROM products I developed some years ago, covering the official records of the American Civil War as well as 19th century documents on Native American history. The technology stack involves BaseX for indexed document search, Postgres for user data, Redis for transient session information, and Blazor WASM for the UI. (I coded all of it.) It can be seen at https://allhistory.us (currently desktop oriented.)

After working extensively with Coda (and much less with Notion), and becoming frustrated with its limitations, I decided to work on a considerably more powerful and programmable system to compete with both. No externally viewable progress so far, but soon ...

I'm developing on a new system I assembled, for general development but also to be able to seriously work on local AI - an EPYC 9755 CPU (128 core) on a Supermicro motherboard, 384GB RAM, and an RTX 6000 Pro Max-Q. I also have ideas for some AI products but too early to talk about.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-30 18:52:11+00:00
It depends on the type and shape of pasta. Whole wheat pasta takes longer than white flour pasta. 7 min for whole wheat sphagetti, 9 min for rotini.

13-15 min for that rigatoni definitely sounds excessive.

The "throw it at the wall, and see if it sticks" test is about right!
by haolez | 2025-09-30 18:52:21+00:00
One use that occurred to me is that fans will be able to "fix" some movies that dropped the ball.

For example, I saw a lot of people criticizing "Wish" (2023, Disney) for being a good movie in the first half, and totally dropping the ball in the last half. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm wondering if fans will be able to evolve the source material in the future to get the best possible version of it.

Maybe we will even get a good closure for Lost (2004)!

(I'm ignoring copyright aspects, of course, because those are too boring :D)
by zahlman | 2025-09-30 18:53:03+00:00
Meh, connoisseurs would probably say my pasta is overcooked; I don't care. I've tried it other ways and I don't like what's supposedly best.

I'm Canadian and I don't think this is an American thing at all. Certainly my lifestyle is nothing like stereotypical US lifestyle.

Also: there's a certain kind of machismo associated with liking steak rare, which is hard to reconcile with overcooking other things habitually.
by FootballMuse | 2025-09-30 18:53:04+00:00
Passmark is an outdated benchmark not well optimized for ARM. Even so the single thread marks are 3864 (AI365) vs 4550 (M4)

OTOH, Geekbench correlates (0.99) with SPEC standards, the industry standard in CPU benchmark and what enterprise companies such as AWS use to judge a CPU performance.

https://medium.com/silicon-reimagined/performance-delivered-...
by jimbokun | 2025-09-30 18:53:07+00:00
> I'm a programmer, not an HR person or hiring manager; that's outside my skillset. But that doesn't mean I can't accurately identify glaring flaws in the current system based on my understanding of human nature.

No, it pretty much does mean that.

Until you can come up with concrete improvements and understand the potential flaws in those proposals as well, you can't usefully critique the existing system.
by Retric | 2025-09-30 18:53:12+00:00
I’m saying legally things aren’t clear cut at this point.

If you’ve read Kadrey the judge says harm from competing with the output of authors would be problematic. Quite relevant for software developers suing about code generation but much harder for novelists to prove. However, the judge came to the opposite conclusion about using pirate websites to download the books in question.

A new AI company that is expecting to face a large number of lawsuits and win some while losing others isn’t in a great position.
by runjake | 2025-09-30 18:54:07+00:00
I'd rather that than an underpowered chip.

It was mentioned, as almost a side comment somewhere, that the M chip is in there for multitasking and higher end image/video editing for "Pros". I could certainly use the M4 in an iPad Pro for iPadOS 26 and it's multitasking. I run into occasional slowness when multitasking on my M2 iPad Air.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-30 18:54:30+00:00
Boeing in particular has been about "maximizing shareholder value" to detrimental levels for decades now. Absolutely pushing out its most experienced (and expensive) employees in favor of less skilled and experienced staff often with an ageist bent. Beyond this has been a cultural shift and ever expanding increase to woke HR policies and practices to levels that are more harmful than good.

I should note that I'm entirely in favor of diversity of background and thought, not to mention various educational backgrounds. That said, actually having "unofficial" policies against promoting people of a certain race and gender combination (no white men hired or advancing in management, especially old white men) is as problematic as any other racial/gender/ageist bigotry.

I don't work for Boeing as I don't have a formal education that prevents me from ever being considered. I do know several people that do. Opinions are my own and not that of my employer or anyone else.
by gruez | 2025-09-30 18:54:32+00:00
>no, the point of a financial market is to be a place where people who need money for lucrative projects can get it, and a place where people who have money can invest it

But all things being equal, investors would like their money allocated into projects with the best returns. Borrowers of course would prefer that they get the money so that doesn't really tell us anything, but society as a whole would rather that worthy projects are funded rather than a linear city in the desert or whatever.

>and people will partake even if the market is inefficient. Consider illegal/black markets, they are often cited as truly free markets where you can invest large sums of cash or buy anything for a price, and even though the prices are high, there are customers.

A good that can't be acquired on regular markets has a price of infinity. A black market might be more expensive than some place where it's legal, but it's still cheaper than the alternative.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-30 18:54:56+00:00
Every single news aggregation services promises the same "signal over noise" and "just the facts". I'm so numb from hearing that, that I don't believe it anymore.

I do however like the fact that Kagi only pushes _once_ a day. Drinking from the firehose is physically and mentally exhausting. Even daily feels like too much these days other than a quick check to make sure the world didn't implode or the Rapture happened while I was busy trying to get CC to behave.
by jheitmann | 2025-09-30 18:54:58+00:00
There's a book covering this and more from 1993 called "Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos" by Julian C. Sprott that's freely available here: https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/SA.HTM

It's fun (errr... for me at least) to translate the ancient basic code into a modern implementation and play around.

The article mentions that it's interesting how the 2d functions can look 3d. That's definitely true. But, there's also no reason why you can't just add on however many dimensions you want and get real many-dimensioned structures with which you can noodle around with visualizations and animations.
by hinkley | 2025-09-30 18:55:13+00:00
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Has a degree that’s basically informatics management.

My coworker took a class with case studies and the theory presented by that class was that all successful projects have at least one person who has fit the entire system into their head. They can tell you what happens if you pull on this thread. What the consequences are of trying to remove this feature. Lose them and you are fucked. Until or unless someone else steps up and does the same. If they can’t it’s the beginning of the end.
by godelski | 2025-09-30 18:55:17+00:00
> I guarantee that a naive presentation doesn't actually include the axioms

But you said "modern math courses". Are you now talking about a casual conversation? I mean the OP's story is that his wife just liked listening to him talk about his passions.

> Uncountable need not mean more.

Sure. But that doesn't mean that there aren't differing categories. However you slice it, we can operate on these things in different ways. Real or not the logic isn't consistent between these things but they do fall out into differing categories.

If you're trying to find mistakes in the logic does it not make sense to push it at its bounds? Look at the Banach-Tarski Paradox. Sure, normal people hear about it and go "oh wow, cool." But when it was presented in my math course it was used as a discussion of why we might want to question the Axiom of Choice, but that removing it creates new concerns. Really the "paradox" was explored to push the bounds of the axiom of choice in the first place. They asked "can this axiom be abused?" And the answer is yes. Now the question is "does this matter, since infinity is non-physical? Or does it despite infinity being non-physics?"

You seem to think mathematicians, physicists, and scientists in general believe infinities are physical. As one of those people, I'm not sure why you think that. We don't. I mean math is a language. A language used because it is pedantic and precise. Much the same way we use programming languages. I'm not so sure why you're upset that people are trying to push the bounds of the language and find out what works and doesn't work. Or are you upset that non-professionals misunderstand the nuances of a field? Well... that's a whole other conversation, isn't it...