MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reify | 2025-10-30 05:31:24+00:00
I just add this to ublock origin

Addons -> uBlock Origin -> Preferences -> My Filters

# HN dark Mode:

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I coppied this from an old HN post but changed the dark grey to catppaccino #24273a

perfect for my old eyes
Show HN: Vested Trade – The Financial Analyst for Retail Investors
by adityar2 | 2025-10-30 05:31:37+00:00
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by jjuliano | 2025-10-30 05:33:17+00:00
I did something similar back in 2019 but for learning Dutch with games, which I made originally for my child but this kinda helps me remember many A2 words and helps me with the exams. Now I have the Dutch citizenship.

Not as extensive as the site but with the images, interactions, it helps with remembering the vocabularies. https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Joel+Bryan+J...
by yanhangyhy | 2025-10-30 05:33:31+00:00
Based on my understanding, that’s still the case. I think the problems you mentioned are currently beyond what any government can handle, even one with extremely strong control like China. China is now facing both rising unemployment and a low birth rate. In the past, when China’s birth rate was higher, unemployment was not this high. The fundamental problem is not that there are too many people, but that the economy lacks vitality. Moreover, a declining birth rate will cause systems like pensions and healthcare—which rely on the next generation to support the previous one—to collapse.
by m10i | 2025-10-30 05:33:59+00:00
Ohh, that's probably it. I had considered whether or not they were trying to incorporate indignant/indignation in some fashion when they came up with it, but never made the connection with "ia" being "land of".

Still, that's a bit complicated because it's missing something essential that the author had originally intended. It's like replacing "Mad God World" with "Unjust World"... well, they're very much all unjust, have to be more specific.

This is even more of a reason why they really should be explaining these self-insert puns to the readers, since they invented them. It's a nice touch is all, and fan translators made that (among the other things I mentioned) a standard practice.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-30 05:34:02+00:00
> that has nothing to do with the Bay Area and everything to do with accidents of history

I think you’re wrong. But that’s irrelevant. The fact that it exists now is what gives it staying power. One of the surest bets I’ve seen in seed and Series A investing is when a market has one or two competitors in a cluster and the rest outside. The insiders win. Always. It’s the easiest bulldozing strategy that exists.
by zzo38computer | 2025-10-30 05:36:00+00:00
> In my opinion, stricter oversight is beneficial.

I agree; stricter oversight is beneficial for the official app store. It should not be necessary (and neither should Google's (or Apple's, or Microsoft's, or the government's, etc) verification be necessary) for stuff you install by yourself.

> The Maven Central registry for Java libraries, by contrast, requires developers to own the DNS domain used as a namespace for their library.

This means that you will need to have a domain name, and can verify it for this purpose. (It also has a problem if the domain name is later reassigned to someone else; including a timestamp would be one way to avoid that problem (there are other possibilities as well) but I think Java namespaces do not have timestamps.)

> I hope that Google's new approach is motivated by security concerns rather than purely economic reasons.

Maybe partially, but they would need to do it a better way.
by lmm | 2025-10-30 05:36:19+00:00
If Kakfa had come first, no-one would ever pick Postgres. Yes, it offers a lot of fancy functionality. But most of that functionality is overengineered stuff you don't need, and/or causes more problems than it solves (e.g. transactions sound great until you have to deal with the deadlocks and realise they don't actually help you solve any business problems). Meanwhile with no true master-master HA in the base system you have to use a single point of failure server or a flaky (and probably expensive) third-party addon.

Just use Kafka. Even if you don't need speed or scalability, it's reliable, resilient, simple and well-factored, and gives you far fewer opportunities to architect your system wrong and paint yourself into a corner than Postgres does.
by sometimes_all | 2025-10-30 05:37:07+00:00
In my opinion, we might have avoided some of the mistakes, but that is still costing us.

The best usually leave the country after getting the prime education India can provide, and support the retirement plans of other countries' aging populations more than their own - the Indian government actively seems to encourage this, looking at how our PM tries to negotiate for more visas during every first-world trip. Even with the demographic dividend, we do not have enough jobs, so the elderly are not supported neither fiscally, nor infrastructure-wise, since old people cannot walk on bad roads or take advantage of non-existent programs anyway. For the younger people, the insane competition makes both work and personal life hell.

Whenever I see videos of China and their cities, and then look out of my window, it makes me both depressed and angry. I still don't understand how India can even be compared to China any more.
by dazzaji | 2025-10-30 05:37:36+00:00
This discussion hits close to home. A few of us at Stanford and Consumer Reports have been working on a project called Loyal Agents (loyalagents.org ) that’s focused on the same core issue raised in the Economist article, namely how to make sure AI agents actually act in the interest of the people they represent.

The idea is to define what “loyalty” means for an AI agent in both technical and legal terms, and then build systems that can prove they’re acting on a user’s behalf (ie not a platform’s or advertiser’s).

It’s early-stage research, but the overlap with many of the questions here is striking. Would be great to get feedback from this crowd as the work evolves.

I’m part of the group working on Loyal Agents and happy to discuss it.
by Hansenq | 2025-10-30 05:38:12+00:00
Not entirely by coincidence. Yes Shockley was from CA, but as late as the 1980, two places were competing to be the center: Boston's Route 128 ("America's Technology Highway") or Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley won out because the CA constitution explicitly prohibits non-competes (which MA allows), leading to more rapid innovation. Very likely the infamous Traitorous Eight who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild could not have done that if noncompetes could be enforced.
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-30 05:41:21+00:00
As a former Amazon employee who lurked in the “anonymous” internal #pay-equity and the #pay-equity-discussion Slack channels, I can tell you that the typical return offer for an L4 who was a former intern was around $150K - $165K cash and stock and the average L5 was around $230K - $260K+ cash and stock per year (check my numbers on levels.fyi I might be off that was a couple of years ago).

But I have that amount in liquid cash because I’m an empty nest boomer with my wife who had a house built in 2016 in the burbs of Atlanta that I sold for twice the amount I paid for it in 2024 and downsized to a condo in Florida.

Before 2020, my only security was my ability to get a job fast.

But honestly anyone who expected loyalty from Amazon was like the old woman who took care of the snake. They should have been saving.

And I’m not at all FIRE, I’ll be realistically working until 65. Don’t cry for me. I work remotely and my wife and I travel all of the time including doing the digital nomad thing off an on where we are gone for months at a time.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-30 05:41:38+00:00
I visited Beijing in April and it was much cleaner than it was before, electric vehicles everywhere, but people were also much richer, before a car was some sort of luxury and now it was just something you could get if you could find a place to park it. It’s hard to describe.

The o the thing to consider is that China isn’t really a full on consumption economy yet, that they develop a lot of infrastructure and make a lot of stuff for export, all that would be counted in per capita emissions even if it wasn’t to the benefit of a per capita member. The infrastructure building is going to slow down someday (like it did in Japan), China should seriously consider its exports next (especially rare earth refining which is really dirty and resource intensive).
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-30 05:42:09+00:00
You don't need press for everyone to see that China is straight killing it in almost every sector. Manufacturing, compute, you name it. Sure, they aren't without problems.

And as for free press, look at where freedom of press took United States. You have companies like Fox news that "aren't actually news, just entertainment", who blatantly lie about election fraud. You have podcasters like Joe Rogan who are at the same time "just bullshitting", while also pushing ideological narratives. And most republicans still believe election was stolen in 2024.

And overall, the party that was all about free speech, free trade, and small federal government power is pretty much doing the exact opposite in every single aspect, and people voted for them.

Im glad China has reigns on all of that. It allows them to pass laws like this https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/chinas-new-influencer-law-wan...

And yes, from a pure statistical standpoint, having centralized power isn't optimal since you don't want someone crazy having lots of centralized power, but at the same time, you also don't want what US has, where on the average 7/10 people simply just don't give a fuck about US being destroyed financially and socially.
by Hansenq | 2025-10-30 05:43:33+00:00
OpenAI needs to IPO because they want to access the public capital markets to fund their AI investments, more deep-pocketed investors are wary of investing in a LLC, and for liquidity, etc.

OpenAI needs to convert to a C-corp in order to IPO.

OpenAI needs the CA Attorney General's approval to convert a LLC into a C-Corp because the LLCs is headquartered in CA and incorporated with many CA laws.

So the article is making the point that OpenAI likely got the CA Attorney General's approval for the conversion because they promised to stay in CA (whether or not that's actually true).

(or support journalism and pay to read the article)
Show HN: Learn Dutch with Games
by jjuliano | 2025-10-30 05:43:57+00:00
Inspired by another post. I did something similar back in 2019 but for learning Dutch with games, which I made originally for my child but this kinda helps me remember many A2 words and helps me with the exams. Now I have the Dutch citizenship.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Joel+Bryan+J...
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-30 05:44:58+00:00
The core idea of relational quantum mechanics is that when we talk about an object — be it an atom, a person or a galaxy — we are never just referring to the system alone. Rather, we are always referring to the interactions between this system and something else. We can only describe — and in fact understand — a thing as it relates to ourselves, or to our measuring devices.

Lee Smolin has gone down a different track but with similar spirit of sorts. Carlo poked fun at Lee for all the work they've done together despite disagreeing on so much in his recent talk[1] at Lee's Fest[2].

Smolin has named his approach the Causal Theory of Views, in which he postulates that spacetime emerges from events, ie relational interactions. This[3] interview, which is a few years old now, contains a decent high-level explanation. The idea that kinda overlaps with Rovelli he explains like this:

The theory that I've been looking for would take advantage of the fact that the notion of locality and nonlocality is key to understanding quantum mechanics, and then try to understand that with the lens of the unification of quantum physics with space and time, which is quantum gravity.

In both approaches, there's a principle, which is the idea of relational physics—that the degrees of freedom, the properties of whatever it is that's dynamical that you're studying, arises from dynamical relationships with other degrees of freedom.

In other words, you don't have absolute space, you don't have particles that occupy points or follow paths or trajectories in absolute space. You have many particles which, between them, allow you to define relative motion.

Lee has given several talks[4] at PIRSA since that interview with more details as he's developed his idea.

So while both go hard on the relational aspect, they disagree on some fundamental things. Rovelli thinks time is an illusion, but in Lee's CTV time is real and space is the illusion (emergent).

Who knows if it'll pan out or be a dead end, but since the quantum physics community has been headbutting the fundamental issues with little progress for so many decades, it seems prudent to try some bold approaches.

[1]: https://pirsa.org/25060030

[2]: https://pirsa.org/c25023

[3]: https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theo...

[4]: https://pirsa.org/speaker/lee-smolin
by baxtr | 2025-10-30 05:45:43+00:00
> My intuition is that the overall flow of time really could be like the rotation of the sky every day. It’s a majestic, immense phenomenon, but it’s actually an illusion. This is a totally perspectival understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. It’s real in the same sense that the rotating sky is real, but it’s real only with respect to us.

And later:

> Our community has wasted a lot of time searching after speculative ideas. What we need instead is to digest the knowledge we already have. And to do that, we need philosophy. Philosophers help us not to find the right answers to given questions, but to find the right questions to better conceptualize reality.

I think it’s odd that a physicists proposes a new theory without suggesting experiments that could falsify the theory.
by croemer | 2025-10-30 05:45:53+00:00
Preliminary post incident review: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status/history/

Timeline

15:45 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Customer impact began.

16:04 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Investigation commenced following monitoring alerts being triggered.

16:15 UTC on 29 October 2025 – We began the investigation and started to examine configuration changes within AFD.

16:18 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Initial communication posted to our public status page.

16:20 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Targeted communications to impacted customers sent to Azure Service Health.

17:26 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Azure portal failed away from Azure Front Door.

17:30 UTC on 29 October 2025 – We blocked all new customer configuration changes to prevent further impact.

17:40 UTC on 29 October 2025 – We initiated the deployment of our ‘last known good’ configuration.

18:30 UTC on 29 October 2025 – We started to push the fixed configuration globally.

18:45 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Manual recovery of nodes commenced while gradual routing of traffic to healthy nodes began after the fixed configuration was pushed globally.

23:15 UTC on 29 October 2025 - PowerApps mitigation of dependency, and customers confirm mitigation.

00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 – AFD impact confirmed mitigated for customers.
by figassis | 2025-10-30 05:47:16+00:00
Around 8y ago, when Angular vs React was still a war worth reading, frameworks were I think in their final state. They gave you basic tools, and you could build applications with them. I felt like framework creators didn’t treat us like babies who needed handholding. Idk if a new generation of younger developers took over, but things started becoming too shiny. Blog posts were no longer about performance, ease of use, same solutions. I couldn’t even understand some post titles. There is just no bandwidth to follow these things anymore. Why is a router a thing that needs to be continually rebuilt and tinkered with. Did we not learn ages ago how routers should work? What innovation are we seeking? Is it just developers treating frameworks like their weekend experiments?
by astrange | 2025-10-30 05:47:33+00:00
Are those pre or post tax returns? Gold is taxed as a collectible which is pretty bad.

Thinking about it, my recommendation is read:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/index/

and then after maxing your 401k, open a Betterment account, and then max your HSA if applicable. The tax savings easily best custom portfolio picking.
by tomhow | 2025-10-30 05:49:14+00:00
Related. Others?

Carlo Rovelli on challenging our common-sense notion of time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17893865 - Sept 2018 (74 comments)

Carlo Rovelli on the ‘greatest remaining mystery’: The nature of time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17376437 - June 2018 (143 comments)
by jsolson | 2025-10-30 05:49:44+00:00
I agree with nearly everything except your point (1).

Periodic polling is awkward on both sides: you add arbitrary latency _and_ increase database load proportional to the number of interested clients.

Events, and ideally coalesced events, serve the same purpose as interrupts in a uniprocess (versus distributed) system, even if you don't want a proper queue. This at least lets you know _when_ to poll and lets you set and adjust policy on when / how much your software should give a shit at any given time.
by naruhodo | 2025-10-30 05:52:02+00:00
If my memory serves, the stated justification for not going open source was copyright and trademark protection. Apparently, that is no longer a concern, if it ever really was.

Now I'm bracing for them to drop support for Java Edition entirely and go strictly Bedrock in a couple of years.

Perhaps Minecraft 2.0 is finally nearing release.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-30 05:52:13+00:00
I did my first internship at Boca Raton in the OS/2 device driver support group. They announced OS/2 PPC while I was there, and also BeOS was dropped around the same time. Suffice it to say it was an exciting time for PPC hardware that I could never afford on my own (Windows 95 also came out that year, it was all so nuts).
by hdjrudni | 2025-10-30 05:53:50+00:00
I'm surprised so many people drank the RSC koolaid. I tried it for maybe an hour and it became painfully obvious very quickly how much harder it is to build something that used to be simple.

I just don't understand the use-case either.

Either you're building an SEO-optimized website and you want that initial page load to be as fast as possible. In this case, just build a static website. Use whatever technology you desire and compile to HTML+CSS.

Or you're building an "app" in which case you should expect users to linger around for a bit and that fat initial payload will eventually be cached, so you really don't need to sending it down on every click. So go full-on with the client-side rendering and simplify your stack a little. You can still do a lot of optimizations like code-splitting and prefetching and this and that, but we don't need this weird mixed modality where some things work in one place but not the other.

Which is pretty much what the author says and I'm glad to see people start to realize this.
by frontbackgeek | 2025-10-30 05:53:51+00:00
London, October 2025: Tech brand Nothing has officially launched the Nothing Phone (3a) Lite, its newest entry-level smartphone designed to make the company’s unique transparent design and smooth software experience available to more users around the world. The device focuses on offering a balance between modern looks, solid performance, and affordability — something that has helped Nothing stand out in the crowded smartphone market.
by squigz | 2025-10-30 05:57:49+00:00
I don't really think this would be the end of the world, would it? Much of the content they've added over the past few years has been of questionable merit, at least to me. Surely at some point they'll run out of ideas that can reasonably fit inside vanilla Minecraft?

(But no, I don't think they're going to stop JE development. I'd bet it's still the far more popular version, and they probably still make plenty of money from sales)
by jazzyjackson | 2025-10-30 05:59:37+00:00
From 2023:

In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal with an Excel feature that was interpreting their names as dates and (un)helpfully reformatting them automatically. Yesterday, a member of the Excel team posted that the company is rolling out an update on Windows and macOS to fix that.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/21/23926585/microsoft-excel...

Also it drops leading zeros which is annoying when a column is zip codes and it should be imported as string and not number

I agree excel gives ways around these and maybe that's considered basic knowledge but it definitely has poor data-mangling defaults
by TaqPolymerase | 2025-10-30 05:59:54+00:00
Super useful and a great price. Added to my Login Items and remapped some of the extra modifier keys on my Keychron Q11 for even easier access to Draw/HUD. Perhaps one nice-to-have would be an indicator that 'Draw' is active so I know what my next click is going to do (maybe the menu icon changes?). Thank you!
by vintermann | 2025-10-30 06:00:15+00:00
It's not the same artist. C418 had a very good deal with Notch's Mojang, letting him keep rights. Microsoft demanded that he sign over the rights to further music as work for hire. He refused, as a result the newer music in Minecraft is made by other composers who signed on to that deal and try to make music fitting with C418's style.
by shwaj | 2025-10-30 06:01:28+00:00
I think what they meant was:

Two linear transformations compose into a single linear transformation. If you have y = W2(W1*x) = (W2*W1)*x = W*x where W = W2*W1, you've just done one matrix multiply instead of two. The composition of linear functions is linear.

The ReLU breaks this because it's nonlinear: ReLU(W1*x) can't be rewritten as some W*x, so W2(ReLU(W1*x)) can't collapse either.

Without nonlinearities like ReLU, many layers of a neural network could be collapsed into a single matrix multiplication. This inherently limits the function approximation that it can do, because linear functions are not very good at approximating nonlinear functions. And there are many nonlinearities involved in modeling speech, video, etc.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-30 06:03:34+00:00
Trump tried to wage the same tariff war with China twice. But everyone with any knowledge of history/strategy knows you can't fight the exact same way with your adversaries twice. China adapted and now we (the US) are f'd because this administration is too dumb/uneducated/unstrategic to understand this.

Threats of nuclear war are not, in fact, 'good bargaining chip's. They were pathetic weakness when Russia did it with Ukraine, and now, sadly, when the USA does it.