MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-05 17:17:52+00:00
Consolidation (mergers and acquisitions generally) aren't necessarily bad universally.

It is hard to argue that Silicon and Synapse being acquired by Davidson and Associates to form Blizzard Entertainment was not good for gaming consumers for a long stretch of time.

But there is certainly a tipping point where this sort of consolidation really becomes a problem when it results in large entities with a lot of market power, or one side of the deal is already a large entity with a lot of market power. And the larger the consolidation, the worse it gets for everyone (except perhaps shareholders, though even this being arguably positive can often just be a temporary situation).

Unfortunately the only really viable exit strategy for a lot of VCs is to offload their startups to Alphabet or Meta sized entities which is immediately concerning from an anti-trust perspective because those companies are already so overly large (and a lot of their M&A is clearly just to kill would-be competitors, which is at the heart of anti-trust).

So the techbros were instrumental in making sure Lina Khan got the boot, despite the fact that she's been right about everything.
by turtlebits | 2025-10-05 17:18:02+00:00
The more common term for the unit is a solar inverter or off-grid inverter.

I run a few of these on an off grid property and they're totally fine. I would be wary of a cheap no-name brands. I'm also be wary of running extension cords all over the place.

If you have the space (a mechanical closet?). I'd suggest getting a separate inverter and charge controller. These all-in-one units have fairly high idle inverter draw.
by ednite | 2025-10-05 17:19:10+00:00
To nourish your curiosity, the real domain was meant as a community platform to help others going through something personal my wife has experienced. She has a beautiful soul and wants to share that journey.

As an example and not the real name, but in true HN style, imagine losing sight in one eye, still learning to code like anyone else, and wanting to share that story. You might come up with something like TheCyclopsCoder.com. (Totally made up just now, no comments needed.)

I debated it, since I worried it could alienate or offend blind coders. She disagreed, felt it was genuine.

I hope that helps feed your curiosity and who knows, one day i might just promote her site if she moves forward with it.
by erezsh | 2025-10-05 17:19:39+00:00
Because my hate for pytest is ardent and dear to my heart, I will try to explain.

I wrote a very simple function:

def test_whatever(): a = range(10) b = (10 / x for x in a) c = list(b)

When I run it with normal Python, this is the exception:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_test.py", line 10, in <module> test_whatever() File "test_test.py", line 6, in test_whatever c = list(b) ^^^^^^^ File "test_test.py", line 5, in <genexpr> b = (10 / x for x in a) ~~~^~~ ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

It's compact and simple to understand. It pinpoints the exact location of the error, and I easily scan the text to find the function call-stack.

Now here's the pytest error:

___________________________________ test_whatever ___________________________________ def test_whatever(): a = range(10) b = (10 / x for x in a) > c = list(b) test_test.py:6: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .0 = <range_iterator object at 0x107695e90> > b = (10 / x for x in a) E ZeroDivisionError: division by zero test_test.py:5: ZeroDivisionError

It doesn't pinpoint the error, it adds code lines that might be irrelevant, and extra information I don't care about.

I will say using `--tb=short` fixes most of it, at least in this example, and sometimes it's even preferable, because it's shorter. But it still doesn't pinpoint the error like normal Python exceptions do.
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-10-05 17:20:03+00:00
By this definition prime loans are also gambling. When you bet on something risky then you are gambling. When you bet on something not risky you are not gambling. Also consider that not investing will generally lose money over time due to things like inflation. If we define the goal to be holding as much value as we can, holding dollars is more risky than investing in many stocks (or bonds, which also have a risk of defaulting). A better definition of gambling is something like "taking unnecessary and unproductive risks."
by jwilber | 2025-10-05 17:20:07+00:00
Hardships do come from high screen time, definitely. The poor job market is not one of them.

The “screen” effect doesn’t exist. But the percentage of students enrolled in cs programs grew a lot of the last few years, and I’ve seen the passion difference have an effect. Two friends of mine graduated last year. Both had zero offers out of undergrad (this is the norm right now, again, completely irrelevant to screen time). One of them was passionate about coding and kept working on side projects/leetcoding, eventually landing a role at a tech company after a year of working at a boba shop. The other, who struggled with coding and was verbally not passionate about it (complained about it a lot, didn’t interview prep much) ended up throwing in the towel a few months on the job hunt.

An anecdote, but probably generalizable across those in today’s job market. But the market is the core problem, second to the individual’s willingness to grind. Neither are related to screen time.
by trebligdivad | 2025-10-05 17:20:13+00:00
What does the word 'macropscopic' mean in it's abstract? The best bet is a typo of macroscopic - but hmm it's made it through that far and I do find a bunch of other uses of that word in physicsy stuff

(The nice word in there is 'ansatzes' which I didn't know, as something like a starting guess/assumption)
by trimethylpurine | 2025-10-05 17:20:31+00:00
No. Travel to Mexico, or Africa, or other such places if you want to see what lawlessness does to society.

>I think that you fantasize about throwing your political opponents in prison

That's a xenophobic and false assumption. It's illegal to imprison your political opponents. I just said don't break the law, right?

Do you want to put people who disagree with you in prison?

It's perfectly legal to make a political statement in the US. It's illegal to harm people and property. Don't conflate those.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-05 17:20:52+00:00
So I actually started researching this, and it turns out that, by the principles in Field v. Google Inc. (2006), neither side would have an enforceable TOS, but that a user making their social data available on their host and not attempting to block any particular crawlers with robots.txt would create an implied license that would allow social media sites to store and display the posts. Which is what allows Google to display information, snippets, and images from sites it crawls.

Facebook couldn't enforce a TOS because the hosting user had never gone to facebook.com and created an account, so the user never agreed to a contract. But a user couldn't enforce a TOS either because the crawling was automated, so Facebook wouldn't be agreeing to a contract either. But Facebook would be allowed to use the data because that's what a user is inviting by making it publicly available to crawlers and not doing anything to restrict access to Facebook.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-05 17:20:59+00:00
> he's funded a credible (almost) replacement for Windows

Proton on Steam Deck is indistinguishable from Windows.

I've loaded Win64 Unity builds on the machine to test and they run perfectly every time. I actually dont see the reason I would bother with a native Linux build at this point. The machine doesn't even get hot despite my fear that it would doing something like this.

The only part of the SD experience that felt like "linux" was the OOBE wherein I had to arbitrarily restart the first time setup process 3-4 times before it finally worked.

I am at a point where I almost prefer to game on the linux handheld over my windows desktop. It really is a superior package in many ways. Games like Elden Ring, Arkham Knight, Euro Truck Simulator 2, etc., are so much better to play on a machine like this. On keyboard+mouse I struggled to enjoy these titles. I realize I could always connect a controller to my PC, but it never felt right to me in that form factor. Playing ETS2 on the couch is a completely different dimension of relaxation. I'd never touch this game on my PC.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-05 17:21:13+00:00
>And this is exactly what my suggested method achieves.

Disagree. Highly. Component hierarchies fundamentally tied with HTML and CSS and therefore Also tied with visuals.

Data is also tied to components as that's where it lives. Thus GUI and data are tied together fundamentally in react.

Perhaps you can elaborate. Because as far as I can tell what you're saying doesn't make any sense.
by chongli | 2025-10-05 17:21:38+00:00
PhD students are devoting years of their life to this endeavor, which may pay modest living expenses during school but otherwise provides no current or future financial benefit to the student unless they get a job in their field

I'd like to juxtapose your quote against a famous quote of John Adams:

The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts. I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

-- John Adams in a letter to Abigail Adams (12 May 1780)

In this quote, John Adams offers the thesis that what subjects we deem appropriate to study is determined not wholly by our interests, but also by the situation (personal, economic, and political) we find ourselves in. Within your quote is an implicit sense of urgency that weighs against someone's desire to devote years of their lives to studying the arts.

Perhaps we are returning to John Adams's tumultuous time? Then it should be wholly understandable for more students to choose pragmatism over personal calling when deciding on a course of study.
by rapind | 2025-10-05 17:21:46+00:00
It's a good deal if you're really really using it, or I guess if you're a blizzard sub (not even sure if this is still a thing).

If you're just playing Silk Song now and then, you can buy it for $20 from Steam. I get you don't fully own it with steam, but it a hell of a lot closer to owning it than having temporary access via GamePass.

IMO the real issues for the more casual gamer (who is not a mobile gamer), is having either a decent console or cloud gaming. There's not a ton of options besides GEForce Now and XBox Cloud, and the Steam consoles are kinda crap and outdated at the moment. Also XBox cloud kinda sucks last I checked and had restrictions on multiplayer etc.

If XBox cloud gets as good as nVidia's cloud AND you get GamePass library access AND you can use a pretty dumbed down / cheap console for cloud gaming... then this might be a win for at least a subset. I think this is where they are headed? Even with all that, it's hard to beat Steam + GEForce Now which is the direct competitor.

I dream of a world where Windows is no longer the dominant OS for gaming.
by halJordan | 2025-10-05 17:21:55+00:00
No it's not. The NSA has been the Federal Govt's designated expert on cryptography since the end of WW2. You are pretending that the current set of NIST standards and every previous NIST standard has not had incredibly intimate contact with the NSA.

You're lived experience tells you to trust the NSA, at least as it relates to NIST standards.
by basilikum | 2025-10-05 17:22:32+00:00
The only reason why I ever use these services is because they killed off any alternatives through anti competitive practices. And I hate it every time because they are awful and disrespect me every single millimeter of the way.

You are arguing on the premise that ads would somehow be a fair exchange. That is simply the opposite of the truth. Ads are parasitic. Services with ads are almost always worse than services without, not just by having ads but also in every other way. Ads do not incentive quality, they incentive treating your users as prey and feeding them SEO slop.

I want to compensate people for actual beneficial work they do. But with most for profit internet services that is simply not possible. If you give them a finger they will take your whole arm. For exampme I want to buy good movies. But I simply cannot. All I can "buy" is a pinky promise from them to let me watch a movie under their conditions which they can change at any time under their sole discretion and they can just revoke that possibility for me completely at any time. Would I pay for Netflix they would only give me 720p no matter how much money I give them, because I have to much control over my own hardware for them.

There are exceptions to this that I happily pay for, but those are all niche services that cater to the small group of people like me.
by yorwba | 2025-10-05 17:22:49+00:00
I think you meant to link to

Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02522

not

Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with a Model-Agnostic Verification-and-Refinement Pipeline https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15855
by throwaway106382 | 2025-10-05 17:23:05+00:00
Hard disagree on Unreal Engine. Just knowing a game was made with Unreal 5 is enough to give me pause when considering playing a game because of just having the same problems in almost every game. Unstable frame rates, shader compilation stutters, over reliance on frame generation just to hit 60 fps (which should be a reasonable target WITHOUT framegen), assets in different games all looking very similar because it’s all just the same stuff bought from marketplace.

Meta Gear Delta and Borderlands 4 being the most recent disasters I thankfully avoide simply because I decided to hold off because Inknew they were made with Unreal.
by anonym29 | 2025-10-05 17:23:10+00:00
I didn't claim mjg59 is NSA. I said their arguments function like NSA advocacy. Whether that's by design or coincidence doesn't change the effect. When someone consistently advances positions that serve surveillance state interests using procedural deflection to avoid security substance, noting that pattern isn't a personal attack - it's public, transparent, community-led threat assessment. Pointing out behavior that is functionally indistinguishable from NSA discourse manipulation in a community technical forum - in a conversation about NSA discourse manipulation in community technical forums, no less - isn't a personal attack, it's a social IDS system firing off an alert for a known-bad signature detection.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-05 17:23:31+00:00
> This homelab does seem compute focused, which might be right for OP but is normally a mistake that people make when they build their first homelab.

I kept waiting for the description of what it would be used for, but there was only a passing reference to learning how to run AI workloads.

For some people, buying and assembling hardware is the hobby. This gets old fast, especially when you add up how much was spent on hardware that's now sitting idle while it becomes more outdated year over year.

I agree that for typical learning cases the best solution is a single, cheap consumer CPU paired with a lot of RAM. For the $8000 spent on those 8 mini PCs, you could build a 256GB RAM box with 2 or even 3 nVidia 5090 GPUs and be in a different league of performance. It's also much easier to resell big nVidia consumer GPUs and recoup some of your money for the next upgrade.

It does look fun to assemble all of this into a rack and make it all work together. However, it's an extremely expensive means to an end. If you just want to experiment with distributed systems you can pair 128GB of RAM with a 16-core consumer CPU and run dozens or even 100 small VMs without issue. If you want to do GPU work you can even use PCIe passthrough to assign GPUs to VMs.
by razoorka | 2025-10-05 17:23:51+00:00
I find it strange when programmers push the narrative that "we won't need to code anymore, just write in English."

If that's true, what's your value? You don't understand client needs better than a product manager. You don't have an exceptional product vision. You're essentially making yourself obsolete.

Your expertise currently lies in building systems, handling edge cases, optimizing performance, and avoiding technical debt. If that can be expressed in English prompts, anyone can do your job—PMs, analysts, business people.

A programmer who can't write code is just someone with ideas. There are millions of those, and they're worth $0. Programmers who cheerlead the idea that "90% of code will be AI-written" are digging their own graves. In 5 years, they won't be replaced by AI—they'll be replaced by people who can both code AND use AI effectively.
by rootnod3 | 2025-10-05 17:23:55+00:00
And if they allow rescue contacts in case you lose the password and you can decrypt the data through their account, there is a chance they also keep a key for themselves, just in case.

If you got sensitive data, learn to encrypt it yourself. That is the ONLY way to make sure. If you trust another company to do the encryption at rest for you, that is your own fault.

edit: s/passport/password, damn my phone.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-05 17:24:13+00:00
Yes. We work a lot with Microsoft and they are very hardball on "adoption". They are always pushing us to send weekly "did you know..."? emails, yammer campaigns, seminars blablah. Very American also, this does not work in Europe where people are much less 'team players' and much more critical of advertising.

I personally thinks this just pisses people off. It certainly does me. I don't want to be told what to do, especially by some vendor. If I don't want to use it I don't want to be herded into using it. If they try anyway I will just push back and start hating on it just out of annoyance.

However this has always been Microsoft's adoption model. Very pushy. Unlike for example Apple's where they make things look, feel and work really good so people actually want to use it.
by hodgesrm | 2025-10-05 17:24:17+00:00
Have to agree with the Economist on this one.

I've been to a couple of conferences this year in Europe that covered AI. (Example: State of Open Con 2025) The conversations in the hallway were largely about how to regulate AI, not how to make it viable for local companies to pursue it. The real cost of these regulations falls on smaller companies, which don't have the resources to jump through all the hoops.
by rakejake | 2025-10-05 17:24:20+00:00
Well there are no "good" characters in this film so how would one add a positive portrayal of blacks? Maybe "Pat" could have also been black but he's an ex-bomber turned paranoid junkie.

I think the character traits were what they were because the story doesn't work otherwise. I don't think it was PTA's express intention to showcase negative black stereotypes.
by qcnguy | 2025-10-05 17:24:21+00:00
They don't inspect every return - that would make the already ropey economics of allowing returns very unviable - and it's often hard to detect return fraud because the fraudsters are returning an object that's nearly the same as the real thing, just used in ways that maybe aren't obvious given a casual inspection. Or they've raided it for parts and the object looks the same but the internals are gone.

It's not only Amazon that has this problem btw. Lots of online stores do. Return fraud is so prevalent that you should expect to this to become more common. A few bad apples ruin it for the rest of us.

Payment details aren't enough to reliably establish identity in many cases. If fighting this stuff were easy they'd have done it already, they aren't idiots.
by resurge | 2025-10-05 17:24:56+00:00
I tried it a few months back but as soon as you want a project that has multiple containers using compose all sorts of issues start popping up. Like it "forgets" which containers it started and then can't stop them any more or now you have 2 containers of the same service running even though coolify only recognizes one.

I think if you do register each service separately in coolify it runs OKish.

But I've now switched to the same setup as you had and ironically it has been so much simpler to run than coolify.

I'm really happy people are working on projects like coolify, but currently it's far from ready for any serious use (imo).
by abetusk | 2025-10-05 17:25:07+00:00
In general, I think these types of sticky behaviors only change when there's an application that people gravitate towards with the changing behavior embedded.

One such candidate is cryptocurrency and personal finances. The cryptocurrency wallet will necessarily need to be cryptographically secure, so this at least provides an opening for privacy. Tying it to finances means that there's an immediate application, payment processing, that people might want to use and put up with clunky behavior, at least initially.

All this lacks specificity and finances, cryptocurrency or no, bring their own drawbacks, but it does seem like it's possible to me.

The Internet's attention can be fickle and it's easy to forget that sometimes. IBM used to be a titan before Microsoft supplanted it. Proprietary server operating system, including web servers and databases used to deeply embedded until they were supplanted by FOSS alternatives. Digg, Friendster, Myspace, Yahoo, etc. used to fixtures of the Internet until they weren't.
by bapak | 2025-10-05 17:25:21+00:00
> seemingly random positions and sizes

No they don't? I'm on Sequoia and Finder windows open in exactly the position of my last window. Height does vary on the view style though.

This looks maddening, it's the complete opposite of what I'd want.

> seemingly random positions and sizes

Indeed, so let's open each folder in an actually random position and size, whatever I sized it 3 weeks ago, really.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-05 17:25:26+00:00
If we're going with the car analogy, this is like buy 8 Miatas to keep in your driveway instead of combing all of the money into a single much faster car.

If the goal is to have a lot of something so you can play with many different things, this gets the job done. If the goal is high performance and maximum efficiency for learning or compute, a setup with dozens of smaller computers like this is usually not the optimal choice.
by wilsonnb3 | 2025-10-05 17:26:06+00:00
> It wasn’t practical to convey knowledge in a short form previously because printing and distributing a blog post worth of info was too expensive.

I don’t think this is true, people have been printing newspapers, pamphlets, and leaflets for hundreds of years.

It isn’t only long form content that the printing press was good for, It’s just that the long term content tends to be remembered longer. Probably because it isn’t just long for the sake of being long :p
by bgwalter | 2025-10-05 17:26:21+00:00
I'm not sure why that is even a question? Should mathematics go back to Fermat style natural language?

“Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos, et generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duas ejusdem nominis fas est dividere: cujus rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.”

Code and math notations help you think. Notations aren't just for the computer.