MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-10-06 14:39:42+00:00
> My position is not based on morality

This is clear. Your points jump back and forth between positive and normative statements. "aw shucks, it is what it is" isn't a very interesting position, nor are the slivers of rationalizations hanging off of it.

> It will not survive with the influx of unvetted, unverified, random human beings

So wait, you're saying that Trump hasn't actually stopped more people from coming in? That doesn't surprise me, since the only policy goal here is the cruel spectacle to entertain the plebs.

> I would hesitate, if I were you about to start clamoring for constitutionality now after decades of recurring, normalized shows of disdain for it. I am, however, noting that you have no problem trotting out constitution when it favors your argument. In other words, it does not feel like a serious argument.

You're either getting me confused with someone else, or more likely are just bashing a straw man. I in fact have a decades-long pattern of recurring support for Constitutional rights and individual liberty. So no, my arguments are quite serious. Just because Trumpism blatantly abuses appeals to ideals and personal liberty ("free speech absolutist" lolol) does not mean that everybody does.
by banseljaj | 2025-10-06 14:39:46+00:00
For quite some time, I have gathered this set of Rust CLI tasks that are exactly the same. I have used them as template generators for cargo-generate. This became a problem recently when I was writing a monorepo that had mixed projects (Rust server, Svelte Frontend, and Terraform deployment). This comes at just the right time for me to utilize this without going insane.

Also, I had a not-so-great experience with other builders/managers, including lerna so I love this.

@jdxcode, how long before I can replace Emacs with mise?
by throwaway61352 | 2025-10-06 14:40:04+00:00
I guess in an ideal world, a service like this would be a layer on top of Terraform. Changes in the admin page would be applied using Terraform, and update the config in your own Git repository. I think this would be much easier to sell, even if they choose to make it "write only" to avoid potential complexity of managing user defined configs.

They could get customers initially by promising a simple start to get "on the cloud", but would keep customers due to support, scaling, monitoring, ci/cd and maintenance. Cheap startups could use it as a one-time tool, but I think a lot would see the added value they bring.
by Calzifer | 2025-10-06 14:41:07+00:00
At least Prosody implements BOSH (xmpp over http) and communication over Websocket.

https://prosody.im/doc/setting_up_bosh

https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_websocket

But I never tried it myself and from a quick search the popular non-browser XMPP apps/clients don't seem to use it.
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-06 14:41:17+00:00
Being able to weigh the benefits of different places to put money is important too. I had an ex who was big on Ramsey and really wanted to pay down our 1.8% rate mortgage and put "rainy day" money into a savings account that also yielded 1-2%.

I argued that the the first priority should be maintaining a consistent $5k in the main chequing account and calling that the the rainy day money, since doing so would cause us to have a $20/mo service fee waived and we'd avoid the semi-regular NSF feeds we were getting dinged with from preauth utility bill debits.

Monthly interest of 2% on $5k is only about $8 a month; our interest rate would have needed to be 5%+ before it was worth it earning that before first getting the account fee cleared (or, of course, just switching to a bank that offered fee-free chequing accounts).
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 14:41:18+00:00
France was a net exporter of electricity all summer so no idea of what you are talking about. Slowing down some nuclear plants due to this kind of external condition is fully expected. They are not stopped by the way just slowed down. Nuclear is modulable.

People barely use A/C in France by the way.

> Anyway, the thing we'll need for better using solar is storage, if we can make some clean ones, it will be a solution for intermittentcy

Storage is a short term solution. Batteries are ok to manage intra-day variation, two days at most. Long term storage of electricity plainly doesn't exist. Saying some storage solution will somehow at some point solve the issue of intermittency is at best wishful thinking, at worst a dramatic lack of risk management.

Before someone asks how China is doing it, I will answer the question: they are not. Despite China being much larger and thus being able to somehow compensate variation by having more production sites, they are using battery storage for short term variation but have to rely on expensive and polluting small thermal power plants when energy is lacking. It's a stop gap while they build a ton of nuclear power plants.
by michaelsmanley | 2025-10-06 14:41:28+00:00
Yeah, when I say "nice" about the screen, it is all relative. Mine was nice compared to the original screen on the Model 1.

There are very few pieces of laptop/notebook hardware that I really enjoyed. The 5140 was one of them. I doubt I'd enjoy it now, but 40 years ago I found it just lovely.
by lumost | 2025-10-06 14:41:45+00:00
Usually these mandates are made by someone who evaluates “risks.” Third party risks are evaluated under the assumption that everything will be done sensibly in the 1p scenario, to boot, the 1p option will be cheaper as disk drives etc are only a fraction of total cost.

Reality hits later when budget cuts/constrained salaries prevent the maintenance of a competent team. Or the proposed backup system is deemed as excessively risk averse and the money can’t be spared.
by tolerance | 2025-10-06 14:42:08+00:00
- This year's submission as of the time of this comment has ~38 references to “ADHD” (not counting multiple references in a single comment).

- The 2022 submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30292440): 6

- 2020 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24884347): zero

- 2018 contains a single reference to “ADD”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16948527

- 2017 contains neither “ADHD” nor “ADD” but a single reference to “ADDeral”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13618985

- 2015 has no references but I thought this comment was funny: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10163857
by mindslight | 2025-10-06 14:42:16+00:00
> No one suggests they [IRS, ATF, FBI] are a gang or that they kidnap people.

Wow, seriously. So either you've never read any libertarian or right-wing anti-government discussions, or more likely you're just flinging nonsense at the wall to see what might stick. This is starting to feel like LLM slop.
by p2detar | 2025-10-06 14:42:17+00:00
Germany and Belgium’s net electricity imports from France for 2024 are 27 TWh, which dwarf anything imported from Germany to France. [0]

If anything, this only showed that renewables and nuclear actually work very well together and relying on just one of both is shortsightedness and bad planing.

0 - https://www.rte-france.com/actualites/france-battu-record-ex...
by bravura | 2025-10-06 14:42:45+00:00
Yeah, overall I think we agree.

If you want to read some mind blowing early neural language sequence modeling approaches that everyone completely slept on, look at Pollack's work on "recursive auto-associative memory" (RAAM) and Sperduti's later labeled RAAM (LRAAM) work. Both from the early 90s. Didn't have a probabilistic interpretation IIRC.

Yoshua was always sort of agnostic about probabilistic approaches and used them when they made sense. 50% of his work included them, and other like early deep vision works of his purely motivated the use of deep models in terms of circuit theory and compactness / model complexity.

Collobert and Weston taught us we could train Yoshua's NLM models much much faster using negative sampling and a hinge loss, thus dropping the probabilistic story entirely.

I suspect the historical reason is that in the mid 2000s, the NLP community only very broadly started adopting statistical methods. (i.e. grad started began to be more likely to use them than not, which hadn't been true historically when linguistics not stats drove many intuitions, and using a CRF felt sort of next-level). So once every got comfortable with stats as table-stakes, they felt a sort of whiplash to stop approaching things through this lens.
by elevation | 2025-10-06 14:42:58+00:00
The suits are stingy when it's not an active emergency. A former employer declined my request for $2K for a second NAS to replicate our company's main data store. This was just days after a harrowing data recovery of critical from a failing WD Green that was never backed up. Once the data was on a RAID mirror and accessible to employees again, there was no active emergency, and the budget dried up.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-10-06 14:43:28+00:00
I do wonder if CISC might make a comeback. One is cache efficiency.

If you are doing many-core (NOT multi-core) than RISC make obvious sense.

If you are doing in-order pipelined execution, than RISC makes-sense.

But if you are doing superscalar out-of-order where you have multiple execution units and you crack instructions anyway, why not have CISC so that the you have more micro-ops to reorder and optimise? It seems like it would give the schedulers more flexibility to keep the pipelines fed.

With most infrastructure now open-source I think the penalty for introducing a new ISA is a lot less burdensome. If you port LLVM, GCC, and the JVM and most businesses could use it in production immediately without needing emulation that helped doom the Itanium.
by V__ | 2025-10-06 14:43:54+00:00
* I would have dig deeper on that, but regarding the timeframe when the shutdown occurred, there wasn't a big effect on gas prices. That happened before due to the war with Ukraine and the reliance on Russian gas in general. [1] The idea once was to use cheap gas from Russia and at the same time build out renewables. The latter didn't happen, resulting in the mess Germany is right now.

* There were multiple tax reductions and I think some are in the talks now. Those were independent (and before) the nuclear shutdown.

* Probably. Nuclear should have been shutdown after gas, coal etc. I am with you on that. But the ship had already sailed long ago, before the last three plants were shut down.

[1] https://www.iwh-halle.de/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/...
by thibley | 2025-10-06 14:43:57+00:00
The content is great but static PDFs with minimal hyperlinking is a lost opportunity.

Learning and internalizing higher math is largely about connecting lots of ideas, terms, definitions, named theorems, lemmas, etc. If the book were instead built for the modern web stack with heavy use of tooltips, it would be lots more engaging and fun, supporting a more active learning process.
by jerf | 2025-10-06 14:44:05+00:00
The uniqueness tuple for IP is (source IP, source port, dest IP, dest port). You're limited to 65,535 connections from the same two IPs on the same port, but that's not relevant to XMPP which uses only one and some transient things for file transfer and such. At worst having that many people behind one NAT will be a problem... which at this scale could be an actual problem, but there are still solutions (multiple ports being the easiest, and the fact this cluster will probably be on multiple public IPs anyhow).

See https://ats1999.github.io/blog/65535/ or similar pages.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-10-06 14:44:10+00:00
I went with an extra CURRENT.md for whatever extra info that might be useful for what I am working on and frequently /clear after each very small task. /compact is rarely used unless there are reasons to maintain a summary on what its working on.

Each new prompt involves asking Claude to read CURRENT.md for additional context.

I'm not sure if I should move this to CLAUDE.md but the stuff in CURRENT.md are very short term information that gets useless after a while.

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There is one time where Claude entirely messed up the directory when moving things around and it sort of stuck in a weird "panic" loop in chat for quite a while (involving oh no / oh dear in chat), nothing git can't fix, but I suspect is due to the directory info in CLAUDE.md getting stale. Ever since then I moved things that might get stale to a separate file and frequently keep it updated/trimmed as needed.
by LarsenCC | 2025-10-06 14:44:25+00:00
I tried a lot of things, I even work with AI professionally.

This is just a side project I had since 5 years ago. And it just reminded me how simple things can be sometimes. No need to put AI everywhere.

In any case, the reviews are not fake, I talked to these people personally in search for feedback. I am not going to share their personal info ofc.

But will consider improving the site to not make it feel fake!
by ashtonsix | 2025-10-06 14:44:56+00:00
I'm assuming you're referring to BFM/EXTR? NEON absolutely improves here.

The core I developed on (Neoverse V2) has 4 SIMD ports and 6 scalar integer ports, however only 2 of those scalar ports support multicycle integer operations like the insert variant of BFM (essential for scalar packing).

More importantly, NEON progresses 16 elements per instruction instead of 1.
by usrusr | 2025-10-06 14:45:31+00:00
I'd say PC gaming is huge, but the subset that cares for teasing out both fps and maximum details like it's 1999, that's tiny, an expensive niche hobby like classic cars (not quite as expensive tough). For almost the entire PC gaming market, GPU performance just isn't a pressing issue anymore. Some games might get a little prettier when you pick the more expensive option when choosing a new system, but that's it, not much of a driving factor in buying motivation.
by LauraMedia | 2025-10-06 14:45:46+00:00
I think the lack of friction AI has is a real problem.

AI models output is always overly confident. And when you correct them they will almost always come up with something like "Ah, you're totally right" and switch around the output (unless there are safeguards / deep research involved).

AI doesn't push back, therefore you more often than not don't second guess your own thoughts. This is, in essence, the most valuable tool in discussions with other humans.
by hiq | 2025-10-06 14:46:15+00:00
> will tax the sort of tech workers

What sort is this? Do you mean top earners?

Even if it doesn't make it cheaper to run (I honestly don't know, it could be that there are economies of scale, if more people use public transportation?), people spending time in Zurich (including residents) could benefit if this leads to less people driving in Zurich, thus less air and noise pollution, and more pedestrian-friendly streets.

Indeed if it leads to less infrastructure investment it might worsen, but it's not obvious that this is what will happen.
by ht691097 | 2025-10-06 14:46:22+00:00
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by jraph | 2025-10-06 14:46:58+00:00
Take the "seahorse sticker or emoji-style image" part.

It's the exact same words. It is quite specific phrasing. There's no other result on the web for this.

It's not only this part, the whole thing feels very similar, just with more confidence and in a sublty different order.

When the set of ideas and the phrasing are this similar without citing the source, I call this plagiarism.

Now, it could be that the emojipedia page is AI slop, but then the AI would seem to have invented this specific phrasing, which I would find unlikely.
by endriju | 2025-10-06 14:48:35+00:00
I think the problem with these general-purpose PaaS on top of Cloud is exactly that they're general-purpose. You will run into limitations and issues as soon as you start doing things only 5-10% of their customers need, like for example running privileged docker containers in kubernetes or wanting to manage parts of your infra with terraform. I'd much rather see tools helping me deploy one particular niche use case in Cloud really well. BTW I'm trying to follow this mantra while building https://staticbot.dev
by jfyi | 2025-10-06 14:50:53+00:00
I agree with them, your original post lacked clarity. I propose that the reason these types of conversations are less likely in person is because there is typically no log of exactly what was said and people tend to get defensive and narratives change. This makes it a pointless endeavor.

I would suggest, rather than wondering why people on the internet point things like this out, maybe wonder how many people in real life never bothered and just write you off.
by jakewins | 2025-10-06 14:51:48+00:00
That “only big tech can solve AGI” bit doesn’t make sense to me - the scale argument was made back when people thought just more scale and more training was gonna keep yielding results.

Now it seems clear that what’s missing is another architectural leap like transformers, likely many different ones. That could come from almost anywhere? Or what makes this something where big tech is the only potential source of innovation?
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-10-06 14:52:16+00:00
> 45ish minute reverse commute to Seattle bustling-est neighborhoods for evening fun

What is a "reverse commute"? Is that just going into the city at the opposite time of day from normal work?

Also, 45 minutes one day (1.5hr total) is a rather large chunk of the evening to spend in transit for "evening fun."

> I got so lucky to buy one when I did (2020) due to interest rates.

It's funny, I remember thinking that people buying in 2020 were nuts because none of us knew what the economy was going to do, and it turns out that those who did buy came out ahead. I cite this among friends as one of the many ways in which I feel like being cautious with money has been the wrong choice (e.g. maintain 6mo-12mo emergency fund, don't make large purchases in periods of uncertainty, etc).
by fabio0O | 2025-10-06 14:52:27+00:00
Almost half of Anguilla’s state budget now comes from the .ai domain extension. The global AI boom has turned the small Caribbean island into an unexpected beneficiary.

Key Facts: - >2,000% growth in registrations: 48,000 (2018) → 144,000 (2022) → 570,000 (2024) → over 1 million by November 2025. - Revenue from .ai domains: US$ 2.9 million (2018) → US$ 7.7 million (2022) → forecast US$ 93 million (2025). - Share of the state budget: <1% (before 2018) → 6% (2022) → current forecast by Minister Jose Vanterpool: 47% (2025). - New trend: 28% of all newly founded tech start-ups use a .ai domain. - With this revenue, Anguilla is funding, among other things, airport expansion, debt repayment, green energy, and nature conservation.
by DengistKhan | 2025-10-06 14:53:12+00:00
> taxes are extortion

Then move to North Korea where there are no taxes.

> Flood insurance is literally saying "I bet my house is going to be underwater" and winning the big cash price if it is.

yeah the big prize of all your personal belongings being destroyed, being semi-homeless for an indefinite period of time, fighting insurance companies to get the full value of your home and all assets (glhf finding out what's secretly not covered or you can't prove you owned), searching for a new home in an inflated market, lost productivity, dead pets, etc.. What a prize! This is something you'd expect a 12 year old to try to argue.

Insurance is not legally classified as gambling for very obvious and practical reasons.
by delichon | 2025-10-06 14:53:38+00:00
I lived out of a backpack for two months on a Pacific Crest Trail hike. I got comfortable with it and told myself that I had overcome my materialism, and could henceforth live happily without a lot of stuff and conveniences.

Not so much. Now a couple of decades later, I've got a house and garage crammed with stuff. Yesterday I had a plumber here working on a leak, and this morning I have no running water, and here I am bravely holding back tears. My inner dialog is "this is unacceptable!" It turns out that climbing on the hedonic treadmill is practically effortless, but sliding down it is full of splinters.
by Harmonic_Logos | 2025-10-06 14:53:46+00:00
I've been building agents that recursively reflect on their own reasoning (Reflexion-style), and kept hitting this problem: after ~50 reflection cycles, belief embeddings drift significantly from their initial values.

It's not catastrophic forgetting (task-level) or hallucinations. More like the agent gradually "forgets" its original principles through accumulated micro-drifts in meta-reasoning.

Tried solving it with harmonic stabilization - treating belief updates as a damped oscillator rather than pure accumulation (inspired by MIT's LinOSS work on neural oscillations). The update rule looks like:

g(t) = exp(-αt) * sin(ωt) belief_update = λ * g(t) * correction

Beliefs oscillate around a stable point instead of drifting monotonically. Got ~9x improvement in stability (mean drift: 0.009 vs 0.085 baseline) on sentence-transformer embeddings over 50 cycles.

Open sourced with interactive Colab demo. Parameters are hand-tuned and I've only tested on small scales, so curious if others have seen this problem or have better approaches.

Main questions: Is "recursive belief drift" already documented somewhere? Any theoretical reasons this wouldn't scale to larger systems?
by gpjt | 2025-10-06 14:54:01+00:00
This is a great post on many levels, but what struck me as particularly clever was the use of lm_head to decode the outputs of earlier layers. That linear layer is only trained to decode the output of the last layer, so intuitively it might only be able to do that -- the embedding spaces used between earlier layers might be different and "incompatible". It's really interesting that that is not the case.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-10-06 14:54:02+00:00
> By contrast, the Rust programs I've seen tend to specify types in terms of low-level, machine types.

This seems to be an artifact of the domain that Rust is currently being used in. I don't think it's anathema to Rust to evolve to be able to add some of these features. char indexed arrays are something I've used a lot (most via `char c - 'a'`\, but native support for it would be nice).
by qxsp | 2025-10-06 14:54:53+00:00
Thank you so much for the feedback.

I live in Europe where mortgages without a down payment are quire rare unless you have an extra house that is at least 75% of the value of the new one you want to purchase. This being the reasoning because of which it is there.

About the whole gray placeholders - you are correct. I will fix that!