MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-10-30 03:57:06+00:00
I dunno, give me 25 squares and I can come up with some pretty stupid predictions.

Nvidia had solid buy-in with CUDA, was deeply integrated in datacenter/edge compute, winning in crypto, powering the Nintendo Switch and crushing benchmarks like King Kong. 5 trillion seems a bit out-there, but in 2019 I could tell they were criminally undervalued. All it would take to blow up their demand was a data-intensive server side application - at first people thought it was crypto, but now it's looking like AI/robotics.
by jmpman | 2025-10-30 03:57:21+00:00
Been on Mounjaro/Zepbound for the past 2 years. Lost around 80lbs, and my brain feels like I’m 25 again. Almost no urge for alcohol and have an opened bag of Halloween candy in the closet which isn’t calling my name. But the most surprising part hasn’t been that… it’s that my no limit poker game has gotten really quite good. I’ve played for 20 years, and been well above average, but after the glp-1, something just clicked. Maybe I no longer go on tilt or something? Played in the World Series of poker for the first time last year and placed in the money, in the top 10% after having not played since before Covid. I just started playing in a house game that I’d previously played in 10 years ago. Same people, and before I’d never placed in the money. I’ve now won in 3 of the last 5 games. Something’s different. Is playing poker pleasurable? Not in the least, but a good friend invited me, and played for the social aspect, but now I’m just stunned at how good I’ve suddenly become. Disliked the World Series so much last year, that I opted against playing again, even though I expected to place again. Maybe other poker players will adopt it.
by rdedev | 2025-10-30 03:57:58+00:00
It's selecting a random word from a probability distribution over words. That distribution is crafted by the LLM. The random sampler is not going to going to choose a word with 1e-6 probability anytime soon. Besides with thinking models, the LLM has the ability to correct itself so it's not like the model is at the mercy of a random number generator
by kianN | 2025-10-30 03:58:36+00:00
I think there is so much value and room to grow by leveraging a statistical foundation. We’re still iterating really quickly on the low level C code on a variety of applications (pharma, scRNA, text) so it might be a while before we release it standalone.

We do offer an api layer (the website is a light layer above this) over the low level statistics code focused on making it super easy to apply to language data if you are interested in playing around with it: https://docs.sturdystatistics.com
by spectraldrift | 2025-10-30 03:59:35+00:00
> Should You Use Postgres? Most of the time - yes

This made me wonder about a tangential statistic that would, in all likelihood, be impossible to derive:

If we looked at all database systems running at any given time, what proportion does each technology represent (e.g., Postgres vs. MySQL vs. [your favorite DB])? You could try to measure this in a few ways: bytes written/read, total rows, dollars of revenue served, etc.

It would be very challenging to land on a widely agreeable definition. We'd quickly get into the territory of what counts as a "database" and whether to include file systems, blockchains, or even paper. Still, it makes me wonder. I feel like such a question would be immensely interesting to answer.

Because then we might have a better definition of "most of the time."
by xethos | 2025-10-30 03:59:44+00:00
> a lot of the nuclear reactors are running at like 80% capacity.

This is presumably intentional. Beyond longevity, being able to shift one plant to 0 and take up the load across other plants allows for continued uptime even with a plant down (or just below capacity).

> it's hard to make the whole thing profitable

Considering France had the second-cheapest electicity for industrial use in the EU (in 2015, the most recent date from Wikipedia), this feels more regulatory-bassed than a properly fair shot at "Look how expensive nuclear is"
by kelnos | 2025-10-30 04:00:49+00:00
That memory is part of the problem: it doesn't reflect today's reality. You can have an IT ops team that buys and sets up servers, and then sets up (perhaps) Kubernetes and a nice CI/CD pipeline on top of it. They can fairly easily bill individual teams for usage, and teams have to justify their costs, just like they (hopefully!) do in any sane org that's running in the cloud.

The bad old days of begging an IT ops person for a server, and then throwing a binary over the fence at them so they can grumble while they try to get it running safely in production... yeah, no, that doesn't have to be a thing anymore.

The "we" you speak of is the problem: if your org hires actual real sysadmins and operations people (not people who just want to run everything on AWS), then "you" don't have to worry about it.
by helicone | 2025-10-30 04:01:44+00:00
i dig it.

people are so scared of losing market share because of art choice they make all of their products smooth dark grey rectangles with no features.

ugly.

at least this one has some sense of beauty, the courage to make a decision about what looks good to them and act on it. they'll probably have to change the heptagon shape because no way that becomes a standard

it costs so little to add artistic flair to a product, its really a shame fewer companies do
by Terr_ | 2025-10-30 04:02:21+00:00
Hmmm, separately of plant-types, I wonder if there may be a distinction here between how a surge in individual growth doesn't necessarily translate to a surge in the forest.

Imagine a higher CO2 concentration allows a tree to reach maturity a whole +25% faster, taking 16y instead of 20y. However its happening in an established forest, already bounded by mountains, rivers, etc, where mature trees sustain for another 100y before they finally die off and take 10y to decompose, opening the spot for a replacement.

In that case, the number of simultaneous trees doesn't go up very much, because the main effect is to reduce "downtime". The "duty-cycle" for a tree-sized patch of ground goes from having a mature tree ~77% of the time to ~79%.
by parpfish | 2025-10-30 04:02:26+00:00
but the thing is... this is just how learning works in general. As you learn facts, the source evaporates away as the content is integrated with the rest of your knowledge.

once upon a time somebody told you (or you read) "Paris is the capital of France". For some period, you'd have a distinct episodic memory of the time and place for how you learned this fact. But as time passes, that episodic memory fades and eventually you're just left with the content "Paris is the capital of France" without the original source.
by Spivak | 2025-10-30 04:02:33+00:00
Well you shouldn't cite Wikipedia in your paper for the same reason you shouldn't cite LLMs, they're tertiary sources. You shouldn't cite a paper book encyclopedia either. It has nothing to do with digital literacy so I'm sorry if that's what was taught to you.

You should look to an encyclopedia for information about all manner of topics. Someone did the work of organizing, verifying, and cross-referencing the information from disparate sources for you. It doesn't mean the information is untrustworthy, if that were true the paper you wrote in class would be untrustworthy which is absurd, no?
by junyuren | 2025-10-30 04:04:10+00:00
Apparently there’s an open-source framework, freephdlabor, that aims to make research automation adaptive rather than scripted. A manager process coordinates task-specific workers via files; workers decide whether to dig deeper, pivot, or call others based on results. In a case study on neural-network training phases, it reportedly found phase transitions and designed follow-up tests, producing a paper draft. The pitch is that you can swap in domain-specific workers and keep the same coordination layer.

GitHub: https://github.com/ltjed/freephdlabor

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15624

Demo: https://freephdlabor.github.io/
by dagmx | 2025-10-30 04:04:41+00:00
> Is it practical for Apple to produce a set of frameworks for Intel that run some useful set of old games but that do not run any useful set of non game software?

They already have the frameworks supporting intel. They can just start pruning away.

Some teams will draw the short straw of what needs to continue being supported, but it’s likely a very small subset of what they already maintain today.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-30 04:05:14+00:00
Trump will probably order one to be lit off in the desert outside Vegas every Fourth of July, and charge admission based on how close to ground zero the viewer wants to get.

The crazy thing is, I'm not sure that's such a bad idea. People are going to forget what these things do. Before long, we'll start to see people denying they ever existed, or that they work at all. That needs to not happen.
by lwansbrough | 2025-10-30 04:06:26+00:00
It’s not that hard to find examples. Chinese incursions in the south China sea and the development of artificial islands to project power and control over the region. Their plans for Taiwan. The annexation of Tibet. Xinjiang ethnic cleansing. Erosion of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong SAR. And yes the entire Belt and Road initiative which is basically loan sharking.
by jodrellblank | 2025-10-30 04:06:46+00:00
> there are vast stretches of the country where trains just do not make economic sense

There are plenty of city pairs where high speed trains do make economic sense and America still doesn't have them. [1] is a video "56 high speed rail links we should've built already" by CityNerd. And that's aside from providing services for the greater good instead of for profit - subsidizing public transport to make a city center more walkable and more profitable and safer and cleaner can be a worthwhile thing. The US government spends a lot subsidizing air travel.

> So no, I don't think Europeans who haven't been in America have quite absorbed just how vast America is

China had some 26,000 miles of high speed rail two years ago, almost 30,000 miles now connecting 550 cities, and adding another couple of thousand miles by 2030. A hundred plus years ago America had train networks coast to coast. Now all Americans have is excuses why the thing you used to have and tore up is impossible, infeasible, unafordable, unthinkable. You have reusable space rockets that can land on a pillar of fire. If y'all had put as much effort into it as you have into special pleading about why it's impossible, you could have had it years ago.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE5G1kTndI4
by nrmitchi | 2025-10-30 04:06:58+00:00
Im saying that Nvidia’s current monopoly isn’t going to last forever. The product space will (very likely) still exist, but in 10 years Nvidia may not be able to get the ~80% margins it currently does (due to competition, technological changes, etc).

When that happens, they’ll still have their fingers in all the pies.

It’s arguably a much better approach for Nvidia as a company.
by lchoquel | 2025-10-30 04:08:43+00:00
Hi Clafferty, Providing an MCP server was a no brainer and we have the first version available. But you're right, using "MCP as a client" is a question we have started asking ourselves too. But we haven't had the time to experiment yet, so, no definitive answer. For now, we have a type of pipe called PipeFunc which can call a python function and so possibly any kind of tool under the hood. But that is really a makeshift solution. And we are eager to get your point of view and discuss with the community to get it right.

Many companies are working on evals and we will have a strategy for integration with Pipelex. What we have already is modularity: you can test each pipe separately or test a whole workflow, that is pretty convenient. Better yet, we have the "conceptual" level of abstraction: the code is the documentation. So you don't need any additional work to explain to an eval system what we were expecting at each workflow step: it's already written into it. We even plan to have an option (typically for debug mode) that checks every input and every output complies semantically with what was intended and expected.

Thanks a lot for your feedback! It's a lot of work so greatly appreciated.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-30 04:09:27+00:00
While I agree, I do also see the problem they're trying to solve as being very real.

I think a better answer would be find some way to flag actual experts as such and everyone else as "peanut gallery". Everyone would still be free to say what they want, but without the risk that we mistake the local meth aficionado for a cancer expert and get grandma killed.

It would be hard or maybe impossible to do in a way that preserves privacy though.
by PebblesHD | 2025-10-30 04:10:34+00:00
I have yet to reach the limits of doing a Vite create and installing react router myself for the several entirely client side apps we manage. It has sane build defaults and for whatever definition of ‘works’ is possible in JS, ‘just works’. If it becomes too complex for that basic setup it usually means we’ve over-complicated something.

Where we have a need for server side, nodejs just never felt natural for us so we stuck with java springboot or flask/fastapi as appropriate.
by hbosch | 2025-10-30 04:11:29+00:00
I think it depends. With tirzepatide (my first encounter with GLP1 meds) I got acute appetite suppression, perhaps too acute. I living comfortably on sometimes 1500 calories or less per day, and I track my calories religiously. We are talking maybe 1 cup of yogurt with frozen berries in the morning, and 1 whey protein shake around 3pm (Fairlife milk + 2 scoops whey) and I would be absolutely full until bed. No energy deficiencies to note. I worked out regularly 5 days a week.

This caused rapid weight loss. A side effect of this rapid weight loss and lack of food intake I also attribute to my thinning hair and dry, splotchy skin outbreaks. Any sort of overeating on tirzepatide (for me) caused severe sickness, or nausea.

Retatrutide, by contrast, causes far less pure appetite suppression (my dosage is also lower) and has another mechanism which helps me maintain leanness while also eating extra calories. I think I prefer the reta, but if I ever felt the need to very simply destroy my appetite again I wouldn't hesitate to use tirzepatide again.

I procured both tirzepatide and retatrutide through the peptide "grey markets" so one was not harder to come by than the other.
by spijdar | 2025-10-30 04:12:58+00:00
Something I didn't realize until recently was that the original MIPS version of Windows NT was Big Endian. I'd always heard it said that WinNT was strictly, 100%, absolutely always little endian, and the fact that every CPU that got a port (or was going to get a port) was either little or bi endian confirmed this.

Well, it is true, but Windows did run BE on the original MIPS R3000 platform. And only on the R3K[0]. The CPU architecture flag is still defined on modern Windows as IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_R3000BE. There's an early test build of Win3.1 + GDI somewhere that runs on this platform.

The actual first release of WinNT 3.1 only supported MIPS R4000 and higher, I think. In little endian mode.

[0] I know the Xbox used a modified NT kernel, I've seen claims that the Xbox 360 also was, which would make it the second NT system to run big endian. Not familiar enough with sources better than wikipedia to trust that it actually was.
by nookeshkarri7 | 2025-10-30 04:13:08+00:00
You’ve seen the posts, right? “I quit my job and made $10K in my first month!” “Built an app solo in 2 weeks and sold it for $100K!” “Now I’m sipping coconuts by the beach while my SaaS money does yoga in the bank!”

Yeah… about that.

You know what I hate about these stories? They’re like movie trailers — all the hype, none of the plot holes.

Here’s my real behind-the-scenes reel (no filters, no coconut props):

The hidden struggle:

Year 1: Full-time job + built 5 products. Nearly lost my sanity, gained dark circles.

Year 2: Full-time job + built 10 more products. Already fluent in caffeine. I wasn’t “solo.” I was half-zombie, half-human trying to code dreams into reality.

9–5: Job. 8 PM–2 AM: Products. Weekends: “Rest”? Nope. Products. Vacations: Thinking about products. Social life: Does talking to GitHub count?

Why this myth drives me nuts:

It hides the real effort. Everyone shows you the exciting launch day; nobody talks about the “why-is-this-API-hating-me” nights before it.

It makes you feel behind. You see success stories and wonder, “Am I broken?” (No, you’re just not lying online.)

It sells a fantasy. “Earn while you sleep!” Yeah, after a few thousand sleepless nights.

It attracts the wrong crowd. People expect shortcuts, then rage-quit when success doesn’t arrive with express shipping.

It downplays the cost. Health. Relationships. Stability. Mental peace. Turns out they don’t grow on YouTube ads.

My honest version: Yes, I built things solo. But I also:

Work a 9–5 job.

Said goodbye to weekends and hello to burnout.

Failed 15 times before anything worked.

Still learning, still tweaking, still not on a beach.

Was it worth it? For me, yes. Was it easy? Absolutely not.

It was messy. Lonely. Sometimes soul-crushing. But it was mine.

The real lesson: If you’re chasing the solopreneur dream, know the full story. Not the Instagram version. The real one — late nights, failed launches, silent wins.

If that fires you up, welcome to the chaos. If it sounds like torture, that’s cool too — peace is underrated.

So, which story do you want? The polished fairytale or the honest one with sweat stains?
by keane | 2025-10-30 04:13:21+00:00
Yes. Even in their kinda flagship title right now, A House of Dynamite:

[14:08] "I'm told high, Jerry." -> "I'm told… Hi, Jerry." (in response to being asked "What's your level of confidence on that?")

I always wonder why they don't have a way to upload the shooting script as a starting point so they could then make changes from there.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-30 04:13:21+00:00
Being at the right age when Windows 95 came out, I didn't really know that there was a "Windows" prior to 95. My dad's computer ran DOS and used something called Powermenu as an organiser for executing programs. I think I had to run Wolfenstein in a tiny window for it to be fast enough to be playable, and may have, at one point, deleted one of the required DOS system files in order to try to tweak the life out of it to try to get it playable full screen. I think that was a 286. More years ago than I care to admit.
by tomrod | 2025-10-30 04:13:35+00:00
Dallas would look very different if they emphasized public transport. Outside of downtown it is so sparse, many of the suburbs suffer from crumbling infrastructure because it turns out pipes made to last 30 years do poorly after 40 to 50 years when all the low density suburbs have aged out and there is no remaining land to subsidize the infrastructure ponzi scheme.

Fort Worth is worse for this!

Strongtowns is definitely worth a listen.
by WorldPeas | 2025-10-30 04:13:57+00:00
again this is in a country that may have little to no debt infrastructure, so no way to take out a proper loan to buy the equipment, and many hoops to import it. The fact that it's small isn't the matter, it's that it's specialized. A used/legacy backhoe or skid steer maybe, but even if you can afford it, there's no tractor supply co or home depot, you are likely handling lading the thing yourself
by EGreg | 2025-10-30 04:13:58+00:00
Actually, the US didn’t have a famine, it had the opposite. Automation like combines and tractors obviated the need for oxen and farmhands to plow and reap manually. The farmers competed in a race to the bottom (depleting the soil and causing the dust bowl). They fired most farmhands and still had a surplus. Food prices plummeted while giant dust storms became the norm.

The government had to step in and pay farmers NOT to plant, to extricate them from the downward spiral / race to the bottom that the “free market” had producted in the face of automation / massive supply shocks.

Meanwhile, the laid-off farm workers (20% of USA used to be employed in farm-related jobs) migrated to cities but it would be a decade before the manufacturing base was built up to employ them. They lived in Hoovervilles and shantytowns set up to house them. A third of the country’s banks failed and the money supply shrank. The fed sat that one out. You can read books by John Steinbeck and others describing life at that time (eg Grapes of Wrath).

So eventually, projects like the Interstate Highway System, and even weapons manufacturing and mobilization for WW2 caused mass employment. At a time when people needed jobs, this was a good thing for the economy and didn’t need communist propaganda to attract workers. Capitalism’s race to the bottom created the desperation the workers needed for undertake large state projects. And it is about to happen again.

Ironically, around the same time the US had a massive surplus, Russia and China were experiencing massive man-made famines under collectivization. Whether that horrific economic experiment ultimately led to more prosperity through 5-year plans is a contentious question (ideological leftists like Noam Chomsky have told me, quoting Amartya Sen, that supposedly China had less deaths from malnutrition afterwards than India, but that’s hardly a high bar considering their population density).

PS: I don’t mean to pick on communism alone for extreme ideological economic system enforcement leading to famines. The Irish Potato Famine could probably be squarely put into the ideological capitalism column (landlords and property rights trumping people’s lives), or how Britain (a capitalist country) exploited India and the famines in Bengal were also largely due to requisition of grain, similar to the Volga famine during the Russian civil war.
by z2 | 2025-10-30 04:14:16+00:00
No. That list shows coercive or authoritarian behavior, not classical imperialism. Imperialism means establishing colonies or directly ruling foreign territories for economic extraction. China today doesn’t occupy or govern other sovereign states. The South China Sea, Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan are all disputes within--except Taiwan + the South China Sea--undisputed national boundaries.[1] Belt and Road loans, while allegedly predatory, are contractual and do not create colonial rule. So it’s perhaps aggressive nationalism and coercive influence, but not imperialism.

1. Yes, looking way back, the occupying Qing dynasty established said boundaries through quite a lot of imperialism about a century before the US got busy manifesting its destiny.*
by tguvot | 2025-10-30 04:14:46+00:00
i was in close relations with telecoms during that timeframe. they went bananas with it because all of it was new for them. so they abused and misused it.

one of them for example used opendailight not for it's openflow capabilities, but via some heavily customized plugin and kind of orchestrator for automation via some crazy yang models that were sent to execution to downstream orchestrator.

but from their perspective and perspective of the management they were doing SDN

traditional network gear had "element controllers". some of the got rebranded into "SDN*something" and got interface liftups

ps. sdn/openflow like you describe were absolutely out of question for deployment in production networks. they could talk about all the benefits of it, but nobody dared to do anything with it and arguably, they had no real need