MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by owenversteeg | 2025-10-08 19:15:49+00:00
My only connection to the field is that I am a guy who uses zeolites in a redneck way - so take this with a huge heap of salt - but I think this is a three part chicken and egg problem. People don't use MOFs because they're expensive, they're expensive because they're not mass-produced, and they're not mass produced because the shape of the demand is uncertain.

The shape of the demand is the tricky bit. They're not like many other emerging technologies; they are a whole class of materials with wildly different properties, each of which you can produce in several forms; and production is wildly different depending on the type. If there is demand for X tons/yr, spread across 10 industries, but 90% of that demand is in one industry that requires properties of XYZ, then you need to produce the right MOFs in the right form.

The issue, in my mind, is that a lot of this stuff sort of requires a very large vertically integrated company or government project to kickstart it. You can't go out as a company and say "we want to buy X tons of MIL-53(Sc)" [0], nobody would sell it to you. You also can't go out as a producer and start making X tons of MIL-53(Sc) either. The ideal would be that you are, say, TSMC and it would enhance one of your processes, so you make a few kg in house, you use most of it, you sell the rest, and kickstart an industry in that way.

From my perspective - which, again, take with a heap of salt - I think that academia could do their part by "advertising" the most promising candidates better. The list of MOFs is long and many are not usable or stable in real world conditions. Take some of the more promising candidates out of the lab and do some demos with industry. Put together some videos. Write up some honest reports toward an engineer's point of view. That would provide a real boost towards real-world applications.

[0] I just picked MIL-53(Sc) because it's funny, obviously nobody in the real world is going to use scandium in a production product.
by randomtoast | 2025-10-08 19:16:25+00:00
I have just written an post on technical analysis that presents a balanced perspective on the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Random Walk Hypothesis, and their relationship to practical applications. I explore how retail traders identify patterns, how these patterns may be exploited in high-frequency trading, and how machine learning contributes to detecting and leveraging such patterns. In case someone is interested: https://beuke.org/technical-analysis/
by fijiaarone | 2025-10-08 19:16:33+00:00
Nobody in the market cares because everyone in the market are cheaters. There is a huge untapped potential of people outside the current market that do not participate because they know the market is rigged against them.

A fair market could be huge, but the trick is keeping it fair. It used to be more fair, and we used to have a healthier economy because of it.

It’s not like most of the unfairness in the current market couldn’t be dealt with, probably with laws already on the books. Most HFT strategies are not only blatantly dishonest but also clearly illegal. The government looks the other way though, because corruption.
by jplusequalt | 2025-10-08 19:16:55+00:00
>because I love creating things that I and others could use, and I don’t care about “solving the puzzle” type satisfaction from writing code.

Please don't take offense to this, but it sounds like you just don't like building software? It seems like the end goal is what excites you, not the process.

I think for many of us who prefer to write code ourselves, the relationship we have with building software is for the craft/intellectual stimulation. The working product is cool of course, but the real joy is knowing how to do something new.
by dang | 2025-10-08 19:17:31+00:00
The site fightchatcontrol.eu was posted here, though not much discussed per se - like all of these threads, it's pretty generic:

Fight Chat Control - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856426 - Aug 2025 (498 comments)

(As for Chat Control threads in general, there are too many to list.)
by drob518 | 2025-10-08 19:17:39+00:00
I suspect that randomness of some sort is the only way. Without that, whatever the rules of the game, there is a way to somehow get a slim advantage. You can make the advantage small and the costs to try to gain it large, such that it isn’t cost effective to try, but as we’ve seen with HFT, it’s amazing how much people will spend to pick up pennies. Even a tiny gain, exploited frequently enough can be quite profitable.
by lambdaone | 2025-10-08 19:17:58+00:00
A competent programmer should be able to at least conceptualise every level from the transistor up - not necessarily completely understand, but at least know roughly what it does, and what it rests on, and what rests on it. Transistors, gates, logic, state machines, instruction sets, assemblers, parsers, compilers, interpreters, operating systems, memory allocation, graphics, browsers, that sort of thing. Not at all unreasonable for someone with a decent computer science degree, surely?

Of course, you don't have to know any of that to grasp how to bang a page together with today's web frameworks; but you end up with the resource-hogging unmaintainable security disaster that is the modern web in the process.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-10-08 19:17:59+00:00
Linux is more trusted because there are legions of cybersecurity experts who made their bones combing through the linux codebase to find security exploits. Even if this is open source, how can I be sure someone has audited it?

Alternatively I could pay what is, for me, a pittance, and know that my OS is not compromised.
Show HN: Recall Watch – Real-time USDA and FDA recall alerts
by gbriano | 2025-10-08 19:18:00+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Giovanna, a designer who built Recall Watch, an app that aggregates real-time recall data from the USDA and FDA.

It covers food, pets, household products, medical devices, and supplements — all displayed in a clean, modern interface.

The motivation: government recall websites are outdated and hard to navigate, and there’s no reliable way to receive recall alerts. Most people only hear about them sporadically — through the news or social media — which makes it easy to miss something important.

Features:

• Real-time USDA + FDA recalls

• Risk levels (High / Moderate / Low / Advisory)

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This is my first app launch — I’d love feedback or thoughts on how to take it further.
by mrb | 2025-10-08 19:18:07+00:00
It'd be a pleasure to chat about this! Hit me up by email: m at zorinaq dot com

Actually, to be exact: I just checked my data and I forgot that technically the 2nd and 3rd longest sightlines I discovered are slight variations of the Pik Dankova sightline. 7 km east of this peak is another mountain with two spots from which there are two sightlines of 521.1 and 510.49 km ending in the same mountain range in China (a few hundred km away from the end point of the 1st sightline.)

Then the 4th longest sightline I found is the one that's arguably unique: 510.45 km, fully contained within China in the Kunlun Mountains from 38.614706,75.184529 to 36.517500,80.333333. So that's an interesting find.

Then my 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th longest sightlines are again slight variations of the 1st Pik Dankova sightline.

Then my 9th longest sigthline in the one in Colombia I mentioned.

It's very possible you could find different results and new longest sightlines, so I encourage you to continue your own research.

For starters here is a limitation of my implementation: my heuristic for finding a potential viewpoint (mountain peak or ridge of a plateau) is imperfect: in the DEM, a tile is considered a potential viewpoint if it is higher than or equal to it's 8 neighbors, and if it is strictly higher than at least one neighbor. Think about a group of 3x3 tiles. They are all the same height, except one tile on the edge of the group that is slighly lower than the others. Then in this case, the central tile is a potential viewpoint because we could have a sightline standing on this central tile, looking over the one neighbor tile that is slightly lower. That would be the case when standing on the edge of a plateau right next to the start of a valley.

But I can think of at least one case where I would accidentally dismiss potential viewpoints: if, when standing on this ridge, the tile behind us is slightly higher (even if it's just by 1 meter), then my heuristic would dismiss the central tile as a potential viewpoint, because my thought was the tile that is sligthly higher is going to be selected by my heuristic as a (better) potential viewpoint instead. But, in reality, if the tile behind us is only a few meters higher, then it is not high enough to look over our initial tile, then over the start of the valley. In that case the central tile is a viewpoint but would be dismissed by my heuristic. This is a very narrow corner case that probably doesn't affect my results, but I am not 100% sure. If the height difference is about 3 or 4 meters or more, the tile behind us would definitely have a clear and longer sightline, so my heuristic isn't breaking anything.

Anyway my whole project was just a weekend thing so I didn't care to be very precise. But now seeing your effort is renewing my interest in fixing my code. Oh and I should definitely port this to GPU as this workload is 100% compute-bound, mostly, sin, cos, sqrt and divisions.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-08 19:18:12+00:00
Rudeness in hostility is in how you state your position. Having a position (that you dislike and won't participate in a corporate sales funnel is always OK, and it's always OK to politely express that to representatives of the corporation. Even if they happen to be employees of the franchise owner, they're wearing the uniform and promoting the brand, rather than representing 'local burger restaurant.' Of course, you can just not eat there at all (I don't) but in that case no communication is taking place. Many people are OK with McDonalds' food offerings but not with their invasive app marketing.
by jrflowers | 2025-10-08 19:18:45+00:00
Exactly! If we imagine that people only exist on paper then we can pretend that these made up people that have no real-world counterparts don’t know what a clear and present danger is. With that in mind it is obvious that tolerance isn’t possible.

Now, once you consider that the people that I’m imagining are nearly-spherical but covered in spikes and all of them are in the bottom of a big slippery bowl, you can see how they’re always causing harm to one another. Also in this scenario they can only communicate in grunts and as such they rely on me - the dungeon master judge - to resolve conflicts through a complex legal system that I made up. Sadly I am powerless to do anything about the spikes or how slippery the bowl is, so you can guess how that works out.

To all the people that talk about a “social contract” I say “put that in your pipe and smoke it”!
by yesfitz | 2025-10-08 19:18:51+00:00
I think the author understands that "have a little empathy" is a request to modify their behavior, but expresses their frustration that the request is unclear and (in the author's experience) the requestors won't clarify the request.

Contrast this with the conversation we're having now where I requested clarification on your initial comment, and you thoughtfully provided it.

But to your point, there's an innate "getting it" where your level/expression of empathy is roughly in-line with people you interact with, and if you don't have that, you need to do work to "get it", which is what the author did.

We can compare empathy to other practices that can benefit from innate understanding. Some people "get" poetry, math, music, long-distance running, etc. and we can all work to "get" them, but in my experience, it's never quite the same.
by tsoukase | 2025-10-08 19:19:03+00:00
I cannot fathom why a SW developer ever needs to use Windows at least the last ten years. Do you work for MS? Use Linux and spin up a pass-through VM in your favourite supervisor.

The decline of Windows will cause a huge power vacuum that Linux distributions can in no way cover. Who will support the huge swaths of tech non-savy average Joe and Brenda users (mostly device drivers, games, Office) that sometime will need to open the command terminal? May be a new future trillion-$ company will come with a new proprietary desktop OS, possibly based on Linux, like android.
by xg15 | 2025-10-08 19:19:25+00:00
Isn't that technically true for all franchises?

If every restaurant is its own small/medium business and the corporate franchisor only ever interacts with the franchisees and never with the end customers, then all the direct revenue for the franchisor will be from services or licenses provided to the franchisees, not from directly selling burgers. But the franchisees are still much more dependent on the franchisor than they would be in a normal B2B relationship. And many of those "service costs" can be freely set by the franchisor and have the purpose of channeling revenue back from the restaurants - revenue that would not exist if no burgers were sold.
by lapcat | 2025-10-08 19:19:29+00:00
> these monopoly/olipolyies actors can amass massive war chests that make them become bigger than the regulator.

Bigger than the POTUS? And why wasn't the previous Clinton administration captured?

But it's actually quite clear from the article that the regulators are not politicians:

> In a modern society, that third party is an expert regulator who investigates or anticipates problems in their area of expertise and then makes rules designed to solve these problems.

> To make these rules, the regulator convenes a truth-seeking exercise

> the regulator—who is a neutral expert, required to recuse themselves if they have conflicts—makes a rule, citing the evidence on which the rule is based.
by weinzierl | 2025-10-08 19:20:19+00:00
"Most large language models like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity rely directly or indirectly on Google's indexed results to feed their retrieval systems and crawlers."

Is this true?

I thought OpenAI was using Bing. Gemini obviously will use Google but to them the restriction does not apply. Claude says it uses Brave.
by rgthelen | 2025-10-08 19:20:29+00:00
Our business model is not to compete in open-source; we are just providing this to the community since its the right thing to do and as a signal to enterprises to reduce risk.

Our goal is to target large enterprises with services and support, leveraging deep channel partnerships. We do ship agents as a part of the project and it will be a critical part of the services model in the future.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-08 19:20:36+00:00
When I press the buy and sell button, I want the transaction to happen as quickly as possible. So does everyone else.

My millionth of a second is different than yours, and everyone else’s.

It is no different than buying or selling anything else. And there is no loss from the additional liquidity, you can easily set a limit at which you want to buy or sell.
by lumost | 2025-10-08 19:20:56+00:00
I'm very curious if anyone has tried to control for the natural hierarchies which form in Academia. e.g. A researcher who rises to the top of a funding collaboration will have a disproportionate number of citations due to their influence on funding flows. Likewise, those who influence the acceptances/reviewers at major conferences will naturally attract more citations of their work either by featuring it over other work or correctly predicting where the field was heading based on the paper flows.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-08 19:21:06+00:00
Banning math in relation to nuclear weapons was typically very specific and most often involved hardware export controls.

The key note with what the previous poster said was 'arbitrary', meaning the laws will end up a nonsensical mess because the maths have huge amount of industrial, commercial, and personal uses and suddenly one range of use is banned leads to situation where law enforcement tends to go after particular groups for who they are, not what they've done.
by beala | 2025-10-08 19:21:22+00:00
How's the power consumption? Everytime I look at used server deals on ebay that seem too good to be true, the hidden cost is usually power. It's fairly normal for these systems to consume hundreds of watts idle, and $1/watt/year is a decent rule of thumb in the US (but much more in places like CA). And that’s not factoring in running the AC more if you’re in a hotter climate.

I’m looking at a NAS build myself and am leaning toward a consumer mobo and an older Intel, like maybe a 9th gen i5. 6 SATA ports is pretty standard, and three mirrored 20 TB pairs is a lot of storage for most folks. Boot drive could be a small NVME.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-08 19:21:29+00:00
It's just a VM + an RDP connection in rootless mode. You can do it, but RDP is flaky in rootless mode.

I'm currently using a similar setup for Office. You lose drag and drop, and you will be restarting the RDP client over and over again.

It's a "solution" if you're willing to put up with jank.
by defanor | 2025-10-08 19:21:45+00:00
What is "nope" about? I understand "people in Government are subject to the same laws as any other citizen" to mean the same as "written laws that apply to everyone equally". The sort of thing Aristotle and Locke advocated for.

As for the separation of powers, it is a related concept, but still a distinct one; not sure if bringing it up helps here.

Added "The Road to Serfdom" into my book queue, thanks for the suggestion.
by britzkopf | 2025-10-08 19:21:50+00:00
I was a customer facing employee for a company whose underhanded policies caused me to face a lot of (legitimate) hostility. I eventually quit for this reason, and I know at least one other employee who did. That company lost two otherwise good employees. It works, it's just a question of how much collateral damage you're ok with. If management want to use front facing employees to shelter them from customer grievance, what other target to people have?
by blurbleblurble | 2025-10-08 19:22:01+00:00
This is beyond partisan. In no way does this administration faithfully represent conservative constituents, nor the hostage GOP politicians that prop it up in their total duress.

"Quiet skies" pales in comparison to what they're cooking up: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-commo...

And this: https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4q6ctl7...

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4q6ctl7...

And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpXX8HPh6nQ

It's a takeover: https://climate-reporting.org/undercover-in-project-2025/
by porridgeraisin | 2025-10-08 19:22:35+00:00
I mean, I wouldn't say it's transformative or bet on it equalling usual LLM performance in general. It's kind of similar to weight reuse you see in RNNs, where the same `h` is maintained throughout. In usual LLMs each block has its own state.

These guys are choosing a middle ground - stacking few transformers, and then reusing the same 2 blocks 8 times over.

It'll be interesting to see what usecases are served well with this approach. Understanding of these architectures' response to these changes are still largely empirical so hard to say ahead of time. My intuition is that for repetitive input signals it could be good - audio processing comes to mind. But complex attention and stuff like in elevenlabs style translation is probably too much to hope for. Whisper type transcription tho, might work.
by b112 | 2025-10-08 19:22:43+00:00
I remember reading a sci-fi book, where time was.. sharded? And people from different times were thrust together. I think it was a Phoenician army, which had learned to ride and battle bareback.

And were introduced to the stability of stirrups and saddle.

They were like daemons on those stirrup equipped horses. They had all the agility of wielding weapons and engaging in battle by hanging onto mane, and body with legs, yet now had (to them) a crazy easy and stable platform.

When the battle came, the Phoenicians just tore through those armies who had grown up with the stirrup. There was no comparison in skill or capability.

(Note: I'm positive some of the above may be wrong, but can't find the story and so am just stating it as best able)

My point is, are we in that age? Are we the last skilled, deeply knowledgeable coders?

I grew up learning to write eeproms on burners via the C64. Writing machine language because my machines were too slow otherwise. Needing to find information from massive paper manuals. I had to work it all out myself often, because no internet no code examples, just me thinking of how things could be done. Another person who grew up with some of the same tools and computers, once said we are the last generation to understand the true, full stack.

Now I wonder, is it the same with coding?

Are we it?

The end?
by williamstein | 2025-10-08 19:22:54+00:00
Some small additional details: 23 years not 30. Also, I think Julia was started as much in response to Octave/Matlab’s shortcomings. I don’t know if it is written down, but I was told a big impetus was that Edelman had just sold his star-p company to Microsoft, and star-p was based around octave/matlab.

- https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
by RogerL | 2025-10-08 19:22:58+00:00
Hire, then train them for a long period of time? That is an apprenticeship. It's what they do in the trades already. There aren't enough slots (union or not).

e.g. http://www.calapprenticeship.org/programs/electrician_appren...

You need a diploma, a smattering of algebra, a driver's license, and the physical ability to do the work. Everything else you will be taught on the job, while being paid.
by klaff | 2025-10-08 19:23:21+00:00
Have you considered whether such training might possibly have a positive result?

"In 2023, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons reported that 500,000 people were treated for ladder-related injuries, with 300 of these incidents proving fatal." from https://www.usf.edu/health/public-health/news/2024/cc-ladder...
by konz | 2025-10-08 19:23:37+00:00
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by SatvikBeri | 2025-10-08 19:23:44+00:00
My company (a hedge fund) has been using Julia for our major data/numeric pipelines for 4 years. It's been great. Very easy to translate math/algorithms into code, lots of syntactical niceties, parallelism/concurrency is easy, macros for the very rare cases you need them. It's easy to get high performance and possible to get extremely high performance.

It does have some well-known issues (like slow startup/compilation time) but if you're using it for long-running data pipelines it's great.