MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WillAdams | 2025-10-28 16:12:36+00:00
One reason the 747 has had such a long life is that when it was developed, the expectation was that it would soon be replaced by faster supersonic aircraft, so it was designed to be easily re-purposed/retrofitted to serve as a cargo aircraft --- that said, despite its vast cargo capacity, since it was the last major aircraft designed using pen and paper, if one were to print out a compleat set of blueprints/specifications and try to load them into one, it would probably be too heavy to take off.

It really was remarkable to fly in, esp. if one was fortunate enough to sit in the front rows of seats which had the wrap-around windows, or to be admitted to the cockpit as was often done for children when I flew from Japan to the U.S. on one (somewhere in my stuff is a set of plastic Pan Am wings which the pilot gave me).
by titanomachy | 2025-10-28 16:12:43+00:00
Most places I’ve worked it’s fine to just comment. By approving or blocking, you signal to the team that you’re taking on the role of “the reviewer” for the code. Approving means that you have enough context to be confident in the change and stake your reputation on it. Blocking means you commit to doing subsequent rounds of review and eventually approving when your concerns are addressed (or you’re asserting a firm preference that this change should not happen).

Maybe you’re not the best person to approve the code, or you just don’t have time to commit to the reviewer role at this second, but you’ve still spotted something that you think will help the person writing the code; so, leave a comment.
by deaux | 2025-10-28 16:12:53+00:00
> What's REALLY much more important though if you want to be a part of the AI race and I've posted for years here with @euaccofficial is to make Europe a really extremely attractive place to start and run an AI business. Remove regulatory obstructions and give tax discounts for startups. Let them build a business first that can compete worldwide and once they make enough money (let's say $100M/y), then slowly start adding regulation.

When you talk to most EU business owners, even in tech, the limiting factor isn't regulations. This being the #1 reason is such a tired trope.

Ironically, China has in some ways a bigger regulatory burden when it comes to software, as there if the government doesn't approve the business is dead in the water. I doubt that Klarna would've gotten off the ground there, for one, I could see them being shut down much earlier there. In the EU only now very slowly are some governments even starting to talk about some weak measures around their business model. But I've never, not once in my life, heard "Chinese software companies can't get off the ground due to the regulatory burden".

The same people who clamor about the EU regulations are the ones who hate on the EU for their protectionist measures against US tech. Yet another bout of irony here - China's software industry has flourished exactly thanks to 10 times stronger protectionist measures against US tech. So has Korea's, and their protectionism has never even been anywhere on the China level, more inbetween EU and China. No, if there's anything that would help, it's much more tech protectionism in the EU.

Pieter Levels is at the end of the day an influencer, not a serious founder.
by dlcarrier | 2025-10-28 16:13:37+00:00
One of the best treatments is interferon. It's something you will also produce yourself, with therapeutic effect, if exposited to sunlight or the infrared light used in red light therapy. Here's a video about it, from a continuing education provider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkxH56LqCo

Vitamin D therapy doesn't have such an effect.
by martin-t | 2025-10-28 16:13:47+00:00
Not to mention the army is composed of people who, despite systematic indoctrination, can decide to switch sides.

However, this is a huge danger of ML ("AI"). It allows individuals to concentrate power. All real-world power comes from violence. Sufficiently advanced ML models allow individuals to profile subordinates and remove them before they rebel and (partially now but increasingly in the future) to control swarms of drones and robots.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-28 16:13:54+00:00
Related:

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (729 points, 14 days ago, 652 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566644

Nexperia – Update on Company Developments (56 points, 14 days ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45578467
by donatj | 2025-10-28 16:14:10+00:00
Funnily enough, this 10gtek worked on one of my 3 switches, but I could only establish a gigabit connection. I returned it [1]

These 10gtek fiber modules on the other hand have worked flawlessly so far. [2]

This Mikrotik module would not establish a 10 gb link with my Thunderbolt dock no matter what I tried. Works fine with my servers though so I swapped it out.

I've pretty much resigned myself to just buying the full brand Ubiqitui SFP+ adapters [4] for converting to copper.

I recently purchased [5] to run to my living room, but I have not found the time/energy to do the run.

1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KFBFL16

2. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BP4M8LV

3. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078SNK1MY

4. https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/accessories-modules-fibe...

5. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYC6P6KF
by geye1234 | 2025-10-28 16:14:13+00:00
Peter Hitchens had a hell of a time trying to fix Wikipedia's appalling biases:

https://hitchensblogarchive.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/goodbye...

Search the site for other examples of the fun he had with it.

I'd choose Wikipedia over AI, of course, so I'm ultimately grateful it's there. But better than both would be a well-edited traditional encyclopedia, written by experts in a single voice, and possibly peer-reviewed.
by ropoz | 2025-10-28 16:14:24+00:00
AIPex is an agentic assistant that lives in your browser, allowing you to automate browser tasks using natural language. It's a great alternative to ChatGPT Atlas with no migration needed.

Key features: - Natural language browser automation - No migration required from other tools - Open source and free to use - Supports various browser tasks

Perfect for developers and power users who want to automate their browsing experience.
by Supermancho | 2025-10-28 16:14:44+00:00
There were a few soft recommendations. Specifically I remember an ER doctor in 2019 saying vitamin D seemed to be a differentiator in the sample of cases he was seeing in the ER (everyone was starting to panic) and the CDC walking it back as unsubstantiated. I mentioned it at work, then 10 days later my boss's boss asked me where I had heard it, because he had heard the same thing.

There have been a number of people on HN who have attributed any measurable COVID benefit of Vitamin D, to a confounding variable, as recently as 3 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705486 The Big Vitamin D Mistake
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-28 16:14:48+00:00
>The trouble is that it works just enough to be dangerous.

This is a major theme with LLMs. When they first came out you'd see it randomly returning garbage in the middle of an otherwise good output maybe 30% of the time. You knew you had to go through it with a fine tooth comb.

Now it's more like 3%. And you just gloss over it.

I think you are right about Text-to-SQL being a trap. In this case the deficiencies are unaccaptable.

But elsewhere? I think we are going to see the "customer service effect" applied all over the place. I am referring to the downward trend of customer service. Where quality was eschewed for scale. We went from highly competent agents providing individual feedback to hard to reach agents with no agency. It scales, but the bar has been lowered significantly. You get less customer service.

I think AI begs for the same tradeoff. Settle for less because it makes some things easier. Which of course makes other things much more complex or even undermines the entire premise.
by seemaze | 2025-10-28 16:14:59+00:00
I frequently use my AirPods Pro when working in my shop. Previously the APP2 did a great job of reducing loud tool noise and I could mostly still listen to music or podcasts at reasonable levels.

With the APP3, they are largely the same except with the louder tools (circular saw, cordless grinder) they produce a horrific feedback instead of canceling the noise. So much so that I switched back to my APP2 (which do not have this issue in back-to-back testing).

This REALLY irks me, as the APP3 are what forced the upgrade to iOS 26 (which is terribly misguided and under-baked), so I'm stuck with all of Apple's foibles and none of their wins.

Feel like I got punched in the gut and my lunch money stolen. Not a good feeling Apple.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-28 16:15:17+00:00
> because among 20T+ tokens trained on it still generates 0 novel output. Try asking for ASP.NET Core .MapOpenAPI() instead of the pre .net9 swashbuckle version. You get nothing. It's not in the training data.

The best part is that the web is forever poisoned now, 80% of the content is generated by LLM and self poisoning
by madcaptenor | 2025-10-28 16:15:19+00:00
Information about this prize: https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-birman-research-prize/

"Nomination Period: April 1 through May 15 of an even numbered year. The prize will be awarded the January after nominations close, which falls in an odd year."

See for example the dates on the various announcement notices as given in the notes in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_%26_Joseph_Birman_Researc...

(Note also that 2020 may have been unusual because pandemic.)
by janwillemb | 2025-10-28 16:15:41+00:00
This comment contains a few logical fallacies.

> It states the cargo culted reasons, but not the actual truth

This dismisses existing explanations without engaging with the mentioned reasons. The following text then doesn't provide any arguments for this.

> Pronunciation is either solved by a) automatic language detection, or b) doesn't matter.

There are more possibilities than a and b. For example, it may matter for other things than pronunciation only. Also it may improve automatic detection or make automatic detection superfluous.

> If I am reading a book [...] I will pronounce it correctly, just like the screen reader will. If I see text in a language I don't recognize, I won't pronounce it correctly, and neither will the screen reader.

A generalization of your own experience to all users and systems. Screen readers aim to convey information accessibly, not mirror human ignorance.

> There's no reason that the screen reader will get it wrong, because <hungarian sentence> isn't ambiguous

This is circular reasoning. The statement is based on the assumption that automatic detection is always accurate - which is precisely what is under debate.

> If you can translate it, you already know what language it is in.

This a non sequitur. Even if someone can translate text, that doesn't mean software or search engines can automatically identify that language.

> The lang attribute adds nothing to the proces.

This absolute claim adds nothing to the logic.
by czl | 2025-10-28 16:15:42+00:00
Conventional LLM chatbots behave the way you describe because their goal during training is to as much as possible impersonate an intelligent assistant.

Do you think this goal during training cannot be changed to impersonate someone normal such that you cannot detect you are chatting with an LLM?

Before flight was understood some thought "magic" was involved. Do you think minds operate using "magic"? Are minds not machines? Their operation can not be duplicated?
by zamadatix | 2025-10-28 16:16:05+00:00
> (they're also dramatically less expensive)

It depends, but for typical networking I'd say Ubiquti is actually offering better pricing here (outside of 10G LR) - and I'm saying that as someone who has sold 10s of thousands of FS modules to customers.

| FS | Ubiquiti -----------+------+----------- Programmer | $369 | $49 10G SR | $25 | $12 ($20) 10G LR | $34 | $59 ($85) 25G SR | $49 | $29 ($49) 25G LR | $74 | $69 ($119) 100G SR4 | $99 | $39 ($69)

Note: Prices in () are the costs outside of the limited time mark-down period.

Side note for the HN crowd: For ridiculous homelab 100G shenanigans look for Intel 100G-CWDM4 on sites like Ebay. They go for $4 and work with SM LC fiber from 0-2000 meter runs, making great DAC replacements (cheaper+thinner replaceable cabling). They run great, I've had 8 going for a year. Even if all 8 failed tomorrow and I bought 8 more that's still cheaper than a single 100G SR4 from FS. You can pair these with used 100G NICs for ~$100, making a 100G direct connection between 2 machines ~$250 after shipping+tax.
by eknkc | 2025-10-28 16:16:21+00:00
.net has a polymorphic serializer where the output json contains a $type field for deserializer to choose the concrete type.

It needs to be the very first key in the object. I’ve been bitten by this because postgresql’s jsonb also does not preserve the key ordering.

I believe the latest .net release addresses this but key ordering does matter sometimes.
by coredog64 | 2025-10-28 16:16:31+00:00
Cash comp at Amazon is extremely limited, with at least half of your comp coming from RSUs (or cash equivalent during the first year). So if Amazon is wildly successful, you do get a huge benefit out of it (my grants resulted in a salary that was ~ $100K more than the band I was assigned at review).

Having said that, the game is extremely rigged such that those types of wins are rare, while the downside risk of grants not having the expected value is uncapped.
by kragen | 2025-10-28 16:16:41+00:00
Maybe what rarely works well for NoMoreNicksLeft is having a gigabyte of JPEGs in a single HTML chapter inside the epub? In that case you could do something like divide the files into 373 "chapters" of 6 pages each?

One of the fragmentary editions I linked on the Archive uses the .cbr Comic Book Reader format; perhaps that is a better format than .epub for high-resolution scans of every page?
by beala | 2025-10-28 16:16:41+00:00
I've only been using it for a couple months, but OPNsense (FreeBSD based) is such a solid piece of software. I installed it on a cheap Beelink mini PC with dual 2.5 gb NICs and an N150 processor (model EQ14), and it's been reliable and a pleasure to use as my router. I have a TP-Link Omada setup which I've been pleased with, but I feel no need to purchase one of their gateways.
by tw04 | 2025-10-28 16:16:43+00:00
>I'm not sure if this product will _actually_ change any of that, but here's hoping.

SFP programmers have been around forever and work great. This will solve the issue. The only really unique thing here is the form factor and price. I think the last time I looked at a programmer 8 years ago I seem to recall it was about 10x this price. I’m guessing cheaper ones have popped up out of China since then.
by candiddevmike | 2025-10-28 16:16:51+00:00
While it's an interesting story, I doubt they needed Claude to work a hospital bill down to that amount. Hospital billing folks are acutely aware that the initial bill is outrageous and indefensible from their end. I've heard a ton of cases where folks basically "pay what they can" for the bill and that's good enough for both parties. I doubt the reasoning Claude provided was ultimately what got the hospital to knock the bill down, probably more around the legal action and PR threats. Ironically, the hospital will probably count this as charity even though OP didn't want to be considered charity, as they had to write off part of the bill.
by burkaman | 2025-10-28 16:16:56+00:00
Imagine reading a thoughtful and substantive HN comment about the benefits of a new product, and then later realizing that the commenter failed to mention they are a major investor in the product. You would feel mildly annoyed or misled, right? Now you have to reevaluate the comment and figure out if it was primarily driven by "engineer evaluating a new tool" or "guy who wants to make money", and you'll probably want to find more unbiased reviews before paying for the product.

Now scale your annoyance based on how important you think the White House and presidential power are relative to some random Launch HN post. In this case, knowing the financial motivations of the publisher, was the editorial actually valuable? They say: "this project would not have gotten done, certainly not during his term, if the president had gone through the traditional review process. The blueprints would have faced death by a thousand papercuts." Is this a misleading premise, was there actually a lot of process and red tape preventing a president from doing this renovation the "traditional" way? I have no idea, and since I can't trust this source I have to go find out some other way.

Did they leave out any other important information? They say: "Privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties." Is this true? Again I don't know and I can't trust the authors.

Like the HN investor example, we can't tell if this editorial was primarily driven by "observer knowledgeable about the needs of the presidential office" or "guy who wants the president to eliminate the NLRB". It doesn't mean the editorial is wrong, but it does mean it isn't really valuable because you'll have to find other sources to verify its claims.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-28 16:16:56+00:00
> When you talk to most EU business owners, even in tech, the limiting factor isn't regulations. This being the #1 reason is such a tired trope.

Okay, what is the limiting factor? Because when I talk to EU business owners (admittedly, very few) - they point to lack of big EU capital markets, which is directly downstream of the policy environment. And when I talk to top EU human capital, they all point to the lack of competitive wages. There's a real difficulty in allocating capital to talented humans.

And, at least in Southern Europe, the income tax schedule is so aggressive it's hard to justify continuing working in many of these countries if you are highly talented.

Like, if you can tell me what the induced operator norm from l_2 -> l_2 is - probably you should come to the US and work at a biglab and make bank. What can you do in Portugal, Italy, Spain, etc.??

> Pieter Levels is at the end of the day an influencer, not a serious founder.

Sure, agreed.

I think it is a complete misreading to point to protectionism as the reason for Chinese success, but having a big unified domestic market for consumers along with massive saving rates and capital controls probably does help.
by cturner | 2025-10-28 16:17:34+00:00
Before I comment, a disclaimer about my small scale. I am running probably three hundred SFP+s running and less than five years of experience with optics. I don't have stock tracking for the individual manufacturers, and the failure rate comments here are based on gut-feel only. (there will be other people here used to far larger scales)

I bucket it into there being three options: genuine, clone, and good-clone.

We had a bad run with fs.com QSFP+s. Their SFP+s have been better to me, but reckon I have had a couple fail.

Atgbics SFP+s have been a reliable clone supplier for us. I don't think I have had any of those fail, and they have been my main vendor for a while now. You can order them programmed with personalities for Cisco, etc.

Part of the edge of fs.com is that it is so easy to place an order and get fast delivery. My main site is in another country to where I live, and I do a few trips a year. Several times they have made low-notice projects possible.
by dspillett | 2025-10-28 16:17:46+00:00
To use the style of server identity management we use for, say, HTTPS, you need a “trusted” 3rd party involved to sign certificates. This is impractical for SSH in many (most?) cases for several reasons (SSH does support cert based identification and authentication, but there are not many circumstances where this is more practical than, or otherwise preferable to, TOFU for SSH).

In fact, many people who don't properly understand SSH's trust-on-first-use system (so don't actually verify server certificate fingerprints) argue for browsers to support it as an option alongside the current certificate signing & verification regimes.
by JoelMcCracken | 2025-10-28 16:18:00+00:00
I do agree with this, but also, I don't really understand a lot of the tradeoffs, or at least to me they are false tradeoffs.

Her first example is excellent. In Haskell, we have global type inference, but we've found it to be impractical. So, by far the best practice is not to use it; at the very least, all top-level items should have type annotations.

the second one, structural typing: have your language support both structural types and nominal types, then? This is basically analogous to how haskell solved this problem: add type roles. Nominal types can't convert to one another, whereas structural types can. Not that Haskell is the paragon of language-well-designed-ness, but... There might be some other part of this I'm missing, but given the obviousness of this solution, and the fact that I haven't seen it mentioned, it is just striking.

on dynamic dispatch: allow it to be customized by the user - this is done today in many cases! Problem solved. Plus with a global optimizing compiler, if you can deal with big executable size, you have cake and eat cake.

on JIT: Yes, JIT can take some time, it is not free. JIT can make sense even in languages that are AOT compiled, in general it optimizes code based upon use patterns. If AOT loop unrolling makes sense in C, then I certainly think runtime optimization of fully AOT compiled code must be advantageous too. But, today, you can just about always figure that you can get yourself a core to do this kind of thing on, we just have so many of them available and don't have the tools to easily saturate them. Or, even if you do today with N cores, you probably won't be able to on the next gen, when you have N+M cores. Sure, there's gonna have to be some overhead when switching out the code, but I really don't think that's where the mentioned overhead comes from.

Metaprogramming systems are another great example: Yes, if we keep them the way they are today, at the _very least_ we're saying that we need some kind of LSP availability to make them reasonable for tooling to interact with. Except, guess what, all languages nowadays of any reasonable community size will need LSP. Beyond that, there are lots of other ways to think about metaprogramming other than just the macros we commonly have today.

I get her feeling, balancing all of this is hard. One think you can't really get away from here is that all of this increases language, compiler, and runtime complexity, which makes things much harder to do.

But I think that's the real tradeoff here: implementation complexity. The more you address these tradeoffs, the more complexity you add to your system, and the harder the whole thing is to think about and work on. The more constructs you add to the semantics of your language, the more difficult it is to prove the things you want about its semantics.

But, that's the whole job, I guess? I think we're way beyond the point where a tiny compiler can pick a new set of these tradeoffs and make a splash in the ecosystem.

Would love to have someone tell me how I'm wrong here.
by chadcmulligan | 2025-10-28 16:18:13+00:00
I think we've reached Star Trek level AI. In Star Trek (and the next generation) people would ask the computer questions and it would spout out the answers, which is really similar to what LLM's are doing now, though minus the occasional hallucination. In Star Trek though the computers never really ran anything (except for the one fateful episode - The Ultimate Computer in TOS), I always wondered why, it seems Roddenberry was way ahead of us again.