MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by astrange | 2025-11-04 22:33:38+00:00
The housing crisis is limited to California and other blue states; most places have the opposite problem.

Also, most US households are homeowners, which means housing prices going up increases their (imputed) income.

> Is that chart controlling for number of incomes and hours worked?

Why should it? It's bad practice to control for random things - that gets you collider bias.

But see:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=cWvT

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
by stevage | 2025-11-04 22:33:49+00:00
The first couple of paragraphs of price comparisons are useful. Then there are many paragraphs of sheer waffle. The author doesn't even seem able to define what "the cloud" is:

> The whole debate of “is this still the cloud or not” is nonsense to me. You’re just getting lost in naming conventions. VPS, bare metal, on-prem, colo, who cares what you call it. You need to put your servers somewhere. Sure, have a computer running in your mom’s basement if that makes you feel like you’re exiting the cloud more, I’ll have mine in a datacenter and both will be happy.
by neom | 2025-11-04 22:33:50+00:00
I did a lot of research into this the other day while bored, based on all the gov contracts, the stack doesn't seem that complex, NEC seem to provide very nice tooling and it seems to work well with Palantir.

Something like: [Android App – Kotlin + CameraX + ML Kit] -> [HTTPS/mTLS] -> [AWS API Gateway -> Palantir Foundry middleware] -> [NEC face match + NeoFace] -> [DHS IDENT/HART (Thales fingerprints)] -> [PostgreSQL + Splunk audit]

Here was my reading/watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1PSAB3DvwY

https://uip.nec-help.com/latest-onprem/Release-Notes/Version...

https://www.milestonesys.com/technology-partner-finder/nec/n...

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD1018010.pdf

https://www.sita.aero/pressroom/blog/embracing-the-change-an...
by winkwinkwink | 2025-11-04 22:34:17+00:00
Do continue! And please be more specific which cases you're citing. The case I think you're referring to (Murthy v. Missouri) was decided this last June by the US Supreme Court. Even that resulted in a wash where plaintiffs didn't show standing.

Also, you're citing instances that were walked back or otherwise not implemented. That's very different to what happened with Kimmel. Or is that moving goal posts again?
by numpad0 | 2025-11-04 22:34:53+00:00
yelling at idiots idiots never work. Doing so imprint a snapshot of whatever they were doing deeper into their brains. Our brains take intersections of the zipped archives of situation logs and turn that into reproducible scripted acts. Negative emotions associated with the memory won't help the brain unlearn undesired behaviors, it just makes us sadder or angrier at scripted points.

A better, but painful, way is to somehow break the chain of undesired acts until they would be obsessed with better things to do.

Maybe there are even better ways at it and I'm mostly wrong about this - I had never taken any training to be a behavioral scientist - but my point is, point-and-screaming wrong things someone did never goes well.
by astrange | 2025-11-04 22:34:54+00:00
Slightly overestimates. Alternatives like Truflation show it lower.

You may be thinking of Shadowstats, which is run by a crank who just takes the official numbers and adds a number he made up to them.

I don't know why cranks always think inflation is secretly higher. Deflation is a lot worse than inflation, so if you're a doomer, believing in deflation would be more effective.
by qustrolabe | 2025-11-04 22:34:55+00:00
Check out their YouTube channel where they show plenty of interesting features. But just to list some I can think of: - optional reactivity (i.e. you create chain of cells where editing 5th cells in the past causes update down the stream, pretty neat when working with dataframes). Its reactivity is a very cool feature once used to but you might not want it for something like running heavy ML training task so it can be toggled off - you can switch notebook to multi-column notebook mode - notebook is a web app that has sidebar with a lot of menus, there cool sections like Docs, Packages (you can download new packages right away there with uv), plenty of LLM integration with their custom prompts where you can reference dataframes so that it would be able to understand schema, some SQL and other DB integrations as well, cells can even contain SQL instead python code and output query result into python variable - thanks to reactivity it got a lot of interactive elements like sliders buttons text fields or ability to create entire own widgets, there's even mode where all code blocks get hidden and you're left with complete app - you can make web export of notebook that will translate python to WASM and publish it as fully working static page (though publishing something heavy complex like torch probably won't go well), this fits well with previous point as you can basically build simple interface hide all the code and publish it (like imagine matplotlib with couple of sliders) - DataFrames (pandas/polars) displayed as interactive tables where you can filter by columns, scroll through pages of rows etc - notebook stored in a .py format, unlike .ipynb with its json like structure. So code is very Git-friendly but you don't store computation results anymore
by dviney | 2025-11-04 22:35:05+00:00
Total portfolio 1.4bn in Sep 13F. 0.6bn in June 13F. So yes, my guess is most if not all of that 0.8bn spike is notional in excess of premium on the 1.1bn puts. All the same, 80% of his entire hedge fund notional is still a BIG bet. And he will probably 10x that 1.1bn if he is right.
by cholantesh | 2025-11-04 22:35:21+00:00
>I see you ignored this opportunity to confirm the accused is innocent until proven guilty and deserves a fair trial before people call them rapists. Too bad.

It's not actually required for someone involved in a discussion to waste their time responding to straw men.

>This is just reporting, and it will need to be tested in court.

Ah, so we've moved on from strawmanning to moving the goalposts.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-11-04 22:35:56+00:00
The steam deck's chip runs at 15w maximum and has I believe a 4, 6, and 8w mode. Maybe not 5w but pretty close. The linux desktop on it is a perfectly unimpressive but usable daily driver kind of thing. The problem is consumers dont want this. The failure of the netbook era proved it. People dont want to deal with slow speeds so this kind of thing wont be a mainstream mass produced item.

ARM faking x86 is probably the way to go for this case.
by mcdermott | 2025-11-04 22:36:12+00:00
Update: The very first Playbook I tried (unsloth) didn’t work . There was a bad URL and some package version and dependency issues. I figured out how to get it working and completed the playbook, then submitted a PR that fixes the playbook instructions for others. The PR has not been merge as I write this, so if you run into a problem with the Unsloth playbook, see: PR #14: https://github.com/NVIDIA/dgx-spark-playbooks/pull/14
by Calavar | 2025-11-04 22:36:23+00:00
What happens when a researcher makes a generative art model and publicly releases the weights? Anyone can download the weights and use it to turn a quick profit.

Should the original research use be considered legitimate fair use? Does the legitimacy get 'poisoned' along the way when a third party uses the same model for profit?

Is there any difference between a mom-and-pop restaurant who uses the model to make a design for their menu versus a multi-billion dollar corp that's planning on laying off all their in house graphic designers? If so, where in between those two extremes should the line be drawn?
by whytevuhuni | 2025-11-04 22:36:27+00:00
I think what clippy needs the most is a way to say, "make all clippy warnings as errors, but only for warnings up to Rust 1.80". And then devs can update that number whenever they want, as opposed to whenever new updates come in.

Or tie it to the current edition, or the current MSRV if defined.
by tom_ | 2025-11-04 22:36:31+00:00
Cloning a github repo to ~/.emacs.d is how you can cart around your Emacs config. I've been doing this for years, and it works nicely. For things configured by files that live in the home folder directly (e.g., shell - and looks like Nano would be similar?), I've got another repo with a couple of install scripts that create symlinks to the version-controlled files. I don't love the extra steps, but I've found this works pretty well too.

Most of the time, I can manage without, but every now and again I've needed to do some thing or other, and I've been grateful to have my own preferred setup rather than somebody else's.
by jongjong | 2025-11-04 22:36:44+00:00
It could be an improvement but it's not a solution because those in power tend to embody the worst elements of humanity, regardless of the economic system. The real solution IMO is decentralization. Decentralizing power. Any system which centralizes power will have problems because it centralizes power in the hands of increasingly 'bad' people.

In a large centralized system, those in power are selected from an increasingly large pool of people... Two main characteristics which allow people to gain power include greed and the need for control; these two characteristics tend to override all other characteristics as the pool of candidates increases because the level of competition and desperation increases. Near the center of power, the personal compromises that have to be made to be in such position become significant to the point of 'not being worth it' (for most reasonable people) so those who keep going must have a particularly strong thirst for power and control.

It's difficult to both maintain power and also to do good things; those who try to do good will often sacrifice some of their power to do it; the attempt to do good carries political risks which may be seized upon by one's political opponents who aren't inclined to take such risks.
Day 1 of Light Speed Up: When transparency matters more than perfection
by LightSpeedUp | 2025-11-04 22:36:54+00:00
Launched LightSpeedUp this morning (Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42059309)

12 hours later: first lesson.

Had scheduled ZFS storage maintenance - expected 30-45 minutes, took ~2 hours. Everything's back online, but here's why I'm posting about it:

Most hosting companies hide behind vague "planned maintenance" notices. I'm building in public, which means showing the bumps - not just the wins.

Technical details: - ZFS RAID-Z2 pool optimization on 8x 1.2TB enterprise SSDs - RAID-Z2 operations take 3-4x longer than documentation suggests - Next time: budget way more time

Lesson learned: When building in public, transparency matters more than perfection.

Live monitoring (always): https://lightspeedup.com/health.php

Original Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42059309

Questions: Have you had maintenance take 3-4x longer than expected? How do you handle Day 1 issues?
by purrcat259 | 2025-11-04 22:36:58+00:00
A bit OT but I live on a very land constrained island with the highest population density in Europe (see Malta).

There has been major increase in demand for housing and supply cannot be built fast enough to match. Its turned most of the island into a construction site so rampant that I made an online tracker for urban planning permits so folks can get ahead on knowing whats going on around them.

Idk if you have any wisdom but there's no creative solutionising happening, just the rich able to buy whatever property they want causing prices to rise which is pricing out the middle class, causing a whole lot of grief and downstream issues (such as plummeting fertility rate because homes are too expensive).

Is there a magic toggle we missed to unlock this creativity or am I being realistic by being skeptical that limiting important resources just leads to harsher inequality?
by teamonkey | 2025-11-04 22:38:22+00:00
If a person in 1900 wrote a novel about landing on the moon, they would be a sci-fi author.

If they discussed what a future moon landing might be like or how it could work, they would be a futurist.

If they were raising funds for a moon landing that they are currently working on, and success is surely imminent, despite not having any evidence that they can achieve it, or that they have beaten the technical hurdles necessary to do so, then they would be seen as a fraud.

It doesn’t really matter that at some point in the future the moon landings happened.
by janalsncm | 2025-11-04 22:38:43+00:00
Do you dispute the homicide rate I mentioned? To be more specific, homicide rates are 60x higher in NYC.

To put it another way, it would take two months of living there to match a single day’s risk of being murdered in NYC.

Of course this does not mean fewer rights leads to more safety. Under a bad government, you get nothing in return for your rights. But we should be explicit that there is a tradeoff to be made.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-04 22:39:36+00:00
I would encourage someone who wants to dig deeper to FOIA accordingly using https://www.muckrock.com/ ; think of it as being part investigator, part archeologist, part systems analyst.

Resources:

https://www.thetrace.org/2020/01/police-data-documentation-p...

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/jul/12/five-easy...
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-11-04 22:39:54+00:00
What definition of "sufficiently transformative" doesn't include "a book about wizards" by some process being used to make "a machine that spits out text"? A magazine publisher has a more legitimate claim against the person making a ransom letter: at least the fonts are copied verbatim.

There are legitimate arguments to be made about whether or not AI training should be allowed, but it should take the form of new legislation, not wild reinterpretations of copyright law. Copyright law is already overreaching, just imagine how goddawful companies could be if they're given more power to screw you for ever having interacted with their "creative works".
by whatsupdog | 2025-11-04 22:40:03+00:00
The difference is that breathalyzers need to be regularly calibrated, otherwise they give wrong readings. There's no calibration needed for these systems once setup. And if they are wrong, the police will catch the wrong guy and end up leaving him once confirming his ID. I'm not that is not a problem, but it's not something that can be challenged in a court.
by numpad0 | 2025-11-04 22:40:11+00:00
First part hell no second part hell yeah. I wouldn't want to deal with current equivalent of Android 2.3 or 4.0.4 or eMMC failures or 5 minute bootup delay from battery insertion to first shutters with high end $1.5k cameras.

What's needed is USB-C host on iPhone. Then USB MTP or MSC to extract and upload. Which, is arguably already there. I think what's really missing is iOS/Android side willingness to ingest offline files.
Show HN: Spotify Auto Skipper – automatically skips songs you've heard recently
by VatroslavM | 2025-11-04 22:40:21+00:00
I built a small Windows app that automatically skips songs you’ve recently listened to on Spotify, using your Last.fm scrobbles as memory.

It runs quietly in the system tray and checks your current Spotify track every few minutes. If the song was played within the last n days (default 60), it sends a “skip” command via Spotify API.

It’s open-source (MIT licensed) and configurable through a simple config.ini file. You can adjust how many days back to check, how often it polls, and set your Spotify and Last.fm API keys.

Repo: https://github.com/Vatroslav/spotify-auto-skipper

Would love feedback — especially from anyone who uses Spotify and Last.fm heavily or wants to automate their listening habits.
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-04 22:40:27+00:00
This is wild to me. For the vast majority of businesses, AI is not the primary product. The message from the CEO should be: "we are welcome to, and will support you in developing AI solution if they can be proven to provide value to the key metrics and missions of the company". I wouldn't honestly expect most CEOs to be in the position to make the risk/reward evaluation, so I'd be pushing this down on people who knew more about it and who were willing to risk their careers on it. The CEOs should be protecting the quality of their brands and products.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-04 22:40:39+00:00
I recall seeing the catalog around. My (hippie) mom must have had a copy.

I was only a kid growing up in the 70's but it definitely brings back memories of that time of optimism. There was a lot of experimentation and a willingness to try new ideas in all aspects of society. Besides the experimental education that I recall brushes with, you had Buckminster Fuller and his dome-home ideas, the U.S. space program…

To be sure things weren't all Pet Rocks and Lava lamps but there sure did seem to be a lot more joy and fun in the world then.

What I do these days for "comfort time" is to pull down things like these (and old magazines) in PDF form and browse them off-line.

You can use whatever viewer you like of course, but I ended up building a crude but dedicated device (based around Raspberry Pi and a small Python app) that is just for PDF-magazine browsing. Bookmarking, a progress indicator per title so you know which magazines you've read, which one you are still working through.

I have easily a terra-byte of magazines to still work through. As I implied though, I go back to it when I just want to decompress and shut out the present-day for a while.

(I'm pulling all these Whole Earth Catalogs down now.)
by robotresearcher | 2025-11-04 22:40:42+00:00
It's still a problem conceptually, but in practice now that it's end to end ML, plug'n'pray, I guess it's an empirical question. Which gives one the willies a bit.

It'll always be a challenge to get ground truth training data from the real world, since you can't know for sure what was really out there causing the disagreeing sensor readings. Synthetic data addresses this, but requires good error models for both modalities.

On the latter, an interesting approach that has been explored a little is to SOAK your synthetic sensor training data in noise so that the details you get wrong in your sensor model are washed out by the grunge you impose, and only the deep regularities shine through. Avoids overfitting to the sim. This is Jakobi's 'Radical Envelope of Noise Hypothesis' [1], a lovely idea since it means you might be able to write a cheap and cheerful sim that does better than a 'good' one. Always enjoyed that.

[1] https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/cogslib/reports/csrp/cs...
by heyjamesknight | 2025-11-04 22:41:07+00:00
Multimodal models aren't really multimodal. The images are mapped to words and then the words are expanded upon by a single mode LLM.

If you didn't know the word "duck", you could still see the duck, hunt the duck, use the ducks feather's for your bedding and eat the duck's meat. You would know it could fly and swim without having to know what either of those actions were called.

The LLM "sees" a thing, identifies it as a "duck", and then depends on a single modal LLM to tell it anything about ducks.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-04 22:41:17+00:00
Have a simpler metaphor:

Rich retries with a million dollars and sits on it for 20 years before death. Assuming a very low 3% interest rate, this money makes 800k.

Rich Jr. gets the the 1.8m at age 40. He works 25 years @ a modest 80,000 a year salary as a plumber and doesn't touch the inheritance. Same compound interest. His labor earns him 2 million dollars. His inheritance in that time also earns 2 million dollars.

So Rich Sr's money just sitting at a really low interest rate worked as hard as Jr's 25 years of labor participation. You can argue that Jr could have instead not worked and diversified his portfolio to make more money.

Now let's say Jr dies at 70. Rich 3rd will have 5 million to work with at age 30, and he realizes there's no point in working, even if he could make double the salary as a tech worke. So he day trades and enjoys the fruits of his father and grand-father's labor.

This is 2 generations, and not even the level of money that people really care about throwing heavy taxes on.

>the alternative situation where nobody died and everyone just kept their money.

Why are we thinking about a situation that can't happen? But sure.

Let's say Rich Sr keeps living with his 2M dollars. Jr keeps working and earns 2M in 25 years again, While Sr. "Earns" 2m in interest. The wealth disparity didn't change in this situation if Sr. Just let the money sit longe, but Jr now had to provide his labor just to keep up. He had no options.

Meanwhile, Sr. with his newfound doubled lifespan and no job can be able to do a myriad of things to build more wealth. Start a business, diversify his portfolio instead of letting everything lie in a savings account, buy a beach house that would also accumulate on value, etc. He does anything more than the bare minimum and he's outpacing his son.

Now realistically Sr wont do this as he's focused on taking care of Jr. For after he dies. But Jr can do all of this and he'll be compared to his peers, not his father.
by 1dom | 2025-11-04 22:42:12+00:00
Not agreeing/disagreeing with your core point, but this doesn't seem right:

> running and managing numerous DBs, k8s clusters, ci/cd pipelines and stateless container systems is simply impossible with a team of 1-2 people.

That's a medium to large homelab worth of stuff, which means it can be run by a single nerd in their spare time.
by scrumper | 2025-11-04 22:42:42+00:00
One of my former clients was a top 10 automaker. I had a digital consultancy so was very close to their ICE division. They were obsessed with owning the screen, mostly so they could charge subscriptions for it. We were doing all sorts of wild pilots, like AI-powered language tutors for people stuck in their commutes. I was happy to take their money, but of course if any sane person wanted an AI powered language tutor they'd just install an app on their phone and use the bluetooth to talk to it.

OEM margins aren't great and their C suites are desperate to unlock any new revenue streams they can. This is inevitable, and it's a shame the nice thing we had is going away. The baller move would be for Apple to go buy an OEM and roll out a vehicle, but that seems to have stalled. It doesn't have to be self driving!
by verdverm | 2025-11-04 22:42:48+00:00
sure sure, but I've been at an acquisition and we have seen countless more in the wild, the founders lose control over time and the parent company will do what they like, acquisition is a big red flag for me when considering adoption of a project

you can say whatever you want, but we have history to help guide us, and it has not been kind to the acquisitioned company's current user base

you're still in the honeymoon phase, check back with us in a year or two
by vibenex | 2025-11-04 22:42:51+00:00
:D, nobody's escaping the counter without paying.

Interesting thing is we're asking the same question, only I'm exploring if value can exist without money while you're arguing that without money there's no value.

> "You only removed the appearance of an exchange of value."

We're discovering where the value is. And are we conditioned to think that money is the only signal of value?
by joshuamorton | 2025-11-04 22:42:58+00:00
Amusingly, my first intro to the Whole Earth Catalog was the cocktail menu at Trick dog in 2019[0], which is very clearly a reference to the Fall 1970 issue.

[0]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/file/484/6/4846-Whole%20Dog%20Ca...
by WheatMillington | 2025-11-04 22:42:58+00:00
Hot water from the house supply isn't that hot though? My dishwasher gets MUCH hotter than the hot water supply... and I don't think the heater is "tiny" I think it's a rather substantial element. The dishwasher also doesn't need to heat up a "bulk" amount of water, just the amount of water used for washing the current load of dishes.