MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-11-04 19:52:52+00:00
I do think notebooks are very flawed right now even if the concept is sound. Right now they are essentially an IDE without the ability to produce publishable output (you are literally expected to ship the project in the form the IDE works with) and they are not a very good IDE at that.

They need reliable dedicated published output fit for general public consumption. This means a static (no backend host required) sharable .html file where end users can view all the data and run the code samples that doesn't try to present as an IDE. I actually wrote https://rubberduckmaths.com/eulers_theorem in Jupyter but had to manually copy and paste to a new well formatted static html file and re-paste the code blocks into Pyodide enabled text areas within that html since the export functionality is a mess. The result of the manual work means i now have an easily sharable and easily hosted static html file with working Python code samples as it should be but... Why don't Notebooks have a published form like this already? It seems pretty obvious that Notebooks are your IDE, they shouldn't be the output you present. We're literally asking users today 'to view this notebook install Jupyter/Marimo/whatever and open from there' when the Notebook is designed to create the publication rather than a place to view it. In general the output i demonstrate above should be the minimum bar that Notebook 'export' features should hit. Export as a static .html file with working code. As someone who manually 'compiles' notebooks it's not hard to do yet Notebooks simply don't have an actual working html export right now (i know there's technically a 'html' export option in Jupyter but it will strip out your code and create a terribly poorly formatted document as output).

The IDE aspects themselves, at least for Jupyter (the one I've tried out the most), are a bit too simple too. Yes it's nice to have alternating 'text' blocks followed by 'code' blocks but that's really all they are right not. I want something more complex. I want the code blocks shown to actually be windows to a full python project. Users should be able to change the code shown and view the larger, well structured Python code. Right now it's text, followed by simple code. Not much more honestly. As it is right now i feel Notebooks only work for really simple projects.

If you have a complex Python project i agree the way to only share it is to share the Python project as is. Notebooks could be a wonderful explanatory wrapper to a larger project but right now they just aren't good at doing much more than the simple 'here's some data' followed by 'here's the code i used to process that data' and they don't even present that particularly well.
by ylhert | 2025-11-04 19:53:14+00:00
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by zahlman | 2025-11-04 19:53:16+00:00
Given that the market has moved so strongly away from dividends in favour of stock buybacks and other reinvestment (i.e. the successful companies are now much more often "growth" companies rather than "value" companies), and given e.g. Buffett's wisdom about total return, I don't know that traditional rules of thumb about P/E make sense any more.
by paulsutter | 2025-11-04 19:54:29+00:00
How much are you ready to bet against Elon's plans to scale up Starlink v3 for GPUs? Starlink v3 already has a 60M length solar array, so they're already solving dissipation for that size. Assume linear scaling to many thousands of modules.

From https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1984249048107508061:

"Simply scaling up Starlink V3 satellites, which have high speed laser links would work. SpaceX will be doing this."

From https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1984868748378157312:

"Starship could deliver 100GW/year to high Earth orbit within 4 to 5 years if we can solve the other parts of the equation. 100TW/year is possible from a lunar base producing solar-powered AI satellites locally and accelerating them to escape velocity with a mass driver."
by zz3 | 2025-11-04 19:54:46+00:00
Thanks! I'm on the biology side of things, so I tend to avoid going into gender because I don't understand it as well, but the biology seems clear enough. The gender side also makes sense to me broadly, since we have complex and varied cultures, and having a term to talk about different societies also seems helpful. There are multiple languages and cultures with explicit terms for intersex, for example.

I'm not super clear on why gamete size has become a popular argument for a so-called binary model, since intersex still exists and there are individuals with both gametes. Not to mention, for sports, gamete size seems much less relevant than hormones and natural variation within each sex/gender, and that seems to be the favorite example. Do you have any insights as to why gametes have become a popular argument?
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-04 19:55:00+00:00
The Pirate Bay is also backed by extensive research, implementation, and data preparation. I'm not dismissising [sic] anything as "a bunch of multiplications" – you'll note I talked about embedding in vector spaces, not matrix multiplication. (I do, in fact, know what I'm talking about: if you want to dismiss [sic] my criticism, please actually engage with it like the other commenters have.)
by satiated_grue | 2025-11-04 19:55:04+00:00
There were a series of graphics adapters that started with the IBM PC:

MDA = Monochrome Display Adapter (text only) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Monochrome_Display_Adapter

CGA = Color Graphics Adapter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

EGA = Enhanced Graphics Adapter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter

VGA = Video Graphics Array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array

With some others like the Hercules which was MDA upward-compatible and did graphics as well as text.

They didn't really do any graphics "processing"; just displaying memory-mapped pixels in various formats.

They were memory-mapped, and the MDA used a different memory block than the CGA/EGA/VGA, so you could have two separate monitors simultaneously, doing things lke running something like Turbo Debugger on the MDA text display.
by zahlman | 2025-11-04 19:55:45+00:00
I vouched for your post because the information is correct as far as I can discern. Perhaps others felt that you didn't warn strongly enough against engaging in such "full-on degenerate gambling"?

But the risk profile of options depends on more than date to expiration. Of course the strike prices matter, as well as the rest of your portfolio. The real "degenerate gamblers" are taking that leverage without compensating for it. But for example, holding something with 100x effective leverage can be balanced out by only putting 1% of your portfolio there and keeping the rest in cash. (This will generally be inefficient and there's a high chance you won't do as well as just holding the underlying.)
by echelon | 2025-11-04 19:55:52+00:00
Imagine the flip side. We could easily wind up in that world too.

The best defense against polarization is a strong and cohesive middle ground.

If you pull to far in the other way, all the bonds break. And it's a race for each interest group to seize power, rather than having some intermediating force that serves as a buffer.

Again: look at the political climate. It's a reaction. The pendulum is swinging harder and harder because we've given up on the middle ground.

Most of the people you hate (and you do seem to dislike them at least a little bit) have honestly never had an LGBT friend. Imagine if they did how that might change them.

Instead they hear voices from the LGBT community that want to outlaw them and their way of life. That's pretty hostile. And definitely is going to be met with the same attitude you're giving them.

I'm LGBT and I have many conservative friends. They're more apt to come around to it than you believe. You're shutting down any conversation before it can even happen.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-11-04 19:56:45+00:00
That was a better argument when lives were getting better.

Now that 'progress' is actively optimizing things in a way where large amounts of the public's lives are getting worse, you are going to have to give a better response. Because right now progress is synonymous with improved rent seeking, worse access to food (and food that is now noticeably optimized to be of poorer quality), worse access to housing, worse working conditions, and on, and on.
by Equiet | 2025-11-04 19:57:36+00:00
I'd argue the opposite.

There is plenty of AI extensions, but the experience matters. The depth of integration matters. When you execute queries against production warehouses and you make decisions based on the results of AI-generated code, accuracy matters. We had our first demo of an AI agent running in 2 days, it took us another 2 years to build the infrastructure to test it, monitor it, and integrate it into the existing data source.

You'd be surprised how many people collaborate together. Software engineering is solitary, collaboration happens in GitHub. But data analysis is collaborative. We frequently have 300+ people looking at the same notebook at the same time.

.py never worked for data exploration. You need to mix code, text, charts, interactive elements. And then you need to add metadata: comments, references to integrations, auth secrets. There are notebooks that are several pages long with 0 code. We are building a computational medium of the future and that goes beyond a plaintext file, no matter how much we love the simplicity of a plaintext file.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-11-04 19:57:49+00:00
> Perceived performance is one of these tradeoffs.

Perceived performance should never be a tradeoff, only the measured performance impact can be one.

My iPhone SE from 2020 has input delays of up to 2s after the update to iOS 26 and that's just really disappointing. I wouldn't mind if it'd be in the 0,3ms range, even though that would still be terrible from a measured performance POV.
by coldtea | 2025-11-04 19:58:13+00:00
>If you're trying to reach out to the Python community this is not the way to do it. Completely unnecessary hostile language there! Have some respect.

The note sounds as written by some manager/marketing guy that has 20 years to touch a line of code...

For sure it put my off even checking what their shit is (from initially interested upon seeing the HN post).
by kccqzy | 2025-11-04 19:58:19+00:00
The proprietary program has this blog post: https://www.cleverfiles.com/help/advanced-camera-recovery-in...

I think the key point is that cameras don't write the video files in one long contiguous block on disk. They internally split it up and write in an interleaved fashion. It even mentions low-level tricks like manipulating the FAT table so the moov atom which is written last appears at the beginning of the file.
by seethishat | 2025-11-04 20:00:14+00:00
Do you do anything besides post on HN ;)

Put everything in MicroSoft Active Directory. Wait until it gets hacked. You will lose DNS, DHCP, Email, file servers, web servers, endpoints, etc. Obviously, running a mono-culture is a dumb thing to do if you want to keep your business running.

Maybe instead, run BIND on Linux servers, Apache on OpenBSD servers, have some Chromebooks, some Macs, etc. so everything doesn't go down together.

Really, it's not overblown... it's just common sense to diversify. Like we do with our diet/nutrition, with our financial investments, etc.
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-04 20:00:22+00:00
Time functions are a prefect example of somewhere there should be expanded support for in the STD. I'm also of the opinion that there should be a generic and reasonable async runtime in STD, since having `async` in the language, but to direct way to use it without a crate or writing your own executor is awkward.

Then there are things like serialization and logging, which I like the idea of having promoted crates which are essentially just better advertised for newcomers. (Maybe included in the distribution already in some way).
by cloudfudge | 2025-11-04 20:01:39+00:00
I think what you're looking at is: "Here's an example of installing this on ubuntu 24.04. These instructions will also work on 22.04." This is in no way saying they can only get it to work on ubuntu; they just haven't written a step-by-step example like this for other distributions.

And yeah, trying to use podman with something that's based on docker compose is ... probably gonna give you some headaches, I'd guess. I don't particularly know the pitfalls but if you're expecting it to be transparently swappable, I don't think that's an owncloud issue.
by aj_hackman | 2025-11-04 20:01:39+00:00
> Let’s build carbon-titanium-foldable bicycles instead of bloated modern cars, and still get from A to B?

Yeah, that sounds awesome.

Nobody _needs_ to run a 4-minute mile, or win a chess tournament, or climb a mountain, or make the most efficient computer program. They're still worthwhile human endeavors.
by marcellodb | 2025-11-04 20:02:14+00:00
Unfortunately we don't officially support image, video or audio yet - only tabular data for now. We do plan to add that capability at some point in the coming weeks depending on popular demand. Do you have any particular use case in mind?

Caveat: as a more technical user, you can currently "hack" around this limitation by storing your images as byte arrays in a parquet file, in which case the platform can ingest your data and train a CV model for you. We haven't tested the performance extensively though, so your mileage may vary here.
by jdright | 2025-11-04 20:02:47+00:00
The group that insists on keeping a community or software project 'non-political' often fails to recognize that this stance is itself a political position. They claim to want a neutral space, but what they really mean is that the existing political view does not align with their own. By dismissing other perspectives as 'political' while treating their own as neutral, they end up being both hypocritical and unwilling (or unable) to acknowledge that their opinions are political too.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-04 20:03:25+00:00
> Do you think they're overpriced?

Options are always overpriced. They're fundamentally an insurance product. You should expect to lose money when buying insurance. If you're hedging, you should expect to lose on your options leg. Same as with any insurance product.

Options are governed by tight mathematical relationships between each other and with their underlyings. These can be atomically arbitraged, i.e. you don't need someone else to believe your thesis to make money. As a retail investor, you are on the other side of a system designed to efficiently price and reprice options to ensure the dealer doesn't lose money.

> I'm told that covered-call ETFs generally underperform (in addition to being inefficient)

I haven't looked into covered-call ETFs, but my prior is strategy ETFs are bullshit even when the underlying strategy may not be.

> "generating income" is best accomplished by just selling shares as needed

Yes. (Or borrowing against them.)
by mr_toad | 2025-11-04 20:05:02+00:00
> I think the bigger thing was that the Internet just wasn't that big a deal at the time.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but it seems like nothing was such a big deal at the time.

Everything seems to have gotten more uptight in the last few decades. I used to have a metal cutlery set that an international airline gave to every passenger on the plane.
by Vespasian | 2025-11-04 20:06:06+00:00
One of the best present day examples are Saudi Arab mega projects.

They tend to be crazy ideas with fundamental flaws and either don't happen are are silently reshaped to be feasible.

The "clever" interpretation would be that this is primarily done to fleece the states treasury, and I'm certain that still happens, but I firmly believe that the driving force is one ultra rich ultra powerful naive person without any negative feedback from his inner circle.

If they draw something on a piece of paper, believing themselves to be very visionary and order that thing to be built people will just start doing so without a word of warning. Speak up and you might find yourself short of a few limbs.
by rasz | 2025-11-04 20:06:10+00:00
Its the other way around, they throw hackers under the bus. Aaron Swartz, Star Simpson arrested for stupid LED brooch, the list is quite long https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411868

MIT faulted over its support for students https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/02/14/mit/9VBBq9pBQ1z... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411312
by gruez | 2025-11-04 20:06:44+00:00
>"Eggs"? "Eggs" are the same as "apartment or GPU"? You display all of the comprehension abilities of an LLM... or the mainstream economist "teaching" it.

How did you miss the part about "anything else supply constrained", which was between "eggs" and "apartments"? Or are too lazy to search up "egg shortage"? Maybe you should check your own reading comprehension before accusing others of poor reading comprehension.

>Semiconductor capex are huge compared to, eh, "eggs", and they must be payed off as part of pricing.

Yet the aggregate demand of all americans drive the price of eggs, apartments, or GPUs. Either something drives inflation, or it doesn't. Otherwise you're just critiquing Micron's size rather than what their behavior is.

>Artificial jump in demand, as from hoarding, makes the capex artificially high and the pricing inflationary.

>Also, hoarding semiconductors (private NPUs like TPUs, Trainiums, etc, stocking on hard to obtain GPUs) reduces competition and via renting, the respective services can extract the inflated capex plus high profits.

1. There's no alternate universe where absent "hoarding", everyone would be running LLMs on their own GPUs at home. The frontier models require multiple 128+GB GPUs to run, and most people only do a few minutes of inference a day. There's no way the economics of buying works out.

2. "AI GPUs sitting idle because it doesn’t have enough power to install them" doesn't imply "hoarding", any more than buying PC parts but not building them because the last part hasn't arrived yet isn't "hoarding". It could simply be that they expected that power be available, but due to supply chain issues they aren't. Moreover hoarding GPUs would be a terrible idea, because they're a rapidly depreciating asset. No cloud provider is trying to corner the market on CPUs by buying them up and renting it back to people, for instance, and CPU is a much easier market to corner because the rate of advancement (and thus rate of depreciation) is much lower.
by tim333 | 2025-11-04 20:07:26+00:00
>A LiDAR unit, for instance, used to cost 30,000 yuan (about $4,100), but now it costs only around 1,000 yuan (about $138) — a dramatic decrease, said Li. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/20/lidars-wicked-cost-drop...

at $138 I'm not sure there's much need to go cheaper.
by a2128 | 2025-11-04 20:07:57+00:00
The whole article felt very dishonest and frankly quite rude towards Jupyter. Self-declaring themselves to be the successor to a project that's still alive and that they seemingly have absolutely no legitimate claim to, and then going on to bash it by saying it's dying because job postings are decreasing and commits are decreasing, the latter point is especially dishonest considering Jupyter is already quite complete and fully featured so maybe it doesn't need constant daily commits?

Maybe they should focus less on bashing Jupyter and more of showing what's good about them, for example they stated multiple times that Jupyter is messy JSON but they never showed off their own format... Just some vague hand-wavy "perfect for AI!"
by marcellodb | 2025-11-04 20:08:04+00:00
Thanks for the great feedback! To your points:

1. Depending on your dataset the training could take from 45 mins to a few hours. We do need add an ETA on the build in the UI.

2. The input schema is inferred towards the end of the model building process, not right at the start. This is because the final schema depends on the decisions made regarding input features, model architecture etc during the building process. You should see the sample curl update soon, with actual input fields.

3. Great point about upfront rejecting builds for types of models we don't yet support. We'll be sure to add this soon!

We're in London at the moment, but we'd love to connect with you and/or meet in person next time we're in SF - drop us a note on LinkedIn or something :)
by rokiszb | 2025-11-04 20:08:27+00:00
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by ceejayoz | 2025-11-04 20:09:18+00:00
> How much are you ready to bet against Elon's plans to scale up Starlink v3 for GPUs?

I'm sure they'll be ready right after the androids and the robotaxi and the autonomous LA-NYC summoning.

> Starlink v3 already has a 60M length solar array, so they're already solving dissipation for that size.

Starlink v3 doesn't exist yet. They're renders at this point. Full-sized v2s haven't even flown yet, just mass simulators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Satellite_revisions
by ilamont | 2025-11-04 20:09:19+00:00
Sequoia also had to apologize to its investors for an embarrassing bet on FTX after the crypto exchange imploded

It wasn't just the embarrassing bet. It was the way it happened: a totally amateur-hour evaluation that sounded more like a bunch of kids deciding where to get take out as opposed to a serious discussion about where to park their LPs' money.

Three months ago, one of the firm’s partners, Michelle Bailhe, offered a breathless take in a firm-sponsored story about SBF:

“Of the exchanges that we had met and looked at, some of them had regulatory issues, some of them were already public,” Bailhe wrote. “And then there was Sam.” FTX, Sequoia felt, was “Goldilocks-perfect.”

In colorful language, Sequoia partners reveled in their appreciation for his pitch for FTX.com as the center of all monetary transactions. In their own words:

“I LOVE THIS FOUNDER,” typed one partner.

“I am a 10 out of 10,” pinged another.

“YES!!!” exclaimed a third.

The firm has since deleted the article.

(https://www.thefp.com/p/the-32-billion-crypto-scammer)

Botha had been at Sequoia for years at this point, and had just been promoted to the top spot.
by jorvi | 2025-11-04 20:09:23+00:00
> They're all crap that will be run circles around by a GMC Savannah in every category except fuel economy.

Well, when gasoline is nearly $10 a gallon a good fuel economy kind of becomes the primary goal.

Its like complaining European and Japanese cars are bad at everything except being small.

Good luck finding parking in Paris or Tokyo with a Ford F150 or Dodge Ram.