MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ezrabrand | 2025-11-27 14:57:12+00:00
>"Isn’t it? Every page of the Talmud includes marginal notes (Masoret HaShas, Ein Mishpat, Torah Or) giving cross-references to relevant parts of the Torah, Talmud and other legal codes. In a web-based version I think it would be natural to represent those with hypertext."

True, and the website "Al Hatorah" indeed does that, for the marginal notes that you list. See, for example: https://shas.alhatorah.org/Gemara/Berakhot/2a

But my point is that those marginal notes are an artifact of the 16th century print edition. It's not anything inherent in the Talmud text.

The famous 16th-century Mikraot Gedolot edition of the Bible also features extensive marginal notes (the Mesorah) which function much like a dense network of cross-references.

In fact, the Mesorah is a medieval work (drawing on ancient sources) and is arguably was one of the most elaborate systems of cross-referencing found anywhere, at the time it was promulgated.

This differs from the Talmud’s cross-referencing, which doesn't predate the printed edition (as I note in the Seforim Blog article; the page citations are reliant on the universal page numbers that started from the first print edition).
by DiabloD3 | 2025-11-27 14:57:25+00:00
Dietary cholesterol amount is not indicative of risk, unfortunately. I don't know why people keep repeating this. The body produces almost a gram of cholesterol a day, dietary cholesterol is around a quarter of that (depending on the person); if you try interfering with cholesterol production and somehow halt it, you will die.

_Quality_ of dietary cholesterol is indicative of risk, but only a relatively small one, as the things that lead to damaged dietary lipoproteins also damages the endogenous ones as well (ie, ultra-processed foods, the chemicals in them try to ultra-process you too).

Eating less cholesterol doesn't magically make your food good for you, and the average public shouldn't be continually told this.
by AlexandrB | 2025-11-27 14:57:38+00:00
> It's really hard to argue that LLM's don't have intelligence in the way the earthworms do.

It's really easy to argue, actually. LLMs have intelligence the way humans online do. An earthworm is highly specialized for what it does and exists in a completely different context - I doubt an LLM would be successful guiding a robotic earthworm around since all it knows about earthworms is what researchers have observed and documented. The actual second-to-second experience of being an earthworm is not accessible as training data to an LLM.

Edit:

This is true almost by definition. An LLM (Large Language Model) can't have intelligence that's not expressible in language and earthworms are notoriously shy in interviews.
by twoodfin | 2025-11-27 14:57:39+00:00
As opposed to waiting for uncertain court cases (based on the existing shitty laws) to play out for years, ultimately decided by unelected judges?

Democracy is the worst system we’ve tried, except for all the others.

(Also: The GPL can only be enforced because of laws passed by Congress in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s. And believe you me, people said all the same kinds of things about those clowns in Congress. Plus ça change…)
by claytongulick | 2025-11-27 14:57:49+00:00
At a brief scan of the code, is there a bug with the way task rows are selected and rolled back?

It looks like multiple task rows are being retrieved via a delete...returning statement, and for each row an email being sent. If there's an error, the delete statement is rolled back.

Let's hypothesize that a batch of ten tasks are retrieved, and the 9th has a bad email address, so the batch gets rolled back on error. Next retry the welcome email would be sent again for the ones that succeeded, right?

Even marking the task as "processed" with the tx in the task code wouldn't work, because that update statement would also get rolled back.

Am I missing something? (entirely possible, the code is written in "clever" style that makes it harder for me to understand, especially the bit where $sql(usr_id) is passed into the sql template before it's been returned, is there CTE magic there that I don't understand?)

I thought that this was the reason that most systems like this only pull one row at a time from the queue with skip locked...

Thanks to anyone who can clarify this for me if it is indeed correct!
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-27 14:58:21+00:00
I don't fully understand how NFT losses are treated (i.e. do you get a capital loss?) but the issue is with timing. THe tax man is not going to wait until you possibly convert to their currency to collect taxes; the gains and losses get attributed to the year when the transaction occurred. The high volatility in the investment is what makes the crazy swings possible - but this risk really should be priced into the expected return. I wouldn't be surprised if NFT gains are treated more like lottery winnings (in many jurisidictions); it's taxed at payout against the current year situation, regardless of what you do with it.
by Karawebnetwork | 2025-11-27 14:58:23+00:00
I don't have an answer to that, I just want to highlight how blurred the line is between what the community tolerates and what it doesn't. There is a thread with a similar discussion, but somehow the one that comes from fiction didn't trigger the same reaction as this article, which deals with science: Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068015
by leo_e | 2025-11-27 14:58:31+00:00
I'm willing to pay the "performance tax" of the web stack/self-hosting if it means my design files aren't held hostage in a proprietary cloud silo.

Figma is fantastic software, but it has become a single point of failure for entire product orgs. If Penpot is "laggy" right now but gives me a docker-compose up guarantee that I own the pipeline, that's a trade-off I'll take.

Performance can be optimized eventually (it's code); closed-source licensing terms cannot be optimized by users (it's legal).
by codedokode | 2025-11-27 14:58:42+00:00
Bad analogy, probably made up by capitalists to confuse people. ML models cannot and do not learn. "learning" is a name of a process, when model developer downloads pirated material and processes it with an algorithm (computes parameters from it).

Also, humans do not need to read million of pirated books to learn to talk. And a human artist doesn't need to steal million pictures to learn to draw.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-27 14:58:45+00:00
> by the time it's settled

Why would the GPL settle? Even more, who is authorized to settle for every author who used the GPL? If the courts decided in favor of the GPL, which I think would be likely just because of the age and pervasiveness of the GPL, they'd actually have to lobby Congress to write an exception to copyright rules for AI.

A large part of the infrastructure of the world is built on the GPL, and the people who wrote it were clearly motivated by the protection that they thought that the GPL would give to what was often a charitable act, or even an act that would allow companies to share code without having to compete with themselves. I can't imagine too many judges just going "nope."
by scotty79 | 2025-11-27 14:58:47+00:00
If a crypto market fails with my money I'd like to be reimbursed. Like when the MtGox failed and Japan did a full bankruptcy process and reimbursed creditor to their best ability. I don't mind paying tax on my trades to Japan whatever it might be.

But paying a country I accidentally live in, just because I was lucky enough to get some gains that this country contributed nothing to, not even a legal framework, feels patently unfair.
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by eezZ | 2025-11-27 14:59:02+00:00
Building a free web toolbox for hardware engineers: harness cable diagram generator, connector pinout tools (M.2, JTAG...), microcontroller serial monitor, and various other small utilities.

Updated with a lot of various tools designed to easy life of ee engineers.

No sign-up required.

Designed from my own needs.

Feedback and feature suggestions are welcome :)
by nis0s | 2025-11-27 14:59:21+00:00
What kind of derangement are hiring managers laboring under when they give counterproductive and contradictory feedback like “your application was rejected because the take home looked like AI” and “if you don’t use AI at work, you’re fired”.

What the hell is this? Am I too autistic too understand this, or are people just utterly incomprehensible because they maintain a stack of interoperable, uncritical cognitive sludge that they pass off as thinking.
by gradschool | 2025-11-27 14:59:43+00:00
It happened to me too, and I was unable to verify myself by any acceptable means due to being based in a country other than that of my passport. Having been redirected somewhere else for the identity verification onboarding, I think the process is outsourced by Hetzner to a firm of security specialists apparently oblivious to edge cases. Nice work if you can get it.

There's some other specific character besides spaces that's also not permitted in passwords. It's a normal printable ascii character but I can't remember what it is any more, and sometimes it's not caught. Let's hope nobody signs up with it by mistake.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-27 15:00:08+00:00
An interesting counterpoint to how little we know, and/or how useless in practical terms our quantum level understanding of physics is, is chemistry.

Chemistry is adjacent to physics, at least classical physics and the standard model, so you might think that we should be able to use our knowledge of physics to determine things like atomic bond "angles" and the protein folding problem, yet even this smallish step up in abstraction from physics puts us in a realm where we know very little. DeepMind's AlphaFold, now able to correctly predict 90% of protein folding in agreement with experimental determination, is mostly based on learning from experimental data, as well as evolutionary consideration of proteins that co-evolved, etc.

It makes you wonder how useful the reductionist model really is in terms of understanding higher level dynamics. Maybe different levels of abstraction like physics, chemistry, etc, are really a lot more independent than is commonly thought.
by Y_Y | 2025-11-27 15:00:08+00:00
I remember that win. Seemed super fishy at the time, with bizarre features like:

- "the World's first ever, fully featured DVD playing sidebar"

- "allowing users to send e-mails without needing to log-in to an account"

- "an AI (Artificial Intelligence) animated speech character named Phoebe"

Maybe this guy really did make a super original web browser with every bell and whistle as an independent sixteen year old. I never saw a release, so the mystery remains.

https://www.irishscientist.ie/2003/contents_contentxml-03p14...
by tom_alexander | 2025-11-27 15:00:15+00:00
> Why does there seem to be much more market for NAS than for direct attached external HDD?

I can access my NAS from anywhere in the world, but you can only access your direct-attached drives when sitting at your desk.

I can hide my NAS in a closet, but your direct attach drives are wasting valuable desk space and causing noise in your workspace.

My NAS has a software raid (raidz2) so any two of my drives could die without losing a single bit of data. Technically this is possible with direct attached drives too, but usually people aren't attaching multiple external drives to their computer at the same time.

Multiple people/computers/phones can access my NAS simultaneously, but your direct attach drives are only usable by a single computer at a time.

I can use my NAS from any device/operating system without worrying about filesystem compatibility. With direct attach drives, you need to pick a filesystem that will be supported by the devices you want to plug in to it.

The downside is a NAS is running 24/7 which will consume more electricity than drives you only plug in on-demand, and file transfers will be slower over a network than directly plugged in to your computer, but 99% of the time the speed difference does not matter to me. (It really only impacts me when doing full-disk backup/restore since I'd be transferring hundreds of gigabytes.)
by DennisP | 2025-11-27 15:00:25+00:00
In the US, you can offset the gain, if the loss happens in the same year. If it happens later, then you're supposed to have paid the taxes in the year with the gain. The later loss can be used to offset gains after that.

It seems to be similar in New Zealand, where the article says that (like the US) there's tax due when you exchange one token for another without going out to fiat. A lot of investors didn't realize that and didn't pay their tax in that first year, and then didn't have the money later when the government came collecting.
by rutagandasalim | 2025-11-27 15:00:28+00:00
Every AI directory I found was either outdated, stuffed with affiliate links, or just bad UX.

I wanted something dead simple — searchable, tagged, and actually useful for developers.

So I made aithings.dev .

What’s inside:

hand-picked AI tools, all searchable by use-case

Tags for dev, design, marketing, etc.

Clean interface — no login, no spammy popups

I update it weekly, and I’m adding a “discover” tab soon for trending tools.

I’d love honest feedback — what features would make it genuinely valuable for you?

(also open to collabs/sponsor ideas if anyone’s into that kind of thing)
by alexrp | 2025-11-27 15:00:42+00:00
> obscure OS not being supported

Believe it or not, there are platforms outside of the big 3.

The GitHub Actions runner does not work on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and illumos, all of which are operating systems we either have existing support for, or intend to start supporting properly soon. (We already have FreeBSD CI; machines for the other 3 are arriving at my place tomorrow as it happens.)

And that's ignoring CPU architectures; the upstream GitHub Actions runner only supports x86 and aarch64. We had to maintain a fork that adds support for all the other architectures we care about such as riscv, loongarch, s390x, etc. We will also likely be adding mips64 and powerpc64 to the mix in the future.

Even IBM have to maintain an s390x fork because Microsoft can't even be bothered to accept PRs that add more platforms: https://github.com/uweigand/runner
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-11-27 15:01:02+00:00
Much if the value of art is that it links you to everyone else who views it, which is fundamentally diluted by any process that makes art faster than it can be observed. This stays true no matter how high the quality of the fast art making process climbs. Making a sculpture out of toothpicks on the other hand preserves this value by synthesizing the needed scarcity via proof of work, and would do so even if it added nothing aesthetically.
by null_deref | 2025-11-27 15:01:09+00:00
What do you mean by “has a therapist”? Do they just mention it in passing, or do they bring up takeaways from their sessions in everyday conversation? If it’s the latter, I’m not sure that’s really about mental-health openness. It feels more like a broader social habit, the need to present yourself as someone who’s constantly working on every aspect of your life. That’s a different modern-society quirk altogether.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-27 15:01:11+00:00
It is not a zero sum game.

I have always had a very idiosyncratic way of expressing myself, one that many people do not understand. Just as having a smartphone has changed my relationship to appointments - turning me into a prompt and reliable "cyborg" - LLMs have made it possible for me to communicate with a broader cross section of people.

I write what I have to say, I ask LLMs for editing and suggestions for improvement, and then I send that. So here is the challenge for you: did I follow that process this time?

I promise to tell the truth.
by losvedir | 2025-11-27 15:01:15+00:00
Personally, I'm skeptical that it's a real bug, and that even if it is, that's the proper fix. For all I know, the LLM hallucinated the whole thing, terminal prompts, output, "fix" and all.

It takes time to review these things, and when you haven't shown yourself to be acting responsibly, there's no reason to give you the benefit of the doubt and spend time even checking if the damn alleged bug is real. It doesn't even link to an existing issue, which I'm pretty sure would exist for something as basic as this.

How do you know it's an issue? I think you're letting the always confident LLM trick you into thinking it's doing something real and useful.
by kouru225 | 2025-11-27 15:01:26+00:00
How did this article get so many upvotes? Even among articles that pine for the good old days, this article is trash. Like 80% of it is just saying “remember that movie? And the things we thought were meaningful back then?”

The idea that modern movies don’t take risks is absurd. Have you seen Poor Things? Have you seen Zone of Interest? Mickey17? OBAA? There are more movies taking more risks in this era of film than there has ever been before. You’re just not watching them.

The real story here is the way lighting has changed and how it makes you feel when you watch the movie.
by sunrunner | 2025-11-27 15:01:35+00:00
> What was your goal?

I think the thread has been a bit derailed in terms of my intention, which was more to point out that I don't feel like the qualities that are mentioned in the original article (mentorship, guidance figures, schoolwork, relationships, future planning) are really represented well by a clickbait website with articles mostly split between 'Top N things you really need to do for X' and things that would be useful to anyone.

I'd even say the 'Get Style', 'Get Strong', 'Get Social' and 'Get Skilled' categories always appear to wander towards (while never approaching) Andrew Tate territory, in terms of their goals.

> Currently the problem is that we indirectly say to men that being strong is for women and not for men. We say to women "be more manly" and to men "be more womanly", which just perpetuates old cliches, but in reverse.

This I agree with, but I don't feel that website is a good example of a role model for the qualities that the original article mentioned were missing.
by SirHumphrey | 2025-11-27 15:01:36+00:00
Why are you submitting a PR if you do not use the software? You could just as easily donate the money that you spent producing 13k LOC to the project and they would spend it to use Claud on things that need to be fixed or just pay themselves to fix things manually.

This way there were hours, kwh, and dollars wasted on something that will be of no use to anyone.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-11-27 15:01:57+00:00
"One of the main problems is that if people expect prices to keep going down, they'll delay purchases and save more, because they expect that they'll be able to get the stuff for less later."

That is why we are all waiting to buy our first personal computers and our first cell phones.

Economists have managed to be ludicrous for a very long time and yet we still trust them.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-27 15:02:20+00:00
> My only complaint about the motherboards has been that buying them from one of the Chinese e-tail sites like AliExpress is considered problematic by some.

I love some AliExpress deals for some of my hobby purchases, but a NAS motherboard is not one of them.

The contrast between the fashionable case, boutique Noctua fans, and then an AliExpress motherboard doesn’t inspire confidence in the priorities for this build. When it comes to a NAS I prioritize the core components from well known manufacturers and vendors. With everything from hobby gear to test equipment AliExpress has been a gamble on wherever you’re getting the real deal or a ghost shift knockoff or QA reject for me. It’s the last place I’d be shopping for core NAS components.
by mixedbit | 2025-11-27 15:02:26+00:00
Before LLMs programmers had pretty good intuition what GPL license allowed for. It is of course clear that you cannot release a closed source program with GPL code integrated into it. I think it was also quite clear, that you cannot legally incorporate GPL code into such a program, by making changes here and there, renaming some stuff, and moving things around, but this is pretty much what LLMs are doing. When humans do it intentionally, it is violation of the license, when it is automated and done on a huge scale, is it really fair use?
by mikepurvis | 2025-11-27 15:02:39+00:00
Yeah I'm a bit confused on that. In the picture, each row is definitely taller than the power strip, plus 1U is 44.45mm in height, whereas the current-gen Mac Mini is 50mm high.

I'm pretty sure the drawers are 2U, but given that I don't know how they would get 96 nodes in a standard 42U rack.
by atherton94027 | 2025-11-27 15:02:49+00:00
A quick search for "linux local privilege escalation" in the CVE database (https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/SearchResults?query=linux+loca...) shows 25 results just for this year, so clearly these are very common.

So basically we have two issues here:

1. either focus on security even though these changes don't really improve the threat model

2. or allow disabled users and anyone who uses accessibility features to use GUIs
by qwertox | 2025-11-27 15:03:24+00:00
Usually if the loss happens in the same year, you can use them to lower your tax on gains. In your NFT example you'd first owe 7.5k (assuming 25% taxation), and with the 30k loss you'll be able to balance what you owe. The problem starts if you sell the NFTs in the next year, because then you can't use those losses to balance the already made gains, but only use it for future gains.
by api | 2025-11-27 15:04:36+00:00
There’s a fun version of this in futurist space travel speculation.

Let’s say you have the a fusion rocket and can hit 5% the speed of light. You want to migrate to the stars for some reason.

So do you build a generational ship now, which is possible, or… do you wait?

Because if you build it now someone with a much better drive may just fly right past you at 20% the speed of light.

In this one the answer is to plot it out under the assumption there is no totally undiscovered major physics that would allow, say, FTL, and plot the curves for advancement against that.

So can we do this with software? We have the progress of hardware, which is somewhat deterministic, and we know something about the progress of software from stats we can make via GitHub.

The software equivalent of someone discovering some “fantasy” physics and building a warp drive would be runaway self-improving AGI/ASI. I’d argue this is impossible for information theoretical reasons, but what if I’m wrong?
by ethanblackburn | 2025-11-27 15:04:51+00:00
Fair points — this isn’t a preventative control and it doesn’t “lock down” your CI. If an attacker has your NPM token, you’ve already been pwned.

The goal is to stop the spread. This will quickly unpublish a library and alert you, so no one else is downloading the compomised package, like what happened with posthog.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-27 15:05:39+00:00
I think the GPL mainly suffers with startups because it makes monetization pretty difficult. Some "commercial" uses of it are also giving it somewhat of an undeserved bad taste (when companies use it to benefit from free contributions while preventing competitors from getting any use out of it).

My view is that every project and library where I can peruse the source is a gift/privilege. GPL restrictions I view as a small price to "pay it forward", and to keep that privilege for all wherever possible.
by gary_0 | 2025-11-27 15:07:12+00:00
I generously assume they simply considered a mechanism to grant permissions to be out of scope of the original spec, a merely horrific error and disastrous design flaw. If they were instead completely ignorant to the existence of screen recording, password managers, screen readers, and so on... inconceivable idiocy. Either way, as long as something like Wayland can happen, Windows has nothing to fear from Linux.