MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by workworkwork71 | 2025-11-14 02:34:54+00:00
Hey, good question! We deliver holistic wealth management as a single integrated experience.

Most retail platforms are vertically segmented, separate tools & products for investing, budgeting, savings, etc.

Users have to figure out which product to use and when. Or worse, they get cross-sold products they dont need. If you sign up for betterment or wealthfront right now you're left guessing where to start and whats appropriate. We step in where a family office or high networth adviser would, with a fiduciary duty to put your needs first as a SEC Registered Investment Adviser.

Our implementation: We analyze your complete financial picture (via Plaid/Oauth integration), then via reasoning models and deterministic logic surface the right feature at the right time based on what's actually blocking your wealth growth. If debt is your biggest issue, we guide you there first, not because you selected "debt management" but because that's you need.

Investment recommendations, budgeting features, debt paydown strategies, they all work together as one cohesive plan, not separate products you have to stitch together yourself.
by CrackerNews | 2025-11-14 02:37:01+00:00
You cannot be serious if you expect people to mind read through your typos and make sense of them. Is this supposed to be a performative art piece to demonstrate your point? If you actually care about expressing your point to another person, then you should show some attention over how you present your responses so the other person can understand it.

Is "task demand" what the LLM would expect to do in order to respond to the user prompt? It seems incredulous that semantics would only exist here. As I have mentioned before, semantics is already embedded in the input and output for the LLM to implicitly discover and model and reason with.

https://arxiv.org/html/2507.05448v1 This paper is an interesting overview of semantics in LLMs. Here's an interesting quote, "Whether these LLMs exhibit semantic capabilities, is explored through the classical semantic theory which goes back to Frege and Russell. We show that the answer depends on how meaning is defined by Frege and Russell (and which interpretation one follows). If meaning is solely based on reference, that is, some referential capability, LLM-generated representations are meaningless, because the text-based LLMs representation do not directly refer to the world unless the reference is somehow indirectly induced. Also the notion of reference hinges on the notion of truth; ultimately it is the truth that determines the reference. If meaning however is associated with another kind of meaning such as Frege’s sense in addition to reference, it can be argued that LLM representations can carry that kind of semantics."

As for reference-based meaning reliant on truth, this was mentioned earlier in the paper, "An alternative to addressing the limitations of existing text-based models is the development of multimodal models, i.e., DL models that integrate various modalities such as text, vision, and potentially other modalities via sensory data. Large multimodal models (LMMs) could then ground their linguistic and semantic representations in non-textual representations like corresponding images or sensor data, akin to what has been termed sensorimotor grounding (Harnad, 1990). Note however, that such models would still not have direct access to the world but a mediated access: an access that is fundamentally task- driven and representational moreover. Also, as we will argue, the issue is rather that we need to ground sentences, rather than specific representations, because it is sentences that may refer to truth. But attaining the truth is not an easy task; ultimately, future LMMs will face the same difficulties as we do in determining truth."

In other words, this is the approach Fei-Fei Li and other multimodal models are using to create the world model.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-11-14 02:40:34+00:00
If I was going to take on Microsoft I would say a lot of things that were not “I’m going to take on Microsoft,” best not to wake the sleeping giant. You can fix a lot of orgs by attacking them. Also I think Valve is set up as a bit of an anti-Microsoft, a flat(ish?) org structure as opposed to the matrix org structure. Having worked at MSFT I was definitely thinking that these people are going to fumble and a getting into position ready to pick up the ball when that happens might be a good strategy - though clearly a long term one.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-14 02:40:51+00:00
LLC were designed precisely to avoid that responsibility.

The idea being probably that not risking your entire personal wealth just to lead company would lead to more entrepreneurship, but it clearly ended up with small businesses (without legal or clear reason to make it LLC) not doing that cos of bureucracy, and everyone above abusing that construct wherever they can.

CEOs ballooning compensation would even be understandable in conditions where their biggest fuck up could get their private stuff seized but...
by array_key_first | 2025-11-14 02:40:56+00:00
If you have metabolic syndrome (heart disease, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, liver disease etc) then yes, you will take many different drugs. Because these are all complex conditions that must be managed, and that will lower your quality of life and raise your mortality.

It sometimes seems like if you get one, you get the others. That's because all these diseases feed into each other.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-14 02:41:38+00:00
This is bad news as full grown ticks aren’t involved, but this is evolution after all, the function is to end CAFO related greenhouse gas in meat production but the genetic mechanism was tick human coevo through infectious pathogen. Time to prepare to say byes to red meat. Not a bad thing.

>>>Platts-Mills realized that many “chigger bites” in the Eastern United States are actually bites from Lone Star tick larvae.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-14 02:44:30+00:00
There are some caveats to it

> The legacy SCP protocol (selected by the -O flag) requires execution of the remote user's shell to perform glob(3) pattern matching. This requires careful quoting of any characters that have special meaning to the remote shell, such as quote characters.

so I guess it is defending about theoretical problem where you use sftp-compatible quoting that silently breaks if you use same commands against scp script, still would be nice to have global config for scp fallback.
by paidx | 2025-11-14 02:45:13+00:00
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by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-14 02:45:43+00:00
Yeah that sounds about right. I can't think of many situations where privatizing safety critical operations hasn't ended in disaster. Safety at that point ceases to be a priority and just another number on the sheet to crunch. If the lawsuit is cheaper than the savings from cutting corners, that's the move to make.

>The biggest disaster of privatisation was the loss of more than a century of engineering and management culture and knowledge.

Yeah, this is often the biggest loss of mass layoffs in the name of short term profits. Esepcially since the situations also tend to cut training programs. You're slashing a pipe for some quick water at the cost of draining the rest of your plumbing system. while firing the plumbers in the process.

I wish we could switch back to incentivizing long term portfolios and planning. It's reckless at this point.
by computerdork | 2025-11-14 02:45:46+00:00
Super interesting. Didn't know this.

One question for you since your worked at SpaceX. Starship v4 is supposed to be able to bring 200 metric tons to LEO vs 35 metric tons for v2. Do you have any guesses on the finally amount that New Glenn will be able to bring up when it reaches its version/block 4?
by VEBee | 2025-11-14 02:46:25+00:00
As a longtime member of hackclub, I can confirm that while OP may have been banned, most of her points are completely valid and I can find most of the original sources for them. Point-by-point:

> - We take vulns seriously—especially the serious ones! It was fixed immediately by a senior engineer upon report (within a day?)

What? From the many, many #meta posts and other sources I cannot back this up.

> - The author was ultimately banned from the community not for their opinions on this matter, but because of a long streak of unrelated conduct issues that culminated in a spree of saying horribly abusive things to multiple other members of the community.

OP did say some bad stuff, but it wasn't a spree and was an isolated incident. I don't agree with her actions, but I see where she was coming from: she didn't feel heard and just wanted to get back at people she saw as having wronged her. She definitely shouldn't have done what she did but it was an isolated incident or two.

> — They have been pursuing a grudge against the organization ever since. They are not a reliable narrator, this post is a fantasy version of events that casts them as a martyred hero.

You'll note that in the article that isn't what she portrays herself as and she explicitly bookends the article with paragraphs of text praising the mission and all of the good hackclub has done. Which is it, is she rightfully praising the organization but rightfully getting angry about it or is she wrongfully praising the organization and wrongfully getting angry?

> Nonetheless, privacy/security is something we think about and invest extensively in.

Based on HQ's HCB, #meta, posts in #hq, and more this is not true in the slightest.

> In the past year we have started an organization-wide bounty system, moved all PII storage into a central "identity vault" Bounties were addressed in the article and last thing I heard PII is still massively distributed. If that isn't the case anymore, please actually make a post about it so the community is aware?

> consulted extensively with a very fancy lawyer who specializes in corporate compliance with the growing raft of online privacy laws around the world

That's good but again, make an announcement in hackclub?

> The good news is, according to that lawyer we already do almost everything we need to be compliant; we just need to publish a privacy policy!

The fuck?? No?? if this has happened in the last year, how angry has your lawyer about the numerous vulnerabilities that were pushed, not notified, underpaid bounties, and more? Oh, and don't forget you TAKING DOWN THE GDPR EMAIL AND NOT DELETING DATA??

> We are actively iterating on a mostly-finished draft of this document with our counsel, but it is taking time because, well, this stuff is very complicated.

I can definitely understand that. I really love hackclub and think the mission is amazing but at the moment I don't feel safe with my data in its hands.
by wahern | 2025-11-14 02:46:52+00:00
It's an intentional security thing. If the sftp subsystem command failed OpenSSH could fall back to scp automatically, but there are some security issues with that. Certain semantics, e.g. file name expansions, differ between scp and sftp on the backend, with the potential for some (theoretical?) exploits. IIRC, in particular, scp is invoked on the remote server through the shell, passing file names and commands as parameters, with shell expansion occurring. Whereas sftp file names and commands are issued in-band to the remote sftp subsystem using an additional protocol layer. (In theory the sftp protocol could be wrapped in TLS; it's independent of the SSH protocol itself.)
by Genego | 2025-11-14 02:47:08+00:00
Yes, the prompt is composed of 7 different layers, where I group together coherent visual and temporal responsibilities. Depending on the scene, I usually only change 3-5 layers, but the base layers still stay the same; so the scenes all appear within the same story universe and same style. If something feels off, or feels like it needs to be improved, I just adjust one layer after the other to experiment with the results on the entire story, but also on individual scene level. Over time, I have created quite some 7-Layer style profiles, that work well, and I can cast onto different story universes. Keep in mind this is heavy experimentation, it may just be that there is a much easier way to do this, but I am seeing success with this. https://edwin.genego.io/blog/lpa-studio - at any point I may throw this all out and start over; depending on how well my understanding of this all develops.

Bounding boxes: I actually send an image with a red box around where the requested change is needed. And 8 out of 10 times it works well. But if it doesn't work, I use Claude to make the prompt more refined. The Claude API call that I make, can see the image + the prompt, as well understanding the layering system. This is one of the 3 ways I edit, there is another one where I just sent the prompt to Claude without it looking at the image. Right now this all feels like dial-up. With a minimum of 0.035$ per image generation (0.0001$ if I just use a LoRa though) and a minimum of 12-14 seconds wait on each edit/generation.
by cyberrock | 2025-11-14 02:47:19+00:00
I think it's all due to Apple:

* Apple developer program is $99/year everywhere and making iOS apps without a Mac used to be impossible and is still difficult, so naturally there's more demand for miniapp platforms like WeChat and LINE in countries with way lower purchasing parity. LINE miniapps are booming now that the yen is so weak. But the West doesn't have this issue.

* Superapps typically grow out of chat and payment platforms and Apple owns such a massive share of that in the West. They're not going to build miniapps into Apple Messages or Apple Pay.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-14 02:47:44+00:00
By infrastructure do you mean GPU’d or models?

“ Dark fiber, as an infrastructure, is designed to last for decades. It is common for dark fiber to be installed with a lifespan of no less than 20 years, and in many cases, it can remain functional for up to 30 years or more without degradation.”

I dunno, what if it’s all for naught? What if it’s more like crypto and becomes a medium sized niche technology?

“ global cryptocurrency market size was estimated at USD 5.70 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 11.71 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 13.1% from 2025 to 2030. The increasing adoption of distributed ledger technology is anticipated to propel the cryptocurrency industry growth during the forecast period.”
by tiltowait | 2025-11-14 02:48:11+00:00
People are worried about half-assed[0] rewrites that break functionality and introduce exciting, new vulnerabilities due to improper implementation. And they aren't wrong to fear that, given the multiple issues we've seen in just the past week with Ubuntu's Rust overhaul.

[0]: Or even whole-assed. Memory (un)safety is only one form of vulnerability.
by devilbunny | 2025-11-14 02:49:10+00:00
You can pasteurize your own eggs if you own an immersion circulator (as used for sous vide). 135F/57C for at least 1h15, per Douglas Baldwin's site (https://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Pasteurized_in_She...). The whites do not whip as quickly per Baldwin, and the whites are a little milky-looking, but for any preparation they are safe, and for those who like runny eggs but have to serve them to people who may be immunocompromised, it's a very good solution. You can poach or cook sunny-side-up and leave the yolk juicy and wet.

A plain egg yolk, served (effectively) raw, is a sauce in itself.
by irjustin | 2025-11-14 02:49:55+00:00
> I took knowability to be, how well you know the properties of a particle?

No, I'm using the literal definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knowability

> I thought Hisenberg meant the more you knew about one property (i.e. the smaller the bound on the position of a particle) the less you knew about the other property.

Yes, this is it, but remove "you knew"... just - property. The more one property is defined, the less the other property is.

The key I'm trying to get across is it doesn't matter what you, the observer know/don't know (i.e. measure). As temp ->abs_zero, momentum becomes more-undefined/fuzzier. Nothing to do with you measuring.

The "other" property is fundamentally undefined (i.e. not knowable, i.e. able to be known).

Maybe we're getting hung up on our shared understanding of "knowable" and I shouldn't have used it, but it is, technically, the correct usage.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-14 02:51:37+00:00
So, 4 consoles?

Yes, I'm aware on how consoles are monetized. They take a loss in the first few years and make up for that with software sales, which they take a 30% cut on.

I'm not dispelling if the model isn't profitable, I'm simply stating that the hardware is historically sold at razor thin margins early on, if not outright a loss (until this generation)
by array_key_first | 2025-11-14 02:53:44+00:00
I had this experience playing couch co-op call of duty a few years ago. I had to make a fucking account. It's not even my console.

Nintendo has wavered a tad, but they're the closet to the original experience. You pop in a thingy, hook up another controller, or two, or three, and you're off. It just works, maybe you can input a name for your guy, maybe not, maybe you just always play Waluigi so everyone knows who you are.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-14 02:54:34+00:00
> Might have to be shank insurance, if they get real jail

You’d have a difficult time proving intent, nevertheless. The only practical solution is reducing the standard of proof, which is historically a straight line to hard oligarchy.

> A cop having a bad day, can ruin your whole life. Pay the cop well, but also, ruin their life, if they abuse their power

Cops deal in violence, which is far more black and white than e.g. being a hotelier.

That said, starting with cops is a good idea. Culture of responsibility and all that.
by metalogical | 2025-11-14 02:54:57+00:00
Whisper runs fine locally. So why are Willow ($144/year), Wisprflow ($120/year), and SuperWhisper ($120/year) all subscriptions?

I got frustrated paying monthly for something that could run on my Mac, so I built Lucid Voice:

- 100% offline (Nvidia Parakeet + Llama)

- $20 one-time (mainly to cover Apple's notarization costs)

- Runs on surprisingly low-end hardware (M1 base models work fine)

- No cloud, no data collection

Open to feedback on anything - pricing, the tech stack, or if this should just be free: https://lucidvoice.app
by arusahni | 2025-11-14 02:56:07+00:00
Agreed.

I joined a Zed hackathon at RustConf 2024 where I built the "Open in split" functionality from the file fuzzy picker. A member of the engineering team who was floating around helping folks had us exclusively work through the included collaboration features. It was a great tour of the editor, and did not feel tacked on.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-14 02:56:14+00:00
>I can also just say:”All the opinions presented so far are deficient, here is my new, better, opinion X”

Yes, I browse reddit every now and then. It's a shame the Alt-Right pipeline hijacked this. They realized that being loud is better than being correct.

I'm a bit confused on how we got onto a tangent about productivity, though. All I was talking about came down to "opinions are arguments, and restating an opinion (in good faith) often means you aren't convinced of another opinion". They're opinions, they aren't inherently right or wrong.
by jcmorrow | 2025-11-14 02:57:44+00:00
> My experience is with APL, but I think it is capable of producing some of the most readable and maintainable codebases out there.

Cool! Do you have any public examples to point to? I would be curious to see how a larger project looks, given that I only use array languages for side projects, so my code is often not very legible (e.g. https://github.com/jcmorrow/advent_of_code/blob/master/day_2...).
by jameslk | 2025-11-14 03:01:38+00:00
The surplus and debt servicing near the end of the 90s didn’t have much effect to the debt: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN

Social security and Medicare liabilities mostly wiped out any gains

What surplus there was came from both tax increases and reductions in spending. Along with a strong economy and low employment for tax revenue in the dotcom heyday

Any realistic change to pay down the debt would require substantial structural changes at this point. There’s no political incentive to do anything about that until runaway inflation and the US credit ratings start to really mess things up, and by that point it’s pretty much too late
by mrandish | 2025-11-14 03:01:55+00:00
In terms of color spaces, SRGB (the typical baseline default RGB of desktop computing) is quite naive and inefficient. Pretty much its only upsides are its conceptual and mathematical simplicity. There are much more efficient color spaces which use dynamic non-linear curves and are based on how the rods and cones in human eyes sense color.

The current hotness for wide color gamuts and High Dynamic Range is ICTCP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICtCp) which is conceptually similar to (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_color_space).
by anonymid | 2025-11-14 03:02:23+00:00
$2700/mo is about 1/3 of an engineers' salary (cost to the business of a mid-level engineer in the UK)...

But, there's the time to set all of this up (which admittedly is a one-time investment and would amortize).

And there's the risk of having made a mistake in your backups or recovery system (Will you exercise it? Will you continue to regularly exercise it?).

And they're a 3-person team... is it really worth your limited time/capacity to do this, rather than do something that's likely to attract $3k/mo of new business?

If the folks who wrote the blog see this, please share how much time (how many devs, how many weeks) this took to set up, and how the ongoing maintenance burden shapes up.
by josephg | 2025-11-14 03:03:08+00:00
> That is a surprising opinion. Rust marketing is entirely based - like in this submission - on comparing its memory safety to C/C++ and saying that C is bad!

I'm not really sure what you expect here. Like, a large driving factor of using rust (compared to C/C++) is that it has better memory safety. Should rust not talk about that? Should we try and be careful about the feelings of C/C++ devs and not name the truth in the room around memory safety?

The reason android is moving to rust is because it decreases the memory related defect rate compared to C++. Should we shy away from talking about C++ memory bugs because they're somehow embarrassing?

When C came out, I'm sure a lot was written about how much easier it was to program in compared to assembly. Does that mean there's a feud between C and assembly? I'm sure some assembly developers felt under attack. But its not a feud. Just two tools with different use cases. That's how I see C and rust.