MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vetraxneo_apps | 2025-11-29 16:53:31+00:00
Freelancers kept asking the same question.

Most tools don’t explain Safe Harbor rules, don’t handle W-2 + 1099 income, and don’t give a full yearly estimate. So I built a simple free tool:https://taxquarterly.com/

Quarterly Tax Calculator – instant estimates to avoid penalties Yearly Tax Calculator – a full breakdown of federal, state, and self-employment tax

One tells you what to pay now. The other tells you what to expect for the whole year. Both exist to make taxes easy.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-29 16:54:46+00:00
> the number of bicycle commuters plummets towards zero

That's proof that there's either a lot of progress to be made, or the local culture just isn't as tolerant to the cold.

Cycling around -10 works just fine if the roads have been taken care of (which, in your example, doesn't seem to be case, as apparently they're covered in ice).

With decent infrastructure, the difference between cycling 10 degrees above and 10 degrees below freezing is a matter of outfit.
by WoodenChair | 2025-11-29 16:54:48+00:00
Very related but self promotional—I have a hobby business selling restored Mac mini G4s. I clean all of them internally, upgrade them with 128 GB SSDs, max them out at 1 GB of RAM, put a new clock battery in, and pre-install the Mac OS 9 Lives hacked version of Mac OS 9 that runs on them. You can buy one from me here:

https://os9.shop

I don't think I'll start pre-installing System 7 since most of my customers are using Mac OS 9 (and the domain is os9.shop!), but you could certainly get a machine from me with Mac OS 9 and install System 7 yourself if you so desire.

My customers have included a lot of real businesses running legacy software who want the fastest, least intrusive, and least energy intensive Mac OS 9 desktop machine they can buy. I've sold to dentists, veterinarians, museums, and auto repair stores. You'd be amazed how many people are running Classic Mac software in 2025.
by scosman | 2025-11-29 16:55:04+00:00
Alternative advice: just test and see what works best for your use case. Totally agreed embeddings are often overkill. However, sometimes they really help. The flow is something like:

- Iterate over your docs to build eval data: hundreds of pairs of [synthetic query, correct answer]. Focus on content from the docs not general LLM knowledge.

- Kick off a few parallel evaluations of different RAG configurations to see what works best for your use case: BM25, Vector, Hybrid. You can do a second pass to tune parameters: embedding model, top k, re-ranking, etc.

I build a free system that does all this (synthetic data from docs, evals, test various RAG configs without coding each version). https://docs.kiln.tech/docs/evaluations/evaluate-rag-accurac...
by greggman65 | 2025-11-29 16:55:13+00:00
that site has the same issue. It will give ridiculous and easily provably false results for iPhones.

There are ~40 million in the PST time-zone. Some percent have smartphones (80%+), ~50% of those are iPhones (16 million). Of those, the majority are set it English (80%+), and are divided into screen sizes. But basically, if you have an iPhone, you have the same fingerprint has at least a million other other people in the PST time size. You are at best, 1 of 100, not 1 of x,xxx,xxx,xxx.

You might be x,xxx,xxx,xxx of people who visited that unpopular site but no one needs tracking on an unpopular site. On a popular site you will not have a unique finger print.
by ninefinger | 2025-11-29 16:55:50+00:00
Auditing a cloud environment is a complex task. Auditing a large-scale cloud environment, potentially spanning hundreds or thousands of projects with even more resources, can feel impossible. Traditional manual audits are slow, error-prone, and obsolete the moment they’re completed. This is where the “Compliance as Code” movement provides a powerful solution, and one of my favorite tools for this is InSpec.
by DrierCycle | 2025-11-29 16:56:13+00:00
As there are no symbols in our brains, using symbols as transport for 'intelligence' is oxymoronic. Symbols are the bottleneck to intelligence, not the referential or representation of it. This is basic stuff, folks. The brain doesn't 'store information' it just does stuff and as a byproduct it uses differences held in a library (the allocortex) for the action-memory (cortex).
by zephen | 2025-11-29 16:56:28+00:00
Pretty sure that the comment "upper management who reads your blog" wasn't discussing your upper management.

Would upper management from other companies read your blog?

Sure, maybe not organically, but certainly via a google search, looking for support for motivated reasoning for why all the plebs should be brought back to the office.

> Yes. I'm sorry, I thought I made that clear in the post.

Maybe for someone doing a close read. Honestly, with the discussion about the cost and the mortgage, it reads more like you are stuck there.
by 1000100_1000101 | 2025-11-29 16:56:56+00:00
Pinch zoom is the preferred method, it just needs to zoom at a usable (much faster) pace.

I have no idea what input events zooming generates. Perhaps an option in the URL could be used to turn on a log of input events that people can copy/paste and submit back to you, so you can get a sense of what events are coming from various devices and input methods without having to find devices to try them all yourself.

Plenty of map sites have spent years broken on Macs, not handling smooth pinch-zoom or Magic Mouse smooth scroll wheel events. A slight 3mm movement of a finger going from fully zoomed in street view to fully zoomed out planet view. I'm assuming every micro-movement event is treated as a Windows scroll wheel event where you expect to move a decent chunk on each event.

However you're treating zoom inputs, you've got the opposite effect. A full zoom motion barely does anything.
by NeutralForest | 2025-11-29 16:57:22+00:00
The Agile Manifesto says "People over process", this can be interpreted in many ways. But ideally you follow the 80/20 rule and have clear cut processes for the most frequent cases and/or liability/law/SLA stuff you can't do without. But you should have fast escape hatches as well imo where a good engineer having admin access on a platform or deploying a hot-fix is also possible.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-29 16:57:24+00:00
One thing I haven't seen talked about at all: how quickly would space heat up?

I presume Earth's gravity largely keeps the exosphere it has around it. With some modest fractional % lost year by year. There is a colossal vast volume out there! But given that there's so little matter up in space, what if any temperature rise would we expect from say a constant 1TW of heat being added?
by chiefgeek | 2025-11-29 16:57:31+00:00
I’ve sat with 5MeO-DMT over a dozen times, always in the form of Bufo flake from the toad. It has been one of the most transformational and healing modality I’ve encountered. I have a low dose Jaguar (synthetic) pen that I use occasionally.

I’ve also used NN from a pen. It gave me a strange body load and intense kaleidoscopic visuals.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-29 16:57:35+00:00
Unfortunately it's not really up to us plebs, it's up to the rich and powerful, who have every incentive in the world to continue fossil fuel use.

Trump has outright said he's pro fossil fuels and his policy choice shows it. If there was a proposal to ban or limit EVs in the US, I would not at all be surprised. These people do not care about you or me or all, just their pocket linings.
by silexia | 2025-11-29 16:57:39+00:00
Edison was one of the greatest humans who ever lived and contributed more to all of us than any other person in the last millenia.

It's popular on the far left to try armchair criticize the greatest humans, but it doesn't alter the facts.

Thomas Edison's biggest inventions include the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera. He also created the first commercial electric light and power system and is credited with improvements to the telephone, most notably the carbon microphone.
by treetalker | 2025-11-29 16:58:24+00:00
The lengthy page title (shortened and reasonably modified above out of necessity) appears to be:

> CAT - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

> 83 Session (10 Nov 2025 - 28 Nov 2025)

The UN's own summary of the report is entitled:

> UN Committee against Torture publishes findings on Albania, Argentina, Bahrain and Israel

and can be found here:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/11/un-committee...

Someone (not I) recently posted a Guardian article that focused on the report's Israel aspect — and, somewhat predictably, got flagged into oblivion. I thought the originating document (the posted link) might still be of interest to the community.

Article that got flagged: Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/israel-has-de-...

LATER EDIT: I note that this has implications on US law because our Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) has provisions that depend on what's known in the biz as CAT protection.

Legal provisions to begin with, for those interested:

- 8 CFR § 1208.16: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/8/1208.16

- Section 241(b)(3) of the INA, 8 USCS § 1231(b)(3): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1231
by chreniuc | 2025-11-29 16:58:26+00:00
Yeah, sure, have my keys. You seem like a trustable fellow. You know what? Also, take my credit cards, my bank accounts, yeah, why not? I trust you.

It's silly to think that someone is stupid enough to add their keys to your app, when you provide no guarantee. When your project is open source and can be self hosted, that is something else.
by zahlman | 2025-11-29 16:58:52+00:00
> and also that there are toxic cultures, around Google and C++, where very smart people get seduced into spending all their time and effort fighting complexity, battling 45 minute builds, etc.

Not sure what you mean here. "Fighting" as in "seeking to prevent", or "putting up with", or what exactly? Is this supposed to be bad because it's exploitative, or because it's a poor use of the smart person's time, or what exactly?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-29 16:58:53+00:00
Yes, it's officially atheist because there's only room for one god figure, who happens to be a man. Christianity and Islam are "officially atheist" in the same absurd way. In NK the one permissible exception is not called Allah or Yahweh but Kim.

You know, the guy whose portrait hangs in everyone's home in the exact same spot where you'd find a crucifix in a southern American home.

And no, the religious nature of personality cults is not a fallacy. If anything, No True Scotsman applies to claims that a personality cult is not a "real religion." They are absolutely indistinguishable from theistic religions, except for the minor, ignorable detail that the god is alive and walking around.

Of course there's also a strong component of ancestor worship in the cult of the Kims. The portrait or other object of veneration is as likely to feature il-Sung as one of the other two.

Same bug, different exploit.
by more_corn | 2025-11-29 16:58:59+00:00
Except you don’t build a data center, you add a GPU to an individual starlink node. If you can do that a couple hundred or thousand times you’ve got a lot of compute in space. The next question is how would you redesign compute around your distributed power and cooling profiles? The article doesn’t talk about the actual engineering challenges. (Such as scaling down the radiative cooling design, matching compute node to the maximum feasible power profile, etc)

I’m not arguing it’ll be easy or will ultimately work, but articles like this are unhelpful because they don’t address the fundamental insight being proposed.
by pxc | 2025-11-29 16:59:12+00:00
> When was the last time you went to an actual physical library

My eyesight is making paper books harder and harder to read, so I don't go to libraries and bookstores as much as I used to. But I think libraries are still relatively popular with families, because they're sites of various community activities as well as safe, quiet places to let kids roam and entertain themselves while the parents are nearby.

When I was a kid, my parents went to the library much more often than they do now, because they were taking me and my sister there. And then we would all get books before we came home.

Not saying you're entirely wrong, but there's a significant part of this that is "changing rhythms of life as we age", not just "changing times".
by mordecwhy | 2025-11-29 16:59:36+00:00
It was at least since 2021, according to the authors of a preprint from March, that researchers began to see something interesting on the insides of their models.

Also known as an AI program, created from a neural network architecture, a model processes a word by learning to represent it as an arrow or a vector within a high-dimensional space. The directions of these words—which each end up at one single point—become the model's carriers of information.

While these spaces are already strange in their vastness, often consisting in thousands of dimensions, researchers were noticing something even more peculiar; sometimes, inputs would form clouds of points that were distinctively shaped, looking for example like 'Swiss rolls,' or cylinders, after being projected back down to just three dimensions, using standard methods. Over the next few years, they started to see other cloudy shapes, too: curves, loops, circles; helixes, torii; even trees and fractal geometries.

That models might learn to organize information in shapes did not necessarily surprise people. It was natural to think that a model might learn that certain categories of inputs could all be clumped together; like inputs describing calendar dates, or colors, or arithmetical operations.

But in 2023, when others discovered a new method for understanding the insides of their models, called sparse autoencoders (SAEs), the observations began to seem a little odder. This method, which quickly gained traction, was suggestive of a very different picture—that the most important concepts a model learned, like love, or logic, or the identities of different people, were highly fragmented, each one tearing off in a very different direction. But why then were certain inputs found close together?

Almost as soon as this hint of contradiction surfaced, it was quelled by other findings. Both the study from March as well as an October study, by researchers at the company Anthropic, have shown that models learn shapes in ways that compliment these other tendencies, suggested by other methods. As a consequence, we are increasingly making sense of why models learn to make shapes in the high-dimensional minds that they live in.

"There's a lot of confusion, but it also feels like there's been a lot of progress," said Eric Michaud of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who spoke to Foom in an interview. "I don't know where it's all going to go. But overall, it feels healthy."
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-29 16:59:44+00:00
Given your apparent lack of options, you probably should. If you make it look half-decent, they’ll probably accept it.

Personally I’d just edit any existing real utility bill, but I understand why most people might not be willing to do that.

OTOH, depending on your utility provider you might also just be able to go to your account settings and change the information on your bills to match that which you wish to provide Wise with.
by nkrisc | 2025-11-29 17:00:22+00:00
> Pangram’s analysis revealed that around 21% of the ICLR peer reviews were fully AI-generated, and more than half contained signs of AI use. The findings were posted online by Pangram Labs. “People were suspicious, but they didn’t have any concrete proof,” says Spero. “Over the course of 12 hours, we wrote some code to parse out all of the text content from these paper submissions,” he adds.

But what's the proof? How do you prove (with any rigor) a given text is AI-generated?
by cyanydeez | 2025-11-29 17:00:27+00:00
One of the reasons these things are getting financed is the belief that the purchased hardware wont depreciate significantly. Which is bizarre when you think about the hardware production latter.

For these datacenters to keep value without the computational demand, you also assume new hardware prices & capability will stagnate.

I still dont see the "total addressable market" being large enough to satisfy even one monopoly.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-29 17:00:48+00:00
It's evident that people use bicycles in Montreal -- TFA itself attests this.

But if your point is that North American cities all tend to have the same downtown/suburban contrasts, you are quite right.

People who live $Downtown usually have walkable neighbourhoods and perhaps even access to underground transit. People who live outside the centre of the city mostly end up depending on a private vehicle.

Bicycles are part of the mobility culture in Montreal. But Car Cancer has the same effect everywhere.
by indubioprorubik | 2025-11-29 17:01:01+00:00
Way to miss a buisness opportunity here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/climate-...

is the real market for this type of technology. Inject clay - or sand- and create basins, channels and quanats - made from different types of soil that is basically 3d printed into the underground.

Printing foundations for housing in flood prone areas, seems to be a trivial side hussle compared to keeping the foundations of society going.
by NebulaStorm456 | 2025-11-29 17:01:10+00:00
I think you will like this Capgras Syndrome story.

https://youtu.be/dqBGzkz1oDU

The guy couldn't emotionally recognise his mother after seeing her and started calling her imposter. But when he heard her voice over telephone, he felt emotional connection and said the person on other end was indeed his mother. Emotional pathways provide salience information in conjunction with sensory pathways. Any disruption to emotional pathways can override even correct sensory data.
by StillBored | 2025-11-29 17:02:20+00:00
The KDE blog entry reads like a modern political platform denying climate change, or claiming renewable energy can replace traditional energy sources on the grid.

One head strictly stuck in the ground and ignoring the cases that make many of those statements flatly false. Like for example, the nvidia support. Nvidia support in Linux is in the 'good luck' catalog, especially on any optimus laptop, where one is lucky if the power management works, much less multiple screen docking/undocking, and a heap of other issues. Then please clarify which actual driver stack one is running (nouveau vs provide by nvidia binaries, vs nvidia open source) To claim its great with wayland ignores core failures that still exist.

Its the same with X11 forwarding, which like copy paste, has been steady degrading to the point where all the dbus/etc services being depended on makes double digit percentages of applications not work with 'ssh -X' and oh wow, waypipe. It seems all of windows/osx and KDE/Gnome are steadily shooting themselves in the foot.

I'm sorta happy I pulled my financial support not long ago, there are a couple 'toxic' people in the distro DE community who are pushing their own agendas, everyone else be damned. And weirdly enough it seems those people aren't doing it for some corporate/whatever reason, but just to wave a flag about their accomplishments. The entire reason most people claim wayland is 'better' is largely FUD, but that doesn't stop the true believers.
by anthk | 2025-11-29 17:02:31+00:00
98's multitasking and memory 'protection' were a joke. In the same mid high machine for the era, 2k and xp were miles ahead of w98 on mid-high load.

Maybe not on a Pentium, but once you hit 192MB of RAM and some 500 MHz P3/AMD k7, NT based OSes were tons better.

You only realized that upon opening a dozen of IE windows. W98, even SE, will sweat. 2k will fly.

On single tasks, such as near realtime multimedia ones, w98 would be better, such as emulators/games or video players with single thread decoders. On multiprocessing/threading, w98 crawled against W2K even under p4's and 256MB of RAM.
by stanfordkid | 2025-11-29 17:03:00+00:00
Exactly this. Like is the research actually useful and correct is what matters. Also if it is accurate, instead of schadenfreude shouldn't that elicit extreme applause? It's feeling a bit like a click-bait rage-fantasy fueled by Pangram, capitalizing on this idea that AI promotes plagiarism / replaces jobs and now the creators of AI are oh-too human... and somehow this AI-detection product is above it all.
by sandworm101 | 2025-11-29 17:03:05+00:00
Ice isnt a product of cold. It is actually rare on roads in the high north. Ice requires melting and re-freezing, and gets more slippery when wet. Ice is a problem when the weather bounces back and forth around freezing. Each city will be very different, but those near the great lakes are famously impacted by ice storms. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ice_storms
by wowczarek | 2025-11-29 17:04:08+00:00
Even without LOC, there's also TXT. In my work lab (size of a medium DC, tonnes of devices from a variety of vendors) we used formatted TXT records to store things like: rack elevations, host/port for serial access server, switched power outlet info, reservation status, loan / return info and more. With this and cnames for rack numbers/elevations, with simple scripts we could do more than either a free-but-clunky or a decent-but-expensive DC management system could, from CLI, and quicker.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-29 17:04:17+00:00
As a "half way" point, modern (21+) java brings pattern matching switch statements to the language, but you'd probably construct the F# version in Java using a sealed "marker" interface. Something like

sealed interface Result permits ValidationError, SearchQuery, UserProfile {}

Along with the specific implementations of those ValidationError, SearchQuery and UserProfile classes and then a switch statement like:

Result res = db.query(input); return switch(res) { case ValidationError ve -> context.renderError(ve); case SearchQuery sq -> context.redirect("Search", Map.of("q", sq)); case UserProfile up -> context.redirect("Profile", Map.of("user", up)); };

The sealed interface gives you compile time checks that your switch statement is exhaustive wherever you use it.

Before that pattern matching, I might have used a Function<Context, R> instead in the Result interface. This is off the top of my head without the benefit of an IDE telling me if I've done a stupid with the generics and type erasure but something like:

interface Result<R> { public R handleWithContext(Context c); } class ValidationError<RenderedError> { public RenderedError handleWithContext(Context c) { return c.renderError(this); } } class SearchQuery<Redirect> { public Redirect handleWithContext(Context c) { return c.redirect("Search", Map.of("q", this); } }

etc. In either case though I think you're right that an empty interface is something that should be examined closer.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-29 17:05:15+00:00
> You are dressing the events in your interpretation and stating them as truth.

That's how a discussion works. I state what I believe in, and people will either agree or post counterpoints. If I'm wrong then I won't be able to argue otherwise. Testing my ideas is the whole point.

Just for the record, even leftist columnists agree with me.

https://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/malu-gaspar/coluna/2025/11/de...

They admit that the supreme court is out of control. They just think it's okay because they're currently persecuting their political enemies. Now that the court has served its purpose, it's time for things to go back to normal. Just like that.

Their motives are transparent, as are their political maneuvers. It's the intellectual dishonesty that disgusts me.