MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teachrdan | 2025-11-04 18:18:51+00:00
There is ample data that says Japan was on the verge of surrendering before the US dropped atom bombs on them. If you doubt it, ask yourself why the US rushed to drop a second bomb only three days after the first. It was in our interest to intimidate the USSR before Japan had a chance to surrender.

https://time.com/6297240/atomic-bomb-expert-oppenheimer-inte...
by Ajedi32 | 2025-11-04 18:19:11+00:00
Speaking of nuance, I find it rather unintuitive how it often seems like it's harder for people to have a nuanced opinion of other people than to have a nuanced opinion about a policy or software feature or specific situation.

You'd think given how complicated and faceted people are it would be especially easy to find both good and bad things to say about them, but online at least it almost seems to be the opposite: there's even less nuance when discussing people than there is discussing other topics. (Case in point.)
by burnte | 2025-11-04 18:19:22+00:00
> You're just assuming that mimicry of a thing is not equivalent to the thing itself.

I'm not assuming that, that's literally the definition of mimicry: to imitate closely.

You might say I'm assuming that it is mimicking and not actually thinking, but there's no evidence it's actually thinking, and we know exactly what is IS doing because we created the code that we used to build the model. They're not thinking, it's doing math, mathematical transformations of data.
by humanlion87 | 2025-11-04 18:19:37+00:00
Not the OP. I agree with what OP is mentioning. As part of the report you have to file the notional value of the underlying stock. Let's assume I buy one put option for palantir at a price of $1/contract ( say for an extremely OTM strike price of $10 ). I have paid a premium of $100. Assuming stock price of palantir is $200, the notional value I have to report is $200*100 = $20k. And not the $100 premium I paid.
by UltraSane | 2025-11-04 18:19:51+00:00
Splunk is one of the best software I've ever used but it HAS to be used with very fast storage to be effective. I've only used it on enterprise grade storage arrays and servers with lots of RAM for caches. On modern PCIe 5.0 NVMe drives it is stupid fast.

I'm not sure what you mean by exceed quotas because Splunk is normally licensed on GB ingested per day. This can lead to bitter fights between teams over how this is allocated.

The good thing about this license model is that you can use as much hardware as you want for no extra license cost.
by Finnucane | 2025-11-04 18:20:05+00:00
I guess it depends on what you mean by 'scar'. Certainly the NNTS looks plenty scarred by the hundreds of subsidence craters left behind by the tests. Only once in a while would there be a leak like the Baneberry test in 1970. And plenty of the folks working in the test area were 'scarred', by radiation sickness, leukemia, etc.
by page_index | 2025-11-04 18:20:56+00:00
This vectorless, vision RAG notebook passes PDF page images directly to Vision Language Models without OCR or embeddings. This eliminates the text extraction pipeline entirely, no layout detection, no character recognition, no vector search — only visual reasoning over document images, retrieved through reasoning-based hierarchical tree search.

This challenges a foundational assumption in document AI: that text must first be extracted before it can be understood. Traditional RAG pipelines depend on OCR for text recognition, chunk the extracted text, embed those chunks into vectors, and retrieve by similarity.

Each transformation step introduces error: tables fragment, spatial relationships dissolve, annotations separate from their anchors. Vectorless Vision RAG collapses this multi-stage process into just two steps: reasoning-based page retrieval, then visual interpretation. The VLM sees the document as it was meant to be read — a complete visual artifact with intact structure, typography, and spatial semantics.

The implication isn't that OCR or embeddings are obsolete, it's that preprocessing pipelines should justify their complexity cost. When the final model itself can consume the original representation, intermediate transformations become architectural overhead, rather than enabling infrastructure, a relic of a text-first paradigm in a world moving toward reasoning-native, vectorless document understanding.
by pseudalopex | 2025-11-04 18:21:06+00:00
> Imagine, for example, a retailer that offers SNAP discounts only on the worst cuts of meat they otherwise have trouble selling; you can imagine why a SNAP recipient might feel uncomfortable with that, even though in principle it's a Pareto improvement.

People I knew who received food assistance would have welcomed the Pareto improvement. And this would not explain why a 10% discount for all eligible goods should be forbidden for example.
by naasking | 2025-11-04 18:21:14+00:00
> But it's not the LLM that makes modifications in those databases - it just retrieves data which is already there.

So what?

> I'm not following you here.

If you're time travelling, you're resetting the state of the world to some previous well-defined, static state. An LLM also starts from some well-defined static state. You claim this static configuration means there's no mind, so this entails that the ability to time travel means that every person who is not time travelling has no mind.

> Problem is that this process doesn't affect the LLM in the slightest. It just regurgitates what it's been taught. An active mind is makes itself.

People who are incapable forming new memories thus don't have minds?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-04 18:21:35+00:00
> Where does it say it was funded by $150B of public loans?

let me repeat something you've already quoted

>> the public is on the hook for $150B of loans to be payed by inflationary pricing.

one more time "to be payed by inflationary pricing"

> Datacenters are actually associated with lower electricity costs in the US.

"Associated" means these areas are getting preferential pricing to shift more of the cost to the public. Proves my point.

The actual truth, with numbers, just for 2024 and Virginia alone:

"Mike Jacobs, a senior energy manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists, last month released an analysis estimating that data centers had added billions of dollars to Americans’ electric bills across seven different states in recent years. In Virginia alone, for instance, Jacobs found that household electric bills had subsidized data center transmission costs to the tune of $1.9 billion in 2024."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-data-center-backlash

Also:

"Over the last five years, commercial users including data centers and industrial users began drinking more deeply from the grid, with annual growth rising 2.6% and 2.1%, respectively. Meanwhile, residential use only grew by 0.7% annually."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/01/rising-energy-prices-put-a...
by epolanski | 2025-11-04 18:22:07+00:00
No it's not, in most of the world if a business doesn't want you as a customer they can refuse you, end of story.

That's not only true for B2C, as most codexes have at best laws about public utilities (you can't be denied electricity for no reason), sometimes banks, and sometimes regulated professionals (lawyers, insurers, etc).

This is particularly true for B2B, as Youtube and creators transactions are.
by tptacek | 2025-11-04 18:22:22+00:00
Interestingly, it took another 7 years for stack overflows to be taken seriously, despite a fairly complete proof of concept widely written about. For years, pretty much everybody slept on buffer overflows of all sorts; if you found an IFS expansion bug in an SUID, you'd only talk about it on hushed private mailing lists with vendor security contacts, but nobody gave a shit about overflows.

It was Thomas Lopatic and 8lgm that really lit a fire under this (though likely they were inspired by Morris' work). Lopatic wrote the first public modern stack overflow exploit, for HPUX NCSA httpd, in 1995. Later that year, 8lgm teased (but didn't publish --- which was a big departure for them) a remote stack overflow in Sendmail 8.6.12 (it's important to understand what a big deal Sendmail vectors were at the time).

That 8lgm tease was what set Dave Goldsmith, Elias Levy, San Mehat, and Pieter Zatko (and presumably a bunch of other people I just don't know) off POC'ing the first wave of public stack overflow vulnerabilities. In the 9-18 months surrounding that work, you could look at basically any piece of privileged code, be it a remote service or an SUID binary or a kernel driver, and instantly spot overflows. It was the popularization with model exploits and articles like "Smashing The Stack" that really raised the alarm people took seriously.

That 7 year gap is really wild when you think about it, because during that time period, during which people jealously guarded fairly dumb bugs, like an errant pipe filter input to the calendar manager service that run by default on SunOS shelling out to commands, you could have owned up literally any system on the Internet, so prevalent were the bugs. And people blew them off!

I wrote a thread about this on Twitter back in the day, and Neil Woods from 8lgm responded... with the 8.6.12 exploit!

https://x.com/tqbf/status/1328433106563588097
by LucidLynx | 2025-11-04 18:23:09+00:00
I agree that those were not actually "promises" but "directions", and I apologise for that. Those directions were mainly cited in different conferences by some Rust-head-members at that time (Alex Crichton, Niko Matsakis, Ashley Williams, or even you), and during conversations I had with severals during Rust Fest or RustCon.

For example, I remember talking that with you at the Rust Fest 2017, in Zurich actually, especially about the *very early version* of Async/Await.

It is ok for the community to move on different directions than the first one, and I don't blame any of you for that.
by kingkawn | 2025-11-04 18:23:12+00:00
How do we know that underground testing has little consequences if all the sites are national security zones. What we do know is that the underground geology is likely permanently compromised, at least within any meaningful time frame, and all nearby aquifers and other water deposits are poisoned for all intents and purposes into the distant future. These tests are ecological horrors that are unnecessary and destructive.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-04 18:23:24+00:00
Well, they're two orthogonal axes. Brilliant vs. ignorant and/or dumb, and jerk vs. decent human being.

I am not the original author, but I think the point is that when you're hiring, you try to hire someone who's brilliant, or at least not ignorant and/or dumb. But brilliant who is a jerk can destroy your team, so what you should be trying to hire is brilliant and "not jerk".

Too many people making hiring decisions get so focused on brilliant that they miss the other issue. But, as I said, I'm not OP, and this is just my impression of what they're thinking.
by jkelleyrtp | 2025-11-04 18:23:46+00:00
It seems like the economy is on a “K” shaped flywheel. How much worse can the economy get for the regular worker before the systems just pops? We’ve put so much speculation into an AI/tech salvation that seems premature, especially when you look at ROI vs depreciation timelines.

I’m not sure what timeline to place on that but there has to be a floor for how bad it can get for the regular man.

Shit is just expensive. Young people can’t buy houses, good jobs are drying up, and inflation isn’t stopping.
by legitster | 2025-11-04 18:24:07+00:00
It being a certainty is wrong, but there is a huge differential between the growth of total market value and the lackluster fundamentals, GDP growth, and jobs numbers.

To put another way, there's a lot of "potential energy" being built up in the markets right now. That doesn't necessarily mean they'll pop like a bubble - but there's really no precedent for them to continue rising.
by naasking | 2025-11-04 18:24:08+00:00
> They're not thinking, it's doing math, mathematical transformations of data

Whatever thinking fundamentally is, it also has an equivalence as a mathematical transformation of data. You're assuming the conclusion by saying that the two mathematical transformations of data are not isomorphic.

A simulation of information processing is still information processing, just like running Windows in a QEMU VM is still running Windows.
by psunavy03 | 2025-11-04 18:24:21+00:00
Literally the exact quote of the historian in the article you're linking:

"Any myths about this history you want to debunk or set the record straight on?"

"The big one was that the Japanese were ready to surrender and would have surrendered even if we had not dropped those bombs. I think that is a myth. Oppenheimer seems to have believed that the weapon was used against a country that was about to surrender—as he puts it, essentially defeated. The Japanese were essentially defeated—that’s true. Their fleet had been sunk and their cities had been burned. But they were not ready to surrender."

"Did the bombs lead to the Japanese surrender on Sep. 2?"

"Two atomic bombs forced them to. The dominant reason [the U.S.] used the bomb was to end the war. [The U.S.] thought the only way to end the war was to use these two terrible weapons."
by fragmede | 2025-11-04 18:24:31+00:00
Why would those be dramatically different anywhere? It's the same few choices of mini-splits from the same few Japanese/whatever conglomerates across the world, with known cooling abilites (measured in the same units, BTUs) and with known energy consumption (kwh) (and power in watts). The hotter the place you live in, the more power it's gonna draw, and the more BTUs you'll need. Also the bigger the room, the more BTU you'll need.

Fujitsu and Mitsubishi both have popular units that are basically the same the whole world over, with minor regional changes. There really isn't that much variation though. There are obvious differences, a mini-split in a hot part of the world is going to be working harder than a mini-split in a cooler part of the world. Humidity will differ as well.

It's a large home appliance. You need a pair of strong people to drive over to the customer's house, bring it in their house, locate the right place to install it, unbox it, support it, wire/pipe it up correctly, and then give it power. The Big Mac index gives the difference in price between Japan in the US to be $5.79 vs $3.11 in JP (in 2025), and meanwhile $1k vs $10 is, well, 10x.

There's something at work here, but it's not due to variations in the difficulty of unboxing a large metal thing, drilling holes, running some tubing and then powering it on.
by tehjoker | 2025-11-04 18:25:32+00:00
The USSR had just taken Manchuria (Korea) and the US wanted Japan in our pocket and to intimidate the USSR. No need to repeat atrocity apologia. Japan in that era was evil af, kind of like Israel today (but in sheer numbers, Japan killed way more people), but that doesn't mean they should be nuked.

After the US took Japan, we reinstated the emperor, wrote their constitution, and used Japan as an imperial outpost to threaten Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, and Russia, which we do to this day. In the case of Korea, we invaded in the 1950s and never left, setting up a puppet state. Okinawans and many Koreans want the US military out of their countries.

This was an acceptable trade to the Japanese elite, because the communists would have removed their monarch in the name of liberty!

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...
by epolanski | 2025-11-04 18:25:33+00:00
> That's just not true.

Prove me the contrary: find me a single law that forces any business to have business with any other, regardless of them wanting to or not.

I'm 100% sure nobody can force me to do business with people I don't want and if you're a professional I can't force you either to do business with me. Why would you think this would be a good law to have? Only discrimination would be a valid reason.

If Google (business) doesn't want to platform a creator (another business), that's their right.

Of course we can question the morale or ethics, but that's about it.

> If Congress made a law tomorrow (laughable in the current environment, I know) that said that any public video platform provider with over X users couldn't ban anyone except for specific reasons, then YouTube would, indeed, have to keep such people on their platform.

But such laws do not exist in pretty much any part of the world: you can't force a business (Youtube) to do business with another one (a creator).

The reason why this is obviously different is because Youtube is a de facto monopoly on large parts of internet content.
by ivape | 2025-11-04 18:25:45+00:00
That was actually my own gut reaction to Palantir's valuation. There is some massive entity that is propping that up, and I can easily see it being a state actor.

NVDA on the other hand ...

What are you going to really do about something that posts 40B+ in revenue every quarter? Okay, you can short it I suppose. You'd have to time it with the expected drop off in AI compute spend, which means if you have a history of being early (which Burry does), you will lose.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 18:26:02+00:00
Overall for the common person I'd agree, but I assume we're all more or less hackers here and for us, I'd say "If you have to ask, ask and learn, then do it".

If everyone followed your advice no one would ever do anything, as we all begin somewhere, something that should OK.

Of course, don't do million dollar trades when you begin, but we shouldn't push back on people wanting to learn, feels very backwards compared to hacker ethos.
by gen220 | 2025-11-04 18:26:30+00:00
Can you not have a fulfilling empathetic relationship with a tool? Or with any entity regardless of its expressions of animacy or present effectiveness?

I’m less arguing for its animacy than arguing for the value of treating all things with respect and empathy. As the sibling comment observed, there is a lot of personal and pro-social value in extending the generosity of your empathy to ever-wider categories of things.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-04 18:26:50+00:00
> make it difficult to swap out batteries which have degraded.

That's the part that pisses me off the most. They all claim it's for the IP68, but that's bullshit. There's plenty of devices with removable backs & batteries that are IP68.

My BlackBerry bold 9xxx was 10mm thin. the iPhone 17 Pro Max is 8.75. You aren't going to notice the 1.3mm of difference, and my BlackBerry had a user replaceable battery, no tools required just pop off the back cover.

The BlackBerry was also about 100 grams lighter.

The non-user removable batteries and unibody designs are purely for planned obsolescence, nothing else.
by Kye | 2025-11-04 18:26:53+00:00
Most embeds I see on Discord are Bluesky. Bluesky seems to have taken over for social media links on sports subreddits. It saw a huge spike during the last game of the World Series.

https://old.reddit.com/domain/bsky.app/

Those might not matter to you, but neither did the early cohorts that drove growth on early Twitter matter to most people. Enough large mainstream cohorts set up a base there after the election spike that it's still growing toward the peak after dropping to a little less than half.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-04 18:27:06+00:00
I'm not even sure "good faith" is the right word. Trump stated explicitly today that he does not want SNAP benefits to be paid until he wins the shutdown fight. But a lot of people have this idea that being politically earnest is cringe, so it's not an option to simply say it's bad he won't explore other options to pay the benefits. You have to make up some clever reason why the issue is more complicated than it sounds, and maybe Trump had no choice, no matter how much that requires you to ignore context and court orders and the stated positions of the politicians involved.
by dilap | 2025-11-04 18:27:10+00:00
X has everything, and you can pick what you follow (there's a "For You" tab, but also a strictly chronological following tab). I like it for variety of political views (e.g. super-lefty @caitoz, super-righty @L0m3z), following interesting LLM stuff (@elder_plinius is a great follow), lots of devs (e.g. carmack...), art accounts (@yumenohajime, @neurocolor), nutrition/health stuff, so much good stuff!

(The FYP, alas, sucks, and has since forever...)
by the__alchemist | 2025-11-04 18:27:27+00:00
Can someone explain why puts make sense over shorting? For example, I'm betting against 5 quantum computing companies with short positions. I considered adding puts to the position, but it didn't make sense based on 2 reasons: High bid ask spread, and if it's a fraudulent company/otherwise worth betting against, the volatility will be high, so you option costs too much compared to the upside; the amount it has to drop to break even is too big.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-04 18:27:27+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Guevara_(journalist) this guy spent about 20 years attempting to do exactly that, and was only actually caught and deported last month. In this case, the way he was attempting to get legal citizenship was by virtue of his now-adult children who he and his wife had on US soil, which makes the children legally natural-born US citizens.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-04 18:27:30+00:00
I thought it was pretty clear reading my comment but let me be explicit: I didn't go to thousands of AA meetings out of anthropological curiosity. I know what addiction is like and what AA has to offer.

My point was that AA is religious, and so is not an appropriate activity for the state to compel participation in. You were saying it's not religious, and now you're saying well, it doesn't matter that it is. I think it does.

I'm a (more or less) lifelong christian fwiw. I'm not speaking about my own discomfort but I have observed that people without a preexisting religious practice, or a desire to acquire one, do not have high success rates in AA.
by hinkley | 2025-11-04 18:27:34+00:00
> used with very fast storage

That’s sounds like self hosting. Which is not the only product they offer. But you still have hardware that can only run so many queries at once and then starts queuing any additional request, yeah? Once you have a dozen people on a call it went to shit. Only occasionally ran into problems like this with graphite. But you need a lot of people looking at a very large dashboard to start feeling refresh delays.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-04 18:27:34+00:00
The land/water distinction (or lack thereof) could use some work. I spent way too long trying to figure out what I was looking at before I released we were zoomed all the way out and the dark blue was land while the light blue was water.

Reminds me of this scene from Arrested Development https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/28b0326d-cba4-4d26-8c54-977f04b...
by prasadjoglekar | 2025-11-04 18:27:35+00:00
If you buy a PUT, you pay the premium. You'll lose that if your option expires out of the money.

If you sell a PUT, your exposure is much greater; you're the one who has to pay up if the option ends up in the money.

The deadline is the date of the option.

If you do lose money, it's a capital loss (tax benefit) and vice versa for capital gains.
by foofoo12 | 2025-11-04 18:27:59+00:00
From US documentary back in the day: https://youtu.be/wqdRIt1EnkY?si=J3Ntmgyx6P66RpJt&t=217

"The Marshales caught by fallout got 175 wrenchons of radiation. These are fishing people, savages by our standards.

So a cross-section was brought to Chicago for testing. The first was John, the mayor of Rangala Battle. John, as we said, is a savage, but a happy aminable savage."