MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cortesoft | 2025-11-04 04:12:46+00:00
Wait, how are 401ks part of a bankruptcy? I guess the matching portion?

Edit: from my quick research, it appears 401ks are completely protected in a bankruptcy. The only thing would be if the company had not yet sent your contribution to the servicer, then that payment would be considered another creditor. But if the money is in your 401k account at your servicer, the money is protected from any bankruptcy.
by jnathsf | 2025-11-04 04:13:13+00:00
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by taftster | 2025-11-04 04:15:20+00:00
I really do like Cmd key usage for any terminal in Mac. The ability to send Ctrl+C differently than Cmd+C in a Mac is joyous.

However, for most all other applications in Mac, I dislike the Mac command key. Especially in IDEs like vscode, etc.

And I really hate that the actual Ctrl key on a Mac is in the wrong place, having swapped places with Fn. It's like the first thing I have to remember to do on each Mac setup, swap those two keys.

Because I'm toggling between mac/windows/linux all day long, my poor muscle memory is always confused. And it would be nice if this could be unified. Unfortunately, I'm guessing it would have to be solved more by Apple than by Microsoft or Linux.
by quuxplusone | 2025-11-04 04:16:18+00:00
Oh, the other weird thing about this is that even though the "external" catalog information on makingscience.royalsociety.org and the "internal" catalog information penned on page 2 of the letter both describe it as a letter written to Leibniz, and sent to Leibniz, the text of the letter itself refers to Leibniz only in third person, and refers to some other individual in the second person. But it does make (oblique) requests of Leibniz, e.g.

> I question not but Mr Leibnitz may have many of those specimens by him and therefore I doe heartily wish you could prevail wh him to Communicate some of those which would be a means to persuade severall yet incredulous of the possibility of such a Science.

I suppose it could have been written to Leibniz's personal secretary, or some such. If it weren't for all the catalog data I'd assume it was written to some close colleague of Leibniz instead. Anybody want to track down a plausible explanation/mechanism here?
by theamk | 2025-11-04 04:16:23+00:00
I don't think "everyone" pulls from master - "everyone" run the distributions, and they always pin to the specific git commits. Only people who run xorg master are the ones who want bleeding edge, and those would be using it no matter release or not.

And it's not like metux will suddenly become more careful just because he does not have to worry about other anymore. If anything, I expect there to be much faster changes and much more breaking things... Here is a great quote [0]

> @metux that you've had to fix this bug twice (!1844 (merged), !1845 (merged)) shows a lack of attention and care. This was a known regression, with clear reproduction steps, and at first glance, it does not look like you tested your PR at all.

> And that goes in general; I really haven't seen the level of care and attention I would expect to see in these patches; several of them had obvious buffer overflow issues that would have easily been caught if tested.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1797#no...
by leptons | 2025-11-04 04:16:23+00:00
It is weird that AI is solving hard problems for you. I can't get it to do the most basic things consistently, most of the time it's just pure garbage. I'd never pay for "AI" because it wastes more of my time than it saves. But I've never had a problem wrapping my head around a problem, I solve problems.

I'm curious what kind of problem your "brain cant wrap around", but the AI could.
by bri3d | 2025-11-04 04:16:35+00:00
I'm not even sure "fanatic" was the right word, as most of them actually had a pretty measured take on the state of Rust and were not the sort of aggressive evangelists that people sometimes associate with the language. They were just way more interested in exploring/iterating on/consuming the programming language itself, rather than using it to actually solve business problems. I suppose depending on the connotation of the word "technician" we might be discussing separate people, although it's almost a horseshoe effect where they both loop around into not moving a project forward.
by jawiggins | 2025-11-04 04:16:41+00:00
Yeah I really like their rewards program: https://e-i.uhc.com/uhcrewards

Each year they pay me $1,000 (in the form of HSA deposits, which I can invest) to do basic things like get a checkup, get a flu shot, and get a blood test. I sync my wear-able data and they pay me $1-2 each time I exercise or get enough sleep.

It's great!
by com2kid | 2025-11-04 04:17:14+00:00
Bandcamp doesn't have the same sort of community structure. It has discoverability now but it isn't really a place that I go to discover new music or explore genres. (Actually after a decade+ of using Bandcamp I just discovered this year that it has genre home pages, I always thought Bandcamp was just a host for artist pages).

For a long time there was a gap in the market. One could argue that Myspace kind of filled that gap for awhile for certain music genres, but it was a small fraction of what mp3.com was in terms of breadth. Of course Myspace spawned multiple main stream hit bands, so arguably the impact was greater. (I'm not aware of any bands that became huge stars based off their mp3.com listens!)

It is funny reading the Wikipedia infra page for MP3.com, now days making something akin to it would be almost trivial, given the scale they were operating at during that time frame.

I'm still salty that ordering a CD from them just got you 128kbit MP3s burned toba disc.
by maxglute | 2025-11-04 04:17:39+00:00
Because they are different goods that can't be aquacultured locally. Because PRC fisherman gets to make a living selling higher value wild fish like everyone else. Because it's simply not a problem when PRC decides to fish in international waters, again like everyone else, all of whom are similarly poorly behaved, i.e. SKR, JP, TW, ES... but you know 3/4 of those are US partners vs PRC, so they don't get the smear campaign.
by taftster | 2025-11-04 04:18:30+00:00
Yes, but specifically in the context of Terminals (as discussed in the original article), it's really convenient to be able send Ctrl-C (break) differently than Cmd-C (copy).

So yes keyboard remapping is an option. But there's just differences you can't remap because of the extra meta keys on Mac (and I guess on Windows too, with the Copilot or Start keys in play).
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-11-04 04:19:12+00:00
There was a group on deviantArt called flashers. I wasn’t a member myself, but some of their members made some neat stuff I remember.

The group hasn’t been active for many years now it looks like, but the group page still exists.

https://www.deviantart.com/flashers

Group founded 2004.

There’s not much in the group gallery now, so probably I was looking in the individual galleries of some of the members and I think some of the time some member would make something and post it to Albino Blacksheep and sites like that and maybe post a journal entry about it to their own individual journal on their own profile.

deviantArt also had IRC-like group chats. Flashers had a chat room. There’s a link to it still in the about section of the group, but that link doesn’t work any more. Even if a group didn’t have much posted into its gallery they could have a lot of member activity in those chat rooms. And from what I remember, I think I visited the flashers chat room a few times and that it was pretty active.

I think some chat rooms were private, and some were open even to people who were not in any particular group.
by Animats | 2025-11-04 04:19:13+00:00
> you can't really get below the level of the buildings before the gaussian splatting is very obvious.

True. If you bring the viewpoint down to near street level and look horizontally, it's worse than traditional photogrammetry methods.

I've been looking for algorithms like this for representing distant regions in virtual worlds. Open Drone Map can do a good job, sometimes, but it really needs a cleanup pass.
by necovek | 2025-11-04 04:19:33+00:00
But very similar versioning schemes have been used by different software for a long time before SemVer was formalized as such: again, if you accept any user interface as the interface, vs API interface (or interfaces for developers) as you originally proposed, I have no issue with that.

Eg. GNU coding standards[1] said the following at least 18 years ago:

You should identify each release with a pair of version numbers, a major version and a minor. We have no objection to using more than two numbers, but it is very unlikely that you really need them.

I'd also note that your user app versioning seems to use the same approach.

[1] https://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnustandards/gnustandard...
by somenameforme | 2025-11-04 04:19:43+00:00
The Reconquista was a large scale genocidal war with millions dead?

Try to find a single reliable source supporting this claim. You might be surprised to find that it doesn't exist, and that it's also an example of citogenesis. [1] This is another perfect example of what I'm talking about. After Muslim armies invaded the Iberian Peninsula they created a system of government with a tiny minority of Arabs at the top with everybody else treated as distant second class citizens. They started trying to force people to convert and imposed taxes and other penalties on those who did not.

The predictable rebellions against this were the start of the Reconquista. It spanned many hundreds of years but was almost all extremely small scale. And they weren't driving anybody out in large numbers. The Arab and Berber tribes never engaged in mass migration or anything like that. Iberia remained overwhelmingly native Iberian with a tiny Arab elite. The same Spaniards and Portuguese you know of today are the ones that were there under Islamic rule as well.

[1] - https://xkcd.com/978/
by vel0city | 2025-11-04 04:19:59+00:00
> Given the trajectory of inference cost, it unlikely that they would fail to reach profitability.

> We don't have evidence one way or the other

I don't see how both of these things can be true. How can we know something to be likely or unlikely if we have no evidence of how things are?

If we don't have any evidence they're moving towards profitability, how is it likely they will become profitable?
by canucker2016 | 2025-11-04 04:20:09+00:00
Wow. Has it been almost 20 years since the gold linker appeared?

LLVM's lld linker is typically faster. see https://llvm.org/devmtg/2017-10/slides/Ueyama-lld.pdf and https://lld.llvm.org/

The developer behind the lld linker then developed the mold linker - see https://github.com/rui314/mold and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34382908

There's also the wild linker - see https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-Linker, https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814683
by cholantesh | 2025-11-04 04:24:06+00:00
I actually haven't said word one about whether there should be a trial. Conversely, you said this:

>There's been no trial and the footage, which was doctored, does not clearly show this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806468)

>I also pointed out that the video doesn't clearly support the allegation, and the video has been doctored. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806559)

There is no assertion in these sentences that treats the video being doctored and not showing a rape as contested allegations that need to be established as fact over the course of a trial. Maybe you've changed your mind in the past couple of hours, though.
by jmspring | 2025-11-04 04:25:23+00:00
'Nobody’s actually run this in production' - the majority of people who work with postgres don't talk about it or gloat about it because it's a tool that works - including it's addons.

Yes, young engineers get all hot and bothered over the most recent tools but - they have no idea how things work and run.

I worked on a project that wanted to use a hot and frothy vector database. The issue - ok, where are we getting the 1/4-1/2 time person to manage it? Product engineers - derp? what? People who live in node and python cutting edge don't really think about the actual production implications of their choices.
by m463 | 2025-11-04 04:25:49+00:00
This is interesting, but I wonder how it will play out.

I remember reading about the advent of nuclear power, which was supposed to be "too cheap to meter", but it never materialized.

My taks is that "free" always, always correlates with bad behavior. I think people might just heat their pool with resistive electricity. Or air condition their backyard.
by Subsentient | 2025-11-04 04:25:58+00:00
Location - Phoenix. Remote is acceptable. I could consider relocating for the right job. Technologies: C, C++, Rust, Python, Lua, C#, shell, heavy embedded Linux experience, wrote an init system in C when I was a teenager.

I can say that I'm a very good firmware engineer with a lot of experience tinkering with Linux and know most of the C language by heart. Currently doing contract work but looking for a more permanent position.

I have a lot of experience in audio/video, access control, extensive multithreading, and low-level networking (BSD sockets)
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-04 04:26:26+00:00
Automated code formatting, in my experience, never decreases diff sizes, and frequently increases them. Some of those diff size increases support git-blame, some of them hinder it. Around the boundary between two possible formattings, they’re terrible.

Code formatters do tend to force some patterns that may make the line-oriented git-blame more useful such as splitting function calls into many lines, with a single argument on each line; yet that’s not about the code formatter, just the convention. (And the automatic formatters choose it because they have no taste, which is necessary to make other styles consistently good. If you have taste, you can do better than that style, sometimes far better.)
by satisfice | 2025-11-04 04:26:40+00:00
I think you are the one dismissing evidence. The valid chains of reasoning you speak of (assuming you are talking about text you see in a “thinking model” as it is preparing its answer) are narratives, not the actual reasoning that leads to the answer you get.

I don’t know what LLMs are doing, but only a little experimentation with getting it to describe its own process shows that it CAN’T describe its own process.

You can call what a TI calculator does “thinking” if you want. But what people are interested in is human-like thinking. We have no reason to believe that the “thinking” of LLMs is human-like.
by ggm | 2025-11-04 04:26:42+00:00
They were basically out of service by the time I was out of short trousers. I made special trips south to see the "warship" class 43 hydromatic transmission in Western Region out of Old Oak Common in London, the type 44 "peak" series and the diminutive type 3 diesel shunter at Birkenhead. The baby deltics were probably parked in a yard waiting scrapping.

I have dim memories of being held up over a bridge to watch steam trains pass, but by the time I was obsessively writing down numbers they were special trains like "Sir Nigel Gresley" and "the Flying Scotsman"

I left britain before the east coast electrification. I do still see my favourite type 8 Diesel shunter, the most ubiquitous kind in Britain, when I pass by.

If you want sheer power, It's a Deltic every time. That high pitched whine, it's unmistakable.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-04 04:28:05+00:00
> By that logic none of us should be paying monthly subscriptions for anything because obviously someone would disrupt that pricing model and take business away from all the tech companies who are charging it?

Non sequitur.

If a market is being ripped off by subscription, there is opportunity in selling the asset. Vice versa: if the asset sellers are ripping off the market, there is opportunity to turn it into a subscription. Business models tend to oscillate between these two for a variety of reasons. Nothing there suggets one mode is infinitely yielding.

> If Apple does finally come up with a fully on-device AI model that is actually useful, what makes you think they won't gate it behind a $20/mo subscription like they do for everything else?

If they can, someone else can, too. They can make plenty of money selling it straight.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-11-04 04:28:06+00:00
Its unclear what you claim lossless compression does or doesn't do, especially since you tie in storing an RNG's seed value at the end of your comment.

"LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models"

Implies they use the LLM's next token probability distribution to bring the most likely ones up for the likelihood sorted list of tokens (the higher the next token from the input stream -generated by humans or not- the fewer bits needed to encode its position starting the count from top to bottom, so the better the LLM can predict the true probability of the next token, the better it will be able to compress human-generated text in general)

Do you deny LLM's can be used this way for lossless compression?

Such a system can accurately reconstruct the uncompressed original input text (say generated by a human) from its compressed form.
by userbinator | 2025-11-04 04:28:26+00:00
They're all macros to make common operations more compact

I read the J Incunabulum before encountering this, and the point that stands out is that you don't start by jumping into the middle of it like many programmers who are familiar with C will do; the macros defined at the beginning will confuse you otherwise. They also build upon previous ones, so the code ends up climbing the "abstraction ladder" very quickly. I personally like the Iterate macro (i), for how it compresses a relatively verbose loop into a single character; and of course in an array language, the iteration is entirely implicit.

In other words, I believe the reason this code is hard to read for many who are used to more "normal" C styles is because of its density; in just a few dozen lines, it creates many abstractions and uses them immediately, something which would otherwise be many many pages long in a more normal style. Thus if you try to "skim read" it, you are taking in a significantly higher amount of complexity than usual. It needs to be read one character at a time.

As someone who has spent considerable time working with huge codebases composed of hundreds of tiny files that have barely any substance to them, and trying to find where things happen becomes an exercise in search, this extreme compactness feels very refreshing.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-04 04:28:54+00:00
Low doesn't mean zero, it means low. You might notice I used different terms for the different groupings, with the chance of a citizen being targeted by ICE as the highest overall at "low". ICE has so far deported more than 400,000 illegal aliens. [1] If they were "only" 99% accurate, you'd be able to find thousands of instances where things went wrong. Instead, you're looking more at tens to low hundreds of instances, so it's likely that their overall accuracy is somewhere in the 99.9% to 99.99% range.

And as I was demonstrating above, the conditional probabilities required for a false positive from this app mean that it's practical effective accuracy rate will likely be 100%.

[1] - https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/23/new-milestone-over-2-mil...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-04 04:29:19+00:00
> then they need to be able to weather a long western economic embargo until they can "break the siege" with demand for what they control along with minor good faith concessions

And you know we'd be potting their transport ships, et cetera, from a distance the whole time, all to terrific fanfare. The Taiwan Strait would become the new training ground for naval drones, with the targets being almost exclusively Chinese.
by maxglute | 2025-11-04 04:29:24+00:00
Good thing it's not their food then. Again most of fishing done legally in high seas, international waters, where commercial fishing at industrial scales now sufficient to alter coastal state ecology. And that sucks for them. But UNCLOS gave these fishing states 200nm which is fuckload more area historic fishing practices need. Meanwhile PRC, one of the largest countries with the smallest coastal entitlement / EEZs due to regional geography means they have to fish on high seas for proportional access. That's baked into UNCLOS, coastal states gets to milk their EEZ, everyone else gets access to the commons. If someone wants to start a war over that, they can, but let's not pretend they'd be anything but pirates, because DWF pillaging he commons is both legally allowed and intended.
by jmspring | 2025-11-04 04:29:50+00:00
No, but working at a company that was founded by a bunch of former gov employees, the coverage is mostly ok and some having to manage the refusal bs. What was new to me - a gap that went employed -> consulting -> employed - (same company family) - how damn expensive top tier coverage for a family of three really is - $3700/mo. Insane.
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by vivzkestrel | 2025-11-04 04:32:32+00:00
The way i like to think of this is along the lines of mathematics as usual. Because everything we observe in this universe so far adheres to mathematics except the inside of a blackhole, what happens after death also remains one of the many infinite possibilities. one possibility is that nothing happens and you are just gone gone. Another possibility is that you get reincarnated based on your karma. Another possibility is that you go to heaven or hell. Another possibility is that something entirely different happens as soon as you step outside this spacetime continuum because death takes you outside this thing for sure. There could be another infinite list of possibilities that none of the religions and none of the humans have accounted for