MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RevEng | 2025-11-22 18:15:24+00:00
These growth requirements are simply infeasible.

Semiconductor density, speed, and power efficiency grow much slower than doubling every six months. Creating custom silicon for this won't help - plenty of companies, including Nvidia, are already optimizing their hardware for these tasks and they are very good at it. Production capacity can't scale nearly that fast for myriad reasons, including access to materials, production capacity of inputs, the time and complexity of building new production facilities, the lack of experts available for all of this, and the long time frames for training new people.

This to me is the biggest sign that this is a bubble. Even if demand shrinks, it could still be huge. Even if many use cases are impractical, we will still find some where it's valuable. But the market is basing its valuations on forecasts of tremendous growth that simply can't be supported physically.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-11-22 18:16:18+00:00
Tiny anecdote - it was only after being a parent for a decade or so that, when doing family history, I realised that my dad's parenting style -- which influenced my own so much -- was affected by being essentially fatherless; he had no direct model to base his own parenting on. WWII affecting children's upbringing ~70 years later.

I think he did a great job when I was younger, but we haven't maintained a strong bond as adults (which is my fault as much as anything); something I want to try and change with my own children.
by ajkjk | 2025-11-22 18:16:24+00:00
I could see childhood friends mattering a lot precisely because it's the thing that can save you from the problems with your parents.

Bad parents but good early friendships=turn out ok=don't show up in the data. Bad parents and bad early friendships = have it rough, show up in the data. The parents are the cause but the correlation to early friendships is even stronger because of the mediating effect.
by georgefrowny | 2025-11-22 18:16:25+00:00
> An answer usually contains more information than just that one bit.

That means there is less information in the question "do they have long hair?", not more. Asking "long hair?" and then "woman?" is probably, in most groups, roughly the same as just the first or second question alone. So the second question added much less than one bit of information because the answer is probably "yes". "Long hair" and then "metalhead" is the same, except that the answer to the second question is probably "no".

Yes/no questions on average contain the most information each when they partition the remaining possibilities 50:50. Then each answer gives you exactly one more bit. The closet you get to either a 100:0 or 0:100 yes:no split, the smaller the fraction of a bit you encode in the answer.

"Metalhead?" usually gives you lots of bits of information (probably 4 in an "average" group of 16 containing at least one metalhead) if the answer is "yes", but on average that's outweighed by the very high chance that the answer will be "no". If there are no metalheads or only metalheads, it gives you zero information.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-22 18:16:58+00:00
> That's not necessarily true.

Yes it is. Why wouldn't larger foreign tech companies gobble up smaller companies if they were allowed to.

> What's the "it", here?

"Protecting" the population against disinformation. "It" was fairly obvious.

> Talk to any pro-democracy Chinese citizen and I think they will probably agree with me.

You mean the "pro-democracy" plants funded by the US, europe, etc. Good one. The ones that always seem to flee to germany, britain, us, etc after each crackdown? You talking about those ones.

Imagine if china was funding "pro-communism 'citizens'" trying to undermine political systems all over europe and the US.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-11-22 18:17:09+00:00
Interesting. When I first read the Picture of Dorian Gray, I had no idea of its social context -- I didn't know Oscar Wilde was gay, I didn't know the book was considered controversial. I just picked it up on a whim and thought it was a well-written book full of fantastically clever dialogue and over-the-top cynicism. But I was, ironically, left with an impression that the Victorian era was more comfortable with male intimacy, and appreciation for male beauty, than our own. That turned out not to be quite true, of course, as demonstrated by what they did to Wilde himself.

But it's still a fantastic novel.
Ask HN: Is it time to measure Inflation and CPI without the government?
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-22 18:17:57+00:00
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) cancelled the October CPI report and delayed several other releases. Key series such as CPI, real earnings, state JOLTS, and county wage data now have gaps or shifted timelines.

Independent analysts note that missing a full month breaks continuity in the most widely used inflation signal in the United States. Forecasting models lose a key input. The Fed will make its December decision without two consecutive inflation prints.

My assumption is that we should not depend on a single centralized (potentially untrusted) source for something this important.

Private data sources already track groceries, rent, CPG pricing, energy, e-commerce, shipping, and wages in near real time.

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What would it take to build a community-driven, open CPI alternative that is transparent, reproducible, and tamper-resistant?

Some starting points:

* Multiple contributors could publish item-level price feeds (groceries, rent, utilities, services). * Weighted baskets could be open and versioned. * Methods could be fixed, auditable, and stable over time. * Aggregation could be public code using public data where available. * Licensed private datasets could be added for specific categories. * Output could be monthly, weekly, or daily depending on the data.

A decentralized CPI would not replace official CPI, but could offer a continuous, independent signal.

I'm looking for practical approaches: data sources, weighting schemes, methods, and any existing open projects that are doing this today.
by emil-lp | 2025-11-22 18:18:20+00:00
It's still a yes/no question, it's just that the question is "do you have long hair".

The goal of these decision trees is to have as few questions that divide the group in two balanced halves (and also recursively).

If you imagine a binary tree with questions in each internal node, and in each leaf there is a person. You want the height of the tree to be minimized.
by zie | 2025-11-22 18:18:23+00:00
Yes, but you can make assumptions based on what you know about humans generally. Like their example that if you ask if you have long hair. If you answer yes the likelihood is you are probably female.

You can think of all sorts of questions and answers like this, and when you combine with the assumptions and answers from previous answers you can make even more assumptions. They won't always be correct, but you don't have to be "perfect", depending on your use-case. For example for advertising purposes assumptions(even if incorrect) can still go a long way.

There is a reason Target got sooo good at identifying pregnant women[0] before the women knew they were pregnant that they creeped out women, and had to pull back what they did with that information. This was like a decade or more ago. It's only gotten more accurate since then.

0: one example from 2012: https://techland.time.com/2012/02/17/how-target-knew-a-high-...
by beowulfey | 2025-11-22 18:18:37+00:00
It's not just about the economy, it is about freedom of choice. What does Max and Avery feel about their careers? Would they rather be working or watching kids? If one parent has to stay home, that might mean having to give up a good career.

No one should be forced to choose between a career and kids, unless the goal is falling birthrates.
by lateforwork | 2025-11-22 18:18:46+00:00
My first reaction was this has to be fake news. But no, it is real. Here's another story: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/world/europe/denmark-gree...

"Greenlandic children born in Denmark are five times more likely to be taken away from their parents compared with other children in Denmark."
by undeveloper | 2025-11-22 18:18:52+00:00
tldr -- it's fine. MacOS Gatekeeper will create warnings about products that are not signed via the apple developer program, which is $99/year librewolf is an open source product, that is very strictly a "community" libre / FOSS project. naturally, having an individual take up notarization assumedly, you are using brew -- brew recently decided to stop supporting / deprecate all casks that does not pass gatekeeper checks, for some reason I cannot fully determine.
by runako | 2025-11-22 18:20:21+00:00
There's a couple of fallacies embedded here. For example, that there is a thorough and deep vetting process that is also impartial (vs being invested in denying benefits).

Also the assumption that an application that is denied == fraud. Programs are incredibly complex, and requirements are a moving target. I can imagine someone going to renew based on their understanding of the program, and inadvertently being flagged as fraud because some requirement changed (which in turn might have been incorrectly conveyed because the requirements are complex and even state staffers may not understand them all).

Some of this is down to the DOGE definition of "fraud, waste, abuse" as "anything we do not like." Using that definition, you can find fraud anywhere.
by moinism | 2025-11-22 18:20:33+00:00
I agree, technically, "sub agent" is also another tool. But I think it's important to differentiate tools with deterministic input/output from those with reasoning ability. A simple 'Tool' will take the input and try to execute, but the 'subagent' might reason that the action is unnecessary and that the required output already exists in the shared context. Or it can ask a clarifying question from the main agent before using its tools.
by popalchemist | 2025-11-22 18:21:16+00:00
The science on parental influence is well documented. This research may be onto something new - an additional layer of influence. But the personality begins to be formed by extrinsic influences within months of being born. Which is to say, it precedes the stage at which you have the ability to make friends.

The relevant research is called "The Strange Situation" by Beebe. The research spanned decades with the same subjects. The universal predictor of adulthood outcomes (relationships, lifestyle, income, drug use, etc) was whether the mother was attentive and capable of attuning to the child.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-22 18:21:28+00:00
Indeed.

I use only borosilicate glass vessels for cooking, for storing food, for eating and for drinking (some from France, some from Czechia).

I have replaced some of them in order to have more optimized sizes and shapes for the ways I use them (even if the replaced vessels were still perfectly good), and I have some extra vessels kept in reserve for the very unlikely case when I will break a vessel (which has not happened yet).

I do not expect that I would need to buy any more such vessels during my lifetime, unless I will become bored of those that I have and I would want a change.

So making money from selling high-quality glassware that can last forever is much more difficult than getting free money from a software subscription.
by roywiggins | 2025-11-22 18:21:36+00:00
> What is happenning in denmark that allows this process to exist?

I would first ask what happened such that Denmark owns Greenland in the first place, because it's all part of the same process, same as this:

> Thousands of Inuit women and girls were fitted with an intrauterine device (IUD), commonly known as a coil, during the 1960s and 70s... it is unclear how many cases lacked consent or proper explanation.

> Among those affected were girls as young as 12, and several have stated publicly that they were not properly informed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63049387
by constantcrying | 2025-11-22 18:21:44+00:00
Selling products based on nostalgia does not work. Europe needs to do far more keep it's industry afloat and to make locally produced products competitive.

Duralex is currently selling products at 10x the costs of what a similar product, made in China, costs on Amazon. This is not sustainable. These enormous differences in prices mean that only very people can afford their products. It is a brand which sells an everyday item at prices, which are legitimately hard to afford for most of the population.

Obviously a company like this can not succeed long term. It is totally uncompetitive, except for some brand recognition and positive brand perception. These obviously help, but will do nothing for the long term success.
by udev4096 | 2025-11-22 18:21:47+00:00
JavaScript disabling helps a lot, regardless of what author says. It disables most of the tracking attempts, improves security and most of all pages load faster and hardly break if you're just browsing anyway.

The whole article never mentions the gold standard of anti-fingerprinting, Tor Browser. It just shows how shallow the article is when it mentions Mullvad Browser, a fork of TBB, instead of TBB itself! There's also no mention of using an upto-date DNS block list to thwart fingerprinting attempts even more
by ncr100 | 2025-11-22 18:22:26+00:00
From this wrongful-termination suit:

"Adcock and Edelberg [Founder + CEO, Chief Engineer] expressed a dislike of written product requirements, which Plaintiff responded to by indicating that their stance was abnormal in the field of machinery safety and of concern to him as Head of Product Safety. This interaction took place while Plaintiff was on-site in California."

Previously:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43809460 Figure 'exaggerating' humanoid fleet deployment at BMW

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39611184 Figure AI threatens lawsuit to suppress reporting
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-22 18:22:56+00:00
Yeah this is sort of the reaction I had. Removing "risk" with UBI and free healthcare and free childcare also removes the filters for a lot of people who would be bad at running a business. If you don't have the stomach to take the risk and do the work to make your idea a success, then maybe you shouldn't try.

We don't need millions of more failed businesses as the result of giving everyone UBI.
by ameixaseca | 2025-11-22 18:23:15+00:00
Kind of an odd conclusion to take from a weird question.

I would not subject myself or my property to a foreign court system for various reasons, but first and foremost because I'm not subject to their laws.

If I'm on Brazilian territory or doing business in Brazil, however, the question is equally pointless: barring certain exceptions, you are subject to the Brazilian laws to the extent of your presence in the country - period. You have no choice on this matter.

Courts are fallible and that's why you have levels, due process, and presumption of innocence. The Brazilian system is not perfect and it's slow but you cannot say the American system is much better when comparing decisions at same court level.
by codedokode | 2025-11-22 18:23:17+00:00
Does it hide GPU name that is exposed via WebGL/WebGPU? Does it hide internal IP address, available via WebRTC?

> block all third party content

It's not going to work, because the fingerprinting script can be (and is often served) from first-party domain.

Also imagine if browser didn't provide drawing API for canvas (if you would have to ship your own wasm rendering library). Canvas would become useless for fingerprinting and its usage would drop manyfold. And the browser would have less code and smaller attack surface.
by bavell | 2025-11-22 18:23:30+00:00
> A company left to their own devices will optimize for maximum profit at the cost of literally everything else.

You probably meant public companies because otherwise this sentence and rest of your comment do not reflect reality.

According to [0] (2019), 90% of (6.1m) businesses have < 10 employees. Lawsuits are a very big deal to these enterprises. They are not out to kill people for marginal profits.

[0] https://sbecouncil.org/about-us/facts-and-data/
by frumplestlatz | 2025-11-22 18:24:02+00:00
We shouldn’t subsidize employers who fail to pay a living wage.

We also shouldn’t put our finger on the economic scale such that it’s impossible to afford having a family unless both parents work.

There’s no such thing as “free”, and every intervention like this has sweeping and widely unanticipated consequences.

Nevermind the question of whether it’s best for child development, for which we have plenty of evidence showing the answer is “no”.
by nradov | 2025-11-22 18:24:24+00:00
We've strayed pretty far from the original topic here, but the reality is that the US military is literally running out of working aircraft because they're so old. The average age of USAF aircraft is now about 28 years. The fleet was allowed to decay and not substantially recapitalized during the GWOT. Many of the fighters in the combat coded inventory aren't even allowed to hit their original 9G maneuvering limit any more due to accumulated airframe fatigue. Now we're paying an overdue bill.

And let's please not have any uninformed claims that somehow cheap "drones" will magically make large, expensive manned aircraft obsolete. Small, cheap drones are effective in a trench warfare environment like the current conflict in Ukraine but they lack the range, speed, and payload necessary to be useful in a potential major regional conflict with China. And the notion of relying on AI for any sort of complex mission in a dynamic environment remains firmly in the realm of science fiction: maybe that will be feasible in a few decades but for now any really complex missions still rely on humans in the loop to execute effectively.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-11-22 18:24:28+00:00
There's a reason why worker owned companies (which were quite prevalent and a key factor in the 20th century's socialist movements) did not survive in our capitalist world. If we want to see these kinds of companies thrive, we need to change the entire market philosophy. Otherwise they will always be out-competed by companies that favour revenue/profit over worker benefits. In fact they will not even take off in the first place, because that needs capital and investors who own capital will want shares in return, which goes against the core principle of worker-ownership.
by doug_durham | 2025-11-22 18:25:07+00:00
Having been in the business of creating standards compliant equipment in the past, the problem is not as simple as you state. You can provide all of the reference implementations you want and you still will get variances.

The state-of-the-art solution is to put a bunch of people on planes and burn a bunch of jet fuel to attend a "test fest". You can't issue interoperability until you do this. This costs money that needs to be paid by someone.
by vidarh | 2025-11-22 18:26:17+00:00
Exactly this. I would argue that I believe doing it efficiently is "just engineering", but I would not claim we know that to any reasonable amount of certainty.

I hold beliefs about what LLMs may be capable of that are far stronger than what I argued, but stated only what can be supported by facts for a reason:

That absent evidence we can exceed the Turing computable, we have no reason to believe LLMs can't be trained to "represent ideas that it has not encountered before" or "come up with truly novel concepts".
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2025-11-22 18:26:28+00:00
I think "The Soul of the New Machine" definitely captures the idea -- I don't have the exact words, but it's like playing pinball -- you win and you get to play the next one. The reward of completing a tough job is a tougher job.

I really love this kind of culture. Life is grey without being challenged to the limit.
by drdaeman | 2025-11-22 18:26:46+00:00
> The researchers ran the audio and motion data through smaller models that generated text captions and class predictions, then fed those outputs into different LLMs (Gemini-2.5-pro and Qwen-32B) to see how well they could identify the activity.

Maybe I'm not understanding it, but as I get it, LLMs weren't really important: all they did was further interpreting outputs of a fronting audio-to-text classifier model.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-11-22 18:27:35+00:00
Correct. Fraud is fraud, loopholes are loopholes. One is legal, the other is not.

Or put another way - a loophole in law/regulations is found, then the law/regulation gets changed to close the loophole. If it were not legal this change would not be necessary - you would just prosecute.
by reachableceo | 2025-11-22 18:27:51+00:00
I’ve found the combination of Netcup (either tier of offering has been wonderful ) combined with Cloudron gives me the best of both worlds. A marketplace one click app deployment and resources I can scale up or down as needed.

I’m building a business around that offering (turnkey VPS + Cloudron + Backblaze) as I think that gives everyone “cloud” but sovereign. For $250.00 a month.
by jen20 | 2025-11-22 18:27:54+00:00
To be clear, I think both unions are a good idea, or neither are. You can’t pick and choose though - the arguments for one are largely the arguments for the other.

Your statistics are also trivially falsifiable by simple counterexample - the town I lived and voted in during the 2016 EU membership referendum is not London, or the London area, is in England, and voted remain by 57.9% to 42.1%. The major city next door did so by an even more overwhelming margin: 61.7% to 38.3%. Not too many Welsh or Scottish nationalists in either…

So you’ll no doubt forgive me for not taking you too seriously when you spout horse shit dressed up as thoughtfulness.

By the way, I do indeed consider anyone born within the borders of the geographic boundary of Europe to be European, just like anyone born in the United States of America is American. The only arguments against such ideas are dog whistles (or let’s face it, full on soccer whistles at this point).
by leogao | 2025-11-22 18:28:08+00:00
For what it's worth, we think it's unfortunately quite unlikely that frontier models will ever be trained with extreme unstructured sparsity, even with custom sparsity optimized hardware. Our main hope is that understanding sub-frontier models can still help a lot with ensuring safety of frontier models; an interpretable GPT-3 would be a very valuable object to have. It may also be possible to adapt our method to only explaining very small but important subsets of the model.
Ask HN: B2B SaaS founders: what are (or have been) your biggest bottlenecks?
by Vaxind | 2025-11-22 18:28:50+00:00
I'm curious to hear from founders working on vertical B2B SaaS.

What feels like a constant pain point or bottleneck for you?

Could be distribution, demo scheduling, leads, onboarding, customer success, integrations — whatever consistently gets in the way.

I’m not trying to pitch anything. I’m 18 years old and just want to build a useful service to help SaaS founders.

Really appreciate any input or stories you can share!
by lolc | 2025-11-22 18:29:00+00:00
I read the comment about Tinder and Tiktok being in competition differently: To me they said that both Tinder and Tiktok are in competition over eyeballs.

Meaning for example that if Tinder shows me profiles I find less attractive, I'm more likely to churn to Tiktok. So Tinder will show me profiles of people I have no hope of meeting, to keep me engaged nonetheless.
by runako | 2025-11-22 18:29:16+00:00
Varies by state and age? My very red state does not allow a group of 40, full stop. The largest group allowed is for 3-year-olds, with a 1:15 adult:child ratio. For younger children, the ratios and group sizes are smaller.

I was off on the 4-5 though. Ratio for < 1 yo is 1:6.

Anyway, this is all to the point that it's nothing like the 1-2 in in-home care. There's a reason nannies are associated with richer people.