MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bemmu | 2025-11-05 16:59:33+00:00
Senior Raya Osagie, 16, said she has to “think more in class” because she used to Google answers or use artificial intelligence. “Now when we get computers, I actually have to [do] deep research instead of going straight to AI,” she said.

This kind of blew my mind a bit, as I had always imagined AI being used to do homework, hadn't occurred to me it could be used during a class as well.
by 7thaccount | 2025-11-05 17:00:05+00:00
I respectfully disagree. The amount of folks in upper management that can actually use something like Tableau is very small. However it doesn't matter as none of those people have the time outside of very small businesses which probably don't need it anyway. The business intelligence person is supposed to deliver succinct insights to upper management to act on, not say "here's a cool system I built you... figure it out yourself". Executives aren't getting paid $$$$$$$$ to do data analysis. Hopefully I'm not misrepresenting your point.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-05 17:00:32+00:00
I'm not much of an iOS gamer, but I also wasn't a big fan of the corporate pissing match between the two companies. There was no technical reason Epic couldn't compile Fortnite for iOS--they just wanted to put their "store" in the way. Which is what I'm really against: I don't want crapware stores all over my device as a prerequisite for installing software.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-11-05 17:01:50+00:00
People complain about fragmentation, but I feel like they are missing the forest for the trees.

In the past if you didn't find something you needed, you'd design your own. Now you just tweak RISC-V.

I mean "12 variants of RISC-V" is actually less fragmentation than "RISC-V and 11 others".

As long as there is a stable core to target, that is all that matters for main stream adoption, and profiles and distros are already there with RVA23.
by simonw | 2025-11-05 17:02:19+00:00
The view source link isn't there so upper management who don't know SQL can look at it. It's there so other people in the organization who do know SQL have the opportunity to check the work.

At my last large employer I genuinely lost count of the number of times I saw a BI report which pulled numbers from our data warehouse... and then found out it had misinterpreted a key detail because the engineering team had changed some table design six months ago and the data analysis team hadn't been told about the change.
by zygentoma | 2025-11-05 17:02:31+00:00
Removing this:

@layer base { :root, #nd-docs-layout { --fd-layout-offset: max(calc(50vw - var(--fd-layout-width)/2),0px); } }

fixes it for me and I can read the text now …

EDIT: Oh, or making the window less than around 3000 px wide does also fix it, and resizing you can see what is happening there …
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-05 17:03:09+00:00
RISC-V shouldn't try to catch 40 years of spiral-development, but rather focus on something people can gather momentum around.

amd64 wasn't a great design, but provided a painless migration path for x86 developers to 64bit. Even Intel adopted this competitors architecture.

I like the company making a multi-core pseudo GPU card around RISC-V + DSP cores, but again copying NVIDIA bodged on mailbox style hardware is a mistake. It is like the world standardized around square-wheels as a latency joke or something... lol

Making low-volume bespoke silicon is a fools errand, and competing with a half-baked product for an established market is a failed company sooner or later.

I think people are confusing what I see with what I would like to see. An open ISA would be great, but at this point I can't even convince myself I'd buy a spool of such chips. =3
by consumer451 | 2025-11-05 17:04:03+00:00
I am just tired of this level of inaction, and now with AI data centers, going backwards quickly.

I have decided that I should adopt a more consequentialist philosophy.

I no longer care about winning specific intellectual arguments if those wins do not make the world a better place.

Disclaimer: I still don't know how to state this best. Do you understand what I am attempting to say?
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-05 17:04:04+00:00
The Ohio River is a mile wide at Louisville, but that still doesn't wide enough to classify it "large body of water", especially because it is a river that moves relatively quick for its width and then hits falls/rapids just downstream of Louisville.

But also there's a lot of urban and suburban development you'd have to displace to even consider moving the airport near the Ohio River for most miles both up and down stream of Louisville.
by FishByte | 2025-11-05 17:04:11+00:00
Only a few ago I had been installing new VoIP phones for a small business on the East Coast that had 2 or 3 green screen terminals and an IBM server running some variant of Unix. Most people in the office had terminal emulators, but one fellow in the warehouse section showed off his boxed terminals they had on hand incase one died. It is interesting to me to hear from someone that experienced these anachronistic machines and software. Very unique building, there was a floor between floors you could only get to via the warehouse. It made for an unnaturally long stairwell.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-05 17:04:11+00:00
Translating a computer program you can be right or wrong. To write a Rust program that (1) compiles and (2) actually does the job you have to solve constraint problems exactly. If you are translating from English to Japanese you have a wide range of choices, people could argue a lot over whether or not a translation is good, practically one that is "95% correct" by one person's measure might be preferred over a "100% correct" one because people like the style better.
by bmadduma | 2025-11-05 17:04:21+00:00
Buddhika and Kelum here. We built an AI bookkeeper and CFO because we couldn't afford to close our own books.

Six months ago, we were building financial intelligence for enterprise CFOs. We'd spend months getting access to their SAP or Oracle systems, then more weeks understanding data models that no one documented. After 18 months and a handful of customers, we couldn't make it work reliably. The integration complexity was killing us.

The breaking point came when we realized we hadn't closed our own books for the last full year. Our accountant was chasing us as he needed to file year-end. We use QuickBooks just to invoice customers, never record any expenses or reconcile a bank statement.

So we pivoted and started building a full end-to-end bookkeeping and financial intelligence platform for startups and small businesses. The good thing is at least we can eat our own dogfood and iterate.

Initially we thought it was a super easy problem to solve. Also as engineers we thought this was not complex or sexy enough for us to even work on. But the technical problem was harder than expected. Bank transactions are a mess, "CL GRP INSURED INS" could be what? There are so many edge cases and they're different business to business.

The reconciliation part for expenses was surprisingly straightforward, matching transactions by amount, date and description within a 3-5 day window, flag exceptions. The hard part is handling edge cases like income recognition, refunds, split payments, bulk payments and foreign currency.

What we have now: - Automatic transaction categorization (QuickBooks integration) - Email parsing for invoices and receipts - Real-time cashflow, burn rate P&L that updates as transactions come in - Month-end close that actually... closes

What we haven't figured out: - Multi-entity companies (parent/subsidiary structures) - Handling equity compensation properly - International tax complexity - Many more unknow edge cases.

We're looking for 100 founding users who are willing to connect their QuickBooks accounts and try it out. If you're a technical founder doing your own books, I'd genuinely love feedback on what's hardest for you.

Early access: https://www.layernext.ai/
by ch71r22 | 2025-11-05 17:04:27+00:00
Not sure if I have this right but this is how I understand it

> So is the magic here that it's Postgres? What makes being able to query something in Postgres special?

There are a bunch of pros and cons to using Postgres vs. DuckDB. The basic difference is OLTP vs. OLAP. It seems pg_lake aims to give you the best of both. You can combine analytics queries with transactional queries.

pg_lake also stores and manages the Iceberg catalog. If you use DuckDB you'll need to have an external catalog to get the same guarantees.

I think if you're someone who was happy using Postgres, but had to explore alternatives like DuckDB because Postgres couldn't meet your OLAP needs, a solution like pg_lake would make your life a lot simpler. Instead of deploying a whole new OLAP system, you basically just install this extension and create the tables you want OLAP performance from with `create table ... using iceberg`

> when we say it’s now queryable by Postgres, does this mean that it takes that data and stores it in your PG db?

Postgres basically stores pointers to the data in S3. These pointers are in the Iceberg catalog that pg_lake manages. The tables managed by pg_lake are special tables defined with `create table ... using iceberg` which stores the data in Iceberg/Parquet files on S3 and executes queries partially with the DuckDB engine and partially with the Postgres engine.

It looks like there is good support for copying between the Iceberg/DuckDB/Parquet world and the traditional Postgres world.

> Or it remains in S3 and this is a translation layer for querying with PG?

Yes I think that's right -- things stay in S3 and there is a translation layer so Postgres can use DuckDB to interact with the Iceberg tables on S3. If you're updating a table created with `create table ... using iceberg`, I think all the data remains in S3 and is stored in Parquet files, safely/transactionally managed via the Iceberg format.

https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake/blob/main/docs/ice...
by Der_Einzige | 2025-11-05 17:04:48+00:00
They always say "no, it'll be GOOGLE!" and try to bring up TPUsv6 (you still can't even play with ironwood/TPUv7 yet) as though they're competitive with blackwell let alone Reuben, as though anyone except google internal engineers get real value from them, and as though GCP doesn't have well over 1 million+ haswell/blackwell GPUs.

These same people unironically believe that Gemini was trained with zero GPUs for any part of the process (including all experiments), and it was all done on TPUs. They cite this as evidence that CUDA/Nvidia is dead.

It's stupid, it's wrong, but it's what they claim.

I'm going to be a lot wealthier than the Nvidia bears.

And if you don't believe this, just take one look at TPU pricing (remember, Trillium is TPUv6) and tell me this is competitive with Nvidia/Oracle/any neocloud with a straight face.

https://cloud.google.com/tpu/pricing?hl=en
by Levitz | 2025-11-05 17:05:18+00:00
You are just proving my point. Statements like this show that it's worthless to engage.

Can you provide any source for her "calling for trans people to be physically attacked"? Because you seem fixated on it, and I've just spent the last 15 minutes looking for one, and I can't find it.

What I can find is her spending so much goddamned money on philanthropy that she stops being a billionaire, while not dodging a dime of taxes precisely because she considers it her obligation. A fortune amassed in what is probably the most ethic way possible, through exploitation of nobody, writing books.

Related to this I can find the foundation of the Volant Charitable Trust, "a grant-making trust to support charitable causes in Scotland, helping vulnerable groups with an emphasis on women, children and young people."

I can also find a comment of "every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them".

And that's the point. You want to paint her as some lunatic who would like to hunt trans people down for sport, when it's crystal clear that she has the "radical" (standard 2018 radical leftist) notion that trans women are not the same thing as biological women and that the definition of women shouldn't be changed to appease to them.

But again. It's not worth it to engage, because we both know I can spend 20+ minutes working on this reply and you are not going to change your stance. An apostate is worse than a heathen, which is why people complain about Rowling rather than anyone who is actually right wing. Because you are scared that if you defended her, you would face the same judgement. Making the world a worse place through and through.
by e3bc54b2 | 2025-11-05 17:05:20+00:00
> all come out at “question mark in a box” (Chrome, Edge) or “codepoint hex in box” (FF) on the old Win10 box that I'm currently trying to retire. The come out find on a similarly default Win11 setup.

This is pretty funny to me, because on plain ol' Firefox on NixOS everything looks just fine!

We've come pretty far from the days when things were randomly broken on Linux..
by kid64 | 2025-11-05 17:05:37+00:00
There are entire businesses still running on Commodores..

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2562588/this-us-business-sti...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Commodore/comments/avv1j1/this_olda...

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.cbm/c/LuLJihA1NCU?pli=1...
by yfontana | 2025-11-05 17:05:51+00:00
> - It says it's done when its code does not even work, sometimes when it does not even compile.

> - When asked to fix a bug, it confidently declares victory without actually having fixed the bug.

You need to give it ways to validate its work. A junior dev will also give you code that doesn't compile or should have fixed a bug but doesn't if they don't actually compile the code and test that the bug is truly fixed.
by postexitus | 2025-11-05 17:05:58+00:00
What this blog omits to mention and I think the most impressive part of Smalltalk ecosystem is the structure of the image - the application's state that you can freeze and distribute and resume elsewhere (makes supporting client side applications so much easier). The Smalltalk image is a very interesting beast. Look at it as a kind of immortality. Many current Smalltalk systems, Pharo, Squeak, VisualWorks among them, share a common ancestor, that is, a Smalltalk image from Xerox PARC. This common ancestor however is not some remote thing, but actually still alive in those modern systems. The modern variants were produced by sending messages to the objects in that image. Some of those messages actually morphed the current objects. Classes are full-blown objects, and creating new classes is done by sending messages to class objects. Some of the objects in a Smalltalk image may date back to 1972, when the first Smalltalk image bootstrapped! Smalltalk images never die, they just fade into something potentially fundamentally different. You should view your application building as not fundamentally different from creating a new Smalltalk version.
by thesuitonym | 2025-11-05 17:06:11+00:00
> I will say that these systems take time and effort to learn. You have to commit these UI paths to memory, which isn't too hard, but in order to be maximally effective, you also have to memorize a lot of product metadata.

One thing that often gets lost in the discussion of TUIs vs GUIs is that this is also true of GUIs. You have to know which icon to click, and it's not always in the same place, and not always labeled. Increasingly, functionality is hidden behind a hamburger menu, and not laid out in logical sections like File, Edit, View, etc menus.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-05 17:06:18+00:00
> The problem with using this kind of monitor for any work that others will view on their own monitors is that your perception of what looks good will be way off.

That’s not the problem of using this monitor for creating the work, that’s the problem of not also using a more typical monitor (or, better, an array covering the common use cases, but which is practical depends on whether you are talking about a solo creator or a bigger team) for validating the work.

Just as with software, developers benefit from a more powerful machine for developing, but the product benefits from also being tested on machines more like the typical end-user setup.
by newscracker | 2025-11-05 17:06:32+00:00
I feel what this article says based on some recent (non-catastrophic) experiences. I think I’m probably an above average user when it comes to Excel skills. I love spreadsheets. But I struggle with formulas like index, match, vlookup/xlookup and many others, and even more so when it requires nesting one within another and coming up with the underlying logic that leads to some complex nested formulas.

Over the past couple of months, I’ve tried some smaller models on duck.ai and also ChatGPT directly to create some columns and formulas for a specific purpose. I found that ChatGPT is a lot better than the “mini” models on duck.ai. But in all these cases, though these platforms seemed more capable than me and could make attempts to explain their formulas, they were many a times creating junk and “looping” back with formulas that didn’t really work. I had to point out the result (blank or some #REF or other error) multiple times and they would acknowledge that there’s an issue and provide a working formula. That wouldn’t work either!

I really love that these LLMs can sort of “understand” what I’m asking, break it down in English, and provide answers. But the end result has been an exercise in frustration and waste of time.

Initially I really thought and believed that LLMs could make Excel more approachable and easier to use — like you tell it what you want and it’ll figure it out and give the magic incantations (formulas). Now I don’t think we’re anywhere close to that if ChatGPT (which I presume powers Copilot as well) struggles and hallucinates so much. I personally don’t have much hope with the (comparatively) smaller and older models.
by buellerbueller | 2025-11-05 17:06:37+00:00
I think this repartee encapsulates a huge frustration with the tech sector:

> op (as legacy business): BAU

> you (as tech): disrupt! disrupt! disrupt!

> me: no thank you; that's not necessary

> you (as tech): stop being mean!

Not wanting your "disruption" is not being un-nice. Your disruption was not asked for in the first place. Forcing it (Uber, Doge, et. al.) on marketplaces, often illegally, and vacuuming it up the income ladder to the already-wealthy IS the "not nice" thing.
by convolvatron | 2025-11-05 17:07:00+00:00
I'm assuming that its stainless. it were were aggressive about it, it would take a patina for anything from grey to black. stainless also develops a really wide variety of colors if you heat treat it in an oven with good temperature control. there a bronze-like color that's nice, and also a blue.

I'm amused to see that so many cybertrucks have been powder coated or wrapped in vinyl.
by vel0city | 2025-11-05 17:07:03+00:00
Individual screens can be isolating, they can also be somewhat social. I agree, not a complete replacement for other social activities for sure. But, as a kid with internet connected videogames growing up, those internet connected games kept me playing with friends from school and other groups even if we weren't able to physically get together that evening.

Meanwhile, my brother would often go dig in and read a fiction book in isolation. Which is fine and great and all. I'm definitely not taking a dig at reading a book in any way. But, its not like only screens lead to isolation. There's plenty of tasks one can do at home that then become isolating.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-11-05 17:07:09+00:00
> I'm noticing that this election result has made a lot of people I know really hopeful.

Since the 2008, the day after every election of a new president, the coalition that elected them had this sense of hope for a brighter tomorrow. One which disappeared within months.

Except maybe 2016, but the bubble I was in was so preoccupied by shock that maybe I missed it (also, I was deeply engrossed in the work I was doing that fall)
by cptnntsoobv | 2025-11-05 17:07:18+00:00
> You actually can do a full checksum

Indeed! This is what I had in mind when I wrote "cumbersome" :).

It's been a while for me to be able to recall whether the problem was the verifier or me, and things may have improved since, but I recall having the verifier choke on a static size limit too. Have you been able to use this trick successfully?

> Always build the eBPF programs in a container

That should work generally but watch out for any weirdness due to the fact that in a container you are already inside a couple of layers of networking (bridge, netns etc.).
by freejazz | 2025-11-05 17:07:47+00:00
Weird, AI companies insist that AI models are not just indexes but instead something the model has "learned".

So, again, to answer my question, it's certainly not a settled matter of law that AI models and/or their "training" is actually akin to a search engine such that it amounts to a fair use. So how is it that the EFF is reporting it like a fact?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 17:08:50+00:00
>but I'd prefer if people didn't use name-recognition to influence such things

You describe a laradox. If Jimmy Wales didn't say it, you never would have ended up making this comment. And thus attention to the matter that there are even edit wars on Gaza would be suppressed.

We're a social species, so attaching a familiar name or face will always get more attention. You can even observe this on Reddit in how including a person holding the artwork (male or female) instead of the art alone results in more upvotes. so the face doesn't even need a reputation behind it.
by pashabitz | 2025-11-05 17:08:52+00:00
Just got off a call with recruiter. Completely dishonest in the job posting. Stay away!

This role is advertising comp range of $200,000-$320,000 https://tbkbank.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/tfin/details/Sta...

Actual range delivered to me on a phone call with their recruiter is $200,000-$240,000

I have no idea why you would do this but they do.
by abtinf | 2025-11-05 17:09:23+00:00
> The [goal] of machine learning research is to [do better than humans at] theorem proving, algorithmic problem solving, and drug discovery.

Naively, one of those things is not like the others.

When I run into things like this, I just stop reading. My assumption is that a keyword is being thrown in for grant purposes. Who knows what other aspects of reality have been subordinated to politics by the writer.
by rpcope1 | 2025-11-05 17:09:45+00:00
It's amazing that towns don't see this sort of thing and think "huh maybe it's not a good idea to put apartments right on top of an airport", but I guess they don't. Longmont is in trouble with the FAA because they OKed a bunch of apartments right at the end of Vance Brand that would be right in the path of aircraft struggling to gain altitude out of the airport. Naturally there's a vocal contingent of people around here that think this is the airport's problem and not the town or greedy developers, and that all the airports (except DIA) should be shut down.