MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by markerz | 2025-11-04 16:38:55+00:00
It's intense market demand by people with lots of money against products that have a very long supply chain. Even with multiple sellers competing, this kind of demand is insane, and the buyers pockets run deep.

The other way I look at this is that these companies have been collecting an insane amount of wealth and value over the last 2-3 decades, are finally in a situation where they feel threatened, and are willing to spend to survive. They have previously never felt this existential threat before. It's basically bidding wars on houses in San Francisco, but with all the wealthiest companies in the world.
by skydhash | 2025-11-04 16:39:15+00:00
While a lot of sites break when you disable JavaScript, browsing is very fluid when you do. I’m also using the html version of DDG. There’s only an handful of websites (and the majority are apps) that I’ve enabled JS for.

And one of these days, I will write a viewer for GitHub links, that will clone the repo and allows me to quickly browse it. For something that is aimed at dev, the platform is horrendous.
by Scoundreller | 2025-11-04 16:39:45+00:00
These price hikes do fun things to the whole market.

In one of the last GPU booms I sold some ancient video card (recovered from a PC they were literally going to put in the trash) for $50.

And it wasn’t because it was special for running vintage games. The people that usually went for 1st rate gpus went to 2nd rate. Pushing the 2nd rate buyers to 3rd rate, creating a market for my 4th rate gpu.
by fragmede | 2025-11-04 16:39:51+00:00
I doubt they were doing deep work in 3 minute chunks in line at the parking ticket office. One thing I realized for me is that simply priming the pump for later had non-zero benefits. Eg, doing a Google search for something, and just reading the result snippets counts for something in those 3 minutes. Reading the Wikipedia page on something isn't full actual proper research, but reading it five times (because you keep getting interrupted in the post office), but still managing to read it, counts as progress for later. Your brain simply just needs time to stew on things, hence the solution striking during a morning shower.
by gtirloni | 2025-11-04 16:40:49+00:00
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by tw04 | 2025-11-04 16:41:25+00:00
>What I want to say - you just beating up a bully will mean some other kid(s) will get beaten up (or beaten up even more) further down the line.

I can tell you first hand this definitely isn't true in all cases.

We had a bully at my school who constantly picked on all sorts of people. Eventually he decided to pick on one of my best friends who got sick of it and took him to the ground and punched him in the face about 15 times.

It was like a light switch - the bully became one of the chillest, nicest kids in our grade after that. He figured out pretty quickly that getting punched in the face isn't much fun and decided it was probably better to stop being a dick to everyone around him because he didn't know who the next person was that would return his shenanigans with violence.
by lmeyerov | 2025-11-04 16:41:27+00:00
(have been a big fan of this work for years now)

From the nearby perspective of building GFQL, an embeddable oss GPU graph dataframe query language somewhere between cypher and duckdb/pandas/spark, at an even higher-level on top of pandas, cudf, etc:

It's nice using higher-level languages with rich libraries underneath so we can focus on the foundational algorithm & data ecosystem problems while still achieving crazy numbers

cudf gives us optimized GPU joins, so jumping from cheap personal CPU or GPU boxes to 80GB server GPUs and deep 2B edge whole-graph queries running in a second without work has been nice :) we want our focus on getting regular graph operations fully data parallel in the way we want while being easy for users, figuring out areas like bigger-than-memory and data lakes, etc, so we want to defer lower-level efforts to when the rust etc rewrite is more merited. I do see value in starting low when the target value and workload is obvious for building our (eg, vector indexes / DBs), but when breaking new ground at every point, value to going where you can roll & extend faster.
by margalabargala | 2025-11-04 16:41:33+00:00
> it tells you nothing about the absolute size of the motor.

No, it tells you nothing about the absolute size of the motor, but for the rest of us, the context clues are there to gain additional information. Someone else constructing something that obfuscates this with a micro-motor doesn't make this useless.

Significant figures exist for a reason. You are ignoring that here and creating precision that does not exist. The kilo-prefix absolutely communicates scale information to most readers.

Similarly it is useful to talk about household electricity consumption in terms of kWh/day, despite that also being a ratio that can reduce down.

The goal here is communication, not theoretical mathematical optimality that is actually worse in every real way.
by dkural | 2025-11-04 16:41:56+00:00
The Chinese Room experiment applies equally well to our own brains - in which neuron does the "thinking" reside exactly? Searle's argument has been successfully argued against in many different ways. At the end of the day - you're either a closet dualist like Searle, or if you have a more scientific view and are a physicalist (i.e. brains are made of atoms etc. and brains are sufficient for consciousness / minds) you are in the same situation as the Chinese Room: things broken down into tissues, neurons, molecules, atoms. Which atom knows Chinese?
by mindcrime | 2025-11-04 16:42:34+00:00
Truly a "Not all heroes wear capes" situation.

As I said in a statement that day, “Knowing that I can stand in front of 12 of my fellow citizens and be found not guilty for standing up for basic human rights makes me feel like, despite the scary times we live in, we have hope for the future.”

Well said. And while I know some people will object to what I'm about to say, I'm reminded of this old saw:

"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and cartridge (or ammo). Please use in that order."[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty
by aids_bomb | 2025-11-04 16:42:53+00:00
> Judging by the videos I came across, she seems to be the size and build of an average women, how could she possibly have hurt the two officers?

Have you seen officers in the country. Half of them an obese slobs.

Also I’ve seen the caliber of ICE recruiters in a bodycam the other day. The agent had been pulled over for a DUI and was drunkenly questioning the arresting officer on if they were Haitian.
by sd9 | 2025-11-04 16:43:26+00:00
Awesome!

I've considered trying to do some hyper optimisation, taking into account the number of cycles each instruction takes - it seems that a lot of people are interested in that.

That's not my natural style though. I've had plenty of criticism for not being performance sensitive, but that's not really how I unwind (although I do plenty of optimisation at work!).

It could be fun to explore ingame though.
by dwa3592 | 2025-11-04 16:43:27+00:00
edited- It really depends on your definition of 'thinking' or 'intelligence'. These are umbrella terms for the biology and physics that we don't understand yet. We don't know how we think, or how cats think or how unicellular bacterias think. We just know that we do, and we have a very loose understanding of it. As a human, you have the freedom to juxtapose that loose understanding on non-living things. In my mind, you are just anthropomorphizing, machines are not thinking.
by bweisb | 2025-11-04 16:43:35+00:00
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by anonfunction | 2025-11-04 16:43:46+00:00
I made this app to scratch an itch of mine caused by flakey ethernet connection through my dock. Fairly often my internet connection falls back to wifi instead of ethernet though my dock. There's no built-in menu bar icon I could find to show ethernet connection status and opening the network pane in system settings was tiresome. So I decided to make my first mac app!

Claude code wrote all the code, openai generated the app icon. I wrote a small golang program to take the 1024x1024 png from openai and resize/rename it to the expected iconset format and json file.

This was a fun experiment, I don't think there's ever been a time where people could so easily create native applications!
by ryandrake | 2025-11-04 16:43:49+00:00
By the time the treasure hoard gets passed on to the next generation, the inequality "damage" has already been done. If an inheritance tax has to be applied, this means society has already failed to stop runaway wealth accumulation and inequality.

I'd much rather we have checks in place to stop individuals from accumulating megawealth in the first place (or at least slow it down), rather than relying on an inheritance tax which takes effect long after the accumulation happened.
by thankyoufriend | 2025-11-04 16:43:53+00:00
So I guess you don't read books/comics, watch TV/Movies/plays, play video games or listen to music? People aren't born skilled artists, that takes time and effort. Being able to prompt GenAI well just makes you a skilled prompter, not a skilled artist. Over time, we will lose a lot of skilled artists and that is something worth thinking more deeply about, instead of giving a callous hot take. Artists are trained to view the world critically, and I want more critical thinkers - not less.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-04 16:44:25+00:00
> Stack enough layers - framework on library on abstraction on dependency - and nobody understands what the system does anymore.

This is specious reasoning, as "optimized" implementations typically resort to performance hacks that make code completely unreadable.

> TFA touches this when discussing complexity ("people don't understand how the entire system works"). But treats it as a separate issue. It's not. Bloat creates unknowable systems.

I think you're confusing things. Bloat and lack of a clear software architecture are not the same thing. Your run-of-the-mill app developed around a low-level GUI framework like win32 API tends to be far more convoluted and worse to maintain than equivalent apps built around high-level frameworks, including electron apps. If you develop an app into a big ball of mud, you will have a bad time figuring it out regardless of what framework you're using (or not using)
by mmooss | 2025-11-04 16:45:26+00:00
Thanks. I've thought about those possibilites, but I really don't know the reasons.

> On a sphere or circle, you can get an "almost global" coordinate system by removing the line or point where the coordinates would be ambiguous.

Applying cartography to manifolds: Meridians and parallels form a non-ambiguous global coordinate system on a sphere. It's an irregular system because distance between meridians varies with distance from the poles (i.e., the distance is much greater at the equator than the poles), but there is a unique coordinate for every point on the sphere.
by gsck | 2025-11-04 16:46:04+00:00
You see this all the time with professional lighting fixtures as well!

For example, the ETC Source4 LED Lustr X8 has: Deep Red, Red, Amber, Lime, Green, Cyan, Blue, Indigo[0]

RGB LEDs are pretty crappy at rendering colours as they miss quite a lot of the colour spectrum, so the solution is just add more to fill in the gaps!

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by madethemcry | 2025-11-04 16:46:07+00:00
I did not play this (yet!), but just by watching this video I see how it overlaps with the coding games on https://code.org/en-US (Hour of Code!) in terms of having a code + gaming view to solve a challenge.

When I was teaching coding to kids, code.org was the to-go place besides using Scratch, to introduce coding patterns (mostly: conditional, loops).

An example is the famous Minecraft labyrinth [1]. There is also a Frozen themed one. If you have kids (~6y+), that's some fun way to get started instead of diving directly into actual code.

[1] https://studio.code.org/courses/mc/units/1/lessons/1/levels/...
by somenameforme | 2025-11-04 16:46:13+00:00
What I mentioned already. Being incorrectly detained isn't consequence free. People can and have successfully sued, winning substantial sums of money in the process. And we also live in the social media age where nothing gets more of those sacred likes and other such things (including that sweet sweet GoFundMe money) than framing oneself as a victim. And on top of this all immigration enforcement runs contrary to the corporate media's biases. They are actively trying to make a mountain out of every single molehill, yet they are clearly finding themselves annoyingly short of molehills.

In other words, ICE's errors are highly visible. That my approximation aligns with ProPublica's (which is probably a higher end ballpark since I doubt they were especially critical of any claims they discovered) is unsurprising.
by hangonhn | 2025-11-04 16:46:14+00:00
Flash was a poorly written piece of software. It had numerous bad memory leaks and a CPU hog. It was never allowed on the iPhone probably because it would have drained the batteries really quickly. On top of that HTML5 was starting to catch on and could eventually do everything Flash could and do it better without the memory leaks and poor CPU usage. I have the very unfortunate claim to the title of being an engineer on the world's biggest Flash/Flex app. The memory leaks were so bad that Adobe advised us to just restart the app periodically -- despite Adobe marketing Flex as enterprise ready. We found compiler bugs for Adobe. Adobe and Jobs didn't set out to destroy it. Macromedia wrote bad code that performed poorly and it wasn't worth the effort for Adobe fix it once HTML5 won.
by mkmccarty3 | 2025-11-04 16:46:21+00:00
Most AI models stop learning once training ends. They can generate text, but they can’t evolve. I started wondering what would happen if they could.

Humans work differently. We replay experiences in our sleep, strengthening what matters and pruning what doesn’t. That cycle of reflection is what makes our learning continuous.

I wanted to see if a machine could do the same.

So I built Dream ML, a framework that gives AI models a kind of sleep cycle. During downtime, the model replays its own experiences with added entropy. It connects patterns that were never seen together, fine-tunes itself locally through LoRA adapters, and wakes up slightly changed.

Each dream cycle helps the model reorganize and deepen its internal representations.

This started as part of my project to build a local AI clone that learns from my data and runs fully on-device. It observes how I write, reason, and communicate, then improves through Dream ML cycles without ever sending data to the cloud.

Write-up and details in the linked essay.
by yieldcrv | 2025-11-04 16:46:30+00:00
yeah, in the 10 years I've had one, the compliance is just a notice from the "document provider", and a 5500-EZ document annually. the bank, brokerage and crypto exchange accounts have no monthly/annual fees.

OP can also just use the solo 401k's roth balances as a temporary holding place to then pass through directly to the roth ira

The expanded investment options are worth it alone. And the years where there is self employment income, the expanded contribution limit up to doing my own $70,000 employer match saves literal years of contributions off my life.

It's literally 10x what the IRA contribution guys get, and most of them are barely able to even reach the IRA contribution max.

There are more tax deferral plans out there too, I'm willing to do that compliance.
by stinos | 2025-11-04 16:47:21+00:00
one of which is niche, recent, handmade and doesn't have any public documentation

I still see 2 possibilities: you asked it something similar enough that it came up with a fairly standard answer which just happened to be correct, or you gave it enough info.

- for example you created a new line of MCUs called FrobnicatorV2, and asked is 'how do I connect a power supply X to FrobnicatorV2' and it gave an answer like 'connect red wire to VCC and black to GND'. That's not exactly special.

- or, you did desribe that component in some way. And you did do that using standard electronics lingo so essentially in terms of other existing components which it definitely did know (unless you invented something completely new not using any currently know physics). As such it's irrelevant that your particular new component wasn't known because you gave away the answer by describing it? E.g. you aksed it 'how do I connect a power supply X to an MCU with power pins Y and Z'. Again nothing special.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-04 16:47:22+00:00
That's a pretty lame devil's advocate position. You know how you deal with people flailing about wildly? You step back and let them wear themselves out. Better, don't drag someone out of their car at gunpoint to provoke a flailing response when you have no reason to drag them out of their car at all. They were not at risk of injury until they chose to engage with a US citizen whose vehicle they hit in a violent manner.
by wonderwonder | 2025-11-04 16:47:50+00:00
couple of points. 1. I'm not a bot. I'm just politically right, we are around, we just hide because its still career suicide in tech. I know you don't see the right as human but most of us are people just like you, not LLMs

2. I just like to chat on HN, there is no right wing mass organized process for people to chat with others, or at least none that I am a part of. To think that everyone you disagree with must be a bot or part of a conspiracy is both dehumanizing and just... an odd way to see the world.

3. The OP I responded to specifically mentioned the difference responses to the deaths of well known people. Mentioning Castro and comparing to Cheney. That was the context of my response, not sure how this has now veered into organized conspiracy theories
by Rebuff5007 | 2025-11-04 16:48:18+00:00
> but for a human we don't include the entirety of that human's experience and only look at the prompt?

When did I say that? Of course you look at a human's experience when you judge the quality of their output. And you also judge their output based on the context they did their work in. Newton wouldn't be Newton if he was the 14th guy to claim that the universe is governed by three laws of motion. Extending the example I used above, I would be more impressed if an art student aced a tough calc test than a math student, given that a math student probably has spent much more time with the material.

"Intelligence and "thinking" are abstract concepts, and I'm simply putting forward a way that I think about them. It works very much outside the context of AI too. The "smartest" colleagues I've worked with are somehow able to solve a problem with less information or time than I need. Its usually not because they have more "training data" than me.
by yieldcrv | 2025-11-04 16:48:45+00:00
> now that I look, Vanguard doesn't do solo 401ks anymore

Vanguard wouldn't need to know it was a solo 401k, they would just see a trust being signed up. There are other institutions that you can go into mutual funds or get similar exposure from who are more acclimated to solo 401k entities though.
by margalabargala | 2025-11-04 16:49:42+00:00
> this argument that things are expensive because the poor can't work and regulation somehow is suffocating businesses is purely ideological and not supported by facts.

"This argument" is also theoretical, or a straw man. I'm not making that argument, the original comment on the thread isn't making that argument, the person I replied to created the idea of the argument whole cloth to argue against.

It's a big leap from "some regulations raise the price floors on some goods" to "businesses are being suffocated by no longer allowing near-slavery, thus near-slavery should be permitted."
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by bobthepanda | 2025-11-04 16:49:44+00:00
They don’t buy American cheese, the melty product. They actually don’t buy much American (of origin) cheese at all at their delis because American origin cheeses are all descended from the diverse array of European cheeses, and there are melty, non-sodium citrate European cheeses. So yes, the most common form of American cheese found is the Kraft/Velveeta variety and that is really mostly aimed at expats nostalgic for it.

Europe exports $2.8bn of dairy to the US. The reverse is only $167m of trade.