MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by malkia | 2025-11-16 17:58:08+00:00
Not a financial person by any means, but doesn't the Black Swan Theory basically disproves such methods due to rarity of an event that might have huge impact without something to predict (in the past) that it might happen, or even if it can be predicted - the impact cannot?

For example: Chernobyl, COVID, 2008 financial crisis and even 9/11
by mrweasel | 2025-11-16 17:58:48+00:00
I'm very aware of that, yes. There needs to be a good process, the current situation where AWS simply does not care, or doesn't know also isn't particularly good. One solution could be for victims to notify AWS that a number of specified IP are generating an excessive amount of traffic. An operator could then verify with AWS traffic logs, notify the customer that they are causing issue and only after a failure to respond could the customer be shut down.

You're not wrong that abuse would be a massive issue, but I'm on the other side of this and need Amazon to do something, anything.
by what-the-grump | 2025-11-16 17:58:56+00:00
I run fleets for windows machines, servers, w10, w11, from a Mac.

What Microsoft has done to windows 10 and 11 is ridiculous.

Why is my taskbar still crashing in 2025. Why does opening task manager spike my cpu to 100%. Search its 2025, search still broken. OOBE experience is a joke.

For crying out loud I don’t even care if you make the entire gui rest based and hosted in azure it would perform better than the trash running now.

At this point the Azure management portal has a higher SLA and uptime than my task bar.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-16 17:59:37+00:00
It was only exploitable by lying about the value of a shipment.

The only was you can stop that sort of loophole exploitation is by massive enforcement (i.e. large numbers of random package investigations to establish the actual value of the shipment and comparing it with the declared value).

The cost of such enforcement is very high - possibly not as high as the value of the goods imported by lying about their value, but there's actually no way to know that (since we don't know the actual value of goods that entered under the de minimis exception).

If significant parts (either in numbers or purchasing power) of your population are willing to lie to break the law, you've got problems larger and more widespread than the de minimis exception.
by seam_carver | 2025-11-16 17:59:50+00:00
I made a video about a cool application of the Discrete Fourier Transform regarding color eink Kaleido 3 and manga:

https://youtu.be/Dw2HTJCGMhw?si=Qhgtz5i75v8LwTyi

Learning about Fourier is really interesting in image processing, I'm glad I found a good textbook explaining it.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-16 18:00:08+00:00
Chatbot is the only one I agree with (human in the loop).

Agents are essentially the chatbot, but without the human in the loop. Chatbot without human in the loop is a slop factory. Things like "multi-agent systems" are a clever ploy to get you to burn tokens and ideally justify all this madness.

Copilot/completion does not work in business terms for me. It looks like it works and it might feel like it's working in some localized technical sense, but it does not actually work on strategic timescales with complex domains in such a way that a customer would eventually be willing to pay you money for the results. The hypothesis that work/jobs will be created due to sloppy AI is proving itself out very quickly. I think "completion" tools like classic IntelliSense are still at the peak of efficiency.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-16 18:00:21+00:00
> The study that appeared to show them stopping development at 25 did not have any participants older than 25.

Its not one study, its a multitude of studies of a different functions, and the popular conception about “brain development” not being full until the mid 20s is specifically about where multiple studies show the average peak in executive function occurs (with a slow decline after the peak, which obviously wouldn't be seen if it was only based on studies of younger people.)

Other functions peak anywhere from a little earlier, to much later, to, in a few cases, continuing to develop without a discernible age-related peak.
by abustamam | 2025-11-16 18:00:27+00:00
I think I gave the impression that we should tackle them sequentially with my comment. My point was that I don't think it's controversial to eradicate poverty, but for whatever reason it is controversial to eradicate income inequality. We don't need to tackle them sequentially but we also don't need to wait for a silver policy bullet that solves income inequality while we try to solve poverty as well. It may be possible to do both, but in the event it's impossible to do B at least we can still try to do A.
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-11-16 18:00:28+00:00
You're blaming the hammer for people driving nails into other's heads instead of walls.

A friend of mine, who had a similar opinion on technology, once watched a movie that seemed to reinforce it in his eyes, and tried to persuade me as if it was the ultimate proof that all technology is evil.

The plot depicted a happy small tribe of indigenous people deep in the rainforest, who never ever saw any artifacts of civilization. They never knew war, homicide, or theft. Basically, they knew no evil. Then, one day, a plane flies over and someone frivolously tosses an emptied bottle of Coca-Cola out of the window (sic!). A member of the tribe finds it in the forest and brings back to the village. And, naturally, everyone else wants to get hold of the bottle, because it's so supernatural and attractive. But the guy decides he's the only owner, refuses and then of course kills those who try to get it by force, and all hell breaks loose in no time.

"See", - concludes my friend triumphally, - "the technology brought evil into this innocent tribe!"

"But don't you think that evil already lurked in those people to start with, if they were ready to kill each other for shiny things?" - I asked, quite baffled.

"Oh, come on, so you're just supporting this shit!" was the answer...
by lukan | 2025-11-16 18:00:37+00:00
The potential reason might be this charming fellow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii

"Once inside our bodies, T. gondii can infiltrate the central nervous system and influence neurotransmitters. The parasite has been linked to personality changes, the emergence of psychotic symptoms, and some neurological disorders, including schizophrenia."

Otherwise the data is not really great so far.

"This kind of research can't show cause and effect, and it often doesn't account for factors that may have affected both the exposure and the outcome.

The researchers also highlight the low quality of a number of the examined studies."
by hereme888 | 2025-11-16 18:00:41+00:00
I estimate more than 50% of people have an aversion to learning because of their school experience.

True learning, and curiosity-driven learning, boosts dopamine, hence most learning in modern society should be inherently "pleasurable". Of course this excludes hard lessons we have to learn through painful experiences.

Even really difficult learning, like at the Masters - phD level, the painful parts of learning should constitute a small percent of the person's overall learning.

Children are often accused of being unmotivated or lazy, but these are usually accusations from boring adults who can't see the magnitude of their error. A child will focus on a video game for hours, even a difficult one, and will still remember the information a week later. But give a child a boring and pointless video game, with no specific goal or accomplishment, and no one will play it. This is why the quadratic equation has become such a meme among "anti-schoolers". It's the epitome of pointlessness for the general population.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-16 18:01:48+00:00
> You can never connect macOS or recovery to the internet, or never boot them

In other words, you're completely fucked if you brick your install. I consider iBoot a direct user-hostile downgrade from UEFI for this reason.

YMMV, but I would never trust my day-to-day on an iBoot machine. UEFI has no such limitations, and Apple is well-known for making controversial choices in OTA updates that users have no alternative to.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-11-16 18:02:55+00:00
I don't know what you're getting at with 1 and 2. If the person they were quoting claimed to have been abducted by sasquatch, you could still make these two points. Would you still be arguing that it doesn't reflect poorly on the BBC to put that false claim into a headline?

If you would, that is probably the heart of our disagreement. If not, I guess it comes down to an agree to disagree on whether the subjective window of the personality trait 'free-spirited' can include 'active participant in violent resistance against a dictatorship'.
by ipaddr | 2025-11-16 18:02:57+00:00
Should not be reported on. Kids are dressing up as wizards. A fake chatbot girlfriend they make fun of. Kids like to pretend. They want to try out things they aren't.

The 40 year old who won't date a real girl because he is in love with a bot I'm more concerned with.

Bots encouraging suicide is more of a teen or adult problem. A little child doesn't have teenage hormones (or adult's) which can create these highs and lows. Toddler suicide is non issue.
by abhaynayar | 2025-11-16 18:03:02+00:00
I have some qualm with "agency is important" type thinking because when I was in a good situation in life with "moderate" difficulty which I overcame I called it me being agentic. However, when I was in situations in life which were bad and totally out of my control and to the best of my ability I couldn't come out of them, I realized it's pretty much all just luck and circumstance.

Just because you're not emotionally ready to do something doesn't mean you're not trying enough. I feel like we tend to downplay the role of luck in emotions and mind. Like "of course you could be more confident, agentic, assertive, etc. YOU are not doing enough of that". But if you physiologically or materialistically go through a bad patch with respect to health or resources people "get it". If you are not physically gifted to play a certain sport people "get it". But if you're not mentally gifted to be "agentic" it's YOUR responsibility. Don't know why this expectation was set. Same way how mental health has been a stigma and still somewhat is, but if you have a physiological disease it's OK, not your fault.

We all just write advice looking backwards. People who are lucky enough to have the perfect combination of circumstance and mindset to think that agency is all you need write that way.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-16 18:03:21+00:00
If you know that you don't have customers or users in the area, or very few, then go for it.

I worked in e-commerce previously, we reduce fraud to almost zero by banning non-local cards. It affected a few customers that had international credit cards, but not enough to justify dealing with the fraud. Sometimes you just need to limit your attack surface.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-16 18:03:24+00:00
This seems like a bit of a questionable claim.

The MP944 wasn't a single microprocessor chip, nor was it really general purpose or user programmable. It was apparently a multi chip set, consisting of separate chips like multiplier, divider, special logic (special arithmetic operations like value clamping), and a "steering unit" steering data from data sensors to the math chips, etc. It was programmed in microcode.

The Intel 4004 in comparison, while being designed for calculator use, had a general purpose instruction set, and was a single chip CPU.

Mainframes, such as the IBM System/360 with programmable processing units consisting of multiple LSI chips had existed before the Intel 4004, but it's claim to fame was being the first single chip processor, a claim that the MP944 can't take away.
by eep_social | 2025-11-16 18:03:25+00:00
I think six dev teams is small in terms of kube. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s close to the perfect size to move onto kube and create and adopt a standard set of platform idioms.

at orgs significantly larger than that, the kube team has to aggressively spin out platform functions that enable further layering or risk getting overwhelmed trying to support and configure kube features to cover diverse team needs (that is, storage software doesn’t have the same needs or concerns as middleware or the frontend). this incubator model isn’t easy in practice. trying to adopt kube at this scale is very challenging because it requires the kube team to spin up and out sub-teams at a very high rate or risk slowing the migration down to a crawl or outright failure and purchasing e.g. off the shelf AWS because teams need to offboard their previous platform.
by DalekBaldwin | 2025-11-16 18:03:26+00:00
> That points to a deficiency in the “composition over inheritance” aphorism: those aren’t the only two games in town. If you have procedures as first-class types (like blocks in Smalltalk, or lambdas in many languages), then you might prefer those over composition or inheritance.

First-class procedures/functions are a form of composition. Requiring a function type behaves like requiring an interface/class type with only one method. (In languages like F#, `Func<_,_>` is literally defined internally as an abstract class with one method, `Invoke`, although there are other mechanisms to auto-inline lambdas when enough static information is available to do so.) In either case, you can place it into a field of an object or data structure, or pass it directly as an argument to a function/method.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-16 18:03:58+00:00
> There is no system in our bodies regulating our cells which has strong parallels to capitalism either.

Sounds like you have considered every possible parallel and are confident you already know what's what.

> you're mistaken in assuming that cooperation doesn't exist in socialism

I don't assume this, and I never said this. Straw man.

Also we were taking about communism, not socialism, and there is a difference.

> but they don't tend to form corporate structures to exploit those resources for profit

Way to hold up the least respectful interpretation of my point and attack that. Lame.

The biggest impression I got from your comment is you aren't curious about this subject.
by greatgib | 2025-11-16 18:04:32+00:00
The feeling that I have when seeing this investigation is that Waad is a covert ops by right holders like newspapers or the fbi, or some parties like that.

They upload themselves pages with the bad content for then complains about it. Probably they know that no one will care to block or snitch on the website if it is just because it is used to "snapshot" newspaper posts, but CSAM is evil so that is the good excuse to badmouth a service like that.

Similar to what is used currently in Europe to undermine our rights or the cia operation to burn Julian Assange.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-16 18:04:44+00:00
I've also found LLMs helpful for breaking down user requests into a technical spec or even just clarifying requests.

I make a lot of business reporting where I work and dashboards for various things. When I get user requests for data, it's rarely clear or well thought out. They struggle with articulating their actual requirements and usually leads to a lot of back and forth emails or meetings and just delays things further.

I now paste their initial request emails into an LLM and tell it "This is what I think they are trying to accomplish, interpret their request into defined business metrics" or something similar and it does a pretty good job and saves a ton of the back and forth. I can usually then feed it a sample json response or our database schema and have it also make something quick with streamlit.

It's saved me (and the users) a ton of time and headaches of me trying to coerce more and more information from them, the LLMs have been decent enough at interpreting what they're actually asking for.

I'd love to see a day where I can hook them up with RO access to a data warehouse or something and make a self-service tool that users can prompt and it spits out a streamlit site or something similar for them.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-16 18:05:00+00:00
A good post. OP is a famous poker player. I think I’ve seen her on Twitter. I don’t think it’s doxxing to mention that her husband Sasha Chapin is a self help type famous fellow on Twitter. They’re both public figures and publicly married (or at least I recall seeing a post publicly).

Given that context especially, I was surprised she didn’t hand over the problem to her husband earlier. Any time some kind of bureaucratic process is required my wife and I usually involve the other person. But neither of us are public like that and she’s not been stalked like this so who can tell.

But after the brother extortion at least you have to tell your husband imho. It means that there’s a bigger blast radius now.

Unsurprisingly, these things are hard to handle solo. I would struggle too. But I think most married people would lean on their partners to solve it for them.

Perhaps as public figures this kind of stuff happens to them often and so the escalation point is never obvious like it is to private people like me.
by marvinborner | 2025-11-16 18:05:07+00:00
> Scott-Mogensen encoding

just Scott encoding, Scott-Mogensen refers to a meta encoding of LC in LC. Scott's encoding is fine but requires fixpoint recursion for many operations as you said.

Interestingly though, Mogensen's ternary encoding [1] does not require fixpoint recursion and is the most efficient (wrt being compact) encoding in LC known right now.

> Just use [..], seriously

do you have any further arguments for Scott's encoding? There are many number encodings with constant time predecessor, and with any number requiring O(n) space and `add` being this complex, it becomes quite hard to like

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/646802.705958
by nixosbestos | 2025-11-16 18:05:14+00:00
So, nix-snapshotter? Also, Flox going all in on "environments" seems like such a choice. I'm sure that Flox is not encouraging shipping a binary-in-a-devshell to Prod, so it seems an interesting branding decision.

It's hard for me to understand if I should be excited about this. I think companies do themselves such huge disservices from not being transparent to the nerds that WILL be the ones helping choose/implement these things. Instead of the current feeling I have, there could be three sentences that explains what Flox is offering here beyond what *anyone* can go do right now with nix-snapshotter.

If it's ecosystem stuff (you get Flox's CI, or CLI, or whatever else), that's not very well sold to me on the landing page. Otherwise I'm feeling left empty-handed.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-16 18:05:27+00:00
> [China strategy] is based [..] on a few pillars: Embodied AI—robotics, advanced sensors, AI-enabled hardware; Fast-following in AI, especially with open-source models that blunt the impact [..] Adoption of AI in the here and now—building scaffolding, data pipelines, and other tweaks to make models work in businesses, and especially factories.

So in summary, a practical and realistic strategy aligned with the real world, involving consulting and cooperating with experts of many stripes, facing the world as it actually is, assessing things instead of assuming you always get what you want, planning and hedging around the uncertainty you cannot remove, doing something that helps sooner rather than later. Making things, doing things, it's just grounded

> The U.S. economy is increasingly a highly leveraged bet on deep learning. [..] Of all the bets to stake one’s economy on, deep learning is a very good one. Sam Altman’s mantra is true: deep learning works.

So in summary, an economic/strategic trajectory that's aligned with the mentality of politicians and MBAs. Which is to say.. a posture that's more or less like a child who insists on imagining they always get what they want, usually includes reality-denial for tactical purposes of lying and grifting, is out of touch with the world when they do pay attention to it. The issue with this is that these people always assume everything is about email-jobs that require no actual expertise in anything, because that's what everyone they interact with does. Do nothing but spin, make nothing but deals, act unilaterally without consulting anybody, and probably systematically just remove any experts they have access to since truth threatens power.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-11-16 18:06:07+00:00
Well, the elephant in the room here is that the generic AI product that is being promised, i.e. "you get into your car in the morning, and on your drive to the office dictate your requirements for one of the apps that is going to guarantee your retirement, in order to find it completely done, rolled out to all the app stores and making money already once you arrive" isn't happening anytime soon, if ever, yet everyone pretty much is acting like it's already there.

Can "AI" in its current form deliver value? Sure, and it absolutely does but it's more in the form of "several hours saved per FTE per week" than "several FTEs saved per week".

The way I currently frame it: I have a Claude 1/2-way-to-the-Max subscription that costs me 90 Euros a month. And it's absolutely worth it! Just today, it helped me debug and enhance my iSCSI target in new and novel ways. But is it worth double the price? Not sure yet...
by hylaride | 2025-11-16 18:06:18+00:00
> Long time OpenBSD fan. Used it as my daily driver for years before standardizing all computers at home to macOS. I still think about going back to openBSD one day, but it's no longer very practical as a daily driver.

It's only practical for hobbyists. I used OpenBSD as a daily driver between 2001-2005. I fought, I suffered, I conquered, and I got tired of not being able to watch video on the web reliably and MacOS in those days was so clean and refreshing. I learned so much, though.

> I want to use OpenBSD for the next project I'm building.

I admire your open-mindedness. But ask yourself:

1. Do you want to have to upgrade fleets of servers every year with no exceptions for extended security support instead of 5 (or more if you're willing to pay) for LTS versions of Linux?

2. Who else will need to support it?

3. You will likely have worse performance if that matters.

> 1. How do you deploy software?

Honestly, not many people create their own services that run on OpenBSD. Those that do use old-school packaging and scripting. Tooling like ansible works.

> 2. How do you manage fleets of servers?

Ansible would be my go-to for classic fleets of servers.

> How do you spin up/turn down servers from cloud providers?

There are ports of cloud-init for OpenBSD. Creating images for third party OSes can be different levels of painful, depending on the cloud provider.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-16 18:06:30+00:00
> A lot of what makes Apple tech what it is is the concert between their hardware and software.

That's very cute, but it's not why Apple laptops run Linux poorly.

Apple Silicon has terrible and inefficient support because Apple released no documentation of their hardware. The driver efforts are all reverse-engineered and likely crippled by Apple's hidden trade secrets. This is why even Qualcomm chips run Linux better than Apple Silicon; they release documentation. Apple refuses, because then they can smugly pride themselves on "integration" and other plainly false catchisms.

And on Intel/AMD, Apple was well known for up-tuning their ACPI tables to prevent thermal throttling before the junction temp. This was an absolutely terrible decision on Apple's behalf, and led to other OSes misbehaving alongside constant overheating on macOS - my Intel Macs were regularly idling ~10-20c hotter than my other Intel machines.