MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by randycupertino | 2025-11-07 01:50:52+00:00
It's more that he moved into a dense residential neighborhood of single family homes and started buying up all the neighboring houses (11 so far, and he's offered on even more!) to create a massive walled off compound for himself, on which he then opened a private school for his family and his friend's kids. If he wanted to build some billionaire private compound why not go do that somewhere more remote where he could just have a ton of land enjoy doing whatever he wants with privacy and not bothering everyone instead of greedily hoovering up all family homes in a dense metro neighborhood. Not only is he decreasing housing in an area where it is desperately needed but he's bothering his neighbors with construction and noise with neverending renovations, increased traffic for all his staff, and his security team now harasses the neighbors when they're walking around on public sidewalks in front of their own houses.
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-07 01:52:01+00:00
My understanding is that most of the post-cold-war targeted killings of dubious legality happened after 9/11; wikipedia claims that there were US norms against "targeted killings" from '76 to '01. Certainly the CIA did some shady stuff post 1976, but the President at least maintained the appearance of not knowing about them.
by shomp | 2025-11-07 01:57:09+00:00
Noether's theorem tells us when symmetry guarantees conservation, but it says nothing about conservation in the absence of that symmetry - it's not a biconditional statement. Talking about endless expansion is like observing 1 second of a pendulum's swing and concluding there's no time symmetry because it's only moving in one direction. The symmetry exists at the full cycle scale, not the snapshot scale.
by borroka | 2025-11-07 01:57:09+00:00
There are books and Google and Wikipedia.

Like people refer to meditation and don't explain all the process involved in one of the traditions because there is a wealth of information available, I would much prefer to answer to specific questions on the practice instead of copying and pasting from Wikipedia, which I am doing now.

"The technique involves repetitions of a set of visualisations accompanied by vocal suggestions that induce a state of relaxation and is based on passive concentration of bodily perceptions like heaviness and warmth of limbs, which are facilitated by self-suggestions.Autogenic training is used to alleviate many stress-induced psychosomatic disorders"

The formulas are six: heaviness, warmth, heart beating regularly and strongly, calm breath, warm solar plexus, and cool forehead.

There's no vocal suggestion (the Wikipedia article is wrong in that regard), the formulas are repeated silently. It's a much more effective practice of the hocus-pocus that is often meditation of the Eastern tradition, especially the bastardized variety adopted in the West, and there are plenty of books and papers available on the results of scientific studies that measure the effect on soma and psyche of AT.
by cubefox | 2025-11-07 01:57:16+00:00
> But I digress… I essentially hate games nowadays

This is not exactly a new phenomenon. The final cutscene in Metal Gear Solid 4 (2008) is 71 minutes long (Guinness world record). The total cutscenes add up to around 9 hours according to a Reddit user. Maybe more games are doing this now compared to 15 years ago, but I wouldn't bet on it.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-07 01:57:44+00:00
My pie in the sky pitch is the US Government (and others) should solve this, the legality and the compensation problems in a single swoop. Make submission of your work to a federal model data set a requirement for obtaining copyright protection. License the data set (and heck maybe even charge for making custom models) for nominal fees to anyone who want it, with indemnification against copyright lawsuits for works deriving from the licensed model. Pay copyright owners a limited time royalty from these licensing fees. Everyone wins and we can stop needing a billion bots scraping a billion sites billion times a day.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-07 01:58:06+00:00
My favorite in that regard was Interface Builder, though I must admit it's been so long since I wrote MacOSX software that I haven't had use for it in ages.

The ability to drop components in and then move the window around and have them respond as they will in the live program was peak WYSIWYG UI editing. I have not experienced better and I doubt I will.
by vel0city | 2025-11-07 01:58:28+00:00
I haven't been to Venezuela, so I couldn't tell you specifically about Venezuela. While there has been a lot of poverty the last couple of decades in Venezuela, there used to be a ton of prosperity. It wouldn't surprise me if there were still a good number of wealthy people with fancy fishing boats in Venezuela despite there being so much poverty.

And while I haven't been to Venezuela, I have been to a number of pretty poor Caribbean countries. I still find some pretty decked out fishing boats, often for hire/rent to international tourists. Or they just are owned by foreigners/tourists. Or as mentioned, they're some of the wealthy people in the otherwise poor country. Rich people are pretty much all over the place, especially in otherwise desirable places to live (some extremely beautiful beaches and coastlines).
by nelson820125 | 2025-11-07 01:58:41+00:00
I’ve been working on Jordium Gantt Vue3, an open-source Vue 3 + TypeScript component for interactive Gantt charts.

Features include draggable TaskBars, timeline auto-expansion, and TaskBar focus highlight.

You can try a live demo here: https://nelson820125.github.io/jordium-gantt-vue3/

Pre-Launch on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jordium-gantt-vue3

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!
by andrewf | 2025-11-07 01:58:57+00:00
Morgan Stanley at Work seems to track wash sales. Last year I had two vests in May, one week apart. I'd instructed the brokerage to sell some of those shares on vest. On the first date, I experienced a capital loss (less than $20), due to price movement between the RSU vesting and the broker selling the resulting stock. This was reported on the 1099B as a disallowed wash sale due to my acquisition of more stock with the second vest a week later.
by hnhn34 | 2025-11-07 01:59:18+00:00
> Moonshot AI is such an overused generic name that I had to ask an LLM which company this is

I just googled "Moonshot AI" and got the information right away. Not sure what's confusing about it, the only other "Moonshot" I know of is Alphabet's Moonshot Factory.

> This company is far from "open source", it's had over $1B USD in funding.

Since when does open source mean you can't make any money? Mozilla has a total of $1.2B in assets. The company isn't open source nor claiming to be.

This model was released under a "modified MIT-license" [0]:

> Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in monthly revenue, you shall prominently display "Kimi K2" on the user interface of such product or service.

Which sounds pretty fair to me.

[0] - https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking/blob/main...
by aeonfox | 2025-11-07 01:59:31+00:00
They weren't hiding it, it was literally in the subheading:

> research designed to 'tease out prejudice among those who didn't understand the question'

The purported aim of the research:

> designed to explore the bias and prejudice of poll respondents.

And the research was from:

> Civic Science, an American market research company

The research worked as intended.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-11-07 02:00:04+00:00
> No big (reliable base load) energy projects to power industry in to the future

Snowy? https://theconversation.com/white-elephant-hardly-snowy-2-0-...

Snowy aside, households are installing 40kWh batteries now. Add 2 cars V2G that give you an additional 40kWh with impacting the car battery life overly. Across the 12 million Australia houses that adds something of the order of 1 terawatt hours of storage to the grid. It's almost double the total predicted storage (660GWh) Australia will need by 2050 https://www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/battery-storage-au...

The strategy of "lobbing it over the wall to the residential customer" has already turned Australia households into major suppliers of electricity to the grid. Apparently they don't mind the risk if there is money to be made. Now it looks like the government are hoping household batteries will become major suppliers of storage to the grid. If that is as successful as solar, it will be by any definition a wildly successful strategy for handing the transition away from fossil fuels.

The weird thing is: this was all kicked off by the Howard government. They would be the very conservatives who are railing against renewables now.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-07 02:00:53+00:00
That compensation package comes with very steep performance requirements.

There are twelve separate performance milestones, including Tesla's market capitalization growing to $8.5 trillion and delivering 20 million vehicles. He must also meet product-specific goals, such as 10 million active "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) subscriptions, 1 million "Optimus" robots delivered, and 1 million robotaxis in operation. These goals are separated into "tranches" that must be achieved over the next decade.
by ehnto | 2025-11-07 02:00:54+00:00
To your last paragraph I think contextualising the mystery is a good amount of the fun and I guess all of the storytelling.

There's a lot of things about our real world, that if told by an alien race, would make us sound like ethereal wizards.

"They convinced the sand itself to think for them, guided the power of Sol to move them, and spoke to eachother through the very fabric of energy that moves invisibly through us all"

Similar to that, there's a bunch of magic/fantasy storytelling that can kind of pull me out of disbelief, because I can't help but think "yeah we have that, it's electricity" or "witches are just pharamacists without good research"
by finghin | 2025-11-07 02:02:34+00:00
People definitely go to BH for the artists. Of course plenty just go for clout too, but other than the cult that goes almost every weekend that is a pretty new thing.

You may be interested to learn they pay a flat fee for all bookings (not sure about residents). The booked artists are also forbidden to play anywhere else in Berlin for a period before and after (1-2 months, IIRC), and the fee is ridiculously low. Artists don’t even get many GL spots.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-07 02:02:45+00:00
That compensation package comes with very steep performance requirements.

There are twelve separate performance milestones, including Tesla's market capitalization growing to $8.5 trillion and delivering 20 million vehicles. He must also meet product-specific goals, such as 10 million active "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) subscriptions, 1 million "Optimus" robots delivered, and 1 million robotaxis in operation. These goals are separated into "tranches" that must be achieved over the next decade.
by atrettel | 2025-11-07 02:03:43+00:00
I developed my own query language influenced by the one used at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Their query language is a implementation of another used in a piece of software called BRS/Search [1]. Most of these kind of query languages are pretty similar and really only differ in how they treat proximity operations and field selection.

I liked the USPTO's query language because it is quite expressive and powerful while still being relatively compact when compared to other query languages [2] out there, but I disliked some of the other syntax in it for that matter. I added several additional operations, including ALONG for lines and AMONG for clauses. The fuzzy search aspect of my language is also unique. I don't know of any other query language that lets searchers specify that locally rather than globally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRS/Search

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_Query_Language
by z2 | 2025-11-07 02:03:51+00:00
It's good to go through the exercise, but agents are easy until you build a whole application using an API endpoint that OpenAI or LangChain decides to yank, and you spend the next week on a mini migration project. I don't disagree with the claim that MCP is reinventing the wheel but sometimes I'm happy plugging my tools and data into someone else's platform because they are spending orders of magnitudes more time than me doing the janitor work to keep up with whatever's trendy.
by measurablefunc | 2025-11-07 02:05:27+00:00
You don't need a degree to understand mathematics but plenty of people w/ degrees think they understand what it's all about. Seems a bit odd you have a degree in mathematics but lack the basic understanding of what counts for mathematical activity. I don't think you should be proud of that but then again I don't know what they teach in PhD departments these days so maybe that's what they told you you needed to think to get the degree.
by CupricTea | 2025-11-07 02:05:49+00:00
I actually did run it the other day, locally in LM Studio, the exact nousresearch/hermes-4-70b Q4_K_M huggingface model you linked and prompted it with the same "Good Afternoon." you did and I just got a generic "How can I help you :)" response. I just ran it again with "Hello." and, surprisingly, it actually did output the same "I'm lost" thing it gave to you.

The point I'm trying to make is that it's still running as a role-playing agent. Even if you truly do believe an LLM could experiences qualia, in this model it is still pretending. It is playing the role of a lost and confused entity. Same as how I can be playing the role of a DnD character.
by corefinder | 2025-11-07 02:07:19+00:00
+1 this approach. One recurring issue I've ran into is the agents producing a lot of unused methods and files. Have you ran into this as well? We're working on a pure Typescript system, and found the package Knip helpful. Knip will report these deadfiles/methods. I ask Sonnet to run Knip before opening a merge request and have it clean up it's own mess.
by SamBam | 2025-11-07 02:08:23+00:00
> You just behave like a normal person.

?? I'm a normal person, and I don't need to count my days in and out of a country, I just take vacations when I like.

If OP did that, they'd lose their visa.

It sounds like you've never known anyone on a green card, or waiting for citizenship, or on a visa that requires a certain number of days in the country.

> To apply for British citizenship, you need to prove you were physically in the UK on your application date but five years ago.

This is an insane bureaucratic requirement (to have been in the country exactly 5 years on the day prior), and not someone the vast majority of people need to worry about. How does "just behave like a normal person" help keep you on the right side of multiple overlapping Kafkaesque requirements?
by skopje | 2025-11-07 02:08:53+00:00
Matter is nice because of its mesh and low power wakeup. but esh networks are hard to get right. Matter is better than BLE mesh but still not perfect. If you like to build yourself better to use MQTT (deal with a little latency when you turn on your light) on esp32 (nice and low power modes) and Wi-Fi repeaters around the house.
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-11-07 02:09:10+00:00
>build your own lightsaber

I think this is the best way of putting it I've heard to date. I started building one just to know what's happening under the hood when I use an off-the-shelf one, but it's actually so straightforward that now I'm adding features I want. I can add them faster than a whole team of developers on a "real" product can add them - because they have a bigger audience.

The other takeaway is that agents are fantastically simple.
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-07 02:09:56+00:00
I think this is cool and super fast -- kudos on whatever tech you needed to tackle to make it so.

I don't see anyone saying safety or ethics, so I'll just put it out there that it has some safety and ethical considerations you should consider.

Consider "inflammatory" books and how they could be used to harm a group of people. Although I recognize folks post this "publicly", I think the intersection feature provides more than Goodreads.

Let's say, people who have read "Mein Kampf" & "The Anarchists Cookbook" or some other combination that say "Antifa" to the current regime.

I'd recommend you have a list that you consider private, always and allow Users to add to that list so it's more scalable. If folks try to intersect with anything in that list, you can warn that you don't allow intersection with private books.

Anyway, super fun demo!
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-07 02:10:15+00:00
Pirating an old movie to sell is not considered ethically problematic everywhere. In many, many countries on earth pirated DVDs were sold at the marketplace, and no one – buyer or seller – had qualms about it. When the authorities shut down such sales, it was almost entirely because they were being pressured by the USA and a handful of other Western governments, not because the local ethical perspective on this changed.
by esafak | 2025-11-07 02:11:26+00:00
It makes sense if you think of the LLM as building a data-aware model that compresses the noisy data by parsimony (the principle that the simplest explanation that fits is best). Typical text compression algorithms are not data-aware and not robust to noise.

In lossy compression the compression itself is the goal. In prediction, compression is the road that leads to parsimonious models.
by EasyMark | 2025-11-07 02:13:30+00:00
I expect them to show some evidence -at the very least- to Congressional members of both parties, and I mean hard evidence. And also an analysis why this is better than just arresting them since they obviously aren't launching missiles back. They haven't even provided minimal evidence, and have been partisan in the sharing of it with only their preferred members of Congress, what little they've shown so far.
by hoppp | 2025-11-07 02:13:32+00:00
The submission is an advertisement for fly.io and OpenAI , both are paid services. We are commenting on an ad. The person who wrote it did it for money. Fly.io operates for money, OpenAi charges for their API.

They posted it here expecting to find customers. This is a sales pitch.

At this point why is it an issue to expect a developer to make money on it?

As a dev, If the chain of monetization ends with me then there is no mainstream adoption whatsoever on the horizon.

I love to tinker but I do it for free not using paid services.

As for tinkering with agents, its a solution looking for a problem.
by fcpguru | 2025-11-07 02:13:59+00:00
Well the idea is you are talking at event and one of you gets pulled in another direction there is no akward "hey wait I didn't get your..." you just move on and know you have that info already. The QR still requires that little action. Did you get the bluetooth working reliably in 2016? I don't mean for this to sound snarky but coding this in 2025 I kept thinking "omg without AI's help I never would have got this solid."
by nvader | 2025-11-07 02:15:48+00:00
This line also stuck out to me. Because it conflates power with energy.

Converting the whole sun to energy gives us a term lets say, X Joules.

It sounds like they're trying to say that much energy pours out of the flare every... second? Or do they just mean since we started observing it, until now, it has ticked up to X?
by zeroq | 2025-11-07 02:16:18+00:00
Honestly I haven't read the whole thread but I think your mixing stuff like green and blue being called the same word in some languages or ancient greek completely missing word for blue.

What I was thinking is along the lines of showing a real life scene to ten random people - like a view of a city park outside of an office window - and then showing them a picture of said scene on a computer screen using only 256 colors (quantization) and asking them if it looks the same.

Or modeling a 3D photo realistic scene of a room in a video game and then switching off the light and asking the player if the scene still looks realistic after we changed the colors or did we stumbled into uncanny valley.

The simplest, hands on experiment, I can think of is putting yourself in shoes of an oil painter and thinking about creating a gradient between two colors, let's say blue and green (or any other pair, it doesn't really matter). Now try to imagine said gradient in your mind and then try to recreate it with graphical program like Photoshop. If you went down this route the gradient will seem odd. Unnatural.

All common standards we were commonly using for the last 30 years like RGB, HSL, HSV, etc. falls flat. They are not so much off to call them "uncanny" (as in "uncanny valley"), but they seem wrong if you look close enough.

To actually simulate mixing two blobs of an oil paint you need arcane algorithms like Kubelka-Mink (yet another ground breaking discovery in IT made by reading a 100 years old research).

All in all - take a look at this video, I know it's 40 minutes long, but this topic has been a peeve for me for almost 20 years and it's the best and most comprehensible take on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnUYoQ1pwes
by sbinnee | 2025-11-07 02:17:31+00:00
I enjoy exploring vegan restaurants all over the world too! I often avoid burgers because they are easy to make I guess, and I had a lot of them over 8 years of my vegan journey. I instead look for more unique menus so that I can learn things and replicate them at home. But traveling is the only time I allow myself some fish and dairy, or maybe some eggs, no meat at all though.
by tom_ | 2025-11-07 02:18:00+00:00
In general, no... but also maybe yes. It's usually fine, but you may get extra unlucky in specific situations with specific major modes.

I've always found line length the biggest problem. Emacs has never done a fantastic job of handling long lines. If truncated, you can't see most of the content; if not truncated, the performance gets worse with length, and visual-line-mode (essential for dealing with non-truncated long lines IMO) doesn't make it any better.

Performance with large numbers of mostly shortish lines is ok. I've had no serious problems loading 2+ GByte log files (average line length <200 chars) in literal mode. The general performance suggests that Emacs isn't really tuned for editing enormous files, but I've never found things so bad as to be worth switching text editor over.
by projektfu | 2025-11-07 02:18:00+00:00
Yes, it's complicated because the tax code has been designed for special cases, where there is an opportunity cost to identify and use the special case, but that can be paid for with large enough savings. If hiring that tax preparer/accountant costs $1000 more, but reduces the tax by $1001, then it is economically worthwhile. But in reality, most people are not able to use these provisions and of those who technically can, only a few can use them efficiently.

If you mostly have income from wages, interest, and dividends, your tax is hard to reduce using special provisions and your return is easy to file. If you have a lot of income from business investments, property, minerals, esoteric securities, gambling, etc., then you have more places where you can use these things, and your taxes are accordingly complex.
by econ | 2025-11-07 02:19:08+00:00
While I would like to see it abolished entirely (including patents) I do have to compliment how you've described a formula that is actually possible to implement.

To deny people access to things is one thing, wanting to do it by impossible means is quite something else. Who even has time to scavage the universe looking for possible infringement on their works and also the money to deal with it?