MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danaris | 2025-11-04 18:44:49+00:00
> Prove me the contrary: find me a single law that forces any business to have business with any other, regardless of them wanting to or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-discrimination_la...

Sorry, but either you've phrased yourself poorly for what you actually want to say, or you're genuinely unaware of the many anti-discrimination laws in the US, a substantial number of which explicitly prohibit businesses from refusing service to people in protected categories.
by culi | 2025-11-04 18:44:53+00:00
notebooks are great for sharing code with people who might have only a cursory knowledge of coding. It also helps highlight specific sections of code. Graphs and other outputs immediately proceeding the block of code that generates them can be really helpful as well

If a "script" gets too long and complicated, and it's a project I intend to present to others, I often reach for a notebook to organize the code in a more digestible format
by tim333 | 2025-11-04 18:45:35+00:00
There's a pessimistic slant on them like he says:

>By the end of the year, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta will have spent over $400bn in capital expenditures, much of it focused on building AI infrastructure, on top of $228.4bn in capital expenditures in 2024

but doesn't mention those companies made over $320bn profit in 2024 so they are not really going bust over this stuff.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 18:45:49+00:00
> you don’t understand the risk profile well enough to do it “safely.”

Since when is this a problem? For gods sake, let people fuck up and harm themselves if they're stupid enough to take the risks, or not.

I think it's fine to say "Remember, this is risky because of A, B and C, but here's how to do it anyways..." but straight up "If you have to ask, you shouldn't" seems so backwards and almost mean, especially when we talk about money which is mostly "easy come, easy go". Let the fool be parted with their money if that's what they want :)
by wolrah | 2025-11-04 18:46:24+00:00
There are very few cases where there's a good reason for a printer of any kind to be on WiFi and even less for a receipt printer. If it's being used in a portable application with a laptop or mobile device that's what USB or Bluetooth are for. If it's sitting on a checkout counter and needs to be shared between multiple PCs that's what ethernet is for.

I'm not saying that there are absolutely no situations where WiFi is actually beneficial in a printer, but most of the time that a printer is connected to WiFi it's just making the printer less reliable than it could be if it was connected another way for no reason other than the user not liking wires.

A universal truth of networking: If it can be practically wired it should be wired. Wireless is for things that move and things that need to be put in weird spots it doesn't make sense to ever wire.
by guybedo | 2025-11-04 18:46:30+00:00
Abstract:

we introduce Continuous Autoregressive Language Models (CALM), a paradigm shift from discrete next-token prediction to continuous next-vector prediction.

CALM uses a high-fidelity autoencoder to compress a chunk of K tokens into a single continuous vector, from which the original tokens can be reconstructed with over 99.9\% accuracy.

This allows us to model language as a sequence of continuous vectors instead of discrete tokens, which reduces the number of generative steps by a factor of K
by groby_b | 2025-11-04 18:46:53+00:00
> People that run an AD domain for their home lab, people that use apple configurator to create profiles for their own devices (can enable some settings/features that are otherwise gated behind using an MDM profile - like shared iPads), etc.

That's a tiny minority of your user base. You'll live. They'll live.

> So who are you going to catch, really?

Enterprises that are big enough to manage their fleet, but small enough to not enforce rules. Which is a good chunk of money.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-04 18:47:00+00:00
The ideological part comes in when you immediately choose to stop your analysis here. This is known as "playing stupid".

Why has licensure increased in the past 60 years? What were the motivations?

And, if we remove some licensing, how can we be sure the motivation does not come back? What is the ROOT CAUSE?

It's entirely possible that we can get rid of the regulation, have a bunch of bad things happen, pay stupid amounts of money to fix those bad things, and then re-implement the regulation - thereby spending more money than if we just did nothing at all and kept things as they are.
by friedtofu | 2025-11-04 18:47:05+00:00
This sounds more like however your OS handles opening the PDF mimetype(xdg-open,open,Invoke-Item) I'm assuming you're on windows. I think often times browsers will just be set to the default for previewing a PDF unless set otherwise. This is all just conjecture though as I don't use any of the tools you listed above and I'm not absolutely certain of how Windows/MacOS handles PDFs by default.

Twitter's handling of opening links in its own webview is a bit different, unless Slack, Teams, Confluence, Jira all open these browser instances within some sort of webview wrapper as well(I wouldn't think so). So its a little bit different
by codethief | 2025-11-04 18:47:11+00:00
Tbh, I never quite understood the appeal of John M. Lee's book. It's not bad but I didn't find it great, either, especially (IIRC) in terms of rigor. Meanwhile, the much less well-known "Manifolds and Differential Geometry" by Jeffrey M. Lee (yeah, almost the same name) was much better.
by mslot | 2025-11-04 18:47:18+00:00
DuckLake is pretty cool, and we obviously love everything the DuckDB is doing. It's what made pg_lake possible, and what motivated part of our team to step away from Microsoft/Citus.

DuckLake can do things that pg_lake cannot do with Iceberg, and DuckDB can do things Postgres absolutely can't (e.g. query data frames). On the other hand, Postgres can do a lot of things that DuckDB cannot do. For instance, it can handle >100k single row inserts/sec.

Transactions don't come for free. Embedding the engine in the catalog rather than the catalog in the engine enables transactions across analytical and operational tables. That way you can do a very high rate of writes in a heap table, and transactionally move data into an Iceberg table.

Postgres also has a more natural persistence & continuous processing story, so you can set up pg_cron jobs and use PL/pgSQL (with heap tables for bookkeeping) to do orchestration.

There's also the interoperability aspect of Iceberg being supported by other query engines.
by nradov | 2025-11-04 18:47:20+00:00
I agree that restarting nuclear weapon testing is a bad idea but Russia has already taken that step by conducting several test flights of the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile. It isn't a bomb, but flying an unshielded open cycle nuclear engine is in some ways even worse.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-ukraine-nuclear-miss...
by drnick1 | 2025-11-04 18:47:36+00:00
Care to elaborate on what makes GNOME "fundamentally flawed and bad?" I used to dual boot, and every time I was running Windows I thought the UI was terrible compared to GNOME. Windows has a very inconsistent UI these days, partly because Microsoft keeps changing the most visible parts of it, but completely ignores system utilities that still use XP-era icons.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 18:47:52+00:00
> But the 120b model has just as bad if not worse formatting issues, compared to the 20b one

What runtime/tools are you using? Haven't been my experience at all, but I've also mostly used it via llama.cpp and my own "coding agent". It was slightly tricky to get the Harmony parsing in place and working correct, but once that's in place, I haven't seen any formatting issues at all?

The 20B is definitely worse than 120B for me in every case and scenario, but it is a lot faster. Are you running the "native" MXFP4 weights or something else? That would have a drastic impact on the quality of responses you get.

Edit:

> Migth also be because of 120b not liking being in q8

Yeah, that's definitely the issue, I wouldn't use either without letting them be MXFP4.
by dzonga | 2025-11-04 18:47:54+00:00
what history has shown though is that things boomerang. there's times when 'morals' are loose and times when society goes ultra-conservative.

luckily for a lot of us we are going to experience both in our lifetimes - times when porn was freely accessible, weed / drugs everywhere. and we're already starting to see things getting tied down e.g ID laws on porn sites, next gambling sites are banned, same as divorces, adultery laws are introduced.

so if you wanna 'live' it up do so while you can.
by sireat | 2025-11-04 18:48:12+00:00
Indeed regular Jupyter works so well on VS Code for solo work these days that there is no real need for a new entrant.

So what pain point are these new entrants trying to solve?

Sure there is an issue of .ipynb basically being a gnarly json ill suited for git but it is rare that I need to track down a particular git commit. Even then that json is not that hard to read.

Also I'd like an easier way to copy cells across different Jupyter notebooks, but at the end of day it is just Python and markdown not very hard to grok.
by stavros | 2025-11-04 18:48:37+00:00
I think the main problem here was that there wasn't a single script that:

1. Accepts no parameters.

2. Looks for an SD card with a bunch of Sony-structured folders.

3. Copies the media from that to the NAS folder directly and fsyncs.

4. Checks that the files are there and look ok.

5. Maybe triggers a ZFS snapshot? Why not.

6. Only then deletes the files from the source.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-11-04 18:48:51+00:00
at least some of which would happen aboveground

No reason to think this is true, All the major powers (US, Russia, China) have extensive underground testing capacity. All the recent powers have only done underground testing (Pakistan, India, North Korea). China was the last country to do an above ground test, in 1980, the 22 tests they've done since then were all underground.
by Certhas | 2025-11-04 18:49:03+00:00
Non-political almost always means "accept the social status quo I am used to".

I think there is a reasonable argument that the default for a community with technical goals should be to accept social status quo conventions unless they conflict with the communities technical goals. But if the social default is "girls don't code and queers should hide" there is a reasonable counterargument that these conflict with the goal of making the technology (and community) available to everyone.
by speak_plainly | 2025-11-04 18:49:10+00:00
I think you might be missing out on what the Chinese Room thought experiment is about.

The argument isn’t about whether machines can think, but about whether computation alone can generate understanding.

It shows that syntax (in this case, the formal manipulation of symbols) is insufficient for semantics, or genuine meaning. That means whether you're a machine or human being, I can teach you every grammatical rule or syntactical rule of a language but that is not enough for you to understand what is being said or have meaning arise, just like in his thought experiment. From the outside it looks like you understand, but the agent in the room has no clue what meaning is being imparted. You cannot derive semantics from syntax.

Searle is highlighting a limitation for computationalism and the idea of 'Strong AI'. No matter how sophisticated you make your machine it will never be able to achieve genuine understanding, intentionality, or consciousness because it operates purely through syntactic processes.

This has implications beyond the thought experiment, for example, this idea has impacted Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, AI and ML, Epistemology, and Cognitive Science. To boil it down, one major implication is that we lack a rock-solid understanding or theory of how semantics arises, whether in machines or humans.
by vincnetas | 2025-11-04 18:49:17+00:00
garbage engagement are posts so obviously wrong/provoking/you name it that you must exercise supreme self control to not engage with the content. And for some people it is quite difficult to do so algorithm thinks that, hey this is trending so might be i should show this to more people. So this garbage turns up on your stream. I bean dealing with this by straight up blocking such accounts, but this is loosing battle in the sea of bots :)
by staticman2 | 2025-11-04 18:49:19+00:00
There's no serious claim that needs refuting.

I don't think any serious person thinks LLMs work like the human brain.

People claiming this online aren't going around murdering their spouses like you'd delete an old LLama model from your hard drive.

I'm not sure why people keep posting these sorts of claims they can't possibly actually believe if we look at their demonstrable real life behavior.
by l33tbro | 2025-11-04 18:49:19+00:00
> but one day they could suddenly start ranting about their own political opinions or crazy beliefs.

Why is this a problem? I don't mean to be confrontational here, but by this I mean: is it about them being "crazy", or us not being able to hold complexity and ambiguity? Politics has to emerge somewhere, and it's not like we have third spaces for these rants in our modern world (save for a few die-hards at your local town-hall meeting).

Also, I think cartoon politics is something that tends to emerge out of somebody's experience. Often it is armor. I think if you learn to not take them at face value, then it can really give you a quick insight (not always accurate) about what makes somebody tick.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-04 18:49:28+00:00
I think it's fair to keep using debasement for the act of letting your currency go down against other currencies on the FX market.

> "inflation" or "monetary expansion".

This is my second pet peeve on the topic, inflation and growth of the money supply are independent phenomenons. (they are only correlated in countries with high inflation regimes and, hyperinflation aside, the causation is essentially reversed: the money supply grow because of the inflation, higher price leading to an increase of loans).
by pgguru | 2025-11-04 18:50:21+00:00
Hypertables definitely had the arrays columns auto-expanding with the custom node type. Not sure what else it would look like for what you describe.

That said, don't sleep on the "this is awesome" parts in this project... my personal favorite is the automatic schema detection:

``` CREATE TABLE my_iceberg_table () USING iceberg WITH (definition_from = 's3://bucket/source_data.parquet'); ```
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 18:50:35+00:00
I'm not finding any way of figuring out if that's true or not, I live near the second-largest city in Spain, kind of feel like people probably buy as much RAM here as elsewhere in the country/continent, but maybe that's incorrect. I've tried searching for graphs/statistics for the last 1-2 years about it in Spain but not having much success.
by echelon | 2025-11-04 18:50:41+00:00
> "Non-political community" is an oxymoron

No it's not.

I'm an LGBT person with a trans partner and I find many codes of conduct to be chastising and purposefully finger pointing to conservative people.

A lot of them are basically, "your religious teachings or cultural upbringing aren't welcome here"

I don't agree with religious texts, but that's what you're wagging in their face with some of the CoCs.

Leave it at "don't be an asshole". It's that simple.

The current political climate, I feel, is a direct reaction to this.

A politically neutral space wouldn't permit religious people to harass trans or LGBT people, but it also wouldn't give anyone latitude to throw stones the other way either.

CoCs are "you're not welcome here at all".

Another thing: you always see language and project logos modified to bear the rainbow, trans, and BLM colors. You never see anything supporting Asians, white people, men, or Christians. If you did this, you would be called out as a racist. Which is so ironic.

Let's just get along and work together. Maybe we'll find more agreements amongst ourselves that way instead of trying to divide everyone into camps.

Some progressives are going to get very pissed off at this comment, but I grew up and live in the South. You can (and often must) work with people you don't agree with. It's not impossible to be friends either. You might wind up changing their mind, and they might wind up making you more tolerant as well.
by lauraleexm | 2025-11-04 18:50:58+00:00
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by TacticalCoder | 2025-11-04 18:51:15+00:00
TFA says "bought put options". One option (either PUT or CALL) is typically 100x the shares (but mini lots of 10x exists or at least did exist at some point).

So he bought (he's long on the PUTs) 10 000 PUTs on NVDA and 50 000 PUTs on PLTR. I don't know at which expiration dates nor at which strikes.

A PUT option can be either a bet (like in TFA) that an underlying shall go down below a certain price before a certain date of it can be an hedge when you own the stock, believe it could go up some more, but also want to be protected should it crash. Now of course hedging has a cost and it's not cheap: an option is an insurance. Even the terminology is the same: the buyer pays a premium and the seller (i.e. the one selling the insurance) collects that premium.

Now if you want to learn about full-on degenerate gambling, these last years there's been an explosion in "0DTE": options with zero day to expiration. Because they're 0DTE, there's very little "extrinsic" value in these. So it's a "cheap" way to get basically 100x leverage (either short or long).

Here's a small documentary of 5 minutes about 0DTEs:

https://youtu.be/5atTocDOTpY
by layer8 | 2025-11-04 18:51:16+00:00
Performance wouldn’t be the same, and that’s why nobody is manufacturing it. The industry prefers living with higher complexity when it yields better performance. That doesn’t mean that some people like in this thread wouldn’t prefer if things were more simple, even at the price of significantly lower performance.

> The complexity would almost certainly still exist.

That doesn’t follow. A lot of the complexity is purely to achieve the performance we have.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-04 18:51:27+00:00
Back in the oldschool days in the 1990s, I remember our school had soldered diodes, that is, we pupils had to do so manually. That was quite fun. Unfortunately I haven't quite had a need or use case to do so again; I tried to get into arduino, but I found it too much needing self-learning. With that I mean I'd have to understand a lot in order to do something useful. I have no problem with learning something new, but my time is super-limited these days and I need to prioritize hard, so I kind of gave up. Perhaps I try for Raspberry Pi but I am afraid it will also require a lot of time investment before it becomes "useful" (aside from learning something new, which is always useful, but other things also need to be learned, so time is of limited value here).
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-04 18:51:28+00:00
https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/stocks/how-to-s...

https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/shorting-stocks-your-inve...

https://www.fidelity.com/viewpoints/active-investor/selling-...
by nitwit005 | 2025-11-04 18:51:41+00:00
It's not just HackerNews. I can remember when Facebook rolled out their "in-app browser", and a huge amount of content appeared on how to disable it.

That was partly due to websites being broken. You can still find some old discussions on Stack Overflow about features of their websites not working correctly in it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27000708/file-upload-con...
by synapsomorphy | 2025-11-04 18:51:58+00:00
I'm completely puzzled on why space-based compute is so exciting to everyone all of a sudden. I have worked on spacecraft and the constant power benefit seems comically far from outweighing the many, many negatives, even if launch cost is zero, which we are still very far from.

Am I missing something? Feels like an extremely strong indicator that we're in some level of AI bubble because it just doesn't make any sense at all.
by wisemang | 2025-11-04 18:52:00+00:00
This is definitely dependent on individuals. It’s a reason during some conversations people can never seem to get a word in edgewise, even if the person speaking may think they’re providing opportunities do so. A mismatch in “pause length” can make for frustrating communications.

I am also too lazy to google or AI it but it’s something I remember from when I taught ESL long ago.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-11-04 18:52:22+00:00
On a single contract, maybe, but remember that the counterparty is usually a market maker who doesn't take directional risk, their game is to bet that the cost of delta hedging is less than the premium they collect, and that's more of an implied vs realized volatility thing than a directional thing. Even if we took it for granted that Michael Burry was smart money, to a first order approximation the dealers don't care and would be happy to earn fees for managing his leverage.
by neogodless | 2025-11-04 18:52:26+00:00
So funny - I thought the same as the first comment. But yeah memory is a funny thing.

https://kagi.com/proxy/sim-city-2000.png?c=zBh1SYcmKrHnLf7qc...

https://kagi.com/proxy/00001307.jpg?c=vxNARhwMwSpmnHAfYQrnRr...
by SamInTheShell | 2025-11-04 18:52:42+00:00
Right there with you on this. These car companies would just be better served ripping out their telemetry stacks and just providing a screen that only supports a phone driving it. I pulled the jumper for the telemetry stacks in my last two cars and I’m going to do so in my next car. They don’t get to sell me a car that then tracks and reports my habits to my insurance without paying me to do so on an opt in only basis.
by CitrusFruits | 2025-11-04 18:52:47+00:00
I think Jerk might be too specific of a term. You probably just want to be looking out for someone you don't want as a coworker.

My goto question is to ask people what motivates them. There's a wide range of answers, but I usually find that what people disclose often helps me understand them better even if they may appear a bit like a jerk, and I can consequently give them more targeted feedback or coaching. I think spending 30 minutes to get to know someone is worth every second and can really help team cohesion and productivity.
by gorgoiler | 2025-11-04 18:53:14+00:00
Nano is quite a venerable piece of software with the initial implementation shipping as pico, the text editor for the pine mail client, back in 1992. Tens of thousands of students at a few universities will have been introduced to it as their very first email client.

The pine authors fell foul of the Debian free software guidelines and, as well as nano, a clone for the mail client itself lives on to this day as alpine. I use it every so often for a spot of nostalgia.