MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-11 01:23:22+00:00
> Handling can be added to change the transaction to be read-only if the inner code throws a particular exception, but the consistency should still be checked through a `commit` phase (at least in an OCC setting), so the `continue` in `finally` is still the correct way to do it.

This approach fails to account for `fn` performing multiple mutations where an exception is raised from statement N, where N > 1.

For example, suppose `fn` successfully updates a record in table `A`, then attempts to insert a record into table `B` which produces a constraint violation exception[0]. Unconditionally performing a `commit` in the `finally` block will result in the mutation in table `A` being persisted, thus resulting in an invalid system persistent state.

If the `try` block performed the `commit` and the `finally` block unconditionally performed a `rollback`, then the behavior I believe sought would be sound.

>> 0 - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/inspectopedia/ContinueOrBreak...

> Wrong link?

No, it's the link I intended. The purpose of it was to provide the warning anyone working in a translation unit using the technique originally proffered would see as well as be a starting point for research.

0 - https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.sql/...
by lerno | 2025-11-11 01:23:31+00:00
I have never heard anyone calling Zig "famously simple" before. In fact, people tend to say it has quite the learning curve.

Of course, caveats apply: it is certainly simple compared to some languages, but certainly not compared to others. "Famously simple" seems to indicate it is one of the simplest languages to learn, which seems wrong unless there are some serious qualifications to that statement?
by porphyra | 2025-11-11 01:23:42+00:00
> if they have anything figured out besides "collect spatial data" like imagenet

I mean she launched her whole career with imagenet so you can hardly blame her for thinking that way. But on the other hand, there's something bitter lesson-pilled about letting a model "figure out" spatial relationships just by looking at tons of data. And tbh the recent progress [1] of worldlabs.ai (Dr Fei Fei Li's startup) looks quite promising for a model that understands stuff including reflections and stuff.

[1] https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/rtfm
by TomatoCo | 2025-11-11 01:23:51+00:00
LLM performance depends on doing a lot of math on a lot of different numbers. For example, if your model has 8 billion parameters, and each parameter is one byte, then for 256gb/s you can't do better than 32 tokens per second. So if you try to load a model that's 80 gigs, you only get 3.2 tokens per second, which is kinda bad for something that costs 3-4k.

There's newer models called "Mixture of Experts" that are, say, 120b parameters, but only use 5b parameters per token (the specific parameters are chosen via a much smaller routing model). That is the kind of model that excels on this machine. Unfortunately again, those models work really well when doing hybrid inference, because the GPU can handle the small-but-computationally-complex fully connected layers while the CPU can handle the large-but-computationally-easy expert layers.

This product doesn't really have a niche for inference. For training and prototyping is another story, but I'm a noob on those topics.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-11 01:23:58+00:00
>You're specific statement was that companies were listing job postings saying white men weren't welcome. I don't see any evidence of that.

Sorry, I don't have time to satisfy arbitrary demands like this. Job postings are ephemeral anyway. There have been articles written about this but I don't have links, and the way you're coming at me tells me you will never be satisfied.

>I'm going to try very very hard to ignore the fact it was James O'Keefe that "broke" that story. He's only one step above Info Wars when it comes to being a reliable source, and it's well established he doctors videos to fit his narrative.

O'Keefe did not originate this story. Lunduke gets a number of leaks himself. If you expect these maverick journalists to be well-liked, you're being totally unreasonable.

>But for the sake of argument, let's assume that IBM did do something illegal here: they deserve to be sued and the person who was discriminated against is entitled to some kind of compensation (regardless of race/gender). But that's hardly evidence of some grand conspiracy against white men.

CEOs of companies saying out in the open that they want more "representation" and that there are bonuses for hiring minorities not good enough? There are billions of dollars being spent specifically to attack whites and white men specifically, and to discourage whites from forming families. I'm not going to argue with you on this point. This should be rather obvious.

>Would you say it's a reasonable assertion that someone born into immense wealth and privilege (regardless of race/gender/sexual orientation) has substantially more opportunities in their life then someone born in abject poverty?

I know exactly where you want to take this and let me stop you right there. Would you agree that, assuming we are allocating financial assistance to poor people, that all equally poor people are equally deserving of help regardless of what they look like, or what is between their legs, or who they like to sleep with?

Anything that tries to blame present-day whites for crimes of the past is effectively collective punishment. Meanwhile, you can't even extract retribution from the children of convicted criminals at present, yet we are supposed to take the blame for a few individuals in the past based on the mere fact that they look like us? There is no evidence of widespread collusion against minorities at present. To the very limited extent you might argue that, I could argue that people of other demographics prefer their own consistently.

I don't actually want to continue this discussion lol. It's too tedious and I don't expect to convince you of anything based on how you write. But hopefully some of what I've said will lead you to reconsider some of your mainstream beliefs.
by aatd86 | 2025-11-11 01:24:06+00:00
Haha I did the same and it is a bit more nuanced. But it is hinting at either native speaker or French. I do speak French. But it is still quite surprising to me. Although it did not pick up everything or it pointed at things that should indicate something other than French wrt punctuation for instance.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69128dbe-a054-8009-a1c8-31b00f2ae5...

Summary of probabilities (still low-confidence)

If you forced a guess:

Native English: ~40–50%

Romance L1 (especially French): ~25–35%

Slavic L1: ~10–15%

Germanic L1 (other than English): ~5–10%

Other: remaining small tail

This is quite funny! I should be more careful about how I write online.
by tombert | 2025-11-11 01:24:44+00:00
Even if he didn't kill himself and even if it was an accident, he still was very much fucked over by the British government. They stripped his security clearance and made him a felon and made him take female hormones. This guy cracked the uncrackable code and basically (co)invented Computer Science, but all they cared about who he had sex with.
by gonzo41 | 2025-11-11 01:25:04+00:00
Counterpoint, the US has better other systems. Such as the 1st,2nd,3rd largest air forces in the world.

Lots of Ukrainian commanders would happily trade FPV drones with grenades attached for mortar teams with lots of ammo and effective aircover.

Modern militaries need drones, but the swarms that everyone gushes over aren't that effective when a 1000 pound gorilla like the US Army turns up to play.
by danielodievich | 2025-11-11 01:26:33+00:00
I pay attention to what my former country is doing to Ukraine and it is really bad. America's warfighting with drones is very clearly unprepared to what's currently on the cutting edge. Ukraine's strike on strategic aviation with drones transported via trucks to the edge of airports can very easily happen here, given the size of the country, relative ease of access to air force bases and ubiquitous trucks everywhere. I worry that only when that happens will there be meaningful impetus to do something. Until then the current idiots will continue to occupy themselves with owning the libs and beard size regulations.
by accrual | 2025-11-11 01:26:50+00:00
Wow! That's pretty interesting. I can imagine wanting to store optical media in Pelican cases or similar for shock protection, ability to padlock, etc. But yeah -- what's the interaction between whatever interior foam they chose and the CD-R media and dyes? Especially after 10+ years of continuous contact?

Optical media is probably best stored well-labeled and in metal or cardboard box on a shelf in a basement that few will rarely disturb.
by Yaina | 2025-11-11 01:27:46+00:00
Totally agree!! But you never see anything remotely close to proposals like that from the people claiming they want less bureaucracy.

When they say less bureaucracy / deregulation, they just talk about tax cuts, less consumer protections and at worst artificially boosting large companies that are not innovating.

What is desperately needed is making the system less cumbersome and convoluted
by davmre | 2025-11-11 01:28:00+00:00
It's true that these are very different activities, but I think most ML researchers would agree that it's actually the creation of ImageNet that sparked the deep learning revolution. CNNs were not a novel method in 2012; the novelty was having a dataset big and sophisticated enough that it was actually possible to learn a good vision model from without needing to hand-engineer all the parts. Fei-fei saw this years in advance and invested a lot of time and career capital setting up the conditions for the bitter lesson to kick in. Building the dataset was 'easy' in a technical sense, but knowing that a big dataset was what the field needed, and staking her career on it when no one else was doing or valuing this kind of work, was her unique contribution, and took quite a bit of both insight and courage.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-11 01:28:37+00:00
Oh you made an edit.

You're looking at where I told someone not be rude, and you're interpreting that as a personal attack from me? Because I "want to be shitty"? No.

And the mention of community is not a pretense. I want them to recognize that a lot of qualified people don't in fact already know that specific thing. (This is separate from how easy it is to google.)

Also, if you're calling out personal attacks, the way they used the word "disgraceful" is much more personal than anything I said.
by outfoxsemillc | 2025-11-11 01:28:45+00:00
Adherence to being entirely Public Domain is required for code to be considered.

I'll accept patches whenever I feel like it if they also keep the code fun, even if it's to the point of silliness.

The word "Vita" is so generic that it can't be trademarked, and therefore the USPTO "VitaOS Trademark" that I didn't claim for myself in time was in the Public Domain the entire time and remains in the Public Domain. I got the name "VitaOS" from my name: Vitalii Skikun. That's how generic the word "Vita" is.

Check the Description for a better explanation.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-11 01:28:50+00:00
> In 1958, I bought my first and only home. Of course, it was in Omaha, located about two miles from where I grew up (loosely defined), less than two blocks from my in-laws, about six blocks from the Buffett grocery store and a 6-7-minute drive from the office building where I have worked for 64 years.

Is Warren Buffett getting into the meme too?
by bofadeez | 2025-11-11 01:28:55+00:00
All this “physics of news” framing repeats the same mistake mainstream economics made decades ago, confusing human action with measurable physical phenomena. People aren’t particles, and opinions aren’t spin states. As Mises and Hazlitt argued, mathematical models give spurious precision when applied to purposeful behavior: they hide their "arbitrary assumptions" behind elegant equations. Treating communication, belief, and motivation as quantifiable variables may look rigorous, but it strips away meaning, choice, and context and the very essence of human decision. What results isn’t insight, but an illusion of control dressed up as science.

Physics operates on mechanical causality while human behavior does not.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-11 01:29:11+00:00
I found this one interesting:

> “Vendors in the United States would laugh at us,” Hichwa said. American-made radios could cost $10,000 when he needed something for $30. The founders realized they’d have to build components themselves and seek suppliers outside the defense industry. Instead of using computer chips common in military equipment that cost hundreds of dollars, Neros used chips designed for parking meters at $1 each.

By the time your certification process represents 99.7%+ of your total costs, there's a chance it's hurting you more than it's helping.
by Quekid5 | 2025-11-11 01:29:27+00:00
I think the big thing (potentially, for me) is the ability to postpone conflict resolution during a rebase. That can be quite painful in regular old git, but git-mediate helps make that less painful in practice in my particular situation and workflow.

We'll see once better non-cli UX appears. I'm low-key excited for what could be possible in this space.
by gessha | 2025-11-11 01:31:10+00:00
I really dislike YouTube on mobile for tutorials because UI is clunky compared to desktop. The information is locked into video frames and audio that are hard to search through and mobile clients aren’t rich enough to search through transcripts and object search through frames.

I much prefer static web pages and text which is why I reach for the LLM hammer.

The way I see the two is as complements. A YouTube video with someone doing something is rich with information but it’s slow to process. A LLM prompt is fast but unreliable. Sometimes the information that in looking for is not in the Internet and I’m actually looking for a plausible hallucination so I can start from somewhere. Tradeoffs.
Show HN: Nano Banana 2 – One-Shot AI Image Transformation
by lu794377 | 2025-11-11 01:31:23+00:00
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I’d love feedback from the HN community — especially on creative workflows, usability, and integration ideas.
by accrual | 2025-11-11 01:31:27+00:00
The one thing I can add is that the VRC players I've played with don't care about it. They just want to be in a world and do things with their friends, even if it's janky or has bugs. It's already persistently novel, and if ones novel threshold ever dips too low or the bugs are too high, there's another world with different people just a tap away.
by danfunk | 2025-11-11 01:31:29+00:00
I hate web forms. You hate web forms. Especially when when they are long. Or one form follows another after another after another.

We have conversational LLM's that can make this feel much better, and there is this great BPMN diagramming tool that makes it easy to describe the flow of long, complex sessions like these. Together they can give everyone a far better experience.

There is a companion video and a working demo - where you can run the model, change it, and refine it to cover new topics or extend the conversation.

We are really excited about this technique and look forward to your feedback.
by evanjrowley | 2025-11-11 01:31:34+00:00
You can already find Corne-inspired keyboards with these features, but up until the introduction of this Toucan design, you couldn't find a Corne keyboard with all those features together.

- Wireless

- Integrated pointing device

- Aligned 1u thumb keys

- E-ink screen

- Aluminium plate

- Below $200

I'm interested for sure. Thanks for sharing.
by kalleboo | 2025-11-11 01:31:50+00:00
Ever since the analog TV shutdown and the refarming of those low frequencies to 4G LTE, you see that 4G actually has higher coverage than 2G/3G (this both in sparsely-populated places like Australia and dense ones like Japan).

And for 2G especially GSM has a physical cell size limit due to TDMA that LTE does not have so in sparse areas the same transmitter location can reach further.

If in your country 2G still has better coverage that's not due to technical superiority of the standard but due to decisions made by the operator.
by justcuriousss | 2025-11-11 01:32:12+00:00
Thank you, and I agree. I did not want to cite examples, thinking they would overwhelm the thread with the specific problem in question.

I don’t mean groupthink or the opposing groupthink that comes in response, though. I believe I can tell the difference, and I believe this is new and systemic.

If you don’t perceive the same thing, I may simply be wrong or projecting. It’s why I asked.
by pyuser583 | 2025-11-11 01:32:36+00:00
Canada's plan was to encourage the US to invade, so the British Navy could attack the US from the Caribbean. The US would get bogged down in the icy Canadian winter, while the Royal Navy took the Eastern seaboard, Mississipi river, and Panama.

The American plan was to throw everything we had at Canada, so it was probably a very good plan.

I don't think it would work anymore.

More practically - in the aftermath of the 1812 War, the US and British North America agreed to demilitarize the border. During WWII, this was preventing mobilization in the Great Lakes region, and Canada proposed undoing the treaty. The US diplomat in charge felt the treaty had historical value and should be kept in tact.

So the US-Canadian border is very demilitarized, by design.
by underlipton | 2025-11-11 01:33:26+00:00
It doesn't always work. There are many topics that are perpetual edit wars because both (multiple) sides see the proliferation of their perspective as a matter of life and death. In many cases, one side is correct in this assessment and the others are delusional, but it's not always easy to align the side that's correct with the people who effectively control the page, because editors indeed do have their own biases (whether because of ideology, a philosophy, a political party, a nation, or whatever else). For those topics, Wikipedia can never be a source of "truth".
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-11 01:33:49+00:00
>If you tell them that you want to enlist but will only do so if they guarantee a truck driver MOS on your contact then they'll absolutely take you unless they've already hit their limit for that fiscal year.

(I think this is right, I've heard conflicting info about what recruiters can promise you)

If they are official military, then the truck driver HAS been through Basic and knows the absolute minimum of combat.

You don't have to trust me, this is literally what tons of women did during WW2 in most countries (except germany, who used slavery). Betty White and Bea Arthur both signed up for service as literal truck drivers. In fact, they both worked as truck drivers in different services set up to recruit women to replace men in non-combat roles to free them up for other service. Bea Arthur even went through some form of "Boot camp".

The UK used women heavily, especially in things like running the logistics of the air war. WRNS even did activities like fly transport planes and shuttle fighter aircraft around.

>In December 1941, Parliament passed the National Service Act, which called up unmarried women between 20 and 30 years old to join one of the auxiliary services.... by 1943 about nine out of ten women were taking an active part in the war effort.

The US uses a lot of civilian contractors for logistics, and that is the same idea. However, if the US ever deals with real, serious industrialized warfare again, I would bet on those civilian contractors being consumed by the military.

The US Women's Army Corps alone had 80k women serving, so not exactly millions, but it was a significant effort.

So not only is it the norm for a serious war to often push leadership to free up people doing non-combat duties by replacing them with people "not fit" for combat, it literally went to the extent that in WW2 we pretended to ignore sexism to make it happen and literal women were put in harms way and other "not technically front line combat but in danger of taking fire" roles.

> Like half the users seem to be aggressively ignorant of stuff that's common knowledge in the real world outside the tech industry.

Seriously agree though. That's not a slight, or a "take that", it's a real problem for HN. Tons of people here think they are smarter than average for choosing to browse orange reddit.
by gnabgib | 2025-11-11 01:34:15+00:00
Related (2022): The existence of the 50-year mortgage shows lenders are desperate (26 points, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32525364

50-Year Mortgages That Children Can Inherit (21 points, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31967700

UK Gover[n]ment keen on 50-year mortgages (27 points, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31958362
by tptacek | 2025-11-11 01:35:34+00:00
I think it's also possible for the party to maintain marginally unpopular positions to support their principles --- that's what the GOP does on reproductive health care --- but when you do that you have to be cognizant that you're paying a price and you have to make that cost up somewhere else. And then, you have some control over how painful that cost is.

I don't think there's a set of policies that puts our shared principles on immigration "into the black" (so to speak) with the median US voter. Immigration is unpopular worldwide right now, and some of that unpopularity is just human nature, some of the same forces that drive NIMBYism. But you can minimize the costs by changing up how you communicate on these issues, and I think the best way to do that is to empathize (even as you disagree) with the beliefs of the people who disagree with you.

There are lots of places where conservatives disagree with me where I have zero empathy and zero fucks to give about how they feel. But when we're on the wrong side of an issue electorally, when the margins are as slim as they are, and when the issue is as salient as it is (it was the 2nd highest polled issue in weighted exits in 2024), it behooves us to be more careful.
by esseph | 2025-11-11 01:35:35+00:00
The only way that starts to make any sense is if you're doing 128way-256way gpon splits which is not something most are willing to do if they need to make any kind of profit and sell anything more than 100Mbps packages. I wasn't even willing to do 64w splits over 10 years ago now and in hindsight that was wise.

You could go active but then your SFP/SFP+ per port cost eats you up.

For less than 1mil fixed wireless is going to cover 2,800km/sq. You are not going to to get anywhere near that cost trying to do the same thing to 2048(or more) subs in that footprint with fiber. That wouldn't even cover your fiber material cost!