MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vkou | 2025-12-05 20:58:03+00:00
Maybe these means should be employed in more moderation?

Certainly we wouldn't be better off if advertising were beamed 24/7 at full blast into your ears and eyes the second you step out into any public space.

About 5% of its current proliferation would be a nice target to aim for - maybe a maximum of 200 ads a day[1] - but if that still proves to be an issue, we could always go lower.

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[1] With maybe five rising to the level of notice.
by nialv7 | 2025-12-05 20:58:11+00:00
> Supply chain has left us.

<rant>

Who made the decision? There are still so many of us wanting a compact phone, but the big tech companies (Google, Apple, etc.) said no, therefore we can't have it. Not only can we not have it, they also closed the door on everyone, now even if someone wants to service this section of the market, they can't. Because, yes, the supply chain has left us.

This is power - they are taking away our freedoms and anatomy. They are making decisions for us and we have absolutely no say.

</rant>

Compact phones is but one of examples. A more current example would be the rocketing DRAM price. We got do something to stop this, but I feel so powerless.
by whalesalad | 2025-12-05 20:58:28+00:00
I just wiped my gaming rig (win11, 12700k, 7900xtx) and installed CachyOS a few days ago. KDE Plasma doesn't work, but Hyprland and Gnome do. I was playing Arc Raiders with a friend within an hour of starting the install. So far everything works, and it even sleeps and wakes without issue.
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-05 20:58:44+00:00
I am part of the tail end of purposely exposing kids to chicken pox, I got them in 1989 and the vaccine was released a few years later. I wish the vaccine would’ve been available, I know multiple people that have experienced shingles in their eyes. Crossing my fingers until I make it to 50 and can get my shingles vaccine.
by em-bee | 2025-12-05 20:58:48+00:00
you seem to think that people have other (perhaps even real) problems which they are falsely attributing to immigration

the only problem that can be directly attributed to immigrants is xenophobia. the solution to xenophobia is education.

really the problem is a lack of affordable housing

and that has to do what with immigrants? no, immigrants are not taking away affordable housing. whatever housing policy is responsible for the lack of affordable housing needs to be changed and can be changed in such a way that there would be enough housing for everyone, including immigrants.

I think people who are upset about immigration really are upset about the immigration itself, particularly from substantially different cultures.

as i said. xenophopia. excuse me if i don't take pity with that. the solution is education, to learn about compassion, care, tolerance, build communities, loving your neighbor, which btw, is a deeply christian value, so before people complain about different cultures how about they actually honor their own culture.

There is a prominent belief among anti-immigration people that their governments are trying to ethnically replace them

and you take this seriously? do you really think people are that dumb, to believe such nonsense?

I suppose you might think they're wrong to want this, we're all one race, the human race, etc. Whatever, all that ideological rhetoric doesn't change the way people vote when they begin to feel like foreigners in their own country.

what then is your proposal to address those issues?

i already shared mine: education, build communities, and fix whatever other real problems people have (housing, jobs, etc)
by Ancapistani | 2025-12-05 20:59:09+00:00
> The phrase is exclusively intended to handle both foreign and US diplomats.

I'd argue that the phrase was originally intended to make it absolutely clear that formerly enslaved people were citizens, and so were their children.

Obviously it's been used for other purposes since then, and the authors and those who ratified it considered the repercussions through their own biases, but I believe that was almost exclusively the primary intent.

It's striking me at the moment how much the political climate today mirrors that of the time the 14th was ratified. From a historical perspective, the concern is over the expansion of the electorate - from the abolition of slavery then, and from uncontrolled immigration today.

The difference I see is that the abolition of slavery was a positive decision made by the US government; today's concerns around illegal immigration were caused by our failure to enforce our own laws. Based on my understanding of the motivations of our Justices today, that could be a key difference.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-05 20:59:28+00:00
Does anybody know how much an ML model is actually worth to build a new model? Like when they start making a new model, do they modify the old or do they start from scratch?

I'm asking to know how much owning a model is actually worth, not in how much it could make money by selling use, but in how much it deprecates and keeps value to make a new one. If say one side of China/US lacks out on a model generation, do they only need to follow progress on the science behind it and when they own the data, the algorithm and the hardware all they need is "just" time and energy or is it important, that they actually have their on instance of a large model from every generation continuously?
by Aurornis | 2025-12-05 20:59:30+00:00
> Why would snorting be so much worse than just swallowing the pill? The goal is to get the chemicals in the blood.

When a pill is swallowed it is gradually released into the bloodstream. Some drugs are also partially degraded by the digestive system, meaning you don't get 100% into the bloodstream. For some drugs, as much as 90% or more can be destroyed in the stomach, but this is accounted for in the dosing. Your stomach contents also go through your liver, which does first-pass metabolism depending on the drug and can reduce overall concentrations.

When someone snorts a drug, it bypasses all of that. It has easy access to the brain. It spikes the concentration the brain sees far in excess of what you would get from taking the drug orally.

This spike is where the damage is amplified. A sudden spike to very high values can overwhelm the brain's protection systems, for example.

Dopamine degradation produces neurotoxic metabolites. The brain is normally decent at cleaning these up, but when you consume drugs that spill that dopamine out at excess rates and disrupt its storage in vesicles then you can also overwhelm the brain's ability to clean up safely.

The sudden spike also causes rapid downregulation of the affected receptors, leading to deeper withdrawal effects that can last for a long time.

The sudden spike is also more euphoric. Combine that with the deeper withdrawal and it's why taking a pill through the nose is far more addictive than taking it orally.
by QuiEgo | 2025-12-05 20:59:33+00:00
Yeah this lines up with my experience. Had issues with mesh (I bought an AP with mesh in the product name that covered a wall outlet, no Ethernet in)(edit: it was the “beacon”), essentially was told “you’re holding it wrong.”, and moved on. They seem like lovely products for their intended use case, but my personal experience was not great.

Edit 2: I have eero now. The nodes seem to have some proprietary protocol that sends clients to the best node as you walk around the house. I can’t setup Vlans or do power user stuff, but my WiFi actually “just works” now. I don’t think I’ve touched it once after initial setup.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-05 21:00:07+00:00
>We are not forced to say, "My name is X and I live at Y" when we stay stuff in public

I mean these days you can pretty much be immediately identified by facial recognition. Not saying it's a good thing, but it is the world in which we live.

If you're mad at one, then be mad that the other because this is what technology enables.
by kstrauser | 2025-12-05 21:00:29+00:00
An endorsement: I freaking love Zellij. I mainly use it like one might use Tmux, to keep remote sessions alive so I can reconnect to them from another host than where I began the session:

* Ssh in to myserver.cloud from my laptop. Run Zellij. Fire off various long-running processes in multiple tabs.

* On my commute home, ssh in from my phone, run `zellij attach`, and check on the status of those processes.

* Once home, ssh in from my desktop, run `zellij attach`, and continue where I left off earlier.

Tmux is nice, but Zellij fits my brain a lot better. Plus, it has a lot of UI affordances to discover features without me having to memorize keystrokes. I use these kinds of tools often enough to care about them, but not so often or in such depth that I'm any kind of a power user. There are certain things I do so rarely in Tmux that I have to look up the manual every single time I do them. With Zellij, I don't have to.
by procrasturbator | 2025-12-05 21:01:40+00:00
Hey, yall are still ahead of the curve.

A while back, in my country parents protested against their daughters getting free HPV shots.

Couldn't handle the idea that their kids are separately embodied beings, you see.

Plus I'd wager the long word "papillomavirus" scared most of those folks.

So now we have higher STD rates and a significant number of young women permanently traumatized by being denied healthcare just because their parents were too obsessed with their private parts.

And that's "thinkin' of the childrin" for ya.
by beagle3 | 2025-12-05 21:02:06+00:00
Do note that unlike Python’s “import * from a; import * from b” where you have no idea where a name cam from later in the code (and e.g. changes to a and b, such as new versions, will change where a name comes from), Nim requires a name to be unambiguous, so that if “b” added a function that previously only “a” had, you’ll get a compile time error.
by torginus | 2025-12-05 21:02:24+00:00
Not according to eurostat:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

The theory that Greeks work more hours because less of them work in total doesn't line up with the numbers.

But if we pick Poles instead of Greeks, they have a similar level of employment to Germany while working just as many hours as the Greeks
by jgilias | 2025-12-05 21:02:45+00:00
Have you done any ML-lineage languages before (ocaml, Haskell)? If yes, did you like it? If yes, the answer to your question is probably Rust. The thing about Rust is that it’s kind of this Frankenstein language with a lot of foundational influence coming from ML lineage languages (algebraic data types, traits, combinator heavy programming, etc) but with curly braces and memory management part unique (lifetimes) part modern C++ (smart pointers).

I see Zig as being a lot more in C tradition and lineage with nicer and safer memory management techniques. Also comptime (Lisp-ish there?)

My two cents
by 0manrho | 2025-12-05 21:03:00+00:00
Indeed. The market is changing. The overall personal electronic (computational) device market (Desktop, Laptop, Mobile/Tablet) is growing year over year, and because of that, mac shares going up doesn't mean Desktop PC ownership/sales are being cannabilized. Desktop Market (in terms of yearly sales) is relatively stable, and in terms of ownership continues to grow, while laptop/mobile/tablet (regardless of Mac/Android/Windows/Arm/etc) is growing healthily.

Crucial didn't leave because no one was buying RAM, or even that less people were buying RAM. Or at least that was the situation prior to shit going sideways with pricing/availability in the past 2 months, but that's independent of Apple/Crucial/Micron. They left because there's been little margin in unbuffered DIMMs (aka consumer RAM) for years, and there's virtually no demand or opportunity for innovation in the space for Micron to leverage the brand to make their B2B/Enterprise sales look better, and what Does make them stand out (largely cosmetics these days) is not a core competency of crucial or Micron. There's even less demand for anything interesting/innovative/worth having a whole separate company/BU for in the markets that are growing (Apple, Mobile, Laptops).

Also, now is a prime opportunity to exit the market, but it's also clear this has been in the works for a while though. Look at their limited and frankly half-assed product offerings for DDR5, then compare to what they offered on DDR4. Substantially less SKU's, with very little offerings for the enthusiast market. This wind down started circa 2020.

As far as Crucial is concerned, Apple has never been relevant or a danger to their bottom line. And if Micron wanted in on that money, they're better served doing it as Micron, as opposed to Crucial, which was tantamount to operational overhead in that context.
by xp84 | 2025-12-05 21:03:08+00:00
I'm not who you're arguing with, but I'd also take the opposite side of that argument.

Your analogy does seem workable, though - let's examine:

> If someone comes up to me and asks for food, I am not obliged to give it to them.

Yes! 100% agree. They probably have a right to ask for food in countries that protect free speech, but they have no right to have requests fulfilled.

> If I say to them, "I will give you food, on the condition that I can punch you in the face", and they decline to be punched in the face,

Sounds great. You have the right to say no. You did say no basically, but you did make a counteroffer. (This is arguably also especially true due to free speech, though that's unrelated to our points.) Your exact counteroffer doesn't seem relevant to me, it could also just be that you'll give it for $50, or $1,000,000 and nothing changes.

He thinks it's a bad offer and gets none of your food.

> "nothing wrong has happened"?

I do think nothing wrong has happened! Is it only because you used food, which a necessity, that you think it's wrong? What if it's a PS5? Would this be ok if the asker is seeking a free PS5? Visiting a foreign country is much more like a PS5 than it is a potato.

> If someone else says "You must not make punching someone in the face a precondition of giving them food", does that create a "right to food"? Of course not.

That is the worst policy I could imagine since it's vague and undefined. Can one ask for a kick to the groin? An elbow to the funny bone? If you did the policymaker's job correctly you'd need to make the policy like "No one may deny a request for food/PS5s" -- that exactly creates a right to food/PS5s. Or you could make the policy "No one may deny a request for food/PS5s but one may require compensation, which may only be less than $50 in US Currency. Compensation in the form of a service or a trade may not be required."

That creates a right to pay $50 or less for food/PS5s.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-05 21:03:08+00:00
Ridiculous. SpaceX offers a product that costs far less than its competitors while being as good or better in most respects. Their profit margins on launches must be enormous at this point.

That in turn enables Starlink. They can put up thousands of satellites very cheaply. Then they can turn around and sell subscriptions. Starlink has about 8 million active customers. At $40+/month, that's at least $4 billion/year in revenue. Probably a lot more. Given their launch costs, that's a ton of profit.

"not that Starlink hasn't been tried 10 times before" is just... not true. Nothing like it was ever tried before. Iridium is the only one that came even vaguely close, and it was still a radically different type of service. Iridium was extremely low capacity phone service, then low-bandwidth (it made dialup look super fast by comparison) data, with a network of a few dozen satellites covering the globe. It could not support many customers because it had few satellites. It also had to pay for launches in the 1990s, so an order of magnitude or more costlier. That means that it was enormously expensive, for a product few people actually needed. Handsets cost thousands of dollars, then you got to pay several dollars per minute on top of that.

Iridium was basically space dialup, and extremely expensive space dialup at that. Starlink is space broadband, and their cheap launch costs and other technological advancements mean the service is profitable at a competitive price point.
by jiggawatts | 2025-12-05 21:03:22+00:00
The reason is that image generators don't iterate on the output in the same way the text-based LLMs do. Essentially they produce the image in "one hit" and can't solve a complex sequence in the same way you couldn't one-shot this either. Try taking a random maze, glance at it, then go off to draw a squiggle on a transparency. If you were to place that on top of the maze, there's virtually no chance that you'd have found the solution on the first try.

That's essentially what's going on with AI models, they're struggling because they only get "one step" to solve the problem instead of being able to trace through the maze slowly.

An interesting experiment would be to ask the AI to incrementally solve the maze. Ask it to draw a line starting at the entrance a little ways into the maze, then a little bit further, etc... until it gets to the end.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-12-05 21:03:33+00:00
I’d note they’re not mutually exclusive revenue streams and both add meaningfully to their value. I think the reality is they peaked the first one and growth is in the second one. Subscriptions that are sticky however are much more valuable individually than an advertising tier user. But if you can cater to both and not downgrade subscriptions to ads tier you win in two parallel markets via the same platform. This is not a bad business strategy. But they need to not lose the subscriptions and their reason for being in the quest for growth or they’ll see nominal growth with decline in value.
by giardini | 2025-12-05 21:03:46+00:00
I think the bruises are from pounding his desk in frustration.

And WTF is wrong with wearing a Band-Aid? You're criticizing someone for wearing a f**ing Band-Aid!?* Are you nuts?! [pounds desk] Whassamattayou? Can't you stick to the point instead of talking about f**ing Band-Aids?*
by kieranmaine | 2025-12-05 21:04:10+00:00
From https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06-25-how-do-vaccines-reduce-...

> The shingles vaccine now in widespread use (Shingrix) has more of an effect than the previous one (Zostavax). A key difference between these vaccines is that Shingrix contains an ‘adjuvant’, an ingredient designed to enhance the vaccine’s effect. It is therefore possible that the adjuvant contributes to Shingrix’ greater effect than Zostavax on reducing dementia.
by Ancapistani | 2025-12-05 21:04:23+00:00
I have two thoughts about this.

First - there's no point in worrying about something before it's clear what will happen. Personally, I find it extremely unlikely that any decision will be so broadly defined as to be applicable to more than a handful of people.

Second - I propose that it doesn't matter. I lean toward the Trump administration's positions on probably 2/3 of the issues commonly discussed today, and even from that position I would be incredibly outraged if mass denaturalization were to come to pass. The country would no longer be the America I love at that point, and I would feel very little if any affinity for it.

If what you fear comes to pass, I wouldn't see it as something happening to you - I would see it as a clear signal to emigrate as soon as possible, and at pretty much all costs.
by jackfranklyn | 2025-12-05 21:04:37+00:00
Happy to elaborate. The core problem is bank statement reconciliation - matching raw bank transactions to your accounting records.

Sounds simple until you hit the real-world mess:

1. *Ambiguous descriptions*: "CARD 1234 AMAZON" could be office supplies, inventory, or someone's personal expense on the company card. Same vendor, completely different accounting treatment.

2. *Sequential dependencies*: You need to detect transfers first (money moving between your own accounts), because those shouldn't hit expense/income at all. But transfer detection needs to see ALL transactions across ALL accounts before it can match pairs. Then pattern matching runs, but its suggestions might conflict with the transfer detection. Then VAT calculation runs, but some transactions are VAT-exempt based on what pattern matching decided.

3. *Confidence cascades*: If step 3 says "70% confident this is office supplies," step 7 needs to know that confidence when deciding whether to auto-post or flag for review. But step 5 might have found a historical pattern that bumps it to 95%. Now you're tracking confidence origins alongside confidence scores.

4. *The "almost identical" trap*: "AMAZON PRIME" and "AMAZON MARKETPLACE" need completely different treatment. But "AMZN MKTP" and "AMAZON MARKETPLACE" are the same thing. Fuzzy matching helps, but too fuzzy and you miscategorize; too strict and you miss obvious matches.

5. *Retroactive corrections*: User reviews transaction 47 and says "actually this is inventory, not supplies." Now you need to propagate that learning to similar future transactions, but also potentially re-evaluate transactions 48-200 that already processed.

The conditional branching gets gnarly because each step can short-circuit or redirect later steps based on what it discovered. A clean pipeline assumes linear data flow, but this is more like a decision tree where the branches depend on accumulated state from multiple earlier decisions.
by vunderba | 2025-12-05 21:04:44+00:00
Great question. I do wish we had a bit more insight into the exact background "thinking" that was happening on systems like Seedream.

When you think about posing the "solve a visual image of a maze" to something like ChatGPT, there's a good chance it'll try to throw a python VM at it, threshold it with something like OpenCV, and use a shortest-path style algorithm to try and solve it.
by vkou | 2025-12-05 21:05:27+00:00
> who got covid anyway

I took it in 2020, and have taken booster shots. I got COVID... This year. I felt like shit for two weeks, was fatigured for a month, and had a lingering cough for two.

Nobody's promised them that they won't get COVID after taking it. What is promised is that on the whole, they'd be less likely to get sick, get milder symptoms if they do get sick, and be less likely to require hospitalization or a mortician if those milder symptoms are still serious.

It was and is safe and effective. You're doing exactly what I'm talking about - moving the goalposts.

If you think they need to be moved some more, I'll point out that the vaccine didn't come with a free pony, either, and that airbags and seatbelts kill ~50 people/year, and that you might still get ran over by a bus even if you look both ways before crossing the street.
by hackermailman | 2025-12-05 21:05:37+00:00
Brown PLT group has a lot of Rust resources like a debugger for traits https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/an-interactive-debugger-for-ru... a model of ownership types https://blog.brownplt.org/2023/09/17/rust-ownership.html and an experimental rewrite of the Rust book https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/

Systems programming can be done in ocaml or any language really where there is some documentation on the runtime how not to trigger the GC or flags that can be passed to custom set GC policy
by EarthAmbassador | 2025-12-05 21:05:45+00:00
This question arises from the current regime's efforts to reverse naturalization.

For anyone who has one US citizen parent and one non-citizen parent, where the citizen parent has passed before the child applicant for naturalization reaches 18 years of age, resulting in the applicant applying for and receiving naturalization as an adult, can that same currently naturalized citizen also obtain natural born citizenship status through the deceased citizen parent and would it be advisable?