MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TYPE_FASTER | 2025-12-03 14:50:13+00:00
> networking is absolutely essential for post-graduation job-placement success

Looking back, this has absolutely been the case for me personally. My first job out of school was at a startup spun off from a lab where a friend from my CS classes had been working while at school. I just referred somebody who was eventually hired that I've worked with at two other employers in the past.

Maybe chatting with a LLM with access to the codebase is equally effective as pair programming with a human. I don't have enough experience doing that yet to know. I still see it as another tool.

I've found it helps to have various levels of experience on a team. I think one reason for this is people with less experience (hopefully) ask a lot of questions to fill knowledge gaps. These conversations can lead to revisiting designs, practices, etc. and a better outcome overall.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-03 14:50:28+00:00
> As to why they had a HDD optimisation in 2024... Shrugs

Sadly, Valve doesn't include/publish HDD vs SSD in/on their surveys (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=combined) but considering the most popular combo seems to be 16GB RAM, 8GB VRAM, 2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz CPU frequency, I'm getting the impression that the average gaming PC machine isn't actually that beefy. If someone told me the most common setup paired with the previous specs was a small SSD drive for the OS and a medium/large-sized HDD for everything else and I would have believed you.

I think us as (software/developer/technology) professionals with disposable income to spend on our hobbies forget how things are for the average person out there in the world.
by dfxm12 | 2025-12-03 14:50:31+00:00
It's an interesting idea. Is that what's happening? The article doesn't suggest it. People like Richard Burr, Chris Collins or Nancy Pelosi were certainly wealthy enough cover these expenses. It didn't stop them from seeking other ways to make money via their position. If your goal is to stop insider trading, you should focus on stopping insider trading.

If your goal is to make it easier to travel to and live in DC, well, congress has the power to address housing (especially in DC) and airline costs for all Americans.
by WreckVenom | 2025-12-03 14:50:36+00:00
From the story:

> Originally, the game’s large install size was attributed to optimization for mechanical hard drives since duplicating data is used to reduce loading times on older storage media. However, it turns out that Arrowhead’s estimates for load times on HDDs, based on industry data, were incorrect.

It wasn't a bug. They made a decision on what to optimise which was based on incomplete / incorrect data and performed the wrong optimisation as a result.

As a player of the game, I didn't really care that it took up so much space on my PC. I have 2TB dedicated for gaming.
by fusslo | 2025-12-03 14:50:37+00:00
personally, I started re-watching Mad Men JUST because of these errors!

I love audio commentary, behind the scenes, and other looks behind the veil. I would love the ability to see more of unedited, 'raw', or 'mistakes' in older tv shows. Hell, I would even pay for it.

Whats really interesting to me is that no one 'decided' what's worthy of inclusion like they do with behind the scenes stuff
by mattlondon | 2025-12-03 14:51:02+00:00
I know people who still work there and are doing consultancy work for clients.

I am a former IBMer myself but my memory is hazy. IIRC there was 2 arms of the consultants - one was the boring day to day stuff, and the other was "innovation services" or something. Maybe the spun out the drudgery GTS and kept the "innovation" service? No idea.
by oblio | 2025-12-03 14:51:02+00:00
> However it doesn't mean it is better for society. People have different wants and/or needs.

Are we talking about society or about individuals? Cars are the ultimate expression of individuality, so yes, "People have different wants and/or needs."

But for urban areas large amounts of cars are massively detrimental to society. Go watch his videos.

Cars have 2 fundamental problems:

1. Physics - you can only fit so many 10sqm rectangles on busy urban roads and densely inhabited areas. At some point those rectangles overflow. Which amusingly in terms of the violence you mentioned for public transportation, frequently leads to road rage.

2. Externalities - cars generate a lot crash victims (inside and especially outside of them), noise pollution, light pollution, particulates (even EVs generate them) and they require a lot of resources to build, maintain, operate, store, dispose of.

Both issues can't really be solved, because physics is hard.

And it's not for lack of trying to beat back the laws of physics, because politics around the world for the past 80 years have greatly favored cars and car infrastructure.

On the other hand, if you've made up your mind years ago, you are truly lost to this debate. I can't change your mind, his videos can't change your mind, this entire discussion is hopeless.
by ralferoo | 2025-12-03 14:51:28+00:00
Your argument seems to be that those in public service should only survive on their salaries, because "doing it for the people" is enough of a reward that they don't need to worry about such trivialities as money.

There's no good reason to stop anyone from owning stocks. It's part of any sensible person's retirement strategy. The issue is whether there's a conflict of interest there, and blind trusts or broad market ETFs are two good ways of addressing that issue.

Other alternatives include announcing their intention to trade in specific stocks several months in advance of doing so, so that even if they know about specific long-term future advantages a company might have, it's public knowledge and others can also trade in a similar way. But the easiest solutions by far are blind trusts and broad market ETFs.
by chrisweekly | 2025-12-03 14:52:10+00:00
Consider the plight of a policy-maker who changes their stance on some issue. They may have changed their mind in light of new information, or evolved their position as a result of deeper reflection, personal experience, or maturation. Opponents will accuse them of "waffling" or "flip-flopping", indicating a lack of reliability or principles (if not straight-up bribery). Elected officials are responsible for expressing the will of the people they represent, so if they're elected largely by proponents of issue X, it is arguably a betrayal of sorts for them to be as dynamic as private citizens.

This is tangential to the original topic of insider trading, where the corruption is structural / systemic -- akin to how "conflict of interest" objectively describes a scenario, not an individual's behavior.
by alistairSH | 2025-12-03 14:52:36+00:00
Think through the downstream impact of term limits... where does the power accumulated by long-term congressmen go? My guess... it flows to either/all of career bureaucrats, lobbyists, or career congressional aides. Do we really want to cede more power to groups that are not elected (bureaucrats, lobbyists) or elected-by-proxy (aides)?
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-03 14:52:52+00:00
Yes, like every other profession in the US seemingly, Congress is also underpaid. But letting them individually fight for getting as money as they possible can before they retire via means the typical person doesn't have access to, isn't right either. I agree they should be paid appropriately, so they also can survive on their salary, but still think they shouldn't be able to do certain things others can, because of their position.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-03 14:52:52+00:00
> Could we just not prohibit lawmakers from investing in particular stocks

You're talking about HR 5106 [0] (aka the "Restore Trust in Congress Act"), currently being blocked by Republican House leadership, and actively facing a discharge position by the House rank and file (Republican included) to force a vote [1].

[0] https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr5106/BILLS-119hr5106ih....

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congress-stock-trading-ban-disc...
by iib | 2025-12-03 14:52:57+00:00
I have been looking for the same thing, either from Meta's SAM 3[1] model, either from things like the OP.

There has been some research specifically in this area with what appears to be classic ML models [2], but it's unclear to me if it can generalize to dances it has not been trained on.

[1] https://ai.meta.com/blog/segment-anything-model-3/

[2] https://arxiv.org/html/2405.19727v1
by kragen | 2025-12-03 14:53:07+00:00
Probably not. The conventional math notation has three major advantages over the "[n]o superscripts or subscripts or [G]reek letters and weird symbols" you're proposing:

1. It's more human-readable. The superscripts and subscripts and weird symbols permit preattentive processing of formula structures, accelerating pattern recognition.

2. It's familiar. Novel math notations face the same problem as alternative English orthographies like Shavian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet) in that, however logical they may be, the audience they'd need to appeal to consists of people who have spent 50 years restructuring their brains into specialized machines to process the conventional notation. Aim t3mpted te rait qe r3st ev q1s c0m3nt 1n mai on alterned1v i6gl1c orx2grefi http://canonical.org/~kragen/alphanumerenglish bet ai qi6k ail rez1st qe t3mpt8cen because, even though it's a much better way to spell English, nobody would understand it.

3. It's optimized for rewriting a formula many times. When you write a computer program, you only write it once, so there isn't a great burden in using a notation like (eq (deriv x (pow e y)) (mul (pow e y) (deriv x y)) 1), which takes 54 characters to say what the conventional math notation¹ says in 16 characters³. But, when you're performing algebraic transformations of a formula, you're writing the same formula over and over again in different forms, sometimes only slightly transformed; the line before that one said (eq (deriv x (pow e y)) (deriv x x) 1), for example². For this purpose, brevity is essential, and as we know from information theory, brevity is proportional to the logarithm of the number of different weird symbols you use.

We could certainly improve conventional math notation, and in fact mathematicians invent new notation all the time in order to do so, but the direction you're suggesting would not be an improvement.

People do make this suggestion all the time. I think it's prompted by this experience where they have always found math difficult, they've always found math notation difficult, and they infer that the former is because of the latter. This inference, although reasonable, is incorrect. Math is inherently difficult, as far as anybody knows (an observation famously attributed to Euclid) and the difficult notation actually makes it easier. Undergraduates routinely perform mental feats that defied Archimedes because of it.

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¹ \frac d{dx}e^y = e^y\frac{dy}{dx} = 1

² \frac d{dx}e^y = \frac d{dx}x = 1

³ See https://nbviewer.org/url/canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/logar... for a cleaned-up version of the context where I wrote this equation down on paper the other day.
by limagnolia | 2025-12-03 14:53:09+00:00
The output of a compiler is directly based on what you put in, the source code. That makes it a derivative work of the copyrightable source code, and thus copyright to the copyright holder of the source code, not the person who runs the compiler.

One might argue that model weights are derivative of the training material and copyright held be the copyright holder of the training material. The counter argument would be that the weights are significantly transformational.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-12-03 14:53:18+00:00
Here in NJ, I live in a small town of around 7,000 or so. We have a Township Committee form of government, five committee people with one nominally as Mayor (but really the same as everyone else). They get a yearly stipend of around $5,000 a year or a little less.

It sounds crazy but our whole muni budget is under $5 million. We have almost no infrastructure other than roads (98% of housing is on well water and septic systems, there are no street lights or sewers or the like).

A lot of municipal government in the US is like this. Very small with near-volunteers running everything.

You are right that this rules out a lot of people who can't afford to effectively volunteer for local government. I think mostly this is a good thing.
by zvr | 2025-12-03 14:53:23+00:00
Interesting!

Back in the '80s, before AI could quickly produce such things, I had created a "Greek" version of the C language -- obviously named "Γ".

A lot of preprocessor definitions were involved for keyword translation, as one can imagine. Translating the C standard library was a much more difficult process: it involved patching the compiler/linker on a BSD system, since you could not have non-ASCII symbols (function entry points).
by fintexa | 2025-12-03 14:53:24+00:00
Hi HN, I’ve been building a licensing system called RegentLock and wanted to share it with the community to get feedback, criticism, and ideas for improvement.

What it is

RegentLock is a licensing and activation platform for independent software vendors and companies that ship desktop or enterprise software (not only SaaS). It handles license generation, activation, revocation, offline licensing, rehostability, and usage analytics.

Why I built it

Most existing solutions are either: • overly heavy, requiring SDK lock-ins or complex integrations • SaaS-only, ignoring desktop/offline use cases • missing cryptographic rigor, or • expensive for small teams

A lot of devs still need simple, secure, offline-friendly license handling. I originally built this for my own commercial engineering software, then expanded it into a standalone product.

Key features • Crypto: RSA-2048/4096, Ed25519 signing, ChaCha20-Poly1305 for encrypted license files • License models: node-locked, single-user, floating, feature-based, trial, subscription • Offline support: activations and validations for air-gapped environments • Rehostable licenses: customers can move licenses between machines in a controlled way • APIs + SDKs: REST API + integration examples in C, C#, Go, Python, Java • Dashboard: activation logs, usage metrics, expiration tracking • Lightweight: you don’t have to refactor your whole app to integrate it

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Technical docs + demo

Website: https://regentlock.net Feature overview: https://regentlock.net/features.html Docs + API reference are on the site as well.
by alistairSH | 2025-12-03 14:55:10+00:00
Good news, the average career in the House is already 8 years, so no new law needed! The Senate average is 11 years, so it's already less than 2 terms, no change needed there either!

I'm only half kidding - yes, there are outliers, many of whom probably should have retired years ago (but not because they've been around too long, but because they're simply too old to do the job - Pelosi and McConnell come to mind). But, the range of term limits that are usually discussed are already within the existing range, so it doesn't change all that much.
by popidge | 2025-12-03 14:55:13+00:00
Chunking strategy is really difficult and, like you say, so important to RAG. I'm currently battling with it in a "Podcast archive -> active social trend" clip-finder app I'm working on. You have to really understand your source material and how it's formatted, consider preprocessing, consider when and where semantic breaks happen and how you can deterministically handle that in the specific domain. Adjacency similarity is a must, otherwise you leave perfectly cromulent results on the table because they didn't have the right cosine score in a vacuum.

There is some early stuff from Apple's research labs and the ColBERT team in late attention embedding (https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01488) which looks to ease that burden, and generate compressed token-level embeddings across a document.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-03 14:55:18+00:00
The documentary is no longer available (or, possibly, only available in the US), but the tool you're describing is pretty common in digital video editing. In DaVinci Resolve the dustbuster tool will look a few frames ahead and behind of the one where you want to paint out a mark, and make its best guess based on that.

I've used it to paint out tape dropouts on VHS transfers with remarkable success.
by SetTheorist | 2025-12-03 14:55:19+00:00
There is an inherent complexity in a lot of mathematics. The compact notation makes it much easier (or even possible) to understand what is going on.

Compare something like

equals(integral(divide(exponentiate(negate(divide(square(var),2))),sqrt(multiply(2,constant_pi))),var,negate(infinity),infinity),1)

vs

$$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{e^{-x^2/2}}{\sqrt{2\pi}}dx = 1$$

(imagine the actual generated mathematical formula here :-/ )

it is infinitely easier to grok what is going on using symbolic notation after a minimal amount of learning.
by aomix | 2025-12-03 14:55:51+00:00
I never watched the widescreen version of The Wire they put out years ago but now I'm curious again. That show was a bone deep 4:3 product and the show plays with it constantly. Here is an interesting breakdown that made me really appreciate how clever they got while trying to be pretty subdued with the cinematography on The Wire https://vimeo.com/39768998
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-12-03 14:56:13+00:00
A camera CMOS dies at 1–2 µJ pulse, this same pulse energy reaches the cornea. If a sensor has fried, that means the dose to your eye is already in the zone of cataract creation. Human corneal endothelial cells do not regenerate. If the endothelium is damaged, stromal fluid accumulates and opacity can progressively over months/a year from one hit. You might never know what caused it.
by throaway123213 | 2025-12-03 14:56:21+00:00
It becomes a problem when the population of the developing nations outnumber the developed 100 to one. And im not talking about those inside the USA, im talking about worldwide. Id love to let them all in. Ive been to third world countries and I can't fault any individual for doing what they can to leave. But the current system can't support a borderless world.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-12-03 14:56:27+00:00
They could teach things like how credit cards, car and personal loans, and mortgages work. That the 'monthly payment' is not the only important piece of information. How tax brackets worth, how investments work, what bonds and stocks are. And so on and so on. None of this was taught when I was in high school, yet we're all expected to know these things to navigate life in the modern world.

I suspect ignorance is desired. Financially illiterate people are more profitable.
by ncfj76 | 2025-12-03 14:56:42+00:00
I say the same thing about the universe. There is some gate keeping going on there. My 3 inch chimp brain at the age of 3 itself was quite capable of imagining a universe. No quantum field equations required. Then by 6 I was doing it in minecraft. And by 10 I was doing it with a piano. But then they started wasting my time telling me to read Kant.
Show HN: I made system design easy
by greatjosh | 2025-12-03 14:57:00+00:00
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Would love your feedback on it! What other components would be useful? What system design patterns should I add as templates?

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Built a podcast intelligence system in a day
by altmbr | 2025-12-03 14:57:13+00:00
I built teahose.com - a system that automatically transcribes new episodes from 40+ selected tech and business podcasts (e.g. All-In, Sourcery, BG2, Training Data, Invest Like Best, etc.) and sends out a daily digest with fun cartoons courtesy of Nana Banana Pro. Even incl. Chinese ones.

Daily workflow: - Downloads episodes - Transcribes locally (MLX-Whisper) - Diarizes and identifies speakers - Generates summaries - Publishes to website - Daily email with AI-generated cartoons

Whole thing took about 1-day with Claude Code!

Check it out: https://www.teahose.com

Writeup: https://maybetheway.substack.com/p/i-built-my-own-podcast-intelligence
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by sg0pf | 2025-12-03 14:57:27+00:00
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by Joker_vD | 2025-12-03 14:57:41+00:00
Ar puts a file called "/" as the first file of the archive. Inside, there is a number N, then a list of N file offsets, and then a list of N null-terminated strings. It's a symbol table of sorts: each null-terminated string is a symbol name, and the corresponding file offset points at the archive header for the object file that contains the symbol. The filenames themselves are not recorded centrally since it's not really needed.
by GMoromisato | 2025-12-03 14:57:43+00:00
It's from the recent class action settlement. Anthropic used a pirated book database for training and got sued. The settlement awards some amount of money to each book in the database. Mine happened to be included.

And because I love irony, Claude can tell us more: https://claude.ai/share/4ee7f444-e296-48ce-85eb-15d50dbd6c93
by jerf | 2025-12-03 14:57:49+00:00
Alternatively, instead of disclosing on a huge delay, have them disclose instantly. We have the mechanisms to do this nowadays.

Even "ETFs" are a big enough hole to drive a truck through in terms of performance, e.g., it's not hard to guess how an oil ETF will perform in response to certain geopolitical events.

We could also apply Presidential rules to all of them. The President has to essentially forgo all ability to manage his or her wealth during the time they are in office. Such shenanigans as they play must either be to benefit someone else, or a very long term play for when they are out of office. This is still what you might call "suboptimal" but it's an improvement, even just the "longterm" part. (We should be so lucky as for our politicians to be thinking about how to goose the longterm performance of our economy rather than how to make a couple million next week no matter what it does to everyone else.)
by skydhash | 2025-12-03 14:57:57+00:00
Some parts of Github are SPA island, which is why the DOM load fast, but then it has to wait for the JavaScript files and the request made by those files. Codeberg can be used with JavaScript disabled and you don’t have that much extra requests (almost everything is rendered serverside).

The transferred part is for the gzipped transfer. That makes sense if the bulk of the data is HTML (I have not checked).

I’ve disabled the cache for the network requests.