MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-12-06 06:20:18+00:00
A perp is a future which is different from buying BTC at its spot price. If you remove the "perpetual" aspect of the future and it was a regular future that was settling soon, likewise it would be similar in price but not the same as the underlying. There's lots of uses for futures and they're often used as hedges against various forms of risk, like currency risk.
by nearbuy | 2025-12-06 06:20:33+00:00
My guess is the part of its neural network that parses the image into a higher level internal representation really is seeing the dog as having four legs, and intelligence and reasoning in the rest of the network isn't going to undo that. It's like asking people whether "the dress" is blue/black or white/gold: people will just insist on what they see, even if what they're seeing is wrong.
by martinvonz | 2025-12-06 06:21:07+00:00
> I don't even want to learn another commit graph model, because git's model is very good.

I agree. That's why jj uses practically the same model. That's how Git can quite easily be used as a backend.

> I just looked at its FAQ, and saw a bunch of nonsensical new terms as well.

Like what? Perhaps we can improve it.
by Borealid | 2025-12-06 06:21:08+00:00
Perhaps it would raise your hackles less if you read the Youtube comment as "improve video clarity at a particular file size", rather than how you presumably read it as "improve video clarity [with no regard for how big the resulting file is]".

I think the first comment is why they would position noise reduction as being both part of their compression and a way to improve video clarity.
by maxbond | 2025-12-06 06:22:44+00:00
It's a different diagnosis, but the problem is still, "you transformed my content in a way that changes my appearance and undermines my credibility." The distinction is worth discussing but the people levying the criticism aren't wrong.

Perhaps a useful analogy is "breaking userspace." It's important to correctly diagnose a bug breaking userspace to ship a fix. But it's a bug if its a change that breaks userspace workflows, full stop. Whether it met the letter of some specification and is "correct" in that sense doesn't matter.

If you change someone's appearance in your post processing to the point it looks like they've applied a filter, your post processing is functionally a filter. Whether you intended it that way doesn't change that.
by superkuh | 2025-12-06 06:26:38+00:00
They're under the encouraged belief that they are in control over what is shown on their youtube channel. They think they should control what text is shown under their videos on "their" channel. This illusion of control of presentation has been unconvincing for quite a while but now Alphabet is just throwing around it's weight because there are no other options except youtube for what youtube does: allowing money to flow to people who make videos without the video file host getting sued out of existence. Alphabet does this by mantaining a large standing army of lawyers and a huge money supply. Trivial technical issues like file hosting and network bandwidth have been repeatedly solved by others but when they become popular they're legally attacked and killed.
by lelanthran | 2025-12-06 06:28:01+00:00
> Even if you yelled at a human driver that there was a cat under the car, it would not be a reliable solution because they may not hear or understand you.

Doesn't matter if shouting at the driver only works some of the time, that's still an infinite improvement over working 0% of the time when there's no driver.

The difference between actual zero and close-to-zero is infinity.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-06 06:28:45+00:00
You’re suffering from the Mandela affect. How was your cable ad free when it was rebroadcasting ABC, NBC, CBS, TBS (1976), and WGN that were all over the air with ads they were the first national “cable stations”.

MTV was also an early cable station and it launched in 1981 - with ads. USA, CNN, ESPN and Nick also came around in 1979-1980 - with ads from day one.

This is an article from 1981 in the NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...

BTW, I’m 51.

If retransmitted broadcast TVs had ads - the first content on cable - and the superstations, and the first pure cable channels, how could there have been a time without ads? There were never national basic cable stations that weren’t trying to sell ads from day one.

The article said people thought there wouldn’t be ads as cable got more popular - ie as cable channels popped up and cable became more than just a way to rebroadcast OTA TV.

This argument comes up all of the time on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778167

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10459839

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782923

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177470
by nearbuy | 2025-12-06 06:30:44+00:00
It depends whether you're asking it to solve a maze because you just need something that can solve mazes, or if you're trying to learn something about the model's abilities in different domains. If it can't solve a maze by inspection instead of writing a program to solve it, that tells you something about its visual reasoning abilities, and that can help you predict how they'll perform on other visual reasoning tasks that aren't easy to solve with code.
by tavavex | 2025-12-06 06:31:26+00:00
It doesn't matter if you make assumptions or not - your prompt does. I think the point of failure isn't even necessarily the LLM, but your writing - because you leave the model no leeway or a way to report back on something truly neutral or impartial. Instead, you're asking it to dig up any proof of wrongdoing no matter what, basically saying that lies surely exist in whatever you post, and you just need help uncovering all the deception. When told to do this, it would read absolutely anything you give it in the most hostile way possible, stringing together any coherent-sounding arguments that would reinforce the viewpoint that your prompt implies.
by shash | 2025-12-06 06:31:49+00:00
If stored in proper conditions, the shelf life of undiced wafers is pretty much limitless. But if moisture or dust get in, it’ll start to have corrosion and other damage. Diced wafers on the other hand are placed on UV tape and I recently learnt that the shelf life of that is like a few months at best.

Nevertheless, unless you’re not storing them in a clean room of appropriate class (or in a vacuum pack), assume 18 months for undiced wafers.

In terms of size, I would think that stored in cassettes or carriers a vacuum sealed, it shouldn’t be too much. A 25 wafer pack is about half meter cube? A 40ft shipping container is about 68m^3. So one container can store about 140 packs of 25 wafers each. That’s 3500 wafers. They’re talking about 900k wafers. That’s about 260 containers. Call it 300 with extra space and stuff. Not exactly hard to provision.
by pengaru | 2025-12-06 06:32:03+00:00
It's not like foreign auto mfrs haven't already decimated the US auto industry. Ever since the 70s Japanese automobiles mopped the floor with USDM vehicles. My parents bought exclusively American cars until 1980, when they made the mistake of buying a brand new 1981 Ford Thunderbird. Utter trash. Never bought another American car again. Hyundai and Nissans ever since.
by deaux | 2025-12-06 06:32:06+00:00
The DSA is decades overdue. It's absurd that there hasn't been one. There's also a dozen non-EU countries that have one, and that number has been growing rapidly.

To call it a "negotiation tool" is like calling literally any import tax or tariff - of which hundreds of thousands existed and were entirely accepted as squarely in the Overton Window long before Trump took office - purely a "negotiation tool". Just because it's new doesn't make it one any more so than such import taxes which have been around for ages.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-12-06 06:33:10+00:00
I still haven't witnessed a serious attempt at passing the Turing test. Are we just assuming its been beaten, or have people tried?

Like if you put someone in an online chat and ask them to identify if the person they're talking to is a bot or not, you're telling me your average joe honestly can't tell?

A blog post or a random HN comment, sure, it can be hard to tell, but if you allow some back and forth.. i think we can still sniff out the AIs.
by utopiah | 2025-12-06 06:33:48+00:00
> because I don't want to be Oncall 24/7/365

Yes I don't recommend doing that. My experience is that people understand you are human because they know you. They don't expect 9 9s availability but if they somehow do that can be clarified from the start : "I'm hosting this free of charge for family members because (insert your reasons here, it's important to clarify WHY it's different because Apple and BigTech in general somehow still have a ton of goodwill) but as you know as also have a job and our family life. Consequently sometimes, e.g. electricity outage or me having to update the server, there will be down time. Do no panic when this happens as the files are always safe (backup details if you want) but please do be patient. Typically it might take (insert your realistic expectation, do NOT be too optimistic) a day per month for updates. If you do have better solutions please do contribute."

... or something of the kind. I've been doing that for years and people are surprisingly understanding. IMHO it stems from the why.

The "way cheaper than the equivalent" argument reminds me of, and apologies I know it's a bit rough, Russian foreign minister days ago who criticize the EU for its plan to decouple with their oil & gas saying something like "Well if they do that they will pay a lot more elsewhere" and he's right. The point isn't the money though, the point is agency and sovereignty.
by soulbadguy | 2025-12-06 06:35:42+00:00
I think in many ways D was just too ahead of it's time; Packaging the same feature set and abstraction level of C++ in much cleaner and saner package wasn't really seen at valuable at that time. I think that if D were to be "re-release today" with a lighter syntax, and some coporate backing a-la GO/swift/typescript/carbon; It would find quite a bit of success.
by GaryBluto | 2025-12-06 06:35:42+00:00
I see we're heading back to the days of MDI web browsers, slowly but surely. It's really strange to me how web browsers used to allow so much configuration (like the option to use MDI tab/window management or just generic tiling) but don't anymore. I've been hoping a browser comes out that is just Opera 8/9 but with the ability to browse the modern web so maybe with the advent of all these new browsers I should start taking a look.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-12-06 06:36:02+00:00
I suspect you’re missing something important- not surprising since Wim is a really unclear teacher. The low oxygen and/or high co2 causes your body to panic and you are supposed to use that as a stimulus to gradually train conscious control of your heart rate and stress response and calm yourself down. This is where the benefit comes from, not the short term physiological panic itself, whose symptoms you are describing. In fact, those symptoms should go away entirely when you learn to calm the panic and consciously control your autonomic nervous system. This then also primes you mentally to be able to go into ice water, which is also a large stimulus to learn to calm, plus trains your brain to more easily jump into anything difficult. All of this takes months or years of consistent practice to gradually develop a relatively permanent sense of calm and internal strength among other things, and is really just a simplified form of tantric tummo meditation.
by MarkMarine | 2025-12-06 06:36:11+00:00
as a positive, maybe this will make fast forward work on HBO streaming. One of the little UX pebbles in my shoe that Netflix has figured out.

Jokes aside, HBO is a prestige TV brand. Netflix had a deep desire to create and run premium content previously, but the cost and volume they could put out was clearly a problem for the business. Maybe HBO becomes the premium, prestige TV brand and we get 1-2 series at a time from that + movies, and Netflix remains as it is. This consumer would be quite happy with that.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-06 06:37:24+00:00
I can't tell if you are serious or if this is just a god-tier straw man but it's all wrong. If I didn't find it so damn annoying, I'd call this response a fact check. First of all, newspapers don't turn fact-checkers on their own employees. Maybe if some of the employees are supposed to play the part of controlled opposition, it might happen. But fact-checkers exist to discredit information from other sources. Secondly, fact-checkers were used as a pretext for silencing people all over social media. This happened extensively in the West, including in the US, and many politicians still crave the power to deanonymize and silence their opposition under the pretense of misinformation or hate speech. Finally, people can decide for themselves who is credible, and nobody is trustworthy enough to decide for everyone what is true. That even goes for most so-called objectively knowable information. The importance of having a free market of ideas is perhaps proportional to the tendency for people to lie or misrepresent the facts. People are not as stupid as the proponents of fact-checking would have you believe.
by generalizations | 2025-12-06 06:38:21+00:00
Upvoted but felt bad for not replying. Yeah, I initially read it as a generic "big corps exploiting open source devs" take as well. Not often someone actually says "whoops you're right" so kudos - not sure I would've done the same.

The article is an interesting philosophical situation where you know the intent is good. But maybe, they took it too far without any of the necessary caveats.
by superkuh | 2025-12-06 06:38:23+00:00
That's called chemical dependence and it's the point I'm trying to make. Dependence is not addiction. Addiction means wanting is hijacked, not that stopping is aversive.

Addiction and dependence have real medical meanings and in the context of this discussion and we shouldn't mix them up. See this very short and to the point lancet medical journal summary, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

>Addiction (synonymous with substance use disorder), as defined by the DSM-5, entails compulsive use, craving, and impaired control over drug taking in addition to physical dependence. The vast majority of patients taking medications such as opioids and benzodiazepines are doing so as prescribed by clinicians, with only 1·5% of people taking benzodiazepine being addicted, for example. Physical dependence is much more common than addiction. Importantly, withdrawal effects occur irrespective of whether these drugs are taken as prescribed or misused.

>Failure to distinguish between addiction and physical dependence can have real-life consequences. People who have difficulty stopping their medications because of withdrawal effects can be accused of addiction or misuse. Misdiagnosis of physical dependence as addiction can also lead to inappropriate management, including referral to 12-step addiction-based detoxification and rehabilitation centres, focusing on psychological aspects of harmful use rather than the physiology of withdrawal.

>It should be made clear that dependence is not the same as addiction. The problems with prescribed drug dependence are not restricted to the small minority who are misusing or addicted to these drugs, but to the wider population who are physically dependent on and might not be able easily to stop their medications because of withdrawal effects. Antidepressants (superkuh note: and caffeine) should be categorised with other drugs that cause withdrawal syndromes as dependence-forming medications, while noting that they do not cause addiction.
by Fnoord | 2025-12-06 06:38:57+00:00
At this point, X is a propaganda tool for the radical right. I won't miss X in Europe if you decide to remove access to EU. Please, do it.

Mind you, 120M USD is peanuts for Musk. If it were me, I'd just fine X 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 USD just because I want to retaliate against Trump's silliness. If you wanna play hardball, expect it back. But, but... freedom of bullshit. You can keep that, we can perfectly use freedom of speech on solid platforms instead.
by hellojesus | 2025-12-06 06:39:03+00:00
I'm less opposed to standing armies because a voluntary contract is entered by both parties. I am not a fan of the draft or compulsory service.

My example was an edge case. I expect the government could find a price that someone would take long before they required slavery. But it still stands that it is a potential. I prefer all transactions are voluntary, even if that means you lose your country because nobody is willing to sign up for it's defense.
by 6510 | 2025-12-06 06:39:40+00:00
> Part of what makes Hackernews enjoyable to read is the strong and very reasonable moderation.

I agree with the enjoyable part but "reasonable" would require careful examination of the things that didn't make the cut and is highly subjective. I have no idea what "strong" means.

Most moderation seems to get done by the voting system (powered by weak and very unreasonable users?)

What is missing is a user manual to formalize this social credit system. I never knew that I have to upvote the correct posts. I thought the system was curious about my opinion. Quite preposterous in hindsight. Ill make more of an effort, who knows, in a few years we might go full North Korea retroactively.

wait, did I say all that out loud?
by AlotOfReading | 2025-12-06 06:40:31+00:00
What criteria would you consider sufficient for deployment on public streets? My experience is that people opposed to AV technology usually aren't familiar with the level of validation that's been done and tend to have expectations that are either impossible or are already met.

Waymo has experimented with thermal imaging in the past. I've never seen experiments indicating it's a particularly valuable modality for AVs, and high resolution thermal cameras exceed the price of decent LIDAR these days. You can easily spend $10k+ on a FLIR sensor with a pixel count higher than 4 digits.
by trotro | 2025-12-06 06:42:21+00:00
If the goal is just to buy and hold, then you wouldn't use perps, not only because of counterparty risk but also because the funding rate is typically positive, meaning you pay (usually ~10% APR) to be long.

The point of perps is:

- Easy access to leverage. Unlike options or futures, there's no need to roll over.

- It's the easiest way to short a coin. Most of the time you even get paid the funding rate to be short.

- Trading fees are typically much lower than for spot.

- Volume and liquidity can be better for perps than for spot. The BTC/USDT perp did 10x the volume of the spot pair in the last 24h on Binance.
by Bishonen88 | 2025-12-06 06:42:26+00:00
Long time synology user. Switched 3 weeks ago to ugreen. They rolled back their fiasco decision about drives (synology), but I wanted some good hardware in 2025. Everything that synology offers is outdated and slow.

Got myself a 6800 pro. It chewed through 98k photos, many of which are raw, within 24h AFAIK. Then came face recognition, text recognition etc. Within 2-3 days all was done.

The performance is night and day. Photos and movies load instantly. Finally can watch home movies on my TV without stuttering (4k footage straight from a nikon).

The photos app is similar to the synology one. Face recognition was better for me. Have compared the amount of photos tagged to a few people and ugreen found 15% more. Have seen photos of my grandma which I didn't see for years!

There's much more positive i could say. For the negatives: no native drive app (nextcloud which supposedly was an alternative doesn't sync folders on android), no native security cam app.

I am running now 10 docker containers without a sweat. My ds920+ was so slow, that I gave up on docker entirely after a few attempts.

The photos app has some nice features which synology didn't have. Conditional albums. Baby albums.
by neonsunset | 2025-12-06 06:43:01+00:00
Not books but it's really important, in my opinion, to go through official documentation

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/

Can also recommend reading:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/ (CLI, it's good)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/m...

https://typescript-is-like-csharp.chrlschn.dev/pages/interme...

> are there books specifically about using .NET Core on Linux

There is nothing particular to using ".NET on Linux" - it just works. Standard Linux caveats not specific to .NET apply.
by kalaksi | 2025-12-06 06:43:15+00:00
I'm running NixOS on some of my hosts, but I still don't fully commit to configuring everything with nix, just the base system, and I prefer docker-compose for the actual services. I do it similarly with Debian hosts using cloud-init (nix is a lot better, though).

The reason is that I want to keep the services in a portable/distro-agnostic format and decoupled from the base system, so I'm not tied too much to a single distro and can manage them separately.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-06 06:43:30+00:00
> The EEPROMS had a little round window so they could be erased in a UV box before programming.

Nitpick: That'd be a EPROM ("erasable programmable read-only memory"), not EEPROM ("electrically erasable programmable read-only memory"), right?

(But also thanks for the insight; I did wonder a bit as I was reading dmitrygr's article what the other side was of building these)