MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-12-03 18:51:18+00:00
what this misses (and unfortunately is not always an option, especially in larger orgs) is that instead of talking (read: complaining), just fix the damn thing and present the solution on a platter (on company time, of course). more often than not, if you've already addressed the issue and it's ready for primetime, people will not refuse the change.

if they do, there's an equal chance that you either didn't understand the situation to begin with, or you work in a team with poor leadership and strategy. learn from the former, leave the latter.
by mef | 2025-12-03 18:51:18+00:00
IMO it's because there's both benefit and waste/corruption in these kinds of social benefit structures. some people choose to only see one or the other:

"these benefit everyone including those who don't use them directly! how could you be against it?"

"this money that I'm having to pay is either overpaid to corrupt vendors, or just straight wasted, why would we ever want to increase how much we're paying into this system?"

in reality you can't have one without the other. it's up to each person to decide whether they can take the bad with the good
by filoleg | 2025-12-03 18:51:23+00:00
> I've watched a lot of live coding tools out of interest for the last few years, and as much as I'd like to adopt them in my music making it's not clear to me what they can add to my production repertoire compared to the existing tools (DAWs, hardware instruments, playing by hand, etc).

Aside from the novelty factor (due to very different UI/UX) and the idea that you can use generative code to make music (which became an even more interesting factor in the age of LLMs), I agree.

And even the generative code part I mentioned is a novelty factor as well, and isn't really practical for someone who actually makes music as their end-goal (and not someone who is just experimenting around with tech or how far one can get with music-as-code UIUX).
by nikeee | 2025-12-03 18:51:26+00:00
I maintain an S3 client that has a test matrix for the commonly used S3 implementations. RustFS regularly breaks it. Last time it did I removed it from the matrix because deleteObject suddenly didn't delete the object any more. It is extremely unstable in its current form. The website states that it is not in a production-ready state, which I can confirm.

I'd take a look at garage (didn't try seaweed yet).
by arkensaw | 2025-12-03 18:51:26+00:00
I tried it, I like it a lot, but I did find an issue straight away.

I'm on MacOS and I have remapped the fn and command keys so it can be more like Windows (I can't undo 20+ years of muscle memory, and also I just don't wanna)

Anyway, Fresh seems to ignore the remapping - it's back to the command key for copy/paste and the command palette.

Is there a way to access the dropdown menus by keyboard? I can see F underlined for File but no modifier key seems to make it happen
by rkomorn | 2025-12-03 18:52:30+00:00
I've spent time in restaurant kitchens around chefs that believed "some people need to be shocked awake".

The people that got yelled at didn't do markedly better after getting yelled at, but they sure had a worse attitude towards their peers and chefs.

None of the chefs I talked to about it had anything better than "that's how it was when I started in kitchens" as actual justification.
by chollida1 | 2025-12-03 18:52:40+00:00
Retail has gotten alot bigger lately( last 10 years and mostly since covid) and alot more "organized".

Goldman puts out their retail reports weekly that show retail is 20% of trading in alot of names and higher in alot of the meme stock names.

They used to be so tiny due to $50/trade fees, but with the advent of all the free money in the system since covid and GenZ feeling like real estate won't be their path to freedom, and option trading for retail, and zero commission trading retail has a real voice in the markets.
by Projectiboga | 2025-12-03 18:53:04+00:00
Yes, universal health will start saving money even during the first transition year. We spend almost 1/3 or more of those total health dollars on billing administration. That amount surpasses the uninsured number. And the reality is if we can get medical care during the daytime, eventually emergency rooms might get less hectic. My hope is that more days than not ER personell have to pass the time like at a Firehouse.
by epistasis | 2025-12-03 18:53:04+00:00
> Think more of “a pharma lab wants to explore all possible interactions for a particular drug”

Pharma does not trust OpenAI with their data, and they don't work on tokens for any of the protein or chemical modeling.

There will undoubtedly be tons of deep nets used by pharma, with many $1-10k buys replacing more expensive physical assays, but it won't be through OpenAI, and it won't be as big as a consumer business.

Of course there may be other new markets opened up but current pharma is not big enough to move the needle in a major way for a company with an OpenAI valuation.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-03 18:53:15+00:00
We do often find add(a, b, c), just written as Σ(a, b, c). Similar for mul and Π. The binary sub operator can be simply rewritten in terms of add and unary minus; the fact that we write (a - b) instead of (a + [-b]) or perhaps Σ(a, [-b]) is ultimately a matter of notational convenience, but comes at some cost in mathematical elegance. Considering operators that are commutative yet not associative is not very useful; ultimately we want more from our expression rewriting than just flipping left and right subexpressions within an expression tree while keeping the overall complexity unchanged.
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-03 18:53:16+00:00
> At what point do we admit that creativity isn’t a mystical trait, but a process that can emerge from algorithms as well as neurons?

I think anyone who already works in a creative field does acknowledge this. Creativity is, in fact, a process, and a skill that can be broken down into steps, taught to others, and practiced. Graham Wallas broke down the creative process all the way back in the 1920s and it boils down to making novel and valuable connections between existing ideas. What does an LLM do other than that exact process?
by 6SixTy | 2025-12-03 18:53:43+00:00
Main issue is the lack of Vulkan support on macOS. Currently, solutions like MoltenVK have to be developed to add Vulkan support, which isn't as clean as just supporting it.

For some reason the prospect using Wine, Rosetta 2, and DXVK with MoltenVK on top just to run some games doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that this whole thing will be performant and/or stable.
by toephu2 | 2025-12-03 18:53:47+00:00
Yup, Singapore follows this model.

Singapore pays its public officials high salaries primarily to ensure the integrity and quality of its government. The official justification centers on attracting top talent who could otherwise command high incomes in the private sector, thereby establishing a "clean wage" that reduces the financial incentive for corruption. Salaries are explicitly benchmarked to the median income of the nation's highest earners.

e.g.,

Singapore PM annual salary: ~$1.63 million USD

Singapore President salary: ~$1.14 million USD

(These are the highest public salaries in the world for politicians)
by mbreese | 2025-12-03 18:53:51+00:00
But, for minio, the users aren't the public... the users are their enterprise customers (now). So, to fulfill the AGPL, they'd have to give the code to their users, but that doesn't necessarily mean to the public at large (via GitHub).

But, what I don't know is -- is there any other AGPL code that minio doesn't own, but that was otherwise contributed to minio? Because, presumably, they aren't actually giving their customers the minio program with an AGPL license, rather they have whatever their enterprise license agreement is. If this is the case, and there is AGPL code that's not owned by Minio, I can foresee problems in the future.
by harshalizee | 2025-12-03 18:53:58+00:00
To be clear, ANY US Citizen or Permanant Resident can eventually bring in some families after an arduous and long process.

This is a non-existent issue with H1-B.

The current wait times for an H1-B from the Rest of the World(ROW) is around 10+ years to be a citizen. For India/China/Mexico, it's around 12-27 years to become a Permanent Resident if they applied for their I-140 before 2020. If they applied after 2020, it's currently estimated at 34-75 years!
by nojvek | 2025-12-03 18:54:01+00:00
I was of that mindset until I learned how currencies and central banks work. The government doesn't need our tax money. US dollars aren't a fixed resource. With fractional reserve banking and interest rates, central bank controls how much new money is entering the economy. Taxes are a way to take some money out of the economy. However the economy runs warm at 2-3% inflation on average. Economy can technically run without any taxation if inflation is kept under control, and productivity of goods and services is going up.

State and city institutions get loans just like we do, sometimes at lower interest rates than individuals can. During covid, loan rate was lower than inflation. That is essentially free money.

It's a complex subject. We've been all told that US debt is a massive timebomb that will explode, however many other countries have higher debt:gdp ratio.

I'm not saying one shouldn't pay their taxes. I'm saying don't pay more tax than you need to. US govt can create money out of thin air either via congress approval or fed interest rate.
by safekeylab | 2025-12-03 18:54:03+00:00
Thanks! Great questions.

Formal verification: We've validated through pilot deployments and CS/DevOps teams who've stress-tested the pipeline in production.

Positional inference: Good catch. We replace PII with type-consistent tokens (e.g., [NAME], [DATE]) so format is preserved for downstream tasks, but the actual value is gone. For higher security, we offer synthetic replacement (fake but realistic values) so position and format don't leak information.

FedRAMP: Not yet certified, but the architecture supports it — runs inside customer VPC, no data leaves the environment, full audit logging. FedRAMP and StateRAMP are on our compliance roadmap after SOC2 and HIPAA. Yes, public sector is a major target market.

Internships: Not formally open yet, but email me at sukin@safekeylab.com — always interested in students working on AI security.
by kgwxd | 2025-12-03 18:54:19+00:00
> unsolicited wisdom

A big problem I see constantly is the mindset that it's "wisdom". It's audible in the voice every speaker that thinks it true. No matter when it's said, no matter how many self-aware disclaimers precede it, it comes out annoying as hell (e.g. Lex Fridman). Some people, even when they know they're are doing it, can't stop themselves.
by lima | 2025-12-03 18:54:50+00:00
They required a "Community Contribution License" in each PR description, which licensed each contribution under Apache 2 as an inbound license.

Meanwhile, MinIO's own contributions and the distribution itself (outbound license) were AGPL licensed.

It's effectively a CLA, just a bit weaker, since they're still bound by the terms of Apache 2 vs. a full license assignment like most CLAs.
by hugeBirb | 2025-12-03 18:55:04+00:00
This is so naive. No amount of money could force me to work for a company I didn't agree with morally, if I am able to "command" a higher salary I can command it elsewhere. And less susceptible to bribery? I can guarantee you that someone bringing in ~ $200k a year doesn't need to be looking for other sources of income. What do they tell poor people? Stop buying starbucks? Pull yourself up by the bootstraps! Shame they'd have to live a less lavish lifestyle as a public servant :( So at this point we should have to beg people and incentivize them with astronomical salaries to not be a piece of shit? I think this is just the product of late stage capitalism. Nobody gives a fuck about anything besides money and how to get more of it.
by bfeynman | 2025-12-03 18:55:16+00:00
I mean - social engineering of humans takes many forms that can definitely include linguistics of persuasion etc... But the core thing to me fundamentally remains the same is the LLMs do not have symbolic reasoning, its just next token prediction, guardrails are implemented via repetition in fine tuning from manually curated examples, it does not have fundamental or internal structural reasoning understanding of "just dont do this"
by sneak | 2025-12-03 18:55:42+00:00
It’s “very risky” in that it kills or fucks people up one in a million times. This is roughly 10x more dangerous than the average car trip in the USA, so, quite dangerous.

As TPOG is basically a scathing social commentary of the global west, the fact that something as low risk as driving to and from work for five days in a row was regarded as so dangerous as to only be undertaken in life or death necessity was not lost on me. Cars are insanity.
by switz | 2025-12-03 18:55:54+00:00
They lend you optionality of when and where you want your code to run. Plus it enables you to define the server/client network boundary where you see fit and cross that boundary seamlessly.

It's totally fine to say you don't understand why they have benefits, but it really irks me when people exclaim they have no value or exist just for complexity's sake. There's no system for web development that provides the developer with more grounded flexibility than RSCs. I wrote a blog post about this[0].

To answer your question, htmx solves this by leaning on the server immensely. It doesn't provide a complete client-side framework when you need it. RSCs allow both the server and the client to co-exist, simply composing between the two while maintaining the full power of each.

[0] https://saewitz.com/server-components-give-you-optionality
Show HN: TabPFN Scaling Mode – Tabular Foundation Model on millions of rows
by onasta | 2025-12-03 18:56:00+00:00
I’m excited to announce Scaling Mode for TabPFN-2.5, our tabular foundation model (Large Tabular Model). This removes any fixed upper limits on dataset sizes and extends TabPFN to datasets with millions of rows.

What is Scaling Mode? A new pipeline around TabPFN-2.5 designed for large-N workloads, which removes the fixed row limit of TabPFN. The system works with large training sets, constrained only by your compute and memory.

We benchmarked Scaling Mode on datasets ranging from 1M to 10M rows, comparing against CatBoost, XGBoost, and LightGBM. Key findings:

- Scaling Mode enables TabPFN-2.5 to continue improving performance with more data

- Scales dramatically better than TabPFN-2.5 with 50K subsampling

- No evidence of the performance gap to gradient boosting shrinking as we scale up

- Performance continues to improve strongly with more data on the largest tested datasets

To quickly summarise our progress, here's the history of our scaling trajectory:

- TabPFN v2 (Jan 2025): 10K rows

- TabPFN-2.5 (Nov 2025): 50K rows

- Scaling Mode (today): 10M+ rows tested

Current limitations: Scaling Mode is designed for companies for now. If you’re working with data at a large scale and want to test it, access is currently only by request to ensure we can support early users properly.

Full blog post: https://priorlabs.ai/technical-reports/large-data-model

Request access: https://priorlabs.ai/tabpfn/large-data

Would love to hear feedback from anyone working with large tabular datasets!
by duxup | 2025-12-03 18:56:24+00:00
TSA is a joke.

I've gone through more than one airport where TSA had someone yelling at everyone to keep their shoes on ... then like 20 feet later an angry TSA guy yelling at people things like "haven't you ever flown before, take off your shoes".

I dared mention that the other TSA agent up the line was telling people something different ... TSA just ignored me.

And what is the delay in those lines? It's always the scanner speed, not the people. People are usually rushing, and then just stand there and wait.

TSA operates like elementary school hall monitors all too often.
Ask HN: Selling one's self
by it_is_beautiful | 2025-12-03 18:56:24+00:00
I'm having a hard time.

I lack the skills to sell myself.

I have a hard time communicating, even this post. It feels like I'm looking through 100x zoom, I can't find a clarity of message. I used to sit to write résumés for hours and hours, to come up with nothing of value.

Lack of schooling and lack of real-world experience contributed. I didn't get interviews, and when I did, they weren't impressed. Mia culpa.

---

While others worked publicly and sent out hundreds of résumés, I worked privately and sent nothing for years. Years!

Now I'm trying to be practical and freelance, which I've tried twice before. There are a lot of jobs that I have the skills for easily, but when I try to write my profile, or my past projects, I spin out endlessly.

---

Concretely, although I don't have any major projects shipped, I do have a lot of previous software with relevant problems I solved. I can show the problem, the code, and the results. For example, extraction from a PDF -> Script -> SQLite database. I don't have to say:

"This was part of an unfinished project I did, blah blah blah."

I can just show it and say I worked on it. Whether contracted or my own code, it does what it does, and as I'm contracted for jobs, I can show those results too (if the client is ok with it.

But I just. Can't. Get. Moving.

It's been so many years. It's like an asymptote, I can't break through it. I just need to break through it once, get some momentum. For this concrete (freelancing) problem, any advice?
by orev | 2025-12-03 18:56:44+00:00
In many companies (especially in non-tech departments) there’s a culture where the first person to speak up is given credit for an idea as the “visionary”, even if they have no skills to actually implement it. In those environments, speaking loudly and often allows one to “lay claim” to an idea. This can be beneficial as a way to control workload, if you “claim” the idea first, you can control people’s expectations and timelines around building it.
by bostik | 2025-12-03 18:57:03+00:00
Individual and startup devs yes. Enterprise devs, less so.

The latter are locked in to whatever vendor(s) their corporate entity has subscribed to. In a perverse twist, this gives the approved[tm] vendors an incentive to add backend integrations to multiple different providers so that their actual end-users can - at least in theory - choose which models to use for their work.
by dkdcio | 2025-12-03 18:57:07+00:00
you’re once again cutting the quote short — after “all of the code” he has more to say that’s very important for understanding the context and avoiding this rage-bait BS we all love to engage in

edit: sorry you mostly included it paraphrased; it does a disservice (I understand it’s largely the media’s fault) to cut that full quote short though. I’m trying to specifically address someone claiming this person said 90% of developers would be replaced in a year over a year ago, which is beyond misleading

edit to put the full quote higher:

> "and in 12 months, we might be in a world where the ai is writing essentially all of the code. But the programmer still needs to specify what are the conditions of what you're doing. What is the overall design decision. How we collaborate with other code that has been written. How do we have some common sense with whether this is a secure design or an insecure design. So as long as there are these small pieces that a programmer has to do, then I think human productivity will actually be enhanced"
by rfwhyte | 2025-12-03 18:57:30+00:00
I'd wager two things:

1) Mosseri himself will still continue to enjoy the benefits of a flexible / remote enabled work / life balance that he is now denying his employees. Standard rules for thee not for me type BS that is typical of "Executives." I've worked for a couple larger corporations / organizations, and at both it was painfully obvious that the rules for us rank and file types categorically did not apply to the senior leadership. We were expected to "Tighten our belts" and "Do more with less" while the executives were flying around the world in their corporate jets going to "Conferences" and "Galas" or whatever, while spending the companies money lavishly on their own personal comfort. It's the same with remote work, executives love it for themselves, but deny it to the regular employees who actually make their lifestyles possible.

2) Mosseri himself, and members of Instagram's board and / or major shareholders have significant investments in commercials real estate.

The bottom line for me is this whole "Back to the office" nonsense is 100% driven by the wealthy capitalist class being heavily invested in commercial real estate. I, though no fault of my own have known a couple billionaires reasonably well in the past (Both from the same family), and they were both heavily invested in commercial real estate. The CEOs and their investors who keep prattling on with their BS about "Productivity" or "Collaboration" are the same people who own most of the commercial real estate, and all they actually care about is protecting the value of their investments, as if everyone starts working remotely, there wouldn't be much need for all these fancy corporate campuses and office parks, and the value of their investments would decline as result.
by toephu2 | 2025-12-03 18:57:47+00:00
Singapore pays its public officials high salaries primarily to ensure the integrity and quality of its government. The official justification centers on attracting top talent who could otherwise command high incomes in the private sector, thereby establishing a "clean wage" that reduces the financial incentive for corruption. Salaries are explicitly benchmarked to the median income of the nation's highest earners.

e.g.,

Singapore PM annual salary: ~$1.63 million USD

Singapore President salary: ~$1.14 million USD
by efsavage | 2025-12-03 18:57:56+00:00
I think you're definitely right, for the moment. I've been forcing myself to use/learn the tools almost exclusively for the past 3-4 months and I was definitely not seeing any big wins early on, but improvement (of my skills and the tools) has been steady and positive, and right now I'd say I'm ahead of where I was the old-fashioned way, but on an uneven basis. Some things I'm probably still behind on, others I'm way ahead. My workflow is also evolving and my output is of higher quality (especially tests/docs). A year from now I'll be shocked if doing nearly anything without some kind of augmented tooling doesn't feel tremendously slow and/or low-quality.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-03 18:58:02+00:00
What you've written at the end there is a critique of Rust in 2012, pointing out that it's not a stable language, which, it isn't, as reflected in its versioning, in 2012.

But a few years later, in 2015, Rust 1.0 shipped. So the stability really firms up from there.

I happen to have in front of me the first commit of the first modestly sized piece of software I wrote in Rust in April 2021. Which compiles today just fine and works exactly as it did when it was written, on this brand new Rust toolchain.
by ohdearnopls | 2025-12-03 18:58:15+00:00
Your argument is illogical. If devs don’t want to support it, they simply will not support it—as evidenced by the thousands of games that have yet to be SteamOS verified, but either run just fine, or don’t run at all with the devs not giving it a second thought.

Besides, if this does end up putting pressure on the developers to start supporting more platforms than just Microsoft’s data collector ahem I mean, Windows, then I’m all up for it. It’s a win for everyone.