MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mk89 | 2025-12-19 04:34:11+00:00
Reuters (partially) confirms it [0]

> Foley, the top prosecutor in Boston, said at a press conference that investigators were certain Valente "murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro" on Monday, saying that prosecutors have ample evidence linking him to the crime.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-probe-links-between-...
by gota | 2025-12-19 04:34:37+00:00
I wrote a lot. Let me add a tldr:

any international trades happening in non-US dollar is an "acceleration" of dedollarizatiom, given that currently all trade is dollarized.

Original:

I don't known if I understand the spirit of the question. There are no metrics or tracking of how "dollarized" the international economy is because virtually all trade is done in dollars and there has been no risk of this changing for the past ?65? years

My original prediction for 2026 (not 2025, mind you) made in 2024 was based on a few factors, if I recall correctly, 1) the Russia-Ucraine war and related sanctions; 2) the open discussion in BRICS about trade in direct currencies; and 3) the then-promised isolatonist policies of Trump's second mandate.

What we've seen in 2025 makes all of those stronger I guess.

1) I don't know the status of the Russia-Ucraine war; all I know is it is a glaring sign of the end of Pax Americana (as is the Israel-Palestine genocide/war, by the way, which the US would -not- have allowed given the strong internal opposition and negative popularity among the American public). So sanctions of Russia notwistanding, that status quo, which strongly related to dollar as reserve currency, is either agonizing or dead.

2) Trump and the US attempted a very strong response to the (first ever?) trades in local currency between Brazil and China, mostly in the form of targeted tariffs (all discourse about Bolsonaro and whatever being the motivation for tariffing Brazilian imports being, in my opinion, political smoke and mirrors). I don't think it worked. I think BRICS might press on this. If the mercosur/EU trade deal goes through it will also be a strong force towards trade in Euros/Reais/Pesos directly I believe.

3) I don't think I need to clarify; tariffs and other issues brought on by the current US government were severely negative to the placement of the US as a preferred trade partner. This is to beyond economic choice; active anti-american sentiment are at all times high in countries like Canada, Denmark, and Mexico, all historically aligned with the US. This may not seem that relevant but come election cycles in those and other countries we might see platforms/candidates that openly propose to "secede" from the US hegemony international order. If that happens, removing US military bases is a first go. Alternatives to the US "petrodollar" a close second.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-19 04:35:12+00:00
I've got to interject. Clearly religious texts are of a different nature than gay kids books and teen romance novels. There may be some milquetoast books targetted by the religious but many of them are legitimately in the category of erotica. I've never seen a religious scripture that fell into the category of erotica, besides perhaps the Kama Sutra lol.

>The comment contains no judgements on what should be included or excluded from their point of view.

Let's be real. The types of people who bother to bring up the supposed hypocrisy of it are very much in favor of keeping the erotica, and may very well be in favor of pushing out religious texts because of "the science" or some shit. I know some people have said that they had trouble finding a bible in their library on YouTube. Somehow I doubt it was merely a case of them all being checked out either. If you ever catch a video of the people at the top of the American Library Association talking about these "book ban" issues it will all start to make sense.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-19 04:35:37+00:00
OK, to be frank, it seems like people are needlessly crazy paranoid.

I agree with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316763

278 comments, many very angry, and no one can clearly articulate how privacy is being compromised because of the AI features.

On a project whose source is available.

Insane.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-12-19 04:35:59+00:00
I couldn't make head nor tails of the QBasic help back in the day. I wanted to. I remember reading the sections about integers and booleans and trying to make sense out of them. I think I did manage to figure out how to use subroutines eventually, but it took quite a lot of time and frustration. I wish I'd had a book... or a deeper programming class. The one I had never went further than loops. No arrays, etc.

</resurgent-childhood-trauma>
by ZuoCen_Liu | 2025-12-19 04:36:23+00:00
The problem lies here: the current "embodied artificial intelligence" still uses 19th-century numerical methods (the Adams-Bashforth integration method from 1883 and the Runge method from 1895) to represent time frames + three-dimensional space calculations to approximate four-dimensional spacetime (relativistic covariance has proven that spacetime is an integrated whole, i.e., four-dimensional spacetime). I will release more specific code later - you might wonder, don't the "scientists" at those big companies know about this? The answer is that they do know, and I will also release the reasons later, which will definitely surprise you!
by CaliforniaKarl | 2025-12-19 04:36:45+00:00
The "all nodes connecting to all other nodes" setup reminds me of NUMALink, the interconnect that SGI used on many (most? all?) of their supercomputers. In an ideal configuration, each 4-socket node has two NUMALink connections to every other node. As Jeff says, it's a ton of cables, and you don't have to think of framing or congestion in the same way as with RDMA over Ethernet.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-12-19 04:37:03+00:00
I would agree with you, but archeologists often classify finds as "for ritual purposes" without any proof or evidence that it was used in a ritual, without specifying what ritual is involved, or how the find would be used in the ritual.

Likewise archeologists will classify finds as tools when they don't have nearly enough knowledge about the craft in question to be able to do this properly (see the extensive mis-classification of weaving swords/beaters as weapons [0], but there are many other cases).

So I'm a little reluctant to cut them some slack and say "this is how scholarship" works when they get all petulant about including colours that we know the ancients had, in ways we know they used them, for this kind of reconstruction.

[0] https://www.academia.edu/67863215/Weapon_or_Weaving_Swords_a...
by amluto | 2025-12-19 04:37:33+00:00
RDMA is not really intended for this. RDMA is really just a bunch of functionality of a PCIe device, and even PCIe isn’t really quite right to use like RAM because its cache semantics aren’t intended for this use case.

But the industry knows this, and there’s a technology that is electrically compatible with PCIe that is intended for use as RAM among other things: CXL. I wonder if a anyone will ever build CXL over USB-C.
by bccdee | 2025-12-19 04:37:53+00:00
> The TRUE cost of one month's pass is about $3000 (with capital cost).

Lol as if you can't just look up the transit commission's budget. (Annual budget) ÷ (average daily ridership × 12 months per year) = $180 per month per rider at most (since the pool of riders is larger than the daily average).

> Yes, and it is metastasizing into other neighborhoods.

Good. More apartments means cheaper rent.

> If density works so well, why is there a significant number of people too poor to buy groceries?

The cost of living is high because rent is expensive, obviously. I never said it was cheap to live in NYC. Focus on the actual subject of our discussion, please. Do you think rent in Manhattan would be cheaper if there were fewer apartments?

> Not anymore.

You're just saying stuff now. Only 40% of jobs are located downtown in my city, and compared to the other cities I saw when I was poking around for this data, that's high.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-12-19 04:38:57+00:00
Most cynically? I sincerely believe there's more value he can extract from American workers if he can keep the ride going on just a bit longer. For example: it's better to keep the stock market a float a volatile so he can transfer a bit more wealth from the American people before it does eventually break down.

Yes, they'll all be on yachts when the shit hits the fan, but they're still fighting to figure out who get the biggest yacht, and right now it seems like Trump has more to milk from us before he entirely lets this thing fall apart.
by MBCook | 2025-12-19 04:39:05+00:00
That they sell to the public? No way. They’ve clearly given up on server stuff and it makes sense for them.

That they use INTERNALLY for their servers? I could certainly see this being useful for that.

Mostly I think this is just to get money from the AI boom. They already had TB5, it’s not like this was costing them additional hardware. Just some time that probably paid off on their internal model training anyway.
by butvacuum | 2025-12-19 04:39:23+00:00
I've made it a habit to make single-take videos of any transaction/interaction worth more than I'm willing to eat the cost of. Along with buying a roll of tamper evident tape. Mailing in a warranty claim? Document it's condition and problems on video and seal it up in my car then hand it over to FedEx in a single take. Amazon orders? Start the video with the box still sealed and showing the shipping label, then open and document condition and serials.

It's super low effort these days, and the single take is (IMHO) more important than perfect framing or audio as long as identifying details are legible at some point.
by lelanthran | 2025-12-19 04:40:03+00:00
> Right now, I am struggling with all the interviews that have these leetcode problems.

There's no need to struggle with them. You'll cover fully half of them simply with experience with trees. Build them. Traverse them top-down. Then bottom-up. Search it, Balance it, then rebalance on modification. Invert it, prune it, Roundtrip it to JSON, etc.

After mastering that, given a problem of "develop a flood-fill algorithm to this specification" should be a walk in the park.
by mcny | 2025-12-19 04:40:50+00:00
The exception proves the norm.

The only major example I can think of is Amazon dot com which famously reinvested all its profits into itself for well over a decade.

The fact that investors didn't punish Amazon dot com was seen as befuddling in the press.

> Companies routinely lose money for years in pursuit of long term growth.

No, I don't think this is true at all because you used the word "routinely". I would claim it is very rare.
by ZuoCen_Liu | 2025-12-19 04:41:03+00:00
Let me explain again why I said "disruptive" rather than "substantial"：the current "embodied artificial intelligence" still uses 19th-century numerical methods (the Adams-Bashforth integration method from 1883 and the Runge method from 1895) to represent time frames + three-dimensional space calculations to approximate four-dimensional spacetime (relativistic covariance has proven that spacetime is an integrated whole, i.e., four-dimensional spacetime). I will release more specific code later - you might wonder, don't the "scientists" at those big companies know about this? The answer is that they do know, and I will also release the reasons later, which will definitely surprise you!
by energy123 | 2025-12-19 04:42:29+00:00
Please spare us. China invaded Vietnam to protect Pol Pot while he was mass killing millions of innocent civilians. They have territorial disputes with over 10 countries, which they've been unable to decisively act on because those neighbors either have nukes (India) or are protected by a more powerful country (US). Not because their government is some benevolent entity. They're basically an authoritarian dictatorship that's kind of cornered at the moment (like Saddam after the Gulf War) but would kill a bunch of people and expand if the US wasn't around.
by ldx1024 | 2025-12-19 04:42:31+00:00
"Although the standard is a little more complicated..."

If you have ever read the software control category definitions in MIL-STD-882E you know that the definitions that this blog author gives are very much his interpretation. The actual definitions in 882E are a god awful mess. Multiple contradictory definitions provided for the same category. Additional parenthetical statements that are intended to clarify, but just muddy the picture further. Yikes...
by seizethecheese | 2025-12-19 04:42:50+00:00
> Imagine you could interview thousands of educated individuals from 1913—readers of newspapers, novels, and political treatises—about their views on peace, progress, gender roles, or empire. Not just survey them with preset questions, but engage in open-ended dialogue, probe their assumptions, and explore the boundaries of thought in that moment.

Hell yeah, sold, let’s go…

> We're developing a responsible access framework that makes models available to researchers for scholarly purposes while preventing misuse.

Oh. By “imagine you could interview…” they didn’t mean me.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-12-19 04:43:59+00:00
I don't get this take.

My knowledge and engineering has only gone up over time. I read significantly more and higher quality technical information and need to debug problems significantly harder.

I think AI will in general make everyone a lot smarter. Maybe the people who use AI as a companion will melt? I'm sure there's some kind of repetitive addiction loop that could melt your brain just like anythibg else though.
by ada1981 | 2025-12-19 04:44:34+00:00
Are you sure about this?

LLMs are like a topographic map of language.

If you have 2 known mountains (domains of knowledge) you can likely predict there is a valley between them, even if you haven’t been there.

I think LLMs can approximate language topography based on known surrounding features so to speak, and that can produce novel information that would be similar to insight or innovation.

I’ve seen this in our lab, or at least, I think I have.

Curious how you see it.
by anigbrowl | 2025-12-19 04:44:42+00:00
Professor Devitt compares the long-term vision to modern electricity. "In the future, quantum entanglement is going to be a bit like electricity. A commodity that we talk about that powers other things. It's generated and transmitted in a way that is often invisible to the user; we just plug in our appliances and use it. This will ultimately be the same for large quantum entanglement networks. There will be quantum devices that plug into an entanglement source as well as a power source, utilizing both to do something useful," he said.

Why tho

this just sounds like DRM in space
by yalogin | 2025-12-19 04:44:54+00:00
I was the original commenter you replied to, and I should say I am not negative at all. In fact it’s just extreme skepticism, it’s different. Given the track record and history of the state I still fully expect this to be a met grab opportunity and will be extremely happy and give credit and praise if they actually end up doing anything. My comment is only skepticism but I guess it’s a close cousin of negativity with a nuance
by jack_ruru | 2025-12-19 04:45:24+00:00
Yeah, that’s usually what I do as well. Breaking formulas into helper columns definitely makes things clearer.

What I’ve been running into is cases where large formulas already exist (and refactoring them into multiple columns isn’t always an option), so I started wondering whether a structural representation could help with understanding and small edits, rather than replacing that approach.

I’m not convinced it’s better yet — just exploring the space.
by aadv1k | 2025-12-19 04:45:42+00:00
This is less of a prediction, more of how I see this industry progressing.

I really feel "web dev" is going to get highly commoditized by GenAI, by web dev I mean 99% of building CRUD-adjacent apps, we are already seeing it now with tools like Claude Code etc, this pipeline is just going to get more refined, with tigther testing feedback loops, PR-workflows and a CI/CD deployment pipeline which the GenAI will control. This might be amplified by the fact the sheer amount of tested, high quality there is in the JavaScript-ecosystem for the AI to train on and learn from.

Software engineering in general will tend more systems and embedded software, fields where GenAI can't perform well or can't be trusted to produce good code (I am thinking writing device drivers, or maintainence of legacy C applications) as well as deep research fields. The average software engineering job might be either that of a "technical product manager", or "researcher" or "low-level systems expert"

That's just what I feel. Honestly, I am probably much younger an others on this forum, so I haven't really seen this industry "evolve" this is just how it looks to me now. I believe there was a time in the early 2010s where there was a boom of this "generalist developer" where if you knew your JavaScript-ecosystem (or App Dev ecosystem for that matter) pretty well, you could land a pretty decent job right out of college, or without a college degree at all.

To me, at this stage the world in general needs software engineers who understand the "world" if that makes sense (in terms of physics, mathematics), or who have a really good mental model of computation. Better put, software engineering will become a tool in the larger context of research & development of tech that advance humanity.
by hyunhum | 2025-12-19 04:46:01+00:00
I've researched the previous works surely, and actually contributed miniscript(the most notable one in industry AFAIK) quite a lot(https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-miniscript). Contributions to the previous work has actually motivated me to research and implement this. As you may know, miniscript, while could be safer as restricted policy lang, is not really expressive enough to express many bitcoin opcodes(e.g. + and - op), and really hard to understand and write for dev not familiar with Bitcoin Script.

I understand that Bitcoin Script itself is pretty limited(no mul/div, no bit-operation, no loop), but there must be safe and expressive language as it's standard for UTXO blockchain including bitcoin. The security bug happening because of primitive and hard-to-understand Bitcoin Script could be as severe issue as other advanced programming language bug, as it's directly related to money! Lack of expressiveness also does discourage the possible smart contract application on Bitcoin, which has a high potential value considering mega-economy of Bitcoin.

Bithoven has added expressiveness(and I think it does make a sense for real world impact), and also tried to catch severe agonizing money loss bug with a static anaylzer.
by shakna | 2025-12-19 04:46:38+00:00
That, I have certainly seen.

But that is about attacking success stories, not about attacking you for not knowing something. I know you said reverse, just spelling out they're different.

Win an award? Get a callout for effort? Rest of the office will probably dunk on you. Varying in scale from a day or two of jokes to career ruining.

But... Ask the meaning of an acronym in a meeting, or say you don't know how to do something, and you'll probably just be given a name to ask.
by T3OU-736 | 2025-12-19 04:46:57+00:00
SGI's HW also had ccNUMA (cache-coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access), which, given the latencies possible in systems _physically_ spanning entire rooms, was quite a feat.

The IRIX OS even had functionality to migrate kobs and theor working memory closer to each other to lower the latency of access.

We see echoes of this when companies like high-frequency traders pay attention to motherboard layouts and co-locate and pin the PTS (proprietary trading systems) processes to specific cores based on which DIMMs are on which side of the memory controller.
by sinatra | 2025-12-19 04:47:06+00:00
My (admittedly one person's anecdotal) experience has been that when I ask Codex and Claude to make a plan/fix and then ask them both to review it, they both agree that Codex's version is better quality. This is on a 140K LOC codebase with an unreasonable amount of time spent on rules (lint, format, commit, etc), on specifying coding patterns, on documenting per workspace README.md, etc.
by dash2 | 2025-12-19 04:48:17+00:00
You have to understand that while the rest of the world has moved on from 2020, academics are still living there. There are many strong leftists, many of whom are deeply censorious; there are many more timeservers and cowards, who are terrified of falling foul of the first group.

And there are force multipliers for all of this. Even if you yourself are a sensible and courageous person, you want to protect your project. What if your manager, ethics committee or funder comes under pressure?
by walterbell | 2025-12-19 04:48:59+00:00
Since post-Jobs Apple is dependent on competition to be the first mover, the last major improvement of iPad Pro UX took place after the launch of Microsoft Surface. The next major improvement of iPad Pro UX could take place after 2026 Google unification of ChromeOS and Android for Qualcomm (former Apple team) Armv9 hardware, including Debian VMs with root and standard repos.

As US and EU courts and regulators have found, the Apple ecosystem has suffered from lack of competition and interoperability. This has lead to small cracks in the walled garden, for the benefit of Apple hardware owners. Some iPad Pro limitations can be worked around by sideloading apps that Apple won't distribute, e.g. UTM with JIT for running VMs.

More broadly, the era of paid software and 30% commissions may be replaced by an era of custom LLM-generated software that has only one user or a small circle of human users, e.g. family or closed group. Apple itself is launching a 2026 touchscreen device for home control, that only has Apple software, no third party apps. If "AI" voice interfaces gain traction, then "apps" may no longer reside on endpoint devices.

When Apple appoints new leadership who once more prioritize Jobs' fusion of hardware power with human empowerment, we will find out what iPad Pro can do. Until then, either sideload (EU or StikDebug) or pay $99/year for a dev account.
by energy123 | 2025-12-19 04:49:03+00:00
> I don't see this as a big deal other than my fear of west china invading china (taiwan! :) ).

Isn't that "other than" clause a big deal, though? I've read a survey and a number of articles from defense and foreign policy types, and the general feeling is there's a ~25% chance that China will invade Taiwan this decade. That's really damn big. If there's rollback in Taiwan then the first island chain could plausibly fall, or if not you will surely see Japan and maybe South Korea nuclearize. Why must we keep assuming the best with these security calculations instead of believing someone when they keep saying what they're going to do?
by sofixa | 2025-12-19 04:49:53+00:00
I genuinely don't know, especially for Vercel to be using them. Vercel themselves can easily be used to host static-ish documentation.

But it looks like Mintlify are using Vercel on the backend: https://vercel.com/blog/mintlify-scaling-a-powerful-document...

So it's just a Vercel wrapper?
by _wire_ | 2025-12-19 04:50:10+00:00
"Simulation" arguments never touch on what is meant by simulation.

Without a firm notion of what it means to simulate, the rest is nonsense.

A TV simulates what was recorded by a camera, but have you ever heard anyone at any stage of mental development wonder "how do all those little people live in that box?"

Even small children are never confused about it, any more so than they would suspect a parent contains a homunculus inside or is operated as a Chinese room.

So what is it about Bostrom's "simulation" that gets brainiacs wrapped around the mental axle about simulations?

Alan Kay would present the first few minutes of a Harvard commencement from the following Annenberg documentary "A Private Universe" and joke that Harvard may or may not educate but it's a leader in producing arrogance.

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A Private Universe

https://vimeo.com/113349804