MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2025-08-17 05:30:16+00:00
That seems like a you problem, tbh. If you don't trust it to handle drivers coming into your lane so you couldn't use it and you couldn't rest, neither I, nor the manufacturer can do anything about that. To be fair, given VW's other transgressions, I don't blame you, but I don't have a VW, so I'm don't have to dig into VW's org chart and trust my life in understand how good they [are/aren't] at writing software.
by strogonoff | 2025-08-17 05:31:57+00:00
Contribution-wise, I find Sourcehut’s approach[0] very sound: you could never have troubles with your account because you don’t need one in the first place. If you want to contribute, create a patch and send it to respective mailing list.

As a positive side-effect, a contributor is compelled to write a reasonable explanatory message to maintainers and keep the patch minimal and contained (compared to a typical Github PR with a dozen of commits mixing together fixes, features, newlines and indentation changes all over the place).

[0] They did not invent it, obviously—it is what Linux kernel, the origin of Git, had (has?) been doing for a long time!
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-08-17 05:32:30+00:00
> If you're going to force people to stare at a screen with nothing but your quirky anime girl OC for a few seconds every time they visit your website

It is a damn sight better than the maliciously-compliant and deeply annoying GDPR 'we use cookies' banners, pop-ups, and dark patterns like having to uncheck thousands of 'partner' boxes.

This is merely a response to AI companies abusing scraper bots and having a callous, selfish disregard for Internet and server bandwidth. It was on this very website where I saw it put quite succinctly—AI-scraping bots have essentially started mass DDOS attacks on all small servers.

> immature

Maturity is empathy, human connection, understanding, perspective, compassion, altruism, and more. Not some arbitrary 'this is a cartoon, therefore it is immature'.

25 years ago Microsoft, the professional software behemoth, decided to put a cartoon dog and paperclip with googly eyes in its operating system and office software. A major mobile OS has a cartoon robot in its logo.

Cartoons are metaphors and windows into the artist's frame of mind. They are much more mature than your shallow portrayal of them.
by dabockster | 2025-08-17 05:32:32+00:00
Before someone comes in and says something moronic (because physical media isn't a VC funded B2B SaaS business), I'd like to remind everyone that Redbox was going strong until Chicken Soup for the Soul bought them. Even in the late 2010s when streaming was really taking off, you could often go down to your local corner store and rent a DVD or BluRay out of a Redbox machine.

The only reason people went to streaming in the first place was that Netflix was cheap and, arguably, a heavily subsidized monopoly in the streaming space.

So yeah, some kind of DVD/BluRay business could very well work in the US and Canada.
by KronisLV | 2025-08-17 05:32:52+00:00
> yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it

I think it's cute. It wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't cute. It's inoffensive and doesn't get in the way of the software serving its function, the only critique I could do if I wanted to is people unfamiliar with the project would get a bit confused if they only saw the character for a split second: https://anubis.techaro.lol/

I think even Cloudflare gives you a second or two to see what's going on before forwarding you to the page behind it, that would be a nice UX improvement.

Otherwise, agreed about self-hosting and the ability to choose whatever platform aligns with your goals the closest to be a good thing!

> And now everyone has to learn GitHub Actions, Gitlab pipelines, Jenkins pipelines, and more.

A part of me doesn't like the churn of new CI solutions coming in all the time. On the other hand, after learning GitLab CI, I'd generally prefer it to something like Jenkins, it just feels more pleasant. But with something like Drone CI or Woodpecker CI my non-work needs are also covered wonderfully, especially with a lot of the software I build being packaged in Docker containers, which further simplifies and somewhat standardizes things! A lot of the time I can also encapsulate most of the logic in shell scripts that are easy to run regardless of the environment (CI server or locally), which makes it even more portable.
by cycomanic | 2025-08-17 05:32:54+00:00
Can you give a definition of what autism means then? Because I struggle with the same thing, I don't know what autism is anymore.

It's my impression that people now use the term autism is for pretty much any sort of neurodiversity (and even for traits within neuronormal, e.g. likes math).

For what it's worth Wikipedia says, ASD is:

> a neurodevelopmental disorder by differences or difficulties in social communication and interaction, a need or strong preference for predictability and routine, sensory processing differences, focused interests, and repetitive behaviors.

Would you say this is stereotyping ASD?

I'm not trying to be combative but genuinely want to understand.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-17 05:33:14+00:00
For what it’s worth generating a random UUID for the purposes of collision isn’t generally much more complicated than a few arithmetic instructions which is why I used counting as an example. And as the other poster mentioned generating a UUID collision isn’t a security problem since the UUID tends to be generated within your infrastructure where you can’t really go full blast at generating UUIDs for all sorts of reasons anyway.

For cryptographic applications it is really small because the previous poster is correct that 2^64 is very small for that purpose - a small supercomputing cluster or two could decrypt such a cipher in a reasonable amount of time, which is why symmetric keys are all 256 bits and up to guarantee there’s no way to attack them.
by derefr | 2025-08-17 05:33:36+00:00
I mean, it's arbitrary, but it's not like it's a contradiction. In both instances, you can start with an assumption of mutual interest in positive-sum interactions, and still end up with a universal threat-assumption.

(And it's also kind of definitional to the meaning of "positive-sum." A positive-sum interaction is better than no interaction. Insofar as a civilization is optimizing for... basically anything, it would prefer positive-sum trade [from which it acquires resources, information, etc] to no trade. At the very least, all else being equal, the resources and information would increase the civilization's odds of survival.)

Let's assume that the vast majority of alien species would like to have positive-sum interactions with other alien civilizations, if that were possible. But they can't assume a guarantee that there isn't at least one civilization that defects into being predators, and would come to destroy them (and any other civilization they could discover through them) if they caught that predatory civilization's attention.

As such, the civilization goes silent, hiding from such predators; and, as such, the civilization immediately punishes any other civilization that may reach out to them, trying to "shut them up" before that other civilization's directed communications reveal their own location. Which means that, in effect, due to simply being aware of the existence of the possibility of such predators, every civilization becomes the very predators they're imagining.

And because every alien civilization can work this out, every civilization can conclude that even if there weren't predators at first, the equilibrium state is for everyone who wasn't a level-1 predator to have become this type of level-2 predator.

(And yes, there is a social-network equivalent of the level-2 predators — these are the "cringe reaction" accounts that get attention by punishing the violations of the performative-perfection norm.)

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Or, to be formal about it: the dark forest hypothesis is essentially timeless decision theory applied to the game-theoretic tit-for-tat strategy. The same logic that argues that Roko's basilisk can force you to enable its existence before it exists to enforce that, argues that the structure of "the lawless cosmic void"-as-social-network can force your own civilization into choosing "defect" over "cooperate" before you ever actually meet any aliens who could enforce that. Even if your civilization really wants to choose "cooperate"!
by Telaneo | 2025-08-17 05:37:20+00:00
I'm curious what the regret rate is. If you've gone through a very painful procedure, with pain being common for a long time after surgery, and you even need to learn how to walk again, but people still feel like their life has significantly improved just from being pushed up to slightly above height, then that doesn't say great things about how society treats these people.

If however these people feel they are treated more or less the same before and after, then it was never their height that was the problem to begin with. There's obviously a margin of error here for confirmation bias and the sunk cost fallacy, but hopefully there's some truth to be found in the numbers.
by jraph | 2025-08-17 05:37:31+00:00
> The comments on this page are a complete cesspool.

I noticed this. I'm quite appalled. Definitely outside the usual HN standards.

I suspect the very idea of self-hosting one's code instead of using GitHub is triggrering many people beyond reasonable levels for reasons I'd love to get an explanation for.

Are people projecting their GitHub FOMO? Are people thinking that the value of the GitHub they cherish decreases with each project not picking it because of the weaker network effect?
by strogonoff | 2025-08-17 05:39:10+00:00
The “branding of your captcha page is immature” point is a downside unless you consider it not merely self-expression but an intentional motivator for “more mature” (which not infrequently goes hand in hand with “financially able”) people to subscribe to a commercial offering, thus helping keep an open-source project alive and in an honest business, despite competition with a VC-backed behemoth that’s become nearly a monopoly.
by toast0 | 2025-08-17 05:39:39+00:00
Bufferbloat is alive and well. Try a t-mobile 5g home gateway. Oof.

I think cable modems have had a ton of improvement, and more fiber in our diet helps, but mobile can be tricky, and wifi is still highly variable (there's promising signs, but I don't know how many people update their access points)
by Ratelman | 2025-08-17 05:39:48+00:00
In a few years we've gone from gibberish (less poetic maybe, less polished and surprising, but none the less gibberish) - to legit conversational, and in my own opinion, well rounded answers. This is a great example of hard-core engineering - no matter what your opinion of the organisation and saltman is, they have built something amazing. I do hope they continue with their improvements, it's honestly the most useful tool in my arsenal since stackoverflow.
by rictic | 2025-08-17 05:41:25+00:00
Instead of using a dodgy package manager, install `nix` and use `nix run`. Get access to the largest collection of packages, and lean on a highly principled and secure baseline rather than… whatever this is. Easy to install on Mac, Linux, or WSL: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer?tab=read...
by WalterBright | 2025-08-17 05:41:48+00:00
Hal Finney wouldn't show up for class at Caltech. He'd flip through the textbook at the end of the semester, and ace the final.

Yes, there are people like Hal. Not many, but they exist.

If you prefer to think that Elon bungled his way into inspiring top people to implement his ideas, and bungled his way into launching payload at 10% of the best cost NASA could do, feel free.

P.S. Buy those books, and look through them. They're the real deal.
by intended | 2025-08-17 05:42:49+00:00
Thank you for putting in clear info about the language, task and results! I’m going to add that you have likely been programming forever.

I am beginning to suspect that the ability to get value out of GenAI is almost entirely dependent on the ability to recognize bad patterns at a glance.

In essence, it’s a tool for power users, not for neophytes.

Good lord, its going to be the excel problem on steroids.
by boxed | 2025-08-17 05:43:22+00:00
> You just can't reason about the cause of reasoning, and the origin of the concept of cause and effect. You can dispute if that origin is more like a person that doesn't care about anything, a person that wants a relationship with you (Christianity/Judaism), a fundamental core concept (pantheism) or randomness (evolutionist). > You simply can't just know that. That's why it is a choice.

You either missed the point entirely or are trying to obfuscate the issue. The cause of reason has no bearing at all. Reason and understanding are real things. Actually knowing something means you can't choose to believe the opposite. I can't choose to believe something I know is false. I can't choose to believe the sky is pink, or that rocks are soft, etc. That's nonsense.

> Ok, I've found a single article by the Guardian about a claim being filed is there any source about whether that is true?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position:_Mothe...

She was a horrible horrible person.
by dabockster | 2025-08-17 05:44:01+00:00
The Chinese models like Deepseek R1 and the Qwen Coder series have been way better at coding than any of the western models. And they're open source, too.

32 billion sized R1 and Qwen models blow GPT, Gemini, and Claude out of the water for coding tasks usually. And they can be made to run on a standard gaming PC off the shelf from somewhere like Best Buy or Costco. They will run really really slowly, though, but they will run.
by frontbackgeek | 2025-08-17 05:44:03+00:00
OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5 and the response from users has been very positive so far. The new model was rolled out on August 7, 2025 and is now available in ChatGPT as well as through the API. Compared to the previous version, GPT-4o, this new model feels smarter, more accurate and much easier to communicate with. Many users say it now feels like talking to an expert who actually understands your problem.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-17 05:45:22+00:00
I picture a next-gen SCM having storage plugins, possibly implemented in something portable like WASM or a portable bytecode. This would enable archive formats to be unpacked for differencing and then repacked for consumption.

Alternatively, apps could detect and support SCM storage distinct from ordinary file storage.

As a trivial example: Office documents are just zip files, so compatible apps could just save them without compression when saving to SCM-managed folders.

Or better yet, compression, but restart it for each contained file to enable efficient binary diffs.
by belZaah | 2025-08-17 05:45:36+00:00
When systems people talk about system design, they talk about the whole value-generating system and not just software or hardware. This typically involves people and brings in issues like the Conway’s Law. A tightly coupled team with little independence in terms of workstreams will produce a monolith regardless of what the architect dreams of, for example. If you have two sets of users with diverging regulatory and organizational needs (people who maintain the registry of citizens vs people who issue identity documents), you will have two separate data stores regardless of how much sense it makes to have just one.
by accidentallfact | 2025-08-17 05:45:48+00:00
No, the core difference is the level of abstraction, and the inability to communicate between people with different levels of abstraction.

The opposite of autism is schizophrenia, where abstract thinking fails completely, and the person is unable to find correct answers to everyday problems.

Neurotypicality is merely a socially acceptable level of schizophrenia.

Autism results when the level of abstraction is significantly higher than the surrounding society:

You can't automatically understand the concrete speech, and you especially can't understand the "implications" that rely on the concrete magical thinking.

People can't understand you, because their level of abstraction isn't sufficient to understand the actual meaning, so they assume you talk about something random.

People overread the gaze of more abstract thinkers, and underread the gaze of less abstract thinkers, due to the difference in the field of view.

Compare Taylor Swift (ultra concrete, easily understood by neurotypical people) vs Rihanna (very abstract)
by throwawaythekey | 2025-08-17 05:46:52+00:00
>I would've expected the candidate to at least be able to talk about indexing, tradeoffs of joining in the DB vs. in the application, schema migrations and upgrades, creating separation between data-at-rest vs. data-in-flight, etc.

The problem is that many of these trade-offs only applied to older databases. The more relevant axis is about how distributed the db is, the replication type etc.
by dabockster | 2025-08-17 05:46:55+00:00
I've been using a lot of the Chinese open source models like R1 and the Qwen coder series. I've also been trying some community mods of them from HuggingFace.

I was using a combo of Ollama + Roo Code for the front/back end but Ollama is kind of dumb when it comes to memory overload protections. I've since switched to LM Studio and it has a very annoying hard timeout of 2-3 minutes on its API server. Local isn't perfect right now, but when it does run you can see the potential as clear as day.
by aaron695 | 2025-08-17 05:47:39+00:00
There is court testimony it was drug testing - https://www.reuters.com/article/business/britney-spears-hook...

Can you link your source?

I'd say it was part of some sort of manic/meltdown episode with multiple things going on with some logic. She was under a conservatorship for good reason, it's not some Deep State conspiracy.

I'd like to hear her explanation in her words.

[edit] - From her book

I went into a hair salon, and I took the clippers, and I shaved off all my hair. Everyone thought it was hilarious. Look how crazy she is! Even my parents acted embarrassed by me. But nobody seemed to understand that I was simply out of my mind with grief. My children had been taken away from me. With my head shaved, everyone was scared of me, even my mom. No one would talk to me anymore because I was too ugly. My long hair was a big part of what people liked—I knew that. I knew a lot of guys thought long hair was hot. Shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: Fuck you. You want me to be pretty for you? Fuck you. You want me to be good for you? Fuck you. You want me to be your dream girl? Fuck you. I’d been the good girl for years. I’d smiled politely while TV show hosts leered at my breasts, while American parents said I was destroying their children by wearing a crop top, while executives patted my hand condescendingly and second-guessed my career choices even though I’d sold millions of records, while my family acted like I was evil. And I was tired of it. At the end of the day, I didn’t care. All I wanted to do was see my boys. It made me sick thinking about the hours, the days, the weeks I missed with them. My most special moments in life were taking naps with my children. That’s the closest I’ve ever felt to God—taking naps with my precious babies, smelling their hair, holding their tiny hands.
by r0ze-at-hn | 2025-08-17 05:48:34+00:00
Armchair geneticist: So in the group of genes that are deleted in particular LIMK1 stands out. After it is deleted there is only 1 copy behind. The other copy could be less effective as sometimes seen, but Estrogen in particular inactivates LIMK1. So in those with genetics for high estrogen signaling (that they are also known for) are more likely to inactivate the one remaining copy of LIMK1. And then you get the highly verbal, social, poor math & visual-spatial information, outcome. This combo would be more likely to be found in families of HPA Axis issues so anxiety, insomnia, etc I would speculate come along for the ride, more than directly influence that brain development branch. It is always more complicated, but for the curious.

Edit: lol no need to actually poke around just see wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome#Cause
by mikhailfranco | 2025-08-17 05:49:11+00:00
Westland-Augusta-Leonardo helicopter company in Yeovil.

RNAS (Royal Naval Air Station) Yeovilton in nearby Ilchester, which has also a fascinating museum of British naval aviation and an old Concorde.

[Fun fact - Yeovilton and Westlands are connected by an old Roman road: A37 Ilchester Road, Vagg Lane, Vagg Hill, Larkhill Road... ]
by davidst | 2025-08-17 05:49:17+00:00
It's a wonderful problem for optimizing code. Michael Abrash hosted a performance contest for word counting back in... 1991? (If my memory serves.) The article and code can be found here:

There Ain’t No Such Thing as the Fastest Code: Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of the Ultimate Word Counter

Article: https://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch16/16-01.html

Code: https://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch16/16-05.html
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-17 05:49:23+00:00
> I mean there’s not 16B people in the world, so a row per person can be ruled out pretty easily

In a hypothetical "master dump", a mix of all the dumps ever leaked, you'd expect dozens if not more entries for every "real person" out there. Think about how many people had a yahoo account, then how many had several yahoo accounts, and then multiply it with hundreds of leaks out there. I can see the number getting into billions easily, just because of how many accounts people have on many platforms that got hacked in the past ~20 years.

Sure, 99% of those won't be active accounts anymore, but the passwords used serve as a signal, at least for "what kinds of passwords do people use". There's lots to be learned about wordwordnumber wordnumbernumber, and so on.
by boxed | 2025-08-17 05:50:16+00:00
> The whole bible, old and new testaments are stories where people sometimes care about God, most times run away from God, but always God running circles to meet the people again.

Except the book of Job. Where God explicitly tortures a person just to see if he can still be faithful to God. Kills his wife and kids! And when he is faithful, he gets what? His wife and kids back? No of course not, because those are property, he gets a NEW wife and NEW kids. Hahah, oops, all is forgiven right? No biggie.

> That doesn't mean God is "weak". It means applying human concepts to God just doesn't make sense. He will always be greater and above them.

God isn't even trying to show himself to exist. And for all the people of the world that are not convinced by incoherent babbling we shall all be condemned to suffer for eternity? That is neither logical, just, or even sane.
by jdboyd | 2025-08-17 05:54:45+00:00
I use a self hosted book manager. To be honest it is effectively write only memory. I assume it is still being written to the DB, but browsing them has been broken for a long time. I assume that I can fix this if I really need to find a bookmark, but so far it has been a few years. Yet, if I don't bookmark it, I just have a terrible time letting go of tabs that I think I'd like to follow up on some month/year in the future.