MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-09-28 22:32:20+00:00
This is awesome. My only issue is that the character used for whitespace looks janky in my browser, like a bunch of non-monospaced squares. A potential remedy: because Unicode contains all 256 possible 4x2 Braille patterns, why not use ⣿ as the background and carve out the snake/food as negative space, e.g.

⣿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣩⣽⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿

This would ensure uniform spacing and is just as legible.
by guy_5676 | 2025-09-28 22:34:33+00:00
I'm familiar with "artifact" being used to describe the inconsequential and easy to reproduce output of some deterministic process (e.g. build artifact). Even given the terminology you provide here it doesn't change the content of my point above.

When I see someone dismissing the code as a small irrelevant part of the task of writing software, it's like hearing that the low-level design and physical construction of a bridge is an irrelevant side-effect of my desire to cross a body of water. Like, maybe that's true in a philosophical sense, but at the end of the day we are building a real-world bridge that needs to conform to real-world constraints, and every little detail is going to be important. I wouldn't want to cross a bridge built by someone who thinks otherwise.
by vpt | 2025-09-28 22:35:24+00:00
The latest release of GrapheneOS is significant because it now has official support for using RCS in Google Messages. This is to try and address the ongoing RCS disconnect users on both stock and non-stock Android have been experiencing worldwide.

Some technical analysis of the disconnect can be found in later messages in this long-term RCS thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1353-using-rcs-with-google-...
by HappyPanacea | 2025-09-28 22:35:31+00:00
> or would it just have taken an hour or so to find a paper that used this function?

It is pretty hard to find something like this perhaps if you had math aware search engine enhanced with AI and access to all math papers you could find if this was used in the past. I tried using approach0 (math aware search engine) but it isn't good enough and I didn't found anything.
by SmartestUnknown | 2025-09-28 22:35:46+00:00
The expression f(z) = \sum_i 1/(z-\lambda_i) is called Stieltjes transform and is heavily used in random matrix theory and similar expressions are used in other works such as Batson, Spielman and Srivastava. This is all to analyze the behavior of eigenvalues which is exactly what they were trying to understand. I'd be very surprised if Aaronson doesn't know about this.
by Izkata | 2025-09-28 22:36:02+00:00
Just an additional clarification in case the other reply doesn't help: Your phrasing of "shows me a black formation" doesn't make sense unless it is rendering the page wrong for you. All the problems you've listed show both white and black stones on the board.

For example:

> In 2.16:

> 3 says I'm wrong for saying its alive. It's clearly alive. It's a big black formation with one eye in the corner and one eye at the bottom

Should look like:

| | w w w w w | b b b b w | w b w ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(I'm also using Firefox and it's rendering correctly for me)
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-28 22:36:16+00:00
> All of the arrests mentioned in this thread in relation to these acts have been campaigns of intimidation, harassment and calls to violence, not simply saying something “insulting or offensive”

This is false. But even if it weren’t, it would be unjust. Determinations like “hate speech” are subjective, and have no place in law concerning speech. Without free speech, there is no democracy.
by mothballed | 2025-09-28 22:36:31+00:00
Alright, lets imagine what you say.

I build a private interstate next to a public interstate.

Lets say it costs me $0.20 / mi per honda civic that travels on it, and the public road costs $0.30 / mi per honda civic that travels on it in amortized costs.

At the point of use, the user sees my toll of say, $.25 / mi with some profit, and at point of use the user sees $0.00 for the public highway.

Who on earth would bother to take my toll road, even though it is more efficient and cheaper? They've already paid the tax, and not only that, it is largely invisible to them. The government will literally imprison them or take their shit if they don't pay it, it is a sunk cost, the government has violently usurped my competition via payment under threat of violence.

You can't compete with 'free' at the point of use enforced by a violent actor against a sunk cost. Yes if you buy a plot of land that appears to not even be accessible by vehicle without some kind of unknown corner-crossing easement (one linked), then you will win out vs the non-existent competition there, but of course if the government shows up and taxes you to build a road even then you would lose.
by mcny | 2025-09-28 22:36:33+00:00
> I'm regularly amazed at how little non-developer/technical users complain about strange and confusing behavior.

It reminds me of the recent article here titled something like "Altoids by the mouthful". We just get used to eating cat poop and we never realize it is not a good idea to eat cat poop, not that we should make it more palatable by chasing the cat poop by chewing Altoids by the mouthful.

Edit: for today's lucky ten thousand

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45343449
by perihelions | 2025-09-28 22:37:17+00:00
Previous context?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29607989 ("RadioShack – Bringing Cryptocurrency to the Mainstream (radioshack.com)" (2021))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31958998 ("RadioShack reinvents itself as a crypto platform with wild tweets (washingtonpost.com)" (2022))

(Amusing to count five different HN'ers calling it a "scam", and two more calling it a "Ponzi").
by constantcrying | 2025-09-28 22:37:21+00:00
China is run by people with a long term plan of becoming a world superpower through industrialization on a gigantic scale. The US is alternating between two rival factions, who's number one goal is reversing the effects of whatever the other faction did. My home country, Germany, is a total clown show which still hasn't decided if it wants to keep being an industrial nation.

It really is very easy to figure out who is going to come out on top.
by lamontcg | 2025-09-28 22:37:56+00:00
Also:

> In August 2025, and seemingly out of nowhere, someone pointed me to the project spinel-coop/rv-ruby, an apparent fork of homebrew/homebrew-portable-ruby. I say "apparent", because rather than using GitHub's fork button—which would have maintained clear attribution of who created the upstream project—it looks like it was instead cloned and re-pushed by Andre.

GitHub has long had problems with forked repos being half broken compared to the original repo. Used to be that you couldn't search within forked repos, at the very least.

I'd actually consider it best practice to push to a new repo if you were entirely taking over a project and weren't going to be pushing upstream.

I haven't extensively researched if GH has managed to eliminate all the reduced features of forks, but after something like 15 years of using it (proabably about the same amount of time Andre has), I would reflexively establish a fresh main repo if I was setting up a project and I wouldn't fork.

This isn't really evidence of anything other than the author of the blog post looking to spin a narrative.
by zbentley | 2025-09-28 22:38:03+00:00
You miss GP’s point. They’re not assuming good faith, they’re pointing out that the government already knows identity credentials and can, encrypted or not, quite easily correlate digital activity with those credentials.

The question isn’t whether the government can/will identify and track you. They do, in good faith or bad. This is unfortunate and attempts to allow them to decrypt or acquire additional data about citizens’ activities (like chat control) should be opposed, but identity/activity tracking is omnipresent and irreversible.

The question is whether identity credentials should be available which reduce the risk of additonal credential theft or bad-faith action (e.g. by other entities stealing non-secure-for-digital-use credentials like passports).
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-28 22:38:14+00:00
Many commentors are positing the "clever" sort is what 99% of the user's want, but I really doubt it has been properly checked beyond the original PO's hunch and at most some user panel with pre-sampled data.

Most of these decisions are early default behaviors that stay there as long as users aren't clamoring for change, and TBH I can't imagine most users to have a self emerging strong opinion on how alphabetical sort should be working.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-28 22:39:06+00:00
> So basically just like Israel in Gaza.

Yes, it is possible to be both against what Israel does in Gaza and to be against what Russia is doing in Ukraine.

> What will be left from EU if it cannot stick to its own charter, which rejects collective responsibility?

This does not even parse. The EU has plenty of collective responsibility, is part of the EU mutual defense pact and is part of NATO. The only two countries that are nominally in the EU but that are not unified in their viewpoint here are substantially influenced by russia.

> That amount of money is barely enough for Ukraine anyway.

It seems to have an outside effect on the situation in russia, for as little as it is, but I agree with you it should be much more and we should do this sooner rather than later.

> European defense will cost much more.

So what? Why are you so focused on the money angle, rather than on the injustice and the indiscriminate murder of citizens in a country that meant russia - or should I say you - no harm?

Where is your voice in this? As a person safe in Berlin you could afford to raise your voice against Putin if you wanted to.
by roody15 | 2025-09-28 22:39:28+00:00
Some research in neuroscience suggests that potentially the majority of our actions happen primarily in the limbic regions of the brain and then later our pre-frontal cortex makes up a logical story for why we acted this way. This is really trippy and can cause you to rethink your own sanity if you think about it long enough. It’s quite possible I don’t know why I do much of what I do… but I am good at making up a story to explain to keep me sane. Crazy to think about.
by crackrook | 2025-09-28 22:40:45+00:00
You originally expressed surprise that skeptics hold this book in high regard. I just find your surprise a bit difficult to understand. If, on the whole, the work advocates for skepticism (among other things), wouldn't endorsing it be the consistent choice for skeptics? I would never throw out a programming textbook if it criticized and emphasized the too-common tendency of programmers to over-engineer solutions.

> He goes out of his way in the book to label skepticism and criticize it.

Respectfully, I disagree, his criticism reads to me primarily as a criticism of dogmatism. First and foremost he seemed to identify as a "scientist", but he also maintained that you can't have effective science without skepticism.

> He did not wish to be thought of as a skeptic.

I would just differ by saying "He did not wish to be thought of only as a skeptic," I am not sure if that is a complete departure from your intent.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-09-28 22:40:55+00:00
Even for cleaners it might not work.

I know several people who tried this and the cleaner said no. I think (not sure) the cleaner signed some kind of contract/agreement with the website not to do that and worries that if they are discovered they will be banned from the site and thus lose the other 90% of their income. Dunno how rational that fear is.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-28 22:41:32+00:00
I'm not sure I follow. As already explained, the example given works for me on macOS today since I can install Crossover (which is an officially supported install method by Intangi - not a custom hack) which is not allowed/supported on the App Store/iPad. Crossover handles 32 bit x86 Windows apps on Apple Silicon fine, even though Apple themselves don't, since right after Apple Silicon launched https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2020/11/18/okay-im-o...

You're saying there is some other reason it wouldn't work if I ran macOS/had macOS's capabilities on an M4 iPad chassis instead of an M4 MacBook chassis?

Btw, I don't think you'd intend to go against the site guidelines by it (I figure it's probably just two separate logins on two separate devices or something), but if you're using multiple accounts in the same conversations it does go against them.
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by karnoldf | 2025-09-28 22:43:19+00:00
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by trollbridge | 2025-09-28 22:44:12+00:00
Circa 2010, I met Tai and he wanted some work done for his portfolio of dating websites he had back then. (He had a whole bunch of them targeted to various ethnic groups, religious subgroups and so on.)

It became apparent that (a) he had a huge pile of messy PHP, WordPress-based sites, and then (b) expressed contempt for paying $35 an hour for programmers since his opinion was you could get programmers in the third world for $5 an hour. He negotiated me down to $25. I ended up declining.

Like many people who crow about how they’re a “millionaire”, when it came time to show the money, he was suddenly really concerned about very small amounts of money here and there.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-28 22:44:58+00:00
Nothing you just said is really about the political system, though. America has plenty of politicians willing to cross the red tape, but they only do it for personal gain.

The economy is always what it boils down to. Americans see factory work as hazard duty, and you can't exactly take untrained vagrants and put them on the construction site. If you want Americans to build you things, you have to pay them an American wage. Otherwise the market economy doesn't work. China isn't burdened by any of this, not because they're authoritarian but because their economy is planned. If they want to make cars domestically, it doesn't matter what Mexico charges for labor - whatever the state says, goes.
by ok_dad | 2025-09-28 22:45:08+00:00
Okay so there is something called TrackIR and it has an open source implementation called OpenTrack. It’s used for simulators like flight or driving sims.

I’ve seen iPhone apps that use a neural net to determine the direction your head is facing using the camera. I think it networks with OpenTrack somehow, but I’m not sure about the details.

I wonder if you could use the AirPods to track your head and also direct audio from the PC through them with some networking!

I don’t know how to do Apple development but this world be a very cool application.
by xp84 | 2025-09-28 22:45:42+00:00
Fun story: I had the fun experience of collaborating on an integration with an engineer at JP Morgan Chase who introduced me to this tool, which they use, self-hosted of course, as an alternative to having engineers just pasting things into random online tools that come up when you google “base64 decode” etc.

From our whole interaction, I came away admiring the skill and professionalism of their team.
by daxfohl | 2025-09-28 22:46:04+00:00
There still needs to be someone to ask the questions. And even if it can proactively ask its own questions and independently answer and report on them to parties it thinks will be interested, then cost comes into play. It's a finite resource, so there will be a market for computation time. Then, whoever owns the purse strings will be in charge of prioritizing what it independently decides to work on. If that person decides pure math is meaningful, then it'll eventually start cranking out questions and results faster than mathematicians can process them, and so we'll stop spending money on that until humans have caught up.

After that, as it's variously hopping between solving math problems, finding cures for cancer, etc., someone will eventually get the bright idea to use it to take over the world economy so that they have exclusive access to all money and thus all AIs. After that, who knows. Depends on the whims of that individual. The rest of the world would probably go back to a barter system and doing math by hand, and once the "king" dies, probably start right back over again and fall right back into the same calamity. One would think we'd eventually learn from this, but the urge to be king is simply too great. The cycle would continue forever until something causes humans to go fully extinct.

After that, AI, by design, doesn't have its own goals, so it'd likely go silent.
by bsder | 2025-09-28 22:46:24+00:00
> I think I can refresh a lightly dull blade in 10min or so, and speaking as a non-pro.

This is the same assumption (and problem) that every YouTube knife sharpening video makes.

The people who need those videos, by definition, have knives that are absurdly out of whack for some reason--super dull, badly sharpened by someone who "knew better", chipped because used like a cleaver, etc.

Those kinds of knives require a very coarse (150 grit or below) stone and quite a bit of time and attention on the first pass to fix. You will not fix it easily. You will not fix it in 10 minutes. You will not fix it with a 300 grit stone. You will not get any feedback from angle bite or a burr for a very long time. etc.

Most of the feedback mechanisms you rely on when sharpening with a whetstone do not exist when your knife is sufficiently out of whack. Learning to sharpen on a whetstone with such a knife is extremely difficult.
by SigmundA | 2025-09-28 22:46:42+00:00
Our users loved when we added "natural" sort, which was pain in the ass in the db, but ultimately no big deal.

They absolutely do not care or understand the difference between alphabetical and numerical and natural, what they care about is 10 should not come before 9 in "Item 10" vs "Item 9".

Whatever pedantic argument you have that natural is not alphabetic will lose you sales, your users do not care and want numbers to make sense in sorting.
by mothballed | 2025-09-28 22:46:58+00:00
>Again, you keep suggesting that you're going to benefit from existing infrastructure someone else paid for.

No I'm talking about using infrastructure a private entity has paid for as competition.

Would you call it "unencumbered" competition if I started stealing a few bucks from everybody that goes to the gas station, then paid people to take my road with the ill-gotten gains instead of the public interstate, then declared that the government is free to compete unencumbered? Of course you wouldn't, I can't just take money from everyone at the gas pump, but the government can so that their public "toll" is already paid and I can't compete even if my road is cheaper.

The end result is public roads have a mobster-type clamp on the encumbered market. You can't compete with them because they have a monopoly on violence and use it to prepay the toll to game the price at the point of use.
by pbronez | 2025-09-28 22:47:46+00:00
You know, this is good fodder for LLM training via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Results. Given complex LaTeX source code and complex PDF output, write. Typst document that reproduces the PDF.

Incorporating this into training would be a good way to improve LLM Typst support and also verify that reasoning is working (since there aren’t tons of typst examples to copy from)
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-28 22:49:13+00:00
> I don't need to see much more evidence beyond what I've already seen to believe that there may well be an operation already planned

In case of Ukraine there was at least plenty of strategic and political reasons. Why Russia should attack any NATO country? They were afraid even to respond to Turkey shooting down their planes. Hypothetical land bridge to Kaliningrad? It is not completely isolated - there’s a railway connection still operating for example. Well, maybe, but the stakes are much higher here and Moscow and St.Petersburg will be on the line of fire.

> Why do you believe that to be the case? All I see is very measured responses and attempts to leave a backdoor to normalcy open.

Do you see any plausible strategy communicated and executed by the West on how this war can end on favorable terms for Ukraine? I don’t.

> Putin bit off far more than he could chew and has found out the hard way that as long as his nukes are off the table that he does not have a way to resolve this in his favor. Every day Ukraine is getting stronger and every day Russia is set back further and further.

Russia is making steady gains in territory over quite long period of time now and is on track to achieve it’s current military goals that were outlined in their peace proposal (full control of Donbas and land bridge securing logistics for Crimea). It’s hard to understand what are you talking about.

>Your characterization of me as someone who does not even try to understand is unfair

You literally told that in previous comment, dismissing the understanding of differences as unimportant.

> unable to see the truth of what is going on then that's on you, not on me

What makes you think that I’m less informed and understand it less than you? Just the fact that I disagree?
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-28 22:49:37+00:00
For me, what I do is fairly closely linked with who I am. It's no longer unhealthy, but it used to be.

A lot of my legacy will be completely unheralded, and that's as it should be.

I do appreciate (but can't really say I "like") these posts.

Much better than the old "GBCW" (GoodBye Cruel World) posts that people used to post, when they rage-quit forums.
by hagbard_c | 2025-09-28 22:50:06+00:00
Foxes are also overused and I consider myself fortunate in not having come across Tux-the-penguin with a 'trans flag' - follow the link if you wonder what I mean - nor do I rue the absence of any furry-like characteristics in the toy penguin. This furry fox seems to be just that, a generic anime-like furry avatar, one out of thousands and as such not memorable.
by modeless | 2025-09-28 22:50:56+00:00
People may remember Tai Lopez from his "Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here" YouTube ad, subject of several parodies such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIwTG8V-Ko

I think he was one of the first to realize that you could take regular YouTube videos that are several minutes long and turn them into skippable pre-roll ads, and some people would watch the whole thing. I know nothing else about him and I hope to keep it that way.
by f33d5173 | 2025-09-28 22:50:57+00:00
I was very surprised by it when I noticed it a year or so ago. What's interesting is that when it works, eg you have a directory with numbers from 1-10, you don't really notice it. It isn't until it bites you in the ass, eg your downloads folder with a bunch long numeric strings, some in hex, where you want to find one and suddely it's not where you expect.

I used a gui software some years ago that distinguished between version sort and alphabetic sort. It would be handy to have a toggle.
by zb3 | 2025-09-28 22:51:00+00:00
Unfortunately v86 doesn't support x86_64 and that's why TempleOS is notably missing from the list..

Currently the closest thing is qemu-wasm, but my experiments (chrome only) show that it's still too slow: https://zb3.me/qemu-wasm-test/jspi-noffi/