MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nylonstrung | 2025-10-06 09:30:26+00:00
Read a study called "The Leaderboard Illusion" which credibly alleged that Meta Google OpenAI and Amazon got unfair treatment from LM Arena that distorted the benchmarks

They gave them special access to privately test and let them benchmark over and over without showing the failed tests

Meta got to privately test Llama 4 27 times to optimize it for high benchmark scores and then was allowed to report the only the highest cherry picked benchmark

Which makes sense because in real world applications Llama is recognized to be markedly inferior to models that scored lower
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-06 09:31:10+00:00
I've been "self-hosting" for 30 years now (= running a 24/7 linux server)

And I still don't get the "VM for everything" crowd. Why would you do that when you have containers?

It's much simpler and lighter. Any 200€ old corporate PC can run a dozen containers easily. What it can't do is run that same stuff in 12 VMs.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-10-06 09:31:10+00:00
> Do you have any proof for this assertion or is it time to milk crypto cynicism for upvotes on this site again? The GENIUS Act (which regulates stablecoins) specifically calls out complying with AML and sanctions lists. So there's a clear regulatory regime.

Look, it's a fact that lots of criminals use cryptocurrency (see all of the ransomware attacks over the past decade). Secondly, crypto has 100% been used to get around capital controls (particularly in China some years back).

I assume that internal drug syndicates are using crypto (as it makes sense for their business).

Now, what do stablecoins offer here? Simply put, if you send your crypto to some stablecoin issuer, then you can redeem for fiat. There's clearly substantial ML risks here, and more particularly lots of unsophisticated (from an AML perspective) counter-parties here. More specifically, the models used for transaction monitoring and reporting are less likely to pick up on the signals associated with crypto ML/crime activity.

Like, this seems super clear to me, and I'm not making any value judgements here (personally I think that stablecoins/crypto are mostly turning into regulatory arbitrage, but that's not germane to my point here).

> The GENIUS Act (which regulates stablecoins) specifically calls out complying with AML and sanctions lists. So there's a clear regulatory regime.

You should look at the penalties for getting this wrong. Particularly in OFAC, they are no joke (personal responsibility for issues). And untested regulatory regimes tend to get altered based on what happens in the market, and this is gonna be a wild ride.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-10-06 09:32:05+00:00
3 times, if you count the physics GPGPU boom that Nvidia rode before cryptocurrencies.

And other than maybe the crypto stuff, luck had nothing to do with it. Nvidia was ready to support these other use cases because in a very real way they made them happen. Nvidia hardware is not particularly better for these workloads than competitors. The reason they are the $4.6T company is that all the foundational software was built on them. And the reason for that is that JHH invested heavily in supporting the development of that software, before anyone else realized there was a market there worth investing in. He made the call to make all future GPUs support CUDA in 2006, before there were heavy users.
by Ylpertnodi | 2025-10-06 09:32:22+00:00
> I wouldn't be surprised if someone caused this intentionally.

What, no backup(s) set up? Hmmm, possibly. But, they're'd be a paper trail.

Imagine all the scrabbling going on right now - people desperately starting to cover their arses. But chances are, what they need has just burnt down, with no backups.
by schoen | 2025-10-06 09:32:45+00:00
I think you used the word "holistic" in a non-idiomatic way here. To me, what you wrote would mean "fond of functional programming, but don't have a broad or comprehensive perspective on it" or "fond of functional programming, but have a limited and narrow understanding of it". I doubt that's what you intended to say!

If you meant that you don't strictly insist on applying functional programming in every context or situation, perhaps "not dogmatic about it"?
by Y-bar | 2025-10-06 09:33:01+00:00
> Teams over-engineering their build pipeline, building "platforms" that other teams must use, an unmaintainable and untestable mess. Time better spent elsewhere.

This hits home so much!

I remember last year when I asked our Cloud Ops to add an additional EC2 instance and adjust sizes on two others. It took twelve work hours and resulted in +3k -2k changed lines "because they had no way of doing it now without merging seven hundred other changes.
by spankibalt | 2025-10-06 09:33:11+00:00
From the books advice corner:

"As explained in the preface, the main prerequisite is some amount of mathematical maturity. This means I expect the reader to know how to read and write a proof, follow logical arguments, and so on."

Yeah, that's way beyond what's called basic math instruction, e. g. in schools. A more specific, as in accurate, subtitle (or description) is in order.
by chasil | 2025-10-06 09:34:52+00:00
Which SMB?

SMBv1 has a reputation for being an extremely chatty protocol. Novell ipx/spx easily dwarfed it in the early days. Microsoft now disables it by default, but some utilities (curl) do not support more advanced versions.

SMBv2 increases efficiency by bundling multiple messages into a single transmission. It is clear text only.

SMBv3 supports optional encryption.

Apple dropped the Samba project from MacOS due to gplv3, and developed their own SMB implementation that is not used elsewhere AFAIK. If you don't care for Apple's implementation, then perhaps installing Samba is a better option.

NFSv3 relies solely on uid/gid mapping by default, while NFSv4 requires idmapd to run to avoid squashing. I sometimes use both at the same time.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-06 09:35:25+00:00
"Control" here means that there are people who write blogpost worthy comments or messages on Facebook or other Meta properties. That's the only place where they exist.

When Meta (or any other company) decides to destroy them, they go away forever. You have no "control" over it.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE is the way to go.

You want to write a long post on a 3rd party platform? Write it on your own device, that you control. Then you save it, copy the content and post wherever you like.

If your 3rd party blogging or social media platform goes tits up and everything disppears, you still have your own copy you can just Ctrl-C Ctrl-V anywhere.

You can go as fancy with this as you like, depending on your nerd-level. You can have a self-hosted N8N system that automatically reposts everything to new sites you add to the flow. Or you can just have your stuff in a directory in Obsidian.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-06 09:35:43+00:00
Odd how the replies to my comments seem to quickly swerve into ad hominem attacks and irrelevant points... Perhaps that's QED.

The world is what it is. That has nothing to do with the immigration policies in Europe, which are chosen by the governments not imposed on them, and nothing to do with the growing range of issues in Europe.

I am not claiming to speak for anyone, by the way. I only acknowledge the election results and trends across Europe and how those signs of public opinion are met.

Have a nice one, guys.
by bilekas | 2025-10-06 09:36:45+00:00
> Teams over-engineering their build pipeline, building "platforms" that other teams must use, an unmaintainable and untestable mess. Time better spent elsewhere.

I have to disagree a little here, if you're already in AWS, then an investment in fixing your terraform structure is not just worth the money, but gives you a better understanding of the infrastructure architecture, you also retain ownership of your deployments. What happens if Flightcontrol go down for whatever reason? Or are sold off like other's we've seen, or god forbid you need some fine tuning that isn't in the Flightcontrol's website. You're now depending on, and maybe even paying for, an external company for devops support to do something you already know how to do.

It seems to be in the long term, that time is definitely not better spent elsewhere.
by mastazi | 2025-10-06 09:37:08+00:00
Do you have any links with regards to these market segments? I know that nowadays many people are mobile-only, but I struggle to estimate percentages. I guess it's going to be very different in developed vs developing economies, based on personal observations, but again I would like to see stats. I was able to find things like personal computer sales figures but nothing was said e.g. about desktops vs laptops and whether the laptop is for work or personal use and in the latter case, general vs gaming focused use.
by schoen | 2025-10-06 09:37:12+00:00
It would make more sense to include the term "higher math" (from the author's own description) in the page title, like "Basic Higher Math Textbook" or "Introductory Higher Math Textbook".

Higher mathematics isn't necessarily very strictly defined anyway, but I guess most people who've heard the term would apply it to branches of math that are developed using formal definitions and at least moderately rigorous proofs, and that usually aim at a level of generality beyond their originally motivating examples.
by octo888 | 2025-10-06 09:37:44+00:00
They do plenty of creepy surveillance if your vehicle is flagged on the central database (eg for having been near a protest)

https://www.burtoncopeland.com/news/police-are-watching-your...

Also highly likely doing deep analysis of /every/ journey as predictive policing

"We can use ANPR on investigations or we can use it looking forward in a proactive, intelligence way. Things like building up the lifestyle of criminals - where they are going to be at certain times. We seek to link the criminal to the vehicle through intelligence. Vehicles moving on the roads are open to police scrutiny at any time. The Road Traffic Act gives us the right to stop vehicles at any time for any purpose" - Frank Whiteley, Chief Constable of Hertfordshire and Chair of the ACPO ANPR Steering Group" ( source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni... )

Of course when he said "criminals" he meant "criminals and also innocent people"
by jjcob | 2025-10-06 09:37:54+00:00
When I ask ChatGPT how to solve a tricky coding problem, it occasionally invents APIs that sound plausible but don't exist. I think that is what people mean when they talk about hallucinating. When you tell the model that the API doesn't exist, it apologises and tries again.

I think this is the same thing that is happening with the sea horse. The only difference is that the model detects the incorrect encoding on its own, so it starts trying to correct itself without you complaining first.
by belorn | 2025-10-06 09:38:25+00:00
If you allow it to cost a bit, which is likely a good choice given the problem, then there are several solutions available. It is important to think through the scenario, and if possible, do a dry run of the solution. A remote physical server can work quite well and be cost effective compared to a flagship storage tier, and if data security is important, you can access the files on your own server directly rather than downloading an encrypted blob from a cloud located outside the country.
by jopsen | 2025-10-06 09:38:37+00:00
A set back is not necessarily lethal.

We expect so much from our health care providers, and we sometimes don't appreciate that they deal with a wide array of patients.

Some will come in with a tiny brushing, asking if they are going to die. Others will walk around with a critical condition for days, saying maybe they were a little sore, but they didn't think it was too bad.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-06 09:38:50+00:00
In many cases the cheapest "offline storage" is a second NAS in a friend's or relative's apartment if your data amounts is in the multiple terabytes.

If not, Amazon Glacier is cheap-ish, as is Backblaze B2 and Hetzner storage boxes.

True offline media like tapes and DVD-RW is mostly dead nowadays as far as I can see.
by dxxvi | 2025-10-06 09:39:29+00:00
As it is a utility toolkit, I'd like to have:

- the Web & Network section expanded: the copyparty features (github.com/9001/copyparty) and curlie (github.com/rs/curlie).

- compress/decompress features with password: it doesn't need to use the best compress algorithm, gzip is good enough.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-10-06 09:40:22+00:00
Funnily enough, I asked ChatGPT why LLMs think a seahorse emoji exists, and it gave me a fairly sensible answer (similar to what is said in this article, ie, trained on language by humans that think it exists, etc). But then at the end it added a "Fun fact" that unicode actually does have a seahorse emoji, and proceeded to melt down in the usual way.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-06 09:40:27+00:00
I recall with my grandmother it was almost 1:1. If she started sounding just slightly confused or slightly more forgetful than normal, my mom got her tested for UTI. And sure enough, in just about all the cases she had it.

However the first time it did indeed take quite a while before they figured out she had a UTI, and it took a few times before we figured out the pattern.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-10-06 09:40:30+00:00
My parents did something similar for me, and I still remember the lesson a few decades later.

I think the details matter here. If you give your child $10 every month to make one bet, sometimes they win, sometimes they lose; you are doing it wrong. If you give them $50 and let them make a series of bets not exceeding $10, they will learn that the curve sometimes goes up, sometimes goes down, but ultimately ends up at zero. Not because "you were not lucky today, but maybe the next time", but because this is how the system works.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-06 09:41:07+00:00
No, not previous employer, of course (unless open source). I expect candidates to show code they worked on in their own projects. That is, if they have any. Having any not just forked and click deploy projects in itself is a signal, that is worth looking into.

If all their previous employers don't allow side projects (must be in US or something, where employees don't have rights), then they should pay accordingly more to balance that restriction and loss in experience.
by deafpolygon | 2025-10-06 09:41:40+00:00
They must have fixed it.

Note: HN strips emojis.

---

``` Short answer: nope. Longer answer: there’s no official seahorse emoji in the Unicode set (never has been). A proposal was floated but declined back in 2018.

If you need a stand-in, people MacGyver it with combos like: • + (sea + horse, you get it) • • Or just go marine:

Want me to craft a tiny “seahorse vibe” emoji string for your bio or status? ```
by ErneX | 2025-10-06 09:42:43+00:00
I guess that depends on how they measure its profitability.

If it's services costs and 3rd party deals probably. But if you include the costs of all their 1st party games included day and date it's likely not, specially since they acquired Bethesda and Activision Blizzard.

A hint of that is that they are now releasing even their exclusive Xbox games now on PS and Switch 1/2.
by pil0u | 2025-10-06 09:42:50+00:00
Agreed. Your example could sound like exaggerated, but silence is a form of opinion, of vote, of approval. Even in a professional context, because work is part of the society we live in.

This whole "DHH situation" with Rails has put my mind in weird position. I admire the Rails creator, the business man, the speaker. I admire what he builds, how passionate he is about his work and open-source software. But I very strongly disagree with his vision of immigration, nationalism, parenting, well most of his vision of society.

I was made aware about these opinions because people talked about it. Thanks to these people, I read and listen to him with more nuance, more critical thinking. That does not necessarily mean I would discard Rails, cancel the dude or write shit about him, but that surely means that I will be more careful about how the opinions of this 1 person could impact mine, the ecosystem I work with and the larger ecosystem I live in that is society.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-06 09:43:26+00:00
I'd characterize it as "another saving throw". The roommate might be absent, or preoccupied with his own life, or "staying away from the virus", or too self-doubting to do anything in time.

Similar for Sam's girlfriend Kayla. If she'd been assertive and physically present, she might have saved his life.

Similar any close friend of Sam's.

Similar a bottom-tier resident staff member in Sam's dorm, worried about one of his residents and regularly checking.

(Yes, the U's dorm system "could" officially try to keep an eye on sick residents. But with America's legal system, don't expect any sane university official to sign off on doing that.)
by kokada | 2025-10-06 09:44:42+00:00
No, gaming revenue for NVIDIA was historically the major revenue percentage from the company (up until 2023). Only with the recent AI boom this changed.

Source (I am not sure how reliable this is because I got this from ChatGPT, but I remember seeing something similar from other sources): https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/02/12/gaming-was-nvidias....
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2025-10-06 09:44:50+00:00
Purchasing a business or parts thereof is not “gambling” any more than purchasing a house is “gambling”. People purchase them (or are supposed to) for the value they provide either through income or asset appreciation in the case of businesses or shelter in the case of the house and not for the singular promise of some winning outcome unlike games of chance. The only expectation is that the asset purchased will continue to provide value throughout the period of ownership which is no more or less than what you would expect of many other assets or goods you might purchase and none of this is contingent on mere chance alone. Just because somebody quotes a ridiculously high or low price does not necessarily mean the intrinsic value of the asset has changed. Overpaying for an asset is not the same as losing money to a slot machine. Have I “lost money gambling” if I buy something in a store the day before it gets discounted? These are just risks that exist in any market. Do not confuse this issue just because some have decided to use them as mere vehicles for price speculation. People speculate on the price of eggs, oil and gold as well but that does not mean buying eggs for breakfast, fuel for your car or a gold necklace for your wife is “gambling”.
by lapcat | 2025-10-06 09:44:59+00:00
> As long as elections are still a thing over there, even if Trump gets a third term

I think you misunderstand. The Presidency is term-limited by the Constitution. Trump cannot run for a third term. The only way he remains in power after his second term is if the Constitution is abolished, in which case "continuing to wait it out" is futile. It would be equivalent to this:

> Trump declares himself king (or whatever other fancy word)
by simonask | 2025-10-06 09:45:04+00:00
Memory safety (as defined by Rust) actually goes a very long way to help with functional safety, mostly because in order to have a memory safe language, you need a number of additional language features that generally aid with correctness.

For example, lifetimes are necessary for memory safety in Rust, but you can use lifetimes much more generally to express things like "while this object exists, this other object is inaccessible", or "this thing is strictly read-only under these particular conditions". That's very useful.
by Sammi | 2025-10-06 09:45:35+00:00
This is why "follow you passion" is terrible career advise. If you make your passion your work then it stops being your "passion".

Much better career advise I've heard is: What kind you shit are you much better at suffering than other people around you seem to be?

Because work is work. There's a reason you get paid to do it. Sure it might be something that you are good at and care about, but if you need to work on it 8 hours a day, then you will inevitably start to feel the grind. This is why you get paid and go on vacations.
by DasIch | 2025-10-06 09:46:17+00:00
The current state wrt to nuclear in Germany reflects a decades long consensus in Germany that spans the majority of the population, scientists, intellectuals, politicians and even energy companies.

Any opposition you do hear on this from within Germany is usually opportunistic. People are against the Greens so they just take the opposite position on their policy. A good example of this is Markus Söder (CSU) who flip flopped on this multiple times.

Realistically speaking there is no serious politician or party with a pro-nuclear position in Germany that has a plausible plan for leveraging nuclear power at meaningful scale in an economical way. Any such plan would realistically invite massive opposition because nobody wants nuclear facilities in their vicinity.
by RhysU | 2025-10-06 09:46:48+00:00
I don't understand why you think a seatbelt or an airbag is a better analogy to a helmet than a helmet. Helmets are perfect analogies to helmets.

Motorcycle airbags exist, add safety, and are perfect analogies to car airbags.

Motorcycle seatbelts are possible, are a net loss to safety (because you're strapped to the outside of a giant mass then crushed), and are perfect analogies to car seatbelts.

My point stands: All drivers in all vehicles are safer when wearing a helmet. Yet, for motorized vehicles we only legally impose helmets on motorcycles. It's seen as ludicrous to suggest we mandate helmets for the others though it'd save lives, cut societal costs, etc. It's seen as so ludicrous that people immediately redirect the topic. Like I made a category error or inference mistake in suggesting it.
by matja | 2025-10-06 09:47:16+00:00
> No, our interposer only works on DDR4

Not surprising - even having 2 DDR5 DIMMs on the same channel compromises signal integrity enough to need to drop the frequency by ~30-40%, so perhaps the best mitigation at the moment is to ensure the host is using the fastest DDR5 available.

So - Is the host DRAM/DIMM technology and frequency included in the remote attestation report for the VM?
by pkt0x53 | 2025-10-06 09:49:33+00:00
Wintun acts as a Layer 3 virtual adapter that allows user-space applications such as VPN software to directly work with IP packets. It functions as a TUN interface, creating a virtual network adapter that provides direct access to network layer (IP) packets through simple file read and write operations. Much like a physical network card, it supports assigning IP addresses, configuring routes, and transmitting data. The key difference is that, unlike real hardware, all packet transmission and handling are managed entirely by user-defined programs in user space.
by ErneX | 2025-10-06 09:50:28+00:00
And over 82% of the copies sold were on PlayStation.

Seems MS bet on GamePass + all the publishers acquisitions moving lots of units of Xbox hardware but that simply did not happen, so now they pivoted to be the biggest 3rd party publisher and are releasing everything on all the other consoles, even their own original Xbox Studios games like Forza, Flight Simulator, Gears of War, etc.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-06 09:50:51+00:00
The push model is easier, all of the above three protect automated data exfiltratration pretty severely.

There are SO MANY bots on both Twitter and Instagram that a legit developer shouldn't have any issues automating posts.

Discord is a bit harder, you an post as a "bot" easily, but if you want the posts coming from your actual user, you need to poke the actual client.