MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pixl97 | 2025-10-01 01:14:19+00:00
Run enough disks long enough and you'll find one that starts returning garbage while telling the OS everything is ok.

First time I had it happen was on a hardware raid device and a company lost 2 and a half days worth of data as any backups from when it started had bad data.

The next time I had it happen is using ZFS and we saw a flood of checksum errors and replaced the disk. Even after that SMART thought it was perfectly fine and you could send commands to it, you just got garbage back.
by avianlyric | 2025-10-01 01:14:34+00:00
It would be particularly absurd to think scummy companies wouldn’t track you if the requirement for consent wasn’t enshrined in law, and failure to comply with the law didn’t come with consequences.

But would you at that, this is a discussion started by a news article where one of the scummy companies is discovering what those consequences are. So something must be working.
by throwaway422432 | 2025-10-01 01:14:41+00:00
Our German Shepherd is as particular about her toys as her food.

She mainly likes squeaky plush toys, doesn't like rope toys at all. She also likes tennis balls which is a completely different game to the ones she plays with the plushies.

The smell factor might explain why she initially turns completely off a favourite toy after it goes through the wash.
by gpm | 2025-10-01 01:14:45+00:00
I claim that the M1 (macbook air) is fast. I also claim it's about half the speed of my similarly priced desktop of the same vintage for slow tasks that I care about.

So I guess we've caught up with the desktop now.

Actually I assume we caught up awhile ago if I used the beefy multi core MX-Ultra variants they released, really just the base model has caught up. On the other hand I could have spent four times as much for twice as many cores on my desktop as well.
by vient | 2025-10-01 01:15:02+00:00
I wonder if Windows and Linux just can't yet work on heterogeneous CPUs as well as macOS does. Intel chose an interesting direction here, going straight from one to three kinds of cores in one chip. I almost never see LPE cores being used on Windows, and on Linux you have obscure soft like Intel LPMD which I tried but was not able to notice any battery life improvements.
by rented_mule | 2025-10-01 01:15:03+00:00
Yes, this is exactly the kind of scenario I was alluding to.

For example, cohorts with very light traffic are likely to get undue benefit as a lot of exploration might be done before the smaller cohort needs to select an arm, so things are closer to convergence.

Another example is if there are wildly different outcomes between cohorts. More of the exploration will be done in cohorts with more traffic, leading bandit optimizations to fit large cohorts better than lower traffic cohorts.

Even if you do manage to make things independent, you have to wait for bandit convergence before you know what converged results will look like. That requires being able to measure convergence, which isn't always easy, especially if you don't know to do that before designing the system.

With all of these problems, we kept bandits, and even expanded their application. At least for the 10 years I was still around. They are incredibly powerful. But there was a lot of "I wish those damned bandits didn't work so well!"

For anyone who is not aware, A/B tests assume cohorts behave independently of each other. The less true that is, the less reliable the results are. This was even worse for us in parts of our system where there were no bandits, but there was direct interactions between individuals.
by minimaxir | 2025-10-01 01:15:25+00:00
This Sora 2 generation of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay managed to reproduce it extremely closely, which is baffling: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1973124528680345871

> How the FUCK does Sora 2 have such a perfect memory of this Cyberpunk side mission that it knows the map location, biome/terrain, vehicle design, voices, and even the name of the gang you're fighting for, all without being prompted for any of those specifics??

> Sora basically got two details wrong, which is that the Basilisk tank doesn't have wheels (it hovers) and Panam is inside the tank rather than on the turret. I suppose there's a fair amount of video tutorials for this mission scattered around the internet, but still––it's a SIDE mission!

Everyone already assumed that Sora was trained on YouTube, but "generate gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077 with the Basilisk Tank and Panam" would have generated incoherent slop in most other image/video models, not verbatim gameplay footage that is consistent.

For reference, this is what you get when you give the same prompt to Veo 3 Fast (trained by the company that owns YouTube): https://x.com/minimaxir/status/1973192357559542169
by chermi | 2025-10-01 01:15:31+00:00
No. Yes to the overhype, no to the "not really".

I don't see how better understanding non-linear systems and global dynamics can be not be considered useful. For starters, better control of nonlinear systems/keeping them from turning them chaotic is incredibly useful. So many hard problems can be approximately reduced to "keep this non-linear system stable." Staying in the "edge of chaos" regime has proven to be an optimal choice for a plethora of problems.
Dieter Rams' Ten Principles: Liquid Glass
by nntwozz | 2025-10-01 01:15:50+00:00
1 Good design is innovative

We added glassy effects because we were bored with flat design.

2 Good design makes a product useful

We decreased legibility so that you can enjoy the blurred backgrounds instead.

3 Good design is aesthetic

We made it look elegant half of the time, the other half we made it look rushed and unfinished.

4 Good design makes a product understandable

You don't need to understand, you just need to squint.

5 Good design is unobtrusive

Look, if you don't like it you can just turn it off… kinda.

6 Good design is honest

Nothing says honest like 100% transparency, right?

7 Good design is long-lasting

Yeah, well… remember Marble (Snow Leopard)? Those were the days…

8 Good design is thorough down to the last detail

We made the toggle switch longer, that is something only Apple can do.

9 Good design is environmentally-friendly

Tim said not to tell mother Nature about the extra power draw of all the extra effects!

10 Good design is as little design as possible

Well we kinda fudged this one, but hey 9 out of 10 ain't bad!?
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-01 01:17:05+00:00
Yes, that's a good point and one I admittedly missed when looking through the submission. Looking further at the discussion I think the timing constraints on the swap are too tight on real-life hardware for manual swapping to be feasible, unfortunately :( From what I think are initial console verification attempts:

> With a cart that sets RAM to the initial state, I can get to the 'N' worlds about 1/4 times on console, but then it crashes at Bowser. I imagine I need a more sophisticating swapping technique then manually to get it to work. The probability of none of the bits decaying away in the time it takes me to swap is probably very low.
by scrollaway | 2025-10-01 01:18:02+00:00
Thanks for your invaluable contribution. I can’t speak to what this other person has built with AI but on my side I’ve built two live startups with AI so far and working on more (I lead a venture studio doing exactly this).

If you’re actually curious (instead of just trolling or pretending everyone who’s using ai to code is having mass hallucinations), you can join my talk at Google Brussels next week. Sign up here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-be...
by slg | 2025-10-01 01:19:25+00:00
>Perhaps this is my own bias, but something could be incredibly technically proficient or realistic and I could find it utterly uninteresting. This is because the interesting part is in what is unique about the perspective of the people creating it and ideas they want to express, in relation to their own viewpoint and background.

I completely agree. And now that you mention this, I realize I didn't even point to the most obvious and famous examples of this sort of thing with artists like Picasso and Van Gogh.

If someone criticizes Picasso's or Van Gogh's lack of realism, they are completely missing the point of their work. They easily could have and occasional did go for a more photorealistic look, but that isn't what made them important artists. What set them apart was the ways they eschewed photorealism in order to communicate something deeper.

Similarly, creating art in their individual styles isn't interesting because it shifts the primary goal from communication to emulation. That is all AI art really is, attempts at imitation, and imitation without iteration just isn't interesting from an artistic or storytelling perspective.
by davidmurdoch | 2025-10-01 01:20:22+00:00
I just asked GPT 5 to generate an image of as person. I then asked it to charge the color of their shirt. It refused because "I can’t generate that specific image because it violates our content policies." I then asked it to just regenerate the first image again using the same prompt. It replied "I know this has been frustrating. You’ve been really clear about what you want, and it feels like I’m blocking you for no reason. What’s happening on my side is that the image tool I was using to make the pictures you liked has been disabled, so even if I write the prompt exactly the way you want, I can’t actually send it off to generate a new image right now."

If I start a new chat it works.

I'm a Plus subscriber and didn't hit rate limits.

This video gen tool will probably be even more useless.
by NSPG911 | 2025-10-01 01:21:14+00:00
was using it for a month, cool concept, it borrows stuff from alacritty for the base, added iterm2 inline images protocol, kitty image protocol soon but there are quite a lot of issues, mainly just really weird ones 1. splits dont feel like splits. unlike in something like wezterm or ghostty, rio uses a literal black line for splits, which cannot be controlled. it doesnt properly resize splits, which you can notice if you have like 4 splits active 2. tabs inherit from the previous tab's zoomed in height and width https://github.com/raphamorim/rio/issues/1196 3. blur doesnt work on window (not that big of an issue anyways) https://github.com/raphamorim/rio/issues/1174 4. some characters are broken (no clue how this happens) https://github.com/raphamorim/rio/issues/1192 5. has issues with iterm2 while using yazi its a cool concept like i previously said, but it needs a lot of tweaking
by vunderba | 2025-10-01 01:21:22+00:00
> subtitles can work but it's basically a second language

That argument applies just as equally to sign language - most countries have their own idiosyncratic sign language. (ASL, LSE, etc.). Any televised event that has interpreters will be using the national language version.

The closest thing you're thinking of is IS - International Sign but its much more limited in terms of expression and not every deaf person knows it.

> there's not really a widely accepted written form of sign language.

Because it makes no sense to have it unless there was a regional deaf community that was fluent in sign language and also simultaneously illiterate.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/6t7k1w/h...
by alhdliox | 2025-10-01 01:22:50+00:00
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by avianlyric | 2025-10-01 01:22:56+00:00
> What about I sell advertising packages to a US company from my US HQ but someone in the UK views and advert on my site and therefore generates me 0.001¢ - debatable.

Not entirely sure what is debatable about this situation. You quite unambiguously derived revenue from a UK citizen here, although not much. If you didn’t want that revenue, then don’t display ads in the UK. If that makes serving traffic to the UK uneconomical, then don’t serve traffic to the UK, problem solved.

In practical terms, nobody’s give a crap about you making a couple of dollars here and there incidentally from UK citizens. It quite another matter when your business is clearly dependent on deriving revenue from UK citizens, and you take zero steps to try and comply with UK law.

It’s pretty simple, if you want the revenue, the you have to follow the law of the countries your deriving that revenue from. Don’t want to follow the law, then simply don’t try and derive revenue from putting adverts in front of citizens from that country, or by collecting and selling their data.
by elil17 | 2025-10-01 01:23:37+00:00
I'm urgently trying to learn a language and I've done a lot of research on this. There's no one hack, but here are my top three: - Anki - Focus on producing speech over everything else, it's the hardest part 90% of the time. Practice production enough and everything else will follow. - Work on your accent much earlier than you think you should. If your accent is better than it should be, native speakers will naturally push you to the limits of your abilities when you talk to them.

There's not really strong evidence to support "comprehensible input," but it may work well for some people. However, it severely under-trains speech production. You must combine it with speech practice if you are going to make it work.

Highly recommend Language Jones on YouTube, great resource for language study best practices.
by topspin | 2025-10-01 01:24:29+00:00
Of those approaches mentioned, RTIC is the one I find most interesting. It's worth investigating whether you're dealing with RTOS problems or not. It's not actually an RTOS the conventional sense, but a concurrency framework that repurposes the Cortex-M NVIC as a highly efficient hardware accelerated scheduler, with compile time guaranteed deadlock-free operation in Rust.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-01 01:25:27+00:00
I don’t disagree with your general idea, that companies will ban customers if they aren’t profitable. But these seem like sort of different examples…

> All-you-can-eat restaurants will ban customers who eat/take absurd amounts of food, which is unprofitable.

I like this example. It is simply not wanting to make a deal with the person. It seems pretty close to the betting situation.

> Landlords don't rent to prospective tenants who have a history of not paying rent, which is unprofitable.

This is different because the renter is specifically reneging on their side of the contract. It isn’t a matter of not wanting to do business with them because the deal has bad terms, but because the landlord has good reason to suspect they’ll actually be ripped off instead.

> Every major retailer will ban you if you return too many items too often, which is unprofitable.

This… I dunno. Making too many returns is not necessarily illegitimate or anything (somebody could just get unlucky and end up with a lot of bad products). But, it is a bad vibe, it feels like maybe the person is running some kind of scam or fraud that you just haven’t worked out the details of.

——

Another example we could add: if you have a some pickup or beer-league sports and for some reason a professional player shows up, and starts playing really competitively and flattening all the other players, you might ask them to not come back, simply to maintain a reasonable competitive landscape for everybody.
by willis936 | 2025-10-01 01:25:47+00:00
Yes, it has. Marcan left Asahi and Linux after the DMA maintainer rejected their patch on non-technical grounds and labeled Rust as cancer for maintainers. So Linus supports Rust in the kernel, Rust patches come in, some maintainers reject them, there is no guidance on where or how Rust will or will not be accepted. Just do a bunch of free work and roll the gatekeeping dice. Very healthy and not abusive.
by AlphaAndOmega0 | 2025-10-01 01:26:17+00:00
1. I do know what to do with it. I take notes, a lot, in my work as a doctor. That's been the case since I owned an iPad Air from 2020, which I replaced with an 11 inch M1 iPad Pro (which broke), and I finally caved and bought a 13" iPad Pro to replace it. I ended up getting the M4 model because there just didn't seem to be older ones reasonably available. Even the M1 was more than fast enough for the overwhelming majority of iPadOS applicantions.

Why an iPad? Android tablets have been... not great for a long time. The pencil is very handy, and the ecosystem has the best apps. Also, I know a few rather handy tricks Safari can do, such as exporting entire webpages as PDF after a full-screen screenshot, that are very useful to my workflow.

2. I already own multiple general purpose computers. They're not as convenient as an iPad. My ridiculously powerful PC or even my decent laptop doesn't allow the same workflow. However, that's not an intentional software limitation, it's a consequence of their form factor, so I can't hold Microsoft to blame. On the other hand,Apple could easily make an iPad equivalent to a MacBook by getting out of the way.

3. The inability/difficulty of side-loading apps, the restriction to a locked down store. Refusing to make an interface that would allow for laptop-equivalent usage with an external/Bluetooth m+k. You can use an external monitor, but a 13" screen should already be perfectly good if window management and M+K usage wasn't subpar. Macs and iPads have near identical chips (the differences between an M chip for either are minor), and just being able to run MacOs apps on device would be very handy. Apple has allowed for developer opt-out emulation of iOS and iPadOS apps on Mac for a while now, why not the other way around?

If not obvious from the fact that I'm commenting on HN, I would gain utility from terminal access, the ability to compile and run apps on device, a better filesystem etc. Apple doesn't allow x86 emulators, nor can I just install Proton or Wine. If I can't side-load on a whim, it's not a general purpose computer. I can't use a browser that isn't just reskinned Safari, which rules out a great deal of obvious utility. There are a whole host of possible classes of apps, such as a torrent manager, which are allowed on other platforms but not on iPadOS. It's bullshit.

My pc and laptop simply aren't as convenient for the things I need an iPad for, and they can't be. On the other hand, my iPad could easily do many things I rely on a PC for, if Apple would get out of the way. iPadOS 26 is a step in the right direction, but there's dozens left to go.
by mystraline | 2025-10-01 01:27:08+00:00
But go where? And if I enter irregularly (illegally cross), and request asylum, what then?

I likely won't know the language. I can't legally work. I'm now an "illegal alien", and people everywhere hate them (USA isn't special in that hate).

I could try English speaking countries? Canada is not encouraging, given the 51st state threats. England, again, not at all welcoming. Iceland is suffering badly with a whole bunch of things.

I dont know about Australia or New Zealand.

The USA is also very big. Lot of places to hide.
by kimos | 2025-10-01 01:27:35+00:00
There is no way. Shopify is trying to be part of the Ruby community, because it knows if it becomes the community or bypasses the community, then the community are dead.

I think what is most likely is that Shopify is trying to achieve some security goals in rubygems through Ruby Central. That they put a deadline on funding based on some security guarantees.

Shopify knows they are a high value target. I bet they thought they could muscle for whatever they want using funding money, and didn’t anticipate the mishandling and then blowback.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-01 01:27:40+00:00
> Yes but with AI, in principle, there is more wriggle room to present a spectrum of opinions on a single topic.

I mean, this sounds impartial but isn't. If you have an article on the planet Earth and present a spectrum of opinions on whether it's round or flat, you're not being balanced; you're implicitly supporting flat-Earthers and their trollish beliefs by taking them seriously.

This has countless parallels in political discourse. Trade flat-Earthers for (actual) neo-Nazis; it's probably not a "spectrum of opinions" you want to broadcast without passing any judgment. It's not the role of an encyclopedia to be a free speech platform.

I'm not really saying this to defend political articles on Wikipedia. It's just that I don't think you fix it by taking an LLM trained on Wikipedia, and telling it to regenerate the articles "without bias".
by gyomu | 2025-10-01 01:28:08+00:00
> This is not the final target

The final target of these "world models" on a 20 year horizon is entirely unmanned factories taking over the economy, and swarm of drones and robots fighting wars and policing citizens.

This is why hundreds of billions are poured into these things, cute Ghibli style videos and vacuum robots wouldn't be worth this much money otherwise.
by svieira | 2025-10-01 01:28:29+00:00
`s/reactionary//` and you'd be right in your second sentence. It doesn't matter if it's action or reaction, people with strong beliefs, strongly held tend to be holding them because of some core set of ethical or moral principles and those things eventually are revealed in the day-to-day work.

As to your first - if people with a strong set of ethical and moral principles "just shut up" about what they considered ethical and moral essentials ... then they wouldn't be who they are. The only people who don't show what they hold good are people who don't hold as good much of anything.

Now if we're just talking "opinions" here (about things that are not ethical and moral, merely matters of taste), then yes, a person with "strong beliefs strongly held as a universal principle" is someone who is just an ass. But if I know someone is a raving Detroit Lions fan "on the internet", what kind of a person am I if I can't work with them?
by ropable | 2025-10-01 01:28:42+00:00
I am extremely skeptical about the need for this kind of shotgun "health marker" blood panel test. Even granting the premise that whatever ML algorithm they use to interpret the results is at all accurate, the upshot is unlikely to change the general recommendations regarding heart disease anyway (control blood pressure, stop smoking, manage diabetes or pre-diabetes, maintain a healthy diet and meet the physical activity guidelines).

If I'm being extra charitable, this kind of test might show up an elevated Lp(a) level, which is a risk factor. At which point you would want to consult a qualified physician, not rely on a single blood test interpreted by an algorithm.
by rented_mule | 2025-10-01 01:28:50+00:00
Agreed. In the case I was describing above, new arms were constantly being introduced (often several times a day for each of hundreds of thousands of scenarios). Manual experiments weren't an option. This also meant we were in a constant state of partial convergence for most scenarios, but the same would be true with experiments.

How to cull arms, so that there are enough samples for any kind of convergence, is another problem in this setup. We eventually built an ML model to select arms and used bandits to pick between them. This proved "too effective". The arms were all user-generated content. The bandits on top of the model, both setup to maximize clicks was stupidly good at surfacing inappropriate content because it got a lot of clicks. We ended up having to put more safeties on arm selection for certain categories of our content where we had the most inappropriate submissions.