MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-22 19:19:13+00:00
Microsoft solved this decades ago.

You download a specific tool which only has the purpose of collecting your local error reports and sending them to Microsoft". Later on that tool became just a button in your control panel that submitted all your local errors and told you if those errors had an already developed solution.

That's how they did all their error telemetry until like late XP era, and it worked just fine.

All the people insisting that they need* this telemetry is also horse shit. Companies are demonstrably not producing better and more bug fixed software, and demonstrably are not using that data to make serious improvements, but demonstrably ARE using that data to choose where to focus dark pattern and other sales funnel based efforts.

If Unity and Unreal and GPU drivers can ask me "Do you want to send this error report" with a default no, nobody else has any excuse.

Even now, a significant amount of companies use the system of "Please upload your error log and the output of this command to this forum" as their bug report solution and it works just fine if that company actually intends to fix bugs.

The solution is not to turn your software into spyware. Stop being entitled. You don't have a right for me to QA your software for you, that's your job. Even with all this telemetry, companies only fix the most common and most obvious bugs anyway, so the perfect telemetry is utterly useless. Those bugs would have surfaced anyway.

Developers in the 80s did not need telemetry to get bug reports and fix things and release patches. Learn some history of your profession people.

Has throwing a hundred thousand bugs onto your sprint backlog actually helped anyone develop better software? No. Meanwhile it has exposed all your customers and users to predatory bullshit from your marketing and sales departments, and enabled your worst product managers to optimize hostility and extraction.
by taeric | 2025-10-22 19:19:27+00:00
Google isn't making it easy to find the direct studies, but their silly AI summary at the top is pretty direct. "Yes, evidence suggests that trans fats can contribute to food allergies by activating mast cells, altering the gut microbiome, and promoting an inflammatory response."

You can argue that this is only in a mouse model. And fair, but evidence is still there that they can directly lead to food allergies.

Do we have direct causal links to children food allergies? No, but nor do we have direct causal evidence for early exposure. My prior is still that people are better at managing their dietary intake when the problem ingredient is literally removed from the ecosystem than when they are just advised to do better.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-22 19:19:50+00:00
An example of this.

I've seen a certain sensationalist news source write a story that went like this.

Site A: Bad thing is happening, cite: article Site B

* follow the source *

Site B: Bad thing is happening, cite different article on Site A

* follow the source *

Site A: Bad thing is happening, no citation.

I fear that's the current state of a large news bubble that many people subscribe to. And when these sensationalist stories start circulating there's a natural human tendency to exaggerate.

I don't think AI has any sort of real good defense to this sort of thing. 1 level of citation is already hard enough. Recognizing that it is citing the same source is hard enough.

There was another example from the Kagi news stuff which exemplified this. A whole article written which made 3 citations that were ultimately spawned from the same new briefing published by different outlets.

I've even seen an example of a national political leader who fell for the same sort of sensationalization. One who should have known better. They repeated what was later found to be a lie by a well-known liar but added that "I've seen the photos in a classified debriefing". IDK that it was necessarily even malicious, I think people are just really bad at separating credible from uncredible information and that it ultimately blends together as one thing (certainly doesn't help with ancient politicians).
by jdiff | 2025-10-22 19:20:01+00:00
Zen is an incredibly thin layer on top of Firefox, with some rather glaring performance and battery life issues. Battery life in particular was already not one of Firefox's strong suits. It looks nice, there's some interesting and useful ideas there, but Zen is ultimately "just Firefox" the same way that all of these AI browsers are "just Chromium." Ladybird's the only new kid on the block for a decade.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-10-22 19:20:13+00:00
That sure is a different thing that some people might prefer. It it not what this project prefers, and that's fine.

To give another example of what is impossible to perfectly detect but still reasonable to prohibit: most projects have a (written or unwritten) requirement of "don't copy code from other projects without respecting their license". There's no reliable way to perfectly detect that someone copied a pile of code from one of their company's proprietary projects, or from some Open Source project under a different license or without attribution. But it's still reasonable for projects to prohibit such "contributions".
by AIorNot | 2025-10-22 19:20:23+00:00
What I’ve found is that the nature of viral movements (bestselling books, pseudoscience claims, self help, programming movements, architectures, social media phenomena etc) is that the truth or proof for the underlying claim of the viral movement is not important only its widespread virality and ability to spread

Ie the idea has to be convincing enough to spread from person to person as a meme but also have enough armchair level depth to pass the bullshit filters of most reasonable people- ie popularity wins over truth

Most people do not have the intellectual curiosity or time to deeply verify these claims - but inevitably these fads die as they appear..

Clearly this is one example
by khazhoux | 2025-10-22 19:20:43+00:00
Everyone here ragging on Wang but I can never figure out how some people grow the balls to work themselves into such high positions. Like, if I met with Zuck, I think he’d be unimpressed and bored within 2 minutes. Yet this guy (and others like him) can convince Zuck to give him a few billion dollars.

There is a language these people speak, and some physical primate posturing they do, which my brain just can’t emulate.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-22 19:20:52+00:00
I think you're very, very confused.

> guywithahat [...] I'll be waiting for Scott Adams to tell me what to think about this

Scott Adams

Text adventure guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer)

Batshit cartoonist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

(also, for fun, a cartoon by Scott Aaronson and Zack Weinersmith: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3)
by Renaud | 2025-10-22 19:21:03+00:00
Chromium is highly dependent on Google’s interests. We see how they chose to implement Manifest V3 in a way that, through a strange coincidence(/s), neuters the capabilities of Ad Blocking extensions.

All downstream browsers are affected by Google’s bottom line. Putting lipstick and a few nice features on top of an engine that you don’t control doesn’t make your browser a true alternative from Google’s.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-10-22 19:21:26+00:00
> cpwd copies the current directory to the clipboard. Basically pwd | copy. I often use this when I’m in a directory and I want use that directory in another terminal tab; I copy it in one tab and cd to it in another. I use this once a day or so.

You can configure your shell to notify the terminal of directory changes, and then use your terminal’s “open new window” function (eg: ctrl+shift+n) to open a new window retaining the current directory.
by wk_end | 2025-10-22 19:21:49+00:00
As someone who loves git, has always thought the criticisms about its interface were overstated... but also feels like it maybe has too many incoherent ways of doing things, this is the best sales pitch I could've asked for (and I came to the comments to ask for a sales pitch). Thanks - I'll try jj out the next time I start a hobby project.
by kulahan | 2025-10-22 19:21:55+00:00
A touchscreen on a primarily-outdoor device makes no sense to me. It's just a single point of failure for fanciness. Transit safety should be taken more seriously, with controls you can operate by feel, rather than vision. It's not important if lots and lots of companies include this single point of failure.

Edit: also, don't capacitive screens kinda suck if they get a little wet? like what, you just can't use the screen controls while it's raining without risking unlocking your seat 40,000 times in a half second due to a stray raindrop sitting on the screen? Feels like resistive would explicitly be superior here. You probably don't need huge accuracy for what should ideally be a spacious display anyways.
by gs17 | 2025-10-22 19:22:01+00:00
It is, unless you take Musk's hype about Starship as fact. With rockets that are actually potentially available the best price is $1500/kg to LEO, so either they're presuming the whole setup weighs in at 3-4 tons (which is less than the shielding alone) or that they can get it launched for a few orders of magnitude less than what's on the market now (and they do say they assume $30/kg).
by dylan604 | 2025-10-22 19:22:22+00:00
We sent a gold plate with a bunch of data on it hurling through space on the off chance that a) it is ever found, b) it is found be intelligent beings, c) would figure out the little puzzles. In this case, the beacon would be the satellite itself even if its power has long since died and no longer emits any RF energy.

It's not actually sci-fi. They sent a message with Arecibo that was also encoded if not within a beacon signal. Just because it was a scifi plot does not mean its not something that could be done to good use. If humans wanted, we could send a similar beacon signal even if it's not pulses of all the primes between 1-101 with the same data from the gold plate.

At one point, flying like a bird was scifi. Traveling to the moon was scifi. Having a computer that fit in the palm of your hand was scifi. There's a lot of actual science that has been inspired from a scifi idea.
by cduzz | 2025-10-22 19:23:19+00:00
Right -- I think it's quite clear that if you're relying on the free minio you need to look elsewhere or peer up with some others and fork it.

And any adoption of a critical piece of software needs to have a risk calculus associated with it of "what if they get bought by CA, invaded by Russia and murdered, murder their wife and go to jail, or dedicate their remaining time on earth to writing haiku?"

Both open source software and commercially supported software have risks and mitigations. I'd argue that you're actually safer with open source software since you can pick up and keep running it, but that's not a trivial undertaking.
by jakub_g | 2025-10-22 19:23:24+00:00
The good thing is that a new player entering the arena allows a fresh look at certain problems, and some solutions then get backported to the OG project. I've read it already happened that jj inspired some changes in git.

Same happened e.g. with nodejs getting deno and bun around, which allowed to break nodejs' inertia on many problems that the others have solved.
by jamestimmins | 2025-10-22 19:23:30+00:00
I've been playing with the hypothesis that if information is controversial/surprising and targeted at laypeople, it is almost guaranteed to be misleading or outright false.

The only way to convincingly make the case for new information is with pretty rigorous technical arguments, which is fundamentally at odds with a lay audience. If someone has those rigorous technical arguments, they'd be making them in journals to a technical audience, and the results would slowly become consensus.

Obvi there are counter-examples, but as a general rule I think this is far more true than not. Which is why if you learn from Forbes that someone is close to cracking AGI, you can almost outright assume this is untrue.
by dxtrous | 2025-10-22 19:23:39+00:00
> Claims/Observations end with a QED-symbol

Author comment: as a fairly common convention, QED immediately after a particular statement means that the statement should be considered proven. Depending on the text, this may either be because the statement (Observation) is self-explanatory, or, the discussion in the text leading up to the statement is sufficient, or, whenever the final statement of a Theorem follows as a direct corollary of Lemmas previously proven in the text.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-22 19:23:44+00:00
It's technically a bit more than that. JJ is its own VCS, with pluggable backends. Google has a closed-source Piper backend, the git backend is the only real open source backend. But at high level, it's fine to think about it in that way, yeah. I tend to think about it as being more "able to work on git repos" than as a UI.
by pred_ | 2025-10-22 19:23:45+00:00
Normally, where I come from anyway, verifiability would refer to the ability to prove to a classical skeptic that the quantum device did what it's supposed to, cf. e.g. Mahadev (https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01082), Aaronson (https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06930), in a strong, theoretical, sense. And that's indeed relevant in the context of proving advantage, as the earlier RCS experiments lacked that ability, so “demonstrating verifiable quantum advantage” would be quite the step forward. That doesn't appear to be what they did at all though. Indeed, the paper appears to barely touch on verifiability at all. And – unlike the press release – it doesn't claim to achieve advantage either; only to indicate “a viable path towards” it.
by lawik | 2025-10-22 19:24:00+00:00
It seems to be RJ11 and they might be spec:ed slightly differently (thicker leads?) to power motors. I get the impression it is mainly to control what can be used in competitions.

This was what I found from skimming around: https://www.robotevents.com/V5RC/2018-2019/QA/35

I doubt it is Ethernet at all, so it wouldn't be Power-over-Ethernet. Just some useful connectors and wires making for an appropriate cable. Also seems like you can make your own perfectly fine. Or they might melt. I suppose try it.
by unwind | 2025-10-22 19:24:12+00:00
That science.org article at least manages to show an image of the ship, the OP covered the only (!) image with the headline, and then every time in the article when you thought an image was coming, it was ads.

Anyway, I know absolutely nothing about being on the bridge of such a ship, but can't help to think that it looks/feels "wrong" for a mariner not to be able to see the sky ahead, since there is a helicopter pad jutting out over the bridge. Oh well, I guess they can go to the side.
by janpio | 2025-10-22 19:24:24+00:00
> So basically I built a link tree which alerts people by text when new links are posted. These links are framed as tasks for my friends to complete, such as "like a tweet". If you complete tasks you earn points to get merch.

Wouldn't it make sense to add that information to the site itself? Without your comment here, I would have had no idea at all what this is about.
by labrador | 2025-10-22 19:24:41+00:00
I've been very impressed by the open source Ladybird project for several years now. I wasn't up to date and didn't realize it had 8 full time engineers working on it now with project leader Andreas Kling. This is truely more promising than "slapping things on Chromium" and competing with Google Chrome.

I didn't explicity state but was implying that a new plug in archeticture to the open source Chromium project might be an interesting way to add AI features in a more democratic fashion.

Either path still has to compete with what Google does with proprietary extensions to Chrome.

Edit to be clear: Since Chromium is open source, the community could actually collaborate on adding a shared AI plugin architecture to the core project rather than making competing forks. That would solve the fragmentation problem entirely.
by dh2022 | 2025-10-22 19:24:41+00:00
Re: "What is a productive way they can use LLMs in any of their flagship products today" - with LLMs users would not interact with other users and also users would not leave the platform.

Meta's actual mission is to keep people on the platform and to do what can be done so users do not leave the platform. I found out that from this perspective Meta's actions make more sense.
by mfrye0 | 2025-10-22 19:24:51+00:00
Since it's quiet here, figured I'd share what the API actually spits out. Here's MG Motor's ownership chain (this is just the Mermaid diagram field - we return a bunch of other stuff too):

graph TD e2[SAIC MOTOR UK HOLDING CO., LTD.]-->|2005-02-15|e1[MG MOTOR UK LTD] e1[MG MOTOR UK LTD]-->|2018|e7[MG Sales Centre Limited] e4[SAIC Motor Corporation Limited]-->e2[SAIC MOTOR UK HOLDING CO., LTD.] e4[SAIC Motor Corporation Limited]-->e3[SAIC MOTOR INTERNATIONAL UK LTD] e5[Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Group]-->|62.69%|e4[SAIC Motor Corporation Limited] e6[Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission Shanghai SASAC]-->e5[Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Group]

You can copy/paste that into any Mermaid renderer to see it visually. Pretty wild how a British car brand ends up tracing back to Shanghai's government.

Happy to run lookups for other companies if anyone's curious what their ownership looks like!
by knowaveragejoe | 2025-10-22 19:25:16+00:00
If I understand correctly, Claude Code will(shortly, if not already) make use of Anthropic's sandbox that wraps Seatbelt on OS X, not sandbox-exec?

It's cool that they made this open source. It seems straightforward and useful enough that it could be used on its own for sandboxing purposes.

https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/sandboxing

https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime
by Spunkie | 2025-10-22 19:25:33+00:00
I feel like Steam is the only legitimate option of the 4, the rest are walled gardens.

I would have been very excited about this Galaxy XR development a year ago but today I don't care to even scroll down the page. Google's recent Android bullshit(walled garden, killing roms) makes this a non-starter.

In fact I wonder if Android/Galaxy XR is secretly responsible for these horrible changes to stock android. No chance of a XR/real life adblocker ever becoming a thing if you can't install your own software and/or the largest advertiser in the world needs to OK it's existence.
by btown | 2025-10-22 19:25:35+00:00
I can just see the news story now:

"Oops, we got caught using our customers' internet connections as exit nodes for the largest residential proxy ever to exist, both on pages they visited and ones that they didn't. But don't worry, this was an unauthorized experimental rollout to only parts of the world that we don't have legal nexus in. The program has been halted, and the person responsible has been sacked. Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti..."
by gtowey | 2025-10-22 19:25:55+00:00
OpenAI marketing and hype feels like things we've seen before.

Just like Adam Neuman who was reinventing the concept of workspaces as a community.

Just like Elizabeth Holmns who was revolutionizing blood testing.

Just like SBF who pioneered a new model for altruistic capitalism.

And so many others.

Beware of prophets selling you on the idea that they alone can do something nobody has ever done before.
by sershe | 2025-10-22 19:26:08+00:00
Why is that person a problem? That is why rule of law exists, ideally, so that we don't run society on arbitrary outraged moral judgement. E.g. many people are morally outraged by presence of any illegal immigrants and others are outraged by any enforcement against undocumented immigrants. If we base decisions on arbitrary outraged moral judgement it's not going to go well.

A "loophole" is only a "loophole" to someone who agrees with yours. And I say it as someone who agrees in this particular instance.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-22 19:26:08+00:00
What is shorter hops in this sense to you? If you make some sort of weather balloon where the balloon never bursts, yes, they will travel very far. If you use a cheaper balloon that does burst, they don't travel down range very far in comparison. As I posted previously, depending on the balloon/parachute/payload, our little "experiment" went just over 100+ miles. That seems fairly acceptable. You could start 50 miles away from the border, and the recovery team would also be 50 miles away from the border. That's a pretty good buffer from any security teams working border crossings.
by leptons | 2025-10-22 19:26:12+00:00
The problems with us-east-1 have been apparent for a long time, many years. Once I started using us-east-1 long ago, and seeing the problems there, I moved everything to us-west-1 and stopped having those problems. EC2 instances were completely unreliable in us-east-1 (we were running hundreds to thousands at a time), not so in us-west-1. The error rates we were seeing were awful in us-east-1.

A negligible cost difference shouldn't matter when your apps are unstable due to the region being problematic.
by jlhawn | 2025-10-22 19:26:21+00:00
In the U.S., there are 3 classes of e-bike: Class 1: pedal-assist only up to 20mph (helmets optional for adults) Class 2: same as Class 1 but with optional throttle to 20mph Class 3: pedal-assist only up to 28mph (helmets required, adults only)

There's also a maximum power rating of 750 watts for all of these. I'm not sure where the "pedal by wire" feature is from a regulatory perspective, but to me this fits into either class 2 or 3 depending on what option you get.
by kulahan | 2025-10-22 19:26:32+00:00
Doesn't France have a fundamentally different legal system from the US and British versions? IIRC, USA etc. rely primarily on precedent for their legal systems. France, Germany, and others rely on written law specifically.

I imagine in the latter form, it's easier to get big boys in jail, because simply being defeated once doesn't weaken all future attempts. I could be completely misremembering though.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-22 19:26:33+00:00
There are ~130 million US households, so if each copy were bought by a unique household and all 3 million copies were sold in the US, that would mean ~97.5% of US households don't have a copy. Maybe there's some huge multiplier on borrowing from libraries? Personally I've never heard of it, but it seems like it's pretty far outside of my bubble of interests.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-22 19:26:41+00:00
I have a couple of mid-drive e-bikes (Bafang motors) with throttles. Throttled mid-drives let you get the best of both worlds: Great pedal assist combined with the ability to just be a scooter when you get tired. And I agree that mid-drive is the way to go if you want to ride on hills. If you commute in San Francisco for example, a hub drive e-bike will not help you much but a mid-drive will change your life.
Optimizing Qwen-Image-Edit to Generate 1.2M Images
by mathi0750 | 2025-10-22 19:27:09+00:00
We're building off past Qwen-Image-Edit Fine-Tune Fridays and pushing the limits for 1.2 million images. We'll showcase a real world example where we cut an inference budget for a customer by nearly $50k on just one of their runs using Baseten for compute. Here's the luma if you want to join the live stream: https://luma.com/fine-tuning-friday-10
by renewiltord | 2025-10-22 19:27:22+00:00
The traditional way of responding to this is the usual collective emulation of Struggle Sessions but I can easily come up with a couple of plausible answers for you:

* LLM translation is far better than any other kind of translation. Inter-language communication is obviously directly related to human connection.

* Diffusion models allow people to express themselves in new ways. People use image macros and image memes to communicate already.

In fact, I am disappointed that no one has the imagination to do this. I get it. You guys all want to cosplay as oppressed Marxist-Leninists having defoliants dropped on you by United Fruit Corporation. But you could at least try the mildest attempt at exercising your minds.