MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vessenes | 2025-10-28 20:33:02+00:00
It can be tiring - and I don’t do it all the time. The reason to travel at all for work is fundamentally relational; I find if I am happy with the relationships the travel on balance is a net positive: it lets me work on what I want to and meet and befriend super interesting people.

That slight difference in agency and relational availability turns into a giant gap in feelings though, I agree. I’ve done the kind of travel you describe in my younger days and found it a mix of masochistically engaging and depression inducing.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-28 20:33:05+00:00
Companies rarely answer "Eligible for rehire" or "Departed in Good Standing" because that's lawsuit bait, at least in the United States. Companies don't answer questions about your employment because companies have gotten sued and lost unless they have clear evidence.

Worrying about company asking "Good standing" is like when Elementary Teacher talking about your permanent record. It does not exist.
by kragen | 2025-10-28 20:33:13+00:00
Debian has had a "first party store" since the early 90s, and the truth is the diametrical opposite of "they're sufficiently unpopular that people don't think of them as the primary source to get apps". It's been almost the only way I install software (that I didn't write) on my Debian and Ubuntu machines since I moved to Debian. This is true of most Debian and Ubuntu users.
by misterdata | 2025-10-28 20:33:19+00:00
You are most likely in France: your government does not allow publishing an app containing cryptography (in this case, Golang's crypto implementations and a package used by Syncthing - only using iOS libs should be fine) without authorization (which can only be obtained through French forms, at which point I'd want a French lawyer to be involved, so no).

You could of course build the app yourself from source.
by sealeck | 2025-10-28 20:33:20+00:00
> Startups belong to the latter.

Except that Apple, Intel, Tesla, etc have all received US government investment [1]. TSMC is a product of the Taiwanese state! Government investment can be done well, and seeds excellent companies.

[1]: https://www.sba.gov/blog/2024/2024-02/white-house-sba-announ...
by FreeGuessr | 2025-10-28 20:33:21+00:00
The entire site is a result of me building different tools for geography guessing game, GuessWhereYouAre.com. At first, I needed them for myself (parsing JSONs, working a lot with Leaflet maps and Turf). Then I added some of them to the guide page in the game, and later I thought — why not create a dedicated site, polish the experience, and make them available as simple geography tools for people like me?

I’m not sure how useful they might be for professionals who use ESRI or QGIS, but I know I needed tools like that for the game’s development and couldn’t find anything easy to use and simple — at least not all in one place.

So technically, this site is a result of another project.
by entaloneralie | 2025-10-28 20:33:24+00:00
For sure, here are the registers used for each fraction:

comp h^2 > comp H^2 comp h c > done H comp > done c^2 done H^2 > done h^3 done H > comp done > comp Accumulator: comp h^8

The first two does the comparison for odd/even, the h register is moved to the H register during the comparison, then done does H += H>>2, and then keep trying.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/fractran.html
by snug | 2025-10-28 20:33:28+00:00
I've been able to get this same issue when I am laying in bed and lay on my side where my APP rub against the pillow. I've been able to reliably make the screeching sound by putting one airpod in my hand and tumbling it around or opening and closing my hands.

I still love my APP3, and still have my APP2, but have not made a change back to them. I think they feel so much better in my hear with the new tips, and sound way better.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-10-28 20:33:33+00:00
> There have to be rules & regulations for how personal data is stored.

Totally agreed.

> There MUST be consequences for data breaches.

Even if you're following those rules and regulations? I think the general idea of malpractice applies here. People do their best, but you can't prevent every unknown. So as long as you're not a complete idiot or acting in bad faith, it's not your fault. Punishing people for a bad actor's actions wouldn't do anything but make it even harder to enter a market.

Preventing data breaches is a lost cause. For one, most everyone's PII is already on the net. Plugging that hole is like patching the Titanic. We're already sunk. What we need is a way to prevent identity theft. Possibly a way to help people more easily recover from it as well. The US has the FDIC in case a bank implodes. We need something like that, but for all my accounts when some guy in Russia takes out five mortgages on my property.

Or, we need to radically rethink PII. We're still using ink signatures on paper to sign for contracts for Pete's sake. I should have to crytographically sign a house mortgage, not make some hand drawn glyph that nobody can read and anybody could fake. Of course, that comes with other problems such as Big Brother having more data about me, but this reply is long enough.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-28 20:33:48+00:00
> and "installing" doesn't work because that doesn't distinguish from installing from the Play Store

I'm not choosing sides, but why do you need a term to distinguish from installing from the Play Store? On my Debian machine I install git from apt (officially supported) but also install Anki from a tarball I downloaded from a website. Same term `install`.
by user2342ca | 2025-10-28 20:34:08+00:00
What If a Machine Could Truly Think?

Not just respond — but see its own thoughts, detect contradictions, and reflect on meaning, like a human mind.

This blueprint outlines the first publicly disclosed AGI architecture designed around:

Visual Thought Simulation Meta-Cognitive Feedback Loops Mnemonic Symbolic Memory Self-Awareness via Contradiction Resolution

Now Available: The 424-page final blueprint is a major upgrade to the original — with:

▶ Full contradiction engine with symbolic reconciliation ▶ Episodic memory with identity tracking ▶ Emotion simulation via symbolic metaphors ▶ Multi-AGI society modeling & dream-loop scene sharing
by zurfer | 2025-10-28 20:34:21+00:00
Well, I can't comment much on Genie, but the core question is always how you scale the complexity.

In Dot, it's divide and conquer. If you have several different teams each of them has to maintain their knowledge base.

A bunch of our customer have less than 10 tables hooked up to Dot, but this data is core to their business and so the analytics agent is really useful. Our most complex setup is on more than 5000 tables, but that was a lot more work to lay out the structure and guidelines.

Also, I don't think all organization are ready for AI. If the data model is a huge mess, data quality is poor and analytics use cases are not mature, it's better to focus on the fundamentals first.
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 20:34:36+00:00
Life expectancy tells you basically nothing about the quality of health care in the US. It's dominated by car accidents, homicide, and then CVD --- but CVD varies dramatically across the United States (from states in the south with drastically worse CVD outcomes to states in the north with outcomes on par with the Nordics) despite the same health care structure across all those states.
by Retric | 2025-10-28 20:34:58+00:00
Some classes of bugs need specific tests to find, but I can catch a spelling error without specifically looking for a spelling error.

Similarly, bugs often crop up because of interactions which aren’t obvious at the time. Thus the reason a test is failing can be wildly different than the intended use case of a test. Perhaps the test failed because the continuous integration environment has some bad RAM, you’ll need to investigate to discover why a test fails.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-28 20:35:05+00:00
The main things that help me know a friendship is close are: I’m sad when I don’t see them, but not worried that we’re drifting apart.

I dunno. It isn’t well defined I think. We come with built-in accelerators for social interactions, right? It runs some weird proprietary language I guess, the rest of my brain can’t make heads or tails of it.
by butlike | 2025-10-28 20:35:11+00:00
What are you talking about? I can grow food myself, and I can build a car from scratch and take it on the highway. Are there repercussions? Sure, but nothing inherently stops me from doing it.

The problem here is there's no measurable "win condition" for when a person gets good information that helps them. They remain alive, which was their previous state. This is hard to measure. Now, should people be able to google their symptoms and try and help themselves? This dovetails into a deeper philosophical discussion, but I'm not entirely convinced "seek professional help" is ALWAYS the answer. ALWAYS and NEVER are _very_ long timeframes, and we should be careful when using them.
by barrell | 2025-10-28 20:35:13+00:00
I recently discovered Maltese existed, and started learning it that day. I find it such an awesome language, and not just because of the letter Ħ

I do wonder what natives think and feel about the longevity of their language? What is taught in schools at what ages (assuming English is in the mix somewhere). Is there enough media in Maltese for Malti to go about the moderns at fully in Maltese? It’s shockingly hard to find any information on Maltese, and even harder to find content.

I’m not sure if’s dying out, or in danger thereof; if there are preservation efforts, or if there is no need.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-28 20:35:14+00:00
ISRG (Let's Encrypt's parent entity) wrote Certbot, initially under the name "letsencrypt" but it was quickly renamed to be less confusing, and re-homed to the EFF rather than ISRG itself.

So, what you've said is true today, but historically Certbot's origin is tied to Let's Encrypt, which makes sense because initially ACME isn't a standard protocol, it's designed to become a standard protocol but it is still under development and the only practical server implementations are both developed by ISRG / Let's Encrypt. RFC 8555 took years.
by OGWhales | 2025-10-28 20:35:32+00:00
> 100% agree with the required update to 26, I was hugely bummed when I discovered I had to update my devices to pair them.

Interesting, I had no issue pairing despite not being on iOS 26. The only things I noticed was that they didn't show up in the Find My app (which is pretty bad) and that I didn't get the shortcut to the airpods settings on the main setting page and had to go through the bluetooth menu instead, otherwise I could pair and do everything I normally did. Tbh, I didn't even notice an issue until I read online about the two things I mentioned...
by KalMann | 2025-10-28 20:35:32+00:00
I think the issue is related to notion of a "direct" proof vs "proof by contradiction". What I gave was a proof by contradiction. Once you start thinking about the philosophy of proofs it, it's an interesting question to ask whether or not proofs by contradiction should really count. I don't know much about this but you can search up the term "Law of the excluded middle" is a good place to start reading about these concepts.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-28 20:35:59+00:00
Passkeys do protect you from such mistakes in a way the current implementation of the browsers/password managers/web-specs don't.

But that is after 10s of millions of dollars or more have been poured into the development of passkeys, resulting in new standard specifications, diverse implementations of password managers, etc.

Now, imagine the counterfactual world where those same dollars were devoted to improving the password infrastructure. Could we have forced the average person to always password managers with long randomized passwords? Could we have build better webspecs around password entry workflows, and forced websites to fix the issues you face? I think the answer is yes.

Against this counterfactual world, passkeys are not in practice much better.
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-28 20:36:19+00:00
You're confusing a few terms. There's latency (time to begin action), and speed (time to complete after beginning).

Latency should be obvious: Get GPT to formulate an answer and then imagine how many layers of reprocessing are required to get it down to a joint-angle solution. Maybe they are shortcutting with end-to-end networks, but...

That brings us to slowness. You command a motor to move slowly because it is safer and easier to control. Less flexing, less inertia, etc. Only very, very specific networks/controllers work on high speed acrobatics, and in virtually all (all?) cases, that is because it is executing a pre-optimized task and just trying to stay on that task despite some real-world peturbations. Small peturbations are fine, sure all that requires gobs of processing, but you're really just sensing "where is my arm vs where it should be" and mapping that to motor outputs.

Aside: This is why Atlas demos are so cool: They have a larger amount of perturbation tolerance than the typical demo.

Where things really slow down is in planning. It's tremendously hard to come up with that desired path for your limbs. That adds enormous latency. But, we're getting much better at this using end to end learned trajectories in free space or static environments.

But don't get me started on reacting and replanning. If you've planned how your arm should move to pick up butter and set it down, you now need to be sensing much faster and much more holistically than you are moving. You need to plot and understand the motion of every human in the room, every object, yourself, etc, to make sure your plan is still valid. Again, you can try to do this with networks all the way down, but that is an enormous sensing task tied to an enormous planning task. So, you go slowly so that your body doesn't change much w.r.t. the environment.

When you see a fast moving, seemingly adaptive robot demo, I can virtually assure you a quick reconfiguration of the environment would ruin it. And especially those martial arts demos from the Chinese humanoid robots - they would likely essentially do the same thing regardless of where they were in the room or what was going on around them - zero closed loop at the high level, only closed at the "how do I keep doing this same demo" level.

Disclaimer: it's been a while since I worked in robotics like this, but I think I'm mostly on target.
by al_borland | 2025-10-28 20:36:22+00:00
I’m currently getting allergy shots. This is my 3rd attempt. Throughout my life I’ve gotten shots for about 12 years now. The last guy said they were better than I was kid and basically a cure now. 6 years later, and on the strongest dosage they’d give, getting 3 shots with each appointment… and I was never able to spend time outside without worry of what would follow.

There has been minor improvement in controlled testing, but no noticeable benefit when actually trying to live life. I go outside near nature once each year as a test to see if there was any progress. I can’t tolerate much more than that.

Shots work well for some. They worked decently well when I was a kid, but these days, not so much. I still hope the current ones will work, as I don’t have other options, but I’m beginning to lose hope.
by mindslight | 2025-10-28 20:36:42+00:00
Note that another word that straightforwardly describes this behavior is "fraud". Medical bills aren't like a bill from a car mechanic where there is a contract (either written or at least implied because the mechanic will readily give you estimates and quotes).

In the medical context, the only contract in the picture is possibly between the medical provider and the healthcare management organization. It would be fine if providers only sent the fake bills to them as they're both willingly playing this perverse game.

But the problem is when they send their fake numbers to patients as if they're some kind of legitimate bill. Medical bills to patients are presented on a "cost reimbursement" basis - helping you cost them this much, so you are responsible for reimbursing them. By inflating the numbers 3-5x they are straight up lying about the costs they incurred. That's fraud.
by kragen | 2025-10-28 20:36:48+00:00
Yes, but the compromise didn't have to be an industrywide conspiracy with penalties for manufacturing light bulbs that were too long-lasting and inefficient. But it was. Consumers could have freely chosen short-lived high-efficiency bulbs or long-lived low-efficiency ones.

In fact, they could have chosen the latter just by wiring two lightbulb sockets in series, or in later years putting one on a dimmer.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-28 20:36:50+00:00
Companies don't have to answer any questions about your employment, they are just nice about it.

Whose decision could reveal something about employee and if employee thinks it's bullshit, that's defamation lawsuit possibility. I even know companies who bosses talk good about people they have fired because having ex-employee stew is not good. Get them a new job and move on.
by ge96 | 2025-10-28 20:36:56+00:00
Tangent about open source development

As a person that tried the Pine64 ecosystem and not being able to will drivers/C++ apps into existence (like I can with web/cross platform), I did not contribute much other than buying the device/doing some videos on YT. (I bought: PP, PPP, PineBook, PineNote, PineTab)

It depended on few people working on it eg. through Discord communities

Anyway point is I saw Expensify I think they have these GitHub PRs which have $ values on them, would be interesting to take that approach, just pay for it literally eg. a GoFundMe for a feature.

ex. https://github.com/Expensify/App/issues/73681
by arwhatever | 2025-10-28 20:37:00+00:00
Perennial “What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)” from days of HN past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777745

And which today must be read via internet archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20200404172130/https://likewise....

Basically explaining to Armenians at home why their relatives who moved to America don’t send better remittances back home despite their $X pay rate. Here’s why …
by amarant | 2025-10-28 20:37:17+00:00
>3) LLMs do not have a mechanism for sampling from given probability distributions. E.g. if you ask LLM to sample a random number from 1 to 10, it will likely give you 3 or 7, as those are overrepresented in the training data.

I went and tested this, and asked chat gpt for a random number between 1 and 10, 4 times.

It gave me 7,3,9,2.

Both of the numbers you suggested as more likely came as the first 2 numbers. Seems you are correct!
by saltcured | 2025-10-28 20:37:17+00:00
Back in the day, optimizing this would be about parallel IO and some map-reduce processing. Data sharded on a bunch of nodes, each effectively doing "sort | uniq -c" and then doing a merge of those sorted counts.

And then there would be countless arguments about whether you have to count the time it takes to stage the data into the cluster as part of the task completion benchmark...
by xondono | 2025-10-28 20:37:26+00:00
I’m honestly very tired of this argument, everything about it is bad.

Features aren’t rights, if you want a phone that let’s you run whatever you want, buy one or make it yourself.

What you’re trying is to use the force of the state to make mandatory a feature that not only 99% users won’t use, it vastly increases the attack surface for most of them, specially the most vulnerable.

If anyone were trying to create a word that gives a “deviant” feel, they wouldn’t use “sideload”, and most people haven’t even heard the term. There’s a world of difference between words like “pirate”, “crack”, “hack” and “sideload”.

If anything I’d say it’s too nice of a term, since it easily hides for normies the fact that what you’re doing is loading untrusted code, and it’s your responsibility to audit it’s origin or contents (something even lot’s of devs don’t do).

If you want to reverse engineer your devices, all the power to you, but you don’t get to decide how others people’s devices work.
by camel-cdr | 2025-10-28 20:37:44+00:00
msws32() from the paper is the exact code I wrote above. The "s = 0xb5ad4eceda1ce2a9" is not part of the state, it's the CONSTANT.

I've tested msws32 it passes TestU01s BigCrush and didn't fail in >=1 TB of PractRand (I stopped after that). A scaled down msws16 fails PractRand after 2 GB, a msws24() variant passes >=256 GB (I stopped after that).

It's certainly not as good as more state of the art PRNGs like PCG, xoshiro, romu, sfc64, tylo64, but it is very simple and has quite high quality output, much better than any similarly simple to construct PRNG I know of.
by nomel | 2025-10-28 20:38:09+00:00
Hardware acceleration [1]:

> One of the key reasons why Rosetta 2 provides such a high level of translation efficiency is the support of x86-64 memory ordering in the M1 SoC. The SoC also has dedicated instructions for computing x86 flags.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
by ROSEDOLA | 2025-10-28 20:38:31+00:00
Try to sell non-german UI, etc. into the public market… Then you‘ll realize the importance of support for different languages. Honestly, it was surprising how good it worked. But never forget to do your homework first… Or prepare to fail! We tested against several database schemas, but all were well designed. That’s why we stated to achieve reasonable good results. Bad database design and the entire translation process will be anything but acceptable. Utilize all your database offers for commenting or good naming of db objects…
Tell HN: Posteo.de email provider is down
by npteljes | 2025-10-28 20:38:43+00:00
Posteo.de email service, and every webservice associated with the domain, website, blog etc are all down, for a few hours now. https://posteo-status.de/ shows that there are currently no problems, which is of course not true. It has been a long time since I saw an honest status page, but it still hurts. They have no other presence on the internet as far as I know, so there are no news.

Frankly, I am debating alternatives, even though I have been happy with them for years. It is just scary to be without email, and communication at the same time. People who don't use Google, what do you use? Is it ever down?
by mmooss | 2025-10-28 20:38:44+00:00
How do you see the WSJ as not biased, when it's owned by Murdoch, who openly interferes in and biases Fox News, as has been demonstrated numerous times including in massive losses in court.

Do you think Murdoch wouldn't do that at the WSJ?

With that signal and the editorial page, I think it's wishful thinking to think the rest isn't biased - people just don't want to lose that institution. Much can be done without the reader knowing - omissions, slant, etc. In the end, you must trust them to a degree.
by gedy | 2025-10-28 20:39:20+00:00
Yes, granted it was over 20 years ago, but I came from a pretty broke household in the United States, and I went to a cheap state school instead of a nicer university or private school because I couldn’t imagine borrowing for school. The folks I know who were much more well off, seem to have had no problem borrowing what I considered to be exorbitant sums to both pay for school and live off of.