MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101c | 2025-11-14 20:10:15+00:00
> Is 6G even a thing?

Currently being researched:

> 6G aims to achieve higher data rates, lower latency, and greater energy efficiency than 5G.[8] Planned advances include new air interface designs, improved coding and modulation, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.[9] Research also explores integration with satellite, Wi-Fi, and non-terrestrial networks, as well as distributed edge computing for AR, VR, and AI applications.[10]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6G
by seanhunter | 2025-11-14 20:10:44+00:00
> There are also other kinds of compound nouns, where the compound noun does not have the meaning of its component words, but only some related meaning (usually either a pars pro toto meaning or a metaphorical meaning)

The example that people often quote from German is “kummerspeck” which would literally translate as “grief bacon”, but means weight you put on through comfort eating having gone through a bereavement or other trauma.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-14 20:10:45+00:00
Despite that, isn't there a history of compulsive violence based on skin-based profiling? These are facts, not ideology.

2 off-duty soldiers assaulted after being mistaken for Arabs https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-off-duty-soldiers-assaulted-...

Live TV shows Israeli mob attack motorist they believed to be an Arab https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/13/live-tv-shows-...

Israeli soldier kills Jewish civilian in 'identity mishap' https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34602287

3 hostages killed by Israeli soldier in Gaza were waving a white flag, Israel says https://www.npr.org/2023/12/15/1219695220/israel-soldiers-mi...

Israeli Civilian Killed by Israeli Soldier after Being Mistaken for Palestinian https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-civilian-killed-b...

And from Wikipedia: > The Israeli Security Forces use racial profiling at military checkpoints and during some of the duties they perform. In August 2017 Haaretz reported that security guards working for a company which provides security at Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station said they were instructed to demand ID from people who look Arab and detain those who do not have an ID with them.

OP said that Israelis beat people up for having the wrong skin color. The one I replied to said that is wrong and is a projection of western ideology. But it does not appear to be wrong in reality - OP was correct.
by mindcrash | 2025-11-14 20:11:10+00:00
They're aiming at making it near effortless to migrate off GitHub, and 99% of all GitHub users are using Actions... so there's that.

But yes, they also should work on making it super easy to integrate best of breed OSS CI/CD with their SCM and turn Actions off. If they manage that they are on their way making a product which blows GitHub and Gitlab right out of the water. Because while Gitlab allows to integrate third party CI/CD it really feels clunky. (at least at the time I've used it professionally)
by wannabag | 2025-11-14 20:12:16+00:00
Another Mozilla-made-a-decision thread, another list of complaints.

I'm a happy Firefox user since it showed up as an alternative to internet explorer. I tried Chrome once or twice but always came back and stuck with Firefox. I don't trust Google for anything and don't want them to rule over the web. Firefox works, it has worked for me all these years and continues to do so. I still believe in them and their mission even if they have to take Google money to exist.

I think that complaints here are just making things worse for Mozilla, how about helping out instead of whining about every little thing. They're trying, that's a lot more than can be said about a whole lot of other actors out there.

Firefox team, if you read this, you rock! Thank you for giving me a great browser.
by observationist | 2025-11-14 20:12:26+00:00
Dogs evolved over the last 45k years to be integrated with humans at a higher level than any other species. They need us, in the sense that they've offloaded the cognition needed for optimal living to the human species.

They gave up pack hunting, optimized cooperative socialization, amplified gentle and nurturing behaviors. Not only should all dogs be included in human lives, we have a moral responsibility to the species to provide for them the best possible existence.

This is not in support of fur-babies or dogs in strollers, to be clear. Dogs need function, stimulation, purpose, and relationships.

Cognitive studies, and the ongoing research with buttons, now in the tens of thousands of dogs and other pets, demonstrate that they're capable of understanding and using language, complex abstract thought, nuanced emotion, dreaming, strategizing, planning, and more. They'll never get to the point of writing books, but they can tell lies and play jokes, be sad, scared, brave, loving, goofy, and kind.

The idea that dogs should be wild is morally abhorrent - they are inextricably interwoven with the story of humanity, and dependent on us for their best lives. It's got nothing to do with affection, and everything to do with many tens of thousands of years of accelerated evolution resulting in specific complementary adaptations to humanity.
by oever | 2025-11-14 20:12:51+00:00
The original article says: "The legislative package could be greenlit tomorrow in a closed-door EU working group session." That was November 12th.

On the 13th, Breyer wrote:

> Yesterday, EU gov'ts rejected changes to mandatory backdoor #ChatControl & anonymity-destroying age checks.

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/1155418089245415...
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-14 20:13:24+00:00
>For all its faults, the US is just such a place.

Trying hard not to be and using some flimsy pretext to justify it probably accounts for 3/4 of state laws that don't pertain to a) a procedural matter b) a matter with an identifiable victim, or at least that's how it looks by my unscientific observation.
by jmadeano | 2025-11-14 20:13:37+00:00
> Thanks for replying. I wasn't expecting a reply since the thread was so popular and there were a bunch of comments :)

The only way you can build a product that people love is by talking to people, so I am doing my best to keep up with all the feedback here!

To your main question: Tampermonkey has >11M downloads, which seems like a lot but at the scale of YouTube, Facebook, etc. the impact is largely inconsequential. I could understand concern about truly policy violating scripts (spam content/requests, etc.) but much of what people seem to want so far is basic Quality of Life things that should already be a native option in the first place.

To me, ad blockers seem like they much more materially impact these sites, and though there is pushback (and setbacks like Manifest V3), ad blockers are still kicking. I don't love that the marketshare of chromium continues to climb, as that gives Google massive power over the future of the web, but I can't do much to solve that.

Who knows what the future holds, but for now I am just focused on enabling people to have more control over their browsing experience :)

> Again, loved the extension, and a small suggestion I would make is for the extension to store locally the prompts that generated that code, like the conversation. I'm not sure if this exists—at least I wasn't able to find it—but I think it could be useful.

Great suggestion. I'll add it to our queue!
by simonw | 2025-11-14 20:14:03+00:00
This is really neat.

I noticed the diffusion-process.py demo was using matplotlib in a window, but I figured it would be cute if it used a terminal UI instead - so I had Claude Code convert it to use curses. Code and demo GIF here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/9033ebd8dd17b4c0ad101ddda7a54...
by Modified3019 | 2025-11-14 20:14:06+00:00
It’s a long watch/listen, but this is a good overview of what’s gone wrong, and why it’s basically unfixable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qL0IWvliqc

Resources have been literally drained to nothing, the population is too high to reduce demand, and the government is too corrupt to do anything. Iran is absolutely fucked.
by foxglacier | 2025-11-14 20:14:31+00:00
Of course golf courses are useful as shown by the fact that people pay to use them. Perhaps you mean that you personally haven't (yet) found them useful, but you know that different people want different things. I think eating shrimp is disgusting and never eat them but I don't want to ban global shrimp production because the people it would harm are not me!
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-11-14 20:14:41+00:00
This is very interesting, thank you.

I could not get to the store because of the cookie banner that does not work (at left on mobile chrome and ff). The Internet Archive page: https://archive.ph/qz4ep

I wonder how this test could be modified for people that have neurological problems - my father's hands shake a lot but I would like to try the test on him (I do not have suspicions, just curious).

I passed it :)
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-14 20:14:54+00:00
There's only about 3000 billionaires in the world, most of whom aren't US citizens. Billionaires definitely use their wealth and business/social cachet to try to influence politics in a direction they see as good, but they don't agree among themselves about what that is, and don't support the same things politically. Many American billionaires support Trump, many others do not, still others aren't saying publicly.

More to the point if you're making a broad generalization about how politicians in the US appeal to different demographic segments within the American electorate, thinking about what significantly less than 3000 billionaires are doing at all is a rounding error.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-14 20:15:12+00:00
My favourite example is the complaints about “e-waste” because AirPod batteries are not replaceable. Never mind that the batteries make up about half of the weight of the things ro begin with, the entire annual production of AirPods and their cases would barely fill a single shipping container.

No, not a container ship, or anything substantial like that, just one container (1).

Yet, it makes people lose their rational minds and start foaming at the mouth about Apple’s “wasteful practices”.
by rand0mwalk | 2025-11-14 20:15:27+00:00
Tokens start as a special [MASK] token. Then as the diffusion process runs they are "unmasked" i.e. sampled.

So yes, you define a sequence of [MASK] tokens with some length ahead of time.

In practice, if a model wants to write a shorter sequence, it'll just fill the remaining tokens with empty content. If it wants to write a longer sequence, you'll have to identify this and extend the sequence with more [MASK] tokens. This is typically obvious since there's no "end of sequence" token present if the model wants to generate more.
by Spivak | 2025-11-14 20:15:36+00:00
You avoided the important part, there is no market for hardware that can play Nintendo Switch games and there is no market for software providers on Nintendo Switch. And they are legally allowed to do that. You can sell appliances that are bound to a single vendor and you are allowed to not license your hardware or software to 3rd parties.

Since that is a legally permissible action it would be an odd thing for a court to declare that doing such a thing is anticompetitive. If they did they would be declaring all locked down hardware effectively illegal. And while that might be nice it's a bit of a pipedream. Where Google fucked up is that they did license their software to 3rd parties—good for them. But then Google had some regrets and didn't like the fact that they didn't have control over those 3rd parties. But they did have some leverage in the form of Google Play and GSM because users expect it to be there on every Android phone. And then they used that leverage. That's the fuckup. They used Google Play and GSM access to make 3rd parties preinstall Chrome and kill 3rd party Android forks. They used anticompetitive practices on their competitors—other Android device manufacturers.

This situation can't occur for Apple or Nintendo because there aren't other iOS/Switch device manufacturers and they don't have to allow them to exist. They can be anticompetitive for other reasons but not this.
by chronil3058 | 2025-11-14 20:15:44+00:00
>It tells you something about how much a gambling place the market is when a site like this has a one day default for the price change.

Because earning 10% in passive index funds over 20-30 years will not make you rich.

Subtract taxes and inflation, and you’re at low single digit returns.

The average tech person “gambling” with stock picking will have the same quality of life as the passive index fund investor.

However the gambler has higher chance at generational wealth. The index fund investor does not.
by nathan-barry | 2025-11-14 20:16:06+00:00
Yes, this is the case. During training, the model will get a sequence of text (ex, 512 tokens long) with a percentage of them masked out (with a special <MASK> token). It learns how to unmask those tokens to construct the original text.

In the case that you mentioned, if we had 4 <MASK> tokens in a row, all we are doing for decoding is predicting what those 4 tokens should be.

Generally, this does not seem to be a significant problem, as there are usually multiple ways to express an idea in varying lengths. Also, with confidence-aware parallel decoding, it can usually avoid the scenario you mentioned, as focusing on decoding the highest confident tokens will generally avoid such scenarios with a well trained model.
by abixb | 2025-11-14 20:16:10+00:00
>Qwen 2.5's clocks, on the other hand, look like they never make it out of the womb.

More like fell headfirst into the ground.

I'm disappointed with Gemini 2.5 (not sure Pro or Flash) -- I've personally had _fantastic_ results with Gemini 2.5 Pro building PWA, especially since the May 2025 "coding update." [0]

[0] https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-pro-updates/
by rustystump | 2025-11-14 20:16:18+00:00
I am normally a knee jerker but i grew up in a big family with very little. Between broke and poor. Almost going to food banks but not quite. This is pretty spot on to what it is like.

Even broke, something as simple as a parking ticket is borderline life threatening. Id buy the McDonald’s 1$ drink with free refills and calorie load on that all day reusing the cup. He doesnt touch on the shame of it you feel esp in todays us culture.

I am lucky to get out of the cycle.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-14 20:16:39+00:00
>Now I’m still excited about the future, but I dream of a world where I can uninstall it.

From 10 years ago, but still, there is nothing today as secure as GPG. Why, because I control the key, not some application or company that embeds encryption into their product.

Since 2015 we have seen may applications that use encryption, and almost every one has given up their key once the company get a legal request from their government. Just look a China for an example.

The only thing I still do not fully understand are 'sub' keys, but that does not prevent me from using gpg.

Another thing is gpg2 pinentry on *BSD needs to be fixed. It fails 100% of the time when gpg2 is called on a GUI application (ex: Emacs) on Net/OpenBSD. On gpg1, a text prompt use to be presented in Emacs, when in X, gpg2 GUI call fails.
by huevosabio | 2025-11-14 20:16:45+00:00
Oh spot on. Forcing the logic to fit the formula is an obvious giveaway.

I wish it had the Wikipedia style of writing as a default, as in, much more matter-of-fact writing (even if not everything is a fact).

I think part of the problem is that people overwhelmingly vote for this style with up votes and revealed preferences.

Maybe there should be a more meticulous feedback / prompt system where I can highlight a paragraph or sentence and ask annotate my feedback so that it doesn't go for that style.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-14 20:17:45+00:00
> The vast majority of mariners these days are third world nationals getting paid third world wages.

So? Is the third world not included in the original article? And also, that's like saying that you can't become a farmer or a teacher, because the vast majority of farmers or teachers in the world are third world nationals getting third world wages. The merchant navy also has many ships which only hire nationally.

As per the article, we are talking about being dirt poor. In that case, in the merchant navy you get food, board, medical attention and on top of that a salary. Which may be good or very small. If you have better options, please feel free to ignore my advice. It is for those who don't have any better option, but it is always impossible among hackers to get this through. Maybe we should discuss a few hundred miles of text more about how to change the system, rather than talk about real and actionable advice?

> Becoming a full-time monk is a slow and demanding process that takes years, you can't just rock up at a monastery and become one.

Have you tried?
by snickerbockers | 2025-11-14 20:18:07+00:00
Ive been thinking about that a lot too. Fundamentally it's just a different way of telling the computer what to do and if it seems like telling an llm to make a program is less work than writing it yourself then either your program is extremely trivial or there are dozens of redundant programs in the training set that are nearly identical.

If you're actualy doing real work you have nothing to fear from LLMs because any prompt which is specific enough to create a given computer program is going to be comparable in terms of complexity and effort to having done it yourself.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-14 20:18:28+00:00
I imagine Gaza may currently be one of the most difficult environments to write software code in. I happily admit that I would not be able to be productive in such an environment - my environment here in Europe is really quite sheltered (guess this also depends on where one lives; areas close to Russia may not feel as comfortable as in central Europe or Western Europe). The only distraction I have here is youtube music playing in the background - that's about it. My brain wouldn't be able to operate well in any high risk high danger environment or any non-standard environment in general.
by kragen | 2025-11-14 20:18:40+00:00
Well, the thing wagwang's parents did that improved the well-being of the people after them was to leave China.

What the Chinese society had been collectively doing for the previous ten years, however, was creating "the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll due to starvation that ranges in the tens of millions (15 to 55 million)." And the following ten years included the first six years of the Cultural Revolution:

> Estimates of the death toll vary widely, typically ranging from 1–2 million, including a massacre in Guangxi that included acts of cannibalism, as well as massacres in Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Hunan. Red Guards sought to destroy the Four Olds (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits), which often took the form of destroying historical artifacts and cultural and religious sites. Tens of millions were persecuted, including senior officials such as Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and Peng Dehuai; millions were persecuted for being members of the Five Black Categories, with intellectuals and scientists labelled as the Stinking Old Ninth. The country's schools and universities were closed, and the National College Entrance Examinations were cancelled.

I don't think any of that can be accurately described as "everybody else doing unpleasant things for a while to improve the well-being of everyone after them."

Chinese history, including in the 20th century, includes many of the brightest stars that have ever illuminated human history, and after the Cultural Revolution, a meteoric rise out of poverty, led by the same Deng Xiaoping whose son was tortured and crippled by Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution. But specifically in 01962 "everybody" was creating that poverty and worsening the well-being of everyone after them.
by cardanome | 2025-11-14 20:18:44+00:00
You are right but as German if I made that point publicly in regards to Palestine I would get arrested. I am not exaggerating

It is crazy how we have dehumanized Palestinians to the point that just hinting on the fact that they might have a right to resist it completely taboo. Like you don't have to agree with their methods but expecting them to do nothing while Israel murders them and the world looks away is such a cruelty that is hard to comprehend.
by rhdunn | 2025-11-14 20:19:05+00:00
I used Gitea for a while. I eventually switched to gitolite and CGit primarily because Gitea (and Forgejo) force you into a flat organization/project structure. This makes organizing personal projects harder because:

1. you need to create an organization for each group (lang, tools, template, etc.)

2. you can't create more complex organization structure (e.g. template/python/python-flask-template)

3. you can't group projects with different top-level names (e.g. apps, tools, lang; such as lang/java and tools/gradle) or across a top-level name (e.g. by programming language such as lang/typescript and lang/python)
by gh02t | 2025-11-14 20:19:18+00:00
Can design then export routes from any geospatial tool like CalTopo, AllTrails, or even WinTAK directly to your ATAK device. Then in ATAK you can use it basically as something like AllTrails on steroids, including offline map caching, route guidance, markers, tracking etc... even geotagged photos. This can be synced across multiple devices among friends using a TAK server. It can also be used for off grid communications and tracking between hikers via something like Meshtastic, which I use fairly regularly with my partner out camping well outside of cellular coverage.

ATAK is not necessarily the most intuitive UI, but it's crazy powerful for doing basically anything outdoors.
by ineedasername | 2025-11-14 20:19:41+00:00
Maybe you've used it-- but a very large number of the AI skeptic comments I see that actually cite particular experiences, even comments in the pages of HN, amount to things like, "ChatGPT hallucinated when I asked about the local price of product X and if it was in stock anywhere around. How can anyone take LLM and AI seriously?"

Or worse, things like "Real science and real engineering doesn't rely on tools that behave randomly.".
by keeda | 2025-11-14 20:20:00+00:00
Well, the food industry continues churning billions in profits at the expense of our health, so statistically speaking, looks like "we" are OK with!

Totally agreed that criticism should be directed where it's due. But what this thread is saying is that criticism of GenAI is misdirected. I haven't seen nearly as much consternation over e.g. the food industry as I'm seeing over AI -- an industry that increasingly looks like its utility exceeds its costs.

(If the last part sounds hypothetical, in past comments I've linked a number of reports, including government-affiliated sources, finding noticeable benefits from GenAI adoption.)
by shevy-java | 2025-11-14 20:20:02+00:00
Sadly most repressive states and apartheid systems control who has a gun.

You can see that in Russia (as one example of many more, mind you), where officials search through your apps on the smartphone, or worse, people being carried away by cops merely for holding up a blank piece of paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbzV1it1YPY
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-11-14 20:21:02+00:00
They're not separate at all, especially if the question is "How hard should we push people to use this."

To be clear, there are a lot of people who routinely used airplanes who don't post-covid, but insisted that they had to. Yeah, I think it's pretty wasteful to fly across the country for a 30 minute meeting. Most don't fly at all. I don't know what mass-psychosis white collar industries were under to think that was necessary.