MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by card_zero | 2025-11-13 18:07:59+00:00
From the start, in 1994, there was this arbitrarily imposed structure with Railtrack owning all the track, and all the private companies leasing. The original plan was that this Railtrack thing would be publicly funded, and that's where that structure came from. Slowly over three years, then, the railway went private. Railtrack wasn't private until 1996. Then the railway was "properly private," but not really, because of this track-monopoly structure imposed on it by legislation, Railtrack being in effect government-run and a "private" company somehow too. Five years later (2001) there was bankruptcy, administration and re-nationalization of Railtrack (into "Network Rail") anyway.

Lurking in the background the whole time was the RMT, the National Union of Rail [etc.] Workers, led by "communist/socialist" Bob Crow, a moderate in the union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Crow

So if this is viewed as an experiment in private ownership, experimental conditions were extremely messy and any conclusions are invalidated by cultural complexities and compromises.
by hnburnsy | 2025-11-13 18:08:01+00:00
Making cars is hard, just ask Ford...

>As of this story's publication, Thursday, September 4, 2025, Ford has issued 109 recalls that have covered 7,871,344 vehicles. Of course, quite a few of those cars are repeat offenders, but you get the point. It's staggering.

>Of those 109 recalls, 26 of them are re-recalls. That means they're recalls on recalls Ford has already carried out,

>Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/1958179/all-ford-vehicle-recalls-20...
by mothballed | 2025-11-13 18:08:35+00:00
One in my state is solar panel legislation.

You can't install solar panels in AZ without a permit and building plans and roof plans.

That's all well and good in the city, but here in bumfuck nowhere I built a house with no building plans or roof plans. Why exactly did the majority of city dwellers pass this law without even considering people like me in bumfuck nowhere, who have as much or higher utility for solar panels than even those in urban areas, need to have this regulation?

The answer is they didn't even think about us, they just did it. Now I can't install solar panels without producing a bunch of extra paperwork that city dwellers just assumed everyone already has on hand because in the city you're required to file those when you build the house. Due to that and other rules that are half-cocked consideration for rural counties that don't inspect literally anything else, they basically made it the hardest to put solar in the places where it is most practical and has the most impact.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-11-13 18:08:39+00:00
> Ehhh- if these men really wanted companionship, they could find it. It only takes a little social courage, and accepting others (as they wish to be accepted). They are not being canceled because they don’t play by women’s rules.

I know at least one guy who refuses to "settle" for anything but his ideal woman - and frankly, that ideal woman is out of his reach, mostly but not entirely due to his personality.

So yes - men could absolutely find companionship. But a lot of them refuse to accept anything that's not a supermodel whose day consists of administering on-demand blowjobs.
by saubeidl | 2025-11-13 18:08:54+00:00
Re the US not having our back - here's just the latest evidence: https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-security-funding-baltics...

Re China: We don't share any border or ocean with them and none of our interests are opposed. To the contrary, they're the only other major power taking climate change seriously. Why would they be a threat to us?
by alwa | 2025-11-13 18:08:58+00:00
The study at hand seems to have considered only fatal accidents. Probably for good statistical reasons. But the most obvious next “what” to my mind would be accidents that did not result in fatalities.

Followed closely by safety-involved “incidents” that were reportable somewhere (internally or to a regulator), but that luckily didn’t result in an accident that time.

One imagines these must get really hard to measure reliably the further they get from concrete death records.
by potbelly83 | 2025-11-13 18:09:35+00:00
Fixed typo! Yeah, alone time is inherently a male thing, and is probably what drove a lot of the historical breakthroughs in the past. This need to always be socializing is a very feminine construct and probably does more damage in the long run than people realize (i.e. to deep breakthroughs, case in point how science has now become a popularity game rather than a search for the truth). A more nuanced article would have delved deeper into the types of alone behavior that are beneficial vs those that are destructive.
by romaaeterna | 2025-11-13 18:09:37+00:00
I have a Tesla and a drive FSD back and forth to work every day. It's great

Edit in response to your edit:

Would I risk myself standing in front of a FSD Tesla versus in front of an Uber or an average human-controlled car with the standard percentage chance of the human texting or being otherwise distracted or drunk or tired? I would take FSD. And I think that a mathematical rather than emotional evaluation of the odds would make risk-minded people do the same.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-13 18:09:37+00:00
Automatic emergency braking is a standard feature on many new cars, and will be mandatory for all new passenger cars and light trucks in the U.S. by September 2029. I am open to the assertion that Tesla's AEB, when scoped to pedestrian scenarios, is superior to other AEB systems, but this assertion requires independently verified data and evidence for support.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/automatic-em...

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/aeb-with-ped...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_emergency_braking_sy...

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2024-04/final-ru... [pdf]

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63027394/feds-automated-e...
by yannyu | 2025-11-13 18:10:22+00:00
I think the underlying issue that the article briefly mentions but is likely a much more prominent cause is that we have destroyed local, physical communities over the past 30 years.

The same community where I grew up biking, walking, and wandering around as a child now has police who say that they must respond if an adult calls in about unsupervised children anywhere in town.

A combination of rising costs, privatization, social media, and smart phones has made it so children can't spend time together without adults monitoring them. They literally are not engaging with each other in physical space the way that many of us engaged with each other as children up until the 2000s. We can see and feel that things are different as adults, but for children the real impact is socially and emotionally stunting. Children no longer have any low-stakes space where they can experiment and learn. And when we destroy the physical, in-person community where children can find support and comfort, should we be surprised when they latch onto the loudest people on the internet?
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-11-13 18:10:31+00:00
Not all young men got butthurt about a reexamination of whether white men should have the world handed to them by default. Some were just more prone to a mindset of victimhood about it.

It's taking it way too personally for anyone to feel they're being blamed for history. That's a choice, and a convenient justification for raging against it.
by djoldman | 2025-11-13 18:10:43+00:00
> 1. Both systems run with the same fixed input files (data/accounts.dat, data/txns.dat).

> 2. Each writes its results to out/accounts_out_*.dat.

> 3. Python scripts convert fixed-width output to CSV and compute SHA-256 checksums.

> 4. If the hashes match — behavior is proven identical.

Step 3 above introduces the possibility that the python scripts alter the output in such a way that the outputs don't actually match prior to the python.

I'm curious why step 3 is not "If the two outputs match — behavior is proven identical."
by hnburnsy | 2025-11-13 18:12:11+00:00
> Now check how many recalls there are with companies like Ford. Recalls are pretty much standard in the vehicle industry.

As of this story's publication, Thursday, September 4, 2025, Ford has issued 109 recalls that have covered 7,871,344 vehicles. Of course, quite a few of those cars are repeat offenders, but you get the point. It's staggering.

Of those 109 recalls, 26 of them are re-recalls. That means they're recalls on recalls Ford has already carried out
by antoniojtorres | 2025-11-13 18:12:22+00:00
agree on single instance, but for hetzner, I run 100+ large bare metal servers in hetzner, have for at least 5 years and there’s only been one significant outage they had, we do spread across all their datacenter zones and replicate, so it’s all been manageable. It’s worth it for us, very worth it.
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-11-13 18:12:26+00:00
> In international law, they were treaties. Your internal squabbles do not concern us and just make you look unreliable.

What a joke everyone knew we didn't ratify them everyone just wanted to pretend. We even send a letter to Iran making sure they knew. The EU especially was funny acting like the agreement had any value when the USA wasn't part of it.
by sfpotter | 2025-11-13 18:12:30+00:00
In my experience, Tesla drivers are some of the worst drivers on the road. They seem to pay the least attention to what's going on around them and are the most likely to pay fast and loose with the rules of the road. I don't know what's to account for this. There has been at least one study out of Berkeley that suggests that people who drive more expensive cars are more likely to break the rules of the road. It's possible that (at least here in Seattle), this is more likely to be the driver's first car since many people driving them are highly paid tech workers who often hail from others countries and who may not have as good of a grasp of driving in the US. Or it may be that this is enabled by autopilot itself (if your car is taking care of the safety you don't have to pay as much attention).
Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team?
by randomgermanguy | 2025-11-13 18:12:30+00:00
We had an internal-workshop led by our internal AI-team (mostly just LLMs), and had the horrible realisation that no one in that team actually knows what the term "AI" even means, or how a language model works.

One senior-dev (team-lead also) tried to explain to me that AI is a subfield of machine-learning, and always stochastic in nature (since ChatGPT responds differently to the same prompt).

We/they are selling tailor-made "AI-products" to other businesses, but apparently we don't know how sampling works...? Also, no one could tell me where exactly our "self-hosted" models even ran (turns out 50% of the time its just OpenAI/Anthropic), or what OCR-model our product was using.

Am I just too junior/naive to get this or am I cooked?
by aaroninsf | 2025-11-13 18:12:53+00:00
Nor I.

IMO LLM more or less literally cannot do what they do without a world model, not least because much of what language is, is a protocol for making assertions about that model, testing the degree to which it is shared, and seeking to alter the model one carries of one's interlocutor's model.

To the "parrot people" I suggest, there is no more optimized mechanism for the inner layers of a network to approach than one which most parsimoniously models the world, so as to correctly emit tokens reflective of that.
by MengerSponge | 2025-11-13 18:12:56+00:00
The world was somewhat sympathetic to the US when we elected Trump the first time: it's disappointing, but you can get tricked sometimes. When we re-elected him it casts the first time as not an error, but rather a deliberate choice.

A nation that makes that kind of choice is not a reliable ally. We're just beginning to see the repercussions of that loss of trust.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-11-13 18:13:41+00:00
Risk-aversion in the social sphere has combined with their risk-chasing in the market

I'd argue that it's a little different: The perceived risk/reward ratio of social interaction has simply fallen so low that it seems like even more of a fool's game than gambling.

The skinner box gives unpredictable rewards, but at the same time the user can be certain that a reward will come. Whereas (for those poor unfortunate souls), the expected reward for putting themselves out there is zero, zilch, nada. That's what it means to be hopeless.
by glenstein | 2025-11-13 18:13:51+00:00
I'm ready to grant that you found an occurrence in the wild but it takes more than that to demonstrate prevalence, conventional usage, or semantic fidelity to originally intended meanings. Also they are appealing to a usage that's practically as old as the paradigm of personal computing itself, so I don't think they're the one that's out of date.

I happen to remember "sideload" as a term of art for some online file locker sites to mean saving it to your cloud drive instead of downloading it to your computer. A cool usage, but it never caught on.

I think nomenclature as it exists in the PC software universe is closest in spirit on all fronts, in describing running software as, well, running software, and describing installing as installing. While a little conspiratorial in tone they're not wrong that "sideload" pushes the impression that controlling what software you run on your phone should be understood as non-default.
by whizzter | 2025-11-13 18:14:00+00:00
GS does 2 things that makes it great for _rendering_ and _world approximation_, it's a view-dependent "fuzzy" thing, so rendering-wise you don't need to fill in blanks of reconstruction, they also encodes view dependent things like reflections (that should help an AI model infer beyond-view details).

The issue of real voxels (not MC style) is that they fill in fixed spaces that then can creates gaps once you start animating, you probably have the same issues with GS (but that's probably why they are doing exports).
by 0zymandiass | 2025-11-13 18:14:01+00:00
You've explicitly quoted that source releases are not relevant:

> or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same operating system is released by the operating system provider

They have not released the source code, but they have released an update of their operating system on their reference Pixel hardware.

Therefore, all devices must update within 4 months of that Pixel release, regardless of source drops, per this law
by NYCNews | 2025-11-13 18:14:58+00:00
Groped Woman, Got on Bus for a Ride

By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice November 13, 2025

NYC LOCAL NEWS: A man who groped a woman at a Harlem bus stop is being sought by police. The NYPD released surveillance video of the alleged suspect who, according to cops, got back on the bus after the assault.

At around 3 pm on October 29, a 30-year-old woman was waiting at a bus stop for the M116 at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 116th Street. Cops said a man walked up to her and, without saying a word, grabbed her crotch.

The victim ran away looking for help. However, the alleged suspect waited for the M116 bus and got on, cops said. He got off a short time later at East 116th Street and Madison Avenue, then took off on foot.

The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect from inside the bus. The suspect is described as a male who has a medium complexion. He is 5 foot 4 and weighs around 180 pounds. He was last seen wearing a blue baseball cap, gray hooded sweatshirt, gray jeans, and white sneakers.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.

All calls are confidential.
by tecleandor | 2025-11-13 18:15:14+00:00
Yep, we just migrated to Atlas, and the disk size limitation of the lower instance tiers pushed us to do a round of data cleaning before the migration.

Also, we noticed that after migration, the databases that were occupying ~600GB of disk in our (very old) on premise deployment, were around 1TB big on Atlas. After talking with support for a while we found that they were using Snappy compression with a relatively low compression level and we couldn't change that by ourselves. After requesting it through support, we changed to zstd compression, rebuilt all the storage, and a day or two later our storage was under 500GB.

And backup pricing is super opaque. It doesn't show concrete pricing on the docs, just ranges. And depending on the cloud you deployed, snapshots are priced differently so you can't just multiply you storage by the number of the snapshots, and they aren't transparent about the real size of the snapshots.

All the storage stuff is messy and expensive...
by miltonlost | 2025-11-13 18:15:22+00:00
> But there he found a requirement for taking a series of courses that he saw as straight up DEI indoctrination. The content of which often outraged him.

Oh no, having to take courses he didn't like. And content of which we just have to take his word for is enough to be outraged about.

Is college not a place to go to open yourself to other ideas?
by CrackerNews | 2025-11-13 18:15:31+00:00
Neural nets and LLMs were created based on neuroscience research. Ultimately they are approximations of how parts of the human brain works.

The real concern of having no biomechanical skin in the game is lacking sensory input that could ground it within our reality. All input into LLMs are based on digital output of human labor, which are ultimately symbolic representations filtered through our brain and its ideas of reality. However, this may not be too different from how our real human brains work.

There has been a philosophical dilemma over how real consciousness can be as if it is imagined by our brains since our brains provide convincing hallucination of what seems like real sensory input or even free will. That is to say that humans at a philosophical level live in their brains interpreting a fragment of reality based upon how it interprets sensory input.

Now the LLM as a brain cuts out an entire step of agentic sensory input and they exist wholly as the result of our ideas.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-11-13 18:15:39+00:00
What exactly are people not hearing? Say the quiet part out loud already. It is the fact they can no longer openly shit on women and minorities and homosexuals and trans people that they have issues with. The fact that being white and having a white name are not enough to be granted a favorable job. That is all that is changing these days. Now consider what it says about the men who are kicking and screaming about this.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-13 18:15:53+00:00
This all hinges on people utterly ignoring the expense of maintaining the road system.

If you factor in the spending on highways and road systems that can support high speed private vehicles at no direct cost to the end user, other forms of transport get incredibly competitive. Highway spending alone accounts for a quarter of a trillion per year. That doesn't account for spending at lower levels of government for streets and other car infrastructure.

>Plus the public will still want some sort of authority figure on the bus or train.

There are plenty of driverless transit systems. It is a very solved problem.
by alsetmusic | 2025-11-13 18:16:01+00:00
I already told my loved ones to stop getting me gifts for my bday / holidays a few years ago. I have everything I want that wouldn't be obscenely expensive and in poor taste to request. Whatever people got me ended up on a shelf or in a drawer and was just a waste (with a couple of rare exceptions when someone made / crafted me a gift, and then it's really wonderful).

I can't imagine how useless an unthinking AI would be at this when my own family and friends who, and this is important, _know me_, can't find anything to get me that doesn't land in the above categories. I wouldn't have expected gifts to be a source of AI resource waste, but I must not be very imaginative.
by dang | 2025-11-13 18:16:02+00:00
Could you please stop posting flamebait and breaking the site guidelines? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, including this dreadful thread from a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781981. I realize the other person was doing it also, but you (<-- I don't mean you personally, but all of us) need to follow the rules regardless of what other people are doing.

Comments like what your account has been posting are not what this site is for, and destroy what it is for, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by bko | 2025-11-13 18:16:02+00:00
300 employees, let's say average salary of 300k?

$90m in employee expenses so that's neglible.

Prob burning through 200% of revenue which I've seen elsewhere. But they also probably spend a fair amount training their own model. I don't think it's foundation model. But it's pretty fair to assume that $1bn revenue is about $2bn to Anthropic/GPT/Grok
by nharada | 2025-11-13 18:16:53+00:00
The end goal is to marry the lessons learned about HOW to learn in a virtual world with a high fidelity world model that's currently out of reach for this generation of AI. In a year or two once we have a world model that's realistic enough and fast enough, robots will be trained there and then (hopefully) generalize easily to the real world. This is groundwork trying to understand how to do that without having the models required to do it for real.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-11-13 18:16:56+00:00
lots of words

okay, look at imagen 4 ultra:

https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...

In this link, Imagen is instructed to render the verbatim prompt “the result of 4+5”, which shows that text, and not instructed, which renders “4+5=9”

Is Imagen thinking?

Let's compare to gemini 2.5 flash image (nano banana):

look carefully at the system prompt here: https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...

Gemini is instructed to reply in images first, and if it thinks, to think using the image thinking tags. It cannot seemingly be prompted to show verbatim the result 4+5 without showing the answer 4+5=9. Of course it can show whatever exact text that you want, the question is, does it prompt rewrite (no) or do something else (yes)?

compare to ideogram, with prompt rewriting: https://ideogram.ai/g/GRuZRTY7TmilGUHnks-Mjg/0

without prompt rewriting: https://ideogram.ai/g/yKV3EwULRKOu6LDCsSvZUg/2

We can do the same exercises with Flux Kontext for editing versus Flash-2.5, if you think that editing is somehow unique in this regard.

Is prompt rewriting "thinking"? My point is, this article can't answer that question without dElViNg into the nuances of what multi-modal models really are.
by aboringusername | 2025-11-13 18:17:11+00:00
You're not reading the interpretation correctly:

> at the latest 4 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system

So if somebody reverse engineers the patch, or releases the patch under embargo (which the OEMs would have the source code) that would count as a 'public release'. So GrapheneOS can ship closed source patches as you are right, they are not the provider. If GrapheneOS released the source code they are getting from their OEM then it would count as a 'public release of the source code'.

A patch in itself can be considered an 'update of the underlying operating system' and therefore the moment it becomes public it needs to be patched by all OEMs within 4 months.

GrapheneOS have themselves said that if somebody did reverse engineer the closed source blobs and posted them publicly they could then ship the patches openly at that point but not until.

It must be stated a lot of the wording of this clause and interperetation of what is/is not considered 'publicly releasing source code' is up for debate/courts to settle.