MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nowittyusername | 2025-11-05 15:01:38+00:00
I am building my agent and hoard old LLM's like they are a precious commodity. Older models are less censored, more flavorful and don't have that RL slop factor. Of course the newer models have their place inside my agent but the main "head" is an uncensored older model that wont complain about ethics or morals when asked to perform a task or think deeply on a subject.
by tonko | 2025-11-05 15:01:44+00:00
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Experienced full stack software engineer with a demonstrated history (10+ years) of working with enterprise solutions on premise and in cloud. I don't shy away from maintaining old code bases or learning new/old technologies and I'm very comfortable wearing many hats.
by alsetmusic | 2025-11-05 15:01:51+00:00
There was an article yesterday about Jimmy Wales commenting on edit wars on the Wikipedia entry for Genocide in Gaza (or similar title). The article didn't indicate his taking one side or the other, but I'd prefer if people didn't use name-recognition to influence such things (yes, even if they take the same side as me because others will do the same in the other direction).

Fwiw, I downloaded a torrent of footage documenting the genocide last year. I don't think it would be considered appropriate for me to link to it here on HN, but I wanted to raise awareness that torrents such as this exist.

I'm also on a torrent full of CDC data that was taken down by the current admin plus a couple of other public-service torrents. You can find stuff like this too. I got mine from a certain federated clone of the R site.
by globular-toast | 2025-11-05 15:02:14+00:00
> Writing a GUI with equivalent functionality would typically be a lot more work, with no gains at all.

I disagree. Have you used something like tkinter? It's ridiculously easy to build GUIs. The trouble is if you build a GUI that way it will look kinda beige/crap whereas a TUI looks retro (but looks even worse to non-nerds).
by empath75 | 2025-11-05 15:02:31+00:00
This is making me wonder if it is actually possible to capture everything that is in blue prince in a text based game, and I think the answer is no, because the affordances are different. I am trying to explain this without spoiling too much, but beyond the original stated goal of the game, there is an entire _second game_ layered on top of it, which is largely about _noticing things_, and I don't think there is a way to really capture that with pure text that evokes the same feeling of discovery. Text by it's very nature draws attention to itself, while a graphical representation allows a surplus of information that allows interesting things to hide within uninteresting things. I think the core drafting mechanics work fine as text but that is like 10% of the game.
by netbioserror | 2025-11-05 15:02:39+00:00
Throwing my hands up and moving to Nim was downright easy next to the excessive effort I put into trying out Nuitka, Numba, and PyInstaller for my use case. If you want static compilation, use a language and libraries built with that assumption as a ground rule. The herculean effort of building a half-compatible compiler for a dynamic language seems like a fool's errand, and would be a fun curiosity if so many people hadn't already tried it, especially with Python.
by jcranmer | 2025-11-05 15:02:52+00:00
The fact that the C++ committee is technically a subgroup of a subgroup of a subgroup is among the least of the issues of ISO for standardization.

The main problem is that ISO is a net negative value-add for standardization. At one point, the ISO editor came back and said "you need to change the standard because you used periods instead of commas for the decimal point, a violation of ISO rules." Small wonder there's muttering about taking C and C++ out of ISO.
by fragmede | 2025-11-05 15:03:11+00:00
Classical computer vision is no more AI than quicksort or BFS is. What they say is ML is AI that works. But classic computer vision (CV) is hand rolled algorithms like Eigenfaces to detect faces or Mixture of Gaussians for background subtraction. There's no magic black box model in classic CV, no training on data, no generated pile of "if"s that no one knows how it works. Just linear algebra written and implemented by hand.

Not AI, not even ML.
by zerkten | 2025-11-05 15:04:23+00:00
This is probably one of the few things I think works better in an office environment. There was older equipment hanging around with space to set it up in a corner so people could sit down and just go. When mobile came along there would be sustainable lending program for devices.

With more people being remote, this either doesn't happen, or is much more limited. Support teams have to repro issues or walk through scenarios across web, iOS, and Android. Sometimes they only have their own device. Better places will have some kind of program to get them refurb devices. Most times though people have to move the customer to someone who has an iPhone or whatever.
by guywithahat | 2025-11-05 15:04:37+00:00
Previous similar posts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813734 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815852

That said I'm not convinced with these famous investors. I worry the big short kind of broke his brain, he's obsessed with these landfall cases now and I'm not sure they're really going to pan out. His last big one was water and I can't imagine he's doing much better than just farmers renting the land he owns.
by UI_at_80x24 | 2025-11-05 15:04:40+00:00
I've been a "PC Gamer" for 31+ years. The 'value-add' that steam brings to the table is INCREDIBLE. Thanks to Proton/Linux efforts.

(1) my games are installable AND playable on _every_ device I use.

(2) I don't have to fight with wine/crossover/etc to get things to work.

(3) It's not hostile to the end user (yet).

I have bought more games since the Steamdeck came out then in the 40'some years before that.

Yes I know that I don't have to use steam, but they make it EASIER.

I am looking forward to Deckard for all of the above reasons and their history with the Index.

Steam makes installing software EASIER then the alternative (regardless of the OS). Auto-patching/updates of installed games.

If I was more social I'd probably use those features more. If they ever charge a monthly fee, I'll stop using it.
by fluoridation | 2025-11-05 15:04:56+00:00
>Decentralization just puts people that run servers as middle men to further impose a censorship agenda with ActivityPub.

Name lookup is not like a social media feed. If a server is censoring, say, TPB, it's plainly obvious, because you'll go to the IP and not get the content you expected. Just move on to the next server on the list until you find one with the up-to-date information.

>Whatever it is it needs to be distributed like BitTorrent.

DNS is already a distributed system like BitTorrent. When you publish an IP update you do it to a single node, which then propagates through the network. The deplatforming problem of DNS is that name assignment is something only central authorities can grant and revoke.
by jtvjan | 2025-11-05 15:05:05+00:00
That's upsetting. Being able to do templating without using JavaScript was a really cool party trick.

I've used it in an unfinished website where all data was stored in a single XML file and all markup was stored in a single XSLT file. A CGI one-liner then made path info available to XSLT, and routing (multiple pages) was achieved by doing string tests inside of the XSLT template.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-05 15:05:17+00:00
You don't understand what summary judgment is. Summary judgment means that there is no dispute of the facts of the case. In other words, the AI companies admitted that they did exactly the thing the plaintiffs accused them of doing. The problem, for the plaintiffs, is that the action they accused the AI companies of is, in fact, perfectly legal. There is no amount of evidence to gather that can change this simple fact. Furthermore, damages are irrelevant here because the case was not thrown out because of a lack of damages. It was thrown out because the defendant didn't break the law at all.
by tptacek | 2025-11-05 15:05:34+00:00
First, "just use" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, because DPDK is much harder to use than XDP. The authors of this blog were surprised they had to do their own checksumming, for instance.

Maybe more importantly: they're not building a middlebox. DPDK ultra-high performance comes in part from polling. It's always running. XDP is just an extension to the existing network driver.
by dfabulich | 2025-11-05 15:05:50+00:00
Blame Apple and Mozilla, too, then. They all agreed to remove it.

They all agreed because XSLT is extremely unpopular and worse than JS in every way. Performance/bloat? Worse. Security? MUCH worse. Language design? Unimaginably worse.

EDIT: I wrote thousands of lines of XSLT circa 2005. I'm grateful that I'll never do that again.
by HEmanZ | 2025-11-05 15:06:03+00:00
I disagree. Looking inward at myself at outward at addicted friends and family it does not fill any need.

What it does is “hooks the attention” using outrage and a constant stream of dopamine hits.

“ If you start getting out there and communicating with real people on intimate level - most addictions melt away by itself.”

I highly suspect you are not an addiction specialist…
by nerdjon | 2025-11-05 15:06:03+00:00
> When I use AI to perform X, every single time I run that AI from now until the heat death of the sun it will maybe produce Y. Forever! When it does, we don't understand why, and when it doesn't, we also don't understand why!

To make this even worse, it may even produce Y just enough times to make it seem reliable and then it is unleashed without supervision, running thousands or millions of times, wrecking havoc producing Z in a large number of places.
by gruez | 2025-11-05 15:06:18+00:00
>The App Store doesn’t do anything to protect you in that sense. It’s easy to circumvent and these days it’s cheaper to just buy an iOS exploit than go through the trouble of making a shady app.

Different threat models. If you're the mossad and want to go after someone in particular, yes the exploit is the way to go, but if you're running some run of the mill scam, you're certainly not going to spend 6+ figures on a ios 0day that'll get patched within days.
by beeforpork | 2025-11-05 15:06:20+00:00
And there, many cities look like that, too.

It's all about the angle. I am sure that just outside of the camera frame, there's a mobile phone shop, a Burger King or MacDonald's, and other trivially universal city commerce. :-) Let's see...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hbRSXaDvfKNFmQtT6

No, but there's Rossmann, Kik, Döner, and Woolworth's.
by simonw | 2025-11-05 15:07:28+00:00
A screenshot of a Tableau dashboard is possibly the most dangerous form of internal data communication there is, because it entirely removes any chance of digging into that dashboard and figuring out what queries created it and spotting the incorrect assumptions they made along the way.

A hill I will die on is that business analytics need "view source" or they aren't worth the pixels they are rendered with.
by alsetmusic | 2025-11-05 15:07:34+00:00
Well, when incubators were a new thing, they were used to make money as a side-show. the 99% Invisible podcast did an ep on this:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-infantorium/

Thank goodness we've conquered the cruel gluttony of capitalism and no one will ever exploit the helpless to make a buck again. /s

I think another show that I listen to also did an ep more recently, but I couldn't find it when searching. I might have conflated them.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-05 15:07:45+00:00
This is how almost all airports built in the last 50 years have worked. They were built way outside the cities. The cities grew to the airports.

More so, because of strong property rights it's very difficult to stop any development near the airports at all. The airport would have to buy up hundreds of square miles of land to prevent it at a staggering cost.

Lastly, one of the buildings that was hit was the UPS warehouse that stored goods to load on the plane. You want that as close as possible to the airport. Though right at the end of the runway is not the greatest place.
by bunderbunder | 2025-11-05 15:07:51+00:00
I love them for this, too.

Sadly I have a really hard time getting teammates to agree to using property-based testing - or letting me use it - because they take "no non-deterministic tests" as ironclad dogma without really understanding the the principle's real intent.

(I can do it to find edge cases to convert to deterministic unit tests in the privacy of my own home, of course. But not being able to commit a library of useful strategies without people calling foul in code review is obnoxious.)
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-11-05 15:08:02+00:00
We have absolutely descended, and rapidly, into “computers do whatever the fuck they want and there’s nothing you can do about it” in the past 5 years, and gen AI is only half of the problem.

The other half comes from how incredibly opinionated and controlling the tech giants have become. Microsoft doesn’t even ALLOW consent on windows (yes or maybe later), Google is doing all it can to turn the entire internet into a chrome-only experience, and Apple has to be fought for an entire decade to allow users to place app icons wherever they want on their Home Screen.

There is no question that the overly explicit quirky paradigm of the past was better for almost everyone. It allowed for user control and user expression, but apparently those concepts are bad for the wallet of big tech so they have to go. Generative AI is just the latest biggest nail in the coffin.
by sangeeth96 | 2025-11-05 15:08:32+00:00
To those who saw a chrome.com link and got triggered:

> The Firefox[^0] and WebKit[^1] projects have also indicated plans to remove XSLT from their browser engines.

[^0]: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1287#i...

[^1]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-314...
by imglorp | 2025-11-05 15:08:35+00:00
The post's title was editorialized: the archived page makes no mention of analog. The neutral title would be "The 100% electric Carice TC2: a real retro head-turner".

I think OP meant there were no screens in the sparse cockpit, just some analog gauges.

And yeah electric cars need a battery management computer, a charge controller, and a motor controller at least.
by user_7832 | 2025-11-05 15:09:18+00:00
> RadiantOS treats your computer as an extension of your mind. It’s designed to capture your knowledge, habits, and workflows at the system layer. Data is interlinked like a personal wiki, not scattered across folders.

This sounded really interesting... till I read this:

> It’s an AI-native operating system. Artificial neural networks are built in and run locally. The OS understands what applications can do, what they expose, and how they fit together. It can integrate features automatically, without extra code. AI is used to extend your ability, help you understand the system and be your creative aid.

(From https://radiant.computer/system/os/)

That's... kind of a wierd thing to have? Other than that, it actually looks nice.
by 8474_s | 2025-11-05 15:09:24+00:00
The only thing that passed the test of time,so far is specificity: if you ask for multiple things or vague things, you receive half-baked answers trying to cover all bases. If you ask for specific one thing and describe it, the answer quality goes up;e.g. LLMs creating multi-part content mix up the parts and qualities of them, so e.g. asking for Part 1*specific, will always get a better answer than "list all parts of X"(quality drops with length of list).
by encom | 2025-11-05 15:09:28+00:00
Can't get this to work either. Downloaded the release because I'm not touching any Rust tools, but it doesn't run.

$ ./bluetui-x86_64-linux-gnu Error: Error { kind: Internal(DBus("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut")), message: "Failed to activate service 'org.bluez': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)" }

I have Bluez installed. Comes with Debian KDE by default I guess, because didn't install it myself.
by yednap868 | 2025-11-05 15:10:26+00:00
That’s a really fair take and honestly, I agree with a lot of what you said.

Warm intros work because they’re human. When someone introduces you, they’re putting their reputation behind it. Vance isn’t trying to replace that, it’s more like helping people make those intros faster and smarter. The AI just understands context and timing, the human still approves the intro.

On privacy, completely get the concern. We don’t scrape or sell data. Everything is opt-in through alumni or founder networks that choose to partner. It’s less about monetizing networks and more about making them actually useful.

And yeah, starting with IIT/IIM-type clusters is just to prove that the model works where trust density is high. The long-term goal is to open this up so access to good intros isn’t a privilege.

Appreciate you sharing this, these are exactly the kind of questions that help us build this right.
by b2ccb2 | 2025-11-05 15:10:37+00:00
Oh, and my favorite theory:

"Eine andere, weniger stark vertretene Theorie besagt, dass die Hamelner Kinder einem heidnischen Sektenführer aufgesessen sein könnten, der diese zu einem religiösen Ritus in die Wälder bei Coppenbrügge geführt hat, wo sie heidnische Tänze aufführten. Dabei habe es einen Bergrutsch oder Erdfall gegeben, wodurch die meisten umgekommen seien. Noch heute lässt sich dort eine große Kuhle finden, die durch ein solches Ereignis entstanden sein könnte." > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattenf%C3%A4nger_von_Hameln#H...

I'll roughly translate it:

"Another, less thought after theory says, the children of Hameln got seduced by a pagan cult leader. He lead the children to the forest of Coppenbrügge for a religious ritual, where they performed pagan dances. This caused an landslide, causing most of them to die. There is, to this day, still a large pit, that could have been caused by such an event."

Edit: Expanded translation
by philipallstar | 2025-11-05 15:11:05+00:00
> If you need an example, look at the recent Jimmy Kimmel case.

Jimmy Kimmel is on the air today, having walked back his nonsense about the political allegiances of the Charlie Kirk killer. If the outcome is the political left in America is even fractionally less likely to incite violence against anyone they don't like the speech of, then that's a great outcome.
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by knid | 2025-11-05 15:11:38+00:00
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by Moto7451 | 2025-11-05 15:11:42+00:00
Jets are also simply too loud for homes under the takeoff path in standard use. There’s what amounts to a ghost town next to LAX due to this and the history of the airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisades_del_Rey,_California

Burbank Airport has quiet hours and has left a bunch of commercially zoned area under that takeoff path.

I’m in Atlanta now and they bought up a lot of land around the airport when redeveloping it and do similar zoning tricks for the buffer. One of the buffer zones is the Porsche Experience. It’s loud as heck when you’re on the part of the track closest but not bad where the corporate HQ and paddock is
by gdwatson | 2025-11-05 15:12:05+00:00
The first few times you use it, XSLT is insane. But once something clicks, you figure out the kinds of things it’s good for.

I am not really a functional programming guy. But XSLT is a really cool application of functional programming for data munging, and I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t used it enough for it to click.
by furyg3 | 2025-11-05 15:12:30+00:00
I definitely think that he thinks he's smarter than the market and sees bubbles everywhere, and I also definitely think that there's a gigantic AI bubble, or at least extreme 'frothiness' with all this circular investing to prop stock prices up.

Actually turning a bubble into money is another question entirely, however, especially since he himself popularized shouting the emperor has no clothes at every turn. When the market will believe someone is a different story.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-05 15:12:36+00:00
I mean looking at the attested record, interpreting it, weighing evidence and motive and audience in this way, that's what historians do that is the practice of the discipline of history.

100 years later is actually pretty damn close all things considered! For comparison we have contemporaneous inscriptions and epigraphs attesting the existence of alexander the great but the earliest surviving accounts of his actions are from 200-300 years later. It can be the dedicated work of a scholar's lifetime to pry a handful of verifiable facts from these second- and third-hand, biased, incomplete accounts. But the lifetimes stack up and the guesses come into focus as knowledge.
by nostrademons | 2025-11-05 15:12:52+00:00
San Jose does. You can, in theory, walk to downtown from the airport; it's about an hour and a half via pedestrian trail:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zhZdA5tWGAKunM2e8

(This is widely considered a misfeature of San Jose - it limits the height of buildings in downtown San Jose to 10 stories because the downtown is directly under the flight path of arriving flights, it limits runway length and airport expansion, and it means that planes and their noise fly directly over key tourist attractions like the Rose Garden and Convention Center. If we ever had a major plane crash like this one in San Jose it would be a disaster, because the airport is bounded by 101 on the north, 880 on the south, the arriving flight path goes right over downtown, and the departing flight path goes right over Levi's Stadium, Great America, and several office buildings.)
by antegamisou | 2025-11-05 15:12:55+00:00
> Dr Bloom spoke about how your overall mood during college is a good predictor for how happy you'll be as a person throughout your life. He talked about the optimum time to get married is 26. He elucidated the idea of your prefrontal cortex solidifying around 25, making personality changes MUCH more difficult.

Some of this sounds more like ideology and less science, especially when deterministic tendencies are getting mixed up when talking about psychology.

> Everything I've learned from psychology (and by this I mean watching psychology lectures from Yale and Stanford

Also interesting that sensationalized statements always end up coming from places like that, exclusively pertaining to the rotten individualist lifestyle in the United States.