MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-25 20:25:25+00:00
Sooo... yeah, but its not what you think.

There are two different kinds of IQ tests: convergent and divergent. Convergent tests are more common and test either knowledge or pattern matching. These tests are called convergent because they are a center of truth and conformance to that truth is the measured performance criteria.

Divergent tests measure the individual's creativity and abstract reasoning. The source of truth is the quantity of diversity of results submitted by the participant.

The implicit success criteria for convergent testing is reading comprehension. A person with dyslexia, for example, will perform worse on these tests irrespective of their learning speed, learned knowledge, intellectual curiosity, or creativity. This is a form of bias. Other forms of bias include memorization of terms, such as SAT preparation.

To further complicate things these measures typically only account for academic intelligence. Other forms of intelligence include social intelligence, spatial intelligence, creativity, conscientiousness, and so forth. In the concept of multi-dimensional intelligence, which is what is actually addressed in practice in the real world after high school, academic intelligence alone has very little benefit. Its like height in basketball where after 6.5ft all other factors become more important for all participants.
by snowwrestler | 2025-11-25 20:25:34+00:00
Maybe, maybe not.

> “Kids and preteens,” a recent National Research Group report concluded, “have been the driving force behind many of the biggest theatrical success stories of the past three years.”

> The kids and preteens in the youngest generation have grown up with the ability to watch any movie on any device anytime and anywhere they desire. As it turns out, the place they really want to watch movies is the theater.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/wicked-zootopia-pg-movies...

It really is better seeing a movie in the theater. And I hope the next generation are coming back around to that.
by hinkley | 2025-11-25 20:26:22+00:00
The dominant factor is: there is a human who understands the entire system.

That is vastly easier to achieve by making a small, successful system, which gets buy in from both users and builders to the extent that the former pay sufficient money for the latter to be invested in understanding the entire system and then growing it and keeping up with the changes.

Occasionally a moon shot program can overcome all of that inertia, but the “90% of all projects fail” is definitely overrepresented in large projects. And the Precautionary Principle says you shouldn’t because the consequences are so high.
by thom | 2025-11-25 20:26:30+00:00
I think this expectation that data science code is a thing you write basically top to bottom to get some answers out, put them in a graph and move on with your life is not a useful lens through which to evaluate two programming languages. R definitely is an efficient DSL for doing stats this way, but it’s a painful way to build a durable piece of software. Python is nowhere near perfect but I’ve seen fewer codebases that made my eyes bleed, however pretty the graphs might look.
by nickpp | 2025-11-25 20:26:43+00:00
> We just have never had an economic system that could offer that

Please propose it yourself.

> you assume the greedy motivations of a few is the only path towards progress

No. I assume the greedy motivations of the many is the best path towards progress. Any other attempts to replace this failed miserably. Ignoring human nature in ideologies never works.
by powerclue | 2025-11-25 20:26:56+00:00
We do know that response to difficulty influences performance in iq testing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10990577/

This study found that adding or removing rewards for performing well can pretty dramatically impact performance.

"it is unclear to what extent the positive manifold reported in intelligence research since Spearman (1904) might be explained not through a shared component of intellectual capacity, but through a shared component of effort or time investment in testing tasks."

So, yes, we don't know, but the ways we don't know should also include "we don't know if iq testing is even measuring intelligence rather than stick-to-it-ness".
by keeda | 2025-11-25 20:27:08+00:00
But my point wasn't about AI helping or not, my point was AI will simply accelerate the natural trajectory of your organization.

This is not a hypothetical, this is based on reports using large-scale data like DORA and DX: https://blog.robbowley.net/2025/11/05/findings-from-dxs-2025...

Edited to add: To clarify, I meant that if an organization was going to deliver a billion-dollar boondoggle of a project, AI will not change that outcome, but it WILL help deliver that faster. Which is why I meant it's not necessarily a bad thing, because as in software, it's generally better to fail faster.
by thisislife2 | 2025-11-25 20:27:56+00:00
Both of you are right - OP is right that life does become weary when you have to do everything yourself, with no help or support from others - and that includes emotional support. We are social creatures, after all. You are right that we as adults also need to learn to be comfortable / content with our thoughts when we are alone with them, and not define our happiness through our relations. We all need both solitude and company, to introspect and grow.
by mghackerlady | 2025-11-25 20:28:27+00:00
I'm happy parents like you exist. I was growing up in the time it started being acceptable to give 10 year olds smartphones, and I desperately wanted one. My parents didn't get me one (mostly because we were broke). I eventually got one and while I will sing the praises of letting kids access the internet with less guardrails, the instant always connected access to the internet did a number to my mental health and I eventually switched to a dumbphone.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-11-25 20:28:58+00:00
Privacy: Won't meaningfully impact privacy. HN like any forum is a bad place to post your secrets simply because the servers are not yours. Post history for each account is already visible, so if you have an agenda, it sticks out like a sore thumb there.

Moderation: Won't meaningfully impact moderation. HN can already see this info and they are the ones that take moderator action. It may hurt moderation/increase moderation costs because people may tend more to report content based on country instead of content.

Transparency: Outright influencer content (political or corporate) doesn't make it to the front page enough for it to matter, or if it does, I can't tell.

Anti-abuse: Same as moderation. Abuse reports should be processed based on content and not country of origin.

Meaningfully improves discussion quality: If a story is about something happening in a particular country, people who look like they are from that country might get asked more or different questions. This puts people from that country on the spot. They may get increased unsolicited communication or thread hijacks. Right now, if someone wants to be on that spot, they can voluntarily identify, either in the profile or in the post.

Possibly something useful would be a rule/requirement that claiming to be from a country different than the one you made an account from--seen either in a profile or post--requires verification for further posting, but if you never make such a contrary claim, the verification is not needed.
by dfawcus | 2025-11-25 20:29:15+00:00
Because of the nature of the treaties forming the EU, and the structures it generates.

It is basically a regulatory union, constructed so as to transpose power to the center, then hold it there.

It can't allow the people to have too much say, as that is "populism", which gets in the way of the bureaucracy doing its thing.

The only way to end / prevent this proposal from being repeated until "success" is to pass another treaty entrenching that something like Chat Control is forbidden.

That is an extremely low probability event, and gets lower as more member states join.
by hbn | 2025-11-25 20:29:42+00:00
I've been playing Dragon Age Origins recently, and I've been popping into the Steam overlay browser to look up some stuff, which frequently leads me to the wiki. And oh my god, I can't believe how bad the internet is without adblock these days. Every page visit, it pops up ginormous video ads that cover 90% of the web page, and it needs to chug along to get the initial render done before I can collapse it.
by spacechild1 | 2025-11-25 20:29:53+00:00
> On Windows the discrepancy is even bigger, their OS native mutex type is this sprawling 80 byte monster

I guess you are referring to CRITICAL_SECTION? SRWLock, which has the size of a pointer, has been introduced in Windows Vista. Since Windows 8 you can use WaitOnAddress to build even smaller locks.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-25 20:30:30+00:00
The first example is a labeling and packaging issue, the second is a malfunctioning product. There are plenty of fuel oil bottles available on the market and other much sketchier (though not obviously malfunctioning) batteries that haven’t been pulled. The available alternatives are still dangerous and potentially flammable, they just don’t meet the criteria set for shipping, storing, and normal usage.

Chainsaws can be used somewhat safely, but they are never totally safe. Chainsaws are inherently dangerous. But if a broken chainsaw that always cuts off your arm makes it to market, yes it will be pulled whether it’s a recall or a lawsuit.

> think "kids committed suicide due to interactions on Roblox" being held equivalently to "kids have been suffocated by this defactive crib"

Psychological harm is notoriously difficult to measure (was it really Roblox or was it bullying?) and is a political football. I’m not sure that it’s a good idea to open that box for a multitude of reasons. (For one thing every website on the internet would immediately face a mountain of lawsuits.)
by ebbi | 2025-11-25 20:30:59+00:00
I've never come across this site before, but I remember watching a video on YouTube and one of the creators was talking about making Crash Bandicoot. As someone non-technical, but who grew up playing Crash Bandicoot, it gave me insight into the crazy amount of work that goes into making a game, but also just how much of a genius these people were that tried to push the limits of what the early gen consoles could do!
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-25 20:31:21+00:00
OK, this is possible, but it seems the type that ought to be a built-in type.

Also, if there is not a binary file format for the data then you will need to always convert to/from base64 when working with this file whether or not you should need to.

Furthermore, this does not work very well when you want to deal with character sets rather than binary data, since (as far as I can tell from the specification) the input will still need to be UTF-8 and follow the EDN syntax of an existing type.

From what I can understand from the specification, the EDN decoder will still need to run and cannot be streamed if the official specification is used (which can make it inefficient), although it would probably be possible to make an implementation that can do this with streaming instead (but I don't know if the existing one does).

So, the extensibility is still restricted. (In my opinion, ASN.1 (and ASN.1X) does it better.)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-25 20:31:55+00:00
>No one cares about preventing fires from starting. They do care about fighting fires late in the project and looking like a hero. Sometimes you just need to let things burn.

As a Californian, I hate this mentality so much. Why can't we just have a smooth release with minimal drama because we planned well? Maybe we could properly fix some tech debt or even polish up some features if we're not spending the last 2 months crunching on some showstopper that was pointed out a year ago.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-25 20:32:12+00:00
Summer's highest case of kid accidents that ended in hospital in my country were the escooters, parents just buy whatever looks good in ad, not caring to train kid (technically moped license is needed) or even get one that's actually legal (with speed limit).

End result - machine capable of going 50km/h or faster (think they caught one doing 90) in hands of young teen or outright kid. Hell, there was even a trucker that reported getting overtaken by one...
by s-courtney | 2025-11-25 20:32:22+00:00
Yes, agent registration lifecycle events are automated. And every agent registration uses ACME-style automation to associate its certificates to its fully qualified domain name. We will enable manual actions in addition to this, such as obtaining an OV certificate or using selfie-ID validation to better identify the agent owner.

Right now there are no audit hooks implemented for external trust monitors, such as to integrity monitors or W3C verifiable credentials or reputational oracles.
by tsoukase | 2025-11-25 20:32:30+00:00
We, parents, are in a constant fight with an addictive drug with which some companies are trying to control our children through light emitted by electronic screens.

My sons started playing Roblox a month ago. I allow only half an hour time limit, so that they are not get cut from their friends, no friend that they don't know in person and no cent spent for bullshit objects.

Unlimited unattended hovering in Roblox, among others, is recipe for disaster.
by mywittyname | 2025-11-25 20:32:34+00:00
This is fine, but I'd prefer an option to transparently add parity bits to the drive, even if it means losing access to capacity.

Personally, I keep backups of critical data on a platter disk NAS, so I'm not concerned about losing critical data off of an SSD. However, I did recently have to reinstall Windows on a computer because of a randomly corrupted system file. Which is something this feature would have prevented.
by slimslenders | 2025-11-25 20:32:47+00:00
I think this is very true. Tool search tools can be model agnostic. And programmatic tool calling really just needs a code sandbox tool. We've provided some examples of these patterns on top of a local docker engine (oss project is here https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/ and blog is https://www.docker.com/blog/dynamic-mcps-stop-hardcoding-you...).
by okanat | 2025-11-25 20:33:30+00:00
Windows 7 and Vista unified almost all of the control panel. Windows had pretty good design language then and the other Microsoft software used native frameworks that shared it. Moreover neither Vista nor 7 removed features or dumbified the settings when the switch happened.

Compare that with the half-arsed switch that started from 8 and still continues today with 11. Windows 11 actively removes features and implements the system programs with multiple clunky UI frameworks. While chasing the whatever techbro trend, Microsoft jumped into multiple design trends. Win 11 Settings, Excel, OneNote, Teams, core utilities like Disk Cleanup each of these use a different UI language. I do understand slowly upgrading certain components but newer and actively maintained apps using different UX, come on.

Each of their UI frameworks are suffering from lack of maintenance. For example, WinUI 3 still draws white symbol on white background for window controls and the bug exist in many Microsoft apps including Powertoys and their showcase apps. 11 actively forces users to use Powershell to do almost any medium level customization where 7 had nice UIs for advanced network configuration, extra Bluetooth functions (you could proxy calls on Win 7 over BT, now you have to have a MS account).

Either the author lacks taste or just judges things very shallowly.
by hapless | 2025-11-25 20:33:42+00:00
The first x86 project I saw doing line speed route+filter on 10gpbs used 4x top-end Nehalem chips, an output of the RouteBrick project

Although, their original paper says they used a 2-socket prototype and got some very impressive numbers: https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2009/papers/dobres...

So maybe you could skate by with a slightly cheaper machine ;)
by goku12 | 2025-11-25 20:33:48+00:00
Practically every platform has multiple software stores these days and many FOSS stores make their build logs available. Some take it a step further and provide reproducible builds, which is more or less there as far as source to binary traceability and binary trustworthiness is concerned. These are good enough reasons to open up the source, ignoring the other advantages just this once.
by buu700 | 2025-11-25 20:35:30+00:00
YOLO-mode agents should be in a dedicated VM at minimum, if not a dedicated physical machine with a strict firewall. They should be treated as presumed malware that just happens to do something useful as a side effect.

Vendors should really be encouraging this and providing tooling to facilitate it. There should be flashing red warnings in any agentic IDE/CLI whenever the user wants to use YOLO mode without a remote agent runner configured, and they should ideally even automate the process of installing and setting up the agent runner VM to connect to.
by gishh | 2025-11-25 20:35:49+00:00
As an anecdote: late 30s male, mother was 5'6 father was 5'9, I'm 6'4.

I have three kids with two different women. All 3 are blonde-haired/blue-eyed. I have brown hair and green eyes, my ex has brown hair and blue eyes, and my spouse has blonde hair and blue eyes. Not as interesting I suppose. Yes, they're all my kids biologically. :)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-25 20:35:54+00:00
That's my entire industry, so I can believe it. I'd love to learn large scale game architecture but it simply isn't public. At best you can dig into the source available 30 year legacy code of Unreal Engine as a base. But extracting architecture from the source is like looking at a building without a schematic.

Your best bet is a 500 dollar GDC vault that offers relative scraps of a schematic and making your own from those experiences.
by officeplant | 2025-11-25 20:36:00+00:00
I do Wigle wardriving with a dedicated cheap phone these days. (Moto G Stylus 2023)

In order to prevent issues this time around I've preemptively removed the back of the phone, and the camera modules so I can have a nice flat phone. Then I bought a heatsink nearly the same size as the phone itself. I've got thermal pads on the SoC which sits lower than the battery and the heatsink itself had thermal adhesive on it pre-applied which is sticking to the battery/phone frame holding it to the phone. No more phone overheating worries and if the battery goes pillowy it should just pop the heatsink up instead of warping the whole phone.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-25 20:36:27+00:00
[dupe]

Discussions:

X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46028422

X begins rolling out 'About this account' location feature to users' profiles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024417

Top MAGA Influencers on X/Twitter Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024211

X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035574
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-25 20:36:41+00:00
till you are with that kid that is a bit too brave and a bit too eager and they do drop in some hole and break a leg or worse. That's what parents are afraid of, they remember some "close" accident in their childhood and want to make their kids not get chance to do a mistake.

Now ideally parents would just keep an eye on them, teach the kids, and maybe even "help" in potentially dangerous-yet-fun-for-kid stuff to make it not dangerous

...but parents now don't want to spend time just like parents back then didn't wanted to spend time and let kids alone to their own devices. Only difference before parents kicked kids outside while now parents give them ipad...
by philodeon | 2025-11-25 20:36:45+00:00
Because Bernstein addresses this:

>>> There is a committee at TU/e charged by law with ensuring proper grading, and I have recently learned that claims by Mr. de Valence related to this topic have been formally investigated and rejected by that committee. Now that Mr. de Valence has issued public accusations, it would seem that a public resolution will be necessary, starting with Mr. de Valence making clear what exactly his accusations are.

He also points out that de Valence is himself likely guilty of academic misconduct based on his own admissions.

We have two people making contradictory statements. The only ways to resolve it are facts (which were presumably reviewed by the committee) and credibility. You clearly think de Valence is more credible because he’s one of your feline friends, and because your other feline friends accused Appelbaum of sexual crimes, and you hate that Bernstein worked with Appelbaum because in your mind a sexual abuse accusation is as good as guilt of sexual abuse.

de Valence chose the same credibility-destroying path as Lovecruft, Honeywell, et al. did: make serious accusations in the public sphere instead of letting our public institutions charged with addressing these type of accusations do their job. Wise people realize that you can’t be criminally charged for publishing a smear campaign online, but you can be criminally charged for filing a police report, and evaluate accordingly.
by Froztnova | 2025-11-25 20:37:17+00:00
Mostly just that it's easy for an American (or at least, myself circa several years ago) to assume that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Muslims live in middle eastern countries, and when I first learned that Indonesia was the world's largest Muslim majority country it proved that mental heuristic to be entirely inaccurate.

I suppose it shouldn't be too surprising though, I mean Christianity sure as hell got around too.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-25 20:37:33+00:00
"These tags are somewhat benign, allowing websites to serve personalized adverts, or track which sources are having the most success in shepherding users to a website. However, this is inarguably a form of tracking users across the web, something that many people, and Apple itself, aren't keen on."

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/ios-145-how-to-stop-apps-fr...

"Firefox recently announced that they are offering users a choice on whether or not to include tracking information from copied URLs, which comes on the on the heels of iOS 17 blocking user tracking via URLs."

"If it became more intrusive and they blocked UTM tags, it would take awhile for them all to catch on if you were to circumvent UTM tags by simply tagging things in a series of sub-directories.. ie. site.com/landing/<tag1>/<tag2> etc.

Also, most savvy marketers are already integrating future proof workarounds for these exact scenarios.

A lot can be done with pixel based integrations rather than cookie based or UTM tracking. When set up properly they can actually provide better and more accurate tracking and attribution. Hence the name of my agency, Pixel Main."

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/category/paid-media/pay-...

Perhaps tags do not necessarily need to begin with "utm". They could begin with any string, e.g., "gift_link", "unlocked_article_code", etc., as long as the tag has a unique component, enabling the website operator and its marketing partners to identify the person (account) who originally shared the URL and to associate all those who click on it with that person (account).
by TheCraiggers | 2025-11-25 20:37:45+00:00
I agree with you assessment. But if some of my PII was in that breach, which now joins the insane amount of other PII from past breaches, that just makes it that much harder to secure my accounts.

Regardless, I believe my point still stands. I want better options for security; I shouldn't need a better reason than it's where I keep all my money.