MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alanfranz | 2025-11-19 08:33:57+00:00
I think this should become harder to do in general, not just for copyright infringement. A third party alleges an infringement, they do little work since it's AI generated, and then you need to do TONS of work to fix their s*t. THAT needs to be fixed by AI legislation - use AI at your own peril and under your own responsibility.
by epicureanideal | 2025-11-19 08:35:18+00:00
A random idea I had a few years ago was, what if someone started a “recent modern Amish” community, where they just intentionally keep the community’s tech usage either fixed at 1960s or 1990s, or maybe a fixed number of years in the past like 30 or 50 (meaning, the time target moves forward by a year each year).

So the kids growing up now might be playing the original Nintendo NES, or maybe an N64, they’d have phones and even computers, etc.

It could even be a little more nuanced like, the community could vote in certain classes of more modern goods.
by bluecalm | 2025-11-19 08:36:09+00:00
>>LLMs are achieving technical mastery in problem-solving domains on the order of Chess and Go, solving algorithmic puzzles and math proofs competitively in contests such as the ICPC and IMO.

I don't think LLMs are anywhere close to "mastery" in chess or go. Maybe a nitpick but the point is that a NN created to be good at trading is likely to outperform LLMs at this task the same way way NNs created specifically to be good at board games vastly outperform LLMs at those games.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-11-19 08:36:39+00:00
>Issue is we don’t know what is causal.

Is it really true that this is not known? Although I only claimed correlation (and am thus surprised that I was downvoted twice, as that claim is obviously true), based on the famous "robustness" of this observation, I strongly suspect that confounding factors like those you mention have already been analysed to death, and found not to eliminate the explanatory power of women's education.

At least, checking these confounders seems an obviously valuable and interesting avenue to explore. If it hasn't been done yet, I wonder what social scientists are doing instead.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-19 08:37:28+00:00
I haven't heard of fornjot, but that's not a surprise because I haven't been involved in the CAD field for a very long time (decades).

My thinking is to approach the problem from a fundamentally different angle. There's already constructive solid geometry (CSG) kernels, triangle mesh kernels, and NURBS-based kernels. Their mathematical foundations are very different, which results in wildly different behaviour and capabilities.

I came across PGA while studying physics, saw some vaguely CAD-like CSG demos and I realised that it could be yet another mathematical foundation on top of which CAD applications could be built.

Notably, variants of GA and PGA are already used in robotics, inverse kinematics, etc... including 5-axis milling, so it's not unheard of in industry. However, it's always used as a "spot" solution to work around a problem such as gimbal lock, or interpolating transformations. Typically by converting back-and-forth between linear algebra representations and some variant of GA temporarily. I'm thinking of using PGA throughout as the foundational geometric elements.
by luckyturkey | 2025-11-19 08:37:39+00:00
This is such a stark contrast with how "critical infrastructure" is built now.

A university bought a 5ESS in the 80s, ran it for ~35 years, did two major retrofits, and it just kept going. One physical system, understandable by humans with schematics, that degrades gracefully and can be literally moved with trucks and patience. The whole thing is engineered around physical constraints: -48V, cable management, alarm loops, test circuits, rings. You can walk it, trace it, power it.

Modern telco / "UC" is the opposite: logical sprawl over other people's hardware, opaque vendor blobs, licensing servers, soft switches that are really just big Java apps hoping the underlying cloud doesn't get "optimized" out from under them. When the vendor loses interest, the product dies no matter how many 9s it had last quarter.

The irony is that the 5ESS looks overbuilt until you realize its total lifecycle cost was probably lower than three generations of forklifted VoIP, PBX, and UC migrations, plus all the consulting. Bell Labs treated switching as a capital asset with a 30-year horizon. The industry now treats it as a revenue stream with a 3-year sales quota.

Preserving something like this isn't just nostalgia, it's preserving an existence proof: telephony at planetary scale was solved with understandable, serviceable systems that could run for decades. That design philosophy has mostly vanished from commercial practice, but it's still incredibly relevant if you care about building anything that's supposed to outlive the current funding cycle.
by eru | 2025-11-19 08:37:58+00:00
> [...] undermine lower-paid competing workers, and create solidarity among workers.

Nice 'solidarity' there!

> Most US factory workers and miners didn’t end up with good service industry jobs, for example.

Which people are you talking about? More specifically, when?

As long as overall unemployment stays low and the economy keeps growing, I don't see much of a problem. Even if you tried to keep everything exactly as is, you'll always have some people who do better and some who do worse; even if just from random chance. It's hard to blame that on change.

See eg how the draw down of the domestic construction industry around 2007 was handled: construction employment fell over time, but overall unemployment was low and flat. Indicating an orderly shuffling around of workers from construction into the wider economy. (As a bonus point, contrast with how the Fed unnecessarily tanked the wider economy a few months after this re-allocation of labour had already finished.)

> Sure, at a macro level an economist viewing the situation from 30,000 feet sees no problem - meanwhile on the ground, you end up with millions of people ready to vote for a wannabe autocrat who promises to make things the way they were. Trying to treat economics as a discipline separate from politics, sociology, and psychology in these situations can be misleading.

It would help immensely, if the Fed were more competent in preventing recessions. Nominal GDP level targeting would help to keep overall spending in the economy on track.
by tavavex | 2025-11-19 08:38:36+00:00
> Your vacuum cleaner example is ignorant, blockchain is humanity's last way to resist censorship.

You're missing the same point. I was pointing out that the conversation was about hype, not best-case scenarios. The point is that if the tech industry latches onto some new thing, it will be shoved into absolutely everything regardless of its relevance or usefulness to a particular problem. For every open-source project that's driven by smart, passionate developers with a clear goal in mind, you will have ten vacuum cleaners. The new thing that is the object of the hype doesn't matter in this context. That's why they called AI the "new blockchain" - it's not an assessment of how good or bad one is against the other, it's pointing out that both have attained the status of a VC buzzword after being popularized enough.

Local LLMs are actually pretty good, and I've used some in the past when I was more interested in them. Certainly there's a gap between them and the hyper-centralized corporate offerings that can afford to throw endless free compute at you just to retain you as a customer, but it's not like they are inadequate or something. Once the hype dies down, local will probably be the choice of any sane, security-conscious company and open-source devs.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-19 08:39:43+00:00
Sure, a p2p network of people doing distributed pings on a wide range of services sounds like a good idea. Of course, you'd need people willing to run it. A small incentive might be needed... or just a default of "if you want to use this software, you agree to also have your client ping other websites to check if they're up from your location".

But it's not a new idea apparently, a quick search led to https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1lv9flt/built_a... / https://synthmon.io/home,
by VogonPoetry | 2025-11-19 08:40:21+00:00
I agree that my comment about VM was imprecise and inaccurate.

I do dispute your assertion that virtual memory was "disabled". It isn't possible to use V86 mode (what the Intel Docs called it) without having a TSS, GDT, LDT and IDT set up. Being in protected mode is required. Mappings of virtual to real memory have to be present. Switching in and out of V86 mode happens from protected mode. Something has to manage the mappings or have set it up.

Intel's use of "virtual" for V86 mode was cursory - it could fail to work for actual 8086 code. This impacted Digital Research. And I admit my experiences are mostly from that side of the OS isle.

I did go back and re-read some of [0] to refresh some of my memory bitrot.

[0] https://www.ardent-tool.com/CPU/docs/Intel/386/manuals/23098...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-19 08:41:40+00:00
Yes, according to RFC 1035 section 2.3.4 [0], it's 255 octets. Long answer written by a human: https://superuser.com/a/1843870

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035#section-2.3.4
by dzhiurgis | 2025-11-19 08:42:01+00:00
> Using lfp at low temp is not an issue

Bjorn managed to get couple cars in coldgate condition - so cold and such low SOC that it's just not enough power to heat up battery and now you going highway at 60 km/h. IDK, maybe just a software fix, maybe an edge case, but it can happen.
by kev009 | 2025-11-19 08:42:25+00:00
The more I study the 5E I see it as a multicomputer or distributed system. The minicomputers were responsible for OAM and orchestrating the symphony over time, but the communications are happening across the CM which implements the Time/Space/Time fabric and a sea of microcontrollers. I think this clarification is worthwhile because it drives your point about faults in this computer-era and by extension this (micro)services-era home even more -- it's much less mainframe and more distributed system than commonly chronicled, which can be a harder problem especially with the tooling back then.
by smt88 | 2025-11-19 08:42:58+00:00
> Costs to architect systems that serve millions of request daily have gone down. Not up.

I never said serving millions of requests is more expensive. Protecting your servers is more expensive.

> Hell, I would be very curious to know the costs to keep HackerNews running. They probably serve more users than my current client.

HN uses Cloudflare. You're making my point for me. If you included the fixed costs that Cloudflare's CDN/proxy is giving to HN incredibly cheaply, then running HN at the edge with good performance (and protecting it from botnets) would costs hundreds of millions of dollars.

> People want to chase the next big thing to write it on their CV, not architect simple systems that scale. (Do they even need to scale?)

Again, attacking your own straw men here.

Writing high-throughput web applications is easier than ever. Hosting them on the open web is harder than ever.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-19 08:43:47+00:00
> And you can't even implement it yourself because it requires special permissions on Android

That depends on your carrier, which is even worse. There are several ways to activate RCS for a phone number, as this standard is meant for carriers rather than app developers, and the carrier gets to choose which one they want.

I think the reference implementation died around the time carriers shut down their RCS servers because nobody was using them. https://github.com/Hirohumi/rust-rcs-client seems to be the most reason open RCS client at the moment (with an Android demo app).

The real need and opportunity for an RCS messenger is on the LineageOS/custom ROM scene, where these permissions are available (you can sign the ROM yourself, after all).

As for the Google stuff, RCS being routed through Google is an anomaly that will hopefully be fixed as carriers add support to it so native Android <-> iOS messaging isn't completely terrible. Progress has been slow outside of countries that still use SMS (like the USA) but eventually we'll be back to normal carrier-based carrier message exchange once things calm down a bit.

On the Android side of things, I don't expect things to change soon, as most of the restricted fields were at one point available to developers and were mostly used to stalk users across installs without their knowledge for tracking and "telemetry" purposes. A country where people actually use SMS/RCS will have to crack down on Google's lack of an RCS API.
by fooker | 2025-11-19 08:45:09+00:00
> being a factory technician?

This one.

> working in a Ford garage fixing cars

In general (except for Tesla), there are no $Company garages in the US like the rest of the world, all repair work is handled by privately owned dealerships, whose existence is mandated by the government in most states. Experienced mechanics make about 40$ per hour at these, with juniors about half that. You'd not have trouble finding a mechanic for this rate, it being slightly above the median income.
by fouc | 2025-11-19 08:45:24+00:00
By definition, zipper merge means late merge [0]. The problem is that if some cars merge too early, other cars will keep driving down the road and then merging in front of the early mergers, it ends up being disruptive in heavy traffic conditions. If everyone consistently merges at the same point in heavy traffic conditions it's more predictable, leading to better through flow.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_%28traffic%29#Late_merge
by closewith | 2025-11-19 08:46:10+00:00
Okay, thanks. Unfortunately, when I try to sign up to a plan on https://gemini.google/subscriptions/, I am redirected to the Workspace Admin (as I'm a business user and One is only available to personal accounts), where I am offered Google Ultra AI for Business for €216 per month, but I can only upgrade the entire Workspace or nothing!

Is that correct? I can't even upgrade a Group separately?
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-19 08:46:25+00:00
> how many people here are professional trader firms trading someone else's money. if I broke my children do not eat.

"It often happens that someone propounds his views with such positive and uncompromising assurance that he seems to have entirely set aside all thought of possible error. A bet disconcerts him. Sometimes it turns out that he has a conviction which can be estimated at a value of one ducat, but not of ten. For he is very willing to venture one ducat, but when it is a question of ten he becomes aware, as he had not previously been, that it may very well be that he is in error. If, in a given case, we represent ourselves as staking the happiness of our whole life, the triumphant tone of our judgment is greatly abated; we become extremely diffident, and discover for the first time that our belief does not reach so far. Thus pragmatic belief always exists in some specific degree, which, according to differences in the interests at stake, may be large or may be small." -- Immanuel Kant

Perhaps having our opinions moderated by our appetites to bet behind them would help offer a better picture of the world to us than just holding ideas and airing it out to the commons. If you don't want to do that, maybe don't rush to judgement. There's lots of things in the world that I don't understand and I don't have opinions on; I trust that the experts in those fields have informed opinions.

> you could say for half of all threads here, don't talk about it, it's all just doomshilling, just shut up and make a bet on polymarket and make some quick buck instead. but to me it sounds like it's censoring people. these talks is why a forum exists.

I don't think a forum should exist for banal thoughts. Online forums shouldn't be places for people to just say whatever they think. The defining problem on the internet is Low SNR; the amount of irrelevant content far exceeds the amount of relevant content. Search engines and LLMs are huge industries all oriented around surfacing relevant content. I don't think contributing to the net's low SNR to speak "your truth" is a good thing. The end result of that is an internet filled with banal, irrelevant, often incorrect information.

> not "shut up and go gamble on it".

I'd say "if you have nothing new to add, shut up and maybe go gamble on it to test your feelings"
by jcgrillo | 2025-11-19 08:46:31+00:00
> frontier labs, which had already produced a product that was going to eviscerate Google Search (and therefore, Google ad revenue)

> If Google does nothing, they lose.

Is any of that actually true though? In retrospect, had google done nothing their search product would still work. Currently it's pretty profoundly broken, at least from a functional standpoint--no idea how that impacts revenue if at all. To me it seems like google in particular took the bait and went after a paper tiger, and in doing so damaged their product.
by sylware | 2025-11-19 08:46:41+00:00
You are wrong (or evil).

foss, as is, is free as in free beer. There is no sale. It has not to be compared with sold pieces of software like "games" and windows.

And microsoft is doing technical support over some significant (non scammy timeframe) with EOS happening over long period of time (probably legal).

proton even being the same kind of software diarrhea than windows, it is still "different" and needs specific effort to maintain compatibility but it has ZERO official technical support, nil, nada, nothing. It is an extreme case and clear cut case. Valve has to come clean about it, as it may backfire.
by Thorrez | 2025-11-19 08:46:48+00:00
>"no one will burn their DDoS capabilities on you!"

You don't need to burn a DDoS capability to launch a DDoS attack. You just need to pay a few bucks to a booter service. A few minutes of searching turned up these:

https://hardstresser.org/ (this one looks like it offers a free trial)

https://stresserbox.com/

https://ip-stresser.cc/

https://stresser.sx/

https://maxstresser.com/
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-19 08:47:07+00:00
Alternatively you can look at actually innovative programming languages to peek at the next 20 years of innovation.

I am not sure that watching the trendy forefront successfully reach the 1990s and discuss how unwrapping Option is potentially dangerous really warm my heart. I can’t wait for the complete meltdown when they discover effect systems in 2040.

To be more serious, this kind of incident is yet another reminder that software development remains miles away from proper engineering and even key providers like Cloudfare utterly fail at proper risk management.

Celebrating because there is now one popular language using static analysis for memory safety feels to me like being happy we now teach people to swim before a transatlantic boat crossing while we refuse to actually install life boats.

To me the situation has barely changed. The industry has been refusing to put in place strong reliability practices for decades, keeps significantly under investing in tools mitigating errors outside of a few fields where safety was already taken seriously before software was a thing and keeps hiding behind the excuse that we need to move fast and safety is too complex and costly while regulation remains extremely lenient.

I mean this Cloudfare outage probably cost millions of dollars of damage in aggregate between lost revenue and lost productivity. How much of that will they actually have to pay?
by businessmate | 2025-11-19 08:47:16+00:00
Across disciplines and cultures, one principle holds: performance is judged by outcomes. In Japanese knife practice, a blade is not evaluated by appearance or reputation. It is evaluated by the cut. If it slices cleanly through fish today but tears it tomorrow, it fails. English pragmatism expresses the same idea. The only proof that matters is the result.

This principle applies directly to the question many brands, analysts, and auditors now ask about AIVO. Does it work? Not as a concept. Not as a narrative. The real question is whether AIVO produces reproducible, decision-grade evidence under live conditions where AI assistants interpret products, brands, disclosures, and reputations.
by PeteZa | 2025-11-19 08:47:42+00:00
Page 22: The server looks downright depressed. And the client isn't even connected to the server.

On Firefox, the text on the last page shows during the page turn animation. But once the page flattens, the text disappears. I also had similar random pages not rendering if I try to flip through quickly, as when I tried to find page 22.
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by jeroenhd | 2025-11-19 08:49:19+00:00
One issue with Google's RCS implementation is that they've added root detection, something mandatory if you follow the RCS payments spec. Google will probably eventually want to mirror Apple's "send money*" feature to their messenger which precludes GrapheneOS and other non-official software (including Google's GSI images).

*: unless someone does a chargeback after, which makes the money disappear from your account, a major source of "oops I accidentally sent (too much) money (to the wrong person)" scams
by tormeh | 2025-11-19 08:51:00+00:00
Partial disagree. There should be lints against 'unwrap's. An 'expect' at least forces you to write down why you are so certain it can't fail. An unwrap is not just hubris, it's also laziness, and has no place in sensitive code.

And yes, there is a lint you can use against slicing ('indexing_slicing') and it's absolutely wild that it's not on by default in clippy.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-19 08:51:09+00:00
The problem is you're overloading the word "alignment" with two different meanings.

The first is, does the thing actually work and do what the user wanted, or is it a piece of junk that does something useless or undesired by the user?

The second is, what the user wants is porn or drugs or a way to install apps on their iPhone without Apple's permission or military support for a fight that may or may not be sympathetic to you depending on who you are. And then does it do what the user wants or does it do what someone else wants? Is it a tool that decentralizes power or concentrates it?

Nobody is objecting to the first one.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-19 08:52:00+00:00
The RCS protocol is universal. Carrier RCS support is minimal, though, and third-party RCS support was never part of the spec and essentially unimplemented.

Google had to pretend to be everyone's carrier to make RCS work because the GSMA spec assumed everyone would download/install their carriers' messenger apps to use RCS, like you would back in the day with SMS/MMS. This expectation was broken the day Google allowed app developers to write third-party SMS apps, but that hasn't bothered the spec people so far.