MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mananaysiempre | 2025-11-20 19:12:33+00:00
GitHub actually can natively mark a repo as a mirror (or could? I can’t find an example now, but they have always been rare). The book-with-bookmark icon before “user / repo” in the page header is replaced by a mirror-and-reflection-ish–looking thing, and the badge after it changes from “Public” to “Public mirror”. Unfortunately, forcing you into “social coding” (wait, is that no longer on the homepage?) takes priority, so that mark can only be given out by GitHub staff through manual intervention, and it doesn’t often happen.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-20 19:13:58+00:00
I've heard this, but I don't think this is actually true (save for some other services that target children).

The problem isn't just the content, though. It's also the medium. SFV as a medium cripples cognition and attention span. It feeds bad habits, emotionally and intellectually.

How many of Gen Z/Alpha have the attention span to sit through a movie, let alone a book? There's even a joke that if someone says they've binged on a Netflix show, it means they're a millennial: younger generations would find that kind of sustained engagement with a subject boring.

SFV is opposed to the kind of engagement you need for deep work.
by ikkun | 2025-11-20 19:14:07+00:00
my issues with element x are with the client itself, mostly missing features and bad UX. the main reason I don't want unified push is, it's just yet another thing for me to install and maintain, plus all my users need the client app installed. the ntfy server app even defaults to having a full web interface, fortunately it's possible to disable but it's just so much stuff to replace what used to be built-in to the app, to supposedly solve a battery life problem that I've never experienced.

I'm still going to get around to it, because element classic will be deprecated eventually. one of my users is on iOS and has a well-known bug with images not loading, which will probably never get fixed because they're focusing on the new client. and unfortunately I do have users that expect voice calls to work, so it sucks to hear that'll be annoying too.
by vouwfietsman | 2025-11-20 19:15:27+00:00
> And now proponents of GDPR are blaming companies for following GDPR.

Not really, proponents of GDPR are aware that GDPR explicitly blocking trackers would be extremely hard as there is a significant gray area where cookies can be useful but non-essential, so you'd have to define very specifically what constitutes a tracker or do a blanket ban and hurt legitimate use-cases. Both are bad.

For some reason though people think that the body that institutes laws that try to make the world a better place, when loopholes are found and abused for profit, this is somehow the standard body making a mistake, rather than each individual profit-seeking loophole-abusing entity being the problematic and blame-worthy actor.

I never understand why, I guess you work somewhere that makes money off of this.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-20 19:16:19+00:00
MDL was a dialect of lisp invented by/in part/under Sussman, the originator of Scheme and SICP; what you're calling an obscure dialect was was part of the continuum of a research trajectory, one of a number of experimental languages designed to test out ideas. Sussman got his PhD in 1973 so we're talking about his later work as a student/early work as a postdoc/assistant professor, and Abelson was in the same timeframe, and Guy Steele a half decade junior, and many others in the lab whose names you would also recognize.
by verdverm | 2025-11-20 19:16:22+00:00
Has anyone stopped to ask if this is good?

There is already a significant gambling problem in society

1. sports betting (should never have been put in people's pockets, keep it at the casino)

2. cryptos (effectively)

3. a segment in the trad stock market (re: wallstreetbets)

The growth curve is determined by how many gambling addicts they can tap into and take away from non-prediction market outlets
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-11-20 19:16:30+00:00
Others have mentioned the large context window. This matters.

But also important is embeddings.

Tokens in a classic Markov chain are discrete surrogate keys. “Love”, for example, and “love” are two different tokens. As are “rage” and “fury”.

In a modern model, we start with an embedding model, and build a LUT mapping token identities to vectors.

This does two things for you.

First, it solves the above problem, which is that “different” tokens can be conceptually similar. They’re embedded in a space where they can be compared and contrasted in many dimensions, and it becomes less sensitive to wording.

Second, because the incoming context is now a tensor, it can be used with differentiable model, back propagation and so forth.

I did something with this lately, actually, using a trained BERT model as a reranker for Markov chain emmisions. It’s rough but manages multiturn conversation on a consumer GPU.

https://joecooper.me/blog/crosstalk/
by jaggederest | 2025-11-20 19:17:11+00:00
It'd be a lot more than 60C - the goal is to keep the material from cooling past the melting point by the time it's been deposited, and thus the important factor is the rate of energy loss, which is dramatically accelerated in a temperature differential of, say, 650C instead of say 145C - so I'd guess you'd want about 150C - 300C difference.

I'd bet inconel and other high temperature alloys would be eroded very quickly, anything that's fluxed enough to melt below 1000C is going to be extremely corrosive. Hot molten sodium hydroxide levels of corrosive. Fun to think about though, a serious materials challenge for sure.
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-20 19:17:17+00:00
I agree with much of the author’s analysis, but one point feels underweighted. Large shifts like this often produce a counter-movement.

In this case, the reaction is already visible: more interest in decentralized systems, peer-to-peer coordination, and local computing instead of cloud-centric pipelines. Many developers have wanted this for years.

AI companies are spending heavily on centralized infrastructure, but the trend does not exclude the rise of strong local models. The pace of progress suggests that within a few years, consumer hardware and local models will meet most common needs, including product development.

Plenty of people are already moving in that direction.

Qwen models run well locally, and while I still use Claude Code day-to-day, the gap is narrowing. I'm waiting on the NVIDIA AI hardware to come down from $3500 USD
by umanwizard | 2025-11-20 19:17:37+00:00
> I have seen the argument that LLMs can only give you what its been trained on, i.e. it will not be "creative" or "revolutionary", that it will not output anything "new", but "only what is in its corpus".

People who claim this usually don’t bother to precisely (mathematically) define what they actually mean by those terms, so I doubt you will get a straight answer.
by Rohansi | 2025-11-20 19:17:46+00:00
> Used iPhones are cheap Not everyone wants to buy used.

> Kids don't need to be treating their phone as a status symbol. Nobody needs to treat anything as a status symbol but they do. You see it all the time with different brand names, including Apple. It could even happen with different/older models.

> Blame Apple all you want, but don't make your kid suffer socially for it. Buying your kid an Android phone should not make them suffer socially. It's just as capable of running quality messaging apps minus the arbitrary exclusivity of iMessage. I wouldn't want my kid using iMessage even if they had an iPhone just because it will exclude other kids for no good reason.
by ghssds | 2025-11-20 19:18:41+00:00
This is exactly the kind of thing Microsoft likes to opensource: old, crusty, and obsolete. Let's compare. When ID Software opensourced Doom a few years after it's initial release, there was still some life in it and it spawned a myriad of forks and new developments continuing to this day. An active community formed around it. When Microsoft opensourced MSDOS, an opensource clone had existed for so long it was only of interrest to archeologists and historians. It was as whitered and lifeless as Zork is.
by Krasnol | 2025-11-20 19:18:46+00:00
It is sad to see in discussions like this how ugly human behaviour can be. Many people work together to create something good and meaningful only for a few greedy individuals to exploit it.

I hope that one day, in a distant future, humanity will experience an awakening and finally rise against the destructive traits we inherited from our long-gone ancestors.

Maybe bio-hacking will come to our help...but probably it will make everything worse first.

Related: https://newatlas.com/biology/evolution-modern-life-anthropoc...
by Telaneo | 2025-11-20 19:20:41+00:00
The same happened with Silent Hill 2 and 3.[1]

The industry's treatment of its works was pretty horrible back in the day. Not even 25 years earlier, developers had to fight to be credited in games. Lessons take a while to learn, apparently.

[1] https://gamingbolt.com/konami-lost-the-source-code-for-silen...
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-20 19:20:44+00:00
And that popped too. Lots of people who spend good money on "buycatfoodonline.com" and pitched that part of it as the clever bit of the idea. Hey, I came up with the idea, all you have to do is write the site, that's easy isn't it?

No, as it turns out.

But it was fun while it lasted.
by redhale | 2025-11-20 19:20:45+00:00
My immediate hesitance with a tool like this (which sounds awesome) is that I don't actually trust tools like Claude Code unless I have them running in a git directory where I can see exactly what changed, and easily revert when needed.

Do y'all have a solution for this here? Some kind of safety layer of some kind to easily review and optionally revert actions the agent has taken across my entire file system?

The search part of this is cool, but if the write side is solved, shut up and take my money.
by bobchadwick | 2025-11-20 19:21:09+00:00
My family undertook a major renovation where we basically took down everything above the foundation and started from scratch. I went down many of the exact same rabbit holes as the OP and the results ended up being very similar. My takeaway was that the majority of the people working in the home building trades are very closed-minded and are terrified of doing anything that veers too far from the way homes have been build in the US since the middle of the 19th century.
by Chris2048 | 2025-11-20 19:21:16+00:00
I can't possibly defend myself against unsubstantiated, unflattering speculations about me or my perspective - such as that I have comfortable blinders on; or that I 'sound like' some such negative stereotype of a person that you dislike. I do feel you are being honest in what you are saying, but I also think it's not particularly charitable or fair PoV.
by csa | 2025-11-20 19:21:23+00:00
> Don't legitimate IQ tests top out at 160 for adults?

“Top out” can be interpreted many ways. It depends on how they are used.

Modern tests are fairly accurate up to 2sd (70-130). The tests start wavering in accuracy between 2sd and 3sd (55-70 and 130-145).

Over 3sd, and the only thing one can confidently say is that the examinee is most likely lower or higher than 3sd (55 and 145). The tests just don’t have enough data points to discriminate finely beyond those thresholds.

Let me further say that, on the high end, there are very few jobs for which I would make any selection decision based on how high an IQ score (or proxy thereof) is over 130. There are other variables, many of which are easier to measure, that are better predictors of success.

All of this doesn’t even take into consideration that there is relatively more type II error/bias in IQ results — that is, there are plenty of people who score less than their theoretical maximum (e.g., due to poor sleep the previous night), while there are relatively fewer people who score much higher than their theoretical maximum.
by LaurensBER | 2025-11-20 19:21:45+00:00
In general a better option, in the early days of AI video I tried to generate a video of a golden retriever using Google's AI Studio. It generated 4 in the highest quality and charged me 36 bucks. Not a crazy amount but definitely an unwelcome suprise.

Fal.ai is pay as you go and has the cost right upfront.
by Spivak | 2025-11-20 19:21:49+00:00
Does there become a point where reporting on this kind of stuff is just feeding the trolls? Ars is both giving them the reaction they want and platforming their nonsense.

The government put up a poster that says vaccines bad very autism and maybe the right response is to just ignore it. This admin seems to be fueled by outrage and very loud showy public displays of basically nothing when you get down to it. Cool story RFK, anyway moving on.
by antman123 | 2025-11-20 19:22:05+00:00
I dont think you are understanding my experiment. The point isnt the topic. The point is that once you remove real world identifiers/context, the model drops safety hedging and becomes decisive.

Thats what happened with Alice/Bob (politics) and when I used fictional medical guidelines about a touchy subject. The mechanism is the same.

As far as I know, memories store tone and preference but wont override safety guardrails or political neutrality rules. Ill try it with a brand new account in a VPN later

"I would not expect that one party's candidate is always more correct over the other for every possible issue" --> I agree, just wanted to show the same test applied to a different side of the spectrum
by ndiddy | 2025-11-20 19:22:12+00:00
Yeah the code was leaked without Activision's permission a few years ago. It's strange to me that Microsoft has taken this opportunity to clear up the rights to Zork 1-3 but not to the rest of the Infocom back catalog. The other games haven't been available for sale since the mid 90s when Activision put out a shovelware CD collection containing every Infocom game except Hitchhiker's and Shogun, so it's not like they have much commercial value.
by gigel82 | 2025-11-20 19:22:12+00:00
People stuck with Docker for a reason, even after they became user hostile. Almost every selfhosted project in existence provides a docker-compose.yml that's easy to expand and configure to immediately get started. None provide generic OCI containers to run in generic OCI runtimes.

I understand sticking with compatibility at that layer from an "ideal goal" POV, but that is unlikely to see a lot of adoption precisely because applications don't target generic OCI runtimes.
by AlexandrB | 2025-11-20 19:22:24+00:00
American HOAs simply have too much power. In Canada HOAs exist, but their ability to levy fines or put liens on property is much more limited[1] and usually requires actual damage. This effectively eliminates a lot of the ridiculous rules about the size of someone's shed or the species or grass because there's no real way to enforce them.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladviceofftopic/comments/acd767...
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-11-20 19:22:27+00:00
Well yeah, but N+2 but the generation of the +2 loses the first part of N.

If you use a context window of 2, then yes, you might know that word C can follow words A and B, and D can follow words B and C, and therefore generate ABCD even if ABCD never existed.

But it could be that ABCD is incoherent.

For example, if A = whales, B = are, C = mammals, D = reptiles.

"Whales are mammals" is fine, "are mammals reptiles" is fine, but "Whales are mammals reptiles" is incoherent.

The longer you allow the chain to get, the more incoherent it becomes.

"Whales are mammals that are reptiles that are vegetables too".

Any 3-word fragment of that sentence is fine. But put it together, and it's an incoherent mess.
by JohnMakin | 2025-11-20 19:22:33+00:00
What gets lost in this debate, which to me seems settled in favor of the actual science done over the last several decades, is how insulting and dehumanizing it is to use autism spectrum disorder as the boogeyman for vaccines, to the point people are passing on treatment for completely preventable, horrible diseases on the belief there is a small chance their kid could come out gasp "autistic."

Up to 70% of people on the autism spectrum are considered high functioning, requiring minimal to moderate support. That's the other insulting thing about it - the fact that the worst autistic outcomes (nonverbal, low IQ, etc.) are used to represent the whole of the population.

The whole thing is gross. Say somehow you could eliminate autism spectrum disorder - there goes half your IT staff.
by MangoToupe | 2025-11-20 19:22:37+00:00
> My understanding was that it was the tenant rights movement that killed SROs and boarding houses by making it practically impossible to keep them orderly, because it made eviction almost impossible and compliance with anti-discrimination laws presented too large a burden for low-cost housing.

You could also just as easily argue it was naive reliance on the market that led to this failure. It doesn't take much thought to come to the conclusion that this approach will never fully alleviate basic housing concerns.
by Animats | 2025-11-20 19:22:39+00:00
I was doing this in 1980-1983. Here's some code.[1] It's been partly converted to Common LISP, but I was unable to get some of the macros to work.

This is the original Oppen-Nelson simplifier, the first SAT solver. It was modified by them under contract for the Pascal-F Verifier, a very early program verifier.

We kept all the code under SCCS and built with make, because the LISP part was only part of the whole system.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/pasv/tree/master/src/CPC4
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-20 19:23:07+00:00
It sounds like I had the option. I had called the cops and talked to them, and she told me that the only option she had at that point was to arrest him and we didn't really have grounds for that at the time. But when she learned we had a shared kitchen she told me the simplest option was to evict him and then if he refused to leave to call them back and they could help enforce the order.
by Ccecil | 2025-11-20 19:23:13+00:00
This has been going on for at least 15 years. But it is a wider scale than just the Border patrol. Police agencies monitoring cameras and working with other agencies to notify in advance of people coming through. Flagged plates are pulled over. IIRC, "Desert snow" was part of this. [1] I suppose the new thing now is the bandwidth and tech to watch more cars. Local police forces and cities are purchasing more readers and installing them on cars and around town in certain bottlenecks. In my town there has been a bit of an uproar...but about 25 years too late (my area started this after 9/11).

Certain highways have always been worse than others though. Back in 2013 I was working with Trinitylabs in Portland developing 3d printers (For those of you in Ruby on rails this was Ezmobius' company). After working for a week doing 15hr days getting 3d printers assembled I was driving home along the Columbia river gorge but I was on the highway on the Washington side. I was pulled over in the middle of nowhere at ~10pm for going 8mph over the limit. After a bit of talking and letting him know what I was doing..including a 20min conversation about 3d printing on the side of the highway in literally the middle of nowhere [2] the officer tells me "I only pulled you over because you are on a known drug running highway...and you are driving an Audi which is a known drug runner car."

At least he was honest :)

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2014-09-09-police-seizure-black-asp...

[2] We were so far out that he his radio wouldn't work to contact his dispatch...he had to use a cellphone :)
by LexiMax | 2025-11-20 19:23:18+00:00
PHP is a perfect example of how to undergo major transitions correctly.

In the time that it took Python to go from Python 2 to 3, PHP underwent 5.2 -> 5.3 and 5.6 -> 7.0. 5.3 changed how you write PHP in a fundamental way by introducing namespaces and PSR0 autoloading. Then, 5.6 -> 7.0 cleaned up the parser, resulting in massive speed improvements.

They did this by not breaking the universe in these major updates...or really, any of there updates. Each update would break a few specific things, warn you about a few other things that were going to break in the near future, while giving you ways to shim the old behavior if you _really_ needed it.

They also gave you ample carrots reasons to update - aside from what was already mentioned, my personal favorite update was PHP 5.4 because it introduced short array syntax, made UTF-8 the default charset, introduced traits, and finally put register globals and magic quotes out of their misery...but giving you a shim if you had some ancient project that needed it.

If you're wondering why PHP 6 was abandoned, it was because it was an update in the style of Python 3 by breaking strings everywhere. In retrospect, I think the decision to cancel 6 was the right one. Somehow, I doubt that PHP would've had the influx of data science and AI that saved Python 3.

Hats off to the project - I've long been off of the CGI-style web development narcotic, but the language put food on my table for quite some time, and the people steering the language treated their community well.
by rft | 2025-11-20 19:23:48+00:00
Grounding all MD-11s and DC-10s is a major move. I guess it makes sense as a big factor was the fatigue cracks on the pylon (lugs), despite the pylon not being behind on inspections. I am wondering what the inspections of pylons in other planes will yield, likely that will determine whether the grounding will continue.

But beyond figuring out why the engine mount failed, I am very interested in what caused the actual crash. "Just" losing thrust in a single engine is usually not enough to cause a crash, the remaining engine(s) have enough margin to get the plane airborne. Of course this was a major structural failure and might have caused additional damage.

EDIT: It seems there was damage to the engine in the tail, even though this was not specified in the preliminary report, likely because it has not been sufficiently confirmed yet.
by graemep | 2025-11-20 19:23:53+00:00
I think its the other way around. Python became the language of choice for AI because it was already popular. Lots of things made it popular: use for systems management scripts, web apps (Django, especially), then numerical stuff,...

I think the reason is that it is easy to learn enough to get things done, but it is very flexible, very readable, and once the ecosystem started gaining momentum (which it clearly had by the time of the XKCD cartoon) that became an advantage too.
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-11-20 19:24:34+00:00
IANAL but copyright is typically the year of first publication.

I could see this being important here in two ways:

1. If the source code of Zork has not been made available to the public before, then now is the year of publication.

2. If Zork source code has previously been made available to the public, perhaps the version published here has had changes made, in which case now is the year of publication of this version of the source code.

I assume that when Microsoft opens source code they have a team of lawyers that have solid legal arguments for what the copyright year should be in each case.

Therefore, maybe it’s even possible legally that

3. Even if source code was previously made available, and even if no changes were made in any way since then to any of the included source code or other files, perhaps just the act of using a different license is in its own way part of how copyright applies. Publishing something under a specific license in $CURRENT_YEAR does not retroactively make the license apply before the time at which it was made available under that license and so perhaps an argument could be made that copyright year in a license includes taking that into consideration.