MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tim333 | 2025-11-19 16:57:14+00:00
The work an ordinary job and support a house, wife and two kids thing is down to economic policy rather than tech. Houses have been treated as financial assets where you have to restrict supply to keep the prices up.

You could build a manufatured house for ~$60000 or a couple or years salary like https://siphouse.co.uk/product/insulated-summer-house-with-v... if it wasn't for planning laws preventing it.

or https://www.claytonhomes.com/homes/36TRU28684RH/ Maybe 2x that for govt sponsored high rises like they have in Asia

That may look basic but is similar to what you could get in the 1960s. I mean what do you actually need?

I think we may need a return to slightly more lefty policies - still free enterprise but everyone has a right to a reasonable home and ok income (healthcare etc)
by pbiggar | 2025-11-19 16:57:33+00:00
Another way these app stores enable censorship is by having arcane and inscrutable review processes, where they often ban your app for no reason with no recourse (unless you know a Googler or Apple employee, who can investigate).

For example, we work with Aween Rayeh [1], an app that provides real-time traffic information about Israeli checkpoints in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The author's account was banned for no reason at all on Google Play [2]. There was no means to get an appeal or a review.

What typically we see happening is that someone internally at these companies issues a ban for what we assume are ideological reasons. Then when someone looks into it there's no actual reason for the ban to have happened, and it sails through. We see similar thing with shadow banning on social media: someone gets hard flagged and their account is completely shut down, and then when someone looks into it, there was never a reason to do it in the first place.

[1] https://www.aweenrayeh.com/ [2] https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thre...
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-19 16:57:36+00:00
> We don't need advanced lighting systems in a top down city builder.

You don't need a lot of things. The developers wanted the game to look better than the first, so went with HDRP because it claims to be a production ready pipeline that helps them achieve that.

But it was not and the developers did not have the time, or perhaps skill, to work around it's issues.

> we should probably reach for Unreal and flip on TAA like everyone else is doing.

First of all: "Just ask the entire studio to throw out all existing work and retrain staff to change their engine."

Second of all: Do you mean DLSS? TAA is an AA technique, it does not improve performance.

Third of all: Unreal? The engine notoriously ragged on as dragging down the performance of countless games in the last 2 years because it too has features that are easy to turn on and look good, but require skill and knowledge to fine-tune to be reasonably performant? That Unreal?
by AbstractH24 | 2025-11-19 16:57:48+00:00
It's been 2 months. Certianly not a worthwhile time horizon to judge this investment over.

The apartment I bought 3.5 years ago is worth less than when I purchased. But buying an apartment if you plan to sell after 3.5 years is nuts. I'm confident it'll be worth more than I bough 7 or so years from now.

Also, 3.5 years ago, interest rates were significantly lower. I hadn't taken the opportunity to buy when I did, getting into the market would cost me much more and my eventual returns would be much lower.
by ajross | 2025-11-19 16:57:57+00:00
You mention it last, but I think PHP was most of it. PHP was the first and best-integrated technology for this world, which was huge and impactful. The "center of thought" in the text processing problem area moved hard to web development. And so the ideas about what needs to be improved or changed rapidly centered themselves around "Things PHP Did Badly". And that begat Ruby and Node, not a fixed-up Perl.

Perl remained (and remains!) eminently useful in its original domain of Unix system automation glue and ad-hoc text analysis. But it was denied a path to the future by PHP, and by the time PHP was itself replaced it was too late.

Finally everyone else (python in particular) sorta caught up to the "clever systems glue" feature set, and the world moved on entirely. Perl is mostly forgotten now except by those of us who lived it.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-19 16:58:12+00:00
> Throwing an exception does not necessarily mean that your program is suddenly in an unsupported state, and therefore does not require terminating the entire program.

That's not what a panic means. Take a read through Go's panic / resume mechanism; it's similar to exceptions, but the semantics (with multiple return values) make it clear that panic is for exceptional situations. (IE, panic isn't for "file not found," but instead it's for when code isn't written to handle "file not found.")

Even Rust has mechanisms to panic without aborting the process, although I will readily admit that I haven't used them and don't understand them: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.resume_unwind.html
by vorpalhex | 2025-11-19 16:58:34+00:00
One of the classic roles of the government is to prevent certain unfair business setups. For instance, providers of a service aren't supposed to have agreements to not compete and carve off markets from each other. Likewise price fixing is prohibited.

Apple already lost here when it attempted to prevent people from even linking to other payment platforms. That was "their platform" until it wasn't, thanks to a court.

Giving them exclusive control to police speech - legal speech - without an opt out that doesn't involve thousands of dollars of loss is also "part of their platform" today.

I actually disagree with the ICEBlock app.. but that's for the courts to decide if it's legal, not a private company.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-19 16:58:53+00:00
> Does this standard apply to all people or just trans people?

All.

> Why or why not?

Because the self as a concept only exists within the mind of the individual and it's sole source for determination is what that individual says. It's non-falsifiable so taking people at their word is simply the only option.

> Do you think this[1] individual is who they say they are?

Sure. There are shitty transpeople too.

> Why or why not?

See above.

And if you're asking how you prevent that person from being a threat to other people in the prison, well, there's a lot to unpack there.

For immediate solutions, solitary confinement. I don't like it as a policy but the neo-nazi movement is openly male-supremacist and this person, woman or not, is a threat to other women. If she wants to be sent to a women's prison it's the prison's duty to see that incarceration pass with as few incidents as possible, so the only logical path forward is isolation from other inmates.

For broader solutions: the fact that we segregate prisons along sex lines is going to always be a problem for trans offenders, but I also understand why that segregation exists and it's obvious. If we assume those same risks are valid, then any transwoman in a woman's prison is a threat, and any transmasculine person in a men's prison is threatened, and nonbinary folk are going to be all kinds of lost in that system. So, logically, we should expand the range of available prison facilities to account for this. Transwomen would go to a transwoman's prison, which would be identical to a woman's prison, apart from not having ciswomen in it, and vice-versa. And I guess you'd also need enby-jails too.

Though if you want my personal opinion, I think there's a much easier solution to this particular offender, and it's the same solution I'd prescribe for any Nazi, regardless of their gender identity.
by gruez | 2025-11-19 16:58:58+00:00
>How is this relevant? Yes, in a custom ROM - USER NEEDS TO BE CAREFUL. (i.e) if someone installs random app

It's relevant because it's an exploit vector that can be easily closed with basically zero downside, but for whatever reason it hasn't. Besides the risk of having such holes in the first place, the lack of willingness to fix is indicative of the security culture of the organization as a whole (ie. not very good).

>I am yet to see proof that this causes major meltdown.

It doesn't cause a major meltdown because most people don't use lineageos, so mass infections don't bother targeting them. That doesn't mean the system is actually secure. It's like using netscape navigator to browse the web. It might not cause a "major meltdown", but only because nobody bothers targeting it, not because it's actually secure.

>Assuming a phone was securely installed (after verifying sha/sig) with lineageOS RECOVERY and ROM - it will not accept a build with different sign keys. (i.e) AOSP keys.

Right, but the allegation is that /e/os uses test keys, either intentionally or through incompetence.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-19 16:59:04+00:00
Sure there is... Forking and convincing a significant portion of users and contributors to move with you.

This happened with iojs... Which is where Node as an org today came from. It happened with xfree86 to xorg...

It also fails plenty... I'm the the, you are not entitled to someone else's work. Make your own, or if the license permits, create your own fork... And if you lack the technical ability, sucks to be you.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-19 16:59:12+00:00
> The divide between religion and cult is just a distinction between what's deemed acceptable behavior by society.

This is misconception. It's not about the extremism of the belief. It's about the mechanism of control.

Take the "cults" of the moment: Qanon/MAGA, for example, operate like a personality cult in many identifiable ways, but are not actually cults, because you can leave without much difficulty if you set your mind to it.

On the fringes US politics encourages ostracising family members who do not agree, but these movements do not have a mechanism of control (financial control combined with a commitment to cutting off family members).

There may be cult sects within MAGA/QAnon that get close, perhaps (just as there are at the fringes of all strange and mainstream religious beliefs)
by nijave | 2025-11-19 16:59:19+00:00
We had better uptime with AWS WAF in us-east-1 than we've had in the last 1.5 years of Cloudflare.

I do like the flat cost of Cloudflare and feature set better but they have quite a few outages compared to other large vendors--especially with Access (their zero trust product)

I'd lump them into GitHub levels of reliability

We had a comparable but slightly higher quote from an Akamai VAR.
by duped | 2025-11-19 16:59:26+00:00
You're going to have a difficult time arguing that the economy was good for white men in the 1960s because it was bad for everyone else. Prosperity is not zero sum.

Perhaps it has more to do with the lower ratio of people crippled by household debt to pay for housing, healthcare, and education. There's nothing more K-shaped than debt, which is a lever for those with wealth and a weight for everyone else. It's a combination of bad policy and greed that put us where we are.
by vidarh | 2025-11-19 16:59:28+00:00
Of course, we struggle to get humans to low error rates on large number of steps in sequence too, to the point where we devote vast amount of resources to teaching discipline, using checklists, doing audits and reviews to coax reliability out of an unreliable process.

So nobody should be surprised that this also applies to LLMs.

The issue is when people assumes that a zero failure rate, or even close to zero, is necessary for utility, even though we don't need that from humans for humans to be useful for complex tasks.

For a whole lot of tasks, the acceptable error rate boils down to how costly it is to work around, and that is a function of the error rate, consequence of an error that slips past, and the cost of a "reliable enough" detector to let us mitigate to whatever extent is cost effective by using one or more detection steps.

For a lot of uses, voting or putting the AI in a loop, produces a good enough results cheap enough. For some it will require models with lower error rates first.

For some applications, sure, maybe solvers will be part of that, or in the mix. As will a lot of other tools. E.g. Claude likes to try to bisect when I ask it to fix a parser problem, and Claude is really bad at doing sensible bisection, so I had it write a dumb little bisection tool instead, and told it steps to solve this type of problem that includes using that tool. So when we can have planning steps output "microsteps" that we can automate with more deterministic tools, then we absolutely should.

Heck, the models themselves "likes" to write tools to automate if you give them long lists of tedious little tasks to do, to the point it's effort to make them not do it even when they have to write the tools themselves.
by adishj | 2025-11-19 16:59:29+00:00
hey! You're right that most of the basic tools like splitting / trimming are available right in the timeline. but things like adding a keyframe to animate a counter, for instance, I had no idea where to go or how to start.

Scrubbing is easy enough when you have short footage, but imagine scrubbing through the footage we had of 5 hours of cars driving by, or maybe a bunch of assets. This quickly becomes very tedious.
by gruez | 2025-11-19 16:59:51+00:00
>In 2019, I have done an experiment: talk about a conspicuous topic in presence of an unlocked Google Pixel. Minutes later there were suggestions of relevant to that topic articles in Google app.

That's hardly a conclusive experiment when there wasn't a control group, and sample size was 1. That's the issue with the "facebook/google/whatever is secretly listening to you" conspiracy theories: plenty of anecdotes, zero rigorous testing.
by leejo | 2025-11-19 17:01:06+00:00
I may blog about this next year, again[^1], as I'm working on a project that sort of covers it - not in a way that will answer the question but more observational.

Anyway, I feel Perl's popularity was hugely exaggerated in the mid to late 90s and early 00s. The alternatives were either not there in terms of language and toolchain features, ease of use, "whipuptitude" or whatever, or library support (CPAN was a killer app), or they were too old school or enterprisey. Sysadmins were using it everywhere so it got into all sorts of systems that other languages couldn't without much more faff.

Its back compatibility meant it stayed in those places for a long time. It's still in a lot of those places.

The fall in popularity the last decade or two was more of a regression to the mean, or perhaps below the mean. Many other languages have come along, which have contributed even more to the fall in share.

Yes, yes, Raku (né Perl 6) but I'd argue that also contributed to a lot of really good stuff on CPAN. The Perl 5 core did get neglected for a number of years, as @autarch says, which may have been a factor.

[^1] previously: https://leejo.github.io/2017/12/17/tpc_and_the_end_of_langua...
by volkk | 2025-11-19 17:02:22+00:00
I felt the same thing when i was 22--kids aren't for me, this world sucks, etc etc. Eventually I "grew up," toned down short term hedonistic pleasures, read books that deepened my connection to humanity and realized family is extremely meaningful.

First off, there's nothing new about interviewing people who are in their early 20s and hearing moaning and groaning about how this world sucks and it's not worth bringing anyone into it. I'm not religious whatsoever, but there's something deeply spiritual about the human experience of family/kids. It's certainly not for everyone if you're mature enough to understand the downsides and decide not to--but the secondary point I want to make is that I think most people are naive/immature. They follow trends and take a lot of direction from social media. The endless short term dopamine hits from every corner of your life will definitely have anybody questioning -- "why would i make my life harder when i can live only for myself and continue tiktoking in the evenings for 3 hours" -- our society is fundamentally broken, and that's not just the USA. I've traveled to other places and have bumped into the social media zombies everywhere.
Show HN: We built an AI tool for working with massive LLM chat log datasets
by platypii | 2025-11-19 17:02:53+00:00
There’s an important problem with AI that nobody’s talking about. AI’s entire lifecycle is tons of data in for training, and an even larger amount of text data out. Traditional tools can’t handle the sheer volume of text, leaving teams overwhelmed and unable to make their data work for them.

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Example: Using the chat, ask Hyperparam’s AI agent to score every conversation in a 100K-row dataset for sycophancy, filter out the worst responses, adjust prompts, regenerate, and export your dataset V2. It all runs in one browser tab with no waiting and no lag.

It’s free while it’s in beta if you want to try it on your own data.
by fluoridation | 2025-11-19 17:02:55+00:00
>A satisfying alternative to what?

A satisfying alternative to legitimate connections, formed organically.

>A cult recruiter (or MLM or whatever) is offering what you need

No, it's offering a shallow facsimile of it, with the intent of exploiting you.

>Your ability to assess that, to judge which relationships can safely meet these needs, is exactly what is compromised by having those experiences.

Yes, that is what I'm saying. You can be able to enjoy all those things you said, and also have the ability to judge when someone just wants to manipulate you, or exploit you, or when the offer is too good to be true.
by shagie | 2025-11-19 17:02:57+00:00
The duopoly comes about from a few things forcing it.

There's the "it took a while to build it." iOS and android had decades of time to get to where they are now and centuries of developer hours put into writing it. That makes it challenging for others to get in. It isn't impossible, but it's really challenging. For the company, it's likely a loss for a long while before it becomes a possibility of not being a loss. The windows phone was being worked on for 3 years before the iPhone was released and wasn't released for another 3 years... and wasn't exactly a success.

Next is the licensing of the modems for the phone spectrum. That takes FCC approval in the US and isn't something that random companies do without good reason. Part of that licensing is the requirement that it is locked down sufficiently that the user can't do malicious things on the radio spectrum with the device... and that tends to go against many of the open source ideals. It's a preemptive Tivoization of the device.

Assuming that those two parts are down, the next challenge is to make it a tool that you'd use in place of an iPhone or an android phone. Things like holding PCI data. That again makes it difficult to do. Persuading a bank that the device can act as a payment card and that the authorization is sufficient to avoid fraud from either the apps on the device or the user being able to inject other payment cards that they don't own into the device.

Likewise, things like allowing the device's digital wallet to act as the identification card. https://www.tsa.gov/digital-id/participating-states https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/apple-introduces-digi... - those require trust between the government and the company that is likely absent with a open source device.

I'd love to see an iPod touch like device (non phone) that allows me to run apps or develop my own and build up an ecosystem and demonstrate that trusting it is feasible... but so far I haven't seen many that have lasted beyond kickstarter money running out. I've got a Remarkable ... which isn't exactly small (or cheap). I'd like to see more things like that in other form factors that allow me to do things with it akin to https://developer.remarkable.com
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-19 17:02:58+00:00
> More supply isn't helping much either,

that's because "more supply" hasn't been anywhere close to enough supply, judging by historical housing needs by population age demographics. More supply is absolutely the key thing missing, but it needs to be a lot more supply.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/16/housing-market-why-homes-ex...
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-19 17:02:58+00:00
I guess what I'm getting at is that there should've been standardization around a fully web-based protocol that does not involve the carriers in any way.

Like imagine if instead of investing in RCS, Google instead created a web-based "Advanced Messaging Protocol" or something to that effect, which specifies capabilities roughly in line with those of RCS. The big guys like Google, Apple, Meta, and MS would run their own servers, but there'd be no reason why smaller players like FastMail and Proton couldn't also run them. Most users would just roll with the major providers pre-configured on their platform of choice but more savvy users could choose their own.

That could've rolled out and been adopted and iterated upon far more quickly than RCS has.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-11-19 17:02:59+00:00
We've got daytime running lights for years here south of Canada, almost everyone has them enabled by default, but they seem not mandated still.

Anyway, occasionally F150 / Silverado lights are mis-aimed, so low beams seem bright, but more commonly (here) German and American cars with distinct fixtures for brights vs low beans are driving in daylight with both sets activated. Not sure why, but it's not unusual.
by bashkiddie | 2025-11-19 17:03:09+00:00
I do not understand why your comment got downvoted:

I do receive spam in Signal, because i had to register a phone number.

I loose my chat history if I do not log into the desktop client for FIXNUM days.

The desktop client may crash as soon as you kill its supporting terminal.

I have tried the user name feature once and signal reported, that they had lost my username, I would need to create a new one.

I have not tried backup and restore. So far I am not in the mood for a potential failure.
by jandrese | 2025-11-19 17:03:35+00:00
That is still very much not my experiance. I ride on the roads a bit and usually cars are fine, although there are people with aftermarket lights and people who just leave high beams on all the time in heavy traffic. But I've experienced riding down the road with oncoming traffic in the other direction and doing just fine until a bicycle comes and blinds me just like the high intensity high beam guys. They are generally much brigter in terms of light delivered directly to the eyeballs of oncoming traffic. Are you sure people aren't seeing you because your lights are too dim, or because you're making it impossible to see anything around them?
by lemoncookiechip | 2025-11-19 17:03:41+00:00
There are no leaders. Every other month a new LLM model comes out and it outperforms the previous ones by a small margin, the benchmarks always look good (probably because the models are trained on the answers) but then in practice they are basically indistinguishable from the previous ones (take GPT4 vs 5). We've been in this loop since around the release of ChatGPT 4 where all the main players started this cycle.

The biggest strides in the last 6-8 months have been in generative AIs, specifically for animation.
by IanCal | 2025-11-19 17:03:50+00:00
It depends a lot about the ratios here. There's a fast flip between "interesting but useless" and "useful" when the tradeoff flips.

How fast can you check the contribution? How small of a part is it? An unsolicited contribution is different from one you immediately directed. Do you need to reply? How fast are followups? Multi-day back and forths are a pain, a fast directed chat is different. You don't have to worry about being rude to an LLM.

Then it comes down to how smart a frontier model is vs the people who write to mathematicians. The latter groups will be filled with both smart helpful people and cranks.