MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-19 06:47:46+00:00
> The vast majority of people do not suffer this with COVID.

How do you know? The vast majority of people don't check. (The plural of anecdote is not data.)

> As I said I've had to deal with someone that behaves exactly like you do for my entire life.

Baseless worry and justified concern are behaviourally quite similar, apart from the actual existence of the phenomenon that is the subject of concern. Identifying a behavioural similarity does not help you distinguish between legitimate risk and hypochondria.
by adwn | 2025-11-19 06:49:43+00:00
What you're describing is called the "Actor model"; in your example, the receiver is an actor that has exclusive control over all bank accounts.

The actor model reaches its limits as soon as you need transactions involving two or more actors (for example, if you need to atomically operate on both the customers actor and the bank accounts actor). Then you can either pull all involved concerns into a single actor, effectively giving up on concurrency, or you can implement a locking protocol on top of the actor messages, which is just mutexes with extra steps.
by aw1621107 | 2025-11-19 06:49:45+00:00
> if you playing chess then its oblivious how to differentiate bad move and best move

The key words in what I said are "general" and "objective". Yes, it's possible to determine "good" or "bad" moves in specific positions. There's no known method to determine "good" or "bad" moves in arbitrary positions, as would be required for chess to be considered strongly solved.

Furthermore, if it's "obvious" how to differentiate good and bad moves then we should never see engines blundering, right?

So (for example) how do you explain this game between Stockfish and Leela where Stockfish blunders a seemingly winning position [0]? After 37... Rdd8 both Stockfish and Leela think white is clearly winning (Stockfish's evaluation is +4.00, while Leela's evaluation is +3.81), but after 38. Nxb5 Leela's evaluation plummets to +0.34 while Stockfish's evaluation remains at +4.00. In the end, it turns out Leela was correct after 40... Rxc6 Stockfish's evaluation also drops from +4.28 to 0.00 as it realizes that Leela has a forced stalemate.

Or this game also between Stockfish and Leela where Leela blunders into a forced mating sequence and doesn't even realize it for a few moves [1]?

Engines will presumably always play what they think is the "best" move, but clearly sometimes this "best" move is wrong. Evidently, this means differentiating "good" and "bad" moves is not always obvious.

> Yes it is objective, these thing called best move not without reason

If it's objective, then why is it possible for engines to disagree on whether a move is good or bad, as they do in the above example and others?

> to create better chess engine like what do even talking about here????

The ability to create better chess engines necessarily implies that chess engines can and do make mistakes, contrary to what you asserted.

> are you saying just because there are older bad engine that mean this thing is pointless ????

No. What I'm saying is that your explanation for why chess engines are better than humans is wrong. Chess engines are not better than humans because they have solved chess in the mathematical sense; chess engines are better than humans because they search the state space faster and more efficiently than humans (at least until you reach 7 pieces on the board).

> up until that point that you know high level chess is brute force games and therefore solvable math

"Solvable" and "solved" are two very different things. Chess is solvable, in theory. Chess is very far from being solved.

[0]: https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship#event=309&...

[1]: https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship#event=309&...
by LexiMax | 2025-11-19 06:50:15+00:00
Building an identity? Us vs them? What are you even talking about? If that was an attempt at trying to reframe this conversation using identity politics - politics you are well aware that HN doesn't handle very well - it was an awfully clumsy one.

I don't see people who are addicted to social media but starving for real social connections as some other side of a debate. I see them as victims of an insidious social experiment created by some of the most anti-social and immoral people on the planet.

Social Media is corrosive to society by design, and I think that we will look back on the era of cramming everybody into one of a few shared social spaces that all go out of their way to anger you people monetary gain as an enormous mistake. But I don't blame the social media users themselves for falling into the trap.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-19 06:51:05+00:00
Ironically Bill Gates was big into UNIX, see his Xenix interview, and had they not gotten lucky with the whole MS-DOS deal, maybe they would have kept Xenix and who knows how that would have turned out.

Xenix was also my introduction to UNIX.

However due to our school resources, there was a single PC tower running it, we had to prepare our examples in MS-DOS using Turbo C 2.0, and API mocks, and take 15m turns at the Xenix PC.
by superice | 2025-11-19 06:51:07+00:00
I don't like the superpower vibe either. I do not entirely look negative upon my ADHD, but then again, to what degree it is my personality and to what degree it is the disorder, I don't know. If others want to view their ADHD as a superpower, I'm all for it, but pushing this narrative too hard doesn't feel constructive.

For me personally, I tend to view myself as a human with some characteristics which in most contexts are not helpful, but make me uniquely suited for other situations. I try to avoid the word 'broken', but for a long time I thought about myself as 'broken in a sometimes useful way'. My burden in life is to manage and control the characteristics where they are disadvantaging me, and position myself as much as I can in positions where these characteristics are useful assets. To hook into your winter metaphore: If you always feel cold, working in a tropic resort where others would feel continually hot, sweaty and uncomfortable might just be perfect for you.

Where it crosses the line for me is neurotypical people saying 'oh I don't need winter clothes, and anyone who does is must be to use a shortcut and should just jog themselves warm instead'. Or even ADHD people saying: 'My feeling cold all the time is a superpower, you should just go work in your local sauna and you'll have no problem at all!'. Great, happy that you guys don't have this issue or figured out a workaround, but I do, and I need my damn winter clothes. I wish I didn't, I'll look for warmer situations, but I need them right now.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-19 06:51:22+00:00
This sounds fantastic. "Local control over building" always ends up being a bunch of NIMBYs making life hard. Considering the amount of "it will ruin this community" I've heard about literally every possible thing, and the idea of "environmental review" to block a "historic parking lot" from being replaced by a food bank, I think a deadline with by-right building is good.
by pdimitar | 2025-11-19 06:52:18+00:00
Yeah true, I don't deny it. My bigger point was that it was basically negligence. And it was in a very high-profile product making likely hundreds of millions (the shark cards).

Meanwhile I got fired because I could not keep up with impossible demands (which has been acknowledged by multiple people in the company but they did not want to burn political capital by going against the decision maker who was a petty tyrant who could not handle disagreement and fired me the first time I said what he was doing was not okay).

Anyway, I got a bit bitter. :)

But in general, to me that story is embarrassing.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-19 06:52:51+00:00
It was originally started in 2007 and first deployments started rolling out around 2012. The US carriers were just spectacularly bad at implementing it, so Google swooped in and did it themselves. Then they extended it in non-standard ways and added E2EE. Good, but not standard so also not as helpful as it sounds because if your conversation partners aren't (or weren't, maybe it's better now?) using Google's implementation then your conversations were sent in the clear, just like MMS and SMS before it.
by hambes | 2025-11-19 06:53:09+00:00
probably not relevant to you, since it is yet another tool for managing your development environment, but maybe have a look at devenv (https://devenv.sh). it's main purpose is managing the development environment, but it has integration for pre-commit (or even prek iirc) that let's pre-commit do it's thing, but takes over the dependency management.
by joecool1029 | 2025-11-19 06:53:45+00:00
There isn't specialized hardware support. As I remember Samsung had their own RCS implementation with some carriers (T-Mobile, possibly AT&T but I'm not sure there). They sunset this and moved to Google Messages. Those android devices would report which servers they used. This of course is hidden from the Apple user.

I was going to make the MMS section of this post about the 'ISIS Wallet' boondoggle that is the closest business parallel I can think of to RCS and actually did require specialized hardware support. Same 3 carriers I've been trying RCS with on the iPhone tried to make a mobile payment wallet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard They rebranded it to Softcard since the 'We support ISIS' branding aged like milk. Google Wallet competed and took over the assets, sort of like what happened with RCS.

For the specialized hardware... the SIM card needed to have an embedded secure element that handled the keys for the payment system and the phone needed to support connecting to that secure element on the SIM card. I think these started to hit the market in 2010 or so, and you would have had to have a SIM card new enough to support it, here's a pic of the T-Mobile one, I had one: https://www.tmonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Sh...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-19 06:55:12+00:00
> Silent failure is ultimately terrible for users.

Agreed.

Unfortunately, crashes in iOS are “silent failures,” and are a loss of control.

What this practice does, is give me the option to handle the failure “noisily,” and in a controlled manner; even if just emitting a log entry, before calling a system failure. That can be quite helpful, in threading. Also, it gives me the option to have a valid value applied, if there’s a structural failure.

But the main reason that I do that with @IBOutlets, is that it forces me to acknowledge, throughout the rest of the code, that it’s an optional. I could always treat implicit optionals as if they were explicit, anyway. This just forces me to.

I have a bunch of practices that folks can laugh at, but my stuff works pretty effectively, and I sleep well.
by mmastrac | 2025-11-19 06:55:48+00:00
Publishing private correspondence with single board member(s) is super distasteful because the opinion of one member is not the opinion of the whole board. Sure, he got tacit agreement from one, but that's not agreement with the organization as a whole.

That's putting aside how gross it is for your personal comms to leak in public when you might be a little more candid about what's going on.

How can you trust someone who's willing to violate your privacy like that?

The whole drama is interesting as an outsider, but I can't be left without feeling that newPebble is trying to jump start a commercial venture via shortcuts.

Rebble was never going to change the world but they seemed to be very good at maintaining status quo + many small benefits and just reliably serving that.
by ergocoder | 2025-11-19 06:57:34+00:00
Not really.

If both sides don't trust each other, no amount license nor contract would suffice.

It would be a headache to prove the other side violate licenses.

In fact, they are already fighting on whether Eric was scraping data illegally or not, and people's opinions are divided. This would be an expensive lawsuit for both sides.

At the current level of trust, it's better not to do any business together at all.
by thisisit | 2025-11-19 06:58:07+00:00
> after about 20 mins - oh, no. Out of credits.

And the say:

Our modeling suggests that a very small fraction of power users will ever hit the per-five-hour rate limit, so our hope is that this is something that you won’t have to worry about, and you feel unrestrained in your usage of Antigravity

You have to wonder what kind of models did they run for this.
by Ekaros | 2025-11-19 06:58:58+00:00
There is talk about bailout, but is it first possible. Second how long will it post pone issue. Massive increase in government debt used in bailout likely leads to more inflation, which leads to higher interest rates, making that debt much more expensive. And at some point credibility of that debt and dollar in general will be gone.

Ofc, this does lead to ever increasing paper valuations. So maybe that is the win they are after.
Show HN: I blogged about Google Antigravity using Antigravity
by earth2mars | 2025-11-19 06:59:31+00:00
TIL about Google's Antigravity. a new AI Agents experience on top of existing tooling (A VSCode fork IDE, Agentic Chromium based browser and Electron based UI for Agents orchestration. Its so meta, that I wrote about using it. Its quirky, but fun.
by kamaal | 2025-11-19 06:59:45+00:00
Well that's the point, men are refusing to suffer.

There is little incentive to walking in a contract, where you are working all the time, no appreciation, love, gratitude or even a thank you. All the time being made to feel like you are not measuring up. And they'd rather be with somebody else apart from you. That done, you also come back from work and do all the chores you would if you remained single.

And if a few years later the other party decided to break the contract, now they take your home, get monthly pensions(with raises), and get to start the process all over again with somebody else at your expense.

Plus these days kids don't stay back with aging parents to care for them, so having kids appears pointless as well.

By and large, let alone an incentive, marriage and children seem to a massive negative for men. Hence I wouldn't be surprised low marriage and birth rates all over the world.

Why would you want to do all this? When you can work, keep the money, and spend it for your pleasure by staying single?
by kasool | 2025-11-19 07:04:13+00:00
Maybe obsolete in the sense of feature to price ratio (infinite in Blender's case), but Maya is still very much used for the sole reason that entire studio pipelines are likely built around it. Years of tools programmers and artist knowledge build-up don't go away just like that. Licensing costs are a drop in the bucket compared to all the other overhead. Of course that's mainly concerning big productions, there's obviously no reason hobbyists or indies should be using anything except Blender. I will say w.r.t to sculpting specifically ZBrush is still king mostly due to how its technology is fundamentally unique in its ability to easily handle huge poly counts. Blender is still not quite there in the high-fidelity regime.

I suspect in general "big companies" and the ecosystems they operate in are the main reason adoption (and subsequent investment and development) hasn't happened. The Microsoft Office suite is a good example, since many companies likely run the full Office + Teams + Outlook stack. It all "seamlessly" (not really lol) works together, and it's attractive to sell corporate solutions like that.
by NamlchakKhandro | 2025-11-19 07:04:27+00:00
no. i think your reasoning is flawed.

think about how it would do the same for python/golang/lua/etc.

I would never write a TUI like this and simply `eval` in the same scope as the TUI frames.

you shell out and run it with the language engine required.

Opencode has the ability to lean on LSP and Formatters, but these are not required to be written in the same language as the TUI
by captainkrtek | 2025-11-19 07:05:03+00:00
It feels like AI investment and product focus is now a religion or cult. You have to be so fully invested, blind from any data, and throwing billions of dollars at it, otherwise you’re not “in”.

Meanwhile, no one in my sphere of tech and non tech people is wanting “more AI” and sees the pros/cons of chatgpt, using it as kinda fancy google search..

Where’s the “killer app” that’ll generate literally trillions in revenue to offset the costs? How do the economics work, especially when GPUs are depreciating?
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-19 07:05:42+00:00
> Building an identity? Us vs them? What are you even talking about?

I don't think acting indignant rather than trying to reach understanding is in good faith. If we want to raise the level of conversation, we should listen to each other.

> I don't see people who are addicted to social media but starving for real social connections as some other side of a debate. I see them as victims of an insidious social experiment created by some of the most anti-social and immoral people on the planet.

This really condescending. They are addicts and victims. You are not.

> Social Media is corrosive to society by design, and I think that we will look back on the era of cramming everybody into one of a few shared social spaces that all go out of their way to anger you people monetary gain as an enormous mistake. But I don't blame the social media users themselves for falling into the trap.

My point was: I don't think making money from engagement means much, though maybe it exacerbates the existing tendencies of socializing online. Mastodon makes no money but it's often even more toxic than the more widespread networks. I don't think size is the predictor. Lobsters and Bluesky are smaller than HN and Twitter but they both have plenty of toxicity.

I think the point is that once you combine the property of creating an online space disconnected from real life signals and give people a way to stay constantly connected to it (smartphone, always on internet), then reality for these folks erode. I think engagement algorithms can change the incentives on these networks but even a purely chronological forum has the same issues. The reason forums of old were less toxic (and they often were just as toxic, I remember many old flamewars) was just that the participants had to turn off the internet and go outside and interact with the offline world. They could only separate for so long.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-11-19 07:05:57+00:00
Your pair of posts is very interesting to me. Can you share with me: What is your programming environment such that you are "fine with allocation failures"? I'm not doubting you, but for me, if I am doing systems programming with C or C++, my program is doomed if a malloc fails! When I saw your post, I immediately thought: Am I doing it wrong? If I get a NULL back from malloc(), I just terminate with an error message.
by ashton314 | 2025-11-19 07:06:47+00:00
Typst is so stupidly easy to use. It took me an hour to go from zero Typst knowledge to reproducing my résumé perfectly. The docs are easy to read and there’s a guide for making templates. I feel like if you’ve written CSS and are familiar with associating some kind of selector with some properties, then you’ll be able to pick up Typst and make whatever template you want in no time.
Show HN: PaceGuru – Visualizing data and guiding personalized training
by laihj | 2025-11-19 07:07:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been building a running app called PaceGuru. The idea is simple:

Many running apps give you distance, pace, and heart rate — but very few help you understand what those numbers mean for your progress.

PaceGuru focuses on two things:

1. *Meaningful visualization* - A 6-axis radar chart shows how your recent training distributes across six pace zones (easy, aerobic, marathon pace, threshold, intervals, speed endurance). - You can set a target training ratio, and the chart fills automatically based on your workout history, making it easy to see whether your training structure matches your goals. - Widgets and Apple Watch complications bring progress and daily training metrics into your phone and watch face — a small “companion” to keep you moving forward.

2. *Personalized training* - Users can build their own schedule manually, and workouts sync automatically to the Apple Watch. - The app includes structured single-focus development blocks (aerobic, threshold, VO₂max, speed endurance, etc.). - There’s also a full Hansons Marathon Plan generator: enter your marathon goal and race date, and the app generates an 18-week schedule.

The app is available on iOS, and I wrote a more complete post here (screenshots, details, and design philosophy): https://www.paceguru.app/blog/en/2025-11-14-184-full-feature

I’d love feedback — especially: - Is the training visualization meaningful? - What would you add or simplify? - Do you think this approach improves clarity for self-coached runners?

Thanks!
by looperhacks | 2025-11-19 07:07:31+00:00
Man, I remember a few years ago when I was in a place without good Internet reception, but good enough phone reception. Wanted to send a SMS instead of a WhatsApp message and only noticed hours later that my phone switched to RCS without fallback and my "SMS" didn't go out because of the missing internet connection.

I disabled RCS that day and never enabled it again.
by makach | 2025-11-19 07:08:56+00:00
Excellent write up. Cybersecurity professionals read the story and learn. It’s textbook lesson in post-mortem incident analysis - a mvp for what is expected from us all in a similar situation.

Reputationally this is extremely embarrassing for Cloudflare, but imo they seem to get their feet back on the ground. I was surprised to see not just one, but two apologies to the internet. This just cements how professional and dedicated the Cloudflare team is to ensure stable resilient internet and how embarrassed they must have been.

A reputational hit for sure, but outcome is lessons learned and hopefully stronger resilience.
by chickenbig | 2025-11-19 07:10:08+00:00
The US fleet was at 93% capacity factor in 2023.

https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-generati...

As for France's capacity factor, that has a lot to do with the presence of intermittents on the continental grid, combined with the EU's Renewable Energy Directive making France liable to pay fines if they use nuclear power in preference to wind/solar.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-19 07:12:40+00:00
What can be created with blender is quite cool, but I remember having used it in the past, it was very complicated. I was a lot more productive with Wings 3D; this lacks in functionality compared to Blender, but using it was so much easier.

These days I wouldn't want to bother doing manual animations or mesh creation. The computer must do this for us.
by Lapsa | 2025-11-19 07:12:43+00:00
this particular library may not be as reliable as one would like to. but the approach is fairly simplistic and likely without an access to powerful data center computation power. as far as (!) you know - you have already acknowledged existence of such machines. what I'm advocating for is existence of slightly more exotic sensing mechanisms - available to be used en masse straight from the telecom towers. RMG as a successful substitute for EMG (which in turn is a substitute for EEG) in context of deciphering whatever data captured into inner monologue.
by watwut | 2025-11-19 07:13:07+00:00
Except that it is men who complain constantly about wanting to marry and have kids while women are much more content being single and have friends.

You dont have to pay alimony of the wife worked thw whole time. That complain is funny in the comtext of men demanding to return back to time where alimony arrangement was necessary protection.

Even in marriage, it is more of women who initiate divorce are report higher hapiness after the divorce. Men report lower hapiness and are more likely yo want to marry again.