MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-13 04:17:00+00:00
This is the worst of both worlds, you can spread your malware as a sideloaded apk just fine, but when it's so big that you're probably burned anyways, then you need to verify your account.

I think a better compromise would have been for google to require developer verification, but also allow third party appstores like f-droid that don't require verification but still are required to "sign" the apks, instead of users enabling wide-open apk sideloading. that way, hobbyists can still publish apps in third party stores, and it is a couple of more steps harder for users to fall for social engineering,because they now have to install/enable f-droid, and then find the right malicious app and download it. The apk downloaded straight from the malicious site won't be loaded no matter what.

Google can then require highlighting things like number of downloads and developer reputation by 3rd party appstores, and maybe even require an inconsistent set of steps to search and find apps to make it harder to social engineer people (like names of buttons, ux arrangements, number of clicks,etc.. randomize it all).

What frustrated me on this topic from the beginning is that solutions like what I'm proposing (and better ones) are possible. But the HN prevailing sentiment (and elsewhere) is pitchforks and torches. Ok, disagree with google, but let's discuss about how to solve the android malware problem that is hurting real people, it is irresponsible to do otherwise.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-13 04:18:15+00:00
I think it's gonna be a lot worse with LLMs. Mainly because they're substantially under charging, I don't think the cost of operating is going to drop much, and the workflows are only going to get more token hungry.

The incentives here are also fucking atrocious. They aren't incentivised to make the model as good as possible. It's in their best interest to tune so it's good enough to not drive you off, but bad enough to push you to spend more.
by runako | 2025-11-13 04:18:16+00:00
If the existing power supply is sufficient to supply the A/C and lights for an area, but a new buyer comes in and offers 10% more $ to purchase all the power currently being generated, there exist also the options of 1) make the new customer pay a lot more to deliver power quickly or 2) simply deny the connection rights (presumably much easier to do when talking about gigawatt-scale requests).
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-13 04:18:38+00:00
I once played a custom Japanese Highway map in Assetto Corsa made for nighttime cruising and was a little high and I forgot what reality was.

I used to do a lot of GoKarting at a local course before the Pandemic, and VR racing is the single most immersive video game experience that you can have. The only thing you are missing is the physical exertion and G-Forces. Even the feel of the helmet and reduced field of view is emulated by the headset. Even cheap wheels have force feedback, and you can feel the weight shifting around. You can intuitively glance around for situational awareness. If you have experience, you will naturally fall into the look at where you want to go style of skid recovery, and you will feel the tires about to skid and feel in the wheel when they line back up with your vector of motion. It all transfers so well, even real race car drivers enjoy it.

You can feel your body freak out when you hit a wall at 200mph because you misjudged the distance because you're not a real racecar driver.

Driving an open cockpit car like an old F1 car is insane. You feel like you are just hanging out in the open air. I guess we didn't have survival instincts back then.

If you have a few thousand extra dollars, you can even fix the lack of physical exertion and G-Forces!

Shooting games are super fun too because it feels rewarding to be good at actually aiming, rather than stupid mouse twitches I have never been that good at. Also because Pavlov VR mods let me play Halo 1 Blood Gulch for real and that's magic.

VR Chat is also a pretty incredible experience. When the pandemic first hit, I actually spent several weekends clubbing in VR Chat clubs.
by arcfour | 2025-11-13 04:19:09+00:00
Some security is better than no security. It already took years to even get some of these backwards-thinking companies and services to adopt SMS OTP and it's simple for non-technical users to intuit. Also, believe it or not, some people don't have smartphones, and they will riot if you try to make them switch to any other MFA method...

Of course, I'm not saying we shouldn't push to improve things, but I don't think this is the right reaction either.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-13 04:19:45+00:00
That may be the case but “official valve hardware is buggy even after almost 4 years” is a troubling yet true statement when their entire pitch today was literally “check out our new hardware.”

I love my deck. But a smooth experience it is not. Up until idk a year ago…? Flipping from gaming mode to desktop mode or vice versa had a solid 50-50 shot of inducing a fail state requiring a hard reset.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-11-13 04:19:47+00:00
> This would allow them to access millions of user conversations that are unrelated to the case

It feels like the NYT is really fishing for inside information on how GPT is used so they can run statistical analysis and write articles about it. I.E. if they find examples of racism, they can get some great articles about how racism is rampant on GPT or something.
by dathinab | 2025-11-13 04:20:01+00:00
they probably will handle it like with the Steam Deck

- no loss

- but small profit margin anyway, to max reduce the price, to max increase adoption/reach

for Valve people using Steam on non Windows platforms is more important then making a big buck from Steam Machines (because this makes them less dependent on Windows, MS has tried(and failed) to move into the direction of killing 3rd party app stores before, and Windows has gotten ... crappy/bloated/ad-infested which is in the end a existential risk for Valve because if everyone moves away from PC gaming they will lose out hugely)
by mnemonet | 2025-11-13 04:20:13+00:00
This is a very interesting idea that could save a lot of time and pain in big projects.

The example shown reminds me pf Zed's CRDTs [1], and their journey to build a fine-grained version control system for agentic development [2]—I imagine this work could prove useful to the Zed/Cursor team, and likely shares a lot of functionality with DeltaDB [2].

- [1]: https://zed.dev/blog/crdts

- [2]: https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed
by Xunie | 2025-11-13 04:20:33+00:00
Someone, please, for the love of all that is holy: Set up a website with information on how to reach emergency services from x to y country. People are literally dying here.

I once tried to call an ambulance on an active suicide attempt in the United States (while I myself was in Europe).

Problem 1: What number should I call? My country's national emergency line could not help and had no direct communication with ANY emergency services in the USA. Unable to find the phone number for EMS in the USA, I called the local police department which was answering their regular phone line at that time.

Problem 2: This requires long distance calling and local police departments do not accept collect calls.

Problem 3: Police receptionist was hesitant to connect me to dispatch but did so anyways.

Problem 4: I am now easily 10-20 minutes into making an emergency phone call and I haven't even talked to anyone able to help me.

Problem 5: Ambulance took another 10-15 minutes to even show up.

I explicitly stated "they just took pills, they have no neurological symptoms right now, do not leave immediately."

Problem 6: Ambulance left after a simple "it's a prank call" given at the front door.

Not much later, this person started showing severe neurological symptoms. I repeated the call, told them they were now actively dying and needed help. Luckily an ambulance came and helped this person, but it was an incredibly close call.
by sunir | 2025-11-13 04:21:06+00:00
You have to include the carrying cost per customer as well which is mostly labour. Most of SaaS undercounts the payroll attached to a subscription which is why it is so hard to get to positive net margins and maintain lifetime value.

I am sceptical an LLM foundation model company can get away with low human services either directly on its own payroll or by giving up margin to a channel of implementation partners. Thats because the go to market requires organizational change on the customer sites. That is a lot of human surface area.
by lone-cloud | 2025-11-13 04:21:07+00:00
I believe what you're describing is outside of the scope of Gerbil. Gerbil is not an LLM front-end, but Gerbil will run your LLM and seamlessly integrate (orchestrate) it with a custom front-end from the list in my original message. I believe this functionality will need to live in a custom front-end. I'm curious how jan.ai is planning on handling this. I'm guessing they're writing their own custom front-ends which is probably tightly integrated with their system.
by rich_sasha | 2025-11-13 04:21:55+00:00
My cousin's 3yo daughter stopped breathing one night, woke up struggling for breath, turning blue. They called the ambulance. Dispatcher said, 3 hr wait, and pretty please get off the phone, as there's a queue of callers.

She started breathing again after a few minutes and seems fine, but they left the UK not long after that.
by jsheard | 2025-11-13 04:22:21+00:00
> I'm not crying about EA not getting its profit margins, but the cut Steam takes can really hurt indie devs.

Indies actually lose more of their margin than EA does, because Steam reduces their 30% cut to 25% after $10m in sales and 20% after $50m in sales. Few indies are doing those numbers, so it's functionally a discount for AAA publishers to discourage them from leaving for their own launchers again (EA did leave back when it was a flat 30% rate for everyone).
by ehnto | 2025-11-13 04:23:16+00:00
Agreed, if you have all the sim racing equipment already adding in VR brings you basically "there". The sim rig is a rabbit hole of immersive technologies of its own, but even just a basic wheel and pedal plus a headset will get you an incredible experience.

I believe sim flight people would have the same opinions on that side of simming too. It's a uniquely ideal situation for VR. Seated with full tactile controls.
by mattnewton | 2025-11-13 04:23:44+00:00
Yes, stores are dealing with this alongside a whole legal framework today. They would not have the benefit of that for any changes without pennies, and in a few cases may open themselves to legal liability by underpaying state sales tax, overcharging snap recipients, etc etc. We don’t know because this was just a tweet decree by the executive while the legislature has been paralyzed.
by protocolture | 2025-11-13 04:23:46+00:00
>i don't understand why the common narrative that i was told, that we were all told growing up, is that one should wait for an ambulance

My wife had a seizure a few years ago, and the first response team clocked in under 5 minutes (close to 3 by my count but I wasnt paying a lot of attention). Then 2 more ambulances arrived <5 more minutes. There was straight up an emergency services gathering at my front door.

The emergency response team is an SUV rather than a full ambulance, with 2 trained paramedics and as much kit as they can fit in. They are faster, because they don't do patient transport, and can arrive ahead of patient transport vehicles. See issues with "ramping" and so forth.

Anyway, this is really an issue of local government policy. Just vote/spay/neuter/tar/feather your politicians.
by godelski | 2025-11-13 04:24:06+00:00
> I work in AI and, to this day, I don't know what they mean by “world” in “world model”.

I have a PhD in ML and a B.S. in physics. What people in ML call a "world model" seems incredibly strange to me. With my physics hat on, a "world model" is pretty clear. It is "a physics." Mind you, there is not one physics, there are competing models and we're just at a point of time that models have converged up to quantum and gravity.

But "a physics" can be a model that describes any world, not just the one we live in. For ML models, this should be based on the data they're processing. Ideally we'd want this to be similar to our own, but if it is modeling a "world" where pi=3, then that's still "a physics".

The key points here are that a physics is a counterfactual description of the environment. You have to have language to formalize relationships between objects. In standard physics (and most of science) we use math[0], though we use several languages (different algebras, different groups, different branches, etc) of math to describe different phenomena. But the point is that an equation is designed to be the maximum compression of that description. I don't really care if you use numbers or symbols, what matters is if you have counterfactual, testable, consistent, and concise descriptions of "the world".

Oddly enough, there are a lot of physicists and former physicists that work in ML but it is fairly uncommon for them to be working on "world modeling." I can tell you from my own experience talking to people who research world models that they respond to my concerns as "we just care if it works" as if that is also not my primary concern. Who the fuck isn't concerned with that? Philosophers?

[0] It can be easy to read "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" out of context as we're >60 years past where math has been the lingua Franca of science. But math is a language, we invented it, and it should be surprising that this language is so powerful that we can work out the motion of the stars from a piece of paper. Math is really the closest thing we have to a magical language https://web.archive.org/web/20210212111540/http://www.dartmo...
by tharkun__ | 2025-11-13 04:24:15+00:00
What about helicopters? Does Melbourne not have/use theirs in those cases or is the system just overwhelmed?

Asking because (different country) when we had a person present with stroke symptoms and called 911, they sent both an ambulance and the helicopter. The heli came first but it had to land a ways off on a field and they had to walk over and basically arrived around the same time as the ambulance. A couple minutes earlier basically. No fire engine dispatched but that made sense too as it's volunteer based and while they would've been much closer, getting them to the station would've taken longer than the helicopter.

Driving time for the ambulance if it came from the same place as the helipad would've been about 15 min for the ambulance. Fire engine driving time from volunteer department: 2 min but no dedicated paramedic services, just volunteer firefighters. Heli time in air probably about 2 minutes given the "as the crow flies" distance I just checked, add whatever time is needed to get them in the air and such.

Now I can't really trust these numbers fully of course but according to "a quick AI analysis" :P Melbourne with millions of population has 0.08 helicopters and 8-10 ambulances per 100k population while the aforementioned location is at about 0.3 helicopters per 100k and 6-12 ambulances. Can it be true? It also says New York City has no emergency helicopters at all? Los Angeles has 0.18 per 100k? I know my current location definitely also has none at all. For millions of people.
by kkukshtel | 2025-11-13 04:24:29+00:00
I don't think C# really has bloat — there is generally very little overlap between things they add, and each release they don't add a lot. This release's big thing was better extension method syntax and the ability to use "field" in properties. Each release is about that big, and I feel like the language is largely very easy to internalize and work in.

New features are often more likely to be semantic sugar instead of some new big thing.
by hekkle | 2025-11-13 04:24:30+00:00
So you were using untrusted video files that required the LucasArts Smush codec?

Again, if YOU highly appreciate their service, that's great, but FFMPEG isn't fixing a codec for a decades old game studio, so all Google has done is tell cyber criminals how to infect your Rebel Assault 2. I'm glad you find that useful.
by grogenaut | 2025-11-13 04:24:39+00:00
At least in my area, King County area, a call of severe chest pain would immediately get units rolling code (lights+sirens) for CHEST PAIN. Pulse point, which works in our area, would also start paging BLS certified people in the neighborhood who have the app.

When I've called 911, the dispatchers grilled me going right down the list of signs and symptoms and did an excellent triage job.

I'm a volunteer EMT / FF at a pretty rural station, and the thing that slows us down the most is traffic if we're coming from behind the accident, and distance. As the sibling / gp said, the dispatchers know where we are via gps at almost all times and usually tell the RP (Reporting Party) when we're close so someone can go out and flag us down.

I don't mean to be argumentative, just provide what I know working as a volly FF/EMT for a year. As others have said, this is tragic.
by musicale | 2025-11-13 04:24:48+00:00
> In fact, I can't think of a single thing a console can do that a PC can't

Play current Nintendo game cards (and run the eShop etc.) without headaches or workarounds of dubious legality?

Run your whole PSN library reliably, without headaches or workarounds?

Full game system (with decent 4K in the case of PS5) for the price of a GPU?

Work out of the box without messing with it?
by bofadeez | 2025-11-13 04:25:24+00:00
Wow man. Thermodynamics operates on mechanical causality while human behavior does not. Because of the internal state of a human.

Do you just believe anything that was p-hacked together? I can tell you have never predicted human behavior in practice for a living. If you're so interested, why not learn the basics of what quant traders do to predict behavior? Then your opinions would be a little more informed and not quite so embarrassing for yourself. Just a suggestion.

Also, if A implies B and B implies C then A implies C. You're welcome!!
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-11-13 04:25:29+00:00
American, never heard of this. Some quick searching, and I found an Australian dairy site which describes this as permeated milk. From this advert piece it might be a way of ensuring that the milk fat/protein ratios can be easily adjusted to hit some target numbers.

[0] https://www.dairy.com.au/you-ask-we-answer/why-is-milk-perme...
by xabush | 2025-11-13 04:26:10+00:00
I don't understand (the point of) your example. In all branches of the search `X > 5` will never be `true` so yeah `slow_computation` will not be reached. How does that relate to your point of it being "brute force"

>> but if it did, it would come up with the same result

Meaning either changing the condition or the order of the clauses. How do you expect Prolog to proceed to `slow_computation` when you have declared a statement (X > 5) that is always false before it.
by antman | 2025-11-13 04:26:44+00:00
I have the opposite story. Friend collapses in front of the house. I pick him up and rush him to the hospital, he is a geek and we had spent great amount of time going over his rare genetic condition that randomly causes internal bleedings from his organs. No ambulance available but no traffic also, we arrive soon at the hospital. Only to wait for 1hr or more because he didn't look bad, since internal bleeding doesn't look bad, and his arrival time (or cause) had not been registered on the system since we came by car.

After we were finally admitted in the actual room the doctor said his ematocrit was lower than a dead person’s, but fortunately he was saved that time.
by ehnto | 2025-11-13 04:26:55+00:00
I have driven on tracks in real life and then the same track in VR, and all the spatial cues map perfectly. It's so close to "the same thing" that I really don't mind driving in VR more and then only paying for the occasional real life track day.

My partner also likes that I can't actually die in VR, though sometimes I still close my eyes just before an impact.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-11-13 04:27:22+00:00
Ha ha, the FinCEN BOI drama. Form D. Qualified clients. R&D credits. Export rules.

My bro, the tariffs. The first table of tariffs was written by ChatGPT!

> That's not the way regulations work.

Whatever regulations you are thinking of, they are myths now. I'm not saying deregulation - that isn't happening. In every industry - I know more about healthcare than finance - clear, complex, well specified regulations are being replaced by vague, mercurial ones. The SEC has changed many things too.
by noduerme | 2025-11-13 04:27:29+00:00
It's not moloch. It's all health systems, even ones that are religiously oriented. Triage and logistics and having enough trained people working all hours to handle all cases of life threatening situations... it's a bug in all systems.

Nothing is scarier than the moment you realize you're in the hands of the medical establishment. Whatever that looks like, wherever you are. Ever tried to rush a mechanic to fix your car? Ever tried to argue with a gate agent at the airport about rebooking a cancelled flight? Now imagine doing that while your heart is failing and 10,000 other people are also trying to get their attention.

If you want to blame anything, blame the fact that our society has failed to produce sufficient numbers of people trained or willing to help in emergency situations. And the people who sacrifice their lives to doing it are heros, the finest of us. The difference between individual societies and governments is quite small in the long run.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-13 04:27:45+00:00
Yes. There's a peer thread below this one with more examples, but in general the biggest (and most relevant) cost you're looking at with a new computer is the video card. And a PS5 level video card is the RX 6700 XT which is like $200-$300. If you're willing to purchase second hand you can go substantially lower.

I suspect most of us are of a vaguely similar age, and when "we" were growing up, PC gaming was ridiculously expensive. A new gaming PC was thousands of dollars and then obsolete within a couple of years, leaving you constantly checking new release 'minimum system requirements.' It was quite painful and a big reason I (and I suspect others) migrated to console gaming. But now a days? I have a relatively old PC and never even bother looking at spec requirements - it'll run it, just fine.
by echelon | 2025-11-13 04:28:34+00:00
I don't know who you are or why you're so negative, but I have an immediate use case for this and I'll come back and post a "Show HN" on this.

This is immensely useful tech for blocking out consistent scenes, eg. for video generation.

Beyond entertainment, this is going to be huge in the field of robotics.

I wish you could see what I see.
by kamaal | 2025-11-13 04:28:42+00:00
>>Prolog doesn't look like javascript or python so:

Think of this way. In Python and Javascript you write code, and to test if its correct you write unit test cases.

A prolog program is basically a bunch of test cases/unit test cases, you write it, and then tell the Prolog compiler, 'write code, that passes these test cases'.

That is, you are writing the program specification, or tests that if pass would represent solution to the problem. The job of the compiler to write the code that passes these test cases.
by keyle | 2025-11-13 04:30:03+00:00
TL;DR it helps you identify the true diameter of your visual focus, which is said to shrink with old age (mine shrinks more in terms of _time_ dimension but that's a different issue!)

For best results, use it _fullscreen_, change the #define `90` values to a higher value if you're on a high dpi screen.

Stare at a few places on the screen and you'll get the effect of appearing to rotate only where you stare.

It's pretty neat.