MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ajedi32 | 2025-11-13 05:25:06+00:00
I'm a little nervous about what this advanced flow is going to look like, given that sideloading already requires jumping through a bunch of hoops to enable and even that apparently wasn't enough to satisfy Google.

I'm cautiously optimistic though. I'm generally okay with nanny features as long as there's a way to turn them off and it sounds like that's what this "advanced flow" does.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-11-13 05:26:47+00:00
> The angry social media narratives have been running wild from people who insert their own assumptions into what’s happening.

No, until this post, Google had said that it wouldn't be possible to install an app from a developer who hadn't been blessed by Google completely on your device. That is unacceptable. This blog post contains a policy change from Google.
by scorpioxy | 2025-11-13 05:27:08+00:00
It's actually anywhere between 1%-5% depending on your income but I didn't want to get too detailed in my comment. And you'd still have the absurdly long wait times. And the out of pocket expenses. Again, not a problem if you can actually make use of what you're paying for.

I do have to state though that the US healthcare system, minus the fact that most healthcare research/advancements happens there, is crazy.
by tdeck | 2025-11-13 05:27:12+00:00
This reminds me of atomic gardening, where you just blast plants with gamma rays and see if you get something useful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening

They still do it in Japan, with a distinctive circular field that has a radioactive isotope tower in the center

https://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/archive/nias/eng/org/GR/IRB/
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2025-11-13 05:27:28+00:00
Oh, so you're good with everyone having the "natural right" to turn handguns into automatic weapons simply because they find themselves in possession of the correct atoms? How about adding a 3rd story on the top of your house without needing a permit or structural evaluation?

Note that adding "full stop" pointlessly to the end of sentences does not strengthen your argument.
by deaux | 2025-11-13 05:27:45+00:00
> Calling it "GPT-5.1 Thinking" instead of o3-mini or whatever is interesting branding. They're trying to make reasoning models feel less like a separate product line and more like a mode. Smart move if they can actually make the router intelligent enough to know when to use it without explicit prompting.

Other providers have been using the same branding for a while. Google had Flash Thinking and Flash, but they've gone the opposite way and merged it into one with 2.5. Kimi K2 Thinking was released this week, coexisting with the regular Kimi K2. Qwen 3 uses it, and a lot of open source UIs have been branding Claude models with thinking enabled as e.g. "Sonnet 3.7 Thinking" for ages.
by vinnyhaps | 2025-11-13 05:27:45+00:00
I’m pretty sure one of the Zed founders wrote tree-sitter, so I’m sure there’s some overlap

It’s really cool to see tree-sitter unlock so many of these use cases. I love using [difftastic] for my diffing tool to get context aware diffs. So in the example from the article, the diff would highlight the `void` and `int` changes with a heavier background of red and green respectively

[difftastic]: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-13 05:30:21+00:00
> All the examples of "warmer" generations show that OpenAI's definition of warmer is synonymous with sycophantic, which is a surprise given all the criticism against that particular aspect of ChatGPT.

Have you considered that “all that criticism” may come from a relatively homogenous, narrow slice of the market that is not representative of the overall market preference?

I suspect a lot of people who are from a very similar background to those making the criticism and likely share it fail to consider that, because the criticism follows their own preferences and viewing its frequency in the media that they consume as representaive of the market is validating.

EDIT: I want to emphasize that I also share the preference that is expressed in the criticisms being discussed, but I also know that my preferred tone for an AI chatbot would probably be viewed as brusque, condescending, and off-putting by most of the market.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-13 05:30:32+00:00
> Instead of that, why not make it so that an app can access SMS / RCS only when that option is allowed when you have a special Google Account?

Because then you still need a special Google Account to install your app when it needs to access SMS / RCS.

How about solving this problem in a way that doesn't involve Google rather than the owner of the device making decisions about what they can do with it? Like don't let the app request certain permissions by default, instead require the user to manually go into settings to turn them on, but if they do then it's still possible. Meanwhile apps that are installed from an app store can request that permission when the store allows it, so then users have an easy way to install apps like that, but in that case the app has been approved by Google or F-Droid etc. And the "be an app store" permission works the same way, so you have to do it once when you install F-Droid but then it can set those permissions the same as Google Play.

It's not Google's job to say no for you. It's only their job to make sure you know what you're saying yes to when you make the decision yourself.
by rekabis | 2025-11-13 05:30:40+00:00
The one thing many people miss - or utterly fail to acknowledge - is how the entire edifice of capitalism is violently against any attempt to reverse fossil fuels, simply because it is far too profitable to turn away from. And when you realize that the only responsibility corporations have is to their shareholders, it makes perfect sense.

It’s why CO2e levels continue to accelerate, why heating has similarly accelerated such that we might see more heating in the next 10 than we have in the last 75, and why we are still on the absolute worst-case-path-possible, all because of “business as usual” being too profitable to ignore.

We’re fucked, not because we aren’t doing anything, but because those who can are the 1% who aren’t, and those who actually want to do something are the 99% who have absolutely no power to affect the former.
by Aaron2222 | 2025-11-13 05:31:39+00:00
The loss of the --no-gatekeeper option isn't that big of a deal. It just removed the com.apple.quarantine xattr from the installed cask (which you can easily do yourself, or just allow the app from System Settings after Gatekeeper blocks it).

The more impactful change is the move to require all casks[0] (not just new ones) to pass Gatekeeper checks (so signed and notarized through the Apple Developer Program)[1][2]. There are a multitude of open-source applications which aren't signed and notarized through the Apple Developer Program (some due to the $99 per year cost, some due to needing to provide a legal identity and having that in the certificate, some who object to needing to do it at all). What this means is that you'll have to install these manually or use a 3rd-party tap (package repository) to install them.

Of course, Apple could solve this by providing a way for open-source projects to sign and notarize their apps without having to pay $99 per year and associate a legal identity. They've already got Xcode Cloud, they could allow use of that to build, sign, and notarize only from the publicly available source.

[0]: These are GUI applications (i.e. .app), where Homebrew downloads the official build of the app. CLI tools are done differently (the Homebrew project builds these from source), and nothing's changing there.

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/6334

[2]: https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/6482
by kazinator | 2025-11-13 05:32:06+00:00
Note that the number is 18 digits long.

If there is a conversion to IEEE 64 bit double involved, that type is only guaranteed to record 15 decimal digits of precision, so this number cannot be represented with enough precision to recover all of its original digits.

In C implementations, this value is represented as DBL_DIG, which is typically 15 on systems with IEEE floating point.

(There is also DBL_DECIMAL_DIG which is typically 17; that's the opposite direction: how many decimal digits we need to print a double such that the exact same double can be recovered by parsing the value. DBL_DIG existed in C90, but DBL_DECIMAL_DIG didn't appear until, it looks like, C11.)
by rzerowan | 2025-11-13 05:33:03+00:00
For better or for worse its a orchestrator (for containers/scripts/jars/baremetal) full stop.

Everything else is composable from the rest of the hashicorp stack consul(service mesh and discovery),vault(secrets) allowing you to use as much/or as little as you need and truly able to scale to a large deployment as needed.

In the plus column , picking up its config/admin is intuitive in a way that helm/k8s never really comes across.

Philosophy wise can put it int the unix way of doing things - it does one thing well and gets out of your way , and you add to it as you need/want. Whereas k8s/heml etc have one way or the high way - leaving you fighting the deployment half the time.
by jorangreef | 2025-11-13 05:33:14+00:00
Yes, thanks!

I don’t think we reviewed your Go benchmarking code at the time—and that there were no technical critiques probably should not have been taken as explicit sign off.

IIRC we were more concerned at the deeper conceptual misunderstanding, that one could “roll your own” TB over PG with safety/performance parity, and that this would somehow be better than just using open source TB, hence the discussion focused on that.
by HumanOstrich | 2025-11-13 05:33:43+00:00
While it's possible to install and use Windows 11 without Secure Boot enabled, it is not a supported configuration by Microsoft and doesn't meet the minimum system requirements. Thus it could negatively affect the ability to get updates and support.

> It is already not needed and insecure so should be turned off.

You know what's even less secure? Having it off.
by whatsupdog | 2025-11-13 05:34:36+00:00
For someone who travels a lot, I would love to have the ability to have WhatsApp on multiple phones (like telegram). I have a separate phone for traveling to US/Canada, which I usually wipe clean before crossing. It's really cumbersome to backup/restore Whatsapp messages from one phone to another. Or I just lose the messages that I send/receive while traveling.
by sevg | 2025-11-13 05:35:04+00:00
A matter of opinion, but I actually don’t think the current headline is too bad. When I saw the headline and “github.com/anthropic” next to it, my initial assumption was that it must be a problem introduced by Claude Code rather than a bug in bash or something.

That said, I don’t think your edited headline was bad either, but perhaps there wasn’t enough reason not to use the original (which is a default I personally appreciate on HN).
by wpm | 2025-11-13 05:36:48+00:00
Open Automator and make a droplet or service that runs `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine` on whatever file you give it. There’s a recursive option for xattr that I can’t remember but I add that one on too; I’ve unzipped stuff that had the flag and somehow ended up with hundreds of files I couldn’t open without GK prompts.
by flakiness | 2025-11-13 05:37:20+00:00
It's not super clear from the post, but if I read it correctly there are two modifications suggested.

- 1: Separate verification type for "student and hobbyist" - 2: "advanced flow" for "power users" that allows sideloading of unverified apps - I imagine this is some kind of scare-screen, but we'll see.

What you describe as "worst of both worlds" is about point 1. I'm not sure point 2 is powerful enough to suppor things like f-droid, but again, we'll see.
by unconstrastive | 2025-11-13 05:38:38+00:00
To be fair, multiview-consistent diffusion is extremely hard - it's an accomplishment of it's own right to get right, and still very useful. "World model" is probably a misnomer though (what even is a world model?). Their recent work on frame gen models is probably a bit closer to an actual world model in the traditional sense (https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/rtfm).
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-13 05:39:34+00:00
Probably for a couple reasons:

First, HN prefers the source title unless that title is misleaing clickbait.

Second, the problem is not consistently off-by-one errors, as there is a manifestation shown in the bug of an off-by-much-less-than-one error. The problem looks like a "for some reason it seems to be roundtripping numbers in text through a numeric representation which has about [perhaps exactly] the same precisions issues as float64" issue.
by bensonn | 2025-11-13 05:39:42+00:00
It isn't all about getting somebody TO the hospital but getting them INTO the hospital/ED/ER. EMS in an ambulance who are alerting a hospital of an MI enroute will get their attention, a walk-in will have to wait unless there are obvious signs.

Calling 911 will normally get LEO on scene that know CPR and can do radio communications. A lot of dispatchers are EMDs (emergency medical dispatchers) that can start helping immediately. You may have off duty EMTs nearby that are scanning the radio. Finding a fixed target it much easier than finding a moving target (white car headed towards hospital), you are on your own if you get stuck in traffic. Statistically, 911/EMS is the best outcome. I agree with another commenter, exceptions do exist.
by etchalon | 2025-11-13 05:40:04+00:00
3 years is not decades, and there was not 3 years between testing and wide-spread deployment for the polio. There was basically a year.

There was also only 3 years between the testing of the combination MMR vaccine and its license and deployment in 71. But there wasn't significant new data gathered in between those years.

Let me know when you've stopped moving the goalposts.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-13 05:40:16+00:00
> Anyway, I’d remind everyone that “using” RAM doesn’t mean “would not function with less RAM.”

> Many applications just use a lot if it’s available.

Some of that memory isn't going to be touched again, and will eventually be moved to swap, but it still pushed things out of RAM to be there and is a troublemaker.

The rest of that memory will be needed again, so if it gets swapped out it'll lag badly when you switch back to the program.

Either way 99% of programs are not doing any kind of intelligent use of spare memory. If you see them doing something that looks wasteful, that's because they're being wasteful.

The one thing to remember is that at the OS level, disk cache pretty much qualifies as free memory. But that's unrelated to this issue.
by jxramos | 2025-11-13 05:41:11+00:00
I don’t know one way or another but what specifically are the pain points of deflation and how do those compare to the never ending inflation? I’ve lived under inflation all my life, it’s a slow creeping nearly sub threshold insidious process that erodes the value of money. Buy what is life like under deflation, is there pain but ultimate correction to a sane state? It feels like there is no correction to inflation.
by secabeen | 2025-11-13 05:41:59+00:00
Yeah, I do this too. Folders works pretty well in both Gmail Web and IMAP, but I don't do sub-labels, I just jam them all into folders for Commerce, Friends ( one folder per City), Interests, Family (One folder for each closest relative, so stuff from my Mom's sister goes in the Mom folder.)

I use Thunderbird a lot, so Archive is an anti-pattern (I believe it removes all tags from an email, leaving it only in All Mail. I have All Mail turned off in IMAP because it makes a second copy of everything, which is bad in a 20+ year old mail archive.)
by OptionX | 2025-11-13 05:43:17+00:00
It'd just devolve into security whack a mole about what permissions need those special account or not, ending with basically all of them making it the same as just needing dev verification anyway for anything remotely useful.

And despite that, you assuming that dev verification means no malware. The Play Store requires developers to register with the same verification measures we're talkingand malware is hardly unheard of there.
by sprior | 2025-11-13 05:43:29+00:00
I have several Docker hosts in my home lab as well as a k3s cluster and I'd really like to use k3s as much as possible. But when I want to figure out how to deploy basically any new package they say here are the Docker instructions, but if you want to use Kubernetes we have a Helm chart. So I invariably end up starting with the Docker instructions and writing my own Deployment/StatefulSet, Service, and Ingress yaml files by hand.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-13 05:43:33+00:00
Sure but the way his company translates "a piece of cloth" into Japanese has the same literal meaning. There's nothing more meaningful, it has the same exact meaning. My opinion is that it's chosen to be deliberately simplistic - what could be simpler or less expressive than a piece of fabric with fashion - because it highlights how much innovation in craft and resulting form results from the simple description taken as actually an extreme constraint: nothing but a single piece of cloth. And then when you perhaps think about it more, or see some of the work, you realize the complex ingenuity of it, in stark contrast to the simplicity of the phrase itself. That contrast enhances the impact by highlighting the gap between the humble description and the complexity of the result which nonetheless remains faithful to that simplicity.

A more illustrative term might be more easily understandable, at the cost of elegance (in simplicity and constraint) and surprise (from your underestimation of the work based on its name). The term is branding.

BTW another reference is Maurizio Amadei's "One Piece" work. Here's an installation/artwork he did that makes it easy to understand: https://lucentement.com/blogs/journal/m-a-by-maurizio-amadei... He also has many products labeled "One Piece [X]" such as "One Piece Wallet" or "One Piece Boot", where they are made from a single piece of leather (never cut into multiple pieces) and with a minimal number of seams. He chooses a similarly simple term, "One Piece", with enigmatic effect.
by frankus | 2025-11-13 05:43:37+00:00
Isn't this just seeing a slippery slope and deciding to build a terrace[1], in that the existence of a digital ID doesn't automatically lead to mandate to carry one—any more than the existence of a physical ID card does?

[1] to paraphrase one many excellent John McCarthy-isms: http://jmc.stanford.edu/general/sayings.html
by mlyle | 2025-11-13 05:43:54+00:00
The SF Bay Area response was spot on ... in the beginning.

Then there were aspects that we had pretty quickly figured out made no sense (no hiking by yourself, no leaving to do solitary things). Worse, they were broadly ignored by most people-- I was worried I'd get busted in a parking lot with my telescope when I knew people who were having dinner parties.

Then the very strict orders continued well after the containment was ineffective and the rest of the country had, to some extent, eased up. A couple of weeks to flatten the curve became "wait until there's a vaccine" which is not what we'd all signed up for, and unnecessarily restrictive even for these purposes.

It would have been better to pick a "set point" for policy that could have been actually upheld, rather than setting a very strict policy that was often ignored and then enforced arbitrarily.
by taeric | 2025-11-13 05:44:21+00:00
A map that also shows the difference between winter and summer for day length would be great. It is down right quaint hearing people bitch about the hour of change that DST does compared to the near 6 hours that nature has already taken. (Note, this doesn't require contextualizing to across the ocean.)

Similarly, for storms and such, knowing just how different the east coast of the US is compared to many of the places that people came from is amusing. What I thought of as normal rain is evidently comparable to the gods wanting to kill you. Always amusing when people ask, "doesn't it rain a lot in Seattle" for me. I don't know that I would have called what we get rain.
by wpm | 2025-11-13 05:44:24+00:00
I started on Macports 20 years ago, switched to homebrew because it was the new thing, and this year switched back to Macports on a brand new M4 mini, after having this gnawing feeling that I should have never switched after installing Macports on a PowerBook G4 running Tiger and building something relatively modern from source without any problems.
by Lammy | 2025-11-13 05:44:49+00:00
The name “Secure Boot” is such an effective way for them to guide well-meaning but naïve people's thought process to their desired outcome. Microsoft's idea of Security is security from me, not security for me. They use this overloaded language because it's so hard to argue against. It's a thought-terminating cliché.

Oh, you don't use <thing literally named ‘Secure [Verb]’>?? You must not care about being secure, huh???

Dear Microsoft: fuck off; I refuse to seek your permission-via-signing-key to run my own software on my own computer.
by moomoo11 | 2025-11-13 05:45:50+00:00
I use codex high because Anthropic CC max plan started fucking people over who want to use opus. Sonnet kind of stinks on more complex problems that opus can crush, but they want to force sonnet usage and maybe they want to save costs.

Codex 5 high does a great job for the advanced use cases I throw at it and gives me generous usage.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-13 05:46:00+00:00
If I am sending HTTP POST requests using own choice of software via the command line to some website, e.g., an OpenAI server, then I can save those requests on local storage. I can keep a record of what I have done. This history does not need to be saved by OpenAI and consequently end up being included in a document production when (not if) OpenAI is sued. But I cannot control what OpenAI does, that's their decision

For example, I save all the POST request bodies I send over the internet in the local forward proxy's log. I add logs to tarballs and compress with an algorithm that allows for searching the logs in the tarballs without decompressing them

It does not matter what "reason" or "excuse" or "explanation" anyone presents, technical or otherwise, for why OpenAi does what it does

The issue is what are the consequences
by buu700 | 2025-11-13 05:46:22+00:00
I don't know if this is what the parent commenter was getting at, but the existence of multi-billion-dollar drug cartels in Mexico is an empirical failure of US policy. Prohibition didn't work a century ago and it doesn't work now.

All the War on Drugs has accomplished is granting an extremely lucrative oligopoly to violent criminals. If someone is going to do heroin, ideally they'd get it from a corporation that follows strict pharmaceutical regulations and invests its revenue into R&D, not one that cuts it with even worse poison and invests its revenue into mass atrocities.

Who is it all even for? We're subsidizing criminal empires via US markets and hurting the people we supposedly want to protect. Instead of kicking people while they're down and treating them like criminals over poor health choices, we could have invested all those countless billions of dollars into actually trying to help them.