MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by constantcrying | 2025-11-14 07:51:05+00:00
This view of simulation is just wrong and does not correspond at all to human perception.

Firstly, games aren't mathematics. They are low quality models of physics. Mathematics can not say what will happen in reality, mathematics can only describe a model and say what happens in the model. Just mathematics can not say anything about the real world, so a world model just doing mathematics can not say anything about the world either.

Secondly, and far worse for your premise, is that humans do not need these mathematical models. I do not understand the extremely complex mechanical problem of opening a door, to open a door. A world model which tries to understand the world based on mathematics has to. This makes any world model based on mathematics strictly inferior and totally unsuited to the goals.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-14 07:51:40+00:00
Karma farming accounts I guess.

I loved it when sometimes on r/Aita or something people would call out the sheer inconsistencies of the karma farming accounts

"So you are telling me that you were 26 year old and now you are suddenly 40??"

Or just sheer inconsistencies which can make one laugh at the whole situation.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-14 07:52:04+00:00
Note that this is the admission policy for a per-blog whitelist - we're not talking about including *.substack.com as a "good" domain, just allowing someone to propose the inclusion of hacker-bob.substack.com.

And the policy already allows wordpress.com or blogspot.com (the latter is probably mostly spam nowadays, with a few holdouts who have been using it for 20 years). Also note that Small Web allows YouTube channels under 400k subscribers (!). So it's really not that clean-cut.
by blub | 2025-11-14 07:53:10+00:00
If the C++ code I worked on looked like that[1] and was actually C with classes, then I’d be switching to Rust too. For Google and Microsoft it probably makes sense to rewrite Windows and Android in Rust. They have huge amounts of legacy code and everybody’s attacking them.

It doesn’t follow that anyone else, or the majority has to follow then. But that’s predictably exactly what veteran rustafarians are arguing in many comments in this thread.

[1] Pointers getting passed all over the place, direct indexing into arrays or pointers, C-style casts, static casts. That (PVOID)(UINT_PTR) with offsetting and then copying is ridiculous.
by Stranger43 | 2025-11-14 07:53:44+00:00
I think you underestimate what can be done with actual code because the devops industry seems entirely code averse and seem to prefer a "infrastructure as data" paradigm instead and not even using good well tested/understood formats like sql databases or even object storage but seems to lean towards more fragile formats like yaml.

yes the possix shell is not a good language which is why thinks like perl, python and even php or C got widely used but there is a intermediate layer with tools like fabric(https://www.fabfile.org/) solving a lot of the problems with the fully homegrown without locking you into the "Infrastructure as(manually edited) Data" paradigm that only really works for problems of big scale and low complexity which is exactly the opposite of what you see in many enterprise environments.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-14 07:54:05+00:00
In the industrial world, where the real money is to be made, a high failure rate of the individual units isn't an issue.

You simply overspec the site by perhaps 2% to allow 2% of units to fail and the whole system is still working to specification.

Then you design the replacement procedure for the battery or inverter modules to take 10 seconds per module and swapping the faulty ones out only takes a few man-hours per year even for a gigawatt scale installation.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-11-14 07:55:56+00:00
I doubt AI slob is the solution of AI slob, far too error prone. Problem is we already had a slob advertising/attention economy, AI just made the problem more visible.

Any AI model can easily increase entropy by adding info bits and we would have a weird AI info war where people will become victims. If you consume info we deal with unknown spaghetti. Generating false info is too easy for a model.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-14 07:56:01+00:00
If you want AI-generated c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶n̶t̶ (slop), then you should go ahead and generate it yourself via chatgpt,claude,aistudio gemini and many many others...

> human-generated content isn't automatically slop-free

I can agree but I wouldn't call human generated content slop, more like messy at worst. Human generated content can actually grow and be unique whereas AI generated slop cannot
by tedsanders | 2025-11-14 07:56:03+00:00
- reasoning_effort "minimal" was not renamed to "none"; "none" is a new, faster level supported by GPT-5.1 but not GPT-5

- there's no good reason it's called "chat" instead of "Instant"

- gpt-5.1 and gpt-5.1-chat are different models, even though they both reason now. gpt-5.1 is more factual and can think for much longer. most people want gpt-5.1, unless the use case is ChatGPT-like or they prefer its personality.
by Jun8 | 2025-11-14 07:56:59+00:00
Whoa! I knew that CIA funded Abstract Expressionist Art (https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161004-was-modern-art-...) to underline American individualism and mental superiority over Soviet Russia (some say that's why "modern art" sucks, but see this excellent writeup: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/ifnq9v/the_cia_...). However, involvement in Paris Review boggles my mind because, I love that magazine.
by poulpy123 | 2025-11-14 07:57:10+00:00
while I would like them to succeed, I'm really not convinced it will work. The steam deck is an unexpected success but I don't think it sold at the level of the nintendo switch. And more importantly it was providing something unique but the GabeBox will compete with cheaper and more established consoles on one side and windows PC providing a better experience with steam on the other side
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-11-14 07:57:44+00:00
Much like stop50's solution, I also used the modulo, but I make use of the terminal to overwrite the number. It's only three lines of code, but I split up the list to be more readable on here.

This works from 1 to 100000000000000000000 before it overflows, and 100000000000000000000 is above the max size of a unsigned 64 bit int, so I feel that it's good enough

fizzbuzz = [ "fizzbuzz ", "", "", "fizz ", "", "buzz ", "fizz ", "", "", "fizz ", "buzz ", "", "fizz ", "", "" ] for n in range(99999999999999999999-30, 100000000000000000000): print(f"{n}\r{fizzbuzz[n%15]}")
by harperlee | 2025-11-14 07:58:17+00:00
It's related to nostalgia. If you have lived at the time where dithering was used, you will have an emotional response to it. For example, if you played games as a child with dithering, then playing The Return of the Obra Dinn, which was mentioned in other thread, will take you back to a happy place.

And even if you did not live at that time, exposure to that distinct visual style will also start having meaning to you. Like how an exposed brick interior wall has a distinct aesthetic, and carries connotations of an industrial space.
by wjnc | 2025-11-14 07:59:07+00:00
The world of mathematics is only a language. The (Platonic) concepts go from simple to very complex, but at the base stands a (dynamic and evolving) language.

The real world however is far more complex and perhaps rooted in a universal language, but in one we don’t know (yet) and ultimately try to describe and order by all scientific endeavors combined.

This philosophy is an attempt to point out that you can create worlds from mathematics, but we are far from describing or simulating ‘Our World’ (Platonic concept) in mathematics.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-14 07:59:18+00:00
That’s something you don’t actually have to do anywhere I know of.

Sure, in the US, you want to have those things to prove your expenses to the IRS, but it’s all pretty freeform. You could just document the ransomware payment process with screenshots, for example.

Besides, if you ask, I’m sure the ransomware group will send you a very professional-looking invoice and receipt.

Normally, you’d be going through an IR company anyway, who would invoice you and handle the payment process on your behalf.
by maratc | 2025-11-14 07:59:50+00:00
I don't think they will, as this will leave a significant amount of population without ids. The fallback will always be there.

Credit cards are a great example: they can't be faked, however while the cryptographers are sitting on their high hill and patting themselves on the back for doing great job, the credit card fraud rings billions of dollars every month. It doesn't happen because of fake cards -- it happens by exploiting the flaws in the whole process that a (non-fakeable) card is a part of.
by reissbaker | 2025-11-14 07:59:55+00:00
in everyday life the limits on personal liberty in china are hardly noticeable. and they are contrasted with safety even when walking through dark neighborhoods at 3am in the morning.

The everyday life aspects aren't noticeable because everyone has adapted to not having the liberty to e.g. rally to protest the government, shut down major infrastructure in opposition to the government, do drugs in public and buy them off the Dark Web, etc. There's quite a famous rally in the late 80s where the "shut down major city sites" difference was proven... starkly. Contrast that to last year in America, where it was quite common for protests to shut down entire highways, and not even a single tank rolled over them.

I'm not arguing that America's system is necessarily better. But it's definitely different, and Americans find the restrictions of Chinese and Singaporean-style governance baffling, as per many comments in this thread.

I personally have used the "liberty to walk home alone at night" point in discussions to point out the benefits of China's system with friends and family too, so I'm not unsympathetic to the idea. It's just a different way of thinking than many Americans have, where the ability to oppose the government and do whatever you want with your money is considered sacrosanct, and giving up personal security is culturally viewed as so clearly worth it that alternatives aren't even considered.
by thfuran | 2025-11-14 08:01:42+00:00
Title 1 Chapter 1 Section 1 of the US Code begins:

In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless the context indicates otherwise—

words importing the singular include and apply to several persons, parties, or things;

words importing the plural include the singular;

words importing the masculine gender include the feminine as well;

words used in the present tense include the future as well as the present;

the words “insane” and “insane person” shall include every idiot, insane person, and person non compos mentis;

the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;
by audunw | 2025-11-14 08:02:11+00:00
Going by the Tim Todds interview with Jeff Bezos it seems like BOs approach is very similar in this area. It looked to me that the machines they had there to build NG is set up to produce rockets in large quantities. He talked about their goals with the second stage, and that they’re looking at making a reusable version but that in parallel they’re also doing cost optimisations that may make it so cheap that reuse doesn’t make sense.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-14 08:02:59+00:00
You can manage and reason about ~2000+ servers without Kubernetes, even with a relatively small team, say about 100 - 150, depending on what kind of business you're in. I'd recommend either Puppet, Ansible (with AWX) and/or Ubuntu Landscape (assuming that your in the Ubuntu ecosystem).

Kubernetes is for rather special case environments. I am coming around to the idea of using Kubernetes more, but I still think that if you're not provisioning bare-metal worker nodes, then don't bother with Kubernetes.

The problem is that Kubernetes provides orchestration which is missing, or at least limited, in the VM and bare-metal world, so I can understand reaching for Kubernetes, because it is providing a relatively uniform interface for your infrastructure. It just comes at the cost of additional complexity.

Generally speaking I think people need to be more comfortable with build packages for their operating system of choice and install applications that way. Then it's mostly configuration that needs to be pushed and that simplifies things somewhat.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-14 08:03:20+00:00
Both Gradle and CMake have a strong late 1990's smell to them. While CMake is sort of a necessary evil in the C/C++ world, there's no excuse for dragging Gradle into the NDK, combining both build tools leads to a complexity explosion that rarely works and tends to break after either the NDK or SDK is updated, or somebody merely looks the wrong way at the build files.
by Someone | 2025-11-14 08:04:24+00:00
>> In most cases, F-Droid couldn't know either. A developer transferring their accounts and private keys to someone else is not easily detected.

> 1. The Android OS does not allow installing app updates if the new APK uses a different signing key than the existing one. It will outright refuse, and this works locally on device

You missed the and private keys part of the original claim.
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by zeristor | 2025-11-14 08:08:04+00:00
A way forwards with cough hypersensitivity, cough spasms.

I am not a Dr, this is not medical advice. I am not connected to Hyfe, nor am an AI; at least I don’t think I am.

After having a chest infection my cold switched to more of a spasm.

After some medicine I checked my SleepCycle app which tracked my coughs at night.

Then I remembered I had used a cough monitor two years ago. Reinstalled it on my watch to see it had been greatly improved.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/cough-app/id6736898708

It talks about cough hypersensitivity, and for the proportion of people in its questionnaire it did not exclude, it goes through a little training on how to learn to prevent cough spasms. I remember it helped from two years ago, at least I remember trying to tamp down the cough spasms.

This comes after the very the BBC podcast “Sliced Bread” on coughing was released which was sceptical regarding all cough medicine, but paid no heed to the CoughPro app.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lpjz
by cubefox | 2025-11-14 08:08:04+00:00
> If x is "no" (I do not know this to be true) then not-x is "yes" (I do know this to be true). So negation still works as usual.

As I said though, that doesn't make sense. Because if I don't know x to be true because it is not mentioned in the knowledge base, I also don't know not-x to be true. So both would have to be "no". But they aren't. Therefore the knowledge interpretation is incorrect. Knowledge wouldn't be closed under negation. If you don't know something to be true, that doesn't imply that you know it to be false.
by mind-blight | 2025-11-14 08:08:25+00:00
It's night and day. It's also about access. The labs in legal states usually just test for more things. For a while, it was one or two labs plus a Cole extraction companies that were pushing the testing boundaries. Then, relation caught up and pushed the broader testing on to everyone. Then there were managed batch sizes (though these got too small in Oregon). Hemp does not have the same regulations, and unregulated states have way less infrastructure (including access to good labs).

Nobody wants to harm their customers, but it 100% happened in the early days. A lot of harm is/was not immediately obvious. Of was repeated exposure to harmful chemicals. Good intentions are great, but resources and incentives still matter. Nobodyv wants to get hacked, but building a new feature over hardening is what stops you from getting yelled at
by reissbaker | 2025-11-14 08:08:53+00:00
2 million people in prison* right now in US*

FWIW, you're nearly doubling the actual prison incarceration rate. There were about 1.25 million people in prison as of the most recent federal data (which covers up until 2023). 2MM is the number of people who were ever in a prison or jail in 2023 (including e.g. holding cells for drunk drivers), but there wasn't a point in which 2MM were in prison at a single point in time.

Nonetheless, America has >10x the number of murders per capita than China, so it's no surprise that it has nearly 10x the people in prison for murder per capita than China (in fact, it's surprising it's not >10x, to match the murder rate). Ditto for basically any crime rate you can think of.

The downside of America's system includes much higher crime rates, which ends up in higher incarceration rates. That doesn't discount that in America, much more is legal than in China: people in America commit a lot more crime, but also do a lot more things that are legal in America but illegal in China (e.g. mass rallies to protest the government). In the security/liberty tradeoff, America and China are pretty much opposite ends of the spectrum. There are downsides to both, and upsides; China is a much safer place than America.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-11-14 08:09:49+00:00
There are a surprising number of right-wing people on HN, or bots - impossible to tell from just downvotes. If anything is even remotely critical of Cheeto Benito[1], it is automatically [flagged] as well. This site is a part of the trumposphere…

1: I love the fact that autocorrect capitalises that for me!
by computerdork | 2025-11-14 08:09:53+00:00
yeah, didn't state it clearly. only meant that Blue Origin has actually been at it longer than SpaceX, and probably has around the same amount of patents as them because of it. Yeah, Blue Origin doesn't get as much credit for commercial space flight as spacex, and rightful so, but seems like they still did contribute a great deal (in fact, Blue Origin was the first to complete a vertical takeoff and landing, although it was with a suborbital vehicle).
Ask HN: Is building for the web even worth it now?
by spaceman_2020 | 2025-11-14 08:10:44+00:00
Of late, I’ve found my relationship with internet changing. I was here back in the early 2000s and it has always been the first place I go to for entertainment, advice, and work

But increasingly, I find myself completely disengaged with the internet. Every time I see a text post, I start asking myself: is this even a real person? Am I just talking to a bot?

Every time I see a yellow-tinged image on any of my social media feeds, I mentally switch off. I know it was made by AI and I just find it hard to engage with anything AI-made, no matter how good

Same for any AI video that pops up on my feed. It just doesn’t make me scroll past it, it makes me question why am I even here and I end up leaving

I know I can’t be the only one. I used to love the internet because it was one place where I could engage with people from all over the world. But now, it feels like I just spend half my energy on figuring out which one is real, which one is AI

The line will eventually blur and as a late 30s guy, I really don’t want to spend any more of my time on earth talking to a bot

As someone who used to create and build for the web, I find myself increasingly disengaged and discouraged. I’m pouring into a rapidly emptying cup

Anyone else feel the same way?
by CapricornNoble | 2025-11-14 08:10:52+00:00
>If you look at Germany, its manufacturing sector is in decline, and this is the country's strength.

German manufacturing is in decline because it relied on dirt-cheap Russian energy. It's not cost competitive otherwise.

https://www.energyconnects.com/news/gas-lng/2025/february/ge... Europe has spent three painful years weaning itself off gas from the east with the biggest impact felt in Germany, the region’s biggest economy. German industry was built on cheap Russian gas and rising energy prices have already trammeled growth and forced some manufacturers to move production abroad.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-14 08:13:20+00:00
Sure, building C/C++ code into an .so file kinda works but that's about it, try building the APK entirely with cmake, that's simply not supported, you'll have to integrate with Gradle. The result is a complexity clusterf*ck that's a nightmare to maintain.

The NDK team should take a long hard look at Emscripten to get some inspiration how native code development is integrated into a 'native-hostile' runtime platform.
by justjulia | 2025-11-14 08:15:48+00:00
>Trivial example: you want to build a container that can hold data of different types and perform generic operations on them.

Do I?

I would simplify the problem to not need different types or generic operations.

Or if I really need generic operations, break them down to smaller operations so you don't need to take a bunch of type parameters everywhere.

For example containers, instead of having container<T>, have the container operations return an index or 'opcode', then the user applies that to their data. The container doesn't need to know about T, void pointers or sizes, just its own internal bookkeeping stuff.
by WilcoKruijer | 2025-11-14 08:15:52+00:00
It's pretty terrible how poorly developers test their database queries. This looks like a great step in the right direction. I think how the ORM story in RegreSQL develops is crucial. The SQLAlchemy integration looks interesting, but at the same time super specific. There are a million ways to generate SQL statements and ORMs are just one of them. A question that comes to mind is how will you handle interactive transactions? I'd say most complexity in queries comes from the back-and-forth between database and server. Is that out of scope?

Would also be fun if you could support PGLite [0], that's what I've been using to write "unit" tests connected to a "real" database.

[0] https://pglite.dev/