MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lukan | 2025-11-22 09:58:23+00:00
To kill local life, it first must exist, which is not confirmed at all. And if it exists, it is likely way better adopted to the local conditions.

In genetal, nature works with small chances, look how many seeds a plant gives and how few of them will be a new plant.

(Or how many sperms are created for 1 human)

But sure, chances here are way, way lower.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-11-22 10:01:08+00:00
I think the quote from the Polish Prime Minister refusing very similar German demands just before WW2 started is appropriated here:

“Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor.”

As it turned out, Poland paid a very heavy price. But we're damn proud of it.
by Reubend | 2025-11-22 10:01:42+00:00
I don't know what the book describes, but I'd like to hear more specifics. Until then, I'm going to assume that it's sensationalist hogwash.

> The same knowledge that helps us treat neurological disorders could be used to disrupt cognition, induce compliance, or even in the future turn people into unwitting agents.

Disrupting cognition is easy. But as far as I'm aware, we don't have any drugs to "induce compliance" and we're miles away from being able to turn people into "unwitting agents" purely on the basis of neuroscience.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-22 10:01:51+00:00
"Let us be absolutely clear: we have been open-source long before it was fashionable"

This is a VERY bad attempt at self-promo, sorry.

Many other open source projects are much older, so "fashionable" is a very emotionally laden word. But, even aside from this: what matters is the now and future. You can not refer to a "glorious past" if the future just looks bleak and bad.

"The Qualcomm acquisition doesn’t modify how user data is handled or how we apply our open-source principles."

Everyone already sees that the Qualcomm take-over changed the project. There is no way to deny it. Now, perhaps it COULD lead to an improvement - who knows. But it can also lead to a stagnation or decline. We saw that with many other projects that suddenly became progressively starved down. Even without a corporate overlord that may happen, when users, hobbyists, devs, are no longer as interested. They may write fewer blog entries and so forth - decline happens.

"We periodically update our legal documents to reflect new features, evolving regulations, and best practices."

As does Mozilla - yet firefox keeps on dying and dwindling.

Sorry, but this just reads like a post mortem to me.

"Restrictions on reverse-engineering apply specifically to our Software-as-a-Service cloud applications"

Which open source licence typically were to include that? And, by the way - I am increasingly noticing how the "legal terms" try to provide provisions that aren't part of a licence. I noticed this some time ago with regard to RubyCentral slapping down meta-corporate rules on rubygems.org (see here https://blog.rubygems.org/2025/07/08/policies-live.html). So this is what corporations want to do. I don't see how this benefits the hobbyists or solo devs in any way, shape or form. And I don't agree that this "sets the record straight" either.

To me it reads like a corporate take-over of arduino. That's bad.
by yapyap | 2025-11-22 10:02:06+00:00
> But if they are actually doing that (which is unclear to me) or if they are bad in some other way, then how do they get away with it? Why doesn’t someone else create a competing app that’s better and thereby steal all their business? It seems like the answer has to be either “because that’s impossible” or “because people don’t really want that”. That’s where the mystery begins.

userbase and brandname is everything in dating apps, making it near impossible to start one without VC funding for a massive ad campaign (which will be the seed of the enshittification cancer if your platform blows up)

AKA because the competing business will have to invest so much to break into the dating app game that it will be impossible to leave that start up phase uncorrpted by the current big money powers that be.
by Roark66 | 2025-11-22 10:02:34+00:00
Well, I've experienced both to some degree in the past. The previous long time with very similar hardware performance was when PCs were exorbitantly expensive and commodore 64 was the main "home computer" (at least in my country) over the latter 80s and early 90s.

That period of time had some benefits. Programmers learned to squeeze absolutely everything out of that hardware.

Perhaps writing software for today's hardware is again becoming the norm rather than being horribly inefficient and simply waiting for CPU/GPU power to double in 18 months.

I was lucky. I built my am5 7950x Ryzen pc with 2x48gb ddr5 2 years ago. I just bought 4x48gb kit a month ago with an idea to build another home server with the old 2*48gb kit.

Today my old g.skill 2x48gb kit costs Double what I paid for the 4x48gb.

Furthermore I bought two used rtx3090 (for AI) back then. A week ago I bought a third one for the same price... ,(for vram in my server).
by metalman | 2025-11-22 10:02:55+00:00
you missed something, in that it is impossible to get perfectly sterile living animals or plants, and all* of them are carrying a large vaiety of bacteria, viruses, spores, and other animals eggs, etc. everything is an inoculant

* I am aware of various experiments that did attempt to raise animals in perfectly sterile environments, where they died, but the only way to sterilise and maintain sterility, are extream, and largely impossible while keeping any single lifeform, alive.ie: it is far from the default
by shevy-java | 2025-11-22 10:04:00+00:00
> 1989: Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web

I think ideas etc... existed before that, e. g. DARPA and what Alan Kay said.

Tim mostly pushed forward a simple protocol that worked. Would be interesting to see how much Tim really generated de-novo, but in general I disagree that he "invented" the world wide web as such. That would seem unfair to many other people - just like Alan Kay once said, you see further by standing on the shoulders of giants (translation: you benefitted from earlier inventions and ideas, made by other people).
by ares623 | 2025-11-22 10:04:57+00:00
> country "no longer has a choice"

I bet it had a couple of choices before this point. The government made all those choices as they came. Now it's being made for them.

I feel sorry for the people of Tehran.

I wonder how soon every other place is due. Sooner or later the same choice will be made for all of us.
by david-gpu | 2025-11-22 10:05:24+00:00
Doesn't the same factory produce enterprise (i.e. ECC) and consumer (non-ECC) DRAM?

If there is high demand for the former due to AI, they can increase production to generate higher profits. This cuts the production capacity of consumer DRAM, and lead to higher prices in that segment too. Simple supply & demand at work.
by Sverigevader | 2025-11-22 10:06:50+00:00
Great comment! I was inspired by this article https://every.to/superorganizers/how-to-build-a-learning-mac... about Simon Eskildsen, which led me to his blog https://sirupsen.com/, which then led me to create https://juliusrobert.site for myself. It's not a traditional blog per se but it checks some boxes and I have the same quote as you do here as a reason to do this https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/#writing-abo...
by eucyclos | 2025-11-22 10:07:22+00:00
Since you said you're genuinely curious - the answer to your first question is no. I'm grateful for what diversity and creativity does exist - and I recognize that even with public schools in the mix, it's more than what existed for most of human history. But public schools have certainly been a retarding force in the generally positive developments we've seen since my grandfathers' time.

Incidentally, they're only a little bit older than that, so we shouldn't pretend they're some deeply tested social technology.
by zkmon | 2025-11-22 10:08:05+00:00
Not sure what you are talking about. What you wrote reduces to just x. What I meant was, if you substitute say, -x for x in -1/x, you get 1/x, which is the third inverse. Same is true for the other two pairs. So, if we call them functions f, g and h, then, f=g(h)=h(g); g=f(h)=h(f); h=f(g)=g(f)
by tomgag | 2025-11-22 10:08:13+00:00
The results of the 2025 elections for the president and board members at the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) have been botched because the results of the super-secure cryptographic e-voting system cannot be retrieved due to the "accidental loss" of a decryption key.

https://iacr.org/news/item/27138

While human mistakes happen, this incident comes under very troubling circumstances.

Why does an e-voting system of an association like IACR not support t-out-of-n threshold decryption?

Why is a system where a single party can collude to invalidate the vote considered acceptable?

Wouldn't be wiser to freeze to the date of November 20th the eligibility status for voting instead of "calling to arms" IACR members who had previously decided to opt out from Helios emails?

Does the identity of some of the candidates to Director represent a problem for IACR?
by michaelt | 2025-11-22 10:09:28+00:00
Certainly, nobody would buy an Apple hoping to run triple-A PC games.

But among people running LLMs outside of the data centre, Apple's unified memory together with a good-enough GPU has attracted quite a bit of attention. If you've got the cash, you can get a Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory. So there's one workload where apple silicon gives nvidia a run for their money.
by bmm6o | 2025-11-22 10:09:32+00:00
Right, it's pretty inevitable given the incentives. I think it's made worse by PE for a few reasons. They are investing with relatively short time horizons because they will need to sell to pay profits. So the long term health of the business is of no interest. If the reputation of the business suffers, that's someone else's problem. Compared to an individual investor who is looking long term, they need to retain customers and reputation.
by wewxjfq | 2025-11-22 10:09:33+00:00
Is what makes you feel so terrible when you're sick, that's why you don't want to get it involved. Like a car driver would rather not see the seat belt and air bags do their life-saving thing.

Fun fact: Up to the Civil War or WWI, more soldiers died of illness than of battle wounds. So much for the fabled immune system. And if WWI killed more soldiers in battle, the flu still won that round, because the Spanish Flu killed heaps more later. Now we still remember WWI for its bloodiness, but without Covid-19, who would remember the Spanish Flu?
by darccio | 2025-11-22 10:09:54+00:00
It's a similar experience in Go, specially because imports are done by URL and major versions higher than v1.x are forced to change it to add a suffix `/vN` at the end.

Although this is true, any large ecosystem will have some popular packages not holding to semver properly. Also, the biggest downside is when your `>=v1` depends - indirectly usually - on a `v0` dependency which is allowed to do breaking changes.
by delichon | 2025-11-22 10:10:18+00:00
> Her brother, who works as a cashier, can’t afford meals out at all, she said. The cost of his diabetes medication has increased greatly, to about $200 a month, which she helps him cover.

This is an often unacknowledged part of the cost of fast food. It turns susceptible people into diabetics. As a diabetic there is little I can eat there, since I manage it with food not drugs. When I do I get a burger and throw out the bun, which isn't very thrifty.

If you just go with the flow and eat what this culture makes easiest, it's an unusual specimen who can be healthy and happy in late life. And it's not at all unusual to turn young people into patients.
by tome | 2025-11-22 10:10:26+00:00
That definitely doesn't apply to Bluefin. I can't rule out it applying to effectful, but it is careful to do dynamic checks to make sure you can't use effects in the wrong scope. Maybe you're thinking of eff (i.e. what started this thread)? Alexis King described how to get it to segfault in this video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1163853841 (now private, sadly).
by naishoya | 2025-11-22 10:10:31+00:00
MacDonnell Douglas was primarily a defense contractor with a long record of subpar performance and technical failures in the service of those contracts. At the time of 'merger' with Boeing in 1997, the not-very-exclusively internal joke a was that MD used Boeing's own funds to acquire Boeing; and the years since have proven the truth in this perspective. Boeing went from being an Engineer led company which produced superior equipment, to being a Management led company which produces shareholders, and which has fully reformed to the MD model of Washington centered, defense industry, lowest bid and highest level of 'acceptable failures' in both the defense and commercial product markets. More lives will continue to be lost in a calculus of least cost risk mitigation.
by UltraSane | 2025-11-22 10:11:46+00:00
"the last US administration took moral volatility to new standards" I have no idea what this means. Can you explain it?

" The principles taught in schools just did not align anymore with what was common sense when I was in school and what I believe in."

Please explain in more detail what you mean by this. You old do you think the earth is? In my experience most home schoolers are young earth creationists.
by tedggh | 2025-11-22 10:12:10+00:00
People forget how incredibly difficult is to find someone that meets your expectations while you meet the expectations of that person as well, hit it off and made it through the stream of disappointments that follow to finally settle on a minimum set of values that are non negotiable and accept the fact that the perfect relationship you imagined existed only in your imagination.

Dating apps make this dreadful process much faster IMO.

I met my wife through one of these popular apps, but I had a process where I serially dated dozens of women over the course of years, optimizing for volume not for matching score.

Many girls I dated were great but it took years until I finally met the one I could actually marry.

In comparison my parents grew up in a small town and were pretty much set for marriage by their parents when they were very young. They spent almost 60 years together.
by chmod775 | 2025-11-22 10:12:29+00:00
They're used in Berlin, though they're surprisingly quiet compared to the emergency care ones. Maybe flying higher? Here's their POV:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U3mncVE1TQ0

Unsurprisingly, the comments are mostly making fun of them for wasting tax money on hunting down some guys with spray bottles.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-11-22 10:12:33+00:00
> Do you know of a restaurant that’s been losing money for an entire first decade of its operations, and yet remained open? Or any small business in such a situation?

I stopped reading here, which is at the very start of the article, because unlike restaurants there are plenty of examples of companies that remained unprofitable for a decade and then turned a profit.

It also ignores the fact that up until 2022ish, OpenAI wasn't even trying to be a for profit company.

I fully agree that it's a bubble and I think it already has started popping, but this article is low quality and honestly full of basic errors.
Ask HN: Is a new EU self-trucking startup a bad idea in 2025?
by whiplash451 | 2025-11-22 10:14:58+00:00
There seems to be a consensus that the self-driving game is now over — in a way or another. But EU has a single startup in the field (Wayve) and nobody’s doing long-haul self-trucking in EU. Would it be such a terrible idea to start a company now?

There are reasons to believe that it will be solved over the next two decades given AI progress. The business case seems incredibly obvious. And if one job can be socially acceptable to automate, that one likely is.
by Roark66 | 2025-11-22 10:15:42+00:00
I'm especially annoyed that this is most likely intentional.

(Not at all)openAI saw they are getting behind their competitors (gpt 5 and 5.1 were progressively worse for my use case - actual problem solving and tweaking existing scripts) are getting better. (Claude and sonnet were miles ahead and I used gpt only due to lower price). Now not only open weights models like Qwen3 and kimik2 exceeded their capability and you can run them at home if you have the hardware or for peanuts on a variety of providers. Cheap-er hardware like strix halo (and Nvidia dgx) made 128gb vram achievable to enthusiast. And Google is eating their punch with Gemini.

All while their CFO starts talking about government bailing them out from spending they cannot possibly fund.

Of course they will attempt to blow up the entire hardware market so if they AI flops they will be able to at least re not you hardware like AWS.

Of course they
by walthamstow | 2025-11-22 10:15:44+00:00
For £5.09 you get the hash brown, so it's 500+ cals. It costs 25 mins of paid labour and it also saves N minutes of domestic labour if one were to have similar hot protein+cals at home. High-income people tend not to understand this part, they'll say you can eat beans and rice for nothing.
by fragmede | 2025-11-22 10:17:18+00:00
> So why doesn't a legitimately healthy restaurant come along and take the whole market?

The lesson is in revealed preferences. One of my friends, live him to death, has been trying to lose weight since forever. When we try to eat together, hell judge the food. Either what's in my pantry/freezer or from the restaurant we go it. He keeps talking about keto as well. He's pretty knowledgeable about things by this point. But he keeps being unable to lose the weight! Yet no matter how much he tells me or how right it actually is, the lesson is on revealed preferences, aka he's got a ton of dominos pizza boxes hiding out in the trash that he's been eating.

Losing weight is pretty simple. Just stop eating such much food. It's not easy though, unfortunately. That food is pretty delicious. All dating apps have to do, which coffee meets bagel was doing at back when, is rate limit the matches given to women. Let woman rate as many men as they want, but only show women the to p 15/whatever matches so they aren't overwhelmed. it's so obvious and simple, but hard to put into in practice, for reasons that have zero to do with anybody's ability to write code.
by flir | 2025-11-22 10:17:23+00:00
> LMAOOOOO OKAY SO THE POLYNOMIAL IS LITERALLY SHITTING ITSELF

That was a fun read, but I can see that persona quickly becoming wearing. I had a "talk like a wiki article" persona for a while that worked better (for me) than any attempt to inject personality. The greyer the better, when it comes to tools.

(Being a child of the internet rather than the classroom my abusive solution would be to look up the sequence in OEIS, but I think fizzbuzz could be encoded into an L-system quite neatly).
by brabel | 2025-11-22 10:17:33+00:00
Russia would still stop because controlling the rest of Ukraine would be more trouble than it is worth for them. And they might gain some concessions from the West. Attacking NATO is a common talk point in the West about what happens after Russia takes over Ukraine and Zelenskyy is more than happy to suggest that is to be expected as he says they are fighting for all of Europe.
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by Siddartha_19 | 2025-11-22 10:17:49+00:00
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by tim333 | 2025-11-22 10:19:05+00:00
>strategy to end the war on day one: threaten both sides

There was some of that but a lot of blame the victim stuff "You don't start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles" etc.

That continues here with this basically Russian written proposal that they'll pause attacking if Ukraine will just stop defending itself.

The behaviour is more consistent with him being basically a Russian asset with them having bailed him out financially, probably have kompromat and helping him get elected president. He can't come out and say that because even the Republican party would probably object.

There was an interesting speculative theory the other day that the Russians are having him push this now because they are worried he'll lose some power after the Epstein info comes out.
by mg | 2025-11-22 10:19:24+00:00
I often wonder if there should be something like a "folded outline" mode in slicers. For example, it would make the outer left wall of an object:

│││││││ │││││││ │││││││ │││││││ Inside of the object │││││││ is here │││││││ │││││││ │││││││

Look like this instead:

┌──── └─────┐ ┌─────┘ └─────┐ Inside of the object ┌─────┘ is here └─────┐ ┌─────┘ └─────

The seam (where the print head moves up a layer) could then be on the inside of the object:

┌──── └─────┐ ┌─────┘ └───── <-- Print head moves up here ┌─────┘ └─────┐ ┌─────┘ └─────

This might result in having no visible seam but instead evenly distributed vertical lines, similar to the horizontal lines that all 3D prints have. The horizontal lines look quite nice when the print is otherwise perfect. So maybe doing this and having horizontal AND vertical lines would look good overall?
by azonez | 2025-11-22 10:19:30+00:00
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by drysine | 2025-11-22 10:20:04+00:00
>It is a weird form of centralized planning. Except there's no election to get on to the central committee, it's like in the Soviet era where you had to run in the right circles and have sway in them.

No, it's pure capitalism where Atlas shrugged and ordered billions worth of RAM. You might not like it but don't call it "centralized planning" or "Soviet era".
by xzjis | 2025-11-22 10:20:15+00:00
In reality, Valve is doing all this work on GNU+Linux because they've been afraid of Microsoft ever since Windows 8 and the introduction of the Windows Store. For now, Microsoft is remaining open and isn't restricting installations to its own store; we even see that with the full-screen gaming version of Windows for handhelds, they display games from other stores, including Steam. But Microsoft also has a history of abusing its dominant position and monopoly to push its own products (Internet Explorer, Edge, OneDrive, etc.). Gaben made the only possible decision to protect Valve from that: having their own OS.