MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-11-14 20:00:54+00:00
And this is a problem for me. I guess that it would work, but as soon as the word "clock" appears, gone is the request because a clock HAS.12.HOURS.

I use this a lot in cybersecurity when I need to do something "illegal". I am refused help, until I say that I am doing research on cybersecurity. In that case no problem.
by superxpro12 | 2025-11-14 20:01:44+00:00
There are hacks these days that sniff the pcie bus with an FPGA to mitm the ram, render out the game state, and render an overlay on top of the monitor.

It's a crazy arms race that IDK even kernel mode can compete with at the end of the day.

I think this shift away from community-led multiplayer is approaching a dead-end with respect to this hacking arms race.

Player bans and votekicks used to be so easy to do. And while there were some badmins, I argue it still resulted in an overall healthier multiplayer ecosystem.

OF course we know this shift is so the developer can control the game more tightly for monetization purposes. But i think the end result of this is more harm than good.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-11-14 20:01:45+00:00
Also, it's not clear who actually owns the thing -- the original game was developed by Monolith Productions and published by Fox Interactive (PC) and Sierra (PS2). Following the tree of deals, there's a bunch of different big corporations that could have a claim on the IP:

- Fox Interactive was eventually sold to Vivendi, but most of their library was listed as owned by 20th Century Fox, which has since been acquired by Disney

- the second and third games in the series were published by Sierra, who over the years have been owned by Comp-U-Card, Vivendi, Activision, and eventually Microsoft

- Monolith Productions were eventually purchased by Warner Bros., who shut the studio down earlier this year

Just from that list, there's a huge list of media conglomerates that could have an ownership claim: News Corp, Disney, Vivendi, Warner Bros., Microsoft
by reincoder | 2025-11-14 20:02:40+00:00
I work for IPinfo. Creating adverserial geofeeds is not illegal — it's just frowned upon at best. We treat geofeeds as self-reported location data, and we do not assume they are trustworthy.

This is exactly why, unlike much of the industry, we maintain a large team across engineering, data engineering, data science, and research, along with a substantial data-processing infrastructure and 1,200+ servers. Our entire purpose is to verify location data rather than simply aggregate, parse, and repeat whatever is self-reported. Otherwise, it’s just GIGO.

Even though we came up short in this particular case, we are actively pushing updates right now that eliminate these issues going forward.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-14 20:02:46+00:00
There are monied interests and special interest groups behind it. No matter who is at the head, it will continue to be pushed by these interests.

Europol, Julie Cordua (CEO of Thorn), Cathal Delaney, former Europol who now is on Thorn's board, Alan Parker, billionaire and founder of the Oak Foundation that's been bankrolling the fake charities lobbying for chat control, Chris Cohn, another billionaire and hedge fund manager who has been funding anti-encryption lobbying in both the US and the EU, Sarah Gardner, former Thorn employee and part of the network of fake charities lobbying to ban encryption. SHe also focuses on lobbying in the US as well, and Maciej Szpunnar, Polish Advocate General and the European court of justice, wants to use chat control for prosecuting copyright infringement.

And don't forget Peter Hummelgaard: "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communite on encrypted messaging services."

So you have a few billionaires running lobbying organizations disguised as fake "for the children" charities that operate in both the EU and the US, Europol, and a group of powerful people that are fundamentally opposed to privacy.
by ianburrell | 2025-11-14 20:02:53+00:00
Then there would be digital stores where old works go to die. Which might be better than now if price was reasonable and support good. But could easily be expensive, unsupported, and goes after pirates.

Authors already have problems with getting their books back when out of print. Ebooks make it worse cause they can stay in print with low effort.

I like idea of copyright with short span, like 10 years, and then have to register and renew for every subsequent decade. That would give registry of owners who are serious about work. Would never see public domain movies, but there are lots of obscure works that would be public domain.
by RGBCube | 2025-11-14 20:03:08+00:00
Stop using awk, use a real programming language+shell instead, with structured data instead of bytestream wrangling:

> ls -l | get user ┌────┬──────┐ │ 0 │ cube │ │ 1 │ cube │ │ 2 │ cube │ │ 3 │ cube │ │ 4 │ cube │ │ 5 │ cube │ │ 6 │ cube │ │ 7 │ cube │ │ 8 │ cube │ │ 9 │ cube │ │ 10 │ cube │ │ 11 │ cube │ │ 12 │ cube │ │ 13 │ cube │ │ 14 │ cube │ │ 15 │ cube │ └────┴──────┘

You don't need to memorize bad tools' quirks. You can just use good tools.

https://nushell.sh - try Nushell now! It's like PowerShell, if it was good.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-14 20:03:12+00:00
I've been struggling all week trying to get Claude Code to write code to produce visual (not the usual, verifiable, text on a terminal) output in the form of a SDL_GPU rendered scene consisting of the usual things like shaders, pipelines, buffers, textures and samplers, vertex and index data and so on, and boy it just doesn't seem to know what it's doing. Despite providing paragraphs-long, detailed prompts. Despite describing each uniform and each matrix that needs to be sent. Despite giving it extremely detailed guidance about what order things need to be done in. It would have been faster for me to just write the code myself.

When it fails a couple of times it will try to put logging in place and then confidently tell me things like "The vertex data has been sent to the renderer, therefore the output is correct!" When I suggest it take a screenshot of the output each time to verify correctness, it does, and then declares victory over an entirely incorrect screenshot. When I suggest it write unit tests, it does so, but the tests are worthless and only tests that the incorrect code it wrote is always incorrect in the same ways.

When it fails even more times, it will get into this what I like to call "intern engineer" mode where it just tries random things that I know are not going to work. And if I let it keep going, it will end up modifying the entire source tree with random "try this" crap. And each iteration, it confidently tells me: "Perfect! I have found the root cause! It is [garbage bullshit]. I have corrected it and the code is now completely working!"

These tools are cute, but they really need to go a long way before they are actually useful for anything more than trivial toy projects.
by mattio | 2025-11-14 20:03:15+00:00
I grew up poor as dirt. My mom has four kids with three dads. Eventually we were a family of six. I think we had about 100 euros a month for food, clothing and recreation. My mom and stepdad did not work one day in their lives (welfare in NL).

Right now I’m still recovering. It’s my fifth year making over 150K and I have zero to show for it because I did a poor job managing my finances. To help me (in general, but also productivity wise) I have a coach and coincidentally today exerpeinced a breakthrough. I am still afraid of being poor. Of being made fun of. And not being enough.

I’m operating out of a ‘it’s not enough’ mentality, because I don’t feel enough. It feels like a life sentence, but some hope shimmers at the end of the tunnel.

What it’s like being poor: even buying a simple football in a supermarket felt leagues out of reach. Being sent back home because a teacher told me my clothes did not cut it. And my parents just sent me back. I never thought there was a path for me to become a doctor. Or any other noble job. Growing up or being poor is not being able to see a way out. Recognising opportunity.

Forgive me my language. Super tired and on my phone.
by vladgur | 2025-11-14 20:03:36+00:00
The "wrong skin color" is projection of western ideologies to Israel/Gaza conflict.

Israelis have lighter skin Ashkenazi Jews, darker skin Mizrahi Jews(majority of hte jews in Israel now) and black Ethiopian jews. And of course 20%+ Arabs living in the country.

Gazan Palestinians skin color varies as well, some have light skin, while others have darker skin tones.

For example, does this woman have the right skin color or the wrong one:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ah...
by washadjeffmad | 2025-11-14 20:04:07+00:00
The 'blank in the firing squad' technique of snacking is a pretty typical girl thing.

Eating cookies? Perfectly fine. Eating an entire bag of cookies? Gross. Unthinkable.

But how many cookies is really fine to eat? The safest best is not to know, either by breaking them into uncountable pieces or leaving some in the bag for someone else to finish (meaning, you ate less than a bag of cookies and are safe).
by PeaceTed | 2025-11-14 20:04:15+00:00
When Microsoft was first looking to do a remaster of Goldeneye from N64, even they couldn't manage the legal trouble of that one.

Microsoft had the original development team, Nintendo had the software and Activision had the James Bond License. Microsoft was willing to develop it for both Xbox 360 and Wii but they simply couldn't get the rights between all three straightened out.

If those three, companies that are no strangers to handling legal issues cannot figure out, it doesn't look good for smaller titles like this.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-14 20:04:16+00:00
> We have yet to design a language to cover that, and it might be just a donquijotism we're all diving into.

We have a very comprehensive and precise spec for that [0].

If you don't want to hop through the certificate warning, here's the transcript:

- Some day, we won't even need coders any more. We'll be able to just write the specification and the program will write itself.

- Oh wow, you're right! We'll be able to write a comprehensive and precise spec and bam, we won't need programmers any more.

- Exactly

- And do you know the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program?

- Uh... no...

- Code, it's called code.

[0]: https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...
by krkb | 2025-11-14 20:04:25+00:00
Thanks for posting! If anyone is interested in the project and wants to help, please DM me. I made this as an internal tool for myself and shared it in case others found it cool. Plenty of roadmap / much more than I have time, so anyone is welcome to help if excited about where it can go: https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantinebuhler/ https://x.com/Konstantine
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-11-14 20:05:01+00:00
It's become a lottery similar to pursuing a professional sports career. Similar to professional sports, the career duration is short. There's always kids coming up trained in the technology du jour who will work long hours for peanuts that employers will happily hire while they dump the expensive old guys.

You can do extraordinarily well as a founder if you find an opportunity, get it to market and build a moat that competitors can't surmount.
by alex43578 | 2025-11-14 20:05:17+00:00
I think you're misrepresenting the issue.

You're talking about rates as if they are fungible, conflating income taxes, capital gains taxes, and wealth taxes. These all have different implementations and ideally different purposes, so the rates should be different.

Specifically, your UK example is just wrong. For 2022–23, the average rate of income tax paid was: Basic-rate taxpayers:10% of their income Higher-rate taxpayers:22% Additional-rate taxpayers (the very top):38%

So on average, the rich pay a higher effective income-tax rate than middle earners, not “much lower”. In the UK, roughly 60% of all income tax is paid by the top 10% of earners, and about 30% by the top 1%.

Because of the double taxation via a 25% corporation tax, for a typical UK investor, tax on capital income is often in the 40–50% range, depending on how the gain is classed.
by seanhunter | 2025-11-14 20:05:22+00:00
I wasn’t saying there are no compound nouns in English at all. If you count portmanteau words like “Brexit” and jargon there are a massive abundance of them. All I was saying is the approach would count certain concepts as untranslatable when they clearly aren’t, simply because in one language you have a compound word and in the other language you use several words to express the same concept. It’s definitely not untranslatable but the translation function isn’t one to one.
by lokar | 2025-11-14 20:05:29+00:00
If the companies run cash flow positive absent debt service (I assume this is the case), the creditors will be in charge, they can put up more $, or get a loan while they re-structure the company. Either they end up owning it, or they sell it. This can happen to a bunch of companies at the same time.

There would not really be a huge rush if they are cashflow positive, they can take their time.
by dwringer | 2025-11-14 20:05:48+00:00
> Please create a highly unusual 13-hour analog clock widget, synchronized to system time, with fully animated hands that move in real time, and not 12 but 13 hour markings - each will be spaced at not 5-minute intervals, but at 4-minute-37-second intervals. This makes room for all 13 hour markings. Please pay attention to the correct alignment of the 13 numbers and the 13 hour marks, as well as the alignment of the hands on the face.

This gave me a correct clock face on Gemini- after the model spent a lot of time thinking (and kind of thrashing in a loop for a while). The functionality isn't quite right, not that it entirely makes sense in the first place, but the face - at least in terms of the hour marks - looks OK to me.[0]

[0] https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...
by zamalek | 2025-11-14 20:05:58+00:00
My guess: possibly co-evolution. The article subsequently describes the genetics behind things becoming cute - which would have been completely benign to our ancestors (the core of your question). However, those of our ancestors who completed domestication of these animals (by random chance) would have enjoyed more protection from predators, rodents, etc. Those of our ancestors who attempted to domesticate things without the mutations might have had bad companions at best, and would have been predated at worst. This would have provided evolutionary pressure to adopt animals that were showing early signs of domestication. What we call "cute" is merely "likely to cooperate with us."
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-14 20:06:09+00:00
The US was never a place like that. Even in the mostly imagined "golden age" of the fifties, if you were the wrong family or color you would not be able to reliably get out of poverty no matter how much effort or guile you could afford

The bank did not care that you would be a profitable customer, they still weren't going to lend to you.
by keeda | 2025-11-14 20:06:12+00:00
Actually, in that scenario the AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) have a problem. The cloud providers (including Oracle!) will do with the models what they've been doing with open source software: just take it and run it on their infra and charge money for providing it as-a-service.

This is why you're seeing the AI labs now try to build their own data centers.
by relaxing | 2025-11-14 20:06:41+00:00
I think implicit in the anti-poverty argument is individuals shouldn’t have to take a vow of poverty. So the monastery is out.

Not everyone is physically cut out for the merchant marines. This is also inconveniently ignores OP’s family.

Not everyone wants to join the military, but that feels like it’s getting somewhere… What if the government had other jobs that paid food and shelter?
by qaq | 2025-11-14 20:06:50+00:00
Nah if your monthly spend is really significant than you will get good support and issues you care about will get prioritized. Going from startup with 50K/month spend to a large company with untold millions per month spend experience is night and day. We have Dev managers and eng. from key AWS teams present in meetings when need be, we get issues we raise prioritized and added to dev roadmaps etc.
by adgh | 2025-11-14 20:06:53+00:00
> With the emergence of AI in science, we are witnessing the prelude to a curious inversion – our human ability to instrumentally control nature is beginning to outpace human understanding of nature, and in some instances, appears possible without understanding at all.

This is not entirely new. For example, we had working (if inefficient) steam engines and pumps long before the development of thermodynamics. We had beer and cheese long before microbiology.
by sejje | 2025-11-14 20:07:14+00:00
> 25 years ago I made a sidebar extension that let you add webcam feeds to a sidebar so you could keep an eye on multiple internet cams easily. It was literally a webpage in a sidebar that you just added the cam URLs to. This is the exact same thing, except an LLM.

Yeah, and billions of people on the planet can't build your little webcam feed website to solve their problem, so they're more likely to need it than you.

It's like you think we should limit AI use-cases to what you can personally imagine. As if someone could have predicted your webcam use-case.
by ineedasername | 2025-11-14 20:07:29+00:00
This depends on the particular group of rationalists. An unfortunately outsized and vocal group with strong overlap in the tech community has gone to notions of quasi mathematical reasoning distorting things like EV ("expected value"). Many have stretched "reason" way past the breaking point to articles of faith but with a far more pernicious affect than traditional points of religious dogma that are at least more easily identifiable as "faith" due to their religious trappings.

Edit: See Roko's Basilisk as an example. wherein something like variation on Christian hell is independently reinvented for those not donating enough to bring about the coming superhuman AGI, who will therefore punish you- or the closest simulation it can spin up in VR if you're long gone- for all eternity. The infinite negative EV far outweighing any positive EV of doing more than subsist in poverty. Even managed to work in that it could be a reluctant, but otherwise benevolent super AI such that, while benevolent, it wanted to exist, and to maximize its chances it bound itself to a promise in the future to do these things as an incentive for people to get it to exist.
by xp84 | 2025-11-14 20:08:02+00:00
No, I doubt they are. Most people who are on the streets chronically are there because they’ve burned every bridge. Most people have a dozen friends or family who would gladly give them the guest room for a few weeks if they had a job loss that put them at risk of hard times — on the other hand those who mysteriously have zero friends or family usually got that way by the same antisocial behaviors that contributed to their problems in the first place, until every last person that once cared said “don’t come around here anymore.”

Not saying anyone’s a Bad Person for this, but treating everyone like zero-agency victims or helpless children has never fixed anything. You can’t fix people without at least their partnership, and generally it’s substances and severe mental illness that gets in the way of the cooperation. “Bitter pills to swallow” as the meme goes but anyone who doesn’t admit this is kidding themself.
by iggldiggl | 2025-11-14 20:08:27+00:00
Competition dynamics for air traffic are different. Railway infrastructure can only support a very limited number of competing companies before you run out of capacity, and especially on classic mixed traffic routes it is very easy to run out of capacity. Once that happens, rail operators have to start competing for paths instead of directly for passenger, which can definitely lead to misalignment of incentives.

On top of that, there's the problem that it's physically impossible to run competing services at exactly the same time. This means that for customers with schedule constraints (i.e. you need to arrive somewhere specific by a certain time at latest), competition becomes much less effective, because you're no longer able to freely choose among the competing operators, but are instead forced to simply take the train that arrives at the right time.

A similar thing is for journeys that involve changes of trains – it's physically impossible to have attractive connections (i.e. without hanging around the station for ages) between more than one or at most (if that) two operators per route, because trains running along the same line always have to be separated by at least two or three minutes.

With air traffic it's different. While airport and air space capacity isn't quite unlimited, it's still not as limited in the way a mixed traffic railway is. Plus a much higher proportion of air traffic is holiday traffic and other long-distance journeys where even a few flights per day would be considered frequent service, so competition is much less limited by that fact.
by simonw | 2025-11-14 20:09:08+00:00
They're using the same trick OpenAI have been using for a while: they compile a grammar and then have that running as part of token inference, such that only tokens that fit the grammar are selected as the next-token.

This trick has also been in llama.cpp for a couple of years: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-cpp-python-grammars
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-11-14 20:09:22+00:00
> Forgejo is more busy managing ideals, than creating software.

But managing ideals is far more important than creating software. Software is just a tool. It's a mean to an end, it's not the end in itself.

If software improves humanity we should create it. If not, we shouldn't. We shouldn't create software just because. We can, but that's not ethical.

And regarding your comments that "the original contributors stayed with Gitea", as if that's a point in favor of Gitea: Well of course! If the original contributors wanted copyleft that's how they would've licensed it. To me that just reinforces that I don't want to contribute to their project.
by ashdksnndck | 2025-11-14 20:10:11+00:00
People spend their time and resources developing drugs because they know that the patent system provides them an opportunity to earn a return. If drug patents weren’t enforced, GLP-1 would have never been developed. We could rug-pull the particular companies who own GLP-1 patents by removing patent protection after the fact, that would work to improve access to these particular drugs. But then the next lifesaving drugs won’t be developed, because there will be no prospect for a return.

Similar to how doctors save lives and earn a paycheck. We could stop paying doctors, enslave them to work 18 hours 7 days a week so more people get medical care. On top of being obviously evil and wrong, it would also be counterproductive, because then nobody would become a doctor.

Put simply, drugs cost money because money is how we direct resources as a society. There is not a cheat code where we can simply make the drugs free and still expect resources to magically appear and manifest the drugs. The drugs exist because we pay for them.

I share the feeling that it’s awful that people are blocked from access to these lifesaving drugs by money. But simply eliminating patent protection is not a workable solution. It needs to be accompanied by a replacement mechanism to incentivize drug development. For example, government gives out massive prizes to the drug developer but there is no patent protection.