MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yubblegum | 2025-11-03 21:15:50+00:00
I just saw this comment of yours. It seems you are injecting "religiosity" here.

> I don't think you are.

How could you possibly know? And frankly, with that handle, it seems you are the one with a "religious" issue.

> No Quantum Physicist has ever quoted anything from Quran

Thank you for motivating me...
by RajT88 | 2025-11-03 21:16:19+00:00
I live on the edge of the suburbs in a Blue state, at least where I live (and further on towards the city) open carry gets you the attention you're looking for from the police. People don't tend to do it.

I am not sure about further out. I know people in Michigan who keep a piece in their glovebox. I've seen in the movies what you talk about - the gun rack in the truck cabin. None of my rural relatives ever did that, not even in Michigan which is pretty gun-friendly away from cities.

> I don't know why I'm being pedantic, guns here are insane for many reasons but not because of this one.

Yeah, I mean. In Illinois at least, the guns get into the hands of the bad guys overwhelmingly because of straw buyers. Not because of "the gun show loophole". A small number of guns are obtained through theft. Mostly it's straw buyers, at least when it comes to guns used in crimes.

My family is filled with outdoorsy people (myself included), and although the numbers don't paint a picture of legal CCR owners being problematic, the wide array of people I've known who do carry makes me wonder how the hell it isn't a bigger problem. All manner of unhinged weirdos, some of whom pretty openly muse about the opportunity to shoot the kind of person they don't like. (Lots of normal people too - but plenty of weirdos)
by jmb99 | 2025-11-03 21:16:37+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit

"The kilogram, symbol kg, is the SI unit of mass. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.62607015×10−34 when expressed in the unit J s, which is equal to kg m2 s−1, where the metre and the second are defined in terms of c and ∆νCs.[1]"

The base SI unit for power is the watt. The base SI unit for mass is the kilogram. Yes, this is dumb, but it's the way it is.

[1] https://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si-brochure/SI-Brochur...
by vel0city | 2025-11-03 21:16:39+00:00
You seem to be missing the obvious point: popularity of a product doesn't ensure the benefit of said product. There are tons of wildly popular products which have extremely negative outcomes for the user and society at large.

Let's take a weaker example, some sugary soda. Tons of people drink sugary sodas. Are they truly a net benefit to society, or a net negative social cost? Just pointing out that there are a high number of users doesn't mean it inherently has a high amount of positive social outcomes. For a lot of those drinkers, the outcomes are incredibly negative, and for a large chunk of society the general outcome is slightly worse. I'm not trying to argue sugary sodas deserve to be completely banned, but its not a given they're beneficial just because a lot of people bothered to buy them. We can't say Coca-Cola is obviously good for people because its being bought in massive quantities.

Do the same analysis for smoking cigarettes. A product that had tons of users. Many many hundreds of millions (billions?) of users using it all day every day. Couldn't be bad for them, right? People wouldn't buy something that obviously harms them, right?

AI might not be like cigarettes and sodas, sure. I don't think it is. But just saying "X has Y number of weekly active users, therefore it must be a net positive" as some example of it truly being a positive in their lives is drawing a correlation that may or may not exist. If you want to show its positive for those users, show those positive outcomes, not just some user count.
by westurner | 2025-11-03 21:16:40+00:00
Np. Distributed tracing tools for containers already do this but none have a --diff feature for logging what changed in changed files.

Does this command also track renames?

sudo dtrace -n 'vfs::*:entry { printf("%-16s %-6d %s", execname, pid, probefunc); }'

Isn't it just a list of syscalls instead of vfs:*?

Actually, re: Dtrace on MacOS with SIP and apparently without sufficient symbols installed to trace kernel syscalls these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38909715

It looks like there's a utility called dtruss which wraps Dtrace on OSX: https://www.google.com/search?q=dtruss

"Misadventures in DTrace: how to debug the macOS kernel" (2025) https://jade.fyi/blog/misadventures-in-dtrace/ :

> My advice, and what I actually did, is to put macOS in a UTM.app VM with nothing of value in it, disable SIP in the VM, and do all further testing in there.

> Once inside a VM with SIP disabled (or with dtrace enabled as a fine-grained policy), DTrace works. dtruss gives some output like the following:

FWIU it is possible to trace Linux containers on Mac OS with e.g. cilium, only if the Linux containers are hosted in a Linux VM.
by chadd | 2025-11-03 21:17:02+00:00
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by hunterpayne | 2025-11-03 21:17:30+00:00
So its a longish article and doing a point by point explanation is probably too much for a single post. But several of the points are solved but just standing up a specific Postgres instance for the vector use cases instead of doing this inside an existing instance.

Most of the rest of his complaints comes down to this is complex stuff. True, but its not a solution, its a tool used in making a solution. So when using pg_vector directly, you probably need to understand databases to a more significant degree than a custom solution that won't work for you the moment your requirements change. You surely need to understand databases more than the author does. He doesn't point to a single thing that pg_vector doesn't do or doesn't do well. He just complains it hard to do.

In summary, pg_vector is a toolkit for building vector based functionality, not a custom solution for a specific use case. What is best for you comes down to your team's skills and expertise with databases and if your specific requirements will change. Choose poorly and it could go very badly.
by switchbak | 2025-11-03 21:17:33+00:00
Seems to me that this is now exponentially true with AI coding assistants. If you don't understand what you're adding, and you're being clever - you can quickly end up in a situation where you can't reason effectively about your system.

I'm seeing this on multiple fronts, and it's quickly becoming an unsustainable situation in some areas. I expect I'm not alone in this regard.
by tealredraven | 2025-11-03 21:17:34+00:00
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by bashtoni | 2025-11-03 21:17:40+00:00
The service is still in preview, so AWS are explicitly telling people not to put it into production.

From my non-production experiments with it, the main limitation is that you can only retrieve up to 30 top_k results, which means you can't use it with a re-ranker, or at least not as effectively. For many production use cases that will be a deal breaker.
by thrance | 2025-11-03 21:18:09+00:00
This is how the "Wikipedia Row" "Erupted" at Jimmy Wales:

> It is a bad faith read of the community when suggesting that among the most read and debated articles on the community is poorly done. there has been dozens of hours of discussion and rfcs galore to reach this version of the article and im certain there will be more. Consensus is always evolving but this article represents the latest consensus.

Seems very reasonable to me.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-03 21:18:12+00:00
And what happens when I’m looking for that next job? I haven’t interviewed for a pure developer job since 2018. But the last time I did, I could throw my resume up on the air and find a job as someone experienced with C# and knew all of the footguns and best practices and the ecosystem. I’m sure the same is true for Java, Typescript, Python, etc.
by pedalpete | 2025-11-03 21:18:17+00:00
Do you mean converting your image into a 3D scene?

This is where we were heading with our 3D volumetric video company https://ayvri.com

We were working on blending 3D satellite imagery with your ground view (or low flying in the case of paragliders) photos and videos to create a 3D scene.

Our technology was acquired prior to us being able to fully realize the vision (and we moved on to another project).
by ianmcgraw | 2025-11-03 21:18:18+00:00
Hey HN,

Lead engineer at Arthur AI here. For the last year, my team and I have been in the trenches with customers (in finance, airlines, etc. ) trying to get AI agents from a cool demo to a reliable product.

The problem we hit over and over is that Agentic AI is easy to get to a functionally complete state, but going from functionally complete to reliable is where most teams struggle.

We found that the traditional SDLC process doesn’t work for agentic systems since these systems are probabilistic. Agent development requires iteration and experimentation to align behavior with business objectives.

We needed a new methodology! Today, we're sharing the one we've developed and refined after putting this into practice: The Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC).

The core of the ADLC is a shift from the linear SDLC to a continuous loop we call the Agent Development Flywheel. This flywheel allows us to methodically identify failure modes from live and simulated usage and add them to an evolving evaluation behavior suite. This suite then allows us to confidently experiment with new prompts or tools to improve the agent's performance without introducing new regressions.

I’d love to hear what you think. I'm here to answer any questions about what we've seen work (and not work) in production.
by neilv | 2025-11-03 21:18:32+00:00
I suppose it does come across that way to some of the audience, but that might be necessary.

When I was learning photojournalism on the side, I shot a bunch of political demonstrations. A lot of those I saw were performances solely for media coverage (not really for, say, the occupants of a building they were in front of, nor for cars driving by). They would tell the media when they would be protesting, media would show up with cameras, media would leave, demonstration would disperse. For those media-centric ones, I guess it would be foolish to show a sign that the TV crew can't easily include in their footage (because it contains a banned word they'd have to go to work to edit out while already on a hectic news cycle schedule).
by 9rx | 2025-11-03 21:18:39+00:00
> In mechanical engineering you can be an engineer or a mechanic, or other things

Sure. While some mechanics may sometimes find themselves having to design things to carry out their work (in which case they would be engineers during that time), generally speaking mechanics carry out the physical replacement of what engineers have already designed. They are not designing things themselves.

But there is no mechanic analog in computing. At least there isn't a human mechanic analog. One is always operating at the design level, regardless of whether the design is written in C, Rust, or natural language. All the engineering-adjacent work you find in other engineering disciplines is done by the computer in the software realm.

> I think being an engineer implies it's a profession you've trained in and you're implementing the science behind it in a practical manor in some capacity

That's what "professional engineer" implies, but we're talking about "engineer". There is no such connotations in the word engineer alone, hence the existence of the PE term.
by jsipula | 2025-11-03 21:18:45+00:00
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by nchmy | 2025-11-03 21:19:39+00:00
Fair. Though, D*'s authors are pretty adamant that this is an anti-pattern - that's why they put it behind the paywall.

Moreover, the FOSS code still exists and would take 2 minutes to update to the current plugin API (I have Datastar pro and the code is almost exactly the same)

https://github.com/starfederation/datastar/blob/v1.0.0-beta....
by roadside_picnic | 2025-11-03 21:19:50+00:00
> embodied, conscious and metaphorical

Now you have 3 terms you also need to provide proper definitions of. Having studied plenty of analytical philosophy prior to computer science, I can tell you that at least the conscious option is going to trip you up. I imagine the others will as well.

On top of that, these, at least at my first guess, seem to be just labeling different models of computation (i.e. computation with these properties is "thinking") but it's not clear why it would be meaningful for a specific implementation of computation to have these properties. Are there tasks that are non-computable that are "thinkable"? And again it sounds like you're wandering into tautology land.
by legitster | 2025-11-03 21:20:21+00:00
The money is going into an endowment, not funding random political activities. The point of an endowment is to eventually have enough money to live off of the interest forever (which is tough if the organization like Wikimedia keeps growing).

They actually make more money every year from the interest on their endowment than they do from donations at this point.

(All the more argument that they should be knocking off the massive nags though)
by magicstefanos | 2025-11-03 21:20:24+00:00
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by bell-cot | 2025-11-03 21:20:50+00:00
> the coating withstood the challenging test of the harsh Australian sun, and showed no signs of degradation over the six months.

Real-world optimal would be 25+ years - in environments with acid rain, bat/bird droppings, hailstones, heavy smog, ice dams, 65° C summers, and several other sorts of hazards.

(Yes, that's a ridiculously big ask. OTOH, the planet we're stuck on is starting to char. And workable Planet B's are looking extremely scarce):
by n-exploit | 2025-11-03 21:20:53+00:00
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by lesuorac | 2025-11-03 21:21:26+00:00
I think people argue this but I don't think its true.

The lack of warlords leads to peaceful transitions. Trump can feel all he wants about the 2020 election but his sphere of influence was too small to take control.

This isn't the case for all those power struggles when a monarch dies. Each Lord had their own militia they could mobilize to take control and leads to stuff like War of the Roses.

We had this same issue going into the Civil War where the US army was mostly militias so it's pretty easy to grab the southern ones together and go fight the north. This isn't going to work so well post-1812 where a unified federal army exists. Of course, if you start selectively replacing generals with loyalists then you start creating a warlord.
by danaris | 2025-11-03 21:21:46+00:00
Right. That's exactly my point. Most people are not paying attention to these things. That's tech news; it's only for nerds and IT people (but I repeat myself).

If you think about Google, even about the possibility of Google banning an account, and a story like that is the first thing that comes to your mind, you are already an outlier. We all are here.
by nativeit | 2025-11-03 21:22:54+00:00
[Abstract]

Hundreds of years ago, sailors were terrified by the Kraken, a dreadful sea monster capable of sinking ships and with a taste for human flesh. Today we know the legends of this monster were based on sightings of giant squids. This animal belongs to the genus Architeuthis and was the subject of many scientific studies. Despite its enormous size (up to 18m), the giant squid is astoundingly elusive and much of its biology remains unknown. Thus shrouded in mystery, Architeuthis is almost a mythological creature and has a place both in science and in myth: the very last of the legends to persist to this day.
by echelon | 2025-11-03 21:23:42+00:00
I feel like we'll not only live to see the day where we're finally out from under the clutches of the RIAA, but that that day is fast approaching.

The death of the RIAA will come from an open source music gen model that busts open the economics of music IP. And probably one from the Chinese.

It's been announced that AI-generated music is already starting to top charts [1, 2]. The RIAA moved to shut down Udio [3, 4] and succeeded in getting them to capitulate to onerous demands [5]. They're probably trying to shut down Suno and the rest as we speak.

If a solid music gen model comes out of China, the RIAA will be toast.

Nobody is going to go after every single song published and ask them to show their sources. That's absurd. There just aren't the resources to do that. And generative software will eventually generate those anyway.

Once this begins to proliferate in the open, there won't be any control levers left.

The RIAA couldn't stop RVC models. Once there are more powerful models, it's game over. Every DAW will bake them in and everyone will have a complete working studio on their desktop.

Tencent is working really hard on this [6, 7]. There's no way the tentacles of the RIAA can stop China.

We've already artists switching to concerts and merch as the primary means of revenue generation. Switching to using singles and albums are more promotional of the artists' brands - that's the correct model.

[1] https://www.billboard.com/lists/ai-artists-on-billboard-char...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/01/entertainment/xania-monet-bil...

[3] https://www.riaa.com/record-companies-bring-landmark-cases-f...

[4] https://musically.com/2025/09/29/riaa-updates-udio-lawsuit-a...

[5] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/universal-music-settl...

[6] https://cypress-yang.github.io/SongBloom_demo/

[7] https://github.com/tencent-ailab/SongBloom
by ashergill | 2025-11-03 21:24:29+00:00
The main advantages of hexagons are that the distance to each neighbour is always the same, and the distortion across the globe is much less, because of the way H3 creates its grid (compared to the earlier Google S2 which uses squares and distorts a lot). There’s an excellent Uber blog post about this, I’ll see if I can find the link.
by lokicik | 2025-11-03 21:24:38+00:00
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by astura | 2025-11-03 21:25:02+00:00
>The gist was that modern implementations suppress memory formation rather than induce unconsciousness. That you remain in some sense aware of what's happening but don't remember the experience.

That's called twilight anesthesia and it's used for some procedures, not others. Usually used for stuff like wisdom teeth extraction and colonoscopies. Anything "major" and you're getting general anesthesia. You can ask what type of anesthesia you will be receiving (twilight or general).

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_anesthesia
by zokier | 2025-11-03 21:25:50+00:00
One of my pet proof of concept projects is figuring out how to ergonomically tunnel web apps over ssh without needing to fiddle with listen ports and port forwards. First attempt was to push http2 over stdio which actually worked, but it didn't really integrate well with terminal use. Currently I think similar approach to X forwarding makes sense, where SSH forwards one unix socket over ssh connection and then the applications can connect to that socket and put http2 traffic over that connection. Basically the idea is to make webapp tunneling as easy as X tunneling, so you can just type command in shell and (browser) window would pop open without any extra hassle. The neat thing is that because http2 has persistent connections with multiplexing etc built in, it works really well for this sort of hack; plain http 1.0 would be far more annoying.
by npteljes | 2025-11-03 21:26:00+00:00
You're misreading my point. I'm not trying to stop this information, I'm criticizing the editorial choice of repeating this kind of story over and over: both for the BBC, and for HN. In its form, I think it doesn't do the readers any good, and as such, it's unwanted. On the BBC, for general mental health reasons, and on HN, because it doesn't foster curious discussion. We can bang on about Trump, and that is about it. Don't we have that everywhere else on the internet?