MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 8mobile | 2025-11-21 07:30:56+00:00
Wow, what a project! I've spent a lot of time on j2me developing various utilities. Those were the good old days when you could try everything on your basic Nokia or Symbian. Here are my applications: https://www.8mobile.org/products/j2me/moneymanager/ https://www.8mobile.org/products/j2me/moneymanager2/ https://www.8mobile.org/products/j2me/rssmanager/ https://www.8mobile.org/products/j2me/spymanager/

Thanks Otto
by nehal3m | 2025-11-21 07:31:17+00:00
That depends whether regulators interpret “intended for use on motor vehicles” as “for road use”. The bill’s sponsors seem to think so:

USTMA research shows that more than 30 million used tires are available for sale nationally each year. The legislation does not ban all used tire sales. It targets used tires that have specific, well-established, unsafe conditions. “This is a common-sense, pro-safety, pro-consumer bill,” said Anne Forristall Luke, USTMA president and CEO. “Preventing these unsafe used tires from operating on New Jersey roads will reduce the risk of crashes and save lives. It’s that simple.” [1]

Seems clear to me this is intended to affect road use, although the bill could use an amendment to that effect. I could not find jurisprudence implying resale of racing slicks is illegal under this law.

[1] https://www.ustires.org/newsroom/new-jersey-assembly-advance...
by sigmoid10 | 2025-11-21 07:32:28+00:00
A lot of major providers offer their cutting edge model for free in some form these days, that's merely a market penetration strategy. At the end of the day (if you look at the cloud prices), TPUs are only about 30% cheaper. But NVidia produces orders of magnitude more cards. So Google will certainly need more time to train and globally deploy inference for their frontier models. For example, I doubt they could do with TPUs what xAI did with Nvidia cards.
by usr1106 | 2025-11-21 07:33:05+00:00
I am not unimpressed, I hate with passion to click away intrusive ”Use Copilot" prompts in MS products. AI is deeply unethical shit. Stolen content transformed under massive waste of energy, i.e. heating the planet.

Yes, sometimes the results are impressive. But so are the mistakes it makes. You can't just trust the stuff it produces. I don't see that my colleagues who use it all the time have any better productivity.
by solatic | 2025-11-21 07:33:08+00:00
Auth providers are among the hardest systems to secure. It's not just a question of the underlying code having vulnerabilities - for companies with Internet logins, auth systems (a) are exposed to the internet, (b) are not cache-friendly static content, (c) come under heavy expected load, both malicious (the DDoS kind) and non-malicious (the viral product launch kind), (d) if they ever go down, the rest of the system is offline (failsafe closed).

It's hardly surprising that the market prefers to offload that responsibility to players it thinks it can trust, who operate at a scale where concerns about high traffic go away.
by mk89 | 2025-11-21 07:34:27+00:00
From the mobile version I see a 10% other and 16.1% C++.

I think GH might have some issues because those two folders contain a lot of code (there is also C in between, but still), I don't know if I want to believe it's less than 2.6% Perl. [0]. "It's fixed".

[0]: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/issues/1626
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-11-21 07:35:20+00:00
Rosetta performance is best in class to my knowledge, although they had the benefit of being able to add custom instructions and modes to the cpu to make some parts easier. Meaning Rosetta would not have helped valve unless they built the frame on apple silicon.

As for not improving, it is likely that Apple no longer feels the need to invest in Rosetta improvements now that Apple silicon is so dominant and software support is already very strong, but nothing is stopping them from investing in it if they need it for example for gaming
by palmotea | 2025-11-21 07:35:20+00:00
> I don't have an issue with an employee maximizing profit. I do have an issue with employees banding together and bargaining collectively. Exactly the same way I don't have an issue with a company maximizing profit, but I would have an issue with companies banding together and negotiating collectively.

One flaw in your logic you seem to thing "an employee" and "a company" are peers. They're not. A company is an equivalent level of "banding together" as a union. A company and an employee union are peers, an employee and a company are not.

> However, that's why we have the whole system of antitrust to say when a company gets too big, as soon as we can show that it's having some kind of negative effect on consumers, we split it up.

And you're mixed up here too:

1. The employee-company relationship is entirely different than the customer-company one. Talking about consumer prices in the employee-company context is nonsense.

2. You're neglecting that all companies have certain interests in common as employers. So even if you break them all up, you're not going to solve the problems a union solves.
by robrenaud | 2025-11-21 07:37:05+00:00
LLMs do have some internal representations that predict pretty well when they are making stuff up.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03531v1 - We present a cheap, scalable method for real-time identification of hallucinated tokens in long-form generations, and scale it effectively to 70B parameter models. Our approach targets \emph{entity-level hallucinations} -- e.g., fabricated names, dates, citations -- rather than claim-level, thereby naturally mapping to token-level labels and enabling streaming detection. We develop an annotation methodology that leverages web search to annotate model responses with grounded labels indicating which tokens correspond to fabricated entities. This dataset enables us to train effective hallucination classifiers with simple and efficient methods such as linear probes. Evaluating across four model families, our classifiers consistently outperform baselines on long-form responses, including more expensive methods such as semantic entropy (e.g., AUC 0.90 vs 0.71 for Llama-3.3-70B)
by cubefox | 2025-11-21 07:38:38+00:00
One problem I see is that (e.g.) Qualcomm Adreno GPUs don't even run most Windows games well when executed natively under Windows, due to games only being optimized for GeForce and Radeon. I assume this problem only gets worse when trying to run DirectX games through some sort of translation layer with FEX/DXVK.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 07:38:44+00:00
> Surface naval assets are extremely vulnerable to drones, so a blockade probably can't be maintained

> the Malacca Straits will be blockaded by a deep water navy (ours) that can't be reached by Ukraine-style drones, so China's economy collapses without oil for fertilizer, energy, and transportation

Then don't use Ukraine-style drones. Also, blockading Malacca also tanks the Phillipines, Japan and Korea.
by dfworks | 2025-11-21 07:39:04+00:00
Hi Author here,

This doesnt really answer your question but hopefully gives some insight into our process.

The main bottlenecks were breaking the fisheye-style panoramas into different perspectives (so text was more readable), passing it to OCR and acquiring the panoramas as there isn't an official API.

Because of the above, we constrained ourselves from the outset. For example, the spacings between panoramas was 50m, we didnt traverse residential roads that were less likely to have signage, we only used the most recent panorama for a location etc

If I interpret global as without those constraints (5m spacings, every road, all historic panoramas) then I think the first problem you'll run into is being rate limited by Google. Compute may be able to solve the other problems but it would be very expensive.
by palmotea | 2025-11-21 07:39:09+00:00
> To me (and it’s my personal experience) I read it as tech people have a bias for systemic thinking, and usually lack skills and/or experience in human social dynamics, especially when young, which makes laissez faire capitalism / libertarianism attractive. I’m a bit on the spectrum and to me it has a video game like quality (e.g. humans that are robot like rational actors) that was appealing and reassuring when trying to make sense of the world.

That is exactly what I meant.

Also tech people are often intelligent (in a way) and identify as such, but then let that get to their head and get really overconfident about whatever clicks with them.
by imtringued | 2025-11-21 07:39:28+00:00
The payload capacity of Starship version 2 is around 35 tons to LEO. The propellant capacity is 1500 tons. This means it takes 42 tanker loads to fill up one Starship. This means Destin was extremely optimistic with respect to how well Starship is going to perform.

Even with the projected 100 ton payload for V3, the minimum number of flights to refuel a V2 HLS Starship is 15 flights and 26 flights for V3 HLS.

If we are optimistic about New Glenn and the cislunar transporter, then it will take 4 flights to refuel the transporter for each moon landing plus one flight to launch Orion on New Glenn and another three flights to push Orion using the cislunar transporter. There is also a hypothetical option to use a second Blue Moon MK2 between LEO and NRHO plus a crew capsule launch that says in LEO.

Given a budget of 4 billion USD, this could pay for 50 New Glenn flights assuming falcon 9 pricing. 8 flights per moon landing means one moon landing every two months.

That seems pretty promising unlike SpaceX, which is locked entirely behind a functioning reusable second stage or they don't get to participate at all, because expending 15 to 26 upper stages is not viable at all.

But you do you. SLS only has to launch a few times until the cislunar transporter gets established, which means it is exactly the safe bet that the US needs to reach the moon.
by charcircuit | 2025-11-21 07:39:32+00:00
User experience and developer experience for an OS are real things. It's easy to make a bad experience, people have to actually care about being able to deliver a good experience. Even if you can't tell people what to do, it should be possible to align on something that can deliver a good experience for users and developers.

>This is not a technical difference at all.

Which is why I said it was a problem with leadership than with the technical merrits.
by friendzis | 2025-11-21 07:39:39+00:00
> like regulations of parking minimums implemented to appease the property owning class.

Due to current market conditions we can sell all apartments without any parking spaces, therefore regulation defining a housing unit with foresight for future market conditions is bad.

> the regulations that block renewable energy

Can you name one regulation that outright blocks renewable energy generation specifically and not externalities created by developments, that sometimes happen to be renewable energy?
by pkrein | 2025-11-21 07:39:43+00:00
Hi HN, author here.

I wanted to address the most common theme in the comments: safety.

The regulatory burdens I've encountered and described were not related to safety requirements. They are procedural questions with no bearing on safety.

Whether an injection well is Class I disposal, Class II oilfield disposal or Class V experimental has no bearing on the (strong and reasonable) safety requirements to protect underground sources of drinking water... the problem is the delay that comes from deciding which class is most appropriate (turns out, Class V experimental).

And ditto, whether a Revoy is a tractor, a trailer, or a converter dolly for the purposes of DMV registration paperwork has no bearing or relation to the (again strong and reasonable) NHTSA FMVSS safety requirements... the problem is the delay on the procedural paperwork.

I think we can all agree that these procedural issues are not "written in blood", but are in fact regulatory bikeshedding that we'd all be better off without.
by rplnt | 2025-11-21 07:40:15+00:00
I don't think that's the OP's issue, it's just in this context.

Can someone from the industry confirm whether they use metric internally and the stream uses imperial just for the patriotic show or whether imperial units are used because some countries use different unit systems and this is normal?

On a related note, I don't think anyone is bothered buying screens (monitor/phone/...) labeled in inches, but orbital elevations and speeds? Weird.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 07:40:36+00:00
> Could you describe a combination of forces that would have thrown that engine to the left of the direction of travel?

Foreign object gets yeeted to the right. Internal component gets yeeted to the right. Engine exploded on its right side.

I think each of those is more likely than gyroscopics since the engine went to the left. Not left and up.
by smaudet | 2025-11-21 07:40:46+00:00
Sorry, I'm not sure if there is a language barrier, or you are not arguing in good faith.

> that could have just been referenced directly in `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`?

It is referenced directly though...

> That's nonsense

What exactly are you asserting to be nonsense? Exactly nothing I said about paths on unix is nonsense, please provide a specific example of what you think is nonsense.
by rasz | 2025-11-21 07:41:55+00:00
>Isn't Python still viewed as a mess now?

Imo the coding part is fine. I have no mayor complains about it. I even like indentation as syntax as long as you use tabs :)

Python is the modern day BASIC. Slow interpreted lingua franca. As long as you are ok with its speed I say go for it. Python is the only scripting language where I maintain constant lingering awareness that every single line of code adds milliseconds to run time. As bad as instantiating new variable costing single digit ms on a GHz CPU. This quickly adds up the more you are trying to achieve.

Example benchmark, Python 3.4:

# Direct Access d['key']: 3.3710 seconds # Direct Enum Access d[enum.key]: 157.9954 seconds

In latest versions Enums got "fixed" to "only" 3-6x slower than strings! SimpleNamespace to the rescue.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-21 07:45:17+00:00
> Because developing Xorg is a massive pain in the butt.

That's really no reason to build an entirely new system, and then half-ass it the way Wayland did. The Wayland gang should have started with a new, modernized, cleaned up window system API running as a layer on top of X11 and then start replacing the cruft piece by piece while keeping both the original X11 API and the new API working all the time, basically build the whole project from the user perspective (both 'regular' Linux users and programmers who need to build Linux apps).

I guess though the main problem is that feature parity with X11 wasn't even a design goal, they intentionally threw out the baby with the bathwater, and also intentionally fragmented the Linux desktop even more. It almost smells like sabotage (at least self-sabotage).

Also, it's been 17 years since Wayland was released, that's as if X11 would have barely started to become usable by around 2005.
by theshrike79 | 2025-11-21 07:47:35+00:00
> - As a general observation, Gemini is less easy to work with as a collaborator. If I ask the same question to both models, Codex will answer the question. Gemini will read some intention behind the question, write code to implement the intention, and only then answer the question. In one case, it took me five rounds of repeatedly rewriting my prompt in various ways before I could get it to not code but just answer the question.

This has been an annoying Gemini feature since the beginning. I ask it to evaluate, check or analyse something, tab away and come back to it rewriting half the fucking codebase.

Please Google, use a percentage of your billions and add a "plan" mode to Gemini-cli - just like Claude has and I'd use your stuff a lot more often. The 1M context is excellent for large scale reviews, but its tendency to start writing code on its own is a pain in my ass.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-21 07:48:10+00:00
Rosetta is abandonware: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/abou...

Why would a company on its way to the moon, entrust such an important project as translation layer between two major architectures to a single rinky-dinky corp that got rich selling common electronics marketed as luxury fluff, that's on the decline and has head so far stuck up its butt that it thinks it can do whatever it wants, instead of just write it themselves with support of the global developer community?

Apple could never do games because there are no luxury games. That's completely out of their zone of comprehensibility.
by rmunn | 2025-11-21 07:48:19+00:00
I could agree with giving sysadmins a way to specify a list of disallowed usernames (which would be useful for more reasons than to retire certain usernames, e.g. many sites would probably disallow "admin" as a username, and depending on maturity of the userbase might also find it valuable to forbid profanity as usernames). But it should be in a text file somewhere in /etc, not hardcoded into the source of useradd.c: different sites would have different requirements, and David M. Robertson (a fictional person I just made up, and if that happens to be your actual name then congratulations), who works at a small startup whose standard practice is three-initial usernames, should not be forbidden from using the username dmr just because someone famous also had those initials.
by x______________ | 2025-11-21 07:49:07+00:00
> The student, a high school intern at Superior Court, was reportedly detained by the agents outside the Licht Judicial Complex on Benefit Street.

>Superior Court Judge Joseph McBurney insisted the agents had the wrong person. It was not until ICE verified their information and admitted the intern was not their intended target that he was released.

A kid, detained, and released after... due diligence.

>Multiple sources told Target 12 that Rhode Island sheriffs earlier noticed someone taking photos of the intern inside the courthouse and in Superior Court Judge McBurney’s courtroom. When approached, the individual identified himself as an ICE agent and was told to abide by standard courthouse rules, and to stop taking pictures.

>The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.

>Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked.

Holy shit. Straight up random profiling to photo ops at your workplace to violent abduction.
by phatskat | 2025-11-21 07:49:38+00:00
On the one hand I’m glad HN doesn’t do embedded images, on the other I’d really like to see this thread just be popcorn eating GIFs.

It’ll certainly be interesting to see how this plays out - I feel like Twitch reaches such a large and diverse demographic that the response will be palpable.

I haven’t looked, but I’m assuming this ban already applies to YouTube, right?
by BrandiATMuhkuh | 2025-11-21 07:50:42+00:00
Congratulations on the launch.

One customer type that will absolutely love that are architecture studios. Basically all data they generate (drawing, plans, presentation) live either on SharePoint or NFS (or some other file system like ACC).

If you can provide for them a solution they can host on their private cloud (air-gapped) you have an enterprise-deal.

Why air-gapped - many documents they generate are secret (military or competition. Think next largest tower in the world) - copy right: for example the German norm body DIN does not allow you to use documents from them and add them into an LLM (I'm not talking training, I simply talk RAG) except!!! if you keep it in a private cloud like Azure.

Why do I know that: because I worked on that problem @howie.systems
by matu3ba | 2025-11-21 07:51:58+00:00
> Regulations are practically the only thing standing between the rich and the powerful and their incessant attempt to drive even more wealth into their own pockets at the expense ordinary people's health, wealth, future, welfare, housing, etc.

Try to rethink how money is created and how money gets its value and how and by whom that wealth is distributed. Regulation as in "make rules" does not enforce rules, which is the definition of (political) power.

> The other important requirement is to increase the staffing of the regulatory agencies so that their individual workload doesn't become a bottleneck in the entire process. There is a scientific method to assess the staffing requirements of public service institutions. According to that, a significant number of government departments all over the world are understaffed.

Why are you claiming "There is a scientific method" and do not provide it? Governments do (risk) management by 1 rules, 2 checks and 3 punishment and we already know from software that complexity in system is only bounded by system working with eventual necessary (ideally partial) resets. Ideally governments would be structured like that, but that goes against governments interest of extending power/control. Also, "system working" is decided by the current ruling class/group. Besides markets and physical constrains.
by gnarlouse | 2025-11-21 07:52:13+00:00
This doesn’t strike me as “bad”. Seeing the content on Twitch and how parasocial it is, it doesn’t seem healthy for kids under 18 tbh. Like Facebook was the craze when I was exiting highschool, and then it was instagram/snapchat/twitter through college. “Quitting” social media was one of the healthiest adult choices I ever made—comparison is the thief of joy, blah blah blah.
by troupo | 2025-11-21 07:52:34+00:00
> Just like when working with humans. Stuff don't magically document itself.

Humans actually learn from codebases they work with. They don't start with a clean slate every time they wake up in the morning. They know where to find information and how to search for them. They don't need someone to constantly update docs to point to changes.

> but it still takes ages to find anything without docs to tell you the approximate direction.

Which humans, unsurprisingly, can do without wiping their memory every time.
by beeflet | 2025-11-21 07:52:38+00:00
They can be used to hold anyone responsible for anything I deem wrong. What's so bad about that?

Let's say I'm partnering with flock to track anyone who drives to say, a political convention I disagree with, and basically make your life hell.

Maybe you don't want your employer to know everywhere you go. What's so bad about that?

Or maybe you offended me in public, as long as I record your plate number I can find out your place of residence and employment through the FlockYou app for only $5. After all, people deserve to be held accountable for their actions.
by hyghjiyhu | 2025-11-21 07:53:16+00:00
I think getting hung up on words (in this case index) in mathematics is a trap. They are often stretched to their breaking point and you just kind of go with the flow.

> When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

> ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

> ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.

In mathematics it is the author's privilege.
by tome | 2025-11-21 07:54:50+00:00
No, no loss of safety. Was there something in particular you were thinking of? With IO-wrapper effect systems you give up native multishot continuations (but you can always get them back by wrapping in LogicT).

You can look at my table of "A Comparison of Effect Systems at a Glance" to see all the tradeoffs:

https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/bluefin-0.2.0.0/...