MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thegrim33 | 2025-11-11 00:45:12+00:00
This is a meta review that looked at a selection of other reviews that all suggested a correlation does exist. This meta review is pointing out that they believe there's not strong enough evidence in those other reviews to say concretely, scientifically, that there's a link. Only a tentative link. This is in no way a study saying that there is no link. It's a study saying there's not enough of a preponderance of evidence in all these other studies to definitively say there's a link.
by jjk166 | 2025-11-11 00:45:33+00:00
> Given your earlier claim, surely you must believe that if they defied your wisdom and chose this course of action, they wouldn't be able to do this because they would have to devote a substantial fraction of their military capacity to domestic counterinsurgency efforts, leaving far more limited combat power to actually execute the invasion?

That does not follow. First, my scenario for how an invasion of canada would go down fundamentally assumes that the conditions preventing an invasion of canada from happening don't exist. The world where Canada must defend itself from a US invasion is a magical, fictional world where the US has managed to launch an invasion.

Further, successfully invading Canada would not require the full force of the US military, and it is not established that the resources needed for the invasion of Canada would even be the same as those required for fighting domestically, nonetheless that the resources would be required concurrently. The men and materiel necessary for disabling the Canadian armed forces and seizing key territory would in general be useless in a domestic counter-insurgency scenario, and vice versa.

The problem with civil war is not its drain on your military resources, it's that the campaign to regain control over the rebelling regions requires you to inflict destruction on your own people. A victory is inherently pyrrhic, and if you aren't careful you may breed sympathy for the rebellion in even more regions. The US should avoid civil war because it's catastrophically bad, not because it would interfere with the canadian invasion effort.
by oliyoung | 2025-11-11 00:46:58+00:00
My guess? implicit behaviours are always more valuable than explicit behaviours, so when implicit engagement became the metric and measurable, Facebook didn't need people to deliberately engage with content to determine its value

Also..

* In that time we moved from desktop to mobile; clicking that tiny button was difficult on mobile and they couldn't replace it with a comparable mechanic

* Changes to third-party cookie and XHR rules in browsers made the data less reliable
by Chabsff | 2025-11-11 00:47:27+00:00
> They do it by iteratively predicting the next token.

You don't know that. It's how the llm presents, not how it does things. That's what I mean by it being the interface.

There's ever only one word that comes out of your mouth at a time, but we don't conclude that humans only think one word at a time. Who's to say the machine doesn't plan out the full sentence and outputs just the next token?

I don't know either fwiw, and that's my main point. There's a lot to criticize about LLMs and, believe or not, I am a huge detractor of their use in most contexts. But this is a bad criticism of them. And it bugs me a lot because the really important problems with them are broadly ignored by this low-effort, ill-thought-out offhand dismissal.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-11 00:49:08+00:00
I'm glad that I provide amusement, but rustc-1.63.0 still compiles this program that panics at runtime. My experience with Rust is 5 min, so the style may provide further amusement:

fn f(n : usize) -> usize { if n == 0 { 10 } else if n % 32327 == 0 { 1 } else { f(n-1) } } fn main() { let a = [1,2,3,4,5]; let n = f(12312); println!("{:?}", a[n]); }
by nradov | 2025-11-11 00:49:34+00:00
What a silly question. I don't need to provide you any evidence. Just walk down to your local recruiting office and ask. If you tell them that you want to enlist but will only do so if they guarantee a truck driver MOS on your contact then they'll absolutely take you unless they've already hit their limit for that fiscal year.

HN is so weird sometimes. Like half the users seem to be aggressively ignorant of stuff that's common knowledge in the real world outside the tech industry. Or they expect to be spoon fed information that they could figure out themselves with a little research.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-11 00:50:07+00:00
> It seems like a lot of people stop there, and either don't investigate problems where it might be a better fit.

The AI sceptics do think deeply about where AI might be a better fit. They indeed thought deeply about this, but for every hypthetical use case they could come up with, they had to conclude that

- AI has to become much much more reliable to be suitable for this use case

- the current AI architectures (as "the thing that bigtech markets") will likely by principle never be able to achieve this kind of reliability

This is exactly why these AI-sceptical people got so sceptical about AI, and also the reason why these AI sceptics got so vocal about their opinions.
by creatonez | 2025-11-11 00:51:44+00:00
The RSS argument makes no sense to me. Viewing styled RSS feeds in your browser is not a conventional way to use RSS, and is not what hardcore RSS users actually want (which is, a unified UI for all their news, without any fancy style, and without any place to even put ads). The styled version of an RSS feed, in the rare circumstances it even exists, is specifically for the non-technical users, who will be perfectly happy with a polyfilled or backend implementation.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-11-11 00:52:41+00:00
If "large and impressive" means "has grown to that size via many contributions from lots of random developers", then I'd agree.

I don't think there is much doubt AI can produce split out a lot of code, that mostly works. It's not too hard to imagine that one day an can AI produce so much code that it's considered a "large, complex project". A single mind dedicated to a task can do remarkable things, be it human or silicon. Another mind reading what they have done, and understanding it is another thing entirely.

All long term, large projects I'm familiar have been developed over a long time by many contributors, and as a consequence there has been far more reading and understanding going on than writing new code. This almost becomes self evident when you look at large open source projects, because the code quality is so high. Everything is split into modules a single mind can pick up relatively quickly and work on in isolation. Hell, even complier error messages become self explanatory essays over time.

Or to put it another way, no open source project is a ball of mud. Balls of mud can only be maintained by the person who wrote them, who get away with it because they have most of the details stored in their context window, courtesy of writing it. Balls of mud are common in proprietary code (I've worked on a few). They are produced by a single small group were paid to labour away for years at one task. And now if this post it to be believed, AI vibe coded projects are also a source of balls of mud. Given current AI's are notoriously bad at modifying even well structured projects, they won't be maintainable by anyone.
by technion | 2025-11-11 00:52:43+00:00
These used to be on website - but websites themselves for the most part have stopped using them. I don't find every blog post with a "Click to like on Facebook" much more these days.

I did used to like reading HPE spec sheets for equipment and there was always a "Click to like on Facebook" button at the bottom. I'm not going to broadcast to my friends that I like eight different RAID card models thanks.
by jabbywocker | 2025-11-11 00:52:47+00:00
He wasn’t an ass about it. And the people who don’t know what BEAM is can easily google their way to more information than they’d ever be able to get from a comment here.

Edit: I will say that’s a better take. It’s at least blatant about it being the personal attack you intended it to be instead of passive aggressively couching it behind the pretense of caring about community. If you want to be shitty to people, just do it. I’d prefer honest assholes than weasely manipulators.
by afavour | 2025-11-11 00:53:19+00:00
> I think the general advice to pregnant women is to generally avoid most/all medications as much as possible as a just in case thing.

I really don’t think that’s true. e.g. having a fever for a prolonged period could endanger the woman and/or the baby and taking Tylenol would be a risk reducer by comparison.

> There are a lot of things that it could be that changed to bring more autism in society.

Also quite possible that there isn’t any more autism in society, just that greater awareness has led to increased diagnoses.
by hexage1814 | 2025-11-11 00:53:38+00:00
I would somewhat disagree with this statement being a sign the strike was a success because, like, AI is not at the point of generating a whole movie in human quality today, so Netflix issuing this statement like this now, in November 2025, costs them literally nothing, and feels more like a consolation prize: "Here, take this statement, so you guys can pretend the strike achieved anything."

When AI gets good enough, 2, 3, 5, 10 years from now, they simply reverse path, and this statement wouldn't delay Netflix embracing AI films that much, if anything.

> I would somewhat disagree with this statement being a sign the strike was a success because, like, AI is not at the point of generating a whole movie in human quality today, so Netflix issuing this statement like this now, in November 2025, costs them literally nothing, and feels more like a consolation prize: "Here, take this statement, so you guys can pretend the strike achieved anything."

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> When AI gets good enough, 2, 3, 5, 10 years from now, they simply reverse path, and this statement wouldn't have delay Netflix embracing AI films that much, if anything.
by captainkrtek | 2025-11-11 00:54:30+00:00
>GenAI is not used to replace or generate new talent performances

>> This is 100% a lie.

We’ve had CGI for decades and generally don’t mind. However, the point at which AI usage becomes a negative (eg: the content appears low quality) because of its usage, I’d expect some backlash and pulling back in the industry.

In film and tv, customers have so much choice. If a film or tv is low effort, it’s likely going to get low ratings.

Every business and industry is obviously incentivized to cut costs, but, if those cost cuts directly affect the reputation and imagery of your final product, you probably want to choose wisely which things you cut..
by eru | 2025-11-11 00:54:36+00:00
> Consider, too, the unequal bargaining power between vendors and individual consumers (have you ever tried to negotiate a form contract with a megacorporation?).

You don't negotiate the contents of your burger with McDonald's. If you don't like it, you go to Burger King or have a Döner Kebab.

There's plenty of tacit negotiations here.

> We protect people because they have failed. These regulations tend to follow actual injuries; they are rarely promulgated in anticipation of them.

Homeopathic medicine tend to follow actual health problems, too. That doesn't mean they are a good idea.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-11 00:55:12+00:00
> There weren’t that many projectiles in the first place so I felt that this would be useful later. However, considering that Chrome and Safari were struggling performance wise probably due to their garbage collector working differently, I resigned myself to implement it now.

I'm curious about actual metrics with regard to Chrome / Safari's garbage collector overhead. You still don't have a lot of "objects" in the video; when V8 is used server side it handles significantly more objects. (IE, assuming each sword is 1-5 objects.)

Are these engines canvas based, or are they generating HTML? Assuming they are generating HTML, are the elements removed from the screen when you are done with them?

In a lot of garbage collected environments, you still need to call some kind of close / remove method when you are done with some kinds of objects. (In C#, it's "Dispose.")
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-11 00:57:33+00:00
The statement that there isn't really a true Christian besides Christ himself isn't really new and I think accepted by most. :-)

> You seem to be implying that Trump supporters aren't "really" Christians

No, I didn't meant that, I was initially only talking about Trump. I think it necessary for them to think of themself as Christian, and they need to at least try to act as that to some reasonable level. My issue was that to me it seams like Trump doesn't even try. His ramblings violate charity in fundamental ways and he doesn't try to cover that.

> Christians voted for him

Fine.

> said they voted for him

Did they vote for a story he told them, or did they vote for what he actually does. This doesn't absolve them of their responsibility, they still voted for a liar in this case, but it does matter how much they will object and how likely they are to vote differently.

> they believed he was sent by God

That violates teachings of Christianity in a fundamental way. If it didn't, every Moslem would be called a Christian. There is no revelation after Jesus Christ.

> what Christianity in America actually is.

I think there aren't only Evangelicals in America, there is some important guy coming from there, I think he called himself after a lion or something.

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> he's clearly the man that American Christians want.

You should read up on what happened when the "German Christians" got what they "wanted".

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> I don't know where the ambiguity you're trying to imply here actually exists in the real world.

What I want to counter is a comment like, "see what the Christians want!". You wouldn't allow to call someone "anti-slavery" that promotes slavery, simply because he tells you to call him that. Neither would you then counter with "see what that "anti-slavery" guy wants?", therefore I am against "anti-slavery".
by eru | 2025-11-11 00:58:11+00:00
> The US Jones Act is trying, but US ship building capacity is pretty minimal.

Some people might go so far as to put a lot of the blame for the sorry state of affairs _on_ the Jones Act.

(Though to be fair, while the Jones Act alone could probably snuff out American ship building, even without it most ships would probably still be build in South Korea. But you can fairly blame the Jones Act for suppressing US-to-US ocean shipping.)
by snickerbockers | 2025-11-11 00:58:28+00:00
Well ideally you're supposed to have a valid visa before you cross the border. I don't like the idea of the government promising people a path to amnesty and then going back on its word because there's a new administration in town but ultimately the people they're nabbing are in this situation because they already have invalid visas so I don't think it follows that this would discourage people from obtaining visas like they were supposed to have already done.
by nomel | 2025-11-11 00:58:32+00:00
> you learn that physical media has a limited shelf life.

Their point is that physical media itself has a limited lifespan.

You need to continuously "refresh" it every 1 to 10 years, depending on the physical media you choose, or it's most likely corrupted. I've lost many HDD, SSD, SD cards, and about 50 "archival quality" DVD/CD to time, with all manufacturers having somewhere around 3x to 20x exaggerated claim of longevity. I'm guessing their numbers are based on some temperature/humidity controlled marketing BS, rather than anything resembling reality.

SD Cards are the saddest. I've seen many older members of my family shed tears when they pull out their SD cars they carefully stored in a drawer/safe, and they're junk. Charge drift be a harsh mistress.
by raiph | 2025-11-11 00:58:33+00:00
I hear you were coming from the angle of being useful. In a sense that's what matters most, and I love that you have that spirit.

If Wikipedia has deadnamed Raku with grace then that might be a model to follow, but in general it's far from helpful unless it's done carefully. There's a reason why the community embarked on the somewhat painful multi decade process of renaming it. To try clarify my understanding I'll summarize it here.

Because of the original name for Raku, people assumed for a long time (long after it became problematically misleading) that it shared semantics, or syntax, or compiler tech, or libraries, or something technical like that, with some other programming language(s).

This was partly because Raku did indeed take some inspiration philosophically and/or technically from some existing languages (traces of a half dozen or so are evident), and partly because Raku and its compiler tech features the ability to use Python code and compilers, and C code and compilers, and Perl code and compilers, and so on, as if they were native Raku code/compilers.

But Raku was never C, or Python, or Perl, and the old name is unfortunately a form of deadnaming -- which is to say, something that is seldom helpful, especially if some commentary like this comment is not included.

At least, that's how I experience it.

That said, regardless of my view, I love your impulse of being helpful, which is why I've written this -- and I hope it does help any readers.
by legitster | 2025-11-11 00:58:58+00:00
I know that people get very up in arms about AI in creative industries - but I feel like people don't necessarily understand that even in creative industries there is a LOT of monotonous, exploitative grunt work.

For every person who gets to make creative decision, there are hundreds upon hundreds of people whose sole purpose is slavish adherence to those decisions. Miyazaki gets to design his beautiful characters - but the task of getting those characters to screen must be carried out by massive team of illustrators for whom "creative liberty" is a liability to their career.

(And this example is only for the creative aspects of film-making. There is a lot of normal corporate and logistical stuff that never even affects what you see)

That's not to say I'm looking forward to the wave of lazy AI-infused slop that is heading our way. But I also don't necessarily agree with the grandstanding that AI is inherently anti-creative or only destructive. I reserve the right to be open-minded.

The irony is that movies and TV themselves represented a cheaper, industrialized and commoditized alternative to theater. And theater is still around and just as good as it ever was.
by sigwinch | 2025-11-11 00:59:34+00:00
You and I probably agree that Trump didn’t get to say what he actually wanted to say. I assert those two lines come closest. The attentive watcher might see the cut (two different camera angles) and put in the effort to watch the 50 min. in between. But biased people would just presume it fits a pattern.

Do you think Trump is being taken out of context?
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-11-11 01:00:49+00:00
12000 steps is around 10km. And takes around 2-2.5 hours of walking. So I say it is total baloney. Only very few people can do that amount of walking daily. Plus after you do a 2+ hour walk your body next day needs time to recuperate. As an added note it could be utterly boring to walk the same route again and again.

Rather do 6 km slow running 2 or 3 times a week (of course if you are not severely overweight). You can do that in one hour and one running session is enough for 2-3 days. It also strenghtens your core and every other muscle in your body. You will also eat less. If you can mix it with strength training that includes your 4 headed leg muscles you will feel yourself like a champ.

Lot of literature is absolute hogwash in this space because most of them is theoretical and they regurgitate the same old bs. Like idiots saying running half an hour is 400 kcal :D.

Your body is a system, and not a robot or an engine that needs x amount of gas and oil to go for y kilometers.
by ramraj07 | 2025-11-11 01:00:55+00:00
Seconding GHD. They have added features very slowly, very thoughtfully; HN tends towards experts (or at least people who think they are). I am aware that I'm NOT good with git. I will never do anything that has "hard" or "rebase" in it without spending 20 minutes making sure its what I want to do. Unfortunately I have seen way too many semi junior engineers who think they're git lords who force push bad histories and ruin our git repo. I tend to suggest strongly that people should use github desktop if they are in my team though very few people take up that suggestion :)
by cortesoft | 2025-11-11 01:00:59+00:00
> but I think the fact that the term "AI slop" has become so commonplace reflects a bias (generally) against AI-generated content.

Is that just because we are at the very beginning stages of the technology, though? It is just going to keep getting better, will the bias against AI generated content remain? I know people like to talk as if AI will always have the quality issues it has now, but I wouldn't count on that.
by maxdamantus | 2025-11-11 01:01:44+00:00
> Exceptions in transactional logic are often used to represent a "rollback persistent store changes made thus far" scenario.

Handling can be added to change the transaction to be read-only if the inner code throws a particular exception, but the consistency should still be checked through a `commit` phase (at least in an OCC setting), so the `continue` in `finally` is still the correct way to do it.

> could be expressed in a clearer manner by having it within the `try` block as described by IntelliJ here[0].

> 0 - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/inspectopedia/ContinueOrBreak...

Wrong link? The only solution I see there is to add a comment to suppress the warning, which sounds fine to me (eg, analogous to having a `// fallthrough` comment when intentionally omitting `break` statements within `switch`, since I can agree that both of these things are uncommon, but sometimes desirable).
by pavement_sort | 2025-11-11 01:02:11+00:00
They are starting a new discussion about the ethics of drafting because you mentioned "universal male conscription".

In that discussion they are saying that it's unethical to have a child in a country that will draft him unless you prepare him (via learning another language, etc.) to leave as soon as he is 18.

(Just explaining, not putting forth any take on the matter).
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-11 01:02:21+00:00
> Since vibe coding is so chaotic, rigorous planning is required, which not every developer had to do before.

I do believe the problem is different:

I think I am pretty good at planning, but I have a tendency (in particular for private projects) to work on things where the correctness requirements are very high.

While I can describe very exactly what the code is supposed to do, even small errors can make the code useless. If the foundations are not right, it will be complicated to detect errors in the higher levels (to solve this issue, I implement lots of test cases).

Also, I often have a very specific architecture for my code in mind. If the AI tries to do things differently, the code can easily become much less useful. In other words: concerning this point, exactly because I plan things carefully (as you claimed), the AI becomes much less useful if it "does its own thing" instead of following my plan.