MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perching_aix | 2025-11-14 19:46:05+00:00
An experience not exclusive to cloud vendors :) Even better when the vendor throws their hands up cause the issue is not reliably repro'able.

That was when I scripted away a test that ran hundreds of times a day on a lower environment, attempting repro. As they say, at scale, even insignificant issues become significant. I don't remember clearly, I think it was a 5-10% chance that the issue triggered.

At least confirming the fix, which we did eventually receive, was mostly a breeze. Had to provide an inordinate amount of captures, logs, and data to get there though. Was quite the grueling few weeks, especially all the office politics laden calls.
by alexrp | 2025-11-14 19:46:06+00:00
> Forgejo is more busy managing ideals, than creating software.

Can't say I agree with this point. Zig has been trying out Forgejo/Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub, and about two months into the experiment, almost all of our technical concerns with Forgejo (and Forgejo Actions) have been addressed, with the only straggler being a UI bug related to the Cancel button in the Actions infrastructure (which has a WIP PR open, and which also has a straightforward workaround).

I can't speak to the platforms themselves, but in regards to their CI systems, it looks to me like the Forgejo Actions runner sees more development than the Gitea act_runner. For example, Forgejo gained support for concurrency groups recently, which to my knowledge are still not supported in Gitea.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-14 19:46:13+00:00
This is probably my biggest problem with AI tools, having played around with them more lately.

"You're absolutely right! I made a mistake. I have now comprehensively solved this problem. Here is the corrected output: [totally incorrect output]."

None of them ever seem to have the ability to say "I cannot seem to do this" or "I am uncertain if this is correct, confidence level 25%" The only time they will give up or refuse to do something is when they are deliberately programmed to censor for often dubious "AI safety" reasons. All other times, they come back again and again with extreme confidence as they totally produce garbage output.
by energy123 | 2025-11-14 19:46:18+00:00
The hope was for this understanding to emerge as the most efficient solution to the next-token prediction problem.

Put another way, it was hoped that once the dataset got rich enough, developing this understanding is actually more efficient for the neural network than memorizing the training data.

The useful question to ask, if you believe the hope is not bearing fruit, is why. Point specifically to the absent data or the flawed assumption being made.

Or more realistically, put in the creative and difficult research work required to discover the answer to that question.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-14 19:46:24+00:00
Older games at medium settings, or shooters at low settings sure. If that's your compromise for frames then a relative potato can still play it. I'm not sure I call that "modern" in the same way something God of War Ragnarok is "modern".

>Though that is one area where many Japanese studios are still lagging behind the rest.

Its a different model. They aren't trying to sell millions of copies to report engagement and sales, so they want to lock in the smaller audience they have and get as much out of that. Nintendo style. That's why you'll see the larger public studios like Square Enix and Capcom doing western style, generous sales so their sales calls can be "we sold 20% more YoY from new releases". Koei Tecmo, not so much. And Sega seems to straddle the line depending on the franchise.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-14 19:47:32+00:00
I poked around their blog some more out of curiosity and I can't figure out what his situation is. In a year-old article about burnout and vacation, he mentions burning out from a job in marketing, and ends by saying therapy isn't an option because he lives under the poverty line and can't even afford to get vital blood work done. Maybe this hit so hard that it actually made him unable to do more remunerative work. But it sure feels like he's poor by choice. Which is odd because this article seems like a pretty good description of what it's like to be poor not by choice. There is an almost throwaway line that stands out at me now:

"Should I work a second job and never see my wife? My kids? Should I never have any personal time? Should my entire life revolve around money? Should I kill myself for capitalism?"

The rest of the article is about how you can't just choose to stop being poor. And in the middle of all this is something that boils down to, "I could stop being poor, I just don't like the tradeoff." Which is certainly his right, but it makes this whole thing feel like poverty cosplay.
by proteal | 2025-11-14 19:47:51+00:00
I think we’re in agreement, but I’m afraid I don’t have the philosophical language to precisely pin my mental model into words (what a meta conundrum lol). I’ll try my best here, but I may come back in a few days with an edit if I can more coherently write my ideas.

I take a slightly more narrow definition of “thoughts” that may be more akin to “expressions” - ideas that can be communicated, so excluding non-linguistic mental processes. I think that may be where we disconnect. A lot of my idea about thoughts comes from the Borges story, Funes the memorius (short story about a dude who could not forget - interesting read and really clarifies my feelings on my definition of “all possible thought”). In the story he talks about tree leaves, but instead imagine needing a unique linguistic scheme for every single unique snowflake you ever see. It would be a linguistic nightmare! Therefore language must generalize otherwise it becomes noncommunicable and that generalization to me induces the “lossy approximation” I attribute to language in my prior comment.

So, in my head Funes’s mind represent the abstract space of all possible thoughts. When we use language, we are stacking words/sentences/paragraphs/etc together almost like vector addition trying to reach a particular point in the thought vector space. Some languages have really clean ways of getting to certain thoughts while others take a mouthful and still don’t get you exactly there (物の哀れ example from link).

I agree with your statement on new languages being different thinking. As you follow that vector addition process to get to the “thought,” different languages will take you on different paths to get to your destination thought because languages encode those vectors differently, even if the destination thought is the same. In my mental model, the act of thinking is putting those language vectors together and tracing their path to get to your thought.

And if my comment still makes no sense - I might have to incubate this thought a bit more :) but I do recommend the story- it’s a quick, thought provoking read.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 19:47:52+00:00
I consider myself relatively adventurous with ARM SBCs, but I don't see the draw for this box. $500 for the 32GB of RAM version is a lot to ask, especially with no path to upgrade the RAM and coming from a company known to have mediocre quality control and difficult warranty support.

I always appreciate Jeff Geerling's willingness to do in-depth reviews and comparisons. In this case I would have liked to see a cheap x86-64 option in the ranks, though. I understand that it's supposed to be about ARM and low power, but with this box drawing 17W at idle and coming with a $500 price tag for 32GB RAM and no storage, we might as well start comparing to x86 options in the same price and power envelope.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-14 19:47:53+00:00
> How does society resolve this kind of abuse of the democratic process?

You need a means for citizens to hold the powers that be accountable. Unfortunately, the EU is largely designed without such a mechanism, as its initial scope and ambition was much smaller than the superstate it is growing into it wasn't deemed necessary.

Every branch except for the European Parliament risks consequences only if they fuck up so badly that the majority of EU citizens in their home countries (or in some cases, the majority of member states) deem their actions so reprehensible that they consider punishing the EU more important than electing their own national government, since it's effectively the same vote.

This is technically still a means of accountability, but it's not really a threat in practice.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-14 19:48:06+00:00
Exactly. There are many ways to make things work even if you’re earning very little. People don’t think about giving up the nice things they feel they’re entitled to. But you have to be willing to change where you live, what kind of food you eat, who you share a roof with, what you drive (if at all), and all of that. If you haven’t done those things, you can’t claim you’re poor in my opinion, because you haven’t made the life changes you could make to make ends meet.
by dang | 2025-11-14 19:48:09+00:00
Related. Others?

Ask HN: Does Anyone Use Bitchat? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944414 - Aug 2025 (5 comments)

Testing Bitchat at the music festival - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44815164 - Aug 2025 (55 comments)

MitM Flaw in Bitchat: Identity Is a Bitchat Challenge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44497622 - July 2025 (6 comments)

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485342 - July 2025 (424 comments)
by riamuu | 2025-11-14 19:48:17+00:00
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by rufus_foreman | 2025-11-14 19:48:26+00:00
The people who are fleeing the country aren't just fleeing a specific rate of taxation. They are fleeing the idea that their wealth was, as you put it, simply given to them.

They are fleeing from people like you.

I blame the rich people a little bit for leaving. My fight or flight reflexes learn more towards the side of fight.
by reincoder | 2025-11-14 19:48:49+00:00
I am the DevRel for IPinfo. While we recognize that we should have been more accurate in this instance, it’s worth breaking down how our methodology works. We are also rolling out some geolocation tweaks that should neutralize the inaccuracies caused by adversarial correction submissions.

First, we use active measurement for IP geolocation as our primary source. Our main data source is our ProbeNet infrastructure, which consists of 1,200 PoPs across 500 cities. Through ProbeNet, we run active measurements to every IP address and routable IPv6. Because we run both ping and traceroute, we typically have a very strong sense of where an IP address is located.

However, ProbeNet is not our only data pipeline. We process several dozen additional data sources. For example, unrouted or unassigned IP addresses do not generate active measurements, so we must rely on other forms of data.

In reality, we must “fallback” to alternative location evidence when active measurement is unavailable. Even though we manage, expand, and maintain a very large server network and a highly complex data pipeline, some IPs require us to rely on what the ASN operator reports.

It’s fair to say that no ASN other than AS131279 (https://ipinfo.io/AS131279 ) is located in North Korea. However, if someone asks for evidence showing that a particular IP address is not located in North Korea, that is extremely difficult to prove in isolation. We prefer not to rely on a null-island methodology and instead choose a location based on a hierarchy of hints.

For unrouted or unassigned IP addresses, geolocation can point to random locations, and in such cases we often must rely on the ASN operator’s data. I’ve seen this happen, even among well-established ASN operators. Some assign random placeholder locations to unrouted and unassigned ranges particularly for IPv6 IP addresses.

More context:

https://community.ipinfo.io/t/the-north-korean-gamers-on-ste...

https://community.ipinfo.io/t/why-is-this-orange-com-ip-rang...
by chimeracoder | 2025-11-14 19:49:08+00:00
> (6) Online child sexual abuse frequently involves the misuse of information society services offered in the Union by providers established in third countries.

It's quite wild to see child sexual abuse continue to be cited as a justification for far-reaching, privacy-invading proposals, allegedly to empower government actors to combat child sexual abuse.

Meanwhile, we have copious and ever-increasing evidence of actual child sexual abuse being perpetrated by people with the most power in these very institutions, and they generally face few (if any) consequences.
by bluGill | 2025-11-14 19:49:24+00:00
There are many stages: creative, editing, and publishing (the above can all be broken down even more, and this is often useful, but I had to stop someplace). Creative is the first state, just getting everything down. Editing is the details of making it correct (both fact checking and grammar). The publishing is making it all look nice. They are 3 separate steps that demand 3 different skill sets. You need to keep them separate.

Unfortunately the above is easially to say, but hard to force. If you are creating something you should stop if the facts are wrong (no point in continuing when you suddenly realize your argument depends on something that might be false) even though fact check is an editing process. You cannot refer to data in a chart until you create the chart. For many people a misspelling is something their brain will not ignore even though they know the word they mean and fixing it belongs to editing - your flow is already interrupted either way and not fixing it means the flow stays interrupted.
by eszed | 2025-11-14 19:49:27+00:00
Yeah. When I moved from the UK (back) to the US I didn't know any better, and spent a year or two storing (washed, US) eggs on the counter or in the cupboard for weeks at a time. Never had a problem. I absolutely don't recommend doing that, and now conscientiously refrigerate my eggs. I do not, however, stress that much if an egg spends a bit of time at room temperature. It's maybe a risk? But it's not very much of one, in my opinion.
by saghm | 2025-11-14 19:49:27+00:00
It feels like it would be useful to also know how many fatalities would be expected from Lyft in the number of miles Waymo has traveled based on their calculated rate (which should be fairly straightforward to calculate with only the rate you gave and the number of miles Waymo has traveled, although I'm not sure if it's known) and the probability that Lyft would also see zero fatalities with that number of miles traveled (which I think would require more detailed knowledge like variance, although I admit I haven't spent enough time to convince myself with complete confidence that this is correct).

I imagine it also goes without saying that not every mile of road is equally risky, and I have to imagine that Waymo's miles traveled probably on far less risky roads on average given the way they've been rolled out (which isn't a bad thing, but it does make extrapolations from the data about relative safety a bit more dubious).
by 9rx | 2025-11-14 19:49:32+00:00
> Especially in rural (or really, anything that isn’t urban) areas

What isn't urban but also not rural?

I've seen disagreement over exactly where urban begins. A density of ~400 people per km², with a minimum of 1-2,000 people is a common definition, although the OECD targets a density of 1,500 people per km², with a minimum of 7,000 people, to capture all the variation throughout the nations it tracks. Regardless, in all those cases "rural" always encompasses that which falls short of what constitutes urban.

I've never heard of this alternate state you speak of.
by Snowfield9571 | 2025-11-14 19:49:59+00:00
Any manned mission in the next 100 years or so to the surface of a moon or planet is basically unnecessary and just to show we can. I am not saying this is a bad thing - but much of the reasons we haven't had manned missions is because it isn't worth it. Robots can do most of what we can do already and what they can't we can do remotely. There's really not a great science reason to send people with our current technology. Robots are already the real explorers.
by projektfu | 2025-11-14 19:50:03+00:00
I feel that this experience can cause us to have less patience for the poor in the developed world. Something like, "How poor can you be in the USA? In Mexico, just outside a major city, there is a town without electricity, where people eat corn and raise cows, and they send their children to the city at night to beg because they don't have any cash and no way to make it." How many people live in that level of poverty in the US?

But, still, perhaps the poverty in the US is worse, and more insidious, because it is often a poverty of spirit as well as money. It is hard to grow your own food here, as you don't have land, and you cannot buy it, because you don't have money.
by yubblegum | 2025-11-14 19:50:12+00:00
Interestingly enough for this morning's walk I was musing over the tension between the hypotheses that: 'LLMs can map between languages in the vector space' (thus languages are ~equivalent); and 'Language affects thoughts' (as in German is good for Philosophy and English for getting things done).

If both these thoughts are true, then it would appear that languages have topological characteristics. We can (topologically) map from one to another, 'thoughts' (that is a complex of words) form 'paths on the language manifold' and certain paths may be more 'natural' in one topological form than the other.
Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable
by searchepstein | 2025-11-14 19:50:16+00:00
Hey all,

Throwaway in case this is assumed to be politcally motivated.

I spent some time organizing the Eptstein files to make transparency a little clearer. I need to tighten the data for organizations and people a bit more, but hopeful this is helpful in research in the interim.
by sieep | 2025-11-14 19:50:28+00:00
I studied economics and philosophy at a medium sized state school, yet i ended up with the software engineers because of my passion for coding. Degrees are largely just checkboxes unless you're going to MIT, Stanford, etc.

With that being said, I did use my economics degree to get my foot in the door doing data analytics then I transitioned to SWE. You'll find you way, if being a SWE is truly your passion.
by jaggederest | 2025-11-14 19:50:30+00:00
I've had better results with managing my own clusters on metal instances. You get much better performance with e.g. NVMe drives in a 0+1 raid (~million iops in a pure raid 0 with 7 drives) and I am comfortable running my own instances and clusters. I don't care for the way RDS limits your options on extensions and configuration, and I haven't had a good time with the high availability failovers internally, I'd rather run my own 3 instances in a cluster, 3 clusters in different AZs.

Blatant plug time:

I'm actually working for a company right now ( https://pgdog.dev/ ) that is working on proper sharding and failovers from a connection pooler standpoint. We handle failovers like this by pausing write traffic for up to 60 seconds by default at the connection pooler and swapping which backend instance is getting traffic.
by kelnos | 2025-11-14 19:50:51+00:00
That will only work if Democrats can obtain a veto-proof supermajority in both houses. Good luck with that.

The problem right now is that the Executive Branch is refusing to carry out the existing will of Congress. Passing more bills (that will be vetoed) to tell the executive to do its job isn't all that helpful.

At this point I think only the courts can save us, but I don't think we can rely on SCOTUS to do the right thing. And even if they did, they have no real teeth to force Trump to do anything.

I carefully think we are better off with Democrats controlling both (or at least one) houses of Congress, but that won't magically fix things.
by iggldiggl | 2025-11-14 19:51:30+00:00
> May be of note also that the best train in London (the Elizabeth line) is run by a tendering process

But that tendering is just internal between the state and the operator – fares and service levels on the other hand are set by TfL (and probably also the DfT to some extent, especially on the GEML and GWML sections).
by everfrustrated | 2025-11-14 19:51:35+00:00
If you pay for the highest level of support you will get extremely good support. But it comes with signing a NDA so you're not going to read about anything coming out of it on a blog.

I've had AWS engineers confirm very detailed and specific technical implementation details many many times. But these were at companies that happily spent over a $1M/year with AWS.
by taeric | 2025-11-14 19:51:49+00:00
It was more than just "if we build our version of Facebook." It was, "if we kill off every other social like thing we have and force people into circles, we can build our own Facebook." Google Buzz, in particular, was a fairly well done integration with Google Reader and Google Mail. I legit had discussions about articles with close friends because of it. But, alas, no. Had to die because their social was supposed to be Plus.

I'm trying to remember all of the crap integrations with the likes of Youtube that were pushed. Just, screw that stuff. And quit trying to make yet another new messenger app!
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-14 19:51:51+00:00
> the formal proof is generated (and even cross-verified) by multiple LLMs

Can you point examples of this out? So far what's been getting discussed and used is LLMs to generate Lean (or possibly other languages) which is machine checkable, without the need for another LLM. This isn't LLM peer reviewing LLM work, it's people and deterministic (hopefully correct) machines checking LLM work.

The only LLM proof-checking LLM stuff I've seen are from loons, like the people who think they've figured out life, the universe, and everything after a few Adderall filled days with ChatGPT.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-11-14 19:51:54+00:00
Denmark mostly has authoritative politicians in government. Pragmatic and without ideology. The misguided tools believe they are doing us all a big favor.

They handwavingly dismiss all privacy-related criticism with “well our experts say something else!” and insist there are no privacy issues - but at the same time require exemption for their own caste.