MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-11-15 16:42:38+00:00
I think communism tends to fail at the scale of states because the end goal of capitalism is statelessness, and states being what they are use communist ideology to centralize and entrench their power, rather than liberate people from them and render themselves obsolete.

Ironically you see much the same thing with small government/libertarian ideology in the US, and "free market" capitalism, where deregulation and "reducing government waste" tend to benefit capitalists and politicians and remove rights and access from the people.
by 0xcb0 | 2025-11-15 16:43:15+00:00
I've been follwing the idea of TrueBit for the last years. I played with their beta and found the idea and the options it provides very enlightening and broad. Not only for the blockchain space, but of course that will be a big part of it's usage imho.

Now I saw they try to verify AI. What is the opinion of some AI experts here? I'd love to hear some opinions.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-15 16:43:36+00:00
While I personally want a fan and see it as price to pay for better thermals, the disadvantages aren't just noise.

The most critical issue would be the fans still spinning to cool down the machine when it was sent to sleep. That creates the vicious cycle when bagged right after sleep, where the fan try to lower the temp, but their running in a closed environment warms the confined air, which pushes the fan to run faster yet.

That's the recipe for a hot and dead battery when you take it out of the bag.

I had that with MacBooks and Windows laptops alike.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-15 16:43:51+00:00
> You literally had to rewrite the meaning of the statement

No I didn't because the context of the statement was up for debate.

> He didn't say "in tech", he said what he said.

The email thread about about tech though. Besides, I also wrote "But expanding it beyond tech, he definitely is as well-known as anyone else in his generation."

My comment was in good fath and addressed both scenarios : "tech" and "non-tech"

Your original comment and not surprising your reply was not in good faith because have an agenda.
by naasking | 2025-11-15 16:43:53+00:00
> abusing the preprocessor this much shouldn't be necessary and the result is almost unreadable.

The readability of error messages was always my beef with macro-based generics. Maybe 15 years ago I played around with using UTF characters for the brackets and type separators when translating a generic type into name-mangled type, so at least the generated source and error messages would still be clear and understandable.

Robust UTF support for identifiers and preprocessor was still kind of inconsistent across compilers though, so it only sort of worked. I expect this has improved considerably now though, so maybe I should try again and write something up. You can embed a surprising amount of advanced programming language theory into suitable name resolution.
by ricksunny | 2025-11-15 16:44:29+00:00
When I accessed archive.ph (ordinary everyday content) during a visit to Italy last week, a legal notice loaded instead from Italy’s cyber authority saying they had blocked access domain-wide over CSAM. I suspected the same M.O. as parent comment describes was operative. I took a screenshot of the notice in case anyone’s interested. Edit: uploaded & available here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WdSlZK6q1EjdRWzWeKANbjOZV03...
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-11-15 16:44:47+00:00
But do you think it's something to be dictated to people? I lived more years than anyone in my circle without a smartphone, without any messengers or social networks, and that was solely my own decision, because I was fed up with people glued to their screens. I joined the bandwagon in order to be able to pay my bills, because freelance became unviable, and interaction with coworkers was via Telegram and our github org required 2FA. But doing so was also my own conscious decision.

But you people are trying to use this argument about how dependent the world became on the Internet - which it did of course - to excuse the FORCED withdrawal from the Internet, by the very same entities that pandered its delopment and raked stupid money off it.

Fuck all this nannying the adults about what they should or must do!

P.S. And it's not even that government wants to detox anyone from the Internet dependency or something. They absolutely want people dependent on the Approved Internet, on the government portals, on official news, official messengers, official propaganda - as opposed to one where they can freely communicate, collaborate and think outside of the box of allowed narratives.
by convolvatron | 2025-11-15 16:45:00+00:00
if you went back to 1981 and said 'yeah, this is great. but what we really want to do is not have an internet, but kind of a piecewise internet. instead of a global address we'll use addresses that have a narrower scope. and naturally as consequence of this we'll need to start distinguishing between nodes that everyone can reach, service nodes, and nodes that no one can reach - client nodes. and as a consequence of this we'll start building links that are asymmetric in bandwidth, since one direction is only used for requests and acks and not any data volume.'

they would have looked at you and asked straight out what you hoped to gain by making these things distinguished, because it certainly complicates things.
by elmerfud | 2025-11-15 16:45:08+00:00
I like it but I have a few suggestions.

Instead of the percentage of income at retirement offer the option of a monthly value. The percentage makes sense if you're planning on remaining in the same locality and attempting to stay at your same lifestyle level. A monthly value makes more sense if your plan is to move to an area with a significantly different cost of living and/or significantly change your current lifestyle.

The other suggestion would be around social security, investment accounts other retirement income and the age in which these apply. It appears that it starts factoring in at the age you specify retiring at. It would be more accurate to factor that in starting at a specific age. For example if I had stocks and a 401k and social security. These all have different points in which you should take out of them for the best benefit. If I wanted to retire at 55 I need to know how long my stock portfolio could maintain my lifestyle and then at 59 and a half I can begin to factor in my 401k. Then depending on my age and what kind of social security benefit level I want I would factor it in at that time.

This would provide the best visualization to see exactly how things will pan out.
by tmoertel | 2025-11-15 16:46:07+00:00
The OP wrote that:

> [The bike] was sold at auction for £50. £35 bailiff fees for taking it there and £15 auctioneer fees, £0 off the debt.

If this claim is true, then I think most people will still find this conduct outrageous: How is it in the public interest for the baliff to take actions that harm both the debtor (by taking the personally valuable bike) and the public (by wasting from $15 to $50 of the public's money) to the benefit of only the baliff ($35) and auctioneer ($15)?
by RaftPeople | 2025-11-15 16:46:08+00:00
> Yes, there may be interesting math, but I didn't mean "scaling LLMs", necessarily.

Ya, I realized later that the LLM scaling part of my post sounded like it misinterpreted what you said when it was really a separate point unrelated to the topic of neurons that just happened to include the word "scaling" also.

I do agree with you somewhat that just because biological neurons are vastly more complex and functional than typical artificial neurons, it just means we need more artificial neurons to achieve similar functionality.

> Estimates of brain complexity have already factored this in

I don't agree with this, the estimates I've seen don't seem to factor it in, and many of those estimates were prior to things discovered within just the last 5 years that expose significantly more complexity and capability that needs to be understood first.

> And there are alternative models such as spiking neural networks which more closely mimic biology, but it's not clear whether these are really that critical.

I kept reading that people wanted to use spiking networks and I thought the same thing as you, it didn't seem to provide a benefit. A while ago I read some paper about why they want to use spiking networks and I can't remember the details but they described some functional capabilities that really were much easier with spiking. I vaguely remember that it had to do with processing real-time sensory information, it was easier to synchronize signals based on frequency instead of trying to rely on precise single signal timing (something like that). And I think there were benefits in other areas also.
by doph | 2025-11-15 16:46:08+00:00
I share this opinion. I've used FSD quite a bit during the free trial periods and each time come away with the sense that it's like driving with a newly licensed teenager at the wheel. If I have to be as alert and ready to avoid an accident as when I'm in command of the car, then this offers no improvement to the experience, just an added layer of stress trying to anticipate the actions of yet another actor in the environment.
by dang | 2025-11-15 16:46:54+00:00
Related. Others?

So you want to design a programming language (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30481035 - Feb 2022 (58 comments)

Programming Language Design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27895124 - July 2021 (1 comment)
by trilogic | 2025-11-15 16:47:00+00:00
If you have a thief/law breaker on the loose all law and order are behind to stop it. If it harmed an amateur or professional is irrelevant.

What is relevant is this:

That is even more concerning, means that every gov employee should apply same logic, but as we know it is not. Factually speaking, whatever info exists in internet, has been scrapped and used for different purposes, violating the law in plain sight. Therefore we should assume that will happen the same with whatever becomes digital data in the future, and we know how all is towards digitalization (example the currency banks, the social security banks, the IRS etc). Furthermore, how difficult will be to reverse engineer an app to get the source code and get around it with intelligent ways (avoiding patent, design protection). It takes a whole life for a human to reach eureka moment but 1 sec for AI to steal and use it. We need better solutions, because when AI takes live in robot machines, it may be late. I have a possible solution (among others) which is guaranteed to work, (AI sensors which will cause pain for every wrong action, same like we have when put the hand on fire), In my opinion, need to be implemented asap as a standard globally.
by atombender | 2025-11-15 16:47:14+00:00
You're heavily implying it is a cure, yes. Even if it's not a cure, you're still irresponsibly peddling an unproven medical treatment that has no established effect other than yourself, so my point stands. You have no particular reason to believe it works on anyone else because you haven't tried it on anyone else. This type of pseudoscience doesn't belong on HN.
by fulafel | 2025-11-15 16:47:26+00:00
You might think that a dGPU is always faster but the limited memory capacity bites you there (unless you go to datacenter dGPUs that cost tens of thousnds). Look at eg https://www.ywian.com/blog/amd-ryzen-ai-max-plus-395-native-... or the various high end Mac results.
Show HN: High-performance DEX parser and static analysis in Rust/WASM
by dhilipsiva | 2025-11-15 16:47:36+00:00
High-performance DEX parser and static analysis toolkit in Rust, usable from any language, via CLI, or fully in-browser—no dex files ever leave your machine.

In-browser demo: https://fossrust.github.io/dex-parser-analyzer/
by two_handfuls | 2025-11-15 16:48:01+00:00
The problem with this is the source. Tesla lies constantly and it has from the very first FSD demo [1, 2] if not earlier.

1: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer...

2: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/business/tesla-nhtsa-self-dri...
by throwuxiytayq | 2025-11-15 16:48:33+00:00
All of you silly internet people keep repeating the "Russia is just a bully" mantra like it's some sort of an important insight. Putin is playing chess while you guys are struggling to comprehend the rules for checkers. If NATO is to successfully defend against Russia, we need to do better than, uhh, whatever this is supposed to be.

Since you completely failed to address anything I've said, I direct you back to my messages above. I also highly recommend William Spaniel's excellent analysis on this and related subjects if you care to catch up.
by as1mov | 2025-11-15 16:49:02+00:00
+1

This is my go to way of buying a new laptop. I've gone through 2 machines in the last 8 years (Dell 7270 and 7330). Both bought for <$400. Linux works ootb, though I haven't tried any of the more obscure distros.

Though now manufacturers are doubling down on soldered components, so buying a cheap machine and upgrading the components yourself is not really possible :(
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-15 16:49:06+00:00
The thing is, you're still breaking the original law, which is "you must prove your age to access this content."

Using a VPN, or any other technical workaround you can think of, doesn't negate that the law in your state says you must prove your age to access the content.

States require proof of age to purchase alcohol. You can ask someone who is of age to buy it for you, that doesn't make it legal for you to have it.
by salawat | 2025-11-15 16:49:25+00:00
I strongly disagree that financial institutions being a de facto extension of law enforcement is "non-controversial".

It may be the way things are; it may be a pre-req of making financial crime tractable; but that does not detract from the fact that every financial institution is in essence, deputized law enforcement, and negate the chilling effect that comes as a consequence thereof on a business environment subject to it.
by holysoles | 2025-11-15 16:49:36+00:00
I wrote a Traefik plugin [1] that controls traffic based on known bad bot user agents, you can just block or even send them to a markov babbler if you've set one up. I've been using nepenthes [2].

[1] https://github.com/holysoles/bot-wrangler-traefik-plugin

[2] https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
by throwaway173738 | 2025-11-15 16:50:17+00:00
A spec consists of three different kinds of requirements: functional requirements, non-functional requirements, and constraints. It’s supposed to fully describe how the product responds to the context and the desires of stakeholders.

The problem I see a lot with Agile is that people over-focus on functional requirements in the form of user stories. Which in your case would be statements like “X should do…”
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-15 16:50:30+00:00
This is a Tyranny of Structurelessness sort of thing. In that essay there is a structure in structureless organizations but it's implicit and unarticulated which makes it inscrutable, potentially more malleable (which could be good), but also constricting to those who don't know the actual structure when they try and accomplish things.

If you don't have explicit specifications (which don't have to be complete before starting to develop code), you still have specs, but they're unarticulated. They exist in the minds of the developers, managers, customers, and what you end up with is a confused mess. You have specs, but you don't necessarily know what they are, or you know something about them but you've failed to communicate them to others and they've failed to communicate with you.
by AstralStorm | 2025-11-15 16:50:32+00:00
How can you even sue without any legal identity? This website and an organisation does not happen to have any. Might as well be some shell company in the Carribeans with no legal standing in France. It's not even good enough for public prosecution, as the tip would then go through French services.

This law is completely backwards, and worse than a SLAPP. If you cannot respond to a report in any way, it should be null.
by elashri | 2025-11-15 16:51:00+00:00
I have a side project as an academic that scrape a couple of academic jobs sites in my field and then serve them in static HTML page. It is running using github action and request every 24 hours exactly one time. It is useful for me and a couple of people in my circle. I would consider this to be fine and within the reasonable expectations. Many projects rely on such scenarios and people share them all the time.

It is completely different if I am hitting it looking for WordPress vulnerabilities or scraping content every minute for LLM training material.
by verdverm | 2025-11-15 16:51:11+00:00
re: pair programming, the lion's share is moving to be with agents, not humans.

I think the fundamental flaw that dooms this feature is non-developers. Do teams and orgs want more than one chat system? I suspect not. It will be very hard (impossible) to convince people who can pay back the VCs to switch zed as the basis for their chat for all employees.

> video comes through well

I cannot recall the last time resolution or latency was an issue (zoom/meet)

> Everyone can follow along in the comfort of their own editor.

With different screen resolutions, you cannot be sure everyone sees the same code. Video guarantees this
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-11-15 16:51:40+00:00
My experience has been different. I find that not needing to have hyper-focus for extended periods of time with constant micro-adjustments has a big effect on fatigue - especially on long trips. Not needing to touch the wheel while using gaze-detection for attention tracking just reduces the annoyance IMO.

I find it very similar to operating an airplane with a reliable autopilot. The GFC-700 is super good at what it does. But it is still on me to monitor what it is doing, while at the same time significantly reducing my workload.
by tock | 2025-11-15 16:52:43+00:00
European businesses are uncompetitive because of excess regulation. Not the ultra wealthy having to pay more tax. I'm pointing out they have wealth tax and haven't turned into a communist hellhole. None of the things you complain about whether its Europe refusing to build up their military or its business competitiveness is because of wealth tax. The USA has an annual property tax based on the properties value and isn't a communist nation.

> I'll also point out that the most competitive and richest european countries also have the largest wealth inequality, and the european countries pulling down the average are the poorest ones and most irrelevant globally.

This isn't even true. The US has the same inequality as Russia. Every top EU country is far far lower. Maybe we are communist after all.

Your entire argument is that 900 people out of 350,000,000 people in the US having to pay more tax is going to drive the US into the ground.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-15 16:52:54+00:00
The M1 Air display being 2560x1600, it isn't that high of a bar to cross.

Surface Pro are 2880x1920, Asus’ pz13 series will be in the same ballpark. Getting Linux on them will be a bit more of a PITA, but you get the touchscreen and form factor to balance. Build quality will be basically on par with Apple, battery life should be taking a more serious hit (linux + smaller battery from the start)
by mlhpdx | 2025-11-15 16:52:59+00:00
Agreed. Building a custom protocol seems “hard” to many folks who are doing it without any fear on top of HTTP. The wild shenanigans I’ve seen with headers, query params and JSON make me laugh a little. Everything as text is _actually_ hard.

A part of the problem with UDP is the lack of good platforms and tooling. Examples as well. I’m trying to help with that, but it’s an uphill battle for sure.
by UltraSane | 2025-11-15 16:53:00+00:00
"in greater numbers."

Prove it

Hamas's explicit goal is the destruction of Israel and creating an Islamic state to replace it. Do you support this? What is your ideal solution to the conflict?

Hamas is essentially a less ambitious ISIS. Hamas similarities to ISIS:

-Sunni Islamist organizations seeking Sharia-based states

-Totalitarian control in their territories

-Systematic killing of political opponents and "collaborators"

-Rejection of democratic governance

-Religious police and morality enforcement

-Deliberate targeting of civilians as strategy

-Suppression of media and free expression

-Use of torture and extrajudicial execution

Not a great moral wagon to hitch yourself to
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-15 16:53:17+00:00
> parents are supposed to be in control of how they raise each of their own kids

You realize that a lot of parents support this sort of thing because they are not technically sophisticated enough to control it themselves? Or they simply think that it has no place in polite society? That is why politicians enact these laws, because they are hearing from constituents that they want it.
by dang | 2025-11-15 16:53:24+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-15 16:53:32+00:00
"... some applications want multiple streams that don't block each other. You could use multiple TCP connections, but that adds its own overhead, so SCTP and QUIC were designed to address those issues."

Other applications work just fine with a single TCP connection

If I am using TCP for DNS, for example, and I am retrieving data from a single host such as a DNS cache, I can send multiple queries over a single TCP connection and receive multiple responses over the same single TCP single connection, out of order. No blocking.^1 If the cache (application) supports it, this is much faster than receiving answers sequentially and it's more efficient and polite than opening multiple TCP connections

1. I do this every day outside the browser with DNS over TLS (DoT) using something like streamtcp from NLNet Labs. I'm not sure that QUIC is faster, server support for QUIC is much more limited, but QUIC may have other advantages

I also do it with DNS over HTTPS (DoH), outside the browser, using HTTP/1.1 pipelining, but there I receive answers sequentially. I'm still not convinced that HTTP/2 is faster for this particular use case, i.e., downloading data from a single host using multiple HTTP requests (compared to something like integrating online advertising into websites, for example)
by elif | 2025-11-15 16:53:45+00:00
The magician crumpled his hat and the bird was nowhere to be seen. "You crushed it!" Cried the boy. "No, you see" as he opened his coat and the bird flew out. "That's just a different bird that looks the same" protested the boy and his parents shushed him...

Later after the show, they boy returns and witnesses the magician dump a dead bird into the dumpster.

As zizek claims in his new book, progress is not magic. It is always relative to a system and always requires us to ignore dead birds.
by pxc | 2025-11-15 16:54:56+00:00
I also want to add that being homeless isn't the same thing as being disorderly, frightening, unfriendly, or smelly.

Over the years, I've had friends who were homeless (depending on the person, before or during the times that I've known them). Sometimes they have a lot of difficulty getting bank accounts, jobs, or apartments in part because of documentation issues or bureaucratic tasks that they need internet access to solve. Libraries are a lifeline that helps homeless people rebuild stable lives.

Libraries should be sanctuaries and feel safe for everyone, including the most precarious people in society.