MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-12-28 03:29:50+00:00
> the notion that it lacks nuance to describe the intricacies of text rendering

I took this to mean that any non-domain-specific language may be bad at describing that domain, e.g. why physicists, mathematicians, chemists, etc. have a common symbology for the discipline, or why programming languages exist. i.e., not so much that English is uniquely bad among written human language for conveying these topics, but just that any non-specialized language may be.

Though, I think the author did a fair job, but I lack the domain experience to guess at where the misconceptions might lie.
by no-name-here | 2025-12-28 03:30:25+00:00
So what exactly are you proposing - that we encourage all users to only pay for ad-free versions of every service they use, instead of choosing an ad-supported version? Try to outlaw adverting globally? What is an ad - a sign for a company? A company’s circular? A sign for company with a logo next to it? (To understand what should be forbidden.)

> every algorithm … every UX tweak

Actually, is the whole comment sarcasm? Or is the proposal to ban algorithms/UX changes? Or just such things if they increase sales on a product page, etc?
by roenxi | 2025-12-28 03:30:29+00:00
> Usually I use the format "Analyze the following ...".

It doesn't surprise me that you're getting nonsense, that is an ill-formed request. The AI can't fulfil it because it isn't asking it to do anything. I'm in the same boat as an AI would be, I can't tell what outcome you want. I'd probably interpret it as "summarise this conversation" if someone asked that of me, but you seem to agree that AI are good at summery tasks so that doesn't seem like it would be what you want. If I had my troll hat on I'd give you a frequency analysis of the letters and call it a day which is more passive-aggressive than I'd expect of the AI, they tend to just blather when they get a vague setup. They aren't psychic, it is necessary to give them instructions to carry out.
by cperciva | 2025-12-28 03:31:17+00:00
Injection drug user here. We're advised to rotate injection sites but the largest issue is actually the insulin (most of it diffuses into the bloodstream but there is a local effect, usually taking the form of increased fat accumulation at sites of repeated injection), not the "making holes in the skin" part.

I don't know the pharmacokinetics of GLP-1 drugs but my guess is that they don't have the same sort of effects on SC tissue?

Before I had a CGM I did somewhere around 20,000 blood glucose tests over the course of a decade using about 1 cm^2 of forearm and the skin there is clearly not in great shape -- but it's worsened on the level of "looks like the skin of someone who is a decade older or spent too long in the sun" rather than anything medically problematic.
by zahlman | 2025-12-28 03:31:29+00:00
> because it mistakenly treats a cause as having only one effect.

If A causes other things besides B, then knowing about those other caused things tells us nothing about whether C happened, because we already know it did. "no further information" is elided to things that are relevant to the statement being made. Please apply basic charity in interpreting ideas expressed in prose; LWers who want to express something precisely in logical or mathematical notation are certainly not afraid to do so.

> Less wrong is a bunch of people who think they understand Bayes better than they do.

The objection you point out is not relevant to demonstrating an understanding of Bayes' Law. It's just a semantic quibble.
by opan | 2025-12-28 03:33:10+00:00
>and if I could avoid playing against MnK players while I’m on controller

If you can stand to move away from an Xbox controller (they're the only ones without gyro still) and learn gyro/flick stick, it levels the playing field a lot more. Flick stick's instant turns even give it some advantages over KB+M.

8BitDo's controllers are the best-supported on Steam at the moment, with gyro, analog triggers, and back buttons all fully working at the same time now in DInput mode. I use the Pro 2, but if you prefer Xbox layout, you may want one of their Ultimate controllers. Don't buy the ones that are licensed Xbox controllers as I believe they then don't have gyro. Many have the Nintendo button labels, but Steam has a toggle to use the Xbox layout.
by smurda | 2025-12-28 03:33:43+00:00
On the East Coast there are more cities with dense populations, so public transit can be effective and car ownership rates are lower.

In the West, many cities are urban sprawls that built out instead of up, so public transit is less effective and car ownership rates are higher.

I wish LA or Phoenix or Vegas was dense living where public transit could be effective, but since they’re urban sprawls and public transit isn’t aa effective as a densely populated city, most people own cars to get around.
by tra3 | 2025-12-28 03:34:16+00:00
This is anecdata point of one, but I bought the xbox hoping to play split screen with my kids and to play some more of the ghost recon franchise which I last played on the original xbox. My kid got into the latest ghost recon on the xbox, but I don't like sandboxes so I never played it. The split screen on xbox never materialized for us, I just couldn't find any good titles.

I ended up getting a steam deck which is just amazing and the kids ended up on on tablets (minecraft/roblox) and on PCs (arma and such).

For split screen we ended up occasionally connecting the steam deck to the tv and re-pairing Xbox controllers to it.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-12-28 03:34:23+00:00
> This sounds like the "peer to peer" equivalent to PTP. It would require every node to maintain state about it's estimate (skew, slew, variance) of every other clock.

Well, it requires having the conversion function for each edge in the traversed path. And such function needs to exist only at the location(s) performing the conversion.

> obviously it adds complexity to end-stations beyond what PTP requires

If you have PTP and it works then stick with it. If you’re trying to timesync a network of wearable devices then you don’t have PTP stamping hardware.

> because packets traversing different routes

Fair callout. It’s probably a more useful model for less internty use cases. Of which there are many!

For example when trying to timesync a collection of different sensors on different devices/microcontrollers.

Roboticists like CanBus and Ethercat. But even that is kinda overkill imho. TicSync can get you tens of microseconds of precision in user space.
by jmyeet | 2025-12-28 03:34:48+00:00
So your position is that I have a long position and I somehow think that I can move the global silver market by commenting on HN? Do I have that right?

This all might be new to you but it's not news and it's not controversial (eg [1]).

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-...
by chii | 2025-12-28 03:36:10+00:00
> fiduciary duty to the common holders?

as long as the transaction is reasonable, they've held up this fiduciary duty.

And the minority holders will need to sue for damages in any case, it's not an "automatic" crime. The cost of that suit will be more than the value of the gains and damages awarded.

Therefore, minority shareholders in a startup are highly likely to get screwed - not to mention they don't get a say in decisions being made at the top.

The only thing preventing this is social pressure (ala, reputational damage, if the founder did it). And if the payday is high enough, the reputational damage is irrelevant (you'd be out of the game with a big enough payday!)
by devmor | 2025-12-28 03:37:11+00:00
I made one example for you when you suggested that the original author made a strawman, and you went on an unhinged rant in response with no bearing on the subject. No goalposts have been moved - you are simply rambling on unrelated nonsense to avoid something as simple as admitting a point you don’t like is not a strawman.

This is immature and unproductive, I wont be responding any further.
by russellbeattie | 2025-12-28 03:37:59+00:00
There seems to be a point in every large tech company's lifecycle where they decide they can replace innovation with businesses deals.

Someone with no real technological vision takes the helm, and they end up listening to MBAs instead of techies, visionaries or even customers. They spend their efforts focusing solely on maximizing profits, and then trying to take a shortcut on invention through acquisitions or by chasing fads.

I mean, Microsoft makes like $20B in profit every quarter, so it's not like the MBAs are useless. They're just useless at creating the future.

What is Microsoft's BHAG for XBox?
by zahlman | 2025-12-28 03:38:22+00:00
Yes. For example, on Codidact (https://codidact.com), limited HTML access is offered along with Markdown when making posts, and the details and summary tags in particular are whitelisted. I've made extensive use of this in some of my content, for example https://software.codidact.com/posts/289251/289252#answer-289... . If you have NoScript you can easily verify that the expanding sections work perfectly well without JavaScript. They can even be nested, as they are here; and the summary text can contain some other forms of markup without issue. (When crafting the post, however, I had to do some tricky things with whitespace to avoid confusing the Markdown parser.)
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-28 03:39:10+00:00
Traffic is one of the most boring fucking things to talk about.

If you want to feel pissed about something: One of the most popular new cars purchased in California was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe, because it gave you HOV access and a $7,500 tax credit, even though nobody charges it and its battery is anemic anyway.
by CqtGLRGcukpy | 2025-12-28 03:39:38+00:00
My thought is, what's different about this website compared to every other uptime checker?

The only differences I see, is that it's much more simple, and that it keeps websites that are down highlighted on the homepage.

I would suggest looking at other uptime or downtime checkers, see what you like about them, and what features don't they have that you can implement.
by ch4s3 | 2025-12-28 03:42:34+00:00
> The authors pointed out “there are significant drawbacks in the existing human literature” including “lack of longitudinal studies, methodological heterogeneity, selection of tissue type, and the influence of developmental stage and trauma type on methylation outcomes”

The literature in this area is a mess, has become highly politicized. I’d give it another 10 or so years before I made any strong statements about these effects in humans. Famously the study of Holocaust survivors’ descendants didn’t show transgenerational effects.
by eslaught | 2025-12-28 03:42:51+00:00
If you drive in the FasTrak lanes without an account you pay the fee + $10 surcharge (for a first time violation), and it goes up on the second violation:

https://www.bayareafastrak.org/en/help/invoices-and-penaltie...

I'm having a hard time finding a citation but according to Google's AI summary if the second violation is unpaid they put a hold on your DMV registration, and the fine itself can be sent to a collection agency.

I agree empirically I see people driving through the lane without a tag (i.e., no number shows up in the overhead display), but maybe these are people with FasTrak accounts being lazy?
by setmd | 2025-12-28 03:43:26+00:00
In what sense is it AI?

Fair question. I’m using “AI” in the older, broader sense: automated intelligence, not specifically neural networks.

This kernel makes autonomous decisions under constraints, evaluates feasibility, rejects invalid states, and guarantees deterministic outcomes. That puts it closer to classical AI (rule-based systems, constraint solvers, control theory) than modern statistical ML.

If someone prefers to call it a deterministic decision kernel or constraint-based controller, I’m fine with that. The label matters less to me than the guarantees.

And why not write the promotional material by hand?

The core ideas, architecture, and code are mine. I used tools to help polish and structure the explanation, the same way people use spell-checkers, linters, or diagram tools.

If the project doesn’t stand on its technical merits, no amount of wording would save it. I’m happy to have it judged on the code and the claims instead.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-28 03:43:33+00:00
Both of the WWVB clocks I've owned have been very fickle about how they're placed because RF be that way sometimes, and Colorado isn't exactly nearby to my location in Ohio.

The first manufactured GPS clock I owned (as in: switch it on and time is shown on a dedicated display) was in a 2007 Honda.

But a firmware bug ruined that clock: https://didhondafixtheclocks.com/

And even after it began displaying the right time again, it had the wrong date. It was offset by years and years, which was OK-ish, but also by several months.

Having the date offset by months caused the HVAC to behave in strange incurable ways because it expected the sun to be in positions where it was not.

But NTP? NTP has never been fickle for me, even in the intermittently-connected dialup days I experienced ~30 years ago: If I can get to the network then I can connect to a few NTP servers and keep a local clock accurate.

NTP has been resolutely awesome for me.
Show HN: Relay – Connect Claude Desktop and Claude Code via MCP
by mhcoen | 2025-12-28 03:43:42+00:00
Desktop is good for conversation—planning, reviewing, brainstorming. Code is good for execution—editing files, running commands. But they don't share context.
This connects them via a shared SQLite buffer. Say "send this to Desktop" or "ask Code"—the model handles it. Notifications when something's waiting.
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-28 03:45:26+00:00
Electrons are bits:
Minimal structure, maximal fungibility.

Protons are WASM modules:
Portable, sandboxed, rich internals, stable interface.

Neutrons are headless WASM:
Same runtime, no external API, harder to drive or inspect.

Nuclei are Kubernetes:
Orchestration, emergent behavior, scheduling, binding energy as overhead.

QCD is the runtime:
One spec, wildly different behavior depending on scale.

Experiments are profilers:
You never see the code, only traces, distributions, hotspots.

HN comments are undefined behavior and non-renormalizable noise:
Unconstrained interactions, long-range correlations, destroyed predictability.
Show HN: PineCone – A bundler for splitting PineScript into multiple files
by claudianadalin | 2025-12-28 03:45:57+00:00
I built a module bundler for PineScript (TradingView's scripting language).

The problem: TradingView doesn't support multi-file projects. As indicators grow complex, you end up with 1000+ line files that are painful to maintain.

Pinecone lets you split code across multiple .pine files using import/export directives, then bundles everything into a single TradingView-compatible script.

It handles automatic namespacing to prevent variable collisions between modules, deduplicates external library imports, and includes watch mode for development.

Built with Python. Uses the pynescript library for AST parsing and manipulation. I had to work around some upstream parser bugs with generic type syntax, which was an interesting challenge.

GitHub: https://github.com/claudianadalin/pinecone

Blog post with more technical details: https://www.claudianadalin.com/blog/building-pinecone

This is a niche tool, but if you've ever built complex TradingView indicators, you know the pain. Would love feedback on the approach.
by superze | 2025-12-28 03:45:58+00:00
As an Opus user, I genuinely don’t understand how someone can work for weeks or months without regularly opening an IDE. The output almost always fails.

I repeatedly rewrite prompts, restate the same constraints, and write detailed acceptance criteria, yet still end up with broken or non-functional code.its very frustrating to say the least Yesterday alone I spent about $200 on generations that now require significant manual rewrites just to make them work.

At that point, the gains are questionable. My biggest success is having the model take over the first Design in my app and I take it from there, but those hundred lines if not thousand lines of code it generates are so Messi, it's insanely painful to refactor the mess afterwards
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-28 03:46:32+00:00
I'd be more impressed if an Xbox executive said that they weren't working on a new console, I mean I can't see how it can work as a business unless they change their attitude 200%. I trust those YouTubers more than I trust mainstream game journalists.

In the current market for electronics I can't imagine a quantum leap in consoles at a sub-$1000 price point, it is not like NVIDIA or AMD gives a damn about gaming in this environment where it is all about selling as many GPU for AI as they can while they can.

Steam Deck is long in the tooth. I think PS and XBOX portables could muscle into that space, XBOX is already licensing their name, but balancing size-cost-performance-power does not look easy but the PS Vita was my favorite dedicated game system I ever owned. I like my Deck but it is too big and I have to think long and hard if I want to pack it in my t̴a̴i̴l̴ backpack on any given day or pack something else.

A realistic plan is shut down most of Activision and sell the rest to Tencent, take an $80 billion goodwill loss so they won't pay tax for half a decade, Wall St won't care so long as they keep making noises about AI, do right by Azure, Windows, Office and the enterprise stuff. Keep Windows great for gaming and keep the brand alive as part of that and if they want to sell XBOX branded body wash or something, bully for them. Set free from Activision those developers will be able to make good games again.
by simonw | 2025-12-28 03:46:39+00:00
Found a relevant comment here: https://github.com/memvid/memvid/issues/86#issuecomment-3560...

> We’ve rebuilt everything from the ground up for Memvid v2, new format, new core, new benchmarks, no QR hacks. It’s a real storage engine now, crash-safe, deterministic, and fully verified with a proper TOC, WAL, Merkle tree, and time index.

So I guess the QR code hack isn't a thing any more.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-28 03:48:07+00:00
I used to hate everything GAME PASS stood for but couldn't deny it was good value for the money and if you could find a game you wanted to play on it every month go right ahead.

With this year's price hikes though that's not the case anymore, you are better off just buying a good $20 game every month or buying a good $50 game every other month.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-28 03:49:14+00:00
> Consciousness is neither necessary nor sufficient for AI to achieve general intelligence, defined as exponential emergent learning.

I don’t know what you mean by “exponential emergent learning”. This sounds like obscurantism.

What I can say is that semantic content and intentionality are what make intelligence. But these entail consciousness, since for semantic content to be semantic content, it must be available to the intelligence as both about the world and as semantic content about the world. There must be a simultaneous grasp of the content as representation about the world and the content of the representation. This is called reflexivity and this already just is consciousness.

> Consciousness as proposed here is Cartesian dualism. It's pure religion and has all the power associated with religion.

Cartesian dualism has nothing to do with religion. It is a metaphysical position like any. It happens to be wrong, because it is incoherent. But materialism fares no better. It dispenses with the res cogitans while keeping the res extensa, but in doing so, it deprives itself of even the explanatory power of the dualism it was cleaved from in the first place.

The article is bad because it is rooted in a serious ignorance of computation and what LLMs are, which are pure syntactic and statistical machines. There is no semantics, no intentionality.
by blitz_skull | 2025-12-28 03:49:35+00:00
Couldn’t read the article (ad blockers just decided the whole site is an ad, perhaps?)

But I agree. I (foolishly) spent money on an Xbox last year only to find bugs that would make the Windows operating system weep. My kids have to ask me CONSTANTLY to update things, re-install game, or even just troubleshoot a damn controller not working.

Compare that to Steam, where I can just add them to my family and give them access to a huge number of split-screen compatible games across my entire catalog. It just doesn’t make financial sense to keep supporting Microsoft’s enshittification of everything.
by ux266478 | 2025-12-28 03:49:44+00:00
> There's no hard evidence that static typing improves reliability.

I'm curious how you came to that conclusion?

https://pleiad.cl/papers/2012/kleinschmagerAl-icpc2012.pdf

https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/an-empirical-s...
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-28 03:50:58+00:00
I like to think it's a plan to kill off video games. I mean, make it so uncool that parents will be worried that the kids won't sit in front of the game console and insist on playing outside all the time.

(To be fair, game consoles outgrew kids by the Xbox 360 generation if not earlier, they'd have to ruin mobile games to change childhood)
by jaredhallen | 2025-12-28 03:51:26+00:00
I can absolutely relate. I bought a series x at launch with the exact same idea, and have had the same disappointment. Minecraft and Borderlands have been about the only solid split screen titles on this whole generation. That being said, I do feel like I've gotten my money's worth out of the hardware. It just didn't play out like I was hoping. Also, I agree with the article's complaint about gamepass. I had ultimate starting when I bought the console in 2020. I don't remember what I paid at the beginning, but I think it was like $8/month. They lost me when they just upped it from $20-$30. I mean, $20 was already a stretch, but a 50% increase on top of that? Bye.
by rastrian | 2025-12-28 03:51:32+00:00
Agree with the framing: in payments/telecom, reliability is often achieved via fault tolerance + reconciliation more than “perfect correctness.”

My point is narrower: those mechanisms still benefit from making illegal transitions unrepresentable (e.g. explicit state machines) so your retries/idempotency don’t create new failure modes. It’s not correctness vs tolerance, it’s correctness inside tolerant designs.
by zahlman | 2025-12-28 03:51:36+00:00
> Nesting the elements is a truly hideous choice. The summary is part of the details?? I thought they were opposites.

It gives them a semantic connection. Last I checked, HTML isn't really based on giving special meaning to combinations of sibling tags. A summary is part of the thing that conceptually requires detailing.

> If you find 1000 websites using a toggle I doubt there is one using an ugly arrow like that.

I think the default looks fine. But TFA clearly explains right there that it can be styled. (Specifically, by styling ::before on the summary tag.)

> The default styling gives no clue about it being clickable?

You asked what the arrow is, and then asked about the lack of indication that the summary header is clickable. The arrow is exactly that indication.

> Maybe I'm dense but I also want my url to reflect the state of the page.

If you scroll, should the fragment automatically update as you scroll past anchors? I think I'd find that quite annoying.
by websiteapi | 2025-12-28 03:52:31+00:00
I will never, ever understand why the Xbox didn't just go with 1, 2, 3, etc. Even after the 360, why not do 720, 1080, etc? after the xbox ONE, why not xbox TWO, THREE, etc? Why go with Series S and X? it makes no sense - literally beyond my comprehension. so, going back to the article, xbox died for me the minute the xbox one came out. the name alone was indicative of a rot and disfunction beyond comprehension.