MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by biztos | 2025-12-03 11:21:34+00:00
Aren’t “bad fuel efficiency” and “can’t park in town” already their own priced-in disadvantages?

Fuel consumption itself is already taxed at the pump.

And I think “too heavy” already means higher tax in NL.

The weird thing is that the EU is really not shy about banning things, and yet here we are in a thread about American Monster Trucks taking over Amsterdam.
by EagnaIonat | 2025-12-03 11:21:45+00:00
> People don't assume LLM will be AGI,

I wish that was true.

> people assume that World Models will lead us to AGI.

Who are these people? There is no consensus around this that I have seen. You have anything to review regarding this?

> as soon as GPT-3 came out.

I don't think that was true at all. It was impressive when it came out, but people in the field clearly saw the limitations and what it is.

RL isn't magical either. Google AlphaGo as an example often required human intervention to get the RL to work correctly.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-03 11:22:02+00:00
"Both" sides is exactly the Hollywood / US politics misunderstanding that I'm pointing at.

They aren't working for "both" sides because that implies there are somehow exactly two parties. Are Hamas also big Microsoft customers? No. How about all those mistreated workers in Saudi Arabia, are they also hiring Microsoft? No again.

Microsoft does two different awful things, that doesn't somehow cancel out, and when people insist that somehow it does they're at best showing that their understanding of morality is very limited and at worst desperately making excuses for evil.
by fy20 | 2025-12-03 11:22:08+00:00
I was involved in the early days of OpenTTD and one of the big issues was the first version was basically just a decompiled version of the original TTD binaries. Giving any kind of blessing would basically relinquish control of IP - that due to publisher contracts he may or may not actually be able to do. Legally this is the only thing he can say.
by bjackman | 2025-12-03 11:22:35+00:00
Regarding the giant trucks specific: one pragmatic lever we could pull here is just m parking enforcement. The EU says we have to allow sale of dangerous vehicles to keep Trump happy. But cities can just say "you can't park there mate" (where "there" means, for example, the Paris metropolitan area). They are already too big for existing parking spaces. We can forbid construction of larger spaces and require privately-owned car parks to enforce size limits.
by metalman | 2025-12-03 11:23:28+00:00
think about it rationaly or emotionaly, it's the same, you are swallowed whole by a corporate institutional machine, litteraly, all of, ALL of your time is at work, inside a steel can, ALL of your food is "approved", your clothing, you are monitored as to where you are and where you can go, when, and why, subject to a whole other set of laws, and so a good number of people who are doing it, are bat shit crazy, from all that and of course the physical reality of danger and bieng constantly in motion, "sea legs", and "land legs", and the specialists in every port, ready to liven up shore leave...never kill them, but dumping them unconsious at the end of the gang plank 20 min before the boat leaves, is fair game, with that bieng a feature, not a bug, for some number on every boat
by styanax | 2025-12-03 11:23:34+00:00
On the previous HN article, I recall many a comment talking about how they should change this, leave the politics/negative juju out because it was a bad look for the Zig community.

It would appear they listened to that feedback, swallowed their ego/pride and did what was best for the Zig community with these edits. I commend them for their actions in doing what's best for the community at the cost of some personal mea culpa edits.
by nirui | 2025-12-03 11:24:05+00:00
https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig

Currently Zig is the second most "stared" project on Codeberg (1443 stars). The first one is forgejo/forgejo (3154 stars) which is powering Codeberg, and the third one is dnkl/foot terminal emulator (1434). (see https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?q=&only_show_relevant=tru...)

It's always interesting to see big and significant projects moving away from major commercial platforms. Could it be a sign of something new on the horizon?
by encyclopedism | 2025-12-03 11:24:23+00:00
No you couldn't because the human mind definitely DOES not work like an LLM. Though how it does work is an open academic problem. As an example please see the Hard problem of consciousness. There are things when it comes to the brain/mind which we even have a difficult time in defining let alone understanding.

To give a quick example vis-a-vis LLM's: I can reason and understand well enough without having to be 'trained' on near the entire corpus of human literary. LLM's of course do not reason or understand and their output is determined by human input. That alone indicates our minds work differently to LLM's.

I wonder how ChatGPT would fair if it were trained on birdsong and then asked for a rhyming couplet?
by consp | 2025-12-03 11:24:29+00:00
I worked at the local McD as a teenager and it was always funny to see a horse ordering something (the camera does not pick up the rider). Ours was near the end of a trail often used by people on horseback.

And since horse riders are legally equivalent to vehicles it's pretty much a "fine as long as you don't shit in the driveway" situation.
by Alifatisk | 2025-12-03 11:25:17+00:00
Many of the models we have today seem to only perform OCR on the images you send and use the text retrieved for context when answering. However, Qwen-VL, and I guess Gemini now? Are different, they seem to "understanding" the image I send with my prompt. They manage to capture spatial relationships, objects, and semantics from the image, it's very impressive. I’ve been telling my friends about the Qwen3-VL model option in Qwen Chat for a while because I feel like it’s underrated.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-12-03 11:27:40+00:00
>the message as opposed to the messenger?

Exactly.

The message is plain to see with very little advanced math.

The only news is that it is the CEO of IBM saying it out loud.

IMHO he has some of the most credible opinions at this scale that many people have seen.

It's "highly unlikely" that all this money will be paid back to everyone that invested at this point. The losers probably will outnumber the winners, and nobody knows whether it will end up becoming a winner-take-all situation yet. A number of wealthy players remain at the table, raising stakes with each passing round.

It's so much money that it's already too late to do anything about it, and the full amount hasn't even changed hands yet.

And the momentum from something so huge can mean that almost the entire amount will have to change hands a second time before a stable baseline can be determined relative to pre-existing assets.

This can take longer than anyone gives credit for just because of massiveness, in the mean time, established real near-term growth opportunities may languish or even fade as the skew in rationality/solvency balance awaits the rolling dice to come to rest.
by mikepapadim | 2025-12-03 11:27:59+00:00
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by Shgb1618 | 2025-12-03 11:28:02+00:00
Yeah the GLS is almost the size of an Escalade now. I honestly don't understand why SUVs are outselling wagons at such an insane rate. Heavier, uglier, worse aerodynamics with the same practicality and a worse ride because they need to make up for the higher center of gravity with a stiffer suspension. I see no positives, other than better ground clearance, which, let's be honest, most people never need because they only ever drive on paved roads. Easier to run over children and bikes though, if that's your thing.
by michaelt | 2025-12-03 11:28:50+00:00
Basically, it’s well known that fully laden 44 tonne articulated lorries making sharp turns do a lot of damage to roads.

That’s who in industrial estates you’ll often find concrete roads, instead of tarmac, for lorries making 90 degree turns.

American style trucks might be big, but presumably they’re nowhere near 44 tonnes.

Of course, articulated lorries only drive on major roads; your average residential road gets no lorries, so all the wear is from smaller vehicles.
by consp | 2025-12-03 11:29:12+00:00
This is correct, though wat probably is meant is that US cars (or dual designed cars) have two spots with only the right one filled in the EU and a separate fog light with only the left one filled. I had a Ford Fiesta with only one reverse light and put in another to get a bit more light when reversing and my assumption is this is more common on US designed vehicles (though the Fiesta was designed in either the UK or Germany but you get the jist).
by kriro | 2025-12-03 11:29:39+00:00
Library/API conflicts are the biggest pain point for me usually. Especially breaking changes. RLlib (currently 2.41.0) and Gymnasium (currently 0.29.0+) have ended in circles many times for me because they tend to be out of sync (for multi-agent environments). My go to test now is a simple hello world type card game like war, competitive multi-agent with rllib and gymnasium (pettingzoo tends to cause even more issues).

Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to figure out a way to resolve it eventually (around 7 fixes) and I let it create an rllib.md with all the fixes and pitfalls and am curious if feeding this file to the next experiment will lead to a one-shot. GPT-5 struggled more but haven't tried Codex on this yet so it's not exactly fair.

All done with Copilot in agent mode, just prompting, no specs or anything.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-03 11:29:55+00:00
You think anything they did could've put the automation genie back in the bottle?

Barring massive violence against anyone even thinking about automating something, is there anything the could've done realistically?

We're at the same point with AI now, a bit worse really. People are using AI for _everything_ since it's practically free to shove it at any problem and get "meh" results.

Then they do the math whether "meh" basically for free is better than "decent to good" for a liveable wage.

With knitting machines there was an actual monetary and time cost to getting them running so the adoption was slower.

AI adoption is moving at crazy speeds with no regard for anything. Some of the uses will stick and people will lose jobs, some will be scaled back because "meh" quality isn't sustainable practice.

Boycotting products and companies that use AI in a stupid "meh" way will work eventually, but for some fields it's here to stay because it's just better. Programming is one of them, there's no going back to "stupid" Intellisense or plain tab complete when even a local AI model powered system can pre-fill whole functions with 80-100% accuracy in seconds.
by butvacuum | 2025-12-03 11:30:04+00:00
I'm not sure how you can call chatgpt "ostensibly my own computer" when it's primarily a website.

And honestly, E2EE's strict definition (messages between user 1 and user 2 cannot be decrypted by message platform)... Is unambiguously possible for chatGPT. It's just utterly pointless when user2 happens to also be the message platform.

If you message support for $chat_platform (if there is such a thing) do you expect them to be unable to read the messages?

It's still a disingenuous use of the term. And, if TFA is anything like multiple other providers, it's going to be "oh, the video is E2EE. But the 5fps ,non-sensitive' 512*512px preview isn't."
by g-b-r | 2025-12-03 11:31:05+00:00
To be clear, SSL/TLS and other transport protocols can absolutely be considered end-to-end encryption, if they're established between the two real interlocutors.

Otherwise, you have two instances of encryption with decryption in the middle; that can't logically be called end-to-end encryption, I never heard it called so, and hopefully it never was.
by boomlinde | 2025-12-03 11:31:15+00:00
> I think it would've been far easier to build a decent GUI around that flow, with some email integration + a patch preview tool, rather than adding activitypub, but oh well.

Check out Sourcehut (https://sourcehut.org/). It uses a mailing list-based workflow so contributing code or bug reports is relatively effortless and doesn't require a Sourcehut account.
by stokedmind | 2025-12-03 11:31:17+00:00
> I can agree with the most of this, but the large families being pushed out of existence is plainly wrong. How much the school is costing you? Healthcare? How much do you save by being able to cycle with 4 kids to short distances, where most of your daily travel comprised of?

Oh I love cycling. I know it's hard to find even remotely comparable cycling-friendly locations in the States, even if growing up (also in a large family) we were fortunate enough to live walking distance to schools in a suburban area.

But for education and health, health care isn't "free" in the Netherlands. We pay hundreds per month for the whole family for health insurance on top of the high taxes that support the "system". Public education is also tax-supported in the USA for K-12, although indeed higher education is more expensive.

I'm more referencing policy that is intentionally "squeezing" everything to make it all smaller and more frugal in a way that makes a <5 family size far more practical. It is not the same in the States.
by frm88 | 2025-12-03 11:31:35+00:00
Most of them actually make pretty good money with their philantropy: https://ips-dc.org/report-true-cost-of-billionaire-philanthr... and a lot of it is paid for by taxes.

" - $73.34 billion in tax revenue was lost to the public in 2022 due to personal and corporate charitable deductions. - If we include just the little data we have about charitable bequests and the investments of charities themselves, the revenue loss is pushed up to roughly $111 billion. - And if we also include the capital gains revenue lost from the donation of appreciated assets, the true revenue costs of charity likely add up to several hundreds of billions of dollars each year."
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by gpderetta | 2025-12-03 11:31:59+00:00
I have only played very little with it and I don't have anything in production yet, so I can't say.

I did manage to co_await senders without additional allocations though (but the code I wrote is write-only so I need to re-understand what I did 6 months ago again).

I recall that I was able to allocate the operation_state as a coroutine-local, and the scheduler is node based, so the operation_state can just be appended to the scheduler queue.

You still do need to allocate the coroutine itself, and I haven't played with coroutine allocators yet.
by thinkharderdev | 2025-12-03 11:32:09+00:00
Honestly I don't see how that is different than how it works in Rust. Synchronous code is a proper subset of asynchronous code. If you have a streaming API then you can have an implementation that works in a synchronous way with no overhead if you want. For example, if you already have the whole buffer in memory sometimes then you can just use it and the stream will work exactly like a loop that you would write in the sync version.
by mesenga | 2025-12-03 11:32:31+00:00
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by jamisteven | 2025-12-03 11:32:50+00:00
"Yet, EU vehicle safety regulations have supported a 36% reduction in European road deaths since 2010. By contrast, road deaths in the US over the same period increased 30%, with pedestrian deaths up 80% and cyclist deaths up 50%." They seem to think that the two are correlated, they are definitely not. The US is like the wild west compared to the EU, especially as it pertains to traffic. Americans take laws as mere suggestions, where in Europe the law is the law and you follow the rules, especially in Germany / Austria / Switzerland. We also allow people to drive on the roads with super old, broke down, and unserviced cars with missing bumpers or things clearly falling off, like its no big deal. Again, they are grasping at straws suggesting their auto build quality has lowered their death rate while increasing ours, its ridiculous.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-03 11:33:29+00:00
This and also due to the fact that positions that involve writing and managing documentation typically do not have great paths for promotions.

Not just at Microsoft, but it's an entire industry issue. It's not a job most Software companies value, so ambitious people constantly leave for better positions and the jobs constantly get moved around to the cheapest cost center where ownership and knowledge gets lost and quality declines.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-12-03 11:33:55+00:00
> The EC is not that slow when it comes to the American trade wars. The timeline suddenly shrinks to months instead of years because this stuff could majorly disrupt the economy (and safety) across the European continent.

I dunno, like the last "deal" basically makes a load of promises that the EU has no legislative ability to enforce. So it's basically just performative.

And honestly, given that the US is gonna sell out Ukraine, then this (and most other) trade deals should be ripped up. This would hurt my country (and me) a lot, but it's probably still the right thing to do, as TACO is definitely a possibility if the US markets crash.
by fzeroracer | 2025-12-03 11:34:59+00:00
I'm an American that doesn't drive. I've lived across multiple states across multiple coasts, so I can speak a bit to the issues here as someone that is primarily a pedestrian. There's a bunch of different things that add up into an absolute mess.

The first thing and the most obvious is that for 99% of people, you need a car to live. I've been able to work around that issue, but you simply cannot exist anywhere without a car. Our public transit networks are terrible, our roads are terrible and our commutes are even worse. Half-hour to an hour commutes are normalized among a lot of people. I don't see a need to hammer this point any further as I'm sure almost everyone who has tangential knowledge of the US knows.

The more insidious problem is that Americans are also incredibly afraid and incredibly self-serving, and our law system is set up to benefit that. Drivers can very easily get away with vehicular manslaughter because our system is tilted in favor of drivers. This is why we see larger and larger cars, because people want to protect themselves at the cost of everyone else. And if they do hit a kid or murder a pedestrian it was an accident and not their fault. This is also why Americans drive like absolute maniacs. Our police also rarely enforce traffic laws and drivers have only gotten worse as a result.

So we have a bunch of people that should not be allowed to drive on the road because they have to drive, where they rarely get punished for breaking the law and where the law is set up to benefit them when they do break it. This has been a universal constant across every state I've lived in, though notably Virginia was worse than both Texas and Washington in terms of drivers.
by barnabee | 2025-12-03 11:35:07+00:00
It varies massively from place to place.

Where I live in London, and in many other cities, cycling to get around is massively popular and growing fast.

But other towns and cities are much more like you describe.

Anecdotally this seems like somewhat of a demographic thing and places that skew younger, university educated[/ing], and dare I say left wing tend toward much higher rates of cycling vs other forms of transport.
by skydhash | 2025-12-03 11:35:30+00:00
Most CRUD software development is not really about the CRUD part. And for most framework, you can find packages that generate the UI and the glue code that ties it to the database.

When you're doing CRUD, you're spending most of the time with the extra constraints designed by product. It's dealing with the CRUD events, the IAM system, the Notification system,...
by notpushkin | 2025-12-03 11:35:35+00:00
> Zig is distributed under the MIT License. MS is completely with in their rights to clone the git repository from Codeberg and do whatever with the source code. Including feeding it to their AI algorithms.

MIT license requires attribution, which AI algorithms don’t provide AFAIK. So either (a) it’s fair use and MS can do that regardless of the license or (b) MS can’t do that. In any case, yeah, that’s not the issue Zig folks have with GitHub.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-12-03 11:35:40+00:00
Yeah, not a fan of cyclists. And it's kind of braindead to have my car break because if I hit a pedestrian somehow it is its job to absorb the impact. Maybe cyclists and pedestrians should be more mindful of their surroundings.

The EU regulations have killed all the nice things about cars: straight lines, retractable headlights and so on.
by moduspol | 2025-12-03 11:36:28+00:00
My phrasing suggests that. I was having trouble thinking of a non-offensive way to say, "I don't think the kids can possibly be learning much if the teachers and administration are incapable of implementing a phone ban."

Parent comment described them as "chaotic." I'm not even sure I'd describe them as "schools." But to more clearly answer your question: I think it's fair to question what their actual purpose is (and it doesn't seem to be education), but I don't think it was anyone's explicit intention to make them that way.
by epolanski | 2025-12-03 11:37:05+00:00
You can hate it all you want but the world ain't black or white but a scale of greys. You're over focusing on which exact shade of grey one's talking, but it's indeed relative.

> So 50/middle would be what exactly? It all depends.

Using LLMs to explore code bases, doing deep research, asking it to do code reviews or find bugs, but not pushing code that LLMs have authored might be one example in the middle.