MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rgmerk | 2025-12-04 09:56:08+00:00
Yes, this year's Bathurst finale was quite the spectacle if you haven't seen it!

But while Supercars can be entertaining, they are in some ways a faster version of the categories I'm describing - they don't have much downforce and not that much mechanical grip either, so they're pretty slow in corners even if they are respectably fast in a straight line.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-04 09:56:29+00:00
> because most people are as clueless as you

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by devsda | 2025-12-04 09:56:31+00:00
> Nation states, on the other hand, have the compute resources and patience to occupy a lot of bandwidth, even if no single sockpuppet account they control is that popular.

If you control the platform where people go, you can easily launder popularity by promoting few persons to the top and pushing the unwanted entities into the blackhole of feeds/bans while hiding behind inconsistent community guidelines, algorithmic feeds and shadow bans.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-04 09:58:28+00:00
> I've been hearing that China will hit a plateau, like Japan, for at least 20 years now...

Chinese growth is slowing permanently.

GDP growth trend in 2000s was 10-12% p.a. In the 2010s it was 6-8%. In the 2020a expected to be 3-4%. This slowdown is structural, not cyclical.

China is aging faster than the west.

Real estate in China at one point represented 25-30% of GDP, but this model has collapsed.

Manufacturing remains strong, but is shifting upmarket, eg EVs, batteries, solar panels, robotics, semiconductors. China’s strategy is to move up the value chain faster than competitors can catch them.

Consumption is weak, but has strong potential.

China had high technological innovation, but political constraints are rising for them.

China’s growth will be more state driven, less entrepreneurial, but formidable in industrial capacity.
by macgyverismo | 2025-12-04 09:59:59+00:00
Lovely article, I am amazed at the lengths compilers go through to get the best performance. Thanks for writing this!

Reading the part about pure functions (including the extension [[gnu::pure]]) made me feel that this is a part where the C++ default is actually wrong. Not just because it could be better/hindsight/other languages have it/etc. but because it is in conflict with its own motto, don't pay for what you don't use. I really hope I can enable a compiler flag some time in the future that would make my variables const, and my functions pure by default.
by latexr | 2025-12-04 10:00:35+00:00
Starting in one hour.

Context: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/1156604180725638...

> SOON (10:00 CET): MEPs question Commissioner Brunner on #ChatControl!

> At stake: Mandatory age verification, app bans for U17s & the end of anonymous communication. Final negotiations are imminent.
by georgefrowny | 2025-12-04 10:01:17+00:00
Pretty much. If Pluto is a planet, then there are potentially thousands of objects that could be discovered over time that would then also be planets, plus updated models over the last century of the gravitational effects of, say, Ceres and Pluto, that showed that neither were capable of "dominating" their orbits for some sense of the word. So we (or the IAU, rather) couldn't maintain "there are nine planets" as a fact either way without grandfathering Pluto into the nine arbitrarily due to some kind of planetaceous vibes.

But the point is that millions of people were suddenly told that their long-held fact "the are nine planets, Pluto is one" was now wrong (per IAU definitions at least). And the reaction for many wasn't "huh, cool, maybe thousands you say?" it was quite vocal outrage. Much of which was humourously played up for laughs and likes, I know, but some people really did seem to take it personally.
by freakynit | 2025-12-04 10:02:04+00:00
"there is a simulation parameters file that we document openly[1]" - Excellent... this makes it super easy.

"buildings are typescript types with hook-functions" - meaning i can use LLM to generate new ones?

"the simulation is a websockets protocol" - excellent again!

"however at this stage data types and names are changing too fast for practical modding" - no worries... my comment was mostly a suggestion... would love to see them part of the same some day though..

Best wishes..
by phil21 | 2025-12-04 10:02:48+00:00
> where the builders didn't want to be on the hook for the inevitable doubling (or worse) of final cost, so they wrote special rules for new nuclear to be paid in advance and not held to cost estimates.

Sounds relatively fair to me - since the vast majority of delays and cost is government initiated (or enabled: e.g. giving power to NIMBY groups). Ideally there are carve-outs for any delays or cost overruns solely the fault of the builders and operators. Projects like these always will have a certain amount of incompetence and graft to them, unfortunately.

Maybe once/if the nuclear industry can get un-destroyed by the government that destroyed it in the first place, these subsidies can go away. If subsidies are good for green energy, they are good for kickstarting the nuclear energy segment again. If countries can successfully hold the line and stick to a 20 year program of increasing the pace and velocity of building new plants a robust industry just might emerge.
by Fnoord | 2025-12-04 10:03:23+00:00
In the news, sure. But negatively? I consider myself included in 'everyone', and I am not using junk from all the big tech companies. More than once, I've successfully quit using certain ones, and Signal has become much more popular in my country ever since Trump II took office. Meta had to change the name of their company (Facebook) since it had such a bad name, and Zuck started a charm offensive.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-04 10:03:31+00:00
So now AI model valuation is at 560 billion (OpenAI), 350 billion (Anthropic), 350 billion (say 10% of Google), 350 billion (10% of MSFT), 160 billion (10% of Meta/FB), 100 billion (decent chunk of Oracle, trying to get their cloud off the ground), or a total of 1870, let's round up to 1800 billion to count the rest, or 1.8 trillion dollars.

So for comparison 60% of Google's total valuation with 16 billion of revenue, or about 2% of Google's revenue.

Or close to the value of Meta/FB with less than 10% of FB revenue.

The value in this is supposedly in replacing people and to justify this it would need to get the same as about 16 million full-time jobs or more than 20% of all jobs in the US. And that's assuming employers pay the same, so one should double, or 10x that.

Or put another way a forward valuation of close to 1000 times revenue, AND that would need to go to these companies. And they probably have less than a year to at least convince people this is going to happen.

This is going to be such an incredible disaster ...
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-04 10:03:45+00:00
You mean he wasn't being clueless with that point of view? Like the majority of the population who can't do 8th grade math let alone understand the complexities of out financial systems that lead to the ever expanding wealth inequality?

Or do you mean we shouldn't be allowed to call out people we notice are clueless because it might hurt their feelings and consider it "fulmination"? But then how will they know they might be wrong if nobody dares calls them out ? Isn't this toxic positivity culture and focus on feelings rather than facts, a hidden form of speech suppression, and a main cause in why people stay clueless and wealth inequality increases? Because they grow up in a bubble where their opinions get reinforced and never challenged or criticized because of an arbitrary set of speech rules will get lawyered and twisted against any form of criticism?

Have you seen how John Carmack or Linus Torvalds behaves and talks to people he disagrees with? They'd get banned by HN rules day one.

So I don't really see how my comment broke that rule since there's no fulmination there, no snark, no curmudgeonly, just an observation.
by noobermin | 2025-12-04 10:03:56+00:00
May be I'm just ignorant, but I tried to skim the beginning of this, and it's honestly just hard to even accept their set-up. Like, the fact that any of the terms[^] (`y`, `H`, `p`, etc) are well defined as functions that can map some range of the reals is hard to accept. Like in reality, what "an elite wants," the "scalar" it can derive from pushing policy 1, even the cost functions they define seem to not even be definable as functions in a formal sense and even the co-domain of said terms cannot map well to a definable set that can be mapped to [0,1].

All the time in actual politics, elites and popular movements alike find their own opinions and desires clash internally (yes, even a single person's desires or actions self-conflict at times). A thing one desires at say time `t` per their definitions doesn't match at other times, or even at the same `t`. This is clearly an opinion of someone who doesn't read these kind of papers, but I don't know how one can even be sure the defined terms are well-defined so I'm not sure how anyone can even proceed with any analysis in this kind of argument. They write it so matter-of-fact-ly that I assume this is normal in economics. Is it?

Certain systems where the rules a bit more clear might benefit from formalism like this but politics? Politics is the quintessential example of conflicting desires, compromise, unintended consequences... I could go on.

[^] calling them terms as they are symbols in their formulae but my entire point is they are not really well defined maps or functions.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-04 10:04:53+00:00
We were talking about the paleolithic era. I’ll take your comment to imply that you don’t have any information that I don’t have.

> but killing each other over valuable resources is the most common human trait after reproduction and seek of food and shelter.

This isn’t reflected in the archaeological record, it isn’t reflected by the historical record, and you haven’t provided any good reason why anyone should believe it.
by leoedin | 2025-12-04 10:05:36+00:00
They’ve been a Scottish thing for at least 15 years! Source: I ate one in Edinburgh 15 years ago.

Scotland is the home of deep frying things that have no right to be deep fried. My English friends are alarmed when I tell them of the “half pizza and chips” we used to have for lunch. Half a deep fried pizza, that is.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-04 10:07:45+00:00
The timing lines up but that's more of a vibes argument.

The majority of traffic stops in the US are, cop parks on the side of the highway somewhere the speed limit is lower than the speed people drive there, every car on the highway is doing 70 in a 55, whoever drives past gets a ticket and the government fills their coffers but the speed everybody actually drives on that stretch of highway remains 70.

Now suppose the cops stop doing that for the stated reason. If you then drive past them at 110 instead of 70, are they still going to not pull you over? Good luck with that. Even if they're actually trying to minimize traffic stops, that one's the one that makes the cut.

So then what happens if they stop doing the usual ones? People are then going to drive 70 in a 55 because they can get away with it, but that's what they were doing to begin with. You could argue that the fatality rate would be higher at 70 than 55, but then why would that change relative to the baseline where that was what was already happening?

So the argument would have to be that idiots had the impression that they could do 110 without getting pulled over, even if that wasn't true, and then did that and managed to make contact with an overpass before driving past a cop. Which doesn't seem as plausible, because speeds like that on empty desert highways shouldn't have raised the fatality rate that much (e.g. it's not that high on the autobahn in Germany), and speeds like that in traffic where there are other cars traveling significantly slower will trigger a visceral feeling of danger in nearly all humans unless they're on drugs or have significant mental health issues, and in those cases they wouldn't have been deterred by the prospect of traffic enforcement anyway. Which is why people drive somewhat over the speed limit even when that could get them a ticket -- because it doesn't feel dangerous -- but also why they don't drive a lot faster than the other cars -- because that does. Traffic enforcement or not.

Moreover, regardless of how much of a contribution was made by that vs. COVID, the numbers still don't line up with it being vehicle safety regulations.
by mopsi | 2025-12-04 10:08:39+00:00
Putin's approval rating is genuinely that high, around 80%. Nobody cares about opposing candidates, because Russia has had one or two free elections in its entire history. Far more important is that Putin has flooded the lower classes with money. People who were used to surviving on a few hundred dollars a month are now receiving tens of thousands in sign-up bonuses alone, plus military wages and compensations. Absolutely life-changing money for them. It is comparable to flooding a troubled area like West Virginia with military sign-up bonuses ranging from hundreds of thousands to a million per enlistment, with additional money flowing into communities from injury and death compensations.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-04 10:09:27+00:00
> Or do you mean we shouldn't be allowed to call out people we notice are clueless?

That’s exactly what it means. You’ll note I’ve been very polite to you in the rest of the thread despite your not having made citations for any of your claims; this takes deliberate effort, because the alternative is that the forum devolves to comments that amount to: “Nuh-uh, you’re stupid,” which isn’t of much interest to anyone.
by ben_w | 2025-12-04 10:09:53+00:00
So far as I can tell, it's still around. That's why I linked to the .gov domain rather than any other source.

Though I suppose I could point at legislation.gov.uk:

• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22wholly+or+mainly+of+a+broadly+c...

• https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/schedule/20/cro...
by lm28469 | 2025-12-04 10:10:01+00:00
Any time someone mention "fascism" or "communism" you can be sure people instantly lose 50 IQ point and come up with the most convoluted definitions of these terms

The US army have their own government owned supermarkets. And there are plenty of US states and other countries with public stores which are definitely not communist. Is the US army communist ?

In Berlin we voted to seize housing from megacorp landlords profiteering from housing, I don't think Berlin is communist either. https://qz.com/2065655/berliners-voted-to-seize-housing-from...
by nextaccountic | 2025-12-04 10:11:03+00:00
> We can patch hasOwnProperty and tighten the deserializer, but there is deeper issue. React never really acknowledged that it was building an RPC layer. If you look at actual RPC frameworks like gPRC or even old school SOAP, they all start with schemas, explicit service definitions and a bunch of tooling to prevent boundary confusion. React went the opposite way: the API surface is whatever your bundler can see, and the endpoint is whatever the client asks for.

> My guess is this won't be the last time we see security fallout from that design choice. Not because React is sloppy, but because it’s trying to solve a problem category that traditionally requires explicitness, not magic.

Now I'm worried, but I don't use React. So I will have to ask: how does SvelteKit fares in this aspect?
by metalman | 2025-12-04 10:11:06+00:00
Such a bad headline, and while some martian soils might not be instantly fatal to everything once pressurised, and hydrated, the actual ambient conditions on mars, will in fact kill any and all earth life. Building a greenhouse that will feed a human colony on mars is a 2 trillion dollar spend, with a hundred billion.a year to keep the bus running, which I think is something humanity neds to.do, but the only way we can afford it, is to re allot the budgets spent now on aircraft cairier groups.
by sensanaty | 2025-12-04 10:11:21+00:00
> the list of people who write code, use high quality LLM agents (not chatbots) like Claude, and report not just having success with the tools but watching the tools change how they think about programming, continues to grow.

My company is basically writing blank cheques for "AI" (aka LLM, I hate the way we've poisoned AI as a term))tooling so that people can use any and all tooling they want and see what works and doesn't. This is a company with ~1500ish engineers, ranging from hardware engineers building POS devices to the junior frontenders building out our simplest UIs. There's also a whole lot more people who aren't technical, and they're also encouraged to use any and all AI tooling they can.

Despite the entire company trying to figure out how to use these effectively precisely because we're trying to look at things objectively and separate out the hype from the reality, the only people I've seen with any kind of praise so far (and this has been going on since the early ChatGPT days) have been people in Marketing and Sales, because for them it doesn't matter if the AI hallucinates some pure bullshit since that's 90% of their job anyway.

We have spent god knows how much time and resources trying to get these tools doing anything more useful than simple demos that get thrown out immediately, and it's just not there. No one is pushing 100x the code or features they were before, projects aren't finishing any faster than they were before, and nobody even bothers turning on the meeting transcription tools either anymore because more often than not it'll interpret things said in the meeting just plain wrong or even make up entire discussion points that were never had.

Just recently, like last week recently, we had some idiotic PR review bot from coderabbit or some other such company be activated. I've never seen so many people complain all at once on Slack, there was a thread with hundreds of individuals all saying how garbage it was and how much it was distracting from reviews. I didn't see a single person say they liked the tool, not 1 single person had anything good to say about it.

So as far as I'm concerned, it's just a MASSIVE fucking hype bubble that will ultimately spawn some tooling that is sorta useful for generating unimportant scripts, but little else.
by Xss3 | 2025-12-04 10:11:38+00:00
You mustve missed the part where i spoke of consistency?

Ive played at the pro level. Nobody prefires with perfect robotic consistency.

I dont care if it takes 50 matches of data for the statistical model to call it inhuman.

Valve has enough data that they could easily make the threshold for a ban something like '10x more consistent at pre-firing than any pro has ever been' with a high confidence borne over many engagements in many matches.
by defrost | 2025-12-04 10:12:10+00:00
In earlier today AU news:

How teens are already using their parents to get around Australia’s social media ban

‘I just put my mum’s face in for the facial verification and it worked,’ a 13-year-old told Crikey.

~ https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/social-media-ban-parent...
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-12-04 10:12:42+00:00
I use Pihole as well (even tried to synchronize two for HA but I gave up). It is fantastic.

What worries me with dnsmasq is that it is a personal project maintained on a personal git (by a great person!). Sure, one can fork and whatnot but without several people participating it can fade out pretty quickly.
by zamadatix | 2025-12-04 10:12:55+00:00
Not 100% of people need/care about such workarounds either though, so it works out.

For true government level interest in what you are doing, it's a much harder conversation than e.g. avoiding ISPs making a buck intercepting with wildcard fallbacks and is probably going to need to extend to something well beyond just DoH if one is convinced that's their primary concern.
by latexr | 2025-12-04 10:13:18+00:00
> This enhances my work. However other people seem to feel threatened.

I wish people would stop spreading this as if it were the main reason. It’s a weak argument and disconnected from reality, like those people who think the only ones who dislike cryptocurrencies are the ones who didn’t become rich from it.

There are plenty of reasons to be against the current crop of AI that have nothing to do with employment. The threat to the environment, the consolidation of resources by the ones at the top, the spread of misinformation and lies, the acceleration of mass surveillance, the decay of critical thinking, the decrease in quality of life (e.g. people who live next to noisy data centres)… Not everything is about jobs and money, the world is bigger than that.
by slop-cop | 2025-12-04 10:13:18+00:00
The guy who discovered the actual vulnerability says otherwise.

Delete this distraction to genuine blue teamers and stop shitting up the information landscape with this utter hogwash.

This is why infosec is dead.

https://react2shell.com/

https://github.com/ejpir/CVE-2025-55182-poc/issues/1#issueco...
by lm28469 | 2025-12-04 10:13:25+00:00
Stuff like that:

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1796887086647431277

https://www.dw.com/en/greece-in-the-port-of-piraeus-china-is...

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1819036/business-economy

Step 1: move all your factories abroad for short term gains

Step 2: sell all your shit to foreigners for short term gains

Step 3: profit ?
by jeswin | 2025-12-04 10:14:25+00:00
There are several countries which use a single ID for all government interfacing. For that matter, Aadhaar is almost there already. I am not suggesting that private companies should use it, or should be allowed to use it. But a single ID will limit babudom arbitrariness a bit.

> whose attributes can't be changed

Many IDs (outside India) have similar issues, options to change attributes, and various redressal mechanisms.
by mlsu | 2025-12-04 10:15:04+00:00
I had to google Landian to understand that the other commenter was talking about Nick Land. I have heard of him and I don't think I agree with him.

However, I understand what the "Dark Enlightenment" types are talking about. Modernity has dissolved social bonds. Social atomization is greater today than at any time in history. "Traditional" social structures, most notably but not exclusively the church, are being dissolved.

The motive force that is driving people to become reactionary is this dissolution of social bonds, which seems inextricably linked to technological progress and development. Dare I say, I actually agree with the Dark Enlightenment people on one point -- like them, I don't like what is going on! A whale eating krill is a good metaphor. I would disagree with the neoreactionaries on this point though: the krill die but the whale lives, so it's ethically more complex than the straightforward tragic death that they see.

I can vehemently disagree with the authoritarian/accelerationist solution that they are offering. Take the good, not the bad, are we allowed to do that? It's a good metaphor; and I'm in good company. A lot of philosophies see these same issues with modernity, even if the prescribed solutions are very different than authoritarianism.