MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by patcon | 2025-12-02 23:04:27+00:00
what if more power (from state) goes to the group that does engage in those activities, and therefore Anthropic gets marginalized as shadow sectors of state power pick a different winner?

These things are not clear. I do not envy those who must neurotically think through the first-order, second-order, third-order judgements of all of justice, "evil" and "good" that one must do. It's a statescraft level of hierarchy of concerns that would leave me immensely challenged
by ItsMonkk | 2025-12-02 23:04:39+00:00
Riolu is a uniquely terrible example. While he used Cheat Engine to slow down gameplay, he could have just as easily used TAS to record and replay his inputs since TrackMania is deterministic. This is still possible today. This will always be possible even with Kernel level anti-cheats.

I'll note here that the work that Nadeo has done on the matchmaking aspect is in line with what I'm thinking and should be expanded throughout the online gaming space. A division 10 COTD player will never see a cheater. If cheaters do show up, as they commonly do in Weekly Shorts leaderboards, the community ignores it. Their region leaderboards do a much better job than typical games of bringing the community together and they promote continuity. When top players smurf COTD on a new name, the community sniffs it out within the hour. TM doesn't need anti-cheat.
by bji9jhff | 2025-12-02 23:04:45+00:00
I use Firefox since it started. At first because I liked it's license. Later because I was in love with the way I'd did things and the add-ons ecosystem it spawned. The first major disagreement came when the search bar merged with the location bar. Then FTP support was disabled. Then RSS bookmarks thingy was removed. Then that stupid hamburger menu appeared. Then features I don't even understand like Pocket appeare. But I continued to use Firefox because the alternatives were worse. Now I keep using Firefox because of apathy and I'm basically the boiled frog of lore.
by kentm | 2025-12-02 23:04:49+00:00
> It's not helping that in the last 10 years a culture of job-hopping has taken over the tech industry. Average tenure at tech companies is often ~2 years and after that people job hop to increase compensation.

I've started viewing developers that have never maintained an existing piece of software for over 3 years with skepticism. Obviously, with allowances for people who have very good reasons to be in that situation (just entered the market, bad luck with employers, etc).

There's a subculture of adulation for developers that "get things done fast" which, more often than not, has meant that they wrote stuff that wasn't well thought out, threw it over the wall, and moved on to their next gig. They always had a knack of moving on before management could connect the dots that all the operational problems were related to the person who originally wrote it and not the very-competent people fixing the thing. Your average manager doesn't seem to have the capability to really understand tech debt and how it impacts ability to deliver over time; and in many cases they'll talk about the "rock star" developer that got away with a glimmer in their eye.

Saw a post of someone on Hacker News the other day talking about how they were creating things faster than n-person teams, and then letting the "normies" (their words not mine) maintain it while moving on to the next thing. Thats exactly the kind of person I'd like to weed out.
by DaveZale | 2025-12-02 23:05:56+00:00
the quantum world does not have much overlap with common sense, for sure.

Towards the end of the paper, "space and time need not be physical" but instead, "uniquely consistent constructs by which one can describe events" ... so does this mean that space and time simply make the math work?

A PhD bud of mine says jokingly, skip the math, particles can eat each other, swap energy and sometimes emit a LOTof energy. Space is not what we think, apparently time isn't either
by FeepingCreature | 2025-12-02 23:05:58+00:00
> If making money on inference alone was possible, there would be a dozen different smaller providers who'd be taking the open weights models and offering that as service.

There are! Look through the provider list for some open model on https://openrouter.ai . For instance, DeepSeek 3.1 has a dozen providers. It would not make any sense to offer those below cost because you have neither moat nor branding.
by asdfman123 | 2025-12-02 23:06:02+00:00
They have this exact problem with scientific glassblowing, and it's been decades in the making. Manufacturing improvements now mean that you can buy almost everything from a factory, and only need experienced glassblowers for fancy, one-off stuff.

But that means there's no need for entry-level glassblowers, and everyone in the field with any significant experience is super old. The pipeline has been dead for a while now.
by cmiles8 | 2025-12-02 23:06:25+00:00
This. Netscape was THE browser in the early phases of the Internet. Then Microsoft just packaged IE into Windows and it was game over. The brand means nothing long term. If Google broadly incorporates Gemini into all the Google-owned things everyone already has then it’s game over for OpenAI.

The mass commoditization of the tech is rapidly driving AI to be a feature, not a product. And Google is very strongly positioned to take advantage of that. Microsoft too, and of course they have a relationship with OpenAI but that’s fraying.
by munksbeer | 2025-12-02 23:06:35+00:00
> If you’re unhappy and want to work remotely feel free to quit and go work in a remote company.

Couldn't this equally apply to you? Feel free to quit and go work in a fully office present company?

Your commute is a 15 minute bicycle ride, you want to force everyone else back to the office because you have a nice easy commute and you personally prefer it. And you're glad that this is now happening across the industry, again, because you prefer it.

Yeah, that's completely selfish.
by nickjj | 2025-12-02 23:08:26+00:00
Yep, I know what you mean.

It skews back-end stats too. For example if someone buys a course, I hope they take it in full so they feel happy and fulfilled but in reality a good portion never start. It's like Steam games. Some people just like collecting digital goods knowing they exist and that gives comfort.

Massive course platforms are still thriving it seems so the market is there but it is way more saturated than 10 years ago. My first Docker course in 2015 was like maybe 1 out of 5 courses out there, but now there's 5,000 courses and Docker's documentation has gotten a lot better over time.

I haven't figured out how to make things work, I just know I love tech, solving real world problems, documenting my journey (either through blog posts or courses) and traveling. It would be amazing to be able to travel the world and make courses. Back when I started 10 years ago I didn't realize I like traveling so much so I squandered that extra time.
by patcon | 2025-12-02 23:08:47+00:00
I suspect even if we can't prove it, there are real reasons to program spirituality or ideas of supernatural into low levels of an intelligence. There's a reason why are brains converged on this, and it might have more to do with consciousness and reality than we know how to explain yet.

But I feel like I trust something more to follow the only previous template we have for insanely dense information substrate, aka minds.
by mattewong | 2025-12-02 23:08:52+00:00
Looks interesting and I gave it a whirl-- thank you. Your intro mentions filter + sort, but I couldn't find a way to do that in the web UI (maybe that's just my ineptitude).

Re your question whether it would be useful: hard to answer because I cannot tell right now whether it solves (or intends to solve) any specific problem better than plenty of other alternatives.
by lenkite | 2025-12-02 23:08:57+00:00
I am aware its your last reply, but you are rather wrong on this point:

> TLDR Indian media keeps insinuating PRC wants all of AP when PRC doesn't, it just wants the border formalized at current occupation/administered areas

This is wrong. This was confirmed by China themselves. Latest Chinese actions included issuing Chinese names for towns, mountains and rivers in Arunachal Pradesh - continued assertion of demands, even after talks. This includes detainment of state citizens unless they acknowledge to be part of China and get a Chinese Visa. PRC most certainly wants Arunachal Pradesh and also apparently its citizens - can you point me to a single source otherwise ?

There was also no mention in any of the >20 recent talks - even in Chinese media - of any package swap of Aksai Chin for Arunachal Pradesh. Today PRC states clearly that all of Arunachal is "Zangnan" / "South Tibet".
by dangus | 2025-12-02 23:09:00+00:00
Really cool project, though I’d recommend going with 3 or 4 64x64 LED matrix panels instead of 20 16x16 panels since it’s a lot less work with assembly and wiring and the end result is the same.

There are also pre-built LED matrix controller boards including an existing drawing library like the Interstate75 which I can recommend.

https://github.com/pimoroni/interstate75
by Aurornis | 2025-12-02 23:09:01+00:00
> Did you ever hire any duds when you were not hiring remote?

Of course, but that's obviously a deflection.

In person hires can't physically be in two offices at the same time.

In person employees can't get a new in-person job and then not resign from their last job because they want to extract as many paychecks as they can before they get caught and fired.

In person employees can't substitute in a hired interview taker for the interview and then hope nobody notices their voice sounds too different when they start the job.

These are all real things that we've encountered with remote work (and more)

Saying X can also happen in Y! Is a classic fallacious argument used by people who want you to think two things are equal, when in fact they can have very different probabilities and risk profiles.

When I was working at a hybrid company we even had a few cases where people either couldn't focus at home (kids, family, distractions) or were insufferably combative in chat. Bringing them into the office solved it.

The two environments are not equal, no matter how many times someone tries to deflect with "That problem can also happen in the office!"
by asdfman123 | 2025-12-02 23:09:39+00:00
You have cause and effect reversed. Companies stopped training workers and giving them significant raises for experience, so we started job hopping.

Some genius MBA determined that people feel more rewarded by recognition and autonomy than pay, which is actually true. But it means that all the recognition and autonomy in the world won't make you stay if you can make 50% more somewhere else.
Show HN: A "what-if" budget planner app born from new-parent chaos
by riario | 2025-12-02 23:09:50+00:00
After the uncertainty of the pandemic and becoming a first-time (then two-time) parent, I realized the “monthly budget” never tells the full story. Real life is lumpy: childcare starts mid-year, service charge steps up, one-offs appear out of nowhere, and somehow the math never matches the month. I didn’t need another expense tracker, I needed a way to see the whole picture and test futures.

So I built a scenario-first planner. Instead of obsessing over last month’s transactions, you:

Map your life into a plan: recurring expenses, one-offs, income changes, goals. Duplicate your plan with one tap, tweak variables, and compare outcomes side-by-side.

Project out 60 months to see cash flow, buffers, and breaking points. Stress-test “what if” events: childcare, mortgage rate changes, a new car, parental leave, etc.

It's a bit like holding the Time Stone :P You roll time forward, branch a new timeline, replay with a tiny change, then compare the futures.

It's called "Plans.TheApp" and it's currently available for iOS on the App Store (Android to follow). The goal wasn’t every coffee, every doughnut perfect precision. It's about clarity and confidence and the ability to make decisions with a full, realistic picture.

We’re looking for blunt feedback from people who’ve felt the same mismatch between “monthly budget” and real life:

Which scenarios do you care about most? What data/visuals make a decision obvious for you? Where does the model fail (irregular bills, step-changes, seasonality)?

If this resonates, we’d love your take and your hardest edge cases.
by cryptonector | 2025-12-02 23:10:41+00:00
ASN1_BCD_STRING can be just IA5String with a constraint attached...

Your time types can be just an INTEGER with a constraint attached... (In Heimdal we use INTEGER constraints to pick a representation in the programming language.) E.g.,

-- 64-bit signed count of seconds where 0 is the Unix epoch ASN1_UTC_TIMESTAMP ::= INTEGER (-18446744073709551616..18446744073709551615)

ASN1_OUT_OF_BAND can just be a NULL with an APPLICATION tag or whatever:

Out-of-Band ::= [APPLICATION 100] NULL

or maybe an ENUMERATED or BIT STRING with named bits to indicate what kind of thing is referenced out of band. You might even use this with a SEQUENCE type instead where one member identifies an out of band datum as an index, and the other identifies the kind.

ASN1_REFERENCE is... interesting. I've not needed it, but some RPC protocols support intra-payload and even circular references, so if you have a need for that (hopefully you don't), then your ASN1_REFERENCE would be useful indeed.

ASN1_IDENTIFIED_DATA... ASN.1 has EMBEDDED-PDV, open types, and the TYPE-IDENTIFIER class -- there are many ways to do this in ASN.1. See https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/blob/master/lib/asn1/READ...

ASN1_RATIONAL is just a tagged sequence of numerator and denominator, with a constraint that the denominator must not be zero.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER RELATIVE TO is just a CHOICE of OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE IDENTIFIER.

Re: SDER... yeah, so Heimdal's codec produces DER but accepts a subset of BER for interop with OpenSSL and others. If you really want streaming then you'll want a variant of OER with fixed-length lengths (which IMO OER should have had, dammit), which then looks a lot like XDR but with different alignment and more types.

I had kind of expected a subset of x.680.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-02 23:12:13+00:00
> That doesn't happen remote either.

I don't know where you got this idea, but this happens all the time. The two most common topics in the remote channel of the big management peer group I'm in are:

1. People cheating on remote interviews (including substituting another person to take the interview)

2. People getting multiple jobs and being too obviously distracted to get work done, or the increasingly common getting a new job and not resigning from the last job because they know they can collect potentially $100K+ in paychecks and/or severance by waiting to get let go instead.

If you don't believe these things happen in remote jobs then I understand your resistance throughout this thread to any suggestion that remote and in-office are different.
by asdfman123 | 2025-12-02 23:12:17+00:00
IMO it's not risk so much as foregone conclusion. You can see the hopelessness in GenZ and (to a lesser extent) millennials.

But we only care about short term metrics now, so no one cares. They don't even care to develop the tools to understand it. It might as well not exist. Blame the young people and move on.
by iknowstuff | 2025-12-02 23:14:29+00:00
if cameras end up only slightly better than humans - who cause 40k deaths annually and 1M worldwide, or a world war amount of deaths every 15 years or so - but rapidly deployable due to cost, they will save more lives than a handful of lidar cars.

As far as Tesla, time will tell. I ride their robotaxis daily and see them performing better than Waymo, but it's obviously meaningless until we see accident stats after they remove safety monitors.
by zacwest | 2025-12-02 23:15:08+00:00
Cal Academy released their own press release[1] about this, which included a nice gallery of photos and videos[2].

[1]: https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/claude-the-albino-... [2]: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/i447nodpnda2agq00ekw1/AIhVA36...
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-12-02 23:15:18+00:00
I remember in the late 80's/early 90s reading a Car & Driver special publication on "affordable used sports cars" (I ended up with a 1975 280Z for $2,000 in great condition). They made a point that "the sports cars of the 60's are easily beaten, at least in a straight line, by today's average family sedans."

I remember this every time something like a Cadillac Escalade leaves my 21-year-old 350Z in its dust...
by protocolture | 2025-12-02 23:15:40+00:00
>I've never seen an organization take the actual proper steps (fire mid-management and PMs) to prevent the same thing from happening again.

One time, in my entire career have I seen this done, and it is as successful as you imagine it to be. Lots of weird problems coming out from having done it, but those are being treated as "Wow we are so glad we know about this problem" rather than "I hope those idiots come back to keep pulling the wool over my eyes".
by Aurornis | 2025-12-02 23:15:47+00:00
Valid question, but it's quite obvious: The shift to WFH was sudden and rushed, so now the number of people who need to be brought back in the office is huge.

You can't go through a company and retroactively subtract a benefit from ~half of the people without getting completely buried under discrimination lawsuits from angry people who think you forced them into the office but let Bob WFH because you're illegally discriminating.

So the companies are changing the policy for everyone and then granting "exceptions" on a case by case basis going forward, using newly defined criteria.

Again, please don't downvote the messenger. I'm just describing what's happening, not saying I approve.
by nobody9999 | 2025-12-02 23:16:03+00:00
>And yes, I agree. On multiple occasions in my adult life, I've "proved" my citizenship under threat of perjury, but that is only to say: I've made a statement on a form with my signature on it. My word alone was ~enough.

Sorry for the late reply.

You're absolutely right. As I said, that wasn't a "gotcha", but rather an acknowledgement that "proving" legal status to the Federal government, while gamed by those without such status, still carries criminal penalties if you're caught lying. And the same is true for RealID as well.

>But element 3, legal presence, is a bit tougher. There's a number of documents that are accepted, but only one of them is applicable to a plain-Jane native-born-Ohioan who does not have a passport.

>That document is an original birth certificate, or a certified copy of one.

A fair point. Weirdly, I had my original birth certificate for many years but it disintegrated. So when I needed it get a RealID (although I already have a passport which I also renewed around the same time) I was able to go online to the County Clerk in New York County, New York (better known as Manhattan) and get a certified copy of my birth certificate for a nominal fee (I'd note that a third-party fulfilled the order for a certified copy, with an additional credit card usage fee).

Which made things much easier as I was concerned I'd need to go to the County Clerk's at least once, possibly more to obtain a certified copy.

Not sure if Ohio County Clerks will do the same. If not, that sucks.

In any case, while it's more than mostly security theater, it wasn't (especially given that I needed a new driver's license anyway) all that big a deal for me. That could be radically different (and more difficult) for others, both those from other counties and who may not have been (mostly much older folks) included in registered births.

So yeah, it's basically yanking our chains for no good reason other than Congress posturing that they're "tough" on terrorism and co-opting the states to do all the hard work. Sigh.
by linsomniac | 2025-12-02 23:16:08+00:00
>ridiculous hoops people are put through to get a job these days

I'm sure that's true in some areas, but our last hire I was shocked at the ridiculous lengths the applications would go to to avoid putting in even a minimum effort to apply for the job. Like the Van Halen brown M&M test, we put a line in the middle of the job advert saying "If you've read this, put your favorite color in at the top of your job application message. We had low double digits % of people who would do that.

Honestly, on our next hiring round, I think I'm going to make people fill out a google form to apply, and have any of our job posts say "Apply at <URL>" and completely ignoring any apps we get through Indeed or the like. We had a team of 3 people reviewing applications for an hour or two a day for a month and most of the responses were just human slop.
by pragma_x | 2025-12-02 23:16:08+00:00
I've been following this project with great interest.

Quite possibly one of the most interesting things is just how competent the REPL is. It does some things that no other programming environment does in a prompt, all centered around real-time processing:

- All code in the prompt is being constantly evaluated - What parts of expressions are currently in use are highlighted - Visualization widgets sit side-by-side with the code

That last one is playfully rendered as pseudo-TUI "graphics", but is also presented with no borders or chrome around it. That's in sharp contrast to notebooks like Jypyter or Mathematica. They use minimal screen real-estate which also minimizes scrolling. If you look at videos of using this live, the ability to navigate the REPL quickly is crucial for performances.

So it's a lot like a kind of step-wise debugger, only more minimalist and moving at the (slow) speed of the music.

Ever since seeing Strudel, I've wondered what various programming sandboxes would be like if they could visually demonstrate operations in slow-motion.
by RSHEPP | 2025-12-02 23:16:33+00:00
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by jacquesm | 2025-12-02 23:16:59+00:00
Indeed. That's why the MAX232 is such an impressive little chip, it was the first time I found an on-chip charge pump in the wild. One of the more interesting uses for charge pumps is loss-free balancing of battery cells. I really like it because contrary to resistive balancing it works with the charge already in the cells by redistributing it.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-12-02 23:17:11+00:00
That's with safety drivers, a small fleet, and literally only the most recent data (since it wasn't broken out before). My experience with AV deployments is that your incident rate is significantly different once you remove humans, and small fleet sizes/deployment areas hide a lot of long tail issues.

Waymo is operating at a much larger scale across a huge range of conditions with hardware that's generations behind their latest and still performing better.
by cmiles8 | 2025-12-02 23:17:50+00:00
Anecdotally yes. Since launch I’ve observed probably 50% of the folks that were “ChatGPT those that” all the time suddenly talking about Gemini non-stop. The more that gets rolled into Google’s platform the more there’s point to using separate tooling from OpenAI. There’s a reason Sam is calling this “code red.”