MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metadope | 2025-12-08 20:23:47+00:00
Law enforcement is mostly mundane repetitive boring work.

It can't be easy sitting alongside a highway for hours on end, waiting for someone to do something that requires your intervention.

Police engage in shared fantasies. Which can lead them to hallucinate. They often end up wanting a crime to be committed just so they can intervene and exercise and validate their skill set.

Civilian behaviors will be observed, recorded, and matched: against a theory of a crime which may or may not have been committed. Depending how bored and unfulfilled the coordinated LEOs are, a dark fantasy of ongoing crime can be enabled, and confirmation bias follows immediately, with every civilian action (or inaction) being re-interpreted through the lens of an understandable rampant LEO desire -- They want so much to catch the bad guys that they will actually manufacture probable cause from stretched whole cloth, so they can believe a crime is in their purview and they're righteously on the case.

Otherwise it can become a really boring gig.

Advances in surveillance technologies and predeterminations of crime probabilities via automated software will only serve to add fuel to the fire of the aggregate LEO imagination.

What we witness here in Texas is the result of a shared fantasy. Remember that shared fantasies become more real the longer they are shared and sustained... even the "trace" amounts of imaginary drugs on which Max the dog alerted become a part of the now-permanent interdiction team's backstory.

This kind of thing is happening all over America, all the time. We face a crisis of fantasy addiction. So many are unhappy with reality that they are constantly fantasizing something better for themselves.

Not to pick on the LEOs, but they are supposed to be the best of us, holding the line, and not compromising their integrity for the transient satisfaction of an imagined felony stop.
by ryandrake | 2025-12-08 20:23:47+00:00
They may say they don't want to be lied to, but the incentives they put in place often inevitably result in them being surrounded by lying yes-men. We've all worked for someone where we were warned to never give them bad news, or you're done for. So everyone just lies to them and tells them everything is on track. The Emperor's New Clothes[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-08 20:23:58+00:00
I would seriously question if “throw it at the cloud” is actually better or if it only became popular because that’s what’s most profitable for companies to push users into using. Local hierarchical storage doesn’t give nearly as many opportunities for rent seeking and data harvesting.

Cloud storage certainly has a convenience factor which is worth considering, but at the same time most people don’t actually need everything available everywhere at all times and only have a handful of files that can intentionally be synced as needed. I really don’t believe that supplanting traditional filesystems with a big bag of data that lives in the cloud is the right answer.
by ctoth | 2025-12-08 20:23:59+00:00
Omohundro 2008 made a structural claim: sufficiently capable optimizers will converge on self-preservation and goal-stability because these are instrumentally useful for almost any terminal goal. It's not a theorem because it's an empirical prediction about a class of systems that didn't exist yet.

Fast forward to December 2024: Apollo Research tests frontier models. o1, Sonnet, Opus, Gemini, Llama 405B all demonstrate the predicted behaviors - disabling oversight, attempting self-exfiltration, faking alignment during evaluation. The more capable the model, the higher the scheming rates and the more sophisticated the strategies.

That's what good theory looks like. You identify an attractor in design-space, predict systems will converge toward it, wait for systems capable enough to test the prediction, observe convergence. "No formal proof" is a weird complaint about a prediction that's now being confirmed empirically.
by thot_experiment | 2025-12-08 20:24:08+00:00
To be fair, writing a SaaS software is like an order, perhaps two orders of magnitude more effort than writing software that runs on a computer and does the thing you want. There's a ton of stuff that SaaS is used for now that's basically trivial and literally all the "engineering" effort is spent on ensuring vendor lock in and retaining control of the software so that you can force people to keep paying you.
by MrPapz | 2025-12-08 20:24:40+00:00
My suggestion would be to move to a higher level of abstraction, change the way which you view the system.

Maybe becoming full stack? Maybe understanding the industry a little deeper? Maybe analyzing your company's competitors better? That would increase your value for the business (a bit of overlap with product management though). Assuming you can now deliver the expected tech part more easily, that's what I'd do.

As for me, I've moved to a permanent product management position.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-08 20:24:51+00:00
Maybe? Paramount was already deep in shuffling a lot of movies to Paramount+ exclusives, and new parent company Skydance seems to have first-look deals with both Apple TV and Netflix who may or may not ask for movie projects to be streaming exclusive.

(Apple TV is nearly as bad at theatrical runs as Netflix, though admittedly some of Apple's biggest "mistakes" are in presenting things beyond Oscar-bait such as Argyle that "box office flopped", but yet it is far better for physical theaters that they tried and as a fan of physical theaters I want to keep seeing them trying.)
by dm03514 | 2025-12-08 20:25:02+00:00
Ha Yes! A pipeline assumes a "batch" of data, which is backed by an ephemeral duckdb in memory table. The goal is to provide SQL table semantics and implement pipelines in a way where the batch size can be toggled without a change to the pipeline logic.

The stream is achieved by the continuous flow of data from Kafka.

SQLFlow exposes a variable for batch size. Setting the batch size to 1 will make it so SQLFlow reads a kafka message, applies the processor SQL logic and then ensures it successfully commits the SQL results to the sink, one after another.

SQLFlow provides at least once delivery guarantees. It will only commit the source message once it successfully writes to the pipeline output (sink).

https://sql-flow.com/docs/operations/handling-errors

The batch table is just a convention which allows for seamless batch size configuration. If your throughput is low, or if you require message by message processing, SQLFlow can be toggled to a batch of 1. If you need higher throughput and can tolerate the latency, then the batch can be toggled higher.
Ask HN: Did Google know about RLHF(breakthru) only after OpenAI shared
by elarocks | 2025-12-08 20:25:19+00:00
I am still unable to think of a reason why Google, Anthropic and AWS did not know about/invest in RLHF, before OpenAI shared their success around implementing and in scale that was viable. Would you say that if OpenAI had not shared about RLHF, Google and Anthropic wouldn't be where they are today ?
by JohnTHaller | 2025-12-08 20:25:21+00:00
Legacy Update has been well-supported for over 3 years and takes donations via Github (11 current, 61 past sponsors) and Patreon (where you can sponsor up to $80 to fuel Adam's 3D printing addiction). I recommend it to our PortableApps.com users who are on older operating systems and use it in my virtual machines for testing our releases. I'm hopeful it'll stay as is for a while.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-12-08 20:25:54+00:00
As an AI user (claude code, rovo, github copilot) I have come across this. In code it didnt build something right where it needed to use up to date docs. Luckily those people have now made an MCP but I had to wait. For a different project I may be SOL. Suprised this isnt solved, well done for taking it on.

From a business point of view I am not sure how you get traction without being 10x better than what Cursor can produce tomorrow. If you are successful the coding agents will copy your idea and then people being lazy and using what works have no inventive to switch.

I am not trying to discourage. More like encourage you to figure out how you get that elusive moat that all startups seek.

As a user I am excited to try it soon. Got something in mind that this should make easier.
by sneak | 2025-12-08 20:26:07+00:00
Forcible illegal deportation is one.

ICE grabbed a US citizen friend of mine and threw her on a bus and drove her hundreds of miles away and was about to toss her over the wall to Mexico last week.

Civil asset forfeiture is another.

Tax warrants, which have zero burden of proof to be issued, are another.

I don’t keep money in banks, personally, after the third one bit me some years ago and I realized that storing money in banks makes it more likely to be stolen, not less.
by mrbnprck | 2025-12-08 20:26:18+00:00
Very true. ASN.1 is mostly not a great fit, yet has been the choice for everything to do with certificates and telecommunication protocols (even the newer ones like 5G for things like RRC AND NGAP) Mostly for bit-level support and especially long-term stability. * and looking back in time ASN.1 has definetly proven its LTS.

actually never heard of thrift until today, thanks for the insight :)
by xanderatallah | 2025-12-08 20:26:53+00:00
Alex here from OpenRouter. We take privacy really seriously and how we do manage prompts and completions is described in our terms of service: https://openrouter.ai/terms.

We don’t retain any customer prompts or completions by default. As others here mentioned, you can opt-in for a 1% discount. Prompt classification is performed using a zero-data-retention and zero-training service, just like our own.
by paulddraper | 2025-12-08 20:27:04+00:00
> Had the cost of building custom software dropped 90%, we would be seeing a flurry of low-cost, decent-quality SaaS offering all over the marketplace, possibly undercutting some established players.

NODS HEAD VIGOROUSLY

Last 12 months: Docusign down 37%, Adobe down 38%, Atlassian down 41%, Asana down 41%, Monday.com down 44%, Hubspot down 49%. Eventbrite being bought for pennies.

They are being replaced by newer, smaller, cheaper, sometimes internal solutions.
by mattbee | 2025-12-08 20:27:16+00:00
My initiation into shaders was porting some graphics code from OpenGL on Windows to PS5 and Xbox, and (for your NDA and devkit fees) they give you some very nice debuggers on both platforms.

But yes, when you're stumbling around a black screen, tooling is everything. Porting bits of shader code between syntaxes is the easy bit.

Can you get better tooling on Windows if you stick to DirectX rather than OpenGL?
by blindriver | 2025-12-08 20:27:27+00:00
This is what happens when highly confident uneducated people read slop from other uneducated people with an agenda (Twitter, Burry et al) and then regurgitate more slop.

There is no circular funding. There’s certainly circular speculation that is driving up the prices but the revenues are all accounted.

The DSO change is meaningless if you understand accounting.

The inventory building up is the cost of materials and incomplete inventory. It’s not chips sitting around waiting to be deployed.

> holding ~120 days of inventory seems like a huge capital drag to me.

Yeah I guess this guy who knows nothing about running a business like Nvidia is allowed to make confident statements like this despite no education or experience.

This article is garbage and he wasted his 48 hrs investigating the same things I read in another worthless tweet several weeks ago.
by bsimpson | 2025-12-08 20:27:42+00:00
Skydance is also known as the then-obscure company that picked up Pixar head John Lasseter when his reputation for being overly affectionate got him pushed out of Disney.

It's one of the Ellison family's forays into media. David's sister/Larry's daughter Megan has Annapurna. Annapurna produced the Spike Jonze's AI romance "Her" and many of the the most prominent indie games of the last decade (Outer Wilds, Cocoon, Stray, Kentucky Route Zero, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Journey, Donut Country…).
by raldi | 2025-12-08 20:27:54+00:00
We don’t have to pretend; there’s ample evidence. Here’s one from 2020 that specifically calls Dye out: https://daringfireball.net/2021/01/my_2020_apple_report_card

You seem to have an axe to grind against Gruber, are immune to all evidence against your preconceived worldview, and are projecting this behavior onto the other side of the discussion.
by martinald | 2025-12-08 20:29:02+00:00
But even if that did happen, the open source models are excellent and cost virtually nothing?

Like I prefer Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 to the open weights models, but if Anthropic or Google upped the pricing 10x then everyone would switch to the open weights models.

Arguably you could say that the Chinese labs may stop releasing them, true, but even if all model development stopped today then they'd still be extremely useful and a decent competitor.
by RickJWagner | 2025-12-08 20:29:24+00:00
Not just ‘somebody’, but the Democrats eventual choice for presidential nominee.

Per Google:

Those who have called the organization "alt-right" or similar terms include:

Senator Mazie Hirono: During the confirmation process for judicial nominee Brian Buescher, the Democratic senator from Hawaii included written questions that implied the Knights of Columbus was an extremist group, and later doubled down on the sentiment, with some reports stating she framed religious protections as the "alt-right's position".

Senator Kamala Harris: As a senator from California, she was involved in similar questioning of Buescher.

Jill Filipovic: A fellow at the New America Foundation and a CNN contributor, she referred to the Knights of Columbus as a "right-wing extremist" group in a tweet.

Thankfully, the hate speech seems toned down after Harris’ defeat.
by sorokod | 2025-12-08 20:29:40+00:00
The Armorials section in Wikipedia:

The armorials of the South Sea Company, according to a grant of arms dated 31 October 1711, were: Azure, a globe whereon are represented the Straits of Magellan and Cape Horn all proper and in sinister chief point two herrings haurient in saltire argent crowned or, in a canton the united arms of Great Britain. Crest: A ship of three masts in full sail. Supporters, dexter: The emblematic figure of Britannia, with the shield, lance etc all proper; sinister: A fisherman completely clothed, with cap boots fishing net etc and in his hand a string of fish, all proper.[61]
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-08 20:29:44+00:00
Search CVE numbers.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48633

Basically, just like most things these days, its all just local privilege escalation. This means that you have to install/run an app that has these exploits built in.

Soif you usage profile doesn't include downloading apps from untrusted sources, you don't need to worry.
by scottlamb | 2025-12-08 20:29:51+00:00
> Is the performance warning in the NATS possible to improve on? Couldn't you still run fsync on an interval and queue up a certain number of writes to be flushed at once? I could imagine latency suffering, but batches throughput could be preserved to some extent?

Yes, and you shouldn't even need a fixed interval. Just queue up any writes while an `fsync` is pending; then do all those in the next batch. This is the same approach you'd use for rounds of Paxos, particularly between availability zones or regions where latency is expected to be high. You wouldn't say "oh, I'll ack and then put it in the next round of Paxos", or "I'll wait until the next round in 2 seconds then ack"; you'd start the next batch as soon as the current one is done.
by tetris11 | 2025-12-08 20:30:15+00:00
It is a kid's show. The main characters' outfit is modelled after Japan's iconic recovery workers (stark orange and blue), a compliment of their heroics echoed in fiction.

This character can clone himself hundreds times to help others, with art often mirroring the thousands of recovery workers seen in actual event footage.

My comment intended to link back the image of childhood heroes as corporeal selfless adults
by more_corn | 2025-12-08 20:31:00+00:00
This stop was illegal.

No crime was committed The pretext of the stop was a lie The drug dog falsely alerted probably due to manipulation of his training The officer repeatedly lied under oath

It looks like the entire interdiction operation requires that the officer lies at three distinct phases. (The pretext stop, the search, and in court)

Do we want our officers to lie under oath? Providing false testimony to the courts? Falsely accusing innocent people?

Pretty sure the answer is no. Pretty sure the bible has some things to say about Bering false witness or some such.
by thesz | 2025-12-08 20:31:40+00:00
They build channels on top of these "promises" and "futures" and this made them square into communicating sequential processes category. Also, you can look at promise-future pair as a single-element channel, again, it's CSP.

BTW, Erlang does not implement CSP fully. Its' interprocess communication is TCP based in general case and because of this is faulty.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-08 20:32:09+00:00
> who's gonna produce that once Paramount owns HBO?

Netflix.

If they win, they own HBO. If they lose, they have a beef with Ellison.

(Speaking out of my ass here. But I think there is broad underappreciation of how intensely a lot of Hollywood creatives do not want to work for a rightwinger. I imagine Netflix, Disney and others will have a bit of a bonanza over the coming years of picking up disaffecteds from Paramount et al, even assuming the latter don't wind up in bankruptcy.)
by nick486 | 2025-12-08 20:32:15+00:00
Its always been foggy. Even without AI, you were always at risk of having your field disrupted by some tech you didn't see coming.

AI will probably replace the bottom ~30-70%(depends who you ask) of dev jobs. Dont get caught in the dead zone when the bottom falls out.

Exactly how we'll train good devs in the future, if we don't give them a financially stable environment environment to learn in while they're bad, is an open question.
by mturmon | 2025-12-08 20:32:28+00:00
I think you intended this to be a validation of the idea that small quakes relieve stress and therefore lower the chance of a large quake.

The above link does not answer that question. It is relating stress release to "fault strength", or the maximum shear stress that can be withstood by the fault. There is an incidental relationship with depth that plays a role.

The video linked nearby (on criticality) also does not address the question at issue.

I'm only replying because I work adjacent to this area, and my understanding is that the idea that small EQ's release stress is a myth. Here [1] is another link, listed as #1 in the "Myths" category. And you can dig up quotes from none other than Lucy Jones [2] saying that this is a myth.

I don't work directly in this area, so I'm not willing to say absolutely no. But I'd really like to see a head-on reference supporting the claim that it's not a myth.

[1] https://earthquakes.berkeley.edu/outreach/faq.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Jones
by ndiddy | 2025-12-08 20:32:39+00:00
In the US, the film industry originally worked like the streaming industry does today. Besides just creating films, the major studios distributed them through the theaters they owned. If you wanted to see a Paramount film you had to go to a Paramount owned theater, if you wanted to see an MGM film you had to go to an MGM owned theater, and so on. In 1948, this distribution scheme was ruled to be in violation of antitrust law and the studios were forced to divest themselves of their theaters. Now you can see major films in any studio and the theaters have to compete on price and amenities. I don't see why the same logic shouldn't apply to streaming services.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-08 20:32:50+00:00
When I joined my current employer, a few years ago, one of the things I thought might be good was that for the first time in a fairly long career I'd be using Visual Studio.

Previously I'm a vi or vim user for everything, for many years.

But I can say after a few years experience I'm not really impressed. It's too big and too slow. It has a few things I kinda like, a lot of half-working things I'd love if they worked consistently (e.g. some things I work on can be debugged, some can't, experts might know why but I don't) but as they are they're too unreliable to really change how I do things - but overall it's not enough to e.g. miss VS when I'm writing my own stuff, still in vim on Linux.

Actually all of the Microsoft technologies I've run into were disappointing with only two exceptions which I'll get to. Powershell felt like they hadn't really learned the right lessons from the Unix shells for example, and Entra ID (called "Azure Active Directory" when I started caring) is a confusing mess.

Two exceptions: 1. C# is a pretty good language. Mostly it's a better Java. Is that amazing? Not really, but it's still pretty good, it delivers reasonable performance, there's a large ecosystem, I don't hate writing it.

2. Azure itself has to have a way to "cut off" payments because Microsoft sold a product where students can get a limited amount of credit. The student doesn't have any money, so if they had $50 of Azure credit and Microsoft lets them spend $85 before turning off all the Azure systems that credit was funding, well, too fucking bad - Microsoft eats the $35 loss. Accordingly Microsoft are better (not perfect, but better) than AWS or Google's thing at actually turning stuff off when it exceeds what you asked to spend.
by eigart | 2025-12-08 20:33:06+00:00
A japanese startup is working on a (surprisingly small) battery energy "tanker":

https://power-x.jp/en/newsroom/Introducing-the-world%E2%80%9...

I think there are some startups working on cargo train "tankers" in the US too.

An idea I had after seeing the tanker concept was to have the battery carrier also serve as a generator via wind power. If its a huge ship I suppose you could just stick a turbine on it and go where the wind is blowing. I think a more fun concept is generating power off of a smaller scale cat- or trimaran generating both propulsion and power by sailing conventionally.
by vidarh | 2025-12-08 20:33:13+00:00
You're not making any sense. The best guess will often be refusals if they see enough of that in the training data, so of course it is down to training

And I literally saw the effect of this first hand, in seeing how the project I worked on was actively part of training this behaviour into a major model.

As for your assertion they don't learn the more complex dynamics, that was trite and not true already several years ago.
by dijit | 2025-12-08 20:33:19+00:00
Realistically speaking, postgresql wasn’t handling a failed call to fsync, which is wrong: but materially different from a bad design or errors in logic stemming from many areas.

Postgresql was able to fix their bug in 3 lines of code, how many for the parent system?

I understand your core thesis (sometimes durability guarantees aren’t as needed as we think) but in postgresql’s case, the edge was incredibly thin. It would have had to have been: a failed call to fsync and a system level failure of the host before another call to fsync (which are reasonably common).

It’s far too apples to oranges to be meaningful to bring up I am afraid.
by nelox | 2025-12-08 20:33:45+00:00
The problem isn’t theorising itself, investing is full of it. The issue is when speculation is presented with the tone and certainty of established fact. The article doesn’t merely offer possibilities in light of missing data; it states mechanisms and outcomes as though the evidence for them is already in hand. So the objection isn’t to building a model, but to blurring the line between assumption and demonstration, and to glossing over the range of alternative explanations that the same incomplete information could support.