MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-07 14:56:33+00:00
> I’m sick of all the constant restrictions

I think everyone hates it, but they're often legally required. Even when they aren't legally required, they usually are by insurance companies.

Nobody wants to be on the news the first time Becky in Marketing opens an email attachment she shouldn't.

*EDIT* I left out one of the biggest benefits: Dummies & Newbs. The world is filled with people who have never used a mouse before they started this job Last week and people who actually NEED the stupid warning stickers on their toasters. If you don't lock down their desktops your support costs will be astronomical and downtime will be constant. We know this because there was a time before these tools, and it largely sucked for everyone.

Did you know that you can bypass the windows 98 login screen by just clicking 'Cancel' instead of 'OK' at the login prompt? Nice and simple, right? That stupid button not only wrecked security it caused 10's or 100's of thousands of hours in lost work because people forgot their passwords, clicked Cancel, and then would call the help desk wondering why network shares didnt work. It would sometimes take hours to figure that all they had to do was reset the password and login properly.
by lucianbr | 2025-12-07 14:57:07+00:00
How does anyone "control" an OSS project in the sense that you are talking about, so the ability to insert backdoors or activate kill-switches? Maybe Linus controls Linux, but can he "flick a switch and kill" any running kernels? He might be able to insert backdoors, but will they go unnoticed? Would anyone be forced to install them? Just patch the code to remove the backdoor.

I feel that you wrote some words that only seem to make sense if we don't think about them too much.
by apothegm | 2025-12-07 14:57:13+00:00
You’re a student. Open sourcing the code for portfolio purposes is a good idea, whether or not the code is great.

Entry level engineers on their own are not expected to produce flawless code let alone architecture. That you achieved something that ambitious in the first place will be a mark in your favor for most hiring managers.

Just check your contract and IP agreements first to make sure you actually have the right to use the code, since the way you’ve phrased it makes it sound as if you adjusted the company’s code rather than rewriting it from scratch after your role with them ended.
by kgeist | 2025-12-07 14:57:51+00:00
>The model uses this internal error signal (the gradient) as a mathematical equivalent of saying, "This is unexpected and important!" This allows the Titans architecture to selectively update its long-term memory only with the most novel and context-breaking information

So one can break a model by consistently feeding it with random, highly improbable junk? Everything would be registered as a surprise and get stored, impacting future interactions
by concinds | 2025-12-07 14:58:04+00:00
No, I really don't think so. You used to have to build your own house and stable. Dig up your own well and carry water from it. Shower maybe twice a week (usually just once). Remember, you're doing hard physical labor in the sun all day long. Someday you can finally afford a tractor, but develop hearing damage thanks to it. No electricity. Wash clothes by hand for hours. Cook all the time. Your babies might die, your husband or wife might die, and then good luck. This is literally within living memory in most developed countries. Many here have grandparents who lived like this for a big chunk of their lives (not just growing up).

No matter what the future looks like, the present won't look like that, relative to it, than the past does to the present. The average developed country inhabitant objectively lives in decent material conditions.
by gregjor | 2025-12-07 14:58:39+00:00
> Have you tried vscode-neovim?

Yes. I don't see the point, though. If I can run full neovim inside VSCode what does VSCode add?

> I guarantee if he spent as much time configuring vscode as he did configuring vim he could establish equivalent environments.

Yes, almost. For example you can make VSCode run terminals in tabs like the editor windows. VSCode supports a lot of customizing. But it still runs on Electron with a rather heavy node process on the other end -- a lot heavier than vim or neovim.

I used VSCode for over six months but ended up going back to vim. Nothing specifically wrong with VSCode, I recommend it to people who don't know how to use vim/neovim, or don't want to use those tools. But for those of us who know how to use vim/neovim VSCode feels slow and bloated with features I don't want. Personally I prefer not to use Microsoft products when I can help it, but now with VSCode (and GitHub) increasingly pushy about AI that I don't want I can do without VSCode.
by fizzynut | 2025-12-07 14:58:54+00:00
High end machines which can easily pull 100W+ are just bad in general for portability - running at max will last less than 1Hr, will the sleep mode actually work reliably and not drain battery? - this is an issue in most OSes/laptops. Will video playback in the browser not be properly hardware accelerated and drain the battery super fast? yes linux has issues here.

Framework were explicitly ruled out, so: Integrated Oled - you really want some integration, If you can't set the brightness, goodbye lifespan, oled also have many different subpixel layouts which can make the text blurry/fringe, maybe you wont notice but then why buy an oled in the first place for work? While a monitor will definitely have pixel shift/burn in protection built in, if integrating a panel into the laptop without putting in any work, that support might not come out of the box

Even if it was a framework, everything is distro specific, but I think you only need to know that a "dock megathread" exists to realise that "perfectly working" is a stretch and a lot of people have hardware they can't connect and doesn't work.

That said if I was to buy a laptop - a mid end framework I just do the basics with would probably be great.
by bthallplz | 2025-12-07 14:59:02+00:00
Just focus this on your personal brand.

You can still relate it to concerns/business requirements or processes that agencies might have, which you considered and factored in when you made design decisions about the code, architecture, or processes. But since this is more of a project that you built on your own and one that you own, it makes more sense to me that you'd present this as "I changed X on Y because 123" and so on.
by big-and-small | 2025-12-07 14:59:49+00:00
While "native" is always questionable it was possible long ago without actually ever having source code. E.g back in 2024 there was ARM port of StarCraft 1 for OpenPandora. Just "dumb" x86 decompilation and then building against Wine for ARM.

https://hackaday.com/2014/07/31/playing-starcraft-on-an-arm/

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/starcraft.73844/
by rendaw | 2025-12-07 15:00:06+00:00
Self plug, I put together this reference/example before+after (high and corresponding intermediate/low level) example gallery for for a couple languages: https://andrewbaxter.github.io/semicompiled/ https://github.com/andrewbaxter/semicompiled?tab=readme-ov-f...

I was using it while dabbling on compiler stuff, it was useful to have a set of concise compilation examples. I haven't touched it much lately, unfortunately, and I added the eBPF because the target was there but had no way to validate it (standalone eBPF validator where?) so I think it's probably somewhat wrong... or invalid at least, maybe that's a separate concern for people who would want this.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-07 15:00:15+00:00
> In our agrarian past, the cultural division of labor at the time said that men worked the field, women ran the home. And that later job was brutal, never-ending, and consumed all waking hours until the day she died.

This was not true in the society my grandparents grew up in between 1900 and 1970. Both of my grandmothers and great grandmothers helped out tremendously on the farms, and my grandmother and mother were part of the new businesses when they immigrated to the US.

Based on all the women I have personally seen working in farms, and in videos, and in written accounts, I suspect your quote is only true for a very small slice of the world in a very small slice of time that was developed enough to have large farms with large machinery and scale such that the farm was earning enough profit to use automation to not need the women and allow them to only focus on the home, or hire poorer women so the farm owner could solely focus on the home.

Hell, I bet even today, even in the US, a good portion of farms need the labor of both spouses.
by dietr1ch | 2025-12-07 15:00:26+00:00
> - It requires a ton of training, the UIs are not flashy so people are going to feel repulsed (I unironically found looks to be a big blocker when adopting open source tech), and finally Microsoft is going to lobby incredibly hard against it.

I think everyone agrees the costs are high, especially beyond monetary ones, but this stance on avoiding these costs is slowly pushing everyone into finding out how expensive is not having sovereignty.

Through its tech industry the US has over time acquired too much power over critical digital infrastructure that has already compromised governments. We know of Presidents/PMs/Legislators spied upon through their phones and computers, and also Microsoft itself involved in revoking email access to the ICC's chief prosecutor as retaliation/defense against investigations.

Sovereignty is too important for government, and since everyone needs to do it and get security right going for open-source with funded development and constant auditing is in my mind the only way.
by codr7 | 2025-12-07 15:02:21+00:00
Couldn't agree more!

You develop a sense for when the time is right over the years, by maintaining over engineered pieces of shit, many written by yourself.

To beginners it seems like coming up with the idea and building it is the difficult part; it isn't, not even close. The only difficult parts worth mentioning is keeping complexity on a tight leash and maintaining conceptual integrity.
by alexfoo | 2025-12-07 15:02:24+00:00
There's rarely a free lunch for any meds.

I know someone who needs Meds A because of $SERIOUS_CONDITION (medical, not psych.)

They're on Meds B to deal with some side effects of Meds A.

They're on Meds C to deal with a side effect of Meds B.

They would like to be on Meds D to deal with a side effect of Meds C but Meds D are absolutely contraindicative with one of the other meds.

Out of the various combinations (no meds, Meds A, Meds A+B, Meds A+B+C, Meds A+B+C+D) they've chosen the one that is most bearable (Meds A+B+C) and they can live with the remaining side effects. The other options are worse. 'no meds' and 'Meds A+B+C+D' would mean death in the very near term, whilst 'Meds A' and 'Meds A+B' have some quite annoying and restricting side effects. 'Meds A+B+C' is the least worst option.
by mapmeld | 2025-12-07 15:02:50+00:00
Well it's cool that they released a paper, but at this point it's been 11 months and you can't download a Titans-architecture model code or weights anywhere. That would put a lot of companies up ahead of them (Meta's Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek). Closest you can get is an unofficial implementation of the paper https://github.com/lucidrains/titans-pytorch
by jeffbee | 2025-12-07 15:03:09+00:00
Over half my life I've been reading this headline. "[Subdivision of Germany] switches to Linux". Here's some slashdot slop from 2002.

You'd think Microsoft would be dead and buried by now, or that the readers would have realized how inconsequential these changes are. One or the other.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/25936
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by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-07 15:03:12+00:00
I have to agree here

I used to go to Oahu for work once or twice a year and it was really depressing.

The whole city was drunk white tourists from the Midwest or tourists from Japan and Australia. Beaches were packed and full of trash and the “tiki bars” were all the same alcoholic slush drinks you see on bourbon street or in the florida redneck riviera.

The rest of the islands are beautiful but either owned by giant rich plantation owners or giant rich moguls.
by mands | 2025-12-07 15:03:39+00:00
It's more an fun educational overview of the new FFM API.

I can't think of many actual use-cases where you'd want to use the LLVM JIT over those built-in to HotSpot.

Interfacing with existing LLVM-based systems, writing a very tight inner loop using LLVM where you absolutely need LLVM-like performance, or creating a compiler that targets LLVM using Java would be the main "real-world" use-cases.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-07 15:03:53+00:00
I always thought of Perl as write friendly... And Ruby as Perl++.

I feel it only gained any web traction in the sense that it was widely available and already there in the early cgi-bin approach.

On the last comment, I've taken to using Deno/TS for most of my shell scripting type tasks these days. In general it's worked very well for me.
by al_borland | 2025-12-07 15:04:18+00:00
Without modern entertainment devices, or even books, what else are they going to do? Some “work” could have a lot of crossover into hobby. Some people enjoy cooking, making tools, spending time with kids, etc. They need to do something to pass the time. The stuff is also for a clear purpose. Making a tool to solve a problem right in front of you feels different than performing a seemingly arbitrary task everyday because a boss says so.
by miduil | 2025-12-07 15:04:23+00:00
testability and developability, ideally you structure your terraform/terragrunt code in a way that you can bootstrap an almost equivalent test environment. For example when using "AWS Well Architected"-method you would be able to bootstrap a similar environment on a separate AWS account that's part of your organization.

Unfortunately, terraform module system is extremely lacking and in many ways you're totally right - if your module is just replicating all the provider arguments it just feels wrong.
by kkfx | 2025-12-07 15:04:57+00:00
The blockchain is an excellent distributed storage system for anything that should be immutable, such as contract hashes like notarial deeds, vehicle sales, and digital identities, which are not controlled by any central authority (if the blockchain is truly distributed) and are verifiable and tamper-proof. NFTs are the toy experiment that demonstrates this path.

It is therefore also usable as a currency, with fungible tokens, where the transactions per second (TPS) are sufficiently high, not for Bitcoin, therefore, but for example, Solana is already adequate; its performance and economic model are sufficient to pay for your local café.

That, without widespread acceptance, they have limited use, initially for crime, then for speculation, is another matter, but it is not a technical issue. The technical issues are quite different: https://blog.dshr.org/2025/09/the-gaslit-asset-class.html
by killerstorm | 2025-12-07 15:06:01+00:00
For most papers, the main idea can be described in 1-2 sentences, sort of "we did X using Y".

That doesn't work for HOPE - a short summary can't explain what it actually does besides "self-modifying" and "continuum memory".

So it seems to be an innovation of Transformers calibre, really big (if true). It's definitely not "transformer but with such-and-such modification".

Gemini came up with a following visual metaphor for the difference:

> Transformer is a series of frozen glass panes (the weights) and a scratchpad (the attention) where it writes notes about the current text.

> The HOPE architecture involves no scratchpad. Instead, the glass panes themselves are made of smart liquid. As the data flows through, the first pane reshapes itself instantly. The second pane reshapes itself slowly. And the mechanism deciding how to reshape them is itself a tiny, intelligent machine, not just a basic math rule.
by jleyank | 2025-12-07 15:06:16+00:00
Pearl Harbor, along with France 1940 and the Nukes were paradigm-shifting events that occurred in WW II. Events that overthrew decades-long assumptions as to how war was to be fought. Not sure the near-simultaneous invasions of Normandy and Saipan was a shift as much as "damn, that's a hell of lot of economic power being demonstrated". Subs and bombing were used in WW I, so that was already common knowledge in the 20's and 30's (Douhet, "bomber always gets through"). What, if anything, am I missing?
by franga2000 | 2025-12-07 15:08:02+00:00
The whole "we need latex because of math" thing has been nothing more than a bad excuse for a very long time. Math notation is too varied to include in Unicode (some papers have to invent new notation!), but even if we had it, authors would still insist on latex. You can already make responsive and largely accessible papers that render to HTML, with latex familiar syntax for equations, bibtex for references and all the footnotes/figures/tables/captions you might want.

But authors still refuse. It's not real science if the layout isn't two-column, written in an old serif font, tables and figures float randomly disconnected from their reference points, code isn't syntax higlighted and has completely nonsensical line breaks... If the reader wants to read it on a phone, or needs to change to font to be larger or more legible, they're not a real scientist and don't deserve to read real papers.

Seriously, what the fuck?? Even the economists are laughing at us with their MS Word and third-party cloud-based bibliography plugin subscription.
by ghaff | 2025-12-07 15:08:21+00:00
Doesn't seem especially out of the norm for a large conference. Call it 10,000 attendees which is large but not huge. Sure; not everyone attending puts in a session proposal. But others put multiple. And many submit but, if not accepted don't attend.

Can't quote exact numbers but when I was on the conference committee for a maybe high four figures attendance conference, we certainly had many thousands of submissions.
by theoldgreybeard | 2025-12-07 15:09:30+00:00
If a carpenter builds a crappy shelf “because” his power tools are not calibrated correctly - that’s a crappy carpenter, not a crappy tool.

If a scientist uses an LLM to write a paper with fabricated citations - that’s a crappy scientist.

AI is not the problem, laziness and negligence is. There needs to be serious social consequences to this kind of thing, otherwise we are tacitly endorsing it.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-07 15:09:33+00:00
> You're comparing model to generation, not sure what's that supposed to mean.

If you can accepts different schemes depending on the maker's intent, I really don't get why you're distressed by XBox naming different console lines with different monikers. I guess it all comes down to whether you like the name or not, and there was nothing to argue on from the very start.

> Yes, I will buy Peugeot 208 over 207 because it is obviously newer

That's a disturbing logic to me, but you do you.
by Aunche | 2025-12-07 15:09:41+00:00
You're completely missing my point. Without any external pressure, multiple peoples concluded that settling and eating grass was preferable to being nomads. Yes, this includes the ancestors of the bison hunting plains tribes. It was only with the population collapse due to smallpox and introduction of horses where the nomadic way of life became dominant again.

Until the invention of firearms, nomads had equal footing with settled people, if not an advantage (e.g. Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan). The main advantage that agricultural civilizations had was population size.
by xtiansimon | 2025-12-07 15:10:27+00:00
> “…uncomfortable: the more integrated a tool becomes, the harder it is for people to form a mental model.”

Some of this sounds like reinventing the wheel. This conclusion, for example seems obvious, other than the uncomfortable part, which is what users might use to describe their experience with an unfamiliar model and no clues from the software. How is this insight different than, say, how a programmer feels about an unfamiliar API or custom classes?

If there is a design to the software then some explanation might be needed to give users the keystone idea. After that I would argue it’s UI and UX design working to communicate to the user what is possible, and how you go about doing it.

With that in mind, this conclusion:

> “People rely heavily on familiar UI metaphors (tabs, inboxes, folders).”

Speaks to me same as, programmers rely heavily on documentation and pattern (not anti-pattern. lol…people rely heavily on words and syntax to communicate).

The story of the 1990s web with the introduction of Macromedia Flash, saw a world of fantastical UIs. Some were brilliant, some were obvious, others were inscrutable puzzles. The backlash with Web 2.0 washed all that away, and it all became _familiar UI metaphors (tabs, …)_.

Knowing what I know today, I wonder if the key to an advanced workflow isn’t a hybrid of scripting and UI. Most great ideas arrive ahead of their time.
by 627467 | 2025-12-07 15:11:01+00:00
> "It's more the fact that Network Rail will have had to mobilise a team to go and check the bridge which could impact their work for days."

Im way more concerned of this statement than whatever is reported in the title.

How fragile is a society that is unable to make a simple visual confirmation of a statement without having a multiday multi-££ impact?
by llm_nerd | 2025-12-07 15:11:25+00:00
People will commonly hold LLMs as unusable because they make mistakes. So do people. Books have errors. Papers have errors. People have flawed knowledge, often degraded through a conceptual game of telephone.

Exactly as you said, do precisely this to pre-LLM works. There will be an enormous number of errors with utter certainty.

People keep imperfect notes. People are lazy. People sometimes even fabricate. None of this needed LLMs to happen.
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS | 2025-12-07 15:11:51+00:00
> then you're not living in a country where the vast majority of communications are done on WhatsApp or Signal

I live in the USA and use Signal for, like, 3 friends that I also can call or text, and I've never used WhatsApp in my life.

So, if you live in the USA, you can absolutely get by without those two.

But there are likely other apps that would be more difficult to do without. Not impossible, mind you, just more effort.
by eutropia | 2025-12-07 15:12:10+00:00
A book for which literally zero professional archaeologists or anthropologists were consulted and which promulgated more noble savage bullshit as a result. That "life of leisure" picture was based off of the work of one guy who wrote the hours literally spent hunting and gathering and none of the time spent processing food or maintaining tools and clothes, nor the hours per day spent collecting fresh water.

If agricultural life and cities were such a raw deal: why would people all over the world adopt it against their own self interest when humans were basically as intelligent (if not at all educated) as we are today?
by miniwark | 2025-12-07 15:12:18+00:00
They explain in the article what they consider a proper citation, an erroneous one and an hallucination, in the section "Defining Hallucitations". They also say than they have many false positives, mostly real papers who are not available online.

Thad said, i am also very curious of the result than their tool, would give to papers from the 2010's and before.