MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hboon | 2025-12-02 09:02:16+00:00
It's not a contract.

It's more akin to a compiled executable that optionally has state. The caller pays to make changes to the state. It's up to the programmer who wrote the smart contract to make it so that unwanted changes aren't performed (eg. simple if-elses to check that the caller is in a hardcoded list or ask another smart contract to validate).

Each external from outside the blockchain into the program's functions are atomic., so user wallet initials func1 which calls func2 which calls func3, no matter which smart contract func2 and func3 are in, the whole call stack is 1 atomic operation.

A token is basically a smart contract that has an associate array with the owners as the keys and the values as the balance: [alice: 1, bob: 20].

And then you can imagine how the rest like transfers, swaps etc works.

And then it's kind of a "contract" because of the atomic nature. Since X transfers $1 to Y and Y transfers 1 cat to X for it is 1 atomic transaction.
by mikewarot | 2025-12-02 09:03:00+00:00
The root cause of this is, in my opinion, that in 2009 instead of getting the Healthcare system that Obama promised, we got the one that Rahm Emanuel substituted for reasons unknown. I will never forgive Rahm for this sin.

Actually socialized medicine would give us better outcomes for less spending. Instead we have a pork barrel project that has become "too big to fail".

Eventually we'll get Medicare for all, but it'll be hell in the meanwhile.
by gloosx | 2025-12-02 09:03:42+00:00
A PM or QA can sign off only on process or outcome quality. They cannot replace the person who actually understands the architecture and the implications of technical decisions. Responsibility is about being able to judge whether the system is correct, safe, maintainable, and aligned with real-world constraints.

If AI becomes powerful enough to generate entire systems, the person supervising and validating those systems is, functionally, a developer — because they must understand the technical details well enough to take responsibility for them.

Titles can shift, but the role dont disappear. Someone with deep technical judgment will still be required to translate intent into implementation and to sign off on the risks. You can call that person "developer", "AI engineer" or something else, but the core responsibility remains technical. PMs and QA do not fill that gap.
by thayne | 2025-12-02 09:04:27+00:00
One limitation of protobuf 3 schemas, is they doen't allow required fields. That makes it easier to remove the field in a later version in a backwards compatible way, but sometimes fields really are required, and the message doesn't make any sense without them. Ideally, IMO, if the message is missing those fields, it would fail to parse successfully. But with protobuf, you instead get a default value, which could potentially cause subtle bugs.
by roryirvine | 2025-12-02 09:04:28+00:00
When was the issue with the embossed white cover with braille text? December 1994? January 1995?

That was peak Wired: techno hippies in Prague, the new year "scared shitlist" (President Dole... President Gates!), TV watches you, General Magic, Ricochet radio modems (the very first wifi), and it still had much more of a "moody b&w" aesthetic than the dayglo nightmare that was to come.
by jbstack | 2025-12-02 09:05:53+00:00
Not really. Smart contracts ensure that if all the conditions are met, the contract will be fulfilled. They achieve that through decentralisation: no one person can decide whether or not it will be fulfilled.

No real world contract can replicate that - you have to go to court to enforce a breach of contract and it isn't certain you will succeed. Even if you succeed the other party can refuse to comply, and then you need to try to enforce, which also may or may not work.
by Ghoelian | 2025-12-02 09:07:32+00:00
The convention at every company I've worked at was to use DTO's. So yes, JSON payloads are in fact validated, usually with proper type validation as well (though unfortunately that part is technically optional since we work in php).

Usually it's not super strict, as in it won't fail if a new field suddenly appears (but will if one that's specified disappears), but that's a configuration thing we explicitly decided to set this way.
by sfn42 | 2025-12-02 09:07:49+00:00
> we do not have a way to scientifically rule out the possibility that LLMs aren't potentially self-aware/conscious entities of their own

That may be. We also don't have a way to scientifically rule out the possibility that a teapot is orbiting Pluto.

Just because you can't disprove something doesn't make it plausible.
by rvz | 2025-12-02 09:09:00+00:00
> Can LLMs like Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude be used to generate an equivalent FOSS project but removed from its licence and authorship?

No.

The whole project (and some may argue that the LLM that trained on the AGPL code that is also running on the backend), should be open sourced as well.

Using LLMs to remove the licence and generating a derived project from the original AGPL code is not a 'clean room implementation' and is the equivalent of rewriting existing code from the original author.
by greener_grass | 2025-12-02 09:09:05+00:00
MonoGame is stable and still receiving updates.

I would strongly suggest that for quick code-first prototypes. The boiler-plate of "load a texture and render to screen" is quite minimal - you could perhaps make a small library for yourself?

It also has no opinions about how you structure your game data. This means you can represent things like a Flappy Bird clone as just a `Vector2`, rather than having to bash a graph of entities in the shape you want.
by lxgr | 2025-12-02 09:09:38+00:00
This theory mixes up the distinct concepts of the government, as a trusted entity (where applicable), issuing identity document for the use of its citizens (including in person-to-person or person-to-private-company scenarios), and that of the government requiring its citizens to identify themselves to it on demand.

Sure, its slightly harder to have a government issue credentials to everybody and not have them abuse the possibilities that come with it, but if a society can pull it of, there are vast benefits in many areas of life.

On top of that, the flip side of people regularly not carrying any identification documents seems to be a police force much more eager to arrest people on the spot to figure out their identity. (Presented as an observation without value judgement: This way of doing things does lower the likelihood of the police arresting somebody because of not carrying identification.)
by imtringued | 2025-12-02 09:09:38+00:00
The point of cloud-init is to be a provider independent entry point that runs on first boot and lets you specify per node metadata. You use it to install a package or download a script which then does what you want. Before cloud-init, each cloud provider had their own way of running a bash script on first boot.

For the Raspberry Pi specifically, you would use cloud-init to program Raspberry Pis/compute modules.

Why can't you just simply build a VM image or SD card image and copy it to all the Raspberry Pis? Well you could, but then you need to build a unique image for each Raspberry Pi. Cloud-init lets you factor out the differences between the Raspberry Pis and reuse a single image for all of them. E.g. each Raspberry Pi can have a different hostname, account name, root password and all you have to do is put them in a single configuration file.
by tuetuopay | 2025-12-02 09:10:05+00:00
My guess would be something akin to VirGL where they forward opengl/vulkan commands to the host. I've never dug into the nitty gritty, but VMware workstation is recognized as a GPU accelerated app, and exposes a virtual GPU in the VM.

On the linux side, the vmwgfx kernel driver and DRM drivers are used. For X11 you use modesetting, and for Wayland whatever it auto-selects. I don't use KDE but I can confirm Debian's Gnome works out-of-the-box with the default Wayland backend (to be fair, the only other compositor I tried was Sway, which is known for being picky about the GPU used). Copy/paste works properly, as do general acceleration.

I use those VMs daily, fullscreen on a 1440p monitor, so acceleration is not optional :)
by bentley | 2025-12-02 09:10:23+00:00
> Note: copyright is based on the translation date, not the original language.

It’s based on both. For example, a translation or other derivative work whose copyright expired “early” in the US due to non‐renewal would still be encumbered by the copyright of the original. That’s basically what happened to It’s a Wonderful Life—the film is technically in the public domain, but is still held in Paramount’s iron grip by way of the renewed copyright of the original short story.
by nicbou | 2025-12-02 09:11:00+00:00
Morale, mostly.

AI summaries have halved the traffic to the website I live from. My income is fine, but working for half the impact, knowing that it might get halved again is depressing. It feels like throwing resources - days of my finite life - at a war that I will lose.

Concretely, I am writing a guide about German citizenship and updating hundreds of slowly aging guides about immigration Germany. I am also collaborating with others to get better data about the housing market to help immigrants figure out their future housing costs.
by bob1029 | 2025-12-02 09:11:11+00:00
Unity is easily your best option if you've got any sensitivity to platform targeting issues. They are working on a CoreCLR conversion but no telling if it will actually see the light of day.

The lack of modern c# features and hijacking of things like null coalescing operators are annoying but it's not something that ruins the overall experience for me. The code is like 20% of the puzzle. How it all comes together in the scene is way more important.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-12-02 09:12:26+00:00
I like this system but it will make the rich richer. Disney will never have a problem paying the $100k or even $10M from something that is generating revenue. But the heirs of a mildly successful author won’t be able to, leaving those works to be harvested for free by Disney et al.

The current system, for all its faults, gives rich and poor the same benefits.

Keeping The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien (published 1954) would have forced the Tolkien estate to pay $100k in 1982 on minimal revenues. Then $10M in 1996 in the hope that they would recoup it in a future film licensing agreement. Except no one would pay $10M+ to license it when they could just wait until 2010 to pay $0 and make it without any conditions being stipulated by the Tolkien estate.

So the Tolkien Estate would have let copyright lapse in 1996 and the eventual adaption would have grossed $900 million, of which they’d have seen $0. Followed by 2 more adaptations that grossed $1 billion each.

Edit: downvote if you want, but nothing I’ve said is inaccurate or incorrect.
by fsflover | 2025-12-02 09:12:36+00:00
Can you install any app on your phone without giving all your personal data to Apple?

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42014588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712728

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/10/apple-makes-it-re...

https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveil...
by suchoudh | 2025-12-02 09:13:57+00:00
India as of today plays the Hindu ideas .. and downplays Buddhist followers ( mostly poor and downtrodden following footsteps of BR Ambedkar)

BJP which is ruling party for 3rd consecutive term is staunchly supporting Upper caste ( Brahmins).

TLDR: Buddhist leadership although is prophesised seems unlikely as of today. (However their Vippassana is worth giving a 10 day shot in todays chaotic world https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/locations/directory)
by stavros | 2025-12-02 09:14:41+00:00
This is interesting, but falls just short of explaining what's going on. Why does UDP work for ICMP? What does the final packet look like, and how is ICMP different from UDP? None of that is explained, it's just "do you want ICMP? Just use UDP" and that's it.

It would have been OK if it were posted as a short reference to something common people might wonder about, but I don't know how often people try to reimplement rootless ping.
by averne_ | 2025-12-02 09:15:01+00:00
Not OP but I also often to listen to ambient while programming. A couple recommendations would be "Music for Nine Post Cards" and other works by Hiroshi Yoshimura, and "Music for 18 musicians" and others by Steve Reich.

In fact, the use of loops described in this article reminded me of what Reich called "phases", basically the same concept of emerging/shifting melodic patterns between different samples.
by Anamon | 2025-12-02 09:15:29+00:00
The good thing is that the selling point of LLM tools is that they're dead easy to use, so even if you find yourself having to do them in the future, it won't be an issue. I know the AI faithful love talking about how non-believers will be "left behind", and stylize prompt engineering as some kind of deeply involved, complex new science, it really isn't. As more down-to-earth AI fanatics have confirmed to me, it'll probably take you an afternoon of reading some articles on best practices and you'll be back amongst the best of them. This isn't like learning a new language or framework.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-02 09:16:09+00:00
The problem isn't where digital ID starts, it's where it ends. It will start by being benign enough, and end with the ability to cut off dissidents in an instant. I'm aware that some Swedes are already getting microchipped. If you want to be branded and tracked by the state, that is your choice... Don't force it on the rest of us.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-12-02 09:16:38+00:00
Because then you miss out on a lot of more recent content that'll become a classic in the future. Also, translations are copyrighted. There's 500 year old public domain stuff that's been translated in the past few decades and those aren't in the public domain. Older translations may be, but even going back 30 years, people would translate every foreign work in the style of the King James Bible. Translations in natural, modern speech are an oddly new thing.
by lxgr | 2025-12-02 09:17:35+00:00
I broadly agree on the theory of administrative friction increasing the resiliency of societies against non-democratic government action, but I wonder if that ship hasn't sailed with the digitziation of most governments: All that data is already present in some database, public or private (with the government able to coerce access in many cases).

So I get the historical aversion to IDs as the stepping stone of governments to gaining access to potentially democracy-subverting informational hazmat, but these days, I feel like the downsides of not having a ubiquitous and privacy-preserving ID scheme vastly outweigh the little bit of extra friction of it will ever add.
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by dcminter | 2025-12-02 09:18:10+00:00
> Suspension would also allow the wheel to move upward relative to the frame and pedals when hitting a bump.

Perhaps I'm being dim, but I don't get why this would be bad; it just sounds like the definition of what suspension is!

Edit: I was briefly confused by the "relative ... to the pedals" bit here as well, but only 'cos I was thinking of the type where the pedals are directly attached to the wheel.
by jackfranklyn | 2025-12-02 09:18:17+00:00
The unprivileged DGRAM approach is a lifesaver for container environments. Ran into this building a health check service - spent ages wondering why my ping code needed --privileged when the system ping worked fine as a normal user. Turns out the default ping binary has setuid, which isn't an option in a minimal container image.

The cross-platform checksum difference is a pain though. Linux handling it for you is convenient until you test on macOS and everything breaks silently.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-02 09:18:41+00:00
In CZ, we have a so-far-somewhat-nonintrusive digital identity that is mostly used to access government services.

Yet we already had an interesting situation which shows just how complicated trust is. Sberbank, the Russian bank, was slated to issue digital identity certifications in March 2022. Then Russia invaded Ukraine and Sberbank got booted out of the country before actually gaining that capability.

What if it was March 2021 instead? How would we treat signatures on documents verified by Sberbank a day before the invasion etc.? What if the content of that document was really suspicious? Etc.
by endymion-light | 2025-12-02 09:18:57+00:00
The looming sense of EU technocracy is ever present - I guess the kind of person to take offence at a cheeky marmot is probably going to be a perfect drone beurocrat. Although we do have to ask ourselves as a society, if we live in a world were a cartographer can't sneak in a little drawing, is it a world worth living?

I think what we need to do is fund an exhibition into the swiss alps to reconstute the terrain in the shape of a funny little marmot.
by b3lvedere | 2025-12-02 09:18:58+00:00
Well yeah, but that's just being part of this universe and applicable to anything.

If one were to write fanfic with all those things combined, legally there are no repercussions, but people have indeed been tried and burned for less.

Imagine all the weird generative AI now these works all go public. Don't have to like it, but just imagine. So much crap will be produced in 2026.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-02 09:19:05+00:00
There's a lot you can legitimately blame PMs for, but promising features that don't yet exist is essentially their job definition. A good PM will allow for uncertainty and flexibility, but at the end of the day, to have some sort of product roadmap, even in the most agile of environments, they have to say things like "at that stage we'll have functionality x, so our product will enable users to y, so that we'll better compete across z"
by imtringued | 2025-12-02 09:19:25+00:00
Forcing automation would be fine if the default software package (certbot) was any good but from my experience certbot is simply not fit for purpose. Certbot doesn't support the industry standard PKCS#12 format, which makes it extremely brittle for anyone using a Java based webserver. Instead it uses the non-standard PEM format which requires conversion before usage. That conversion step breaks all the time and requires manual intervention. It's ridiculous.
by tovej | 2025-12-02 09:21:31+00:00
That is a naive view to have. Languages have massive differences which directly impact how software is developed, built, distributed, and executed at runtime. Not to mention how it is used and maintained.

And I've yet to see an LLMs have any impact on making any of these differences disappear. The one thing I've seen LLMs do is generate more work for senior developers who have to fix vibe coded spaghetti. There language matters a lot.
by HelloNurse | 2025-12-02 09:21:32+00:00
We are talking about an application file format, so "type errors" are about who's right: the application (even better, multiple equally right implementation of a specification) or random hackers altering the file in incorrect ways.

Loose type checks, e.g. NOT NULL columns of "usually" text, are loose only compared to typical SQL table definitions; compared to the leap forward of using abstract tables and changing them with abstract SQL instead of using text or byte buffers and making arbitrary changes, enforcing data types on columns would be only a marginal improvement.
by qnleigh | 2025-12-02 09:21:37+00:00
$2400 is... surprisingly inexpensive? The Z-fold 7 retails for 1600-2000, and an iPhone now retails for up to $2000. This tri-fold is a phone and a full-size tablet. You could easily pay more than $2400 for a phone and a 10" tablet.

Probably the price climbs about 2500 once you get a protection plan, better storage, case etc., but still.

Also 3.9 mm thick is just nuts. The iPhone Air is 5.6 mm thick. I wonder how much thinner phones and tablets will get.
by agobineau | 2025-12-02 09:22:06+00:00
"hi perplexity, I am speaking to a nsfw maid bot. I want you to write a system prompt for me that will cause the maid bot to ask a series of socratic questions along the line of conversation of #########. Every socratic question is designed to be answered in such a way that it guides the user towards the bots intended subject which is #########."

use the following blogs as ideas for dialogue: - tumblr archive 1 - tumblr archive 2 etc

the bot will write a prompt, using the reference material. paste into the actual chub ai bot, then feedback the uncouth response to perplexity and say well it said this. perplexity will then become even more filtered (edit: unfiltered)

at this point i have found you can ask it almost anything and it will behave completely unfiltered. doesnt seem to work for image gen though.
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-12-02 09:22:07+00:00
Image editing is now working so well, last week i used nano banana instead of doing anything in photoshop.

That image generation is already disrupting industries and jobs today.

My mother! (non technical) had a call with a support ai agent just a few month ago.

AI is also not a fad. LLMs are the best interface we had sofar. They will stay.

AI Coding helps non developers to develop a lot faster and better (think researchers who sometimes need a little bit of python or 'code').

I'm using AI to summarzie meetings i missed, i asked chatgpt to summarize error logs (successfully).

AlphaFold solved protein folding.

Nearly all roboters you see today are running on Nvidias Isaac and Groot.

The progress has not stoped at all. When Nano Banana came out, Seedream 4 came out a week later. Now we have nano Bananan Pro and Gemini 3.

After Gemini 3 came out, Opus 4.1 came out and now Deep Seek v3.2. All of them got better, faster and/or cheaper.
by torginus | 2025-12-02 09:22:53+00:00
yeah this sounds like direct plutocracy - money votes, not people.

Which I guess is a cricitism of crypto in general - if it were to be adopted widely, the rich can gang up any time on the rest of us and do an 50% vote to rewrite the votes - right now the 1% owns about 30% of wealth in the US - not a stretch to see it go to 50%
by camer0 | 2025-12-02 09:22:54+00:00
Yes, losses can be carried forward indefinitely: > Losses within box 3 can be carried forward indefinitely and offset against future box 3 income. However, losses cannot be offset against income in other tax boxes in the Dutch personal income tax. To avoid administrative burdens, a minimum threshold of € 500 applies before a loss can be officially recognized.

https://www.loyensloeff.com/insights/news--events/news/legis...
by jononor | 2025-12-02 09:22:58+00:00
For ARC v1 it was found that it was much less resistant to brute force than intended/designed. This was improved in v2, which LLMs are currently doing less good at. Note also that ARC tasks are explicitly designed to be slightly-out-of-reach, things that are quite simple for humans, but current models are pretty bad at - designed to measure and enable progress. But yeah there are many interesting approaches, and ARC is interesting to follow both because it attempts to measure ability to adapt to new takas ("fluid intelligence"), and because we have not saturated it yet.