MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TacticalCoder | 2025-12-05 04:29:45+00:00
They're indeed fuglier than fugly. I've had many BMWs but that BMX iX3 looks really bad. Don't know what they were smoking.

Wife's daily driver is a 4-series "Gran Coupé" (weird term to say it's got 4-doors and not two like the "coupé" but... "Gran" is not a french word: the french word would be "grand" so I think they somehow fucked up [1]) with the B48 ICE engine. Sweet car and really good looking.

But yeah: to each his own bad taste.

[1] not as bad as Audi and its "e-tron" where "etron", literally, means "turd" in french.
by Archelaos | 2025-12-05 04:29:54+00:00
I would rather say that the term “sovereignty” is multifaceted. We have the concept of popular sovereignty, which means that political power emanates from the people and all other sovereignty is delegated.

However, there is also a use of the term “sovereignty” in the sense of self-determination over one's own state structure and the ability to ward off external interference. When a state transfers certain sovereign rights to the EU, this is more than just delegation. In German constitutional law, for example, this means that the transfer of such rights to the EU has constitutional status.

If there is a lawsuit before the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) that challanges an EU law or regulation, the court first examines whether the EU law in question regulates something that actually falls within the EU's area of responsibility or whether it is something over which Germany has reserved its sovereignty.

The most prominent example of such a ruling is the PSPP (Public Sector Purchase Programme) case from 2020, where the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled that another ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) regarding the European Central Bank (ECB) program of purchasing government bonds is not binding in Germany because the CJEU exceed its judicial mandate and violated the sovereignty of the German Bundestag. The case was "solved" when the European Central Bank provided the Bundestag with additional documentation regarding the program and the Bundestag concluded that everything is in order.

For the decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court see: https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit... (in English)

In this decision the term "sovereignty" is explicitly used to outline the case: "In particular, these [complaints] concerned the prohibition of monetary financing of Member State budgets, the monetary policy mandate of the ECB, and a potential encroachment upon the Members States’ competences and sovereignty in budget matters."

The decision later concludes:

"This standard of review [in the ruling of the CJEU] is by no means conducive to restricting the scope of the competences conferred upon the ECB, which are limited to monetary policy. Rather, it allows the ECB to gradually expand its competences on its own authority; at the very least, it largely or completely exempts such action on the part of the ECB from judicial review. Yet for safeguarding the principle of democracy und upholding the legal bases of the European Union, it is imperative that the division of competences be respected."
by devsda | 2025-12-05 04:30:27+00:00
If everybody gets extension, say a 2 hr test becomes 3 hrs, then eventually there will be someone who claims 3 hrs is the new normal time and still demand an extension over that.

It really depends on the perception of whether the goal of the extension is to give disabled students an edge over "normal" students or to give everyone a fair(not necessarily equal) opportunity to complete the test.
by alwillis | 2025-12-05 04:33:33+00:00
> Prompt ingested (time to first token) in "18 seconds" with the new chip... end of the joke

18 seconds on the M5; 4.4x times faster than the previous M4 running one of Qwen’s 8 billion parameter local models.

That’s quite impressive for a tablet and faster than most laptops available today.
by pcrh | 2025-12-05 04:35:06+00:00
The key point here appears to be an innovation called the so-called "trilogues", which were introduced to accelerate the process of negotiation between the Council of Ministers (representing national governments),the EU Parliament (elected EU legislators), and the EU Commission (civil service).

It seems that this innovative process eliminates a lot of "gridlock" and is too efficient for the liking of the author, a strange complaint.

That the legislation which emerges from this is sometimes flawed, or contradicts other legislation, is not a reason to introduce less efficient processes, but to allow greater scrutiny of that legislation which does emerge from the "trilogues". The normal parliamentary mechanism for this is to have several "Readings" where the legislation is scrutinized by different groups of legislators, e.g. an Upper and Lower House.

Otherwise, perhaps Brussels has found something useful with the "trilogues", and other national parliaments should adopt a similar process?
by derrida | 2025-12-05 04:35:55+00:00
Dear HFT Quant,

> And yes, the algos do care about your little 1 lot order.

I'm just your usual "corrupted nerd" geek with some mathematics and computer security background interests - 2 questions if I may 1. what's like the most interesting paper you have read recently or unrelated thing you are interested in at the moment? 2. " And yes, the algos do care about your little 1 lot order." How would one see this effect you mentioned - like it seems wildly anomalous, how would go about finding this effect assuming maximum mental venturesomeness, a tiny $100 and too much time?
by rendaw | 2025-12-05 04:35:59+00:00
AFAICT Filevine doesn't use AI programming: https://www.filevine.com/jobs/d64dfff5-e36f-4db6-adac-0fc082... There's no mention of AI there other than writing code to integrate AI pipelines.

I've seen a lot of job ads (Canva) lately that mandate AI use or AI experience, and as an AI company if they wanted that I think they would have put it in the ad.

For the record I think I may be fine with the insincerity of selling AI but not using it!
by radium3d | 2025-12-05 04:36:00+00:00
The majority of their cars (Y/3 models) have the penthouse (top) of battery pack super easily accessible from under the back seat, no need to drop a pack.

Not to mention Tesla has the best service mode system in their computer of any brand of all time. They also have the best free to owners assembly/disassembly manuals in the service portal https://service.tesla.com/. They have taken self-service literally to the next level compared to anything I've ever driven ICE, Hybrid or EV and I've owned all of them.
by adrianwaj | 2025-12-05 04:36:33+00:00
Yeah, it may well end up being used for "maxipayments" too, as coupled with biometrics, perhaps.

But what will make it ubiquitous?

Also, there's something cumbersome and risky about using today's wallet apps. Imagine you're taking a train, about to buy a book on Amazon, and the guy next to you pulls out a knife and wants you to drain your wallet into his when he sees what you're doing. Or your computer is hacked somehow? Or you get a home invasion?

I think as money-printing keeps ramping up, people will just gravitate to crypto anyway.

But in the future, I expect AIs to become more common: at one point there was only Bitcoin and no long-tail of coins. And all these new AIs will need to be trained. Will x402 make that easy for them? How will the AIs access the new and original knowledge?

People will just expect AI as they expect sat-nav today in their cars, and eventually will expect self-driving cars. When was the last time you went into a library to access a physical encyclopedia? Banks may eventually fall away too as clusters of relationships form across the world to provides goods and services of value and seek refuge from tariffs but also access to resources.

Globalization is fine, but maybe the tech just wasn't/isn't ready yet? Cultural groups are also becoming increasingly intertwined too - but so are AI translation abilities.
by Panzer04 | 2025-12-05 04:36:41+00:00
People have different ideas of what "disabled" means.

Broadening the definition makes it less useful in many ways. I would consider "disabled" to mean one of: - Unable to ambulate effectively (requires crutches or worse) - Unable to look after oneself as an adult (for any combination of reasons) - Unable to use tools and items most people would consider standard - eg. can't hold a pencil, write, type, whatever.

That's a fairly harsh definition of disabled, but all of these people unambiguously require accommodation because of their incapacity. It's also off the top of my head, so I'd happily broaden it if you want to argue the point.

If I can talk to someone for an entire day and not realise or notice they are disabled in some way, I question the definition being used - how helpful is it in deciding how we should allocate additional resources and help in that case?
by cryptonector | 2025-12-05 04:37:32+00:00
You can do CHOICE in ASN.1, yes, and you can even make it an extensible CHOICE. In that case the tag is the type determinant, and it looks a lot like a typed hole. But! sometimes you want a typed hole where the type determinant is something like a URN, or a URI, or some other type where the value space is a) large, and b) structured so you can avoid needing a registry. And sometimes the protocol you're writing inherently can't have a type registry -- think of an RPC layer where you have headers that provide things like authentication and negotiation of things, session-like things, while the application provides the procedures (the 'P' in RPC) and so you need to identify the application without a registry of oneof tags.
by jjk166 | 2025-12-05 04:38:26+00:00
> It might turn out like if we treated the cold, COVID, tuberculosis and lung cancer as the same thing because they all involve coughing.

Well there are 200 different viruses that cause the common cold. We lump them together because they all involve coughing.

Basically all cancers are unique, even for the same type of cancer. Again, these are lumped due to shared symptoms.

Tuberculosis is caused by 9 different species of bacteria, but these are at least related species.

Covid is basically exactly the same disease as SARS, just caused by a particular strain of coronavirus, though that strain divereged into multiple ones that now produce quite different symptoms. In addition to SARS, other coronaviruses are among those 200 that cause the common cold.

Diseases are historical groupings that someone at some point thought would be useful, nothing more.
by hxtk | 2025-12-05 04:39:27+00:00
I suspect trading firms have already done this to the maximum extent that it's profitable to do so. I think if you were to integrate LLMs into a trading algorithm, you would need to incorporate more than just signals from the market itself. For example, I hazard a guess you could outperform a model that operates purely on market data with a model that also includes a vector embedding of a selection of key social and news media accounts or other information sources that have historically been difficult to encode until LLMs.
Show HN: Driving Android app via LLM. Looking for feedback
by philippb | 2025-12-05 04:39:50+00:00
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1k7o89ed4

I was curious if I could drive an app via LLM. I think this is interesting and has some potential use cases to close the agent loop. Please share your thoughts that come to mind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1k7o89ed4

This is a raw demo after I finished building it. I'm mostly interested in hearing from you if there are use cases that this gets you excited about.

What could that become and what problems would that solve for you.

I've been thinking about this from an agent verification point, where agents can verify bugs and fix them independently.
by rallies | 2025-12-05 04:40:25+00:00
This is pretty cool.

We're also running a live experiment on both stocks and options. One difference with our experiment is a lot more tools being available to the models (anything you can think of, sec filings, fundamentals, live pricing, options data).

We think backtests are meaningless given LLMs have mostly memorized every single thing that happened so it's not a good test. So we're running a forward test. Not enough data for now but pretty interesting initial results

https://rallies.ai/arena
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 04:42:06+00:00
I've got noscript which at least keeps JS off by default and allows me to selectively enable scripts by domain. Now I just a similar tool for CSS. Something that whitelists a sane set of features that can't be used (at least as easily) for interactivity, ads, fingerprinting, and other malicious activity while letting me explicitly blacklist annoyances (like scrollbar styles or sticky headers). The way things are going I'll probably need something similar for HTML too.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-05 04:42:08+00:00
Note this is the M5, not even the M5 Pro and definitely not the M5 Max or M5 Ultra. If they are getting these improvements on low end M series, I’m sort of interested in what happens with the M5 max when it’s ready (I. Not holding out hope that the M5 ultra will be done anytime soon).
by buu700 | 2025-12-05 04:42:17+00:00
Anyone who hasn't used Grok might be surprised to learn that it isn't shy about disagreeing with Elon on plenty of topics, political or otherwise. Any insinuation to the contrary seems to be pure marketing spin on his part.

Grok is often absurdly competent compared to other SOTA models, definitely not a tool I'd write off over its supposed political leanings. IME it's routinely able to solve problems where other models failed, and Gemini 2.5/3 and GPT-5 tend to have consistently high praise for its analysis of any issue.

That's as far as the base model/chatbot is concerned, at least. I'm less familiar with the X bot's work.
by throwaway290 | 2025-12-05 04:42:54+00:00
contractors are getting paid VERY good money relatively. Imagine you live in a village, your education is so so. You live in an old house with parents. How much do you earn? Anything?

But now you go to war and you/your family gets 200000 monthly. You can buy a cheap car for that money AND buy a flat in a city (first mortgage payment) after first month. Not counting signup bonus.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-12-05 04:43:21+00:00
No but several women that came to buy cars (some with male coworkers, or so they told me) eventually did over the years.

Tbh this wasn't some crazy brag post, as making $250-300k a year working 80 hours a week isn't all that impressive when software devs make more than that easily, and the top guys make many multiples of that.
by pcrh | 2025-12-05 04:43:54+00:00
Agreed. The EU institutions are remarkably efficient compared to their national equivalents. 80,000 civil servants is a tiny number for a polity of 450 million people. Ireland for example has 50,000 for a population of 1/10th the size.

Admittedly however, the scope of national civil services tends to be much larger than that of the EU's.
by chii | 2025-12-05 04:44:25+00:00
because device makers will not care for the DRM, but will care for the hardware decoder they need to decide to put into their devices to decode netflix videos. By ensuring this video codec is open, it benefits everybody else now, as this same device will now be able to hardware decode _more_ videos from different video providers, as well as make more video providers choose AV1.

Basically, a network effect for an open codec.
by superkuh | 2025-12-05 04:44:40+00:00
Most of my use for my blog posts is linking people to them on IRC and forums. I don't need or want search engine traffic. It's true there's no money or the churning waves of activity associated with that money in blogging anymore. And that's great. Social media siphoned off the profit chasers and all their running in place activity to stay on top of the eternal wave of now in recommendation engines.
by abustamam | 2025-12-05 04:45:01+00:00
I feel like that's how anyone feels about anything a politician says. They say great things (sometimes even lies) about whatever agenda they're pushing, like tariffs only affecting non US people, or deporting criminal illegals, and supporters buy it. But then when they find out they're paying the tariffs, or their innocent gardener is being deported, then suddenly they're like "wait I didn't vote for this" even though they literally did, just under a different frame.
by vkou | 2025-12-05 04:45:26+00:00
Efficiency is not always desirable in legislature. It would be efficient if a political faction, as soon as it reached the threshold for being able to pass any of its legislature to immediately pass as much of it, as quickly as it can sign it.

You generally don't want someone with a 50.1% (or a 48%) mandate to turn everything upside down as soon as they get elected.

But yes, there's some middle ground between that and endless gridlock.
by pants2 | 2025-12-05 04:45:32+00:00
Well, I'm interested in AV1 as a videographer but hadn't heard of it before. Without 'codec' in the title I would have thought it was networking related.

Re: HDR - not the same thing. HDR has been around for decades and every TV in every electronics store blasts you with HDR10 demos. It's well known. AV1 is extremely niche and deserves 2 words to describe it.
by cdash | 2025-12-05 04:46:09+00:00
It hasn't really changed much in the mastering process, they still are doing the same old compression. Maybe not the to the same extremes, but dynamic range is still usually terrible. They do it a a higher LUFS target than the streaming platforms normalize to because each streaming platform has a different limit and could change it at any time, so better to be on the safe side. Also the fact that majority of music listening doesn't happen on good speakers/environment.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-05 04:47:02+00:00
You do realize that Luis Garicano was an MEP who was the vice-chair of the RenewEurope [0] coalition and is a member of the pro-EU think tanks CEPR [1] and Bruegel [2] right?

If there is an academic you want to listen to in order to understand how to better reform the EU's institutions, it's definitely Luis.

[0] - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197554/LUIS_GARICANO/...

[1] - https://cepr.org/about/people/luis-garicano

[2] - https://www.bruegel.org/people/luis-garicano
by jeberle | 2025-12-05 04:48:14+00:00
Not sure what you mean by "primitive support". Java 22 added FFM (Foreign Function & Memory). It works w/ both on-heap & off-heap memory. It has an Arena interface.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/454

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api/java.base...
by colesantiago | 2025-12-05 04:48:32+00:00
“We should be increasingly skeptical of the claim that crypto can't do better than the existing system.”

This is a fact because you can already do that with regulated and safe banking apps such as Transferwise, Revolut, PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, CashApp, MoneyGram, Western Union, MPesa etc.

Using a blockchain for this stuff is already cumbersome (which network?), remember long silly address numbers, incurs additional fees, rapidly fluctuates in price quotes, and you can’t get your money back if you’ve been scammed or you send your ‘cryptos’ to the wrong wallet.

This does not scream to me the future of finance, instead it is an unregulated ‘wildcat-banking-esque’ speculative scam that makes it easy to lose your money very quickly.

How is that better than what we already have?
by CuriousRose | 2025-12-05 04:48:52+00:00
I can't fathom why this is even possible, let alone acceptable. You could write an equally featured text chat client in a terminal (IRC style) - no video or file sharing of course - but do those things really need to consume the remaining 2.29 GB of RAM?

Surely video calls have a native capture method in Windows/macOS now where you can overlay the controls for fairly cheap resources, and file sharing only needs to consume RAM during the upload process.

What gives with these apps? Like seriously, is it the fact that they need to load a whole browser environment just to run 100mb of JS? If so, why bother shipping an app at all? Just encourage users to allow notifications in the browser for the site and be done with it. No apps to maintain, instant patching on refresh, where's the obvious downside I'm missing?
by godelski | 2025-12-05 04:49:33+00:00
> I think a potentially better way would be to segment the market up to today but take half or 10% of all the stocks and make only those available to the LLM.

Autocorrelation is going to bite you in the ass.

Those stocks are going to be coupled. Let's take an easy example. Suppose you include Nvidia in the training data and hold out AMD for test. Is there information leakage? Yes. The problem is that each company isn't independent. You have information leakage in both the setting where companies grow together as well as zero sum games (since x + y = 0, if you know x then you know y). But in this example AMD tends with Nvidia. Maybe not as much, but they go in the same direction. They're coupled

Not to mention that in the specific setting the LLMs were given news and other information.
by lutusp | 2025-12-05 04:49:55+00:00
Bad article title. It should be "Autism should be divided into more specific diagnoses, once we have reliable, evidence-based diagnostic criteria."

There's a reason Asperger Syndrome was abandoned as a separate condition and folded into ASD (in DSM-5) -- until then, anyone who wanted the diagnosis could get it, by displaying symptoms popularly associated with the condition. So we had clinical indicators, but no objective biological tests -- still true for most DSM-listed conditions. This led to widespread abuse and uncertainty.

The single label "autism" has many drawbacks, but one important advantage -- it reveals what we know in a scientific sense, which is next to nothing. Eventually neuroscience will change this and identify biological causes for many "mental" conditions. This will end diagnoses based on clinical interviews and replace them with objective biological tests.

I imagine this scene in a future neuroscience clinic:

Patient: "Let me tell you what I think is wrong with me."

Clinician: "Don't bother, we have objective biological tests now -- your narrative would only confuse the process. Remember psychology?"
by cal_dent | 2025-12-05 04:50:27+00:00
Yes i agree with this. I think more people, than not, would benefit from actively cultivating space in their lives to be bored. Even something as basic as putting your phone in the internal zip part of your bag, so when you're standing in line at the store/post office/whatever you can't be arsed to just reach for your phone and instead be in your head or aware of your surroundings. Both can be such wonderful and interesting places but we seem to forget that now
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-05 04:50:43+00:00
None of the Russian expats I’ve met had this problem: after 2014 they all saw the writing on the wall and moved their money to western banks. I have sympathy for those that didn’t - normal people shouldn’t have to make this kind of calculus - but there’s no alternative to this while having useful sanctions. It’s not the causeless brutality of breaking someone’s window because of their accent.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-05 04:51:03+00:00
> This used to be a thing with medical marijuana as well (maybe still is?).

Yup. A few years ago in California, go to a weed store in Napa. "Oh, you need a medical card" "Oh, sorry". I get handed a business card, no worries, just call this doctor here, it'll be $x (can't remember) and you can get a medical card and just come back in. I had my medical card within 5 minutes on the phone on the sidewalk outside the store.

Was having stress related ED issues a fews ago. Hit up Hims, fill out the questionnaire. Physician reviews it in our online chat. "If these are your answers, I would not be able to prescribe for you. If your answer to Q3 was x, Q5 was Y, then I would. Would you like to review your answers before re-submitting?"