MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-12-07 15:37:05+00:00
https://blog.iclr.cc/2025/11/19/iclr-2026-response-to-llm-ge...

> Papers that make extensive usage of LLMs and do not disclose this usage will be desk rejected.

This sounds like they're endorsing the game of how much can we get away with, towards the goal of slipping it past the reviewers, and the only penalty is that the bad paper isn't accepted.

How about "Papers suspected of fabrications, plagiarism, ghost writers, or other academic dishonesty, will be reported to academic and professional organizations, as well as the affiliated institutions and sponsors named on the paper"?
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-07 15:37:30+00:00
> Oh man I feel this every time there’s a games console launch. I still have no idea what the latest Xbox is called but Sony gets it right with “Playstation <N>”

Not so easy: even for old PlaysStations, there existed different versions:

1. PlayStation, PSOne, PlayStation Classic

2. PlayStation 2, PlayStation 2 Slim

3. PlayStation 3, PlayStation 3 Slim, PlayStation 3 Super-Slim

4. PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Slim, PlayStation 4 Pro

5. PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, PlayStation 5 Slim, PlayStation 5 Digital Edition Slim, PlayStation 5 Pro

And then Sony used the PlayStation branding for other consoles, too:

- PlayStation Portable

- PlayStation Vita

- PlayStation Portal

- PlayStation TV (which is also called PlayStation Vita TV)
by bogwog | 2025-12-07 15:37:34+00:00
> Saves 15 million" on license costs, but how much will be wasted on the contractors...

Approximately 9 million, according to the article:

> In contrast, there would be one-time investments of nine million euros in 2026, explained the Ministry of Digitalization to the Kieler Nachrichten. These would have to be made for the conversion of workplaces and the further development of solutions with free software in the next 12 months. Given the annual savings, this sum will pay for itself in less than a year.
by voodooEntity | 2025-12-07 15:38:03+00:00
When i first read the papers for titans for me it was a "this will be a big step forward".

While i have no "AI" title or work in the respective AI industry, ive spend many years thinking about AI concepts, even long before the whole NN/LLM hype started.

Maybe because of that i was always really annoyed that LLM are called AI because in my years of thinking about how an actual "human like" thinking AI might work, the things an LLM does was far below what my minimum definition was.

But when i stumbled accross the Titans paper, while it still is not an "AI" as i would call it, from my POV its a massive step towarsd the right direction.

Sometimes i consider to write all my ideas/thoughts about AI down in my blog, but than i think nobody would care anyway since im not a known figure shrug - so if not to say "look i wrote it years ago!" theres no actual point in doing so i guess.

However - im looking forward to see titans in action, and i guess it will impress us all.
by firefax | 2025-12-07 15:38:21+00:00
I had a clerk flip out on me a while back at a Dollar Tree because I wanted a charge for a dollar -- it rang up as 1.25. They rolled their eyes and told me not everything is a dollar, and I maintained that absent pricing stickers indicating otherwise, the default is a dollar. When I pointed out another way to look at it is it's a twenty five percent price discrepancy, someone came out of an office and literally screamed at me and chased me out of the store for "causing a problem", telling me that if I'm going to cause problems, so will she.

I wasn't cursing or yelling, just calmly making the points I made above as the employees took a dive bar approach to customer service...

It doesn't surprise me at all that this kind of thing is intentional -- they're banking on you not walking out without the item having carried it to the checkout.
by jrmg | 2025-12-07 15:38:50+00:00
People are downvoting you because your story seems crazy, but you’re right (and wrong).

In the early 2010s there were reports that the EU was set to ban 3kW kettles in the anti-EU tabloid press.

The ‘plans’ were discussions, were general (about ‘high energy appliances’, not specifically kettles), and never got beyond the initial discussion stage - according to the same press because of fears they would drive Britons to vote for Brexit, although I’m not sure I believe that. As other commenters say, unlike other appliances that could be made more efficient, kettles are almost 100% efficient already, so the power draw doesn’t really matter. I still have some faith the authorities looking into home appliance energy efficiency would know that.

https://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/eu_not_banning_kettles

https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/eu-pauses-p...
by xkcd-sucks | 2025-12-07 15:39:29+00:00
There is a school of thought that all psychiatric crap can be expressed in terms of disordered synaptic plasticity ... Dementia it falls apart; psychosis it forms and prunes "wrongly", etc.

Unfortunately this view is a little ahead of technical capability to observe and intervene at that level so it's more of a clarifying viewpoint than a predictive tool
by ajanuary | 2025-12-07 15:39:33+00:00
> - There is a difference between things that are actually the same (or should be for consistency (such as domain facts, knowledge) versus ones that happen to be the same at the time of creation but are only that way by coincidence

For my money, this is the key point that people miss.

A test I like to use for whether two things are actually or just incidentally related is to think about “if I repeat this, and then change one but not the other, what breaks?”

Often the answer is that something will break. If I repeat how a compound id “<foo>-<bar>” is constructed when I insert the key and lookup, if I change the insert to “<foo>::<bar>” but not the lookup, then I’m not going to be able to find anything. If I have some complicated domain logic I duplicate, and fix a bug in one place but not the other, then I’ve still got a bug but now probably harder to track down. In these cases the duplication has introduced risk. And I need to weigh that risk against the cost of introducing an abstraction.

If I have a unit test `insert(id=1234); item = fetch(id=1234); assert item is not nil`, if I change one id but not the other, the test will fail.

But if I have two separate unit tests, and both happen to use the same id 1234, if I change one but not the other, absolutely nothing breaks. They aren’t actually related, they’re just incidentally the same.
by hansmayer | 2025-12-07 15:39:36+00:00
Scientists who use LLMs to write a paper are crappy scientists indeed. They need to be held accountable, even ostracised by the scientific community. But something is missing from the picture. Why is it that they came up with this idea in the first place? Who could have been peddling the impression (not an outright lie - they are very careful) about LLMs being these almost sentient systems with emergent intelligence, alleviating all of your problems, blah blah blah. Where is the god damn cure for cancer the LLMs were supposed to invent? Who else is it that we need to keep accountable, scrutinised and ostracised for the ever-increasing mountains of AI-crap that is flooding not just the Internet content but now also penetrating into science, every day work, daily lives, conversations, etc. If someone released a tool that enabled and encouraged people to commit suicide in multiple instances that we know of by now, and we know since the infamous "plandemic" facebook trend that the tech bros are more than happy to tolerate worsening societal conditions in the name of their platform growth, who else do we need to keep accountable, scrutinise and ostracise as a society, I wonder?
by lukan | 2025-12-07 15:39:44+00:00
"The main advantage that agricultural civilizations had was population size."

Metallurgy?

Not just firearms.

Stone axe vs bronze sword?

Bronze sword vs iron sword?

Iron sword vs steel?

Nomadic people got their advanced weapons usually through trade from settled ones. The nomadic horse archers dominance was rather an exception, also their kingdom included cities where the weapons they used were made.

"Without any external pressure, multiple peoples concluded that settling and eating grass was preferable to being nomads"

And there always was external pressure. Also .. our knowledge of that time is just fragmentary. We don't even know the real names of those cultures.

So yes, clearly there were benefits to settling and planting corn, otherwise humans would not have done it. But to my knowledge, it is not correct to call it a voluntarily process in general. Once there are fences, the nomadic lifestyle does not work anymore. Adopt or die out was (and is) the choice.
by ninkendo | 2025-12-07 15:39:44+00:00
I've had coworkers in the past that treat code like it needs to be compressed. Like, in the huffman coding sense. Find code that exists in two places, put it in one place, then call it from the original places. Repeat until there's no more duplication.

It results in a brittle nightmare because you can no longer change any of it, because the responsibility of the refactored functions is simply "whatever the orignal code was doing before it was de-duplicated", and don't represent anything logical.

Then, if two places that had "duplicated" code before the refactoring need to start doing different things, the common functions get new options/parameters to cover the different use cases, until those get so huge that they start needing to get broken up too, and then the process repeats until you have a zillion functions called "process_foo" and "execute_bar", and nothing makes sense any more.

I've since become allergic to any sort of refactoring that feels like this kind of compression. All code needs to justify its existence, and it has to have an obvious name. It can't just be "do this common subset of what these 2 other places need to do". It's common sense, obviously, but I still have to explain it to people in code review. The tendency to want to "compress" your code seems to be strong, especially in more junior engineers.
by buremba | 2025-12-07 15:39:48+00:00
PGlite is embedded so you can't really connect to PGlite using the PG clients. Dbfor.dev runs the PG protocol in the server and use Websockets & PGlite so any PG client can connect to your browser using PG protocol.

The hard work is done by PGlite and we use PGlite, it just enables PGlite to be accessible from everywhere.
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by frankkratzer | 2025-12-07 15:40:40+00:00
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by lazide | 2025-12-07 15:40:52+00:00
It’s not nice and friendly because of the hotspot volcanism.

It’s because the hotspot has a chemical composition that is generally low in dissolved gasses and very liquid/flows well. (Lots of silicates I think?)

It tends to come out nicely and stay liquid as it leaves, so vents don’t plug up. Also, because of the relatively low dissolved gasses, pressure doesn’t spike as high when it’s flowing out of the chamber like many other magmas do, causing explosions.

Hawaii exists basically because it’s great for building up islands/mountains without blowing them up as part of the process.
by jmclnx | 2025-12-07 15:40:55+00:00
>Almost 80 percent of licenses canceled

Looks like what IBM tied. IBM allowed some people to stay on Microsoft Office, the 'some people' were VPs and a few 'important' people. That turned into a disaster.

Eventually almost everyone started requesting M/S Office Exceptions, and many were granted. Other people revolted. IBM then gave up and went back to M/S Office.

To do this correctly, convert everyone, from CEO, Board Members down to the lowest level of person. No exceptions.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-07 15:41:06+00:00
What people tend to forget or dispel is that everything in society is based on trust. You can of course try to test every new fact for soundness with all the facts you already know, but fundamentally you need to trust something and in the end it just becomes a function of how much you trust the messenger. Undoing trustworthiness is a big issue and will lead to a lot of unrest in society.

The reason you are not murdered today is not, because murder is hardly punished or hard to do, it is because most people aren't murders. If they were, we wouldn't be able to suppress it with force, we would simply live in hell.
by sigbottle | 2025-12-07 15:41:27+00:00
Sorry, I'm not following the gun analogies at all

But regardless, I thought the point was that...

> The problem with using them is that humans have to review the content for accuracy.

There are (at least) two humans in this equation. The publisher, and the reader. The publisher at least should do their due diligence, regardless of how "hard" it is (in this case, we literally just ask that you review your OWN CITATIONS that you insert into your paper). This is why we have accountability as a concept.
by derbOac | 2025-12-07 15:41:32+00:00
Python for awhile had its own cultural issues. I guess, coming from more of a C and lisp background, the stuff you're mentioning seemed playful and fun to me and I didn't get the sense anyone expected to write performance critical code in it anyway.

Python forums in contrast to me included neverending justifications for why whitespace and indent formatting was critical and this kind of odd (to me) imperfect type system implementation, like the whole thing was some toy language pretending to be more than it was (in the sense that if you wanted something more complete in language or performance you'd go elsewhere).

Perl just seemed to know its place and not take itself too seriously.

Things changed though. I haven't touched Perl in years but use Python all the time. I never understood why Python got the traction it did given its performance limitations compared to some other languages (except as part of a broader trend for people to use whatever language they leaned in introductory comp sci) but I do think I understand why people stopped learning Perl.
by mbajkowski | 2025-12-07 15:42:00+00:00
Agreed, but I don't think you need to go as far back as the 19th century, even early 20th century it was the same in some places in eastern Europe. Out of 7 siblings in my Dad's family only one went to college. The spread between oldest and youngest was about 12 years. All went to school which was dismissed much earlier, after which children were expected to help in the fields with animals, house work, etc. before doing homework. The one pause, and really only time they wore nicer clothes, was on Sundays for church. The person who went to college would be back each summer to help with the grain and potato harvests. My life by comparison is a life of luxury.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-12-07 15:42:35+00:00
> Maybe you get put on a list so US banks can't send you money anymore too.

This is a good example, because the US government routinely passes laws that prevent people from transacting using the dollar system (which is basically the world financial system) and this is OK, but the EU requiring companies that operate in their market to obey different laws is not OK?

I don't really get the logic here, but perhaps I'm missing something.
by zdragnar | 2025-12-07 15:42:38+00:00
> If I gave you a gun without a safety could you be the one to blame when it goes off because you weren’t careful enough?

Absolutely. Many guns don't have safties. You don't load a round in the chamber unless you intend on using it.

A gun going off when you don't intend is a negligent discharge. No ifs, ands or buts. The person in possession of the gun is always responsible for it.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-07 15:43:26+00:00
Addition does not require numbers. It turns out, no math requires numbers. Even the math we normally use numbers for.

For instance, here is associativity defined on addition over non-numbers a and b:

a + b = b + a

What if you add a twice?

a + a + b

To do that without numbers, you just leave it there. Given associativity, you probably want to normalize (or standardize) expressions so that equal expressions end up looking identical. For instance, moving references of the same elements together, ordering different elements in a standard way (a before b):

i.e. a + b + a => a + a + b

Here I use => to mean "equal, and preferred/simplified/normalized".

Now we can easily see that (a + b + a => a + a + b) is equal to (b + a + a => a + a + b).

You can go on, and prove anything about non-numbers without numbers, even if you normally would use numbers to simplify the relations and proofs.

Numbers are just a shortcut for dealing with repetitions, by taking into account the commonality of say a + a + a, and b + b + b. But if you do non-number math with those expressions, they still work. Less efficiently than if you can unify triples with a number 3, i.e. 3a and 3b, but by definition those expressions are respectively equal (a + a + a = 3, etc.) and so still work. The answer will be the same, just more verbose.
by andriesm | 2025-12-07 15:44:11+00:00
If someone makes a linux laptop that is as good as the a bleeding edge apple macbook air, it is shut-up&take-my-money.

But it is hard to imagine a company spending the time to smooth a linux config on their hardware config and make sure it reaches the "just works" that apple has!

Boy would I love it! Please, someone do this! Getting tired of Apple's walled garden become ever more locked up and enshittification.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-07 15:44:26+00:00
> tell me where to find a not-profit-seeking human.

Easy, most people fit that description actually. And that's fortunate because otherwise the world would collapse pretty quickly from lack of midwifes and gynecologists.

In fact, the neoliberal cult that neglects the human nature and pretends everything is shaped by monetary incentives is slowly destroying our societies…
by Ygg2 | 2025-12-07 15:45:17+00:00
> ...as part of the language.

Which part? It's not available in no-std without alloc crate. You can write your own Arc.

Most crates don't have to use Arc/Rc.

> Is this another case of "Rustacians" randomly renaming things?

No. This is a case of someone not having enough experience with Rust. Saying Rust is a GC language is like claiming Pascal is object oriented language because they share some surface similarities.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-07 15:46:36+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Parr

https://martinparr.com/

https://dmbrepresents.com/artist/martin-parr/

https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/manifesto-martin-pa...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/aug/24/theres-...
by walletdrainer | 2025-12-07 15:47:10+00:00
I think we can probably agree that people using cocaine at social events once or twice a week are generally not the problem users.

Similarly, I don’t think you could reasonably suggest that someone who has a couple of glasses of wine during such events has a drinking problem.

> Significant drug users often don't realize how much of a bubble they're in. Also, the goalposts for having a drug problem tend to be moved around a lot when everyone you know is using drugs regularly. Typically, being unable to say no when offered a drug is a sign of having a problem

Personally, I’d consider someone who uses cocaine on a daily basis to have a problem. I’d also like to suggest that it’s pretty hard to have a cocaine problem and not use cocaine on a daily basis.

OTOH, someone who infrequently shoots up cocaine probably isn’t addicted but would be engaging in some seriously risky behaviour unless they’re able to very precisely measure their dosage. I’ve never heard of anyone doing that though, it’s certainly not a common activity among the upper socioeconomic classes.

> The works "typical" and "meaningful" are doing a lot of work here. One of my friend groups has a lot of ER nurses. They see a non-trivial number of people coming to the hospital from casual cocaine use. These cases are generally waved away as other conditions by drug users (e.g. heart attacks, etc) and therefore they don't "count" in some people's minds. Yet it's a common finding for them on blood workups for people, including young people, arriving with cardiovascular problems

To my knowledge there exists no evidence that anything less than massive cocaine use could result in new cardiovascular issues. Of course it may trigger an existing condition, but someone who has a heart attack during normal casual use of cocaine would probably be prone to have one during exercise also. The stress on the heart from cocaine usage is not particularly different from fairly normal day-to-day activities of people who do not use cocaine.
by jclay | 2025-12-07 15:47:17+00:00
I thought the macOS notarization process was annoying until we started shipping Windows releases.

It’s basically pay to play to get in the good graces of Windows Defender.

I think all-in it was over $1k upfront to get the various certs. The cert company has to do a pretty invasive verification process for both you and your company.

Then — you are required to use a hardware token to sign the releases. This effectively means we have one team member who can publish a release currently.

The cert company can lock your key as well for arbitrary reasons which prevents you from being able to make a release! Scary if the release you’re putting out is a security patch.

I’ll take the macOS ecosystem any day of the week.
by flohofwoe | 2025-12-07 15:47:42+00:00
> I live in Germany so I'm fucked either way.

Honest question: why don't you emigrate to Russia since you seem to admire it so much? They are specifically looking for people who 'share Russian values', and Germany is on the 'white list' - so acquiring citizenship should be really easy and you don't need to live in a country you apparently seem to hate.

Here's how it works:

https://russianresidency.com/

https://mid.ru/upload/medialibrary/aef/94mfg4ehws6kav1nk8bts...
by judofyr | 2025-12-07 15:47:50+00:00
I think this is a bit unfair. The carpenters are (1) living in world where there’s an extreme focus on delivering as quicklyas possible, (2) being presented with a tool which is promised by prominent figures to be amazing, and (3) the tool is given at a low cost due to being subsidized.

And yet, we’re not supposed to criticize the tool or its makers? Clearly there’s more problems in this world than «lazy carpenters»?
by esrauch | 2025-12-07 15:49:27+00:00
I think what you listed matches with what he suggested, they just have words instead of a letter for the variants. Which is actually better in this example because the "Slim", "Pro" and "Digital" mean what you would expect them to mean here, versus the "a" in "Pixel 9a" in somewhat obtuse.

Dell is messing this up badly even though they almost got the strategy, "Dell Pro 14 Premium" is a real product and "Dell Pro Max 14 Plus" is also a real product, there's no way anyone knows what that means.