MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sofixa | 2025-12-10 19:18:19+00:00
> It's certainly better than the EU just rolling over for King Donald, which as a EU citizen is embarrassing.

I'm seeing it more as buying time thing. In sourcing as much as possible in the EU is already in progress, as well as various trade agreements with different countries and economic blocs. That doesn't mean it isn't preferable to play nice with the demented guy to make the transition less painful in the short term.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-10 19:18:40+00:00
Well, the first case got squished pretty quickly (at the first motion, I believe), and it got squished in a way that damaged the ability of one of Trump's people to do her job.

And there's a statute of limitations here. It has already elapsed, in fact, though the administration is trying to argue that they way they're doing it allows for an exception. If that doesn't fly, then it's just over.
by hinkley | 2025-12-10 19:18:50+00:00
Young travelers have always found ways to subsidize their trips by selling some of their personal possessions while there. I heard Levi’s were so popular during the Cold War that customs started counting your clothes going in and out of Russia, which still wouldn’t stop someone swapping a worn out pair for new ones.

And American cigarettes were popular in Canada in the 90’s and 00’s. IIRC the Turkish tobacco blended in was banned by the Canadian state dept so theirs were garbage. Meanwhile Americans were flying into Canada in order to fly to Cuba.
by thayne | 2025-12-10 19:18:56+00:00
Rust compilation is also almost instant, if you have a relatively small project.

It's only when you get very large projects that compilation time becomes a problem.

If typescript compilation speed wasn't a problem, then why would Microsoft put resources into rewriting the tyescript compiler in Go to make it faster[1]?

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go
by l1tany11 | 2025-12-10 19:19:07+00:00
100%. Tire technology is a real thing. Tires have advanced a ton in the last 10 years. But driving style is the biggest thing. Some people can only get 10k miles out of a set of tires, while others with the same car and tires get over 40k.

But they do care about tire wear a lot, they know the acceptable wear life for the class. A couple years ago I bought a set of Pirelli tires that were ~50% off because they were an older version; hoping I’d get some benefit. Unfortunately they had half the life and were a bit worse in every way than the newer tires I had before and after.
by dnhkng | 2025-12-10 19:19:17+00:00
This is the story of how I bought enterprise-grade AI hardware designed for liquid-cooled server racks that was converted to air cooling, and then back again, survived multiple near-disasters (including GPUs reporting temperatures of 16 million degrees), and ended up with a desktop that can run 235B parameter models at home. It’s a tale of questionable decisions, creative problem-solving, and what happens when you try to turn datacenter equipment into a daily driver.
by dralley | 2025-12-10 19:19:32+00:00
Fair enough, 12 total only includes the original pager attack, not the subsequent radio one. However, you seem to have made the same mistake. 42 people were killed total, but that does not mean that there were 42 targets.

In any case, if Hezbollah themselves admit that 1500 of their fighters were injured by the attack (according to your own source), it seems extremely dishonest to claim that all 4000 were civilians or that there were only 42 targets.
by williamDafoe | 2025-12-10 19:19:55+00:00
Then you wouldn't have 3G cellular. Or 4G. Or 5G cellular. It costs tens of millions of dollars to drive around san diego in those vans taking traces of a new cellular system design and discovering improvements so that the standard works everywhere else on earth (San Diego is a worst case that's comparable to Hong Kong.). We wouldn't have CDMA cellular. Or LTE cellular. Recall that CDMA cellular was 3x more efficient in bits/second/Hz than 2G/GSM, so that cell phone providers could literally give you a free phone or PAY YOU to throw away your phone and they would still come out ahead, financially.
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-10 19:20:06+00:00
Worth noting there are open-source approaches exploring a similar space, especially around AI-assisted CAPTCHA handling for research and testing purposes. There’s an OSS repo here that focuses on the technical side rather than a hosted service: https://github.com/aydinnyunus/ai-captcha-bypass How are you thinking about abuse prevention and responsible use in a commercial context?
by anarticle | 2025-12-10 19:20:06+00:00
I've been using: https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer with yt-dlp to create complete archives of channels I like because I have so many channels I learn from I don't want YT to randomly disappear them. Mostly language, but loads of deep ML long plays and other things.

I'm looking forward to trying out PeerTube.

Start archiving now, the internet is rapidly getting user hostile.

Drives are cheap, data is expensive.
by fabian2k | 2025-12-10 19:20:16+00:00
The numbers you state are from the Lebanese government and Hizbollah. So I don't think we can assume they are accurate. I don't have any better numbers, though.

You specific argument though misuses even those numbers. 42 is the number of people actually killed. I couldn't figure out how many were targeted (how many pagers did explode), but I'd assume the number could be much higher than the number of deaths. Without that number we cannot determine how well targeted this was. I also don't think it is plausible that for every target you injure 100 bystanders. So I would assume the number of targets was at least an order of magnitude higher.

There's also another number from Hizbollah, that 1500 of their people were injured. But no idea it those would be included in the 4000 wounded number.
by vessenes | 2025-12-10 19:20:29+00:00
Thanks for open sourcing this.

I'm skeptical of the value of this benchmark, and I'm curious for your thoughts - self play / reinforcement tasks can be useful in a variety of arenas, but I'm not a priori convinced they are useful when the intent is to help humans in situations where theories of mind matter.

That is, we're using the same underlying model(s) to simulate both a patient and a judgment as to how patient-like that patient is -- this seems like an area where I'd really want to feel confident that my judge LLM is accurate; otherwise the training data I'm generating is at risk of converging on a theory of mind / patients that's completely untethered from, you know, patients.

Any thoughts on this? Feel like we want a human in the loop somewhere here, probably on scoring the judge LLMs determinations until we feel that the judge LLM is human or superhuman. Until then, this risks building up a self-consistent, but ultimately just totally wrong, set of data that will be used in future RL tasks.
by ryandrake | 2025-12-10 19:20:32+00:00
It seems so weird to even know which states "hate firearms" and which ones support them, let alone care. It's not something that would even appear on my radar if I had to move across the country to some new town. I'm worried about things like good schools, access to amenities, commute times, access to fresh air and nature, stuff like that. How gun-friendly the place is? It wouldn't even make my top 20 or even cross my mind. Do Americans really factor this into their decision when they move somewhere?

I take it as a given that being in America in general means you could be shot randomly, with a uniform, but low probability distribution. It doesn't really matter what the state's gun laws are. So outside of notoriously "unsafe" areas, it doesn't play into my mind at all.
by vbernat | 2025-12-10 19:20:33+00:00
It's odd to always say "Hashicorp, an IBM company". Looks like they want to assign blame.

I did try Pulumi a while back, but the compatibility with Terraform modules was not great, so I've switched to CDKTF, which can handle unmodified modules. Dunno if I'll switch back to Pulumi or just use OpenTofu directly.
by wasabi991011 | 2025-12-10 19:21:02+00:00
> So? You aren't off the hook because someone did something unexpected or "was exercising poor operational security."

You might be. If it was Hezbollah's guns that exploded and not their pagers, I would expect most people to agree that you would be "off the hook" if someone else was handling that gun.

Not saying pagers = guns, but it's a spectrum surely.
by yannyu | 2025-12-10 19:21:05+00:00
> They know that congestion pricing coming to their city would hurt them in very real ways.

But why should they even care to begin with? Just because the news and media made them aware of congestion pricing? This is the whole problem, that local issues are made mainstream news media specifically to cultivate fear and anger in people that literally have no skin in the game and a completely different lifestyle.
by 9rx | 2025-12-10 19:21:13+00:00
> I think the problem is there is an existing paradigm of libraries allocating their own memory.

That is a problem, and the biggest reason for why the arenas proposal was abandoned. But if you were willing to accept that tradeoff in order to use the Go built-in arenas, why wouldn't you also be willing to do so for your own arenas implementation?

> If there was a paradigm of libraries not doing allocations and requiring the caller to allocate this wouldn't be such an issue.

I suppose that is what was at the heart of trying out arenas in an "official" capacity: To see if everyone with bespoke implementations updated them to use a single Go-blessed way to share around. But there was no sign of anyone doing that, so maybe it wasn't a "big miss" after all. Doesn't seem like there was much interest in collaborating on libraries using the same interface. If you're going to keep your code private, you can do whatever you want.
by jackiechan285 | 2025-12-10 19:21:40+00:00
Inspired by your idea, I made a real-time AI-generated Hacker News in 2035, that uses Gemini to generate headlines, articles, interactable comment threads, and serach results, all generated on the go.

Try it at: https://gemini.google.com/share/c4d45459fbb2

You can: - Open any article and it's generated on the go. - Comment and reply on threads and get answered by a random user. ("ask" section) - All headlines are different every time, you can click the logo to re-generate. - All headlines are different every time, you can click the logo to re-generate - The "ask" section generates threads, there's also the "show" section.

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Here's a screen record: https://x.com/rafapozzi/status/1998823946372919761?s=20
by orochimaaru | 2025-12-10 19:22:16+00:00
I’ve said this before and cannot be said enough. Palantir is a data platform. I think they optimize for knowledge graphs (ontology). It has several uses. It’s seems to be fashionable to blame Palantir these days. But then wouldn’t you also blame other things - Java and database open source, Python, Linux foundation, etc. for all this.

I think people just want to blame without analyzing what else could be blamed to. Really it’s most of the free software community too.

Disclaimer: I don’t consider what Israel did unlawful. They were under attack by hezb and Hamas. They were within rights to retaliate. And no, hezb and Hamas don’t care about civilian casualties.
by HanClinto | 2025-12-10 19:22:22+00:00
"Tomatoes typically bear fruit in clusters, requiring robots to pick the ripe ones while leaving the rest on the vine, demanding advanced decision-making and control capabilities."

At what point do we begin to grow tomatoes specifically for their harvestability (in addition / as opposed to other attributes)?

This sort of thing happened years ago with farmers producing product specifically for things like "durability in shipping" -- I'm thinking of "machine-pickable" as the natural next step for growers to aim for.

Is this already being done? I'd love to hear about how this sort of thing is already in place.

Whether this means mechanically manipulating flower + fruit locations (specifically growing vines in a way that produces fruit in a controlled manner), or possibly even breeding cultivars that specifically have more robot-friendly fruit clustering, I wonder what these sorts of efforts might look like in the future?
by GaryNumanVevo | 2025-12-10 19:22:29+00:00
As a US Expat who just purchased a home in Amsterdam it's a hell of a lot better than paying $1.5 mil for a shack in Sunnyvale. We bought the apartment we were living in from our landlord (funny enough because they're going to start charging him extra tax for N+2 rental properties). It's worth it.

For one, they ruled that the wealth tax is against the EU human rights agenda. So they're scrambling to come up with a solution. Even with this tax, the projected weight isn't terrible. For reference my wife and I are CoastFIRE here with ~2mil USD in NW and the tax is marginal compared to our returns.
by QWERTYmini | 2025-12-10 19:22:30+00:00
Yes, all characters are entered with tap or double-tap, and it also supports simultaneous taps as an advanced option. It’s fully local, with no autocorrect or prediction. Minuum compresses QWERTY into one row, but QWERTY mini keeps the QWERTY structure to preserve the familiar typing experience. Thanks for your interest!
by breppp | 2025-12-10 19:22:33+00:00
According to Hezbollah sources 1500 of their terrorists were taken out of commission due to this attack. Making the death ratio 42/1500 or 3% while if only taking the civilian ratio that's even lower.

Even the 12 civilian count is probably higher than reality because it is doubtful that 12 civilians had access to a military clandestine communication device

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollahs-tunnels...

Regarding the leaked IDF document this was leaked to a minor blog yet cannot be seen anywhere.

But let's entertain it as real, these are 8000 named Hamas terrorists known for certain by one intelligence unit in the IDF to be dead. This only means the minimum amount of Hamas terrorists, this doesn't take into account the other armed groups in Gaza that had a prewar strength of 10,000s of terrorists or the Hamas members who are only known by uncertain intelligence to have been killed.

Taking that number and reducing it from the Hamas published death count (an organization that kidnapped babies for political goals, but is incapable of lying, and was caught faking death counts before) to get the civilian death count is very unscientific to be extremely mild
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-10 19:22:59+00:00
Yes. I've owned a couple Android-based Sony TVs in the past decade and they both support updating firmware via USB thumb. They also support installing/removing packages with ADB, just like one would with an Android phone, in the case that there's some offline app you want to use on it. The newer models also do a neat thing where if you have external speakers hooked up, its internal speakers can be repurposed for center channel audio which is super cool.

I'll echo the Apple TV + Sony TV combo. It's very solid.
by pedrozieg | 2025-12-10 19:23:07+00:00
What I like about this writeup is that it surfaces a tension most “let’s build a compiler” tutorials skip: the AST is both a data structure and a UX boundary. Super-flat layouts are fantastic for cache and memory, but they’re hostile to all the things humans care about (debuggable shapes, easy instrumentation, ad-hoc traversals, “just print this node and its children” in a debugger). A lot of production compilers quietly solve that by having two tiers: a nice, inefficient tree for diagnostics and early passes, and increasingly flattened / interned / arena-allocated forms as you move toward optimization and codegen.

The interesting question for me is where the crossover is now that IDEs and incremental compilation dominate the workload. If your front-end is effectively a long-running service, it might be worth keeping a friendlier AST around and only using a super-flat representation for hot paths like analysis passes or bulk refactors. Otherwise you risk saving a few hundred MB while spending engineer-months making every new pass fight the layout.
by arjie | 2025-12-10 19:23:15+00:00
Spoilers for Iron Blooded Orphans below.

I watched the one 'except' that OP has listed there "Iron Blooded Orphans". It's the only Gundam I've ever watched and I really liked it, to be honest. It was full of subversions of anime tropes. There's a prophecy, a stoic soldier like none other, a charismatic leader playing a dual role, another heroic leader trusted by his people. And there's the instrument of the establishment, playing the establishment role. And spoiler spoiler spoiler,

spoiler spoiler spoiler the establishment wins, the charismatic double-role leader dies trying to fulfill the prophecy which isn't real, the stoic soldier is cut apart in the final battle, and the remainder of the loyal band either gets their people rights in parliament or gets picked off in violent engagements over time in the denouement.

Fantastic story. You don't see that kind of thing very often. Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one" but this one was "the establishment is the establishment and most of the time it wins".
by plipt | 2025-12-10 19:23:30+00:00
I see that their HuggingFace link goes to some Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B models that show a last updated date of September

The benchmark table in their article shows Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01 (and the previous Flash) as beating Qwen3-235B-A22B. How is that possible if this is only a 30B-A3B model? Also confusing how that comparison column starts out with one model but changes them as you descend down the table.

I don't see any FLASH variant listed on their Hugginface. Am i just missing it or are these specifying a model only used for their API service and there are no open weights to download?
by rayiner | 2025-12-10 19:23:41+00:00
> Boiled down and greatly simplified; someone who struggles to afford food, housing, and child care.

This is not a good description of the median American. Your article is about the income required to afford a "comfortable life," which is a vague target. You can get a concrete idea of what this target seems to mean by looking at the calculator they use: https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/.

For a 2 adult/2 child household in the Baltimore metro area, the calculator estimates you need a household income of $126,000 to meet this "comfortable life" benchmark. For a single person with no kids, the standard is $54,000 a year. It does not make sense to say that someone making $50,000 a year or a family making $100,000 a year in Baltimore (which is a cheap area) is "struggling." My sister-in-law's friend, a 20-something who works as a nanny, probably makes less than that and she has time and money to go out, travel, etc.

The basic error in this analysis is that it bakes in a number of assumptions about standard of living. It assumes that people with significantly below-median incomes (it defines middle class as the middle 60%, so someone at the 25th percentile is counted as middle class) can live alone in a median house, etc., send their kids to corporate daycares, etc. But people with below-median incomes live in below-median houses, they have roommates, they rely on family for childcare, etc. My sister-in-law's friend has roommates, which frees up a lot of money to go do stuff.

If you applied this standard to Europe, you would probably conclude that people are quite desperate there, though of course they are not. In Spain and Italy, half of adults 25-34 live with their parents. They probably couldn't afford to live by themselves in a median-priced apartment. But does that mean they're struggling and would have no time to protest?
by usgroup | 2025-12-10 19:23:56+00:00
evil(x) -> not(do(x)) which equates to not(evil(x)) or not(do(x)).

The negation would be evil(x) and do(x) by DeMorgan's law.

If what you mean is all(x), evil(x) -> not(do(x))

then the negation would be exists(x), evil(x) and do(x).
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-10 19:24:36+00:00
Are you a programmer? Are you familiar with Alan Turing [0]?

What do you mean by finite, are you familiar with the halting problem? [1]

What does "inanimate" mean here? Have you seen a robot before?

Imprecise language negates your entire argument. You need to very precisely express your thoughts if you are to make such bold, fundamental claims.

While it's great that you're taking an interest in this subject, you're clearly speaking from a place of great ignorance, and it would serve you better to learn more about the things you're criticizing before making inflammatory, ill-founded claims. Especially when you start trying to tell a field expert that they don't know their own field.

Using handwavy words you don't seem to understand such as "finite" and "inanimate" while also claiming we don't have a "logical definition" (whatever that means) of intelligence just results in an incomprehensible argument.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-12-10 19:24:44+00:00
> Cars are en extension of some Americans' identity

i hear this a lot and i also feel like this population is declining very significantly for a lot of reasons (cars that people care about are unaffordable, most cars on the road tend to fit into one of a very small number of categories, people find other ways to navigate depending on where they live, people don't do as many activities out of the home that require a vehicle, etc). at what point does the real population of car enthusiasts become small enough to be irrelevant in public policy and infrastructure decisions?
by jdmichal | 2025-12-10 19:24:51+00:00
> the voting record proves it.

Putting on my tin-foil, devils-advocate hat... AKA I don't necessarily believe this but I also have no counter-argument:

Mostly performative. When it's decided that something actually needs to pass, then you'll get some sacrificial lambs that vote across the aisle. Typically they'll be close to retirement or from a state where they won't be heavily punished for that specific vote.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-10 19:24:57+00:00
The SF-LA transit project isn't a replacement for driving, it's a replacement for flying. Cars are replaced by local transit, the CA high speed rail line goes through a whole lot of nothing (read: the worst farmland they could route through) between SF and LA. Are you sure you live around here if you're this off-base with the basic premise?
by recursive | 2025-12-10 19:25:07+00:00
You might have been hearing some of that hate from me. I definitely don't understand COM, but I've had to use it once or twice. It's pretty far outside what I normally work on, which is all high-level garbage collected languages. I don't know if that's even the right dimension to distinguish it. I couldn't figure out how to use COM or what it's purpose was.

The task was some automated jobs doing MS word automation. This all happened about 20 years ago. I never did figure out how to get it to stop leaking memory after a couple days of searching. I think I just had the process restart periodically.

Compared to what I was accustomed to COM seemed weird and just unnecessarily difficult to work with. I was a lot less experienced then, but I haven't touched COM since. I still don't know what the intent of COM is or where it's documented, and nor have I tried to figure it out. But it's colored my impression of COM ever since.

I think there may be a lot of people like me. They had to do some COM thing because it was the only way to accomplish a task, and just didn't understand. They randomly poked it until it kind of worked, and swore never to touch it again.
by gffrd | 2025-12-10 19:25:21+00:00
I'm with you.

This thing costs $75. Over 4 years, that's $0.05 a day. Let's say you're 40 and plan to buy these until you die at 80. We'll pretend inflation doesn't exist: $750 for 40 years of use.

It feels like backward objection handling where people can't find a use case for something, but feel like they should, so invent a totally irrational objection to it.