MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-11 22:19:21+00:00
"3D touch" was always marketing wankery. Every capacitive touchscreen and touchpad can sense pressure.

No android phone needed a trademarked name to have that feature. If modern iPhones no longer allow you to easily move the cursor around for editing, that's a software engineering decision. Android's implementation was not as nifty, you could only move "linearly" along the text input, rather than freely in two directions, but the intent is you just place the cursor roughly at the place you want and drag the space key for exact placement, though IMO it's too sensitive. Constraining axis in that context is a good thing.

Meanwhile, my Mac's "3D touch" keyboard functionality only results in it insisting to show a dictionary definition for most of the words I click and making it so "drag this file onto an app to input it" doesn't work half the time because dragging a file from Finder just doesn't work sometimes!

"Mac touchpads are so much better than everything else" people tell me as I yet again cannot do the one interaction that is the killer app for multi-window graphical workstations and that we figured out in the 80s on computers that couldn't even do color.
by foxyv | 2025-12-11 22:19:58+00:00
I think the objections with AI will change based on the quality of the AI generated work. What people don't want is to wade through a million gallons of poorly generated slop to see one good movie. They also don't want to have to deal with thousands of zero effort AI videos just to find one good video generated by a human being.

If the actual result of AI is an unlimited supply of adequate media personalized to our tastes, I don't foresee there being any objection. Right now, it's honestly just shovelware on a scale that hasn't been seen before. No one likes shovelware except maybe toddlers.
by 5upplied_demand | 2025-12-11 22:20:19+00:00
> Except when I look at the city I grew up in, it is no longer safe for kids, and kids do not even go outside anymore

Which city? I ask because I am raising my kids in Chicago. It is far safer than when I was a child and I was under the impression that most cities are far safer. We also have plenty of kids playing outside in our neighborhood. I'm not saying you are wrong, but my lived experience is significantly different.

> BTW SMS and phone calls cost money.

That depends on where you are and what network you are using. That same would go for using social media sites which require internet connection.

> Sending e-mails was not a thing even when I was a kid, 25 years ago.

I was also a kid 25 years ago and we absolutely sent emails.
by asveikau | 2025-12-11 22:20:27+00:00
> The response.getheader method in urllib has been deprecated since 2023 because the response.headers dictionary is what should be used instead.

Who cares? This is such a trivial example, where there is no maintenance cost associated with leaving a dummy method in that does a dictionary lookup. I understand there are times when maintenance costs are substantial, but it's hard to take someone seriously when this is their example.

The obsession with newness, and stigmatizing something that doesn't conform to your sense of chasing newness, is really silly.. can you believe it's been deprecated since 2023 and someone still uses it???? 2023 was not some kind of dark ages of distant history.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-11 22:20:49+00:00
It’s close, but I see why it failed. There’s no need to include licensing/rights management in there. Also this was before pervasive HTTPS, so it would have been possible for governments and ISPs to snoop the info and possibly block it. If it could be limited to just content ratings, and kept private behind SSL, this isn’t a bad approach.

But this also needs some kind of guarantee that lawmakers won’t try to force it on FOSS projects that want to operate outside the system. And that companies like Google won’t use EEE to gradually expand this header into other areas and eventually cut off consenting adults who want to operate outside this system. I’m not sure if it is possible to get those guarantees.
by sothatsit | 2025-12-11 22:20:51+00:00
There are a lot of AI videos that you can very easily tell are AI, even if they are done well. For example, I just saw a Higgsfield video of a kangaroo fighting in the UFC. You can tell it is AI, mainly because it would be an insane amount of work to create any other way. But I think it is getting close to good enough that a lot of people, even knowing it is AI, wouldn't care. Everyone other than the most ardent anti-AI people are going to be fine with this when we have people creating interesting and engaging media with AI.

I think we will look back at AI "slop" as a temporary point in time where people were creating bad content, and people were defending it as good even when it was not. Instead, as you say, AI video will fall into the background as a tool creators use, just like cameras or CGI. But in my opinion it won't be that people can't tell that AI was used at all. Rather, it will be that they won't care if there is still a creative vision behind it.

At least, that is what I hope compared to the outcome where there are no creators and people just watch Sora videos tailored to them all day.
by Sevrene | 2025-12-11 22:20:52+00:00
It's possible we just see things different, I'm not sure why you're so keen to say I'm "profoundly confused"- entirely possible we just have different perceptions no? Lets be more charitable.

I agree things have deteriorated, I agree the state is centralising it's power and becoming more authoritarian that's true. I agree that through democracy authoritarianism can rise, and does.

What I don't agree is that this by it's nature is because people value democracy, it's the opposite. Upholding democratic institutions might include a citizen doing their part to understand the policy, it might be the ICE agent or brownshirt, it might be judges refusing subverting traditions and spirit of law simply because it's not currently being enforced (much of democratic power is procedural and traditional, not by actual force). If people don't value it, it erodes and disappears.

> None of this is about ‘power in democratic institutions’ - they have plenty, which is why they are being turned into powering the authoritarianism

I think we might just both have a superficial disagreement with each other, when I say 'democratic institutions only have the power given to them' I mean to say the power of democracy is derived from the people, therefor if the state decides for the people (authoritarianism) and the people reject this but the state retains that power, well- that is treason not democracy. This is what made Hitler a dictator, he wasn't really into democracy, even though he subverted it, and he also used it to get into power. I'm not sure we actually disagree we might just have different framing. I consider this a failing of the people, yet you consider it a failing of the system (I assume). Both are valid I think.

To me, if people decide through democracy to elect a dictator that shows a reluctance of the population to care about democracy or institutional norms. That's why this stuff happens during broader social & economic downturns. If people want to elect a person who wants to spend the entire GDP on producing paperclips, well I can't really fault them- that is democracy, the only other choice is authoritarianism isn't it?

> ‘Why doesn’t anyone do anything?!?’ they say, as they refuse to do anything, or allow anyone sane to do anything either.

Yep, I agree with this. We do need to be smarter and work together. We do have freedom, including the freedom to harm ourselves. People need to respect that and be more responsible, be more virtuous. If not, we get the government we deserve but not the one we might need.
by agentifysh | 2025-12-11 22:21:10+00:00
Looks like they've begun censoring posts at r/Codex and not allowing complaint threads so here is my honest take:

- It is faster which is appreciated but not as fast as Opus 4.5

- I see no changes, very little noticeable improvements over 5.1

- I do not see any value in exchange for +40% in token costs

All in all I can't help but feel that OpenAI is facing an existential crisis. Gemini 3 even when its used from AI Studio offers close to ChatGPT Pro performance for free. Anthropic's Claude Code $100/month is tough to beat. I am using Codex with the $40 credits but there's been a silent increase in token costs and usage limitations.
by setgree | 2025-12-11 22:21:40+00:00
The other possible future is you rent the car for exactly when you need it and don’t pay a monthly bill— or your monthly bill pays for a certain number of rides/minutes/miles per month. In which case the subscription costs are managed by the provider, who might be the manufacturer and might not.

At least in cities, a fully-functioning, on-demand autonomous fleet would probably be superior to car ownership in just about every way except as a status symbol.
by the__alchemist | 2025-12-11 22:22:14+00:00
Chemistry (Or biology, as an extension of it) simulations. Current tools include Newtonian atom-centered force fields that are fit to a specific situation and lose validity outside it, and quantum computations that are very slow, and don't scale well.

I have a hunch there is something about the underlying physics we are missing, and that we have not hit the endgame of modelling physics at this scale.
by tpurves | 2025-12-11 22:22:16+00:00
Undoubtedly each new model from OpenAi has numerous training and orchestration improvements etc.

But how much of each product they release also just a factor of how much they are willing to spend on inference per query in order to stay competitive?

I always wonder how much is technical change vs turning a knob up and down on hardware and power consumption.

GTP5.0 for example seemed like a lot of changes more for OpenAI's internal benefit (terser responses, dynamic 'auto' mode to scale down thinking when not required etc.)

Wondering if GPT5.2 is also case of them in 'code red mode' just turning what they already have up to 11 as a fastest way to respond to fiercer competion.
by LexiMax | 2025-12-11 22:22:35+00:00
Discord lacks the "capriciously moderated town square" that most other social media has, and this is a feature, not a bug.

Instead, it harkens back to the older era of web forums and IRC channels where communities were siloed and moderated by actual humans using moderation tools, permission abstractions, and even bot API's that are actually fit for purpose.

The key advantage that Discord has over the pre-social-media status quo is that Discord gives the ability for users to moderate their social spaces without the overhead of having to run their own forum software or intuit the arcane NickServ/ChanServ deep majick. The friction for creating a new social space is quite low, and joining one of those spaces is as simple as obtaining an invite - which can either be publicly posted or only handed out to specific users on a case by case basis.

Sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are antithetical to this - they want you to throw you in the deep end and get hooked by engagement-bait. Reddit was probably the closest prior art, but Reddit still gamified engagement using voting, kept the walls between subreddits very thin, and refused to give moderators adequate tools to properly moderate their subreddits. As time has gone on, further changes to Reddit's structure and userbase have turned moderators from being community curators to doing free janitorial work for a tech company.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-12-11 22:22:50+00:00
> It's crazy that there is a house of unelected lords in an allegedly modern country.

I certainly agree. But its worth noting that only 92 of the 825 seats in the Lords are reserved for hereditary peers - the remainder are nominated by the (elected) leaders of the main political parties, or are appointed for non-political achievements (science, society, business, arts, etc.) There are also 26 Church of England bishops. Legislation to remove the hereditary peers is currently going through parliament.

There's plenty wrong with the HoL, but I think there's at least an argument to be made that the UK benefits from a parliamentary revising chamber that is less party-political than the Commons.
by to11mtm | 2025-12-11 22:22:58+00:00
I think the separation is in how 'algorithmic engagement' in social media is at least as dangerous as stuff that even the US still has banned in other forms of media [0].

Especially because it's gotten so bad. At first it was just 'making things popular in your network more visible'. But now it's to where when I use something like Facebook there is more 'algorithm spam' than anything actually happening with my friends. It's become something where the primary purpose is 'driving views' rather than communicating. [1]

A VPN is a bit different; it's a tool, and I will note one that depending on the specific definition has legitimate (or at least morally/ethically legitimate) uses.

[0] - e.x. unless it has been reversed in the last decade or two, in the US you still can't cut from a kid's cartoon right into a commercial for a toy/game related to said cartoon. I mean FFS that was a rule that got put in before 'attention hacking' was even a term.

[1] - TBH I'd love if we could get back to Myspace or maybe even early Facebook type social media. There's a lot of excitement lost when an algorithm feeds you shit versus a friend sharing it, and it was a lot less noise...
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-11 22:23:09+00:00
Yes: somewhat cynically, they want their democratically elected affiliate party to remain in government (or they just enjoy popular support themselves) and so when the majority of people think protectin the childrun is good, you should demonstrate your purity spiraling by proposing and going along with anything that supports such an aim. You’d want to vote for that, right? I mean, the kids, right?!
by garaetjjte | 2025-12-11 22:23:10+00:00
>I think you're right. My mistake.

I didn't disagree with you, I just wanted to point another issue.

Actually *mut BSTR (owned) is also acceptable, iff you remember to use std::ptr::write instead of normal assignment.

> I'm not 100% sure whether it can legitimately point to non-null

Note that in none of the examples on this and other posts (like https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040326-00/?p=40...) output value is initialized, so it will be whatever is lying on the stack.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-11 22:23:12+00:00
I mean, Disney can do basically whatever it wants and nothing will change. If my gay, Muslim friends are still willing to patronize the parks, despite their very real disagreement with how Disney conducts its business, then what hope is there for the exhausted, overworked mom whose child won't stop wailing about watching Frozen? This will absolutely tarnish the brand, and yet people will still consume Disney slop.
by gfaster | 2025-12-11 22:23:33+00:00
> that is asinine and unscientific

Well, yes. I did say something to that effect. Blaming BSODs on invasive anti-cheat out of principle is a political position, not a scientific one.

> During the same time period when people were complaining about BSODs, I didn't experience one. I was running the same build of the game as them and playing on the same difficulty and sometimes recording it via OBS (just like they were). What I didn't have was a AM5 motherboard, I have and older AM4 motherboard which doesn't have these problems.

I understand what you're saying here, but anyone who does a substantial amount of systems programming could tell you that hardware-dependent behavior is evidence for a hardware problem, but does not necessarily rule out a software bug that only manifests on certain hardware. For example, newer hardware could expose a data race because one path is much faster. Alternatively, a subroutine implemented with new instructions could be incorrect.

Regardless, I don't doubt that this issue with Helldivers 2 was caused by (or at least surfaced by) certain hardware, but that does not change that given such an issue, I would presume the culprit is kernel anticheat until presented strong evidence to the contrary.
by jonplackett | 2025-12-11 22:23:34+00:00
Excited to try this. I’ve found Gemini excellent recently and amazing at coding. But I still feel somehow like ChatGPT understands more. Even though it’s not quite as good at coding - and nowhere at as fast. It is much less likely anti spontaneously forget something. Gemini’s is part unbelievably amazing and part amnesia patient. I still kinda trust ChatGPT more.
by supongo | 2025-12-11 22:23:40+00:00
I've had some success in using Claude Code, with caveats.

To give some context - I started developing a tactical RPG. I had an MVP prior to using Claude Code. I continued to work on the project, but lost motivation due to work burnout and prioritizing other hobbies.

I gave Claude Code a try to see whether it's any use. It helped more than I expected it to - it helped me produce something while dealing with burnout by building on the MVP I developed prior to AI assisted development.

The main issues I ran into were:

1) A lot of effort into reviewing the output. Main difference from peer review is that there's quicker feedback.

2)It throws out some absolutely wild solutions sometimes. It build on my existing architecture, so it was easier to catch issues. If I hadn't developed the architecture without AI assistance, things could have gone badly.

3)I only pay for the $20 Claude plan. Anything useful Claude produces for me requires it to consume a lot of tokens due to back-and-forth questions and asking Claude to dig into source file.

The most significant issue I ran into with Claude is when it suggested solutions I don't have the background to review. I don't know much about optimization, so I ran into issues with both rendering and the ECS (entity component system) library. Claude gave me recommendations, but I didn't know how to evaluate the code due to lacking that experience.

Claude was good for things I know how to do but don't want to do. It's been helpful when I want to work on something without being motivated enough to put 100% (or even 70%) into it.

If it's things I don't know how to do (like game optimization) it's harmful.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-11 22:24:21+00:00
You would get them used to the more intimate and private interactions first ?

While doing small talk at the bus stop, telling someone you go to the middle school over there is small talk. Doing the same online is asking for problems.

Online interaction require a completely different mindset for a kid, it's a big enough gap IMHO to be treated as a separate thing that can be learned in parallel of offline interactions.

You can learn to swim while learning to walk.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2025-12-11 22:24:24+00:00
> As any parent knows, if you tell your kids that something is harmful, they will stop immediately. No questions asked. I've never met a child who did something their parents told them not to do, have you?

You can configure parental controls or take away the phone.

> So, you do like big government telling people what they can and can't do, as long as you feel it directly helps you.

Yes, of course!

> That said, laws against violence don't protect you from violence, the laws kick in after the fact.

They protect me by discouraging other people from committing violence on me, obviously.

> Possibly because you don't have kids and thus maybe not a full understanding of the cost/benefit? Perhaps, instead of lecturing actual parents about what parenting is like, you could ask questions about the cost/benefit you claim to be interested in.

Cost/benefit for me, not for Homer Simpson-esque dads. You already took responsibility on yourself by becoming a parent, now please do the hard part (the parenting).
by snake_doc | 2025-12-11 22:24:44+00:00
> Models were run with maximum available reasoning effort in our API (xhigh for GPT‑5.2 Thinking & Pro, and high for GPT‑5.1 Thinking), except for the professional evals, where GPT‑5.2 Thinking was run with reasoning effort heavy, the maximum available in ChatGPT Pro. Benchmarks were conducted in a research environment, which may provide slightly different output from production ChatGPT in some cases.

Feels like a Llama 4 type release. Benchmarks are not apples to apples. Reasoning effort is across the board higher, thus uses more compute to achieve an higher score on benchmarks.

Also notes that some may not be producible.

Also, vision benchmarks all use Python tool harness, and they exclude scores that are low without the harness.
by tshaddox | 2025-12-11 22:24:45+00:00
Writer and director Steven Lisberger made that claim in interviews, so I wouldn't quite call it an urban myth.

As far as I know, any film can be submitted for Academy Award consideration in any category, then an executive committee determines the eligibility of each submission and chooses up to 20 films to move onto the nomination process.

I don't think this committee publishes anything about its decision-making process, so presumably Lisberger is just guessing based on his impression of industry sentiment at the time.
by m463 | 2025-12-11 22:24:46+00:00
I think it helps you drive. It takes away the tedium of driving and reduces your workload.

Big wins are: 1) stop-and-go traffic 2) long boring highway trips

infrequent but just as important - emergency braking

That said I absolutely hate that this seems to give tesla the "courage" to remove physical driver controls (like turn signal stalks, drive select stalks, full controls for wipers, lights and defrost)
by tennysont | 2025-12-11 22:24:52+00:00
I heard a second-hand story about some team at Google who did this, and named the variable something like:

I_ACKNOWLEDGE_THAT_THIS_CODE_WILL_PERMANENTLY_BREAK_ON_2022_09_20_WITHOUT_SUPPORT_FROM_TEAM_X=1

a year before the deadline. I would be mildly amused by adding

_AND_MY_USER_ID_IS="<user_id>"
by Yokohiii | 2025-12-11 22:24:52+00:00
Oh my mistake I was thinking of individual donations, which may be implied as some premium service. I think a company/org sponsor should be more professional. In theory you can just cancel a sponsor if it doesn't fit. You can turn your back on on donations, but you somehow owe the donators forever.

Edit: https://pocketbase.io/faq/

Look at the bottom, just an example how sponsors/donors may affect you.
by ben_w | 2025-12-11 22:25:17+00:00
It can be not-negative without being sufficient.

Imagine that pattern recognition is 10% of the problem, and we just don't know what the other 90% is yet.

Streetlight effect for "what is intelligence" leads to all the things that LLMs are now demonstrably good at… and yet, the LLMs are somehow missing a lot of stuff and we have to keep inventing new street lights to search underneath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-11 22:25:21+00:00
>What matters is the reason for them being shuttered.

So they should explain the situation rather than dropping a generic “our policies are great and this is fine.” We’ve seen them be inconsistent in their enforcement time and time again and with Zuckerberg openly kissing the Trump admin’s ring as he once again shifts course with the political winds, some of us (rightfully) think it is likely Facebook, not The Guardian, that is wrong here. Yes we need more clarification from both parties but my money is on TG.

Your skepticism is warranted but it is misdirected IMO.
by Barrin92 | 2025-12-11 22:25:44+00:00
>It's so organic and grass roots

It is though. This is one of the few surveillance issues actually driven by grassroots organisations like (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Shout) in particular when it comes to adult content who have been at this globally for well over a decade.

There's no shadowy cabal trying to age-restrict porn or social media, this is more like a modern day Carrie Nation. Puritanism always comes from the bottom up