MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hashmap | 2025-12-10 17:31:01+00:00
The execution didn't finish; it started. Big policy changes typically take time to solidify, and it'll probably take a bit to get a reliable read on its trajectory. But there is international momentum on this, so making predictions based on whatever percentage of people that were supposed to have their accounts deactivated actually did the day of (if we even have that data, and I doubt that we do), is probably not going to be useful.
by rpdillon | 2025-12-10 17:31:06+00:00
This is false. Like all the age restricting laws being passed around the world, the implementation is not being specified and is being left to the individual platforms, which are using some combination of photo ID and video selfie in order to validate people's ages. Each platform is implementing it differently, and on different timelines. For example, X has failed to even respond for a while, but it's finally said they'll comply.

> Companies have told Canberra they will deploy a mix of age inference - estimating a user's age from their behaviour - and age estimation based on a selfie, alongside checks that could include uploaded identification documents.
by birjolaxew | 2025-12-10 17:31:23+00:00
Wouldn't it be more along the lines of "source available" being a public park that you're free to access but can't monetize by e.g. selling tickets to - while "open source" would let you do whatever you want with the park.

Ironically I think the analogy explains why many people find "source available" to align with their moral compass more than "open source" necessarily does.
by heathrow83829 | 2025-12-10 17:31:30+00:00
maybe it's a step in the right direction but you can't regulate away ALL parenting. I know kids in the 5th grade getting brand new Iphone 17s! i've even seen one kid at the age of 7, getting their own Ipad. some parents even force their kids to use play on their iphone, just so they don't have to keep an eye on their kid anymore. My jaw really dropped to the floor on that one.

at some point, you just have to say that parents need to start parenting again. i'm a parent, and i can tell you it's not that bad.

How are you going to prevent kids and teens from joining everything that's bad for them online??? I think regulation is just band-aid.

the ideal solution would be to have parents say "No screens" until a certain age, unless it's supervised, or on a managed device that just lets them get their homework done.
by done247 | 2025-12-10 17:31:35+00:00
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by _jzlw | 2025-12-10 17:32:13+00:00
The author really needs to start with that. They say "the API that we are building" and assume I know who they are and what they're working on, all the way until the very bottom. I just assumed it's some open source library.

> HTML parsing is not stable and a line of HTML being parsed and serialized and parsed again may turn into something rather different

Are there any examples where the first approach (sanitize to string and set inner html) is actually dangerous? Because it's pretty much the only thing you can do when sanitizing server-side, which we do a lot.

Edit: I also wonder how one would add for example rel="nofollow noreferrer" to links using this. Some sanitizers have a "post process node" visitor function for this purpose (it already has to traverse the dom tree anyway).
by bluecalm | 2025-12-10 17:32:28+00:00
Arenas is one of those patterns that very easy to underestimate. I didn't know about it when I started programming and I run into huge performance issue where I needed to deallocate a huge (sometimes tens of GBs consisting of millions of objects) structure just to make a new one. It was often faster to kill the process and start a new one but that had other downsides. At some point we added a simple hand written arena-like allocator and used it along with malloc. The arena was there for objects on that big structure that will all die at the same point and malloc was for all the other things.

The speed-up was impossible to measure because deallocation that used to take up to 30 seconds (especially after repeat cycles of allocating/deallocating) was now instant.

Even though we had very little experience it was trivial to do in C. Imo it's critical for performance oriented language to make using multiple allocators convenient. GC is a known performance killer but so is malloc in some circumstances.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-12-10 17:32:34+00:00
> Let's say 100 programmers write a function, most (unless it's something very tricky), won't forget to free that particular function. So the most likely tokens are those which do not leak.

You don't free a function.

And this would only be true if the function is the same content with minor variations, which is why LLMs are better suited for very small examples. Because bigger examples are less likely to be semantically similar, and so there is less data to determine the "correct" next token.

> There's a massive amount of reinforcement learning at play, which reinforces good code, particularly verifiably good (which includes no leaks)

This is a really dubious claim. Where are you getting this? Do you have some information on how these models are trained on C code specifically? How do you know whether the code they train on has no leaks?

There are huge projects that everyone depends on that have memory bugs in them right now. And these are actual experts missing these bugs, what makes you think the people at OpenAI are creating safer data than the people whose livelihoods actually depend on it?

This thread is full of people sharing how easy it is to make memory bugs with an LLM, and that has been my experience as well.
by autoexec | 2025-12-10 17:32:39+00:00
I think it's because it disproportionately impacts the people who can least afford it. It allows the wealthy to continue to enjoy the convenience (relative to alternatives) of driving into the city while polluting and causing traffic at a price that has zero impact on their lives while it punishes those who already have much less and whose lives will be impacted by the fines and the often significant amounts of time they'll have to spend arranging and taking alternative modes of transportation.

That's a very hard sell when people all around the country are feeling continuous downward pressure on their lifestyle and financial security while billionaires are seen getting massive tax breaks and pillaging everything they want while escaping accountability for the harms they cause everyone else. Taking a basic task like driving into the city, something many people are forced to do for work, and punishing them for it while once again giving the wealthy a pass was certain to upset people. in fact, by forcing more of the peasant class off the roads it makes driving into the city much more pleasant for the people with enough money to not care about the extra expense. Taking from the poor to improve things for the wealthy resonates with a lot of people.

It also doesn't help that in other contexts, congestion pricing has already hit people's wallets and is seen as an exploitative business model designed to extract as much money from the public as possible. The last thing most people want is seeing congestion pricing and other price-fuckery infesting another aspect of their daily lives, which is why the pushback against wendy's implementing it was so swift and severe that the company had to backpedal even after spending a small fortune on the digital menu boards they needed to enable it.
by coffeefirst | 2025-12-10 17:33:36+00:00
I remember the early days of the ipad 1 where publishers and technologists were stoked about all the cool new interactive things they could do with this format.

It flopped. It turns out interactive infographics and scrollytelling are fun (and costly) to make but readers don't really like them.

The smashing success story wasn't actually what you can do with the new devices' screen, it was audio. It turns out audiobooks (and podcasts) are a huge hit when the price is right and you make it accessible enough.
by anima-core | 2025-12-10 17:33:41+00:00
I appreciate this framing a lot. It is actually close to how I think about the result internally. The paper focuses on the geometric behavior of intermediate representations, and classification is the cleanest setting to study that. Generative decoding is a much harder problem, and the limitations section already makes that distinction explicit.

Recasting the work as a “classification-native distilled model” or “discriminative foundation model” is a good way to signal scope without underselling the contribution. You're right that discriminative understanding requires far fewer parameters than generation, and my experiments reinforce that.

This will help me get better. The goal for the next revision is exactly what you describe: make the setup clearer, emphasize the intended domain, and avoid suggestive wording that implies capabilities the method does not claim. Duly noted. Your suggestions on positioning and title direction are genuinely helpful, and I’ll incorporate some of this thinking when I prepare the academic submission.

Thanks for taking the time to articulate it so clearly. I appreciate your time and your critique.
by CryptoBanker | 2025-12-10 17:33:48+00:00
What electrification and signal improvements are you talking about? Signal upgrades are a constant thing in the MTA, both for the LIRR and the subways. They are not something that just started with congestion pricing funds.

Also, efficiency was already on the upswing for the LIRR long before congestion pricing funds[1].

[1] https://www.mta.info/press-release/icymi-governor-hochul-cel...
by WesleyJohnson | 2025-12-10 17:33:56+00:00
manage.py makemigrations myapp --empty --name add_some_view

(in the migration file)

operations=[migrations.RunSQL("Create View some_view AS ....", "DROP VIEW IF EXISTS...."]

(in your models.py)

class SomeView(models.Model): class Meta: db_table = 'some_view' managed = False manage.py makemigrations myapp --name add_some_view_model
by Huppie | 2025-12-10 17:34:04+00:00
I was actually in the feedback form a few days (just to leave a quick rant what an absolute mess this 'liquid glass' iOS-update is after I sadly chose to update...)

And look what happens, it turns out if you switch app-focus and go back to the app (now immediately focused on the text input) your on-screen keyboard becomes pretty much unreadable (white on light grey...)

The feedback is probably going straight to the bin but I couldn't help myself to file a second bug with a screenshot from the first feedback submission with a broken keyboard.

Screenshot of this absolute disaster: https://imgur.com/a/CyXiVy2
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-10 17:34:28+00:00
The Comey case is interesting. I can certainly see it as "the US is trying to be authoritarian" (or at least the current administration is).

But the courts ruled in Comey's favor. There is no reason to think that, if the feds try again, the courts won't rule for Comey again. That's still "rule of law", no matter how hard the current administration is trying to make it otherwise.

Now, sure, in an ideal world the case should never have been filed. In a just world, he would not have been put through that. And in an even-somewhat-ideal world, the case would not be re-filed. Absolutely. But for all that, the situation in the US is not (yet) as dire as you are painting it.
by Tade0 | 2025-12-10 17:35:13+00:00
> The love for diesel engines in many European countries was always confusing to me.

That's a thing of the past as as early as in 2023 diesels were already a smaller percentage of new cars than non-hybrid EVs:

https://www.acea.auto/figure/fuel-types-of-new-passenger-car...

To add to what others said: diesels always had a reputation of reliability. The cast-iron TDI 1.9 is legendary but even Italian cars fitted with the JTD line would just work and not require maintenance. I recall making light of a friend who was driving an Alfa Romeo until he mentioned that actually it's been more reliable than anything else he's driven - at least in terms of powertrain issues.
by asveikau | 2025-12-10 17:35:41+00:00
COM is basically just reference counting and interfaces. Also, the HRESULT type tries to give some structure to 32 bit error codes.

I remember a few years back hearing hate about COM and I didn't feel like they understood what it was.

I think the legit criticisms include:

* It relies heavily on function pointers (virtual calls) so this has performance costs. Also constantly checking those HRESULTs for errors, I guess, gives you a lot more branching than exceptions.

* The idea of registration, polluting the Windows registry. These days this part is pretty optional.
by jrepinc | 2025-12-10 17:35:54+00:00
Looks like Valve also needs to start making SteamTV, just a TV without any "smart" spyware/adware OS. Until then.. this blackfriday I ordered a TV that by miracle even has a DisplayPort input (Hisense 65U8Q). Unfortunately still "smart" TV but at least it does not have US-based OS but European made VIDAA which hopefully provides much less spyware than the US-alternatives, if it properly respects the EU GDPR laws. Hopefully Hisense starts/inspires a bigger movement towards DisplayPort and this HDMI mafia dies as soon as possible.
by enragedcacti | 2025-12-10 17:36:07+00:00
> Once the Feds approved the plan the State of NY made fixed, increasing, revenue targets their only goal.

The first thing the State of NY did with congestion pricing was halt the plan (arguably illegally) before reintroducing it six months later with a price reduction to $9 down from $15: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/congestion-p...
by tonyhart7 | 2025-12-10 17:36:09+00:00
"In fact, the world would be a better place if the US would not use their influence to try to keep other countries down."

acting like china wouldn't doing the same thing to other country if they ever weld such position

every great power would do the same thing to defend their position, its not unique to the US. only because current incumbent power is we see things this way
by palmotea | 2025-12-10 17:36:11+00:00
> Long term consequences: China outperforms Nvidia, by producing cheaper, faster chips at a large scale, by getting inspired by the IP but using their own production lines.

Unlike your typical free market fanboy, the Chinese leadership isn't stupid. They were always planning to do that, sanctions or no.

Realistically, all sanctions can do is mess with their timelines for some temporary strategic advantage, slowing some things down and forcing reallocation of investment away from other areas into the sanctioned areas.

The US refraining from sanctions is likely the stupid move, because that lever of control will expire at some point. To not use it is to squander it.

But if there's one thing the US government and its business elite is good at, it's squandering things.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-10 17:36:31+00:00
It is not right to call the xenophyophore that is on the last row, and which can have a size of up to 20 cm as an "amoeba".

Only the next row above it, with Pelomyxa, is indeed an amoeba and one that is very frequently encountered and which usually has sizes not much less than 1 millimeter and sometimes it can reach a size of a few mm.

The true amoebas are much more closely related to humans, than to xenophyophores (giant marine unicellular living beings) or to plants.

Besides the true amoebas there are also a few other kinds of unicellular eukaryotes with shape-shifting cells, e.g. foraminifera, radiolarians and others, but already in the first half of the 19th century it was recognized that those other groups change their shapes in a different way than the amoebas, so they were classified separately, even if the term "amoeboid cell" has always been used about any cell with variable shape.

The true amoebas are related to the group formed by animals and fungi, and there are some amoebas that have a simple form of multicellularity, so it is likely that some of the mechanisms needed for the evolution of multicellularity have been inherited from a common ancestor of animals, fungi and amoebae.

The multicellular or multinucleate amoebae that belong to Myxomycetes (one of the kinds of slime moulds) can reach much bigger sizes, e.g. a diameter of up to 1 meter, because they do not have the size limitation that exists for simple unicellular eukaryotes.
by WillAdams | 2025-12-10 17:36:45+00:00
Unfortunately, ebooks as a technology are young, and editors aren't paid as much as they used to be --- if they're being employed to review books at all in some cases.

Don't get me started on the typos in Lost Art Press's _Virtuoso: The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of Henry O. Studley_ --- they mis-spelled the subject's name on the inside cover and duplicated one photo, so a pair of flat pliers is shown twice and there is not detail photo of the iconic twin pair of jeweler's pliers, and didn't do a "cancel" reprinting that page as any reputable publisher would.
by mvdtnz | 2025-12-10 17:37:00+00:00
Is this around the same time we started over diagnosing mental health disorders?

'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2pvxdn9v4o

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172682
by gWPVhyxPHqvk | 2025-12-10 17:37:03+00:00
> and often the better option

Even before congestion pricing this was the major factor. It's often quicker, more reliable, more pleasant, and has less variation in delays to ride the train/subway in NYC. Speaking from personal experience I could easily eat the congestion charge to daily commute into Manhattan, and I'd rather still take the train because I can do my mindless scrolling or read a book during that time.

The only time I've found that a car is better is during the weekends with a group larger than about 4 people. The train schedules are terrible, the commute time isn't bad, and the price per ticket (assuming you're coming from the outer suburbs) vs parking and tolls works out to be a wash.
by mikepurvis | 2025-12-10 17:37:07+00:00
Not all tire wear is when skidding out. A car tire's contact patch is several inches wide (especially on trucks/SUVs where extra-wide tires are often used to give a more premium look), so any time that wheel is turning a corner, there's a portion of it at the outside and inside that's rotating at a different speed than the pavement beneath it is moving.

There's also the regular deformation of wheel just in the course of regular rotation, which is where the majority of highway wear dust comes from.
by safety1st | 2025-12-10 17:37:31+00:00
I don't think it's just the ads, I mean we had magazines, TV, and the web, they all had advertising, and no population-level impact on child & teen mental health impact was observed as these were adopted.

Then we got the one-two punch of social media apps on phones, and everywhere we saw these get adopted, we saw depression and anxiety increase en masse.

My own theory is that if you have to pick one thing it's the phone, because screen time/attention skyrockets when you get one of those, and they can have you freaking out about whatever clickbait they're feeding you pretty much 24/7. When I grew up there was just a computer in the den and when I wasn't in the den, whatever I'd viewed on it was out of sight, mostly out of mind.
by gardnr | 2025-12-10 17:37:33+00:00
This is a 30B parameter MoE with 3B active parameters and is the successor to their previous 7B omni model. [1]

You can expect this model to have similar performance to the non-omni version. [2]

There aren't many open-weights omni models so I consider this a big deal. I would use this model to replace the keyboard and monitor in an application while doing the heavy lifting with other tech behind the scenes. There is also a reasoning version, which might be a bit amusing in an interactive voice chat if it pronounces the thinking tokens while working through to a final answer.

1. https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B

2. https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct
by fsflover | 2025-12-10 17:38:37+00:00
To me it just looks like some kind of fear of a new thing, because technically there is nothing really complicated about Mastodon. Still, I do understand that switching to a new platform corresponds to some non-negligible effort and one would have to substantiate it with sufficient benefits. We, technical people, should not feel superior but explain that the benefits are stronger than the downsides and switching is worth it in the long term, especially due to the ongoing enshittification of all popular for-profit platform managed by megacorps.
by Ukv | 2025-12-10 17:38:40+00:00
> By design, this is all it is capable of doing. Assuming a finite, inanimate computer can produce AGI is [...]

Humans are also made up of a finite number of tiny particles moving around that would, on their own, not be considered living or intelligent.

> [...] we have yet to produce a logical definition of "intelligence". Of all people, programmers should understand that you can't program something that is not defined.

There are multiple definitions of intelligence, some mathematically formalized, usually centered around reasoning and adapting to new challenges.

There are also a variety of definitions for what makes an application "accessible", most not super precise, but that doesn't prevent me improving the application in ways such that it gradually meets more and more people's definitions of accessible.
by exDM69 | 2025-12-10 17:39:00+00:00
> Rust has native SIMD support

std::simd is nightly only.

> while in standard C there is no way to express that.

In ISO Standard C(++) there's no SIMD.

But in practice C vector extensions are available in Clang and GCC which are very similar to Rust std::simd (can use normal arithmetic operations).

Unless you're talking about CPU specific intrinsics, which are available to in both languages (core::arch intrinsics vs. xmmintrin.h) in all big compilers.
by nayuki | 2025-12-10 17:39:46+00:00
> HTML parsing is not stable and a line of HTML being parsed and serialized and parsed again may turn into something rather different

This is why people should really use XHTML, the strict XML dialect of HTML, in order to avoid these nasty parsing surprises. It has the predictable behavior that you want.

In XHTML, the code does exactly what it says it does. If you write <table><a></a></table> like the example on the mXSS page, then you get a table element and an anchor child. As another example, if you write <table><td>xyz</td></table>, that's exactly what you get, and there are no implicit <tbody> or <tr> inserted inside.

It's just wild as I continue to watch the world double down for decades on HTML and all its wild behavior in parsing. Furthermore, HTML's syntax is a unique snowflake, whereas XML is a standardized language that just so happens to be used in SVG, MathML, Atom, and other standards - no need to relearn syntax every single time.