MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by acdha | 2025-04-28 01:05:14+00:00
You’re still making the error of acting like there’s a single, simple “it”. For example, what you say is a very weak argument is a fundamental feature of our entire legal system: we have different penalties for not picking up after your dog vs. leaving toxic waste in the same place, stealing a hot dog versus a car, punching someone versus hitting them with a bat, etc.

In this case, it’s even more than the simple question of degree because intention matters, and we have enormous differences around that. Criminal charges are often far heavier if they can show intent, and it factors heavily in things like whether inaccurate business statements were honest errors or intentionally misleading investors. In the case mentioned, it would be especially key whether someone was trying to suppress misinformation in good faith because they honestly thought they were performing a public safety good by preventing dangerous advice from spreading during a crisis — and that shows why Martin’s threats to are at an entirely different level since there’s no emergency and they’re clearly protected speech which has no direct harm or even a path to substantially contribute to harm.
by thelastgallon | 2025-04-28 01:05:31+00:00
Ah, the classic "good intentions" argument. Picture this: a well-meaning monkey sees a fish struggling in the water. Wanting to help, it pulls the fish out and lays it in the sun to dry. Proud of its good deed, the monkey beams with satisfaction—proof of its altruism! In the monkey world, it's now a hero, basking in praise for its selfless act. Monkey does a TED talk how we can save billions of fish, signs book deals, influencer deals, shills for scams, and so on.

On the 'high' standards: It is all wooden sticks and drywall, completed by 2 minimum wage unskilled labor with a nailgun. None of the homes in US withstand anything, insurance keeps going up. If standards are high, why is insurance going up significantly?
by brailsafe | 2025-04-28 01:05:59+00:00
> What happens if the thing thinks the speed limit on a 65 MPH highway is 30 MPH?

I'd presume the state would need to update its GIS record, in the meantime you'd put your hazard lights on and move over to the right lane.

> Or you have some emergency situation where a higher travel speed is a matter of life and death?

Suddenly while driving, or something that you'd need to use the car for in order to travel fast? In the latter case, you'd just return to the wild and live like anyone else does without the ability to travel at arbitrarily sufficient speeds to deal with any personal emergency. These situations could be accounted for prior to repeatedly breaking speed laws and moving to some backwoods area where you'd also be screwed if it broke down.
by tzs | 2025-04-28 01:06:31+00:00
> What happens if you sell the car or let somebody else borrow it?

This will put an onerous burden on people who borrow cars.

If they intend to go more than 10 mph over the posted speed limit in the borrowed car they will need to make sure to only borrow cars from people who have not been convicted of speeding over 100 mph and forced to have an ISA installed.
by asdefghyk | 2025-04-28 01:06:35+00:00
A feature that would be good to have is if a "Internet in a Box" could also store the update files for serving to other "internet in Box" machines.

( However having worked as a technical software tester in similar systems for over 20 years , its probably to complex to implement reliably, being able to handle all the edge cases. Is my GUESS )
by tptacek | 2025-04-28 01:07:29+00:00
You're writing Rust, right? That's probably the answer.

The sibling comment is right though: it matters hugely how you use the tools. There's a bunch of tricks that help and they're all kind of folkloric. And then you hear "vibe coding" stories of people who generate their whole app from a prompt, looking only at the outputs; I might generate almost my whole project from an LLM, but I'm reading every line of code it spits out and nitpicking it.

"Hallucination" is a particularly uninteresting problem. Modern LLM coding environments are closed-loop ("agentic", barf). When an LLM "hallucinates" (ie: is wrong, like I am many times a day) about something, it figures it out pretty quick when it tries to build and run it!
by DiscourseFan | 2025-04-28 01:08:00+00:00
This means of communication is already outdated. If you live in an urban metropolis in the US and Europe especially, but increasingly everywhere, you cannot avoid using translation apps on an almost daily basis. I’ve had close intimacy with a partner whose language I barely spoke. The intricacies of language are suitable for technical tasks but language is something which is wielded at the bottom by force, the force of expression, of a gesture. The culture of the internet is building a language of its own with a non-linguistic grammar, as exemplified by memes which increasingly lack any immediately percievable linguistic content. And LLMs are the key to all this, they are the great mediator of the world, transforming any expression into any other. But the strength of the expression still lies in its use, far more than its content. Still, as I said, there is room for deep knowledge of the cultural intricacies intertwined into any particular language: but this is a regressive element in our expression, one which is being eliminated by industrial necessity.
by sokoloff | 2025-04-28 01:09:49+00:00
I’d be surprised if only 75% of suspended drivers continue to drive. I’d expect that to be 90% or more (at least for those aged 21-65).

Drivers ignore the suspension because the chances of being pulled over are extremely low.

I’m not a crazy driver, but I am usually moving with a purpose and get pulled over about once every five to seven years. That might be 40 or 50K miles between stops. Someone can get a lot of life things done in 50K miles and finding alternatives for each of those miles may rationally be less appealing than fading the risk of being caught while suspended.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-04-28 01:10:04+00:00
The wording your usage here seems to suggest that the phones can be configured to not connect to 2G networks. This is false if you live in the USA. The phone will not connect to 2G networks regardless of any setting. There have not been any to connect to for a while now. The only thing out there that is 2G any longer is malicious actors.

It should come as no small surprise that phones in the US markets ship with a feature that is a de-facto backdoor.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-28 01:11:11+00:00
This type of thing is called spectacle. It is designed to titillate and distract people from real political action and prevent people who are easily fooled from applying their attention and effort to things that actually effect their lives. The ability to direct attention is an ability that creates pacification.

This UFO stuff seems to frequently break into my scope of attention when there are big things happening politically.

Authoritarians also love the "occult" and the idea of aliens fit that category. Occult beliefs legitimize irrational behavior.
by colingauvin | 2025-04-28 01:11:36+00:00
I worked for a while on extremeophile Archaeal viruses - the type that infect organisms that manage to live in volcanic hot springs, for instance. These are ecological niches that are old, and extremely divergent. There's little genetic exchange between life around the hot springs, and life within them.

The typical route of discovering those viruses was first genetic. When you get a genome (especially back when this work was initiated), you'd BLAST all the gene sequences against all known organisms to look for homologs. That's how you'd annotate what the gene does. Much more often than not, you'd get back zero results - these genes had absolutely no sequence similarity to anything else known.

My PI would go through and clone every gene of the virus into bacteria to express the protein. If the protein was soluble, we'd crystallize it. And basically every time, once the structure was solved, if you did a 3D search (using Dali Server or PDBe Fold), there would be a number of near identical hits.

In other words, these genes had diverged entirely at the sequence level, but without changing anything at the structural (and thus functional) level.

Presumably, if AlphaFold is finding the relationship, there's some information preserved at the sequence level - but that could potentially be indirect, such as co-evolution. Either way, it's finding things no human-guided algorithm has been able to find.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-28 01:11:41+00:00
Okay. So while jail is probably appropriate given the potential threat of harm if nobody had reviewed the menus prior to their publication with the allergens stripped...

The tech community should not let Disney off the hook for failing to scrub the access credentials of a terminated employee. Because the law can punish one actor, but if the attack vector is still open, the public isn't safe from future more subtle incidents of menu manipulation (or other similar attacks by other disgruntled employees).

Is there any information on what Disney did after this incident to prevent another Scheuer in the future? The root of the attack is that the sFTP system was accessible via "credentials [that] were non-individualized, not specific to a particular user, and available for use by multiple employees with administrative access."

(I'm also a little unclear on whether this was all owned by Disney proper or they were farming this out to a third-party service provider company and that company screwed up. With so many entertainment venues in such a small area, Orlando is positively shot through with high-volume, hyper-focused service provider companies that do stuff like this).
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-28 01:11:51+00:00
Hmm yeah but that's the thing, who really cares about licenses as a user? I certainly don't. It's just some stuff that some lawyers fuss over. I don't read EULAs either nor would I even consider obeying them. The whole civil-legal world is just something I ignore.

I do have a feeling that Linux users in general care more about the GPL which is quite specific of course. Though I wonder if anyone chooses Linux for that reason.

But really personally I don't care whether companies give anything back, if anything I would love less corporate involvement in the OS I use. It was one of my main reasons for picking BSD. The others were a less fragmented ecosystem and less push to change things constantly.
by platevoltage | 2025-04-28 01:13:01+00:00
Really my only Bethesda interest is Fallout games. I loved Fallout 4 despite its issues. I'm not a big RPG nerd, so the lack of RPG elements didn't bother me too much. It's more the technical issues. It's also the graphics. If you don't want to put resources into ultra detailed graphics, you have to use a less demanding art style like Nintendo does.

But yeah, as far as Starfield goes, I heard how barren everything was and decided I should just wait until maybe they make it better in a few years.
by hnthrow90348765 | 2025-04-28 01:13:33+00:00
Starfield fell on several levels, including gameplay mechanics, mediocre story, things to do, and raw content. Originally it was going to be a much smaller gameplay area which theoretically would have better content. FO76 is proof Bethesda can recover though because that was in a way worse state than Starfield at launch. But if the next Starfield DLC is a flop like the first one, I wouldn't hold my breath that it gets worked on further. The UE5 remaster of Oblivion (which is excellent) is proof they can extract more revenue from a UE5 Morrowind, Fallout, or Skyrim while working on TES6.
by jsight | 2025-04-28 01:13:37+00:00
I've ridden in a Waymo. It was awesome! I've only ridden it a couple of times and for no more than 10 miles each time.

If I had been a safety driver, I would have intervened ~5 times: - ~3 (maybe more) when it stupidly turned on its turn signal while stuck in traffic in a middle lane at a light. Changing lanes wouldn't have even been desirable. - Another time when it parked itself for pickup behind a car that was ready to leave. It blocked him for really no reason - Another time, it was seriously confused by a car backing out of a space in a parking spot near its intended dropoff point and just behaved... strangely, with weird unnecessary lurches.

None of these were safety related. TBH, measuring interventions is really hard for this reason. I remember hearing anecdotal reports that Waymo had a decent number of non-safety interventions back when they had safety drivers.

I wouldn't necessarily suggest being an early adopter of robotaxi with no safety driver either, but I don't think these numbers can be extrapolated to show that with any meaningful confidence. This is especially true given that the initial drives will likely be in geofenced areas.
by blahblahblhu | 2025-04-28 01:13:43+00:00
This is an interesting narrative. I think competition has something to do with it in our modern society. If I work at a company and someone is so competitive that I end up getting fired for whatever reason. I'm not going to all of a sudden care what happens to that person. Because they didn't care what happens to me. So you extrapolate this to the societal level, mix in the different cultural and clan ideological backgrounds of the occupants on the society and you can see how autism is a scapegoat for side effects of competition in many levels of our lives. Then you add the time dimension into the mix and yeah, maybe it looks like autism but maybe it's just, hey were all competing in many different ways and at some point. You stop giving a f*^k.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-04-28 01:14:41+00:00
I have one of these, not in operation but could deploy by just plugging into power and attaching it to a higher gain antenna. It does have a message-baord type function included, but it's anonymous and there's no sign-in so there's also no way to administer it or edit / delete your own messages (piratebox is a product of a more innocent age, maybe). It's also possible to upload files to it, anonymously.

Both of these things make me worry about liability in the event of the type of jerks where the term "jerk" is possibly the nicest way to describe the person.

(I have it on a GL.Inet Mango device and it took me a lot of digging to find the install binaries and instructions, and I don't even know if said binaries and instructions specific to the Mango exist anymore - I don't have the time / energy / motivation to try to dig it up again, I remember there were lots of trails that led to almost the right information)
by LeoPanthera | 2025-04-28 01:16:34+00:00
It is amazing, and depressing, how the urban legends surrounding the C5 persist, despite the truth being only a quick internet search away.

The electric motor was custom designed for the C5 by Polymotor. The chassis was engineered by Lotus, and while the shell is indeed injection-moulded polypropylene, this at the time innovative method was both strong and light.

The pedals provided assistance on inclines, and were not designed as the primary form of propulsion. For their intended function, they worked well. (See also the German designed “twike”.)

I think it’s sad that we enjoy denigrating commercial failures. Clive was simply ahead of his time. Electric vehicles and alternative personal transportation is a big industry now - the technology to realize his vision simply didn’t exist in 1985.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-04-28 01:16:40+00:00
Looking at long term, STEM supply drives these rapidly advancing markets. We have China training so many engineers of all stripes there is a chronic oversupply, cut throat competition between engineers, with the ones who don't make it working in noodle shops. We also have the USA, who has 1/3 the population, is seeing record low attendance at it's colleges and currently attacking it's own universities. Short of another Mao style political upheaval, it's difficult to see how the USA's crown in technological leadership won't be handed over to China in time, if it hasn't already.

That said, smaller countries do out-compete the bigger ones in their specialised areas of expertise despite being many times smaller. Finland builds great ice-breakers, Australia does mining and medical, New Zealand does food products. The same will hold for the USA. They will do perfectly fine once the crown passes, just like the other smaller fish do now. Well, assuming the current kerfuffle doesn't turn into a Mao sized disaster. Right now it does have the same anti-intellectual stench to it, but you will stomp on it before it gets completely out of hand. Surely?
by TMWNN | 2025-04-28 01:17:29+00:00
I don't agree with the author stating that people expected that if one region would dominate tech it would be Route 128 and not Silicon Valley. Further, Harvard and MIT are part of Route 128; Yale and Brown are not, and certainly not Bell Labs.

I do agree that the Bay area in the 1970s and 1980s was first among equals, as opposed to the dominant/preeminent role it has had since then. Consider personal computers. Tandy? Fort Worth. Commodore? Suburban Philadelphia. The PC was developed at IBM Boca Raton (Miami) and run from there and Armonk/Yorktown (Westchester County), with the San Jose office having little input. Compaq? Houston.

Or software. Everyone knows about Microsoft and Seattle, but Ashton-Tate was in Los Angeles and Lotus in Cambridge.

There's a reason why the Computer Bowl during the 1980s had "East Coast" and "West Coast" teams, with Bill Gates captaining the latter despite Microsoft not having a regional office until it bought Forethought in 1987 for PowerPoint. (I suppose today the teams would be "Peninsula", "Valley", "San Francisco", and "rest of world".)
by brailsafe | 2025-04-28 01:19:22+00:00
While I'd accept that there are tight situations on remote highways similar to the one you described with the semi and tailgater, I also relish in those moments where I do just slow down and let the tailgater be pissed, sometimes they do get the ticket, and my conservative speeding gets vindicated.

Worth noting in this case that this bill does not redefine reckless driving, and is in fact dependent on a reckless driving charge and having been going over 100mph.
by amrocha | 2025-04-28 01:19:43+00:00
I think employees know about it, but don’t say anything because it marks you as a low performer, and it’s very easy to fire low performers.

At the same time, employees know that tips are incredibly lucrative for them, and would rather have a sub minimum wage day every once in a while for the on average above minimum wage pay. There’s a reason servers don’t want to get rid of tips.

That being said, none of this is my problem as a customer. If you choose not to pursue your rights that’s on you at the end of the day. I’m not going to feel bad that your scheme to have me subsidize your wages failed.
by throwup238 | 2025-04-28 01:19:50+00:00
The Cursor docs indexing works very well and it’s probably the biggest thing missing from Windsurf. The other key is to stop the response when you see something going wrong and go back to your first message to add more context, like adding docs or links to library source files (a url to Github just fine) or attaching more files with types and annotations. Restarting your request with more context works better than asking it to fix things because the wrong code will pollute the probability space of future responses.
by mjevans | 2025-04-28 01:20:27+00:00
Backup link https://web.archive.org/web/20250415035227/https://news.lehi...

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Unlike typical grain boundaries that migrate over time at high temperatures, this complexion acts as a structural stabilizer, maintaining the nanocrystalline structure, preventing grain growth and dramatically improving high-temperature performance.

The alloy holds its shape under extreme, long-term thermal exposure and mechanical stress, resisting deformation even near its melting point, noted Patrick Cantwell, a research scientist at Lehigh University and co-author of the study.

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This sounds exotic, but possibly better performing in some use cases?
by rayiner | 2025-04-28 01:22:10+00:00
> RFK views autistics as undesirables

>> “These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go on a date, many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,”

This is true of people with severe autism. I know someone whose autism is severe enough she'll probably never be able to live independently. Doesn't everyone view that medical condition--the condition, not the person--as undesirable? Doesn't everyone view being healthy as better than being unhealthy?

I have ADHD. I'd rather not have ADHD. I take a pill every day to control it. My kid has it too. He'll have to take a pill every day for the rest of his life. I'd love to avoid that outcome. Avoiding disease is a good thing!
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-28 01:22:11+00:00
> Qualitative aspects

name them!

> Haven't read the Mariel study

then stop making short-run supply shock claims

> Cubans just replicated their own economic structures in a hyper-contained locality, with significant ethnic solidarity given a shared history of hardship

Damn if only there was a way to study assimilation. Wait, there is, we have, and if you look a few replies up you'll see that its basically a complete success with sufficient NGO support that vastly boosts social participation.

> If the benefits were so obvious we wouldn't need a team of nerds to tell us that, well, actually your hourly wages do go up ... eventually.

This kind of thinking leads to Trump. Unironically. Handwaving about "if it were real I'd know of it" is what leads to terrible economic policy.
by conductr | 2025-04-28 01:22:18+00:00
If you're taking a fail fast type approach, the business guys fail faster when they can't get a tech co-founder to rally around their ideas. If you can't do that, you probably can't sell the MVP either. On flipside, the tech guys will spend month and even years polishing their 'product' without ever actually launching it with actual attempts to sale it. So they fail slowly after sinking tons of time. They'll talk about it as a side-project to minimize the appearance of failure but if they put all that work in they really do want it to succeed. They just get to the point where code is good enough and can't force themselves to transition to marketing/sales/etc.
by WrongOnInternet | 2025-04-28 01:22:29+00:00
I'm tired of articles with titles like "X makes Y bigger/faster/stronger," then never giving an answer to the obvious question: "How much?" This article is happy to tell you it costs $25M to develop , how many hours the annealed the metal, the patent numbers, the years the researchers got their degrees, but never once gives a single number related to the materials performance. Maybe its 0.1% better, maybe its 1000% better. I guess its not important.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-28 01:22:30+00:00
Windows has a really good basis for it though, in volume shadow copy. I also don't understand why Microsoft never built a time machine based on that. Well, they kinda did but only on samba shares. But not locally.

But these days they want you to subscribe to their cloud storage so the versioning is done there, which makes sense in their commercial point of view.

I think snapshots on ZFS are better than time machine though. Time machine is a bit of a clunky mess of soft links that can really go to shit on a minor corruption. Leaving you with an unrestorable backup and just some vague error messages.

I worked a lot with macs and I've had my share of bad backups when trying to fix people's problems. I've not seen ZFS fail like that. It's really solid and tends to indicate issues before they lead to bigger problems.