MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-18 20:37:26+00:00
There's definitely some critical information missing there. I don't think you could individually identify me if all you had to go on was the text and timestamp of the searches I made within the past 24 hours. At least yesterday I didn't even look up any local businesses on maps.

State actor and porn site operator are two very different things. Pointing to the former in this context reads like a non sequitur to me.
by bsder | 2025-04-18 20:37:29+00:00
> Look at HN, people hate the electron stuff. There is just a shortage of competent programmers.

The problem is that, to first order, the web is the only thing that exists. To second order, the web and Windows are the only things that exist. So, any GUI toolkit needs to get traction there first--which is exactly what Electron does.

HN readership, of course, don't care about either of those so anything they develop are doomed to fail from the very start.
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-18 20:37:33+00:00
Sure, we have a feeling for when to use one and when the other, but a feeling is not a physical theory. Also, the Lambda CDM literally doesn't explain what 95% of the universe is made of and how it behaves, it simply posits that it exists. So even if the Lambda CDM is perfectly correct, it's still extremely far from a complete model.

Not to mention, the reason the tension between GR and QM is not very prominent is that we don't know how to conduct "medium scale" experiments, even though the vast majority of physical objects on Earth are in this medium scale: far too big to count particles, too small to measure observe gravitational bending effects. Basically, both QM and GR are completely useless for telling you what happens in compel scenarios like two billiards balls colliding on a frictionless table. They both have equations that are far too complex to actually solve for anything like this. And QM is even worse - even if you could solve the equation, it doesn't tell you what the balls will do, it only tells what chance they have atof being at some position with some velocity and spin if you were to measure that, whatever "measurement" might mean.
by chris12321 | 2025-04-18 20:38:38+00:00
I recently read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, and one of the ideas in it that I thought was very good was replacing our cargo ships with wind-powered ships, basically giant sailing ships. In the book, they were incredibly slow, with shipments taking months to complete, but if supply lines were set up correctly, that wouldn't matter for a lot of cargo. Cargo ships are a massive CO2 contributor, and it was interesting that a solution could be to return to sailing ships.

I know there are probably huge engineering problems preventing this from happening, so feel free to tell me why it's impossible.
by pimbrouwers | 2025-04-18 20:38:42+00:00
Recency bias playing a factor here. But System.Data.SQLite. When you scan around the offerings of the other top-shelf languages, it becomes quickly evident how good/reliable that DLL is. Not to mention that it's maintained by he SQLite team. SQLite has been having a moment in the sun, and this is the perfect package to use it in production.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-04-18 20:39:00+00:00
>You mean the ID that around 21 million US citizens who are eligible to vote do not have and don't have the time and/or money to get that ID? Here's a comment that contains links to a whole bunch of articles covering this, many of which contain extensive links to sources [1].

That is all a bunch of hogwash. Most people can get ID for like $20 from their state. Even if I accept it, the answer is not to lower standards. It is to actually help these people get the ID that they need. Anything else permits rampant fraud. This is so obvious that I have to assume people like you are malicious actors, with all due respect.

>you need the type of ID that Republican voter ID laws require for voting in order to get by in society (and so everyone already has the ID they need),

Is there any case where a state ID such as a driver's license is not adequate? I don't even care. Go try to open a bank account or cash a check without ID. Everyone will tell you GTFO if you don't have the same type of ID needed to vote.

>there are tens of millions of illegal aliens who have been living in this country long term (and hence are obviously getting by)

These people are issued ID, and besides that they often work for cash or in other ways that dodge the law.

>This implies either that you don't actually need such ID to get by or that illegal aliens can easily obtain such ID (which makes the ID law ineffective at preventing fraud).

If there is simply a field on your ID that says if you are a citizen, and that shit is verified at the time you register to vote or at the time you actually vote, it would be as effective as the enforcement. We have Democrat precincts where poll workers have been forbidden from asking for ID. It is pure insanity, so egregious that it seems engineered to outrage everyone with a shred of common sense. I keep having to mention all of these things on this site amid a flurry of downvotes because too many "hackers" have drank the Kool-Aid.
by mppm | 2025-04-18 20:39:35+00:00
Jai's perpetual closed beta is such a weird thing... On the one hand, I sort of get that the developers don't want to waste their time and attention on too many random people trying to butt in with their ideas and suggestions. On the other hand, they are thereby wasting the time and attention of all the people who watched the development videos and read the blog posts, and now can do basically nothing with that knowledge other than slowly forget it. (Except for the few who take the ideas and incorporate them into their own languages).
by schiffern | 2025-04-18 20:40:29+00:00
>sold people "full self driving" cars in 2014

Long FSD delays are no secret, but can we at least get the historical timeline correct?

https://brandonpaddock.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-tes...

In October 2014, at an event introducing the new dual-motor “D” variant of the Model S, Elon Musk surprised attendees by announcing the introduction of the “Autopilot” suite - an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) which would provide new active safety and convenience features. At the time, Musk said that there were “not enough safety redundancies in place” yet to enable autonomous functionality, but he began painting autonomy as Tesla’s ultimate ambition.
by jmward01 | 2025-04-18 20:41:22+00:00
This appears to ignore the new technology that electric brings in: Reduced maintenance, (for aircraft) reduced weight in other parts of an aircraft, new propulsion capabilities that increase efficiency of the energy used, new performance envelopes (like flying much higher because the physics are totally different), etc etc. Sure. Take an existing vehicle optimized for burning things and just swap that small part and things look bad but start optimizing for the new way of doing things and the equation totally changes. Additionally, that 60x claim is getting old by the minute. We are getting to 300+ with advancements coming in so fast they are hard to keep track of. That 60x could drop to 10x or lower in just a few years and that, again, doesn't count the reduction in weight that could come from removing a literal explosion maker from an aircraft can achieve.
by Timon3 | 2025-04-18 20:41:29+00:00
> "Rich people have more money" isn't an interesting fact, it's just the definition of rich people.

That's not what I said. This is bordering on bad faith, please don't do that.

> The term "DEI" has been applied to disparate impact rules and other policies that amount to race quotas and correspondingly garner strong opposition. If you want to advance good policies, you should stop using the same term to apply to them as is used to apply to bad policies with strong opposition.

First, what term would you have me use instead? Second, I don't believe it matters what term I choose, because it will get demonized just like DEI did.

> There is equally obviously a point at which the threshold of diminishing returns is met, and high-quality individualized private tutoring is plausibly beyond that threshold because it is very expensive.

There is still a large gap between "high-quality individualized private tutoring" and "poor kids should walk large distances to public libraries, have access to worse materials and have no tutoring available".

But that's besides the point, which was: objective metrics don't mean you're measuring merit. You've shown wonderfully how those advocating for "meritocracy" often don't care about actual merit. Thank you for the discussion, but I don't think it makes sense to continue, as you seem to simply not care about the issues with your position.
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by pixl97 | 2025-04-18 20:41:59+00:00
At the same time it was also that you typed 9 characters in an 8 characters field and you p0wn3e the application.

>Text could be entered into fields without inputs getting dropped or playing catch-up

This has been a complaint since the DOS days that has always been around from my experience. I'm pretty sure it's been industry standard from its inception that most large software providers make the software just fast enough the users don't give up and that's it.

Take something like notepad in opening files. Large files take forever. Yet I can pop open notepad++ from some random small team and it opens the same file quickly.
by mjd | 2025-04-18 20:42:01+00:00
The judge's opinion explains this in detail. It depends on the so-called "good-faith exception" to the exclusionary doctrine.

The idea is that if the police tell the truth in their warrant application of what they are looking for and why, the judge issues a search warrant, and the police lawfully execute the warrant, then there's no point in suppressing the evidence just because, years later, it's determined that the warrant should not have issued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good-faith_exception
by aftbit | 2025-04-18 20:42:21+00:00
Thanks for finding this! Here's a link to Courtlistener/RECAP, which has a copy of this hosted for free as well.

Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67397036/united-states-...

Order: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.162...
by eitland | 2025-04-18 20:42:31+00:00
> We were talking specifically about Easter, which is related to but also different from other Paschal traditions.

Here is from the top level comment in this thread:

> I find it odd how Easter, a pre-Christian Pagan festival (worshipping goddess of fertility: Eostre) has become seemingly-arbitrarily connected to the purported events at the end of Jesus' life..

They are clearly thinking about påske and (it seems to me) confusing the 2000 year old celebration (with even older Jewish roots) with this goddess that is only mentioned some 800 years after Christians started celebrating påske.
by decimalenough | 2025-04-18 20:42:47+00:00
I can buy these arguments for airplanes. I'm more intrigued by the throwaway tweet claiming "electric scooter companies can never be profitable", because I don't see why this should be the case, unless "scooter" here is referring specifically to Ola style light motorcycles that compete directly with ICE equivalents, and not Lime style electric kick scooters that don't?
by const_cast | 2025-04-18 20:43:17+00:00
> but I am sure even you agree that like half the country has drawn different conclusions. So it is at least least possible, right?

No, it's not, because we're not living in 1984. What is possible isn't determined by what people believe. No, actually, I cannot claim I am a butterfly and then fly out of this room, even if everyone in the room sees it.

> that’s the strongest possible sign that you may be a toddler in this particular instance.

Me, worried about the value of democracy, am a "toddler". Even on hacker news, the enticement of propaganda cannot escape you. You MUST defend the fascism, like a robot. What an idiot I am, for standing by the constitution, by American morals. How foolish of me for demanding we be skeptical of our all-knowing all-powerful king. Rise ye, and lay down your hands! Your lord Trump approaches, and we must kiss his feet.

Facts matter not. Reality matters not. Courts matter not. Law matters not. We not only live in delusion, we revel in it. We are proud to be insane. We are grateful to be so smart as to denounce reality. And we, alone, can see the True Nature of the world.
by sokoloff | 2025-04-18 20:43:47+00:00
Aircraft getting lighter as they burn off fuel is a feature. Lithium energy storage doesn’t get lighter as it discharges, meaning the aircraft doesn’t get more efficient as stored energy decreases and the landing weights/speeds are higher than a comparable fossil fueled aircraft.

I’m more hopeful that synthetic jet fuel will be a practical solution than batteries for long-range flight.
by executesorder66 | 2025-04-18 20:44:34+00:00
> Game dev at the top tiers is an arms race. Being able to do proprietary things is attractive to big players.

Yeah, so I don't see how helping out the big players and not everyone else is a good thing.

>Multiple projects have gone closed-source from open source. Assurances are a nice thing to have (but certainly no guarantee).

Yeah but the open source ones ARE guaranteed. Even if they later become closed source, the code up till that point will remain open source forever. So it is guaranteed whereas "some assurances" mean nothing.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-18 20:44:39+00:00
I do see what you're saying. However this debate isn't unique to this specific scenario. The exact same reasoning can be applied to other violations of due process. Historically that was viewed as a particularly dangerous slippery slope and thus we have the concept of fruit of the poisonous tree, despite that this can easily result in (for example) a mob boss walking free. Perhaps caution is warranted when considering abandoning well established principles?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
by wakawaka28 | 2025-04-18 20:45:36+00:00
Ok it is not exactly the same but it is quite similar. Clinton and fellow Democrats initiated a years-long legal campaign against Trump using her connections in 2015. They even had his whole campaign wiretapped. Trump did not even prosecute her for her mishandling of classified data. Now that the political persecution chickens are coming home to roost, these people have no actual answer besides to fearmonger about Trump even more.
by isthatafact | 2025-04-18 20:47:04+00:00
I cannot logic that out as a metaphor. The language is perfectly clear in its absurdity. Airplanes do not "manipulate" space or time, and they do not "leave distance annihilated" (which is such a nonsensical phrase anyway).

It honestly sounds like he got confused and mixed stuff he saw on Star Trek with reality.

However, I am willing to consider 2 extremely generous interpretations (maybe there are others):

1 -- He has zero understanding of technology and science, so technology like rocket engines is "magical" to him, in which case he is not qualified to be a director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

2 -- He wants to communicate to the world, possibly as a sort of boast or threat, that the USA has some secret UFO-like technology that it has not yet made public, in which case he is a total loon.
by otterley | 2025-04-18 20:47:54+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification

Provable correctness is important in many different application contexts, especially cryptography. The benefit for Python (and for any other user of the library in question) is fewer bugs and thus greater security assurance.

If you look at the original bug that spawned this work (https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/99108), the poster reported:

"""As evidenced by the recent SHA3 buffer overflow, cryptographic primitives are tricky to implement correctly. There might be issues with memory management, exceeding lengths, incorrect buffer management, or worse, incorrect implementations in corner cases.

The HACL* project https://github.com/hacl-star/hacl-star provides verified implementations of cryptographic primitives. These implementations are mathematically shown to be:

memory safe (no buffer overflows, no use-after-free) functionally correct (they always compute the right result) side-channel resistant (the most egregious variants of side-channels, such as memory and timing leaks, are ruled out by construction)."""
by cagenut | 2025-04-18 20:49:02+00:00
this post is a fake argument with no one? the typical internet outrage pattern of using overly dramatized language like "dirty secret" to describe something thats... common knowledge? not a secret at all? openly talked about at any and every relevant industries conferences and trade shows?

everybody who isn't just reading clickbait and comments sections is well aware that the wh/kg for li-ion will never cross the atlantic much less the pacific, via air or sea. thats why the aviation industry went in on SAF/eFuels, thats why the shipping industry is playing with hydrogen and ammonia. everybody knows the litany of challenges there (please spare us yet another internet commenters thoughts on hydrogen), but the very fact that they're trying is in and of itself a clear admission of the understanding that li-ion doesn't get you there.

so like, who is this guy even talking to?
by relaxing | 2025-04-18 20:49:24+00:00
> This version of equity based on race is using race as a proxy for outcomes in life

Because racism is ongoing and negatively impacts people of color, it makes sense to focus where harm is being done.

There is a leftist school of thought that agrees with you (focus on class instead of race). But I personally don’t believe that a focus purely on outcomes would be applied equitably while racism still exists.

> we're so focused on outputs throughout every stage of the life process that were missing a massive shift in the inputs

It is a fallacy to think we can’t focus on multiple things at once. Nothing keeps us for helping boys in some sectors and women in others.
by KronisLV | 2025-04-18 20:51:05+00:00
That’s kind of the beauty of it: you can opt for a different storage solution too https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v10.2.0/en/setup/bac...

Personally, no hate towards their BanyanDB but after getting burnt by OrientDB in Sonatype Nexus, I very much prefer more widespread options.
by livelaughlove69 | 2025-04-18 20:51:41+00:00
I have just started sailing in the UK. I can't recommend it enough. It's great time away from the computer in nature but still doing really complex technical tasks. The best thing imho is to find and join a local club. There are many that aren't snooty (having Commodores etc) and it's pretty affordable. Members will always be looking for crew. I really wish I had done it sooner.
by MiguelHudnandez | 2025-04-18 20:51:48+00:00
I appreciate by default any attempt to make a full accounting of the costs involved in energy transmission and storage. Many of these grid & battery costs are abstracted away from consumers and great effort must be made to understand them fully.

That said, have you done a similar analysis involving the costs of removing finite organics from the ground, burning those, and releasing the byproducts into the atmosphere? Even if one is better in the short term we should still be working toward better options.
by m463 | 2025-04-18 20:51:50+00:00
The same thing could have been said years ago about solar power in california.

But with PG&E's regulatory capture and people paying 50c/kwh for electricity, solar is economically practical. Even with batteries! (and wholesale electricity is still 3-4c/kwh)

My point is that the math could change in a moment due to regulation and/or energy repricing.

(example: disallow non-electric planes at certain airports or certain distances; allow in-city electric flight; wholesale electric rate for electric aviation/shipping; etc)

(that said, writer is probably right about this moment in time)
by MostlyStable | 2025-04-18 20:52:03+00:00
Just going off the tweet about electric scooters being a scam: Nothing in that tweet is convincing.

Let's just take at face value the assertion that a KWh of energy in an electric scooter costs $5 (as an EV owner: I'm skeptical).

I'm going to use Lime (an SF based scooter rental company, chosen at random) as an example. I tried finding exact battery specs, and couldn't, but based on the range and some general scooter efficiency metrics I found, I doubt it has even a full KWh capacity, but let's round up, and assume that when fully charged, it has $5 worth of electricity in it.

Lime is charging $1.00 to unlock and $0.50/minute of use (somewhat cheaper with the subscription).

The claimed top speed is ~15 mph with a range of 20-30 miles. Let's the take the lower range value there. So assuming that the scooter is doing nothing but driving at it's full top speed for the entire rental period, it would use up the battery in ~1.3 hours. That's a total rental fee of ~$39. Doing nothing but driving it full speed seems like an unlikely use case, so I think this represents a close to worst-case scenario for rental fee paid to electricity used.

Now, I don't know what the rest of the overhead is. So I'm not going to claim that this is an obviously profitable business model, but the electricity costs in this equation are not the reason why it's going to fail.

If the author thinks that this tweet is a slam dunk, I'm not going to bother reading the rest of the article. I too am skeptical of batteries utility in flight especially, but there are probably better sources to get those analyses from.
by dathinab | 2025-04-18 20:52:07+00:00
- cyclic dependencies

- some subtleties related to (proc-)macros

- better optimizations (potentially, not always, sometimes not at all)

- how generics and compilation units interact (reduces the benefit of making each module a compilation unit)

- a lot of unclearity about how rust will develop in the future when this decision was made

Also when people speak about rust compiling slow and splitting helping it's most times related to better caching of repeated builds (unrelated to the incremental build feature) and not the specific issue here. But there is definitely potential to improve on it to make humongous single crates work better (like instead of just 16/256 internal splits you could factor in the crate size, maybe add a attribute to hint code unit splits etc.), but so far no one has deemed it important enough to invest their time into fixing it. I mean splitting crates is often easy so you do that once are good forever or at lest a long time.