MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by macinjosh | 2025-04-25 22:17:28+00:00
I am implying my Mom would still be herself if we were more serious about illegal immigration. Why is that hard to grok?

He had no license to be on that road, much less in the country. Both are privileges, not rights. The fact of the matter is if he had not been allowed to stay in this country when we was previously arrested, my mom would be OK today.

My family got unlucky, but society could have just not gambled on our lives in the first place? We have immigration laws for a reason, why should we ignore when they are violated?
by pulvinar | 2025-04-25 22:17:33+00:00
>The performance style of actors in current TV shows and movies is more naturalistic and less elocutive than it once was, so characters are more likely to speak softly.

Yeah, I've given up on new movies. If I want naturalistic without a storyline, I can just go outside. I'm not going to turn the volume up to the level required to hear the mumbled whispers, just to have my hearing damaged by the next gunshot or blast of music.

Subtitles aren't a fix -- they're distracting and therefore annoying. A selectable "classic" audio track would be the fix.
by ben_w | 2025-04-25 22:18:19+00:00
> - Bowie could not write joyful music because his world view made it impossible for him to have joy.

> [Marcus Aurelius, Christianity, Inner Light stuff]

Been a while since I've seen someone suggest an outwardly healthy adult might be incapable of one of the standard human emotions.

Anhedonia is a thing, but it's rare and associated with clinical depression.

Given your choice of quote, would it be fair to suggest that you believe that only Christians can truly experience joy?
by macinjosh | 2025-04-25 22:18:29+00:00
That doesn't change the fact that if this man was deported, according to the law, the first time he was arrested (he was previously arrested), then my Mom would be able to make us Thanksgiving dinner again, her favorite thing in the world, or it was.

The whole group is violating the law by overstaying visas or sneaking in the country, etc. Why is all of that OK to just let happen?
by Suppafly | 2025-04-25 22:19:59+00:00
>While there are enough charges to make the trip they are not as common as gas stations and often not in visible locations.

Sure but everyone with an EV has an app that tells them where they are and helps with route planning.

>You can't just drive until the light goes on and then stop at the next exit like a gas car.

You nearly can. Most ICE cars turn the light on at 50 miles. Other than maybe the middle of the desert, there is going to be a charger within 50 miles.
by jiggawatts | 2025-04-25 22:21:11+00:00
Yes, it is absurdly expensive no matter what the marketing says. It’s only “cheap” if you’re setting VC cash on fire.

The benefit is that you can retroactively extract reports filtered with very complex predicates.

Sure, aggregated metrics are cheap and efficient, but trivial metrics like CPU usage just tell you that there is a problem, not what the problem is. If you need to “deep dive”, you can’t, not without a Time Machine to go back and configure a filtered metric looking for the specific info you need.

Most sysadmins at this point would just configure a new filtered metric and start collecting data… for a month. While the system is broken. Wrong needle? Start looking through the haystack again with another new custom metric for another month.

As a random example, many systems will track 5xx errors per minute. Great, but are those timeouts or instant failures? I want to group 5xx errors per time bucket! Are those correlated by app release version? By server memory free bytes? By instance? Kernel version? Etc…

Wide events let you do all those and more, trivially and quickly: seconds instead of months.

The downside is the cost.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-04-25 22:21:30+00:00
I once wanted to fix a gym position in Google Maps. I bike in front of it everyday.

The response from GM was that they did an investigation and the address is correct. I replied to the dude in whatever country but not mine that I bike there daily and they even have a clean picture on street view.

Then suddenly after a year, or if the blue, I got a Thanks To You It Is Fixed automated email.

This is a weird company.
by z_mitchell | 2025-04-25 22:21:41+00:00
Not really :) (disclosure: I work there)

1. "sugared up nix pkgs" -> Nixpkgs is a package repository, and also not the product here. We provide a tool for setting up and using reproducible developer environments via a familiar, approachable CLI. You can install things from nixpkgs, and the experience is "sugared up" in the sense that in my opinion it's more palatable to most people than using Nix itself. I've used Nix for years, and I use NixOS and nix-darwin to configure my machines, but there's too much friction for me to want to use it for development all the time.

2. "for money" -> everything you see in the product today is free and will remain free. We're developing enterprise features that won't be free. That said, I use Flox today for all of my local development on side projects and it does quite literally everything I need.

The bigger picture is that we use Nix under the hood as a layer of primitives/infrastructure but make different choices about how to put them together and deliver features that Nix doesn't have out of the box like services (or something similar to docker-compose), the ability to use more than just Bash, etc. The goal is to allow more people to bring Nix to work: https://flox.dev/blog/its-time-to-bring-nix-to-work/

Happy to answer other questions
by d4mr | 2025-04-25 22:21:44+00:00
riveter could potentially evolve to extract high-signal compressed context out of these files. Kind of like building a RAG but modernised for long context LLMs. The compessed context would ideally just be the API exposed from the file. All function/method signatures, and comments that describe what the function body does. not sure if I'll ever get around to doing this though. There's lots of tools that try to do this advanced stuff (I see you have built one yourself). I'd imagine having riveter as the "dumb" CLI version of these tools. Do one thing and do it well.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-04-25 22:22:22+00:00
Writing "WARANT" in crayon on a piece of scratch paper will not give you the authority to detain someone who is in the country illegally. It is my understanding that a valid ICE administrative warrant gives an ICE officer the authority to detain the person named on the warrant. And in cases like the one in question where ICE has ample time to get the warrant, it is my understanding that an ICE officer without the warrant would not have the authority to detain someone who is in the country illegally.

What the ICE warrant doesn't give is the authority to conduct a search of private property without permission. Which the agents in this case were not attempting to do.
by darkwizard42 | 2025-04-25 22:22:59+00:00
The comment here is glib and against community guidelines, but it should be somewhat obvious the ability for someone to be in the car and regulate poor behavior helps.

Strangers in your (personally owned and financed) vehicle who could trash it and leave you with... no vehicle or one that is slightly damaged, would cause at the very least a headache to you, the owner, and insurance on your vehicle to rise.
by OptionOfT | 2025-04-25 22:24:52+00:00
to go from km to m you multiply by 1,000.

to go from km^2 to m^2 you multiply by 1,000^2.

to go from km^3 to m^3 you multiply by 1,000^3.

So 1km^3 is 1,000,000,000m^3
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-25 22:25:20+00:00
> government has to prove intent here, which as some have noted is difficult, but if the facts as recounted in the news stories are all true it doesn't seem that it would be overwhelmingly difficult to prove that she intentionally took action (2) to thwart an arrest that she knew was imminent (1)

Dude used a different door so the FBI arrests a judge in a court room? At that point we should be charging ICE agents with kidnapping.
by bigbuppo | 2025-04-25 22:26:14+00:00
The fun part is that they don't demand anything, they just send you a worksheet that you fill out and presumably it impacts your rates. You just assume that whatever they ask about is what they want. Some of what they suggest is reasonable, like having backups that aren't stored on storage directly coupled to your main environment.

The worst part about cyber insurance, though, is that as soon as you declare an incident, your computers and cloud accounts now belong to the insurance company until they have their chosen people rummage through everything. Your restoration process is now going to run on their schedule. In other words, the reason the recovery from a crypto-locker attack takes three weeks is because of cyber insurance. And to be fair, they should only have to pay out once for a single incident, so their designated experts get to be careful and meticulous.
by subpixel | 2025-04-25 22:27:24+00:00
But what is it designed for? I understand it's appealingly different, but it doesn't do anything that a trailer doesn't do. And not much that any SUV can't do.

I have a homemade trailer with greater bed capacity than this pick-up that I got for $800 and use it for a myriad of things – from hauling lumber to launching small boats. I've driven it hundreds of miles to the closest Ikea.

When I'm not using it, it's not attached to my low-end SUV. But with the seats down, there isn't a whole lot my low-end SUV can't do as well as this toy pick-up, without range anxiety.
by dooglius | 2025-04-25 22:27:31+00:00
I'm not sure quite what you're asking for exactly, given the link is for clang trunk and doesn't have the modifications discussed in TFA, and I don't dispute that clang does UB-based reasoning at -O3. But, I will argue that the assembly shown can be accomplished without resorting to what I call "reasoning about UB", and within a flat memory model, supporting the claim that these sacrifices are often not necessary. I'm going to draw a distinction between stack memory being "private" in the sense that only the compiler is allowed to alter it, and "public" where the address can be written to by something else and the compiler needs to handle that. Local variables at first are tracked privately. After the address of a variable is taken with &x, or at the point in time when an array variable is indexed, the associated memory is public. Conceptually, the use of private memory can be indirect; the compiler could encode/decode a stack variable x as (x XOR 0xDEADBEEF) on the stack and it would be fine (but the compiler does the simple thing in practice, naturally). Note that this notion of "private"/"public" stack memory is a property of addresses, not the provenance of the accessing pointers, and so is fully compatible with a flat memory model. The compiler's ability to use private memory isn't a case of "reasoning around UB" in a meaningful sense -- otherwise you could just as well argue that returning from a function call is "reasoning about UB", because the the return address can't be clobbered.

In your provided snippet, the correctness argument for the assembly in a non-UB-reasoning universe goes like this: at first, i is stored privately on the stack with value zero, and so as an optimization we can assume that value is still zero without rereading. Only later, when &i is taken, is that memory made public and the compiler has to worry about something altering it. In actual execution, the problem is that the write function alters compiler-private memory (and note again, that being private is a property of the underlying address, not the fact that it's accessed via an out-of-bounds array indexing), and this is UB and so the program breaks. But, the compiler didn't need to make _assumptions_ around UB.
by kristjansson | 2025-04-25 22:27:45+00:00
> sympathy for the worst elements of society

For people _alleged_ to be among the worst elements of society. If they're that bad, try them, get your slam-dunk conviction, and jail them here.

Deportation does not annihilate a person, or shift them to another astral plane, it moves them a few dozen or hundred or thousand miles away. The counterfactual for 'if so-and-so was deported' is unknowable. They might have just walked back in the following week.
by nandomrumber | 2025-04-25 22:28:23+00:00
Thereby penalising existing vehicle owners who can’t switch to a more efficient vehicle overnight.

We have to come up with a rigorous alternative that doesn’t disproportionately affect lower income folk, because people tend not to be overly concerned about nebulous concepts like the climate impacts on unborn future generations, especially when my carbon impact at the margin is negligible when taken in context of global population.
by connicpu | 2025-04-25 22:28:51+00:00
Yep, this can absolutely be done. Home wall chargers are just a fancy switch[1], you just need a way to enable/disable it. Could be a feature of the charger, but in the worst case you could add your own secondary contactor that removes power from the entire charger when you don't want the car to be charging.

[1]: They also have control pins to tell the car the maximum amperage they're allowed to draw, but that's not relevant to the feature of "disable the charger when I don't want it charging"
by II2II | 2025-04-25 22:29:32+00:00
> If an insurer says "we're going to jack up premiums by 20% unless you force employees to change their password once every 90 days", you can argue till you're blue in the face that it's bad practice, NIST changed its policy to recommend not regularly rotating passwords over a decade ago, etc., and be totally correct... but they're still going to jack up premiums if you don't do it.

I would argue that password policies are very context dependent. As much as I detest changing my password every 90 days, I've worked in places where the culture encouraged password sharing. That sharing creates a whole slew of problems. On top of that, removing the requirement to change passwords every 90 days would encourage very few people to select secure passwords, mostly because they prefer convenience and do not understand the risks.

If you are dealing with an externally facing service where people are willing to choose secure passwords and unwilling to share them, I would agree that regularly changing passwords creates more problems than it solves.
by mmastrac | 2025-04-25 22:29:52+00:00
The comics look pretty Miyazaki-inspired, like all of the comics I've seen lately. I've kinda started to dislike this look because it's _everywhere_ that low-effort comics are these days.

Maybe worth trying to train a better style for this. This is probably something where you could put a little effort in up-front (ie: using a model that's for segmentation to get outlines, using some classic image-processing for boundary detection) and then have AI touch it up a little more lightly and a less of the "default" style.

Also, do you have AI images for the "real world" samples on the left? They have a certain "I don't exactly know what, but it's creeping me out" vibe.
by conductr | 2025-04-25 22:30:02+00:00
It all sounds very compelling , great work! But I have to ask, what’s the catch? This almost seems like it’s ready to fully replace Excel but I’ve seen many things die in that pursuit. What will Excel users miss by switching?

I’m don’t do a ton to big data stuff, but sometimes despite Excels stated row and column support- I find it effectively melts down if even 100K/100 of data and forget adding formulas.
by xnx | 2025-04-25 22:30:39+00:00
Amazingly, Gemini has gotten so good that you can one-shot this: https://g.co/gemini/share/7f98e1145bc0

I was too lazy to prompt it with full requirements, but it did very well for a first attempt with: "Create a single page web app using vanilla javascript that allows the user to enter up to 40 characters of text and has interface controls for many css attributes including: font-family, size, letter-spacing, text-transform, weight, text-decoration, style, padding, rotation, color, border color, animation, etc."
by tw04 | 2025-04-25 22:30:52+00:00
>heavily protected and faces virtually no competition

Huh? Out of the top 25 vehicles sold in the US in 2024, 16 of them are non-US automakers. Just because the US is actively blocking China from dumping heavily subsidized vehicles into the north american market, doesn't mean they "face no competition". Kia and Hyundai alone show that it's VERY possible to break into the US market if you have even a little bit of interest playing fair.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g60385784/bestselling-cars...
by jjulius | 2025-04-25 22:31:08+00:00
>Why is that hard to grok?

Because of the way you worded your first paragraph, and the lack of information around timing of the previous issue of domestic violence. The first paragraph was passionately accusatory (rightly so, given your experience), and the second paragraph didn't clear things up.

I simply asked to clarify. Thank you for your response, and I wish you and your mom all the best.
by quickthrowman | 2025-04-25 22:31:18+00:00
I like shopping by email at work, it’s easy. I send three people an email saying ‘How much for 60,000 feet of 18/2 shielded wet rated cable’ and they send me a quote. They quote me exactly what I’m asking for, I review the quotes and send back a PO number. I wish internet shopping was that easy!
by chubs | 2025-04-25 22:32:49+00:00
I'm very positive, however note that when they mention "injection molded polypropylene composite material" - this (i think) is the same material used for Seadoo Spark jetskis. I owned one and had a minor crash, and because this material cannot be repaired, the entire hull needed replacing, it was an insurance write-off. I hope they've thought about how to make this car repairable and not 'disposable' after the first inevitable minor crash. Of course this may not be a fair comparison because jetski hulls are exposed, whereas car chassis' have panels and bumpers.
by crote | 2025-04-25 22:33:06+00:00
You're assuming that `police.knowledge` is sourced from an infallible oracle, and that the code is being executed by a fully trustworthy party. This isn't the case in practice.

You need a giant try-catch around the whole thing, with the person being targeted being able to trigger an exception and force a re-evaluation at any point. That's what the basic human rights are for - placing those deep inside a nested if-statement is going to mean your code will horribly crash and burn, without there being any way to recover gracefully.
by sentinal-cloud | 2025-04-25 22:33:57+00:00
Hey everyone!

As a fellow k8s enthusiast who's spent too many hours in debugging hell, my co-founder and I built something we wish we'd had: Sentinal.

The problem: Debugging distributed systems is time-consuming. You have to manually inspect countless Kubernetes resources and piece everything together.

Our solution, an AI agent that:

- Deploys with a simple helm chart

- Explores your cluster only when you ask questions

- Agents do not emit data if you are not using it

- Runs relevant kubectl commands for you (with your approval)

With default read only RBAC policies applied

- Actually understands your system's context

- Using Github repositories that only you allow it to view

- Attempts to run read-only commands to interrogate assumptions - HTTP requests to services

Points you in the right direction with specific insights

- Exposes a simple web interface that shows you what the Agent is thinking and what it thinks it should do

Shows the reasoning as to why the agent wants to do what it thinks is best

All commands are human approved, we don't think agents should do whatever it 'thinks' is applicable

Does not save any information about your cluster, just queries what it thinks is relevant

It's non-intrusive - it doesn't deploy anything new to your cluster beyond its own pod. It just helps you make sense of what's already there and how things talk to each other. It does not emit any unwanted data to our servers and simply focuses the entire workflow on how a Software engineer would debug issues, by querying relevant entities and validating assumptions

We are both technical and engineers that have worked in the software industry for nearly a decade and have not found a tool that genuinely helps discover issues when systems interact with each other (eg. My service is running and shows a healthy status but my database is not being populated with orders). This isn't about showing you what you already know - it's about saving you time and frustration and trying different approaches in order to debug hard to solve errors.

If you're interested, drop a comment below. I'd love to start a discussion about debugging pain points and how we can make this more useful for all of us.

We hope that we open up an honest discussion about how LLM's should enrich developer experience and not be a nuisance for developers. We welcome comments, good or bad about this application of LLMs and Kubernetes.

We know that AI is a hot topic right now and is not always what we hope for it to be but we strongly believe there is a lot of value in it when applied correctly. It may not solve everything but if it helps you deliver projects faster and maintain what you have built with less sleepless nights and frustration, then we consider that a win.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-25 22:34:06+00:00
> Would the basalt capture CO2 more effectively if released into the atmosphere or into rain storms?

Guess: it would do so more quickly, but not necessarily more effectively in the long run to the extent it balances the energy required to loft it. (Even if it's all green. You could just that energy to grind and distribute more basalt to the ground.)
Ask HN: Pivotal Tracker EOL; Emigrant Stories?
by quesera | 2025-04-25 22:34:07+00:00
Pivotal Tracker will EOL on 2025-04-30 [0].

If you have emigrated from Pivotal Tracker to a new tracker, what are your experiences? Good, bad, or indifferent.

Our team's initial list of candidates for investigation looked like this (some with greater resemblance to Tracker than others, and omitting the obvious options that no one was willing to settle for):

- Linear - Shortcut - Click Up - Pivotal Replacement - Planisphere - LiteTracker - Taiga

And there's another list of candidates here: https://bye-tracker.net/

...

Now that we (HN) have all had time to look around, are there any strong recommendations, for or against?

We ($employer) have migrated already, but before fully committing, would appreciate hearing the experiences of others.

[0] Broadcom announcement: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/blog/2024-09-18-end-of-life
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-04-25 22:34:24+00:00
If this thing really comes out in a couple years by the time it's ready for mass production to hit consumer hands there will probably be 2 or 3 self driving kits designed for it. The mods for this thing would be amazing.

A buddy of mine who creates shaped interactive art panels with oleds for disney and other groups interactive events texted me about this, installing video panels on this is going to be a breeze.

I'm more excited about this as a platform than even as a car, this is going to be like browser JS, the Lisa and VW Bug for creating an EV tech skill pipeline.
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