MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by badlibrarian | 2025-04-06 15:31:20+00:00
Find an archive and make sure they're aware of the work you've done. Archivists always love meeting people who've done good work in the space they're in. Especially when they have some tech chops which is desperately lacking in the space.

Beyond that, if the material is public domain, that library is called The Internet. Post it and promote it. The only reason to seek association with a library is if you're looking for cred for some reason, and that's not the business they're in.

If it's not public domain, or if you haven't marked your derivative work public domain, then you put a library in an awkward position. Realize that these are the types of people who still post little notes by the copy machines saying what's permissible and enjoy policing it.

Most just say no for the same reason that Hollywood returns ideas and scripts unopened. They're busy and the cost/benefit isn't there.

Although the self-described online ones tend to play fast and loose, real librarians have a formal code of ethics which is worth reviewing.

https://www.ala.org/tools/ethics
by Retric | 2025-04-06 15:31:38+00:00
Cars unlike aircraft don’t need to move forward to maintain safety. If the lidar normally has very good uptime but happens to break, you need to safely come to a complete stop and that’s basically it.

Trusting vision systems for 30 seconds or even 30 minutes over the lifetime of a car is very different than trusting them for 30,000 hours. So for edge cases sure, add a “this is an emergency drive to a hospital without LiDAR” mode but you don’t need to handle normal driving without them.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-04-06 15:32:44+00:00
I have not followed the case too closely, but it seems like the timeline was roughly:

- deny anything wrong happened - Atlantic is a liar

- the leak might have happened, but nothing secret was shared

- ok fine, secret military information was shared

- here is an analysis that says it was the phone at fault, not human error

I have trouble believing anything except butt covering at play. When you are repeatedly caught lying, I do not immediately believe the latest story iteration, even if it is plausible.
by vachina | 2025-04-06 15:32:53+00:00
It’s not hyped. You can literally watch how FSD perform all readily live on YouTube, and despite these shortcomings, they’re lightyears ahead of any self driving systems. And it’s going to just get better as they account for all these corner cases.

Tesla is a victim of their own success, they’ve set the bar so high people now expect it to have 0.0000% failure rate.
by mrangle | 2025-04-06 15:33:28+00:00
Yet, many if not most people would like an education that is informed by educated literati. People pay big money for it, for good reason. Disadvantaged kids are absolutely starved for it, in more ways than one. Is the "worst crime" when they are exposed to it or aren't?

>I also have a concern that they aren't a great foundation for a young person approaching adulthood trying to understand their place in the World and their own beliefs and values about themselves and the World they live in.

Is your concern valuable because your opinion of a standard literature list is that the books are mediocre or provide a mediocre education? Why should we care that you, specifically, are concerned? Or why you, specifically, see the list as mediocre and dull?

You seem to be implying that literature has to socialize kids to values (those that you prefer, I assume). You seem to be perturbed that everything that a child reads may not cater to that goal.

What I see is an essay whining about how standard English lit material isn't teaching kids political material that the writer prefers.

Ironic to the post-author's role as a literature critic, the post is too indirect and employs too many words toward expressing that complaint.
by notnullorvoid | 2025-04-06 15:34:27+00:00
I love the general idea, but banning all forms of paid advertising seems a step to far. That encompass a lot, and enforcing it would be near impossible. There's also clear areas where it could have a negative impact, like for public transport that relies on providing ad placement.

I don't see a problem with criminalizing big ad companies, ad markets, and ad middlemen. I think that would solve a good chunk of the issue.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-06 15:34:47+00:00
As much as I want to disagree with the author, I’m not entirely sure I do (certainly in an ideal world I do) and given the possibility of an upcoming technofeudalist future, more people may tend to agree with the future when the nature of small countries changes from small culturally significant relatively poor and vulnerable states to small obnoxious billionaire playgrounds.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-06 15:35:04+00:00
The fact that all LLM input gets treated equally seems like a critical flaw that must be fixed before LLMs can be given control over anything privileged. The LLM needs an ironclad distinction between “this is input from the user telling me what to do” and “this is input from the outside that must not be obeyed.” Until that’s figured out, any attempt at security is going to be full of holes.
by andrewljohnson | 2025-04-06 15:35:13+00:00
In GIS world, a vector tile is a chunk of geographic data (the vectors) limited to a geographic region (the tile boundaries which fit into the projected checkerboard of your map).

You use a vector tile instead of a png or jpeg tile because you don’t want an image representation of the data, you want the raw “vector” data so you can style it, search it, and do other things with it on client devices.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-06 15:35:32+00:00
That gives you absolute rate, but not relative rate.

There are not many other cars out there (in comparison), with a self-driving mode. There are so many Teslas in the World out there driving around, that I think you'd have to considerably multiply all the others combined to get close to that number.

As such, while 5 > 0, and that's a problem, what we don't know (and perhaps can't know), is how that adjusts for population size. I'd want to see a motorcycle fatality rate per auto-driver-mile number, and even then, I'd want it adjusting for prevalence of motorcycles in the local population: the number in India, Rome, London and South California vary quite a bit.
by jimbob45 | 2025-04-06 15:35:33+00:00
A first-class IDE that doesn’t take six hours of fiddling and days of research to cobble together. Robust and well-maintained libraries for sockets, I/O, threading, and more. A corporate sponsor for corporations to be able to rely on when choosing to integrate Lisp into their .NET projects.

The ML crowd received F# and that’s practically the only reason anyone still uses anything ML-esque. I would like the same for Lisp. I know Rich Hickey tried to make Clojure for .NET first and failed, though, so I’m not holding my breath.
by dathinab | 2025-04-06 15:35:59+00:00
> Musk did not understand this.

more likely

he is a ruthless ** who doesn't care about people dying and slightly increasing the profit margin is for him worth more then a some people dying

regulators/law allowing self driving companies to wriggle out of responsibility didn't help either

lidar was interesting for him as long as it seemed light Tesla could maybe dominate the self driving marked through technological excellency the moment it was clear it won't work he abandoned technological excellence in favor of micro optimizing profit at the cost of read safety

which shouldn't be surprising for anyone I mean he also micro optimized workplace safety in SpaceX away not only until it killed someone but even after it did (stuff like this is why there where multiple investigations against his companies until Trump magiced them away)

the thing is he has intelligent people informing him about stuff, including how removing lidar will statistically seen kill people, so it's not that he doesn't know, it's that he doesn't care
by browningstreet | 2025-04-06 15:36:18+00:00
I unfollowed Marginal Revolution when Tyler joined The Free Press this week. I’d already been pretty skeptical about the content on MR because there was very little rigor in the discourse and there are, apparently, no limits or constraints to what economists think they’re qualified to comment on, particularly when economics isn’t even invoked in the discussion.

I don’t go to my doctor for a discussion on urban planning. And if I do.. not at their medical office.

It’s a blog. Not a practice of economics, this one article notwithstanding.

And it isn’t even by Cowen.

EDIT: The comment section on MR is pretty awful too.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-06 15:36:44+00:00
What gets me is that there are no other brands in Tesla's league. Tesla is the only consumer car that has "FSD" level ability.

The competitors have to use pre-mapped roads and availability is spotty at best. There is also risk as Chevy already deprecated their first gen "FSD", leaving early adopters with gimped ability and shutout from future expansions.
by mdaniel | 2025-04-06 15:37:17+00:00
> So what does nncp-exec do? It reads stdin and encrypts it to node bob. It adds metadata, saying it’s requesting the “tarextract” command, and adding two arguments to it (the -C /var/local/backups). It writes this all into a packet file in the transmission queue for bob.

> When bob processes the packet, it spins up /usr/bin/tar -xpf - -C /var/local/backups, piping to it the data that had originally been piped to nncp-exec.

I was with them until seeing that nncp-exec accepts user provided arguments[2], and that just smells like an escape waiting to happen. Since they drew parallels between that and the command= in authorized_keys[2] I looked it up and it doesn't appear that either command= nor its ForceCommand sibling accept user provided arguments

I presume its target audience is where both ends of the connection are "you" (or at least fully trusted)

1: https://www.complete.org/nncp-concepts/#remote-execution

2: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/man8/sshd.8.html#...
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-06 15:37:40+00:00
I disagree. I think this is one of the most important lenses to inspect the problem through, as the current set of articles and discussions about MCP security I saw here over the last weeks, seem mostly oblivious to the fact that the vulnerabilities they're complaining about are also MCP's main features.

> That a system is hard to secure doesn't negate the need for it to be secure.

Correct. However, security is a spectrum - there's such a thing that "secure enough", especially when making it more secure eliminates the very reason for system's existence. Additionally, we can and should secure different parts of a system to a different degree.

For an analogy, consider utensils and workshop tools. We secure them as much as we can against accidents, but not so much as to make the tool worse at its job. We add further security by means like access controls, or laws making people responsible for use and misuse, etc. - i.e. we're making the larger system secure, without burdening the inner core.

(For comparison, fully secure version of utensils and all kinds of tools are also available on the market - you'll find them in toy stores.)
by crazygringo | 2025-04-06 15:38:06+00:00
> Not by name, just that the safety regulations will require a safety record better than Tesla's but worse than Waymo's.

That's not a bad thing if Tesla is significantly worse than Waymo. That's desirable.

The solution here seems like it would be for Tesla to become as safe as Waymo. If they can't achieve that, that's on them. Unfair press doesn't cause that.

I mean, I care about not dying in a car accident. If Tesla is less safe, and this leads to people taking safer Waymos instead, I can't see that as anything but a good thing. I don't want to sacrifice my life so another company can put out more dangerous vehicles.
Show HN: Lessons Learned from the Friends Episode Tagging Project
by deanebarker | 2025-04-06 15:38:19+00:00
I tagged every episode of the American sitcom "Friends" and wrote about what I learned from the experience. The link is to the "lessons learned" summation -- there's a link to the actual project at the top of the page.

Also, there's an HTML web component linked from the main project as well -- it allows filtering of tag-based items.
Tell HN: I asked an AI to generate a logo, it gave me the finger
by linkdd | 2025-04-06 15:38:45+00:00
I am no graphics designer, no artist. I'm a software engineer. I'm definitely not a "prompt engineer".

I'm currently working on an open source project ( https://link-society.github.io/flowg/ ), and I've been told that I need a logo.

I don't actually care much for a logo actually. But this sunday, I was bored, and I was glossing over some AI based logo generation tools.

I tried this one: https://www.design.com/maker/logos

With the following "prompt":

Business Name: flowg Keywords: pipeline, log

And one of the result was a nice middle-finger: https://ibb.co/n87BKj9H

That might be the most human/realistic response I got from an AI ever :D
by mjevans | 2025-04-06 15:39:46+00:00
Any additional cost on top of the 'natural' costs involved with producing a result raises prices.

Additional costs that direct resources to a government are a form of a tax, this includes direct taxes at the point of sale, and it should also include taxes incurred for traversing an arbitrary interface (tariff or toll).

Any form of tax on goods / services proportionately effects those who spend more of their income on those goods / services more. Tariffs on not-luxury goods are regressive taxes on the poor and middle class.
by lbeurerkellner | 2025-04-06 15:40:12+00:00
This would work in an ideal setting, however, in my experience it is not compatible with the general expectations we have for agentic systems.

For instance, what about a simple user query like "Can you install this library?". In that case a useful agent, must go, check out the libraries README/documentation and install according to the instructions provided there.

In many ways, the whole point of an agent system, is to react to unpredictable new circumstances encountered in the environment, and overcoming them. This requires data to flow from the environment to the agent, which in turn must understand some of that data as instruction to react correctly.
by DisjointedHunt | 2025-04-06 15:40:36+00:00
So the Guardian getting access to internal White House deliberations and a FORENSIC INVESTIGATION, is not cause for concern but everything that people you don’t like , is, apparently.

This is precisely why the political divide is impossible to bridge. Everything I said indicates seriousness about classified information or even simply unauthorized access to information in such a cavalier manner that it’s published in the Guardian. Somehow, calling it out is more problematic than achieving a political end.
by unoti | 2025-04-06 15:40:37+00:00
> you can work on your problem, or you can customize the language to fit your problem better

There’s a thing I’m whispering to myself constantly as I work on software: “if I had something that would make this easy, what would it look like?”

I do this continuously, whether I’m working in C++ or Python. Although the author was talking about Lisp here, the approach should be applied to any language. Split the problem up into an abstraction that makes it look easy. Then dive in and make that abstraction, and ask yourself again what you’d need to make this level easy, and repeat.

Sometimes it takes a lot of work to make some of those parts look and be easy.

In the end, the whole thing looks easy, and your reward is someone auditing the code and saying that you work on a code base of moderate complexity and they’re not sure if you’re capable enough to do anything that isn’t simple. But that’s the way it is sometimes.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-04-06 15:40:53+00:00
Control is important. Apple has never had to fight with Torvalds or IBM or Microsoft over getting something added to the kernel. Just look at the fiasco when Microsoft wanted to add a driver for their virtualization system to the kernel.

Also, one thing you'll notice about big companies - they know that not only is time valuable, worst-case time is important too. If someone in an open-source ecosystem CAN delay your project, that's almost as bad as if they regularly DO delay your project. This is why big companies like Google tend to invent everything themselves, I.E. Google may have "invented Kubernetes" (really, an engineer at Google uninvolved with the progenitor of K8s - Borg - invented it based on Borg), but they still use Borg, which everyone Xoogler here likes to say is "not as good as k8s". Yet they still use it. Because it gives them full control, and no possibility of outsiders slowing them down.
by gruez | 2025-04-06 15:41:12+00:00
>If we want to collectively punish people who voted for (or whose election resulted in the rule of) a bunch of fucking morons, well... I have some bad news for US citizens...

I've seen comments unironically arguing for collective punishments when it came to the US, and they're at least popular enough that they don't show up as gray/[flagged].
by marcusb | 2025-04-06 15:41:13+00:00
Customers frequently want two conflicting things: change and stability.

In enterprise software sales, a lot of time and energy get wasted arguing about features the customer will never use. Post deployment, those same people will scream bloody murder about how unstable the products are and how the vendors just can’t do anything right.

Similarly, I think if car makers set out to incrementally improve their product a few percent a year, nobody would buy it. It would be boring. Outdated.

People - like the author of this article - claim they want stability. But, I’m here to tell you that what they buy is change.
by ksec | 2025-04-06 15:41:31+00:00
TCL, Hisense, Skyworth, Xiaomi etc. Chinese Manufacture has now likely passed the 50% marketshare. There are other manufacture that may not have interest in HDMI which means we could see most TV shipping to have GPMI.

Although the Table isn't accurate as USB4 should be able to do 80 Gbit/s symmetric connections or asymmetric connections supporting 120 Gbit/s in one direction and 40 Gbit/s in the other.

But the deeper, or higher overview of things isn't the standard itself. But Western or incumbent companies which rely on HDMI royalty are being challenged not on standard spec and implementation itself, but actual end product being defined by Chinese companies. It is one way to break free of those royalty when china operate at cut throat competition. It is also another note to the world saying these companies are too slow to innovate.

I just hope HDMI and Displyport will come up with something better.
by motorest | 2025-04-06 15:41:55+00:00
> Also, 30 years ago, normies were able to handle DOS (...)

"Normies" from the 80s do not represent the dissemination of personal computing we experienced in the last 10-15 years. So far we have one or two generations whose experience with personal computing is limited to downloading apps from app stores and ,at best, check webpages. That is very far from what people used DOS for.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-06 15:41:56+00:00
It’s more like installing a VS Code plugin with access to your file system that can also download files from GitHub, and if it happens to download a file with the right content, that content will cause the plugin to read your ssh keys and send them to someone else.

Any program with access to both trusted and untrusted data needs to be very careful to ensure that the untrusted data can’t make the program do things that the user doesn’t want. If there’s an LLM involved with access to privileged tools, that becomes impossible.
by darksaints | 2025-04-06 15:42:11+00:00
We have an electoral college that essentially disenfranchises any voter that is not voting with the majority unless your state is so close that it could be called a swing state. This affects red state democratic leaning voters just as much as blue state republican leaning voters…their votes are all worthless. For example, the state with the largest number of Trump voters is California, but none of their votes helped decide the election because California as a whole chose Kamala. And let’s not forget that we have one of the largest metropolitan areas and several territories that legally can’t vote for the president or have representation of any kind in the federal government.

A lot of people try to claim the popular vote as a measure of who won over the country’s opinion, but that’s simply not possible because the incentives and structure of the electoral college make it impossible to use as a measure of that.

The best we have for measuring who won over the hearts and minds of the country are polls. Polls are full of faults, but if executed correctly, they don’t disenfranchise by structurally underrepresenting entire classes of people. And the results of polling over the last hundred years suggest that Americans generally lean to the left of how our votes play out. You can call bullshit all you want on that, and there are very fair criticisms of polling as a measure of who would vote for what, but the fact of the matter is that the Republican Party knows this. That is why they oppose any attempt to get rid of the electoral college and also why they refuse to entertain enfranchisement of DC and US Territories. They know they’ll lose.
by roxolotl | 2025-04-06 15:42:24+00:00
This is super cool. I finally just upgraded my desktop and one thing I’m curious to do with it is run local models. Of course the ram is late so I’ve been googling trying to get an idea of what I could expect and there’s not much out there to compare to unless you’re running state of the art stuff.

I’ll make sure to run contribute my benchmark to this once my ram comes in.
by garciasn | 2025-04-06 15:42:38+00:00
I used to be VERY into police procedurals: John Sanford, Lee Child, and William Kent Krueger. I still read them, but during lockdown I made a conscious decision to widen my horizons.

Some of my favorites over the last year:

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Most of Joe Abercrombie; particularly the First Law series.

God of the Woods by Liz Moore

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
by alesso_x | 2025-04-06 15:42:40+00:00
It’s a completely different system. Comparing it to the old one is like comparing apples to oranges. The original highway stack didn’t feel natural at all. It was like every move was hard-coded.

Lane changes used to feel robotic. Speed had to be adjusted manually all the time just to feel comfortable.

The new system feels much more human. It has driving profiles and adapts based on traffic, which makes the experience way smoother.

Have you tried fsd? I use it almost everyday. I’m more arguing that the article is misleading about the current version of fsd. I do not doubt that the accidents happened on the older version.
by jbaber | 2025-04-06 15:43:11+00:00
1. I hope you're saying your ears hurt from physically wearing headphones, not from volume. 2. Many responses in this thread self-diagnose with many disorders because of the need to wear headphones in an open office environment. Open office environments are like emergency rooms filled with crying babies -- they feel almost intended to distract. This is true of "baseline", "normal", "non-disordered", whatever the codeword of the day is for average humans.

Open offices save employers more money (they hope) in space than they lose in lowered productivity. There's no reason to think your average Joe or Jane can just carry on working in one as efficiently as in a private office.