MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Retric | 2025-06-27 20:58:45+00:00
> is that for the most part average americans agree with the elite. The results of the study are driven by the fact that when elites and average americans disagree, the politicians tend to side with the elites.

The case when everyone agrees doesn’t tell you anything. It’s only when people disagree that you can find who has actual power and in this case the general public has effectively zero actual meaningful power day to day.

Systematic voter suppression plus gerrymandering etc may win you rigged elections, but ultimately voting isn’t about the system in place it’s avoidance unrest. We’re entering uncharted territory with how strongly people disagree with what the government is doing, which is where the general public actually has a say, namely by destroying the existing power structures rather than voting. It’s not even a question of insurrection, not having kids plus 60’s style dropping out at scale is ruinous.
by bit1993 | 2025-06-27 20:59:09+00:00
> iced is cross platform

How well does it integrate with Androids APIs or even IOS, can I make a full blown app with it. I believe the main reason why people use FFI to interface Rust and Dart/Flutter for mobile development is because Rust does not have an Android/IOS framework with the higher level APIs it just has native APIs (fs, io..)
by GolfPopper | 2025-06-27 20:59:23+00:00
The Space Launch System is designed around remaining Space Shuttle program hardware, plus a Delta Cryogenic Second Stage, known as the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.[1] One SLS flight has already been made, Artemis I [2]

There are enough modified shuttle SRBs for 7 more flights, enough Space Shuttle Main Engines for 3 more flights, and the ICPS is only intended for use on two more flights. All Space Launch System Flights after Artemis III are intended to use new replacements for these systems. The BOLE (that just failed) is the intended replacement for the modified shuttle SRBs. The RS-25E replacement for the Space Shuttle Main Engines was successfully test-fired earlier this week. [3]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Cryogenic_Second_Stage

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_I

3. https://news.satnews.com/2025/06/25/nasa-l3harris-hot-fire-t...
by daotoad | 2025-06-27 21:00:44+00:00
Not a rust developer, but this seems like an opportunity for Egui to have switchable layout engines.

If you want a simple, one pass layout that super fast, you use the fast-and-dumb-on-purpose-engine. If you want a fancy dynamic scaling layout with breakpoints and blah blah blah, you use the whole-damn-browser-engine.

Thinking along the lines of geometry managers in Tk. Or wxWidgets Sizers.

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Geometry+Managers

Maybe I am missing something basic and this won't work/doesn't address the problem.

But maybe there's good prior art to learn from here.
by vizzier | 2025-06-27 21:01:10+00:00
I feel your points are valid but don't really express enough detail. The supreme court in the UK though named the same doesn't really hold anywhere near as much power for the following reasons:

1) There is no written constitution, the supreme court in the UK is only there to interpret existing laws as written not to interpret differences between "tiers" of law

2) The UK has a system that can pass new laws, generally by simple majority so any decision rendered about existing law can be made obsolete generally fairly quickly (In contrast to the current intransigence of the current US system where it is hard to pass primary legislation and virtually impossible to modify the constitution)

3) the court was only established in 2009, and evidently we haven't done much to empower it

A better comparison country might be places like Canada or Australia who do have a written (and harder to modify) constitution.
by elmolino89 | 2025-06-27 21:01:17+00:00
The whole idea of maintaining module systems in a perfect sync on several systems as compared to i.e. just rsync-ing SIFs sounds strange to me. Often HPC systems (or rather their admins) are fairly (and for a good reason) conservative, keeping old system and libraries versions. Your mileage may vary, but in a small benchmark of a bioinformatics program called samtools depending on the version the fastest binaries were either run in a conda environment or inside singularity container using Clear Linux distro. Binaries compiled using either system's GCC or from a module were slower.

One would have to repeat it throwing in at least Spack to see if this still holds water.
by boznz | 2025-06-27 21:01:23+00:00
Weirdly complex to read yet light on key technical details. My TLDR (as an old clueless electronics engineer) was the compute part is photonic/analog, lasers and waveguides, yet we still require 50 billion transistors performing the (I guess non-compute) parts such as ADC, I/O, memory etc. The bottom line is 65 TOPS for <80W - The processing (optical) part consuming 1.65W and the 'helper electronics' consuming the rest so scaling the (optical) processing should not have the thermal bottlenecks of a solely transistor based processor. Also parallelism of the optical part though using different wavelengths of light as threads may be possible. Nothing about problems, costs, or can the helper electronics eventually use photonics.

I remember a TV Program in the UK from the 70's (tomorrows world I think) that talked about this so I am guessing silicon was just more cost effective until now. Still taking it at face value I would say it is quite an exciting technology.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-06-27 21:01:27+00:00
I don't think you can do terrain following entirely in software unless you already have an accurate image of what to expect--and a munition will never know the fine detail. (Coarse detail--I would expect you could do a fair job of steering a ballistic missile based on images of the target area. Closest match and figure out in what way the image is stretched is at least theoretically possible with camera + software. Computationally practical, I don't know, nor how accurate it could be.)
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-27 21:01:42+00:00
Satellites are the most extreme of edge cases. The equivalent might be a binary that gets burned into a ROM chip installed in an impossible to access location. QEMU is not that.

Granted I don't think something as specialized as QEMU is well suited to a component replacement model. But large parts of the codebases of the vast majority of software out there is.
by Arathorn | 2025-06-27 21:01:52+00:00
> Would you say that implementing a flakey feature in the first place was a bad idea? I'd think that once users get dependant on a certain feature (no matter how lacking in its usefulness), it's going to be tougher for them taking it away than not shipping it in the first place.

I actually wrote the notification panel in the first place: https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/pull/2113 and when we shipped it, it worked fine. However, this was 2016, before Matrix had E2EE (which eventually got turned on by default in 2020), and E2EE complicates notifications enormously, given the server can't read the messages in order to figure out whether they're a notification or not. So, instead, the client has to calculate notifications instead, which (worst case) means it has to spider every message in every E2EE room to figure out whether to notify based on keywords, mentions, event type, etc.

So, rather than hooking up all that logic in Element Web, we left NotifPanel as is, working fine for unencrypted rooms (and working best-effort for encrypted ones, iirc), instead focusing on fixing Matrix's famous decentralised E2EE stability (Unable To Decrypt errors), which literally took years. Then, rather than implementing proper notification logic in duplicate across both js-sdk (Element Web) and rust-sdk (Element X), we focused on nailing it in rust-sdk - and meanwhile hid the feature on Element Web until we can swing Element Web over to use rust-sdk (Aurora).

So to answer your question: we didn't ship a flakey feature in the first place. But hiding it once it got flakey rather than even further slowing down our progress on stabilising E2EE (given we don't have manpower to adequately to maintain two stacks) definitely feels defensible.

A more interesting question is whether we've done the right thing by rewriting all the platforms to use a shared Rust core. However, we're not alone in doing that sort of transition: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal etc.

> > To improve the UX with clients, we had to improve the protocol. > > While I believe this to be the best way forward, was it also the fastest way to acquire a userbase? If we look at Bluesky for instance, they pretty much did the reverse of what Matrix.org did, and (I think) thus was in a position to garner hefty growth as a result.

We know the Bluesky team quite well, and I strongly suspect they learnt from Matrix's misadventures (just as we in turn learnt from XMPP's). My FOSDEM talk this year was literally about this: https://youtu.be/lkCKhP1jxdk?t=490. Empirically Matrix is good at ecosystem uptake (better than Bluesky) but worse at mainstream. It's never too late to change though.
by vkou | 2025-06-27 21:02:12+00:00
The state of affairs is that:

1. The executive is doing something illegal to hundreds of thousands of people.

2. Dozens and hundreds of people sue them.

3. The executive loses in court.

4. The executive does not appeal to the supreme court the cases it lost.

5. Thus, no binding precedent that stops the illegal action in #1 is set.

This is actual lawless lunacy, and this enshrines it as SOP going forward. Is this the country you want to live in? Do you think this is how it should run?

Here's a wild idea. If the executive disagrees with the federal courts on the merits of whether or not its decisions are illegal, it can appeal up to SCOTUS, and win a case on its merits. It can't do that because even under this SCOTUS, their case has no merits.

> exercising his authority under the constitution pending a review

That is the entire bloody point of checks and balances. You are cheer-leading the complete destruction of them. The government, when challenged on the legality of what its doing, needs to win their case in court, because the courts are the final arbiters of written law.
by watwut | 2025-06-27 21:02:18+00:00
Women and kids would tend to animals and food came directly from the animals. They both would tend the fields when work did not required physical strength - and thre was plenty of such work too. The crafts women did were for sale or trade. They would also sell on the market whatever excess household produced.

If we are talking about "centuries" quite a lot of people including men did not worked as in being employed for salary. But their work was economical - necessarily so.

Being stay at home mom today is mostly battling boredom and demotivation. Or then, making up things to do. It is not the same as milking cows or making cheese.
by rossdavidh | 2025-06-27 21:02:40+00:00
Anyone who has long experience with neural networks, LLM or otherwise, is aware that they are best suited to applications where 90% is good enough. In other words, applications where some other system (human or otherwise) will catch the mistakes. This phrase: "It is not entirely clear why this episode occurred..." applies to nearly every LLM (or other neural network) error, which is why it is usually not possible to correct the root cause (although you can train on that specific input and a corrected output).

For some things, like say a grammar correction tool, this is probably fine. For cases where one mistake can erase the benefit of many previous correct responses, and more, no amount of hardware is going to make LLM's the right solution.

Which is fine! No algorithm needs to be the solution to everything, or even most things. But much of people's intuition about "AI" is warped by the (unmerited) claims in that name. Even as LLM's "get better", they won't get much better at this kind of problem, where 90% is not good enough (because one mistake can be very costly), and problems need discoverable root causes.
by duskwuff | 2025-06-27 21:03:19+00:00
That's called a "catchword", and it's common in many older texts (not just in Spanish). It serves two purposes - it makes it easier for a person reading the book aloud to read smoothly while turning a page, and it makes it easier for bookbinders to spot pages which are missing or out of order. (Page numbers were, believe it or not, a later development.)
by random3 | 2025-06-27 21:03:30+00:00
Same thing - I've been adjusting my sleep since first Sleep Cycle came for iPhone. I started with a "smart" alarm and learned alarms are harmful. I didn't need an alarm, I just needed 7-8h of sleep. I was going to bed 1-2AM.

I'm doing all of the above with the following differences:

- I use AirPods pro. They are not that comfortable, but leaving a Audible low in background helps falling asleep and also getting back to sleep rather than picking random problems to solve and eventually waking up. It was "life-saver" when I started my first company before learning to manage stress.

- I used these 3M sleeping ear buds and they were the most confortable https://www.amazon.com/3M-Disposable-Earplugs-Quiet-Sleep/dp...

- Extra pillow over head, helps a lot (I have no idea why)
by cloverich | 2025-06-27 21:04:19+00:00
I wake up _super_ easy at many parts of the night, to all kinds of minor sounds. But when I lived directly behind a train, I not only don't recall it waking me up, I distinctly remember that, after getting used to it, it had a kind of calming effect on me. Really interesting. But I wonder if it was still disrupting my sleep and to what degree. I'd mainly like to know in case we have future housing options next to a train because, outside of being near horn / turns, I wouldn't normally worry much about it.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-27 21:04:21+00:00
What people don’t want to admit is that this is exactly what more then half the people wanted. Because of the way the electoral college works as far as the President, gerrymandering with the House and 2 seats per state in the Senate, more people voting who disagree wouldn’t do any good.

You can’t shape your community to overcome the power of the federal government.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-27 21:04:35+00:00
> I would think a birth certificate would work....

You'd probably be wrong.

> Still, Immigration and Customs Enforcement kept Watson imprisoned as a deportable alien for nearly 3 1/2 years… Watson was correct all along: He was a U.S. citizen.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540903038...

Bonus: They held him long enough the statute of limitations to sue expired.

> On Monday, an appeals court ruled that Watson, now 32, is not eligible for any of that money — because while his case is "disturbing," the statute of limitations actually expired while he was still in ICE custody without a lawyer.

Even a passport isn't enough:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/us-born-ma...

> A US-born Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan had his US passport, a REAL ID driver’s license, a military ID card, and his US Marine Corps dog tags with him when he was arrested by police in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which held him for three days before his lawyer demanded his release, according to the ACLU of Michigan.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-ice-detained-c...

> In her study, she found that, on average, U.S. citizens detained by ICE spent 180 days behind bars.
Show HN: Nightcrawler – A mitmproxy-based scanner to find low-hanging fruit
by thesp0nge | 2025-06-27 21:04:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I wanted to share a project I built in a strange but fun pair-programming trip with a large language model. The idea was to create my own automated "First Officer"—a tool that handles the tactical grunt work of finding low-hanging fruit vulnerabilities while I focus on the strategic, human-led parts of a security assessment.

The result is Nightcrawler, an open-source CLI proxy built on Python & mitmproxy.

As you browse a target, it passively finds insecure headers, outdated JS, and JWTs, while its active scanners autonomously test every discovered link and form for XSS, SQLi, Directory Traversal, and more.

The development was a real lesson in the "Picard/Riker" model of human-AI collaboration. I'd give the strategic orders ("We need to detect Stored XSS"), and the LLM would execute the tactical implementation (and occasionally "hallucinate," requiring my correction).

The tool is still in beta. I'd love to get your feedback, bug reports, or ideas on what to build next.

Thanks for checking it out!
by cmurf | 2025-06-27 21:06:05+00:00
Except voting this person to the presidency has given just over 1000 convicted criminals a pardon, as promised in advance. It’s an unlimited and irreversible power.

The Court has long considered that the president has a duty to follow the law, but also that the Court can’t compel the president to follow the law. That is a political question. Congress alone can stop a president by impeaching and removing them from office. Not only can’t the Court initiate impeachments, impeachment is unreviewable by the Court.

If there’s a servile Congress, it means voters can elect a law breaker as president. They are going to get a president who breaks the law.

And this is what’s happening. People voted for an abuser, a rapist, a felon, a conspiracy theorist who lies about the outcome of elections, lies that VPOTUS can and should overturn them, and even sent a mob to have that VPOTUS assassinated for refusing to comply with that illegal order. Then boasted he’d pardon all those criminals who were in his service. And despite all of this, people voted for him again.

The people got exactly what they voted for.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-27 21:06:18+00:00
What's worse is that combined with the ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor, age verification can now be justified against anything considered "adult" or "pornographic" in nature - including LGBTQ+ storybooks, information on abortion or sexual health, discussion about HIV, or even just political dissidence if a state wants to reach particularly far. "Adult content" is nebulous and vague on purpose, and one party is taking advantage of that to attack minority groups and undesirables.

The point isn't to defend sex work (though you absolutely should), it's that sex workers are just the first targets when it comes to authoritarian change like this. They're the canaries in the coal mines of free speech, and the fact they're screaming in venues like Wired or Hacker News should really give everyone cause for concern that their stuff is next, unless things change.

And on the topic of parenting, look, I hate to be that dinosaur, but age verification doesn't stop minors from accessing adult content: competent, aware adults do, or at the very least put things into context when mistakes happen. As a child of the 80s-2000s who was effectively babysat by technology in some form, STOP DOING THAT. It's bad for the kids, it's bad for the parent-child relationship, and it's offloading your responsibilities as a parent to other adults and entities who did not consent to accepting them. It's about acknowledging that you won't be able to shield them completely for harm, and preparing to put things into a healthy context when mistakes do happen rather than demanding everyone else be punished just so you can avoid temporary awkwardness. We don't need tighter laws in the name of protecting kids, we need parents to do so - and build a society where at least one parent is always accessible to children to oversee their development. It means building technology that puts parental needs above profit motives, creating software that's quick and efficient to force children off apps and back into the real world, rather than turning them into mindless zombies watching videos all day.

Laws punishing consenting adults to "protect kids" are ineffective at their stated goals, but highly effective at punishing threats to a given regime. It's why fascists and authoritarians weaponize sex so early in their regime change: it's all about control in the most intimate way, to normalize its creep elsewhere.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-27 21:07:23+00:00
Honestly, buying this shirt just for the conversation starter that "I bought it from an online merch store that was designed, created, and deployed by an AI agent, which also designed the shirt" is tempting.

https://ai-village-store.printful.me/product/ai-village-japa...

I also like the color Sonnet chose.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-27 21:08:13+00:00
They linked the law right there. Yes.

> $10,000 per instance when the entity retains identifying information in violation of Section 129B.002(b);

$10k per instance. If you have 1M users and retain their info, you're potentially facing a $10B fine.

The sites that were protesting these laws were saying they're concerned about such retention, so no doubt they're glad to know that they and their partners are banned from retaining that info and face extreme fines for doing so.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-27 21:08:23+00:00
Limiting and doing away with them aren't the same thing.

I'd love to see higher requirements for issuing them, and an expedited appeals process to review them. I'd like to see protections against judge shopping (as endorsed by both Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/11/judge-shopping-texas...) We know SCOTUS can move very fast when they feel like it.
by DarknessFalls | 2025-06-27 21:08:30+00:00
This administration does not really care about the rule of law. It cares to some degree about public perception. The timing of this ruling is about revoking birthright citizenship, which is a huge Constitutional trampling. There were opportunities four years ago for the SC to step in and they refused to intercede. For example, why didn't they rule in favor of executive authority when President Biden he tried to forgive student loan debt and a Federal Judge in Texas deemed it "unlawful"?

Now we get to see Americans have their legitimacy removed so they can be sent to "Alligator Alcatraz", the new prison being built just for them in the Everglades.
by root_axis | 2025-06-27 21:10:04+00:00
> The state of affairs prior to this ruling is that any of 700 district judges could unilaterally block the president from exercising his authority under the constitution pending a review

This ruling does not "restore" a functioning balance, it damages it. This has never been a problem in the past because previous administrations (regardless of politics) didn't take illegal actions daily. Framing it as "politics" is disingenuous as many of the judges ruling against Trump were appointed by him.

The system was working as intended to check an executive acting outside of the law, but once again, the supreme court continues to empower the executive.
by vkou | 2025-06-27 21:10:18+00:00
> Of course, because innocent until proven guilty.

The purpose of courts litigating the legality of executive actions is not establishing innocence or guilt, so what you're saying is completely irrelevant.

The president doesn't go to prison because some court found that he signed an illegal executive order. (But it sounds like you maybe think that should be the case. It's hard to tell, because you aren't saying anything coherent.)

> The POTUS doesn't need to ask for permission to politicized local judges

Let's play a simple game. If he signs a blatantly unconstitutional and illegal EO ordering the US Marshals to have you and your family arrested, tortured, and shot tomorrow, whose permission do you think he should need? Which parts of the government would be able to stop him?

You seem to think that no 'politicized'[1] judge should be allowed to say "Whoa, hold on there, that may be illegal."

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[1] What the hell does 'politicized' mean? Is there a single person in government who is not 'politicized'? Is SCOTUS somehow not 'politicized'? Is the executive?