MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelseyfrog | 2025-06-24 19:06:16+00:00
Every generation has its "free-speech advocates" moaning, "you can’t say anything anymore." The current panics: political correctness, cancel culture, jokes under siege, has the usual suspects asking, "What will the free-speech crowd say about this one?"

This is a perfect example of Bourdieu's idea of symbolic violence and the violence of the arbitrary.

The uncomfortable truth is, for many the thrill isn't in enforcing fair rules, or even unfair ones. The thrill is in the power to enforce arbitrary rules. The point isn't who gets punished, it's that someone can be, at a moment's notice, for no coherent reason. And the joy is in unpredictability, in knowing they can shift the rules under your feet and there's no one appeal to.

This is the logic sitting beneath every hand-wringing editorial and rage-bait thread about "cancel culture run amok." The goal is sovereignty, not consistency. It's about who gets to draw the lines and when they can redraw them. Arbitrary enforcement isn't a bug. It’s the feature.

The clever "gotcha" crowd falls flat when they imagine that, by exposing contradictions, they'll force a confession, a moment of logic, an admission, and surrender. But that moment never comes. When the point is arbitrariness, contradiction isn't a failure. It's the currency of power. Pointing it out only proves you're not the one with power.

What will the "PC culture" critics say? Probably what they’ve always said. Remember, it's not about the arguments. It's about who gets to arbitrate, who gets to punish, and who gets to laugh last.

It always has been.
by wffurr | 2025-06-24 19:06:36+00:00
Disable biometric unlock; you're not required to provide a passcode but you can be required to look at or touch the device. Cross with it turned off.

I don't think the threat of a fine or jail time is real. Even if the agents said that, that's not an actual legal penalty they can apply. They can deny entry to someone on a visa, but they can't deny entry to a citizen or legal resident. They can keep your device, though.

https://www.aclutx.org/en/news/can-border-agents-search-your... has a lot of good details.
by 9rx | 2025-06-24 19:06:47+00:00
Sure, but outside of where that backyard is wanted to be hundreds of acres, then there is the density necessary to introduce amenities like jobs, healthcare, shopping, etc. alongside the backyard. At which point you no longer need transportation as you have everything you need right there.

But what happens in the places we're talking about is that the people accept a small backyard in order to keep everything close, but also work to ensure that amenities aren't welcome, only allowing other houses to be close. So you get all the downsides of the city, having to trip over your annoying neighbours, but also the downsides of living in the country, having to waste large amounts of time driving to do anything.

What do people see in these strange middle places?
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-24 19:06:50+00:00
There was that time I needed three digits from my mailbox and K-Mart had the 4, the 7 but not the 2 so I didn't buy any of them.

Amazon feels a lot more customer-centric than other retailers. It's a perennial complaint of mine that we still get frickin' cold days in April in upstate NY but all the home improvement and rural things retailers in my town are based in the deep South so they just can't get it that you might need a space heater or your chickens might die but Amazon does. (Well, there was a day that the rest of the country complained everything was run out of New York...)
by hbn | 2025-06-24 19:06:58+00:00
Call it whatever you want, it helps me get unstuck when my dependencies aren't getting along, or when I need to figure out what's wrong with my usage of an API I'm not familiar with, or why my build won't startup based on the code and the vague error message, etc.

I don't care if it's a human or a robot telling me, I just want to get unstuck and I've been getting unstuck more since the advent of LLMs than in the rest of my programming career. Digging through bad documentation and Googling for old form posts of similar-but-not-quite-the-same-issues was always the worst part of programming to me, and I'm glad there's a tool that finally solved that problem.
by naiv | 2025-06-24 19:07:08+00:00
the number one important thing: ask it to write tests first, then the code. and instruct it to not overmock or change code to make tests succeed.

besides this: I have great results in combination with https://github.com/BeehiveInnovations/zen-mcp-server but ymmv of course and it requires also o3 and gemini api keys but the token usage is really low and the workflow works really great if properly used
by tptacek | 2025-06-24 19:07:24+00:00
These aren't like Github Issues reports; they're bug bounty programs, specifically stood up to soak up incoming reports from anonymous strangers looking to make money on their submissions, with the premise being that enough of those reports will drive specific security goals (the scope of each program is, for smart vendors, tailored to engineering goals they have internally) to make it worthwhile.
by VikingCoder | 2025-06-24 19:07:28+00:00
The Abyss is a movie by James Cameron, who also made Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens, True Lies, Titanic, and Avatar.

"The Abyss" is about a deep sea crew that encounters ... aliens...?

And yes, in general, I recommend The Abyss. It's definitely not the same as Project Hail Mary, but it does have similarities.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-24 19:07:31+00:00
> Theoretically, credit should be used for one thing: to make more money. (not less)

Credit moves money across time. That’s it. (Analogous to paying a shipper to move stuff across space.)

Not all consumptive debt is bad.(And not all consumptive loans are wealth destroying. I opted to borrow when I bought my car because the rate was so much lower than what I figured I could earn with the money.) And not all cash-flow positive wealth is good.

We should be more scrutinising about how debt is used. But especially for folks with volatile incomes, accumulating debt for consumption is fine as long as it doesn’t snowball.
by MaxBarraclough | 2025-06-24 19:08:03+00:00
> regarding C89/99, a solution here is to use ANSI C, which is what Lua does

C89 and C99 are both standards that are endorsed by ANSI. [0] (At least, they were endorsed, as they're now both behind the times.)

The Lua interpreter is written in a subset of C that behaves identically when compiled as C++, they call this 'Clean C'. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C

[1] https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html
by discoutdynamite | 2025-06-24 19:08:06+00:00
The other picture showed Mads with a wooden pipe which he had made years prior

This is really why. Any evidence or suspicion of drug use or paraphenalia is a major offense. Even it they attempted to justify or explain it, its a major rejection criteria. Ive heard of several denials for suspicions of marijuana use, "DUDE WEED" memes and the like. They are really going hard on anything that looks like illicit substance use.
by mellosouls | 2025-06-24 19:08:13+00:00
I'm a man of the left who thinks cancel-culture stinks and have campaigned against it for years, including warning those on "my side" (who you wrongly call my political opponents) that one day the boot would be on the other foot.

I condemn cancel-culture full stop whether its the right-wing mcarthyism of the fifties or the leftist bullies of the last decade.

Do you?
by rattray | 2025-06-24 19:08:24+00:00
Taking this question at face value, because you asked: Stainless generates MCP servers for REST APIs (a ~simple[0] translation of an OpenAPI to a suite of MCP tools).

We actually generate MCP for free (we charge for SDKs), so we're technically not selling, but I don't begrudge GP's comment/sentiment.

[0]https://www.stainless.com/blog/what-we-learned-converting-co... describes some ways in which this is less simple than you think. The "Handling large APIs dynamically" section near the bottom covers the most salient challenge related to converting large APIs to MCP tools, but there's more work to do.
by astrolx | 2025-06-24 19:08:30+00:00
I am a "republican", small "r" as you would say. I pay yearly fee to a "republican association" in a country that is a monarchy, the goal is to end the monarchy. Nothing of it has to do with the US or its Republican party. Get a grip, learn history. Other countries also have shitty political parties using that ethymology ("Les Républicains" in France for instance). Let that ideology burn, and let republicanism [1] thrive.

[1] Republicanism is a political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others.
by bredren | 2025-06-24 19:09:06+00:00
All of the time. Often I'm working with 3-4 different project contexts simultaneously.

It isn't that useful but I do glance it when I'm working on dependencies and to ensure the context between a terminal session and pycharm's interpreter match.

The information doesn't cloud the prompt for me though, as it is right justified and I don't really think about time to load, as the machines are relatively recent Apple Silicon.
by IAmBroom | 2025-06-24 19:09:13+00:00
OK, this has gotten silly.

Almost ANY small particle in a light-density air suspension (dust cloud) will ignite. Certainly anything that oxidizes is prone to going WHOOF! around flames.

This includes non-dairy creamers, paint spray, insecticide sprays (canned or pumped), and sawdust tossed over a fire.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-06-24 19:09:14+00:00
You absolutely can tell the difference. DLSS (upscale) visually is massively different in some games. Sometimes it works great, sometimes the result is very ugly. I've tested with several of my favorites.

And generated frames are far worse than that. If you're running at a very high base framerate (100+) then they can look OK but the moment the frames get any further apart the visual quality starts to tank.
by bizzz | 2025-06-24 19:09:52+00:00
Heh, never really thought there's a market for it. Though now I can imagine it being sold at some TV shopping channel. A solution to a problem you never knew you had.

Anyway, I think there are plenty of people who do not want to open windows and still have fresh air. But the amount of people who can't modify their room or for whatever reasons don't want to open their bedroom door is bound to be much less.

Now I'm curious, why don't you open your bedroom door? Me, I'm a light sleeper and other apartment dwellers will wake me up if I open the door.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-24 19:10:02+00:00
> That transition zone absolutely is dangerous

And yet we have no evidence for this perfidious danger! Despite lots of evidence for its opposite, e.g. pacing cars making roads safer.

Fortunately this discussion is moot as the authorisations for these EVs were granted before the crowd that concludes first and looks for evidence second took notice.
by anonymars | 2025-06-24 19:10:24+00:00
Even if we ignore the fact that Windows RT is long cancelled, has anyone ever seen either in the wild on any machine?

Ultimately my point is I don't think the following is true. What you describe basically exists, and no one wanted it. For Windows RT I remember it basically being, "wait a minute, this thing can't run my normal apps".

> but that might upset legacy corporate customers so instead they let ordinary people get hacked or lose their family photos and spend money on repairs

I doubt Microsoft could manage to market an umbrella in a rain storm, so I imagine that's why S mode is basically stillborn. These days people use a lot fewer native apps (and now it is possible to package many of them into the Store), and S mode can be converted to full. I imagine if it started in S mode by default most people would never notice
by TremendousJudge | 2025-06-24 19:10:33+00:00
> If the U.S. disintegrates nowhere on earth is safe.

This is a very Hollywood action film way of seeing the world. In the case of an American civil war, it's unlikely that it will be fought using nuclear weapons, and in that case, it's unlikely that they would use any on say, Chile, or Australia.

Europeans are screwed though.
by groos | 2025-06-24 19:10:51+00:00
All Abrahamic faiths ban lending where the returned amount is greater than that borrowed, i.e. charging interest. Judaism "worked around" it by banning it amongs Jews but allowed lending on interest to non-Jews. Christianity originally followed Jewish law in this regard but abandoned it later on. Islam, adheres to banning interest strictly, but this is subject to different interpretations. E.g., buying an item at a higher price but paying in installments is allowed by some schools of jurisprudence, while others disallow it, while there is unanimous condemnation of a loan whose interest "doubles and redoubles" [explicit in the Quran], which is the typical credit card or mortgage. The main difference in buying at a higher price + installments from a conventional interest based lone is that the profit gets agreed to at sale, and it holds regardless of whether the full payment is made early or not.

Muslims have got around the problem of not being able to pay for houses in cash by constructing a joint ownership scheme, where the lender and buyer enter into a joint ownership of the house; the buyer pays rent and adds extra to buy more equity, and the rent goes to both the buyer and lender in proportion to their equity as a business partnership. Over time, the rent part decreases and the equity buying accelerates. There are other models, but this is the most popular one. Due to Federal and state laws, such mortgages are often reported with interest rates even though, technically, interest is not being charged.
by any1 | 2025-06-24 19:11:23+00:00
I used to work for a company that makes equipment for the food processing industry.

Sometimes conveyor belts would be left running for days or even weeks in the test area. After a while, you would start to see very fine dust on and around the conveyor belts. This was finely ground POM plastic. On some occasions, there were actually heaps of that stuff forming beneath the conveyor belts.

In the factories, everything gets washed down with pressure washers at least once per day, so very little of this stuff goes into the food, but it definitely gets washed away out to sea.

I think that there is probably a wide-spread misunderstanding on how the micro-plastics enter the food. It does not seem very likely that it would come from the packaging or your tupperware (unless your tupperware is so old that it has actually started to disintegrate). It seems much likelier that the plastics were in the food before it was packaged.
by altairprime | 2025-06-24 19:11:24+00:00
The DMA has language defining thresholds below which it doesn’t apply. At 50k users, I would not expect or call for the DMA to apply. Discord has slightly more than that and I would expect the DMA to apply to them, assuming the EU found them to be an in-scope platform. Given their recent introduction of gaming and such inside their ‘we’re not just a chat server anymore’ feature expansion, one could argue that they’re now voluntarily opting in to platform regulations that wouldn’t have applied if they’d just stayed focused on messaging.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-24 19:11:53+00:00
You can't distribute the copyrighted works, but that isn't inherently the same thing as the model.

It's sort of like distributing a compendium of book reviews. Many of the reviews have quotes from the book. If there are thousands of reviews, you could potentially reconstruct the whole book, but that's not the point of the thing and so it makes sense for the infringing thing to be "using it to reconstruct the whole book" rather than "distributing the compendium".

And then Anthropic fended off the argument that their service was intended for doing the former because they were explicitly taking measures to prevent that.
by igouy | 2025-06-24 19:11:58+00:00
March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1."

https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&dq=d...

September 1991 — "Smalltalk/V code is portable between the Windows and the OS/2 versions. And the resulting application carries no runtime charges. All for just $499.95."

(Advert on the last page of "The Smalltalk Report")

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Archives/TheSmalltalkRepor...

September 1991 — "Digitalk, Inc. announced new versions of Smalltalk/V DOS and Smalltalk/V Mac that include royalty-free runtime. Smalltalk/V Windows and Smalltalk/V PM are already royalty free. … Prior to this new policy, there was a per-copy charge for runtime applications."

"The Smalltalk Report" p25

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/Archives/TheSmalltalkRepor...

~

https://wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914

Lest we forget applets https://dev.java/duke/
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-24 19:12:02+00:00
I don't think transformers will be viable for self driving cars until they can both:

1) Properly recognize what they are seeing without having to lean so hard on their training data. Go photoshop a picture of a cat and give it a 5th leg coming out of it's stomach. No LLM will be able to properly count the cat's legs (they will keep saying 4 legs no matter how many times you insist they recount).

2.) Be extremely fast at outputting tokens. I don't know where the threshold is, but its probably going to be a non-thinking model (at first) and probably need something like Cerebras or diffusion architecture to get there.
by moyix | 2025-06-24 19:12:19+00:00
Yeah, it's been very strange being on the other side of that after 10 years in academia! But it's totally reasonable for people to be skeptical when there's a bunch of money sloshing around.

I'll see if I can get time to do a paper to accompany the BH talk. And hopefully the agent traces of individual vulns will also help.
by delfinom | 2025-06-24 19:12:25+00:00
Yes but the employer must first fire you for refusing to relocate.

Hence _dont resign_.

Some companies try and cheat employees illegally by not only telling you one of two options but also tell you that no response is "voluntary resignation".

The correct answer is speak to an employment lawyer, but it's usually as simple as you draft a letter that says "I do not accept the relocation and I AM NOT resigning".
by Akranazon | 2025-06-24 19:12:36+00:00
It always bothers me when someone says, "that's so obvious, what's the point in doing a study on it?"

> What are these results actually telling us that the average person doesn’t already know?

Nothing. It's a trivial claim, but does this imply we should not research it?

An enormous amount of effort in the hard sciences is dedicated to proving/stating:

* Claims that on their face appear trivial - like 1+1=2, or the "two points determine a line" postulate

* Things that seem obvious and hardly worth stating - like the pigeonhole principle, or laws of associativity/commutativity/distributivity

* Seemingly redundant re-phrasings of the thesis (every theorem, once it clicks)

But these sorts of mathematical rules become increasingly non-obvious when combined with each other. There is a reason the hard sciences works like this: you want to arrange knowledge hierarchically. You need to have a foundation of knowledge in order to do anything more complex.

The social sciences don't work like this, but they should. Whenever someone proves obvious things, they get told, "why are you wasting time proving that? Everyone already knows that." But psychology, with its replication crises, has a long way to go before it becomes like a hard science. You need to accumulate a hierarchy of proven foundations.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-24 19:13:37+00:00
I spent so much time trying to get the SDK working for NRF52 that I genuinely just gave up and redesigned our whole product to use an ESP32 instead of the NRF plus other uC.

I think that is genuinely the reason espressif is eating everyone's lunch. All the old players in the IC business have such inexcusably bad SDKs that the acceptably designed and documented ESP-IDF framework just makes the most sense to use. Why would I spend six weeks fighting with Nordic SDKs with their weird system-wide installation when ESP-IDF can be set up in five minutes isolated to your user directory?

Seriously, it takes longer to find the correct Nordic SDK installer than it does to git clone, idf.py install, ./export.sh

And Nordic's weird documentation web portal is just egregiously bad. Espressif puts it in a static HTML page with a selector for the framework version. It's simple, elegant, and fast.

I did like using the NRF52 once it was finally behaving, but the ESP is just so easy.
by umanwizard | 2025-06-24 19:13:45+00:00
They were not a democracy despite what they had in the name. They were also not fascist, which has nothing to do with what was in their name. They were actually not fascist, in the sense that they didn't follow the ideology called "fascism".

Fascism is a specific ideology invented in Italy in the early 20th century; it does not just mean any authoritarian dictatorship.
by bydo | 2025-06-24 19:13:54+00:00
We really need more granular notification settings already. I want to to know when my Lyft is arriving. I want to know when my food's been delivered. I don't want to know that I can get 10% off something for the next hour.

Apparently in the new beta the Wallet app actually does let you disable promotional notifications, so that's a start. Now do every other app.
by 7e | 2025-06-24 19:15:57+00:00
It's not a given that a camera will even work as well as a human if it's attached to a human brain. The human eye is stereo, it has a focusable lens, an iris, it's incredibly sensitive and the foveated retina has a very high resolution. Can't say the same for the cheap-ass cameras on the Tesla. I'm not sure there is a camera on Earth that is the equal to the eye (yet).
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-24 19:16:14+00:00
There's demography but also the fact that if I have a site with 1,000 users I can dream of a total addressable market of 1,000,000,000 or so. The most important thing is to get enough users to "prime the pump" where they start filling out content and there is somebody to interact with.

Circa 2000 or so the usual advice to give the business people was "base your register and login flow on Yahoo" because Yahoo had done the usability work and people were familiar with it. By 2007 or so this was terrible advice because Yahoo was facing terrible problems with account takeovers, smurph accounts and controlling bad behavior and was making login harder, not easier.

I think Facebook is in the same place today.

I nuked my Facebook account in 2016 but made one a year ago to go with my Meta Quest 3. It's amazing how bad the "new user" experience is when they don't have any data on you -- on the other hand, they don't care about onboarding anymore because the stragglers like you are people who are creating a Facebook account for a reason. Instagram, on the other hand, should be proud of their cold set because they really do have a few 100 really amazing things to show you on day one. If only they realized that (i) I don't want to engage with OnlyFans models, and (ii) if I did it would be more like Ely EEE than the ones they show me...
by andyjsong | 2025-06-24 19:17:09+00:00
Here's a good primer: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/so2-injection

Risk vs. Benefits: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/01/ma...

Or the scientist Bill Gates calls when he wants to learn about climate change: https://makesunsets.com/blogs/news/optional-climate-change