MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by partiallypro | 2025-06-17 18:25:38+00:00
I think if Robotaxis take off, then his politics won't matter at all. People aren't going to care what brand of car comes to pick them up as long as they feel safe. I've been bearish on Tesla for years and they always prove me wrong. Robotaxis/Waymos are going to be national thing within the decade. It's just a bet on who survives, the biggest loser will be gig workers, that part I feel confident about.
by skavi | 2025-06-17 18:26:22+00:00
No issue with your analysis, but it’s a bit odd to say the “idea of Performance and Efficiency cores” is from the Core i5.

First, the i5 is a tier in Intel’s product stack and doesn’t refer to any specific generation. Core iX series processors have existed since 2009 and have started using (general purpose) heterogeneous cores only fairly recently (2020).

Second, I think most would credit ARM’s big.LITTLE tech (introduced in 2011) for the increase in popularity of these types of heterogeneous (general purpose) cores on modern SoCs.
by rconti | 2025-06-17 18:26:47+00:00
I don't have FSD, just basic autopilot, but I'm unhappy enough with the lane following/braking/accelerating behavior that I only use it in very limited cases.

Unless FSD improves on these -- which I don't think it does, I think it just adds features -- I can't imagine trusting it.

Yes, I'm a control freak, but I wouldn't be happy with a human driver doing the things AP does, so why would I be happy with the car doing it?
by 1231231231e | 2025-06-17 18:26:58+00:00
Can someone who has knowledge about this explain how a PC with "unsupported OS" will actually get attacked just by web browsing and being connected to the internet? Your PC will always be behind NAT, it'll never have a public IP, therefore someone port scanning it can be ruled out unless it's maybe some infected device on the local network? It's normal in modern web browsers that you can just break out of the javascript sandbox and get OS level access by running an OS that hasn't been updated for a few years? If you're running an exe that exploits some known userspace security issue of older OS versions how likely is it that this exe doesn't have any other malicious code that'd cause issues even on an up to date OS?
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-17 18:27:10+00:00
Taxes are all paid by people, ultimately, because it's people whose labor creates wealth. Corporate tax isn't some pool of money that would otherwise sit around not doing anything if not levied, as all profits eventually get paid out to individuals in one form or another. Corporate taxes are popular partly because people don't realize that (same reason governments love printing money), and partly because they're nice big static objects that find it harder to evade the tax man or move around.

AI doesn't change anything, no more than the internal combustion engine or computers did. There will still be plenty of jobs. AI has been around a few years now and hardly even impacted the job market! The effect will be like computers themselves, an uplift in the general welfare but give it 50 years and economists will be asking "where was the AI productivity boost?" just like they do with computers today.

What you find with UBI discussions is that the rationale for why it's going to be necessary constantly changes, and is always based on very dubious suppositions and extrapolations. UBI seems to be just a more respectable sounding version of /r/antiwork, when you boil it down.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-17 18:27:25+00:00
Yup, precisely this.

To expand on:

> Similarly, my ideal version of Amazon is a bare HTML page with a search box and a structured list of products and their attributes, that my User Agent can ingest, understand and render in whatever way it sees fit.

My ideal version of Amazon is a MS Access file or equivalent, that my User Agent can treat as an SQL database I can query however the heck I like.

In fact, 90% of the websites and webapps fall into the following three categories:

- Is a poster or ad magazine in disguise;

- Would be much better if supplied as an Excel sheet

- Would be much better if supplied as a database file or connection

Alas.

I'd go as far as saying, the job of great many web startups is to slap an SPA on top of a database to restrict access and charge for usage, like someone finding a shortcut through dense forest, fencing it off and building a toll gate on the path.

And FWIW, it's not like people need things dumbed down into funnels and journeys. Sure, you probably can't expect much from a product aimed literally at everyone above age 2, but there's a host of products used by a narrower segment of population - white-collar workers, or even regular people with working mental faculties. These people can handle spreadsheets and even databases absolutely fine. In fact, there was a brief period of time, when this was taught in schools and as well as universities, particularly to people pursuing degrees in humanities / liberal arts. Databases in particular used to be part of journalist and librarian studies. People could easily learn all this stuff, if it were useful - but the trends on the web made sure it wasn't.

After all, you can't make FU money out of your startup backed by millions in VC dollars, that's just running basic SELECTs for users and charging for it, if users are allowed to run SELECTs themselves.
by poulsbohemian | 2025-06-17 18:27:26+00:00
>I know people that routinely travel in EVs between Mendocino county and San Diego county. Roughly the distance between NY and Georgia.

I would assume they are forced to recharge multiple times over that distance, which might be fine - you'd have to refill with gas/petrol over that distance as well, but the difference between 10 minutes verses an hour or so unless I'm really missing both the range and time to recharge for EVs.
by RHSeeger | 2025-06-17 18:27:34+00:00
It seems like it would be possible for state and local forces (police) to arrest and imprison ICE agents that are acting illegally. Specifically, arrest them for kidnapping when the nab people off the streets. Sure, they'll get out because they can lie and pretend they have cause; but they could be locked up for a while at least. And do it enough, and maybe they'll start thinking twice before acting stupid.
by Lammy | 2025-06-17 18:27:39+00:00
> the old intel GPU drivers

I'm using a Xeon E3-1270 v3 which doesn't have integrated graphics. I'm pretty sure I don't even have the Intel iGPU drivers installed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_processors_...

Maybe just having the physical VGA port is enough to run afoul of it even though it's inoperable? Either way I'm fine with it v(._. )v
by dredmorbius | 2025-06-17 18:27:54+00:00
Strictly speaking, farming is where all our livelihoods come from, in the greatest part. We're all living off the surplus value of food production.

(Also of other food, energy, and materials sourcing: fishing, forestry, mining, etc.)

This was the insight of the French economist François Quesnay in his Tableau économique, foundation of the Physiocratic school of economics.
by simcop2387 | 2025-06-17 18:27:56+00:00
> For multi-window applications you're not inside "your own window", you own many windows. Are apps not allowed to get and set properties of windows they spawn under Wayland?

Depends on what you're calling properties of the window, wayland does of course have a number of things like that but not all of them are the same as X11 used to be. I don't believe it's got a way to get the position of your own window, and does not have a way to set the position at all since that's considered a property of the compositor's handle on the surface IIRC (not exactly the same as the window, since the compositor can be putting decorations on the surface like the title bar, controls, etc.).

A lot of it is consequences of moving some security fences around as other commenters have mentioned, because over the decades a lot of applications (not necessarily on linux or X11, but it has happened there still) have used those other barrier's leakage to do nefarious things like steal passwords, pop up ads on top of what you're doing, etc.

I would definitely support an argument that they swung the pendulum further towards "secure by default, even at the expense of what people need" but I'm actually happy they did, because it's quite a bit easier to add the functionality in after you've got something that's secure, rather than design a new barrier that breaks existing things after the fact.
by manchmalscott | 2025-06-17 18:28:36+00:00
The thing I don’t understand about using my phone for identity verification at TSA is that I also need my boarding pass at TSA, which is also on my phone. I can either hand them my drivers license and scan my boarding pass in parallel (fast), hand them a paper boarding pass and maybe use the digital drivers license assuming that airport can support that (waste of paper though), or I can do both on my phone and make the entire interaction take twice as long? What’s the point, genuinely?
by Liquix | 2025-06-17 18:28:56+00:00
he also reported giving a guru heroic doses of LSD (1200+ μg) on two occasions and observing practically no effect. presumably because the state produced by the drug is a fleeting taste of the state the guru had achieved through more traditional means.

https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-gives-maharaji-the-yogi-med...
by jjani | 2025-06-17 18:29:42+00:00
The real news is that non-thinking output is now 4x more expensive, which they of course carefully avoid mentioning in the blog, only comparing the thinking prices.

How cute they are with their phrasing:

> $2.50 / 1M output tokens (*down from $3.50 output)

Which should be "up from $0.60 (non-thinking)/down from $3.50 (thinking)"
by CrimsonCape | 2025-06-17 18:30:30+00:00
I believe that I and everyone "vibrate at a certain frequency" which I define loosely as the qualitative electrical/emotional impulses that drive daily mood and physiology. Like the baseline is a smooth sine wave of calmness. Some people seem agitated all the time, and I guarantee their frequency is vibrating at a higher hertz.

Driving home from work, I get at least 2-3 "shocks" when other drivers cause close calls. I flinch, get a surge of adrenaline, and have to breathe to calm down. My sine wave is disturbed. Let's say a driver swerved close to my vehicle and I flinch and swerve away.

The next day, a driver drifts close and I instinctively get a shock, flinch, and swerve away. I didn't intend to be jumpy and nervous, but apparently my electrical system is still "echoing" from the day before.

At work, I experience anxiety, and it's a "softer" shock, but the long term result is nervousness, twitching, holding my breath in anticipation (of an attack that never comes), feelings of dread.

People talk about fixing upset emotional states and psychology, but in thinking about this, I characterize my own problems as needing my electrical system tuned-up.

How often did a farmer 1000 years ago get adrenaline dumps from fast-twitch motor neurons as he zoomed 80mph down the highway? And yet now it's literally all day. Vehicle noise at 4am, jump awake. Phone rings, jump and flinch. Driving, etc.

I don't think we look often enough at the physiology of stress from the perspective of the electrical signals generated by the nervous system. It seems like all kinds of problems come from it. To the article's point, I know my breathing has been affected from stress and tensions. I don't think i'm particularly unhealthy, so I think a lot of people could relate to feeling "not-unhealthy" but also really twitchy and disturbed from stress and tension.

In my thinking about this, fitness and health come from creating the electrical impulses in a steady, predictable way (i.e. walking, lifting) such that the electrical pathway can remember it's baseline frequency and "strengthen" the good frequency. And hopefully smooth-out the peaks and valleys of the signal interruptions caused by stresses.
by dredmorbius | 2025-06-17 18:30:37+00:00
I've seen consistent values for food waste reported for at least the past 40 years, if not the past 80, in various sources. I suspect it's something of a constant. One observation I've seen is that food wastage now occurs far later in the processing cycle, which is to say, after far more resources (transport, processing, refrigeration, cooking) have been invested in it.

In the long term, food demand is elastic in that populations tend to grow.
by hungryhobbit | 2025-06-17 18:30:42+00:00
Do you think the police are actually policing the internet?

Even if you didn't mean your local police, and meant a national body like the FBI, the truth is they focus on other crimes (eg. child abuse), and even then they are woefully unable to handle even most of those crimes.

The vast, vast majority of copyright enforcement comes from copyright holders ... not the internet copyright police.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-06-17 18:30:44+00:00
> Distros are not dropping Xwayland, just say "run our app trough xwayland".

Yes, just saying "Wayland is only supported through XWayland" is usually a really easy solution that does in fact just work.

> X11 on its own is dead, and things like KDE do very little development on their X11 version.

Eeeeh... I think calling X "dead" is hyperbolic. It is less actively developed, and GNOME and KDE are migrating away from it. But it still works approximately as well as it ever has, and pretty much anything except GNOME and KDE is quite likely to continue working for the foreseeable future.

- Sent from my laptop running Xorg
by thayne | 2025-06-17 18:30:47+00:00
Here is one example of waste: FedRAMP certified software often costs 2-10x equivalent non-certified software. That means the government is paying a lot more than anyone else for the same thing.

Why? Well part of it is because getting and keeping that certification is itself expensive. There are expensive audits, that take up a lot of time, and generally require paying specialized consultants to get through. All of your cryptography needs to be done using expensive FIPS certified "modules". There are requirements about the hardware you run on. All of your vendors also need to be FedRAMP approved. The requirements often add a lot of friction to normal operations and slow things down. In many cases it is easier, and cheaper to run/build an entirely separate product for FedRAMP possibly in a separate data center, which adds a lot of cost. And to be honest, a lot of the requirements are mostly security theater.

But another reason is just that the government is willing to pay that high premium for a stamp of approval.

To be fair, it is warranted for the government to have some assurance of the security and quality of software they use, especially if the software is used for more sensitive purposes. But the certification process is overkill for many places software is used, and I think that if some effort was put onto steamlining the process, the cost could be brought down.
by riedel | 2025-06-17 18:31:02+00:00
Interesting read. I reminded me of some stories a German guy who used to work for a Spanish utility told me (the guy lost his job at one of the first closed German nuclear facilities and now worked at the museum of a pumped storage power plant): he told us that the Spanish utility he worked for waited far too long to kick in gas power plants waiting for prices to rise further making tons of money by risking stability. I also learned from him that a lot German nuclear facilities are still running there generators only as weight to stabilize the network. (Actually he also told us that some utilities legally abuse the pumped storage to trade energy between networks). So it seems there are some strange incentives and necessities in today's system , that might explain the failures to react in time.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-17 18:31:19+00:00
Cruise in SF was a bit of a freak accident. There were systematic issues that exacerbated the issue, but it wasn't an issue of bad disengagement numbers. In fact, Cruise 2023 actually highlights how misleading disengagement numbers can be, as they reported 0 critical disengagements the entire year over 583k miles. Waymo is extremely consistent about their numbers and they typically sandbag themselves relative to their competitors. Tesla of course doesn't officially report CA numbers, so people rely on crowdsourced data that the company and fans maintain are orders of magnitude lower than reality.

It's entirely possible that the opaqueness and small scale of the Tesla rollout could lead to situations where long tail events like the Cruise collision simply don't occur, or aren't allowed to reach public media.
by ciupicri | 2025-06-17 18:31:46+00:00
> xorg-x11-server is removed from RHEL 10

> The X.Org server, an implementation of the X Window System, was previously deprecated and is removed from RHEL 10. Note that the X11 protocol is not removed, which means that most applications will remain compatible through the Xwayland compositor. For more information, see Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 plans for Wayland and Xorg server (Red Hat Blog).

(https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...)
by ezst | 2025-06-17 18:32:09+00:00
To me it's a useful reminder that those tools are nothing but text generating algorithms, optimised to produce compelling answers, irrespective whether they are truthful or not, having no concept of what's factual, and completely missing the ability to give up when asked for impossible or unreasonable answers outside of their training data.

In essence, they are only adequate in niche situations (like creative writing, marketing, placeholder during iterative design, …) where there's no such social contract and assumption that people operate in good faith and do their best diligence not to deceive others.

Pretending otherwise, not pushing back when LLMs are clearly used outside of those contexts, or dressing them into what they are not (thinking machines, search engines, knowledge archives, …) is doing the work of useful idiots defending tech oligarchs and data thieves against their own interests.

And yeah, I get it, naysayers are annoying. Doesn't mean they are wrong or their voices shouldn't be heard at a time where the legality and ethics of all this are being debated.
by username223 | 2025-06-17 18:32:28+00:00
This stood out to me:

> the automaker posted a new job listing days ago for engineers to help build a low-latency teleoperation system to operate its “self-driving” cars and robots.

It's June 17; they're supposedly launching in five days. Even if it's 95% off-the-shelf software, that timeframe for getting it up and debugged, then hiring enough humans to operate it, makes absolutely no sense. After nearly a decade of broken promises about FSD, has Elon finally trapped himself? Will there be a handful of "robotaxis" circling around a few blocks of Austin with Mexicans hiding in the frunk to drive them?

I'm glad I don't live there.
by theturtletalks | 2025-06-17 18:32:36+00:00
I disagree with the comparison between LLM behavior and traditional software getting worse. When regular software declines in quality, it’s usually noticeable through UI changes, release notes, or other signals. Companies often don’t bother hiding it, since their users are typically locked into their ecosystem.

LLMs, on the other hand, operate under different incentives. It’s in a company’s best interest to initially release the strongest model, top the benchmarks, and then quietly degrade performance over time. Unlike traditional software, LLMs have low switching costs, users can easily jump to a better alternative. That makes it more tempting for companies to conceal model downgrades to prevent user churn.
by scott_w | 2025-06-17 18:33:48+00:00
Well since you asked nicely, Legal Eagle obliged and reminded me that the NG shot at protesters during the Vietnam War: https://youtu.be/CT8_IV42AM8?si=HCyQNBpJ7T9pfodS

Skip ahead to about 10 minutes. So yes, I’m still right and the US military are as trigger happy as any other military.
by GuB-42 | 2025-06-17 18:34:15+00:00
The short answer is yes, and there are tools to help you. There are ways to simulate a poor network in the dev tools of major browsers, in the Android emulator, there is "Augmented Traffic Control" by Facebook, "Network Link Conditioner" by Apple and probably many others.

It is telling that tech giants make tools to test their software in poor networking conditions. It may not look like they care, until you try software by those who really don't care.
by m463 | 2025-06-17 18:34:22+00:00
don't know android, but ios does a lot of unspecified things during 911.

For example I have location services turned off, but a picture I took while on hold with 911 showed up in my camera roll with full location information. I suspect every app gets full precise location information during 911 (which sort of makes sense in a life-or-death situation)

I wouldn't be surprised if other stuff is affected, like networking/vpn, microphone, etc
by grvdrm | 2025-06-17 18:34:35+00:00
I think this is simple and has little to do with child care. I have 2 kids, fully remote, but otherwise worked office jobs (w/kids) prior to 2022.

Companies believe that in-person interactions lead to more productivity. And I think that's true for many companies and many workers. Anecdotally, lots of folks I know that commute into NYC feel that the distinct on-at-work and off(ish)-at-home is more productive for their work.
by mlsu | 2025-06-17 18:35:28+00:00
It's fantastic that right libertarians have the opportunity to own me, a lib. The silver lining to all of this is all of the epic lib-owning that can be done as a result of the destruction of the rule of law. But, by my reading, traffic court and HOA fees were not cause of all of this. Right libertarians rightfully complained in 2001 when the DHS was formed; they again rightfully complained in the 2010's when Snowden blew the lid open on global surveillance. I would like to see them resist in a meaningful way here and now. Unfortunately it seems they are busy going to cryptocurrency conferences at Mar-a-Lago.

> I would be absolutely elated if the end result of all this crap is a judicial president that eviscerates the many parallel systems that the feds/state/local governments run in all sorts of specialty areas of law.

I think we saw what giving power to the "right guy" in the executive branch lead us. The thing that will stop us going down this road is, at this point, active resistance from local and state governments, private businesses and government contractors, and large multi-national corporations.

You need a lot of ICE, an absolutely staggering number of cops and jails, to deport twenty million people. It should be crystal clear by now that they will attempt to follow through with this promise, by whatever means necessary.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-06-17 18:35:29+00:00
Seriously, Nexus works great and I vastly prefer it to the clunky Team workshop or, God forbid, manually installing everything.

I'm convinced a ton of people commenting here haven't even used Nexus in years or convinced themselves they're "power users" who don't need to use a launcher, just to blame Nexus on the subsequent pain.

Some of them are clearly commenting in bad faith though, and have never used Nexus and are just slinging mud because of their audacity to moderate offensive content or inflammatory users.
by jcynix | 2025-06-17 18:35:36+00:00
Exactly. And the "sensor size myth" is nothing a kid should (or would) care about.

There are some very good YouTube channels talking about micro four thirds cameras, which are still a good choice, especially when used as a camera to carry every day.

Disclaimer, own and use full frame, APS-C, and even Ixus and Powershot cameras which all can produce decent images if one knows how and when to use them. Oh, smartphone, of course.