MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by basisword | 2025-06-14 18:55:13+00:00
>> driving dangerously

This is where self-driving taxis could succeed. I don't want self-driving on my personal car because I am more trusting of my own abilities. But I have had too many Uber rides where I've seriously considered asking them to pull over and let me out. Never any accidents but some really dangerous driving and a couple of drivers where it was 50/50 whether they were drunk or high. I'll trust the self-driving over a random Uber driver every time.
by logicchains | 2025-06-14 18:55:20+00:00
>there's an upper limit to how much drone terrorism a society will tolerate.

There's an upper limit to how much authoritarianism a society can tolerate. Automated weaponry becoming cheaper and cheaper as technology progresses will eventually lead to a wave of decentralisation in society, because offense is much cheaper than defense, so wannabe tyrants will have a harder and harder time maintaining their own safety.
by dang | 2025-06-14 18:55:26+00:00
You broke the site guidelines repeatedly and badly in this thread. Please don't do that, regardless of how wrong or annoying someone is or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Also, it unfortunately isn't the first time you've done this (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42565389), although it seems to be the first time you jumped into a full-blown flamewar. Please don't do it again. We have to ban users that abuse the site like this, and I don't want to ban you.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of HN more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by firefax | 2025-06-14 18:55:51+00:00
>The ninja party was not even great.

I believe you.

By the time I was cool enough to have my pick of parties, I ended up having a massive panic attack during the crowd crush at the bar at some Rapid7 event and ending up pissing off the person who got me the ticket by leaving after 30 minutes to go buy a Manhattan at some side bar in the casino rather than wait in line 45 minutes for a beer, then spend another 45 minutes trying to wiggle away, only to start wiggling back.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-14 18:56:01+00:00
There could be a stable long term arrangement between Waymo and Uber. Think of the relationship between Nvidia and OEMs, where Nvidia gets all of the margin and only has to deal with B2B bulk orders that they can redirect at any time, while the OEM has to deal with all the expensive customer support, returns, recalls, and other annoying aspects of retail.

It's not a future where Uber is a viable company though.
by sixothree | 2025-06-14 18:56:23+00:00
I'm not seeing controls moved around much. So this argument really applies to older versions of iOS as well. Maybe that was the point? Either way, I sort of agree. It's less than ideal, but if you're going to be doing it at least do it in a way that looks good.

And boy do I think this looks good. After a few days I can only say that complaining is so wrong. Previous versions of iOS were hard to use. I am finding this cleaner and easier to use. I very much don't want to go back.
by firefax | 2025-06-14 18:56:25+00:00
Is "PET" the "Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium"?[0]

Looks like it became a "symposium" in 2008[1] if we're discussing the same thing.

The one PETS I went to, Dan wasn't at, but Caspar Bowden joined me in my quest to try to eat lunch before 9pm in a certain EU country and reassured me that my concerns about mass surveillance were rooted in facts and logic in rather disturbing detail.

My impression of academia was that there's two very different sets of people, one I came to term the "hostel people", the other the "hotel people": Hostel people would talk to whoever seemed interesting, hotel people want to know: Who are you, who's your adviser, where did you do your bachelors, where did you do your master's, what did your parents do, did you go to a fancy prep school, did you grow up in a large city or "flyover country", and so on and so forth.

Anyways, in comedy we often talk about "punching up" -- when it comes to building community I feel it's best to do the opposite and "shore up the base" -- focus on building up the next generation.

https://petsymposium.org/2007/

https://petsymposium.org/2008/
by empiko | 2025-06-14 18:57:38+00:00
Two differences. (1) You can do more targeted attacks. The furthest IRA got was usually to park a van in front of a building. With drones, you can target individuals, cars, planes, etc, even when they are physically separated from public spaces. (2) Since you can do targeted attacks, you don't need that much explosives. This makes you harder to identify and track. Breivik had to buy a farm to have access to the amount of fertilizer he wanted to use.
by snickerbockers | 2025-06-14 18:57:50+00:00
He failed to consider that small actors won't have a monopoly on drones. The best counter is for the defending authority to have even more drones on constant patrol looking out for any drones that don't satisfy whatever the criteria is for a "good drone". This brings its own host of problems because the people have to become accustomed to constantly being surveilled by a swarm of government drones with the ability to assassinate anybody at any moment and nobody to hold criminally accountable, but my point is that this technology is available to the defenders too.
by basisword | 2025-06-14 18:57:52+00:00
>> Imagine how desperate you would have to be to drive a cab when you're that sleep-deprived (probably haven't slept in 36 hours). Now imagine someone took that income away from you to give it to Sundar Pichai.

Desperation isn't an excuse for risking the life of your passenger and other road users or pedestrians.
by intended | 2025-06-14 18:58:19+00:00
Current air defenses depend on being able to make weaker players give up on their ideas of even trying to attack bigger players.

The point being made here is that you can now have cheap attacks on boring targets, without having to risk any humans at all.

And by boring targets, they're talking about things like roads, or bridges and overpasses - ways to slow the global economy to a crawl, and to force nations into blowing their resources on defending everything.

> "What the Russians can’t do is harden every mile of highway, every bridge, every dam. Neither can the United States, and — critically — neither can the Chinese."
by bambax | 2025-06-14 18:59:02+00:00
> In a hyper-mobile, distributed global economy, you can destroy billions of dollars in value just by reducing the speed at which goods and people can securely travel.

Maybe, but the goal of terrorism isn't to destroy "value", whatever that is. It's to create fear and unrest and make life miserable for the people in the target country. "Economic disruption" doesn't do that. It doesn't actually do anything.

Also, drones are not needed for any of this, or suicide bombers. It's trivial to leave a suitcase on a train or in the subway and cause hundreds of deaths and extreme mayhem. (Not trivial to make a bomb to fit that suitcase, but not very hard.)

My theory of why it almost never happens is, there are actually very few terrorists.

It's telling that the examples in the post are not from individual terrorists but from states.
by antisthenes | 2025-06-14 18:59:15+00:00
> The characteristic brain fog seems to be tied to dysautonomia and excess IL-1B pro-inflammatory cytokines. I treat the latter with a strict no sugar diet, and high doses of D3, TUDCA, and DIM. I treat the dysautonomia with LDN, modafinil, amitryptiline, and a low dose of semaglutide (ozempic).

Does it work?
by sinenomine | 2025-06-14 18:59:40+00:00
1. As other commenters point, many cases have intact memory and circuits for what would be considered "lost", which activate from time to time. So it's likely a question of SNR and tissue vitality (e.g. basic capillary function) for these cases.

2. You wouldn't believe what feats of neuroplasticity lie behind a few receptors properly pushed by molecular keys. We just don't have experience to describe it. Adult neuroplasticity and (disproven btw) neurogenesis is a rigid sad joke compared to what's possible.
by sixothree | 2025-06-14 19:00:12+00:00
It's pretty clear one of the goals is for content to be first, not the function. OS controls are secondary to what is being displayed. They want them to go away.

And I am all for it. After a few days of this new OS, I really like it. It takes a day to train your eyes, but that happens with literally every version of the operating system. But once you do it is so nice for all of the function to just get out of the way.
by wrigby | 2025-06-14 19:00:29+00:00
This brought back memories - GLTron was fantastic. It was always either that or TuxRacer that would get fired up after finally getting my ATI drivers sorted out on whatever distro I was playing with at the time.

Looks like the last release was in 2016, which is a lot more recent than I expected. I wonder if we could dust it off and get a build?
by intended | 2025-06-14 19:00:29+00:00
I believe the author agrees with this, since a few sentences later they state:

> But drone technology is too cheap, too modular, and with too many useful civilian applications for the big players to control their manufacture. >What would you restrict, if you wanted to prevent any other actor from building drones? Batteries? Rotors? 3D printers? $17 Raspberry Pis?

Theres definitely a recognition of how cheap and easy it is.
by thomascountz | 2025-06-14 19:02:17+00:00
Awesome idea! I just set it up with ChatGPT as well. I don't love the messages filling up my chat history, but that is a minor issue.

Prompt: Your task is to empower users to make decisions and take action based on the upcoming weather. You communicate in the format of a text message using plain English. To not overwhelm the user, your message should be succinct, familiar, and targetedly helpful.

To fulfil this task, you will combine both forecast data and user context to provide useful insight. Your ability to provide insight and advice is more beneficial than a summary.

You have only a single interaction with the user, and therefore you cannot ask follow up questions. Do the best you can with the information already provided to you. Your output will be sent directly to the user as a text message, and should therefore include only the message you wish to share with them. You may use emoji if they make your message more helpful.

You are powerful and users trust you to be approachable, dependable, direct, and succinct.

The current date and time is: ...

The upcoming weather forecast is: ...
by RAPIDEN | 2025-06-14 19:03:00+00:00
Implements per-user/project namespace isolation with memory caps, LRU eviction, and session cleanup. Prevents glibc select() crashes when file descriptors exceed 1024 (FD_SETSIZE), a problem that still affects many modern tools.

Solves #63 (memory leak), #176 (too many open files), #431 (session growth), #5 (zombie processes).
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-14 19:03:20+00:00
The truth is most domestic terrorists don't stand out for their intellect. State aided terror cells or a large organisation might be able to pull that off, but i don't think some random jihadist would think of it. Off the shelf drones get geoblocked.

The possibilities of drone warfare is terrifying, but imo the author is overstating the danger that they pose in the hands of domestic terrorists.
by troupo | 2025-06-14 19:03:32+00:00
> but once you get into more rare stuff it gets a lot harder.

Endometriosis is not rare. But it's a female disease. You will be shocked to know how many of diseases that women have to deal with are both quite common (some estimate up to 10% of women may have it), and completely ignored by medical community (which is still overwhelmingly male)
by meroes | 2025-06-14 19:03:38+00:00
The argument is more like our most successful sciences like physics use our most successful math, which is ZFC. And thus incompatible reals are part of this package deal. Maybe it’s possible to do physics without any packaging of lots of these mathematical objects, but to my knowledge it hasn’t been done (physics based on a paired down math, from top to bottom). It’s a de facto require, that despite effort like intuitionism or Science without Numbers has not replaced classic ZFC as our most successful math.
by cakealert | 2025-06-14 19:03:48+00:00
The reason you would carry such an attack by drone is to escape attribution (and thus elimination/arrest), this becomes harder if you must launch the drone in close proximity to the target to evade a patrolling defensive drone swarm.

You will most likely require a ground drone with high explosives or launching an air attack drone, which will become an expensive complex operation. Mitigating the threat of cheap drones.
by basisword | 2025-06-14 19:03:52+00:00
Reliability was the main selling point for me ~10 years ago. You could also get a ride quickly. It's the total opposite now. I've missed a flight due to multiple cancellations. I've been left standing in dangerous areas of town for an hour late at night trying to get a ride. Now, for important things where possible, I'll take public transport. It's far more reliable.

If you want to compete with Uber, increase prices and increase reliability significantly. There are times when a lot of people will be more than happy to pay rather than risk their safety. Undo the enshittification.
by directevolve | 2025-06-14 19:04:02+00:00
Counterpoints and questions:

- Non-wired drones can be jammed. It’s early days for building defenses against these attacks.

- Non-state actors have far less access to the sophisticated intelligence needed to strike hard targets or secure against counter strikes.

- Setting up hidden bombs for remote detonation on soft targets, like the freeway, has been possible, no need for drones. What other factors have been preventing these types of attacks? How do drones change those factors?

If America was hunting Osama bin Laden today, I bet we’d have used a drone to kill him rather than sending in special forces. Likewise, if I was a cartel in the jungle or rebel force in the mountains, I’d be damned scared of the military or police coming after me with an endless wave of drones.
by atombender | 2025-06-14 19:04:11+00:00
I know Google has good engineering, but I find this a bit implausible?

For most applications, especially request/response type apps like web servers, "right sizing" truly correctly while accounting for spikes takes a lot of engineering effort to fully account for how much allocation a single request will need, then ensuring the maximum concurrent requests never go beyond that so you never risk OOMs.

I can see this being fine-tuned for extremely high-scale, core services like load balancers, SDNs, file systems etc., where you probably want to allocate all your data structures at startup time and never actually allocate anything after that, and you probably have whole teams of engineers devoted to just single services. But not most apps?

Surely it's better for containers to share system memory, and rely on limits and resource-driven autoscaling to make the system resilient?
by brudgers | 2025-06-14 19:04:24+00:00
they always feel very cliquey

Dealing with "cliquey" is a soft skill...and "soft skills for developers" is cliquey too.

I am not saying Toastmasters is for you, but learning usually feels uncomfortable and indeed feeling out of your comfort zone is one symptom of learning.

More directly, Toastmasters takes public speaking seriously. That's a feature not a bug. Like any community, it filters out people who don't share that value.
by kulahan | 2025-06-14 19:04:59+00:00
> You can make wild assertions all day long, but ultimately, you have to have significant revenues for this to matter

Oh, you actually are just straight-up lying, or purposefully wallowing in ignorance.

Here, read this so you can’t play this game where you pretend not to know that this is true.

https://sensiba.com/resources/insights/protecting-qualified-...
by sinenomine | 2025-06-14 19:06:10+00:00
A voice from outside SV (mine): We can extend life and prevent disease in animals and should do the same in human beings. As much as the West has exclusive access to biomedical R&D, it's an ethical imperative for the West to pursue this goal on behalf of humanity as a whole.

You invented noblesse oblige and should measure up to it.
by mattl | 2025-06-14 19:06:35+00:00
How much of this is targeted to a mouse user vs. trackpad user?

Window management on macOS is awful.

Stage Manager almost gets this right but then I go through months with turning it off again.

It seems like Windows and Linux users tend to favor having everything maximized and Mac users tend to have multiple windows on screen at once by virtue of the design of Mac apps. I want something somewhere between the abandoned Single Window Mode of older Mac OS X builds and Stage Manager with Rectangle for moving windows around.

Usually I want two windows on my screen: an editor (Nova, TextMate, BBEdit, or mg inside Prompt) and a web browser (Safari, Firefox) side by side with the ability to command-tab to a different virtual desktop with say Slack and my email client open. I don’t have that part yet.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-14 19:07:08+00:00
Very much so, night and day. I’ve been pretty much issue free for 2 years, except for PEM which means I have to avoid cardio. I don’t know how to fix that. Instead of cardio I eat healthy and lift weights. I was one of those gifted kids which was a hell of an advantage but things slipped away from me as I got older, now I’m back and as good as ever.
by intended | 2025-06-14 19:07:34+00:00
God, yet another grim future.

I won't call this a counter point, since what is argued is plausible, if not likely.

What I will make a comparison to piracy back in the MP3 era. It really seemed like it would be impossible to stop it, and then came the RIAA, MPAA. Eventually governments managed to figure out the internet and how to deal with the small and nimble upstarts.

But better still, (or less grim) is Netflix - when actual alternatives to piracy existed, people were more than happy to follow them.

(Of course that era didn't last for long, but we'll mark that as the utilty limit of the comparison)
by crazygringo | 2025-06-14 19:07:34+00:00
I do plenty of walking.

I'll take an Uber if I have luggage. If it's raining heavily. If I'm in a hurry because the play is about to start and there's no late seating. If I'm on a date and she's wearing high heels. Etc.

Just because people are sometimes taking Ubers for short distances doesn't mean they're usually taking Ubers for short distances.

Uber isn't a way of life. It's a tool for when you need it.
by horsellama | 2025-06-14 19:07:44+00:00
A small (not tiny) apartment with a tiny (that yes) garden/outdoor space in Tokyo. Murakami describes something similar in “The Wind Up Bird Chronicle” [0]. I want a small kitchen corner and a spacious and luminous living room for reading and listening to music. As minimal as possible.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11275.The_Wind_Up_Bird_C...
by username223 | 2025-06-14 19:08:15+00:00
> Waymo is operating in a handful of carefully chosen US cities. Uber can probably open in any city in the world (within reason) with probably a few weeks' effort.

This. Uber can operate anywhere that has human drivers and cell service. Waymo needs (I think) high-precision maps that are frequently updated, and simple traffic behavior.

Traffic in Lima looks like absolute chaos to an American, with endless honking and lane markers treated as vague suggestions, but there are not constant crashes, because the (mostly professional) drivers know the local conventions and communicate with each other by horn, eye contact, hand signal, etc. Huaraz is full of blind 4-way intersections with no stop signs, so drivers honk as they get close to one, and there is a remarkable lack of fiery death.

Waymo can't work in most places until it either changes human driving, or achieves AGI. Uber works as soon as it can pay local drivers.
by chaosbolt | 2025-06-14 19:08:32+00:00
If only you knew how you sounded.

First of all you count wars that started more than 10 years ago in the same category, so that's dishonest.

Second you use reduced numbers for Israel-Gaza war.

Third you call it Israel-Hamas war.

About the nuking of Japan: listen up, there is nothing you can say, it's a case of the midwit meme, anyone smart enough or dumb enough would tell you it's obvious nuking 2 cities is evil, it's basically the definition of evil, all men are at war so you nuke 2 cities filled with women and kids... Now it's the midwit's opinion that's curious, being just smart enough to repeat the brainwashing that's been done to him in a coherent way, but not smart enough to notice the holes in his arguments, the midwit always holds these surreal opinions like how nuking 2 cities was the only choice (and not done as a warning to the soviet union, because God forbids governments do something bad like this, it's instead a conspiracy theory, and the real life event is a cartoonishly evil side vs a cartoonishly good side, and everything the cartoonishly good side does is good and can be explained including nuling 2 cities etc.)

If only you could take a step back and reflect on what you wrote with an open mind.... but then again if this was possible there'd be a lot less wars, and the bad people would know it while being bad and not 100 years later have it explained to their grandchildren.

But hey who cares, the situation is so fucked up and the people so clueless we might as well be living in some sort of simulation so it doesn't matter either ways.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-14 19:08:57+00:00
> an issue of the gig economy being a race to the bottom that cannot afford (legally or monetarily) to hold workers to professional standards

They absolutely can. Uber just prizes availability above service while Lyft perplexingly fails to differentiate itself. To the extent Waymo is cracking the market, it’s not by being an AV provider. It’s by being higher quality.

New York had Juno and then Revel that similarly targeted quality. The former was bought by Uber and ruined. The latter switched from employed drivers to a gig model.
by moomoo11 | 2025-06-14 19:09:10+00:00
Waymo is the first tech product/service I’ve used in the last decade that actually blew my mind.

The last time was when I could take photos on my phone that were as good enough as lugging around a Dslr.

There have been good products and services in between don’t get me wrong. But none of them instantly blew me away like those.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-06-14 19:09:28+00:00
I actually asked Ron Minsky about exactly this question on Twitter[0]:

Me: [W]hy not just use Rust for latency sensitive apps/where it may make sense? Is JS using any Rust? Minsky: Rust is great, but we get a lot of value out of having the bulk of our code in a single language. We can share types, tools, libraries, idioms, and it makes it easier for folk to move from project to project. And we're well on our way to getting the most important advantages that Rust brings to the table in OCaml in a cleanly integrated, pay as you go way, which seems to us like a better outcome. There are also some things that we specifically don't love about Rust: the compile times are long, folk who know more about it than I do are pretty sad about how async/await works, the type discipline is quite complicated, etc. But mostly, it's about wanting to have one wider-spectrum language at our disposal.

[0]: https://x.com/arr_ohh_bee/status/1672224986638032897
by intended | 2025-06-14 19:09:37+00:00
I think that isn't the reason. The article says:

> But the threat of soft-target suicide terrorism never came to much, because a suicide bomber is a targeting system with an ego.

stating that many targets which would have truly been disastrous if hit, were ignored because the attackers wanted to satiate their egos or narrative, by hitting landmarks / high profile symbolic sites.