MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Barrin92 | 2025-07-12 13:29:43+00:00
>The other is unbounded

It isn't. Your demand and your attention are finite too, in fact they're so finite that competition for it is already extreme. There is so much more for you to consume out there that prices in virtual goods have largely been driven to zero. And of course while there's always a new thing, old things continuously have to go away for you to make room. What you are trying to say is that your interests are open-ended, but certainly not infinite or even increasing over any period of time.

That's exactly why energy consumption has stagnated or been falling already in rich places. Virtualisation has driven down the energy cost of your consumption far in excess of additional stuff you can pile on, and that's only going to accelerate.

AI data centers might temporarily raise energy consumption as existing infrastructure runs in parallel, but if you take the AI promises at face value it will eventually depress energy usage as it dematerialises billions of workers and infrastructure. A "dark factory" is a very early version of that.
by tok1 | 2025-07-12 13:30:00+00:00
Fun fact, Incus is being used as underlying infrastructure for the NorthSec CTF, i.e. in an "as hostile as it can get" environment. If you have close to a hundred teams of hackers on your systems trying to break stuff, I think it speaks for Incus and its capabilities regarding isolation and limits.

In case you are interested, Zabbly has some interesting behind-the-scenes on Youtube (not affiliated).
by zarzavat | 2025-07-12 13:30:08+00:00
Quite, but the point is that even after doing something correctly a thousand times, someone can make a mistake that seems unbelievable.

The cutoff switches are operated every flight so the muscle memory is there, ready to be triggered at the wrong time.

All we know is that something went wrong in the pilot's head in at least a single moment that caused him to perform a ground action during takeoff.

Depressive murder-suicide is one possible explanation. Altered mental state is another: insomnia, illness, drugs/medications could all explain an extreme brain fart. Perhaps he just had food poisoning? It's India after all.
by testemailfordg2 | 2025-07-12 13:30:17+00:00
Three things:- 1) Pilot clearly said I didn't do it. 2) Report talks about the second switch being turned off in a second. 3) Known advisory on switches getting flipped.

If you see these three together, it becomes easy to deduce that based on point 2, switch was not human induced as the actions required take more than a second. Next the third point, advisory was for this exact scenario which played out, though rare but still it shouldn't have been just an advisory, but more than that.
by roenxi | 2025-07-12 13:31:03+00:00
Which is a policy, but the issue there is:

1) The explicit idea there is to push costs onto businesses that are higher than the market equilibrium.

2) That pressures businesses to leave Oregon and less energy infrastructure will be built.

To be fair, I don't think that is a bug - Oregon is probably doing it on purpose. But that isn't fair, it is just anti-industry/anti-business policy. It is entirely possible (probable, even) that on net the people of Oregon will be worse off after they've been given a dose of "fairness" since there is good reason to believe that in the long term more capital investment is better for the residents. They'll be getting a generous amount of welfare, but they'll need it because investment in power production would be down.

Also, if that is the policy there is an interesting debate question of why the "fair" price shouldn't be $0 under the use threshold. Without market signalling it is just picking a random number anyway, may as well pick $0. But that level of welfare might do so much economic damage that people wouldn't stomach it, revealing some problematic aspects to the entire approach.
by amy214 | 2025-07-12 13:31:17+00:00
>ut as a dogwhistle for their Floridian golf club members who don't like minorities of any sort and to appease a large section of the base of covert and overt racists generally.

I mean, here's how I see it, if 100 million Polish people, a very white peoples, suddenly claimed asylum in the US, had 300 million anchor babies to exploit that loophole, used the anchor baby army to claim massive funds of welfare in aggregate, all the while claiming zero income while working under the table and undercutting the common man ... ... and also driving drunk and refusing to learn any English and demanding Americans ought to learn Polish

If the Polish people did that I'd have it in to deport them all. And it wouldn't be about race at all, it would be the overwhelming unfair advantages and systematic exploits the Polish performed in this case. The racist narrative is just another manifestation of "playing the race card" to defend indefensible, selfish, toxic behavior
by cjcenizal | 2025-07-12 13:33:28+00:00
Amazing! This is about the dolphin kick performed on its side, rechristened “the fish kick.” I couldn’t fathom (ha) why the same kick rotated 90 degrees could be faster but it turns out that the kicking motion is constrained by the motion of the water around it. In the dolphin kick, the water moves up and down and is limited by the water’s surface and pool’s bottom. The swimmer frees themself of these constraints by turning on their side.
by timcambrant | 2025-07-12 13:33:38+00:00
I agree fully. We need to keep the idea of fully branching off from an open source project alive. But I also suspect that Google has incentives to make it extra complicated and difficult to maintain a fork of their codebase with adblocking implemented on top of it, over time. Resources are often very limited in open source and often comes down to one or a few people.
by doodlebugging | 2025-07-12 13:33:42+00:00
Nice work to identify this malware and take action against it spreading. The article does have one small error though that made me do a double-take.

The most recent update at the top of the page should probably be "Update 7-12-2025 06:00 UTC" instead of the current future date of 08-11-2025. I think the author incremented the wrong digit.
by ternaus | 2025-07-12 13:34:07+00:00
Not directly related but still.

A couple weeks ago I:

1. forked repository of the Albumentations library (15k stars, 5 Million monthly downloads, MIT license) and called it AlbumentationsX

2. changed the license of the fork to the Dual (restrictive AGPL to be used for free and permissive commercial if you buy license) => it is unlikely that it is legal to use it in your project as noone wants AGPL project in the list of dependencies

3. Arhived albumentations repo ---

People use albumentationsx (I can see pypi download stats + telemetry), but zero licenses were bought.

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Coming back to the original post - what surprises me that they forked, but did not try to rewrite with LLMs. LLMs may not be that good writing complex functionality, but in rewriting something they are quite good.

In this sense, all open-source licensing is not as useful anymore as rewriting the code so that there is no way to proof the plagiarism is the new reality.

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Looks like the future is: - closed source code - open source developed by companies that want to use it for lead generation
by MengerSponge | 2025-07-12 13:34:11+00:00
(2015 article)

I get that it's a quirk of the sport's history, but it's funny and dumb that swimming awards medals and records for being the fastest at a slower stroke. It's like if track meets would have a 100m sprint, a 100m skip, and a 100m run-backwards.

If I could change things in the world, I wouldn't eliminate the extraneous strokes in swimming, but I would include additional competitions in all the track distances: backwards running, handstand walk, and one-legged hopping.
by berkes | 2025-07-12 13:34:23+00:00
Yes, a spec is a technicality that, ideally, should be abstracted away completely (and alas, all abstractions are leaky somewhat).

It's another thing that got me interested in DDD. Where the user, domain, business and such define what things are called, how they operate, what events they undergo or emit etc. And not a spec, language or framework

And where e.g. "the IMAP spec" is a clear bounded domain, probably a service, an adapter or even library. Within that domain, "The Spec" dictates all the naming, conventions, logic etc, but where the border of this domain is another language. E.g. in a "MessageAdapterImap" something is called "EXPUNGE" with all the intricacies of what this means in IMAP. But in the outside it's e.g. part of a "cleanup()" interface, or whatever the domain calls it when it removes messages.
by perihelions | 2025-07-12 13:35:09+00:00
I recall something similar to this happened in the USA in 2023. An off-duty pilot in the cockpit tried to pull that fuel shut-off handle (edit: I'm informed it's a different fuel shut-off mechanism), but was overpowered by the other two:

> "Both pilots then saw Emerson grab on to the red fire handles, also known as the “T-handles,” which are used to extinguish engine fires and shut off all fuel to the engines, potentially turning the plane into a glider, the pilots told federal investigators."

> "“If the T-handle is fully deployed, a valve in the wing closes to shut off fuel to the engine. In this case, the quick reaction of our crew to reset the T-handles ensured engine power was not lost,” Alaska Airlines said in a statement."

> "One pilot struggled with Emerson for about 25 or 30 seconds before the off-duty pilot “quickly settled down,” according to the complaint."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-24/off-duty...
by kjellsbells | 2025-07-12 13:35:26+00:00
Wait a minute. There were two G-wagens in the parking lot, one a 1985 model and one (based on the photo) much more recent. These are $100,000+ cars. The owner told the cops the keys were not left inside. Are we saying that a random ignition key from a 40 year old car can start a 21st century G-wagen?

The kids who jack Kias for Tiktok views may just have found a new hobby.
by nkrisc | 2025-07-12 13:37:21+00:00
I thought the comparison to running was interesting. As an almost exclusively terrestrial mammal, there is a very natural way for us to run. No one is going to discover than running on our arms and legs is faster, or something other than ”unnatural” way of running is faster.

But that’s not really the case with swimming. We didn’t evolve a natural swimming instinct or form for speed.

When I learned that (nearly?) all terrestrial mammals can swim to some degree (even ones that look like they shouldn’t be able to - like ungulates), I was a bit surprised, but it’s not too surprising upon reflection. But that got me thinking then: what is the best terrestrial mammalian body plan that also happens to be good for swimming? What terrestrial mammal would also be fast swimmers if they could learn and train for it as humans do? Maybe my thinking is clouded by anthrocentrism, but the human body plan which is good for bipedal running also seems to work out pretty well for swimming.

Of course, top human swimming speeds are pretty terrible compared to human running speeds and the swimming speed of basically any other aquatic animal, but we’re not made for it!
by sinenomine | 2025-07-12 13:37:27+00:00
Bro, forget about guilt and lamenting, you are not obligated to be useful, you can just be.

You obviously have ADHD, go and get on stims, it will likely help you. Or there may be some other issue. Or you may indeed be this way forever. Just go and try to change something in the brain for once.

Stop coping unless you want to cope until the end.
by graycat | 2025-07-12 13:38:24+00:00
Get a good system to alert, wake, get the attention of all the people at risk and on the way out'a there right away for $0?

(1) The weather center develops a warning directed graph of persons who spread the word to get the PAS at their work. You ask what is the PAS?

(2) PAS -- People's Alert System: Everyone in the weather center, fire, police, and everyone else ready and willing to help, etc. who has access to a car, better, a firetruck or ambulance, gets in and turns on the horn and/or siren and drives all the vulnerable streets and makes sure all the buildings are awake and know about the threat. Then the PAS people, with others as passengers, drive the heck out of the area of the threat. Should also work for hurricanes, etc.
by bearjaws | 2025-07-12 13:39:07+00:00
M1 was the canary in the coal mine. Apple went from making cell phone CPUs to an Intel destroying generation of CPUs in 6 years.

Personally I use a MBP for dev, at work I am required to use a Intel PC. I loathe my work laptop for being slower and having sleep issues.

My 265H Intel laptop sounds like a jet engine at all times, runs slower than my M4 Max, and only cost $500 less than the MBP.
by nkrisc | 2025-07-12 13:39:43+00:00
Seeing backwards running races would be impressive. Seeing the fastest human runners is also very impressive, but it’s also less interesting in a sense because they’re doing exactly what our bodies evolved to be able to do. It is interesting to see that ability pushed to its natural limits, but I think it’s a bit more interesting to see people excel in things we didn’t evolve to do: like swimming or running backwards.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-12 13:40:05+00:00
It’s not a matter of familiarity.

I can place an order in the Chick-fil-A app in about 10-20 seconds. Quick and easy.

A similar order in the McDonalds app throws up ads, unskippable animations in time sensitive spots, unresponsive or jumpy UI elements, popup alerts several times, unnecessary steps (like how the fries category has one item, but it still shows you the list view), etc.

I’ve wound up parked in the lot cursing at the app a number of times as I tap through obstacles.
by ternaus | 2025-07-12 13:40:47+00:00
I guess, I am experienced open-source developer

(https://github.com/albumentations-team/Albumentations)

15k stars, 5 million monthly downloads

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It may happen that Cursor in the agentic mode writes code slower than I am. But!

It frees me from being in the IDE 100% of the time.

There is infinite list of educational videos, blog posts, scientific papers, hacker news, twitter, reddit that I want to read and going through them, while agents do their job is ultra convenient.

=> If I think about "productivity" in a broader way => with Cursor + agents, my overall productivity moved to a whole another level.
by interestica | 2025-07-12 13:40:48+00:00
That’s absolutely applicable here. It means that an engine cutoff shouldn’t be allowed at all during certain parts of flight. It’s not crazy to think that a design fix would be to prevent those engagements during certain parts of takeoff (a certain window). It’s fly by wire anyway so it could presumably be done programmatically.

MCAS was basically made to prevent user input that would send the plane into a dangerous angle. The computer overrode the inputs. So there’s precedent for something like it.
by mlyle | 2025-07-12 13:41:47+00:00
> Power2gas+solar+wind is still cheaper than nuclear power even though it's quite expensive.

The costing mistake people always make is assuming p2g infrastructure can be operated at high duty cycle with an all renewable grid. If you need to amortize the infrastructure over a few hours per day it looks much less favorable. Of course, with a little more stable base generation in the mix, this assumption is less shaky. It doesn’t need to be a ridiculous amount.

More base generation simultaneously makes p2g more reasonable and reduces the total need for it (and total need to overprovision everything else)

And even if one disagrees that a small amount of additional nuclear reduces total system cost, it absolutely reduces systemic risk vs putting all of our eggs in the battery basket.

Pumped hydro is great for Australia, but the capability to increase hydro in most areas is much more limited. We are going to have to mostly do it with batteries and intermediate term storage with p2g.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-07-12 13:42:59+00:00
I work in Customer Success so I have to screenshare with a decent number of engineers working for customers - startups and BigCos.

The number of them who just blindly put shit into an AI prompt is incredible. I don't know if they were better engineers before LLMs? But I just watch them blindly pass flags that don't exist to CLIs and then throw their hands up. I can't imagine it's faster than a (non-LLM) Google search or using the -h flag, but they just turn their brains off.

An underrated concern (IMO) is the impact of COVID on cognition. I think a lot of people who got sick have gotten more tired and find this kind of work more challenging than they used to. Maybe they have a harder time "getting in the zone".

Personally, I still struggle with Long COVID symptoms. This includes brain fog and difficulty focusing. Before the pandemic I would say I was in the top 10% of engineers for my narrow slice of expertise - always getting exceptional perf reviews, never had trouble moving roles and picking up new technologies. Nowadays I find it much harder to get started in the morning, and I have to take more breaks during the day to reset my focus. At 5PM I'm exhausted and I can't keep pushing solving a problem into the evening.

I can see how the same kind of cognitive fatigue would make LLM "assistance" appealing, even if it's wrong, because it's so much less work.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-12 13:43:45+00:00
That's not the same one, that's the big red FIRE ones on the overhead panel. They're not reversible and are under a plastic cover. As far as I know these ones are. They're also used to just switch them off at the end of a flight which can of course be reversed. But I guess in this case there wasn't enough time. They only had 30 seconds.
by bearjaws | 2025-07-12 13:44:05+00:00
Claude Code must be Anthropics halo product.

I went from API only, to $100 a month, to $200 a month Max plan, after only 2 weeks.

The cycle of Plan -> Generate code -> test -> commit works incredibly well, and being able to parallel code front end and back end changes is wild. Add in the fact it can run tests and MCP for SQL... It's really starting to show promise.

Claude Code was the first time I thought CRUD programmers are actually in trouble.

I've been doing a lot of work on Moodle recently, for those who aren't familiar Moodle is a 20 year old PHP learning management system. With all the code combined for frontend and backend its near a million LOC. Claude Code handles it perfectly now.
by gregjor | 2025-07-12 13:44:11+00:00
I think you just posted to argue or troll, but I’ll take the bait.

SQL predates almost every programming language in use today. If those languages don’t have good interfaces for relational databases that’s where the bad design blame goes. But all modern programming languages do have good interfaces to multiple RDBMSs.

A serious programmer masters many languages and tools. SQL goes in that toolkit because it gets used everywhere and does the job better than alternatives in most cases. Things like relational databases and SQL don’t stick around for decades and get used in almost every application because they suffer from bad design or programmers can’t learn them.

All of the noSQL databases have their own language too. Some of them even use SQL.

I detect laziness and a poor rationalization. Do what you want but don’t expect senior programmers or employers to take you seriously with key tools and skills missing.
by justanything | 2025-07-12 13:44:35+00:00
Well, how will I live if I don't make money or am useful. I appreciate your words, but this world is no utopia, humans have always had to have some utility to exist since the days we evolved into our current form. We are just slightly better animals, and wildlife is brutal. And, so is this world we inhabit.

I already got tested for it by multiple different professionals, they seem to think I don't have it. And people with adhd are everywhere in the tech industry, it did not stop them from learning or becoming great engineers.

I have tried strattera, vyvanse, and some other meds i can't even remember, none worked and only made me more suicidal

I don't see any hope for me.I have no capacity to work hard, learn technical shit, love people, sense of responsibility, anything. I just wanna go, but I need money before I end it
by daveguy | 2025-07-12 13:44:47+00:00
Yup. Exactly this. As soon as enough people get screwed by the ~80% accuracy rate, the whole facade will crumble. Unless AI companies manage to bring the accuracy up 20% in the next year, by either limiting scope or finding new methods, it will crumble. That kind of accuracy gain isn't happening with LLMs alone (ie foundational models).
Ask HN: Stuck in the 10x1y Trap
by fud101 | 2025-07-12 13:45:33+00:00
I'm not good enough to stick around and actually see my bad code come back to bite me. I want out but I don't know how. I leave behind a trail of broken hopes and dreams. I am good enough to get a gig, not good enough to keep it. Anyone been in this position and successfully overcome it?
by bonoboTP | 2025-07-12 13:45:44+00:00
In the US, the NTSB has been recommending it for over 20 years. The pilot unions have been blocking it, due to privacy and other things.

I'm not in aviation. But my between-the-lines straightforward reading is that unions see it as something with downsides (legal liability) but not much upside. It could be that there are a million tiny regulations that are known by everyone to be nonsensical, perhaps contradictory or just not in line with reality and it's basically impossible to be impeccably perfect if HD high fps video observation is done on them 24/7. Think about your own job and your boss's job or your home renovation work etc.

Theoretically they could say, ok, but the footage can only be used in case the plane crashes or something serious happens. Can't use it to detect minor deviations in the tiniest details. But we know that once the camera is there, there will be a push to scrutinize it all the time for everything. Next time there will be AI monitoring systems that check for alertness. Next time it will be checking for "psychological issues". Next time they will record and store it all and then when something happens, they will in hindsight point out some moment and sue the airline for not detecting that psychological cue and ban the pilot. It's a mess. If there's no footage, there's no such mess.

The truth is, you can't bring down the danger from human factors to absolute zero. It's exceedingly rare to have sabotage. In every human interaction, this can happen. The answer cannot be 24/7 full-blown totalitarian surveillance state on everyone. You'd have to prove that the danger from pilot is bigger than from any other occupation group. Should we also put bodycam on all medical doctors and record all surgeries and all interactions? It would help with malpractice cases. How about all teachers in school? To prevent child abuse. Etc. Etc.

Regulation is always in balance and in context of evidence possibilities and jurisprudence "reasonableness". If the interpretation is always to the letter and there is perfect surveillance, you need to adjust the rules to be actually realistic. If observation is hard and courts use common sense, rules can be more strict and stupid because "it looks good on paper".

You also have to think about potential abuses of footage. It would be an avenue for aircraft manufacturers, airlines, FAA, etc to push more blame on the pilots, because their side becomes more provable but the manufacturing side is not as much. You could then mandate camera video evidence for every maintenance task like with door plugs.

I wonder how the introduction of police body cam footage changed regulations of how police has to act. Along the lines of "hm, stuff on this footage is technically illegal but is clearly necessary, let's update the rules".