MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 20:30:59+00:00
Sigh. It's controversial because:

1. It's impossible to track X for only one group. In order to know who is in that group, and who is not, you need to be tracking more than that, necessarily.

Meaning, if you want to track which vehicles belong to "illegal immigrants", you need to know which vehicles belong to citizens. That means YOU. You are not exempt from this data collection.

2. This data can, and will, be used for evil. Anyone who believes that governments will always act in benevolence are, frankly, stupid. You're not stupid, are you? Okay, then you should be beginning to see the problem here.

3. Even IF the government always acts benevolently, and that's a huge fucking if, that doesn't mean they don't make mistakes.

Even if you are innocent, there is a risk here! Who is to say you won't accidentally be identified as an "illegal immigrant"? Is that a risk you're willing to take? For me, that risk is absolutely unacceptable - especially considering the sheer incompetence of our law enforcement agencies and the current administration.

I mean, our country is currently being run by drunkards and yes-men. Do you really trust these imbeciles to never make a mistake, ever? No, right? They've already made quiet a few mistakes, right? Remember the whole Signal thing? Yeah.

You have to look at the big picture here. You're advocating for a system that requires an absolutely unbelievable amount of trust in order to run properly. Do you really, truly, not see the flaws in that?
by hnuser123456 | 2025-07-14 20:31:28+00:00
They become a larger black hole, mostly conserving mass, minus a few percent to gravitational waves. However, their mass is proportional to their radius, not volume, so it gets LESS dense. If you laid out a bunch of black holes in a line, just barely not touching, and let them merge, suddenly, the whole sphere of space enclosing the line becomes black hole. It also turns out that a black hole with the mass of the universe would have a volume about the size of the universe.
by ameliaquining | 2025-07-14 20:31:34+00:00
It's not all inherent language-semantics issues like monomorphization. rustc currently generates LLVM IR in a fairly naive/brute-force-ish way. The resulting machine code is as good as you'd get with more carefully generated LLVM IR, because LLVM is very good at optimizing, but it takes longer to get there. Some of the work that LLVM currently does could instead be done in earlier compilation passes, and they could do it faster by exploiting relevant context that LLVM doesn't have. But again, this'd require significant architectural changes, which is why it hasn't already happened.

Also it could maybe make sense for debug builds to let the compiler choose whether to use static or dynamic dispatch, with an attribute to force static dispatch in those cases where it's absolutely required. (I vaguely recall some kind of attempt to do that, that got stuck because it had trouble dealing with associated constants or something like that. But I can't find it now.)
by treetalker | 2025-07-14 20:31:36+00:00
You can adapt it.

If the digital writings are incomplete and you still need to work with them, you can print them out and put them in the bins to work with later. (You can cut the printouts into paragraphs or other smaller chunks to work with them in the bins, by combining the pieces with other jots. And if they are related to or could be used with more than one project, just print out more copies.)

Likewise, if the digital files are ideas that you capture to Notion (for example) only when your notebook is unavailable, then you simply remember to print out whatever you have to "update" your bin whenever you start working with that project again. Still, if you're only capturing digitally because you don't have your notebook with you, then learning to capture each idea on its own paper and sorting into bins later may obviate the need to capture into the digital format at all, and you can do almost anything on paper as you apparently desire to.

But if the idea is that you capture on paper and then import into the digital realm to work with everything there, then just use the bins to capture the discrete ideas into what are effectively multiple inboxes, and then periodically import all the jots in a particular bin into the digital project at once (by scanning/OCR, dictating, or typing into whatever system you use, such as Notion).

From your original post I gathered that you were capturing and working on paper (and preferred to do so, perhaps publishing or storing final drafts digitally) — and I figured that, at least while drafting, you wanted everything in one place, such that not having your working notebook would throw a wrench into the system. That was one of the same problems I had. Moving to my current system solved that issue.

One hitch is figuring out how to regularly "visit" or process each bin. Another is figuring out where and how to store your bins. So just keep those points in mind.
by chris222 | 2025-07-14 20:31:37+00:00
I’ve just done a legtimate 425 mile solar powered round trip which is the culmination of many things I will explain below. I can now effectively drive anywhere in a 225 mile radius and back for about $10 total cost and on 100% solar power.

I have a two complete solar systems on my house the first one was 10.98kW AC installed 4 years ago with the panels facing south. The second was just installed a few days ago and is a 9.9kW AC with the panels facing east/west. Combined the system will produce over 20MWh of power per year. Both systems are grid tied used EnPhase microinverters and are now combined together for monitoring in one site.

I have an EnPhase IQ EV Charger. This has a mode where it communicates with the solar system, understands how much power is being produced and consumed in the house and then adjusts the EV charger output to match the excess solar production.

I have an EV with the largest battery that is available. The Chevy Silverado EV truck has 24 battery modules with a total gross capacity of slightly over 200kWh. The efficiency on road trips at high speeds is about 2.1miles per kWh. I have verified this with a real world road trip of over 400 miles.

The cost of the solar is around 5 cents per kWh over the 25+ year lifespan of the system.
by saalweachter | 2025-07-14 20:32:05+00:00
I assume there are indeed some buyers who will indeed snap up the assets, but I do wonder "and then what?"

They trust that their bigger political clout will let them continue to employee undocumented migrant workers at wages no one else will work for?

They wait for the political climate to change, and then they'll go back to business as usual?

They wait for produce prices to skyrocket/the job market to crater, and then pay minimum wage for the jobs?

Something something, AI/robots?
by tjohns | 2025-07-14 20:32:12+00:00
I'm not the only person connecting to my machines.

Some applications want to open ports and don't have the server-side infrastructure to punch a hole through NAT. Especially P2P apps and some games.

Sometimes I want to run a small, low-traffic web server from home.

Sometimes I'm connecting to my network from a machine that I don't control and can't install Tailscale on.
by litoE | 2025-07-14 20:32:37+00:00
I've created a couple of production web sites that way. I used htp, which allows me to create multiple pages with the same layout by using a mechanism similar to C's #include. This is used at development time, so the Web pages generated are all static (no server-side includes), but by editing a single file and "recompiling" I can change the layout, look and feel of the entire web site.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/htp/files/
by renewiltord | 2025-07-14 20:32:40+00:00
You are absolutely correct. In fact, SF and Berkeley were both mad about the "guerrilla benches" where people were putting benches were bus stops were: https://sfist.com/2025/07/07/sf-city-hall-not-at-all-pleased...

Besides, think about it, have these parents completed an Environmental Impact Report? How do we know this is not terrible for the environment? Chesterton's fence. Regulations are written in blood.
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-14 20:33:08+00:00
Bang on.

It is no surprise that we saw one of the largest increases in worker power (especially in tech) between mid 2020 and 2022 and that the bosses went nuts in reaction to this. Remote work. Compensation increases. Tons of new benefits. The bosses tried to push back against this with the "quiet quitting" stuff and crying that everybody was actually working two jobs and stealing from the bosses based on a small number of anecdotes. But this didn't really stick.

Then came AI. Finally, a way to stick it to those noisy workers. Magical. The bosses can do all of the stuff they want without paying people (or by paying people in vastly cheaper regions by augmenting them with AI). This is why the narrative around AI is "we need to lay people off to pay for training AI" and "we need to lay people off because people should be more efficient by using AI" rather than "now that our workers are more efficient we can do more and hire more." You see this now with CEOs saying in public that AI is going to completely upend job markets.
by kersplody | 2025-07-14 20:33:10+00:00
Look at UC Davis Gifford Center’s April 2024 “Farm Labor Issues in the 2020s” summary report: https://gifford.ucdavis.edu/events/past/april-4-2024-farm-la...

Very few U.S.-born workers respond to job ads for seasonal crop work, Show up when work begins, or Stick around through the harvest season. "Even when wages reach—or exceed $20–$30 per hour, seasonal U.S. workers overwhelmingly opt out of field labor. That persistent gap is why American agriculture depends so heavily on immigrant and guest‐worker programs, and why mechanization continues to accelerate."
Show HN: Timep – a next-gen time-profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code
by jkool702 | 2025-07-14 20:33:39+00:00
`timep` is a time profiler for bash code that will give you an accurate per-command execution time breakdown of any bash script or function.

Unlike other profilers, `timep` also recovers and heirarchally records metadata on subshell and function nesting, allowing it to recreate the full call-stack tree for the bash code being profiled. If you call `timep` with the `--flame` flag, it will automatically generate a flamegraph .svg image (where each block represents the wall-clock time spent on a particular command (top level) or its parent subshells/functions (all the other levels).

USAGE: To use `timep`, download and source the `timep.bash` file from the github repo, then just add `timep` before whatever you want to profile. `timep` handles everything else, including (when needed) redirecting stdin to whatever is being profiled.

. timep.bash timep someFunc <input_file timep --flame /path/to/someScript.bash

OUTPUTS: `timep` will create 2 time profiles for you - one that has every single command + full metadata, and one that combines commands repeated in loops and only shown run count + total runtime for each command.

DEPENDENCIES: bash 5+ and a mounted /proc + common linux tools

See README on github for more info.

See https://github.com/jkool702/timep/blob/main/TESTS/simple_exa... for a simple example of the profiler output.

See https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jkool702/timep/refs/heads/... for an example of the flamegraph generated from a rather complicated multi-threaded code that profiled computing ~16 million file checksums
by gruez | 2025-07-14 20:33:39+00:00
inhumane conditions =/= "death camps". There probably is a point where conditions are inhumane enough to cause deaths (think starvation), that it can be called a "death camp" but so far as I can tell from the wikipedia article it's nowhere near that. The article doesn't even mention how many people died there. However, it does mention a poorly supported theory on reddit/X that there's satellite images of body mounds that were subsequently hidden, so that might be what people were thinking of?
by asadotzler | 2025-07-14 20:33:41+00:00
>It's disingenuous to expect that tools that are publicly available for less than a year have a massive adoption in the wild.

Github got massive adoption in a year, probably 100K developers and tens of thousands of projects including big names like Ruby on Rails.

I'm sure if I spent more than 2 minutes on this I'd have even more examples but this one is enough to neuter your claims.
by acedTrex | 2025-07-14 20:34:21+00:00
K8s and its derivatives ultimately were designed to declaratively orchestrate stateless apis/middlewares. It of course can quite competently do many other things. But it does what it was BUILT to do originally the best and the simplest.

Many hobby projects are just that, simple apis and can benefit from the simple declarative yamls that exist in say a sqlite db on the vm vs random config in /etc, /var and ip table scripts etc.

But trying to do anything out of that simple mold? just do it the simpler and easier traditional way.
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-07-14 20:35:59+00:00
I think this will be the key. Finding appropriate tasks. Even on code bases I know, I can find tedious things for the AI to do. Sometimes I can find tedious things for it to do that I would never have dreamt of doing in the past. Now, I think “will it do it?”.

Once I got a hang of identifying problems, or being more targeted, I was spending less time messing about and got things done quicker.
by Hilift | 2025-07-14 20:36:05+00:00
This is hardly a philosophical debate. Oakland is a mess. The previous police chief was fired, and the person that fired him, the mayor, was recalled by voters. And the DA in 2023-2024 was recalled by voters.

The governor warned Oakland in the past to reverse its policy on not engaging in police pursuits. Not surprisingly, the new police chief is proposing changing that policy.

https://oaklandside.org/2025/05/23/oakland-police-pursuit-po...
by FredPret | 2025-07-14 20:36:45+00:00
I wish this was true.

But, there's a lot of business software that's locked into the MS ecosystem with Active Directory.

Office365 is de rigeur.

Then there's everything built on SQL Server.

Excel is the "bicycle for the mind" for many types of professional.

Heaven forbid you ever have to work with an IE-only app from 2003, but those still exist in the wild.

I dream of a glorious shining day when all computing will be 100% POSIX-compliant.
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-14 20:38:04+00:00
In some hyper-bureaucratic nations, everything is tied to your individual tax number. In other hyper-bureaucratic nations, everything is tied to your bank account.

It can also be tied to a postal adress in some nations, which makes it hell for people like sailors, seasonal workers, or other very mobile citizens. You're basically dependent on having to know somebody which you can completely trust to make sure they relay your mail to you. One of the "boxes" the government wants to put people in is that they reside at one adress, but many people do not live like that.
by nickygoulimis | 2025-07-14 20:38:26+00:00
We are a team of 2nd time fintech founders + ex-Monzo, Wise, Palantir. We are working with some of the largest banks in the UK. Our product is pushing the boundaries of agentic infrastructure & decisioning. And we are stopping scams & accelerating the release of genuine payments .

Would love to work with great people in person in London at this formative stage: JD here but DM or email on nicky@tunicpay.com. Always keen to meet amazing people for exploratory convo & for the longterm — so no worries if this one isn’t a 100% fit.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-07-14 20:38:41+00:00
There are times when you're better off calling the local sewer department first.

In San Jose, if you see evidence that your house's main drain has backed up and you have a cleanout within 5' of the sidewalk, you're better off calling the city first before calling a plumber -- the sewer department will snake the "lateral" pipe between the cleanout and the main sewer line under the street for free.

The one time we used this the response time was very quick (in line with the 30 minute response time they cite on their website).
by aksjsnxkkxx | 2025-07-14 20:39:52+00:00
And when people ask where is the money going to come from it’s very easy to point out the ever growing wealth gap and immoral levels of wealth our billionaire class has. But that never happens, and this meaningless left / right dichotomy continues to distract the population.

A few less iPhones and a few more automated farms. Billionaires would be hardest hit unfortunately.
by mmmlinux | 2025-07-14 20:40:18+00:00
I get really annoyed when I open safari type something in the top bar to search the google search happens. then google has a pop up asking me if i want to be using google search app instead. to which the answers are Continue(highlighted in blue) or stay on web (almost grayed out). and if you forget and click on continue it takes you to the fucking app store. then if i go back to the browser and try to go back to the search that it definitely did. it takes me to the app store again. if i go back twice, i end up where i was before doing the search. fuck google and their dark patterns.
by tosser0001 | 2025-07-14 20:40:29+00:00
I know little about farming or harvesting, but I’m curious what types of crops actually require manual harvesting?

Do we really need to rely on stoop labor to hand-pick crops, or has a relatively cheap labor pool allowed farmers to avoid the costs of automation?

If labor is to be in perennial short supply in the future, I wonder if American farmers will simply be forced to turn to crops that allow machine harvesting.
by geocar | 2025-07-14 20:40:42+00:00
I think the quiz was LSL1. You just pushed alt-x (or maybe ctrl-alt-x) to skip it.

LSL2 had the "little black book" with phone numbers. You could type 555-0724 IIRC and get in.

The real answers to these things were in the box, you weren't really expected to know that much about dumb stuff, this was just novel forms of "copy protection" to make sure you got the game (and everything with it) instead of just a copy from a friend...
by cjblomqvist | 2025-07-14 20:41:01+00:00
Well, at the core of accounting there is an accountant reviewing your accounts (annually at least) - regardless how your books are done (with exceptions for small/tiny companies). So it doesn't seem so far off to do the base work done by an AI.

I guess it's like automated driving a few years back - monitored by humans able to take over control. Step by step it'll become better and better until good enough for handle certain chosen areas.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-14 20:41:21+00:00
> How are device owners being prohibited from anything?

Biometric data isn't cryptographic in nature. Once you've recorded someone's fingerprint -- which any device using it for authentication would have to do and have the hardware to do -- you can then replay it to any service using the same data for authentication. You don't even have to lift them off of any of the objects people leave them on just by existing, which is also a way to get them. And once someone has them, you can't change it.

Which means the only way to use biometrics to gate this sort of thing is for everyone to be locked out of their own devices (or unable to use devices they're not locked out of), or they could use the device they control to play back the biometric data to whatever external service is nominally authenticating it.

> Which zillion vulnerabilities in the TPM are you referring to?

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=TPM

And those are only the ones specific to a TPM, not any of the ones that impact privileged code the TPM is attesting to the security of.

Notice also that this doesn't require every device to be vulnerable, it only requires any device to be vulnerable. Cheap devices are more likely to be vulnerable and then anyone who wants to bypass anything can get one of those.

This is one of the reasons these systems are so nefarious. You get an iPhone for unrelated reasons and it may not have any current known vulnerabilities, so you are locked out of your own device. Meanwhile some $50 Android or old netbook does have a vulnerability which any kid can get if they want to view age-gated sites, or people set up services to do it over the internet -- and then those services become attack vectors because kids start plugging their parents' IDs and fingerprints into shady bypass services.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-14 20:41:41+00:00
I support your right to your position, but also support doing nothing as rural america infrastructure is rapidly evaporated, first healthcare and then whatever else remains (because what will when the closest medical provider is hours away). It’s the only way people who think this matters (“do it the legal way” even though it’s borderline impossible and extremely expensive) will then understand food supply infrastructure is more important than residency status of the only people who will do these jobs, but maybe not.

Unless you’re a Native American, you’re an immigrant too.
by pruetj | 2025-07-14 20:41:52+00:00
Interesting point! One interpretation of this passage suggests Peter is actually rushing this appointment. In typical Peter fashion, he makes choices before fulling thinking them through (this seems to change post Pentecost). Matthias is never mentioned again in the Bible; we aren't sure what becomes of him. Canonically, he is the 12th but traditionally, it is Paul who is sometimes considered the true 12th disciple (you can find this depicted in EO iconography).

So, the random selection mentioned here may have actually been a fault of Peter's and not something the Bible is endorsing as a means to choose leadership; possibly quite the opposite in this case.
by 1dom | 2025-07-14 20:42:01+00:00
I found this really helpful. I've read a few different bits around this area, and being able to quickly click and scroll around this has confirmed my understanding of it now - thanks!

I thought it funny to think how this is all to give the impression to the user that the AI, for example, _knows_ the weather. The AI doesn't: it's just getting it from a weather API and wrapping some text around it.

Now, imagine being given a requirement 5 years ago like: "When the user asks, we need to be able to show them the weather from this API, and wrap some text around it". Imagine something like your diagram came back as the proposed the solution:| Not at all a criticism of any of your stuff, but it blows my mind how tech develops.
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-14 20:42:43+00:00
I still think 2019 GM was correct in killing the Volt that hybrids are a worst of both worlds in engineering trade-offs and strictly one or the other is the best approach for both. I also still partly agree that 2019 was about the right year to end that "transition tech" phase, at the very least as a political message (that wasn't correctly received).

(I say that as someone who still owns a 2012 Volt as my only car, but mostly not because I still think I need a hybrid but because I want an full electric, reasonably sized sedan or hatchback, and all the car companies decided Americans only want EV crossovers/SUVs/assault tanks/land yachts this decade.)

All hybrids (Prius included, and especially noted) are just sub-par Full EVs with extra weight albatrossed around their necks when gas gets hard to buy and it does seem like past time to stop sinking good money after multiple decades of sunk costs in ICE car engines.

I think it would be more obvious if the US had more of the cheap EVs that China and Europe are producing, but we all know the US right now isn't politically aligned to have nice things.
by samat | 2025-07-14 20:43:17+00:00
I've got a flashback from all the 'civil society/advocacy forums' I've attended. Big Co. send the representatives whose sole purpose is to make it look like they care. They do not.

Only state coercion — big fat fines (% of the total income) make any difference.

I think personal criminal liability would be a nice step to make corporations finally respect the law, but that's too much to ask from late stage capitalism.