MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bko | 2025-07-14 17:01:32+00:00
I'm very skeptical of internet regulation and regulation in general, especially what Europe does (e.g. cookie banner, AI, overreaching right to forget). But I think it's insane that we somehow accept social media companies to have underage children on their site breaking the terms of service. Most of these companies deploy a lot of resources making sure we don't send out an offensive meme, use a bad word, or show a female areola, but when it comes to hosting content of 12 year olds, it turns a blind eye.

The fact that around 40% of US 8-12 year olds are on social media, against the policies is just insane and unacceptable.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK594759/
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-07-14 17:01:34+00:00
Because all of the 9/11 flights were domestic. One of the duties of ICE is investigating terrorism (along wiht transnational criminal organizations).

Air travel in the United States is mamanged by Federal law, not state. This is solidly in the Federal law enforcement wheelhouse. Anything that crosses state boundries is ALSO under Federal law.
by marcosdumay | 2025-07-14 17:01:51+00:00
That is a very weird set of findings.

This one in particular:

> It takes two seconds to decide upon which special-function key to press.

seems to indicate the study was done on people with no familiarity at all with the software they were testing.

Either way, I don't think there is any evidence out there supporting that either of keyboard-only or mouse-only is faster or equivalent to keyboard+mouse for well known GUIs.
by bityard | 2025-07-14 17:01:53+00:00
Alright, so I'm open to ideas here. My problem is getting bored while running.

When I'm in a good routine, I run on my treadmill indoors. (I can't currently run outdoors for reasons I don't want to get into at the moment.) However, after a few weeks, especially if work/family life is getting stressful, I tend to stop running just because I want to work on something more mentally stimulating and tangibly productive with my extremely limited free time.

I have tried:

- Movies/TV Shows: I'm hit-or-miss when it comes to enjoying these. The ones I don't care for are boring to watch. The ones I like, I tend to get engrossed in them and pay more attention to the screen than my workout and end up phoning it in. Plus I'm not sure there are enough of these that I can watch one or half one one every single day. (Bonus: I don't watch anything with ads.)

- Music: I don't like most pop music, and the music that I DO like, I try not to listen to every day because I'll get sick of it that way and then I won't have any music to listen to when I want to listen to music. I can deal with high-energy EDM but 99% of it is not great, especially when binge-listening. Also I get tired of staring at a blank wall and so have tried finding live EDM performances to watch on YouTube. This is a lot of work and so far has worked okay but not perfect.

- Podcasts: There are a LOT of podcasts that I want to catch up on, but half the time I want to stop and take notes because the advice or information being given sounds really useful or seems worth following up on. Maybe there are comedy podcasts out there that I wouldn't hate?

- Audiobooks: I love reading but I have a hard time getting into audiobooks. Same issue with podcasts, I often want to stop and research topics and that would take me away from the treadmill.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-14 17:02:05+00:00
That promise is true, though, and the two claims are not opposite. The devil is in details, specifically in what you mean by "people" and "accomplish things".

If by "people" you mean "general public", and by "accomplish things" you mean solving some immediate problems, that may or may not involve authoring a script or even a small app - then yes, this is already happening, and is a big reason behind the AI hype as it is.

If by "people" you mean "experienced software engineers", and by "accomplish things" you mean meaningful contributions to a large software product, measured by high internal code and process quality standards, then no - AI tools may not help with that directly, though chances are greater when you have enough experience with those tools to reliably give them right context and steer away from failure modes.

Still, solving one-off problems != incremental improvements to a large system.
by lsy | 2025-07-14 17:02:25+00:00
Typically debugging, e.g., a tricky race condition in an unfamiliar code base would require adding logging, refactoring library calls, inspecting existing logs, and even rewriting parts of your program to be more modular or understandable. This is part of the theory-building.

When you have an AI that says "here is the race condition and here is the code change to make to fix it", that might be "faster" in the immediate sense, but it means you aren't understanding the program better or making it easier for anyone else to understand. There is also the question of whether this process is sustainable: does an AI-edited program eventually fall so far outside what is "normal" for a program that the AI becomes unable to model correct responses?
by namlem | 2025-07-14 17:02:46+00:00
There are many proposed models for how to incorporate sortition into governance. Some examples:

- A randomly selected lower house with an elected upper house (or the reverse)

- policy juries which deliberate only on one specific piece of legislation, which then must be approved by a separate oversight jury before taking effect

- election by jury, where candidates are chosen by "elector juries" who interview and vet the candidates before selecting one

- multi-layer representative selection based on the Venetian model where randomly selected bodies elect representatives, of whom a random subset are chosen to then appoint officials

Right now the lottocratic/sortition-based bodies that exist are purely advisory, though in some places like Paris and Belgium they have gained a good amount of soft power.

It wouldn't be that hard to implement a conservative version of one of these in certain US states though. For example, add "elect by jury" to the ballot, where if it wins the plurality, a grand jury is convened to select the winner (counties in Georgia already use grand juries to appoint their boards of equalization, so there is precedent).
by salawat | 2025-07-14 17:02:52+00:00
Nope. If you're one of them, as a practitioner you should damn well be able to reasonably foresee the pathological use case. Hell, I only cut myself minimal slack for having grown up believing constant exhortations by Oldtimers that "Kid, no one in their right mind would do that," only to see my peer group replacing them do exactly what the Oldtimers were insistent that common sense dictated wouldn't be done.

It is on us to be realistic about how the systems we create will actually be used. I think we lost sight of that in the last couple decades, or figured it wasn't our problem. And the chickens have come home to roost.
by 9dev | 2025-07-14 17:03:07+00:00
No. Apple claims they cannot implement this due to security concerns. Yet at the same time, they assure EU users that the Apple platform is of course secure. So which one is it?

By limiting this change to the EU, Apple displays that they clearly are able to add support for multiple browser engines without compromising security if forced to, so the only reason left is their unwillingness to commit to their users freedom of choice.

It’s just greed, nothing more.
by cycomanic | 2025-07-14 17:03:21+00:00
I think the problem with direct voting on issues is that, in general issues are complicated and nobody (politicians neither) has the time to familiarise themselves with every topic. This makes direct voting be easily influenced by lobbying towards extreme positions, because those offer "easy" answers when nuance is required.

I'm actually in agreement with the OP. An interesting concept in this direction are citizen Councils or assemblies [1]. Essentially a group of random citizens get selected to investigate an (typical local) issue. They are given all the necessary administrative resources and are supposed to come up with a solution/recommendation.

They have been tried on a local level in Australia. In the documentary I saw about this, they said that people generally become engaged in the process and try to understand the nuance and different view points of the issue. Even people coming into the process with more extreme view points adopt more nuance.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/01/citizens-ass...
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-14 17:03:39+00:00
ugrep, which is C++ and similar in scope to ripgrep is 0.9 MB on my machine, ripgrep is 4.4 MB and GNU grep us 0.2 MB. They all depend on libc and libpcre2.

Ugrep however depends on libstdc++ and a bunch of libraries for compressed file support (libz,...).

So yeah a bit bloated but we are not at Electron level yet.
by roughly | 2025-07-14 17:03:45+00:00
Yeah, I think both things can be true: one is that it is absolutely utterly unacceptable to be in the year 2025 advocating for new data collection programs in the name of "fighting crime" - it should be absolutely abundantly clear to even the most naive of us now that A) the cops have absolutely zero interest in pursuing the kinds of crime we're actually interested in - the closure rate on shoplifting, car and package theft, and other property crime is basically zero, and that's not because the cops don't have enough resources, and B) any of these systems will be abused immediately to target whoever it is the feds have decided are the bad guy this week, be it palestine protestors, trans people, immigrants, ex-girlfriends, or whoever else we've decided is outside the circle of protection today.

At the same time, it's also absolutely goddamn unnacceptable that we've come to just accept that our LEOs are just going to act like unaccountable criminal gangs, and that that mentality has crept so far into the police forces that a thin blue line punisher sticker is an acceptable bit of kit for a cruiser. There are systems that are intended to hold these groups accountable, and we need to keep pressing until they do, because throwing up our hands and just saying "Boys will be boys" ain't cutting it.
by drdaeman | 2025-07-14 17:03:59+00:00
I think FastAPI's one major design difference is its dependency injection mechanism. Django is designed to do things differently, with services provided through an app- or project-global collection of middlewares (although I haven't used it in a while, maybe something had changed since then) and while there are DI solutions for Django they don't feel "native" to me - not the way FastAPI does it. Either way works, of course - it's probably merely a matter of the preferred mental model.
by thaumaturgy | 2025-07-14 17:04:15+00:00
Flock is absolutely designed to facilitate and encourage this kind of abuse. They have extensive data sharing built in to their system while promising agencies that the users "own" the data.

My local police department just recently got a grant for these and is in the process of setting them up, and I'm working with a number of local technologists and activists to shut it down. We are showing up at every police commission meeting and every city council meeting and keeping actively engaged with local press. I spent almost three hours yesterday having coffee with a police commissioner and I have meeting requests from a number of other local officials. There are similar efforts ongoing in other cities across the U.S.

An interesting one to keep an eye on is Cedar Rapids, which includes a neat teardown of one of the devices: https://eyesoffcr.org/blog/blog-8.html

Immediately after setting up the system -- before all of the devices were even fully online -- our local PD began sharing access with departments in non-sanctuary states. When we asked questions about it, they hid that section from their transparency page. We are cooking them publicly for that.

Flock is VC-funded commercialized mass surveillance.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-14 17:04:24+00:00
Between this and the abortion story [1] (CEO deflected blame and took zero ownership [2]), it looks like Flock leans into enabling this sort of lawlessness. They should be torn out of our cities.

Do we have a list of their clients?

EDIT: Apparently my town installed them in 2023 [3]. Inciting a couple council members over for dinner this week.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-te...

[2] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/statement-network-sharing-u...

[3] https://atlasofsurveillance.org/search?vendor=Flock+Safety
by yomismoaqui | 2025-07-14 17:04:49+00:00
> It is even more insulting because no actual software of value has been demonstrably produced using "AI".

Claude Code and Amp (equivalent from Sourcegraph) are created by humans using these same tools to add new features and fix bugs.

Having used both tools for some weeks I can tell you that they provide a great value to me, enough that I see paying $100 monthly as a bargain related to that value.

Edit: typo
by lvl155 | 2025-07-14 17:04:53+00:00
Unless it offers me something substantially better than VSCode, I am not gonna switch and it has a lot to do with unsupported extensions. For now, I think UX preference has to be CLI with web gui wrapper where you can pick models, agents, requirements, etc and let that run anywhere, even headless. I don’t like how these guys (as in all the VSCode wrappers) are trying to sucker people onto their platform to lock you in.

Edit: I know there’s manual VSIX route.
by jeeyoungk | 2025-07-14 17:05:05+00:00
But the term itself was created and captured by the left from the beginning; Proudhon first used it; Marx popularized it; so in the history of terminologies it always had the meaning that we associate with it.

I like the term "market economy" or "commercial society" more, because it does capture more of what's happening on the market and the society.
by roughly | 2025-07-14 17:05:15+00:00
> Don't be angry at the people building them for good.

I am angry because the same people who've argued for years against the kinds of education systems that teach actual social systemic thinking and who've called me naive and cynical for suggesting their pretty toy is going to get people killed are now throwing up their hands and saying "how could we have known?"

Because we fucking told you, that's how.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-07-14 17:05:16+00:00
Click through to the law in question. It's the Civil Code not Criminal Code, and states, "an individual who has been harmed by a violation of this title, including, but not limited to, unauthorized access or use of ALPR information or a breach of security of an ALPR system, may bring a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction against a person who knowingly caused the harm."

So you have to prove actual harm. You have to identify the individual person who caused the harm. You have to prove they knowingly caused the harm. You have to quantify the harm in monetary terms. Then you can sue them for actual damages + attorneys' fees.
by Terr_ | 2025-07-14 17:06:06+00:00
> California has their own goon squad

The only way that could be a purer distillation of abstract whataboutism would be to remove the last lingering traces of specificity, yielding: "[They] do [it] too!"

Even if we accept that that other-bad-thing exists, how does it justify the first-bad-thing we were talking about?
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 17:06:13+00:00
It's not quite the same thing. It's one thing if the users of some node lose access to another node because it ends up on the first node's blocklist. But in Mastodon, the first node doesn't just block the offending node; it also blocks other nodes that don't block that one, by association, effectively trying to coerce the entire fediverse.
by delusional | 2025-07-14 17:07:14+00:00
It's practically impossible to build a system that "can't be abused". If you set the bar there, then you can block any policy forever by simply enumerating increasingly unlikely ways for it to be abused. It's like a child's version of politics.

I could go into my car right now and plow through a bunch of people. I'm still allowed to own a car. We've made the actual harmful act illegal, not the thing that theoretically made it possible.
by andix | 2025-07-14 17:07:26+00:00
What I noticed: AI development constantly breaks my flow. It makes me more tired, and I work for shorter time periods on coding.

It's a myth that you can code a whole day long. I usually do intervals of 1-3 hours for coding, with some breaks in between. Procrastination can even happen on work related things, like reading other project members code/changes for an hour. It has a benefit to some extent, but during this time I don't get my work done.

Agentic AI works the best for me. Small refactoring tasks on a selected code snippet can be helpful, but isn't a huge time saver. The worst are AI code completions (first version Copilot style), they are much more noise then help.
by everdrive | 2025-07-14 17:07:31+00:00
I'm also surprised that this is so hidden from everyone. Where are the engineers leaking secrets? Much of the online discourse is pure speculation based on what can be observed from the very end of the chain. (ie, what your computer is giving up) The speculation is not necessarily _incorrect_ but is too vague to be useful to anyone. Where does my data _actually_ go? Does anyone know? Can anyone describe the life of my data as it goes through the whole ecosystem? Does anyone know what mitigations are, and are not effective?
by nancyminusone | 2025-07-14 17:07:36+00:00
I'm one of their customers. I often see that one green car parked down the road.

It's pretty good - their provided router is locked down to hell and they're on a cgnat, but not having to deal with Comcast's 1.2tb data cap is well worth it. Checking Comcast's site now, it seems that they now offer "unlimited" data. Interesting, that option wasn't there 6 months ago.

~100 customers seems too small for the amount of effort they have put in so far. They've been working along all the roads near me for about a year, and they're out there running fiber conduit every day. The houses out here are far apart. Hopefully, they can make it work.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-07-14 17:07:49+00:00
This could actually be interesting because in many past egregious data broker cases, the offenders had no business in the EU so they could just laugh as they were handed one 20M fine after the other (e.g. Clearview), or they were making way more than 4% of their revenue in profit from privacy violations so they could just risk the fine.

But here, the controller of the data is the airline, the transfer to the data broker might be illegal, and an airline is the worst company to commit GDPR violations with: They have a lot of global revenue but a relatively thin margin, very little of that margin comes from data abuse (so they can't just shrug off the GDPR fine as a small cost of doing shady business), and they are reachable in the EU (worst case a member state can ground and confiscate their planes, and essentially ban them from flying to the EU by threatening to confiscate any other plane that lands). And yes, Germany will impound a plane to get debts paid: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/thai-prince-to-pay-bon...
by throwawaymaths | 2025-07-14 17:07:50+00:00
1. the original author of the function coloring post wad not exactly a theorist so if you're applying some other idea of what coloring is, then you're muddying the waters.

2. here's what i have to say about your idea of what coloring is: That's all fine and good in theory, but in practice it makes no difference, at the user level, or at the compiler level.
by amelius | 2025-07-14 17:08:07+00:00
There will always be something to complain.

People are also sick and tired of rules in the AppStore. Or the fact that when their Apple/Google/whatever account is unilaterally blocked they have no recourse. At least with a government there are some checks and balances.

Yes, some governments are more trustworthy than others. Doesn't mean the concept is bad.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-14 17:08:17+00:00
> be angry at those who didn't follow through with promises to severely reduce funding to their police departments in 2020

This was tried. It generated a generational backlash against the left as petty crime and visible homelessness rose.

To the extent police reform has historically worked, it’s been by rebooting a police department. (Think: replacing the Mets with the NYPD.) Not replacing police with a hippie circle.
by elzbardico | 2025-07-14 17:08:43+00:00
And this is kind of sad in the context of this post. Because I have always wanted to dive deeper into assembly, and there are loads of material to study X86 assembly out there.

But being able to run it only in a virtual machine, it is a little bit demotivating.

Well, there are some chinese folks selling newly built PC-XT compatible machines on the internet. Maybe I could go this way. And probably, pure, original 8086 assembly is a lot more fun than overly complicated X86_64 with lots of extensions.
by lapcat | 2025-07-14 17:08:53+00:00
I support the idea of sortition, which appears to be guiding idea behind "Assembling America". However, I'm not quite sure what this has to do with meritocracy.

From my perspective, the fundamental justification for sortition is that randomly selected citizens are more representative of the general public and, crucially, less corrupt and corruptible on average than elected representatives.

Why less corrupt? Because I think people who seek power are more corrupt and self-centered on average than those who have power thrust upon them. Why less corruptible? Because randomly selected citizens don't have to fundraise for political campaigns, and they are merely temporary occupants of their seats, not running for reelection and becoming career politicians. As far as I'm concerned, political campaign contributions are legalized bribery. It would be easier to police citizen legislator corruption, because we allow crap from elected officials—campaign contributions, gifted travel, post-legislator lobbying jobs—that we really should make totally illegally and jailable. A lot of "working class" politicians suddenly become super-wealthy after leaving office, and we all know it's quid pro quo. Just outright ban that crap and strictly audit former legislators.
by gknoy | 2025-07-14 17:08:55+00:00
> every time it's like I'm reading it for the first time. I can only remember thew "mood" so to speak,

I am like this with a lot of books. I'll remember a very high level overview ("The Historian is about a modern day hunt for Dracula, and it's really cool, and I liked how the story was told, but I can't remember why or any of what happened."), but can't remember much about plot details.

It makes re-reading things fun, but also is frustrating because I can't explain why something was good, and I also remember just enough that plot twists don't surprise me the second time. It also means that I completely forget about the "bad" parts of the book, or the parts that didn't resonate with me.
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-14 17:09:06+00:00
Alien is my official brainrot-ometer. If you start fidgeting and going "ohhh my gawwwwwd these old films are so slooooow" before the chestburster, you may be cooked.

Also a good example of how hyper-optimised physiques are in films and media in general and the standards that produces. While I'm sure Ripley's underwear scene caused a fuzzy section on a million VHS tapes at the time, my (female, borderline zoomer) cousin, who failed the boredom test before almost falling off the sofa when the chestburster appeared, said "oh wow, actresses then had such ordinary, girl-next-door bodies!". Mind-boggling.
by ggreer | 2025-07-14 17:09:16+00:00
Sadly, Wickard v. Filburn effectively ended this.[1] Also the feds don't have to use force against the states to get compliance. They can do things like not provide funding for freeway maintenance[2], or penalize individuals for not participating (as was the case with the Affordable Care Act).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_...