MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pavon | 2025-07-11 23:40:10+00:00
Another aspect of the coordination problem is that when I was a kid all the other children in the neighborhood rode the bus home together, and many of us got home before our parents were back from work, so playing together until dinner time was the natural thing to do.

These days, the school day is longer and more parents drive their kids to and from school, so extra effort is required for kids to get back together.
by diegof79 | 2025-07-11 23:40:26+00:00
I'm not surprised. I started using Windsurf when it came out because I liked its UX better than Cursor's.

However, while Cursor and GH Copilot improved, Windsurf went in the opposite direction. On each update, I started to get more and more issues. The agent often tried to run shell commands, and it hung up, or I found minor UI bugs. One day, I decided to give GH Copilot another chance, and I was surprised by how it evolved, to the point that it worked better than Windsurf for my usage. I don’t know what happened internally at Windsurf, but I notice the degradation as a user. If my case indicates what happened to other users, maybe OpenAI saw declining subscriptions and canceled the deal.
by jacobgkau | 2025-07-11 23:42:08+00:00
> Free speech can exclude criticism of foreign nations (like Isra-l)... So I reject this culture claim that you are defending and do not accept that these conservatives have America's best interests in their heart.

Do not pretend like liberals were on a different page than conservatives on that issue before the election. Support for Israel was happening under Biden and would have continued under Harris; Trump's the one who did a bait-and-switch with pretending he'd be more neutral until he got in. And conservatives have been called antisemitic by liberals far more than the reverse.

> American culture is immigrant centric.

What does this mean? Because to me, it means we don't have a culture and never will have one. What does immigrant-centric mean to people who are born not immigrants, besides getting out of the way for the next generation on its way in?
by timr | 2025-07-11 23:42:10+00:00
> So effectively the advice becomes "stay at home, don't vacation, or if you do vacation stay at some prepackaged place".

I didn't expect it to be a popular take, but I feel like the "sightseeing travel" model is varying degrees of bankrupt, and I'm not apologizing for my opinion.

Having lived in a number of tourist hotspots in my life, I've come to the conclusion that almost nothing one encounters in a tourist setting is authentic. Therefore, you're engaging in very expensive cosplay, erected entirely for your benefit, and almost always at the expense of the culture of the place you are visiting. However fun it may be for you or I, it's still just Disneyland. And while Disneyland may be of net economic benefit to the local people who live near Disneyland, let's not get hoity-toity about it and pretend that we're discovering deep truths of the universe by going to Angkor Wat and snapping a photo.

You don't have to do a "prepackaged vacation", but do something more substantial than moving around constantly and looking at stuff through a camera -- volunteer, take a course, attend a conference, teach English...whatever! Just go there for a reason other than "being a tourist".
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-11 23:42:12+00:00
>And was being run by people who did not want to "harm the brand"

We've seen this time and again. Organizations would rather throw people under the bus than damage the organizations reputation/brand. For example, the Church of England has tried to cover up numerous sexual abuse scandals. This is a recent and particularly nasty case:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje0y3gqw1po

The irony is that the coverups generally don't work for long, and the reputational damage is all the worse for the coverup.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-07-11 23:42:34+00:00
Can't find a definitive source right now, but everything is implying there are discrete lines - at least one for command signal to the FADECs, and a separate sense line to the DFDAU for packaging up and sending to the EAFR. That lines up with design philosophy on this stuff of sensing control input data as close to the source as you can get.
by ninkendo | 2025-07-11 23:43:04+00:00
> Practicing religion yields a lot of net-positive effects, particularly mental anguish and internal turmoil. Otherwise, people wouldn't practice them.

I don’t think that follows. Plenty of people practice religion because they’re terrified of the consequences of not doing it, because they’re have been indoctrinated from a young age to believe that to turn away from God is to be tortured in hell for all eternity. (Or in the case of some religions, you can be straight-up executed for leaving.)
by lostlogin | 2025-07-11 23:43:15+00:00
The problem is present in America, per the article.

‘In the early 2000s, New York City's health department noticed a perplexing blip: A surprisingly large number of Bangladeshi children in New York City were showing up in their lead database.’

For the cost of the research mentioned in the article, that seems a small sum to pay relative to the result achieved.

‘Soft power’ is not valued by many anymore, but cut it all and it’ll be interesting to look back in a generation or two and see the result.
by 8note | 2025-07-11 23:43:36+00:00
giving provinces too much power has generally been a problem for Canada, and a major goal of the current government is to bring more unity across provinces in terms of regulations, so that canadian markets are bigger than one province.

each province still has cities, so you arent getting away having cities dominate. instead, i think cities should be provinces to themselves, same as seattle and portland should both be states in the US. the rural albertans can take care of themselves without taxing calgary and edmonton.
by jalapenos | 2025-07-11 23:43:44+00:00
This article is a frustrating read because it appears the author has not researched the history of taxation much before writing it.

It reads like someone saying that cooking with fire is an absurd idea that's never going to work, and we should stick to microwaves.

Again, LVT is one of the oldest and most widely historically practiced forms of tax, through various forms like taking a cut of rice produced through to levying corvee.

Valuation is also a straightforward issue: you have the landowners self-assess value, but that value also acts as an option for the state to buy at that price. This bakes in honesty and market price based accuracy.

As for the "not enough" argument, maybe it's not enough for a government looking to squeeze every last drop and piss it away, which appears the norm sadly. But the point is that all economic activity a state has the right and ability to tax happens on its land, and in the process raises the market value of that land. So all economic output is taxable indirectly via it.

On the claimed disincentive to improve land value, like the oil discovery example: where the value is based on market price, no one is harmed by an increase in their properties value. They can just sell it to an oil developer if they don't want to develop it themselves, and walk away with a fat untaxed capital gain. This is simply a non-issue, on par with someone worrying their salary raise will increase their taxes - missing the point that it's a nice problem to have.

And if they just hated the idea of having more money, they could just self-assess at the old price and have the state take on the burden of developing it if they think it's worth more.

The only actual issue and complexity with LVT is a political one - how to move from the current farce to that. Similar issue with gold standard etc. These systems are tried and true and obviously better, but not to certain powerful minority interests, who benefit from farces continuing.
by lblume | 2025-07-11 23:43:51+00:00
Given that current LLMs do not consistently output total garbage, and can be used as judges in a fairly efficient way, I highly doubt this could even in theory have any impact on the capabilities of future models. Once (a) models are capable enough to distinguish between semi-plausible garbage and possibly relevant text and (b) companies are aware of the problem, I do not think data poisoning will be an issue at all.
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-07-11 23:45:44+00:00
> why are all its car companies monopolistic mega conglomerates that rule the world like Volkswagen, Stellantis, Daimler Benz, BMW, and Renault?

You just named 5 companies, that’s competition.

US has 1/2 companies controlling 90% market share in several markets. That’s monopoly.
by roenxi | 2025-07-11 23:46:16+00:00
> Whereas type systems are complex enough... [t]hat suggests expertise is warranted

Well no hang on. Homeopathy is very complex; quackery typically is. You can't use complexity as a defence here [0].

You justified rejecting homeopathy by saying that it can be dismissed with expertise in an unrelated field; so you have to accept that a non-expert can dismiss a field based on general knowledge in other domains. Which is almost exactly what Rich was doing in Maybe Not; except he is actually a domain expert in the area he was talking from. It was a long talk about how he, with his official world-renowned language designer hat on, is not convinced types can demonstrate the strongest advantage in programming and isn't including them in his language [1].

Now that is a very easy opinion to disagree with and I doubt Rich is even particularly dogmatic about the idea, but it is an expert opinion being delivered by an expert who is supremely qualified in his field.

[0] And, as an aside, I'm not going to pursue it but you're attempting to justify dismissing a medical belief based on knowledge in an unrelated field - physics.

[1] Although, as he is proud to point out, if you want a new language feature in Clojure you can add it in a library - as Ambrose has with Typed Clojure.
by whartung | 2025-07-11 23:46:49+00:00
My only nit with that is that with external storage there’s definitely a race when it comes to mounting.

More than once I’ve had, say, Photos complain that it couldn’t find its library because I have apps relaunch on startup, my library has been moved to external storage, and the drive was not ready yet.

Also there’s no guarantee, at least naively, that what was /dev/disk4 on the last boot will be /dev/disk4 on this boot. Normally not necessarily an issue, but if you care about actual drive devices vs volume names, it can be an issue. (And there well be some low level config file wizardry to fix that issue, I just haven’t bothered to research it.)
Show HN: I was tired of my mobile projects getting buried – so I built MobDrop
by lumber_prog | 2025-07-11 23:46:56+00:00
Hey HN,

After watching countless mobile side projects get buried after a single social media post, I built MobDrop - a platform where mobile devs can actually get discovered.

The problem: Twitter/Instagram posts disappear, GitHub repos don't showcase UI/UX well, and general platforms like Dribbble miss the technical side of mobile development. Mobile developers need a dedicated space to build their reputation and get found.

MobDrop is like Dribbble meets Product Hunt, but 100% focused on mobile development - apps, side projects, UI concepts, and prototypes. Finally, a place where your Flutter animations and iOS transitions get the attention they deserve.

Key features:

→ Public dev profiles & project showcase

→ Weekly top 3 featured projects (community voted)

→ SEO-optimized (projects drops and dev profiles get indexed by Google)

→ Video/image support for demos

→ Free during early access

→ Gamification & mobile blog coming soon

I wanted something lightweight and motivating - a place where mobile devs could build a reputation for what they've actually built, not just what they talk about.

Looking for feedback from mobile devs specifically:

1. Would you showcase your side projects here?

2. What features would you like to see on platform like this?

Thanks for reading! if you're a mobile dev, I'd love to see your work on MobDrop.
by matt_d | 2025-07-11 23:47:32+00:00
Rex Kernel Extensions: a safe and usable kernel extension framework that allows loading and executing Rust kernel extension programs in the place of eBPF

https://github.com/rex-rs/rex

Abstract:

"Safe kernel extensions have gained significant traction, evolving from simple packet filters to large, complex programs that customize storage, networking, and scheduling. Existing kernel extension mechanisms like eBPF rely on in-kernel verifiers to ensure safety of kernel extensions by static verification using symbolic execution. We identify significant usability issues—safe extensions being rejected by the verifier—due to the language-verifier gap, a mismatch between developers’ expectation of program safety provided by a contract with the programming language, and the verifier’s expectation.

We present Rex, a new kernel extension framework that closes the language-verifier gap and improves the usability of kernel extensions in terms of programming experience and maintainability. Rex builds upon language-based safety to provide safety properties desired by kernel extensions, along with a lightweight extralingual runtime for properties that are unsuitable for static analysis, including safe exception handling, stack safety, and termination. With Rex, kernel extensions are written in safe Rust and interact with the kernel via a safe interface provided by Rex’s kernel crate. No separate static verification is needed. Rex addresses usability issues of eBPF kernel extensions without compromising performance."
by fjfaase | 2025-07-11 23:47:48+00:00
Yet the signaling between nerve cells is through chemicals, neurotransmitters, being released. The working of transistors in CPU's is also based on quatum effects, so, following the same reasoning, they could be conscious as well. And many processes in plants, photosyntesizes, are based on quatum effects, so, for that same reasoning, plants and trees could be conscious.

I think the use of quatum mechanics here, is like 'god(s)' was/were used in the past for explaining things we do not understand or seem magical.
by rick1290 | 2025-07-11 23:47:53+00:00
Love django. Its my go-to as well.

I have gone django, drf, heyapi + vite/react.

I do like templates for simple pages - but with ai now. Its pretty fast to build out your api completely with drf. Then autogen the api in vite. Once you have all of your types and queries auto created. You can pretty much 'vibe' code your UI how you see fit. Then leave django to handle everything data/backend.
by smcleod | 2025-07-11 23:48:58+00:00
Honestly there's no value that windsurf, cursor and all the other VSCode forks provide that couldn't be provided as an extension and even then - none of them perform as well for agentic coding as Cline / Roo Code (debates about the subscription pricing aside due to people often not realising their model limits, public US only based APIs, pay for useful API limits etc aside).
by sashank_1509 | 2025-07-11 23:49:11+00:00
So the result of aggressively scrutinizing big tech acquisitions is acquihires, not a more competitive tech ecosystem with say more IPO’s.

The libertarian spin on this would be government should have never scrutinized acquisitions and the result is just worse for everyone.

The progressive spin would be to now ban acquihires somehow, and then whatever new legal invention will be created next. I can imagine the next step being, creating a consulting company out of your startup and then selling yourself as consultants to big techs. Now you are neither acquired nor technically acqui-hired and the whackamole continues.

At some point, we need to realize the solution is the culture of people involved. If the government could just ask to reduce acquisitions to make the ecosystem more competitive and companies tried following it in spirit to the best of their ability, we might have much better results than whatever we have now. When culture degrades, the govt can’t trust companies, the companies can’t trust the govt, everything just gets worse, regardless of what rules you write and enforce.
by toast0 | 2025-07-11 23:49:34+00:00
The report indicates the cut off switches were found, and were in the RUN position. However, the report does not indicate if the locking mechanism was functional; given the thermal damage, it might not be possible to determine.

I'm also interested in the earlier switch defects where the switches were installed with the locking mechanism disengaged on some 737s and inspection was advised for 787, but the incident aircraft was not inspected.

The airworthiness directive for that [1] indicates switches with locking disengaged should be replaced, but I wonder if it's possible to reingage the locking somehow, which could result in a situation where the locking wasn't engaged, the switches changed inadverdently and then when restored the run position the lock was engaged... that's a big reach, of course.

All that said, assuming the switch was working as designed, there's a semantic argument around deliberate and intentional. If the switch requires specific action, it's fair to call it deliberate action; but if the switcher thought they were activating a different switch, it's not murder.

Either way, there's no sense rushing to a conclusion of murder. Assuming one of the pilots activated the switch, they have already died and they are beyond the effects of human judgement; so we may as well wait for further information.

[1] https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/NM-18-33.pdf/SIB_NM-18-33_1
by mlyle | 2025-07-11 23:49:46+00:00
> and that condensation means it doesn't get any extra novel benefit from expensive-but-consistent nuclear over cheap-but-predictably-intermittent renewables

This assumes you can do just the condensation during the day— E.g. you are amortizing the electrolyzers capital cost over just times when there is surplus power instead of something closer to 24/7.
by blipvert | 2025-07-11 23:50:31+00:00
Well, hey, far be it for me to tell you that you’re wrong, but the BBC says that you’re wrong as do numerous other sources.

> The Post Office itself took many cases to court, prosecuting 700 people between 1999 and 2015. Another 283 cases were brought by other bodies, including the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wpp4w14pqo.amp
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-11 23:51:46+00:00
Reality check: So you have no forms any user needs to input anything into, because if you had any, then you would need a spam protection, lest your customer gets tons of spam. Cheapest one is probably Askimet, but that costs money for a business. So either you are talking about little blogs, or not businesses. In any case, probably real small sites of purely informational character without user input, otherwise it would cost something. Or you are letting your customers get spammed.

No real maintenance? So either you let your PHP version and plugins become outdated, or you sooner or later have to fix things breaking. Maybe you simply did not notice any breakage, because you don't do maintenance for customers?

A brochure website? Does that mean people enter their e-mail to be sent a brochure? (Then paragraph 1 applies again) Or brochure meaning, that you merely display information on pages and that's it?

I think for small info sites what you describe can be true, but for anything slightly larger not, especially not for small businesses.
by gausswho | 2025-07-11 23:52:17+00:00
This is a short but effective list, many of which I do. I admit I don't see much the point of keeping a positive balance on the credit card though.

Per the tip for Track & Trace, I used to use Mint, before they got bought by the dogshite company Intuit. Then I used Magnolia for a while. Excellently made, but too expensive for me.

But now I'm really happy with my current setup: Actual Budget on a self-hosted container and SimpleFin to synchronize across all my accounts (for $1.50/month). It's wonderful to never have to log into my bank again and have a permanent backed up record of all my transactions regardless of which account it happened on.
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-11 23:56:13+00:00
"gaijin" (rude slang for foreigner)

I think this is a misconception spread by people who get mad about being laughed at by locals, including kids, and have insisted on being called gaikukojin (foreign-country person) instead over the last 20-30 years.

The reason I say so is that Japanese is full of abbreviated words like this; gaijins literal meaning is 'outside person' and the koku part is redundant. You see such abbreviations in the written language too. For example 友人 (yuujin) and 友達 (tomodachi) both mean 'friend' but as you can see the latter kanji is a lot more work to write as well to say.

The real reason (in my view) is that this word 外人 has the same pronunciation as 害人 and the same slang meaning, but 害 carries an implication of harm or injury. Japanese has a small number of sounds compared to other languages so homophony abounds and double meanings like this are very common, both for humorous effect or for making veiled negative comments.

Switching a character around is a normal Japanese way of dealing with meaning clashes. For example 和 (wa) means harmony, but also refers to Japan: 和食 (washoku) is Japanese food, 和服 (wafuku) is Japanese clothing etc. etc.. This word is ancient, going back ~1800 years to when Chinese & Korean explorers first had contact with Japan and called it the 'Kingdom of Wa'. However the Chinese used the character 倭 (also wa) which means distant, but can also mean dwarf (as in stature) or submissive. The Japanese used the same character for about 500 years but eventually decided they found the double meaning offensive and switched to 和. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(name_of_Japan) is a great deep dive into this if you're interested in etymology.

I get why some people take umbrage at the use of words like gaijin, but to my mind if you don't like such things you don't really like the language, and if you make an issue out of it people will just find more subtle ways to express their negative (and possibly escalated) sentiments and might start to view you as 害虫.
by jacobgkau | 2025-07-11 23:56:13+00:00
Personally (and ironically), I wouldn't usually think of museums if I'm looking for something non-touristy. Walking through a museum, reading and looking at things that've been laid out in a specific order for me to consume, just feels like reading a website. Unless it's a unique exhibit, there's little interactivity, and while things can certainly be learned, I often wonder if I couldn't have learned them just as well from a book.

That's not to say I'll never go to a museum; I stumbled into a small science and technology museum near the imperial palace gardens, for example. But the bigger a museum is and the more lists it's on, the more I'd assume it's touristy. The Tokyo National Museum being "a standard destination for foreign visitors" is exactly why I'd shy away from it. (Why the general public would follow that trend for museums but not for other tourist destinations, I don't know.)
by patrakov | 2025-07-11 23:56:35+00:00
> And it's not the marketing that's saying "you're using it wrong" - it's other users.

No, it's the non-coding managers who vibe-coded a half-working prototype, not other users. And here, the Dunning-Kruger effect is at play - those non-coding types do not understand that AI is not working for them either.

Full disclosure: I do rely on vibe-coded jq lines in one-off scripts that will definitely not process more data after the single intended use, and this is where AI saves my time.