MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-10 22:14:50+00:00
No, there is no "the left" uniform hivemind but there are many factions. The neoliberal spectrum is very much aligned with capital to where they almost mirror Republicans; that was Clinton's original sin. The Abundance neo-neoliberals are the latest incarnation of them.

The progressive spectrum rarely wants to cooperate or coordinate and is often too preciously-pure rather than pragmatic to learn about business to succeed.

Dragging the Overton Window back left won't magically happen with Che Guevara T-shirts, People's Front of Judea vs. the Judean People's Front, or pure ideals "too perfect" to be tainted by making a venture out of it.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-10 22:15:07+00:00
Reading aviation-related NTSB final reports is kind of a hobby of mine, and I must say, the NTSB is generally a treasure! Sure, you can find issues with some of their investigations, roads they might not have probed down as far as they could, but their culture of root causing and transparently reporting should be emulated across the government. I really hope they don't fall victim to the casual, random destruction our current administration is inflicting on broad swaths of the government.
by lyrrad | 2025-07-10 22:15:12+00:00
I believe that's what this directive is for:

"To the Federal Aviation Administration:" " Once you complete the certification of Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ design enhancement for ensuring the complete closure of Boeing 737 mid exit door (MED) plugs following opening or removal, issue an airworthiness directive to require that all in-service MED plug-equipped airplanes be retrofitted with the design enhancement. (A-25-15)"

This article: https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/boeing-completes-design..., suggests that the design enhancement will add "secondary retention devices" that "prevent installation of the cabin sidewall panels unless they are properly engaged." The article indicates that the existing bolts will also get lanyards that will "'permanently secure the bolts to the plug' and provide a visual indication' of whether they have been installed correctly."

Apparently, if only one of the four bolts was installed, it may have been sufficient to prevent the accident, according to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/boeing-alaska...
by cutemonster | 2025-07-10 22:15:27+00:00
Didn't they rather mean:

Developers' own skills might atrophy, when they don't write that much code themselves, relying on AI instead.

And now when comparing with/without AI they're faster with. But a year ago they might have been that fast or faster without an AI.

I'm not saying that that's how things are. Just pointing out another way to interpret what GP said
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-10 22:16:30+00:00
I’m curious, do you log onto your computer from your smartphone in order to access your email?

Usually. If I'm going to be gone for more than a few days, though, I'll shut down the main PC and run Outlook from my laptop, which is set up to leave the messages on the POP3 server so they'll get copied into my master .PST file when I get back.

20 years means that either you maintain your own IMAP server and do a good job of it, or someone else does. In my previous company, there was always some reason why people couldn't put their hands on older emails. Meanwhile, my current .PST file goes back to 2007.
by const_cast | 2025-07-10 22:17:04+00:00
Certainly this is not reflected in any of your policies or behavior. But, then again, Trump supporters appear to have a sort of Stockholm relationship with him.

He's a liar, but he's our liar. We're hoping most of the shit he talks about never passes into law, but those are our laws. Wait, what are we voting for again? Why are we even voting for this dumb-ass is we don't like his policies and don't want them to pass?

When Trump coin was released, my Mom had a talk with me. She said "I just don't get it. He's already rich, why would he need to run a scam on American people? This makes no sense. Why would he stoop to that level?" I didn't have the heart to tell her he didn't stoop anywhere, that's just the level he's at.
by almosthere | 2025-07-10 22:17:41+00:00
This is not true, when that many people stop doing their job it spreads like a virus and the ones that still stand for good either a) leave companies or b) become infected also.

They don't go against the grain. The people that do would have to have a constitution like no one you've met. Those people quit the moment covid-19 hit and they have since died or are just permanently retired.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-07-10 22:18:30+00:00
My point was not primarily money from illegal activities. While you are probably right about most of the liquidity in BTC coming from illegal activities (with the type of illegality often being secondary, by means of being almost universally agreed on).

I was getting at the valuation and the value extraction that is derived solely from the sigmoid-like climb of value in cryptocurrency, which is driven by speculation on BTC as an asset, not just by increasing adoption for regular economic transactions backed by external value.

Sure, the more traction and trust this system gains, the last part of my sentence (BTC backing "real value") might increasingly become true, making my argument moot. But the almost feudalistic problems of "initial" allocation are not unimportant, in my view.
by urda | 2025-07-10 22:19:00+00:00
My Meross plugs have been very stable. Have not had to reset them, reconfigure them, rehome them, re-pair them, etc.

For light switches I tell everyone I know it is either LUTRON or nothing. Your time is not worth messing with anything else, and Lutron has been in the game long enough they have demonstrated commitment to their products. Finally, my Lutron system has been one of the few IoT devices I have ever had that was truly "set and forget". Once the Lutron switches and shades were bound, they have been perfect ever since for me.
by ljosifov | 2025-07-10 22:19:24+00:00
I get what you are talking about. My gripe with that is - yeah, would be indeed great if we could at some point get the structure to such deep level, as to write down pen on paper on one page, a string of maths symbols that is a good enough description. However - it's possible that for many things, that's not possible. Suspect maybe not possible in e.g. biology. Possible that the great success of physics of the 20-th century over-indulged us. So our expectations are out of kilter with realities of our world.

Fwiw I personally describe than as white, not black boxes. For we know, and can trace back every single bit of the output, back to the input. That does not help us as much as we'd like though. When drilling down into "why did the model answer wrongly 1, and not rightly 2", it comes down to "well, it added one trillion small numbers, and the sum came close to 1, but didn't reach 2". Which is unsatisfactory, and your "understanding" v.s. "comprehension" delineates that nicely.

Maybe more productive to think of them more "artefacts", less "mechanical contraptions". We shape them in many ways, but we are not in complete control of their making. We don't make them explicitly with out hands: we make a maker algorithm, and that algorithm then makes them. Or even "biological", grown artefacts. Given we don't control the end result fully. Yes we know and apply the algorithm that builds them, but we don't know the end result before hand, the final set of weights. Unlike say when we are making a coffee machine - we know all the parts to a millimetre in advance, have it all worked out pre-planned, before embarking on the making of the machine.
by michaelt | 2025-07-10 22:19:49+00:00
There are some statements that, though reasonable in isolation, are almost always heard from people teeing up a really bad opinion.

For example, if someone says "I'm not racist, but" I'm already rolling my eyes before they've even said what they're about to say.

Similarly, when some people hear "prefrontal cortexes don't fully develop until" they start rolling their eyes pre-emptively at the infantilising, anti-personal-responsibility take that usually follows. Even if it didn't, in your case.
by verdverm | 2025-07-10 22:19:55+00:00
> reputation for cp and other forms of abuse

That "reputation" is slander from haters and those who don't want others to have nice things

Another example is JD Vance, creating an account, making his first post to trans troll [1], and then crowing about how awful Bluesky was to him and how he got blocked. He's still posting as recently as July 4, but he's really just become mostly a social media troll, and Bluesky users generally block trolls instead of engaging them

[1] https://blebbit.app/at/did:plc:tkspefzlu72575kljanhe3uj/app.... (3rd of the 3 part post)
Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere
by benbridle | 2025-07-10 22:20:18+00:00
Hey everyone, this is my latest project.

Bedrock is a lightweight program runtime: programs assemble down to a few kilobytes of bytecode that can run on any computer, console, or handheld. The runtime is tiny, it can be implemented from scratch in a few hours, and the I/O devices for accessing the keyboard, screen, networking, etc. can be added on as needed.

I designed Bedrock to make it easier to maintain programs as a solo developer. It's deeply inspired by Uxn and PICO-8, but it makes significant departures from Uxn to provide more capabilities to programs and to be easier to implement.

Let me know if you try it out or have any questions.
by const_cast | 2025-07-10 22:20:41+00:00
Yes, and that's bad. "This isn't a problem because it's always been a problem" isn't a defense.

And, we must acknowledge the obvious: such authoritarian rules and requirements rely on benevolence. Meaning, if your leader and border agents are good people, then this isn't a problem.

Well... are they? I say no, so now this is a problem that didn't exist previously.
by jstummbillig | 2025-07-10 22:20:44+00:00
I mostly don't agree. Yes, there is always social pressure with these things, and we are in a hype cycle, but the people "buying in" are simply not doing much at all. They are mostly consumers, waiting for the next model, which they have no control over or stake in creating (by and large).

The people not buying into the hype, on the other hands, are actually the ones that have a very good reason to be invested, because if they turn out to be wrong they might face some very uncomfortable adjustments in the job landscape and a lot of the skills that they worked so hard to gain and believed to be valuable.

As always, be weary of any claims, but the tension here is very much the reverse of crypto and I don't think that's very appreciated.
by ddellacosta | 2025-07-10 22:21:15+00:00
> The second type definition is there only to make developers write it wrong.

Int32 is the type of the return value for the function (https://doc.flix.dev/functions.html), which is distinct information not implied by the type being passed in (Shape), so I dispute this characterization--the fact that this type is the same type as the parameter given to all of Shape's terms is specific to this example. Furthermore I suspect it would immediately be caught by the typechecker regardless.

While in a language like Haskell you could define this function without a type definition and its type would be inferred (vs. in Flix, see https://doc.flix.dev/functions.html?highlight=inference#func...), regardless I will almost always declare the type of top-level functions (or even non-top-level functions) for clarity when reading the code. I think this is useful and important information in any case.
by rshemet | 2025-07-10 22:21:32+00:00
Great question. Currently, each app is sandboxed - so each model file is downloaded inside each app's sandbox. We're working on enabling file sharing across multiple apps so you don't have to redownload the model.

With respect to the inference SDK, yes you'll need to install the (react native/flutter) framework inside each app you're building.

The SDK is very lightweight (our own iOS app is <30MB which includes the inference SDK and a ton of other stuff)
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-07-10 22:22:00+00:00
I have worked in the medical devices industry as a software engineer for about 20 years at this point. As you would expect, it's a very process-heavy field. I've generally worked with careful, competent people who want to do a good job and process goes a long way towards facilitating that.

Every time I think about process though, I remember an editorial I read a long time ago about an engineer's experience in the aviation industry. He wasn't too thrilled about process. Instead, in his own words, "we were motivated by a very sincere desire to not kill anyone.
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by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-10 22:23:07+00:00
> I don't know about your particular situation, but I'm speaking systemically, and about large trends and socio-economic realities that affect people.

You're minimizing and trivializing my situation and opinion as invalid.

> But having said that, I'd be very interested to hear what you think the consequences of the under-diagnosis were, realistically.

Well, being called "weird" and routinely dissed and dismissed as some sort of innate character flaw.

> As far as anti-science, I think people on the left and right of the political spectrum are anti-science, at least to the same degree that term is thrown around.

I'm not familiar with many or hardly anyone (except crazies) on the left being anti-science. What's your evidence for this?
by philipkglass | 2025-07-10 22:23:08+00:00
The metal content value of nickels surged past the face value in 2006, so the law was updated to prevent this very idea:

https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/20061214-united-s...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/04/16/E7-7088...

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-31/subtitle-B/chapter-I/p...

Pursuant to this authority, the Secretary of the Treasury has determined that, to protect the coinage of the United States, it is necessary to generally prohibit the exportation, melting, or treatment of 5-cent and one-cent coins minted and issued by the United States. The Secretary has made this determination because the values of the metal contents of 5-cent and one-cent coins are in excess of their respective face values, raising the likelihood that these coins will be the subject of recycling and speculation.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-07-10 22:23:45+00:00
It's not a legitimate function because the car will beep at you if you walk away.

Some aftermarket remote starts have this feature.

However, in many states it's illegal to leave a car running unattended.

Though one could argue in court the baby or dog could serve as the attendant. Having said that, leaving a baby or dog unattended, AC or not, is just stupid.
by guptadeepak | 2025-07-10 22:24:24+00:00
Traditional CVE and NVD sources remain fundamental, but gaps in coverage and delays in assignment leave organizations exposed, especially for vulnerabilities disclosed via GitHub advisories or commercial databases like VulnDB.

Two key takeaways: 1) Commercial and open-source channels (e.g., VulnDB, Exploit DB, GitHub Security Advisories, OSV) now surface many critical flaws missed by CVE; 2) Integration is non-trivial—teams must correlate data across disparate formats and identifiers, ideally via APIs and orchestration platforms. While automation helps, human expertise is essential for triage and risk assessment.

How are you solving issues that arise from using these fragmented sources at scale?
by const_cast | 2025-07-10 22:24:38+00:00
> Is living in fear of crime from unrestricted illegal immigration a better fate?

It's certainly a purely theoretical fate. I have zero reason to believe undocumented people are more dangerous than citizens. I mean, intuitively, they risk so much more - namely deportation and torture. If I followed a Republican philosophy of tough on crime, I would then say they must be committing less crime.

Do we have any reason to believe they're more dangerous? And I mean real reasons, like statistics. No Patrick, "they're vaguely brown" is not a real reason. No Patrick, "homogeneous population" isn't a real reason either.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-10 22:26:48+00:00
A couple months ago I was driving a rental and I coasted up on slow exit traffic with the intent of dodging right after the person to my right passed me. Well I got that far but I got close enough to the slowing traffic in front of me in the process it decided to brake. And of course because electronic throttle they lock you out of the gas. And it takes a couple seconds for it to decide that no, I really did want to go fast, so it lets me do that but of course the CVT needs to incrementally wind its way there at a leisurely pace.

So instead of cleanly pulling off my merge into a lane going 10mph faster than me I look like a goddamn moron for zipping over and then hard braking away 20mph of speed. All because some programmers buried in Toyota HQ somewhere spent too much time on the HN or Reddit or whatever circle jerking it in the comments with the "you can never go wrong by braking" crowd. Could have been way worse had it been a spicer situation, like merging into traffic with a disabled vehicle at the end of the merge ramp or just about any other case with equal or great speed differential and equal or lesser margin.

A car should do what I say. I can understand doing something when I have provided no input or perhaps ignore a 0-100% press to prevent wrong pedal accidents but this is just horrible systems design. If I'm traveling at speed and mash the gas it stands to reason I did that on purpose.
by ilyagr | 2025-07-10 22:26:49+00:00
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/wiki/Structural-Diffs is a nice list of alternatives.

Difftastic itself is great as well! The author wrote up nice posts about its design: https://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2022/09/06/difftastic-the-fan..., https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/diffing.html.
by loco5niner | 2025-07-10 22:27:55+00:00
Call it a battle, call it just saying no. Either way, it's a jerk blasting music in a place they shouldn't. Disturbing peace and quiet, and forcing parents deal with yet another thing when they just want to take their kids to the park.

My kids are 2,3, and 4. No works just fine for now, and we are laying the foundations for budgeting.
by thesuperbigfrog | 2025-07-10 22:29:26+00:00
I would like to move my email to a good email provider with actual customer service.

Free email providers get paid by selling your data or stuffing your inbox with advertising.

Many free email providers also have terrible or non-existent customer service because that would raise their costs.

If you are happy with your email provider, who is your email provider and what is it about their service that makes you happy?
by mrspuratic | 2025-07-10 22:30:50+00:00
Yes, but maybe not "tore" since they got reused elsewhere. Solar was (quietly) reinstated by GW, but not on the Whitehouse itself until Obama, I think. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_13562...

I don't get the two party system where there's such acrimony involved in trashing and undoing anything accomplished by the opposition .
by renewiltord | 2025-07-10 22:31:36+00:00
It’s because we are very good at getting smart people into high comp jobs so all these low remuneration jobs are pretty much idiots.

If they can avoid weed long enough to pass the drug tests, they’ll be playing Candy Crush on their phone when inspecting.

They just don’t have the mental horsepower. Like being upset a jellyfish didn’t discover calculus.

Patio11 calls this The Sort. I thought it was good name.
by zbentley | 2025-07-10 22:32:23+00:00
This is roughly the “transactional outbox” pattern—and an elegant use of it, since the only service invoked during the “publish” RPC is also the database, reducing distributed reliability concerns.

…of course, you need dedup/support for duplicate messages on the notify stream if you do this, but that’s table stakes in a lot of messaging scenarios anyway.
by dare944 | 2025-07-10 22:33:22+00:00
HomeKit was not the basis for Matter, although obviously some HomeKit concepts (and I suppose actual HomeKit code) were contributed by Apple. The dominant input technology to Matter was actually Nest Weave. This can been seen by comparing the code bases.

Weave was designed from the start (circa 2013) with local control in mind. However features based on local control were a tough sell inside Google after the acquisition (as one might imagine). Today, many of the pivotal people in the Matter effort are ex-Nesters, and they, along with their (equally passionate) Apple counterparts have been strong champions of local control.
by const_cast | 2025-07-10 22:34:01+00:00
> There is no one challenging Apple on hardware right now.

This isn't true IMO. Everyone is challenging them and has for a long time. Android phones have better hardware, by any arbitrary metric. Camera, screen, battery, processor - Apple doesn't have a moat here. Don't get me wrong, their stuff is good. But is it the best? Ehhh... it's close, for sure.

Same thing with Macs, just a bit more in Apple's favor. Is M series good? Yes. Is it the best? IMO, no. x86 still has an edge in many applications. Some newer processors, like Intel's Lunar Lake, challenge M in both power and power consumption. Is ARM the future? IMO no - ARM is just a vessel. Low-wattage SOCs with RAM baked on are the future for mobile devices. Intel can do that, and they did, and it competes. But with all the benefits of x86.

I mean, I'm driving 2 1440p 240hz monitors right now on Lunar Lake over thunderbolt. Not a single dropped frame, ever. And at less than 30 watts - that's for everything, it's an SOC. Apple users a bit deceived - once you jump onto the Apple ship, you stop looking at competitors. But the competitors are good. Like, really good these days.

Apple's moat is their software. They keep a tight, tight grip on it. iPhones are popular in the US because of iMessage, pretty much exclusively. If Android phones could send and receive iMessage and transfer everything over, then it's over for Apple. They know that which is why it would never happen willingly.

If Apple's moat was hardware, they would have no problem distributing their software like candy. But they don't.
by PotatoPancakes | 2025-07-10 22:34:32+00:00
> I'm reading a strong implication that the French are the true holders of the history

I interpreted this more as "don't forget to check out the French-language Wikipedia articles too, since they might have contents that are absent from the English-language Wikipedia articles." This would likely be the case for anything concerning Québécois or Acadien culture, or the early settlements by the French; but not likely for most things west of Ottawa (aside from some pockets like Grande Prairie, Alberta or Saint Boniface, Manitoba).

It seems everyone outside of Ontario feels some kind of alienation or other. The west, as you mentioned, but also the maritimes, and especially the Québécois.