MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zozbot234 | 2025-07-25 11:11:45+00:00
> ... it's understood that perhaps the language is vulnerable to certain errors and one should attempt to mitigate them. But more importantly, those errors are one class of bug and bugs can happen. Set up infra to detect and recover.

> in Rust the code must be safe, must be written in a certain way, must be proven correct to the largest extent possible at compile time.

Only for the Safe Rust subset. Rust has the 'unsafe' keyword that shows exactly where the former case does apply. (And even then, only for possible memory unsoundness. Rust does not attempt to fix all possible errors.)
by benreesman | 2025-07-25 11:12:06+00:00
There are orhanized ways to wind down a business unit or even a whole business and convert the salvagable assets into shareholder value, these range from corp dev / M&A activity all the way through bankrupcy and bondholder seniority.

And in the days when fraud or "fraud-adjacent" behavior carried serious costs? When violating the social contract around pensions and severance and stuff had real reputational costs that followed the principles around? People used them when necessary. You sold off the assets sometimes.

But beginning with the LBO "innovation" in the 80s and running a line through Milken and shit all the way to the Vanguard/State Street/Blackrock "quasi-sovereign" level of PE asset capture?

People started arbing it, not by seeing value where others had missed it! By betting that Gordon Gecko had enough fans to make the arb work. "Gutting" a company slowely and painfully is in a bucket I'll call "fraud adjacent": usually not outright illegal (lotta "gray" work, gray edge), clearly not what society wants or intended, and you know it's a scam when you look in the mirror every night. i used to get wasted with these guys at Catch when I lived in NYC: they'll tell you everytging I am and more on five gin and tonics

There's no place for the word "duty" in any version of that argument unless you also use the word "derelict".

Don't excuse weakness at the top.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-25 11:12:51+00:00
Which means that the US is continually producing far more potential food than we actually use. That constitutes a form of food security. What it gets used for instead - be that animal feed, chemical feedstock, fertilizer, etc - is largely irrelevant.

Are you certain there's no strategic reserve? If not there probably ought to be. Seems like a rather cheap form of insurance in the bigger picture.
by ben_w | 2025-07-25 11:14:17+00:00
Slippery slopes abound everywhere.

The fact that you'd be crushed at a depth of (IDK, 2km or so?) underwater doesn't make "swimming" unhealthy.

My concern with eugenics is that it's a thing which various groups of extremely narrow-minded bigots push for to promote mutually exclusive ideals, ideals which often have much the same level of biological awareness as an untrained idiot picking up a scuba kit and trying to walk from London to New York along the sea floor.

If we go slowly and carefully, if these treatments are optional and not mandatory, we might be able to build a better world without such self-righteous bigots. But this is definitely a case where we want to be slow, spreading this over multiple generations if we can, because we don't know the limits of our own ignorance.
by incomingpain | 2025-07-25 11:14:57+00:00
Nothing to do with individualism.

This has everything to do with government consequences.

When egalitarianism got women working; it meant they wouldnt be having kids.

When women have an income, they are able to 'escape' from relationships which reduces kids.

When you require kids to be in child seats; and your automotive regulations are shrinking cars for 'fuel efficiency' aka reducing the number of seats for kids to sit in.

All of these things then had state propaganda to push that these were good things for various reasons. It led to population collapse or worse, the pyramid schemes of retirement and socialized systems collapse.
by nabla9 | 2025-07-25 11:15:43+00:00
There are no numerous well documented cases. You link to one well documented case that was document I was referring to. It does not say what you said.

They were not able to duplicate the firing the way you think BRF was able to replicate firing in holster with keys in hand.

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From the document:

"The MSP motor officer had objects in his hands at the time of the event, including keys."

then

"BRF was successful in using keys, both flat and serrated profiles, to press the trigger while the M18 was holstered. The keys were approximately 1.7” and 1.0” respectively. The trigger could be fully pressed to the rear with sufficient pressure against the side of the trigger only, or by using the holster as a fulcrum. During this test it was observed that the keys caused an abrasion on the trigger guard near the area of the abrasion seen on the weapon when it arrived (Figure 13)."

There was abrasion from the keys in the gun, BRF was able to replicate firing in holster with keys in hand.

From the conclusion: "examination of the subject weapon did not independently provide evidence of an uncommanded discharge it does indicate that it may be possible if sear engagement is lost. The disabling of the striker safety lock through movement and friction creates a condition which merits further exploration to fully assess potential risk."*
by ndkap | 2025-07-25 11:16:09+00:00
What I am surprised about the most is why do these payment processors care about these moral issues this much? They are a profit-making entity and money is money -- the more money you process, the more profit you get. What is the downside for allowing NSFW content be bought using their processor? Are the boards/CEOs of these companies puritans? Aren't they handing more credibility to these alternatives like Bitcoin Lightning or Monero with actions like these?
by daneel_w | 2025-07-25 11:16:11+00:00
Of course it would continue to operate. The Chinese division of Arm went rogue and basically captured the entire operation from within. USA has both the engineering expertise and the incentive to do the same with an entire chip fab, if push came to shove.

https://semianalysis.com/2021/08/27/the-semiconductor-heist-...
by Quarrelsome | 2025-07-25 11:16:24+00:00
I appreciate that it has a lot of soft support, however concerned parents won't stop being concerned as a consequence. I struggle to see it as being a vote winner but its clear how its a vote loser to many. That the mainstream press have published many positive articles about it, just demonstrates the bias IMHO. Fleet street is become less and less of a proxy of public opinion over time but our political parties still treat the press like they did in the 90s, which I think can often be a mistake given how different the press is since the advent of the internet and how much more fragmented news now is, and how the electorate now receive it.

IMHO the argument for "doing something" is one of those things that people are noisy about but ultimately care little about at the ballot box. The risk is that the typically politically apathetic are driven to the ballot box as a consequence of disrupting their habit in order to protest. Most governments do very little that actually directly interfere with people and their habits, COVID was a very rare event and Boris Johnson fell in no small part due to circumventing the rules his own government imposed on the populace. There's huge electoral risk in giving so many people consequence.

Given the numbers at play, I just don't see how you can square the huge internet traffic for pron and the intrusion into their "workflows" against some presumed other number of electors that will suddenly vote for you because you allowed this bill to take effect. Irrespective of the ethics of the subject it just doesn't feel like good electoral statecraft in a democracy. This is particularly surprising given that most UK political parties generally veer away from doing things that might lose them any significant amount of votes.
by zozbot234 | 2025-07-25 11:16:38+00:00
You can't really guarantee that all out-of-bounds accesses will segfault, because memory protection mechanisms are not that granular. (And actual memory segmentation, that did have the required granularity, has fallen out of use - though CHERI is an attempt to revive it.) That's why a segfault is treated as something to be avoided altogether, not as a reliable error mechanism.

What you can say though (and the point I made upthread) is that if a language manages to provably never segfault, then it must have some sort of true language-enforced safety because the difference between segfaulting or not is really just a matter of granularity.
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-25 11:16:42+00:00
Kiro’s main advantage is Amazon is paying for my LLM usage instead of me.

For the most part it’s unlimited right now. Vs Code’s Copilot Agent mode is basically the same thing , tell it to write a list of tasks , but I have to pay for it.

I’m much happier with both of these options, both are much cheaper than Claude Code.

IMO the real race is to get LLM cost down. Someone smarter than me is going to figure out how to run a top LLM model for next to nothing.

This person will be a billionaire. Nvidia and AMD are probably already working on it. I want Deepseek running on a 100$ computer that uses a nominal amount of power.
by bawolff | 2025-07-25 11:17:00+00:00
No. (If you mean the from header)

SPF (without dmarc) validates the envelope from, not the from header.

When DMARC is present, it changes this to be the normal from header (dmarc requires one of either spf or dkim to match the from header. So if dkim matches then spf doesn't have to)
by sgjohnson | 2025-07-25 11:17:19+00:00
That article is nonsense, even if it's up to the implementation, not ISA.

Apple's M4 Max owns AMDs top consumer CPU (Ryzen 9 9900X3D) in both, single and multi-core workloads, while consuming a fraction of power that the AMD chip does.

The year-on-year performance improvements on Apple's ARM chips are just insane. If it really was so simple, then why haven't Intel and AMD pulled their heads out of their asses in the last 5 years and re-designed their cores from the ground up?
by iLoveOncall | 2025-07-25 11:17:24+00:00
The article is literally about removing the extra chromosome and not aborting the fetuses...

But yes, I do actually think there is a moral imperative to abort fetuses with diseases that will extremely negatively impact the life of the person and of the people who will have to care for them.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't care for them if they happen to be born, not at all, but I don't really understand how it can be controversial otherwise.
by hshshshshsh | 2025-07-25 11:17:33+00:00
This is actually true. Plenty of accidents has happened because of this.

I am not saying trusting your memory is always false or true. Most of the times it might be true. It's a heuristic.

But if someone comes and deny what you did, the best course of action would be to consider the evidence they have and not assume they are stupid because they believe differently.

Let's be honest, you have not personally went and verified the rocks belongs to Moon. Nor were you tracking the telemetry data in your computer when the rocket was going to Moon.

I also believe we went to Moon.

But all I have is beliefs.

Everyone believed Early was flat 1000s years back as well. They had solid evidence.

But the humility is accepting you don't know and you are believing and not pretend you are above others who believe exact opposite..
by chongli | 2025-07-25 11:18:02+00:00
That story is trying to paint this as a revival of Christianity but looking at the Pew report and the data paints a different picture.

Conservative Muslim countries show a pattern of overwhelming male dominance in religious service attendance. At the same time, over half of the Muslims in the US are recent immigrants [1]. This raises the question to me: is the resurgence in religious service attendance among men driven primarily by a broad return to the Christian church? Or is it largely an effect of the growing Muslim population in western countries?

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2018/04/14/muslims-in-a...
by jmogly | 2025-07-25 11:18:07+00:00
The words-to-thoughts ratio is way too high, it reads like a elementary school book report, it’s way too long for how dry it is, I could go on but these are just some of my initial thoughts while reading the article. Also, knowing it is mostly written with AI, how do I know if details are real or made up? There’s a reason you are reading my comment: it expressed thoughts or an image that you found captivating. Being able to write well is a privileged skill that improves your communication, ability to express ideas, your humor; the things that make you an interesting person. You should not be outsourcing your voice to AI. Also Spielberg wasn’t writing an article - he was directing a movie.
by mtrovo | 2025-07-25 11:19:32+00:00
The idea is nice but pricing for it might be so hard to land. You're proposal is that I have to pay $20/mo for a Cursor licence which includes an IDE, coding agent and all the shenanigans involved to make it work and then on top of that I have to spare an additional $15/mo to have access to up-to-date documentation. That might be hard selling them side by side.

At some point we will need an aggregator of MCPs to be delivered with the agents, the perceived cost of shopping for them individually is not worth the cost from the consumer perspective.
by cyanydeez | 2025-07-25 11:21:24+00:00
That real world activity is my underlying belief, but we shouldnt ignore that the free money era ended quickly and for these execs do continue to earn their ungainly bonuses, they have to cut costs. Modern texhnology/capitalism allows them to make the same choices without directing collusion.

Best example is the rental market and the landlords all using the same price setting "algorithm"
by mistercow | 2025-07-25 11:21:37+00:00
Actually, no, we don’t know what they mean. This is the foundation of the great motte and bailey that so much nutrition nonsense is based on. People say “chemicals”, and then they can gesture at a food label with a few obscure sounding ingredients and say “ooh, look how scary”. But for the vast majority of these “chemicals”, there is absolutely no reason to think that consuming them is a problem.

Anyway, since “we all know”, why don’t you go check out the ingredients for beyond burgers, and report back which “chemicals” you think are so disastrous.
by Tainnor | 2025-07-25 11:22:02+00:00
> Functional languages can do this too, of course, using some combination of abstract types, the module system, and factory functions as convention

In Haskell:

1. Create a module with some datatype

2. Don't export the datatype's constructors

3. Export factory functions that guarantee invariants

How is that more complicated than creating a class and adding a custom constructor? Especially if you have multiple datatypes in the same module (which in e.g. Java would force you to add multiple files, and if there's any shared logic, well, that will have to go into another extra file - thankfully some more modern OOP languages are more pragmatic here).

(Most) OOP languages treat a module (an importable, namespaced subunit of a program) and a type as the same thing, but why is this necessary? Languages like Haskell break this correspondence.

Now, what I'm missing from Haskell-type languages is parameterised modules. In OOP, we can instantiate classes with dependencies (via dependency injection) and then call methods on that instance without passing all the dependencies around, which is very practical. In Haskell, you can simulate that with currying, I guess, but it's just not as nice.
by myrmidon | 2025-07-25 11:22:13+00:00
I don't think that is crazy at all, our whole system incentivizes corporate behavior exactly like this.

From your tone I assume that you would expect Sig to come forward, analyze, discuss and hopefully solve these problems as soon as possible.

But that would be utterly stupid from their point of view. Public opinion cares very little about the details-- anytime you get associated with issues like this is simply bad for your brand/stockpric: downplaying, denying and gaslighting is absolutely the way to go here for the company.

IMO to fix this you would need to strongly increase personal liability specifically for misinformation and delays in cases like this, and we would need to reward good behavior (proactive fixes, honest communication).

But just look at the whole tetraethyl lead debacle: This cost at least a million years of human lifes (!!), after the lead industry denied known problems and purposefully obstructed/discredited critical researchers (e.g. R. Buyers and H. Needleman) for decades. I strongly believe that a number of decisionmakers should have ended up with a dead penalty or lifelone imprisonment, but there were ZERO consequences for anyone involved, and current rethoric around "deregulation" makes it obvious to me that zero lessons were learned.
by onehair | 2025-07-25 11:22:21+00:00
I came here to say the opposite.

Is this the screenshot you're mentioning? https://easydmarc.com/blog/wp-content/webp-express/webp-imag...

If I received an email from google with text formatted like this. I would automatically have doubts it's anythig genuine.

While Gmail isn't anything to boast about UI wise. Google often have good enough an consistent UI patterns where this screenshot looks like there was no thought put into it past slapping a google logo on top.
by raresAIQ | 2025-07-25 11:22:32+00:00
I've always found it incredibly tedious and risky to manually track deadlines from contracts, legal notices, or project plans. It's easy to miss a critical date buried in a 50-page PDF.

To solve this, I built DeadliQ. It's a simple SaaS platform where you can upload any document (including a photo taken with your phone), and it uses the Google Cloud Vision API to automatically find, extract, and track all the deadlines for you. The goal is to eliminate manual data entry and the stress that comes with it.

The backend is built with Node.js/Express and the frontend with React. For the core OCR functionality, I'm leveraging Google Cloud Vision, and then parsing the text to identify date patterns.

I'm looking for feedback on the core feature and the overall user experience. Is this a problem you've faced? What other features would make it indispensable for you?

Thanks for checking it out!
by pydry | 2025-07-25 11:22:39+00:00
It wasnt the oil or gas. Europe was perfectly capable of substituting both.

They got away with it because they built up their industrial base while the west let its industrial base wither. It's only starting to dawn on our leaders (3+ years in) now that dropping the ball on stuff like steel, mortar and missile production actually loses wars and that it takes years to undo those mistakes.

The west's Achilles heel was always profit driven capitalism + a superiority complex. All China had to do was to systematically undercut the west on industrial inputs while its superiority complex held firm and the west took care of hollowing out its own economic and military potential.

Even today when the US produces ~50/year patriots for the entire west and Ukraine needs ~400-500/year to stay afloat some people are still telling fairy tales about how a lack of "will" was the only thing standing between putin and domination. The superiority complex hasnt even died yet.
by bernoufakis | 2025-07-25 11:22:56+00:00
> But he didn't. It's clear in his later videos that he was still using Graphene OS, I believe even for months after the video.

Emphasis on "seemed to have stopped using it as his main device". For all we know, he kept it as secondary device (its just that good) after removing anything he deemed critical. Again, he never said "don't use GOS", or "GOS is not secure". He said he was did not feel safe enough because of the hostility from the lead dev.

> People who are familiar with how GrapheneOS updates work wouldn't agree. No identifiers are sent to the update server, so targeted updates aren't possible that way. Also, update servers only host static files. If Rossmann was really that worried, all he'd have to do is use a VPN. But that was all just a huge dramatic act so his video would get more views, and possibly to entertain his fellow Kiwi Farms members.

Does it matter ? Rossmann is a layman when it comes to software. What he perceives is that "lead GOS dev is hostile against me and has essentially full control over the project". First, he is under no obligation to spend hours learning how GOS updates work and audit the code every release, whether or not some identifier is being tracked or not (and by the way, you can still get identified and tracked even if you use a VPN). The damage was done once that lead GOS dev persist in toxic behavior, for the lack of a better word.

> But that was all just a huge dramatic act so his video would get more views, and possibly to entertain his fellow Kiwi Farms members.

Unsubstantiated claims. We cannot read his mind, and I have yet to see any evidence that would support these.
by cornholio | 2025-07-25 11:23:00+00:00
Now you are just confusing consumer protection with having a secure online payment system, which credit cards are not and never will be. The entire "transaction approval" shtick is just a bandaid for passing a static password around in clear text, your credit card info.

Consumer protection deals with chargebacks after the payment was made and the products/services are not delivered to required standards. This gives enormous power to credit card companies against merchants and enables obscene rent extraction against consumers who don't require it, yet still pay 2-4% more on everything they buy, even with other payment methods.
by audinobs | 2025-07-25 11:23:20+00:00
I have lifted for 30+ years and something very un-intuitive with powerlifting is the optimal weight class for a height is extremely high.

If you are 5'10" you are pound for pound stronger at 240 than at 198. 198 will be dominated by someone who is shorter otherwise.

You are also much stronger the more you weigh, period. Strongman are eating so much to keep their weight up, not because they are burning so many calories while working out.

Even the most intense prowler workout that will make an untrained person puke their guts out is easy to out eat.

It is easiest to see with a contest bodybuilding diet. Even a 250lb bodybuilder who is doing a ton of working out is basically eating nothing. The body is incredibly efficient at holding on to weight. If it wasn't, humans would have starved to death a long time ago.
by ndkap | 2025-07-25 11:24:05+00:00
Agreed. When people say that we need to privatize something because the government is not doing its job effectively, I always think that the government is not doing its job effectively because of the lack of competition. If you just replace the governmental entity with a private entity, then you would end up with more problems than before. The better way to approach this would be to create a governmental entity that competes with the private sector. Each can keep the other in check with competition. For example, in the case of tax prep in the US, the government can set up a competing entity that makes the tax prep software and keep turbo tax in check.