MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-07-14 18:41:40+00:00
So I'm in general agreement, especially as things stand. But there is one hell of a counterargument that says if the US govt had an authoritative database of all citizens+residents, and effectively enforced that database, then there wouldn't be so much energy based around demands to remove "the illegals" in the first place.

Once again I do generally agree with the desire to limit the abilities of the government, especially pragmatically in the context of the current situation. And politically I'd say that the general topic is being used in bad faith to drive support for fascism rather than earnest policy fixes (eg killing bipartisan immigration bill, in favor of this).

But in general there is an American blindspot of fallaciously seeing system layers as something like a gradient of less-to-more control rather than a yin-yang where diminished control in one area makes it pop up in another.
by shekharupadhaya | 2025-07-14 18:42:45+00:00
Yes exactly! That’s pretty much how I see it too. As of now, it’s not going to give you a perfect map every time, but if you’re researching a trip or trying to quickly plot places from an article (either pasted snippet or from web search agent), it does save a ton of manual hunting. I’m hoping the refine + reorder features make it even easier to dial it in. Thanks for sharing how you’d use it.
by packetlost | 2025-07-14 18:43:30+00:00
I dunno, a sane nginx config is like 30 lines max for a basic service. You can mange it entirely with git (`git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead`) and some post-receive / push-to-checkout hooks.

Keep in mind, for K8s to work you also need to containerize your application, even if it's just static files (or I guess you can break containment and do volume mounts, or some sort of static file resource if you're serving static content). For non-static applications, you still need to configure and run it, which is just harder with k8s/docker in the mix.
by gameman144 | 2025-07-14 18:43:31+00:00
> Does a jury of peers also scare the heck out of you?

Honestly, yes. In the case of criminal culpability, it just happens to be the least scary of the available options of who gets to send someone to jail.

For lawmaking, this isn't the case: the work for lawmakers is much more detailed and gameable than a binary question of guilt.
by pragma_x | 2025-07-14 18:43:38+00:00
Not just new code-bases. I recently used an LLM to accelerate my learning of Rust.

Coming from other programming languages, I had a lot of questions that would be tough to nail down in a Google search, or combing through docs and/or tutorials. In retrospect, it's super fast at finding answers to things that _don't exist_ explicitly, or are implied through the lack of documentation, or exist at the intersection of wildly different resources:

- Can I get compile-time type information of Enum values?

- Can I specialize a generic function/type based on Enum values?

- How can I use macros to reflect on struct fields?

- Can I use an enum without its enclosing namespace, as I can in C++?

- Does rust have a 'with' clause?

- How do I avoid declaring timelines on my types?

- What is an idiomatic way to implement the Strategy pattern?

- What is an idiomatic way to return a closure from a function?

...and so on. This "conversation" happened here and there over the period of two weeks. Not only was ChatGPT up to the task, but it was able to suggest what technologies would get me close to the mark if Rust wasn't built to do what I had in mind. I'm now much more comfortable and competent in the language, but miles ahead of where I would have been without it.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-14 18:43:38+00:00
California's SB 34.

The article in question even links to it. https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_201520160sb...

California's AG:

https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/2023-dle-06.pdf

> Importantly, the definition of “public agency” is limited to state or local agencies, including law enforcement agencies, and does not include out-of-state or federal law enforcement agencies. (See Civ. Information Bulletin 2023-DLE-06 Code, § 1798.90.5, subd. (f).) Accordingly, SB 34 does not permit California LEAs to share ALPR information with private entities or out-of-state or federal agencies, including out-of-state and federal law enforcement agencies. This prohibition applies to ALPR database(s) that LEAs access through private or public vendors who maintain ALPR information collected from multiple databases and/or public agencies.
by xnx | 2025-07-14 18:43:56+00:00
> How does this transaction make sense?

The fact that it doesn't make sense with those numbers almost surely indicates those numbers are misleading.

> Google paid a $2.4 billion licensing fee

This is the reported number for licensing and compensation, but who knows what the terms really were.

> Cognition’s valuation is $4 billion

Doubtful
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-07-14 18:43:59+00:00
Data brokers listen to everything, track your movements, buying habits, internet history, apps, app usage, buying habits, etc.

Terms of service are meaningless if they keep the extent as secret as possible. Facebook has demonstrably shown this and as shocking as it is they are restrained compared to lots of companies.

Especially when you can out source the full evil to a wholly owned subsidiary for plausible deniability.

And if private corpse know something, many foreign governments know all of it.
by almatabata | 2025-07-14 18:44:09+00:00
I did not say to trust it. I do not need to trust it.

If I run my own tests on my own codebase I will definitely use some objective time measurement method and a subjective one. I really want to know if there is a big difference.

I really wonder if its just the individuals bias showing. If you are pro-AI you might overestimate one, and if you are against it you might under-estimate it.
by sergiotapia | 2025-07-14 18:44:10+00:00
I totally missed the puck with this one. There was a time where Cursor did not have the agent feel of a true AI pair-programming buddy. Windsurf had that magical aspect, and I totally thought they would destroy Cursor. But it took Cursor about 2 weeks by my recollection to add agent mode, and ultimately I went back to Cursor because of their better WSL2 integration.

For those brief 2 weeks, Windsurf felt like the SOTA tool. Crazy how the winds change.
by toast0 | 2025-07-14 18:44:19+00:00
That's not generally true. In my current house, I own the land to the middle of the street. There is no sidewalk. The city has an implied easement (I've not found any documentation of it at least) covering the street and any drainage features abutting the street, although there are none on my side of the street. I can't place a sculpture on the road and expect it to remain, although there have been concrete blocks placed to obstruct parking since before I purchased the property, and they haven't been removed, so I could probably put some art there if I really wanted. Some of the lots around me do not extend into the street, and some do. As mentioned, sidewalks are not universal, and certainly not around here ... in town sidewalks are common, but lot boundaries are not consistent --- many lot lines on sidewalked streets don't extend into the sidewalk, but some extend into the sidewalk and the street surface. Regardless, art left on the sidewalk is likely to be removed, as it impairs access and the municipality has rights to maintain access to sidewalk regardless of ownership.

At my last house, I believe my lot went to the curb, although we never had it surveyed, and I didn't measure the width of the street. That wasn't in a city, but it did have a sidewalk; the county established standards for the sidewalk, but as the landowner, I was responsible for maintenance of it. The land between the sidewalk and the street was in my undisputed control, although looking at the county assessor interactive map, the lot line may fall a few feet on the house side of the sidewalk; the plat map shows a 50 foot gap in lots for the street and google maps measurement shows the street is much less than 50 feet.
by gbcbooks | 2025-07-14 18:44:19+00:00
In 2013, my weight was around 48kg, and I increased it to 55kg through fitness and dietary control. In 2016, my body shape reached its peak at 60kg, with a body fat percentage of 12%. In 2022, my weight was 63kg, but my body fat percentage was around 22%. I still managed to regain a weight of around 57kg and a body fat percentage of 18% through fitness and dietary control. I just want to emphasize that controlling diet is very important for shaping the body, and the method of controlling diet is to calculate the calories of food. Only then will you realize what foods you should consume. For example, when you are thirsty but don't want to drink pure water, you want to drink a beverage with a taste like coffee or tea. If you understand the calorie percentage of these foods, you can know that if you choose coffee, it's best to drink an Americano, and if you prefer tea, you can drink almost all types of tea. Even tea is considered beneficial for weight loss. Find tea here,https://teayucafe.com/ The reason why many people fail to achieve their weight change goals by calculating calories is that they cannot persist. Remember, this is a long process.
by brudgers | 2025-07-14 18:44:21+00:00
Sure, but how easy will it be to run those drives in 10 years? Mechanical issues, driver issues, etc.

And already you have to be really committed to backing up to go down that rabbit hole. LTO is lots of different standards that evolved over many years.

Just for clarity, I am not suggesting that the holographic tape in TFA is better.
by didibus | 2025-07-14 18:44:29+00:00
The obsession with meritocracy needs to be toned down a bit. In my opinion, the very idea of merit is fuzzy and lives right beside corruption and bias.

Merit is measured in imperfect ways, by other people, and fundamentally, we don't want a hierarchy of classes, even if we claim the higher rankings/elites have merited it.

Human dignity isn't contingent on outperforming others, and everyone would likely rather live somewhere that doesn't feel like constant competition is needed to enjoy leisure, food, shelter, pastimes, etc.

When it comes to who we should trust for critical work, taking decisions on our behalf, etc., we do want someone qualified. I find the idea of "qualification/qualified" much nicer than "merit". The latter seems to imply a deserved outsized reward, like it justifies not why you are given the responsibility of something important, but why you are allowed to be richer, higher ranking, etc., than others.
by nico | 2025-07-14 18:44:59+00:00
Some additional notes given the comments in the thread

* I wasn’t trying to be dismissive of the article or the study, just wanted to present a different context in which AI tools do help a lot

* It’s not just code. It also helps with a lot of tasks. For example, Claude Code figured out how to “manually” connect to the AWS cluster that hosted the source db, tested different commands via docker inside the project containers and overall helped immensely with discovery of the overall structure and infrastructure of the project

* My professional experience as a developer, has been that 80-90% of the time, results trump code quality. That’s just the projects and companies I’ve been personally involved with. Mostly saas products in which business goals are usually considered more important than the specifics of the tech stack used. This doesn’t mean that 80-90% of code is garbage, it just means that most of the time readability, maintainability and shipping are more important than DRY, clever solutions or optimizations

* I don’t know how helpful AI is or could be for things that require super clever algorithms or special data structures, or where code quality is incredibly important

* Having said that, the AI tools I’ve used can write pretty good quality code, as long as they are provided with good examples and references, and the developer is on top of properly managing the context

* Additionally, these tools are improving almost on a weekly or monthly basis. My experience with them has drastically changed even in the last 3 months

At the end of the day, AI is not magic, it’s a tool, and I as the developer, am still accountable for the code and results I’m expected to deliver
by jtrn | 2025-07-14 18:45:01+00:00
I answered it a couple of places in this thread already, but the short answer is yes, and GLP1 is not usually a good way to core ADHD treatment.

However, if you tried stimulants without success, this would be my descending list of things that need to be sorted out:

- Have you tried multiple types of medication? A lot of people give up after 1 or 2 different types. But I have seen MANY people who get completely new lives, but only after the 5th type they tried that matched their biology. - Do a diagnostic re-evaluation to make sure that one is not misdiagnosing ADHD (the most common confusion is anxiety and personality). - Map out the life situation. Circumstances might be a stronger explanation of the situation than internal psychological vulnerabilities. - Make sure that you get a blood-mirror (Norwegian concept) so you know you have proper absorption/amount in blood.
by aaronvg | 2025-07-14 18:45:42+00:00
super interesting to see how this is marketed:

- Created by an AWS team but aws logo is barely visible at the bottom.

- Actually cute logo and branding.

- Focuses on the lead devs front and center (which HN loves). Makes it seem less like a corporation and more like 2 devs working on their project / or an actual startup.

- The comment tone of "hey ive been working on this for a year" also makes it seem as if there weren't 10 6-pagers written to make it happen (maybe there weren't?).

- flashy landing page

Props to the team. Wish there were more projects like this to branch out of AWS. E.g. Lightsail should've been launched like this.
by jamie_ca | 2025-07-14 18:46:09+00:00
Alberta has been struggling with this lately, the province on the whole keeps voting in 90% or more Conservative MPs, but Canada on the whole puts the Liberal party in charge. And so Albertans get frustrated that they don't feel like they've got any voice in things.

Little do they realize that a more proportional system that would have them elect reps from the "bad" party in order to get them reps in the ruling party to advocate internally for Alberta does have benefits...
by gleenn | 2025-07-14 18:46:32+00:00
Sounds like if you have a record of a lot of location/timestamp data for people, you look at the distance difference divided by the time difference. Now you have average speed for any pair of points. Now filter where the average speed is as fast as a Boeing jet. That filters out most of the data except for people who are almost certainly on a plane. Et voila, you now look at those data points geolocation and you have people who traveled from one city to another because you already have the location. Compare City1 -> City2 with any public flights in those cities around those times and you know who flew on what flight from where to where and at what time.
by saltcured | 2025-07-14 18:46:50+00:00
You can't imagine that air conditioning power draw varies with the heat load that it is working against? As a heat-pump, it takes more energy to move more energy.

In the old days, they used duty cycle to adapt to the changing load. Modern ones do things like varying compressor displacement or compressor speed to adapt to the load. Variable frequency inverters are used to efficiently drive electric compressors.

The variable displacement trick is used in ones mechanically linked to internal combustion engines. It can vary the compression stroke to account for different load as well as different engine speed.
by _jab | 2025-07-14 18:46:51+00:00
Let this be a learning lesson in judging these deals based on partial information. Kudos to the Google, Windsurf, and Cognition teams for keeping all of these deals under wraps until announcement (OpenAI could learn something...), but even so it's likely that we the public will never learn every detail of what transpired. I've seen a lot of harsh, misguided takes over the past few days, like that the Windsurf founders screwed over their employees, or that OpenAI reneged on the deal. In this case, this seems like a happy ending for all parties involved: congrats to the Windsurf team!
by meragrin_ | 2025-07-14 18:46:57+00:00
Or maybe you are just blind to the realities of normal people. Most people are not hell-bent on burning fossil fuels. There are numerous valid reasons for people to continue to choose ICE. I want an EV. I want to dump every piece of outdoor equipment with an ICE for something with an electric motor. I very much prefer the pieces I have switched to electric. I've been wanting to make the switch for years. It just does not make sense for me at this time.
by qwertylicious | 2025-07-14 18:47:15+00:00
> Conservative ideology views government research as inefficient compared to private sector research, something I generally agree with.

I'd agree that's generally true when a profit motive is identifiable.

Absent that, if left to the private sector, the research simply doesn't get done at all.

> The evidence for this in regards to space is very clear IMO

You have an incredibly narrow view of what space "research" involves. It's not just about putting payloads in LEO. Were it up to the private sector, the HST wouldn't exist at all.

Whether that's good or bad is a philosophical discussion, but personally, I believe science should be about more than just what is profitable.

(and that's ignoring that, as others have pointed out, SpaceX stands on the shoulders of government-funded giants)

The reality is there's room for both government-funded and private research, and to imply otherwise... well, let's just say we're living in a time of extremely narrow, black-and-white, polarized thinking, and this is an excellent example.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-14 18:47:23+00:00
>You don't get to argue about the law of another culture from first principles.

Oh you absolutely do. You might not have the authority to change them, but anyone is welcome to criticize the intent or impact of any law in any country at any time.

Besides, Americans have decided that it's legal for Americans to argue about German laws, so you actually don't get to criticize it when they do.
by IIsi50MHz | 2025-07-14 18:47:38+00:00
As a longtime user of ancient Macs, I find the modern iMac's longpress-powerbutton frustrating. It usually takes me multiple tries to figure out if I pressed it long enough, or too long, or not enough. When I have pressed it just right, the iMac still doesn't respond immediately in a visible or audible way: there's just enough delay for me to start fiddling with the power button again.

Compare to the momentary buttons on ye olde Macs that existed on both the case and the keyboard, which gave immediate feedback. The one on the case also had a longpress action, but only as an override.

"Nope, didn't want this on right now. Bumped it by accident. Long-press!" is easier for me to get behind.
by blindriver | 2025-07-14 18:47:40+00:00
Around 2014 I worked with recruiters and they had a tool that aggregated data on everyone through LinkedIn, yelp, twitter, GitHub, eventbrite, etc. it was breathtaking the amount of information you could get on anyone, over 10+ years ago.

I’m guessing with the help of Palantir, the government has even more data and can probably link Reddit posts etc based on styleometry and can even perform psychological analysis on your personality and tendencies, etc.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-14 18:47:53+00:00
> There's no law prohibiting local agencies helping feds.

The law prohibiting exactly that is linked in the article.

"Under a decade-old state law, California police are prohibited from sharing data from automated license plate readers with out-of-state and federal agencies. Attorney General Rob Bonta affirmed that fact in a 2023 notice to police."
by tombennet | 2025-07-14 18:48:13+00:00
Exactly what oakwhiz said. Similarly, if you set all 256 bits of the entropy portion to 1 (i.e. you play minesweeper with my grid) then the resulting valid mnemonic is zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo vote. The last word contains the checksum, which is the hash of the string of 1s.
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-14 18:48:38+00:00
I love all of this experimentation in how to effectively use AIs to co-create output with human steering. This pattern, of the human human focusing on the high-level and the AI focusing on the low level feels like a big win.

In some sense, we are starting with a very high-level and gradually refining the idea to a lower and lower levels of detail. It is structured hierarchical thinking. Right now we are at 3 levels: requirement -> spec -> code. Exposing each of these layers as structured text documents (mostly Markdown right now it seems) is powerful since each level can be independently reviewed. You can review the spec before the code is written, then review the code before it gets checked in.

My intuition is that this pattern will be highly effective for coding. And if we prove that out at scale, we should start asking: how does this pattern translate to other activities? How will this affect law, medicine, insurance, etc. Software is the tip of the iceberg and if this works then there are many possible avenues to expand this approach, and many potential startups to serve a growing market.

The key will be managing all of the documents, the levels of abstraction and the review processes. This is a totally tractable problem.
by exmadscientist | 2025-07-14 18:48:54+00:00
Option A is to build a closed-loop system, that runs a million gallons of water per day through chillers and recirculates it. You need to find chillers that can handle that load continuously and enough power to run them.

Option B is an open-loop system where you run a million gallons of water through exchangers, heat it up, then dump the hot water and find a way to get a new million gallons of water from the local municipality.

Option B is cheaper, so they do that. Higher water prices would change that equation, but that's not what we have now, and it's hard to pitch an Option A project if anyone else is willing to offer rates that make Option B work. The Prisoner's Dilemma strikes again.
by didibus | 2025-07-14 18:49:01+00:00
I feel what you say is true only for auto-complete, which is no longer the ideal workflow for agentic coding. Otherwise the IDE doesn't know what it should include or not in the context, and you need an AI model to determine that.

What people do to avoid what you discussed, is multi-agents. The main agent can build up context, plan, than delegate execution to other agents, etc.

In my opinion, the benefit of the IDE is really just in the possibility of an improved UI/UX over a TUI.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 18:49:22+00:00
> Does Kiro have some special sauce for making this approach work better?

I'd like to think so, but you'd have to compare the results to what you are currently doing to see how you feel about it. I personally love the format that it uses to define requirements, and the details of the software design docs that it writes (including mermaid diagrams)

> will pricing essentially be bedrock pricing, or will there be a value-add margin tacked on?

The pricing is a flat rate, with a cap on number of interactions per month. Each human driven "push" for Kiro to do something is an interaction toward your limit, but Kiro may work autonomously for many turns based on an interaction, and will produce significant amounts of code from a single interaction.

More details here: https://kiro.dev/pricing/