MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-14 17:35:54+00:00
It was never about the recidivist bastards and always about the normal guy with a job he doesn't want to lose not losing that job when he can't come up with bail for a DUI. At least where I was it was considered kind of a given the recidivist bastards would get out on bail and that the bondsman getting paid really doesn't affect outcomes.
by secondrow | 2025-07-14 17:36:06+00:00
Xorq is a Python lib https://github.com/xorq-labs/xorq that provides a declarative syntax for defining portable, composite compute stacks for different AI/ML use cases.

In this example, Xorq is used to compose an open source FeatureHouse that runs on DuckLake and interfaces via Apache Arrow Flight.

The post explains how: - The FeatureHouse is composed with Xorq - Feature leakage is avoided - The FeatureHouse can be ported to any underlying query engine (e.g., Iceberg) - Observability and lineage are handled - Feast can be integrated with it
by singron | 2025-07-14 17:36:26+00:00
I don't think there is a 10th amendment violation or a question of federal authority. States can't be compelled to perform federal law enforcement because of the 10th amendment. States are accordingly allowed to prevent their own law enforcement from performing federal law enforcement. If state law enforcement aids the feds anyway, then they are just breaking state law.

A 10th amendment violation would be if the feds require the state to perform federal law enforcement.

Federal authority is relevant if they e.g. raided state law enforcement offices to take the data without consent, but in this case they are just given the data by state officers.
by scubbo | 2025-07-14 17:36:57+00:00
It's a classic "annoyingly-misleading wise-sounding statement", because there's an interpretation - which I think is the intended one - which _is_ correct; "every day [that you do it] it gets easier [than it would have been, ceteris paribus, if you hadn't done it that day]". So, on that down day where you get what feels like a bad result, you still got a better result ("it was easier") than if you _hadn't_ have trained the day before. Your environmental factors were pulling you down, but your accumulated training counteracted that. Your bad days are better than they would otherwise have been.

But that's not as snappy for a cartoon monkey to say.
by marcusverus | 2025-07-14 17:37:34+00:00
With a little back-of-the-envelope math, this would mean that congress would contain:

> 9 members with IQs under 70 (i.e. mentally handicapped) > 52 members with IQs under 85 > 217 members at or under an IQ of 100 > 370 members with an IQ below the (presumptive) current congressional average of ~115

Congress is terrible, but it's hard to imagine it could be improved by making it less intelligent.

If you could incorporate the OP's point about limited eligibility and "directly select candidates at random for positions from an eligibility pool", then a "random" process would likely be superior to elections.
by danaris | 2025-07-14 17:37:40+00:00
I would say that observing them at an instant in time can't actually tell you which category they fall into. You can only tell if you are able to observe them over a longer period and see if they change further.

I say this specifically because the one truly effective intervention we know of that can destroy bigotry is getting to know someone of the group they are bigoted against. My layman's guess as to what makes the difference between someone who just labels the black/queer/etc person they know as "one of the good ones" and someone who actually starts to change is whether a) the former are personal friends with the latter, and b) the latter is willing & able to speak up and say "just making an exception for me is kinda shitty, other people like me aren't bad either, and if you keep talking about them like that I won't be able to stay your friend".
by sodapopcan | 2025-07-14 17:37:41+00:00
I'm not super qualified to answer as I haven't gone deep into AI at all. But from my limited observations I'd say yes and no. You generally aren't copy/pasting entire features, just snippets that you yourself have to string together in a sensible way. Of course there are lots of people who still do this and what's why I find most people in this industry infuriating to work with. It's all good when it's boilerplate, and that's actually my primary use of "AI"—it's essentially been a snippets replacement (and is quite good at that).
by amukbils | 2025-07-14 17:37:48+00:00
This is really novel. I like it. I've never gone this far. I just lump everything together. I've used tear-able notebooks before for the reason of moving them around but never stopped to consciously think about it the way you did.

I noticed you didn't say anything about digital writing, about half of my writings are in digital format. I do try to write the full idea that comes to mind before ending my writing session.
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 17:38:27+00:00
One catch with any such system is that it effectively gives more power to people who are more motivated to actively participate in the process, which correlates with having stronger and more extreme political opinions. One could argue that it is only fair - everyone has the power to participate, after all, and if some people choose not to, they can't complain about the end result. But even so, an endless bitter fight between political extremes is unlikely to result in good governance (and I'm saying this as someone with fairly extreme political positions).
by TremendousJudge | 2025-07-14 17:38:29+00:00
Actually, "right wing government gets elected and gets a huge omnibus bill passed that the parliament didn't even read" has been a worldwide trend for some years now. Closest example that comes to mind is probably Argentina, which managed to pass its own controversial right-wing omnibus bill in June last year [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Bases_and_Starting_Poin...
by psychoslave | 2025-07-14 17:38:51+00:00
"my country counterculture is so much better" could be ridiculously funny if it wasn't so sad to consider a presumably intelligent adult could utter it in complete sincerity.

Producing more in quantity, with far biggest allocated budget, and even better quality on everything that can be measured at surface level, all that is no guarantee to reach a work that is deeper in spirit.

Those who don't question what's wrong in themselves due specifically to the culture they were fed with are not on the path to elude its sway.
by 542354234235 | 2025-07-14 17:39:23+00:00
Federal Law takes precedence over State, but the anti-commandeering doctrine prevents the federal government from directly compelling states to implement or enforce federal law. So local law enforcement is under no obligation to pass information to ICE or assist ICE. It has been ruled on time and time again, from 1842 when Justice Joseph Story affirmed it [1] to Justice Samuel Alito in 2018 [2].

[1] “The clause relating to fugitive slaves is found in the national Constitution, and not in that of any State. It might well be deemed an unconstitutional exercise of the power of interpretation to insist that the States are bound to provide means to carry into effect the duties of the National Government nowhere delegated or entrusted to them by the Constitution.” Prigg v. Pennsylvania https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/41/539/

[2] “Congress may not simply ‘commandeer the legislative process of the States by directly compelling them to enact and enforce a federal regulatory program.” Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-476
by xyst | 2025-07-14 17:39:58+00:00
This is why national ISPs like Comcast have fought/lobbied tooth and nail to prevent municipal based ISPs from being created in various states (ie, Texas). Next logical step is starting a small ISP like these people have but they have the advantage of learning the skills and process (permitting with municipality) of doing this for other ISPs. There's also the capital aspect of this, which they apparently have.

> Comcast seems to have noticed, Herman said. "They've been calling our clients nonstop to try to come back to their service, offer them discounted rates for a five-year contract and so on," he said.

go figure. their monopoly/duopoly has ended, profits dropping like a rock in area, and now they want to compete.

Only billionaires and people fooled by Peter Thiel think competition is evil.
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-07-14 17:40:05+00:00
Not sure if "recall" was a pun or not... But the recall campaign for DA Boudin started a month after the 2020 election, so he was effectively DA for 10 months at that point, including during the heart of the pandemic. Interestingly, it was also right after he started trying to implement police accountability reforms in response to the Floyd backlash that year. He did de-prioritize drug prosecution right at the time of major fentanyl spikes in SF, so not a good look.
by mlyle | 2025-07-14 17:40:39+00:00
So, I recently have done my first couple heavily AI augmented tasks for hobby projects.

I wrote a TON of LVGL code. The result wasn’t perfect for placement, but when I iterated a couple of times, it fixed almost all of the issues. The result is a little hacked together but a bit better than my typical first pass writing UI code. I think this saved me a factor of 10 in time. Next I am going to see how much of the cleanup and factoring of the pile of code it can do.

Next I had it write a bunch of low level code to init hardware. It saved me a little time compared to reading the reference manual, and was more pleasant, but it wasn’t perfectly correct. If I did not have domain expertise I would not have been able to complete the task with the LLM.
by stouset | 2025-07-14 17:41:14+00:00
This was the sensationalist media narrative, yes. Chesa got kicked out. Brooke Jenkins took over to much fanfare. Aaaand nothing material really changed, either with enforcement or with prosecution. The media stopped talking about it though.

SFPD hadn’t been doing their jobs for far, far longer than Chesa’s tenure. I moved here in 2013 and their non-enforcement practices were already legendary. Blaming Chesa for being in office for like 10 months in 2019-2020 is a hell of a cop out (pun intended).

Even if it were true, it wouldn’t in any way excuse the police for choosing not to do the job they’re paid to do.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-14 17:41:17+00:00
> I can't help but wonder why nearly every programmer I know, myself included, finds value in these tools.

One of the more interesting findings of the study mentioned was that the LLM users, even where use of an LLM had apparently degraded their performance, tended to believe it had enhanced it. Anecdote is a _really_ bad argument against data that shows a _perception_ problem.

> Even if we weren't more "productive", millions prefer to use these tools, so it has to count for something.

I mean, on that basis, so does homeopathy.

Like, it's just one study. It's not the last word. But "my anecdotes disprove it" probably isn't a _terribly_ helpful approach.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-14 17:41:56+00:00
> I've never personally been hurt by them

One caveat I’d carve out is for parents. I have friends who had kids in the San Francisco system. It’s rough every way, but nevertheless, there is a noticeable preference for certain races and attributes. (I say this as someone who would have probably been in one of the “good” groups.)

I don’t think Andreessen is motivated by this because he is a thoroughly selfish creature. But it may be animating his supporters.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-14 17:42:52+00:00
We do have the persistent cultural myth that money = merit[1][2], so it's not entirely different.

1. Acres of Diamonds. Russell Conwell. 1900. https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rconwellacresofdia...

2. The Gospel of Wealth. Andrew Carnegie. 1889. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth
by honorable_coder | 2025-07-14 17:43:00+00:00
Its a core dependency for rate limiting, traffic shaping, fail over detection. Its cluster subsystem is super convenient for local LLM calls too. We'll write up a blog on the lessons because there were many. For example, for intelligent routing decisions we can't create an upstream connection to a cluster based on route paths or host - Envoy forces a more static binding. This doesn't work when you are making decisions about a prompt and have to inject more dynamic flow control.
by bob1029 | 2025-07-14 17:43:24+00:00
I am in a rural area of Texas and I just recently got access to fiber. The other competition is ADSL and DOCSIS providers - AT&T and Optimum.

Optimum had their entire service area bought out by Comcast the day after I switched. Comcast has since broken every major utility at least twice and my fiber connection three times by working on the old infrastructure. I think Optimum won that trade. I can't imagine many residents are going to prefer Comcast over $80/m for no-bullshit internet, especially after the water main break they caused last week.

These FTTP providers have the game solved in Texas. I've seen them do 500-1000 homes in <30 days. Their directional drilling expertise and aggressive neglect for 811 seem to get things done very quickly. There are some areas with competing fiber providers now. I've got 5gbps symmetric for $110/m and I live in the woods. Trees go through power lines and the fiber infra is completely unaffected. The only utility left to bury is the electricity, and they're actively working on that in some areas now.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 17:43:31+00:00
A few things:

1) It's normal for Kiro (and almost every AI editor) to use a lot more CPU when you first start it up, because it is indexing your codebase in the background, for faster and more accurate results when you prompt. That indexing should complete at some point

2) On initial setup of Kiro it will import and install your plugins from VS Code. If you have a large number of plugins this continues in the background, and can be quite CPU heavy as it extracts and runs the installs for each plugin. This is a one time performance hit though.

3) If your computer is truly idle, most modern CPU's get throttled back to save power. When the CPU is throttled, even a tiny amount of CPU utilization can show up as a large percentage of the CPU, but that's just because the CPU has been throttled back to a very slow clock speed.

In my setup (minimal plugins, medium sized codebase, computer set to never idle the processor clock) I rarely see Kiro helper go above .4% CPU utilization, so if you are seeing high CPU it is likely for one of the above reasons.
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-14 17:43:36+00:00
It was a somewhat sardonic response to "reminds me of The Menu," I was specifically referencing the actual media that was in the article itself. The words "reminds me of" in this case weren't actually related to any reminder, it was a repetition of the prior comment. You can think of it as similar to the phrase "it's almost as if," as in, the user of that phrase already does know whatever they say next is true but the phrase itself is meant to be a sort of slight mockery of whatever preceded it.
by rixed | 2025-07-14 17:43:36+00:00
I agree that it this comparison is overblown, and do not believe in general that this kind of overstatements do any good to the cause of those who make them.

There is something in common though: that very dangerous belief that lying and ignoring the law is justified by the end goal. Speaking of lies, where did you get this statistics that 50% of expulsed immigrants are criminals? Even their own statistics (https://www.ice.gov/statistics) show that a small minority have ever been convicted (and I would assume that most of those convictions would not be very serious crimes)
by aesh2Xa1 | 2025-07-14 17:43:56+00:00
If you ignore that countries really do exist and really do produce those emissions in order to succeed in their economic objectives, sure, then it's not useful.

Outside that thought experiment it actually is useful, and that's why we have data showing that China leads, by far, in producing emissions. By the way, they lead in methane and nitrous oxide as well -- it isn't just carbon dioxide.

https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions
by em-bee | 2025-07-14 17:43:56+00:00
you need someone to define the evaluation criteria for what "merit" is

simple: let voters decide. that is, eliminate the concept of pre-selected candidates and let voters select candidates from the entire population. if you need 10 people, give everyone 10 votes. everyone has a different idea what merrit is, but by giving everyone multiple votes the people for which the most voters think they have merrit will emerge as the winners of the election.
by abirch | 2025-07-14 17:44:07+00:00
I'm not looking down at China. I use using it as an example of there's a trade off between environmental and growth. I don't believe I offered a value statement. Yes the USA is famous for breaking treaties with the Native Americans whenever they found resources on the Native American's reservations. The USA seized private property to give to a pharmaceutical company.[0]

Do you believe there can be trades off between consumer, environmental protections, and GDP? I do.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 17:44:10+00:00
You're conflating incomparable things here. The reason why local law enforcement enforces state laws is because municipalities don't have any political sovereignty of their own - they are granted their authority by the state government, and as such, it can come with arbitrary strings attached and can be changed and revoked entirely at any moment.

This is not the case when you consider the relationship between the states and the federal government, though. While the states obviously aren't fully sovereign, the federated structure of our country explicitly grants them limited sovereignty that is innate and not in any way derived or subject to the federal authority. Thus the ability of the federal government to commandeer state governments to its own ends is rather limited and needs to be explicitly spelled out (e.g. National Guard can be federalized, but State Defense Forces cannot). And last I checked, there are no clauses in the Constitution that give the feds the power to commandeer state law enforcement to enforce federal laws; nor did the courts find such power implicit in other clauses.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-14 17:44:16+00:00
What can we even change? It's likely HN will also go to the grave demanding deregulation amidst a maelstrom of consumer protection malfunctions. We're already there in many respects; the DOJ's case against Google and Apple both seem to have stalled-out while the EU, Japan and South Korea all push forward with their investigations.

In many respects, the attitude of "we'll fix this one day" is exactly why we don't think deeply about these issues. Client-side scanning was proposed only a short while ago, and you can still read the insane amount of apologists on this site who think that unmitigated data collection can be a good thing if you trust the good Samaritan doing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068741

It will take an utter catastrophe before the deregulation bloc sees what's at stake. This is far from over, despite the unanimous desire to put security in the rearview mirror.
by seplox | 2025-07-14 17:44:17+00:00
I guess you were just distracted by all of the other house-on-fire crap going on.

https://therecord.media/ftc-complaint-against-kochava-unseal...

Among the additional information Kochava collects and sells are non-anonymized individual home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, gender, age, ethnicity, yearly income, “economic stability,” marital status, education level, political affiliation and “interests and behaviors,” compiling and selling dossiers on individuals marketed as offering a “360-degree perspective,” the FTC said.

...

According to the FTC, Kochava’s data can identify women who visit reproductive clinics by name and address along with, for example, when they visit particular buildings, their names, email and home addresses, number of children, race and app usage.

...

Kochava marketing materials tell customers it offers “rich geo data spanning billions of devices globally” and that its location data feed “delivers raw latitude/longitude data with volumes around 94B+ geo-transactions per month, 125 million monthly active users, and 35 million daily active users, on average observing more than 90 daily transactions per device.”

...

The complaint also alleges that the company has lax procedures for determining who it is selling data to, saying purchasers are allowed to use a generic personal email address, label an alleged company as “self” and explain they plan to use the data for “business.”

And then there's this: https://therecord.media/data-brokers-are-selling-military-se...
by lerno | 2025-07-14 17:44:38+00:00
Ok then I understand what you mean (I couldn't respond directly to your answer, maybe there is a limit to nesting in HN?).

Let me respond in some more detail then to at least answer why C3 doesn't have RAII: it tries to the follow that data is inert. That is – data doesn't have behaviour in itself, but is acted on by functions. (Even though C3 has methods, they are more a namespacing detail allowed to create methods that derive data from the value, or mutate it. They are not intended as organizational units)

To simplify what the goal is: data should be possible to create or destroy in bulk, without executing code for each individual element. If you create 10000 objects in a single allocation it should be as cheap to free (or create) as a single object.

We can imagine things built into the type system, but then we will need these unsafe constructs where a type is converted from its "unsafe" creation to its "managed" type.

I did look at various cheap ways of doing this through the type system, but it stopped resembling C and seemed to put the focus on resource management rather than the problem at hand.

So that is why it's closer to C than Rust.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-14 17:44:59+00:00
My question here is also how the brokers obtain the data themselves? Wouldn't it be simple for those who buy it from the brokers at a markup to just get it from its original sources themselves? Also, if the data is in any case available, the real at-fault culprits aren't so much the brokers as those who store and so easily sell it in the first instance.
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-07-14 17:45:29+00:00
Because there is probably a well-defined regulatory framework for accessing data collected by the TSA, whereas there are few or no requirements when the same data is purchased from a broker.

It is not even certain that the data actually comes from the TSA. It could come from airlines, payment companies, etc.

There is no guarantee of quality when purchasing data from a broker.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-07-14 17:45:48+00:00
> The rich don't give a shit. They're comfortable in their position.

I don’t get why you say this. Almost everyone has a need to feel like a good person, justified, etc, and the easiest way for someone with a several hundred million plus net worth to feel that way is to believe that they earned it, are special and that normal people are too stupid to do the same thing. There’s lots of other options for justifications but none of them are particularly flattering to the have-nots.
by armonster | 2025-07-14 17:45:53+00:00
Could try informative podcasts that just give you information, instead of wisdom or life practices - such as a history of philosophy, or some other topic. Or just history in general!

For audiobooks, something I've been wanting to try is to see if I can listen to an audiobook of a textbook for a topic that I'm interested in. But I'm not sure if it would work well, since often textbooks have diagrams and such.