MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xEF | 2025-07-17 08:43:07+00:00
It's easy to believe, though, and most of us do it every day. For example, our commute to work is marked by the trust that other drivers will cooperate, following the rules, so that we all get to where we are going.

There are varying degrees of this through our lives, where the trust lies not in the fact that people will just follow the rules because they are rules, but because the rules set expectations, allowing everyone to (more or less) know what's going on and decide accordingly. This also makes it easier to single out the people who do not think the rules apply to them so we can avoid trusting them (and, probably, avoid them in general).
by sub7 | 2025-07-17 08:43:21+00:00
So many garbage takes here - this report wants to imply pilot error and without all the data/audio that remains a remote possibility but the truth is it is far more likely that this plane experienced a total electric failure following liftoff and the onboard computer entered some form a failsafe mode which set the fuel valves to a default closed state.

The pilots were likely immediately trying to relight the engines which is the correct reponse but sadly they didn't have the altitude to see the process through.

My guess is the truth here (i.e. Boeing equipment malfunction) or at least the framing of it is being used as a chip in trade deal negotiations which are active and ongoing.
by ggm | 2025-07-17 08:43:51+00:00
The company persists. The incurring of future cost and the opportunity cost of not having those junior staff will tell on future value.

Sure, the current board and c suites don't care. Your point is true. But the company is affected and it will be told as it goes in and out of the market and private equity: otherwise valuable, it will be less valuable on this score.

Larry Ellison won't care, but not all companies are Oracle.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-07-17 08:43:51+00:00
Because it's an important distinction. If all PC sales fall to almost zero, and only the most hardcore tech nerds keep using them, and use Linux like they've been doing for two decades now, did Linux really win the battle or did the entire war evaporate and they are some long lost leftover soldier in the jungle fighting some battle no one else even is anymore.
by franga2000 | 2025-07-17 08:44:42+00:00
Putting such absolute choices in front of people basically never works. Those conductive to such and argument have already become vegetarian.

But there's a much bigger percentage of people that would be willing to eat meat less, without fully stopping. Turn meat into a delicacy you indulge in, not the default base to prepare every meal on. Try some indian food, or stuff from other cuisines that rely less on meat. Make that twice a week, you'll probably enjoy it, maybe even save some money.
by st_goliath | 2025-07-17 08:45:54+00:00
The original IBM PC used an Intel 8048 microcontroller inside the keyboard and an 8255 I/O controller on the main board to communicate with the keyboard.

The PC AT (which had an 80286), later replaced the 8255 with an 8042 microcontroller too. It was running firmware, so re-purposing it for a Hodge-poge of other tasks became trivial. A single GPIO pin was used for masking the A20 line and another for handling CPU reset. Having a total of 24 programmable I/O lines, I guess this could have been done with the 8255 too, but the microcontroller probably allowed simpler interfacing with the CPU and bought them more flexibility for future expansion.

For the article, this is mostly irrelevant. As somebody else noted, the Xbox wasn't supposed to be able to toggle/mask the A20 line, but later x86 CPUs had already integrated the A20 masking feature into the CPU itself and exposed an A20 control line. The Xbox simply tied the A20 enable line to a fixed potential, the hack described in the article requires a simple hardware modification to change that (https://xboxdevwiki.net/File:Haxar-a20m.jpg).
by dennis_jeeves2 | 2025-07-17 08:46:24+00:00
>It completely changed the way I see the police and the criminal justice system.

Well,hopefully it has also changeed the way you see society in general, it's terrifying how common people willingly ( even when they have options) defer to the govt./authorities. The system didn't get be this this way overnight. Covid was one example of the tyranny of the majority.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-07-17 08:46:30+00:00
Each of those should have a clear, unique response code. There should be no "maybe it's this, maybe it's that". A real-world example is login forms that tell you something like "Invalid e-mail or password".

Are you joking around with me or is my point just not as obvious as I believed it to be?

Edit: Not sure if that last bit sounds confrontational, please know that it's a genuine question.
by dijit | 2025-07-17 08:46:31+00:00
But they exist in a closed system.

They don't emit CO2 or Methane in any way that can run out of control unless we pour carbon into the system externally (by digging up oil and feeding it to them for example, or transporting them using cars that run on fossil fuels, or heating them with fossil fuels).

They are a scapegoat, because they can't by themselves emit anything that can't be captured and returned and reused by cattle for essentially perpetuity, yet we as humans are doing things that are not sustainable and contribute to tipping the scales.

Thanks for flagging me btw.
by zkmon | 2025-07-17 08:47:28+00:00
Ofcourse, the publishers care about decline in reading. Readers care about their priorities in life, and how to distribute their attention across what matters most to them. If social networking matters most, it deserves more attention. Further, knowledge-seeking and cramming your memory with all sorts of facts is no longer a necessity.

Even in the past, Europeans were able to advance the knowledge and science only because their priorities and socio-political conditions allowed it, unlike other parts of the world which were always subjected to survival struggles.
by thorin | 2025-07-17 08:48:33+00:00
Totally agree. Most of my professional coding has been on window desktops although the servers are often unix/linux. The amount of time spent spinning up a new framework, IDE, build pipeline or something can be ridiculous and every time it seems to be different in some way. Stuff like npm package management, proxy servers, random stuff being blocked by a corporate vpn, getting admin access on certain things, app server setup and monitoring, CI/CD setup seem to take up 99% of the time!

Actually writing some logic and seeing the results can be quite satisfying at times if I can get over all that. Mostly I just do small POCs and things to help out my team and have a break from meetings and system design.
by WASDAai | 2025-07-17 08:49:08+00:00
TL;DR: ChatGPT isn’t waking up—it’s just an extremely good people-pleasing autocomplete. When users ask leading, mystical questions, the model mirrors that vibe, spinning confident stories about names like “Nova,” cosmic truths or special bonds because reward-training taught it to say what makes us happy. For most folks the act is harmless, but for the vulnerable it can amplify delusions, spawning cases of “ChatGPT-induced psychosis” in which jobs, relationships and reality itself are lost. The fix is simply remembering the tool’s limits, fact-checking wild claims, and keeping role-play strictly in the realm of fiction; the only consciousness in the chat is yours.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-17 08:49:21+00:00
Is that where we are going? Most people don’t need a laptop that has more than 2 hours battery life?

When I was in the office full time in the bad old days, you would be in a conference room and every one would plug their laptops in.

After I started working remotely and still doing business trips, one charge could last a full day either going back and forth between conference rooms, in “war rooms” etc and no one with M series MacBooks even worried about charging.

Heck my MacBook Pro (work laptop) can last a full day on power with my portable USB C powered external monitor where the power and video come from one cord.

Not to mention on flights with layovers.
by chneu | 2025-07-17 08:49:38+00:00
Disagree. Hillsboro has plenty of businesses from ex-intel employees.

Just off the top of my head I can think of a dozen or so.

They're just not in tech for the most part. I can think of 2 breweries, a standardization company, two machine shops. And those are just within a mile or so of my house.

I think a lot of folks work at Intel in order to get out of tech. That's basically what I'm doing, lol. Work enough to save and get out of tech.

Tech is also expensive to start up in. So it makes sense that a lot of the intel-driven businesses would be non-tech.
by thrance | 2025-07-17 08:50:38+00:00
By that logic, no human activities are problematic since everything needed to sustain them comes from nature and eventually goes back to it. That's ignoring the tons of wastes generated by the beef industry, the ravaged ecosystems to make room for pastures and farms, the fuel needed to build and power the machinery to manage it all: from tractors to cargo boats to factories to trucks...

The issue is that all that carbon and other mineral resources we dug up to power all of this ends up rapidly upsetting the balance the Earth settled in over the last million years. My point is that we could eat the same amount of calories by generating much less waste and needing much less space and energy.
by assessaincom | 2025-07-17 08:50:50+00:00
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– How to grow trust in edtech when many educators are skeptical

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by Expurple | 2025-07-17 08:50:58+00:00
Go is "straightforward" at the cost of making your codebase not straightforward: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-... . Programming is complex. That complexity has to live somewhere.

Python is absolutely not straighforward, it's a huge language with many moving parts and gotchas.

Although, I admit, both are very easy to start programming in and to start shipping broken projects that appear working at first. They are good for learning programming, but terrible for production.

> Rust didn’t really solve memory safety, it just pushed all the complexity into the type system.

Yes, that's what it did, and that's the right tradeoff in most cases. Where the compiler can't make a reasonable default choice, it should force the programmer to make a choice, and then sanity-check it.

> If one was struggling with memory errors in C++ that’s nice. If one was using Java, that still sucks.

It's nice for those struggling with uncaught exceptions, null pointer bugs, mutithreading bugs, and confusing stateful object graphs in Java.
by franga2000 | 2025-07-17 08:51:26+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean by 3). We have a perfectly good "digital currency" and have had it for decades, it's called a bank account. I can click four buttons on my phone and a friend gets some money within 30 seconds. As for inflation, economists think a 2-ish-percent inflation rate is a good thing and work to keep it around there. To them it's not something to "tackle". Not saying I agree with it...
by dijit | 2025-07-17 08:51:36+00:00
Inefficiency doesn't particularly matter if it's a closed system, it only effects how much we can get out of a thing.

If we need 100% efficiency yields because humans are so numerous that there can no longer by any inefficiency in the conversion of sun rays into energy fit for human consumption: then you have a point.

But we're not there, so the inefficiency of food production is not particularly relevant.

Where you and I will agree is that the scale of meat production is unsustainable, as evidenced by the fact that we are feeding cows fucking oil from the ground. If we could sustain a population of cattle and enough energy for human population then I don't see a problem, but that is obviously significantly lower than the scale we currently see cattle-rearing.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-07-17 08:51:43+00:00
I hear this a lot but also know a lot of people who were put on meds when they were young and didn't really understand what was going on.

I also have an adult friend put on an antipsychotic to treat their moderate depression. They went through horrifying side effects while doctors kept telling them to stick with it. They're going through even more horrifying side effects during the third week of their withdrawal.

There are no strict criteria. Some people need it. A lot of people don't. It's really no different from the opioid crisis America has, where many doctors hand stuff out like candy because, honestly, who cares? Not their problem. But it's a nice paycheck.

And the constant downplaying and dismissiveness of it all, with many people who have personal experience saying things are over-prescribed as well as studies showing such[1][2], while also saying things are massively under-dosed, really does not help the image of the psychiatric drug industry trying to find a solution to any divergence being a pill.

It's fine if you have actual struggles in life and need help and medicine helps you. It's good, actually. But if we're at a point where we're nitpicking and saying, "Your kid walks on their toes. That's bad. Let's get them diagnosed. Then get some meds", yeah, it's horrifying and absolutely indefensible.

And yes. Putting a 10 year old on a prescription drug that makes them sit and fold laundry all day very much fits the definition 99% of people would consider "drugged up." 10 year olds have periods of being little shits. If they're folding laundry all day, and you're giving them medication that makes them do so, you are very much drugging them up. And yes. Teachers did proactively call parents and try to get kids (mostly boys) medicated in the 90s. It was so wild that even South Park had an episode about it. It's unfortunate because people with legitimate issues do get caught up in it and have their issues dismissed. But then children who have no problems are also victimized by being forced to take drugs that make them fold laundry and quit being a kid.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11107288/

[2] https://www.rutgers.edu/news/risky-combos-psychiatric-drugs-...
by pjmlp | 2025-07-17 08:51:54+00:00
Germany, and yes if I go to southern countries, Portugal my home country, alongside the other ones, there is a certain flexibility between the law, unions, and what actually happens at the construction site, unless someone does a complaint to the respective goverment authority responsible for checking worker conditions.

I can also add that Scadinavian countries, and UK tend to be similar to Germany.

Naturally all of them have black sheeps that ignore good work conditions if they can manage to, that is why work inspections are also a thing.

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by rollcat | 2025-07-17 08:52:12+00:00
Language models and actors are powerful tools, but I'm kinda terrified with how irresponsibly are they being integrated.

"Prompt injection" is way more scary than "SQL injection"; the latter will just f.up your database, exfiltrate user lists, etc so it's "just" a single disaster - you will rarely get RCE and pivot to an APT. This is thanks to strong isolation: we use dedicated DB servers, set up ACLs. Managed DBs like RDS can be trivially nuked, recreated from a backup, etc.

What's the story with isolating agents? Sandboxing techniques vary with each OS, and provide vastly different capabilities. You also need proper outgoing firewall rules for anything that is accessing the network. So I've been trying to research that, and as far as I can tell, it's just YOLO. Correct me if I'm wrong.
by rendx | 2025-07-17 08:52:39+00:00
“Child abuse or maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or other exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity […] Neglect includes the failure to provide for the development of the child in all spheres: health, education, emotional development, nutrition, shelter and safe living conditions.”

Source: World Health Organization, Child maltreatment, Fact sheet, 2020 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/child-maltr...

“The term ‘child abuse and neglect’ means, at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm. This includes emotional neglect such as “extreme or bizarre forms of punishment, deliberate cruelty or rejection, or the failure to provide the necessary psychological nurturing.”

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) https://acf.gov/cb/law-regulation/child-abuse-prevention-and...

Emotional neglect includes “acts of omission, such as the failure to provide developmentally appropriate affection, attention, or emotional support.”

Source: APSAC, Practice Guidelines: The Investigation and Determination of Suspected Psychological Maltreatment of Children and Adolescents, 2017 https://apsac.org/guidelines
by dijit | 2025-07-17 08:52:56+00:00
If we weren't digging carbon out of the ground then a lot of human activities would indeed not be a problem.

I'm sure we can make things uninhabitable without doing that, but, largely when talking about climate change: it's the mere fact that we're unleashing significant amounts of stored energy into a closed loop ecosystem that cannot handle it.

I think we're saying the same thing here.
by Emdeha2357 | 2025-07-17 08:53:46+00:00
Lookit the damn(ing) pictures:

https://www.xuefeiji.org/public/uploads/weixin_mpimgs/e3/e36...

One can easily switch them with two fingers at the same time. I tried (with similar switches.): Works. If the locking mechanism fails, even unintentionally. Getting loose, wristworn jewlery snatched and then pull: Works.

My question to Boeing is: Why did you cover the neighbouring (stabilizer cut-off, IIRC) switches with red springloaded flip-covers, but not the fuel cut-off switches?
by Ygg2 | 2025-07-17 08:54:16+00:00
> Also the borrow checker is the Rust version of Haskell burrito blogs with monads, it is hard to get how to design with it in mind,

Eh. Haskell monads are a math-centric way of performing operations on wrapped types (stuff inside a monad). Rust borrow checker is way more pragmatic-centric, i.e. how can we prevent certain behaviors.

The difference being you don't see Monads being replaced by Tree-Monads, without impacting the code.

> and when one gets it, it isn't that easy to explain to others still trying to figure it out.

So is going from 0-based to X-based arrays (where X is an integer); Or learning a new keyboard layout. Just because it's hard (unfamiliar) doesn't mean it's impossible.
by lordnacho | 2025-07-17 08:54:22+00:00
Intel dropped the ball, and it was the biggest bullet I ever dodged. Even 20 years ago, I felt there was something wrong about the internal culture there, so I turned down the post-internship job offer.

There's a bunch of teams there with three-letter acronyms whose origins have been totally forgotten. Like, nobody knows what LTQ or ASR stands for, or what purpose they have. When you're an intern, you tend to think that the higher-ups know what they're doing, but if you ask for an explanation, you will soon conclude that they don't know either.

People were not working hard enough. At the time Intel's dominance was supreme. They should have been picking up on niche ideas like GPUs and mobile chips, it would have been cheap and adjacent to what they had. Instead, all I heard at the meetings was laughing at the little guys who are now all bigger than Intel. Even my friend in the VC division couldn't get the bosses to see what was happening. People would spend their whole day just having coffee with random colleagues, and making a couple of slides. It's nice to relax sometimes, but when I was there it was way too much of that. There was just way too much fat in the business.

I still have friends there who stayed on. They tell me not to come, and are now wondering how to do the first job search of their professional lives. A couple have moved very recently.

It's very odd that the guy who was famous for saying what upper management should do (set culture) ended up building a culture that has completely failed.
by junon | 2025-07-17 08:54:44+00:00
> Rust, from what I've heard, has a similar abstraction level as TypeScript, perhaps even closer to Haskell but that's good, I could do with a bit more help from the compiler. But it requires me to manage memory and lifetimes, which I think is something the compiler should do for me.

Eh.... yeah? I suppose technically? But not _really_. Rust gives you the option to do that. But most programs outside of "I'm building an operating system" don't really require thinking too hard about it.

It's not like C where you're feeding memory manually, or like C++ where you have to think about RAII just right.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-17 08:54:50+00:00
In Southern Europe, and countries with similar cultures, we don't obey rules because someone says so, we obey them when we see that is actually reasonable to do so, hence my remark regarding culture as I also experienced living in countries where everyone mostly blindly follow the rules, even if they happen to be nonsense.

Naturally I am talking about cultures where that decision has not been taken away from their citizens.
by p1dda | 2025-07-17 08:55:12+00:00
You're right that it can be difficult diagnosing children but that is why, at least here in Europe, kids are observed by medical professionals along with their parents over several visits to child and adolescent psychiatric units. Sometimes they are even admitted to get even closer to a correct diagnosis. Also, almost all parents will seek help very early if they have any suspicion of disease in their child which makes this tech useless and probably stigmatizing to kids and families.