MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-11 01:44:24+00:00
How do you expect to achieve even equality of opportunity when those differences exist?

First, you don't need to achieve exact equality, just approximate equality. That approximate equality can incorporate a range of levels of wealth and still be enormously more equal than what we have today. It is fine if someone with an IQ of 130 has 100x the wealth of someone with IQ 70. It's not fine if someone with an IQ of 130 has 10^9x the wealth of someone with IQ 70. It's also not fine if someone with IQ 130 has 10^9x the wealth of someone else with IQ 130. (It's questionable whether IQ is even a meaningful measure, but I'm just using it here as a proxy for whatever kind of "innate ability" we want to posit.)

Second, you don't need to achieve equality of all forms of outcomes, just economic means (and political rights, etc.). Not everyone can be a concert pianist or a venture capitalist, but that's okay as long as concert pianists and venture capitalists don't have 1000x the wealth of everyone else.

It's perfectly fine for people to have different aptitude and even different levels of aptitude in general. It's just not fine for those differences to translate into enormous differences in baseline well-being (e.g., food, shelter, time).

Ironically, of course, if we achieved this, it would then be much less objectionable for Stanford to do whatever it wants, because it would mean we've created a society where going to Stanford doesn't really matter so much. But the question is what does Stanford (and everybody else) need to do in the meantime to get to that point.
by DoesntMatter22 | 2025-08-11 01:46:47+00:00
No question they benefited from it, they wouldn't have grown nearly as quickly. Regardless though your statement that virtually all their profit being from subsidies is just factually incorrect.

I definitely think it will hurt US sales somewhat, however it's going to drive the other EV makers in the US into the tank. Most are still hemorrhaging money on their EV's. Tesla can just drop their production amount if sales fall off.

The US market is less than half their sales. We shall see.
by wesammikhail | 2025-08-11 01:47:21+00:00
Nailed it.

This is the core problem with PHP for me.I love PHP and use it every day. Part of that is the strength and versatility of the arrays implementation (i.e. hashmap). However, the problem is always the fact that an array cant be typed.

IF they could just introduce that, it would solve 80% of user-land issues over night.
by kevinqi34 | 2025-08-11 01:47:28+00:00
Hi all — I’m Kevin, co-founder and technical lead of Festa AI. I spent 5 years at Amazon on Alexa, where I led the migration of Alexa Timers to AI, cutting response latency from ~10 seconds to 1.9 seconds. With Festa, we’ve built an SMS-native AI that coordinates events in real time. Happy to answer any questions about the tech, architecture (at a high level), or where it falls short — we’re here to learn as much as to show it off.
by doradoblank | 2025-08-11 01:47:54+00:00
How do you handle state that affects multiple components? Like a filter button that affects a list table. In React you just hoist the state up and make both components dependent. If you're managing all state via internal component state, then you need to explicitly pass state between the components. That's okay for simple cases, but in my experience it breaks down pretty quickly. Once you have more than a few components involved, you end up writing your own state reconciliation.
by echelon | 2025-08-11 01:48:38+00:00
Just found the source with a letter, which might be the more appropriate link:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNJuc0buCUl/

Highway deactivation:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNJTGxYuCEV/

Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1mmbq9w/lets_go...
by hopelite | 2025-08-11 01:48:44+00:00
He may be referring to what I suspect too, that even though it is unlikely that any one Germanic language has the key to this, let alone the many similar linguistic mysteries, deeply diving into each of the languages to graph connections will likely provide the best chance at solving such things.

I believe that not only do we have a hard time with this matter because our conception of what “try” means today is not original, but also that effectively “try and” and “try to” are effectively different concepts of the mind that we simply do not understand anymore, homographs whose separate original meanings and appropriate uses have been lost over time.

I look forward to what LLMs will be able to unlock with this kind of historical and linguistic analysis. I think we will start unlocking some interesting this this way. I could see us being able to, to some degree, rewind linguistic history and also then apply it to historical context. Imagine an LLM that can not only graph all languages and meanings in those languages, but will also be able to infer meanings and origins going back into history by cross referencing all related languages … at least with some degree of accuracy greater than what we can do today. Now we just need all historical texts in digital form and to not erase all life on the planet.
by cnst | 2025-08-11 01:50:58+00:00
Tesla's screen is just a computer that can play YouTube and any other videos.

Just upload a video to YouTube, open up on Tesla, enable full-screen, done. Not even any hacking or any tech knowledge required.

Literally anyone can generate and print a letter. Finding the name of the legal counsel is just a LinkedIn search away.

100% fake.

Especially USPS and email thing.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-11 01:51:05+00:00
Funny if only marginally related fact: even though neither the C++11 syntax

if (int x = foo(); x) { ... }

nor the C++98 syntax

if (int x = foo()) { ... }

is supported in C99, it still introduces the rule that the entire if statement is a scope (which it wasn’t in C89). So as a party trick, here’s a way to check for C99 without using the preprocessor:

int c99() { enum { C99 = 1 }; { if (sizeof(enum { C99 = 0 })) { } return C99; } }

I make no promises about the behaviour of this code on insufficiently anal compilers like TCC.
by ggregoire | 2025-08-11 01:51:08+00:00
For me it's about productivity. I can code anything in react without opening the doc once, cause it's javascript and useState/useEffect. Zero pain points. I can focus 100% on delivering features. I can't comment on web components but I worked with Angular for 2 years a decade ago and I was always in the docs wondering what's the syntax to render a list or what's the function to do even the simplest things. Same with Backbone.js before Angular.
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-11 01:51:16+00:00
If the self driving is fully paid for then no, they should not be able to disable it.

For denying the monthly subscription and supercharging, a case could be made that these were the features that influenced the decision of the purchase, and denying them has now made the purchase less valuable. A civil suit could be filed, but not sure how the courts would rule.
by 6510 | 2025-08-11 01:51:39+00:00
In contrast, if one earns enough to live a normal life they instantly change into one of the best regular customers. One can make a career out of flipping burgers and have a long term [professional] relationship with them. If they are indeed overweight give them a salad on the house and have them explore the many delicious healthy things on the menu. Delicious because one gets room to think about improvements when not drowning in bills. An eating disorder usually comes with above average knowledge of the culinary realm. Should make an interesting conversation.
by saurik | 2025-08-11 01:53:22+00:00
> It's possible that she copy-pastes her own signature...

I was under the impression that that was standard practice for this sort of letter, lest merely being in this role at a company results in numerous examples of your real signature being given to a ton of random people? I mean, the original there doesn't even look like a "real" signature.

(I agree that the wrong title, though, tells us this is almost certainly fake.)
by tamimio | 2025-08-11 01:54:09+00:00
I believe there should be an industry standard to distinguish between engineers (the ones who spent 4-5 years in school) and software engineers (not necessarily those who spent 4-5 years in school) by name only. Either one should not be called engineers anymore, or the other should be called legacy engineers or something along these lines. I was expecting to search through articles of IEEE, RF, hardware maybe, or even other disciplines like civil and mechanical. The word "engineer" lost its meaning in the past ~2 decades because everyone now who touches a PC suddenly can call themselves an engineer, diluting the market now with hordes of bootcampers and "prompt engineers". How come we don't see the same in other white-collar jobs like doctors, nurses, lawyers, or even blue-collar ones that now require some sort of control over who calls themselves or is able to work in a trade by having apprenticeships? P. Eng isn't enforced, so it's meaningless.
by j45 | 2025-08-11 01:54:33+00:00
It could, except LLMs are non-deterministic, and the rest of the tech world largely isn't, and aligning those two and keeping them aligned with every tweak to a model and model change, and prompt change can be a lot of babysitting.

No doubt there's lots of smart people working on it, I just have been around application of tech in B2B for reliability and that's usually where the conversation usually starts.
by chrisnight | 2025-08-11 01:54:35+00:00
To clarify, the reason I say that the projects led me to offers was only because they helped lead to the process being started (I.e. led to a first interview). Indeed, other skills are necessary to close the deal.

The way I see the current market, the hard part isn’t the interview-to-offer ratio, it’s the application-to-interview ratio. Grinding leetcode and improving your skills unfortunately doesn’t help you with that. Having a good resume helps (or having good networking).

Referencing back then to what I said originally, everyone has a degree, no one has work experience. Given this, having a cool project is one of the ways to specifically increase this application-to-interview ratio.

However, given this analysis, putting more effort into networking could yield similar results, so this suggests the original point possibly has some truth.
by dhx | 2025-08-11 01:54:59+00:00
VIN decoding per [1]:

7G2CEHED8RA017384 ^^^-- World Manufacturing Identifier (WMI) = 7G2 = Tesla Inc. ^-- Make/Line/Series = C = Cybertruck ^-- Chassis/Cab Type/Restraints = E = Truck with Type 2 manual seatbelts (FR, SR*3) with front airbags, PODS, side inflatable restraints, knee airbags (FR) ^-- Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) = H = Class H – Greater than 4082 kg. to 4536 kg. (9,001-10,000 lbs.) (Designated for Cybertruck) ^-- Fuel Type = E = Electric ^-- Motor/Drive Unit/Braking System = D = Dual Motor – Standard (Designated for Cybertruck) ^-- Check Digit = 8 ^-- Model Year = R = 2024 ^-- Plant of Manufacture = A = Austin, TX ^^^^^^-- Sequence Number = 017384

Is the check digit correct per [2]?

Step 1. VIN of 7G2CEHED8RA017384 is mapped to the number 77235854891017384.

Steps 2-3. Position weight factors applied, results summed and the sum divided by 11: (78 + 77 + 26 + 35 + 54 + 83 + 52 + 410 + 99 + 18 + 07 + 16 + 75 + 34 + 83 + 42) / 11 = 36.363636364

Step 4. Assign check digit of "4" from remainder 0.364 (4/11). Check digit should be 4 not 8 therefore the VIN is invalid.

https://service.tesla.com/en-US/vin-recall-search also reveals no knowledge of 7G2CEHED8RA017384 as a valid VIN.

[1] https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/mid/home/displayfile/9e960dca-5b8...

[2] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/part-565/section-565.1...
by stephen_g | 2025-08-11 01:55:57+00:00
Until more and more things are deemed as requiring age verification and full ID to access. Always starts with the things that enough people are happy to ban to get people like you onboard, then encroaches until there is full mass surveillance.

We're already seeing the massive over-blocking and encroachment starting, just weeks into the age blocking in UK's Online Safety law coming into effect.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-08-11 01:58:49+00:00
Those are tools, not abstractions. What happens when you try to fine tune your model and it doesn't get better (or it gets worse) at the task you are optimizing for? What happens when it gets better in training then doesn't get better on live data?

You actually have to know what you are doing in this space.

The question was answered - the field is complicated - deciding to do it and being capable aren't the same thing. The field is not going to be inundated with capable people. By your thinking, one cannot be paid millions of dollars to be a lawyer because of "competition".
by dwd | 2025-08-11 02:00:24+00:00
A great example of how things were viewed at the time is the poem by AB "Banjo" Patterson: "Mulga Bill's Bycycle", first published in 1896.

'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He turned away the good old horse that served him many days; He dressed himself in cycling clothes, resplendent to be seen; He hurried off to town and bought a shining new machine; And as he wheeled it through the door, with air of lordly pride, The grinning shop assistant said, "Excuse me, can you ride?"

"See here, young man," said Mulga Bill, "from Walgett to the sea, From Conroy's Gap to Castlereagh, there's none can ride like me. I'm good all round at everything as everybody knows, Although I'm not the one to talk - I hate a man that blows. But riding is my special gift, my chiefest, sole delight; Just ask a wild duck can it swim, a wildcat can it fight. There's nothing clothed in hair or hide, or built of flesh or steel, There's nothing walks or jumps, or runs, on axle, hoof, or wheel, But what I'll sit, while hide will hold and girths and straps are tight: I'll ride this here two-wheeled concern right straight away at sight."

'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that sought his own abode, That perched above Dead Man's Creek, beside the mountain road. He turned the cycle down the hill and mounted for the fray, But 'ere he'd gone a dozen yards it bolted clean away. It left the track, and through the trees, just like a silver steak, It whistled down the awful slope towards the Dead Man's Creek.

It shaved a stump by half an inch, it dodged a big white-box: The very wallaroos in fright went scrambling up the rocks, The wombats hiding in their caves dug deeper underground, As Mulga Bill, as white as chalk, sat tight to every bound. It struck a stone and gave a spring that cleared a fallen tree, It raced beside a precipice as close as close could be; And then as Mulga Bill let out one last despairing shriek It made a leap of twenty feet into the Dead Man's Creek.

'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that slowly swam ashore: He said, "I've had some narrer shaves and lively rides before; I've rode a wild bull round a yard to win a five-pound bet, But this was the most awful ride that I've encountered yet. I'll give that two-wheeled outlaw best; it's shaken all my nerve To feel it whistle through the air and plunge and buck and swerve. It's safe at rest in Dead Man's Creek, we'll leave it lying still; A horse's back is good enough henceforth for Mulga Bill."

The Sydney Mail, 25 July 1896.
by MisterMower | 2025-08-11 02:00:44+00:00
That kind of begs the question, doesn’t it? Why are these women choosing more schooling and more years of employment prior to motherhood?

It’s almost like the culture is telling them that getting a degree, starting a career, and getting a nice house are goals more worthy than motherhood.

And what do the moms that “make it” and do have a kid or two do once they get there? Dump them in daycare because being a stay at home mom just isn’t socially acceptable.

Stability is an inherently subjective concept. Ask any third world mother if they’d trade places with a first world mother and the answer would be a resounding yes. Between food stamps, rent assistance, and tax subsidies, there has never been a more stable time to raise a family. But it isnt cool so they don’t do it.

This is 100% a culture problem. Women are trained from a young age that becoming an independent working woman is higher status than being a stay at home mom.
by freetime2 | 2025-08-11 02:02:53+00:00
Fake news is so ubiquitous these days that I think you need to apply a higher standard than "it feels likely to be true". Especially for things that trigger outrage.

I think the question you should be asking is "has it been verified by a trusted third party?" And if not, you should treat it as something with a significant probability of being untrue.
by godelski | 2025-08-11 02:04:33+00:00
> but rote re-typing of the same build systems

I hear this argument a lot with coding agents but I just don't understand it. Why are you rewriting so much code? Scaffolding like main? I'm not going to buy that automating 1-4 lines of code is a real time sink. If it is, we got macros for that. If you're repeating lines, this sounds like what functions and classes are for. If your code is having lots of rewriting of things then it is just going to become an unmaintainable mess as a function is written in a dozen different places. Should they not just be packaged into a library? Long variable or function names? We've had autocomplete for decades. Including autocomplete that will do lines and be contextually dependent. There's better solutions to lots of things like templates and functors that allow us to move through abstraction to greatly minimize re-typing. These solutions reduce lines of code, increase flexibility, and vastly reduce the need to re-type things.

I'll admit that coding agents seem great if you want to measure a programmer's output by the number of lines of code they generate, but writing lines of code is just a small portion of the work.
by UncleEntity | 2025-08-11 02:04:52+00:00
From my research into the subject the easiest way to implement it would be a 'musttail' macro which falls back to a trampoline for compilers which don't support it. The problem then becomes having the function call overhead (assuming the compiler can't figure out what's going on and do tail-call optimizations anyway) on the unsupported systems with each and every opcode which is probably slower than just a Big Old Switch -- which, apparently, modern compilers are pretty good at optimizing.

The VM I've been poking at is I/O bound so the difference (probably) isn't even measurable over the overhead of reading a file. I went with a pure 'musttail' implementation but didn't do any sort of performance measurements so who knows if it's better or not.
by tamimio | 2025-08-11 02:06:13+00:00
You would be naive to think this is after porn, it’s just for public consumption and justification, the whole idea is more control and surveillance, once the infrastructure is there, the laws and resources too, it will be just some quick small amendment to expand it further for something else, that’s how always it works, one step at a time, boil the frog slowly.
by amluto | 2025-08-11 02:09:03+00:00
This is:

a) really neat.

b) an utterly terrifying wrapper around a wrapper around this:

https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl

See here:

https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/tree/main/dist

The layer above that is a shell script that downloads and runs shell scripts from github and calls visudo. The layer above that is an electron app that execs the shell script.

I used to be a happy user of bclm, but that doesn’t work any more, sadly. I’ll keep looking for a good option.
by lisbbb | 2025-08-11 02:09:55+00:00
I had one of those "spot the issues" quizzes on an interview once. I didn't do that well on it just because I was nervous as hell. In retrospect, it was a good thing they didn't want to hire me. But it was a dumb request to place on someone "hey look at this class from our codebase and tell us what's wrong with it!" I'm thinking: "Should I just praise how good it is? What are they asking me here?"
by pxc | 2025-08-11 02:11:33+00:00
I don't think the salience of this problem is that it's a supposedly unfixable blind spot. It's an illustrative failure in that it breaks the illusory intuition that something that can speak and write to us (sometimes very impressively!) also thinks like us.

Nobody who could give answers as good as ChatGPT often does would struggle so much with this task. The fact that an LLM works differently from a whole-ass human brain isn't actually surprising when we consider it intellectually, but that habit of always intuiting a mind behind language whenever we see language is subconscious and and reflexive. Examples of LLM failures which challenge that intuition naturally stand out.
by lisbbb | 2025-08-11 02:12:31+00:00
After about 150 interviews, I could do the "just talking" thing without needing any samples or anything else. If they were working on Java, I would ask what versions, what issues they had run into, what their experiences had been with various frameworks they mentioned on their resume, I would bring up recent events to see if they knew about them, just stuff like that could tell me whether someone was senior level or not.
by Philorandroid | 2025-08-11 02:13:41+00:00
In catastrophic circumstances perhaps, but the metric for actual starvation in the US is so low that finding a solid figure is difficult. Malnutrition, while higher, seems strongly correlated to child/elder abuse/neglect, and not homelessness. Street muggings for nourishment by a starving underclass is a fantastical and disingenuous narrative. And, surely, you see the dissonance in suggesting that poverty leads to crime, while also suggesting criminalizing low-wage labor?

> While this is true for you it is not true for the society as a whole...

Why isn't it? What about using the legal, practical market means at your disposal is exclusive to some privileged section of society, and why does it include me and nobody else in hard times?

Your 'rebuttal' is just a broad, dismissive gesture to theory and platitudinous insults.
by toddmorey | 2025-08-11 02:15:53+00:00
It's not really an "open lovable". I mean, there is of course a NextJS repo as part of it, but you need to bring your own API keys to an AI provider, as well as e2b.dev (sandbox, required) as well as firecrawl.dev (web scraping, oddly required).

It's the web scraping more than anything that makes me the least enthusiastic. I get that's the core of their business, but packaged this way, it's much less a loveable-style "build your vision" and more a "quickly copy another site". Just serving as a copy machine is the least interesting use of all this insane compute.
by cyberax | 2025-08-11 02:16:09+00:00
Sorry, but you're wrong.

"Preferred stock" is not really "preferred", it has a lot of limitations that common stock doesn't have. But it does have preference during liquidation and/or secondary market tender offers.

There are ways that founders or major stockholders can use to screw the minor stockholders, but preferred stock does not protect against them at all.

> Which is just a roundabout way then of saying that they want to appear like they care, but they don't actually.

If people are giving non-trivial amounts of stock in a company where they work is "just math", then I don't know what else you want.
by AIorNot | 2025-08-11 02:16:20+00:00
I love the show the Knick because it’s about the crazy medical advances during that period - it has the crazy innovation feel instead of the typical period setting - watch it if you can - Clive Owen and Steven Soderburgh

https://youtu.be/08V4RHGuGqE?si=pyXBEJ4PpR0o1M5r
by int_19h | 2025-08-11 02:16:34+00:00
Not only it's possible, but it has been done many times before, and a lot of modern business software is still built on that. You know that old fashioned XML thing? It has schemas, and those schemas come with a lot of predefined types including, specifically, a whole family of ISO 8601-related types:

https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#isoformats

And so you can write a web service in Java and use it from C#, or whatever.