MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by plqbfbv | 2025-08-12 09:54:02+00:00
> Except VW and Stellantis do this since many years...

VW is approaching comparable Tesla EV features now, after 10 years in denial and 7 playing catch-up (and while the hardware has improved greatly, the software has improved too but still can't compare to Tesla's). Stellantis is not really faring that well either.

The article opened with "Ford is comparing this to its Model T moment".

Then I read the second paragraph and I thought: "oh, Ford is having its Model T-esla moment". I still recall after >7y the Sandy Munro Tesla's teardown, who was amazed with how much more efficient the wiring, number of components etc were compared to regular industry (I believe this is an updated comparison slide of it: https://cdn.motor1.com/images/custom/comparing-tesla-ford-vw... ).

And the third paragraph delivered... It's an ex-Tesla guy driving this.

I share the hate for the guy in charge, but I agree with the parent comment.
by lucideer | 2025-08-12 09:55:02+00:00
> There's enormous non-xhtml legacy than nobody wanted to port.

This is a fair argument if content types were being enforced but XML parsing was opt-in (for precisely this reason).

> And tooling back in the day didn't make it easy to write correct xhtml.

True. And instead of developing such tooling, we decided to boil the ocean to get to the point where tooling today doesn't make it any easier to lint / verify / validate your HTML. Mainly because writing such tooling to a non-strict target like HTML is a million times harder than to a target with strict syntax.

A nice ideal would've been IDEs & CI with strict XHTML parsers & clients with fallbacks (e.g. what Chromium eventually implemented)
by extraisland | 2025-08-12 09:55:20+00:00
> I’d still call that statistical illiteracy

It am suspicious of polling because I have a decent understanding of statistics. That is the opposite of statistical illiteracy.

> But someone concluding that all polling is useless because the statistics are hard is sort of analogous to someone rejecting cosmology because we haven’t actually been to Andromeda.

That isn't the argument being made. Nobody said it is "useless". I said I was "suspicious of polling organisations". Polling can be and has been used to manipulate public sentiment.

Therefore it is prudent to be suspicious of any polling.
by LatteLazy | 2025-08-12 09:55:34+00:00
Ummm, the law cited by the Chief clearly states the guard can be called to assist by the senate sergeant at arms OR the house sergeant at arms OR the Capitol Police board.

Pelosi didn’t do it. But she wasn’t responsible for doing it, and the board Mr Sund chaired could have done it themselves much faster.

And all of this is just what they are allowed. It did not stop trump from doing his job. Which he didn’t…

https://policy.defense.gov/portals/11/Documents/hdasa/refere...

Provision of assistance Assistance under this section shall be provided -

(A) consistent with the authority of the Capitol Police under sections 1961 and 1966 of this title;

(B) upon the advance written request of -

(i) the Capitol Police Board; or

(ii) in an emergency -

(I) the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate in any matter relating to the Senate; or

(II) the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives in any matter relating to the House of Representatives; and

(C)(i) on a temporary and reimbursable basis;

(ii) on a permanent reimbursable basis upon advance written request of the Capitol Police Board; or

(iii) on a temporary basis without reimbursement by the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard as described under paragraph (1)
by nl | 2025-08-12 09:57:06+00:00
"Price dumping" isn't an economic term in common use.

"Dumping" in international trade is somewhat similar but the reasons that is illegal are very different: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

Pricing at a loss by VC funded companies is great for consumers. It rarely is at a loss though - they look at the lifetime value.

Pricing at a loss by big tech could be viewed as anticompetitive. Personally I like that Gemini keeps OpenAI prices lower but one could argue it has stopped OpenAIs growth.
by hopelite | 2025-08-12 09:57:48+00:00
There irony is that people who call politicians stupid are generally not very smart people themselves in my experience, regardless of various forms of advanced degrees they believe disproves that.

They may be puppets, they may be manipulators, they may be con-artists, they may be liars; but what does it say about oneself if an “idiot” managed to become one of a few hundred most powerful humans on this planet and in all of human history (in the case of an American politician) and you did not?
by rudolftheone | 2025-08-12 09:57:50+00:00
Related: I know that many people use AI image generators to make pixel art, and recently I've stumbled upon a great tool to make a proper pixelart based on AI generated input see https://github.com/jenissimo/unfake.js and live demo on https://jenissimo.itch.io/unfaker (disclaimer: I don't know the author, just thought I'd share as I find it amazing)
by dathinab | 2025-08-12 09:59:47+00:00
that is just not true

web is mostly based on standards which always have been supper lenient, messy und had massive gaps of unclearity mainly because it was more "lets somehow standarize what browsers already do" then anything else

through I guess you could say that the degree to which you can polyfill JS is more lenient then many thing is good and that did help with extensibility,
by npteljes | 2025-08-12 09:59:51+00:00
I definitely consider it a security breach. But I do still think it's ignorance. Debian maintainers let it slide since 2009, so for at least 16 years now (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534731) - are they also malicious? I just think that not enough fucks were given.
by barrell | 2025-08-12 10:00:12+00:00
You say that, but subscription prices keep going up. Token price goes down but token count goes up. Companies are burning billions to bring you the existing prices, and multiple hundreds per month is not enough to clear the bar to use these tools.

I’m personally hoping for a future with free local LLMs, and I do hope the prices go down. I also recognize I can do things a little cheaper each year with the API.

However it is far from a guaranteed which direction we’re heading in, and I don’t think we’re on track to get close to removing the monetary barrier anytime soon.
by Jolter | 2025-08-12 10:00:34+00:00
I agree regarding the Christian Democrats.

But wouldn’t you agree that both NYD and SD were both founded on populist principles? Apart from racism, neither had any clear cut policies when they started, yet they both got pretty massive boosts from their populist streaks. I think the populist label on them is pretty well established by policy researchers. It’s in the first sentence on both parties’ Swedish Wikipedia pages.
by valleyer | 2025-08-12 10:02:59+00:00
The statute Mr. Sund cites (2 U.S.C. § 1970) specifically says that the National Guard can provide support to the US Capitol Police in an emergency if approved by "the Chief of the Capitol Police, if the Chief of the Capitol Police has determined that the provision of assistance is necessary to prevent the significant disruption of governmental function and public order within the United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds".

Mr. Sund was the chief of the Capitol Police that day.
by myaccountonhn | 2025-08-12 10:03:04+00:00
It's not over yet. We can still fight it.

I don't think democracy is perfect, especially in this case. But I come from a very regulated country, and have lived in countries with far less regulation. The comfort that comes knowing that my food is somewhat safe to eat, that I have access to healthcare, that most workers have good working condition with lots of holiday. This all came from regulation and democracy, and it's great. I don't think mistrust of institutions and democracy is the way to go.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-12 10:03:05+00:00
How one adjudicates ownership or authorship disputes under copyright is fundamentally different than disputes about land and property ownership. We can go to records and so on in each case, but a resolution would be different in each case, because they are different sorts of potential violations or transgressions.

I don’t think it’s as clear who is at fault if I mention “he who must not be named” in a hypothetical scenario where Harry Potter was never published, and then start telling people about the manuscript I found. If I violated someone’s rights to privacy or property to get or keep the original manuscript, that’s one thing, but merely having it even if the author didn’t want me to have it as a copy especially is another issue. If I never published it but merely described it to others, I’m not sure if I’m any less culpable, but it seems like I should be.

I’m not sure how much more I can explore your thought experiment, but I appreciate you for sharing it with me.
by debugnik | 2025-08-12 10:04:20+00:00
I'll give you that the laptops models fare better, I said as much already I think, but I feel you're overselling the support for the form factor most people associate with the Surface brand:

The 5G version of the Surface Pro 10 (second to last) is completely unusable, the SP8-10 need a kernel fork just for keyboard and touchpad (!), SP4-10 need it for the touchscreen (SP4 is 2015), and the cameras won't work at all since SP7 (2019).

Don't get me wrong, I still run Linux on my devices and would be willing to tinker with custom kernels if certain hardware were worth it. I just can't consider this "runs perfectly fine".
by defyonce | 2025-08-12 10:04:21+00:00
if humans stop age and live for thousands years, then there is no need for specific replacement rate.

Alternative, make it possible to have kids without heavy burden on the woman body.

Alternative, make it possible to become pregnant at 50-60 years.

This is all research vectors that we should work on, and not doom on hypothetical what ifs in the future!
by somat | 2025-08-12 10:05:46+00:00
Yeah, I don't really know much about Wayland but.... That does not sound correct to me... Wayland has a copy/paste protocol, and my 5-minute web search indicates that it works much like the X11 copy paste protocol, each application takes care of what will be sent when pasted. then some other application requests a paste, the display server connects the two they negotiate a format and the "copied" data squirts across. that is to say Wayland applications can totally capture text from other applications.

Now if the article meant to say Wayland applications are unable to capture arbitrary text via mechanisms other than then the copy paste protocol I would say fair enough, but it sounds like the problem application is using the normal X11 copy paste protocol. so I don't see how that statement is relevant.
by hs586 | 2025-08-12 10:05:53+00:00
I have (re)discovered paper todo-lists, but not in a notebook but just a single A6 paper that I keep in my pocket the whole day.

Since it's always in my pocket, I see it spontaneously during the day, and as a result, I manage to focus on it more. Have tried apps, but the fact I had to click the app would make me easily forget it, and get distracted on other things on the phone.

I look at it every evening and write the one for the next day, and have the last few lying around near my bed. As one of the other comments mentioned, this ritual may be more important than the medium but I find keeping a ritual with paper has been easier.
by aragilar | 2025-08-12 10:06:50+00:00
I'm not sure how Wayland specifically prevents the privacy issue on its own (it can't block network calls), it seems it's down to not implementing the required Wayland calls, but I would be surprised if there was no portal or DBus or similar IPC to get the clipboard on Wayland (which is called out in the package description as noted by the maintainer). The issue is what the app plugin does with the clipboard data, while it's not something I want, I can see people wanting automatic lookups of words.

I think in a similar way to how xz attack required integration via systemd to exist, this is really more about defaults and integrations (which the last message from the maintainer acknowledges and seems to be fixing). https://xkcd.com/2044/ is as always an ever-present problem.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-12 10:07:46+00:00
This is also the reason Olkiluoto Nuclear Plant Unit 3[0] cost so much.

Nobody had built a nuclear reactor in ages. The last ones were from the 80's and this was a completely new technology (EPR). There was no institutional knowledge.

It didn't help that the French attitude to building was to "just slap it up real fast up north and use it as a reference to get REAL customers". They didn't figure in the fact that STUK (the Finnish radiation authority) is _really_ fucking good at what they do and don't cut any corners for any reason resulting in the French having to build many parts twice because the first attempt was subpar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_and_Nuclear_Safety_A...
by Warwolt | 2025-08-12 10:08:41+00:00
I think model theory is a really good source of theory to ground the notion of modules.

The relation between an interface and an implementation to me is very much the same as between a formal theory and a model of that theory.

I agree that in practice you'd want to use heuristics for this, but I think the benefits would be similar to learning a little bit of formal verification like TLA+, it's easier to shoot from your hip if you've studied how to translate some simpler requirements into something precise.

For a book like this you'd probably not need more than first order logic and set theory to get a sense of how to express certain things precisely, but I think making _reference to_ existing mathematics as what grounds our heuristics would've been beneficial.
by Lockal | 2025-08-12 10:09:28+00:00
There are dozens of chrome extensions that translate (read: submit to untrusted server) on hover / highlight / context menu / textarea edit / etc. It is implied, that user acknowledges this functionality and accepts the risk. This includes untrusted server (because that's how they proxy requests to Google/Bing/Yandex Translate without exposing API keys).

Security illiteracy? Yes. Malicious intent? Probably no.

Does being security illiterate equal malicious? Debatable.
by rkomorn | 2025-08-12 10:10:02+00:00
I think there's also a lot of "if we don't change too much, we have a pretty good chance to not face issues getting the aircraft certified", and "if we change the aircraft too much it'll cause issues where airports have to alter their infrastructure" (which is relevant for things like the blended wing research that's popped up recently).

There's a ton of legacy in overall airline/aircraft operations that discourages big changes.
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-08-12 10:10:15+00:00
I don't think we know that it'll fail, or at least that is not universally accepted as true. Rather, there are claims that given a large enough model / context window, such capabilities emerge. I think skepticism of that claim is warranted. This research validates that skepticism, at least for a certain parameters (model family/size, context size, etc).
by frognumber | 2025-08-12 10:10:56+00:00
My bill for LLMs is going up over time. The more capable, higher-context models dramatically increase my productivity.

The spend prices most of the developing world out -- an programmer earning $10k per year can't pay for a $200/month Claude Max subscription..

And it does better than $6k-$10k programmers in Africa, India, and Asia.

It's the mainframe era all over again, where access to computing is gated by $$$.
by balou23 | 2025-08-12 10:11:07+00:00
There's plenty of options available. A coworker of mine used to print out code for reviews. You can use italic, bold and underline as alternative to colors. Grayscale might work nicely for eInk too - for laser printers just thin/regular/bold probably works better.

Other fonts... I could see myself being distracted by changing fonts in a document, except maybe for comment blocks. But for those italic/thin seems to work well already.

Tried to find the tool... it's GNU enscript. Syntax highlighting for several languages, outputs to postscript.
by aragilar | 2025-08-12 10:12:04+00:00
Which is interesting (as according to the LWN article) it seems like the general issue of what is sent is an ever-present one for StarDict, as apparently the earlier issue was around the defaults for all dictionaries, whereas the new issue is around a specific plugin.

Personally, if I was using (or a maintainer of) a dictionary tool which autoreads the clipboard (or any dictionary tool), I'd be checking what it is doing and considering whether it is what I would want to use.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-12 10:13:23+00:00
> Debian IS more cautious with dependencies, in that you won't get hidden dependencies that aren't in the repos.

For a definition of cautious I don't personally share.

Debian doesn't vet packages. Debian maintainers are less competent than the "upstream" they question approximately all the time, which is why they keep breaking stuff in more or less severe way (OpenSLL anyone?). And let's not even talk about the insane stuff like when maitainers decide to support a fork they like instead of the piece of software users actually want (Libav anyone?).

> If not, then I'm not interested.

And that's your choice. That doesn't mean developers should care, nor that it is actually a good idea.
by darkerside | 2025-08-12 10:13:38+00:00
> working with a junior developer who may or may not be drunk or tired and doesn't tell you.

Bad news, friend.

Overall though, I think you're right. It's a lot like working with people. The things you might be missing are that you can get better at this with practice, and that once you are multiplexing multiple Claudes, you can become hyper efficient. These are things I'm looking into now.

Do I know these for a fact? Not yet. But, like any tool, I'm sure that the investment won't pay off right away.
by latexr | 2025-08-12 10:14:00+00:00
> Which are not inherent issues of using llms.

But they are exacerbated by them, so the criticism still stands. No one visits HN for low-quality same-loking submissions. It’s like frequenting r/toolgifs and suddenly almost every post is about one specific hammer. That’d be understandably annoying, and while not the inherent fault of the hammer, it would be an issue only possible because it exists.
by monkeydust | 2025-08-12 10:14:22+00:00
Just reading their annual report and scanning through the repos on github tells you think was questionable use of public money. I went to some of the talks which were good but felt a lot of their work was research for the sake of research with little to no traction in the commercial space which is where they should have been much more focused.

https://github.com/alan-turing-institute

https://www.turing.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-09/the-ala...
by hopelite | 2025-08-12 10:15:26+00:00
Did anyone think at this point, on this trajectory that any British court would have struck this down?

It reminds me of whatever the process is that keeps people in abusive relationships rationalizing how things will be fine now because their abuser promised to stop abusing them for the 100th time.

Our current model of the mind would consider it a delusion, a mental illness.

Considering the past few years and the abuses by government that follow the Biderman’s Chart of Coercion, it seems rather clear that humanity finds itself in a dungeon of the aristocracy once again; sadly enough, due to its own choices and actions.
by Warwolt | 2025-08-12 10:17:00+00:00
My issues stems from me feeling like a lot of terminology introduced by the author ending up being used in different ways in different paragraphs.

It didn't feel like a thought through whole, and I felt somewhat punished for trying to read along attentively.

I also found there to be a frequent conflation of e.g. the notion of modules and a classic OOP-class, to me it seemed like the author thought of them interchangeably.

To me there's enough theoretical computer science that can be used to help ground the terminology, even if it's just introduced cursory and with a reference for further reading. But at least then there'd be more consistency.

I'm not sure I think the book is invaluable, but I think it's a good contribution to the subject.
by beastdevmoney | 2025-08-12 10:17:44+00:00
Imagine a forum where censorship is impossible, identity is cryptographically yours, and every post you make becomes a permanent part of the public record — owned entirely by you. With TopBidMessage, your Ethereum wallet is your account, and your words are secured on-chain, immutable and transparent.

Instead of “likes” or “karma,” posts compete in a live auction of attention — the higher you bid, the more visible your voice becomes. This economic layer doesn’t just filter noise; it rewards the most valuable contributors, turning conversations into a merit-based marketplace.

It’s not just another Web3 app. It’s a blueprint for a future where online discourse is free from gatekeepers, driven by incentives, and powered by the people who care enough to participate.
by valleyer | 2025-08-12 10:17:46+00:00
The point is that if you have a small municipality, a small number of murders would easily top your examples. St. Louis has a murder rate around 70/100k. As a toy example, Murphy, N.C., population 1700, saw a double murder last year. So their rate is almost 118/100k.

So yes, your list is applying some sort of population threshold, which means you are then also just selecting for big cities.
by nudgeOrnurture | 2025-08-12 10:17:54+00:00
> internally I end up having thoughts like this that I typically only feel safe sharing non-anonymously with people who are close.

Ever tried flipping the lid on this? You'd start opening up a lot of people. Those who would try to use that against you or judge have no relevance since they are not close anyway.

> why the traditionalists/far right haven’t taken this propaganda approach ...

they have little, low quality sex and any debate about it would force them to face this, even though it barely matters to them but admitting weakness with something so brutally natural is way above their heads.

if they didn't "make" their partner orgasm, ever, are they real men or gay men in disguise? (their thoughts, not mine, I think they are gay for other reasons)

it's similar to how young people used to or still do laugh about older men needing Viagra.

b) traditionalists and far right have build a merry go round in a dead end, "Sackgasse" in German.

it's a top down dogma.

they cannot have arguments that extend established ways of reasoning before their kind has engineered context and research within which their reasoning follows proper logic (see Quillete (don't) for lots of examples, or rationalists and autistic people easily running with the magic money herd).

they end up having to face the secret life's and thoughts of their partners, realizing they were actively kept in line so that their superiors and peers can reign freely vs having to compete with them, which would extend their minds, freedom and literal happiness.