MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danpalmer | 2025-08-05 00:00:35+00:00
First off, congrats, this is no small feat, well done.

A question: in my (limited) experience, ERPs are made on the basis of integrations. I'd have thought the best priority order would be data-model first, integration second, everything else third. How do you think about this? What's the goal here?

And secondly, some feedback: It looks like Carbon falls into the same trap as many self-hostable SaaS-like products (including my own!), and that is that software designed for one single hoster is often more complex to deploy and built in a different way, whereas software designed primarily to self-host looks much simpler. As an example, installing Wordpress or Odoo is relatively simple, with basic frontend webserver config and easy to run open source databases. Carbon on the other hand appears to be quite a few different components, with many dependencies, some of which are SaaS products, and uses a database (Supabase) which is itself a whole microservice ecosystem that is a considerable effort to deploy. What's the strategy here? Despite having the skills for it, I'm not sure I'd ever consider self-hosting Carbon, and maybe that's good for Carbon as a business, but it's also less good for the ecosystem.
by goosejuice | 2025-08-05 00:01:44+00:00
You can't passively acknowledge it. It requires actively agreeing that you understand prior to use. The dialog in one version makes reference to autopilot in the pilot definition.

Maybe when this accident happened it was different, but as far as I know it's always been behind a confirmation dialog.

To operate a motor vehicle in the US, you must be licensed. That surely holds some weight here.
by laingc | 2025-08-05 00:03:41+00:00
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by wkat4242 | 2025-08-05 00:04:53+00:00
Yes but its not just about the beam. Signal timing can be used for more precise location. Even with one sat receiving the signal. Because they move so fast, much faster than the user could possibly move. So it basically could triangulate with itself as the other receivers. And there's also Doppler like the other poster mentioned.

I don't know if they actually do this, I guess not. And it would not be simple to do. But I'm sure it can be done. There's enough information available.
by mikewarot | 2025-08-05 00:05:38+00:00
I'm working on an idea (BitGrid, a bit level systolic array) referenced here many times, that, if it works, could cut 95% off the power and silicon costs of LLM compute. (Think $1 Trillion data centers)

It can't possibly work, according to most of the folks here on HN. I've looked reasonably closely at everything that's been tried before, and couldn't find anything close enough, most of the things tried have RAM, or a CPU... both of which spell doom.
by ziml77 | 2025-08-05 00:06:18+00:00
One thing that drives me up the wall on macOS is when an application demands attention and its dock icon starts bouncing... and doesn't stop. It happens over fullscreen stuff too.

The flashing icons in Windows are far less obtrusive, and I was just looking at the latest insider preview for 11 where they are making it so the icon will only flash a few times and then change the little "application is running" bar that sits under the app icon from white to red to indicate that it wanted your attention. Which sounds like an excellent way to handle it to me.
by cnst | 2025-08-05 00:07:22+00:00
I've looked at the OpenIPC sponsors. It looks like there's a huge market in Eastern Europe to install a camera at the entrance to your apartment building, and then charge your neighbours for camera access as a value-added service, e.g., a shared intercom. Also, to keep an eye on the shared courtyard (dvor24). Pretty ingenious, if you ask me!
by brudgers | 2025-08-05 00:07:32+00:00
LLM’s have been widely available for approximately five years.

Five years into the availability of a calculator with an arbitrary advanced feature, it was controversial in academic contexts. Some of the author’s students could be grand-children of students from the early days of consumer calculators.

The author is comparing a new technology with an old one. And ignoring programable calculators which are still sometimes banned after fifty years…and many of the author’s students probably have used LLM’s for homework despite their statements that please the author.
by cesarb | 2025-08-05 00:07:59+00:00
The article does not explicitly say it, but it's clearly a defense against the CLOUD Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act); it all makes sense once you add that missing puzzle piece.

The CLOUD Act conflicts with EU laws like the GDPR (AFAIK, this has been confirmed more than once in EU courts already), which means that EU organizations (which have to follow the GDPR) might not be allowed to use USA-owned cloud services, even when the data is completely hosted within the EU, because the cloud service sysadmins might be forced through the CLOUD Act to break the GDPR. Requiring that all employees with a high level of access have EU citizenship and residency makes it much harder for a USA court to pressure them into breaking these EU laws.
by InTheArena | 2025-08-05 00:08:07+00:00
This is mostly untrue. Most of this narrative comes from Soviet propaganda that was later propagated by anti-Western and anti-war groups in the United States. More recently, it's gotten more attention as Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov use it as a useful tool to build their narrative that only Russia was responsible for World War II's victory and to justify their constant threats of nuclear warfare.

The historical record is very clear, as is Hirohito's own statement at the time:

"Furthermore, the enemy has begun to employ a new and cruel bomb, causing immense and indiscriminate destruction, the extent of which is beyond all estimation. Should we continue to fight, not only would it result in the ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but it would also lead to the total extinction of human civilization.

How, then, are We to protect the millions of Our subjects and atone before the spirits of my Imperial ancestors?

This is why We have ordered the Empire to accept the terms of the Joint Declaration. "
by motohagiography | 2025-08-05 00:08:27+00:00
there are large projects, and then there is interstellar travel. imo they aren't comparable or analogous. comparing it to boats is a kind of linear extrapolation or mapping of those effects to the present, whereas the distance between boats and faster than light craft is a non-linear mapping where all the factors contributing to its development really are different.

the analogy to 14th century Americas would be that aliens arrive, have technology for resource extraction, this disrupts the economics of the existing civilization, which then orients itself to this new technological power and factions compete to dominate brokerage of it among themselves, or to destroy it. the aliens need to secure their resource supply lines from the native factions, and when there is no peace to be had, they fight the way they know how, which wipes most of them out, or they leave and come back in a more evolved millenium.

the cultures that were strong enough to adapt, survived. the ones that weren't able to adapt, died. in a sense it was a case of the meek inheriting the earth, where natives who fought against alien technology lost, and the people in ones that adapted, lived to survive to today.

but the comparison breaks down when you substitute boats for craft capable of relativistic speeds. the sophistication required to do faster than light travel is too high to make unforced errors like that, imo.
by ChilledTonic | 2025-08-05 00:10:04+00:00
I've noticed with nearly all of these "Vibe Code" security fatalities, they're nearly ALWAYS using Firebase as a backend. I get it, I've used Firebase for a number of enterprise and personal projects, its convenient and easy to setup.

But even before LLM coding, I had team members walk into its numerous footguns - especially around public buckets and bad firestore rules. How many of these stories are really to be blamed on the AI tooling, and how many could be blamed on the very poor default settings of Firebase?
by avs733 | 2025-08-05 00:10:10+00:00
My wife and I cry tears of laughter everytime Sean shows up.

And for those new to this - don’t miss the episode Cricket (3,47) which makes my wife tear up everytime.

The ability to tell a clear and focused narrative that has humor and a lesson in 8 minutes is stunning to me. I have legitimately used it with grad students learning to write a paper. Nothing is wasted, not a line not a shot.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-05 00:10:31+00:00
Swarm used pretty big antennas (due to a much lower wavelength) on the ground segment. It was pretty impractical. And that frequency, starlink sats are not capable of it.

Swarm's network was very incomplete, there were hours of no coverage at all. I think that they just bought it to remove a potential competitor.
by spdionis | 2025-08-05 00:10:58+00:00
Whenever I read HN talking about PHP I am reminded of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. The level of discussion on the topic is abysmal, compared to (I guess perceived?) the discussion on other topics.

It's interesting how clearly 80% of the developers in the community clearly have 0 clue about modern PHP. People mention shared hosting, code in html files, CGI and bad security defaults. To be clear these things have been dead in the PHP world for 10+ years, but most developers here have used it once in 2005 and haven't seen how it looks like in the modern ecosystem.

It's as if whenever the topic was Java, the discussion would center only around the devs working with Java 1.8.

Likely, the rest of the discussion on HN is of the same level, but I have a harder time spotting the errors.
by belter | 2025-08-05 00:11:05+00:00
> be aware that none of those tools require coding knowledge, nor any DB administration, nor scalability consideration.

These are slogans with marketing grade truth, not engineering truth. The moment you leave the happy path wizards you run straight into Python, SQL, JVM knobs, and cluster limits. The visual Pipeline Builder drops you into a Code node the second you need anything beyond basic joins/filters. Here is an example: https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/code-workbook/getting-...

>> nor scalability consideration. Foundry Spark jobs expose tunable variables, you are expected to tweak them for performance and cost: https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/optimizing-pipelines/s...
by b112 | 2025-08-05 00:11:16+00:00
At no point did I say the US was zionist, or not zionist. I stated they placed sanctions.

Meanwhile, ypu ignored the half a dozen countries, and multiple parliamentarians, Ministers, etc from each country, in the link I referred to.

It should also be noted that believing Israel has a right to exist, is not zionism. Zionism is much more extreme.

This woman has been sanctioned for being anti-Semitic. And to carry the point, believing that Israel shouldn't be settling the West bank, isn't anti-Semitic.

I repeat, supporting Israel's right to exist, is not Zionism.
by apsurd | 2025-08-05 00:11:28+00:00
Education tends toward public good will if the mission is to educate and improve learning outcomes.

I've been told there's tons of money in education! But the insight is the edtech stuff that makes money does not sell education. B2b up-skilling platforms for example sell the promise of higher earnings. Food safety, HR training sell compliance. College prep sells college acceptance, and so on.

The people with the foresight to pay for financial literacy will very likely already be financially literate.

I'm conflicted.
by skissane | 2025-08-05 00:11:49+00:00
Right, and then if the US parent company orders EU managers to violate EU law, and when the managers refuse, replaces them with EU managers stupid enough to obey an illegal order - then what happens? The new EU managers get arrested and possibly end up in prison. Worse case scenario for the US parent, is the US parent company is (civilly or criminally) prosecuted under EU (or member state) law for giving the illegal order, convicted, and then as punishment, they are deprived of their local assets, including ownership of the subsidiary in question.

The parent company is ultimately at greater risk than the subsidiary-the parent can be deprived of ownership of its subsidiary, there is no equivalent consequence for the subsidiary.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-05 00:11:50+00:00
There's no social stigma to using AI image generation.

There is what's probably better described as a bullying campaign. People tried the same thing when synthesizers and cameras were invented. But nobody takes it seriously unless you're already in the angry person fandom.

In practice AI image generation is ubiquitous at this point. AI image editing is also built into all major phones.
by klipklop | 2025-08-05 00:11:50+00:00
I know it's popular to dunk on Elon because of US politics, but it seems like a fun idea. Charge, watch a big screen and eat junk food. This is like the most peak American activity possible. You can loaf and eat a slice of apple pie...

The food prices are in-line with most fast-casual places in the area. In general I would prefer this to most gas stations. I say this as somebody that does not own a Tesla, nor any EV.
by InTheArena | 2025-08-05 00:12:01+00:00
Which religious leader? Hirohito? Hirohito rarely took any direction of the war - at best he enthusiastically endorsed what the ruling militarists wanted. As critical as one could (and should) be about this support, there is plenty of documentation that he tried to tap the brakes on the militarists, but didn't try all that hard. It wasn't until the very end of the war that he directly made a decision, and that was only enabled by a literal tie in the cabinet that allowed him to cast the deciding vote (sorta - more or less, gave him cover to break his role).

He was a war criminal, but not the leader of the war by any means. That was reserved for the militarists - Tojo and Suzuki and others.
by goosejuice | 2025-08-05 00:12:05+00:00
> Those warnings you're talking about were added after this accident occurred as part of a mandated recall during the Biden administration.

If that's the case, this is certainly a stronger argument. I thought autosteer and FSD always had this dialog. As far as I know these dialogs go back 10 years and this was April 2019.

Even still find retroactive punishment of this to be dubious. If Tesla is liable to some degree so should the NHTSA, to the extent that anyone who makes the rules can be, for not defining this well enough to protect drivers.
by eru | 2025-08-05 00:12:34+00:00
I like ML-style modules in principle, but in practice I like the ergonomics of typeclasses.

But while I did nearly half of my career in either OCaml or Haskell, I did all of my OCaml programming and most of my Haskell programming before the recent surge of really good autocompletion systems / AI; and I notice how much they help with Rust.

So the ergonomics of ML-style modules might be perfectly acceptable now, when you have an eager assistant filling in the busy work for obvious cases. Not sure.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-05 00:13:02+00:00
I don't think pre-compensation would help here. There's multiple SVs in range at any given time so it's just correlating a shifting frequency signal instead of a fixed signal. Provided sufficient difference in the skew between SVs that should be quite trivial.

Anyway thanks. That definitely answers my question. If anything I'd expect GT location data to be more accurate than the terrestrial cell network, at least if the operator bothers to derive it.
by papercrane | 2025-08-05 00:14:31+00:00
> If they arrange financing but don't hold the loans themselves, they get paid without assuming any risk, yes?

Yes, that's correct. It's typically how investment banks operate, their main business is facilitating transactions. They'll turn around and sell the loans to hedge funds and private investors.

This obviously mean they have incentive to encourage buildouts and to downplay the risks of the loans.
by jameshart | 2025-08-05 00:15:05+00:00
Maybe 'ridiculously fragile' is the wrong word. Perhaps 'needlessly' fragile would be better.

The point is that it takes application of algorithms that need to be provably correctly implemented on both ends of any JSON serialization/deserialization. And if one implantation can roundtrip its own floating point values, that's great - but JSON is an interop format, so does it roundtrip if you send it to another system and back?

It's just an unnecessary layer of complexity that binary floating point serializers do not have to worry about.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-05 00:15:11+00:00
You're making a very generous assumption that

1. An Ai can truly find the best candidate (spoilers: the best candidate is not one who spouts out the most buzzwords) 2. The Ai will not profile based on illegal factors, given that many of these interviews insist on a camera (even pre-llm there are many biases on everything from voice assistants to camera filters to seat belt design).

3. That humans will spend anytime refining andnirerwting an AI to improve beyond hitting those 2 factors, among many others. What's the incentive if they are fine automating out the most important part of a company's lifeblood as is.
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-05 00:15:17+00:00
I got banned permanently from this server (with no explanation of why). However, it look like it is also on Codeberg, which I am not banned from (although many of the links are incorrect when viewed on Codeberg (at least if JavaScripts are disabled), it still works).

I think these articles are good, but I do have some other comments.

For some programs, there is the possibility that some parts can potentially work without non-FOSS but is difficult to separate. (This can also be a different problem in case you only want one part of the program.)

A program can also be Free but "trapped", in case it requires proprietary compilers to compile it (although it is often possible to work around this; sometimes easily and sometimes more difficult).

For some games that have non-FOSS parts, there is also the issue of if the non-FOSS parts can execute arbitrary code or otherwise do things outside of the game itself, that is not necessarily desirable (e.g. a Game Boy Advance emulator might be FOSS, although the programs it emulates might or might not be FOSS, but either way do not affect the rest of the computer nor the internet and other stuff like that); and, also the consideration of whether the software can be used without the non-FOSS parts (if you can replace them; e.g. a FOSS game engine might be made as a clone of a non-FOSS game engine that can use the original game files but you can also make your own fully FOSS games using it too).

There is also some that may require non-FOSS to access, even if the software itself is FOSS. Proprietary (or overly complicated, even if FOSS) communication channels are also not mentioned (although another comment on here does mention it), and I think it probably is a concern (not one that necessarily makes the project itself to be not FOSS, but still might be worth mentioning), even if it does not make the program itself to be not FOSS, it can make it difficult to contribute or to use it.

Being FOSS does not necessarily mean that you intend to run the program on your computer; you might only want to view the code, or modify it before running it, or use your own program (or a different FOSS program) as a substitute.

Programs can be "open core" but the non-FOSS part is still clearly distinct from it (which is the case for SQLite). (In the case of SQLite, they also mention the non-FOSS test suite; they are not needed to run the program, but it may make it difficult to make your own changes and then test it. However, some programs do not have a real test suite at all, anyways.)
by ziml77 | 2025-08-05 00:15:46+00:00
If something like that is going to chew through batteries, it should be available as hardwired only, with batteries as the backup. But I know the manufacturers wouldn't want to miss out on the juicy market of people who don't want to deal with running the wires and who don't realize how often they're going to be replacing batteries until it's too late to return the device.
by alistairSH | 2025-08-05 00:16:04+00:00
My Honda Ridgeline (2021, USA spec) has two modes…

Default is “sticker shaker” mode - if it senses lane departure, it shakes the wheel and displays a warning on the dash. On by default, but can be disabled after start-up.

The other mode is “lane-centering” - has to be turned on after start-up, and actively steers car to the center of the lane. Really only makes sense on a highway/interstate - clear lanes, no sharp turns, etc. On dual carriage way, it gets a bit “stupid” when turn lanes appear with a gap or change in lane marking - it thinks the lane got extra wide and tries to center, pulling me half into the turn lane.

But, like I said, it’s 100% optional, so I use it on the highway/interstate, but nothing smaller.

Sounds like the EU mandates “lane centering” all the time that can’t be easily disabled, which is pretty silly (if it behaves anything like the Honda system, whcih is only really designed for true interstate use).