MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pmarreck | 2025-08-15 12:34:39+00:00
> When you use it to define entire population groups as "intolerant", and therefore not worth of protection, you have joined the side that you ostensibly want to fight against.

Suppose there was an organization that had written by-laws which were not permitted to be changed but which demanded adherence (on pain of death), including never leaving the organization. Also suppose that most of the members of that organization collectively decided not to adhere to all of its rules (some were considered incompatible with "progress")... but some continued to. And others sometimes began to, but only under stress, because the by-laws book (which, again, cannot be changed, on pain of death) made NO clarification on scope of application, and people were free to interpret the by-laws literally.

Why would you not judge that organization, given that its by-laws are its core? Why would you make special exceptions for ANY organization (or its members), here?

I mean, objectively-speaking, if we weren't reflexively defending the org we're of course discussing, it sounds like a dystopian science-fiction novel. (If I'm being honest, it sounds A LOT like Warhammer, actually.)

Here's a fun thing to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naskh_(tafsir)

"With few exceptions, Islamic revelations do not state which Quranic verses or hadith have been abrogated, and Muslim exegetes and jurists have disagreed over which and how many hadith and verses of the Quran are recognized as abrogated, with estimates varying from less than ten to over 500."

Also note that naskh tends to recognize later passages as overriding earlier passages. Guess which ones are the more violent ones...

See a problem, yet? Please don't gaslight me into not seeing one.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-15 12:35:33+00:00
You are right that the cryptographic instructions are optional and they have always been so in ARM CPUs, in order to enable the making of CPUs that can be embedded in products that will be exported even to destinations where cryptography is forbidden.

However the poster above was talking about smartphone Arm-based CPUs. I doubt that there has ever existed a 64-bit ARM-based CPU for smartphones that did not implement the cryptography extension. Even the CPUs having only Cortex-A53 cores that I am aware of, made by some Chinese companies for extremely cheap mobile phones, had this extension.
by krapp | 2025-08-15 12:35:48+00:00
>Fundamentally it's a way to make God seem like less of a child-abusing jerk. A sky-daddy who "punishes" those who understand morality, but grants slack to the cutie-patootie babies and puppies is just nicer for people to believe in.

I think this is far too modernist an interpretation. When Genesis was written the characterization of God wouldn't have been interpreted as a "child-abusing jerk." God's behavior reflected what was expected of a father and a king given the culture and morals of the time, as well as the cold and indifferent brutality of the natural world, and was little different in those regards to other sky-father gods.

Bear in mind this same God doesn't "grant slack to the cutie-patootie babies and puppies" either, at all. People sacrificed animals to God and God engaged in infanticide more than once.
by infecto | 2025-08-15 12:36:06+00:00
You are missing the forest for the trees.

Winterization is a fix for last time’s failure, not a strategy for the future. A market like Texas can work if it values resilience alongside price efficiency, meaning capacity planning, diversified generation, and yes, some enforced standards. Otherwise you’re just running a lean system that collapses the moment reality strays from the model.

That storm was an issue for other markets as well but they were mostly able to get away with rolling blackouts due to interconnects. Those same markets and similar winterization issues but were under FERC guidelines. Folks love to anchor onto to winterization issue like it did not impact other FERC regions.
by extraisland | 2025-08-15 12:36:25+00:00
Right. Let me get this right:

1) You asked for evidence of a rent-a-crowd / rent-a-mob service. Something which you could have looked up yourself.

2) I gave you links to companies that offer these services. I understand that these websites aren't the best, I literally listed the first 4 that were spat out by when searching. I suspect they probably don't get most of their business through the website. They look like websites I was making for companies back in the late 2000s.

3) Then you make allusions to to me delusional.

I think you are looking for excuses to dismiss my point of view. Probably because you don't agree with it.
by ljf | 2025-08-15 12:36:26+00:00
I posted similar about UK waters the other day - it isn't as extreme here but it is noticeable, on Wednesday I completed a 2+ hour snorkel (with a wetsuit) when I'm often too cold after an hour.

Last night I snorkelled for 30 minutes with my son at 6pm without a wetsuit for either of us - the sea is that much warmer than average right now.

The heat is impacting the local catch of lobster and crabs, and increasing the number of new fish species here - and of jelly fish.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-08-15 12:37:01+00:00
Nimbyism needs to be shut down at the earliest opportunity when a project is mandatory for the economic growth of the country, people moan about their energy prices but also moan when a wind turbine is within viewing distance of their house.

I have seen the current Labour government start to override councils putting up fusses, too early to see if it makes any meaningful effect though.

I watched this video from TLDR last year and found it easy to understand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYPFlDGQah4
by DebtDeflation | 2025-08-15 12:37:03+00:00
100%. All of these schemes depend on the existence of a jurisdiction with low (or non-existent) corporate taxes that they can shift profits to in order to avoid paying taxes in the actual jurisdictions in which they manufacture and sell. Doesn't matter whether at its core it's a transfer pricing scheme, an IP royalty scheme, or a thin capitalization scheme. You need a man (country) in the middle with low/no taxes where you will recognize the profit you don't want taxed.
by orsorna | 2025-08-15 12:37:13+00:00
I'll take a bite and be a defensive developer.

I really can't put frameworks in the same bucket as AI. At least frameworks describe an abstract model for a developer to rationalize and think through. AI allows (but doesn't mandate) a developer to write code that they don't understand.

Perhaps I've worked on business logic so long instead of esoteric efforts; what real world use case would benefit from not leveraging a framework where applicable?

In fact, I see your publicly posted resume; are there really developers out there rawdogging Javascript? What problem space do you hire for that mandates the ignorance of >15 years of JS libraries?

And does your business pays above market rate for these skilled developers? Without understanding the problem space I just assume your business tries to hire talented people at exploitative wages. Regardless it appears to be a staggering waste of talent unless the higher quality significantly reduces the cost center of downtime, bugs etc (I find this hard to believe)
by JimDabell | 2025-08-15 12:37:21+00:00
> In the early days of ride share it was an amazing advancement and very cheap, because it was highly subsidized.

This is not an analogous situation.

Inference APIs aren’t subsidised, and I’m not sure the monthly plans are any more either. AI startups burn a huge amount of money on providing free service to drive growth. That’s something they can reduce at any time without raising costs for their customers at all. Not to mention the fact that the cost of providing inference is plummeting by several orders of magnitude.

Uber weren’t providing free service to huge numbers of people, so when they wanted to turn a profit they couldn’t reduce there and had to raise prices for their customers. And the fees they pay to drivers didn’t drop a thousandfold so it wasn’t getting vastly cheaper to provide service.
by lottin | 2025-08-15 12:38:33+00:00
I didn't rewrite the whole thing. But here's the first part. It uses the `histogram` function from the lattice package.

population_data <- data.frame( uniform = runif(10000, min = -20, max = 20), normal = rnorm(10000, mean = 0, sd = 4), binomial = rbinom(10000, size = 1, prob = .5), beta = rbeta(10000, shape1 = .9, shape2 = .5), exponential = rexp(10000, .4), chisquare = rchisq(10000, df = 2) ) histogram(~ values|ind, stack(population_data), layout = c(6, 1), scales = list(x = list(relation="free")), breaks = NULL) take_random_sample_mean <- function(data, sample_size) { x <- sample(data, sample_size) c(mean = mean(x), sd = sqrt(var(x))) } sample_statistics <- replicate(20000, sapply(population_data, take_random_sample_mean, 60)) sample_mean <- as.data.frame(t(sample_statistics["mean", , ])) sample_sd <- as.data.frame(t(sample_statistics["sd", , ])) histogram(sample_mean[["uniform"]]) histogram(sample_mean[["binomial"]]) histogram(~values|ind, stack(sample_mean), layout = c(6, 1), scales = list(x = list(relation="free")), breaks = NULL)
by klabb3 | 2025-08-15 12:38:51+00:00
Fair enough, good points. I still think it’s doable. But we’ll probably not see it for a long time if ever..

Here’s a (probably bad) idea that require no layout changes:

Repurpose the caps key into a ”clipboard key”: if you press it while you have something selected, it copies, otherwise it pastes. The key lights up (caps often have led) it means you have something in the clipboard. An expiry of X seconds is good for privacy anyway (copying a password and forgetting it’s in the clipboard). Cut is two keys: clipboard, delete. Paste-to-replace: delete, clipboard.

I’ll see myself out.
by inglor_cz | 2025-08-15 12:39:00+00:00
I wonder how much of this difference is attributable to Swiss direct democracy, which teaches people to participate in the decision-making process, but it also teaches them that losing in a vote is natural, and that you in fact should have at least some position towards bigger projects, instead of ignoring 99 per cent of what is going on, because your position actually matters when the ballot is being counted.

NIMBYs and other special interest groups are usually non-majority, but used to getting their way over the wish (or, more often, tired indifference) of the majority, which the Swiss system makes a bit harder.
by hopelite | 2025-08-15 12:39:05+00:00
The funnest part about that is you better make sure no matter what you write is also future proof against any and all whims of any other regime that may rule at any point in the future. But that is ultimately the point of any abusive and toxic system created by psychopathic, megalomaniac, malignant and grandiose narcissistic people and groups; they want to broken and shattered, never sure what may set the abuse off, until the day you remain beaten down and submissive to the demigods.
by bawana | 2025-08-15 12:39:09+00:00
I think the microcosm of an animal is a useful analogy: every animal has functions that it performs within its body. Survival requires the acquisition of resources (food). However we now have the ability to endow humans with the biochemical machinery of photosynthesis through genetic engineering. This would eliminate the need for most food production and consumption. Yet this seemingly huge biological advantage never evolved. Instead, We continue to develop more complex ways to acquire and use resources. This increasing complexity is exceeding the ability of our brains to manage, even as we struggle to build artificially expanded intelligence. There is an optimal amount of interdependent activity (=trade) that maximizes utility. We have experienced conditions on both sides of this optimum. The first step to recovery is recognizing this optimum and defining it, but we continue to deny its existence. Instead we have developed systems that rely on constant growth and expansion- this is weirdly un-earthlike where most systems are cycles in equilibrium.
by troupo | 2025-08-15 12:39:21+00:00
Apple is institutionally incapable of understanding games. It started with Jobs who didn't like and didn't understand video games. and continues with the top brass [1]

Games with app purchases are just a lucky turn of events for Apple because they still don't understand what games are. Hence the "oh, we now have desktop-level graphics on iPhone" or some other drivel they pronounce from time to time at WWDC.

From time to time someone in the company manages to push something forward (see Game Porting Toolkit), but those remain very few and far in between.

[1] To be honest, I doubt any of the top brass even uses computers these days looking at the decisions they make wrt Mac OS.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-08-15 12:39:23+00:00
While it's certainly not one of the finest movies ever made, it is the finest movie ever made about Apple, and a must-see for anyone in tech.

Noah Wyle was perfectly cast as Steve Jobs. In fact, Wyle participated in an amusing Apple prank at MacWorld 1999:

https://youtu.be/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os
by digdugdirk | 2025-08-15 12:39:24+00:00
While I'd lean more towards plain ol' capitalism as the reason for small market players going under, the final point of the article (discussing patent related legal barriers on existing open source innovation becoming a main strategy of large industry players) is a very important one to keep in mind for people on this site in the hardware startup space:

"This is a story from 3D printing, but all the areas with heavy open hardware development are in Made in China 2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025 and its successors. Make sure you keep an eye on the filings around your expertise, it is incomparably much easier to do something now than later."
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-15 12:39:29+00:00
About happiness in life, that only happens when the needs of the body and the needs of the soul are satisfied. Only then we can talk about happiness and piece of mind. Virtually no amount of Buddhist intention can overcome a hungry body and an empty soul.

That is not to bash on those like me that pursue this post-consumerist happiness state, only to say that you can't expect those that are hungry to overcome their state without help, as well as expect those that have their basic needs satisfied to feel guilty.
by wellpast | 2025-08-15 12:39:37+00:00
I had the same reaction.

I’m eager to find someone who has managed to abstract expertise.

I’m 25 years into repeatedly building large software systems. I was thinking, look here maybe someone’s managed to codify what I do.

Nope.

To your point, everything is contextual. If you try to apply a suite of rules the systems (which extend far outside of the bounds of a software subsystem deployment) will mock you by burying your efforts leaving no intentional outcome.

Everything is systems thinking and every seat & context is different. You have to navigate mostly with realtime navigations based on long- and hard- earned muscle memory.
by dathinab | 2025-08-15 12:40:05+00:00
> I don’t believe other energy markets work very well either.

but is isn't even about that storm, big "oh no" situations happen sooner or later (e.g. see energy outage in Spain) what is important is that you learn from it.

but more important in this argument is the general design, how can it handle flexible loads, how can it share loads between areas, how many ways to handle partial failure does it has etc.

and Texas is kinda not that good in all of that AFIK

the problem is that there are markets where politics fully getting "out of the way", doesn't work as the market dynamics favor things which might be better for the people running the gird, but are bad on a state economical level anyway (but getting in the way here is using tax money to make sure the net is stable, not getting int the way of that to protect personal investments)

it's a bit like freighttrains in many parts of the EU, there operating does in most situation make no profit. But having them is helping the economy as a whole and can (implicitly) safe the state/region etc. money. So it makes sense to place some tax money into making them still viable to operate as that investment in a roundabout way saves more money then spend.
by coderatlarge | 2025-08-15 12:40:07+00:00
i personally have no problem with people including AI gen’d code without attribution so long as they stand by it and own the consequences of what they submit. after all, we all know by now how much cajoling and insisting it takes to get any AI gen’d code to do what it’s actually requested and intended to do.

the only exception being contexts that explicitly prohibit it.
by haswell | 2025-08-15 12:40:25+00:00
> They made a better offer — in other words competed — in the labor market.

And when this is done for the sole purpose of acquiring a specific kind of talent - especially to build exactly the same thing - it’s called poaching.

The word “poach” is used in numerous ways and describes many things that have nothing to do with hunting for sport [0]. I think it’s a bit problematic to hold on to a singular definition here that clearly does not apply to the situation.

- [0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/poach
by bigyabai | 2025-08-15 12:40:26+00:00
FWIW, I agree with the parent comment's rebuttal. Simply saying "AI could be bad" is nothing Asimov or Roddenbury didn't figure out themselves.

For Elizer to really deign novelty here, he'd have predicted the reason why this happens at all: training data. Instead he played the Chomsky card and insisted on deeper patterns that don't exist (as well as solutions that don't work). Namedropping Elizer's research as a refutation is weak bordering on disingenuous.
by crinkly | 2025-08-15 12:40:36+00:00
Let's extrapolate on a simple point because it's not so simple...

A sign for a proscribed terrorist organisation, which its members are backed by a Russian plant (Fergie Chambers - now hiding in North Africa) and have damaged military aircraft, military facilities and attacked police officers with sledgehammer. Things that, in the US, you would have been shot for.

The protesters could have waved any other sign around in support for the cause without any problems, as hundreds more were doing, but not that specific organisation.

However the 500 people are at best naive victims of their own incompetence and being used as political pawns, not for the cause but instigators.

All this stuff is rather less black and white than it sounds.
by tl | 2025-08-15 12:41:04+00:00
> The sad fact is that the software industry as a whole relies heavily on mainstream languages, and not on educating your engineers to leverage the strengths of your specialty language.

Except when the language is the workhorse of a proprietary product sold to your employer. SQL is the example that escaped into the open world, but see also MATLAB and Excel formulae/VBA.
by uncircle | 2025-08-15 12:41:10+00:00
The keymap functionality in your OS is a hack because most keyboards are not programmable. I use a split keyboard in a Colemak layout, and it's programmed to send the correct keys despite them being in "different" places compared to a normal keyboard, so I don't have to mess with keymap switching on the operating system. I just plug it in and it works.

Also what you deem obsession is called ergonomics. Since a programmer uses a keyboard 100% of the time they spend in front of a computer, optimising for ergonomics is a great time investment. My symbol layer is so much more sane and comfortable than having to use Shift-number like an ape (no offence). In the home row under my strongest fingers, for example, I have "():_= which are the most common symbols in popular programming languages. My two thumbs are not wasted to press an humongous space bar, but have access to modifiers such as Shift and Ctrl instead of having to use my pinkies.

The secret to not losing muscle memory when you have to go back programming like an ape on a regular keyboard, is to choose a very different physical layout (like an ortholinear split keyboard) for your programmable keyboard. Then you're just learning another "instrument" which is spatially laid out differently than what you are used to, retaining your memory of QWERTY on a regular keyboard.
by TehCorwiz | 2025-08-15 12:41:21+00:00
Silver lining: It's local. They're not using it for slurping your keystrokes. It seems to me their stated goals, ie. searching history without remembering keywords or urls, feels well-suited to small LLMs running locally. I think though given the immense security/privacy/censorship concerns regarding AI that this ought to be done a bit more loudly and openly.
by simianparrot | 2025-08-15 12:41:48+00:00
Yes, because this is simply a reality of life. It isn’t fair for anyone. We all have genetic and intrinsic shortcomings and weaknesses, illnesses and psychological variables.

Blocking puberty for someone who doesn’t feel comfortable in their body as a child doesn’t guarantee the person will be happy with their now altered body later, medical procedures or not. Most follow up studies seem to indicate the opposite though I’m sure we can cherry pick either way.

Nobody is born their ideal self. It’s a scale and we all suffer from it and have to work on it constantly. There is no magic button to swap someone’s body into their ideal self because at that age they can’t even know what that is; none of us knew before or during puberty. In fact I doubt even adults would know, but at least then you can take legal responsibility and not be manipulated as easily by external influences.
by michaelcampbell | 2025-08-15 12:41:49+00:00
> too many people rush out for Rust

Yes

> thinking that ML type systems is something new introduced by Rust

This feels off to me. Of the hype-train that Rust has been for a while now, a _type_ of type system it has hasn't been any of the cars, as it were.

At least in my readings; I'm sure we travel in different circles, but even the few academic oriented things have been other language features and memory safety through and through.
by BoredPositron | 2025-08-15 12:43:04+00:00
It's time that prusa gets outside pressure their printers stagnated in innovation and got more expensive. They don't even have machines in the entry/starter category anymore. Why should anyone buy from you if he gets a better experience for less. Especially now that they started to abandon their own core values just have a look at their new offerings they are the opposite for what they plead here. Less open.
by bluGill | 2025-08-15 12:43:16+00:00
Details matter. Sometimes blocking as soon as you are aware of it is enough, sometimes enough. Those "systems to detect and filter out “potentially health-related terms.”" need to be examined in depth - are they enough, were they done only after the fact when they should have been more proactive?

Not knowing those details (they are probably available but I'm not interested enough to read the court documents) I'm going to defer to the courts on this. Understand that depending on ongoing appeals I may have to change my stance a few times. If this keeps coming up I may eventually have to get interested and learn more details so I can pressure my representative to change the laws, but for now this just isn't important enough - to me - to dig farther than the generalizations I made above.