MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bangaladore | 2025-08-01 19:32:01+00:00
Wouldn't that logic mean any automaker advertising a "collision avoidance system" should be held liable whenever a car crashes into something?

In practice, they are not, because the fine print always clarifies that the feature works only under specific conditions and that the driver remains responsible. Tesla's Autopilot and FSD come with the same kind of disclaimers. The underlying principle is the same.
by jstanley | 2025-08-01 19:32:05+00:00
Object oriented perl gives you exactly the same flexibility.

If you have a module called "My::Module", and you call "My::Module->some_method", then you'd implement that like:

sub some_method { my ($pkg, @args) = @_;

i.e. the module gets passed (as a string) as the first argument. You can then call

$pkg->some_other_method;

And similarly, if you have an object "$foo" you would call it like "$foo->some_other_method" and implement it as:

sub some_method { my ($self, @args) = @_;

i.e. the object gets passed as the first argument. And you can call "$self->some_other_method" with it.

A minimal class is just:

package My::Module; sub new { my ($pkg, %opts) = @_; my $self = bless \%opts, $pkg; return $self; } 1;

Don't let them tell you you need Moo or Moose or Mouse or fields.pm. Hand-rolled objects is the way :)
by metabagel | 2025-08-01 19:32:15+00:00
The dictionary definition for Americans is:

> A navigation mechanism, as on an aircraft, that automatically maintains a preset course.

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=automatic+pilot

Note that “autopilot” and “automatic pilot” are synonyms.

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Autopilot

An autopilot is supposed to be an automatic system, which doesn’t imply supervision.

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=automatic

> Self-regulating: an automatic washing machine.
by vel0city | 2025-08-01 19:32:27+00:00
> such as it being deeply upsetting and disrespectful for a "white" teacher to call a native child "T", because she had trouble pronouncing his native name.

Imagine not finding it disrespectful for your teacher to just completely ignore and disrespect your heritage and you're expected to just accept it and be totally OK with it.

IMO kids should be taught to be proud of their names. Apparently, that's a political stance.

I have many coworkers who I have trouble saying their names. I try as best as I can to say their names and be as respectful as possible. I wouldn't just go "I can't say your name, so you're just T now."
by Boogie_Man | 2025-08-01 19:32:42+00:00
I agree with you in that the question of something being "political" is inherently related to the context, and that some things some people might find political (like the importance of voting from my original comment) are not "political enough" to be something which shouldn't be in a children's show.

I would also agree with you that pronouncing names generally is not (and largely probably should not be) a political topic, but that it necessarily is in this context because of it being included in a show about native Alaskans. If the teacher were inuit, or the student also white, or it was presented a simple misunderstanding along the lines of "can I call you T" "No please don't" "okay sorry I'll do my best" it would not be "political". Because it's in this show in this context and explicitly connected to previous abuses of native people being made to use "white names", my contention is that the creators of the show intend for it to be political .
by asadotzler | 2025-08-01 19:32:48+00:00
If you had even a minimal US history education or you wouldn't make such claims. Nixon was to the left of Obama on many issues. That you don't know this is symptomatic of the problem today. The right has moved so far to the right that what was once considered right is now lefter than anyone on the left is willing to be. This wasn't an accident. It was planned, and began around the time of Reagan. Almost half a century later, the country is radically changed and kids today think it's always been this way. Well, it hasn't.
by rsync | 2025-08-01 19:32:49+00:00
"I'll never use a URL shortener again."

I don't know if anyone should use a URL shortener or not ... but if you do ...

"Oh By"[1] will be around in thirty years.

Links will not be "purged". Users won't be tracked. Ads won't be served.

[1] https://0x.co
by free_bip | 2025-08-01 19:32:53+00:00
I'm genuinely confused how they think people will believe this - it really is the "just lie" stage. Take a look at these statements from steam and itch.io:

"We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate the rules and standards set forth by our payment processors and their related card networks and banks."

"Recently, we came under scrutiny from our payment processors regarding the nature of some content hosted on itch.io."

It is extremely clear from these official statements that the payment processors actively reached out to these platforms and made at the very least an implication that they could lose access to payments.

Why would anyone believe MasterCard over Steam and Itch?
by pj_mukh | 2025-08-01 19:33:17+00:00
“leftist housing rights supporters are not against developers.”

They certainly are in my neighborhood.

https://www.ourneighborhoodvoices.com/48-hills-cost-of-growt...

The “private developer risk” the article derides is an enforceable approval timeline that lets private developers have bounded risk. Apparently that’s a bridge too far.
by kevingadd | 2025-08-01 19:33:30+00:00
Isn't that $4b in raw revenue per month, or $48b/year? That's not even considering the expenses to operate the service and deliver the $200/mo product. I don't see how that automatically equates to a $300b valuation. A high valuation, to be sure, but...

I'm still very curious whether OpenAI is turning a profit on any of their services.
by boneitis | 2025-08-01 19:33:40+00:00
I wouldn't call it a "good" fallback, but i do have a VPS handy with an always-on squid proxy (remember to bind only on localhost and use via ssh tunnel, or some other secure method, if anyone is going to get ideas from this comment) among the other things i use my VPS for.

I do find that different subsets of services tend to get blacklisted.
by zacharytamas | 2025-08-01 19:33:40+00:00
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by Imnimo | 2025-08-01 19:33:54+00:00
It's also interesting to look at what happened in Luanda. During the civil war, a large portion of the population fled to the capital for safety. The city went from half a million in 1970 to ~9 million today. Now downtown Luanda is one of the most expensive places in the world to live, and the city is surrounded by endless stretches of slums that are visible on satellite maps.

They are making progress on building new housing, but it's a very uphill battle.
Show HN: Claude Threads – Browse Local Claude Code Sessions
by nkko | 2025-08-01 19:33:55+00:00
I built this because digging through raw JSONL files in ~/.claude/projects became painful once I hit a few thousand messages. Claude Threads gives you a three-pane browser with vim keys (hjkl), full-text search, and collapsible tool calls.

Looking for feedback on: - Performance with large archives (how many messages do you have?) - Must-have keyboard shortcuts I'm missing - Any features that would make this more useful for your workflow?

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by furyofantares | 2025-08-01 19:34:21+00:00
> This doesn't hold up logically unless I'm missing something, certainly the victim wouldn't be getting fined 329 million if it was decided to be his fault for not looking at the road

I hope we haven't internalized the idea that corporations should be treated the same as people.

There's essentially no difference $3M and $300M fine against most individuals, but $3M means very little to Tesla. If you want Tesla's behavior to change - and other automakers take notice and not repeat the behavior - then the fine must be meaningful to them.

That's another difference - fining an indivisible is not going to change risks much, the individual's behavior changing is not that meaningful compared to Tesla's behavior changing. And it's not like a huge fine is gonna make a difference in other drivers deciding to be better, whereas other automakers will notice a huge fine.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-01 19:34:26+00:00
The worst part is that I don't disagree that the US and UK are moving toward fascism - or at least some form of ethno-state where a WASPish core retains rights and everyone else has to fend for themselves.

What I am asking for, and pointing out, is that we can do better. It came from a moment of pedantry and honestly a pet peeve. Take what I said with a grain of salt.
by NoSalt | 2025-08-01 19:34:27+00:00
I host a Minecraft server at my house; tmux is great for this:

1. Log in to the physical server.

2. Start a named tmux session.

3. Run the Minecraft start script (log messages start populating)

4. Ctrl + b ... d

Now, whenever I need to do something with the server, I just attach back to the session and do it.
by izacus | 2025-08-01 19:34:38+00:00
I find this kind of posting deeply ironic, since HN and ArsTechnica has been ripping Android a new one before this policy came into effect for allowing apps to exploit old APIs for stealing data, triggering popups, spamming notifications and many more changes that have been done from there. Many praises were sung to superiority of iOS and their demand to keep up to date with new policies and even new design.

And now we hear complaining again over things like... (a few posts lower)... having to implement permission dialog to show notifiactions? Right :D

The reality of the situation is that without required SDK changes, every single app - from your banking app to every game - would STILL demand access to all your files, all your documents, all your photos (and their locations) before they run. And then proceeded to spam you with notifications from background trying to sell you crypto.

Fixing those things unfortunately means that also the opensource developers need to move their behinds and implement APIs in a way that respect users more.
by Animats | 2025-08-01 19:34:48+00:00
There were later versions of the Comet. Version 1 was underpowered, and had too much weight reduction for that reason. By version 4, the design had been debugged. With more powerful engines and structural fixes, the Comet 4 went into service and did OK. 46 Comet 4 aircraft were built. Last flight in 1997.
by nikkwong | 2025-08-01 19:35:06+00:00
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by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-08-01 19:35:37+00:00
> I admit though that writing perl makes you feel "clever" - "huh that's a funny shortcut I didn't know! Writing $\<>^^ will give me name of last used file on blue moon on thursday!" but... uh.

I write Perl and I hate this mindset a lot. A LOT. Some people get excited and feel like they are megawizards of the White Council because they can line up all their sigils and make them dance, and thus feel just that little bit superior. There's nothing superior about maintaining a program where to change it, you need to solve puzzles three, make the change, and wrap it in another puzzle for the next guy.

I know that feeling of being a wizard, and I used to have that smug expression on my face, too. But now I'm over 40, and I'm jumping from one place to another in a magical codebase to debug it, and I can't help but feel like if it was just that little bit less magical, I could have fixed it and be done with it quite a while ago already.
by intended | 2025-08-01 19:35:46+00:00
No, this will not work.

The people who have the most success in terms of engagement against Anti-Vaxxers are not the pro-vax or normal people. Its the Anti-anti-vaxxers

The vibe of being able to fight for a moderate position, extremely - is what is currently working in debates.

Being treated like a worthy adversary, or being beaten by someone they can respect is one of the avenues is likely going to succeed more.
by blargey | 2025-08-01 19:35:58+00:00
The fault with an individual can be reasonably constrained to the one prosecuted death they caused. The fault with "autopilot by Tesla", a system that was marketed and deployed at scale, cannot.

And if you want to draw parallels with individuals, an individual driver's license would be automatically suspended and revoked when found at fault for manslaughter. Would you propose a minimum 1~3 year ban on autopilot-by-Tesla within the US, instead?
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-01 19:36:27+00:00
> The right engineers on your team can make or break your company.

Wholeheartedly agree with that.

> And experience has consistently shown that the best engineers tend to be American or American educated.

I call total bullshit on that one. I agree the culture of many Americans and American companies (e.g. taking ownership, more comfort with risk-taking/failure, willingness to speak up when things go sideways, etc.) contributes a great deal to American companies' success, and I've seen some instances of other cultural aspects being a direct negative - for example, I worked with some great engineers in India, but they would often tell me everything was going great right up until a deadline, when they'd then let out all the problems - there was clearly a cultural aspect at play that prevented acknowledging problems early.

But when it comes to raw engineering chops, it has not been my experience that American engineers are any better. Sure, many of the best engineers would come to the US because the potential rewards were greater, but we're seeing the impact of America's (or at least the current administration's) newfound distain for foreigners.
by n_kr | 2025-08-01 19:36:46+00:00
It may be the way I use it, but qwen3-coder (30b with ollama) is actually helping me with real world tasks. Its a bit worse than big models for the way I use it, but absolutely useful. I do use ai tools with very specific instructions though, like file paths, line numbers if I can, and specific direction about what to do, my own tools, etc. so that may be why I don't see such a huge difference from big models.

I should try Kimi K2 too.
by jhirshman | 2025-08-01 19:36:47+00:00
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by alexozer | 2025-08-01 19:37:23+00:00
Wow, I was wondering if e.g. Ghostty could implement something like this but that's cool it's already proven out.

Does everything still go "through" tmux (so parsing etc. is still done twice), or does iTerm handle most of the rendering and just delegate scrollback storage/session persistence to tmux? The latter seems like the best of both worlds.
by biimugan | 2025-08-01 19:37:28+00:00
That builders can't construct housing in whatever form-factor they want and whatever part of a municipality they want might be a problem. But the analysis of why these kinds of restrictions exist, to my mind, is not correct.

Do niche interest groups have influence on housing policy? Sure. But these niche interest groups don't usually have a monetary interest in the outcomes they're promoting. But individual homeowners (who often band into interest groups of their own) and large real estate conglomerates do have such a monetary interest. They consider certain types of housing built in a certain way to have *more value* and be worth more. So they promote politicians who introduce zoning and other rules to protect that value.

For someone looking to make a profit off of housing (or even to invest in housing), what is more appealing? A traditional U.S. suburb? Or a Kowloon walled city? One is denser, cheaper per capita, and (if you're not careful) unappealing to look at. In other words, it's worth less. So there is a great monetary pressure from people who already own homes to prevent "mixing" this type of housing into existing planned communities. People who need homes, on the other hand, are a little bit less discerning (to say the least). They don't have a monetary interest necessarily. They're primarily looking for a permanent residence.

So I just don't buy this "abundance" stuff in general. If you remove all of these restrictions, will some companies start building housing? Some will. But my guess is most will say the juice is not worth the squeeze -- the profit margins and the long-term values of these properties will make it unappealing. Just like it's unappealing for grocery stores to set up in big urban areas. Or for hospital providers to set up in rural areas. Food deserts don't exist because of too much government intervention. A lack of rural hospitals is not a problem because of too much government intervention. It's because those things are not profitable.

So in my opinion, if you want to reform zoning rules or things of that nature, it's only really going to be effective if you *force* (or if you want to be politically correct, "incentivize") housing companies to build in these areas too.

I don't really consider this an "anti-trust" argument. It can be equally true if there's a lot of competition in the housing market and if there's next to no competition. It's more of an incentives argument. This is an argument that, like with medical care, we're treating something that is a fundamental need of every living human to have a stable and peaceful and fruitful life as if it were a standard market commodity. And when you do that, you get poor outcomes. We need to support the building of housing *even if* it's unaffordable or has low (or even non-existent) profit margins
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-01 19:37:42+00:00
Offtopic, but I am 17 too just like Hannah Cairo but nothing too groundbreaking till now I suppose and it absolutely brings me delight that I can talk to somebody who was a pupil of Dijkstra, I have heard a lot about dijkstra's algorithm's and I had forgotten about it and so I searched it right now, but the only thing I knew is that it is pretty popular algorithm.

If I had to ask you kind sir, what would be the biggest life lesson (in coding, or anything general) that you could give me be?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-01 19:38:07+00:00
At that point you've ceased to describe construction companies and are now describing real estate speculators while calling them construction companies.

Moreover, notice how little sense that business model makes. To do that you would be sinking capital into vacant lots that you're neither developing nor receiving rents from while paying both property taxes and opportunity costs. You're paying interest on the loan or could have been getting ~10%/year by putting your money into the stock market. A real construction company would be trying to minimize the period they're holding an unproductive property.

And even if you wanted to be a real estate speculator, how does that make you more money than investing in rental properties and then actually renting them out so you receive rental income on top of any price appreciation?

Meanwhile, what, if not for zoning rules and other regulations, is preventing anyone else from undoing your attempt to constrain supply by opening up a new construction company which is actually a construction company?
by spwa4 | 2025-08-01 19:38:43+00:00
And you have never seen people on the job showing disattachment to their job? Wow. Go to any cafe, any school, any McDonalds, or any restaurant not run by a family that owns only one restaurant. And even those are havens of dedication and inspiration compared to the average government office.

More general, look up the "bullshit jobs" phenomenon.
by cogman10 | 2025-08-01 19:39:00+00:00
How much of a burden could this really be?

The nature of something like this is that the cost to run it naturally goes down over time. Old links get clicked less so the hardware costs would be basically nothing.

As for the actual software security, it's a URL shortener. They could rewrite the entire thing in almost no time with just a single dev. Especially since it's strictly hosting static links at this point.

It probably took them more time and money to find inactive links than it'd take to keep the entire thing running for a couple of years.
by Twey | 2025-08-01 19:39:03+00:00
Nice! I've never managed to try one myself, but I did assume something like that would be the case. To be fair to them, they never really promise hand ergonomics — just the freedom to type while in weird positions. I guess it's kind of the opposite of the Svalboard, in that way. If I had problems sitting in a conventional typing position, maybe that tradeoff would be worth it.

I love the Advantages and I really missed the bowling when I moved to the Ergodox — it remains my only real complaint with that keyboard family.

Glad I could be of help!
by technothrasher | 2025-08-01 19:39:19+00:00
> Sadly, we've lost Sagan and Randi.

I had the privilege of meeting both Sagan and Randi at different points. Along with Paul Kurtz, also sadly gone now, these were some of the most in influential people in the beginnings of the modern skeptical movement. If you aren't familiar with Prometheus books and CSICOP (now CSI), look them up. You'll find years worth of groundbreaking skeptical reading material.