MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lonesword | 2025-09-09 22:46:56+00:00
I moved from Germany (Cologne) to London recently and I am surprised to read that UK has safer roads than Germany. I have not yet driven in London - but I have driven in Germany and I have bicycled in both countries. London is hands down terrifying to me. Certain kinds of drivers (eg: vans) seem deliberately hostile to cyclists, and plenty of people park in a cycling lane. Never seen that happen in Germany with such frequency. Also, roads are bumpier - what’s with that?!

Now, cyclists in London are a driver’s nightmare. I’ve seen people barrel down a junction at full speed and jump a red light. This lack of desire for self-preservation is startingly common.

Between the hostile vans and the daredevil red-light-jumping cyclists, I am baffled at this report. Perhaps mortality rates are low, but injury rates are much higher than say, Germany?
by MisterTea | 2025-09-09 22:47:19+00:00
> Curricula is set by politics and ideology, not established science.

This is part of it. A friend is a teacher and is now in an admin position where he manages teachers. His big gripe is the higher ups have no formal system - every time a new person comes in they bring with them their system and politics, burning down the previous efforts while doing little to nothing for students. Then they leave for greener pastures and the next ideologue comes along with their matches.
by dunham | 2025-09-09 22:47:26+00:00
Around November 2024, mine were all moved to a folder tree "Migrated Paper Docs" in my dropbox in a folder tree, as .paper files. The web UI says the folder has 84 decedents. My backup, done through the API years ago has 118, but there may be some deleted ones in there.

If I go to paper.dropbox.com, I only see six under "starred" in the left hand side (after unfolding the tree) and two in the main area. After opening another starred one, which links into dropbox, the main area now shows three.

So the migration to dropbox did mostly work for me, but whatever was left at paper.dropbox.com is messed up.
by cramsession | 2025-09-09 22:47:36+00:00
The trick is that you have to be a good coder to get the most out of "vibe" coding. It works great for me, but I deploy all of the knowledge I've acquired over the decades as a professional developer. You need to know how to architect systems, what data structures and algorithms to ask for, how to design a product, many facets of graphic and user interface design, how to parcel out work, how to parallelize tasks. Even which ideas are worth pursuing is an intuition you build up over years. "Vibe" coding really is magic and I'm highly scaled, but I don't see how it could possibly work for all but the most senior developers. In some sense, it's like writing LISP macros on steroids.
by andy99 | 2025-09-09 22:48:33+00:00
I have no idea how it's marketed - if it's as a replacement for developers then yeah it's BS.

I regularly use Claude code (and Claude) to write code for

- throwaways data processing or visualization

- connecting to an API I have some documentation for

- demoing some concept

I think it's great for data science and product stuff, and on those merits will be a multi-billion dollar industry. I would never let it near a real codebase.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-09 22:48:35+00:00
> you're still going to put it in a fat case to protect the camera.

But a thinner phone still means the end result is thinner in a case.

I didn't understand the appeal of thin phones until I used them in cases.

Average thickness phone + case = bulky phone.

Thin phone + case = normal thickness phone.

That's what makes them great. It's normal thickness with all the protection.
by strcat | 2025-09-09 22:48:42+00:00
It's typically used in synchronous or asymmetric mode on Android. The asymmetric mode preserves nearly the same performance as asymmetric while only having writes remain asynchronous. It's enforced once there's a read or system call. Synchronous is more important in the kernel due to how many holes there are for bypassing it, which is why GrapheneOS is using it as synchronous in the kernel and asymmetric in userspace. io_uring is a major example of how there could be a major bypass of asymmetric mode, although Android doesn't allow it for more than a few core processes. Deploying asynchronous is still useful since it's a widely distributed bug finding tool with near zero cost. The main cost is that it finds so many bugs which need to be addressed which is a barrier for deploying it for third party apps.

The main weakness is that MTE is only 4 bits... and it's not even 1/16 but typically 1/15 chance of bypassing it since a tag is usually reserved for metadata, free data, etc. The Linux kernel's standard implementation for in-kernel usage unnecessarily reserves more than 1 to make debugging easier. MTE clears the way for a more serious security focused memory tagging implementation with far more bits and other features. It provides a clear path to providing very strong protection against the main classes of vulnerabilities used in exploits, especially remote/proximity ones. It's a great feature but it's more what it leads to that's very impressive than the current 4 bit MTE. Getting rid of some known side channels doesn't make it into a memory safety implementation.
by toast0 | 2025-09-09 22:49:00+00:00
> Why are the students sitting in groups and cutting paper with scissors?

Because paper cutters are too easy to disassemble as re-use as a shiv machete? And anyway, it's pretty hard to make cloudy curves with a paper cutter.

> in the American class the teacher spends practically 0 time at the blackboard, the students sit in large groups, the teacher spends most of the time with one or two groups.

Three or four students is a large group?
by mjr00 | 2025-09-09 22:49:10+00:00
You are welcome to your opinion. This has been addressed in the very deep sibling thread, but broadly speaking, it has been widely acknowledged that Hollow Knight is one of the best games of all time.[0] This does not mean most people believe Hollow Knight is the #1 game of all time (or even its release year), or that every single person likes Hollow Knight. It is an explanation as to why Silksong received an enormous amount of hype.

As I said in the parallel thread, you can argue that Michael Jordan and LeBron James are better than Kobe Bryant (and I would agree, and frankly few would argue otherwise), but that does not invalidate the statement "Kobe Bryant is one of the best basketball players of all time."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_considered...
by Yizahi | 2025-09-09 22:49:21+00:00
I feel like this is a clear case for "security through obscurity doesn't work" saying, and for the same reasons as the original meaning. "Normal" people won't find such community because it is pain in the ass to do, while bullies will get there just fine because they are motivated. It is like reverse moderation, filtering out less radical and less pro-active newcomers.
by resonantjacket5 | 2025-09-09 22:50:03+00:00
The main issues are under the Behavior differences https://go.dev/blog/jsonv2-exp#behavior-differences

The largest problem were around behavior around nil in golang and what to convert into json and vice versa.

* The v2 will now throw an error for invalid characters outside of ut8 (before silently accepted it) which meant one had to preprocess or process again the json before sending it off to the server * the golang nil will be converted to json empty array or map (for each type). previously it was converted to json null. * json field names will be converted to golang names with case sensitivity. before it was case-insentitive and would be lowercased. this kinda caused lots of problems if the field collided. (say there's bankName and bankname in json) * omitempty was problematic as it was used for say golang amount: nil would mean omit the field in json as {} instead of { amount: null}. however it also meant that the golang amount: 0 would also be omitted as { amount: 0 } which surprising. the new omitempty will only do so for nil and empty arrays/hashmaps but no longer for 0 or false. there's a new omitzero tag for that.
by xtracto | 2025-09-09 22:50:20+00:00
You got the underlying reason for my question almost in passing:

I've been involved in hiring Software devs from US and LatAm for several years in different management positions. I wondered how feasible would be for say, a company in Mexico to compete on hiring a dev in the USA at a lower cost (normally, a Mexico dev is between 1/3 to 1/2 the price of a US one), by leveraging the value of [allowing] working Remote.

EDIT: Which actually made me think of a crazy idea: A job board called something like "Work for Less", where small companies or companies from overseas offer jobs that have compensations more focused on Quality of Living vs compensation. So for example, a job opening might have "We offer: 70% of your last salary. 3 day weekends, remote work". Or if it is say, a Mexican company, "We offer: 80% of your last salary. Comprehensive relocation help to live/work in a Mexican beach for 4 months a year. Medical Tourism coverage (don't know what this is called, but basically, help in say, taking people to high quality medical places)".

Maybe it is a stupid idea, but at the end of the day, Remote Work is one of several "Levers" for Quality of Life, and although historically the US has focused on monetary compensation, maybe newer generations value other aspects more.
by lordnacho | 2025-09-09 22:50:41+00:00
> at first i was very hopeful i can finally 'build' now with my minimal tech skills

This is the problem. If you couldn't have coded it slowly in the old world, you will have problems coding it in AI world.

However if you have a lot of coding experience, you can now compress the time it would have taken you be an enormous amount. My experience is that I can now make extensive changes with very little effort, and very few dead ends. I've been able to take on entire secondary projects where I was just replication existing knowledge with slightly different tools.

Just this week I had a litmus test. I had an existing database that I'm pushing huge amount of data to. I decided to try a different underlying database. This would have taken me a full week of looking at documentation and writing supporting scripts, now I've done it in the spare time I had in two days of my actual work.

And it's not like the AI just did it all unsupervised. It threatened to do down the wrong path a few times, but each time I spotted it and steered it the way I wanted. I also asked it a few questions about curiosities I discovered in the emitted code, and that led to fixes as well.

If I didn't know how to code before, I would still be coding this alternative database.
by 3np | 2025-09-09 22:51:16+00:00
More importantly, avoid yarn[0] if you have a choice. They do not have a security posture fitting for 2025. There's way too much assumptions like "helpful" "magic" guessing/inferring what the user "actually wants" to "make things just work". See also: corepack.

[0]: legacy 1.x projects aside
by aeon_ai | 2025-09-09 22:51:30+00:00
It’s been determined that training is fair use by the same judge - Anthropic did in fact buy copies of books and train on those as well.

Thus the $3k per violation is still punitive at (conservatively) 100x the cost of the book.

Given that it is fair use, Authors do not have rights to restrict training on their works under copyright law alone.
by jjulius | 2025-09-09 22:53:17+00:00
>Reading was replaced by movies and shows on demand and wont come back no matter what educators or parents do.

... huh?

I'm a parent and this just isn't true. My wife and I have phones, our young children do not. We do not own a tablet. Our children have never known what it's like to have the option of resorting to a screen to keep them busy when we're out of the house. TV time is limited on the weekends, extra limited on the weeknights.

My oldest absolutely loves reading, and I watched her sit in the corner for 90 minutes on Sunday with a pile of books and a massive grin on her face the whole time. My youngest is still too young to read, but I'm hoping for results within the same realm.

Your comment about there frequently not being much else to do? It's up to parents to, for lack of a better phrase, teach kids how to be bored.

Edit:

>It's cheaper, easily available and more fun.

What's super fun, easily available and free for us is going to a park on the weekend to play and have lunch, and then driving around to a bunch of Little Free Libraries in the area. Drop off books we don't want, see if the kids or parents find anything that strikes our fancy. Our kiddos love it and so do we, it's great family time.
by strcat | 2025-09-09 22:53:20+00:00
The side channel fixes and new MTE instruction features are not specific to Apple. Apple's blog post has some significant misleading claims and omissions. It's marketing material, not a true technical post without massive bias. It's aimed at putting down the existing deployments of MTE, hyping up what they've done and even downplaying the factually widespread exploits of Apple devices which are proven to be happening. If they're not aware of how widespread the exploits of their devices are including by low level law enforcement with widely available tools, that's quite strange.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-09 22:53:23+00:00
My friend has kids, 8 and 10, who run around outside and play with neighborhood kids as well as read books. They are very active in their kids lives and constantly bring them to events and other social gatherings. This keeps them active physically and socially making things like screen time seem boring.

The shitty parents are the ones who let meta and the like hack them to the point where their children are just following by example - if you stare at the screen all day, so will they.
by Levitz | 2025-09-09 22:53:48+00:00
>The steelman argument would be that we have provided a way for folks who felt excluded to now feel more represented.

>And just repeating that yellow is abstract and inclusive doesn't address the fact that it's objectively far closer to representing people of lighter complexion than those with significantly darker complexion.

They also represent those of thinner complexion. Overwhelmingly able-bodied too. Not to mention, it was always going to be the case since facial features are going to be dark tones and as such, it's clearer to represent them on a clear skin. This was always a nonsensical, losing game. Always has been.

I don't feel represented on the basis of branding personal expression with an identification of race as a default, the idea is frankly abhorrent to me. Why am I being excluded?
by eschaton | 2025-09-09 22:54:19+00:00
In my opinion, as a class member you should push for two things:

1. Getting the maximum statutory damages for copyright infringement, which would be something like &250,000 per instance of infringement; you can be generous and call their training and reproduction of your works as a single instance, though it’s probably many more than that. 2. An admission of wrongdoing plus withdrawal from the market and permanent deletion of all models trained on infringed works. 3. A perpetual agreement to only train new models on content licensed for such training going forward, with safeguards to prevent wholesale reproduction of works.

It’s no less than what they would do if they thought you were infringing their copyrights. It’s only fair that they be subject to the same kind of serious penalties, instead of something they can write off as a slap on the wrist.
by petertodd | 2025-09-09 22:54:26+00:00
This isn't a proxy war. Russia is invading Ukraine because they want to invade. That has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else; Russia is not a proxy.

Ukraine has exactly one choice: defend themselves, or be subjugated and killed. There is no diplomatic solution. It's very helpful that Ukraine has outside help. But that doesn't make it a proxy war. Regardless of whether or not Ukraine had outside help, they'd still be fighting.

The fact is that the #1 thing Ukraine is doing right now to win is destroying Russian industry with Ukrainian made weapons. They're doing that themselves. Again, that's not a proxy.
by strcat | 2025-09-09 22:55:23+00:00
ARM largely built and shipped it on their own. Cortex cores were the first real world implementation. Pushing ARM to care about it as a security feature instead of only a bug finding feature is something Apple and Google are probably responsible for doing. Pixels are not the only Android devices making MTE but were the first to take advantage of the CPU support by actually setting it up and making it available for use. There are other Android devices doing that now too.

Qualcomm has to make their own implementation which has significantly delayed widespread availability. Exynos and MediaTek have it though.
by Balgair | 2025-09-09 22:55:30+00:00
I don't have access to this yet, so can someone who does tell if:

it can take a .PDF with single table with, say, a list of food items and prices. And then in a .docx in the same folder with a table with, say, prices and calories. Can this thing then, in a one shot, produce a .xlsx with the items and calories and save that to the same directory? It really doesn't matter what the lists are of, just keep it very simple A=B, B=C, therefore A=C stuff.

Because, strangely enough, that's pretty much my definition of AGI.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-09 22:55:38+00:00
> But is it the case that copies made for the purpose of using illegally obtained works are not infringing?

Well, the question here is "who made the copy?"

If you advertise in seedy locations that you will send Xeroxed copies of books by mail order, and I order one, and you then send me the copy I ordered, how many of us have committed a copyright violation?
by johnea | 2025-09-09 22:55:40+00:00
This is a really refreshing link in the HN feed, which is often dominated by the latest bloatware fashion trends (which includes most (almost all) chatbot applications).

One different preference of mine is to mount a remote directory via SSHFS instead of playing media via an sftp:// link.

I also prefer a clicky-clicky media player over MPV and have used VLC for many years.

Another feature of OpenSSH that facilitates this philosophy is port forwarding, both forward and reverse. This feature prevents having to open pretty much any other port in the firewall.

Its sad to see so many technically literate people still working under the feature poor yoke of windoze 8-( So many methods become instantly available when using a free unix system. Which also typically never require downloading binary executables from sketchy third party websites.

+1 for "all you need is SSH"
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by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-09 22:55:56+00:00
Digg was sold to someone that didn't understand the internet, and it was not social, so it was just like HN - not a place to put your "page" down and have your friends follow you there.

Reddit is a bit different - but as far as the data is concerned it has not once dropped in usage and is about double what it was a couple years ago.
by nialv7 | 2025-09-09 22:55:58+00:00
> it was a complete account take over

is that so? from the email it looks like they MITM'd the 2FA setup process, so they will have qix's 2FA secret. they don't have to immediately start taking over qix's account and lock him out. they should have had all the time they need to come up with a more sophisticated payload.
by ayaros | 2025-09-09 22:56:04+00:00
Meanwhile my 2019 i9 16" MacBook Pro gets battery life on par with the MacBook Wheel (as seen in this classic from The Onion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA) I kid you not, the hummingbird battery is real.

At least I have something to look forward to when I upgrade.
by jongjong | 2025-09-09 22:56:35+00:00
My open source projects were not affected but close call. I was using 2 of the dependencies (as sub-dependencies) but older versions. Seems that my philosophy of minimizing the number of dependencies and looking up dependency authors is paying off.

I saw this kind of thing coming years ago. I never understood why people were obsessed with using tiny dependencies to save them 4 lines of code. These useless dependencies getting millions of weekly downloads always seemed very suspicious to me.
by m463 | 2025-09-09 22:57:14+00:00
the model y update to mimic the cybertruck made me groan.

I think the old model y looks great. It was a success!

But they messed with it and the new one looks like a duck.

in comparison the model 3 update looked ok.

But for me the relentless march to remove controls from the car is the worst.

It started with no dashboard on the model 3, (crowded central display off to side).

But then got worse and worse.

No stalks makes it unbuyable to me. No drive select stalk (it will guess), no turn signal stalks. Critical controls on the touchscreen. Small targets that are hard to hit in a moving car.

It looks minimal in the showroom, but day to day it makes you a worse driver. It is techno poverty.
by EcommerceFlow | 2025-09-09 22:57:40+00:00
I made a strategic choice to focus on ‘vibe coding’ rather than using platforms like n8n, aiming to pick up something new with each project I build. From familiarity with terminal, github, heroku + postgres, etc.

I'm still vibe coding in terms of syntax and logic, but I do understand my codebase, and have made some excellent automations at work.
by godelski | 2025-09-09 22:57:45+00:00
> Majority of news outlets have government subsidies of one sort or another

In the US? That's basically NPR and PBS, both of which are not in good graces with the current administration. So I don't think that's really the motivating factor.

Or are you calling ads subsidies? Sure, gov pays these news outlets for ads, but that's because of their size and reach. They aren't spending nearly as much for smaller outlets, though yeah, local outlets get ads for local campaigns.

Either way, I think the argument falls short. I said in the short term yes. That includes ads. But in the long run it is a bad strategy. Lack of quality journalism has been making the public more distrusting of the news. It gives legitimacy to claims of "fake news" even if such a thing is not binary and if those claims are being used liberally.

I'll put it this way. Would you rather have a million dollars now or make $10m per year for the rest of your life? I'd call someone a fool for taking the former option, yet it is the option most take. The only difference is I said the second option out loud.