MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solid_fuel | 2025-09-02 20:55:03+00:00
Every power this administration has secured for itself will be available to and used by future administrations. Do not fool yourself into believing this state of conservative power over the three branches will last, it will not.

And now when it ends, the next administration will inherit this power to deploy the military for domestic use, with very few restrictions. They will inherit the power to detain anyone without due process based on the simple allegation that the detainee is here illegally. They will inherit the power to use the considerable spying apparatus that is Palantir against perceived domestic enemies.

The next administration will easily be able to create huge tariffs on imports, and relieve them in a targeted manner for specific companies as a reward for bribes and compliance. That is the current reality, and it is the world you are backing.

Finally, the next administration will have the ability to deal with the problems that have haunted this country since the failure of reconstruction. Guns, hate groups, religious cults, climate change deniers... the next admin will have many, many more options to address these problems. I hope you have considered the tools you are handing to the other side.
by bsimpson | 2025-09-02 20:55:03+00:00
> started requiring appointments

I fear we're headed this way generally. There's a kind of person who likes to plan everything ahead of time. As we hit capacity limits (e.g. overtourism), those planners are going to book all the available capacity. We're going to either have to adapt to be like them, or be locked out of experiences.

I'm very not happy about it.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-09-02 20:55:30+00:00
Still hiring juniors

While an LLM can make your developers more productive the reaction I'm seeing is more like "great, each dev now makes even more for the company, now we can grow faster and hire more."

Companies which see software development as a cost rather than a source of competitive advantage may see this differently but even they haven't given up on junior devs. Junior devs are cheap.
by swframe2 | 2025-09-02 20:56:01+00:00
Preventing garbage just requires that you take into account the cognitive limits of the agent. For example ...

1) Don't ask for large / complex change. Ask for a plan but ask it to implement the plan in small steps and ask the model to test each step before starting the next.

2) For really complex steps, ask the model to write code to visualize the problem and solution.

3) If the model fails on a given step, ask it to add logging to the code, save the logs, run the tests and the review the logs to determine what went wrong. Do this repeatedly until the step works well.

4) Ask the model to look at your existing code and determine how it was designed to implement a task. Some times the model will put all of the changes in one file but your code has a cleaner design the model doesn't take into account.

I've seen other people blog about their tricks and tips. I do still see garbage results but not as high as 95%.
Show HN: Provably secure vibe coding is now a thing
by SaltNHash | 2025-09-02 20:56:42+00:00
Don't get your knickers in a knot. We were surprised too.

We are the team behind TideCloak which we shared on HN previously (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42460131).

This time we ran an experiment. What happens when you apply a fundamentally different security model to the worst possible development process?

Behold... SecureAF https://secureaf.lovable.app/ Build video 6 mins https://youtu.be/tx5MsJ3jeQw

The code and UI are questionable and the quality assurance is non-existent. But the security model holds by treating even us as malicious, keeping authority over data out of reach for everyone except the rightful user.

Can you actually use SecureAF? Hell no. We built it in 20 minutes and never tested it. What's wrong with you?

What you reckon?
by contingencies | 2025-09-02 20:56:59+00:00
Not sure where this conclusion comes from. What is their research activity? Making data models. How is that in the public interest?

IMHO it's very hard to argue that something is in the public interest if the public can't see it, hold it, analyze it, criticize it, and replicate it: particularly in the field of science where we have a replication crisis.

If it's a black-box service, it's not science.

If it's replicable and open, thus provable, it's science.
by nerpderp82 | 2025-09-02 20:58:02+00:00
US Noped out of Paris Accords and is on the path to unregulate greenhouse gas emissions while the article talks about the INCREASING US emissions while China's falls.

The US outsourced massive swaths of its manufacturing to China and with it, the emissions from those industries.

Talking in absolutes without context, nor the trajectories is rigorous at best and disingenuous or worse.

From the article

> International Energy Agency (IEA) figures show Chinese coal consumption falling 2.6% in the first half of the year, largely due to a boom in solar that saw the country add 92 gigawatts of capacity—that’s 92 billion watts—in a single month in May, compared to all-time U.S. installations of 134 GW.

So in one month, China added 68% of our total solar capacity to its grid.
by komali2 | 2025-09-02 20:58:19+00:00
Your first paragraph I interpret as basically saying that the reason things are is because these jobs exist in a labor market, so that's just a restatement of my point that this is a negative aspect of capitalism.

The third paragraph argues for even more market mechanics involved in this labor market which I of course disagree would improve the situation.

Also there's a serious shortage of teachers in the USA which undermines your point imo.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-02 20:58:22+00:00
Fraud is only called fraud if you get caught and defraud the wrong people. Corporation-on-consumer fraud is generally OK and a lot of businesses we consider "legitimate" do it as standard practice. Fraud against investors and "the rich" can still be papered over and forgotten if everyone ends up richer in the end. SBF just got unlucky.
by mindslight | 2025-09-02 20:58:35+00:00
I don't see how advocating those things is itself an infringement of personal liberty. Are you coming from the all-too-common place of equating speech with violence?

You've also missed my main point three times now while actually leaning into the exact dynamic I've described, and so I'm having a hard time interpreting your comments as earnestly condemning authoritarianism.
by simantel | 2025-09-02 20:58:58+00:00
I had no luck generating full-size, NYT-style puzzles, but was able to generate 5x5 minis!

I pre-defined a handful of layouts (minis generally just have corners blacked out), and brute-forced puzzles with all 4 or 5-letter words (depending on the space available, given the blacked-out squares) using a word list from Wordnik. I used an LLM to generate clues.
by solardev | 2025-09-02 20:59:05+00:00
I don't see the difference between what the lawyers are saying and the parent's summary of it.

> we've wronged too many people to be held accountable

Sounds like exactly what it is... it's too big of a class to be managed, and therefore should not be?

In fact, the very next line is the judge saying:

> Chun found there was no evidence at this stage that the size of the class was overbroad. Other federal courts had certified class actions with millions or hundreds of millions of class members, the judge said.
by jljljl | 2025-09-02 20:59:10+00:00
Fed governors are subject to democratic accountability (nomination by the president and confirmation by the Senate), but their term is 14 years instead of 4. The Chairman is subject to the same accountability, but on a 4 year term.

There are good reasons why the board of governors is designed to turn over slowly -- it keeps the board focused on long term performance of monetary policy instead of focusing on the next election.
by briffle | 2025-09-02 20:59:13+00:00
Equifax: In September of 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people. The company has agreed to a global settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and 50 U.S. states and territories. The settlement includes up to $425 million to help people affected by the data breach.

Apparently, your personal information is worth about $2.90.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-02 20:59:14+00:00
I don't buy it. These systems are always multiparty. In a single party cryptosystem we can have internal integrity. We know we're not the bad guys and we didn't share the private information with the bad guys, therefore the bad guys don't have the data.

Once you're multiparty that goes away, any other party can definitely betray you and then it's game over, your own integrity doesn't matter.

Historically NOBUS was about having a particular technological lead, that's very fragile and didn't work out long term. If anybody has that lead today it's the Chinese, but realistically nobody has such a lead.
by hinkley | 2025-09-02 20:59:50+00:00
Async is pretty good “green threads” on its own. Coroutines can be better, but they’re really solving an overlapping set of problems. Some the same, some different.

In JavaScript async doesn’t have a good way to nice your tasks, which is an important feature of green threads. Sindre Sorhus has a bunch of libraries that get close, but there’s still a hole.

What coroutines can do is optimize the instruction cache. But I’m not sure goroutines entirely accomplish that. There’s nothing preventing them from doing so but implementation details.
by spit2wind | 2025-09-02 21:00:02+00:00
What do you mean by "Just using Guix requires a pretty substantial amount of administrative work."

Like, as a user downloading packages, or a person packaging an application?

As a user downloading a package, it's been super easy for me and it's been years of running Guix with little to no issue (yet the benefits of rolling release, rollbacks, installing multiple versions of a given software etc.).

As for using it to package an application, I found the challenges mainly in the documentation. This was years ago and a lot of work has gone into improving the docs.

I'm curious what your experience has been.
by lucb1e | 2025-09-02 21:00:25+00:00
looking up your claim, https://www.mpg.de/4635546/co2-age-structure doesn't quite seem that much of a decline as compared to the giant increase from adulthood until ~60yo (presumably, as you accumulate wealth and require more care). You have to be over 70yo before it goes from ~15 to ~13 tons per capita per year. That's a small minority of people (like 9% if I'm eyeballing it right) who are 70+ in China in 2024 according to https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2024/ so the remaining 91% will be either stable or increasing emissions

edit: corrected the figure from 3% to 9% after noticing that I looked only at the left number and not the right one on that second graph. Forgot about all the women in the country, whoops
by kspacewalk2 | 2025-09-02 21:00:35+00:00
>Try going for a walk outside in downtown Toronto on both the hottest and coldest days.

I've done so many times on both the hottest and the coldest days, in Toronto. I've also been poor in Toronto and lived downtown, so you're right! Let's stick to what I know.

It's always funny to read these wild exaggerations about our climate, and I suspect it's the same in other parts of the world. Yes, you could very occasionally suffer heatstroke or die of cold if you venture outside. Such are the generally defined, weather-related dangers of leaving your house. Somehow the millions of people who live in Toronto and move about downtown without patronizing the half-deserted and confusing PATH maze manage just fine. I encourage you to actually visit downtown Toronto or talk to someone who lives there to see just how they somehow manage to barely eke out a subsistence living for the 9 months of the year that the Damocles' sword of Extreme Weather sort of hangs menacingly over them.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-02 21:01:22+00:00
My high school got its first computers in 1986, a dozen or so Sanyo CP/M systems. Our teacher, who was as new to computers as we were, was overwhelmed with teaching everyone how to get a directory listing and use Wordstar, so he handed me some books when he saw I was bored. So my first programming experience was in Z-80 assembly.

The first computer I owned was a Commodore 128, about a year later. It came with a Z-80 and CP/M on disk. Unfortunately, I never really found anything useful to do with it that was better than what was available for the native 64 and 128 modes.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-09-02 21:01:31+00:00
> This can lead to gaps where one loses their status temporarily and may have several months where its illegal for them to work in the country.

What status do they loose? Right to work (i.e., having a valid EAD card) and immigration status are two different things.

> This is true of a lot of workflows in USCIS.

Their workloads increased significantly over the past 3-4 years due to various factors, unfortunately.
by kbenson | 2025-09-02 21:01:39+00:00
> I'm a middle class white native English speaking boring white boy with a hick accent so basically at the bottom of the interest at ACLU

I would assume they would be jumping at a few of these cases too, as a) it may be easier to bypass any ingrained bias in the system if you aren't necessarily matching people there may be bias against, and b) establishing case law is important for changing ambiguous legal situations.

Are you assuming they wouldn't be interested or did they communicate that they weren't interested?
by ndiddy | 2025-09-02 21:01:56+00:00
NEC made an enhanced clone of the 8086 called the V30 that had built-in 8080 support. It could be switched in and out of 8080 mode on the fly. This made it fairly simple to write a program that allowed CP/M programs to run natively on an MS-DOS PC with a V30. The MS-DOS API was mostly a copy of the CP/M API, so all you had to do when you got a CP/M system call was switch the CPU into 16-bit mode, do the equivalent MS-DOS system call, and switch the CPU back to 8-bit mode.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-02 21:02:04+00:00
It depends who you are and why you want it.

Could Amazon or Facebook do this if they just wanted to, e.g. to help break the hold of their competitors on markets they care about? Absolutely.

Could some hobbyist do it? Not on their own, but if you do part of it and someone else does part of it, the whole thing gets done. See e.g. Asahi Linux.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-09-02 21:02:15+00:00
Pretty typical big tech process, just done in a very good way.

I had an initial screening where I had to write some code, write a test case, run it, then discuss how i'd parallelize the algorithm (didn't have to write this part). The code wasn't tricky, but I was glad I had practiced writing code quickly as general interview prep.

After the screen was an algorithmic coding round, but it was enjoyable and nothing that couldn't have been solved with some basic data structures and recursion. The interviewer was talkative and was happy to brainstorm as I talked through my solution, it felt like pair programming where I was driving, not just me being watched while I coded.

Then I did two system design interviews and an "HR" type interview/culture fit one.

I also had a 'practical' coding interview that again was challenging but really just some basic data munging. They gave me some (simplified) data structures and a simple version of a problem Netflix has to deal with, then I had to rearrange the data to the right format.

Again, not tricky, but needed lots of thought, they made me run code, and I was glad I had done practice interviews.

Finally, I was scheduled to the final round of the senior manager team interview, but by then I had accepted an offer for a team I liked at Google.

Google also had a really nice interview process except it took 4x as long.
by _mlbt | 2025-09-02 21:02:20+00:00
Household solar installations are still too expensive to be a reasonable option for many consumers in the United States. The amount of solar generation is also very dependent on where you live. Not to mention, it is becoming increasingly difficult to become a homeowner with people achieving this milestone later than ever. If you rent, it’s not really an option at all.

> On average, it takes between nine and 12 years for solar panels to pay for themselves.

https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/spending/art...
by halffullbrain | 2025-09-02 21:02:28+00:00
PHK’s piece assumes that there’s a clear and effective distinctions between the government and the juducial system: The police can’t wiretap unless authorized by a judge (this could be backed by certificates/whatnot, and not just “ok, go ahead” as it is now.)

However: Not all countries have this effective separation/independence between branches, and some countries which have so far enjoyed such separation are perhaps not so certain anymore.

Even so: I think the point still stands - there is a choice to make, and the current trajectory (EU’s ChatControl, and UK’s encryption ban), is what we’ll risk getting instead.
by jameshart | 2025-09-02 21:03:25+00:00
What I find amazing is, given how important linear algebra is to actual practical applications, high school math still goes so deep on calculus at the expense of really covering even basic vectors and matrices.

Where vectors do come up it’s usually only Cartesian vectors for mechanics, and only basic addition, scalar multiplication and component decomposition are talked about - even dot products are likely ignored.
by serial_dev | 2025-09-02 21:03:30+00:00
Fair question, playing music and timers are nice, but their AI is abysmal so you can imo not ask it to do anything else. I previously worked for a smart home company so I wanted to test out product’s integration with Alexa, so we have some at home. I’m planning to get rid of them, though, and only leave one in the kitchen.
by daemonologist | 2025-09-02 21:03:53+00:00
PlantNet (PL@ntNet) is the same way - a large amount of data is published under permissive licenses but the main models are all proprietary, with only occasional one-off research projects made public. It's operated by a consortium of French government agencies and non-profits (to the extent that these things are equivalent in France).

I wouldn't mind these groups keeping their models private except that their success sucks all the air out of the room when it comes to developing fully open models. The vast majority of users are satisfied with the app or API and so if you aren't you're going to be going it alone. (Of course a for-profit company could have the same effect, but it feels extra bad when it's a non-profit/government agency doing it.)
by taeric | 2025-09-02 21:04:26+00:00
It isn't just computer science people that do this, either. My gut is it was a common thing in MBA style classes as a way to approach a topic in a field you are not expert in. Specifically, it is common among management talkers, from my experience.

I think the idea is supposed to be to go back to the "first principals [that you would have been taught]." Which, yes, sometimes you will learn things that show these early teachings were wrong. Often, though, you can get far more mileage out of the naive models than people want to admit.

To that end, I think used judiciously, this has merit. Rarely does anything go against early teaching. It should lean on the specific assumptions and why they do or do not apply anymore, though.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-02 21:04:34+00:00
And that's great! It should be celebrated.

But we shouldn't set potential school shooter intervention policy based on the experience of a single person in crisis with GPT5. We have to set it on the basis of people who may be in crisis and may not have the support network, of, say.. a husband for instance.

Now we also shouldn't set it based on the worst case. But at the mean it's clear many people don't have the supports that your anecdata point presupposes. And at the same time we should try to find answers there that aren't simply, "Hey ChatGPT, report this person to the cops!" (Or maybe that is the answer? I'm not an expert, so I don't know? But it strikes me that we could all be trying some other things before we go all the way to the law enforcement backstop.)
by brailsafe | 2025-09-02 21:04:40+00:00
I think this is in-part the beauty of a certain type of travel in general, which if you do it before you form too many rigid biases, eventually sets a person apart from their grade school peers who just went full-send on their hometown or whatever. It's totally cliche, but if you just set yourself up to be forced to try and explore and enjoy different geographies, cities, food, or meet types of people you'd otherwise have avoided, then your default perspective is forever unlimited by the invisible ceiling or floor that you had before.

For me, it didn't even occur to me that it was normal to have trains/trams inside your city until I was in my twenties, and you don't even need to be NYC! Once I learned about it, my hometown pretty much lost whatever argument they might have had to get me to stay, and as soon as the option presented itself, I was out.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-09-02 21:04:45+00:00
Sharareh Moghadam, Ernesto Toledo, Dale Heath, Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, Sonny Lasquite, Luis Alberto Reyes, Fatima El-Hassan, Carlos Mendez, Anika Patel.

All green card holders, all detained by ICE in 2025. Lets return to Jemmy Jimenez Rosa. The "legality" of her detention was a cannabis charge from over twenty years ago in a state that legalised cannabis in 2016. On top of that she had been officially pardoned for that offense by the state in 2024. Explain to me, how the cruelty isn't the point on that one.

> If someone claims there is a systemic infringement of constitutional rights, evidence is the only thing that can back the claim up.

hard disagree, this conversation is philisophical, as demonstrated by your dismissal of the case of Jemmy Jimenez Rosa. Anything I present, you will find cause to wave away. Its the "cause" that divides us here, its belief, not facts.

> Why could they do that right now and not 12 months ago also? Has the law changed?

Because they now have targets, really aggressive ones, ones designed to encourage them to lock people up first and ask questions a lot later. You don't have to dig too hard to see how the current administration are aggressively using ICE to enforce their policy aims. This also happened in 2016-2020. The extra $83 BILLION allocated to ICE in the "big beautiful bill" this year also demonstrates the extreme difference in how ICE is used between the different governments, I'm baffled how this point is even remotely contentious.

Seriously tho, the framing of your arguments and complete blindness to the alternative perspective has me concerned. Are you just fucking with me, or are you entirely insultated from these competing perspectives?
by fidotron | 2025-09-02 21:05:17+00:00
This is an astonishing victory for Google, they must be very happy about it.

They get basically everything they want (keeping it all in the tent), plus a negotiating position on search deals where they can refuse something because they can't do it now.

Quite why the judge is so concerned about the rise of AI factoring in here is beyond me. It's fundamentally an anticompetitive decision.