MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-23 01:05:58+00:00
> You can also just tell them to get an M2 MacBook Air for $800

Yes, you will find that most material problems can be solved by buying more stuff. If they wanted to buy a new laptop, they would have done that.

> You'll have to do near zero troubleshooting

That's the case now.

Meanwhile, with the Macs they use, I have to explain that there's a difference between Intel and ARM Macs, that no, their software won't work in MACOS_VERSION because Apple deprecated some API, and no, you can't upgrade to MACOS_VERSION+1 to use something that works, no the hardware they've been using for years won't work because the driver for it is no longer compatible with their Mac/macOS version, the simple thing they want to do actually requires $30 paid software to do, I can't help you when Apple sold you a small hard drive at a premium and macOS takes up half of it, etc.

> I know Linux guys don't mind putting up with the Linux experience but if your family is trusting you as "the techie," you'd be doing them a huge favor by not making them put up with that stuff

Yeah, having a fast computer that just works must be tough lol
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-23 01:06:05+00:00
>you're unable to be made whole again because the criminal doesn't have any money to pay you back.

What does that have to do with rehabilitation? That person can go to prison, realize the errors of their ways, and have a healthy life.I don't have to like nor forgive them. I'm not being "made whole again" no matter how long you lock them up.

> If they're not forced to produce something of value to give to you, then how can you ever be made whole again?

1) you generally don't get something "produced of value", unless suffering is a currency now. Probably is in 2025

2) insurance. not everything can be given back, but many material goods can be compensated.

>If it's insurance, then why do non-criminals paying insurance premiums foot the bill?

because that's how insurance works, in spirit. You're all pooling together a fund so that you help out some other person when they need it. The instigator is often not the one footing the bill to begin with. Shaking down a criminal with no money is as useful as yelling at a forest fire as it burns your place down.

>Doesn't mean that everyone should be forced to work while in prison. But surely for any and all crimes that have a clearly defined dollar amount, shouldn't that criminal be forced to pay that amount back?

if they have it, sure. As is, this isn't the model of the "justice" system, though. You're not getting paid back for anyone put behind bars.
by ggm | 2025-09-23 01:06:21+00:00
Look this is true, but its not an MCAS moment, or intel-took-the-eyes-off-the-prize moment. It's what happens when you have huge margins, and somebody good comes and takes slightly lower margins.

yes, Samsung is sniping at the edges all the time. No, there are not cohorts of apple ecology users jumping into Samsung-android land.

Apple will land a touchscreen mac, and do integration from handheld and desktop before DeX can get it's feet wet.

market share in the US might be close enough to what we can call saturation. India and China and S.E. Asia and even dare I say it South America and Africa are still viable for emerging middle classes with money.

All vison products are crap btw. Meta has nothing special here, it's not google glasses redux, it's an expensive distraction. If you are looking for a company with a TCAS moment, its Meta or X. It's not Apple.

(not a fanboy btw. Use them for work. Use a lot of BSD devices, android on phone and tablet)
by rainsford | 2025-09-23 01:06:22+00:00
As a prospective Tesla customer this one test tells you that Telsa's FSD is not always able to identify or avoid objects in the road large enough to significantly damage your car in situations where humans can identify the object from a significant distance away. Running 999 other tests where there are no objects in the road does not improve your understanding of Tesla's ability to handle objects in the road. Ideally maybe you'd actually want to run 999 more tests with objects in the road to see if Tesla fails every time. If it identifies and avoids the object 99.9% of the time, then you could say this particular test was a fluke.

Now you can certainly argue that "objects in the road" is a category of failure mode you don't expect to happen often enough to care about, but it's still a technical flaw in the FSD system. I'd also argue it points to a broader problem with FSD because it doesn't seem like it should have been all that hard for the Tesla to see and avoid the object since the humans saw it in plenty of time. The fact that it didn't raises questions for me about how well the system works in general.
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-09-23 01:07:24+00:00
From Merriam Webster:

Can literally mean figuratively?

One of the definitions of literally that we provide is "in effect; virtually—used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible." Some find this objectionable on the grounds that it is not the primary meaning of the word, which we define as "in a way that uses the ordinary or primary meaning of a term or expression." However, this extended definition of literally is commonly used, and its meaning is not quite identical to that of figuratively ("with a meaning that is metaphorical rather than literal").

Is the extended use of literally new?

The "in effect; virtually" meaning of literally is not new. It has been in regular use since the 18th century and may be found in the writings of some of the most highly regarded writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Charlotte Brontë, and James Joyce.
by thephyber | 2025-09-23 01:08:14+00:00
Yeah, I think the if at the beginning of your comment is doing some very heavy lifting.

I don’t think many people in the US care about rehab. They seem viscerally invested in the concept of a prison as a place to store/segregate violent people, but have no interest in either helping those people learn to live safely in society or to have any advantages that the poorest non-prisoner gets.

Before we can jump straight to pointing to successful prison labor programs, I think we need to figure out how to message to those voters that it matters how we treat prisoners.
by dmix | 2025-09-23 01:08:52+00:00
No you are right, the economics of LIDAR could turn out to be insignificant over another decade of serious manufacturing investment in China. But Elon is a naive tech optimist like many of us engineers, so 5-6yrs ago he played the risky hand hoping that vision only would work out if they invested hard into it.

Back then Comma AI did the same thing choosing cheap cameras, Geohot the founder is similar to Elon being someone who prefers bucking trends and taking risks. He made a good public argument around that time for using Cameras and betting on more data = better output. And I guess Elon thought so too. It also happened to involve less hardware engineering and let them focus on software. Which is an easier decision as a business.

If it doesn’t work out I’m sure it will die a quick death and LIDAR will take over. State regulators won’t tolerate it long.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-23 01:09:13+00:00
Okay so now you’ve set an arbitrary limit with “very seriously” yet you do not define what that means. Is grand theft auto worthy of striping someone’s vote? Is conviction of marijuana possession? Is shop lifting? Is embezzlement? Where’s the line of very serious for you? It won’t be the same for someone else. Do you see the issue inherent with your proposal?
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-23 01:09:16+00:00
Correction: They are quite good for this: Easy beginner level stuff. For that specific thing, they are much MORE correct than they are wrong.

The status quo is a moving target. 6 months ago what you said would be fully correct. This is no longer the case, now you are only sometimes right and mostly wrong. It is getting better.
by mijoharas | 2025-09-23 01:10:26+00:00
> as it had basically never had any major security vulnerabilities in its entire existence.

This link[0] shows a CVE with CVSS of 9.8 in 2015 (and a handful of smaller ones). From this other page on the same site[1], it claims that all of all 5 of the CVE's are caused by overflow or memory corruption.

[0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/p...

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/5075/GNU-Coreutils.html?v...
by bigyabai | 2025-09-23 01:10:30+00:00
Touchscreen Mac? You mean... iPad?

I think you're giving them too much credit, the metrics don't line up here. Apple has explored a lot of their addressable market already, and the bulk of their profits is coming from their most precarious business sectors. They can't keep banking on App Store revenue and cheap manufacturing to compete.

VR absolutely has a future, if the recent Meta Ray Bans didn't convince you then I don't know what will. I use my Oculus Quest on a weekly basis to play flight simulators already. The future is already here, it just can't cost $3500 or be locked-down like an iPad. I've been a lifelong Apple fan since the first Intel Macs, but the past 5 years have hemorrhaged my faith in their business acumen.
by chis | 2025-09-23 01:10:44+00:00
I spent a ton of time researching this. I wasn’t able to find any thinkpads that are relatively lightweight, have a hi res screen, and new CPUs for even close to the price of the framework 13 which can be purchased with a reasonable spec for less than $1100.

It’s entirely possible that I missed one. But honestly that also makes me root more for framework - just sell me one high quality product instead of offering 40 models, some of which are shit, half of which are so niche they don’t even get a proper review anywhere.
by mbonnet | 2025-09-23 01:11:45+00:00
FCC (or FAA, can't remember, that's systems engineering's job) mandates that all satellites, including cubesats, be able to deorbit within 5 years of the end of their mission with some confidence rate (90%, iirc).

Almost all cubesats are launched at about a 550km x 550km orbit or lower circular orbit. Cubesats (most satellites, in fact) will deorbit naturally within a few years (almost definitely <= 5Y) at that altitude due to orbit decay, mostly from drag.

Now, some cubesats will have onboard propulsion, which they'll use to extend their mission by burning back into higher orbits, allowing them to still naturally decay at the end of their mission. Indeed, they can even use remaining propellant to speed their orbit's decay.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-23 01:12:14+00:00
>the facts of the case looked incredibly like domestic dispute in the midst of divorce,

>we wound up hiring her. And she was great!

Did you try firing her just to be sure?

Within the default biases of the american law enforcement and court systems an assault charge on a woman in divorce dropped usually means almost the opposite of assault charges on a man in divorce being dropped.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-09-23 01:12:23+00:00
Language hype always justifies itself through intellectualizing its own desire.

In this incarnation we don't always hear, "Rust is the future."[1] We hear:

* "improving security, ensuring long-term maintainability, and optimizing performance" "memory safety, concurrency, and performance" [2]

* "its ability to prevent common programming errors such as null pointer dereferences and buffer overflows" [3]

* "is that it's very portable." [4]

* "I believe that we should shift the focus away from memory safety (which many other languages also offer) and instead focus on the explicitness, expressiveness, and ecosystem of Rust that is highly competitive" [5]

* "Better error messages.Providing comprehensive internationalization support (UTF-8). Improved performances" [6]

All of these things are operational and thus quantifiable, and some (perhaps even most), are probably true. But none of them engage with evidence-based decision making. Therefore it's not really about any of these, but that's what we've been doing since the beginning of time.

1. Although we do hear this[5].

2. https://uutils.github.io/blog/2025-02-extending/

3. https://bytegoblin.io/blog/the-power-of-rust-on-linux-a-begi...

4. https://lwn.net/Articles/1007907/

5. https://corrode.dev/blog/foundational-software/

6. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
by dmix | 2025-09-23 01:12:59+00:00
They had poor incentives. The driver wanted to only use FSD for the video which is dumb.

But it doesn’t help disprove that it’s entirely the computers fault. They could have taken action if they were a rational driver.

From my perspective I think many people would have failed to take action. Swerving or hard breaking at those speeds is very dangerous. And many things on the road like roadkill or bags can be driver over
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-23 01:13:31+00:00
Right, but as far as I know, the only instances that give you full bandwidth with NVMe drives are metal. Everything else gives you a proportional fraction based on VM size. So for most developers, yes it is hard to saturate an NVMe drive with e.g. 8-16 cores. Now how about the 100+ cores you actually need to rent to get that full bandwidth?

I agree that EBS and the defaults RDS tries to push you into are awful for a database in any case. 3k IOPS or something absurd like that. But that's kind of the point: AWS sells that as "SSD" storage. Sure it's SSD, but it's also 100-1000x slower than the SSDs most devs would think of. Their local "NVMe" is AFAIK also way slower than what it's meant to evoke in your mind unless you're getting the largest instances.

Actually, showing scaling behavior with large instances might make Planetscale look even better than competitors in AWS if you can scale further vertically before needing to go horizontal.
by hlc1234 | 2025-09-23 01:13:52+00:00
I feel really bad for the poster. It's quite devastating to find yourself in this situation after 25 years of experience. The job market is really competitive these days, and simply submitting a resume isn't enough to get you noticed. Leveraging your connections, asking former colleagues for recommendations, or even hiring a career coach to help you revise your resume and conduct mock interviews might help you break through faster. Come on,
by QuercusMax | 2025-09-23 01:13:56+00:00
When I used to commute via company bus in the bay area, it mattered to me; also when I'm using my laptop out and about in the city, I'd prefer not to have to worry about finding a seat with a charger.

Of course, nowadays power banks are getting so cheap and lightweight, I just toss a couple in my bag, and don't really worry about it. I just ordered one of the Haribo power banks all the backpackers are raving about.
by logannyeMD | 2025-09-23 01:14:08+00:00
FWIW: I created a github repo for compact zero-knowledge proofs that could be useful for privacy-preserving ML models of reasonable size (https://github.com/logannye/space-efficient-zero-knowledge-p...). Unfortunately, FHE's computational overhead is still prohibitive for running ML workloads except on very small models. Hoping to help make ZKML a little more practical.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-23 01:14:52+00:00
>This is not rehabilitation. Its a politics long con to get free state money.

1) it can be both

2) I don't see the economic value here. If a prisoner software engineer can make 80k and can instead make 200k if they weren't in prison, what would make the state more? the garnished wages on a prisoner that need to partially go into maintaining the prison, or the taxes on the free person who's paying their own bills? (this isn't rhetorical, I think it's closer than what first blush tells us).

> "Prisoners are thriving" oh yeah? "THRIVING" In f-ing prison?]

Given the context of the article, I take "thriving" as in "being rehabilitated". Which should be the goal of the justice system, but it's been clear that is almost never is the result.

If there's anyone wrongfully imprisoned or otherwise having the book thrown at them, that's a different matter.
by bigfishrunning | 2025-09-23 01:15:32+00:00
How does it prevent you from licensing code you write any way you want? If those companies pay for a GPL-free linux distribution (kernel excepted i suppose), what's the problem? they paid for the work, they should be able to license it the way they want, and nothing prevents others from using and writing GPL'd software...i'm having trouble seeing the evil here...
by amiga386 | 2025-09-23 01:16:42+00:00
> If you honestly think all humans are born equal

I don't. But in addition to genetics, babies pop out of rich and poor vaginas. Socioeconomic status is a much stronger indicator for being incarcerated than genetics (not counting "male vs female"). There is also the theory that the children of prisoners grow up without fathers and are more likely to go to prison, thus perpetuating the cycle. Children that lose both parents (to imprisonment, drug addiction, abandonment) and enter foster care or become wards of the state have terrible life outcomes. Not genetic, but familial due to disrupted social support networks.

I also think that if, for example, you get addicted to heroin, and you don't have a good support network, that will be your only life until you're dead. But if you do have a good support network, you have an better chance of getting clean and staying clean.
by tyingq | 2025-09-23 01:16:45+00:00
What a criminal record does to your ability to get a job these days, as compared to the past is pretty harsh. Back in the 80's and prior, you could work at a smaller place that didn't have the capability to do background checks. Now, it's $20 or less and ANY employer can do it. You have to specifically find some place that has deliberately chosen to take the risk.

Compare to Australia, where the employer doesn't see detail. They file the background check, but only get a "yes" or "no", based on that specific job and past offenses (if any).
by yoyohello13 | 2025-09-23 01:16:57+00:00
I understand there are wider issues here but the reason I personally use the new hotness rewrites like fd or rg or zellij is because they are just straight up better. Better interface, prettier presentation. They have the benefit of hindsight behind them which allows them to really solve a lot of problems with the originals that need to maintain backward compatibility. My only complaint is they are not gpl.
by SMAAART | 2025-09-23 01:17:55+00:00
Depends on your definition of "coach".

If you're looking for the classic, time-tested definition, I strongly suggest you do https://www.startupschool.org/. There's nothing better IMO.

If you're looking the type of coaching pushed by social media's internet/gurus.... it's a waste of time, since none of them are good.

YMMV
by kazinator | 2025-09-23 01:18:31+00:00
> If not, note every single place they fail, address each one, and repeat with a new user.

Might not this loop be invoking Goodhart's Law?

What is "address each one": are we just changing that document, or are we (also) changing something in the system that the document is about?

If no newbie has any problem following the document, is that still a good document for non-newbies?

If no newbie has any problem with the system that the document is about, are there any downsides?
by foobarbaz33 | 2025-09-23 01:18:42+00:00
> ...I keep trying because I'm hoping theres patterns I don't see.

Python's popularity is an accident of timing. If you're digging deep for wisdom and gold nuggets you're not going to find any. The gold of python is the surface level stuff. Easy to type for hunt-n-pec typers. Press tab to indent is easier than {}.

That's all it took for an army of noobs who wanted to be "hackers" to choose Python. Then they grew up, got real jobs and brought Python with them.
by JoeAltmaier | 2025-09-23 01:19:30+00:00
We wrote a conferencing app and server (years before Zoom). Tested the server by having automated headless apps run in gangs, a hundred at a time, hopping from conversation to conversation, turning mic and camera on and off, logging out and logging back in. Used it for years, the Bot Army we called it. Responsible for our rock-solid quality reputation. Not API design or test classes or constraints or anything. Just, trying the damn thing, in large cases, for a long time.

When it ran an hour, we celebrated. When it ran overnight, we celebrated. When it ran a week we celebrated, and called that good enough.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-09-23 01:20:46+00:00
I think Tim Cook has done an outstanding job as CEO. He's done a solid job making the most of Jobs' vision after he passed. But at this point, there’s not much left to work with. He’s great at turning a vision into profit, but he doesn’t seem to have the vision needed to lead Apple into the future. Thinner iPhones aren’t going to cut it for much longer.

He needs to find an engineer with real vision someone who can drive Apple forward. And that person has to have the finesse that Jobs had, while also being ruthless enough to get things done. It's a tall order, but it needs to happen soon.

Otherwise, I can see Apple turning into another IBM; a company that’s still around, but no longer leading the tech world.

It's time for Cook to move to the Chairman's position.
by jihadjihad | 2025-09-23 01:21:24+00:00
> Remember when Pennsylvania judges took kickbacks to send teenagers to for-profit detention centers? They ruined thousands of people's entire lives, but hey they made a quick buck!

And one of the judges [0] in the “kids for cash” scandal had the remainder of his federal sentence commuted by President Biden before he left office.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Conahan
by jmyeet | 2025-09-23 01:21:58+00:00
As soon as I saw the submission title I knew "it's something Linux related complaining about Rust" and it was (ie coreutils).

As you note (and I agree) Rust eliminates a whole class of potential bugs that are proven to be probably the primary vector of CVEs and we live in an era where that's simply unacceptable for core infrastructure. Heartbleed was one very public example. But these memory safety bugs are traded on the black market and end up in tools like Pegasus to spy on (or even kill) politicians and even journalists.

IME people an incredibly warped view of just how subtle and easy it is to introduce a memory safety bug. I think people think it's just bounds checking arrays and buffers. It's not. Writing any kind of multithreaded code (ie anything using primitives like mutexes directly) is incredibly error-prone. When you add in heteregenous cores and out-of-order processing it gets much, much worse.

There's a large company I know with many bright engineers who contributes heavily to tools like valgrind and asan. This is a company with a lot to lose and is deeply concerned about security. Somebody came up with a valgrind check and ran it over their C++ code base and, lo and behold, found issues that had been dormant in their code base for up to a decade. None exploited, as far as anyone knew. But think about it: a decade of checks, automated code-checking, etc had all missed some of these bugs.

People like to complain that writing correct Rust is hard. Thats's true, particularly for novices. But you'll get better. Thing is, writing correct C++ code isn't exactly easy either.

And perhaps writing such code in Rust is hard because writing memory safe code is hard.