MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rayiner | 2025-09-07 21:23:12+00:00
It’s not complicated. The pro-immigration people proceeded from a premise that turned out to be false. They thought you could pluck someone out of Syria or Iraq and put them in the Netherlands and the result would be indistinguishable (except in superficial appearance) from descendants of William of Orange. Had that premise proven true, nobody would know Geert Wilders’s name.

But it wasn’t true. It was a conceptual mistake closely related to George W. Bush’s erroneous belief that he could turn Afghanistan and Iraq into America through laws on paper. And that’s had tremendous downstream consequences.
by etothepii | 2025-09-07 21:23:42+00:00
The intention was to observe that the standard you are holding the show to are extremely hard to do in the context of fields which have a great deal of context, last for only 45 minutes, and are targeted at the standard user of the Clapham Omnibus.

Assuming that you had perhaps not contemplated this observation by way of analogy I shared my suspicion that an expert on Cyrus the Great might be very annoyed about the way he was discussed.

The problem, of course, is that such analogies are extremely difficult to make as subjects such as M/NS/CS very much have right and wrong answers in the way that history tends not to.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-07 21:24:05+00:00
Greg Egan is a professional science fiction writer who moonlights as a mathematician. He has done some good work in pure math, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egan_conjecture

There are others like him.

If you're sufficiently smart/motivated and have a day job that's conducive to side-project intellectual effort, sure it's possible for an amateur to make contributions.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-07 21:24:11+00:00
Sure, maybe, but the site's human moderators and admins could also maybe dedicate just a modicum of extra effort to counteracting this nonsense seeing how evident and common it's become. HN doesn't have an enormous number of submissions that gain traction on its main page. It wouldn't be hard to keep an eye on idiotic flagging with fairly modest effort, if they gave a damn about doing it.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-07 21:25:03+00:00
We can try it and see what happens. If the results are suboptimal, the taxes on offshoring can be cranked up. In theory, corporations are forced to operate in a market governed by voters and their representatives, and the resulting policy. We expect citizens to follow laws, why not companies? Why would they get a free pass to evade the spirit of the law (out of “cost efficiency” and shareholder profits)? Keep the corporate labor spend in the country or make the business suffer economically.

Companies can hire remote domestically, the talent exists in the US. There is no need to spin up hubs for thousands of people to drive to offices to Zoom from. If you want access to the market, you can hire in the market.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-09-07 21:25:04+00:00
No, but it does require you to hold your arm in a particular way. I would be unsurprised if they're factoring in the capacitance and ground plane effect of the "big bag of saltwater" in their antenna design!

It uses the magnetic compass, accelerometer, and GPS to help you aim it at the satellite (south, ~35 degrees above the horizon).
by jeremykvlim | 2025-09-07 21:25:06+00:00
I solved C using LP. You may attempt to submit a solution here if you want to try: https://open.kattis.com/problems/brideofpipestream

You may view (one of) the judge's solution to this problem (and the rest of the problems) here: https://github.com/SnapDragon64/ACMFinalsSolutions/blob/mast...
by dragontamer | 2025-09-07 21:25:37+00:00
I don't mean to say that RDSEED is sufficient for security. But a "correctly implemented and properly secured" RDSEED is indeed, quantum random.

IE: While not "all" RDSEED implementations (ie: microcode vulnerabilities, virtual machine emulation, etc. etc.) are correct... it is possible to build a true RNG for cryptographic-level security with "correct" RDSEED implementations.

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This is an important factoid because a lot of people still think you need geiger counters and/or crazy radio antenna to find sufficient sources of true entropy. Nope!! The easiest source of true quantum entropy is heat, and that's inside of every chip. A good implementation can tap into that heat and provide perfect randomness.

Just yeah: microcode vulnerabilities, VM vulnerabilities, etc. etc. There's a whole line of other stuff you also need to keep secure. But those are "Tractable" problems and within the skills of a typical IT Team / Programming team. The overall correct strategy is that... I guess "pn-junction shot noise" is a sufficient source of randomness. And that exists in every single transistor of your ~billion transistor chips/CPUs. You do need to build out the correct amplifiers to see this noise but that's called RDSEED in practice.
by jjallen | 2025-09-07 21:25:40+00:00
Thought about this some more. I think you want to start at 100% or high so people actually learn what needs to be learned: what malignant skin conditions actually look like.

And then once they have learned you get progressively harder and harder. Basically the closer to 50% you are the harder it will be to have a score higher than chance/50%.
by filoleg | 2025-09-07 21:26:02+00:00
Unless I am missing something massive, BirdNET[0] is for identifying birds by sound, not by images.

Merlin[1] (also from Cornell Lab of Ornithology), on the other hand, has both image and sound ID. I haven't used either, so I cannot compare the quality of results from Merlin vs. BirdNET for sound ID, but afaik only Merlin has image ID.

0. https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

1. https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
by frumplestlatz | 2025-09-07 21:26:16+00:00
Perhaps you can provide a concrete example.

I’ve seen Haskell’s type class hierarchy successfully realized in all sorts of languages, from Scala to Swift.

- https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz

- https://bow-swift.io/

As for monads themselves, the concept emerges everywhere, with or without Haskell’s particular type classes. Case in point is Swift’s handling of Optional and Optional chaining.
by grg0 | 2025-09-07 21:27:27+00:00
This article presents the apparently widespread, but incorrect and, frankly, boring view that "coding" is the bottleneck in development. The following statement summarizes this view best:

> Many knowledge-work tasks are harder to automate than coding, which benefits from huge amounts of training data and clear definitions of success.

which implies that "coding" is not knowledge work. If "coding" is understood as the mere typing of requirements into executable code, then that simply is not a bottleneck and the gains to be had there are marginal (check out Amdahl's law). And if "coding" is to be understood as the more general endeavour of software development, then the people making these statements have no fucking idea what they're talking about and cannot be taken seriously.
by araes | 2025-09-07 21:27:32+00:00
Not a strong disagree or anything, yet Khabarovsk (~617,000)[1], Vladivostok (~605,000)[2], and Yakutsk (~312,000)[3] are somewhat large in the Far East. There's probably an economic case for 1.5 million citizens access.

Admittedly, it's probably much easier to go through China, Korea, or Japan if those countries are accepting. There's decades of political and social issues to wade through with Russia / US cables, vs just going to China, Korea, or Japan, and then jumping over the Pacific. Canada would likely also be an easier possibility.

Which is pretty much what it looks like Russia did with the Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System[4], and Russia-Japan Cable Network.[5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabarovsk

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutsk

[4] https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/hokkaido-s...

[5] https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/russia-jap...
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-09-07 21:27:40+00:00
> > Windows 95 is comically easy compared to most of the stuff that Tesla does.

Many would not agree but whatever , it was a paradigm shift that changed the world and improved the quality of life of billions of people.

The point of companies is to improve the quality of life of people, not pursue stuff that is hard for virtuoso technical bragging rights. That is something that theoretical physicists do. Actually if something is a low hanging fruit that can improve the quality of life of billions of people that should be pursured not the virtuoso technical mastership for the sake of technical virtuosity

> > This is just objectively not true. They produce some of the safest cars in the world, and have the best selling car in the world. Obviously those same people you are talking about disagree with you.

Put a car from 2003 and a Tesla from 2025 next to each other and they are 99.999% the same. As a matter of fact Tesla can't do many things that a 2003 car can do.

This test for example a Tesla would fail miserably : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMRbV4pIdyc

This is the folly of people who think that a product which is 200 year old like the automobile can be revolutionized just because you can convince a bunch of loonies that it became a "tech company"
by iLemming | 2025-09-07 21:27:42+00:00
> code have much less importance than in other fields.

Although I'm not a game developer anymore (I've done some in the past) I still have hard time believing this sentiment to be true, even today. Game development is interdisciplinary - code, art, design, and audio all matter. But code is definitely not less important than in other software fields; it's just that games also need those other disciplines to succeed.

Yes, modern game engines abstract away low-level code and many successful indie games have simple mechanics but great art/design, still, code remains one of the most important aspects of a good game. Physics, collision detection, rendering and graphics optimization, network for multiplayer, AI for NPCs and procedural generation, performance optimization, state management, input handling - all that still needs code.
by minimaxir | 2025-09-07 21:27:44+00:00
Instead of low-effort ad hominems, which are also against the HN guidelines, you should read the blog posts. One of my recent posts which was highly upvoted on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897320) demonstrates how I don't actually use LLMs all that much for my writing and only use them for specific use cases where they objectively add value, including my work at BuzzFeed.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-09-07 21:28:04+00:00
You script it by hand.

I think figuring out how to do this faster is less trivial than it might sound. I agree that synchronous checks aren’t reasonable. But let’s take Lambdas. They can run for 15 minutes, and if you consolidate within five minutes after a resource has been billed, that gives you a twenty minute lag.

I’m not trying to make apologies for Amazon, mind you. Just saying that this isn’t exactly easy at scale, either. Sure, they bill by invocation, but that’s far from synchronous, too. In fact, getting alerts might very well be happening at the frequency of billing reconciliation, which might be an entirely reasonable thing to do. You could then argue that that process should happen more frequently, at Amazon’s cost.
by gxs | 2025-09-07 21:28:19+00:00
We subsidize a lot of things we may not realize

Company decides to brick a popular product? Who picks up the landfill tab?

Your electricity one is a good example

Hell, even RTO - SF offered some pretty nice tax incentives for companies who enforced RTO to “revive” the city. Who pays for this? They did a great job keeping those on the DL

I only know because I happened be involved in those conversations on the periphery - it was no coincidence we started an RTO policy right as we got a huge, huge new office
by Animats | 2025-09-07 21:28:19+00:00
Coverge in Austin-American Statesman newspaper. "After its June 22 rollout in Austin, Tesla launched a ride-hailing service in the Bay Area under the same name, but the cars there all come with a driver behind the wheel. Beyond the fact it’s still not driverless in either city, Tesla’s ride-hailing service has so far been available only to a limited list of influencers and brand fans — many of whom monetize their content by promoting Tesla online."[1]

[1] https://www.statesman.com/business/technology/article/tesla-...
by richardfeynman | 2025-09-07 21:28:29+00:00
I see your point about reversing the situation (what if North Korea did the same?) and I agree that's a reasonable way to look at things. However, I disagree with your conclusion. If North Korean special forces were to violate US sovereignty by attempting to plant a listening device on the shores of California, and in the process killed some innocent American civilians, I would certainly condemn it. The reason for this is that it's obvious their values (suppress freedom, make the world more repressive, despotic, totalitarian, communist, and dictatorial) do not justify the collateral damage, whereas with the United States, their values, while imperfect, are much better for civilization, and therefore some collateral damage can be tolerated.

To make this illustration even more stark, if Hitler sent some Nazis to the US to perform some sabotage and in the process killed some Americans, I would condemn it; but if Churchill sent some british forces to Germany to perform some sabotage, and in the process killed some innocent WW2-era Germans, I would be more understanding, for the simple reason that Churchill and Hitler were fighting for different things and had different values.

Finally, you began your post with some nonsense about "maybe try and shake the propaganda you've been ingesting all your life." In the same way I don't know what propaganda you've ingested that leads you to equate the US with North Korea--or make assumptions about me--you don't know what, if any, propaganda I've ingested here in the south pacific, where I live. So let's stick to the arguments, assume some good faith, and not accuse each other of forming our opinions based on propaganda.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-07 21:28:52+00:00
Here in Data Center Alley (Virginia) area, the power company Dominion is adding a pretty significant base cost increase (+$10.92) for consumers for this reason. Seemingly with no promises that the generation rate won't also keep shooting up as it has.

There's also a push to create a new rate for very big power users, beyond the existing rate that's shared with many industrial/manufacturing users. https://wtop.com/virginia/2025/09/dominion-proposes-higher-u...

Power rates have been going way up and up for consumers in the area. We're still nowhere near CA levels of absurd, but it sucks a lot seeing the merciless tick up year after year. After being a pretty reasonably priced power area for so long. It sucks feeling like only worse & worse pain is on the way.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-07 21:29:05+00:00
> Is that also a problem with pamphlets that have these same exact sort of images?

Such pamphlets typically contain a lot more guidance on what the context is within which they are provided. They don't come across as a 'quiz' even if they use the same images and they do not try to give the impression of expertise gathered. They tend to be created by communications experts who realize full well what the result of getting it wrong can be. Compared to 'research on the internet' there is a lot of guidance in place to ensure that the results will be a net positive.

https://www.kanker.nl/sites/default/files/library_files/563/...

Is a nice example of such a pamphlet. You were complaining about the number of words I used. Check the number of words there compared to the number of words in the linked website.

There is no score, there is no 'swiping' and there is tons of context and raising of awareness, none of which is done by this app. I'm not saying such an app isn't useful, but I am saying that such an app without a lot of context is potentially not useful and may even be a negative.
by croemer | 2025-09-07 21:29:12+00:00
Yes, "GPT-5 with thinking" is great at search, but it's horrible that it shows "Network connection lost. Attempting to reconnect..." after you switch away from the app for even just a few seconds before coming back.

It's going to take a minute, so why do I need to keep looking at it and can't go read some more Wikipedia in the mean time?

This is insanely user hostile. Is it just me who encounters this? I'm on Plus plan on Android. Maybe you don't get this with Pro?

Here's a screenshot of what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/9LZ1jTI
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-09-07 21:29:34+00:00
This is like the dot com bubble. The web was ultimately transformative, but the early days see all kinds of wild things that don't work so well and massive investment in them.

It is genuinely a useful technology. But it can't do everything and we will have to figure out where it works well and where it doesn't

For myself, I am not a huge user of it. But on my personal projects I have:

1) built graphing solutions in JavaScript in a day despite not really knowing the language or the libraries. This would have taken me weeks (elapsed) rather than one Saturday.

2) finished a large test suite, again in a day that would have been weeks of elapsed effort for me.

3) figured out how to intercept messages to alter default behaviour in a java swing ui. Googling didnt help.

So I have found it to be a massive productivity boost when exploring things I'm not familiar with, or automating boring tests. So I'm surprised that the study says developers were slower using it. Maybe they were holding it wrong ;)
by yencabulator | 2025-09-07 21:29:58+00:00
One of these "AI coding" things that come across as a code smell is the habit of littering outdated reports/guides in the repo. That seems to be happening here too.

This is clearly an AI-generated report based on the code at the time of the generation. I don't see the point of storing them in the history? Especially as this _updated_v2_from_2025 trail of debris.

https://github.com/KentBeck/BPlusTree3/blob/main/rust/docs/C...

https://github.com/KentBeck/BPlusTree3/blob/main/rust/docs/U...
by jacquesm | 2025-09-07 21:30:56+00:00
It monitored various emergency and other radio channels used by police, fire department, ambulance service, taxis and so on. The '10 channels' is in reference to how many tuned channels the thing can scan.

Here is some more detail for that particular scanner:

https://www.rigpix.com/rs-realistic/realistic_pro57.htm
by Apreche | 2025-09-07 21:31:00+00:00
I believe it’s a bubble, and that it will burst, but I’m only a little worried about the market.

Yeah, there could be a sell-off of tech, but the people who sold will reinvest elsewhere.

Also, 401ks still exist. Every week people get paychecks and they automatically buy stocks, no matter what the market situation. The only thing that can bring that down is if less people have jobs with retirement plans. If AI busts there will be some amount of re-hiring somewhere to cover it.

Could be scary for people with tech stocks, but less scary with index funds going long term.
by odie5533 | 2025-09-07 21:31:33+00:00
Wow! The Tabs example on the HTMX is faked! They serve the tabbed content using faked JS calls instead of network calls. It makes the idea of using HTTP for small amounts of content changes not seem crazy because it's instant on their site, but when you implement it on your site it will be slow because it's making actual HTTP calls!

HATEOS is okay for APIs. But doesn't seem useful for small static sites. Dogfooding is great! But so is using the right tool for the job. HTMX is not over-engineering things, it's made the Raku site worse than plain HTML and CSS (you can do tabbed content in pure CSS even!)
by oa335 | 2025-09-07 21:31:43+00:00
> In 60% of polling this issue, Gallup has found that the support for increasing immigration has never exceeded 34%, and was under 10% from 1965-2000.

From 2016 until now, Gallup polling has found that over 50% of the country supported increasing immigration or keeping it at the same levels.

In 2024 (height of anti immigrant sentiment in Gallup polls) only 47% supported “ Deporting all immigrants who are living in the United States illegally back to their home country”, eroding to 38% in 2025.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigratio...

Anyone who purports to believe in the primacy of popular will should raise an eyebrow at the discordance between popular opinions and the political discourse surrounding immigration - unless of course their appeals to populism are merely fig leaf rationalizations?
by xonery | 2025-09-07 21:32:36+00:00
One command to share your localhost on your own domain use CF Tunnels TL;DR: moley tunnel run → localhost:3000 is instantly live at https://api.yourdomain.com.

The problem:

Ngrok/localtunnel give you random URLs that expire.

Paid tiers kick in fast if you want custom domains or longer sessions.

Cloudflare Tunnels are free but annoying to set up manually.

Moley fixes all of this with one simple command.

Perfect for:

API development

Hackathon demos

Webhook testing

Client presentations

Team collaboration

Key features:

Your own domain (no random subdomains)

Multiple apps on different ports

Configurable environments (--config production.yml)

Clean shutdown on Ctrl+C

Built on Cloudflare infra → fast, free, no limits

Setup (2 min):

brew install --cask stupside/tap/moley cloudflared tunnel login moley config set --cloudflare.token="your-token" Example config:

ingress: zone: "moley.dev" apps: - target: { port: 3000, hostname: "localhost" } expose: { subdomain: "api" } - target: { port: 8080, hostname: "localhost" } expose: { subdomain: "app" } Result → https://api.mycompany.com → localhost:3000 https://app.mycompany.com → localhost:8080

GitHub: https://github.com/stupside/moley
by h1fra | 2025-09-07 21:32:58+00:00
I think the big problem is when secrets can be anywhere in a string and you don't control the input (e.g, library stacktraces, HTTP responses, JSON that was stringified). You need to pass the secrets to the logger so it can be redacted, it's heavily dependent on the dev and easy to forget during review.

And an exact match is just part of the problem; if a dev redacts the end and another dev redacts the start, you can still reassemble the secret with enough logs.