MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mdaniel | 2025-09-10 01:45:35+00:00
Do they work there or not? I deeply appreciate that everyone's threat model is different, but I'd bet anyone that wants to create a new DNS record also has access to credentials that would do a ton more actual damage to the company if they so chose

Alternatively, yup, SOC2 is a thing: optionally create a ticket tracking the why, then open a PR against the IaC repo citing that ticket, have it ack-ed by someone other than the submitter, audit trail complete, change managed, the end
by danaris | 2025-09-10 01:45:50+00:00
Third parties are nonviable in most of the US due to our voting system.

In order to make it mathematically possible for a third party to compete, we need to switch to something with more nuance than single vote, first-past-the-post winner-take-all elections. Ranked Choice Voting has some momentum right now, and AFAICT is no worse than any of the other options (they all fail in certain edge cases, I believe; it's just a matter of which ones).
by germandiago | 2025-09-10 01:45:52+00:00
True, but then it begs the question: if I am a very specialized programmer, how can AI help?

AI just helps me with scaffolding and fast scripts. It does not help me at building better solutions.

It just does a better job when I do not know enough about the topic and sometimes I found it drives me the worst path.

For example, the other day I asked for "the fastest way to get a docker container with gcc15". It offered me Ubuntu + build the source via a checkout. So I suggested that it would be slow to wait to compile it (plus the problems if you do not compile with the right flags, etc.). So I suggested GUIX. I had some problems with GUIX daemon and channels, etc.

I ended up asking, after some fighting with GUIX. Maybe there is a container with gcc15? And it did exist.

So I wasted more time than if I had just found a gcc15 container myself...

There were also multiple things that could be improved, like I had to proactively ask for a non-root container, which did not give me.

So if you do not know what you want exactly, it kind of sucks and can do much better more often than not, but when you know what you are doing, just drive it a bit to scaffold but keep correcting.

All in all: I do not see how a tool like this can replace an expert that is fitting all stuff into a system that needs integration, whose software needs long-term maintenance, etc. It is not as good as advertised and anyway, when you ask something complex, it can seem to be working at first, but there is a point where it starts to make mistakes and lose additional context. Now you have a bunch of code where you understand a small part of it and have to maintain it.

I am not sure if this is good for software development at all in the sense that you are going to pay the bills in different phases of the project. It is not like you cannot do anything: it is just that the whole discipline must take into account context, maintenance and the human cognitive part (bc the human must keep understand what she is doing to be able to remain effective).

I also saw it spitting a lot, I mean, a lot of additional unnecessary code at times that just adds a ton of noise and that a professional programmer would make it much simpler (and hence, maintainable).

I still use it every day for things it does well: a bit of scaffolding here and there, an algorithm that is typical and I could clean up (depending of what I am doing), or to ask why something does not work to spot a bug or one-off scripts. To give me full solutions.... no, it actually sucks at that in a way that is not that obvious to people that did not work at it for some time and know the potential problems you will find down the road if you abuse it.

It is also quite ok at code reviews for pieces of code.
by tptacek | 2025-09-10 01:46:00+00:00
I'm not a blank-slateist or an anti-hereditarian, as someone else claimed earlier today. I understand that cognitive disabilities are often causally --- mechanistically understood --- genetic.

But leaving aside things like Trisomy 21, your evidence here is twin study heritability. Heritability is not genetic determinism; it's almost a category error to claim otherwise, since "heritability" is really just a way of framing the question of whether something is genetically determined --- you still have to answer the question! There's a whole big research field controversy about this, "missing heritability", exploring (in part) why molecular genetics results, especially when corrected for things like within-family bias, are returning such lower heritability estimates than classic twin studies.

I do not believe that any random child selected at birth has an equivalent potential to win a Fields Medal, given the optimal environment to do that in. But the "hard truth nobody wants to face", from the parent commenter, is subtextually about race --- and there the evidence is a wreck; extraordinarily unlikely to bear any fruit.
by jrtc27 | 2025-09-10 01:47:05+00:00
Cambridge and Arm have made a joint statement that nothing that is essential to the deployment of CHERI ("capability essential IP") is being patented by them: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-953.pdf. As with any patent issues, you should consult your legal team and not take anyone else's word for it, because patent law is a minefield and who knows what patents may be out there lurking that nobody realises happens to cover some aspect of CHERI, or design choices in an implementation of it, as with any processor technology, but we are not out to patent it. We believe that the right thing to do is to make the technology open in order to allow it to be widely used for the good of the field.
by throw_m239339 | 2025-09-10 01:47:15+00:00
> “Seed, chemicals or fertilizer, it’s all in the hands of a few companies that are the only game in town. You want to fix farming? Start a federal investigation on those big companies. Booming quarterly earnings and big stock dividends make no sense when farmers can’t pinch a penny.”

It's not just AG, it's every single industry today. It's obviously the result of corruption among elected officials and it's a vicious cycle... who finance these candidates political careers? Nobody wants to bite the hand that feeds them... Corruption is always done at the expense of everybody else...

At least in IT, we've got open source software (but not much open source hardware). Imagine a world, where every single IT company would depend on Windows thus Microsoft...
by id00 | 2025-09-10 01:47:18+00:00
A few years ago I've bought an old cassette deck, ordered a few cassettes on discogs.com (some of them 30+ years old) and even recorded a few mixtapes myself. There is a long forgotten strange feeling to hold a physical media with music. Like it gives it weight...

And surprisingly, the quality is not too bad for my non-audiophile ears. Especially if you go beyond Type-I cassettes
by larsiusprime | 2025-09-10 01:47:21+00:00
Indeed. One of the chief causes of high land prices for farmland is unmet demand for housing in the urban core, so farm and ranch land gets bid up to development prices.

A lot of advocates of building restrictions did it in the name of preserving nature/farmland/greenspace, but in many ways it’s had the opposite effect:

https://youtu.be/-Qn4iZgQY8k?si=LFzuAdWgMxB1BpIG
by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 01:47:51+00:00
One key claim appears to be that there are so few buyers for their products, and sellers of their inputs (and, speculation on my part, those are maybe sometimes the same parties) that “magically” the numbers always work out that their costs shoot up any time their income does, so their margins always have them right on the edge of failure.

(I don’t know how true this is)
by jrtc27 | 2025-09-10 01:48:29+00:00
To reiterate what I've said elsewhere, CHERI does not need a whole parallel memory architecture, there is just one that gets a slight extension over a non-CHERI/MTE system to include tags. But that is the same story as MTE, which also needs to propagate the tags in the memory system (and in fact, more tags, since we just need one bit per 16 bytes, whereas MTE needs 4 bits per 16 bytes in the common scheme).
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-10 01:48:39+00:00
I mean, the way I see it:

- "Vibe coding" is a state of action and being, a mental design paradigm for how you approach a problem.

- Generative/LLM based coding is the technology used to enable vibe coding.

I'm not going to fully dismiss the latter because I can't predict the future, and if we're being frank: no one "cares" about the underlying code when you launch a product. Only that it works. Art/Design is king.

Vibe Coding will inevitably fail once you try to scale to make bigger projects or reason with harder problems. Engineering is about understanding a problem space and figuring out a solution to it with the tools/techniques you acquire and derive; black boxing that aspect of engineering will only take you so far.
by keeda | 2025-09-10 01:49:05+00:00
> Overstaffed big-tech fired a few thousand allegedly idle employees and (not surprisingly) saw no impacts on output.

The part that's always glossed over in this narrative is that the remaining workers were forced to pick up the slack to keep up the output ("do more with less") which resulted in toxic work cultures. Ask any employees across BigTech companies and they'll tell you of this happening everywhere all at once -- formerly collaborative environments suddenly becoming cut-throat and competitive; high pressure and unreasonable goals for delivery; hiring being scaled back (except in offshore teams!) and new candidates being severely downleveled compared to their experience.

This was not a coincidence; Sure, there were slackers scattered everywhere, but the waves of layoffs were completely disproportional to that. The real intention was to bring the labor market, overheated during Covid and ZIRP, back under control (a power play, as other comments indicate.) And who better than Elon to signal that change with his shenanigans at Twitter.

If it seems surprising that output was not impacted (although I would argue a close look at Twitter shows the opposite) one just needs to look at the record levels of burnout being reported:

https://leaddev.com/culture/engineering-burnout-rising-2025-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2025/02/08/job-bu...

https://blog.theinterviewguys.com/workplace-burnout-in-2025-...

https://thehill.com/lobbying/5325471-burnout-erupts-among-pr...
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-10 01:49:18+00:00
Texas, Mississippi, and others partially achieve this by holding students back.

Mississippi, for example, has a third grade reading gate. Texas holds black kids back at a nearly twice the rate of white kids. These kids are older and have repeated the grade so they do better in the 4th grade NAEP assessment.

This is possibly working as intended. However, you can achieve the same results by redshirting your kid or having them repeat a grade.

So the claim from the blog post that

> but Texas has a slight edge for Hispanic students and a huge advantage for Black students.

says that the Texas results are driven by a demographic that's aggressively held back.
by monkeycantype | 2025-09-10 01:49:35+00:00
can you be my collective memory for a minute, I remember the existence of a very satisfying engineering explanation for why the representation of various body parts needs to be flipped left/right in the brain that came down to the topology of the wiring, and explained why unflipped isn't feasible / or perhaps it was just less efficient, it was one of those 'mind explodes' moments, but now I can't recall the logic.
by coder543 | 2025-09-10 01:49:39+00:00
Of course, the iPhone 5 weighed significantly less than either of those! The iPhone Air has a larger screen than all three of those. I don't see what your comparison has to do with anything. The Air is a light phone relative to its screen size. It is also an incredibly thin phone.

I'm probably not getting one, but I don't see the point of comparing it to physically smaller phones.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-10 01:49:58+00:00
IME it's pretty comfortable to use.

The sides can be made grippier and the back of the phone left slippery, so the in-out of pocket experience is nice, while the grippier parts fit in the palm when in use.

The added thickness on the border is also a welcome affordance, and as your fingertips are on the thinner back it feels thin still.

To me it's kinda the best of both world.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-09-10 01:50:43+00:00
I wish people would understand that their personal experience doesn't automatically generalise to collective trends.

It's great that your kids are reading, but clearly a lot of kids, and even more adults, aren't.

It's not just "up to parents" because the media, in all its forms, sets collective values.

And the strategic problem in the US is that reading - and culture in general - is caught between a number of competing ideologies, most of which are destructive to what's usually understood as education both in and out of school.

What individual parents do is downstream of all of those cultural influences. It's heavily dependent on socioeconomics, opportunity, and status, with error bars that depend on a random range of individual values.

The US is a competing patchwork of wildly incompatible cultures and traditions, some of which are directly opposed to each other, and all of which - in practice - are suspicious of traditional educational goals.

Put simply, no one is driving the bus. So it's stuck in a ditch, with its wheels spinning. And it's about to burst into flames.

There's only so much individual parents can do to fix that. The problems are strategic and political, not individual, and they're much harder to fix than they seem.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-09-10 01:50:55+00:00
In my somewhat educated opinion, David Chaum is the OG inventor of crypto currency aka digital cash (eCash), back all the way in 1982.

He was last seen pitching family offices in the UAE pitching AstroCool, a concept involving spraying moon dust in orbit around the earth to block some of the sun light. You won't see this referenced anywhere. I was told about it by the person who introduced him to family offices over there.

Weirdly enough, in 2008, I was so pissed about the financial crisis, I went online to promote the idea of an absolute-valued energy-exchange-based currency called the Joule Token. It had no cryptographic component (was a centralized immutable store that is co-owned and co-administered by the community) The banner I promoted it under was "P2P Programmable Currency" and I kind of spammed Michel Bowen's P2P Research mailing list and wrote a giant post on the P2P Foundation Wiki titled the P2P Energy Economy. The idea was to decouple profit/interest from exchange, so you can value things based on the energy it took to create them and transport them, and instead of profit as an incentive it was about fulfilling the need for energy: you sold things because you needed to recoup the energy and you created the good that you sold because you could, no other reason. Obviously, it was a thought experiment, not an actual implementation or anything meant to becoone real. However, after I was kicked off the list for spamming (or rather for list etiquette -- Hi Bryan! if you still frequent HN lol), Satoshi@gmx.de replied to my emails 4 times between early 2009 and late 2010, so I literally ghosted him, but without knowing. I didn't know until Bryan Bishop, who was behind my banning, I think, told me here on HN 3 years later, in 2013, if I recall correctly.

Here is what ChatGPT knows about those times (I asked it to tell me what it knew without searching online)

https://chatgpt.com/share/6893129d-1a20-8002-a08b-acd66bf91b...

If you remember me from those days, I moved from Evolving Trends on Wordpress to Substack https://understoryai.substack.com/

Good times. They're back again. (sarcasm)
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-10 01:51:37+00:00
Because some things are common sense. Instead of wasting time and money chasing windmills and hoping your family lawyer can beat a multi trillion dollar company, you are much better off spending your time and energy looking for another job if you want to work remotely. When I go into “job search” mode which I have done 10 times in 30 years. My focus isn’t on my current or former employee.

Do you think a lawyer would be necessary if your contract outright stated that you never had to go into an office?

Besides that, every single contract I’ve signed said that nothing said outside of the contract is legally binding.

And legal is very (small c) conservative, they aren’t going to go through the trouble of making a special contract for random employee #1256374 everything is very standardized at these companies except for very high level executives. They are “common talent”. You really have a high opinion of BigTech employees if you think they are “special talent”.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-10 01:51:59+00:00
There sadly isn't much in the ways of masterclasses and apprenticeships these days that target established professionals, sadly. In any job sector. The userbase of trying to get started in XYZ will always be a larger, more vulnerable one to target. Even if you're honestly trying to educate the masses it only makes sense to focus on beginners first. Experts will eventually find their way, and the intermediate is this nebulous field that few even know how to target.
by mrheosuper | 2025-09-10 01:52:14+00:00
> You can quit YouTube for weeks or watch it 22h every day, you still pay the same

This has always been in subscription model, like mobile data plan, or exclusive club membership. I won't argue if it's good or not, just saying it has been a thing for a long time.

> you can exclusively watch non monetized streams or only watch top monetized creators, you'll be paying exactly the same.

Well, the server do not care if the video's creator is paid or not, it still has to store the same data, and you have to pay for it.
by behdad | 2025-09-10 01:53:07+00:00
I have a puzzle for the hacker in you: The font HarfBust.ttf is an offshoot of Anton Regular, with a twist:

- On software using HarfBuzz (as far back as you go, back to the 2000s) and HarfBuzz only, it will ligate "HarfBuzz" to the HarfBuzz logo. - On software using HarfRust and HarfRust only, it will ligate "HarfRust" to the HarfBuzz logo. - On software using HarfBuzz, HarfRust, or DirectWrite, but not CoreText, it will ligate "HarfBust" to the HarfBuzz logo.

How does this work? The font does not use any non-standard OpenType features like `HARF`/`Harf`/`BUZZ`/`Buzz` (which HarfBuzz / HarfRust apply).

Enjoy, --behdad
by LastTrain | 2025-09-10 01:53:34+00:00
This is a pattern. Enact shitty policy and then shield red districts from it. Prime example is the MAILS act. Defund the post office then re-fund it in rural districts. Same with rural hospitals. And democrats help them do it because providing help for part of the population is better than none - they should make rural districts suffer the consequences of their votes - I’m tired of subsidizing communities that would not do the same for me.
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 01:53:37+00:00
There are plenty of other cities with enough job options that isn't something you only get in the bay area.

for the intel emplopees I doupt there is anyone else in the us who needs them. Maybe one or two to a military contactor but most have to find a new spectialty. I wish them luck. Fortunately specalists are mostly easy to retrain.
by grepfru_it | 2025-09-10 01:54:03+00:00
What?

Around Dell campus in Austin is a Home Depot, a hotel, a Chili’s, a strip mall with various shopping outlets and what not. You can walk there from the front door. The idea is that all the employees can walk there for lunch, they will buy things on the way home, it’s just extending economic foot traffic to the tenants of Michael Dell’s commercial properties. Now they won’t go out of business! More money for Mr Dell!

This is my theory at least. The foot traffic has increased greatly since the RTO mandate
by alephnerd | 2025-09-10 01:54:11+00:00
You don't need Marxism - multiple competing farmer cooperatives works as a middle ground between small businesses and capitalism. This is why Indian dairy is outcompeting North American Dairy, and is a model North American farming can adopt [0][1]

The economics of American farming fail because 70% of profit is retained by the processor, versus 20-30% in India.

Ever ate Mozzarella in the US? It's made using Indian skim dried milk. Same with any sort of artisanal cheese that uses 6-8% milk fat.

[0] - https://www.thebullvine.com/dairy-industry/from-extinction-t...

[1] - https://www.thebullvine.com/dairy-industry/indias-dairy-revo...
by jrtc27 | 2025-09-10 01:54:24+00:00
Where studies suggest "a lot" is sub-0.1%. For example, https://www.capabilitieslimited.co.uk/_files/ugd/f4d681_e0f2... was a study into porting 6 million lines of C and C++ to run a KDE+X11 desktop stack on CHERI, and saw 0.026% LoC change, or ~1.5k LoC out of ~6 million LoC, all done in just 3 months by one person. That's even an overestimate, because it includes many changes to build systems just to be able to cross-compile the projects. It's not nothing, but it's the kind of thing where a single engineer can feasibly port large bodies of code. Yes, certain systems code will be worse (like JITs), but the vast majority of cases are not that, and even those are still feasible (e.g. we have people working with Chromium and V8).
by inkyoto | 2025-09-10 01:54:35+00:00
Because until the C1, Apple did not have their own, and there were not that many viable options available with Qualcomm 5G modems being the «best» (however one defines it) and the fastest albeit power hungry and running very hot at high speeds.

Outside Qualcomm, there has been a limited number of players out there, with MediaTek seeming to pick up the pace and giving Qualcomm a serious run for its money – if not now then pretty soon.

What is left is… not a lot and appears to have constraints of one sort or another:

Samsung – with 5G-integrated Exynos SoC's. It doesn't make sense for Apple to house 2x SoC's in the same appliance; Huawei – they target the mainland Chinese market with its own flavour of 5G. One doesn't want their modem anyway due to national security concerns; Sequans Communications – they focus on the IoT market, which is a niche and has its own unique constraint space; Intel – they quit the 5G modem market in 2019 and sold the IP to Apple, which has given them the C1/C1X.
by liveoneggs | 2025-09-10 01:55:05+00:00
My kids don't get textbooks in public school, are comingled with highly disruptive kids (except in the limited gifted classes) and the curriculum is accelerated way past where it was when I was younger.

So my anecdotal theory is that the (public) education system is optimized to the edges, abandoning the middle entirely, resulting in majority decline.

They do get computers with TONS of dumb-ass apps and zero reference materials.
by defrost | 2025-09-10 01:55:47+00:00
That's 242,000 acres of farm land - crops, vegetables, etc.

Ted Turner has two million acres of personal and ranch land in the US, Gina Rinehart has well over 28 million acres (at the end of 2016 - she has purchased more since then) of "ranch land" in Australia (they're called stations here in Oz).

It seems probable that

if Bill Gates is the largest single farm land owner of record with the same holding name on all titles

then there is likely several larger companies each with multiple subsidiaries that each hold almost as much farm land as Gates with a common subsidiary name such that each larger company controls more farm land by a magnitude than Gates does.

I haven't done that work.

( I have done similar work for mineral and energy leases globally though, ownership is generally diversified through a few layers ).