MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 6r17 | 2025-09-15 16:07:26+00:00
For AI you definitely need to clean up and I think even targeted learning on some practices would be beneficiary ; for users ; it depends on the people, and I'd argue that vibe-coded rust can be better than just "written-rust" IF the important details and mind of the user are actually focused on what is important ; Eg ; I could vibe-code a lock-free well architect-ed s3 - focus on all the important details that would actually make it high perf - or write some stuff myself 10x slower - which means I will have 10 x less time to work on the important stuff.

However what you asked is wether the vibe coded rust will rot the quality of language ; this is a more difficult to answer to, but I don't think that people who are uninterested in the technics are going to go for rust anyway - from the signals I feedback people are actually not really liking it - they find it too difficult for some reason and prefer to blanket with stuff like C# or python.

Can't explain why.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-15 16:07:31+00:00
I can definitely see how what I wrote was unclear there, sorry. Inside the quotes, “liberal” was used in the sense that skrebble was using it inside their hypothetical quote, so, basically a faction of team-blue. Afterwards my intent was to continue using it in the way that he (outside his hypothetical quote) and I (everywhere) had been using it, related to the philosophy of liberalism. I’ll try to edit it for clarity, sorry…
by antiframe | 2025-09-15 16:07:32+00:00
Most of the media I remember from that time was less celebratory and more skeptical. [1] [2] [3]

Do you have some examples of the media celebrating Facebook's psychological experiments? Perhaps you live in a different influence sphere or filter bubble than I do.

To check my centiment, I asked ChatGPT "What was the media sentiment ten years ago about Facebook running psychological experiments on people?" and here was its top-line response:

> Short answer: largely negative — shocked and critical. Journalists, ethicists and privacy advocates framed Facebook’s secret “emotional contagion” experiments as an ethical breach (lack of informed consent, manipulation of users’ moods, corporate research without proper oversight), while a smaller group of commentators pushed back saying large-scale A/B testing is routine for tech firms.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2014/06/everything-you-need-to-know-ab... [2]: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-ethical-... [3] https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-changed-way-experiments-...
by em-bee | 2025-09-15 16:07:37+00:00
Germany does not have what could be considered a constitution, or a Verfassung in German

that is not correct. Grundgesetz = Verfassung: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verfassung

changes require a 2/3rds majority, just like changes to the US constitution. the unamendable parts in both are very few.
by kriops | 2025-09-15 16:07:44+00:00
Australia is dystopic in more ways than one[1], so this unfortunately does not surprise me.

I probably do not have to point out the issue with the soundbite, but I am doing it anyway: The “laws” of mathematics are valid across all of existence. Last time I checked, that includes Australia. As a matter of fact, I have personally stored encrypted communications with an Australian vendor after the law went into effect (not that I knew about that law in particular). And I can confirm that the communications were indeed still encrypted.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYIojG707w (Honest Government Ad | Our Last Fair Election?)
by twotwotwo | 2025-09-15 16:07:51+00:00
Sort of trivial but fun thing: you can fit billions of concepts into this much space, too. Let's say four bits of each component of the vector are important, going by how some providers do fp4 inference and it isn't entirely falling apart. So an fp4 dimension-12K vector takes up 6KB, like a few pages of UTF-8 text, more compressed text, or 3K tokens in a 64K-token embedding. How many possible multi-page 'thought's are there? A lot!

(And in handling one token, the layers give ~60 chances to mix in previous 'thoughts' via the attention mechanism, and mix in stuff from training via the FFNs! You can start to see how this whole thing ends able to convert your Bash to Python or do word problems.)

Of course, you don't expect it to be 100% space-efficient, detailed mathematical arguments aside. You want blending two vectors with different strengths to work well, and I wouldn't expect the training to settle into the absolute most efficient way to pack the RAM available. But even if you think of this as an upper bound, it's a very different reference point for what 'ought' to be theoretically possible to cram into a bunch of high-dimensional vectors.
by rml | 2025-09-15 16:08:22+00:00
If you want to learn how Org mode works, start by reading outline.el

then read Dominik's outline-magic.el

then see how far you can get with your own customizations on top of that to augment, e.g. plain markdown text

you may find you're doing well at that point and don't need to deal with the 100k+ line beast that is Org, nor its transitive dependencies

at that point you will really understand (that part of) Emacs, and will no longer see Org as "a discrete thing", but just "some code someone else wrote" that you can take or leave
by JimDabell | 2025-09-15 16:08:23+00:00
It’s more than just “bothers people”. Some jurisdictions consider this to be leaking PII without consent and will issue fines if you don’t self-host or ask permission. For example:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/31/website_fine_google_f...

Google Fonts has an open issue that is three years old here, with no response from Google:

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/5537
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-15 16:08:40+00:00
Or a self-contradictory opinion that is 5-4 in the first half, and 5-4 in the second half, but they’re almost entirely different 5-4s (and god knows how ACB was able to split the difference and sign on to both).

And somehow it’s the fault of the district courts if they can’t interpret this madness.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-15 16:09:10+00:00
> Tariffs. Deficit spending. Federalization of law enforcement.

None of those are left wing (or even “more frequently associated with the less right wing of the two major parties in America”)

In fact, in the period where the GOP has been the more right-wing party, deficit spending has been associated more with them being in power.

> Government ownership/direction of private industry.

Fascist corporatism is not left-wing (state ownership as a proxy for and in the interest of the working class is a feature of some versions of leftist theory, but this isn’t something that Trump’s industrial intervention even makes a rhetorical appeal to.)

> > [...] the Republican Party, being out of the White House for the first time in a while and having just taken a Congressional majority after mostly being in the minority for a generation was also emphasizing restraining government and elected officials more than the Right normally has before or since, but that was pretty obviously a tactical adaptation to the immediate circumstances, not the essence of conservatism.

> But no, it actually is the "essence of conservatism" where conservatism is an actual political philosophy, and not an empty term that refers to the haphazard policy preferences of whatever faction a particular political party happens to be pandering to at any given moment.

No, you’ve confused libertarianism/minarchism with conservatism. Conservatism, as an “actual political philosophy”, or rather a broad political orientation which is not a single unified philosophy but is conprised of distinct philosophies tending in the same broad direction, arose in response to and is exactly resistance to the downward, equalizing, leveling drive of enlightment liberalism.

The on-and-off rhetorical appeal to libertarianism by the Right especially when out of power is, exactly, a matter of “whatever faction a particular political party happens to be pandering to at any given moment.”
by hackeraccount | 2025-09-15 16:10:16+00:00
Embarrassingly, I've read the details on the quote. The short version is that Kirk said something about several individuals which was changed in the "quote" to be about a group.

The paraphrase would be if I said, my co-works Bob and John were congenital idiots and I was quoted as saying "All Unix Administrators are congenital idiots"

Should she get fired for that kind of thing? Easily yes if she did it in a work product.

If she did it for something outside of work? I have no idea. Probably not but nominally she was doing straight news for the Washington Post. The deeper problem is the no one goes into Journalism to do straight news reporting but everyone at least starts off doing that and for most that's all they ever do - but everyone wants the dream; getting paid to tell other people what they think is right and wrong with the world. The only way to get that dream job is to start off doing it for free but it's not hard to see how that might conflict with your day job if your day job is straight news reporting.
by eallam | 2025-09-15 16:10:22+00:00
Very common issues were: forgetting to put non-determistic code inside of steps (deterministic code can be put outside of steps, but non-deterministic = boom), incorrect use of cache keys (people would put dynamic data inside the cache key). Another issue we hit pretty frequently that a single step would take longer than the serverless function timeout it was running on (this was before we ran our own compute platform). Another issue was speed, especially with more complicated tasks with hundreds of steps: the amount of data that needed serializing/deserializing became pretty huge. Oh yea, that was another thing (it's coming back to me now), there were lots of fun surprises about data being serialized/deserialized and changing shape (e.g. you couldn't have a step that just returned a class instance, for example) which caused tons of bugs.
by charlescearl | 2025-09-15 16:10:50+00:00
Passport revocation of Paul Robeson https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/selected-t...

Passport revocation of W.E.B. DuBois https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/when-civil-rights-were...

Passport revocation of William L. Patterson https://depts.washington.edu/moves/CRC_genocide.shtml
by seabrookmx | 2025-09-15 16:11:30+00:00
The maintenance difference isn't that large. Diesel in a good tank also lasts an extremely long time, unlike gasoline. Diesel engines are more thermally efficient so you get more electricity per unit of fuel burned. The tanks don't need to be under pressure or replaced nearly as often as those for propane either. This is why most hospitals, data centers etc. that aren't near a natural gas line use diesel generators not propane. Natural gas has the benefit that when piped in, you don't need storage at all.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-15 16:11:47+00:00
This is the worry of globally-available USD stablecoins.

By swapping the volatility from crypto to lower USD volatility, they effectively create a funnel from riskier currencies into dollars.

Which is the same state that previously existed... except now facilitated by the crypto industry's global accessibility/UX and with less international regulation.

Blessing USD stablecoins at the US federal level was a smart move (from the US-perspective) as it creates a much bigger demand for dollars, and if the US didn't do it then China or OPEC would have eventually gotten around to it as an end-run around dollar hegemony.

Winners:

- Crypto industry (more volume to skim) - US Treasury (more demand for debt)

Losers:

- Countries with less-stable currencies (lose further control of monetary policy) - China / OPEC (miss opportunity to push dedollarization further)

TBD:

- Money laundering (once volume grows, KYC and traceability will follow)
by somenameforme | 2025-09-15 16:12:09+00:00
I agree with you on just about everything you said here. If you're arguing that my description is against the intent of the Founding Fathers then I also 100% agree there. With impeachment I am speaking of the practical effect of things, not necessarily how it was intended to function. Though I can't say I recall ever reading any political philosophy around it, so to me they remain one and the same.

And I think that segues nicely into this issue as a whole. Because the Founding Fathers were extremely averse of parties and the dangers they could pose, but this is one of the few examples where they let idealism trump reality in their philosophy. They themselves almost immediately broke down into factional parties, the first being formed by Hamilton, the author of aforementioned Federalist paper, himself! And even from that early stage it became clear that parties would become the defacto norm of society.

I'd also add that there's a bit of a paradox with things like at large proportional representation. It effectively encodes parties into the system, yet remains [relatively] diverse in practice, especially without mandates on things like the minimum vote percent. While district based FPTP has no connection to parties and ostensibly maximizes competitiveness by minimizing geographic regions a candidate needs to sway. Yet of course in practice, like you said, FPTP invariably trends towards a complete bastardization of democracy with two parties at a 50/50 equilibrium.
by jonjacky | 2025-09-15 16:12:36+00:00
In 2018 I ran across this:

https://www.fugue.co/blog/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html - Recreates (Jef Raskin's) Archy-like philosophy and workflow in emacs, including some customizations: "Ace Jump Mode ... works a bit like Jef Raskin's Leap feature from days gone by." Explicitly references Archy's predecessor, the Canon Cat

But now clicking on that URL brings up something completely different.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-15 16:12:46+00:00
They are modern marvels indeed, but if you were to park your car in a field in May, by New Years when you go to start it up, it's a coin-flip whether or not it will.

Generators need to be exercised and maintained. You are committing to fire that thing up for a few hours every month, just to make sure it's in running order when you need it (I used to work next to a hospital that fired them every week).
by alphazard | 2025-09-15 16:13:31+00:00
> congrats if you buy a stablecoin - you've effectively financed the US gvt at 0%.

USDC on Coinbase yields interest. The USDC people make a little spread on it, but you aren't financing the US government at 0%, you're financing them at market rates. There is counterparty risk just like with a bank. Unlike a bank, there are liquid markets onchain for other fungibles.
by odie5533 | 2025-09-15 16:13:48+00:00
Do you work for a plastic bag company?

The American Progressive Bag Alliance (representing Novolex, Hilex Poly, Superbag, and Advance Polybag) has:

- Spent $6+ million fighting California's bag ban through misleading ballot measures https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2016/08/17/plastic-b...

- Funded studies claiming reusable bags harbor dangerous bacteria (while omitting that washing eliminates this) https://archive.is/p7Qza

- Sued cities implementing bag bans, forcing expensive legal defenses https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20/plastic-bags-have-l...
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-15 16:14:05+00:00
The article it cites says this (emphasis added):

> For much of its history, the ADL has operated in the United States as if it were a hostile intelligence organization—which, in essence, it was. The organization’s spymaster was Irwin Suall, who from the 1960s to 1997 ran his nationwide network of agents and informants from the ADL’s New York City headquarters. As millions of dollars in donations flowed into the “civil rights” organization, tens of thousands of dollars flowed out to Suall’s clandestine operatives in the field, actively engaged in violating the civil rights of thousands of Americans. Among his agents was Roy Bullock, a beefy San Franciscan with the codename “Cal” who posed as a small-time art dealer in the Castro District and spied undercover in the US for the ADL. To hide the ADL’s involvement, Bullock’s payments were laundered through a Beverly Hills attorney who, Bullock would later tell authorities, never missed a payment in more than three decades. Bullock said he would submit his reports to the ADL’s executive director in San Francisco, Richard Hirschhaut, now the regional director of the American Jewish Committee for Los Angeles.

This supports the stated claim. You can dispute the facts in this citation, of course (I don’t take them as the gospel truth myself), but The Cradle didn’t cite it incorrectly.
by germandiago | 2025-09-15 16:14:11+00:00
Well, this has happened to me with pieces of code directly in front of an AI. You go 800% faster or more and now you have to go and finish it. All the increase in speed is lost in debugging, fixing, fitting and other mundane tasks.

I believe the reason for this is that we still need judgement to do those tasks, AIs are not perfect at it and they spit a lot of extra code and complexity at times. Then now you need to reduce that complexity. But to reduce it, you need to understand the code in the first place. Now you cut here and there, you find a bug, but you are diving in code you do not understand fully yet.

So the human cognition has to go on par with what the AI is doing.

What ended up happening to me (not all the time, for example this for one-off scripts or small scripts is irrelevant, or to author a well-known algorithm that is short enough without bugs) is that I have a sense of speed that ends up not being really true once you have to complete the task as a whole.

On top of that, you tend to lose more context if you generate a lot of code with AI, as a human, and the judgement must be yours anyway. At least, until AIs get really brilliant at it.

They are good at other things. For example, I think they do decently well at reviewing code and finding potential improvements. Bc if they say bullsh*t, as any of us could say in a review, you just go ahead to the next comment and you can always find something valuable from there.

Same for "combinatoric thinking". But for tasks they need more "surgery" and precision, I do not think they are particularly good, but just that they make you feel like they are particularly good, but when you have to deal with the whole task, you notice this is not the case.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-09-15 16:14:14+00:00
I'm less cynical, in that I don't expect the future culture to utterly abandon itself into pure sensualism with nil effort or assumed responsibility, as depicted in the series.

Basing that on namely a) social signaling will still matter; rich people past and present don't all collectively do nothing, b) solving cheap energy and automation doesn't mean there are no more secrets of the universe to reveal, and we are wired to appreciate novelty (hello, Star Trek), c) some people opt for "simple living" today to varying degrees, which usually evokes working outdoors, in other words we may opt to do things we don't "have to" (this may overlap with religious fervor), d) environmental influence (not determinism), by which I mean, a large demographic of the population could shift it's attention to scientific, exploratory or innovative efforts. I think most who go this direction are not exceptional, they just grew up in environments that fostered those interests.

My wish is that we create institutions in preparation for the coming full-auto/UBI society that allow any of us access to the tools needed to collaborate on lofty scientific undertakings. We are not all going to turn to pithy artisanal crafts and art; not everyone has that temperament. Most people are pretty social, many like to build things that provide another kind of utility. But we need to give each other permission and materials.

Absent that, you get the Culture. If we can't get meaning, we'll numb ourselves. You can quibble that even this will meet and end one day (like, fully colonizing the Universe and understanding its secrets), but who cares. The Universe will also end one day. Kick that can down the road.
by isr | 2025-09-15 16:14:21+00:00
The Cradle is a pretty well respected analysis site, which is often referenced to by other independent journalists. Just as in the late 1930's-40's, most respected, independent journalists would have numerous headlines heavily critical of Nazism, similarly, most respected independent journalists today would have numerous headlines heavily critical of Zionism & Israel.

Case in point, the other comment referencing a headline "Israel & rape" from the Cradle. Well, that's because the Israeli's do have a mass campaign of both torture & rape on Palestinian prisoners/hostages. Which has been confirmed even by former State Dept officials. Not to mention OPEN ADMISSION of this policy, widely, across Israeli media & politics. Down to streaming the rapes live to HQ (one of which was the one that was leaked and went viral), and then openly glorifying the SELF-CONFESSING rapist live on TV.

None of the above is a sensationalising the truth. It's just a strict, verbatim recounting of the truth, as admitted to (in self glorifying terms) by the accused. So it's not a sign of bias. If the plain, unvarnished, completely verified truth feels like bias to anyone, that's not a commentary on the messenger. It's a commentary on the observer.
by apexalpha | 2025-09-15 16:14:21+00:00
The Dutch constitution has an article giving everyone the right to private mail correspondence.

It was meant for physicial mail of course. I wonder if a judge would even see the difference.

A message is a message, regardless whether its deliver by electricity or a horse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

It guarantees that the content of sealed letters is never revealed, and that letters in transit are not opened by government officials, or any other third party.

I wonder how they are going to try to argue that a E2E encrypted message is not ‘sealed’.
by thelastgallon | 2025-09-15 16:14:22+00:00
My roommate stopped making payments on his car 6 month back, its underwater. The financing company doesn't want to repossess, he now has his car with zero payments. Eventually, the companies have to start repossessing all these ridiculously high priced cars and sell them at lower rates. There will be a flood unless someone wants to keep these non performing assets on their books.
by re-thc | 2025-09-15 16:14:35+00:00
> Make it easier to unsubscribe than doing a chargeback. Your competitors who do that will have a lower cost and be able to undercut you and you'll go out of business.

How do you know people aren't already doing so? It's not about the competitors but the industry in general.

Have you not read the post I was replying to?

I quote:

> People don't remember they signed up.

> They can't remember how to log in from a different device to cancel.

> It's easier to use their credit card app to dispute the charge.

> The company name is different than the product name

> A worker or family member signed up using someone else's card

> People expected one thing from your SaaS product

> They rarely check or read their email

Sure there were other points, but more than 50% of the list is about the customer having their own problems. It's like having a bad actor in the system making it worse for everyone.
by jraph | 2025-09-15 16:15:03+00:00
> an article like this getting this high in hacker news is just very wild to me

It might be because it's a "You should host web fonts from Google Fonts yourself" in disguise. The technical "How to" is almost not the important part here :-)

It may give some pause to web devs who hotlink to google here on HN without much thoughts and make them consider doing it differently next time.

I suspect many people upvoting it are doing it for this. Maybe upvotes here might actually mean "Please host Google Fonts yourself".