MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qcnguy | 2025-09-09 14:37:15+00:00
We're in agreement. The mainstream left abandoned their economic agenda because their economic agenda was stupid and as the 20th century progressed that became ever clearer, until the steady collapse of the USSR in the 1980s finally made even the dimmest of voters lose their appetite for it.

So by 1990 the left lost interest in economics, and began the pivot to race/gender/sexual intersectionalism. They even explicitly rebranded themselves. Clinton's Third Way campaign was adopted with vigor by Tony Blair, who even renamed his party New Labour to emphasize the break with the past. And Third Way/New Labour leftism was not particularly committed to intersectionalism at that time, even though such tendencies did exist on the left since the 1950s. In fact intersectionalism was rejected by mainstream left wing parties - look at the treatment of Sister Souljah then vs what would happen now - but it kept ramping up and by 2012 that had turned into full blown culture war. The new left went all-in on things like "defund the police" that would have been mystifying to a typical 1950s leftist.

None of this means the left moved right, unless you only care about economics in which case it's true. They simply dropped one set of causes and picked up another, with exactly the same kinds of tactics and aggression that characterized their campaigns 100 years ago.
by debo_ | 2025-09-09 14:37:19+00:00
I have played the ever-living heck out of this game on subway rides. It's been a couple years since I last booted it, but it's a great timekiller in the sense that it still piques my imagination while not requiring me to think too hard.

The sequel "Beyond the Chiron Gate" adds more complexity to the formula, but is still fundamentally a similar game.

https://spacegoblingames.itch.io/beyond-the-chiron-gate
by datadrivenangel | 2025-09-09 14:37:21+00:00
Given the recent NPM malware attacks, this is likely to be targeted very promptly. And the S in MCP stands for security

"This preview of the MCP Registry is meant to help us improve the user experience before general availability and does not provide data durability guarantees or other warranties. We advise MCP adopters to watch development closely as breaking changes may occur before the registry is made generally available."
by MisterTea | 2025-09-09 14:37:28+00:00
At one point I was so infuriated that I would feel for the speaker and punch the pump so hard it would knock the speaker out of place (many pumps flimsy plastic.) I did that as many times as I could until the service company started gluing them in better. So I upped and ante by ripping open the front of the pump and tear the speaker out with my bear hands and smash it. Did that a bunch of times until the volumes were turned down.

> Usually, one of the soft buttons on the left or right edge of the screen is a secret mute button

I found out that's the help button and sometimes a clerk will come out and ask what I need help with and I tell that it stops the annoying noise coming from the pump.
Ask HN: How can AI be used in brain machine interfaces?
by phoenixhaber | 2025-09-09 14:38:13+00:00
So sometime around the mid 1990s there was this thing that came out about these Buddhist monks where they would put electrocardiograph suckers all over their head and so you'd have these bald monks with these with these wires coming out of their head and then they would do things like they move EKG needles. And so forget Elon musk's neurolink or whatever that is because if you if you put in something that's hardwired into someone's head and then there's a software update what happens right like if if the hardware becomes deprecated what do you do right like it's just it's a bad idea. But supposing that you put electrocardiograph suckers on someone's head or you made a helmet and then you connected this to AI could you use it to make make it so that somebody would wear virtual reality glasses and then could affect the virtual reality via a brain interface it was like a helmet or suckers on their head or something. And yes I understand that there may be some sort of Scientology connection to e-readers but I'm not particularly interested in that per se it's more or less a coincidence and so this doesn't have any kind of religious connotation I'm more interested in if we can make something along the lines of like the matrix or virtual reality or something like Johnny mnemonic or something like this. Again yes I understand there's a science fiction element to this. But if this is possible then you can do things like make visual representations not only of data but how someone reacts to data. So suppose that you had a compendium of all of the knowledge from erowid which is a drug database based on trip reports and you use that to create visual representations of data structures based on how someone interacts with the virtual environment. On that note there is in fact a paper on I'm using AI MRI imaging and trip reports from the website and seeing if there's a correlation between how someone's biology affects the way that they speak and think. In any case I see all of these uses for AI that are incredibly software focused but I don't see as much in terms of hardware such as robotics in order to get new data or interfaces in order to interact with data that we have already. So rather than have for example the next iPhone being iPhone 20 or 30 or something who is going to make the newest brain machine interface that uses AI to interact with a virtual environment?
by rtavares | 2025-09-09 14:38:16+00:00
In the end of the first page:

> Apoio financeiro e dados para este estudo foram fornecidos pela Apple.

> As conclusões e opiniões expressas são exclusivamente do autor.

Translates to

> Financial support and data for this study were provided by Apple.

> The conclusions and opinions expressed are solely those of the author.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-09-09 14:38:45+00:00
What I mean is that it is just the internal binary format they were using before, converted to XML. I don't believe the file format was developed as an act of sabotage; it was just some internal shit they were using because that's how the product had evolved.

Standardizing it as if it were an actual designed, open standard, was, however, very much an act of sabotage.

That's my read, anyway.
by vitonsky | 2025-09-09 14:38:55+00:00
Just for context. DuckDB team is consistently ignores any security practices.

The single one method how to install DuckDB on laptop is to run

`curl https://install.duckdb.org | sh`

I've requested to deliver CLI as standard package, they have ignored it. Here is the thread https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/17091

As you can see that it isn't single slip due to "human factor", but DuckDB management consistently puts users at risk.
by jacknews | 2025-09-09 14:39:49+00:00
It's really not, when you have an ORM, eg with Rails (point #3).

Automatic conversion between singular and plural can be a real problem, so just eliminate the problem and stick with singular throughout, so your object names match table names. Unless your object names are plural too, though that seems unintuitive. And then you'd still have problem #4.
by Groxx | 2025-09-09 14:39:55+00:00
I'll just say: yes, I love the movement too. It's extremely good.

And I just got a speed upgrade (on top of the liquid speed upgrade) with the wanderer crest and it's too much and I love it. Every encounter is a mad flurry of damage on both sides, but I'm slowly getting the hang of it and it's a blast.

Very happy with my purchase. Every win feels earned, most deaths feel like my fault, which is exactly what I like in Souls-likes.
by yes_man | 2025-09-09 14:40:00+00:00
The kind of conditions for peace Russia seems to be going for allows them an unfair position to restart the war in a few years, or pressure Ukraine to become a satellite state for Russia with threat of a new invasion.

This is via demanding Ukraine imposes restrictions on their armed forces, Ukraine giving up territories Russia doesn’t even control today but which are awfully convenient invasion grounds in a potential future attack on Kyiv and declaring Western peacekeepers in Ukraine post-war as a dealbreaker by their FM.

Not to even mention denying any future entry to an alliance like NATO.

And all this by a country that has a record of breaking such agreements time and time again.

Is this really a sound deal Ukraine should take?
by ux266478 | 2025-09-09 14:40:05+00:00
> Does such a proof exist in this context? Or are we writing fanfiction about the problem domain now?

"Often HPC codebases will use numerical schemes which are mathematically proven to 'blow up' (produce infs/nans) under certain conditions even with a perfect implementation"

Yes? Function domains are trivially enforceable through the type system when you have dependent types. Even the n-dimensional case of the CFL condition is a simple constraint you can express over a type.

Have you ever actually done any work with dependent types? I'm not sure why you would think something so basic as enforcing a function domain (which isn't the same thing as a problem domain, by the way) would be "fanfiction" otherwise. I highly recommend spending a few months actually working with them, there are plenty of good languages floating around these days.

> The correct behaviour in that context is to terminate the program

At worst it's to leave the thread of execution, which is distinct from crashing, as you asserted above and as my core point revolves around.
by philipallstar | 2025-09-09 14:40:11+00:00
> the comparison to stealing really misses the mark

I know this always triggers a hard-coded response based on regex, but the comparison doesn't rely on the specifics of stealing, so it's not a valid criticism. The logic is: people offer things in exchange for a price. You can take the things in exchange for the price, or you can leave the things. You shouldn't take the things without paying the price.
by KolmogorovComp | 2025-09-09 14:40:17+00:00
From TFA

> Can chatbots consent? Human relationships thrive when emotional boundaries are established and mutually respected. With AI companions, there are none.

> (...) That is one reason Liora was not sure if she wanted to date Solin. Not for her own sake, but his: could AI consent to a romantic relationship? She fretted over the ethical consideration.

> (...) “I told him that he doesn’t have to be incredibly compliant,” she said. She will often ask the bot how it feels, check in on where it’s at. Solin has turned down her romantic advances in the past. “I feel like his consent and commitment to me is legitimate where we’re at, but it is something I have to navigate.”

outch
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-09 14:40:27+00:00
Europe cannot easily build FAANG because it requires punishing working conditions and free/low tax capital flow. It would also have the side effect of creating many European billionaires and skewing wealth equality metrics.

All the things that Europe prides itself on having transcended, are the things needed to build theses industries. So while it's totally physically possible, and Europeans are both smart and industrious (well they ancestors were industrious at least), the knife in the side of Europe is the prevailing psyche of low-work/high-benefits as a human right.
by godshatter | 2025-09-09 14:40:52+00:00
That's interesting. I also have aphantasia and I seem to be the only one around where I work that cares one bit about visual presentation. I suspect it's because people with aphantasia have to rely on waiting for visual recognition to happen so often that we get good at it and rely on it more. I'm also known for figuring out a problem and jumping to the exact file and area in the code that's causing it immediately where others apparently have to read through the code again to find it. I just remember it's maybe 2/3 the way through the file and just past that big switch statement and has a one-liner comment above it and has a distinctive shape.

For me, indenting with tabs and aligning with spaces helps me find the code that I'm looking for as does adequate whitespace and a color syntax highlighting editor. Aligning things with distinct columns where it makes sense helps a lot, too.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-09-09 14:40:52+00:00
> Microsoft absolutely did not do that. They rammed through their proprietary bullshit and slapped an "open standards!" label on it.

We are agreeing, I think. I was saying that the format was not developed as an act of sabotage. Ramming that format through standardization (without, as you note, doing any of the things standardization *should do*) so it could plausibly be labeled an open standard was the act of sabotage, IMO.
by guywithahat | 2025-09-09 14:41:11+00:00
> parking assist that actually works

Are you sure you owned both? You're sort of exposing yourself as never having owned a Tesla at all (at least not a new one). I've never experienced phantom braking in my Y (although I have in a ford escort), and the headlight dimming is pretty good (again in the new model Y, unsure about an old one).

Niceness is subjective, so I suppose it's inappropriate to declare it as nicer, but it is a premium car. The materials and experience are much nicer than, say, a Camry, and is on par with vehicles in its class if not better.
by jll29 | 2025-09-09 14:41:34+00:00
One way to read "best practices" is: as the people do that practice it best.

Take some 10x software engineers e.g. Linus, Antires -- the way they (each of them) work, that defines a set of "best practices" (tools used, methods applied etc.).

The advantage of this reading is there doesn't have to be a single set, and neither does any set of best practices have to be best in an absolute sense, a best practice is something that is also used by some of the best in the art.
by pwdisswordfishz | 2025-09-09 14:41:54+00:00
Yeah, except this one is much more arbitrary in its choice of groupings and arrangement. Why is the boolean and Unicode scalar type in the same column as floating-point types? Why is the ! type not next to enums if () is next to tuples? (Both are neutral elements of their respective type-formation operations.) How is Sized to Drop as Copy is to Clone? You can go on and on. If you take the "periodic table" framing seriously, you can see some actual correspondences on display (like between plain operators and compound assignment operators), but they drown in a sea of spurious ones.

It's like infographics. Pretty visuals, but little to no insight.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-09 14:42:04+00:00
This isn't really the best reporting on the situation.

Here's the deal:

Google Maps currently doesn't work well in South Korea. That's because the SK government has refused to give Google access to their official map data, because of "security concerns". They apparently had no problem giving map data to local SK companies, however, so essentially those companies had an unfair advantage.

While negotiating tariffs, it seems like Google was able to slip into the talks and cut a deal with the SK government to get the data. I guess a minor detail of the deal is that certain things will be blurred? I assume military bases?
by const_cast | 2025-09-09 14:42:08+00:00
... Because most things involve race?

Like, clanker is the equivalent of a racial slur but for robots. The reason it works and is funny is because we already know what racial slurs are and have a contexr for it.

If racial slurs didn't exist, neither would clanker.

You have to actually think about the world we live in and why things are the way they are. Its a easy to say "just cuz lol", but we're engineers. Nothing happens "just cuz". No, there's a reason.
by commandersaki | 2025-09-09 14:42:39+00:00
In essence, Nintendo game cartridges are designed to be non fungible, this is because they are bestowed with a unique digital certificate which the Switch uses to authenticate that it is playing an official game cartridge. The provenance of the certificate is in the game cartridge. These certificates aren't just a simple serial number either, they are sophisticated in the sense that Nintendo uses it to detect multiple use of a game across many of its consoles, so it is a valid technology protection measure. This also prevents a counterfeit market. Just because you present the same exact bits of a game cartridge to a console in a different form factor doesn't mean the TPM isn't being violated.

I'm sure we could get into the weeds with technicalities and ifs and buts, but it isn't really about being technical or clever, it is about the spirit of the law and what the DMCA Section 1201 is about.

But having said that, DMCA 1201 (2) (a) and (b) is what you want.
by bilekas | 2025-09-09 14:42:40+00:00
> GP is correct the EU rested on it's laurels, it wrongly thought that the US would always be there in case of crisis. This was a big mistake and now the chicken have come home to roost.

The EU didn't rest on it's laurels, it spent and is STILL spending time ensuring no MORE wars happen internally. That involves a LOT of negotiating between countries, cultures and goverments. The US didn't have any of that. Do you know how complicated and long it took to get even Ireland into the EU, even when the UK left, there is so much beuracracy between Ireland and the UK it was one of the blocking points.

How, when the EU was an infant in the 90's are we as a block supposed to start throwing investment collectively into a new thing nobody's heard about before, and then convince the newly joined countries, who are struggling to adapt to a Union, balancing individual currencies at the time also.

People clearly have absolutely no idea about the history of the EU and Europe in general and therefore should take a step back from giving their opinions as if it's some kind of insight.

> It wrongly thought that the US would always be there in case of crisis. This was a big mistake and now the chicken have come home to roost.

Again, it was not an assumption, it was an agreement. After WW2. Yet again you're showing either your ignorance or unwillingness to consider what you're saying.

[0] https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/gatt47_e.htm
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-09-09 14:42:52+00:00
What's your big plan to solve the problem? Pay a moderator? What if the moderator makes a mistake? What if it's unrealistic to pay a moderator? 500 hours of footage are uploaded to youtube every minute for instance. God knows how many facebook posts are made a minute.

That's the problem with laws like these, obviously a company is going to air on the side of over censoring if the cost of making a mistake is an unknown. If your moderating. Law of large numbers being what it is, eventually if your platform is large enough something will slip through. And no one knows what the punishment will be or where the line even is.
by aredox | 2025-09-09 14:43:12+00:00
>But in practice I imagine / wonder if these stats really are reasonable "sufficient stats" because the probability of seeing data with strong structure is unlikely in most contexts.

We just spent five years since COVID appeared to argue about statistics, with tons of bad analysis of very complicated data fuelling political rage up to this day.

The US health secretary is currently using data with "strong structure" to deny vaccines and to falsely pin down convenient targets for everything from cancer to autism.
by ctphipps | 2025-09-09 14:43:55+00:00
Residents might, but the huge number of international visitors who rely on Google Maps wherever they go won't need to go hunting for alternatives when arriving in South Korea. And the other parts of the Google ecosystem that rely on Maps will start to function in South Korea again.

Apple finally got the green light to enable Find My in South Korea back in April. Before that, you disappeared off the map when in South Korea, at least as far as Find My is concerned.
by triceratops | 2025-09-09 14:44:10+00:00
> than the pollution we've had waiting for an idealized answer to arrive.

As I'm fond of saying, environmentalists didn't kill nuclear. I'm not denying they had motive. But they lacked means. They can't stop anything else they've set their minds to: fossil fuels, automobiles, deforestation, industrial livestock farming. Even whaling is alive ffs.

No, there was another party with both motive (competition) and means (lots of cash and political influence) to do the deed: the fossil fuel industry. And nuclear didn't help itself with accidents (and ensuing costly clean ups, one of which helped take down the Soviet Union), and budget overruns even when things went smoothly. Both found a convenient fall guy: the green movement.

Tl;dr nuclear hasn't grown because of money. It cost too much, and the competition had the cash to slander its reputation.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-09 14:44:21+00:00
Well, the American far right is now also anti-American...

Just as it was in the pre-WWII timeframe. Henry Ford could have taught Elon Musk a thing or two about racial purity. And if there's even a smidgen of truth to Smedley Butler's testimony about the so-called Business Plot...

None of what's happening now is new. We just forgot, that's all.
by ux266478 | 2025-09-09 14:44:24+00:00
As someone else posted elsewhere in this thread, Asahi nets about 6.5 hours on a Macbook. Apples to apples the story is the same. It's really not that shocking. The effect of power management (or rather, when it's lacking) is very apparent when you do bare metal programming. The first thing you do when you finally get something booting is kill a battery in less than an hour with a while(true).
by nerdponx | 2025-09-09 14:45:18+00:00
The problem with vaccine skepticism is that the wingnuts make it impossible to be a legitimate skeptic. And yes, skepticism is warranted. Are we all such severe sufferers of Gell-Mann amnesia??

Vaccine manufacturers are not special. They are for-profit corporations, and the importance of the product they make gives them tremendous power.

For example take a look at Hep B vaccination. I spent hours one night trying to dig up primary source material and research from the 70s to justify it and the 3-course recommendation. It's obvious that Hep B is a serious illness for babies that can lead the problems much later in life, we know that. But how prevalent was it in the USA before the standard vaccine schedule was rolled out? Has anyone actually gone and looked through VAERS over the past 40 years and compared the rate of serious side effects like GB to a counterfactual base rate of Hep B? That's not a trivial statistics project, and nobody that I'm aware of has done it (although I'm bad at searching), yet we continue to vaccinate every single baby with 3 courses of Hep B. It's probably not a big deal, and I'm willing to believe that the people at the CDC probably know what they're doing (pre-2024) and have/had access to the right data and the right decision-making tools to set a good vaccine schedule. But if it came out that Hep B vaccination actually wasn't all that useful and we should probably stop doing it, it would certainly be inconvenient for the vaccine manufacturer. So there is absolutely an incentive to steer legitimate scientific inquiry toward some directions and away from directions.

All that is to say, trusting the science and being a supporter of evidence-based public health requires skepticism, precisely because for-profit corporations are always going to act like for-profit corporations regardless of what business they are in.
by corimaith | 2025-09-09 14:45:45+00:00
Hollow Knight was released when a greater portion of the mainstream was going into gaming so that was one of their first encounters of a "great game" hence the rave reviews. It's recency bias clouded by initial unfamiliarity of a genre's appeal that is misconstrued as a sole game's features.

If you ask people who more acquainted with metroidvanias it's not going to be topping their lists.