MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 20:00:56+00:00
> actually really like the idea of having a supreme court of 50 justices where 9 are selected randomly for each case

Simpler: just use the appelate bench's 179 judges [1]. They become the "Judges of the supreme Court" [2]. (The only time a chief Justice is mentioned in the Constitution is when it pertains to impeachment (Art. 1 § 3). That could just be defined by statute as the longest-serving circuit judge.)

Every case is assigned 9 random judges. They decide whether to hear the case. If they pass, precedent stands. If not, they hear the case and write an opinion.

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

[2] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C2-3...
by deaddodo | 2025-10-02 20:01:00+00:00
Or you can just join the conversation in the middle instead of seeing all of that addressed in the replies:

> even with LDTs, segments will not function with the legacy 16-bit wraparound; nor can you run 16-bit code segments. [...] <and no far pointers>

And, most importantly:

> That being said, this isn't worth arguing over. If you can provably run late 1980s-early 1990s 16-bit code in AMD64 compatibility mode, with full execution protections and support of even most, not all, commercial software; that goes against the general understanding of those architectures. Document it and add it to the academic sphere to expand the knowledge.

Despite that entire conversation happening almost a week ago.
by peterfirefly | 2025-10-02 20:01:17+00:00
Based on reading the Guardian review (that predictably praises it and seems to be written by someone who doesn't know much history) and a much better review on a website run, weirdly enough, by Christians (written by someone who does know history), I would agree.

The first half of the quality review praises the good parts of the book, the second half is where the meat is.

It is probably a useful book if you don't know much about the classical world but it doesn't seem like one should take one's politics from it.

Quality review:

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/how-world-made-we...

Low quality review:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/28/how-the-world-...
by culi | 2025-10-02 20:01:24+00:00
This is it. The project of DOGE was always to centralize all the disparate parts of the government to make it easier to control all of its functions by a smaller team

This is a pretty silly manifestation of that power but it's a sign of things to come. The fact that they were able to change government websites, email signatures, and more within minutes after the shutdown should scare us
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 20:01:40+00:00
> you just continuously roll the dice until you get the ruling you want

Judges are already randomly assigned to cases in practically every jurisdiction. You don't get to re-roll.

If you mean continuously re-rolling issues, that problem is preserved whether we choose by lot or by appointment. The difference is choosing by lot out of a large group makes it more difficult to stack.
by yibg | 2025-10-02 20:01:40+00:00
I don't quite understand why you keep pointing to post WW2 as a justification.

For 1 we should be looking at results and the situation on the ground, not the guidelines for what's "the proper way to do things". Were people in Germany starving or not, are people in Gaza starving or not? If the answer to either is yes, then it is / was a problem.

Secondly, what we consider ok changes over time. Go back far enough and killing prisoners, taking civilians as slaves etc were all considered ok. We frown on those now.
by neutronicus | 2025-10-02 20:01:43+00:00
We ship an AI assistant with our product.

I am attempting to dogfood it, as I am pretty close to the target audience. I, a dev, get a bug report "X doesn't work". I have never heard of "X". Ask the AI assistant instead of Googling it or asking on Slack.

Google's AI overview is basically always better (and delivered sooner) than our own proprietary AI assistant.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-02 20:02:06+00:00
The security problem that a messaging app like Signal solves is NOT: Allow a person to secure their communication against eavesdroppers.

It solves the problem: How can a group of people (two or more people) securely communicate with each other.

The group has to mutually decide their risk profile, and then decide which features of the application to use. And each person in the group has to decide whether they can trust others in the group to follow the agreed upon opsec. Signal cannot solve these social problems.
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-02 20:02:26+00:00
Speaking for myself at least, after you've been blogging for a quarter century or more there are some nice features you might want like pagination of your table-of-contents, RSS feeds (do it, everyone should do it), support for redirects so that ancient links mostly work across those decades (I've kept redirects from like three or four blogging systems now), tags pages for finding lost treasures and silly things. I been on both sides of "needing" comments tools over the decades, similar with things like WebMentions. With so much of blogging on social media WebMentions don't seem that big a deal this decade as it was in the one where every other person (in college) had at least one Blogger.com Blog or LiveJournal and a lot of discussions were cross-links between blogs.

Admittedly most of my blogging history has been something of a path towards simplification from hand-rolled PHP+MySQL, with custom "forum code" markup language, stuff before "blogging" was even an agreed upon term for it (and before Markdown was anywhere near as pervasive), to complex third-party beasts like Drupal, to homegrown Python (and reStructuredText), to very simple SSG tools (these days still Jekyll, but I don't like working in Ruby much, so I keep debating a switch to Lume but I don't think its Redirects plugin is yet compatible enough with GitHub Pages for my liking and I haven't tested its RSS support yet, both of which are personal hard requirements).
by EnergyAmy | 2025-10-02 20:02:34+00:00
As per my previous comment:

> Do you agree or disagree that "trans people existing" is too vague to be meaningful? Alternatively, what exactly do you mean by "existing"?

A genuine response would be responding to that, not metacommentary while refusing to engage. A simple response of "By existing I mean ..." would be perfectly genuine.
by godelski | 2025-10-02 20:02:39+00:00
> if they don't have a good way of enumerating other Signal users?

You can always brute force.

Btw, if you don't accept message requests from spammers they have no indication of if you have an account or not. Try sending a message to a friend who you haven't added on signal. You can just see you sent the message but not if it was received or rejected or anything. Not until they click accept
by mothballed | 2025-10-02 20:02:46+00:00
They probably do, but after their little stunt where their mafia boss, whoops, I mean union representative went on TV bragging he would "cripple" the economy -- all the while talking about how broke he is while wearing a rolex and gawdy gold chain -- yeah I'm not terribly surprised the common American has grown to absolutely hate the longshoreman union.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-02 20:03:09+00:00
It really is pretty simple. The courts have repeatedly ruled that Federal Aid can't be use to force Universities to teach specific political viewpoints or ideologies. The exceptions that exist are very narrow, and involve either (1) conduct that isn't speech or viewpoint, or (2) declining to subsidize specific activities in the case where this doesn't require Universities to adopt a specific viewpoint or ideology.

No doubt this Court will dispense with those precedents because it's not really a Court of law anymore. But that's how you make Federal funding work within the bounds of a nation that has a First Amendment.
by ignoramous | 2025-10-02 20:03:13+00:00
> how bitterly divided Israel was before October 7th ... people protesting in the streets. The war put some of the infighting on hold ... the stakes are higher

What are the factors that transform a society that is generally decent, even if not free from flaws, into a society devoid of any moral restraints, into a multitude that wallows in the dubious pleasure of its cohesion and unity, indifferent to suffering, completely closed to others? The victims of the Nazis' knowledge were indeed the Jews. Nazi anti-Semitism was indeed particularly destructive and murderous. But the Nazis disregarded human life wherever it was. The extermination of hundreds of thousands of Russian prisoners of war is just another example, but their attitude towards their own army, on the Stalingrad front for example, was also devoid of any human consideration. Hitler did indeed lead these moves, but only here and there did anyone voice a complaint or reservation. With the outbreak of the war, the spirit of those who could truly resist was completely broken. Is it really that easy to break the spirit? How does that happen? Few history books deal with this. Huffner tries to explain, and even if he is not always convincing and does not see everything, this experience of his, so close to the moment of truth in Europe on the eve of the outbreak of World War II, is unique and one of a kind. I believe that even in our time and even in our places, it is worthy of in-depth study.

- Shulamit Volkov (afterword to "The Story of a German" by Sebastian Huffner).
by potatototoo99 | 2025-10-02 20:03:42+00:00
He's alluding to some prophetic beliefs shared by some jews and some evangelical christians that the temple of Jerusalem needs to be rebuilt again (on the place of the current al-Aqsa mosque). This same mosque is important in Islam because it is in the place where the prophet ascended to heaven.

If the temple is rebuilt (and some more things happen depending on the belief) some jews believe then that the messiah will come, and some evangelical christians believe instead that it starts the end of times, where good christians go to heaven.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-02 20:03:48+00:00
There are so many X and Y combinations that I find it hard to believe they could realistically train for a even a small fraction of them. Someone has to generate the graphics output for the training.

A duck billed platypus riding a unicycle? A man o' war riding a pyrosome? A chicken riding a Quetzalcoatlus? A tardigrade riding a surf board?
by quelsolaar | 2025-10-02 20:04:15+00:00
Yeah the idea i that school is somehow a bastion of meritocracy is misguided.

Academia is better at setting clear requirements and measuring those goals, but whether these requirements have anything to do with being successful or useful in the real world is an entirely different matter.

School isn't reality, its mostly not even trying to simulate reality. School breads a lot of "Why was I not rewarded? I did everything they said i should do" disappointment in the real world.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-02 20:04:17+00:00
I disagree. I think the fact that Democrats let Trump have a blank check-book for his first term was a massive mistake.

We went from having government shutdowns all the time due to the rampant spending to just covering up the fact that he's blowing through more money than presidents do in 8 years. It leads to a perception that he's actually fiscally responsible.
by Simulacra | 2025-10-02 20:04:20+00:00
No, because that's a private company. Your first amendment right to the freedom of speech is freedom from government center ship and interference in your speech. It does not apply to private companies. Now with that said, adding a footer, I don't think would be a problem, but if you set an away message and they changed that for a political reason, then it could be said that they impersonating you to broadcast a political message. Then it might be a civil matter.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-02 20:04:32+00:00
Many parts of Europe solved it in a more low-tech way: street-side parcel lockers unlocked with your phone. Massively reduces delivery cost (i.e., one driver can deliver far more packages per hour), is pretty convenient and safe (no packages left unattended), and best of all, doesn't require a fleet of UAVs.

You can pretty naturally extend this once you have self-driving vans.

I think Amazon has a proprietary version of this in some parts of the US, but at least where I live, the lockers are a car drive away, which defeats the purpose.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-02 20:05:01+00:00
Wealth and power are indistinguishable in modern capitalist nations.

Power is just the ability to make more choices, and make bigger choices. Power is, really, the exercise of decision.

The more money you have, the more choices you can make. You can choose to buy a yacht. I can't, the decision is made for me - no.
by noosphr | 2025-10-02 20:05:11+00:00
Drop me a line on my profiles email.

I'm playing around with using hyperlinks in pdfs to get around how much the www sucks for posting serious research with serious working code.

Caveat emptor: I'm first working on getting the basic groundwork out, like a pipeline that shows what you need to do to extract a scanned pdf in a quality that tesseract can actually get text out of.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 20:05:38+00:00
> Except for all the people who insisted that trump wouldn't get us into foreign wars and demonstrably haven't turned on him now that he bombed Iran, helps Israel do pretty awful things with the explicit goal of turning Gaza into a resort, and possibly has turned to helping Ukraine in it's war

Yes. That's my point. American voters don't care about foreign policy. Pretty much no federal election in peacetime (i.e. absent a draft) is decided based on any foreign policy.

> democrat governor "wins" on paper

You're describing Democrats reacting to Trump. I'm describing them taking initiative. If the Democrat governor is taking initiative and they ignore the court, their initiative stands.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-02 20:05:39+00:00
At least in the US, minimum separation is for when you're talking to air traffic control, and MSA is for flying on instruments. Minimum separation when you can see outside and aren't talking to ATC is "don't hit other planes." Minimum altitude is 500ft, or 1000ft over "congested areas," plus 500ft distance from any obstacle. Unless you're flying a helicopter (or powered parachute or hang glider) in which case the only requirement is "the operation is conducted without hazard to persons or property on the surface."

It would make sense for a quadcopter to follow helicopter rules. Obviously it does not follow the "without hazard" requirement if you crash into cables, though.
by max51 | 2025-10-02 20:05:41+00:00
>Know what else is artificial? Insulin and penicillin.

Even if they may have side effects/allergies, we tolerate them because they provide extremely large benefits to the population. You can't compare that to a chemical we use to make the colors of candies pop more.

No one is dying or getting seriously ill because their Fruit Loops had bland and unsaturated colors.
by jhallenworld | 2025-10-02 20:06:04+00:00
Speaking of the US invasion of Iraq.. Here is Netanyahu advising the US to do it:

https://www.c-span.org/clip/house-committee/user-clip-netany...

And more for Israel itself "Israeli intelligence officials had new evidence that Iraq was speeding up efforts to produce biological and chemical weapons"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/17/iraq.israel1
by lejalv | 2025-10-02 20:06:06+00:00
This is disingenous. Obliterating entire neighbourhoods, mass-killing children, and engineered starvation, avowed by the main political responsibles are hardly “crossfire” and can only be part of a savage conception of war, at odds with the Geneva convention, and human decency. It is shameful and deeply dispiriting to read such rationalization of genocide.
by skybrian | 2025-10-02 20:06:11+00:00
It's hard to tell as someone not in the field, but quantum computing seems to be moving faster than that? I'm not sure I believe two years, but:

Harvard physicists working to develop game-changing tech demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/clearing-sign...

PsiQuantum Raises $1 Billion, Says Its Computer Will Be Ready in Two Years

https://archive.is/AEuan
by projektfu | 2025-10-02 20:06:14+00:00
FWIW, org's HTML export is about 4000 lines of elisp, and it is pretty well modularized.

https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-mode/tree/main/item/lisp/ox-html....

The publish front end is in

https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-mode/tree/main/item/lisp/ox.el

and

https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-mode/tree/main/item/lisp/ox-publi...
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-02 20:06:24+00:00
Is the goal GAI or to add as much as possible to the market cap? I was specifically talking about the latter and why they got leapfrogged by OpenAI which has been valued at a substantial fraction of Google’s overall value despite having a fraction of the revenue. If Google had managed to generate this much value for themselves they’d be respected differently but for now it seems like they missed the AI tech stack today and are playing catchup for like the next 5 years regardless of where AI evolves later.
by Simulacra | 2025-10-02 20:06:34+00:00
I think there's two parts of that question. The first is that the law is the hatch act, federal employees may not engage in political activities. But the second thing is, the government is assuming your identity to change your speech and broadcast that speech as if you said it. I'm not a lawyer, but I think that would squarely follow government action to abridge your speech.
by latexr | 2025-10-02 20:06:59+00:00
Awful. both iOS and macOS 26 (which I've been running regularly since the early betas) are so buggy (including visually) that I decided to skip them on my main devices. Last time I skipped a major OS update, OS X was still paid. We’ll see what happens next year, though I have no illusions Apple learned anything from this debacle.
by haberman | 2025-10-02 20:07:45+00:00
LuaJIT bucks the trend of slow-warmup JITs. It is extremely quick to compile and load, and its interpreter is very fast -- faster than the JIT-compiled code from LuaJIT v1 IIRC, and certainly faster than the interpreter of Lua.

It wasn't until LuaJIT that I realized that JIT didn't inherently have to be these slow lumbering beasts that take hundreds of milliseconds just to wake from their slumber.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-10-02 20:07:50+00:00
To whom? I can imagine starting wars with fake videos.

It's hard to imagine someone kvetching about not being able to sideload apps to their phone reaching that point of significance. I don't mean to completely dismiss very real concerns about what people can and can't do with their purchases, but OTOH war involves actual people actually dying, and manipulating media is a fantastic way to get one.
by nickpp | 2025-10-02 20:08:12+00:00
> You can't have wealth without power, because then I can come over and take your wealth from you.

So power beats wealth. Easy to see these days with today’s wealthiest people on the planet cowering and paying tributes to Trump.

Also, power is convertible into wealth, as countless politicians have proven, while wealth is not necessarily convertible into power (like Bloomberg’s failed presidential bid has shown).

In conclusion - it’s about power, specifically political power, and the individuals yielding it: the politicians.
by meowface | 2025-10-02 20:08:20+00:00
If it's a sufficiently long random string, that shouldn't be possible, right? Admittedly not an amazing user experience to have to share a random string to your friends, but many Signal-like apps do this.

Great point that requiring a friend request beforehand kind of eliminates the issue too. I assume the Signal developers do have a good reason for thinking requiring phone numbers reduces abuse, but I'm having trouble understanding it.
by eastbound | 2025-10-02 20:08:26+00:00
It’s barely anything to get a stroke upon: The article didn’t quote the text directly and paraphrased it. It means it is not persuasive per se, or it would have been used as proof.

Since the raw text couldn’t serve as proof, an entire article had to be mounted to create the feeling of being appalling. It’s an opinion piece.

And that’s all it always it: People getting hung up over principles and theories. The proof those principles aren’t universal is that they don’t uphold them themselves when they’re in power.

I wish we were able to talk to each other. There are many ways, many paths together. But no, condescension, condemnation, hate, refusal to work on your bad sides, ideas of revolution, of uprising, of disrespect of people’s vote, refusal to communicate or work together, refusal to let working people keep the fruits of their work, and in the end, we have to take over the government, or you will.

There is no sharing when it’s your side in power. So we elect a hermetically sealed government. I wish we didn’t do that.
by tyre | 2025-10-02 20:08:30+00:00
Sounds like they do something similar!

From TFA:

> Aravind uses a two-pronged approach to addressing the lack of ophthalmologists: First, it enhances the efficiency of the existing staff. The hospital has an innovative “assembly line” operating theatre that allows a single surgeon to alternate between two fully prepared tables, each supported by dedicated instrument sets and nursing teams. This approach enables six to eight cataract operations per hour compared to an industry norm of one, while delivering clinical outcomes that even surpass those achieved in the UK’s National Health Service.

6–8x throughput is very impressive.
by culi | 2025-10-02 20:08:51+00:00
> Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America’s 36 million small businesses.

> Every day that Senate Democrats continue to oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.

> As a result of the shutdown, we wanted to notify you that many of our services supporting small businesses are currently unavailable. The agency is executing its Lapse Plan and as soon as the shutdown is over, we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we were providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration.

> If you need disaster assistance, please visit sba.gov/disaster.
by tlavoie | 2025-10-02 20:09:43+00:00
My wife had both eyes done over the past year. I would guess that her new lenses did not have UV protection, because she has a most interesting side effect.

Basically, certain glass will (to her) essentially fluoresce in sunlight, so to her, it looks bright, bright purple. The glass in question looks like a slight, smoky grey to me, as does the glass vase at home with the same effect. I'd have to look for the link, but essentially, the new lenses filter less UV than the natural ones, and she's got a bit of sensitivity into that range of the spectrum.

Similarly, a carved item made from yooperlite has the crystals showing orange to her in sunlight, where the rest of us need to hit it with a UV flashlight.
by lexlambda | 2025-10-02 20:09:56+00:00
Immutable as in the message won't be altered/deleted by the sender. This is. This is about user control, as opposed to chat apps or social media, where posts are frequently edited, get taken down after an outrage or links can disappear to link-rot.

From article: "An email is your copy, and the sender can’t revise it later."