MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-15 05:04:04+00:00
> Which is not true in [] Rust.

...If you're using the alloc/std crates (which to be fair, is probably the vast majority of Rust devs). libcore and the Rust language itself do not allocate at all, so if you use appropriate crates and/or build on top of libcore yourself you too can have an explicit-allocation Rust (though perhaps not as ergonomic as Zig makes it).
by bevaroo | 2025-10-15 05:04:15+00:00
OMG! I just stumbled upon this terrifying info on a Google News feed! I conducted the update on my'24 4XE as the screen had haunted me 3x to do so. I never made the connection to nearly being killed on Saturday 10/10/25, immediately after updating Uconnect & driving, when the Jeep engine died suddenly 3x on a 4 mile drive home. It took a couple of times to unfreeze and restart, but I needed to get out of traffic ASAP. Check engine light is currently on. Wow, this sounds like a dangerous mess. My 3rd Jeep... dealership is not anything like it used to be - thanks Stellantis - now what? Not an Alarmist but this sounds super dangerous, & I realize that I could have been killed. What to do?
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-15 05:04:38+00:00
I agree, but unfortunately I think the chances of that are just about zero. The reality is that the vast, vast majority of people don't care about software freedom. They care about the flashy marketing features in the newest iPhone (and competitors). I wish it were otherwise, but alas. Heck, you can't even get people to care about their physical freedom most of the time, let alone their digital life. It's hard to see this effort taking off as a result.
by th1nhng0 | 2025-10-15 05:05:27+00:00
Thanks for the great feedback! I didn't know OR-Tools CP-SAT worked best with at least 8 threads; I'll definitely try that out.

In my local tests, Chuffed is often faster on the simpler instances. However, I've noticed on the harder puzzles, Chuffed can take over 10 minutes, while OR-Tools (with just 4 threads) solves them in about 5.

You're also right about the records. I started with tuples for simplicity, but as the model grew more complex, it's clear that records would be a much better approach for readability.
by mcv | 2025-10-15 05:06:24+00:00
A few weeks ago, I was testing the difference between two libraries to draw graphs: cytoscape and NVL. I started with NVL, told it to implement a very basic case: just some simple mock data, and draw the thing on the screen. (Those weren't my prompts; I didn't save those.) I also took the advice of using a context prompt file to lay down coding standards.

It didn't get it right in one go, but after 7 attempts of analysing the error, it suddenly worked, and I was quite amazed. Step by step adding more features was terrible, however; it kept changing the names of functions and properties, and it turned out that was because I was asking for features the library didn't support, or at least didn't document. I ended up rejecting NVL because it was very immature, poorly documented, and there weren't many code examples available. I suspect that's what crippled the AI's ability to use it. But at no point did it tell me I was asking the impossible; it happily kept trying stuff and inventing nonexistent APIs until I was the one to discover it was impossible.

I'm currently using it to connect a neo4j backend to a cytoscape frontend; both of those are well established and well documented, but it still struggles to get details right. It can whip up something that almost works really quickly, but then I spend a lot of time hunting down little errors it made, and they often turn out to be based on a lack of understanding of how these systems work. Just yesterday it offered 4 different approaches to solve a problem, one of which blatantly didn't work, one used a library that didn't exist, one used a library that didn't do what I needed, and only one was a step in the right direction but still not quite correct in its handling of certain node properties.

I'm using Claude 3.7 thinking and Claude 4 for this.
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-15 05:06:30+00:00
I think the election bias is as simple as: at least one of the parents has a job.

The public schools run by the military are fairly normal public schools. They aren’t “military schools.” They aren’t more discipline-focused.

They do have the advantage of offering federal salary and benefits to teachers. That means they can be pretty picky about who they accept, resulting in higher quality teachers.
by somesigmaperson | 2025-10-15 05:09:15+00:00
as a person who has used many kind's of ai chat bots,them removing restrictions from the bots can have more clearer conversations I'm not saying its good that people could do that to the ai's but iv had way to many conversations stopped mid conversation due to a random rule or a rule that was not even happening in the conversations. people can be doing bad things to ai its probably inevitable and bad things could happen to them I'm not agents removing it but there should still be restriction and verification to not make it a hole problem. I personally think that this change wont have a huge impact It's less than what everyone thinks will happen.(I'm not on much social media often and have rarely used specifically ChatGPT but that's my thought I think it was a little to long (if it doesn't make sense I'm writing this in the middle of the night)I am not sure what I was trying to accomplish writing all this):p
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-15 05:09:21+00:00
To be clear I'm not saying that alternatives don't exist now. But it's a worrying trend that big businesses, and even governments in some cases, are moving away from such alternatives being available. Look for example at the proposed age verification scheme in the EU, where they don't plan to make a version you can use on a desktop (and even for mobile devices require you use a vendor-attested device). Sure, right now it's just for looking at porn. But it seems to me that once that settles, it won't be long (a decade or two) before you start to see government IDs require a similar mobile app. That's the kind of thing I fear happening soon.
by Retric | 2025-10-15 05:09:30+00:00
An apples to apples comparison adjusted for things like Americans who have English as a second language or other countries removing people from school roles significantly shrinks the differences.

A surprising number of the absolute best schools in the world by those same criteria are US public schools due to the population and resources going to those schools. So the issues are not quite so simple as they might first appear. The US education system isn’t efficient, but it’s also not as bad as generally perceived.
by btilly | 2025-10-15 05:10:47+00:00
What the best strategy is depends on your use case.

The use case that SQLite has chosen to optimize for is critical embedded software. As described in https://www.sqlite.org/qmplan.html, the standard that they base their efforts on is a certification for use in aircraft. If mission critical software on a plane is allowed to crash, this can render the controls inoperable. Which is likely to lead to a very literal crash some time later.

The result is software that has been optimized to do the right thing if at all possible, and to degrade gracefully if that is not possible.

Note that the open source version of SQLite is not certified for use in aviation. But there are versions out there that have been certified. (The difference is a ton of extra documentation.) And in fact SQLite is in use by Airbus. Though the details of what exactly for are not, as far as I know, public.

If this documented behavior is not what you want for your use case, then you should consider using another database. Though, honestly, no other database comes remotely close when it comes to software quality. And therefore I doubt that "degrade as documented rather than crash" is a good reason to avoid SQLite. (There are lots of other potential reasons for choosing another database.)
by somenameforme | 2025-10-15 05:10:52+00:00
> When societies manage to "stomp out" crime they're no less brutal than when they attempt to stop a pandemic.

I don't think this is necessarily true. Because when trying to stamp out a pandemic, everybody was negatively affected. When trying to stamp out crime, it's overwhelmingly suspected criminals that are affected. Not long ago El-Salvador had literally the highest homicide rate in the world and was just a domestic war-zone. It's now rated as the 8th safest country in the world [1].

What did they do? Dramatically bump up the penalties for gang membership, round up gang members, and throw them into militarized prisons. Their President now has a 90%+ approval rating, and is one of the most well regarded leaders in the world. Obviously there's a 'First they came for the Communists, And I did not speak out, Because I was not a Communist...' type concern here. But in this case, it seems that first they came for the criminals, crime plummeted, and everybody lived happily ever after.

And again there are also completely reasonable human rights concerns, but the thing I think people often disregard in this calculus is the human rights of the literally 99% of people who were previously being terrorized, killed, robbed, and so on by the 1% of people. They have obviously rounded up some people who are innocent and they are making efforts to resolve that, and I hope those who are truly innocent receive fair compensation for the distress. But if one views human rights as a net (gains, versus losses), then El Salvador is vastly more humane than it was in the past.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/650516/global-safety-starts-sli...
Kernel Developer Career in 2025
by -1 | 2025-10-15 05:11:13+00:00
TL;DR: I'd appreciate the advice of any who have done kernel or similar development in the past. How difficult was it for you to secure a junior kernel dev position? Is it likely one needs to toil away in obscurity for years until someone finally offers you a position? Anyone willing to provide kernel career guidance now and then?

----------------------- I'm a Linux Kernel Mentorship Program (sponsored by the Linux Foundation) graduate wondering for the nth time whether I should continue in this direction or not. Maybe I should switch to contributing to some interesting Rust projects like Zed, Leptos, Bevy, etc., and come away with some skills in a modern language, if nothing else.

It's interesting to contribute to the kernel but it feels like I'm just toiling away in the void, that this could only be a hobby. I'm not sure if I'm any closer to doing this professionally, after getting a handful of valid but seemingly insignificant patches accepted. I know the alternatives - embedded etc. - but there are hardly any such employers around me. Even if I were to get some significant patches accepted, I'm not sure how I could turn that into a job offer.

Thanks for reading
by kace91 | 2025-10-15 05:12:41+00:00
One would hope that enough things stay similar between devices that replacing, say, the galaxy s25 paves the way for a far easier implementation of the s26, particularly now that the market is stagnating a bit.

And I’m not knowledgeable about this at all, but intuitively I’d expect apple stuff to be much more customized than the average android phone - they’re famous for vertical integration and owning the end to end process.
by mrDmrTmrJ | 2025-10-15 05:14:23+00:00
Given that renewable power power is self correlated (all the solar panels are producing at once - or they’re not, all the wind turbines are turning at once - or they’re not) - renewable energy leads to low prices when it’s produced and high prices when it’s not.

Why not put massive, grid scale batteries “behind the meter” at a nuclear or coal plant to enable continual production but only sell power when prices are high and store power when prices are low?
by oskarkk | 2025-10-15 05:16:40+00:00
> SpaceX wasn't the first private company to develop a reusable rocket.

It surely was the first to actually make a reusable orbital rocket.

> It was just the first one owned by a billionaire that convince other people to fund it.

Elon Musk became a billionaire in 2012, when they were already working on reusability. They didn't even need that much money to develop it, they mostly experimented with it on operational flights for their customers. Anyway, companies in the industry could also assign/obtain funds to do it, but they chose not to (until Blue Origin and the current wave of space startups).

> SpaceX is notorious in the aeronautical industry for attempting to interfere in the research and funding of other companies. Over a decade ago a competitor had viable plans for a 2 stage rocket... until Musk sued to block the funding.

Source? Never heard anything like that.
by anonzzzies | 2025-10-15 05:17:35+00:00
Android already is mobile: making it better makes sense. Linux already runs fine on it: termux and things like NOMone desktop combined with allowing virtual memory and keep apps running like some brands (Blackview, Oukitel) allow, you are there a lot of the way. Then Android desktop support (again, many brands have something already but it is now in Android mainline it seems). I use an oukitel rt7 as my main daily driver: it is rooted. It has some quirks and of course is very far from open, but things works, -ish. I would spend far more time on contributing if we had an open choice(or at least working) here that supports the 5g. On other phones/tablets, it is the fingerprint sensors, 3d face camera, but also different 'niche' auxillaries that would get far more attention if you at least can start with something that is (mostly open) and works. If we have coverage for a bunch of devices with everything working, it will be more attractive to work on other/newer ones.

With Linux, you will need, as I have seen on my pine phone, way too much focus on just basic apps which still are not good compared to their android equivalent: spending time there is not spending time on hardware support...
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-15 05:18:38+00:00
I hadn't migrated my life to any of the (tiny, possibly zero) convenience improvements that "mobile banking" may offer me, so none of what I've described has been any kind of downgrade in 'living'.

(I don't mean this in a sarcastic way) are you able to make tangible what 'living' I may be sacrificing?
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-15 05:20:13+00:00
It's really strange how we disconnected ideology from politics, in people's minds ideology only exists on the fringes of the far-left and far-right which are considered identical. If you criticize a politician you should be aware of their ideology, because they certainly are very much "political", but you aren't. When "leaders" talk about activists they say things like they were "politicized" as a derogatory term, in contrast to the default which is "depoliticized". Our leaders are waaaay more politicized than we are and way more ideologically consistent in their actions than you will ever realize.
by ValveFan6969 | 2025-10-15 05:20:48+00:00
Who is it that conveniently cut out the cruder bits of that post?

https://x.com/StateDept/status/1978218114622910799

It's a gross verbal onanism over someone's death, mixed with the typical baseless dehumanization. If you want this sort of person in your country, my condolences.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-15 05:24:22+00:00
> "The problem with "throwing the book" at gang members is that it doesn't work."

Then how would you explain El-Salvador? They went from the homicide capital of the world in 2015 to the 8th safest place in the world [1] in less than a decade. And "all" that they did was dramatically bumped up the penalties for gang membership, round up gang members, and threw them in militarized prisons as opposed to the typical gang reinforcement retreats. Crime dramatically plummeted and you ended up with a president with an approval rating upwards of 90%.

From my perspective in modern times we've trialed both soft and hard systems on crime. The soft systems in general have had very poor results except in places that already had no issues with crime (e.g. Norway), whereas the hard systems have demonstrated phenomenally positive outcomes. Places like the US have a major problem with things like privatized prisons that create a commercial incentive for incarceration, but I think these are tangential to the topic.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/650516/global-safety-starts-sli...
by moi2388 | 2025-10-15 05:25:13+00:00
Well, my country has public schools, but children are segregated by educational prowess. The smartest kids go to schools which are completely separate from the less intelligent ones. If you fail, you might get sent to a lower school system.

So this would explain why these disruptions would not appear in my country (or to a far lower degree)but would in the US school system.
by Frieren | 2025-10-15 05:25:34+00:00
> Apple had two separate teams competing against each other on this topic

That is a sign of very bad management. Overlapping responsibilities kill motivation as winning the infighting becomes more important than creating a good product. Low morale, and a blaming culture is the result of such "internal competition". Instead, leadership should do their work and align goals, set clear priorities and make sure that everybody rows in the same direction.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-15 05:26:06+00:00
>There is massive under-reporting of violent crime across many decades. How can we evaluate that?

If you don't know how to evaluate that how can you claim there's a massive under reporting of violent crime?

The last crime I was the victim of was having my car broken into around 2003. I didn't report it but I was angry. Something bad happened to me through no fault of my own and nothing I could have done reasonably would have prevented it.

There are emotions involved and I'm sure for a while I felt as though crime was everywhere and I would be the victim again.
by godelski | 2025-10-15 05:26:55+00:00
I agree it is likely selection bias but I don't think it is likely for the same reasons.

These kinds of results often correlate strongly with parental income levels, which put another way "zip code". Yeah, the military isn't known for great salaries and you'd be right to point at plenty of rich counties, but how many rich counties are there to poor ones? We don't have the distributions and that's what makes this hard to read.

Despite that, we do have some distributional information. Lucky for us, they included the demographics! Taking what we know above, we can actually back investigate to at least provide a "sniff test". Looking at the DoDEA scales, they are pretty low variance in comparison. Unless you think Asians are genetically smarter than whites, blacks, or hispanics then it needs to come down to other factors, which includes culture. The culture will probably be suppressed a bit in the military data, as military naturally creates a more homogeneous setting, but some variance will still exist for this part as well as some likely imbalances in incomes and other things.

An important part of this rich correlation is that it ties very much into stable household. Certainly having active deployment will disrupt the household a bit, but some of that normalizes and well... let's be honest, there is a stable income and stable food situation at home. That's a major factor in a lot of households.

So the real question would be "How do DoDEA schools compare to national schools when you exclude national schools that have a significant number of families that do not have a stable income?" I believe that would be a more fair comparison, though that would really just bring us to "apples and oranges" instead of "oranges and tomatoes". The claim is that the difference is due to some organizational influence, i.e. one that is actionable (like the way teachers teach or students are disciplined, etc), but frankly we just have so little data we can't rule out a million other things.
by k_bx | 2025-10-15 05:27:10+00:00
I don't mind having a second phone, esp. if it's a foldable which can be a great reader and a small "linux in a pocket". There might even be some use-cases, for example I recently wanted to implement a type-c external GPS antenna, and found out that it's a pain on Android (done via "developer mode" hacks etc.), and impossible on iOS.

That being said, very low expectations on this project.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-15 05:27:50+00:00
The one that got me was a supposed foundation legend from Sumer that a handful of strangers came and taught them civilization.

These people are called the apkallu. The context isn't what Hancock suggests it is and I recommend checking out the relevant Wikipedia page [0]. Here's a little primer on aspects of Sumerian religion the page doesn't get into though:

Sumerians essentially saw themselves as the first civilization. When they reference a prior civilization, what they're referring to is literally the gods themselves because being civilized is very literally the spark of divinity inside humans that separates us from animals. It's the gods who taught humans to be civilized, sending their representatives the seven apkallu (basically everything related to the heavens comes in sevens) to raise humanity from the among the beasts to serve the gods, as we were designed to do when the gods imbued us with their blood. This is referenced again in the epic of Gilgamesh when enkidu is made like a god by a prostitute who teaches him how to be civilized. Other near Eastern religious traditions carried this on as well. You're probably familiar with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, when they eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and become like gods themselves, i.e. are raised from among the animals and are cast out from the garden where the animals reside. This all gets a bit mixed up with the Sumerians having a bunch of ancestor cults going on as various human god-kings tie themselves to powerful lineages and so the gods/apkallu are seen as the ancestors of humanity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apkallu
by buzer | 2025-10-15 05:28:16+00:00
Unfortunately the EU regulation makes the truly user controlled 2FA methods essentially non-compliant.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

> Article 7 Requirements of the elements categorised as possession

> 1. Payment service providers shall adopt measures to mitigate the risk that the elements of strong customer authentication categorised as possession are used by unauthorised parties.

> 2. The use by the payer of those elements shall be subject to measures designed to prevent replication of the elements.
by piskov | 2025-10-15 05:28:28+00:00
The world is going full steam-on to WWIII :-(

— If gentlemen lose, they change the rules of the game.

This is basically your average read-between-the-lines translation, given the recent context of Nexperia, Huawei, Tiktok, Chinese car import tariffs, what have you:

If we were the ones who invented processors, iPhones, and all the rest — then you, oh the slant-eyed ones, are expected to fork over the cash.

We, the mighty Anglo-Saxons, labored and sowed, and we deserve our reward. As for you, the slovenly types — you may keep 10% of the price for assembly, another 20% for components, and the rest goes straight to the casino’s profits.

But if you come up with your own processors, stop buying ours, and even start making your own batteries, software, or cars — then you’re expected to hand over all the technology behind them. We’ll decide for ourselves what to make, in what quantities, and whether we’ll even pay you anything at all. Meanwhile, if you dare bring your goods to our markets — well then, you’ll pay us with your inventions.
by oskarkk | 2025-10-15 05:29:05+00:00
That's how most space launch companies work, they get government contracts to do things for government. ULA (joint venture of Lockheed & Boeing) gets nearly all of its revenue from the government. Musk funded SpaceX until they made enough progress to have NASA consider them worthy of getting a contract for resupplying ISS (and they got other commercial customers).