MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnfn | 2025-10-31 03:13:53+00:00
I mean, if I heard you say that, I would probably think you had a "bad attitude" as well. Yes, getting paid is an important part of your job, but presumably you could get paid at many different places, and you choose the one you work at because it has additional benefits on top of a purely transactional relationship.

It's like telling your girlfriend you're dating her because she's really hot. I'm sure that factored in, but she might get annoyed if that's the only reason you can come up with.
by kragen | 2025-10-31 03:14:00+00:00
Yes, it does, although it's almost like horizontal microcode; it can do several things in a clock cycle other than the instruction itself. I didn't mean to imply that you could bitbang 100BaseT with a Padauk PFS150 or a PY32.

The Padauk FPPA chips are probably a bit better at bitbanging strange protocols than any ARM, but not in the same class as the Pi's PIO.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-10-31 03:14:02+00:00
Oh yeah. Sorry I misspoke a bit. I should have said that global time/clocks are an unsolved problem in non-proof-of-work systems.

Proof of work does a decent job approximating a monotonic clock but that only works when you are expending obscene amounts of energy on a global scale. And like you said it breaks down over longer distances (however luckily we don't have to deal with that too much now).

But in any non-PoW system, a "trustless" global clock is extremely non-trivial.
by garganzol | 2025-10-31 03:14:41+00:00
Despite the mixed feelings I have about this direction, Canva's AI deal seems to be legit. Usually, AI does a fairly limited job when it comes to vector graphics, but this is what I've got with Affinity Studio:

> Generate a playful logo for product named "Serenity" using the style of Robin Hood forest and freedom themes

The result for such a simple prompt is pretty impressive: https://imgur.com/a/xLZlfQM, the produced artifact is already in vector format with tweakable curves, lines, and colors.

Well played, Canva. Maybe Affinity Studio is a smart move in the long run. I think I will be among Pro subscribers.
by dpe82 | 2025-10-31 03:14:52+00:00
ATC is severely understaffed nationwide and it's particularly bad in the New York area even without a government shutdown. It's a difficult, stressful job and was already even harder because mandatory overtime has been the norm for quite a while. So it's not surprising that when you stop paying people... some of them will start finding reasons they can't make it to work.

This has been a known problem for a very long time and Congress has continuously refused to do anything about it.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-31 03:15:11+00:00
> Some random person is gonna get killed because their eBay sourced electronics were originally purchased for Iran, were intercepted by Mossad and tampered with, sent on their way, got seized in Jordan for sketchy customs papers, bought at evidince auction 18mo later by a reseller, who imported them (or the importer is gonna lose their life's work after being accused of explosives smuggling by the feds).

I suspect in practice the spicy pagers would tend to be tracked quite closely by the intelligence agencies.

> There's basically no accountability for these intelligence organizations preventing them from playing fast and loose.

Intelligence agencies don't have a lot of accountability in general, but I'd hardly say operation grim beeper was playing fast and loose with how precisely the terrorists were targeted ultimately.

> On the other hand, there's various degrees of explosives spot checking all over international boundaries and the like. If random explosives are moving around surely someone would run across them, so it my just be some scumbag spook trying to get people scared.

Hard to say how easy to detect they would be, but it doesn't seem all that likely that random consumers would run into these sort of devices. Intelligence agencies would certainly not want these devices getting distributed to the general public.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-31 03:15:51+00:00
Pure functional works great until it doesn't. For a lot of systems-y and performance-oriented code you need the escape hatches or you'll be in for a lot of pain and annoyance.

As a practical observation, I think it was easier to close this gap by adding substantial functional capabilities to imperative languages than the other way around. Historically, functional language communities were much more precious about the purity of their functional-ness than imperative languages were about their imperative-ness.
by sureglymop | 2025-10-31 03:16:10+00:00
Yup, really in very simple terms they just give you a public-key discovery/exchange server for your wireguard connected devices. Really wouldn't be that hard to create from scratch, wireguard does the heavy lifting.

Would encourage anyone to go look at the wireguard source code, it's amazingly concise and easy to read.

But they do seem to contribute and open source a lot to the community which I am grateful for.
by keeda | 2025-10-31 03:17:01+00:00
We are still living with the hangover of C, which was designed for the resource-starved machines of eons ago, and whose style later languages felt they had to copy to get any kind of adoption. (And as you point out, that is how things turned out.)

My bet is functional programming will become more and more prevalent as people figure out how to get AI-assisted coding to work reliably. For the very reasons you stated, functional principles make the code modular and easy to reason about, which works very well for LLMs.

However, precisely because functional programming languages are less popular and hence under-represented in the training data, AI might not work well with them and they will probably continue to remain fringe.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-31 03:17:20+00:00
I'm an American, and I'm absolutely certain at this point in my life that I will never be able to afford to pay for an organ transplant to benefit myself or anyone that I know, regardless of any compatibile combination of need and availability that may arise.

Therefore, it will never happen.

So yes: I'd like to suggest that organ transplants may be in fact be luxuries.

(If the question were instead worded as "Should organ transplants be considered luxuries?" then my answer would be written very differently.)
by SR2Z | 2025-10-31 03:17:22+00:00
> Cool story

I am not going to link you benchmarks or revenue numbers. You can find those yourself, if you actually care about being right.

> It's funny that you don't see the contradiction. For the record, US manufacturing as a share of global manufacturing has significantly declined over the years. [0][1]

Yes, because China is _cheap_ and _dense_ and has a billion newly-minted middle-class members. Do you expect them to import everything from the US and just ignore the vast labor pool within a few metro stops of any given factory?

> to support a point about how China (Shenzhen) is apparently an unreplicable manufacturing hub due to 'cluster effect'?

The Pearl River Delta, which Shenzen is part of, has almost 90 million people and a world-class transit system. It's across the water from Hong Kong, a global financial center, and is bordered by factory-filled cities on the other side.

Yes, that makes it nearly impossible for other places to become Shenzen. Even within China it's special.

> If you need to be physically present for a meeting, you make a trip. There is absolutely zero benefit to living in close proximity to investors the rest of the time.

Right, because if you're doing business you can get by with a single investor meeting a year, right? There's no downside in time lost, money spent, ease of access, etc.? You think there's no benefit to, say, playing tennis on weekends with your buddy from college who now works at a VC?

> You're seriously going to try to argue how US manufacturing (which was the greatest share of global manufacturing by far) didn't decline

Why the hell does it matter what percentage of global manufacturing is done in the US? You cannot ask the average American (one of the wealthiest people in the world) to work in a sweatshop making T-shirts. You cannot ask the average American to work for minimum wage tightening screws in iPhones.

You can, as it turns out, ask them to work a robotic assembly line to build a car or weld on a jetliner - because you can pay them much more, and because there are enough of them in an area to run a factory. Aggregation benefits are even more important for manufacturing than they are for software.
by ggm | 2025-10-31 03:17:23+00:00
Is this even a tenth of the funding needed for a production line of devices for fab lines? Maybe it funds a technology demonstration, but as seed for a move against ASML, seems undercapitalised.

A single ASML unit is $350m according to that article and spend $10b to develop it. I get there is a 2nd system effect but still.
by fragmede | 2025-10-31 03:17:30+00:00
It's hard to eat retroactive dollars today. While some organizations are trying to make this sorta possible (specifically, I've heard that some banks are giving out loans to federal employees), why deal with all that and take out a loan when you could jump to that private sector job that your buddy's been trying to poach you for, for years? Y'know, the one that pays a lot better?
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-31 03:18:45+00:00
> People vote with their wallets

In a very real sense, yes.

Just like real votes, candidates will collude on issues that are bad for them, and push the discussion on trivial and/or bikesheddy issues people shouldn't really care about, keeping important arguments out of the public place.

To people who ever felt their vote were almost useless and not voting would also only make the situation worse...that's exactly how "voting with one's wallet" feel like.
by antonvs | 2025-10-31 03:18:49+00:00
I see a few people have pointed out to you that the Flock cameras in question are not doorbell cameras.

To bring you up to speed, Flock cameras are typically mounted on poles throughout cities and towns, in partnership with local government and law enforcement.

There's a whole Silicon Valley techbro business model behind this, in which Flock charges the municipalities for access to the data and AI analyses, which tell them nonsensical things such as how this woman in her $70k Rivian is driving around the neighborhood as a porch pirate.

Perhaps now, you might have a bit more understanding of why the fact this was a Flock camera is relevant here.
by MangoToupe | 2025-10-31 03:19:22+00:00
> Promises work great in javascript, either in the browser or in node/bun.

I can't disagree more. They suffer from the same stuff rust async does: they mess with the stack trace and obscure the actual guarantees of the function you're calling (eg a function returning a promise can still block, or the promise might never resolve at all).

Personally I think all solutions will come with tradeoffs; you can simply learn them well enough to be productive anyway. But you don't need language-level support for that.
by antonvs | 2025-10-31 03:20:42+00:00
Are you expecting us to completely educate you on the topic?

Instead of objecting to the article and what everyone is saying, do you not feel any responsibility to understand what you're talking about first?

The issue here is the Flock business model, which subsidizes the deployment of these cameras and encourages municipalities to use them in these dystopic ways.

Not to mention that you haven't even acknowledged being completely factually wrong in your understanding about the type of camera involved here. Instead of saying "huh, I didn't know that, TIL", you double down. It doesn't reflect well on you.
by meetingthrower | 2025-10-31 03:21:01+00:00
Or how about the excel copilot which can't do anything inside a cell???? You can't call it in a formula either.

Or how about outlook copilot, which can't do the unbelievably simple task of figuring out when someone asks for a meeting at 1pm tomorrow and you press make invite to actually pre-fill 1pm tomorrow as the meeting time????? ARGH!

And we are worried about fast takeoff and the singularity? Give me a break.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-10-31 03:22:23+00:00
'Clean' CR after they already rammed through their whole agenda in a huge bill that threatened worse cuts if the government shutdown. Yet it seems they cut with or without a shutdown.

Republicans have proven they won't follow the same rules and aren't negotiating in good faith.

They'll do whatever they can get away with, and if bad things happen (whether they are opposed or not) then it's anyone else's fault.
by pranavc28 | 2025-10-31 03:23:31+00:00
Just dropped a new research blog post about "thought engineering"

Explores 2 concepts: 1. Confidence scores in NL when LLMs respond. For example, an LLM returns that it is 50% confident in its answer 2. Grid search iterative refinement to find optimal thresholds of NL confidence scores shown above

It shows that we can improve LLMs performance with thought engineering, and that these models are inherently aware that they are not as confident - a metacognitive ability only measured in humans to date.

Give it a look, DM me your thoughts!
by dboreham | 2025-10-31 03:23:53+00:00
I have a personal Wise account as do several family members. I've had a few odd things happen with their debit cards, and actually (eventually received some reasonably sane customer support via email). Otherwise no problems. That said, when I was opening the account another family member with a history in fintech said "you know that's not a bank, right?". Accordingly I've never kept a large balance there.
by ssivark | 2025-10-31 03:24:11+00:00
The difference doesn't matter when you have a shallow structure and can access fields directly and have a few lines of code. But field access does not compose easily if you have a nested hierarchy of objects. Your natural choice in the "OOP style" is to write a lot of boiler plate to point to each different field you want to get/set. Say you get bored of the tedium and want "higher-order" accessors that compose well -- because ultimately all look-up operations are fundamentally similar in a sense, and you only need to write traversals once per data structure. Eg: Instead of writing yet another depth-first search implementation with for loops, you could easily tie together a standard DFS implementation (traversal) from a library, with accessors for the fields you care to work with.

One way to think of the goal of functional paradigm is to allow extreme modularity (reuse) with minimal boilerplate [1]. The belief is minimal boilerplace + maximum reuse (not in ad-hoc ways, but using the strict structure of higher-order patterns) leads to easily maintainable bug-free code -- especially in rapidly evolving codebases -- for the one-time cost of understanding these higher-order abstractions. This is why people keep harping on pieces that "compose well". The emphasis on immutability is merely a means to achieve that goal, and lenses are part of the solution to allow great ergonomics (composability) along with immutability. For the general idea, look at this illustrative blog post [2] which rewrites the same small code block ten times -- making it more modular and terse each time.

[1] https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.p...

[2] https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Wa...

Once the language is expressive enough to compose pieces well and write extremely modular code, the next bit that people get excited about is smart compilers that can: transform this to efficient low-level implementations (eg. by fusing accesses), enforce round-trip consistency between get & set lenses (or complain about flaws), etc.
by knollimar | 2025-10-31 03:24:24+00:00
Do they just get to unilaterally trample over rights to do this? Any impediment should be removed at any cost?

Most of these apps are akin to filming police; protected speech in my book. I won't say anything bad about surveillance in the streets/online, but it's upsetting that they abuse their power to prevent monitoring and reporting their abuse of power
by johncolanduoni | 2025-10-31 03:24:34+00:00
I’m not arguing they should capitulate - I’m arguing that we should fund ATC (and some other things) like we do Congress’s salaries. Or just authorize current spending levels by default if Congress shits the bed and simply not have this insane brinksmanship.

I happen to agree on the object level issue of maintaining the Medicaid funding. Thanks for talking down to me, though.
by rbits | 2025-10-31 03:24:50+00:00
It's been dead already. There's datapacks but it's been pretty obvious they're not going to make an official modding API. I think they realised that the community modloaders are already really good.

So instead they have been structuring the code in ways that help mod development, and have been talking directly to the devs of mods and mod loaders to try and reduce friction with Minecraft updates.
by hnburnsy | 2025-10-31 03:25:14+00:00
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by pfooti | 2025-10-31 03:25:45+00:00
Yeah, I think the actual underpinning support that broke this time is recission. In the past, of congress passed a budget with money for the some department or line item, that money would be spent. Now the president has claimed that he doesn't have to spend money he had been directed to spend by finding bills, and (importantly) the supreme court has upheld this stance.

This means that there is no longer the ability to negotiate a budget in good faith. The Dems can fight for more health care funding (or whatever) and the compromise can happen, and then the president can just say "sike!" And not do it.

And, political leanings aside, this president has shown that he will indeed break any agreement he decides to, so there doesn't seem to be any reason to negotiate. So I'm thinking this shutdown lasts a Long time.
by roywiggins | 2025-10-31 03:25:50+00:00
Lightroom's edits are non-destructive, so the original format of the edited photos exists within Lightroom's database or inside Lightroom's sidecar files. Yes, all my original photos are safe, but they are unprocessed raw and jpegs. I could plausibly render out my entire library and probably should, but it's the difference between a PSD and a PNG.

(I did investigate open source tools back in 2011 but essentially no libraries could even decode the raw format my camera uses for years)
by kumarvvr | 2025-10-31 03:25:50+00:00
> "we all do this for the money"

BigCo

To Investors : We are in it for money. We will earn you money. It is money we dream, covet and will go to any lengths for. Ethics, Integrity, Truth, all those don't matter in the long term.

To Society : We do CSR, we are a good for society, we are ethical, we have integrity, we value society, we care much more than just money.

To Employees : We are family, if one of us is hurt everyone is hurt, we believe in work-life balance, we believe in fairness, equality, openness, transparency.

BigCo is a liar and a hypocrite.
by 4bpp | 2025-10-31 03:26:05+00:00
The problem is that for government power expansions/individual rights reductions, "Yes" can in fact be taken to mean "Yes forever, without ever revisiting the question". (The mechanism needn't be that there is literally no formal revisiting; it can be sufficient that weakening government power is politically untenable because whoever proposed it will be held accountable for every subsequent bad event that could hypothetically have been prevented with some unknown additional amount of government power.)

Stasis is not great, but surely preferable to an authoritarian ratchet.
by garyfirestorm | 2025-10-31 03:26:45+00:00
one would argue that an immigration system that is actively hostile towards people who follow the rules (downright arcane) results in this issue. even a fairly skilled h1b worker (say a doctor working in rural area) has no real pathway to citizenship, let alone a temporary farm labor... i am not condoning the illegal immigration, just pointing out the root cause. we wouldn't be in this situation if we had a true reformed immigration system.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-31 03:27:13+00:00
I don't think this is the first time Carmack been talking about functional programming and against mutability, here is some of his thoughts from 2014: http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...

Just because someone is expressing a thought after you or others have already thought about it, doesn't mean they're trying to push it as something new and exciting, it's just another perspective.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-31 03:27:40+00:00
>Someone tell me why this couldn't happen.

Beware the ides of march.

During a constitutional crisis that doesn't seem to have an immediate resolution political violence should be expected from the inside as an attempt to reach a resolution. The last line of defense is that military leadership actually do have a pretty solid loyalty to the constitution and soldiers are pretty well trained to follow the chain of command.

nobody can gain loyalty anywhere near trump nor does anyone have close to the unhinged charisma

but the government is shut down there should be no expectation that there will be any agreement to half fund it and absent that there's not really any foreseeable mechanism for the treasury to start operating on a large scale entirely outside of the law

so i guess the other last line of defense is the bond market and foreign exchange markets which wouldn't respond well to dictatorial control of the treasury and the fed
by sigmar | 2025-10-31 03:27:58+00:00
It's double speak to call it a "clean CR" when there was just a huge bill changing a ton of tax code, budget, and increasing ICE's budget by 10x.[1] Passing the CR would have approved those spending changes as if they were in an appropriations bill.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act
by RulerOf | 2025-10-31 03:28:35+00:00
You can often format as NTFS and have it work anyway, but it depends on whether or not the system UEFI firmware includes an NTFS driver.

Rufus puts such a driver in its FAT32 boot partition and loads it before starting the winpe.

It drives me nuts that the UEFI sites never included ExFAT.
How do you store and utilize your knowledge?
by Salahuddin11 | 2025-10-31 03:28:45+00:00
Hey all, feel like there are so much information to consume and catchup with the world rn. So curious how do more experienced people here do to actually store and make use of information in this modern era? What do you use to consolidate, store and easily access them when necessary?

I'm looking into AI second brain options that allow me to ask it to retrieve info when needed. I've been trying tools like notebooklm, tana, saner, but always open to learning more about your methods and recs. Thanks
by ksec | 2025-10-31 03:29:26+00:00
I guess this is one of the 2 or 3 things Sam talked about coming till end of year. I wonder what's the other 1 or 2.

I also imagine the previous Hobby plan running on Vitess is actually more expensive to run than even this $5 dollar tier, not viable unless it is on Postgres Metal with no HA.

I also wish there is a list of non hyperscaler providers with regions that are close to planetscale offering. Last time I checked Hetzner dont come anywhere close enough to be used for compute.