MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xpe | 2025-10-07 14:54:00+00:00
> ... into "report" with no evidence or reference

If one takes a few minutes to review the NIST report [1], one will indeed find evidence and references detailed in the footnotes.

Without judgment, I ask: How did you miss this? I'm certainly not asking you to defend yourself, which would likely trigger rationalization [2]. I am asking you to sincerely try to figure it out for yourself. Under what conditions do you have the ability to admit that you are wrong, even if only to yourself?

[1]: https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2025/09/30/CAISI...

[2]: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Rationa...
by dizzant | 2025-10-07 14:54:09+00:00
I used Tcl at my very first internship for test automation. Coming from a self-taught Javascript/Java/C#/C++ background, Tcl really stretched my concept of what a programming language is, especially how it plays with stack frames and munges string values.

Coincidentally Tcl also inspired my first deep dive into Vim. The test automation framework at that company required meaty Tcl expressions packed into CSV cells. Tcl was mind-boggling enough when properly formatted, so hand-editing squashed 1800 character long expressions on a single line was way too much. I'm fairly certain the assignment was part hazing and the framework part "job security".

Jokes on them, I spent 2 weeks on a side quest to make a Vim plugin that could add line breaks and indent a Tcl expression into a split temporary buffer for editing and squash it back to the right cell when I was done. Halfway through the summer I had completed the entire backlog. The manager got a reprimand for being a jerk and I spent the rest of the summer making the framework less painful.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-07 14:54:11+00:00
I would extend that to all topics, even the technical ones. The upside to HN is that it attracts a lot of smart, technically knowledgeable people. That's the downside, too. Everyone likes to think Dunning-Kruger is an indictment of over-confident stupid people, but I think it serves us better as a warning to people who think themselves smarter than average. Heck, especially when they are smarter than average.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-10-07 14:54:16+00:00
> could permenently bankrupt a small business and take the owners house and all their assets.

A small business, which practically is comprised of - in the US in most cases 1 employee, or maybe 1-3 employees, most likely related.

That person, who you say did a copyright issues, but maybe I say, accidentally used a chopsaw on someones hand... they're liable.

some fake paper does not reduce liability.
by leeu1911 | 2025-10-07 14:54:25+00:00
https://curlime.com

The idea is to have deterministic text transformations generated by AI, which can be saved and reused later to avoid incurring/piling up LLM-call cost and hallucinations.

This solves my own pain points when I wanted to clean up some text with non-trivial requirements which takes quite some time to figure out with normal text editor's find-and-replace + regex. Yes, you can write your own code/put LLM generated code in an IDE and do the same thing. However, I just wanted to create a trivial way to generate/save/execute (safely in a local lightweight VM) code to transform my text.

Would love to hear some comments and feedbacks!
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-07 14:54:35+00:00
It's code for not having certain kids in the classroom.

Until the 90s, they'd base G&T admission based on IQ. Now it's based on whether your family can afford a quality Pre-K. They thought my little brother was a savant as he could read on the first day of kindergarten -- my little sister taught him to read. (He is a very smart dude!)

I was in a well-regarded gifted program in the 80s in a NYC public school. The main distinction was that I was essentially trained to interpret short narratives with time incentives in a standardized test setting. It worked out for me through high school, as that skill allows me to coast through tests and blow off most of the work. Reality bit in college, where you were expected to actually read the book. :)
by bgwalter | 2025-10-07 14:54:35+00:00
The administration tried to sneak in a ban on "AI" regulation into the "Big Beautiful Bill", but fortunately failed last minute.

The administration facilitates "AI" exports:

https://www.iaps.ai/research/promoting-the-stack-trumps-ai-e...

It removes environmental regulations:

https://apnews.com/article/national-environmental-policy-act...

For the Nvidia bubble, it has recently lifted export regulations to China.

It facilitates meetings of "Open" "AI" with world leaders and almost certainly exerts pressure with tariffs etc. behind the scenes to force these deals.

It keeps talking up "AI", which helps the bubble.
by mbesto | 2025-10-07 14:55:08+00:00
> antithetical to the ideal of a company. The company should fail, OR, the consultants should advise that the company should either fail or gain the expertise to no longer require consultants.

This is a super myopic. Company's don't operate in idyllic terms ("ideal of a company"). Company's exist to create customers. How they reach that is up to them, consultants or otherwise...there are no "rules" you have to follow to achieve it (other than obvious regulatory ones)
by joshstrange | 2025-10-07 14:55:19+00:00
> it is pretty obvious that legalization would increase the prevalence and frequency of usage.

Except that's not at all what happened, something mentioned multiple times in the article.

> No Effect from Legalization: The rate of drivers who tested positive for THC did not change significantly before or after legalization (42.1% vs. 45.2%), indicating that legal status did not influence the behavior of those who chose to drive after use.
by JohnBooty | 2025-10-07 14:55:21+00:00
Gifted kids don't need special attention to get through school and life the same way the intellectually impaired do.

This is very false in my experience.

I sometimes struggled in regular classes as a young kid, because it was so painfully boring to move at the same, slower speed as the other kids. It was like trying to watch a movie at 0.25x speed. I wasn't just "not reaching my potential", I was missing out on chunks of learning. I almost don't know what the counterargument is: we... shouldn't match education to a child's learning speed and other needs?

(And for the record, I wasn't crazy gifted in terms of IQ. More like top X%, not top 0.X%)

The ability to thrive and work with others who don't know as much about $FIELD as you do is, of course, an incredibly valuable life skill. Both socially and professionally. Whether you're a plumber or doctor or cashier then you by definition know more about your job than others. But I absolutely don't think forcing young kids to sit through learning at 0.25x or 0.5x or 0.75x their "natural" speed is the way to do it.
by jll29 | 2025-10-07 14:55:39+00:00
Lua is the glue when sh/bash doesn't suffice.

Lua is simple and elegant, and I much prefer it to Tcl.

Lua is in games and in LuaTeX, and when you have the choice of embedding a LISP, a FORTH or Lua in a larger application, it is often the most maintainable, runtime-efficient and low-memory footprint option of all.
by duxup | 2025-10-07 14:55:39+00:00
>“When firing is costly, as it is in most of Europe, employers are reluctant to invest in risky ventures,”

Is that really the cost of innovation? People protections?

I find that alone hard to believe / is the biggest issue in Europe.

When I think of failed innovation I almost never. think "oh man this product would be better if we could fire people".
by taylodl | 2025-10-07 14:56:44+00:00
This reveals a whole new channel of modern warfare. Imagine a nation state getting control of an adversaries' smart devices? You don't need to destroy capital-intensive infrastructure such as an electric grid if you can disable their ability to store and cook their food (internet connected ovens and refrigerators). That's morbidly fascinating, though I now realize I'm potentially open to such an attack.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-07 14:57:08+00:00
But there's no concrete definition of fiduciary!

One can easily argue that by having flat pricing they're doing their fiduciary responsibility because it's setting the company up to succeed in the long run through strong consumer trust.

One can argue that by having regional pricing they're doing their fiduciary responsibility because it's setting the company up to succeed by having success in more markets.

The takeaway from Dodge vs Ford [1] is that not fiduciary duty means dollars at any cost. It's that you need to have a reason that is good for the shareholders. If you don't bother to claim it's good for the shareholders then you're not doing your fiduciary duty.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
by anon291 | 2025-10-07 14:57:10+00:00
> The fact that it was confusing and a second Doctor went ahead and bypassed it altogether that hadn't seen the patient is a bit problematic to me.

Doctors are humans, and humans have cultures. In this culture, it was normal for people to dismiss popups that seemed to be distracting, and one human shared with another human this useful tidbit of information.

People need to get real about who doctors are. They are not super-people.

The system was set up in such a way that the popup became a distraction, and humans naturally want to get rid of distraction.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-07 14:57:20+00:00
Yep. My child was just accepted into a G&T program; it replaces gym period once a week, and I believe the teacher is responsible for all the G&T classes in the entire district (3 elementary schools, 1 middle, 1 high) - so if she stopped teaching G&T and started teaching an additional class, it would help exactly one school's grade level. Maybe better than nothing, but not by much.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-07 14:57:59+00:00
Money spent on AI is taking GPUs and software engineers off the market, as well as the energy needed to drive AI data centers. AI doesn’t need food, well, beyond the SWEs, it shouldn’t be inflating food at all. The only thing I could think of is AI investment drawing away agriculture investment or something. Or maybe AI data centers replacing farmland?
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-07 14:58:06+00:00
Yes, you can accomplish both programs. However, the limitation has to do with funding constraints.

src: attended public schools in G/T programs (IMHO: "normal" and "G/T" kids benefit from being taught together, in smaller classrooms)

src2: attended college on a full teaching scholarship (am no longer teaching) — "taught"[1] the classes with behavior problems

[1] Babysat; I was made the bad kids teacher because I was a tall footballer that didn't take shit from physically abusive bullies. I never beat a kid up (although many friends have, deservedly) but definitely restrained a few.
by phoehne | 2025-10-07 14:58:14+00:00
That's not my reading of https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/4415094490770-L.... The LGPL is usually a requirement to publish your modifications to the LGPL licensed code, but not necessarily your binary blobs. And for some low-volume Arduino based products, the software isn't the valuable part of the project, anyway.
by cardanome | 2025-10-07 14:58:27+00:00
Do you consider yourself one of those people for those " the negative space in a conversation is just words in a different form"?

Where is that take even coming from? Communication styles are very cultural. Japanese is very subtext-heavy while German is very direct. Are Japanese people more intelligent than German people?

Furthermore it depends on how your brain is wired. Autistic people prefer direct communication while allistic (that means non-autistic) people rely more on context.

Personally, I prefer people that are more direct. People that read crap into stuff that was never said grind my gears so much. It creates so much unnecessary drama.

The claim that one form of communication is same sign of being a "high performer" is completely insane.
by strenholme | 2025-10-07 14:58:42+00:00
Shameless plug time: I have written a public domain book which looks at using Lua (Lua 5.1 but the code works in newer versions as well as Lua 5.1/Luau/LuaJIT) as a text parsing engine. The book assumes familiarity with other common *NIX scripting languages (such as AWK, Perl, or Python) and goes over in detail the pain points for people coming from a *NIX scripting background:

https://maradns.samiam.org/lunacy/SamDiscussesLunacy.pdf

Source files (.odt file, fonts used by book):

https://github.com/samboy/lunacy/tree/master/doc

Hope this helps!
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-07 14:58:47+00:00
The pin mapping shenanigans are another annoying footgun with Arduino. Even in native development you're dealing with a physical pin number and the logical assignment (PA5, PA6, etc), but now Arduino maps that all again to an Arduino board pin number, and it's all shuffled to ensure the peripherals are in the right place to enable I2C, ADC, and PWM pins to function as expected.
by alistairSH | 2025-10-07 14:59:01+00:00
Gifted kids don't need special attention to get through school and life the same way the intellectually impaired do.

Isn't the Wozniak anecdote a counter argument? If a gifted kid is so bored they drop out or adopt anti-social behaviors, that's a problem.

Personal anecdote... when I was in 7th grade, the school trialed a math program where some of the GT students and some of the slow learners were placed in the same class. The class had an aide. But, at the end of the year, the GT students had effectively learned nothing - the teacher and aide spent 100% of their time getting the failing students closer to par, at the expense of everybody else.

Point being, there are ways to support GT students without completing disbanding GT programs. When I was in elementary school, that was a few hours per week of enrichment (pull us out of the main class periodically for extra instruction). Maybe there are reasons that doesn't work, but certainly my memory of that time is positive. It wasn't until middle school that we had fully separate "honors" classes (and then high school had AP).
by estearum | 2025-10-07 14:59:10+00:00
Good guess! I did know this.

Note that he didn't need to identify which specific bacteria was causing the infections. He needed to know which well to remediate and that chlorine would remediate it.

If he decided not to chlorinate the well in order to fully decide which specific bacteria was causing cholera, that would have been stupid.

The additional information would not have been worth the cost of acquiring it.

It would not have changed anything about the correct remediations and it would have incurred significant cost to acquire that information.

Great analogy, to my point :)
by withinboredom | 2025-10-07 14:59:11+00:00
This simply isn’t true unless you have to put everything in one commit?

To be honest, I usually get this with people who have never realized that you can merge dead code (code that is never called). You can basically merge an entire feature this way, with the last PR “turning it on” or adding a feature flag — optionally removing the old code at this point as well.
by doublerabbit | 2025-10-07 14:59:18+00:00
I'm currently working on a PXE provisioning system with Tcl. This crafts a KickStart configuration hosted on a virtual URL.

LUks is a requirement and requires a random password on each workstation. Password generation with handmade web gui stored natively in sqlite all under 200 LoC so far.

Tcl gets flak, but it's battle tested. Still under active development and has a cool GUI, Tk, I love it as a language. In terms of simplicity it just works out of the box, execution in a single file, in a sanely manner.

Wrap a variable in brackets {} and you've secured yourself from injections or run the procedure in a lightening safe interpreter if your paranoid.

Threading is a breeze. It does make you think in a different methodology which folk may rebuttal, but once you get it, it's great.

NaviServer too, AOLs original webserver is awesome.

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NaviServer

https://github.com/naviserver-project/naviserver
by csin | 2025-10-07 14:59:27+00:00
"Calling the Crunchyroll anime comment section a community is a bit of a stretch, it's like saying that the comments under a TikTok video are a community."

Am I missing something here? (I don't use TikTok).

- The comment section under a youtube video is a community.

- The comments on the side of Instagram pictures is a community.

- Twitch chat is a community.

- Even Imgur has a community. I'm surprised that's a thing, but they do.
by npteljes | 2025-10-07 14:59:29+00:00
Title is correct. "Foreign", in terms of language, is a language not spoken typically in one's home country. Now, a home country only applies to a person after they've been born, which is not the case of the subjects of the article. But still, we can give a bit of leeway to the author, and just presume the home country of the unborn child, and so, interpret the concept of a "foreign language" correctly.
by alganet | 2025-10-07 14:59:39+00:00
The purpose of RDF is to enable reasoning ("I'm sharing this with you, and I'm also sharing how to reason about this thing I shared with you, so we can all reason about it the same way").

If you show me an LLM that can take in serialized RDF and perform reasoning on it, I will be surprised. Once the LLM takes in the RDF serialization, it is a dead end for that knowledge: by principle, you can't rely on anything the LLM does with it.

In a world of LLMs, it makes much more sense to put the semweb technologies alongside the training step instead. You create ontologies and generate text from triples, then feed the generated text as training for the model. This is good because you can tweak and transform the triples-to-text mechanism in all sorts of ways (you can tune the data while retaining its meaning).

It doesn't make much sense to do it now, but if (or when?) training data becomes scarce, converting triples to text might be a viable approach for synthetic data, much more stable than having models themselves generate text.
by teiferer | 2025-10-07 14:59:42+00:00
> Even if you’re a blank slater who believes ability is evenly distributed, and a pure egalitarian who sees any demographic imbalance as injustice, even then, why destroy programs that benefit some children?

Because the benefit of one is the disadvantage of somebody else. Same coin, different side.

(That's not my argument, but I believe it is the argument on which this is based.)

> This is one of the few mainstream policies I can’t understand from the other side

A more even society may be a goal. Scandinavia in the 80s did a lot of that, left high performers in school hanging. For good or worse.
by kragen | 2025-10-07 15:00:27+00:00
Fuck you. What about having our lives ruined by being imprisoned in a fucking kindergarten, full of violent screaming children? Have you ever tried to read a fucking book while surrounded by screaming children who keep hitting you? How about building a toothpick model or writing a computer program? Now imagine that those children are bigger than you, and you have the emotional maturity of a 5-year-old.

Forcing children who aren't normal to be normal is child abuse, and your comment is an attempt to perpetuate the kind of abuse that I was subjected to.
by crote | 2025-10-07 15:00:37+00:00
On the other hand, their competitors haven't been sleeping either.

Companies like Adafruit and Sparkfun sell dozens of tailor-made dev board variants, and their I2C module system allows you to mix & match a whole bunch of peripherals.

The code? A handful of lines of Python, which you can drag&drop onto it like it's a flash drive. Or use a browser-based IDE if you want one-click library install and serial logging.

Arduino's IDE was groundbreaking in 2010, but these days there are easier (and cheaper!) alternatives for beginning hobbyists, and better alternatives for power users.
by jll29 | 2025-10-07 15:01:00+00:00
A useful design pattern is to write highly efficient "engine" code in C/C++ and then tie it together to highly customizable application code with an embedded scripting language.

Lua is great for this, and while you could use a LISP (Emacs, AutoCad) or a FORTH (any real-life example not from the radio telescope domain?) or Tcl/Tk (https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Who+Uses+Tcl), Lua is small (as in number of concepts to understand), easy to read and understand, and compact (as in tiny codebase to integrate, few dependencies).

So many gaming startups have put their money on Lua.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-07 15:01:10+00:00
> This is the exact reason why they bought Arduino... So now startups have a way to buy say 1,000 devices for prototyping. Qualcomm gets used to supporting smaller developers/startups/tinkerers

For this, Qualcomm does not have to buy Arduino for a big amount of money: Qualcomm could simply offer this option on their own and save the acquisition cost.

Addendum: For the acquisition cost, Qualcomm could do a lot of marketing of their offering towards makers.
by pavon | 2025-10-07 15:01:13+00:00
It is the FCC[1]. The FAA is only concerned about the launch and de-orbiting as it passes through airspace, and doesn't regulate what happens between, including whether object de-orbit at all. It is odd for the FCC to have this responsibility. They kind of picked it up by default since they were the only agency regulating operations in space in any way, and we had ratified treaties that needed to be enforced, without creating an agency to enforce them.

Edit: The FAA is also proposing orbital debris rules that were supposed to be finalized this year, but aren't released yet[2]. This whole area is a mess, and really needs congress to set clear responsibilities.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/space/orbital-debris

[2] https://spacenews.com/faa-to-complete-orbital-debris-upper-s...
by grzaks | 2025-10-07 15:01:44+00:00
I was a Platinum subscriber for a few years. It's definitely not a scam, but in my opinion, they completely fail at detecting cheaters.

It's very frustrating when you lose a lot of games to cheaters. I cancelled my subscription and moved to Lichess — and although I still lose games, I don't feel like I'm being cheated nearly as often as on Chess.com.