MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tagrun | 2025-10-08 23:51:51+00:00
If what determines the value of a language libraries (which makes no sense to me at all, but let's play your game), then it is one more argument against Python. You don't need FFI to use a Fortran library from Fortran, and I (and many physicists) have found Fortran better suited to HPC than Python since... the day Python came to existence. And no, many other scripting languages have wrappers, and no, scientific computing is not restricted to ML which the only area Python can be argued to have most wrapper libraries to external code.

Language matters, and two-language problem is a real problem, and you can't make it go away by closing your ears and chanting "doesn't matter! doesn't matter!"

Julia is a real step toward solving this problem, and allows you to interact with libraries/packages in ways that is not possible in Python + Fortran + C/C++ + others. You are free to keep pretending that problem doesn't exist.

You are making disparaging and hyperbolic claims about hyperbolic claims without proper attribution, and when asked for source, you cry foul and sadly try to appear smart by saying "you're acting dumb". You should take on your advice and instead of "acting dumb", explicitly cite what "promises" or "bombastic claims" you are referring to. This is what I asked you to do, but instead of doing it, you are doing what you are doing, which is interesting.
by latchkey | 2025-10-08 23:52:01+00:00
It doesn't seem irrelevant to me at all. Security these days isn't just one action, it is a multitude of actions and steps and thought processes.

By removing the expectation that my password manager is going to autofill something, I'm now making the conscious decision to always try to fill it myself.

This makes me think more about what I'm doing, and prevents me from making nearly as many mistakes. I don't let my guard down to let the tools do all the work for me. I have to think: ok, I'll autofill things now, realize that it isn't working, and then look more closely at why it wasn't working as I expected.

I won't just blindly copy/paste my credentials into the site because whoops, I think it might have worked previously.
by coastalpuma | 2025-10-08 23:52:55+00:00
I can easily imagine a world where you could install an open source PWA from an archive file into its own security sandbox without any further hoops to jump through, and it continues to just work indefinitely because the web has very good backwards compatibility guarantees. Instead, we have to get licensed and notarized by the monopolies and they keep you on a constant treadmill of drudgery just to stay up to date. Or you install somebody else's monopoly-approved "legitimate business" app which steals or leaks your data. Sad!
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-08 23:53:00+00:00
My furloughed gov't friends joke about it that way, but as pointed out by trenchpilgrim, they're not getting paid during this. Their paychecks this week will be for only 7 days of work, 30% short of a normal paycheck, and if the shutdown persists two more weeks, then they will not receive their next paycheck (they will eventually receive the pay, but late).
by red369 | 2025-10-08 23:53:57+00:00
I've had that recurring nightmare too - I forgot about that! I've only had a little real world experience with it. I'm curious if anyone has had the nightmare without having experienced it in real life.

I owned a late 80s Corolla which had drum brakes on the rear, and they would fade by the bottom of a particularly long, windy, descent from a mountain range to a beach we used to go to. That was even with using lower gears to control speed. Everyone else on that road seemed to be in a modern pickup, following as close as possible to encourage me to drive faster.

Oh! And one traumatic towing experience. I'd forgotten what a real-life nightmare that was. I was helping a friend tow an early 90s Honda City with his pride and joy, Mitsubishi GTO. I was driving the tiny Honda. The rope we were using wasn't designed for the job. I think the ropes specifically designed for it have a little give. When this particular rope got slack, it snapped when tension was reapplied. And then it was retied, even shorter. It wasn't as long as I would have liked to begin with. I had to ride the brakes lightly to keep tension in it. And then of course, when it came time to stop at the traffic lights, the brakes were hot and faded. I would repeatedly, barely stop in time, coming slowly to a halt inches from the bumper of the GTO. Obviously, complaining to the kind of person who would think this was a good idea, wasn't particularly fruitful.
by freeqaz | 2025-10-08 23:55:13+00:00
Scale AI | Product Security Engineer | TypeScript, Node, Python, AWS | Full-time | Hybrid in San Francisco, CA or NYC or Remote

This is for a team that I'm working closely with and helping grow. We're hiring for somebody with a hybrid SWE and Security background to help scale up the team.

It's currently one engineer who's got a ton on his plate, so the ideal person for this role is somebody who's interested in learning, digging in deep to fix issues (especially shipping PRs), and helping shape the future roadmap of the team. It is not an analyst role.

The role is primarily targeted at mid-career folks with a few years of experience (2+ years minimum). Those that are Senior/Staff level folks, especially those with a strong SWE background that are curious about security, are encouraged to apply if this role resonates strongly. (I personally transitioned from SWE -> ProdSec, years ago, and several other folks on the broader Security team have non-Security backgrounds too.)

Here is the role: https://scale.com/careers/4602047005

Feel free to apply there, email me with you resume (on my profile), or add me on LinkedIn[0]. I'll try my best to answer questions and reply to everybody, but sometimes there is so much inbound that it isn't possible. Thanks!

0: https://www.linkedin.com/in/freewortley/
by nradov | 2025-10-08 23:55:21+00:00
Correct, and Ukraine has been doing exactly that with using simple trainer aircraft to shoot down drones.

https://www.twz.com/air/this-is-how-ukrainian-yak-52-crews-h...

The Russian air defense radar system has been badly degraded by recent Ukrainian strikes. They have been conducting a deliberate SEAD/DEAD campaign to clear the path for strikes on strategic targets. Of course the Russian air defenses everywhere far from Moscow were probably never very effective in the first place due to the usual mix of poverty, corruption, vodka, and incompetence.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-10-08 23:55:26+00:00
Do you know what the concept of time value of money means?

The further out into the future you go, the less valuable the returns are when taken back into the present.

The reality is, Mr Zuck is a manager who is there to invest the cash of its shareholders on their behalf into projects that beat the hurdle rate. Shareholders dont care abut how cool the tech is.
by sgc | 2025-10-08 23:56:02+00:00
The proposal is because I don't think a bunch of people playing games with money provide any sort of value. If you could only buy a valuable company in such a way that options and HFT trades were excluded, then you would just have to invest in the company and support its growth. That is the goal of the structure. I completely agree with you: If the bloodsuckers don't have to do so, they never will. I would prefer it were law, but second best would be a place where companies could opt out of the anti-culture of wall street and still be publicly traded.
by ibfreeekout | 2025-10-08 23:58:31+00:00
I don't know for sure but it may be regional. In my area, they always have a $5 off $20 deal that makes things slightly more palatable but even still, it's just bringing the prices back to what they really should be as others have said. I've uninstalled the app and completely stop going there entirely, the quality (not that it was ever great to be clear) is pretty terrible and there are so many better local places with way better value.
by incompatible | 2025-10-08 23:59:04+00:00
"people who have genuine concerns about things", things like women, non-whites, LGBTIQ, especially trans, atheists, scientists, anti-fascists, even people who don't follow the MAGA party line, such as idolizing Charley Kirk, the list goes on. "Genuine concerns" which are expressed as undisguised or thinly disguised death threats in some cases.
by pdx_flyer | 2025-10-09 00:00:44+00:00
My parents live in a small town in Texas and are in the MAGA camp. They came to Portland a couple of years ago to visit and said "oh, it's not like what was on TV"... Yes, that's what I was trying to tell you.

Now they are saying I should move based on what they see on Fox News. I'm dumbfounded; Don't you remember what it was like when you were here? It hasn't changed.

Part of it is a small town mentality, the big city is just dangerous. The rest of it is just being spoon fed clips of the same protest footage over and over and over again.
by trollbridge | 2025-10-09 00:00:55+00:00
I form them myself, which takes about 5 minutes on the Secretary of State's website. The only fee to the state is a one time formation fee. This is true in a variety of states.

I got this advice to do so from (a) the aforementioned nonprofit consultant and (b) an actual attorney, who does serve as a registered agent, for no fee. He is glad to do so since in the very rare event of a lawsuit, he'll be the one representing us. However, you could also just be your own registered agent if you have an office where people regularly work.

Note that I am not going out of my way to conceal the identity of the nonprofit board members / members of the LLC.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-10-09 00:01:39+00:00
Thank you so much for the detailed reply!

> As far as I can tell there is no way to provide an intrusive linked list library in Rust that is safe to use, which is to say all code that uses it would have to be flagged as unsafe too.

But if you need a linked list, would that be so bad? Again, the alternative is C where literally the whole program is unsafe...
by wrathofmonads | 2025-10-09 00:02:09+00:00
Ecosystems matter, but runtimes do as well. Take Java, for instance. It didn’t have to wrap C/C++ libraries, yet it became synonymous with anything data-intensive. From Apache Hadoop to Flink, from Kafka to Pulsar. Sure, this is mostly ETL, streaming, and databases rather than numeric or scientific computing, but it shows that a language plus a strong ecosystem can drive a movement.

This is why I see Julia as the Java for technical computing. It’s tackling a domain that’s more numeric and math-heavy, not your average data pipeline, and while it hasn’t yet reached the same breadth as Python, the potential is there. Hopefully, over time, its ecosystem will blossom in the same way.
by l1ng0 | 2025-10-09 00:02:34+00:00
I came across an old graphics project I'd made for Windows/DOS around 20 years ago. Within about a half hour I was able to compile and run it on a Linux machine with Wine, installing the latest version of the compiler and dependencies.

I can rarely get a 6-month-old JavaScript web project to compile and run this easily. Churn in node versions, npm/yarn versions, dependencies being abandoned, superseded, dropping backwards compatibility.

I agree that the churn is constant.
by an0malous | 2025-10-09 00:03:14+00:00
It's not a strawman, it's a thought experiment: if the premise of AGI is that a superintelligence could do all these amazing things, what could it do today if it existed but only had its superintelligence? My suggestion is that even something a billion times more intelligent than a human being might not be able to cure cancer with the information it has available today. Yes it could build simulations and throw a lot of computing power at these problems, but is the bottleneck intelligence or computing power to run the algorithms and simulations? You're conflating the two, no one disagrees that one billion times more computing power could solve big problems, the disagreement is whether one billion times more intelligence has any meaningful value which was the point of isolating that variable in my thought experiment.
by xpe | 2025-10-09 00:03:26+00:00
The summary on Wikipedia doesn't sound very testable. Maybe the original sources are clearer? In any case, I bet the hypothesis could be tightened up if one specified what one means by scientific progress. Perhaps some blend of: (1) data collection; (2) hypotheses generation; (3) hypotheses testing; (4) communicating results; (5) teaching; (6) inspiring others to do science; (7) cross pollination of ideas; (8) building the scientific community; (9) fundraising for science? Something else? A dedicated team could suggest a metric and test the hypothesis.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-09 00:04:01+00:00
I thought there were more discussions on this one, but I think it just came up in comments and that's what I'm remembering. Ones I found with more than a couple comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3585286 - Feb 2012

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9422622 - Apr 2015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10214480 - Sep 2015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19504023 - Mar 2019
by red369 | 2025-10-09 00:05:24+00:00
I was with a friend in a 5L V8 Mercedes, and we were doing a quick drive around the block after some sort of maintenance. He floored the accelerator - I can't remember why that was required, except I assume it wasn't. I assumed he was only going to do it momentarily, but the car rapidly reached, and passed, stupid speeds for that road. Just as I started to say something about preserving lives of us, and anyone else on the road, he suddenly shifted to neutral and brought the car to a stop with the engine screaming away at the redline. He then calmly reached down, unjammed the accelerator, and then continued driving back home.

That car was automatic, but he drove cars with manual transmissions a lot, so that would make it an obvious thing to do. I think in some of the famous unintended acceleration crashes, it has been unclear whether the person tried to change to neutral. A lot of newer cars have a much less intuitive method of doing so as well.

There's nothing as good in this regard as cars with manual transmissions though, in terms of having a dedicated pedal which disconnects the engine from the wheels, which you practice constantly during daily use.
by specproc | 2025-10-09 00:07:17+00:00
Not an awful lot these days, but I used to write long, bureaucratic docs for a living, worked a lot with complex budgets and financial reports too.

Nothing beats native Word or Excel for this sort of work. Browser-based tools and open alternatives don't come close.

Fortunately, it's not my main line of work now and I can get away without. I'd still love to be able to use Word and Excel natively though.
by 48terry | 2025-10-09 00:07:27+00:00
> There may be benefits down the road, such as them remembering you kindly and helping you out in the future.

This part sticks out to me because, in this article presumably about empathy, we couldn't help ourselves but to bring up "also, there could be incredible value to you, personally, for doing this". We couldn't resist, we couldn't make the article purely about the person who got fired, we gotta bring it back to me for a second. We need to talk about this caring outreach as a transaction.

Not only does it read like a vulture's mentality to talk bout how you might gain from another person losing their job, it makes me question the author's future communications. If Moore hypothetically reached out to me with an empathetic hand, and I had seen this part of the article, I'd be stuck on it. Is he reaching to me because he actually cares about me, or is he more interested in the potential value reaching out to me would give? I mean, he wrote it out right here, so it's on his mind as a factor.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-09 00:07:34+00:00
> Make sure you don't have anything else relying on Python because they will probably never work again.

This is why when I see some clever open source tool discussed on HN and I go to the repo and see it's written in Python I close the browser window and pretend I never saw it.

Yes I know there are ways to protect yourself when using Python in much the same way that lead-lined glove boxes protect you when working with plutonium, but I can never remember the proper CLI incantation to make the lead-lined glove box appear.
by hamburglar | 2025-10-09 00:07:56+00:00
I mean, yes, that is a feature of css, but the idea that web pages are somehow obligated to use that feature or be ridiculed is silly. It’s all about how much the presenter wants to cater to the preferences of their audience. And sometimes, the answer is “not at all. the information is presented in a reasonable way and effort spent on formatting options is wasted.” This is why books are not usually offered in large print versions unless there is a compelling reason like a large portion of the target audience needing it.
by hinkley | 2025-10-09 00:08:02+00:00
There is no beating the speed of light. You cannot stack servers like cordwood. So no matter what toroidal internetworking architecture you make the maximum interconnect length is always, always a function of the dimensions of the devices and typically with a constant factor of. 5x to 10x on top.

Star interconnects are limited to the surface area of each device, which is the cube root of the volume. Because you have to have space to plug the wires in.

“You’ve got it all figured out” is deflecting basic physics facts. What is your clever solution to data center physics?
by wtallis | 2025-10-09 00:08:57+00:00
The source of funding matters. There are parts of the Federal government that are not entirely funded by annual appropriations from Congress. Funding from permanent appropriations or fee collection has not stopped, and agencies are allowed to operate to the extent that those other, non-lapsed funding sources can support. For example, a National Park campground that can support a basic level of services with the fees it collects doesn't have to shut down.
by rokiszb | 2025-10-09 00:09:24+00:00
Location: Lithuania, Vilnius Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: 7+ years of PHP, Symfony, Laravel, JavaScript. Willing to adapt to or change technology. + Docker, linux(ubuntu), SQL, REST API design, etc. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rokas-lakstauskas/ Email: rokas.lakstauskas@gmail.com

Would be interested in full-time, contract type of work.

Experience in crypto, banking, parcel delivery, e-commerce software development.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-09 00:09:25+00:00
It’s been one of the most underwhelming releases that I can remember. There is no tentpole feature that I care about or that makes anything slightly better. It’s not worse. I’ve had an iOS device since v2 on an iPod Touch and v4 on an iPhone 4.

On the other hand, iPadOS 26 is the best update since the iPad was released. I had the first one in 2010. Finally real windows and it actually works decently on my 2019 iPad Air 3 with 3GB RAM and an A12 processor. I haven’t tried it yet on my wife’s iPad M3 Air.

I could definitely see an iPad as being my only personal computer. I have an M2 MacBook Air and work M3 MacBook Pro
by Jensson | 2025-10-09 00:09:29+00:00
> And sure, experts too can be narrow-minded and smug. Just like everybody else.

Being an expert always adds a big weakness: You get paid to do this so you are biased.

So no, they are not "just like everybody else", they have spent more time on it so they know some things better, but you can't get away from biases that comes from being paid to do something and that makes experts worse at some other things.
by lbourdages | 2025-10-09 00:09:33+00:00
My VW Golf has ABS based tire pressure monitoring and for the most part it works. The disadvantage is that it can only tell you if one tire is flat. If they all get slowly flat over time there won't be a significant discrepancy between tires and they will not trigger any warning.

I consider that a worthy tradeoff though, I can just check the pressure once in a while and I get to save money on my winter wheel set.
by rchaud | 2025-10-09 00:10:07+00:00
If AI were real, companies would charge market price for it now and reduce the price as model training costs fell over time. That is how things worked in microcomputer market between the '80s and '90s as hardware prices fell and software became commoditized. Giving it away for peanuts in the hope that prices can be raised 10x later is destined for failure.
by intermerda | 2025-10-09 00:10:21+00:00
I don't know why you feel it's loaded if the language of "targeted group" is accompanied with every single group that is a protected class.

> 1.1.1 Defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups, particularly if the app is likely to humiliate, intimidate, or harm a targeted individual or group. Professional political satirists and humorists are generally exempt from this requirement.

This "ackchyually" behavior from HN is so bizarre.
by thorncorona | 2025-10-09 00:11:08+00:00
Because even though I can learn some random library, I don’t really care to. I can do the architecture, I don’t care to spend half an hour understanding deeply how arguments to some API work.

Example: I rebuilt my homelab in a weekend last week with claude.

Setup terraform / ansible / docker for everything, and this was possible because I let claude all the arguments / details. I used to not bothered because I thought it was tedious.
by UltraSane | 2025-10-09 00:12:13+00:00
Millisecond trading strategies have zero relationship to information about companies or economic fundamentals and are therfore not economically productive. They're exploiting microstructure inefficiencies like latency arbitrage, order front-running, not price discovery. That's not 'teaching' the market it's a tax on everyone else's execution. The fact that it's legal doesn't make it structurally useful. It is just a result of the rules not being updated when trading became automated at superhuman speeds
by Zenst | 2025-10-09 00:12:35+00:00
The quote from Yes, Prime Minster - "The only way to understand the press, is to remember that they pander to their readers prejudices" which makes those news aggregations sites more appealing, though cheaper to stick with other avenues for balance.

So much wisdom on comedy, even 80s comedy Who reads the papers? - Yes, Prime Minister - BBC comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
by red369 | 2025-10-09 00:14:16+00:00
I agree with what you said about brakes overcoming the engine. I've seen tests which show it works on even monstrously over-powered cars, but it can feel like it's not working and if the driver reacts wrongly to that, then it may no longer work.

I think stopping the power from going to the wheels needs to be an easy option. I wish there was more importance given to being able to easily do this.

I think the two options are shifting to neutral, or turning off the engine. I tested in a late-00s automatic BMW, and you had to hold the start/stop button for what felt like a very long time to turn the engine off if the car was in Drive. In an emergency, I think most people would give up long before it turned off. In that car, it was easy to change to neutral though, so I don't have a criticism about that design. What concerns me is cars with the same approach for the start/stop button, but where it is hard to get to neutral. I think in the Toyotas which had unintended acceleration issues, it wasn't easy/intuitive.

Edit: Another comment reminded me of something I forgot to mention above. You don't want turning off the engine to be the first resort because you lose power steering, and eventually, power assisted brakes.