MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bawolff | 2025-10-08 00:47:10+00:00
> In the sense that you can sue to have the order challenged? How's this different than what Trump's doing, where the government does something illegal (or at least legally dubious), and there's "judicial oversight" because aggrieved parties can sue the government?

Umm,that's how court systems work in general. You sue when someone wrongs you. I'm not sure how else it could possibly work.

> Were the bank accounts seized before or after the conviction?

This is a different topic, but there were 2 different bank account freezes. Some were frozen due to a contempt of court order (this didn't involve the government, a private citizen brought the lawsuit). The more controversial was the emergency powers seizure. Arguably the protestors were engaging in manifestly illegal conduct. Personally i think its akin to how you can arrest someone before conviction, but opinions vary. As far as i know, the bank accounts were only frozen while the protestors were engaging in illegal action and were released once the situation was resolved.
by cramsession | 2025-10-08 00:47:25+00:00
I think this is a pointless distinction tbh. Either you're getting good results from AI or you're not. If you're not, you should probably rethink your approach.

I'd offer a new term: curmudgeon coding. This pre-dates LLMs and is the act of engineers endlessly clutching pearls over new technology and its branding. It's a reflexive reaction to marketing hype mixed with a conservative by default attitude. Think hating on "NoSQL". Validity of said hate aside, it's definitely "a type" of developer who habitually engages in whinging.
by arscan | 2025-10-08 00:47:49+00:00
Hmmm, I think it’s a bit paradoxical to try to come up with a fun term to encourage the spread of the concept, as the concept itself is quite dull by definition. It’s just software engineering. Boring process stuff where you do a bunch of other things around the ‘building’ part that lets you scale up with quality. Vibe is about fun and go-with-the-flow. This isn’t that. It should connote pocket protectors, not sunglasses. Right?

Clearly I’m not in marketing.

Regardless, I’m delighted that this has gotten people to ‘independently discover’ software engineering best practices on their own.
by drooby | 2025-10-08 00:47:53+00:00
I like Project Kamp and have been following them for years. However, I feel they’re moving quite slowly and often making mistakes on problems that have already been solved. For example, it took them a while to figure out their composting toilet, and even now it’s not a great solution.

They tend to have what are essentially interns do a bit of “research” and then piece together a solution. That said, I do applaud their efforts. It’s very entertaining to watch, and they seem to be hiring people lately who are more knowledgeable in their fields.

So, I very much appreciate this open-source-ecology “academic approach.”
by bcrl | 2025-10-08 00:47:56+00:00
The biggest obstacle to AGI is data.

Take the knowledge the average human has about integrating visual information with texture of an object. Nearly every adult can take a quick glance around a room and have a good idea what it will feel like to run your fingers along its surface, or your lips, or even your tongue, and be able to describe the experience. We have this knowledge because when we were infants and toddlers, everything we encountered was picked up, pulled towards our mouth, and touched by our hands. An AGI inside a computer cannot have that experience today, so it will lack the foundations of intelligence that humans have built up by interacting with the real world.

At some point it will become possible to either collect that data or simulate an experience sufficiently accurately to mimic the development a human child goes through. Until that happens, true AGI will be out of reach as it will have deficiencies the average human does not.

That said, a lot of people will try to get to that point using other means, and they'll probably get pretty close, albeit with really weird hallucinations in the corner cases.
by godelski | 2025-10-08 00:48:02+00:00
Thanks!

But also WTF Apple... I appreciate that this mode exists but each of those things should be allowed to be toggled independently. People need more fine grained experience.

For things that I think will affect people more than the wireless connectivity

Messages: Most message attachment types are blocked, other than certain images, video, and audio. Some features, such as links and link previews, are unavailable. FaceTime: Incoming FaceTime calls are blocked unless you have previously called that person or contact within the past 30 days. Features such as SharePlay and Live Photos are unavailable.

I swear... Apple really does not want to make privacy and security convenient for users. It's as if (...) they want to provide the tools to say they have the best security but then make the UX so poor that no one will end up using them (and then they can justify not developing more because "nobody uses them")
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-08 00:48:23+00:00
I think these things are entirely reasonable for a beginner to learn about. It teaches you about the machine, about the very real cost of a UART write. That saves you from inevitably spending hours and days to figure out that too many printf is what's making your program slow.

A beginner should be introduced to the processor, not C++ or python abstractions. Those abstractions are good and useful in the general sense, but you really should be aware of what your abstractions actually do to the physical processor.
by Akranazon | 2025-10-08 00:48:51+00:00
> and all other metrics that could somehow quantify quality of life vs purely financial terms

If you have measures in non-financial terms, I'm happy to consider those, as long as they have to do with labor market regulations.

> most jobs I had in Europe had a 1-3 months notice period which was easily negotiated if you really wanted to quit on the spot, no company wants to keep a disgruntled worker around

I could quibble that 1-3 months sounds like a shockingly long time from a US perspective, but the bigger problem is the "ease of finding a new job" part of the equation.

> making precarious conditions the default is not great for the less skilled people who prefer stability to keep their families afloat and secure.

The industries which don't experience as much instability are less likely to lay off people anyway. So workers who want stability can self-select into government jobs or something, which offer that stability.

> Not working in "innovation" still has the same precariousness, with no upside

Some industries are less precarious, I would say getting paid nearly twice as much is an upside.

> leave enough people behind and you get MAGA.

I don't think there's any strong evidence that income inequality caused maga. I couldn't find any evidence that poorer people are more likely to support Trump. But let me know if I'm wrong here.
by bawolff | 2025-10-08 00:49:59+00:00
People overuse the word ad hominem. The post above is not an example of one.

Ad hominen is when you use an irrelavent insult in an argument. Not every criticism of a source is an ad hominem.

Edit: to clarify, i think there is a huge difference between saying something like: national post is known to lean right and not really like the liberals so we should verify they are fairly summarizing the liberal proposed law by actually reading the law in question (what parent did) vs for example, national post leans right therefore everything they say is bullshit and should be ignored (which would be an ad hominem)
by godelski | 2025-10-08 00:51:40+00:00
Just because the map shows you can get 5G (or 4G) does not mean you'll actually be able to use that network. It's tricky and telecom companies like to play these bullshit games. It's pretty similar to how they'll advertise "up to X MBPS" internet speeds but the average speed is far lower.

You'll actually have these experiences in congested cities. Ever go to a concert and realize you don't actually have cell service? That's because the tower is fully occupied. Unfortunately phones might not report this to you and might not report the downgrade. Making Android and Apple complacent...
by unanimous | 2025-10-08 00:51:41+00:00
Many email service providers give you the option to fetch all emails from a different service not just as a one-time thing, but ongoing. I'm not sure how that could be set up when running your own email server, but I bet there's a way. Even if there isn't, you can set up automatic forwarding in Gmail.

There's a chance forwarding is better than fetching. I once had a Gmail account stolen, and account recovery was locked for some reason, but email forwarding had been set up and I was still able to get all emails the address received.

In case it's relevant, I happen to use Fastmail now and their "mail fetch" feature involves imap.
by lostmsu | 2025-10-08 00:51:49+00:00
> "Demonstrated ability or achievement" is not highly hereditable.

False

> The word "demonstrated" should make that obvious.

No, it should not. Try to explain why you believe that.

> If I learn to play guitar and then have a kid, that kid will not know how to play guitar.

You full well know this is not how this works. If you try to learn guitar and fail, there's a good chance your kid will also fail if tries. And if you try and become exceptional there's a good chance if your kid would try they would also play way above average. That's what hereditability means.

> Wealth comes first. The son's education is paid for with his father's money.

Here's a good obvious point as to why wealth does not come first (that unlike yours is undeniable): how did the first person obtain the skill? There was neither anyone to teach it, nor wealth to pay for it.

> We aren't born with skills.

We most certainly are born with skills. Speed of learning is a skill.
by Akranazon | 2025-10-08 00:51:50+00:00
Almost none of this is true.

Labor protections are indeed less, but this is actually a good thing. Like with many free-market topics, "labor protections" are a very dangerous thing, because they are a policy that sounds extremely good to the voting public, but many economists can tell you it's actually bad. US just got lucky, that it tricked the public to vote against it.
by em-bee | 2025-10-08 00:51:55+00:00
so unless they were committing to doing everything from scratch (including the Rust standard library!) some parts of the codebase would be non-GPL’d.

that doesn't matter. the point of the GPL is to protect the application. that still happens even if libraries used are not GPL. the LGPL would not exist if that were an issue, so using a different more restrictive license for applications, and a less restrictive one for libraries is done intentionally.
by balderdash | 2025-10-08 00:52:35+00:00
Sometimes, but I’m intimately familiar with a business that pays people like $20/hr while they’re training them (9mos) - then the pay goes to like $30/hr, and after a few years most of them are making like $90k+/year. No one wants the job because they don’t want to put in the time, and it takes a 2-5 years to for someone to be good at it. My point being is that there are a ton of people that have super short term thinking when it comes to this stuff (like next month not next five year)
by yanzt | 2025-10-08 00:53:09+00:00
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by ianbutler | 2025-10-08 00:53:46+00:00
Frankly the most accurate way I would describe what I do with AI is managed programming, or being a handler for the AI.

The only issue with "Handled Programming" is I don't like how it fits for a name.

Vibe is much too unserious to pass my check for a way of professionally doing something and it also does not reflect the level of engagement I have with the AI and code since I'm putting together specs and otherwise deeply engaging with the model to produce the output I want.
by NedF | 2025-10-08 00:54:43+00:00
> There are lots of situations where a promotion to a queen would result in stalemate

You disagree with their 'rare' then where is your analysis?

You gave zero numbers or evidence, you're just saying stuff that pops into your head.

This analysis is a 35 to 1 for queens, knights arethe most popular alternative but I don't believe they played out the opponent resigns which most people do before the promotion to queen or analysised shit/fun playing -

https://blog.ebemunk.com/visual-look-at-2-million-chess-game...
by danpalmer | 2025-10-08 00:54:54+00:00
> Mastodon seems more true to the decentralized ethos

I'm not sure that's true. It's important to note that these bans are from the Bluesky App View (one component of the infra), and that these users can continue to post under their identity (if they own it, which they can), and users on App Views that haven't banned these users could continue to follow them.

None of that works with Mastodon. An admin bans you from the instance, and you can no longer post, use your identity, interact on the platform, etc. You have to start from scratch.

In short, Mastodon reduces the blast radius, but the "blast" is the same as on any private platform. Bluesky/AT Proto changes the impact to a different, strictly lesser type.
by Neywiny | 2025-10-08 00:55:01+00:00
I guess my point is that truly performant python code, at least for number crunching, uses vectorized numpy functions instead of loops, and the overhead on type checking for those is fairly minimal. I have a PR in on a compute heavy python program that I tried using numba to jit. Timing was within margins on using numpy and numba (even though the numba code could exit the loop early, which was why I was trying it) except with numba I'd be adding a dependency and it's more work to maintain the algorithms myself instead of relying on numpy.

I think of the JS code I've seen, it's mostly written in JS. So making JS faster makes JS faster. With python, the fast code is written outside python. It's too late by like 20 years. The world won't rewrite itself into native python modules
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-08 00:55:15+00:00
> Uses the pager for large files automatically etc. Very nice.

If you like that, you can also make less behave like cat if the file fits in one screen. You just need to add F to the LESS environment variable. It's very convenient because so many things depend on less.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/less.1.html#:~:tex...
by RealityVoid | 2025-10-08 00:55:50+00:00
> A competent engineer designing a devkit as simple as an arduino needs about 1 day of work.

Hah! I like to underestimate scope as well, but this is really something else. Definitely a competent engineer could make something like this. But a couple of months maybe. You won't even read the documentation for the chip in a day.
by pornel | 2025-10-08 00:55:50+00:00
W3C was way too optimistic about XML namespaces leading to creation of infinitely extensible vocabularies (XHTML2 was DOA, and even XHTML1 couldn't break past tagsoup-compatible minimum).

This was the alternative – simpler, focused, fully IE-compatible.

W3C tried proper Semantic Web again with RDF, RDFa, JSON-LD. HTML5 tried Microdata a compromise between extensibility of RDF and simplicity of Microformats, but nothing really took off.

Eventually HTML5 gave up on it, and took position that invisible metadata should be avoided. Page authors (outside the bunch who have Valid XHTML buttons on their pages) tend to implement and maintain only the minimum needed for human visitors, so on the Web invisible markup has a systemic disadvantage. It rarely exists at all, and when it does it can be invalid, out of date, or most often a SEO spam.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-08 00:56:11+00:00
From your source:

>Decades later, in 1992, another high-profile prosecution of a federal official involved the siege of anti-government separatist Randall Weaver’s cabin near Ruby Ridge, Idaho.[33] Amid a controversial series of events, an FBI sniper accidentally killed Weaver’s unarmed wife, Vicki Weaver.[34] The U.S. Attorney General decided not to prosecute the sniper under federal law, but Idaho prosecutors charged him with involuntary manslaughter under state law.[35] After some uncertainty in prior court decisions, a split federal appeals court concluded that the Idaho case could tentatively go ahead because disputed facts left it unclear whether the sniper “acted in an objectively reasonable manner in carrying out [his] duties.”[36] A week after that decision, however, the newly elected county prosecutor in Idaho chose to drop the charges.[37]

And in a case from 2006, Wyoming prosecutors charged federal wildlife officers with trespass and littering for entering private land while collaring wolves as part of a federal monitoring program.[38] The Tenth Circuit concluded that the officers were immune from prosecution because they had an “objectively reasonable and well-founded” belief that they were on public land when conducting the collaring.[39] The court also concluded that the prosecution “was not a bona fide effort to punish a violation of Wyoming trespass law, which requires knowledge on the part of a trespasser, but rather an attempt to hinder a locally unpopular federal program.”[40]

Other recent high-profile cases include a Virginia prosecution of U.S. Park Police officers who shot and killed a man in 2017,[41] a Boston municipal court judge finding a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in contempt of court and referring the matter to the district attorney for prosecution after the agent detained a man in the middle of a municipal court trial,[42] and an Oregon prosecution of a Drug Enforcement Administration officer who hit and killed a cyclist in 2023 while pursuing a suspected fentanyl trafficker.[43] The first two cases were dismissed,[44] and the Oregon case is still pending in a federal appeals court.[45]
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-08 00:56:14+00:00
It will certainly be the default for cases where it's easier to read code than to write code, but this is far from universally true. AFAIK, Joel Spolsky was the first to discuss this at length 25 years ago [0], but numerous people have echoed his sentiment [1, 2, 3, ...]

One of the most underrated skills in effectively using gen-AI for coding is knowing ahead of time whether it will take longer to carefully review the code it produces, versus writing it from scratch yourself.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[1] https://mattrickard.com/its-hard-to-read-code-than-write-it

[2] https://trishagee.com/presentations/reading_code/

[3] https://idiallo.com/blog/writing-code-is-easy-reading-is-har...

[...] https://www.google.com/search?q=it%27s+harder+to+read+code+t...
by jibal | 2025-10-08 00:57:22+00:00
Why would you need to search for a queen piece when yours is already captured? No doubt promoting to multiple queens happens in casual games between very weak players, but extremely rarely in tournament play (where you also don't see "stubborn" players playing on in "decisive" positions unless the winning side has very little time on the clock).

Also, for in-person games, an upside down rook can be used as a queen in a pinch.
by metadat | 2025-10-08 00:57:38+00:00
Customers pay for the compute. There are tons of CSPs selling the capacity to small and large consuming entities alike (both OpenAI/Anthropic + other small outfits we've not heard of).

The fair criticism of the infra $ is where the non-VC non-bank-loan cash stream is, but there could be a lot of B2B deals and e.g. Meta, TikTok and other behemoths do tend to make plenty of money and pay their bills, and have extreme thirst for more AI capacity.

Take Oracle for example (as a whole, not just OCI) - tons of customers who are paying for AI-enhanced enterprise products.

It's still the early days, as the cost of creating software continues to approach zero the rules will change in ways which are hard to predict. The effect this will have on other white collar industries is even more challenging to reason about.
by camtarn | 2025-10-08 00:58:08+00:00
No, that serves a completely different purpose: I don't want to read through a very large discussion when this perfectly good article is here. Hence my point. You know this already, as you already change your wording depending on whether you're pointing to a duplicate article, or a valid article but where there's discussion elsewhere.

You could just admit that you made a trivial mistake on a post that's already fallen off the front page, you know. And then we wouldn't both have wasted our time.
Ask HN: Should tariff war revenue be spent: Farmers, Kids, Fund the Shutdown
by stopbulying | 2025-10-08 00:58:34+00:00
Tariff revenue is near $190 billion for 2025 so far. That money could keep the government running, pay for at least a $10b subsidy for American farmers, or provide adequate social services for women and children.

They raised the debt limit by $4,000,000,000,000 ($4T) in May of 2025 and are already out of money, and so we're at "shutdown showdown" again.

How should the tariff revenue be spent to help the United States?
by crazygringo | 2025-10-08 01:00:07+00:00
It's not access to the file system in generaly that doesn't work reliably -- it's specifically massive access across thousands of files at the same time by multiple processes.

Sqlite lives inside a single file. I've never heard of any corruption issues in practice, even with thousands of high-throughput reads and writes -- the kinds that are being complained about. Because this is something SQLite is really good at.
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-08 01:00:17+00:00
I'm pretty sure there are already laws that allow the government to deal with devices used for spying. There's no need to introduce this broad-spectrum bill that controls way more than it should.

You may have charitable interpretations, but 15.2(2)(d) can be used to effectively ban anyone from accessing the Internet. And it can certainly be used to throttle web services the government doesn't like.
by opo | 2025-10-08 01:00:22+00:00
>Solar "subsidies" are almost universally tax credits, meaning the only money involved is the money paid by the homeowners.

Well, it means that the government will have less available money to spend on other priorities. Often there are also state and utility subsidies, but those subsidies are often not the largest subsidy. Besides the direct subsidies, wealthier home owners have often been paid the retail rate for the electricity they sell to the grid which causes higher electricity bills for those who can't afford to put panels on their roof. As I said before, the whole thing is sort of a reverse Robin Hood scheme.

>...Solar is way cheaper in this year's report.

No it is not. I used last year's numbers since the 2025 report for reasons, does not include consumer rooftop solar. The closest comparison would likely be the category of Solar PV—Community & C&I. In 2024, the cost estimate was $54 - $191 in 2025, the price range was $81 - $217.