MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-24 05:03:23+00:00
>Aka democracy.

Yes. I hope I don't need to explain the many times that the majority sentiment was in fact not the correct one. A pure democracy under the basis the US was founded under would end up much more conservative than what we have today.

> It would switch to appealing to the most voters.

So it'd switch to appealing to urban cities and ignore the rural areas. Iirc the top 10 cities today make up some 40+% of voters. Why bother going to Omaha when you can focus instead of LA and NYC?
by kelnos | 2025-10-24 05:05:19+00:00
I don't have kids yet, but I may someday. I went to public school myself, and would prefer to send any kid of mine to public school as well. (I'm not hard against private schools, but I'd prefer my kid gets to make friends from all walks of life, not just people who have parents who can afford private school.)

But I really wouldn't want to send my kid to a school that surveils students all the time, and uses garbage software like this that directly puts kids into dangerous situations. I feel like with a private school, I'd have more choice and ability to influence that sort of thing.
by Zarathruster | 2025-10-24 05:06:17+00:00
When I first got started with CC, and hadn't given context management too much consideration, I also encountered problems with non-compliance of CLAUDE.md. If you wipe context, CLAUDE.md seems to get very high priority in the next response. All of this is to say that, in addition to the content of CLAUDE.md, context seems to play a role.
by zzo38computer | 2025-10-24 05:06:25+00:00
> The "tag" of the data doesn't actually tell you the type of the data by itself (most of the time at least)

In my experience it does tell you the type, but it depends on the schema. If implicit types are used, then it won't tell you the type of the data, but if you use explicit, or if it is neither implicit nor explicit, then it does tell you the type of the data. (However, if the data type is a sequence, then you might not lose much by using an implicit type; the DER format still tells you that it is constructed rather than primitive.)
by antonvs | 2025-10-24 05:06:43+00:00
Any recent LLM can converse in more natural languages than you, can write code in more programming languages than you and do it much quicker than you, can find bugs quicker than you, can extract useful information from large amounts of text quicker than you, can produce a more balanced take on many issues than you. The list goes on. Your denial of this is either ignorance or a coping mechanism. Either way, I recommend learning more about the subject and getting meaningful experience with it in order to address those shortcomings.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-24 05:07:02+00:00
We all know the cops will go for the easy prey:

* Even hundreds of cops in full body armor and armed with automatic guns will not dare to engage a single "lone wolf" shooter doing a killing spree in a school; the heartless cowards may even prevent the parents from going inside to rescue their kids: Uvalde school shooting incident

* Cop on a ego trip, will shoot down a clearly harmless kid calmly eating a burger in his own car (not a stolen car): Erik Cantu incident

* Cops are not there to serve the society, they are not there to ensure safety and peace for the neighborhood, they are merely armed militia to protect the rich and powerful elites: https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/supreme-court-cops-protect-...
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-24 05:07:14+00:00
No shit. That's completely different from what you claimed, though, which was specifically that people were giving up PCs to become smartphone users because they appreciated the lack of choice that smartphones gave them.

The phenomenon you're talking about now is so completely in another universe that it's insane you would conflate the two. I actually can't finish typing this response properly because it's hurting my head every second I continue to think about your argument. To sum it up really shortly: smartphones universal, required to even participate in society, people now given smartphones from early age, multi-functional as phones, cameras, etc, they fit in your pocket, more than sufficient for normie use cases and in fact more suitable for many use cases that don't entail sitting at a desk at home, computers are specialised tools for specialised functionality that many people have no need for. There are 100000000 reasons why smartphone usage displaces PC usage that aren't because they explicitly abandoned PCs for the crime of allowing them to choose what software to install, which was your claim. Not even having mentioned that globally, 75% of smartphone usage is Android which doesn't lock its users in the cage (for the time being).
by pedroma | 2025-10-24 05:08:47+00:00
>Do you not believe the GOP eliminating SNAP, medicare, and social security will lead to the deaths of millions of Americans?

I would suggest not equating libertarian policies with systemic genocide. How about we calm down?

>Do you not believe that Trump, who threatened extrajudicial killings of drug smugglers today [1], isn't going to abuse that power to murder any citizen he doesn't like?

I don't see any evidence of that yet

>Do you not believe Trump is a fascist, white supremacist, rapist, 34 time convicted felon, rapist, and pedophile?

I think he's a 34 time convicted felon, but I haven't confirmed the number.
by nandomrumber | 2025-10-24 05:08:54+00:00
Botnets, rootkits, virus, malware.

That’s how fine PC’s have been doing software.

Search for your preferred PC brand and list of CVEs.

I’ve had Windows / malware roll back a BIOS update to a previous version that had a know (published CVE) remote code execution vulnerability complete with published proof of concept.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-24 05:09:35+00:00
You always have to compare ecosystems, not programming languages syntax on their own.

Another thing that Java and C# got to do since 2011, is that AOT is also part of the ecosystem and free of charge (Java has had commercial compilers for a while), so not even a native binary is an advantage as you imagine.

First D has to finish what is already there in features that are almost done but not quite.
by kelnos | 2025-10-24 05:09:46+00:00
The article doesn't confirm that there was definitely a human in the loop, but it sorta suggests that police got a chance to manually verify the photo before going out to harass this poor kid.

I suspect, though, that the AI flagging that image heavily influenced the cop doing the manual review. Without the AI, I'd expect that a cop manually watching a surveillance feed would have found nothing out of the ordinary, and this wouldn't have happened.

So I agree that it's weird to just blame the human in the loop here. Certainly they share blame, but the fact of an AI model flagging this sort of thing (and doing an objectively terrible job of it) in the first place should take most of the blame here.
by nawgz | 2025-10-24 05:10:01+00:00
I mean, Canada has had a tepid response to the implosion of their neighbour and relations - I think they have done little outside some retaliatory tariffs and “committing” to a 10 year plan to double trade with non American partners.

Is that really such a bold set of accomplishments that Ford should be shutting his mouth and falling in line behind? Trump could change his mind because Putin or Miller or Vought tell him to, no need to act like precarious progress is precious from my perspective
by fsckboy | 2025-10-24 05:10:28+00:00
there was a huge decrease in Dunkin Donuts donut quality when they went from "donuts cooked fresh in every store" to centralized cooking and distribution of un-fresh donuts. They were still cooking fresh in the late 80's, not sure when in the 90's they starting faltering. They weren't sublime mind you, but they were head and shoulders above Winchells.

new england always had the best donuts. yes, donut lovers from other parts of the country, you can get a good facsimile of a donut, but they aren't the real deal.

any donut is good freshly cooked, because anything fried is good right out of a fryolator. But the true test of a good donut is if it's still good 6 hours later. No "apple cider donut" was ever good six hours later, but yeah, hot and fresh they are fun. you don't want to eat a dozen of them though, whereas a great perfect New England donut, you can eat a dozen and not feel bad after. In a pinch, you can eat a half dozen day-olds and they're still better than "other" donuts.

Krisp-E-Cream (i have no idea how they spell that) is a disgusting mess. put one in a microwave and see what happens to it... it's other-worldly, it's not of nature, its some weird plastic slurry with no structure of it's own, just ectoplasm (and who ya gonna call?) Now, I'm not saying donuts should be microwaved, but if a donut is microwaved, it should remain a donut and not be exposed as a hellish phantasm. Also watching them get the glaze on that carwash, so gross, nothing should be that sweet/fat. I'm not even going to mention Winch... nope, not gonna say it.

I'm not saying a 6 hour old donut is anything close to what a fresh donut should be, but if your donut is not delicious 6 hours later, it never was delicious, you've been missing out.

cake or raised? a good donut place makes both perfectly, which makes me think it's a combination of (1) chef's tastebuds and zen for what a donut or pastry should be and (2) something about frying it perfectly

no, bombalone and zeppole are never good, they tend to have a very tough hide rather than crisp but tender and delicate, and so greasy. and... how do I say this, do you asians want [your national dishes] cooked by some white guy? ok, well me neither, and I don't want my donuts from those strip mall shops in LA. It's cool that they still have a million of them, but they're not good. Not that there is anything inherent keeping anybody from doing a great job (Japanese are amazing at their take on French Pastry, and I like very much (not love, but it's not aspiring any higher, it's an inexpensive every day place) 파리바게트)) but without being palate trained on great donuts from childhood, Jiro can only dream of great donuts.

so, you're probably wondering where to get great donuts. Sorry, I have no idea any more. The last great place left was Butler's Colonial Donuts in Westport MA. but they closed at least a dozen years ago. But I can guarantee if there are any remaining places, they are in New England.
by testing22321 | 2025-10-24 05:11:24+00:00
The world is simply moving on from dealing with the US. It’s too expensive, too much of a pain in the ass and requires mafia like payments. They will all just trade with each other instead.

Tourism in The US is down to the tune of billions of dollars, soybean exports have tanked, US liquor is basically non-existent across Canada and other countries, etc etc.

I don’t know how long this can go on , when will the average American not be able to take it anymore?
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-24 05:11:38+00:00
This seems like poor reporting. It’s far more believable that the ad is an excuse and the real story is this:

> Canada cuts tariff relief on some US cars due to Stellantis, GM ending some Canadian production

https://apnews.com/article/canada-us-auto-production-tariffs...

The ad aired a week ago and Trump said he’d do the same thing and didn’t care. However this development prompted a retaliation. There’s a low simmering trade war that Trump has been waging against partners and these are just excuses he claims so the media doesn’t focus on the actual details of the war but instead on BS culture war topics.
by kragen | 2025-10-24 05:12:14+00:00
A thing I forgot to calculate: with 75m of wire dissipating 533 watts per meter, how thick should the wire be? Suppose we divide it into three 25m circuits so that we still have most of our heat if a wire burns out, and suppose we're using 48Vdc. So E²/R = 13.3kW, R = E²/13.3kW = 0.173Ω, and each of those elements is carrying an astonishing 277 amps. So we want 7 milliohms per meter. It turns out that that's about 12-gauge copper wire, nominally 5 milliohms per meter. 2 millimeters across. A higher-resistivity metal like iron or nichrome would have to be even thicker.

Better idea: put 9 2.7-meter wires in parallel on each of the three circuits, so each wire can have 9×0.173Ω = 1.56 Ω = 0.58Ω/m. That's 32-gauge copper magnet wire, 0.2mm diameter, 0.54Ω/m; or its thicker equivalent in other metals. Iron's resistivity is 5.7 times copper's, so you need a 5.7 times thicker wire: 0.5mm, 24-gauge. Nichrome is 11 times the resistivity of iron, so you'd need 1.6-mm-diameter nichrome.

I don't know, I think the copper would probably melt faster than the sand could conduct the heat away from it, and the nichrome would definitely be fine, but too expensive. But you can extrapolate from this how to solve the problem: by shortening the distance along the heating wires to low-resistance busbars (possibly made of rebar or leftover angle iron) and thus increasing the number of parallel paths, you allow the use of higher-resistance-per-unit-length and thus cheaper and more workable heating elements; the limit of this lightweighting is that the wires' surface area in contact with the sand must cool them enough to prevent melting. By this method you can use a small amount of a conductor of any resistivity at all, limited mainly by the temperature.

All these metals are fine at 700°, or for that matter 1000°. Copper will have less of a tendency to oxidize than iron, which would require a reducing atmosphere, and nichrome will oxidize but remain protected by its oxidation. (A reducing atmosphere will destroy nichrome.) But, at a lower temperature still, like 600°, you could use 10μm thick household aluminum foil, which is much easier to work with than any kind of 20μm wire, but has a similar ratio of surface area to volume. It has 54% more resistivity than copper, so a 10μm × 1mm strip is 2.7 ohms per meter. Our previous objective of 0.58Ω/m is a 4.6mm-wide-strip, which transfers heat to the sand along its 9.2mm perimeter, like a 10-gauge wire. 75m × 4.6mm is the size of about 5 or 6 pages of A4 paper cut into strips.
by koushikn | 2025-10-24 05:12:36+00:00
Wouldn't all binaries be in the training data, rather than the context? And output context could be in pieces, with something concatenating the pieces into a working binary?

ChatGPT claims its possible, but not allowed due to OpenAI safety rules: https://chatgpt.com/share/68fb0a76-6bf8-800c-82f7-605ff9ca22...
by echelon | 2025-10-24 05:13:22+00:00
> Is it a good system? I'm not sure I understand why?

States have sovereignty and rights.

The point is that all states have equal representation.

> Not sure what aspects make it a good system, some type of beleaguered point about preventing tyranny of the majority? At what cost? tyranny of the minority, political stagnation?

Because states are political test tubes and need autonomy.

> Additionally, because the population of the country is not evenly distributed across all the states, senators from some states have disproportionate power and control

In my lifetime, the Senate has been majority Democratic party controlled [1].

If you go back to the second Bush term, it's been 60% Democrat.

The current party makeup is only temporary. Things are constantly in flux.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_Stat...
by petesergeant | 2025-10-24 05:14:52+00:00
>> Doug Ford, the governor of Ontario in his wisdom thought it would be a good idea

> "Doug Ford’s approval rating rocketed to a four-year high for reaction to Donald Trump’s trade war"[0] (Mar '25)

And, Doug Ford was right. Baiting Trump is a _great_ idea for Doug Ford.

[0] https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/doug-fords-approval-rati...
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-24 05:14:56+00:00
It's fundamentally insane that the conclusion you come to is blaming Doug Ford and not the toddler who would sabotage his own country's international negotiations over a benign advertisement.

The US is going to feel significantly more pain from its completely irrational approach to global economics than Canada is. Canada has historically had a close economic relationship with the US because of shared values, but they do not strictly need a close economic relationship with the US to thrive. There is an entire world out there happy to trade with Canada. Meanwhile the US is alienating itself from every single one of its allies simultaneously.
by testing22321 | 2025-10-24 05:15:22+00:00
Trump is a narcissistic bully who will change his mind in a heartbeat and who wants mafia like payments to stay in his good graces (look who is paying for the Whitehouse remodel)

If you pander to the bully you will always be on the hook. Every country will be better off just not dealing with them at all. Sure there is some short term pain there, but that’s better than coughing up lunch money forever.
by prmoustache | 2025-10-24 05:15:32+00:00
We blame AI here but what's up with law enforcment that comes with loaded guns in hand and send someone to the ground and cuff him before actually doing any check?

That is the real issue.

Police force anywhere else in the world that know how to behave would have approched the student, have had a small chat with him, found out all he had in hands was a bag of doritos, maybe would have asked politely to see the content of his bag, explaining the search has been triggered by an autodetection system that may lead to occasional errors and wished him a good day.
by kelnos | 2025-10-24 05:16:05+00:00
> So AI did the initial detection, but police looked at it and agreed. We don't see the image, but it probably did look like a gun because of a weird shadow or something.

Not sure I agree. The AI flagging it certainly biased the person doing the manual review toward agreeing with the AI's assessment. I can imagine a scenario where there was no AI involved, just a human watching that same surveillance feed, and (correctly) not seeing anything alarming in it.

Also I expect the AI completely failed at context. I wouldn't be surprised if the full video feed, a few minutes (or even seconds) before the flagged frame, shows the kid crumpling up the empty Doritos bag and stuffing it in his pocket. The AI probably doesn't keep all that context around to use when making a later decision, and giving just the flagged frame of video to the human may have caused them to miss out on important context.
by liqilin1567 | 2025-10-24 05:16:27+00:00
It really resonates with me, I often run into this situation when I'm trying to fix a bug with llm: if my first prompt is not good enough, then I end up stuck in a loop where I keep asking llm to refine its solution based on the current context.

The result is llm still doesn't output what I want even after 10 rounds of fixing requests.

so I just start a new session and give llm a well-crafted prompt, and suddenly it produce a great result.
by gtowey | 2025-10-24 05:16:49+00:00
It's shocking to me too, but not very surprising. It's probably a combination of factors that could cause a failure of planning and I've seen it play out the same way at lots of companies.

I bet the original engineers planned for, and designed the system to be resilient to this cold start situation. But over time those engineers left, and new people took over -- those who didn't fully understand and appreciate the complexity, and probably didn't care that much about all the edge cases. Then, pushed by management to pursue goals that are antithetical to reliability, such as cost optimization and other things the new failure case was introduced by lots of sub optimal changes. The result is as we see it -- a catastrophic failure which caught everyone by surprise.

It's the kind of thing that happens over and over again when the accountants are in charge.
by bruce511 | 2025-10-24 05:17:28+00:00
No doubt slapping tariffs on Canadian goods will reduce the flow of said goods.

But that's a reduction, not a termination. US demand for those goods still exist. And it is US consumers that pay.

The reduction is a result of lower consumer spending power. Which will affect everything, not just the tariffed goods.

Some of the goods may end up being sourced in the US. However that won't affect consumer prices, which will remain high. (The whole point of tarifs is to drive up local prices so domestic production can compete. )

Some may be sourced from other countries. But since all countries are being tariffed there are only marginal gains here.

At the same time Canadian producers will actively explore alternate markets. This will (long term) improve Canada's economic security by reducing dependence on US markets.

All the above assumes T won't start negotiating again next week. Which since TACO is likely anyway.

Either way, this will be a long-term gain for Canada and long term pain for the US.
by uvaursi | 2025-10-24 05:17:44+00:00
I can understand the outrage in this thread but literally none of what you are all calling for will be done. No one from justice or law reads HN to see what should be done. I wish folks here would keep a cooler head rather than posting lengthy rants and vents that call for punishing school staff. Really unprofessional and immature from a community that prides itself, to fall constantly into a cycle of vitriol.

Can someone outline a more pragmatic, if not likely, course of what happens next after this? Is it swept under the rug and we move on?
by echelon | 2025-10-24 05:18:18+00:00
This feels like pearl clutching.

We do not need "proof". We lived without it, and we'll live without it again.

I grew up before broadband - we survived without photographing every moment, too. It was actually kind of nice. Social media is the real fluke of our era, not image generation.

And hypothetically if these cryptographic "non-AI really super serious real" verification systems do become in vogue, what happens if quantum supremacy beats crypto? What then?

You don't even need to beat all of crypto. Just beat the signing algorithm. I'm sure it's going to happen all the time with such systems, then none of the data can be "trusted" anyway.

I'm stretching a bit here, but this feels like "NFTs for life's moments". Designed just to appease the haters.

You aren't going to need this stuff. Life will continue.
by hakfoo | 2025-10-24 05:19:26+00:00
Why not go further?

There should be a master book of civil contracts that can be filled out in a "Mad Libs" sort of way, but nothing else is legally enforcable. Every sales contract or employment term is the same with only narrow, permitted variations.

This could streamline the legal system because it turns potentially infinite contract designs into a much more constrained problem space. You'd quickly build enough precedent that even lay people could understand the mechanism.

Trying to add a new term would require revising the master book, which would be a very public and political process that would likely shame the instigator (just why are you so desperate to force arbitration?)

The whole "contracts are a voluntary, negotiated, meeting of the minds" perspective feels quaint and 1700s, from an era before billion-dollar companies, and even before formal law schools. Negotiations are rarely between equal parties on a level footing these days.
by dismalaf | 2025-10-24 05:20:02+00:00
As a Canadian, I do have to say that we've been putting up tariffs on trading partners' goods and protecting our shitty monopolies as long as I can remember, then whining when others do it back to us.

The situation in Canada is kind of messed up. We literally have trade barriers between provinces, tariffs on a ton of stuff, government protected monopolies and all that has lead to capital either being allocated poorly or allocated right out of the country. Even government pensions put most of their capital in US markets instead of in our own country.

While US tariffs on Canada will obviously lead to economic malaise, I can't say it's undeserved. Hopefully it leads to a wake up call here (it probably won't though, Canadians will just become more and more insular).

It's funny, we've been trying to forge closer ties with the EU and China but again, we are rebuked because we have tariffs on a bunch of their goods.