MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-02 17:36:35+00:00
It's worse than that for AI. Like crypto before it, it depends on an entire planet of complex and vulnerable infrastructure that makes it possible. Everything from semiconductor manufacturing to power generation to intercontinental internet links are required for AI to "exist" in a given geography. That's not to mention the huge power requirements and all the infrastructure just to get that. Dark ages style societal collapse or a world war would end AI in a matter of months.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-02 17:37:38+00:00
These (for good reason) draconian policies are the reason I am still hesitant to embrace 2FA. I understand the significant improvement in your security posture, and I would not want someone not-me to be able to reset my credentials. But the failure mode is just too catastrophic. You lose one thing and you are shit out of luck.

We need something better. I don't know what it would be.
by jackconsidine | 2025-10-02 17:37:44+00:00
FWIW I had a similar conundrum with Slack. I had set-up my business Slack workspace in college; 4 years after graduation my university changed policies (they used to forward name@edu => name@alumni.edu).

I tried the normal means (support tickets etc) to no avail. The third or fourth time I got someone in account recovery. There was a very formal process for verifying my identity (I'm sure based on the process this happens all the time). Eventually I they helped me recover my account. It probably took a few months on the whole, but once I got the right support rep it was only a week or so.

So my advice would be to submit more tickets. Because they might have a process that not all support agents know about, and some are more helpful than others.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-10-02 17:37:47+00:00
Years ago I heard a comment from someone in the trades that (in his opinion) harnesses are a net negative on typical single-family-houses - the presence of the rigging (particularly when there are multiple workers on the roof) creates trip hazards that make falls and injuries more likely.

Whether or not it's true, if significant numbers of crews believe this they won't be wearing harnesses on low roofs.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:37:47+00:00
> When McConnell refused to vote to appoint new supreme court justices, he was exercising the power given to him by the constitution

Yes. I mentioned legal powers. Congressional obstructionism as the minority was turned an art by the GOP. Every step in committee and on the floor can be gummed up.

And in states, Democrats do have power. What they aren’t doing is using it.

> Democrats haven't really held power in the US since Reagan

We’ve had two trifectas!

> you are out there citizens arresting ICE agents right? Oh you aren't?

You just talked about legitimate power…

> that democrat state senator was murdered by someone with clear political motivations and who dressed like a cop

Is the argument might makes right? Or law? Your comment is all over the place.
by lapcat | 2025-10-02 17:37:53+00:00
Congress could also simply impeach the President again and this time remove him from office for such nonsense.

My point, though, was that the First Amendment, cited by the OP, is not necessarily going to stop this particular action, because as things stand now, barring a fundamental change in structure that nobody in the Congressional majority is currently proposing, the current Supreme Court decides what the First Amendment means, and the majority seems content to allow the current President to do basically anything he wants.
by Hizonner | 2025-10-02 17:38:09+00:00
> GOP does not do anything you mentioned.

I must have hallucinated, say, that long period during Mitch McConnell openly stated he was going to prevent votes on any of Biden's judicial nominees (and followed through on that). Or the business with Tommy Tuberville trying to prevent any military officers from getting confirmed (and, after he failed to totally prevent it, to slow it down and waste Senate time) until he got unrelated concessions on abortion. Those are off the top of my head...
by refulgentis | 2025-10-02 17:38:10+00:00
I don't mean to aggravate you. I do mean to offer some insight in the mindset of the people the person I was replying to was puzzled by. I'm calmed by the fact that if we're both here, we both value one of the HN sayings I'm very fond of: come with curiosity.

> Do you believe AI is at the core of these security analyzers?

Yes.

> If so, why the personal story blogpost?

When I am feeling intensely, and people respond to me as I'm about to respond to you, I usually get very frustrated. Apologies in advance if you suffer from that same part of being human, I don't mean anything about you or your positions by this:

I don't know what you mean.

Thus, I may be answering wrong with the following: the person I replied to indicated all downvoters must know every detail, and as the, well lets use your phrasing, personal story blogpost, I just assume you mean my comment, leads with: "I believe there's a little more going on than everyone knowing every detail already, or presumably, being wrong to downvote. Full case study of a downvoter at work:"

> Claiming to work for Google

I claimed the opposite! I'm a jobless hack :) (quit in 2023)

> does not work as an authority card for me,

Looking at it, the thing isn't "I worked at Google therefore AI good" it's "I worked at Google and on a specific well-known project, the company's design language, used AI pre-ChatGPT to great effect. It's unclear to me why this use case would be unbelievable years later"

> you still have to deliver a solid argument.

What are we arguing? :) (I'm serious! Apologies, again, if it comes off as flippant. If you mean I need to deliver a solid argument the tools must have AI, I assume if said details were available you would have found them, you seem well-considered and curious. I meant to explain the mind of a downvoter who yet cannot recite details as yet unavailable to the public to the person I replied to, not to verify the workflow step by step.)
by tuesdaynight | 2025-10-02 17:38:15+00:00
I've tried to use Photoprism last year, but it didn't work great for me, so I was planning to move to Immich. It's nice to hear that it's miles ahead in your experience. Do you use the search by context feature? I mean, searching "yellow car" and getting pictures with yellow cars in them as response. My experience with Photoprism was horrible in that aspect.
by Veserv | 2025-10-02 17:38:33+00:00
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/ffdd/sgo-2021-01/SGO-2021-01_In...

Tesla redacts the narrative (final column) which describes the situation and context, unlike every serious ADS manufacturer.

In addition, Ashok Elluswamy, head of Autopilot and Vice President of Vehicle Software directly and intentionally lied about the number of incidents in the Q2 2025 earnings call: “We have more than seven thousand miles operating in the Austin area. Just because the service is new, we have a handful of vehicles right now, but we are trying to expand the service in terms of the area and also the number of vehicles both in Austin and other locations. So far, there are no notable safety-critical interventions.”

That is a direct lie to investors in official communication.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-02 17:39:16+00:00
To be clear, they crashed into the vertical cable hanging down from the end of the crane. Not into the structure of the crane itself.

So it's not as bad as "they don't see cranes". But it absolutely raises the question of whether they can see cables, whether hanging from cranes or spanning telephone poles.

And honestly, cables are really hard to see in the air. That's literally why high-voltage power lines hang those big red-orange marker balls on them for pilots to see.

Genuinely curious what the solution here is. Hard-code some logic to identify cranes and always assume there's a cable dangling from the end? Never fly underneath anything? Implement some kind of specialized detection for thin cables if that's possible?
by pixl97 | 2025-10-02 17:39:20+00:00
No, what you're stating is actually a different but dangerous problem. That is the smart but subservient AI to Dr Evil problem.

The issue talked about here looks similar but is different.

That is the not (or faking) subservient AI with its own motivations. The fact they are 300 IQ means you may very well not understand harm is occurring until it's far too late.

>The problem then isn't really the AI, the robots are morally and ethically neutral.

Again, no. This isn't about AI as a sub-agent. This is about AI becoming an agent itself capable of self learning and long term planning. No human controls them (or they have the false belief they control them).

Both problems are very harmful, but they are different issues.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-02 17:39:44+00:00
Sure, but it's the launch/landing site that is in question. It's not just a helipad set up. It's very sci-fi looking and looks very complicated. I'm wondering if the drone itself lands at the top and then lowers the pod for loading to keep them out of reach of the employees. Probably even touted as a safety feature. I just haven't seen the system in operation, and their website just ignores this part as it's not something necessary for marketing.
by breppp | 2025-10-02 17:39:51+00:00
Let me clarify again because it seems you haven't really understood what I meant.

The british king example is how a country can evolve from one point of power to another over time, while keeping the existing institutions.

When imagining a system of government ruled by lawyers, I see it similar to an organization ruled by lawyers. In such organization/government the leaders are afraid of doing and thus are using lawyers as their excuse not to do anything.

Because of the vacuum of power, essentially the only policies actually being enacted are decided by the lawyers, which is whatever makes their job easier (minimum legal risk, minimum interpretations)
by cogman10 | 2025-10-02 17:40:08+00:00
No.

Asperger's was eliminated as a diagnosis because differentiating it from autism was hard to do. Two different evaluations could land a kid as either autistic or asperger's depending on the day and the evaluator.

And, importantly, Asperger's qualified for less therapies and treatment than autism did. That meant that even though your kid likely needed more treatment, they'd be denied it because they had a good day when being evaluated.

The crossover for treatment was largely the same with autism qualifying for more.

Even if it was the "Nazi link" they'd simply have changed the name to something more acceptable.

TFA is suggesting that there are probably multiple conditions which cluster around similar symptoms which makes it hard to identify the exact cause of autism.
by dkarl | 2025-10-02 17:40:18+00:00
You're probably using math without knowing it. Debugging through a piece of code is the same as finding a hole in a proof. "This method HAS to return the right value because C. C is always true because B. B is true because A. Ohh... but A isn't true if the record passed in is for a legacy user with no org manager. The method needs to be changed to work for inputs that don't satisfy the current assumptions."

It's not the math facts you learn so much as getting lots of practice with that kind of reasoning.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-02 17:40:35+00:00
The data is old, but this just does not seem true at all: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ecp.pdf

66% of people with some college of more in prison were reoffenders.

It is true that higher educated people reoffend less, but it is by no means unlikely or even "incredibly unlikely".
by stego-tech | 2025-10-02 17:40:53+00:00
I’m talking undergrad campuses, not research departments (which is often where this critique is lobbed towards). Obviously students engaged with sensitive research should have a higher degree of accountability, but undergrads should be permitted to engage freely with the marketplace of ideas to understand the advantages and disadvantages of different positions, cooperation across ideologies, and how to effectively combat harmful ideas without resorting to violence.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:40:54+00:00
> Trump admin has already demonstrated that court cases don't effectively gum up the works

Okay, then the Democrat governor wins. I’m not seeing the problem.

> How the heck are Democrats supposed to stop us from bombing Venezuela?

They’re not.

Step one is Democrats need to stop overfocusing on foreign policy. Nobody cares about foreign policy except for comfortable wonks.
by abxyz | 2025-10-02 17:40:56+00:00
https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/prot...

The "Defendant’s Response to Letter of Claim" section is very clear that it is actually that simple. The burden is almost entirely on the claimant, the defendant has very little to do. Can you provide any evidence that any individual has ever been sanctioned by a U.K. court for either not filing a response, or not filing a substantive response?

You are saying that "costs will balloon further" but you haven't yet established there are any costs. How can costs that do not exist balloon? Any individual could satisfy the "Pre-action Protocol for Media and Communications Claims" with ease, no expense necessary.
by everdrive | 2025-10-02 17:41:15+00:00
That's a fair point. My first job was retail, and I was accidentally late for a shift _once_ and I got put on probation for weeks and wasn't even allowed to take sick leave during the probationary period. The better the job the less you're treated like trash. People float all sorts of explanations for why this would be, but I think fundamentally people just don't know how to move away from class hierarchy. I think it's built into us.
by bena | 2025-10-02 17:42:01+00:00
No, he pointed out how over-saturation of autism awareness has resulted in people self-diagnosing as a way to absolve themselves of shitty behavior.

My step-son is diagnosed. He is on the spectrum. He was non-verbal for longer than most children and low-verbal for years after that. He has fine-motor challenges and operates on an emotional level behind those of his peers.

If he's being an ass, we let him know. He knows his condition is not an excuse for his behavior. He needs to know how to cope with and navigate the world around him. Autism awareness and advocacy is about not shaming people for wearing ear protection in public. It's about recognizing that texture aversion is a thing. It's about knowing to extend grace when appropriate. It's not about letting people be shitty.

He may be autistic, but he does not get to interrupt us. He does not get to derail conversations into his interests. He does not get to ignore his hygiene. Instead, we try to teach him to be patient. To be polite. Strategies to make necessary things a part of his routine.

The biggest difference is that we do these things with compassion and with the realization that some things are more difficult for him. Rather than what we did in the past, which was browbeat autistic people into masking.
by danaris | 2025-10-02 17:42:28+00:00
Yes, and that fact—if not the precise proportions—would likely remain true regardless.

The rich are in a position to buy up the shares distributed this way, while the non-rich are mostly in a position to need cash most of the time.

If you want to tax the rich, just be honest about it and tax the fucking rich. Anything less is simply not going to work.
by tgv | 2025-10-02 17:42:30+00:00
Idk. If someone can pinpoint a single cause, it is binary. Not that I think that's possible: the human mind is so poorly understood, a real cause-effect relationship is scifi.

> some people are barely distracted by loud noises ...

It's not an argument for a non-binary classification. The whole point is that that a symptom, even a group of symptoms, doesn't define autism. Sensitivity to noise is just one of those things that some group has managed to be associated with autism.

Its definition has been expanded significantly. If it continues, there'll be two types of people: autists and psychopaths.
by dh2022 | 2025-10-02 17:42:37+00:00
The mode of operation of this administration is to do things first and deal with push back from the courts later. Court cases do not "gum up the works" effectively.

The two items you mentioned (detaining ICE agents and not sending federal tax money to Washington DC) are against federal law. States can do these things only if states refuse to obey federal laws. This would work only if states would secede from the Union.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 17:42:39+00:00
Yeah, bad naming is all it is.

In a way, it is for "IoT" devices...but enterprisey things. Where I work we have it on a few devices that I guess you could call an "IoT" device. Unattended driver kiosks for truck scales, manufacturing equipment that requires windows, industrial control panels, etc.

That's what it is for. A lot of this stuff uses really old software, some of which the vendor doesn't even exist anymore, and it only runs on Windows so these control panels and devices need windows (unless you manage to get some of it working on wine but that's usually not viable in these cases).

So yeah, it's supposed to be a full desktop, because these devices often require it to some extent, albeit a little slimmed down and LTS.

I think HN would be surprised to learn just how many devices run windows out there in the world outside of silicon valley. Windows is everywhere you'd hope never to see it running at.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-02 17:42:56+00:00
>It's interesting that myself, and a non-insignificant number of other people, would take an option like this if it were legal.

Pretty much everything that makes housing/living unaffordable is a result of intentional regulatory decisions between about 1960 and 2000 (with the biggest exception I can think of being the coopting of the IBC by various product manufactures, that picked up in the 2010s and beyond).

You can't live in a van or other mobile thing because zoning. You can't build a non-mobile thing by the river because wetlands. And even if you could the thing you want to build can't be build because the rules and the codes are riddled with carve outs to make work for well lobbied industries.
by callc | 2025-10-02 17:43:17+00:00
I guess so, and that definitely is the healthier option! That’s what I’ve been doing for close to 15 years.

The only way you can exist on the modern world is to accept the TOS and crap that a small number of companies are in control over. Saying “just don’t use major tech services” makes people revert back to older methods like snail mail, which is just silly, not a real choice.

The consequences of “simply choosing no” matters. If that means you can’t interact in modern society, that means that service is essential, and should be tested as such.
by leptons | 2025-10-02 17:43:18+00:00
I use a few utilities to tame Windows 11 and make it work more like Windows 7, 8, and 10. It should get rid of that "Remind me again" thing, I haven't seen it in a long, long time. No ads, no crap from Microsoft.

https://pxc-coding.com/donotspy11/

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/releases

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases
by kkylin | 2025-10-02 17:43:27+00:00
Wikipedia has more details on the artist and the art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hampton_(artist)#Throne_...

I was trying to figure out how large this thing was (I found it hard to tell from the picture). And wow -- a life-size throne. Must go next time I'm in DC (if the government isn't shut down :p).
by asacrowflies | 2025-10-02 17:43:33+00:00
You kinda sound like a macho asshole. None of those has anything to do with "toughening up" or growing up in an unstable household. It's like you didn't read the article or any comments here and felt the need to blast your insecurities out into open?

"Why do people need the wheelchair ramp? Is resiliency so low nowa days? Are people lazy?" Lol
by n_u | 2025-10-02 17:43:58+00:00
I'm more confused now. Those two have different logic? In the second example the balance can go negative.

Also aren't both of those are going to have to lock the row to modify it? Even if you don't explicitly take out a lock on a row the DBMS will do its own concurrency control to provide transaction isolation, which will require a write lock for the row.

Edit: Oh are you saying the "poorly written" case is an interactive transaction where the logic happens in the application code and involves multiple round trips while holding a lock? Instead of a transaction (or maybe even stored proc) where the logic happens in the DB, so less time holding the lock. Less contention. Ah ok. Yeah interactive transactions like that aren't great.
by samloo | 2025-10-02 17:44:05+00:00
Long before this was mainstream a misdiagnosis of ADHD and then autism led me on a decadeslong course of therapy and treatment that ultimately didn't address my issues. It was even worse since I was a child at the time labeled by people I was supposed to trust and could not comprehend the true meaning of these terms, so I grew up into an adult assuming what they told me was the truth, the whole time. Because of their actual role in my issues, I now know that nothing they could have labeled me with would have helped me and allowed them to take responsibility for my poor treatment.

All to say that the map is not the territory, and leaping to conclusions at the first label that sounds like it fits the bill can have devastating consequences.

And as in my case, labels can be used to shift the blame away from the caretaker responsible for trauma/etc. by medicalizing the consequences, or onto an existence that is perceived to be unchangeable/futile to address.
by p_ing | 2025-10-02 17:44:25+00:00
> The right click menu in explorer is oversimplified garbage that's missing most of the important options without an extra, unnecessary click.

3rd party extensions were causing it to load slowly.

> It takes double the memory it should for something so simple.

How are you measuring this? How do you specifically know how much memory it should take?

> Windows explorer in task manager still needs to have the special "restart task" option

It's even more convenient in macOS. It's right on the permanently pinned Finder icon in the Dock!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 17:44:37+00:00
> mode of operation of this administration is to do things first and deal with push back from the courts later

When they take the initiative. That's the point. The current political environment strongly favours taking the initiative over reacting.

> The two items you mentioned (detaining ICE agents and not sending federal tax money to Washington DC) are against federal law

Yes. So are the things Trump has been doing. As you say, one can "do things first and deal with push back from the courts later." That's what the GOP is doing. I'm saying Democrats need to do the same (or concede the game).

We can remake the judiciary to have more teeth later, when everyone is in compromise mode or one side has won.
by advisedwang | 2025-10-02 17:45:11+00:00
The problem with technocracies is that government faces choices that aren't a question that can be answered by some neutral evaluation but are instead questions of whose interests are prioritized or what values are enforced.

However there ARE questions that can be neutrally evaluated, or at least where neutral evaluation can narrow the field of reasonable decisions. Medical policy is replete with decisions like this, and so we really should be consulting experts and strongly listening to their decisions in this field.
by olex | 2025-10-02 17:45:26+00:00
There is a bunch of videos on Youtube on Zipline, some of them from the company itself (this one showing specifically the "platform": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=airEzThGlx8), and some from various tech people looking into the whole thing (like Markus Brownlee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88yQTzlmsiA). Probably a better overall source of into than their website.