MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Hizonner | 2025-10-02 17:53:29+00:00
> Not relevant—they held the Senate.

Sort of.

McConnell found it necessary to prevent some of the nominations from coming to a vote, because he didn't have the votes to stop them. So, yeah, they held enough of the Senate to dick around procedurally, but not enough to win an up or down vote. Which is kind of not that different from a filibuster, which is also a procedural move you use when you'd lose an up or down vote.

And it's one thing to vote down a single nomination, and a different thing to categorically state that you're going to torpedo all of a President's nominations. If there's a Constitutional requirement for "advice and consent", then the Senate has a duty to engage with that.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-02 17:53:30+00:00
It is of course impossible to know the context in which you saw this, but I will say this is a particular idiomatic way to write Rust which won't mesh with your C knowledge.

Also this code isn't a thing you'd actually do, it's maybe an illustration or part of an example I suppose

You see that vec![1, 2, 3] ? That's what we're getting at the end, a growable array with three integers in it. All the other stuff is machinery to handle errors which in fact have not happened.

let flattened = vec![1, 2, 3];

Is the same effect, although probably for style you'd write:

let flattened: Vec<i32> = vec![1, 2, 3];
by mef51 | 2025-10-02 17:53:38+00:00
Israel blocks the entry of Plumpy Nut into Gaza, a peanut-butter like paste meant for treating severe acute malnutrition. They say it is a luxury item Hamas might steal.[1] The amount of evidence Israel is committing genocide is embarrassing.

[1] https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1971582137947295831
by tempaccountabcd | 2025-10-02 17:53:41+00:00
ƿrong. "they" is norþmannisċ. It sċuld be he, forðat hē and hēo ƿuld'fe melded into he, and forðat Englisċ is an Indo-Europisċ tung, ƿere ƿerelie is ðe first kin.
by dayvid | 2025-10-02 17:53:54+00:00
Same with my little brother. I've seen autism turn into an ignored subject to being hijacked by higher-functioning autistic people who are controlling the narrative. It's good to have more autism awareness, but they're the top 1% of people with discernable autism and can hurt large numbers of lower functioning people with autism who basically have to be taken care of by their families for the rest of their lives.
by al_borland | 2025-10-02 17:54:26+00:00
As a child there were commercials showing birds and other animals tangled up in the plastic 6-pack rings. I still cut those up as a result of those commercials 40 years ago. Everyone I know from that era does the same… even people who generally laugh at the idea of environmentalism and throw recyclable cans with a deposit it the trash, because they can’t be bothered.

I always think of Punky Brewster and get a little anxious any time I see someone get in a refrigerator. Even though I know modern refrigerators don’t have the issues of Punky’s, it still feels incredibly risky to get into a fridge thanks to that one episode of a TV show I saw one time 30+ years ago.

You never really know what people will latch onto that will change behavior decades later.

I watched Captain Planet as well. While I don’t know if it was directly responsible or not, I have a hard time throwing stuff away that still seems good. I always try to sell or donate it. I don’t want to be the one that adds massive amounts of stuff to the landfill. If I have more than one bag to throw away for the week, I feel a little embarrassed. I avoid retail therapy, in part, for a similar reason. Was it Captain Planet, was it the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle commercials? Maybe a little of both.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 17:54:36+00:00
I'm not "glued to the social media bubble", I'm paying rent, so I don't end up on the street where a Fox News host says I should be forcibly murdered, and millions of my fellow citizens explicitly agree.

I don't work for FAANG or make a huge salary, I don't own property, I don't have anything.

Most of us aren't privileged enough to be able to walk away from work.

I need medication to live a partially functional life. Am I supposed to just magically acquire that medication while I'm being fired from work, losing my insurance, and being arrested for daring to have a democratic opinion?

Hell, my state is mostly Democrat right now. Am I supposed to go live in another state for a while and get arrested there so the right wing news can cry about how liberals are literally invading other states?

We were screaming and crying about how all this was going to go down for decades. Some of us even back in the red scare days. We were called socialist and unamerican.

But no, "Both sides" You would cry, or "Free market" to prevent us from reigning in corporations that own our lives. "We don't need a software developer union, what if the guy next to me makes more money! I can definitely negotiate better against literal behemoths than a collective group of people!" You cried.
by script42 | 2025-10-02 17:54:47+00:00
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by surgical_fire | 2025-10-02 17:54:50+00:00
> First you have to get the interview. I don’t know how old you are. But the older you are (I’m 51) the harder it is to get mid level hands on keyboard roles.

42 here. I still didn't hit that wall. I presume it does exist, yes. That said, I noticed over time that it is becoming more common to see older engineers than it used to be.

Migrating to managerial roles for me is a no-go however. I can't stand managing people.

> Have you looked for a job post 2022?

Yes, I switched jobs last time in 2023. I still get invitations for interviews, though not as often as it used to be, say, in between 2015-2021.

However, I live in Europe. I have the impression that things are not as dire here as they are in your side lf the pond in terms of employment in IT.

> They wanted someone who was hands on but also had a history of working through all of the complexities of dealing with organizations and “getting things done”.

I mean, that is very important in IC roles. Part of my interview prep is a very detailed account of multiple projects I participated in STAR format, highlighting it from inception to delivery, including outcomes.

All that said, I think things are going to be in a slump for a while longer, and might get worse next year. It's a bad time to be job-hopping. I do interviews here and there only to keep myself sharp.
by _se | 2025-10-02 17:54:59+00:00
Man, talk about out the opposite of a growth mindset. What's that called? Stagnation mindset? Mediocrity mindset? How depressing.

People can change and get better at things. They do it all the time. Plenty of people _do_ actively think about things like how to increase their surface area to improve, because _they want to get better_.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 17:55:04+00:00
Today's AI systems are deployed in a way that allows them to directly access millions of users.

If you think that's not enough of an "in" to obtain status, power and influence, you aren't thinking about it long enough.

GPT-4o has managed to get enough users to defend it that OpenAI had to bring it back after shutting it down. And 4o wasn't IQ 300, or coordinating its actions across all the instances, or even aiming for that specific outcome. All the raw power and influence, with no superintelligence to wield it.
by isaacremuant | 2025-10-02 17:55:18+00:00
Yes and no. That's the problem. It was a war pushed at every point by the US and other powers because Ukraine was the buffer state to weaken Russia.

If I was Ukrainian I'd be naturally angry at russians but also at everyone who caused the partial destruction and displacement of my country for geopolitical profit. Now BlackRock et Al will swoop in to make money "rebuilding".

All the lives lost, for nothing.

It's tough to swallow.

Now, what I can't stand is someone who keeps propping the "just more war casualties and money and we'll finally win". Just more forcible drafting and cannon fodder and we'll win.

Come on, when is enough enough?

And now, I'm not hippie. I believe in defending yourself but this didn't play out as simply as that.

I understand the personal anger of individuals, but pushing for the war and misery in a blackn and white manner.

We're way past that.
by breppp | 2025-10-02 17:55:27+00:00
yes, however that metaphor is non-interesting because aliens is not AI. Aliens were not introduced to earth by humans or created by humans.

there might be real risk with AI, taking the symbolism of an event that never happened does not help with understanding it.

If you want a more similar example: What if I told you humans had the power to destroy the entire planet and have given that power to popularly elected politicians? that's pretty alarming, now that's something to compare to AI (in my opinion AI is less risky)
by constantcrying | 2025-10-02 17:55:53+00:00
Drug dealing is one of the most horrendous crimes imaginable. The amount of society wide suffering it causes, the amount of families it tears apart, the amount of destruction it does to health make it far, far worse than most other crimes. It is obviously something where a death penalty is more than justified, especially since no other methods works in stopping drug dealers.

>hemp

What a ridiculous argument. We both know that this is not the drug we are talking about.
by KittenInABox | 2025-10-02 17:57:06+00:00
Question: There is a repeated claim that more calories have been provided to the Gaza people than several other human crisis scenarios, but that Hamas is currently stealing it all.

But I have never seen rampant obesity in Hamas prisoners that the IDF have captured alive? Hamas can't be extorting the Gazan people for those calories, the Gazan people have no money at this point by and large due to the huge swath of destruction of property and infrastructure via bombing-- only Hamas has those underground tunnels or somesuch.

So like... what is going on here
by alganet | 2025-10-02 17:57:14+00:00
The argument is that these high-quality security analyzers seem to use AI as a triage mechanism, and the quality of the analysis is still capped by the quality of the static analysis tool.

One of the tools provide a whitepaper, that you can read here:

https://corgea.com/blog/whitepaper-blast-ai-powered-sast-sca...

It seems to explicitly put AI in this coadjuvant role, contradicting the HN title "found by AI".

Neither me or the other commenter actually dismissed AI as useless. I can't speak for him, but to me, it seems actually useful in this arrangement. However, not "I'll pay for a subscription" levels of useful.

Since it's just triage, it seems that trying to reproduce the idea using free tools might be worth a shot (and that's the idea of finding out where the AI component lies in the system). What I said is very doable (plug the output of traditional tools into vanilla coding LLMs prompts). It also looks a lot like this Corgea schematic:

https://framerusercontent.com/images/EtFkxLjT1Ou2UTPACObJbR2...

I mean, it's very brave to explain a downvote, but in this case, it seems that you missed the opportunity to make sense.
by lapcat | 2025-10-02 17:57:30+00:00
> I do not understand how this is different from grade inflation.

Grade inflation would mean, for example, that work fomerly earning a B would now earn an A, and likewise C -> B, D -> C, F -> D.

Whereas little correlation with performance would mean, for example, that work formerly earning an A might earn a D (if we're ruling out F's), work formerly earning a D might earn an A, etc. In other words, essentially random grading.

If everyone got A's, that would be both grade inflation and little correlation with performance.

> I would even go so far as to say that was the goal when passing laws such as IDEA 2004 and not providing funding.

Perhaps so. But your original comment implied that politicians were doing what voters wanted, whereas now you're suggesting that politicians simply lied, or used Orwellian doublespeak, to do what the politicians wanted, which is practically the opposite of what the voters wanted.
by tzs | 2025-10-02 17:57:44+00:00
An important thing to note when buying a car that includes subscription services is exactly what those subscriptions are for.

For example if the maps, traffic info, alerts, etc depend on a subscription there are couple ways it can go.

1. The subscription is actually for that data and the alert services. The car's systems only accepts those sources and so if you do not subscribe when the trial ends those stop working.

2. The data and services can be accessed on the internet for no cost (you made need a free account with the car maker's site). The subscription is for cellular internet service for the car.

In case #2 it might be that the car is only capable of using that cellular connection for internet access and so you will need to subscribe if you want things to keep working.

Some cars however can use a WiFi connection instead of their cellular connection for internet access. If your phone includes a WiFi hotspot you may be able to set the car to use that and then maps, traffic, and alerts might keep working without needing a subscription.

Also many cars will let you update data by downloading it on your computer and putting it on a USB drive and then uploading to the car from the US drive. You won't get traffic info and alerts that way, but at least you can keep maps from becoming obsolete.

Having recently bought a new car after last buying a car at the end of 2005, dealing with subscriptions was by far the most annoying change since the last time. Just getting information on what depending on subscriptions and what my options were if I didn't keep the subscription was a pain for nearly every car.
by jesse__ | 2025-10-02 17:57:52+00:00
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In terms of hard technical skills, I can quickly become productive in nearly any language, and at any level of the stack. I'm comfortable working in soft-realtime environments which are heavily multithreaded/async, and performance is a key acceptance criteria. I have a good understanding of modern hardware architectures, including GPUs, from main memory to registers and instruction pipelines. I have working knowledge of interpreters and dynamic language runtimes, including GCs. I'm convinced I can learn nearly anything (albeit some things more quickly than others), given an appropriate problem domain to apply it to.

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by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 17:58:03+00:00
> Just let us pay for "ultimate" (a.k.a. end-user enterprise) and be rid of all the BS.

This would do it for me, and probably many others. People would still complain, but at least it'd be offered.

They can keep the home editions as the adware and copilot editions, just let us buy "Ultimate" without all that (or just leave it as opt-in/toggleable). If the new snapdragon X Elite 2 chips pan out like the early benchmarks show they do (almost on par with the M5 in the new iPad), and if Windows encourages more ARM adoption they could seriously have a legitimate macbook competitor finally.

But that would require MS to divert efforts away from "AI, AI, AI, AI!" so they won't do it.
by notatoad | 2025-10-02 17:59:04+00:00
i've had great success with both chatGPT and claude with the prompt "tell me how this sucks" or "why is this shit". being a bit more crass seems to bump it out of the sycophantic mode, and being more open-ended in the type of problems you want it to find seems to yield better results.

but i've been limiting it to a lot less than 20k LoC, i'm sticking with stuff i can just paste into the chat window.
by BoxFour | 2025-10-02 18:00:18+00:00
Most of the examples you gave seem focused on life outside of work aside from the last one, so I’m curious which of them you’d say don’t also apply to lower-income jobs. There are lots of ways for middle-class people to “fail” too outside of work.

Personally, I worked in food service for a decade (mostly as a line cook of some sort) and most of these rules still applied, maybe to a slightly lesser degree.

Even with dishwashing, if you have some way of dishwashing that halves utility costs, someone would listen to you.

The answer might also be “who cares, get back to work” but that’s also true of a lot of middle-class employment. Your manager won’t give a shit if you think the expense reporting system sucks. Amazon’s famous for “disagree and commit” which is just a corporate way of saying the same thing.
by lblack00 | 2025-10-02 18:00:53+00:00
I see what you mean now. I interpreted note attack as pick attack, which is traditionally defined as how hard a given note is played with a pick.

Yeah, swing usually has uneven subdivisions. Funk is almost always syncopated, and depending on the style, can be a mix of syncopation and swing.

This goes back to how you noted simply using a metronome will give that mechanical, or even a soulless characteristic, to playing a piece which inherently has a soulful quality about it. And with respect to intonation, there's a lot more that goes into that than just timing it right (how hard fingers are pressed on the fretboard, the pressure between fingers holding the pick, the angle of the pick, where the pick strikes relative to pickups, the pick attack, accenting notes, etc.)

I do love this idea of being able to apply some "in the pocket"/"swing" deviation to a metronome sequence. I agree with you that it adds that magical musical quality that people would instinctively dance to.
by galenmarchetti | 2025-10-02 18:00:56+00:00
that's a fair point. we use "ontology" throughout the product because of the influence from Palantir, and the fact that the structure we use in the product (from palantir) is in fact a bit different from what most people would create in semantic layers like dbt or cube

but i agree it's confusing. we are considering changing the naming around to account for this. i appreciate the feedback!
by burkaman | 2025-10-02 18:00:59+00:00
A human operator would see a moving crane and say "that's a construction site, I'm going to go around". They would not fly directly under a crane even if it visually looked clear. In this case the crane was actively lowering something, so the drone not only missed the cable but it flew directly in between the crane and a visible object hanging in the air below the crane.

For concrete numbers, I would say stay 50 yards away from construction equipment, and always laterally or above, not below. Honestly these drones are enormous so I think "don't go under" can just be a blanket rule. They can't be going under trees or bridges or overpasses either, they're too big.

Edit: Also, the drones themselves should be far enough apart that if one crashes the other has time to react and stop or change course. I don't have a concrete number there, it depends on their speed and acceleration, but they shouldn't be flying so close that if one crashes they all will.
by electronvolt | 2025-10-02 18:01:08+00:00
You can, with some programming languages, require a proof of this (see: Rocq, formerly 'coq').

I think a more interesting case might be showing functional equivalence on some subset of all inputs (because tbh, showing functional equivalence on all inputs often requires "doing certain things the slow way").

An even more interesting case might be "inputs of up to a particular complexity in execution" (which is... very hard to calculate, but likely would mean combining ~code coverage & ~path coverage).

Of course, doing all of that w/o creating security issues (esp. with native code) is an even further out pipe dream.

I'd settle for something much simpler, like "we can automatically vectorize certain loop patterns for particular hardware if we know the hardware we're targeting" from a compiler. That's already hard enough to be basically a pipe dream.
Ask HN: Do you use and like any AI browser features?
by cjbarber | 2025-10-02 18:01:23+00:00
I'm being a late adopter here, I haven't tried Comet, I avoid the Gemini features in Chrome, etc. I'm hesitant to send the contents of my tab to an LLM provider - especially Gemini which as of the last time I checked trains on user data by default and doesn't let you opt out without also disabling conversation history, unless you're on a google workspace plan. I'm also hesitant about prompt injection concerns popularized by simonw.

Question: Which have you thoroughly tried any AI browsers, and are there any features you really like?

I'm wondering if they're worth trying.
by afavour | 2025-10-02 18:01:26+00:00
Putting aside a second the debate about diversity... gifted and talented admission tests at four years old strikes me as far too young. Having witnessed my own children and their peers grow I simply don't believe that passing a test at Pre-K is a useful marker of some innate talent, rather it's clued-in parents making sure their kid is able to jump through required hoops.
by o11c | 2025-10-02 18:01:32+00:00
I disagree. The problem is that the Aspergers-vs-Autism distinction was largely "looks normal at first glance" vs "doesn't", which is almost entirely unrelated to the many axes of actual symptoms.

An glaringly incorrect division is more harmful than a lack of division. If it had been a "good enough" division it could've been kept.

The best-attested actual axis is "has epileptic seizures?"; partitioning by it gets rid of most of the bimodalities in the data.

My estimate is that there are around 5 individual axes but many of them are continuous and it's not perfectly clear if some are actually correlated to others. And since the others are usually not bimodal it becomes difficult to choose different diagnoses based solely on symptoms, in the absence of knowing and testing actual mechanisms.