MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by n4r9 | 2025-10-04 08:07:15+00:00
> his female colleagues can be assured he has no right to start barging in on the women's toilets

What if they've fully committed to the process and undergone gender reassignment surgery, hormone therapy etc... Should that change anything in your view? At that point it's clearly more than just labelling themselves.

> I wouldn't want my child to start believing this nonsense when she gets older but it feels like a fad that's on its way out.

Transsexuality is a fad? Hasn't it existed in some form or another throughout all human culture and history?
by danabramov | 2025-10-04 08:07:50+00:00
>There is seemingly nothing in the AT protocol that prevents sites from defederating and enabling vendor lock-in, just like how every other social media site has switched to requiring you to log in to see links.

Note there is no "federation" in the Mastodon sense; sites don't "talk to" each other. They just all aggregate data from the web. Yes, an app doing that could potentially stop "posting to" and "aggregating from" the web in the future and move the source of truth to a local database. But by doing that, it mostly just loses interoperability--and someone else could start a new app with the already existing data on the network, effectively forking their product with its users/data.

>It's like P2P if it was invented by people who know nothing about P2P

Ironically quite a few people on the team come from the P2P world, which is also why they have experience with where P2P doesn't work. Give https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers a read.
by goku12 | 2025-10-04 08:08:17+00:00
That's a very relevant question. And as your question implies, we all know which society the billionaires talk about. But AI is just a technology like any other. It does have the potential to bring great benefits to humanity if developed with that intent. It's the corruptive influence of the billionaire and autocrat greed that turns all technologies against us.

When I say benefits to humanity, I don't mean the AI slop, deepfakes and laziness enabler that we have today. There are niche applications of AI that already show great potential. Like developing new medicines to devising new treatments for dangerous diseases, solving long standing mathematical problems, creating new physics theories. And who knows? Perhaps even create viable solutions for the climate crisis that we are in. They don't receive as much attention as they deserve, because that's not where the profit lies in AI. Solving real problems require us to forgo profits in the short term. That's why we can't leave this completely up to the billionaires. They will just use it to transfer even more wealth from the poor and middle classes to themselves.
by lxgr | 2025-10-04 08:08:19+00:00
One big difference is that there's competition between cash handling providers, while there's essentially zero wiggle room for interchange fees.

That's what makes interchange and network fees so much more problematic than acquiring fees. There's very healthy competition between credit card acquirers and payment service providers on both features and price, but in the end, you have to accept whatever card your customer has or there won't be a transaction.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-04 08:08:44+00:00
Android was a sink for people who want things like this and an excuse for people to rationalize Apple doing it. If Android is "good enough" then who needs some actual Linux phone? If Android is open and that's what you want then why don't people just buy one of those instead of having the government break up Apple and Google?

People become willing to do things when you throw them out in the cold that they wouldn't do when you were still supplying the bread and circuses, and those people they don't like? It's because they're stubborn and they actually care and they know how to build things, isn't it?
by solid_fuel | 2025-10-04 08:09:57+00:00
Because Trump, for all the problems and crimes, represents _action_. I hate what he has done to this country and the government, this administration is nothing but cronyism and self-enrichment the whole way down. But, it does show a different standard of action.

The wealthy are supporting candidates who offer lip service to leftist policies and then do nothing to cut through basic red tape and court challenges. The "leftist" candidates that the rich support run on building more housing, and then let the rezoning take 15 years in committee.

Here, in Seattle, Bruce Harrell would be a perfect example. He ran on transit, policing reform, and housing, and in the time he has been in office he has accomplished - nothing. No majors action has been attempted, and even minor reforms have been stuck in endless committees for this whole time. But he was happy to intervene to move a major transit station to a place less convenient for commuters and more convenient for his donors.

The next candidate the democrats put up for president is probably going to be pretty uninspiring, and talk a lot about a return to norms. But that's exactly what is wrong with the party.

The next Democrat that runs for president should be promising massive reform - if Kash Patel can fire an FBI agent for having a pride flag on their desk 3 years ago then the next guy running the FBI should be firing any agent that has ever used a slur or received a substantiated complaint about use of force or violating civil rights. If Trump can yank funding from cities for no reason, then the next Democrat in office should be cutting funding from any city with a housing shortage that doesn't enact zoning reform.

In short - wealthy donors love Democrats who talk big but wring their hands about using the power they are given. Because that keeps the system exactly the way the wealthy want it.
by LightBug1 | 2025-10-04 08:10:50+00:00
Currently EV's are the iPhones to Toyota's Nokia and they're going to have to work very hard very soon to turn that around or their company will die.

Fixed that for you. I give Tesla another 2-5 years before their number is up and they'll limp along and become another also ran.

There's no way they can compete with what's to come and even what's happening now.

I have some friends, who are definitely not HN readers or avid followers of the EV market, and they've already swapped out their Teslas for BYD. It didn't take much for them to make the move. And what's coming is already far beyond what Tesla have on the table.

They had a good ride. And definitely should be credited with being the starting gun on one chapter of automotive revolution. But it's over for them (in the EV space). They know it too ... hence their attempted pivot to ... * insert flavour of the month*
by touisteur | 2025-10-04 08:11:50+00:00
Can confirm that most of the times when reproducing/implementing a paper or trying to extend it to another field, researchers are pretty OK (some very enthusiastic) to chat over email about it. As long as you've actually read the paper(s) or read the code (if any), and there's no expected free-work...

I sometimes get unpublished artefacts (matlab/python/fortran code, data samples) just by... asking nicely, showing interest. And I'm not even in academia or a lab.
by nikic | 2025-10-04 08:13:34+00:00
> LLVM is a trap.

Is it? I think Rust is a great showcase for why it isn't. Of course it depends somewhat on your compiler implementation approach, but actual codegen-to-LLVM tends to only be a tiny part of the compiler, and it is not particularly hard to replace it with codegen-to-something-else if you so desire. Which is why there is now codegen_cranelift, codegen_gcc, etc.

The main "vendor lock-in" LLVM has is if you are exposing the tens of thousands of vendor SIMD intrinsics, but I think that's inherent to the problem space.

Of course, whether you're going to find another codegen backend (or are willing to write one yourself) that provides similar capabilities to LLVM is another question...

> You bootstrap extra fast, you get all sorts of optimization passes and platforms for free, but you lose out on the ability to tune the final optimization passes and performance of the linking stages.

You can tune the pass pipeline when using LLVM. If your language is C/C++ "like", the default pipeline is good enough that many such users of LLVM don't bother, but languages that differ more substantially will usually use fully custom pipelines.

> I think we'll see cranelift take off in Rust quite soon, though I also think it wouldn't be the juggernaut of a language if they hadn't stuck with LLVM those early years.

I'd expect that most (compiled) languages do well to start with an LLVM backend. Having a tightly integrated custom backend can certainly be worthwhile (and Go is a great success story in that space), but it's usually not the defining the feature of the language, and there is a great opportunity cost to implementing one.
by avaq | 2025-10-04 08:13:47+00:00
> I wouldn't even be against requiring a professional certification organization for developers before they're allowed to publish software to the masses

Is Google that organization? Because they themselves have decided that they are. I think what people are worried about is that Google is positioning itself to be the judge, jury, and executioner within such a licensing framework, not necessarily the licensing itself.

> This is just to address malicious code.

Yes, and if Google had shown that it's capable of identifying and rejecting malicious code distributed via its own app store, then maybe their proposed expansion of that security program to the entirety of the Android app ecosystem would carry some weight. But as it stands, their Play Store is full of user-hostile and often malicious apps[1].

> If you publish software for a private group of people, there should be no restrictions. If you're publishing it on a platform that would expose your software to billions of people, get a license after id verification

But that's exactly the opposite of what Google is doing, here, and why people are mad. Google isn't adding a new policy to their app distribution platform (the play store that grants exposure to billions of users), but rather they are forcing ID verification on any form of app distribution: If you want any regular user to be able to install your code, no matter how small the audience, you'll need to first give your identity to Google, and obtain a (paid[1]?) license. So the restrictions do apply to "a private group of people" too.

The crux, and what has people up in arms I think, is the overreach of Google's peoposed licensing policy to cover not only their own app distribution ecosystem, but all others targeting Android.

Many technical users of Android consider it to be a general purpose computing platform, and they want to retain the freedom to install and run whatever software they trust.

Google should focus their supposed concerns about regular user's safety on the user-hostile apps that they allow to exist in their own app store, rather than grasping for broader control that they'll "probably use at some point but only for good things like user security".

1: https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registrat...
by etrez | 2025-10-04 08:14:20+00:00
The "Ada" topic is (only) for the last part. It precisely because with such a good tool, you focus on the important things: the algorithms.

Precisely, there is no such a thing as the BZip2 algorithm: there are multiple ways of programming it, and more importantly, there is a near infinity of possible encodings of the same inputs in the BZip2 format. The compression ratio depends on the choices made in that area. That point is addressed in part 3.
by ojosilva | 2025-10-04 08:15:19+00:00
And I don't think you can revenue share these generations with rights owners just like that. What rights owner will let their "product" be depicted in any imaginable situation by any prompt by anyone in the planet? Words are powerful and images a 1000 words worth, videos are a millionth fold... I've seen a quick Sora video from OpenAI themselves I believe of the real life Mario Bros Princess, a rather voluptuous one, playing herself on a console and the image stuck. And it's not just misuse, distortion or appropriation but also association: imagine a series of very viral videos of Pikachu drinking Coke or a fan series of Goku with friends at KFC... it could condition, or steal, future marketing deals for the rights holders.

This is a non-starter, unless you own a "license to AI" from the rights owner directly, such as an ad agency that uses Sora to generate an ad it was hired to do.
by Lammy | 2025-10-04 08:15:23+00:00
Yep, despite the extremely FUD-y variable name, though there's still no way to opt out on iOS or Android: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/13174

There's an unmerged PR for the Android client: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android/pull/695
by tangerines777 | 2025-10-04 08:16:56+00:00
Oh shit I received an email from discord saying some of my personal data on my discord account got breached. I have never used discord support aside from the one time where I contacted support to try to get my original discord account back because I lost my email but it was inevitable I didn't link my discord with any credit card info but maybe my phone number? What should I do now??
by stinkbeetle | 2025-10-04 08:17:01+00:00
No they don't want that, because it could lead to an uprising against them. They want us provided with the essentials in exchange for being dutiful workers, so we have something to lose.

Everyone should live in pods stacked together, eat insects, not drive our own automobiles around or fly places, we should be able to get our entertainment and everything to keep ourselves happy from their subscription entertainment services. Basically we are to consume as little as possible to barely keep ourselves alive and sane while they sail themselves around to pat one another on the backs at their climate and economic conferences on their billion dollar luxury yachts.

Actually no that would be stupid they don't have the time or patience to sail their yachts around. They have crew for that. They will fly in one of their handful of private jets and have the yacht meet them there.
by scottyeager | 2025-10-04 08:17:29+00:00
Personally I found the mini SWE-agent to be a very approachable introduction to building agents: https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent

There are a number of free and cheap LLM options to experiment with. Google offers a decent free plan for Gemini (get some extra Google accounts). Groq has a free tier including some good open weight models. There's also free endpoints on OpenRouter that are limited but might be useful for long running background agents. DeepSeek v3.2, Qwen3, Kimi K2, and GLM 4.6 are all good choices for cheap and capable models.

Local models are generally not a shortcut to cheap and effective AI. It's a fun thing to explore though.
by nikic | 2025-10-04 08:18:42+00:00
This depends a lot on what you're doing with LLVM. If you are just using LLVM as a code generation backend for your language frontend, you generally do not need an LLVM fork.

For example, while Rust does have an LLVM fork, it just exists for tighter control over backports, not because there are any modifications to LLVM.
by notrealyme123 | 2025-10-04 08:18:47+00:00
By giving it a quick read I saw that the have n data points where a polynomial of n-1 degrees provides a useful fit in the sense of this blog post.

Every field has its own language to speak. And shouting into the field from "outside" that they should change is not polite.

E.g * if you redefine c = n-1 the connection between number of points and dimension is lost. * c ist very often used as a constant Skalar. E.g as the speed of light. Using it as a dimension of a problem is quite unintuitive.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-10-04 08:18:53+00:00
Counter prediction. AI is going to reduce the (relative) wealth of the tech companies.

AWS and Facebook have extremely low running costs per VPS or Ad sold. That IMO is one of the major reasons tech has received its enormously high valuation.

There is nuance to that, but average investors are dumb and don't care.

Add in a relatively high fixed-cost commodity into the accounting, and intuitively the pitch of "global market domination at ever lower costs" will be a much harder sell. Especially if there is a bubble pop that hurts them.
by jemmyw | 2025-10-04 08:19:07+00:00
> for allowing these sorts of stories to be flagged

I believe, from reading responses on other stories, that they need to manually do something to prevent a story being flagged. So there's no allowing, it just happens.

I don't disagree with you though. I haven't found "flagged" a good indicator on whether a story is interesting or has worthwhile discussion in it. It's just "some small number of people don't want this link here". It would be nice if instead people put their energy into upvoting the stories they do like.

Or add a downvote instead of flag so we actually have a consensus.
by pndy | 2025-10-04 08:19:09+00:00
> I believe most of those POS systems can operate in offline mode, in Europe at least.

I was able to pay "offline" for my groceries at corner store nearby when their terminal had really bad or no connection at all - and that did happen a lot. They were just gathering all payments and when the "computer guy" was around he'd upload these to the Internet. The only caveat was that for some reasons these payments would be stuck for more than a week on transactions list
by nekinie | 2025-10-04 08:19:20+00:00
I have been running Linux on a X1 based laptop for the last 12 - 18 months, as my personal laptop . This was mainly as a learning experience but I do use it for real work (code, PCB design, web stuff). Originally with the Ubuntu concept and then Arch Linux ARM. While the out of the box experience is rough (varies make / model), with some work (patching, compiling kernels, pulling firmware from exe's) the experience for me is usable. Most stuff works, no encoders, no AV1 decode, no camera or AI accelerator. If you monitor the patches going into the kernel, things are going from strength to strength (I am excited for 6.18). My real hope is that allot of the software work carries over to the X2, and better thermals, it gets hot far too easily. Aside, ARM in the workspace (including Apple) is all fun and games up until you need to build out a Windows VM image for a 20 year old delphi project.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-04 08:20:30+00:00
Yeah it's solving a wrong problem. What's needed is means to get enough bandwidth of data, not giving yet another blog site you can post to.

The kind of content that wins the Internet is never the kind that'll be "popular", despite all objective data, so whoever to run the platform has to "algorithm" the system to prefer "popular" contents which destroys the community as well as greater society in matters of decades.

We just needed an RSS with a local algorithm.
by ErrantX | 2025-10-04 08:20:42+00:00
There are a few differences for sure. All entirely technical in how the money moves or clears. The most obvious point here is debit card moves your money from your account, credit moves the issuers money from their account.

But to your wider point; from a transaction fee point of view you are dead right. Of course a credit card has other attractions; for example it's credit :D but also things like section 75 protection.
by dinkumthinkum | 2025-10-04 08:21:05+00:00
The first sentence is definitely. But, UBI is a nerd/socialist fantasy. It would nevet work and will never happen. Everyone with these sci-fi fever dreams of what will happen if AI collapses white collar jobs are coming from people that don’t know how the world or people actually work outside of their daydreams. People aren’t going to just be like “ok, well I guess it’s time for bread and water and Soviet style tenement housing, all this progress in livings was great while it lasted.” And other people are talking about using batteries for money or something. People need to touch grass.
by ssl232 | 2025-10-04 08:22:13+00:00
The iPhone did everything the Nokia 3310 did, better. Electric cars do not (yet) do better some things hybrids do, such as being able to be fuelled with 400+ miles of range in 5 minutes.

I’m nowhere near the point of wanting an electric car to replace my hybrid. The convenience of petrol and the cost of electricity is too high. High electricity costs aren’t going to be fixed in my country any time soon so Toyota will continue to have a huge market here.
by jjav | 2025-10-04 08:22:34+00:00
> Am I missing how this is different from what we already have on most platforms?

Most? The only platform that is like that is ios.

On linux, in any form, I can run what I want.

On a mac I can run what I want.

On windows I can run what I want.

Obviously on BSDs, Illumos, etc, I can run what I want.

On android up to now, I can run what I want.

The one and sole exception where I don't really own the device and can't run what I want it ios (therefore I don't own anything that uses ios). And now google wants to join that evil club.
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-04 08:24:00+00:00
Don't they have a RAV4 EV coming Fall 26? Thats one of their top models. With new generation design that looks nice! They seem pretty serious if they are putting their signature model into EV production. Not to mention their other EVs launching in 2026.

Have Tesla released any new models? The hot thing that people are waiting for right now is not really a new model, its the return of the turn stalk. I mean I get that they sell well because there is lack of options but if you take a step back, this is clown company behavior.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-04 08:24:27+00:00
> while it uses the popular HP 63 cartridges,

These old HP "cartridges" were more of hotends with integral extruders. Which means they can be installed onto a printer equivalent of Prusa i3 to turn it into a printer. For a truly open printer, we'd need an open inkjet head - and those are actually made in lithography process, believe it or not.
by Lio | 2025-10-04 08:24:39+00:00
Really? I think Renault are on a roll at the moment.

The Renault 4, Renault 5 and Megan seem really competitive.

The new Nissan Leaf (made in UK) also looks pretty good.

VAG seem to have lost the plot (“let’s replace all the controls with a small, janky touch system that leaks personal information to hackers”) but their ID.7 isn’t total crap.

Comparing Renaults to the Chinese brands I’ve seen (MG and BYD) the Chinese brands were a bit cheaper but they really felt it with cheap interiors and uncomfortable seats. I’d rather pay a grand more and get a car I like.
by lrasinen | 2025-10-04 08:25:50+00:00
It's Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) and it's not yet anywhere near Jupiter. Its trajectory has a few slingshot loops around Venus and Earth, and it's just coming off the Venus encounter.

It's about 0.43 AU from the comet at its nearest, whereas Earth will be pretty much on the opposite side of the Sun, making observations difficult from here.

Edit: Earth, Mars and Jupiter are in roughly 120 degrees from each other as seen from the Sun, with the Earth-Sun-Jupiter angle closing up fast and the E-S-M angle growing slightly slower. In about two months the E-S-M angle will be 180.
by whytevuhuni | 2025-10-04 08:26:07+00:00
I'd really like them not to hurry (or at least not "ASAP"). Among features that Rust should get right, this is definitely one of them.

And from its tracking issue [1], it seems there's alternatives with really important trade-offs (especially the very interesting storage API alternative), and it'd be really sad if we got stuck with something that ends up being unusable in many cases people actually want to use them on.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32838