MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willvarfar | 2025-10-06 07:07:02+00:00
I think the memory safety aspects of capabilities kind of missed the boat (often intrusive and breaking for memory unsafe languages whilst superfluous in practice for memory safe languages). The memory safety stuff is better dealt with by lots of small programs that don't share memory.

Its the higher-level, logical capabilities like 'can perform this kind of access to this specific file for the duration of this call' that are much more interesting.

Lots of modern operating systems do have some kind of capability system - even the intents in modern mobile phones are a capability system - but it's something you could imagine benefitting from machine support e.g. passing securely capabilities in syscalls in a microkernal and to peers in IPC.
by kragen | 2025-10-06 07:07:02+00:00
Around here I have a backyard washing machine, a backyard grill, a backyard clothesline, and my neighbors have backyard childcare, backyard parking, and a backyard motorcycle. And actually inside my house I have a flush toilet and an oven.

Your assertion seems to imply that if instead I had to wash and dry my laundry at a coin-operated laundromat, eat at a cafeteria table with all my neighbors, and piss in a portapotty down the street, and my neighbor's kids were taken away to live at a boarding school, while he had to ride the bus to work instead of driving, that would be evidence of successful policy!

We clearly have radically different definitions of success. Yours seems not to be well thought out.

The problem with backyard furnaces was that the steel they produced was not just expensive but also inferior. If you could plug in a Tabletop Minimill that produced ingots of specialty precision steel alloys to your order, ranging from maraging steel to tool steel to nitinol, and which was also cheap to operate, that would not be an economic policy failure. That would be an enormous success!

Your generalization that any kind of decentralization amounts to collective action failure is wrong. Some kinds of decentralization do; my household water pressure tank is decentralized because of collective action failure, for example, as I explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487610. Others don't. We have to analyze the particulars of each case. I've written at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487051 a bit about the particulars of this case.
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-06 07:07:20+00:00
Having the technology to build it isn't the hard part. The question is why you'd do that in the first place and who would fund such a colony.

First of all it's going to be massively more expensive than any housing we've ever built on earth so only a very small elite could afford living there.

But then again, space is a very hostile environment: it's super dangerous (any incident will almost certainly snowball into a dramatic accident), very unhealthy (billionaires are currently funding longevity research, so I don't think they'd like to go in a place where they would age up significantly faster than on earth…), and life is just worse up there on all respect…
by sumerpatil | 2025-10-06 07:07:48+00:00
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by NinjaTrance | 2025-10-06 07:09:17+00:00
As far as I remember, SolidGoldMagikarp was a bug caused by millions of posts on reddit by the same user ("SolidGoldMagikarp") in a specific sub-reddit.

There was no problem with the token per se, but the fact it was like a strange attractor in multidimensional space, disconnected from any useful information.

When the LLM was induced to use it in its output, the next predicted token would be random gibberish.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-06 07:11:00+00:00
> But isn't the entire point of rust's verbose type system to declare valid states at compile time?

Different type systems are capable of expressing different valid states with different levels of expressivity at compile time. Rust could originally express constraints that SPARK couldn't and vice-versa, and the two continue to gain new capabilities.

I think in this specific example it's possible to write a Rust program that can be (almost) verified at compile time, but doing so would be rather awkward in comparison (e.g., custom array type that implements Index for a custom bounded integer type, etc.). The main hole I can think of is the runtime check that the index is in bounds since that's not a first-class concept in the Rust type system. Easy to get right in this specific instance, but I could imagine potentially tripping up in more complex programs.
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 07:12:01+00:00
> why protests and actions that doesn't necessarily "fix" an issue directly are important and not (necessarily) an ego trip for the protestors

The point is to think through (and shape) the consequences.

Trash bag is nice but leaves interpretation to the viewer. Trash bag with a sign is better, but the ambiguity of the action together with the conciseness requirement of physical signage makes for a difficult combo. Trash bag with a QR code highlighting (depending on your town's partisan lean, of course) when "authorities in Texas performed a nationwide search of more than 83,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras while looking for a woman who they said had a self-administered abortion, including cameras in states where abortion is legal such as Washington and Illinois" [1], or that Flock Safety "is building a product that will use people lookup tools, data brokers, and data breaches" [2] is better still. (Best would be something that concisely conveys the problem while blocking the sign. I'm not having anything readily come to mind...Lady Liberty holding her palm to the camera is kitsch.)

Still, just raising awareness is table stakes. Ideally such activity comes ahead of a petition drive, or town hall where a series of plants raise objections to the company.

[1] https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-c...

[2] https://www.404media.co/license-plate-reader-company-flock-i...
by pjmlp | 2025-10-06 07:12:19+00:00
That was a clean build for the binary code used in Tcl scripts, every time someone would sync their local development with latests, or switch code branches.

Plenty of code was Tcl scritping, and when re-compiling C code, only the affected set of files would be re-compiled, everything else was kept around in object files and binary libraries, and if not affected only required re-linking.
by kqr | 2025-10-06 07:13:21+00:00
> The patient was shown two pictures: of a house in the winter time and of a chicken's claw. The pictures were positioned so they would exclusively be seen in only one visual field of the brain. The patient then chose the snow shovel with his left hand and his right hand chose the chicken's head. When the patient was asked why he had chosen the objects he had chosen, the answer he gave was "The chicken claw goes with the chicken head, and you need a snow shovel to clean out the chicken shed."

> The human brain's left hemisphere is primarily responsible for interpreting the meaning of the sensory input it receives from both fields; however, the patient's left hemisphere had no knowledge of the winter house. Because of this, the left hemisphere had to invent a logical reason for why the shovel was chosen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-brain_interpreter
by piva00 | 2025-10-06 07:13:25+00:00
France has changed permitting laws to allow small-scale solar, i.e.: balcony solar, the difference is that the nominal output is much lower (350W vs 800W for Germany) which, by policy, makes it less attractive.

So it isn't that France economic policies have made installing balcony solar unattractive, it's the permitting policies which are blocking people from installing more.

You have it inverted, pun intended.
by WalterBright | 2025-10-06 07:14:46+00:00
I am sad for you.

In any case, the '67 and '68 Mustangs are the best looking of the Mustang line, and the '68 Dodge Charger is to die for.

If you cannot tell the difference, may I suggest you spend a wonderful evening watching "Bullitt".

When I was in high school, a friend of mine bought a '67 Mustang for $200, so of course he offered me a ride. I had never ridden in one before. I barely had the door closed when he stomped on the gas. What can I say, it was a transformative experience! I soon acquired one for myself. Converted it to a 4-speed, hopped up the engine, and had a grand time with it for years until a garbage truck turned it into an accordion.

I still miss that car.

But I did wind up replacing it with a 72 Dodge Challenger, which is close to being a Cuda. I spent a lot of money on its engine in the machine shop. I enjoy every second driving it, and giving friends rides in it.

Like me before I got the ride in the Mustang, you gotta get a ride in one before you dis it.
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-10-06 07:15:24+00:00
Not a bad legacy for Robert Habeck (along with the wind reforms), the leader we needed but didn't deserve [1][2]. Interestingly he's recently dropped out of politics and taken a teaching role at UC Berkeley.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxwVR5JF8Ok

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxnnVPO9GFU
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-06 07:16:39+00:00
I'm sure airports will really appreciate half-mile tethers, or whatever length you need for full-sized cargo planes, flopping about the runways (I assume they're aiming for full size because their little graphics doesn't show a little GA thing)

Even assuming a full size one doesn't fatigue off the tail of the lead plane, presumably any time a plane towing one gets into difficulty, the first thing they'll do is cut the towed thing free.

Also the website sounds like it was written by an over-caffeinated estate agent.
by franga2000 | 2025-10-06 07:16:46+00:00
Encryption only makes sense if "the cloud" is just a data storage bucket to you. If you run applications in the cloud, you can't have all the data encrypted, especially not all the time. There are some technologies that make this possible, but none are mature enough to run even a small business, let alone a country on.

It sounds technologically illiterate to you because when people say "we can't safely use a foreign cloud" you think they're saying "to store data" and everyone else is thinking at the very least "to store and process data".

Sure, they could have used a cloud provider for encrypted backups, but if they knew how to do proper backups, they wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-06 07:17:20+00:00
Mostly non-technical things: continuity (or, rather, the lack thereof) and PR.

Continuity: Ada is not widely taught at universities, and, whilst the AdaCore’s GNAT Academic Program (GAP) does exist, one has to consciously seek out a university that offers a course in/on Ada. Ada and programming in Ada is not common knowledge, which stems from the next point.

PR. Ada, rightfully or wrongully, does not exactly bask in the limelight of popularity – most assuredly not to the same extent as Python, NodeJs, Typescript, C#/.NET etc do. The current generation of Ada developers do not care (and probably should not), and the young and future generations of potential Ada developers miss out. Ada is not talked about in diverse contexts spanning web development, frontend/backend[0] development, containers, cloud – and the list goes on. Not because Ada can't be used in any of the aforementioned contexts, it is just that due to the lack of PR it remains an unnoticed reality – kind of like «if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?»

[0] Yes, «frontend development» and «backend development» are the fancy terms in wide use that the new generation can easily understand.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-06 07:17:33+00:00
There is also alot of insecurity on the other side that is oddly enough projected on Apple users: “They must be using that as a status symbol or they are trying to look creative!” It’s always been like that really, Apple tends to fire up its own opposition. In reality Apple stuff are just workhorses now, and many of us just have an aversion to PCs that fall apart after a few months, or phones that kind of work but not really well, or tablets that double as space heaters…Apple is just the safe choice these days, the choice of cowards like me.
by willfeld | 2025-10-06 07:18:09+00:00
TikTok makes you download the app or log in just to watch a video.

Turns out the videos themselves are public - they’re just buried behind redirects, tracking, and aggressive login prompts.

So I built See TikTok as a weekend project to let you watch TikToks instantly in your browser.

Just replace tiktok.com with seetiktok.com in any video link.

Example: https://tiktok.com/@user/video/12345 -> https://seetiktok.com/@user/video/12345

No login, no tracking, no app - just lets you watch the video. No more screen recording or downloading TikToks for your friend who doesn't have an account.

Would love to hear any feedback!
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by siva7 | 2025-10-06 07:20:11+00:00
> Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong tack. They try to minimize their commitments, assuming that if they have only a few things to do, they will quit procrastinating and get them done. But this goes contrary to the basic nature of the procrastinator and destroys his most important source of motivation.

This is also true from my observations but what this writing misses is another much more crucial aspect: People with severe, general procrastination problems have a high chance of having (usually undiagnosed) AD(H)D. This is a neurobiological disorder (more precisely, a spectrum), not something you can trick away by reading self-help books/writings. There is effective medication available for those patients.
by HackerNewt-doms | 2025-10-06 07:20:40+00:00
Only if you have batteries in between because the sun isn’t shining 24/7 in Germany (and elsewhere). The costs for batteries are as nearly always out of the debate when news papers/portals are glorifying this German balcony subsidy scheme (costs for the public due to power feed-in which isn’t mentioned at all in this article). In the grist article the battery issue is mentioned only in one sentence. The power feed-in is from the perspective of the power grid operator company sometimes called as power backfeed secretly which needs extra infrastructure.
by kragen | 2025-10-06 07:21:08+00:00
Germany could allow 2000W, or 4000W, instead of only 800W, but you seem to be missing Alexey's point.

Germany has very high electricity prices, even higher than the US (see https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-e...), and this is due to policy failures in Germany. That's what makes these balcony systems so appealing.

I'm not sure that the outcome of having a lot of decentralized solar generation is a bad outcome.
by woodpanel | 2025-10-06 07:22:51+00:00
> One has to question how this choice came to make sense to the german public.

Easy: The most expensive energy prices in the world.

The infrastructure investments needed to handle renewables are massive and are effectively passed down the consumer, who to be fair is ideologically on board with this.

thus the downvotes on your post (predictably since Berlin timezone coming live) and this balcony thingy as a crumbs-off-the-table for the non-roof-havers
by piva00 | 2025-10-06 07:22:57+00:00
No, I didn't miss the point, I know they were talking about electricity prices. My counterpoint is that France is not seeing balcony solar not only because electricity prices are lower but due to policies which limit it.

It's a both-things can be true, even though France has also been getting more issues with electricity generation from its nuclear fleet caused by droughts, and high temperatures in their cooling water supply.
by bravura | 2025-10-06 07:23:08+00:00
"my explanation would also to apply to where other commenters note that this behaviour is emitted to some degree with similar other "plausible" but non-existent emoji (but which are less likely to be in the training data, a priori)."

I agree with you partially. I just want to argue there are several factors that lead to this perverse behavior.

Empirically:

Use web gpt-5-instant in TEMPORARY mode. If you ask for "igloo emoji" it confidently (but ONLY in temporary mode) says that "Yes, igloo emoji is in Unicode 12 and is [house-emoji ice-emoji]." Then it basically stops. But it has satisfied its condition of confidently expressing its false knowledge. (Igloo emoji doesn't exist. gpt-5-instant in non-temporary mode says no. This is also weird because it suggests the temporary mode system prompt is laxer or different.)

The mechanism you describe partially explains why "seahorse emoji" leads to babbling: As it outputs the next token, it realizes that the explanation would be worse off it if next emits stop token, so instead it apologizes and attempts to repair. And cannot satisfy its condition of expressing something confidently.

The upstream failure is poor knowledge. That combined with being tuned to be helpful and explanatory, and having no grounding (e.g. websearch) forces it to continue. Finally, the token distance from the manifold is the final piece of the puzzle in this unholy pathological brew.

You're incorrect that statistical language modeling is "post-hoc", it's rather "pre-hoc" / "pre-hack". Most foundational works in language modeling started as pure statistical models (for example, classic ngram models and Bengio's original neural language model from 2003), and it was later that hacks got introduced that removed statistical properties but actually just worked (Collobert and Weston 2008, as influenced by Bottou and LeCun). Where I agree with you is that we should have done away with the statistical story long ago. LeCun's been on about energy-based models forever. Even on HN last week, punters criticize him that JEPA hasn't had impact yet, as if he were behind the curve instead of way ahead of it.

People like statistical stories but, similarly to you, I also think they are a distraction.
by dathinab | 2025-10-06 07:23:39+00:00
oh yes I missed the point,

I mean 60W chargers are common for a laptop.

800W is enough to run 2x console gaming setup (~200W console + <200W for Monitor+misc. which is normally more then enough).

Even for PC gaming where GPU power draw has gotten unhinged 800W you can get you a 5060 setup (~600W) + monitor working, or something like a framework desktop based gaming system (~400W) + monitor.
by whackernews | 2025-10-06 07:24:01+00:00
> How is that the opposite of what he actually said?

> If a faithful Christian argues against cherry-picking the Bible

Talks about what Charlie “actually said”, proceeds to strawman him.

Mate. You literally got given evidence that debunks an idea you’d like to believe and you still continue to believe and argue for the idea you’d want to be true.

Let it go. You’re egos too big and you’re acting like an idiot. Do you consider yourself an idiot?
by coffeebeanHH | 2025-10-06 07:26:20+00:00
It's sort of a remastered Version of busybox. Please refer to Rob himself for explaining.

There's a good intro on yt [1] and a "demo" in [2]

edit: Well Sorry, [2] was about mkroot. I just skipped through the video. I thought it was related to toybox/busybox. Maybe somewhere in the talk. Has been a while since I last watched it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJkyMuBm3g [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9TatW9ino