MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eswiac | 2025-11-04 17:48:28+00:00
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by rented_mule | 2025-11-04 17:48:28+00:00
Self-driving cars also require us human drivers to learn new defensive-driving skills.

A month or two back, I was driving down a steep one-way, three-lane street in SF, late on a rainy night. I saw a Waymo stopped at the left curb and I moved to the from the left lane to the center lane in case it started to pull out into the left lane. There were no cars in front of it or behind it, so I was shocked to see it quickly leave the curb at about a 45 degree angle, as if it were pulling out of a tight spot with a car parked just in front of it, but much faster. If I saw a human driver doing that, it would almost certainly mean they are trying to get all the way across the street immediately. If it was doing that, there is no way I could stop in time on the wet downhill. I tried, but that just made steering difficult as my anti-lock brakes struggled to find any traction at all. Then, just as quickly, it straightened out in the left lane. I'm glad I was the only other car around.

One element of defensive driving is thinking about how to avoid surprising other drivers. When will self-driving cars' defensive driving rise to that level? Waymo certainly wasn't there in that situation on that night.
by troyvit | 2025-11-04 17:48:33+00:00
Here's where I got it from: https://doc.owncloud.com/ocis/next/depl-examples/ubuntu-comp...

And I wish it was "containerized" but really it's "dockerized" as this thread demonstrates: https://central.owncloud.org/t/owncloud-docker-image-with-ro...

So yeah like I said in my original comment, for personal use it's just not right for me (because I choose not to use docker in my personal projects), but I hope it's right for other people because it looks like a killer app.

I'd definitely like to see what other options are available on other distros so I'll dig through their documentation more.
by muldvarp | 2025-11-04 17:49:32+00:00
> We need more of this kind of optimization.

Who is the "we" in this sentence? The ultra-rich that don't want to pay white collar workers to build software?

The advantages of LLMs are tiny for software engineers (you might be more productive, you don't get paid more) and the downsides are bad to life-altering (you get to review AI slop all day, you lose your job).
by gruez | 2025-11-04 17:49:40+00:00
>Pet peeve: Contrary to a persistent popular belief, inflation != currency debasement.

Not to mention that "debasement" doesn't make sense anymore given that there basically aren't any currencies on the gold standard anymore. At best you could call a pegged currency that was devalued as being debased (with the base being the pegged currency), but that doesn't apply to USD. "debasement" therefore is just a pejorative way saying "inflation" or "monetary expansion".
by lanyard-textile | 2025-11-04 17:49:43+00:00
Focus and determination can grant you the power of the queen on the chessboard.

But when you become blind to what happens around you, you become the pawn in someone else’s plan. A messenger is an authority’s favorite tool.

Someone would like to starve people and you are a part of their plan. If you feel the tug of appeal, it is because you understand something isn’t right here. If you don’t investigate, your mind is not your own.
by _dcez | 2025-11-04 17:50:03+00:00
Back in the good old days, I used to play Quake 1 multiplayer (QuakeWorld) a lot on Internet servers. You could place an "autoexec.cfg" file in Quake folder, that automatically executed commands after launching the game, including /connect [IP Address]

The time needed from the moment you launched the game (clicked on the .exe) to the moment you entered the server (to the map view) with all assets 100% loaded was about 1 second. Literally! You click the icon on your desktop and BAM! you're already on the server and you can start shooting. But that was written by John Carmack in C :-)

From other examples - I have a "ModRetro Chromatic" at home which is simply an FPGA version of the Nintendo Game Boy. On this device, you don't see the falling "Nintendo" text with the iconic sound known from normal Game Boys. When I insert a cartridge and flip the Power switch, I'm in the game INSTANTLY. There's simply absolute zero delay here. You turn it on and you're in the game, literally just like with that Quake.

For comparison - I also have a Steam Deck, whose boot time is so long that I sometimes finish my business on the toilet before it even starts up. The difference is simply colossal between what I remember from the old days and what we have today. On old Windows 2000, everything seemed lighter than on modern machines. I really miss that.
by as1mov | 2025-11-04 17:50:11+00:00
Same here, I somehow acquired a pirated copy of Flash when I was 10 or 11. Went through the included offline manual and within a few days somehow knew I'll probably end up doing this programming thing for the rest of my life :D

It's sad what happened to Flash, sure we have plugin free interactive content using JS but I'm not sure if anything has replicated the IDE. Though I guess the decline can also be attributed to the users moving onto other platforms. The kids making games moved on to making Android/iOS games and the animators moved to Youtube.
by paul_h | 2025-11-04 17:50:12+00:00
Ask AI number 2 to summarize the intention (look at the .patch) to markdown. Reset. Ask you AI to read the intention as of the orig author had written it, and say you've grave doubts about the contrib's functionally and non-functionally and for it to help you put that into words to feel back to the contributor. Basically the playbook from https://paulhammant.com/images/SimonSinghsFermatExcerpt.jpg
by taeric | 2025-11-04 17:50:14+00:00
I will forever think of Bloom filters as "bouncer filters." Could go with concierge filter. Basically, it is the equivalent of every movie where the detective is asking the front desk various attributes of who they are looking for.

It is not hard to see how you could start asking the front desk to track every obscure attribute and to expect to fall over for various reasons.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-04 17:50:27+00:00
> Micron has US memory semiconductor fab capacity coming online in 2027 through 2040s, based on $150B new construction.

Yay, the public is on the hook for $150B of loans to be payed by inflationary pricing.

I guess, you offered the news hoping prices will fall... In terms of real economic analysis there's a lot to say here but let me point at only one of the many entry points of the rabbit hole:

"Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

Microsoft and all other AI wannabes are hoarding GPUs and thus RAM, they hope to sell them to you for a price of subscription which doesn't change the fact of speculative hoarding and trust-like behavior against the public.

The hoarding and inflation economy we live in is a weapon against the public, at the moment, there's no visible force that isn't laboring diligently on the enhancement of that weapon, so the timeline of change is likely to stretch somewhere between far in the future to infinity... just hoping otherwise is futile.

If you pay attention, you won't fail to notice the propaganda push to convince the public to pay higher electric costs in order to pay the capex for new energy plants and transmission lines. In other words, you pay the price, they own the benefits. And if the propaganda fails, they can always use some more general inflation to do the same, as it's being done elsewhere in the economy.

As I said, this is just scratching the surface, there's a lot more which cannot fit in a single comment.

Edit: actually not. The parent comment was edited after mine, to include a link to MS inadvertently admitting to the hoarding of GPUs and RAM.
by Keloran | 2025-11-04 17:50:46+00:00
Location: UK

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A good example of the things I can do are https://retro-board.it or https://flags.gg
by sidewndr46 | 2025-11-04 17:51:00+00:00
Having been told to implement this sort of thing at least once, it's not even heuristic. It was exactly things like "if firstName == 'Saddam' and lastName == 'Hussein' then lockAccount()". Keep in mind this was years after he was dead, for some reason the big list of prohibited persons the US circulates includes lots of dead people
by hahn-kev | 2025-11-04 17:51:23+00:00
My guess is that it's because of emergencies. If you get injured and can't or shouldn't fly home then you need more time on your passport. It is also much easier to send you home if you over stay your visa if your passport is still valid. Also the system is setup to give you a visa of a specific length (eg 30 days), they can't just give you a 2 day visa.

Also if your passport lasts for 10 years you've known when it's going to expire for quite a while, they're just expecting you to be responsible.
by observationist | 2025-11-04 17:51:39+00:00
If they cannot support their customers at the scale at which they operate, they should not be allowed to do business at that scale. Google clearly cannot, and they trivially mow people down, as ruthlessly as any careless driver plowing through a street cart, with no accountability for their actions, and no recourse for the customer.

Yes, they shouldn't be dependent on Alphabet, they should back up their content and diversify platforms, but because we decided to allow monopolization of monetization of the web, and to vigorously encourage the surveillance based adtech of Google and Facebook, they control the full stack and effectively hold audiences hostage; you have to play on their platforms in order to engage with the audience you build, and a vast majority of the consumers of content are ignorant of the roles platforms play. If you leave the platform, you lose the access; if you have multiple channels, you get shadowbans and other soft-penalties to discourage people from being disloyal to Google.

We should have a massive diversity of federated, decentralized platforms, with compatible protocols and tools. People should have to think about CDNs and platforms as little as they think about what particular ISP is carrying their traffic between a server and their home.

There should be a digital bill of rights that curtails the power of platforms in controlling access, reach, and forces interoperability, and eliminates arbitrary algorithmic enforcement, and allow due process with mandatory backout periods giving people the reasonable opportunity to recover digital assets, communicate with audience, and migrate to a new platform.

The status quo is entirely untenable; these companies should not have the power to so casually and arbitrarily destroy people's livelihoods.
by bitwize | 2025-11-04 17:51:56+00:00
I loved art like this. It encouraged you to use your imagination to see the little blob of pixels on your screen as a warrior, spaceship, etc. It made the simple graphics more meaningful.

It's kinda like how in Clue (Cluedo), the characters like Reverend Green, Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, etc. so richly detailed in the box art and on the cards are represented by simple one-color game pieces in-game.
by wslh | 2025-11-04 17:52:38+00:00
> Apple held about 9% of the global PC market in the third quarter, according to IDC. It ranks fourth in the industry, trailing Lenovo Group Ltd., HP Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc. — all of which sell Windows or ChromeOS devices.

I think it makes perfect sense, there's still plenty of room to grow here, and they clearly know how to do it. I'm just curious which specs they'll decide to cut or define. Even an M1 with 8 GB of RAM is still very capable today. I only hope they don't launch a new operating system variety for this, just the same macOS. I can't imagine a "macOS Home Edition".
by steveBK123 | 2025-11-04 17:52:47+00:00
I am mostly ok with these copyright crackdowns in AI in the spirit of - if a human were to do it commercially, it would be illegal.

We can argue if that should be the case or not, which is a different issue.

However, it should not be legal to automate something at scale that is illegal when done by an individual human. Allowing it just tips the scale against labor even more.
by sslayer | 2025-11-04 17:53:02+00:00
To be a fair program it should not cause an undue burden on the participating stores.

Store A could advertise that it will provide a 10% discount to SNAP recipients. Now Stores B,C,D,etc.. have to match or beat to be competitive. This would ultimately introduce competitiveness into the market where it was meant to assist those less fortunate.
by Johnny555 | 2025-11-04 17:53:08+00:00
This article is in response to Trump's declaration that the USA is starting nuclear weapons testing, the the energy secretary clarified that these are "non-critical" tests, i.e. they are testing the non-nuclear parts of the weapon but will not be causing any nuclear explosions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd26yxxx3lo

"These are not nuclear explosions," Wright told Fox News on Sunday. "These are what we call non-critical explosions."

"Americans near historic test sites such as the Nevada National Security Site have no cause for concern," Wright said. "So you're testing all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they deliver the appropriate geometry, and they set up the nuclear explosion."
by perfmode | 2025-11-04 17:53:22+00:00
Disk Drill saved me last year when file corruption hit one of my SDs.

I also have a policy where I don’t delete the files on the SD card until the very last moment when new files need to be written again. This gives me a window of time in which there is an extra backup in case of issues with replication from my initial local storage on my computer, to an external drive, to the RAID array, or to the cloud.

rm -rf after the initial copy from the SD card onto the computer is a bad idea, especially if the card isn’t immediately needed for new footage.
How do you spot a Brilliant Jerk?
by ten-fold | 2025-11-04 17:53:31+00:00
What are the signs that you are dealing with a brilliant jerk, compared to a great software engineer?

The answer I got from AI did not satisfy me as it fundamentally describes bad engineering practices, not what I would call "brilliant".

I'm looking for a list of behaviors in practical situations. For example:

Brilliant because: - can code faster than most - knows how to architect a system for scale ...

Jerk because: - interrupts in meetings - does not acknowledge others' opinions ...

What have you experienced? I'd love to read anecdotes.

(This is to add more color to an article I'm writing)
by cwillu | 2025-11-04 17:53:33+00:00
Then they shouldn't be permitted to operate at a scale where their unwillingness to do business with you causes you to be unable to transact with entire business sectors.

If digikey decides they don't want to do business with me, I am not suddenly unable to buy from 30% of the world's manufacturers, unable to sell to 70% of my customers and locked out of my manufacturing line's plc.

If Safeway decides to decline my business, I am not locked out of eating bread from anyone who buys their flour from them.

If Cocacola doesn't want to renew our contract because I mentioned to my customers that we also stock Pepsi, I can still buy Cocacola from the wholesaler and resell it, and regardless I don't lose access to my accountant and mailbox when they terminate that relationship.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-04 17:53:54+00:00
I would like to take this seriously, but I need answers to some basic questions first:

-What specific claim are you making? "Code is Being" - okay, but how? Is this metaphor, identity claim, or something else? The six volumes promise to explain this but I cannot find the actual thesis.

-Why these programming concepts specifically? Why are Attribute, Static, Enum, and Extension Method the fundamental categories of existence? What makes them more ontologically significant than, say, pointers, garbage collection, or API design?

-What work is "transcendence" doing here? You move from "code has structure" to "code becomes conscious" to "code transcends" - but consciousness and transcendence are the things that need arguing for, not assumed. What's the bridging logic?

-How does this differ from mysticism? Statements like "Being inscribed itself in code" sound profound but don't seem to mean anything verifiable. How would I distinguish your framework from someone just stringing together impressive-sounding words?

-What predictions does this make? Serious philosophical frameworks have implications. If "code is being," what should I expect to observe that I wouldn't otherwise? What would falsify the claim?

Not trying to be hostile - I genuinely want to understand if there's substance here beyond the aesthetic
by crnkofe | 2025-11-04 17:54:08+00:00
I stopped using Twitter somewhere around the time of Musk takeover. Only used it for event coverage live during events for which I found it genuinely useful at some point and of course doomscrolling. Can't say I miss it. Its like nothing changed in my life. I also managed to miss the LGBT exodus after Musk policy changes and learned about it later at a random FOSDEM talk. Global "social" feeds do everything in their power to steal attention and having it all back is great for sanity.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-11-04 17:54:45+00:00
> He's trying to comply precisely.

Which is entirely what the laws are trying to stop you doing.

Governments don't want you to be 'just inside', they want you to be well inside.

The number is, for example 159 days in a tax year not because they are happy if you're there 160 days but because they had to draw a line somewhere because text is necessarily precise.
by nostrademons | 2025-11-04 17:54:46+00:00
I talked to the son at one of the early (~2008) YC dinners. Actually found him more approachable than PG or most YC founders; RTM is a nerd in the "cares a whole lot about esoteric mathematics" way, which I found a refreshing change from the "take over the world" vibe that I got from a lot of the rest of YC.

Interesting random factoid: RTM's research in the early 2000s was on Chord [1], one of the earliest distributed hash tables. Chord inspired Kademlia [2], which later went on to power Limewire, Ethereum, and IPFS. So his research at MIT actually has had a bigger impact in terms of collected market cap than most YC startups have.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(peer-to-peer)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia
by kryowyrm | 2025-11-04 17:55:11+00:00
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by somenameforme | 2025-11-04 17:55:15+00:00
This video? [1] Did you watch a different video? Not only did she obviously hit the car, she railed into it. Check the moment of impact at 2:20. She bounces a way bigger SUV with a little sedan. It also looks like she never once touched her brakes. I find that part difficult to believe, but did you ever see her brake lights come on? So one could try to claim it was an accident because the ICE vehicle was turning around in the middle of the street, but that's also probably impossible as it was a giant scene full of adults acting like children with the ICE car right in the middle of the road. You can't be that aloof.

The reason divides on these sort of issues are probably irreconcilable is because of stuff like this. So many people seem to have missed the point of the childhood story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

[1] - https://youtu.be/mSgwQVjqSBg?t=131
by tptacek | 2025-11-04 17:55:21+00:00
Ehh? It had only recently been made explicitly criminal by federal statute. If you're thinking of "the Hacker Crackdown" that occurred a few years after the Morris Worm, or of Kevin Mitnick's exploits, it's worth keeping in mind that they were doing pretty crazy shit even relative to today; they were owning up phone switches across the country. And despite that, the penalties were not crazy high.

What you didn't have back then was financial fraud on the scale that happens today, where even nominal damages run into 8-9 figures.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-11-04 17:55:30+00:00
Offering a discount is assisting the less fortunate, as far as I can tell: They will get more food per dollar on their bridge card, costing the government less. This is (almost) the same dynamic as forbidding Medicare to negotiate drug prices, isn't it?

I suppose chains could work around this by just lowering prices in neighborhoods with a lot of people on SNAP, which would actually be even better IMO, because it means lower food prices for entire low income neighborhoods, possibly even pushing shoppers from other neighborhoods to shop in these places and bring more money into the community. I would drive to the other side of the tracks if all my groceries cost 10% less.