MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Alupis | 2025-11-11 01:35:55+00:00
The BEAM is fascinating for many reasons, including being register-based.

I really just wish the BEAM was portable in the way the JVM is. The BEAM hooks into so many system libraries, you must compile it on every flavor of linux instead of just unpacking a tarball.

This means you either must use your distro package manager's version, or compile from scratch. If you want to control the exact version that's being used across your team (via `asdf` or similar), this practically means you'll end up compiling the BEAM over and over...
by AngryData | 2025-11-11 01:36:00+00:00
If they arm and empower a significant local population, they do have a credible defense, because the vast majority of leaders in the world knows fighting a decently armed insurgency is extremely costly. They watched the US itself, a military that dwarfs the entire rest of the world's militaries, do it multiple times, along with Russia and a few other countries. The "cheapest" way to win against an insurgency is to literally blow the entire country up until nothing is standing à la North Korea, but that also destroys 95% of the value of taking a country which defeats the entire point of taking it.
by perihelions | 2025-11-11 01:36:13+00:00
Good eye. It's plagiarized, too: the source they copied (without attribution) is this New York Times story[0], and you can diff the two texts yourselves, to see what AI did to it. (It's gross).

I've emailed the mods to ask them to replace the post's URL.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/business/neros-military-d... ("The 20-Somethings Who Raised $121 Million to Build Military Drones" by Farah Stockman)
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-11-11 01:36:22+00:00
Ultimately I think this is true, but you can't overlook any aspect, and it seems the US overlooked drone potential. Thus far it hasn't cost them.

A disparate drone swarm taking out power distribution stations (I don't know what they're officially called) all over the country would be devastating. Lessons from https://cybersquirrel1.com/.

(I think there's an 'imagination' and/or 'perspective' limitation when you're already the gorilla. You think like a gorilla, you're unable to think like a parasite)
by segmondy | 2025-11-11 01:36:26+00:00
They don't just log license, they log everything about the car, dents, location of dents, type of wheels, stickers, etc. If you swap a license plate they would be able to tell the car. One local case I read about, the culprits used their own car with a stolen plate. They were able to identify the car based on the car's "fingerprints" dents, style, color, antenna, scratches etc.
by drdeca | 2025-11-11 01:37:25+00:00
Hm, I’m not saying it is good for America, but it seems to me that there are plausible senses of “good for America” for which it is plausible that illegal immigration is “good for America” in those senses.

Now, I generally dislike laws being broken. If there’s a situation where breaking a law is the right thing to do, then typically that indicates some problem (perhaps with the law, perhaps with something else).

So, I would hope that if illegal immigration is or were acting as a good thing right now, that there is or would be a better long-term solution for whatever situation than “a long term pattern of illegal immigration”.

Oh, I somehow misinterpreted “In no way is” as “There is no way that”. Oops.
by yodon | 2025-11-11 01:37:49+00:00
I get that it's fully programmable, but can someone explain how you type numbers and the symbols that are on number keys on this keyboard? I didn't see any keycaps for them, and couldn't find any docs on where the symbols live.

EDIT ADDED: I'm guessing maybe there is a control that causes other symbols to become visible on the keycaps, replacing the default A-Z symbols, and they never show those alternate symbols in the photos because we're supposed to know it does that.
by joegibbs | 2025-11-11 01:38:11+00:00
I think it would be very, very difficult - almost impossible - to create a dataset to train an image generator that doesn't contain any copyrighted material that you don't have the rights to. There's the obvious stuff like Mickey Mouse or Superman, you just run some other tool over it to filter them out, but there are so many ridiculous things that can be copyrighted (depictions of buildings, tattoos), things like crowd shots, pictures of cities that have ads in the background, that I don't know how you could do it. I'm sure even Adobe's stock library would have a lot of violations like that.
by bofadeez | 2025-11-11 01:38:15+00:00
Human action isn’t just another physical process because it’s driven by intention, not mechanical causation. A rock falls because gravity compels it; a person acts because they want something to happen. That difference makes human behavior fundamentally qualitative. It’s rooted in meaning, interpretation, and choice. You can measure motion, but you can’t measure purpose. Once you strip away intention to fit behavior into a mathematical model, you’re no longer describing human action. You’re describing an abstraction that behaves like a machine. The numbers might be tidy, but they stop representing what people actually do.
by system2 | 2025-11-11 01:38:59+00:00
What is your proposed solution then? If an individual working at a company is no longer useful, is it the company's responsibility to nurture and take care of this person? Imagine you have a small company and one employee gets money from you for no reason, and you can't improve this person because he/she has no will to do it themselves. Or is it the government's responsibility? If so, it is socialism you are after.
by thrance | 2025-11-11 01:39:30+00:00
Wonder why people would take issue with the unqualified, armed, masked thugs abducting innocent people off the street and deporting them without recourse or due process. Must be all about Trump, surely.

The only thing defying logic here is the MAGA cult rationalizing away the brown shirts now patrolling the streets of America, they who are supposedly so attached to freedom.
by godelski | 2025-11-11 01:40:26+00:00
> looks quite promising for a model that understands stuff including reflections and stuff.

I got the opposite impression when trying their demo...[0]. Even in their examples some of these issues exist like how objects stay a constant size despite moving. Like missing the parallax or depth information. Not to mention that they show it walking on water lol

As for reflections, I don't get that impression either. They seem extremely brittle to movement.

[0] http://0x0.st/K95T.png
by kalleboo | 2025-11-11 01:41:37+00:00
Family of 4 comes home after a long day out, all plug in their phones at the same time to charge and drop down in the sofa to vegetate in front of Netflix. Why is it buffering so bad?!?

Traffic is bursty. Higher bandwidth connections make the whole internet more efficient - if you can race to idle then servers have fewer concurrent connections to keep track of, routers can more quickly clean up their NAT tables etc etc
by crote | 2025-11-11 01:42:23+00:00
The appointed federal judges in the US are nominated by a political President, and confirmed by a simple majority in a two-party-system Senate, and serve for life. They have (unsurprisingly) become quite political, with either party appointing judges who'd be likely to judge in their favour.

This is not at all comparable to appointed judges in other countries, where politicians usually don't have any input on the appointment process. Usually they are chosen by the current judges at that level, or by an entity like a bar association.

After all, how can you have a Trias Politica if the three branches aren't independent?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-11 01:42:33+00:00
It facilitates offloading overpriced assets to younger bag holders with insufficient buying power due to stagnant wages and lack of economic potential.

So, unfortunately not.

(increasing supply would take targeted capital cost reduction, monopoly busting around new home builders and their land acquisition partners, and rapidly increasing the trades labor supply by hundreds of thousands of workers in the near term without immigration; none of this is likely to happen within the next three years)
by jsperson | 2025-11-11 01:42:44+00:00
I was wondering about MS quality control as my son hung over my shoulder waiting to join a Minecraft session with his buddies. I was fighting yet another bad update that made the game unplayable. There’s no rollback option. The broken functionality was fundamental to actually playing so they obviously did not test.

To really rub it in they combine not testing with treating their customers like garbage. Their support actually tried repeatedly blaming my ISP as if somehow connectivity would impact user account specific issues. I eventually sent them URLs of articles pointing out the problem. Then - crickets.
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-11 01:43:58+00:00
> I have no problem with enabling smartphone-based payments and passes for people who like them, but companies should not be allowed to block out (or charge extra to) others who prefer not to tether themselves to a phone.

I agree with this. (The same would apply to restaurant menus.)

(In the case of restaurant menus, they could post a single copy near the entrance or somewhere that it can be seen by everyone in case they do not want to make multiple copies (and do not want to waste paper). E-paper displays might be used in case they sometimes change.)
by nerdsniper | 2025-11-11 01:44:23+00:00
GroundStateGecko:

> I explicitly asked about "backup VeraCrypt encrypted volumes (not vault stored as a file)", and they replied "The backup of any VeraCrypt-encrypted files is no longer supported."

bzChristopher (From Backblaze):

> Christopher from the Backblaze team here -> Backing up the mounted volume is no longer supported. However, you can still back up the unmounted image file without issue, provided the relevant file type exclusion has been removed.

s_i_m_s:

> This is viable for small containers but I can't see how this is in any way viable for fully encrypted drives. Like sure I could convert the full drive to a container but that makes the backup and restore process untenable. On the backup side a 1% full 4TB drive is now 4TB to backup and it's no longer possible to deduplicate between drives. On the restore side to get one 5MB file off that 4TB drive i'd then have to download the entire 4TB container.

GroundStateGecko:

> That doesn't work for encrypted partitions. Even for the image file, it is unreasonable to upload the whole image file every time one small portion of it gets updated.

bzChristopher (From Backblaze):

> The Backblaze client can deduplicate files and the unchanged parts of large (over 100 MB) files.
by jcelerier | 2025-11-11 01:45:11+00:00
I regularly do remote VNC and X11 access on stuff like raspberry pi zero and in these cases GPU does not work, you won't be able to open a GL context at all. Also whenever i upadte my kernel on archlinux i'm not able to open a gl context until i reboot, so I really need apps that don't need a gpu context just to show stuff
by brandensilva | 2025-11-11 01:45:39+00:00
Yeah I think people are underestimating drones here.

There is a reason this administration is fast tracking drone production and easing up on procurement. Some stuff doesn't need super sophisticated systems with traditional processes to get off the ground quickly with a cheap swarm approach.

It's probably the only thing I can agree with this administration on.

With that said America would be doing both drone swarms and advanced missile systems where they are most effective.
by alex43578 | 2025-11-11 01:46:04+00:00
Agreed. The military will certainly need smaller drones to support squads or platoons, and to perform a variety of functions on the battlefield. But, I think drawing too many and too specific of lessons from Ukraine/Russia is bad.

It's tough to imagine a scenario where the US is so bogged down on a front line that a few miles of range on a Ukraine style FPV drone is going to be a critical weapon, especially if this scenario also requires that the US not be able to perform SEAD, destroy GPS jamming, or hit the target with JDAM/Hellfires/ETC.

Having a Mavic or Mini drone that can perform recon, a small drone capable of delivering a grenade sized payload to hit entrenched targets, a larger drone that can offer BDA and recon for artillery/MLRS, or the "Loyal Wingman" airforce drones are all reasonable ideas. But I just don't see the US standing up a dedicated FPV regiment - it doesn't align with the rest of the force's composition or likely missions.

Essentially it's this dichotomy: If we need to project force overseas, it's existing at the end of a massive chain of logistics, air/sea power and lift capability, and a lot of dollars. Whether the drone costs 500, 1000, or 10,000 doesn't really matter at that point because the soldier operating it and the logistics to get him there has already cost hundreds of thousands, and even a $50K drone-bomb is cheaper than the cost of the JDAM, F-35 flight time, pilot, and carrier that would otherwise be used to hit the target.

If instead we are fighting on the homefront, battling over tens of miles of heartland and building drones from parts scavenged from a bombed out Best Buy or imported from some imaginary, untouched part of the world (because what would the world's supply chain look like in this scenario??), all assumptions go out the window and the idea of mass-producing any armament at all is impossible.
by hopelite | 2025-11-11 01:46:04+00:00
No need to imagine. There are several cases already of these buffoons in law enforcement doing scary things. The Institute for Justice (IJ) is one of the organizations taking these cases on and who also has suggestions for how to go about combating this stuff. I’m sure most here are also familiar with Louis Rossmann; he’s also been beating the drum on this stuff locally and in Colorado.
by fn-mote | 2025-11-11 01:46:47+00:00
That D rating isn’t for physically unacceptable. It’s for complete incompetence or at least just punching the time clock. A lifetime of working for a bureaucracy that doesn’t care for you isn’t going to bring out the best anywhere else, either. Especially not if that’s a one week a year mandatory service. (I didn’t read tfa.)
by sweettea | 2025-11-11 01:47:41+00:00
Many keyboards use the qmk firmware these days, qmk.fm, which can be programmed with the Vial configurator, get.vial.today .

Here's one typical qwerty-ish layout for 42 keys: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layo...

And for something more weird but still fully featured, Miryoku is a fairly common micro-keyboard layout, https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku .

Why? Well, I really admire Jonas Heitala's documentation of his journey to find a layout that fit his aesthetic: https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2023/11/02/i_designed_my_ow... . My layout isn't as extreme, it's still qwerty-ish, but I've been heavily inspired by his thorough analysis.
by jorvi | 2025-11-11 01:47:54+00:00
The trick is to pretend you're an idiot. If the bicycle and the person on it map mostly to a rectangle of 8 squares, most people will be so stupid or hasty that they'll click that, nevermind that a human is not part of the bicycle.

The same is true with, say, buses. See an image of a delivery van? Bus! It asks you select all cars and you see no car but a vague pixel blob that someone stupid would identify as a car? Car!

One of the few things that this doesn't work with is stairs, because the side of stairs being stairs or not is something apparently no one can agree on.
by uoaei | 2025-11-11 01:49:07+00:00
Human action is entirely causally dependent on human psychology vis a vis biology, of which we have now only a rudimentary formal understanding and certainly not a sufficient model of its structure, let alone the relation between its aspects and the resulting actions.

At the same time, statistical methods are interesting and suggestive but should be understood at the relatively coarse level they inhabit.

Both approaches have their uses and it is worth delineating the boundary between their respective appropriate contexts.
by scoofy | 2025-11-11 01:49:15+00:00
I mean, I disagree with you on all counts. I think it’s always fair to care about treatment of detainees… we don’t use the repeated inflammatory “kidnappings” of our concern is merely detainees treatment.

Other states, such as the UK, make it obscenely difficult to exist without documentation. They certainly do not tacitly endorse it. To suggest “I wouldn’t like” policies that plenty of western countries engage in seems naive.

Finally, the Republicans temperament on legal immigration is horrific, but they are in the position to ignore attempts to change the law because the law is on their side… like any issue in democracy, that means the Democrats are the party that needs to change minds.
by jaytaylor | 2025-11-11 01:49:35+00:00
This is a really neat project .

At my company (StrongDM) we recently open-sourced a tool in this space called Leash: https://github.com/strongdm/leash

By default it runs in docker, and also includes an extra sophisticated macOS-native --darwin mode which goes beyond the capabilities and guarantees of the likes of sandbox-exe, bubblewrap, and in some ways docker. Leash provides visibility into and control over every command and network request attempted by the coder agent. Would appreciate any feedback, and will try to get in touch with the author (Gordon).

Now I'll definitely look into automatically supporting pass-through auth for at least gh cli in Leash - always looking for what folks will find useful.
by thfuran | 2025-11-11 01:50:47+00:00
But they aren't completely equivalent. Natural persons can vote; juridical persons cannot. Natural persons have a constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination; juridical persons do not; etc. There's just a lot in common between the two, because it makes sense for there to be a lot in common. Citizen's United v FEC was a transparently terrible ruling, but it was in no way implied by the mere existence of corporate personhood. It was a significant expansion of the interpretation of corporate personhood that directly overturned a prior supreme court ruling on campaign finance regulation.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-11 01:52:18+00:00
Which is better than Flock's "Transparency" Report. I live in WA, ex-Flock employee, and in my County, half of the agencies with Flock agreements are not on their Transparency portal.

And at the very least - why can't you search the Transparency Portal? You have to try each and every agency name. Let's try https://transparency.flocksafety.com/ ...

<Error> <Code>NoSuchKey</Code> <Message>The specified key does not exist.</Message> <Key>index.html</Key> <RequestId>[redacted]</RequestId> <HostId>[redacted]</HostId> </Error>

Has been like that for a year plus, at least.
by solid_fuel | 2025-11-11 01:52:44+00:00
What an odd comment considering the related fact check on Snopes is actually completely right about the incident in question [0].

The original article by Aphyr is specifically about factually.co which uses LLMs to synthesize "fact check" pages. The issue here is that LLMs (which do not formally reason and do not have a concept of truth) are being used to mass produce factually incorrect summaries of events masquerading as fact checks.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-chicago-pastor/
by yodon | 2025-11-11 01:53:27+00:00
I feel like there should be a sign on the home page saying "you have to be at least this (arrow pointing at a height) cool to buy this keyboard"

If you don't already know how this kind of keyboard works, we don't care about you and won't bother explaining it to you because you're obviously not worth selling to if you don't already know how a programmable 42 key keyboard works.

You have to pick keycaps, and switches, and maybe buy extra keycaps for some reason. We're not going to tell you why extra keycaps are important or useful, but you should probably buy them anyway for some reason.

I'm pretty sure they would have sold me at least one keyboard, maybe several, if they'd bothered to put even 5 minutes thought into non-keyboard-hipster customers, but I'm clearly not cool enough with my multiple kinesis keyboards, chording keyboards, and mechanical keyboards.

I'm not a keyboard hipster, I'm just a guy who had RSI and doesn't want it again. People like me do actually buy keyboards.
by TriangleEdge | 2025-11-11 01:53:29+00:00
This reminds me of the movie 300 where an army shows up with potters and other tradesmen, while the army of Sparta were all soldiers.

Opinion: as an expat, I'm not sure who would join the CAF nowadays. Not much to be proud of in my opinion. Without exaggerating, not a single person I grew up with is doing well, and I had to leave Canada to start my family.
by g8oz | 2025-11-11 01:54:20+00:00
I don't know what kind of rock one must be hiding under to not think that Israel was not trying to exterminate as many Palestinians as possible in the current genocide. It's all very well documented and indeed livestreamed. All levels of their society were calling for as much killing as could be done.

No amount low effort lawyering is going to erase cabinet ministers calling for ethnic cleansing, the use of food as a weapon, the rape of detainees, the celebration of the rapists, the double tap shooting of children by their hundreds, the killing fields of the fake GHF aid sites, the mass executions of medics and aid workers, the systematic destruction of water, health and education infrastructure....and on and on and on.
by duskdozer | 2025-11-11 01:54:21+00:00
No - unless you took away my gitconfig, which is pretty big at this point. Though I guess that's mostly a time-saver. Even so, I've found most of the GUI tools to be confusing because it's hard to tell what they're actually doing under the hood.

I do use sublime merge at times though now - it's nice for [un]staging individual lines and for looking at some diffs. I also like git-foresta[1] more than log sometimes. I'll have to check out scmpuff - it should be easier than going through a patch add.

[1]: https://github.com/takaaki-kasai/git-foresta
by Kyrio | 2025-11-11 01:55:25+00:00
This looks like it could be a sensible way to use LLMs in programming, although I'm not convinced AI-generated documentation can give meaningful explanations rather than paraphrase. However, since the generated wiki is editable, it seems it can be used to give a kick start to internal documentation and let the actual devs step in when it's required. I'm skittish about genAI in the workplace (or anywhere really) but this could be valuable.

However, and this might have been naïve of me, but I expected some sort of local model. And I see that you have to bring in your own vendor API keys, which implies that you let AI companies mine your codebase. Isn't that a no-go for most companies? So far I've only worked in places that banned ChatGPT over IP concerns like these. Is it already common for businesses to feed their codebases to third party LLMs?
by philipwhiuk | 2025-11-11 01:55:26+00:00
> While I eventually ended up fixing the performance issues in my game, I can’t help but think of scenarios where problems could arise later that are unfixable due to limitations of the tools I’m using.

Only if you don't want to get your hands dirty with the layers you're using.

The trade-off with an abstraction layer is that every layer introduces bugs/decisions which may be a concern. But you can always (if it's open source) tweak the layer(s) below.

Moreover, why not finish the game and make your next project in something new.
by cyberax | 2025-11-11 01:56:29+00:00
Russia is dominating Ukraine in air forces by about 10-to-1. Yet Russia is using aviation only to lob guided bombs from far beyond the front line.

Apparently, air defense is good enough to make the aviation use too expensive too quickly. It's possible that the US can saturate the air defense by the sheer number of airplanes, accepting heavy casualties in return. But what if it fails?