MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by torginus | 2025-11-08 22:19:34+00:00
First you chew me out for pointing out that this isn't a very good resource for compiler stuff as its more of an autobiographical post.

Then you turn around and claim that this was a technical article after all. And no, the advice of 'you have to be among the three dozen people that get accepted to MIT to do math' is an unnecessarily elitist piece advice, that's not even necessary, as I (and a lot of others) pointed out there are a ton of good books and resources you can just get started with.

I know HN disallows editorializing, but the title reads like it'll be an useful resource on compilers. The writer obviously chose that title in context of her personal blog, where it makes sense, but I maintain that a strangers life update is not interesting to the rest of us, and if I were the writer, I wouldn't be too happy if someone decided to direct a ton of eyeballs to my personal post.

I'd implore you to look around in the thread, most people had different expectations and complained about the same thing I did. Still the post was useful, since an interesting conversation happened around the topic of compilers.

And I'd like you to realize, that you are just one person sharing his personal opinion, not some arbiter of moral goodness, please stop attacking me, and I feel bad for having to defend myself.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-08 22:19:38+00:00
I don't know yet. I've got a Win10 EDU I'm going to try to upgrade to Win11 IOT but I haven't pulled the trigger yet. It's in place doing some NAS duty atm.

The command doesn't ask any questions so there's no opportunity to tweak it. I'm getting a recovery plan in place before I pull the trigger on mine.

edit: I might also go another way. There are some other setup methods that might be a better fit for cross-upgrading Windows types. I'm actively investigating but it may be a month before I'm in a position to try them out.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-08 22:19:45+00:00
"Having fewer opportunities is obviously a harm."

Scope matters. On the level of the entire economy? Possibly yes, but you haven't shown that the entire economy will discriminate against X or Y; respective preferences of individual players may well balance out.

On the level of a single Acme, Inc.? What if that particular organization is unofficially hostile to a particular gender? I would say that in such case, it is more harmful to join it blindly and then suffer from the generally unfriendly environment than to steer clear of them in time.

I wouldn't personally like to become an employee in a corporation that prefers not to employ men and is only forced to do so by external powers. And I would prefer them to be honest and advertise that openly, to save my time and theirs from making an unhappy match.
by tedivm | 2025-11-08 22:21:15+00:00
I live here, and Pritzker says the right things then does the wrong things. He sent the Illinois State Police to help protect ICE from protestors as Broadview, freeing up their resources to attack and kidnap people. In half the videos you see out there his state police as assisting ICE. We have Chicago Aldermen out in the streets and in the hospitals getting arrested and assaulted, we have candidates for congress like Kat Abughazaleh being indicted for protesting, and then Pritzker is giving speeches and going on podcasts while not even stopping his own thugs from helping ICE.

He doesn't have a spine, he has an election strategy.
by Etheryte | 2025-11-08 22:22:02+00:00
File-based routing is fundamentally flawed and it cannot be fixed. A number of libraries opt for it since it's easier for newcomers to pick up, but eventually you run into all of the cases where you do need something else. This in turn leads you to a hybrid system of multiple things where there's no single source of truth and everything is spaghetti.
by tptacek | 2025-11-08 22:23:39+00:00
First, the logic you're trying to apply about my "religion" doesn't cohere for the reason I stated. It doesn't follow logically from my belief that certain races aren't superior to others that I believe any X or Y claim about behavioral genetics. Second, and again, as already stated, the arguments I'm making are positive and falsifiable. You can't just bank-shot them through what you believe my psychology to be.

Either work on behavioral genetics (including behavioral genetics through the lens of racial groups) is being produced by serious scientific groups or it isn't. It is, as you can trivially verify. Ergo, the claim I made in the post I responded to is falsified. What you think about me doesn't enter into it.

So too it goes with the things I said about the MTAS: it does in fact have a small sample, it does in fact have issues with controls (look where they got the adoptees from), it does predate a large amount of scientific work on inherited environment, gene/environment interaction, and epigenetics.

Even a hereditarian wouldn't make the claim the parent commenter made, that MTAS is the last word on this question.

In fact, given the falsity of claim the parent commenter made on this kind of work being suppressed, it would be weird if it was the last word on the question: scientists have spent 20 years drilling into this, and the result has, among other things, been the "Missing Heritability Problem". You don't even have to know anything specific about MTAS to get the problem with the claim on this thread.
by dangus | 2025-11-08 22:23:44+00:00
Apple’s services pull in more revenue than Macs and iPads combined.

The expectation that they won’t advertise them is, unfortunately, not a reasonable one.

You can turn off Apple Music the service entirely from the music app. If you stick to the library tab in books you’ll never see an ad. It’s really not anywhere close to the worst offender in the industry.

Is it a great thing? No.
by defrost | 2025-11-08 22:24:09+00:00
I have a dim recollection of exactly this as a VC proposal likely put to YC in the past 24 months or so.

I think the notion was to fit masts to existing container ship and stacks, and I gsve it scant attention as my intuition (I once studied actual civil/mech engineering prior to jumping ship for applied math) suggested masts are better as integral parts of ships rather than bolt on after thoughts.

EDIT: Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426482

I’m Joseph, and along with Arpan and Bailey we are the founders of OutSail Shipping. We’re building a sail the size of a 747 that rolls up into a shipping container.

https://outsailshipping.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/OutSail-Shipping/

When deployed, it will generate thrust from the wind to reduce the fuel consumption of a cargo ship. An array of these devices will reduce fuel consumption on ships by up to 20%. These sails are easily stowed and removed to cause no interference with cargo operations. Here’s a short video showing our prototype:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUpVqzpym54

Not quite as I remembered .. kite sails, et al. are a good idea, I'm still a bit torn by the physics of a container deployed boom extension sail and the thrust transmission to the ship. Still, I haven't modeled it, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.

EDIT2: Both links appear dead, so I guess that was a swing and a miss. Still, good to see such ideas pursued.

EDIT3: Also related

350 tons of of chocolate and wine arrive on world’s largest cargo sailboat (April 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40022801
by don_neufeld | 2025-11-08 22:24:13+00:00
Totally get it.

My parents (Canadian) won’t visit, and haven’t since Trump’s first term.

Keep in mind these are people who were educated in the US (Cornell, RPI, Florida State), and as kids, we used to spend at least a month a year in the US on vacation with their college friends. So not historically haters.

Hell, I just remembered as a kid I spent a whole summer in Chicago. IIRC We stayed in student housing while my dad finished his book (https://archive.org/details/Inside_Commodore_Dos_1984_Datamo...).

Hottest summer of my life and no AC anywhere to be seen.
by frameset | 2025-11-08 22:25:04+00:00
Whilst I appreciate you can do this, and some people have programs they need Windows for, I am sick of fighting my OS.

One thing I realised when I switched to desktop Linux was just how quiet it was.

It just sits there until I want to do something. It doesn't try and trick me into changing my default browser, or put adverts in my program launcher, or harvest my data.

It just runs my programs when I ask it to.
by ivanbakel | 2025-11-08 22:25:42+00:00
> I mean, feeling sand compress in subtle ways and being able to map that mentally to an object that might be hidden in the sand seems like literally touch plus normal world modelling / reasoning

That seems like a very strong claim against the paper’s results. What makes you think that the study participants located the cube with reasoning, rather than unthinking sense?

I think we can be too quick to write things off as somehow coming from conscious thought when they bypass that part of our minds entirely. I don’t form sentences with a rational use of grammar. I don’t determine how heavy something is by reasoning about its weight before I pick it up. There is something much more interesting happening cognitively in these cases that we shouldn’t dismiss.
by nradov | 2025-11-08 22:26:18+00:00
You've got to be kidding. Using a fully sail powered cargo vessel is a PR stunt, not the way of the future. Regular motorized cargo vessels will probably use some form of sails to slightly reduce fuel burn on downwind legs but it's physically impossible to move huge volumes of cargo purely by sail power in an economical way. There just isn't enough energy in the wind.
by fmajid | 2025-11-08 22:27:00+00:00
I ended up ordering a new PocketBook Verse from LaptopsDirect here in the UK, for £120, so about $160. I think it has the same e-ink generation as yours, and by all accounts B&W e-ink is crisper than the washed-out color e-ink displays.

I was referring more to the 8" to 10" e-readers, which are over $400, some over $700, for that price I'd rather get another iPad or Pixel Tablet. Hopefully e-ink tech is going to get cheaper when the patents expire, but that's 2032 or so, a long time away.
by rappatic | 2025-11-08 22:27:09+00:00
> Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works

The agents actually attempted to pull over Ms. Galeano’s vehicle, but the male driver (with Galeano in the passenger seat) refused to stop despite the sirens and lights. The agents pursued the car, which sped into a shopping center, and Ms. Galeano fled the vehicle and ran into a daycare, attempting to barricade herself inside. She didn’t get all the way in and was arrested inside the vestibule. None of the kids witnessed the arrest.

Regardless of your thoughts on immigration and ICE, if a cop tries to pull you over, and instead you decide to speed off and barricade yourself inside a daycare, you’re probably going to get arrested.
by maxnevermind | 2025-11-08 22:28:15+00:00
I was also surprised by that. It is relatively cheap to measure as you can just buy BP monitor and do it yourself at home. Considering that high BP is very often asymptomatic, I, for example, even feel better with high BP, many people walking around accumulating damage for years. Not to mention it also goes with a baggage of other side-effects like increased chances of a stroke and kidney failure. For some reason it hits differently when you go eat something salty or drink coffee or get all stressed out for now reason and then see increased BP with your own eyes. That was what motivated me to stick to a better diet, cut caffeine and chill out.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-11-08 22:28:38+00:00
The issue is, as it stands, LLMs are going to become a commodity. Could that happen and OAI is still a valuable firm? Maybe. Do I personally think OpenAI has the product prowess to pull it off? Nah, I think they are overly-concentrated with technologists (same problem Google has). Apple is still king when it comes to figuring out the ideal form of the product the buyer desires.

Apple can take a future OSS model and produce the winning product. That truth would be very bitter for many to swallow. Cook maintaining good relations with China could be the thing that makes Apple topple everyone in the long-run.
by jorvi | 2025-11-08 22:28:40+00:00
> Are we waiting for a friend to say, "Hey, you're looking a little rough."

If you are "looking rough", unless you are in imminent danger you should just go to the GP. Your GP is there to triage care. He'll recommend whether you need something prescribed from the pharmacy, a blood test or see a specialist.

If you get refered to a specialist, the hospital will try to ascertain if you need a really experienced specialist or if you have a relatively simple case that can be handled by one with, say, 11 years experience. If he decides the case is too complex, he can ask the more experienced specialist to preside.

If you short-circuit that and demand to be seen by the most experienced specialist, you are robbing a patient that might need that experienced hand of extremely valuable care, when you could have done with less. Like I said, egotistical.

> My takeaway: if bloodwork were broader, covered more markers, there would be one less reason to have to advocate for your own health.

Blood work needs lab workers who also have limited time. They could indeed do 10 tests but that means more labs and more lab workers which increases costs, which are already exploding. Better tests would be good.
by lm28469 | 2025-11-08 22:29:19+00:00
100ms can make a difference between life and death

If you're at the wheel of a moving car and do anything other than driving you're a piece of shit who deserves whatever comes your way (which preferably should be your sorry ass hitting a chunky tree and becoming tetraplegic)

There are 0 situation in which using a phone while driving improves your odds or the odds of other people are you.

It doesn't even matter if it's the victims fault, these people are dangerous and should not drive
by daft_pink | 2025-11-08 22:29:55+00:00
I lived in Chicago before this and experienced shootings in my neighborhood every month and carjackings and drug addicts just roaming the streets and wigging out.

It makes no sense that habitual criminals are protected and not deported by the local government. I think if the local government worked with ICE to deport criminals, this probably wouldn’t be happening the way that it was.

I think the City of Chicago is totally ineffective at many many things like closing murder cases, keeping habitual criminals locked up, etc etc.

It’s sad that this has become a political discussion instead of an effort to fix all the horrible problems in the city.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-11-08 22:29:56+00:00
> As a parent who gave my oldest child a (very used) smartphone just before she turned 14, I would be in favor of making smartphones illegal under age 15.

I see no logic in the above statement. You gave your kid a smartphone when she was 14. By today's standards, that's very late, and it's basically just one year before Denmark's proposed ban on social media. You can ban your child from having a smartphone for an arbitrary amount of time, but they are a future adult. Adults use smartphones. You can either prepare your child for the potential negatives of smartphone use, or they will learn that through their own experience later. There's no escaping smartphones and social networks.

The only way to deal with this is to talk to your kids, warn them, and educate them. I gave my kids smartphones when they were 8 and 9 years old. Those phones were fully managed by me, and the only web pages they could access were their school pages and Wikipedia. Every year, I relaxed these restrictions and frequently talked to them about the dangers of social media. Now, they have almost fully unrestricted phones, and I don't think there's anything to worry about.

The problem with social media for kids and teens is constant comparison. Any kind of comparison, but predominantly about visual appearance. Most people will never win this fight, and I believe it is a parent's role to explain this to their children. Banning smartphones or social media won't save anyone from facing the reality later on.
by devilbunny | 2025-11-08 22:30:51+00:00
On your X13G1:

My X1 Carbon gen 7 used to do that too. Go into your EFI setup and change the sleep mode to be Linux-compatible (or at least not Windows-specific), regardless of the OS on the machine.

I would like to give credit where due, but while I'm fairly certain that I read this solution here, I can't recall exactly who pointed it to me.
by Flere-Imsaho | 2025-11-08 22:31:18+00:00
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Note that not all "zero %" beers are actually zero %... some have 0.5% alcohol.
by dangus | 2025-11-08 22:31:30+00:00
Not much you really have to do though.

Take your standard Linux distro…

Make a new user. Login. Uninstall the apps you don’t want. Uninstall the web browser.

You don’t really even have to set up an autostart script to turn off WiFi for this user, but you can if you want. The user not having a web browser installed should be enough.

That’s it, you’re done.
by thesz | 2025-11-08 22:31:34+00:00
> something better than anything else in this category

That is a strong statement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_(programming_language)

Id [1] was run on the CM-5 (then) supercomputer and demonstrated superlinear parallel speedups on some of the tasks. That superlinear speedup was due to better cache utilization on individual nodes.

In some of the tasks the amount of parallel execution discovered by Id90 would lead to overflow of content-addressable memory and Id90's runtime implemented throttling to reduce available parallelism to make things to be done at all.

Does the PAPER of HVM refers to Id (Id90 to be precise)? No, it does not.

This is serious negligence of Taelin.
by chrisco255 | 2025-11-08 22:31:44+00:00
A better way of saying it is that Rust makes lifetimes implicit (by default), but in some cases it is necessary to manually manage lifetimes in Rust, when there's ambiguity the compiler can't resolve on its own.

In Zig and C, it's always expected that you will explicitly manage your lifetimes. Zig uses the allocator interface to explicitly allocate new buffer or heap values and its keyword 'defer' to clean up allocated variables after the scope exits so that allocations and frees generally live next to each other.

C on the other hand, is relatively unopinionated about how lifetimes are managed. The defer keyword honestly takes most of the pain of managing lifetimes away.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-08 22:32:01+00:00
Do you agree that C++ pass-by-value is using copy constructors?

Do you agree that the copy constrictors of the C++ standard library (STL) all do deep copy?

Do you agree that if you write your own class with a raw pointer member, you would need to write a copy constructor?

So, what exactly are you disagreeing about ?!

You seem to be saying that if you wrote a C-style structure (no constructors) with a pointer member, then C++ would behave like C, which is true, but irrelevant. We're talking about C++ vs C, but since C++ is a superset of C, then yes you can still screw yourself C-style if you choose to.
by RealzDLegend | 2025-11-08 22:32:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on something that started as personal frustration and turned into what I think might be a different way of thinking about AI agents. The problem: Repetitive work is unavoidable if you want to grow at anything. Building an audience, managing research, shipping products, etc. they all require those soul-crushing repetitive tasks. The 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration thing is real.

I tried n8n, Make, Zapier. They work, don’t get me wrong, but the setup time doesn't make it worth the output once you're automating multiple workflows. They're deterministic but brittle and not adaptive. The tight coupling means one change breaks everything. The Agent-based ones were more like interns than employees: they won’t work if you don’t prompt (and in a particular way or style), couldn't generalize, and didn't fit how real teams actually work.

So I started asking; what if you could onboard an AI agent the way you onboard a human? What if it could pursue long-term goals autonomously, without you prompting it every step? What if it could be deterministic without being brittle? You know? Better output with a more seamless input. That's why we built Compose AI. Instead of you prompting the agent, the agent prompts you. Each agent has a job description (like you'd write for a human hire) that defines expectations and outcomes. You onboard them on your data - apps, drive, APIs, databases, documents - and they build a knowledge graph to understand relationships across your organization without explicit “tight-coupling".

Key differences: - Autonomous goal pursuit: Tell an agent what to accomplish, not how to do it. It creates its own task list and executes. - Human-like onboarding: Create agents using regular job descriptions containing your workflow and expectations. - Multi-channel interaction: Email, voice, soon phone and Teams. You're not locked into a UI. - Local browser automation: For tasks requiring a browser, agents can connect to your local computer browser. They work on a separate workspace on your computer - your browsing data stays local. Cloud browsing is also possible. - Stack integration: Works across Google Docs, Notion, CRMs, whatever you're already using. You don't need to be technical or be an expert at prompt engineering.

You just need a clear job description, which includes your workflow and expectations. The system handles the rest.

We have some pre-configured digital employees you can activate immediately (with job descriptions defined by us), or you can create your own. I see this as inverting the current paradigm - instead of humans adapting to how AI wants to be prompted, AI adapts to how humans already organize work. Maybe it's a glimpse into how human-machine collaboration evolves. Maybe it's just a better way to stop doing repetitive tasks. Either way, I'd love for you to try it and tell me what breaks.

Try it here: https://composeai.io

Looking forward to your feedback - especially the brutally honest kind.
by materielle | 2025-11-08 22:33:32+00:00
I’m actually not a huge Zig person.

But yes, avoiding arcaneness for the sake of arcaneness will earn you more users.

A big success of Rust has nothing to do with systems programming or the borrow checker.

But just that it brings ML ideas to the masses without having to learn a completely new syntax and fight with idiosyncratic toolchains and design decisions.
by ArlenBales | 2025-11-08 22:34:00+00:00
The most important thing in life is yourself.

I'm not saying you should be wholly selfish, but you shouldn't be wholly selfless either.

"Love thy neighbor as thyself"

If you don't love yourself first, can you really love others to your fullest? Or in the context of your post, if your wellbeing is not the most important thing in your life, are you really able to do the best job at providing utility to others?

Too many wealthy people neglect their own wellbeing in the pursuit of providing utility to others, only to find themselves miserable later in life or die young due to poor health.
by bubblelicious | 2025-11-08 22:34:49+00:00
Epoch has a pretty good analysis of bottlenecks here:

https://epoch.ai/blog/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030

There is plenty of data left, we don’t just train with crawled text data. Power constraints may turn out to be the real bottleneck but we’re like 4 orders of magnitude away