MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by basisword | 2025-11-10 21:06:47+00:00
>> Until very recently the EU stated that being carbon neutral by 2050 was of overriding importance[1].

I'm ok with that. Not every continent/country/economic bloc has to have the same goals. Competing with the US or China in the 'AI race' is a race you're probably going to lose anyway. And it's going to make fuck all difference to the vast majority of the population anyway. Healthcare, education, life/work balance. All much more important and don't require competing in the 'AI race'. The EU has made some missteps with its tech regs but it's worth it to be able to download or delete my data from any service and that's something Americans are also benefiting from as most companies didn't bother geo-locking it.

You could argue economic success has a knock on effect on everything else in a country and it does to some extent. But, while many European countries have their problems socially and politically over the last decade none of them have come anywhere close to the train wreck that is US.
by edanm | 2025-11-10 21:06:49+00:00
> a state conducting a Nazi-style genocide (according to the UN).

Can you provide a link showing that the UN is saying this? I kind of doubt the UN ever called it a "Nazi-style" genocide, and I don't think anyone serious is alleging anything of the kind (including serious people/groups who do call it a genocide - I don't think they'd characterize what's happening as a "Nazi-style" genocide, and nothing they say implies they think it.)
by dcminter | 2025-11-10 21:06:55+00:00
Hmm. Why should I take this critique as being any more accurate than Bryson, given that the writer says in so many words:

"[...] I - someone who’s far from an expert at linguistics [...]"

The rather sniffy observation about Wikipedia falls very flat as the book was written 10 years before Wikipedia existed!

In fact Bryson wrote his book a good 20 years earlier than this critique so perhaps this huffy person has resources to draw upon that were not available in 1990.

Not that I really expect Bryson's stuff to dot every i and cross every t - he's a humourist.
by xoa | 2025-11-10 21:07:03+00:00
>We said this about 5Ghz when that came out.

To the extent "we" said this, we were absolutely, 100% correct. 5 GHz was and remains a massive improvement over 2.4 GHz, exactly as hoped. But in the decade and half since demands have gone up a lot. 6 GHz will be even better as it propagates even worse and has even more bandwidth available, while human population density won't change.

>I'm sorry to say it's not true, there's more than enough spectrum in 5Ghz if properly managed and co-ordinated

I'm sorry to say you're wrong, there is not remotely enough usable spectrum, and that's regardless of "proper management" which in reality is completely contrary to the practical reality local networks in a setting with a high density of independent people/organizations.

>I would rather fix that first.

That's nice. Most fortunately you are not in charge.

>Why is it we can run WiFi for thousands of developers in one room/venue just fine

That's a low demand situation under the control of a single entity where people are going to be understanding of compromise given the special circumstances, unlike in home or business.

>but people living in apartment blocks are apparently struggling with a dozen devices per 60sqm apartment?

You're wondering why might want their own independent LANs in their own homes? Well, I'm sure you can think of one or two reasons if you put your mind to it.
by raphman | 2025-11-10 21:07:10+00:00
Given the code has been completely vibe-coded, what does this mean in practice?:

> Copyright (c) 2025

Whose copyright? IIRC, it is consensus that AI cannot create copyrightable works. If the author does not own the copyright, can they add a legally binding license? If not, does this have any legal meaning?:

> IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY
by avhception | 2025-11-10 21:08:19+00:00
Last time I tried, mounting a directory webdav server in the same manner as an NFS or CIFS server was a hot mess. Some FUSE client tried to fully download and cache everything in ~/.cache or something. It's been a while, but I haven't tried anything since then. CIFS is stupid for UNIX <--> UNIX, and NFS has that UID mess...
by samdoesnothing | 2025-11-10 21:08:39+00:00
Corporations are not legally humans and nobody who isn't either misinformed or purposely strawmanning considers a corporation to be a human. Legal personhood just means that a corporation can be a legal actor and possess certain rights and responsibilities. Perhaps they should have called it persona ficta as they did 800 years ago, but the concept is useful and is not, like others in this thread have suggested, something that greedy corporations use to legally bludgeon the proletariat with.
by mwcampbell | 2025-11-10 21:09:13+00:00
> the distinction is whether or not something enables me to perform a task, or whether it's just doing the task for me.

I think school has taught us to believe that if we're assigned a task, and we take a shortcut to avoid doing the task ourselves, that's wrong. And yes, when the purpose is to learn the task or the underlying concepts, that's probably true. But in a job environment, the employer presumably only cares that the task got done in the most efficient way possible.

Edit to add: When configuring or using a particular program is tedious and/or difficult enough that you feel the need to turn to an LLM for help, I think it's an indication that a better program is needed. Having an LLM configure or operate a computer program for you is kind of like having a robot operate a computer UI that was designed for humans, as opposed to having a higher-level program just do the higher-level automation directly. In the specific case of the Apache HTTP Server, depending on what you need to do, you may find that Caddy is easy enough that you can configure it yourself without requiring the LLM. For common web server scenarios, a Caddyfile is very short, much shorter than a typical Apache or nginx configuration.
by wk_end | 2025-11-10 21:09:13+00:00
Neither here nor there, but the plane was hijacked in Victoria and then flown over to Vancouver.

(Only picking this particular nit because, as a Victorian, we constantly live in the shadow of our bigger brother, so I need to shout us out when I can. And I fly out of the flying club that the plane was hijacked from, so it's a story that's particularly close to my heart.)
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-10 21:09:21+00:00
> But also, why shouldn’t these cities help federal agencies enforce the law?

Because they are a subdivision of a separate sovereignty, which has its own laws and priorities, and its own limited resources with which to pursue them, and which doesn't have either the unlimited borrowing authority or the practical freedom to borrow that comes from borrowing in a currency that it controls that the federal government has, so those constraints are much more sharp than they are for the federal government.

If the federal government wants its laws enforced, it should expend the resources to enforce them.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-10 21:09:33+00:00
The biggest illegal immigration source is the southern border. Yes, lots of people have immigrated, but they're a tiny fraction of those who wanted to immigrate. H-1B is a good example, it counts as immigration but it is really not, it is residency contingent on specific employment contracts. Those people with H-1B have no way to gain permanent residency without their employer sponsoring them, which would let them leave the company so employers don't tend to do that a lot.

The comparison with EU is not meaningful, especially since it isn't even a country. The population growth of the US and the world as a hole has also risen by more than that factor, even in the past two decades or so it has more than doubled.
by 1-more | 2025-11-10 21:09:51+00:00
Thanks! I forgot one more fork: Guida seems to be a fork of Elm with the compiler written in Elm. There are actually a few elm-in-elm efforts out there that are pretty cool, if a little slow, naturally.

https://github.com/guida-lang/compiler

https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/guida-compiler-was-there-ar...
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-10 21:09:59+00:00
> Canada right now is trying to figure out if the greatest [threat?] to their security is China or the USA.

How do you get China in that list? Canada would most likely be challenged over their stake in the Arctic and Russia is plainly the greatest threat in that regard, not China. Russia has invested a great deal into arctic exploration and exploitation and pretty clearly sees the region as free real estate up for the taking. America too has a large stake in the Arctic, but has developed comparably fewer arctic capabilities than Russia. For Canada to have any chance of repelling a Russian invasion of their arctic territory would require America to help them, which under present American leadership would be a piss poor position for Canada to be in (not only because Trump has suggested annexing Canada himself, but also because he's said similar about Greenland, underscoring America's own desire to take that same arctic territory.)

Now, I don't doubt that China would also like the Arctic for themselves, but from Canada's perspective, the relative threat of China must be less than that of Russia and America.
by kazinator | 2025-11-10 21:10:20+00:00
It's hard to compare the two. A low-level memory safety issue can intersect with security. So can a flaw in logic that touches on security, but is reproducible and not undefined in any way.

The latter can often be more easily exploited than the former, but the former can remain undetected longer, affect more components and installations, and be harder to reproduce in order to identify and resolve.

As an exmaple of "more easily exploited". Say that you have a web application that generates session cookies that are easy to forge, leading to session hijack. Not much skill is needed to do that, compared to exploiting a memory safety problem (particuarly if the platform has some layers defenses against it: scrambled address space, non-executable stacks, and whatnot).
by oblio | 2025-11-10 21:10:29+00:00
They're a slightly better search, because web search has degraded. They also provide needed vocabulary almost directly, which accelerates search.

I would say, for big decisions (financial, work projects, health, etc), you really need the sources and you need to double check things, but I would say that maybe 70% of my searches are closer to trivia than to life changing things, so LLMs are obviously very good for that. And frequently the stuff I search is trivially verifiable, so that's also good.

The bigger worry is that the general public doesn't have the mental immune system to actually know what to look for and especially to validate the LLM answers, so we're in for a world of hurt.

We will soon have some extremely brainwashed individuals.
by Gigachad | 2025-11-10 21:10:36+00:00
Yeah imo the average person will never install an OS, they will only use the one that comes on a device. So for Linux to go mainstream it has to come preinstalled.

And the Steam Deck is clearly that. I’d happily recommend the deck to normal non tech users. It’s just that good. One of the things I think they did exceptionally well is using a read only image based OS, meaning the system is always in a known state, and if an update ever breaks something, the bootloader shows the previous working images letting you boot back in to those and wait for the broken update to be yanked and replaced. You never need the user to reinstall after a broken OS.
by giardini | 2025-11-10 21:11:19+00:00
Can't do anything about it now but getting that PhD may be the most costly decision you made:

https://philip.greenspun.com/careers/

scroll down to the phrase:

THIS IS YOUR EDUCATION, THIS IS YOUR SALARY

If I were you I'd be tempted to rewrite my PhD as a multi-year "special project". Reason is that hiring a PhD is controversial unless you're a university or a research division of a corporation. In contrast, the CS/Math & MS will always be solid & saleable.
by maxdamantus | 2025-11-10 21:11:49+00:00
You want to at least check that the exception was raised in the absence of read anomalies. The check for read anomalies in OCC happens during the commit phase.

Setting a transaction to read-only on error is possible using the code (using a rethrowing catch within the transaction), but this is not universally desirable.

If you're using transactions to run fairly arbitrary code atomically (assuming no static state outside of the transaction), the expected behaviour would be that modifications leading up to an exception (in a non-anomalous transaction) are still persisted. Eg, imagine the code within the transaction is updating a persisted retry counter before performing a fallible operation. In this case you want the counter to be updated so that the transaction doesn't just fail an infinite number of times, since each time you roll back on error you're just restoring the state that leads to the error.

Another case would be where the exception is due to something that was written within the transaction. If the exception were raised but the writes were not persisted, it would at least be confusing seeing the exception, and possibly logically incorrect depending on how the irrelevant exception is handled (since it's due to data that theoretically doesn't exist).
by zeristor | 2025-11-10 21:13:00+00:00
Fascinating.

This makes me wonder if there’s a way to set data visualisation to make the most of this for those gifted people.

I’m in a minority thinking that perhaps the limiting RGB colour gamut should be made into 4 colours to accommodate those people who can see four colours, tetrachromacy, ~95% of us have a visual impairment.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-10 21:13:04+00:00
One challenging thing about searching in new domains is you don't necessarily have the vocabulary to adequately ask the right question or use the right terms to unlock the secret knowledge. If I type my dryer symptoms into an LLM and it tells me that the drum rollers are likely bad and need to be replaced, I can take that information to Youtube or Google and get more targeted advice. The LLM can also, and often does ask leading questions to help narrow down the list of possible options.
by tw04 | 2025-11-10 21:13:05+00:00
>Ars inventing their own colour here. This is simply not true.

What are you talking about? Right at the top of the subpoena it literally says in bold and all caps, and I quote:

>YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO DISCLOSE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS SUBPOENA INDEFNITELY AS ANY SUCH DISCLOSURE COULD INTERFERE WITH AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.
by canucker2016 | 2025-11-10 21:13:16+00:00
Dell and Lenovo have product pages for their versions of the DGX Spark.

Dell:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/dell-pro-m...

- $3,998.99 4TB SSD

- $3,699.00 2TB SSD

Lenovo:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-s...

- $3,999.00 4TB SSD

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-s...

- $3,539.00 1TB SSD
by abathologist | 2025-11-10 21:13:19+00:00
A key -- perhaps THE key -- remark here, IMO is the following:

> I do want to make things, and many times I dont want to know something, but I want to use it

This confesses the desire to make, to use, and to make use of, without ANY substantive understanding.

Of course this seems attractive for some reasons, but it is a wrong, degenerative way to be in the world. Thinking and being belong together. Knowing and using are two dimensions of the same activity.

The way of these tools is a making without understanding, a using without learning, a way of being that is thoughtless.

There's nothing preventing us from thoughtful, rigorous, enriching use of generative ML, except that the systems we live and work in don't want us to be thoughtful and enriched and rigorous. They want us pliant and reactive and automated and sloppy.

We don't have to bend to their wants tho.
by Patternician | 2025-11-10 21:13:27+00:00
Request a Parameter Evaluation of the form b^A mod p^t = r. Email your parameter set in the form (b, p, t, r) where b = base (e.g., 2, 3, 5), p = prime, t = prime-power depth, and r = residue. Example: (2,11,2,1), (3,23,3,3), (5,19,4,2). Each set is processed individually, and you’ll receive the Local Mₜ for each case plus the Combined M if applicable. Non-prime p values are rejected automatically. Supports any base b ≥ 2. Results are derived from a provably correct method, not heuristics.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-10 21:13:35+00:00
Hierarchy of needs. People want to follow the law, they need food,shelter, medicine,etc.. You can punish law breakers, but if you don't provide a way to lawfully do the thing, you're only breeding law breakers and nothing more.

A missing perspective here might be that even long term imprisonment isn't a deterrent for many migrants. The disparity in living conditions is just that steep.
by rockostrich | 2025-11-10 21:13:46+00:00
> did this do you any better than if you had searched a youtube video or some other source?

Yes, because when I searched youtube for "miata wink mod" almost all of the results were for kits for microcontrollers which I wanted to avoid because I just want to control the motors with switches. Now I know to include "SPDT" in my search and I can find more targeted videos that add an override using switches.

The video you linked is relevant but doesn't really match what I want to do. The NA Miata has a motor for each pop-up headlight. There's a dedicated button that controls the headlights popping up and down but the light switch on the turn signal overrides this if the lights are on i.e. the relay is DPDT that's an OR of the 2 signals.

I want to add rocker switch for each light where the signal from the rocker switch overrides the behavior from the existing relay. If a given DPDT rocker switch is in neutral then the signal from the relay is used but if the rocker switch is engaged in either direction then the motor moves in that direction. ChatGPT did explain a lot about the default behavior and included a lot of the terminology that helped me confirm that. Of course, if I already knew about relays then I wouldn't have needed any of this, but I didn't.
by giantg2 | 2025-11-10 21:14:03+00:00
"There's an article right here showing them turning off the cameras when the line was crossed and now that data can't be used the way they don't want."

Not exactly true. This happened after the arrests and won't affect those arrests. This also doesn't prevent ICE from installing and using Flock cameras on federal properties (like the post offices). I would also bet that they could still comb the existing data if they wanted to, hence the shutdown of the cameras on the fear that they can't keep the data safe.
by sandworm101 | 2025-11-10 21:14:17+00:00
Except that there are several invasion risks, especially in the north. Canada maintains bases there (Alert) to protect its north from being taken by the likes of Russia, the USA and even Denmark (they have a longrunning dispute regarding an island near greenland). Canada also does not want the northwest passage to become an international waterway and so must maintain control over vessels in the north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War

>> The Canadian government issued a declaration in 1986 reaffirming Canadian rights to the waters. The United States refused to recognize the Canadian claim. In 1988 the governments of Canada and the United States signed an agreement, "Arctic Cooperation," that resolved the practical issue without solving the sovereignty questions. Under the law of the sea, ships engaged in transit passage are not permitted to engage in research. The agreement states that all U.S. Coast Guard and Navy vessels are engaged in research, and so would require permission from the Government of Canada to pass through

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage
by sliken | 2025-11-10 21:14:24+00:00
What's worse is that the email is often delayed at the sender (cheap bulk email services) or the receiver (gray listing), but for no reason I can fathom have a short expiration date.

What's worse they are often unique AND delivered out of order AND have no timestamp or sequence number. So you get to guess which is the newest, using any other fails, and the ones that succeed often time out before they can be used.

Having an expiration date as short as 15 minutes seems insane and counter productive.
by minimaxir | 2025-11-10 21:14:57+00:00
How people derive utility varies from person to person and I suspect is the root cause of most AI generation pipeline debates, creative and code-wise. There are two camps that are surprisingly mutually exclusive:

a) People who gain value from the process of creating content.

b) People who gain value from the end result itself.

I personally am more of a (b): I did my time learning how to create things with code, but when I create things such as open-source software that people depend on, my personal satisfaction from the process of developing is less relevant. Also, getting frustrated with code configuration and writing boilerplate code is not personally gratifying.
by fock | 2025-11-10 21:15:16+00:00
I work at a shop (a specialized provider for finance in your eyes) which still has the "transaction" workload on IBM z/OS (IMS/DB2). The parts we manage (in Openshift) interface with that (as well as other systems) and I have heard of people/seen the commits moving PL/I to Cobol. In 2021. Given Cobol's nature, those apps have more than 1k LoC easily.

We also sublease our mainframes to at least 3 other ventures; one of which is very outspoken they have left the mainframe behind. I guess that's true if you view outsourcing as (literally) leaving it behind with the competitor of your new system... It seems to be the same for most banks, none of which are having mainframes anymore publicly, but for weird reasons they still hire people for it offshore.

Given that our (and IBM's!) services are not cheap I think either a) our customers are horribly dysfunctional in anything but earning money slow and steady (...) and b) they actually might depend on those mainframe jobs. So if you are IBM or a startup adding AI to IBM I guess the numbers might add up to the claims.
by mrtksn | 2025-11-10 21:15:17+00:00
Sure but he became the poster child of a certain trend. Besides, you can see the mentality all over the place.

Contrary to what the social media makes you believe, EU isn't run on tickets income for old building - the place is packed with high tech niche businesses but they don't seem to be interested much in scaling.

Even the Ruby on Rails guy, David Heinemeier Hansson, never went for dominating an industry, becoming a platform with investor money and become an Unicorn. They just keep making money. It's really cool, he loves his life and He's probably much happier than Zuck or Musk but with that approach you end up staying a niche instead of a behemoth like the American companies. In USA the instinct seems to be how to make this global and take all the money. The European approach is good for society IMHO, no enshitification once you circle the market however when your market is open to people who are willing to do the put a lot of money first, kill the competition be a monopoly or duopoly and then screw everyone and and make filthy level of money then you become one of those killed.