MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-10 20:58:37+00:00
It’s worse than that because let’s say you have people commuting to their office from a suburb and let’s say it takes an hour. So you increase the road capacity so it takes 30 minutes instead. This just lets people from even farther away to take 60 minutes to commute. This means the employers have access to more employees who live farther away and pay less in their cost of living. This means more business can open and more employees can be hired for overall less money. Overall the problem is that any time you increase capacity you are just inviting more cars.

Imagine if we did not have congestion control in TCP and instead every time we got congestion we just upped the bandwidth. Do you think at some point our ability to increase capacity would outpace the demand for what is for the most part a free resource (I know neither roads nor network badwidth are free but the cost is amortized such that it “feels” free to the users)? Or do you think demand would grow as fast or faster than capacity?

The real answer is to reduce demand. You can do this by introducing something like congestion pricing: make it expensive to use the resource when demand is close to capacity. Or you add some form of congestion control. For example you could dynamically set speed limits on secondary roads and when the freeway traffic flow slows down you slow down cars as they try to get to the on ramp of the freeway. Or you could raise the price of gas by $1/gallon to discourage car use and use the revenue to build more public transit. You could charge single person car use fees. You could keep roads free but make parking downtown extremely expensive and use the proceeds to build more public transit. You could reduce speed limits in the cities to no more than 10 miles per hour and strictly enforce that; obviously this only works if you have much faster and higher speed public transit: imagine choosing between buying a car, car insurance, gas, and still taking 3x as long to get to where you want to go compared to buying a $50-100 monthly pass and using public transit.
by triwats | 2025-11-10 20:58:41+00:00
Another month another project inbound.

https://flopper.io - this has become a big focus. It's essentially a table for flops. Calculator coming soon for flops and power. Imported >600 Datacenters in October.

https://llmstxt.studio - models need data and I believe llms.txt as an idea has merit. Likely needs an authority. Will add more audit tools to give people any slight benefit they can have for SEO.

https://probe.bike - tell stories with your bikepacking data.

It's pretty hard to work on all these ideas and areas whilst working. Feeling a bit over stretched.

Flopper remains the main focus as release cycles are slow and it overlaps with work slightly.
by alganet | 2025-11-10 20:58:51+00:00
What Í'm doing a lot is vibe coding and stashing. Not even a public branch, just git stash the whole thing the LLM writes.

Also, I stack the stash. When I vibe code, I pop it, let it work on its own mess, then I stash it again.

One project has almost 13.000 lines of vibe mess, all stashed.

One good thing, is that the stash builds. It's just that I don't want to release more code than I can read. It's a long review queue that is pre-merged somehow.

Once in a while I pick something from there, then I review it and integrate into the codebase more seriously. I don't have the throughput to review it all, and not all projects can be yolo'd.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-10 20:59:35+00:00
That's not how it is in reality, southern states (not just them though) have been doing that with homeless people too, not just immigrants.

Republicans did jim crow in the 50s and 60s, we still talk about it today, and the positive blowback from that needs no explanation. Keep in mind that ICE is doing a lot more than cops did to protesters in the 60s, and it is targeting not just one group but several minority groups. not only that, it is all being live streamed, and it is affecting a lot of majority-group americans more directly. If ICE can avoid being disbanded it would be a great victory for them.

If I were exaggerating, I would be talking about tribunals and mass incarcerations of ICE agents, but I'm not.
by zahlman | 2025-11-10 20:59:38+00:00
> do you expect people across the border wait a decade to get their turn for an immigration interview only to be turned down

The backlog isn't a consequence of the law.

Is there a country that doesn't expect people to go through some kind of qualification process in order to immigrate legally? Here's what it looks like in Canada (where I live), for example: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se... It's actually quite complex, and depends on additional provincial legislation. And then there's citizenship on top of that: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

> when they can just cross the border?

The entire point is that they legally in fact may not do so, and have only been doing so because of the lack of enforcement GP cites.

> When laws become impractical, they create 11 million law breakers.

We don't have nearly the same scale of problem in Canada. That probably has much more to do with only sharing an unsecured land border with a rich country.
by jackdoe | 2025-11-10 20:59:42+00:00
Programming was very meditative and fulfilling experience for me, "building something" whatever it is, now I can see it slipping through my fingers.

You know the feeling of starting a new mmorpg video game? The first time you enter a new world, you dont know what to do, where to go, there is no "optimal" way to play it, there are no guides, you just try things and explore and play and have fun. Every new project I start I have this feeling.

Few years later the game is a chore, you have daily quests, guides and optimal strategies and simmulations and if you dont play what elitistjerks say you are doing it wrong.

With AI it feels the game is never new.
by jajuuka | 2025-11-10 20:59:47+00:00
This wouldn't be the first time Flock was used by ICE and would not be the first time Flock allowed ICE backdoor access against the wishes of the local government or police department in Washington. https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2025/10/21/leaving-t...

So making the connection isn't a leap and seems like a pretty pragmatic action taken to reduce ICE's ability to surveil communities.
by andrepd | 2025-11-10 20:59:57+00:00
Literally so, because the European """Parliament""" is the only institution with this name that I'm aware of that does not have the power to introduce laws. Which means it doesn't have the power to repeal them.

In other words, the Commission can propose laws as many times as they want, and if they pass even once, the Parliament has no power to repeal it.
by misiti3780 | 2025-11-10 21:00:38+00:00
The Millennial age group is 29 to 44 years and most of these people used FB in college and saw the social network.

It's true, I picked him because he was the obvious laggard in that list of celebrities (he is by far the least talented of everyone else in the list) . The poll someone else posted shows in the US, Zuckerberg is more well known than Sheeran.
by wqaatwt | 2025-11-10 21:00:44+00:00
> was insane too

Not even remotely close to 2020-21 though.

M2 supply increased by the same proportion between Feb and June 2020 as between 2009 and 2013.

By 2021 it had increased by same % as 2009 to 2015.

> and all to do with supply chain disruption

Not massive inflation in asset prices. All that money had to go somewhere, so stocks are now significantly overvalued and housing is unaffordable.
by danielbln | 2025-11-10 21:01:03+00:00
There is no "working prompt". There is context that is highly dependant on the task at hand. Here are some general tips:

- tell it to ask you clarifying questions, repeatedly. it will uncover holes and faulty assumptions and focus the implementation once it gets going

- small features, plan them, implement them in stages, commit, PR, review, new session

- have conventions in place, coding style, best practices, what you want to see and don't want to see in a codebase. we have conventions for python code, for frontend code, for data engineering etc.

- make subagents work for you, to look at a problem from a different angle (and/or from within a different LLM altogether)

- be always critical and dig deeper if you have the feeling that something is off or doesn't make sense

- good documentation helps the machine as well as the human

And the list goes on.
by ndriscoll | 2025-11-10 21:01:12+00:00
Allow users to configure storage to deduct the cost of keeping it until the end of the billing cycle from their spending limit. Then even when you hit your limit, you still actually have enough allowed spend left to pay for your storage. Actually the same principle could be used with compute or any other per-time service, and could just be an option when creating a resource. If you ask for a reservation, then failure to make it because it would exceed your spend limit results in failure to create the resource.

This is a basic problem that every adult needs to know how to solve, like "how can I make sure I don't run out of money to pay for food and shelter when I'm buying toys?" You set aside money to pay for the important things first, and what remains sets your limit for discretionary spending.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-10 21:01:47+00:00
This is an editorialized title, where the submitter added the “without consent”. It does not appear in the article’s title, and is also just false. Can this be removed dang

From the article:

> Flock Safety’s Chief Legal Officer Dan Haley said by email Tuesday that the center’s report was “full of inaccuracies and misconceptions” about the company’s technology, and that their customers’ data is never shared without their authorization.

> Auburn and Renton’s police departments disabled a “National Lookup” option, which allowed their data to be searched by external agencies.

In short, these agencies did give consent.

But also, why shouldn’t these cities help federal agencies enforce the law? It’s ridiculous that we’re even discussing the kind of obstructionism pushed by leaders in Washington state (or other blue cities/states) against the enforcement of immigration law. Illegal immigration is illegal, and those coming to the US illegally (or overstaying visas or whatever) are criminals. It’s the duty of all law enforcement agencies to help remove those who are here illegally.
by jonathaneunice | 2025-11-10 21:02:03+00:00
SunOS evolved to be a great file server and "network computing" server, whereas HP-UX evolved to be a better multi-workload commercial server. Horses for courses—and they often ran on different turf.

You're also right to shout out out some of the other innovators: Data General's DG/UX did a great "let's redesign the kernel for multiprocessing and NUMA." IBM's AIX had kernel threads, pageability, and preemptibility at a time when no one else did (plus JFS, LVM, and eventually LPAR isolation). And Sequent DYNIX/ptx had some impressive multiprocessing (RCU) and large DBMS optimizations very early on. HP was by no means alone trying to engineer away Unix' early weaknesses.
by DonHopkins | 2025-11-10 21:02:05+00:00
> But that cuts users without enabled JS.

Users who disable JS are insane and hypocritical if they don't also disable XSLT, which is even worse. So I wouldn't bend over too far backwards to support insane hypocrites. There aren't enough of them to matter, they enjoy having something to complain about, and they're much louder and more performative than the overwhelming majority of users. Not a huge loss cutting them out at all.
by vorticalbox | 2025-11-10 21:02:24+00:00
I’ve stopped getting LLM to code and use it to spitball ideas, solutions etc to the issue.

This lets you get a solution plan done, with all the files and then you get to write the code.

Where I do let it code is in tests.

I write a first “good” passing test then ask it to create all the others bad input etc. saves a bunch of time and it can copy and paste faster then I can.
by giantg2 | 2025-11-10 21:02:35+00:00
Interesting. Another thing I have that I didn't know about. I've found over 500 four leaf clovers as a kid. I still find them without looking as an adult when looking at something else on the ground or tying my shoe, etc. The movement thing isn't exactly like how I would describe it, but pretty close. It's almost like the eye auto focuses on it becuase it's different. Sometimes I would intentionally unfocus my eyes or concentrate on peripheral vision to make them jump out.
by tomashm | 2025-11-10 21:02:42+00:00
Making advanced multiphysics simulations and optimizations accessible through a simple web interface and AI chat agents. I’m building SimuPort (https://simuport.com ) to lower the barrier to running and iterating on complex simulations. I’m interested in hearing from anyone who has needed these kinds of simulations in practice (e.g., optimizing airflow in devices, analyzing thermal–structural interactions in prototypes) or who has experience with tools like Ansys, OpenFOAM, COMSOL, SimScale, or similar. What worked, what didn’t, and what’s still missing?
by throwway120385 | 2025-11-10 21:02:55+00:00
Because ICE is shooting random people with pepper balls and abducting US citizens in the middle of the night. Why would we want to assist them with that? There's literally a constitutional amendment in the bill of rights that is intended to speak directly to people being drug out of their home by the government, because that was something the framers were deeply concerned about, having experienced that throughout and before the Revolutionary War.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-10 21:03:05+00:00
Odd how this is on front page of HN but buried way down my feed on (Canadian) Google News and doesn't seem to be front-page news?

Do you have to be a public servant or retired Canadian Forces, or do they take portly middle-aged out of shape software engineers, too? Asking for a friend.

Haven't shot a gun since Bible Camp when I was 12. Could be fun.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-10 21:03:10+00:00
Thanks I was going through a rough time(rather not comment) but your comment helped me a little bit.

Thanks once agian, have a nice day.

I guess my hobby is computing :p

Also feel free to take the comments other people have created regarding you being strict etc. or their opinions etc. in a positive manner. I am sure you want the best for your children and parenting can be complicated and there is no fit one approach and its glad that your children like linux/computing as well

Singleplayer support on linux is absolutely top notch imo and its only some very anti kernel leavel multiplayer cheats supports which get troubled and honestly i am not sure what is the best way to counter against that in linux

But there are some good games I can suggest but you might know them as well: Minecraft,Counter strike etc.

Although they don't share the open source, they share a similar spirit of modding etc. and its gotten almost mainstream enough. Open source games are mixed story with the only good I know being tuxkart haha

I think there is a point in trying to teach children something for their own benefit, since if you might not teach them about open source, I wonder who might teach them (I technically figured things by my own but trying to one up my brother was my motivation, read my other comments to know more)

Its a mixed bag and one of the advices I can give with my supremely limited knowledge but maybe you can try to take more advices from similar people etc. whether its on HN etc. and actually try to get more advice from everything to try to find if that was the best equilibria etc.

But I mean if your children have no objection (like as an example, I am teen and I also don't have much objections with not playing valorant in fact it was the reason technically I installed linux)

SO I guess everything is subjective and we are all just yolo'ing it in this sense but I do think its so crazy that we can comment on this platform and not know each other but have a weird sense of faith that we are talking to a human with similar-ish hobbies/interests living probably hundreds of miles away in an instant.

I think this is the fun of computing just as much as well :)

Have a nice day once again.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-10 21:04:09+00:00
> China is completely dependant on other countries for it's economic power (mostly the US) as an export economy.

That is Trump's big lie, but it has no basis in reality. This was the cornerstone of Trump's whole pressure agenda on China, and it imploded quickly when the Chinese indicated "We don't care about the American market, trade is only 5% of our GDP, and we have lots of trading partners."

> They're also staring down a demographic crash, soon (10 - 15% drop with 25% of the remaining polution over 65).

Investments in AI and automation make that iffy, investments that, beyond AI, the USA is not making.

> They are basically at their peak right now.

That is the core of Trump's big lie on China, and again, has no basis in reality.
by Eisenstein | 2025-11-10 21:04:21+00:00
If your neighbors were across the street and had their blinds open could you point your camera at their window and take pictures?

License plates were designed to be read and visible and they show that the vehicle is registered, but what about inside the vehicle? Do we have privacy in there?

What exactly does 'in public' mean? And why shouldn't someone have privacy from being recorded and their movements tracked even if they are in public?

None of these things are a given. The rights we have are because we decided they were important. There is no reason we can't revisit the question as situations change.
by mentalgear | 2025-11-10 21:04:36+00:00
Levels is all hype, no depth. It’s absurd that he frames himself as somehow “disadvantaged” by the EU’s HPC access rules, when those systems are explicitly reserved for scientific research, not for cranking out AI avatars or the latest “AI-generated game” cash-grab. Complaining that you can’t use taxpayer-funded supercomputers for your next hype cycle isn’t a sign of innovation - it’s Levels' so often displayed self-entitlement and pseudo-intellectualism.
by jl6 | 2025-11-10 21:04:43+00:00
Ryanair is best thought of, not as an airline, but as a kind of carnival game that delivers a small monetary prize if you win, and a nasty electric shock if you do it wrong. By playing Ryanair, you have the opportunity to acquire a slightly cheaper flight, and if you can keep a steady hand and navigate the arbitrary rules (each a cunning trap), you can indeed save some money. Good luck.
by verdverm | 2025-11-10 21:05:20+00:00
It's far more than planning. You have to "get to know your LLM" and it's quirks so you know how to write for it, and when they release new updates (cut off time or version), you have to do it again. Same for the agentic frameworks, when they change their system prompts and such.

It's a giant, non-deterministic, let's see what works good based on our vibes, mess of an approach right now. Even within the models, architecturally, there are recent results that indicate people are trying out weird things to see if they work, unclear if they are coming from first-principle intuition and hypothesis formation, or just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks
by HyprMusic | 2025-11-10 21:05:21+00:00
Set whitelist to a file path and then add a file with each genre that you want to keep on a new line. You can use the top-level genres in this file to base it off (except the whitelist isn't YAML, just a genre per line): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beetbox/beets/master/beets...

Be sure to enable canonical so it converts the specific genres into their parent genre.
by hamdingers | 2025-11-10 21:05:31+00:00
How strange. I introduced clover to my lawn a few years ago for its nitrogen fixing properties, and since then have spent many idle minutes (probably adding up to hours) searching for four-leaf clovers.

I have never found a single one, but easily picked out at least one in each of the pictures in the article in just a few seconds. Thinking this might be a breakthrough I went and snapped a few pictures of clover patches, but alas can't spot any. I suspect I'm getting subconscious hints from the author's framing of the photos.
by fhennig | 2025-11-10 21:05:38+00:00
I think you're making a fair comment, but it still irks me that you're quite light on details on what the "correct" approach is supposed to be, and it irks me also because it seems to now be a pattern in the discussion.

Someone gives a detailed-ish account of what they did, and that it didn't work for them, and then there are always people in the comments saying that you were doing it wrong. Fair! But at this point, I haven't seen any good posts here on how to do it _right_.

I remember this post which got a lot of traction: https://steipete.me/posts/just-talk-to-it 8 agents in parallel and so on, but light on the details.
by avs733 | 2025-11-10 21:05:56+00:00
you are not the only one. There was a paper covering this exact topic in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a few years back [0].

Passive learning (lecture) scored better on:

* Student Enjoyment

* Feeling of Learning

* Instructor effectiveness

* I wish all my courses where taught this way

Active Learning (i.e., not lecture) scored better on:

* Actual learning

The differences are not small.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821936116
by w10-1 | 2025-11-10 21:06:00+00:00
> It is structured such that if the cops improperly accessed your voice mails that can't be used against you in court

Yes, it's true that illegally obtained evidence can be excluded.

But warrants -- prior authorization -- are required for searches. The law is structured to prevent both use and gathering if improper. (Whether warrant practice is effective at prevention is another question.)
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-11-10 21:06:00+00:00
Seattle is in such a tough spot. I lived there from 2001 to 2010 and left and then went back in 2018 or so and it looked like the homeless population had doubled, or tripled in the time since. And then I went back again after COVID and it was just sad. The entire downtown area is just homeless camps. There used to be a big beautiful Macy's department store on 4th Ave that's just all boarded up now. You can't browse around outside Westlake Center without being bombarded and accosted by aggressive panhandlers. Even the iconic Pike Place Market was overrun with druggies.

The entire city is so poorly run they just have no answers, and nobody can do anything about it. Pick something. Build more housing, do a basic income. Something, anything. But they can't. And their politics just let it keep getting worse and worse.
by iammjm | 2025-11-10 21:06:22+00:00
I feel with people that say that "AI have take the fun out of programming" for them, but at the same time I think to myself: is it about doing, or is it about getting things done? Like I imagine someone in the past loved their job walking each night through their city, lighting up the gas-powered street lights. And then one day someone else implemented electric street lights, and the first person lost the job they loved. But in the end, its about providing light to the city streets, no? For the great majority of work, it is not about fun, but about doing something other people need or want. For me, AI allows me to realize my ideas, and get things done. Some of it might be good, some of it might be bad. I put at least as much time, attention and effort as the "real" programmers do, but my time goes into thinking and precisely defining what I want, cutting it up into smaller logical modules, testing, identifying and fixing bugs, iterating all the time.