MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by loughnane | 2025-11-13 21:10:37+00:00
I've been doing this with ublock origin step by step by zapping elements and defaulting to javascript off. At this point most of the breadcrumbs/headings/sidebars/recirculation/carousels/etc. are hidden by default on the sites I go to. If I gather I'm missing something I just flip the switch.

Granted that's not user-friendly, so I don't suggeset it for the typical person. I do think though the typical person would come to love the sort of web that I experience, so it's cool that there's a plugin now. Also the AI scraping (eg on LI) is interesting.
by hattmall | 2025-11-13 21:10:52+00:00
But we aren't talking in economic terms. We are talking in political terms. The economy is an offshoot of the functioning political system. Contextually they are different things although logically intertwined, but resources and their management / allocation is what gives rise to the idea of governance and that governance implements the economic system etc. Without the resources there isn't really anything to govern. The infrastructure and logistics in a city are generally geared toward supporting that city, not the rural areas.

And I mean, obviously the current situation is not this way because we have a very functioning system, most rural people don't even use the food and resources that are extracted around them anyway as we import and move things around at an unprecedented scale. But we are talking about what is important to a functioning large scale country and economy at the basic level. You literally can not support the cities without the rural output, even if the larger value, monetarily, is created in the urban area.
by another_twist | 2025-11-13 21:10:55+00:00
I understand interacting with other engineers right in the editor but I dont get why so many collab tools need to be bolted on to what is basically a text editor. This will only fragment communications since its not just engineers that work in any company. Meaning you'll now have communication spread out in Slack and Zed making collaboration difficult, not easy.

I dont honestly dont get the allure of pair programming. My pair programs are the unit tests which I run as often as I can and limit discussions to Gitlab/Slack. I have worked ag FAANGs and large companies and never once pair programmed anything.

I honestly cannot think of a single software or process problem that requires real time collab in the editor. Having said that it is a cool feature and I quite like Zed as an editor.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-13 21:10:56+00:00
Cities have no representation at the federal level, so we can leave those out of the question.

Why have states? Why indeed!

One answer: to create a level of governmental organization smaller than the federal one that can act as a set of laboratories for legislative and legal experimentation.

Another answer: to reflect the fact that not all laws and regulations make sense across a diverse range of climate and geography and demographics and economies.

Neither of those answers, however, require states to be considered inviolable sovereign entities, and a lot of us born after 1880 don't think of them that way.
by gpm | 2025-11-13 21:11:10+00:00
> How can one possibly square those two pieces of data to point at rust somehow fixing the "memory safety vulns"? Somehow an increase in C++ code led to a decrease in the amount of both "New Memory Unsafe Code" and "Memory safety Vulns".

The first graph considers <memory unsafe> vs <memory safe> languages, while the second graph considers C++ vs Rust. There's more languages than just those two in the first graph.

Moreover the first graph is in percentage terms, while the second graph is in absolute terms.

In 2022 it appears a bunch of memory safe non-rust code was added. Java/python/...

> Also "this approach isn’t just fixing things, but helping us move faster." is an AI red flag.

That's a perfectly human phrasing lol.
by Genego | 2025-11-13 21:11:12+00:00
I have been generating a few dozen images per day for storyboarding purposes. The more I try to perfect it, the easier it becomes to control these outputs and even keep the entire visual story as well as their characters consistent over a few dozen different scenes; while even controlling the time of day throughout the story. I am currently working with 7 layers prompts to control for environment, camera, subject, composition, light, colors and overall quality (it might be overkill, but it’s also experimenting).

I also created a small editing suite for myself where I can draw bounding boxes on images when they aren’t perfect, and have them fixed. Either just with a prompt or feeding them to Claude as image and then having it write the prompt to fix the issue for me (as a workflow on the api). It’s been quite a lot of fun to figure out what works. I am incredibly impressed by where this is all going.

Once you do have good storyboards. You can easily do start-to-end GenAI video generation (hopping from scene to scene) and bring them to life and build your own small visual animated universes.
by philistine | 2025-11-13 21:11:26+00:00
The design 100% has to change. There is a marketing battle for the highest hood, since it looks dope as fuck. We should mandate a maximum hood height for all vehicles that's dependent on driver visibility. When the next F-150 needs three steps to enter because the hood is too high and we woke up and mandated that pedestrian visibility needs to be maintained, then that's when change will happen.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-13 21:12:04+00:00
Okay. That doesn't conflict with their point. "No one had to sell at a loss... Except every non-market leader" only proves their point.

>, but their redesigns made them profitable

No one says consoles always sell at a loss. They are sold over 6-8 years and price drops are pretty conservative (until last gen where they ceased to be). Every conse eventually becomes profitable, but not in the years where they sell the most.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-11-13 21:12:08+00:00
Hypothetically if you took a random sample of present humans you would have a low # of say skin tones in wide range, whereas a small isolated and stable population should have a low # of low variety. So you can tell by that kind of difference whether it was a sudden drop or more of a sustained thing. Presumably in a more sophisticated statistical way across a wide variety of genes of course.

Apparently there is another bottleneck ~900K years ago that has decent fossil record support but the Toba one is more disputed.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-13 21:12:10+00:00
> They were taking very low % hemp that is supposed to be for textiles and extracting the little THC there was into low quality vapes.

This is not at all what was happening. These aren't some special strains or cultivars where there is a remnant of THC that is getting squeezed out from a large quantity of plants to make a small quantity of product - they are same strains and cultivars being used by the legal dispensaries. It is a matter of timing and process - harvest and undercure the flower and it will not have converted enough THCa to Delta9 THC to hit the legal limit. In fact, many legal operations follow similar timing on harvesting and similar processing - the flower in your local dispensary is still mostly THCa, and a good chunk of it is likely under the limit for D9 THC as well.

Much if it is effectively the exact same thing under a different label.

> When we do have all that infrastructure for legal THC regulation, why allow people to sidestep all that?

I do agree here. There's no need for the unregulated market when a proper legal market exists.
by mbesto | 2025-11-13 21:12:15+00:00
For all of the "SV startups" that are working on hard tech problems (new DBs, LLMs, etc.) there are thousands of SV startup CRUD apps.

Most SV tech stacks are romanticized when in reality they are just are all mostly some flavor of a MEAN stack that is building a CRUD. The allure is the lottery payout and a clean slate tech stack, not that the specific tech itself is used.
by jabwd | 2025-11-13 21:12:16+00:00
The internet was designed to survive nukes.

Lets host it all with 2 companies instead and see how it goes.

Anyway random things you will encounter: Azure doesn't work because frontdoor has issues (again, and again) A webapp in Azure just randomly stops working, its not live migrated by any means, restarts don't work. Okay lets change SKU, change it back, oop its on a different baremetal cluster and now it works again. Sure there'll be some setup (read, upsell) that'll prevent such failures from reaching customers, but there is just simply no magic to any of this.

Really wish people would stop dreaming up reasons that hyperscalars are somehow magical places where issues don't happen and everything is perfect if you justtt increase the complexity a little bit more the next time around.
by warmedcookie | 2025-11-13 21:12:20+00:00
Okay, I'll delve deeper. You're talking about one thing, the models, which Cursor has a bunch available to choose from. Yes, I agree practically no difference there in terms of what junk is being spit out.

But code review is really important to me and nothing comes close to Cursor in regards to reviewing the code the LLM generates. I can keep the good parts, modify or throw out the bad parts. I can go back to a checkpoint easily when things get really bad. What solution comes even close to that? Cursor nails this really well. Claude code acolytes tell me to just use git commands. Yeah, no thanks.

Vibe coding? Yes, no meaningful difference.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-11-13 21:12:44+00:00
> “We do not have trade schools,” he said. “We are not investing in educating a next generation of people like my grandfather who had nothing, who built a middle class life and a future for his family.”

So put your money where your mouth is and open your own trade school? If someone as incompetent and corrupt as Falwell can open and operate Liberty University, then why can’t CEO Farley?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-13 21:13:29+00:00
In general this kind of excuse is used by incumbents to pass laws to thwart competition.

You have some regulatory framework which has already been created by captured regulators, so it has a couple of rules that it ought to have (always the ones pointed to in order to justify it) and then others that exist merely to exclude competitors or make sure fixed costs are high enough that only large incumbents can meet them.

The latter set of rules are unreasonable so the market finds a way around them. The incumbents then call this a "loophole" and insist that the competitors be forced into the entire framework rather than just the subset of reasonable rules they'd be able to satisfy without being destroyed. Which destroys them, as intended.
by pirates | 2025-11-13 21:14:24+00:00
I stayed at a ryokan in Japan recently, and of course the baths and pools are 100% nude, and people strip down naked in the changing rooms to enter them. Men and women separate at all times.

It was a new experience for me but it also felt 100% natural and by the second night it was totally normal and I didn’t feel modest or anything. There was an unspoken understanding that we’re all there to just relax and recover and help our bodies feel good. Nobody made me feel weird or self conscious, nobody stared, no one made comments or really even said much of anything outside of a few funny jokes that we all laughed at that had nothing to do with the setting.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-13 21:14:38+00:00
I toned it down already with an edit. But this is a discussion forum, so we're here to discuss, and any comment is an invitation for further replies, wouldn't you agree?

Yes, everybody deserves the joy of giving gifts, and it doesn't matter if the receiver wants it or not. They should be happy that somebody thought of them and wanted to show their appreciation. The gift itself doesn't matter very much. Nobody should take for granted that anybody wants to give them any gifts at all, so let's appreciate it when it happens. God knows that there are many people in this world who never receive gifts or any gesture of kindness, and would be overjoyed if it happened to them.

Secondly, gifts were never ment to have utility value for the receiver. At most, when we are children we can expect that our parents may figure out what objects we desire. After that, gifts can never be expected to be what the recipient wanted. And that's why I mentioned maturity. How in the world are people who don't live with you in your house supposed to know what you want or need? That's why we as adults need to understand that it is all about the gesture, and not at all about whether the gift is useful or desired by the recipient. So put it in a drawer, give it to somebody else, or throw it away if you must.

Just like being invited to dinner isn't about stilling your hunger.
by Too | 2025-11-13 21:14:56+00:00
Terraform. It’s declarative, type safe and just expressive enough to create basic conditionals, loops and reusable modules. Providers exists for all clouds and k8s.

Now it’s not perfect either. It does have some issues with slow querying of the current state during planning, even when it has the tfstate as a cache, which is another source of errors.
by a2128 | 2025-11-13 21:15:12+00:00
I've always wanted an AI that can play my video games for me, so that I can spend my time doing more fun and fulfilling things, like cleaning the toilet, folding my laundry, washing my dishes, taking out the garbage. Now I will no longer have to worry about the annoying chores in life, like drawing art, writing poetry, or playing video games
by CalChris | 2025-11-13 21:15:42+00:00
> States aren't gerrymandering because the people decide for themselves where to live.

The people can also decide for themselves where they want to live with respect to gerrymandered Congressional and other districts. So by your logic, gerrymandering doesn't exist at that level either.

You're not going to convince me that some procedural nonsense is more important than equal representation.
by fweimer | 2025-11-13 21:15:53+00:00
It depended on whether the programs were distributed together. So it wasn't okay to link against OpenSSL for GNU/Linux distributions (although interpretations varied). For a time, this was used to push GNUTLS as an alternative to OpenSSL. But it was generally agreed upon that it was okay to link against CryptoAPI on Windows because you would not distribute Windows code along with your GPL binaries.
by linkregister | 2025-11-13 21:15:57+00:00
This is a perfect example of the opportunity for federalism. Any state could —and many did— close the loophole. You mentioned emergency regulation from the Texas governor. New recreational substances are discovered and introduced to market continuously. States can use their legislative authority to address them. Delta-9, Spice, and other delta-8 THC analogues have been successfully addressed by states.

The side effects of this provision make hemp plants in the ground illegal, according to Senator Paul. It is reasonable for the public to be outraged about a hastily-written amendment whose authors failed to understand the unintended consequences.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-13 21:16:15+00:00
> Still, part of the problem for the shortage of manufacturing jobs is the lack of education and training, according to Farley. He noted, for example, learning to take a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck takes at least five years. The current system is not meeting the standard, he added.

Sounds like Ford's #1 problem is failure to train its engineers, in how to design reasonably maintainable vehicles.
by bluGill | 2025-11-13 21:16:56+00:00
Long distance rail doesn't make sense without local transport. If I have to rent a car when I get there I can justify a much longer drive - and because cars are door to door the drive isn't that much longer. Flying goes far enough that driving doesn't make sense.

i use amtrak once in a while, but I hate driving and still can only justify it because my body can't sit in a car that long without pain
by m463 | 2025-11-13 21:16:56+00:00
needed a new fridge and bought a used sub-zero. Kind of crazy to spend so much used (paid $2800). New it was ~ $12k

But it worked out. It is the best. Tall with everything in plain sight. easy to access water filter, etc. Two cooling systems, one for fridge, separate for freezer.

Not only are repair/maintenance parts plentiful, there are 3rd party water and air filters.

It is like the rackmount server of fridges.

It was a bi36-ufd/0 if you're curious. this one has no wifi.
by hemp_is_canvas | 2025-11-13 21:17:14+00:00
There is the concept of illiberal democracy. The Senate, according to most political scientists who study this, is an important part of cutting that off that because bicameralism along with independent courts etc are good.

It's mostly populism rising and not realizing how dangerous it would be to have another check on power removed. Reform the system, don't just turn to blind populism.
by lisbbb | 2025-11-13 21:17:20+00:00
Having worked at UNH and also having them and later UMR (owned by UNH) and now being insured by a non-public company, I can tell you the difference is huge. UNH is for profit through and through, quarterly reports are all that matter, and squeezing subscribers and providers is the result. It's disgusting and I'm pretty embarrassed to have worked for them at all because I was with a different company that was privately held and while their ethics were compromised, too, it was nothing at all like what I saw at UNH. There's no reason to have for profit, publicly traded health insurers, it doesn't need to be a thing.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-13 21:17:36+00:00
> compared to old-school weed strains at 15% and modern levels at mid 30%s)

These levels are still primarily based on THCa content, not Delta9 THC. Even your regulated legal flower is very low in D9 THC.

> It is certainly a different market than legal, high potency THC, as well as medical.

Much of it is literally the exact same. They are growing the exact same strains and cultivars as the regulated legal marijuana industry, just making sure to harvest and process them in a way that prevents the decarboxylation of THCa into D9 THC from going over .3%
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-13 21:17:53+00:00
Yeah. This is why I threw that all away and simply pirate for my NAS. Im not watching much new media to begin with. and they make it hell, if not impossible, to stream a lot of older shows. And of I do find them I need to compromise with how I stream it, with what account, and where.

I just got tired of all VPNs, the DRMs, and trying to tune my network just to try and get a decent feed. Instead, map a network drive once, find torrent, save to movies file, and let Plex (or Emby in my case, for historical reasons) find the metadata.
by denuoweb | 2025-11-13 21:17:59+00:00
Six figure hourly-wage "salaries", as long as you put in the 20 hours overtime every week. He also didn't mention the swing shift going from 2 weeks on 3rd, 2 weeks on 2nd, 2 weeks on 1st, and repeat. We can probably find a bunch of other anti-worker issues if we look into it. He also suggests it takes 5 years of education to learn to take out an engine. You're better off getting a college education in that time. Or you'll be dealing with the same engine for the next 30 years. No future. No advancement, No life.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-11-13 21:18:00+00:00
> Who is F-Droid? Why should I trust them?

For the same reason you trust many things. They have a long track record of doing the right thing. As gaining reputation for doing the wrong thing would more or less destroy them, it's a fair incentive to continue doing the right thing. It's a much better incentive that many random developers of small apps in Google's play store have.

However, that's not the only reason to trust them. They also follow a set of processes, starting with a long list of criteria saying what app's they will accept https://f-droid.org/docs/Inclusion_Policy/ That doesn't mean malware won't slip past them on occasion, but if you look at the amount of malware that slips past F-Droid and projects with similar policies like Debian and compare them to other app stores like Google's, Apple and Microsoft there is no comparison. Some malware slips past Debian's defences once every few years. I would not be surprised if new malware isn't uploaded to Google app store every few minutes. The others aren't much better.

The net outcome of all that is the open source distribution platforms like F-Droid and Debian, that have procedures in place like tight acceptance policies and reproducible builds are by a huge margin the most reliable and trustworthy on the planet right now. That isn't saying they are perfect, but rather if Google's goal is to keep their users safe they should be doing everything in their power to protect and promote F-Droid.

> How do I know they aren’t infiltrated by TLAs? (Three Letter Agencies), or outright bad-actors.

You don't know for sure, but F-Droid policies make it possible to detect if the TLA did something nefarious. The combination of reproducible builds, open source and open source's tendency to use source code management systems that provide to audit trail showing who changed every line shine a lot of sunlight into the area. Sunlight those TLA's your so paranoid about hate.

This is the one thing that puzzles me about F-Droid opposition in particular. Google is taking a small step here towards increasing accountability of app developers. But a single person signing an app is in reality a very small step. There are likely tens if not hundreds of libraries underpinning it, developed by thousands of people. That single developer can't monitor them all, and consequently libraries with malware inserted from upstream repositories like NPM or PyPi regularly slips through. Transparency the open source movement mostly enforces is far greater. You can't even modify the amount of whitespace in a line without it being picked up by some version control system that records who did it, why they did it, and when. So F-Droid is complaining about a small increase in enforced transparency from Google, when they demand far, far more from their contributors.

I get that Google's change probably creates some paper-cuts for F-Droid, but I doubt it's something that can't be worked around if both sides collaborate. This blog post sounds like Google is moving in that direction. Hear, hear!
by henearkr | 2025-11-13 21:18:14+00:00
To scientific-oriented minds it only refers to the mathematical operator.

I personally did not know about, and don't care about, the "horrifying" thing you see in nabla. And I will keep being like that.

If we were to start tracking all the things that are "a typo away from a bad thing", not a lot of words would be left.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-13 21:18:38+00:00
It's not bullshit. You said it yourself, the benefits are supposed to be disclosure and encouraging R&D.

But disclosure is rarely an issue with software, and patents are bad at properly disclosing software details in the first place.

And in software there's already a huge motivation to do R&D, while patents are more likely to block useful work than in most fields. Even if I think of highly optimization-motivated fields like video encoding, patents slow down innovation more than they accelerate it.

So can you name some software patents where those motivating factors actually worked? It's a fair question.
by Y_Y | 2025-11-13 21:18:41+00:00
> If you're trying to ship a secured product, that basically means that you have to give code/rootfs signing keys to your customers. This is a non-starter for many kinds of products that need tamper protection (whether for product, legal, or safety reasons).

Fuck that. If it's my device then I want to have control. If I want to violate part 15 of the FCC rules then I'm going to do it and nobody is going to stop me. This paternalistic rubbish has to stop, I'm sure your company would love to retain ultimate control of the thing you've sold me, but that's not compatible with a free society.