MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pron | 2025-11-10 22:20:10+00:00
> But unlike ATS, many people have tried Rust and succeeded, and some Rust programmers even claim that they become very productive with it after a while

So if Rust is preferable to ATS because more people are productive with it despite ATS being able to guarantee more at compile-time, then by that logic a language that more people would be productive with than with Rust, despite Rust guaranteeing more at compile time, would be preferable to Rust.

You see, the problem is that these arguments cannot lead us to an objective preference unless we compared Rust to all other points on the spectrum, especially since Rust proponents already must accept that the best point is not on any extreme. So we know that languages that guarantee more than C but more productive than ATS are preferable. Guess what? Zig is right there, too, so that argument can't be used to prefer Rust over Zig.
by gradus_ad | 2025-11-10 22:20:46+00:00
I'd imagine Tesla's and Waymo's AI are at the forefront of spatial cognition... this is what has made me hesitant to dismiss the AI hype as a bubble. Once spatial cognition is solved to the extent that language has been solved, a range of applications currently unavailable will drive a tidal wave of compute demand. Beyond self driving, think fully autonomous drone swarms... Militaries around the world certainly are and they're salivating.
by phyzome | 2025-11-10 22:20:55+00:00
I don't think synesthesia is necessarily a good explanation.

I am quite good at spotting 4-leaf clovers, but I don't have synesthesia. My eye just "catches" on them. I'm pretty sure it's actually the angle of the leaves that I'm spotting, because almost all of the false positives are situations where leaflets are at a 90° angle to each other.

(But I've found 5, 6, and 7 leaf as well.)
by officeplant | 2025-11-10 22:20:59+00:00
>The reality is Valve often does a better job at preservation than GoG

My take on this is that GoG does exactly what I want, let me download offline installers and store them away myself.

Which makes it better at preservation than Steam.

I'm thankful for all the work steam does, including letting you continue to play games that were ripped off the storefront if you own them. I'm just not sure I trust steam in the long term.

On that same note its hard to trust GoG in the long term because they aren't profiting enough off their storefront, hence me keeping all of their offline installers on my own drives after buying a game. (and patch files!)

It gets depressing thinking about how bad we are at game preservation even with all the commercial and hobbyist efforts. I already have too many games piled up with a backlog of "maybe when I get a vacation/retire I can finally get around to these" that won't even be accessible in 30 years.
by hexage1814 | 2025-11-10 22:21:04+00:00
>GenAI is not used to replace or generate new talent performances

This is 100% a lie.

Studios will use this to replace humans. In fact, the idea is for the technology – AI in general – to be so good you don't need humans anywhere in the pipeline. Like, the best thing a human could produce would only be as good as the average output of their model, except the model would be far cheaper and faster.

And... that's okay, honestly. I mean, it's a capitalism problem. I believe with all my strength that this automation is fundamentally different from the ones from back in the day. There won't be new jobs.

But the solution was never to ban technology
by pavon | 2025-11-10 22:21:08+00:00
The journalists didn't make this connection, it was a topic of discussion at the city council meeting. And the result of that discussion was to suspend the cameras anyway, out of concern that ICE could end up with the the Flock data, even if they hadn't already. It would have been odd for the journalist to report on the outcome and leave out the event that prompted it.
by JeremyHerrman | 2025-11-10 22:21:17+00:00
I've been able to find four-leaf clovers easily since I was a kid. Like the OP they seem to just "pop out" at me as I quickly scan the ground, but I do not have the same background with synesthesia.

Since four and five leaf clovers tend to grow in patches, I transplanted a patch I found and have kept it in a planter on my deck so that anyone who has never found a four leaf clover can find one!

I wrote about my lucky clover patch here: https://jherrman.com/four-leaf-clover-patch.html
by yorwba | 2025-11-10 22:21:20+00:00
"If you can confidently say "yes" to all the above, socializing the intended use with your Netflix contact may be sufficient. If you answer “no” or “unsure” to any of these principles, escalate to your Netflix contact for more guidance before proceeding, as written approval may be required."

They do want to save money by cheaply generating content, but it's only cheap if no expensive lawsuits result. Hence the need for clear boundaries and legal review of uses that may be risky from a copyright perspective.
by jaredhansen | 2025-11-10 22:21:22+00:00
>The license plate, combined with cross border surveillance data providers, is enabling dragnet surveillance and enforcement of unconscionable law. [snip] Stop trying to play down how tech is enabling authoritarianism.

Yes, that's the whole point of tech used by law enforcement: to enable the enforcement of law. If we don't like the law (and I don't), we should change it!

But focusing on the ALPR here is just silly, as a quick glance of this partial list of other technologies used by law enforcement officers in the course of enforcing the law will show: * cars * guns * phones * handcuffs * computers * the internet * notebook and pen

All of these can be used to "enable authoritarianism", and indeed, any authoritarian regime would be hard pressed to run without them. Some of them are more important than others, and ALPRs are definitely a major improvement in the "who is going where" part of law enforcement -- but the problem is the bad law, not the enforcement thereof.

Your argument reduces to "some laws are bad, so we should have weak enforcement mechanisms, because otherwise people will be unable to evade prosecution for breaking bad laws, and that is bad, because the laws are bad and therefore those who break them should not be subject to prosecution." This is not as helpful a move as it might seem, since it just sends us back to the original question, which is "ok, what laws should we have?"

For better or worse, we have a setup in which we have one branch charged with answering that question, and another charged with enforcing whatever laws we happen to have. Trying to undermine one branch in order to compensate for the stupidity of another is unlikely to help.
by qball | 2025-11-10 22:21:35+00:00
The converse is also true, however.

If, for example, society sees fit to deprive me of my right to security (for instance, perhaps it deigns to throw me in jail if I defend myself against a home invasion), then society doesn't get to demand I give my life for its security.

In this way, it is society that has broken the contract with me, releasing me of my obligations to defend it. Most people who claim "duty and obligation to society" conveniently forget this is possible. By accident, I'm sure.
by AngryData | 2025-11-10 22:21:44+00:00
Which does sound nice, but then runs into the problems of neighbors who don't follow those same rules and who decided to eat your lunch, either economically through unrestrained capitalism seeking infinite growth over sustainability, or militarily to feed their internal economic pyramid scheme, or maybe just because assholes run their country and believe they are better and more deserving and decided might makes right.

There are significant efficiency gains to be had with increasing organizational and operational sizes, the problem is many people assume those gains will benefit everyone, at least partially, rather than the more common reality of all that efficiency being redirected towards the personal gains of a few. And billions of dollars are spent year after year to convince the common people that they will get screwed more if they don't allow it to happen because all the efficiency gains, that they have never actually experienced, will disappear.
Show HN: EchoStack – Deployable Voice-AI Playbooks Powered by a Manifest System
by solomonayoola | 2025-11-10 22:21:49+00:00
Hey HN,

We’ve been working on EchoStack, a platform for deployable Voice-AI Playbooks — pre-built, outcome-driven automations that connect directly to business tools like HubSpot, Twilio, or Calendly.

Instead of building from scratch, users define what they want in a Manifest — a simple, declarative blueprint that tells our system:

The goal (e.g., qualify inbound leads, handle after-hours calls)

The tools to connect

The actions to trigger

The orchestrator reads the manifest, provisions the connections, and launches the playbook instantly.

It’s like Terraform, but for business outcomes — instead of spinning up servers, it spins up automations that deliver measurable results.

We’d love feedback on the approach, architecture, or potential edge cases we should think about.
by Vegenoid | 2025-11-10 22:22:18+00:00
Making things is often not just about making the thing right in front of you, but about building the skills to make bigger and better things. When you consider the long view, the struggle that makes it harder to make the thing at hand is well worth it. We have long considered taking shortcuts that don’t build skills to be detrimental in the long term. This pretty much only stops being the case when the thing you are short cutting becomes totally irrelevant. We have yet to see how the atrophying of programming skills will affect our collective ability to make reliable and novel software.

In my experience, I have not seen much new software that I’m happy about that is the fruit of LLMs. I have experienced web apps that I’ve been using for years getting buggier.
by wyldberry | 2025-11-10 22:22:56+00:00
"ending last November" - Is the implication that a Trump presidency implies a risk of invasion from the South?

Canada has relied greatly on the United States providing a blanket defense guarantee of the continent. The Canadian military is currently operationally worthless across the board, save the cyber domain. There are many reasons for it that I'm not here to list out. However, that does come with grave consequences geopolitically and the Canadian government has been living in the 1900s.

The USA, via Alaska, provides Canada against Russian provocation on the West Coast[0]. This is similar to the near constant probing of NATO states airspace, especially countries near Ukraine [1][2]

The Canadian Navy is severely underfunded (along with the rest of the Canadian Armed forces)[3] with not enough ships to actively patrol and protect it's waters, especially in the North.

The North passages are incredibly important, and will become more important as trade routes. The entirety of the US wanting to buy Greenland is as a part of having an Atlantic outpost to control those shipping lanes. Those trade lanes can be significantly shorter than routes using Suez or Panama canals.

In addition to the trade routes, the US fears a Russian and Chinese alliance because of the access that grants to the North Atlantic. Point blank: Nato cannot build ships anymore, and the PLAN capacity is staggering. This is already independent of CN and RU intelligence probing of the entirety of the west coast.

The world has changed dramatically, and the only thing that really changed in November is that the USA is no longer pretending it can defend the mainland, defend NATO countries, and police shipping lanes on their own. The USA doesn't have the capacity to replace ships, nor do they have the knowledge anymore to do so.

[0] - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-planes-alaska-us-fighter...

[1]- https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_237721.htm

[2]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Russian_drone_incursion_i...

[3] - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-greenland-panama-canal-wh...
by nis0s | 2025-11-10 22:22:56+00:00
It’s unnecessary to denigrate someone else’s ideas. Just do great research, and let it speak for itself. If people are interested in transhumanism, they themselves should make the effort to achieve something, and forget the naysayers. What always gives me pause are the gaps in ethics and morality, and not so much the gaps in technology. Lest we forget, at one time the NYTimes singled out a scientist to make fun for saying we could go to the moon.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-11-10 22:22:56+00:00
The correct analogy would be that half of the lights wouldn't light up randomly and then you'd have to go out anyway but in a hurry and only to certain ones just do discover you need to get back 20 minutes later because there is another problem with the same light, and your boss would expect that you do everything much faster and you end up frustrated even more.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-10 22:23:39+00:00
Redactions are necessary to protect innocent members of the public. Going through all the footage from every officer every single day to perform these redactions would require a huge amount of manpower. That may change with new technology, but until it can be automated reliably, the WA legislature got this right.

With shit like traffic cameras, I don't think redactions are necessary, although it would be nice if all license plates were automatically redacted and only accessible with a warrant. Turning the cameras off is an even better idea.
by NathanKP | 2025-11-10 22:23:45+00:00
This is coming from Swiss Re, which is the world's largest insurance company for insurance companies.

Basically you pay an insurance company premium so that if you have a health emergency the insurance company will take on the cost of your emergency.

Insurance companies pay Swiss Re, so that if the insurance company faces a financial squeeze from unforeseen mass disaster, then Swiss Re takes on the cost.

Swiss Re is basically warning their clients (insurance companies) that Swiss Re is seeing an ongoing trend of excess deaths post Covid, though they expect it to trail off by 2033. They highly recommend their clients factor that in when they calculate what premium they need to charge to be profitable.
by pron | 2025-11-10 22:23:52+00:00
It's actually hard to find any language that has ever very popular (JS, TS, Python, Java, C++, C#, C, and you can even throw in PHP, Ruby, Go, Kotlin, and even COBOL and Fortran) that has such a low adoption rate at age 10. I'm not saying that means Rust won't buck the historical trend and achieve that, but its adoption clearly does not resemble that of any language that's ever become very popular.
by jackdoe | 2025-11-10 22:23:57+00:00
> It sounds like the person who made this repo didn’t need help but used the help anyway and had a bad time.

tbh, it would've taken me 10x the time, the docs are not very obvious rp2350 is fairly new, and its riscv is not used as much and is afterthought, if I was writing it for arm it would've been much easier as the arm swd docs are very clear.

I am also new to the pico world.

It is not easy to make myself do something when I know its going to take 10 times longer and its going to be 10 times harder, even if I know I will feel 10 times better.

You know when they say "find what for you is play and for others is work"? well..
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-10 22:23:58+00:00
My university was similar (SGI, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun, Linux, SCO), but they used NFS to mount home dirs local to the computer clusters, which wasn't as cool because it wasn't possible to mount home dir volumes remotely like an AFS campus. They also, unfortunately, used original NIS which could easily extract all password hashes of all users with a simple `getent passwd`. I proceeded to run John The Ripper against a dump of everyone and found 60 passwords in 30 seconds, including several tenured professors.

Those were the days when portability and longevity were important and there wasn't as much of a monoculture or incompatible code/language features churn.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-10 22:23:58+00:00
This is a perfectly reasonable argument if memory safety issues are essentially similar to logic bugs, but memory unsafety isn't like a logic bug.

A logic bug in a library doesn't break unrelated code. It's meaningful to talk about the continued execution of a program in the presence of logic bugs. Logic bugs don't time travel. There are ways to exhaustively prove the absence of logic bugs, e.g. MC/DC or state space exploration, even if they're expensive.

None of these properties are necessarily true of memory safety. A single memory safety violation in a library can smash your stack, or allow your code to be exploited. You can't exhaustively defend against this with error handling either. In C and C++, it's not meaningful to even talk about continued execution in the presence of memory safety violations. In C++, memory safety violations can time travel. You typically can't prove the absence of memory safety violations, except in languages designed to allow that.

With appropriate caveats noted (Fil-C, etc), we don't have good ways to retrofit memory safety onto languages and programs built without it or good ways to exhaustively diagnose violations. All we can do is structurally eliminate the possibility of memory unsafety in any code that might ever be used in a context where it's an important property. That's most code.
by zerocrates | 2025-11-10 22:24:05+00:00
They aren't always entirely within their rights to refuse to give up your data: the third party doctrine doesn't transfer your expectation of privacy to the third party holding your data, it says that neither you nor the third party has an expectation of privacy for that information. Subpoenas and court orders and other process short of a warrant can compel disclosure of this "third party" data.

This is why there's a patchwork of statutes requiring Fourth Amendment ish processes for things like wiretaps and emails.
by namibj | 2025-11-10 22:24:56+00:00
Nowhere with even just an "improved" road (i.e., gravel road, not "only" a path cleared of tall vegetation) is too low density for fiber.

Unless local conditions make you want to use aerial cable, you'll just cable plow a speed pipe and put in a small access riser every 2~3 miles. You blow the cable in segment-by-segment, either splicing at these locations or spooling the ongoing length up before moving the blower and doing the next segment.

If the cable is damaged you measure with OTDR where the break is, walk there with a shovel, some spare speedpipe, and two speedpipe connectors. You dig out the damage, cut it out, put good pipe in, join it to the open ends where you cut the damaged section out, and bury it while taking more care to make it last better this time. You pull/blow out the section of cable and blow in a fresh one, splice it to the existing cable and both ends of the segment, and the connection is fixed.

AFAIK cable plow for fiber in not-very-hard ground is cheaper than planting "telegraph" poles like they did in the old days.

The only expensive parts about fiber optic Internet are the machine that allows you to splice (about 1k$, unlike the 5$ LSA tool for attaching RJ-45 sockets to Cat.5/6/7 cable; this only blocks DIYers from easily doing it) and digging up developed area with more finely controlled tools than a literal plow if you forgot to put in speed pipe the last time the ground was dug up for any infrastructure at all (say, piped water).

Oh, and arguably the optics if you expect to be cheaper than copper on distances within a building at speeds under 10 Gbit/s.
by jameslk | 2025-11-10 22:25:00+00:00
> Also, when they ask you to identify traffic lights, do you select the post? And when it’s motor/bycicles, do you select the guy riding it?

This type of captcha is too infuriating so I always skip it until I get the ones where I’m just selecting an entire image, not parts of an image

Google’s captchas are too ambiguous and might as well be answered philosophically with an essay-length textbox
by aseipp | 2025-11-10 22:25:31+00:00
Yeah that's fair. 60 tok/sec on a gpt-oss-120b is certainly nice to know if you should even think about it at all. I'm quite happy with it anyway.

The pricing is definitely by far the worst part of all of this. I suspect the GB10 still has more perf left on the table, Blackwell has been a rough launch. But I'm not sure it's $2000 better if you're just looking to get a fun little AI machine to do embeddings/vision/LLMs on?
by kazinator | 2025-11-10 22:25:39+00:00
OK, so those are skeptics about tooling, not about memory safety per se.

And not even about tooling per se, since achieving safety on their own doesn't literally mean on their own; they are relying on tooling.

True Scotsman's "on your own" means working in assembly language, in which you have to carefully manage even just calling a function and returning from it: not leaving stray arguments on the stack, saving and restoring all callee-saved register that are used in the function and so on.

Someone who thinks that their job is not to have segfaults is pretty green, obviously.
by allenu | 2025-11-10 22:25:40+00:00
> I’ve never even able to make a mobile app before. My skillset was just a bit too far off and my background more in the backend. > Now I have a complete app thanks to AI. And I do feel a sense of accomplishment.

AI is such an existential threat to many of us since we value our unique ability to create things with our skills. In my opinion, this is the source of immediate disgust that a lot of people have.

A few months ago, I would've bristled at the idea that someone was able to write a mobile app with AI as that is my personal skillset. My immediate reaction when learning about your experience would've been, "Well, you don't really know how to do it. Unlike myself, who has been doing it for many, many years."

Now that I've used AI a bit more, like yourself, I've been able to do more that I wasn't able to before. That's changed my perspective of how I look at skills now, including my own. I've recognized that AI is devaluing our unique skillsets. That obviously doesn't feel great, but at the same time I don't know if there's much to be done about that. It's just the way things are now, so the best I can do is lean into the new tools available and improve in other ways.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-11-10 22:25:47+00:00
> Another form of digital stewardship is Jacky Zhao’s website, jzhao.xyz – a personal “hypertext garden,” a digital space designed for exploration and playful engagement. The site blends writing, research, and projects in a nonlinear, interconnected layout, inviting visitors to wander through thoughts, experiments, and resources – as if walking through a garden.

Using an LLM really sabotages the post.