MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nicoburns | 2025-11-05 19:21:41+00:00
If anyone is interested in a modern take on a lightweight, embeddable web browser / browser engine (that supports features like Flexbox, CSS Grid, CSS variables, media queries, etc), then I'm building one over at https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz

Feature support matrix is here: https://blitz.is/status/css

This month I have been working on support for CSS floats (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...) (not yet merged to main), which turn out to still be important for rendering much of the modern web including wikipedia, github, and (old) reddit.

EDIT: I should mention, in case anyone is interested in helping to build a browser engine, additional collaborators / contributors would very welcome!
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-05 19:22:00+00:00
I don't think so, at least judging by the definition in the article

>"Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings-“catching on,” “making sense” of things, or “figuring out” what to do […]"

I'd say how we measure intelligence its what's potentially incorrect or misguided at least. It's hard to definitively measure someone's creativity, or adaptability into a metric compared to trying to measure someone's vocabulary, or command of language and maths.

In this case, the definition is good (intelligence = the ability to navigate and solve poorly defined problems that require creativity, insight, and adaptability). The problem is, we don't test for that. We test on well defined problems and academic exercises (like the vocab test mentioned in the article).
by BurningFrog | 2025-11-05 19:22:10+00:00
Arab states Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon all border Israel, and do not attack it (post the Hezbollah defeat). Israel lives in peace with them.

The West Bank does attack Israel, killing 2-3 Israelis per month since October 7. So Israel fights back.

This pattern is simple and logical, if you look at the facts.
by seviu | 2025-11-05 19:22:14+00:00
Apple priorities are and have always been:

Apple first Users second Developers third

Not only that they still live with ptsd from the times when they almost disappeared, and will do everything in their power to keep as much revenue as they can squeeze.

Because of this, the Japan appstore will be as crappy as the european one. And the apps as surpar as the ones from the appstore.

Because let’s be honest, apps quality have gone downhill
by ttcbj | 2025-11-05 19:22:25+00:00
I think this is an interesting idea, but the details on how the incentives get aligned, and how graduated students support the university are unclear to me.

I am a fan of the idea that universities need a new pricing model that is correlated to career results. Like, maybe universities are only eligible for students to receive gov't loans in proportion to the increase in W2 income of their past students, etc.

But I am not convinced that the model in this article, as described, scales. It might be a model for attracting very high-value students and thriving. But in that case it might just be about selection effects, and not about delivering a value-add in education.

I also think that the article fails to recognize that one of the main tasks of major universities is research. Quite possibly the research and education functions should be separated, but I wish the article addressed some of these issues more explicitly.

Still, $100m towards and effort is interesting. Maybe it will evolve in an even more interesting direction.
by deepspace | 2025-11-05 19:22:30+00:00
Well said. I wrote an XSLT based application back in the early 2000s, and I always imagined the creators of XSLT as a bunch of slavering demented sadists. I hate XSLT with a passion and would take brainfuck over it any day.

Hearing the words Xalan, Xerces, FOP makes me break out in a cold sweat, 20 years later.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-05 19:22:49+00:00
IDK, Ryanair in Europe (an epitome of low-cost airline) has both decent margins and zero crashes. They once had a birdstrike, hardly caused by their ticket cost, and wrote off the hull (no fatalities); otherwise, nothing.

A lot depends on your overall marketing. The airline can make money on a "stupid tax", e.g. people who didn't check twice the max. allowed weight of their baggage and have to pay a 100 USD/EUR fee for that single extra pound. I have seen it more than once.

People being people, you can almost rely on this happening frequently enough.
by ebbi | 2025-11-05 19:22:54+00:00
But most New Zealander's aren't happy with the way things are. That's the point. That's why I used public transport as an example. Most working New Zealander's are unhappy about the public transport system, and always compare it to other major cities (Sydney, London, etc) and how we massively fall short. But the times where a government has tried to carry out the major work, it either gets reversed when a successive govt takes over, or the cost is too high for it to be palatable to decrease spending elsewhere to fund it.

You may say, well, democracy brings in the next government, and they're carrying out the policies that they campaigned for. But my point isn't that democracy is failing, it's the mechanisms. The 4 year term means even governments that do think a massive public transport overhaul is needed won't do it because cutting costs elsewhere to fund it will lead to losing the next term.

So I do partially agree with you in that it is ultimately a people problem. But short election cycles shape how those people's preferences are expressed and acted upon.
by spongebobstoes | 2025-11-05 19:23:02+00:00
I was replying to the claims on big tech company policies. Jordana Cutler appears to be an internal advocate for reducing antisemitism on the Meta platform. They don't set policy. There are many similar roles for many different groups, it's how the company tries to hear more points of view before making policy changes.

We can only judge big tech company policy based on its declaration or application. So far I see no supported criticisms of either, though I am open to them.
by gen220 | 2025-11-05 19:23:20+00:00
Discovery is a pretty interesting problem-space! It's one of those things that I'm looking forward to "earning the right" to solve (by having enough data to begin with, lol).

I like the idea of "people with your listening/purchasing habits also purchase this". Or "people in your geo purchased this", or "here's the music of people performing in your area this weekend".

Spotify/Apple Music/etc. (the "streamers") have a very different incentive model from the Bandcamps of the world, because their income stream is super concentrated on the major labels and heavily tied to plays of that music in particular. So they're biased in favor of that "kind" of music in discovery.

They actually are averse to showing people hyper-niche music, which I think is why discovery is such a tricky problem for them to "solve": their salary depends on them not fully exploring the solution space.

I think moving out of the universe of royalty-based revenue is a huge step in the right direction for somebody trying to solve that problem at scale, even if it's a smaller market.
by chuckadams | 2025-11-05 19:23:40+00:00
The key is the plural in "Docker containers". You're not doing everything by modifying one Docker container that's been handed down over literally generations, you're rebuilding images as you need to, usually starting from a golden master, but sometimes starting from a scratch image into which you just copy individual files. It's the "cattle, not pets" mentality, whereas a Smalltalk or Lisp Machine image is the ultimate pet.
by wintonzheng | 2025-11-05 19:23:42+00:00
Does "durable spec" mean writing the spec in a MD file and committing to a repo?

The big problem of ai generated docs for me is that it takes time to read and understand whether they are correct or not. Same with human written docs, which is why you need spec reviewers.

I assume the purpose of sudocode is to help me reduce the time to review and manage specs. How can sudocode help me solve the trust problem here while i don't want to spend so much time reading and managing specs? Solving the spec generation is one part, but the other big problem to solve here is to help speed up the spec review/validation process.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-11-05 19:23:52+00:00
So far this year alone, there have been 31,000,000 flights. https://www.airportia.com/flights-monitor/. So somewhere around 300,000,000 flights per decade.

If someone said an event happens “occasionally”, I would expect it to be significantly more frequent than 1/300,000,000.

Powerball lottery odds are 1 in 292 million. I wouldn’t say that I “occasionally” win the lottery when I buy a ticket!
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-05 19:24:15+00:00
> Second, our society spends a lot of time shaping culture and people to extract value from them.

The usual trope here is that smarter people recognize this and see through the cage, leading to less overall happiness vs. "ignorance is bliss" where you don't recognize you are in a cage at all.

It's just that though, a trope. I'd argue happiness is more determined by emotional intelligence than anything, which an IQ test isn't going to measure.
by whalesalad | 2025-11-05 19:25:20+00:00
I struggle to remember myself... but I found this earlier today:

"The years of 1995 and 1996 brought many technological improvements to the Library including the addition of InfoTrac SearchBank, a computerized magazine and newspaper index; ADVANCE, a new Unix-based online library catalog; public access to the Internet with terminals at all library locations;"

ADVANCE: https://librarytechnology.org/document/4772

InfoTrac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoTrac
by isr | 2025-11-05 19:25:25+00:00
Except that's not really what happened. You're ignoring the range of in-image tools which kept track if who did what, where. From versioning of individual methods, to full blown distributed version control systems, which predated git.

Not to sound harsh or gatekeep, but folks who keep repeating the canard that "The Smalltalk image resulted from the developer just banging on the system", mostly never used smalltalk in the first place.

Give the original smalltalk devs some credit for knowing how to track code development over time.
by _menelaus | 2025-11-05 19:25:34+00:00
The point is that Gaza receives a lot of attention because we (the West) are involved. And its especially emotional because our politicians have been corrupted and blackmailed into complicity by people like Miriam Adelson and Jeffrey Epstein, and are taking us along for the ride, which is extremely frustrating. On the other hand, I have nothing to do with events in Sudan that I'm aware of.
by layer8 | 2025-11-05 19:26:20+00:00
f(x, y) = 0 is true only for some combinations of x and y. It’s an equation to be solved, not a universal statement like ∀ x, y : f(x, y) = 0, nor a definition like f(x, y) ≔ 0 (or “≝”). The solutions to the equation are the points (x, y) where the graph has height 0. Which points these are depends on how f is defined.

For example, f might be defined as f(x, y) ≔ x² + y² – 1. Then the points (x, y) for which f(x, y) = 0 are those on the unit circle (those for which x² + y² = 1). The graph will have height 0 only for those points.
by sandspar | 2025-11-05 19:26:22+00:00
In "The Conquest of Happiness", Bertrand Russell wrote that, all else being equal, the man who enjoys eating strawberries has a happier life than the man who dislikes strawberries.

I feel that way about AI haters like the author. She spends lots of time feeling "disgust", "skin crawling", "the ick". Meanwhile people who are fine with AI are feeling happy emotions. There's so much to look forward to!

Just seems like a glass half full/half empty thing.
by more_corn | 2025-11-05 19:26:26+00:00
I wonder if it’s still too soon for the CEO of a car company to throw up a Nazi salute on an internationally televised event. Let’s check the sales results. Yep still too soon.

Also pro tip. If you didn’t MEAN to throw up a Nazi salute and you’re sorry for offending people you should immediately (or at all) 1) say that wasn’t intended to be one 2) apologize for offending everyone who isn’t a Nazi 3) Refrain from presenting a collection of Nazi jokes as your sole public defense.
by codyklimdev | 2025-11-05 19:27:02+00:00
I think beyond a certain level surplus IQ begins to cause problems. While still useful, the amount of self-sabotage and thought spirals the brain can generate with the extra power can cause neuroses and unhappiness on a larger scale than those less intelligent are capable of. Combine it with higher societal expectations and it's no great mystery to me why smarter people seem unhappier.

Just my thoughts anyways. I'm a dev, not a psychologist.
by Zr01 | 2025-11-05 19:27:08+00:00
I appreciate how the newer versions provide more links and references. It makes the task of verifying it (or at least where it got its results from) that much easier. What you're describing seems more like a advertisement problem, not a product problem. No matter how many locks and restrictions they put on it, someone, somwhere, will still find a way to get hurt from its advice. A hammer that's hard enough to beat nails is hard enough to bruise your fingers.
by hopelite | 2025-11-05 19:27:09+00:00
To me this smells of rather basic economic/political propaganda to scare people. The collective west is clearly getting orders from high above to apply pressure on China and it may just be that this is part of it, spreading an air of concern and fear to dissuade other people who pay attention to this kind of thing in municipalities to avoid Chinese manufacturers. It's rather basic social engineering that has the ham fist of "intelligence" all over it.
by lesuorac | 2025-11-05 19:27:37+00:00
I'm not sure this comment does justice to the situation.

Poland put out a separate bid for manufacturing and servicing of their locomotives and one company won the manufacturing bid while another won the servicing bid.

The servicing company was unable to get the trains into working order and after hiring hackers accused the manufactoring company of bricking the software on purpose by including geo-fences where the trains would no longer work after arriving at the servicing company's property.

Perhaps the interesting part to me was Dragon Sector's (the hackers) claims that the software needs to be blessed so although they discovered problems they never changed anything because they don't have the authority to bless it and heavily imply that the fact that the manufactoring company is changing the software at will is illegal.

The changes by the manufactoring company had an (undisclosed) activation sequence added to it so you didn't need to modify the software in order to get the train working so the servicing company never actually modified the software.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlrbfGZo2k

https://www.ifixit.com/News/112008/polish-train-maker-is-sui...
by sedatk | 2025-11-05 19:27:53+00:00
I like XSLT, and I’ve been using the browser-based APIs in my projects, but I must say that XSLT ecosystem has been in a sad state:

- Browsers have only supported XSLT 1.0, for decades, which is the stone age of templating. XSLT 3.0 is much nicer, but there’s no browser support for it.

- There are only two cross-platform libraries built for it: libxslt and Saxon. Saxon seriously lacks ergonomics to say the least.

One option for Google as a trillion dollar company would be to drive an initiative for “better XSLT” and write a Rust-based replacement for libxslt with maybe XSLT 3.0 support, but killing it is more on-brand I guess.

I also dislike the message “just use this [huge framework everyone uses]”. Browser-based template rendering without loading a framework into the page has been an invaluable boon. It will be missed.
by drewbug01 | 2025-11-05 19:27:56+00:00
We clearly aren’t watching the same video.

What you see as “thrusting” sure looks to me like he was trying to stop himself from a full-on run - why did he grab a door handle on the wall? Why would you grab and pull like that if you were trying to tackle?

And “grabbing his legs”… come on man. That looks a hell of a lot like an old man flailing after getting tackled.

And you think he grappled with the officer before getting arrested outside? It looks like precisely the opposite.

I’m sorry, I just can’t buy what you’re selling.
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-05 19:28:29+00:00
The problem with "oh, but wait, this merger actually improves competition" is that mergers are a contagion. A large competitor's mere existence creates an economic imperative for more mergers. This happens both horizontally (across multiple firms) and vertically (up and down the supply chain). When you get big, you can start stripping your vendors' and customers' of their profit margin, which means they need to get big to compensate. Even if a merger might have positive competitive effects, it still spreads the contagion. Which is a problem, because anyone who doesn't or can't get big will get fucked. That includes individual consumers and workers.

If the problem is that Chinese companies are shipping train firmware with backdoors, then you need to ban those companies. Problem is, given the Newag situation[0], I don't think they can actually do this at the level of individual procurements. So they need specific EU directives banning this behavior and explicitly adding a process by which procurement can ban suppliers for prior noncompliance. What facilitating an illegal merger will do is reduce the EU's bargaining power with industry, ensuring that we get more backdoored trains and more risk.

[0] Short version: they got caught shipping firmware that bricks the train if you take it to a third-party repair shop, even though the contract specifically mandated Newag provide repair manuals. EU agencies and member states do not have the power to disqualify Newag from future tenders for failing to adhere to prior ones, so they keep winning contracts
by belikebakar | 2025-11-05 19:29:16+00:00
These malicious npm packages often “phone home” during install or runtime, opening C2 channels, exfiltrating env vars, or beaconing quietly in the background. Static checks and SBOMs rarely catch that kind of dynamic behavior. With AI-generated or auto-installing code pipelines, that risk gets amplified since installs happen more often and less predictably. Watching what packages do at runtime feels like the next frontier here.
by dekhn | 2025-11-05 19:29:36+00:00
I expect the same thing will happen here as happened when Google X said they were looking into space elevators. They'll conclude it won't be feasible because of already-known engineering challenges for which there are no technical solutions that are economically viable. The big barrier for space-based data centers is heat exhaust, which does not work well in space and typically requires enormous radiators. They allude to this in the paper but just gloss over it.
by ragnese | 2025-11-05 19:29:37+00:00
Point taken on GTK, and I can't really disagree since I haven't even poked at writing a GTK GUI in many years.

But, you still couldn't resist complaining about the UI implementations, which sounds more like complaints about GNOME apps and GNOME Shell. Who cares if you think that GNOME Shell looks like it accommodates touch screens? Firefox, for example, uses GTK and doesn't seem to look like a touch screen UI to me as I'm typing into this text box.
by Sparkenstein | 2025-11-05 19:29:48+00:00
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by potsandpans | 2025-11-05 19:30:13+00:00
The US by and large can (and does) assert authority outside of its jurisdiction, from which another country can choose to capitulate.

Most of the time countries do, because they are all swapping data on their citizens between themselves to skirt various laws.

In the case where the US really wants something, and the country won't yield, they'll fund contras or destabilize the government (if small enough to be bullied) or impose sanctions so drastic it's effectively a soft act of war.

This is all to say that, the US has nearly unlimited authority while it stands as the world's defacto superpower.
by metalman | 2025-11-05 19:30:17+00:00
lets see, a modern bus has, woooooo, conectivity, woooooo, on basicly everything, woooooo, so some manager can obsess over oil filters or the voltage on the lighting circuit, and the sixteen antenas advertised in the broshure were,in fact installed realy, wtf?, it's not like anybody is unaware that something like 10 billion things are conected to the net, and dozens, ? hundreds, of actors are doing there best to slurp up every last scrap of data, ha!, that they can the worst part is that it would be no surprise to find out that the bus comes with a monitering contract that is in effect.

next it will be cranes all sensored up to detect cable stretch or who know what

and didn't china just go ahead and hack the pentagon, but wooooo, Norwiegen bus hacking wooooo
by njovin | 2025-11-05 19:30:28+00:00
Most frequently the actions/evidence that lead to a crash would not be captured on airport-located cameras. The holes in the swiss cheese usually start lining up either in the maintenance hangar, en route, or in the briefing room, not on the runway.

The NTSB (and many of their non-US counterparts) are incredibly adept at accident investigation using debris, black boxes and CVRs. Even in cases where the black boxes are damaged and video evidence is available, the video evidence is usually not so helpful as to be able to determine a root cause.

If you take into account that the cameras would be mostly useless in low-light or poor visibility conditions, and the costs associated with maintaining a nationwide network of high-res cameras that cover all runways at all major commercial airports (and ensures their lines of sight and operation through the never-ending renovations going on at these airports), I'm not sure that the benefits of having the cameras make sense.
by sethhochberg | 2025-11-05 19:30:36+00:00
I think many people would suggest that this was more of an accident due to the ubiquity of the browser, though.

The transition from "websites" to "web apps" was well underway by the time the dev tools became a built-in browser feature - Chrome was notable for being the first browser to release with the console, inspectors, etc out of the box, but that came later. The developer experience was quite a bit rougher in the early days, and then better but still not native in the days of plugins like Firebug.

The web becoming the premium app distribution platform was, firstly, because the web was the lowest-common-denominator distribution channel. Javascript was just the tool that was available where everyone wanted to run.