MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ngriffiths | 2025-11-15 16:03:07+00:00
> a private company shouldn’t have to decide what counts as “illegal” content under threat of legal action.

Immediately reminded me of patio11's amazing write up[1] of debanking, featuring banks being deputized as law enforcement for financial crimes (which is completely non controversial), and even used as a convenient tool to regulate other industries that the white house didn't like (kinda controversial).

[1]: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunki...
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-11-15 16:03:12+00:00
The Ministry of Truth simply doesn't want unaccounted and uncontrolled snapshots of history. Too much hassle steering the narrative regarding any surfacing truth-now-meant-to-be-lies and vice versa into fake news territory, discrediting by association, cranking up troll farms.. Much easier to make this inconvenience disappear with the due cooperation from the controlled outlets of information.

Then they will come after our local storage, and making it prohibitively expensive is the least malign way they can come up with.
by Jayeshkumbhar | 2025-11-15 16:03:21+00:00
OP here — really appreciate these questions because they get at the real limitations of carbon accounting frameworks.

*1. "Carbon ≠ carbon": different gases, different externalities*

Totally agree. CO₂ mass alone is a simplification. That's why GHG Protocol uses GWP factors to convert different gases into CO₂e: - CH₄: 28–34× CO₂ - N₂O: 265–298× - SF₆/HFCs: 10,000×+

But even GWP misses important dimensions: - Timing effects (short-lived vs. long-lived gases) - Toxicity and pollution - Ozone impacts - Ecosystem and social externalities

So in our system, carbon accounting is just the starting layer. CSRD already forces companies to track water, biodiversity, pollution, and circularity on top of climate (ESRS E2-E5).

*2. Re: ESG ratings not correlating with lower emissions*

Fully agree with the critique. Most ESG scores measure: - Disclosures instead of actual performance - Policies instead of physics - Governance/social weighting that dilutes environmental signals

That's why we avoid "ESG scores" completely. We follow: - Strict GHG Protocol methods - Audit-grade emission-factor calculations - CSRD/BRSR/SEC climate-rule compliance

The 2023 study you cited is exactly why deterministic calculation matters more than ratings.

*3. On porous graphene and carbon-capture edge cases*

This is where things get interesting.

Under GHG Protocol: - Manufacturing the filter → positive emissions (Scope 1/2/3) - Capturing CO₂ → potential removal - But: only counts as removal if storage is permanent (>100 yrs) and third-party verified (e.g., Puro.earth, CDR.fyi) - Temporary use (e.g., carbonation) is not removal—just delayed re-emission

In our accounting model we separate: - Emissions (tCO₂e released) - Avoidance (vs. baseline) - Removals (atmospheric drawdown) - Permanence categories (geological, mineralization, engineered, biomass) - Uncertainty ranges (required under CSRD ESRS E1)

Your graphene example is exactly the type of nuance that standard ESG dashboards usually ignore.

*4. Genuine curiosity*

Do you work in carbon accounting, lifecycle analysis, or climate methodology? Your questions suggest real hands-on experience with the edge cases. We're building Velumin's methodology to handle exactly these scenarios—would love to hear more about your experience if you're open to it.

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*Side note: Still interested in the original topic* — for compliance-heavy systems, I'm trying to understand where experienced engineers think AI architecture review breaks down vs. where it actually outperforms humans (especially in checklist coverage).
by dredmorbius | 2025-11-15 16:03:26+00:00
Note too that the FBI directly hosts much of the evidence of these programmes, for those with doubts as to their veracity:

<https://vault.fbi.gov/>

COINTELPRO: <https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro/White%20Hate%20Groups/COIN...>

And the CIA on MKULTRA: <https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/06760269>
by Someone | 2025-11-15 16:03:33+00:00
> Which makes sense, it's got the smallest language spec of any of them

I think go is fairly small, too, but “size of spec” is not always a good measure for that. Some specs are very tight, others fairly loose, and tightness makes specs larger (example: Swift’s language reference doesn’t even claim to define the full language. https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...: “The grammar described here is intended to help you understand the language in more detail, rather than to allow you to directly implement a parser or compiler.”)

(Also, browsing golang’s spec, I think I spotted an error in https://go.dev/ref/spec#Integer_literals. The grammar says:

decimal_lit = "0" | ( "1" … "9" ) [ [ "_" ] decimal_digits ] .

Given that, how can 0600 and 0_600 be valid integer literals in the examples?)
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-15 16:03:39+00:00
> Then again, Waterfall was never a real methodology; it was a straw man description of early software development. A hyperbole created only to highlight why we should iterate.

If only this were accurate. Royce's chart (at the beginning of the paper, what became Waterfall, but not what he recommended by the end of the paper) has been adopted by the DOD. They're slowly moving away from it, but it's used on many real-world projects and fails about as spectacularly as you'd expect. If projects deliver on-time, it's because they blow up their budget and have people work long days and weekends for months or years at a time. If it delivers on budget, it's because they deliver late or cut out features. Either way, the pretty plan put into the presentations is not met.

People really do (and did) think that the chart Royce started with was a good idea, they're not competent, but somehow they got into positions in management to force this stupidity.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-15 16:03:44+00:00
> c) Slack does not support audio calls. Not sure why, but it doesn't work in Firefox. Teams does work just fine. Fortunately all work meetings are done via Teams and all people on Stack are also on Teams so if someone wants an audio call we use Teams, but still, a negative for Slack.

My slack experience is old so I don't remember but on msteams there aren't audio calls at all. All calls all video calls, the only difference the audio/video call buttons do is wether your webcam will be activated or not from the beginning but you can still disable it before joining on a video call and you can always activating your camera even if you pressed the telephone looking button to start the call.
by sevg | 2025-11-15 16:04:27+00:00
Nice strawman. I didn’t mention ultra-processed foods :)

If anyone else is reading this and wants to do their own reading about the effects of salt, I can point you to the WHO, the NHS, the FDA, one of many highly cited studies, and wikipedia:

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/sodium-redu...

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/salt-in-you...

https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-food-labeling-and-critica...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267338249_Global_so...

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

Though, margalabargala, if you don’t believe in science then I can’t help you :)
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-15 16:05:21+00:00
Interventions Elon, interventions.

Tesla really trying to engineer good will, and unsurprisingly only using their own data, which paves over things like "driver intervention prevented FSD from crashing in this instance" or "FSD disengaged 2s before crash, therefore driver error".

Rather than play statistics games with self-reported dressed up supervised driving data to try and trick people into rolling the mortality dice with a robotaxi, just let the cars drive around empty. But he can't do that, because these cars are not FSD.

Even worse, the government could easily mandate LIDAR for autonomous cars, and that would basically kill Tesla overnight.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-15 16:05:51+00:00
"Agile methodologies killed the specification document long ago. Do we really need to bring it back from the dead?"

Not at FAANG. Or at least not at Google where I was for 10 years. They were obsessed with big upfront PRDs and design docs, and they were key to getting promotion and recognition.

These days those kinds of documents -- which were laborious to produce, mostly boilerplate, and a pain to maintain, and often not really read by anybody other than promo committee -- could be produced easily by prompting an LLM.

Having drunk the well-spring of XP and agile early in my career, I found it continually frustrating. Actual development followed iterative practices, but not officially.
by xantronix | 2025-11-15 16:05:55+00:00
This sentiment seems short-sighted and to express an unqualified value judgement. Furthermore, this seems like a presupposition that once a popular language is implemented, new idioms and features are not implemented from elsewhere as ecosystems elsewhere proliferate and prosper.

That said, I think it's okay, really, to allow people to think they are working on the next definitive thing; not because they are actually solving the "problem" of fragmentation once and for all, but rather bringing to bear the passion to see an idea to fruition. New concepts and approaches should not be considered to be inherently counterproductive or dangerous.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-15 16:06:31+00:00
My father had a 1970s Estes catalog that I adored as a kid. It had the ultimate camera rocket that I wanted to fly: The Cineroc (https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/rocket-flying-...)

In the late 90s I finally saw some model rocket-based videos, made flying camcorders or TV transmitters on high power model rockets.

Today drones have made DIY aerial photography much less difficult, but I definitely wanted to fly cameras in my youth.
by cartoonworld | 2025-11-15 16:06:43+00:00
At the time hacker meant informal programmer, among other things. “I’m hacking on my book review website” “I’m hacking on a desktop filesharing app.” Those hackers sometimes got a nice swing at it and this place has indeed always been a finance-friendly venue for these nerds to commingle.

It’s 2025 and things move along. People still post their file sharing tools here, but yeah I agree that it does hit different now.
by jxdxbx | 2025-11-15 16:07:07+00:00
As I expected lots of discussion of scrolling managers in this thread. I'll just say that I think that scrolling windows managers like Niri, which I use, are very well suited for laptops in particular. Tiling WMs always feel cramped on a smaller screen. Plus the touchpad to swipe as navigation fits really well with the paradigm.
by dkarl | 2025-11-15 16:07:51+00:00
I think it was based on the misconception that the mainstream turned away from Perl because of a handful of warts and mistakes, not because Perl's unconstrained flexibility made it impractical, and that Perl "done right" could recapture the excitement and mainstream attention that Perl once enjoyed. I think they should have accepted that the existing community was already the largest subset of programmers that could embrace Perl's trade-offs, with or without the historical warts.
by gruez | 2025-11-15 16:07:52+00:00
The accusation is that cloudflare also refuses to take down ddos for hire sites, which some interpret as them at least condoning such sites, and they benefit from those sites being up because it makes their services necessary. The counterargument to this is that cloudflare doesn't host any content and therefore shouldn't be subject to takedown requests, similar to how you wouldn't send takedown requests to Lumen Technologies (a tier 1 transit provider) because they provide transit to some VPS provider that ultimately hosts the ddos for hire site.
by rusk | 2025-11-15 16:07:54+00:00
> Yeats was an expert commentator, but removed from many of the experiences and lives he documented

Yes! I actually studied Yeats as my Leaving Cert History Special Topic and had a gra for him for many years. But as I get older and see him more in historical context his success does seem to be partially a political artefact and his involvement in the founding of the Irish state bestowed upon him a beatificence that perhaps outshone even his brilliance and made him seem more timeless than perhaps he was. But then again, 1913, Byzantium, No Second Troy … it’s hard to find more strident and articulate polemicals
by azalemeth | 2025-11-15 16:07:54+00:00
I for one take every consumer survey opportunity to spell out why these things are a bad idea, and routinely contact my elected member of parliament to ask about this - she's sympathetic. The other opportunity to rebel is just to be difficult. Route all your traffic always through an anonymising VPN with defence against traffic analysis. If someone geoip blocks you from making a purchase, reach out to their customer support and gently reeducate them. Spend money on open source things, personally and professionally, and never buy DRM. Advocate for e2ee (I work partly in medicine - this is an easy sell) and highlight how decentralisation and encryption puts power in the hands of practitioners rather than big tech giants. If a large corporation breaks eg gdpr rules, report them to the regulator. Be the change you want to see in the world.

I don't like the way it's going either, but the array of technical solutions from mesh networks like zero tier and tailscale to briar, i2p and freenet right the way through to technologies such as wush, v2ray and x-ray, tor or daita all give me some hope that there will be a technological out for a long while yet. The social issues are best served socially though.
by breppp | 2025-11-15 16:08:21+00:00
The jeffery epstein case is real, however the narrative created is similar to pizzagate

"world elite is practicing a child sex ring", this is why it's so compatible with the current vogue bipartisan populism which generally says "your life sucks because of the rich/elites"

jeffery epstein was in reality associated with many politicians, including trump and clinton, as far as I can tell on both sides there is a lot of extrapolation as to what really happened
by pcthrowaway | 2025-11-15 16:09:00+00:00
> people seem to gloss over that each boatload of these drugs literally destroys multiple American families

They also gloss over the fact that alcohol does the same. But I don't think it's bizarre to allow people to make their own decisions.

When alcohol was criminalized, many people would go blind from impurities in their own homebrews. Legalization and regulation are good things to prevent some of the unintended consequences, like deaths from adulteration with fentanyl, hotspots, and so on.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-11-15 16:09:13+00:00
Somewhat related, Reddit has been broken for me in a very similar way for more than a year now. Whenever I scroll down to load more pages, it will populate with about 80% the same threads as it loaded on previous pages. Over and over, such that by the time I’m on page 6 or so, I will have 6 of the exact same thread.

Really stupid bug that probably only happens with old.Reddit or RES or something. But it’s nice in that it keeps me off of Reddit I guess.
by marstall | 2025-11-15 16:09:35+00:00
really identify. especially with the early yearning to connect and not having the skills. Learned sooo much over the years by being brutally rejected and eventually taking stock of what happened and extracting a rule or two. but then, yeah, next phase, rules don't matter (except when they do) and change moment to moment anyway.

funny to read this here on hacker news of all places, where I let my carefully managed, almost always inhibited, childhood nerd self fly free in the comments.

OP has definitely gone beyond me in many ways, with his talk about embodiment, and being able to be so empathic that he has elicited tears of gratitude. Enviable.
by mlmonkey | 2025-11-15 16:09:47+00:00
When I bought my Tesla, I had State Farm coverage for my existing (8 yo) car.

State Farm quoted me a rate of $240/mo for switching insurance to the Tesla ( up from $130/mo ). This is in California, Bay Area.

On a whim, I fired up the Tesla app and requested a quote for insurance through them.

They quoted me $134/mo.

I know, anecdata, size = 1. But I was surprised how low it was. I sent the coverage information to State Farm, to see if they would match it, but they just shrugged and said no, we can't match that.
by mx7zysuj4xew | 2025-11-15 16:10:36+00:00
They weren't "developers" more like a Jr intern asked to do some minor maintenance

The real work was done in the 80s/90s through a consortium of universities and corporations

Then one day, some nobody shows up and in their infinite wisdom decides: I know better than all the 100s of people before me.

And now we have to listen on and on about how this nobody was somehow a "major developer"
by Avamander | 2025-11-15 16:11:02+00:00
> Things I learned to look out for:

Don't buy any recent Intels. Some Intel ThinkPads have accelerometers built-in just to throttle your PC to oblivion when it moves. Basically unusable in any moving vehicle such as a train. It's basically anti-portability baked-in.

When it doesn't throttle, it just has abysmal battery life compared to AMD Ryzen ThinkPads of the same generation. Both lose horribly to Apple's ARM chips though.

They also tend to have soldered WiFi modules, making it impossible to upgrade later when newer and better WiFi iterations come out. If that had been the case with a few of the older models I still have, they would be unusable at this point.

There are plenty of firmware bugs as well. For example plenty of Lenovo (especially Intel as far as I've seen) models have stuttery and freezing touchpads. Though the touchpads tend to be horrible anyways.

I'd say the older (5+ years old) generations might have had slightly better driver support or they're finally fixed at this point. But there's nothing I'd spend my money on if I can just as well install Asahi on an M-series laptop.
by EPWN3D | 2025-11-15 16:11:05+00:00
And it hasn't worked in practice. C unfortunately does not have a very big pit of success -- it's way too hard to do the right thing and way too easy to do the wrong thing.

The solution to this doesn't have to be "rewrite everything in Rust", but it does mean that you need to provide safe, easy implementations for commonly-screwed-up patterns. Then you're not asking people to be perfect C programmers; you're just asking them to use tools that are easier than doing the wrong thing.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-15 16:11:15+00:00
You won't catch me defending Tesla often, but at least they actually do regular software updates and committed to needed hardware updates.

Ford and Chevy otoh are doing exactly the self sabotaging greedy bullshit you expect. Chevy already told previous gen super cruise owners that they are no longer getting updates or more mapped areas, and ford just segregated their line into before and after 2025. 2025 cars getting the latest bluecruise version, earlier cars don't have the hardware (but you still need to pay annualy for that deprecated older version!)

Ford also has never exteneded the mapped area in 4 years, and releases minor updates maybe once a year, where you will wait another 8 months to get the OTA.

All while having the nerve to charge $500/yr.
by hollow-moe | 2025-11-15 16:11:24+00:00
There's this and that. "How I [i.e. an individual human looking for myself] access your site is irrelevant." and "How I [i.e. an AI company DDOSing (which is illegal in some places btw) trying to maximize profit and offloading cost to you] access your site is irrelevant."

When you get paid big buck to make the world worse for everyone it's really simple forgetting "little details".
by brettgriffin | 2025-11-15 16:11:24+00:00
> So Tesla is charging $8000 to activate full safety software features in their vehicles?

I think you're being obtuse, but to be clear, many car manufacturers offer trims don't include features that would qualify making the car 'safer' - blind spot detection, back up cameras (I think these are legally required now but were a premium feature for over a decade), parking assistance, crash detection, etc.

I have a Tesla and use FSD every day, and while it is a safety feature, it is _the_ pinnacle 'luxury' feature that a car can have today and they honestly do not charge enough for it.
by marcodiego | 2025-11-15 16:11:29+00:00
> install Windows 11. This came with the laptop. And the installation makes installing Linux feel easy: I had to do so many weird tricks to avoid having to create an account with Microsoft during the installation.

The way secure boot evolved is disgusting. Specially because, at the time it was becoming popular, people we're warned that was more a tool of control than for security. Having to install a proprietary OS to install another should be forbidden.
by atombender | 2025-11-15 16:11:36+00:00
That article doesn't give any credible sources, so it's just guessing, as is every other Internet article concerning his net worth. It's literally just referencing a New York Magazine article which says "Wales’s total net worth, by most estimates, is just above $1 million" with the only offered being a literal Google search (!).

The only public information we have, I believe, is his divorce proceedings in 2011, which put his net worth at around $1m. There's no reason to think his net worth hasn't grown considerably since then, given his position, paid speaking engagements, etc.
by ilaksh | 2025-11-15 16:12:13+00:00
I think the solution is public efficient protocols, p2p, content centric networking, etc. We have enough technology to be able too avoid having to run searches through centralized services.

Maybe p2p or federalized AI agents, or just decentralized vector indices are one way to move away from that.

Instead of a browser you have an agent client. You type "gadget X" and that is sent to your local router agent. You can switch router agents easily and also easily share your own routing agent.

You can subscribe to other people's agents like RSS feeds. The router agent decides which agents to send queries to. The results automatically display as they come in. The router can hand off to an analysis agent to highlight suggestions.

I'm really tired and I can tell people are going to hate this comment but anyway to continue. Maybe there is a new interface of common tool commands for search, shopping comparison etc. and the internet becomes a whole bunch of loosely connected MCP servers or IPFS vector indices.

Anyway, it's just not necessary for everything to go through giant websites. Good night.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-11-15 16:12:29+00:00
If you expect it to be as good as peak google results, no.

If you need something that’s very noticeably better than its competition, then yes.

If you are okay with all of the terrible that comes with using LLM services as a search engine replacement, then probably no.

If you despise the amount of second guessing and source checking required to use LLMs as search tools, then yes.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-11-15 16:13:01+00:00
I do believe, however, that the future does not "exist" in any real sense

The future is an immediate result of the present, which is an immediate result of the past. The laws of physics dictate this with no wiggle room. It's complicated and functionally impossible to predict with any certainty, but the future is certain. It is as fixed as the past, and the present that arises from it.
by rconti | 2025-11-15 16:13:31+00:00
It strikes me as incredibly weird to maintain two separate stacks, especially because FSD was "available" when I bought my car. In retrospect, though, I guess it wasn't actually available to use, just for purchase.

So I suppose they had a parallel development process for FSD while building autopilot features?

But since there is a hardware support overlap, it seems like at some point you'd migrate autopilot cars to the FSD software stack, with limitations added in via feature flags.