MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheCoelacanth | 2025-11-19 22:16:43+00:00
I don't think it's a very common opinion in the US that immigration laws should not be enforced. There is a small contingent on the left that wants that on humanitarian grounds and another small contingent on the right that wants very loose immigration laws for the business benefits of immigrant labor.

There were an enormous number of deportations under previous administrations without much pushback.

What distinguishes this situation is that the deportations are proceeding with a complete disregard for US law and human rights. People are being deported without getting a chance to fight it in court, a violation of the constitutional right to due process. People are being rounded up as suspected illegal immigrants solely based on their skin color or the language they are speaking, a violation of the constitutional right to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure. People are being deported while it is still being determined whether they are eligible for asylum or refugee status, a violation of US statute.

The US is supposed to be a nation of laws where everyone can be certain that their legal rights will be respected. That is being grossly violated with the current deportation push.
by imagetic | 2025-11-19 22:16:55+00:00
If you're shooting RAW you probably have a processing pipeline in mind.

Finder supporting thumbnails for newer cameras is a pain but it's not all that normal to browser your archives in Finder either.

https://home.camerabits.com is a commonly used tool for browsing photographer/files and editing metadata. I've used it for ingesting and selects since 2005. Almost everywhere I've ever worked has used it to some degree.

After ingestion, you would import to Lightroom or Capture ONE for processing and finally you export to jpg or a generic usable format and size.
by crote | 2025-11-19 22:17:09+00:00
Oh, it gets even worse!

The NTSB also had some comments on the ship's equivalent of a black box. Turns out it was impossible to download the data while it was still inside the ship, the manufacturer's software was awful and the various agencies had a group chat to share 3rd party software(!), the software exported thousands of separate files, audio tracks were mixed to the point of being nearly unusable, and the black box stopped recording some metrics after power loss "because it wasn't required to" - despite the data still being available.

At least they didn't have anything negative to say about the crew: they reacted timely and adequately - they just didn't stand a chance.
by teraflop | 2025-11-19 22:17:39+00:00
More precisely, from the TOS:

> The Site is part of the platform developed and managed by Arduino, which allows users to take part in the discussions on the Arduino forum, the Arduino blog, the Arduino User Group, the Arduino Discord channel, and the Arduino Project Hub, and to access the Arduino main website, subsites, Arduino Cloud, Arduino Courses, Arduino Certifications, Arduino Docs, the Arduino EDU kit sites to release works within the Contributor License Agreement program, and to further develop the Arduino open source ecosystem (collectively, the “Platform”).

> 8.2 User shall not: translate, decompile or reverse-engineer the Platform, or engage in any other activity designed to identify the algorithms and logic of the Platform’s operation, unless expressly allowed by Arduino or by applicable license agreements

So yeah, it seems like the definition of "Platform" is limited only to their hosted services.
by tmtvl | 2025-11-19 22:18:29+00:00
Both Lisps (Common and Scheme) are garbage-collected, so they're in the 'slow as molasses' group of languages (which covers pretty much everything outside of C, C++, Rust, Fortran, Pascal, Ada, and assembly); but among the 'slow as molasses' group, Common Lisp (at least SBCL, which may be the most prolific implementation) is blazingly, scorchingly, stupendously fast. If you know how to use it it's a bat out of hell outrunning greased lightning.

On the Scheme side of things Chez is pretty fast. It's not 'I've gained a whole new level of respect for the people who engineered my CPU' levels fast, but it's still pretty decent.
by pkulak | 2025-11-19 22:18:33+00:00
I use a Firefox preference to pin my location to a spot near, but not at, my house:

user_pref("geo.provider.network.url", 'data:application/json,{"location": {"lat": 45.0, "lng": -122.0}, "accuracy": 128.0}');

I _believe_ this also stops wifi data from leaking anywhere.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-19 22:18:37+00:00
> they won't ever see competition

Not that Google is any better, but I really want Google to put more effort into Workspace/GSuite and bring it up on par with M365 and all it includes, at least make Microsoft sweat a little bit that one day there might be a possibility for a competing product that can lure enterprises away. Workspace needs better DLP controls, and more of the enterprise-y things that MS wins at, and a bundled MDM that can manage all OSes, and better identity.

Even if the behemoths won't switch due to re-training & switching costs, MS desperately needs a competitor in this space. Barring that, they need to be broken up and forced to sell each bundled product separately and priced appropriately. Otherwise, who can compete with getting MDM, Identity, 2TB personal storage, 2TB sharepoint storage, Teams, DLP, EDR all for $22/user/month.
by buu700 | 2025-11-19 22:19:00+00:00
I haven't had that particular experience with Gemini 2.5, but did run into it during one of my first few uses of Gemini 3 yesterday.

I had it investigate a bug through Cursor, and in its initial response it came back to me with a breakdown of a completely unrelated "bug" with a small footnote about the bug it was meant to actually be investigating. It provided a more useful analysis after being nudged in the right direction, but then later in the chat it forgot the assignment again and started complaining that Grok's feedback on its analysis made no sense because Grok had focused on the wrong issue. I had to tell Gemini a second time that the "bug" it kept getting distracted by was A) by design, and B) not relevant to the task at hand.

Ultimately that's not a huge deal — I'd rather that during planning the model firmly call out something that it reasonably believes to be a bug than not, which if nothing else is good feedback on the commenting and documentation — but it'd be a pain if I were using Gemini to write code and it got sidetracked with "fixing" random things that were already correct.
by Ancapistani | 2025-11-19 22:19:04+00:00
I don’t have data for it, and would love to dig it up at some point. My head is too deep in a problem at the moment to make space for it …but I did just add it to my task list via ChatGPT :)

Anecdotally, I believe they did.

My wife is decidedly not a tech nerd, but had her own ChatGPT subscription without my input before I switched us over to a business account.

My mother is 58, and a retired executive for a “traditional” Fortune 100 company. She’s competent with MS productivity tools and the software she used for work, but has little interest outside that. She also had her own ChatGPT subscription.

Both of them were using it for at least a large subset of what they’d previously used Google for.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-11-19 22:19:05+00:00
> We're supposed to be ashamed of biological strengths?

No, you misread the sentence.

They put two "you"s in it because your red hair and pain tolerance do not make you "you" any more than your daily decisions about how to live your life. It's got nothing to do with "better" or "stronger".
by arjie | 2025-11-19 22:19:55+00:00
It seems to just be standard "normalization of deviance" to use the language of safety engineering. You have 5 layers of fallbacks, so over time skipping any of the middle layers doesn't really have anything fail. So in time you end up with a true safety factor equal only to the last layer. Then that fails and looking back "everything had to go wrong".

As Sidney Dekker (of Understanding Human Error fame) says: Murphy's Law is wrong - everything that can go wrong will go right. The problem arises from the operators all assuming that it will keep going right.

I remember reading somewhere that part of Qantas's safety record came from the fact that at one time they had the highest number of minor issues. In some sense, you want your error detection curve to be smooth: as you get closer to catastrophe, your warnings should get more severe. On this ship, it appeared everything was A-OK till it bonked a bridge.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-19 22:20:20+00:00
Over here we've been saying for years that gaming on Linux is a far better experience, with better framerates and better stability.

Just you're kind of SOL if you want to play anything that isn't based on some flavour of Quake or Unreal engine.

Well, that's different now. See? Told you. Faster, smoother, less crashy.

Oh, you want Microsoft Office? Yeah well you're probably using Office 365 these days anyway. Everything's in a browser. No, it looks just the same. Edge? It's less crashy in Linux, weirdly.

AutoCAD? Nah. Still SOL.
by creer | 2025-11-19 22:21:05+00:00
Perl was not and still is not suitable for people who refuse to read the manual or tutorial.

Perl had and still has truly AMAZING documentation (and far better in perl 5 than Perl 6 - where the documentation's search function is regularly broken for example). And out of this world bring-up tutorials. But if the bar is at "I want to be up to speed after reading a short booklet" - well, that's not gonna work. For me I have programmed in perl for decades and I still get the occasional deep plunge in a feature area that I never used before... And the various docs and books still come through.

On top of that, Perl 5 had an amazing community ready to help - but understandably annoyed with constantly re-quoting the AMAZING documentation. It could have gone either way, it just went the way it did: experts present and ready to answer. But there too - if you expect the community to constantly answer the most basic questions, well, Perl was not for you.

As a tradeoff perhaps, that expert community also spent a lot of effort on the AMAZING module library.

Perl 5's thorough documentation, plus splendid course book, plus all the books, plus CPAN, PLUS the expert help producing fantastic rabbit holes to learn more about your PROFESSIONAL MEDIUM. THAT was the reason for choosing perl.

If anything, newcomers don't go to the documentation because they are not aware that documentation can be THAT good. That was, still is, a marketing error.
by Jigsy | 2025-11-19 22:21:35+00:00
I was still using Windows 8.1 at the start of 2024 and was trying to slowly shift away to Linux at the time, but circumstances beyond my control ended up throwing me into the deep end a lot quicker than I expected.

I'm really enjoying Linux. It's one of those things that makes me somewhat passionate about computing for the first time in a long time.
by awfulneutral | 2025-11-19 22:22:02+00:00
> I genuinely don't know which I'm experiencing. That uncertainty itself feels like it should matter.

We don't even know how consciousness works in ourselves. If an AI gets to the point where it convinces us it might have awareness, then at what point do we start assigning it rights? Even though it might not be experiencing anything at all? Once that box is opened, dealing with AI could get a lot more complicated.
by Ancapistani | 2025-11-19 22:22:03+00:00
I didn’t see the comment, but I assume they were accusing me of generating it.

For what it’s worth, I didn’t use AI at all for it. I just tend to sound like an LLM, likely because I have ADHD and grew up very rural (most of my vocabulary and grammar from reading).

I also tend to use a lot of parenthetical phrases, semi-colons, and lists. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by Archelaos | 2025-11-19 22:22:21+00:00
According to the article, Russia is just a precursor: "What had been viewed as having negligible credit risk suddenly carried confiscation risk. For any country potentially facing future sanctions, the calculus of holding large dollar reserve positions shifted." -- So the question is: what share of the global economy do these countries represent? If China is among them, this share is considerable.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-19 22:22:30+00:00
> That's NYT-speak for "they joked crudely and overtly about pressuring the undergraduate into unwilling sex". You can dump the New York Times and read competent writing here:

What undergraduate? According to the link you provide, she graduated in 2004 and was the subject of discussion between Epstein and Summers in 2018.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-19 22:23:04+00:00
Like I said - it’s reprehensible. I’m not minimizing the crime but pointing out there are bigger problems. Focusing on this instead of inflation or housing or healthcare means a lot more people will suffer than there are victims of Epstein. We have to prioritize. If too much attention and energy goes to this, bigger problems will be left unaddressed. The things I’m listing are occupying virtually none of the national focus right now, for example.
by zrn900 | 2025-11-19 22:23:18+00:00
> Boy are you in for a surprise when you learn what China does to its own citizens.

Hanging corrupt officials and bankers? Horrible.

> checks and balances

Anti-democratic concept that Americans keep throwing around without knowing its meaning. The only reason those 'checks and balances' were created was to prevent the majority from voting away the minority's wealth. John Adams openly advocated for it and crafted it into the constitution.

> people may freely criticize the government

Meaningless. Americans havent been able to effect any change in economic or foreign policy for ~50+ years now. Even the Civil Rights gains were eroded systematically.

> peoples ability to know what's happening or criticize their government

Chinese can openly criticize anything as long as it doesnt take the form of trying to depose the state. Anything that is censored goes into a central database to be used as statistics to improve policy.

What are Americans doing in the meantime? Watching a sh*tshow as their country murders children overseas while Americans themselves are not able to even get by.

And all of this without mentioning how the US government is openly persecuting and even prosecuting anyone who criticizes the genocide that a foreign government is committing.

> sheer ignorance

The people who dont even know the history of their own constitution and how it was crafted and by whom should shut up about ignorance.
by pembrook | 2025-11-19 22:23:24+00:00
I get it, it's fun to take wildly impractical ideological stances on things and ignore reality.

However, this generation is beginning to learn the lesson every generation learns: one has to deal with the world as it is, not as one wishes it were. Scarcity exists.

Unfortunately, in globalized economic reality, you will have to transfer data to other countries to conduct business.

Unfortunately, in fossil fuel driven reality, you can't just go off fossil fuels by switching to paper straws, you have to actually build viable alternatives first.

Unfortunately, in non-world-peace reality, you can't just stop having a military and become pacifist. Turns out you still need missiles and tanks.

Unfortunately, in low-birth and low-economic-growth reality, you cannot let people retire at 62 and draw inflation-pegged pensions until death.

Unfortunately, in non-0 interest rate reality, governments can't keep deficit spending to prop up a broken socialist economic model.

Etc. Etc.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-11-19 22:23:27+00:00
Shhhh don't mention Perl. The fact that Perl is still installed by default on most Linux distros is the only ray of light in the horrible devops landscape. The fact that I can write a script in Perl and not have to deal with BASH's horrible syntax is a small joy in that world. If you mention Perl too much, the people who ruin everything might set their sights on it.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-19 22:23:31+00:00
Long fan of Classic VB6. While you are in the happy path, you fly. But if you try something outside that, it's almost impossible.

But there are a lot of real world problems that can be solved with a form and a few buttons, and you look like a magician for normal people.

I still have one project in production, but the compiler is getting harder and harder to install.

Anyway, there is room for beginers tools, in spite they may have a tall second step.

---

Is there a good tutorial for upgrading from Arduino to a proffesional microcontroler? (Or you can write one.)
by wsces | 2025-11-19 22:23:37+00:00
No, a VPN would only change the source IP of your request which the author specifically states isn't how this system works: the browser uses its host OS' Location Services to self report its location based on GPS or Wi-Fi AP locations.

That said, I hope the service doesn't implicitly trust data sent by untrusted clients like web browsers, otherwise someone could just use something like this to send it a false location: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/spoof-geolocation/i...
by rocauc | 2025-11-19 22:23:40+00:00
As someone that works on a platform users have used for labeling 1B images, I'm bullish SAM 3 can automate at least 90% of the work. Data prep is flipped to models being human-assisted instead of humans being model-assisted (see "autolabel" https://blog.roboflow.com/sam3/). I'm optimistic majority of users can now start deploying a model to then curate data instead of the inverse.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-19 22:24:59+00:00
Ah, but "simplicity" is not necessarily "fewest lines of code".

Code is first and foremost for human consumption. The compiler's job is to worry about appeasing the machine.

(Of course, that's the normative ideal. In practice, the limits of compilers sometimes requires us to appease the architectural peculiarities of the machine, but this should be seen as an unfortunate deviation and should be documented for human readers when it occurs.)
Ask HN: Why this story has almost the same number of comments and points?
by carabiner | 2025-11-19 22:25:39+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967814

Not just right now, but for past 24 hours. Before it was 800 points, 800 comments, now 1,000 points & comments. How often does this happen?
by andai | 2025-11-19 22:25:48+00:00
>I don't want to talk to my computer

I recently vibe coded a voice typing software (using Parakeet — your best bet is probably Handy though).

It works in my terminal. (I just changed my paste shortcut to Ctrl+V

I can now literally speak software into existence!

I made a thin wrapper around my llm() function I can pipe text into from Bash.

This allows me to make many other thin LLM wrappers, such as one that summarizes then contents of entire directories.

I have a thing called Jarvis inspired by a Twitter post, where I ask it to do anything in bash, and it just does that.

I wouldn't exactly say it's useful (I am unemployed) but I am kind of having my mind blown a little bit.

The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.
by 4MOAisgoodenuf | 2025-11-19 22:26:02+00:00
Until the 1920's it was not a crime to enter and work inside the US without prior authorization.

Staying and working beyond the initial authorization of a visa is a civil violation, not a criminal one in the US.

Laws are created by men with a specific intent not handed down as truth from god. In the case of the US, immigration law has largely been shaped by a racist quota system formed as a reaction of previous immigrants towards the next flight of immigrants. A "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality.
by chaosadm | 2025-11-19 22:26:20+00:00
So there are a couple of papers that try to use LLMs for UI-based enterprise task benchmarking like WorkArena++(ServiceNow) where the agent has to solve a couple of relatively simple enterprise tasks (like creating incident tickets based on some criteria that has to be determined by the agent etc). This benchmark in particular had quite low accuracy numbers especially on the more composite tasks. Curious about the OpenAI Atlas thing too.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-19 22:26:21+00:00
Here's a demo of tangents being calculated in real-time for complicated curved surfaces: https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/examples/coffeeshop.html...

In general, GA and its variants like PGA are good at calculating tangents and offsets for points, lines, planes, spheres, and other parametric surfaces. The key benefit is that the exact same algorithm will work in 2D, 3D, 4D, or any higher number of dimensions. This could in principle allow very elegant formulas for tasks such as "find the biggest thing that won't hit this other thing at any point in time" or the same thing but with a 0.1 mm gap. Similarly, it's possible to reuse the same code and "human intuition" in very high dimensional spaces, such phase space used in more complex motion planning or engineering simulation scenarios.

Even just the pictures on the cover might give you an idea: https://www.amazon.com.au/Projective-Geometric-Algebra-Illum...
by runamuck | 2025-11-19 22:26:39+00:00
I own and make my own website. But Google search stopped ranking me high about two years ago (down from 3k/day to about 70), and sometimes I feel that my life's work just gets reduced to small icons at the end of GenAI responses. But I continue to do it because I love to write and create, and sometimes readers (if they find my site) reach out. I got a "thank you" from someone in the Congo!
by drekipus | 2025-11-19 22:26:40+00:00
are you watching talks while driving?

One thing I've tried recently, was that going no-nothing while driving: so no music, radio, nothing, just me and my thoughts.

It's been immensely pleasurable, like I've rediscovered myself.

But I still have an issue with finding a good long form video to watch while washing up, or shorts while I'm waiting for CI to finish at work, etc. I need to find something else to do.

something along the lines of "you can't remove an addiction habit, you can only replace it"
by radicalbyte | 2025-11-19 22:26:45+00:00
I find it really hard to classify myself. I've always called myself a "libertarian" - I believe the best strategy to Civilization is to maximise freedom for anyone. As freedom enables enlightenment an enlightenment drives progress. To actually achieve that, in the real world, means that you have to distribute and limit power. That means limiting not only government power but also corporate power. That means regulation, strong regulators (breaking monopolies), policies to keep prices down (including rent/housing!) and to enable free market competition and innovation. And provide an economic system where risks can be taken, enabled by a social let (and social healthcare).

I felt that that was more common here 15 years ago before Big Tech pivoted into the cynical extractive and, in the case of the socials, net economic drag industry that it is now.

The really weird thing is that my views are considered both very right-wing (free markets, globalisation are great, maximal freedom, maximal responsibility, freedom of religion) and very left wing (strong regulation, policy to minimise rent/house prices, strong social net, progressive taxation and wealth limits, freedom to be LGBTQ+ etc).