MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arxanas | 2025-11-06 05:20:43+00:00
It's quite possible that I have different, smaller-scale problems than you have! So my feedback might not be as relevant

I wrote detailed commentary here: https://github.com/s-arash/ascent/discussions/72

Re Rust bindings and your specific comment:

- Deploying Soufflé and doing FFI is much more difficult for me in practice, just in terms of the overhead to set up a working build. (I'm not going to be able to justify setting up a Soufflé ruleset for Bazel, and then adding Rust-Soufflé binding generation, etc. at my workplace.)

- User-defined functors, or integrating normal data structures/functions/libraries into your Soufflé program, seems painful. If you're doing integrations with random existing systems, then reducing the friction here is essential. (In slide 16 of the talk, you can see how I embedded a constructive `Trace` type and a `GlobSet` into an actual Ascent value+lattice.)

- On the other hand, you might need Soufflé's component system for structuring larger programs whereas I might not (see above GitHub discussion).

Non-specifically:

- Several features like generative clauses, user-defined aggregations, lattices, etc. seem convenient in practice.

- I had worse performance with Soufflé than Ascent for my program for some query-planning reason that I couldn't figure out. I don't really know why; see https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle/discussions/2557
by numpad0 | 2025-11-06 05:21:13+00:00
Isn't it fascinating that despite `while true; do claude --yolo` over a weekend being all it takes to port some project across platforms, LLMs completely fall apart when it comes to speaking grammatical and natural Japanese?

Free tier Gemini CLI literally writes Android app for me by just endlessly wondering in English. AGI's here. And it struggles with Japanese. How!?
by ryandrake | 2025-11-06 05:22:24+00:00
If I was an airline pilot, I'm not going to listen to a passenger telling me which route I should be taking.

This is not about ego or trying to be the smartest person in the room, it's about actually being the most qualified person in the room. When you've done medical school, passed the boards, done your residency and have your own private practice, only then would I expect a doctor to care what you think a correct diagnosis is.
by vannevar | 2025-11-06 05:22:39+00:00
Nonsensical for the US, but not necessarily nonsensical for Donald Trump and his family, depending on what Altman can offer him. Maybe not a 747, but he could certainly arrange to purchase Trumpcoin, like the UAE did to invest in Binance.

When you have the most openly corrupt administration in modern US Presidential history, the interests of the nation are not the yardstick to use to measure the value of a deal.
by RustSupremacist | 2025-11-06 05:22:42+00:00
People keep asking why TUIs in Rust and the answer is because the GUI situation in Rust is dreadful: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-...

Rust is simply not meant for GUI-based data design but I still want Qt in Rust. That's it. Not QML or Slint. No markup at all. None of the immediate mode things. No other languages. Definitely not GTK. I'm worried it will never happen for Rust and it will be such a missed opportunity.
by glaucon | 2025-11-06 05:22:53+00:00
> Down here in NZ the govt subsidizes an aluminium smelter which uses 13% of the national electricity just to provide 3,000 jobs

I'm not in favour of giving the smelter owners a sweet deal but I believe there is some nuance which is lost in your comment.

When you say subsidize I assume you're talking about the price the smelter pays for electricty (I'm not aware of any direct subsidy).

Until about 2022 the transmission lines out of Manapouri heading north could only handle a part of what Manapouri could produce, other lines headed towards Tiwai Point to feed the smelter with the balance of Manapouri's output. This meant that negotiating electricity prices with the smelter owners was tricky because it was perfectly clear that there was nowhere else to take the electricity. In the past five years more capacity has been added to allow electricity from Manapouri to reach the National Grid and so, I presume, this significantly dilutes downward price pressure from the smelter.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-11-06 05:23:29+00:00
Rust, following Go's footsteps, has made it very easy to distribute-and-compile from source. They've taken all the pain out of the compiling-from-source pipeline, through "go build" or "cargo build"

Meanwhile, distributions sometimes maintain their plodding rate at package updates (usually handled by distribution volunteers, not the original program's developers), which was developed in an era when building from source was a tedious process where the distribution volunteers provided value.

In effect, build-from-source has taken over "just use the distribution package".
by _carbyau_ | 2025-11-06 05:23:31+00:00
As with everything to do with society and computerised features, it is a matter of scale.

Cameras reading numbers plates at multiple locations -including speed! - is one thing.

Noting your : location, speed, direction in subsecond increments, your climate control preferences, what songs/eBook you are listening to, your face imagery (thanks sleep alert camera) and listening to your conversations... this is a whole other level of possible privacy invasion.

Is all of the above being tracked? I could imagine much of that is unwieldy, or not that useful, data. But how can you know whether a company is taking this data or not without first being suspicious? And if you are suspicious at this level, then what could a company say to convince you they are above board, and only using your data to your benefit.
by potamic | 2025-11-06 05:26:39+00:00
Not a dentist, but my read of the situation is that dentists generally are not very excited about doing fillings and there's a push towards getting into more complex procedures like root canals, invisalign and implants. It's probably partly due to wanting to upskill and increase your repertoire and partly due to the margins. The margins with these procedures can be an order of magnitude more than that of fillings, especially anything that is supplied by a big brand.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2025-11-06 05:28:36+00:00
Archive.org have stated they do not want to be a complete mirror of YouTube which is fair enough. Content creators could easily retain a local copy of files and upload them to archive.org in the even of removal, or an individual could retain local mirrors of channels to do the same thing. Archive.org are aware of the fact that things hosted on websites might disappear, I can’t speak for why YouTube is not a desirable thing to mirror but I assume the volume would be massive and the risks of potential copywrite / illegal / highly illegal content etc would be undesirable from a management perspective.
by econ | 2025-11-06 05:28:43+00:00
I've had countless conversations with a friend of mine who thought not all things are supposed to be fun. Earning a living for example needs to involve a certain amount of suffering. If it lacks that quality he wouldn't be happy to be home and being home should be more appealing than working.

I ask him things like, what about working from home? That would be terrible! He replied with a sour face.

But the knife cuts both ways. If you hate the rollercoasters you will be so happy when it is finally over. The pretzels will taste even better.

Some will feel your suffering when they see it, some will enjoy seeing it.

Most people would have every other city in the world where they can be practical, sober or boring, depending on who you ask.

Most people can't always have what they want and they shouldn't. It wouldn't be good for them :-)
by mmooss | 2025-11-06 05:28:49+00:00
I suggest changing the title to the article's subheading, to eliminate the click/rage-bait of a certain billionaire's name - the article really is about research on the compensation incentives:

Economists and psychologists say that compensation may not provide as powerful an incentive as is often assumed.

which is too long, so:

Economists, psychologists say compensation incentive not provide as powerful as assumed.
by jmb99 | 2025-11-06 05:29:01+00:00
I've heard people say this before, so a few years back I got all of my friends and family to send me a full copy of their insurance policies. 0% had any lines saying anything regarding work being performed by licensed tradespeople, or even that work must be done to building/etc codes. This was across multiple insurance companies in 3 provinces (Canada), for policies on condos, semi-detached, and detached homes.

I have my doubts that such a thing exists outside of extreme circumstances or internet commenters' imaginations.
by inkyoto | 2025-11-06 05:30:00+00:00
> […] There is no prospect of Chinese entry in the European market in the foreseeable future.

The remark stands as yet another regrettable instance of history echoing itself – a lamentable parallel to that uttered by Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald, whose acquisition of a 99-year lease over the New Territories of Hong Kong on behalf of the British Crown from the Qing dynasty was justified with the breathtakingly short-sighted assertion that it was «as good as forever».

One observes, with increasing weariness, that politicians – regardless of generation or supposed pedigree – remain obstinately immune to the most elementary of truths: history is neither linear nor predictable. It twists, recoils, and devours the complacent. Political decision-making, therefore, ought never be entrusted to those governed by the ephemeral whims of populism – it demands the discipline, foresight, and cold precision of a strategist trained not merely to react, but to foresee. Alas – such minds are in tragically short supply.
by fragmede | 2025-11-06 05:30:52+00:00
That's just not possible. It's why detractors never got on board with the Cloud. Until FHE is feasible, the decryption keys and plaintext have to exists in RAM eventually at some point in order even if only took be re-encrypted, if any complex work is to be done on it. Because eg, Amazon, has access to your hardware, there's simply no way to prevent them from reading your secrets out of your VM that's using their RAM.

Absolutely do what you can, but understand that it's futile to defend against your own cloud provider.
by hermitsings | 2025-11-06 05:31:02+00:00
I think Chrome, Edge, and Brave are all Chromium-based, so you won't need to switch. You can use Chrome Mask on Firefox for such sites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/

Edit: I researched a little more. For typical users and use cases, Firefox works ok (better with privacy extensions). What the article describes is more like browser-engine-based targeted attacks.
by alwillis | 2025-11-06 05:31:11+00:00
> I've seen lots of TUIs lately, why is that? What is the renewed interest?

A few reasons:

- for the most part TUI apps are cross-platform: macOS, Linux, BSD, Windows

- they cut down on context switching. If you're already in the terminal, you shouldn't have to switch to a GUI app to check on something.

- Today's terminal emulators—Ghostty, WezTerm, Kitty, iTerm, Alacrity, etc.—are fast and capable with GPU acceleration, 24-bit color support running on high resolution displays. It makes for a compelling platform to code for.

- Anecdotally lots of developers are spending less time in IDEs and more time in the terminal using Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, etc.
by defrost | 2025-11-06 05:32:06+00:00
Dammit - I went a zero too many, human civilisation ~ 20,000 years worth of "settled" building, agriculture, slowly increasing in scale as climate variations decreased in scale.

Everything that is "modern human civilisation" from, say, early Egyptian onwards (following the formation of the Sahara some 6,000 years past) has taken place in a period of climatc stability.

Point being, come climatic change on that scale again, the planet and various eco systems will adapt and move on, human civilisation patterns as we know them from history will be heavily jarred.

Cheers for that.
by positron26 | 2025-11-06 05:32:23+00:00
Unrelated to the article, a lot of my millennials could see web and then mobile coming, focused on web & mobile, and as a result just weren't really participating in C and C++ development. We used terminal applications leftover from peak GNU.

When Rust came along and presented a career opportunity, terminal apps was a great way to get into it and filled a gap in a lot of people's skill sets. Even when building GUI apps in Rust, your first entry point is a CLI usually.

We took our UX thinking from web & mobile and remixed it with Rust and new ideas came out. Turns out "If it aint broke don't fix it" for two decades can build up a lot of evolutionary pressure.
by jameson | 2025-11-06 05:33:02+00:00
> struggles with Japanese

It doesn't mention mistranslating, so it's difficult to know the root of the problem is AI "struggling".

> It doesn't follow our translation guidelines. > It doesn't respect current localization for Japanese users, so they were lost.

I believe this is the root of the problem. There are define processes and guidelines, and LLM isn't following it. Whether these guidelines were prompted or not is unclear but regardless it should've been verified by the community leaders before it's GA'ed
by grimblee | 2025-11-06 05:33:29+00:00
If we go back to the origin of the conflict though, the real origins, then fact is Palestinians had a country and then the Brits and the early zionists decided it was going to be the jew's.

And since then it has been a systematic, gradual, takeover of the land and the culture of the palestinians. Palestinians aren't the aggressors, they are the victims, thoses are the facts, you can try however you want, trying to says "yes but the thora says" I don't care about thousands of years ago, I do care about 70 years ago.

In any cases, everyone knows this, the whole world, Israel will always be a nation of murderers that cannot be trusted.
by electroly | 2025-11-06 05:33:57+00:00
"SUMO" = SUpport.MOzilla.org. It's the name for the entire Mozilla support organization; everybody involved in the linked discussion is in this organization. It doesn't seem like this person is related to the bot. They are a "Locale Leader" for Indonesia, which is the same position this poster is resigning from (but for Japan). They seem to be peers.
by anarticle | 2025-11-06 05:33:58+00:00
Fun fact, if you're not a US citizen on US soil US law does not apply. I'm not saying this because I'm taking a side, but this was how the Patriot act had knock on effects.

An interesting case of this is something like you call a foreign national in another country and this is enough to be able to tap both sides of the conversation via Patriot Act / NSA purview.
by _kidlike | 2025-11-06 05:34:06+00:00
I also got ChatGPT vibes... all this repetition of "why it matters" and all the lists, and going back and forth between contradictions...

It's even sadder to me that the author says this is not GPT. I believe them. Which means we have reached a point where the style of how ChatGPT writes has made its way into our sub-conscious...
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-11-06 05:36:34+00:00
In Saxon you write templates that give you partial results and just call them with the -it:name switch. So if you have a four-step transform you can examine the results of each step in isolation. In libxslt that only supports 1.0 you can do this with parameters, although this is less convenient.

You can trace with xsl:message. Step-by-step debug is not there, granted; but it is definitely the last resort tool even when it is available.
by gpm | 2025-11-06 05:37:38+00:00
So I'm a complete outsider, but they do not appear to be in the same position as the poster. They are marked as "Mozilla Staff" and "SUMO Administrator" (amongst many other things), neither of which the complainant is marked as.

It is true both they and the person they are responding to are marked as "SUMO Locale Leaders"... but it seems rather clear from the context that is not the role they are inhabiting in their (non) apology and request for a "quick call" with the complainant.

The language they use is certainly not the language a peer would be expected to use either.
by breppp | 2025-11-06 05:39:10+00:00
Although the Venezuela example is quite an overreach, none of these people fall under the US laws you think they do

The legal basis is them being declared Unlawful Combatants under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Once they do they are enemy combatants in war and can be killed.

This law was so thoroughly used by all presidents since then that you cannot really claim it's illegal
by bawolff | 2025-11-06 05:40:06+00:00
War crimes require an armed conflict but not a "war". Note that declerations of war no longer really have meaning in international law and dont affect anything whether they are given or not.

Armed conflict can be either international (e.g. between two countries) or non-international (e.g. you are atacking a non-state group. For example ISIS. However note that attacking a non-state group on the territory of a different state without permission of that state makes it be both.). War crimes apply to both types but the rules are slightly different between the two.

Keep in mind also that people often colloquial use "war crimes" to mean any international crime, but technically its only one type. Crimes against humanity and genocide are technically not war crimes but a different category. They generally do not require an armed conflict (although often when they do happen its related to sone sort of armed conflict)

Anyways this whole thing probably counts an armed conflict. I think at the least its a non-international armed conflict with the drug cartel. Attacking boats is usually an act of war even if they are in international waters, which might make it an international armed conflict with venuzula as well if the boats are connected to it (but the rules related to that im not really clear on and is a bit beyond my knoeledge).

[IANAL]
by rurban | 2025-11-06 05:40:59+00:00
I just came back from installing a vibe coded new service and frontend. It had most of the new required features the old python single file service didn't have. A new big shiny react typescript monster. Good UI.

The client would have loved be use it, as it was much easier to use. But in the end it was premature, not tested, and not adjustable to the client needs on-site. Too many states, even a global postgresql store. Super fragile. So I had to sidestep the new shiny Claude generated react code, after 2 people tried to fix it for 3 weeks, implemented the basic new features on the old system in a day, and this works stable now. No global state, just a single job file you copy there manually.

Enforce good SW practises. Test that it works. Have a backup solution ready if it doesn't work. Have simulators to test real behaviors. My simulators saved my day.
by dhx | 2025-11-06 05:41:13+00:00
If the government wanted to pump USD$1T into the economy, is investment into a stack of sheds full of rapidly depreciating computers the most effective use of USD$1T?

Some example contrasting options:

- Worldwide investment in 300mm wafer fab equipment is projected to be USD$107-138B per year through to 2028.[1] USD$1T buys 100% of the global production of 300mm wafer fab equipment for about 7 years.

- European Union countries are projected to spend approximately USD$250B on electricity generation and transmission infrastructure projects in 2025.[2] The US is projected to spend a similar amount.[3] China is projected to spend approximately USD$460B.[4] USD$1T buys 4 years worth of European Union or US expenditure on electricity generation and transmission infrastructure, or 2 years worth of Chinese expenditure.

- Worldwide biopharmaceutical R&D was estimated to amount to USD$276B in 2021.[5] More conservative estimates include USD$102 in 2024.[6] Using the larger estimate, USD$1T buys 3.5 years of global biopharmaceutical R&D.

[1] https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/10/14/news-2nm-race-dri...

[2] https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2025/eur...

[3] https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2025/uni...

[4] https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2025/chi...

[5] doi:10.1038/d41573-024-00131-2 (https://www.analysisgroup.com/globalassets/insights/publishi...)

[6] https://www.iqvia.com/blogs/2025/06/global-trends-in-r-and-d...
by gbjw | 2025-11-06 05:42:02+00:00
“ Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.” - Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-06 05:42:40+00:00
> The person is a "Support Community Manager" in Indonesia if you click on their link. They're not the CEO of Mozilla who is supposed to be an expert in intercultural communication.

This is completely backwards. The CEO is not expected to manage intercultural communication. You know whose job that is? The community manager.

The community manager for Indonesia wouldn't be expected to manage communication with Japan, but managing local contributors is absolutely a job for the community manager and not the CEO.
by etskinner | 2025-11-06 05:43:14+00:00
In short, horse trading. That is, if you have leverage in an adversarial negotiation, you'd be foolish not to use it to get more of what you want.

For example, as a prospective employee, if I knew that I was the only qualified candidate the employer had interviewed, and they really needed someone within a week, I'd know that I can ask for more salary. If I instead take the middle of the salary range, just because it's maximally acceptable to both parties, I'd be missing out
by lp0_on_fire | 2025-11-06 05:43:45+00:00
Nobody would use these services for anything important if they _actually understood_ these glorified markov chains are just as likely to confidently assert something false and lie about it when pressed as they are to produce accurate information.

These AI companies have sold a bill of goods but the right people are making money off it so they’ll never be held responsible in a scenarios the one you described.
by jebarker | 2025-11-06 05:44:30+00:00
I think you’re right that I’m a negatively biased person, so the praise may have been received differently if I was a more positive person. However, the outcome of the praise was that I was never self-confident and had/have low self-esteem. I think what I received was closer to “you’re the smartest kid” and that set me up believing I was destined to be the _most_ successful adult even if I never felt capable of achieving that.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-06 05:45:03+00:00
This is not true at all. Slavery wasn't allowed in the rural north. And in the south, slavery was part of all sectors of the economy. Slave factories were even a thing. Furthermore, slave labor could be traded on the market just as well as any other labor. There was nothing stopping a slave owner from renting out his slaves a contract labor. If the civil war hadn't happened when it did, southern slavery would have been an industrial horror.