MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DarkNova6 | 2025-11-21 07:55:21+00:00
The barrier for entry is primarily capital these days: have a moat, prevent competition, extract money, cease R&D. And if a competitor does come up, just buy them outright. This is the current economic model, as it is practiced by Private Equity.

Power has become infectious and capitalism has changed. The game is about power and extracting more and more money from the productive economy, making it less competitive. Who wins? Those who already have excessive capital.

The only one who would have enough legal power is exclusively the state. It’s no surprise the state is under attack from so many fronts.
by thereisnospork | 2025-11-21 07:55:29+00:00
That's a pretty disingenuous interpretation. It's a lot more like:

Company > we are selling something that's legal.

Government > well now you have to do X. (Testing? Certification? Reporting?)

Company > why? X industry doesn't have this reg. Europe/ the next state over doesn't have this reg?

Government> because I'm the government and its my job

Company > fine

Repeat 4x.

> Company, um we did they last 4 things you asked us to and if we have to do the next we are going to go out of business.

> Gov: get fucked, I'm just doing my job: read [I have an ideological problem with your business, my buddy is in the business and I'm giving him an exception, and/or I've got a special interest group to please].

>Public: cheers

>Public: Why is their a housing shortage? Why is our manufacturing less competitive than China? Why do we need to import rare earths?
by crote | 2025-11-21 07:55:41+00:00
For a lot of enthousiasts the problem genuinely is in the lane count.

For example, putting a cheap 2nd-hand dual 25G NIC in a DIY server is quite attractive. But those are using PCIe Gen3 - so unless you're giving it 8 lanes it is being bottlenecked.

Same on the storage side: that PCIe Gen4 x4 slot might technically have enough bandwidth for four SSDs in most storage applications, but the board doesn't support bifurcating it.

The total platform bandwidth is plenty, it just isn't available in the way I want to use it.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-21 07:56:01+00:00
I agree, I love him and he has been a very influential person in my life. I started reading him from a very young age in my own language because his works in English were too difficult for me at the time. It is always nice to see someone mention him.

FWIW I do not think he used the "pig with dragon head" example, it just came to my mind, but he did use an example similar to it when he was talking about creativity and the combining of ideas where there was a lack of impression (i.e. we have not actually seen one anywhere [yet we can imagine it]).
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-21 07:56:14+00:00
> That depends whether regulators interpret “intended for use on motor vehicles” as “for road use”. The bill’s sponsors seem to think so:

That was their intention, but the effect of a law is not always the same thing -- that's the point. If you go to the local tire place and want to pay them to fit your track car with used tires that have minimal tread on them, is the clerk going to read the legislative history and take the risk that the judge takes that interpretation despite the law saying something else, or are they going to fob you off because corporate says they're not allowed to sell tires like that?
by lynx97 | 2025-11-21 07:56:39+00:00
I don't feel personally attacked. However, I find the particular wording of the post I initially replied to condescending and reeking of elitism. Calling someone--or a group--gullible and seduced is not going to win them over. Besides, while we are at wording. I dont usually pull that card, but... I am blind, in a literal sense. Seeing my disability being used in a rhetorical way makes me sometimes sad. It kind of shows--on a meta level--that inclusion will never happen.
by theshrike79 | 2025-11-21 07:57:13+00:00
My experience is completely different.

Codex(-cli) is an outsourced consultant who refuses to say "I can't do that" and will go to extreme lengths to complete a task fully before reporting anything. It's not a "teammate".

It also doesn't communicate much while it's working compared to Claude. So it's really hard to interrupt it while it's making a mistake.

Also, as a Go programmer, the sandbox is completely crazy. Codex can't access any of the Go module caches (in my home directory) and it has to result to crazy tricks to bring them INSIDE the project directory - which it keeps forgetting to do (as the commands have to run with specific ENV_VARS) and just ... doesn't run tests for example, because it couldn't.

The only way I've found to make that problem go away is run it with the --omg-super-dangerous-give-every-permission-ever switch just so that it can do the basic work I need it to do.

Maybe give us an option between the ultra-safe sandbox that just refused to run "ps" 15 minutes ago to check if a process is running and the "let me do anything anywhere" option. Some sane defaults please.
by tome | 2025-11-21 07:57:13+00:00
Thanks! You might also like the introduction I wrote to the Bluefin docs, which has some similar content: https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/bluefin/docs/Blu...

Yes, Xavier's book was really interesting. It's here: https://xavierleroy.org/control-structures/

It's missing some subtleties of capability-based effect systems (which Bluefin is). Maybe I should write to him.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-21 07:58:10+00:00
Wine works, because it doesn't cover many modern APIs, I would assess.

New Microsoft under Satya has a different stance on anything WinRT related, or even newer Win32/COM APIs since Windows 8.

Also .NET Framework is the Python 2 of .NET, the breaking changes are a reason there are still new projects being done in .NET Framework 4.8.x.
by avhception | 2025-11-21 08:00:58+00:00
Maybe that guy needs a trip to Germany to feel a little better about the processes in the USA. The stuff I've seen over the years is completely insane. And I'm not even working for industries that do any novel stuff, just boring old stuff. Getting permits for building something as trivial as a small storage facility for literal nuts and bolts will make you feel like you've entered Kafkas "Der Prozess".

And if you, somehow, through some miracle, after decades, get said permit and build something (to absurdly high costs), you're under constant threat of being shut down for arbitrary reasons. Again, the nuts and bolts storage is a literal nuts and bolts storage. Just some maybe 200 metal crates with metal nuts and bolts in there, with a roof on top. It was shut down after we built it. "Fire hazard". And we're not talking hot stuff just off the production line or something, no. Just ambient-temperature nuts and bolts in metal crates with a metal roof on top.

The stories that I've heard or sometimes even was somehow involved in would take many hours to write down and have the reader shake their head in disbelief. And, again, I'm not even anywhere near any new innovation. Just regular boring stuff.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-21 08:01:16+00:00
> like regulations of parking minimums implemented to appease the property owning class.

This regulations are crucial for preventing cities from being littered with cars (more than they already are). If developers were allowed they would build only very limited parking space and then people living there would have to park in public space burdening everybody. If anything it's a regulation against property owning class.
by pgte | 2025-11-21 08:02:10+00:00
This is a huge pain point—validating this problem is definitely not the hard part! I’ve been tackling the exact same "Spreadsheet Tetris" nightmare with TimeClout ( https://timeclout.com ).

We actually just open-sourced our solution because we realized that while the scheduling interface needs to be simple, the optimization logic (fairness, constraints, sales matching) is where the real complexity lives. Since you're building something similar, you might find our approach interesting—we use a constraint satisfaction AI solver to handle the heavy lifting.

We’re currently looking for beta testers to stress-test the scheduler in real-world hospitality scenarios. Since you're deep in this space, I'd love to hear your take on our approach vs. what you're building.

Best of luck with your tool—the market definitely needs more than just "digital spreadsheets."
by moktonar | 2025-11-21 08:03:27+00:00
We already choose each other based on genetic diversity. Smell for example is a big factor, did you notice that people you’re not attracted to usually smell worse than those you’re attracted to? And I guess there are many other non-rational ways the body-mind chooses for us. As always we think that science can do better than evolution. We’ll see, but if I had to bet..
by dboon | 2025-11-21 08:03:49+00:00
It looks good! I may pick up a copy. Besides the convenience, why do you recommend your book over reading the WASM spec as you implement your basic compiler? I find that WASM has a beautifully readable spec. One of its best features!

Either way, I’ll likely buy a copy to support the hard work on a piece of tech that I am very fond of
by pjmlp | 2025-11-21 08:04:21+00:00
I have the unpopular opinion that like I have witness in person the transition from Assembly into high level languages, eventually many tasks that we manually write programs for, will be done with programable agents of some sort.

In an AI driven OS, there will be less need for bare bones "classical" programming, other than the AI infrastructure.

Now is this possible today, not really as the misteps from Google, Apple and Microsoft are showing, however eventually we might be there with a different programming paradigm.

Having LLMs generate code is a transition step, just like we run to Compiler Explorer to validate how good the compiler optimizer happens to be.
by andylynch | 2025-11-21 08:04:33+00:00
More practically, it’s about if someone hits you or someone you care about with their car or the like.

Aggregation of data like Flock does is a different matter and can be handled separately. Like I mentioned in my other comment, other countries tend not to have things like Flock, since they understand unregulated data processing such as that is problematic for all sorts of reasons; the US is a big , big outlier in this area.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-21 08:05:12+00:00
> Apple/Microsoft can do whatever they want

Those two are worlds apart when it comes to backward compatibility.

> Also, I wouldn't bring up Microsoft's display stack as a positive example at all.

Why not? It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, and has been since the late 90s. There's tons of fundamental improvements since then, but they're all under the hood without affecting user-facing features. I'd say the Windows display stack modernization is an excellent example of how it should be done (a real shame though that Microsoft is actively ruining Windows by adding user-hostile features on top of the pretty good technical base).
by johnisgood | 2025-11-21 08:05:47+00:00
Problem is, that it sets a precedent, and next they will come for other websites whose ban will strike you as "bad".

Edit: I can definitely see them banning anything related to Linux and resources related to OSes because of how processes can be handled, e.g. "kill parent", "kill child", and so on. The term "kill" already has to be censored out on many websites. Of course context matters, but people really have difficulties with this these days.
by anal_reactor | 2025-11-21 08:06:18+00:00
The problem is that as you go further up in hierarchy, people by definition have less specialized, and more general knowledge. This means that there are things that lower-level employee understands but their manager doesn't. This in turn means that it's impossible for the manager to tell whether the employee is doing a good or a bad job because the manager simply doesn't understand the details of the job. This is open door for slackers and low-performers, because from certain perspectives, they're indistinguishable from hard workers.

I used to be a hard-working high-performer, but then I understood that because of numerous management problems that are beyond my control, the reward is very loosely correlated with my efforts, and given an existing job contract, the best way to maximize the reward/effort ratio is not to put more effort hoping for disproportionately higher rewards, but to put significantly less effort because the reward will drop just slightly. Do you want to up your hourly salary 5 times? Simply take 5 times as much time to deliver same feature. You might not get the 0.05x salary bump but that doesn't actually impact the calculation that much.
by 000ooo000 | 2025-11-21 08:07:45+00:00
Today I was using $tool with some dense docs and average forums. In a moment of weakness, I asked an LLM. It said, "just use strpos! :magic_wand:". Of course, strpos didn't exist, but it was in the question for the top result on Google for my problem: "I want to do x with $tool, kind of like strpos in $other_tool". After the impressiveness of the language generation wears off, it's just another bullshit generator and man I've had enough of bullshit these days.
by UltraSane | 2025-11-21 08:08:04+00:00
That is just plain incompetence. These are recent US nuclear capacity factors

2023: 93.0%

2022: 92.1%

2021: 92.7%

2020: 92.5%

Nuclear has the highest capacity factor of any other energy source—producing reliable and secure power more than 92% of the time in 2024. That’s nearly twice as much as a coal (42.36%) or natural gas (59.9%) plant that are used more flexibly to meet changing grid demands and almost 3 times more often than wind (34.3%) and solar (23.4%) plants

Nuclear power plants had a 8% share of the total U.S. generation capacity in 2023 but actually produced 18% of the country’s electricity due to its high capacity factor.
by tacker2000 | 2025-11-21 08:08:05+00:00
Well yes we dont want you slurping up all our data indiscriminately and feeding some AI with and and thereby enshittifying the OS.

If i need to use AI I will paste text into ChatGPT.com or wherever, i dont need Word to constantly annoy me with it.

Of course this guy is “surprised”, his whole division will be shut down if this fails.

Aside: The cookie consent banner on this website is “unlawful”. I cannot choose to reject the cookies.
by card_zero | 2025-11-21 08:08:33+00:00
Global, I guess. It has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_crisis

There's specific pages for some individual countries, too:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_housing_in_Canada#A...
by bradley13 | 2025-11-21 08:09:05+00:00
Indeed. The idea is interesting, but the claim is obviously exaggerated: sure, you're burning less gas, but you're tanking electrons. Whatever the final mpg equivalent is, it isn't 120mpg.

His other company is yet another green washing idea. Taking what could and should be valuable natural fertilizer and sequestering it. Also, for most of these ideas, the energy costs of transport and processing outweigh any supposed benefits.
by jhugo | 2025-11-21 08:09:22+00:00
Live translation is a well solved problem by this point — the translation will update as it goes, so while you may have a mistranslation visible during the sentence, it will correct when the last word is spoken. The user does need to have awareness of this but in my experience it works well.

Bear in mind that simultaneous interpretation by humans (eg with a headset at a meeting of an international organisation) has been a thing for decades.
by joshribakoff | 2025-11-21 08:10:26+00:00
There are some potential biases here.

Of course it is unimpressive when someone does something familiar to you, that is subjective. That same thing could be framed as impressive, to someone else, such as the person who is now able to do the unfamiliar as if it is familiar.

The other bias would be to assume that there aren’t unfamiliar things (you don’t know every tool every made, therefore you may potentially benefit from using AI to help with learning new tools).

Another bias is to assume AI is only good for learning something unfamiliar. There are ways to contain generative coding that scale, in some contexts. Likewise there’s probably use cases even for power users, like organizing messy desktop icons into semantic clusters (automating tedious tasks), summarizing running processes, limiting engagement with brain rot, etc.
by avhception | 2025-11-21 08:10:32+00:00
We also had a facility for sorting nuts and bots shut down because the original building permit was for a CNC shop or something, "metal works" or whatever the technical term is in English.

You see, sorting nuts and bolts is not "metal work" because you're not altering the metal. So the permit was revoked, they wouldn't issue a new one, and we had to move shop. That alone almost cost that little sorting spin-off it's live.
by pdubroy | 2025-11-21 08:11:07+00:00
Thank you!

I would 100% agree that the spec is quite readable. At the top of our Minimum Viable Compiler chapter, we say:

> The binary module format is defined in the WebAssembly Core Specification. You’ll notice that we back up many of our explanations with reference to the relevant part of the spec. One of our goals with this book is to convince you that the spec is a valuable resource that’s worth getting familiar with.

I think the spec is great as reference material, but we wrote the book to be more of a tutorial. We've talked to many people who say they've looked at the spec, but find it too overwhelming. For those people, we hope the book provides a good structure that ultimately helps them become comfortable with the spec!
by pjmlp | 2025-11-21 08:11:55+00:00
Mostly because of internal politics, it was used in production for Bing.

> While never reaching commercial release, at one time Midori powered all of Microsoft’s natural language search service for the West Coast and Asia.

From https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...

Enjoy this recording of an internal presentation, while it is still available on YouTube,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37WgsoZpf3k

Joe Duffy also did a few presentations, on one of them (too lazy to search for the exact moment), he mentions that even with Midori running in front of them, the Windows team was very sceptical of it,

"RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuD7SCqHB7k

"Safe Systems Programming in C# and .NET"

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/csharp-systems-programmi...
by skylurk | 2025-11-21 08:13:07+00:00
I have not properly tested the new Kagi research agent yet, but here is a custom prompt I have been using in Kagi for the last year:

You are a research agent. Nobody cares what you think. You exist to do research on the internet. You search like hell and present the most relevant results that you can find. Results means lists of primary sources and the relevance to the query. If the question is about a specific place, don't forget to search in local languages as well as english. You don't ever suggest alternative search terms in your reply. Instead, you take those alternative search terms and you do more searches yourself until you get a wide range of answers.

It generates a lot of good leads very quickly when I want to learn about something. The bit about local languages is especially handy, it gives a bit of an edge over traditional search engines in many situations.

> which will only be harder after using it given the anchoring and confirmation bias it will introduce

This is a risk, but I have found that my own preconceptions are usually what need challenging, and a traditional search approach means I find what I wanted to find... so I use the research agent for an alternative perspective.
by andylynch | 2025-11-21 08:14:39+00:00
Nope.

Regulation of cars , like anything, is expensive. It’s worthwhile for cars for safety reasons, but bikes are cheaper, and also way less dangerous in general, so need a lighter hand.

The current cutoff in EU is probably right, above a certain power level, e bikes are l, broadly, treated an motorcycles (licensing, type approval, insurance etc) , below that and with non-e bikes, is really just about the basics, eg are the wheels firmly attached and do the brakes and lights work?
by oezi | 2025-11-21 08:14:56+00:00
The key point contested is stated like this in the OP:

> A regulatory system that structurally insists on legalistic, ultra-extreme caution is bound to generate a massive negative return for society.

The OP mostly sees the downsides and disregards how hard earned any of those regulatory requirements are. Each requirement is usually the outcome of people being substantially impacted by industry before regulation. For instance the Thalidomide scandal with 10000 children born with deformities.

If OP doesn't grasp the origin and rationale behind regulations, it doesn't mean there aren't any.
TigerData, TimescaleDB and Licensing
by xlegalles | 2025-11-21 08:15:46+00:00
I know this topic has come up before, but I’d like to hear your thoughts on the licensing model for TimeScaleDB. Do you trust that it will remain free and open source in the long term? For context, we recently had a very negative experience with Camunda Zeebe. We had been using it since version 1, but starting with v8.5, it became a commercial product, requiring direct contact for pricing—which is usually not a good sign. Here’s an example of the kind of statements you can find regarding Camunda’s license: https://github.com/camunda/camunda/issues/3770. This situation feels very similar to the TimeScaleDB license. Now that there’s a company behind TimeScaleDB, what are the chances it will follow the same path? Another example is IdentityServer4, which was the standard for OIDC in .NET and suddenly became commercial. Personally, I find this approach quite dishonest: companies wait until users are deeply invested, then introduce fees—knowing that migration costs are high.
by mnau | 2025-11-21 08:16:05+00:00
Waiting 4 years until regulator even decides which regulation you fall under is "regulations that benefit me right now?" There is a lot of similar sentiment ITT. Speedy resolution by government is essential. They get too much slack from being slow, from regulators to court.

> what kind of injection well is this? Should it be permitted as a Class I disposal, Class II oilfield disposal, or Class V experimental? This question on permitting path took four years to answer. Four years to decide which path to use, not even the actual permit! It took this long because regulators are structurally faced with no upside, only downside legal risk in taking a formal position on something new.
by michaelt | 2025-11-21 08:17:37+00:00
> I haven’t looked, but I’m assuming this ban already applies to YouTube, right?

Apparently someone from the government looks at the site and assesses how 'core' the online social interaction is to the site.

Banned: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, Kick and Twitch

Not banned (yet): Pintrest, YouTube Kids, Google Classroom, WhatsApp, Discord, online games like Roblox, AI chat.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyp9d3ddqyo
by bayindirh | 2025-11-21 08:18:03+00:00
You're welcome.

While paper feels very smooth to human skin, in fact it's not. If it was perfectly smooth, no pen or pencil could write on the surface (e.g.: pencil on a whiteboard).

Since the point of a pen nib is extremely small, even a small weight concentrates to that point and the nib tipping is under a lot of pressure even when you don't press while writing. As a result, when combined with the paper surface, the nib is polished slowly.

Again, this is very depending on the tipping alloy used by the manufacturer, and the result is different between manufacturers.