MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reify | 2025-11-30 07:20:03+00:00
MORE BULLSHIT

they forgot to mention the word SUPERVISED

which, even for a five year old means that the truck was not self driving

Tesla Cybertruck with Full Self-Driving (Supervised), 14.2 completes a full drive from parking spot to parking spot with zero human

https://supercarblondie.com/tesla-update-full-self-driving-v...

FSD v14 remains Level 2, meaning it’s still a driver-assistance system.

Not true autonomy.

Drivers must stay alert, hands ready, eyes on the road, even as Tesla markets the tech as ‘Full Self-Driving.’

And while HW4 owners get the upgrade, those still on HW3 are stuck on v12 indefinitely.

That’s despite earlier promises their cars would one day drive themselves.
by musebox35 | 2025-11-30 07:20:16+00:00
That is insightful. Courage to take risks means higher standard deviation in outcomes, more visible successes, but also more hard failures. Risk averse cultures have more stable outcomes, no big successes, but also less financially crippling failures. A personal or social safety net may or may not make you risk averse. Taking semi-calculated risks seems like a skill that needs to be learned for successful entrepreneurship.
by apparent | 2025-11-30 07:21:12+00:00
The downward "is it worth it" trend over the last 12 years is partly due to the continued upward climb of college tuition. Some schools are now at $100,000/yr for tuition, room, and board. In order for this to be "worth the cost" they would have to have a strongly positive expected value in terms of future earnings.

And a positive EV isn't sufficient. It would also need to have a very low chance of negative EV. Otherwise people would be crazy to sink $400,000 into a degree that might or might not leave their child with better job prospects in the future.

Of course, only the wealthy pay full price for college, but when you ask people if college is worth the cost, they may be anchored to those prices even if their own kids would end up paying less.
by Svip | 2025-11-30 07:21:50+00:00
Amusing the title is the "Copenhagen Trap" (I know it's a reference to the Copenhagen Interpretation), since Denmark actually have laws about duty to help.

The Danish penal code § 253[1] punishes people with up to 2 years in prison, those who - without high risk to themselves or others - intentionally do not help someone after ability, who is clearly life threatened.

Additionally, the Danish rules of the road § 9[2] have rules for acting in the event of an accident; specifically, that they have a duty to help.

[1] https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/1294#P253 [2] https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2024/1312#P9
by nebula8804 | 2025-11-30 07:23:26+00:00
Schools typically have no space to squeeze it in. Here is a typical pathway for a CS student: https://catalog.njit.edu/undergraduate/computing-sciences/co...

A 4 year cs degree dumps you into heavy math, physics, and intro CS + Data structures in your first year to weed people out who cant cut it.

Second year teaches fundamentals of CS (discrete math, concept of languages, understanding algorithms at least at a basic level).

Third year is filled with more practical fundamentals (OS, DB, computer architecture + field specific courses the student wants).

Finally the fourth year pieces everything together with more advanced versions of prior topics (algorithms for example) + repeated practical applications of all the concepts from years 1-3 to hopefully put the student on at least an 'ok' footing post graduation.

I guess you can try to make the first lecture or two in CS101 about the history but most students don't even know if they want to pursue this journey. Would talking about Alan Turing's history really be appropriate in that class? I don't know really.
by tommica | 2025-11-30 07:23:40+00:00
I try not to use rpmostree to install anything (only steam-input, codecs and nvidia drivers), and rely on homebrew, appimages, flatpaks and toolbox for my app needs. It works so far...

There is something about immutable linuxes that feels right, and I cannot pinpoint why exactly, but it's like things are segregated correctly.
by viccis | 2025-11-30 07:23:56+00:00
Yep, I've seen this with a lot of my friends who did a similar thing. HR employees screening you out alone is a huge problem.

I have some middle and upper middle class gen X and older friends giving their children TERRIBLE advice about how degrees aren't worth it anymore and you get more out of getting started in your career ASAP than spending 4 years in school. The problem is that a BS now is like a high school diploma when they grew up, and if you don't have one, then in all likelihood, you will struggle to not be downwardly mobile, as it's the new middle class gatekeeping tool.

People should NOT listen to anyone over 45-50 or so who tells them college isn't necessary. Those people grew up in a world that no longer exists.

Another example of bad gen X / boomer advice is to knock out core credits in community college and transfer to university later. They don't understand that your only shot at getting significant scholarships and financial aid is when you enter as a 1st time freshman. I know someone with brilliant kids who made National Merit Scholar this year who is already setting their kids aims low by advising them to do this when there are so many good universities, both private and state, where their kids have a good shot at getting a full ride.
by generalizations | 2025-11-30 07:24:23+00:00
Sounds good, but what happens when everyone else uses ideological purity filters too?

Because if what this guy is saying is reasonable, then it immediately follows that it's also reasonable for every ideology and religion to exclude the ones they don't like. For example: how does an antisimetic software license strike you? Because that would be a perfectly reasonable license for some people to enact, and fully justified by this article's logic.

Do unto others, and all that.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-30 07:24:27+00:00
> (My suspicion is that an ability test would lead to a less racist outcome than requiring college. Why? Because minority families struggle more to afford college.)

This might have been true when the United States was mostly white, and "minority" specifically referred to the black population who was mostly descended from slaves brought to the US mainland pre-1808, or to an even small number of native Americans. Today, when the US population is significantly more ethnically diverse, and "minority" just means "anyone nonwhite, regardless of where they came from or what their family history is", there's a lot more variation in exactly how ability to afford college correlates with ethnicity.
by gethly | 2025-11-30 07:24:30+00:00
as far as i understand, it is about specific game and performance related tweaks in the kernel. so it goes beyond just a distribution where you just string together few programs, desktop environment and some config files and call it a day.

this is why linux, after all, is still where it was 20 years ago. all those endless distributions and fragmentation make it non-competitive against the mainstream desktop operating systems. ubuntu was doing good work by becoming the de facto desktop linux by sheer branding. but they dropped the ball really hard and that opportunity to make linux desktop a serious competition is gone. now games are leading the way so maybe steam os or one of these gaming-tuned distros might pick up the momentum.
by cookiengineer | 2025-11-30 07:24:43+00:00
The WD case highlights how manufacturers will cheat as much as they can get away with in regards to profits. That's why I mentioned it.

Doesn't matter if your use case is only stashing porn, mine is stashing archived web pages and wikis, for example. So integrity of both the HDD sectors and filesystem sectors really matters to me.

I also wanted to make a point about regulation requirements. If you cannot guarantee integrity of your backups, all compliance gets thrown out of the window, and your company will be closed if that info gets out.

This requirement is also the case for private citizens when it comes to preservations of filed bills and taxes, for the last 10 years, in all EU countries.
by nairboon | 2025-11-30 07:25:57+00:00
That analogy sounds good on the surface, but breaks down quickly. In the context of sport/athletics it's your body doing the work, which is difficult to change without exercise (even with steroids). But for knowledge work, as long as you have access to the llm machine, you can quickly pretend it's your work. For students it can be very deceiving, they type their ideas on a device, one button fixes their spelling, another button "fixes" their wording. The line is very blurry, literally the divider in the UI between these two buttons.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-11-30 07:26:53+00:00
There are all of the usual signs. Overuse of em-dashes (34 of them), overuse of colons (41 of them), overuse of lists of three items comma-separated, incoherent overusage of bold text, overly terse "x → y" lists.

Some excerpts that are particularly obvious:

> Approve a drug that kills: massive public scandal, congressional hearings, career destruction—the action is visible, attributable, punishable. Delay a drug that would save lives: invisible deaths, no scandal, no attribution—the people who died waiting never become a story.

---

> The mechanics:

> *Interaction implies liability*: Help a homeless person imperfectly → criticized for the imperfection

> *Profit implies guilt*: Sell cheap water in a drought → "profiteer," "monster"

> *Ignorance implies innocence*: Ignore the problem entirely → zero criticism

---

> The Copenhagen Trap doesn't just affect decisions. It affects *who makes decisions*. This is not about individual choices. It is about civilizational selection pressure.
by gethly | 2025-11-30 07:27:24+00:00
I wonder if people would be willing to pay 10€/$ for a yearly update so that there could be some commercial force behind a distribution that would provide security and stability for desktop users. with windows, you pay one large amount upfront. with macos, you get it with hardware. so having something like this, i think, has a potential to succeed and a place in commercial market.
by im3w1l | 2025-11-30 07:27:51+00:00
There is another asymmetry that this article misses. Fear leads to inaction. Hope leads to action. The article seems to argue that we need to punish inaction. But this goes against the principle I just mentioned. Instead we could (and do) reward action. Recall the profiteer in point VII. Maybe he was critized. But he also did make a profit. Reward. In China, passing good samaritian laws undid damage. Why because lessening fear was enough for hope to prevail. Hope of gratitude and reward.

Like anon908 I also thought this was llm-generated, but unlike him I thought it was still a worthwhile read.
by jtrn | 2025-11-30 07:28:11+00:00
I have a special spot that gets extremely annoyed when I feel I have to spend a necessary time just figuring out what something is. The page suffers from "developer-brain" marketing, where they describe the technology used to build it (cloud-native images) rather than what the product actually is. Why not just lead with that it is a Linux distro/version focused on gaming. In the beginning, I thought it was new hardware, then I actually thought it was a streaming service. the website does a poor job of simply stating what it actually is. Then again, I might be stupid, but the problem is that a lot of people are stupid. And I guess many non-developers are going to have a hard time just figuring out what the hell this thing is. I’m probably being too cranky now, but the page reads like a combination of the worst from developers-speak combined with the rest of marketing-speak.
by alfanick | 2025-11-30 07:28:16+00:00
This. We could be good buddies.

I'm not understanding this OS and I'm extremely confused that this post got so much traction on HN. Gosh, either I'm too young, or too old, or too nerdy.

I'm not critiquing the project itself, more like, I'm surprised [very surprised], that it got so much traction on HN, not usual news
by survirtual | 2025-11-30 07:28:31+00:00
They are against AI code now as well. AI anything is toxic to the general pop, which is why some companies are asking not to be forced to reveal their use of it.

The real issue is that people's livelihoods are being automated. This can be fixed with sensible policies and things like universal healthcare and universal basic income.

There are some additional policies I'd like involving AI automation gains compensating workers losing their jobs to AI, and laws making all AI open-source due to their nature of being trained on public data.

With those policies, it wouldn't hurt so much to lose your job to AI. I would think there would be leas hostility at that point.

I must say it is all very confusing to me. If someone likes a game, why does the origin of assets matter? It is the same thing I see with crypto. It is just code and data. People putting value on it doesn't change what it is. Yet now there are all these regulations because enough people assigned enough value so the code suddenly becomes regulated.

AI is just code and data. It doesn't make sense how offended people are by it. No one is being for to use AI. Sure, it is changing how our society functions, but this isn't the fault of AI, it is the fault of bad systems. We have bad economic systems, bad political systems, bad leaders across the board, and bad distribution of ownership. AI isn't causing these problems, it is just amplifying them.
by froh | 2025-11-30 07:30:13+00:00
> I've never heard of Little Prince before.

interesting. may I ask which region of the world you live in?

> I don't think it's as popular as the article claims.

that may be telling more about the region you live or yourself.

I suggest go to it's Wikipedia article and check the books impact.

ps: and to get a physical copy and to read it...
by ggambetta | 2025-11-30 07:31:15+00:00
My degree was 5 years back in the day. Was it worth it? Maybe, probably. But these days people seem to get a bachelor's and a master's in 5 years, and it kind of pisses me off to have that CV disadvantage when my degree could have effectively been that (the last two years were full of electives to choose a narrower specialization, and was much more research-y).
by aweb | 2025-11-30 07:31:33+00:00
Very surprised and sad to see so many dismissive comments of the book. It's a really popular one in France for a very good reason. It's so creative, poetic and touching that I doubt you can read it and stay indifferent.

If you've never read it, do yourself a favor and do so! It's quite short, and I hope you'll like it.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-30 07:31:41+00:00
It has always been the default in compiler provided frameworks before C++98, like Turbo Vision, BIDS, OWL, MFC and so on.

Unfortunately the default changed when C++98 came out, and not everyone bothered with providing at least hardening mode in debug builds, VC++ followed by GCC, or compilers in high integrity computing like Green Hills.

Sadly the security and quality mentality seems to be a hard sell in areas where folks are supposed to be Engineers and not craftsmen.
by razingeden | 2025-11-30 07:31:58+00:00
if you think about it, the current advertising paradigm infers things about you, from cookies and trackers, from data brokers etc (to show you “relevant” ads.

and things you “like” or “follow” or comment on , or maybe even just making guesses at your race, job, income, sexual orientation, politics etc based on who youre “friends” with.

all of thats on the decline: social media engagement on legacy platforms is down, people are blocking cookies and or javascript. california is making an opt out tool for data brokers (and its going live in a month or two)

people have hours long conversations with chatgpt about things like what theyre working on. so it might know your job, talents, skills. things planning (aspirations) , things you asked it how to cook, or whats wrong with them medically. or maybe theyve dished to it about other personal stuff they thought was 100% in confidence up until now.

then now that its “private”, advertisers cant get backlash for showing ads next to controversial content, or people who are “supposed to be cancelled”. it removes a pressure point for accidentally (or deliberately) displaying their content somewhere its inappropriate or problematic for the brand— by hiding the interaction (and ads) in a “private” chat—

just for starters.

were at a point where publishers are nagging about our popup blockers and having hissy fits or refusing to load the page until their ads are whitelisted. so you know enough people are doing it to impact peoples business models now.

ill personly disable JS altogether for sites that do that but a lot of people just wont return.

its a dying media the way it exists.

so now all these ad providers (meta, google, twitter) are in on AI . and here comes openAI for all three of their lunches.

this just opened my eyes to what is at stake here and why its all being shoved down everyones throats. sure i use them, but i also have local models installed id drop them in an instant for if my chats were used to show me ads.

then just wait for ANY of these two entities to merge and overwhelm your social media feed with the next twenty years of ads full of junk the “AI” learned about you.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-11-30 07:32:32+00:00
That's tempered glass which breaks into the safer fragments. Still not completely safe obviously, especially if stuff is getting thrown around violently in an accident. The bigger safety case for laminated glass though is since it sticks together your body or limbs can't fly out through it in a rollover accident (even if belted can happen on the sides). There's also some fringe benefits: noise isolation, UV protection, and supposedly more annoying for thieves.
by reddalo | 2025-11-30 07:33:49+00:00
> I must have been a target audience, as a kid learning windows it made the computer feel less threatening

I don't think we, as kids, were the core audience for Clippy. I think Microsoft just wanted to make home users feel like their computer was some kind of friend, and not a cold machine.

But I agree, using Clippy as a kid was fun and I loved seeing all the animations.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-30 07:34:14+00:00
Well, there is ongoing work to put all known UB into an UB annex on the standard, with hope that the size of the annex gets reduced over time.

How well this will work out remains to be seen.

Rust still needs to get rid of its dependency on C++ compiler frameworks, and I don't see Cranelift matching GCC and LLVM any time soon.
by lmm | 2025-11-30 07:34:18+00:00
I've hit JVM bugs in my professional career, sure. I just don't see the scenario where you'd need to be switching back and forth more than occasionally.

If you're running x.0.3 in production, you'd run x.0.3 locally. If there's a JVM bug that your application hits on x.0.3, either it's a showstopper in which case you'll find a way to upgrade/fix production quickly, or it's something you can tolerate, in which case you can tolerate it in local dev too. If you decide it's time to upgrade to x.0.4, you'd upgrade to x.0.4 locally, test a bit, then upgrade to x.0.4 in production. What's the scenario where you need to keep switching between x.0.3 and x.0.4 locally? You upgraded application Y to x.0.4, then discovered that application Z hits a showstopper bug and needs to stay on x.0.3? That's not a situation that you let fester for months, you either fix or work around the bug pretty quickly, or you decide that x.0.4 is too buggy and put everything back to x.0.3, and for that short period sure theoretically you would want to develop application Y under x.0.4 but the risk of developing it under x.0.3 is pretty damn small.

I get the argument that the cost is pretty low. It's just this is addressing something that really doesn't feel like a problem for me, and something that I don't think should be acceptable for it to be a problem. The JVM always used to be something you could upgrade almost fearlessly, and I think there was a lot of value in that.
by godelski | 2025-11-30 07:35:31+00:00
I know I'm criticizing, but I do also want to make sure to say good job. I don't want to make it seem like I'm unhappy, if that makes sense.

For privacy prevention, maybe you can help me understand something better then. I was under the impression that for the most part, each fingerprinting technique itself was not enough to identify someone, but it is the collection of them. So in that setting, would not showing the distribution of the individual metrics likely preserve privacy? I can certainly see some subtle naive trap existing here that I'm not aware of but do you know of one? I at least would think things such as agent, dark mode, and some other things shouldn't risk deanonymization. Though clearly things like coordinates, unique fingerprints, and probably even the canvas fingerprinting shouldn't be shared. As long as each data point isn't associated with others and you have a decent sample size. But also I'd love to learn if I'm missing something important.
by awesome_dude | 2025-11-30 07:36:30+00:00
I have this thinking that, in reality, there's no such thing as objectively 'good' or objectively 'bad'

It's all context and timing.

Almost everyone that will attack this idea will present actions that are loaded with context - murder, is killing when it's bad, self defence is killing when it's good.

If you look at everything, and look at it's non-contextual action, then you can easily find contextually 'good' and contextually 'bad' instances of that thing.

Even further, the story of the man who lost his horse [0] shows us that even if we say that something that happens is contextually good, or bad, the resulting timeline could actually be the complete opposite, meaning that, ultimately, we can never really know if something is good, or bad.

[0] https://oneearthsangha.org/articles/the-old-man-who-lost-his...
by rayiner | 2025-11-30 07:37:36+00:00
If you take nukes off the table, the U.S. doesn’t have a 100x military advantage. If China seriously mobilized its industrial capability, the U.S. may not have even a 2x advantage.

Remember that, right before World War II, the US didn’t even have a top-10 military, having demobilized it after World War I. It’s vast industrial capacity is what enabled it to build a larger military than all of Europe combined within a few years.
by bgnn | 2025-11-30 07:37:39+00:00
This isn't correct. There were ICE mini and micro cars. It's just not popular in some countries like the US or Canada, but wildly popular in some (mainly Asia).

Nowadays there are electric micro cars too, like Citroën Ami. I believe Renault has sth too, and the Chinese brands too. They are cheap, often cheaper than an electric cargo bike!