MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by agentcoops | 2025-11-03 11:54:53+00:00
For this reason, one of the most fascinating historical relics to me are the Incan Quipu [0]. Not only because their logic appears to be 'proto-computational' (at the very least a very complex system of encoding numeric and narrative information through sequences of knots that were also used directly for calculations), but since, neither in the form of a valuable material like gold nor obviously a book to be destroyed, a large enough number survived to this day. There are few traces of the past we know exist that might contain everything from astronomical calculations to old social-institutional histories.

They're comparable in that sense to the Heculaneum manuscripts, which researchers have lately made great progress on with deep learning [1]. I hope an equivalent initiative someday starts on the Quipu.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu [1] https://www2.cs.uky.edu/dri/herculaneum-papyrus-scrolls/
by dlisboa | 2025-11-03 11:55:04+00:00
Nah, Brazilian culture is pretty homogenous in that regard. A lot of our culture is dedicated to not looking posh or seeming too rich, more value is placed on being perceived as down to earth (some exceptions notwithstanding).

Parties are communal and informal partly because of income: everyone realizes bankrolling a large party by themselves is pretty expensive so everyone pitches in. Even if you can afford it you don't want your guests to think you're too rich as that's not as cool.

We're only exposed to formal dinner parties and large orchestrated events through fiction. Even the Brazilian fiction that features it carries a more aristocratic view of parties like that, reserved for the ultra rich who want to feel European.

So that single classification is pretty correct.
by matt-p | 2025-11-03 11:55:28+00:00
I think that's a bit of an oversimplification to be fair, pretty much all of our "traditional" universities are absolutely capable of standing on their feet without international students, I mean if you look at the assets of just (any given) college at cambridge; they're swimming in money. Trinity (used to?) own the 02 arena as a fairly minor part of their holdings for example.

The story is very different for "ex-polys" like Sheffield Hallam, or oxford brooks many of whom absolutely trade on the basis of foreign students essentially propping up the entire operation more or less.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-03 11:55:41+00:00
I use it with a separate docker compose project so everything lives inside that (with traefik) and it's been utterly bulletproof for years - took a little puzzling out to start with but otherwise no drama and lets me do foo-whatever.mydomain.co.uk and route publically which is fantastic for local dev stuff or where I want to test something on iphone/android easily or share it - keeps all that stuff out of my "stack" for dev projects which makes for a very fast spinup if I want to test something.
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-11-03 11:55:44+00:00
you seem used to issuing commands. best of luck with that approach. your cherry picked data points may be correct, but they are also misleading absent broader historical context. these groups had largely diminished already (as is well documented by historians of the period), so your subsequent points about x/y/z impact although valid don't carry weight. imo data driven arguments trump emotional appeals. Trail of tears and similar are powerful and empathy inducing for sure, but don't change the facts around which my comment was based. your presentation skews things to a false dichotomy of one group against another which is inaccurate and unproductive. current politicians (left or right) in the US don't change history (and no I didn't bother reading your nytimes link...).

> Did tribes fight and war and capture slaves? Yes. They did that for forever.

sounds like you're confused what point you are arguing.
by refurb | 2025-11-03 11:56:26+00:00
Is there a specific link about Americans being detained for extended periods?

And please stop the name calling. Not only is it against HN rules, you’re better than that.

I clicked the first link and they were about Steven Miller? Then the second Propublica was about a lawyer having to drive far to see a client.

The first Probulica article has more details but the examples include US citizens fighting with ICE and being detained.

Do you have any data on US citizens detained beyond what the law allows (Propublica says up to 3 days is legal) without extenuating circumstances like aiding illegal immigration, assaulting law enforcement, etc?
by Telemakhos | 2025-11-03 11:56:41+00:00
He’s right, at least for the US: since the economic crisis of 2007–2009, Americans had fewer children, and that “demographic cliff” is starting to hit colleges, as the total (not just the sufficiently educated) pool of eighteen year olds available for recruitment is shrinking and will shrink 15% over the next 15 years.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5246200/demographic-cli...

Colleges in the US are panicking over enrollment.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-03 11:57:08+00:00
Prior to the Revolution, in France alone there were allegedly 250 thousand various units in use! (All sorts of units, not just length.)

It didn't help that pre-Revolutionary France was a political Frankenstein stitched together from dozens of regions with completely different history (Celtic Brittany, Flemish Dunkirk, Germanic Alsace, Provencal South, Catalan Roussillon, Italian Nice) and thus very different local standards of everything, including measurements and law.

Unification of units removed a massive constraint on international trade and engineering. Except the US and Myanmar, of course... it is so frustrating to order anything from Myanmar e-shops, I must say. But Myanmar is at least promising to move on.
by WillAdams | 2025-11-03 11:57:27+00:00
Given the popularity of EDC, I'm still quite surprised that Bonsa toolkits (if you search for them, remove "bonsai" from the results with -bonsai) haven't come back.

I have a ~70s-ish version, and I'd love to get a vintage one:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/bonsa-pocket-tool-kit...

I suspect having one which removed the duplication of tools would still save a bit of weight. Nascent discussion at:

https://www.metmo.club/t/i-wonder-what-metmos-spin-would-be-...

I still wish that there were more tools which took the approach of the Spyderco SpydeRench which separates into two parts, affording one a bit driver (with bits stored in the tool) to hold a bolt head, while the other part affords an adjustable wrench for the nut on the bolt.

For my part, I just carry a Niwa camera tool kit stored in a Levenger Safety Case (modeled on the tool kits carried by knitting machine mechanics) and a Leatherman Mini (for pliers) and the afore-mentioned SpydeRench (for the adjustable wrench and larger bit driver), a USB adapter cable and various adapter ends and a pair of mini shears in my laptop bag, and in my pockets, a multi-pen, Fisher Space pen, fountain pen, Swiss Army Knife, CRKT Getaway driver, EverRatchet, MagLight Solitaire, and a small Peter Atwood fork/scraper (all the other Atwood tools/whistles I've scored have been given away as gifts).

If need be, there's a small toolkit in the car/truck.

Curious what other folks carry/use on a regular basis.
by refulgentis | 2025-11-03 11:57:31+00:00
Two HN posters telling each other “exaaaaactlyyyy”, and the premise is universities are same as tourism.

(full disclosure: I dropped out of state school with a 2.8 GPA in economics and got a job at Google 5 years later. yet, I can avoid this fallacy, so it's disturbing to see)
by skydhash | 2025-11-03 11:58:31+00:00
I have a 1200+ lines of config, but they’re mostly nice-to-haves and full-blown apps. But I can do fine with vanilla if needed. My EDITOR is mg which is barest than bare emacs.

Also, vanilla emacs have full support for customize, so I can just go there to quicly setup settings. The reason my config is huge is because I dislike customize and prefer setting options via code.
by diffeomorphism | 2025-11-03 11:58:41+00:00
The post title should probably start with "Show HN:".

What kind of security guarantees do you have?

It seems to meet that your "problem" usually is unanswered on purpose:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

This has access to sensitive knowledge, tool use and exfiltration. So, the tech seems nice, but I doubt I could ever get permission to deploy this.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-03 12:01:03+00:00
Indeed, all info is good as long as you check the intended/implicit bias if nothing else it's indicative of what they want you to think about something.

For me I draw the line at military systems (though given the type of programming I do not really relevant) and gambling systems (which actually has come up before and was a lot more money but I decided that me looking in the mirror and liking the person looking back mattered more) - I don't presume to judge other people for it though, it's my personal choice.
by pdimitar | 2025-11-03 12:02:33+00:00
Reading comments like yours makes me realise that I should just leave commercial programming and never come back. Your framing is terrifying.

You know why? I am not saying that what you said does not make sense. Of course it does make sense, financially so. But! You the manager one day come to me and my team and say "How could we allow to have 7TB of unused memory sitting around and we paid for it?!" and we'll then have multiple follow-up meetings where we'll be scolded and "trained" how to avoid things like this. We'll get sent articles and told to improve.

And believe me when I tell you, _all_ the techies in these meetings want to roll their eyes through it all. Because many of them likely asked "Can I take a closer look at our infra, it seems expensive and we can potentially optimise it?" and were said no by managers like yourself.

As an engineer you just can't win. So I don't blame myself or any other techie who sometimes goes cowboy mode to find such problems without asking.

Finally, "my contribution for the month" is technological work and nothing else. If I wanted to be a cofounder or have a seat in the board so I have fiduciary duty, I would have said so. It's your job as a manager to put this barrier between stakeholders and front soldiers so the latter can do their thing without disruption, so the organisation can succeed.

Are you doing your job well?
by klntsky | 2025-11-03 12:02:57+00:00
I wish there was a way to have undo/redo like when using pushState, but without polluting history. There is no separate "serializable state" API that is not tied to a URL. I could use LocalStorage, but I want to have multiple states in different tabs, persistent across reloads. Maybe storing "tab IDs" in URLs and state in LocalStorage is a good idea.
by cluckindan | 2025-11-03 12:02:59+00:00
That example is particularly fishy. The truthiness of a statement is not part of the statement itself, so any explicitly stated truth value is not inconsistent with truthiness, rather it is meaningless.

It’s like saying

bool isTrue = true; bool isProvable = false; bool isTrueAndProvable = isTrue && isProvable; // false
by Jotalea | 2025-11-03 12:03:13+00:00
tl;dr: the site for this app has been down more than usual these last months. the company owners are already in their late ages. [anonymous] has been doing some maintenance to the site, but [they] don't seem to have enough access to the company's resources. OP has offered help on managing the app, updating it to add more features, maintaining the site/forum, etc. many times, for free, but got no response. with no official announcement, the situation is unclear.
by dan-robertson | 2025-11-03 12:03:23+00:00
IMO university in the U.K. feels expensive because (a) most people rarely have to directly pay for anything particularly expensive (house, wedding, maybe a car, not much else) so there is little grounding; (b) the British economy is in a poor state and no one has any money; (c) the ‘student loan’ phrasing is unhelpful; and (d) all the universities charge home students the same rate so none are really trying to justify their fees.

£9-10k a year sounds like a lot but it is eg not that far off the amortized cost of the various computer hardware I use for development at work. Similarly, the maintenance loans tend to be much lower than typical living costs for someone with a job but they were sufficient when I was a student. Maybe I was particularly fortunate as a student or I have a particularly expensive development environment at work.

I do think the dependence on foreign student fees is bad. Part of this is the government cutting funding massively and part is terrible management of the student visa system – universities should not have been allowed to be a backdoor way of paying for a U.K. visa as this hurt the legitimate use of the system.

When I was a student not so long ago but before the recent REF/funding/immigration changes, the international students (typically from the EU paying home fees, but also those from outside the EU paying full tuition) were clearly very able, often more so than home students. The most suspiciously moronic students seemed to be on de facto sports scholarships.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-03 12:03:45+00:00
The reason I linked to articles about Stephen Miller is a) because I mentioned him in this thread and how central he is to what is going on and b) because those articles explain what is going on and the baseless processes that have been put in place that see people snatched off the street on the basis of ethnicity alone and locked up in immigration centres far from their families and lawyers.

Now if you want to continue sea-lioning, pick someone else.

God help the USA if this eyes-closed standard of avoidance is commonplace.
by koito17 | 2025-11-03 12:04:21+00:00
I've been using katex-rs, a Rust rewrite, to implement LaTeX rendering for a Rust web app. It was easy enough to hook into pulldown_cmark, so that $ and $$ and render a decent subset of LaTeX. Since pulldown_cmark is a proper Markdown parser, you listen for Event::InlineMath and Event::DisplayMath then call KaTeX directly. No regex or HTML escaping necessary. In my web app, this is all encapsulated into a single function that I can call within Tera templates. It's as SSR as it gets; no Node.js or client-side JavaScript necessary.

The costliest asset is a minified stylesheet served through a CDN. (I do this out of laziness, and because the web app as-is needs nothing more than the standard Rust toolchain).

https://github.com/katex-rs/katex-rs
by ludicrousdispla | 2025-11-03 12:04:21+00:00
They have an inner and outer set of moving sidewalks as the loading area for one of the Harry Potter Universal Orlando rides (the one in Hogwart's Castle.) It's extremely disorienting at first but they have lots of staff moving people into the seats, so no one ends up hitting the walls.

We were casually waiting in line for a while, then suddenly we were led into the area to get onto the ride and had a 'holy shit, they're serious about this one' moment.

Edit: the Universal Hollywood ride doesn't seem to have this (as of 2024), so I'm not sure if the Orlando one still does.
by codebje | 2025-11-03 12:04:28+00:00
That's the "carry phantom types around" option, but it only gets you so far. If you never need to compute with the term, it's enough (see https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...).

You could use statically sized arrays, but if you can't have the static sizes of the arrays as your type parameters, but instead some arbitrary M and N, the size of your data structure isn't part of your type and you don't get the statically verified safety benefits. You also can't express M + N or anything of the sort.

Neither C++ nor Rust really hurt for expressivity, though.
by rahen | 2025-11-03 12:05:14+00:00
Lisp didn’t really disappear, symbolic AI did.

Lisp was ideal for reasoning systems, its homoiconic and meta-programmable nature is perfect for manipulating symbolic structures and logic. But when AI shifted toward numerical learning with neural networks, tensors, and GPU computation, Lisp’s strengths mattered less, and Python became the new glue for C/CUDA libraries like NumPy, PyTorch and TensorFlow.

Still, nothing prevents Lisp from coming back. It would actually fit modern deep learning well if a "LispTorch" with a CUDA FFI existed. We would have macros for dynamic graph generation, functional composition of layers, symbolic inspection, interactive REPL exploration, automatic model rewriting etc.

We almost had it once: Yann LeCun’s SN (the first CNN) was built on a C core with a Lisp interpreter on top to define, develop and inspect the network. It eventually evolved into Lush, essentially "Lisp for neural networks", which in turn inspired Torch and later PyTorch.

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1944504502260003296?lang=en

So Lisp didn't die in AI, it's just waiting for the right people to realize its potential for modern neural networks and bring it back. Jank in particular will probably be a good contender for a LispTorch.

https://github.com/jank-lang/jank
by dlisboa | 2025-11-03 12:06:23+00:00
> I like that idea as it means yiu are more likely to host a party. It is also less expensive to do so.

Yeah, you're expected to help in some way. The idea being that a party at someone's house is likely an inconvenience to that person so if you want more of that to happen you should make sure the host feels barely any pain. Even if you don't bring anything to the party you should be helping place the table, carrying furniture, doing dishes...something.

People who don't help at all aren't well perceived and will probably not be invited again.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-03 12:06:24+00:00
They are vital in part because the universities increased spending to match the revenue they got from international students - i.e. when you can eat a lot you get fat.

Vice chancellors earn salaries that are often multiples of what the prime minister earns and pay at the senior levels is scaled from that - at the same time they take advantage of people who are full time academics at the start of their careers.

The whole system is old, creaky and probably needs widespread reform but it also won't get it until external factors force it.
by einszwei | 2025-11-03 12:06:41+00:00
> Poolside partnered with CoreWeave to build one of the largest data centres

Nvidia has a backstop deal with Coreweave [1]. I am sure this is all above board but seeing how these giants all have incestuous relationship with each other makes me uneasy about putting money in the markets.

[1]:https://www.reuters.com/business/coreweave-nvidia-sign-63-bi...
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-03 12:06:49+00:00
You can't. Tomatoes - no matter what the 24/7/365 availability of tomatoes in supermarkets leads one to believe - are a seasonal fruit so you could only do this around summer anyway, and the price difference to account for large quantities of the shipment going bad would be way too large to compete with growhouse tomatoes. You'd need to establish and tear down supply chains just for the few months of summer, not worth it.
by thelastgallon | 2025-11-03 12:07:00+00:00
> This is awesome. Lighter motors also make electric flight more viable

The next innovation we need is Aerial refueling[1] for electric planes. High density swappable batteries and high altitude wind/solar plants that can swap batteries mid air. Perhaps some billionaire will develop a large fleet of these to service all flights! If no western billionaires, we just have to wait for China to develop this tech.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_refueling
by wbn | 2025-11-03 12:07:15+00:00
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by jFriedensreich | 2025-11-03 12:07:31+00:00
I am confused this article does not talk about taint tracking. If state was mutated by an agent with untrustworthy input the taint would transfer to the state, making it untrustworthy input too, so the reasoning of the original trifecta with taint tracking is more general and practical. I am also also investigating the direction of tracking taints as scores rather than binary as most use cases would otherwise be impossible to do at all autonomous. Eg. with sensitivity scores to data, trust scores to inputs (that can be improved by eg. human review). One important limit that needs way more research is how to transfer the minimal needed information from a tainted context into an untainted fresh context without transferring all the taints. The only solution i currently have is by compaction and human review, if possible aided with schema enforcement and optimised UI for the use case. This unfortunately cannot solve encoded information that humans cannot see, but it seems that issue will never be solvable outside alignment research.

PS: An example how scores are helpful: Using browser tab titles in the context would by definition have the worst trust score possible. But truncating titles to only the user-visible parts could lower this to acceptable for autonomous execution if the data was just mildly sensitive.
Metaverse in 2026
by Jsttan | 2025-11-03 12:08:18+00:00
Hello everyone! A few years ago, Metaverse was like the next big things, however based on my recent research, I noticed that it is mostly a failure, if not direct massive failure.

However, I am still a little enthusiastic about the metaverse, so I would like to ask, do you think any metaverse project will be a success in 2026?

I am thinking of creating one based on the web, however using Codex to make a demo make the design look very complex and hard to build, so I would like to ask, do you guys it is worth it to do in 2026? Love to hear opinions from everyone here.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-03 12:08:29+00:00
The wrongs of religion throughout history are typically exaggerated in modern times and the Spanish Inquisition is one of the best examples of this. It lasted more than 350 years and during this 350 years a very high-end estimate of executions is 5000. So the death toll from it ranges probably from one person every ~3 months to one person every month. [1]

So for some comparison, 2-5x more people die in the US of lightning strikes each year than died during the Spanish Inquisition per year. Obviously any death is undesirable, but describing it as a horrific mass-murder is hyperbolic. It was rather more a mass public shaming campaign like the Chinese Struggle Sessions, but many orders of magnitude smaller in scale.

For that matter even the Mayans were likely sacrificing people on a far larger scale. We lack exact numbers but know that they did group sacrifice, often of children, and that this was regularly done when building new structures, or for hopes of a good crop season and the like. And I think the thing that makes human sacrifice particularly primitive in its nature is that obviously doesn't work. Whether you killed a dozen kids or not has no bearings on how your crops grow. And so they would have to, over centuries, continue to reject the evidence before their eyes.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_toll...
by oaiey | 2025-11-03 12:08:47+00:00
I do not know why people still think Tesla is a unique company. They are a regular car company now. Nothing more, nothing less. Yes, they disrupted the market and the reward is a standalone, viable car company. That is a huge achievement. But their disruption and uniqueness is gone. The rest of the car industry woke up and all are producing many more EV variants and EV cars in total.