MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by avalys | 2025-11-05 19:50:03+00:00
> IMHO, this is a perfect example why the government needs to regulate prices in safety-critical industries. The "race to the bottom" must be prevented - sorry, flying NYC-SFO for 70$, that's not sustainable.

This is nonsense. Commercial aviation is already ridiculously, insanely safe and has been for decades. Your proposed solution would not have done anything to prevent the one major accident in the past 15 years of commercial aviation in the US, which was caused by a military helicopter pilot violating an ATC restriction in complex airspace, not a maintenance issue.

What evidence do you have that "NYC-SFO for $70" is not sustainable? From March 2009 to December 2024 years in the US, the fatality rate in commercial aviation was 0.4 per passenger-light-year. That's nearly 15 years of operation with the foreign repair stations that you are accusing of putting profits before safety.

This is, like, the most ridiculous industry possible to demand more regulation of.
by alexsngai | 2025-11-05 19:50:46+00:00
yes! sudocode manages agents at different levels of abstraction. You can steer agents at the `spec` level by building up a spec that contains your intent and requirements, then generate `issues` that capture the implementation details. However you aren't limited to that pattern. You can also just manage agents at the `issue` level to better manage their execution state (think something like a kanban board).

In general, sudocode aims to preserve some of this implementation/planning state (context-as-code) in your codebase so it isn't lost in your chat logs. Keeping this context in your repo makes it accessible to coding agents long after code changes were made, so it functions as a sort of episodic memory for your codebase.
by singron | 2025-11-05 19:51:11+00:00
There is a GitHub issue that details what's blocking stabilization for a each feature. I've read a few recently and noticed some patterns:

1. A high bar for quality in std

2. Dependencies on other unstable features

3. Known bugs

4. Conflicts with other unstable features

It seems anything that affects trait solving is very complicated and is more likely to have bugs or combine non-trivially with other trait-solving features.

I think there is also some sampling bias. Tons of features get stabilized, but you are much more likely to notice a nightly feature that is unstable for a long time and complex enough to be excited about.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-05 19:51:31+00:00
You might get, in a somewhat politically homogeneous community, enough people to boycott one store to make a difference, though frankly that shop might have to already strike residents as objectionable for some other reason, like its owner being a nasty person or something. But it isn’t realistic to expect people to boycott a whole shopping center. That’s why political organizing to enact regulation that can side-step consumer choice, is a (slightly) more realistic option.
by ebbi | 2025-11-05 19:51:33+00:00
If you're not too worried about warranty etc, you could buy an old 5k iMac and convert that to work as an external display. I've converted a dozen now - highly recommend! If you aim for a 2017+ year model, you'll have a pretty reliable display. The 2015 models tend to have issues with red banding on the edges which gets super annoying when using a text editor with white UI.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-11-05 19:52:07+00:00
Pretty much yes. From Saas to authentication systems to OS to chips. The EU infra is entirely dependent on the US. All documents, emails, chat messages, and most forms of storage are directly or indirectly linked to an American service.

On top of that, the US can update it all remotely, including the hardware now thanks to things like intel ME.

Let's hope we never get into a conflict with them, because even without bombs, they can basically shut us down with a few keystrokes: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/the-eu-can-be-shut-down-with-a-fe...

Or at least have everything they need to develop such a capability. And it's not like the current people in power care much about alienating other countries.
by geor9e | 2025-11-05 19:52:09+00:00
I can find extreme Nvidia puts on robinhood for 2 cents right now. So risking ~$2 of actual money gets you ~$20,000 notional 13F value.

So the claim "$187.6 million in puts on Nvidia" potentially means "Burry risked a total of $18,760 betting against Nvidia" in reality.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-11-05 19:52:35+00:00
`brew install dillo` on Macs (and see [0] for other platforms)

and then `dillo` starts up a 1.1Mb executable that is so freaking, shockingly fast.

TIL I also learned that although the Google homepage renders beautifully, I need to "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching" [1]

Wow, Google Maps is even snarky-ish about it: "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." (that's what appears! for real)

I mean, what was I expecting. U+1F643.

[0] https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/blob/master/doc/insta...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1i3njv0/google_begi...
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-05 19:52:46+00:00
> But let's say they do. Identical brains, identical inputs = identical qualia. What differentiates both consciousnesses?

I'll start with this, because it should help with the other item. We know there are two identical consciousnesses exactly because they are separate in spacetime. That is, while I can send the same input to both and get the same mind, that's not the interesting thing. The interesting thing is that I also can send different inputs, and then I'll get different minds. If it really were a single consciousness, that would be impossible. For example, you can't feed me both pure redness and pure greenness at the same time, so I am a single consciousness.

Here is where we get back to the first item: if we accepted that qualia are not localized in spacetime, we'd have to accept that there is no difference between me experiencing redness and you experiencing redness. Even if you consider that your qualia are separate from my own because of our different contexts, that still doesn't fully help: perhaps two different beings on two different planets happen to lead identical lives up to some point when a meteorite hits one of the planets and gravely injures one of their bodies. Would you say that there was a single consciousness that both bodies shared, but that it suddenly split once the meteorite hit?

Now, that is a valid position to take, in some sense. But then that means that consciousness is not continuous in any way, in your view. The day the meteorite hit planet A is not special in any way for planet B. So, if the single consciousness that planet A and planet B shared stopped that day, only to give rise to two different consciousnesses, that means that this same phenomenon must happen every day, and in fact at every instant of time. So, we now must accept that any feeling of time passing must be a pure illusion, since my consciousness now is a completely different consciousness than then one that experienced the previous minute. While this is a self-consistent definition, it's much more alien than the alternative - where we would accept that consciousness is tied in spacetime to its substrate.
by entropicdrifter | 2025-11-05 19:52:53+00:00
That's so far from my personal idea of "running it till the wheels fall off" that your comment genuinely reads like a parody of an out of touch wealthy person trying to justify their wild spending habits.

I've been using the same PC that I built in 2013 continuously since then. Every four or five years or so I'll buy one part in the $500 range to keep it updated. It's currently got a Ryzen 7800X3D, 32GB DDR5, and a Radeon RX 6700XT, so it's easily outperforming a brand new $3000 Macbook Pro in most workloads that I actually care about.

My initial investment in it was $1200. My total investment over the last 12 years has been about $3000.

Buying disposable computers simply does not make any financial sense to me.
by nivethan | 2025-11-05 19:53:25+00:00
I work on a bunch of Pick systems :) Love it all and we're still doing active development. (Feel free to send me an e-mail, we pick up orphaned systems)

If anyone wants to take a look, here are some links:

Open source version: https://github.com/geneb/ScarletDME

The last version of true pick: https://github.com/Krowemoh/R83
by dpark | 2025-11-05 19:53:36+00:00
I disagree. The world is under no obligation to cater to a tiny minority who self-select into reduced-functionality experiences.

It’s fine for you to turn off JS. It’s also fine for developers to require JS. Software has had minimum system requirements forever. I can’t run Android apps on my Palm Pilot from 2002 either and no one is obligated to make them work for me.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-05 19:53:46+00:00
There really aren't that many people working on the compiler. It's mostly volunteers.

The structure is unlike a traditional company. In a traditional company, the managers decide the priorities and direct the employees what to work on while facilitating that work. While there are people with a more managerial type position working on rust compiler, their job is not to tell the volunteers what to work on (they cannot), but instead to help the volunteers accomplish whatever it is they want to do.

I don't know about std::simd specifically, but for many features, it's simply a case of "none of the very small number of people working on the rust compiler have prioritized it".

I do wish there was a bounty system, where people could say "I really want std::simd so I'll pay $5,000 to the rust foundation if it gets stabilized". If enough people did that I'm sure they could find a way to make it happen. But I think realistically, very few people would be willing to put up even a cent for the features they want. I hear a lot of people wishing for better const generics, but only 27 people have set up a donation to boxy (lead of the const generics group https://github.com/sponsors/BoxyUwU ).
by Arcanum-XIII | 2025-11-05 19:53:56+00:00
I used a "modern" app written in Cincom Smalltalk this year (still maintain and sold a high price), and you don't see the underlying system. Like you don't see the source code when opening any other app, in fact. The app resets the state at startup, so no lingering eternal session.

It's funny because in the past I got the chance to test izware Mirai, which is written in Lisp — when the app got into a problematic state (which was often on my machine) you were sent to the REPL where you could inspect the memory and so on. It was alien to me at the time. Today I dream of having that.
by mothballed | 2025-11-05 19:54:06+00:00
ACA without subsidies is a regressive tax due to the price differential cap from young to old. It's a wealth transfer from younger/poorer people to older/wealthier people still on private insurance. Health risks track most closely with being older and thus on average wealthier.

It's just the people that have tricked you, have used statistical correlation and cover of pre-existing condition to hide the fact what they're actually doing is robbing from the poorer to subsidize the richer.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-11-05 19:54:08+00:00
Taking performative actions you are certain will fail unnoticed is a waste of energy. I most certainly didn’t advise doing nothing, this seems like a hyperbolic take that ignores what I suggested was more impactful. By extension, encouraging others to take those actions is productive and there are other actions I didn’t enumerate that are productive - I didn’t intend to be exhaustive in all actions that could be productive, just that this specific action of commenting on their preordained policy decisions is pointless. I don’t see any argument here that in any way refutes that so I assume you agree.
by Ardon | 2025-11-05 19:54:21+00:00
Might be useful to ask a different question: What makes people happy?

It's things like relationships, satisfying work, accomplishment. (and many, many more)

Then the real question emerges: How many of those happiness 'sources' are made better by intelligence? What percentage?

Relationships? Seems like no. Work? Also seems like no, lots of work doesn't make use of a high IQ that people enjoy nonetheless. Accomplishment? Strikes me as most likely of the three, but it's also very relative.

And another thought,

Asking why smart people aren't happier is a bit like asking why people who can jump high aren't more empathetic. There's no direct link between the two, you have to dip out to the material conditions. Like: someone who can jump high is fitter > fitter people are healthier > healthier people have more mental time to be empathetic with > people who can jump high are more empathetic. For intelligence, we say smart people are happier. Same thing, happiness is not directly correlated. Instead: Smart people are better able to create the outcomes they want > They select outcomes that make them happy > Their environment makes them happy > Smart people are happier. (These are illustrations of the idea, not actual logical chains or claims.)
by palmotea | 2025-11-05 19:54:21+00:00
> > UX absolutely peaked with TUIs several decades ago.

> I'm going to push back a little on that. For several years, MacOS followed a strong UX convention with consistent keyboard shortcuts, menus, layout order, and more. Similarly, Microsoft started with the same, but with everything reversed. At the time, most major cross-platform apps followed these conventions.

I used Mac OS during that era. While in many ways it was better than the GUIs we have now, using the mouse was an absolute must, which prevented it from ever getting as efficient as a TUI. Yes there were keyboard shortcuts, but they were never sufficient to use the machine or any application without a mouse. Also they had to be completely memorized to be useful.
by bm3719 | 2025-11-05 19:54:27+00:00
Because we're intersubjective beings. Difference in intelligence level alienates one from the other. Past two standard deviations, anything like a "meeting of minds" becomes impossible. The only mutual interactions past that delta are economic ones (money exchanged for goods/services).

Hegel declared the Cartesian cognito can't exist in the singular. Lacan, Deleuze, Husserl, and many others said the same, that the subject is a function of its dialectic with the other. Dasein is Mitsein. There is no complete subject, floating in space by himself. Without an other, the subject cannot exist, at best becoming an object, at worst psychotic. Either way, isolation is a process towards annihilation.

If you're smart, find other smart people for authentic interaction. Likewise if you're not smart, though the problem there is easier for statistical reasons. Find them, turn off your parasocial pacifiers, and talk. You'll know it when you've found someone compatible, because you'll be able to emulate their mind, and they yours. It's not just a nice to have, but a need, a necessary component for survival. Without it, the sane you will cease to be, replaced by a zombie or a madman.
by throw0101d | 2025-11-05 19:54:42+00:00
> You can't disallow hole punching.

Try doing it over a network that only allows connections through a SOCKS/Squid proxy, or on a network that uses CG-NAT (i.e., double-NAT).

See also:

> UDP hole punching will not work with symmetric NAT devices (also known as bi-directional NAT) which tend to be found in large corporate networks. In symmetric NAT, the NAT's mapping associated with the connection to the known STUN server is restricted to receiving data from the known server, and therefore the NAT mapping the known server sees is not useful information to the endpoint.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching#Overview
by noir_lord | 2025-11-05 19:54:42+00:00
In part though that's not because all those users can't afford >1080p because some of them can it's that insanely high refresh rate monitors and esports players often use 1080p at >300Hz - even the ones without still use 1080p because driving up the frame rate drives down the input latency.

Whether it matters is a bigger issue, 30 to 60Hz I notice a huge difference, 60 to 144Hz@4K I can't tell but I'm old and don't play esports games.
by crowbahr | 2025-11-05 19:54:43+00:00
> Increasing supply brings down prices. But a builder will not build at a loss or an imminent threat to their rental income from expansion of rent freezes. > > A city with an expanding rent-freeze is not inviting new supply.

Builders build rent stabilized housing ("affordable apartments") in tandem with market rate unsubsidized units. There is an enormous backlog of development proposals that the city council has been sitting on for a while now. Vacancy rates in NYC are 1.4%. anything under 5% is defined as a critical housing shortage.

New housing is in such extreme demand that people pay $5k/mo for a shoebox.
by rodarima | 2025-11-05 19:54:47+00:00
Maintainer here.

We are currently in the process of moving Dillo away from GitHub:

- New website (nginx): https://dillo-browser.org/

- Repositories (C, cgit): https://git.dillo-browser.org/

- Bug tracker (C, buggy): https://bug.dillo-browser.org/

They should survive HN hug.

The CI runs on git hooks and outputs the logs to the web (private for now).

All services are very simple and work without JS, so Dillo can be developed fully within Dillo itself.

During this testing period I will continue to sync the GitHub git repository, but in the future I will probably mark it as archived.

See also:

- https://fosstodon.org/@dillo/114927456382947046

- https://fosstodon.org/@dillo/115307022432139097
by csense | 2025-11-05 19:55:20+00:00
This applies to any company, doesn't it?

Your home country can tell you "Give us your data" and you have to comply.

"I will never give up customer data" is a very tough promise to keep, if the government threatens you with your business license being revoked, your servers and domains being forcibly seized by the police, and you personally going to jail.

(Under the current US administration, we can add "A close examination of the immigration status of all foreign nationals employed by your company, followed by probable deportation or jail" to the list of potential consequences for resisting the government.)
by palmotea | 2025-11-05 19:55:43+00:00
> Times have changed. Priorities have changed.

I think what actually happened was technology changed. GUIs became possible, and therefore most designers made GUIs without much if any thought (because many assume newer == better). Now you'd be hard pressed to even build a TUI, since most know only how to build GUIs and all the tools are GUI focused.

> In the modern days, attrition is much higher, especially in retail. You need to focus on discoverability and simplifying training as much as possible. Efficiency is secondary at best.

That sounds like a post-hoc justification. Also higher attrition doesn't just happen like the weather. Deliberate decisions lead to it.
by Lammy | 2025-11-05 19:56:01+00:00
No, it's funny because of the way they feel the need to glaze Apple over doing something Apple are required to do. Very transparent way to avoid writing a headline that is entirely negative about the company these people base their identity around. It really doesn't bear mentioning at all that they will beat the deadline by, like, a week at most.

If anything it should be mentioned in the opposite way, calling out that Apple took as long as possible as an obvious way to spite the requirement, with the week-or-so wiggle room being a buffer in case of a disastrously bad release that might need to be recalled for some reason.
by bnug | 2025-11-05 19:56:07+00:00
Yeah, I was just thinking of a very popular bar that I would go to about 15 years ago that was operated on very simple touch screens with large UI buttons. The bartenders could enter drinks & the tab it goes on very fast. It wasn't flashy, but very simple large buttons that always pop up in the same place very quickly, so they definitely had some muscle-memory going on for navigating it.
by geor9e | 2025-11-05 19:56:09+00:00
>The option price itself is not that meaningful.

It is the most meaningful thing. It's the exact amount of money you are risking. It's the exact amount you lose if it doesn't strike. If I buy a put for $2, the most I can lose is $2. It's meaningful even with no other information.

13F notional value, on the other hand, is meaningless without more info.
What is the best way to find gaps in market to fill?
by jaidev7823 | 2025-11-05 19:56:58+00:00
Confused what problem to solve in past i have create 4 consumer apps and failed the only time i made money when i was working as freelancer or at job thinking b2b could be better business where i can really money.

But confuse what problem to solve. Is calling/dm/gmail to random manager, hr or any staff can help?
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-05 19:56:58+00:00
The problem isn't that they accommodate touch screens, but that they do so at the expense of keyboard and mouse users, and then they push these changes to GTK in a way where keyboard-and-mouse interfaces become clunkier and GTK-developed UIs become very hard to integrate with other desktop environments.

Firefox has definitely been affected by this. The hamburger button is a touch paradigm which makes no sense on a large desktop screen with a mouse and keyboard-control scheme. It only serves to add more clicks to every interaction. Likewise the reduction of the scrollbar to a scroll indicator.

I was sad when Gnome 2 became Gnome 3 because I really liked Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 was broken. Then I moved on, but where ever I went insanity from the Gnome project kept leaking and making UIs worse.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-05 19:57:35+00:00
Unless you’ve been a hermit or homeless for the entirety of your life, just about anyone can get your SSN from Accurint or TLO for a few bucks.

Sure, in theory Accurint and TLO do KYC. In practice you can find tons of people on various crime forums offering those lookups for a few dollars a pop.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-05 19:57:48+00:00
Same feeling here. Dental seems particularly fraught (though maybe I just pay more attention to it out of interest). I know the cycle time between press releases/hype and actual application can be the better part of a decade, so I assume that's coloring my perception too.

re: dental in particular - It seems like enamel regeneration and stem-cell-based tooth replacement have both been in the news year-after-year without applications actually coming to market.
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-11-05 19:57:56+00:00
When I write to an unknown audience, unable to know in advance what terms they rely on, I tend to circumlocute to build emotional subtext. They might only get some percent but it may be familiar enough terms to act as middleware to the rest.

The words Man, father, and grapefruit aren't essential to existence of man, father, grapefruit. All existed before language.

What you mean by "human experience" is "bird song my culture uses to describe shared space". Leave meaning to be debated in meat space and include the current geometry of the language in the model. Just make it mutable.

The machine can just focus on rendering geometry to the pixel limit of the machine using electrical theory; it doesn't need to care internally if it's text with meaning. It's only represented like that on the screen anyway. Compress the information required to just geometric representation and don't anthropomorphize machine state manipulation.