MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrandish | 2025-11-12 17:58:38+00:00
+1 for that Acasis. I've had one for 18 months and use it for occasional >1TB backups and big transfers to/from a Dell XPS laptop running Winx64. I benchmarked it with DiskMark64 and speeds are as expected for 40Gbps-class xfer.

It was much cheaper to order the laptop with the smallest stock Dell NVME (512GB generic) and immediately upgrade it myself to a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro. The external enclosure made the upgrade much quicker and the savings more than paid for the enclosure plus I got a faster 4TB NVMe than the generic stock Dell NVME 4TB for less money.
by zahlman | 2025-11-12 17:58:46+00:00
> and yeah, he definitely did carry such implication.

I have read through it many times. Such inferences require wilful misinterpretation.

If you disagree, please feel free to email me for further discussion. I use this username, on the Proton email service (specifically the one with a two-letter TLD).

> Hiding it through quoting bad science doesn't aid his cause.

The science he cited is not bad; it is well accepted in the relevant fields. For example, the "people vs things orientation" point is general knowledge in the field; it's a highly reproducible result with one of the largest effect sizes in all of behavioural science (see e.g. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-..., section 2).

> He's a racist and a sexist

The memo does not describe, or attempt to describe, any form of racial difference, whether hypothetical or measured. The only mentions of race are in reference to the existing Google policy, which is unavoidable insofar as that policy explicitly takes race into consideration. There is not even a remotely plausible basis for describing anything written here as racist, and you reasonably ought to understand this from your claimed "in-depth" reading.

> he's just good at doing in a quasi-grey area,

There is nothing "quasi-grey" about it except among people who are looking for a reason to misinterpret it. As an objective matter of fact he did not say the harmful things attributed to him.

> so that other racists can rally behind him. It's effectively the alt-right playbook, as the alt-right is just a "more commercially friendly KKK".

This is completely unfounded assassination of character which does nothing except to reveal your own biases.
by afavour | 2025-11-12 17:58:57+00:00
> The United States is the only country that prints all denominations of currency in the same size. The US and Switzerland are the only two countries that use the same colors for all of their various bills. Needless to say, this sameness of size and color make it impossible for a blind person to locate the correct bills to make a purchase without some sort of assistance, or confirm that he or she has been given the correct change by the sales clerk. Even people with partial sight may have trouble distinguishing a $1 bill from a $10, especially if the bill is old and worn.

https://afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/ac...
by jsunderland323 | 2025-11-12 17:59:09+00:00
> How are you planning to acquire customers?

We haven't gotten much further than just launching and praying.

> Is this sponsored by yc?

I mean we're a YC portfolio company, so sort of I guess. I used to work at YC, so I suppose YC has been sponsoring me for a while now.

> Who are the target audience?

React developers

> Are the target audience companies or businesses or individuals?

Both, I hope. We definitely went more along the lines of supporting individual developers spiritually but there is no reason it shouldn't work if you have colleagues.

> Congratulations

<3 Thanks so much!
by immibis | 2025-11-12 17:59:28+00:00
You don't get access to the decryption code nor the keys - both are hardwired in silicon.

We'll eventually be able to reverse-engineer that and run it programmatically, but it will take a long time.

And when they catch you doing so, they'll ban your (personalized) encryption key so you'll just have to buy another graphics card to get another key.

This is how it already works, not some future thing. But the licensing fees make it so it only gets used for Hollywood-level movies.
by revicon | 2025-11-12 18:00:17+00:00
There are several US states where, by law, retailers are not allowed to give preferential treatment to credit card paying customers over cash paying ones. Which means, in those states, retailers will be required to always round transactions to the cash paying customer's benefit, where in other states the retailer is allowed to round to the nearest 5 cents. This is going to cost large retailers millions.

Interestingly many of them had already put the work into updating the cash register software to allow for this due to the penny shortages during covid.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-12 18:00:18+00:00
This. Stop in a dumb way and a garbage truck bumps you on a city street and it's no big deal. Applying a bunch of brake at the wrong time and you could easily cause a newsworthy sized (and therefore public scrutiny sized) accident.

The real public isn't an internet comment section. Having your PR people spew statements about "well, other people have an obligation to use safe following distances" is unlikely to get you off the hook.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-12 18:00:23+00:00
Those constraints apply to humans too. So it seems likely that:

- it's easier to get to human levels of safety on freeways then on streets

- it's much harder to get to an order of magnitude better than humans on freeways than it is on streets

Freeways are significantly safer than streets when humans are driving, so "as good as humans" may be acceptable there.
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 18:00:35+00:00
> Giving up just ensures that your voice and values certainly won’t be heard.

It won't be heard anyway. It is a fiction that I as a fucking nobody can affect anything in any meaningful manner. It is a delusion that is sold to people so they believe that they have a voice.

The only thing I might be able to do is stop other people from wasting their time.

> But I guess it’s comfortable enough for you still so there is little reason to get active. Soon it won’t be so comfortable anymore also for you, by then it will be too late to speak up.

What you are doing is essentially a guilt trip. I don't want to spend possibly the rest of my life on a political project.

> It’s laughable that you think nothing has changed in the last 50 years politically.

No it isn't. Go back 40-50 years (1970s) and look at TV, docs, news reports etc. Many of the same issues are being discussed in pretty the same way word for word. I have read stuff about the Roman Empire where it seems people were making political arguments that sounded very similar to what is heard today. The human condition is constant throughout all of recorded history.

> Not so recently they were still putting people to death by the hundreds of thousands in my country and I’m sure as shit not gonna let it happen again, even if it’s a bit cringe for you to witness resistance to facism

I've heard this melodramatic nonsense my entire life. The Nazis and Fascists are gone, the few that remain are completely irrelevant. I was told George Bush was Hitler 2.0 back in the early 2000s. These days people talk about his bad paintings.
by simoncion | 2025-11-12 18:01:09+00:00
Accurate timekeeping is critical infrastructure. So much so, that the US government operates many radio stations whose sole purpose is to provide current time announcements, reference clocks, and other timekeeping-related information. See [0].

Relatedly: surely you're not of the opinion that the various GPS constellations are not critical infrastructure?

[0] <https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-se...>
by throwup238 | 2025-11-12 18:01:12+00:00
It’s more complicated than that because several (most?) states have contradictory laws about impeding traffic. It can technically be illegal to drive at (or below) the speed limit because it creates an unsafe environment for all the other cars on the road that are driving faster, even if they’re all breaking the legal speed limit.

It’s not a viable defense if you get a ticket for speeding but in practice the speed limit is really the prevailing speed of traffic plus X mph, where X adjusted for the state. I.e. in my experience Texas is more strict about the speed limit even on their desolate highways, LA is about 10 mph faster than San Francisco, in Seattle it depends on the weather, you’ll never hit the speed limit in New York anyway, and in Florida you just say the gator ate the officer who pulled you over.
by dismantlethesun | 2025-11-12 18:01:56+00:00
I think there's an opportunity here for small businesses who typically don't have a lot of people managing them.

I run a resturaunt. Resturaunt software (POS, scheduling, table reservations) has many saas solutions, but I've personally seen these problems:

- POS requires cellular for some legal reason, but celluar connection is poor inside a mall

- Power goes out, backup services bring cell networks & fiber back online but not in a uniform manner so service is slow and the Saas times out too quickly to be used

- 2 factor auth won't work because cell systems are degraded

And in all these cases, there wasn't a good reason for the software to be fully online. The usage was by 1 or 2 managers and they all shared the same computer located inside the business.
by throw0101d | 2025-11-12 18:02:28+00:00
So Obama wanted to wanted to ban the penny, but it was deemed illegal to do so and efforts to get rid of the law requiring it did not pass:

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/10/trump-us-mi...

* https://www.local3news.com/obama-wants-to-retire-the-penny-b...

It's not that keeping the penny around is (necessarily) a good idea, but that there are, you know, laws, and people (including the President and cabinet folks) should kind of follow those laws. So has the law been amended to not require the minting of the penny anymore?

* https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-order-scrap-penny-make-cent...

* https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292082/trump-penny-min...

Is there some 'new interpretation' that has been 'found' that allows Sec. Treasury to not mint pennies? Or is this change one made by fiat / executive order?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_debate_in_the_United_Sta...

There's only semi-consideration been given to this; the retailers want official rules passed on how round should be done

* https://www.rila.org/focus-areas/finance/main-street-busines...

For example, one subtly:

> Ensure rounding for cash customers does not violate terms of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The SNAP program sensibly requires that SNAP customers cannot be treated differently than other customers.2 These provisions prohibit treating SNAP customers less favorably or more favorably than other customers. That means that rounding the price of food for a cash customer in either direction risks creating a violation of SNAP regulations for stores that participate in the SNAP program.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-11-12 18:02:30+00:00
Sorry, just trying to understand.

Are you saying you invented hot reload? And a dev tools css editor?

I am confused, because the ability to edit code and have the page update instantly exists with Vite, and next.js, and a bunch of other frameworks. It’s janky at times but good enough for most - and your edits are in your repo ready to commit. And browser CSS inspectors are really great. And there’s the React DevTools if you need to see props & component hierarchy.

Can you explain the value add over all these free things we already have?
by rramadass | 2025-11-12 18:02:40+00:00
This is called the Closed World Assumption (CWA) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-world_assumption

Prolog’s Closed-World Assumption: A Journey Through Time - https://medium.com/@kenichisasagawa/prologs-closed-world-ass...

Is Prolog really based on the closed-world assumption? - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65014705/is-prolog-reall...
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-12 18:02:43+00:00
"Twice as slow" is not even slightly accurate.

If you're driving 45 in a 40, that may sound like 12% faster, but once you add traffic, lights, stop signs, turns, etc - you'll find that the 12% all but evaporates. Even if you're really pushing it and going 15 over, at most speeds and for most typical commutes, it saves very little.

Most of the time speeding ends up saving on the order of seconds on ~30 minutes or shorter trips.

Just about the only time it can be noticeable is if you're really pushing it (going to get pulled over speeds) on a nearly empty highway for a commute of 1.5+ hours.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-12 18:02:57+00:00
2. Exception resolution happens now with debit cards. The issue is still while the dispute is taking place, you don’t have access to your money. With a credit card, that’s not the case.

3. And how does that work in cases where you have a deferred payment? For instance merchants aren’t allowed to charge you for a product until it ships.

4. That’s a very bad thing. I live in a hotel [1] I see international travelers especially who may not have credit cards and the hotel puts a large hold on their cash (debit card) and they can’t use it while they are here. Even after they realize it and the manager authorizes the hold to be released as a courtesy, they still don’t have immediate access to their cash.

5. The bank is not going to ask you every time you send a payment through just like they don’t now when you use your credit card

[1] I live in a unit of a condotel. I own the condo unit like anyone else owns a condo. The difference is that most people rent them out and it’s managed by the hotel property manager. When someone stays in your unit, you split the income with the property manager. Most use it as a vacation property/second home

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp
by kazinator | 2025-11-12 18:02:57+00:00
> The amount of time we lost to trying to appease a few maintainers who were never happy with code unless they wrote it themselves was mind boggling.

That brings us full circle to the topic because one important thing that gets people motivated into accepting other people's changes to their code is being paid.

If you work in FOSS side projects as well as a proprietary day job, you know it: you accept changes at work that you wouldn't in those side projects.

In the first place, you write the code in ways you wouldn't due to conventions you disagree with, in some crap language you wouldn't use voluntarily, and so it geos.

People working on their own FOSS project want everything their way, because that's one of the benefits of working on your own FOSS project.
by dang | 2025-11-12 18:02:59+00:00
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45886217 - Nov 2025 (14 comments)

That thread didn't spend any time on the frontpage so we can treat the current post as non-dupe.
by alfiedotwtf | 2025-11-12 18:03:04+00:00
> To successfully argue that it's just perfect as a terminal emulator, I think you need to find a way to ship it in exactly that configuration.

As you know, Emacs is more of a super environment that’s personally customised to a single individual. It wouldn’t make sense to hand over a fitted suit to someone else who is twice your size of you and then say “put it on, it looks good on me”.
by spudlyo | 2025-11-12 18:03:19+00:00
> what problems are they solving

For me, it's about making a repeated workflow efficient. Sure, I could alt+tab over to my PDF viewer, figure out the range of pages I want, then switch to my terminal window, run qpdf with the right arguments to split the PDF into chunks, alt+tab over to my web browser, log into Google's AI studio, mouse over add context to the LLM, navigate a file-open dialog to find my PDF, paste in my OCR prompt, have Gemini spit out my text, press download, navigate another file-open dialog, and then open the resulting file in my editor of choice.

Instead I can open my PDF, press a few keys, and have the whole process done for me without having to think too much about it and get back to wondering if this damn verb should be in the continual/habitual, completed, or more than completed past.

> why not add it to something other than 1970s terminal text editor?

We're responding to an article entitled "The terminal of the future", and even the GUI version of Emacs is still very much rooted in the paradigm of the terminal but with some very nice improvements. I'm arguing that much of the future this article pines for is already here.
by Razengan | 2025-11-12 18:04:05+00:00
How about giving us the basic UX stuff that all other AI products have? I've been posting this ever since I first tried Claude: Let us:

* Sign in with Apple on the website

* Buy subscriptions from iOS In App Purchases

* Remove our payment info from our account before the inevitable data breach

* Give paying subscribers an easy way to get actual support

As a frequent traveller I'm not sure if some of those features are gated by region, because some people said they can do some of those things, but if that is true, then that still makes the UX worse than the competitors.
by GloamingNiblets | 2025-11-12 18:04:20+00:00
I don't have any specific knowledge about Waymo's stack, but I can confidently say Waymo's reaction time is likely poorer than an attentive human. By the time sensor data makes it through the perception stack, prediction/planning stack, and back to the controls stack, you're likely looking at >500ms. Waymos have the advantage of consistency though (they never text and drive).
by __s | 2025-11-12 18:04:23+00:00
In Ontario we have lots of 3 lane highways (we'll ignore Toronto area, where speed is limited by traffic anyways). What happens is that trucks & people getting on/off exits are in right most lane. Middle lane is everyone else, going 10-20 km/h over speed limit. Leftmost lane is people passing, or the maniacs going over 150 km/h while relying on their map system to alert them of highway patrol
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-12 18:04:35+00:00
Depends on what exactly you mean with "self-hosting". As in you can run your own dedicated servers across the world, with one or more providers, and run all the software yourself, have your own CDN. Varnish works great for that. If you're limited to "self-hosting as in hosted in my home" then yeah it gets harder. Maybe P2P/P2P-like thing could help if you're dealing with public content, like PeerTube?
by giantg2 | 2025-11-12 18:04:47+00:00
I don't think we actually can due to the physical constraints. Things like drones require chips. Chip fabs are pretty rare in the US. There is a ceiling to how much we can produce until the production infrastructure can be increased. Then look at stuff like steel production vs imports. Even if we halt consumer products, the gap is too big. Building mines and smelters can take years.
by bsamarji | 2025-11-12 18:05:30+00:00
v1.0.0: Launch of PassMan - The Secure Command-Line Password Manager

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Core Security Features:

Security is the primary feature of PassMan. This release incorporates several layers of defense:

- SQLCipher Database Encryption: Your entire vault is secured using SQLCipher, which provides 256-bit AES encryption for the underlying SQLite database file. This ensures all your data (passwords, usernames, notes) is encrypted at rest.

- Master Key Derivation (PBKDF2HMAC): Your Master Password never directly touches the database. Instead, it is used with a unique, securely stored salt and a high number of iterations (key stretching) via PBKDF2HMAC to derive a strong Key Encryption Key (KEK).

- Encrypted Primary Key Storage: A separate, random Primary Encryption Key (PEK) is generated and used as the direct encryption key for the database. This PEK is then encrypted by your derived KEK and saved to disk. This architecture prevents brute-force attacks against the PEK itself.

- Secure Session Management: The decrypted PEK is temporarily and securely cached in a short-lived session file with strict file permissions (0o600). This grants you seamless access for the default 1-hour timeout without re-entering your Master Password, balancing security and user experience.

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by QwenGlazer9000 | 2025-11-12 18:05:41+00:00
I find the removal of --no-quarantine deeply disappointing. We should be pushing back against the idea that the manufacturer should have ANY say at all in what we install on our own hardware, and yet their deprecation of the flag seems like capitulation to apple.

Why does apple get a free pass for doing this on a laptop, when Google gets (rightfully) shit on for doing it on android?
by Amorymeltzer | 2025-11-12 18:05:47+00:00
Some interesting complications with rounding I had not heard about before were mentioned here, worth noting I think, especially given the prominence of SNAP in the news lately:

>Four states - Delaware, Connecticut, Michigan and Oregon - as well as numerous cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Miami and Washington, DC, require merchants to provide exact change, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS).

>In addition, the law covering the federal food assistance program known as SNAP requires that recipients not be charged more than other customers. Since SNAP recipients use a debit card that’s charged the precise amount, if merchants round down prices for cash purchases, they could be opening themselves to legal problems and fines, said Jeff Lenard, spokesperson for NACS.

>“Rounding down on all transactions presents several challenges beyond the loss of an average of 2 cents per transaction,” Lenard said. “We desperately need legislation that allows rounding so retailers can make change for these customers.”
by mooreds | 2025-11-12 18:05:54+00:00
I remember moving out of a place (decades ago). I was the last roommate out, and so was stuck with some of the cleanup (wanted to get that deposit back!).

One of the things we had was a ton of pennies (no idea why). I had no room in my car, so I spend a few minutes late at night flinging pennies out onto the sidewalk after a long day of cleaning the place.
by cycomanic | 2025-11-12 18:05:56+00:00
> But in the modern age viewing and editing a video are seen as two entirely separate tasks. You simply do not expect the video player that comes with the OS to cut, copy, and paste videos. This is very much different from the experience of almost all other kinds of files. You use Microsoft word to view and edit your word processing documents.

I think Word and other text documents are the exception not the rule. Image files have been pretty much always been viewed in different programs than the ones used for editing (although some viewers have rudimentary crop or rotate capabilities). Same with PDFs or PS files we alway view in something different than the editor. Nobody listen to audio files in e.g. Audacity.

In fact I can't even think about any other format except for docs where the editor is also the prime viewer (I suspect the reason is that originally consumption of docs was printing)