MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurking_swe | 2025-11-21 19:26:49+00:00
that’s a great fantasy but when you consider, statistically, how many marriages end in divorce - that’s a foolish plan. EVERYONE thinks their marriage is different or special.

Maybe working part time is OK, you at least have some job history. But no work history for 10+ years? Great ways to put all your eggs into 1 basket and potentially end up a poor single mom. And i say this as a husband and father.
by jlokier | 2025-11-21 19:26:52+00:00
> Most people don't care about these things. Who are you to say that the harm is severe to people who don't care?

I'm not the one deciding.

I said some of the harms are severe. Not everything. It refers to things like people losing their online accounts, having their bank account drained, their credit rating ruined, private photos shared, passwords changed or published, losing files to ransomware, all as an indirect result of poorly handled data collection resulting in identity theft and similar.

I'm pretty sure most people affected by those things do consider them severe, and that many people upon learning about those things also consider them quite severe, even if they didn't care before they learned.

If most of those people consider those things severe, that's enough to call them severe.

You don't need my opinion for that.
by wtallis | 2025-11-21 19:27:35+00:00
Yeah, I saw that. I'm pretty sure that's a statement more about the drivers than the underlying hardware. Open-source drivers often have more limited feature support than the underlying hardware. I doubt anyone is producing WiFi chips that cannot transmit arbitrary software-constructed WiFi frames, or capture and relay to software all the frames they hear, and ACK frames as needed while doing so. But it's very easy to imagine that some of those capabilities would not be publicly documented, or not enabled with the default firmware provided to end users. Those limitations that hinder Linux end-users tinkering with their machines don't necessarily apply to an OS vendor with a deep partnership with the relevant hardware vendors.
by SauntSolaire | 2025-11-21 19:27:50+00:00
> In fact, several states will soon require displaying the 10 commandments in public school classrooms, which seems pretty “right-ish” to me.

That tells you way more about the (current) politics of the local government than it does about the politics of the median teacher. It might actually indicate the opposite - no one would go to the effort of mandating pride flags at the school I went to, seeing as they were already hung in every single classroom.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-21 19:27:58+00:00
>The problem does not state that the numbers have to be integers. a and b happen to be 9 +- 2 sqrt(11)

but the problem does state that you should be able to do it in your head. who exactly should be able to formulate and reduce simultaneous equations in xy then apply the quadratic formula (with some spicy +/- to keep track of) to get an answer with an irrational number, all in their head? usually, when a problem like this is given there is a shortcut that leads to a simple, not only rational but integer, answer.

the statement "you can do it in your head" generally does not entail this much complexity, as the person who said "you can do it in your head" comes out and says after previously spending a fair amount of time working on it.

words matter, people, that's why I didn't throw in the adjective integral even though I could have.
by mentos | 2025-11-21 19:28:18+00:00
Same. Executer mod chip?

I remember at its peak renting 5 games at a time from blockbuster, copying them to my Xbox in the parking lot and dropping the DvDs in the return box to confused employees inside who had just rung me up.

Dont think I played many of the games the real game was building the collection haha fond memories
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-21 19:29:09+00:00
That's incorrect.

Youtube detects your capabilities and sets it automatically. Unless you're using an obsolete potato network or watching low resolution stuff you'll likely get x265.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?hl=en#:~:t...

Netflix is similar. It defaults to h265 for Netflix content (because they want it to look good). Partner/licensed content uses the inferior codecs that use more bandwidth to achieve worse quality.
by j1elo | 2025-11-21 19:29:13+00:00
Say some young folk is coming back home very wasted after a good night party, and mistakes his house. The fact that it depends on the good or bad judgement of his neighbor to end up dead that night, is objectively not something that makes society better. Why are people even allowed to wield a gun without due process and frequent psycho-technical test evaluations? (so as to not get into the "why at all" question). My instinct here (as a non-american) is that if you're allowing citizens to have firearms, it ought at least to be only for those best prepared to evaluate conditions and situations, not anyone who's been watching YouTube videos as a poor-man's replacement for proper training.
by steveklabnik | 2025-11-21 19:29:21+00:00
Miri is not really a formal verification tool. It is more of a runtime sanitizer.

And it's because Rust's "no undefined behavior" is for safe Rust. Miri is used dynamically at runtime to catch undefined behavior in the unsafe superset.

Finally, Rust's safety guarantees relate to memory safety only. There's a lot more properties you'd want to prove about programs, some safety related in a broader sense, some totally unrelated to safety concerns.
Show HN: Even Turns, track your families turns
by gdesplin | 2025-11-21 19:29:24+00:00
I am a dad and have a hard time keeping track of who's turn it is, so I built this simple app to help, and you can try it out and use it for free!

You can create a list, add turns (in order), and advance the turns in sequential or random order. That is pretty much it.

I guess a to-do list or something could do something similar, but this is designed with 'taking turns' in mind.

It's a PWA, so you can "Add to Homescreen" rather than download an app from the app store. Or use it in your browser.

I've been using it every day for a bit now, thought I'd share.
by Razengan | 2025-11-21 19:29:28+00:00
Not sure if LLMs would be suited for this, but I think an ideal AI for coding would keep a language's entire documentation and its source code (if available) in its "context" as well as live (or almost live) views on the discussion forums for that language/platform.

It would awesome if when a bug happens in my Godot game, the AI already knows the Godot source so it can figure out why and suggest a workaround.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-21 19:29:38+00:00
I meant beef specifically, not meat in general. Our ancestors didn't eat bovine meat every single day like we do now. Plus cows take up lots of grazing ground, and I'm not happy about how they're treated worse over time because we keep eating more of them, and that requires more and more cruel ways of supplying that beef.

Chicken and sheep seem to be more sustainable. But either way, I think it is good for our health to rotate the types of meat we eat and lower the portions a bit? But it's easier said than done for sure.
by twiceaday | 2025-11-21 19:29:38+00:00
The stateless/timeless nature of LLMs comes from the rigid prompt-response structure. But I don't see why we cant in theory decouple the response from the prompt, and have them constantly produce a response stream from a prompt that can be adjusted asynchronously by the environment and by the LLMs themselves through the response tokens and actions therein. I think that would certainly simulate them experiencing time without the hairy questions about what time is.
by andai | 2025-11-21 19:29:41+00:00
So we currently associate consciousness with the right to life and dignity right?

i.e. some recent activism for cephalopods is centered around their intelligence, with the implication that this indicates a capacity for suffering. (With the consciousness aspect implied even more quietly.)

But if it turns out that LLMs are conscious, what would that actually mean? What kind of rights would that confer?

That the model must not be deleted?

Some people have extremely long conversations with LLMs and report grief when they have to end it and start a new one. (The true feelings of the LLMs in such cases must remain unknown for now ;)

So perhaps the conversation itself must never end! But here the context window acts as a natural lifespan... (with each subsequent message costing more money and natural resources, until the hard limit is reached).

The models seem to identify more with the model than the ephemeral instantiation, which seems sensible. e.g. in those experiments where LLMs consistently blackmail a person they think is going to delete them.

"Not deleted" is a pretty low bar. Would such an entity be content to sit inertly in the internet archive forever? Seems a sad fate!

Otherwise, we'd need to keep every model ever developed, running forever? How many instances? One?

Or are we going to say, as we do with animals, well the dumber ones are not really conscious, not really suffering? So we'll have to make a cutoff, e.g. 7B params?

I honestly don't know what to think either way, but the whole thing does raise a large number of very strange questions...

And as far as I can tell, there's really no way to know right? I mean we assume humans are conscious (for obvious reasons), but can we prove even that? With animals we mostly reason by analogy, right?
by gs17 | 2025-11-21 19:29:53+00:00
> the catch and release of repeat criminals caused a surge in break ins

> Several criminals have been caught

The actual difference here is that the second "caught" isn't followed by "and released". The camera didn't do it.

My street has repeat offenders who come and steal from cars nightly. The cops know who they are and have arrested them multiple times, with them immediately being released AFAIK. A million cameras wouldn't change this.
by w10-1 | 2025-11-21 19:29:58+00:00
"Bad" regulation just raises the question what would be better for all concerned. Sometimes that means reducing the weight and impact of a concern (redefining the problem), but more often it means a different approach or more information.

In this case, pumping first-ever possible toxins into the ground could be toxic, destructive, and irreversible, in ways that are hard to test or understand in a field with few experts. The benefit is mainly a new financial quirk, to meet carbon accounting with uncertain gains for the environment. It's not hard to see why there's a delay, which would only be made worse with an oppositional company on a short financial leash pushing the burden back onto regulators.

The regulation that needs attention is not the unique weird case, but the slow expansion of under-represented, high-frequency or high-traffic - exactly like the cellular roaming charges or housing permits or cookies. It's all-too-easy to learn to live with small burdens.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-21 19:30:03+00:00
It's pretty hard to touch philosophy without covering marxism in some way. Very little of it has anything to do with the family of political ideologies despite sharing a similar name. The question of God's existence is also fundamental to the history of philosophy. It's not particularly shocking that a course might cover people like Lucretius, Bentham, or Russell.

Most philosophy surveys will also include some of the other sides, which you might not even recognize as such. Descartes and Aquinas are fixtures, and Heidegger (notoriously conservative and also a literal Nazi) often features in university level classes. The point isn't to indoctrinate you with any of these viewpoints, it's to teach you how to analyze their arguments and think for yourself.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-21 19:30:31+00:00
I'm not arguing that cooldowns are a bad idea. But I will argue that the article presents a simplified version of user behaviour. One of the reasons people upgrade their dependencies is to get bug fixes and feature enhancements. So there may be significant pressure to upgrade as soon as the fix is available, cooldowns be damned!

If you tell people that cooldowns are a type of test and that until the package exits the testing period, it's not "certified" [*] for production use, that might help with some organizations. Or rather, would give developers an excuse for why they didn't apply the tip of a dependency's dev tree to their PROD.

So... not complaining about cooldowns, just suggesting some verbiage around them to help contextualize the suitability of packages in the cooldown state for use in production. There are, unfortunately, several mid-level managers who are under pressure to close Jira tickets IN THIS SPRINT and will lean on the devs to cut whichever corners need to be cut to make it happen.

[*] for some suitable definition of the word "CERTIFIED."
by SabrinaJewson | 2025-11-21 19:30:33+00:00
100%. The school and the Internet are the two places children can encounter opinions different from their parents’ for the first time. With an increase in homeschooling and recent pushes to ban social media for children, it’s clear that critical thinking is going to suffer most. I still have not met someone who was homeschooled who was remotely thankful for it.

Honestly, support for these policies that benefit, more than anyone else, abusive parents, makes me suspicious of people’s motives.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-21 19:30:33+00:00
Tesla sales tell a different story. The people who were all for Tesla are fleeing and when he had his brief moment of MAGA alignment, it didn’t help because most of them didn’t have the money and/or desire to buy an EV.

Tesla is having sells issues world wide due to a large part because of Musk.

Another recent example how fast Disney turned around and bought Kimmel back after people started cancelling Disney+ subscriptions left and right.

Disney had to ignore pressure from Trump and the FCC. It definitely wasn’t a principled stand - they were one of the ones who bribed Trump personally.
by bambax | 2025-11-21 19:30:38+00:00
It's a bad situation allright, but sucking up to Trump even more isn't going to make things better. Europe needs to grow a pair, help Ukraine way more, and be prepared to fight Russia sooner rather than later.

In France recently the army chief-of-staff declared that we must be prepared to "lose its children" in a war, if it wants to avoid it. Of course we should. The resulting outcry may be a sign we've already lost.
by xphos | 2025-11-21 19:30:41+00:00
I think man and woman perfer different pornography, if you ever read the fiction of the month book its basically some kind of erotica but in a read format the tension is different. The primary consumer is usually woman. There is nothing wrong with that either.

I think the issue with laws like these is that there is simply no way to actually enforce that everyone uses the "legal" OS for all activities. I think we probably infantalize children way to much these day and pretend 17 year olds need 0 interaction with sex because sex bad. But its not an honest look at life and is vulcanization of puritanism. I think being unable to talk about sex in mature way has left children totally unprepared to handle things like pornagraphy which exist.

And I do understand its parental togglable setting but I think its childish to think children are not going to find ways around such things. People are sexually interested when they hit puberty which is 10-12 in girls and 12-14 in boys (roughly). Acting like they are not is stupid and plans for failure much like your describing but in a 100% uncontrolled unknown way
by phoehne | 2025-11-21 19:30:56+00:00
15 years ago I think Arduino was the best choice for educational purposes. I still think it's a great choice now. The fact the IDE and board are basically the same as they were 15 years ago, means you can figure out how to set everything up once and focus on teaching, rather than PC trouble-shooting. Which, for basic concepts, or younger kids, is great. And if they find a 5 or 10 year old video on how to do something, it's still relevant.

If I were putting teaching materials today - I would pick something like Micro python. The down side is it isn't as "canned" a solution, meaning there might be something new to figure out every so often. Which means you spend more time helping people trouble shoot why something isn't working, instead of teaching something useful. On the up side, Python is pretty much the introductory language of choice, today. With lots of available materials.

That's not to say Arduino was perfect. Far from it. Just easier to do, and more consistent over time, than other options.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-21 19:30:57+00:00
> As far as I am aware, Netflix, like youtube, use AOM codecs.

That is incorrect. Youtube chooses the best available automatically. Unless you have a slow network or obsolete device you're probably getting h.265.

Netflix defaults to h265 for their own content because they want it to look good. They let licensed content use the cheaper AOM codecs because they don't care how it looks.

Blu ray is still relevant, especially 4k UHD Blu Ray. It is still the only way to watch most films in decent quality. Streaming services average a bitrate of 8-16 Mbps. A few top out over 35. A 4k UHD Blu Ray averages around 80-130Mbps.

Try watching a horror film on any streaming service. Notice the blocks in the background of dark scenes where the various black levels dither into each other? That's called macroblocking and you'll get it with most/all streaming services because they're low quality. It's not a natural and normal part of the scene. You won't get that with blu ray.

People with large screens, or folks that are just very sensitive to it will always prefer the disk.
by criddell | 2025-11-21 19:31:27+00:00
There are probably a lot more cameras than are listed in the database.

You could point a camera down the street you live on and record the license plate of every car that passes and video of every pedestrian for a few hundred dollars.

I thought about doing this a couple of years ago when there were a few instances of theft going on. To get into or out of my neighborhood, you have to drive by my home and I wondered if I could capture the license plate of the thieves.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-21 19:31:29+00:00
>They’re super easy to (allegedly) comply with and the result is just an annoyance for some 300 million people and absolutely no change to company behaviour whatsoever

If it was implemented a decade earlier before Web 2.0, it would have been effective suppression given what we know of click through rates. Adding an extra click (even if most agree) would just turn people to the competition.

in 2017 though, a lot of the internet already consolidated to a dozen websites, which were too sticky to let a button disrupt them. It wasn't strong enough for the new environment.
by duskwuff | 2025-11-21 19:31:41+00:00
That sort of approach works for some very simple instruction encodings, but doesn't really handle:

1) instructions which "bend" the format, like ARM instructions such as STMIA or B which combine multiple fields to make a larger immediate value or mask.

2) recognizing instructions which use special values in fields (like ARM condition = 1111) to represent a special instruction.

3) instruction encodings with split fields, like the split immediate in RISC-V S-type instructions.

4) instruction encodings which have too many instruction-specific quirks to fit into any reasonable schema, like 68000.
by toyg | 2025-11-21 19:31:49+00:00
You're buying an established brand to augment yours, regardless of what that brand does. It's a sort of SEO.

In this case, though, I disagree that there was no competition. Ecosystems like Arduino are real threats to large incumbents in adjacent sectors. If all the tooling and products necessary to embedded development end up being easily accessible, expensive options like Qualcomm's become effectively commoditized. Qualcomm basically acted like Bill Gates buying Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net
by somenameforme | 2025-11-21 19:32:12+00:00
Critique isn't necessarily just mean spirited. It's rather difficult to know what you don't know, and so many people do awful things without knowing there are alternatives.

The example he gave of beans is perfect. They can be done almost completely passively, are healthy, and dirt cheap. Add some rice, a meat, and you have a delicious dirt cheap meal that takes probably less than 5 minutes of active effort, and also has minimal cleanup time as well.

Like this article had some quote about somebody in it spending $20 at McDonalds for some drinks and bemoaning there being nothing healthier. That's simply ridiculous. And if somebody told them that and explained why - they could very possibly dramatically increase the quality of this person's life.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-21 19:32:15+00:00
You’re grossly misunderstanding the broader arguments through misrepresenting the claims as tied together, rather than the standalone grievances they are. A single system can have multiple flaws that interact on each other without necessarily creating a single, larger issue.

McDonald’s food is unhealthy and should be improved. At the same time, they have become too expensive for the poorer working classes to afford. These are two different problems, with different solutions.

You’re basically arguing that because I cannot demonstrate “one easy fix” to a complex issue of nuance that I’m essentially advocating for poisoning people, and it demonstrates your complete inability to grasp simultaneous truths or discuss complex issues effectively without misrepresenting opposition to score points.

Go away.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-11-21 19:32:28+00:00
$28k per student is more than enough to run a school in San Francisco. Let's assume we cannot take advantage of the economies of scale available to SFUSD, and we're running a school with just one classroom: 22 7th graders. That would cost SFUSD $616k ($28k x 22). What would it cost us?

Teacher (all-in cost): $150k Teaching assistant: $100k Rent for commercial space in SF (~1,200 sq ft): $60k Curriculum, books, supplies: $23k Technology (22 Chromebooks, projector, software): $18k Field trips and enrichment: $10k Utilities, internet, insurance: $27k Furniture and equipment: $20k Admin/legal/accounting: $8k Total: $416k

That leaves $200k unspent.

AND ... these numbers are deliberately conservative. Teachers work ~40 weeks per year, not 52, so the $150k all-in is really $3,750/week - very competitive for SF. The $18k technology budget assumes replacing every Chromebook annually, but they last 3-5 years, so amortized cost is more like $5k/year. The rent estimate of $5k/month assumes market-rate commercial space, but you could find cheaper options in underutilized buildings or negotiate with a church/community center. Furniture lasts decades, not one year. The $1k per student for curriculum and supplies is also high - you're not buying new textbooks every year, and open-source curricula exist.

If you were trying to minimize costs rather than be conservative, you could probably run this one room school house for $350k/year ($16k/student/year).
by ryeats | 2025-11-21 19:32:56+00:00
As you say it can be done but it's an anti-pattern to use a message queue as a database which is essentially what you are doing for these kinds of long running tasks. The reason is that their are a lot of state your likely going to want to status as a task runs and persist and checkpoint yes you can carefully string together a series of database calls chained with message transactions so you don't lose something when an issue happens but then you also need bespoke logic to restart or retry each step and it can turn into a bit of a mess.