MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cosmosauras | 2025-12-22 18:36:44+00:00
I’m so sorry this happened to your family. Let’s use this as a moment to protect our own.

Think of it this way: If I needed a document from your house, would you give me a permanent copy of your keys? Probably not. Unlike a physical key, a shared password can never truly be taken back.

No legitimate organization needs full, permanent control over your bank account. If a situation feels incredibly urgent, it is almost certainly a scam.

• Taxes? The government already has the access they need.
• Loans or Visas? Ask for payment instructions or a formal bank certification instead.

Everything can wait a day—except a scammer. Educate your circle: urgency is their greatest weapon.
by gruez | 2025-12-22 18:36:49+00:00
>This is clear fascism, but people are too afraid to admit. We have sleep walked into it.

>With such surveillance, administration can [...]

Have you missed all the cries of "fascism" back in 2016/2017? The problem isn't "people are too afraid to admit". It's that "wolf!" was cried too many times and people tuned it out. Ironically this invocation "fascism" is arguably also crying wolf. From wikipedia:

>Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

Is an ANPR network terrible for privacy? Yes, obviously. Is it authoritarian? Maybe[1]. Is everything vaguely authoritarian "fascism"? No.

[1] Consider cell phones. They're terrible for privacy, but nobody would seriously consider them "authoritarian".
by stared | 2025-12-22 18:36:52+00:00
If you want to explore the ecosystem of Claude Code plugins, see https://claude-plugins.dev/

With a fair disclaimer, that it is very easy to vibe-code a skill oneself, with both pros (you can create one just for you!) and cons (if you look online, these are of any quality, quite a few with some hard-coded versions or practices).
by RandallBrown | 2025-12-22 18:37:02+00:00
About 10 years ago I was working in Manhattan and I was walking down 42nd towards the train station after work. I looked off towards the sunset and thought "Wow, it's setting right between all the buildings." Then I looked the other way and saw dozens of people taking photos. I had accidentally seen Manhattanhenge and probably ruined a few photos.
by LexiMax | 2025-12-22 18:37:21+00:00
> HN is one of the few places where this feel-good nonsense actually gets rejected

Something I learned a long time ago is that it doesn't matter how well you argue a point with a nincompoop, they will simply shrug and repeat their horseradish verbatim in the next thread, hoping that next time they don't attract an audience with as much critical thinking. Unless you are willing to waste as much time as they are arguing on the internet, it's a fruitless endeavor.

It's really up to the moderators of a social space to keep bad faith nincompoops out, and Hacker News has shown themselves to be complicit and unwilling to do what is necessary to prevent its own enshittification. At this point, this place is just Reddit with a tone policing and a nuclear downvote button.
by malicka | 2025-12-22 18:37:57+00:00
That’s exactly the reason the research and development funded by government grants is rarely done in the private sector: It isn’t immediately profitable, and we don’t know for sure if it ever will. It’s important to put man-hours behind even theories that will seemingly never be useful (“trash”), both because it is impossible to know for sure, and because that is the underpinning of science.

Exploration for exploration’s sake, knowledge for knowledge’s sake. Not everything learned by the human race needs to be immediately useful; it all contributes to a vast tapestry.

Not to mention that if we focus solely on profitability and utility, we do bad science: Why do you think we have a reproduction crisis? Because reproducing experiments isn’t sexy nor profitable, so no one is incentivized to do it.

We need more arrows, full-stop.
by evanriley | 2025-12-22 18:38:09+00:00
> Gah, just when you think you can trust time.nist.gov

You still can...

If you're that considered about 5 microseconds:
Build your own Stratum 1 time server https://github.com/geerlingguy/time-pi

or just use ntppool https://www.ntppool.org/en/
by commandlinefan | 2025-12-22 18:38:18+00:00
Far be it from me to disagree with Kernighan but... when I think of "clever" code, I think of things like Duff's device. That's clever as hell. It's also perfectly debuggable. When I deal with undebuggable code in the wild, it's usually due to people doing things like declaring global (sorry, "public static") variables that connect to live databases and start downloading definition tables into memory before the code can run.
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-22 18:38:50+00:00
> I find that when the source is included with the packaging, it feels more unwieldy.

On the other hand, it makes for a far easier life when bumping compile or run time dependency versions. There's only one single source of truth providing both the application and the packaging.

It's just the same with Docker and Helm charts. So many projects insist on keeping sometimes all of them in different repositories, making change proposals an utter PITA.
by like_any_other | 2025-12-22 18:38:51+00:00
> The fact it’s then immediately followed up with stats about gun violence does sort of imply we’re talking about serious threats…

Do we trust surveillance peddlers enough that we should believe what they don't even say directly, but only "sort of imply" it? In this case, we have an easy test: has the number of attempted homicides at this school decreased by multiple per day since the surveillance was implemented?

If it has, I'm sure the surveillance vendors would be eagerly pointing to the dramatic drop in homicides on a graph, coinciding with their invasion of the school, and not just sort of implying it.
by maxglute | 2025-12-22 18:39:07+00:00
They prebuild 10 years of housing runway but still have another 10 years, aka 100m+ housing shortage for urbanization goals. They realize they got overzealous and was venturing in bubble and and intervened during boom vs after collapse. AKA preplanning and prematurely fixing something, which is the kind of intervention a freer economy can't do.

Family planning was also massive successful in preventing frankly 100s of millions of useless mouths from being born and concentrating resources to upskill 1-2 kids, hence their massive catchup within a few generations. Now they make more technical talent than OCED combined and will have the greatest high skill demographic dividend to milk for at least our life times, giving them 40+ years to sort out better family planning.

BTW US overspending 5-10% of GDP aka 2.5 Trillion per year on healthcare vs OECD baseline is basically more wasteful misallocation than anything PRC has ever done, including RE misallocation (3-5% waste). And at least they still have housing units left to use (being converted into affordable housing), instead of piles of paper work and personal debt. Accumulation of fuckups that are not resolvable in western style capitalism, it will be fatal medium term.
by eightysixfour | 2025-12-22 18:39:17+00:00
I think so, but it is a loosely held opinion at this point. Fundamentally, I think it is a huge, asymmetric power grab by Flock and local police to install these systems. It only takes one officer looking up their local politician and finding them doing something that could even look like a bad deed (or to fake it in the era of AI videogen...) to enable blackmail and personal/professional gain.

If they're going to exist, it may be better for that to be spread among the public than to be left in the hands of the few.
by lizknope | 2025-12-22 18:39:32+00:00
I had a 36" 4:3 Toshiba CRT that had component video inputs for 1080i signals. If you displayed a 16:9 aspect ratio signal you could turn on a mode to change the display area to make the electron beam display all 1080 lines in that area so the other system didn't need to add black bars. This way you got the full 1080i resolution in a 4:3 TV

I used to go to a local high end home theater store and they had the Sony 40" XBR TV that weighed 300 pounds or something crazy.
by cube2222 | 2025-12-22 18:39:39+00:00
Just to provide another datapoint - tried codex September / October after seeing the glowing reviews here, and it was, all in all, a huge letdown.

It seems to be very efficient context-wise, but at the same time made precise context-management much harder.

Opus 4.5 is quite a magnificent improvement over Sonnet 4.5, in CC, though.

Re tfa - I accidentally discovered the new lsp support 2 days ago on a side project in rust, and it’s working very well.
by lossolo | 2025-12-22 18:39:43+00:00
Seems like they already do:

"Research and development (R&D) funding of China reached 3.6 trillion yuan ($496 billion) in 2024, with an 8.3% increase year-on-year, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday.

Investments in basic research increased by 10.5% from 2023 to 249.7 billion yuan ($34.46 billion) in 2024, or 6.91% of the total R&D spending."

Private companies in China also do a lot of basic research, here is a quote from the Huawei founder:

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Q: How do you view basic research?

A: When our country possesses certain economic strength, we should emphasize theory, especially basic research. Basic research doesn't just take 5-10 years—it generally takes 10, 20 years or longer. Without basic research, you plant no roots. And without roots, even trees with lush leaves fall at the first wind. Buying foreign products is expensive because their prices include their investment in basic research. So whether China engages in basic research or not, we still have to pay—the question is whether we choose to pay our own people to do this basic research.

We spend roughly 180RMB billion a year on R&D; about 60 billion goes to basic research with no KPIs, while around 120 billion is product‑oriented and is assessed.

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by gruez | 2025-12-22 18:39:44+00:00
He probably being sincere. If you're logged in (or use something like xcancel), you can see the full thread, where he starts off with

> Flock Safety currently solves 700,000 reported cases of crime per year, which is about 10% of reported crime nationwide

> And they're just getting started

His profile also says:

>President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @Initialized—designer/engineer who helps founders—SF Dem accelerating the boom loop—haters not allowed in my sauna
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-22 18:39:46+00:00
> don't think co-op fisheries are the problem here

Co-op fisheries are owned by the co-op. They aren’t a problem and regulate access.

Common heritage fisheries are trawled unregulated because when everyone owns something, nobody owns it.

For the communist model to work, the state has to own everything. Which in practice means apparatchiks control everything.
by timr | 2025-12-22 18:39:46+00:00
Science gets done by the people you hire with the money you raise. And yes, everyone in a group is always thinking about the next grant.

I’m not joking. I’m not exaggerating. This is the job, and it’s always been this way (at least in my lifetime). Maybe it’s worse because of the current administration, but complaining that academic life is mostly about grant writing is like a fish complaining about water.
by KalMann | 2025-12-22 18:39:51+00:00
I think this was a failure. The gold standard should be that the if every human driver was replaced with an AI how well could the system function. This makes it look like things would be catastrophic. Thus, showing how humans continue to be much more versatile and capable than AI.

I suppose if you lower the standards for what you hope AI can accomplish it wouldn't be considered a failure.
by rz2k | 2025-12-22 18:39:52+00:00
It is a mixture of experts model so it will run on a computer with a lot of RAM and a GPU.

Alternately, on an M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 256GB of unified memory, you can run a 4bit quant of GLM-4.6 at about 20 tokens/second. That compares to about 40 t/s for a 6bit quant of MiniMax M2. I am not sure how fast these will run if you have a Mac Studio 512GB that can load the unquantized versions of the models.
by guywithahat | 2025-12-22 18:40:43+00:00
A critical analysis of this article is that they got a staffing cut, and since they were afraid they wouldn't spend their yearly budget in time the Office of the director simply paid themselves 138% of their prior budget despite having fewer employees to avoid losing the money.

One also wonders if the reduced funding correlates with more politically focused labs. Certainly the goal of the administration was to avoid giving money to DEI/politically adjacent research, and while I've definitely seen professors take computer science money and throw it towards social science research, I'm not sure what amount of the 8% decrease in funding that might be.

One positive note is universities have been known to abuse students (particularly international/visa students) by making them work in the lab for 5, 6, or 7 years. By restructuring grants to be 4-5 years, and giving the four years of funding up front, professors will be more incentivized to get students out in four years so they can enter industry.
by exceptione | 2025-12-22 18:40:48+00:00
In diplomatic terms, this is nothing less than a declaration of war.

The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have given a joint press conference. This is insane, but since admitting that makes us really uneasy, my prediction is that people will in great numbers

a) look away, or
b) normalize it with pseudo-rationalist blather

Yes, like in many other cases. But it doesn't make it less dangerous, each new transgression removes another set of brakes. The dynamics of crime are that the new cycle will be nastier than the last one. In a society where both communication, intel and policy is in the hands of a very small circle of powerful people, this insurrection might turn out to be too powerful to break.
by zahlman | 2025-12-22 18:40:55+00:00
Etymonline attests:

> program(v.)

> 1889, "write program notes" (a sense now obsolete); 1896 as "arrange according to program," from program (n.).

> Of computers, "cause to be automatically regulated in a prescribed way" from 1945; this was extended to animals by 1963 in the figurative sense of "to train to behave in a predetermined way;" of humans by 1966. Related: Programmed; programming.

and

> computer(n.)

> 1640s, "one who calculates, a reckoner, one whose occupation is to make arithmetical calculations," agent noun from compute (v.).

> Meaning "calculating machine" (of any type) is from 1897; in modern use, "programmable digital electronic device for performing mathematical or logical operations," 1945 under this name (the thing itself was described by 1937 in a theoretical sense as Turing machine). ENIAC (1946) usually is considered the first.

The term "debug" also dates to 1945 per Etymonline, but Wikipedia also claims

> The term bug, in the sense of defect, dates back at least to 1878 when Thomas Edison wrote "little faults and difficulties" in his inventions as "Bugs".

> A popular story from the 1940s is from Admiral Grace Hopper.[1] While she was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay that impeded operation and wrote in a log book "First actual case of a bug being found". Although probably a joke, conflating the two meanings of bug (biological and defect), the story indicates that the term was used in the computer field at that time.

So the metaphorical sense previously existed, but was relatively new as applied to computers (since doing anything with computers at all was relatively new). And "computer" did refer to a human, but the modern sense was in the process of being established during the literal-bugs-in-vacuum-tubes era.
by mindslight | 2025-12-22 18:41:03+00:00
So scientists shouldn't be allowed to hold their own political opinions, or organizational leaders shouldn't be allowed to exercise some autonomy with regards to the culture they foster, or educated people shouldn't tend to favor the political tribe that focuses on constructive solutions, or what? What is your specific critique here?

Whatever it might be, it seems like we could have instituted a targeted reform for that specific problem rather than self-immolating our educational institutions and continuing to hand the reigns of world leadership to China.
by lesuorac | 2025-12-22 18:41:09+00:00
Honestly, it seems to me that it's "undoing" a lot of work.

Labor Rate at dealerships around me are over $200/h. Granted the mechanic doesn't get 100% of that but 200 * 52 * 8 is nearly 600k. It seems like you could go somewhere else and get the same amount of money as Ford (or more) and don't need to worry about future salary increases not occurring.
by nine_k | 2025-12-22 18:41:19+00:00
The key thing for me here is that Yeltsin apparently falsified a lot of elections, including his own, to keep the right people in power. Economic liberalization (which had quite an effect) while holding the political reins tightly is very much like the Chinese communists acted during Deng Xiaoping's tenure. The Chinese managed to bring somehow wiser people to top though, it seems.

Yeltsin may have used Communists as a scare during his campaign. But today's Russia is in hands of a former Communist dictator, much like today's China is in the hands of a career-Communist dictator.
by spullara | 2025-12-22 18:41:33+00:00
I really can't understand why JetBrains hasn't integrated its refactoring tools into the AI system. Really missed the boat on making their platform transformational for AI coding. Imagine how much smaller the context would be for a tool that renames a function than editing hundreds of files. This LSP support is a good start but without the mutation functions it is still pretty lackluster. Plus LSPs aren't as good as JetBrains generally.
by aaroninsf | 2025-12-22 18:41:52+00:00
It is not sarcastic.

Generally speaking, today, surveillance capitalism is the foundation of both our political culture, economy, and the tech industry that backs them.

In polite circles we call surveillance "user telemetry" and the like. It's not just Palantir and FLock; where does Meta's money come from...? Google's for that matter...?
by gkoberger | 2025-12-22 18:42:32+00:00
I don't think that's an incorrect statement to say it's too expensive for most Americans, even if there's still high traffic at the parks.

Disney has become significantly less accessible for the average family of 4. Aside from ticket costs, there's almost nothing free in the parks anymore... you have to pay for lightning lane passes for all the cool rides, there's minimal live entertainment, etc.

The demographics have significantly shifted. Only 1/3 visitors now come from households with children under 18, and millennials and gen z have started taking frequent trips (friend groups, couples, etc).

So while they still get the same number of "attendance", the demographics have started to shift toward older, more affluent repeat visitors.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-disney-parks-top-destina...
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-12-22 18:42:36+00:00
I don't even know the last time I pirated music. Gotta be at least 10 years.

Meanwhile, I pirate movies/TV on a regular basis for the reasons you gave. At one point, I was subbed to 5 services, and decided enough was enough. Cancelled all but Netflix and went back to torrenting anything they didn't have.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-22 18:42:42+00:00
Basically this [1]

And for who's done it, basically every capitalist nation at this point.

Simply put it's recognizing that capitalism has failings but so does communism. It doesn't seek full state control of everything, just over industries where it's needed. It tries to strike a balance between public and private ownership.

Everything from Vietnam to the US have aspects of market socialism. I think that there are more industries where the US should take ownership, particularly industries that lend themselves to natural monopolies or oligopolies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism
by mbreese | 2025-12-22 18:42:49+00:00
Or it’s a small enough company without an IT department.

Think of an SMB where you might know you need to do something (like connect a new store location to the server in your main location’s closet), but don’t know how or can’t afford to hire an IT person full time. This is probably the main market for this. Then once you get more buy in, experience, and reputation, this VPN could stay to see larger clients. That’s at least how I’d expect to see this grow.
by mrspuratic | 2025-12-22 18:43:10+00:00
Ireland is lucky enough to have several suitable sites, but just one operational: Turlough Hill, which has been running for over 50 years and is in use daily. It's at least as useful in terms of grid stability and (relatively) rapid dispatch as capacity. Output ~0.7% of total daily (~120GWh), ~5% of daily peak (~6GW), wintertime figures. For comparison electricity usage has increased about 8-fold since it was deployed in 1974.
by goda90 | 2025-12-22 18:44:00+00:00
>Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

These things don't just happen overnight. It's not crying wolf when you see the wolf on the horizon running towards you.
Oberon et al., vs. Rust
by mikethe | 2025-12-22 18:44:25+00:00
Greetings,

I recently came accross this thread from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34501352

I am interested, in particular, by the comment by vidarh, that starts with:

"You've been given the answer already: Simplicity. You keep ignoring it."

I find myself highly interested in what this person would have to say about rust. Is it better than, for example, oberon, or it's descendents?

I have heard that Rust is a big language. By that definition, a simpler one must be better, right? And yet rust is a big thing, and .. oberon is ..dusty?

I will keep on searching, and maybe attempt to contact him/her/(other?) directly.
by deckar01 | 2025-12-22 18:44:42+00:00
I was recently trying to render a math visualization for a very large search space and fell into the map tiling rabbit hole. The idea was to randomly sample the viewport then pan/zoom to guide the search. OpenSeadragon was the only solution I got working, but it wanted the zoom pyramid prerendered and aggressively cached, so nothing updated. I don’t need the vector editor, so I’m tempted to port lightning to OpenSeadragon.
by gs17 | 2025-12-22 18:44:58+00:00
They should also require a warrant at least, especially for any data sharing. With "they can only be accessed by law enforcement", we've already had plenty of police harassing their exes. If they couldn't convince a judge to let them use the camera, there's really no hope of the case going anywhere.

> There's nothing worse than being told "we don't have any leads" when someone you care about is attacked.

I'd argue worse is "we know exactly who did it and we're not going to do anything about it (but we would do something if you try to do something about it yourself)".
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-22 18:45:18+00:00
I was told that this was, because of the limited tools, very slow work. After seeing the popular twelve-angled stone at Cusco, I can believe they took all the time, and any effort, necessary. Maybe they even assembled and disassembled the stones until they were perfect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-angled_stone