MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ashleyha-13 | 2025-12-24 05:06:37+00:00
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by bgwalter | 2025-12-24 05:06:47+00:00
If Waymos "request a confirmation check", i.e. contact a remote human, they are not autonomous. Yet, even in this analysis of an event where Waymos severely disrupted traffic they maintain the "autonomous" label.

It is simply false advertising at this point.

EDIT: The brutal Waymo shill serial downvoting begins. If one delivers a dorky product that blocks traffic, redefining words and censoring opposition is the only option for success. We are at -4 and the car is still dorky!
by Lvl999Noob | 2025-12-24 05:07:23+00:00
Personally, I would prefer that the package managers keep their own lockfiles with all their metadata. A CI process (using the package managers itself) can create the SBOM for every commit in a standardized environment. We get all the same benefits without losing anything (the package managers can keep their own formats and metadata and remove anything unneeded for the SBOM from it).
by mindslight | 2025-12-24 05:07:34+00:00
If Turmp was that much of a planner, he could have easily had a second term in 2020 by simply acknowledging Covid as a problem and actually leading the country. I don't think he himself has any real plan. He's just fucking aggro-demented [0] lashing out at his lifetime of grievances and trauma. Some trafficked Venezuelan girl probably didn't smile enough as he was about to use her or something. I'm sure the people around him all have their larger plans though.

[0] anyone that's cared for old people sees the two very different archetypes in "sleepy joe" vs "destructive don"
by cyberax | 2025-12-24 05:07:46+00:00
> I'm not a 1A guy, I think that for inference people with a history of domestic violence shouldn't be armed

Whut? How the fuck did you make that jump?

AR-15 rifles are useless for hunting. They are too small to reliably kill large game (deer) and too large for small game (rabbits). Sure, they're fine for coyotes, but if you're buying an AR-15 to hunt coyotes, then you should just stop.

AR-15s are also useless for self-defense. They are too bulky for indoor use, and the bullets can penetrate multiple walls. A regular semi-auto handgun is far superior if you're looking to protect yourself against domestic violence.
by elvinagy | 2025-12-24 05:07:53+00:00
I am Elvin, from the RustFS team in the U.S.

Thanks for the reality check on our documentation. We realize that some of our phrasing sounded more like marketing hype than a technical spec. That wasn’t our intent, and we are currently refining our docs to be more precise and transparent.

A few points to clarify where we’re coming from:
1. The Technical Bet on Rust: Rust wasn’t a buzzword choice for us. We started this project two years ago with the belief that the concurrency and performance demands of modern storage—especially for AI-driven workloads—benefit from a foundation with predictable memory behavior, zero-cost abstractions, and no garbage collector. These properties matter when you care about determinism and tail latency.
2. Language Safety vs. System Design: We’re under no illusion that using a memory-safe language automatically makes a system “100% secure.” Rust gives us strong safety primitives, but the harder problems are still in distributed systems design, failure handling, and correctness under load. That’s where most of our engineering effort is focused.
3. Giving Back to the Ecosystem: We’re committed to the ecosystem we build on. RustFS is a sponsor of the Rust Foundation, and as we move toward a global, Apache 2.0 open-source model, we intend to contribute back in more concrete ways over time.

We know there’s still work to do on the polish side, and we genuinely appreciate the feedback. If you have specific questions about our implementation details or the S3 compatibility layer, I’m happy to dive into the technical details.
by kmeisthax | 2025-12-24 05:10:22+00:00
The components are modular under the hood, they have to be. Apple just doesn't let you take advantage of it.

iOS has a daemon that reads your notifications and ships them to Apple Watch. They have a daemon that scans for AirPods and gives you UI to pair them. But you as an app developer cannot do any of those things. There was no public API for notification stream access, scanning for specific Bluetooth devices, floating UI widgets, or even just persistent daemons. All of those capabilities more or less exist on Android, which is why multiple smartwatch ecosystems have been built on top of it while iOS only supports the first-party option.

Back in the 2000s, when Apple was just getting into mobile devices, the app development landscape was far less bleak. iTunes on Windows could happily index your entire music and video collection and sync it to an iPod and there was nothing Microsoft could do to stop them. Everything is just finding the appropriate file and connecting to the appropriate USB device to transfer it. And that's more or less how things still work today, except now on smartphones all of that is put into isolated containers and walled off behind private APIs.
by pppppiiiiiuuuuu | 2025-12-24 05:13:24+00:00
The domestic violence thing was about a potential gun regulation, not a scenario. People with domestic violence convictions are overrepresented among murderers and mass shooters. So it would make sense to prevent them from obtaining guns.

It's useless for hunting, but you identify circumstances it's useful in. You say it's useless for self defense because it's bulky, I've heard a hundred people say it's ideal because it's easier to be proficient with a rifle than with a pistol.

Say whatever you want, but when you make absolute statements like that, it damages your credibility. That's my feedback for you.
by kamaal | 2025-12-24 05:14:31+00:00
>>Not sure your time-saving thing really works, especially if 99% of problems you have are not solved by a perl oneliner.

That's because if you don't have a paradigm of thought, you are not likely to reach for a tool that works there.

Most of the times, I have seen Java programmers watch in total awe that their pet weekly project, that took 40+ hours to accomplish, was basically a vim macro that they could have done in like 3 - 5 mins.

That was my whole point I made, when I said, when a Java dev says they have like 10 years of experience, thats barely a Junior perl dev.

I'm guessing most Python/Java programmers would find it impossible to work in project which doesn't involve a database, XML, or json. Those languages are not designed to work with a data or a compute paradigm outside of these formats.
by kristopolous | 2025-12-24 05:14:57+00:00
People have discovered being an open sewer spewing hate and prejudice gets likes, views, reposts and advertisers

It's also a very easy job. You don't need to do journalism, be diligent about citations and accuracy, use robust analysis or careful language.

You don't even need a script. Just hop on a hot mic, blame an oppressed scapegoat and see money roll in.

The content is evergreen, trivial to create and performs great!

Just like you don't have to be a doctor to swindle people with phony medicine or a psychology degree to hustle people as a psychic.

The problem is we've taking the smooth talking performative palliatives of these slick mountebanks and christened their confidence games as sacred free speech instead of the hatemonger hustle it is.

And unfortunately, like Albania’s Nationwide Ponzi scam of the 1990s, these crimes have become institutionalized power and their bullshit is bringing the country down with them.

Other than personal gain, what ought be the consequences of arsonists shouting "fire" on the crowded Internet?
by MainNews | 2025-12-24 05:15:44+00:00
Maincoder-1B: a 1B-parameter transformer model trained from scratch for code generation. Hitting 76% on HumanEval, it is the best result we’re aware of among open models in this size range.

The motivation is simple. Strong coding models don’t have to be large. With better data processing across pre-, mid-, and post-training, plus RL-based post-training, small models can deliver surprisingly strong functional correctness while staying cheap and fast.

Why we care about small models:
Low latency / low cost → usable for interactive tools and large batch jobs
Local & on-device inference → privacy-sensitive and offline workflows
Many fast rollouts → program synthesis with search, verification loops, RL environments, fine tuning to personal preferences
Composable systems → cascades, speculative decoding, tool-use agents

Maincoder-1B performs best on small, self-contained tasks (2048k context), and it’s not meant for security- or safety-critical code without human review. It’s designed for practical deployment and should quantize well.

Weights are released under Apache 2.0.
by sp1nningaway | 2025-12-24 05:16:00+00:00
Oh my god! It has been a long time since I've thought of being sprayed by viscous 200 degree chocolate magma.

Interesting thought about the printed receipts. I found line-calling only being efficient for the hour of morning rush with 60+ customers/hour, and I've never actually seen it effectively used outside my own store which was incredibly well-run. So maybe assumed they stopped doing it because it was too hard to do well.
by big_toast | 2025-12-24 05:16:09+00:00
I've had no trouble using corded headphones with my iphones (either via an adapter or e.g. the $20 usb-c earpods). In fact, it seems like people using corded headphones is a news cycle[1] every 6 months.

[1]:https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/dec/19/bluetooth-wi...
by herewulf | 2025-12-24 05:17:39+00:00
Reading through material in context and actively removing the telling bits seems very focused to me.

Furthermore, reading through long winded, dry legalese (or the like) and then occasionally marking it up seems like an excellent way to give the brain short breaks to continue on rather than to let the mind wander in a sea of text.

I am for automating all the things but I can see pros and cons for both digital and manual approaches.
by sotoplatero | 2025-12-24 05:17:53+00:00
I originally built this for myself after duct-taping together Zapier + Google Drive + make public steps just to share a Markdown snippet.

Then I needed it in n8n. Then in a script. At some point I realized I just wanted a dumb endpoint: send content -> get link.

So… this is that.

It’s intentionally minimal (no accounts, no auth, no styling options). Just raw Markdown and get a url

If you use n8n / Make / Zapier / scripts and ever needed a quick "publish this" step, give it a try, curious if it fits anyone else’s workflow. Would love thoughts, edge cases, or feature ideas.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-24 05:19:51+00:00
You don't need this. Strictly speaking, we don't need much.

But a travel router can be nice to have.

I bring some tech with me when I travel.

Obviously a phone, but also a decent-sounding smart speaker with long battery life so I can hear some music of my choosing in decent fidelity without using Bluetooth [bonus: battery-backed alarm clock!], a laptop for computing, a streaming box for plugging into the TV, maybe some manner of SBC to futz with if I'm bored and can't sleep during downtime.

All of this stuff really wants to have a [wifi] connection to a local area network, like it has when I'm at home.

A travel router (this one, or something from any other vendor mentioned in these threads, or just about anything that can run openwrt well) solves that problem.

All I have to do is get the router connected to the Internet however I do that (maybe there's ethernet, decent wifi, or maybe my phone hotspot or USB tethering is the order of the day), and then everything else Just Works as soon as it is unpacked and switched on.

And it all works togetherly, on my own wireless LAN -- just as those things also work at home.

Bonus nachos: With some manner of VPN like Tailscale configured in the router, or the automagic stuff this UBNT device is claimed to be able to do, a person can bring their home LAN with them, too -- without individual devices being configured to do that.

I think travel routers are pretty great, myself.

(But using Ubiquiti gear makes me feel filthy for reasons that I can't properly articulate, so I stick with things like Latvian-built Mikrotik hardware or something running OpenWRT for my own travel router uses.)
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-24 05:19:52+00:00
Actually it's not even years of experience, I've seen grads with 2 yrs experience promoted to Senior with a minor raise because otherwise they might leave the company.

Licensed professionals don't have identity crises, their titles and what is required of them is legally enforced. The software industry has never lobbied for the interests of "engineers", the way other professions have (taxi drivers, barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, etc formed professional groups which lobbied for laws requiring official licensing). I think it's because software developers are the laziest people on the planet, and they are happy to continue doing almost nothing in order to get hired.
by elvinagy | 2025-12-24 05:20:37+00:00
Thanks for flagging this and for taking the time to point out the broken links. We open-sourced RustFS only a few months ago, and while we’ve been heavily focused on getting the core system to GA, that has admittedly created some documentation debt.

We’re actively reviewing the docs and cleaning up any 404s or navigation issues we can find. For the specific 404 you mentioned, we haven’t been able to reproduce it on our end so far, but we’re continuing to investigate in case it’s environment- or cache-related.

On the licensing side, we want to be clear that we’re fully committed to Apache 2.0 for the long term.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-24 05:21:12+00:00
I'm not so sure it's about knowing his own limitations, rather it's about building a reliable process and trusting that process more than either technology or people.

Any process that relies on 100% accuracy from either people or technology will eventually fail. It's just a basic matter of statistics. However, there are processes that CAN, at least in theory, be 100% effective.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-12-24 05:21:39+00:00
I don't see why? Your window width will presumably be tailored to accommodate common scenarios in your preferred tab width.

More than that, in the general case for common C like languages things should almost never be nested more than a few levels deep. That's usually a sign of poorly designed and difficult to maintain code.

Lisps are a notable exception here, but due to limitations (arguably poor design) with how the most common editors handle lines that contain a mix of tabs and spaces you're pretty much forced to use only spaces when writing in that family of languages. If anything that language family serves as case in point - code written with an indentation width that isn't to one's preference becomes much more tedious to adapt due to alternating levels of alignment and indentation all being encoded as spaces (ie loss of information which automated tools could otherwise use).
by jibal | 2025-12-24 05:21:51+00:00
I quoted the media. The main point in this context is the "rare" part. I'm well aware of the nature of the GOP operatives on the SCOTUS. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch all voted in Trump's favor. That Beerhead, Ms. IDreamOfGilead, and "Citizens United/I hate the VRA/worst chief justice since Taney" voted to temporarily uphold the stay actually surprised me (Bart O' said he would have given Trump more leeway) but yes, it's theater.
by sneak | 2025-12-24 05:22:02+00:00
> many tech companies have 50,000+ employees

There are not many tech companies with 50k+ employees, as a point of fact.

I’m not arguing just to argue - 300 people isn’t small by any measure. It’s absolutely not “extremely small” as was claimed. It’s not relatively small, it’s not “small for what they are doing”, it’s just not small at all.

300 people is a large company. The fact that a very small number of ultrahuge companies exist doesn’t change that.

For context, 300 people is substantially larger than the median company headcount in Germany, which is the largest economy in the EU.
by georgemcbay | 2025-12-24 05:24:59+00:00
> Please forward your next raise to me, since it will only raise your taxes.

Joking aside that's not really how taxes work (in the USA anyway).

A raise might move you into a higher top marginal tax rate, but only the money you earn above that new bracket threshold gets taxed at the higher rate, everything below the threshold continues to get taxed at the same rate as before.

Raises don't increase your taxes (though you might end up with a slightly higher top tax rate solely on the new money you weren't making at all before).
by pfannkuchen | 2025-12-24 05:25:04+00:00
But no they literally aren’t. If the Chinese government takes data from a Chinese company in China, there is no legal process available to anyone affected because it is outside of US jurisdiction. What is America going to sue China the country in American court? That’s <mentally deficient>.

I don’t mean US law is perfectly enforced on US drone companies, that’s <mentally deficient>. I mean that there exists a legal system that harmed people can use, as opposed to the case of Chinese companies where there does not exist etc.
by socketcluster | 2025-12-24 05:25:56+00:00
I disagree with the first point because I worked for quite a few companies on many different projects and less than 10% were doing it even approximately right... And these were all well regarded companies. I even worked for a company backed by YCombinator for over 1 year as a contractor.

I agree that you shouldn't plan too much, but my experience is that anticipating requirements is possible and highly valuable. It doesn't require planning but it requires intuition and an ability to anticipate problems and adhere to certain principles.

For example, in my current job, I noticed a pattern that was common to a lot of tasks early on. It was non-obvious. I implemented a module which everyone on my team ended up using for essentially every task thereafter. It could have been implemented in 100 different ways, it could have been implemented at a later time, but the way I implemented it meant that it saved everyone a huge amount of time since early on in the project.

Also, we didn't have to do any refactoring and were later able to add extra capabilities and implement complex requirement changes to all parts of the code retroactively thanks to this dependency.

One time we learned that we had to calculate the target date/time differently and our requirements engineer was very worried that this would require a large refactoring to all our processes. It didn't; we changed it in one place and didn't have to update even a single downstream process.

It was a relatively complex module which required some understanding of the business domain but it provided exactly the right amount of flexibility. Now, all my team members know how to update the config on their own. We haven't yet encountered a case it couldn't handle easily.

I have similar stories to tell about many companies I worked for. When AI can replace me, it will be able to replace most entrepreneurs and managers.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-24 05:28:08+00:00
Wisdom would be knowing not to try and exceed those limits

Intelligence would be knowing they exist (I know that I cannot fly by flapping my arms, it took intelligence to deduce that, wisdom tells me not to try and jump from a height and flap my arms to fly. Further intelligence can be applied, deducing that there are artificial means by which I can attain flight)
by solidsnack9000 | 2025-12-24 05:28:18+00:00
It was not that long ago, that most countries regulated products, communications, food, and many other things, even arms & munitions, very, very lightly. In the UK in 1903, a law was passed prohibiting the sale of pistols to children. The UK is a country where adults who have served in the military have a hard time buying a pistol today.

From 1900 onwards, the scope of safety regulation greatly expanded, and the state apparatus necessary to make that regulation stick also expanded. Different countries have gone in different directions with it. The US has a lot less safety than many other countries, but our regulations and regulatory apparatus greatly expanded, too. It's easy to sell safety to voters and with improving technology and information systems, more and more safety was possible.

We are probably approaching a local maxima of some kind in our approach to safety; or maybe we just suffer from a maniacal focus on it. Legislators are ever more willing to set aside the fundamental rights in the name of protecting the vulnerable from harm.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-24 05:28:53+00:00
> CIA ran torture prisons, got caught, then there was a congressional inquiry, and they hacked into the computers of the congresspeople to delete the evidence of torture

One, source?

Two, this above reproach. Not above the law. They deleted the evidence, they didn't just blow the scandal off. (Historically, our IC was popular. Right now, it's the deep state. You're seeing political appointees at the FBI and CIA exert control.)
by kyralis | 2025-12-24 05:29:25+00:00
I do this for everyone, not just senior positions. "If you were to start that again today, knowing everything you do now, what would you do differently?" is a question you can ask regardless of seniority. Even if they've only done some school projects, being able to look back and say "yeah, that could have gone better from the start" is a hugely valuable signal.

The details of how I ask it might change based on seniority, but that I ask it? No.
by greazy | 2025-12-24 05:30:12+00:00
I haven't seen an actual experiment that replicates anecdotal evidence but this discussion comes to mind

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42580659

from memory, the logical explanation is that by connecting to the same wifi the new tracked profile is being used. For example, the grand parent could have been learning Spanish, their profile gets picked up.

Another explanation is observation bias. Spanish ads were shown previously, but were ignored. Now you're on the lookout for them, so they're more noticeable.
by albert_e | 2025-12-24 05:30:16+00:00
With the aggressive push of LLMs and Generative AI ..i am expecting a lot of OCR features to become "smarter" by default, namely go beyond mechanical OCR and start inserting hallucinations and sematically/contextually "more correct" information in OCR output

It's not hard to imagine some powerful LLMs being able to undo some light redactions that are deducible based on context
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-24 05:30:45+00:00
> something a machine can do with 100% precision

Forget about typoes. Until recent LLMs, machines couldn't detect oblique or identifying references. (And with LLMs, you still have the problem of hallucinations. To say nothing of where you're running the model.)

> if you have to waste the attention of such people on doing ink redactions instead of dedicating all of their time to focused reading

You've never read a text with a highlighter or pen?

Out of curiosity, have you worked with sensitive information that needed to be shared across security barriers?