MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-04 19:16:45+00:00
In the 1970s the very first research into self-driving posited that there would be an autodrive lane or lanes in the middle of the highway and that cars would form convoys that draft each other for fuel efficiency and higher density

https://darwincav.com/autonomous-convoys-the-future-of-the-r...

Like you say, to get really tight convoys it is not enough to just follow the car in front of you but you need V2V communication.
by niceworkbuddy | 2025-12-04 19:17:05+00:00
I wonder what part of these failed sales is due to GDRP requirements in the IT enterprise industry. I have my own european view, and it seems our governments are treating the matter very seriously. How do you ensure an AI agent won't leak anything? It just so happened that it wiped entire database or cleared a disk and later being very "sorry" about it. Is the risk worth it?
by nobody9999 | 2025-12-04 19:17:21+00:00
>I was exposed to porn several ways pre-Internet. Older siblings, news stands, late night cable. If I wanted more, I could get it. It was simply not a problem.

Yup. Me too.

And it goes back much further. Cf. "Pictures of Lily"[0] for a pop culture exposition from nearly sixty years ago. The point being that "porn" isn't anything new, nor was it difficult to obtain (hence a popular song about "porn") even before computer networks.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-PHDR2yhxE&list=RDg-PHDR2yh...

Edit: For those who would cite the current ubiquity of "hardcore" porn on the 'net, I'd say that's a difference in degree, not in kind. Something to consider.
by dmix | 2025-12-04 19:17:23+00:00
Either everyone uses HAML or no one does IMO.

Developers like to copy/paste UI component example HTML from Tailwind/Bootstrap documentation, they like predictability/portability. They don't want a project that's half HTML and half HAML...ie, Vue/React using HTML/JSX vs 50% of Rails views in HAML, 50% old ones in HTML.

Just like how using Vanilla JS is much smoother and reliable than using the latest wrapper framework.
by EasyMark | 2025-12-04 19:17:59+00:00
A lot of people seem to think all government is incompetent. While they may not be as efficient as corporations seeking profits, they do consistently make progress in limiting our freedom over time. You don't have to be a genius to figure things out over time, and government has all the time in the world. Our (USA) current regime is definitely taking efforts to consolidate info on and surveil citizens as never before. That's why DOGE, I believe served two purposes, gutting regulatory government agencies overseeing billionaire bros activities and also providing both government intelligence agencies and the billionaire bros more data to build up profiles for both nefarious activities and because "more information is better than less information" when you are seeking power over others. I don't think it is simply "they're big dummies and assume they weren't up to anything" that others are trying to sell holds water as Project 2025 was planned for well over a decade.
by rdtsc | 2025-12-04 19:18:15+00:00
> Oracle is an incredibly litigious company. Their awful reputation in this respect means that the JS ecosystem can never be sure they won't swoop in and attempt to demand rent someday. This is made worse by the army of lawyers they employ; even if they're completely in the wrong, whatever project they go after probably won't be able to afford a defense.

That is why on one level I am surprised by the petition. They are talking to a supercharged litigation monster and are asking it "Dear Oracle, ... We urge you to release the mark into the public domain". You know what a litigation happy behemoth does in that case? It goes asks some AI to write a "Javascript: as She Is Spoke" junk book on Amazon just so they can hang on to the trademark. Before they didn't care but now that someone pointed it out, they'll go out of their way to assert their usage of it.

On the other hand, maybe someone there cares about their image and would be happy to improve it in the tech community's eyes...
by anon84873628 | 2025-12-04 19:18:58+00:00
People seem to take for granted that since agriculture is one of the oldest technologies, it must be a "solved problem" and our modern approach is optimal.

When in reality, modern industrial agriculture is one of the most ham fisted and naive approached to the problem: just bulldoze, fertilize, irrigate, and spray everything into submission. With many negative consequences of course, which we generally refer to as "unsustainable".

Because understanding all the complex relationships within an ecosystem, and then how to engineer it to yield surplus material for human use without intolerable negative consequences, is in fact a cutting edge and poorly grasped science.

The "biocultural legacy" is an empirical approach to this problem refined over milenia, which we would do well to understand and appreciate.
by bluGill | 2025-12-04 19:19:35+00:00
(read the other replies first, they make good points)

I knew plenty of kids in the 1970s that were "a little off" (probably including me), but they were not so bad that we would remove them from society which was the only option back then so we called them normal. Now that we have treatment we give it not only to those so autistic that they can't function in society at all, but also those who could function but not well and treat them.
by leecoursey | 2025-12-04 19:20:09+00:00
JavaScript, which runs on an estimated 98.9 percent of all websites globally, is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its initial announcement. The programming language originated from a joint press release issued by Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems in May 1995, following an intensive 10-day sprint by Netscape engineer Brendan Eich who developed the foundational working prototype. Netscape intended the design to be a lightweight scripting tool that would appeal to web designers and non-professional programmers, allowing them to add interactive elements to webpages. JavaScript quickly grew past its browser origins and now consistently ranks among the most widely used languages in the world, powering mobile applications, server infrastructure, desktop software, and embedded systems.
by ordersofmag | 2025-12-04 19:20:24+00:00
The multiple meanings of many of the words in this sentence make it really poor at communicating what the site is about. "Endeavour" (with a capital 'E') is a proper name I associate with a space shuttle, and 'stellar' can mean 'having to do with stars'. So a first read for me leads to the conclusion that this site has something to do with space flight. And 'system' could mean almost anything. Maybe this site will let me personalize my own star system? All I can take away is that I'm not sure what this is, but clearly I'm not the target audience. Which I'm fine with.....
by arjie | 2025-12-04 19:20:25+00:00
When I filed my last DS-160 for my final H-1B renewal before I got my green card, I remember filling in my social media identifiers. In fact, a look at a 2019 document reveals that providing the identifiers has been required since at least back then[0]. Given that the identifiers must be offered, the intent must be that the posts should be read, so this is unsurprising[1].

I suppose one happy fact from this must be that USCIS has never had convenient access to dragnet surveillance. For if they did, they would simply have used the backdoor rather than ask you to make the profile public. For my part, I always assumed that the US Government knew everything I posted.

I'm sure that if they didn't like me for some reason, they'd find a Richelieu accusation to make from what I've written. One would imagine it is like that other self-evident thing in the First Amendment, "separation of church and state", that is also practiced where convenient and not otherwise. Unless born American (and perhaps now, also "to Americans born American") some degree of scepticism for the tenets of the American Civil Religion will serve anyone well.

0: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Enhanced%20Vettin...

1: I'm sure someone could construct machinery where a blacklist is produced by one arm of the government with view to posts which is used by another arm that which has no post-access but I think that was unlikely when this was designed
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-12-04 19:20:28+00:00
> So where were these people during my time?

Testing accomodations are generally done at a separate time. So students with an accomodation requiring a low distraction environment or extra test time would all take their test after the main test takers.

This came with the dual advantage of providing an alternate time for students who had excused absences to take the test as well.

TLDR: You don't normally see the students with accomodations during tests unless you also have an accomodation or you had a conflict with the test time/date.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-12-04 19:21:02+00:00
Can we also talk about increasing lack of physical controls, like for adjusting the aircon etc? Surely it's not legal in most places to fiddle with a touchscreen when you're driving? And if the legal answer is to pull over every time you want to change the controls, what if you're on a long drive on the freeway or a congested road, and there's no room to pull over?
by JyrkiAlakuijala | 2025-12-04 19:21:14+00:00
Not really. FLIF is too slow to decode, about 20x slower than WebP lossless. JPEG XL modular mode uses a similar static context modeling with WebP lossless and Brotli and likely LZHAM where all the entropy codes are generated at decoding time. Also JPEG XL forces tiled coding, making multi-threaded decoding a possibility.
by dctoedt | 2025-12-04 19:21:18+00:00
I'm mostly a law professor these days. When final-exam time rolls around (as in, this week), I raise my eyebrows when I'm sent the list of students who get 50% extra time. I wouldn't presume to judge the propriety of any given student's accommodation. But many of the accommodated students seem to have done just fine in class discussions during the semester.

FTA: "Unnecessary accommodations are a two-front form of cheating—they give you an unjust leg-up on your fellow students, but they also allow you to cheat yourself out of genuine intellectual growth."
by heelix | 2025-12-04 19:21:41+00:00
Ah man, I owned a Jag XJS with the V12. Nothing on that car was what I'd consider 'normal'. Want to change the brake pads - down the rabbit hole I went. That car was why I own a voltmeter. I was a lot more knowledgeable after that car - smart enough to run, not walk from an XKE opportunity.
by rietta | 2025-12-04 19:22:24+00:00
Very succinct, I agree.

I honestly have never heard anyone—even those executing it poorly—try to frame Servant Leadership the way the original author did here (the "curling parent" analogy).

I have certainly seen people fail badly at practicing this style, but that failure was invariably due to a lack of character, poor communication skills, or other individual execution matters, not an issue with the core concept of servant leadership itself.
by h2zizzle | 2025-12-04 19:22:37+00:00
I tend to agree, but there's something to be said for a retribution focus taking time and energy away from problem-solving. When market turmoil hits, stand up facilities to guarantee food and healthcare access, institute a nationwide eviction moratorium, and then let what remains of the free market play out. Maybe we pursue justice by actually prosecuting corporate malfeasance this time. The opposite of 2008.
by Willamin | 2025-12-04 19:22:45+00:00
I personally prefer leaving the measurement in the instructions for two reasons.

1. I'll often use the ingredients list (and quantities there) before cooking to ensure that I have everything I need ahead of time. Depending on what ingredient it is, I might not mise en place it. In those cases, a step that says "add ingredient" would require me to go reference the list in the beginning, losing a bit of context.

2. It's not often, but I've followed a few recipes that require a particular ingredient in 2 different steps in different amounts.
Ask HN: Would you use an AI that translates your body's signals? (3-min survey)
by app-neosoma | 2025-12-04 19:23:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m exploring an idea that has been stuck in my head for months, and I would love your feedback.

Today, wearables give us tons of numbers : HRV, stress, sleep stages, recovery, resting HR, energy… But very few people actually understand what these metrics mean for their body and their day-to-day decisions.

What I’m working on is a simple concept:

An AI that acts as an “interface” between you and your body - it reads your wearable data - and translates it into clear, human language.

Instead of charts and scores, it would tell you things like: • “Your body is under tension today” • “Good energy window this morning” • “Recovery is low, take it slow” • “Stress slightly elevated this afternoon”

And you could even ask it questions like: “Why do I feel tired today?” “Should I push or rest?” “What is my body reacting to?” And it would answer based on your own signals.

Before going further, I’m trying to understand whether people actually want this, whether they find their current data confusing, or whether a “translator for the body” would be helpful.

So I made a very short survey (<3 min): https://forms.gle/Rwo7RcipgNtbubWw6

If you use an Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, Garmin, Fitbit, anything… your feedback would help me tremendously.

Thank you HN, your insights have always been gold.
by margalabargala | 2025-12-04 19:24:16+00:00
The word "cheating" is loaded with a lot of values and judgement that I think makes it inappropriate to use the way you did.

There's a point where it's not immoral to leverage systems available to you to land yourself in a better situation. Avoiding increasingly-overcrowded housing situations is I think one of them.

If Stanford's standards for these housing waivers are sufficiently broad that 38% of their students quality, isn't that a problem with Stanford's definitions, not with "cheating"?
by VikingCoder | 2025-12-04 19:24:20+00:00
If you're making a product, I think Kickstarter is awesome.

If you're making entertainment, I think Patreon is awesome.

If you're making OSS... I'm not sure we have a good system. Buy Me A Coffee or a TipJar... Starring a repository... They're good... but they're not enough.

Upvoting on Hacker News whenever I see something promising is another thing I do that I hope might help...

I kind of wish I could subscribe to some monthly payment that tracked my usage of OSS, and sent each a fraction of the money, and that they appraised which systems they depended on, so it flowed down to them, too, and etc...
by quibono | 2025-12-04 19:24:25+00:00
Okay, I was intrigued and I did some digging. Morton / Z-order is all about interleaving the individual bits of the x and y coordinates. You end up grouping by quadrants. Python one liner:

points.sort(key=lambda p: sum(((p[0]>>i&1)<<(2*i))|((p[1]>>i&1)<<(2*i+1)) for i in range(16)))
by robbogie | 2025-12-04 19:24:30+00:00
The real problem is just the sheer number of dependencies we accept as normal now. Especially in the Node ecosystem, the culture is to install a package for literally everything.

You pull in one library and suddenly you have a dependency tree of 500 sub-packages. That is a massive attack surface. It feels like we have given up on actually vetting code because it is physically impossible to audit that much stuff. We are basically just crossing our fingers that the maintainers 4 levels deep are doing their job
by tavavex | 2025-12-04 19:24:50+00:00
Your comment has two separate messages that, despite not technically contradicting one another, don't really relate to each other in any way.

1. The current status quo has been the default that's been in place for 20-30 years now

2. Despite this, the situation is so dire right now (did something new happen recently? Worldwide?) that we must do something about it now now now - even if that oversteps and takes away rights, even if it sells off your most private data to random third parties, even if it establishes a framework for broader censorship, doing something NOW is so important that it must trample all other concerns

My whole generation grew up on unrestricted internet, and while I agree that it's not the ideal situation, the experience I and everyone else I know had over these decades suggests that it's not the apocalyptic catastrophe that everyone pretends it to be. Something should be done, but it must be done carefully and in moderation as to avoid censoring and limiting adults in an attempt to make the entire internet child-first.

Instead, what we're seeing is half of the first world suddenly remembering about this after 20 years and steamrolling ahead in complete lockstep. Does this not worry you in any way? And look at what each one is proposing. Why are there no middle-ground privacy-first proposals anywhere? For some reason, those are confined to research papers and HN posts, not policy. Even without thinking of complicated cryptography and tokens and whatnot, think of this: what if ISPs were legally mandated to ship their routers in "child-censored mode" to everyone but businesses and households with no children? They would filter out all the websites that Ofcom or whatever other agency decides are inappropriate for children, but the router owner/operator could go in the settings and authorize individual devices for full internet access.

But that would place the burden of filtering appropriate content on the government, rather than every website in the world - and it wouldn't allow them to extract money via lawsuits and fines. More importantly, it also doesn't allow them to do favors and subcontract benevolent third-party businesses to store and process every user's identity in association with what they visit. I'm betting it's because of those reasons that any privacy-friendly approaches are a complete non-starter.
by windsignaling | 2025-12-04 19:25:13+00:00
I didn't realize these archive links were still working. Ever since the FBI order in November, these links have just been hanging for me. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ had been saying it was down so I just thought it actually was down for everyone, but I continue to see these links posted. Is the site still working for some people?
by prepend | 2025-12-04 19:25:39+00:00
I’ve been using “autism that I care about” because a large number of people I encounter are on the spectrum / neurodivergent (hobbies and work I suppose) that require very different interventions and accommodations that people with whatever you call significantly affected people with autism are called (eg, Rain Man, etc).

Not that people low on the spectrum aren’t important, they are, but that just using standard interaction tactics that I would with non-spectrum people works well enough.

So trying to save time that someone doesn’t need to interrupt the conversation to say they are on the spectrum and can only eat smooth foods or whatever.
by 0x457 | 2025-12-04 19:25:43+00:00
> When I was researching about this a few years ago I read some really long in-depth scathing posts about Open stack. One of them explicitly called it a childish set of glued together python scripts that fall apart very quickly when you get off the happy path.

And according to every ex-Amazoner I've ment: the core of AWS is a bunch of Perl scripts glued together
by groundzeros2015 | 2025-12-04 19:25:59+00:00
Well I’m saying more than that.

There is no historical precedent for our democratic system. Not Romans, Greeks, or 13 colonies. Why cite them?

Nobody has ever had a system with 300 million people having almost direct voting while simultaneously having no definition of a citizen besides “born here”.

I’m skeptical. The Trump/Fetterman/RFK phenomenon is the fruit of this democracy, not an unlikely aberration.
by wongarsu | 2025-12-04 19:26:14+00:00
Trademark law is kind of about hypotheticals though. The purpose of a trademark is to prevent theoretical damages from potential confusion, neither of which you ever have to show to be real

In this case the trademark existing and belonging to Oracle is creating more confusion than no trademark existing, so deleting it is morally right. And because Oracle isn't actually enforcing it it is also legally right

Imho this is just the prelude to get better press. "We filed a petition to delete the JavaScript trademark" doesn't sound nearly as good as "We collected 100k signatures for a letter to Oracle and only got silence, now we formally petition the USPTO". It's also a great opportunity to find pro-bono legal council or someone who would help fund the petition
by windows_hater_7 | 2025-12-04 19:26:25+00:00
I go to one of those elite universities now, and I get academic accommodations. I think some of the increase is truly from greater awareness about disabilities among teachers and parents. My mom was a teacher, and she was the one who first suspected that I had dyslexia. I repeated kindergarten, and I was privileged that my parents were able to afford external educational psychology testing. Socioeconomic status is a large part of my success. Even seemingly small things like the fact that my parents could pick me up after school so that I could go to tutoring was something that other kids didn’t have, because their parents were working or didn’t have a car.
by billy99k | 2025-12-04 19:26:49+00:00
Who says I only have one client? It's also one of the reasons that it's so difficult to actually start a company in many of these countries, and the economic landscape consists of large multi-national corporations and the government.

It's also not illegal (at least in the US), if you have your own LLC/company.

This kind of thinking is why I've had steady work while working remotely for many years and we see articles like this crying about companies taking away remote work.
by bwfan123 | 2025-12-04 19:26:54+00:00
> but friction is necessary if we want to maneuver and get feedback from the environment

You are positing that we are active learners whose goal is clarity of cognition and friction and cognitive-struggle is part of that. Clarity is attempting to understand the "know-how" of things.

Tech and dare I say the natural laziness inherent in us instead wants us to be zombies being fed the "know-that" as that is deemed sufficient. ie the dystopia portrayed in the matrix movie or the rote student regurgitating memes. But know-that is not the same as know-how, and know-how is evolving requiring a continuously learning agent.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-12-04 19:27:01+00:00
Best teacher I had in university offered "unlimited time on tests". Their tests were hard as hell but they were scheduled after the last class of the day and ran until like 10 at night. It worked out to like 5 hours of test time even if most people could complete the test in like ~1.5-2 hours.

The policy was essentially "you have until the teacher/TA needs to go home" and given everyone in university is always swamped with work they were generally willing to stick around and get their own work done until it got super late and even then, even if you were the last test taker they'd generally negotiate a final 10-20 minutes with heads up so you could do your best to wrap up even if you weren't done.

But generally the rule is ~2x test time. The extended test time accomodation is normally listed as "double time" in my experience even if profs were generally willing to give you more than 2x time if you were still making meaningful progress.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-12-04 19:27:03+00:00
My kid hated school in kindergarten as well. As did I. I didn't get any kind of intervention, and I feel like that set me on a terrible course.

My kid, mercifully, was diagnosed and received intervention in the form of tutoring, therapy, that sort of thing. He still has weapons-grade ADHD, and his handwriting is terrible (dysgraphia), but he seems to have beat the dyslexia and loves reading almost as much as his mother and I do. He's happier, healthier, and has a brighter future.

I really, really hope your friend comes to understand, somehow, that their kid needs intervention, and will benefit tremendously from it.