MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-02 21:08:32+00:00
I don't see why a VM is a problem, personally, and I like a lot of what C# has been exploring with `Span<T>` and `Memory<T>` for safe low-level memory management in a garbage-collected language. Some of it seems like a simpler Rust. Rust can still do plenty of memory lifetime things that C# can't, but the gap is smaller than ever and C# is still slowly growing its capabilities in that space. All that in a language where you don't have to start with the low level tools, you can prototype entirely in higher-level garbage collected space and use real world performance to guide optimizations towards the low-level memory management tools only when they become truly necessary.
by tdboorman | 2026-02-02 21:08:58+00:00
I believe the docs are just a bit unclear.

Your laptop does not have a standard M4 Chip it has an M4 Pro chip.

The 14in MacBook Pro comes/came with 3 chips types M4, M4 Pro, M4 Max

The model they are referencing is the base M4 and M5 chips - not the Pro or Max chips types which use the other port.
by 1attice | 2026-02-02 21:09:09+00:00
Well, it means no changes _intended as_ changes [pertaining to the topic at hand]; it implies there may be incidental alterations or differences, eg this issue might be addressed in a blanket legal revamp (whatever that's called) but, at least over this, they aren't pulling over the station wagon to argue with the screaming stakeholders in the back.

It's what we used to call "load-bearing vagueness"
by synapsomorphy | 2026-02-02 21:09:42+00:00
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by cardine | 2026-02-02 21:10:05+00:00
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by observationist | 2026-02-02 21:10:11+00:00
One of the reasons is that the US pays for a whole lot of those international institutions, creating policy and governance issues that end up beyond local accountability. The "force for good, or fairly harmless" rubric changes when it's your money. Then it becomes "why are they spending my money on that bullshit when we have fires to put out at home?"

Covid era politicization and the fallout from that has a lot to do with it as well.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-02 21:10:35+00:00
To give your 741 a run for their money:

http://www.philbrickarchive.org/k2-w_refurbished.pdf

+-300V supply + 6.3V heater. Amazing little thing. And technically this is an integrated circuit.

The plot thickens:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040417203904/http://www.eetime...

Fascinating stuff this.
by sporkl | 2026-02-02 21:10:42+00:00
Location: New York City area

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by scottious | 2026-02-02 21:10:48+00:00
I don't really buy this argument. I live a happily (nearly) car-free life with 3 kids. It's not hard, it really isn't. I bike them everywhere, we take transit. I even do our weekly grocery shopping by bike. I bike them to school year round (yes, even today when it was 10F this morning). I wouldn't consider myself "hardcore" at all. I'm just your average middle-aged dad.

I use our car approximately once per week. In 2024 I used my car a total of 32 times (I actually tallied it out for the whole year)

It's really just a matter of city design. Do you think there aren't families in Copenhagen who need to get to their job and shops? They manage with much lower car mileage than the average American. American suburbs are car-centric and those cars end up clogging up urban cores where people are trying to live their lives.

Many Americans/Canadians probably cannot even imagine what my life is like. They can't even picture what it means to pick up a week's worth of groceries for a family of 5 on a bike (with a kid!). It just doesn't even register that this is a possibility.
by Veserv | 2026-02-02 21:11:00+00:00
To be pedantic, that is a instance of the Berry paradox [1] and no you can not [2] as that would be a violation of Godel's incompleteness theorems.

edit: To clarify further, you could create a new formal language L+ that axiomatically defines 0 as "largest number according to L", but that would no longer be L, it would be L+. For any given language with rules at this level of power you could not make that statement without creating a new language with even more powerful rules i.e. each specific set of rules is capped, you need to add more rules to increase that cap, but that is a different language.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox

[2] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/the-no-self-defeat...
by stego-tech | 2026-02-02 21:11:09+00:00
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by JohnMakin | 2026-02-02 21:11:35+00:00
It’s a weird product of this hype cycle that inevitably involves denying the crazy power of the human brain - every second you are awake or asleep the brain is processing enormous amounts of information available to it without you even realizing it, and even when you abuse the crap out of the brain, or damage it, it still will adapt and keep working as long as it has energy.

No current ai technology could come close to what even the dumbest human brain does already.
by steve_gh | 2026-02-02 21:12:08+00:00
I was somewhat dissapointed at the perspective :-) seeing the article was from morningstar.com, I was expecting a radical left wing critique of EU and US tech policy.

[The "Morning Star" is a left wing UK paper, whose editorial stance is in line with the Communist Party of Great Britain (morningstaronline.co.uk)]

Interesting article though.
by jackinthehat | 2026-02-02 21:12:11+00:00
Feels like a few things are getting conflated.

DFU the protocol isn’t the issue — the ambiguity is around which physical port actually exposes DFU at boot, and that seems to vary by SoC variant (base vs Pro/Max), not just by chassis. The docs don’t make that distinction clear.

The fact that switching ports fixes the issue strongly suggests boot-ROM-level port routing differences. macOS wouldn’t have visibility there anyway, which explains the lack of diagnostics — but it also means the docs/UX are doing too much hand-waving.

This reads less like “DFU is broken” and more like a documentation gap that only shows up in recovery flows — exactly where precision matters most.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-02 21:12:19+00:00
>because LLMs aren't spitting out textbooks verbatim

Except that via the right prompt injections, some LLMs were caught they could spit out chapters of LoTR or Harry Potter 90% verbatim.

Safeguards LLMs implemented to prevent the output from being verbatim and to be considered legally transformative, are not legitimizing the IP theft, they're just covering it up, kind of like evidence spoliation.

But that's just my opinion, the courts will have to decide this one.
by pclmulqdq | 2026-02-02 21:12:23+00:00
The river dumping analogy is so bad it's laughable. Obviously you don't own the entire river when the river merely runs through your property nor do you own the ocean or the watershed, and property values surrounding yours go down by a measurable amount when you dump things in the river. What negative externalities does a parking lot create that an empty lot does not? Minimal noise from people pulling in and out? Extra walking time between lots that are built up? Some pollution from the cars? These are normal externalities from literally any building that might be there as well. You can see how this is a different class than a polluted river, and is literally immeasurable.

With regards to the argument presented in the article, it's arguable that parking lots create value by making places accessible to more people. As such, a parking lot raises the property values and economic output of neighboring properties. I didn't see anything about that covered in the article, nor did I see any actual data. This is why chambers of commerce and the like support parking mandates, because they actually have positive externalities, not negative ones.
by timerol | 2026-02-02 21:12:40+00:00
The average monthly payment for a used car in the US in 2025 was $532, according to https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/average-car-paym.... This does not count insurance, taxes, parking, or gas.

A status symbol will easily run you $1000/mo. I currently pay $350/mo (including cost of capital), and I don't know how I would pay less for a car that's not actively falling apart. Chevy Spark, manual transmission, $7k KBB value, averaging 500 miles per month.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-02 21:13:10+00:00
This is cool. My main question is just, what is its purpose, if not just a coding experiment?

Like you say, it's not scientific or representative. Is it for entertainment, do you want to gamify it? Is it pedagogical? Why is it anonymous? Do you want it to get picked up by the media? Are you trying to demonstrate something about public opinion or polarization? Do you want it to become popular? Do you want it to become more accurate? Or is it just a toy?

I have so many questions just because it could be so many different things, and the idea of a single daily poll on the main current event feels like it could have legs. (Though I don't know what today's poll about the death penalty has anything to do with today's or yesterday's news cycle?)

Very clever domain name btw.
by Nition | 2026-02-02 21:13:10+00:00
When LinkedIn went down this morning, unlike most of you I didn't panic. Instead, I was reminded of what's really important in life. That's right: My clients.

I decided to give my client Bob a call as I hadn't heard from him since I called him two days ago, and he hadn't picked up that time, or the seven times before that. But this time was different.

This time, he answered, and what happened next will surprise you.
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-02 21:13:13+00:00
AWS meant that (a lot of) "developers" were needing "Ops" skills

AI hasn't "forced" domain knowledge to be required at all, it's been there as a requirement for a long time (I had several medical projects turn myself and many other good developers away because we didn't have domain knowledge, which was fair because we needed to have some idea of the subtext in the field)
by isk517 | 2026-02-02 21:13:33+00:00
Also manages to sustain itself on it's own weird brand of whales, a handful of disgruntled users with enough money to just keep buying accounts using random characters as a username just to get immediately banned after their first post. Some taking a dump in the middle of your living room isn't so bad if they are paying your rent and you can just kick them back out.
by jackinthehat | 2026-02-02 21:13:42+00:00
years ago I watched a very senior engineer refuse to use an IDE debugger because “real understanding means doing it in your head.” He was brilliant - and also spent two days chasing a bug a junior fixed in 10 minutes by setting a breakpoint. The junior didn’t understand more; he just had a better tool for that moment.

Tools don’t make you wiser or lazier by default — they amplify whatever habits you already have. If you’re using them to avoid thinking, that shows. If you’re using them to explore faster, that shows too.

Beginner’s mind isn’t about ignorance; it’s about being willing to try leverage where it exists.
by bri3d | 2026-02-02 21:14:05+00:00
For what it's worth, generally in the US you can still buy a limited time subscription to the manufacturer's own diagnostic software for a reasonable price, for example BMW ISTA is $32/day, VW ODIS is $130/week, and Ford FDRS is $50 / 2 days. This is enough to complete most module replacement or upgrade tasks for a hobbyist, and still cheaper than dealership labor costs.

There's also a standard for the dongles (which specifies a DLL export interface from a driver, amusingly) called J2534 so you don't need a separate hardware interface for each make, although to your point, the way the laws around J2534 were written was too lax and some manufacturers have realized that there is a loophole where only certain diagnostic tasks like module reflashing need to be possible over J2534.

Also worth noting that reverse engineered software has generally not been majorly threatened by manufacturers in the automotive space; Forscan for Ford, VCDS and OBD11 for VW, and so on are all quite popular.

Unfortunately "security" restrictions especially in the EU and the uprise of ADAS systems has made things a lot harder; most makes now have some online challenge/response cryptography (ie VW SFD) for diagnostics where previously they had offline login, and most ADAS and camera systems require extremely expensive calibration jigs (this is a valid technical problem, but with no incentive to reduce cost or make these systems accessible, they end up being comically expensive).

Anyway the situation in automotive is way better than the situation in equipment and ag, so I don't think it's entirely fair to say that regulation was a complete failure.
by SimianSci | 2026-02-02 21:14:26+00:00
Software Development might be dead, but Software Engineering is alive and well.

Anyone seriously interfacing with AI code generation can tell you that understanding how software is composed and architected is, and will continue to be, a requirement to building anything worthwhile.
These systems are impressive but we are a far ways away from "Magical Genie Wishes" as a means of creating software.
by vel0city | 2026-02-02 21:14:51+00:00
I got my "nearly half" from the USDA which has stated:

> Because of provisions in the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 that permits farmers to make their own crop planting decisions based on the most profitable crop for a given year, corn acreage in the United States has increased from a Government-mandated low of 60.2 million planted acres in 1983 to close to or exceeding 90 million since 2018. Much of this growth in area and production is a result of expanding ethanol production, which now accounts for nearly 45 percent of total corn use.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn-and-other-feed-gr...

It does look like its dropped a bit since that time though.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-02-02 21:14:53+00:00
Plenty of people from the third world are interested in moving, trying something new. We should all be free to try new things, but of course you he world isn't set up that way. Seems like we could match up dual needs. The western developed world is in the midst of a racist and fascist period, so not the best time to try this. We have competing changes, shortage of workers in many job areas in the West like the trades in the US, also shortage of jobs for young people in the west.
by xtracto | 2026-02-02 21:15:27+00:00
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by PascualM | 2026-02-02 21:15:32+00:00
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by _fat_santa | 2026-02-02 21:15:55+00:00
It's kinda shocking that the same Supabase RLS security hole we saw so many times in past vibe coded apps is still in this one. I've never used Supabase but at this point I'm kinda curious what steps actually lead to this security hole.

In every project I've worked on, PG is only accessible via your backend and your backend is the one that's actually enforcing the security policies. When I first heard about the Superbase RLS issue the voice inside of my head was screaming: "if RLS is the only thing stopping people from reading everything in your DB then you have much much bigger problems"
by bluGill | 2026-02-02 21:15:59+00:00
Yes, though I can't recall enough details that I could help you search.

Basically anytime it is tried in the suburbs where nobody is walking now nothing changes. When a lot of people are already walking you can increase traffic by getting rid of cars.

Details matter, most of the places people take aware cars are already dense areas and they tell you about it. However in a few cases someone who hasn't understood the context tried to apply a lesson it doesn't apply and it fails.