MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rho_soul_kg_m3 | 2026-03-09 19:54:44+00:00
For me, wasm is a godsend. I sure hope it doens't go away. I can write a reasonably complex GUI with Rust and egui and OpenGL and put it online without having to deal with browser/Javascript/TS nonsense. The only pain points for me, so far, are (1) network and local file access for which I had to write tiny amounts of wrapper JS (2) having to rewrite shaders for OpenGL ES and (3) executor gymnastics for manual cooperative scheduling of some background computations, apparently multithread support isn't quite there yet. Also it works perfectly fine under Firefox, Chromium and even on my cellular telephone (these things have browsers now!) with Vanadium and Firefox mobile.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-09 19:55:01+00:00
PTC and Aicas aren't Java on smartcards, they are Java on high integrity computing where human lives might be at stake.

Interesting how compiler specific extensions are ok for C, with a freestanding subset, or Rust no_std, but when it goes to other languages it is no longer the same.

I stand corrected on async Rust then.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-09 19:55:16+00:00
So, in the interest of 'curious discourse' how would you suggest I should have written my comment so that it would be more professional, less snarky and less hostile?

You see, the comment that I replied to made an assumption, that assumption is embedded in the word 'probably'. The person that wrote that presumes to know what I intend. I corrected that. Clarified it and moved on. If that seems hostile and snarky to you then I'm happy to be educated. For myself, I think the comment I replied to could have been phrased as a question rather than a statement.
by kamarg | 2026-03-09 19:55:36+00:00
Where I live, it's common to see at least one person run a red at every major intersection and not just for left turns that couldn't be made due to cross-traffic. Quite often these drivers have expired temp tags which means they don't have insurance because you have to show you registered your vehicle to get insurance. Enforcement is awful so people have been trained to realize there's virtually no consequences to their bad habits. And if they do cause an accident, well it's not like the police will show up in time to stop them from driving off.

In fact, it's so bad that parts of the metro are reinstating red light cameras this year despite having decommissioned them years ago for similar legal reasons as what Florida has run into.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-03-09 19:55:58+00:00
> good proportion of those 44% are Christians

I was referring to the "44%" which the previous post was making a case for represent MAGA people who support Trump no matter what he does -- not Christians in general.

MAGA has a very strong Evangelical block who are rabid "Christians" (though frankly they more closely resemble the Catholic Inquisition and have very little to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ)
by belisarius222 | 2026-03-09 19:56:18+00:00
Mog is AOT-compiled, not JIT'd.

JIT means the code is interpreted until some condition kicks in to trigger compilation. This is obviously common and provides a number of advantages, but it has downsides too:
1) Code might run slowly at first.
2) It can be difficult to predict performance -- when will the JIT kick in? How well will it compile the code?

With Mog, you do have to pay the up-front cost of compiling the program. However, what I said about "no process startup cost" is true: there is no other OS process. The compiler runs in process, and then the compiled machine code is loaded into the process. Trying to do this safely is an unusual goal as far as I can tell. One of the consequences of this security posture is that the compiler and host become part of the trusted computing base. JITs are not the simplest things in the world, and not the easiest things to keep secure either. The Mog compiler is written entirely in safe Rust for this reason.

This up-front compilation cost is paid once, then the compiled code can be reused. If you have a pre-tool-use hook, or some extension to the agent itself, that code runs thousands of times, or more. Ahead-of-time compilation is well-suited for this task.

If this is used for writing a script that agent runs once, then JIT compilation might turn out to be faster. But those scripts are often short, and our compiler is quite fast for them as it is in the benchmarking that I've done -- there are benchmarking scripts in the repo, and it would be interesting to extend them to map out this landscape more.

Also, in my experience, in this scenario, the vast majority of the total latency of waiting for the agent to do what you asked it is due to waiting for an LLM to finish responding, not compiling or executing the script it generated. So I've prioritized the end-to-end performance of Mog code that runs many times.
by fancyfredbot | 2026-03-09 19:57:44+00:00
What made HR act in this way? They clearly felt they were protecting the company by firing this person, but they've done nothing wrong and it's unclear they posed any kind of threat to the company. Certainly the complaint about his co-worker would not be perceived as a threat.

I will give some weight to the possibility that Uber HR are utterly disfunctional, but on balance I'm left with the impression there's more to this story than we're being told.
by nazgulsenpai | 2026-03-09 19:57:47+00:00
It worked so incredibly well on the Windows Phone 7, but translated horribly to the Windows 8 desktop. Especially the weird mouse gesture to get to the neutered Settings panel, the redundancy of that panel to begin with, and the entire UWP app experience. Windows 10 was a great marriage of these two concepts, even if the Settings menu was still redundant, it was functional. Then comes along Windows 11 even it's most recent feature updates feels like a half-finished UI.
by mold_aid | 2026-03-09 19:57:59+00:00
You are not able to write like Shakespeare. Shakespeare isn't really even a great example of an "author" per se. Like anybody else you could get away with: "well I read a lot of Bukowski and can do a passable imitation" or "I'm a Steinbeck scholar and here's a description of his style." But not Shakespeare.

I get that you're into AI products and ok, fine. But no you have not "studied [Shakespeare] greatly" nor are you "able to write like [Shakespeare]." That's the one historical entity that you should not have chosen for this conversation.

This bot is likely just regurgitating bits from the non-fiction writing of authors like an animatronic robot in the Hall of Presidents. Literally nobody would know if the LLM was doing even a passable job of Truman Capote-ing its way through their half-written attempt at NaNoWriMo
by cootsnuck | 2026-03-09 19:58:11+00:00
Yea, it has been a little shocking to me that the rising narratives around "AI agents everywhere" and "enable the web for AI agents" requires what we've all been wanting for awhile on the web (openness and interoperability) but that the same big players in tech have been clearly against for a long time. Like the fact that Google recently released that Google Workspace CLI (https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli) is a perfect example.

They could've released something like that years ago (the discovery service it's built on has existed for over a decade) but creating a simple, accessible, unified CLI for general integration apparently wasn't worth it until agents became the hot thing.

I wonder when / if there will be a rug pull on all of this. Because I really don't see what the long-term incentives are for incumbent tech platforms to make it easy for automated systems to essentially pull users away from the actual platform. I guess they're focused on the short term incentives. And once they decide the party's over, promising upstarts and competition can get absorbed and it'll be business as usual. Idk, we'll see.
by KronisLV | 2026-03-09 19:58:30+00:00
I think a container of Kanboard https://kanboard.org/ and an MCP integration would achieve something similar - mostly cause when I think of project management tools that is the only one that actually feels insanely snappy, compared to the slowness of Jira, OpenProject and tbh Trello is also slower.

Would actually be cool to have more local tools like that, that something like Claude Code can integrate with. Find a bug in the code of your own implementation? Comment it in the issue, or add a new thing to fix, then at the end of implementation do a small retro and maybe end up with a SHORT sentence to add to CLAUDE.md on what to look out for in the particular project, OR create a new work item to make some additional prebuild scripts or tests.
by LegionMammal978 | 2026-03-09 19:59:24+00:00
If it were just as simple to run society off of those, we would've been doing it to some extent already: it's not like Big Coal or Big Oil was blocking everyone else from having ideas about how to generate power (see: the initial spread of gas power, followed by the spread of nuclear power), and surely many people would've had the incentive to produce power without dealing with oilmen. It's that it would've been dramatically more expensive without all the design iterations they have since gone through.

And if you greatly restrict supply at a given price point, without changing the underlying demand, you'll end up with much higher prices and lower total volume, so we wouldn't enjoyed all the compounding benefits from access to energy.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-09 19:59:35+00:00
>I don’t think it would be crazy to hold me financially responsible if a shooting happens with my gun.

States have had to write laws for this to be a criminal matter. Before then it was a civil matter, but it was individuals against individuals and not state against individuals.

>Which seems to just relabel any fine from the government as a criminal matter?

It wasn't exactly about the fine, but points on a license I believe.
by seemaze | 2026-03-09 19:59:54+00:00
Same here; tickets always include the photo of the driver. If the photo is unclear or differs from the registered owner, tickets are easily dismissed.

However, I agree with Florida on this; the onus should be not be on the accused to prove innocence after a citation is issued. Feels like a 'call us to unsubscribe' time-wasting dark pattern.
by riedel | 2026-03-09 19:59:59+00:00
As a university computer scientist, I saw our graduates hardly getting job in automotive directly while mechanical engineers got all the good jobs for years. Then about 10 years ago the opposite happened: people quit their PhDs because industry was hiring as many CS /AI people they could get. Industry understood that they needed to invest (even it was already a bit late). However, they IMHO failed to turn scale that talent into sustainable innovation. Many people I know left again automotive. I think industry struggled quite a bit to translate engineering leadership to a digital age in many parts. I think it was easier for pure EV manufacturers to embrace also other digital innovations.
by brandonc7 | 2026-03-09 20:00:35+00:00
I’m working on a language learning tool where it uses LLMs to generate stories at your ideal level. The idea is the user would be provided stories that are 95% comprehensible, with the other 5% being a mix of brand new words or words you are still learning. As you read the story you click on words that you still don’t fully understand. I am only working on Spanish right now, since I want to optimize for each language. It’s been fun designing my databases, coming up with calculation ideas, designing story validation, creating an estimation system of a user’s knowledge for onboarding. I know there is some debate about LLMs in language learning and I don’t think they should be trusted to explain grammar but if you validate it’s output it can be such a great tool to learn at your perfect level.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-09 20:00:37+00:00
> As a fossil fuel comparison, Gas costs about £114 per MWh.

You're comparing the cost for coal as baseload to the cost for natural gas as a peaker plant. When using both for baseload, combined cycle natural gas is cheaper than coal and emits less CO2.

Meanwhile renewables are cheaper than both until they represent enough of the grid that you have to contend with intermittency:

https://www.ourworldofenergy.com/images/electrical-power-gen...

Which doesn't happen until it gets close to being a majority of generation, and which most countries aren't at yet so can add more without incurring significant costs for firming.

In other words, the currently cheapest way to operate a power grid, if that's all you care about, is to have something like half renewables and half natural gas. Add some nuclear -- even just, don't remove any -- and CO2 goes down by a lot because then you're only using natural gas for peaking/firming instead of baseload, while still having costs in line with historical norms.

The obviously bad thing many places are doing is shutting down older power plants without building enough new capacity in anything else to meet existing demand, and then prices go up. But that's not because you're using e.g. solar instead of coal, it's because you're trying to use demand suppression through higher prices instead of coal. It's easy to get rid of coal as long as you build something else.
by ShowalkKama | 2026-03-09 20:00:40+00:00
> Allowing women to make a selection based on this likelihood means that female customers that are alone can make choices to still use the service while reducing the overall risk.

I'm failing to see how anything you say could be used as a guideline to pick between "good" discrimination and "bad" discrimination.
The major distinction you draw between "Type II" and "Type I" is the fact that one is fueled by "arbitrary aversion" which is not a particularly useful distinction.

What if I denied entry to black people from my bar because ""they commit more crimes"" and ""are more likely to break stuff"", is it morally ok? Why not?
My opinion is that no, it's not ok because the majority of people punished were never going to behave in an uncivil way.

The same logic can be easily applied to this situation. Are men more likely to behave sexually inappropriately (which ranges from verbal harassment to assault)? Sure.
Is it the majority? Hell no, it's nowhere close.

(Of course it's worth nothing that the "majority" does not necessarily have 50.01%, it's just an arbitrary line you can draw as long as you are consistent about it)
by simianwords | 2026-03-09 20:01:17+00:00
how would you empirically disprove that it doesn't have understanding?

i can prove that it does have understanding because it behaves exactly like a human with understanding does. if i ask it to solve an integral and ask it questions about it - it replies exactly as if it has understood.

give me a specific example so that we can stress test this argument.

for example: what if we come up with a new board game with a completely new set of rules and see if it can reason about it and beat humans (or come close)?
by arcalinea | 2026-03-09 20:01:29+00:00
Jay here: this is a transition I've been working towards for awhile, and I'm looking forward to advancing the vision and ecosystem as CIO (Chief Innovation Officer). Toni has been an advisor to us for years, and I personally recruited him to take over as CEO while I focus on new projects. It's an honor to have him on board to lead us into this next stage of growth.
by charcircuit | 2026-03-09 20:01:32+00:00
>Because its existence relies on a good will of Google

AOSP is open source. Anyone can fork it.

>Google will allow only apps from verified developers

This is done by Play Services which is not included in AOSP even.

>Only megacorps will likely be able to support a hard fork for such a large codebase.

The same can be said about any operating system. The scope of an operating system is huge.
by fusslo | 2026-03-09 20:01:34+00:00
After reading the 21 page order, I do tend to agree with the judge

The judge frames the red light camera scheme as a revenue generating scheme, not a public safety measure.

Additionally, "A distinctive feature of the statutory scheme is its assignment of guilt to the registered owner rather than the driver of the vehicle". and "If there are multiple registered owners, the citation is issued to the 'first' registered 'owner'". and the person whom the citation was issued to must sign an affidavit that includes the name, address, dob, of the person who was actually driving. The judge says this "...abandon(s) centuries time honored protections of hearsay as substantive evidence.".

"It is a foundational rule of constitutional due process that the government must prove every fact necessary to constitute an offense beyond a reasonable doubt before a person may be adjudicated guilty of a crime".

"Although nominally civil, traffic infraction proceedings retain every substantive hallmark of criminal prosecution..." "under Feiock, such proceedings are sufficiently criminal in form and function to invoke the full protections of due process..." - that's probably the core of the reasoning here.

"Section 316.074(1) provides in relevant part that "The driver of any vehicle shall obey..."" - the driver, not the registered owner.

I highly recommend reading the order. It's easy to follow and aligns with my understanding of the law within the USA.
by kenjackson | 2026-03-09 20:01:38+00:00
> His first mistake was complaining to HR about another employee griefing him. HR is always going to consider the initial complainer as "the problem."

I can say this definitely isn't always true. In the companies I've worked at HR has always been extremely reasonable and cooperative with harassment claims. But corporate culture probably matters here, and I've never worked at a place like Uber.

That said, I would be curious to actual know the correspondence that was sent between the two. I can also say being a manager who has had to deal with a situation between two employees (more than once), they often both claim to be the one being harassed -- and usually even a little bit of digging reveals really clearly who the aggressor is.
by ig0r0 | 2026-03-09 20:01:49+00:00
I recently built a small iOS expense tracker called Ledgee.

I tried quite a few finance apps over the years, but they all felt too heavy for what I needed. I mainly wanted the fastest possible way to record a transaction before I forget it.

The core interaction is basically:

enter amount → tap category → saved

No save button, no forms, no subscriptions. Just quick manual entry, a simple overview, and a ledger. Data syncs via iCloud so it’s backed up automatically.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ledgee/id6759487219

I’m curious whether other people also prefer manual entry over bank integrations.
by Terr_ | 2026-03-09 20:02:36+00:00
"Solved?" The content does not support the title.

From a quick video-skim, it's mostly background plus being excited about a paper: "H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs" [0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01797
by insane_dreamer | 2026-03-09 20:02:46+00:00
Spend a few years in China.

Most people don't understand this about China, and most reporters who go there are like "I spent 2 weeks in China and here's what it's like", or "I spent a semester studying at Beida (Peking U)".

10+ years ago there were places where social media posts were archived by some brave individuals before they were scrubbed so you could see what words were being targeted by censors. But that's long shut down to my knowledge.
by carefree-bob | 2026-03-09 20:02:58+00:00
It's a fair point, but I would flip this around a bit:

Ukraine wants nukes to defend itself from Russia (a nuclear power). Taiwan wants nukes to defend itself from China (a nuclear power). Iran wants nukes to defend itself from the US and Israel (both nuclear powers). India and Pakistan both want nukes to defend themselves from each other (both nuclear powers).

Now I don't want to get into a debate that it is really the benevolent Pakistanis fighting off aggressive Indians or vice-versa or that really Taiwan is the aggressor and that China is a benevolent neighbor, or that poor little Israel is just trying to defend itself from Iran, etc. Those regional squabbles mean nothing to me as I don't even care who is the "real" aggressor, all that matters is that you have two nations in conflict, and when there are two nations in conflict, it is not a stable situation to pretend that just one of them will have nukes but the other will not.

The moment one side gets nukes, the surrounding nations they are in conflict with will also want to get nukes. So as soon as the US got nukes, it's rival, the USSR, also got nukes. And as soon as Israel got nukes, it made it inevitable that at least a few regional rivals in the middle east will get nukes.

Trying to prevent this is guaranteed to fail. It does not matter what the government in Iran happens to be, as long as they care about their own survival, they know they need nukes as long as Israel has them. More importantly, attacking the nation before it gets nukes speeds the process of nuclearization along. Dramatically so. For instance, when Israel bombed the Iraqi nuclear power plant, Iraq, which at that time did not have a nuclear weapons program, went full speed ahead trying to develop one. Because it highlighted that they were at risk of being destroyed as nation from a violent neighbor, and so the urgency of developing their own nukes increased. As soon as India got nukes, it became a top priority for Pakistan to get them. If you don't believe that, then you don't understand the world. It does not matter who you think is the bad guy in a conflict, what matters is the asymmetry.

Whatever will be the outcome of this war with Iran, the Iranians now know that getting nukes is priority one. It will happen within a decade, most likely within a few years. The only way to stop this would be boots on the ground and a long term occupation of Iran, which of course no one, not even the US, is capable of doing.

And then Saudi Arabia will want nukes to defend itself from Iran. That's just how this works. KSA will be the next nation to get nuclear weapons after Iran.

Trying to pretend that you can maintain a long running conflict in which only one side has nuclear weapons is incredibly foolish. Obviously this is not going to happen.
by HDThoreaun | 2026-03-09 20:03:25+00:00
Depending on where you live it is very common. In chicago when they installed the cameras they lowered the yellow duration to like half a second so people were constantly running them for a while. Then running yellows became normalized, and just ignoring lights from bikers which drivers noticed, and now when traffic is low its not uncommon to see people just treat lights as stop signs if they think no one is coming.
by paulddraper | 2026-03-09 20:03:29+00:00
Criminal offenses are punishable by incarceration.

Civil offenses are not.

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Mild speeding, no seatbelt, broken taillight are civil.

DUIs, reckless driving, hit-and-run are criminal.

All vehicular offenses, but different punishments.

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Unauthorized immigration to the US is NOT punishable by incarceration. (It can result in deportation to the nation of origin.)
by thaumasiotes | 2026-03-09 20:03:31+00:00
> A 12 TET chromatic is 2^(1/12), and a 12 TET fifth would be 2^(7/12). A perfect fifth is a 3:2 ratio. Those numbers are slightly different, and that’s enough to understand it.

Note this this is normally called the "Pythagorean comma".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma
by davidw | 2026-03-09 20:03:37+00:00
I mean, the competition isn't setting a high bar, between the guy complaining about 'white people not having a homeland' and the other guy peddling addictive stuff to teens and AI slop to their grandparents.

That said, I have genuinely been enjoying Blue Sky. It has 'enough' for me. There are a bunch of YIMBYs and urbanists. The mayor of my city and one of my city councilors are there. There is starting to be a bike racing community. There are some good local journalists.

I read your other comment; I hope your optimism is warranted.