skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citing a specific (tragic) incident isn’t really great evidence in re: safety. You have to normalize by something like accidents/mile driven and compare to comparable services (taxi/uber etc) - having said that I couldn’t quickly find any sources either positive or negative on those stats (besides Waymo PR docs) so I’m not saying you’re necessarily wrong. just wanted to point out the obvious flaw with citing anecdotal evidence for something like this.

You could easily use the same logic to say humans haven’t solved driving yet either!
It's not mutating state, it's defining a transition function from one immutable state to another!
At scale it takes significantly less time because the designs are familiar and there are not mobilizations and demobilizations. The next framing job is on the next lot.
> are generally under the jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice

Which, notably, are Article II powers. Your usual Constitutional rights are abridged or suspended.
Attention is just communication? It’s orthogonal to the space of the representation.
> The reality is I can just target winforms on windows, or GDI if I need that.

And the reality is that you can just target GTK on Linux. That you happen to have picked a single option on NT doesn't magically make it different, it just means you already made the decision.
Astroturf on HN. Never thought I'd see the day.
> Xi has knee-capped anything a threat to his power, this Xi-ceiling as I call it, will prevent true cutting edge dominance compared to the West.

you watched too much MSM western media.

what happened in the last 12 years since Xi's rise to the very top is the complete opposite to what you described. just check all those emerging sectors that had huge growth in that 12 years, like mobile internet, 5G, EVs, renewable energy, robotics, AI, quantum, cryptocurrency, what they have in common? you'd be blind if you couldn't even tell that China is now in the top2 positions for ALL those sectors. all these happened during Xi's term.

we are talking about a country used to be dead poor just 40 years ago - Xi used to live in a cave when he was young!
The lack of respect for books in India is ridiculous. Very few use libraries, and forget temperature/humidity control: most feel no shame in mishandling books they borrow. The availability and care shown to books, new and old, in the US is very commendable.

Our prime minister and most citizens love to brag about "ancient culture" and "proud history", but preservation of our own history and public record was and is done much better by the British and Americans. It's truly nauseating.
Mexico is a lot cheaper though, no?
Be careful what people will write here. A lot will have buyer bias because they want to justify their purchase.
My partner and I had no intention of having children and we agreed on that. Eventually we moved in together and got married. We both had good jobs, traveled, ski / snowboard, hiked, camped, went to see everything we wanted to see. Long story short we stopped NOT trying to have kids (stopped all birth control) and never happened. Started the whole process of finding out who was the issue, and that was starting to add up quick in the expense department. We were about to start an even more expensive process when an opportunity presented itself that led to us adopting our first child. In less than a year we found out we had conceived one of our own. Sometimes it takes one to jump start the process, I guess. Even longer story short our relationship was starting to drift and then with our children we grew close again. Now we have two more best friends in our family. Coach their teams, host their parties, uber them around, and they are like having two more best friends that live with us. Going to be sad when they leave us but also super excited to be just the two of us again.

This goes to what you are saying about purpose in life. Without them I am not sure we would still be happy or even together. Children gave us a new reason to live and something to work on together. Life is no longer how the two of us can be happy but how we can make others happy, thus giving us pride to be happy ourselves. Strange to think about where we would be without them, but glad I only must speculate not actually know.

I grew up more remote with less opportunity for friends. My partner grew up in a densely populated area with lots of friends (my partner is way more socially adjusted than I am). The ones I made are the ones I still have while my partners are mostly gone and live elsewhere. We decided to raise our family in a large neighborhood with lots of friend opportunities as I feel that is the best way to let them experience life. Personally, I would love to be on 20 acres with my arsenal and survival gear, but that would not be fair to anyone in my family. We got the house with woods in the backyard (and a highway behind that) and both sides for a half acre in each direction, with close neighbors to the front. The rest of the neighborhood is house to house like any other. I need to be able to walk out my back door and take a leak if needed and be alone. While walking out the front provides the typical suburban experience. All comes back to compromise.

Whatever you decide, best of luck! Living the Mad Max lifestyle is hard to beat....
I do a lot of audition and sometimes start talking in theses phrases - it is really annoying for other people, when my vocabulary differs in meaning to the standard body of language.
I'm guessing that mindset is what cause some people to find this scary. I see a new tool and opportunities. Like all tools, it has drawbacks and caveats, but when wielded properly, it can give me more choice. I suspect some others focus too much on flaws and don't bother looking for opportunities. They are expecting a holy grail: if it's not perfect then it's useless.

It's like people who proclaim that Linux as a whole is a useless toy because it doesn't run their favorite games or favorite Windows app. They focus on this one flaw and miss all the opportunities.

Many of these people seem to advocate trusting human professionals. Do you have any idea how often human professionals do a half-assed job, and I have to verify them rather than blindly trusting them? The situation is not that much different from LLMs.

Professionals making mistakes do not make them useless. Grandma, with all her armchair expertise, is often right and sometimes wrong, and that does not make her useless either.

Why let perfect be the enemy of good?
Remote Work Is Tanking Home Prices in the Heart of London
For Gemini you should use either the latest experimental model (gemini-exp-1206) which should become 2.0 Pro, or 2.0 Flash (a released model). The 1.5 Pro model is way behind.
> Yes, just spray Quantum on it

Careful, don’t give Sam Altman any ideas.

Once OpenAI cannot raise enough capital, he will aim quantum AGI.
2 billion at the high end isn’t actually unreasonable when compared to falcon 9’s costs which are sitting around 100m/launch right now largely due to inflation.

There’s a have a fairly linear relationship between rocket payload and size, and for large structures going big tends to increase cost per pound so ~10x the size resulting in ~20x the cost is just mildly pessimistic.

If and only if they the thing is both rapidly reusable and individual starships are actually used for hundreds of launches do those highly optimistic numbers become vaguely possible. Even just a 0.2% failure rate would represent a massive increase over their optimistic estimates.
Happy new year everyone. And thanks dang for not banning me. I promise to be better about that topic this year.
What a strange reply.

Kitty has been my terminal for years. I haven’t even used ghostty. I’m not shilling anything. Good grief. Try looking in a mirror.

I was making a good faith comment just adding something positive. No need to turn it into a war. It’s strange (and just wrong) that you think I need to review the development velocity of all other projects before being impressed by something. Actually, no. To be impressed by the rainbow outside my window, I need not have seen and reviewed all other rainbows.
Or the '80s, when you could just order the Anarchist Cookbook from a willing bookstore (some would refuse).

At the time I recall that there were definitely kids into this stuff. Not literal anarchy or violence, they just liked making bombs and setting them off out in the woods somewhere. Homemade fireworks really. They got into the chemistry of it, just nerdy stuff. No harm intended.
If you know C/C++ you could have learned to read Rust in the time you spent commenting in this thread. The number of new syntaxes you need to learn is quite minimal.
I have one, still my main laptop and I don't see a reason to change that. Battery life is better than any other laptop I've had, though that may say more about my other laptops than the Framework. Biggest gripe: no touchscreen and, despite open specs, still no aftermarket touchscreen several years later.
It's also pretty amazing how easy it is to contribute. Between things like street complete with gamified quests and the browser based editor on osm.org basically anyone with an internet connection can update the places around them in minutes.

That being said, the fact that there's always something to fix just about anywhere I go tells you there's not enough people that contribute. Tbh I think the major problem is that there's no single go to app that people use all the time and then notice the issues. Though that's changing a bit with Organic Maps. Tesla self parking also had a bunch of new people mapping places, or so I heard.
happy new year from Asia!
Anyone who is surprised that high explosives are available has not had to deal with a bunch of large stumps. -- they're a nightmare even with a large excavator, explosives are a life saver.
Happy New Year. May more hacker News users join https://chat-to.dev this year and make it a useful means of communication for all programmers and beyond.
Is there really enough of a market to warrant all this development, particularly for the commercial releases? How much could they really make?
"Western medicine" (which is exactly what it is called in China, to contrast with TCM) is shorthand for "practices invented in the west". That these methods chase universal truths, or are practiced world-wide, do not make them "non-west" in terms of origin.

The Chinese call the practice of truth seeking, in a more broader sense (outside of medicine) just "science".

"Western" medicine is also not merely the practice of seeking universal medical truth. It is also a collection of paradigms that have been developed in its long history. Like all paradigms, there are limits and drawbacks: phenomena that do not fit well. Truth seeking tends to be done on established paradigms rather than completely new ones.

The "western" prefix is helpful in contrasting it with TCM, which has a completely different paradigm. Many Chinese, myself included, have the experience that there are all sorts of ailments that are not meaningfully solved by "western" medicine practitioners, but are meaningfully solved by TCM practitioners.
I'm curious. Can you go into more detail what kind of bug it found?
As long as you'd never seen a Macintosh or Amiga
I'm a big fan of Love and Lua, but one thing that always bothered me was that there's no real "great" solutions for a) cross platform/web/mobile distribution. I know there are 3rd party solutions but for as mature as the framework is, you'd think it could get a first party solution. The same goes for several API's that you'd think are core to game making, like sprite animations. There are fairly mature libraries, but I always hate having a bunch of patchwork libraries that should be included batteries instead of 3rd party boilerplate.
FWIW, I’d love to read a blog post about that, too.
Sea level rise is gonna get a whole lot realer
Robotics is everywhere but you don't see it. The joke is we call it something else when it works. Large corporations with successful margin-supporting automation systems have every intent and reason to keep them secret. See for example ASML.
Happy new year all! Thanks everyone for helping to uphold the high quality interactions found on here. To a good 2025!
- No more growth for traditional software engineers in terms of new jobs. Role essentially becomes deprecated, we start transitioning into new software engineers.

- Consumer hardware space becomes more popular for new startups

- Ads in LLMs

- Cloud becomes at-least 2x cheaper

- Wikipedia alternative
Martyn, same, happy new year to everyone. This year will be the year that I've been visiting this site almost daily for 10 years.

Wow. I can remember the days that I just came for the science and not the technical stuff because I found it too hard. Then quickly later using the technical articles to accelerate my computer science studies and now it just feels like I can dive into anything.

Love this place <3
Would a happy healthy and productive population would increase the GDP? Seems like universal healthcare would be a "no brainer" from the government's position. And in countries that do have socialized healthcare, there is definitely pressure on different arms of the government to suppress anything that increases burden on the healthcare system. Insane taxes on cigarettes and alcohol for example.
Putnam? Of math competition fame?
I believe it could. A shell could reduce capability by default for all executed shell scripts (file or inline on the prompt) and require opt in to not do this. Something akin to a umask of sorts. It’d break exceedingly few real scripts. (Hand waving a lot here with the “opt in” mechanism to avoid that being scripted but I have ideas)

Also note my thoughts (very much not even close to being a proposal) are very raw. Inviting this kind of discussion is exactly what I hope to do :)

Reduction of capability in general is not intended to address all class of security issue. For example you’d still want unsafe paste detection (to detect newlines or attempted bracketed paste escapes) on a prompt line.

But I think having a mechanism to eliminate the possibility of entire class of actions without wholesale disabling them in the terminal emulator is a desirable property. Right now a lot of these features are mostly on/off.
Ask HN: Who are the most insightful AI coding content creators?
I'm noticing a surge in AI coding content, but finding high-quality, technical deep dives is challenging.

Looking for content creators who:

- Focus on practical applications over hype
- Demonstrate real engineering challenges and solutions
- Discuss architectural decisions when building with AI

Who do you follow that provides substantive technical content about coding with AI tools?
The Untold History of the United States (2012)
Starlink already scaled to 1M US households using Falcon 9 launches and this is twice as large. I think it’s reasonable to question just how many launches a competitor would support.
The handler function is per connection, so it can handle multiple connections in parallel
2025:

1) is a square: 45²

2) is the product of two squares:
9² x 5²

3) is the sum of 3-squares: 40²+ 20²+5²

4) is the sum of cubes of all the single digits: 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³
James Gosling on Java – Historical Oddities and Persistent Itches
Bingo!

Now, once out of the box and having responded, willy nilly, to numerous dubious questions, you are presented with a screen full of all sorts of strange things, and nothing happens when you use the keyboard.

Compare and contrast with:

>
What does that even mean? Direct EV subsidies are already gone. In the first place, they were meant to start up an industry, not to be sustained forever.

On a higher level, I find your thinking weird. Nobody ever said "let's not pretend $HIGH_SCHOOL_STUDENT can compete on its own without papa's wallet". Everybody thinks that it's natural to invest in a child's education until they can compete on their own in the world.

College enrollment rates have only recently reached a high level.
LLMs are essentially predicting what token could plausibly come next. They sort the possible next tokens by probability, often throw out the the ones with very low probabilities (p-value too low) and then use a weighted random number generator to choose one from the rest.

Sometimes that means you exclude a good next token, or include a bad one, so a bad one gets chosen. And then once it has, the thing is going to pick whatever is most likely to come after that, which will be some malarkey because it has already emitted a nonsense token and is now using that as context. But whatever it is, it will still sound plausible because it's still choosing from the most likely things to follow what has already been emitted.
Pagefind: Static low-bandwidth search at scale
This is some legitimately impressive bullshit
me: how many genders are there?
Gemini 1.5 flash: There is no single, universally accepted number of genders.
Happy new year to all the HN members! Thankful for this site's existence and for all the knowledge and wisdom I gained over the years just by being here almost every single day.
Yes, that's why the laws need to be changed to get a fairer ownership system on older titles.
Thank you for the Putnam; I did not know about it. For anyone else that did not understand this reference; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015. Legendary.
Or heck, $1000 to the charity of your choice if you can do 6 of 6, no expectation on your end. Just name the day from February to July, since you’re no idiot.
Fake Googlebot on Cloudflare Workers
Appears to be a fake googlebot running on cloudflare workers, has been hitting the site thousands of times.

$ grep -c "2a06:98c0:3600::103" /var/www/redacted/logs/access_log
652029

https://abuse.cloudflare.com/general keeps saying session expired so cannot submit. Blocked for now. Anyone know whos running this scheme?
> What this means for Brewer is that even if he does achieve his asking price, he will still be walking away with little to no profit after a decade of ownership. 'Given the amount we paid for the flat and have invested in its renovation, I would have expected to put it on for £5 million ($6.25 million), not £4 million ($5.02 million),' he said

So.. he'll remain as rich as he is. Oh noes, the humanity.
Lawsuit:PayPal Accused of Poaching Commissions Via Its 'Honey' Browser Extension
So why isn't the EU stimulating domestic EV development, and is only putting up a tarriff wall?
I've tried it. It's average at best. Nothing comparable to ChatGPT.
It's not really the opposite though.

The opposite of "British thing people in Germany love but few in UK have heard of" would be "German thing people in country X love but few in Germany have heard of".

"The Sound of Music" doesn't really count as an example of the opposite, because it is more of an American thing than a German or Austrian thing. It is an English-language 1965 American musical film, based on an English-language 1959 American stage musical, based on an English-language book written and published in America by an Austrian-American woman. Despite the Austrian setting, and parts of the film being filmed in Austria (the remainder was filmed in LA), on the whole it is more American than Austrian.

There were two West German films made based on the same book, Die Trapp-Familie (1956) and Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (1958), and the creators of the 1959 American musical got their initial inspiration for the project from watching those West German films. Still that doesn't change the fact that the American musical and American film are American not German or Austrian. And I'm not sure how much of the actual content of the American musical and film are due to those West German films, as opposed to them merely being a motivator for the musical's creation.
So if I am to understand your proposal more concretely it is something like implement an escape code that the shell can use to turn off all other escape codes (presumably with some kind of listing mechanism) and then have the shell do that before launching any third party script/program/function? How would the shell know which escape codes the program it is running needs?

I can, kind of, see the utility of a pledge() type system within a single program, but in a shell, whose whole job is basically running programs it knows nothing about beyond their name? How would that work?
Happy new year from a ferry between Zhuhai and home in HongKong.
The parts are nowhere near as inexpensive as a popular ThinkPad model, and the quality issues (rare UEFI updates compared to the competition, poor speakers that rattle, weak hinges, etc) are notable.

I had to buy a friends Framework 13 to get parts to keep mine going, as spending $240 for just the top and bottom case and plastic screen bezel seemed excessive.

More users have put their Framework 13's on a shelf to languish than I expected. The alternatives all seem better polished.
This isn't hyperlibertarian or one person's philosophy, it's the foundation of US society, law, and politics.

The Declaration of Independence centers on the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Core to the Constitution is the Bill of Rights. Liberty and justice for all; Marines fight for freedom; land of the free, Statue of Liberty, etc.

If freedom is only doing things other people like, it's meaningless. Causing harm is one thing. People may not like you - maybe I don't like you. Can I pass a law to jail you?
It's loosely affiliated (or was anyway) with the 764/com groups that were in the news a little while back, and linked to MKY, a Russian terror group.

M. A. Argentino has good articles about this set:

https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleash...

764 members have been getting arrested periodically. One was arrested earlier in December:

https://cyberscoop.com/baron-martin-arrested-for-child-abuse...