skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are "dual-use" systems, and there are systems that are only weapons.

There's also technologies and basic research, but those are different matters.

I'm first interested in the more straightforward situation of the people who worked on a less-lethal weapon system, which they might've anticipated would be used in exactly this way. What do they think about that?
I kind of predicted something like this around when the pandemic was picking up hiring (in tech). The salaries were accelerating from 100->200->300->400k for people in software. Sure, salaries went up a little for other people, but it has recently become clear to the "have nots" that not only are they stuck to <80k (for the entire household) but they have to go into the office (or driving based work), have task based performance monitoring, are easily replaced if performance goes down (we even have a startup on here writing AI factory worker monitoring software).

And then they found out about us -> we DONT go into an office anymore, our salaries doubled and tripled overnight, and we order everything in, like we're above everyone - living like kings while the surfs handle our poop.
Animation breakthrough makes it possible to better illustrate Black hair
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43382093
Afghanistan (as an example) should have been civilized, whatever effort necessary for it. If a peoples or country doesn't support human rights, capitalism, etc then what justification does it have to tell you to stop if you oppress and torture them? Human rights? Pish they don't believe that crap.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43377133
I am a massive fan of Mark Roeper. Unfortunately he completely f**d up this one.
He tested using Autopilot, not the latest FSD on HW4, which is worlds apart in capabilities.
It is possible that the latest FSD would also crash, but that would be a valid test of FSD capabilities.
Testing using Autopilot and calling it "FSD crashes" is a HUGE misrepresentation of facts.
I am hoping Mark will post an update to the video.
? Do you use your sense of smell to drive a car? Are deaf people allowed to drive cars?

No, the cameras we have now, or at least the data processing, is probably not there yet, but it's absurd to claim it's "never" possible. It's obviously either possible in a year or fifteen years, all basic hardware is advancing fast.
Also, any wall at a T-intersection with a mural that looks vaguely landscape-y.
Thank you. I mistakenly thought the typewriter was used to type shorthands.
Awesome find. This really means:

Assembly language faster than C. And faster than Rust. Assembly can be very fast.
I think what motivates people to patch over Gnome deficiencies is its position as the de facto standard "enterprise" DE, where you basically have no choice but to use it.
Where can I buy the alternative lidar based car?
They're comparing against zlib-ng, not zlib. zlib-ng is more than twice as fast as zlib for decompression. https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/discussions/871

libdeflate is not zlib compatible. It doesn't support streaming decompression.
Why not C#?
Do you have any specific counter examples?

FWIW I am not American.
Desktop Firefox will soon support PWAs again
Once you head these services (and more) under an atom n270 netbook or a lesser machine, you'll understand why you would love Gopher, Usenet, IRC (and bridges like Bitlbee) and Email.

Tons of JS made lots of serviceable machines obsolete. Even an i3 -and i5- is not enough today to browse the web with 2GB of RAM without a heavy ad blocker like UBlock.
Gen Z kind of already have a reputation for being 'dumb', being unable to supposedly do basic tasks expected from an entry level office working, or questioning basic things like why tasks get delegated down the chain. Maybe being bad at coding, especially if they are using AI, is just part of that?

I heard about the term 'vibe coding' recently, which really just means copying and pasting code from an AI without checking it. It's interesting that that's a thing, I wonder how widespread it is.
The benchmarks in the parent post are comparing to zlib-ng, which is substantially faster than zlib. The zippy claims are against "zlib found on a fresh Linux install" which at least for Debian is classic zlib.
No. Correctness of code outside unsafe depends on correctness inside those blocks, not the other way around
It's not so much that LRAD relies on bone conduction to inflict pain (and sensorineural hearing loss!), but that the sound levels are so high that even if you block the air conduction route with earplugs, the bone conduction route (approximately 30 dB of attenuation compared with air) still might deliver enough sound to the inner ear to cause pain and hearing loss.

This kind of thing is a problem on aircraft carriers, where people working on the flight deck are so close to loud jets that no amount of conventional hearing protection will adequately conserve hearing. Creare has been working for the last decade and a half on special helmets for the US Navy to overcome this issue, resulting in the HGU-99/P Hearing Protection Helmet.
The bar here is not zlib, it's zlib-ng, which aims primarily for performance.

libdeflate is an impressive library, but it doesn't help if you need to stream data rather than having it all in memory at once.
Serbia had the LRAD systems on hand, after buying them in 2022, most likely from Genasys, but possibly from HyperSpike.

https://genasys.com/lrad-products/

It's a legal gray area in Serbia where the use against civilians isn't explicitly forbidden, so they're playing fast and loose and moving fast to crush opposition. It's better than troops just gunning people down, but for a modern, supposedly civilized country it's horrible to see.

The people in power are the type of people that use their power in these ways. The US shouldn't be supplying them. We're not the world police, we don't need to enforce global norms, and we shouldn't be selling hyperoffensive mass crowd control technology. They should be limited to Temu LRAD, or their LRAD at home; we shouldn't be providing them S-Tier dystopian authoritarian kits for DIY oppression.

The people that profited off of this are a special kind of evil. We shouldn't be outfitting dictators, gangsters, or warlords.

But, greed is good. The dollar is king. This is what happens when incentives and principles don't align.
When iOS had a couple gestures to get away from needing physical buttons, things were pretty good.

However once you realize that you can add new gestures without having to defend adding a physical or screen real estate button, it takes a lot of discipline to avoid adding more. I like to think that Steve would have told most of their people to fuck off and we’d have one or two new gestures now, instead of twice as many. They would have found some other way.
And on Facebook.
Tesla also drives into tractor trailers because they think they're clouds
I also noticed that part in the article.

>Why do we have all these studies showing that male and female behaviors are so similar, yet people in everyday life continue to think as if males and females were very separable?

It could be that some gender-neutral behavior patterns are part of the modern Western equivalent of "tatemae", and that they easily appear in studies because of interaction with strangers.
> If you pick a non-OSI licence, that has social costs (as you said, less interest from other developers for example)

Yes. People make a decision to choose from the FOSS licenses because being seen as FOSS is valuable to them. That comes with tradeoffs, and it's unethical to expect to receive the benefits but not the drawbacks of your chosen license.

> P.S.: The OSI are not even sellouts - they mostly consist of exactly those corporations themselves.

I know. I find the bellyaching about the "spirit of Open Source" to be pretty ironic given that Open Source exists to "dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with "free software" in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape" [0].

> those companies exploiting the FOSS landscape

Exploiting how? What harm does $MEGACORP using a FOSS project do to the FOSS project? Does it hurt that it gives them more credibility? For there to be exploitation there has to be a quantifiable harm to the exploited victim—it has to be win-lose, not win-neutral or win-win. So where's the loss to the FOSS maintainers as victims?

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20071115150105/https://opensource...
Yes, but I don't think you could argue the point that the visual sense is probably 95% of it. But even so, it could be decades before computers achieve the sensory capabilities of the human visual system. Why not, during those hundred years, add some lidar to the sensory mix. Just because it didn't evolve in humans doesn't mean it's not a good thing. Bats and dolphins use the biological analogue very effectively.
> And octopi is used often enough to not really be incorrect.

By that logic irregardless is also not really incorrect.
iPhone 16e battery life tested – how it measures up to other iPhones
If he doesn't know the difference how is the average car buyer that sees Elon sell such features supposed to know?
Technology development is a coordination problem, full stop, and technology merely provides leverage, along with new externalities.

Alex Tabarrok's son. False libertarian framing runs in the family.
Beautiful? It looks like utter garbage to me. I really can't abide that twee visual style. The designer is trying way too hard and completely lost the plot.
I upgraded to an iPhone 16 in part because I was interested in the AI augments to iOS. My assumption was that Apple was likely to do something tasteful, and probably not nuclear-level bad in terms of privacy.

I've since disabled everything AI. My feeling is that my phone is much snappier without. Text summary features are pretty bad—in one case a summary of a text thread led me to believe my dad was having an acute health crisis when in fact it was a fairly benign discussion of news from doctors. Even custom emoji, which could have been fun, are simply bad.

Meanwhile some basic iOS features like "mute all notifications from this particular text thread" have been broken for me for several months.
And every other modern auto-braking safety system, except for Subaru for some reason, incorporates at least basic proximity radar.
For HN there's gopher://hngopher.com and for the main web, links preserves
the cascaded formatting for threads. Yes, I used mosh with 2.7 KB/s too, against
a pubnix, but I used gopher too for tons of services.
Thanks to bitlbee I could talk with my SO and relatives against Telegram and https://brutaldon.org allowed me to read posts at Mastodon.

And, well, gopher://magical.fish it's unbeatable.
Lots of people in tech here in the US are on H-1B visas. It this case with the doctor stands, this would seem to put anyone here under such a visa in an uncomfortable position in terms of due process.

Also see the following for more examples of defying court orders on deportations:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/politics/trump-venezue...
In fact, he didn’t use FSD.
right, the point is raising awareness and assumption
its not 100 and 0 problem
He didn’t completely f up, it was a valid test, and a misrepresentation of branding, not facts. The connotation of the name autopilot overlaps significantly with FSD. Nobody forced Tesla to name it that rather than enhanced cruise control or something.

Testing a wider release rather than a more exclusive one meh.
students pay for education such that at the end, they know something. if the job market filters them out because they suck, the school did a bad job teaching.

the teachers still need to figure out how to teach with LLMs around
Make that 11 teams! :)

I've been quietly working on oknext.io since late last year. If you're looking for an opinionated task manager for yourself and your team, then I'd love for you to check it out!

One thing I love about it is that it sort of takes care of sprint planning for me. No more figuring out how much I can fit into a week - it does that for me, and seeing my progress over the past few weeks motivates me to keep my momentum up.

It isn't just like Pivotal tracker - will likely never be - the estimation is in hours, rather than points. I plan on explaining the thought process behind this decision soon. And it isn't built specifically for software teams - I manage personal and dev and non-dev work tasks with it.

If you do try it, I'd love to hear from you (vishal@oknext.io).
You need an always-on machine, and a wired network connection since this rarely works over wifi. This excludes a lot of setups.
Software licenses are certainly a major expense for all levels of the Danish government. (Cloud infrastructure, too, increasingly.)

They've started complaining, especially since prices have been going up, but while there's rumbling underground, we've yet to see any real movement away from Microsoft.
It really isn't smart to do this kind of thing.

Once an organization actually attacks you, it's very easy to decide that any legitimacy they view themselves as having is irrelevant and to come back next Monday with mortars and machine guns.
Why would FSD be any more capable? Like why would anyone expect that? I get how this could happen, but this isn't advanced navigation it's basic collision avoidance of things in front of the car, something I'd expect autopilot to do at a bare minimum.
You actually need four https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/

Explanation (why, what)

reference (API spec)

tutorials

How to guides
I have great news for you. The article is also perfectly structured, which means it shows flawlessly on reader mode.

Reader mode is a standard feature on all major browsers on both desktop and mobile. Given you're so vocal about how articles should work by just "displaying the words", I'd suggest that you acquaintance yourself with the one feature that does exactly that.

Thanks to reader mode, you get to concentrate on the message. And we get to keep our joy.
Do Tesla cars have stereo vision, though?

I don't think they build a 3D model of the world around them at all, while humans do (not only based on our stereo vision) and largely rely on that to drive.
My book, Effective Pandas 2, has many of them. There's a few conference talks of mine floating around on YouTube that also mention some.

Writing clean data code is one aspect. Filling in knowledge gaps is another. Covertly teaching software engineering best practices to folks who "aren't programmers" yet sit down and write code in Jupyter all day is another.

I should probably write a blog post or record a short video. (I just taught a week long course on this for a client last week.)
It's $8000 for FSD. You're going to know whether you bought it or not.
Agree. The constant UI reinvention of lately is super strange to me. Companies want to save money but most developer time in simple apps is spent on it.

I remember 20-25 years ago mostly using Windows widgets to make Enterprise apps. It was fast to make, fast to run, and users back then knew how to use. Didn't look the best, but at least was consistent.

The next 5 years we sort of tried to do our best, but most things were still sort of standard-ish.

Then for about 5 years or things like Bootstrap, Material, etc, dominated. It was nothing special, but at least consistent between apps.

But in the last 10 years pretty much every company I worked on had a custom UI built ENTIRELY from scratch by a designer and a small army of developers to implement it. It looks "the same but different" in an uncanny valley way.

I honestly feel like this is the worst possible use of frontend developers, period. Not only from a financial perspective but also from an end result.

But hey jobs are generated so what do I know...
You already used this spam text in your spam issues you opened in other people's repos. Can't you get your LLM to generate some variety at least?
I only want one feature from Siri. When I say "hey Siri, set a timer for 10 minutes" while in my kitchen, I'd like it show up as a live activity on my phone. (You can see it in your phone, but it's buried deeply inside the Home app, which is dumb.)

I use a Mac at work, have an Apple Watch and iPhone, and have yet to use any AI features. I just don't need them. I'm overjoyed when I add a meeting in Calendar and it shows up when I tap the date on my watch. I don't need artificial intelligence when the software is well designed and actually works!
Narrow correction on two points:

First, I would say that "ripgrep is generally faster than GNU grep" is a true statement. But sometimes GNU grep is faster than ripgrep and in many cases, performance is comparable or only a "little" slower than ripgrep.

Secondly, VS Code using ripgrep because of its speed is only one piece of the picture. Licensing was also a major consideration. There is an issue about this where they originally considered ripgrep (and ag if I recall correctly), but I'm on mobile so I don't have the link handy.
When a lower layer fails, your ability to remedy a situation depends on your ability to understand that layer of abstraction. Now: if an LLM produces wrong code, how do you know why it did that?
> it's absurd to claim it's "never" possible

Absolutely correct. The problem is that Elon has been saying that for ten years and we're not really closer to it being true.

So, in the meantime, would it kill him to admit that he was wrong about lidar?
Most people in the US consider Canada a friend not an enemy or the 51st state. It’s stupid that Trump and his cronies are able to kill so quickly what was a great friendship.
No the crash was coming this administration just accelerated it. Trillions of $ of government debt and private debt is up for financing at 3-4 times the interest rate.
GM is working on it, but no indication yet when the lidwr version will be released. Currently their Super Cruise uses radar and cameras, plus pre-scanned lidar maps of roads that it compares everything against in real time.
I know Apple has been known to wait until a technology was very mature before putting it into a product, sometimes years after competitors had already done so.

But Apple Intelligence seems like the complete opposite… like they had to have something now.
I didn’t vote for Trump.
It's true, but I think it's only fair if you hold Rust to this analysis, other languages should too; the scrutiny you're implying you need in an unsafe Rust block needs to be applied to all C code, because all C code could depend on code anywhere else for its safety characteristics.

In practice (in both languages) you check what the actual unsafe code does (or "all" code in C's case), note code that depends on external actors for safety (it's not all C code, nor is it all unsafe Rust blocks), and check their callers (and callers callers, etc).
If I want to use a program once, I’ll just use a portable version. And I’ll be angry if it decides to add itself to the context menu of all Explorer files.

But I agree, for things I use more often, installers are the way to go, and I am not a fan of projects that just give you a zip and ask you to figure out where to put it.
My understanding from Aria Beingessner's and some other writings is that unsafe{} rust is significantly harder to get right in "non-trivial cases" than C, because the semantics are more complex and less specified.
I've have a need for a kvm for a customer I'm working with because they're too cheap to buy an enterprise-y one, so I ordered a couple JetKVM's to use and test, but I've been waiting a month so far, and not really sure when I'll get them. The joy of kickstarters...

I looked at the nanokvm's, but there's some serious issues with power feedback in the v1 design they're selling still that causes devices not to boot, so that seemed a non-starter, though I really like sispeed's pci card concept too - may still getting one of these. Not yet stocked in the US anywhere yet either I found.

I jumped on this as at least I know of GL-iNet that I can buy them usually and expect a product to ship, albeit slow boat from China. Sadly not shipping yet, but here's hope it's something they'll stock in an Amazon warehouse eventually.
the only acceptable condition to use it maybe if there are riot or violence breakout in that area not for peaceful protest
I cannot stand AppData, specifically the way it's often used to store files that should be in Documents.
By my count we’re down to 1 co-equal branch then
S and L cancel out, so it just an LM.
It just feels strange to muse about the embodied experience of drawing while having a computer spit out a semantic average of your general idea with little creative control.
Absent an atmosphere, a balloon is just a heavier parachute.
I know what you mean. But he's trying his best to be the new Mr. Wizard and youtube has a very long list of demands.
When your health sector is being shaken down by foreign monopoly for software licenses whose prices increase for no reason, making your own word processor suddenly doesn't seem very different to training your own doctors.
You are aware that these LRAD systems have been used against US citizens, aren't you?
> Something I find interesting about early technology IPOs is how early they IPO-ed compared to more recent tech companies

I am unable to resolve this sentence with the list that follows that has Microsoft IPOing significantly later in their life than the three others listed. Microsoft IPO'ed later compared to Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
I was somewhat early in my career when this happened. I was working at a small telecommunications company when the crash hit. Just about everyone got laid off, though with decent severance. Managed to make that last until I got another tech job almost three months to the day after my previous employer went belly up.

It was a strange, scary time. Not just companies pretty much vanishing overnight but also a lot of people losing their jobs. Not all of them were as lucky as I (and a few others I knew/worked with) was; they couldn't find anything in the industry for a long while. Some abandoned tech. Others stuck it out.

Never want to go through anything like that again!
All your comments read like they're generated by an LLM from a template.
So, it's true that unsafe code can depend on preconditions that need to be upheld by safe code.

But using ordinary module encapsulation and private fields, you can scope the code that needs to uphold those preconditions to a particular module.

So the "trusted computing base" for the unsafe code can still be scoped and limited, allowing you to reduce the amount of code you need to audit and be particularly careful about for upholding safety guarantees.

Basically, when writing unsafe code, the actual unsafe operations are scoped to only the unsafe blocks, and they have preconditions that you need to scope to a particular module boundary to ensure that there's a limited amount of code that needs to be audited to ensure it upholds all of the safety invariants.

Ralf Jung has written a number of good papers and blog posts on this topic.
I've told them they're overreacting but with all the shootings in the news it's understandable they feel that way.
I've actually found most of the commentary on HN to be on the "holy shit what the hell is he doing, this is crazy and awful" side, as opposed to supportive of it. Which gives me hope.

There seem to be down votes in the other direction, at times, but 1) they seem to get balanced back after a while and 2) the down votes don't often come with any useful commentary, often with none at all - which, for me, I also find comforting.
i own an rtx 4090 and yes cyberpunk looks amazing with raytracing - but worth the $2000k and nvidia monopoly over the tech? a big resounding no (for me).
You would love gopher with gopher://magical.fish and gopher://sdf.org among others such as gopher://gopher.icu

Oh, and reddit: gopher://gopherddit.com

HN: gopher://gopherddit.com

But, as they stated, connecting to a pubic Unix like mosh was and is magic.