skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Carr, a guy who historically lets giant telecom monopolies run endlessly roughshod over U.S. consumers and the market, couldn’t actually care less about these rules or whether these companies are actually violating them (and they likely aren’t). He’s simply looking for something to harass public journalism over.

Wilhoit's Law strikes again!

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
When you live near people who have complex interactions with their neighbours you get comfortable with using the term 'assholes'
I assume by functional domain you mean how the program functions.

Most of us here will assume functional refers to functional programming which is very much in the technical domain.
Compress Better, Compute Bigger
> what you are saying is that academic rigour is going to be ditched overnight

Not across all level and certainly not overnight. But a lot of children entering the pipeline might end up having a very different experience than anyone else before LLMs (unless they are very lucky to be in an environment that provides them better opportunities).

> cannot critically synthesize information on their own.

That’s true, but if we even less people will try to so that or even know where to start that will get even worse.
>> (as someone who doesn't use an iphone or whatsapp) What's the purpose of this? Surely if you want to call a phone number you want to make a phone call?

Outside of major cities in the US, mobile coverage can become spotty. However, most people have Wifi, so I almost always use WhatsApp Audio or Facetime Audio at home for this reason (when the other party supports it.)
> Having the human attention and discipline to mindfully verify every single one without fail? Impossible.

I mean, how do you live life?

The people you talk to in your life say factually wrong things all the time.

How do you deal with it?

With common sense, a decent bullshit detector, and a healthy level of skepticism.

LLM's aren't calculators. You're not supposed to rely on them to give perfect answers. That would be crazy.

And I don't need to verify "every single statement". I just need to verify whichever part I need to use for something else. I can run the code it produces to see if it works. I can look up the reference to see if it exists. I can Google the particular fact to see if it's real. It's really very little effort. And the verification is orders of magnitude easier and faster than coming up with the information in the first place. Which is what makes LLM's so incredibly helpful.
I remember the rounds of media coverage about this when TPMS became required on new cars.

I have not seen any evidence that it is actually happening, though. Compare to this story where the reporter asked for tracking data and either received the data or a response confirming the data’s existence but declining to provide it.

Other data sources for tracking, like cell phone location or toll transponder pings, also have a public record of the existence of that data.

I’m not aware of a similar trail of proof-of-existence for TPMS data tracking. If you are, I’d be interested to learn.
P.S. I also prefer smileys with noses, :-), as opposed to the noseless smileys, :), that most people these days seem to prefer. :-)
EY: Indians collectively spent 1.1T hours on their smartphones in 2024
> Europe is really stupid on this.

Europe is already giving more than the US and the consensus is to provide even more.

(As a Swede I also strongly believe we need to do much more.)
The basic thesis is that big government is bad when the gears are gummed by excessive participation/procedure, but good when it provides fast grants to pressing issues.
My issue with higher ups pushing LLMs is that what slows me down at work is not having to write the code. I can write the code. If all I had to do was sit down and write code, then I would be incredibly productive because I'm a good programmer.

But instead, my productivity is hampered by issues with org communication, structure, siloed knowledge, lack of documentation, tech debt, and stale repos.

I have for years tried to provide feedback and get leadership to do something about these issues, but they do nothing and instead ask "How have you used AI to improve your productivity?"
"Functional domain" meaning "functional requirements".
I do find that my ability to multitask has improved as of late, and I can switch contexts much faster by just knowing that I can quickly probe an AI to bring up to speed on a topic I used to know in detail about.

(Though it could also just be that I've gotten significantly better at taking notes over the last 5 years)
I prefer my kids going to school then being limited by what a single household can teach them. Modern schooling is way better then what conservative attacks on it claim. And I would strongly preferred to live in a country with functional public school system then one without it.
Non-paywall version: https://archive.is/R1FMz
That's cool, I love the colors
I have no idea where you live where they are required by law, but I've never heard of such a thing. They've never been required by law anywhere I've owned a car.

In any case, given they have batteries that eventually wear out, and older cars don't have them, it would still be more effective to use a camera.

Edit: even if they're required in new cars that doesn't make them mandatory on the road. It's not like all tires must be sold with TPMS.
and when this happens, it is proof of an illegitimate regime, not for the people, and as such it becomes morally and ethically justifiable to do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING one deem required to demolish it, and bring the responsible parties to justice
If it has it's across a population and says nothing about the individuals working for the boss above. It's still up to managers to, well, you know... manage.

They have to evaluate their employees and people who aren't doing well working remotely may require closer management, may lose their wfh benefits, or something else.
One of the craziest things - water falling out of the high rise building's roof top pool: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1jlpma0/...
I'm not surprised by the surveilance, but more by the high resolution of these cameras. Surely the storage bill must be immense.
I entered the United States the other day from Mexico at BWI without even showing my passport. I don't know how they verified my identity, but I presume it was a camera, because the agent looked in a computer for a few seconds, then waved me through... :/

Good to know the state knows me and isn't even bashful about it...
IIRC, nerds were the primary drivers of the search engine wars.
Yeah, I should be careful to not make it appear as though there were so clear a delineation when Jobs returned. His software engineering team got to work reshaping MacOS (as we know it now) but he seemed to this software engineer to be focused on hardware and "strategies" initially.

Aqua, the new UI, came down from above soon enough. Drawers, toolbars were new UI elements that arrived. In time Jobs' designers were going through the shipping apps with these new UI elements with changes for the engineers to implement.

Certainly by the time the iPhone had arrived the transition to marketing (and design) calling the shots was complete.
Why do you think these details are important? The entire point of these tools is that I am supposed to be able to trust what they say. The hard work is precisely to be able to spot which things are true and false. If I could do that I wouldn't need an assistant.
This is an interesting take, especially since I've had exactly the opposite impression. Since you mention Homebrew, I assume you're talking about running Nix on macOS, which has been eye-opening for me. The ecosystem is much larger, I very rarely don't find what I'm looking for in nixpkgs, and if it's not there, it _definitely_ won't be in homebrew. I only use homebrew for casks nowadays (and even that is managed through nix).
There's also been times when I've tried to install something from homebrew on a colleague's machine, and it was a huge pain to set it up correctly (having to manually install some dependencies) whereas everything worked without effort using nix. The only downside imho is that package authors tend to go for updating homebrew first if anything, since that's considered the default. Nix will typically get updated version a few days later, but that's fine for me.
Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees
Another W from the EU, though I'd hope Signal would be able to do the same.
> Then don't make the 3rd party a for profit private company. Make it a new branch of the government.

Who is this directed at? The company wasn't started as a branch of government. What exactly are you proposing? That the government create its own network of cameras for surveillance? Have government-created solutions never been abused by law enforcement in the past?
> my own creative output is limited due to the incentives of these platforms

How so?

> It may surprise you to know there was a time when people created content for the sake of it.

What time did you have in mind when talking about this?

Yes, those times existed, and they still exist. But there was never a time where mainstream media (which has now shifted to happening to social media platforms) wasn't slop and molded by bad monetary incentives. And still during all that time talented creators kept on creating for the sake of it, while often ignored by the masses - a tale as old as time.
You or them have some issue with device, whatsapp calls work perfectly fine for past 15 years. If needed you can quickly switch to video, good luck with normal calls.

Back home 5g signal is weak, so my phone does even regular calls over wifi/network, then you are 1:1 with whatsapp or similar apps. No more missed or interrupted calls due to blip in coverage.

Here in Europe I know exactly 0 people who don't have it, even online contact forms of various webs and companies have direct whatsapp contact.
The 404 links are hilarious, like you can't even parse the output and retry until it returns a link that doesn't 404? Even ignoring the billions in valuation, this is so bad for a $20 sub.
Russia will press on to claim the entire eastern Europe.

China will grab Taiwan.

And of course, countries will simply invent new disputes. Trump is already ahead by bringing up Panama and Canada, but more will follow.

These events could very likely lead to WW3 and you want to call that "contained"? Give me a break.
I would say it more likely that "systemic thinking" is a common factor to both looking at society and the economy from a systemic perspective than an individualistic or tribalistic one, which translates to higher likelihood of supporting leftist rather than rightist views, as well a higher sensitivity in identifying "conspiracies".

But much like you I just pulled that out of my ass and much like the OP, this is junk science.
I didn't claim it was. But there is a big difference between "steal some plates from extended airport parking" and having to find and steal a plate specifically for the target vehicle. Obviously you could use the most common car and colour and make your task easier, but like for my SUV I see a similar colour / year / model on the roads maybe once a month. If I had to find another to steal or clone a plate it would legitimately be a pain.
This opens the door to decoupling the "phone" functionality from your SIM card and telecom carrier monopoly. You can use any VoIP app now as your primary phone.
Only 1500 miles? Obviously they didn't measure it precisely.
I've made two big purchases from Amazon in the last year and had to return both because the supposedly new item was obviously a return (one had missing pieces, the other had visible damage). It really is at the point where you can't trust Amazon to ship you what you actually purchased due to how they manage inventory.
(FWIW: While I do generally enjoy DF, my interest here is primarily in understanding HN. I read HN probably 5-10 times a day, whereas I read DF perhaps 5-10 times per month. The near-absence of DF on HN doesn't affect me at all.)

He did start to write a lot about US politics,
which for me is enough to stop reading his blog.

That makes complete sense to me. It would take only a very few "major turn-off" articles to make me remove a blog from my feed and/or stop visiting it directly. Even a 1% incidence of such posts could cause that blog to lose 100% of my traffic.

However, that doesn't adequately explain DF articles' swift removal from HN's front page.

On HN's page front page I'd expect article links to sink or swim based entirely on their own individual merit.
The Print Book Trade, and Money (2020)
One thing I notice is that I can't spell out loud anymore. I have to type or write to get the right spelling.
There is an MIT spinoff company called Aeroshield that has created a very transparent version of aerogel to be used for very energy efficient windows. From the website they plan to have products for sale in 2026. It will probably be expensive but it is interesting. https://aeroshield.tech/
You can order 1kW of panels with 1kWh of batteries as a plug-and-play system off of Amazon for about $1k.

Thats gonna generate >1MWh of electricity per year easily (probably closer to 2MW even), and with spot pricing for electricity at ~$100/MWh (Europe), this pays off within a decade easily.

Provide numbers if you disagree.
Once upon a time, outlet stores generally were all end-of-season, B-stock, etc... but fickle consumers didn't like that it was possible to go to an outlet store and not find anything to buy, so the brands started making cheaper "outlet" lines to fill the shelves.

Stuff like this, or the JC Penny experiment years ago where the new executive team tried to get rid of deep discount sales and have consistently low prices only to be met with consumer uproar, make me really glad that I don't work anywhere near consumer retail.
I'm that old! Now I want a similar shirt featuring the back side of an IBM 5170
The Problem of the Problem (2013) [pdf]
I believe in strong tenants rights - IF you pay your rent on time and are not damaging property or otherwise misbehaving. If you stop paying, you should be out within 60 days that your security deposit should cover.

There should be mechanisms where through a process tenants can legally withhold rent if basic repairs or maintenance aren't being done. If a landlord can't or won't do it, they shouldn't be a landlord.

Evicting a tenant should be hard or expensive for any other reason (selling the property, landlord wanting to move in, etc).

I have mixed feelings around rent controls, though. In a healthy, competitive market they should be unnecessary over the long term, but if cities are going to restrict housing construction...
Linux for Windows Users? There's No Such Thing
Increase the quality of live for the working class and you get healthier people right?

It is great to se people trying to get hard evidence of these thing to argue in favor of it but I can only see dark times ahead and the misogyny will not decrease in the next decade.
I have noticed that you and your team's answers are detailed and insightful - much appreciated.
Do you count newspapers among news orgs?
Is there any reason to think Java code can’t be statically linked, and then dead code eliminated (for that specific build of the app)?

I’m not asking if the tooling currently exists, I’m curious if there’s something inherent in .class files that would prevent static linking.
I guess it totally depends on the specific use cases.
Just yesterday, I asked Gemini 2.5 for how to test a Laravel artisan command that internally calls another artisan command using the Pest testing framework.
Gemini showed me a method that looked perfect.
But when I tried to execute it, I got an error that the method doesn't exist.
So I asked Gemini about this, and it told me: "Ah, apologies! That's a classic sign that you might be using a version of Laravel older than 5.7."
So I told it that I am actually using the latest release (12.3), to which it responded with: "You're right to question things when you get an error! However, let's clarify the Laravel version first.

As of today, March 27, 2025, the latest stable version of Laravel is Laravel 11, which was released in March 2024. Laravel 12 has not been released yet (it's expected roughly in Q1 2026 based on the usual schedule).

Could you please double-check the exact Laravel version you are using?"
So it did not believe me and I had to convince it first that I was using a real version. This went on for a while, with Gemini not only hallucinating stuff, but also being very persistent and difficult to convince of anything else.

Well, in the end it was still certain that this method should exist, even though it could not provide any evidence for it and my searching through the internet and the Git history of the related packages did also not provide any results.

So I gave up and tried it with Claude 3.7 which could also not provide any working solution.

In the end, I found an entirely different solution for my problem, but that wasn't based on anything the AIs told me, but just my own thinking and talking to other software developers.

I would not go that far to call these AIs useless. In software development they can help with simple stuff and boilerplate code, and I found them a lot more helpful in creative work. This is basically the opposite from what I would have expected 5 years ago ^^

But for any important tasks, these LLMs are still far too unreliable.
They often feel like they have a lot of knowledge, but no wisdom.
They don't know how to apply their knowledge ideally, and they often basically brute-force it with a mix of strange creativity and statistical models that are apparently based on a vast amount of internet content that has big parts of troll content and satire.
> very difficult because you do not have access to the surveillance database that would help you

Is the legal process of discovery not a thing in the UK? Finding evidence that might exonerate you is precisely what that process is for.
Python

python3 -c "some·identifier = 0; print(some·identifier)"

C

echo -e '#include <stdio.h>\nint main() { int some·identifier = 0; printf("%d", some·identifier); return 0; }' | gcc -x c -o temp - && ./temp

C++

echo '#include <iostream>\nint main() { int some·identifier = 0; std::cout << some·identifier; return 0; }' | g++ -x c++ -o temp - && ./temp

Ruby

ruby -e 'some·identifier = 0; puts some·identifier'

Javascript

node -e 'let some·identifier = 0; console.log(some·identifier);'

Rust

echo 'fn main() { let some·identifier = 0; println!("{}", some·identifier); }' > temp.rs && rustc temp.rs && ./temp

Go throw an invalid character U+00B7 '·' in identifier

Java throw error: illegal character: '\u00b7'

C# is really annoyed with it apparently:

echo 'using System; class Program { static void Main() { int some·identifier = 0; Console.WriteLine(some·identifier); } }' > Program.cs && mcs Program.cs && mono Program.exe

Program.cs(1,60): error CS1056: Unexpected character `·'
Program.cs(1,60): error CS1525: Unexpected symbol `identifier', expecting `,', `;', or `='
Program.cs(1,99): error CS1056: Unexpected character `·'
Program.cs(1,99): error CS1525: Unexpected symbol `identifier'

That’s it for the top in TIOB index I tested in the frame of this message.
>That logic doesn't hold up

I agree in a narrow sense, because he talks about “production” and it sounds like he is trying to take the position that it’s all fine in general, across the industry, because you can find responsible suppliers.

But I think he only wants to make the limited point that it’s morally acceptable to use responsible suppliers, regardless of whether there’s bad ones.

But yeah he’s misstating his intention.
TurboTax handles it fine with what are effectively a bunch of defined if-else statements.
I'm 5 years older than you and that t-shirt (very nice anyway!) still makes me think of late 1990s/ early -00s so it's still not THAT old. I owned an actual IBM PS/2 XT as a kid and they were not color-coded [1]

[1] http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/alf/ps2_76/ps2_76_2_ful...
I'm not sure that panopticon is the right word for this. Bentham's panopticon extended into the prisoners' cells, and with the intent that they would never know if they were being surveilled or not.

ANPR in the UK doesn't have these characteristics. Firstly, it happens in public places only, and historically we have exactly zero expectation of privacy in public spaces in the UK. Secondly, there's no chilling effect caused by the selective and unknown application of surveillance; the cameras and computers "watch" every car equally.

Overall, I can't say I love the number of ANPR cameras we have, but then I'm also not thrilled by the thought of subsidising large numbers of people who aren't willing to hold up their side of the social contract by taxing and insuring their cars.
TIL China invented the free source movement. Cool story bro.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ9wEUKs4U4
They didn't need to allow it outside the EU which makes me wonder if they would have done it anyway.
This is my favorite building on the planet, not only for its design and architecture but also for what's inside and out.

The plaza in front and the constant buzz of locals and tourists it attracts work exactly as Renzo Piano envisioned: it's a real place that people gather for the purpose of being near a cool building! That's architecture serving the community and adding joy. I love it.
How to write great cursor rules
Credit should probably go more to large markets like India and LatAm where texting is literally = Whatsapp. This would be an absolutely sane commercial decision for breaking into those countries.
> Now of course people learning the traditional way have these same problems, but they’re debugging code they wrote, not gobbledygook from an AI.

I’m not sure this is true. Prior to AI you saw a lot of the same behavior, but it was with code copied and pasted from stack overflow, or tutorials, or what have you.

I don’t think AI has changed much in terms of behavior. There has always been a subset of people who have just looked for getting something that “worked” without understanding why, whether that’s from an AI code assistant, or an online forum, or their fellow teammates, and others who want to understand why something works. AI has perhaps made this more apparent, but it’s always been a thing.
Because it's the difference between a fleshy hallucination and something that might related to reality.
In laptops, the EC is what usually connects to the keyboard and trackpad/pointing stick, and it communicates with the chipset via LPC (a variant of the old ISA bus). Many of them have a built-in 8042-compatible IP block for this. It looks exactly like a PS/2 keyboard and mouse to software, but the physical layer may no longer be present (some old laptops that support external PS/2 keyboard+mouse may have an actual PS/2 interface.)

If the keyboard stopped working (completely), I'd suspect a bug or random glitch in the EC firmware.
Building a Weather Agent with Jido – Elixir Agent SDK
> How would race not be a biological reality

Imagine a world where people's sociaal standing was decided by the colour of their hair and we called this their "hace." Fashions, types of jobs, ways of talking, political views, would all be deeply impacted by your hace. It would be hard for us to imagine living without paying attention to someone's hace because it had been such a huge thing in society for so long. We would even point to biology and say that hace wasn't a cultural thing, there really were biological reasons why one person's hair colour was different from another, how could hace not be biological reality?

We live in a world where we do all of this with people's skin colour and we call it race. The colouring has a biological basis but the concept of "race" as a dividing line between peoples is a cultural one.
Frameworks that Shaped my Thinking