skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> instead he is a fraud/charlatan and...

Just see him talking about things at NeuraLink. Musk wouldn't exist if it weren't for the people working for him. It's a clown that made it to the top in a very dubious way.
Yes. I was thinking of this:

> If you do an experiment and say "C++" anywhere on the Internet, in a minute someone will chime in and educate you about the existence of Rust.

> I know examples when engineers rewrite code from Rust in Rust if they like to rewrite everything in Rust.

> our engineers become too nauseous from Rust poisoning

> So now they [Rust devs] can write something other than new versions of old terminal applications.

> someone shows PRQL, everyone else thinks "What a wonderful idea, and, also, Rust" and gives this project a star on GitHub. This is, by the way, how most of Rust projects get their stars on GitHub. It doesn't look like someone wants to use this language, but what we want is to ride the hype.

> we started to understand that it would be hard to get rid of Rust, and we could tolerate it.

It's a very shitty attitude and not even accurate. You see this attitude from old C/C++ devs quite a lot, it's just very weird that he has that attitude and then also seems to be simultaneously quite keen to use Rust. Very weird!

Anyway those are just the non-technical things. On the technical side:

> Fully offline builds

They solved it by vendoring but this is the obvious solution and also applies to C++.

> Segfault in Rust

They tried to do a null-terminated read of a string that wasn't null-terminated. Nothing to do with Rust. That would be an error in C++ too. In fact this is a strong argument for Rust.

> Panic

C/C++ code aborts. Or more commonly it crashes in a very difficult to debug way. I'll take panics any day.

> Sanitizers require nightly

Ok fair enough but this seems relatively minor.

> Rust's OpenSSL links with the system library by default and you have to set an environment variable to statically link it.

They set the environment variable. Frankly this is a million times easier than doing the same thing in C++.

I'll stop there, but overall it seems like a lot of "this is a problem we had with Rust" where it should really be more like "this is something we had to do when using C++ with Rust".

Weird vibe anyway.
It’s been obvious for far longer for a lot of us.
> Put another way - would giving humans superhuman vision significantly reduce the accident rate?

Yes? Incredibly?

If people had 360° instant 3D awareness of all objects, that would avoid so many accidents. No more blind spots, no more missing objects because you were looking in one spot instead of another. No more missing dark objects at night.

It would be a gigantic improvement in the rate of accidents.
We don't have a list of authors yet, but that's a good idea to add!
How about that nobody else questioned who the new guy was?
Far from all of it, seems like a big leap to write it off as pointless because of one subset.
The trick that makes Martin so fast is not doing any geospatial processing, and just being focused on making quick, non-blocking requests to Postgres. All geospatial processing is done by PostGIS, which is essentially just using the C++ geos library (which is by far the most comprehensive and well optimized geospatial processing library).
He did deliver on several fronts for a long time and seemed like a serious person. But people can change, and not always for the better.

But yeah, like Sam Harris says now, perhaps I didn't know the real Musk.
Yes, that's what it's saying.
I'm told by my friends who've studied it that Attic Greek - you know, what Plato spoke - is superb for philosophical reasoning, because all of its cases and declinsions allow for a high degree of specificity.

I know Saffir-Whorf is, shall we say, over-determined - but that had to have helped that kind of reasoning to develop as and when and how it did.
It'd be interesting if we could draw up a family tree of tool fabrication for any object.

The root object would be two rocks brought together in a bang heard 'round the world, then perhaps some sharpened sticks, all the way up to a Colchester lathe somewhere in Victorian England and the machinery that made whatever object we're looking at.
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The other comment pointing this out has been (ridiculously) flagged, so I'll repeat the point that was made:

The analysis is useless if it doesn't account for the base rate fallacy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy)

The first thing I thought before even reading the analysis was "Does the author account for it?" And indeed he makes no mention that he did.

So after reading the whole article I have no idea whether Tesla's automatic driving is any worse at detecting motorcycles than my Subaru's (which BTW also uses only visual sensors).

Antidisclaimer: I hate both Teslas and Musk. And my hate for one is not tied to the other.
This is blatantly incorrect though. The NSA actually set up the DMCC phone system specifically for this purpose. They are phones with 100% of the infrastructure already set up for communicating classified or sensitive information even while abroad and they are hardened enough that they are generally considered unclassified when powered down. They come in a DMCC-S (secret) and DMCC-TS (top secret) flavor. Any somewhat senior member at any agency or department that regularly interacts with classified information could request one of these devices. They provide cross agency encrypted call, text, and other capabilities at all security levels.

https://www.disa.mil/-/media/Files/DISA/Fact-Sheets/DMCC-TS-...
It's even worse: Has never seen Gattaca
There's one thing I've never understood. Lisp is 65 years old. It's older than any mainstream programming language apart from FORTRAN. It has a bevy of vocal fans in every generation. So...why hasn't it gone mainstream? Or at least, why has it failed to remain there?
I can imagine a useful EV without lidar (my ICE vehicles certainly don't have one). I cannot imagine a useful EV without a battery.
Not impossible, it only required a small amount of vision and risk taking. Which Nokia et al obviously lacked.

> Nobody thought mainstream users would be happy pocketing a phone with a "massive" 4.13" display.

Yet it was exceedingly obvious there was a very profitable sizeable niche of users that were willing to do so.

And it shouldn't have taken very much imagination to realize that "web in the pocket" was useful in 2008, and would quickly become much more useful in 2009, 2010 etc as the population of people with the web in their pocket grew and companies started to serve the market.

The big problem was that all of those phone companies were hardware companies. Putting Firefox in a phone was a challenge beyond them. Microsoft could have and should have done it, but they were dysfunctional at the time.
A short story of my programming language Easylang
Milei is doing wonders for Argentina!
I don't think this meets the definition of "safe" in "safe" Rust: "safe" doesn't just mean "won't crash due to spatial memory errors," it means that the code is in fact spatially and temporally memory safe.

In other words: this won't detect memory unsafety that doesn't result in an abnormal exit or other detectable fault. If I'm writing an exploit, my entire goal is to perform memory corruption without causing a fault; that's why Rust's safety property is much stronger than crash-freeness.
The Hubble Tension Is Becoming a Hubble Crisis
Show HN: AI Explains Complex Codebase in 5 Minutes (Open Sourced)
On here I recognize Richard Wright. Amazing author.
In addition to what Robin mentioned below, some of these placeholders are for books on our Wanted list. I also think it's useful to show readers that particular books are looking for volunteers to produce, and also to show that some books they might want are locked away by copyright for possibly decades. In that sense it's partly a political message.
I agree with this article but wish it had more facts and figures backing it up rather than vibes and adjectives.. bad faith actors may be malnourished by lack of ad money to prop up their sensationalism, but there are still platforms like patreon or substack(not advocating to destroy these platforms). Without solid evidence I can’t make the logical leap that advertising alone causes this.
Unless is a very small company you won't be the only one with this problem and management should do something about if it drains your energy which long-term will cause you health problems.

To help me with my ADHD (diagnosed at 42) I put on some Jungle[A], listen to the repetitive Mountain[B] or even a modern classic like Phillip Glass or Terry Riley[C]. I know it sounds mad, but it gets some body part whipping and just overwhelms any distracting thought I could possibly have.

[A] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7boqBRRiQw
[B] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGyVgm6uiSk
[C] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRaa34E8tXQ
Math Academy (not a book). $50 per month.
> I could imagine it might have the reverse effect. Plenty of governments would like to see their best and brightest return home

I can't speak for South Sudan specifically, but for Latin America, expatriates are a source of remittances that are very important for their birth countries' economies. $23 billion in remittances went from the US to Mexico in 2013 <http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/11/15/remittances-to-latin-a...>. Another $10 billion to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The US provides 78% of all remittances to Latin America, and 98% to Mexico.

A full 2% of Mexico's GDP is from remittances—larger than the petroleum industry <https://www.as-coa.org/articles/weekly-chart-oil-and-remitta...>—and 10-17% (!) of the economies of the other three countries.
Please don't try to speak for everyone who's impacted by the regressive trends in social practices.

I have a slight limp and am a member of a scapegoated minority who uses slurs in-community, I'm not easily offended (I'm inherently offensive) and your lil' shoutdown is gross.
It’s imply a next administration.
And ediction of new regulation.
> According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related.

Politics aside, these auto-suggestions are a landmine in business contexts and should be disabled by IT where possible. Sometimes I'll be sending emails including both my client and internal team and the lawyers for the other side. The phone will decade that these email addresses are related in some way. So next time I want to send an internal strategy email to my client and the team, the app will helpfully suggest copying opposing counsel. Not great.
Doesn't know how the phone works -- careless.

Clicks the button without knowing what impact it will have on a device he uses for national security communication -- reckless.

Uses a personal device -- careless and reckless.
Is CompressorJS a wrapper?
The article made this reading list seem like a good thing, but I looked at the reading list itself and it has a weird vibe. It is literally a checklist: "Check off the books as you read them." You're also supposed to rate each book from 1 to 5 stars, which is a weird way to engage with the books. At the end, you have to make a tax-form-like attestation that you have read "a complete and unabridged version of all the books and that this record is true", co-signed by an adult.

As for the list, it's basically a "Great works of Western literature" list that you'd expect to see in the 1970s. The concept seems to be that you must slog through the official important books (including The Fountainhead!) to prove your Mensan superiority, rather than encouraging a joy of reading.

The list: https://www.mensaforkids.org/achieve/excellence-in-reading/e...
Show HN: Gym Rat, my open source Notion powered fitness app. It works on my TV!
Hi HN! I got into fitness a few years ago and recently moved, leaving behind my beloved local gym. I couldn’t find anything that suited my goals and schedule, so I decided to built out my own home gym. I was surprised to find how hard it was to find any software I liked to make good workouts - anything close cost as much as a gym membership itself! Gym Rat was born from trying to make it simple and fun.

I started my gym with two weights, a kettlebell and a resistance band, so I know the app can scale up or down to any regime. While the mobile experience needs work, I have used it for when I’m traveling and it still does the job.

I’m putting it out there in case anyone else might find value in it. I’d welcome your ideas or feedback. I don’t have plans to monetize it - that’s not my goal - nor do I want to put other paid apps out of business. This was a side project I just decided to put a little TLC into and hope others might get something out of it, too.

LMK what you think!
Monkeys are best yodellers – new research
'New World monkeys, whose range stretches from Mexico to Argentina, were found to have evolved the largest vocal membranes of all the primates, suggesting these thin ribbons of tissue play a particularly important role in their vocal production and repertoire of calls.'
Show HN: Memo – Manage Your Apple Notes and Reminders from the Terminal
Hello everyone!

This is my first "serious" project, so please be kind I've been learning Python since last August.

The project is still in beta, and currently only supports Apple Notes — Apple Reminders integration is coming later. There’s still a lot of work ahead, but I wanted to share the first beta to get some feedback and test it out in the wild.

You can find the project here: https://github.com/antoniorodr/memo

I’d be more than grateful for any feedback, suggestions, or contributions. Thank you so much!

What My Project Does?

memo is a simple command-line interface (CLI) tool for managing your Apple Notes (and eventually Apple Reminders). It’s written in Python and aims to offer a fast, keyboard-driven way to create, search, and organize notes straight from your terminal.

Target Audience

Everyone who works primarily from the terminal and doesn’t want to switch to GUI apps just to jot down a quick note, organize thoughts, or check their Apple Notes. If you love the keyboard, minimalism, and staying in the flow — this tool is for you.

How It’s Different?

Unlike other note-taking tools or wrappers around Apple Notes, memo is built specifically for terminal-first users who want tight, native integration with macOS without relying on sync services or third-party platforms. It uses Python to directly access the native Notes database on your Mac, meaning you don’t have to leave your terminal — and your notes stay local, fast, and secure.

It’s not trying to replace full-fledged note apps, but rather to complement your workflow if you live in the shell and want a lightweight, scriptable, and distraction-free way to interact with your Apple Notes.
But isn't that also because it's new? Plenty of people die in work accidents because equipment malfunctions, but unless it's a specific type of equipment blowing up at alarming rates, nobody asks to pause e.g. all power-drills.

I believe that has been pretty much figured out, and insurance companies offer policies that cover it.

Sure, they are usually not "intelligent", but are auto-pilots in cars?
Ask HN: Are browsers more likely to adopt .js or .tsx to represent typed JSX?
Node recently allowed importing .ts files. But the types-proposal is adding them into plain .js files. And there's JSX which isn't going away and will eventually be standardized. (My proposal is that we create a self.JSX object with create() factory that you can override at your app's entry point.) Do you think browsers are more likely to add support for .ts/.tsx/.jsx extensions, or allow .js to include types/jsx? (Or both?)
> Tesla could very well have the best FSD software on the market

Tesla could very well have the best FSD marketing on the software. And that's dangerous.

Data point: the "First To Gain U.S. Approval For Level 3 Automated Driving System" is ... Mercedes-Benz

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kyleedward/2023/09/28/mercedes-...

The second will be, IDK, maybe BMW? https://www.bmwblog.com/2024/06/25/bmw-approval-for-combinin...
okay, do they mean vectors, or tiles, because that's like saying "serving PNG JPEGs" or "serving JPEG PNGs". Some servers chuck back /a picture/, some servers chuck back /an SVG/ or line data.
Classic example of this was when Dell use WebObjects for their shop-front --- Microsoft was so put out that they threatened their licensing deals.
Not dubious. He was rich to begin with and used that wealth to make more.
I can't imagine a "full self driving" car that performs worse than humans be allowed in the streets.

In medicine, the ethics commitee would shot the project early.

Edit: Comparing "ev vehicle" with "autonomous vehicle"
Lol, that sounds like hell on earth to me. Do they allow anything for Autistic people? or similar?

Cause that's just... the worst.
Not the OP, but I have the "yeah you have ADHD according to this survey" from my GP, along with an adderall Rx. I didn't know there were documented subtypes.
Do I want to commute to the office? No, I very much do not. However, the people you know at work are your future professional network. Yes, you can do good work and be recognized for it while fully remote but nothing replaces a social bond, limited as it is, from having frequently interacted face to face with your colleagues. I can write much warmer and more fleshed out referrals for people I know something about than someone I've only seen as a square on a Zoom call.
Ah thanks, misunderstood!
> no one should be abused for choosing a language

Can you link to the abuse?
Here's the better design: have agents communicate via Mastodon. Take a basic JSON payload, encrypt it using basic public key encryption, and attach it to a DM.

This is far better than designing an entirely new protocol, as ActivityPub and Mastodon already have everything you need, including an API.

Now, that's just transport security. If you expose a server that will execute arbitrary commands, nothing can protect you.
That's the fun part. They did. DISA and the NSA have had the DMCC-TS (and DMCC-S) phones available across basically every agency or department for years now. They come already provisioned with Cellcrypt for messaging and phone calls as well as email access.

These are the standard communication device for senior members of the US government who are working regularly with classified information.

https://www.disa.mil/-/media/Files/DISA/Fact-Sheets/DMCC-TS-...

The issue with these devices is that the systems they use follow all recordkeeping laws and any communications are subject to FOIA.
>>We call this trick the "fork and free" pattern. It's pretty nifty.

It should be called "fork and see" pattern instead :D
>Multiple independent sensor streams is like having multiple pilots fly a plane.

Don't think that's the right analogy. Realistically you'd aim to combine them meaningfully. A bit like two eyes gives you depth perception.

You assume 1+1 is less than two, when really you'd aim for >2
A note for Kobo users: a lot of us (myself included) use Calibre to manage and upload our ebooks. Something about Calibre messes up Kepub files and strips out a lot of the formatting (including the book’s cover).

If I want to appreciate a nice Kepub from Standard Ebooks, I upload it directly to the Kobo.
Yes

https://www.disa.mil/-/media/Files/DISA/Fact-Sheets/DMCC-TS-...
This is absolutely the reason. This is why startups exist, new things are easier in small orgs for a variety of reasons.
I wouldn't use medicine as an example in this case. Medicine does all kinds of ill advised things because they're worse for the disease than the patient. And all kinds of things they know will kill the patient if there's opportunity to learn and improve other lives.

It seems like Tesla's been pretty clear with drivers who've opted in to FSD that they're helping to test and develop a system which isn't perfect.

Just off the top of the head, look up Henrietta Lacks for a notable example of how medicine has handled informed consent.
There are arguments one can make for benefits of surveillance capitalism, but you used the exact right word, "net". We can't say "Is the a benefit or not?" but "Is there a net positive", and that's a different question from is there any positive.

With that, let me outline where I think proponents would argue there is a benefit

- Consumers get "relevant ads".

If an ad company knows you're in the market for a new grill, it's better for them to show you advertisements for grills than for soap. The argument made here is that the consumer wastes less time, has less of an issue with ads (since they're relevant) and is better informed (arguing that ads are a form of information).

- Advertisers waste less money

The argument here goes that an advertiser who puts out an ad on TV or a magazine only has some vague notion of who the audience is. If they know who they want to target to buy their product, they don't to spend money advertising to people who aren't going to buy their product.

- It lets smaller advertisers come in for a niche audience

Let's imagine that your product or service is very niche. You're likely to have less resources to spend on advertising, and you need to make your ad spending count. With surveillance capitalism and targeted ads, you can reach your target market.

I don't personally view these benefits as outweighing the net negative of the incredible amount of information collected on people and the way this information is used not only to get people to spend more (since that's what advertisement is) but also for psychological and even political manipulation as we saw in the last US election where different people would be shown customized ads to stir up their fears and doubt.
Tesla’s valuation isn’t based on their ability to make a BEV.
Is there any possible justification for using the word "dripping" rather a normal word like "sinking"?

To me, dripping requires liquid drops that travel through air or a vacuum. Maybe through another liquid if the drops cohere. But solids can't drip, and substances can sink or travel or migrate through a solid but they can't drip through it.

Is there some special geological meaning of "dripping"? Or is this just bad English?