MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-05-07 01:36:20+00:00
Overstated. There isn't any long term locking capabilities on most rivers under the IWT.

The only one India is messing with is the Chenab, and only because it messes up Pakistan's Rice and Sugar exports (major forex provider for Pakistan, and the supply chain is heavily owned by Pakistan's MilBus). Kharif sowing season ends in a couple weeks so messing with the Chenab for 3-4 weeks is enough to destroy the rice harvest in Northeast Punjab.

I recommend reading Ayesha Siddiqui's "Military Inc" to understand the Pakistani army (she was forced into exile because of the book), and "Army and Nation" by Steven Wilkinson to understand India's army.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-05-07 01:36:30+00:00
lol.

Lina Khan was appointed to the FTC by Joe Biden as part of a broader decision to allow Elizabeth Warren expanded oversight of economic regulation as a way to coalition build with the somewhat more progressive (but still pretty establishment) parts of the Democratic party.

Lina Khan was Biden's pick because she was Warren's pick.

To be clear about my own biases, I think Lina Khan was a fantastic pick and did an amazing job and would have done even greater things if left in place, but to act like she was a bipartisan choice (beyond, say, JD Vance throwing out some rhetoric on the campaign trail) is revisionist history.
by bongodongobob | 2025-05-07 01:37:05+00:00
I'm too lazy to grab my work laptop, but one of the funniest things about copilot to me is which one? There's M365 copilot, Teams Premium (which gives you copilot in Teams), browser extension, the coding plugin, and others. It's been extremely time consuming to field requests from our users because every time our help desk gets a request for it, they have to have a conversation about which one the user is asking about. They don't even know, and of course I can't blame them.
by peterldowns | 2025-05-07 01:38:56+00:00
Incredibly fun game, I'm not a huge gamer but I remember buying the Humble Bundle just to get this. One of the few games that I've spent the time to finish. Awesome work, Terry, and thank you for the great times!

btw also fuck you for veni vidi vici, jeez that took me a while!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtiY5D6HCs
by strangegecko | 2025-05-07 01:39:53+00:00
HN is really unique in that regard for me.

I don't come here that often, but when I do, I usually end up getting stuck in what is often a borderline off-topic discussion of life challenges I'm dealing with.

This morning, I started out trying to use NotebookLM to solve my "what would a meaningful life look like for me" problem and ended up spending over an hour on this thread (mostly reading/thinking). I only came here as a symptom of procrastination when the friction I encountered with that main goal became too much.
by hello_newman | 2025-05-07 01:40:24+00:00
The moat is Windsurf’s custom LLM and the ops around it (training pipelines, fine-tuning, infra).

Codeium (Windsurf’s parent) started as a GPU optimization company, so they have deep expertise there. Unlike most agents that might just wrap OpenAI/Claude/etc Windsurf’s own model powers its code edits, not external API calls.

That’s where the defensibility is. better in-house models + efficient infra = stronger long-term moat
by mdaniel | 2025-05-07 01:42:01+00:00
> (try Github repo search, it's quite good :D)

Since you called it out, I gave it a whirl:

https://websets.exa.ai/api/trpc/getPreview?batch=1&input=%7B...

and it did nothing to the page at all, choosing to still show the "Full-stack engineers in SF that are great at design, and have worked at an AI startup" example table

I'm open to the fact that "I'm holding it wrong" or whatever, but the response payload included things that are clearly not GitHub Repositories

{ "id": "https://authzforce.ow2.org", "entityId": "https://authzforce.ow2.org", "properties": { "type": "custom", "description": "AuthzForce (Community Edition) - XWiki", "url": "https://authzforce.ow2.org",

and its .text contains no mention of ReBAC

later on it came closer

{ "id": "https://github.com/authzforce", "entityId": "https://github.com/authzforce", "properties": { "type": "custom", "description": "AuthzForce Community Edition", "url": "https://github.com/authzforce",

but, of course, no ReBAC in its .text either

It seems it is about 30/70 on finding the things I asked for, so I don't mean to imply it's worthless, but it is yet another example of "turns out, AI does not solve all problems"

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I make a habit out of having the dev-tools open when interacting with things where the comments have explicitly called out "we were down and we don't check our response.statusCode" and that's the only reason I am able to offer you any feedback whatsoever
by MichaelMoser123 | 2025-05-07 01:43:24+00:00
I hope you are right, however:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Waters_Treaty#Suspension

Following the suspension of the treaty, India significantly reduced the flow of water through the Chenab River, which crosses into Pakistan. Pakistani authorities claimed a 90% drop in water supply and accused India of choking the river’s flow. India also initiated new hydroelectric projects and began constructing dams on the western rivers, actions previously constrained under the treaty.[125][126][127]

Pakistan has reportedly warned that any attempt by India to disrupt the flow of water from shared rivers could be considered an act of war, and would attack India with nuclear weapons.[128]
by dylan604 | 2025-05-07 01:43:36+00:00
I think you're confusing modern day contracts with content from pre-2000. With DVDs, people started paying attention to the quality of the content to the point that additional things were added to the contracts to have cast/crew available for behind the scenes during principle photography, after edit for commentary, etc. Before that, it was just take the released version and dub it to VHS were quality was an after thought.

That older content just had no concepts of ever being used for anything other than the original broadcast, or eventually, hopefully, syndicated broadcasts. People survived off of royalties from syndication which is why it was a big deal reach that 100th episode. Once they reached 100, they could phone it in. That's why so many older shows had 20+ episodes per season to get to 100 faster.

times have changed. the quality of home video is so much better than it was, and now people pay attention to those details. compare a 4k HDR with surround to a VHS with maybe HiFi stereo audio tracks played back on most commonly the speakers on the TV itself. The timeline from VHS->DVD->HD->4K is not linear which is something I think a lot of people do not appreciate.
by gruez | 2025-05-07 01:44:04+00:00
>If you're trying to see the single Chicago date of Tropical Fu Dogs' Coconut Cream tour, well, you either pay the fee or you don't ever see that show.

Isn't that an argument for stronger disclosure laws for pre-recorded performances? If there's a monopoly, deceptive pricing wouldn't do much because the monopolist is still your only choice. but if it's a competitive marketplace, deceptive pricing might actually lead to consumers choosing worse providers.
by tomcam | 2025-05-07 01:44:35+00:00
I'm totally unable to daydream. Never have for at least 50 years that I can remember. Can't visualize myself accomplishing cool things. Can't visualize how I'll look or feel after doing the much-needed exercise I should be doing. Can't meditate. I have been called creative many many times in my life but I can't daydream. About all I can do is create a mental checklist of the next thing I need to do, anything from a grocery list to a business I'll be running for many years. As a kid I knew I had to leave home very young and planned it perfectly, but that was a checklist, not a daydream.

If it's a big project like a complicated real estate deal, investment plan, large line of business program, or the business itself I am guaranteed to encounter zero surprises because I'm that good. But I can't visualize the kitchen I'm about to remodel or what accessories I should get on the car I'm about to buy.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-07 01:44:36+00:00
Depends on internal politics in Pakistan.

The army isn't completely united, and the current COAS of Pakistan (Asim Munir) is much more ideological than the former one (Qamar Javed Bajwa), who he pushed out after Bajwa and Imran Khan demoted Munir from the ISI to a (relatively) lowly Corp Commander.

Bajwa was working on normalizing relations with India, but himself got undermined by Imran Khan and separately by Asim Munir.
by tptacek | 2025-05-07 01:44:44+00:00
I mean, you can choose to pay or not pay for the service. I'm not saying you should go out of your way to patronize businesses that charge you more for your burrito taxi than you think it's worth. But if your burritos arrive cold because you are the lowest bidder for the service, I think you've lost some of the moral high ground to complain.
by alganet | 2025-05-07 01:45:12+00:00
Fury Road could be seen as a reverse adaptation sequel of "Lolita" though.

The end of Lolita (old guy on a road, frustrated, goes off path) fits with the Furiosa taking a detour.

The roles are reversed. The young girl leaves in triumph (opposed to: the old guy leaves in frustration) and the old guy goes after her (opposed to: the young girl doesn't care about him leaving).

It could be just the skeleton of the story though.

Water is unobtanium of their scenic universe. In that movie perspective, it's related to healthy reproduction (healthy babies!), most likely cultural and not genetic.

As any work of art, it is subject to many interpretations. Not everything is a cue. But some cues exist in fact. Contrary to the meme swarm, you can't turn those ideas so quickly into what you want, otherwise it fails to connect to a sense of cultural continuity.
by n_ary | 2025-05-07 01:47:46+00:00
At the risk of sounding very naïve and making huge guesses, what you describe seems to be what docker-compose solves. Special order of services, launching several containers at once. However, I have seen my fair share of oddities in the trenches where containers are evolution of virtual machines(vagrant) running everything in one vm but now split out into containers without adapting to how containers work, because new tech lead thought vms were uncool and everything must be docker now.
by toast0 | 2025-05-07 01:47:51+00:00
> Granted, such exclusivity deals are rare (because generally publishers want to maximize their revenue rather than artificially constrain it),

Well, also there was US v. Paramount Pictures [1], which prohibited film production companies from showing their films exclusively at their owned theaters. And follow-on rulings like Bigelow vs RKO Radio Pictures [2], that more or less established that distributing films preferentially is also unacceptable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_v._RKO_Radio_Pictures,....
by stubish | 2025-05-07 01:48:04+00:00
I used to play with a notorious TF1 sniper who constantly got cheating accusations. Saw them play live once, and they were just that good. But with a catch - they lowered screen resolution to the absolute minimum, meaning higher refresh rates, and bigger pixels. Bigger pixels meant easier head shots, as if a bullet path hit a bounding box, the rendered pixels of the target were then used to determine hit/miss and hit location. They also adjusted their screen contrast making everything look awful, but apparently easier to make out the important details.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-07 01:51:03+00:00
I think that it is simply because the situation is less problematic than with live events.

In free countries, and especially the US when it comes to trade, the idea is that people can do whatever they want unless it causes a problem, and if it causes a problem, they will pass the minimum amount of regulation needed to address the problem.

My opinion as a consumer would be to ban all hidden fees in all industries, including taxes and tipping when it is expected. But lawmakers in the US consider it not enough of a problem to restrict the freedoms of businesses doing this, so they take a more targeted approach.
by alganet | 2025-05-07 01:52:07+00:00
If you saw the cultural continuity, you can them jump to "Man On The High Castle" where the former Minister of Culture of Japan travels universes temporarily, revealing a drawer with banned books. Amongst them, Lolita.

The old Minister represents an aged cultural interpretation of a nation (not exactly Japan, but what is perceived to be the form of Imperial Japan if it has won WWII).

After seeing it, the character is called out by his son, before quickly returning back to the war universe.
by opwieurposiu | 2025-05-07 01:52:15+00:00
We just got the cheapest single burner propane forge eBay/Amazon. Working great so far. Looks like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/176573538859

Note that a forge produces big noisy flame and burns a lot of gas. If all you want to do is heat a nail a plumbing torch will suffice. But if you want to make a knife you will need some sort of forge.
by dang | 2025-05-07 01:52:45+00:00
Related. Others?

Is opening up your source code worth it? Terry Cavanagh thinks it was for VVVVVV - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25727963 - Jan 2021 (16 comments)

Many games are held together by duct tape - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22043156 - Jan 2020 (154 comments)

VVVVVV Source Code Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22011465 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22011358 - Jan 2020 (223 comments)

VVVVVV 60% Off On The Mac App Store This Weekend - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347676 - March 2011 (1 comment)
by ranger207 | 2025-05-07 01:53:22+00:00
There won't be corroborating reports for months if not years. The public transparency of the Ukrainian battlefield is an anomaly; typically (as in past India-Pakistan incidents) both sides will claim more successes than actually happened and it'll take unbiased parties to figure out what actually happened after both sides release their records. This isn't typically due to malice; it's simply difficult in most cases to verify exactly what damage you've dealt. The wide prevalence of public videos in Ukraine puts a lower bound on claims by both sides, but that's historically very unusual.
by aghilmort | 2025-05-07 01:55:03+00:00
we had to call a serial port and according to MSFT compiler team, C# 1.0 (it was basically the first public release off C#) it couldn't talk to C control library we had to use from vendor, so somehow hacked a C# to C++ to C thing and back again at the time. Then they were like oh, ok ya, that could work after it was done

timeframe was circa 2002-2004 give or take, the C lib we had to use was closed source
by dang | 2025-05-07 01:55:45+00:00
It was a terrible post, of course, and we've banned the account. But can you please not respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself? It only makes things worse.

This is in the site guidelines: "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(a.k.a. don't feed the trolls)

In egregious cases like this one, you're welcome to email us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com.
by bongodongobob | 2025-05-07 01:55:49+00:00
If you think it's too safe you haven't tried. This took me 5 minutes with almost no thought just to make the point.

https://suno.com/s/5bXmu47Iv1o0xR9U

https://suno.com/s/4pWqmP1zP97LsK8k

https://suno.com/s/ETXPsm6eYwMoiphR
by l72 | 2025-05-07 01:57:14+00:00
I want to play something on my keyboard (the only instrument I am slightly ok at) and then be able to tell it to play it with a saxophone and describe exactly how I want it played. I don’t need an AI to create a song for me, I need 100 session musicians at my disposal to create the song I want. I am very excited about having that type of ai.
by jpc0 | 2025-05-07 01:58:20+00:00
Rust libraries tend to over abstract and then need large refactors when those abstractions fall apart. When I’ve complained about it in the past I’ve been met with “You would need the abstraction eventually”. Maybe, but I’m also capable of building it myself it it gets to that.

Maybe that’s more of a bias with rust media stuff, seems to be going deeper into that rabbit hole though.

The community was at least, may still be, very sensitive to rust being criticised. I genuinely brought an example of a provably correct piece of code that the borrow checker wouldn’t accept, interior mutability problem. I was I should build a massive abstraction to avoid the problem and that I’m holding it wrong… Put me off the language for a few years, it shouldn’t have, I should have just ignored the people and continued on but we all get older and learn things.
by green_bassel | 2025-05-07 01:58:25+00:00
He retired from his teaching position but he still research math and present his findings on his channel.

you can find a walkthrough of his article here

Paper with Dean Rubine on Solving Polynomial Equations and the Geode (I) | N J Wildberger https://youtu.be/oIHd3zDDDCE?si=kdJnuRB1GYi_mg-5

Subdigons and Solving Polynomial Equations and the Geode (with Dean Rubine) II | N J Wildberger https://youtu.be/Jl0TWMN85G0?si=1IzlrHBBT009lLKq

The History behind Hyper-Catalan Series Solutions to Polynomial Equations -- with Dean Rubine https://youtu.be/nvH09WvvERY?si=Df4F9XeD5Yhgw0Xh
by irjustin | 2025-05-07 01:58:25+00:00
> I find this sentiment increasingly worrisome.

I wouldn't worry about it because, as you say, "in a new world". The old will simply "die".

We're in the midsts of a paradigm shift and it's here to stay. The key is the speed at which it hit and how much it changed. GPT3 overnight changed the game and huge chunks of people are mentally struggling to keep up - in particular education.

But people who resist AI will become the laggards.
by xingped | 2025-05-07 01:58:32+00:00
If food delivery services were presented to end users as some sort of bidding model, sure, but it's not. It's presented as simply as "you order food, food gets delivered to you". There's no ability to see how my order might be affected by how much I pay.

For the record, I never use food delivery services because the upcharge is absurd. If I want food delivery it'll be pizza and that's it. At least that's an honest transaction and I don't have to wonder when my food will arrive or how cold it might be.
by Retric | 2025-05-07 01:58:42+00:00
Yea, hotels are covered.

Examples of covered short-term lodging include: Temporary sleeping accommodations at a hotel, motel, inn, short-term rental, vacation rental, or other place of lodging; Home shares and vacation rentals offered through platforms (like Airbnb or VRBO); Discounted extended stays at a hotel.

Examples of lodging that are not covered include: Long-term or other rental housing that involves an ongoing landlord-tenant relationship; Short-term extensions to leases offered by rental housing providers; Temporary corporate housing offered by an apartment community under the same conditions as long-term leases.
by psviderski | 2025-05-07 01:59:22+00:00
The only problem is Docker Swarm is essentially abandonware after Docker was acquired by Mirantis in 2019. Core features still work but there is a ton of open issues and PRs which are ignored. It's fine if it works but no one cares if you found a bug or have ideas on how to improve something, even worse if you want to contribute.
by talldatethrow | 2025-05-07 02:00:26+00:00
I am dating someone that has a child in private school. First grade costs $4k+ a month, maybe even 6k I forget. Nothing in the parking lot or talking even screams wealthy. Every person I've met in the social circle, also send their kids to private school in the SF bay area. I haven't even met another adult that sends their kids to public school. These are people that make $250k-$600k probably. But that's not "wealthy" in the SF bay area.
by xethos | 2025-05-07 02:01:32+00:00
> Though I trust him this far - he's got his hands too full at the moment to try it.

I legitimately can't tell who you think has their hands too full to start something: the West's old superpower opponent currently waging a hot war with their neighbour, or the guy trying to actively dismantle the United States of America from the inside

And somehow, between the two of them, it's Trump that I don't trust to simply let a plate fall, move on to (or back to) Greenland, and create more outrage to get the public and the media forget about the smashed plate.
by ronbenton | 2025-05-07 02:02:02+00:00
>Even companies with near-infinite resources (like Apple and Google) made trivial “worst practice” security mistakes that put their customers in danger. Yet we continue to rely on all these products.

I am at a big tech company and have seen some wildly insecure code make it into the codebase. I will forever maintain that we should consider checking if candidates actually understand software engineering rather than spending 4 or 5 hours seeing if they can solve brainteasers.
by walterbell | 2025-05-07 02:03:52+00:00
> While Qwen3 and DeepSeek are impressive, the infrastructure costs for running these at scale remain prohibitive for most use cases. The economics still don't work

dedicated LLM hosting providers like Cerebras and Groq who can actually make money on each user inference query

Cerebras (wafer-scale) and Groq (TPU+) both have inference-optimized custom hardware.
by mdaniel | 2025-05-07 02:04:08+00:00
"can" is doing some heavy lifting there, especially based on my experience with VSCodium (which by definition is forced to work within Microsoft's opinion of build systems)

Anyway, uh-huh:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github... -> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github...

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github... -> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github...

and, relevant to your comment even they opt out of telemetry https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github...

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As a frame of reference, to build bash one only needs /bin/sh not a pre-built copy of bash itself https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/configure?h=...
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-05-07 02:05:05+00:00
Not sure if this is too little, too late. The israeli cyber-intelligence firm primarily known for its proprietary spyware Pegasus, employed almost 500 people as of 2017 [1] . However, the US govt included NSO Group in its Entity List for acting against U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, effectively banning U.S. companies from supplying NSO [1]

This makes me think that NSO is effectively frozen out of the US banking network, and therefore the whatsapp judgement is ineffective to go after US assets in US jurisdictions. So, no disgorgement outside of what banks may have frozen before this lawsuit (if anything) as a result of the Entity list addition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group
by breadwinner | 2025-05-07 02:06:22+00:00
Why limit this to live-event and lodging industries? Why not all the fees tacked on by cell carriers?

For example, AT&T charges a fee to "recover certain aggregate expenses AT&T incurs, including, but not limited to, charges AT&T or its agents pay to interconnect with other carriers to deliver calls from AT&T customers to their customers and charges associated with cell site rents and maintenance" [1]

[1] https://www.att.com/legal/terms.otherWirelessFeeSchedule.htm...
by sally_glance | 2025-05-07 02:06:59+00:00
Thank you for this reference, it's a great read and actually gave me a better understanding of ABI compatibility issues in general.

Probably the wrong place to ask, but where is the claim that static compilation is "hurting battery life" coming from? More efficient use of CPU caches because frequently used shared libs are more likely to be cached? Or less allocations in RAM maybe?