MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmooss | 2025-05-19 23:52:58+00:00
You're just saying this stuff, but it's not only badly misconceived, it's repeating that playbook. You can easily find - even in this discussion - why it's false.

Anything that teaches you to hate and fear is a red flag - a sign to run the other way. They are doing it for a reason, they are appealing to the worst and most emotional parts of people for a reason. (And no, DEI doesn't teach that; it's just the propagandists that portray it that way).
by Panzer04 | 2025-05-19 23:53:57+00:00
Classic case of people not wanting to give up a subsidy.

It's not sustainable or efficient to continue subsidising solar at this point. If we paid wholesale prices for electricity generated by solar customers, incentives would shift - getting 0-5c on your solar energy would demonstrate that the grid doesn't actually need more energy during the day - the 50c+ prices in the evening would show that we need more batteries (or other dispatchable power)
by gruez | 2025-05-19 23:53:59+00:00
From your link:

>Friedman argued that the shareholders can then decide for themselves what social initiatives to take part in rather than have an executive whom the shareholders appointed explicitly for business purposes decide such matters for them

That seems... fine? Is letting Ford shareholders decide what political causes to fund really that much worse than delegating that to Henry Ford, which subsequently decided to support nazi-adjacent groups?
by timrogers | 2025-05-19 23:54:01+00:00
As we've built Copilot coding agent, we've put a lot of thought and work into our security story.

One of the things we've done here is to treat Copilot's commits like commits from a first-time contributor to an open source project.

When Copilot pushes changes, your GitHub Actions workflows won't run by default, and you'll have to click the "Approve and run workflows" button in the merge box.

That gives you the chance to run Copilot's code before it runs in Actions and has access to your secrets.

(Source: I'm on the product team for Copilot coding agent.)
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-19 23:54:36+00:00
Rather than tying CI & deployments to Github Actions, it is usually better to pull as much of it as possible out to shell scripts and call them in containers in GH actions..

There are optimizations you’ll want (caching downloaded dependencies etc); if you wait to make those after your build is CI-agnostic you’ll be less tempted by vendor specific shortcuts.

Usually means more code - but, easier to test locally. Also, swapping providers later will be difficult but not “spin up a team and spend 6 months” level.
by intalentive | 2025-05-19 23:55:18+00:00
This explanation is intuitive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc5NTeJbk-k

My takeaway is that diffusion "samples all the tokens at once", incrementally, rather than getting locked in to a particular path, as in auto-regression, which can only look backward. The upside is global context, the downside is fixed-size output.
by jeffparsons | 2025-05-19 23:55:55+00:00
A company as big as LinkedIn should have bots continually accessing their site with unique generated passwords etc., and then be searching for those secrets in logging pipelines, bytes on disk, etc. to see where they get leaked. I know much smaller companies that do this.

Yes, it's easy to fuck up. But a responsible company implements mitigations. And LinkedIn can absolutely afford to do much more.
by tjpnz | 2025-05-19 23:55:58+00:00
>Most developers don't love writing tests, or updating documentation, or working on tricky dependency updates - and I really think we're heading to a world where AI can take the load of that and free me up to work on the most interesting and complex problems.

Where does the most come from? There's a certain sense of satisfaction in knowing I've tested a piece of code per my experience in the domain coupled with knowledge of where we'll likely be in six months. The same can be said for documentation - hell, on some of the projects I've worked on we've entire teams dedicated to it, and on a complicated project where you're integrating software from multiple vendors the costs of getting it wrong can be astronomical. I'm sorry you feel this way.
by immibis | 2025-05-19 23:56:40+00:00
So in other words if you provide someone software and it sets their business on fire, you're liable to repay the value of the business you set on fire. Yes, this is how all business relations work. If I sell someone a mango that sets their business on fire I'm liable for that too. Not unique to software. No difference if it's a mango full of genetically modified bacteria that spontaneously combust after a certain time passes, or a server that sends network signals to turn the heating up to 1000 degrees. And in both cases the solution is don't do that.

So I want to know what specific risks you're worried about that are not present in literally 100% of business interactions. Or do you expect software to be exempt from the general principles of liability?
by claytonjy | 2025-05-19 23:56:51+00:00
that’s not really what’s new or special about pixi, is it? poetry (poethepoet) and uv can both do variations of this.

From the outside, pixi looks like a way to replace (conda + pip) with (not-conda + uv). It’s like uv-for-conda, but also uses uv internally.

Better task running is cool, but it would be odd to use pixi if you don’t otherwise need conda stuff. And extra super duper weird if you don’t have any python code!
by vicentesteve | 2025-05-19 23:57:51+00:00
Appreciate the comment, I understand what you're trying to say.

Just to clear something up where I'm at: I'm a student, not a professional researcher (yet, anyway), and I'm trying to get into this realm step by step. I don't actually have much of a network or people around me to help share my work, so publishing it myself is kind of the only way I can get feedback from others who are into this sort of thing.

Also, I realize grades and university matter, but I think that trying to do it — even if it's not perfect — has to count for something as well. Publishing this is a way of learning, improving, and maybe getting closer to being part of a real research team someday.

You're correct as far as the abstract on ResearchGate is concerned — I didn't realize it got scrambled when I copied it over from the LaTeX version. Thank you for pointing it out to me, I'll fix it.

And sure, I know it sounds weird that I'm the only author. I understand why you'd question it. But I'm not claiming this is the evidence of anything — I'm just presenting a thing I've been messing around with and hoping that people can help say where there might be something to it, or where it doesn't work. That's the entire premise.

And AI — and this was not accomplished by AI. It's just me. Sure, I did use LaTeX and a PDF editor, but the writing and the thinking are mine.

Thanks again for reading. If you have any ideas on the actual content, I'd really love to hear them.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-05-19 23:57:52+00:00
Sigh. Stop. I read the parent's post and his concerns are not without merit.

<< See here is the thing- you don't know this is true. You never actually went and looked at the science or verified how much of it is fake.

Technically speaking, neither do you unless you went over said data yourself. That said, some people did[2] and found that a good chunk of current studies can't be replicated. What does that say about the state of said science? Does it support your position? Does it support parent's post?

<< something you are using came from left leaning university.

The problem is not with left leaning or even right leaning. It is with people who blindly proclaim "Science!", but, at best, are an equivalent of annoying fanboys and, at worst, dilettantes, who feel compelled to use power of the state to squash people, who, in their mind, undermine their POV[1].

<< This is what I mean by being out of touch with reality.

And somehow, just to top it all off, they feel superior.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko [2]https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778
by nikcub | 2025-05-19 23:58:28+00:00
Lots of regular people use Have I Been Pwned and sending them to 1Password is probably the single best thing you could do for them (I know it's a sponsorship - but it's a very complimentary one).

I'd make the language around that promo banner stronger (ie. "We strongly recommend") and make it stand out more on the page.

So many social media accounts get hacked[0] because of shared passwords and those affected users often end up on the site - funnelling them to a password manager and a reason why it's good hygiene is great.

ps. congrats on the relaunch!

[0] I've probably assisted 20+ such cases in the past ~12 months
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by LogLeads | 2025-05-19 23:59:34+00:00
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by jiggawatts | 2025-05-20 00:00:07+00:00
This is always the top comment in these kinds of threads, and I see this as an indication that the current state of CI/CD is pathetically propriety.

It’s like the dark times before free and open source compilers.

When are we going to push back and say enough is enough!?

CI/CD desperately needs something akin to Kubernetes to claw back our control and ability to work locally.

Personally, I’m fed up with pipeline development inner loops that involve a Git commit, push, and waiting around for five minutes with no debugger, no variable inspector, and dumping things to console logs like I’m writing C in the 1980s.

You and I shouldn’t be reinventing these wheels while standing inside the tyre shop.
by Teever | 2025-05-20 00:00:26+00:00
> We should have known that if we limited China from accessing our tech, they'd just grow their own.

It was known and was accounted for.

The idea is to make them spend resources developing their own technology on our terms instead of their own.

They were always going to do this, they just had to do it faster than they otherwise wanted to, which has an opportunity cost.
by summer_heater | 2025-05-20 00:00:32+00:00
Decent execution! Congrats on putting it before public's eyes. How long did it take for you piece this together?

As a user, I have no strong reason why I should register.

> validating the idea with potential customers, and building in an overly saturated space that will be a constant uphill battle to acquire and maintain users.

The first time around, I missed even checking the bottom half of your landing page, which seem to have more information about what the app is targeting to be about. Reading it gave the me the vibe of being part of a community or a group, but reading this text above made me think if I'm merely a wallet for you. My 2c to you is to focus on building a community than a business. Once there is a community, commerce follows.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-20 00:03:06+00:00
> Their favourite iPhone is made by communists

China has been a capitalist state since the 70s with a turn to State Capitalism in the 2010s. Furthermore, China's leadership remains anti-Welfarism, with Xi himself making speeches against expanding the already weak social safety net.

> Every day Capitalists use public sanitation, running water, Education, GPS, police and prosecution but they imagine they could exist in a mad max world instead of dying of cholera

Capitalism doesn't preclude public infrastructure. That's just a facile argument.

> the LED

The modern LED was developed by Texas Instruments and Bell Labs in the 1950s.

> like satellites

Both the US and the USSR knew about how to launch satellites in space by the mid-1950s. It was the USSR that chose to prioritize it, and the US that chose to deprioritize it.
by MoonGhost | 2025-05-20 00:03:39+00:00
> Stop the arm and you'll break off the teeth on your gears!

Unless you have some energy dumping mechanism, like connect your servo to arm with flexible connector. Making whole arm or leg with bit flexible plastic will also reduce max load on gear. Precision will suffer, but should be still good enough for walk and house work. The problem with energy is that it should be undone when direction changes. This affects reaction time. And that time should be smaller for small, a... proportional to square root of size, right? That's how long it takes to fall. Not sure, didn't take into account the inertia of solid body.

BTW, heavily geared humanoid robots walk in some more stable way on bent legs. This is obvious on old videos. Like they are afraid to sh*t their pants. Also have problems with balance. Small hobby robots usually in addition to bent legs have huge feet. The point is, with servos it cannot be done much better.
by ymyms | 2025-05-20 00:04:41+00:00
Not everything is a website and not all connections are from people. Sure, you can use a token to authenticate with but how do you get that token? Yeah, a person can use a password or a passkey through some OAuth flow and get a token as a stand-in for subsequent connections on their behalf.

Public CA TLS PKI is nice because it gives a root-of-trust for machines to start with using a DNS challenge. Then using it directly with mTLS for authentication could get you that token for operations.

I suppose the main thing that is going away with this change is a somewhat easy and secure way to distribute identity/secrets for machine-based authentication. People-based authentication mechanisms are well-built and fairly easy to use.
by jchw | 2025-05-20 00:05:31+00:00
Linux doesn't need VMs, people need VMs. If you spend most of your time in Windows-exclusive apps and use WSL2 on occasion, then you already know what you want, why are you worried about arguing about it on the Internet?

For many software engineers, a lot of our work is Linux, and it wouldn't be atypical to spend most of the time doing Linux development. I work on Linux and deploy to Linux, it's just a no-brainer to run Linux, too, aside from the fact that I simply loathe using modern Windows to begin with.

(Outside of that, frankly, most people period live inside of the web browser, Slack, Discord, and/or Steam, none of which are Windows-exclusive.)

My point isn't that Linux is better than Windows, it's that WSL2 isn't better than literally running Linux. If you need to do Linux things, it is worse than Linux at basically all of them.
by sally_glance | 2025-05-20 00:05:42+00:00
I'm on board with the cheap offshore and bad incentives motiv, but feel this has to be augmented with a mention of the senior cowboy coder (who just went into retirement). Most likely in the future these stereotypes will be joined by vibe coders and AI-powered juniors, but as someone working this industry for a couple of decades give or take - we've learned how to deal with these by now.
by Manuel_D | 2025-05-20 00:06:05+00:00
Because "DEI" is a dog whistle [1] for discrimination. Every DEI program I've witnessed ultimately worked through discriminatory means. Remember, offering a "bonus" for reaching X% of a certain demographic is no different than penalizing employees if they fail to reach the quota. Allocating "extra" headcount that's exclusive to "diverse" candidates is no different than banning non-diverse candidates from a segment of headcount.

The nature of dog whistles is that some people use the term in earnest, without the subtext. But in my experience most people enthusiastic about DEI ultimately do condone discrimination in one way or another.

1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-20 00:07:00+00:00
The best way to understand this change is to understand it in relation to what it was changing.

Prior to this, corporations explicitly sought to generate value for shareholders, employees, managers, customers, and their communities. Since shareholders were always one of the stakeholders, the only delta – Milton's breakthrough – was to assert that a corporation need not even consider the other stakeholders. So yes, going from "corporations should aim to be a positive force on everyone they affect" to "corporations need only aim to generate returns for their owners" is a significant downgrade.

With regard to your specific set-up, even there yes it's actually worse. It's better that the shareholders (who ultimately control the company's allocation of capital) feel an obligation to benefit all stakeholders than just giving as much money to themselves and Henry personally so they can all pursue their own pet projects which would themselves be operated under the same self-enriching philosophy.

Just to clarify since people can be confused by the excerpt you've pulled: the prior state of affairs wasn't that shareholders named someone to allocate corporations' money into various political projects. It was that shareholders (and society writ large) expected executives to be a positive impact on all relevant stakeholders. Dumping toxic material into the river is bad even if it improves margins, not because it's illegal, but because it's damaging to the other stakeholders you are supposed to benefit. Milton came along and said no actually that's fine. Don't do illegal things to the extent it harms shareholder returns, but in general you need to do whatever it takes to generate shareholder returns.
by haburka | 2025-05-20 00:07:08+00:00
Maybe I’m too experienced but these lessons are really basic and they don’t really touch on advanced cases. I like the concept of defensive CSS but clearly there isn’t much there.

One case they failed to address is that when you use CSS text truncation generally you need a tooltip to view the entirety of the text.

I would have appreciate a bit more depth or experience, something that’s not just explaining what useful CSS rules are.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-20 00:07:16+00:00
If your type-checker is “mature" enough to encode the full value level semantics of the code it types (rendering the code itself superfluous, as then you’d just need to compile the type-level code to get your app), you then have the problem of validating the logic of the type-level code, and the natural solution to that problem is, again, testing.
by greenavocado | 2025-05-20 00:07:55+00:00
I am reposting one of my favorite Quora adventure stories for the sake of posterity:

What is the strangest thing you've seen at the airport?

By Aurelio Germes: The strangest thing I've seen was to find nobody not even police or security at the airport, so I took a plane and left the country without anyone noticing it. It was at the international airport in Malabo, island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea.

It happened that I had missed my flight from Malabo to Madrid departing on Sunday and I didn't want to wait a whole week for the next weekly flight, so I decided to call a pilot in Cameroon and charter his plane to come and pick me up in Malabo and take me to the Douala airport in Cameroon where I could more easily catch a plane to Paris. We arranged date and hour of his arrival to Malabo.

On the date agreed I went to the international airport only to find out that it was closed since that day no flights, neither international nor domestic, were scheduled. There was nobody there not even a guard or a clerk, but it was already too late to cancel the trip. The only way out was to jump the wall surrounding the airport and wait on the runway until an aircraft arrived, and that's what I did.

I didn't have to wait long. A small plane with a French pilot arrived and soon we were ready to fly to Douala with me in the copilot seat. We could not take off in our first attempt since a door of the aircraft opened unexpectedly when we were about to take off, but we succeeded in our second attempt.

Due to lack of security, nobody noticed that a plane had arrived at the international airport and left with a passenger.
by alwillis | 2025-05-20 00:08:02+00:00
> Steve Jobs was able to get Microsoft to keep writing Office for the Mac.

That was a contractual arrangement. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer its default browser on macOS for 5 years, and Microsoft agreed to continue to offer the Mac version of Microsoft Office. Also, Microsoft was allowed to purchase $150 million in non-voting Apple stock.

I was in the audience when Steve announced this deal at MacWorld Boston in 1998. This was the famous "Microsoft doesn't have to lose in order for Apple to win" speech, after the audience booed when Bill Gates’ face was displayed on a large screen.

And let's be clear: Microsoft had run afoul of antitrust laws, so having Apple being seen as a viable company was in Microsoft's best interest.

After the 5 years were up, Apple introduced Safari.
by judah | 2025-05-20 00:08:10+00:00
The following[0] is my favorite because my company is hardening security by making everything difficult and painful, especially single-sign on:

[Mordac] "Security is more important than usability. In a perfect world, no one would able able to use anything."

[Asok's computer screen]: "To complete login procedure, stare directly at the sun."

[0]: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2007-11-16
by guestbest | 2025-05-20 00:09:02+00:00
I go back and forth between ChatGPT and copilot in vs code. It really makes the grammar guessing much easier in objc. It’s not as good on libraries and none existent on 3rd party libraries, but that isn’t maybe because I challenge it enough. It makes tons of flow and grammar errors which are so easy to spot that I end up using the code most of the time after a small correction. I’m optimistic about the future especially since this is only costing me $10 a month. I have dozens of iOS apps to update. All of them are basically productivity apps that I use and sell so double plus good.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-20 00:09:07+00:00
These places are so large and diverse it doesn't make much sense comparing them. You really want to be comparing many-to-many American states to European countries. You can't generalize about "The USA" quality of life. Massachusetts is going to be vastly different from Mississippi in terms of basically every quality of life attribute you can possibly measure. I'm not from Europe, but I bet the same is true country-to-country there.
by amy214 | 2025-05-20 00:09:10+00:00
>last posts on Reddit before my account was suspended and all my 15 years of posts, comments and private messages were deleted

Ironic, you post in depth about the dreadfulness of psyops and yet you complain about reddit having wrongfully deleted your account, reddit, a perfect thought molding garden which rewards righthink with updoots and punishes wrongthink with downdoots. Seems to me is that they liberated you. Reddit is a strange game. The only way to win is not to play seriously, but rather to troll.