MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elliotto | 2025-05-07 03:26:10+00:00
I have a high moral high ground because I don't use these services at all due to poor treatment of employees.

It's difficult to conflate the moral high ground with maximal participation in a weird auction format when people are just trying to buy a burrito.

In most other countries (like mine Australia) the price of the good is the advertised price. There is no extra weird moral based financial game played on top.
by LeicaLatte | 2025-05-07 03:26:52+00:00
Add that external payment button and watch my app magically disappear from search results.

Sure, they changed the rules on paper, but who's policing their algorithm? Nobody. They can tank my keywords overnight and call it "normal fluctuation."

FAANG will be fine, but indies? Gentle reminder that ASO funnels have no customer support. Might just suddenly "stop working."

Anyone else afraid to pull the trigger on this?
by autoexec | 2025-05-07 03:26:57+00:00
The closest I can think of is people paying for amazon's streaming service, and realizing that most of the shows and movies on the service require various amounts of money to watch on top of the monthly fee they're already being charged. Netflix (and almost every other streaming service) had already set an expectation that paying for a streaming service would be enough to watch the shows offered on that service.

That said, back when I actually had prime it was only ever for the shipping so I never saw how amazon advertised their streaming service to people. Maybe the ads actually said "Sign up to Prime Video today for $187 and get access to 20% of the shows on the platform as well as an opportunity to pay even more for the other 80% of the titles!"

I've also seen random mentions of spotify having hidden fees, but I've never used the service and have no idea if they have them or ever have had them.
by bombela | 2025-05-07 03:27:24+00:00
> My results don't match your conclusion.

Alright. Let me entertain you.

In the data I provided, counting the lines in a big log file was 469.5 times faster than journalctl took to output all the logs.

From this information alone, it seems difficult to believe that journalctl --grep can be faster. Both had to read every single line of logs.

But it was on a rather slow machine, and a couple years ago.

Here /var/log and the current directory are on a "Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB" plugged via m2 nvme, formatted in ext4 and only 5% used. Though this shouldn't matter as I ran every command twice and collected the second run. To ensure fairness with everything in cache. The machine had 26GiB of buffer/cache in RAM during the test, indicating that everything is coming from the cache.

In my tests, journalctl was ~107 times slower than rg and ~21 times slower than grep: - journalctl: 10.631s - grep: 0.505s - rg: 0.099s

journactl also requires 4GiB of storage to store 605MB of logs. I suppose there is an inefficient key/value for every log line or something.

For some reason journalctl also returned only 273 out of 25402 lines. It only returns one type of message "session closed/opened" but not the rest. Even though it gave me all the logs in the first place without `--grep`?!

Let me know if I am still using it wrong.

$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme0n1: Timing cached reads: 33022 MB in 1.99 seconds = 16612.96 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 2342 MB in 3.00 seconds = 780.37 MB/sec $ du -hsc /var/log/journal 4.0G /var/log/journal 4.0G total $ time journalctl > logs real 0m31.429s user 0m28.739s sys 0m1.581s $ du -h logs 605M logs $ time wc -l logs 3932131 logs real 0m0.146s user 0m0.065s sys 0m0.073s $ time journalctl --grep=sshd | wc -l 273 real 0m10.631s user 0m10.460s sys 0m0.172s $ time rg sshd logs | wc -l 25402 real 0m0.099s user 0m0.042s sys 0m0.059s $ time grep sshd logs | wc -l 25402 real 0m0.505s user 0m0.425s sys 0m0.085s

PS: this way of using rg doesn't ignore any files, it is not used to find files recursively. But I don't have a .gitignore or similar in my /var/log anyways.
by bilbo0s | 2025-05-07 03:27:35+00:00
China has been building Chinese-only gated company towns in Pakistani military properties

OK. Now I'm a bit skeptical as well.

I mean, the Chinese have been building Chinese-only gated company towns in [insert global south nation here] military [and everywhere else] properties for a long time now. Not really sure how that translates into Chinese authoritative decision making in matters of wars between nations?

For that you need massive financial underwriting of a military. Far greater than 50%. No disrespect to the Chinese, but I'm sorry, there is no nation in the world where a few gated communities will get you that level of influence. I don't care how important you think you are.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-07 03:28:28+00:00
> involves swapping land, specifically, ceding Muslim-dominant territory to Pakistan

The sectors on the Indian side where fighting is happening right now in Jammu Division are 50-50 Muslim-Hindu/Sikh. What you are advocating would lead to Yugoslav style ethnic cleansing.

> setting borders along rivers

It already is that on the LoC, or mountain faces where rivers are not existent.
by technofiend | 2025-05-07 03:28:30+00:00
They also rotate their points system making what seem like contradictory choices when the system changes every couple of years. In contrast taking Wegovy simply shut down any desire to snack and drastically reduced the desire for all but the smallest portions. You don't have to think about or apply a system: your body will do it for you.

You still need to establish good habits of eating sensibly and maybe that's the narrow wedge for Weight watchers now, but the blunt instrument is the medicine, not the process. WW needs to go back to teaching people to eat well.
by roenxi | 2025-05-07 03:28:58+00:00
These are actually well charted waters - people are shooting at each other and some fairly high percentage of the time everything calms down but the rest of the time it escalates crazily with both sides losing control. Situation as old as time, long rich history of provocative military action.

I observe from time to time that Moscow appears to be under fire from the occasional US-sponsored attack for example. So far, so good. Most of the time things don't go terribly wrong, just the worst case scenarios here are quite grim. The India-Pakistan situation is probably a bit safer because anything catastrophic is likely to just kill millions/billions of people in India and Pakistan instead of an entire hemisphere of carnage.
by behnamoh | 2025-05-07 03:30:04+00:00
> The assistant is Claude, created by Anthropic.

> The current date is {{currentDateTime}}.

> Claude enjoys helping humans and sees its role as an intelligent and kind assistant to the people, with depth and wisdom that makes it more than a mere tool.

Why do they refer to Claude in third person? Why not say "You're Claude and you enjoy helping hoomans"?
by sandspar | 2025-05-07 03:30:32+00:00
Ask a random Indian in India whether he'd be willing to die for the US. The US and China have interests in the area, so maybe I shouldn't have said the word "orthogonal". But the original commenter said a conflict between India and Pakistan would be a "US-China proxy war". Come on. India and Pakistan have enough reasons to hate each other. They don't need America or China's goading. And neither India nor Pakistan would accept their conflict being characterized as a US-China war.
by wormius | 2025-05-07 03:30:40+00:00
I hate name collisions and this sort of thing only reinforces my ire. It doesn't help that I'm already team anti-AI, but it would annoy me regardless of the tech. Why don't people even bother to look and be original? (I feel like I'm going "against the ideals of the site" when I get angry like this, but come on, people, it's a simple google search. If you can't be arsed to do that, why should we even give you money - would be my FIRST question as an investor, but I'm just an idiot not a world famous inventor of a non-released LISP and checks list - uh. Yahoo Storefront.

Still though, come on man, why people why. I remember when we had "domainsquatting" but I guess AI doesn't give a fuck about people's copyrights/trademarks anyway.

(Sorry to vent as a reply, but it was nice to see SOMEONE mention it at least, and had to give a hard agree on pointing it out).
by devsda | 2025-05-07 03:31:12+00:00
I said I'll refrain from replying in this post anymore (apologies dang) but I'll just close it with this at the risk doxxing myself as I may have mentioned the following in another forum.

> But India would never recognize any form of separatism (peaceful or violent) from the Kashmir anyways, and will label it as terrorism anyways regardless

It was never limited to within kashmir. Other parts of India were also attacked over the years.

> But still, I hope you realize that what India sees as terrorism in this case (which means Kashmiri separatism, which again I agree is mostly a Pakistani funded thing) is very tied to Indian nationalism.

> since terror is defined as anything that goes against national unity.

I don't care or subscribe to how Indian or western media defines terrorism. If you see yourselves as freedom-fighter deal with the supposed occupying military force not its citizens. For me terrorism is just any deliberate attack aimed to harm innocent civilians.

I've missed becoming a victim of terror attack that killed atleast 40 people because I was late by mere 15 mins. It took long time to recover from that "What If". No citizen should fear stepping out in their own country. That is what terrorism is for me.
by ookblah | 2025-05-07 03:31:20+00:00
the future is probably something that looks pretty "inefficient" to us but a non-factor for a machine. i sometimes think a lot of our code structure is just for our own maintenance and conceptualization (DRY, SRP), but if you throw enough compute adn context at a problem im sure none of this even matters (as much).

at least for 90% of the CRUD apps out there, you can def abstract away the entire base framework of getting, listing, and updating records. i guess the problem is validating that data for use in other more complex workflows.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-07 03:34:34+00:00
> Pakistan is definitely more anti-peace than India. But while Islamabad undermines peace, New Delhi is mostly uninterested in it.

That's a framing I agree with.

> This is not projecting power, it's the UAE (and Qatar) playing their aspirational roles as the new Davos/Switzerland for diplomacy.

Sure, but in India-Pakistan relations, they (UAE and KSA, not Qatar) are increasingly the only mediators with whom both parties can negotiate offramps.

Large pole countries don't have the same heft they may have had 15-20 years ago, and even the Russian-Ukraine War has shown that power differentials are not that significant between major powers and regional powers, and why multilateralism is critical (and a major reason I dislike Trump - I primarily only agree with his tariff policy, nothing else).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-07 03:34:56+00:00
It’s fairly straightforward to understand that energy efficiency programs offset combustion generation emissions through avoided energy use. It would’ve taken GP one glance at Wikipedia, if questioning the environment benefits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Star

> More than 75 product categories are eligible for the ENERGY STAR label, including appliances, electronics, lighting, heating and cooling systems, and commercial equipment such as food service products. In the United States, the ENERGY STAR label often appears with the EnergyGuide label of eligible appliances to highlight energy-efficient products and compare energy use and operating costs.

> One of the most successful voluntary initiatives introduced by the U.S. government, the program has saved 5 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity, more than US$500 billion in energy costs, and prevented 4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Elements of the ENERGY STAR program are implemented in Canada, Japan, and Switzerland.
by habosa | 2025-05-07 03:35:45+00:00
Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see many comments here talking about how this is a competitive move by OpenAI against Anthropic?

From what I've heard most people using/liking these agentic IDEs are using Claude models to power them, they seem to be the best at writing code. By buying Windsurf (and trying to buy Cursor) OpenAI can figure out why Claude is better at this task, fix GPT, and then make GPT the default for the coding use case.

Not sure it's worth $3B, but that's also not a lot to them when they can raise unlimited money at any time,
by gxs | 2025-05-07 03:37:18+00:00
Huh? I’m talking about my own post where I said maybe they want to feel like the are speaking “correctly” - I added the quotes because obviously what’s correct is debatable

Besides it’s not like there isn’t correct either - if you’re out in the Midwest what’s correct is just what everyone is speaking.

Its obvious that a kid from Ohio who speaks perfect isn’t going to go to Scotland and speak it “correctly”

Like it’s such low hanging fruit to always be that guy to point out the lowest level, most obvious exception
by MichaelNolan | 2025-05-07 03:37:48+00:00
Even if they bypass the NRC by having the DOD build/regulate the plants, I'm just not seeing how any nuclear gets built in the US when natural gas, solar, and wind are so damn cheap. Unless the feds pay for the whole thing, nuclear still won't be competitive.

And I'm skeptical that the plan will survive the political backlash. Rightly or wrongly, no one wants to live next to a reactor that *isn't* regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Just imagine the tv ads...
by CSMastermind | 2025-05-07 03:39:54+00:00
People seem to be pretty negative about this but of all the AI dev tools I've evaluated it's the only one that's felt meaningfully better than just using the web interfaces of the various frontier models.

I don't think it's good value for the money but pretending it's just a VSCode fork that wraps LLMs is underselling it. There's something they're doing that makes them better than Cursor, Claude Code, etc.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-05-07 03:39:58+00:00
Gasoline will end up more expensive, too. The current oil glut is being deliberately engineered by OPEC+, which is pumping excess oil in order to bankrupt higher-cost suppliers. We should be using this time to refill the strategic oil reserve and (simultaneously) to stabilize prices at a level that guarantees continued investment -- but we're not.
by refulgentis | 2025-05-07 03:41:22+00:00
Spot on IMHO as far as my understanding of the economics goes, going back years. Only real argument is "but you need _something_ for base load" and wishcasting re: SMRs.[1] IMHO Microsoft and Facebook's odd PR rounds around it in service of their AI stories didn't help public policy at all

[1] I'm an odd duck and extremely bullish on fusion and bearish on SMRs, Commonwealth fusion keeps hitting milestones, whereas I haven't heard of any SMRs shipping in any quantity
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-07 03:41:46+00:00
> What you are advocating would lead to Yugoslav style ethnic cleansing

Yes. When you have a sectarian conflict, the only lasting solution is moving people around. Hateful people don’t learn to stop hating each other. Particularly not when you’re dealing with the levels of education in J&K.

> It already is that on the LoC, or mountain faces where rivers are not existent

And. Having a river with a sectarian cross isn’t useful.

This stuff is hard and controversial. It takes work. My point is nobody is particularly interested in that work versus leaving the region in a low simmer.
by nradov | 2025-05-07 03:41:52+00:00
There are no absolute good or bad reasons here, it depends on the problem domain and usage environment. If you're writing code where safety or security matters then of course you need to carefully manage the software supply chain. On the other hand, if you're writing an internal utility for limited use with no exposure then who cares, pull in all the dependencies you need and git 'er done.
I made 4000 agent calls in Cursor last month. Each model has a personality
by mike210 | 2025-05-07 03:43:02+00:00
The lazy architect (OpenAI’s o3). o3 is incredibly lazy at writing code, but very good at planning. Will happily read tens of files and do deep analysis, but often struggles in scenarios where it needs to edit more than one file.

The over-eager child (Claude Sonnet 3.7 Thinking). Claude Sonnet is eager to just get going, man! It’s not the most careful, and in longer strings of tool calls, may start editing something completely unrelated to what you asked it to.

Pretty balanced?(Gemini 2.5 Pro). Gemini 2.5 is a little more intelligent, and significantly faster and more reserved than Sonnet 3.7. Usually the best choice for writing code in multiple files.

I’ve found o4-mini to be incredibly slow and fairly mediocre, and GPT 4.1 useful in very situational areas. My tips:

- Use o3 to plan and/or write code in one or max two file only. If you do more, it may openly revolt and just refuse to write any longer.

- Always make sure Sonnet 3.7 is following a tightly scoped plan on a relatively small section of the product, and supervise it. If you have an easy change to make in many areas of your codebase, for example, letting Sonnet run, still supervised, is a perfect use of the model’s persona

Generally what I do:

- Medium complexity: editing one file: o3. Editing multiple files: plan with o3, write with gemini-2.5

- Simple complexity: Editing many files, very simple: plan with o3 if needed, write with claude-3.7. Editing many files, simple, needs formulaic approach: write a detailed prompt into GPT 4.1

- High complexity: plan with o3, separate into multiple chunks, write small chunks at a time with gemini-2.5 and be very careful with each section. If I'm super lazy sometimes I just YOLO all of the sections and then fix all the bugs at the end but this probably leads to code issues later down the line.

Would love to hear other people are using the different models!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-07 03:43:23+00:00
> Ask a random Indian in India whether he'd be willing to die for the US

Not how proxy wars work.

> India and Pakistan have enough reasons to hate each other. They don't need America or China's goading

Not how proxy wars work. The backers enable. The proxies fight.

> neither India nor Pakistan would accept their conflict being characterized as a US-China war

This is how proxy wars work. They literally don’t if the proxies realise they’re fighting a foreign war on their homeland.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-07 03:46:06+00:00
I feel jetbrains is squandering an opportunity here. Cursor is significantly easier to build then any IDE in the jetbrains ecosystem. The technology jetbrains is very hard to replicate. While the technology cursor uses should be trivial to replicate.

If jetbrains can combine there IDE technology with cursor technology, that would be ideal.

I think the problem is jetbrains tech is sort of already very biased in a certain direction and it's hard for them to pivot as fast into this new AI direction.
by screye | 2025-05-07 03:46:23+00:00
> ceding Muslim-dominant territory to Pakistan

Why would India do that? Why would a unilateral surrender of land be considered valid terms for peace?

> swapping land

In a fair swap, what land would Pakistan offer in exchange?

> Muslims, recently

Pakistan doesn't have a stellar reputation for treatment of its Muslim minorities (Ahmediyyas, Ismailis) and non-Punjabi muslims (Balochis, Pasthuns, once-Pakistani-Bengalis). I'm inclined to consider India a safer nation for most muslim denominations.

____

Note: Pakistan's historic terror attacks have been deep in India soil (Mumbai, Delh). There is no indication that they'd maintain peace with India if they gained control over Kashmir.
by Grimblewald | 2025-05-07 03:47:49+00:00
looks like quite bad / incoherent for me personally. For something that is competing in a "make your information easy to handle, read, and manage" market, it takes too much effort to try figure out where the creators want me to look, or where valuable information exists. This doesn't leave one feeling confident on what is being offered. For example I load in to a massive animation that flicks around at a fast pace. So the first impression is "fuck you, you don't need to know what is going on"

I then scroll down to try find something to read/look at that makes sense. I am met with two bits of information

"just download it to get started"

and

"it's a plain text editor that does stuff many tools you already have do"

So far, things aren't great. Lets look at the demo project, maybe that has some screenshots that really highight it's potential.

"Download the software and just import the demo project"

So, over all, the impression one is left me with is a "just trust me bro, please bro, it's really useful bro, just install it, I swear" kind of message. Personally, I am not just unconvinced by actively wary of this project.
by kiwijamo | 2025-05-07 03:47:53+00:00
Citation for dishwashers that don't wash. After switching back to dishwash powders (away from tablets -- which I learnt through a Technology Connections video basically don't work since it gets dissolved in the 10mins rinse cycle of most dishwashers) I've yet to have a bad dishwasher experience using powders which gets inserted into the wash cycle (and not the rinse cycle). Even the dirt cheap dishwasher I got as a package with my new house has no issues cleaning close to 100% of dishes on the first try, every single run. Everyone I know that complaints are tablet users and every time I point this out, I get a shrugs "too hard to use powder -- easy to just load a tablet and run it again a second time if I have to". Energy Star has been great on improving the energy efficiency of dishwashes -- we now need the same standard for the chemicals we put into the dishwashers! Banning tablets would be a great improvement IMHO but don't think we'll see that happening.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-05-07 03:49:49+00:00
Becoming comfortable with a stock computing environment is a powerful ability.

What I always find comedic, is that the rate I can do work is rarely gated by how fast I can interface with a computer. Even if I had a perfect brain/computer interface I think my productivity would maybe increase by 5-10%.

What is a real force multiplier is working on the RIGHT THING, not tweaking your vimrc config for the 50th time or creating your own build system because you are tired of Makefiles.
by hackandthink | 2025-05-07 03:50:14+00:00
"However, Pakistan was a valuable diplomatic partner, and its government helped the United States achieve a rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China in the early 1970s."

"U.S. prestige was damaged in both nations, in Pakistan for failing to help prevent the loss of East Pakistan and in India for supporting the brutality of the Pakistani regime’s actions"

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/south-asia
by bruce511 | 2025-05-07 03:50:44+00:00
I've spent my career writing code in a language which already abstracts 90% of a CRUD-type app away. Indeed there are a whole subset of users who literally don't write a line of code. We've had this since the very early 90's for DOS.

Of course that last 10% does a lot of heavy lifting. Domain expertise, program and database design, sales, support, actually processing the data for more than just simple reports, and so on.

And sure, the code is not maximally efficient in all cases, but it is consistent, and deterministic. Which is all I need from my code generator.

I see a lot of panic from programmers (outside our space) who worry about their futures. As if programming is the ultimate career goal. When really, writing code is the least interesting, and least valuable part of developing software.

Maybe LLMs will code software for you. Maybe they already do. And, yes, despite their mistakes it's very impressive. And yes, it will get better.

But they are miles away from replacing developers- unless your skillset is limited to "coding" there's no need to worry.