MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-05-05 08:02:51+00:00
Ok, so you don't have evidence of his eugenics, and have instead created a far broader 'eugenics today' category which is to reduce undesirable traits (so broad that it's useless imo). There's something to some of your descriptions, but they are largely subjective interpretations. When weighed against what anyone can listen to the guy talk about, they're obviously out of context - in that they are cherry picked.

I find all your gate keeping comments ironic given your own post history - which at a glance seems largely argumentative. Anyway, they're inaccurate - People can not have the same opinion as you and be genuine.

If you produced credible points, I'd respond. So far I just see politics. Sorry if that's not what you want to hear.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-05 08:03:04+00:00
> No, a single GPU can support virtualization and be shared among multiple visitors.

Do you really think I'm unaware of that? Have you tried it lately? Most (nearly all) consumer level hardware doesn't support it and (I might be wrong about this next bit but IIRC) you won't get full performance because most solutions partition the hardware rather than multiplexing it.

> This is by design as a "proper" backup violates Android's security model.

I'm aware. That doesn't address the problem.

> the high level functionality remains the same

Absolutely false. Apple at least built a solution that appears to perform as advertised even if I vehemently disagree with the underlying security model and believe that it is actively making society worse off in the long run. Google has failed miserably at that (at least last I checked, which was a few years ago TBF).

> and there is better security.

By whose definition? The officially sanctioned security model does not provide anything of value to me (from a technical perspective) relative to having full control over my device.

> What does this even mean?

It means that if someone else has control over the software on my device then outside of a truly unusual end-to-end code auditing arrangement I can never be confident that I'm not being watched.

> There is no fundamental reason for spyware to exist

What sort of drugs are you on over there? Ad tech is a massive industry. There are all manner of motivations to hoover up user data from market research to selling it to authoritarian tendencies.

> User freedom and security are orthogonal

Notice the quotes. By "insecure" I mean not provided by BigTech and system state attested by a whitelisted HSM.

> due to Turing completeness almost everything will support booting insecure operating systems.

Have you tried customizing the OS on a vendor bootloader locked mobile device lately?

> If there is no market demand for running applications on insecure platforms then perhaps that's an okay situation to be in.

Sophistry. It's user choice due to a combination of lack of awareness and understanding, a preference for convenience even when that's detrimental to society in the long term, and the resultant network effects.
by gherkinnn | 2025-05-05 08:03:19+00:00
More often than not, the building is the easy part once the specifics are ironed out.

In my experience, an ideas leader (you know the type) will fail at telling a machine exactly what to do and get bored with the inevitable edge cases, computers saying no, and non-ideas drudgery. This is where I believe every no-code and low-code and WYSIWYG platform and now LLMs fall apart.

A major aspect of programming is translating the messy meatspace to something an extremely fast moron (a computer and I wish I coined this term) understands. And as much of a step change LLMs for writing code are, I have yet to see them take this step.
by haiku2077 | 2025-05-05 08:03:39+00:00
I use shortcuts to automatically start a specific music playlist based on the current time of day when my phone connects to my motorcycle's helmet audio system. I also have it automatically play music when I turn on the cheap waterproof bluetooth speaker in my bathroom. Finally, I used it to create an alarm that selects different music based on what I've been listening to recently instead of a static song I have to pick manually in advance.
by ykonstant | 2025-05-05 08:03:54+00:00
My go-to template collection is from Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/cv

My cv is an adaptation of one of the templates there: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1woxVNcJ4AmT7dD2WEnYr9BHEEY7...

EDIT: ahahahahaha I just came across this cv: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/resume-slash-cv-tem...
Show HN: Ductape – Build back end integrations once, reuse them anywhere
by Ifedayo_s | 2025-05-05 08:04:23+00:00
Hey HN, We built Ductape to make backend integrations reusable and environment-agnostic.

You define the logic once (e.g. payments, auth, notifications) and externalize provider-specific stuff like API keys, endpoints, and retries into a config.

That logic can then be reused across services, projects, and environments without rewriting code.

It’s like decoupling your service logic from your infrastructure. You can even switch providers by changing config, not code.

We’re using it to save time, reduce bugs, and simplify service expansion. Curious what you think.

We’ve been building quietly and are now coming out of stealth with our public beta. We’d love your feedback

You can try it at www.ductape.app

Join our Discord — https://discord.gg/JHXxQ6MAwb We’re there to chat, answer questions.

Happy to answer anything below..
by Surac | 2025-05-05 08:05:58+00:00
i see the benefit of c++ in the following points. Using Classes to hide away details, References as more safe pointers, Constructors/Destructors for stack based objects, more strict const handling, function overloading, operator overloading, hiding default or copy constructors, getter and setter with active code behind, namespaces, static classes to group helper functions, unifined init syntax over all datatypes, more strict type conversion rules, Templates, enum as real types
by Qwertious | 2025-05-05 08:06:06+00:00
Videogames are unrealistic. There's no such thing as a discrete "maximum range" for archery, because the closer the target the harder the arrow will hit, and there's a point where the arrow will simply fail to do any damage when it hits.

Also, not everyone can fire an arrow equally fast. And even if they did, when they're acquiring different targets (lest they all shoot the same person) they can take slightly different amounts of time to choose who to shoot.

Also, speed isn't really the limit for firing in the first place - if someone thinks there aren't any good options just yet, they might wait a second or two before there's a good option, and now they're way out of sync with anyone who saw a good option immediately.

Videogames are just terrible because their physics are wildly unrealistic, and the human factors are removed entirely.
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-05-05 08:06:22+00:00
I don't know where to being commenting on this, you've raised quite a few points. I've travelled to both Northern Iraq and Syria. Iraq while ISIS were there, Syria before the conflicts started. I'd be interested if there was a documentary / podcast / etc you could point me to, in order to better understand all that you're presenting. Either way, very glad ISIS was pushed back. I don't have the words to describe how horrible the situation seemed there.
by cess11 | 2025-05-05 08:06:47+00:00
Not sure what you mean by "strongest", but you might want to make a comparison with mongol composite bows.

I'm also not sure what you mean by "resilient", but horses running around dragging their intestines on the ground for half an hour is not uncommon in 'gore' material from bullfighting events gone wrong. I have yet to see a human do something similar. Horses are domesticated from prey animals, they are very good at ignoring pain and wounds and still getting away.
by sethammons | 2025-05-05 08:07:54+00:00
My tuition was $35k a year 25 years ago. Just checked, and now it is $60k a year. Before room and board.

Broken? Saddling individuals with a quarter million in debt when they are just starting life is absolutely broken. That they must indenture to be a modern professional (and buy hope for at least a middle class landing) is broken.

The notion that everything must return a (generally, near-term) accounting profit is on its face stupid.
by jll29 | 2025-05-05 08:08:31+00:00
An apprentice, after five years of work, can be a master, just by practcising.

That's why the universities of Oxford and Cambridge give Master's degree to everyone that gets a Bachelor's degree after five years, without further examination or coursework (note that these are MAs only, not MRes, MPhil or MBA degrees, which typically require 1-2 years of studies, exams and theses).

Historically, the academic Master was seen as equivalent to a Master in a craft (e.g. philosophy <=> carpentry).
Show HN: CodeCafé – A real-time collaborative code editor in the browser
by mrktsm__ | 2025-05-05 08:08:37+00:00
Hey guys!

I’ve been working on a web app called CodeCafé—a collaborative, browser-based code editor inspired by VS Code and Replit, but with no downloads, no sign-up, and zero setup. You just open the link and start coding—together.

The frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and the backend runs on Java with Spring Boot, which handles real-time editing via WebSockets. For syncing changes, I’m using Redis along with a custom Operational Transformation system (no third-party libraries!!!).

The idea came after I found out a local summer school was teaching coding using Google Docs (yes, really). Google Docs is simple and free, but I wanted something that could actually be used for writing and running real code—without the need for any sign-ups or complex setups. That’s how CodeCafé came to life.

Right now, the app doesn’t store files anywhere, and you can’t export your work. That’s one of the key features I’m working on currently.

If you like what you see, feel free to star the repo to support the project!!

Check it out and let me know what you think!

GitHub: github.com/mrktsm/codecafe

Web App: codecafe.app
by godelski | 2025-05-05 08:09:35+00:00
You can do footnotes in markdown [^0]

[^0]: it doesn't matter where this is placed, just that this one has a colon.

The table of contents thing is annoying but it's not hard to write a little bash script. Sed and regex are all you need.

> Markdown doesn't have enough features

Markdown has too many features

The issue is you're using the wrong tool. Markdown is not intended for making fancy documents or blogs, it's meant to be a deadass simple format that can be read in anything. Hell, its goal is to be readable in a text editor so its more about styling. If you really want to use it and have occasional fanciness, you can use html.

But don't turn a tool that is explicitly meant to be simple into something complicated just because it doesn't have enough features. The lack of features is the point.
by ben_w | 2025-05-05 08:09:37+00:00
I've had one co-worker with something like a decade of experience on paper, who was proud of his C++ despite having never heard of the standard template library — lots of `new` and `free`, not a single smart pointer (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory#Smart_pointers). And the code they wrote had a lot of copy-paste going on, which I ended up finding because I'd put in a "TODO: deduplicate this" comment somewhere and found it in his newly duplicated class one day.

They absolutely were not interested in learning anything. I left knowing more C++ than they did despite having started there with total C++ experience of a hello world tutorial, and the fact that I still don't count myself as a C++ dev today.
by mariusor | 2025-05-05 08:10:12+00:00
If you look at the article, it presents some additional niceties, like having middleware that is aware of the shutdown - though they didn't detail exactly how the WithCancellation() function is doing that.

So if you send a SIG-INT/-TERM signal to the server there's a delay to clean up resources, during which the new requests get served a response that doesn't try to access them and fail in unexpected ways, but a configurable "not in service" error.
by 6510 | 2025-05-05 08:10:26+00:00
HR seems a lot like real estate appraisal as~in appraisers know nothing about construction.

One could in theory establish the value of a thing or person by comparing it with similar things but if everyone does that the process becomes senseless.

If a working car is worth 5000, the same car from the same year with a defect that costs 1000 to fix should be worth 4000. If the repair costs 6000 there is no car.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-05 08:11:25+00:00
You can get a BMus in Piano Performance, which is a standard music degree with a piano performance specialisation. It's not a special thing of its own kind, and it's normal for performers in music college to specialise in one instrument, usually with a second as an elective.

Being able to play moderately hard pieces from dots and sight-reading are the entry level requirement. It's taken for granted you can already do that.

The degree part means learning music history, theory, and performance styles, working on performance projects, solo and with other musicians.

The analogy with ChatGPT is that it's taking over the entry-level part of the process. You can't expect to get onto a music degree if you only know how to prompt ChatGPT to produce a MIDI file for your entrance exam.

And in CS, you can't produce good code if you barely know what a server is.

It's all very Dunning Kruger. If you use an LLM to produce course work to get your piece of paper at the end, you don't even know what prompts you should use to do an unfamiliar job, never mind having the skills to do it yourself.
by bayindirh | 2025-05-05 08:11:48+00:00
Yes, and it's called a print server, as others said. FWIW, CUPS have a "virtual PDF printer" which enables "Print to PDF" feature system wide, so no application has to reimplement it.

Also, I used to use a "PDF printer" in the olden days on Windows which did exactly that, and that was considered a paid, premium product.

IOW, we have these. Both in personal and enterprise flavors, for a long time.
by fsiefken | 2025-05-05 08:11:51+00:00
I know, i love pedal to the metal - small is beautiful, it's lean and mean, but it's not a replacement in some cases.

As an alternative, tectonic is a bit faster then the standard LaTex distributions:

https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/discussions...

https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/
by walterbell | 2025-05-05 08:12:17+00:00
iOS 18 shortcuts can be added to control center, https://support.apple.com/en-us/121131

They can run external tasks via SSH scripts or API endpoints, e.g. send audio to LLM, https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/2023/03/openai-gpt-on-macos-io...

For local actions, app-specific URL schemes can be driven from shortcuts, https://www.macstories.net/tutorials/guide-url-scheme-ios-dr...

In iOS18 on iPhone Pro with lidar, a shortcut can trigger Magnifier to provide audio description of live camera image.

NFC stickers or expired transit cards can trigger shortcuts by physical proximity.
by doikor | 2025-05-05 08:12:25+00:00
Not a rootkit but it does run at kernel level. If Vanguard is a rootkit then so is every anti-virus software (including Microsoft Defender which is on by default)

For example wikipedia description of a rootkit is

"A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the existence of other software."

Vanguard does not mask its existence or the existence of other software nor does it get/give access to unauthorized users (you authorized it during install so by definition it is not unauthorized).

You don't manually give permissions to actual rootkits and they do their best to try and hide their existence.
by sofixa | 2025-05-05 08:12:38+00:00
> If you believe in the ideology of software freedoms, you don’t release nonfree software. It’s open source cosplay

Or, you believe in open source software, want yours to be available, forkable and even why not get community contributions, but you also want a full time job that allows you to eat? How much of the world's software wouldn't exist if we gatekept open source to a volunteer effort only?
by mikewarot | 2025-05-05 08:13:33+00:00
There's one photo I didn't take (and really regret not taking) the day Sproutlet was born, a photo of the placenta... it was so vividly full of life, deep red and violet striking in a way I didn't think possible.

I was shocked when the shutter on my Nikon D40 wore out, I didn't know that was a thing. I was really into manually aligned computational photography for the decade I rode the train to Chicago. I've got half a terabyte of photos and short videos. I doubt that sproutlet will want much of it once I'm gone, but the photos helped make friends, and build friendships over the years, and bring me joy when I look back on them.

Long covid took me out of the game, and I'm just starting to get back into it. While they are better than the old point and shoots from the start of the digital camera era, Smartphone Cameras still suck compared to a DSLR when it comes to image composition and just getting the focus on the right thing.
by lmm | 2025-05-05 08:14:13+00:00
> Not sure what you mean by "strongest", but you might want to make a comparison with mongol composite bows.

I believe it's generally accepted that the longbows we're talking about delivered arrows with more force than Mongol composite bows.

> I'm also not sure what you mean by "resilient", but horses running around dragging their intestines on the ground for half an hour is not uncommon in 'gore' material from bullfighting events gone wrong. I have yet to see a human do something similar. Horses are domesticated from prey animals, they are very good at ignoring pain and wounds and still getting away.

Horses are notoriously fragile. The quote does not say that the horse died instantly, merely that it died.
by wvh | 2025-05-05 08:14:27+00:00
He was not a great guitar player, but he had an ear for tonality and combining melodies on top of those ambiguous chords. I read somewhere he was a Beatles fan, and I can see how their pop vocal layering and more complex instrumentation via George Martin and Co might have had an influence above and beyond the basic blues pentatonic scale and chord progression that inspired a lot of rock and hard rock. Dude did not accidentally "make it", which is the other, often-heard opposite opinion than that of him being a genius.
by jajko | 2025-05-05 08:14:47+00:00
Happy people are generally OK with going anytime, grateful for every moment and experience and only want to have closest ones taken care of. Unhappy ones, especially when its something deep and hard or impossible to tackle, want more and more, like they could somehow fix things in future or cover them up enough to finally arrive at that point they'll never arrive anyway.

Project it to some extremes and its easy to see why sociopathic dictators and billionaires (which most if not all of them are) would love to see significant life prolongation, of course only theirs. One of the biggest threats to near future mankind as it is IMHO, imagine 300 years of rule of pos like puttin' for example.
by daymanstep | 2025-05-05 08:14:55+00:00
Pretty sure the "experts" only became "skeptical" of face masks when the government told them there was a shortage and they had to parrot the US Surgeon General's claim that "masks don't work and if you hoard masks then medical professionals won't have access to the stuff that doesn't work"

Also, this entire article is full of sweeping generalisations, making it more like elite talk rather than expert talk.
by sampullman | 2025-05-05 08:15:20+00:00
My strategy is to take pictures when I feel like it, leave the camera or phone behind when I don't, and try not to judge people too much for their choices. It works out pretty well.

Though one of the situations where I might judge is if someone spends a lot of time and effort during the birth of their child to get the perfect shot. I can't fathom the reasoning.
by sofixa | 2025-05-05 08:15:29+00:00
The topic of this conversation is BNSF and their ilk, I just threw Apple as a fun "you're even more wrong with your anecdote than with your main statement".

What's your excuse for them abusing their employees? Why can't they afford to provide sick leave for their employees when not only do they have billions of net profit every year, many other railways around the world in the same type of business manage to do that and be profitable.
by bananasmusic | 2025-05-05 08:15:38+00:00
I'm in the exact opposite camp. I carry a camera almost everywhere. But, that's the thing: I carry a single purpose device, and almost is the keyword here. There are times when I know my attention is needed elsewhere, and I'd never take that DSLR to my childbirth.

I absolutely love looking at the pictures and sharing them with family. My child is growing and I have a ton of pictures from different times of her life. I regret none of them. The failed ones as well.

Not only they remind me of the tiny beautiful things I saw and experienced, they have their own distinct look which I adore. And you get to do a lot of things: a friend asks you to photograph their handmade product. You get to take group photos at family gatherings which are than shared by everyone. And I'm nowhere near being a professional photographer.

So yeah, I encourage everyone to carry a camera everywhere.
by usrusr | 2025-05-05 08:15:41+00:00
Surprisingly close to a standing army, when looked at from a certain angle. Only that it's not taxes going to the central authority and then getting paid to warriors, but warriors getting assigned an area to tax, and keep their cut as compensation for their military readiness.

(of course when looked at from just a slightly different angle, it's also indistinguishable from a protection racket)
by const_cast | 2025-05-05 08:16:02+00:00
Right, you best believe people in the NBA are getting a nice 8 hours of sleep a night. You just can't compete at that level if you aren't 100%.

These people are working 7 days a week, sure, at like, 60%. They're making mistakes, they're forgetting things, they're approving PRs with obvious bugs.
by qsort | 2025-05-05 08:16:28+00:00
More than anything it makes me wonder who the hell it is for. My personal devices are the full Apple loadout and it's still hard to make anything meaningful with it, too confusing for the average user, not powerful enough for the power user.

It could become interesting if there were some integrations with Apple Intelligence: the tasks you'd delegate to a shortcut are the kind of low-stakes stuff AI integration is a good fit for. It doesn't look like it's in the cards, though...
by marcus_holmes | 2025-05-05 08:16:38+00:00
The tone is exactly the same: "This new thing is obviously harming families!".

And the reasons are the same: some people are vulnerable to compulsive, addictive, harmful, behaviour. Most people can cope with The Internet, some people can't. Most people can cope with LLMs, some people can't. Most people can cope with TV, or paperback fiction, or mobile phones, or computer games (to pick some other topics for similar articles), some people can't.