MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by armada651 | 2025-05-07 13:56:46+00:00
As the devil's advocate I'd like to argue that legal is probably more comfortable with Unity's own use of LGPL libraries, because they can ensure that Unity only links dynamically to those libraries. And given how critical these dependencies are to the engine, legal is willing to take the "risk" of allowing LGPL dependencies.

The ban of LGPL in assets on the asset store is probably due to legal being concerned that someone would publish an asset that statically links to an LGPL library and that it would allow anyone to demand the source/object code of any Unity game that uses that asset.

Legal probably sees it as too much effort to vet every asset to see if it links correctly to LGPL libraries and simply instituted a blanket ban to simplify enforcement.
by api | 2025-05-07 13:56:49+00:00
"Painting the Deep South as an embarrassing cultural backwater is one of the last socially acceptable forms of prejudice among elites. It’s not just tolerated - it’s venerated."

Warning: possible flame bait, though I do not intend it this way. I am serious.

I've had this thought for quite a while: the (social) left could pivot and win by being more woke.

WTF? What I mean by this is: expand diversity and inclusion to include rural American white culture, Christian conservative culture, and all the rest of what the American academic (mostly urban, mostly middle class to wealthy, mostly coastal) left culture considers out-groups.

DEI should include the "deplorables." (I knew Hillary Clinton was going to lose when she said that. What cringe.)

An American woke social liberal would not go to India and immediately start trashing rural conservative Hindu culture. They would not travel to Saudi Arabia and start trashing poor rural Muslims for having views they disagree with. They're even willing to stick up for Palestinian Muslims in spite of their social views. Why can't they extend this to their own country?

What would sticking up for the "deplorables" look like? First, it would be to stop trashing them. Then it would be to stick up for their rights and defend their needs and go to bat for them against the very real social and economic adversaries that they face. Talk about the opioid epidemic. Talk about the hollowing out of the rural economy. Propose solutions.

You don't win friends or change peoples' minds by mocking and bashing people. That just makes them double down out of spite. There's a very large -- probably double digit -- percentage of die-hard MAGA Trump supporters whose real reason for supporting him is because comparatively-rich white coastal educated liberals hate him. It's a big "fuck you." These people have been the butt of jokes for decades, and they notice. They know they are mocked as dumb, in-bred, ignorant, bigoted, small minded, etc.
by poincaredisk | 2025-05-07 13:56:52+00:00
Is it? If I buy EvilCorp stock from you for $1000000 how does that help EvilCorp? Assuming just a few rational actors, stock price should (in theory) stay roughly the same, near the "real" market value. Of course, if everyone did that, and EvilCorps couldn't even IPO, then it would matter, but that's a big if. But if that's the goal, we should strive to ban EvilCorps instead.
by owebmaster | 2025-05-07 13:57:19+00:00
> Yet, we have a person who, in my opinion, seems to struggle with concepts of daily life that is calling them bastards.

> Or perhaps this forum is institutionally skewed to the poster's juvenile opinion.

Cops are as much bastards as criminals are. In an ideal society both should not exist. Nobody should be given the right to use lethal force against whomever they decide at the time to be necessary and it is totally fine to have this opinion and state it in public.
by mystraline | 2025-05-07 13:57:23+00:00
This is a variant of 'kids these days', that we've documented all the way back to Plato.

If I buy a thing at Wal-Mart or Bezosmart, and it doesn't work, I can get my money back.

If I pay for service, like dry-clean my clothes, and its not done right, I can get my money back, or they offer to redo it.

In academics, none of this applies. Garbage professor? Too bad. Professor grades on curve? Too bad. Professor doesn't teach and just reads from book? Too bad. Professor does (bad but not illegal thing)? Too bad.

And failures are always assumed to be the students pure responsibility, and none of the professors' responsibility.

Combined with 'you will pay this and all other classes back up to when you're 50', and 'you need a diploma to be able to pay it back', the situation is set.

As I said, its a mixture of these premises is what leads to this situation. And there's no good answer here. Well, I guess de-capitalizing universities could work, along with jobs no longer demanding a 'degree', would go to that direction as well. But I am not hopeful.
by mdaniel | 2025-05-07 13:57:58+00:00
I don't know what "preview search" means, as I felt that I described that if I didn't have the dev tools open I wouldn't have "previewed" anything. I also didn't understand that one needed to put the search term "github repos" in the actual query

Anyway, two things which may interest you:

- please don't reimplement <table> in whatever whizbang JS framework-o-the-day; your results have the columns fixed at 180px, truncating all descriptions and URLs. Maybe it's an upsell for all I know

- your cURL in the Get Code is demonstrably wrong and I have no idea how it escaped a basic straight-face test; -d '{\"foo\":1}' literally sends brace backslash doublequote

And then, just like my first experience, the matches do not all return repos matching the query criteria. My colleague at work has to tell Cursor "try harder" so maybe you can benefit from including that in your prompt, too
by DarkWiiPlayer | 2025-05-07 13:58:11+00:00
No, it's the opposite, actually. Friends don't compete, they cooperate. Turning cooperation into competition is how you execute a divide and conquer strategy. If a group is too strong, you convince them that they are each other's true enemy; once they're at each other, you swoop in.

Most "competition" in our modern world is artificial. Try figuring out who benefits from it and where this mentality originates. You'll find that those two tend to overlap :)
by HPsquared | 2025-05-07 13:58:33+00:00
I don't think that is ever really the argument made by that kind of economics.

Even the most extreme free marketeers like Walter Block (author of "Defending the Undefendable") talk about pollution as a violation of private property. Climate change as a result of pollution definitely would come under that kind of argument. They would just say it's a matter for the courts, like everyone affected should sue the people who emit the pollution or something like that (yes it's not a very practical ideology when you get into things like that)
by alwa | 2025-05-07 13:58:39+00:00
Those are the only grade levels at which the NAEP is administered.

https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/guides/scores_achv.asp...

I’d be more worried if the author stepped beyond their scope, and went from observing results to speculating without evidence about what drove the changes.

It seems like enough to say “here’s a big signal that goes counter to the stories we’ve been telling ourselves, it’s worth doing some work to figure out what’s going on.”
by PeterStuer | 2025-05-07 13:58:48+00:00
Believe it or not, Europe is finally taking sovereignty at least a little bit more serious.

It is weird that it took 'Trump' instead of Echelon, Kosovo, Snowden or NordStream just to name a few, but better late than never I guess?

The real question is what the EU will do if and when their neo-con buddies are back in the Whitehouse.

Will they finally have learned the lesson? As it stands, it seems there's still a non negligible contingent of EU administrators that would be very comfortable with things just getting back to where they were.
by lolinder | 2025-05-07 13:58:50+00:00
Oh, yes, I missed that! You're correct.

It's still more permissive than LGPL in that it isn't 'infectious' even when statically linked, the license only applies to the source file, not to any derived work. That makes the requirements more straightforward but does limit the freedom of the user to dynamically swap the library out for one that they'd prefer.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-05-07 13:59:17+00:00
What. Sparta, in its heyday, had one of the mightiest infantries in Greece, and that's saying something. One does not simply defeat Athens in a thirty years war without having serious military capabilities.

They were fascist assholes who murdered slaves as a rite of passage, but they were also good soldiers. No reason to deny that.
by gwern | 2025-05-07 13:59:50+00:00
Wishful thinking if you read the article. Most of these kids aren't learning anything about how to use AI. They aren't like a Simon Willison or Janus or anything. They're not learning about confabulations, they're not learning about scaling laws or tokenization, they're not learning to use the API, they're not running multiple models to get a feel for how they think differently, they ain't doing none of that shit you wishfully think they are - because they're cheating to minimize effort so they can go do something else like watch Tiktok. (Even Lee, who is by far the most successful and sophisticated user profiled in OP, is just dumping out stuff as fast as he can to try to make a buck.)

They are copy-pasting the assignment from Blackboard to ChatGPT and vice-versa. As the article points out, they usually aren't even reading the outputs to check that the essay doesn't suddenly start bloviating about Aristotle.

And no one needs to pay a college wage premium, or any wage, for that:

> He worries about the long-term consequences of passively allowing 18-year-olds to decide whether to actively engage with their assignments. Would it accelerate the widening soft-skills gap in the workplace? If students rely on AI for their education, what skills would they even bring to the workplace? Lakshya Jain, a computer-science lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, has been using those questions in an attempt to reason with his students. “If you’re handing in AI work,” he tells them, “you’re not actually anything different than a human assistant to an artificial-intelligence engine, and that makes you very easily replaceable. Why would anyone keep you around?” That’s not theoretical: The COO of a tech research firm recently asked Jain why he needed programmers any longer.
by throw1111221 | 2025-05-07 14:00:00+00:00
Not the person you replied to, but they're probably talking about Log4j. It's a Java logging library that had a helpful feature where logging a special format string would pull code from a remote URL and execute it. So anywhere you can get a Java server to log something you can run arbitrary code. (Ex: by setting a malicious User-Agent.) Estimates say 93% of enterprise cloud environments where affected.

I suppose Stuxnet could also count, where the initial infection depends on the human curiosity of plugging an unknown usb drive into an air gapped system.
by philo_sophia | 2025-05-07 14:00:12+00:00
I think the comments on the article are a fair critique. Notably that this single metric for educational outcome is not as important as the author is suggesting.

Also, Maine has a huge drop on that chart I'm assuming from COVID. I don't think this is southern states catching up. I think it was just them outperforming during COVID potentially. Whether or not that will last, we will see.
by sepositus | 2025-05-07 14:00:20+00:00
I'm still trying to pinpoint exactly why Oregon has some of the worst scores in the country (I believe it ranked dead-last this year when adjusted for socio-economic factors). When I see what's going on around me, I can only think it's somewhat related to broken family's and undisciplined kids. The stuff that my kids come home and tell me is happening in school is pretty mind blowing.

I've also noticed a complete reversal on any form of discipline. There's not even detention anymore. It seems in the name of acceptance we're taking in all kids, even ones exhibiting extremely aggressive behaviors, and then doing absolutely nothing to curb those behaviors.
by KronisLV | 2025-05-07 14:00:24+00:00
I like the AI integrations (they me use Claude Sonnet 3.7, Gemini 2.5 and GPT 4.1 with my all products pack) and quite enjoy their Junie tool, much better than my attempts at getting Aider working.

UI seems pretty okay, at least on the 2025 versions of the tools (in compact mode, Inter 12 as the custom UI font on a 1080p monitor) but still quite the resource hog.

Oh well, I’m actually going to try their Fleet as well after reinstalling my OS because it was worse than VSC the last time I tried it, might be better now.
by bastawhiz | 2025-05-07 14:00:31+00:00
That requires you to have a bike where the current gear is recognized digitally and the bike has a standard way of getting that data to an external device (or it requires you to put a sensor on the gear lever). For that matter, it requires you to have a bike with a manual transmission. There's lots of electric bikes, bikes with fully automatic transmissions, and bikes that simply don't have the electronics (not to mention a standard way to interface with them).

Actually in thinking about it, if you had access (digitally) to the current gear, you probably also have tachometer and velocity data as well through whatever that connection is anyway.

On the other hand, a motion sensor works for all bikes and is quite robust.
by precommunicator | 2025-05-07 14:00:49+00:00
So your time has no value (not just going there and back, but preparing to leave, dressing, undressing etc.)?

Your car/other transport is completely free? I wonder what's the difference, but I've calculated for myself a while back and going to a restaurant just isn't worth it.

For me often even if I literally drive by a shopping centre when this restaurant is, I would just order on my phone instead and have it delivered to my home. It takes so much time to park in multi-story garage, then go like 200+m from my car to this restaurant (the only Burger King in my city) and back, wait for the order... Doesn't make sense for me, I hate this time wasting system.

But now Uber Eats announced the One will only cover half of the delivery fee, so looking at the trend of enshittification from now in it soon might be just worth it...
by William_BB | 2025-05-07 14:00:57+00:00
I used to be a CLion user. Unfortunately, it could not keep up with our large and heavily templated C++ codebase. Although CLion Nova with the new ReSharper engine improved things a lot, we found our custom clangd with emacs/vim/VSCode to still be much faster and convenient.

I know CLion also has clangd, but I believe it's their own fork. I am also not sure if you can enable all clangd features since it's not the main engine. I'd be happy to hear people's thoughts about this.
by phkahler | 2025-05-07 14:01:04+00:00
>> Look for example at Qt, it is supposed to be a UI framework but it ends up implementing vectors, strings, json parser and who knows how much more stuff. But it's just 1 dependency so it's fine, right?

Qt is an application development framework, not a GUI toolkit. This is one reason I prefer GTK (there are things I dislike about it too).
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-05-07 14:01:07+00:00
Maybe they're "learning" how to use AI [1], but in at least some cases they're not learning what they're supposed to be learning from the class they're enrolled in [2]. The point of the assignments was never to produce the the answers as fast as possible by any means necessary [3], but to build strong foundations so that you can later do much more challenging/useful things.

If your assignment is "program X in assembly," and you just copy/paste the prompt into ChatGPT, you aren't learning assembly, you aren't learning important concepts relevant for low-level performance optimization, etc. etc. That was the point, not to produce X.

What would be useful is specific classes with assignments that are designed to be worked on with the assistance of AI. "AI-enabled SWE" etc. Lessons on how to effectively utilize it for research and learning. But those things aren't replacing learning the fundamentals, and probably can't unless AGI is achieved and actual knowledge is just economically irrelevant.

[1]: For a lot of undergrad assignments you can probably just copy/paste the description into ChatGPT, which I don't think qualifies as being difficult enough to merit "learning" how to do).

[2]: I guess this is "fine" if you're in the "AI will imminently replace all white-collar work" camp, but then its just dumb to be enrolled in college in the first place, unless maybe you're going for free.

[3]: In some sense, fully outsourcing your thinking to AI is the same as just paying someone to do your homework, which has always been possible but less accessible.
by pc86 | 2025-05-07 14:01:50+00:00
That's a really interesting thought, I'd love to get involved in software PE/M&A on the technical analysis side but I don't have the academic pedigree for it (it seems every shop that does this work is 90% Ivy and Ivy-adjacent universities and FAANG-level work history).

So if I'm understanding your point then part of the value in paying $3B for Windsurf is that it acts as a pricing anchor on future raises (and presumably acquisitions as well) for competing products? So Cursor is less likely to raise at a $30B valuation if Windsurf is 95% as good and just sold for 1/10 that.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-07 14:02:10+00:00
Yea, the information here is really limited and from only a single source.

And in the same sense the entire article was still damning to US education. Yes, Mississippi got better, but is still not at Maine 2019 levels.

Also 2020 was covid which we all know had huge upsets in education, so I'd like to see a much broader view among different states to know if this is just the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy.
by rk06 | 2025-05-07 14:02:54+00:00
Rome tried, Biome is trying.

Bun is trying, rsbuild is trying and voidzero (i.e. vite and friends) is halfway[0] there. I don't know when any if them will reach there. But at the moment, i don't think biome will reach it before bun, let alone vite.

[0] I know voidzero is much closer, I am referring to this quote: "In a 100 step journey, 90th step is the halfway mark"
by remlov | 2025-05-07 14:02:58+00:00
I did something similar, I patched a Gigabyte Z77-DS3H bios with the SAMSUNG_M2_DXE module to get a Samsung SM951 AHCI M.2 SSD working. It's not SATA and not quite NVMe, PCIe AHCI existed for a short while before NVMe became ubiquitous.

This was to enable a screamer of a Hackintosh based on Mavericks which didn't have native NVMe support at the time.
by priced_in | 2025-05-07 14:03:06+00:00
That investment is converted by fossil fuel companies in running propaganda campaigns, sponsoring fallacious researches proving the benefits of clean coal and other nonsensical bs, lobbying authorities to build more roads (that induce more traffic, more pollution, more jams, etc.)

So yes, investors are partly responsible.

We are far from the simple supply-demand your comment suggests..
by arp242 | 2025-05-07 14:03:36+00:00
> 1. Most people get a degree to pass degree checks in jobs.

How many top physicists didn't go to university? How many Nobel Prize winners (aside from Peace or Literature)? How many degree-less engineers do you want to be building your bridges? Or surgeons operating on you?

This is such a software dev centric view. In software it kind of works because you can learn and "practice" with just a computer. This is also why there's a fair amount of car mechanics without degrees. But it's much harder to "practice" many other things. As a software dev who never went to university, I also readily admit that I never did some of the more theoretical foundational stuff. Is that relevant in my day-to-day work? Mostly not. Until it is.
by yogurt-male | 2025-05-07 14:03:53+00:00
I think the reason the left trashes this segment of the country is for two reasons. First, I don't think they're fully aware of how different the circumstances are for a middle-class (sub)urban person and a poor rural one. I doubt many "coastal elites" have spent much time in rural Alabama, for example. Second, they're able to extend empathy to the ignorant poor in other countries because they don't have to suffer the consequences of their ignorance and cultural backwardness. They absolutely do in this country, though. Just look what's going on.

In a very real sense I think the "left" (that is, Democrats) in the US see conservative, rural ignorance and prejudice as inexcusable. I don't think that view is fully unjustified either. Having spent time in Mississippi growing up, I will never forget how blatantly racist and hateful those people were. Even (especially?) the wealthy, educated "elites" there. And even with a poor school system, we have libraries, the internet, etc. Ignorance in the 21st century is absolutely a choice, excepting maybe people in the most brutal of circumstances.
by nashashmi | 2025-05-07 14:04:17+00:00
Top 10% basically includes people with incomes of 80k$. And these people are traveling a lot for vacation and stuff. And they are wasting foods. And they are buying stuff they don’t need. I know because I am one of them.

Probably the bright side of Trump’s trade war is that simple stuff will become expensive. And lose market share for resources and leave more share for more critical supplies. This should reduce overconsumption and bring down pollution.

But my wife keeps complaining that it is not her but elon and Taylor swift jet that is causing the problem so she remains care free
by ajross | 2025-05-07 14:04:27+00:00
I have kids in Oregon public schools. The schools themselves (in the sense of classroom education) are fine, for the most part. But education is very underfunded (especially relative to the tax base). So kids like mine do just fine, but anyone who needs outreach or extra support tends not to get it. That hurts badly on aggregate test scores, but not so much on college acceptance performance. So it's hard to correct, politically.

And no, it's not the lack of discipline. In fact my experience is that the peer culture around my kids is much, much safer and respectful than what I saw growing up. And I went to what at the time was the consensus-best public school system in the country!
by tomweingarten | 2025-05-07 14:04:27+00:00
This is extremely important. Most people have a very skewed perspective on what it means to be in the global 10% or 1%. I think this paper would be much more impactful if the authors listed the calculations used for defining these groups in the Methods section. Ideally the cutoff for each group should even be in the abstract so people can understand what 1% or 10% even means.
by spookie | 2025-05-07 14:04:42+00:00
1440p is high enough for anything depending on screen size.

If they're running everything on the GPU then their SDF text rendering needs more work to be resolution independent. I'm assuming they use SDFs, or some variant of that.

Really, the screen isn't the issue given that on other editors OP says it is fine.

Knuth would be angry reading this :)