MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soared | 2025-05-13 13:15:15+00:00
I see this as incredibly challenging for the American Democratic Party to overcome. A conservative is very clearly defined and makes up a huge portion of the country: white and religious. The inverse of this (multicultural, non-religious or non-Christian, many different races/nationalities) is much more challenging to speak to and motivate.

A republican ad can cast a standard white nuclear family wearing some blue jeans and their base will love it. Democrats don’t have a super obvious cast (and message).
by dgfitz | 2025-05-13 13:15:29+00:00
I think the only thing that doesn't quite make sense to me:

> The model takes into account the fact that parties are historically connected to specific social groups: the right with the upper classes and religious conservatives, the left with workers and progressives.

I would posit that both the right and the left have "upper classes" and "workers"

The last paragraph even says:

> “The left,” Tabellini concludes, “has underestimated the fact that culture can matter more than income.

Seems like mixed messaging.
by immibis | 2025-05-13 13:16:08+00:00
Open source does have a problem with inertia whenever one piece of software ends and another piece is created to replace it, but there's no immediate incentive to switch, because it is a switch, not an update.

Though conversely, when someone buys the trademark for an existing piece of software, and replaces it with something entirely different, like what happened with Audacity, that's also bad. So there's no good solution.
by maccard | 2025-05-13 13:16:16+00:00
Slack, teams, vs code, miro, excel, rider/intellij, outlook, photoshop/affinity are all applications I use every day that take 20+ seconds to launch. My corporate VPN app takes 30 seconds to go from a blank screen to deciding if it’s going to prompt me for credentials or remember my login, every morning. This is on an i9 with 64GB ram, and 1GN fiber.

On the website front - Facebook, twitter, Airbnb, Reddit, most news sites, all take 10+ seconds to load or be functional, and their core functionality has regressed significantly in the last decade. I’m not talking about features that I prefer, but as an example if you load two links in Reddit in two different tabs my experience has been that it’s 50/50 if they’ll actually both load or if one gets stuck either way skeletons.
by esafak | 2025-05-13 13:16:24+00:00
I find that if you talk about architecture it can give excellent advice. It can also refactor in accordance with your existing architecture. If you do not bring up architecture I suppose it could use a bad one though I have not had that issue since I always mention the architecture when I ask it to implement a new feature, which is not "vibe coding". But then why should I vibe code?

Another conclusion is that we could benefit from benchmarks for architectural quality.
by HappMacDonald | 2025-05-13 13:16:32+00:00
You can always install DOS as your daily driver and run 1980's software on any hardware from the past decade, and then tell me how that's slow.

1000x referred to the hardware capability, and that's not a rarity that is here.

The trouble is how software has since wasted a majority of that performance improvement.

Some of it has been quality of life improvements, leading nobody to want to use 1980s software or OS when newer versions are available.

But the lion's share of the performance benefit got chucked into the bin with poor design decisions, layers of abstractions, too many resources managed by too many different teams that never communicate making any software task have to knit together a zillion incompatible APIs, etc.
by louwrentius | 2025-05-13 13:17:00+00:00
The culture wars are just a manufactured distraction.

The true goal is what is now unfolding in the USA: the rich take over the government and democracy will be destroyed.

Congrats Peter Thiel. You won.

Meanwhile the temporary embarrassed millionaires of HN will still defend what is happening, they still think they will somehow come out on top. They think they won’t get hurt.

I wonder if I will witnesses a turnaround for the better in my lifetime.
by rob74 | 2025-05-13 13:17:02+00:00
> the sanctions make it very difficult to get spare parts

The crash described in the article is from 2019, so before meaningful sanctions against Russia were implemented. Also, the article makes a pretty good job at mentioning other factors that also contribute to Russia's bad aviation safety:

> The MAK’s final report contains 49 recommendations to improve everything from simulator record-keeping to the location of the SSJ’s on-board megaphones. Many of these recommendations directly address the deficiencies described throughout this article. But despite the passage of more than 6 years since the crash, the section of the report listing safety actions taken to date contains only one entry, concerning an update to Russia’s USSR-era airport fire rescue standards. This is an abysmally inadequate response. Where is the outrage? Where is the commitment to “never again”?
by btown | 2025-05-13 13:17:09+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MguVQ1Fja8&t=8 - an example of the X-Wing iMUSE soundtrack! You can hear it swap in memorable tags, literally without missing a beat.

From a musical theater composition perspective, it's almost like building around vamp sections: https://romanbenedict.com/vamp-safety-repeat/ - you build a neutral, repeatable motif that you can easily lay under unpredictably timed segments (e.g. spoken dialogue), that's primed to "explode" into a memorable melody whenever the on-stage timing calls for it!
by tstrimple | 2025-05-13 13:17:26+00:00
They aren’t really. They want to believe the crazy shit. At some level it’s comforting for them. They know the real truth others have been trying to keep from them. I saw my father fall down this pipeline, but didn’t understand it at the time. We would listen to things like AM coast to coast with Art Bell on the rare occasions he was home. Even at the time I thought the shows were just fun nonsense and I couldn’t see the other stuff he was listening to constantly as a long haul truck driver warping his brain until he was unrecognizable.

Stuff like Art Bell was a gateway drug to more serious conspiracy theorist beliefs. It’s was a nice easy on-ramp for someone who enjoys science fiction to the world of right wing nuttery. I saw the same sort of thing happening on 4chan. I was there for the lols and to be an edgy teen and thought everyone else was there for the same reason. No one took it seriously. Taking it seriously was the only way to “lose”. It was satire. Except for all of those for who it wasn’t.
by mnky9800n | 2025-05-13 13:18:14+00:00
It used to be that you wouldn't be aware of what is going on in RU-net [1] or PTT [2] because you simply were not a Russian speaker or you weren't someone living in Taiwan speaking Chinese (yes modern Taiwanese people use a CLI app to login to a BBS in 2025, you can also do this with a web browser but where is the fun in that). So you simply were unaware that they even existed probably or if you do, you are like me and can only kind of speak Russian and get some of the memes, or you simply know about PTT because your Taiwanese friend told you about it.

But now, everything is bifurcated within languages because there is orders of magnitude more content being generated and that content is algorithmically delivered to your eyes and ears based on your interactions with whatever platform you use (e.g., instagram, reddit) and maybe even across multiple platforms. So you likely don't see anything related to Kim Kardashian because you aren't flipping channels anymore through what is essentially "static" content. Instead you are scrolling a feed designed for you and you have never indicated you wanted to keep up with the Kardashians based on what you like and dislike in your feed.

And so I think this bifurcation is combined with this kind of oily, artificial interactions you are talking about, and that makes the internet feel dead. Because the second you have a live experience, like going to a jazz bar without your phone and just hanging out and listening, everything feels so alive and real and amazing.

This all reminds me of these series of commercials by AT&T that were called like, the "You will" commercials or something like that and they were narrated by Tom Selleck [3]. The commercials show all these ways to use technology, that AT&T promised to deliver to you, to connect with both information and each other. Jenna Elfman sees her baby on a video phone, some kid sits in an online lecture and talks to his teacher, some dude sends a fax from the beach. All these things are of course possible today, but most of the time it really doesn't make you feel connected. I want to hold my baby not see it on video phone. I want to interact with my students in class not respond to their comments on some internet forum the university pays for. I want to discuss with my colleagues and build cool stuff together not sit in my office while they hang out at the beach. Everything promised in the AT&T "You will" commercials now exists. But none of it fulfills the promise that AT&T was making, that this would all make us feel more connected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runet [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZ-667CEdo
by mjburgess | 2025-05-13 13:18:57+00:00
> “The left,” Tabellini concludes, “has underestimated the fact that culture can matter more than income. But as long as it insists on talking only about inequality, without addressing the identity theme, it will continue to lose out among its own former constituency.”

Is an interesting conclusion, since that seems askew from the kind of left which has predominated recently. Though it may amount to analysis of the modern left which says that they permit cultural identity to be the most salient political factor if you're one of their favoured "oppressed identities" whereas, if you arent, then you have to be analysed in purely economic terms.

I'm not entirely convinced by the analysis. Is a politics of identity displacing traditional "economic politics" -- or is it that economic politics has become a matter of identity? Eg., consider that 20-year-olds today face a society economically designed to privilege certain identities through corporate affirmative actions and the like. Policies who could only plausibly morally target the older generations where salary gaps exist -- yet have a disproportionate impact on younger groups with no such disparities (or the converse, as in the UK where young women slighly out-earn young men).

And eg., do people feel immigration has created economic deprivation at home (and so on) -- is all this just not a displaced class analysis?

We might assume not because, by economic analysis, immigration cannot really explain the "economic concerns" which are attributed to it -- but do the public know this? Or is the failure of the welfare state, of popular government policy and regulation really just misattributed to immigration (or, to these "other" identities)? Is this just a matter of spurious correlation: as western birthrates plummet, goverments are heavily endebted and unable to provide high quality services, the public observe increased immigration?

This analysis fails to realise the degree to which these "identities" have become specailisations of economic classes by policy, law and accident.
by noqc | 2025-05-13 13:19:00+00:00
Are we really sure that that's what's been happening? The democrats have fundamentally abandoned the working class in favor of stupid wedge issues. It was the "progressives" who chose to shift their campaign focus onto gaining more privileges for trans women, abolishing the police force, endorsing Islamic supremacist groups tale of their own victimhood, and denying the basic right for country to have an immigration policy. I don't see how any of this is aimed at the working class.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-05-13 13:19:07+00:00
Does the book describe how there's a professional managerial class that took over higher education inflating its costs, degrading its services, undermining its ideals, watering down it's standards?

Colleges need to get back to their mission and ditch the sports, drinking, non-academic facilities. Get back to teaching, standards and research and stop ripping off students to backbreaking loan debt.
by viraptor | 2025-05-13 13:19:56+00:00
What timescale are we talking about? Many DOS stock and accounting applications were basically instantaneous. There are some animations on iPhone that you can't disable that take longer than a series of keyboard actions of a skilled operator in the 90s. Windows 2k with a stripped shell was way more responsive that today's systems as long as you didn't need to hit the harddrives.

The "instant" today is really laggy compared to what we had. Opening Slack takes 5s on a flagship phone and opening a channel which I just had open and should be fully cached takes another 2s. When you type in JIRA the text entry lags and all the text on the page blinks just a tiny bit (full redraw). When pages load on non-flagship phones (i.e. most of the world), they lag a lot, which I can see on monitoring dashboards.
by immibis | 2025-05-13 13:20:17+00:00
A mailing list is just a kind of public group chat. You're probably in many public group chats, including this one right now. Mailing lists, IRC, traditional web forums, Discord, WhatsApp are all implementations of the same basic concept.

Like any implementation, it comes with certain affordances which differ from other implementations.

Messages feel "heavy" for several reasons: sending one involves a lot of clicks (or keypresses); if you send a very high number you may be banned from your email provider, and unable to communicate with anyone.

Messages often arrive instantly, but can be delayed up to hours or days, so conversation round-trips are kept to a minimum.

Messages are all the same - there are no "lite messages" such as emoji reactions - so any message must contain enough content to justify being a full-fledged message, or it won't be sent at all. (Sometimes an "emoji reaction" is felt to be enough content to justify a full-fledged message, which is sent.)

Being off the web increases the barrier to entry, reducing the eternal september effect (ironically, Usenet is one of the least eternal-september-ish of the public discussion boards currently in existence).

Overall, the feel of the system tends to somewhat discourage quantity and encourage per-message quality.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-13 13:20:24+00:00
This is more about the shifting of media platforms from mass broadcast to targeted messaging to tiny slices of demographics.

It's not unique to the right, although the right wing messaging is simpler and more broadly applicable. Progressives in recent years like to characterize everything as discriminatory. Every issue from arresting criminals, to awarding contracts to schooling is delivered through that lens. The reactionary message is a variant of the effective Bill Clinton style "I feel your pain", with the prescription that you need more pain to get to some nebulous future where your problems go away. The difference is that the progressive message is delivered to the slice of demographic and resonates mostly there. The reactionary message is broadly appealing to everyone's anxiety -- even people who dislike MAGA often identify with the problems identified.

It about the delivery. The best example of this is the much-maligned (in the right wing space) 1619 project. Nobody actually reads books, so the soundbites matter, and by tying the work to the relatively narrow racial component in those soundbites, it weaponized the topic for racists. Those MAGA white guys need to have the irony shoved in their face. That the same class of rich aristocrats who pushed their indentured servant ancestors to the periphery of civilization, then conscripted them for the freedom to own other humans to suppress their wages, and that they have more in common with the decendents of slaves than some land barons.

But that didn't happen, and the messaging picked up and hammered by the right is: "Those" people (pick your villain) want to steal your heritage and hate everything that is America. Obviously, that resonates with alot of people.
by pheelicks | 2025-05-13 13:21:36+00:00
Yes, those are the obvious ones. This example: https://a5geo.org/examples/airbnb shows why the equal area is valuable in practice, while https://a5geo.org/examples/area shows the area variation vs h3.

The downsides are the characteristics that make h3 or s2 useful. For h3, the single neighbor type means it is well suited to flow analysis and S2 having exact cell subdivision means it is great for simplifying geometry.

However, there a number of use cases where choosing a spatial index is a more stylistic choice, like for visualization.

The aim of A5 is not to replace S2/H3 but rather to offer an alternative that has different strengths and weaknesses compared to existing solutions
by hombre_fatal | 2025-05-13 13:21:49+00:00
Even if end-users had the data to reasonably tie-break on software quality and performance, as I scroll my list of open applications not a single one of them can be swapped out with another just because it were more performant.

For example: Docker, iterm2, WhatsApp, Notes.app, Postico, Cursor, Calibre.

I'm using all of these for specific reasons, not for reasons so trivial that I can just use the best-performing solution in each niche.

So it seems obviously true that it's more important that software exists to fill my needs in the first place than it pass some performance bar.
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-13 13:21:50+00:00
But… then I thought for a bit. And I realized, duh, that’s probably just because I’m not good enough yet to recognize the dumb stuff it’s doing.

It's important to have this self awareness. Don't let AI trick you into thinking it can build anything good. When starting a project like in the article, your time is probably better spent taking a step back, learning the finer points of the new language (like, from a book or proper training course) and going from there. Otherwise, you're going to be spending even more time debugging code you don't understand.

It's the same thing with a crappy consultant. It seems great to have someone build something for you, but you need to make preparations for when something breaks after their contract is terminated.

Overall, it makes you think, what is the point? We can usually find useful crowd-sourced code snippets online, on stack exchange, etc. We have to treat them the same way, but, it's basically free compared to AI, and keeping the crowd-sourced aspect alive makes sure there's always documentation for future devs.
by markstock | 2025-05-13 13:22:01+00:00
Yes, the author uses a globally-adaptive time stepper, which is only efficient for very small N. There are adaptive time step methods that are local, and those are used for large systems.

If you see bodies flung out after close passes, three solutions are available: reduce the time step, use a higher order time integrator, and (the most common method) add regularization. Regularization (often called "softening") removes the singularity by adding a constant to the squared distance. So 1 over zero becomes one over a small-ish and finite number.
by nicr_22 | 2025-05-13 13:22:01+00:00
Radio 4 has to be Westminster, surely? And Bloomsbury in the evenings.

Richmond teeters over into Classic FM to my taste - ostensibly cultured, but basically posh-pop.

And LBC is a diffuse torroidal agglomeration of zone 3+ greasy spoons known only to White Van Men and black cab drivers.
FlyLoop – AI Agent for Scheduling Meetings and Managing Your Calendar
by localbuilder | 2025-05-13 13:22:17+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Mike from FlyLoop (https://getflyloop.com). FlyLoop automates meeting scheduling for you, like your own executive assistant. You chat with FlyLoop in plain English to manage your calendar and schedule meetings with your teammates. Demo video: https://youtu.be/ODgHilaWvA0

I built FlyLoop because scheduling meetings has always been tedious and time-consuming. I've wasted a lot of time combing through my teammates’ calendars just to find a meeting slot - then I remember that someone is in a different time zone and have to start all over. Another big pain point has been the maintenance that comes with being the owner of a meeting. If one core participant can no longer make it, I’m stuck juggling calendars again to reschedule. It’s exhausting.

That’s what sparked the idea for FlyLoop - a tool that takes the hassle out of scheduling and is simple to use. FlyLoop is an AI agent that integrates with your team's messaging and calendar tools. Just tell FlyLoop things like:

- "Set up a 30 minute sync with John, Maria, and Angela next week."

- "Find the next available time for our engineering standup tomorrow."

- "Reschedule my afternoon calls on Friday, I'll be OOO."

- "What are some time slots I can meet with Katie and Mark early next week?"

FlyLoop creates meetings by looking up the schedule of each participant you want to add and finding availability that works for everyone. It can also modify existing meetings you own, such as renaming, rescheduling, and changing the participant list.

FlyLoop is currently in private beta, and we're looking to work closely with a few organizations to get feedback and refine the product before a public release. We currently integrate with Slack and Google Calendar, but we can prioritize adding support for other providers such as Teams/Outlook if folks are interested.

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by bluGill | 2025-05-13 13:22:29+00:00
There has been a lot of innovation - but it is focused to some niche and so if you are not in a niche you don't see it and wouldn't care if you did. Most of the major things you need have already invented - I recall word processors as a kid, so they for sure date back to the 1970s - we still need word processors and there is a lot of polish that can be added, but all innovation is in niche things that the majority of us wouldn't have a use for if we knew about it.

Of course innovation is always in bits and spurts.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-13 13:22:33+00:00
I am unsure what I expected to "see" as I tried to "follow this event live" on YouTube. There were a few channels which featured telemetry, a map, and orbit diagrams. However, even the Roscosmos message implies that the impact location was approximated by calculations, and there was no observation, no imagery, and no witnesses of the alleged re-entry itself.

I suppose that many remote corners of the world are not subject to the sort of surveillance we'd expect in CONUS, but apparently even if there were a fireball and/or a splash, no human being recorded it even with remote instruments in this case.

I suppose that's fine if it plopped into the ocean. There won't exactly be a SAR team out to recover the craft for posterity's sake. But with all the news reports coming in, and my burgeoning new interest in astronomy, a false hope of spectacle had been engendered in my mind. Ah well.
by jmclnx | 2025-05-13 13:22:35+00:00
Slackware 15:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 11 2022 /usr/bin/screen -> screen-4.9.0

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 455016 Feb 1 2022 /usr/bin/screen-4.9.0

no suid