MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EgoIncarnate | 2025-05-10 23:46:01+00:00
According to the Wikipedia page, Kaypro was created by Andrew Kay, not Alan Kay.

Interestingly both had a relationship to a NLS in there lives.

For Andrew, it was Non-Linear Systems, where Andrew invented the digital voltmeter.

For Alan, it was oN-Line System, where he attended "The Mother of All Demos", which spawned the mouse and some other inventions used in the Xerox Alto, which is where Smalltalk was primarily developed initially.
by NorwegianDude | 2025-05-10 23:46:11+00:00
I dont like the wealth tax, but your numbers are not accurate. There is a discount and deductions on the wealth tax, but after the last election the discount has been reduced drastically.

It's not normally a very large issue, but I really don't like it. Most companies on the exchange makes money, and those who are not on the exchange are taxed on their assets. So in most cases it works out, but not always.

Usually owners use dividends to withdraw money to pay the tax, but that means even more tax as you have to pay tax on the dividends too.

The right side wants to remove the tax on investments, and maybe compensate by increasing the corporate tax. That way the tax on the annual result will be a bit higher, but there will be no wealth tax. This also levels the playing ground when it comes to Norwegian and foreign investors as the tax won't be based on where the owner is from.
by lolinder | 2025-05-10 23:46:57+00:00
> I am not screenshotting for espionage, I am screenshotting to accomplish my job.

This is literally the threat model that this feature is protecting against: it gives presenters a way to say "no really, when I say don't record I mean don't record". If people end up overusing it at your company, that's a problem to address with them, but I can totally imagine use cases where you would want to turn this on just as an added precaution against accidental but well-intentioned misuse of the visual aids in a private presentation.

This isn't to protect against corporate espionage, it's to give presenters the option to be a little bit more clear about their expectations of confidentiality.
by jjk166 | 2025-05-10 23:47:49+00:00
"This may help in unexpected and unforeseeable ways" doesn't sound like the most convincing argument for taking time from your job to learn a new skill.

All the same, you are choosing to learn something new, not to automate something to save time. Learning something new by automating a task which doesn't justify automation is no different from say reading a book or doing coding exercises in the same time - it's potentially a good use of your time, it just doesn't relate to the xkcd chart at all.
by BeetleB | 2025-05-10 23:48:00+00:00
> There is nothing mediocre about the search engine, gmail, maps, android, chrome etc.. etc.

Search Engine: Google is fantastic with its index. Very poor with the results it returns. Sampling of the problems:

- There's a reason people add site:reddit.com - the default results are often very low quality. Sure, Google has the good quality stuff indexed, but over the last 5 years they've been declining like crazy in actually showing you what you need.

- When I search for something on mobile, I get fairly unstructured results. First, an AI blurb. Then the first batch of results are videos. Then some web sites. Then a break with "People also ask...". Then more web sites. Then image results.

99% of the time I just want the web sites. Before, if there were video/image results, they'd be on the top and I'd conveniently scroll past them to get to the meat. I can't do that any more. Google keeps breaking the flow by adding more and more sections. When I hit "More search results", the problem continues.

Thank God for Kagi.

> gmail

Lots of people don't use it (including me). Other than people losing their mail, I'm not sure what is lost if this goes away. Email providers are aplenty. What am I missing by not using Gmail?

> maps

I'll grant you this one.

> android

It's nice to have an alternative to Apple, but that's the only good thing about it. Using Android reminds me of the old Windows. Very unstable. Full of spyware/bloatware.

> chrome

The only thing Chrome was better at than Firefox was stability - for a brief period in its history. Firefox is just better. If a site works on Chrome and not Firefox, that's not because Firefox is inferior.

Calling Chrome an "incredibly, breathtakingly good product" is just insane. It's merely an OK browser.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-10 23:48:10+00:00
I guess that if that's optional, including the "Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode" part, then why not. I guess it can prevent some accidental leaks, like with someone hitting PrtScr by mistake.

But if someone wants to take a screenshot, the "take a picture with your smartphone" exploit is already very obvious and commonly used, even by non-technical people. I know that confidential information is shared like this all the time, bypassing all security, and everyone turns a blind eye to it, because that's how they get the job done. I fully expect that if that feature is forcibly turned on, people will do it without giving a second thought.

And if you want to do it discreetly, just turn off your camera or cover it.

There are other ways of working around that, like using a video capture card, but why bother when you have a solution so obvious as taking pictures of the screen, even the article mentions it.
by benlivengood | 2025-05-10 23:48:22+00:00
> I am convinced that the quality would improve dramatically if there was some actual competition.

You can pay for Google One right now, roughly exchanging cash for storage capacity on the otherwise free services. I see no viable competition for that model. Protonmail is comparatively expensive.

I really don't want the Internet to turn into the mess that is video streaming where every independent licensing agency tries to capture an audience for $15/month.

Another great example is Let's Encrypt. It's a public good to provide quality TLS certificates and the marginal cost is $0 with some sponsorship. I'd far rather other core Internet services like e-mail and basic file sharing are sponsored.
by schappim | 2025-05-10 23:49:26+00:00
I’m building an MCP service in Ruby on Rails called ninja.ai [1], which functions as an app store offering one-click installation of MCP servers. Ninja installs Model Context Protocol servers on client devices using Tauri [2], a lightweight framework for building cross-platform desktop apps.

I’m also using Rails to host MCP servers in the cloud.

I share the criticism of HTTP+SSE and the recent “Streamable HTTP” feature—WebSockets would have been a more appropriate choice for interactive, bidirectional communication. Rails’ native support for SSE via ActionController::Live is limited (blocking) and has led to significant scalability challenges, prompting me to migrate these endpoints to the Falcon web server, which is better suited to concurrent streaming workloads.

When I reviewed the pull request for “Streamable HTTP” (which allows streaming a single controller response via server-sent events), I noticed it was largely driven by engineers at Shopify. I’m curious why they opted for this approach instead of WebSockets, especially given that Rails already includes ActionCable for WebSocket support. My assumption is that their choice was informed by specific infrastructure or deployment constraints, possibly related to simplicity or compatibility with existing HTTP/2 tooling.

It’s worth noting that the transport layer in the Model Context Protocol is intentionally abstracted. Future implementations could leverage WebSockets or even WebRTC, depending on the needs of the host environment or client capabilities.

[1] https://ninja.ai

[2] https://v2.tauri.app
by smelendez | 2025-05-10 23:49:58+00:00
I’ve been on calls where a presenter explicitly asks that people not screenshot slides shown in the meeting because they’re drafts that will be refined and published or circulated later on. Some companies probably have that as a blanket policy. I’m sure this isn’t universally followed.

This feature would help make that less likely to happen accidentally or “accidentally.” It wouldn’t stop deliberate leaks but that’s a different problem.
by neilv | 2025-05-10 23:50:29+00:00
> As a coder, he had spent some 600 miserable hours on LeetCode, [...] What if they built a program that hid AI from browsers during remote job interviews so that interviewees could cheat their way through instead?

All this time, I've been declining LeetCode interviews, and encouraging others to.

But one of the ways that pushback is undermined is by cheating.

Why have principles about interviewing, when you can selfishly profit, by having even less principles about honesty.

I'm not sure, but I had the impression it used to be that college students were among the most likely to do things on-principle. Protests for good causes, for example.
by roxolotl | 2025-05-10 23:51:09+00:00
If you take "fair" to mean, less imbalanced, that would give three possible solutions: increase exports, decrease imports, or a bit of both. Tariffs only make goods produced within the tariffing country more competitive within that country. I.E. they don't make made in the US goods more competitive outside of the US. Add that to the other stated goal of producing more inside of the US and unless they are expecting a consumption boom to absorb imports and internal production a reduction in imports is a goal.

Also the fact sheet[0] uses a paper which found a reduction in trade with China as evidence for why they should do this which I think is evidence enough that they are hoping for at least a modest reduction in trade "A 2023 report by the U.S. International Trade Commission that analyzed the effects of Section 232 and 301 tariffs on more than $300 billion of U.S. imports found that the tariffs reduced imports from China and effectively stimulated more U.S. production of the tariffed goods, with very minor effects on prices."

[0]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...
by const_cast | 2025-05-10 23:51:34+00:00
The trouble with comparing income between the US and the EU is that we don't really take into account everything, particularly social or public services. Of which the US has very, very little.

In your typical US setup you're going to be paying a lot more of your salary. Suppose no public transit, there goes ~15% of your salary for an automobile. Maybe an extra 5% to healthcare and health insurance, if you're healthy. If you're chronically ill or spontaneously get cancer go ahead and bump that up to 20%. Retirement, another 5% at least. And there's probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting.

Point is: it's apples and oranges. It's nice if you're someone who is young, healthy, has no problem commuting two hours a day, etc. As soon as this is no longer true, it becomes a little bit tricky.
by UncleMeat | 2025-05-10 23:52:04+00:00
It is important to understand that the "penumbra" used as part of the justification of Roe expands the liberty of individuals and limits the power of the state. There is further an entire amendment (the 9th) that expressly says that such penumbras exist and that the constitution does not contain an exhaustive list of liberties.

This is wildly different than saying "well, invasion can mean anything so its fascism time."
by 9cb14c1ec0 | 2025-05-10 23:53:15+00:00
Googles c suite is clearly not thinking ahead here. They could have helped to slow down the anti-trust lawsuits by opening up their search index to whichever AI company wants to pay for it. Web crawling is expensive, and lots of companies are spending wild amounts of money on it. There is a very clear market arbitrage opportunity between the cost of crawling the web and Google's cost of serving up their existing data.
by viraptor | 2025-05-10 23:58:19+00:00
> children being children

Children do not behave like the higher end of the typical diagnosis questionnaire. It may seem like that if you read it the first time, but professionals are expected to know the baseline. This claim is an unhelpful meme at this point.

> or maladaptive adults not taking active control of their executive function

And that's up to the follow-up chats to figure out if someone has the ability to control, but doesn't for other reasons, or if they're unable to control them. Just like lots of other physical and mental issues - this is not something new.
by anenefan | 2025-05-10 23:58:47+00:00
I chanced upon most of Yanis Varoufakis's televised speech [1] [1a] he made at Australia's National Press Club and the way the term was introduced and defined seemed perfectly reasonable. Snatching at semantics to discredit some otherwise defined idea doesn't make for good argument.

[1] https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/03/14/how-europe-and-aus...

>The third period is more recent. The era of technofeudalism, as I call it, which took root in the mid-2000s but grew strongly after the GFC in conjunction with the rapid technological change that caused capital to mutate into, what I call, cloud capital – the automated means of behavioural modification living inside our phones, apps, tablets and laptops. Consider the six things this cloud capital (which one encounters in Amazon or Alibaba) does all at once:

It grabs our attention. It manufactures our desires. It sells to us, directly, outside any actual markets, that which will satiate the desires it made us have. It drives and monitors waged labour inside the workplaces. It elicits massive free labour from us, its cloud-serfs. It provides the potential of blending seamlessly all that with free, digital payments.

Is it any wonder that the owners of this cloud capital – I call them cloudalists – have a hitherto undreamt of power to extract? They are, already, a new ruling class: today, the capitalisation of just seven US cloudalist firms is approximately the same as the capitalisation of all listed corporations in the UK, France, Japan, Canada and China taken together!

[1a] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AI8RG6nMGg
by kmnc | 2025-05-10 23:59:03+00:00
What hole will they fill if AI is already filling it? There is no knowledge based work that won’t get replaced. There is no physical based work that won’t be replaced. Sure humans can and will adapt to a post human labour world, but the process of getting there is going to be brutal without some major political paradigm shifts. If AiAccountantBot3000 makes all accountants obsolete tomorrow, what is going to happen? Nothing, except for a lot of unemployment and poor former accountants.
by est31 | 2025-05-10 23:59:13+00:00
There is some light at the end of the tunnel. I suppose the patent runs out early next year, as the drug was released in 2005 and the generic which is already available but volume limited also has that volume limitation until January 31, 2026. The press release formulates this as if Celgene did this out of graciousness but I suppose it's just that the government granted monopoly ends.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220811173542/https://ir.celgen...

> Celgene has agreed to provide Alvogen with a license to Celgene’s patents required to manufacture and sell an unlimited quantity of generic lenalidomide in the United States beginning no earlier than January 31, 2026.
by sarchertech | 2025-05-10 23:59:25+00:00
Therapists don’t give advice in that they won’t tell you whether you should quit your job, or should you propose to your girlfriend. They will definitely give you basic guidance and confirm that your fears are overblown.

They will not under any circumstances tell you that “yes you are correct, Billy would be more likely to love you if you drop 30 more pounds by throwing up after eating”, but an LLM will if it goes off script.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-05-10 23:59:30+00:00
With the caveat that I’m not all that knowledgeable about compilers, as I understand it, no not really. The compiler’s “reasoning” about types is extremely rudimentary and is easy to “deceive” because like a C compiler, it trusts that the dev knows what they’re doing. This can enable an experienced vet to move quickly due to low resistance, but makes the occasional slipups that even vets commit easy to miss.

You’d basically need to implement the Swift compiler in the Objective-C compiler to get similar type safety, but to make it work you would probably need to change various bits of syntax, drop inline intermixture of C and C++, and remove a lot of Obj-C’s dynamism, basically making it a new language. That’s why Swift was created, and in the past Obj-C’s bracketed smalltalk-like syntax had proven unpopular amongst newcoming devs, so they chose a more mainstream syntax instead.
by ljm | 2025-05-10 23:59:38+00:00
Sometimes I wonder if I have ADHD or if it's induced by the content, because I can spend hours soaking up interesting literature and putting my weird thoughts down onto paper but I can barely make it a few words through LLM-driven drivel.

It's crazy seeing bots posting AITA rage bait on Reddit that always follows the same pattern: some inter-personal conflict that escalates to a wider group: "I told my husband I wasn't into face-sitting and now all my colleagues are saying I should sit on his face to keep the peace."

That is one thing but using the same LLM to drive your tech specs, knowing it can say a whole lot of shit the 'author' isn't aware of, because they're illiterate and that is fucking normal... is worrying.
by bartread | 2025-05-10 23:59:41+00:00
Commodore BASIC (which was really a variant of Microsoft BASIC IIRC) was so awful.

No drawing commands. No real control over the computer's graphics modes. Very limited control over sprites. No great commands for the SID (arguably the best soundchip of any 8-bit system). Everything is done with POKEs and magic numbers. Slow as hell. And the list goes on.

Just dreadful.

I'd go as far as to say that in many of the ways that mattered, and even taking into account the weird key combinations required to write code, and the fact that it wasn't particularly well regarded either, but I think Sinclair BASIC on the ZX Spectrum range was actually better. You had drawing commands, you had sound commands (although the PLAY command on the 128K honestly didn't give you that much access to the power of the Yamaha FM soundchip so it still wasn't great, and on 48K you were limited to BEEP). You didn't have sprites but you had UDGs and they were easy to use. And I think it might have run faster - it certainly felt faster.

It did still have some annoying oversights: e.g., want to read the joystick? Well, I can't remember the damned address but in the end I figured out enough to realise I was going to have to PEEK the right location in memory, which I duly did after a quick study of the memory map and trying out a bunch of different addresses.

Anyway, point is I remember being so frustrated when I upgraded/crossgraded from a ZX Spectrum 128K +2A to a C64 with how difficult it was to get anything done in BASIC.
by Hydrocarb0n | 2025-05-10 23:59:43+00:00
Google is much bigger than a Monopoly, it is a multi-monopoly, Search, web ads, email, video, maps / nav, User data / metrics.

If you had told me in early 2000s that google would absolutely dominate all of these fields And it would be allowed to continue for decades, I wouldn't believe you.

I'm a free market guy, I believe some small gov is nessasary to regulate monopolies, protect constitutional rights etc, but multi-monopolies- I can't believe are allowed to exist under such a large beaurocratic superstate with left or right in power.
by lolinder | 2025-05-10 23:59:56+00:00
You don't need to elaborate on mechanisms for bypassing because you're already imagining a threat actor that is out of scope.

This is primarily about blocking accidental leaks by regular employees who were asked to not record but ignored it. This kind of reuse of content happens all the time in companies of any significant size and isn't entirely stopped by simple requests or watermarks. This tool gives companies one more option to protect against this very lame and boring but also very real threat.
by quitit | 2025-05-11 00:02:38+00:00
They'd have to adapt their business models, the likelihood of the services disappearing are minimal because they each have multiple revenue streams beyond just collecting user data. Indeed we know it's possible because much of the list are me-too products from those which have different business models.

Also we don't need a hypothetic situation: Google already kill off a fair chunk of their tools and services, and alternatives rapidly come to fill their place.

Google's position largely exists because loss leaders tied against leveraging network effects – and as others have noted, many of their services are piss poor.

Google's loss won't be Apple's benefit in any meaningful way, the masses are with Google because it's free, and that's precisely what Apple isn't, and there isn't a great overlap in their services.

As a counterpoint I don't think the government's case is the right approach, they should be establishing the rules of the game at the legislative level, everyone needs to be affected by the potential changes, Google didn't form in a vacuum.
by jerf | 2025-05-11 00:03:07+00:00
It had not occurred to me that the AI coding vendors are basically positively motivated to themselves produce code that is not documented. They want code that is comprehensible to AIs but actively not comprehensible to humans. Then you need their AIs to manipulate it.

AI code as the biggest "lock you in the box" in programming history. That takes rather a lot of the luster out of it....

They'd better be right that they can get to the point that they can fully replace programmers in about two years, otherwise following this siren song will, well, demonstrate why I chose "siren song" as my metaphor. If AI code produces big piles of code that are simply incomprehensible to humans, but then the AIs can't handle it either, they'll crash out their own market by the rather disgusting mechanism of killing all their customers, precisely because the customers consumed their service.
by TMWNN | 2025-05-11 00:03:28+00:00
... and much faster. Like *30 times* faster. Even had the hardware bug juancn and classichasclass discuss not existed with the C64, the Disk II is still much faster.

It's flabbergasting how good Woz's designs were. Almost on a whim, he with the Disk II did something no one anywhere in Silicon Valley—anywhere in the world—was doing. Forget about IBM, HP, Shugart, Tandon. Just within Commodore and Tandy, Apple's direct 1977 competitors, there were abundant human and engineering resources to come up with a fast, inexpensive, and reliable floppy drive and controller; Chuck Peddle at Commodore was certainly no average engineer. And yet, Commodore was still unable to do this in 1984.

Whether one believes in the reality of the existence of the "10X developer", it's hard not to see what Woz did between 1976 and 1978—Integer BASIC, Apple II color graphics, and Disk II—as proof that such a being can exist, even if (as I have written elsewhere) that brilliance straddled the line between optimized and overoptimized. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685888>
by caseyy | 2025-05-11 00:03:51+00:00
> 80% benefit at a fraction of the cost

I'm sure 80% of expert therapists in any modality will disagree.

At best, AI can compete with telehealth therapy, which is known for having practically no quality standards. And of course, LLMs surpass "no quality standards" with flying colors.

I say this very rarely because I think such statements should be used with caution, but in this case: saying that LLMs can do 80% of a therapist's work is actually harmful for people who might believe it and not seek effective therapy. Going down this path has a good probability of costing someone dearly.