MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by itsanaccount | 2025-05-07 02:40:05+00:00
its about power.

you smoking a cig in an alley on your 15 minute break? you should have every right and privilege on earth.

you running 10,000 person strong group of people with the legal right to use force against your fellow man fighting to deny people their personal liberties with a long history of corruption? i don't care if there's cameras in the bathrooms.
by naasking | 2025-05-07 02:40:38+00:00
> Informing product roadmaps, balancing tradeoffs, understanding relationships between teams, prioritizing between separate tasks, pushing back on tech debt, responding to incidents, it’s a feature and not a bug, …

Ask yourself how many of these things still matter if you can tell an AI to tweak something and it can rewrite your entire codebase in a few minutes. Why would you have to prioritize, just tell the AI everything you have to change and it will do it all at once. Why would you have tech debt, that's something that accumulates because humans can only make changes on a limited scope at a mostly fixed rate. LLMs can already respond to feedback about bugs, features and incidents, and can even take advice on balancing tradeoffs.

Many of the things you describe are organizational principles designed to compensate for human limitations.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-07 02:41:31+00:00
Nobody is threatening to topple Islamabad. UAE and KSA have interests, but insufficient influence to force outcomes. The relevant players are in Beijing and Washington.

> India and Pakistan can normalize relations, and sincere attempts have been made by both sides, but inter-factional competition amongst Pakistan's elite has undermined it

India has less motivation for war. But it’s also done nothing to negotiate a peace.
by ChrisSD | 2025-05-07 02:42:06+00:00
In my experience every developer, company, team, sub-team, etc has their own "library" of random functions, utilities, classes, etc that just end up being included into new projects sooner or later (and everyone and their dog has their own bespoke string handling libraries). Copy/pasting large chunks of code from elsewhere is also rampant.

I'm not so sure C/C++ solves the actual problem. Only sweeps it under a carpet so it's much less visible.
by al_borland | 2025-05-07 02:42:08+00:00
A big issue is the speed at which teams are expected to deliver. If every sprint is expected to deliver value to the user, there is isn’t enough slack in the system to go back and prune the code to remove cruft. People end up cutting corners to meet deadlines set by management. The corners that get cut are the things that are invisible in the demo. Security, documentation, and all the chewing gum holding it all together.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-05-07 02:42:27+00:00
"Targeted strike" is meaningless PR-speak and the concern wouldn't be India expanding the strike, it would be Pakistan retaliating and then India retaliating to the retaliation and so on until someone's finger is hovering over a big red "LAUNCH" button and the rest of us have to take a keen interest in how much iodine we're consuming.

I and a lot of other people have been calling "India and Pakistan get into it again" ever since Russia started blowing up Ukranian maternity wards, supermarkets and apartment buildings.

Ukraine is bleeding Europe and the US dry in both money and military supplies.

The US just emptied even more munitions at the Houthis (largely accomplishing nothing) to the point that people in the Pentagon have been concerned enough to approach press. The regime also moved carrier groups closer to Yemen to support said operation, so of course now that mom and dad are looking away, the two children are fighting. Meanwhile Hegseth has been hard at work causing complete chaos with an endless stream of junior-manager "get tough" policies, mixed in with some policies furthering his white christian supremacist views.

Russia has basically run out of everything but has made enough seedy friends who will eventually ask for favors

China is fixated on Taiwan but really wouldn't say no to any territorial expansion, if anybody offered, or um, didn't happen to have much in the way of allies who were paying attention.

Our SecState is a little boy cosplaying as a diplomat, nobody with more than a handful of braincells is present in the white house, and the republican party is more intersted in what some trans person did at a swim meet or volleyball tournament, than they are what's going on in the world geopolitically...

Basically, everyone's busy looking at something else, so Pakistan and India shrugged and said "After all, why shouldn't we...have a war?"
by gus_massa | 2025-05-07 02:43:32+00:00
Note that it was released in 1968. The law changed since then. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice

> For works first published on or after March 1, 1989, use of the copyright notice is optional. Before March 1, 1989, the use of the notice was mandatory on all published works. Omitting the notice on any work first published from January 1, 1978, to February 28, 1989, could have resulted in the loss of copyright protection if corrective steps were not taken within a certain amount of time. Works published before January 1, 1978, are governed by the 1909 Copyright Act. Under that law, if a work was published under the copyright owner's authority without a proper notice of copyright, all copyright protection for that work was permanently lost in the United States.
by jjk166 | 2025-05-07 02:43:57+00:00
Policies can be changed, or ignored. The question is would Pakistan trust its neighbor, with whom it has decades of animosity and in this scenario is currently at war, to stick to such a policy?

While I personally doubt this particular instance will escalate to nuclear war, or even a major conventional war for that matter, the situation is clearly very dangerous. Doctrine is a terrible indicator of what a country will actually do.

For Russia and North Korea, even though their doctrines may be hazy, their geopolitical positions indicate they are unlikely to start a nuclear engagement. Russia has a very large conventional military which, despite it's significantly worse than expected performance, is slowly but steadily making progress in a war that other great powers are not willing to directly join. Conversely, half the world's nukes are pointed squarely at Russia. Their strategy pretty much the entire time under Putin has been slowly normalizing their military actions, use of nuclear weapons in even the most minimal capacity would be very likely to provoke exactly the military response they don't want and would gain them nothing. Their nukes exist specifically to deter that response.

North Korea is even more clearly disadvantaged by a potential nuclear exchange. Sure they have enough nukes to cause serious damage to South Korea, but they already had the conventional forces to do that long before they got nukes. They could strike America, and do quite a bit of damage, but they have no hope of doing enough damage to prevent a retaliatory strike that would kill the regime. They are caught between two major nuclear powers, the US and China, and their nukes are clearly to prevent one from attempting a regime change without relying too heavily on the other.

Both of these states would probably have ceased to exist by now if they did not have nukes, and both will stop existing if they ever use nukes. They are more or less stable.

India and Pakistan are a totally different story. Both need nukes to deter not only eachother but other neighbors, which produces a heavily destabilizing effect (eg if India builds more nukes to counter a buildup in China, Pakistan needs more nukes, which means India needs even more nukes, and so on). Further, neither nation is staring down the barrel of a true clusterfuck arsenal like those possessed by the US and Russia - while it would no doubt be catasrophic beyond anything the world has seen before, a nuclear exchange between the two nations is potentially survivable. Finally you have not just two governments but two populations with a deep seated enmity rooted in religious conflict, it is easily possible for the entire chain of command to be willing to go against their personal self interest with no one in a position to pump the brakes. It's a situation that could become very bad, very quickly, without anyone doing anything too absurd.
by socalgal2 | 2025-05-07 02:44:37+00:00
No, the subject is society at large. Save kids today, get a society that can't function in the future, more kids die

Asked ChatGPT for examples: https://markdownpastebin.com/?id=86c19b00a4ce4ff1aa3d2d5cb47...

Note, I'm not saything this is how it is. Nor am I saying I believe free school lunches are bad. I'm saying the position that they are bad is a valid defendable position to take.
by hdevalence | 2025-05-07 02:45:19+00:00
The example you are discussing starts with the following user query:

<example> <user>how should recent semiconductor export restrictions affect our investment strategy in tech companies? make a report</user> <response>

Finding out where the user works is in response to an under specified query (what is “our”?) and checking for internal analysis is a prerequisite to analyzing “our investment strategy”. It’s not like they’re telling Claude to randomly look through users’ documents, come on.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-05-07 02:45:35+00:00
it's really never as bad as it is for hotels. I once booked a hotel stay in san francisco which looked like $300 on the website, but after I was done I was charged an extra $200 for various fees which was mostly a san francisco hotel tax.. I never saw it until I checked out. It doesn't even matter if every hotel in SF gets that tax, I don't care, I want to see it before I book the place. Ideally at the "price map" screen.

As an aside, I don't know why AirBnB can't get their shit together and push all the fees to the map. My guess is that most of those fees are not per night? Well make the front matter say "$120/night + fees" and when you select your dates you know what the total cost is.
by itsanaccount | 2025-05-07 02:45:37+00:00
Don't owe it to me, set it on fire (its deflationary lol) but money is a proxy for power and we all are owed the right to be free from tyranny.

And if that means making sure no single person or small group of people have too much power (money), then taking their money is what it takes.

Maybe we arent even owed, as its a responsibility shared by all.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-05-07 02:48:49+00:00
At the library level, I dislike how coarse grained most things are. Sadly becomes easier to reimplement things to avoid huge dependency chains.

Want a simple web server ? Well, you’re going to get something with a JSON parser, PAM authentication, SSL, QUIC, websockets, an async framework, database for https auth, etc.

Ever look at “curl”? The number protocols is dizzing — one could easily think that HTTP is only a minor feature.

At the distro level, it is ridiculous that so long after Alpine Linux, the chasm between them and Debian/RHEL remains. A minimal Linux install shouldn’t be 1GB…

We used to boot Linux from a 1.44mb floppy disk. A modern Grub installation would require a sizable stack of floppies! (Grub and Windows 3.0 are similar in size!)
by dpifke | 2025-05-07 02:49:15+00:00
Per WHOIS, it's assigned to Alibaba Cloud (could be a VM there):

inetnum: 139.224.0.0 - 139.224.255.255 netname: ALISOFT descr: Aliyun Computing Co., LTD descr: 5F, Builing D, the West Lake International Plaza of S&T descr: No.391 Wen'er Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 310099 country: CN admin-c: ZM1015-AP tech-c: ZM877-AP tech-c: ZM876-AP tech-c: ZM875-AP abuse-c: AC1601-AP status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP mnt-irt: IRT-ALISOFT-CN last-modified: 2023-11-28T00:57:06Z source: APNIC
by raydiak | 2025-05-07 02:49:23+00:00
Thanks! Sounds like a reasonable prediction. To me, crazy animated stuff in the wrong context is a component of bad UX. Though I learned web design by interning under a literal Nazi, so my design opinions may be a bit...extreme.

Perhaps I could make room in my heart some day for animated cats on personal sites. Clippy is still pushing it. More because of a bunch of bad memories of trying to support people who were infuriated by it, or on a few occasions having to go to the trouble of opening Word just to disable it on several machines in a day, than its actual physical aesthetics. In my memory it looks more like an image search for "evil Clippy" (didn't think to try that until now, some pretty funny stuff).

Completely agree that corporate dark patterns are a much greater concern. That's why, except for Clippy, I like this project. It puts the tool directly in people's hands with no need for tech skills or cloud gatekeepers and spying.

Tangentially, I just realized that this nicely self-contained Clippy might be able to copy itself. It doesn't have to be able to write an LLM, just copy (or worse yet upload) one file and execute it. Like Agent Smith. But Clippy.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-05-07 02:50:01+00:00
> It used to be ok to disagree, have intelligent debate, vote on it, and lose

You are operating under a model that every view of the world is equally valid, moral, and unworthy of emotion. That is not where we are as a country. People have made decisions to actively harm people I love, and they cheer it on to my face. This is not an emotion, it's a fact.

I'm a white man. I am polite to my friends and family, and I am good at getting people to share what they really think. I have family all over the country. They talk a lot like you in public, decrying a vague sense of union we used to have in a fictional time of American history. But they whisper a different tune to me in private. I have heard some absolutely vile beliefs from people who used to bounce me on their knee. I don't speak to them anymore. Not because I'm in an echo chamber, but because I cannot reconcile or stomach the things I know about them. My extended family believes others should bleed so they don't have to scuff, and I believe this reflects a large portion of the country.

You have it completely backwards. It's not that we are so angry with each other that we can't establish a cultural toll, it's that much of the country never wanted to pay this toll, and that's what makes the rest of us angry. We cannot live collectively without sacrifice, but many refuse to. The many debates regarding this article is evidence of that.
by jll29 | 2025-05-07 02:51:06+00:00
> I think c++, the language, is ready for the modern world. However, c++, the community, seems to be struck at least 20 years in the past.

Good point. A language that gets updated by adding a lot of features is DIVERGING from a community that has mostly people that still use a lot of the C baggage in C++, and only a few folks that use a lot of template abstraction at the other end of the spectrum.

Since in larger systems, you will want to re-use a lot of code via open source libraries, one is inevitably stuck in not just one past, but several versions of older C++, depending on when the code to be re-used was written, what C++ standard was stable enough then, and whether or not the author adopted what part of it.

Not to speak of paradigm choice to be made (object oriented versus functional versus generic programmic w/ templates).

It's easier to have, like Rust offers it, a single way of doing things properly. (But what I miss in Rust is a single streamlined standard library - organized class library - like Java has had it from early days on, it instead feels like "a pile of crates").
by hristov | 2025-05-07 02:51:51+00:00
Very disappointing, although not unexpected. The energy star program was a very useful. It is very easy for a manufacturer to save a couple of bucks on some voltage converter circuits and saddle the customer with hundreds of dollars of electricity bills. And it was very difficult for the average consumer to weight what the energy efficiency of their appliances is. Energy star kept everyone honest and provided an accurate and comparable metric as to electricity usage.
by brewdad | 2025-05-07 02:52:29+00:00
An iPhone isn't a status symbol anymore, if it ever was. I see 12 year olds with them because they still work long after the phone's previous owner grabbed the shiny new one.

Maybe having the newest model the week it comes out confers some status amongst those who can tell the difference. Everyone else just slaps a case on it and no one knows what generation you have.
by andrewflnr | 2025-05-07 02:52:50+00:00
It's not just about the energy, though, even if I think it's a bigger problem than you do. If you get up to a decent speed where time dilation helps, then the interstellar medium becomes a serious problem. I think there were some other weird problems, too.

I'm not saying interstellar travel is impossible, I'm just saying an early technological civilization in our solar system is more possible.
by chrisoverzero | 2025-05-07 02:52:53+00:00
> - Translate feature doesn’t have a copy button

Sure it does. It’s labeled “Copy Translation”. It’s the first button under the translation for un-editable text.

> - Multitasking (apps should shut down after some time spent idle, instead they have to be manually closed)

Apps that aren’t working in the background shut down effectively as soon as they lose focus. Don’t let the list of screenshots fool you – those aren’t running. Don’t waste your time swiping them away.
by ivape | 2025-05-07 02:53:28+00:00
It's also worth pointing out that whatever nonsense the terrorists were on about will now just get reinforced. You could be talking about a more agitated situation with even more terror attacks. This is how bullshit like this escalates. They should have coordinated with Pakistan to run the strikes.

I also thought the Ukraine war wasn't "really" going to happen. Humans will human.
by starfezzy | 2025-05-07 02:53:51+00:00
In brand velocity maybe, but copilot is rapidly reaching feature parity with cursor and will invariably overtake it—while costing less to users.

Same with Google vs OpenAI. I tend to agree with the sentiment that I most frequently hear which is that OpenAI is the currently popular brand, but that can only carry them so far against what will eventually be a better offering for cheaper.
by energy123 | 2025-05-07 02:56:46+00:00
Major:

1- Something went wrong error

2- Show Thinking never stops

3- You've been signed out error

4- UI spammed with garbled text if you attach large file

5- Prompt rejected with no error, prompt text returns to chat input but attachments are deleted

6- Pasting small amounts of text takes a few seconds in long chats

Annoying:

1- Scroll is hijacked when the prompt is accepted by server and thinking starts, instead of when you send the prompt or not at all.

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If you haven't experienced these then I can only hazard a guess that you're keeping your chats at less than 100k token context or you're using AIStudio. The major issues happen when you push it with 90k token prompts or 200k token cumulative chats. They don't all have the same precise trigger, though, some are connected to long chats, others to big attachments, etc.
by LudwigNagasena | 2025-05-07 02:57:11+00:00
That sounds more like a civil law vs common law distinction.

In a civil law country if something causes a problem, the legislative branch would be expected to come up with a general solution. (eg https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...)

In a common law country, if something causes a problem an executive agency or a judge would be expected to figure out a solution that doesn’t set a precedent that is too wide and general.
by chubot | 2025-05-07 02:57:16+00:00
It doesn't, but in the last ~3 months I've come around to the idea that it should

And I did a bunch of research on it (e.g. https://lobste.rs/s/qjzd9y/everyone_quotes_command_line_argu... )

I did notice that git for windows uses a bash built with MSYS. And I noticed that Python's subprocess module implements pipelines with native Win32, not with MSYS.

So that is something we can do in Oils, in theory

I won't say it's high priority, but of course it's an open source project, and users often change the priorities

Two things that would really help are (1) finding a skilled Win32 programmer and (2) getting another grant (we've gotten 3 in the past)
by Grimblewald | 2025-05-07 02:57:26+00:00
Your answer contributes nothing, which is just shy of what the intro pages offers in relation the question. Everything urtext claims, is readily achievable through markdown + some collection of tools of your choice, for which many exist, some being all in one solutions. Obsidian with a few community plugins is a clear example.

I enjoy and appreciate projects like this, I _WANT_ to like and understand it, but as it stands the information simply isn't there.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-05-07 02:57:38+00:00
AirBnB doesn't put it on the map because they're competing against hotels, B&Bs, and services like VRBO.

Everyone has an incentive to list as low a price as possible.

For fucks sakes even car dealers are pulling this shit, listing EVs with tax rebates - that people may or may not qualify for - already deducted.
by wordofx | 2025-05-07 02:57:43+00:00
> - Translate feature doesn’t have a copy button

Just selected text. Pressed translate. It says “copy translation”…

Opened up image. Translated text. Pressed copy translation.

> Keyboard is less accurate

I actually find androids default keyboard less accurate when typing or using the predictive text. I use the swipe to text all the time on iPhone.

> - Multitasking (apps should shut down after some time spent idle, instead they have to be manually closed)

lol no

> - No option for manual cache clearing

Never needed to clear cache?

It sounds like you just don’t like apple to be honest. Finding things to nitpick. I have a pixel phone and iPhone so I can do testing and while I have no issues with the pixel. I much prefer iOS. It just works, feels more consistent, and the phone is faster than the pixel despite it being a iPhone 13. It’s still as fast as when I bought it, while the pixel just feels slow compared to when I bought it a year ago, and it’s mainly used for testing…
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-07 02:57:48+00:00
My old pool pump used more energy than my new pool pump and it’s cheaper to pay me to replace it versus future generation and emissions by continuing to use a less efficient applicance. I paid $2000 for the new pump, and the utility only offset $350 of that.

Energy efficiency is why US electric consumption has been flat for so long (since 2008). Besides lighting, most residential load are appliances (refrigerator, washer, dryer, stove, microwave, pool pumps, TVs, water heater) or HVAC. So, those are the efficiency targets. The cheapest kWh is the one you didn’t have to generate and deliver. Very similar to demand response, where you pay consumers to shed non essential electrical loads (nest thermostat rush house rewards is an example of this) when the grid is at capacity.

Similar incentives exist for heat pumps, water heaters, and dryers, as well as for disposing of an old inefficient fridge you might be hanging on to in your garage as a second unit.

https://www.gdsassociates.com/electricity-use-flatline/
by Swizec | 2025-05-07 02:57:54+00:00
> As an aside, I don't know why AirBnB can't get their shit together and push all the fees to the map. My guess is that most of those fees are not per night? Well make the front matter say "$120/night + fees" and when you select your dates you know what the total cost is.

The problem is that everyone says we want this then votes with our wallet that we don’t.

Stubhub once tried to be upfront honest about fees. Bookings dropped like a stone. People just didn’t want concerts at those prices. But an extra $20 when you’re already paying $80, ehhh sure okay I’ve already come this far and feel pretty committed to going.

> As the study found, “Overall, the StubHub users who weren't shown fees until checkout spent about 21 percent more on tickets and were 14 percent more likely to complete a purchase compared with those who saw all-inclusive prices from the start.“

https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/stubhub-and-the-case-of-th...