MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-14 22:00:51+00:00
> another device?

Sure. But so is the monitor. But it significantly lowers the cost of the experience since I don't need separate CPU+RAM+Motherboard for a desktop.

> There are real human factors (functional and social) that have resulted in the current laptop and desktop form-factors, and why many attempts to completely replace either have failed.

Sure, or maybe the lackluster SW for such an experience is the reason it's failed. No one cares about a desktop form factor. Laptops have clearly eaten that market except for enthusiasts and you clearly see this cannibolization attempt by all players. I don't think they'll stop just because you've declared they've failed because getting this right & winning is a huge advantage.

> Are you doing your remote VSCode session on a phone? You must need at least a 13" laptop (or phone dock device with a screen/keyboard/battery) for that. At that point, why not just use a laptop, and avoid the complexity of plugging/syncing with a phone?

I think you're just grossly misunderstanding what I'm saying. If I can plug my phone into a monitor + keyboard + mouse & the phone can run VSCode with all my extensions, the point of a laptop drastically disappears. Then when I'm done work I unplug my phone and go home. The point of avoiding a laptop is cost - I have a $3k laptop that's not providing any value over a monitor + keyboard + mouse especially when I already need the keyboard + mouse to do any coding. For that cost I could have two massive really nice displays and STILL be saving money. The coding is an extreme example but you can see how simpler versions of this, which is what Android and Samsung are building, can remove the need for many laptops that kids carry around - just put your laptop shell that's just a monitor + keyboard + mouse into your backpack, pull it out, connect your phone, and start taking notes. Moreover, in a corporate environment you can now have multiple people sharing the resources of 1 machine. In fact, many coding shops even just give you a VM to do all your work on with a thin client for the local UI.
by kmeisthax | 2025-05-14 22:01:04+00:00
Expanding the commute availability circle does not increase the supply of housing, because people build sparser neighborhoods with larger lawns. If you want to increase the supply of housing, you need higher density, not longer distance.

What longer distance does is make the closer areas more valuable, because people will pay $$$ for a shorter commute. And for those who can't afford the closer housing, they get to pay $$ on a car and gas instead.

Cars are only helpful in exactly two scenarios:

1. You live in a remote rural area where any sort of transit infrastructure is comically infeasible. 99% of the people posting here do not quality for this.

2. You live in a city so maliciously planned out that living without a car is unthinkable and that any other option to get to where you're going is not available.

I use the word "malicious" because the gutting of American cities' transit infrastructure was a deliberate act by American car companies giving their competition the mafia bust-out treatment.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-05-14 22:01:28+00:00
It seems like the obvious endgame is most people will use very strong auth between their devices and Google / Microsoft / Apple and then federate to everything else. All other workflows will become niche because it's not in monopoly interests to build features that make anything else convenient or manageable.

This is where the incentives push and is why we're unlikely to see usable or easy passkey sync.

I'm sort of ok with this (it will be a net security improvement) but it saddens me a little to see more of the web come under centralised control.

Most people won't fully understand the implications of this, which will be that the right law enforcement request will instantly unlock every service you have access to regardless of jurisdiction.

Plus lots of secondary effects relating to fed auth providers having increasing leverage over the web in general.
by Suppafly | 2025-05-14 22:01:39+00:00
>Almost every home and business is paying more for additional space that cars take up.

Sure but that's not a subsidy being borne by tax payers, that's being paid by people that want cars to be at their house or business. I suppose you have some argument that the legally required minimums might be more than necessary but generally they reflect the need as it exists, not what we want it to bed. Allowing businesses to not have to supply parking wouldn't force people to use mass transit, it'd just force them to park further away in a space not paid for by the business they are frequenting.
by cogman10 | 2025-05-14 22:02:04+00:00
In the US? No, you actually do not need to pay for the service if you deem the quality of the output to be substandard. In particular with art, it's pretty standard to put in a non-refundable downpayment with the final payment due on delivery.

You only lose those rights in the contracts you sign (which, in terms of GPT, you've likely clicked through a T&C which waves all right to dispute or reclaim payment).

If you ask an artist to draw a picture and decide it's crap, you can refuse to take it and to pay for it. They won't be too happy about it, but they'll own the picture and can sell it on the market.
by dahart | 2025-05-14 22:02:11+00:00
> But even then, the sentence in question doesn’t use the abbreviation

Yes it does. Why are you still looking at a different sentence than the one I quoted??

HDR in this context isn’t referring to just any dynamic range. If it was, then it would be so vague as to be meaningless.

Tone mapping is closely related to HDR and very often used, but is not necessary and does not define HDR. To me it seems like your argument is straw man. Photographers have never broadly used the term “high dynamic range” as a phrase, nor the acronym “HDR” before it showed up in computer apps like hdrView, Photoshop, and iPhone camera.
by woodruffw | 2025-05-14 22:03:15+00:00
These would be examples of normalization, not a slippery slope. The OP's example makes this clear (from "congestion pricing in NYC" to "they're going to take my car," not "congestion pricing in NYC" to "congestion pricing elsewhere").

(Regardless, I think the answer is simple: congestion pricing is only economically viable when an area is simultaneously congested and has alternative transportation methods that would prevent the local economy from collapsing. NYC is one of a very small handful of cities in the US where this is true, although that's largely a function of 80 years of car-centric design. Maybe it will change.)
by gschizas | 2025-05-14 22:03:15+00:00
Modern VB.NET (and C#) suffer from overcomplication, from trying to do too much. And at the same time, not doing enough.

There are (at least) three ways to make a desktop application (Classic Windows Forms, XAML and other, more different XAML, for what used to be Metro/Windows Store apps). Not all functionality overlaps between them.

There are a plethora of (paid) custom controls which reimplement the wheel for all of those (because Microsoft didn't bundle in some elementary Windows controls)

That being said, I personally miss LightSwitch.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-05-14 22:03:47+00:00
The whole cleaning routine for these places is getting pretty ridiculous though. I have to pay a cleaning fee, get the sheets from the bed and put it in the laundry, and whatever arbitrary stuff is in the checkout list. It never felt turnkey as a hotel.

I think I’m the wrong audience though, as I’m happy as a clam with something like a Best Western or a Motel 6.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-14 22:04:27+00:00
It's often a condition of licensing those patents. NDA's, they're huge in the radio and embedded world. It only became a bit more open when the Arduino and Raspberry projects came along. And even there it wasn't fully open, especially with the Raspberry because Broadcom is one of the worst offenders.

I'm surprised how much they were able to open source as-is. I think part of that is that the SoCs powering the raspberry are kinda 'old news', definitely not the bleeding edge kind of embedded tech. The first raspberry basically happened because Broadcom had a whole bunch of old chips they weren't able to sell. Only when it took off they started making some actually for the purpose.
by foxyv | 2025-05-14 22:05:14+00:00
The usual chain of events is.

Broke -> Homeless -> Health Problems -> Abysmal long term care facility or hospice -> Dead.

A shocking percentage of the homeless people I see on the streets are very old. They are usually in terrible health and/or disabled. Social security minimums are no longer enough to cover rent, much less food and utilities. A lot of them are actively killing themselves with drugs and alcohol.

If you didn't get enough employment through your lifetime you can get checks for as little as $50/month. This is especially true of people who do a lot of under the table work like immigrants and people with criminal records.
by xienze | 2025-05-14 22:05:15+00:00
> I have heard that it's received wisdom that gamers complain that HDR modes are "too dark", so perhaps that's part of why they ruined their game's renderer.

A lot of people have cheap panels that claim HDR support (read: can display an HDR signal) but have garbage color space coverage, no local dimming, etc. and to them, HDR ends up looking muted.
by Havoc | 2025-05-14 22:05:42+00:00
No, I'm not. I'm looking at the 5 day average across fleet graph right at the bottom. That shows very roughly 2/3 drop from peak to lowest, while the 80% is from the text as fleet wide.

>whereas renting the server is about half that per hour.

If you're at capacity only 90 out of 730 a month then paying 2x for spot to cover those peaks is a slam dunk
by jobs_throwaway | 2025-05-14 22:05:43+00:00
As someone who vibe codes at times (and is a professional programmer), I'm curious how yall go about resisting this? Just avoid LLMs entirely and do everything by hand? Very rigorously go over any LLM-generated code before committing?

It certainly is hard when I'm say writing unit tests to avoid the temptation to throw it into Cursor and prompt until it works.
by sapphicsnail | 2025-05-14 22:05:54+00:00
This article got me thinking about the Iliad

> Le Guin wrote, is ‘a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were’.

I read the Iliad my first year of college and it was unlike anything I had read before. There aren't really good guys and bad guys in the traditional sense and the story is largely things happening to people and how they react to events. There's no protagonist. There's a bunch of characters and their feelings and experiences. A lot of most beautiful parts are little asides like Glaucon and Diomedes exchanging armor, Hector leaving his wife and child, and Helen talking to the old men of Troy as they watch a battle.
by fundaThree | 2025-05-14 22:06:22+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

I honestly have no clue what beef you have with me, or if you even disagree, but thanks for calling me cool.

> What was the reason she gave for not ratfucking it a second time?

Still waiting on an answer that it seems you might be capable of providing rather than acting like a dick
by mattl | 2025-05-14 22:06:26+00:00
> Why not Lazarus?

I've never heard of this or if I have, I don't remember it.

It's an open source IDE that's Delphi compatible. The author of the article is trying to make a Mac app.

* Downloads are from an ad-ridden SourceForge page.

* I download Lazarus I don't get a nice little Mac app... I get a folder full of stuff

* Starting the app, macOS tells me “lazarus” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

* On the project screenshots page, ReactOS is shown before macOS and macOS screenshots are from a while ago.

Contrast that experience with... VSCodium, the open source community version of VSCode.

* Download is from GitHub, no ads.

* Downloads a disk image with a familiar pattern

* Drag the VSCodium app bundle to my Applications folder

* I get prompted if I want to open it as it's something downloaded... and VSCodium opens (slowly at first) -- up pops a message saying I've downloaded the x86 version by mistake and I should download the ARM64 version and there's a link to do it... downloading the correct version and it opens instantly.

--

All of this to say... with any project, open source or proprietary there is a sense of native/correctly packaged for your OS that's obvious, and if a project doesn't do that I wonder if anyone is using it for that OS.
by cryptonector | 2025-05-14 22:06:33+00:00
> Land is a finite supply.

The human population of this planet is set to have big drops in the next 100 years, yet there will still be complaints like yours because the stock of housing will never far outstrip the stock of humans, as unoccupied housing will simply be demolished. We could have only 100 million humans and you'd still have this complaint. I just don't see how you can be made happy on this. Governments building housing doesn't change anything you said about the cost of building it. The market is building enough housing.

> No, that's not what I mean. I would recommend taking a basic econ course to understand jargon like "free good," "scarce good," and "rent." I won't fix that in a web post.

Terms you did not even use. Where is the misunderstanding? Or are you simply trying to be superior?

> I gave one link, which you clearly didn't bother to even click through.

To the Wealth of Nations. The paragraph you quoted applies to ownership via mortgages just as well as to rent (since having a mortgage is renting capital), but also it does not address supply at all. Nor do you address the assertion that we need a non-private provider.

But did Smith say anything like:

> And I think the government should provide very basic, minimal, Soviet-grade housing free to everyone.

or

> Personally, I think we should have all rent-extracting industries nationalized.

which you did?

Does basic economics -Adam Smith's no less!- say anything like this? What basic economics treatises other than socialist or communist ones say anything like this?

> https://xkcd.com/386/

Certainly you should not respond, nor should I, any further since it bothers you so much. But I do wonder if telling people they're wrong and then taking your ball home works well for you.
by yencabulator | 2025-05-14 22:07:06+00:00
Also running MINIX, and being physically separate? That's what you tried to quote as your proof.

And somehow this processor would also not be on the target list for Coreboot/Libreboot/Purism/Google people trying to de-ME their hardware?

Mr. Occam says I have very little reason to trust your recall/judgement, at this time.
by ramoz | 2025-05-14 22:09:45+00:00
I disagree with the idea that LLM providers are deliberately designing solutions to consume more tokens. We're in the early days of agentic coding, and the landscape is intensely competitive. Providers are focused on building highly capable systems to drive adoption, especially with open-source alternatives just a git clone away.

Yes, Claude Code can be token-heavy, but that's often a trade-off for their current level of capability compared to other options. Additionally, Claude Code has built-in levers for cost (I prefer they continue to focus on advanced capability, let pricing accessibility catch up).

"early days" means:

- Prompt engineering is still very much a required skill for better code and lower pricing

- Same with still needing to be an engineer for the same reasons, and:

- Devs need to actively guide these agents. This includes detailed planning, progress tracking, and careful context management – which, as the author notes, is more involved than many realize. I've personally found success using Gemini to create structured plans for Claude Code to execute, which helps manage its verbosity and focus to "thoughtful" execution (as guided by gemini). I drop entire codebases into Gemini (for free).
by crote | 2025-05-14 22:09:51+00:00
It works really well in quite a few other cities, actually.

Car infrastructure takes up a huge amount of space and is incredibly hostile to any kind of mixed use. Having near-zero cars means there is suddenly space available for an order of magnitude more pedestrians. It's why reducing car traffic almost always results in a significant increase in revenue for local shops and restaurants - which means more taxes are being paid.

Converting all of NYC into a huge pedestrian-only zone obviously isn't going to work, but having a few pedestrianized superblocks could greatly improve the quality-of-life.
by burkaman | 2025-05-14 22:09:57+00:00
I don't think it made sense either, especially because cutting the congestion pricing revenue last-second meant she had to start talking about raising taxes on the entire state instead, but that is the consensus on what she was thinking.

Here's an article about it, she hasn't admitted the election considerations so we can't know for sure: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/nyregion/hochul-congestio...
by whatevertrevor | 2025-05-14 22:10:27+00:00
But you also need to factor in their position in the situation right?

Like suppose they do hate their job. Do you expect them to speak that plainly and honestly to every candidate who asks "So how do you like working here?" and risk getting that posted to the front page of HN?

You're asking them to risk their own livelihood so you get a better signal for your own job search, that doesn't seem like a proportional trade to me.

Obviously I'm not advocating for complete opaqueness, but your interviewer is hardly ever in a good position to part with their true feelings towards questions like "How did I do compared to other candidates? How is it truly working here?"

I've basically almost always given direct and obvious non-answer to the first question: "I cannot tell you right now, because I'll need to write down and collate my thoughts. And I'm not allowed to share feedback directly, so your recruiter will be in touch with the feedback afterwards."
by brooke2k | 2025-05-14 22:11:26+00:00
I don't understand the productivity that people get out of these AI tools. I've tried it and I just can't get anything remotely worthwhile unless it's something very simple or something completely new being built from the ground up.

Like sure, I can ask claude to give me the barebones of a web service that does some simple task. Or a webpage with some information on it.

But any time I've tried to get AI services to help with bugfixing/feature development on a large, complex, potentially multi-language codebase, it's useless.

And those tasks are the ones that actually take up the majority of my time. On the occasion that I'm spinning a new thing up quickly, I don't really need an AI to do it for me -- I mean, that's the easy part!

Is there something I'm missing? Am I just not using it right? I keep seeing people talk about how addictive it is, how the productivity boost is insane, how all their code is now written by AI and then audited, and I just don't see how that's possible outside of really simple rote programming.
by seadan83 | 2025-05-14 22:12:34+00:00
> We were using English to communicate and English doesn't have the strict rules of mathematics.

Agree.

> He's right, "is" maps to "equivalent" but he's also wrong because "is" also maps to "subset" and several other things. "Is" is a surjection.

I agree. So, why can't either interpretation be valid? Perhaps, because one is obviously not true? Yet, it seemed like there was a clarification that the obviously not true relationship was the intended one!!!

Godelski previously wrote: "Coding IS math. Not "coding uses math".

I interpreted that clarification to mean you intended "is" to be a strict "is". Particularly given the other context and discussion of "is a" in other threads. I suspect now you were perhaps emphasizing "uses a" vs "is a", rather than "uses a" vs "is". Not a satisfying conclusion here. It would be a lot more interesting if the precision could have been there and had we been able to instead talk about whether all coding languages form an abstract algebra or not. Or perhaps use that line of reasoning to explain why all coding is a form of math. That would have been far more interesting..
by calsy | 2025-05-14 22:13:28+00:00
So many weird assumptions here.

How exactly is everything optimised with families in mind? Ask any parent and I'm sure they will tell you how unoptimised their life is.

Why does a single person with their own expendable income worry so much about being catered for specifically? Your only responsibility is to yourself. Do you look around and bemoan family specific services? It's such an odd thing to care about unless you had a grudge.

Kids aren't a 'lifestyle choice' like deciding to travel. Do I need to go into the reasons why kids are important or who will be paying to keep you alive when your older?
by caseyy | 2025-05-14 22:13:33+00:00
Many cities in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia have (or used to have) Marshrutki[0]. These mini-buses and passenger vans don't stop at bus stops but where they are flagged down. You press a button where you want to be let off.

I say some cities used to have them, not because they went out of fashion (though sometimes they did), but because a Marshrutka is a specific type of passenger van, usually an old one not subject to modern safety requirements for economic reasons. Many of the companies operating them have modernized, and they have low-floor accessible shuttle-style buses with air bags and seat belts, including for disabled people, but they still go their route, can be waved down to pick you up, and drop you off when you ask.

There has never been a similar mode of transport in any Western country I've lived in, though I have heard rumors, and apparently, some US states have/had jitneys. Norway may also have something similar in the western tourist towns, because I found buses drop you off where you ask. But perhaps it's a courtesy. UK companies have made some similar efforts[1]. Generally, such mini-buses are not needed in urban areas. But there are areas where either super quick travel from point A to point B is essential and walking to and from a bus stop is unacceptable (airport-rail links and similar), or where there isn't enough demand to run a proper bus service. These could benefit from a taxi bus approach.

Anyway, Marshrutki and their contemporary counterparts address all the issues you've listed.

P.S. The solution for scheduling is the free market. Operators compete for customers, flooding the streets[2] during relevant hours. There may be 20 uncoordinated mini-bus operators, but for the user, the overall experience is that they usually have to wait only a few minutes along the route before waving one down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshrutka

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-44614616

[2] https://www.alamy.com/fixed-route-taxi-minibuses-move-along-...
by mdeeks | 2025-05-14 22:13:44+00:00
Sometimes I do, but its eight times the cost and takes an extra 30 minutes each way. Ideally I would love to take public transportation. I love the idea of it, the economics, the traffic reduction, and the general social benefit. Unfortunately here it comes with some big negatives and they really wear you down after over a decade of it not really changing much.