MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by techpineapple | 2025-05-08 14:16:35+00:00
I think the problem is bigger than Elon Musk, though Elon Musk is responsible for adding fuel to the fire.

It’s this political culture where you’re either with us or against us, and part of being with us is not questioning the details.

Yes I’m corrupt, but I’m corrupt in a way that ultimately aligns with you’re values, and if you question any of that, maybe you’ll get the other guy who doesn’t.

It’s a game theory where I can say I’m right because I’m on your side and the actual details of my values/virtues don’t matter. It’s designed to be divisive.
by tppiotrowski | 2025-05-08 14:16:38+00:00
Planting trees is hard. Phoenix AZ has a tree planting program called the Shade Phoenix Plan and they publish public reports.

Watering and maintenance are a big cost. Iirc it's about $1000 to plant a tree. $100 for the tree and $900 for the irrigation and labor to plant it. In the first 10 years of the program 2/3 of the 106,000 planted trees were removed due to accidents, storms, not enough water/aging. [1]

[1] https://www.phoenix.gov/content/dam/phoenix/heatsite/documen...
by incomingpain | 2025-05-08 14:16:50+00:00
Name me a billionaire that doesnt have a group of haters.

Warren Buffet is generally loved, but he did earn his wealth in ways that would be extremely illegal to do today; and his investment strategy today has more to do with investing in monopolies or businesses that dont actually do anything like insurance.

The billionaires who arent hated are only that way because they gave away their wealth; so by not being a billionaire anymore. Bill gates will have to give away all his wealth in order to become loved. His genuinely good initiatives that improve the health of the world in meaningful ways is never going to be enough.

Elon on the otherhand is an idea guy. He looks at the year 2100 and asks himself, what will be different? Colony on mars? Fine i'll be the one to do it. Only making things worse.

What i hope is elon follows through with his automation. He might be able to pull through enough automation that people wont have to work and we go back to making beautiful things.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-05-08 14:17:10+00:00
I had an Apple][+ back in the day. You have to understand that the Apple][ predates what we think of as 8-bit computers by a few years and the fact it was cheap enough to mass produce was a minor miracle. Corners were cut everywhere, the Apple][+ didn't even have lowercase letters, a way to detect key up events, or a sensible frame buffer in hires mode.

In its defense, it also predates a lot of what we take for granted. The idea that a game might want to scroll smoothly or update at 50/60 FPS without flickering just didn't occur to people in 1979.
by SpaceCoaster | 2025-05-08 14:17:11+00:00
US manufacturers response to 25% tariffs on washing machines was to raise their prices by exactly 25%. $80 million was collected in tariffs, $2 billion was paid by US consumers in increased prices. Increased prices caused a reduction in units sold. US manufacturers increased profits on reduced sales led them to close plants, lay people off and fund share buybacks. Chinese manufacturers avoided the tariffs by moving production to Vietnam and increasing US prices. Net result, higher prices and reduced employment.
by b112 | 2025-05-08 14:17:45+00:00
Social engineering hacks are the primary hack. If you're not familiar with them, you aren't security conscious.

SIM card swaps have been reportedly repeatedly, as being a social engineering hack. Often the exchange has been done via gift cards or crypto. More than one such hack resulted in millions being stolen.

Your attack dog response is quite unwarranted. Why are you so upset at a generic comment, indicating that fraudulent identity verification can be done on both ends?

Do you imagine that university admissions employees are perfect, uncorruptible? Is this some weird, US political minefield?
by danielvaughn | 2025-05-08 14:18:56+00:00
I’ve been on a similar journey, and I haven’t found any good resources.

Much of the low-density trend can be traced back to Tailwind. I love the library, but I do find it frustrating that pretty much all designers lean towards low-density by default.

The problem is that it only works well for casual/consumer applications. Once you start building for professional, productivity-driven products, you need density.

One shining example I can think of is: https://usgraphics.com/
by HDThoreaun | 2025-05-08 14:19:06+00:00
Portland and oregon more generally is nowhere close to the top in terms of percentage of residents who are poor immigrants. Even if it is the immigrants bringing down scores(my experience in k-12 was that the immigrants were the hardest workers and even though they had a lot of responsibilities/struggles to overcome they were never the worst performers) why is oregon worse than areas with more of them?
by deanmoriarty | 2025-05-08 14:19:32+00:00
Every time I start doing some network packet-based troubleshooting, for example firing up tcpdump to debug a tcp window size improperly tuned that caused a performance degradation over a high latency link (this is a random example I did last week), coworkers look at me like I pulled off some sort of wizardry. I feel it’s knowledge that most SWEs working on distributed systems should have acquired early and routinely use, but clearly that’s not the case.
by mdaniel | 2025-05-08 14:19:36+00:00
I spent a few seconds clicking into it before the newfound 429 responses from GitHub caused me to lose interest

I believe a sufficiently sophisticated attacker could unwind the netfilter and DNS change, but in my experience every action that you're taking during a blind attack is one more opportunity for things to go off the rails. The increased instructions (especially ones referencing netfilter and DNS changes) also could make it harder to smuggle in via an obfuscated code change (assuming that's the attack vector)

That's a lot of words to say that this approach could be better than nothing, but one will want to weigh its gains against the onoz of having to keep its allowlist rules up to date in your supply chain landscape
by fooblaster | 2025-05-08 14:19:40+00:00
I wish the author would have done the due diligence of questioning why his data might not have the full story.

- Looking at income without looking at working hours can mask the fact that working more hours looks like income growth at the expense of quality of life.

- where is this money going? Housing spending apparently has not grown, but are these same workers building equity or renting?

- what amount of income is spent on healthcare vs 50 years ago?

- Other quality of life factors? What are low income workers actually getting with their increased wages?

- Is the way with which we characterize inflation giving an incomplete picture of the experience of all income classes (the rich and the poor don't buy the same things, and prices don't shift evenly)
by david927 | 2025-05-08 14:19:51+00:00
> Universities should be looking at more and discouraging 1 dimensional applicants

They really, really do. Admission to top universities has become hyper competitive. They're getting tens of thousands of highly qualified applicants with perfect GPAs and great SAT scores. So what they're looking at is more, "Will admission to this university help them to do something special?" or is admission the end goal for the student. And one way to see that is if the applicant is well-rounded and explorative. Are they setting creative fires everywhere they go?
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-08 14:19:58+00:00
It being difficult to grow trees that provide good in phoenix is literally the nick cake "you don't say" meme.

Expecting something like that work without questionable degree of investment to make some tree work survive of its element is contradictory to all the adaptations that make plant life suitable for arid climates (i.e not providing a ton of area to the sun relative to their mass).
by dgb23 | 2025-05-08 14:20:44+00:00
It's not just school. There are a lot pieces of literature, tutorials/guides, discussions, papers I came across over the years that tell you something very useful _plus_ wrap everything either into OO (or sometimes FP) noise and treat this part as just as important. Often there are vague rationales sprinkled in without much backing.

So you get interfaces that are much bigger than they need to be, visitor pattern this, manager that. As someone who isn't used to OO it is sometimes difficult or cumbersome to compile these kinds of examples and explanations into its essence.

I also noticed that AI assistants often want to blow up every interface with a whole bunch of useless stuff like getter/setter style functions and the like. That's obviously not the fault of these assistants, but I think it's something to consider.
by jzb | 2025-05-08 14:21:49+00:00
The same reason I hate cancer. Musk is a threat to me and people I care about. His DOGE bullshit will, if it hasn't already, result in harm and deaths of people who have received assistance or support from programs in the U.S. and abroad.

My question is why this is even a question, and why should Musk care if I hate him? He's gone on record as saying that empathy is a weakness. Fine, I'll compromise -- if Musk wants a world without empathy, then I see no reason to extend any to him.

He's a petulant man-child who has more resources than millions of people combined, but somehow is not satisfied with that and wants to spend his time and resources making the world significantly worse. His companies receive huge amounts of money from government contracts, but he hypocritically targets government spending that benefits other people.

Plus... I'm just fucking sick of hearing about him. It's damn near impossible to go a day without reading about him and seeing his face. I didn't care much for several presidents in my lifetime, but you could go a few days without them being in the headlines from time to time. Not Musk. Every. Damn. Day.

Sorry, was this a rhetorical question? I could go on...
by Goronmon | 2025-05-08 14:22:10+00:00
Originally yes, but now this is a complaint forum for pessimistic big tech worker bees to vent their frustrations while never actually having to invest time, money or effort on actually doing anything.

I don't know, going back years ago, if anything it would have been YC figuring how to push ads/bloatware. It would have just been more subtle about the phrasing and meaning behind what was trying to be accomplished, but the underlying 'value extraction' stories were still there.

The "entrepreneur" aspect of YC generally was about "enshittification" before that word became more used.
by nucleardog | 2025-05-08 14:23:06+00:00
> It's bananas. Or astroturf.

Hi, it's me, a Banana. I promise I'm a real life human being though and not being paid by anyone relevant to this.

The way Apple has set this up is generally preferentially friendly to consumers over developers. Since I'm a consumer in this situation, not a developer, that benefits me.

The developers put up with it because that's the only way to access Apple's customer base. Presumably if we remove that requirement and allow them to do less consumer-friendly things that are more profitable they will choose to do so. Since I'm a consumer in this situation, not a developer, that does not benefit me.

So yes, even if I had to pay Apple's fee, I see an extra $2-4/mo as a rounding error on some service for a $1500 device and don't mind paying it to have the 800 pound gorilla going to bat for me. I have never have to deal with confusing or misleading subscriptions, length unsubscribe processes full of dark patterns, "oops we forgot", terrible customer support, or anything else.

I'm happy for this to be a choice, but I'm worried it _won't_ be a choice--developers will switch off on to other payment providers and abandon Apple's subscriptions/payments. I'd be fully behind this if it were a requirement that you had to _also_ offer subscription through Apple, even at some sort of premium.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-05-08 14:23:14+00:00
> While we have millions of LOCs to train models on, we don’t have that for ASTs

Agreed, but that could be generated if it made a big difference.

I do completely take your points around the instability of the AST and the length, those are important facets to this question.

However, what I (and probably others) want is something much, much simpler. Merely (I love not having to implement this so I can use this word ;) ) check the code with the completion done (so what the AI proposes) and weight down completions that increase the number of issues found from the type-checking/linting/lsp process.

Honestly, just killing the ones that don't parse properly would be very helpful (I've noticed that both Copilot and the DBX completers are particularly bad at this one).
by EnPissant | 2025-05-08 14:23:35+00:00
That’s not true about wireless speakers. Compressed audio that is indistinguishable from any loseless format is very small, and even if you compress beyond that, it is really hard to tell. Speakers and room acoustics dominate.

Most people don’t have theater rooms, and they don’t want their living room to look like one.

Most people who hear a Samsung q990x series soundbar are super excited too. I think you overestimate how much better a dedicated speaker setup is, especially if we are talking 5.1.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-08 14:24:35+00:00
I think it would be interesting to explore the barriers to extending escrow and IVV to smaller and smaller transactions. The parent post mentions gig workers.

At the extreme, you dont need escrow for a burger delivery because you already have coverage from multiple companies that will simply eat the charge as a cost business, namely the retailer and your credit card.

As you point out, cost of verification is a major issue. Often times the customer cant even tell what a proper deliverable is, so how does a 3rd party. I wonder if there is a class of larger transactions where efficient verification is possible.
by dudefeliciano | 2025-05-08 14:24:44+00:00
I don't think it's about love vs hate. There are plenty of billionaires who are neither loved nor hated, simply because they do not try to be in the spotlight. Elon, by virtue of being the marketing arm of Tesla and his other endeavors, needs to be in the spotlight. Well at least it used to be like that, seems that now it would be better for his companies stock prices if he disappeared for a while.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-08 14:25:04+00:00
The main challenge isn't necessarily implementing the algorithms, it is keeping up with the security space

Do you expect your team to be keeping up with new exploits in hardware and networking that might compromise your auth? That takes a lot of expertise and time, which they could instead be spending building features that add business value

It sounds cynical, and it kind of is, but offloading this onto external experts makes way more business sense and probably is what allows you to deliver at all. Security is just too big a space for every software company to have experts on staff to handle
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-08 14:25:38+00:00
>many people would rather work on making things with their hands that they can physically see, rather than pushing numbers around on a spreadsheet.

So why aren't they making bank in the trades? Why aren't they learning a craft? Why instead are they yelling that we should start digging coal again, an economically nonsensical thing to do? Nobody wants to buy coal, not even the people who happily buy oil and natural gas.

Welders make good money. Plumbers are essential workers who literally keep shit flowing. Parts of my family work in construction, forestry, trucking, general contracting, all classic machismo jobs that pay well for effort and experience. All essential industries. All in constant need of more workers.

The main problem seems to be that even the good "low education" jobs still require you to move to where people are. There are no jobs in dying towns because there is no economic activity in rural towns when the main income source is welfare.
by tppiotrowski | 2025-05-08 14:26:16+00:00
Fair. I used Phoenix because it's the only published city shading plan I've come across. It could just be that arid/hot climates are the places trees are needed. The study linked was in Houston, Texas.

The Phoenix report is valuable because it provides lessons that should be avoided going forward: change the laws so property owners are not liable if a tree outside their business hurts someone, don't plant a tree if you can't irrigate it, work with local residents to plant and water trees to save on labor and increase success, etc.

If there's other municipal shade reports I'd love to read them. Helping people find shade is what I do for a living. [1]

[1] shademap.app
by kalleboo | 2025-05-08 14:26:37+00:00
Bullshit. "Notiarization" for iOS apps in the EU is just App Review by another name, completely different from the automated Notarization they originally introduced for macOS apps.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/03/17/ios-notarizations-human-r... https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/06/14/utm-blocked-outside-app-s...

"have it evaluated based on the Notarization Review Guidelines (a subset of the App Review Guidelines)" https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/distribut...
by perihelions | 2025-05-08 14:26:57+00:00
Here's a better article:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/google_signs_another_...

> "Elementl didn't respond to questions by press time. Its public materials offer little clarity on its actual operations—aside from broad claims about providing "turn-key project development, financing and ownership solutions customized to meet our customers' needs while mitigating risks and maximizing benefit."

> "The nuclear developer, founded in 2022, presents itself as a facilitator of advanced reactor projects. But it has not built any reactors to date and describes itself as a "technology-agnostic nuclear power developer and independent power producer," signaling it does not back any specific reactor design."

> "This approach aligns with the background of Elementl's CEO and chairman, Christopher Colbert, who previously served as CFO, COO, and chief strategy officer at NuScale Power."
by financetechbro | 2025-05-08 14:27:24+00:00
This comment feels disingenuous. Peptides were first synthesized in the 80s and we have been providing peptide drugs to diabetes patients since the 2000s. So this “experiment in semi-free-market medicine” in which “there have been no more side effects than any other medication” is built on the back of 20yrs of research + 20yrs of commercial use.

To me it seems like quoted comment is trying to make a case for the deregulation in healthcare. Which is 1) a slippery slope and 2) not supported by the example they provided. It’s just a whole lot of libertarian vaporware
by bob1029 | 2025-05-08 14:27:34+00:00
> By default, the Workflow Token Permissions were set to read-write prior to February 2023. For security reasons, it's crucial to set this to read-only. Write permissions allow Workflows to inadvertently or maliciously modify your repository and its data, making least-privilege crucial.

> Double-check to ensure this permission is set correctly to read-only in your repository settings.

It sounds to me like the most secure GH Action is one that doesn't need to exist in the first place. Any time the security model gets this complicated you can rest assured that it is going to burn someone. Refer to Amazon S3's byzantine configuration model if you need additional evidence of this.
by aiquant | 2025-05-08 14:27:48+00:00
actually this is something we have been working on for a few months, with a high degree of success. the problem is there is no "standard" for how these tools determine these issues. We have just 5 more companies that are working on fixing their incorrect flags and these alerts should be resolved: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/7615ba9e0626b60d6252dc93e...
by anton-c | 2025-05-08 14:29:03+00:00
When non-tech people(ie my folks) set one up, you end up with the 3 remote thing for a cable box, receiver, and streaming stuff. It's real wild - I just let them turn stuff on when I'm over there.

I do audio work but they took my brothers recommendation on the home theater so I'm a bit 'you made your bed' about it haha.
by ebfe1 | 2025-05-08 14:29:13+00:00
After tj-actions hack, I put together a little tool to go through all of github actions in repository to replace them with commit hash of the version

https://github.com/santrancisco/pmw

It has a few "features" which allowed me to go through a repository quickly:

- It prompts user and recommend the hash, it also provides user the url to the current tag/action to double check the hash value matches and review the code if needed

- Once you accept a change, it will keep that in a json file so future exact vesion of the action will be pinned as well and won't be reprompted.

- It let you also ignore version tag for github actions coming from well-known, reputational organisation (like "actions" belong to github) - as you may want to keep updating them so you receive hotfix if something not backward compatible or security fixes.

This way i have full control of what to pin and what not and then this config file is stored in .github folder so i can go back, rerun it again and repin everything.
by mullingitover | 2025-05-08 14:29:22+00:00
Related, the impact dashboard showing the number of projected deaths from Musk's gutting of US international aid programs[1].

The deaths he will cause from the cessation of tuberculosis aid alone, by 2030, would make Pol Pot blush.

[1] https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=fund...
by akomtu | 2025-05-08 14:29:57+00:00
That's how AI is going to fuse countries together. People will be gradually outsourcing various functions of their governments to a few AIs, until one day they will realise that nearly everything on the planet is managed by AI, using the same principles. National govs will become a fiction at this point. Problem is, this process won't stop there. AI will be given the right to monitor and manage human behavior, in the name of safety, of course, and those who disagree to hand their will to AI like that will be declared enemies of the people and will be reeducated with very creative methods. It will be a perfect inhuman civilization with the AI as its king.
by Eramdam | 2025-05-08 14:30:06+00:00
(Mac Themes Garden author here) Yes, Martha Royer is the one name I kept seeing when recording the themes (and I'm not fully done yet!) and the diversity of her creations was stunning to see. If I remember what I read from README files she left in her archives correctly, she made over 300 of these! (Website currently has ~200, hopefully by EOY I'll be done recording everything).

There are quite a few NeXT-inspired ones but I can't judge if they use the actual assets or not https://macthemes.garden/search/?q=next&page=1
by reidbarber | 2025-05-08 14:30:30+00:00
My current favorite (and free) workflow:

1. Drop project files into https://files2prompt.com to copy a prompt with all file contents

2. Paste into https://aistudio.google.com/ and set a low (or 0) temperature and low top_p

Since Gemini 2.5 Pro is free in AI Studio at the moment, and there's a 1M token limit, this works for most things I need. Cursor is better in some cases where I need a bunch of small edits across a bunch of different files.
by thih9 | 2025-05-08 14:30:46+00:00
Programs used by pro creatives. Some people regularly spend 8h/day using a single such product as their primary work tool.

E.g. pro desktop versions of photo, print, video, sound, etc editing software usually feature good UX and high information density.

One well known example of that is Blender - here is a chapter from their manual about its user interface: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/interface/window_s...