MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WorldPeas | 2025-05-03 14:06:03+00:00
If Google were to sell something, would Android/Chromeos not be the move? So many independent companies derive from it and it's fair to say that it gives Google more of a monopoly advantage. In the United States, many schools are already Chromebook-only, and there's nothing more monopolistic than a device that is literally built to access the services of Alphabet (in drive/gsuite, chrome etc)
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-05-03 14:06:23+00:00
I tried using the AI assistant when it came out but seemingly was too stupid to figure out how to use it correctly. I tried to get it to write single functions or short blocks of code for me, but it would always start rewriting the whole file from scratch which was way too slow.

Has it gotten better since, or did I just do it wrong from the beginning?
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-03 14:07:01+00:00
I worked in GRC space for a while, which is where I finally realized the things I wrote above. Our product intended to give CISOs greater visibility into threats and their impacts, making it easy to engage in probabilistic forecasting to prioritize mitigations. Working on designing and building it made me see the field from the perspective of our customers, and from their POV, cyber-threats are all denominated in dollars, mitigating threats boils down to not having to pay corresponding dollars, and that it's often more effective to ensure someone else pays than to address the underlying technological or social vulnerability.
by terrib1e | 2025-05-03 14:07:06+00:00
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by riedel | 2025-05-03 14:07:21+00:00
My boss actually switched to wearing them all day dogfooding the thing (I work in the same lab: also as a disclosure). For a long time a downside was the audio, but the new version has a really nice driver and amazing DSP optimizations. The colleagues also conducted wearability studies and I also can confirm (having participated) that they are really walearable. Don't have the numbers but they are not really heavier than other in ears from my impression.
by Ingon | 2025-05-03 14:07:35+00:00
connet itself doesn't have a notion of public share at all - you need clients/peers on both ends (destination and source) to "project" a remote service. connet.dev do enhance this, by running the source clients publicly, but you need to specifically enable this, and it is best used as a break-glass option, since obviously makes things less-private.

In any case, zrok.io is cool, it is certainly more mature and feature rich project.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-05-03 14:08:56+00:00
>> Except it wasn't. Hannibal's retreating center was deliberate. As the Romans pushed deeper, Hannibal's stronger forces on the flanks held firm, then gradually enveloped the Roman formation. The Roman army found itself surrounded, packed so densely that many couldn't even raise their weapons. What followed was slaughter on an industrial scale.

It should be noted that this is the oldest trick in the book and not one of Hannibal Barca's innovations. Wikipedia cites the Battle of Marathon (490 BC, Greeks against Persian empire) and the Battle of Hydaspes (326 BC, Alexander the Macedon and the Greeks, except the Lacedemonians, against the Indian king Porus) as two examples predating Hannibal's victory at Cannae (216 BC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement

Wikipedia also cites a pincer maneouver mentioned in the epic Mahabharata, possibly mythological.

NB: the wikipedia article on the battle of Marathon casts doubt on the deliberate use of a pincer maneuver in Marathon, following from what I cant tell from a single source, the historian Lazenby who claims it was all just the result of the bravery of the Greek hoplites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon#Conclusions

To be honest, though I'm Greek, far from feeling flattered about the high morale of my ancestors I just find the explanation hard to believe.
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-05-03 14:10:59+00:00
There were only a few thousand people at 1/6. There are 40mm people in CA, just as an example. 300mm Americans are not going to bow down to a man who wants to be king.

People who think we'll end up in an armed conflict with some authoritarian enemy, watch too many movies and game too much. If there is a war, it will be financial and electronic. Americans call 911 when their internet goes down, they are not going to be led into a war against their fellow Americans let alone the world because of something like DEI or Juan the illegal. Instead, they'll rise up and take these billionaires and the politicians down.
by inglor_cz | 2025-05-03 14:11:37+00:00
I stand by my comparison to the Slavic nations of today.

Yeah, we have a lot of opinions of one another, yes we understand basic vocabulary of our cousins, though details in fine speech are another matter, yes, we are technically Christian, but still the political and societal difference between, say, Czechs and Russians is quite big.

As was the difference between the Spartans and the Athenians. Constitutionally, the poleis were all over the map, from outright tyrannies, through oligarchies and theocracies, to somewhat democratic states.
by vidarh | 2025-05-03 14:11:43+00:00
I've read plenty of theoretical computer science papers over the last 30+ years, and while some of it requires "rigorous and difficult mathematics" that is by no means universal.

I wrote my MSc thesis on the use of statistical methods for reducing error rates for OCR, and most of the papers in my literature review hardly required more than basic arithmetic and algebra.

So I stand by my statement.

Sure, there are subsets of computer science where you need more maths, just like in any field there are sub fields where you will need to understand other subjects as well, but that does not alter what I claimed.

EDIT:

Some authors are quicker to pull out the maths than others, and frankly in a lot of CS papers maths is used to obscure lack of rigor rather than to provide it. E.g the problem I ran across when writing my thesis was that once you unpacked the limited math into code you'd often reveal unstated assumptions that were less than obvious if you just read their formulas.
by caydenpiercehax | 2025-05-03 14:12:43+00:00
100% agree.

I've been building smart glasses for over 7 years. First 6 years were in academia because the tech wasn't ready yet, because they were too heavy and battery didn't last long enough.

But in the last year, all-day battery smart glasses have become lightweight enough to be worn all day (see Even Realities G1, Vuzix Z100, etc.).

I believe smart glasses are having their iPhone moment in 2025 + 2026.

We make the smart glasses OS that Kevin used in the video to make this smart glasses app: AugmentOS.org
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-03 14:13:07+00:00
Sheesh - why so touchy?!

Your response opened with addressing the headline, which anyone who had "RTFM" (RTFA) would have realized was unrelated to the body of the article. You then veered off into a tangent about the nature of math which again was not addressing the content of the article.

The underlying nature article, linked from the posted story, makes it even more clear what is being discussed, with the abstract stating:

> This experiment employed an individual differences approach to test the hypothesis that learning modern programming languages resembles second “natural” language learning in adulthood.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60661-8
by buran77 | 2025-05-03 14:13:19+00:00
> He was obviously forbidden to hang up on me

Plenty of big companies found a workaround. The "forever on hold" routine where they don't hang up, you will eventually. This works perfectly for toll free numbers (so you can't claim you had to pay for the call) and provides just the right amount of plausible deniability (took longer than expected to find an answer, it was an accident, etc.).

I have my suspicions that in some cases this also prevents the survey going out to the customer. All the more reason to abuse it.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-05-03 14:15:03+00:00
This is what happened with airfare in the States. The reason the government changed the rules recently to force airlines to include the fees for bags is because Southwest, who didn’t charge for bags at the time, operated at a major disadvantage because their prices were displayed alongside other airlines who had these hidden fees tacked on. If you ever wondered why you were not able to find Southwest’s flights on aggregators like Google flights until recently, that is why. Until that regulation went into play southwest prevented their engine to be used in aggregators for this exact reason.
by palata | 2025-05-03 14:15:19+00:00
> Copyright protects the expression of an idea. Not the idea.

Copyright laws were written before LLMs. Because a new technology can completely bypass the law doesn't mean that it is okay.

If I write a novel, I deserve credit for it and I deserve the right to sell it and to prevent somebody else from selling it in their name. If I was allowed to just copy any book and sell it, I could sell it for much cheaper because I didn't spend a year writing it. And the author would be screwed because people would buy my version (cheaper) and would possibly never even hear of the original author (say if my process of copying everything is good enough and I make a "Netflix of stolen books").

Now if I take the book, have it automatically translated by a program and sell it in my name, that's also illegal, right? Even though it may be harder to detect: say I translate a Spanish book to Mandarin, someone would need to realise that I "stole" the Spanish book. But we wouldn't want this to be legal, would we?

An LLM does that in a way that is much harder to detect. In the era of LLMs, if I write a technical blog, nobody will ever see it because they will get the information from the LLM that trained on my blog. If I open source code, nobody will ever see it if they can just ask their LLM to write an entire program that does the same thing. But chances are that the LLM couldn't have done it without having trained on my code. So the LLM is "stealing" my work.

You could say "the solution is to not open source anything", but that's not enough: art (movie, books, paintings, ...) fundamentally has to be shown and can therefore be trained on. LLMs bring us towards a point where open source, source available or proprietary, none of those concepts will matter: if you manage to train your LLM on that code (even proprietary code that was illegally leaked), you'll have essentially stolen it in a way that may be impossible to detect.

How in the world does it sound like it is a desirable future?
by gorjusborg | 2025-05-03 14:15:55+00:00
> lost with a poor grasp of desired business outcomes so they procrastinate by adding complexity

I have come to see this as a mix of business people and developers not doing their jobs to protect thier paycheck. Business people, if they want to succeed, need to be converging on a strategy that makes money. Developers need to have a strategy for removing technical barriers to realizing that strategy. The lack of a business strategy often makes an overly general technical platform look attractive.

> focusing on the tech as if it were the destination

So common. Complexity should be considered the enemy, not an old friend.
by watwut | 2025-05-03 14:16:14+00:00
In real world, that stuff happens to innocent people, to people guilty of completely different or lesser crimes and cops get out a lot of false claiks they use against whoever they dislike.In real world, it happens as a power trip with no saving factor.

In real world, it happens to cover up crimes cop did themselves or to facilitate them.

That is where the lie is.
by anshumankmr | 2025-05-03 14:16:16+00:00
Cannot comment on swift but I presume training data for it might be less avaialble online. Whereas Python, what I use and in my anecdotal experience, it can produce quite decent code, and some sparks of brilliance here and there. But I use it for boilerplate code I find boring, not the core stuff. I would say as time progresses and these models get more data it may help with Swift too (though this issue may take a while cause I remember a convo with another person online who said the swift code GPT3.5 produced was bad, referencing libraries that did not exist.)
by toast0 | 2025-05-03 14:16:37+00:00
In my experience, the DMV (or whatever its called) likes to see you in person for license renewals every so often. Get a new photo, make sure you can see the eye chart.

I've always gone into the DMV when I purchased a vehicle from a private party. In California, it has taken me a couple visits; the first visit with the title and sale documentation, the second with the emissions test documentation that the seller was legally suppossed to provide at the time of the sale but practically, the buyer must provide to register the vehicle. Maybe you can do this by mail, but if you do it in person, you walk out with documents so you can legally drive the car. If you buy a car from a dealer, they take care of this paperwork for you, which used to mean having someone stand in line at the DMV and process a bunch of transactions, but now they can typically do it electronically.

If you move to another state, you need to get a new license and retitle and reregister your car; this usually happens in person, and most states have a requirement to do it in under a month. If your car has a loan, expect multiple trips to get it registered... the first trip will let you know what you need from the finance company; the second will bring that back and get registration; then when you eventually pay off the loan and get the title, you'll need to bring that in so you can get the title issued in your current state.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-03 14:16:59+00:00
> Austin, Texas built a lot of apartments and then rents fell 22%.

This is false. Just look at the chart [1]. All that's happened is some of the pandemic price gouging, something landlords were being sued over [2].

We simply cannot capitalism our way out of this problem.

> i think that the claim that "supply and demand do not apply to housing"

Where did I say that?

Speaking more generally, the idea of a "free market" is a myth, particularly for housing. It's one of the most manipulated and politicized markets there is.

But supply and demand do apply and it has been a political goal for decades to ensure that supply will be constrained.

[1]: https://www.kut.org/austin/2024-06-13/austin-texas-rent-pric...

[2]: https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2025/01/u-s-accuses-si...
by UncleMeat | 2025-05-03 14:17:10+00:00
There is a direct connection.

Antonin Scalia was one of the architects of substantial limitations on the 8th amendment and was a key figure in a number of cases specifically about extraordinary rendition and "enhanced interrogation."

Scalia has multiple times in public referenced Jack Bauer as an argument for why prohibitions on torture are unworkable. At a panel on the very topic, Scalia responded to "Thankfully, security agencies in all our countries do not subscribe to the mantra 'What would Jack Bauer do?'" with "Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles" and "are you going to convict Jack Bauer?"
by trod1234 | 2025-05-03 14:17:12+00:00
People have no idea what's coming because people in general haven't been kept up to date on the state of the art of subjects like thought reform, malign influence, coercion, or torture.

As such they often hold opinions that are not based in fact on reality, and instead are based on false belief making them even more susceptible.

Can people even be people if they lack rationality? Human's are much more closer to animals when those people cannot use reason.
by macNchz | 2025-05-03 14:17:31+00:00
Having been on both sides of this—working behind a counter and answering phones at various jobs long ago, and being someone who often surprises family and friends with my ability to extract good outcomes from customer service—I think it’s somewhat of a misconception that being as unpleasant as possible is actually effective at getting results.

I fully understand that the godawful CS mazes many companies set up wind up pushing people in that direction, and that it feels like the only option, but I believe quite strongly that being patient and polite but persistent winds up being much more effective than being unpleasant.

As a small case in point: I worked summers in a tiny ice cream shop, most of the time solo. The shop had a small bathroom for employees only—it was through a food prep area where customers were not allowed by health code. I had some leeway to let people back there as it was pretty low-risk, and I would in the evenings when no other businesses were open, or if a little kid was having an emergency. People who were unpleasant from the get-go when placing their order, however, were simply told we had no bathroom at all. People who started shouting when I told them I wasn’t supposed to let people back there (not uncommon!) and suggested a nearby business were never granted exceptions.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-05-03 14:17:35+00:00
I see nothing like that in my browser, probably needs an annoying dependency or something for what they're calling "LoFi".

As a substitute, a good equivalent might simply be old-fashioned movie vignettes from times before wide-screen dimensions and high resolutions were common, plus without color, in only black & white it should be LoFi by any measure.

No way that "Three" would be enough Stooges to be comparable by far though ;)
by Hilift | 2025-05-03 14:18:22+00:00
Check out the story on Block 216 in Portland. A well known local developer sunk a lot of his own money into the development of an upscale hotel/residences. The result? The new, finished development is valued at $415 million, however the loan debt is $510 million. And of course it isn't generating any tax revenue for the city, which has about $100 million budget deficit, recently announced cuts in services.

San Francisco collected $522 million in real estate transfer property tax in 2022. This year will be less than half that.

The inflationary rebound after the pandemic and lower than normal interest rates created an artificial market that otherwise may not have existed.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/04/tower-anchored-b...

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/04/at-troubled-port...

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2025/05/02/portland-city-lea...
by sigwinch | 2025-05-03 14:19:01+00:00
Kind of a naive story, when

> Complicating matters more is the fact that many of the precursor chemicals are also used to make legal pharmaceutical drugs.

I suppose producers often need workarounds because every year some yet-legal precursors are found in drug labs.

So maybe China should go one step further. Start talking about R-30490, Ohmefentanyl, and other related drugs. Maybe strike a deal with Russia to ban its manufacture of 3-methylfentanyl.
by Jun8 | 2025-05-03 14:19:23+00:00
“Oscar: Irina, you know that Steve is bionic. If he's careful ...

Irina: You don't understand. I designed that probe for Venus. Venus Oscar. A planet with temperatures of 900 degrees, 300 mile per hour winds, pressures up to 90 earth atmospheres. Even a bionic man couldn't survive under those conditions.”
Tell HN: Incorporated my software company today
by namanyayg | 2025-05-03 14:19:37+00:00
Incorporated a Delaware C-Corp for my SaaS business today.

You've always been the best source for honest, detailed advice about startups and tech. I come to HN every day and learn so much.

I wouldn't have dreamed of being a founder without HN and PG.

Thank you for making this dream possible.
by the_af | 2025-05-03 14:19:58+00:00
There are many documented and studied cases where orders to carry out massacres which were disobeyed carried no harm to the German who refused.

Mostly demotion or transfer to a different area, but no execution or jail time. Sometimes not even that.

I'm talking about not taking part in massacres (e.g. shooting unarmed women and children, locking people in a barn and setting it on fire, etc), not about refusing to fight, cowardice, aiding the enemy or actual treason.
by Retric | 2025-05-03 14:20:12+00:00
The article fees disingenuous, flat panels collect the maximum sunlight from a given area of land and require fewer panels than the arrangement shown. Angling them helps the rain wash them and reduces the amount of mounting brackets unless you’re laying panels flat on the ground. Similarly total KW over the day isn’t why tracking mounts are so common instead it’s the increased value of electricity in the mornings and evenings so the actual economic benefits != total kWh.

However, the bit where it’s talking about increasing the angle means creating gaps between panels or the shadowing is going to offset any gains while also requiring far more panels and more land at which point you might as just angle the panels based on latitude.
by n4r9 | 2025-05-03 14:20:28+00:00
> You don’t need to explicitly tell jj about what you’ve done in your working copy, it’s already tracked. This removes the need for an “index” or staging area

Does this mean that you have to proactively remember and undo any config file changes you made e.g. while fixing an issue in a test environment? Sounds a little risky.
by werrett | 2025-05-03 14:20:56+00:00
This is the ultimate nihilistic take on security.

Yes, 'cyber' security has devolved to box checking and cargo culting in many orgs. But what's your counter on trying to fix the problems that every tech stack or new SaaS product comes without of the box?

For most people when their Netflix (or HN) password gets leaked that means every email they've sent since 2004 is also exposed. It might also mean their 401k is siphoned off. So welcome the annoying and checkbox-y MFA requirements.

If you're an engineer cutting code for a YC startup -- Who owns the dependancy you just pulled in? Are you or your team going to track changes (and security bugs) for it in 6 months? What about in 2 or 3 years?

Yes, 'cyber' security brings a lot of annoying checkboxes. But almost all of them are due to externalities that you'd happily blow past otherwise. So -- how do we get rid annoying checkboxes and ensure people do the right thing as a matter of course?
by dahart | 2025-05-03 14:21:05+00:00
How do you think wealth works? Regardless of your political stance or economic beliefs, that doesn’t seem like a very informed or thoughtful summary of Marx, who I assume is who the parent comment was referring to, and was one of the more influential economists of all time. Have you read Marx? He might have thought and written about wealth more than both you and me. FWIW he didn’t argue that wealth somehow exists, he argued that for business owners, wealth stems from the discrepancy between what laborers are paid and what their employers collect. He went much further than that, but that much is technically true, right?
by zelphirkalt | 2025-05-03 14:22:57+00:00
The extreme focus on multiple layers of patterns, where actually a simple function would have sufficed IS a Java ecosystem and culture thing. Just way too many people doing Java, who have never learned another language or ecosystem, let alone paradigm, thinking "I learned Java, Java can do everything, I don't need to learn anything else!" and now feeling they need to solve every problem by applying design patterns mindlessly.