MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by emptysongglass | 2025-05-29 10:29:01+00:00
Buddhism as an organized religion is opposed to warfare. That is the mainstream and majority view and practice. It derives its legitimacy from the Buddhist suttas. The First Precept — "I undertake the precept to refrain from taking life" — is universal across Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna traditions.

Nationalistic deviations exist, have existed and will likely continue to emerge. These are Buddhist in name only — political appropriations of a tradition that fundamentally rejects violence.

The Buddha's teachings are available to anyone, can be practiced by anyone, and are unbound by culture, nation, or ethnicity.

> The ocean doesn’t accommodate a carcass, but quickly carries it to the shore and strands it on the beach. In the same way, the Sangha doesn’t accommodate a person who is unethical, of bad qualities, filthy, with suspicious behavior, underhand, no true ascetic or spiritual practitioner—though claiming to be one—rotten inside, festering, and depraved. But they quickly gather and expel them. Even if such a person is sitting in the middle of the Sangha, they’re far from the Sangha, and the Sangha is far from them.

— Anguttara Nikāya 8.19

What is it to be unethical? The First Precept, which prohibits the taking of life, is the first qualification of an ethical person and the first qualification to be a member of the Sangha: the community of Buddhist practitioners that includes laypeople, monks and nuns.

You continue to play a game of qualifying Buddhism under what cannot be qualified. When pressed for first-party sources justifying violence in Buddhism, you come up empty-handed and instead return to nationalistic violence flown under a false flag that is an abomination to Buddhism. You go on to then state that a majority of organized Buddhist faith allows for warfare and violence, which is false. It simply is not true that a majority of Buddhist denominations agree that warfare and violence are acceptable means of conduct.
by dd_xplore | 2025-05-29 10:29:23+00:00
I have been trying to setup ultra low cost rdp clients program for schools using RPi Zero 2w.

This is mostly a hobby/community help project. Majority of schools in my area are either not required with computers or they have lots of older ones with no funding to maintain our modernize them.

I'm trying to setup everything within VPN (either wireguard or tailscale). I'll most probably go with tailscale so I can use the subnet router.

The zero would would run the older RPiOS (32 bit) and would autostart a rdp session using xrdp client. It's pretty usable for mostly static work that students need in schools.

Each RPi unit would cost around ₹2500 ($29) which includes all the adaptors, power supply, sdcard etc.

On the server side I'm running two Ubuntu server OS VMs (inside proxmox) configured with XFCE4 and KDE.

The work is still in progress, I'm yet to iron out major bugs.
by DavidPiper | 2025-05-29 10:29:34+00:00
> but the work they did did not go away

I'm forming an opinion that this exact problem is actually THE problem that people keep ignoring because it is compensated for by the burnout of people who care.

We talk a lot about enshitiffication. But we also build tools that do the work of a human specialist at (say) 85% of the quality of a human specialist (much faster and much more cheaply, that is the point).

These tools operate with or without time and effort from another non-specialist person. In the case that another human needs to do SOME work they didn't have to previously, this is effectively the definition of overwork in the presence of the same expectations.

This other person must now be the executor of whatever that work is because hiring a specialist in that area does not make financial sense.

And so gradually we erode the quality of all the intersectional work 15% (for example) at a time, while adding a small amount of work to the remaining (fewer) people.

Now maybe we can build a tool that is 99.9% the quality of a human for negligible cost. But it still doesn't take very many multiplications of 99.9% with itself to end up with shit.
by mrkramer | 2025-05-29 10:31:00+00:00
Modern AI started with NLP, computer vision and speech recognition and it was expected as chips get more powerful and faster, that software and AI people would figure how to utilize the massive new computing capabilities. My prediction would've been early 2010s for something like LLMs to occur but I guess I am too optimistic. And probably if it wasn't for Google and their enormous spending on R&D we would see LLMs not in early 2020s but in early 2030s.
by miki123211 | 2025-05-29 10:31:23+00:00
Poland adopted parcel lockers on a massive scale, and they mostly solve that problem. It's such a good idea; I'm really surprised other countries haven't followed suit.

They're absolutely everywhere. Your tiny village might not have a grocery store, a school or an ATM, but it probably has a locker. Where my parents live (a village of ~2000 people), they have three. The vast majority of people have at least one in walking distance.

Before they became so popular, we used to do sign-on-delivery, leaving mail on your doorstep didn't become a thing here until covid. This made mail much harder to steal, but required you either to have somebody who would stay home all day, or to hunt down which neighbor got your package for you.
by neepi | 2025-05-29 10:33:49+00:00
I find it quite amusing. A couple of years back a good friend of mine went to Everest basecamp. That wasn't even the summit. So they have WiFi up there now and I get a message from her. The message was "made it" with a selfie attached where she actually looked like she hated her entire existence and wondered what the hell she was doing with her life. It was visibly rammed and apparently it smelled of human shit.

Expensive way to have a bad time.
by eviks | 2025-05-29 10:34:12+00:00
Evil mode is not that default, so it's a no (besides, vim defaults are also bad, so even then it wouldn't be incorporating the best idea)

> it could but no one who uses Emacs is asking for it.

That would be impossible for no one to ask for better defaults over the course of so many years, and examples of such asks is a short search away. Besides you forgot the much bigger group of people who could be using emacs if it incorporated such best ideas as ergonomic UI...

> Mind that ergonomics is also very subjective.

Unless it's objective. As in, if your defaults lead to RSI on heavy use, they are objectively bad

> You might not find lisp very ergonomic, but Emacs users do.

So? The idea wasn't about banning lisp, but allowing other languages.

And before going with the other ways were half left from the original way
by efitz | 2025-05-29 10:34:14+00:00
Why are we homo sapiens self-aware?

If evolutionary biologists are correct it’s because that trait made us better at being homo sapiens.

We have no example of sapience or general intelligence that is divorced from being good at the things the animal body host needs to do.

We can imagine that it’s possible to have an AGI that is just software but there’s no existence proof.
by HocusLocus | 2025-05-29 10:35:38+00:00
The country that excels at nuclear (I mean plain old fission) will dominate AI and by extension, the world. Thinking is bit flipping and Shannon's law only hints at it but Landauer's principle is more like it. AIs powered by wind and solar and diminishing fossil fuels will be bested and trampled by AIs powered by nuclear. And nuclear has such an energy density bonus and smaller necessary unit >1GWe count that even an 'inferior' AI powered by nuclear won't remain inferior for long.

Because there are so many anti-nuclear idiots in the US (mind clones of Jane Fonda) it's pretty much China's AI wins. I hope it treats us well.

It all comes down to energy density. It was never about money, or politics, IP that starts out secret then whod'a thunk it, or good intentions, or whose system of government is more popular with the kids.

I find the idea that China could spend so much time 'catching up' to be barely credible. That sounds like the AIs have gotten smart already and know they have to apply the Cold War playbook to motivate humans.
by adr1an | 2025-05-29 10:37:39+00:00
I can recommend the browser extension "modern for hacker news". Some features are premium (no subscription though) but only the defaults gives SO MUCH ux like font size, spacing between lines, text width.

Another great accesibility feat is the APIs for this web. I use upvoterate listing from quality news as front page.

To sum it up, opening the tab previews under Zen Browser made my experience feel like the coolest SPA, haha.
by throw0101d | 2025-05-29 10:39:01+00:00
> Nearly every country that Trump tariffed does have some sort of tariff on the US. Canada has a sizable dairy tariff, for example.

Canada has a dairy tariff after a certain volume is imported. The US has not hit that volume and so the tariffs are currently zero.

> Last year, Canada was the second-highest importer of U.S. dairy products, buying about $1.14 billion US, and it was the United States' top export market for eggs and related products.

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-us-dairy-trade...

USMC also has a carve out for allowing more dairy imports:

* https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/unit...

It should also be noted that the US subsidizes its dairy farms, which could be considered an unfair advantage and justification for anti-dumping measures (Trump's logic for many Chinese imports, e.g., steel). So Canadian dairy products cannot compete in the US market because they're 'too expensive' compared to what US farmers are selling things at: is that fair?
by squishington | 2025-05-29 10:41:14+00:00
Admittedly I struggle with emacs out of the box. My emacs configuration has evolved over the years. It's a personal thing. I couldn't tell you about my key bindings. My hands just know them instinctively. That's what I love about it. You can craft it to your personal needs. I map ctrl key to spacebar (only when spacebar is held down), and meta to return key (when held down). No more RSI for me.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-05-29 10:41:45+00:00
Yup. Just because someone's a Nobel Laureate (he's an economist) doesn't mean they're right. Just like I won't let my doctor inform me on tabs vs. spaces.

Economists, businesspeople & their ilk have proven time & time again that 99% of them just throw darts at a board & see what sticks. The only ingredients required are money, connections and an extroversion (height helps too). That's not to say that most scientists don't do the same thing, that is science after all.

I doubt many people at all would have expected even the success of LLMs before Google's attention paper. NLP experienced a huge jump, previous models always seemed to me like handwritten sets of statistical rules stringing together text and now we have trained sets of statistical rules orders of magnitudes more complex...I have no idea what we'll end up with next.
by karlperera | 2025-05-29 10:43:30+00:00
The 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit is happening May 28–29 in Washington, D.C., with panels available via live webcast. This event brings together leaders from NASA, Blue Origin, ULA, international space agencies, and academia to discuss the technologies, partnerships, and policies needed for humanity’s return to the Moon and the first crewed missions to Mars.

Topics include crew safety, sustainable habitats, in-space manufacturing, and the growing role of commercial spaceflight. With the Artemis program aiming for a lunar return by 2027 and Mars missions on the horizon, this summit offers a timely look at the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Are you tuning in? What do you think are the biggest technical or policy hurdles for sustainable human presence on the Moon and Mars? What would you like to see prioritized as we move toward interplanetary exploration?[
by donatj | 2025-05-29 10:44:01+00:00
I was really hopeful this would do something to address Japans convoluted address system, anything really, sort of like Open Location Code is trying but with the backing of the post office.

If you don't know the storied history of an area in Japan it can be nearly impossible to find an address manually. You give someone your address in Japan, they have to either use the internet or ask people in the area to help you find it. Most are not based on streets, they are based on smaller and smaller named subdivisions of a given area.

Alas no, this is the exact opposite of Open Location Code and requires an internet connection to look up. We should be working on something that allows you to find an address on foot without an internet connection!

Japanese addresses are a problem this makes no attempt to fix. Just baffling to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system
by bjackman | 2025-05-29 10:44:19+00:00
Hmm this strategy only makes sense if you can trivially evaluate each agent's results, which I haven't found to be the case.

I expect a common case would be: one agent wrote code that does the thing I want. One agent wrote code that isn't unmaintainable garbage. These are not the same agent. So now you have to combine the two solutions which is quite a lot of work.
by throw0101d | 2025-05-29 10:46:52+00:00
> E.g. Canada could subsidise domestic milk producers. (We used to do that in New Zealand)

Like the US does? Isn't that just a race to the bottom then?

The Canadian supply management system means that those that purchase milk pay the amount needed to keep the Canadian dairy industry afloat. If you don't buy milk you don't pay.

With subsidies everyone pays, regardless of whether you use the product(s) or not.

Of course subsidies make the price cheaper, which helps with cost of living, which can be quite progressive (and often children are the ones that drink the most milk).

Further, the US subsidies milk even though its consumption has been falling for decades:

* http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2022/june/fluid-milk-con...

Which solution is better / "best"? I don't know.

(Am Canadian.)
by eviks | 2025-05-29 10:47:13+00:00
Ok, you've quickly discovered that "window" is called a "frame". How does that help you avoid the issue of emacs not using the commonly understood term for a window? And flavors is masking the bad defaults, not a proof that somehow emacs reinvented itself (it didn't, it didn't change the bad defaults, harming all the new users physically or at the very least wasting their time that they search for a flavor)
by pjc50 | 2025-05-29 10:47:14+00:00
> at some point your Amazon delivery is going to be in a locker on the back of a self-driving vehicle. You (and everyone else in the street), will get a notification that its outside for the next 30 minutes

I'm reminded of the Taipei refuse trucks that play Fur Elise to remind you that it's the five-minute window in which you can put your bins in the street.

I'm not very optimistic about delivery improving, because it's a three-sided market. You don't get to choose which courier the sender uses, but you're really their customer.
by skissane | 2025-05-29 10:47:21+00:00
> an exception for a specific reason is not "unreasonable"

I doubt it is that simple.

I don’t know how exactly judges are going to define “reasonable” in this specific area of law-but “reasonable” normally means not just that you have a reason, but also that the judge concludes it is a valid or good enough reason-and different areas of law often have different tests for deciding what reasons are valid or good enough
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by kragen | 2025-05-29 10:48:33+00:00
I knew them as Jerryco in my childhood:

> And the business was launched as American Lens & Photo.

> After the Second World War the company expanded, fed by war surplus. Eventually, Al opened a retail store on Chicago's Northwest side called American Science Center and started carrying educational science items.

> (...) In 1979 he started a catalog operation under the name "Jerryco" and in 1981 he opened a second store, in Milwaukee.
by mrkeen | 2025-05-29 10:49:02+00:00
> Cursor and OpenAI are powered by a single-box Postgres instance. You’ll be just fine.

Well no, not according to your own source:

This setup consists of one primary database and dozens of replicas.

Are they just fine?

There have been several instances in the past where issues related to PostgreSQL have led to outages of ChatGPT.

OK but let's pretend it's acceptable to have outages. It's fine apart from that?

However, “write requests” have become a major bottleneck. OpenAI has implemented numerous optimizations in this area, such as offloading write loads wherever possible and avoiding the addition of new services to the primary database.

I feel that! I've been part of projects where we've finished building a feature, but didn't let customers have it because it affected the write path and broke other features.

It's been less than a week since someone in the company posted in Slack "we tried scaling up the db (Azure mssql) but it didn't fix the performance issues."
by jiggawatts | 2025-05-29 10:51:09+00:00
The motivation was almost certainly compatibility UNIX shebang lines for shell scripts:

#!/usr/bin/dotnet run Console.WriteLine("Hello from a C# script!");

Which just looks like a crime against nature and right order of things.

It's really hard to explain to anyone who wasn't born in a monoculture, but I come from an eastern european country where in my childhood there may have been maybe a few hundred truly foreign people living there at any one time, mostly diplomats and their families. Decades later I visited and saw a chinese immigrant speaking my native tongue. You can't imagine how... disconcerting that is. Not bad, I'm not against it, it's just... weird.

This feels exactly like that.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-05-29 10:51:27+00:00
As a furry: lmao no Matrix. Matrix does not get the job done at all. Profiles stored on the server you decided to join? Lots of silly design decisions.

Also the whole "furries make the internets go" is not really that true. There are certainly many of us in tech fields but going to meets/cons the average furry is not working in technology. The whole "suspiciously wealthy furry" thing just arose from the divide between tech worker and retail worker within the community. Gotta remember that most furries are like 16-25. Many tend to drop out or leave the community over 30-40 or so.
by atoav | 2025-05-29 10:51:53+00:00
So you are saying we get dieplays that could run wavefield synthesis?

If you don't know what wavefield synthesis is: you basically have an array of evenly spaced speakers and for each virtual sound source you drive each individual speaker with a specially delayed signal that recreates the wavefield a sound source would create if it occupied that space. This is basically as close as you can get to the thing being in actual space.

Of course the amount of delay lines and processing needed is exhorbitant and for a screen the limiting factor is the physical dimension of the thing, but if you can create high resulation 2D loudspeaker arrays that glow, you can also create ones that do not.
by nabla9 | 2025-05-29 10:52:16+00:00
The Internet Was an Economic Disappointment April 4, 2023 https://archive.ph/3fidX

>Life being what it is, several people came back at me, citing a prediction I made in 1998 that the internet’s growth would soon slow and that “by 2005 or so, it will become clear that the internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.” I did indeed say that, in a throwaway piece I wrote for the magazine The Red Herring — a piece I still don’t remember having written, but I guess I was trying to be provocative.

..

>But how wrong was I, really, about the internet’s economic impact? Or, since this shouldn’t be about me, have the past few decades generally vindicated visionaries who asserted that information technology would change everything? Or have they vindicated techno-skeptics like the economist Robert Gordon, who argued in a 2016 book that the innovations of the late 20th and early 21st century were far less fundamental than those between 1870 and 1940? Well, by the numbers, the skeptics have won the argument, hands down.

>In that last newsletter, we looked at 10-year rates of growth in labor productivity, which suggested that information technology did indeed produce a bump in economic growth between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, but one that was relatively modest and short-lived. Today, let me take a slightly different approach. The Bureau of Labor Statistics produces historical estimates, going back to 1948, of both labor productivity and “total factor productivity,” an estimate of the productivity of all inputs, including capital as well as labor, which is widely used by economists as a measure of technological progress. A truly fundamental technological innovation should cause sustained growth in both these measures, especially total factor productivity.

(read the article to see pictures)

>See the great productivity boom that followed the rise of the internet? Neither do I.
by wqaatwt | 2025-05-29 10:52:45+00:00
> Apple is faster at single core and can match or exceed the 14900k

Well yeah, if price is not a factor and you don’t care about gaming and such.

That’s a perfectly reasonable use case. The original premise was that Apple’s M series chips would be extremely successful if Apple started selling them directly (and presumably provided Windows/Linux drivers.

Which obviously can’t and won’t happen due to clear reasons but even if it did they probably wouldn’t be very popular as desktop chips (of course that also comes down to pricing). There aren’t that many people who’d want or need a desktop with a chip like that (instead of just getting a laptop ).
by pletnes | 2025-05-29 10:52:59+00:00
Linqpad is super cool in certain .net ways, but oh man the text editor component is the worst one I interact with on a regular basis. I wish that part would be replaced by neovim or monoaco or, basically, anything. The snappiness, the table visualizations and so forth - very nice.

It’s also been unable to keep up with notebook tech for many potential use cases. I guess it’s a one man show and it shows.

Still, massive hat tip - I use Linqpad every day because it’s super useful for playing with your SQL data.
by guerby | 2025-05-29 10:54:32+00:00
Yes I agree with you, I don't understand why parcel lockers are not completely replacing delivery.

I saw on youtube that China has "open stores" where you go pick on shelf your parcel, all controlled via camera and face recognition.

In my country France the number of parcel lockers is going up but there's often sellers who don't propose them, or have some restrictions.
by Kuinox | 2025-05-29 10:54:58+00:00
Where does your half a second number come from ? I ran a hello world to test, the overhead is 63ms.

neuecc ran benchmark on CLI libs overhead, none reach half a second: https://neuecc.medium.com/consoleappframework-v5-zero-overhe...

> Swift does a much better job at this as interprets by default

The .NET JIT is a tiered JIT, it doesn't immediatly emit code immediatly.