MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by austin-cheney | 2025-05-01 10:49:29+00:00
I have never worked in FAANG but I have felt this way many times. I had 15 years in corporate JavaScript, self taught, before I moved on to something else.

What you are describing is actually the other side of imposter syndrome. It’s the I know exactly what I am doing and can force this to work if I just cut out all the boilerplate bullshit but will never figure this out without some internal documentation.

This is why Bank of America teams in India were running circles around their American counterparts. They (the India teams) recognized this stupidity early, documented the shit out of it, and then wrote scripts for most of it. The imposters were the people refusing to recognize and confront the internal stupidity openly and transparently.

My suggestion to you, having gone through this many times, is dominate other peoples time. It does not matter how busy they are. This shit is not working and someone needs to show you why. Be very clear about this with your team. Then write your own personal documentation.
by 0xEF | 2025-05-01 10:49:38+00:00
I mean, if we ignore the knee-jerk reaction of "more taxes = bad" we can ask some reasonable questions such as:

1. What would these new taxes go toward funding? Better roads? Charging stations? Improved transportation infrastructure of any kind?

2. If the funds will be allocated toward something worthwhile, is $250/year really that much to ask? I can tell you that I would not miss it but for the day I had to pay it.

If adding a $200+ fee is supposed to be a deterrent to people buying EVs, it's a stupid number to start with. By owning the EV, you're going to save ten times that not buying gasoline each year. Or is the plan to get this passed at this low dollar amount, then turn around and raise it to $2000/year?

Not that I want to deter people from buying EVs.
by Havoc | 2025-05-01 10:49:38+00:00
That’s appreciated but not sure that’s enough.

Think everyone knows US spy agencies will just help themselves to the data anyway regardless of the legal details. Thats just the reality of today’s world. And beyond that with how DOGE seems to be raiding whatever data they want under questionable circumstances I don’t think the issue is limited to NSA and friends.

On that basis the only choice seems to be to move away from US providers
by Sergie | 2025-05-01 10:49:52+00:00
on Orchestra, a chat-centered tool that addresses the collaboration gap. it’s when your software drives you crazy with all its complex features and integrations, when all it should really do is help you work. simple as that.

startups and small teams like ours don’t need a monster setup. we just need the basics to communicate and manage (as god intended). a few years back, the three of us – me and two fellow CTOs – got tired of searching for the right tool, so we built one ourselves.

so, here’s Orchestra – https://orch.so/.

if you’re up for trying it out and sharing some feedback – please do!
by noAnswer | 2025-05-01 10:50:36+00:00
Well, don't help him. People(me) grew up without the Internet or Smartphones and broke Windows on the family PC all the time. In 2000 when I got SuSE it only slowed down the breakdowns. He can always fix stuff himself by reinstalling the OS. As long as he doesn't format the /home partition he will not lose data. And he will learn his lessons.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-01 10:50:55+00:00
TVTropes covers it here, with many, many, _many_ examples: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DracoInLeatherPa... and the somewhat related https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisaimedFandom

The Musk/Banks thing even gets a mention under MisaimedFandom.
by yurishimo | 2025-05-01 10:51:34+00:00
> Apple wants to cripple the web and favor its App Store monopoly

While I agree that this is probably true at the BOD level, the people working on the browser itself go in the opposite direction. They spend a lot of effort trying to actually develop a robust standard. Jen Simmons has been kicking ass since she went to work on Safari and I'm here for it. If she leaves or is forced out, I will be much more skeptical about the pushback offered by Apple.

The Interop 20XX projects are a great first start and I'm hopefully that feature parity will continue to increase over the next few years.
by zoudong376 | 2025-05-01 10:51:38+00:00
DeepWiki appears to be a platform designed to enable AI applications, especially LLMs, to interact with various external data sources and tools effectively. While details remain somewhat elusive, it is believed to utilize the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—a mechanism that facilitates smooth AI-data integration.Unlike traditional wikis that serve as static repositories of information, DeepWiki is expected to operate as a dynamic AI-driven research and data-processing tool, making it a valuable resource for researchers and developers.
by Krei-se | 2025-05-01 10:52:45+00:00
Haha, well you have to set up multicast in your LAN like a good plumber, then fight context.exec and context.modules - also "just works" means in my case setting up a systemd After=network-watchdog in pulseaudios override that checks whether network is up in userspace.

But Poettering Software (systemd/pulseaudio) is quite composable so even though there is a learning curve the alternative are 20k config file monoliths.

Still this even turns rooted LG TVs and cheap raspi picos into sinks.

The only latency i now have is the bass traveling slower than the trebles lol
by trhway | 2025-05-01 10:52:59+00:00
Total endorsement for Veep!

There is a significant difference though which even Veep didn't predict - the people in Veep were still riding in the well-oiled deep-state car, while those clowns today is actively destroying that car.

Wrt. clowns - note that the most important Hegseth's staffer is his wife who was his producer back at Fox and basically does the same for him at the Pentagon.
by resource_waste | 2025-05-01 10:54:18+00:00
I don't really know this issue, I don't study it. But from afar:

>An EU law stiffles all companies, not just the trillion dollar companies. I've essentially not considered EU audiences because I'm small and focus on the engineering + product directed toward 'everyone except Europe' because it feels like near anarchy.

>This is precision work. These companies get too big and anger the wrong person, so they get knocked. However, we obviously see that when its so big, these violations last significantly longer and often can go unpunished.
by AlienRobot | 2025-05-01 10:54:40+00:00
Not OP, but my experience with Linux is that seemingly absurd usability issues just keep piling up the more you use it and at some you just kind of give up and abandon any expectation of even a decent level of common sense from whoever is developing the system.

I've listed some of which I encountered on Mint here https://www.virtualcuriosities.com/folders/273/usability-iss... Among them: AppImages just don't run unless you know how to make them run. This could be fixed with literally a single dialog box. There is no way to install fonts by default other than knowing where to put them and knowing how to get there. Every app that uses Alt+Click, e.g. for picking a color, won't work because that's bound by default by the DE.

These issues may sound small at first but think of it this way: did nobody making this OS think about how users were going to install fonts? Or ever used an application that used the Alt key? Or did they just assume everyone would know what to do when they download an appimage and double click on it and nothing happens?

And you can just feel that the whole thing is going to be like this. Every single time in the future you want to do something that isn't very extremely obvious, you'll find a hurdle.

I even had issues configuring my clock because somebody thought it was a good idea to just tell users to use a strftime code to format the taskbar clock. I actually had to type "%Y-%m-%d%n%H:%M" to get it to look the way I want. And this isn't an advanced setting. This is right clicking on the clock and clicking "Configure." When I realized what to do I actually laughed out loud because it felt like a joke. Fellas, only programmers know these codes. Make some GUIs for the normal people.
by bux93 | 2025-05-01 10:55:25+00:00
There are a few worries. The US government accessing private data is the one that gets this treatment. Sure, the contracts are not worth the paper they're written on, but it's a state actor - even if you store the data only on a USB stick in your wallet in the end they'll find a way to access it. Preventing data leaks to private parties is a more attainable objective, and using a US cloud might actually contribute positively to that.

The new worry is different; denial of service. Your bank can just Go Away one day. Like what happened to Amsterdam-based, but Russian owned, ATB bank. Its cloud resources were blocked and even the Dutch bankruptcy court had trouble getting access to the data to wind down the bank.

That's an existential threat. One you can ignore if your values are aligned with the US administration, but the administration is completely unpredictable, not to say nihilistic. This is making companies very (very) nervous, even without the regulator saying anything to them.
by unjica | 2025-05-01 10:55:29+00:00
I built a lightweight open-source live chat starter kit using:

- Next.js (App Router)

- Socket.IO

- Zustand

- TailwindCSS

It includes visitor/admin roles, local/session persistence, and is fully deployable on Vercel + Railway.

The goal: make it easy for devs to add real-time support to their apps without relying on heavy SaaS.

Would love feedback or suggestions — happy to answer questions!
by Gareth321 | 2025-05-01 10:56:22+00:00
There are many caveats on this. For example, Apple's terms clearly state that developers must use Apple’s in-app purchase (IAP) system for digital goods or services. So you're restricted to only subscription based pricing. No upgrade pricing. No microtransactions.

Additionally Apple remains the arbiter of what kind of content and apps may be listed. Until recently they were blocking all emulators and cloud gaming apps. They used to block all crypto apps. They still selectively block gambling apps. They still block torrenting and adult apps.

Additionally, Apple is famous for arbitrary and selectively enforced rules. Many developers have their updates rejected for any and no reason after an automated system rejects them for specious reasons.

Additionally, developers are blocked from linking out. They can't up-sell, which is a critical component of a SaaS business model. Nothing in the app can tell users where to subscribe or how to upgrade or change their credit card details. This one alone kills most SaaS applications unless they use Apple's IAPs.
by sagacity | 2025-05-01 10:56:57+00:00
Handwavy explanation: A stable value is used as a static constant, with the difference being that you can initialize it at runtime. Once initialized it is treated as fully constant by the JVM. It's similar to something like lateinit in Kotlin, except on the JVM level.

Records are also immutable, but you can create them and delete them throughout your application like you would a regular class.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-01 10:57:27+00:00
> Isn't this just a restatement of Christianity? Created by an unknowable, all powerful deity with the goal of becoming one with that deity during the rapture?

Yeah, honestly most Nerd Religion (EA, LessWrong-style 'rationality', etc), is basically just reheated Christianity. Notably, Roko's Basilisk (you should work for the furtherance of magic robots at all costs, lest a future omnipotent magic robot torture a perfect replica of you forever for not doing so) is just a restatement of Pascal's wager, with all the attendant problems.
by markovs_gun | 2025-05-01 10:57:30+00:00
I hate this phrase because how do you even define "made of nothing" or "gaps between" when talking about objects as fuzzy as electrons, and how would you define where something "is" or "isn't " other than interactions? If an electron cloud is interacting with another electron cloud why do we say that space is empty? Because the measured radius of an electron is so much smaller than we observe?
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-05-01 10:57:31+00:00
I think OP poses a strong question.

If you destroy $500B in market cap in your share in said companies to get a better deal in a small segment of your core business...

That might not end up being a very bad deal overall.

The reality is, if MSFT wasn't delivering this SOTA SLMs now, someone else would be doing it within a few months.
by owkman | 2025-05-01 10:57:43+00:00
> Android is built from the ground up to provide surveillance data to Google-controlled adtech

I've always read this and it seems well accepted. But I'm curious what exactly does it mean? What's Android sending to Google? Surely it's not logging what I click on apps? It's not logging what I click on my browser since the websites themselves send this info for ad purposes. So what's Android doing that let's say my Linux laptop isn't?

Edit: Answering my own question. There is a cross-app unique identifier (ignoring any privacy sandbox stuff) so developers and ad networks can get a consistent id across apps.
by Scottn1 | 2025-05-01 10:57:47+00:00
Tarrifs have started to hit the boardgame industry pretty hard already, and as an enthusiast, I have started to really worry. Within a very short span, several companies have already announced drastic slowdowns in product production/shipments and staff, to some outright closing.

https://stonemaiergames.com/we-are-suing-the-president/ https://www.cmon.com/press/an-update-on-our-internal-teams-a... https://www.greaterthangames.com/blogs/news/greater-than-gam...
by ndr42 | 2025-05-01 10:57:51+00:00
We had bad smell with just drying all reachable areas and leaving open the door, cleaning everything that is easy disassembled (tubes, water outlet area of the pump) from tine to time.

2 months ago we discovered the boil wash. With some detergent containing bleach it stopped the smell, even if we leave the machine closed during the day.

I our case it's not we have forgotten but never discovered this function.
by wafflemaker | 2025-05-01 10:57:54+00:00
Could some game programmer say if it's true that kernel level anti cheat is just bad programming?

Primagean recently said that in a video commenting PewDiePie's "I switched to Linux" video. While he's apparently a good programmer (he worked at Netflix), he uses Vim, so I don't trust him. Edit: part about vim is an edgy joke.
by skc | 2025-05-01 10:58:58+00:00
Ok so I've just done this and got the same result. It's plenty fast.

And this is a pretty average laptop. Dell, Intel Core i7 with 16GB of RAM. In fact it's Windows 11 Home edition.

Now I bet if I tried this same test on my work PC which is supposed to be much beefier I'd probably find that it takes an extra second or two.

This being HN I'm almost 100% certain that the only time anyone touches a PC is at work. And work PCs have loads of gunk on them.
by twoodfin | 2025-05-01 10:59:14+00:00
Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were huge free traders, and Barack Obama largely carried on that bi-partisan tradition.

But the resurgent left of the Democratic Party, inspired by the anti-WTO “Battle of Seattle” and led by folks like Elizabeth Warren, made free trade toxic to enough of the party that Hillary Clinton in 2016 felt she needed to come out against Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership which she herself had taken a lead in negotiating.

Trump ostensibly killed it, but it was already dead. Even an incredibly beneficial trade agreement—both economically and strategically—had no constituency of consequence on Capitol Hill. With Trump’s “help” maybe one will reemerge.
by pfffff | 2025-05-01 10:59:21+00:00
Certainly not all habbits are destructive, you seem to confuse habbit with addiction. Addiction to smoking will give you cancer, you can deny it but after 30-40 years of doing this your lungs will tell you, that consequences are severe no matter what you keep telling yourself :) I lost family members to cancer due to cigareres and they were denying it pretty much till the end.
by bux93 | 2025-05-01 10:59:37+00:00
Nice bit of PR for this company, but surely traintracks and terminals are built all the time to factories? Like the Ford/Blueoval facilities in Stanton, Tennessee and Glendale, Kentucky, Scout motors in Blythewood, South Carolina, Redwood materials in Ridgeville, South Carolina, VinFast in Moncure, North Carolina, Cirba Solutions in Lancaster, Ohio, Watco in Glendale, Arizona - just some of the ones from the past few years in the US. Mostly EV/battery operations.
by Delphiza | 2025-05-01 11:00:04+00:00
The inclusion of SAP, as a German company, was intentional. Lock-in is not just American, and these days it is extremely difficult to have independence from large tech companies. It is not impossible, but requires significant government investment, and a desire for businesses to move. I don't see European businesses moving away from Microsoft and Google email services in big enough numbers to create a sustainable market for alternatives.
by anentropic | 2025-05-01 11:02:51+00:00
Outlook is so bad at email

Just utterly basic fundamental stuff that was working forever in other clients, like quoting replied text

Everyone at work has to resort to farcical formatting tricks, the email chain ends up a series of people saying like "I added my comments in green bold below", "my comments in blue italic" like it's a Word document instead of a message thread
by alxjrvs | 2025-05-01 11:03:05+00:00
IMO, this is the right idea. I've worked on small projects using Jira primarily as a means of ticket management, and I've worked on giant orgs with scrums and groomings and all that.

As far as a tool, it's perfectly fine. A lot of my bad feelings came as a result of wanting it to be simple ("What should I work on next") but it being twisted into a series of incantations and rituals by those looking to bend it for the purposes of more and more intricate views into how we spend every moment of our day.
by Magma7404 | 2025-05-01 11:03:27+00:00
My uninformed opinion is that this post is not interesting (AI is boring but that's another subject), it's a politics article, and Hacker News has the word hacker in its title which is why I expect some technical stuff.

And yes, it applies to every other post, I believe HN has way too much politics and societal content.

> international tensions based on tech policy are an interesting phenomenon

We had that forever, for example in the 90s with cryptography. It was way more scary at the time, but still not on topic for such a forum.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-01 11:03:29+00:00
I mean he's also very much not a libertarian. He's an apparatchik of an authoritarian government. That's pretty much the opposite of being a libertarian.

(Pedantically, there's a lot of overlap between anarchists and left-libertarians, but the terms tainted enough now that no-one much really considers themselves a left-libertarian anymore.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-01 11:03:54+00:00
This is timescape cosmology’s inhomogenous universe hypothesis [1] that competes with ΛCDM’s cosmological principle [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhomogeneous_cosmology

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle
by rafaelmn | 2025-05-01 11:06:30+00:00
> That's because X11 itself does not support it.

Strangely enough Plasma was able to handle this regardless (guess it was misreporting the resolution to X11 app or something like that to make it work ?) it was a Gnome/Wayland thing.

DisplayPort isn't an option - the TV only has HDMI in and converters suck (they crash constantly, even the expensive ones)
by tempeler | 2025-05-01 11:07:46+00:00
it seems bad investment. firstly, it's an old architecure. secondly, How will they measure the efficiency of their investments?.Instead of investing in outdated architectures, they could fund universities, or support at least two or more companies in a competitive setup — that way, something much more efficient might emerge. But when a company is state-funded in a monopolistic way, it's quite hard for it to succeed. The U.S. had a reason for supporting AMD against Intel back then.
by geysersam | 2025-05-01 11:09:03+00:00
Of course a llm can't think. But that doesn't mean it can't answer simple questions about the output that was produced. Just try it out with chatgpt when you have time. Even if it's not perfectly accurate it's still useful for debugging.

Just think about it as a human employee. Can they always say why they did what they did? Often, but not always. Sometimes you will have to work to figure out the misunderstanding.
by goodcanadian | 2025-05-01 11:10:10+00:00
I rarely/never saw mercator projection as a kid. I think I probably saw mostly Robinson projection[1] as it seems that is what national geographic was using at the time. Mercator looks so completely wrong to me; I don't know why so many people use it. It seems to have gotten more common. Anyway, I agree that a globe is best.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_projection
by pessimizer | 2025-05-01 11:10:19+00:00
I think search has been deprecated in general because it gives the user too much control over the output. Through search, people can quickly find what they are looking for, which is bad. The goal has instead become to feed people tiny scraps and hints of what they're looking for, while leading them on a long trip past any number of sponsors to where the thing they're looking for might be.

I have to assume that Outlook email searches have already been set up to have ads injected into them, when/if one day Microsoft decides to flip the switch. Actually, I'm so out of touch with Windows they might already be doing this.
by graemep | 2025-05-01 11:11:11+00:00
Two different questions.

From a public interest point of view I would say AWS, GCP and Azure

From the likelihood of a business being successful probably less well entrenched services, and ones politicians understand - so probably things directly used by consumers and very visible. Probably SaaS of some kind.

Also, its not just the EU (which is what the article is about). Non EU European countries, and the rest of the world too also have a problem with this dependence. I think the best approach would be broad collaborations on development, with deployment at a national level so every country could have sovereign data centres.
by ForHackernews | 2025-05-01 11:11:59+00:00
Uber has already shown tech companies can overthrow local governments that won't play ball. Amazon could probably topple the Trump regime tomorrow by surfacing tariff charges on their invoices.

Microsoft could just bluescreen every Windows device in the USA with a message "Call your legislator at 555-9999 and tell them to repeal the CHUM Act"
by barrkel | 2025-05-01 11:12:21+00:00
I came here looking for this. It's an old idea, from the days when spinning rust was the limiting factor - precache the binaries.

If you ever tried Office 97 on a PC of 10+ years later, it's amazing how fast and lightweight it was. Instant startup, super snappy. And those apps were not lacking in features. 95% of what you need out of a desktop word processor was in Word 97.
by avidphantasm | 2025-05-01 11:13:14+00:00
Spotlight search on macOS is in general kinda…spotty. Now that we have super fast SSDs it should be instantaneous very reliable. How hard can this be? BeOS seem to have figured it out 30 years ago. Apple missed a chance to fix this once and for all when APFS was developed, but they are fat and happy, no fire in their guts. Craig Ferengi must go.