MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cube2222 | 2025-05-07 15:10:48+00:00
I might be wrong, I last used Cline in December, but I believe we're talking about different things.

Cline's an Agent, and you chat with it, based on which it makes edits to your files. I don't think it has manual inline edit support?

What I'm talking about is that you chat with it, you're done chatting, you select some text and say "rewrite this part as discussed" and only that part is edited. That's what I mean with inline edits.

For Agentic editing I'm happy with Claude Code.
by wglb | 2025-05-07 15:11:12+00:00
arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16872.

I was fortunate enough to attend a dinner where Joe Taylor, whose Nobel Prize involved long-term study of pulsar intervals decay. He brought along a recording of several pulsars, ranging from multi-second intervals down to one whose rotational speed was 600/second.

(Joe Taylor is also the author of WSJTX, a weak-signal radio protcol.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-07 15:11:13+00:00
> Anything that India gets out of Pakistan cannot be trusted

Then the only security solution for India is invading and replacing Pakistan’s government. Anything less is needlessly drawing out the violence out of caution and cowardice. The fact that this is obviously overkill belies that there is room for diplomacy.

Also! Not how diplomacy works! A fundamental fact about international relations is it’s anarchic. If your model of international relations requires trust for diplomacy, you’ve fundamentally missed how geopolitics works.

> It will continue to provoke and attack India as long as their military rules the nation

Look at the history of France and Germany negotiating territory exchanges, including under duress. Or the U.S. and Britain while the two hated each other. Et cetera.
by egorfine | 2025-05-07 15:11:13+00:00
> Sorry, the only argument you've made is that things have worked a certain way for 20 years before Linux even existed.

Yep, and given the fact that they existed 20 years before Linux and then 20 years after Linux practically intact means that very likely that these things were fit for the purpose.

I'm not saying that they cannot be improved. Cron deficiencies are well-known and once you hit them they are PITA.
by LAsteNERD | 2025-05-07 15:11:23+00:00
How much will this accelerate cultural homogenity?

"Project Stargate is OpenAI’s plan to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure over the next few years, with help and support from the US government." "OpenAI will also create custom versions of ChatGPT for each country’s citizens." Wonder how different one country's model will be than another's? Also wonder how they're weighting ideas (words, values, etc.) differently from one model to the next, who gets to make those choices, and what they're basing those decisions on.

Talk about soft power.
by whatsupdog | 2025-05-07 15:11:56+00:00
When George Bush attacked Iraq, 3 reasons were given: 1. Dictatorship - no democracy. 2. Terrorist training camps (including Al Qaeda). 3. Weapons of mass destruction.

All 3 were true for Pakistan at that time. Parvez Musharraf was a dictator. Whole world knew about the terrorist training camps in Pakistan, and Osama was finally found there. And they had demonstrated their weapons of mass destruction.

So why Iraq and not Pakistan? USA instead started giving Pakistan 5 billion a year and 75 F16s. Shame on USA.
by keyringlight | 2025-05-07 15:11:57+00:00
Yes, as I understand it ABS catches the occasion where your braking overwhelms the wheel-road friction the wheel locks and starts to skid. If you're before that threshold then it doesn't activate and doesn't negatively affect anything, if you do lock then ABS activating is better than not having it and the remedy is the same as without ABS where you release the brake enough for the wheel to turn again. A skid is the least desirable in terms of control and stopping distance, having ABS lets a driver hit the brakes hard in an emergency with more confidence.
by zahlman | 2025-05-07 15:12:02+00:00
I'm not especially surprised. Surely people who use they/them pronouns are very over-represented in the sample of people using the phrase "I use ___ pronouns".

On the other hand, Claude presumably does have a model of the fact of not being an organic entity, from which it could presumably infer that it lacks a gender.

...But that wasn't the point. Inflecting words for gender doesn't seem to me like it would be difficult for an LLM. GP was saying that swapping "I" for "you" etc. depending on perspective would be difficult, and I think that is probably more difficult than inflecting words for gender. Especially if the training data includes lots of text in Romance languages.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-07 15:12:07+00:00
You can stick something onto a human cell to reprogram its behavior

https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/a-backpack-full-of-multiple-sc...

Radical modifications of cell membranes have been a think for a while

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg#Bacterial_cyborg_cells

and of course there is

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

and rapid advancement in synthetic biology.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-05-07 15:12:30+00:00
yes, it can flash new "bios" from USB in case of bad update. this function is inate to intel "chipset" so every motherboard with direct to "chipset" connected usb port can recover bad update.

but you need to have usb flashdrive connected for long time, like 5 minutes or so, after powerup, without leds blinking so it can be scary / confusing.

fat32 formatted drive.
by chneu | 2025-05-07 15:12:40+00:00
This will sound boomer, but I've noticed this with a lot of people: absolutely no determination to figure things out.

It isn't just young people. It really seems like people's determination has just gone to shit.

I'm an engineer and teach people a lot. The first thing I have to do is determine what kind of learner people are, and my gosh, it's frustrating. People give up so fast.
by seatac76 | 2025-05-07 15:12:58+00:00
This is attempt to draw a false equivalence between two events which does not stand scrutiny. Islamic terrorists are a keystone pillar of Pakistani society, they walk openly and are supported by the state. Plenty of literature around how Pak Army has adopted the proxy war against India.

Unlikely India is involved that much in West Pakistan given the geographical realities.

I agree these bombings won't solve anything though. Essentially just cannon fodder targeted, will be replaced quickly.
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by mock-possum | 2025-05-07 15:13:49+00:00
I’d much rather talk to Clippy than Cortana.

I really can’t stand their brain dead appropriation of AI - first Cortana, which they stole from Halo, now CoPilot, which they stole from GitHub (and should have been named Cod*e*Pilot anyway) -

Clippy is right there!!
by LosAlamosNerd | 2025-05-07 15:13:50+00:00
AI isn't just for practitioners and researchers.

You're going to cringe when you hear this, but a week ago I uploaded recent lab results to ChatGPT, and received a thorough reviews of the results. Then I asked if there was a connection between my labs and a medical issue a sibling of mine is having. It clearly outlined how they weren't related and provided prompts for me to ask my doctor as a follow up.

Of course, I should verify everything from CGPT (and I shouldn't share my labs with it), but medicinal AI seems like it could soon be a game changer for patients.
by hedora | 2025-05-07 15:14:05+00:00
No, you're right. Here's the best "article" I can find about this at the moment:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/7387/what-is-...

(copy paste from a dead link.)

Apple has the same problem as unity. Try this on a mac:

% bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57... Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

They can't upgrade bash past 3.2 (which is the last GPLv.2 release), so they're maintaining an ancient version themselves (it's old enough to smoke + vote + go to war in the US!), and they're trying to get users to switch to zsh.

I looked at the LGPL 2.1, and the "or later" bit of the license is weird. Users can convert it to any version of GPL >= 2.1 at their discretion. However, the author of the library needs to specify LGPL (= any version), LGPL 2.1 (= exactly 2.1), or (recommended) "LGPL 2.1 or later" in a COPYING file.

Unity says they "deprecated" LGPL code. That makes sense unless the code pins the LGPL version. Upstream LGPL vendors could rug-pull them, bash-style, at any moment.

However, VLC's libraries are listed as "LGPL 2.1 only" here, so they explicitly claim they cannot rug pull (unless they jump to GPL3 -- that wouldn't be too surprising, since most of their stuff is AGPL, though it'd probably cause a fork):

https://code.videolan.org/explore/projects/starred

Except VLC didn't incorporate the license properly (COPYING and COPYING.lib don't say if they pin LGPL versions), and their README.md says:

> libVLC, the engine is released under the LGPLv2 (or later) license. This allows embedding the engine in 3rd party applications, while letting them to be licensed under other licenses.

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

So, Unity's probably right to be worried. "or later" includes v3, which is specifically incompatible with stuff like anti-cheat technology and consoles.

However, my best guess is that Unity's worried about pissing off third parties that have patents on the algorithms VLC implements, and they use the LGPL thing as an excuse to avoid revealing the details of those private deals.
by simion314 | 2025-05-07 15:14:06+00:00
You have no idea what you I am talking about, you probably read a very few folk stories by those Grimm brothers and now you generalize to the rest of the world.

I gave you example of 100% story that is for children you can Google and translate "Punguta cu doi bani" or "Capra cu trei iezi"

Romanian children have the ability to read or watch those stories without suffering debilitating mental conditions like some american children or their parents more likely.
by tstrimple | 2025-05-07 15:14:32+00:00
> ABS also allows to use full brakes in the wet without worrying so much about falling over. That's the real benefit, real-world it shortens your stopping distance because of that increased confidence in using the brake.

I think this point is worth emphasizing. You'll hear from a lot of folks on motorcycle forums that ABS will increase stopping distance. Which is true for great drivers performing threshold braking. How many motorcycle riders actually practice front braking on their non ABS bike until they lock up the front wheel to really learn the limits of themselves and their bike? For most people, you'll be able to use more brakes and stop in a shorter distance in more conditions with ABS while maintaining control of the vehicle.
by maksimur | 2025-05-07 15:14:32+00:00
I've come to believe that consistently engaging with ideas and concepts through a variety of media "naturally" embeds them in memory and understanding. I feel coming across information from different angles and in changing contexts provides a form of implicit repetition that for me makes explicit systems (like SRS) unnecessary. What seems crucial to me is having sufficient variability but also making sure it is introduced within an appropriate timeframe.
Show HN: Co-Op Translator – Automate Docs and Image Localization
by skytin1004 | 2025-05-07 15:14:56+00:00
We created Co-op Translator to solve a real problem: scaling documentation localization across multiple languages in a CLI or CI/CD-friendly way.

While contributing to Microsoft's open-source education repos (like ML-for-Beginners), we hit a bottleneck:

Every small update in Markdown or diagrams had to be manually reflected across 10+ translated folders. It wasn't sustainable.

So we built Co-op Translator — a CLI and GitHub Actions toolkit that automates both text and image translation using Azure AI or OpenAI APIs.

It's designed for maintainers, educators, and developer teams who want to localize documentation without the manual grind.

It supports both public and organization-level GitHub Actions setup, and works with either Azure OpenAI or OpenAI directly. No vendor lock-in.

Note: I'm not a Microsoft employee. I maintain Co-op Translator as a community contributor within Microsoft's Azure OSS ecosystem.
by bell-cot | 2025-05-07 15:15:02+00:00
Might anyone know if it'd be legal for Ford to add the tariff to a new car's window sticker? Or treat it like a (prepaid) sales tax?

(Yeah, there could be downsides to Ford advertising "Here is the unchanged price that we will receive for this car...plus you'll have to pay the Trump Tariff of $X to actually buy it".)
by jpadkins | 2025-05-07 15:15:06+00:00
> I think we will still need software devs, but not as many as we do today.

There is already another reply referencing Jevons Paradox, so I won't belabor that point. Instead, let me give an analogy. Imagine programmers today are like scribes and monks of 1000 years ago, and are considering the impact of the printing press. Only 5% of the population knew how to read & write, so the scribes and monks felt like they were going to be replaced. What happened is the "job" of writing language will mostly go away, but every job will require writing as a core skill. I believe the same will happen with programming. A thousand years from now, people will have a hard time imagining jobs that don't involve instructing computers in some form (just like today it's hard for us to imagine jobs that don't involve reading/writing).
by mindslight | 2025-05-07 15:15:10+00:00
> should we have an EnergyStar rule on doorbell efficiency?

Probably. The traditional setup uses a 120->24 transformer sitting there burning a couple Watts the entire time, waiting for the few seconds when the doorbell gets turned on. A modern switch mode power supply can use less.

Ideally there would be a standard for practically wiring homes with 48VDC or 24VDC so there is only one centralized idle power overhead, rather than making every single "smart" controls gadget need to step down on its own from 120 (170) volts. Then a standard doorbell would use no power when the button is not being pressed, as you're imagining.

Both of these things are dependent on network effects (ie markets are sticky), which is why talking in terms of standards makes sense.
by Analemma_ | 2025-05-07 15:15:40+00:00
> There should be a way to have the function/method document what sort of stuff can go wrong, and what kinds of exceptions you can get out of it.

The key phrase you're looking for is "algebraic effect systems". Right now they're a pretty esoteric thing only really seen in PL research, but at one point so was most of the stuff we now take for granted in Rust. Maybe someday they'll make their way to mainstream languages in an ergonomic way.
by thesz | 2025-05-07 15:15:46+00:00
It is actually exercise and diet, that drive reward and hormones.

For example, exercise has appetite suppression effect [1].

[1] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/06/anti-hunger-m...

Diet has appetite suppression effect [2].

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25402637/
by leonidasv | 2025-05-07 15:16:04+00:00
They're giving out 1 month free if you're paying for their IDEs already. I've tried it last year and it was very limited, not "agentic". Now they've launched an agentic version called Junie and also gave another 1 month free, and I've tried it again.

It's a nice improvement over the last edition, but still quite not "smart" as Cursor or Windsurf. The agent seems too shortsighted compared to competitors: it may stop looking for files or making edits sooner and you're left with code made with incomplete context (that does not work or just doesn't address your needs). It also does not fix linter/compiler errors from its own output code before finishing, unlike Cursor.
by dardeaup | 2025-05-07 15:16:38+00:00
To display text it was as simple as:

@ row, col say "First Name:"

to draw a box:

@ top_row, top_left to bottom_row, bottom_right

there was built-in support for menus.

there were commands to save the screen to variable and then restore the screen.

main_screen = savescreen

restscreen(main_screen)

Everything was really simple. Forms were super easy. There was a command of the form:

@ row, col say "First name:" get first_name @ row+1, col say "Last name:" get last_name read
by pphysch | 2025-05-07 15:17:30+00:00
There have been major F-ups in recent history with Okta, CrowdStrike, and so on. Keycloak had some major long-standing vulnerabilities. I've had PRs accepted in popular open-source IAM libraries a bit too easily.

Yeah, we shouldn't roll our own cryptography, but security isn't as clean cut as this comment implies. It also frequently bleeds into your business logic.

Don't confuse externalizing security with externalizing liability.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-07 15:17:49+00:00
Diet and exercise methods don't[1] work for most people, for loss and especially for healthy weight maintenance.

With extreme levels of direct, personal involvement by multiple professionals (which is what rich people / celebrities have historically used, and variations of which have been studied by researchers) the efficacy level reaches "sort-of OK, but still not great". That's crazy-expensive, though, so not a realistic solution for the masses, plus the results are still pretty lackluster despite the cost.

[1] Could, hypothetically, yes "CICO", technically anyone could lose weight, but they in fact do not work when applied in the real world, statistically speaking.
by throwanem | 2025-05-07 15:17:54+00:00
They're generalizing ignorantly from a very narrow slice of a culture, which they saw because that was the narrow slice in which their own family chose to participate, and proceeding to blame quite literally everyone else possible but themself and their parents for that entirely intentional choice. They have either failed to study sufficient history to find the error, or have done so and found the error preferable. Neither merits my respect.

I don't even care they won't listen to me trying to explain how they're blinkered, because I have been trying for three mortal decades and that literally never works; to somebody like this one, I'll never be anything but poor white trash, no matter just how cleverly they always think they say it.

I grew up poor and white in Mississippi and I didn't grow up hearing slurs. That is white trash behavior - white trash, not poor! - as I was raised to believe from before I myself could speak. Like public drunkenness or indecent exposure, that is, an "unforced error" invariably both culpable and shameful. And here we have this fool who not only did grow up with those who knew no better, they themself is ignorant enough not to know they should have known better, yet believes themself qualified not merely to opine but to condescend. Must I wipe their nose for them as well? Another orifice, perhaps?
Ask HN: What's your favorite text editor on Mac and why
by johnnykree | 2025-05-07 15:18:03+00:00
I'm looking for a good text editor. I'm not a dev, I'm a language teacher but do some basic python stuff and I like plain text editors more than blown up word processors. Stuff I do: I made a word and sentence scrambler in Python, I write sentences into a text file and a Python script scrambles them. Stuff like this. I tried Sublime text and it's beautiful but I don't want to pay 100$ for something I don't use professionally. I also tried Neovim and while I like it I don't get the hang of it... I'm too unexperienced to make it do what I want. Thanks for any sugguestions in advance.
by bunderbunder | 2025-05-07 15:18:05+00:00
This is actually the point where Rust starts to frustrate me a little bit.

Not because Rust is doing anything wrong here, but because the first well-known language to really get some of these things right also happens to be a fairly low-level systems language with manual memory management.

A lot of my colleagues seem to primarily be falling in love with Rust because it's doing a good job at some basic things that have been well-known among us "academic" functional programming nerds for decades, and that's good. It arguably made inroads where functional programming languages could not because it's really more of a procedural language, and that's also good. Procedural programming is a criminally underrated and misunderstood paradigm. (As much as I love FP, that level of standoffishness about mutation and state isn't any more pragmatic than OOP being so hype about late binding that every type must support it regardless of whether it makes sense in that case.)

But they're also thoroughly nerdsniped by the borrow checker. I get it, you have to get cozy with the borrow checker if you want to use Rust. But it seems like the moral opposite of sour grapes to me. The honest truth is that, for most the software we're writing, a garbage collected heap is fine. Better, even. Shared-nothing multithreading is fine. Better, even.

So now we're doing more and more things in Rust. Which I understand. But I keep wishing that I could also have a Rust-like language that just lets me have a garbage collector for the 95% of my work where the occasional 50ms pause during run-time just isn't a big enough problem to justify a 50% increase in development and maintenance effort. And then save Rust for the things that actually do need to be unmanaged. Which is maybe 5% of my actual work, even if I have to admit that it often feels like 95% of the fun.
by skydhash | 2025-05-07 15:18:10+00:00
Not GP. But I have a 24" 4k (close to retina), the MBA screen and while they're nicer than the 27" 1440p I have, the latter is essentially worthless on macOS. With Linux, it's more than fine. Not super sharp, but quite readable. On macOS, the blurred text is headache inducing.
by snapcaster | 2025-05-07 15:18:18+00:00
I'm of two minds on the ozempic thing.

On the one hand, i'm really happy for my friends and loved ones who have always struggled with weight find a solution that works for them.

On the other hand, i went through a non-drug assisted weight loss journey and improved countless things about my lifestyle besides just the number on the scale.

I worry this solution being available will just increase the number of sedentary people (which is also really bad for your health) and create a whole new set of people dependent on the pharma industry to be able to live their lives how they want
by Gardinengleiter | 2025-05-07 15:18:23+00:00
You generate images with Stable Diffusion, and they just don’t make you happy. You think „the next one will“ and it won’t.

You generate voices and they are still without life and cold, you cannot have an AI create your voice ad, people will pick up on that.

Local/OpenSource LLMs summarize, but they do it so...

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