MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brudgers | 2025-05-04 07:08:10+00:00
Maybe the deeper problem with wireless USB was that “Wireless USB” is an appealing word salad rather than a solution a meaningful problem.

I mean a wireless USB hub would eliminate exactly one cable [1] and onboard wireless USB requires the same number of radios as WiFi. [2] But “Wireless USB” still sounds a kinda’ sexy answer to “What are you working on?” [3]

[1] Wirelessly eliminating one USB cable already had its critical solution in a mature dongle dependent wireless mouse market.

[2] For example WiFi printers were already a thing and fit into the evergreen problem of sharing printers and wireless USB wasn’t going to improve online experience.

[3] “Wireless USB” is a great sound bite. Short, sounds like the future, and people will feel like they know what it means. [4]

[4] The article reminded me that indeed at some point in the last five years (or maybe ten, these things run together) I thought “wireless USB would do that” and googling “wireless usb” because surely it must exist but of course it didn’t really and I probably bought a long cable off eBay. But I remember coming up with the thought and googling.
by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe | 2025-05-04 07:08:25+00:00
I think one solution would be to always have the parent company iname n the children company. This way you don't have github by "Github by microsoft". But any links in between should appear if a separate legal entity.

1. It makes it clear how few powerful people are owning everything.

2. It makes it obvious there's something wrong when you see that the 30 different bottles you can buy in front of you are all from coca colla

3. It makes it very obvious that there's something fishy about "chocolate chips by a france by b luxembourg by c switzerland by d ireland by big conglomerate by mondelez international"
by yusina | 2025-05-04 07:09:29+00:00
> Sure but proof itself might have gaps itself.

Then it's an incorrect proof. In the pen-and-paper era, that was a thing, but nowadays proofs are machine-checked and don't have "gaps" anymore.

Or your assumptions have a bug. That's exactly what I mean with specifications being potentially flawed, since all assumptions must be baked into the formal specification. If hardware can fail then that must be specified, otherwise it's assumed to not fail ever. This never ends, and that's the whole point here.

I suppose we are trying to say the same thing, just not with the same terminology.
by andy99 | 2025-05-04 07:09:38+00:00
We moved recently, and admittedly lucked out getting a good mover, but the main difference that made me pick the one we did was that they were going to use their own truck and crew. We only talked to 2 companies, and the other one, despite owning their own trucks, for an out of town move was going to subcontract to someone, under which circumstances all bets are off as happened to the OP.

When I moved I just assumed there would be problems with the movers because it seems like that kind of industry. Turns out we got a great crew, no tricks or gimmicks, and no damage to anything. It actually felt weird seeing how "normal" something like that could be, when you almost expect something like what the OP got.
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-05-04 07:10:05+00:00
Ok, so your counter is an article which as you say was retracted due to inaccuracies, and then several statements which you categorise as him being down on autists. Neither of which support the previous eugenics accusation. These seem more like straw men. If that's incorrect, please do back it up and say what the relevant argument is. I'll listen, but so far don't see any relevant points.
by tehjoker | 2025-05-04 07:10:18+00:00
Do you have any insight into why the less meritorious claims were being filed? I can imagine that given the amount of entirely legal abuse, prisoners attempt to fight back with a swing and a miss. Ofc, some people are just assholes and given they're in prison, they have nothing better to do, but it's pretty annoying to file a suit so I imagine many of them are motivated by something.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-05-04 07:11:23+00:00
>You just seem to live in a fantasy world where people aren't exchanging their labor for money.

Where did you get that? My entire contention centers around a lack of good options for workers seeking to work fewer hours. A logical assumption, then, would be that I want policies which would give said workers more options. Examples include stronger protections for unions, higher minimum wages, etc. Since I saw these as the logical extrapolations from what I'd said originally, I figured your issue was gov interference in the labor market itself, since you said things like

>In a world where workers are exchanging their labor for wages, that's how it's supposed to work.

>(as in, you're paid money for not working more hours)

You took issue with more money for the same hours, did you not? Why wouldn't overtime be an obvious example? The reason I assumed you were just a libertarian or something was because it doesn't seem like there's an obvious logical juncture to draw a line at. If you're fine with society altering the behavior of the labor market to achieve certain desirable results, then why would this be any different fundamentally?
by timewizard | 2025-05-04 07:12:17+00:00
You did notice that many of those areas are "Service Date Unknown," "Pending Regulatory Approval," and "Coming Soon?"

The first world has great coverage, I'll give you that, but to say that this network is somehow an inherent advantage to indigenous and under served "remote" people is quite literally laughable.

And yes, the Amazon is being served, and they have _faster_ internet than before, which is somewhat good and not without it's problems to be sure, but they had the internet before. They have smartphones. How did you think they utilize the starlink service at all? They have a pretty narrow power budget which this really doesn't help with all while delivering them deeper into the pockets of American monopolies.

Oh, and the mining and logging companies absolutely love that they have the service necessary to support their commercial work in the Amazon. High rating from them, they would agree, it's "amazing."

The ocean, planes, and all sorts of remote vehicles had internet before as well. This is nothing particularly new other than being faster. Which moves the question to the appropriate place. Is it worth damaging the sciences for faster commercial internet? Are we actually doing anything more than sending youtube poop and pornography and gambling websites into places that never had to deal with these intrusions before? All while enabling a higher rate of destruction of the very place they live?
by timonoko | 2025-05-04 07:12:30+00:00
I made Pascal for 8080 in about a week in 1979. How is it possible you may ask?

Well son, I had Lisp and I just added Pascal translator. Only caveat was that it ignored type declarations and such useless academic shit. Because I had sort-of compiler too, it was not really bad when compared to Turbo-Pascal.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-04 07:13:10+00:00
> Both parties in America are bad, they know they cannot be replaced because of the two party system

Yes, the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists know that they cannot be replaced because of the two party system. (Likewise, neither faces the threat of, if it fails to be replaced, being completely re-oriented in a political realignment.) It's not as if, currently, scholars disagree about whether the US is in its Sixth or Seventh Party system -- the two major parties are dominant, stable, and forever unchanging.
by arrosenberg | 2025-05-04 07:13:33+00:00
I don’t believe so. I looked into it a bit more, and it looks like homozygous variant carriers are more susceptible to other types of infection (West Nile is specifically cited), but I don’t see anything showing the variant causes issues with CCR5s other critical functions. I do think a knockout is probably a bad idea based on further reading, but modification seems like a promising path.
by yusina | 2025-05-04 07:13:42+00:00
Getting suffocated with CO2 is also a terrible way to die. Animal welfare research is clear on that. There are other options (with other gases that just make the animal fall asleep and avoids the suffocation reflex) but they are still more costly currently. If we'd switch to those then one reason I feel uncomfortable as a meat eater would disappear.
by gls2ro | 2025-05-04 07:14:14+00:00
I am not sure why people are comparing a web framework with writing your own code in another programming language.

How many CVEs have you had reported yet against your custom code for probably the middleware you wrote to get a request with params available to use them (the params) in an SQL query?

Of course if you are good at this and have a lot of experience than even using an LMM I am sure your code is more than fine. But on average I think it is safe to say that any middleware or library code to deal with HTTP requests and make the information available for business logic generated by an LLM has probably a lot of bugs (some subtle some very visible).

For me the power of Rails is that if you do CRUD web apps it is battle tested and has a long history of giving you what you need for fast building business logic for that CRUD app. Is it the knowledge that is put into designing a web framework that works for 90% of the operations you need to write your custom business logic.
by immibis | 2025-05-04 07:14:35+00:00
In Germany it's illegal to compare things to the Holocaust, even if they are like the Holocaust, even if they are literally a second Holocaust. A politician couldn't run on a platform of "we'll do another Holocaust" (they'd be arrested) but could run on a less specific statement like "we'll eliminate the useless eaters to make Germany strong, sending them Aut to Schwitzerland" and you would be arrested for pointing out how Hitlery that implication was. You might get cleared of charges by the court... six months later.
by clhodapp | 2025-05-04 07:14:38+00:00
Hmm, it seems like the subquery is getting re-run on every single row of the task queue table, which seems like a performance issue in addition to correctness.

Personally, if I were going to put any part of that query in a CTE, it would have been (just) the select, as I generally prefer CTE's to subqueries.

I'm really not sure what motivated the author to create the CTE in the first place, as the final select seems to be essentially the identity function.
by mtsr | 2025-05-04 07:16:07+00:00
And there are actually more flavors of democracy that have been used to break this death spiral:

- ostracism, where the people voted to ban a person who was too mighty or dangerous from the city of Athens for a period of 10 years;

- random selection of (some kind of) representatives. This has predictable downsides, but ensures fair representation and prevents the existence of a political class.
by soroushchehresa | 2025-05-04 07:16:19+00:00
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by jemmyw | 2025-05-04 07:16:35+00:00
I don't know, it doesn't seem simplistic in conclusion. The article describes a dynamic environment and you're just postulating further variation than described there. That doesn't mean the ideas don't agree or that the general formula isn't sufficiently complex to incorporate more nuance than the article lays out.

The linked solution isn't as interesting, mainly because the idea of there being a solution seems the simplistic part. It is a system and it will play out.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-05-04 07:17:49+00:00
> Which, I guess technically anything fully browser based is essentially open sourced :) so perhaps I could use it here.

Open source isn't just about the source code being available (and when making web apps, there is often a compile step which makes the browser facing code not source code), but also about the license under which it is available.

It is in every sense of the word technically not open source.
by temp7937261612 | 2025-05-04 07:18:01+00:00
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by panstromek | 2025-05-04 07:18:43+00:00
> OK, great. Now I have a few hundred lines of C++ I need to read through and completely understand to see why it's incorrect.

I think it's often better to just skip this and delete the code. The cool thing about those agents is that the cost of trying this out is extremely cheap, so you don't have to overthink it and if it looks incorrect, just revert it and try something else.

I've been experimenting with Junie for past few days, and had very positive experience. It wrote a bunch of tests for me that I've been postponing for quite some time it was mostly correct from a single sentence prompt. Sometimes it does something incorrect, but I usually just revert it and move on, try something else later. There's definitely a sweet spot for things tasks it does well and you have to experiment a bit to find it out.
by somefuckingguy | 2025-05-04 07:22:03+00:00
Looks really cool! Well done.

I made something similar, albeit less stylised, a while back. It's got animation. I'm not sure it's the ideal way to do it, but have a look if you want. I describe the approach here: https://bardhovde.com/posts/miko/

Repo: https://github.com/bnhovde/miko Demo: https://mikoapp.netlify.app/
by iamacyborg | 2025-05-04 07:22:29+00:00
> My wife won’t agree though because women hate minimalism they are obsessed with trinkets, do-dads, and Knick-knacks. (see women’s reactions to young men living with only TV and couch meme on the internet)

That’s not minimalism, it’s being a slob. Minimalism implies thought and precision, which is pretty much the opposite of the posts you’re referring to
by egamirorrim | 2025-05-04 07:27:34+00:00
The way dependency resolution works in Java with the special, Google only, giant dynamic BOM resolver is hell on earth.

We have to write code that round robins every region on retries to get past how overloaded/poorly managed vertex is (we're not hitting our quotas) and yes that's even with retry settings on the SDK.

Read timeouts aren't configurable on the Vertex SDK.
by kybernetikos | 2025-05-04 07:28:22+00:00
Most countries with multi party systems use different methods for selecting their representatives. When you do a straight aggregation of geographical areas in which you take whomever gets the most votes in each area (sometimes called first past the post) it becomes possible for the most disliked party in a country to win, widely geographical distributed concerns (like ecological concerns) become underrepresented, and most relevant to this conversation, having multiple parties that are close to each other is a huge disadvantage compared to having a single party attracting more people. Because of this, countries with this system will usually see smaller parties merge and stabilise on a 2 party government / opposition set up.

The study of how different kinds of voting systems work and their advantages, disadvantages and consequences is called social choice theory. There's an interesting theorem called Arrow's theorem that proves that given a certain set of assumptions, there can be no voting system that works exactly as we would like. Sometimes this is used to argue that all systems are equally bad, but I think this is not true at all - even while imperfect, some systems are much better than others.
by yusina | 2025-05-04 07:31:34+00:00
First of all, great tool!

> trust

That's exactly right. The main attractiveness of your tool comes from the "never leaves your browser", insinuating that other similar services do send your data to a server and then who-knows has access to your sensitive data. I really like that angle. But we don't know you. We can use some tools to check that nothing is transmitted today. But who knows about the future? Maybe you change your mind? Maybe once your service becomes popular you sell it for $$$ and the new owner silently pushes things to a server "totally securely, we promise"? Or is even malicious?

> anyone can see the html/javascript

Seeing minified javascript is not the same as open source. Nobody would claim that the google doc UI is "open source".

If you open source this and it turns out as great as it seems then it can make you world famous. If you keep it closed then it will probably disappear in the vast sea of similar sevices, server-based or not (since avg Joe doesn't know the difference and doesn't care). It's your choice to make.

> Though, maybe I'll add something where you can pay to get the desktop version

Ah, thanks for your honesty here. An angle describing your project in a more bad-faith way could now be that you run beta-testing of your proprietay software through this "free" service and intend to turn it into a closed pay product once the public testing has fleshed out the main issues. That's obviously something you are free to do instead of an open source product emphasizing freedom.
by fulafel | 2025-05-04 07:32:04+00:00
Greenspun's rule worked in favour of Common Lisp (to the extent that it did...) because CL solves a lot of hard problems that ad-hoc solutions do poorly, like automatic memory management, DSLs, etc.

But lots of apps can do with a lightweight pull API that can be tailored, fits the applications' access control model (as points of contrast to GraphQL) and it's less work and less risk than finding, integrating and betting on a GraphQL implementation.
by ykonstant | 2025-05-04 07:32:15+00:00
I am weary of GRUB and try to avoid it. The codebase is legendary for its inscrutability, bugs and performance issues abound and its configuration ritual is ridiculous.

And yet, it is king of bootloaders for a reason. It can frigging boot HannaMontanaBSD on an ENIAC. It can boot in UEFI mode, in BIOS mode, it is a chameleon that fits the hardware it is situated in. The devs have made a heroic piece of software.

Perhaps the inscrutability of the code and its issues are inevitable given the scope of the project. I don't know, I just wish we had a more sane codebase with GRUB's capabilities.
by hatefulmoron | 2025-05-04 07:34:56+00:00
I had assumed that the Y axis was corresponding to some measurement of the LLM's ability to actually work/mull over a task in a loop while making progress. In other words, I thought it meant something like "you can leave Sonnet 3.7 for a whole hour and it will meaningfully progress on a problem", but the reality is less impressive. Serves me right for not looking at the fine print.
by altogether | 2025-05-04 07:35:12+00:00
just on point at all why includ this stuff to load more at once... the hole web stuff works since cgi implementations at web services on asyncronity to load just what u actually need... like now most of them are fetch or xhr calls... I mean it makes just sence for onepager to keep the markup a bit more structured... but why u want to make static rendered homepages those days?
by torwag2 | 2025-05-04 07:35:12+00:00
So many smart people out there developing brilliant PDF tools—it's truly impressive! And yet... we still have billions of XFA-based form PDFs lurking in the shadows. Forgotten. Unopened. Untouched. Why? Because almost no tool can handle them.

Where is the hero who will rise to the challenge? The one who will finally rescue thousands of office and admin workers from the endless misery of XFA hell—a nightmare Adobe created and then abandoned in a pit of form chaos years ago.

Seriously, we need you. The world needs you. Be the one who ends the suffering. Be the legend.
by phire | 2025-05-04 07:35:36+00:00
Bluetooth had some early success in cellphones, mostly to support Bluetooth headsets and car radio integration, starting from about 1999. It could do other things, but the wireless headset was the killer app in its early days.

Bluetooth didn’t really hit mainstream until the arrival of chipsets that multiplexed Bluetooth and WiFi on the same radio+antenna. My memory is that happened sometime around 2007-2010.

At that point, the BOM cost to add Bluetooth to a laptop or smart device became essentially zero, why not include it? Modern smartphones with both Bluetooth and Wifi arrived at around the same time (I suspect these combo chipsets were originally developed for handheld devices, and laptops benefited)

And once Bluetooth was mainstream, we saw a steady rise in devices using Bluetooth.

WUSB operates on a completely different set of frequencies and technology and couldn’t share hardware with WiFi. Maybe it could have taken off if there was a killer app, but there never was.
by CJefferson | 2025-05-04 07:36:10+00:00
I don’t know the details of this story, but I had an illness, and tried some antibiotics with no success. After a whole bunch more tests they decided it was a bacterial infection which had buried itself deep in my digestive system somewhere, and killing it required Fluoroquinolone —- which causes serious tendon damage in many people who take it.

It cleaned up my infection, and I didn’t have any side effects —- but hard to shift illnesses can require significant amounts of antibiotics with significant side effects.