MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rickydroll | 2025-05-01 13:57:27+00:00
I understand why people use the Mac for their local LLM work. I can't bring myself to spend any money on Apple products. I need to find an alternative platform that runs under Linux, and preferably, since I would run this remotely from my work laptop. I would also want to find some way to modulate the power consumption to turn it off automatically when I'm idle.
by SkyBelow | 2025-05-01 13:57:36+00:00
>You seem to think this is game of try to find legal loopholes. That is a good way to get thrown in a jail by a judge.

What I don't get is that sometimes it seems that is the game, sometimes the legal loopholes are accepted and other times they are not. It feels one of the big benefits of hiring a good lawyer is that they know which loopholes are accepted and which are seen as spiting the authority of the courts.
by MisterTea | 2025-05-01 13:58:12+00:00
Yeah this is why line drying kinda sucks. Worse in the winter when you have dry skin and your stiff jeans are sanding your legs down. The solution is to tumble them in a dryer for 10 min on no heat or low to soften them up. If you dont have a dryer you can shake/tumble them by hand wrapped up in a bed sheet, laundry bag or basket. I did that a few times but it's laborious.
by dTal | 2025-05-01 13:58:29+00:00
Philosophically speaking, sensory data is no more "external" or grounded than words are. You do not see - your eyes see. You do not hear - your ears hear. You cannot truly interact with the world except at a remove, through various organs. You never perceive the world "as it really is". Your brain attempts to build a consistent model that explains all your sensory input - including words. Where words and sensory input disagree, words can even win - I can tell you that you are in VR, or dreaming, or that immigrants are the cause of all your problems, and if I am careful and charismatic you may believe me...

tl;dr what you think of as "grounding" is just yet more relative context...
by jerjerjer | 2025-05-01 13:58:29+00:00
> Look at how snubbing developers has worked out for the Apple Vision Pro.

I think it's mostly the lack of users. Apple snubs mobile developers all the time, but since they gate access to a large chunk of well-paying customers, developers are ready to jump through any hoops.

If there were millions of Apple Vision Pro users I'm sure the developers would have followed, but it's of course a chicken and egg situation considering Vision Pro lack of content.
by QuicklyNow | 2025-05-01 13:58:44+00:00
I made an account to thank you for this. I've been looking for a _fast_ alternative to explorer since Windows XP. But one that doesn't require a change in workflow. This is the fastest I've tried by far. I've only been using it for 5 minutes, but I'm sold. Earlybird discount too!

Thank you for posting this, and if you have any other speedy apps you'd recommend I'd welcome suggestions. Mine top suggestions are Speedcrunch [0] (calculator app) and Everything [1] file search combined with Listary [2]

[0] https://github.com/ruphy/speedcrunch

[1] https://www.voidtools.com/

[2] https://www.listary.com/

(For reference, I've tried Total Commander, DOpus, Files, Explorer XP, XY Explorer, Explorer ++, FreeCommander, Double Commander, Q-Dir)
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-05-01 13:59:20+00:00
I’ve been a manager in tech for the last 11 years full-time

Prior to that I was a military commander as a Major in the United States Air Force

Before joining the AF I had jobs in construction, freelance web design and car stereo installation in high school

The singular difference is the personality of tech workers is “I can do this faster and easier by myself - I have no desire to communicate with other people”

It seems to stem from a large swath very technical people coming from isolated environments when they were children.

Specifically ones in middle to upper middle class families, where the computer was their creative outlet and they were spending more time with a computer and understanding the computer than they were other people.

They were able to get excited about and learn and get deep into a topic where you really didn’t need other people — you need to documentation you needed books and you needed time to experiment.

Almost every single other job I’ve ever worked in you *need* other people in order to make progress. That is not true for writing really small functional and precise software which is the “job” of most swe.

As a function of that the majority of SWE’s (and frankly this applies to most technical experts who have a very specific niche) have neither of the interest nor the belief that the organization is valuable in of itself as the organization and they are way more excited to jump companies in order to promote themselves because that is how they are incentivized and are happy to find themselves in that position.

If you wanna actually make an organization that creates sustainable software, you need an entirely different way of thinking. you need to think organizationally you think you need to think about how to help people how to get things out of their way communication etc. etc. etc. all these things have nothing to do with“shipping code “

And for a lot of people who are good at programming they really genuinely could not care or have the capacity to understand about anything other than their narrow frame of view and they do not see their coworkers as part of their community they see them as competition.
by flmontpetit | 2025-05-01 13:59:30+00:00
Social media cracking down on leftist ideology is something that needs to be studied. They are very slick about it, and will usually find some way to make it appear legit (eg: deliberately interpreting obvious sarcasm as literally as possible and then hitting you with the content policy) but at the end of the day anybody can see that reactionaries can get away with calls to violence and war crime apologia while the rest of us have to be on their absolute best behaviour.

It really goes to show you that capital has no ideology and will adopt whatever shape it needs to as the political climate changes. The United States government is now fascist, and therefore the investor class is also fascist.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-05-01 13:59:34+00:00
This assumes that the patsy needs to never discover that his device was compromised.

I'm guessing there are a few scenarios where they could be tortured / blackmailed into compliance, even if it meant that the DoD would know about it in a day or two, and it would still be worth it.

E.g., shortly before a real fight over Taiwan began.

I really, really hope Hegseth gets his OPSEC act together, yesterday.
by ericmay | 2025-05-01 13:59:48+00:00
You can Google something like "made in America t-shirts" and should find plenty of results as I did (not trying to be a jerk and say "Google it", really just trying to be helpful if you are indeed looking). I'm not sure about the European Union.

There are quite a few but just an example: https://www.american-giant.com/pages/about-us (no affiliation or any further research other than identifying from a lengthy list of made-in-USA clothing).
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-01 14:00:01+00:00
We tend to think like this, unconsciously if not outright: "I'm smarter than the next guy, so in a dog-eat-dog system I'll come out ahead. Organizing with a bunch of less-smart people would only hold me back."

Plus, at the risk of too much head-shrinking, I've never gotten the impression that tech workers liked each other very much. There's a lot of disdain in the industry, for the guy who uses that language or framework or operating system that I think sucks. You don't see that so much with, say, truckers. There may be some good-natured rivalry based on truck brands or long-haul versus short-haul, but not the real disdain you see in tech.
by wltr | 2025-05-01 14:00:02+00:00
It took me many years to accept Unix logic (macOS and Linux) too, but mostly because my first system was Windows.

For some reason, things like disks, C:\ and D:\ were logical to me, while I couldn’t grasp why cannot I put my files into root directory, and I’m forced to live in a subdirectory (/home/user) instead. It takes some time to re-learn, but I’m looking back with some dread. Things I accepted as simple, are actually unacceptably complex.
by TuxSH | 2025-05-01 14:00:04+00:00
These day0/day1 patches and updates usually weigh a lot less than the base games, on Switch the appeal of cartridges is to avoid filling up storage.

Before the Switch, save files were also stored on cartridges, making physical medium far more appealing than the mess digital was on the 3DS (if you owned more than 1 console).
by dylan604 | 2025-05-01 14:00:08+00:00
> And without saying as much to her, I feel like my child's life is markedly worse than mine growing up.

Growing up as a kid, we didn't even have the internet. Gaming consoles were well off into the future (NES wasn't until my teens), so we did crazy things like play outside. Being able to survive without internet/devices wasn't crazy, it's just how things were. I can't imagine going through life with anxiety level panic at the mere thought of not having a device within arm's reach at all times. The thought of wasting my childhood/teens doomscrolling and trying to think I was so important to call myself an influencer or even caring about what some rando on the internet does that I think I have to follow them is insane. I definitely feel like this is a markedly worse situation than my childhood.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-01 14:00:37+00:00
> Military officials privately discussed whether they could paint the current Air Force One jets in Trump’s favored color scheme for the incoming president, people familiar with the discussions said. The Biden White House had rejected that paint job for the future president jets, whose dark blue paint might increase the heat signature on the plane and require costly and time-consuming modifications to avoid interfering with key electronic systems.

What the hell?
by brnt | 2025-05-01 14:00:39+00:00
In addition to sibling: the bike is, for many people, already, 'too cheap to meter', so the tax advantage goes to the train subscription. And quite some employers either give you a train subscription, or let you deduct kilometers travelled at some rate. That rate depends on modality, but the subscription for free is usually (always) a much better deal, _if_ you really don't need that car.

Whoever is left driving cars (which is, also in the Netherlands, a large fraction), can't for instance drive up to some remote train station, and rail the rest. That's how you can get those who still drive out of their cars; those that already take trains are covered by the rules as they are.
by pietroppeter | 2025-05-01 14:00:42+00:00
I am a bit biased on the content ;), but note that this is a talk that is not focused on teaching the language but more on what does it mean to learn a second language, especially a niche one - like Nim - coming from Python. It does shows some code examples and highlights some features though. I like official documentation (tutorials) but Nim basics is another good resource.

When I first learned Nim I remember the thing I struggled the most with was the mutability of parameters when passing them. Another big thing I would say is letting go of python’s dict and embrace types. In place of dict I usually consider the following options: tuples (which are great and named), objects, tables (from stdlib, very similar to dicts but with homogenous types for keys and values) and JsonNode (as a final option if the others do not work).

Advent of code makes for a great practice ground.
by parpfish | 2025-05-01 14:01:24+00:00
Sometimes I worry that all the stories about unions helping to end the most extreme exploitation and fix deadly working conditions has made them unrelatable.

If you make a cushy salary and the biggest physical risk is carpal tunnel, you might think ”I dont have it THAT bad. It’d be greedy and disrespectful of the sacrifices that were made to use unions in my situation”
by telotortium | 2025-05-01 14:01:32+00:00
Literally nothing here is specific to MCP - it all has to do with the fact that Chrome extensions can make HTTP connections to localhost ports, which could be running any kind of server. This is not an unrestricted backdoor either - Chrome extensions already need permissions in the manifest to talk to localhost, except via content scripts, which run in the context of the website and so could be served by the website without any extension installed.
by prmoustache | 2025-05-01 14:02:00+00:00
Linux ships with more drivers than the proprietary OS out there.

There are office software and I would be interested to know what gui configurability do you need that doesn't exist already. More often than not when someone ask a question about linux in a forum he will gets answers using the command line. This is not because you can't do it with a gui. The reason is that copying and pasting text is much easier than showing people how to navigate into menus using screenshots and videos. Text based interface are just superior when it comes to support and message boards. People use cli a lot on linux because it is convenient.
by Wobbles42 | 2025-05-01 14:02:09+00:00
I don't think there are any companies that care one way or the other about taking away your freedom.

Companies are revenue maximizers, period. The ones that aren't quickly get displaced by ones that are.

The simpler test is to stay away from any company that has anything to gain by taking away your freedom. THAT unfortunately is most of them.

The depressing reality in consumer tech is that anything with a CPU doesn't belong to you, doesn't work for you, and will never do more than pretend to act in your best interest.
by ericmay | 2025-05-01 14:02:40+00:00
I think that's rather unfair, and if you don't want to participate in a conversation you can just ignore the comment instead of accusing others of trolling. I'm not trolling, I like to discuss and debate these topics on the Internet, and if there are facts or concepts that you think should require a source in civil conversation you can ask for those. This is also a new paradigm shift in America and so most of the mainstream opinion articles you read don't have much more information than anyone else, and funny that you mention propaganda because that's exactly what you're going to find hidden away in those mainstream opinions.
by zeroq | 2025-05-01 14:02:50+00:00
It's roughly 10Gb across several CSV files.

I create a new in-mem db, run schema and then import every table in one single transaction (in my testing it showed that it doesn't matter if it's a single batch or multiple single inserts as long are they part of single transaction).

I do a single string replacement per every CSV line to handle an edge case. This results in roughly 15 million inserts per minute (give or take, depending on table length and complexity). 450k inserts per second is a magic barrier I can't break.

I then run several queries to remove unwanted data, trim orphans, add indexes, and finally run optimize and vacuum.

Here's quite recent log (on stock Ryzen 5900X):

08:43 import 13:30 delete non-essentials 18:52 delete orphans 19:23 create indexes 19:24 optimize 20:26 vacuum
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-01 14:02:54+00:00
Entire departments run on the "pivot table" button. Most companies have at least one person who needs some Excel feature that isn't available in the common alternatives.

I've worked on software that communicated with other software using custom Excel spreadsheets exported by yet different software, modified by humans. Every stage of the process was specs-incompliant and was using edge case features, but this process oversaw transport for goods worth millions every day. I tried my very best not to reach for a Windows VM, but there was nothing that could work on these files.

For the vast majority of times, bikes are good enough for the majority of travels, yet there are cars everywhere.
by cruzcampo | 2025-05-01 14:03:23+00:00
We are what is called the labor aristocracy in socialist discourse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_aristocracy

It is still labor and we are still exploited - most the revenue we generate goes to capitalist interests, not us, the laborers, which are the creators of all revenue.

It's just that we have it comparatively good and so are less inclined to seek out systemic change - a less favorable reading would be that we are bought off to split us off from the rest of the proletariat.
by simonw | 2025-05-01 14:03:25+00:00
It's been a solid trend for the last two years: I've not upgraded my laptop in the time and the quality of results I'm getting from local models on that same machine has continued to rise.

My hunch is that there's still some remaining optimization fruit to be harvested but I expect we may be nearing a plateau. I may have to upgrade from 64GB of RAM this year.
by Retric | 2025-05-01 14:03:41+00:00
Not when you look at objective metrics of bias such as sentiment analysis or track time spent on positive vs neutral vs negative coverage of various issues. Of course that’s in relation to US political parties, pick a different ‘center’ and you can get any answer you want for how the media is biased overall.

Objectively FOX isn’t pure propaganda they do include some coverage critical of R politicians and policies. It’s just far less than say CNN spends on coverage critical of D politicians and policies.
by erkt | 2025-05-01 14:04:00+00:00
Lightroom 5 is miles better than what they offer today. Lightroom Creative Cloud is steaming dog shit. Adobe seriously gets to extort over $120 a year out of me simply for the privilege of reading raw files from a new camera. They provide zero positive contribution these days. All of these incumbent tech companies extract rents on algorithms written decades ago. This needs to end. I am very excited for AI to get advanced enough to whip up replacement programs for everything these companies maintain monopolies over.
by rayiner | 2025-05-01 14:04:18+00:00
> Oh no, the President would have to follow the same laws as everyone else, how horrible

“Laws” aren’t magic. If you could just have “laws” and trust prosecutors to enforce them fairly and neutrally, then the entire constitutional structure, with three branches and checks and balances, is pointless. You would just have prosecutors as basically the government’s “microkernel” and then the other three branches on top.

The framers didn’t create that system because they understood that you can’t trust prosecutors either—they’re political too! Our system is designed like a game of rock-paper-scissors, where the checks on each branch come from the other branches, not prosecutors enforcing “the law.”
by chmod775 | 2025-05-01 14:04:21+00:00
What killed the Vision Pro is the complete lack of support for the two main things people use VR for. Productivity is a distant third behind the likes of VR Chat and pornography. If Apple managed to capture only 1% of VR Chat's monthly userbase, they would've tripled their pathetic sales numbers.

Apple tried to focus on productivity and some light entertainment and didn't even throw the other two a bone by supporting a PC link feature. Particularly they didn't make a physical link possible - Wifi is not reliable/high bandwidth enough for most people, so those third party solutions aren't cutting it.

Apple users are mostly locked out of the existing PC VR ecosystem - Apple didn't have to rely on developers writing dedicated apps.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-05-01 14:04:26+00:00
Despite consensus this benefits dental health (an important part of heart health) and has no side effects, and the reality that municipalities that already banned fluoride suffered a huge upturn dental issues - particular in children who don't brush as often.

I'm sure the state is ensuring that this little experiment doesn't harm anybody by guaranteeing access to dental care, right? Putting our money where our mouth is and making sure that if they're doing demonstrable harm that anyone affected is compensated?

Oh, no, the poors can just deal with it? Nice.

Makes sense in a bill about "freedom and liberty" that also bans transporting mushrooms that naturally grow in the state and flying drones above farms.
by padzochambers | 2025-05-01 14:04:28+00:00
I’ve also noticed YouTubes lack of attention to finding me new videos that aren’t maybe in a category I’ve watched before. I find my homepage filled with videos I’ve seen before or just the same categories churning similar videos. Similar to Spotify, the app struggles to push new music and instead just regurgitates old music I’ve previously listened. I don’t get the same refreshing/random feeling YouTube created before.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-05-01 14:05:07+00:00
> An EU law stiffles all companies > it feels like near anarchy

These two... really don't work together, unless my idea of what the word 'anarchy' means is different.

Anyway, an EU based company that wants to trade in the US also has its own slew of legality to consider, including dealing with work visas when visiting, state vs federal laws, import taxes, etc. [0] is the tip of the iceberg. A lot of tech companies will just "move" to the US in order to make things easier (just like a lot of US companies move to e.g. Ireland)

[0] https://www.kvk.nl/en/international/doing-business-with-the-...
by ses1984 | 2025-05-01 14:05:56+00:00
Most of us have way, way more in common with a meat processing worker than we have in common with the people who sign our pay checks.

The wealthy class makes multiples of your salary in passive income and their marginal tax rate is lower. You work and fork over 40%. They do nothing and pay 15% or less.

You put your retirement money into a 401k. They put their retirement money into a “charitable foundation”.

You draw down from your retirement money. They take a loan against it.

What’s the difference between a billionaire and a meat packing worker? Billions of dollars.

What’s the difference between a billionaire and a faang engineer? Also billions of dollars.
by trgn | 2025-05-01 14:05:57+00:00
the labor movement really needs to get beyond this stereotype that it is to lift all these hunched poor little downtrodden suppliants out of poverty. workers who have successfully organized are not pitiful schlubs, and their affluence is a testament to the success of their organizing, not its triviality. political interests of the labor class just are not the same as those of capital, and therefore its methods and aims should be different as well.
by naming_the_user | 2025-05-01 14:06:04+00:00
In the absolute sense, from my perspective as someone who was born with not much (I often have a sense that this discussion is driven by people who were always fairly well off and see "the poor" as a different species) the primary issue is excessive regulation, resulting in things like property being hilariously expensive, so that it's difficult to afford a house or start a business.

Wages and hours for low level jobs feel like a distraction, barely anyone needs more toys, the issue is that the necessary items for life are monopolised.

So from my perspective the only thing that labour regulation can achieve is to basically just compress that experience, we still won't build more housing or make it easier to do so etc.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-01 14:06:11+00:00
Apple always has been like that, see The Cult of Mac book.

However, it appears being at the edge of bankruptcy, and having turned the ship around has made them paranoid of losing a single cent.

When Apple Store came out it was great.

I was a Nokia employee at the time, and 30% was a dream compared with what you would have to pay to phone operators, app listenings in magazines with SMS download codes, for Blackberry, Symbian, Windows CE, Pocket PC, Brew, J2ME,...

However we are now in different times, and acting as if the developers didn't have anything to do with it, it was all thanks to Apple's vision of the future, it is pure arrogance, and yes the Vision Pro was the first victim.

Here is another one, if they do really announce an UI revamp at WWDC 2025, I bet most will ignore it.