MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-07 14:05:13+00:00
The community edition of intellij and pycharm is Apache 2.0 licensed and you can use those for commercial development. Pycharm is about similar to vs code (I've used both). But intellij blows the Java & Kotlin support in vs code out of the water. It's not even remotely close. Reason, Java has several decent OSS IDEs as an alternative and those would win by default if the only option was a paid IDE. Clion and Rustover are somewhere in between I suspect.

VS Code plugins vary from language to language. And commercial non OSS tools for native development are pretty common (e.g. Visual Studio, XCode, etc.). So, I guess Jetbrains feels more comfortable charging for Clion and Rustover for commercial development because they know they are that good. But nothing wrong if you don't appreciate what is on offer.

Yes these tools use some memory and CPU. But then I use a decent laptop as well so it doesn't matter to me. Pretty normal to be spending on proper tools if you do this stuff professionally.
by larodi | 2025-05-07 14:05:19+00:00
Important not - you should not assume Zed is on par with vscode in terms of functionality. Nothing really is as MS started as early as Atom was born, and perhaps they were considering some SublimeText approach to the editior, as it is what started these type of editors more or less.

But Zed is a complete rewrite, which on one hand makes itsuper-fast, but otherwise is still super-lacking of integration with the existing vsix extensions, language servers, and what not. Many authors in this forum totally fail to see that SublimeText4 is super ultra fast also compared to Electron-based editors, but is not even close in terms of supported extensions.

The whole Cursor hysteria may abruptly end with CoPilot/Cline/Continue advancing, and honestly, havng used both - there isnt much difference in the final result, should you know what you are doing.
by plam503711 | 2025-05-07 14:05:25+00:00
100% agree and that's exactly what we do. Almost all of our juniors are near the office. Because they need to see what's working at a company means at least once in their life.

There's few exception when we don't have the choice, but really, I cannot imagine myself to be full remote without having seen a company "in the flesh" before.
by kevmo314 | 2025-05-07 14:05:37+00:00
Cool observation! Despite knowing both about how floating points work and how random number generation works, this never occurred to me.

I do wish the solution were a bit simpler though. Could this be upstreamed into the language's API? https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.24.3:src/...
by currymj | 2025-05-07 14:05:57+00:00
a lot of the ChatGPT assignments are so incredibly obvious. in the most egregious cases literally copy and pasted from the browser without reading. laziness is all-pervasive.

the problem is an academic cheating penalty can have grievous consequences for someone's life, so to prove it requires almost like a "beyond a reasonable doubt" criminal justice standard. and that's difficult to do. so they get through their classes.

"don't hire someone" is a much lower bar. if there are obvious but unprovable ChatGPT vibes in the application, you probably just don't interview them. if there are weird pauses in their conversation during the interview and they sound like they're reading long sentences, don't advance to next round.

a lot of these cheaters are going to get filtered hard.

there is a smarter way to use it but this still requires some level of thought to disguise your cheating, you have to be able to understand the LLM outputs yourself, and a large portion of the cheaters can't manage that.
by marcodiego | 2025-05-07 14:06:04+00:00
Clipper continued popular in Brazil until early 2000's. It was sometimes called 'software de locadora' (video-rental software) or 'software de farmácia' (drugstore software) since they were so often used in these two cases. During the late 90's there was a wave of replacement of such software with applications made in Delphi.

For some time, this world was fully proprietary in Brazil and you had to pay big bucks for tools or resort to unlicensed copies (piracy). Since the second option was unavailable for the public sector and bigger companies, this created an horrible dependency on proprietary inferior software tools that took around a decade to heal. It is a good thing Linux was so successful in some many points of the stack.

An anecdata: a few years ago I bought something in a drugstore that was running a Linux desktop with DosBox running something in Clipper. I also saw Linux desktops accessing something running in Clipper, in apparently a DOS (virtual?) machine, remotely through telnet. Funny but somewhat ugly reality that is fortunately becoming extinct.

Things only got marginally different (better) when during the first decade of the 2000's systems started to go on-line, mostly with LAMP winning against ASP and then, more recently, with the advent of Android apps coupled with cloud services.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-07 14:06:34+00:00
> Not to mention that you are technically not allowed to just copy-paste stuff from SO.

Sure you can. Over the last ten years, I have probably copied at least 100 snippets of code from StackOverflow in my corporate code base (and included a link to the original code). The stuff that was published before Generation AI Slop started is unbeatable as a source of code snippets. I am a developer for internal CRUD apps, so we don't care about licenses (except AGPL due to FUD by legal & compliance teams). Anything goes because we do not distribute our software externally.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-07 14:06:44+00:00
Investment shifts Supply through capital expenditures. Less investment can mean lower supply. Lower supply can mean higher prices. Higher prices can cause lower demand. Investment definitely has a relationship with demand, that's one of the core parts of the law of supply and demand. The businesses don't "have to" grow just because there seems to be a high demand. The businesses not growing can be a useful way to drop that demand. It's still a choice to prefer short-term investment revenue gains from a business that is long-term destructive to the planet and everyone else's well being. That revenue isn't value neutral, the source still matters.
by timr | 2025-05-07 14:07:00+00:00
> Do you have any examples where that has been the case?

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but the department of education comes to mind as a bureaucracy that has no net influence on the amount of education occurring.

(not totally fair, since the department of education is little more than an inefficient way of allocating block grants, but it's a particularly amusing example.)
by PeterStuer | 2025-05-07 14:07:05+00:00
In the "Coherent Strategy" I miss a point 12 that says: European Digital Service companies should be stimulated and anchored in the EU. If deemed strategic, regulation should prevent non-EU ownership participation.

As the past has shown, it's too easy for the printers of the 'world reserve currency' to just scoop up any emerging company with what is basically infinite monopoly money.
by derbOac | 2025-05-07 14:07:08+00:00
Yeah I think the phenomenon is interesting and important to be aware of, but the berating political take isn't really that helpful or productive in my opinion — even though it ostensibly attempts to be unbiased in its criticisms. It would have been more productive to dive into what is working and what might be irrelevant, and how it might or might not generalize to other places.

There is a kind of implicit spin to it. I think it's worth a read, but it's also worth reading and thinking a bit about some of the sources it criticizes.

For example, in this piece the author admits that some of the sleight of hand can't account for increases in reading per se:

https://jabberwocking.com/mississippi-revisited-the-mississi...

However, if you think about it, the sleight of hand can still make the scores look better than they are overall. So while the improvements might still be valid, the comparisons to other states might not be — which is part of the primary substance of the essay.

I'm often disappointed in discussions about educational policy or curricula because so much of it has this cargo cult feel to it, masking political leanings with "objective" results. I say this about a lot of it, not just left or right-leaning discussions. It's almost like someone needs to make a fill-in-the-blank checklist critique of educational discussions (testing, admissions) like the old ones about email alternatives: focusing on means and not variances, attributing progress to everything in a basket of changes rather than trying to figure out which one(s) were responsible, ignoring who the students actually are, ignoring the counterfactual questions that are the elephants in the room, focusing on single outcome variables in isolation, etc. I always feel like almost everyone is cherry picking data to make a case.
by api | 2025-05-07 14:07:31+00:00
It doesn't seem to stop people from having sympathy for the victims of collective punishment, like Palestinian Muslims whose social views tend toward the extreme right, in other countries.

It's hard, I agree. When someone hates you it's by far the easiest path to hate them back. But that's not going to change anyone's mind. It will make them double down.

Edit: I'm not bashing Queers for Palestine. It's brilliant. It's probably changed some peoples' minds in that region of the world. You don't hear about it, of course, because when people reconsider long-held and culturally dominant beliefs they often don't say anything about it for a long time. They reconsider quietly. Bigots and hate-mongers and war-mongers are loud.

One big rule for interpreting culture is: the craziest, meanest, most bigoted people are almost always the loudest. The wise whisper and the idiot yells.
by _fat_santa | 2025-05-07 14:07:37+00:00
> At the distro level, it is ridiculous that so long after Alpine Linux, the chasm between them and Debian/RHEL remains. A minimal Linux install shouldn’t be 1GB…

I would say this is a feature and not a bug. Alpine Linux is largely designed to be run in containerized environments so you can have an extremely small footprint cause you don't have to ship stuff like a desktop or really anything beyond the very very basics.

Compare that to Ubuntu which for the 5GB download is the "Desktop" variant that comes with much more software
by weinzierl | 2025-05-07 14:07:37+00:00
Yes, it is quite nice. That being said I keep a little statistic about IDE usage at the Rust events I attend. I have observed RustRover or CLion only three times at the 48 events I've recorded. One of these three was an event at JetBrains. To be fair, I started my notes long before RustRover existed.

neovim is marginally more popular.

vscode is the crushing majority.
by Majromax | 2025-05-07 14:07:50+00:00
> Disney couldn't then claim that Claude does not in fact have permission because Disney's use of the tool in such a way mean Disney now has unclean hands when bringing the claim (or atleast Anthropic would be able to use it as a defence).

Disney wouldn't be able to claim copyright infringement for that specific act, but it would have compelling evidence that Claude is cavalier about generating copyright-infringing responses. That would support further investigation and discovery into how often Claude is being 'fooled' by other users' pinky-swears.
by hooverd | 2025-05-07 14:07:50+00:00
As someone who grew up in "rural American white culture, Christian conservative culture", you can't get away with saying half the shit they say about cities and urban areas about them. We propose solutions but those solutions are economic, not a return to default status for them. I've seen the vile, disgusting things rural people say about minorities and LGBT because outwardly I'm just another white dude. I've had grandmas scream at me about Obama being the devil (because I thought canvassing in '08 was a good idea).
by Etheryte | 2025-05-07 14:07:56+00:00
Out of curiosity, wouldn't an accelerometer alone not work for this purpose? I see you've hooked it up with engine RPM as well, but realistically you want to indicate when you're slowing down, no matter the reason, right? Is there something I'm fundamentally missing here?

This is a great idea though, and definitely something that more bikes should come stock with. There's a very clear benefit for safety.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-07 14:08:05+00:00
In this study, responsible means owning the industries that cause global warming.

But it doesn't actually say much about warming, it is just a proxy for wealth inequality.

According to [1], "In the first quarter of 2024, almost two-thirds percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners". Unsurprisingly, it is the same distribution: it just means those who own 2/3 of the world also own 2/3 of emissions, it means the top 10% make the same type of investment as the bottom 90% when it comes to warming.

By that logic, it is probably also the case that the richest 10% are responsible for 2/3 of what goes into fighting climate change.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/203961/wealth-distributi...
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-05-07 14:08:09+00:00
So... uh... this seems to say "if you eliminate all the test scores that are bad, Mississippi only has good test scores left." By "adjusting" student test scores based on age, gender, ethnicity and whether or not they get a school lunch, what they're really saying is "there are a lot of poor kids who qualify for school lunches" rather than "there are a lot of poor kids who did remarkably well on standardized tests."
by throwanem | 2025-05-07 14:08:11+00:00
Spoken like a rich white liberal. I grew up in Mississippi white and poor, and I had friends (when we could get away with that) who were black and poor.

If you haven't noticed the way those latter are kept apart - quite literally the oldest play in America - then you haven't been nearly as attentive as you imagine yourself to be. The ignorant contempt you display here confirms it. Well, as you correctly note, ignorance in some cases is a choice. Choose better.
by bcx | 2025-05-07 14:08:14+00:00
Incredible timeline - also helpful to understand the OpenAI side.

1) OpenAI is valued at 300B (as of March 31st) https://openai.com/index/march-funding-updates/

2) OpenAI recently raised 40B from SoftBank and others.

3) Windsurf is getting roughly 1% of OpenAI's valuation.

OpenAI needs to keep moving fast to outpace MS, Google, and others -- and I think we can all agree that agentic coding is a major trend -- that is likely to keep growing really fast -- and super high leverage in that the folks doing the coding are well paid -- and more likely to be early adopters than any other field. (e.g. if openAI wants a fast way to grow beyond $20-$200/month, owning a tool like windsurf is a good move)

Some folks have been speculating the cash/equity split. I'd be confident whatever number they arrived at de-risks things for windsurf, and preserves the right amount of cash on hand for openAI.

Even if OpenAI is burning 10-20B a year, with the recent raise would buy them between 1-2 years, and given the pace of AI development that's a pretty long time.
by 127 | 2025-05-07 14:08:26+00:00
Investing is giving money, thus life to a company, with the expectation that you will get more back in time. If fossil fuel companies and ancillaries would have to pay higher interest rates, there would be less fossil fuel companies.

Yes, investing doesn't come with free pass. You are very much involved and supporting the company. Thus morally tied to what the company does.

Whether you care about that at all, is up to you. You just don't get to eat your cake and have it too.
by seabird | 2025-05-07 14:08:29+00:00
They absolutely should be doing this but they're never going to. For a huge number of people, this is Team Blue vs Team Red. Those born-drunk fuckup hick racists are Team Red so their role in the game is to be a verbal punching bag.

There's a very real chance that the Democrat demographic coalition collapses in our lifetime. The contempt so many commentators held for groups that "surprisingly" swung for Trump is pretty telling of how this is probably going to keep going.
by like_any_other | 2025-05-07 14:08:38+00:00
> In other words, "a society in which inheritance weighs more than work in the accumulation of wealth," as Mélanie Plouviez, a lecturer in social and political philosophy at Université Côte d'Azur, explained in an interview with Le Monde on March 31.

This is true in every decent society, where it is possible to earn and keep wealth. You have but one lifetime, so it is natural the fortune built up in many lifetimes by your ancestors is greater. Keep in mind much tax has already been paid during the accumulation of those fortunes, as France has a high tax rate compared to the OECD average [1].

> By 2040, €9 trillion in inheritance held by France's oldest citizens will be passed down to their children, according to a report by the Fondation Jean Jaurès, published in November 2024. This equates to €677 billion annually.

France has 675k deaths annually [2], which equates to €1M per death in inheritance, or two houses' worth [3]. Of course this says nothing about inequality, which is hidden by averages - I'm just trying to put the articles' utterly meaningless numbers into some context.

> Indeed, surveys consistently show inheritance tax is the most disliked levy. This is likely because it touches on deeply rooted ideas of family, effort and intergenerational support. Some researchers, like Plouviez, also point to a widespread misunderstanding of how inheritance tax works. "The least favored segments detest it," even though they are not affected by it, said the sociologist, given that the first €100,000 passed to each child is tax-exempt.

They are correct to dislike it. "A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." They may not be directly affected, but how differently will the factory owner act, when the more he builds the long-term value of his company, the more tax will have to be paid to leave it to his children. This encourages short term thinking, and worse, forces those heirs to entangle themselves in financial markets. What was once a family company planning for decades ahead, now worries only about next quarter's stocks and dividends because they were forced to sell parts of it as shares to pay inheritance tax.

I don't understand this obsession with taxing inheritance - which promotes the most virtuous and long-term behavior, when taxing income does not have these faults - and, I will hazard a guess, still has plenty of tax loopholes activists could be targeting instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_France

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/464154/number-deaths-fra... - estimating by total population and the average lifespan yields a similar figure.

[3] https://mydolcecasa.com/france-real-estate-market-report/
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-05-07 14:08:41+00:00
Can we stop with this illusion that the EU is some kind of personal data protection heaven? This is not true and hasn't been for a while.

The EU just wants the same data as the US except it tries to hide it because it wants to project the image that your data is safe here. But it isn't.

Regarding your argument about data protection:

- The data retention directive passed in 2006 to give unlimited access to all your data to LEOs without a court order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

It was overturned after 8 years even though everyone knew it was illegal from day 1. Even after its repeal, some countries have decided that they would keep the data accumulated so far and/or continue collecting it anyway.

- France recently tried to ban E2E to "stop drug trafficking" and "terrorism"

- The EU has been trying to pass Chat Control, a law which would force messaging apps, email providers and social media companies to scan all your personal data with a US made AI and save all your data somewhere that Europol can access. This data could then be searched at will by LEOs without a court order. This law has been on the table for the last 3/4 years and they keep bringing it up because they want to "save the children"

On the freedom of speech:

- Denmark recently started reintroducing blasphemy laws where it is now illegal to burn a religious book. Now that this Rubicon has been crossed, who knows what will happen next.

- In many European countries it is becoming increasingly harder for journalists to do their jobs properly https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/29/media-freedom-...

I don't mind when people compare the EU to the US when it comes to matters related to privacy or freedom of speech, but if we are going to do that, we need to get the facts straight and not repeat ad vitam aeternam things which are not true.
by 6P58r3MXJSLi | 2025-05-07 14:08:45+00:00
> If the top 1% dictate what you should do, that is evil, but if they don't, that's also evil?

the top 1% emits to amass more capital for themselves, not to produce what's needed by consumers, who are thereby responsible for their share of emissions and that share is already accounted for in the data.
by boesboes | 2025-05-07 14:08:47+00:00
Funny, because it is illegal to pay donors here. I used to be a donor, but the energy and effort it takes were too much for me at the time. And plasma donors have to 'free up' a lot more time.

Not to mention how i get a cookie and the semi-goverment organisation charges >600€ for a baggie to hospitals. Someone needs to pay for that CEO's third house and car collection!
by palmotea | 2025-05-07 14:09:55+00:00
> Building bunker capacity for every citizen is definitely about size. The US is incredibly spread out compared to most European countries.

Not really, it's per capita, not per area. There's nothing physical about America that would prevent it from requiring developers to add a shelter to every housing unit or in every housing development, like Switzerland does. Likewise, there's nothing physical preventing America from building and maintaining public shelters in denser urban areas.

The article also mentioned Sweden has public bunker capacity in urban but not rural areas. There's not physical reason American could not do something like that.
by klabb3 | 2025-05-07 14:10:11+00:00
It’s not that much flamebait imo. It’s not exactly a secret that the mainstream global left have been losing large amounts of voters to populist right. It’s driven by fear of scaring away voters with socialism (both Europe and US) and in the US in particular the Dems are a corporate center party which actively resists progressive policies and rhetoric that acknowledges the struggles of average people. See exhibit A: sidelining Bernie.

I think the left has been making these judgments in error: the risk of being labeled socialists didn’t stop Bernie from getting grass roots rural support, just as the risk of being called a totalitarian fascist didn’t stop Trump one bit. Now, the issue is even if the dems wake up, how are they gonna consolidate the direct conflict of interests with their corporate support? You can’t win a game of money in politics if you upset the money that fund both the entrenched political class and the campaigns. Right wing populism is easier that way. All they want from the corporations is cultural obedience like removing DEI, it doesn’t hurt their business one bit. Look at how quickly Meta etc turned coats.