MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dahart | 2025-06-11 15:25:22+00:00
It’s a good question, what exactly is this decay and why is it called undeniable? Is that even true? If I think back on what programming was like thirty years ago up through today, everything about computing has steadily improved, gotten easier, more reliable, and higher quality, on average. All operating systems crash a lot less often than they used to. Computing devices from desktops & laptops, to phones, to routers & NASes, to household appliances, have all become faster, better, cheaper, and have more features and higher utility.

There are some ways I could see the author being somewhat justified, especially when it comes to the need for debuggers. Software is getting more layers. The amount of it and the complexity of it is going up. Debuggers are super useful for helping me understand the libraries I use that I didn’t write, and how my own code interacts with them. There are also a lot more people writing code than there used to be, and because the number of people writing code has been growing, that means the distribution skews toward beginners. I feel like the number of languages in popular use is also going up, and the diversity of coding environments increasing. I don’t know that I would frame all this as ‘decay’ but it does mean that we’re exposed to higher volumes of iffy code and abstractions over time.
by sumtechguy | 2025-06-11 15:25:49+00:00
Edward Bernays created a method to get people to buy/hate/like things. It is used all the time. Its manipulative and shockingly effective. You will never see it coming. It is used all the time on everyone for any plethora of subjects. Subliminal advertising while mildly effective can not hold a candle to the Edward Barnays method of selling.
by figmert | 2025-06-11 15:26:34+00:00
This is amazing. I've used wanderlog extensively, but while its feature set is great, it can be a nightmare to work due to how slow it can be sometimes.

I've just registered to test it out a little bit. I tried to replicate my upcoming trip that I have set up in Wanderlog, and have the following feedback:

- Overall, amazing! Snappy. Real easy to follow.

- I love the simplicity.

- I like that this is essentially excel (kind of), but with travel specific additions.

Now for the potential improvements:

- I can't add someone else as an editor, it seems. Clicking add just logs a "TripForm" with the form object. I don't see any network requests either.

- Expenses don't allow me to select how to split it (maybe this is an issue because there's no-one else part of the trip?)

- Timetable contrast needs a bit of work. Maybe needs some padding/margins or something.

- MapTiler doesn't seem to have a good enough database. I struggled to add 152 Morrison Road

- Activities can't span multiple days (I tried adding a train ride than arrived 45 mins past midnight)

- Adding/editing activities while on the timetable page, does not update them until I refresh (or navigate away)

Outside of all that, how are you planning to monetise this? The code is released under MIT, which doesn't stop anyone from adding some subscription plan, hosting it, and advertising it. May I suggest something like AGPL?
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by neversleepman | 2025-06-11 15:26:44+00:00
i got tired of all these vibe coding tools that hyperfocuses on serious and shiny stuff, so i made one that exclusively embraces funny AI slop.

you type 1-3 short sentences (no big brain prompt engineering needed) and then get amazed by the result. it can even do sounds and 3d sometimes.

i made this one for HN: https://hacker-humor-z5t.slop.page
by buffalobuffalo | 2025-06-11 15:26:55+00:00
I kinda consider it a P!=nP type thing. If I need to write a simple function, it will almost always take me more time to implement it than it will to verify if an implementation of it suits my needs. There are exceptions, but overall when coding with LLMs this seems to hold true. Asking the LLM to write the function then checking it's work is a time saver.
by KK7NIL | 2025-06-11 15:26:57+00:00
Gilbert was a legend of analog design.

Here's a lecture by him on the translinear principle: https://youtu.be/LQNJVtcFrCc

And here's some history of his work at Tektronix (where he discovered the translinear principle): https://vintagetek.org/barrie-gilbert/
by quodlibetor | 2025-06-11 15:27:26+00:00
I recently wrote a similar tool focused more on optimizing the case of exploring millions or billions of objects when you know a few aspects of the path: https://github.com/quodlibetor/s3glob

It supports glob patterns like so, and will do smart filtering at every stage possible: */2025-0[45]-*/user*/*/object.txt

I haven't done real benchmarks, but it's parallel enough to hit s3 parallel request limits/file system open file limits when downloading.*
by DrammBA | 2025-06-11 15:27:32+00:00
> Less than 1% average framerate

Where did you see this? I quickly skipped through both videos and saw 5-20% difference in average framerates, 20%+ difference in 1% lows which is what makes a game feel choppy/laggy, and 5-10+ seconds difference in loading times.

And going by the techniques explained in the OP those numbers make complete sense, that's the cost I would expect for the advanced obfuscation/protection Denuvo uses.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-11 15:27:33+00:00
I disagree to it being a strawman. If you are doing something where you location being identified could put you in a spot of bother, do not carry anything that can track your location. There's just no way around it. If you want to use wavy hands to pretend tracking of location isn't so bad, then you go ahead and call it a strawman. For people whose physical safety depends on not being tracked, it is not a strawman.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-11 15:27:40+00:00
> There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before

No "the world" won't be getting richer. A small subset of individuals will be getting richer.

The "new policy ideas" (presumably to help those who are being f*d by all this) have been there all along. It's just that those with the wealth don't want to consider them. Those people having even more wealth does _not_ make them more likely to consider those ideas.

Honestly this drivel makes me want to puke.
by cardamomo | 2025-06-11 15:27:48+00:00
One nit: there are times when you do want to use a metal nail or screw in a joint, particularly if there is some sort of cross-grain joinery going on and you want to allow for wood movement. Chris Schwarz (publisher of this article) makes the point himself: https://blog.lostartpress.com/2015/07/11/the-bare-bones-basi...
by bane | 2025-06-11 15:27:50+00:00
RomM is a great project! I've so excited to see the integrations coming along.

As somebody who's setup a lot of little retroboxes, the idea of doing it once and having my collection served off of my homelab to all my other devices is incredibly appealing. Web-based emulation has come a very long way. Still I prefer to play off of my individual devices many of which don't have good browser support.

Setting those systems up can take hours each, but being able to point something like a Batocera instance or an ES-DE setup at a server and have it self populate with roms, bios files, screenshots, etc, would be a dream. It sounds like this might be the future of the emulation ecosystem and it sounds amazing!
by rustcleaner | 2025-06-11 15:28:02+00:00
Yep now instead of menstration cycles and abortion, replace it with antisemitism or grass-eaters or any other political disposition. You may be getting denied jobs because of posts you made to an anonymous imageboard which you thought were anonymous, but something like your Grammarly extension sent all your typed text up the pipe and now the corporate-state squid knows you're a wrongthinker full of thoughtcrime.

Intel agents look for blackmail to gain leverage over targets. I wonder how many security cleared personnel are going to be vulnerable to Chinese and Iranian extortion, once a database run by one of the cloud-based cannabis CRM+POS companies gets leaked with all that customer and purchase info. I am seriously considering making a fake ID for pot shops, so they quit typing my name into their cloud-connected fucking databases!
by Devasta | 2025-06-11 15:28:13+00:00
From wikipedia:

Murdock purchased Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina, in 1982. At the time, the company was profitable and had no debts. He used the company's profits to pay back the loans he secured to make the acquisition before terminating 2,000 positions and selling the company-owned homes. He eliminated the company's $100 million pensions plan, taking $36 million to make personal investments and using the remainder to purchase annuity policies from Executive Life Insurance Company for Cannon employees. Executive Life later failed due to its own poor investments and reduced its payouts to retired employees. Murdock sold the Cannon Mills to Fieldcrest in 1985.

As an atheist, I have long accepted that there is no heaven.

The fact there is no hell however, is a tragedy beyond measure.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-11 15:28:31+00:00
Archived: https://archive.ph/wbnso

When a franchise has gone ten years without a new title it looks pretty tough to start a new one. Lately I've been playing Persona 5 Royal which was an expansion to the 10 year old Persona 5. I'd say that P5 is great fiction but a poor game because it doesn't make you make social choices that matter, for instance, in one playthrough it is not hard to max out the social connection with all the other characters. A playthrough is too long to expect anyone sane to New Game + it, it gets stretched out longer because you feel compelled to see everything.

A P6 game is almost unimaginable to me, I mean they really could make another game with the same formula, it's hard to see technology really improving it. I guess they could address the problems I pointed out above by making a shorter game which forces you to play through a few times to experience everything. If they do, people will ask "who moved my cheese?" but if they don't it will be "10 years and they didn't change anything". I thought Dynasty Warriors Origins did a good job of being a game with a 10-year gap, but I'm one of the few and not-so-proud who likes Musou games.
by mrweasel | 2025-06-11 15:28:54+00:00
It's also not entirely clear what Alexa was suppose to do, nor Siri for that matter. Being a personal digital assistant turned out to be much less useful than many imagined and being a voice controlled Bluetooth speaker is mostly a gimmick outside the car or kitchen.

That's not to say that Alexa and others can't be useful, but just not to enough people that it justifies the R&D cost.
by thorin | 2025-06-11 15:28:56+00:00
I would encourage you to speak to the wall first in case they run outdoor sessions or see if there are any clubs in your area. This assumes you live in an area with some outdoor climbing. Outdoor bouldering can be done with little equipment, but you need to start way easier than what you'd do at the wall. The ground is surprisingly hard and I've seen someone break their ankle right in front of me a few times and it does not look fun.

Outdoor sport climbing is pretty easy to get into if you have bolted climbing in your area, but as you get higher the ground gets even harder so make sure you know what you're doing. Lots of good books and resources available.

If you really want to get into trad climbing be prepared for a longer apprenticeship, take your time and start easy.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-06-11 15:28:58+00:00
If you review the TTField information, you can see that the fields these devices emit are much stronger and at lower frequency bands. For instance, a smartphone held 5 cm away emits roughly 0.025 V/cm, whereas the helmet we're discussing hits you with anywhere between 1.0 and 3.5 V/cm. So the lower band is about 40 times stronger than a smartphone held against your temple!

Wireless headphones emit 10-400 times less energy than smartphones do. My personal takeaway is that you're safe.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-06-11 15:29:17+00:00
except this analysis don't survive the real world.

living in California and contributing code to gaia, i could only have a dev phone (not being involved with moz) when i went to an alley in Mexico city known for selling black market (no tax) computers. there i could finally pay usd50 to buy the crumiest bright orange plastic phone to use for dev work.

would i have spent usd200-500 on my hobby to get a good phone months before i had a trip to mexico city? probably. would i pay the usd300 retailers in the us were charging for the crummiest low end phone? hell no.
by shadowgovt | 2025-06-11 15:29:27+00:00
> Not a logical fallacy, but the most incomprehensible development over the years is that somehow large numbers of people think it is OK for people to just pour into the US as they wish, no controls, no admission criteria, nothing

Actually, it's the other way around.

The US southern border was very porous for most of its history. Around 1986, a combination of moral panic about Latino influence on the culture and concerns about drug trade enabled the Reagan administration and Congress to tighten immigration law into something approximating the structure we have today in terms of enforcement (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5049707/).

This backfired spectacularly. Let people bop back and forth to Tijuana, and they bop back and forth to Tijuana. Force them to struggle to cross the border, to declare nationality, start evicting them if they over-stay... And now they have reason to choose and to fight for the choice. The result of closing the border is undocumented immigration went up (secondary statistics strongly suggesting that this was actual immigration, not enforcement resulting from more tracking of undocumented immigrants).

Regardless of the law on paper, under-enforcement was the behavior of the land for nearly a century, and this new regime is an experiment that has strongly suggested the law was sourly anti-human to begin with.

(As a meta-comment on law: you're talking to a generation that watched the War on Drugs happen. Don't be surprised Americans have soured on the notion, in general, that law and morality are closely interlocked).
by pona-a | 2025-06-11 15:29:36+00:00
I think you're missing the point. This is a thread about GNOME, a major desktop environment, declaring systemd-userdb as a necessary requirement for its future version, asking the non-systemd community to provide an API-compatible implementation if they want to keep using GNOME.

I personally do not use GNOME, nor am I running a non-systemd system at the moment. This is the first time I wrote a single word about systemd vs other inits on the internet, explicitly because it couldn't be more on-topic.

It's a common false compromise to say you now depend on a component but welcome alternative implementations. In reality, this quickly becomes treadmill for their maintainers, forced to adapt to its quirks so the dependent software even has a chance of working. You can read more about eudev as a more notable example of that dynamic. Projects like Wayland avoid it by having a committee of major implementations vote on proposed specs.
by lipowitz | 2025-06-11 15:29:50+00:00
On a code level I'm inclined to agree that it will do better line-by-line.

On more abstract things I think it has to have intentional filters to not follow you down a rathole like flat earth doctrine if you match the bulk of opinion in verbose authors in a subject. I don't see the priority for adding those filters being recognized on apolitical STEM oriented topics.
by hamburglar | 2025-06-11 15:30:06+00:00
This looked promising, but the first two things I tried to record with it seemed just outside of its capabilities. I track blood pressure daily, but it didn’t seem to have a way to record a metric that has two numbers. In addition, I record the sodium and potassium values of everything I eat, and I want a way to record the name of the food item along with those two values (preferably providing a dropdown for previous entries that auto-fills the numeric parts).

Also, the nagging about buying premium was quite aggressive and it made me feel like I couldn’t even get a feel for what the app is like first.
by svachalek | 2025-06-11 15:30:32+00:00
I guess if you're generating some script to run on your own device then sure, why not. Vibe a little script to munge your files. Vibe a little demo for your next status meeting.

I think the tip-off is if you're pushing it to source control. At that point, you do intend for it to be long lived, and you're lying to yourself if you try to pretend otherwise.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-06-11 15:30:43+00:00
This doesn't seem like a big deal to be honest.

My main problem with the policy and how it's implemented at my job is that the ones setting the policies aren't the ones impacted by them, and never consult people who are. Our security team tells our GitHub admin team that we can't use 3rd party actions.

Our GitHub admin team says sure, sounds good. They don't care, because they don't use actions, and they in fact don't delivery anything at all. Security team also delivers nothing, so they don't care. Combined, these teams crowning achievement is buying GitHub Enterprise and moving it back and forth between cloud and on prem 3 times in the last 7 years.

As a developer, I'll read the action I want to use, and if it looks good I just clone the code and upload it into our own org/repo. I'm already executing a million npm modules in the same context that do god knows what. If anyone complains, it's getting hit by the same static/dynamic analysis tools as the rest of the code and dependencies.
by hiatus | 2025-06-11 15:30:54+00:00
The problem is not related to tracking every action or version in CI/CD changes. Right now, you can just curl a binary and run that. How is that any different from the exploit here? I guess people may have had a false sense of security if they had implemented those policies, but I would posit those people didn't really understand their CI/CD system if they thought those policies alone would prevent arbitrary code execution.
by troyvit | 2025-06-11 15:31:15+00:00
> We have at minimum gained a huge body of knowledge on "how to talk like people" that will stay there forever for researchers to use.

This is spot on. I think we'll be able to capitalize on other talents of "AI" once we recognize the big shift is done happening. It's like five years after the Louisiana Purchase: we have a bunch of new resources but we've barely catalogued them, let alone begun to exploit them.

> how long until all the LLM corporate initiatives die?

Sooner than I personally thought, and I place a lot of that with Apple's. They've led the way in hardware that supports LLMs, and I believe (hope?) they'll eventually wipe out most hosted chat-based products, leaving the corporate players to build APIs and embedded products for search, tech support, images, etc. The massive amounts of capital going into OpenAI, Anthropic, etc., will ebb as consumer demand falls.

I hope for this because the question I keep asking is, how can our energy infrastructure sustain the huge demand AI companies have without pushing us even further into a climate catastrophe?
by _aavaa_ | 2025-06-11 15:31:23+00:00
Go look at videos of the current UI. It's not just doing an alpha blend between two static images. It's doing real time effects to mimic refraction and color separation the way you except to see through glass.

Also, 20 years ago you're talking about desktops connected to the wall, or laptops with no expectations of battery life. The name of the game for phones is use the hardware as little as possible a down clock asap. The fancier the UI, the longer older hardware need to stay upclocked and the more they have to work to hit 60fps (or more) smoothly.
by kragen | 2025-06-11 15:31:36+00:00
Thanks! I'm sorry I didn't include that link. They say of the dating method:

> Younger samples are dated using single-grain quartz optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and older samples by postinfrared infrared stimulated luminescence (pIR IRSL) from potassium-rich feldspars (Methods and Supplementary Information Section 2). The pIR IRSL approach used extensively in recent years²⁵,²⁶ does not suffer the problems that can generate large uncertainties associated with thermally transferred OSL (TT-OSL), as seen at Site C North (Fig. 1b)²⁰.

I had never heard of this archæological dating method before, but Wikipedia comes through as usual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optically_stimulated_luminesce...

Not having read the full paper, I don't understand why they think the date at which the sand around the wood cooled from magma temperatures is relevant to when the carpenter cut the logs? Or maybe they're assuming the sand was exposed to the sun and optically bleached around the time of the carpenter, so any trapped charge is from after that? https://insu.hal.science/insu-03418831/file/MurrayEtAl-2021-... looks potentially relevant.
by jajko | 2025-06-11 15:32:16+00:00
One of reasons I am underwhelmed by all the smart sport watches. When eventually their DBs get hacked or they sell data willingly, I dont want my employer to see that I was running in the forest during lunch time, or my health insurance to see any circulatory anomaly if I had any.

Fuck that, I will start ignoring that few years before retirement, not a second earlier. Its a shame, and I know people like me wont bend the direction we firmly head towards
by unshavedyak | 2025-06-11 15:32:38+00:00
Small update, i ended up purchasing. So far it's been pretty productive. I'm avoiding using it for work that i find complex or vague, as it's more difficult to explain it and constrain it to what i want than just doing it myself.

However so far it's been amazing at doing grunt work. Especially grunt work i've been avoiding. "I've" already gotten a handful of things done that i've been pushing off the a year.

One issue i have noticed is i need to figure out how to more quickly toggle the level of thinking. I've used to some Opus credits on grunt work, it would be nice if the system could just automatically use Sonnet for easier grunt stuff.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-06-11 15:33:12+00:00
Advertising will need to shift. But there will be a lot of resistance to making ChatGPT a shill for products. They won’t risk it now when trust is still shaky with all the hallucinations.

I agree non-AI search will go away and it will be a steep cliff - Google does not have a real moat against a significantly better product
by gabriel666smith | 2025-06-11 15:33:33+00:00
Wow! Why?

Personally, I'm fascinated by the question of what Joyce would have done with SillyTavern. Or Nabokov. Or Burroughs. Or T S Eliot, who incorporated news clippings into Wasteland - which feels, to me, extremely analogous with the way LLMs refract existing text into new patterns.
by em-bee | 2025-06-11 15:33:34+00:00
there is an alternative contact app that doesn't share your data. you can then fill the default contact app with fake data or leave it empty.

i am not sure if the last point is a good idea though. i get what you want to achieve. anonymity in numbers and plausible deniability, but you are more likely to get mixed up with problematic stuff others are doing rather than protecting yourself. having a common name already shows that. it is both a blessing and a curse.