MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by llflw | 2025-06-20 13:26:49+00:00
Why bother using human language to communicate with a computer? You interact with a computer using a programming language—code—which is more precise and effective. Specifically: → In 1.0, you communicate with computers using compiled code. → In 2.0, you communicate with compilers using high-level programming languages. → In 3.0, you interact with LLMs using prompts, which arguably should not be in natural human language. Nonetheless, you should communicate with AGIs using human language, just as you would with other human beings.
by lotharcable | 2025-06-20 13:26:54+00:00
Nvidia under Linux has had a long and hard history.

For most purposes, including gaming, it is best to avoid Nvidia hardware. Using Intel for laptops and AMD for dedicated GPUs is kinda the best general approach if you are planning on using Linux.

Of course if you have a need for CUDA then Nvidia is the only game in town, but that is a different issue then Wayland support.

For a while Nvidia was fighting the Xorg/Wayland devs over GBM vs EGLStreams which has delayed Wayland support. This has to do with the API extensions that allowed Wayland to manage application output buffers.

Gnome was the only Wayland environment to try to support EGLStreams for Nvidia, but it really didn't do them any good.

A while ago Nvidia eventually switched over to GBM and EGLStreams is dead, which helped out a lot of people running non-Gnome Wayland desktops. But there are lots of problems with Nvidia drivers besides that right now.

The reality is that Nvidia doesn't care about consumer Linux desktop. Their primary focus is on Enterprise users in terms of people needing graphically accelerated desktops.

So right now if you are running Linux on your personal workstations/desktops/laptops you are essentially beta testers for whenever Enterprise Linux distros make the switch to Wayland.
by preachermon | 2025-06-20 13:27:04+00:00
> even when AI hallucinates, when you interact with it again it is able to recognize its error

"recognize" is a strong claim

> and try to fix the mistake it made,

or double down on it

>just like a human would.

probably not, because the human is also responding to emotional dynamics (short and long term) which the AI only pretends to mimic.
by infecto | 2025-06-20 13:29:01+00:00
You’re stating opinion as fact while accusing others of being emotional. Ironically, your own comment reads like a reaction to hype, not a sober assessment of capability. Saying LLMs are “only useful in niche situations” is not a fact—it’s a perspective, just like mine. We’re all operating off personal anecdotes and incomplete information. The difference is I acknowledge that.

We can debate usefulness all day, but reducing the opposing view to “you fell for marketing” isn’t critical thinking.

And yes your reply unfortunately read exactly like ChatGPT would respond which I found both amusing but also hard to read as the logic was overly verbose.
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-06-20 13:29:19+00:00
> Inertia of user base is by far the largest predictor of what will stick in a market

Why are you calling open source of market?

These appear to be feuds and battle of ideas fought between contributors, with minimal input from end users. There is no price signal at all

Re. Bicycles, it’s not a healthy market. Shimano dominates with 70% share in gears and brakes. Top 3 manufacturers have what, 95%+? Also look at how cargo bikes cost 3x what a normal bike does, but have same components.

With that structure, users have zero input on size of breakpads.
by bloppe | 2025-06-20 13:29:22+00:00
This is funny but it's telling that people often resort to exaggerations to paint Linux as hard to use. Any major distro is a lot easier to set up than it was 15 years ago.

Sure, most people's eyes gloss over the moment I try to explain the distinction between Linux and GNU, but if you're really that uncurious about how the system works then what's the point of switching to Linux anyway. Windows / Mac already get you most of the way there, especial now that WSL is a thing.
by holowoodman | 2025-06-20 13:30:07+00:00
Wayland is a perfect example of the second system effect and the sunk cost fallacy. X11 had problems, but instead of fixing them, developers threw the baby out with the bathwater, designed something completely byzantine and weird. Time was invested, so no stopping now or ever. The design of wayland introduces more problems than it solves, only by plastering over with yet another extra protocol that you have to implement in addition to wayland you might regain some lost functionality. Or paper over a design bug that will never be fixed.

Wayland is a dead horse. Made edible by sufficient fermentation and mobile towards the finish line by declaring the rot spreading over the line to be a victory. That Gnome just now gains parts of the functionality it had in X11, years later, while still being actually behind X11, while being an incompatible mess that leaves behind all other desktop environments to the detriment of the Linux ecosystem as a whole isn't actually a victory. Its the victory of the slightly-less-ruined after a devastating war.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-20 13:30:09+00:00
Typically, in accounting contexts, tangible is used to refer to physical products, such as mammoth meat, or stone axes.

Intangibles would be the gain or maintenance of reputation from going to have a meal at your in laws and all that jazz.

Regardless, in this context, trade is trade, one entity giving up something for another. Simply spending the time to go to your in laws for a meal is a trade. And while many would not cough up cash to show the transactional nature, far more would simply not go to the dinner (or go less often) and opt to spend their time elsewhere.

Or, if the in laws have something you want, maybe you opt to spend more time with them.

I am not claiming one has to solely view every interaction through this lens, or should. But it is a component of most every interaction. You could strike up a conversation with a stranger with no ulterior motive and then it carries on too long and you start thinking I could spend my time better elsewhere.
by roenxi | 2025-06-20 13:30:16+00:00
> A lot of the Linux accessibility support depended on X11 behaviour that is now widely regarded as a set of misfeatures. It's not actually good to be able to inject arbitrary input into an arbitrary window, and it's not good to be able to arbitrarily scrape out its contents.

While that may be true, I'd suggest that it is not a consensus view and, more specifically, there is probably a consensus that the capability to do arbitrary scrapes and inputs needs to exist in a controlled fashion. Wayland had a bizarre stillbirth where the core team resisted screenshots, I can't remember when the Wayland ecosystem started getting serious about enabling screen sharing but I've got a memory that it was post-COVID.

It goes to show how challenging the space is that Wayland managed to keep trudging on, but it was nothing to do with "woke" and a lot to do with "I don't accept that screenshots are a significant development hurdle". I still flat out don't trust them to have resolved all the issues crippling things like autoclickers but I'm hopeful I'm just very out of date. The initial take was poorly designed and that bit Wayland's adoption hard.

The ecosystem may eventually reach the level of capability that X had in a standardised and secure way. Maybe it even has (I doubt it). But there is no consensus that security trumps having a usable desktop. I'm happy with an insecure desktop, anyone serious who wants to spy on me can use my phone. It is wildly insecure as far as I care and I carry it with me most hours. People trade this stuff off for convenience. Every time I've tried Wayland I discovered it had been secured against me using my system to get things done.
by DavidPiper | 2025-06-20 13:30:44+00:00
While I agree with some of your points, this comment is actually doing the thing you're criticising, just in the other direction. You're claiming that your work is complex and unknowable to outsiders (SWEs in this case).

As a SWE-turned-product-manager, you're in an ideal place to teach SWEs about:

- how to present to the business the risk of the kinds of complexity they deal with

- the human realities of working on a team with other people

- why the salesperson turned CEO just doesn't get them, man

_Every_ function in a tech business has hidden complexity.
by bandoti | 2025-06-20 13:31:00+00:00
I recommend folks give “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” a read. Another good book is “Negotiating Rationally” (see below).

If the core developers/maintainers are putting in thousands of hours over several years, and a patch comes along, it is rightfully at the discretion of those doing 80-95% of the work.

But as negotiating rationally discusses, we value our work more than others—and there’s some emotional attachment. We need to learn to let that go and try to find the best solution, and be open to the bigger picture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Negotiating-Rationall...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-20 13:31:04+00:00
> "I'm fine. The other {person, group} is not right"

> Projection is pretty rampant.

This reminds me exactly of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). The accusation is offered in lieu of a good argument because it helps the accuser avoid noticing the “derangement” in their own thinking.

It’s also telling that it is given the moniker “syndrome”. It is called such in order to discredit the accused; such a “syndrome” is a reason not to take someone seriously, regardless of the actual content of their speech.

Actually, now that I’m writing this, I recall there’s often talk of Liberal “hysteria”. No talk of what others are hysterically saying, nor the meaning behind it, just the “hysteria”. Perhaps not seeming as a projection but certainly as another excuse to dismiss a perspective they don’t want to think about or discuss.

Mental health issues are an excuse to dismiss any individual or their beliefs in American Conservatism, so naturally American Conservatives have no self-reported mental health issues because they don’t want themselves or their beliefs to be be dismissed.
by vidarh | 2025-06-20 13:31:19+00:00
You keep assuming that it's HN staff, but HN articles very often get flagged by regular users when they get political, and having seen some of the comments on one of the other articles, including some of yours, I'm not the slightest bit surprised they got flagged.

If people want Xlibre to have a shot at HN at all, those are things to fix. Making unsubstantiated claims about HN staff is not going to change anything - if anything that too is likely to attract flagging.
by tomhow | 2025-06-20 13:31:25+00:00
It's not about tone it's about substance. When your comments are all laced with indignation, the substance is lost. I'm actually pleading with you to engage in discourse here. I'm telling you that I (and, evidently, many others in this community), aren't expert enough in this specific topic to see how these comments are so egregious (rather than just wrong, which is not a guidelines breach). I did some enquiries of my own about the topics, and sure, I picked up some further details. But that's not enough to me to unilaterally kill these comments, and after all that's not the point. You're expecting us to moderate a particular way about topics you have particular knowledge about and particularly strong feelings about. That's not something we can ever do, no matter the topic or the side. This is a perfect example of why it matters to optimise for substance over indignation. You could simply respond with opposing evidence, and educate other readers, me included. That's what we most want here.
by kentonv | 2025-06-20 13:31:37+00:00
Where did Nathan say he's using Kubernetes? I think I missed something. His comment describes a new alternative to Kubernetes. He's presenting stateless functions and stateful actors as supplementing containers. He knows all about Cloudflare Workers -- Rivet is explicitly marketed as an alternative to it.

It feels like you didn't really read his comment yet are responding with an awful lot of hostility.
by jen729w | 2025-06-20 13:32:09+00:00
Nope. iCloud Private Relay from Saigon, but doesn't work even if I unblock & show IP.

And I don't know why OP is being downvoted. What's the point of putting a website up if you 403 people who try to visit? That is FUBAR BROKEN and is inexcusable, sorry.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-20 13:32:24+00:00
I live in a vacation area upstairs from a bar frequented by tourists. I’m friends with the bartender. I’ll go down there when it’s not too busy sit at the bar talk to the bartender and whoever else comes around and is interested in talking. Mostly other guys or couples.

I usually avoid talking to women because I’m obviously married wearing my ring and no matter what, it might come across as creepy and women usually have their guard up and are probably there with spouses somewhere around.
by nilirl | 2025-06-20 13:32:27+00:00
Pandering.

The main claim is fine: If you disregard human expertise, AI can end up doing more harm than good.

Biggest weakness: Strong sense of 'us vs them', 'Agile Industrial Complex' as a term for people working outside engineering, derogatory implication that the 'others' don't have common sense.

Why not address that no one knows how things will play out?

Sure, we have a better idea of how complex software can be, but the uncertainty isn't reserved to non-engineers.

Look at HN, professional software developers are divided in their hopes and predictions for AI.

If we're the experts on software, isn't our job to dampen the general anxiety, not stoke the fire?
by syklemil | 2025-06-20 13:32:54+00:00
This seems similar to how macos has bash, but it has ancient bash. Allegedly the reason is that Apple is fine with GPL2 but not GPL3.

Though at that point I kinda wonder why they bother shipping bash at all, when their default shell is zsh, and it's entirely possible to have system shell scripts run by the BSD-licensed dash, rather than bash.

There's probably also something to be said about the choice of running ancient GNU make rather than BSD make, but I don't know enough about the differences to say it.
by Hilift | 2025-06-20 13:34:13+00:00
The weather is nice, and there are public services. No-one wants to be homeless in Bakersfield. It is expensive for people with money.

Remember that 25% of unauthorized immigrants live in California, mostly in the south. Last year, California made them eligible for Medicaid for health care (MediCal). It probably is attractive that people there can get health care and providers can get reimbursed.

https://www.laalmanac.com/social/so14.php
by atonse | 2025-06-20 13:34:49+00:00
I use ground news. It’s fine and gets the job done. Maybe I’ve gotten used to it.

I have liked the blindspot feature though. It was very useful during the US election when one sided reporting was especially bad. But I personally still find it more useful to watch YouTube videos from diverse sources.

I’d love for them to curate YouTube videos for current events, rating channels by bias. That would be even more useful for me personally.

But I’ve also found the Washington Post or Economist to be more desirably “boring” in their reporting, rather than NYT that seems to just not care anymore.
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-20 13:35:08+00:00
This is not necessarily tech driven. People are extroverted or introverted. Pre smartphone, when I was alone on the bus or subway, I always had my nose in a paper or a book. Now it's my phone or a Kobo. I didn't like and wasn't good at making small talk back then, and I don't think that has changed much. I feel like there are a lot of Seinfeld subplots built around avoiding social interaction that I really identified with.

On the other hand, I feel a lot of media is pushing us to ignore, suspect or otherwise be scared of strangers. I don't know that this is uniquely tech driven though.
by sokoloff | 2025-06-20 13:35:29+00:00
Six generations ago, over 80% of Americans worked in farming. Owning your family's farmland made sense as a means to even out the land you farmed versus the land you owned. As farming industrialized, became more efficient, and food became readily available with less than 2% of Americans working in farming. In that world, the amount of farmland you needed to personally own to offset the amount you personally farmed was zero.

Will the same happen for housing? Everyone starts out naturally "short" one unit of housing. To gain housing, you can rent or buy it. Buying it puts you "even" in the same way as above: your ownership and your usage is in balance.

I don't see the factor that would cause people to stop wanting personal housing land.
by dustincoates | 2025-06-20 13:35:38+00:00
Here are more details on this: https://augustafreepress.com/news/public-records-request-is-...

UVA baseball lost >$3 million in 2023 off of $1.7 million revenue. UVA football (a middling program) meanwhile is making a profit of over $20 million.

Baseball is nowhere close to football. I'd be surprised if college baseball was making more revenue than minor league baseball.
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-06-20 13:35:42+00:00
> > With the popularity of disk brakes, why don't we have a standard size for pads? Same as for shifters: the braking compound and design for a race road bike will be really different to what a DH race bike requires

I really don’t understand how this mentality Uk survives.

for the past 100 years companies have been working to get unfair advantage over each other by creating user lock-in, patent trolling each-other, DRM in games, changing their design to break compatibility with generic products etc.

surely you must realise that many motivations for product difference have no bearing on user benefit, or we would never have region-locking on DVDs or proprietary media formats.

Bicycle market is not a healthy competitive market. Shimano makes almost all gears for all bikes in Europe. For the price of an electric cargo bike that goes 15 mph and has 0.6 kWh battery I can buy an electric motorbike that goes 70 mph and has 6 kWh battery.

They are both about £4,000
by bluecalm | 2025-06-20 13:35:52+00:00
I considered coming to Mr. Pedro Sanchez' country to do business there. I would even come to one of the poorest regions not to contribute to the housing crisis as I like the weather, fresh food and emptiness of it.

>>3% tax on my global wealth every year (in effect it's more like 4.5% because there is also significant capital gain tax)

>>60% tax on a semi-decent tech salary

>>25%+ capital gain tax for my investors (if I find any)

>>people don't speak English, many of them are proud of it

>>scheduling anything with anybody is impossible, the concept of being on time doesn't exist

>>Bureaucracy is slow, full of paperwork, can't be done online, can't be done in English, the result depends on clerk's mood on a given day

>>if someone comes to my house when I am away I can't kick them out, need to find another house and keep paying bills for the new occupa(s)nts

I am sure that once they kick Google out they will make some innovation fund where many government officials find work. Then the money is going to be transferred to the newly sprung industry of innovation grant appliers. It will be a lot of money for a lot of people. In the middle of it a new search engine arises - made by a disgruntled European in Singapore.
by simonw | 2025-06-20 13:38:04+00:00
On the subject of AI hacking Jira... Atlassian released a new MCP the other day which turns out to suffer from exfiltration attacks due to combining the lethal trifecta of access to private data, exposure to untrusted data (from public issues) and the ability to communicate externally (by posting replies to those public issues).

Here's a report about the bug: https://www.catonetworks.com/blog/cato-ctrl-poc-attack-targe...

My own notes on that here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/atlassian-prompt-injec...
by syklemil | 2025-06-20 13:38:16+00:00
I also use just as a command runner, but I gotta agree with the others here that it should be described accurately as a command runner, while make is a build system.

There are some uses of make, especially by people who have never used it to build C/C++ projects, which makes more sense to replace with just. It doesn't have the baggage that make does, and they're not using it to actually make files. They also quite likely don't know the conventions (e.g. what a lot of us expect "make install" to do), and I support them in not learning the conventions of make—as long as they use something else. :)

Other uses of make will need other modern replacements, e.g. Cmake or Bazel.

It is possible that Kids These Days can say "no thanks" when someone tries to teach them make, and that the future of make is more along the lines of something us greybeards complain about. Back in _my_ day, etc.
by kragen | 2025-06-20 13:38:35+00:00
From the page, the only point in the extensive discussion of Popper where it disagrees with (its own explanation of) Popper's ideas:

> On the other hand, Popper’s idea that there is only falsification and no such thing as confirmation turns out to be incorrect. Bayes’ Theorem shows that falsification is very strong evidence compared to confirmation, but falsification is still probabilistic in nature; it is not governed by fundamentally different rules from confirmation, as Popper argued.

Popper's idea that confirmatory evidence has no value at all is obviously implausible. Some obviously implausible things turn out to be true anyway, since the universe is not constrained by our imaginations, but not this one; as the page clearly shows, we know that this particular implausible result is slightly false, and we can use Bayesian probability to calculate exactly how wrong.

I've answered your question, because I think that's what a bare minimum level of courtesy demands, but you keep evading mine. What epistemological propositions of Popper's do you think they're missing?
by legacynl | 2025-06-20 13:38:58+00:00
I kind of had the same experience with all the ubuntu flavors, and other distros. Ubuntu kinda does too much. It tries to be a complete desktop replacement and as such comes with a lot of preconfigured software. If you have a non-standard wifi-chip or audio chip, or whatever component, it could be that any of those parts break, and you'll have a hell of a time finding out where it's coming from.

What worked for me was to try arch. With arch you basically start with nothing, and you build it up from there. It'll take a few hours reading the install process on the wiki, but it's otherwise very easy. In the end you'll have a full understanding of what is happening on your machine. When something happens you will know what program is causing it, because you installed and configured it yourself. Or at least it makes me feel like that, because nothing has ever actually broke or not worked on my current arch install that I'm using for over 8 years. My install seems to 'just work' and I can highly recommend it, even though the install process is a bit more involved.

The only problem with Arch is that it's not afraid to introduce breaking changes in their packages, so sometimes when updating, there could be some manual intervention involved. Best is to update at least once a week, and check the website once in a while.

> Take a look at a default emacs

Is that the default terminal editor on Ubuntu? I fully agree those text editors where typing doesn't enter text should never be the default. Something like nano should always be the default imo.