MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ExaltedPunt | 2025-06-22 22:53:25+00:00
> I'm doing that "routine" because it's what I've been seeing time and time again over the last years. I keep seeing lines drawn in the sand, those lines being stepped over, and everybody suddenly just accepting it and calling everyone who still keeps to those lines "RINOs" until they fully disappear.

I have no idea what you are even referring to. I am specifically talking about anti-war sentiment from Trump's base (which is not the same as Republicans). It has been consistent over the last 9 years.

> But if you can't extend this much good faith to me, we have nothing to discuss. Good day.

You literally did the routine that I specifically complained about in my original comment. Why should I extend to you any good faith? I specifically said I was tired of it and didn't want to hear it.
by arp242 | 2025-06-22 22:54:03+00:00
Opera Presto didn't use it, and had a User-Agent like:

Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux zvav; U; en) Presto/2.12.423 Version/12.16

Didn't seem to cause that much problems.

It did keep the version at 9.80, presumably because >=10 must have caused problems somewhere.
by GuB-42 | 2025-06-22 22:55:11+00:00
Google would have to pay a lot of licensing fees then...

> Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

It is Mozilla (nope), Linux (yes, in a sense), Android (yes) AppleWebKit (not Apple and not WebKit), KHTML (nope), Gecko (nope), Chrome (yes), Mobile (yes), Safari (nope).

So maybe they owe something to Mozilla, Apple and KDE.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-22 22:55:34+00:00
Re/ the speed limit, I'm afraid I simply don't understand. Why not just raise the speed limit to 70 instead of having everyone lie? If everyone starts then doing 75, why not raise it again? Eventually you'll hit a breakeven point. Considering that most highway accidents happen because two people disagree about the speed they should be driving at, and considering that fatalities and accident severity in such accidents scales with something crazy like the square or even the cube of the speed you're going at, this actually feels like the worst possible way to negotiate that.

Conversely, under an enforcement regime where everyone is genuinely scared to go higher than 65, the worst case scenario is... Everyone does 65. Fewer accidents, and fewer fatalities from those accidents. Best case scenario is they rapidly revise up to 70 - 75 - wherever.

Re/ "imagine that a bad law could effect a relatively small group much more than others", I think we would have to define more closely what a 'bad law' actually is to answer that first. Under this kind of fine-based regime, it would have to be something that targets a small group, unfairly, and manages to consistently extract a lot of money from them, which requires they have a lot of money to reliably extract in the first place - otherwise it stops being worth the effort to target them specifically.

I guess you could imagine making lottery scratch tickets a fineable offense, and thereby target pensioners unfairly. That's the closest I got after 5 minutes of thinking about it.

Re/ using money to incentivize public action - we have clashing moral intuitions on this, I definitely don't see it as a last resort. In fact I would far prefer it to be the first resort. Money is a much more efficient, scalable, precise, and robust way of handling things than e.g. sending people to prison (which we still have to pay for, by the way, prisons aren't cheap).

Re/ the idler's law itself - You're allowed to be against it personally, that's fine. The people of New York City voted in favor of it, and they probably have good reasons for this that mostly only make sense to themselves. Personally, I've been to New York, and seen how cramped those streets are. It doesn't surprise me that some schmuck holding up half of 6th Avenue should be made to pay for it - they are likely causing thousands of dollars of cash flow loss per second because on who's late for work because of them. But even then, I don't live there. I don't actually have a good sense of this kind of thing. I defer to the wisdom of the locals here. Do as the Romans do.
by pcfwik | 2025-06-22 22:55:53+00:00
Absolutely not a perfect solution, and maybe you're already using it within your Makefiles, but for anyone who doesn't yet know about it there's Latexmk[1] which is supposed to automate all of this hassle. I think at least on Debian it's included with texlive-full. In addition it has some nice flags like `-outdir` which lets you send all the crazy LaTeX intermediate build/aux files to a separate directory that's easy to gitignore.

https://mgeier.github.io/latexmk.html#running-latexmk
by CharlesW | 2025-06-22 22:55:57+00:00
"Backed by Y Combinator, Void IDE is a fork of Visual Studio Code."

Having used Cursor and Windsurf for projects, and more recently having tried OpenAI Codex, Google Jules, and Claude Code (winner: Claude Code) to build another project, I've mostly landed on the opinion that the "Yet Another VS Code Fork" strategy is an evolutionary dead end.

It turns out that I like my IDE, and that (as far as I've seen) there are virtually no benefits to the wholesale replacement of said IDE. Integration with popular IDEs is welcome, but now that I've experienced both, thinking of repositories rather than replacement AIDEs as the hub for AI assistants just makes so much more sense.
by strken | 2025-06-22 22:56:32+00:00
I question whether lowering your nuclear latency for strategic purposes is the same thing as building towards a bomb.

Switzerland's nuclear program stayed one step away from actually putting together a nuclear weapon for several decades straight. The fact that they could become a nuclear power, but haven't, and could credibly restart their program if attacked, is of strategic importance to them.

Is it building towards a bomb if your intention is to sit on the precipice of building a nuclear weapon for the rest of time, leveraging your position as deterrence, but never going over the edge? I have no idea! I also have no idea whether this describes Iran. Saying that there's "no question" they were building towards a bomb is ignoring this question, though.
by com2kid | 2025-06-22 22:56:54+00:00
Eh, popular sci-fi is zero sci.

Star Trek makes 0 effort to explore the impacts of its technology on people. Some good books have been writing exploring what post scarcity means, but ST in general does nothing with the premise except make tea.

The novels that do explore a world like what ST posits end up going off the rails very quickly. Fun reads, people who live for eternity spend time terra forming planets (why not) cloning themselves into endless bodies and exploring the universe, or just becoming something not human at all.

ST still has people dying, never mind that immortality would be trivial to accomplish with that science level. But that isn't the point of Star Trek.
by acrooks | 2025-06-22 22:57:36+00:00
That’s an interesting question. I think there are a couple of points here.

So, more broadly, you might be asking me “why waste your time selling $100s of furniture?” which is a completely fair question. The opportunity cost of the time spent selling it was far greater than the benefit I got. From a pure optimization perspective it was a bad use of my time.

But also I just moved to the other side of the world and had an apartment filled with furniture that I needed to get rid of. And I am the type of person who doesn’t like waste, so sending everything to the landfill was misaligned with my personal values. And also I don’t work 24 hours per day, so it’s not like this effort takes tome away from working on the meaningful deals.

It would be reasonable to ask “why not give it away for free?” In my experience, customers that pay you nothing are a much bigger burden than customers that pay you something (and, in fact, I find that higher revenue customers are much easier to deal with on an absolute basis).

And then your more direct question: why negotiate at all? Why not just accept the offer and move on with your life? I think your guess is correct: I am a negotiator at heart. I really truly love the hustle, in all aspects of life. It doesn’t matter whether I’m earning $10, $1000 or $100k: I love making deals. And this part of my character is probably a big part of why I’ve been successful in business.

To your final point - the marginal benefit of negotiating vs. being perceived as petty. In all of these situations the audience is different and their lifetime value is different. It would be foolish to negotiate with a $100k customer over $100s; you’re right to assume that the customer might perceive it as petty (and such a move would probably diminish their lifetime value). But, on the other hand, if you sold something to a random person off Craigslist where their expected lifetime value was in the $100s wouldn’t it be foolish to not try to maximize your outcome, especially if it only added a minute or two to the transaction?
by sdenton4 | 2025-06-22 22:57:36+00:00
Something hinted at in the essay is what I consider a funnel effect. If you have N people starting on some project, N/2 will get distracted after a while, some proportion of those who remain will just suck, some smaller proportion will be OK, and so on until you manage to find a few real geniuses. If you shrink the size of the funnel, you get less geniuses.

An important part of having a large funnel is giving people a way to really spend their time doing the thing. For example, writing short stories for magazines was once a reasonable way to support yourself for a few years as a young writer, and led to a very large funnel. Take away that infrastructure for young writers, and you get a smaller funnel, and an attrition in quality of the best work.

(Now, consider what happens 10-20 years after we stop hiring new grads for programming jobs...)
by recroad | 2025-06-22 22:57:58+00:00
Hey, how many people has Iran killed versus Israel in the last 20 years. Waiting for reply. Let’s see who the real terrorist is - my guess is you’re not going to pick the state that’s committing genocide. You’re gonna pick Iran because, frankly, Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate has been normalized.

Also, by your distorted rationale, given that the US has committed the most acts of terrorism in the world over the last 50 years, do you think it's OK if a random country (let's say, China) to bomb them as being sponsors of terror in Nicaragua, Chile, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, East Timor, Vietnam, Guam, etc etc? I'm guessing, no, right? But you're very comfortable with Iran being bombed. What does that say about your biases?
by ggm-at-algebras | 2025-06-22 22:58:53+00:00
Never played with kernel mods via packages but very tempted to start.

I have hopes of a path to a radically smaller kernel and loadables for the things not integrated by default. The end would be a path to a kernel Makefile specifying the minimum set, so a path from loadable to static, but with smaller state than generic and smaller critical dependency size.
by api | 2025-06-22 22:59:01+00:00
Literary is a genre. Like all genres it has its popular tropes, fandom, cliches, etc.

A long time ago someone on a forum described a new lit fic book as a “TOBADNY” — a “trendy overhyped book about dysfunctional New Yorkers.” I LOLed and then realized this was totally the case and that this was a popular lit fic trope.
by spondylosaurus | 2025-06-22 22:59:19+00:00
I'm a little biased, but as a tech writer who doesn't think they'll be made obsolete by swaggerless LLMs any time soon I strongly agree. If you've written enough docs and sufficiently internalized all the stylistic best practices, putting words in order is the easy part; I could do that in my sleep. But technical writing is like 20% writing and 80% research, fact-checking, QA, diplomacy, and searching for (metaphorical) unexploded ordinances that could blow up in users' faces if you don't direct them down the right path.

I would guess some of the vibes you mention come down to actual writing style, which I have plenty of opinions on (some of them controversial among my fellow writers!), but I think there's another subtler aspect of reading something that really anticipates your needs as a user and feeling like you're in good hands. It's something I don't always nail, but I always notice when I read docs that do.
by jeffparsons | 2025-06-22 22:59:46+00:00
I think I used to understand this, but it's been a long time since I had to write any serious LaTeX, so I don't anymore. I found this snippet in my personal _quick-build-latex_ script from over a decade ago:

if [ -z "$(find . -name "*.bib" -print0)" ]; then # Just two runs, to cover TOC building, etc. pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode "$SOURCE_FILE" && \ pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode "$SOURCE_FILE" else pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode "$SOURCE_FILE" && \ bibtex "$SOURCE_FILE" && \ pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode "$SOURCE_FILE" && \ pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode "$SOURCE_FILE" fi

So I guess if you're using bibtex, then you need to run it three times, but otherwise only twice?

This is to say... I'm glad those days are gone.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-06-22 23:00:21+00:00
Pro tips: type long content unformatted, or barely formatted, then ask an LLM to format it using your markup of choice, then clean up the thing it got wrong.

They are very decent at inferring the context of stuff and will mark code, maths, titles so on farely decently. This lets you focus on the work of making it looks nice.
by tmhrtly | 2025-06-22 23:02:09+00:00
The one thing I’ve found that works for me on my phone is the OneSec app. It hooks into shortcuts (for apps) and a Safari extension (for websites) to prompt you with a small task to do (eg a 20sec breathing exercise) before you access the softblocked content. The time delay + task is enough for me to remind myself that this isn’t what I want to be doing. And in the instances where I actually do consciously want to visit XYZ platform, I can just do the exercise and be granted access.

The only downside is that the Safari extension is granted full access to my web browsing in order to facilitate the website blocking. They say they don’t capture any data and at this point do trust them (you may feel differently). For blocking apps, no private data sharing is required.
by sdenton4 | 2025-06-22 23:02:56+00:00
Yeah, and looking through the lists makes one suspect that there's a problem of incommensurate measurements... There's a lot of 'very hungry caterpillar' in the recent lists, but I'm unsure whether children's books were even in the running in the 1960's. Or else there's been a revolution in buying books for children since the 60's, which, honestly, I wouldn't be sad about...
by Spivak | 2025-06-22 23:03:06+00:00
I feel like this is a pretty bold statement for a population that depending on what year you're calling contemporary was probably somewhere between 30-50% illiterate.

I really wouldn't expect reading proficiency to be radically different from the distribution we have today which is to say the distribution centers around levels 2/3 which is "can make basic inferences from text."
by amy_petrik | 2025-06-22 23:08:37+00:00
You think Iran is going to be bombed and then… not retaliate?

If war was a physical fight, that what the US has done is a smack to the face, whereas an invasion might be a swing of a samurai sword. So, what we're doing here is getting worked up that a face slapping contest will transform into a sword fight.

This, "false dichotomy" retaliate=war, or not retaliate is warping things here. Yes, Iran will probably retaliate, but more likely a smack to the face than a strike of the sword. It ain't war yet, right now it's just a slap & a tickle.
by sokoloff | 2025-06-22 23:09:21+00:00
Interviewing while employed, I’ll happily give my “I’m not considering anything lower than <this>” number in the first 15 minutes of discussion. I’m not interested in spending more time without general alignment on that.

The few times early on that I didn’t do that, it was a giant waste of time.

If I was interviewing from a position where I needed a job soon, I would be less inclined to be that upfront, of course.
by lubujackson | 2025-06-22 23:10:16+00:00
I don't know if that's entirely accurate.

I just read The Body (basis for Stand By Me) and it was as personal and emotionally complex as any literary-approved fiction. It reminded me a lot of The Things They Carried, actually.

I think the biggest issue is that once he was pidgeonholed into being a "trope-master, scary fiction guy", no one would look at his writing any other way. And to be fair, MOST of his writing is overwrought genre stuff, but he has certainly developed into a fine craftsman at his best.

The reality is that most "literary" fiction is terrible and navel-gazing, seemingly written to land tenure somewhere or push some stupid literary trend that is just as vapid as any other publishing trend, only less fun. Historically, most fiction (or art in general) that persists was wildly successful in its time as a prerequisite.
by throw310822 | 2025-06-22 23:10:51+00:00
Is this a real thing? I can somehow understand (forgive me) the kinky/ deviant fantasy behind it- but as an actual "method", stabbing people with a drugged syringe in the middle of a crowd?? Sounds more like mass delusion/ psychosis, from both sides (the perpetrators, who won't ever get any of the "desired effects", and some of the victims, who might just become convinced they've been pricked because they've read it in the news).

Or someone has different info?
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-06-22 23:12:56+00:00
I think the classic midwit response would be to say that in order to determine if this is negative from a longtermism perspective, we'd first have to prove that:

1. this level of preoccupation is a new and historically significant phenomenon

2. the time not spent on scrolling would be spent on something else more productive

Both seem plausible, but they also seem like a couple of those tricky conclusions that seem naturally right but would fall apart with some research. For example, I think it would be better if we all spent time at cafes instead, but it's hard to say that that would result in better societal outcomes.
by INKidea | 2025-06-22 23:13:11+00:00
Good point. Let me clarify what makes this different: In an AI-saturated world, the distinctly human skillsets (sometimes dismissed as "soft") like critical thinking, empathy, creativity, cross-cultural awareness, aren’t just valuable, they're about to become essential differentiators across every industry.

INK positions insight as the uniquely human edge that remains scarce and valuable precisely because it’s tough for AI to authentically replicate (for now).

Curious if this resonates more clearly.
by rybosome | 2025-06-22 23:13:22+00:00
The first response definitely wasn’t. It laid out the hazards in great detail, then asserted the likelihood of making it implausibly far. I poked at that conclusion and it backed off until we arrived at shear winds in the outer edges, where I agreed with the analysis that this would be lethal.

It was a thought provoking conversation, regardless of whether it was absolutely accurate.
by hotmeals | 2025-06-22 23:15:27+00:00
Eh, I think there's a difference that make both terms useful. Fiction set strictly in the real world with mysterious yet mundane magical/supernatural elements, versus fiction in a fantastical world or a "real world" where the existence of magic™ must be extensively explained.

I think the whole "all fantasy/sci-fi is slop" wasn't that big of a thing in LATAM, so the term isn't some euphemism for making it palatable to elitists.

I also disagree with GP, a lot of what makes One Hundred Years of Solitude good comes from the Colombian setting and it's cultural context. True, it wouldn't be impossible to translate that to a alien planet, Mars isn't fully Mars The Martian Chronicles after all.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-06-22 23:16:21+00:00
It's not even fine. It's old and it shows also in the functionality, and I say this as a rather heavy LaTeX user. For example, Unicode support is atrocious. A few years ago I had to include some Hebrew and Russian words in a document that was otherwise in Latin alphabet, and it was hell.

I'm not a vim user but my understanding is that it has native Unicode support. Software with old-school UI but adapted to current needs (or where needs just didn't change) is fine, but it's not the case of LaTeX.
by wincy | 2025-06-22 23:16:42+00:00
The problem is if this takes 20 or so hours for someone who is highly skilled and could likely make a much safer easier income doing something else, so even $2000 would be $100 an hour which if OP’s hanging out on HN there’s a good chance they could just straight up make that amount in a day job.

Let’s go really pie in the sky, maybe some billionaire sees this (surely there’s some hanging out on hacker news) imagine them giving OP a $30,000 pocket watch owned by Ulysses S Grant or something and asking them to take that one of a kind art piece and encase it in resin. What would the pay rate be for such a project? The sky’s the limit, really.

Hand made pieces that only an expert could assemble are extremely expensive.
by shermantanktop | 2025-06-22 23:16:43+00:00
Why do CS doctoral candidates have such a fascination with typesetting? I mean, be into whatever you’re into, I guess.

But as soon as someone starts talking about LaTEX and how they spent months on their macros, I think “another hapless victim has fallen into LaTEX’s trap.” It’s like an ant lion that feeds on procrastinating students.
by commandersaki | 2025-06-22 23:16:59+00:00
In case anyone hasn't seen some typst source and renders, here's a few documents I whipped up:

First is based on Todd C. Miller's Latex Resume Template:

- https://typst.app/project/rDUHMUg5vxl4jQ5q2grGPY

Second is a Enduring Power of Attorney:

- https://typst.app/project/rs9ZgGLhgM7iPvFs7PQv5O

Third a will:

- https://typst.app/project/r45dVk6MpLjsoXMvxkTxsE
by varenc | 2025-06-22 23:17:57+00:00
I do something similar but with a global keyboard shortcut on my Mac managed with Alfred. When I hit the shortcut it just changes my system's DNS resolver to 1.1.1.1 and reset the macOS DNS cache. And then automatically switches back in 1 minute or 10 minutes depending on the shortcut.

Quite easy, but doesn't help anyone but me. Though I like that it only disables blocking on my device and not my entire network.
by JadeNB | 2025-06-22 23:18:24+00:00
I appreciate your postscript. I don't use TeX or vim out of nostalgia; I didn't discover TeX until I was a senior in undergrad, and I think I didn't discover vim until after I finished my Ph.D. I use vim because it seems best for its tasks, given the way I think (though maybe I think that way because I'm old). I use TeX because I write math for a living and have invested a huge amount of time using it, so that it's become intuitive to me even though I know it wouldn't be for a newcomer, and I can't be bothered to break long-established habits until I know an alternative will be established everywhere TeX is.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-22 23:19:33+00:00
I definitely have empathy for OSS maintainers but getting to the bottom of what was going on here was a rollercoaster.

They mentioned Google Project Zero “breathing down our necks” but then later said Google Project Zero hadn’t even reported anything this year:

> That said, Project Zero has notably reported zero security vulnerabilities in libxml2 since the start of this year.