MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nchmy | 2025-06-23 10:27:26+00:00
I didn't get LLM vibes at all.

But I completely agree with you. She sounds like a cougar. And, worse, apparently has no ability for introspection - for herself or her collective gender.

I'm not saying that she or women are "the problem" in this story, but surely the question must be raised. Eg "ladies, do we have a part to play in this disappearance of men?"
by aitchnyu | 2025-06-23 10:28:20+00:00
Hope carmakers are forced to give 15 years warranty. Current Japanese models can meet it. They could use accelerometers to reduce warranties for track and heavy offroad use and let the driver know they are warranted for 5100 instead of 5475 days. And they should publish costs and time for various body repairs like slow rear ending, swipes etc. Sure, it will make cars slower and uglier but give more peace of mind.
by dkechag | 2025-06-23 10:28:27+00:00
Yeah, I also get confused with references. I was annoyed from the start, when "Mojo" was announced as a Python family language. Mojolicious uses the "Mojo" namespace and is referred to as that quite often. I know Perl is not as popular as it used to be, but Mojolicious is probably the most popular framework of a language that is roughly in the same "space" as Python, so that naming choice was very ignorant IMHO.
by greentec | 2025-06-23 10:29:00+00:00
Nice to meet you. It seems that you have been researching this topic in depth. Since you have been researching this topic for a long time, I don't have any immediate thoughts on it, but I think I need to think about it a little more.

While working on Simple-Tiled WFC this time, I kept wondering whether I should reference neighbours in more than four directions, but in the end, I'm glad I finished without referencing them. I hope this Random Street Tile Pattern can also be solved in such an elegant way!
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-23 10:29:24+00:00
If anyone's wondering if the above is true, but doesn't want to take the time to click the link and dig into the accusations and truths: It's mostly sophistry, accusing him of vague things that sound worse than they are. I.E. "defending WWII Germany" (which sounds like he's saying Nazis were the good guys, if you don't bother to read his actual posts.)
by graemep | 2025-06-23 10:29:47+00:00
Misquote of Greenspun. There is a significant difference between what the Otus Lisp version:

> Any sufficiently complicated program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of some Lisp dialect.

and the original:

> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp
by Someone | 2025-06-23 10:30:33+00:00
> So two of 12 died..

> Another three has significant neutropenia.

I’m not claiming this company is or is not ethical, or that this treatment is or is not safe, but the existing treatment for diabetes type 1 is annoying for patients, but works well.

Because of that, you can’t, ethically, do phase 1 trials on patients that have both a long life expectancy and for which that treatment is an option.

That, in turn, means it isn’t uncommon for patients to die from causes unrelated to the treatment during clinical trials.

As an example, the subject in an earlier study on this kind of treatment (possibly/likely the same medicine; https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article/71/Supplement_...) was “A 64-year-old male with a 40-year history of T1D complicated by impaired awareness of hypoglycemia with 5 severe hypoglycemic events (SHEs) the year before”.
by eesmith | 2025-06-23 10:30:53+00:00
If I eyeball it right, the canal would need to be least 150 km long (Suez is about 200km) and the lowest high spot is 300m elevation (Gatun Lake for the Panama canal is 26 m).

There's no water available for locks.

Take a look at the traffic going through the strait now - https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:54.2/cente... . One canal isn't enough.

You'll need some big locks. The first ship I clicked on was the crude tanker Al Yarmouk, 333 meters long and 60 meters wide. This is too large to fit into the Panama Canal. Panamax is 289.56 m long and 32.31 m wide.

Sounds pretty expensive to me.
by mr_mitm | 2025-06-23 10:31:27+00:00
I think what the GP means is that whitespace is often not ignored by LaTeX, so line breaks can cause extra wide spaces between words. It's common to comment out the line break in LaTeX for this reason. This is much less of an issue in Typst (if at all) due to the separation of code and content.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7453/what-is-the-use...
by nirui | 2025-06-23 10:31:43+00:00
> Under the Energy Labelling Regulation, smartphones and tablets must display information on energy efficiency, battery lifespan and resistance to dust, water and accidental drops.

Just my two cents and a bit of reckoning: You guys know the types of batteries? Like AAA, etc? There are a whole list of them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes) and it's standardized, allowing different vendor to corporate with each other automatically.

But it comes to the smartphones and laptops etc, their batteries comes in with all shapes and forms, aka non-standarded.

I think if EU really wants to make electronic more durable, maybe try standardize the not-so-durable parts of the device. For example, battery, data drives, charger etc. This enables other vendors to create replacement parts without breaking copyright and other laws.
by layer8 | 2025-06-23 10:32:20+00:00
Let me try to illustrate: I might want to stop after the "circuit breaker" comes up for the tenth time. But the nine times before are annoying enough that I'll disable it before I reach the tenth time. Maybe not initially, but after a few days. In other words, the friction vs. frequency they exhibit, in conjunction with how easy or difficult they can be turned off, makes them not work for me. And I haven't found anything of that kind that works well. Either the friction is high enough that I'll rather disable it, or it's too low to actually serve as an effective deterrence. What would be needed is something that "ramps up" in just the right way.
by Lutger | 2025-06-23 10:32:31+00:00
Maybe teenagers still do that, but I feel there are no real shiny new features anymore. I've upgraded my broken 5 year old phone and sure enough, the photos it takes are better and its a bit smoother overall, but otherwise I don't see a truly major improvement.

Major innovations (from the user pov) are happening mostly in software these days, not in hardware.

So I don't see how a little bit of regulation keeping hardware alive a little longer is political handwaving at all. It doesn't matter if any 'deep and complex issues' are not addressed, whatever they are, its still a valid improvement over the status quo, however small. Yes, mandating 5 years of security updates isn't going to solve climate change or fix the economy, but it would extend the safe lifetime of most mid range phone by around two years and for the vast majority of users, that will be just fine.

I know it is not that interesting to talk about small improvements, but a lot of politics is exactly about that: improving society with many thousands of very marginal steps. They are not a distraction, they are the work.

I'm not a conservative, but this kind of pragmatism is what I feel used to be the true value of old school conservative politics, and it is deeply lacking its current form. Conservatism needs to be boring again.
by speeder | 2025-06-23 10:32:52+00:00
I used to buy a certain book series on fictionwise, because it was the only site selling those books in my country.

B&N bought Fictionwise, and first thing they did was determine that you need to be physically inside USA to download stuff.

Now only way for me to get those books is pirated. :( Maybe I should just download them pirated and donate the price of the books directly to the author account or something. I really don't understand what is the problem of B&N or how they still exist, they are literally anti-business.
by Propelloni | 2025-06-23 10:34:11+00:00
Yes, our company would benefit from that. We deal with large swathes of legal documents and construction plans and automatic verification, validation, and categorization would be useful. Our own efforts are concentrated on ML-based object detection and identification, which is more important to us than above mentioned functions.

We are not large enough to do both, but German enough to not consider outsourcing this to a cloud service ;)
by ykonstant | 2025-06-23 10:34:36+00:00
I don't know about Claude, but when it comes to LaTeX IDE, I will always recommend TeXStudio over everything else. It handles all the annoying problems of LaTeX setup and compilation, and it provides a discoverable interface with classic-style menus (words, it has words instead of inexplicable little icons!) for various common tasks.

I say that as someone who uses a tricked-out Vim for my own LaTeX workflow, and VS Code for several programming languages.
by roscas | 2025-06-23 10:35:14+00:00
"The internet is the bane of my existence. Ads, distractions, sponsored content, bad news, bad ideas, more ads, social media, antisocial media, even more ads." that is call for Pi-Hole on a Raspberry PI install. Wide block of ads and dns firewall all in one, without any "free trial" from AdGuard. I wonder what is their default "white list"...
by shuhongwu | 2025-06-23 10:36:01+00:00
In my knowledge domain, that's actually possible on iOS, but it will cause more privacy issues for sharing data between different apps, and also the clipboard issue. Apple has been pretty restrictive about inter-app communication for good reasons, but it does limit these kinds of automated workflows.

As you mentioned with that situation, I think Apple and Google may have better power to optimize the OS system if we only do it on the local device. They have the deep system-level access that would make this kind of seamless automation work without the privacy and security trade-offs that third-party apps face.
by Sayrus | 2025-06-23 10:37:04+00:00
Not everyone has the financial capability to change their phone to follow trends, some people only buy second-hand, some people fall back on cheaper phones but change less often, some people rely on charity because their situation just doesn't allow them to fork the expense. Some people just want to keep their phone for long periods, I kept my last one 6 years and I only changed it because it died. I think all these people deserve to have a phone platform that doesn't abandon them because they can't or won't buy a flagship every year of two.
by pjc50 | 2025-06-23 10:38:19+00:00
Shogun is absolutely fantastic. But it's not quite the same as a for-export production; it was an American-led production team adapting an American novel trying to be as authentically Japanese as possible. With great success. You're absolutely correct about the period language. It seems to have been a hit in Japan, indicating they got it right: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/movies-tv/shogu...

>> The new Shogun has been well received by Western audiences, but it’s been a monster hit among Japanese viewers — possibly because they know the story. They know who Tokugawa Ieyasu is, they know about his rival Ishida Mitsunari and the Battle of Sekigahara the show is building up to. It doesn’t matter that these characters and events have different names in Shogun. It’s not exactly clear why the author did that, but in James Clavell’s novel, Adams is named John Blackthorne and Ieyasu is Yoshii Toranaga.

Various people have pointed out that Japan makes a ton of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jidaigeki shows in a similar style (and with a similar vocabulary, making Shogun comprehensible to JP viewers), but for domestic consumption, and they don't really get exported. I guess having the character of Blackthorne as an anchor is critical for Western viewers.

While we're on the subject, this audience might like https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066473/ , which was a true Japanese-American co-production war movie. Bit of a specialist watch as it's nearly two and a half hours long. Some uncredited assistant direction was done by Kurosawa.
by PaulShin | 2025-06-23 10:38:24+00:00
Multiple monitors definitely make window switching easier—totally agree. The snag we keep hitting isn’t the physical hop, but the cognitive hop:

- A decision lives in Slack, - its rationale hides in Notion, - the actual task ends up in Jira.

Even with three screens, someone still has to copy-paste and re-explain. That’s the part we’re trying to erase: let a Slack message turn itself into a task/doc record without leaving the thread.

If that hand-off were automatic, would you still feel the need for so much screen real-estate, or is multi-monitor workflow a must for you regardless?

Side note We’re prototyping this idea right now. If you’re curious and willing to give feedback, drop me a note at (admin@markhub.ink) and I’ll send over a private link.

Appreciate your take!
by Semaphor | 2025-06-23 10:39:07+00:00
I have an alarm app for android (Gentle Alarm), that’s IMO by far the best there is (YMMV obviously, but I never found another one with the same features). It was originally paid, but long ago abandoned (as in: the dev disappeared completely). Using it today required unpacking the APK, changing the manifest, repacking, and then installing it via ADB using the `-bypass-low-target-sdk-block` flag, then manually adding the "draw over other apps" permission.

Once that is done, it works fully as expected. I dread the day some new version will fully block it.
by flufluflufluffy | 2025-06-23 10:39:17+00:00
Wtf is “literary fiction?” Sounds like a genre invented by snobs. Same old [people from past generation complaining that x medium art made by the current generation is worse/lacks a soul/etc/etc] that has been happening since the beginning of art. There is a wealth of extremely artful, literary written works being made by young people today. Just like there’s a wealth of extremely artful, boundary pushing music being made by young people today. You’re not gonna run into most of it if you only listen to top 40 radio but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Even so, with the “top 40” songs/books/what-have-you, I feel like these things are always framed as “cultural decline” when in fact it’s “cultural change” and you just don’t like the thing it’s changing into currently.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-23 10:39:18+00:00
That works out to 5K/hr (200k/5/8), that’s absurd verging on insane. It’s over a line of code a second.

I’d fire someone who was putting out that “code”.

Seriously, there is no way someone can review all that code so you must be solo (or at a place that doesn’t code review). If you aren’t reviewing your code then you are “vibe coding” (said with maximum derision) and what you are “building” is a house of cards.
by UltraSane | 2025-06-23 10:39:41+00:00
Labeling arguments as 'hasbara' is just a way to avoid addressing the historical facts I've presented.

Do you dispute that Jews legally purchased land during the Ottoman period?

Do you dispute that the 1947 UN partition was rejected by Arab leadership?

Do you dispute that five Arab armies invaded in 1948?

Which specific historical claim do you think is incorrect?

Using "hasbara" as a dismissal tactic is essentially admitting you can't refute my factual claims on their merits.
by alexitorg | 2025-06-23 10:40:40+00:00
I wonder if the same thing is happening in genres like sci-fi. These trends sound familiar: Publishing books to appeal to critics, more prestige fiction published, less published white male authors, less published books on best seller lists (by published I mean published by a professional publishing firm). I am not sure that big authors of the 80's and 90's such as Iain Banks, Neil Stevenson, Peter F Hamilton would get published now days. I've noticed the big sci-fi awards seems to have a lot more books with social justice themes than I remember. I find I don't like a lot of the newly published sci-fi. I'm reading a lot more self published books amd, at least judging by best seller lists on amazon, so are a lot of other people. It is a pity, I think professionally published books are generally better written, perhaps it is the pipeline of authors writing about themes I like being broken?
by pjc50 | 2025-06-23 10:41:47+00:00
I have a slightly more negative take on the same (positive!) phenomenon of non-English origin content becoming more popular with English audiences: the ability of Hollywood to actually complete and deliver projects is deteriorating, especially among mid-size productions and TV series that don't cost millions of dollars per episode.

(also K-drama and telenovella plotting just absolutely trashes focus-grouped US streamer TV insipidness)
by dns_snek | 2025-06-23 10:42:09+00:00
Yes but what I was getting at is if the autonomous system is allowed to disengage every time it encounters a "difficult" situation (as Tesla "FSD" does) then its safety record can't be compared to human drivers even in otherwise comparable road conditions.

Human drivers don't get the luxury of disengaging and having a more skilled driver take over when they're struggling. If Tesla FSD drives for 100km before overwhelming glare causes the system to disengage, that'll go on record as "100km driven without accident", but when the human driver is blinded by the same glare and ends up in an accident 5km later, that'll go on record as 1 accident per 5km driven for the human driver.
by ykonstant | 2025-06-23 10:43:15+00:00
>In thirty years LaTEX will still be open source and probably will be maintained.

The latter is a genuine concern. Will it be maintained? I like LaTeX a lot, but would I want to maintain its internals? No. Could I? If I were paid handsomely, yes. Emphasis on handsomely.

Which leads to another worry: LaTeX itself may be OSS, but down the line it is possible that maintained forks will be controlled by big publishers paying maintainers to deal with the insanity of its internals. And we all know how lovely those publishers are (凸ಠ益ಠ)凸
by shuhongwu | 2025-06-23 10:43:26+00:00
Yes, this is like a kind of flow - how to say - a kind of mind stream, replacing me thinking of any connections between any newest news and my memories.

As a person, we only need to listen to some insights and decide what to do. Others, let the ai agent do it. We think this may be the future in personal AI area.

Actually, imagine your device(not only the iPhone but also other edge devices) constantly building these connections in the background - when you read something new, it automatically surfaces related things you've seen before, conversations you've had, or notes you've taken. Instead of you having to remember "wait, didn't I read something about this topic last month?", the agent just presents those connections.

It's like having a research assistant that never forgets and can instantly connect dots across everything you've ever consumed or created on your device. The human stays focused on the insights and decisions, while the AI handles the memory and pattern recognition.
by corimaith | 2025-06-23 10:43:56+00:00
>"The last 50 years", you say? Oh, so right around the time when the US and Britain overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister to install a religious nutcase, because that nutcase would agree to sell them oil at a better price?

When people are mixing up basic facts like this you know the mainstream's knowledge of Iran is heavily propagandized. Really would help if people actually read a history textbook for once instead of believing everything they hear from someone else.
by bpfrh | 2025-06-23 10:43:56+00:00
I mean it kinda is already with android being made by google.

The hard problem is not even necessarily building android, the hard problem is afaik the custom firmwares needing a very specific kernel version to work with and having security issues of their own.

If you then want to decouple software completly form any hardware chip it get's complicated fast, are usb ICs software?

Do all ic manufactures now need to hire external companies for their firmware?
by joshstrange | 2025-06-23 10:44:03+00:00
For me, Copilot is the sweet spot (or insert your favorite auto-complete tool). It saves me significant time when coding and I’ve gotten really good at knowing when it pause for 1-2 seconds and then have it spit out the suggestion I hoped it would.

Agentic workflows are cool and have their place but essentially turn me into a full time code reviewer. Sometimes that’s acceptable/ok, sometimes I don’t like it. Essentially, if the agent gets even slightly off the path I want it on, I need to just do it myself. I give up on trying to prompt my out of a mistake it made. You get stuck thinking “one more prompt/round and it will fix the problem and everything will be perfect”, then you find yourself 4+ rounds in with the agent flip-flopping between 2 things it’s already tried.
by valenterry | 2025-06-23 10:45:02+00:00
Well, what I meant is that there is some language feature missing. So either the language gets "better" in the sense that this feature is being added, or a different language is chosen, that is already "better" in that the feature already exists. So yeah.

> The BEAM and JVM runtimes allow for this but I don't think I've seen any good examples of different languages commingling and playing to their strengths.

Probably because the runtime is always the lowest common denominator. That being said, there are lots of tools e.g. written in Scala but then being used by Java, such as Akka or Spark. And the other way around of course.
by metalman | 2025-06-23 10:45:05+00:00
it's quite clear to me that the author, and peers of the article dont get out enough. the issue is not the decline of literary fiction, it is rather the fact of fiction it lself is no longer possible, which is quite evident when listening to the surreal, harrowing, epic tales to be told by the people all around the edges, haltingly, and reluctantly told, but everywhere. we no longer live in a "golden age" where we can mull over the causes and effects of human lives lived large and bold, as the inescapable reality is serving you coffee, in a 3d printed sci-fi setting, the furnishings hard, the light eminating from an incomprehensable device operating at frequencys absent from any literary narative, a high whine wavering beween revelation and impending doom, more in line with some mythical description of the advent of deamons and spirits than anything a civilised and literate culture would ever allude to. Cervantes and Hobbs stand as proxy's for two possible paths, Hobbs bieng the overwheming choice, all of the impossible to reconcile inconsistansies, simply ommited from our narative, and twisted into a booming(pun.acknowedged) busniess of exporting our conradictions.
by strken | 2025-06-23 10:46:46+00:00
I used to wait for dad to come home each Thursday because that was the edition of the paper with quarter-page ads that were just price lists of refurbished computer equipment. I'd sit there with a highlighter and go through them, trying to figure out a way to afford my own Pentium 3 on $10/week of pocket money, or get my Pentium 1 to run a little faster.

It was also the edition of the paper with a new TV guide, which I'm sure made my habit very annoying when the rest of the family wanted to see what was on.