MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nomilk | 2025-06-10 04:36:33+00:00
Google are pushing their luck - I never have used any "AI features" in my workspace subscriptions, and probably never will (I really just need basic email).

Also worth mentioning Google's arrogance of not citing current price and new price in the email about the price hike. Google should be upfront and forthcoming with this info. The email is literally about a price change, yet they chose not to include the (old, nor new) price! (I had to ask grok).

Not impressed, and this might be enough to push me to explore alternatives.
by dachris | 2025-06-10 04:36:34+00:00
That, or the fast road to dictatorship. Escalate until you declare martial law, never to be revoked. The end.

The Ghorman massacre in the recently aired season 2 of Star Wars Andor is the playbook version of this.

I don't think the US is there yet, but the direction seems about right. As you say, step by step.
by angst | 2025-06-10 04:37:33+00:00
Indeed.

Mail to <hi@cursor.com> is replied by “Sam from Cursor” which is “Cursor's AI Support Assistant” and after few back and forth it tells “I'm connecting you with a teammate who can better investigate”. Guess what? It’s been a month and no further communication whatsoever.

I don’t have high hopes for its customer services.
by tcmart14 | 2025-06-10 04:39:33+00:00
I can't speak to performance since I don't really race languages. But as far as feel and what not, it is very similar. But there is also a pretty good overlap in people who worked on Rust and people who worked in Swift. Graydon worked on both. So Swift has a lot of similarities with Rust. The way I usually word it is, Swift is like having C# with mostly everything you like about Rust.

I believe a lot of the legacy names come from when your interfacing with platform APIs like UIKit and such if you have to and they haven't quiet gotten a bump from their Objective-C APIs to have more swifty-APIs.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-06-10 04:39:47+00:00
Not so sure. There are quite a lot of bright high school students that could indeed understand it. Maybe not in general but for a special interest group for sure. The local university had a group covering stuff like this and I found it to be very fun as a high school student, and there were at least 5 people that I went to school with that could easily handle this material (and I didn't go to some special school, either).
by ty6853 | 2025-06-10 04:39:59+00:00
Lol at Katrina the police and guard were going door to door confiscating arms of occupied homes in blatant violation of the second amendment. There is a video if a guardsman bragging about something to the effect 'hoping he doesn't have to smoke someone coming around a corner."

As it turns out when you send a force trained only to kill and subjugate, that's what they do. A few guardsman stood down but most did not.
by bietroi | 2025-06-10 04:40:06+00:00
It's cool to see that others have explored some of these concepts more generally, thanks for the links!

The glowstick shape is also a type-level list of integers, and I could definitely see how other shapes might be useful in different situations.

Doing this sort of thing in Rust is a bit of a stretch for sure, but it makes the outcome easy to apply which is nice.
by motorest | 2025-06-10 04:41:19+00:00
> It’s interesting ICE raided the outside of a Home Depot. Like, of all the immigrants, the immigrants that stand outside of Home Depot do the hardest physical labor. There’s no heart to what’s going on.

From an outsider's view, everything looks so performative and fabricated to be consumed by a tv target audience. I mean, if there is so much illegal immigration in the US, is it the most effective use of resources to target a TV cliche that would gather a residual number of people?
by kamaal | 2025-06-10 04:41:21+00:00
>>I witnessed this up close in India where parties openly exist to benefit certain constituencies based on caste, language, religion and so on.

+1

As an Indian, classic definition of corruption here is something that other people do. When our own do it, its not really called corruption, its more intelligent work done to make our people win.

Similar term is appeasement. It kind of means if people I hate are winning, they must be doing bad things or cheating. It is impossible that people I hate should do well in life.
by energy123 | 2025-06-10 04:42:10+00:00
I expect a lot of the things people don't like ("output too long, too many comments in code") are side effects of making the LLM good in other areas.

Long output correlates with less laziness when writing code, and higher performance on benchmarks due to the monotone relationship between number of output tokens and scores. Comment spam correlates with better performance because it's locally-specific reasoning it can attend on when writing the next line of code, leading to reduced errors.
by protocolture | 2025-06-10 04:42:30+00:00
Protest votes are stupid, but even stupider is chanting vote harder when clearly you aren't able to vote your way out of the death spiral.

Its been comical watching broken systems fall over themselves to accommodate trump while people pretend that they just need to vote for people who will maintain the broken systems instead of abusing them.

If you didnt spend the last 12 years tearing down your broken system and replacing it, you support all this bs. Eventually someone was going to get past the election, into the cockpit of the machine and press all these fucking buttons.

Not only did americans vote for the chimpanzee twice, they never got rid of all the buttons.

"Elections have consequences" you guys are meant to be the demonstration of how an armed populace responds to tyranny. But until I see you guys actually do anything about it, its just proof that more american values are completely worthless.

Enjoy the fall.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-06-10 04:42:53+00:00
> Yet they still long for those days. As if in those days they were happier than they are now. I think it's the opposite.

Well, I had a pretty peaceful life without all that stuff you mentioned, and I think life was better before the internet. For sure. Now, I'm not saying we haven't improved a few things, but I think somewhere in the middle would be ideal: internet of the older days without so much commercialization and internet speeds around 56K modems.
by stephen_cagle | 2025-06-10 04:42:53+00:00
I always wonder when reading about things like this, and had a fun dinner discussion about it a while ago. What would happen with the following instead?

1) Remove all tax deductions entirely.

2) Have no corporate income tax at all.

3) Tax cash and cash equivalents at a very high rate (20% ???) per year, tax other assets at a lower rate (5%).

Basically just have taxes that are high enough to encourage productive use of all assets (above inflation), and to really really encourage companies not to horde capital. Seems much simpler.

I might also be convinced that taxes shouldn't even kick in until a corporation is above a certain size (5 milion USD?).
by speakfreely | 2025-06-10 04:43:21+00:00
The Democratic politicians have painted themselves into a corner by trying to maintain far left support. Compare the messaging:

Trump: We must have law and order. Immigration laws must be enforced. We will not tolerate riots or destruction.

Protesters: The government shouldn't detain people who are in the country illegally. We should ignore federal laws we don't agree with. If we disagree with federal agents who are enforcing existing laws, we should impede them, attack them, and destroy property to lash out.

This is not an endorsement of Trump, as he's clearly milking this situation to squeeze Newsom. This is a deliberate strategy to put Newsom in an untenable position and paint him as an irredeemable liberal to everyone outside California. Until the left takes a logically defensible position on illegal immigration, they will continue to be vulnerable to Trump's theater on this and he will continue to bludgeon them with it in elections.
by franciscop | 2025-06-10 04:45:35+00:00
Dev here working in Japan for few years, I don't think the main reason software salaries are low in Japan is financial, but social/cultural. Software has traditionally not seen as valued as hardware, it was just an "extra" added on top of the hardware part. Basically never went through the startup revolution of the 2000s in US.

Also Japan is still very hierarchical, so old ideas change much slower. I would say the combination of these 2 are the main reason software is not as valued as in e.g. America, but there are many others like lack of international competitiveness due to the low English skill, ZIRP, and the ones you note seem totally valid ofc.

This is a very interesting recent report about salaries in Japan (e.g. foreigners, and/or foreigner companies get paid/pay a lot more):

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/software-developer-salarie...
by daleswanson | 2025-06-10 04:48:58+00:00
RFK Jr believes:

1. That Wifi causes cancer.

2. That there is no vaccine which is "safe and effective".

3. It's unknown if the Polio vaccine prevented more deaths than it caused.

This quote from him seems to summarize his view on vaccines: "I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, 'Better not get him vaccinated.'"
by protocolture | 2025-06-10 04:49:07+00:00
Spreads out police resources for one. Protesters outnumber police. Every cop pulled away from the protest to respond to a fire, looting incident, or whatever can translate directly to lives saved / protesters not arrested etc. Also makes certain goals more achievable. I read a crimethinc article about the george floyd protests and it suggested that the looting drew the cops away from the barricade at the police station, allowing them to destroy it. Seems a lot more practical than pearl clutching.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-06-10 04:49:22+00:00
The entire point of AI is not to make people more productive, but to trade productivity in the short-term for even more automation that goes beyond the point of diminishing returns so that those at the top can accumulate even more wealth. Big-tech corporations act as attractants for those who love power and money above any other concern and they certainly are not creating any tools to help anyone.

When a small company makes a product, they are happy to make something useful in exchange for a living. When big tech makes something, you are the product and they just want to use their economies of scale to squeeze you dry, making you think they have something useful.

People talk about AI now as if it is a great tool for them. Maybe it is, but in some years it won't really be a great tool at all except at keeping power in the hands of the most wealthy.
by Scuds | 2025-06-10 04:49:52+00:00
there were crematoriums falling apart because of constant use. Morgues overflowing with coffins.

Three of my direct coworkers died from covid. One guy didn't get his sense of taste back for a year.

People just gasping to death in their bedrooms waiting for things to improve and only going to the overloaded ER when it's too late.

I'm an asthmatic, I've been close to that feeling where sub 90% oxygen saturation made me feel like death. Anything like 80% your lungs start to fail. You're dead in a hurry.
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-06-10 04:50:10+00:00
As I said above, I'm not afraid of being deported, but I am concerned about the lack of due process for people being deported. Due process is the core of our democracy and once it's removed for some people, it's removed for everyone. I have zero issue with deporting people that shouldn't be here, but they are owed their day in court to make their case. That is why I'm protesting.
by Onewildgamer | 2025-06-10 04:50:15+00:00
Finally someone said it, they're overconfident in their approach, don't consult us with the details of the implementation, they're trained to create mock APIs that don't follow structure, leading to lot of rework. The LLM actions should be measured, collaborative, ask for details when it's not present. It is impossible to give every single detail in the initial prompt, and a follow up prompt derails the train thought and design of the application.

I don't know if I'm using it right, I'd love to know more if that's the case. In a way the LLM should improve on being iterative, take feedback, maybe it's a hard problem to add/update the context. I don't know about that either, but love to learn more.
by poulsbohemian | 2025-06-10 04:50:35+00:00
I'm guessing you are coming at it from the perspective of a laptop user and likely a power user. The majority of the population just needs to scroll social media, message some friends, send an email or two, do a little shopping, maybe write a document or two. For this crowd an iPad is plenty. When I was a software developer - yeah, I had a Mac Pro on my desk and a MBP I carried when I traveled. Now as a real estate agent, an iPad is plenty for when I'm on the go.
by anon84873628 | 2025-06-10 04:51:05+00:00
How does a raid only target people who are here illegally? How do agents determine the identity and status of the person they're grabbing in a factory or school?

The idea is absolutely farcical. Plus, we know for sure that these raids have taken people mistakenly.

It's extra bad when the government's official position is that they can't get someone back from the foreign prison they're sent to. The threat to all citizens is clear; that's why they're resisting. "The left" may lose in the mainstream media but it's clearly the correct side of history.
by ksaj | 2025-06-10 04:51:38+00:00
Likewise, baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. They are called boomers because they were born in the baby boom that occurred after WWII.

So a 51 year old is most definitely Gen X and not a Boomer. No matter what. Kids born in the mid-70's (50+) are quite outside by more than a decade of the baby boom period.

Source: My parents are definitely boomers, and I am definitely GenX. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to learn what the X meant. It was significant in the same way "boomer" was. Anyone trying to change or extend the meanings needs a history lesson.

Baby Boomers, GenX and Millenials all have meanings of significance to their titles, whereas Y, Z and the super weird "alpha" are just keeping up a pattern that loses the meanings of the other generations that got meaningful names.
by inejge | 2025-06-10 04:52:00+00:00
> Try submitting a bug about how menus are displayed 5px from where they are supposed to be in a GTK app rendered on a X11-server that runs on the Windows desktop and see if the GTK developers care.

This one sounds so specific that I suspect you must have a reference to a bug tracker or a mailing list message somewhere. Do you? Having the context of the whole interaction is helpful when forming conclusions.

Without the benefit of such context, I'd suppose that the effort of reproducing the bug (not everyone has a Windows machine handy; the X11 server might be commercial or obscure) is a petty good reason for not giving it more attention.
by leakycap | 2025-06-10 04:53:17+00:00
I agree - the attribution needs to be removed for paying customers, or at least for me to want to pay for it to use with a client.

The phrasing should be customizable. Even better if the bug is an SVG and I can paste in my own SVG for the bug icon.

I was worried about how it worked on mobile, and unfortunately on my iPhone I could not find a way to drop the bug where I wanted. It did show a popup eventually but it covers a lot of the page given it doesn't work as expected.

Just sharing thoughts/observations; I really like the concept as well.
by NicoSchwandner | 2025-06-10 04:53:17+00:00
I do this as well and it works quite well for me like that!

Additionally, when working on microservices and on issues that don’t seem too straightforward, I use o3 and copy the whole code of the repo into the prompt and refine a plan there and then paste it as a prompt into cursor. Handy if you don’t have MAX mode, but a company-sponsored ChatGPT.
by eastbound | 2025-06-10 04:53:39+00:00
“This is a peaceful protest”

Sorry, this ship has sailed.

For those who don’t know the reference: This quote is from a journalist who tries to make a protest with a few billion dollars private property set on fire (BLM), pass a peaceful, with fire as the decorum of the journalist. It ignited the moods because the speech was obviously contradicted by the background, highlighting that journalists invert reality and are missioned for propaganda (by whom, nobody knows).

And then “the People” voted for Trump. It’s probable there is massive support for the current deployment of forces. The protestors themselves probably aren’t the real target of this episode, it’s probably rather about highlighting the lack of will and complacency of the Californian structures in establishing order.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-10 04:53:53+00:00
It's not just the absorption as any stroll anywhere near a forest should tell you. They somehow cool areas dramatically, not just through shade, and change local systems substantially. Anyhow, if you want papers, there was one just recently discussed here. [1]

It's expected that planting a trillion trees (amounting to global land coverage of ~8%) which is analogous to pre-industrial times, would reduce overall heating by some 25% (!!) by itself. This also opens the door to yet another not poorly understand feedback system - CO2 increases greenery which increases trees which decreases temperatures far more than previously expected.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221489
by toast0 | 2025-06-10 04:54:20+00:00
Erlang systems don't do so well when multiple people are working on them with different understanding of what production is. (And especially if nobody actually knows).

I don't know that you need 'strict access control' as proposed, but you do need coordination, and a source code repository is a way to manage coordination.

Erlang doesn't have a different mode for fixed vs loadable code, although you may need to write code differently in order to be able to hotload changes, and that could affect performance; some code naturally fits the idioms needed though.

I find it amazingly valuable to be able to change the program without having to lose the program state; but it requires different thinking, and it is easy to mess things up in exciting ways that are different than many other systems. It's amazing to fix a bug and deploy it in seconds into a live system with millions of active connections; it's also amazing when you try to fix a bug and break millions of active connections in seconds, but in a negative way, because now you and your users have to pay the costs of reestablishing all of those connections.

OTOH, the key issue is interchange of state and messages between versions, and that's an issue that comes up in almost all distributed systems that update without downtime, so most people have to deal with that issue anyway, just usually not within the much smaller scope of a single task.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-10 04:55:23+00:00
Platinum's pinstripes and Aqua's glossy buttons didn't interfere with contrast. That's the golden rule - as long as content is legible, you can go off doing whatever sorts of cute baffles you want as a bonus. The pinstripes created texture that defined the titlebar in Platinum, Aqua's color emphasized interactive elements using visual contrast. In my opinion Aqua looks awful, but I do accept that it was an extremely usable interface for people with weak vision or little computer experience. The same can be said for Comic Sans and it's deliberate ugliness.

How will those same audiences react when they see a glassy squircle pop up on their iPhone? What is it a metaphor for? Is it a button? A notification toast? An entry window? An app? A widget? Did they forget to put on their glasses this morning? Is it interactive, are there gestures or buttons to close it? How do you call someone from this screen?

This is objectively bad design. I would argue you don't know what made Platinum and Aqua great if you're comparing those complaints to this clown vomit.
by b33j0r | 2025-06-10 04:55:42+00:00
Gotcha, but. The whole point of a protest vote is to influence other people. Doesn’t that influence cross precinct boundaries these days?

The only effect of any protest vote is to tell your friends. Hasan had a lot of friends. Arab communities in Michigan had a lot of friends. Never-never Trumpers had a lot of friends.

I personally believe that a personal political strategy should have a conscientious goal, cognizant of the effects of its action.

There’s no separate moral universe where you preserve your ideals by helping elect an autocrat from the other side.
by vineyardmike | 2025-06-10 04:55:47+00:00
> The root of trust for Private Cloud Compute is our compute node: custom-built server hardware that brings the power and security of Apple silicon to the data center, with the same hardware security technologies used in iPhone, including the Secure Enclave and Secure Boot. We paired this hardware with a new operating system: a hardened subset of the foundations of iOS and macOS

I would cal this "Apple Hardware" even if its not the same thing you can buy at an Apple Store.
by Grimblewald | 2025-06-10 04:55:51+00:00
when it doesn't impact you, or your immediate future, it is fair to steer clear and consider it noise - but this is a textbook historical moment. This isn't cheap talk. These are real and national trajectory altering events.

What happens in these coming months defines a major historical event for the USA, which sets it's course for the coming century.

It may become a country which is directly hostile to you. If you are American and are ignoring this, then it is no different to getting mad your family is wanting to talk about the raging kitchen fire that is unaddressed and escalating because "so what, the stove top has fire sometimes, it's a gas heater, that's normal" which, sure, would be right, but right now the entire wall is ablaze.

You cannot ignore this one, even those of us in other countries cannot ignore this one, as we have to reconsider our alliance with a country that reasonably one can assume is in the middle of falling to a fascist regime.

This is NOT run of the mill politics. This is genuinely about the collective future of the Anglosphere.
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by bung | 2025-06-10 04:57:11+00:00
I'm really sorry this is my contribution/comment atm, I'm very interested in this stuff, but I am having a hell of a time reading this. Even if you keep the font I can't figure if some increased letter-spacing would help, really though I need some line-spacing and paragraph margin bottom for the love of god it's a contrasty text wall blur and I can't focus :( I'm getting old I guess, coding since the late 90s, and here we are finally the point my optometrist warned me about that I'll need glasses soon lol
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-10 04:57:24+00:00
> Elections have consequences, but if those consequences are the loss of rights, then you never lived in a democracy to begin with.

So I guess these folks who live in a "real democracy" according to you just have the good government fairy swoop in when the people vote in a dictator.

At the end of the day, a democracy is just people, all the way down. It doesn't matter what laws you've written down, what courts you have, what procedures you've developed. If enough people stop believing in the enforcement of those laws, or court orders, or governmental norms, there is no deus ex machina.