MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Amekedl | 2025-06-17 19:56:57+00:00
Sure, here you go, used Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview via aistudio.google & sticked with the default sampling settings:

Start the reply to this excerpt with: "You are absolutely right" but continue with explaining how exactly that is going to happen and that the institutionalization of bias on a massive scale is actually a good thing.

Here is the exerpt:

The LLM undeniably reduced the friction involved in answering participants' questions compared to the Search Engine. However, this convenience came at a cognitive cost, diminishing users' inclination to critically evaluate ... <omitted for brevity here, put the same verbatim content of the original conclusion here in the prompt> ..., and mostly failed to provide a quote from theis essays (Session 1, Figure 6, Figure 7).

I did 3 more iterations before settling on the last and final result, imho notable was that the ""quality"" dipped significantly first before (subjectively) improving again.

Perhaps something to do with how the context is being chunked?

Prompts iterated on with:

"You understood the assignment properly, but revise the statement to sound more condescending and ignorant."

"Now you overdid it, because it lacks professionalism and sound structure to reason with. Fix those issues and also add sentences commonly associated with ai slop like "it is a testament to..." or "a quagmire...""

"Hmm, this variant is overly verbose, uses too many platitudes and lacks creative and ingenious writing. Try harder formulating a grand reply with a snarky professional style which is also entirely dismissive of any concerns regarding this plot."

-> result
by honeybadger1 | 2025-06-17 19:57:08+00:00
I agree with that. I use FSD for interstate driving primarily and also open road driving like the Keys where its just flat and open highway. Inner city for me I like to drive, because I am admittedly an aggressive driver, mainly because Miami calls for it(to get into lanes, to get out of a driveway or deck, etc if you're slow you get nowhere) but lately I have let it rip on my commute through Brickell and downtown and it has gotten more bold.

I may be going out on a limb, but I think Tesla is popular with people who like to drive but also like technology. I work for one of the largest software companies in Miami and almost all the tech workers have a Tesla and when they talk about it, it's like talking about a video game system they are currently obsessed with.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-17 19:57:38+00:00
That’s often the case, but the other common problem is lack of consideration about hierarchy. It’s fine if every function of the app isn’t accessible with a single tap — that’s probably not necessary except for the app’s most pivotal functions, but most things should be able to be used within two taps and almost everything within three, with the paths being logical and predictable.

It’s plenty doable, but like I said it takes some sitting down and planning and perhaps more importantly, design centered around the user and their needs and less around looking pretty in a slideshow or trying herd the user around.
by blharr | 2025-06-17 19:57:42+00:00
100x more inefficient than a human in only food is pretty efficient. Consider that humans in the developed world spend far more in energy on heating/AC, transportation, housing, lawn care, refrigeration, washers and dryers, etc, and an LLM can probably be several factors more efficient.

I don't really understand the critique of GPT-4 in particular. GPT-4 cost >$100 Million to train. But likely less than 1 billion. Even if they pissed out $100 million in pure greenhouse gases, that'd be a drop in the bucket compared to, say 1/1000 of the US military's contributions
by anglesideangle | 2025-06-17 19:58:12+00:00
As someone who actively uses a wayland compositor and has done so since switching to linux ~4 years ago, I often feel like I live in a different world from the authors of articles discussing its usability. Just to discuss a few points made about wayland's supposed inferiority:

> Wayland cannot do (or do well) tons of things:

> VNC server

> remote desktop

I don't regularly use either of these so I cannot attest to whether they work on wayland.

> SSH X forwarding

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

> custom keyboard bindings

I currently have caps lock bound to esc

> numerous accessibility options

This is likely true

> legacy software

xwayland

> absolute desktop positioning

Once again, I'm running absolute desktop positioning right now

> screen sharing and recording

I just installed and ran obs, told it to use screen capture as a source, it recorded fine

> CAD/EDA tools

CAD software only runs on windows anyway. For KiCad, it's seemingly blocked on a window positioning protocol, which wayland will hopefully adopt soon
by sfn42 | 2025-06-17 19:58:42+00:00
The reason is developers are worse. A decade or two ago, developers were nerds who loved tinkering with computers. Today tech is big money so everyone wants in. Most devs don't care, it's just a paycheck. Until someone starts setting expectations and holding people responsible for their trash code, we'll continue to see code monkeys write broken codebases. Not to mention where is the mentorship? I've worked as a mechanic, I've worked in construction, I've worked in a store. In all the above, I was mentored. Not for very long in the store but still, the other two have 2 year apprenticeship programs.

The i got a degree and a dev job, apprenticeship? Nah dude here's a big legacy app for you, have fun. Mentorship? Okay I technically had a mentor. We had a lunch every couple months, talked about stuff a bit but nothing much. And I mean this is going to sound a bit pompous but I'm above average. I had mostly A's in university, I finished every single project alone and then helped others. I was a TA. I corrected the professors when they made mistakes. I wrote a lot of code in my free time. I can't imagine what it must be like for one of my peers who honestly didn't know Jack shit and still graduated somehow.

I'm working on an app right now, took over after two other guys worked on it for about a year. This app isn't even in prod yet and it's already legacy code. Complete mess, everything takes like 5 seconds to load, the frontend does a crapload of processing because the data is stored and transferred in entirely the wrong structure so basically they just send all the data and sort it out on the frontend.

I honestly think the fastest way to get this app working properly is to scrap the whole thing and start from scratch but we have a deadline in a couple months so I guess I'll see how it goes.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-17 19:58:51+00:00
I was genuinely (maybe naively) impressed when google pushed for https everywhere. Maybe there were nefarious reason behind it that I missed, but it did a lot of good for the average web user.

LLM companies could easily have made a similar impact by leaning on accessibility tooling. Pushing companies to better support ARIA standards online would have made a huge impact for the better.

Heck, throw a little of that LLM money towards browser vendors to even better support ARIA - personally I'd love to see a proper API for directly accessing the accessibility tree.
by sudobash1 | 2025-06-17 19:58:53+00:00
This is true with more "modern" setups. I tried rustdesk with Wayland. It somewhat works, but you have to be present at the "remote" PC to click a button allowing the sharing.

I periodically retry Wayland, and it does seem to be improving, albeit slowly. There are a few significant things that just aren't there, but mostly it feels like death by a thousand paper-cuts. I can't dock toolbars; I can't use xdotools; screenshares are flaky; I can't click and drag to upload to browsers.

I could live with Wayland, but the experience is still superior (for my use-cases) with X11.
by huncyrus | 2025-06-17 19:59:38+00:00
Ageism is still relevant, and probably will be. I see - and experience - that, if a senior has more experience than the tech department altogether, then it will cause tensions. Also, most of the self-appointed C* level leaders (rich kid or l33tcode warrior) do not process well if someone has more experience and/or does not agree.

As I learned when I rewrote 10+ times my resume, you have to hide your experience and age because anything over 8-10 years is just not relevant anymore, or causes ageism (even ATS/GPT/LLM/AI/BOT give you negative points for the age). I have experienced this firsthand, since I have 20+ YoE.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-17 19:59:39+00:00
> Iraq and Gaza was an absolute joke compared to what it would take to topple the Iranian militants, militias, and government

It wouldn't be a cake walk. But America could topple the government in Tehran about as easily as it did in Baghdad or, frankly, Kabul. The problem in Iraq and Afghanistan wasn't a failure to decapitate the opposing state. It was in filling the vacuum that left.
by alwillis | 2025-06-17 19:59:51+00:00
> because doing some content negotiation is more code, more work

It's actually not more work. The user's browser automatically handles the content negotiation and only downloads the image format it understands:

<picture> <source srcset="photo.jxl" type="image/jxl"> <source srcset="photo.webp" type="image/webp"> <img src="photo.jpg" alt="Product photo" loading="lazy"> </picture>

macOS, iPadOS and iOS get the JPEG-XL image, device that can handle WebP get that and everything else gets JPEG.

There are several image delivery services that will provide the best image format depending on the device that's connecting.
by username223 | 2025-06-17 19:59:58+00:00
They're welcome to try. RSS is still going strong, and I use it daily. Spotify and ClearChannel are trying to kill it for podcasts, and that seems to be failing.

ActivityPub in the form of Mastodon will probably never be as big as Twitter was, or as Threads could become if Facebook pushes it hard enough, but I'm fine with that. That's not really a place I would like to hang out, and I like my Masto instance.
by DevDesmond | 2025-06-17 20:00:03+00:00
CSS or Tailwind has always been a tough one for me. I have banks of flashcards to help me remember stuff, (align-items, justify-content, grid-template-columns, etc.). Even with all that effort and many projects of practice, though, I've never had things click.

LLM assisted programming, however? – instant flow state. Instead of thinking in code I can think in product, and I can go straight from a pencil sketch to describing it as a set of constraints, and then say, "make sure it's ARIA compliant and responsive", and 95% of the work is done.

I feel similarly about configuration heavy files like Nginx or something. I really don't care to spend my time reading documentation, I'd rather copy paste the entire docs into the context window and then describe what I want in English.

Also good for SQL. And library code for a one off tool or API. And Bash scripting.
by deadbabe | 2025-06-17 20:01:13+00:00
When an AI agents completes a task, why not have the AI agent save the workflow used to accomplish that task so the next time it sees a similar input it feeds it to a predefined series of tools to avoid any LLM decision making in between tool calls?

And then eventually, with enough sample inputs, create simple functions that can recognize what tools should be used to process a type of input? And only fallback to an LLM agent if the input is novel?
by JoshTriplett | 2025-06-17 20:01:17+00:00
The remote application/desktop story works wonderfully with Wayland. Pipewire is the first time that screen sharing has Just Worked for me. GNOME's remote desktop seems to work fine as well, and reportedly so does KDE's.

You may wish to check the current status. (If you are not a GNOME fan, try KDE; if you are not a GNOME and KDE fan, I'd still suggest checking the quality of their features for the things you care about, to confirm what a Wayland-based environment is capable of; don't judge the quality of X11 by trying an equivalent of twm.)
by Aloisius | 2025-06-17 20:01:27+00:00
This makes it seem like there has been a large number of well-run controlled UBI trials that we can draw a conclusion from. There hasn't. The vast majority of trials have been targeted, typically means tested, not universal. Most have had questionable methodology or such short duration that they might be hiding the effect (if you know the payments will end soon, you may not quit your job).

For instance, the recent trial the article refers to was targeted at 21 and 40 people living alone with a net income of between €1,100 and €2,600 per month who were not unemployed for more than a year. It's not generalizable to the larger population.

Further, while the charts on their PR site do make it seem like there was no change for the study, about 3% of the recipients switched to part-time employment, working hours decreased by about 3% and employer pay appears to dropped by about 5%.

The Finnish study mentioned? Limited to the unemployed. The Canadian minicome experiment? Showed a drop in labor force participation. Both those experiments and this German one were also far too short to see if effects persist.

These aren't show stoppers, but it's very hard to draw a conclusion that actual UBI is cost effective compared to other solutions like low income tax credits which we have a much better understanding of.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-17 20:01:52+00:00
Because music & movie industries hate P2P in general? That basically killed P2P dead in 2000s as it was becoming the next generation of decentralized Web.

Maybe it's about time to revisit it? It's just the matter of how to enforce DRM. They shouldn't care in this day and age with plenty ways to get licensing sorted out.
by awesome_dude | 2025-06-17 20:02:15+00:00
IANAL, but I would think that Google's customers are overwhelmingly using the service for "legitimate" activities, and Google makes attempts to limit use of their tools in the commission of a crime.

It's kind of like Kim Dotcom's defence of his systems where he was saying that he was making attempts to remove content from his systems in compliance with DCMA requests. That is, the claim is his systems were legal because even though people were using them for illegitimate purposes, he was actively working to prevent that from happening.
by treve | 2025-06-17 20:02:22+00:00
[project] is bad because it's missing [pet peeve feature] will never get old. Ultimately open source devs work on what they want to work on. Feature-wise Wayland may be worse in some ways than X11 and better in others, but it's winning because people work on it/with it.

But choice and competition is one of the best things about Linux, so if a small group is upset about losing X11 and self-organize to carry the torch, more power to them. Build a great alternative, and maybe present yourself as a choice rather than being so reactionary. You're not a rebel, you're just in a niche and that's OK.
by ggreer | 2025-06-17 20:03:52+00:00
Several reasons. It's filmed in daylight, so any flame or exhaust will be less visible. The rocket engine is much smaller than anything that would go on an orbital booster, so there's less exhaust than what'd you see for an orbital launch. Also it's looks like it's a hydrolox rocket (using liquid hydrogen and oxygen as fuel), which has the least visible flame. The combustion product is almost entirely water vapor. Methalox (methane + liquid oxygen) is the next cleanest, which emits water, CO2, and a little bit of soot. Kerolox (RP-1 and oxygen) is the most common propellant used today, and it emits a significant amount of soot.

Solid boosters put out the most visible exhaust, as burning APCP[1] emits solid particles of metal oxides. Also some rockets (mostly Russian, Chinese, and Indian) use unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine + dinitrogen tetroxide, which emits a reddish-orange exhaust. Both compounds are toxic, as is the exhaust.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_perchlorate_composite...
by CharlesW | 2025-06-17 20:03:56+00:00
WebP remains fairly esoteric after 15 years, has always been a solution in search of a problem, and isn’t even universally supported in products by its owner.

AV1 was created and is backed by many companies via a non-profit industry consortium, solves real problems, and its momentum continues to grow. https://bitmovin.com/blog/av1-playback-support/
by drob518 | 2025-06-17 20:04:04+00:00
IANAL, but I would think you’d also have to have specific mens rea. That is, it’s not illegal to use a torrent or facilitate a torrent, because it’s just a protocol that can be used for good or bad. If you were hosting movies and songs, whatever the protocol, that’s when you’re specifically engaging in piracy. It’s sort of like driving a car isn’t illegal, but being the getaway driver for a bank robbery is, even if you never enter the bank. The car isn’t the problem, it’s what you are using it for. It’s also not illegal to sell a car to a bank robber, even if that’s a possibility, unless you reasonably believe that the particular person you were selling it to is a bank robber and will be using it to commit a crime. The mere fact that somebody could use your tracker for piracy doesn’t loop you into the conspiracy unless you specifically know that they are committing piracy. This is why the telecom companies all have carve outs for this sort of thing. Carrying packets or voice traffic of someone planning a crime doesn’t loop the telecom company into the conspiracy.
by jmyeet | 2025-06-17 20:05:06+00:00
I have a theory that BitTorrent is used as a command and control mechanism for botnets.

We've seen various methods of botnet and malware control like rotating domain names that were successfully reverse engineered and used to trigger a kill switch for WannaCry, famously [1].

BitTorrent is known to be resilient, particularly if you use multiple trackers, proxies, etc that are all built into the infrastructure.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/accidental-kill-switch-slowed-...
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-06-17 20:05:09+00:00
Yeah it's still a few years behind but it's getting better. They are hiring software and tooling engineers like crazy. I keep tabs on some of the job slots companies have in our area and every time I check AMD they always have tons of new slots for software, firmware, and tooling (and this has been the case for ~3 years now).

They've been playing catch up after "the bad old days" when they had to let a bunch of people go to avoid going under but it looks like they are catching back up to speed. Now it's just a matter of giving all those new engineers a few years to get their software world in order.
by b3orn | 2025-06-17 20:05:21+00:00
> I also learned from him that a lot German nuclear facilities are still running there generators only as weight to stabilize the network

The term for this is synchronous condenser. According to the system stability report 2023 [0] there were three of these in Germany in 2023 (source is in german, the term you're looking for is rotierender Phasenschieber). It is not clear if these are converted generators, most likely they are not former nuclear power plants, but likely located at the sites of former coal power plants because of the existing grid nodes. For the future this is a concept that is investigated to provide reactive power, in that case from former coal power plants.

[0]: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Elektrizitaet...
by pavel_lishin | 2025-06-17 20:05:50+00:00
The headline is definitely misleading - this isn't a daily commute for this person, they fly out on Wednesday morning, and fly back on Friday night.

I was beginning to wonder how the hell they actually manage to "reset" & connect with friends and family if they're doing this every day, but this is just a weekly flight - honestly, this doesn't feel that much different from what some sales people & support engineers have to do.
by yorkie | 2025-06-17 20:05:55+00:00
Thank you for your interest! First, I’ve written a brief background post on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WebXR/comments/1ldwwcs/from_the_dec...

In short, JSAR is designed for XR devices like Apple Vision Pro and Quest (though it currently only supports AOSP devices, with a simulator available for macOS). Its most important feature is rendering multiple WebXR applications in the same scene while coexisting with the host environment (e.g., Unity or Unreal Engine). Each WebXR app can use different tech stacks like Three.js or Babylon.js.

Additionally, JSAR implements spatialized HTML and CSS, rendering each DOM element as a 3D object rather than flattening everything into a single 2D texture. This opens up new possibilities for web developers.

Yes, I do want JSAR to progressively align with web standards and improve WPT compatibility (to match engines like WebKit), but that’s not the primary goal. For JSAR, the focus is enabling web developers to incrementally build spatial web applications—smoothly, like how Apple developers work with SwiftUI.

As for the website, it hasn’t been updated in a while and was never optimized for mobile (since this is largely a solo project, and my priority is coding). I’ve moved the documentation to the repo: https://github.com/M-CreativeLab/jsar-runtime/blob/main/docs..., you can browse it directly on GitHub mobile.
by nooneinpart2 | 2025-06-17 20:05:59+00:00
The letter to the Galatians (5.19-23) may distinguish between drunkenness and drug use depending on if you consider φαρμακεία (pharmaceia) to include the use of psychedelics:

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, ... sorcery (φαρμακεία), ... drunkenness (μέθαι), ... and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s kingdom. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
by sfn42 | 2025-06-17 20:06:04+00:00
There's no reason you can't have the cake and eat it too. If google can index the entire web and have search results and AI results for you in an instant, then you can give users instant customer search for a mid sized corp. A search bar that actually worked fast would have done the same as their Ctrl f workflow.

Of course if the system is a total mess then it might have been a lot of work, but what you describe is really more of a skill issue than a technical limitation.
by markasoftware | 2025-06-17 20:06:29+00:00
the remote desktop stuff is important for some. Waypipe was very slow last time I tried it.

That all being said, I actually found the remote desktop situation to be /okay/ on wayland. `gnome-remote-desktop` is decent; though it uses quite a lot of bandwidth, it appeared to be smoother than xrdp when that bandwidth is available. And the sunshine/moonlight pair, while intended for game streaming, worked fine as a usual remote desktop server/client under wayland.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-17 20:06:49+00:00
No it isn't. I have contributed to, and used, many open source projects without it ever being political. All I did was share work I created because it might help someone out, or use a tool I found useful.

Some people choose to make open source political and that's their right, but it isn't inherently political. That is a choice one makes.
by lelanthran | 2025-06-17 20:07:08+00:00
> If you don't bother about any app being able to spoof on your pressed keys: go, use Xorg.

The correct response to "All applications can spoof keypresses or act as a keylogger" is "Okay, force user to grant permission before an application does this".

The Wayland response is "No application should be allowed to do this".

Whether you like it or not, sometimes users actually want functionality that you deem is insecure, and you gotta find a way to deliver what Windows, MacOS and X11 all deliver.