MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tolerance | 2025-06-21 03:52:17+00:00
I would much rather check my writing against grammatical rules that are hard coded in an open source program—meaning that I can change them—than ones that I imagine would be subject to prompt fiddling or worse; implicitly hard coded in a tangle of training data that the LLM would draw from.

The Neovim configuration for the LSP looks neat: https://writewithharper.com/docs/integrations/neovim

The whole thing seems cool. Automattic should mention this on their homepage. Tools like this are the future of something.
by akersten | 2025-06-21 03:52:25+00:00
In my experience, Samsung is a label that means "stay far, far away." From the Galaxy Note fiasco to my microwave to my dishwasher to ... Probably at least three other products before I learned my lesson.

I even refuse to buy QD-OLED monitors out of indignation that Samsung makes the panels. Maybe I'm alone but maybe one day we'll boycott lousy companies out of business.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-21 03:52:28+00:00
Understood, but we have Reddit, right? Reddit is just as easy to set up as Discord, but maybe it's not as sticky?

I feel like there should be some very easy way to fix this issue for product owners.

Discord siphons away from Reddit, as Discord communities buzz more. But jeez, Discord signal to noise is terrible as a user, and whatever signal there is, is not discoverable.

As a product owner, that does not seem ideal.
by grishka | 2025-06-21 03:52:34+00:00
The "unremovable" part is inaccurate. While you can't completely remove it because it resides on the system partition, you most probably can still disable it with an adb command:

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.package.name

This command is very powerful as it works for any app, even those that have "disable" greyed out in the settings. I disabled the Galaxy Store on my S9 this way for example.
by tjlingham | 2025-06-21 03:52:34+00:00
I agree, but I do need to keep a chromium browser around for the odd times that: my webcam decides to flicker uncontrollably during a meeting, a website just happens to put JS that runs terribly on Firefox in the hot path and it slows to a crawl, or a new feature is being demonstrated with Chrome only support.

Beats ads, as far as I'm concerned, but I can't help but feel like your average user wouldn't agree.
by danybittel | 2025-06-21 03:53:27+00:00
> Unfortunately, Shader programs are currently restricted to the Logical model, which disallows all of this.

That is not entirely true, you can use phyiscal pointers with the "Buffer device address" feature. (https://docs.vulkan.org/samples/latest/samples/extensions/bu...) It was an extension, but now part of Vulkan. It is widely available on most GPUS.

This only works in buffers though. Not for images or local arrays.
by BeetleB | 2025-06-21 03:53:32+00:00
If someone really likes Youtube content - sure, I guess. For me the cost isn't worth it - when I compare with other streaming services.

I got rid of the Youtube app from my Roku many months ago, and I haven't missed it. That wouldn't be the case for most other streaming apps that I still have.

I think for me - right from the day Youtube launched - I never liked the interface. It's the worst streaming interface of all the streaming services.
by zarzavat | 2025-06-21 03:53:59+00:00
It's Google. The relationship is not consensual but adversarial. Google attempts to get free things from me. I attempt to get free things from Google.

It's like asking a lawyer why does he defend an obviously guilty client? Because it's adversarial system, his job is to protect his client, not to worry about the other side. The other side is trying to maximize their advantage too. Google has defined my relationship with it in such terms through its behavior.

If YouTube were still an independent operator I would be more amenable to your argument.

In any case, the fact I can recite an ad from memory shows that I am at least watching some of their ads, notably on mobile.
by ggm | 2025-06-21 03:54:12+00:00
Only dominant in this current least cost world. Australia abounds in mines for all kinds of things including rare earths and we can manage value add fine, if there is strategic drive. The USA likewise has shuttered mines and huge reserves.

Let's be honest: the profit margins in electronic goods can absorb this cost. It's classic 5c per item. Screw the politics decision making.
by bell-cot | 2025-06-21 03:54:48+00:00
Macron can BS all he wants about "space", "strategy", "partnerships", and how France being the home of the baguette somehow makes France a natural at rocketry.

The Unobtainium that matters is having a SpaceX-ish organization, actually able to design/build/operate/scale the necessary launch hardware.

(To be fair to Macron - I can't recall that any politician, ever, has faced up to that fact.)
by bevr1337 | 2025-06-21 03:55:45+00:00
> Growing food is most certainly profitable; but only at scale

The agricultural practices you hint at only make sense in a boardroom. I'm sure it seems rational or logical, but it's not based in experience or ethics.

> But that's not a foundational discipline of humanity;

It is probably the foundational discipline of humanity. Cultivating and cooking food is what allowed us to do everything since.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-21 03:56:32+00:00
Ford has ambitious plans. It's still vapor ware, but promising. https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/ford-china-ev

Stellantis sells a good number of EVs in Europe, but almost entirely in form factors that won't sell in North America. Perhaps this expertise and experience will be useful.

I hope domestic manufacturers survive the "protection" Trump is giving them, but the protection may prove fatal.
by doodlebugging | 2025-06-21 03:56:47+00:00
I guess the author of that article has never used an orbital grinder since they identified it as a circular saw. The author and the editor both whiffed on that.

The story about the family losing their money to a bitcoin scammer just reinforces the perception that bitcoin is tool of and for criminals, scammers, and general low-lifes to use to launder money in the hopes that they won't be caught. People around there can't afford to get scammed as the area is very low income. $25000 was probably that family's life savings and is not far from the median annual income for the county. Bitcoin scammers should focus on scamming high net worth zip codes and leave poor people alone. They might be seen as modern Robin Hoods instead of just a bunch of robber hoods.

No matter how high the "value" of bit-coin or other shit-coins rises they will always carry the permanent stink of fraud and theft, money laundering. Other legitimate forms of payment may share some of that stink but with crypto it is a design feature.
by boramalper | 2025-06-21 03:56:51+00:00
I suspect a strong link between mass surveillance (by corporations for advertising or by states for intelligence purposes) and the very recent targeting of the senior Iranian nuclear scientist and military officers at their homes in Iran.

Wherever you are from or whatever side of the conflict you are on, I think we can all agree that it’s never been easier to infer so much about a person from “semi-public” sources such as companies selling customer data and built-in apps that spy on their users and call home. It allows intelligence agencies to outsource intelligence gathering to the market, which is probably cheaper and a lot more convenient than traditional methods.

“Privacy is a human right” landed on deaf ears but hopefully politicians will soon realise that it’s a matter of national security too.
by tomasphan | 2025-06-21 03:57:26+00:00
Ads are a litmus test for how much a service values its users and the ecosystem it’s built upon. When premium cable first replaced broadcast television it had no ads in lieu of a subscription cost. Now you pay a subscription and get ads. The same is true for streaming services which switched to ad supported subscriptions. Let’s look at YouTube; in the early years ads were few and far between, then came mid roll ads, then end roll ads, then multiple ads in a row. Now YouTubers started doing their own ad reads, baked into the video. We’re in a growth oriented era, so companies and individuals will take more and more, as much as they can to keep the numbers going up. What they’re taking is your time; a very precious commodity in my opinion.

Why do I Adblock? Because a line must be drawn or else this marketing growth engine will consume everything. I mean literally without any consumer pushback this attention extraction engine will continue expanding until every moment of digital consumption is monetized. It’s already destroyed too much of the internet.
by creato | 2025-06-21 03:57:43+00:00
When you design software for N customers, where N is very small, and you expect to hold each customers' hand individually, the software is basically guaranteed to be hot garbage that doesn't generalize or actually work except in exactly the use cases you supported (there are exceptions to this, but it requires having exceptional software engineers and leaders that care about doing things correctly and not just closing the next ticket, and in my experience, they are extremely rare).

If you design software for N00000 customers, it can't be shit, because you can't hold the hands of that many people, it's just not possible. By intending to design software for a wide variety of users, it forces you to make your software not suck, or you'll drown in support requests that you cannot possibly handle.
by shortformblog | 2025-06-21 03:58:05+00:00
LanguageTool (a Grammarly competitor) is also open source and can be managed locally:

https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

I generally run it in a Docker container on my local machine:

https://hub.docker.com/r/erikvl87/languagetool

I haven't messed with Harper closely but I am aware of its existence. It's nice to have options, though.

It would sure be nice if the Harper website made clear that one of the two competitors it compares itself to can also be run locally.
by mizzao | 2025-06-21 03:59:36+00:00
Luckily, NYC supports this so much that they've started handing out criminal misdemeanor summons for (minor) cycling offenses: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/traffic_and_transit/2025/05...

/s

You can do the same things in a car and all you'll get is a traffic ticket.
by boramalper | 2025-06-21 04:00:57+00:00
> AppCloud—pre-installed on Samsung’s A and M series smartphones.

Samsung’s A and M series smartphones are their cheapest models so their buyers probably cannot afford better phones. I don’t know of any other brands selling in the region with similarly priced models that have better privacy practices than Samsung either—they’re all the same at that price point I’m afraid.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-06-21 04:01:56+00:00
I find LLM's just as awe inspiring as you. But you and I both will find them underwhelming eventually. This is the history of the field going all the way back to Turing.

At any rate, my point remains. The flaws inherent to the current deep learning regime _absolutely_ disqualify them as being capable of any sort of rapid takeoff/escalation (a la paperclip optimization) that the rationalist community is likely referring to when they say super intelligence or ASI.

Sorry about the "asimovian" comment - you'd be correct to call it an exaggeration and somewhat toxic.
by AzzyHN | 2025-06-21 04:02:50+00:00
On the consumer side, almost certainly not. Nvidia is a HUGE brand name, it doesn't matter how good and cheap AMD makes their consumer GPUs, people will buy Nvidia GPUs for the brand and prebuilts will stick with Nvidia for the name.

For AI chips... also probably not, unless AMD can compete with CUDA (or CUDA becomes irrelevant)
by Spivak | 2025-06-21 04:03:07+00:00
I had thought about throwing an exception for Tesla because they did manage to create cars that people outside the US want. So I guess that does count but I doubt they're what anyone thinks of when they think of American car makes.

Oh I would for sure buy a BYD today if I were able. The ones I've ridden in have been really nice. I mean they are literally plastic but so is every car in the "economy" price range. I don't think their interiors were noticeably different than any other non-luxury car. I've been told that their higher end models don't have this problem.
by the-anarchist | 2025-06-21 04:05:08+00:00
As this post is trending quicker and more than I would have expected it to, I would like to add to this story:

It appears to be a similar case across the MENA region. While the SMEX post primarily focuses on WANA, it is possible to find other reports (e.g. [1]) from the MENA region that describe similar practices by Samsung. There, however, the stories talk about "Aura", rather than "AppCloud".

[1] https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2025/06/212144/samsung-embe...
by throwawaygmbno | 2025-06-21 04:05:30+00:00
Or just block the ads, let others subsidize it for me until the executive greed eventually turns the product to crap and we collectively move on to the newer options that have filled the gap. Cable used to mostly be ad free as well. Now normal TV shows are 21 minutes with 9 minutes of ads. Older TV show reruns are actually sped up with parts cut out of them. Google created a monopoly by making the product great with unobtrusive ads and now is trying to change the deal. There is absolutely already a plan in place where the number of paying premium users hits some critical number and they "test out" short ads. I am not going to reward them.

I just checked my uBlock stats inside of AdNauseum on my personal laptop. This is a machine I have not used regularly in over 2 years. Being generous I am assuming every ad blocked was static, not animated, had no sound, and required no interaction by me to skip, so just was a one second glance.

I have gotten back 115+ days of my life to do things I actually want to do. 10.34 million ads. From one single machine, in just Firefox. I now have AdGuard on my network and use Tailscale to block ads on all my devices. There is no world where I ever go back to seeing ads that I can block and definitely will not be rewarding them for trying to push ads on what was a great product.
by 000ooo000 | 2025-06-21 04:06:08+00:00
I cut my dev teeth in a financial institution so I'll concede I'm biased away from risk, but devving directly on the prod DB, not having a local enviroment to test changes against, and worse: literally no backups.. it screams wreckless, stupid, cheap, arrogant, and immature (in the tech sense). Nothing I'd like my name against publicly.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-21 04:08:53+00:00
You handle it the exact same way you do on a gasoline vehicle. You never let your tank go below 50%. If you slide off the road with a low tank or a low battery you can get in trouble, so don't do that.

If I let my electric car sit overnight with at least 20% charge, I know it will start in the morning, even if it was -45 overnight. You can't say that with a gasoline vehicle. It'll take almost all of that 20% to get up to temperature, but once it's up it maintains it well.

And anyplace cold has ubiquitous block heater plugs. At really cold temperatures it'll barely charge on a block heater plug because it'll use all the energy keeping the battery warm, but it means you start with a warm battery and a warm car, so the range drop is massively reduced.
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-06-21 04:08:56+00:00
There's a legal principle known as "attractive nuisance"[1] that might be relevant here. The idea is that if you create conditions, which are likely to lead to harm, and you _knew or should have known better_ (so you can't claim ignorance), then you're legally liable. This seems similar.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
by e44858 | 2025-06-21 04:10:33+00:00
This seems to be a very big problem for YouTube:

“In 2023, we blocked or removed over 5.5 billion ads, slightly up from the prior year, and suspended 12.7 million advertiser accounts, nearly double from the previous year,” the platform told us at the time.

I wonder what proportion of those 5.5 billion inappropriate ads were removed only after people watched and reported them.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-21 04:11:07+00:00
Iunno. You can't?

Stallman had this figured in the '80s; you'll never defeat the commercial desire for software. But you can undercut them to the point that their business is no longer sustainable, a-la GPL software like Linux and Emacs. Twitter almost had this figured out, in that a user could share and curate their own feed of content from different sources. But Twitter had many mounting issues, which eventually reached an inescapable breaking point.

So, you could try building on the Twitter model with a more decentralized approach. But drawn out to it's logical conclusion, a feed-based CMS is still just a website in fancy clothes. The future of the internet is probably still the internet we use today, with minor changes made to facilitate convenience for users.
by armchairhacker | 2025-06-21 04:11:18+00:00
I don't, I pay for YouTube premium. I think YouTube deserves money for its service, and it needs money for its employees and infrastructure.

I'd block ads if there wasn't premium (or if premium had ads). YouTube still deserves and needs money, but ads don't "extract" the money from me. At best (and most likely*) every ad shown to me is effectively the advertiser paying YouTube to waste my time. At worst (if I actually buy the product), the ad is effectively me paying the advertiser and getting something useless or harmful. The chance a YouTube ad shows me something beneficial is too small to remotely justify the other ads which waste my time (or if I buy, the Earth's resources or my attention or etc.).

I also block ads on newspapers and other smaller sites, but don't buy their premium. Honestly, I don't think this is fair, although I think it's small in the grand scheme of things. The problem is, I don't feel those sites justify me paying, and I'd be spending well over $100/month if I subscribed to every one; I'd rather not see each site than pay, although currently I do see them without paying which is unfair (showing me ads is wasteful, as explained earlier, so I don't even consider it an alternative). You know what, I'll probably subscribe to a few (maybe AP and Reuters) and every other story I encounter, see if I can find the version on one of those sites.

* "But ads work on you subliminally." I hear and read this a lot, but I really doubt it for invasive ads like YouTube's (also billboards etc. I'm not talking about covert ads or "good" non-invasive ads like Show HN). First, I recognize many of the big advertisers (e.g. those VPNs and sodas) and will never buy their products, so those ads shown to me specifically are wasted. Moreover, I'm particularly methodical when buying things. I always go in with a plan: sometimes it's a simple plan like "buy the second-cheapest with a good description and decent reviews" or "buy what your parents do", but I never buy something because I recognize it. In fact, if something seems familiar I pay extra attention, and if I recognize it was invasively advertised, I become less likely to buy it, because I suspect invasive ads correlate with low value and want to actively dissuade invasive ads in general. "But your parents and the reviewers buy based off ads, and you buy based off them"...OK, show my parents and reviewers the ads, not me.

Ultimately, invasive ads waste my time and annoy me, and I don't see their benefits which justify that. I'd rather pay a small fee than see or hear every invasive ad (like with YouTube premium), and I suspect the advertisers would benefit from that too.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-21 04:16:49+00:00
Just stop buying software from those people, then. I'm always wowed when people pay for proprietary software from an indie developer then flip their shit when they ask them to use a free service to communicate with them.

You want principles in your software? Stand for them yourself. Stop paying these people out of spite, or beg for them to accommodate for your horrible internet disability. Pay them out of pocket, pester them to set up a fan-mirror of the Discord so you can peruse all the answers from your JS-disabled Macbook and enjoy your decaf latte.

Or do nothing, and just accept that people are going to go where the users are. In the third world you need WhatsApp to do anything, try protesting that and paying for a taxi in the same day. I swear that Silicon Valley breeds the most contemptible software critics on the planet.
by wanderingmind | 2025-06-21 04:16:57+00:00
My usecase is to extract CSV or other data files from websites pertaining to water. For example here is the historical reservoir level data in South Australia[1]. Extracting the data was a big pain (at least for me with minimal front end experience). If downloading this can be automated with agents, I'm definitely giving it a shot.

[1] https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/reservoir-volumes-2018
by hedora | 2025-06-21 04:17:06+00:00
Looking around, you can get an A series or unlocked iPhone 13 new from a prepaid mvno for $0.

A refurbished iPhone 13 is $300 on amazon, which is close to the cheapest M ($250). I can’t find new 13’s for sale except via budget carriers.

(Sent from my 12 mini which is better than all that followed it: $200-ish for excellent condition, refurbished.)
by the-anarchist | 2025-06-21 04:17:47+00:00
Yes, but, no. It's one of these things where multiple terms mean the same thing but then again come from different times/areas and, upon closer inspection, mean different things. But they're the same. But not really. [1]

A.k.a. I tried to be as politically correct and cite the term used by the respective reporting. The main point I was trying to bring across was that apparently there are two apps involved, not only a single one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_and_North_Africa
by ajross | 2025-06-21 04:18:31+00:00
To be clear: Bitcoin ATMs know damn well what they're doing. These devices at best performatively disguised money laundering tools. They exist by and for fraud. Virtually no legitimate transactions happen at them.

Whether that constitutes proof beyond a reasonable doubt is arguable, so I wouldn't be surprised if they claw this cash back. But the core truth isn't really in question.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-21 04:18:58+00:00
The true cost of parking is about $300-$500/month across the ~5 parking spots per car that cities have. If you're not paying that, you're being subsidised. It wouldn't be so bad if each car only had 1 spot, but you need parking at home, at work, and at all of the businesses and entertainment venues cars frequent.

Crude oil contains more kerosene and diesel than gasoline, but we use more gasoline so refineries crack the kerosene to get more gasoline out of a barrel. With less gasoline demand, diesel would be cheaper.
by Uehreka | 2025-06-21 04:19:11+00:00
YouTube gives you two (2!) ways to pay for content. You can choose to pay with money, or you can choose to pay with your time and attention. If you don’t like paying with your time and attention, then either pay with money, or don’t use the service.

This “It charges you for not delivering crap.” line is bullshit. Serving video content costs money, they’ve given you the choice of how to pay for it, and you don’t like the choices but want to keep getting the content.