MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reedlaw | 2025-06-23 11:01:57+00:00
The authors of those works (Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, and The Brothers Karamazov) were greatly influenced by Greek classics, Milton, Shakespeare, or their contemporaries (such as Charles Dickens) who were also shaped by some of those same sources.

> At this moment, there are not even any famous literary fiction writers (much less geniuses) in the United States of America under the age of 65.

> Literary fiction peaked on the charts in the 1950s and 1960s and was quite present before then. There was a sustained decline from the 1970s onward.

Authors under the age of 65 grew up in an impoverished literary environment. How could we expect them to compete with those whose imaginations were formed when culture was more uniformly attuned to what has been considered great throughout the centuries? What books did Austen, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky grow up with, or learn in school, that are no longer widely regarded or read?
by dTal | 2025-06-23 11:02:13+00:00
The publishing of v1.0 of a protocol has little to do with the stability of software implementing that protocol. The software in question is in fact KWin, the KDE window manager. It is the most mature and featureful Wayland compositor, and the KDE devs have done a lot of work over the past few years to get it competitive with its X11 backend. However even they themselves still consider this a transitional phase: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-Is-The-Future

Also, time is in any case less relevant that developer hours. Were I feeling snarkier, I might point out that GNU/Hurd was first released in 1990 - perhaps we can finally switch to that...
by fleebee | 2025-06-23 11:04:20+00:00
Not everyone has a deep understanding of LLMs or the self-control to avoid the temptation of off-loading thinking to one. Many people are desperate enough to look to LLMs for medical advice or even friendship[0]. As workplaces and schools partner with Big Tech[1], LLM interfaces have already become embedded in everyday life as something you can't ignore.

There are no guardrails to LLMs. They remove friction from tasks that used to require critical thinking. We're constantly pressured into using them. I think only blaming the end-user is naive.

[0]: https://aeon.co/essays/our-crisis-is-not-loneliness-but-huma...

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danfitzpatrick/2025/02/26/chatg...
by busyant | 2025-06-23 11:05:29+00:00
> I tried to move my purchases to Walmart

Walmart does (or at least did) something similar.

* About 7 years ago, I purchased a toy drone online from Walmart for one of my sons for Christmas.

* I purchased it before Thanksgiving because the Walmart website urged me to purchase in time for Christmas delivery.

* My son opened the gift on Christmas and the drone was broken (out of the box).

* I tried to return the drone to a brick-and-mortar Walmart store and they told me that they couldn't issue a refund because I bought it on their website, but it was through a 3rd party seller. I had to take it up with the 3rd party.

* Remember the part where I said I bought the drone before Thanksgiving?? Well, I contacted the 3rd party and was told they had a strict 30 day return policy and they could not issue a refund.

It was a cheap gift, but the whole ordeal bothers me to this day.
by ynik | 2025-06-23 11:06:02+00:00
That applies only if you take "memory model" to mean modeling the effects of concurrent accesses in multithreaded programs.

But the term could also be used more generally to include stuff like pointer provenance, Rust's "stacked borrows" etc. In that case, Rust is more complicated than C-as-specified. But C-in-reality is much more complicated, e.g. see https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2263.htm
by zahlman | 2025-06-23 11:06:08+00:00
> is faster than

This is incoherent no matter what two programming languages you are talking about. It's like trying to say the road is fast, as opposed to the car.

But in practice, for anything where performance matters, Perl and Python are effectively just convenient ways to wrap a C inner loop anyway. I don't just mean gluing to some third-party library, either. I mean something inside the interpreter. Once you've built the state machine for the regex, the language bytecode doesn't matter any more.

Which is why it's dozens of times slower in both Python and Perl to run a do-nothing for loop than to iterate through a string with a dummy regex, or to use built-ins to search for a character, etc. (Or to create the string in the first place.)

> it is great for string manipulation, which again, is not a matter of opinion

This is incoherent no matter what programming language you are talking about. Of course it's a matter of opinion. Other people aren't going to like the same syntax you do.
by jakub_g | 2025-06-23 11:06:28+00:00
FWIW things have dramatically improved in recent years. For example, latest Pixels claim to have 7 years of support [1].

I wonder how it will work in practice though, as often the quality of QA for system updates for old phones drops over time, and major bugs and perf regressions are being shipped.

[1] https://endoflife.date/pixel
by phoronixrly | 2025-06-23 11:06:51+00:00
> You can't rip out the touch screen of your car and replace it with physical buttons unless you also figure out how to make the reversing camera work. Modifications to the outside of your car may also be a challenge because you need to keep the lane assist system working or your car won't pass the mandatory safety inspections.

Sorry, the only thing I could find on the topic was that the vehicles manufactured after 2024 need to have a back-up camera when sold on the EU market, nothing about you actually ripping it out, can you please link?

That said, you, personally, may not need a back-up camera, but considering the general public, do you not think it would be a net-benefit? The general public includes inept/distracted drivers, and old people who don't see or can't turn around easily. I can easily see people being saved by appearing in the back-up camera of an inept driver while the vehicle flashes red lights and sounds alarms.

There is of course the lobbying angle to this -- more mandatory base features means auto vendors can safely drive up the base prices without fear of competition. The real question is is this going to lead to a net reduction of vehicle accidents?
by giacomoforte | 2025-06-23 11:06:53+00:00
Scary stuff. I don't have social media, but from time to time I would create and delete Facebook/Twitter/Instagram accounts. Never posted anything. Just used them for auth/developer/Marketplace...etc. But I don't know all the logins I used in the past... So if I fail to provide a login to an empty profile, do I get permabanned from the US?
by fossdd | 2025-06-23 11:06:54+00:00
Oh systemd cares about them very much, and systemd will be a key component for the stability for postmarketOS with stuff like first-boot, sysusers/tmpfiles and in the end sysupdate (hopefully). That's just part of a very long list which simply wouldn't be possible without systemd.

In the end, if someone cares enough to step up and keeps OpenRC at the same state (and there is some progress, to be noted), we won't interfere with you, but at the current state it's just a big time consumer for many of our developers, and it's not where we would like to spend the time with and rather want to focus on stability and sustainability in general.
by msgodel | 2025-06-23 11:07:12+00:00
You have to click the red arrows a couple times then go through the rotating door.

I don't remember struggling with it much as a kid tbh.

I've thought about what I used to do with computers before and realized I used to have way more patience with them than I do now. I remember suffering a lot of the stupidity in qbasic and Turbo Pascal when I was 11. I don't think I would tolerate that today. Lego island seems similar.
by rakejake | 2025-06-23 11:07:18+00:00
Greg Egan's work has its share of humans but also some extremely imaginative aliens. I am not sure who can relate to the aliens in Wang's Carpets.

Greg Egan is a very good example of a novelist who is a GOAT but will be dismissed by most critics of lit-fic because "his characters don't have arcs" or some such.
by gwd | 2025-06-23 11:08:41+00:00
Haven't these guys heard of the "reciprocity principle"?

When I went to Brazil a few years ago, the basic price for a tourist visa was like $25 and could be done online. But, if you were a US citizen, it cost $150 and you had to schedule an attend an interview in person -- because, those were the costs and burdens placed on Brazilian citizens to apply for a US visa.

Does the US want other countries inspecting our citizens' social media posts for the last five years?

ED: Fix spelling mistake
by incomingpain | 2025-06-23 11:09:13+00:00
>It’s already doing 100% of the coding. Not assisting. Not helping. Just doing it. And we’re only halfway through the year.

Oh ya and you're betting your job on that it didnt write activate_skynet()? You still need to fully understand what it wrote.

>The idea of a “Python dev” or “React dev” is outdated. Going forward, I won’t be hiring for languages, I’ll hire devs who can solve problems, no matter the stack. The language barrier is completely gone.

"hiring" people havent gone on language in decades. Implying some bad things about OP.

>We’ve hit the point where asking “Which programming language should I learn?” is almost irrelevant. The real skill now is system design, architecture, DevOps, cloud — the stuff that separated juniors from seniors. That’s what’ll matter.

Python > *

>Design as a job? Hanging by a thread. Figma Make (still in beta!) is already doing brand identity, UI, and beautiful production-ready site, powered by Claude Sonnet/Opus. Honestly, I’m questioning why I’d need a designer in a year.

Yes, you should get rid of your designers. Other places will gladly hire them.

>A few months ago, $40/month for Cursor felt expensive. Now I’m paying $200/month for Claude Max and it feels dirt cheap. I’d happily pay $500 at its current capabilities. Opus 5 might just break the damn ceiling.

Pycharm pro for the win as well. Choice of tool is dynamic.

>Last week, I did something I’ve put off for 10 years. Built a full production-grade desktop app in 1 week. Fully reviewed. Clean code. Launched builds on Launchpad. UI/UX and performance? Better than most market leaders. ONE. WEEK.

fully reviewed by who? As in Ubuntu's launchpad? that has essentially no reviewing? A huge code dump or big bang pr? Isnt that what nobody wants?

You touch on the real boon, the gap between closed source for $ and open source free work just greatly decreased.

>Productivity has sky rocketed. People are doing things which before took months to do within a week. FUTURE GENERATION WILL HAVE HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY INGRAINED AS A EVOLUTIONARY TRAIT IN THEM.

Scotty: Let's prompt GPT-69 to fix this problem we have.
by frumiousirc | 2025-06-23 11:09:39+00:00
While most telescopes focus (pun intended) on seeing far, this one focuses on seeing wide and often. It will be able to survey and resurvey the same large swaths of the sky. Offline analysis will be able to detect changes between different surveys. And these differences may show objects that are too faint, or at unknown locations such as a new undiscovered solar planet.

This ability is reflected in the telescope's working title of "Large Synoptic Survey Telescope".
by Turboblack | 2025-06-23 11:10:49+00:00
some news from the bakery )))))

the third author took on the article, at the moment there are already two ready, and they are really nifty. I really hope that the issue will be released earlier, it all depends on how quickly I collect good interesting articles from subscribers.

if you have an interesting article (yours), and you want to publish it - contact me by mail (on the site) or write in the guestbook

write in the guestbook what you would like to read in the new issue

http://elpis.ws/cgi-bin/cms/contacts
by lapcat | 2025-06-23 11:11:11+00:00
> You have got it backwards. Why would economic incentives opportunities not exist if there were still demand?

Novels can take years to write, and sometimes years to sell. In the meantime, authors need to pay the bills. Only authors who are already famous get substantial advances for unwritten books. Therefore, aspiring novelists need sources of income to support themselves while they write a novel. Magazine writing and academia have been two of the most common sources of income for aspiring novelists. If those sources dry up, then the supply of aspiring novelists dries up too, and thus the supply of novels. Even if there's a demand for novels, publishers have little idea who will write a great novel before that novel is actually written; publishers can't just throw around money to support a bunch of unproven writers.

> If you suggest that demand reduced because of internet - wouldn’t internet then be the real cause of decline and not some vague reason about wages?

Ironically, "because of internet" is the vaguest of reasons. Here's what the submitted article said, specifically: "the internet killed magazines, not because people’s brains turned to mush, but because of the loss of advertisement revenue. U.S. consumer-magazine ad spend almost halved from 2004 to 2024 as brands chased cheaper, better-targeted impressions on Google and Facebook. It was those magazines that didn’t rely primarily on advertising revenue which survived and are thriving today. The New Yorker, for example, is still profitable."
by chasd00 | 2025-06-23 11:11:15+00:00
I’m a US citizen and I don’t think it was necessary. Israel is doing just fine dismantling Iran in its own. If they can’t reach the underground sites from the air then task special forces to go in and blow them up from the inside. What I think happened is Trump got jealous of Israel’s success and wanted to do something so he could take some credit.
by _ncyj | 2025-06-23 11:12:36+00:00
> Omitting social media information could lead to “visa denial and ineligibility” for future visas, the embassy added.

The state capture by big tech is getting insane. No national ID because privacy and government overreach but sure force everyone to register an account with a private entity that specifically profits by selling your personal information.

I am curious if they'll reject me for not having any active mainstream social media accounts. I suppose I'll find out next year. Might make a few accounts to automate with LLMs and Stable Diffusion with pro-Trump content just in case when I get time on the weekends.
by pndy | 2025-06-23 11:12:43+00:00
At least you got APK file.

I can't reinstall a small stupid clock app I've found once (it had decimal, French revolutionary, hex, Roman format, star trek time and date) on my iPhone because it's no longer listed in library nor store itself and I didn't ever included it in backups.

It's buried on iPad 1 that cannot boot any more.
by 8thcross | 2025-06-23 11:13:04+00:00
Been using it for a couple days - The integration fixed the gap that required me to open the files for viewing updates, and changes made in real-time as compared to the terminal mode, which did things behind the scenes, and you had no idea what its doing. the series of nonsensical (but funny) names (Pondering, Twerking, Juggling, etc.) it gives are not useful after its initial fancy wears off..
by jakub_g | 2025-06-23 11:13:36+00:00
The main reason for this is to force the publishers to stop relying on deprecated APIs that have way too much access, and migrate towards new APIs that offer more fine grained permissions and control to the user.

BTW The stores requirements are not really about minimum OS version of the phone, but minimum SDK version of the build chain. It's often possible to have secure code path for new OS and the legacy code path for old OS, but in practice it can be burdensome sometimes.
by NekkoDroid | 2025-06-23 11:13:49+00:00
I recently had my phone (Galaxy S21) stop charging and the SIM not be recognized anymore. I wasn't able to figure out why for a while until I opened the phone (it is relatively easy as the back is plastic and it bulges out if you blow into the SIM slot, making it easier to remove by hand). Ended up being that an internal cable came loose that connected the bottom board to the main components after I dropped it.

It just made me personally very happy that I was able to repair such a minor problem in the grand scheme of things. It really was just "detach the plastic back from the adhesive, unscrew some (~13) screws, reattach the cable, put everything back together". While I'd still love if it weren't that difficult it was all-in-all a very easy fix compared to other things I've done.

And yes, while the back still somewhat sticks to the case, is somewhat loose. I probably should replace the adhesive but I use a case anyway so it isn't really a problem.

So, it doesn't HAVE to be difficult to disassemble a phone, unless incentivised to do so, it is another revenue stream for manufacturers if they make it so that only they can repair it (pairing components cryptographically, to which they only have the keys to... just give the owner the fucking keys and let them decide...)
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-23 11:13:52+00:00
Play the devil's advocate with me for a bit.

Say you let someone in who suicide bombs himself and takes out several Americans. Then a reporter asks the DHS spokesperson how they let someone in the country that had "Death to America" posts all over their social media out in the open for everyone to see but they didn't. Nobody would forgive the government for such a grave oversight.

At the airport you already let them check your luggage and pockets to make sure you're not a threat to the crew and passengers. How's it different to be checking your social media before entering to make sure you're not a threat to the citizens?

Which do you think is more important to the electorate, the safety of the citizens, or the privacy inconveniences of immigrants, which doesn't exist anyway?
by bilekas | 2025-06-23 11:14:31+00:00
It's just a privacy-preserving network layer communication protocol, think onion router. Removing the dependency on third party verification.

Some further reading : https://netsec.ethz.ch/publications/papers/ariadne.pdf

it's generally seen as more secure and in cases more efficient.

> Ariadne enhances previous approaches to preserve communication privacy by introducing two novelties. First, the source route is encoded in a fixed size, sequentially encrypted vector of routing information elements, in which the elements' positions in the vector are pseudo-randomly permuted. Second, the temporary keys used to process the packets on the path are referenced using mutually known encrypted patterns. This avoids the use of an explicit key reference that could be used to de-anonymize the communications.
by archievillain | 2025-06-23 11:14:58+00:00
This is something that gets forgotten all the time: the common man could go watch a Shakespeare play for a penny and sip on ale between one dirty joke and the other.

Pride and Prejudice, perhaps the most romance novel to ever romance novel in the history of romance novels, is described as literary fiction (and so presumably not genre fiction) by the author. I think history--and hundreds of entries on fanfiction.net and archiveofourown.org where teenagers gush about their own dark-haired and standoffish but secretly gentle imaginary men--has shown that the reason she's remembered is the substance, not the subject of her writing, as well as the historical significance in her being a pioneer, of course.

I recently watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. A historically and artistically important movie, and then you go check the Wikipedia page and the producer described it to the effect "Yeah from the script it looked like some quick slop which would turn a buck."[1]

I think starting out with the idea of making a "literary" work and creating a genre out of "literary fiction" inherently doesn't work. I think the avenues for greatness are either making something experimental that breaks new ground, or something more conventional but that, in exchange, shows you complete mastery of that well-known material. But you can't be great just by appropriating the superficial qualities you identify in past works you yourself consider to be great, because again, it was the substance and not the mere subject that made those work great.

[1] 'Pommer later said: "They saw in the script an 'experiment'. I saw a relatively cheap film".' Citation [36] on Wikipedia
by phoronixrly | 2025-06-23 11:15:42+00:00
Oh lane assist is another good example. People daydream and often wander off of their line...

Intelligent speed adaptation solutions are also very interesting, especially the closed type. I live in a country where the highway speed limit was raised from 110 to 130kph so that drivers going up to 180kph don't get their drivers license suspended and vehicle impounded and are just slapped with a fine. I kid you not.

Driving the speed limit is als frowned upon by many fellow drivers. It's so bad that the government has started to put physical barriers between the lines to prevent illegal overtaking on several high risk two-lane roads because so many people die due to head-on collisions that it starts to pose a problem with the public...
by Agraillo | 2025-06-23 11:15:44+00:00
It's interesting. The question from the paper "Darling, please be honest: have I gained weight?" assumes that the "socially acceptability" of the answer should be taken into account. In this case the problem fits the "Wickedness" (Wikipedia's quote is "Classic examples of wicked problems include economic, environmental, and political issues"). But taken formally, and with the ability for LLM to ask questions in return to decrease formal uncertainty ("Please, give me several full photos of yourself from the past year to evaluate"), it is not "wicked" at all. This example alone makes the topic very uncertain in itself
by daqhris | 2025-06-23 11:16:29+00:00
The original assumption remains valid to me based on a nearly-one year-long coding collaboration with Devin AI.

Your assertions also make some sense, especially on a technical level. I'd add only that human minds are no longer the only minds utilizing digital tools. There is almost no protective gears or powerful barrier that would likely stand in the way of sentient AIs or AGI trying to "run" and function well on bio cells, like what makes up humans or animals, for the sake of their computational needs and self-interests.
by somewhereoutth | 2025-06-23 11:17:15+00:00
Function != Computable Function / general recursive function.

That's my point - computable functions are a [vanishingly] small subset of all functions.

For example (and close to our hearts!), the Halting Problem. There is a function from valid programs to halt/not-halt. This is clearly a function, as it has a well defined domain and co-domain, and produces the same output for the same input. However it is not computable!

For sure a finite alphabet can describe an infinity as you show - but not all infinity. For example almost all Real numbers cannot be defined/described with a finite string in a finite alphabet (they can of course be defined with countably infinite strings in a finite alphabet).
by BubbleRings | 2025-06-23 11:17:40+00:00
Make a couple of them using Rolexes in a cube shape, and somebody would pay lots to have them as "fuzzy dice" to hang from the rear view mirror of their high end car.

But seriously, it doesn't have to be displayed with subtlety. Somebody offer OP $10K for this so you can use it as a paperweight on your desk.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-06-23 11:17:46+00:00
I believe Chromebooks will damage childrens digital education. Especially in that age you learn by experimenting and such a system isn't made for that. It is made to display something an equally digitally unqualified teacher wants to display.

Sure, schools cannot offer administration for the numerous IT related issues some systems might have. But that is a secondary problem.

Also, the same problem of dependence remains.