MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sneak | 2025-06-26 06:15:02+00:00
This is the equivalent of “you have to get off the internet and go in and demand to speak to the manager and shake their hand to get a job”.

The world doesn’t really work that way anymore. Also this only works if you want to hang out in third places with retirees.

(For instance, amateur radio is dying out because most of the oldtimers are dying off and not being replaced because everyone uses the internet now. I got some great deals on equipment from estate sales as a result.)

Also, third places are places. You listed groups. Groups need places to gather, and people who want to go to third places need places that are always places, not just an hour or two on the third saturday of the month. That’s not enough for social cohesion.
by protocolture | 2025-06-26 06:15:03+00:00
Population is a london horse manure problem. In both directions.

In 30 years time, people might be uploading their consciousness to computers, or colonising the moon. Making dire warnings about a concept like breeding that we might just get rid of seems foolish at best.

>We're in the middle of an extinction event.

No we are not. Lmao. Same way Horse Manure didnt snuff out life in London.
by zkmon | 2025-06-26 06:16:27+00:00
Great collection of stories! Thanks for sharing. I got carried away across the pages and relished the quotes page.

The ideals probably worked for that time and that place. Many places in other parts of the world and at other times, would have different ideals, to deal with different priorities at that time and place. America in the 80's had no survival struggle, wars, cultural stigmas, pandemics or famines. Literacy and business were blooming. Great minds and workers were lured with great promises. A natural result is accelerated innovation. Plenty of food and materials. Individualism, fun and luxury was the goal for most. The businesses delivered all of it. Personal computing was an exact fit for that business.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-26 06:17:14+00:00
A healthy regulated will encourage maximizing profit for power and bring in competition which drives the cost down until energy is a commodity and the cost of electricity is actually based on the price of production and a small profit based on the cost of capital. Any situations that cause price spikes result in investment to harvest the difference.

The fact that you can add to the grid by installing solar and battery and connect to the grid in a single afternoon makes it pretty easy these days to have an elastic market that grows until you hit the limit of decentralized production vs. existing transmission architecture... but with the right equipment you can have community sized islands that can be much more immune to instability.
by colonial | 2025-06-26 06:17:14+00:00
This is a decent heuristic, although (IMO) you can usually get away with ~100 lines of shell without too much headache.

Last year I wrote (really, grew like a tumor) a 2000 line Fish script to do some Podman magic. The first few hundred lines were great, since it was "just" piping data around - shell is great at that!

It then proceeded to go completely off the rails when I went full sunk cost fallacy and started abusing /dev/shm to emulate hash tables.

E: just looked at the source code. My "build system" was another Fish script that concatenated several script files together. Jeez. Never again.
by quantified | 2025-06-26 06:17:37+00:00
It's the inevitable outcome of everybody continuing it for all the generations that remain. As soon as there aren't enough people to manufacture contraceptives, it will of course grow. But after a few generations, there will be more land, water, animal and plant life, copper, cobalt, gold and such per person, and people can easily say "that shrinkage sucked, let's grow". You assume that things will always be the way they are now, which is of course false.
by jenadine | 2025-06-26 06:17:44+00:00
> will 100% avoid GPL software like the plague.

Not true. Many companies uses Linux for example.

They will just avoid using GPL software in ways that would impact their own intellectual property (linking a GPL library to their proprietary software). Sometimes they will even use it with dubious "workaround" such as saying "we use a deamon with IPC so that's ok"
by dsekz | 2025-06-26 06:18:00+00:00
Plenty of improvements to mouse movement algorithms have already been made and they’re still evolving. While the blog post and the product it introduces offer some interesting ideas, they don’t yet reach the robustness of modern anti-bot solutions and still trail current industry standards. I doubt it would take me - or any average reverse engineer - more than five seconds to bypass something like this. There are already numerous open source mouse movement libraries available; and even if they didn’t exist, writing one wouldn’t be difficult. Yes, mouse movement or keyboard data can be quite powerful in a modern anti-bot stack and an in depth analysis of it is genuinely valuable, but on its own it’s still insufficient. Relying on this data alone isn’t costly for the attacker and offers little real protection.
by motorest | 2025-06-26 06:18:35+00:00
> If you read more carefully, I am concerned by two things. A reduction to 0, and the lack of control over this.

I think you need to drop back to reality to reassess your concerns. Barring a major disaster, there is no risk of extinction. Population decline is a factor only in economic terms, as demographics alone will require a significant chunk of a nation's productivity potential to sustain people who left the workforce. However, countries like the US saw it's population double in only two or three generations, and people in the 50s weren't exactly fending off extinction.
by tobyhinloopen | 2025-06-26 06:19:47+00:00
I literally wrote "hello" and got this:

> hello

[API Error: {"error":{"message":"{\n \"error\": {\n \"code\": 429,\n \"message\": \"Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check quota).\",\n \"status\": \"RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED\"\n }\n}\n","code":429,"status":"Too Many Requests"}}] Please wait and try again later. To increase your limits, request a quota increase through AI Studio, or switch to another /auth method

⠼ Polishing the pixels... (esc to cancel, 84s)
by stephenpontes | 2025-06-26 06:20:34+00:00
This immediately reminded me of the teamLab Planets [1] experience in Tokyo, Japan.

Specifically "Flowers and People, Cannot Be Controlled but Live Together" [2] - the entire soundtrack for the experience was incredible, and this ambient garden took me right back. Thank you for sharing!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7nODEETR4s

[2] https://music.apple.com/jp/artist/hideaki-takahashi/30588056...
by troupo | 2025-06-26 06:21:42+00:00
> It's not entirely fair though, Google did make a donation.

Yup. $10 000.

Remind me what the average Google salary is? Or how much profit Google made that year?

Or better still, what is the livable wage is where libxml maintainer lives? You know, the maintainer of the library used in the core Google Product?
by globular-toast | 2025-06-26 06:21:49+00:00
University is not just "bigger school". It gives you the time and resources to dedicate yourself to study. If you just want to write programs then of course you don't need uni. I could write programs before I went. In fact, I earnt money from it before I graduated, making me a self-taught professional programmer too.

What I came out with was a far broader picture of what's been done in computing and, more importantly, how to find and read information about it. The biggest difference between me and my colleagues who haven't been to uni is when they run across something they haven't done before they are completely lost, whereas I'm usually able to say "hmm, that sounds like a graph problem, I think there's an algorithm for that".

Having said that, what I didn't come out with was how to do testing, version control, CI etc. Luckily that stuff is easy to learn on your first job.
by esperent | 2025-06-26 06:23:10+00:00
I think the title of this should be changed, at the moment it's click bait. It should be something like:

CUDA Ray Tracing 2x Faster Than RTX when Rendering Spheres

As far as I can see, this renderer can't do anything else except spheres (and maybe planes).

It's no bad achievement to beat a general purpose production renderer at one specific thing, but a renderer that can only do spheres is just a hyper-optimized toy, and here it's being presented as far more than that.
by sandspar | 2025-06-26 06:23:32+00:00
Thanks for asking a challenging question. I don't know. Historically most systems of popular representation have excluded them. I assume for reasons that made sense at the time. I guess I'd rather live in a country that had universal franchise + the means to escape these people's gravitational well. Rather than a country that disenfranchises them albeit for solid reasons. Basically you try to build a stronger engine rather than to reduce drag. These people are here and they're not going anywhere. We have to somehow make our shared world work. It's a large and difficult problem and most people really dislike talking about it.
by nikkwong | 2025-06-26 06:24:10+00:00
I guess I see this as somewhat different. These people are proactively choosing to maintain a relationship with a physician for an elective $50/month. I think the type of patient who wants a type of this relationship is the type who is going to solicit more than a single appointment per year; otherwise, why not just use what the current system gives us?

I could see something like this being useful for me; I'm constantly nagging my physician for different drugs I am triaging for a condition I'm dealing with. But, in that case, I wouldn't be the ideal patient for the physician. I wish this kind of thing could work, but I'm not sure how I see it working in practice, unless you move up market and charge more.
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by RaulOnRails | 2025-06-26 06:26:38+00:00
I’ve been building Git Digest, a tool that helps founders and team leads stay informed about codebase activity without constant meetings. While exploring ways to boost productivity, I realized many teams regularly underestimate the actual cost of meetings.

To illustrate this, I built a straightforward calculator to show precisely how much time and money teams spend on meetings. Just input your team size, meeting frequency, and duration, and instantly see the cost. It’s designed to highlight the impact of inefficient meetings in a practical, easy-to-use way.

Try it out here: https://gitdigest.ai/meeting-waste
by dismalaf | 2025-06-26 06:27:27+00:00
No, they're on Windows because it was the only viable gaming desktop environment during the 90's and 00's. Apple was all but dead and hardware was limited, Linux was in its infancy, Unix vendors didn't care about normal desktop users, etc...

In the early days of 3D gaming, there were studios that used OpenGL over DirectX on Windows. ID Software were the best known example of choosing OpenGL over DirectX.
by imoreno | 2025-06-26 06:28:04+00:00
With Alpha Centauri being only 4 light years away, interstellar travel seems almost feasible. But then you consider all the inconvenient details, and realize such a journey would have to take hundreds, maybe thousands or even more years on top of some incredible advances in rocket tech.

If you go to something like Trappist (40 ly) at 0.01c (very optimistic), it's not just that everyone you know will be dead when you arrive. Your entire nation will have disappeared to the sands of time. The landfall announcement you send back will be incomprehensible because of language shifts, and you won't live to see the reply. Meanwhile, such a trip would be an enormous investment, requiring multiple nations to bankrupt themselves, with no hope of even surviving to see the outcome.

With that, it's very hard to imagine interstellar travel being feasible with our current understanding. There would have to be something like FTL travel or wormhole. The only "realistic" development, (much) better engines that can do 0.1c, would not actually change much.
by HaunChangpeng | 2025-06-26 06:28:54+00:00
Most Roblox developers work hard. Some even go viral. But almost all of them miss what’s right in front of them — a silent leak draining their profits every single day.

We discovered it by accident.

At first, we thought it was a fluke. Then we tested it again. And again. The results were always the same: games leaving 30% or more on the table.

But here’s the catch — it’s not what you think.

It’s not better ads. It’s not smarter pricing. It’s not even player retention.

It’s something else entirely. Why Nobody’s Talking About It

The top-earning devs already know. They’ve been using it for years. The rest? They either don’t see it — or don’t know how to fix it.

We built a way to automatically plug the leak.

We’re opening access to a small group of developers first. https://robloxoptimizer.com/
by worthless-trash | 2025-06-26 06:29:19+00:00
A while back i remember looking at the kernel source code, when overcommit is enabled, malloc would not fail if it couldnt allocate memory, it would ONLY fail if you attempted to allocate memory larger than the available memory space.

I not think you can deal with the failure condition the way you think on Linux (and I imagine other operating systems too).
by rvnx | 2025-06-26 06:30:02+00:00
All around you, just that it doesn’t make sense for developers to reveal that a lot of their work is now about chunking and refining the specifications written by the product owner.

Admitting such is like admitting you are overpaid for your job, and that a 20 USD AI-agent can do better and faster than you for 75% of the work.

Is it easy to admit that you have learnt skills for 10+ years that are progressively already getting replaced by a machine ? (like thousands of jobs in the past).

More and more, developer is going to be a monkey job where your only task is to make sure there is enough coal in the steam machine.

Compilers destroyed the jobs of developers writing assembler code, they had to adapt. They insisted that hand-written assembler was better.

Here is the same, except you write code in natural language. It may not be optimal in all situations but it often gets the job done.
by jwrallie | 2025-06-26 06:30:07+00:00
From my own experience with whisper.cpp, normalizing the audio and removing silence not only shortens the process time significantly, but also increases a lot the quality of the transcription, as silence can mean hallucinations. You can do that graphically with Audacity too, if you do not want to deal with the command line. You also do not need any special hardware to run whisper.cpp, with the small model literally any computer should be able to do it if you can wait a bit (less than the audio length).

One half interesting / half depressing observation I made is that at my workplace any meeting recording I tried to transcribe in this way had its length reduced to almost 2/3 when cutting off the silence. Makes you think about the efficiency (or lack of it) of holding long(ish) meetings.
by preisschild | 2025-06-26 06:30:08+00:00
> On the other hand, Linux (or more accurately, the Linux desktop ecosystem) doesn't support a lot of high-end PC gaming features well: HDR, Nvidia GPUs, VR, etc.

> HDR

Already supported

> Nvidia GPUs

You have it the wrong way around. NVIDIA had issues supporting Linux, not Linux supporting NVIDIA. AMD drivers work fine, so its not a linux specific issue.

> VR

SteamVR works though?
by fallous | 2025-06-26 06:30:39+00:00
After having a stress-induced LAD heart attack at the age of 46, my cardiologist gave me the "you need to reduce stress" line and I responded with "Oh, so you're not going to send me a bill for that stent in order to help me reduce my stress?" Apparently he believed that my heart could handle the stress of that bill after all.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-26 06:31:26+00:00
Sharing is caring, being forced to share does not foster care.

Companies don't care, so if you release something as open source that's relevant to them, "companies will simply take it, modify it, and never release their changes,and charge for it too" - but that is what companies do, that is their very nature, and you knew that when you first opened the source.

You also knew that when you picked a license, and it's a major reason for the particular choice you made. Want to force companies to share? Pick GPL.

If you decide to yoke a dragon, and it instead snatches your shiny lure and flies away to its cave, you don't get to complain that the dragon isn't playing nice and doesn't want to become your beast of burden. If you picked MIT as your license, that's on you.
by Arnavion | 2025-06-26 06:32:08+00:00
Ask the Fedora maintainer? The README instructions only say Python 3. The OpenSUSE package's specfile only says Python 3, and to be sure I tried installing it and it did not pull in Python 2 packages.

Actually even the Fedora package's specfile only says Python 3, so I'm not sure why the README says that it still needs Python 2.

Edit: Okay, the explanation is in this commit message: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/commit/305e42fc79ef38f66c5... . The dep on Python 2 is from Fedora's PAM module package, not from howdy itself. On OpenSUSE the corresponding PAM module package depends on Python 3 already.
by plausibilitious | 2025-06-26 06:32:21+00:00
This happens a lot in historiography. Easy tales become handles for epochs and then denounced as contrived, then revived. Reminds me of the xkcd about levels of rebuttal.

The guy indeed was behind the "Torches of Freedom" campaign. And was indeed an influential person. Would it have happened without him? Most likely. But he did do the things. Is History driven by personalities? By structures? Big debate there. Nonetheless, Bernays' story is not bunk.
by lelele | 2025-06-26 06:32:37+00:00
> The problem is that many hallucinations do not produce a runtime error [...]

Don't hallucinations mean nonexistent things, that is, in the case of code: functions, classes, etc. How could they fail to lead to a runtime error, then? The fact that LLMs can produce unreliable or inefficient code is a different problem, isn't it?
by artdigital | 2025-06-26 06:33:08+00:00
How can I subscribe to this? From the comments here it sounds like it's NOT bundled into the Gemini Pro subscription, but into "Gemini Code Assist Standard".

I can't find any way to upgrade to a paid plan, is this even possible for individuals, or is it just "free or enterprise"?

/Edit: Okay I went through the Gemini docs. I found that in Google Cloud you can enable Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise for the account

- Standard is $19.00/mo

- Enterprise is $45.00/mo

Difference between the 2 editions: https://cloud.google.com/products/gemini/pricing

/Edit2: Found the actual management screen: https://codeassist.google.com/overview
by brabel | 2025-06-26 06:33:24+00:00
Are you familiar with the futures market? It’s all about what you call fantasy ! Similarly, if you are determining the strategy of your organization, all you have to help you is “fantasy”. By the time evidence exists in sufficient quantity your lunch has already been eaten long ago. A good CEO is one that can see where the market is going before anyone else. You may be right that AI is just a fad , but given how much the big companies and all the major startups in the last few years are investing on it, it’s overwhelmingly a fringe position to have at this point.
by kulahan | 2025-06-26 06:36:12+00:00
This was a great read, but one part in particular made me laugh a bit:

>Wal-Mart is not just the world’s largest retailer. It’s the world’s largest company–bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale can be hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sold $244.5 billion worth of goods last year. It sells in three months what number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year.

Ah, the innocence of 2003.
by sshine | 2025-06-26 06:37:04+00:00
I’m 39 and I see my doctor once a year, at most. This year I had a urinary thing. Last year and the year before that I had a rash. The year before that I didn’t go. For all of my twenties I went three times. She still remembers me just fine, asking how is my CrossFit doing.

I see my wife’s doctor more often than my own because he is also our newborn son’s doctor.

They both have thousands of patients. The waiting rooms mostly have elderly, parents with their newborns and obese people.
by vitonsky | 2025-06-26 06:38:00+00:00
I tried to use this model in my package with translators kit https://github.com/translate-tools/core/pull/112

It runs very slow. Test case that run translation for text in 3k chars multiple times, takes about 30 seconds for google translator, but more than 10 minutes for `nllb-200-distilled-600M`.

Text sample: https://github.com/translate-tools/core/pull/112/files#diff-...

My tests runs on nodejs, it looks in browser it have no chance for real world use
by sandspar | 2025-06-26 06:38:06+00:00
It's interesting that AI proponents say stuff like, "Humans will remain interested in other humans, even after AI can do all our jobs." It really does seem to be true. Here for example we have a guy who's using AI to make a status-seeking statement i.e. "I'm playing a strong supporting role on the 'anti-AI thinkers' team therefore I'm high status". Like, humans have an amazing ability to repurpose anything into status markers. Even AI. I think that if AI replaces all of our actual jobs then we'll still spend our time doing status jobs. In a way this guy is living in the future even more than most AI users.
by levmiseri | 2025-06-26 06:39:44+00:00
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by dismalaf | 2025-06-26 06:40:29+00:00
> If you had a restaurant, would you source your produce from your trusty friend who grows vegetables as a hobby or from an established mega-farming-company?

You sure you like this analogy? Every ambitious restaurant (Michelin stars, World's 50 Best, that type) uses small farmers to try obtain higher quality produce.

It's chain restaurants and shitty family restaurants that use the large suppliers.
by bredren | 2025-06-26 06:40:41+00:00
This is happening right now and it won’t be obvious until the liquidity events provide enough cover for victory lap story telling.

The very knowledge that an organization is experiencing hyper acceleration due to its successful adoption of AI across the enterprise is proprietary.

There are no HBS case studies about businesses that successfully established and implemented strategic pillars for AI because the pillars were likely written in the past four months.
by danans | 2025-06-26 06:40:44+00:00
Based on what I see in the photo in the article, PV array codes in Puerto Rico must be quite different from those in California, because the arrays seem to cover almost the entirety of the roofs. In California fire access codes [1] prevent the entire roof from being covered like in PV that.

1. https://energycodeace.com/site/custom/public/reference-ace-2...
by plausibilitious | 2025-06-26 06:41:35+00:00
This argument is the reason why LLM output failing to match reality was labelled 'hallucination'. It makes it seem like the LLM only makes mistakes in a neatly verifiable manner.

The 'jpeg of the internet' argument was more apt I think. The output of LLMs might be congruent with reality and how the prompt contents represent reality. But they might also not be, and in subtle ways too.

If only all code that has any flaw in it would not run. That would be truly amazing. Alas, there are several orders of magnitude more sequences of commands that can be run than that should be run.