MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coderenegade | 2025-06-02 02:28:30+00:00
I don't see anyone risking a global nuclear exchange by intervening in Ukraine if the Russians use nukes. I also think the average person probably underestimates how personal this is for the Russians. It's akin to the US fighting a war in Canada over resources, and what they believe to be an unacceptable military encroachment by an old enemy. This is probably the closest we've been to nuclear weapons being used since the Cuban missile crisis, maybe even since the second world war.
by echelon | 2025-06-02 02:29:44+00:00
1. (Anecdotal) I'm barely using Google anymore. I'm using ChatGPT for a ton of queries and getting far better results.

2. Antitrust actions might (should) strip Google of their "panes of glass" with which they force Google Search as the default. Most Google Search queries are simply the result of defaults. Once those defaults are gone, those queries will go elsewhere.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-06-02 02:29:48+00:00
> A modern anti-drone system should not rely on traditional reflection-detecting radars but try detecting electric motors, radio signals from 3g/4g modems etc.

Standard kit on US military aircraft detect this and 5th gen platforms like the F-35 are designed to attack such systems.

One of the biggest misconceptions about the F-35 is that it is a combat aircraft, 1970s style but with better tech. In many regards, it is designed primarily as a state-of-the-art EW and AWACS-like system that can operate as part of a mesh. Yeah, it is still pretty good at the basic combat mission but the whole mesh EW/AWACS bit is its killer feature.

In the 20th century, you kill the AWACS/EW platforms, they are gone. A lot of effort went into both killing and protecting them. In the 21st century the AWACS/EW platform is a fluid organism comprising many stealthy cells because it is embedded into many platforms, and is much harder to kill because it isn’t a discrete target.
by TheDong | 2025-06-02 02:30:20+00:00
> If you're coming from C, Go is a step up

Walking on burning coals is a step up if you're coming from C.

We shouldn't grade languages on that much of a curve by comparing them to garbage.

> Concurrency is also something they got more or less right

Except data-races are an incredibly common bug in Go, and an incredibly rare bug in Rust.

Data-races are way more common in Go than in modern C++ or Java, if only because mutex semantics in Go are awful, with many programmers opting for manual "lock" and "unlock" calls, and mentally reasoning about the correct scope for the critical section with no compiler assistance.

I will give you that they made concurrency very easy.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-02 02:30:31+00:00
I agree that there are some super legit grumbles about the interface, about the UX here. There is deserved off-gassing. And the lack of simple standard convention sucks.

Both the worst part of this & what makes it hard for me to really accept is how circumstantial it is. It's just some bad fan, someone over sensitive or not quite jiving with their thing. It could be any of a million other ways, nothing is inherent. But these two have been thrown together and probably neither had much say in it, and the hard inflexibility of the circumstances sucks.

There's maybe possibly infrared / IR here? One could do their own remote? Maybe Matter will give us a world where we have agency & optionality for how we control our devices maybe possibly? The core tech here is better, much better, but what works for any given person is so… personal. And this person feels trapped, maybe really is. But the cost to add options is, materially, very very very little. Alas that optionality will itself often be unpleasant for many. Around and around the difficulties revolve.
by codethief | 2025-06-02 02:30:34+00:00
> This is a huge problem IMO, I can't run C/C++ or Python projects the "old way" and no one is willing to upend their build system and lock it into nix.

For Python I use uv to download & set up Python binaries outside Nix. To make them work I enabled nix-ld in my Nix config, so there's a default linker & libc they can access. Works well so far.
by komali2 | 2025-06-02 02:30:41+00:00
Nobody's coddling anyone here. Acknowledging the reality of class in society isn't doing anything but analysis.

The original claim was a proposal to increase the resolution of class analysis one degree "higher" than Marx and no longer differentiate between the modern proletariat (working class), bourgeois (middle class), and aristocracy (upper class), in this case proposing to lump together the bourgeois and proletariat because they both have to work or they'll starve to death.

In this world, being born from the orifice of an aristocrat means you never have to work (have meaning, "or you'll die of exposure"). That's a frank reality. If your reaction to being born from a non aristocratic orifice is to shrug your shoulders and accept reality, great, nobody's trying to take that from you.

However you seem to be taking it a step further and suggesting that the people pointing out that this nature of society is unfair are somehow wrong to do so. I disagree. I think is perfectly valid to be born from whatever orifice and declare the obvious unfairness of the situation and the work to balance things out for people. That's not coddling, it's just ensuring that we all benefit in a just way from the work of your grandfather. Cause right now, someone has stolen the value of his work from you, and that's why you (and I) had to work so hard to get where we are today.

If you love that you had to work so hard, fine. I could take it or leave it. Instead of working a double through school I would have preferred to focus more on my studies and get higher grades, find better internships instead of slinging sandwiches. Personally I look at the extraordinarily wealth of the aristocrat class and I think, "is it more important that they're allowed to own 3 yachts or that all the children of our society can go to college?" I strongly believe any given country will be much stronger if it has less yachts and more college-educated people. Or people with better access to healthcare. Or people with better transit options to work. Etc.
by godelski | 2025-06-02 02:30:58+00:00
> It's possible to opt out of this spying on Unix/Windows/Mac by starting Tailscale with `--no-logs-no-support` or `TS_NO_LOGS_NO_SUPPORT=true` environment variable

Am I misreading the docs?[0]

Network flow logs are available to help you understand which devices are connecting to one another over time, that is, the flow of traffic across your tailnet. These logs strictly do not contain any information about client operations or contents of network traffic. Network flow logs must be enabled[1].

This makes it look like they are disabled by default.

[0] https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic

[1] https://tailscale.com/kb/1219/network-flow-logs#enable-netwo...
by protocolture | 2025-06-02 02:31:27+00:00
> A land value tax does not make home ownership expensive. It makes land consumption expensive.

Distinction without a difference, a home includes the costs of the land it sits on, at least until you find a way to teleport a home to cheaper land without a cost.

>But if someone wants a sprawling estate, they should expect to pay more

LVT isnt about taxing sprawling estates more than other homes. Its about charging tax based on proportional value of the land being occupied. Land value is largely informed by factors that home owners cannot control.

>It doesn’t punish ownership — it rewards efficient use.

It does both, and it very obviously does both.
by kranner | 2025-06-02 02:31:42+00:00
Previous discussions on psychonetics and deconcentration of attention seem relevant, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028317

Personally I've found a continuous open awareness style of meditation has really helped me balance things out, as I went from someone with very little doggedness to e.g. being two weeks into cataloguing all my books with Delicious Library before realising it was kind of pointless. The open awareness practice (very different from focus-on-your-breath and also the visual deconcentration discussed in the link above) is about encouraging the recognition of this-is-how-things-are as it naturally and spontaneously occurs; doing this more and more also builds confidence in one's intuition about (in this context) whether to persevere at the current task or whether to step back.

I don't think there is a foolproof system that can be developed as a substitute for this kind of intuition. Speaking for myself I can and will continue to second-guess over time any external system that may feel definitive when it is first established. But I can learn to trust the (unfortunately) indeterminate part of myself that tells me I'm doing the right thing.
by coderenegade | 2025-06-02 02:33:50+00:00
Yes, I've been saying this since the war started. The best thing for everyone is obviously no war, but the second best is a long, hard, and bitter war for your enemy, especially if you don't have to be the one to fight it.

I don't see Ukraine winning this conflict in the long run, though, and if it goes on for too long, we'll see bitterness on the Ukrainian side directed at those they felt should have helped. Fighting to the last Ukrainian will eventually make an enemy of them imo.
by MangoToupe | 2025-06-02 02:33:59+00:00
We all have our opinions and perspectives. Typically, people who agree with eachother don't beat this conversation to death every time the term comes up. Frankly, nobody has ever made the case to me the term is worth using iin the first place outside of protecting some misplaced sense of pride. Until you, I wasn't aware anyone outside of enterprise c/c++ coders took the term seriously.

But, if you didn't read and acknowledge the submission that "systems" is more of a culture than some association with a language, I think this conversation is over. I'm super happy you know what a pointer is, bro. Good luck socializing.
by ewhanley | 2025-06-02 02:36:08+00:00
Slides have unfortunately moved well beyond their intended use. People (management) often asks for more and more information density, but that's not the point of slides. What they really want is a report or memo. Slides were meant to convey information during presentation and don't hold up well absent that context. I hate slides as a medium outside of the specific text of a conversation - they're a bad pre-read, and they're a poor meeting summary. It's unfortunate that slides have become _the_ corporate communication medium.
by brucehoult | 2025-06-02 02:37:01+00:00
Slightly more accurate ..

1: 0.0 2: 0.3 3: 0.475 4: 0.6 (2*2) 5: 0.7 6: 0.775 (2*3) 7: 0.85 8: 0.9 (2*2*2) 9: 0.95 (3*3)

The biggest error is 7 at +0.577% ... 0.845 is almost perfect. The others are maximum +0.45% off.

So you only need to remember:

2: 0.3 7: 0.85 9: 0.95 1.4 = sqrt(2) -> 0.15 3 = sqrt(9) -> 0.95/2 = 0.475 pi = ~sqrt(10) -> 0.5 4 = 2*2 -> 0.6 5 = 10/2 -> 0.7 6 = 2*3 2pi = 2*sqrt(10) -> 0.3+0.5 = 0.8 8 = 2*2*2 -> 0.9
by glitchc | 2025-06-02 02:37:09+00:00
Yeah it's definitely an arms race. Interestingly, technology in the States lags behind the rest of the world. Every other country has moved on to chip and PIN, 2FA, obe time tokens and asymmetric cryptography. Whereas in the US, one can still find 3DES signatures and unencrypted authorization codes usable for a time duration (read: multiple transactions).

It seems that the banks here are okay with a certain percentage of shrinkage as long as merchants don't have to upgrade and consumers are not inconvenienced. The banks prefer to eat the cost to maintain large fraud and dispute resolution departments. Whereas elsewhere in the world they're much smaller and mainly focused on correspondent banking. It's really interesting to see that the "customer is always right" policy has such a strong influence on the financial sector.
by jmye | 2025-06-02 02:38:32+00:00
> I wonder if it'd be a turn-off though, if you spend 30 minutes to talk to ~10 people you don't find attractive. Maybe there should be a Tinder-esque selection process, so when you're online, you'll get offered other profiles which are also online, and if you both swipe right you'll get to a video-chat within seconds.

And here I was going to one up this - make it a three minute convo without video. If both people choose to continue, the video starts afterwards.

I think a not-insignificant number of people will find someone who was fun to talk to more attractive then they might at first glance. Might still be some misses, and the number of people who’d sign up is probably low, but I think you’d see more successful matches.
by throw234234234 | 2025-06-02 02:39:17+00:00
Nah - those people have the bandwidth/time to justify their value in my experience. They are also usually the people managing the productive.

Its the people that are constantly working, and too busy to be seen, producing output and keeping the lights on who don't have time for the "games" who AI is going for. Their jobs are easier to define since they are productive and do "something" - so its easy to market AI products for these use cases. After all these people are usually not the people in charge of the purse strings in most organisations for better or worse.
by maltelandwehr | 2025-06-02 02:39:51+00:00
The 37M/day is an estimate from Rand Fishkin that often gets quoted as gospel. It is based on limited external data. OpenAI mentioned 1B/day - and had significant overall growth in usage since then.

Also, 1 search on ChatGPT easily replaces 5-10 searches on Google.

Many B2B SaaS companies already get the same amount of leads from ChatGPT that they get from Google. Because clicks from ChatGPT are better informed and have a significantly higher conversion rate. I am talking up to +700% CVR vs traffic from Google for some companies.
by Dracophoenix | 2025-06-02 02:41:04+00:00
> the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that a jedi master has.

As a kid, that was my favorite episode of the series first season. I still remember coming back after school catching the 5 minute micro-episodes on Cartoon Network.

> it's a shame that neither the movies, nor any other tv show, have come close to conveying "why" everyone fears and respects force users.

It stops becoming Star Wars as we know it and starts becoming Dragon Ball Z with laser swords. Quite a number of books and video games in the Expanded Universe/Legends veered in that direction, in many cases to the detriment of consistency in lore.
by icedchai | 2025-06-02 02:41:27+00:00
Early Macs weren't even 2-bits, they were 1-bit: black or white!

The Amiga was a bargain in comparison, but it was not without its flaws, like all early machines. I had an A500 with a 1084 monitor, and the flicker at high res was bothersome to me. I later upgraded to an A3000 w/VGA monitor, and it was a vast improvement. I ran at 640x400 for everything at that point.

I think you are underestimating the price of "flicker fixers" at the time. I looked up the price of a Microway flicker fixer in an old Amiga World from 1988: Over $500. You also had to add an a VGA monitor: another $400.
by trollbridge | 2025-06-02 02:42:05+00:00
I’m noticing some people must read enough LLM output that they start to write and even speak like an LLM. I have an acquaintance who spends a great deal of time (hours a day) talking to an LLM, and now she speaks like an LLM does. I think she uses an LLM to generate her text messages, but the real life speech shows a transformation in actual thinking and speech patterns.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-02 02:42:38+00:00
> > They likely have other bots that remain undetected.

> Why is this 'likely'?

Is it more likely that a person that didn’t make the first bot also has a second that they didn’t make, or less likely? Is it more likely that a known bot user who has a working successful bot might make multiple bots in order to arrive at the working one we see, or less likely? I don’t think it’s likely that fully formed organisms would appear, but it could happen. I think evolution is more likely.

Of course it’s possible that they have been detected, and the acts simply attributed to others, or allowed under the same reasoning as the first.
by 9rx | 2025-06-02 02:43:03+00:00
> and their disdain for modern type systems

To be fair, it was made abundantly clear when it was first released unto the world that it was intended to feel like a dynamically-typed language, but with performance characteristics closer to statically-typed languages. What little type system it has is there merely to support the performance goals. If they had figured out how to deliver on the performance end as a strictly dynamically-typed language, it is likely it would have gone without a static type system entirely.

Call it distain if you will, but it is not like there weren't already a million other languages with modern, advanced type systems. That market was already, and continues to be, flooded with many lovely languages to choose from. Go becoming yet another just like all the rest would have been rather pointless. "Like Python, but faster" was the untapped market at the time – and serving that market is why it is now a household name instead of being added to the long list of obscure languages that, while technically interesting, all do the same thing.
by username223 | 2025-06-02 02:43:04+00:00
Yep. It won't be long before the web is flooded with pages full of AI-generated content repeatedly mentioning brands near keywords, and "search engines" have been replaced by "summaries" monetized by prompt-stuffing. That's pretty much the extent of these people's genius.

EDIT: I guess the final step is for an "AI agent" to enter your credit card number based on this bot-chat.
by kapnap | 2025-06-02 02:43:29+00:00
Negative - when directional drilling a well, a magnetic storm can actually cause you to lose signal and halt the entire drilling process. It's kind of a running joke when you work as a Drilling Engineer and the Directional Driller says they can't confirm their coordinates due to magnetic storms.

https://www.usgs.gov/communications-and-publishing/news/gett...
by PedroBatista | 2025-06-02 02:47:45+00:00
It would, but these were FPVs and their targets can be precisely chosen at the very moment of the strike.

Also, these are remote airbases where all the strategic bombers are stationed. Fighter jets would not be there in significant numbers if any since they are needed in other bases closer to the front-lines and also some at the borders.

In in of the videos you could see a Mi-8 which was ignored because of it's insignificance compared to the primary targets.
by icedchai | 2025-06-02 02:48:33+00:00
As I mentioned in a previous post, it cost a LOT more than $100. $500 for a Microway flicker fixer + another $400 for the monitor. They may cost $100 "today", but at the time, it was very expensive.

Also remember the Amiga was competing with the Mac II line for most of its life. Yes, it was much more expensive... but we are comparing specs, and you could get Mac II displays that supported 256 colors out of 16 million (24-bit.) The Amiga didn't have 24-bit color until 1992.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-02 02:49:58+00:00
It was at least an economic blockade. I had to double check, I did think they took a more active role, there was a prevention of transit through Panama Canal, and a few other things. If there ever was a time for an economic blockade to be effective that was it.

“ an embargo of all trade with a country or region, intended to damage or dislodge the government.”

I’m pretty sure if the US was in a position where their government was under thread from an economic blockade they’d consider it an act of war.
by entrepy123 | 2025-06-02 02:51:47+00:00
The INTERCAL satirical language (the original compiler's source code of which is announced as recovered in TFA) was covered in a couple of episodes [0, 1] of the (highly recommended, if I may say) Advent of Computing podcast [2].

[0] https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/website/episode-78-intercal-and-esoterica [1] https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/website/episode-158-intercal-rides-again-restoring-a-lost-compiler [2] https://adventofcomputing.com
by nahkoots | 2025-06-02 02:53:08+00:00
“This seems like a path toward having no people with Down syndrome, having no people with certain disabilities, even though there are people that have those disabilities that live fulfilling lives,” he said. “You’re talking about culling a tree of human evolution, right?”

I've heard this argument before and I find it insulting, as though it's somehow a moral wrongdoing to prefer children without birth defects. If I could spare my future children from MS, schizophrenia, Downs, Huntington's, Alzheimer's, etc., I'd do it in a heartbeat. Framed differently, who would deliberately inflict a healthy newborn with any of those congenital disorders? That they might live a fulfilling life in spite of their disorder wouldn't make it any less cruel.
by smackeyacky | 2025-06-02 02:54:28+00:00
When I switched to Linux full time, I had to ditch Heidi as they didn’t have a Linux version. I actually prefer dbeaver now, Heidi had some odd defaults (default collation especially) which need attention but you don’t realise it until too late. It also was a bit crashy here and there.

DBeaver has the worst name in history but it can do everything Heidi does and doesn’t fall over every 20 minutes. The buttons are all over the place and it’s harder to navigate than Heidi but it’s also standard on a few distros.

I’m glad it has some competition though. If you’re working with sql server Microsoft have really dropped the ball with SSMS and don’t talk to me about azure data studio it is a undergraduate project that got a C.

I was switching a lot between SQLite, pawl, Marian and sql server and dbeaver is excellent on all of them
by kirubakaran | 2025-06-02 02:55:07+00:00
Thanks. I'll create a HN-like theme.

In the meantime, if you install the browser extension, you can get the tags directly in HN itself. Would that address the ui issue?

Source: https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/i...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-t...
by esperent | 2025-06-02 02:55:15+00:00
> Fr. Ted first came out when I was in college in the 90s

I was a teenager, and some of the episodes were filmed at my school. The lovely horse video is the field behind my school where we used to sneak out during break. They even stopped class one day to film a scene at the front of the school - they used the school building as the outside of the craggy island sports center.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-06-02 02:55:21+00:00
I do something similar, and that is likely one of the ways for your subconscious to engage with the material.

However I’ve noticed that too much refactoring while exploring the problem space becomes tedious for me. At that point I go back to a notepad or whiteboard. Maybe this change of medium is another way to engage the subconscious?

And to your point about vim/emacs - the choice of tools no doubt impacts your engagement with the problem at hand. That’s why having AI generate teams of code doesn’t work for me - but using it to iteratively develop some PoC code whose core I then incorporate into my own code works brilliantly.
by yboris | 2025-06-02 02:56:07+00:00
Soon I'll be making a 2-piece footrest (imagine a T shape up-side-down leaning towards you - giving lower leg and foot sole complete support). A friend said it was a very comfortable (and instantly customizable due to tilt angle) design.

I've been a web dev for 8 years but my heart is in woodworking for the next many years :)