MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kiitos | 2025-06-08 18:12:21+00:00
Right, so -- 'you think that you're "deciding what gets built and how it's designed" by iterating on the prompts that you feed to the LLM that generates the code'

> My prompts specify very precisely what should be implemented.

And the precision of your prompt's specifications, has no reliable impact on exactly what code the LLM returns as output.

> With the details I provided, combined with the OAuth spec, there was really very little room left for any creativity in the code. It was basically connect-the-dots at that point.

I truly don't know how you can come to this conclusion, if you have any amount of observed experience with any of the current-gen LLM tools. No amount of prompt engineering gets you a reliable mapping from input query to output code.

> I designed the end-to-end encryption scheme and told it in detail how to implement it. I pointed out bugs and explained how to fix them. And so on.

I guess my response here is that, if you think that this approach to prompt engineering gets you a generated code result that is in any sense equivalent, or even comparable, in terms of quality, to the work that you could produce yourself, as a professional and senior-level software engineer, then, man, we're on different planets. Pointing out bugs and explaining how to fix them in your prompts in no way gets you deterministic, reliable, accurate, high-quality code as output. And actually forget about high-quality, I mean even just bare minimum table-stakes requirements-satisfying stuff.. !
by mgraczyk | 2025-06-08 18:13:07+00:00
Good post, the only part I think I disagree with is

> Never. Let. AI. Write. Your. Tests.

AI writes all of my tests now, but I review them all carefully. Especially for new code, you have to let the AI write tests if you want it to work autonomously. I explicitly instruct the AI to write tests and make sure they pass before stopping. I usually review these tests while the AI is implementing the code to make sure they make sense and cover important cases. I add more cases if they are inadequate.
by to11mtm | 2025-06-08 18:13:49+00:00
5 minutes is reasonable.

Having done a long road trip at the end of April, I can comfortably say that any time we stopped to get gas, the stop was longer than 5 minutes in general anyway.

> They're getting faster speed by pushing a huge amount of power to the battery (1MW!).

Valid concern given that's honestly scary from a battery life and safety perspective, especially when coupled with China's downplaying of the fire issues observed with some of their brands...

> Do you get full speed if it's below freezing? What about over 100 degrees F? Both are common in the US and well-handled by gas stations.

You might not, but I will state that I've had many a gas station in the US where for whatever reason below freezing has definitely slowed down the pumps. Even if it was still less than 5 minutes, I'd rather the workflow of 'plug in the charger and then go back and sit in the car' than 'Wait at the pump because you've seen even attended pump kickbacks go wrong and it's state law anyway'...
by jncfhnb | 2025-06-08 18:14:39+00:00
The article doesn’t seem to suggest more than a few anecdotes of this happening.

Imo they’re not even particularly compelling

> Karp recalled an instance when he was a dean of student affairs at Skidmore College in which a drunken student lost his key and climbed through the open dorm window of a female student, mistaking it for a friend’s room. She screamed, and he immediately retreated, but he was nonetheless served a no contact order.

This girl definitely expected she was about to be raped by an unknown man climbing through her window. The article seems to imply that it should be cool because he didn’t intend to do it because he was drunk. I think that’s crazy.
by ok123456 | 2025-06-08 18:15:28+00:00
It generally got a bad reputation because it was abused to keep people on portal-like and aggregator sites. These sites would parasitically add navigation banners and ads(!) to content they didn't own. You had to be somewhat web-savvy to know how to escape an annoying frame.

They also wouldn't fly these days because of CSP and general web security.

When Google Image Search first launched, it surprised people because they found a legitimate use for frames that wasn't user-hostile.
by yusina | 2025-06-08 18:15:54+00:00
Right. And just as little as a refugee can decide their way out of the situation that their home country is in chaos and war, a homeless person rarely can decide their way out of poverty. The latter may have made choices earlier in life that contributed to their situation, but just claiming "well it's their choice that they are homeless" is not doing justice to the situation out there. Unless of course the situation is a choice, like for Elon Musk. At any point he could move into a permanent home wherever. It's absurd to use the same term for his situation as for an average person living under a bridge in SF.
by kelnos | 2025-06-08 18:16:54+00:00
I doubt it. If we go by the guideline that your housing costs shouldn't exceed 30% of your salary (which I usually understood to be pre-tax), converting that to post-tax for a relatively low-income job is not going to bring that down to 10%.

Sure, that's just a guideline, but it's presumably based on what is (or once was) reasonable and possible to expect.
by ericmay | 2025-06-08 18:17:09+00:00
In the US a bus is a strictly worse version of the private car. Walking/biking/rail are effectively category differences so they don’t compete on the same playing field as a car and bus will. It’s very important for public transportation officials in particular to understand this, because not understanding it will continue the car-only suburban development until we run out of money and economic physics dictates how we do transportation but with insane costs in the meanwhile.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-08 18:17:27+00:00
For the drug I take every day (Levothyroxine), research found that evening was worse, but the explanation was poor compliance - people forget to do it more often compared to the morning. Same reason the contraceptive pill is less effective than you'd expect in real populations, compliance is poor. If you're the sort of person who can actually take it on time, every day, without fail, it's extremely effective, if you aren't, not so much. The choice to include "dummy" pills is because of improved compliance - remembering to take it every single day on the same schedule is just easier, so adjust the medication not the instructions.
by detourdog | 2025-06-08 18:17:27+00:00
I never run out of top-end acceleration even when the speed limit is 75. I find the 0-35 is the sweet spot for pulling out if the curve drops after that I don't really notice it. A few months back I rented an ICE car and I had to change my driving style. I would step on the gas and mostly got noise back.
by tptacek | 2025-06-08 18:17:38+00:00
I don't see what's so weird about this. Conflicts between college students living on campus are a perennial problem; it's not some new fragility in today's students. Students attend (and live at) colleges contingent on rules of conduct set by the colleges themselves. If one of those rules is "you must complete with no-contact orders", and no-contact orders are granted liberally, who cares? The college has a greater interest in avoiding conflicts between its users than a student has in maintaining contact with someone who doesn't want to interact with them.
by Ancapistani | 2025-06-08 18:18:13+00:00
That’s a good point.

That said, this is exactly the conversations my wife and I have with our kids. In life, there are times when you voluntarily place yourself under someone’s authority. There are other times when you’re subject to their power, the source of which is irrelevant is it is outside your control.

We’re unschooling anarchists, so our conversations are a bit wild at times :).

OTOH, my 16- and 11-year-olds just learned the word “lapsus” :P
by speff | 2025-06-08 18:18:28+00:00
Ah yea, it looks like that's true. I didn't calculate the actual percentages, but it was very low. Thanks for the heads up -

> Demand for housing also remains heavy because Soviet rents, heavily subsidized by the Government, are very low. A modest two‐room apartment will en for 6 to 8 rubles ($8 to $11.30) a month, including some utilities. A four‐room apartment wil rent for 14 to 16 rubles ($18.20 to $22.30). Apartments in more modern buildings cost more because of additional services.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/11/archives/in-soviet-ingenu...
by collingreen | 2025-06-08 18:18:29+00:00
No, I think they are trying to say it would be helpful in the larger discussion of homelessness to have more nuance than just "not in a house" because, like both "sides" in the thread above keep hitting each other with, it's a wide, complicated, and nuanced topic.

The folks pushing for different words seems to be coming from a fear that grouping all "not sleeping in a home" into one bucket risks having stories like this (opt-in, mentally capable, not-in-deep-danger, safety net) make ALL homelessness seem easier or safer or a choice, which is a common pushback for helping people in modern politics (get a job, shouldn't have had sex/been dressed that way, shouldn't have tried drugs, etc). There is also a trauma of so much bad faith out there in the world right now making this kind of point implicitly on purpose (along the same vein as "I'm just asking questions").

They aren't phrasing it that succinctly but that's my good faith reading.

The holy war on the other side is "don't project your XYZ on my story" and "don't put words in my mouth" which seem valid to me given the context; I think someone should be able to tell their own story in good faith without being responsible for how other use it, within reason, which is likely not a terribly controversial take.

I personally see points in both sides and mostly think this is an issue because of the choice of venue. I think it isn't helpful to start an argument/debate without agreeing on what to argue/debate about and we're seeing that here (plus the topic being a proxy argument for a group of underlying political/social philosophy values not directly being discussed).
by josephcsible | 2025-06-08 18:18:38+00:00
> They have your info when the site you're accessing uses Cloudflare, which means they know more than enough to identify you.

> Now you're telling them when you access a site that doesn't use Cloudflare.

But if Cloudflare already has that info from half the Internet, then the loss of privacy from that is outweighed by the gain of privacy from hiding it from your ISP.

> How do you get them to stop doing it once a better solution exists?

Once Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android all default to secure DNS with no automatic fallback, I expect browser vendors will be perfectly happy to change it.

> This is the problem with doing it this way. Suppose I don't want DoH in my house, how do I get rid of it? Configure six different browsers on each of the dozens of devices in my family and hope I didn't miss any?

The phrase "devices in my family" sounds a lot like "other people's devices", so wanting that seems uncomfortably close to what the malicious network operators want.

> It needs something in the nature of "change this DHCP option on your internet gateway" is the issue, but that thing needs to be a universal standard that everything respects.

That's specifically what there needs to not be, because if such a setting existed, malicious networks would all just use it.
by OptionOfT | 2025-06-08 18:18:46+00:00
No, it's not, as in Europe there are privacy laws protecting citizens from being surveilled.

Now, these apply to both the government and companies, but slowly more and more carveouts are created to allow governmental entities to violate your privacy.

For example, when I lived in Belgium, there was a debate around installing ALPR cameras on the E314 (major freeway).

How long was the data stored? Who has access to it? Do you need a warrant? (And then later on it was discovered that data wasn't really purged...)

This is completely different to ALPR cameras in the USA. Here a private company can start to drive around with ALPR cameras mounted on a car, and start to build a database. Flock has cameras on a LOT of intersections and HOAs.

And Flock sells this service to law enforcement, who don't need a warrant to search this database (unlike them setting up a camera or putting a tracker on someone's vehicle).
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-08 18:18:52+00:00
> You can control which computers you allow on your network, and allow only computers which give you endpoint monitoring.

This would be a great argument if it was actually feasible, but then you have Chromecasts hard-coding Google's DoH servers to prevent ad blocking etc., and devices doing automatic firmware updates to change things like that after you've already bought them.

Pass the law that says the customer has to be given root and the ability to install custom firmware on any device they buy before saying that is reasonable.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-06-08 18:19:01+00:00
Bending takes a bit of practice but it’s not terribly hard. Here are some general tips for absolute beginners that are based simply on my anecdotal experience as an amateur player:

1. Don’t start with a wooden harp like marine band. The metal and plastic ones are typically a bit easier to bend.

2. One hole at a time. Ensure you can exclusively blow in a single hole to practice

3. Lower notes are generally easier to bend than higher notes

4. Make an O with your mouth and have the tongue float in the middle. Start by pulling, not pushing, in my experience bending on intake is slightly easier than bending on blowing out.

5. Tighten the lips and decrease the size of the O to increase pull force on the reed to create a bending effect, and also tighten the airflow chamber above your tongue by pulling your tongue back and up, then loosen it by moving your tongue forward and down

This tool looks great for helping improve once you’ve been able to perform the initial bend. Excited to try it out!
by margalabargala | 2025-06-08 18:19:31+00:00
> This girl definitely expected she was about to be raped by an unknown man climbing through her window. The article seems to imply that it should be cool because he didn’t intend to do it because he was drunk. I think that’s crazy.

I don't know about "be cool", but what's the desired outcome here? Avoid a repeat occurrence? Sounds like that would likely happen with or without the order. So what's the use of this tool? Some sort of semi-punitive punishment? "Don't climb in this particular person's window again or else"?
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-06-08 18:20:08+00:00
The title is about asking rents, not average rents. In a perfectly liquid market these are the same, but shelter is far from liquid. Many renters have been renting for years and are paying less than today's asking prices; if they had to move, they'd still be facing a rent hike. This means that while the pressure on housing may be decreasing somewhat, shelter inflation is still a big thing (growing at a 3.6% annualized rate as of April, and outpacing broader inflation significantly).
by K0balt | 2025-06-08 18:20:13+00:00
Yes, it would require radiative surfaces with sky view. Such systems are already in use, including surfaces that get much cooler than air temperature, in the sun on a warm sunny day.

When you cool a building or a data center or whatever, you can pump that heat into a high temperature fluid and send it to a sky-radiator instead of sending it to an air-exchange radiator. So heat produced in processes could be moved to radiator assemblies and “beamed” into space (I probably should have said radiated).
by Ancapistani | 2025-06-08 18:21:29+00:00
> "No guns until you're 16" works fine. You don't need to "take the mystery away".

This is what leads to stories about kids who make their way into their parents’ locked storage and hurt themselves or others.

“The mystery” is what leads kids to investigate things on their own. Let them know they can just ask. If they do ask, explain what you’re doing as you clear it. Strictly enforce the four rules. Let them disassemble it, or do it for them if necessary.

It’s just a tool. No less useful than a drill or saw, and no more or less dangerous than the car or can of gasoline in the garage.
by username223 | 2025-06-08 18:21:43+00:00
Well... Sure, he got Starlink approved for rural broadband funding and ended some NTSB investigations into Tesla's "suicide mode." But those things can be reversed with a quickness if he's no longer on Trump's side.

He also wrecked a lot more of the federal government that doesn't affect him one way or the other, and may have harvested a ton of data for his AI company. We'll see if anything comes of that.
by tptacek | 2025-06-08 18:22:15+00:00
You're not going to get either of those things. The market has converged on DoH and applications will continue to run it, and you're not going to get a law giving you root on all the devices that go on your network. If you're concerned about Chromecast's DNS, don't hook up a Chromecast. I don't, and I'm doing fine.
by NotGMan | 2025-06-08 18:22:54+00:00
Perhaps it's due to overnight fasting, that people in the morning don't eat yet/as much?

Autophagy is increased during fasting, it usually takes 3 days of water fasting to fully ramp up to its maximum, so no food overnight might just slightly start it up.

I watched a youtube video of guy who did low carb and fasted at least 24h before and after chemo (or even 48h, forgot which) and he didn't experience the negative side effects of chemo as much.
by sfmz | 2025-06-08 18:23:20+00:00
By 1933 [Social Democrats in Vienna] had built almost 60,000 dwellings, mostly in huge apartment houses... These were built so efficiently that the average cost per apartment was only about $1,650 each; since rent was expected to cover only upkeep and not construction cost (which came from taxes), the average rent was less than $2.00 a month. Thus the poor of Vienna spend only a fraction of their income for rent, less than 3 percent, compared to 25 percent in Berlin and about 20 percent in Vienna before the war.

From "Tragedy & Hope" by Carrol Quigley
by nextos | 2025-06-08 18:24:04+00:00
> Eventually I got tired of dealing with the host of plugins and customizations

The trick is to stick to as few packages and as little configuration as possible. And when opting to install a package, sticking to something popular and well maintained. This leads to a small and robust setup with little churn. Most built-in packages work out of the box. Most defaults make a lot of sense. Emacs is really tidy these days compared to where it was one decade ago. Package management has been key facilitating this.

Personally, I use major packages like AUCTeX, Org, Magit, or gptel with little to no customization and I avoid installing lesser known packages that build on top of them as I have found this to be a major source of fragility. You can get a lot of functionality from a boring 50 LOC .emacs/init.el that consists of a few straightforward use-package directives.
by to11mtm | 2025-06-08 18:25:43+00:00
Probably a few factors...

The i3 is rear wheel drive but it's also rear wheel motor. Bigger skateboard battery means lower center of gravity. But perhaps the biggest factor is RWD the drive wheels don't have to steer (I'd say at least 2/3 of my 'chirps' were starting a turn). I'd be willing to wager the BMW has a better TCS software too.

Also I don't run stock tires on my Maverick, I run DriveGuard Plus[1] which are probably less grippy than the standard tires.

[1] - FWIW The WRX has 'OG' DriveGuard tires, The Plus supposedly are a -little- more grippy... Only lost 1 or 2 MPG on the Maverick changing to them from stock.
by josephcsible | 2025-06-08 18:26:28+00:00
Okay, how about this then. Here's some of the IP addresses of posts on the HN front page right now:

104.21.3.245 104.21.68.247 104.21.80.31 104.21.95.131 104.21.112.1 104.26.4.133

None of them have reverse DNS records. Can you tell which is which?
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-06-08 18:26:29+00:00
> What kinds of developments could not have been done with autonomous payloads?

This is very much the wrong question to ask. The question isn't whether something can be done with different payloads. The question is whether something would have been done if not for the drive to send people into constrained environments. Closed loop osmotic water filtration systems would not be so developed without the driving motivation of sustaining life in a box. Sending payloads at all is actually extremely tangential except insofar as if you officially terminate the actual sending of people then the motivation to develop technologies that make it easier to send people vanishes.

It's not super clear from your wording, but it sounds kinda like you want to hear about research within the past 20 years that has made it to already being commercialized, but that would be ignoring the fact that taking decades for research and development done for human spaceflight to get applied to other uses, which it often does, doesn't negate the facts that it often does take longer than that for ventures to reach the public and that the research and development was done for human spaceflight. It seems unlikely that you're looking for older developments that have only been commercialized recently, though I can point you to several, and developments done more recently but not yet commercialized for other uses have no success record yet. It makes your request sound a bit disingenuous.
by padolsey | 2025-06-08 18:27:35+00:00
How much transparency does Claude Code give you into what it's doing? I like IDE-integrated agents as they show diffs and allow focused prompting for specific areas of concern. And I get to control what's in context at any given time in a longer thread. I haven't tried Claude's thing in a while, but from what I gather it's more of a "prompt and pray" kind of agent.. ?
by bigyabai | 2025-06-08 18:27:45+00:00
Nooooo! Not muh heckin' Tesla stonks!

It's just such a shame that Elon was pressured into this messy politics stuff. After all, he could have just stayed in his own lane, kept his nose clean, made value for shareholders and saved America along the way. It was so easy! Hell, he could have just become president himself with his spotless track record of administrative accomplishment. Who wouldn't vote for him?

Now look at the poor guy. Burned his bridges with the liberals when he bought Twitter, harassed queer people and reneged his environmental commitments. Now the bridge to modern conservatism is on fire, because gasp the Republicans won't agree on making a smaller, less-capable government! Those filthy backstabbers, how was Elon supposed to know he was fraternizing with frauds, socialists and sex pests?

It's... it's discrimination. Don't they know Elon is on the autism spectrum, how are they getting away with this harassment? H-hey, why are you guys walking away - this is important! America's future is on the line, here!
by mathattack | 2025-06-08 18:28:55+00:00
A couple ways:

1 - The median apartment this year may be different than the median apartment 3 years ago. Perhaps cheaper (or smaller) apartments and houses are coming up for rent. A more accurate measure would be comparing the prior rents to new rents for existing places.

2 - Median doesn't equal mean. The 50th percentile apartment may be cheaper, while the 25th (more applicable for housing affordability discussion) or 75th (more applicable to HN readers) may be higher.

3 - The median is still up 20% over pre-pandemic levels.

4 - To measure housing shortage we should check levels of homelessness based on economic reasons. (Much more complicated than median price)