MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-06-12 12:46:12+00:00
> The risk is that hundreds of people avoidably die of cancer over the following decades

For long-term displacement, many people (mostly sick and elderly) died at an increased rate while in temporary housing and shelters. Degraded living conditions and separation from support networks are likely contributing factors. As of 27 February 2017, the Fukushima prefecture government counted 2,129 "disaster-related deaths" in the prefecture. This value exceeds the number that have died in Fukushima prefecture directly from the earthquake and tsunami. .... As of the year 2016, among those deaths, 1,368 have been listed as "related to the nuclear power plant" according to media analysis

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident_cas...

Do you actually mean 100s over decades? Given that the evacuations from Fukushima caused thousands (well, thousand - but we're talking the highest hundreds before we get to thousands) of deaths in years, it seems like the risk of nuclear meltdowns would be completely acceptable. The government forced people to accept higher risk because bureaucrats panicked and it seems that was acceptable. What is the problem with a meltdown supposed to be if more damage is done just for theatre?

You're proposing people respond to a threat that isn't really there. Hundreds of people routinely die over decades from all sorts of industrial processes. A once in a generation risk that somewhere on the globe will suffer, maybe, 100s of deaths over the course of a few decades is nothing. Coal is still worse, is everywhere and people accept that. Is this the limit of the damage you're worried about?
by ddingus | 2025-06-12 12:47:45+00:00
Sure you can! Ask me how I know.

(Has cleared overgrowth consisting of both vines and grasses roughly a meter high give or take some)

What you do is tip the mower up, holding the handle near the ground and push it right into the mess. Then lower it down, essentially taking a "bite", which will cut many folded over plants.

Pull back, then tip and advance repeatedly, cutting more each time.

I cleared a quarter acre this way. Took one hard afternoon and a couple tanks of gas.
by elzbardico | 2025-06-12 12:48:01+00:00
Lots of prophets in every gold rush...

While the author makes some good points (along with some non-factual assertions), I wonder why he decided to have this counter-productive and factually wrong clickbait title.

Fine-tuning (and LoRA IS fine-tuning) may not be cost-effective for most organizations for knowledge updates, but it excels in driving behavior in task specific ways, for alignment, for enforcing structured output (usually way more accurately than prompting), tool and function use, and depending on the type of knowledge, if it is highly specific, niche, long tail type of knowledge, it can even make smaller models beat bigger models, like the case with MedGemma.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-12 12:48:19+00:00
Both cases are tax-deductible, what matters is not whether it's operational or capital, because for example building up inventory would make an operational expense a capital expense, but whether you then sell or rent/lease/use yourself/... what's maintained or repaired (then it's COGS) or you use it yourself (then it needs to be amortized)

The tax code has been optimized by the rich over the past century to extract profits out of industrial firms and that's where the difference comes from. $100 used to, say, produce a car or a cake that you then sell is immediately and fully deductible from tax because otherwise industrial companies just outright can't survive. Hell, you get to claim back/not pay any VAT and/or sales tax you paid for anything related to them. One way to see it is that these rules are designed to get money to the (existing, "old-money") rich, so when investors don't get money, the government doesn't get money.

If it's equipment for the company to use itself, then it has to be amortized, or more to the point, it means industrial companies can't do what Amazon did: use 100% of their free tax flow to grow "tax-free*" instead having to give that money to the government and investors (15-35% to government 65-85% to the rich, sorry, investors), so they can use it for their own ends.

I'm not judging one to be good or bad, just attempting to frame this correctly. I should perhaps point out, as a last point, that this is a massive difference between the US and European countries. In Europe, investors and governments try to have their cake and eat it too: there's tax due (amortization rules, or worse) on new company creation, on company growth, except of course, for the companies of the rich: you can grow financial capital in companies without paying a cent, money, shares, obligations, ..., just nothing else. That's yet another connection to the rich, to investors. New employees, new buildings, ... are double taxed, only money isn't. In Europe, there have only ever been exceptional cases where it was otherwise. In the US "tax-free" new company creation has been the norm for all of history except since Trump changed this rule.

* between quotes because they still have to pay income tax on any wages, sales tax on any purchases, ... it is very far from tax-free, but such companies wouldn't pay a dime to investors. If they did that would make it very hard to create new companies (which is what this regulation does). Amazon's great accomplishment is not AWS or anything like that but 2 financial accomplishments: first, avoid sales tax, second, avoid paying anything to investors. Whatever business Amazon is in is nothing but a tool for that financial engineering.
by ManlyBread | 2025-06-12 12:49:02+00:00
Reverse engineering. Each time I start I seem to get overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge required, then I decide to check if these skills might be useful in getting a better paid job... and there just doesn't seem to be that much jobs involving these skills, neither in my area nor remotely. And my motivation instantly evaporates because learning all that stuff just to sometimes poke around in some weird program.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-12 12:49:17+00:00
>I’ve been using Cursor and other AI coding tools, and I noticed a pattern: they go from requirements → code → fix when it breaks. It works, but it’s reactive. I write what I want, it half-understands, breaks something, and I patch it.

This is last generation AI coding. I was literally using qwen2.5 coder instruct yesterday; so i havent moved on yet.

Next gen is with similar options to: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT

or https://www.langchain.com/agents

honestly havent tried either of those.

>What I wish existed is a flow like this: Requirements → Generate Tests → Generate Code → Run Tests

Isnt that what github copilot is doing? This is what i didnt like about it; but im sure more talented devs appreciate what it's doing.

>Would you use something like this? Would you pay for it (e.g. Cursor-level pricing, ~$20/mo)? What would break this in your workflow?

Why not go for the sky?

Requirements -> fully generated project that just works and i dont care how it got there. Scotty on the enterprise was just writing prompts and never looking at unit tests.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-06-12 12:49:44+00:00
Is there mobile push technology which is actually fundamentally push, all the way down to the transport layer? Like open socket, listening for incoming packets only, no notifications-> no traffic?

I was under the impression it was all polling if you go down far enough, but at least because of central registration the phone only needs to poll one single pubsub service instead of a separate server per subscription.

Could be wrong though?
by graemep | 2025-06-12 12:51:02+00:00
Its an interesting idea, but I think its more natural to see it as a type of folklore - something like believing in trolls and fairies (not cute little ones, the powerful and often scare kind) and the like.

Faerie gradually moved further away as we observed the world better - to distant places, then across the seas, and now completely off the planet.

I think it is likely that racist thinking somehow.

> do predict, though, that as soon as we get invited to the galactic core, the people of Earth are going to become as racist as fuck

Not racist - we will be far more united as a species. However, we will very likely be hostile to other intelligent species. As in a Discworld book, "black and white got on fine, but ganged up on green".
by tl | 2025-06-12 12:51:25+00:00
Apple has been the new Microsoft long enough, I've begun to suspect the current environment cannot support a new Apple. Joel Spoksky's 2004 "How Microsoft Lost the API War" [1] applies to Apple's 2019 introduction of SwiftUI. Some of the AI companies are trying, but the more favorably I think of a competitor in that market, the less likely they are to build consumer hardware.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-12 12:51:29+00:00
Like the b 52 bomber. I always liked them. We could convert them for passenger flights. Airlines could develop luggage pods that hang from the wings and the planes support mid air refuelling so that could help with turnarounds. They also have tail guns for even more safety. Also huge bay doors which will make getting on and off the plane much faster.
by netaustin | 2025-06-12 12:52:10+00:00
Having not thought about it at this level, the feedback loop explains why my Bullet Journal works well for me. I can write down any task and break it down to any level of detail without worrying about software, which is nice, and I get a nice little reward when I cross off a bullet. I have used post-its in this way in the past and found that it's more effective than the bullet journal if I need a real kick in the pants. Also I move around a lot between home, office, and work trips. While post-its don't travel well, the phone apps just don't work for me.

When I need to coax my kids (7 and 10) into completing a tedious list of chores, like cleaning their room and playroom, practicing their instruments, and doing their homework, I also reach for the post-its. They each get their own color and we talk through the best way to break things down, arrange them in a backlog on the wall, set a timer, and agree to meet when the timer goes off to review our progress.
by Arch-TK | 2025-06-12 12:52:17+00:00
I saw you mentioning this but the RAT on the 787 sticks out of the bottom and should have been visible at around :04 seconds into that video when the aircraft silhouette is visible clearly against the background.

Although it's possible I am just missing from the video. You are right that the sound is quite distinct and can be clearly heard in the video.
by Majromax | 2025-06-12 12:52:46+00:00
> seems dumb to have electricity needing to be wasted when there is seawater to desalinate

That's a much more complicated problem. On an energy market, you have only one price to look at, and the battery operator can always buy, sell, or hold energy. The article here talks about optimizing this problem at 5-minute to several-hour intervals.

If you drop excess power into desalination, however, now you have two prices to worry about: energy and water. I also doubt we have 5-minute spot markets for water, so the operator must probably commit to some medium-term water delivery regardless of price.

This means that a desalinating firm takes on much more risk. This might still be profitable, but it's a long-term play based on a deep model of expected energy prices (i.e. knowing that energy is "always" almost free at noon in summer) rather than short-term time-shifting.
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-12 12:52:59+00:00
GrapheneOS is not just AOSP rebuild. They do an astonishing amount of work to harden Android. They have a lot of security and privacy-related features. They built a custom layer over Google Services to contain them.

I admire this effort. However I don't care that much about my privacy and I don't care about extended security. All I want is a basic Android system without any of added apps, without any AI. I want the most basic apps for phone, SMS, camera. And I want working Google Play to install some additional apps. I want OS focused around this goal. Not OS focused around extended security or privacy.

So it's like suggesting to buy M1 Abrams instead of Toyota Land Cruiser.

I'm embracing ascetic computing. I'm using Arch Linux with bare minimum of apps for my desktop. And I wanted to do the same for my smartphone. Pixel is incredibly bloated. I spent few days just navigating its maze of settings, trying to disable them all. At this point, I'm back to my old iPhone, which at least allows me to uninstall almost every single app and old enough, so it does not support Apple Intelligence (thank, god).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-12 12:53:02+00:00
> was wondering what if current plane designs had 4 smaller but equally as efficient engines instead of 2

Impossible to answer until we know the cause. If it was independent powerplant failures, then yes. If it was e.g. fuel contamination, pilots improperly shutting down the engine, some other crap failing, then no.

Speaking as someone with aerospace engineering and GA pilot experience.
by coffeefirst | 2025-06-12 12:53:14+00:00
I had the same question because all my experience with this contradicts the hype.

I watched Ronacher's demo from yesterday, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYXZCUvpIc, and this is it, a well-regarded engineer working on a serious open source project. There's no wizard behind the curtain, it's the thing I've been asking the promoters for.

And you should make your own judgment, but I'm just not impressed.

It seems to me the machine takes longer, creates a plan that "is shit," and then has to be fixed by a person who has a perfect understanding of the problem.

I'm loving LLMs as research tools, pulling details out of bad documentation, fixing my types and dumb SQL syntax errors, and searching my own codebase in natural language.

But if I have to do all the reasoning myself no matter what, setting a robot free to make linguistically probable changes really feels like a net negative.
by razemio | 2025-06-12 12:53:29+00:00
This would mean, that every app notification needs to contact a different server. Lets say you have 20 Apps that send notifications. 20 different connections would work in the background to fetch updates instead of 1.

Privacy vise this is an issue and the reason that messangers like signal and matrix would use their own services on android. However this reduced battery runtime by a good margin and android and ios get more aggressiv at killing background tasks each os iteration.

To make things worse, push notifications for matrix and signal where unrealiable, because manufacturers like oneplus, oppo and some others where killing all the background tasks against specification to win the influencer battery tests.
by eadmund | 2025-06-12 12:53:32+00:00
Ditto. I’ve been using them for literally decades (because the old Macs made them so easy to type). And with X11 and xkb they’re even easier!

I do worry that some of my comments have been downvoted by kids blindly downvoting anything with an em dash, but at the end of the day I prefer good style (by my lights) to imaginary Internet points.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-12 12:53:56+00:00
The massive real market here is enterprises that need to rewrite legacy code to modern platforms, retaining the business logic as-is but modernising the style.

.NET Framework 4.x to .NET 10, Python 2 to 3, Java 8 to <current version>, etc...

The advantage the LLMs have here is that staying within the same programming language and its paradigm is dramatically simpler than converting a "procedural" language like C to an object-oriented language like Java that has a wildly different standard library.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-06-12 12:54:13+00:00
Yup, I'm familiar, I've tried it, but my brain is somehow unable to treat the small accomplished tasks as separate from the larger task.

It still costs me the same "percentage of willpower", if you will, as I would have spent tackling it as the first step of the larger task. And once the willpower runs out, it's out.

With video games it's not that different. What keeps me playing aren't the small rewards. If small rewards were enough to keep me going I'd play pacman all the time. The only thing that keeps me going is curiosity.
by graemep | 2025-06-12 12:54:23+00:00
> Oh, I don't think this is the case - at least, not outside the borders of the USA, anyway. Things were far, far more racist in Europe prior to WW2 - which is not to say that racism has been eradicated, just that it was tempered by the need to acknowledge its ultimate product

The UK is far less racist than it was in the 1980s, and I think the rest of western Europe seems to be generally similar.

That said, while the vast majority are not racist, the racists seem to have got more extreme - I think social media is at least part of the problem there.
by jpadamspdx | 2025-06-12 12:55:07+00:00
https://github.com/dagger/container-use (cu) is improving daily. Happy to help get it working if you're hitting anything (we're all in dagger.io discord). Last night I tried it with Amazon Q Developer CLI chat (with claude-3.7-sonnet), which I hadn't touched before (will PR how-to to the README today). MCP integration just worked for me. Figured out where to put the agent rules for Q and how to restrict to just the tools from cu. I kicked off three instances of Q to modify my flask app project with the same prompt in parallel (don't step on the local source) and got three variants to review in short order. I merged the one I liked into the repo and tossed the rest.
by K0balt | 2025-06-12 12:55:22+00:00
>gravity

I’m going to assume this comment is sarcasm.

Anyone with a reasonable amount of exposure to physics in the region has been witness to innumerable Bollywood documentaries that illustrate the many gravitational anomalies present in the vicinity of the subcontinent.

Probably another example of slipshod Boeing engineering failing to anticipate the gravitational and mass related endemic conditions. They should have done more testing.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-06-12 12:55:55+00:00
Outlook used to be one of the best email clients available. Now it’s essentially the worst imaginable.

We just renewed our 365 licenses at my company for one more year. I’ve been mentally sketching out an exit strategy. I inventoried what we use in 365 and Azure, and there’s not a single thing we can’t replace with an alternative we run or a different provider that’s a bit less hostile to third party ecosystems/standards/etc.
by spacechild1 | 2025-06-12 12:56:53+00:00
I'm having a very good experience with ChatGPT at the moment. I'm mostly using it for little tasks where I don't remember the exact library functions. Examples:

"C++ question: how do I get the unqualified local system time and turn into an ISO time string?"

"Python question: how do I serialize a C struct over a TCP socket with asyncio?"

"JS question: how do I dynamically show/hide an HTML element?" (I obviously don't write a lot of JS :-D)

ChatGPT gave me the correct answers on the first try. I have been a sceptic, but I'm now totally sold on AI assisted coding, at least as a replacement for Google and StackOverflow. For me there is no point anymore in wading through all the blog spam and SEO crap just to find a piece of information. Stack Overflow is still occasionally useful, but the writing is on the wall...

EDIT: Important caveat: stay critical! I have been playing around asking ChatGPT more complex questions where I actually know the correct answer resp. where I can immediately spot mistakes. It sometimes gives me answers that would look correct to a non-expert, but are hilariously wrong.
by mihaaly | 2025-06-12 12:57:33+00:00
I am struggling with increasing number of daily (sometimes hourly) annoyances of Windows during my work, distracting me considerably by now, so this news fills me with envy. I have an increasing urge fuelled by this - but not only by this - to switch job/profession.

Some from the top of my head: randomly forcing me to put the window I am moving to the numbered sections of 1-2-3 without the chance of cancel, forcing me to size and position choices mandated; 'update and shut down' actually works as 'update and restart' finding my computer on in the middle of night or in the morning; hibernating while update is available turns on the computer during the night; renaming of OneDrive files clears the name sometimes typing; switching wifi (between previously used ones) on its own, while being in a perfectly working remote desktop connection, breaking it randonly; taskbar buttons loose icons after resuming from hibernation; yes/no message box is transparent through remote desktop; ... some from the past few (less than 4) days.
by Mindwipe | 2025-06-12 12:57:34+00:00
They were only 600ft in the air, barely anything would have got out before they hit the ground and you'd have just set non-zero amount of innocent people on fire in all likelihood when the crash ignited the trail they'd left.

There is a dump fuel button if you're not in the middle of a populated city and you're far enough in the sky you've got a few minutes.
by lionpixel | 2025-06-12 12:57:36+00:00
This idea really resonates. Like others have mentioned, there's a unique power to a physical artifact that a digital to-do list just can't replicate. I went down this exact rabbit hole a while back, trying to bridge the gap between my digital planning and physical, actionable "tickets." The setup part can be a bit of a pain, especially getting a printer reliably online and talking to it from different apps and services. This is the exact problem I built Printercow¹ to solve (author here!). It's a small service that lets you turn any thermal printer into a networked API endpoint with a one-line install command on a Raspberry Pi. The idea is to handle all the backend plumbing so you can focus on the fun part—triggering prints from Zapier, a script, or your own app to create a system just like the author's. Happy to answer any questions about the setup!

(¹) https://printercow.com
Show HN: TripJam, a new way to plan trips
by kenforthewin | 2025-06-12 12:58:26+00:00
Hey HN,

I know what you're thinking, wasn't there a trip planning app on Show HN just yesterday? Given there seems to be a lot of interest in this space, I thought I'd share my project here as well.

TripJam has many of the features you'd expect in a collaborative trip planning app, but we're approaching the problem from a different angle: from our own experience, trip planning often hits a wall at the very early stages when a trip is nothing more than a group chat message asking who's available, where to go and when. To address this, we designed TripJam around the group chat experience and added a friendly AI agent, TJ, who helps brainstorm ideas, suggest locations, and interfaces directly with the itinerary so that your group isn't constantly switching between different apps/contexts. Our goal isn't just to help plan trips, it's to help your group go on more trips by removing friction early in the planning process.

Try it out! It's completely free - we'd love your feedback. https://tripjam.app
by pncnmnp | 2025-06-12 12:59:07+00:00
Regarding the intersection takeoff, Flightradar24 just tweeted this:

> We are continuing to process data from receiver sources individually. Additional processing confirms #AI171 departed using the full length of Runway 23 at Ahmedabad. RWY 23 is 11,499 feet long. The aircraft backtracked to the end of the runway before beginning its take off roll.

https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1933138841214611760